The Morning Stream - TMS 2507: Carcolepsy

Episode Date: August 15, 2023

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already fair unbiased blah blah with amy and more on this episode of the morning stream my name's michael hi i'm trisha hello my name is neal and i'm forever appears to do yes m s d m s s s s the morning stream they wouldn't give us any more fish Hello everybody and welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Tuesday, August 15th, 2023. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Dibbitt. Hi, Brian. Hello, Scott. Good morning. Good morning to you. It is a good morning, I think. It's nice out. The hint of cooler weather around the corner, you know. You got your, all my water's working. The sprinklers are good now. Always a plus. I only took a month. or something for that to all work out.

Although, I will say this, I saw something I'm not sure anybody wants to see or talk about in their day, but I saw something I should probably share for the show. In fact, it was kind of, it's almost tailor-made for what we do here. Oh, really? Okay, all right. It combines a couple of things that,

I don't know, people in our audience might find interesting. I was walking around the neighborhood, doing a little dog walking, like I do, and saw a guy on his quest two up in a window in a townhouse, naked up there jeez yep he's just up there with his quest guy like you could you could see

everything oh yeah yeah I mean he was far enough away that it was a little obscure but you could tell that dude was freaking naked I saw his bum and his front junk and he had his he had his quest on the white one so it's the quest two and he's got the two controllers and I think it was some kind of boxing

thing because he's doing like punching with it okay all right yeah so I quickly ran down on my pocket there to grab my phone because I was like I'm going to get a picture of this and just blur it out and share this of the world and pull it up and sure enough he had moved out of the way by the time I went to take picture so I hung around for a minute and then thought

I probably shouldn't be sitting here waiting for a naked dude to come back into view yeah I'm weird that you're starting to say as much about you as it is about him the longer you wait to snap a photo yeah then I have to explain to local authorities that I was doing it for the for the likes you know right exactly I'm just doing this so I can put it on my social media not not sure they were going to buy that but um yeah I guess

you know what look you're in your own house maybe maybe close your blinds yeah exactly geez it's fine with me you know or wear you know wear a track suit like normal people getting their their beat saber exercise their daily beat saber regimen I just picture like Armenian mob track suit, though. That's all I see. Yeah, right, of course. That's what we all picture. Big white stripes down the side. Yeah. They remember that blonde kid used to come to all of the

events. The Nurtaculars and the TMS Vegas. Blonde kid. Kind of looked like Garth from Wayne's World. Oh, yeah. He always wore a red track suit. Yeah, and he came to that game gamer thing we did and saw it like that time you flew out for. The geeks.

Yep, the Geeks Expo. Always very shy. I haven't seen him in ages. super every time super nice but very very shy like basically would be the the guy who sits on the sidelines smiles at us but doesn't uh yeah you had to go to him to get something yeah to go to him yeah which we were happy to do but i don't know why if he's listening uh how you doing there buddy i hope you're all good doing all right yeah yeah he was pretty young then i think he was like 18 so he'd be mid 20s now probably yeah wow no kidding Holy cow.

Oh, by the way, speaking of which, I didn't put this in the show notes, I got another Coverville fan letter from prison, another Kentucky, a different prison, but same, it is also in Kentucky. Whoa. What is going on? I think somebody just approved Coverville recently for inclusion on there, because he gave me a little more details. Apparently, they all get tablets.

Okay. And they don't get to, they get to choose what they listen to, but everything has to be vetted, and I think Coverville is now, like, it probably just came out on some. some list of like, all right, this is okay for the inmates to listen to. Well, let me, so just so I understand, a tablet in, this must be a lower security. It is, it's a minimum security. Because these are the guys, at least the other prison was the guys who do the fire stuff, who are like they're on the fire department while they're in minimum security prison.

Oh, right. They do volunteer firefighter stuff while they're out and they're at the work release or whatever. So, okay, so the reason I say that is. Because if you're in, like, a maximum security prison, I would think you could make eight or nine shivs out of one tablet. Just tear it apart and, you know, the ram chip in there alone is going to slice it. An iPad Pro, and you pretty much got yourself a set of Wolverine Clause. Yeah, exactly.

Well, that's interesting. So they get their own personal one and they can just listen to whatever. I guess so, yeah, and they get to listen to one ever. That's cool. What else do you say? Do you say anything about, like, I don't know. He asked if I would put together a Black Sabbath episode. Oh, you should do it.

I've done at least five. But that's okay. I'll do it. I mean, listen, I don't know when Ozzy's birthday is coming up, but let's see here. When, what's Ozzie's next milestone birthday? Currently, he's 74. So guess what? Next year, I'm sorry, no, this year, December 3rd, there will be a Black Sabbath episode.

Goodness. That's awesome. Guaranteed. That's how quick things happen here. Yeah. Um, he also asked if I'd put, um, band names in the show notes. And it's like, dude, I put them in the show notes. I put them in the, the chapter information and I put them in the lyrics, um, of every episode. So if you go into the lyrics, you see like everything. Wow. And if you do the AAC version, it's all in there in the chapter information. I don't know if they've, I don't know if the AAC version was approved for their tablets, but I think even MP3 shows, in the right. player it shows chapter information interesting but but this would be um obviously it's you know it we'd celebrate his birthday but this would be more about um you know the whole band right the whole

this would be about the band yeah i've got i do have like you know covers a bark at the moon and um of course tons of crazy train and stuff like that but did geyser butler is that his name yeah geeseer butler yeah he did he go on to do other stuff or do he kind of just fizzle out Feels like everybody in Black Sabbath kind of fizzled except for it. Well, I guess Ronnie James Dio went places. Hamio did, I mean, not fizzled, but I mean, he did. He was in, um... Wait, was Dio in there?

Remind making that up. Ronnie James? He might have come in. No, he came in as a replacement vocalist for Ozzy, right? Right. That's my memory. It's been a while since we did the soundography episode of, uh, uh, for Black Sabbath, but, um, I enjoyed that a lot more than I expected I would

Yeah I mean I don't know I'd like that too I think Yeah Dio was in the Oh in the 80s actually June 1979 Deo replaced Ozzy Oh geez okay Well that makes sense because Ozzy's big solo career was most of the 80s I guess

Yeah exactly he went kind of crazy there Geezer Butler was GZR was Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell Deadland Ritual. I mean, if you look at Gyser's list, Black Sabbath is Black Sabbath and then performing with Ozzy Osbourne when he went solo is, you know. Gotcha. By the way, Gyser Butler's full, full name is Terrence Michael Joseph Gyser Butler. Yeah. And he shares, I didn't know this, but I share a birthday in July 17th with him. Oh, look at that. No kidding. He had no idea. 20 years, he's 20 years your senior, too. He is. Exactly.

Very much my senior. he's your senior geeseer yeah he's getting some senior discounts at that age right wow well all right see that's cool look at you doing good for the incarcerated I know exactly

what the heck man I don't know how this all worked out but I'm loving it I think it's really funny based on the last couple of days you may you may get a request from somebody in a Florida prison so let's say

anyway what sorry you were saying something big fan of Chumbabamba maybe you can find it in your heart to play some chumba. Wait, would you have enough material to do a Chumbawamba? I could definitely do a Chumba Wamba cover story. You know, those guys, they get knocked down.

Like me, like me, a lot of people said I couldn't get back up again, but I did. We did. I got back up again. I swear you've been working on this in private. You've been like in the closet somewhere. There might be times between lift rides that I might, you know, be like, all right, we've got to turn left here. We got it. Oh, they said we couldn't do it, but I turned left.

I showed them. Yeah, let's check Jeannie. She's doing all right. She's doing okay. You're right, Jeannie? Rainbow Bright. You guys okay? Make sure they're good.

All right. Also, we got some clarification on the difference between gray water and black water. Okay. Because I guess there was some debate about, you know, weather septic tanks and what the filtering all that did and all that. I mean, with black water, you need the Mississippi moon to keep on smiling on you. Oh, that's right. Yeah. that's the song right do i have that right that's exactly right i know i know none of the other

lyrics for that song well anyway we got a call about it this is from someone who would know so here it is hey boys this is james the trucker call it n for tm s i'm on i 70 heading east towards columbia missouri uh i just figured i'd uh do some educating on the septic system dilly bob the so gray water is not sewer water. That's black water. Gray water is kitchen sink stuff and laundry stuff and all of that, all of that other tainted water that isn't contaminated with sewage. Sewage is blackwater. Also, and I'm, you know, I'm not a sewer expert, but I've never seen a septic tank above ground. Maybe that's a mountain thing. Louisiana, California, Missouri, Texas. They're usually buried.

