The Morning Stream - TMS 2503: Rat Tickler

Episode Date: August 7, 2023

Number 4: The Larch. And you can EAT...DICE!!! Hawaiian Shirt Monday. Swifties'll Cut Ya. There are TWO popeyes. (s) Someday we'll find it, the Hackman connection. Can't hear the show... shirts are too loud ;-). Hair Metal or Poodle Rock. You Decide. I don't like the Hemlock weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed. JCPenney Catalog is Salt Lake Porn. Margot Robbie lunch date. Lysol: The Essence of Facebook. Joy Buzzers, Fake Vomit, and Big Ol' Weiners. 60% of My Body is Gravy. Alpha-Gal Syndrome with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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A.C. Penny catalog is Salt Lake City porn. Margo Robbie lunch date. Lysol, the essence of Facebook. Joy buzzers, fake vomit, and big old weaners. 60% of my body is gravy. Alpha-Gal Syndrome with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Welcome, young man. This shop is for reading fortunes.

Your pinched face tells me you have a lot on your mind, son. You pencil pushing hump. This is the morning stream with Scott Johnson and Brian Ibbett, big old freaking dirt blanket. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It's Monday, August 7th, 2020. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian David. Hi, Brian. Hello, and welcome to the second week of August. Oh my gosh. How is it already? How? How? What? Didn't we just like five seconds ago? Just like say, ooh, it's August 1st.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't get it. I don't get it. Here's what I do get. There's a, I have the two things in my head right now. There's a COVID search, right? What's going on? Oh, is there another one? Yeah. Summer COVID surge. Good news is it's not a new variant. Bad news is we're probably going to have two or three of these surges every year for the rest of our lives. It's fine, whatever. Yeah. That's just the new normal. That's why we've got boosters. That's right. Get them boosters. They got some new fancy booster coming out in October that's supposed to be more refined for the newer variants and stuff. But anyway, I'll be getting that. But all I can think about is, so Kim's sister and brother and her brother-in-law sister who moved to Mississippi here recently to build a house down there, Steve and Sarah. They used to just live up the road from us. Yeah. Well, they're in town because he's got to deal with some business stuff, and she's coming back

from the Taylor Swift concert in L.A. with her daughter. That's right. Okay. She was lucky enough to score tickets for that one, huh? Nice. Yeah. So all I'm thinking is we got a house full of temporary people. They're going to be here for the next four or five days. and if there was a place you were going to maybe come in contact with somebody who maybe has a little bit of the vid, it might have happened in L.A. The giant concert in Los Angeles. Yeah, lots of fun.

But anyway, they said that concert was real good. They had good tickets. And I guess that Taylor Swift, man, she knows how to fill them seats and get the business done. She, you know, I don't know. I haven't really heard of her before all this, but it sounds like she's really going places. Yes. That little country starlet has really gone places. Yeah, she's really, yeah, she's really making a name for herself, whoever, whoever this T. Swiftie is.

Didn't it feel like things turned in the right direction for her in a major way after Kanye said, I'm going to let you finish? Like, it was that moment. It certainly did not hurt. Yeah. Like, I wonder she secretly thanks her, him under her breath, you know. And I think also she's been really helped by the hubbub around her re-recording all of her albums, the tape. Versions of all of her albums. Oh, yeah.

Just to get her rights back, her ownership of her music back. Because they sound virtually the same to me, mostly. I mean, there's a couple songs where she's changed a couple things up. But it was more the publicity of her announcing that she was doing that and the popularity of her doing that, that I think has given her a lot of a nice little boost as well. She deserves all the credit she gets. She seems like she's hardworking, stoked, and creative and seems like actually a pretty good person. which is nice, you know?

Yeah, yeah. So that's good. Just can't hold a boyfriend. That's a sad thing. Just can't, but it's great for her music, but she just can't hold the boyfriend. It is. As long as there's going to be a string of failed relationships, there will be quality Taylor Swift, sad breakup songs.

My only real thing is Swifties will get you if you piss them off, these people. Oh, yeah, yeah. Legion fans. They're like, you know, BTS or K-pop. mega fans they're hard they're very hardcore and if you cross them at all they will cut you they will they will murder you in your sleep so i'm just saying swifties we're cool we like her she's great yeah all right don't look at brian and i and say anything we have not said a negative thing about taylor swift we have not no we're we're in the clear yes we support you yes we

promise um okay so we need to give away a prize stand back and check your personal belongings it's time for the morning forum we asked you guys who you'd rather have lunch with cillian murphy or killian murphy or margot robish i don't know why i said that anyway which is you rather do and boy howdy are the is it weighted in one direction and not the other um I'm going to guess that it's weighted in the Margot Robbie direction. You'd be correct. 80.2% of respondents say they would much rather have lunch with Margot Robbie. A paltry 19.8 remaining would have lunch with Killian Murphy.

I think they both seem like very nice people, but I think Margot Robbie, you know, looks aside, Australian accent aside. It seems like she'd just be a little bit more down to earth and I feel like Killian Murphy might be looking off into space for a lot of your, your, your lunch like yeah he wouldn't really want to be there you know yeah exactly i get that feeling too and i really like it oh you really like the picky blinders yeah oh you like sunshine did you okay okay that's good yeah i do like sunshine yeah uh but yeah i think you're probably right but um anyway you guys did well thank you for voting in that uh that little poll there and it made all of you eligible for a frog pants frog pants fun pack it's hard to say and we have a winner Friendly Sleet 66, friendly sleet 66, you're our big winner.

Congratulations. All you got to do is send me an email or a DM on Discord, or I'll contact you first. Whatever happens first, we'll hook you up, get your stuff in the mail. It doesn't matter where you live. You could live somewhere in the Netherlands. I'll send you this pack, okay? Wow, that's generous. I know.

Not me. I'm a cheap skate. You win something you're not in the U.S. You get digital shit. Well, and the nice thing is, I guess as long as it's a flat, you know, if I can fit it in a five-by-seven envelope and it's not lucky. Yeah, that's true. Your stuff ships a lot flatter than the, you know. Yeah, if Brian's going to send you a toy.

Yeah, that stuff's expensive. I won't do that either. Or 3D prints. Don't send those overseas. Oh, my gosh. No, no. No. What are we crazy?

No. Anyway, congratulations. You're good. We don't have a new one of these yet, but don't worry. One's formulating. We'll have one for you. Soon enough. I got a thing that I think Brian might like.

Oh, cool. So I'd like to share it. This is something I heard that just made me laugh. Now, you like Psycho Killer and you like David Byrne. David Byrne and the Talking Heads. I love those guys. Yeah, they're great, right? Talking Heads.

No, wait, is it? It's just playing Talking Heads. The name of this band is Talking Heads. Oh, it was never The Talking Heads. I don't think it's ever been The Talking Heads. Now I'm trying to remember. It's like smashing pumpkins or pretenders, although pretenders went back and forth. Sometimes they were the.

Talking heads are just talking heads. Just talking heads, okay. And they got the zoot suit and the big oversized shoulder pads. You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack. You may find yourself in another part of the world. He looks like you'd see him now walking around. If you didn't know it was David Byrne, you'd just think that somebody's. Yeah.

Somebody's friendly-looking grandpa. Yeah, just a nice grandpa guy up the road. It turns out it is his lovely house. Anyway, so here's the clip now. You also, I know you have at least some passing okay fondness for bands like Disturbed, you know, some metal acts. Oh, yeah. Disturbed is less scream-o and more, you know, melodic metal. I like disturbed a lot.

I like, yeah, there's some bands in that kind of the middle area between the heavy heavy. heavy stuff and uh yeah the hair metal you know like there there's that kind of range but that stuff in the middle like disturbed i know disturbed is not on the hell don't don't get me wrong folks i'm not saying disturb is on the hair metal range but when you look at all the different variations of heavy metal yeah including hair metal baby metal Swedish death metal uh speed metal uh you know megadeth your your anthrax stuff like that uh i do like disturbed let's just leave it at that i like disturbed i like the melodic approach of metal i wish they would do that i wish more bands be like that. I don't need you to scream and I wouldn't mind if you had a song in there somewhere,

you know? Yes. And so that's them for me. That's them for Brian. They're good band. Now, have you ever thought of taking those two bands and schmushing them together in any form or another? I have not, but, but I'm guessing that, uh, that you found something. Is it, is it, uh, created by AI or is it, uh, did humans? Humans, humans made this. Uh, so, which is, it makes it more impressive, I think. So, sadly, the YouTube archive people are not going to hear this, but live people and audio people will. So check this out. Here we go. Psycho-killer, Kaskistee. Oh. Isn't that great? I love that. That's great. Okay. That's awesome. I was like, this

sounds the same, but then you get into it. Yeah, that's awesome. I wonder if they regret. So it's down with the sickness is where that comes from. But everybody memes it on everything. It's like, is there a place we could have those guys do that weird thing? Yes, okay, put it in and make it weirder. I don't know why they get that, but they do. I loved it. That's correct.

I heard that and I went, oh, that's a fun Brian thing for a Monday morning. Yeah, for sure. You know, we're here anyway. We as well freaking do shit. Speaking of doing shit, let's get our pal, Brian Dunaway in here. sure yeah just talked to him yesterday that fine fella oh you did did talk to him about the mystery man well you and i both did oh right yeah because a film sack you recorded a film sack yesterday that's right that's right um i think people should uh listen to that episode because yeah i think they should

listen the episode rather than watch mystery men yeah yeah maybe i don't know i'm still kind of torn on i think you guys all liked it more than i did i think of the four of us i i i rated at the lowest i may have swung a little more back to you though i think uh with this watching Like previous to this, I really thought highly of it. I did too. And then I rewatched him like, oh. I mean, I guess I didn't think highly of it. I thought it was okay in the 90s.

