The Morning Stream - TMS 2502: MOTHERLUNCH

Episode Date: August 3, 2023

Kia Soul of Love. Then you shall have no water, no A/C and no Lt Yar. Anyway, He's kind of a turd. Too Much Brown. What's the Frequency, Raynor? (v) I don't like mystery BEEEEEEEEEEEEPS! Are Sun Bears real because I like really wanted to know. Knee Joints are Effed. Can we share a Devil's Thumb? Game over Tina! Hang out with Brian for ten bucks. Calling Out the Chuckleheads. Upping your condensation game. Barely a Bear. 30 Seconds of Dead Air with Wendi and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, Kia Soul of Love. Then you shall have no water, no AC, and no Lieutenant Yard. Anyway, he's kind of a turd. Too much brown. What's the frequency, Rainer? I don't like mystery beeps. Are sun bears real? Because I, like, really wanted to know. Knee joints are effed.

Can we share a devil's thumb? Game over, Tina. Hang out with Brian for ten bucks. Calling out the chuckleheads. Upping your condensation game. Barely a bear. 30 seconds of dead air with Wendy. And more on this episode of The Morning Stream.

This is a serious message to everybody watching my update right now. Peace and love. Peace and love. I absolutely hate that segment. This is the morning stream. I'll swallow your souls. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS.

It's the morning stream for Thursday, August 3rd, 2023. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian. Hi, Brian. Yes. Hello, Scott. Hello, everybody. And thank you all again for the birthday wishes yesterday via Facebook,

threads, Insta, Twitter, X, whatever the hell it's called. Now, Discord. X. Did your mother lunch go well? Mother lunch? Mother lunch. It did. We did not do the Hawaiian place.

There's a new pizza and tap house that opened up relatively, like, almost across the street from her. That's cool. We decided, oh, let's go there. And it was good. I had a meatball sub, but I shouldn't have had a meatball shop. But it was really good. That sounds a little way. You know what?

Yesterday, I should not feel bad about eating. eating bad no it's your birthday you're supposed to be a little bit you know throw caution to the wind you think yes exactly yes create a little wind today i'll make up for it i'll make up for it today i'll go for a walk yeah might even ride the bike it's supposed to be cooler today it's 71 right now yeah i'm gonna go i'm gonna go right now i'll see you later i think it's what we're getting a high like 65 because of this rain this monsoon rain we love this yeah i like it too i feel bad for all the people getting flooded though because that's not good we don't like it when it hits all at once In fact, somebody said on our local weather channel or news weather guy said that yesterday, more rainfall in yesterday's storm than a typical entire summer for the Utah-Bossatch Front.

In just one storm. One storm. Yeah. It was a big one. Like if people, if anyone out there listening in Cairns, maybe you aren't because you're swimming today. But there was like huge flooding. Like, you know, streets, streets three feet high water. People trying to drive in.

It was awful. It was really bad. But I live up high, and so I'm taking it from taking all this for granted. Okay. That's how it's working for me. Right. We got a show to do. We got Wendy coming up later. She's bringing a mystery topic. I have no idea what that means. That means it's about one of us, isn't it? That's what it means. That probably, yeah, so that we can't argue out of it before she's on. We kind of have to just groove on it when she gets here. But this is how she said it. I said, hey, you got any topics brewing? And she says, I've got an idea for. for a series. I said, okay, I'm nervous, but she's just going to spring it on us. I don't know. Yeah. No, that's great. So like a continuation, I totally dig that. Yeah, it's like a, you know, maybe

reminded me that I was going to ask, what does how does she refer to John? Same. Just John. Yeah, nobody calls him dad or stepdad. The kids don't call him grandpa or anything. The kids, um, some of them do. Not all of them, though. Like, it depends on

their age. The ones that are older, they all call him John because I think they just are in the same boat. The younger kids all call him grandpa. I don't know if that will change. Also, he's 92, so I don't know how much time changed there is. He could live to 120. I don't know. I don't know how this guy's going to be. He absolutely could. But yeah, he's, you know what? I will, well, let's confirm this with her today because I don't want to speak out of turn. It's possible that when I'm not around, she refers to him as something else. But I would like to get maybe, maybe this will be a little sub-topic. Should we be calling him stepfather or stepdad, even though we had no raising of the time with the guy? I think it's a good step topic. It's a good topic. The question is,

I mean, how do you call him, you don't call him dad? No. Even if she says, yeah, we should probably call him dad. You don't. Nobody calls their stepdad. Hey, stepdad, how you doing? Nobody does that. It's really just in the way you introduce him to people. And even if you're like really close to your stepdad. Let's say you're just like the guy means the world to you. He's better than your real dad. He's just an amazing guy. And boy, are you glad you entered your life. You still don't say, well, good evening, stepdad.

It's good to see you. Stepfather. No one says that. Nobody. Right. No, my nieces, basically my uncle George's daughters. And yes, I call them my nieces, even though they're cousins because long story, but George and I were, we grew up kind of like brothers. We were close

in age. We did everything that, you know, brothers do mostly fighting really as well as what he comes down to but anyway they all like two of them are not his biological daughters

and they were what 10 and 8 I think when he married their mother but they they absolutely refer to him as dad he did adopt them

I mean there's a lot of differences there many many differences I think that makes the difference And if you can get to that, that's awesome. He did raise them. So that is the big, that is the big difference. Yeah, and like a full adoption. Like all those things count toward just calling him dad, you know.

He's the only dad you ever really new, that kind of thing, sort of. But in his case, I don't know. And we're going to ask Wendy. We'll see what she says because maybe I'm the weirdo. I don't know. But every time I've heard her talk about him, it's always just John. Mom and John. And I think that is the, I think you hit the nail on the head.

It's how you were raised, if you were raised by them. them or not. You know what would help, Brian, if he was a little less cranky and angry all the time. Would it, though? I mean, I don't see you. I don't see you. If he was nice or I still don't see you calling him dad because he didn't raise him. I probably wouldn't, but I would at least be more warm to the idea.

Oh, and this is my stepdad, John. Yeah, I might. I might be. You'd probably introduce other people as your stepdad. Yeah, he had a thing happen at the cabin that still just drove everybody crazy. And this is just his personality, but my mom gets these knee injections because her knee joints are all effed. She's 85. It's what you get when you're older.

Yeah. And one of the side effects is once in a while, her knee will just, for no reason, we'll just give out. Like, she'll go to step on it and it'll just kind of fold and she's on. Just give away. Yeah. So that's hard. You kind of want to be around her in case that happens, that sort of thing. So she biffed it like that at the thing. Didn't get hurt, but, you know, a little bit of a tumble. And everybody, you know, rush to help her or whatever. And while we're helping her up, John goes, boy, or no, I was talking, he was talking, he was talking, one of the cousins who hasn't who's single still or something and he goes yeah i got some advice don't marry somebody you got to carry around with you all the time or something like that some kind of

comment like that yeah i'm like you're such a freaking dick he's joking though i mean he's definitely oh yeah i'm obviously joking but he's just an ass like he's in the middle my mom's on the ground and he's over there going oh don't marry maybe maybe help her up and then make your little snide joke john everybody was mad at him like all the all my daughter was so fired up i'm like hey you gotta just got a hold of it that's a really good point yeah gotta hold it in anyway he's kind of a turd um so let's let's do this i got a last night sucked all right now i went to bed relatively on time i was thinking lots of rest i'm gonna feel great in the morning and nice and spry and whatever for this show and the rest of my day i got a lot to do and uh i thought this would be no problem plus the

temperatures drop the AC's not running incessantly it was nice sure so I go to bed everything's great 315 in the morning I hear a sound and at first I think is it my computers downstairs is it like a UPS did something go off it's not a beep beep but like more like a boop boop like that okay like still a an alternating yes but not not not not regularly alternating that's what the weird thing about it it was kind of Uneven. Yeah. Okay.

So I got up, walking around. Kim gets up. We're both walking around trying to find out where this is coming from. Turns out it's not coming from us at all. It's coming from outside somewhere. So we opened the window. It's coming from outside the house. It was on the outside the whole time.

So we open up the window and sure enough over in the adjacent townhomes that face the main road and the lake over there, there, it's something there. And the one I think it's coming from, their kitchen light is all. on. So I'm thinking, well, maybe they're up trying to deal something or something went off and they're trying to fix it. Wasn't sure. Never saw Shadow or a person walking around. Just this sound. So I actually recorded it. I'm going to play it here on the show. Good. All right. Cool. So here it is. And we'll together see if we can suss this out what we think it is. Because I still, to this moment, don't know. I got on next door. Other people were hearing it.

Nobody knew what it was. I didn't walk out there. But it was, I thought maybe one of Tesla's cars was going to explode or so i didn't know i don't know what was going on so here's the sound brian you help me suss this out here okay hopefully you can hear this well here we go oh yeah a little longer that time here's a short one another short one and over like that over and over and over god if it were a little bit more of a a wine i would say it's like a 3d printer like basically as it's like you know moving over an area and then like it does a longer stripe and then like lays down then moves to another space and then draws but but it's like uh that's a tone that is not a yeah that is not it doesn't feel like an engine

wire that's funny you say that though because i told him i go it almost sounds like a horrible version of a dot matrix printer from the 90s right yeah like yeah like it's printing and the unevenness of it kind of contributed that but you're right it's more of a tone or like a it's a tone yeah and and uh it went on for like an hour and it was just enough to be distracting like it's quiet but enough for me to just not be able to sleep so i turn on brown noise and it's not quite enough to fix it's like crank that up a little bit and by the time we're done it's kind of going and we finally are covering the sound of it this morning the sounds all gone there's nothing out there no update as to what happened so i've zero idea what this is what to blame it on oh yeah really funky you know and i was tired as hell

and i didn't get back to sleep till like 530 it sucked yeah 3 15 to 530 did that sucks i know believe you i know what that's like scott uh yeah recently even that very recently um yeah that's really weird because it sounds i mean it sounds so clear i can tell that it was loud for you like it was you know yeah i mean i turned that up a little better in post i cranked it a bit but not much like that's basically as loud as it was if i held my phone out the door yes yeah it was dumb and i just it made us like anxious partly because we were like well is there something else in the house going like i after all this watershed i'm just paranoid you know yeah it's like something else can be is that a pipe like what is that a pipe maybe it's a pipe

