The Morning Stream - TMS 2517: Caffeinated Concrete

Episode Date: September 5, 2023

Wasps are bastards! My baloney has a first name, it's L.E.B.A. NON. Neither Tea nor Tree. Raining Man. So Many YouTube Pies. Sometimes it's worth farting. Extra rough roughing it. Evil Fake Koalas. Your Confirmation Is Biased. It's Good When Vegas Gets A Rinse. Bee Adjacent. That Furniture Smell. Drop Bears: The Aussie Chupacabra. 10-Hour Yodel Loop. Kirby Your Enthusiasm with Amy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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So many YouTube pies. Sometimes it's worth farting. Extra rough, rough, and it. evil fake koalas. Your confirmation is biased. It's good when Vegas gets a rinse. Be adjacent. That furniture smell. Drop bears. The Asik Chupacabra. Ten hour yodel loop. Kirby, your enthusiasm with Amy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Compared to a typical telephone line, the ISDN's throughput is staggering. 64 kilobits per second. At least 10 times faster than a conventional phone network. Edible prop dirt.

The morning stream. He's taking a dump in a can. Hello, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for Tuesday, September 5th, 2023. I'm Scott Johnson, and that's Brian Ibbett. Hello, hello. Hello, Brian Abbott.

we were just talking pre-show if you're a patron you'll hear it but we were talking about all this stuff going on in Nevada the you know the mess in Vegas where they got all this rain and horrible flooding and everything and then the Burning Man deal and so I guess I just wanted to say at the top of the show if any of you are listening we I heard from a couple yesterday but any listeners who went to Burning Man or are there now or we'll hear this when they get home or maybe they'll hear it there I guess internet's fine or a 5G's fine where they are. If you hear this episode and you have, like, you want to tell a little story about this, you know, everything going south away here. You want to be our reporter, a man in the field, or man or woman in the field. Yeah. I want to know how your, your acidic mud is. I want to know about, oh, that Ebola thing was fake. Someone made that up. Nobody's no Ebola there. What was the other thing I heard that was total bull crap? I can't remember. But the writer. People were naked running around. Oh, wait, no, that was true.

A friend of the network, Hugh Howie, writer of the Silo series, literally got married at this year's thing right before the rain hit. Oh, really? Oh, that's cool. I hope he's okay. He seems to be. He's been tweeting and stuff. I think he's all right.

Here's my guess, Brian. I'm going to guess this. People love dramatic stories. And here's what will probably be the truth. People will come back and go, oh, it wasn't that bad. Because it's burning man. They're already used to, like, being weird for a week. It is. It's like, you know, it's set up to be roughing it. And just adding a little bit of

extra, adding an extra layer of roughing it to an already roughing it situation. Yeah. Oh, yeah, Diplow and Chris Rock were out there, too. I saw the video of them on their little, the truck that was hauling them out. By the way, Diplo hates you. Oh, yeah, Diplo hates you. Hold on a second. Did Chris Rock perform or something? Was that why he was there? Was he just there? I don't know if he was performing or he just just went. Huh.

Trying to get slapped again. Just trying to get that done. Well, that's interesting. I didn't know that. I knew there were some celebrity in lots. Hey, my damn burning man. Ouch, damn mouth. I know there are a lot of like influencer types that were trapped there.

So I don't feel bad for them at all. That's fine. Let them be trapped. Quite the fire festival replacement. A little bit. It sounds like it's more, you know, unforeseeables and less of a, bad management, because this has been going for years, right? I mean...

Oh, yeah. I mean, I had friends. Let's see. I hired a guy named Scott Brenner. Oh, should I? I just doxed him. Scott. Um... In 96, um... Well, we're going away back. He was all proud. Like, when he, uh...

God, what year was it? He showed me his really cool mug that he got from Amazon.com because he bought a couple books there, and they gave him a free mug. that was before Amazon sold anything but books that tells us something but he would go to Burning Man and he'd send me video of like where he would

hit a land rover and it was like this big way open big open field that he was on he was able to put the car and cruise control and then he and Tim and a couple other people that worked with me would climb out on the hood

of the car and just ride on the hood while the car would drive through the desert. Wow. With nobody behind the wheel. Nobody in the car. Geez. Well, you got wide open desert, I guess you might as well. It's like, God, that just still scares the shit. What are you thinking about it? Yeah, I don't like the feeling

of it at all. He's definitely not there anymore. He's a judge. He can't do those things anymore. Oh, yeah. The judge, no. Forget it now. He's in your honor. He can't be a goofball, a little burning man goofball. I don't care. How fast you need to get to gas, tam. and you're not getting on the hood of my guy.

Exactly. That's great. Yeah, so we just like to hear from you. Yeah, I'm all right, everybody. Oh, yeah, I would love to hear from James. Because if James went, that would be amazing to get a call from him on this. It would be great if we could get the call in. Dude, if you end up talking to them and he says he's willing, let's do it.

Do you totally be up for it? The problem is that is getting up at 8 o'clock to be able to call into our show. That's a lot to ask. yeah anyway we hope you're rock and rollers they don't get up really come we hope you're all okay all right it's still better than the fire festival that was just a shit show but this thing at least is you know nature just didn't like you this year that's all uh wasps are bastards you probably knew this i knew this i hate wasps yeah they're kind of dicks there's the here's the thing though and i don't mean the band from the 80s the hair band okay everybody calm down you can enjoy your CDs and not have me rip on them I'm talking about the but not bugs I guess well I guess they're bugs sure sure They're just insects. Six legs, two body parts. Are stinger... Three body parts?

Bugs that are stinger-based, bee-like? Are they in a certain... Do they have a certain name of their own? They're a bee-like? Are they a bee-adjacent? I don't know. They don't have a name, do they? That's outside of insects.

Lepidoptera? I can't remember what the bee classification is. That might be butterflies. You're like a full-on entomologist here on the show. I like this. Oh, sure. Well, and I was able to name one classification, and it might be butterflies and not bees. I don't know.

So don't take your word for it, is what you're saying. All right. Yes, exactly. Yes. Well, so dumb. Yesterday that we had the kids over, we had Taco Bar and I. Kim does this thing where she makes a big bar full of taco things and whatever. So all the kids came and Carter's friend and some other, anyway, we had extra people.

And it was fine. We had a great time. Little kids are there. Van and Phoebe are there. and uh she's 10 months old and can say pops now pretty great anyway yeah she looks at me and goes so cute and she whispers it she goes pops pops awesome it's pretty cute anyway uh they're all over we're having a great time night goes as as planned uh i spent most of it at the table talking to dylan about how cool starfield is

and him getting ready to play it today because today's game past day oh today is release day yeah yeah because early access has been out for a week if you paid the extra money or whatever and uh anyway so we're having a great time and then it was time for them to go getting close to the kids bedtime so taylor and dylan gather up their stuff gather up the kids and they go outside and kim's like i'm going to walk van to the car i said that sounds nice so she walks him holding his hand walks him to the car a wasp comes tries to land on his little arm yes uh she kind of waves at it or moves her arm to get it away it immediately goes to her arm and her immediately. Oh, bad form. Bad form. Oh, poor thing. Was she all freaked out? No, she's,

she's all right. She's got, um, I mean, Kim's, I think she's only gotten stung once before, so we knew she wasn't allergic, but she has, uh, she, she bubbles up, she just bubbles up real good, like it gets real thick, yeah. So what we did is we decided to try this thing. Someone told us that if you put tea tree oil on a bee sting or a wasp sting, that it will, you'll wake up with, like, hardly any inflammation. It'll, like, take the pain away. Like, it's supposed to be kind of miracle, Kerry. And I'm, like, I'm usually very skeptical of such claims.

And I'm like, well, okay, sure. Put a little tea tree on there. Let's see we save the world and put tea tree. You know, I was being super skeptical about it. She did it. And it worked freaking this morning. Really? Oh, cool.

You barely know she even got stung. And compared to last time, which was also another bee or a hornet or something, it's just nothing this time. Wow. So I guess what I'm saying is, I don't know why I was so skeptical. Well, I'm always skeptical. You're a snake oil, Scott, all right, I'll take you up on it. I don't even know what tea, is it a tree, a tea tree?