But this time, it's like once we got to the, well, I knew that you knew that I was going to do that. Well, did you know that I knew that you know? It's like, oh, stop this right now. Some of that stuff was really cheap and low end. But, yeah, we'll see what Dunaway thinks after I play this. Music signifies it's time to have a little game and do it with our old pal Brian Dunaway who's on the phone. Hello, Brian.

Oh, sure. Discrap on the movie while I can't say anything. No, no, sure. Go ahead. Yeah, that's fine. Why don't you just, uh, you want you just express your opinion and then silence the opposite? Why don't you just tell me the movie you want to crap on?

No kidding. So, okay, let me ask you that, what's your perspective now after all that discussion about it and everything? Do you feel, you know, how do you feel about mystery men? Oh, I feel fine about it. And I feel fine about everything I said. It's is, you know, it's just what you like. What you like it, that's fine.

You don't have to like it. That's fine, too. You can hate it. I don't care. Now, if you like Minority Report, we have a problem. But, you misdreamed in, I don't give a crap. Yeah. This is, it's funny because I look at the chat room and, like, some people are like, it's a movie that's worse than some of its parts.

Oh, you guys are both wrong. It's just fine. It's a great take down the supercilial hero troops. It totally holds up. Oh, it's stupid. Yeah, yeah. It's polarized. It's polarized.

polarizing movies I can remember in a long time. Yeah, just like for episode. Honestly, I didn't expect that going in. I didn't know, but I didn't think that going in a minority report either. I went into that like naked. I'm thinking, this is going to be fine. That's polarizing just with one

member of our, of our family. You went in naked laying in one of those deprivation chambers. Yeah, that was that's right. You knew what's right. Yeah, that's how I... That's how I predict murders going on in the city. That's right. Anyway, it's good to have you here. We're going to play a game. Oh, I didn't log in yet.

We should have a ball roll down a thing. whatever for a long path where he gets written on after two minutes of rolling this direction no one could possibly no one could possibly emulate this that's why it's secure i'll shut up yeah look i some of that i'm with you right right i just think overall once you accept those tropes it's a pretty good noir film that's all i'm saying yeah and you're entitled in my entitled opinion exactly you're entitled to your dumb ass opinion that's what i am finally logged in here so that that helped us burn a little time thank you Thank you for that. All right. Let's get to it. Brian, you want to explain these rules and how Brian and I can win prizes? Paragraphs, I better get to this.

Welcome to the morning. Half-asses, a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving Scott and Brian the answers. I'm going to give them a category and six possible answers. Three of those are correct. And three of them, like my Tinder profile, are complete and total lies. Depending on how confident you feel with the category, you can provide one, two, or three guesses. But if you get any of those guesses wrong, you get zero points for that round. If you get one right, you get a point, get two right, it gets your three point, get three right, gets you five points, and the most points after three rounds, wins the prize for their contestant.

And who are our contestants, you may ask? Well, I will tell you. You say it again, Brian? Who are our contestants? Oh, I'm so glad you asked. I've pulled them from members of the Tadpool that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you're going to be playing for Rob Euston in Hamilton, New Jersey, long-time listener. Brian, you're going to be playing for Cameron Knight in 20.

Falls, Idaho. That's a great name. Cameron. You know what? Just feel like a TV character. Shout out to, yeah, it does.

Shout out, though, to Twin Falls. Twin Falls is a beautiful little town. It's awesome. It is. Yeah. Not much of Idaho

impresses me, but that little bit does. Oh, well, do you need to go to Cort Lane, then my friend. Cort Lane's really nice. You're right. Yeah.

And you know what? Boise is pretty cool now. It's kind of artsy and kind of fartsy. I like it. Well, I was you say, I can't say how it's been, how it is now.

I've been there since the mid-90s. But anyway, let's get to this. All right. So, we've got you guys both logged into the game here. I've got the first question. Let's start off with a little bit of science and nature. More on the nature, less on the science. Okay.

Trees. How well do you know your trees? Oh, not very well. I am, I watched Ferengully. Oh, good. Then that should prepare you perfectly for this. which of these six are conifer trees

the hemlock the cypress the beach the larch the hawthorn and the hornbeam there's a larch the hornbeam I like this um

there's a horn beam I've never even heard of that one that's that one's probably true it's probably real I know that's what I'm afraid of is that that's going to be true oh yeah yeah do I want to click on it

horn beam spit some beech nut and that guys I know I'm going with us too all right locked in you guys both locked in on Cyprus that is yeah because it's a conifer

it is a conifer tree very good one of you said larch one of you said hornbeam and the one who said larch is correct damn it points for Brian Dunway for the start here hornbees hemlock being the other one

hemlock the cypress and the larch done with trees isn't hemlock like a It's like a poison or something, isn't it? Or can't you extract something from hemlocked barb? There was something that, uh... You're thinking of Nightmare for Christmas, right? Was I?

Hemlock. I was thinking of, um... Oh, Hemlock, there's a... Yeah, wasn't that a thing that Shakespearean, like, they used hemlock to... Yeah. Chill. Did Romeo ingest some sort of hemlock thing? Oh, I can't remember.

Maybe she poisoned herself first. Did he do the thing? Something with the hemlock I'll tell you man That that whole Romeo Juliet thing That was like tragedy It was terrible Yeah

Yeah What a tragedy Yeah that was You might even define it as a tragedy Socrates drank hemlock Okay that is Oh Socrates Socrates killed himself

Poisoned himself I didn't know that I don't know That's what I did Somebody's saying it's the weed The hemlock weed Is what kills you about the tree. What kills you?

That's a hemlock weed. What kills you? Exactly. All right. Let's get on. Let's move over to products. Products. And which of these are perfumes for women? I'm going to try and say these in a perfumy kind of way. Cuba Jungle Snake. Oh, my Lord. Warm front. Elitus. Pigeons blood.

Jesus. And detour. Facebook. I want Facebook to be right. Even if it's not. Perfumes for women. See, this could be such bullshit. I could go into the bathroom, grab some Lysaw, and call it Facebook for women.

Yeah. And I could sell it. So these are actually sold on Amazon, is what you're saying. That's right. Yes, you can go and buy any of the three of these that are perfumes. Once again, your choice is Cuba Jungle Snake, Warmfront, Elitis, Pigeons Blood, Facebook, and Detour. Oh, my gosh. Dude. All right, I'm picking two. I don't know. I don't know.

All right. Both locked in, and congratulations to both of you for not choosing any of the actual answers. Dang it. The real ones are Cuba Jungle Snake by Cuba, Paris. Oh, dang it. By menon. The other one, leeds by Lamari, Lamani, sorry. And Pigeon's Blood by Yama. I almost want my Pigeons Blood. Pigeons Blood is a real thing. I like the idea of detour, though.

I gave that credit just because I just gave that credit because it sounded good. I think warm friend is a good one, too. I like a woman with a good warm friend. Anyway, let's get on to our last question. And here's another one that I'm going to try an intro very well. You shovel it very well. Thank you. We open up the commercial on a housewife.

She's doing her cleaning. She's washing the dishes, but she's looking lungingly off in the distance. which of these six are products that were pitched by Don Draper on Mad Men? Oh, really? Okay. God, I didn't really watch this all the way through. I'm bad. He pitched three of these six, were they? Codex slide projectors, Huggy's diapers, London fog raincoats, Mr. Salty Pretzels, Island Pacific Airlines, or Life Serial. All of which opened with a housewife. I'm going to do three of those because why not? I'm going

for broke here. Oh, go from broke. Brian locked in on, okay, he's locked in on one. I only know one of these for sure. The rest are all. Which one do you know for sure? Kodak slide projectors. That is correct.

Kodak slide projectors is one of the three. Another one of the three is Life Serial. Dang it. Oh, that almost went live cereal. And the third one is when you guys both selected London, fog, raincoat, meaning Brian Dunaway

skunked. Total skunk. Got on this one. Didn't you do that last one? I think he skunked me last week, too. Well, on feud, but not half asses. Oh, right. I think you eeked it out last week.

Okay. So then. I don't think we were here. So the pressure is on. Yeah, we weren't here last Monday. That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the pressure.

And I played in your absence, Scott. Yeah, he totally. So pressure's on for Wednesday where I really need to show my medal. So congratulations going out to Cameron Knight in Twin Falls. You are getting a copy of guns and fishes. Remember, it's that game where you shoot fishes out of your gun. And Izmir and independent simulator, both of those on Steam. The person who won those, by the way, last time, wasn't able to use them.

Oh, okay. As I was saying, didn't we give that away last week? Yeah, we tried. We tried. The Brian, right? The Brian did already have it. Yeah. But that's okay.

Rob Eused and you're getting a copy of Soul Flow. Oh. I don't know what that is, but it sounds like something will make your hair sparkle. Like soul glow. Like soul glow. Now, that sounds like some woman's perfume. Yeah, it does. Well, So glow was, uh, hello, what was that from coming to America?

It was from, uh, coming to America. That's right. Soul glow. Yeah. Over working at McDowell's. Oh, man. Right. Um, excellent work.

Eric B. What was the guy from, uh, from ER? Oh. Eric LaSalle. Lesall. Eric LaSalle. Oh my gosh. I forgot that was him.