so we're freaking out yeah right like this is what leaks sound like yep and i'm real the one thing i'm shocked about is it was the kind of tone that should have sent rainer howling but she never did oh no kidding what do you think it was do you think she was just dead tired or do you think uh she has been like a frequency that i i think it's a combination probably not the right frequency but also uh you know to her ears anyway but also i think think that she she is tired she was this trip where she was in the kennel for you at the dog sitters for four days five days they always wrecks her she's just such a mess when she gets back and she just was so yeah this is the least of her worries right now is that tone yeah she's just

happy to be in her bed anyway i don't know what it was somebody somebody out there right in have you heard this sound before we got any experts out there um also real quick people are confused about brown noise if it's even a real thing it's a real thing there is brown noise white noise pink noise green noise these are all these are all things yeah they're all just different levels of yeah i like brown the best because it's kind of a base basey thing it just is a warmer tone i don't like white white i asked myself what you brown doing for me and i tried it and brown does nothing for me no brown doesn't do anything for you actually brown lately uPS those people they've been doing a lot of wrong things for me mixed up packages wrong door

munched up boxes I drink too much coffee in one drink too much in one went down the wrong piper down the wrong hole exactly I thought there was less coffee in there so I tipped it up higher and

okay anyway sorry I've done that it's all good I had a weird out of nowhere sore throat yesterday too I think it was because of the rain sometimes that'll happen to me I just get like a swollen maybe a little swollen here and get a little throaty and now this morning it's only on the left side i don't think i'm sick i feel fine otherwise just have this sore throat

man yeah yeah it could just be the particulates in the other still we're still getting uh air quality warnings and i don't know if it's the uh calgary if it's the canadian wildfires or what the yeah do you have your own yet because i it's always a fun part of summer when we get our own fire you have your own wildfires have we gotten any of our own we've gotten a couple devil's thumb is currently on fire but the rain has helped so much devil's thumb is a rad A devil's thumb. Isn't that awesome? Yeah. I want that here. Can we do a devil's thumb? Do you want to share a double's thumb? Yeah. I love that name. That's so good. The devil's thumb. Where is that? Like a canyon or something? Yeah, it's between our two states. Well, I mean, it's technically in our state. But it's between Denver and Salt Lake in the Rocky Mountains.

Oh, right there in the middle, eh? Yeah, don't travel that way. We would meet there for sushi. but oh yeah green river sushi that honestly before we die we got to do that once yeah and maybe not green river i mean what about uh how about moab moab's nice and that's right in the center somebody was actually suggesting who is it that we were just talking to that said you should do your sushi thing in moab yeah um because it's closer to the halfway point and and they were uh who the heck was it we were just talking to them about i think it's dead center in the halfway point i think i think so plus I could take my, well, I don't have a, I'm not really good with a mountain bike. I'm more of a road bike guy.

You can't really do a road bike in Moab. No. I mean, they have some stuff there, but most, you're right, it's very focused on like, I'll tell you, something that I've been considering. Yeah. All right? Just considering this. Oh, shit.

Here we go. What do we got? But, um, I'm thinking about a massive road trip, solo road trip. Uh-huh. Yeah. Um, starting in Colorado, I'd go west to, like, Vegas, Los Angeles, up north to San Francisco, down to Salt Lake City, um, uh, like, uh, uh, in a car, right, not a bike, in a car, in the, in the Kia Soul of Love, okay, would be the thing. And, um, and try and do meetups, basically try and do

a meet up in a different town every night. So, you know, I drive to Vegas, do a meetup in Vegas that night, then drive to Los Angeles, do a meet up in Los Angeles, then drive up north of San Francisco, do a meet up in San Francisco, meet with you in Salt Lake City, do a meet up there. Yeah, we'll have a big blow up here. That'd be fun. In Continue East, I'd love to do

someplace in Ohio. I'd love to do someplace near Cedar Point, because I've never been to Cedar Point, and I want to go on some effing roller coasters and scramble my brain. Right. Texas would be, totally would do Austin or yeah, Austin.

I don't think I want to go as far south as Houston. Yeah, don't go to Houston. Yeah, I want to figure out like a good, a good, like, nine day, 10 day. I don't know. Here's the other thing. I've got to, I don't want to necessarily make money from this, but I do want to figure out a way to make enough to cover hotel and food and gas. Sure.

I can do that because I won't be able to lift those days. I won't be, I'll be able to podcast because we'll do the show live every morning. Sure. We'll just do it from wherever you are. Yeah, we totally do that. That sounds like fun. Just leave Tina and go or did she go with you? Oh, God, no.

Leave Tina. Yeah, that's it, Tina. Sorry. You're home. You're staying home. Is that the Tina game over? Yeah, it's the game over for anything where it's like, I love that one.

That's a great idea. When things start cooling off a little bit. Yeah. And maybe, you know, do a two-week deal and try and do, you know, do a film sack from the road, do TMS every morning. Maybe even, I could even, like, audio live stream as I'm driving, you know, chat with people, wherever I have signal. Yeah, you could do, you could almost do, you could do video for most. I mean, 5G coverage is pretty good now in most of the areas you're talking about. Yeah.

Yeah. basically from here it's not a it's i can't it's a it's a lift won't let me lift in other cities unless i have a valid driver's license in that city i was going to ask about that yeah it'd be great if i could just go to Vegas for a week and and drive for lift in Vegas but i need to have a i need to have a um a drivers a nevada driver's license to actually get away with that i love this idea yeah i think it'd be great so how would you monetizing it's tricky you'd have to set up some kind of It would have to be like a Patreon or a GoFundMe or something like that, but like, you know, Chicago, Chicago would absolutely have to be on the list.

Chicago's great. Yeah, I have to just figure out like, a, mapping it all out, finding out, you know, how many people we can get to each location and then, you know, maybe a, a mission, but just like a, if I'm coming to your town and you want to come to the meetup, 10 bucks or something like that. Hang out with Brian for 10 bucks. 10 bucks. That's cheaper than the Star Trek cast, you know, if you want to get signatures. Right, exactly. I'll pose for photos, I'll sign out here, but more importantly, we'll hang out and play, you know, find a pinball pub or a video game like arcade or something for each, for each meetup. Yeah, this is cool. I like this idea a lot. Yeah, Wisconsin, come on, Schmiddy. If you're in Wisconsin, you can make it down to Chicago. Tina and I drove from Milwaukee to Chicago. It took us two hours and it's totally fine.

Yeah, we did that. When I went to Chicago, we drove to Wisconsin to see a brewer's game. Yeah. And it wasn't hardly anything. I was an easy drive. That's the thing about the East, well, some Midwest, but also East Coast, in through the Midwest, is everything's kind of small. Like, I don't mean small in a bad, negative way.

I mean, like, you know, when I went to Columbus, I was shocked how nothing was far from anything. It's just, you know, out here, we're so sprawled, you know, even just my airport, which I think is relatively close, is not compared to, like, Ohio. And if I wanted to go to Cleveland, I used to think, oh, well, going from Columbus to Cleveland, that's probably, what, a day, like 10 hour? No, it's like an hour and a half, west or east or whatever. It's like nothing.

He's super quick. Super quick. Well, more on that as we get closer from folks. I'll fire up something in the meetup forum. Oh, yeah. I just call it the speculative Brian, what we call it, the possible Brian. multi-city road trip sure and you'll have all your playlists you know because you'll be on the road again like old willy nelson would say yeah yeah that's the other thing it's like

oh god do i tell i'd love to take my bike and and ride in every city but i don't know do i have time you know you should do this you should buy fruit in nevada and then you have to declare the fruit before you enter california yeah yeah no that's fun why is that why is that fun because then you You get some content. You record the guy going, all right, let's see those oranges or whatever you got, you know, and you've got to deal with it. I just have, well, I just have a whole bunch of grapes, and I have them scattered throughout the car. And basically, okay, I've got a grape here in the cup holder. I've got a grape in the glove compartment.

Oh, there's a grape on the desktop or the desktop, the dashboard. The desktop of your car, sure. It would be my desktop. Yeah. Kind of that way, my brother-in-law's new Tesla. It looks like a freaking desktop. Well, that's great. Check this out.

We got a call from Kentucky, speaking of other parts of the country. Oh, cool. Yeah, that would be a place. Yeah, this is Nate. He wrote in about, he wanted to play a little game of what's worse, and it's very prescient, what's worse. This is very much a thing of our time right this very minute. So here we go. Let's see what he has to say.

Hey, Scott and Brian. This is Nate from Kentucky calling. I was listening to TMS 2488 in Scott. was mentioning about the gigantic water problem that he's having in the, you know, very expensive bill that he's looking down the barrel of. Well, I have a question for you, is it worse to be without water or without air conditioning? Because about a year ago, almost to the date, we lost our AC unit in our house here in Kentucky and went for a week and a half, almost two weeks without air conditioning

was about a $3,000 to get a new condenser put in and the Frion and everything which the Frion was the most expensive part and then on top of that to try to keep me and my wife cool to some degree I went out and bought a portable air conditioner

that was about 300 bucks so which is worse no water or no AC both you all are doing great and keep up the great work okay Nate I would say for me it's easy. No AC for two weeks. Sounds bad, but I will take that even in a humid

hot place like Kentucky in the middle of summer. I would take that over no running water for the same amount of period of time. And also it costs me more to do my thing than what he just described his total cost as, even including the extra thing he bought. So he's out, you know, four grand or whatever it was. I'm out 5.8 or almost six plus the bill I got to pay for the 65,000 gallons of water, we plunged into the earth. So I still would take, I would take no power, or sorry, I would take no AC over no AC. I'm 100% with you because you can, you can kind of make a little jerry-rigged with a fan and

a little mister and running water, you can make a little, little spray cool-off thing that you can stand in front of to keep cool without AC. Absolutely. You can't, I mean, unless you really up your condensate. game. You can't generate water from the you see. Yeah, and the real hellscape here is anyone who has to do these two things at the same time. If you're

both your power, excuse me, your water and your ACs out, oh my gosh, I would just die. I would die. Imagine taking just the worst sweaty poo of your life. You have no way to flush it down. You just want to die. It'd be a terrible terrible deal. Now look, I know that for centuries, thousands

of years, man has subsisted on far less. Okay? I know that. But we are a society, now. We have established a new norm moving forward, and we must live within the constraints of that norm. Nobody is fondly looking back at those times when to clean your clothes, you had to rub them against corrugated metal. Yeah. And dry them by rolling them through a ringer. Nobody's looking back and saying, those were really better. No, there's no way. If they are, if they are, they're crazy. Like, we made women wear dresses up to their neck and to their

ankles in the middle of the worst weather ever without any of these modern conveniences. Nobody wants to go back to that. Nobody wants to go back. Well, some, some, some, some, some, some, some, some people think they do. They think they do. Save your emails, people. Yeah, save your emails for Brian, not for me. Yeah, yeah.