Anyway, love the show. See, that's interesting because I've never seen one buried. I've only ever seen them above ground. Because they're buried, you can't see them, Scott. Ah, good point. Yeah. Good point. I guess I always assume if I don't see one above ground, it means

that they've got regular plumbing, but maybe they don't. See, and I might be assuming because I know, like, there's those big white cylindrical tanks. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking of. And when you described above ground septic tanks that's what I visualized I don't know those you know the things I've seen might be actual like water tanks that's a good point I I I so when we were at bear lake I saw I don't know hundreds of these that that's all they had there and when I asked the dude at the store there

he said oh those are septic tanks but I don't maybe he doesn't know maybe these are water tanks of various kinds maybe they're gray water tanks I don't know what they are now now I'm questioning everything if you're supposed to bury that that's news to me yeah my parents sorry not my parents my wife's parents, before they moved out of Mississippi, they had a septic tank, and it was above ground, and that was in the South. So now I don't know who to believe. I don't know who to believe, you know? Yeah, Jayfuntastic says you're probably seeing natural gas tanks. That makes sense. Yeah. Oh, those are, those are full of gas. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, gas, poop, it's all the same. But yeah, no, all the ones I've seen are buried underground, or at least all the

ones I know about and assume they exist are buried underground. Yeah, I made, this may be one of those lifelong misdirections I've had. I get those sometimes where it's like, oh, I've, I've made an assumption for a very long time about what a big white tank in your yard meant. I thought it meant it was full of poop. That's right. By the way, this is just going to go out to one person right now. Yeah. All right.

Amy, you know, you can keep attacking my shields, but my game is playing in the background. so your text are kind of wasted. Okay, anyway, so back to our show. Yeah, so back to our show. That was to nobody in particular. It's fine. Nobody in particular. No.

All right. Well, anyway, thanks for that call. We also got a text from Carney. I assume that's... From Wilson Phillips? I don't know. It's a great question. Maybe it's from someone who runs a carnival.

I don't know. Hold on and we'll find out if it's her. Hey, Scott and Brian, if you found out the world was ending in 45 minutes from the time you were told, what would you do with the 45 minutes you have left says carney shit 45 minutes that's so dang specific yeah he could he could have said a day I don't know why 45 minutes such a tight little time frame um you know no kidding gathering up families kind of hard in 45 minutes you'll spend most of the 45 gathering them up right exactly you know yeah I mean that's exactly what I would do I would call tristan up

if Tina's, you know, out-drive, out-working, like out, you know, doing her job or whatever, call her up and say, let's meet somewhere in the middle, have a hug for, you know, three minutes before stuff. We can watch it go down or whatever. Like, let's say it was a bomb, right? Let's say we knew a nuke was in the air and it was going to land in 45 minutes. And so I would want to have everybody with me so that we could sit somewhere and actually be, there to see it, even though it doesn't matter to see it, but I kind of want to be in, I want to, if that thing's going to hit, you, you are visualizing that, that pastoral painting of the family all backs to the, backs to the artist, all just sitting there arms around each other with the cloud, with the mushroom cloud directly in front of the bunch of it. Kind of, yeah, because here's why. I want it directly in front of me because I do not want to survive this. I don't want to be, you know, a disgusting nightmare. And you figure if you're all looking at it.

Yeah, if we're all right there in its path. Even better. Let's do like, let's recreate the start of Terminator 2. We'll all hold on to the fence. Yeah. Find the nearest playground, the fence. Doing this, you know, in the fire. Yeah, that's what I would do.

With a blast that's powerful enough to rip the flesh off your arms, but not pry your fingers off the fence. Yeah, exactly. Like that. And it could be anything. A big giant meteor, whatever. We just watch 65. We could have one of those, you know. Sure.

uh whatever but but if it's a big thing like that catastrophic thing i don't want to go hide somewhere you're just asking for a hundred years of fallout and and cancer and death and horrible oh yeah no not planning on hiding but i'm not like where's it where's a good place that we can sit and watch this thing like uh like we're going to a fireworks display all right do you have the blanket who's got the blanket i don't know if you know you're going to go though right like yeah it's all right to you know if you're going to go You may as well. I wouldn't waste any time trying to find a vantage point to be able to see where it's going to happen.

Well, yeah, I wouldn't do that either. Like, if you're going to use some of your 45 to, like, get location data. I'm not spending any of those trying to find a nice. No, that's a fair point. The theory is it would be big enough that if you just faced West, you'd get it, right? Yeah, probably, right, because it would be coming from California. Maybe, oh, of course. Yeah, that's where we'll get.

That's where they'll get hit. Take California. Did it, did it, did it, did it. That's the reason. That whole song is the reason we're going to get bombed. But anyway, we hope that answers your question, Carney. I don't know. I mean, just we'd gather family and, you know, try to have a last moment together like that.

Yeah, yeah. I don't know what else you'd do. Exactly. I mean. I'm not going to try to speed run Baldergate 3 in the last 45 minutes. You're not going to watch the first 45 minutes of Mad Max Fury Road. No, that's not bad, though. Or, you know, Paris and get a little taste of parasite before.

I go, you know. Yeah, right, exactly. Brian, I watched it. Although I could probably get two Seinfelds in. Hmm. Oh, you'd probably, 45 minutes you could, yeah, you could get two in for sure. I could probably get two in. Take two of my favorites.

Just quickly watch them, assuming internet. You skip over the end credits. Yeah. And not even bother with his, if it's one of the ones in the seasons where he's doing stand-up before, I'd just skip past that, get right to the meat of the story. Yeah. All right, that's the solution. Oh, yeah.

How do you choose? See, that's the other problem is you're going to go on Hulu or Netflix or wherever they are now and be like, oh, soup Nazi or the contest. Oh, the soup is not to me. Which one am I going to watch? Which two? Yeah, and Kim's going, we got like 38 minutes left. Freaking hurry up, pick. Exactly.

See, that's the thing. So really, what you should do now when we're not in danger is figure out which two episodes of Seinfeld you want to watch in case you find out the world is going to end in 45 minutes. So that when the time comes, you're prepared. You're saying prepare ahead. I get it. We all should do that. You always should be preparing. Most people would say the way to prepare is have a bunker full of food and medical supplies and all that.

I say it's pick your favorite three or two or two or three episodes of a sign film. That's my preparation. There you go. Preparation S, I call it. Brian, he saw a movie. What did you see? I did. Last night, too, I went to an advanced screening of a film starring the voices of James.

Amy Fox and Will Ferrell and Randall Park and Ila Fisher and her natural Australian accent. Holy crap. The world is done for. Like, you combine that accent with, with her great comedic acting and her beauty and all that stuff. And we're just all done for. She's great. She's great. Lucky Borat.

The movie's called Strays. Shit Outluck.com. And he comes out Friday. it is an animated film uh well i shouldn't say animated it's live action dogs with animated mouths oh right kind of like uh the babe pig in the city kind of deal that sort of thing right where they yeah yeah exactly right like everything's live action that the dogs have little animated mouths and they and it's a very very it's well done it's really really well done yeah and it's about a dog who get separated from his

horrible, horrible master played by Wilforte and finds a bunch of other stray dogs or find some other dogs to help him get back. It's really it's elf with fur and a lot of sex jokes. Oh, wonderful. Oh, we got it. Is this an R-rated film?

Oh, it is. Very R-rated. Like, interesting. Very R-rated. This is like Apatal-level R-R. rated kind of stuff. Josh Gadd, Rob Wrigal. Yeah.

Yeah. Rob Wrigal plays a police dog. Go figure. That's not, you know, that's not typecasting. I don't know what is. That's great. So clearly this is aimed at adults because of the rating. This is aimed at adults and it's very, very funny.

It's, um, it's extremely raunchy, but I was very surprised, very surprised how much heart it has. at the end like it really I don't know really surprised me like how emotional it made made me and maybe it's just because I love dogs

but oh interesting this guy directed I wonder where I'd heard this name this guy directed a documentary but it was kind of a comedy thing called Becoming Bond

did you ever see this the Bond thing about George Lazenby thing this is the one I saw or am I thinking of something Mel's. 2017. I bet this is one you saw. The early life in casting of George Lazenby as James Bond on a majesty secret service.

Oh, yeah, this is definitely, yeah, because I remember, yeah, so there's some, it's like a fake documentary, kind of. Oh, really? Well, yeah, because you got Dana Carvey and Jeff Garland, some of these people, they play characters in it. Well, the film employs the use of reenacted dramatizations of Lassonby life. Laszonsby's life interspersed with actual interview footage of him. That's what's going on.

Josh Greenbaum. I don't think I saw the whole thing. This is a weird, I have a weird memory that I saw this, but I think I maybe only saw bits and then forgot to go back. Oh, really? Oh, man. This looks great. I mean, it's a 78% if people care about rotten tomatoes.

I mean, I don't know who does. We should talk about that on film stack sometime. Hey, Brian, what if we talked about it in two weeks? I'll bet we could work that out. Two weeks? You think we could do it? I think we can do it. Yeah, I think we can do it.

