The Morning Stream - TMS 2523: The Glove Department

Episode Date: September 14, 2023

Church lady tomatoes. Beefsteak Tomatoes are neither Beef nor Steak. DISCUSS! Funyuns, Neither Fun nor Onions. I Said Change My McNuggets, not CHANGE in my McNuggets. Fritos: Not Freedom Toes. MGM Not So Grand. Earthy Moldy Corky. Who has silent Ys? Never knew you needed to pass advanced chemistry to PICK A BLEEPING WINE! Weirdos Always Existed but now they have Platforms. No MGM reservations, No MGM gambling and no MGM Lt. Yar! Domesticated Trash Panda. sauerkraut sweaty yogurt. Bring Back Wasabiiiiiiiii. Goatless with Wendi and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TMS is brought to you daily by the support of our patrons at patreon.com slash TMS, like Jason Questa, Jason Denon, and Jason Lecky. Coming up on TMS, Church Lady Tomatoes. Beefsteak tomatoes are neither beef nor steak. Discuss. Funnions, neither fun nor onions. I said change my McNuggets, not put change in my McNuggets. Fritos, not freedom toes. MGM, not so grand. Earthy, moldy, corky.

Who has silent whys? Never knew you needed to pass advanced chemistry to pick a freaking wine! Weirdos always existed, but now they have platforms. No MGM reservations, no MGM gambling, and no MGM Lieutenant Yard. Domesticated Trash Panda. Sourcrow, sweaty, yogurt. Bring back wasabi! Goatless with Wendy.

And more on this episode of The Morning Stream. It's fall and everyone's getting ready for one. winter. And here to help is Mr. Clean, Procter & Gamble's new all-purpose liquid cleaner. Cause it's time for fall house cleaning. And Mr. Clean is the all-time champ of all kinds of clean. Hey, girlfriend. What's the dilly? Yo. Hello, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for Thursday, September 14th, 2023. I'm Scott. He's Brian. Hello. Hello. Hello. Good morning. Good morning. Thursday. Last day of our normal broadcast week. And we're happy to be here for you guys. You know? Yeah. Yeah. We're here. We got Wendy. We got all the stuff. So just, you know, stick around. We got a great pre-show about how to stop raccoons from dicking around with your stuff. well we hope we do i mean you know we don't know for sure but uh gonna try a couple things and see if i

can get some some raccoon protection for my uh bird buddy bird feeder thing yeah because how can you have any birds if you got those raccoons all the time you know how can you have any birds if you don't eat your meat yeah eat your meat yeah eat your meat but it's the thing with these birds birds are kind of dicks too right but they got nothing on raccoons raccoons are oh gosh no yeah trash pandas yeah that's what they call them i'd love a little domesticated one, but I ain't going to happen. Oh, sure. Yeah, no. Barry, we were talking about this pre-show, too,

but Barry and our listening audience, Barry and Bobby Ann, they both have befriended local. Like eight raccoons that come to their backyard on the regular. Yep, and they've named them and know what they look like. Yeah, all that kind of stuff. That's pretty cool. By the way, did you, you got a voicemail from Barry about wine.

Oh, did I? I hope and you'd play it. Yeah. Oh, I haven't checked my voicemails yesterday. Did they come yesterday? Probably did. he sent us a photo of his wine aroma thing and it says to go with the voicemail so let's see if i can find which voicemail it is because there are many i'm sorry to spring this on you now during the show do you know if it was i know nothing else about it well let's see we'll do a little preview here let's see what we got

okay so this one is this one hey pat brian it's easy nope that's amy let's try this not that we won't play yours amy i'm just these are all just, I'm seeing them raw. Yep. Hey, this is for the morning stream. That's Barry. Oh, it is Barry. Okay.

So I'm going to download that real quick. And he sounds so different over the phone. I swear to God. He does. He's a man of mystery. Okay, so I'm going to just, I'm just going to make this nice and loud so I can hear it. And then I'm going to play it. Okay, save.

All right, here we go. Let's see what Barry had to say. Whoops, hit play. Hey, this is for the morning stream. It's gotten Brian. It's Barry with his wine box. I'm listening to TMS 2519 and your discussion on earthy wines. Wine can definitely have aromas of dirt, white stone, grass, even mushrooms. Brian's right on about how wine can pick up some of these aromas from grapes, barrels, fermentation processes even. I'm sending over the wine aroma wheel through

email so you can look at that. Some of these are really, really weird. Well, anyway, I continue to do copious amounts of research in learning more. Love the show, though, and find out to you in a few days. Awesome. Yeah. Thank you, Barry. That's right. So he sent you a, what's this wheel?

He said both of us a wheel. I'll put a link, or actually, I'll put a copy of it in our Discord chat. And, well, I'll try it to anyway. There we go. It's a 12.35 megabyte image. Plenty. Small for me to grab. Here it is.

Yep. oh yeah look at this holy crap this is like yeah this is serious you guys okay so so this wheel we're going to have to zoom in some here let's see so like for example there is the earthy wines which have a earthy moldy dusty mushroom moldy cork kind of uh aroma to them so we got these categories in the middle it's interesting woody earthy chemical oxidized microbial floral, spicy, fruity

what's that one say herb of I can't read it upside down herbaceous there it is herbaceous vegetalus nutty

you got nutty caramel caramel is a category that's interesting I wouldn't expect of that I wouldn't expect of that hints of honey butterscotch butter soy sauce chocolate

and molasses interesting yeah and so then these branch out. So if you have chemical, for example, you get petroleum, sulfur, and pungent, those all sound bad. Yeah, they do. None of that sounds good. Ooh, it's got hints of tar, plastic, kerosene, and diesel in it. Yeah. Yeah. Can I not have that wine? I think that's ruin them. That's your, that's your last, that's your final straw if you're drinking. You don't want to go, you don't know lower than that. There says something here about a,

where is it, there it is. So on the oxidized side, that's interesting. You got oxidized. or oxidized and then the subcategory is still oxidized and then the flavor is cherry. Cherry. Okay. So how do you know? Not cherry, not cherry, but sherry. Oh, sherry.