Is it a tea? Is it a tree? Who does? No one tells me? I don't know what it is. I don't know what to call it, but I'm going to try it next time and have any kind of like bite or wound, you know? It's supposed to be good for your feet if you get like a,

the crusty heel, you know? Oh, really? Yeah. So it's like kind of like the miracle oil right now, right? It's like, well, not right now, because obviously it's been around for a while. Yeah, but it seems to be fixed on a lot of stuff. And if it does, I mean, I'll try it. I have a crappy heel.

I'll give it a shot. But you smell like furniture when you wear it, when you put it on. It smells like, it's like, you know, when you deep treat wood to make it. Yeah, you smell like Mark Spagnola is what you're saying. A little bit. Yeah, like his beard probably smells. when you get all up close to him, you know? We'll have to ask Nicole on Wednesday how he smells.

Yeah, I'm curious. All right, so it's a volatile essential oil. It says volatile, derived mainly from the Australian native plant, Meliluca F, alternifolia, Alternifolia. Okay. Employed largely for its antimicrobial properties, TTO is incorporated as the active ingredient.

Many topical formulations used to treat cutaneous infections. It is widely available over the counter in Australia, Europe, North America, blah, blah, blah. um so really just comes from a plant it's neither tea nor a tree it's an australian plant it's not a plant that's not a plant what with this their plants their plants eat dingoes they got like big old mouths it's one of the ten deadliest plants in the world and it's all in australia would not be surprised but anyway i guess i'm saying just was slight real life uh evidence of you

want to call it that it worked really well so i'm just i'm just going to put it out there i don't have any expertise in this area i am i'm joe skeptic on everything so when something comes up i usually go right whatever let's see this and this stuff freaking worked so i don't i don't know i don't know maybe pledge would have worked i don't know i sure smelled the same chris says fairly big trees with spongy bark okay so it is a big old tree in australia is lucky phil in here is that who said that you know Australians call plants, trees. So that's... Right.

What do they call grass? They probably call it the woods. I don't know. Right, exactly. Forests. Forests. Well, that's cool. Lucky Phil says,

are drop bears love it? What's a drop bear? Never heard of a drop bear. No. I haven't heard of a drop bear. Never heard of a drop bear. It's a new one. Look up a drop bear.

What do we got? What is it? It's a urban legend focuses on bushwalkers. having been known to be dropped on by drop bears, resulting in injury, including mainly lacerations and occasionally bites. So drop bears are fake. Oh. Oh, they're based on koalas, but they're evil and they're fake.

Right, exactly. Oh, some of these pictures are great, though. Large or boreal, predatory marsupial related to the koala that drops on its prey. These are, these pictures are so stupid if you do an image search. They're amazing. Totally. Yeah, they're all got like fake photoshopped fangs and big old claws and stuff. This is bull crap.

I've never heard of this. Wow, these look like the worst Pokemon ever is what they look like. Yeah, you don't want to, don't evolve your whatever, I guess, whatever came before. So it's the Australian snipe is what it is. Okay. All right. That's good to know you guys have your own thing over there with that. That's cool.

Yeah, yeah. I like to hear them. You guys don't have enough dangerous creatures on your, on your island. that you have to come up with extra ones. Yeah. You've got spiders as big as my dog. Yeah. You know what the crap?

You know what I need is when they eat some sort of fake killer animal to scare people because we don't have enough. I love that accent, but I, but there's a part of me that knows why Australians hate that accent. It's like, do you know what I mean? Like I can tell why they would cringe, but I think it's great. Sure. never not do it um okay i found something cool we've had a lot of deaths lately um also people are all over us brian because we keep mentioning some of these names and then they die

well we're running out of people to name is the problem yeah eventually we'll have no more names love to start naming each other and then there's real trouble um but no we uh yeah the lead singer for smash mouth uh died this week and we were just talking about this dude yeah we're talking about on film sack uh we weren't talking about uh jimmy But you bring him up here and there on the show Jimmy Buffett will come up as like Margaritaville restaurant Vegas stuff like that sort of thing. But I don't think that counts. I don't think it counts toward his death. No, no. And we definitely weren't talking about Gary Wright. No, definitely to bring that up. So dream wever. I believe you can get me through the night. What else do we know from him? Love is alive. Okay. Sing that one. my love's like a wheel that's turning oh okay the only saying in falsetto apparently is this the uh that's his deal that's his deal yeah apparently he's got a little two gary wright songs i know i'm sorry that's it but uh

should be a good triple coverville triple tribute coverville episode this week oh yeah i was gonna say this is great because you're talking about jimmy buffett has a bigger catalog but but the other two pretty limited hits the problem jimmy buffett's catalog and i discovered this when i started trying to to put a show together is that you know you look for a song like um changes in latitudes changes and attitudes right yeah the only versions you can find are people who do mirror image covers because they're a cover band that plays in florida at a bar they're a regular cover band that plays in a bar and just does jimmy buffett songs so there's not like there's a great todd schneider cover of margaritaville you'll hear that there's a couple other like oh yeah that's a good one that's

a good one. But for the most part, all the stuff I've been finding is here's Cheeseburger in Paradise by a band that sounds just like Jimmy Buffett. Not your favorite. No, it's just a bummer because you know, obviously you want

somebody to make their own rendition and I put this on threads yesterday but I think part of it is that Jimmy Buffett fans don't want to hear something that strays from the thing that they know and love. and other bands that would put their own spin on a Jimmy Buffett song, don't like Jimmy Buffett songs, so they don't cover them.

It's the combination of the two. It's a real dichotomy there. Yeah. Well, it's a bummer they all died, I guess. It is a bummer that they all died. I mean, in the case of Steve, Harwell. Harwell, it's a little early. He's only 56.

Yeah, but he was living hard there at the end, man. He was... Yeah. your liver doesn't your liver your liver take care of your livers everyone yeah be moderate with your liver all right nobody wants that to fail turns out you die if it does um it turns out some of these people got real old so for example bob barker uh 99 without going over 100 and uh he passed away about a week prior but i found something that i wanted to play today that i think is a great tribute to bob barker And it was from his retirement.

So when he first retired and passed on the torch from Price's Right, he went on Letterman that night. And Letterman did one of his top tens. Okay. And Dave had Bob Barker do the top ten. And it was top ten things Bob Barker could say now that he's retired. Okay. Great. And I love this.

So I recorded it and brought it to the show and I'm going to play it now. So enjoy this. It makes me miss both Bob Barker and David Letterman in his regular show, even though Dave's not dead. He's still alive, but yeah. He's still with us. He doesn't have a show. Well, he has a show, but it's not the same.

It's not the late show with David Lernerman. Yeah, here you go. Let me play that right now. Number 10. We get the prize is cheap because they're stolen. I didn't know that. I did not know that. I was not aware of that.

Number nine. The actual retail price of the retirement watch, CBS gave me $17.95. Number eight. Before we give them away, I personally try out every hot tub. Oh, Bob, you dog. Number seven. Slip Daddy some cash, and the Showcase Showdown

Wheel lands wherever you want. What? Slip Daddy some kind. He's good. Oh, nuts, I tell you. Slip Daddy some cash. That's right. Number six.

Sleeping until noon and playing golf all day, come on down. Yeah. Number five. Howie Mandel may be a younger game show host, but at least I still had hair. There you go, Bob. There you go. Number four. I only wish reach.

were alive to see this. Now, wait a minute. Before I just died. I believe this is alive. That's a mistake. Okay. I'll double check that when I get upstairs. I think that's a mistake.

Number three. On my last show, I'm going to tell people, go neuter yourself. Okay. Number two, I'm not only a game show host, I'm also Spider-Man. And the number one thing, Bob Barker, can now say that he's retiring. Some older people have the good sense to retire, unlike Letterman.

Hey, I heard you. And listen to this version of the band does. Isn't that great? Nice. That's cool. Yeah, I love that. Like, pull out your rendition. Anyway, that made me laugh my ass off

And I was happy to say it Who knows if our friend Matt Flanagan Was involved in the writing of that top ten list We know that he worked Behind the scenes Would have been the era, I think It would have been Gosh, that would have been like 2010

Late 2010 or 2808 or something So it would have been early odds, early 2010s And I think he was there then So he may have written half of that thing Hopefully I know that both he and Jenny are out on the picket lines. Hopefully they're doing well also.