Not the Saturday, but the Saturday after, I'll bet we could make. that happen. All right, well, we'll see. We'll have to see if we can do that. We can't do that because I'm going to be in Asheville. How is it even possible? And so has done away. This isn't possible. How is it even possible? People won't be hearing my real voice. It's going to be AI, Brian, and AI. It's going to be brain and brain because our names will contain AI. Nice. Anyway, becoming Bond on Hulu. I got to check this out. This looks great. Yeah, I remember I need to go back. Maybe I just need to rewatch it. I just don't remember. Yeah. But so this is good. You liked it.

This is good. And I'd say this is, you know, there's no reason to see it on the big screen unless you really want to. I mean, you know, support your good movie theaters. Don't support your shitty movie theaters. But if you like the movie theater experience, because you've got a good one near you, then support it by seeing this movie in theaters. But if you don't, if your movie theater eats poop like many do, sadly. If you're basically, if your movie theater is an Alamo draft house, then wait until it comes out on streaming.

Well, I'm, I'm interested. You've peaked my interest, as they say. Yeah. We almost watch that, um, uh, Galgadoo deal. This came out. Oh, right. Heart of stone. Yeah, heart of stone.

There it is. Yeah. Um, but then, man, the reviews were so mediocre and bummed me out. Really? Yeah. I don't, I was like, really looking forward to it. I thought it looked interesting. and I like her, and it looked like a spy thriller deal.

And, you know, I was... You know, if only we could talk about whether movie reviews should sway us and whether we watch a film. Wait, wait, I have another idea. Not this Saturday, but the next one, we're going to make it happen. You want to do that? You want to do that in a film set? Yeah, we're going to make it happen, you guys.

It's amazing. We're planning stuff in real time here. This is incredible. Well, anyway, strays. Go check it out. Anyway, Strays, go check it out. Yep, worth seeing. Wait, how'd you get a pre-screening type thing?

Alamo Draft House, baby. Yeah, we got, I'm on the list, because we have those go-see movie every day if you want tickets. And so we got invites, hey, want to see an advanced screening. And I think they even, they even mentioned, oh, yeah, it even comes with a free live Q&A with Will Ferrell and Jamie Fox that's basically streamed. to all the theaters that are showing it. Yeah. But they didn't do it before the movie. It's funny, there were no previews.

Stephen Schlecker would have loved it. It just went, 6.30, bam, movie starts. Wow. 8 o'clock, bam, movie ends. Wow. Unbelievable. Teen and I stuck around to see if there was anything at the end of the credits.

There wasn't. But, um... Well, that's good to know. Now everybody can know that when they see it and just get out of there. Yeah. There's a funny pre-credits scene. Mm.

But nothing after the credits, including, and we waited maybe for like 30 seconds a minute and was like, I don't think they're doing the Q&A. But there were a lot of people still waiting in the theater, so, you know, we probably just were impatient. We're like, yeah, let's just get home. Let's get home and watch a little more strange new worlds. Oh, you already, how deep are you in there?

We're only two episodes in. It's very, very good, but we're only two episodes. You're not to the famed musical thing yet? I've not gotten to the musical episode or the cameo episode. Oh, Molly Phent brings up a good point. the actor's strike. Yeah, that probably prevents them from doing the live Q&A and talking about the movie. Yeah, because that's considered promotion.

Yeah, that would make sense. Thank you, Molly. So those people were waiting too long, but they're probably used to, Alamo probably does that a lot, but not during the strike, is my guess. Yeah, exactly. Well, there you have it. I don't want to see Oppenheimer. Still want to see that in theaters before it leaves theaters.

You know, what's tricky with that one, you're probably the same problem as me. It's just going, okay, when do I really have a three-hour? Carving out three. hour time. It's a lot. It's a ton of time. And you can't just like, I don't know, that's hard for me, but I still want to sit there. I heard FBI agent Doug

when the son, he got hungry three times during that film. Oh my gosh. It's a deep cut callback right there. Very deep, very cut. Agent Doug. Nicely done. That meeting was so long, I got hungry three times during that meeting. That's pretty good. All right. Well, we're going to do

now a little thing we call news coverage. And so much going on in the news right now, it's good that we're here, you know, to break the news, to discuss the news, to bring the important stuff to the people. So here it is. It's time for the news, and it's brought to you by. Accidental vegetarianism. Yeah, Carter had a whole thing of vegetarian enchiladas that Kim made alongside the ones with the meat in it. I didn't know that. Oh, no. So yesterday I ate them and I thought, well, these are a little different, but they're still good.

I wonder what's different. And then I realized, oh, there's no meat in these. And then later Carter's like, who ate my enchiladas? Oh, no. When does Kim come back? Like, how long does... Oh, she's here. She was...

Is Carter going to starve? Okay. So Carter's not going to starve. She'll be fine. She'll be totally fine. I hope anyway. All right, let's do this one. The city...

We'll get to what city in a second? Okay. A city mistakenly tore down a... man's home. And now they are suing him. The city is suing the man for $68,000 in demolition costs. Oh my God. Yeah, this seems wrong to me. Let's find out more. First, the city demolish his home. Now they're trying to get to foreclose on the property to pay the $68,000 in demolition costs. The whole time, the Atlanta man, so this is in Georgia. Nothing else happening in Georgia in the last day or so. Georgia just devoid of any kind of news. Yeah, like news free.

It's like a dead zone with regard to news. Nothing going on at all. Nothing in the national interest of the country or any of that. Anyway, they're trying to foreclose on this property. The whole time the Atlanta man said the paperwork had the wrong address on it. That was as simple as it was. Quote, I'm not going to let the city take this for me. I'm going to fight them tooth and nail, says homeowner Everett.

Use both. Tripodis. Is that how you'd say that? Yeah, that's all I'd say it. Tripodus. Tripodus. Tripodus. It sounds Greek.

Tripodus. They called me tripod in high school, if you know what I said. Oh, did they? Yeah. It's just an empty lot. I was really into the camera class I was taking.

Yeah, no, exactly. Says it's just an empty lot now, but the city demolished the Southwest Atlanta home. Now, Tripodus told Channel 2 consumer investigator Justin Gray. It sounds like a guy's got his own billboards, if you ask me. Yeah. That he has been served with a lawsuit from the city of Atlanta,

claiming and saying they intend to foreclose on the property and then take the property. Quote, when I saw that came from the city, when I saw that came from the city, there we go, I was quite excited. Maybe it was a letter of apology. Maybe it was a check. Maybe they were going to justly compensate me.

I opened it up and realize they were suing me, says Tripodus. What a rip in the pants. Let's see. They reported this in March before the tearing down of the house. Where's the guy living now? They didn't get into that in the story. No. But anyway, it feels like if that happens, you owe him.

You can't sue him. Oh, my God. Yeah. And you need to, you need to, you know, pay to have the house rebuilt. Yeah. Yes. Or compensate him the equivalent amount of whatever that is. It seems obvious to all of us. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm looking to see if they show his house. And like, did they just get the whole house or did they figure out what was going on before they got too far into it. I mean, it looks like they took it. This video goes, let's see. Hold on. Let's see if I can find this here. I gave up on the video after three minutes of,

I'm Justin Farmer, and I'm Louise Bigglesworth. Oh, Louise Bigglesworth. She's going places. Here's tonight's news on Atlanta's blah blah blah. She'll be on MSNBC next year. Atlanta Action News. Yeah, they don't really show the house. They show some land around.

this but that's about it um yeah is everyone's 3d news local news channel 3d intro feature a helicopter because i swear they all have a helicopter that's so funny to me they really want you to know that uh the first one did it and everybody's like oh man they've got a helicopter and then the ones are like well crap we've got a helicopter too we better let people know yeah yeah that's how we got our news too with helicopter yeah helicopter news it's the only news you can trust yeah uh yeah i don't know what they're going to do here but it sucks so they don't like that Yeah. So get maybe, you know, if I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd say maybe this whole, uh, RICO

violation act, uh, you know, federal indictment stuff is just to cover up this one guy's case. Just to cover up the accidental demolition. Yeah. That's how it goes. Like these, dude, I've so, let me tell you my new, this is my new thing. We'll see how long it lasts. Okay.

I'm done. I think I have to be done. reading contributing too fine but reading social media i have to be i have to be done done because here's here's why today i fired up yeah and i see one story that says uh death toll reaches 100 in the in the uh hawaiian now he fires and i'm like oh man that's awful very next thread is the guy who who's theorizing that these were it was started by bombs that were set by the government like a whole there's a whole conspiracy theory out there because some of the trees didn't burn and that makes no sense so it had to be a special kind of napalm or some kind of thing they're going off in a hundred different directions about this and i went i'm so irritated by this that makes me want to engage and then my brain went scott

remember that's what this is that's what they're doing that's what they're trying to do exactly you want to sucker into this or do you want to finally break chain exactly what are you still doing well i mean i'm breaking the chain we've got so many we've got so many people who follow us on x that yeah that's what i'm saying we got a post but we just don't need to read you know right exactly so that's what i'm gonna be i'm a i'm a i'm a post or not a consumer that's how it's going to work that's the deal yeah basically i am a reply i am a reply if you if you message me on uh uh x i will reply yeah but uh but i'm certainly not going to scroll especially since what? I can only read eight articles before it wants to charge me or whatever it is. Whatever it is now. Whatever stupid thing they're doing.