Nice. Nice poll. Uh, done away. Look, we're, this is fine. Okay. Your win today. probably feels pretty good to you, but you're going to have to try again on Wednesday. Do you have anything to say before we go from you?

Yeah, I'm playing with my light phaser for my Sega master system right now, trying to play some Rocky 3, and I'm sad to report. It's not working. So I'm hoping that that NES will be in before I think I ordered an NES light for our show this week. Oh, light guns, yeah. So wait, was, was, hold on, was the Rocky game a light gun supporting game? Did it? Rambo 3. A Rambo, sorry. I might have said, Rocky. Rambo 3 is a light gun game for the second master system.

And it wouldn't work. You can't get the gun to work? No, and I'm pointing at my CRT for anybody rights and it said, modern K-rays, down, support, the frame, blah, blah, blah, blah. I know. I'm pointing at a CRT and is flashing for my triggers working. The controller is working, but the light part's not detecting the hits. Weird.

I mean, I have to dig in there, see what's going on. See, you can hear it. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I can hear it. Oh, I can hear it. I know that sounds very. I can hear that. I'm going to bring it this when I come.

Hopefully I fix, but I'm going to bring it to Asheville when we need a text. Oh, look at you. Bring a little retro business. Yeah. I can have time for everything. Sure. And bring your PS2 because you're fools for not saying you don't want to

I'm not bringing anything that takes a lot of space because I'm living out of a carry-on bag. Yeah, that's how you want to live. That's how you do. Oh, a tarian bag. Is that like a bird? Filled with, filled with, with a squashed. Bird meat? Yeah.

Meets. Brian has the birdmeats. Yeah. So anyone going to Asheville, you know what to do and you need a snack, all right? Brian's better. That's right. I have the bird meats. We're, uh, so it's fun that you bring all this up because on Wednesday our play retro is all

about NES peripherals. We're going to talk about Bob, the robot. We're going to talk about the glove, the power glove, the gun, which was called the, the, uh, oh shit, what does Nintendo call it? Um, their gun? No, yeah, but they had a name. Zapper. Zapper.

There's a zapper. There you go. Yes, Zapper. You either had the orange for later on, thanks Bob Dole, or the other, the group of great. Thanks, thanks, poor kids who got shot by cops because they lifted up a zapper. Yeah, good point. Nintendo was like, oh, you got to put orange on the end of the tip. Forget that.

We're making the whole thing orange. Screw you guys. Yeah. Bob Dole says, that guns, you need to put an orange thing on the end of that gun, Bob Dole says. Anyway, that'll be Wednesday, but we'll talk more about that then. Brian Dunaway, have a great rest of your week. kiss our butts. Okay. Okay.

He's out of here. Let's now do news. It's Monday. You know, you need to be informed. Yeah. Yeah. You know? We provide the news so you don't have to. That's right. Don't go to CNN or Fox or any of that. Come to us for the real stuff. Here it is. It's time for the news and it's brought to you by. Hey, Scott. I hear you have things to give away. What's all that about?

Well, tomorrow at 2 p.m. Mountain, it was going to be today. Long story, but now at 2 p.m. Mountain, I'll be putting that order through for all these decks, the final order. So I can't do it today. But the plan is tomorrow. It's all scheduled up on the live video. So if you go check it out at frogpants.tv, you'll see it. I'm just going to, this weekend, I went through a whole bunch of stuff. I'm doing a bit of a clearinghouse of items, objects, bundles, stickers, prints, a whole bunch of stuff, including some things from our storing or our stores of stuff back east.

I'm going to have a list of those today. And we're just going to have a big giant one hour long pay everybody in the chat. Give away a paloosa. Yeah, we're giving away everything. Are you making them do any like answer questions or do anything? Do they just have to be the, they just got to be like, I think I'm going to use the text line. And then it'll be like text, the word, you know, I don't know, sticker to this number. And then I'll take like the third, third text and then give them.

the thing and then that that sort of thing is how we'll do it uh but we'll do it all live here on the air uh frogpance dot tv that's 2 pm tuesday afternoon and be here all right cool cool that'll be um claire do you do the math on the time i don't know when that is for your time yeah you can figure it out we don't have to that's why you do it we don't have to yeah you you live in weirdo land we we we can't be we can't be responsible for this sort of stuff that's right all right let's get to the news uh here's a story scientists oh this is cool because bob he's here later let's do a science story yeah he can refute any of this when he comes in uh scientists find the playful part of the brain and they did it by tickling rats

a rat tickler yeah that just sounds like uh something you have to buy at a sex shop yep got to go down to the blue or it wasn't downtown that was fascinations to buy your own rat tickler what was ours called blue something someone in the chat will know this blue lagoon or no blue Ah, it's famous for all of its sexy wares. You know, you used to sell, you used to work at a place, or you briefly went into a place that sold giant rubber penises or something? Oh, what was that? No, that was me describing the, wasn't that just me describing cyberpast the game? There was some company I think they'd either freelance for or...

Yes, you're right. I did stuff from a novelty place where I thought it was all going to be joy buzzers and fake vomit. That's what I thought it was? Uh-uh. Yeah, big old wieners back there. Other kinds of novelties. Yeah. Yeah, Blue boutique, that is correct.

Windmagus, that is the name. Blue boutique. How do you know it so well, Winnagas? Yeah, what are you doing on the weekends, buddy? Anyway. Like a rat tickler, please? Who says daily scientific work in a lab is a grind? For some, it can be fun, and a barrel of laughs.

To study play behaviors in animals and other mammals, researchers at the Humbort University in Germany, that's in Berlin, spend their time tickling rats on their bellies and backs. Oh, you like this when I tickle your belly, stupid rats? I want to see one of their back legs like a dog. No kidding, dude, dude. My dog does this thing where if I get her right in the right place behind her ear,

her back leg is like a freaking jackrabbit. Yeah. She can be on my chest or something and I'll start tickling that air and she starts thumping my gut. The cats both, like, if you scratch just on the inside of their ear, they'll both, like, get there, like, one of their paws will be like, you know, they'll have one of their back legs going like, oh, right there, right there. And they'll put their claws out.

And it'll just be like this little slow, like, yeah, right there, right there. Oh, that's really good. Yeah, you're not wrong. Someone of the, who said this in the chat? Oh, Claire, they have sex shops in Salt Lake. Of course, they have them in every city. Name a city where they don't have stuff like that. You can't.

That's right. You can't name one. They all do. I don't care. No, but it does feel like if they're going to have one there. Like the worst magazine you can get at a Salt Lake City sex shop is Maxim. Yeah, they got stuff. Everyone's always surprised by that, but that's fine.

You know, people drink here. No. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they drink and they in there. What else? That's all I can think of. They don't gamble. They don't do pot.

You're right. There's no gambling. Oh, they do pot. They just aren't doing it legally, but they're doing it. Oh, okay. And the police are bad about enforcing. That's why I think legalized recreational is coming because the cops don't do anything about pot here. Nothing.

Like people are walking around smoking it out in the open at concerts and everything and nobody's enforcing anything. Probably something to that because for a while before it became legal here, the cops just kind of threw up their hands and said, ah, we're not able to do it. Yeah, and part of it, I mean, we do have the medical weed here. so they probably it's probably a mess to because a lot of people can very easily get a card it's not hard to get yeah no so if you were going to walk through a concert yeah exactly my my arm oh here I think something hurts where I'm not sure well here's all it takes yeah yeah so when you're walking around a concert and you're a cop you probably don't want to have to deal with oh this guy's got a card he doesn't have a card like right oh yeah no exactly much easier to just say let's focus on the worst things the worst stuff issues. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah. Anyway, so they're tickling these mice and they say after reading their

by touching the brain. That's right. And they say that the data on brain activity is helping them understand where our stuff comes from. Like we kind of know a lot about where aggression comes from, what part of the brain is generating that, what part of the brain. Yeah, that sort of thing. That's where it comes from.

So now we get to find out where all the fun gets there from. That's right. Where what part of the brain is the fun part? And then we can maybe, you know, amplify that. Yeah, let's tickle it. Fix the world by amplifying the fun parts of our brains. Yeah, get rid of the aggressive part. Yeah.

The title of the study is literally play and tickling response map to the lateral columns of the rats. Praquiductal gray? Yeah, that's totally it. What's that word, dude? Try that. Periaqueductal. That's a big one. peria cadetuctal i bet uh i bet talia knows talia how would you pronounce this yeah talia would know this

peria caductal quaductal i think you got it peria quiductal that sounds right the question is is it qua or kha caductal oh good question um what if there's like i put it in the i'm sure yeah you could copy and paste that let me see if there's a rea people are trying to learn to pronounce this is a medical word that it's a medical word that it's is meaning to tickle a rat and find out what part of the brain. And the word is pronounced, peri-comquat. Come-quat. Okay, here we go.

I found one. Wikipedia does not have it, but this does, though. Peri-acqueductal. Peri-acqueductal. Oh, peri-acqueductal. That guy's excited toward the end. Listen. Peri-acqueductal.

All right, well, we learned a little something there. Let's move on to this story. A woman says Popeye's employees, you know, the Popeye's chicken. Yeah, I love that chicken for Popeyes. Oh, I do like, I do like Popeyes. I do like Popeyes, too. Yeah, it's pretty good. The good fries and good, you know, for your cheap fried seafood options, damn good.