Okay, well, there's that. Let's, uh, we got some news today. You want to do some news? Okay, yeah. I feel pretty good about this. Let's do it. Watch the news. We got some news here, and it's, uh, we got some news here, and it's,

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That I've been experimenting with but it is such in its infancy. Well, great. Check that out. Anyway, so there you go. Coverville, 1 p.m. Mountain Time Twitch.TV. Here's the deal. So, oh, real quick, I want you need to call out some chuckleheads in our community. Oh, okay. I have a complaint.

Oh, I'll play the complaint music. You haven't played that in a while. It has been a while. Where is it? Did I get rid of it? Hold on. Diarrere. That's not it. How about this one? No.

That's not it. Nope. Okay. We'll give them that. That's fine. All right. That's good. That's good. That'll count. So I've been playing that Monopoly Go business.

Oh, yeah. It's fun and everything. But gosh, dang it. Could you all slow down? You know how many times I've rebuilt France? And I'm not spending a dime on this effing game. No, no. Every time I log in.

I spent somebody initially, but I was stuck in the hospital with Tina and I was like, I'm a bucking. Worth it. Worth it. That's the, you know what? I'm shaking. I need some more dice. Can you give you some more dice? Are you holding?

It's the cheapest thing you'll spend in a hospital, so do it, you know? Yeah, it really is. But it was, every time I go in there, something's all banged up and I have to rebuild everything. And I'm never going to have enough money. So last night, I was like, oh, I got a bunch of extra dice for just hitting some milestones. I'll just be fine. I'll get enough money here. Even a, I had a million dollars.

And it wasn't enough to get me done in France. And I'm not buying more. This is how they get, that game gets you this way. It's like, oh, you want some more day? You want to keep rolling, do you? Yeah, yeah. F that game, dude. One more rolling, you might win.

Yeah. Do you favor. Send me, I think we're friends, aren't we in this game? I don't, I'll never see your stuff come up when I'm smashing France. So I don't know how to, how do you do it? You just send a friend request. We'll have to figure it out. But send me, let me know what cards you need for your albums, because that's a great way to get a crap ton of dice.

Oh, we didn't, we didn't Warren. What's her name? Oh, yeah. Sorry, sorry, Stephanie. I hate that. I absolutely hate that segment. All right, let's move on. So there's been an accusation in China that needs to be addressed here on TMS.

Oh, no. Oh, no. There's the Hangzhou Zoo, famous zoo, over there. People like that zoo if you go to China. They have these sun bears, they're called. and people are saying that they're dudes in suits. And there's been photos and weird stuff about it. That's really funny, actually.

It's pretty great. Let's see if I can find, yeah. This main photo on this link to the BBC, if you'll take a look at that, Brian, you'll see this bear. They say, wait, that's a dude in a suit. That's a dude in a bear suit. Oh, clearly it's a dude in a suit. It sure seems like it, right? I mean, it does look like...

Because look at the wrinkly butt and the way the legs are. The wrinkled butt, it looks like a very poorly fit bear costume. Yes. But it turns out it's just this bear. Like, there's video. So this still image, there's actually video this was taken from. I don't have it on this link, but this same shot of this bear looking at people and standing there like a dude, right after that gets down on all fours again and is no longer looks like a dude at all. It looks like a frickin' bear.

There's no... Yeah, but I mean, you know, you could look at, what's his face? The dude who did the mocap work for Gullum and say, man, he does some amazing work that looks like the way animals would walk. Like for his plant of the ape's stuff. Oh, yeah. Or King Kong or any of that. Yeah. A sun bear is really just a bear you get at Spirit Halloween.

Yeah, that is true. But he's definitely... He's definitely... So they have gone on record over there in China to say, yeah. it is they reassured visitors they say that their sun bears are real rather than humans in disguise after footage of one animal standing like a person that sent rumors flying online well the other the anti circus thank you the other photo that they that's further down the article yeah it almost feels like you can look at that and see where the guy's face would have to be so that he could see out of the costume like a little ring around his neck thing right there yeah yeah but how do they i'm sure the mouth moves and stuff the mouth isn't probably just like ah Frigin Jar Jar Biggs, the Jar Jar Biggs head on top of Ahmet, what's his face, his head when they were doing the shots of Jar Jar for Phantom Menace. Yeah, it's definitely got, it's got that vibe to it, but I've seen him rolling around. Here's how you solve that problem.

You say anyone who would like to Mission Impossible this and hop down into the bear holding area and try and rip the mask off the bear, be our guest. Yeah. Help yourselves. All right. I found the viral video, I believe. Oh, good. Okay. Let me see. Let's share this with you. Yeah. Hold on a second. I'll put it in the chat. That way they can all click it if they want as well as you. So this is the... Oh, yes. I found that. Okay. This is the bear. And they stand here. Let me pull this back to the beginning. They stand up a lot. It's one of the things they do. It does look... It looks a little like there's a dude in there. It does, but they is... Oh, that's really funny. Oh, it's moving its mouth.

It's just us recognizing. But its mouth does open and close. It's about the only facial. Yeah. I think this is just how they move around. Okay, here's that. If you go further in the video, it gets back down.

Yeah, you get the back view. Yeah, these are bears, dude. That's definitely a bear when it bends over. Oh, and look at the way it's, uh, yeah, look at the way it's nose and stuff move. I mean, that'd be some great special effects.

And it's probably a lot cheaper. get a sun bear i mean i get the fun of seeing this and going oh my gosh there's a there's there's three kids in there or whatever yeah right but it's not they're just bears they're weird bears i'll give them that they are yeah yeah they're this petiteest and smallest i did a search for sun bears and it pulled up a national geographic uh site it said and before he goes and says hey would you like to pay for a national geographic no no um it says get to know the small The smallest member of the bear family, and that's funny. It doesn't look that small in that video.

It looks like a regular-sized bear. I think if you compared it, you'd probably have to see a brown next to it or a grizzly or something to see the difference. But they do call it the zoo, when they do the announcement, they make a big deal about it. This is the most petite, smallest bear in the world, they say in Chinese. Yeah, yeah. And a post-written, let's see. Yeah, clearly a real bear, but I can see, like, there was the initial bit of, like, look at those baggy pants.

That's definitely a person in a costume, but when you see it actually move, it's pretty damn. Yeah, it's obvious. Non-debatable evidence. Yeah, they hit all fours and you're like, yeah, it's a freaking bear. They only get as big, it says here as big as a large dog. That's cool.

Oh, that seems a lot bigger than a large dog, Scott. I know, that seems like it might be a person in there, a person. I don't know, I don't know how big the rock was that he was standing on, but yeah. That's the other problem. is we have very bad comparative references around this bear, so you can't really tell how big he is compared to other shit.

Anyway, sun bears, they're weird. Sun bears, they're real. Back to Trader Joe's. We went there yesterday. Oh, no, poor Trader Joe's. Yeah, we're going there again. Yesterday was rocks. Oh, you went there today?

No, I wish I did. We just talked about it, remember? Oh, gotcha. Okay, you went there, meaning we went there in the news. Yeah, we had the whole rocks and the cookies thing and all that. Correct. Well, now Trader Joe. Joe's unexpected broccoli cheddar soup.

That's the name of it. Yeah. May contain insects. And I think that's the insects are the unexpected part. I think so. Unexpected to say the least. Says Trader Joe is recalling 10,889,000. No, I'm sorry.

10,889,000, 889,000 and 4,0,11,000. Yeah, these zeros are real confusing. That many cases of an unex, this is literally the, name of the product unexpected broccoli cheddar soup because there may be insects in the frozen broccoli i agree uh used to make the product according to the food and drug administration or the fda uh there have been no health issues reported but it probably shouldn't be if it's just insects but anyway yeah in a statement the grocery chain said it was notified of the problem by its supplier winter gardens quality foods you have to change your name after this winter garden suspect quality

foods. Unexpected quality foods. It says the soup was shipped to Trader Joe stores, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington, Winter Gardens, quality foods did not immediately reply to the site's request for discussion anyway. If you purchase the soup, you can return it. They'll give you a refund. Okay. But it's got certain amount of insects. Insect fragments and other filth is how they put it.

That presents no health hazard to people, they claim. That's because it is, quote, economically impractical to grow harvest or process raw foods that are totally free of non-hazardous, naturally occurring avoidable defects. I mean, they're really saying it's insects, insect fragments, and insect shit basically is the other filth. They just don't want to come right out and say may contain insects, parts of insects and insects shit. Yeah, little earwigs going poo-poo in your thing. that's what that is speaking of airwigs there were so many in bear lake what the frick is going on up there the season pretty much is over but for a while there and here's when earwigs when i find earwigs that just gross me the hell out is i hop in the shower turn the water on get in there start doing shower stuff yeah and then a

freaking earwig falls out of the shower curtain yep yep and i've got no shoe i've got you know i basically have a surprisingly unused shampoo bottle that I can smash it with. Yeah, it's as good as it gets in there. I hate airwigs. Airwigs are gross. Ever since I was a kid, partly because they're called earwigs,

which makes me think they're going to crawl in my ear and do that thing that happened to check off in that Star Trek movie. I don't want that. Right. Bot me be. And that guy, where the walls fell guy, had to shoot himself with a phaser.

He was so mind-controlled by those things. That's right. Exactly. Anyway, a Japanese man in the news. They don't really have the Florida man over there like we do. I bet that there's a part of Japan that they consider to be the Florida of Japan. What do you think it would be? Do we think it's a certain town we'd know or I guess we'd have to have someone know who's there? Yeah, like, oh yeah, Hokkaido, man.

Boy, that is the Florida of Japan. I'm sure somebody can tell us, like I know we've got some Japanese listeners. Yeah, you know, Osaka's great. Kyoto's terrific. Tokyo, of course, is awesome. But Hokkaido, man, that is the Florida of Japan. Also, I was thinking, like, every state also has, like, a city that we all think sucks, you know? So you have, you always bring it up.