Oh, I thought you were going to say they were in Burning Man. Burning Man. Hopefully they're not out striking at Burning Man. Yeah, I'm kidding. Yes. I don't like mud. Anyway, pretty good, though, right? He was cool. Bob Barker was a guy who could laugh at himself and have a good time. He's all right.

Totally was, yeah. And when you and I would stay home sick from school, what were we doing? We were watching the prices. We were hoping that that little mountain climber wasn't going to fall off the edge of that cliff. We sure enjoyed the music that he sang as he walked up. Did we sure that who-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-le-le-le or whatever he did. What did he do?

Did he do a song? Hold on. Yodler on Price is right. We got to find this. I want to hear it. Okay. Price is right. Oh, I can't find it.

Cliffhanger is the name of the game. You don't look for it. Is it called cliffhanger? Yeah. Hanger, game. Ike was like, Brian just did it. Brian nailed it. Did you nail it?

By the way, that was cliffhanger as sung by Gary Wright. Oh my gosh. All right, then. Okay, here it is. Price is right, cliffhanger. Let's hear this. Hold on. Whoops.

Oh, it just goes and goes. Yeah, it's a 10-hour YouTube loop. In case you have someone you really want to get some sensitive information from, you just time to a chair and play that for 10 hours. Would not surprise me at all. All right, now we're going to surprise each other with this. Much of foodie. We haven't done this in a while.

All right. But thanks to Natalie Taylor, Brian and I got some of that Lebanon baloney we talked about a couple of weeks ago. yeah and uh we didn't know what to make of it because we never had it before and we're like well is it just baloney and then people wrote in and she in particular was like oh we have this all the time it's great and she sent us a box of this stuff Brian's got cheese in Lebanon Pennsylvania so which is where this hails right is the where it's you toast your bun you didn't like you toast your bun I did lightly not not heavily I was kind of running late um but I did put a really dumb little blunt toothpick in mine like some kind of fancy diner. It should be a pickle sticking out of the top, too. Oh, a pickle would be good. And yours is just the pretzel bun and the meat, right? Yeah, three of the thin ones. I didn't do the big thick mother, that big old bomber.

I don't know who's eating that or when, but that's... Oh, the smoked. Yeah. Yeah. Because that's thick. Oh, so you did one of each of the two different balonies we got. I just did the original. I mixed them just so I could get a taste here.

So there are three of these on here total. I don't know which one's which, but the, The pretzel buns, that's an important thing to note. These also came from her, and I guess that's part of the deal. You've got to try these with that. She also mentioned, was I heard of mention mixing them with the eggs and stuff? Cream cheese and horseradish. Oh, yeah, that's the one that sounds so good.

I didn't have any cream cheese, but I do have horse radish, so I know what I'm doing for lunch is making another one of these sandwiches. Yeah, why not? So we're going to try it here on the show. We haven't done it in a while. My first experience with Lebanon, baloney. Same with you. Yeah, same here.

Lebanon, PA, baby. Let's go. Here we go. Oh, wow. Smoky. Right? Yep, very smoky. Very smoky.

Sorry, big full mouth here. Yeah. I didn't take a TV show bite of food. How much is that, I guess? It's probably just them nibbling. Yeah. They have a little tiny bit on their fork so that they can... Ooh, this is good.

Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, I'm going to eat this with other. stuff. I'm going to eat this whole pack. This is all going to go down. Yeah, this is good. You know what? That's way better. No, it's all about how long it sat out on the porch. You get it? No, it's totally fine how warm it was before we got it. It's fine. We'll know in a few hours if it's fine or not. But that is distinctly different than baloney I'm used to. Oh, yeah. No, it's definitely, it's almost more like corn beef. Right. Right. Bologna. It's got little bits in it and stuff, like little, uh, it's got texture.

And the pretzel bun has a sweetness to it that's really, really nice. I'll do the thing that, so I watch this Disney, a couple that goes to Disneyland all the time and talk about all the new food that they eat there called Ordinary Adventures. And as they're talking about all the food, which they have a scale of one to five, but everything always gets either a four or five. Of course, yeah. They don't want to talk about bad stuff. I don't know if it's because they don't want Disney to get mad or what they do is.

but but they do this thing with their hand like they do this like oh well there's like a there's a sweetness that the bun has that really brings out the flavor of the meat and then um a little bit of butter on the on the bread um really adds to it so uh go watch some ordinary adventures notice that they give everything four and five stars and then watch how they they do this with their hands they probably took a they probably took a card from the uh uh the guy from the Food Network. Yeah, because Guy Fieri never, on that diners, drive-ins and dives, never a bad thing to say about any of them. Never.

Oh, this, you know what? This is, this is kind of garbage. Yeah, this is terrible. I don't think I'd even feed this to my dog. I wouldn't feed this to the guy who frost the tips of my hair. This is literally gangster. Ugh. But here's the thing.

That gangster is a Bugsie Malone who's dead and decomposing. That's what this reminds me of. And this, now I'm going to edit like they do here. Boom, boom, boom. Yeah, yeah, just cut. Back in form. What? Oh, ha!

Yeah, as fast as we can. Anyway, those are awesome, Natalie. Thank you so much for that. Thank you for thinking of us, and it was very kind of her to send that to us.

And for the record, I love Peter and Kittcheron or near adventures. Don't, you know, I'm that, I poke fun because that's what we do. We poke fun. If there's fun to poke. If there's fun to poke.

They're damn show and I love it. There you go. It's a YouTube deal, or what? Is that what you said? It is. Yeah. Yeah.

The, Peter, the guy the guy in the couple is a magician and Mitsula, I think, introduced him at some point to Brushwood because it was like

he, Mitsula is a big fan of ordinary adventures and a big fan of Brushwood and so it was like, well, why can I get my two favorite magicians together? Because that's the other thing that Peter does or used to do anyway. It was a lot of magic. I don't know if he still does, but making bank on his eating at eating in Disneyland money.

Yeah, I mean, they really do, they make bank by going to Disneyland every day and, and, you know, videotaping or a videotaping. I am an old person by recording their visits and saying, oh, there's a, they've changed part of the flooring in Sleeping Beauty's Castle. Oh, my God, everybody, stop what you're doing because they've, they've painted part of the floor blue. Wow. I don't know what this means. Wow. I don't know what it means either. That is what the, that is what these, all these Disney, um, YouTube channels have to do is like every bit of minutia.

Uh-huh. Well, in, in six months, we're going to have a new, uh, restaurant, Tiana's Palace, but we're going to give you the play-by-play. Looks like they've added a new two-by-four to the, uh, the third level. Yeah. The drinking, oh, but I'm told, uh, this is just in. I'm told the drinking fountain is not currently usable. Exactly. Uh, the trash can in Tomorrowland, uh, right.

by Buzz Lightyear's Astroblasters is full. Just to the note, please don't use the trash can in front of Astroblasters. You got some, you got trash, keep moving, all right? More at 11. Yeah, I don't know. That's what you do. So he had Slash film, too? Peter

was the owner of Slash film? Holy cow. I didn't know that. Oh, I didn't know that. Wow. Wow. He's got his fingers in all the YouTube pies. He does. So many YouTube pies. I'm pressed. And the, this YouTube pie actually has a, uh, a really nice pie. pungent kind of flavor to it.

It's like a creamy saffron. Do you think they know they're doing this in the air? Yes. Okay. Yes, I think they do. All right. You lock into what people recognize you for and you keep doing it. I think you do.

I think it's, it is a, it is a food review, a staple. I don't know, like a, like, what's the, what's the, what's the, it's part of the toolbox. If you're a food reviewer, you must do this as you're talking about something. Oh, man. I guess I'm not much of a foodie because I never do this. Exactly. You're not a foodie. What's a foodie? You're apparently not a foodie. I'm trying to remember the last time I would have made this gesture.

And I don't think I've ever, I don't think I've, maybe today, this might have been it. Maybe. That might be it. Wow. Yeah. So shows the kind of foodie I am. Trope, that's a good. Yeah, we'll say trope. That's a much better word. That's a good word. Yeah, we know trope. It's part of the food review toolbox. Yes. And it sounds like this. But only when you're on film.

That's right. Exactly. All right. We're going to do some. Hey, Scott, can I have a tropeer? I like that he always asks. He always asks him to be a troperer. Make sure we get the sounder in there. All right, we're going to do some news, and that'll be fun, so let's do it right now. Good morning, good morning, everybody.