But I just done. I just don't. I just don't. I just really call it X. Yes, I really just call it. Well, that's what they want you to call it. Yeah. Yeah. I enjoy calling it X because I'm an X user. Yeah. We're, we're, I mean, my, my usage is so far down. So even then, even, you know, like, I'm already better at not using it. Yeah. But this one, I popped it up this morning. I just went, you freaking weirdos. You're all. weird. And I don't know how many of you are serious, how many of you are just engagement hounds. I don't know how many of you are just lying. I'm just done with you. Done with these people, man.

Yeah, yeah. I've had it. All right. And then I'll probably look at it later. All right, let's check out this story. A Colorado story for you. Oh, Colorado Conjection. That's right. Since we don't have a clip, Brian has to say it every time. That's how it works. A bear has crashed. to Colorado wedding and raids the dessert table. Sure.

Oh, gosh. Listen, you forget to shave for a few days and people start calling you a bear. It's just not right. It's a little stereotyped, isn't it? Exactly. Come on now. Are you saying Brian's gay guy in Idaho, well, you better have some work to back it up. I don't know.

I always think of, I always think of bears like the gay bears. To me, it's always Idaho. I don't know why. they have a huge contingent community bunch of people up there which is great you know go for it but I always think of Idaho

obviously it's not just Idaho I know very much not I just think of it that way I have two or three friends that are considering themselves quote unquote bears and they live up they live up there so I'm a little skew all right fair enough

so check this out oh is their video oh good I love me a good I love me a good bear eating Suites video. I think this might be it. I'm going to play that. We have to wait for Bigglesworth to talk again. But anyway, Colorado couple's wedding started with a monsoon rain and ended with an uninvited guest. Oh, well, once again with the monsoon rains. Are we going to get into that thing again, that old mess? Yes, we are. Can't have monsoons out here, I was told, but here's this article calling it a monsoon rain. I don't know. Anyway, ended with an unrivaled, sorry, uninvited

guest, maybe unrivaled as well. A bear, rating of the dessert table. Caitlin McRosie Martinez and Brandon Martinez shared photos from their Boulder County wedding, which took an unexplained turn when the monsoon rains began to fall right before they exchanged their vows.

She looks like there was low pressure in the shower. Anyway. I just saw that Timefeld episode and, you know, when everyone's hair goes flat. Yeah. That's really funny. Like that to me. Soft water. Yeah, soft water.

Looks like they don't have video of the bear. That's unfortunate. Anyway, so by the time it started pouring rain on us in the middle of the ceremony, we all had to, you know, hide and get out of there. You're not referring to the newscaster, are you? No, just the lady sitting there. She's something about her hair. I love Jennifer Meckles.

That's Jennifer Meckles, and she's... I was going to say, you probably know who those local reporters are. It's horrible. Yeah, we love Jennifer Meckles in this house. Well, nice. Well, good job, Jennifer Meckles. You've got a fan in Arvada. Yes.

Moviegoer Brian Ibit. Yeah, frequent moviegoer, Brian Ibbett would like to say this. Oh, yeah, she does. Yeah, she does look like you. Do you know what I'm saying? Just like a little bit low pressure. It's fine. Yeah.

It's not her fault. It's the local water people. You got to get that done. Oh, they do have a more. Oh, there it is. They're showing it on a phone, on a camera shooting at a phone. Why didn't you just take the video off the phone and the, dude? I don't know how to get video off my phone.

How do I get video off my phone? I'm so annoyed by that. That's the easiest thing on this planet. Oh, look at that bear. And the lightning's going off out there? Oh, man. Well, you'll never forget your wedding. Exactly.

Good for them. Oh, jeez. Anyway, they said... At least it's nice to see they have a cover on their phone, though. That's good. Oh, that is good, right? You want to protect it and somebody was trying to... That looks like they actually...

Maybe not. Maybe I'm mistaken. but it actually looks like they superimposed the video. It doesn't look like you're actually looking at video from a phone. Oh, like they put it on? Like they put a phone up there just to insinuate that, you know, this is where the video came from. Like it looks like, like phone with a green screen.

Let's see. I'm trying to see. Because they are, they do have some shots where they show the bear up close. Oh, there it is. Yeah. Oh, you know what? You see what I mean? I think you're right.

Yeah. They're trying to be... Yeah, look at the left edge. The left edge, you could kind of see a little bit of blue. A little break on it, yep. Yes, like you don't have your green screen. Yep, up and around the edge of the moat thing. We intentionally made this image smaller to indicate that it was shot on a phone.

See, now I'm even more annoyed. Yeah. Because now they're trying to just be creative. It's like, come on. You guys, we know you shoot with fun. Jennifer Meckles did not approve that. that's not the kind of stuff that I would expect from Jennifer Meckles. It can't be Meckles' fault, no.

Definitely not Meckle's fault. No, no, no, for sure not. Well, anyway. Because we talk about Jennifer Meckles all the time. Yeah, and she's a solid, you know, local reporter. She's like, she's like, like they said, hey, we've got all these news people, but we need a girl next door type. And that's what they got with Jennifer Meckles. She's like, yeah, somebody accidentally invited me to this newscast.

I'm just going to go ahead and read this because it's in front of me. She doesn't come across as the whole like, today, wildfires are raging across Maui. You know, it's like she's more. Just the more down to earth you're saying. Yeah, we like her. I like that term, down to earth. Down to earth. Feet on the ground.

Yeah, feet on the ground, nose to the grindstone. You reach them for their stars. oh man uh well there's that that's a story that's a fun one now let's jump over to salt lake city okay good we got to have for balance you had you had a Colorado story now you've got to have yeah but you know just for fun I'm just gonna remind everyone that Canada exists Canada nothing to do with the story and just letting you know only because you can find the Utah connection 100% 100% correct because I moved I got rid of it because we hardly used it and then now I need it and it's not here yeah what are you going to do I'll play this for

my poor soundboard use. There you go, Scott. Don't let Dvorak hear it. Don't let Dvorak hear that you don't know how to use a soundboard, Scott. Yep, that's right. All right, so this is interesting. Speaking of water and rain and lack of and all that, prior to this year's, or this last winter,

there was real concerns, like legitimate, hardcore concerns that the Great Salt Lake was literally going to dry up if we didn't get enough rain or enough precipitation. And if that happened, it was all kinds of ecological issues. And this thing's, you know, this is a millions of years old body of water that is prehistoric in every possible way of defining it. And nobody wanted to lose it, right? Like Utahans have been like pretty freaked out about it. Anyway, through pouring water into the Great Salt Lake, one group hopes to submerge all of Utah.

They want to take the whole state and go back to its prehistoric state when we had Lake Bonneville. it was called or that's what we've named it but it was basically we were the valley was a giant basin for a huge body of water back in the day and they want to get back to that which I think is a little weird given that there are millions of people living here

but anyway much as they're pouring water like oh I can't wait to hear the story I'm gonna let you tell me the story Scott here we go I mean Beyonce's video is the best but I'll still I'll read it much has been said about the issues facing facing facing

Fishing failed you ever lose your car keys Let me try that again. Facing Utah's Great Salt Lake, the Great Salt Lake hit its lowest recorded record level in November of 2022. Arsenic is the exposed lake bed, or in the exposed lake bed threatens to poison the air. That was another big thing people are freaked out about. Scientists at Brigham Young University in Provo

estimate that without policy changes, the lake would dry up in 2028, with local species killed off by overly salty water beforehand. today's exposed lake bed is currently strewn with the corpses of dead seagulls and swarms of brine flies can confirm last time i was out there yeah insane amount of flies it's awful they love it though they love it they're the brine flies are having a moment they're into it we love the salt oh more salt so it says here even after uh receiving record new feet of water from last year's massive snow runoff the utah division of forestry fire and state lands reported

it's not going to be enough to fix the problem. The entire lake bed still needs to rise another six feet, hopefully more. In the 1910s, the iconic Black Rock was completely surrounded by water. Right now, that thing is naked as a jailbird. And in fact, when I was a teenager, I think it was still flooding there. Like, we had plenty of water. Wow. So, I don't know.