Aurora is probably, well, Colorado Springs, I think, probably takes the cake from Aurora. Yeah, and that's how it is out here. I would say it's Magna out here. Katie Dade will have to I could argue with him about what he thinks But I think Magna's a dump and the water's bad And everything's bad about living there But every state, every city

Every locale has something Is it Tucson, Matthew Johnson in Arizona? Tucson for Arizona Eternity says Osaka is the Japanese Florida That's interesting Oh, Bakersfield over Fresno Cyborg dude Bakersfield's like meth capital or something, right?

Oh, is it really? Isn't that didn't uh... Shogu lived there for a while, didn't she? Bakersfield? I think so. She ran, that's where she would get her meth. I was going to say she ran a meth distributor. Yeah, she did real well in that business, turns out for a while. Yeah. Yeah, Ogden, Kearns, and Magna are the three to come to mind. Ogden, growing up, you would always hear news stories about Ogden, man, found naked in the street or whatever. So Ogden's pretty rough. Well, anyway, Shojo, 11 years, unfortunately. Was it bad, Shojo, Sarah? Was it bad there? Was it, like, gross and horrible? Is Bakersfield as bad as they make it seem in the fake Bakersfield and GTA 5?

I forget what they call it in that, but they have a Bakersfield area in Grand Thrift Auto, and it's the worst drug bill. Oh, yeah. I hear Derry is the Florida of Ireland. Oh, Derry. Yeah. Freaking, any girls? Just waiting.

Just waiting to see. Yeah, waiting for the caps. Waiting for the text. Wait for the response. Yeah, look at the caps coming. Hit that key. I know. Oh, my gosh.

The caps like he is. jammed so hard right now. Yeah, we've got J.K. Grammer. I can almost hear the keyboard hammering from here. The Raith Complex Ninja. Oh, it's, I still now, it's, it's starting to build. It's like a boiling pot here. Oh, I don't know when she's going to pop off.

Oh, I know. Maybe she shut down her computer. She's like, I'm on the shudder. I can't respond from here. It's on the computer in the other room. I sent her a video yesterday, and she never replied. Very sad about that. Yeah, it was a video. It wasn't like something weird.

It was a video of Shnade O'Connor doing kind of a rap thing about the problems of Ireland. And it was really good. I had never seen this before. It's when she had hair even. Or before she was shaving it or whatever. And she was kind of rapping. It was really good. So I sent it to her.

She never replied because Claire doesn't like people. And so that's how that is. Lino, she doesn't like Barno. She doesn't like that Barno. She doesn't like the bottle. Doesn't like the edge much either. Let's see what else we got here. So don't eat that soup.

Stay away from the unexpected soup. Oh, yeah, we were talking about the Japanese man. That's right. We already moved there. This guy spent $14,000 U.S. We'll find out what it is in yen in a minute, maybe. To transform himself into a dog. So he has taken his first walk in public.

And you need to see this to believe this. It's crazy. All right. Well, now that sun bear thing is coming back into question. Yeah, forget the bears. Look at this guy. Hold on a second. That's a dude.

That's a dude. This is, uh... Yeah, that's a dude doing dude stuff. Okay. Well, when I see it walking, it's clearly a dude in a costume. Yeah. But when it holds still... Yeah.

It's a great costume. Interacts with other dogs and lays there. It's pretty convincing. Ha ha ha. This is really. weird. Oh, no, this is so bad. It's so weird. Yeah. I don't like it. It makes

me feel weird in a lot of ways. By paying $14,000 to transform into a dog, it really just should be, I paid $14,000 for very realistic collie costume. I mean, yeah. Transform into a dog. I don't think

the way his back legs are moving, it's not like he had surgery to create dog legs or something. I want to see him try to hump another dog. Yeah. Or a Hump somebody's leg. Oh, my God, all right. That'd be worth the price of admission. Oh, he just, like, waved his paw.

Come on now. Yeah, he's like waving. It's bullshit. Come on now. This is, uh... If you're going to be a dog and spend that kind of money, be a real dog, you know? Why is there a lady hiding behind the bench? Do you see...

Yeah, I do. Or a kid or something. Yeah. Oh, I don't know. I don't know. There's like a lady hiding behind the... Can we figure out what's going on? Oh, and she's just...

She's just... Now the camera, like, is focused on her. This is the great. video ever. Yeah, this is pretty great. Look how they blurt everyone out. Yeah. Japan big on that. It says here, Japanese man named Taco, or Toko, has transformed himself into a canine after shelling out more than 14 grand

for a custom-made collie costume. The creators took 40 days to make the unusual garment. Garment. But it has helped the man realize his dream of, quote, becoming an animal. The man has shared several videos on his YouTube channel, where he boasts nearly 30,000, 33,000 subscribers. The footage shows Tocco rolling on the floor and playing fetch. The man recently posted a video of himself stepping out in public for the first time,

bystanders. We're in awe of the human collie. You can see him interacting with people. That's what we're looking at now. For those at home, you go search this up. Is he able to poop out of the dog's butt and then just kind of squat and just... I hope he goes home to do those things, you know? Yeah.

Like, I don't want this dog to be a real... I don't want him to go that. far yeah okay look i want people to be whatever they want to be if you want to go around and pretend you're a dog more power to you but i'm probably not going to have you over for dinner or something you know no definitely not i'm not going to hang out with you my address no yeah it's just too weird like it is kind of i get you know the the whole furry thing is impossible to think of here but this is extreme yeah most furries are upright no no no no no no furies that i know are trying to convince you that they are the real version of the thing that they're dressing up as.

And usually it's like some sort of, some sort of anthropomorphic version of a fox or anthropomorphic version of a cat. And it's like, oh, that's really cool. That's really cool looking. They're not trying to like get in a ginormous, uh, walking on all four legs cat costume to my knowledge. And I could be wrong. But, but all the frees that I've seen and they go to the, every, every first Saturday of the month, They go to Fuzzy's tacos in Old Town, Arvada for a meetup. Yeah. Yeah, they need a place, man. Yeah.

Mays well get tacos, I say. If you're going to meet. Yeah, Claire, no, I never saw you, I never saw you yelling at me. Her caps may have been blocked or something. Maybe, yeah, because it apparently got rid of your message, because I never saw you respond when I talked about dairy being the Florida of Ireland. Yeah, we'll just say it one more time. No, you can, I don't think it's...

Dairy woman, yells. at people in chat with caps, with all caps. It's not cutting out swears, Claire. You already got the F word in up above that, so. Yeah, you might just have to DM me. You might have to slip into my DMs with your yelling. Yeah, slide into Brian's DMs. Do that.

Here's a final story about manatee orgies, okay? A final story about that. I don't remember our first story about manatee orgies. It's a good point. We had a lot of animals today, though. A lot of animal talk. We did. Not a lot of fake animals.

Yeah, a lot of fake animals. Fake sunbear, fake collie, real insect, insect parts and insect poop in your unexpected broccoli soup. It is weird. I did not mean to do that today at all. These just all lined up to be creature stories. That's real weird. Sorry about that. Maybe the insects in the soup are little people dressed as insects.

I mean, now you're breaking this conspiracy wide open. Wide open. Yeah. Let's see here. We got this one about Florida. Oh, and it's a Florida story, so this will be cool. Oh, perfect. Let's end with Florida. The Florida cops are telling people stop narking on manatee orgies.

It's manatee mating season, and Florida police are here with an important reminder. Don't call the cops on these orgies. On July 29th, alongside a video showing a group of roughly a dozen large sea cows lumped atop one another near the shoreline. To the tune of Marvin Gaze, let's get it on. Nice. Yeah, kind of like that. That's a nice touch, don't you think? It's pretty good.

Yeah, that's great. That's the best that is the icing on the cake. The Phileas or Pinealis, Pinelis. I think Pinellis. Pinellas. I'm sorry, Pinellas. Pinellas? That sounds right.

Now that you say it that way, that sounds totally right. Pinellas County Sheriff's Office wrote on Facebook asking people to give a little privacy to herds of manatees known for knocking flippers. Instead of boots, I guess, or whatever. Right. So we used to say you're knocking Knocking boots. Yeah. Yeah. So weird.

Here's a question for you, Florida, people. Yeah. Is there a Florida of Florida? Like, is there a part of Florida that's more Florida than the rest of Florida? Well, there is, but it's moving around in a presidential run van. Lea Mara Lago is the Florida of Florida. Or take the governor. He's running, too.

It may as well be the moving target of Florida. I don't know. No, Chris says Tampa, and I'm inclined to agree with them. Yeah, Tampa, I've been to Tampa, been to the Tribune, been to the St. Pete Times, which is, it also serves Tampa, and I think I would agree that Tampa is the Florida of Florida. Never been to Tampa. Is it south? Where is that? It is on the Gulf Coast, west of Orlando, south and west of Orlando. Somebody might need to correct me. Okay.

Okay. So Tampa. All right. Tampa. Sorry, Buccaneers. What are you going to do? Oh, Ocala, Florida, too. I've been to Ocala. I've been all over Florida.

And I think about it. Jacksonville, Tampa, Destin. Destin was great. Destin is like the Boulder of Florida, or the Austin of Florida, really. Jay Fantastic. Says Alabama is the Florida of the South.

I like that. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. No offense, Alabama. We look. All right, no offense. Oh, yeah, no, we didn't say it. No, it wasn't us.

It was this Jayfurtastic fellow in the chaper. Yeah, exactly. So, let's see, we get calls all the time, said the cops from citizens when they see this, believing the manatees are in distress. We can assure you, they are more than fine, he says. More than fine. Yeah. So basically, they're just saying, quit calling us. We're fine.

These guys are fine. This is what they do. They mate. You'd think that people living in Florida would know this because they see it every year. Yeah. So maybe this is tourists. I imagine visitors. It's tourists who like, oh, my God, those manatees all sound like they're howling in pain.

Call the cops. Yeah. You know, those poor creatures. How can we let this happen? Oh, they're just doing it. It sounds like a bunch of, a bunch of, uh, uh, it's Futurama. What's his name? Um, it sounds like a, it sounds like a porno being played at, uh, 18 RPM.

Yeah. What can't think of his name? Oh. Who's the What is wrong with me? Zoidberg is here you trying to think of? Geez, there's a whole episode where Zoidberg and his people have to mate

and then they all die after. Have you seen that one? It's great. No, huh? Great episode. Oh my gosh, it's so good. I like all the Zoidberg focused episodes. They're all great.