In the news this morning, good morning. Time for the news, brought to you by. Looting meat from space pirates. Yeah, there's a lot of, if you've ever played a Bethesda game before, you know that you can pick up just about anything. In Skyrim, the big joke was collecting cheese wheels and hiding those in your house. and just having stacks of cheese wheels for no reason. Oh, really? Okay. This game's got a bunch of that, too.

You can, you know, collect potatoes and then just fill your ships cargo with potatoes for no good reason. There's no reason to do it. But it's got all that kind of crap. So I do it with meat. I have a lot of meat. Cool. Starfield. It's a hoarding your meat.

Yeah, always hoard your meat. A death at Burning Man has happened. So there's 70-something thousand people there. Right. I think they've had to. that many? Holy cow. Yeah, no. It's a lot. It's bigger than your average city. It's bigger than the surrounding cities in Nevada.

Like, it's insane. Yeah. How many people go to that thing? And I don't think this is the first year where somebody has passed away. Sometimes you're just playing against the numbers there, right? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, somebody's going to get sick or somebody's going to... You know, heart condition. Have some other issue. Exactly.

But anyway, they're being investigated as rain-soaked festival asked attendees to shelter in place. The death was under investigation at the burning men. Festival amid the rain and the mud. Local authority said Saturday and the attendees were urged to stay there and not go anywhere, although everything was kind of shut down. They still made little pocket parties, but the main event and like the big, the literal burning man, that didn't happen this year. They didn't get that.

Oh, they didn't because that was supposed to be yesterday and that they just, they just forewent. Unless something changed late in the night, they were, that part got canceled, but I could be wrong. The Pershing County Sheriff's Office in northern Nevada. announced the death, which had happened, quote, during the rain event. I don't know what they call it a rain event. Whatever.

Rain event. Excuse me. At this, as this death is still in an investigation, no further information is available at this time. The party appeared to be over or alded over. And the organizer said they were focused on getting people out of the area safely. Most festival operators have been halted or significantly delayed, says the sheriff. Let's see. They had to lock down for vehicles coming in on Saturday night.

It supported the organizer's shelter-in-place recommendation for more than 70,000 estimated to be in the desert event. Some vehicles have been able to drive off the playa. What is the playa? The playa. That's what the, that whole area is called the playa. That's circular like, it looks like a, I mean, it looks like a madmaness death camp. It's a Spanish word, meaning big flooded area with a tall man made out of timber in the middle. Yeah. I like the idea that it's some guy who just likes to cheat on his girlfriends. He's a playa. He's a real playa. Don't hate the play. Don't hate the game. Hate the game. However, these vehicles have caused damage to the playa surface, and it is not recommended at this time, he says. Anyway, they all got stuck there. I don't know what the update is today. They probably have, people are probably finally leaving. I don't know.

Yeah, apparently they did. People are saying that they did actually burn the burning man last night. Well, they did. Oh, that's good then. That's great. Yeah. Because otherwise, they'd have to change the name of the festival swimming man or drowning man or something like that. Oh, here it is. It means beach in Spanish, and it is a term for a dried lake bed. Oh, okay. That makes sense. It says here, Burning Man Exodus, hour long traffic jam, hours long traffic jam, stalls, festivals goers, finally able to leave. But they are leaving.

Good. But they're stuck in a horrible get. out of their traffic jam. Yeah, no kidding. It seems like a nightmare. I just couldn't do it. I've always been interested in going. I would go if I could be flown in that morning and flown out that night.

I don't want to spend the night there, but I would like to go and see the festivities for a whole day, but not have to sleep there. Yeah, I don't want to stay overnight either. That's my whole thing. If I could fly in and fly out, that'd be great, but I don't even think that's really an option. I mean, how far is it? No, I don't think so. I mean, yeah, helicopter in or something. But, I mean, even if I, even if somebody drove me in and drove me back out,

how close is the nearest town? It's not sparks. What's the one up there? Nearest town to burning. We're racing. We're Google racing. We're at Google Race. Well, Doctor Girl Race.

Empire and Gerlock. Gerlock. How far, how far is Gerlock? And does Gerlock have any kind of accommodations of any sort? you know what I mean like 15 miles that's it oh well that's not bad that's not bad so I wouldn't have to sleep there I could fly in go for the day and then come back next year or fly in go for the day and then sleep in girlock you know right exactly yeah is there is there are there hotels in girl I assume there's got to be something in girlock yeah maybe all right I mean this thing from

the air is wild have you seen these aerial shots of how this thing looks oh yeah yeah crazy 100 miles to Reno, 100 miles north of Reno. Okay. That's still not far enough from Reno. I could do an hour and a half to Reno. Yeah, why not? And then sleep in Reno. Yeah, Reno's, it's the biggest little city in America, right?

That's right. Here's the problem is that, you know, we're already going to do our TMS live at DragonCon next year. I'm pretending like this is the thing. Is this locked in? Is that already a thing? No, gosh, no. Now, this is just me pretending that I've even had any conversations. The people who would be involved with that are now sleeping,

like getting the rest that they so richly deserve from this last weekend. But, yeah, we can't do both Burning Man and DragonCon because it's the same weekend, my friend, with one or the other. That's true. Also, why is it when I look at promotional video or photos for Burning Man? It's only really hot people. You mean attractive people or just be like really hot people out in the desert? Like attractive, you know, beautiful, attractive young people.

Listen, the photos that Judge Your Honor Scott would bring back from these things, it was, you know, there were a lot of people who were like, wow, okay, there is very attractive people all running around here for the most part naked. Okay. Yeah, there's a lot of new ditty. New ditty. Yep, and mud now. And that mud looked bad. All right. Moving on to this story.

Turns out coffee offers performance boosts for concrete. Oh, shoot. I had ordered some. Cancel that order. I was in the middle of making it for more coffee. Yeah, it's not for your brain. It's for your... For concrete.

Your driveway, I guess. I don't know. Are you talking about one of those ice cream treats that you can get at Freddy's? Is that what you mean by the concrete? I miss a good. Concrete, dude. Right, there's a chorus. Who doesn't?

I can't eat those anymore, but I love it. Chocolate concrete. Like the real, oh my gosh. Yeah. You know what? Those I can't do just because of the lactose deal. It'll be like, just position me on a toilet for the next several hours. Yeah, for me it's sugar.

I don't know if they make a sugar-free version. They probably don't. But it would mess. It would probably mess with the consistency of the stuff. I've never had sugar-free ice cream. Any form of it I've ever had is a nightmare. It's horrible. Yeah.

It's icy, crystally, yeah. It's garbage, so no is the answer. Anyway, coffee is apparently a big deal. Engineers in Australia, ooh, we're just talking about you people and your weird plants. Australians. They found a way of making stronger concrete with roasted, used coffee grounds to give the drink additive a, quote, double shot at life and reduce waste going into landfills. Lead author, Dr. Ray Jeeve, Roy Chad, chand, I believe. There you go.

From RMIT, the university, said the team developed a technique to make concrete 30% stronger. Wow, that's almost the same price hike as PlayStation Plus just received. Did it really? I didn't see that. Damn it. 33% price hike.

Wow. Wow. Kind of across the board. It's ridiculous. If you're paying $59.99 a year, you'll now pay $99.99 a year for the basic one, not even the good middle one. Yeah.

Anyway. Oh, really? I like the good middle one. I don't think I'm currently ping, but I like the good middle one. The middle one's pretty strong, but that changed. I was like, okay, I'm not doing this. It's too much. Nope.

Anyway, it turns waste coffee grounds into biochar. That's a cool name. Biochar. Biochar. Now, if you catch one of those, you can evolve it into a, what is a biochart? A biochar evolves into a biocham. Oh, biocham. Biocham, yeah.

That's about, that sounds like that's exactly what it would be. if this was real. Anyway, let's see. It's a low energy process. Let's see. The disposal of organic waste poses an environmental challenge as it emits large amounts of greenhouse gases

including methane and carbon dioxide, which contributes to climate change, he says. Australia generates 75 million kilograms of ground coffee waste every year. Damn. You all are drinking coffee. It's funny, though. You would feel like

like the coffee would make it less strong, right? Like, because, all right, here's a powder that doesn't adhere to itself. Right, right. How is it going to make the concrete around it stronger? Yeah, and they claim that this mixed with traditional concrete is acting like a binding agent and strengthening it. I wonder, though, do you think you ever be walking down on a hot Australian day in Sydney? You're going to the opera house. I don't know what you do.

whatever you're doing sure that's that's what you're doing sidney yeah you're walking around and you go what's that oh it's the sidewalk smells like coffee out here you know i wonder i'm just saying would you i feel like it i feel like there has to be right it has to be a little bit of a yeah sure that's how these things work when people use uh used vegetable oil from uh like friars to run their cars yeah i don't have you ever been behind one of those but it smells like a freaking you know there's a little bit of a stink yeah a bit of a stink to it it's like the like like like like nuggets and fries, but worse somehow? Yeah.