Yeah, not bad. Yeah. Since we lost, since we lost skippers. Yep. Oh, my gosh. Skippers. We had skippers. I used to love skippers.

do you remember their slogan no we're going out of business soon what was it did you have sea galley as well no their thing was we've got crab legs it's like we've got crab legs ski to sea galley we've got crab legs and then all the people working there would be like coming around the corner from something you'd see that they actually have crab legs like giant crab leg legs okay well now I'm now you've piqued my interest that sounds great yeah are they around still the sea sea galley or gosh no both of those places long gone so that's why that's why basically you've got your pop-is is your your uh your fish sandwich that's where you go for you that's where you go

for your fish sandwich yeah i would recommend that over like mcdonnells and stuff for sure but uh how come i didn't do pop-ies for a fish sandwich when i was doing the uh because there was one right by the jack in the box where i don't i guess i don't i forget that poppies does a fish sandwich i just forget yeah i just think chicken you know yeah but they've just gotten better over the years and um uh i like them i'd go there now if i was feeling self-destructive but i'm not gonna i'm gonna eat some good i'm gonna eat well today oh i went to a place yesterday with kim that we were all excited to try because there was it going to be the first one here the cona grill there's one in bagus there's one in denver you've heard of these guys before lots of them in denver yeah they're

great yeah there's a whole bunch in uh back east and they're kind of all over the place but we finally got one and they're like you know you're gonna spend 20 to 30 a place yeah They're pricier than... It's a little pricey. But I got to say, I got this burger because I just got the burger, right? Kim got a big salad. And the salad was amazing. Really good.

I had some of her salad. Fantastic. Gigantic things. She couldn't eat at all, but it was really good. These avocado egg roll things they gave us for starters. Also, excellent, really good. My burger, terrible. Oh, really?

Terrible. It was the most like frozen meat-looking thing, all crooked. It looked like a McDonald's. You know how McDonald's the ad versus what you get? Yeah, there's always going to be a discrepancy, yeah. It was bad, and it was $19. It was a $19 burger. I'm like, uh...

Why are you getting a burger at a place called Kona Grill? It's got to be, you know, good seafood, good, uh, tuna pokey, I'm sure. I'm trying to remember what I've had. By the way, Popeye's currently the only seafood, seafood option is, uh, popcorn shrimp meal. But I swear during Lent, they've got the fish sandwich. I think they do rotate something in. Yeah.

I don't think that's their deal. But they make that popcorn shrimps are really good too. It is good. Yeah. And they've had clans in the past that were really good. Yeah. Popeye did all right for himself. I'm surprised.

It's all, I mean, I love their chicken. Don't get me wrong. You go there and I probably will get the chicken. But, yeah. Well, once he defeated Blue Doe for the final time, he was able to really focus on his culinary menu. That's right. Olives.

I was about to do the gladly pay-you-tuesday, but that was Wimpy, and that was Wimpy. I never had to say, Pope I never had to say that now. Wimpy probably would have not liked that burger. I had a Kona Grill either. No, no, he would have said, I gladly take my money back for a burger tomorrow. The good lady that claimed, oh, so we make a great burger. You'll love it, she says.

Yeah, I mean, it is. the first thing on their website is a picture of a burger, but then you go to like their menu page, and it's like fish tacos and pot stickers and sushi rolls and stuff like that.

Yeah, I thought about trying the sushi, but the stuff they had that looked the best way overpriced. Yeah, like, how about a $38 miso sake Chilean sea bass? That's too much. It's too much, man. That is a little too much. But I like the vibe there.

They had a really cool. I also love when I get ID'd. It's great because Utah laws are pretty hardcore on IDs. Nice. That's got to feel good. That always feels good. So I get IDed. We go in there and they're building an upper deck to it as well.

So they're going to have like an outdoor bar deck. And they were going to have a, what do you call them? A DJ come in every other day or something. Yeah. Do stuff. So it just seemed like a cool vibe. It felt like a Vegas restaurant actually sitting in there. but that burger was just like a mole on the ass of humanity.

It was not good. Yeah, that's, that's disappointing. I had forgotten about freaking Arthur Treacher's. Jeff H. and Jenny Sarras mentioned Arthur Treacher's fish and chips. That place, that place was the place to get fish and chips. Heck with Long John Silver's, heck with, you know, anything else. You wanted, you wanted your cheap fish and chips. Oh, man.

And Long John's is gone now, right, too, also? I think you can still find those. coupled with I think the one by us has paired up with Dunkin' Donuts of all things. I think so. Let me hold on a second.

They probably are bought by the same conglomerate. They're all running like KFC and ANW and all that. I think so. It's a weird combo. How about fish and donuts? Are you hungry for some fish and donuts? You're like some coffee with those fish,

fried fish? Oh, stop it, Claire. Why are you trying to get fish and chips cheap? because we can't all eat like Rockefeller four meals a day, three meals a day. Yeah, no kidding. Plus, you don't eat fish anyway, Claire, what's she talking about? Yeah, what are you talking about, Claire? Yeah, she only licks the cheese between the toes of her vegan friends.

That's all she does. Oh, good Lord, okay. Yeah, that's something. I'm just saying, you know, sometimes the truth hurts. What is this? I'm trying to just see what it's, uh, there's one in Greeley. But the one in Westminster, I can't tell if it's a combo. Yeah, oh, it's a KFC.

Long John Silver's KFC. Oh. Then there's a Long John Silver's Taco Bell in Alamosa, a Long John Silver's AMW and Montrose. Yeah, they're all owned by the Yum Brands, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I think, yeah, that's right. Yeah, Yum Brands is KFC. Because it used to be Pepsi owned Taco Bell for a long time, and then they sold the Yum brands.

Which is when Taco Bell started doing Coke products. That's how I remember the chain. Yes. And then lately, I don't know what's going on at Taco Bell. They're getting worse. And I don't mean, like, there's still the same six ingredients all mushed up into something, right? Yeah, yeah. But they're getting sued for a reason.

Like, their stuff is, their quality. I don't think they do, like, like, I don't think they do quality checks and stuff. Like from a, you know, corporate down to franchise, I don't think they're checking. Because these local places, we have some of the worst Taco Bells. It's horrible. It's so bad. And it bums me out. Because it feels like it should be the, that's a place that feels like it could print money

because the ingredients are inexpensive and you're really just, you know, you're paying for having them organized and have been presented in a good way. I can't tell you the last time I got a, it was like a CrunchRap Supreme and the thing was falling apart. Oh, this is when I went there. You and I were both talking about going to Taco Bell. And I went there. It was like a couple weeks ago.

I went there and they gave me some. else's order, and that person ordered the worst things, and I didn't find out until I got home. But it was like a crunch wrap Supreme filled with nacho cheese. So all the regular stuff in CrunchRap Supreme, but then they ladled on nacho cheese inside. That turns into a big, sloppy mess. Nobody wants to eat that. No, it's just a, it's a problem. I don't know.

I hope they turn it around. And the employees are cranky. None of them are happy. None of them are excited to help you. Like, all I got to do is drive a little further to, in and out or a little more further and I could go to I don't know Chick-fil-A, any of those

and they are all run by people who seem to be stoked they're all like well how are you doing let me take your order no problem here it is yep we got that and the food comes nice

and it looks like the pictures and it's you know that's how you run a fast food restaurant Freddy's happy employees man give me Freddy's happy employees any day of the week what's going on Taco Bell yeah

anyway this this Popeye's thing we haven't even got into the story, have we? No, we haven't. That's pretty good. See, this is the in-depth journalism people expect, yeah.

Women says Popeye's employee ripped her hair out because she complained about wrong order. Not the Popeye employee ripping their own hair out, ripping out the hair of the customer and like grabbing their hair and yanking it out.

Wow, yeah. This is an Atlanta woman. Oh, Georgia. Oh, geez. Filing a lawsuit against Popeyes and several employees at the location she visited last September. DeNitra Dawson says,

She said she went to the Popeyes on Cleveland Avenue to get dinner with her children. She said her order was wrong when she went to the drive-thru to have it fixed, but said the employees inside weren't listening to her. She said she pulled up to the window and the employees began yelling at her because she was holding up the drive-thru. One of the employees then came outside, opened her passenger door, grabbed, or sorry, climbed into her car and began attacking her, she says. Oh, says the employee ripped her hair out of her scalp, leaving a large bald spot. Oh, my God. Wow. Yeah. Police identified three employees involved in the attack as manager Tennister Evans and her sister and daughter. Really? Are they all working? Identified the three employees. Exactly. Tennister and her sister and her daughter. Yeah. That's all running that Popeye's little family, family location. I guess so. That seems like maybe half your problem. Anyway, they recovered and saw her braid that they had ripped out and said, we ripped that bee's hair out by her head, according to her attorney. It took my identity. It took my, it took pride of my hair.

says Dawson. I don't even think I was going to make it back to my kids. Popeye says, we have absolutely no tolerance for violence of any kind at any Popeye's restaurants. The franchise of this restaurant confirmed the incident took place in September of 2022 and the employees involved were immediately terminated. We cannot share any additional details

as there is still an active lawsuit related this incident. I mean, what do you expect when you name your restaurant after a sailor who beats the shit out of a guy for looking at his girlfriend? Is Popeye's based on Popeye the sailor man? I don't even know. I don't know either.

Yeah. I mean, it would make sense, right? Popeyes. Yeah. I always wondered that, though, because then somebody once said, no, that's Popeye, he's based on Popeye Doyle from French connection. From on the waterfront? Yeah, or no.

Was that Popeye Doyle? Was that, what's his face's character, Gene Hackman's character from, not on the waterfront? It's Chinatown, right? Or not China. French Connection, right? French Connection, yes. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I'm looking at, I'm just going to real quick here, just look at a little history.