I can't read this right. Like a sherry wine. So the rest of this. So it's basically like you start at the middle. Like when you're a beginner onophile, you say, oh, this wine is, it's got kind of a fruity aroma to it or a nutty aroma or whatever. And then as you get better and you start to identify more, you move to the next ring. And you say, oh, wow, this one, I know I would have described this last time as fruity,

but I'm going to narrow it down and say, kind of berry, berry. Barry, yeah. Okay, so here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to start with the microbial. And I'm going to go, oh, this has a very microbial taste. And then I'll say, you know, I've been drinking this wine long enough. I think I'd call it lactic. It's more of a lactic quality.

Right. And then eventually I will have. Biological, by the way. Oh, what did I say? Microbial. You said microbial, yeah. Yeah, words are good for me today. Then I would finally graduate to sauerkraut, sweaty, and yogurt.

I have to choose between those three. Ah, this wine has, I think I'm detecting a little sauerkraut and some sweat, and I think some yogurt in this thing. A little bit of yogurt and sweat. Boy, who doesn't like that with their dinner? Yeah, it's, uh, that's the wine you want. Yeah. And then again, I'd have to stay in this, this cone of fruity. This would hurt, but this is why I'd have to live.

and the caramel the nutty sounds really good walnut hazelnut almond yeah they'll sound good they'll sound all right even the even the herbaceous and vegetative uh you know bell pepper mint yeah green olive black olive artichoke but i would say from uh chemical yeah down through oxidized and then finally with microbiological those are my categories i'm avoiding yeah i'm staying away from about 3.30 to 7 o'clock on that wheel. On the yeasty one, it says Baker's yeast and Leasey? What's Leasy or Leasey? L-E-E-E-E-S-E?

Which thing is that? Oh, that's under microbiological. Baker's yeast and... Leacy? Leasey. Yeah, I don't know what that is. I don't know. That's a, they're going to be a sponsor.

It's a mattress that comes in a box. Okay, good. It's the new leasy. The new leasy mattress. Yeah. You don't buy them. You lease them. lease them. Yeah, they smell that differently so that you get, you know, thrown, but, uh, or it's, you know, it's like flicker or something. But, uh, yeah, they want you to buy. Travis says, uh, that's pronounced like lease. Really interesting. So, well, you say the why, though. Why at the end? Yeah. It's all leasy. Right. And not, not lessee or leesie. Lease. I don't know. How do you not pronounce the, uh, the why? Tvues, Travis. Yeah, you must say the why. The why can't be silent. Who has silent whys? Nobody. Nobody. Nobody has a silent why. Nobody. Nobody has a silent why.

all right i got a few things you go through here we got an email this morning um this is uh who's this from this is from misplaced geek and he says the following greeting scribius and blender scribus sorry what is scribus i don't know is that a i bet that's a app because blender is the other app that oh scribus probably like a writing app yeah yeah it says here on episode 250 sorry 25 21 shot was talking about the onion beef he's been getting from folks in regards to preferring raw onions on burgers and salads. As a member of team raw onions, I truly enjoy the crunch and flavor from the raw onions. My sister typically hands me all her onions and tomatoes when we get together for family outings and salads are involved. I don't need, I'm kind of on a knot. I don't like

tomatoes right now. Now, if you give me a fresh one out of the garden, I'll make it happen. but by itself like kind of where the dominant thing is the tomato not really into it right now don't know why just used to be a huge fan of that these days I'm like I kind of pass or don't put them in my salad or whatever but I'm you know on a burger yeah you know and there I think once you get at the store that you can get for a while like you know like it seems like for half the season you get these tomatoes and there's no flavor to them at all you have to like really salt and pepper them up to uh to enjoy them but

um both of our neighbors and us are growing um a lot of tomatoes and the crazy neighbors are growing these amazing heirloom tomatoes big like weird colored dark reds and and purple's right almost browns and stuff yeah and they are so freaking good you don't even need to put salt on them you don't even need to you don't need to do anything just cut it open and uh eat it and it's fantastic yeah our we have a whole bush of those, but they're not done yet. I guess we're waiting for another week or something for them to ripen, but they're the big purpley. They have a name. These actually have a name, and I don't remember the damn name. Kim Tell says it all the time. Oh, and it's not, and it's not heirloom, it's something different. Maybe it is heirloom. I can't remember. She gave, she told me they

they were called this and that's what, here's what made them different and all that, and then I forgot it immediately. Beef steak, possibly beef steak, tomato, yeah? Maybe. I don't remember. They're really good, But even in those cases, I would prefer them on something, you know, rather than by themselves. Beef steak tomatoes, and neither beef nor steak, discuss. It was a good deep, deep poll from the S&L archives. It was as if Mike Myers was doing Joan Rivers, I think, is what that was. Yeah, there you go. And they are ugly, these tomatoes.

So is Mike Myers. Well, yeah. You can be. He's a little, you know, he's a little scony now. Whatever. Well, no, I'm just saying Mike Myers. is when he's dressed up as Linda Richman doing the coffee talk. It was a little ugly.

No, those tomatoes are ugly because they've got those cracks, like they just come with cracks in them that have like scabbed up. Yeah. But they're so good. That's part of the design. Like, it's so weird. Those are strange tomatoes, but we'll look forward to, you know, eating them. Yeah.

We got another one here from, oh, sorry, he went on to say red onions are my favorite to the point that I've hooked my son on them as well, considering his texture sensitivities as he is on the autism spectrum. I always wondered if he would enjoy them. Now they're a burger requirement right up there with pickles and mustard for him. Keep on crunching. Noms not work. Gentleman, Chris, aka.