Yeah. It's gross. But I respect it, but it's gross. Anyway, there's that story. So just, hey, Wade, well done, everyone in Australia. You guys are great. Yes. Here's a story.

A gun fired at a White Sox game. Which made a bunch of news at the time. Turns out that gun was snuck in by a woman in her belly fat. Oh, geez. Okay. Yeah. Just stick it in there. Let her rip.

And just roll it over. Roll on in. Open that up, you know, like a big old floppy cave and go, here's your thing. An investigation into the shooting on Friday night, this is, I guess, last two Fridays now, in which two women were struck by gunfire during the White Sox Athletics game at the guaranteed rate field. Some of these names, come on, your corporate names are getting a little ridiculous. The guaranteed rate field. I hate that so much.

Yeah, yeah. It's almost as bad. Our jazz arena for the longest time back in the day was called the Delta Center because it was Delta Airlines who had the name. And then it went away and it went to Vivint Home Security Arena. And then we all lamented that every minute of the day until they went away. Now it's Delta again and we couldn't be happier. That's good. We have Empower Field and you could ask a dozen people walking the streets at Denver right now.

does Empower do? Yeah. I don't know. They don't know. I don't know what the power does. Do you still, do you know it all? Do you know what they do?

I don't know. No, you could ask me. It could be one of those people you ask. I don't know what Empower field is. That's got to be. Empower the company is. But we still call that stadium, Mile High Stadium.

It's always going to be Mile High Stadium. Yeah. It's always going to be Lambeau Field. It's always going to be Mila High Stadium. Yeah. If you're going to give us a name, you stick to your freaking name. Yeah. I just realized though this is the problem when we have troublesome names like Redskins.

people want to stick with the thing they've always known and that's part of it it isn't so much that they're racist turds it's that they also like tradition and they want to keep the thing it was originally called so if delta had some negative connotation how would I feel I would probably be like I'd probably say change it I don't know yeah I'm progressive enough to change it who gives it well anyway this thing was snuck in there under her uh under her gut belly people said during the investigation. ESPN reporter Peggy Kuzniewski or something like that said one of the women who was grazed by a bullet and the incident snuck the gun in past metal detectors hiding it in the folds of her belly fat.

Now hold on a minute. Can those detectors not detect through a layer of fatty tissue? It's tougher. And that's why like they say when you go through the security, like they've said like, are you got a metal belt? buckle, put your hand over your belt buckle. If you've got an Apple watch, put your hand over your Apple watch as you go through. And then you have to take those things off. I didn't know that.

I didn't know that interfered with that. I figured it would just get through it all. No, it's still detected, but it comes in, it registers it lower or something. I don't know. I don't know the reason behind it, but. Is that why people put stuff up their hooter and they can get through to security that way, up their butt? I guess so. Yeah.

Wow. All right. That's how Denzel Washington got that hairy guy through security and men on fire. That's right. Where's your C4? I don't know. Don't know where it is. I don't know.

I don't think I don't have any. No, everything's good. All right. Okay. We'll let this one go. That's fine. Final story. Yep.

This is, oh, and the women who got shot are all going to be okay. They were just grazed. Oh, good. This wasn't a, I don't know why you're taking a gun to a damn game, but. A very. sweaty, some very sweaty bullets that saved them. People are sweating bullets, literally, in this case. We got a story that was posted on our Discord by Binary Hermit.

Oh, good. It's just ones and zeros, that hermit. Anyway, I want to thank him for that, and here's the headline. A suspected drunken driver accidentally called 911 on himself. They're always drunk when this happens. This driver accidentally called Nebraska law enforcement on himself, leading to his own arrest, the man called 911 to report another driver who he thought was driving on the wrong side of the highway, according to the Facebook post by the sheriffs. The sheriff's office on Thursday released a video of the March incident along with the audio of the driver's 911 call.

When authorities arrived, it became clear that the caller himself was the one driving on the wrong side of the road and was intoxicated. Here's what he said. Quote, I'm on Highway 77 going north and there is somebody that is on the wrong side of the road. He said in the call, he added that on the other driver almost ran me off the road. That was gnarly, he said. Narly. Narly. Yeah.

Dude, I'm so wasted right now. That was nerly. That was my head. That was like a lot, he is quoted as saying. No, dice. The video then shows an identified driver being pulled over by a police officer. Do you know why I stopped you? Ask the officer?

Yeah, because I was on the wrong side of the road. It's the driver. it's uh it's impossible not to think of uh john candy and steve martin and uh planes trains and automobiles right yeah how does he know which way we're going yeah or how does he know where we're going to me it's so funny to me it's great you're going the wrong way well how does he know how does he freaking know you know all right we're going to take a break and when we come back amy robinson aka red fraggle three will be here it's it's time for read this with amy okay Yeah, but I want to hear about Dragon Car.

I think you'll also hear about that. We got some, in fact, she sent some photos here. We've got DragonCon photos. Oh, very nice. Oh, cool. So we'll take a look at these, too. All that will be after this break with a song, and Brian brought said song. Where do you got?

Yeah, I've got a brand new EP from a band called Cavo, C-A-V-O. Brand-new EP is called The Shakes. It came out September 1st, so Friday. When he was asked about the EP, Andy Heron, vocalists said A lot of these songs for the Shakes EP had been sitting unfinished for a few years. We were writing like crazy back then, and it's amazing finally getting these songs finished and giving them a proper release. Kind of feels like the story of the certain time period of Kavo has finally been told.

Well, cool. Here is the first single from this EP. It's called It Feels the Same. The band is Kavo. If I left you here, if I left you here for a million years, come and find me when it's over. If you need to say what I need to hear, I'll believe it when I'm older. They're always out to find you, always right behind you.

You'll never feel the same, never feel the same. They're always out to get you. They're never going to let you ever feel the same. You'll never feel the same, but you don't need this pain If the sky would fall, would you need it when you'd need it when you're older I never said what I need to say. I wish I was much bolder. They're always out to find you.

Always right behind you. You'll never feel the same. Never feel the same. Always out to get you. They're never going to let you. Ever feel the same. You'll never. feel the same, but you don't need this pain.

It's over There's a reason for the pain There's a moment left for closure Now you'll never feel the same Time to put it all behind you Watch it all just fade away There's a beauty in the silence And you'll never feel the same

Now they're always out to find you, always right behind you, you'll never feel the same, never feel the same, they're always out to get you, they're never going to let you, ever feel the same, you'll never feel the same, and you don't need this pain. You'll never feel the same. Never feel the same. You'll never feel the same. You'll never feel the same. You don't need this pain. mean I returned my last video late. That was the day that Ice Storm came through. I couldn't even get on my driveway. The poop birds.

And we've returned. Who was that one more time? Sure. That's the band Kavo. And a song called feels the same. You'll find it on their brand new EP, which is called The Shake. The shakes. I've had those. Oh, yeah. Who hasn't? I mean...

Who hasn't, Scott? How can you live a life and not say you've had the shakes? Everyone's had them. No, everyone's had the shakes. Oh, I haven't had a good shake, though, in a long time. Oh, stop it now, you. I know. Look, sometimes it's worth farting and spiking your blood sugar.

Just the very tail end of peach season, so go out and get a good yummy peach shake. Oh, that sounds so good. Except don't support that horrible company that... Damn it. Don't do that. Don't do that. Go get one from Arby's. They're fine.

Oh, Arby's. Good Jumoka Shake. Done. Not bad. All right, let's do this little number right here. Where is it? It's right here. One of the things that I enjoy also is reading.

Well, in what feels like a million years, we finally have Amy back with us here for I read this with Amy. And she's, boy, you've been up to a lot since we last spoke. How the heck are you? Oh, yes, good morning, friends. Good morning. I don't know about y'all. I am tired. I'll bet you are, yeah.