Popeyes. It's now offering girl dinner. What the hell's that? Oh, geez. Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen. Where's the origin story? Up Eye Doyle is a fictional character played by Gene Hackman in the French Connection and the French Connection, too. Did not know there was a French connection too.

I didn't know there was a sequel. I had no idea. I don't think people think very highly of that. This time, it's personal. Yeah. As far as I know, that second one never gets talking. about the first one people love though yeah one of the best car chases in all time oh under the yeah that's yeah uh i can't find any history so whatever i'd love to know it though is it was the

guy said around here is the deal it is named after the fake character the uh the fictional character it's uh let's see how did they get away with that though the fictional character popeye doyle from the french oh really yes alvin c copland scene in 1979 opens chicken on the run in the new orleans suburb of Arabi serving traditional southern fried chicken. After several months of lackluster performance, he reopens the restaurant as Popeyes, named after Popeye Doyle of the French Connection. What? What?

I can't wait to open my burger place called Tyler's named after Tyler Durden from Fight Club. I was sure that that was not going to be the Popeye. I was sure of it. I, well, yes, but you know, you had it in the recesses of your mind because that, you know, you, that was the first thing that came out of your head. That's true, but I only know two Popeyes, the cartoon, and then that guy. Apparently that was the right one is the Gene Hackman character from the French Connection. I don't want some chicken now.

Who busted smuggling operations. Yeah, wow. All right, that's a thing that we both learned. You know what I learned yesterday? I drove a craps dealer in the lift, took him to a really good rap place downtown, not RAP, not music, but food rap place. And along the way we were talking about craps and he was saying, yeah, you know, when after COVID, we don't do the thing as frequently as we're supposed to changing out the dice, you know, like where we replace all the dice, check them and all that sort of thing. Right. So after a while, they can get kind of a little worn down.

I'm like, well, wait, how long are you waiting between changing? This is, well, you know, we still do it twice a day. I'm like, and those things, those, you know, those plastic dice get wear down. Yeah, in a day. In a day, and half a day, he's like, well, believe it or not, they're not made out of plastic. They're made out of pressed cotton seed oil. What? Yeah.

Crap's dice are made out of pressed cottonseed oil, according to this. I've never heard of that. Yeah. I've heard of made a bone, and I've heard of polyester. Well, rolling the bones, right? Right. But I've also heard of, what am I thinking of? What's the, like, you know, ceramic, I guess, like a high,

density ceramic or something but seed oil weird yeah let's see here how dice are made are you kidding me like a 20-sided dice even a cellulose acetate is what this one says precision casino dice are made from a cellulose acetate cellulose nitrate crazy I am not seeing anything about uh you don't think he was fooling you, do you? I think, no, I think he was confused himself. Oh, maybe. But that means me think I could eat one of those dice.

Or that you could pretty dang easily melt it. You know, like if you just had something really hot or something in your palm to keep yourself from getting burned but had like a little hot, one of those hot things, could melt one side of the dice and make it like a little bit weighted on one side or something. This is wild. There's a whole, man, there's a lot of info. Question says, yeah, cellulose should be plant matter.

So look at that. So cellulose is from plants. Weird. I guess plastic is a derivative of plant material, right? Isn't plastic? Holy shit. I don't know how they make plastic. I just realized.

That seems like something I should know. That seems like everybody should know how plastic works, but I don't know. Yeah. Maybe Bobby can explain it with his science. That's right. He's coming right after this break when we come back. And when we do, we'll talk to him. We'll have a little time with Bobby.

Before that, though, a song and probably an indie in the middle, if I had to guess. Brian, what do you got there? It is indeed an indie in the middle. And unplanned, this comes from the Taco Bell Feed the Beat program, which is a thing that gave a lot of attention to some great indie bands, including this one right here, a band named Scowl. This was part of the unofficial Taco Bell Feet the Beat halftime show series this weekend. This last weekend, there was a Taco Bell did this thing.

the unofficial halftime show series as Taco Bell celebrates the summer's biggest matches. I had no idea about this, but there you go. Yum Foods. Music. Who knew? This is a band called Scowl and their brand new song, Opening Night. You can find this on their most recent EP, Psychic Dance Routine. Here is Scowl.

Open up to you and again Every night, song and a dance It's all the same, I forgot where I am Don't feel bad This is part of the plan This is part of the plan This is part of the plan This is part of the plan

Open a night, I'll see you again Stand it so hard, the pain that God Skits, skis, skis, skids, schizophrenia Everything in this is the same Don't feel bad This is part of the plan This is part of the plan This is part of the plan

This is part of the plan It's open to night, I'll see you again I am just a phrase I again my name I am just a phrase I again my name Open up to you and me Every night

sung in a dance It's all the same I forget where I am Don't feel bad This is fighting the plane You Belize Now you

Come back Can you Go away How you? No you Make If you see a faded sign at the side of the road, it says 15 miles to the Love Shack!

Love Shuck, yeah, yeah. I'm done with this crap. everybody. Who was that one more time from the Taco Bell Music Factory? Oh, you're talking. I was wondering who that was in the karaoke segment. That's got to make you feel good about your karaoke performance in Vegas. Hey, that band, by the way, you just heard was Scowl and their song Opening Night from the EP, their brand new EP, psychic dance routine. Yeah, that's clip. I'm done. I can see you a baby. Yeah, that makes me want to never feel bad about my karaoke again. Yeah. Yeah, you really can do, you can do no rung after listening to that clip.

Especially this lady. Oh, my gosh, dude. Oof, yeah. You know what? Good for her. She's getting out there. She's singing, I, I, as someone who routinely, weekly, puts horribly sung music online for all to enjoy, I can, I can say, good for her for putting it out there. Yeah.

It takes a certain amount of personal. Yeah. And some, like, self-confidence to be able to do that. There you go. Yeah. And at some point, I will find a song that is in that little narrow window of register that I'm able to hit. I can't wait. Can't wait to hear it.

All right. We're going to call our good pal Bill. Not Bill. Bobby. No, Bill. Even, we moved him to a new day. I know. That can't even help.

You know why? Because I looked at the intro music and my eye went right to Bill and it's been next to it is Bobby. Oh, sure. So, oops. But anyway, here's this. Sire! Bob is hungry, and the soup looks good. Hey, Bob is hungry, and, you know, that soup does look good.

Bobby's here. How is the soup? Bobby, what's going on in soup land, South Carolina? Oh, it's delicious soup. I'm not a big fan of soup. Not a fan of soups? Of any soup? I mean, I can understand that certain soups.

What about a chowder? Yeah, what about a chowder? Chowder is probably the last soup I would reach for. I don't know why. Oh, really? Okay. but it's not like I dislike soup so even saying I'm not a fan of it I think is a strong statement like if you gave me a soup I would eat it but I just think that when you go to a restaurant yeah yeah or or you have your choice of meals it's just soup is just one of the last things I would well if you go to a restaurant yeah if you're giving me soup it better be a French onion you know cup of French onion soup before my actual meal because that's yeah that I agree with that I'm not going to a restaurant and just ordering soup.

A French onion soup, that's pretty good. Especially when you get it with the, like, the real good stuff with, like, the cheese layer melted on top. Epidermis of Swiss cheese and some croutons. Yeah, it's almost like it's like, it's like a skin on a, on your, on your pudding. Are you going to gross me out with French onion soup? No, it's like, it's, but you know how your, your pudding can get a skin on it? But in the case of, in the case of French onion, you want that, you want that.

It's what you want. It's like, it's like a soft creme broulet topping. By the way, Bobby, it's nice of you to take a break from smashing all my buildings and Monopoly Go to talk about. You know, I'm glad you brought that up because I've got to defend myself a little bit. No, no, and I think it is a good strategy, actually. I'll defend it too. Yeah, yeah. It's not, it's not, I'm not trying to be mean.

No. No, but would you know that you can, you know, take four shots, knock out somebody's shields and then start getting some good points after that? Yeah, yeah. It's way better than just picking their random person and getting 12 shields. builds in a row. Let me ask a naive question because I've been playing it here and there. And I'll, once in a while, I'll

go off on the train and I'll say, oh, hey, that's Leslie or that's somebody I know. That's 9 of 12. I can break her buildings. Are you able to target somebody? Like, there is. There's a button at the very bottom of your screen says, change opponent. And by default, it shows you who's been targeting

you the most and puts them at the very top so you can get rid of it. If you're friends with me, I'm always at the top your list apparently I didn't know this I'm gonna change my way and start it's a good strategy because like

you know like we're saying four times if you if you see that they're not playing like as soon as I see Squishy is playing I move off of him although squishy man he he attacked me mercilessly over the weekend and like I got on a tear where I was

doing nothing but landing on railroads and I just wiped it out What I do is I use a single die multiple, like I just use a single die to wear down someone's shields, and then I bump up my dice multiplier and then start destroying their buildings. You get more. It's all about, you only get a certain number of free dice a day. You've got to maximize the money you're going to go.

You're not wrong. You know, else Eric Skyhawk, Hokido is an aggressive. He is, yeah. Yeah, he's a rat master. In a game like that, it's very random. So you've got to jump on every chance to affect that randomness that you get. Have you guys ever cleared the whole community chest key thing before opening the chest? I did that one time.

Really? Yeah, it was so lucky. The closest I got was all but one. Yeah, it was very, very lucky. I did it one time, and you just have to get lucky and get a bunch of those gifts in a row when they're all active friend bonuses and all that kind of stuff. And then a lot of luck on top of that. And it's, it's, it's, I'm, this, this game is so stupid, Brian.