All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back, my sister Wendy's going to slide into our DMs and do a little mystery topic today. All right. Excellent. Stay tuned for that. But we've got to play some music.

Brian's got a little indie in the middle. to play. I'm excited about today's because it came from somewhere. Cool. Came from a listener. By the way, Claire sent me a screenshot of what she typed in the chat. And yeah, did not see any of these things. And yeah, clearly I can see why they, every single one of them got blocked. You know what's weird also? She just sent me something that didn't get through. So I sent her that TikTok. She replied, but it didn't never come to me and so she sent me a screenshot of that Claire you got something going on on your end

something's weird because I didn't get that at all secret police listening to Claire's she says so many bad not going through has to pass to Russia to get to America they block she says too much shit about Bono we love Bono here

you know Bono Bono Russian hero Bono All right Zach A.k.a rebel scum in the chat says, hey, Brian, I was able to get an MP3 from my friend's band. I was bugging you in chat the other week that are available

on all platforms, and here's a brief write-up about them. I'm going to read it. Verbetem. Indy rock band De Bouquet. It's spelled just like it sounds. Day, D-E, bouquet. B-O-U-E-T. Blends the vibes of classic rock with the sounds of

modern pop to create a uniquely Calgary experience. Members Brad Arnd, James Russell, Luke Smith, and Peter McKenzie came together in late 2021 have been hard at work writing, practicing, and recording in Peter and James' shared home studio. The band took a brief pause in fall 2022 to celebrate the birth of Brad's second child after the relaxing for everyone except Brad paternity leave. They've been hard back at work releasing the following singles feels good impending storm in early 23 and the single you're going to hear

right now, which is called Birds. These guys are awesome. Again, they are called Day Bouquet. Here is their song, Birds. Thank you. I come to realize when you look at my eyes that I don't feel a way that I'm supposed to in truth I know that we're the same but we're just too polite to have it any other way but the book woke me up today I guess that's just the way that they are Lose change wrinkles in your palm as you try to explain just why you're feeling off picture as if the windmill on the farm it's a formative memory to which I hold on

Still I meet you someday I guess things are just because of the day are So sometimes when I'm awake at night I wonder what What is this feeling that's me inside Was this a choice of wasn't mine? Please don't take my heart away from me. It's all that I've got out.

Please don't take my heart away from me. It's all that I've gone out. Please don't take my heart away from me. So, don't take my heart away for me, it's all that I'm going. No objects to be signed. Nothing. Anyway, peace of love, peace of love. Oh, da-da-da-da-da-do-do.

I lick my mother of a big butthole. Kim Trails. Oh, good job. That was a listener, by the way. That was a call. I don't know who it was, or what the frick, but this guy. Whoever you are. Love that he ended with chemtrails.

Hey, Brian, who was that music by again so we can go get it? Sure. That music was by Day Bouquet. That's the brand new single. Birds look for an EP coming from them this year, including Impending Storm Feels Good and that single right there. Very nice. Yeah. Thanks, guys.

Thank you, Rebel Scum for hooking me up with that. And whenever you, you know, if you know some band or whatever and, you know, And they give you permission. We're always happy to check out new stuff. Yeah, totally. We'll totally do it. Love it. So Claire points out that if you have live top chat turned on on your YouTube chat room,

then you're only going to see, like, they're going to filter out messages that might be offensive. If you switch it to live chat, there's like a little drop down. You'll see everything. So it's funny because the description says, top chat, some messages such as potential spam may not be. visible. Claire, they think your potential spam. They think your potential spam. I guess you're, you know, the things you described in your response to me

calling Derry, the Florida of Ireland, could be, could be construed as as a boner pills. Yeah. The things you were, the things you were describing. That's right. I think so. I do with myself. Yeah. So change that. It's just a little drop down if you guys are in there. It's easy to switch

if you want. Most of the time, she's in here, so that's weird. But the thing The thing with the Discord, I don't know what happened there. It doesn't make any sense. Oh, yeah. No, that doesn't explain the Discord. Yeah, and it shows that it was sent by her. So, I don't know.

It's a whole different thing. I don't know. All right. Let's blame Claire for all things and then move on. We're going to get Wendy in here, my sister, who spends some time in Vegas. We'll have to follow up on that, too. Ooh, y'all want to hear how that was. Where did you stay?

All that stuff. I want to know it all. It was crazy because she went. It was just so much cheaper to fly to Vegas. rent a van drive here do our thing drive back to Vegas stay for a couple of days at our time share and then fly out again it was just cheaper than driving all the way here or flying directly to Salt Lake it's kind of crazy crazy cheap so that's what you do

for some reason I can't oh there she is her name was not coming up she's also showing us offline which might be a problem but we'll find out shortly as we had her to this call and that didn't actually work why let's try that again I'll click it again I'll hit add there we go okay well that's weird it's not even ringing her so

oh no there we go now it's ringing her that was a funky bit of bit of business there funky bit of cold Medina yeah no answer yet

we're waiting we're waiting let's see if I got a text just in case oh once I turned on live chat now it's like eight messages from Claire for every one message from anybody else

is that is that constant or is it just because now she's oh my gosh now that you now that you say that yeah no wonder it thinks you're a spam no wonder they think she's spam look at that like I'm you guys think I wish I could show people at home

it's all Claire now exactly let me see if I go back so if I go back to live chat or sorry top chat yeah how much of right the non F-bomb messages she sends disappear yeah I'm getting less well So far, I'm getting less clear.

I don't know. I don't know how this works. Wendy says her discord's on the fritz, and it won't load for her. Let's see. Why? Why would that be? Oh, no. Well, let's do this.

Let's pause. It's a random. I kind of love it, though. It's fun. Pseudo random game. Yeah, I put a picture of what Lunar City looks like. Oh, nice. In our discussion.

Oh, guys. Good news, by the way. I'll explain the situation to Wendy. Don't worry. She's here. Hi, Wendy. Yay. Wendy's here.

What was the, you said to reboot or something? I guess. Is it right that a computer should not be restarted for years of the time? No, it's definitely not right. I think probably. You're also on a different microphone. Oh, yeah, you're on a different mic, which is probably part of your reboot issue, I'm guessing. Or maybe your kids, I don't know, you get Peter in there, tapping on keys, who knows.

Installing some sort of Minecraft cheat. Yep, Minecraft.com. That's where he went. Yes, exactly. this is definitely not malware definitely not don't worry about us uh hey it's good to talk to you how was um the latter part of your deal the Vegas part and all that and everything go good it's good yeah it was so hot how how how do people live there when it's 100 degrees at night yeah it's hot yeah but the time share the time share is nice the water i'm guessing the pool

is like too hot though right like yeah everything felt a little like hot tubby yeah um my kids said they got in the hot tub and didn't realize it was the hot tub at first because it was big and they were like you guys should see when i was when abe was little he was just like this skinny little kind of a weird looking version of me kind of he is a beast now i don't know i know he's eating like tons of he's like all protein all the time and he's working out all the time but i have never seen such a physical transformation in my life last of my son was a couple years ago in Park City, he was not this.

He is an enormous human being. And now he's going off to college where I promise you this. Every girl on that campus is going to want to be with that boy. That's how it's going to work. And he opens his mouth and they run away.

He shoots bees out of his mouth like Candyman. That's what. It's terrifying. Yeah, it's expensive. Building a giant human out of protein just because and one wants to know what it costs, it's ridiculous. Yeah, and he'll eat all your, if you have any meat in the house, and you brought it,

and you meant it for something else, the meat will be gone. Just disappear? Yeah. He has the, literally he has the meat. For Christmas, we got him a meat box delivery thing. Like an Omaha Steaks or something? Yeah, kind of, but like it's better stuff. I mean, it's just like less, I don't know.

Maybe it's not, maybe it's all the same. Anyway, and at his job, someone's like, what did you get for Christmas? He's like, a meat box. So guess what his nickname is? for life. Meat box. That's great. Probably Butcher box.

And one day when he has cardiovascular issues, we'll know why. Yeah. My uncle has the theory that you put the word meat with any other word, and it's hilarious. And so far, I have not found a word you put with meat, and it's not really funny. It is a funny, it's a funny, it's a funny combiner for sure. But I'll bet you guys were doing Butcher Box. Those guys are good. They have lots of meat.

Yeah, good chop, I think is the one. Oh, good chop. Whatever. They're all the same. in the end and he's moving out so I'm canceling that baby like immediately yeah and you really should I cannot stress this enough for people if you saw this kid now you would feel safer because he could take on whatever he's a massive human being and he's so freaking ripped just shocked me anyway I got used to it though but all your kids have yeah eventually it wears off and then you're like

it's still that dopey kid I remember I'm telling you though like it's it was a pandemic decision. He was just like, you know what? I'm going to work out hard forever. And he's stuck with it, which is, I don't think an easy thing to do. No, it's not. Most of us give up. I can tell you that with the experience. I was like, pandemic is when I stopped trying. And that's when he started trying. So good for him. I mean, even Arnold Schwarzenegger got a little pudgy, you know. It's like everybody gives up at some point. But anyway, it's cool. And I'm excited for his college thing and all that. It's like in a week or two or something. Something, right? No, he doesn't go until September. I don't know if anyone knows this, but there's a sacred ritual, the 10 days before Labor Day in the state of Minnesota. And that is the state fair. Really? You do not.

Nothing starts. No school, not college. Nothing starts until the day after Labor Day. Wow. All right. Did not know that. You don't mess with those 10 days because sometimes people make their entire income for the year during those 10 days. Oh, my gosh.

They sell whatever and make 10 million bucks. You have selling cookies. One of the thing I wanted to ask about, what was the name of that game you brought? I just couldn't remember this morning. Oh, it's so fun. Everyone go by it. It's called Moose Master. Have you ever heard of this, Brian?

Moose Master? I've never heard of it. No. Apparently it's a monster hit where she's living. I'd never heard of it either. That's true. I just accidentally bought it. And it is from a local person here, but it is a blast with a group.