I have been up to quite a bit because I sent my oldest off to college. And then the weekend after that was the Tadpool meetup. And then this past weekend was DragonCon. It's a lot. It's a lot. Yeah. So I have told everyone I know, I'm like, don't ask me to do anything on a weekend for like the next month. I will say no.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you got to do that. You need to, you know, these are all fun things that you've been up to, but they can take a toll, you know? You need time to yourself. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It was, it was all really fun.

We had a great time up in Asheville. You know, we played a bunch of board games. We went on that, you know, Brian told you about the crazy bus tour we went on. Oh, it was so good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Brian was able to give you most of the highlights, but yeah, I'll just second that.

It was a really, really good time. I think we're definitely going to keep doing that. We're going to move the dates around a little bit, I think. Maybe give you a little bit more of a breather between that and DragonCon by chance? Yeah, for real. Yeah. You and Chuck were fantastic hosts and drivers and tooling us around everywhere. We really, really appreciate it.

Oh, did you end up riding with him? Did you and Chuck ride? Yeah. I forgot to ask you. Or did you say? Oh, we didn't take the bikes. No. And the good thing, because we really would have had much time to ride.

and the hills the hills just outside of our Airbnb would have been a monster yeah we were nervous about like cars driving up some of those hills like you know little four cylinders we were a little scared they wouldn't make it up there so yeah i can only you guys would have been to walk in the bikes yeah definitely me maybe not chuck in his his studly legs but certainly me well he's very manly that chuck he's he is well yeah very manly version of chuck uh well anyway that's great um how was Dragon Con. I see, I'm looking at some of these photos and I see, uh, ran into, uh, Britney and Bill and, and all them. I did. I did. You sure was Bill and that is a twin brother? Did you check? I ran into both. So I was able to confirm. Yeah, that it was, uh, I, I, I definitely saw Bill because, but yeah, it was, uh, his brother was there. I can't, dressed as, oh, I can't remember everybody had a helmet. Yes. Uh, he took his helmet off. Yeah, they were both. of the teenage

mutant to turtle factor like the security guards for the bad guy whatever he was talking about with the name tags and everything he's been explaining on the show how he's going to do it

and it's still confusing to me but but I think yeah so he was yeah his brother was wearing he had a helmet on he took off his helmet and I was like whoa that's okay right

you have a twin and yeah so the picture you're showing right now Scott we took that especially for you there was there's always these people dressed up in like the inflatable uh terex costumes and such and there was somebody there in like an inflatable kirby just like raving and bouncing around it was the funniest

i wish we had taken video actually the thing is gigantic what a big kirby yeah you got to watch out for him though he'll eat you and then take your powers that's what exactly yeah yeah you have to be very very careful of that so yeah it was it was great um we We had a great time. We always hang out at the puppetry track, mostly. Some of these are ones that Chuck took. Chuck is a big fan of Blade, so he took that photo. I took this, I took that BRAC photo for just for you, Brian.

Yeah, I appreciate it. Full-size BRAC. I'll have, send me, send me a set of those because Scouts are not sharing with me. Oh, got you. Yeah. Oh, I'm looking at the stream. I thought you had the link. Sorry, I can give you this.

No, no, that's all right. Totally right. So, so click on the one with like the green. green skirt and the beehive thing. I want to see if you can guess what what that costume is. The green? The one, okay.

It's like right next to the one with me with Hollow Night. It looks like Marge Simpson. So Margeo. It's not Margeo. It's Margeo. Margeo.

Fantastic. Why is the letter R on there, though? I don't know. I didn't get to ask him that. RGio. But, like, I just thought that was so funny. I was like, because I saw him, the first time I saw him, like, he was on the bridge. Yeah.

And, you know, you're not allowed to take pictures when you're on the sky bridges because there's just too much traffic going through. It's exactly. It's for walking only. Yeah. No stopping. Yeah. Oh, hey, there's three chucks in the bathroom. Tell me about this three chucks thing.

It's like the Spider-Man meme. Are all three named Chuck? Is that the deal? All three of those guys are named Chuck or Charles. Yes. I love that. They're all actually technically named Charles because Chuck is a nickname for Charles. That's true.

So, yep. So now this is a thing. And we got a three Brian's picture like that in Asheville. Oh, that's right. Who's this really tall dude with the cool hair that you're standing next to? Oh, yeah. So those are the cinema therapy guys. So unfortunately, the photo is a little fuzzy.

But yeah, that was like the one kind of sort of famous person. that I was excited to go do is they were, you know, one of my favorite YouTube series is called Cinema Therapy. And they, uh, the tall guy is a filmmaker. His name's Alan C. Right. And the, the guy next to him is, uh, Jonathan Decker. And he is a licensed therapist. And so they watch movies and they kind of, uh, you know, analyze the characters in the movies from a therapy perspective and a filmmaking perspective. And it's a fascinating. I love, I love their web series. It's like one of my favorite things. And so I was very, very excited to, um, both get to see them on a panel and get to, to meet them briefly. And so yeah, that was,

that was a, that was a big fun. That's cool. That's awesome. Fun thing for me. So Chuck was like spraying and praying, you know, just taking all the photos for me. I love that phrase. But I know exactly like click, click, click, click, click, click, click. So one of these comes out click, click, click, click, click, click. Exactly. It's funny. I thought Bill told me he was not bringing his, his, his, his, his Ghostbuster stuff, but there it is. He brought it. Oh, that was. Funny story.

Yeah. So, like, there was like a planned little meetup of folks that are on Bill's Discord. And so he posted, he didn't, like, describe the location. He posted a photo and put like a circle around, you know, oh, this is where we'll be. And I was like, okay, I, the carpet, that's definitely the Marriott. Okay. And I think that's where we are. And so Chuck and I are standing around.

We're kind of looking around and I'm going, okay, okay, I think we're in the right place. And but then we realized it's like, okay, they're going to be in costume. So maybe. And I said, I think Bill is probably bringing his Ghostbusters stuff. And just then Chuck looked over and spotted Britt and he said, well, there's somebody right there with a Ghostbusters outfit that says Duran. Do you think that's it? Probably it. Yes. Yes, that would be it. That would be them. So did you get to, so I always had this question because I know you go all every year. Do you get to just go home at the end of the night or you stay in those hotels? What do you do?

Okay. So because you live out there. You can. I've done it both ways and it's really not worth it to not get a hotel because there's so many things just going on. Plus, if you have a hotel, it's, you know, it's always Labor Day weekend. And so it's very hot here in Atlanta on Labor Day weekend, although I will say, my God, the weather was so beautiful this weekend. It was not too hot. I was just grateful just all weekend long, except like the last day it was a little hotter, but, you know, we're packing up our stuff. We don't care. But yeah, it was like not that hot. But if you get, you know, if you get worn out and you need to go back and take a nap, it's great. It's great to have a hotel room.

I've done it the other way where I would just, you know, kind of come in. And you can't find parking, first of all. Secondly, you know, so you'd have to park at a Mata station, which, you know, that's our pitiful little version of rapid transit. It's not good. Yeah, it's very bad. Our rapid transit is bad. But anyway, so yeah, you'd have to park at a Mata station. and MARTA back in

and then MARTA stops running after a certain point in the night. So if you want to stay and do anything that's after like 1130, you're like running to make sure that you get back to the MARTA station before it closes down at two. And, you know, I mean, it's just...

Yeah, it sounds like I would do that. I would not do that either. That's what I was curious about. It was like, I did this once at a blizzcom, but it was in the form of, not Airbnb, but like a,

what the hell? hell they called. Anyway, time share. That's what I'm trying to say. We stayed in a time share up the street, and that sucked because parking is a nightmare and walking was too far. So it was just far enough to be too far for walking. It would take forever. And driving was no parking ever. And I was like, this is like living here. We don't want to ever do that again. We got to stay in these hotels right in this little area or why are we even coming. So yeah. Yeah. We did, I will say we did stay at like one of the non-official Dragon Con hotels. And it was an aloft hotel.

I don't know if you've ever stayed in one of those. Oh, yeah, I love those. They're quirky. Yeah, they're kind of groovy, you know, they have kind of a neat little artsy vibe to them. And they're lovely. They're clean, you know, and it was just like, maybe like a block and a half away from the Hyatt, which is one of the official hotels.