I don't know why I want to keep playing it. Who the hell introduced us to the stupid ass game? You know what I like? It's stupid, but it's got such a great visual presentation. Like the way the thing hops around the board, how money explodes. Like, it has all the science of a, of a, of a, you know, a casino. Yeah, all the dopamine, dopamine popping up. toys and it's fun playing with those little toys.

By the way, I just put a photo on our chat here in Discord. And this is the closest I got. I had to take a picture before I hit that start button just to see if I could get that last face and get the full 50x times of my community chest. And who do you

think was the holdout? You'll never get me. There's Bobby right there. Yeah, I've gotten this close before and then it ended up not getting the final ninth dude, which bummed me out. Yeah. Yeah. uh yeah it's fun but stupid it's really stupid it's so stupid and i hate logging in and having it tell me 50 different ways what i need to buy for them yeah i do if if there weren't if i didn't

have fun getting uh everyone yelling at me for targeting them all the time i probably would have given up on this a long time ago yeah but uh it's it's fun to me for that to happen because i do get really annoyed at it constantly oh if i accidentally closed the app it's like shit. Now I've got to look at four more advertisements before I can. It's not even like ads, right? It's just them saying like, you sure, you don't want to buy dice? You want to buy dice? He says, oh, by the

way, that's like the X to close the window where we ask you for dice is up here right now, but guess what? The very next pop-up that will say, if you want to buy more dice, is going to be down here, so you need to like play eye games with our stupid game. I hate that stuff, but yet there I am playing it. And

part of the insidiousness is letting you automatically run around the board to not have to push the button every time. Yes. Just like let it play, you know? Yep. Just auto play your little heart out. So that was all for you, Stephanie.

Or Stephanie, by the way. I thought she was going to listen to a science segment and ended up with a, with an X lab. I know. I betrayed her. She's one of my podcast fans and I've betrayed Stephanie as well now. Cross those streams, man. What are you going to do? Well, Bobby, it's good to have you here.

We've missed out on a little science, the feeling of science around the show. And so I would like to be firmly planted in the science world today. can you can you do that for us i think i can i've got an interesting thing to talk about we just talked about on the show before i do that i wanted to socrates you were wondering oh you had no idea he killed himself i didn't know he he did it's like a yes and no thing he was he was he was you might know he was imprisoned for quote corrupting the youth um because of his radical ideas no uh and um and he was sentenced to death but in athens um that was the law i don't know if every prisoner was executed this way, but at least it was, it was how he was

sentenced to death was to drink a cup of hemlock. Oh my gosh. That's not. So it's like he didn't he he didn't commit suicide really, but uh, was he was he I mean I know he's we've referred to him all the time historically is an interesting figure but I didn't realize he was controversial in his time like he was he was he was always he was he was he was he was he was he was collecting groups of people to spread these ideas and he was having everybody questioned things constantly and I think that was what was

the powers that be didn't like that because his whole approach the Socratic approach was to constantly be questioning everything and trying to dig down to the truth of

does this actually get us anywhere or does this actually improved society by hypothetically digging into things constantly asking. Well, we can't have that. We can't have people asking questions.

No. No. No. That's a big trouble. I just accept things the way they are. I live my life. That's right. Questioning. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, if they tell me Zeus is looking at me right now with a... Exactly.

Fine. World's flat? Cool. All right. I'll stay away from the edge then. Thanks for the heads up. Thanks for the warning. What I don't understand is one of his, one of the books that was written that Plato wrote, because Socrates famously didn't write anything down, but Plato, his student did. One of the things, accounts of

Socrates that he wrote down was so Socrates is in prison, right? But Socrates is having these like Socratic discussions and lessons and teachings to many of his followers that all visited him while he was in prison. What kind of terrible government

like they're trying to stop him from doing this, but they're letting all these people go to class? I didn't know. I don't understand. Very weird. but yeah so all right so then we got a little history now we can do some science all right now we can do science now we're going to talk about english yeah yeah so i want to ask you a question did you know that you could be allergic to meat uh i assume i can be allergic to anything right because some people are allergic to water

some people are allergic to air i think nobody's allergic to water and air you can just get that out of your brain right now is that true nobody is there's no allergies to water i swear i saw a whole like thing on a dude like How did you die if you couldn't have, if you didn't? Yeah, so they had the intravenous the guy and had special version of the intravenous. It wasn't just saline. It was something else because if he drank water, his throat would inflame and he couldn't breathe. If he touched water, he'd get gigantic legions on him or something like that. I think there's probably some.

Let me explain to you why that doesn't make any sense. First of all, so I'm not shooting the messenger, I promise. You've been misinformed. All right. An allergy, what an allergy is is a body's inappropriate reaction to, I think typically maybe always proteins, first of all. So proteins enter your body and an allergic reaction is an immune response. So if you have an allergy to something, what it is your body has seen something that it doesn't recognize and then created antibodies to that thing. It's exactly the

way that the immune system responds to the things it's supposed to respond to, which are like bacteria and viruses, right? Whenever it sees a bacteria or virus, it creates antibodies, spreads them around the body. The antibodies, the whole point is to inform your whole immune system. If you ever see this thing that looks like this, attack it, right? But that can happen when it's not supposed to, to things that aren't dangerous, like pollen, which is a protein. If pollen gets into your body and then your immune system sees it and says,

because this isn't supposed to be here and then creates a bunch of antibodies that recognize pollen, right? That's why you can actually have allergies to different types of pollen, but not all types of pollen, right? Because some of them look different. If you have food allergies, this is the same way. Water does not do that. It can't do that. There's no way for it to do that. Your body is made of water.

It's, it's, so it could never do that. There might be some other thing going on, I guess. maybe, but it's certainly not an allergy because there's no way your immune system is going to respond to the water. Your immune cells, all the cells in your body are made of mostly water. So there's no way that that could have it. So the term used for this condition is aquagenic eudacaria, hives after skin contact with water. A hundred people ever are diagnosed with it. So super rare, right? Like, we barely, hardly any, that basically is a, on the math side of things like it's like nobody. But this, according to all the stuff

I'm looking at, this is a real deal. This is a thing. You get all hive, you get in the water. I believe that, yeah, I believe that this might be a condition that causes hives when, when you are in contact with water. I'd have to look into it like a rash. You can get rashes. Yeah, but isn't that an allergic? Weird things. That's an allergic reaction, though, right? That's it's not okay so if I'm thinking about it so it wouldn't necessarily be a true allergy to water in the way that I just described that's what you would call it but there first of all there are some things that are called allergies that really aren't they're just a common way of referring to them second this might be that somewhere in

your skin somewhere externally to your body so keep in mind that um that your digestive system is technically considered external to your body, right? It's just because you're kind of like an elongated donut. Yeah, it's inside out, basically. Yeah. So if it's possible that an external exposure to something could cause a reaction that would produce something inside the body that would then cause a runaway reaction. I'd have to look into it.

In fact, I just Googled it and I'm going to look at this later because that's really fascinating. Cool. Yeah, I'd be interested to know more about that too. But in terms of a pure allergy, it's not really an allergy, but it couldn't be an allergy in the strictest definition of allergy. Because you've got water in your cells and you know, being allergic to yourself. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but I'm happy to be proven wrong about this weird thing.

My sister, actually, I'm reminded. She's, she had weird reactions to the, if it got too cold, she would break out in hives and stuff like that. Oh, wow. So there are weird things your skin. in the external parts of your body that are supposed to protect against the environment can have weird reactions to the environment. Sure, sure.

That's really interesting. But this is a meat allergy. Yeah, oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, let's get to the meat. I want meat. I've got meat in my cells, too. Sure. My cells are mostly gravy.

Oh, man. That's delicious. Exactly. So the way I just described an allergy, you can imagine how it might be really strange to be allergic. to meat, and you might think that it's not, it couldn't really happen, right? Because famously, human beings are made of meat. Yeah, quite famously, yes. Some of the most famous human beings are made out of meat, too. Exactly. So it would be weird if you would be allergic to the protein of meat, right?

Because why wouldn't, how could your body make it past the fetal stage if it was attacking its own... Yeah, sure. Exactly. So, so, but there is, there are meat allergies. And, um, and the, the trick is that it's certain types of meat, um, namely beef, pork, uh, rabbit, venison, lamb. I think those are the, the main ones, maybe the only ones. Um, and, uh, those types of meat have inside them, um, an extra chemical component called, it's a very long name, but I'll just shorten it to, it's called Alpha-Gal. If you've ever heard of Alpha-Gal. That's a girl I dated in high school is called Alpha.

The very first girl I dated was Alpha-Gal. The Alpha-Gal. She was in charge. Most of them turned into betas. Yeah. Hopefully, Stephanie is the Omega-Gal for me. Yeah, right. I'm going to make a Valentine's card. I like that. You're my Omega-Gal. You started as my Alpha-Gal, now you're my Omega-Gal. That's great.

So Alpha-Gal is this carbohydrate that attaches to the protein. in those types of animals. So it's all throughout the muscle tissue of those types of animals. And for most of us, it's not a problem. It's just a natural part of the way their bodies are. And most of the time, it's not a problem because we just eat it.