Misplace geek. P.S. A as a massive Funnions fan, much to my doctor's dismay, my crunch bias might be on a different scale. Yeah, funnions are neither fun nor onions, but they do taste good. You know? Aren't they like free? freeze dried like um what is there do they are onions they're like uh um but what do they do them it's like like dehydrated something what are they let's see funnions we can find out are they

mostly uh let's see onion flavor extruded okay here's their description i don't like the sound of it already funnions is the brand name of an onion flavored corn extruded snack oh you're right Look that. I thought that they were onion-based. So wait, but they're all different shapes. They're like going to the effort to make different-sized corn extrusions. Well, they're all, are the different shapes? They're just, they're all rings, right? Cornmeal ring-shaped using an extrusion process representing the shape of fried onion rings.

Salt and onion mix gives them their flavor. Son of a bitch. No onions. I thought these were onions. Oh, I'm... All these years later. You know what you were thinking? thinking like I would have thought this until we read this I would have thought

dehydrated onion something yeah yeah because they're in onion shaped rings and why bother making them different sizes and shapes if they're really just cornmeal fed out through a you know tube and turned into a ring oh I'm so I know it's shocking to tell me that pork runs ain't made from pork basically I thought they were the same thing I thought basically not the same thing but I think that's thought the same process whatever they did to the pork to make pork rinds is what they did to the onions to make onions.

Yeah, yeah, and we'd have been wrong. So there you go. Well, you were right. I was wrong. Well, neither you were right. They're neither fun nor onions. I just always felt like whatever I was eating, there was no way a real onion would see it

and say, oh no, my brother, he was turned into food. Like, I don't, they just don't resemble real food at all. But I assume there was some onion, something. Yeah, it's onion flavor. By the way, these were born the year, and I were born, so Funions have been here since 1969. Wow. Here's some fun facts.

They still make the original Funions, but in 2001, it was the first time they branched out into something new, and they made wasabi-flavored funnions for one year. Can't get those anymore. Flaming Hots, though. You can still get Flaming Hot Funnions since 2007 until today. I'm tired of the Flaming.

And chili. Hot is so damn overused. I agree. Chili and Limon or chili, yeah, and Lomone or lemon, uh, 2014 to 2018. So that was a run that's over. And then steakhouse onion. I remember these. We had these once.

Yeah. 2015 to 2018. So right now you can. Guess what? Steakhouse onion? Still freaking cornmeal pushed through an excreter. And now it's just steakhouse onion flavor. Yeah.

Oh, I'm just, I'm, listen, I, I, bring back freaking wasabi. Yeah. That sounds good, doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if you're going to put a fake flavor in there, let's make it something like wasabi. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, no, yeah, I agree. I agree. At least with, like, you know, you get pork rinds. You're getting the rinds of pork, you know? Yeah, exactly. They may not be good for you, but. Is it like they're protected by the fact that it's spelled with a Y? So as someone is not going to say, well, these are onions, it's like a crab with a K.

It's like, well, I thought it was crab, but they spell it with a K, so I know it's fake. Funions, spelled o the Y, so it's not a real onion. Yeah, fun yons. It's so dumb. Okay, TV's Travis. TV's Travis says, you know, Cheetos aren't made of cheese, right? Same thing with funny. Yes.

I did not think for any point of time that Cheetos were freeze-dried cheese. Yeah. I don't think Fritos are freedom toes. Okay. Whatever. I'm objected from lawsuit, Bobby. Like, you know, misrepresentate, flagrant misrepresentation. I guess Funnions has always said onion-flavored rings underneath it.

Has it? Okay. Which says, that's at least according to the logo. It basically just says I've never looked closely at the bag. I just shove them in my face, apparently. We just trust the FDA. We grab them and we eat them. That's what we do.

If you live in Brazil, these are called Cebel. Let's see. Cebolitos. If you want some funnions, just ask for that. Say, I want some flamen hot, Cebelitos. Flamen. Yeah, flamen hot. That's how you want to say.

Sebalitos. Yeah. I just want to see. C-E-B-L-I-T-O-O-T-O-O-T-O. you had that right except for the Sabolitos I want to see what that translates to

in Spanish so hold on a second Here's the pictures These look fine They look like funions But what does it say? So Cebolitos means chives It's Spanish for chives Oh

Do they not do full onions down there? I'm sorry Portuguese Okay Oh yeah Portuguese of course So do they So why not? Hmm, that's interesting. Focus on chives instead of onions.

Probably the same flavor, I'm guessing. Yeah, but there's no chives in there either, so just chive flavoring, lame. All right, that is kind of lame. I'm not really into that. She vase. She vase. All right. Ricky She vase.

Yeah. Favorite British comedian for a lot of people. All right, there's that. Thanks for that email. Got one on social media and money. Check this one out. Rusty Nails 101. We know here, or 102, rather.

He writes in or is in the chat and stuff all the time. Anyway, it says two thoughts that I wanted to share while listening to today's show. Number one, I don't want to be part of the social media is the worst thing ever crowd, but there's a but. Okay. I do feel that social media has given some people, maybe even a lot of people, a very, quote, I am the main character in this life and the rest of you are all extras, unquote, attitude toward the world at large. I'm not sure if it's just correlation, but it feels

to me like the birth of social media and widespread aggravated narcissism have come hand in hand. I think there's something to that, yeah. I think there might be. I think you have to, the way I would look at it would be did those people,

would those people have all been there, they just now, now they have a mechanism to express their narcissism. But would they have been narcissists and you know it's like does the tree make a noise when it falls and nobody's there in the forest or wherever the phrase is sure I think if they already have this within them and and social media just brought it out or or did it change them fundamentally to where they became this right like if you engage in it then you see what it's giving you if you don't engage with it does it affect you at all like does it have any effect in other words you know narcissists in real life that have nothing to do with social media the fact that they now have a bullhorn like everyone else to say whatever they want that's the difference i think yeah yeah now that that is absolutely risen and now they're narcissists with a bullhorn

yeah and so to the rest of us that seems like oh there's more of them well no more of them have access that's the difference i that's what i think i think that there's more good theory too i think it's not that there's more of the problem it's that the problem has way more more exposure than it used to have because we didn't have that. You had the newspaper and you had TV and nobody was on those things. It was very elite few that got to be on TV. That's right. Number two, he says, if you really want to go on the wildest Joey Pants movie

ride of your life, you need to see Robot in the family. Don't look anything up about it. Don't read any reviews or any scores. Dunaway probably has it and his VHS and can send the rest of the film family the copy. I love the show though or as he said Love the Glow Flow