And it was just far enough away to where, you know, you'd be walking and you'd hear all the din and confusion of Dragon Con and then you'd walk about half a block and it's like, oh, it's quiet, you know, but it was not, it was not too far away to walk. And, you know, like I say, it was quiet. And it was, we didn't have to play as much of the hotel hunger games that everybody has to do every year, you know. I've never been to one of these alofts. I'm looking at pictures and these look rad. I want to go here. Yeah. Yeah. They're neat and quirky. I like them. Yeah, they're trippy. All right. Well, very cool. Sounds like a really good time. Did you have any time to read anything while you were doing all this? I did. I did have time to read.

This is a book that my son actually, he had to read it in advance of his freshman year in college now. And he recommended that I read it. And I did get to send you a clip. I know I said in my messages that I wasn't going to get to and I was able to just quickly send you a clip there. Well, you are awesome. Let me grab it real quick. Make sure we're good on sound. It looks like we are. All right. I'll just play it then. You ready for this? Here we go. The Edge is a shanty town filled with gold seekers. Summer, 1996. At the Coalfield Public Pool, they would blow a whistle and everybody had to get out of the water, and we'd all stand there hopping on one foot and then the other because the concrete was so damn hot, burning the bottoms of our feet. And some lifeguard, barely older than I was, 16, looking like the bad guy in a teen movie, blonde and buff and absolutely never going to save you if you were drowning, would wheel out a greased watermelon. There was a three-inch layer of Vaseline, which made the watermelon shiny, almost like it was

turning from a solid into a liquid. And the lifeguard and one of his evil twins, maybe with crazier muscles and a scuzzy mustache, would dump this watermelon into the water and then push it to the middle of the pool. And when they blew their whistles, the point was to jump into the water and then whoever could get the watermelon to the edge of the pool would win it. That seems weird. Wrestling a greased up watermelon, that's an odd thing to picture in your head. And I feel like that clip just sort of sets up like,

this is how boring summer is in this little bitty pound worship. lives. So, you know, oh, no, that's not me. That is, that is the audiobook narrator who I was going to say, you sound, it sounded a lot like you. Very Amy-esque. Yeah. Let's see, it was narrated by Jennifer Goodwin. Oh, yeah, she was in the show Big Love. She's the, the youngest of the three sister wives. Oh, okay. Cool. We've seen her in a bunch of stuff. Yeah. Okay. Interesting. Okay. So, Yeah, the name of the book is Now is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson. And, you know, it's a young adult novel.

And I think what I felt like, this is just me reading it as the mom, I think what this book is great for is kind of illustrating that when you are that age, everything is a way bigger deal than long term it'll end up to be. so yeah that's just without giving too much of a spoiler that's that's kind of how I felt about about this book the just the the little blurb synopsis there is that basically these two kind of misfit kids make this artistic poster that has a phrase on it that is a little esoteric nobody knows what it means and they start putting up unsigned versions of the poster all around town and at first it's just this kind of cool thing that they're doing and then eventually there starts to be a bit of a panic about it like there's there's some satanic panic going on there's uh you know oh are these these people who are putting up these posters are they kidnappers you know everybody's

freaking out and then there's like a posse that walks around with literal guns and you know we'll shoot people that they catch putting up the posters that kind of thing um and it just becomes a it becomes a much bigger deal than really it was it was just they were just putting up posters they were just dumb kids putting up a graffiti poster uh this this is like that uh the listener um and the the three-d artist i forgot his name the Oh my gosh, Scott. Anyway, guy listens to us. The one I always tell the story about it, he made a UFO and put it up in the air.

Oh, yeah. And everyone believes it. Does that end the trophy for Frankens All-Stars. Yeah, the one right there behind me. And he, I can't think of his name. But anyway, he, the whole thing was that he did it on a lark, and then the whole valley thought it was real. And then HBO conspiracy around the world thought it was real.

So he comes out on the news and says, well, it wasn't real. And they're like, whatever, you're part of the deep. state that says it's real or isn't real. You're just trying to detract us from the realness of it. And he never really did convince anyone that he made it, even though he has the thing in his garage. This reminds me of this a little bit. It's like you plant a thing or you do a thing and then people, you know, maybe it's even more weird now because the internet's very good at something going viral and things aren't exactly what you think they're supposed to be. This seems like a, this seems like a good read. I would like to check it out. Yeah. And I think

that's why it's set in, you know, the 90s is because it had to be before there was the internet because otherwise the, it became really the huge zeitgeist of this little town in Tennessee. But if it, if there had been internet, I can't even imagine how humongous it would have, the, the scale would have been way too big for, for, for a young adult novel, I think. I haven't heard of this guy. Again, it's Kevin Wilson. Kevin Wilson, yeah. He's done a bunch of books. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I was seeing too.

And they all have kind of these long titles like this. Like he's got one that says like something about like, let's pretend this never happened or something like or something like that. Like they're all like a big, they're not like, you know, two word titles. Like they're big, big long entire phrase title. His shortest one is nothing to see here. He's got one called tunneling to the center of the earth. baby you're not going to like it he's really into like really long titles

I guess or no baby you're going to be mine sorry I misread that misread it Das Besti with oh no that's German never mind the German the German versions of the books are even longer it turns out because Germans are weird anyway well this sounds great

this of course is once again now is the time not to panic or sorry now is not the time to panic the time not to panic colon a novel I made it longer without even trying very hard now is the time not to panic Kevin Wilson is the name and it is available everywhere that I went and search for it and it's all over the place so

New York bestseller guy one of these guys so you will not have a hard time finding it Amy anything else going on you want to mention or talk about before you take a little bit of a month long rest from weekend fun yeah yeah so So I have been neglecting my pottery stream because I was prepping for all this ridiculousness that I was doing before.

And frankly, the last two Thursdays, I was not here. So I will be resuming pottery streams. I'll do one on Thursday. And again, I'm going to try and maybe throw some more in there more regularly. I'll let you guys know what that schedule looks like when I actually nail it down. But yeah, for now. Oh, I have a question for you, Brian. This is totally completely unrelated to anything.

I didn't rummage through yours and Chuck's luggage when you guys are sleeping, okay? Only while you're awake. Well, I was missing a few things. But no. Definitely. Just kidding. No. So when you got your sleep study for apnea, did they tell you like how many times you woke up overnight?

Yes. And it was, I don't remember the number, but they said it was one of the highest that they'd ever seen. Yeah. So the doctors, I had a doctor's appointment this morning. Yeah. And like, and that it was for that. It was a follow up for that. And they got back my sleep study, like the one that I did, you know, over 10 years ago.

And he said, yeah, the thing that really struck me about your overnight study was that your brain woke up 148 times. overnight. And I was like, well, no, one day I'm so damn tired all the time. Like, I literally, I mean, do the math. Like, if I'm in bed for eight or nine hours, you know, I mean, that's, that's a ridiculous number. That's over 10 times an hour. I'm never getting more than like six minutes of sleep.

That's a rough average. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know what the average numbers are. I would love to go back and find my sleep study. just see what, what, uh, uh, what number I was at if, if they were saying that I was a pretty high one. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm, I'm fascinated now. And of course, I need to go back and I, they're having me go back and do another sleep study because he thinks I was just completely misdiagnosed with narcolepsy and that it's literally just apnea. I've had the whole time. And, um, you know,

I'll be excited if that'll be the case because I'm like, oh, what must it, what must it be like? What is it like for you normal people who sleep, like, I don't even know. Yeah, I was trying to find an average of what it's supposed to be per night. I can't find anything, but it's basically the consensus scientifically is that everyone wakes up sometimes in the night, even if they don't remember it. Like, that's normal. But I don't think 140's good. It's probably bad.

Yeah. No, yeah. Like my neurologist was like, that's really high. It's like, yeah, it sounds awful. Yeah. Doesn't sound great. All right, Chuck, enough that you're kicking her in the night, all right? That's the problem.

Wake it, Amy up. Yeah, what are you doing over there, Chuck? Anyway. Poor Chuck. He had to suffer between, like, my daughter came with us to DragonCon. And, you know, he said, man, you guys were on, like, a schedule. Like, one of you would make a noise and then the other one would wake up. And then, you know, it was like this cycle all night long.