Remember, your digestive system is technically external, right? So it's unlikely that the alpha-gal chemical, the alpha-gal carbohydrate, would get into your bloodstream attached to that protein where your immune system would attack it. But it does happen, and we've known about this for a while, because of, you remember, we talked about pig heart transplants last year. That's why pig organ transplants have been so difficult is because pork, pig, they have this alpha-gal component, and so if you ever tried to transplant it into a human, the immune system

would recognize the protein, the meat protein, with the alpha-gal on it. It would create these, it would have this overreaction, create these antibodies that would attack the alpha-gal, and then it would destroy the transplanted tissue, right? Right. But it's never been seen as an allergy. Like, that would cause, that's a very specific set of circumstances where your body would do that. But this recent research has been done that has identified four, it looks like around 450,000 people in the U.S. seem to have. these alpha-gal antibodies, and so technically have an allergy to these types of meat. So how is that happening?

Why is that happening? And it turns out that's because of tick bites. Oh, shit. Oh, really? Yeah. Stupid ticks? I hate them. Yeah.

You already hated ticks because they cause Lyme disease. Now they also cause meat allergy. Yeah, they also cause me at 10 years old. They have to stand naked in a camper while adults checked me for ticks. Yeah. I never forgot that. It was a horrible experience. Did you ever have tics?

That has affected you. It has. I hated it. I had one tick once. You did? How did you get rid of it? Yeah, what did you do? A hot spoon.

I was at a family reunion in, God, South Dakota. Tina's family's reunion, South Dakota at this place called the Dan Pier Lodge and walked around in the woods there. Got a tick on my leg. And what we did is we heated up a spoon and then put it to the back of the tick, and I can't remember if it crawled out or if it just died, and then we just pulled its

body out. So I think the goal is that it needs to crawl out, right? Because, right, it leaves too much, like, leaves a bad part of it. It leaves the head, I think, burrowed in. Because that's, when I was a kid, that's what my mom used, not a hot spoon, but would use matches, would

light a match, blow it out, and use the hot end of the match on any ticks that were found to get them to back out, and then you grab them with some tweezers or something, and pool and we were sufficiently scared as kids because we had a neighbor who went on a camp out with a bunch of scouts or something and when he came back he had a tick didn't know it and ended up getting what they called at the time i don't know what the real science term for this is but they called it rocky mountain fever and he was messed up for a while it was like jazz oh god that would be

yeah wasn't wasn't good i don't know what there's probably a more medical term for it but sounds like an old country song it does yeah rocky mountain fever fever Disco and country crossing over there Yeah Pretty good Disco country What a bad combo But now, so the loans

Have you heard of the Lone Star Tick? Yeah Sounds like another country It's Ted Cruz's nickname Isn't it? I think it is The Lone Star Tick I think that's right

Absolutely Yeah It's a common tick in the Sort of the middle areas of the eastern half of the United States So it doesn't surprise me if you'd never heard of one. It stays like Missouri and all the way over to North Carolina.

We don't have a lot of them in South Carolina, but there are some. And the lone star tick apparently is known to cause to have alpha-gal in its saliva. So if you get bit by one of these ticks, it can transmit the alpha-gal carbohydrate into your bloodstream. So it's not that you're just eating it now. So you weren't allergic to it before. You weren't allergic to meat, but you get bit by this tick. it transmits this into your bloodstream and then you have the

the immune response to it and build these antibodies and suddenly now these people who get bit by the stick are suddenly allergic to meat now and it's interesting because it's an allergy that is known to only develop later in life like you're not born with this allergy it develops later in life as a response to a tick bite and so a lot of people go their whole lives

and then they're like 30, in their 30s or 40s, and suddenly they'll eat, you know, a burger and have to go to the hospital because of it. And a lot of people have it, and they don't realize that they have this allergy, and they have no idea because another part of this. So the study was to determine that, to test a bunch of blood samples,

to figure out how many people in the U.S. have this antibody in their bloodstream. They're trying to identify how many people actually have this allergy right right four hundred and fifty thousand people almost half a million people in the u.s so it's a lot um but then the other half of the study was to test the the knowledge of of doctors to see how much they know about it it's called alpha gal syndrome a g s this is the surprising thing um 1500 primary care doctors all the way all over the u.s were were asked about it and uh 42 percent of them 635 of them had never even

heard of alpha-gal syndrome at all and only 42 of the doctors just not 42 percent but just 42 of the doctors could only 42 of them could answer three basic questions about the the cause diagnosis and counseling really oh yeah that's just that's just kind of the side effect of rarity right yes so that's of course absolutely that's the case and it's a combination of things right It's not just that it's really rare, although this study shows that it's much less rare than was thought. And I think the reason that people thought it was so rare is because you can imagine that this would be very difficult to realize that it was an allergy, right? Not only does it develop later in life as a response to things that, like if you have a food allergy, usually you know about that by childhood, right? Yeah, yeah.

Like if peanuts or something like that, you know, you know about that. you live your whole life knowing that you have this allergy. But if it presents much later in life, then you're probably not jumping to an allergy, especially if it's to meat, right? Yeah. And so people don't realize it. Also, it acts very differently to a lot of allergies. Most allergies, if you eat the thing that you're allergic to, you immediately sense a reaction.

I know somebody who's very allergic to tree nuts. if they eat something that has a little bit of like almond in it they know right away like oh boy you know this is happening um but uh this alpha gau syndrome symptoms don't start presenting for two to six hours after geez they eat it so you won't know until it's too late really literally yeah exactly and um and that's very what is the reaction what happens is it just an internal rash Is it a, are you barfing all over? Like, what's your, what's the reaction to this? So they are, they're, they're typical reactions that you might expect to a food allergy, but so

you, you often will get hives or an itchy rash or, or a swelling of the throat or or difficulty breathing or something like that. But it's also because it takes so long and a lot, and it gets into your, far into your digestive system, you might have eaten a lot of it before, before you start to show symptoms. so often you have extra intestinal symptoms like diarrhea or indigestion or nausea and vomiting and stuff like that as well. All the fun stuff. So the symptoms can run the gamut of a bunch of different things. So you can imagine this has been historically very difficult to recognize for what it was.

Yeah. Because a lot of times that's just like, oh, I don't feel very good. Or did you eat? Cudoba got a thing, a burrito steak thing. you must have just gotten a wrong batch or you're just having a stressful day or whatever you can blame it on a lot of things but maybe some of those people are full on like

they got the alpha gal yeah they got the alpha gal they got the old alpha gal kicking in old alpha gal I don't want to be allergic to meat because I really like meat oh no kidding that's you know well so so I'm glad you've said that because it's not all meat the more boring meats like chicken and fish

um wow i like chicken and fish down the boring but uh but i think i think it's it's they're uh they're they're like considered the healthy meats right so so by virtue of that everybody thinks they're boring meats um but i like chicken and fish but those don't have this those animals don't have alpha gal in their systems so so those ones are fine um but the reason i wanted to bring it up because i talked about it on the show and a lot of times i like to pick things to talk to you guys about that are different than what I talk about on the show. The reason I brought it is because I think there's like sort of a public service announcement sort of feeling about this, right? Because nobody knows about it. And it feels like that 450,000

number is high enough that there could be people listening to this show that might have weird reactions to me and they don't know why or things that they eat. So if you think that it could be, There are a couple things that you should do. Definitely talk to your doctor about it, but your doctor might not know, right? We just talked about that. So you should see, possibly talk about seeing an allergist. They might be more likely to know. And go ahead and start keeping a log of your symptoms and the food and the meals that you eat.

Because one of the first things that an allergist will have you do if they suspect a food allergy is start to do that. And if you've already been doing it, you can save yourself, sometimes weeks of data collection, you know. That's a good idea. Yeah. Yeah. So that's something. That is the first thing they're going to ask you, okay, here, right. Here's a notebook.

Exactly. Everything you eat. And, yeah. Do my work for me. Yep. Yeah, lazy allergists. Right? Exactly.

Cheez. Bums. Is it, let me ask you this. So I got a friend who, uh, when I knew him he was just a kid he was in my little scout group but he had horrible really hardcore peanut allergy the time where if it was in the air he would go into shock it was awful yeah it's really bad and so his parents and everybody we were always coordinating on where are we going and what food's there and you know these sorts of things um he couldn't go near five guys for

example because that plays just yeah no that places is all peanut dust and yeah but he turned 18 or so and right around his 18th or 19th birthday he it went away he didn't have it anymore at all like yeah been a basic uh uh reaction so is that possible here with this meat thing or is it is that a whole different bag i guess it's possible yeah i don't know um i think there's a lot we don't know about it like scientists don't know for example scientists don't know why it takes two to six hours for a reaction to happen that's very unknown because it's just it was only even just recently identified in the past, I think, 10 or 15 years, you know, so we don't know a lot about it. But yeah, allergies, I mean, you're right. Allergies do change over time. You can

lose allergies you had when you were a kid or you can gain allergies that you didn't have when you were a kid. My mother-in-law, for example, used to love cats. And we had a cat, me and Stephanie, when we were first living together. And then just she started developing a pretty severe reaction to cats, so we had to get rid of our cats or she could never come visit us. Yeah, it sucks because I love cats. I didn't know. Who do you love more? Yeah, who do you love more?

Trust me. That was a hard decision to me. Sure it was. That's funny. Yeah, it's a fascinating thing about people, isn't it? This whole, this part of us. Like, our body's desire to, in some cases, like, reject things that just don't make sense. It's like, I guess.

I get that if I fall into some poison oak, I'm going to have a reaction because there are properties to that, to those leaves and to that plant that are designed specifically to irritate tissue. Like, we know that. Yeah. Yeah. It's like the famous scientist John Mayer said, your body is a wonderland. It really is, you know. Boy, what a, he killed himself too with some hemlock, I heard. That was the thing. Then he peed on Jennifer Aniston. What? What? Yeah. They just wanted him not to. I didn't want him talking, you know.