Climate change or a million other things that have all affected it. Anyway, one group thinks it's possible, but their ultimate goal is to refill the entire basin. Here's more. Hold on. I've got to pull up the rest of it. Yeah, okay. Uh, it says here, uh, the Utah based art collective featuring artist, musicians, writers, and thinkers exploring the unique perspectives. This isn't it? Hold on. What happened to the story? Is this the right story? Hold on. Yes, that's them. The ark hive. Oh, the arc hive. Utah based art collective. Okay. Artist, musicians, writers, and thinkers exploring the unique perspectives and peculiarities of Utah's, Utah, Mormonism, and the American West. That's a long tagline. That is. Yeah. Um, that is. Yeah. Um, that is. Um, that is. Um, um, that is. Um, um, that is. on a t-shirt. They're known for their stylish design,

tongue-and-cheek humor, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Let's see. West October, the Mormon art group through a Halloween gathering in Orm's university place, Deserate Book, after it became a spirit Halloween. So you can, they're having a little bit of fun, right? Yeah, yeah. In August,

they held a refill Lake Bonneville protest at the Black Rock Historic Site near the Great Salt Lake. The goal of gathering, of the gathering was not only to save the lake, but to restore its prehistoric levels. Lake Bonneville was a pluvial lake. They covered most of the state during the late Pleistocene. Pleistocene or Ice Age is what I would say because I don't like saying Pleistocene.

That sounds like something I need to ask my doctor about. The infographic below explains how big these artists want to dream. Anyway, so it's kind of a lark. Yeah. I mean, it's a major lark. This is jokiness as opposed to. Yeah. But we do want to fix the problem.

It's a bad out there. And it's a really cool. Oh, there's a shot of that rock. That thing is now like a desert rock. But if you look at it in this old black and white photo in this article, that's how it used to look, just stuck out of the water like that. It's so cool. They call it black rock. Dude, it's a rad place.

If you've never, if you've been out here and you haven't been to the Great Salt Lake, it's stinky because it's, you know, literally prehistoric salty mess. But it's just, it's another planet. It's just unbelievably cool. worth seeing if you're ever out this direction let's go back to Colorado okay oh we have another Colorado yeah I didn't mean to do this I really have like a sequel to Jurassic Park

called Place to Seam Park made out of clay sounds like Plasticine it does why is that like Plasticide yeah I didn't mean to do this to have Colorado then Utah then Colorado again this didn't it's like a little it's like a little Colorado Oreo yeah this is crazy it's a Western Oreo so check this

an employee at a Colorado driving school plows through the front of the business building or of business building. So this is someone who works at the driving school. Not some dumb kid who hit the gas when he meant to hit the break. Someone who works there should know better. Someone who knows better.

It says here an employee at a driving school in Colorado made an unforgettable entrance into a building on Tuesday while attempting to park on Hyundai Tucson and a spot in front of the community driving school on Wadsworth Boulevard and Lakewood. Do you know where that is? I do. Totally do. Wadsworth is

kind of my major thoroughfare but Lakewood so yeah I don't know community driving school somewhere somewhere south of

6th Avenue is it like first I assume it's for like students who are doing it during the summer or something

or not doing it through school or something or maybe old it's kind of a dumb name right yeah I agree where do you

where do you want to learn how about community driving I like to go to community driving school it's funny there's one Oh, there it is, 299 Wadsworth, beloved. Oh, 20th and Wadsworth.

That is right by the lizard store. Yes. I'm sorry, what? We have a lizard store. Like a pet lizards? Yeah, like a place you go and buy reptiles. But I think they're, maybe they're called Lizard World. And they're just focused on lizards.

Well, the name of the place is lizard world, I think. Okay. Or at least they have a sign that says lizards. It's like an emphasis on lizards, but they have other stuff. at, let's see, 20th, I mean, I'm looking at the right, that was a catty corner from, uh, there's mile high nails, olive facial club, holy facial. Okay. We'll talk about all the faith.

Rule number one. Yeah, nocturnal tattoo two. Tattoo two? Where is the, where's the reptile place? There's a place right next door called Rocky Mountain Punk. Ooh. But I don't know what it, uh. That's hardcore, man.

It is. What is it? It's a, uh, Yeah, what did they do there? Nature, art, and oddities. Oh, interesting. Okay. It's a weird name for that.

That is a weird name. Yeah. Well, there's, oh, scales and tails. That's the name of the... Scales and tails is the name of the lizard storm. So it sounds like an emphasis on reptiles. Yes, yes. But they probably got gerbils and other shed and fish and stuff.

I think only enough to feed the... The lizards. Let's soon be tickly kick. Yeah. Basically, scales and tails where reptiles rule. So they are, that's your one-stop reptile shop is what they are. So they're like a, they're like a Harley Davidson store that's, it's all motorcycles. Exactly.

Exactly. They do have a picture of an outline of a rat on their homepage, but it is an outline to let you know that, that's for food. Yeah. Oh, their animal of the month is a baby Savannah monitor. Oh. Well Resolution Speaking of Georgia

Savannah Monitor Savannah Monitor I used to love lizards I used to be a big fan As a kid I had a couple of them I would always get them We'd go down to Lake Powell

And I would catch two or three lizards I always had to let them go But I always love doing that Yeah I would enjoy your scales and tails Store That's a great looking Great looking story

Yeah I would go there Well anyway This thing crashed through all this It's crashed So much to get to or this Yeah The best part about it is there is a

Learn to Drive sign And they crash right under that That's the best Oh my God Please tell me there's a photo of that Because that would be That's the that's the post card That's what you want to see

That's your meme generator machine right there Exactly Yeah I bet it's in this Video from Fox Probably Denver Fox News We got a Lakewood police wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

That's how they wrote this, by the way. Ex, formally Twitter. Says, thankfully, quote, thankfully there was only one minor injury. They didn't say if it was a lizard who might have been affected. Let's see here. Nobody, or no, the department did not specify who was injured. I'm guessing it was probably the driver, but maybe not.

Maybe somebody was in the way. In response to Fox News Digital, community driving school said, it's still their name. I hate the name. community driving school said reports classifying the employee as a driver instructor are not true so he works there

but he's not an instructor. He's not an instructor well that's good. Yeah. The person who drove the vehicle into the building was a new employee on his second day. He was observing classroom instruction he had not started any training to be an in-car instructor says the owner Steve Rahman

Rohmann Roman Roman Oh jeez they went fully in. It wasn't just like the the front of the vehicle went in. Like the entire vehicle went into the store. They bust all the way through? Oh, geez. Oh, gosh.

Yeah. Yeah, that's a, that looks like the end of a fail video. Look at that, guys. Yeah, and I think, I think that's a legal weed shop. Oh, well, yeah, this is, the guy has a hood and a mask on. This is like a different, this has got to be a different video oh it totally is a different hilarious so under the article employee at colorado driving school plows through front of businesses building right the video is

of a suspect crashing a stolen car into a king county washington cigarette shop what what what this is this is the kind of uh top notch journalism that we expect from fox we're not even this video. Yeah, this is bullshit. I hate that. Nice job, Fox News. You did it. Yeah. You nailed it. We're going to take a break. When we come back, Amy will be here telling us what books we should read. She's also got a little story about her experience in jury duty. So we're going to hear about that. Oh, good. Okay. So that's all coming up after this break. Brian brought a song. You want to tell us who it is and what it is and all that. I do. Oh, this is good. And I'm going to warn people that there is a little bit of a little bit of a swear in this song. It's got a little bit of an explicit tag right at the beginning. So if you can

get past the first minute, then you're fine. But this is great. It's still, it's still some heavy alternative rock. I really dig this. This is a song called Crying in the Shower by alt-rock vocalist and songwriter Letdown. And that's all one word, L-E-T, D-O-W-N. He's already cracking the top 20 at alternative radio stations around the country. And this is from his debut, which is also called Crying in the Shower. EP from Letdown and he's going on tour. Check him out starting September 24th in Louisville, Kentucky at the

Louder Than Life Festival and then going all over the country after that. Here is Letdown with Crying in the Shower. Crying in the Shower. You never like diamonds Only shit that you can break Running out of porn stars In highs that I can chase Crying in shower

But I can't wash you away I don't want to learn another lesson I don't want to lose my head I can see the edge of your passion Scattered across my bed And baby now you're leaving me on empty And I can't even leave you on bed And I can see the sign of my depression, reading through all our latex.

Exchanging these angels for demons. Because sometimes the tales are stuck to be. Crying in the shower, fucked up from the pain. You never like diamonds. Only shit that you can break. I'm running out of point starts. I said I can't chase Crying in the shelter

But I can't watch you win Can't watch you in I Remember when you said that we were different It was you and me against the world Everything was gonna be perfect A guess perfect just means hurt Standing here with all of my emotions

emotions once I never thought I'd feel Running through the memory of the past life Voids that I can't fill Exchanging these angels For demons Because sometimes the pill's up to be Crying in the shower Fucked up from the pain

You never like diamonds Only shit that you can break I'm bloody out of One star whys and eyes that I can chase Crying in the shower But I can't watch you in it Can't watch you in Oh

Crying in Oh You're trying And I'm I Can't watch You know

Oh Crying in Crying in the shower Fucked up from the pain You never like time It's only shit that you can break I'm running you're the point So if it hides it I can't chase it I can chase

Crying in the shower But I can't watch you wait Can't watch you wait Don't panic Plan to get out alive Now We at McDonald's care about your life. The coop de Gras, I'll leave to the wolves and gila monsters.

And we're back. Hey, who is that one more time? I'll tell you. I'll tell you who it is. That was the band, I'm sorry, the artist, letdown from the brand new EP, crying in the shower. That is the title. track.