Rusty Nails I've never heard of this Never heard of a robot in the family I've never heard of it either Yeah I um And I look just to see if it was available on streaming But I didn't look anything else up about it But I do love the

Just the title makes me think Oh yeah this is gonna be bad It's gonna be really bad Is it recent is or how old are we talking here No idea It's not available anywhere on streaming So we are gonna have to rely on Brian Dunaway to find it in his

VHS library and make copies from it's 93 it looks like if he's not the if he's not the robot then no sale just kidding I won't look up anything but if we can find this that would be amazing yeah yeah that sounds like crap let's get it for sure oh it sounds horrible yeah real bad um okay there's that uh I got one final email lots emails here lots of emails I like this I like I like hearing from from listeners like to push these out a little bit here's uh will and Austin who says hey stitches and bandages back in 2015, I was given free tickets to see Mad Max Fury Road in IMAX and 3D. Oh, I'll put up the sign. Hold on. There you go, everybody. Zero days.

Reset. Reset. Long story short, the theater was absolutely freezing and the sound was cranked so loud. It was distorted. We complained, but nothing was changed. We weren't the only people complaining. It was a horrible experience. And as a result, it bled over into my opinion of the movie. Fast forward to last week. So some, how many years are we now? It's to eight years later, seven? I thought I'd give it another chance because I had always been a fan of Mad Max franchise before even beyond Thunderdome and I have to tell you and here's the important part rewatching it in my home

with normal temperatures and great sound it was an amazing movie I get it now Will from Austin he also ends by saying Flojo outran the day glow hobo see I'm telling you all whatever your reasons are come back

the flame and watch it again. Tina, you're a D Tina won't. Tina, it was not temperatures. It was not overcranked sound. She just said it just wasn't the movie for her. And if she was there without me, she would have walked out. Yeah, it was, that was true. Some people I went with when I saw it and found it to be revelatory, there were two, three

people with us who were like, I can't even believe them here. Why am I watching this? Wow. Wow. Yeah. Well, it was mostly sister-in-laws, but, and I'm not saying it's all. all women. I'm not saying that. But I will say the movie is very much catered, I think, to instincts of a more man-related

stereotype. Okay? I do think it's geared toward that. So I can understand why I would put off a lot of, you know, people who are maybe a little less into apocalypse and, you know, guns and cars. Of course, yeah. I mean, it is. Yeah, exactly.

If you didn't, if you didn't like any of the previous Mad Max, movies you're probably not going to like this one because it's it's a better version it's the best version of the stuff a lot of stuff you've seen before and a lot of new stuff don't you know a lot of new stuff but uh yeah how does she feel about the old movies she have any opinion on those she uh i think she of all of them probably likes beyond thunderdome most because it it it doesn't feel as like there is just brutal there's brutal violence in all of them

but it seems to be toned down the most in Thunderdome and she just doesn't like seeing like somebody just get beaten for no reason whatsoever like the like the guys do to the little piece knicks with their little refinery

oh there we're yeah the road warrior second movie a little that stuff's rough it is rough yeah Yeah, I don't, you know, again, everybody's going to have a different thing. I don't blame her. She's not wrong, like critically, she's not wrong. Right, of course.

These are overly violent visions of the downfall of humanity in a very extreme way. And that can't be for everyone, you know. No, no, for sure. It's definitely for me, though. Hey, Scott, you know what is for everyone, at least for everyone who's a patron. It's getting refined, but, uh, You want to put me in full screen there, Mr. You are in full screen.

And I'll, let's see, and I'm going to put me in full screen so I can make sure I'm holding this up to the camera right. This is the morning stream fridge magnet. Fridge magnet. Look, it's like a little mug. It's got her heads popping out. Little Scott, little Brian. Yeah.

A little place to put, nope, dropped it. But it's resilient. A little place for me to put some magnets on the back here. I've got to figure out. Also, you've got to figure out the size. I was thinking when I was making this is like, Oh, I'd like to make it about playing card size. I did kind of use that as a reference, and it's close, but the handle kind of takes it out of that.

So I think I might make it a little bit smaller for the shipping version, but I think I might even make it so that it's small enough that there's just two magnet holes in the back. But there's a little me and a little Scott in the cup. Pretty great. What do you guys think of that? that's the one with hair and the one with not that's right yes you can you can

buy it you can paint it or we're figuring out which level of patron is just going to get it automatically in their little their little shipment yeah because we have let's see what's a

what is the level that stuff gets shipped to them like your you know your art and stuff like that I'm checking it right now looks like Okay. The treats in the cup were cookies. They could be. These could be two little pepperage farm cookies in there. Why not?

Yeah. I'm fine with that. I'm a good, that could be a good cookie. All right. So basically anybody who gets, let's see, where is it?