I was like between these two, you know, because my daughter's in the other bed. And I was on the other side of Chuck. So he was like, oh, my God. I was like between these two women just like mumbling in their sleep all night long. So you need some rest is what's happening here. Lots of naps. That is. Chill out a bunch.

Make Chuck do nice things for you. Yeah, you've earned it. Say, Chuck, after you get back from your bike ride, you make me dinner. Do everything, Chuck. Your job is now to do everything. I mean, that's pretty much the case already. But yeah, I'll tell him you said so. All right.

I hope you enjoy some downtime. don't forget check out our YouTube channel, YouTube.com slash dot or at Redfragel 3. I don't know why I said dot. Forget the dot. At dot colon slash number sign symbol for boron. That's right.

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Cut her off a little bit. Bye. Okay. Brian, we have a follow up that's very important. Oh, thank goodness. Okay. Because I thought, here's the deal. Last week when I thought Juno has always been spelled J-U-N-O.

Yeah. Like the movie and, you know, other forms of Juno. And I thought the city had always been called that. Roman equivalent of Jupiter. Yeah, exactly. And I thought that was just normal and it wasn't until this late time in my life that I was corrected. We had a little fun with that, right? He was like, oh, Scott, what are you doing?

Well, I got a ton of people wrote in, emails, some social networks, or media posts and things saying I hate to admit this out loud but Scott I'm with you I had no idea until you guys talked about it I always thought it was Juno so I thought well okay whatever but then I wanted to hear from somebody who maybe had a little tighter connection to the name

and well I think we found him so he called in there's one correction on what he says that I'll make at the end but let's hear what this caller has to say hey Scott it's Ben from Minnesota I was just listening to TMS 25 15 14 where you miss pronounced Juno Alaska

honestly, how you mispronounce it is actually correct of how a lot of people mispronounce it. Okay, real quick, this is the correction. He doesn't mean mispronounce. He means misspell. He means misspell as opposed to mispronounce. Yeah. So just for, and he knows that. I think he's just saying it without.

It's ironic that he's saying the thing wrong. But anyway, I just wanted to clear that up. All right, here's the rest. Oops, why I want to unpause? That's not good. Here. My last name is Juno. And everyone pronounces it the way you did.

And don't realize that it's the capital of Alaska. So don't feel bad. You're par for the course for the rest of America. So, yeah, you know, J-U-N-E-A-U, don't worry about it, man. Everyone does it. Love the show, though. So I feel a little vindicated, just a little, not entirely, because obviously it's been on maps. It's been in books, like I should know.

It would have been in your entire geography class in school. Yeah, 100%. You're not wrong. And, you know, what excuse do I have for literally being in Juneau last year and not noticing? Right, right, exactly, yes. But I feel a little. better knowing that a whole bunch of people do the same thing. And I think it's probably, when you have the other use case come up here and there,

you lock into the easy one. You just go, well, there's the four-letter one. Right. Juno's four-letter. I'll just do the four-letter juno, sure. There's some kind of psychology at play, and I don't know what it is. Well, and that is what makes it a Mandela effect if a large, if a significant portion of the population does the same thing.

So if you got emails and messages and social media and tons of people saying that they do the same thing, then that qualifies. I have some confirming bias, everyone. I'm in. That confirmation is biased. That's right. That bias is confirmation. That's right. Let's all go to Juneau and celebrate. Anyway, that was great. Thank you for that call. And if you want to call and leave your own corrections, questions, thoughts, comments, you can do that very easily and simply at 801-471.0462. Or you can use that same phone number to send us texts. Those work as well. And if you'd like to email us, the morning stream at gmail.com is the place to do it. it is a brand new month everybody and uh we're excited about a new month why because it means a chance

to bring in more wonderful people into our patreon patreon. patreon.com slash tms is the place and uh by the way so we've mostly got i've heard from almost everybody who was late or had gotten late tea shipments that they finally got them oh good good good good so anybody at those levels got them now if any of you are still straggling and haven't seen that yet please reach out to me and let me know discord email wherever and i'll follow up for you individually and see if we can find out what's going on i think we've got everyone covered though but in case there's somebody still lagging out there uh it's not intentional sometimes we just you know we we were behind on our shipments they're back in stock and now there's just an issue of making sure all of you get caught up so anyway reach out

if you haven't uh seniors and if you're like wait there's a t level yeah there's a whole lot more too go on over there right now and check it out patreon dot com slash tms you'll get couch parties on the weekend, art in the mail, pre-show content every day, no commercials or ads, and other monthly benefits you can only get by joining up today. For sure. I want to design, I want to do some little 3D Chotchke thing for, well, you and I'll have to talk and figure out, like, what level gets stuff in the mail that I can add to it, because I don't want to create a whole new shipment just for a certain level.

But if there's a shipment that's already getting stuff in the mail, I know there is. There definitely is. Then I want to add something to it. That'd be great. Let's do it. Yeah, we don't, we're, we're all about just sending you guys stuff because we like you. It's not even, you know. Yeah, exactly.

We're not, we're not even, we're not going to demand another penny. Brian will just do this nice thing. Sometimes I throw stickers into stuff for the same reason. It's just like, you know what? Exactly. You guys are awesome. You're like family. We want to pay you back.

I will spend my valuable filament money, my resin money on you people. You people. Yep. Hard earned resin money. Hard earned resin money. Speaking of which, there's no speaking of which. That's a bad transition. We're done with the show.

That's it. We've got to play a song to get us out of here. We'll be back tomorrow. Tom Merritt will not be here. I think he's still in. Oh, wow, really? Korea, I could be wrong. He may be back.

That would make sense. I mean, you don't want to go there and just be gone a week. Come on, you got to go there. Yeah, because he only left last Wednesday. So my guess is it's another day or two before he's home. But either way, we may have him, we may not. But either way, we're going to do recommendals and all that other stuff. So come on back for a Wednesday edition of the show.

In the meantime, Brian probably brought a song to play. Would you bring me? Oh, dear. This one's going out to Yana Lasko, who says, Hey, if you're reading this on the 5th of September, I am. It means that I am celebrating my birthday today, together with the ghosts of Freddie Mercury and John Cage. Let's party.

That's a fun company to have a birthday way. It's a great, great combo there. While it would be funny to request you to cover four minutes and 33 seconds, we actually will put that at the very end. end of the show. You'll actually get to hear that. Sure. Maybe this day needs more funk instead, and by Ghaliyana, you brought the funk. Here is

Wolfpack. A band that is apparently made up of a bunch of students from the University of Michigan, I found out. They do these great these great funk songs, and this one happens to be a cover. This is a cover of a song by Maki.

It's called Birds of a Feather. We rock together. Oh, very nice. All right. We'll see you guys tomorrow. Be good. We'll see you Birds of a feather We rock together And if we got a problem We talk together So let's head down south

Escape the bad weather Oh, ooh The rain came Through my tree And washed away So many things Things I couldn't learn Till I went through

things I didn't know till I met you Now I'm learning the hard way Learning the hard way Learning the hard way To be true Now I'm learning the heart away Birds of a feather

We rocked together And if we got a problem We're talking together Oh And sit down silent Escape the bad weather I said a Oh

Oh So the wind We're talking together We've got to Together We've got to talk together So we're down And escape the bad weather

Oh Oh yeah The wind came Through a tree time It blew away So many things Harder than the breeze on which we once flew Farther from the tree where I've met you

So I'm learning the hot away Learning the hot way Learning the hard way Learning the hard way to be true Oh, I'm learning the hard way. Yeah, we put ourselves a feather, we rock together. We forgot a problem, we talk together. You know we're going to talk together.

Tempt down, silent, escape the bed, baby. Oh, ooh. Ooh, we run together and we talk together, and we talk together. So we can't talk together. So we're tent, down, solid, and escape the bed, baby. Oh. Oh, yeah.

tree top and it shone so bright it lit up everything, shown a light of something that was so true. Suddenly I knew the time to have you. I'm learning the hard way, learning the hot way, learning the hot way, learning the hard way to be true. to be true And I'm running the hard away Ooh To have a feather We rock together

If we got a problem Talk together We talk together Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah

Yeah Oh Oh Yeah If we got a problem together Yeah Yeah

Yeah Yeah Oh Roble together If we got together Are you flying

today day Oh, all you're flying today, do you're flying today, today, today, today. Oh, oh, oh, oh, you're flying today. Oh, you're flying today. Today. Get more at frogpant.com. Jill!

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