It's so good. I made the whole family plant. It's so fun. It's the first time I've played a card game where when we were done, I felt a sense of like almost like I got out of prison or I was, I was, uh, liberated from a camp because it's the stuff you have to do. I know it doesn't sound like fun, but it actually is fun, but the stuff it makes you do when you're done, you still kind of feel like, am I supposed to not say this or should my eyes be closed, closed when I say, like there's this weird pulling off the

band-aid moment when you, when you get booted from the game. It's hard to explain. It's really good. And, and what you guys didn't do what you have to do you've got to play it twice because when you play it twice the second time is when the winners really shine and people who still struggle to not point when they're told to not point yeah i felt like that was the case i really wanted to play a second game of dungeon murder but obviously wanted to give more people the chance to play in Vegas and i felt like oh now that i get it i really want to play it a second time but uh second time's the charm and i played it with your kids once we only had we were trying to there was never any time to do much of this so game night was like really brief but um that was fun playing with your boys i hope they

enjoyed that they are so excited about it so send it don't forget i won't i won't forget yeah no you're you're first on my list after all the people that bought it but i will send it after that after everyone is paid i get the first free you get the first freebie you get the first family pack um all right well let's uh let's dive in today we you you told me you wanted to do you wanted to start potentially a series but a bit of a mystery i have no idea what you brought today so lay it on us what are we doing so uh yeah okay couple things so we've talked about a fantasia before on the show that's where wendy in particular cannot visualize things and other people can yeah um and what's interesting is as we've talked about it a little bit as family

every once in a one usually peter will go mom i know you can't see any of this but let me explain or let me draw like like he feels like I need some assistance on my buddy it's not like a hundred percent I can kind of get what you're talking about you know but it's it's a kind of a weird thing to have and then there's this other thing that I and this is for my own benefit I would love anyone who doesn't have this experience to please send me an email because I don't know the exact numbers of how many people exist with this. But I would assume at least every human I've ever talked to has this experience. And apparently there are people who don't.

So let me explain with the experiences. And then please call me if you do not have this experience. And that is hearing. And it may not be fully audible, right? But just that there is an inner voice that sort of talks. Yeah? Yeah, sure. And running commentary.

And, you know, apparently there are folks who, experience don't experience this and I really want to meet a real one because I don't have a hard time just like people who are very visual probably don't think I exist right so I please reach out to me sure um okay but the vast majority of us at least every single person I've ever met in therapy and everyone I've ever known has an inner sort of monologue happening it could be all sorts of versions a lot of words we use maybe inner critic and we've done a couple different things we did that F.S thing with this and some of the things. But I want to try something a little different.

And so this week is not going to be very long because I need to gather data. I need you guys to do some homework before we have stuff to work with. But if we think about this voice, so I'm going to start with just an example so you guys can tap into yours. So I want to try this. I'm going to have us help me quiet for like, and everyone listening can do this too. Just be quiet for one minute. I'm actually going to even set a timer. Okay.

Siri, set a timer for one minute. Good audio for a podcast listener. Yeah. Yeah. I can sing or, you know, it'll be 30 seconds. I'll start it at 30 seconds. But anyway, this idea is that you're just going to be quiet. Okay.

And shut your mouth. Yeah. And don't try. Don't try to not think. Don't try to think. Just do nothing. Yeah. And then I want the two of you to tell me what happens when we do that.

Okay. So 30 seconds. Starting now. okay timer's up all right so tell me what happened all I can do I'll admit it right now because I'll just tell you my answer all I could do is think about how I'm providing 30 seconds of dead air on a podcast that's all I can think about is all that's all my head would do that's really funny I um I was noticing my breathing and then I started thinking oh I should mention that I'm not going. Oh, I shouldn't be thinking. Dang it. Oh, no, I'm thinking about

thinking. Damn it, I can't stop thinking. Yeah. That sounds about right. You know, it's like telling somebody, um, don't think of a white horse. And they immediately, you know, the first thing they do is think of a white horse. That's how you keep them throwing up, by the way, for those of you who need help, try not to throw up. Is that true? You think of a white horse? You're like, you have to go to the bathroom really bad or something. You tell yourself, don't think of a white horse. And all you can do is think of a white horse. That's great. And it takes your mind,

takes your mind off having a pee. All right. Yeah. I'm going to pee my pants. I'm going to pee my pants. The story in there directs you towards peeing your pants as opposed to, ooh, white horse. White horse.

Darned I thought of a white horse and you forget all about. Okay. All right. So thank you for doing that. I was like at one point, I thought, this is long. 30 seconds is really long. It does. It seemed a lot longer than.

Yeah. Crazy, right? Okay, so each one of us had a narrator working in there, right? Yeah. And Scott, your narrator was feeling responsible. Yeah. And I wonder if we could do a survey with everybody live or something to be interesting. How many people thought, wow, Scott's really brave for having 30 seconds of dead air on a podcast.

Like how many people had the same thoughts as you? Probably a number of people, yeah. probably maybe one person who doesn't know you say a really small number like you know this would be a really good time for me to quit yeah I thought I had the thought

like what if someone just is like speeding through trying to get to my section which I know happens sometimes right yeah and it's just silent yeah right oh no did I go too far did I go to the end of the show what happened like it's broken okay all right so I had like two or three thoughts Brian your thought was

the sort of circus version of things where it's like a thought and then oh no and then I'm dropping it was before all that I was like oh wow I'm really paying attention to my breathing and then when you start paying attention to breathing you breathe weird and then I start thinking about all that and then thinking about how I shouldn't be thinking about it okay so here's my first question yeah who was talking in your head in our heads like what voice did you hear Brian that was Patrick Warburton no it was me He was myself talking. Okay, but then who heard that voice talking?

There's another version of me. It was like Michael Keaton multiplicity in there. Okay. So there's the true Brian who's listening and observing. And then there's kind of the boss Brian of all the Bryans. The boss Brian, the talkie Brian, the one that's directing every meeting. It's maybe more like Jane in Doom Patrol for those people who watch Doom Patrol. Oh, that's it.

She had a lot of personalities, yeah. Yeah, I don't have that many. But, yeah. So if we think about that. that. So I want everyone to try to flush down the toilet any preconceived notions you have about how this works. Because there's a lot of different explanations. I'm not saying mine is the right way, but I want us to go on a journey together if we could. And try to see it as maybe this, that it's your roommate and your roommate in your head. Just one for now. And that

roommate talks when you're quiet. And some people listening, are going to say, oh, this roommate never shuts up. And so the only way to get it to stop is by distracting myself. And the second, you know, the pause between two Netflix shows is where the roommates start screaming at me. Right. As long as I can't hear it, it's great, right? So we know. Also like, you might also like. Hurry, hurry, hurry. Next show. Next show.

Yeah. So the distraction comes, serves to quiet maybe that roommate, okay? Now, just for a moment, I want to ask, is this roommate right the things they're saying or helpful or what's the roommate, you know, are you a fan? Would you want to go out to dinner with this roommate? I mean, would. Yeah, I think so, because I think that roommate, keeps me in check. I think that roommate is like

isn't there to sabotage me and more like just to kind of keep me on track kind of thing. Okay. And so Brian, I think we've established through time and experience that your inner world isn't very dangerous. Yeah, it's like it's all bubble wrap in there. It's real nice. And the principle is the same that it's protective. But yours doesn't have to scream at you or tell you you're fat and ugly and you shouldn't go outside in order

to protect you. Whereas maybe someone else's roommate is saying, how dare you walk outside looking like that? Yeah. And so everyone's going to have a different kind of roommate, but everyone's got some kind of roommate. So let me ask you another question. When you go outside, here's a way to think about it. Okay. When you go outside and it's cold. Oh, wouldn't that be nice right now? honestly. Oh, really would, yeah. So just imagine going outside. Just cooler would be nice.

Just cooler. All right. So imagine you go outside and it's cold, like pretty, pretty cold. Yeah. And you say in your head, or the roommate says, or even you say outside of you, what do you say? You should quiet when you go outside and it's suddenly really cold? Um, I probably get a, uh, are you, do you need a hat? Do you need a warmer jacket?

Like, that's probably what my inner roommate is saying. Yeah, right? Again, it is probably, it's like it is the, I'm looking out for you. It's probably, you know, oh, that's like, how do I help you with this, right? Yeah. But think about it for a second. Is there any necessity of saying, because most people go outside and they say it's cold. They'll say it out loud if someone's with them.

They'll say it maybe internally. Tina says it nonstop. Like, we'll go, oh, it's chilly. That's not. you know what you're got to say it she's always a question why and not to a partner but like within yourself why is saying the word it's cold what does that have to happen what does it happen i mean i assume it's a protection thing right like he's it's a you will catch cold or die or you know whatever the whatever our primal uh survival instinct is that's that voice is there

to assist that i would assume and it also engages you in a bit of a conversation. So Brian, you kind of alluded to this. So let's say the inner mind says, it's cold. You have a response, which is, okay, we're almost home. Like just a few minutes. We'll be fine. Or I'll go get a hat.

Oh, I should get a hat. Right. So you start the conversation between you and the roommate, in essence, is supposed to help you make decisions so you don't die. Right. And so from a fundamental place of like temperature versus. you know, did you send the check into the insurance company or whatever the other thing might be, these reminders, the roommate full of reminders and warnings and have you thought

this through or you wake up in the night and it reminds you of all the things that you haven't spent the time in the day to think through. It's, that's sort of the purpose. But it also, if you think about it, it's completely unnecessary to tell us we're cold. We know we're cold. Right, right. But the whole point in our essence and so this is what the foundation I want to create and then I'm going to have everyone do something with us is that it's essentially to give us what is the word sorry the word just left in my mind give us uh oh control control uh I was like there's a main word I want to talk about and it left my brain see the roommate is a sabotaging me for some reason right now okay sorry

Right. Control. So if you think about the world as being totally out of control, and the more we feel that, so just even take the last couple years when crazy stuff has happened. And as adults, you're like, whoa, this has never happened before. Like the newness. And wait a minute, I thought democracy meant something else or, you know, whatever, however it is thrown you or shook you or whatever it might be, that it's like glimpsing how out of control things really are. And our brain will do whatever it takes to help. us feel like we are in control in an out-of-control situation. Right. So the example is you can't control cold. You step outside. It's cold. Your brain has this mechanism, which is the roommate, to say, hey, yo, it's cold. And then now we're in dialogue with the roommate.

We are now going to interact in the world in a way that makes us a little bit safer. So that's like a really benign, lovely version of this. but I'm going to I'm going to jump to something we talked about not too long ago Scott when you're standing in front of a mirror tell me what your roommate's telling you when you're looking in the mirror oh you're freaking gross you need of get back on that treadmill and also hey you why is your beard crooked and also you're you're in your 50 Why is there a Zit? Where did that Zick comes?