Digital Gugies membership card. Okay. So anybody who is less blue avatar and higher. That's the name of the level. So we have deal. Yeah, we have Deal Me In, sorry, we have Grade A, Deal Me In, Grade A Plus, Less Blue. I don't remember why we called it Less Blue Avatar. Is it named after somebody named Less Blue Avatar? I have no idea why we did that. Anyway, Level 4, sorry Scott does math is what they wrote. Or what I wrote. Let's see. Printish. Let's see. Everything, yeah, you know what? Let's say everything above, less Blue Avatar and above, and you know who you are if you're at that level. We'll get it. That looks like everyone who gets shipped stuff. So, yeah. If you want to get in there, great. And you should, because look how rad that is.

That'd be on your fridge. It's a really, really rad thing. Super rad thing. And my plan is to do these on the regular, not monthly, but fairly regularly little 3D print designs that we can just put in the mail to you. Yeah. Awesome, awesome deal. I love it. Okay. Let's do some news. I mean, look, everyone's at home. going what's going on in the world and we're just sitting here not telling them so now we're going to time for today's news brought to you by brought to you by coverville today a band that i'm kind of surprised in 1460 episodes i've never i've never covered i've never done a true cover story for this band and um one of the lead singers the co-lead singer tommy roland shaw just turned 70 this week and i'm talking about the band sticks Yes, come sail away, lady, too much time on my hands.

Renegade, blue-colored man, all those songs that they did. Do you're doing Dr. Roboto or Mr. Roboto? Mr. Roboto, of course. There's a cover of Mr. Roboto. There may not be one of Lady because every cover I find of Lady. It just sounds like that. But, yeah, no, covers of and by. Really, it's going to be covers of sticks and covers by Tommy Schwarz.

because the dude since leaving sticks or since the breakup of sticks has put out some amazing covers, some of which were in collaboration with Jack Blades from Night Ranger. The two of them developed a little, a friendship, a little collaboration membership kind of thing, and they've been putting out some great music, including an entire album of covers that are really, really good. So, Sticks. Oh, yeah, Sweet Madam Blue, Lorelei. good ones too

They're good Yeah They say yacht rock Well, Luke Sightwalker Hold on I say he's too much I would I would say

That come sail away And Lady are yacht rock But Renegade Totally not Yacht Rock Yeah There's some crossover

There's one of the Greatest rock songs Of all time is Renegade I agree Fight me Yeah No I agree

It's like barracuda Oh mama I can hear you We're calling You're so scared And all alone Jump Hangman is coming down

From the gallows And I don't have Very long Exactly So there's that So anyway Coverville today One p.m.

Mountain Time Twitch. tv slash coverville And I will be playing Some Marvel Snap I've got a fun little One of my plan It's a deck called Surf Punks Must Die

which has Silver Surfer X-23, and I need to destroy X-23 in order to get my silver surfer and absorbing man to their full power. Yeah, of course. Of course. That's what you must do. He's not going to absorb by himself and become greater.

No, that's silly. Absorbing man, absorbing by himself. Crazy. What's this self-absorption bullshit I'm hearing? All right, well, here's your first story. The Coast Guard, you know them. They keep our coasts guarded. I'm familiar.

Yeah, you've heard of their deal. Well, they've arrested a man trying to run a giant hamster wheel across the Atlantic Ocean. Oh. Yeah, yeah. Hamster wheel. Okay. All right. I know, it's a weird description.

Why don't you do a hamster ball? Because that seems like it would be a lot easier. I would do the ball, personally. Maybe it's easier to steer or put on this. Oh, maybe. Straight, whatever. Then you could put, like, little paddly things on each of the rungs of the hamster wheel. Yeah.

In theory, you got more gusto. there but I don't know if in practice actually pretty cool look at that oh we got a photo hold on yeah let's see here oh yeah look at that that's pretty cool that's a bit more that's almost like that who it's a character in um twisted metal that's just a axle yeah axel's his name that's it this is like real life axle that thing is it yeah this does look pretty cool that is pretty cool i would i would love going because then you you know you're caged in you don't have to worry about sharks or anything look at that thing that's pretty thing cool yeah that's It's pretty rad.

It says here, tries he might. His name is Reza Balucci. Cannot reach his destination without running a foul of the U.S. Coast Guard. The key problem is his vessel, a giant floating hamster wheel made of buoys and wire, self-propelled by Baloochie running inside. Belushi who lives in Florida after being granted asylum from Iran was taken to the Coast Guard last week aboard the vessel or his vessel, following several days of back and forth with the authorities. Let's see, I'm going to skip ahead there.

He told officers his destination was London, England, more than 4,000 miles away. He was asked for the vehicle's registration. He said it was registered in Florida, but he couldn't find the registration. I didn't know you could do that. Like, register a weird boat that isn't a boat. I know, I can't license and registration, please? I guess it makes sense. It just seems an odd thing to ask them.

By the way, that kind of reminds me some really quick. yesterday I went to I got my nose waxed prior to my trip to Las Vegas got to be able to breathe and while I was waiting there was a shift change at the wax center and the woman coming in

the new receptionist coming and said oh I'm sorry I'm a little bit late my boyfriend and I bought a new Tesla and I'm just trying to figure everything out I can't understand how this thing works and everything operates via the screen but I can't even open the glove department well no the glove department the glove department I love that

That's something band should say. It's like four-year-olds. That's what four-year-olds do. Not a full-grown adults. All right, here's a fun story for you. Yeah. Unless you're the person who found these. It's really no fun for anyone, really.

No, I don't think this is all that fun. Family has discovered pennies inside their local McDonald's chicken nuggets. Yep, bite it into a nugget, find a penny. Family game turned scary night when the people there, pennies inside a couple of local McDonald's chicken nuggets. Wintersville police. Let's see, where is this? Trying to find out where Wintersville is.