They didn't want him asking questions. So that was the end of him. Anyway, not true. He's alive and well, and I don't know if he's well, but he's alive. He's alive. Yeah, Bobby, always fascinating stuff. I love bringing a little science to the table. Tell people where this other show is of yours so they can go listen in the meantime.

Well, the science podcast we do every week is all around science. Me and Moore are always talking about science stuff, just whatever we find interesting. Sometimes we talk about climate change Because sometimes you have to That was what we just talked about on Monday It was the Gulf Stream You've heard of the Gulf Stream I have yeah

Scientists are pretty sure That the Gulf Stream is going to go away Which is a big deal That is a big deal So that's why we decided to talk about it Gulf Stream regulates the climate a lot And then of course we talked about this a bit I went into some more detail

About the study and everything We had a monsoon the other day Does the Gulfstream affect that at all? Well, monsoons, I believe. So monsoons happen in the Pacific Ocean, so you probably didn't have one of those. Oh, well, the local meteorologists all said, in a rare occurrence, Salt Lake City of the Valley had a monsoon storm. I could be wrong, but I think monsoon is like hurricane cyclone, right?

You know, like, I think it's just a name for a storm that is given in a particular area. Exactly. Yeah. Because wait, I will defend scott. They say that here, too. It's monsoon season here in Denver. No, I joke because of course they're going to say that because it's also just a term for a really bad storm.

Yeah, exactly. But I don't think, I don't think the Gulf Stream or anything, whatever the, there might be in the Pacific Ocean. I don't think it has. Goes this far. So technically, you could say yes, right? Because the climate is a global thing. So affects, you know, over in the Atlantic Ocean. would have effects in inland as well.

You know, Dr. Ian Malcolm taught us all about that in his famous talk about the butterfly. We have flashes wings. But it's very sparkly. The direct effects on the climate that the Gulf Stream have are on coastal, Atlantic coastal climates. Yeah. I don't know why they tell us that then. It's annoying to me. I don't like being misled.

Like this, I just did it. a quick search. Can you have a monsoon in Utah? And all the results are monsoon season in Utah kicks off. Another one says the give and take monsoon season starts fire, supports containment in southern Utah. What is happening in monsoon season in Utah? They're all acting like that's normal. I hate when people think something's normal. And I just looked it up. It's South and Southeast Asia winds that bring stuff. So I don't know. I don't know what the technical definition. is, but they at least originate from winds in the, in the internet makes me think I'm going crazy is what it does. That's what the internet does. Well, excellent, Bobby, it's always

fun having you on. I can't wait for our next time to do this. In the meantime, go smell a cat. And we'll see later. Bye. Bye. Wow. Well, you know, smell a cat. He likes cats. He's into him. He's into it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He wants to just get all up in one, you know. I don't know if he wants to get all up in one. Maybe there's a better way. Maybe the wrong way to put it. Earlier in the show, I didn't see it until just now, but earlier in the show, Claireson, a little audiophile.

I don't know what it is, so this could be dangerous. Oh, I don't either. I got one too, yeah. Let's see what it says. Okay. I'll just play it. Paria aqueductal. Oh, how does she know that?

How does she know that? Is that true? It's an Irish term for when you accidentally spill you of Guinness on the floor over your fish sticks in your box ste. This is what happens when you come and live in my country. Paria aqueductal. All right. We'll take your word for it.

Thanks for the lull at the front there. Yeah, what was that laughing about? Good Lord. Yeah. Speaking of scientists, we have a real scientist in our listenership. Her name is Dr. Nicky. And she sent a call in. Now, this call is 1.22 minutes.

No, I'm sorry, one minute, 22 seconds. Okay. And it's a correction. Is it the voice of a satellite? A satellite lost in space wistfully wishing that it could... I mean, I kind of wish it was. But instead, it's just Dr. Nicky down in Alabama, cloning sheep or whatever she's up to right now. And she had this correction to make.

I don't know if it's a correction so much, but just add to the conversation we had a couple of weeks ago. So here you go. Hello, C.N. Barnacle. This is Dr. Nikki for TMS. And I wanted to talk to you guys about the animal facts, octopus brain. Yes, I'm about two weeks behind on TMS, but my commute is too short to listen to the whole episode every day. Okay, so I'm probably not somebody who you want to talk about animal facts around because I will always be like, well, technically, actually, it's more complicated than it seems. So I had to bring up the octopus fact because I'm an animal brain person, but they don't actually have nine brains.

They have one central brain and then really elaborate nervous systems in each of their eight. legs, so like opto tape. Um, and those are called ganglia, which are basically like clumps of neurons that have specialized jobs that aren't exactly a brain because they can't make a decision. Um, so I thought it was important to point that out for some reason. And, uh, I actually taught my students this in comparative neuro anatomy at the university last semester. So you get a free audit of the class, no tuition, uh, keep going with the crazy facts.

Oh, and also, uh, I should probably add because you talked about reindeer in the same segment. I once spent the summer training reindeer's how to wear backpacks to carry berries in Sweden, which is totally a normal Swedish thing to do, and they did have golden eyes at the time. Love the show, though.

I love it. Also, her phone is like picking up some kind of government interference or something. It sounds like she's very near a radioactive source. Oh, yeah, totally. It's like playing fallout. Like, oh, no, I can't go over there. Exactly. The Geiger counter is picking something up, Captain. Yeah, that was great.

yeah and then thanks for the help i i i just assume this whole talk of them having brains in their in their eight extremities was real but it's not it's just complex nerve endings to a central brain that's fascinating like i mean like kind of like us we all have nerve endings in all of our extremities it's just that there's a little more brains one for each of our yes but the rep they they just have more i don't know have two brains and one of them usually doesn't think properly but yeah the other one that one that can get hurt if you hit her real hard. Yeah, exactly.

Anyway, thank you, Dr. Nicky. It's always good to hear from you, and good luck on all those sheep you're cloning. All right? All right. We're going to end the show now. I'm going to send a quick thanks out to all our good pals who support us on Patreon. Without you, there really is no show. So please continue to add your name to the list, patreon.com slash TMS.

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to patreon dot com slash tms today if you want to hear a song well then you just ask Brian Ibbick, because he's got one ready. What do you have? Boy, are you in the right place for that? Yeah, I'm about a month late on this one, but it was a full July, so sorry, sorry. Jeff, A.K. Liquid Smoke 2517. Wow, there were 2,516 more liquid smokes before you. Crazy. Said, hello, Scott and Brian. My name is Jeff from Indianapolis. I also go by Liquid Smoke 2517 in the tadpool and around the socials. July 4th was my 40th birthday, and I figured this would be a great time to finally request a song after listening to you guys for 10 years.

Let's party. Happy Independence Day birthday there. No kidding. Every year it falls on Independence Day. Crazy. It would absolutely make my day if you guys could play a cover of Al Green's love and happiness. Al Green is hands down one of my favorites.

And as always, Brian, if you can find a cover, I trust you to find a nice soulful song for my birthday. Thank you guys so much for the last 10 years of listening. And cheers to many more, Jeff, Indianapolis. Thanks, Jeff. It's so cool. Well, Jeff, I hope you like this one.

This is one of my favorite covers of the song, and it's by a band that we know for their cult of personality. Yes, I'm talking about the band Living Color, who in 1991 released an EP called Biscuits, which featured a few cover songs that they just didn't want to flesh out an entire cover album for, so they just put them on, they just made some biscuits, as you do. Be prepared. I'm going to tell you right now, the song starts out really slow and then about a minute and a half in kicks into the

the the all the green cover that you know and love and expect but there's some great buildup that I mean the vocalist oh god what was that guy's name uh no what was it anyway our lead vocal is a living color incredible vocalist and uh um uh he was good man yeah yeah i say he was he's still around i guess It still is, yeah. It's still around. I think even still recording music. Corey Glover, thank you, Christ. There you go.

But there's a great opening buildup to this song that I want you to make sure you kick back and enjoy and know that it's going somewhere. From their EP Biscuits from 1991, here's Living Color and Love and Happiness. You know, in this sin-sick world we live in, got to have something to help you through today. In this world full of frustration, lacking hope, dismay. There's something in this world A hell today No, I'm not talking about drugs, baby

No, I'm not talking about alcohol What I'm talking about love. love and happiness. Love, happiness. Something's going wrong Someone's on the phone 3 o'clock in the morning Well

talking about How she can make her right Happiness is when You really feel good about someone Nothing being in love with someone Oh, baby Yeah

Love and happiness Love and happiness Give it good to me I'm a good to you We'll be together Well Love each other Walk away with victory

baby Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah love and happiness Well Love and happiness

Love and happiness Love and happiness Love and happiness Love will make you do wrong Love will make make it do right. What's the love made you do? Well, they'll do it to you.

And you, and you, and you, and you, and you, I'm talking power. It's from up, oh, whoa, whoa. Make you come home. Make you stay all night long Well, love and happiness Love and happiness Love and happiness Love and happiness

Love and happiness I'm talking Talking about a love Talking about happiness Well I'm talking about smiling faces Oh Make me want to moan

Oh Make me want to moan Make me want to Oh Give that powerful love Talking, feel it, don't you feel, don't you feel it, don't you feel it? Well, power of love Give it to me, give it to me, give it to me, give it to me

Power, power, power, power, power, oh Get more at frogpants.com Son of a bitch! Oh.