Fantastic. Boy, when I add someone to the call, you'd think I would hit the right button to make it work. Hit a right button, what you're just? Discord always says, you're in three other groups with this person. Are you sure you want a group with them here again? I'm like, yeah, I know what I'm doing. You don't have to wonder, you weird ass app. All right, check it out, everybody.

We're doing this. One of the things that I enjoy also is reading. It is also something we enjoy also, and that's reading. And we'd like to do it with Red Fraggle 3, aka Amy Robinson. Hi, Amy. Welcome back to the show. Hi. How are you?

I'm so good to talk to you guys. I've missed you as well. How to go last, you had something last week. I don't remember what it was. You had something to do? Yes. I had a doctor's appointment last week. Everything go fine, everything good, all is good?

it's a little weird to be honest um i you know i've talked about this on the show before that i have narcolepsy and uh turns out i have i now long story but i have gotten a new neurologist yeah and uh my new neurologist thinks that i may have been misdiagnosed oh so yeah so what does that mean you know what that means yet or they not sure what that means that well i he's kind of one of these doctors that's like until he has a diagnosis he doesn't want to say possibilities because then you'll just Google it and say you have all those symptoms kind of thing even if you're doing it subconsciously you know you'll lean that way so which is good like that's that's what you want you want scientific you know very you know try and limit the biases that kind of thing

so at minimum I'm going to have to do another nighttime sleep study because He says based on some of my answers to the intake form and also that I am a woman in my mid-40s, that I am right smack in the demographic of people who acquire sleep apnea. So I may have added sleep apnea to the mix. And so I need to do a nighttime sleep study to determine that. And then he's going to look at the, you know, the EEGs and all that stuff from my previous sleep studies to see what they show and I might have to do the daytime sleep study also to see if yeah those are fun it's basically here we're going to put all we're going to hook you up with all of these wires

to measure your heart rate and your your oxygen levels and all that's gross stuff now sleep yeah yeah just relax yeah just relax and get some good rest yeah in a bed that is not yours A head in a room that's not yours, like all that stuff. Knowing that there's a medical school intern sitting right out there, like watching you. Like there are cameras and like, you know, telemetry and all that stuff. Yeah. Like, literally watching it. I will say, I was surprised at how quickly I did fall asleep.

Like this was, I don't know what my binge was, but I was able to bring my iPad in there and basically start watching an episode on MASH or something. And I think dozed off even before. before, or like, you know, was starting to drift off before the episode ended. And I got a, what felt like a good night's sleep, I'm until two in the morning when they said, okay, I think we've got what we need. Do you have a ride home? Yeah. Wow.

That's pretty good, especially for you. Can I not just sleep? Like, I'm not bothering you. Can I not, can you not just let me get my sleep in? Can I just do like a little more things? I'm surprised to hear that given how you're, sometimes you don't sleep. Like, you're kind of a wake up in the middle of night. Well, this was also 10, 15 years.

years ago. I can't remember when it was that I had my sleep, my first sleep study. It's been a while. It's been a long time. Yeah. Yeah. It's been 11 years since I did mine. So, yeah, that's, that's, that's, that's fun. They don't do them back to back, right? You don't go, you don't do night sleep study. They're straight into the day one, right? You got to give some time between those, I assume. Oh, no. Yeah. No. I didn't do mine, you know, right back to back like that. Basically, like, it's kind of like when you go in for an MRI, like they don't tell you anything right. Then they're like, okay, great. Like Brian said, okay, great, we got what we needed, go home. Yeah, yeah. And then, you know, you follow up with your doctor. And then they say, okay, we need you to do another, this other type of sleep study now. And then you schedule that.

But yeah, the daytime sleep study is bizarre. Like, you spend all day in there and five times throughout the day, they come in and go, okay, time to take a nap. And you just lay back down in the bed and they turn the lights off. And then 20 or so minutes later, they come back in and they're like, okay, time to wake up. And they just look to see if you actually fall asleep during those nap times. Yeah, I don't think I could do it. I really, I mean, if you want to test me, test me driving after 20 minutes and then I'll fall asleep. That should be your sleep study test.

Great. That feels like a great idea. It's like, oh, you nodded off and hit the side of the embankment. Congratulations. You have car colipsy. You have caralypsy. Yeah, carolpsy. That's what my husband says that about me all the time that I have car epilepsy.

Yeah. I really do. And I still, again, I blame my parents because they drove me around when I was little when I would cry. And that's how I would calm down. I think that how it just basically trained you on how to fall asleep in a car. So now it's just that feeling of the road. Doesn't matter what music I'm playing. Windows can be wide open.

You know, blaring AC doesn't matter. I'm just like, oh, Cammy better. You got to drive. Saw and logs. Yeah. Well, anyway, well, let's get, oh, you were going to tell us about your jury duty thing. What happened there? Yes.

Yes. Okay. So not jury duty, but like jury selection. So, yeah, because I have served on a jury, but that was like a long time ago. I was in college. But I can tell you. You dabbled a little bit with the jury selection in college. Well.

No, that was just when I had to do jury duty. It was awful. I was like, yeah. This guy is so obviously guilty. and it was really ridiculous. So, yeah, no, like when, you know, for the trial for my sister's murder, they actually asked us to sit in for jury selection. And so I was listening, I was listening to your talk about it, Scott, and like, you know, two days. It took them two full days just to select the jury for that.

And it was kind of, it was really kind of interesting. The process was, you know, they brought in the jury pool. and so there's like, you know, I don't know, 80 or so people sitting all in the gallery part of the courtroom, right? And they've all got little paddles with their number on it, right? And so then they kind of do like a bit of a cattle call just to get rid of the obvious people, right? It's like, okay, does anybody know the DA or this other person in the DA's office? Do you know them personally? Raise your hand.

Does anybody know, you know, the victim? them. Does anybody know the defendant? Does anybody know any of these people in their families? You know, do you all know them? Okay, you can go. You know, and they just, like, are eliminating the big swaths of people. Then they get it down to a decent number. And what happens is, at least for this one, for this trial, and again, like, this is just my one experience with this. your mileage may vary based on your municipality or whatever. So, but this was my experience with it, and I thought it was kind of interesting. So they, the, the attorneys interviewed each of the, the jurors individually. And so they were like, you know, do you have any experience with domestic violence?

Do you have any experience with security systems? Do you have, you know, all these things that were pertinent to. the trial. And then, of course, they asked, like, the, do you feel like you could be fair and unbiased and blah, blah, blah, blah, right? Right. Sure. And, um, and then so, and the way it works is each of the attorneys has a certain number of strikes. And they don't have to say why. They don't have to justify it. They can just go, oh, I don't like that lady. And then, and they, and they go back. Oh, wow. Yeah. And they go back and forth. And they will, of course, like, while they're questioning people, they will say, I, you know, your honor, I, I move to have this juror, you know, released for cause, you know, like in case, like, in case they were of particular bias.

Like, if they, if they just got up there and said something like, yeah, no, like, I know what it takes for you to get arrested in this county. And so if they arrest you, you're, you're guilty or whatever, you know, that kind of thing. they will remove you for cause or if you get up there and say you know like in your case scott you're like look I am the only breadwinner for my house and it would put me at a severe hardship for me to serve blah blah blah that kind of thing and then they'll they'll excuse you for that those kinds of things right right and those are free those don't cost the lawyers any strikes but basically they play this weird little poker game you know to see like they're like okay so he's probably going to strike this person this person this person um but

you know we'll wait and see what happens here and you know because they go back and forth going okay strike this person now now you get the paper and i strike a person you know and then they they get left with the jury and um what was really funny to me was there was there was a dude who was a manager at a taco not taco bell uh taco mac and He ended up I wanted to know more about this Taco Mac. I don't I need more taco places. Sorry, go ahead. It's not important.

Taco Mac. Taco Mac is funny. It's like it's a pub. It's a brew pub. Like in the south here, we have Taco Macs and they're, they're one of these places with like a gajillion tap handles, you know, and so they're always rotating out their beer selection. That's, and it's, it's a sports bar.

That's mostly what Taco Max are. They happen to serve tacos, but it's like, it's mostly like, you go there for the wings like it's one of those kind of places you go to you go to taco mac for the wings but they don't sell mac and cheese just tacos and wings that's what i was expecting their kids menu their kids menu has mac and cheese on it it's like it's craft mac and cheese yeah is it oh that's nothing right home that's certainly not to put into your damn name so this the mac the guy the mac in the question here is a dude named mac i'm is my guess it's like fleetwood mac yeah it does not offer any mac and cheese no no but lindsayingham will do it for a

couple of bucks he'll do it yeah anyway sorry the hilarious thing was that we all kind of were like oh you know we kind of like taco mac guy you know but then throughout the trial he was actually I think he was one of the alternates but one or two of the people serving on the jury actually had to excuse themselves like because the you know the nature of the case was just they were like I am at I'm having severe anxiety sitting here listening to all this like it's really bad. I can't, I can't do this anymore. Please let me go. Wow. And so they had to excuse her. And so a couple of the alternates had to step in. And, uh, but there were a few times we looked over and it looked like he was falling asleep.