Can't tell. Anyway, we're dispatched to this McDonald's at about 8 p.m. that night and took a statement from a customer about finding change slash pennies inside their chicken nugget. They found three pennies inside of their food. Management was made aware of it. We've made the case on it. We're continuing to look into it. Management is also looking into it as well.

says the Wintersville PD. It looks like Kentucky, by the way, is where this is. Okay, Wintersville, Kentucky. Oh, no, I'm sorry. Jefferson County, Ohio. Well, the page came up and promoted Kentucky Board of Tourism. But yeah, this is Jefferson County, Ohio. Okay, so we're in Ohio now.

She says, the lady says when her family found the money, we looked at it, we looked at it and thought it was fine. But then when they broke it open, they could see this brown object inside. of it looked like a penny. I don't know why this is her voice. That's what I'm doing. She says she returned the meat to McDonald's where management was notified. Quote, this is no reflection on our local McDonald's. This appears to be manufacturing. She says. Well, yeah, because. Why did they break open? There's a little question mark, a little asterisk or something. Why are they breaking open the chicken nuggets before they eat them? Yeah, because she says when we broke them open as if that's normal procedure.

Yeah, as opposed to just dipping and biting the damn thing. I mean, you know, I'm a little, just because you've heard all these stories about somebody saying, oh, I found a mouse in my beer. Yeah, that was Bob and Doug McKenzie, I know. But still, you know, you want, you know, we want to make sure that this is on the up and up. So I wonder if there's something they could do to test the penny to see if it went through the deep frying process. Yeah, because you've got to prove this stuff out before you lay claims like this. And McDonald's will probably demand something like that because you're not going to disrupt all your manufacturing and shipping and suddenly recall everything because one lady made a claim that you can't confirm.

Right. So you're totally right about that. But I would think if you got the nugget and there were pennies embedded in it, you might have found one of the nuggets with like a ridge showing or something weird like that. And then you maybe break it up. But if she's just straight breaking them up, there's only two excuses for breaking up your nuggies. All right? Number one, you got a little kid in the family, little baby kid who you got to like get a little piece to so they don't choke. That's possible?

Yep. Could be the thing. Number two, there is no number two. You don't break up your nuggets. All right? Right, exactly. Number two, end of list. End of list.

End of line. All right. That's how it works. Anyway, good luck to them and their nugget coin problem. Oh my God. Shodjo says there were staples in my rolled tacos. I'm never eating at Roberto's again. Weird thing.

I went to Staples and there were tacos in my reams of paper. Weird. I'm never going to staples again, yeah. Nah, I can't, I can't be having my, I can't have paper of tacos in it. I mean, come on. That's right, exactly. Staples, though, let's talk about that for a second. What were they using staples for that would have somehow migrated to your tacos?

That sounds horrible. It does sound like, yeah, that's somebody just bringing in a stapler. Yeah, and as a kid who used to put everything in his mouth, and I was about age eight or nine, I put a staple in my mouth. and it got lodged into the roof of my mouth. And they had to take, yeah, they had to take me to the hospital to have some doctor yank it out. Oh, that is so horrendous. Yeah, so if they are putting those in tacos, I can tell you firsthand, that thing will, those are bad.

Shoot. I may have even gotten like a tetanus shot from it or something, something. I got some kind of shot. You probably would have had to, yeah, that is absolutely horrendous. Yeah, I think that was the last time I did that because at seven, I choked on babysitter money. Do they use different kinds of money than other people? Well, my dad put, I just remember it was for the babysitter who was watching us. I'm like seven.

It's one of my earliest memories. And he puts the money on the counter. Back then, you could pay in quarters. Yeah, right. And it was probably a buck 50 in quarters. And I went over there and promptly put two of those quarters of my mouth and choked so bad. Oh, geez. They almost called nine one, you know, had an ambulance come because I wasn't horking the thing.

I finally coughed it up. But I think my final lesson was that staple. I think that's what did it. Yeah. I was like, putting stuff in your mouth, Scott. Yeah, I was weird that way as a kid. I put everything in my mouth.

And my kids were all different. Taylor would eat any kind of, she saw a plant, rubber, reel, didn't matter. Grab a leaf and start gnaw away on it when she was little. Carter, none of that. Nick, Nick a mix of it. It's like,

oh really? So Nick got some of the Taylor. A little bit, yeah. But then he got hand, hand, foot, mouth once or whatever that's called, the infection that like gets all, sores in your mouth and all that stuff anyway he got that at about age

four or five or six or something and that was the last he stopped doing it after that too so I don't know that's life man you got to learn you got to learn the hard way and then you try to do better next time that's what I say do you see this alien corpse bull crap in Mexico at all no no

oh Brian you've been missing out so check this out apparently I've not been watching the right news alien corpses shown to Congress and this headline is super misleading because it's Mexican Congress. Not that it's a bad thing. I'm just saying they're trying to make it sound like we did it here. We didn't do it here. So thanks independent.co.uk. Anyway, shown in the Mexican Congress as UFO expert forced to testify under oath. He claims, and if you'll have a peek at them pictures there, Brian, he claims those are aliens.

And I know what they are, which is bullshit. Yes, exactly. I'm looking at them right now. Look at these stupid, stupid things. There are people who are fully in on this. There are people are totally buying it. Oh, stupid ad blocker. Hold on. I know. Don't show on this page. Okay, that's fine.

I don't care. Oh, this is horrendous, by the way. The Independent. Co. UK. Geez. Yeah, it's bad. Okay, there's a shot of it laying there. Somebody made really bad clay.