By the way, I noticed you trimmed your beard. It looks really good. Oh, yeah, I did. It's a little, I look a little like a thumb, but I did. I felt like I need. What we need is Brian's inner roommate to join Scott's Brank? Right. Would you like to borrow my roommate for a little bit?

Yeah. He's so nice. Yeah, my, I'm on a vacation to Salt Lake City for a while. I don't know. I won't get anything done, but he could go hang out with you. My roommate's a jerk. It might just be silent in there. My roommate's just kind of always.

always been a little bit of a jerk to me. Okay. So if we think about that, and again, keep that context of protection, right? It's going to protect you from what? Why telling you your beard's weird and you need to get on a treadmill? What is it trying to protect you from? The slow but steady passage of time. No, I don't know. Probably.

Well, I think you can't control. believe that for sure yeah 100% I believe that thing a thing you know what it is right you're right you're right Wendy it's a thing I can't control you're absolutely right it's like so you can't control the opinions of others you cannot stop the female gays that is judging you at all times right which of course I like the female gays all the gays all the gays all the gays are fine yeah that's the problem oh you mean a different kind of you mean z j z j z oh my gosh z Y Z Y Z Y Z Y Z yeah Jay-Z. But that idea of, like, you're being judged, you're being monitored, you're being, you know, whatever. And what's interesting, and mom doesn't listen to the show, does she? No, as far as I know, I don't think John would know how to get it on for her, so. Probably true. Okay.

But I noticed on this trip, a couple things came out of her mouth that, you know, I have enough space from her. I don't sort of see this happen very often. And when you're in the soup of something, you maybe don't notice. But mom did this thing that just made me laugh and also was like, oh, yeah, this explains maybe why any of us might be worried about what other people think, right? Yeah, right? Because humans are worried about what other people think. That's part of survival. Sure. But then you get your special flavor from whatever family you were raised in, right? So a family that's very intellectually, you know, rigorous and values that, they're going to be judging you based on your brain and someone else, how you look or what you can.

tribute. So everyone's got their own flavor that has been passed down for generations for lots of reasons. And you're just a recipient, unfortunately. Anyway, but she said, we're getting ready to go the beach. And she goes, my legs are so white. I need to. And so she had some, like, self-tanning lotion she was putting on. Really? I was like, woman, you are 85. And I get that you still feel 20 inside, or that thing, but this is like, who is going to look at your legs and go, wow, you're so white? Nobody. Who are we talking about? And it's because we're not talking about anyone.

We're talking about the inner roommate who, as for her entire life, wanted to make sure no one ever thought she had white legs. Yeah. Because that's going to protect her from something she has no control over, which is what people think is attractive, what makes you valuable, whatever, right? And so sometimes when you get enough space from someone, you can start to hear things. And when you're older, maybe you say them out loud more than you kept them in at other times. So it was just fascinating. So I'm thinking, okay, Scott, you look in a mirror and you've got a roommate that's like, how do I protect you from how you look? Raised by an 85-year-old who's still worried about how tan her legs are.

Yep. I mean, I'd say this all to her face, everyone, don't you worry? Yeah, it's not, this isn't, yeah, none of this is, Wendy doesn't have a problem talking to her like that. No, but it's, you know, and one time she did tell me, she's, she doesn't compare herself to people her age. She compares herself to people in their 20s. Yeah. Now, that's wild when you look at it from the outside, but what is it that we're all doing that is a roommate-driven behavior? So it could be, and we use words like inner critic or, you know, that type of thing.

And so we can go all the extreme of some self-harm thinking or suicidal thinking or different things where that inner roommate is very persuasive, very loud, very sure that it's going to save you by belitting, belittling you, et cetera. So, for example, if you had a very sort of abusive parent who, you know, told you you did all sorts of things wrong, this inner voice is going to protect you from making those same mistakes. And it's going to sort of double down and control things that way. Okay. So I want everyone to think about this in terms of everyone's got different places here. And instead of sort of going outwards and like, how do we deal with this on the outside? We're going to talk for the next couple of weeks. I decided to make it a series because that sounds fun.

Yeah. About how you work with your inner world a little differently. because this inner roommate I mean truly most people I would say except for I in here maybe and me my inner roommate is pretty nice

I would not want to spend want to sit and watch a movie with this person if they were talking the way they talk all the time or wouldn't invite them to meet anyone you know because it's harsh or because it's yeah this is weird because I actually avoid the kind of people

that would be that judgmental I don't like being around anyway. And you know, it's weird is I kind of am in that stage where I don't care what anyone thinks. So it's weird that I care so much about that stupid second voice in my head. You know? The reason is it's been there so long. It's so familiar. And you both did this at the very beginning.

You identify it as yourself. Yeah. You're not identifying it as the roommate. And that's what we're going to work on a little bit is how to get a little more space between you and the roommate. see it for what it is and work on some things there so I need some data I need people to have their own data here

so we got a little 30 second snippet and this may be too deep and someone's like listen I come here for the laughs I don't come here yeah deep inner work well they're coming to Thursdays they know what they're getting they're all right all right okay fine but I'm more than you

this Mike O'Reyerick All right just my disclaimer so we're going to do this I just want people to get even if it's one day you don't have to do it this for the next seven days

if you can do it more days and one awesome if not doesn't matter but try for just one day to pay attention to what the roommate says so you could do this where you're just you write it down

you can maybe do another 30 seconds of quiet and just listen and then write it down or speak it out loud like on your phone and record it some way to gather a little bit of information about your roommate okay vet your roommate just you're listening because here's the thing who am i talking about i mean who is listening and who is talking and that's what most people don't have a good grasp on they just think it's me and me and me and me yeah and the way we sort of will speak about it is we'll say a part of me wants to go to the movies a part of me wants to go to the home yeah right so who are you talking about who's which which which which in the what

now and so lots of ways we kind of manage this as we live our normal lives but this is going to be a little funky for people maybe if they've never done this is think of it as you're almost like taking dictation or writing down the notes of what this other person is saying. It's like if you had a guest and they followed you around and you had to write down the things they were saying all day, it would be weird. But it's the same idea. You're just doing it internally. So maybe the best form for most people is to take set a timer for five minutes.

And if you are not a regular meditator, this might kill you, just know, where you are just paying attention to what happens in those five minutes. What are the thoughts? where does it take you just stare off at work and notice that millions of different things you thought about you know it's a pretty wild ride in there sometimes and then think of whatever that think of the thinking as the voice of the roommate right does that make sense yeah yeah totally does let me let me ask you this though um is it possible some of us will have our roommate will have an old college friend who does a lot of weed and crashes on the couch. You know what I mean? Like other voices in there that aren't the roommate proper, but like he brought a girl over or whatever. I don't know. I'm trying to keep the scenario the same, but that can happen too. Very possible. And that's actually like when I work with people, we get a little more dissecting and find out which parts are which. Because we have angry parts or we have whatever. But this is kind of, think of this is a beginning step of understanding that

you are not that story. You are not the thought. You are not the bully. You are not whatever part of you is currently talking. Yeah. And that's why I recommend doing like a very neutral sitting around kind of version of this too, where you are just quiet. And most people immediately, immediately the roommate will say, why are we doing this?

Yeah. Okay. So you already know why, just like you know it's cold. Right? You know it's cold. You don't need to say, oh, it's cold. You know it's cold. You know why you're doing this because Wendy told you. And then when you're quiet, the roommate will say, why are we doing this? What is this even for? I got so many things to do. And it will just start talking. So just note it. Like, note what it says. So maybe you guys have heard this phrase before of like the stories we tell ourselves. It's a very common way to like articulate this idea. So for example, someone doesn't call you for how. half hour later than they said they would. During that half hour, what are you thinking? Well, a part of you

blowing me off. Do they not want to talk to me? Yeah, right. That's the roommate. And then tell me this, Brian, how many times are you is the roommate right? Oh, never. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I've learned never to assume malicious intent when none is presented. There's like a phrase or something that it goes through my head. I think it's something that my

roommate always says, is never assume malicious intent when none has been presented or something like that. Okay. Yeah. I like it. I like it because we have the roommate suddenly panicking that they don't like you or maybe they have something better to do. And then instantly self-correcting. Yeah.

And then, and here's a crazy thing. We will always believe the roommate. Oh, yeah. We go, oh, my gosh, maybe they hate me. Then they call them like, oh, my gosh, my car, my tire. popped. I was crazy. This story's crazy. And suddenly you're like, yep, it's all good. And it's because the roommate was wrong, but no one ever goes, hey, roommate, let's hold

you accountable for that lie you were telling. It's just the roommate trying to prevent something bad that it has no control over. And so this need for control, the roommate has a very strong need for you to get some control. So it will tell the story. Hey, it's cold. Get a jacket. That's control in an unincorrollable environment. someone doesn't call you back you cannot control that so it's going to tell a story to help you manage that uncontrollability now some level of this we're all functioning fine with there is extreme levels that are absolutely devastating to a person and will create inability to function in life and so we're on a range here so everyone be very kind to yourself as you're playing around with this

And if it is too scary to sit with that voice, then we really need to talk to a professional to help you with that. Or if that voice is telling you things that you absolutely don't want to do and you don't want to stop or whatever, there is absolute help for this. This is a little more lightweight versions, and you may realize a couple things, but just know that definitely is the caveat here.

So, okay, so we just need your data set. So everyone, take a few minutes, maybe more, this next week, and bring it to class. Okay. And we're going to work on what we do next once we have heard how the roommate talks. So for example, Scott, you telling us what your roommate says when you are looking in the mirror is you just sort of reflexively saying whatever that is right now. It's going to be a little different when you are standing in front of the mirror with a notepad and just listen.