Oh, no. And I was like, so I like let the DA know. I was like, um, talk on that guy is falling asleep. And, um, I think it turned out he was actually just like, it was during, parts where they're playing, you know, audio recordings and stuff. He just was, he was, he was closing everything out and listening. Just closing his eyes, maybe lowering his head so they could pay full attention to it. Right. Yes, exactly. Because, and the reason I say that is because he ended up being the foreman of the jury,

which we were like, Taco back guys, the foreman, who knew, you know? I loved it. He's taco back guy. I love that. Did you watch the jury duty TV show, Amy? I have, I have not yet. And I keep hearing about it and I keep seeing, it keeps getting suggested to me, you know, just when I, when I turn it on. And I'm like, okay, we have to watch this show.

Somebody, yeah, somebody falls asleep during that one, too. I think it, I think it, this experience, this lame experience I had with mine last week has actually, is the one thing that got me the most ready to watch, finally watch that show. I've been resistant up till now because I just don't like reality TV, despite what all my friends say about how amazing it is, Brian included. I just been a little bit like, okay, I don't know if this is really mean. But now I kind of want to go, because I didn't get to go deeper myself, I kind of want to, even though it's like ultimately not a real thing, I still want to see the process, if that makes sense, you know, and not just get it from law and order or whatever. Yeah, this, this, this breaks every, like any hatred and well-placed hatred, the hatred that you have for reality shows is this, this, this. this doesn't fit in the thing that you hate. That's good.

This is a completely different thing. That's what I need in my life. That's good. Is it a little like Joe Schmo? The premise reminds me of that. Yeah. I mean, it is like you're basically one guy is the only, there's only one person who's unaware of everything that's going on.

Everybody else is an actor. But to paint it with that wide a brush really makes it sound like, oh, is this just, you know, some guy getting punked? it's really not it's really it is so so much more than that all right i'm gonna check i'm gonna check this out maybe we'll both watch it you really you really should and and uh it's it's so brilliantly done and you feel better having watched it at the end like you feel like wow i actually

there's hope for humanity because i watch this thing like the you know the the way this guy went through things without giving too much away went through this experience and was genuine and and generous and really good like a good person it's like okay this this uh just gives you hope i'm in that's fun that's cool yeah i'll totally watch that yeah we're you know we of course we finished watching silo and you know we've been doing a little bit of a rewatch of ted lasso with because my kids wanted to watch it and i'm like yeah i'll watch ted lasso anytime. And so we're just kind of flip-flopping around right now. And we're alternating between the problem with John Stewart and the reluctant traveler with Eugene Levy. Yes, I hear that's

really good. I do want to see that. It is so good. But just to warn you, don't watch it thinking you're going to go, oh, that's interesting. I think I should travel there. That looks like a great because where he's staying, freaking $7,000 a night accommodation. He is not staying in the places that people like you and me can afford it. Good Lord. No, no. Wow.

So, yeah. It was, even when he went to South Africa, I was like, okay, this is going to be interesting because he stayed in the Kruger National Park. And I've been there. And the accommodations were not great. Like, Kruger National is amazing, but the accommodations themselves, it was like, okay, well, you know, we're in Africa. whatever.

And I wasn't expecting a four-star hotel. No, no, no. They made this amazing looking hotel out of these old train tracks that they don't use anymore. And so they've got like a train there. Oh, it's awesome looking.

And it goes over this river where a bunch of hippos live. And so that's like the big thing that they hear from the guests all the time is at night. They can hear the hippos. Cool. Yeah. Always hear the hippos. It looks really cool. So anyway, yeah, I love that show.

So yeah, I need something new to watch. So there you go. Duryduty. Duty is it. Well, I guess what else? You might want to read something. Yes. Let's talk about that.

That's what the segment is. Let's read a book. Yeah, let's do it. What did you bring today? I heard a tiny bit of it because I had to get it queued up and I went, oh, I know that voice. So now I'm excited. I was going to say, I bet you recognize the voice.

So, yeah, it needs no introduction, I don't think. All right. Here we go. I'm going to play our clip. What mattered to me into every other comedian who started. doing those Monday nights was that even more than the un cabaret, the Largo was truly a place to change your career. A good set could literally change the path of your life. I walked back into the kitchen one night and there was Paul Thomas Anderson inviting me to be in Magnolia.

Another night the Fairley brothers came and I started punching up their movies. And that was just me. There were suddenly other faces, other amazing talents. Paul F. Tompkins, dapper and razor-witted, who on most Mondays did what another comedian described to me as structural. damage to the room. Here came people I remember from San Francisco, Greg Barrett, Greg Proops, Karen Kilgariff. Mary Lynn Rice Cub, who I'd first seen in San Francisco doing poetry at the Albion, was now bringing the same off inflection, broken, iambic attack, and startling ships up onto the stage. The larger audience went anywhere, shifted gears effortlessly. None of us had ever seen anything like it. Sarah Silverman, David Cross, and Louis C.K. would go up and

destroy like they were playing the video game Doom in God mode. God mode, by the the way, that's where you play with endless ammo, endless lives. A lot of my mad TV sketches never got written because I was too busy mowing down beholders and caco demons from the poster. He's such a nerd. I love it. I love it. I know.

I had to include that clip because he talks about playing Doom and how, you know, oh, my stuff didn't get done because I was too busy playing Doom. Yeah. Those early 90s, that's all a lot of us did, I think. Doom was a constant in my life. That's fantastic. So, all right. Well, what is? This sounds autobiographical, is the word I was trying to produce out of my mouth.

Indeed. All right. Yes, yes, it is. This is a bit of a memoir from Pat and Oswald. Many people in the chat room have recognized his voice. And it's called Silver Screen Fiend, Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film. and what's hilarious about this book to me is he kind of goes through his early days in his excuse me in his career and how he became completely addicted to anything cinema and he

writes about it in such a way it's it's almost like if you've ever read a memoir of a recovered alcoholic or a recovering addict same thing you know they talk about like, oh, I went on this binge and that binge. But that's Pat and Oswald talking about going to the new Beverly and watching, you know, old classics. And he literally was just like, he would go there every day and watch whatever was playing. And it was starting to affect his, it was starting to affect his career, his ability to write. And, you know, because all of these plots of all these movies were getting weirdly meshed in his head and he was making really bizarre pitches for sketches on Mad TV.

And they were like, okay, like, we'll write that out for us and we'll consider it. You know, so, yeah. So he writes about, he writes about how his addiction to movies really the same way that an alcoholic would, would write about their descent into alcoholism. And, yeah, it's great. It's, of course, it's funny. it's Pat and Oswald. And I will tell you if you do the audiobook version,

there are a number of times where you can tell he shifts between reading the text. And then he goes, and by the way, here's a footnote for you guys listening to the audio book. Blah, blah, blah, blah. And yeah, those are, those are great. He just shifts into like, hey, I'm just here talking to you telling you a story. It's not even part of the book. That's great. I like that.

That's really cool. I don't know if you call it fourth wall breaking, but I like, when they add a little extra something to what it makes you feel like you're getting a little something extra with the audio book yeah exactly exactly it's very short it's the book itself is only 240 pages it take you know the the the audiobook version takes about four hours to listen to it's fantastic it's really good he did it was released in 2015 so it was before his wife died so there's a bit at the end, that's sort of an appendix, you know, because he talks about when in the acknowledgments, I always listen to the acknowledgments, particularly when it's a memoir.

You know, you know there's going to be some good little nuggets in there, little anecdote that they're going to slip in there. And he acknowledges his wife. And so that's a little sad. It's like, oh, past Patton, your wife's going to die. That was a rough, rough thing for him. He seems to be doing good now. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, well, now he's married to Meredith Salinger. Yeah, she's awesome. Super hot. You know. And he ain't getting any hotter. He's getting lumpier. Right. Yeah.