They claim they're 2,000 years old. Yeah. They claim they have X-ray evidence of the internals. they're like little like you could just about see the little finger the fingers that they use to shape the clay almost see the little fingerprints in the in the clay yeah this is like sixth grade bullshit for real yeah these these x-rays they showed metal objects and eggs inside these things uh-huh it's all bull crap the whole thing complete garbage did any pennies inside was i no pennies that i know of clay et no but there is some metal some metal objects so you're not far from that yeah okay um the the the

The amount or the number of people I've seen on YouTube, TikTok, and a couple other places who seem to genuinely believe this is legit is staggering to me. Now, once again, I think those weirdos always existed, but now they have platforms. No, exactly. Oh, I like that they have a little humidity monitor, a little humidity sensor in the, wouldn't the giant wooden bassinet they've created for this. Yep. And these things are like, what, 12-inch action figures, basically?

they're small give me a break these are not like this long head little tiny face at the end oh my gosh it's just it's just as soon as i saw it i went really and then i heard it was like under oath in a in another country's you know highest levels of whatever and i'm like what are we doing who over there went oh get him in here we got to see we got to do this gosh dang it man i could have made the hair i got some plasticine right over here you know what's a better model this two man guy this two this lots of name spray that with a little a little brown and uh put it in a little hand carved wood whisper bassinet and you're all set such such horseshit i don't know who actually benefits from this though if it's just a big long con troll move or is somebody is there

money on the line is it just to rile people up i don't know why you would do it and be so fake yeah whatever uh brian you're still going to vegas but uh despite all of the efforts MGM's trying to make, and I'm really glad you're not one of their properties. I am so glad we're not staying at MGM, yeah. They're still down, although this morning there may be an update. I hear three-fifths of the fake spice girls we're going to see are non-operational. So it's just going to be the fake baby and the fake sporty.

Oh, good. Thank goodness, because that really gives me relief. I'm going to see if it's changed. I don't think there's been an update this morning. Yeah, they're still. dang still down that's tough like once they've got a little tunnel into your firewall um it's hard to get rid of it without just doing a complete

wipe and reinstall kind of thing i mean i know it's it's a lot more complicated than well i'm just gonna erase my hard drive and reinstall windows kind of thing but yeah especially when you got yeah and you got you got Vegas a half you own half or more of the strip on Vegas, pretty much. You own stuff on the Atlantic City side of things. You own stuff down in Biloxi. Like MGM resorts are all over the effing place and they're all tied into the same system. And here's the worst part, Brian. This wasn't some genius programming hack. This was somebody who got on LinkedIn, found someone who worked at MGM resorts in some position of relative note, not high management, but somebody in there. Then they call MGM, one of the

GM places and say they can't find their access to anything. Can I please get that? And the lady on the phone there had access to whatever that was. That's how they got it. It's pure manipulation of dumb people. That's it. You know, boy,

heists in movies are so, like, they really lead you to believe that things are way more secure than they really are. It's like, um, hi. I, yeah, could you turn off the security system for a little bit so I can get in and retrieve my password for my players club reward oh sure no problem let me know all right i've got

a security system shut down let me know when you're done yeah it's crazy right it's just insane to me how how the photos like i saw a photo an aerial photo because you know in the in the in the in the luxor you can go way up toward the tip in one of your rooms up high and you can kind of lean down and see the entire base of that thing and there was the thousand people in a line and turn styles just wrapped around the casino inside and outside just getting people checked in checked out oh my god they had to manually do it they have to manually do everything so the fact that you're going to the plaza is like a godsend dude exactly nobody like they're a one and done like they are a one horse uh company you can't you can't get into the plaza and then get access to 18 other

other resorts i don't think anyone's going to touch it yeah exactly why would you uh this i mean and and there's no way, even if it's like suddenly this morning they go, we've solved it, everything's back to normal. It won't be for a while. I wouldn't trust it. Yeah. Because you're going to have to, it's just nothing that's, at that scale is that easy. Yeah. But these

guys are already in trouble because of those 20, was 10 million, whatever it was, patron info that was leaked in 2020. Oh, really? I don't know if you're part of that. Oh, yes. Right, right, right. Yeah, I probably was, but again, all they, you know, the worst thing they could do is probably add to my players club.

account because there's so little in there that they're not going to be able to get much out of it did they not have car i wonder if they had card credit cards and all that crap i don't know if any of that was involved or not none of that's stored i don't store that stuff in in um in those accounts there's a couple places online where you know where oh save my credit card for future purchase i mean i guess i guess just using a credit card with m life would do even if you don't store it in there they probably have record of it but yeah because they have transactional records i don't know if that true yeah certainly all that stuff certainly could but you would have been if you were a part of an yeah I would have heard now right because it's been I mean that's three years ago yeah um all right

let's see we got we got we get this one here uh oh no that was our last story that was our last story I thought I had another story why did I think I had another story so here's where here's where I guess we'll find out if things are working because you know like you say we do have the the tickets to the spice girls tribute concert. And that is at the Luxor. I got to double check that, but maybe it might be at Excalibur. Oh, the lines there look bad too. That lines all through. Yeah, I mean, whatever it is, it's going to be bad because it's all MGM. But that's the thing. Like, we'll need to go there to do our ticket, you know, get through the ticketing thing. And if that's not automated and

working, then, yeah, I guess I print out. I think that's a smart thing. Instead of using digital where they have to scan it I think I'll print tickets although they still have to scan it it's still a QR code on their side yeah they still they still have to manually feed you through to the to the venue

but maybe they'll have that I mean we're talking how many days they got they have a few days to get this four days five days yeah and they've already been at it for three so if I'd guess your some solution is in place by Monday Tuesday I would hope so

and for some there's something going on with the big dome thing, the big projection dome with Darren Aronofsky, I guess. He's showing, because I didn't know this, but inside of that ball, that new big ball. The MSG sphere. Is the world's largest projectable film screen.

Oh, really? So in addition to like the monitors, like the LC or LED or whatever they are, screens inside that they actually can do projection as well? On the inside. So like for, you you could have films there, or big events or whatever, he's, so Aaronovsky is doing some demo there to show that off.

And it's also the first time anyone's been inside or seen the inside. So it's like some big deal. I don't know if you're even going to get to go near that, but that would be the coolest thing to see. Oh, yeah. No, I don't see. We're going to, we're going to go and watch it for a while. We've, we're figured out like where we're going to be able to watch it, but we're not going to, um, uh, we're not going to, there's no way to get in there yet because it's, uh, It's still under construction as far as I know. Sure. So here's the official info.