And you may find sometimes roommates get a little shy, like, oh, crap, you're listening. And sometimes they'll just go, go, go, go, go. And what we want is just to have a little more observer in the driver's seat here, taking notes, paying attention, instead of just running off with the roommate's story, because as many of you will find, the roommate is 99.9% wrong all the time. yeah 100% of the time and it's because and that's why course corrects well oh that's not what it was okay it's something else and now it's on board with the new thing because it just wants you safe and just needs to warn you that the world's not controllable so it's trying to help you with that

my stupid brain is like all i can think about is is is he paying the rent on time is he doing his half of the rent on time like all the stereotypes they're flooding my brain even though they have really no bearing here it's like did he leave his socks where he said he wasn't going to anymore did he eat my yogurt like i had my name on my yogurt and he still ate it yeah yeah the cable bill's not going to pay itself dude you got to pay half you're going to watch it you know this kind of stuff i don't know why that's what happens if i say the inner critic um that might work better for me just just from a not getting distracted standpoint because i that is what my brain does it goes into these like stupid, funky kind of creative zones of like, oh, okay, if there's a

roommate, then that means, you know, like, I just can't do it. So maybe, maybe intercritic makes more sense. But then I just picture Roger Ebert sitting there with a big old grin on his face. I don't know. Maybe that's, which is fine. That's actually helpful. I give us two thumbs up. Two thumbs up for your shower. And that is why a Fantasia actually makes some of this both easier and harder is I don't picture anything and many of you will have pictures right this is why when we look at sort of creativity it's um you know it's mind wandering new ideas popping in like all sorts of cool stuff right and that can be visual right so it's like a double-edged sword a little bit here that also means the scariest thought in the world will pop up and make you think your

whole family's dead yeah that's true right so it's a maybe yours is actually the movie maker not the uh the critic i don't know so everyone's going to have a little slightly different take on this so if people could do this and then maybe write in with a couple of framings like just maybe a quick sentence or two about like what did your roommate say when you were quiet um and then what do you picture is it robert roger debert Rubber-durper. Rubber-durp. Don't use that against me.

That guy. Or is it like a happy, nice guy like Ryan's ribbons? Who always sells the dishes. Just pay attention. There are no wrong answers. Everyone's going to have an individual thing here. Yeah. You know, 100 of you right back in.

Oh, it's my mom. Okay. Then that's a thing. Yeah, we'll learn something there. That's my dad. Yeah. speaking of which all right before so this is your homework everybody you go everyone understand it go do do this okay we're going to do it you guys do it we'll come back

next week for part two in the series what our roommates say this week but that reminds me you're talking about mothers or who was in your head or whatever what do you call do you call john stepdad at all in any context i don't need i don't either so what so what do we everyone gives me cheese about this not everyone but because he had no hand in raising us he married mom when we were what i was in my 30s you know like what what are we supposed to do there is it fine just john you know john and mom hey i'm sorry there's a lawnmower i'll be yeah i can totally hear the lawn more yeah it's my child so i'm really happy it's happening yeah don't don't stop oh yeah don't discourage this this is it's also annoying yeah i was like dude not at 11 okay so he does it 11 um anyway

What is I going to say? Oh, I call him mom's husband, John. Yeah, same. My mom's husband, John. Same. People think I'm weird for doing it. And I actually have a kind of a recoiling feeling when someone's like, oh, where do your parents live? I'm like, no, my mom and her husband John.

Yeah. Right. Well. Yeah. I don't know why. And it's because it just doesn't, it doesn't fit. I think he didn't, he never parented you. So you can't really, can't really call him a parent.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. You're fine. I don't feel bad. And guess what. You get to do whatever you want.

Yeah, I do get to. That's right. Me and my roommate can do whatever we want in our apartment. Excellent. We'll follow up next week, assuming the stupid jury duty doesn't happen the way it's supposed to. Oh my gosh. I'm so jealous. Please tell him to send me a letter.

I want to do it so bad. Some weird, like, domestic suit or something. It's not like a real trial. I don't know. I shouldn't say it's not a real trial. It is a real trial, but it's not criminal. And I kind of want a criminal one, you know. I want to go in there and find out where the body is and, you know, show me some.

I'm going to be sequestered in a hotel for months, stuff that I want to do. I wouldn't mind that if somehow Bill's got paid with me being in that hotel, but that ain't going to happen. Anyway, we'll let you know, but I'm looking forward to part two with great anticipation, Wendy. Yeah, all right, everyone, keep track of your roommate, take notes, send us a few that we can work with, and then you two, please do it as well. Yep, and enjoy your freshly shorn lawn, all right? Yes, thank you. Oh, I love the term shorn. I don't use that enough.

I do, too, yeah. Shorn. Plus that smell of freshly cut grass. Brian, that's one in life's great little deals, you know? It really is. It's a nice, smelly lawn when you're done. That is it for us and for today's show. Thank you all so much for watching, listening, and hanging out in any way that you can.

We really appreciate it. Quick reminder. Okay, so a few schedule-y things, a little PSA. Yesterday, Lightning sent the power and the Internet and everything to crap. right so we had no it was right as we were starting play retro that this all went down so we bumped play retro to tonight at 330 and you might say well isn't tonight's core well normally core is on thursdays but because balder's gate three came out today we all want a little play time with it before we can talk about it so we've moved that to friday night so friday night core 5 p.m. normal time tonight play retro 330 mountain time uh uh And then everything else should be the same. We're going to do FilmSack. We got a couch party tomorrow.

We don't know what we're doing yet, but we'll let you know. Oh, no, we do. I keep forgetting She-Hulk is what we're doing. You're doing She-Hulk? So all of that's good. Brian's got cover real today at one, as we mentioned earlier. Like all the other normal things, we're just doing a little switcheroo with play retro encore.

That's all. All right. Film Sack this weekend, mystery men, little Paul Rubens. You know? And apparently you told me yesterday, Doug Jones makes an appearance. Doug Jones and Seelow Green. Oh my gosh, dude.

I don't remember that at all. And Michael Day. What? The Michael, the director as an actor? What the heck? Okay. Armageddon's own Michael Bay. Yeah, wait until, I mean, I'd forgotten about all this.

And, yeah, I think my earlier remembrance of the level of this. Well, I'm not going to say a word. I'm not going to say word. Okay. All right. Hold it for a Saturday. You'll got to wait until we record film sec to find out what Brian thought of it. I like Wes Studey.

He's in it. He's cool. He's great. Anyway, all that... Love everybody that's in us. Yeah, they're all great. So we'll do that this weekend. Watch for that over there,

FilmSec.com, for all the details. And just keep an eye on our socials and stuff. Brian and I are both on threads, by the way. Coverville and Actual Scott are our name. Actual Scott. Yeah. You can still follow us on X.com, I guess. Yeah.

I do all my posting. I reply to people on Twitter, but the only thing, the only thing I post over there is when Stream Labs automatically post them doing a show. It does it on Twitter because there's not a Threads thing yet. I'm sorry, X.

X. Posting it on X. Yeah, same. I'm doing a lot more interacting with people and then not just plain posting on threads. I think threads, since they added the follower tab, it's improved a lot. They need a desktop app

bad or at least web or something. I don't know what the frick they're doing with not having a way to do it on a desktop. It's really annoying. Oh, it looks like Red Fraggell is doing a pottery stream at 430 Eastern tonight. So, yeah, so basically Coverville, then pottery, if you're into that, a little snap, then a little pottery and then, and then wrestling, it looks like, is right after that. Yeah, black pants, rassling. Yeah, there may be some.

Oh, yeah, there may be some of that tonight. I don't know Thursday night. John's still doing that. It's hilarious. He does it on Wednesdays usually, but maybe he's got something. Okay. I'm not sure. Apparently, you and I are wrapped up in some crazy.

30 Eastern. Okay, 4.30 Mountain Time, the only time is on the matter. Oh, then that's about right after play retro tonight. So, perfect. You and I are controversial right now in the wrestling, frog wrestling stuff. Oh, really? Yeah. Apparently, I'm, everyone hates me because I'm kind of a dick in the league. And then you lost some major bout with somebody. I can't remember what it was. The Vod's all up. We could go check it, but Brian currently embroiled in a bit of a weird loss or something. the women's leagues all full-blown now. We've got

Kim in there and other people. I think Kim right now is dominating, which probably means people are going to hate her soon. You know, in the world of Frog Wrestling. hilarious. I love it. Yeah, well, yeah, obviously. Yeah, it's a very self-contained dramatic place to live. Anyway, that'll do it for us. Big thanks, everybody, for

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Everything else can be found at frogpants.com slash TMS. And now Brian will play us a song to take us out of here. Brian, what did you bring? Yes, Jeff H wrote in and said for his birthday, which was on the 30th, so Monday. Yep, that would have been 30th was, yes, no, 31st was Monday, so Sunday. Sunday. I would love to hear one of the best cover songs ever. His pick is Manford Man's cover of Bruce Springsteen's song for you. I agree. This is a great song. And this was one of those that I heard so much from Manford Man that I didn't realize it was a cover of Springsteen. So for me, it's a, it's so fully entrenched in Manford Man. Springsteen's version is great too. But yeah, Man for Man. And the lyrics, this thing are fantastic. If you get a chance, really listen to the lyrics as you hear the song.

Here's Manford Man's cover of Bruce Springsteen's for you from the album. Do I even have the album in here? I might. It is, um, da da da da da da da da da, da, da, where is it? It is the best of Man for Man's Earth Band. So their greatest fits album is where I got this. Okay, there you go. That works.

Yeah, that sounds great. All right, we're going to play that. We'll be back Monday. So come on back then. You hear? Princess Cod, she sends me with her With her regards shine vacancy

To see her You gotta look hard Wounded deep in battle I stand stuff like some soldier Undunted To her Cheshire smile I'll stand on file She's all I ever wanted

You let your blue walls Get in the way of this facts, honey Get your carpet baggers off my back Go give me time to cover my tracks. Here's your mirror and your fallen jacks, but they're not what I came for. Oh, I came for so much more. And I know you know that too. And I know you know that's true.

I came for you. I came for you. I came for you I came for you I came for you for you I came for you crawl into my ambulance

your pulse is getting weak reveal yourself all to me now while you've got the strength to speak because they're waiting for you with Bellevue with their oxygen masks But I could give it all to you now If only you could ask Don't call for your surgeon even he says it's late

It's not your lungs is time but your heart hold your fate Don't give me my money back no want it anymore It's not that nursery mouth I came back for back for it's not the way it stretched out on the floor i broken all your windows and i ran to all your dolls and you and might ask you to fight my wars and you should know that's true you should know that too i came for you i came for you i came for you I came for you, for you, I came for you.

Call for your surgeon even he says it's late, even he says it's late. It's not your lungs this time, but your heart holds your fate. Don't give me my money back or want it anymore. It's not that nursery mouth I gave back for. It's not the way you stretched out on your floor. Broken all your windows and I've ran to all your doors. Who were invited to ask you to fight my walls? You should know that's true.

I can't. You should know that too. I came for you I came for you I came for you I came for you I came for you I came for you

I came for you for you I came for you You know, I'm going to be. I'm going to say. Get more at frogpants.com. Beef meat.