I saw him at probably age. I mean, he's roughly our age, a little older than us, I think, Brian. But he was in a Seinfeld episode where he played a VHS movie clerk, like at a, like a, oh, really like a blockbuster style thing. yeah and he would have been i was doing the math on it he would have been like 24 wow it's wild to see it because it's just like a kid it's just a little yeah a little pudgy funny weird looking kid oh that's so cool he does he talk in that book at all about how it seemed like patten oswald was doing stand-up and he was on king of the king of queens here and there and stuff like that but it was small mostly stand-up stuff and then suddenly ratatoui

comes he's the voice of the rat remi the rat and then suddenly his career seems like it exploded after ratatooey did he talk about that at all or no yeah he talks he talks about that and and he talks about really from his point of view King of Queens is really where he got a foothold because you know I mean he was a series regular on King of Queens and so that was his

that was his steady source of income for like nine years he said and I was like whoa King of Queens was on that long you know so I mean I guess for it to be a steady source of income it wouldn't have had to be on that long it just needs to be in syndication right sure but

yeah he does he talks about King of Queens he he does retrospectively says if you'd have told me at this point in time that I would voice a Pixar character like there would have been no way because he talks about actually going to the movies when

the toy story movies first started coming out and he was he was enthralled by that and so yeah to actually be in one of the movies from that group later on yeah yeah he's in a really somebody in the chat mentioned a zombie spaceship wasteland uh which is his newer book uh that one came out in 2011 and um yeah which is similar it's a it's a it's also a memoir but he talks about you know he talks about more his youth you know, in that book. So he talks about being a young kid and, you know, being a teenager working in a in a Cineplex kind of thing. And, but yeah, he, he talks about all of those things. And this one, this one, again, is called Silver Screen Fiend. And, yeah, it's really good. I enjoy it.

I would like to hear it. I was just checking. I'm sorry. I said that zombie spaceship wasteland was newer. That's incorrect. Was that older? Because 2011 is older than 2015. You're right.

You're right. News. Breaking news from Georgia. Wow. How on fire is all your media there in Georgia today? Must be pretty crazy. You know, I haven't even. I haven't.

When you said that earlier, I was like, I was like, oh, I guess I should Google it and find out what the hell's going on. Yeah. Because like I got up this morning and I said, okay, I need to, I need to make a clip. I need to get everything set up for TMS and I, you know, I got some work I got to do, blah, blah, blah. And so I turned on like the piano, jazzy Mario music and I was oblivious. I was like, okay, so I didn't know what was going on. But now I see, I'm like, oh, whoa, all right then, Georgia, go on with your bad self.

Do keep, yeah, keep on rocking that. I was trying to find it. I was trying to kill a little time while I found it. I cannot find it. But there was a documentary right around the time things started blowing up. for him for Pat and Oswald that was following him, Zach Gallifanakis,

Jason or Brian Possein and I forgot her name. She's that crazy comedian that's just kind of wacky. I can't think of her name. Maria Bamford. Oh, I love her so much. It's a really,

they all went on tour together and did a bunch of dates as just like this was the comedy tour. And the documentary is crazy. It's the first time. I had even heard of Galaphanacus. This is a while ago. And it is real good.

I recommend tracking that down. Half this thing, I swear Brian, you'd love it because him and Possein would sneak away from everybody multiple times in the week to go find comic bookshops. Oh, cool. And buy comics because they were so into it. And it would drive some of the other ones crazy. And then also Galaphanacus was as weird as you think he is and was just freaking everybody out on the tour.

It's a fantastic tour, but I just don't know what it's called. Or not documentary. Comedians of Comedy is what Dr. That's it. Yes. All right. I need to see that. Basically,

I love it and stuff like that, like that and smartless. When you get people that you think are funny, it's like a superhero team up. Yeah. To carry the comic metaphor. Yeah. But it's better,

bigger than the sum of their parts. That's exactly it. It's, so there it is. It's Bamford, Oswald, uh, Possein,

and, uh, Galfinacus. Wow. It's great. It's worth seeing. That sounds really cool. So it was 2005 a year before Ratatouille.

So it just felt like it was kind of a brewing moment for all of them. On the cusp, sure. Yeah, it's super worth watching. All right. Well, there you have it. Amy, as always, oh, give us the title one more time just so people walk away with it. The title is Silver Screen Fiend, Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film by Patton Oswald. Fantastic.

May all your night and day sleep things be fun. Oh, and don't forget, tell them about the channel. Let's see what's going on over there. What's happening? Right. Yeah. So I'm going to be, I'm still trying to kind of find a good time that's going to consistently work. So, you know, just be watching.

I usually announce like, hey, I'm going to do a pottery stream today, you know, and several hours ahead of time. I think I'm sticking with Thursdays, but I've switched it to being after. my work time because I have a new boss who likes to schedule meetings so um you know so it sounds about right yeah middle of the day uh pottery stream that wasn't really working for me there but uh and I'm going to probably start doing them more often because I've got a lot of cool new techniques that I want to try out and play with on camera for you guys so yeah definitely follow me over there YouTube.com slash uh. at Red Fraggle 3.

And we have one more. We have one more spot for the Asheville meetup, you guys. And I am very excited. Chuck is very, like, we're all, everybody's getting excited. We're going to have so much fun. I think Dunaway is like really stoked about the stuff he's going to bring. The stuff that he's really is hilarious. Yeah.

Yeah. He's into it. He's, I've never seen him this excited about anything, if I'm honest. I'm all for. I think we should like set up microphones and do like a riff tracks when we have like movie night or something. Certainly can. I am not bringing any like microphone headphone. I'm going to have my AirPods and that's it.

I'm not bringing like I'm so tired of going on trips where I have to take so much equipment because I'm going to try and record a podcast while I'm doing it. It's kind of the worst. Oh, no. You are our guest. You are the guest. So you come on and just have fun. Be our guest. Yeah.

Real gorilla chest. Anyway, oh, by the way, I took, I took your little private message as a, as a challenge there. So you might want to check on your buildings. Oh, yeah. Check on your town, Brian. You're probably getting bulldozed. No, full, still five full shields. Wait.

How can I only have? I knocked all your buildings down, bro. Not mine. I totally did. I'm on, let me take a look here. Let me look at my, let me look at my land. Yeah. Yeah, come on. Stop moving. Stop moving. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Collect.

How do you have five shields? I only get three max. As you increase your net worth, you get, you get extra shield spaces. You get extra, you get faster dice replenishment. Okay. Yeah. All my buildings are like super nice and pristine and clean. Is it just like auto fix them while it's auto running in the background? No, no. I think you're attacking a different Brian. I'm going to say Brian with like it's a picture of you with a target and an accent. No, it's definitely me.

Weird. Yeah, no, it's. Maybe it's time delayed or something in the way it works. Maybe. Yeah. It may not be real time. But this runs in the background and my shields have not dropped down below four. Wow.

Well, where do you go then? There are many Bryans. I wonder who I smashed. Yeah. Well, somebody who's posing as me apparently and trying to take all my eyes. Matuba in the chat. They're talking about Monopoly, go. Go download it.

It's a very stupid game we're all enjoying. It is really dumb. It's a dopamine factory. We'll probably have a whole windy segment on this in a couple of months when we've all died. It'll be fine. As long as I get my stickers before then, I don't care. Amy, our best to the kids and to Chuck and enjoy your week. And we'll see you next time.

Bye now. Thanks. Bye. Bye. all right there she goes there she goes yeah matuba this is probably not for you although it's it's has as much to do with monopoly as you know it's visuals it's like oh that's it yeah otherwise it's not monopoly at all the fact that scott is even playing it yeah and i hate monopoly it should be testament how how little it really has to do it yeah i don't like monopoly at all um and

this is just it's just the motif of monopoly that's it yeah it's a whole different kind of bag but you know, hey, it may not be for you, Mitu, but totally fine. Yeah, it's totally fine. All right, where are we now? We're done. But that's where we are. The show's over. And I would like to thank our patrons because I just realized yesterday I was going through

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said, hello boys, my lovely wife, Talithia, has survived another spin around this star on around the 15th and I'd like to do a little something to celebrate her. She introduced me to the concept of industrial music. She's the mistress and I am still the student of her

two favorite bands, Front 242 and Frontline Assembly. I have no idea if anyone has tried to cover them. So I leave the challenge to you, cover master, good luck. She just likes bands that begin with the word front. I was going to say, is there a third? I can't even think of the third one. I can't think of one either.

Front. Front. No. Fronting front. I can tell you that I don't have any other friends in my library because when I just typed in the word front, the only thing that came up was a cover of Front 242s crushed. This is by a woman who is no stranger to the DragonCon. and pop culture convention circuit. She's great.

And I think she's even done some like steam punky kind of performances. Regardless, she's really, really good. Her name, she performs under the name Unwoman, and this is from her all-cover album, Uncovered from 2011. She is awesome. This is crushed originally by Front 242, performed by Unwomen. See you guys tomorrow. ...you know...

Turning me, my conscience crawling over, and wants to shape the beast, the snake is twisting my hearts into needling obscenities. Reaction breaks me to fractions, taking all my energies, squeeze my extremities, so much that I cannot feel now. This heavy heart, Heart that I carry Still holds the weight of you And when I fall As I always do

I'm crushed by the answer sense of you Perfection is there in the expression the stare of a face that holds no trace of wear and tear True beauty is cold Love and hate and human sexual nature This power sustained by endless violence and pain A cycle I can't understand I'm tired of emotions,

bore me with distortions they cut me screaming fuck me wipe them all away now let me see through eyes made a stone still holds the light with you and when I fall as I always do I'm crushed by the essence of you One look at you One look at you

Is everything to me From this photograph And when I kept you around me, and crushed by the presence of you. Get more at frogpant.com. Blah, blah, who cares? Yeah.