Director at Darren Aronofsky teases MSG sphere's first immersive experience with an exclusive inside look. Let's see. It's being in attention. Then it's a club. Oscar nominated director, Aronovsky posted the exclusive first look

for a video made inside of his, or inside the sphere on his Instagram. Let's see. Tuesday's video shows the breathtaking view of the 16,000 square foot display pane that will be used for immersive experiences. So this is an indoor part of it. So you think that outdoor screen's cool.

Why don't you get in there and look at the inside bullshit going on? If you haven't seen it yet, there's somebody did a video walkthrough with Bono in the Edge and showed the inside and talked about what, like they did renderings of what things are going to look like. So now you can actually see apparently this Aronovsky thing, see it in actual. Oh my gosh, look at that thing. Is that real? Okay, there's video. Give me a link.

Giving you a link. Hold on here. Linky, linky. Uh, oh, it's just on, it's in the, it's in the news story link. I'll give it to you anyway. Oh, okay. I didn't realize it until just now. Oh, it's in the MSN?

Oh, yeah, that MSN, like. Oh, really? Yeah, just scroll down a bit and you'll see Aaronowski's video, but this is hard to see. It's a vertical video, so it's a little hard to get a wide shot on this, but that screen goes from the edges of the it's edge to edge that's just crazy

that is crazy like it's almost 360 degrees and oh my god look at that thing we gotta go into that dude yeah that's where TMS Vegas

we'll do our live show do it the Mario Kart tournament on that screen oh my lord exactly yeah that's really cool and very expensive

anyway hopefully they make their money back We're going to take a break when we come back. My sister Wendy will be here. We got a little bit of a follow-up from a recent experience, yeah, that we did here on the show. So we're going to address that all after this song. What do you got? You know, it's not very often that I do songs with lyrics in a foreign language for our Indian in the middle. But dang it, this thing is so cool I had to.

It's got such a cool, like, New Wave vibe to it. And it's a band called Brattie, B-R-A-T-T-Y. The New Wave Leading pop track is the latest single. from there, Trace, TR3S, which comes out November 3rd, November Trace, via Universal Music, Mexico. This is the brand new single of it. It's being described as bedroom pop, and it's really, really good. Here's Brady, and yeah no is lo miso. I don't want to be

You know me I'm sorry, as well as I'm free and no me want to be to be And so I don't want to you to damage the silence me is

talking and I don't want to hear that no is the same you, not is the same to be with you without you. You not is the same, you not is the same, you not is the same, to be with you, without you.

You know, you You me elevas and me you let's care I'm I'm going to play So I see, so that's all right I don't want to

I'm going to I don't able to If something is out of tell you can't not just me

you make culable that not is the no no is the not

to be to be without you I'm not the same, I don't is the same, I'm not the same to be with you,

without you. If we're still we're still we're at a time of memorand I'll, say, how to salvage what I know there. I'm not the same I know is the same

I'm not the same to be with you without you I'm not I'm not the same I'm not the same to be with you, without you.

Yellow brand gelatin, like jammed the wit of Albuquerque. Oh, finally. Starting to grow mushrooms out my ass. There's an image. And we're returned. I need backup info on that song. I'll tell you again just to make sure it comes through clearly. That is the band Braddy from their upcoming album,

Tris with the song Yano is lo miso And what language is that again? I don't know what she's saying, Spanish I don't know what she's saying, but boy, is it cool. Sounds cool, I think, I don't know. What do I know about these things? I don't know nothing.

I know Wendy's coming in though, so let's get her in and get that going. It's been a week, so let's talk to her again. Boy, has it? Boy, has it been a week? Boy, has it been one of those weeks? All right, here we go. Where's her thing? I'll explain the situation to Wendy.

Don't worry. Oh, look who it is. It's Wendy Dunford. My sister, who lives in Minnesota now, but boy, you can just feel her everywhere, you know? Just her influence, far and wide, your influence. You can, you totally can. You know, people, we get emails all the time. Wendy changed my life.

Wendy did this. Oh, that's so sweet. I got one yesterday. It says, listen to what she says, and how could you ever chase her with a soldering iron? I actually got me an email about that. It's hard to believe. It's a shock. Protect me at all costs.

Yeah. Yeah. Save Wendy, save the world. Hey, Wendy from her brother. That's right. I should say, though, I appreciate now the level of, like, the good-natured level of torture you put me through. Because I just, it's hard to get my goat. I don't have a goat.

Yeah. Your goat is sufficiently, you know, your goat is freaked out. Your goat does not want anything. else. In fact, I have noticed something when people are teasing with me I like them more. I think they like me more. It's kind of a problem. Like, oh, no, you really hate me? Oh, shoot.

I thought we were friends because you were teasing me. Yeah. Yeah, a good tease can go either way, right? In either direction. You wonder why it's happening. But I'm like, oh, that's the love language in my house growing up. Yeah, that's how it worked. Everyone liked everybody growing up, but we sure teased each other a lot.

Anyway, well, it's good day. have you here. We're going to, so today's a little different. And, you know, for those new to this segment, Wendy's a actual therapist. And we did a thing, a run of, I don't know what it was, three or four episodes. Three episode story arc. That's right. And it was all about roommate in your head and all this stuff. And we got kind of a follow up on that. But it also, I think, put into perspective what I think some people going through the process may have felt at the end of it, like it just didn't go far enough for them. Anyway, well, I'll read it and it'll make sense, and we can try to parse this out. So we got one from someone

we'll call B. And B says, I've never had a support system of my friends or family. As I grow older, I wish I did more and more. Every interaction with someone in my peer group is lousy with an inner voice warning me that everything I have ever done to connect with someone has failed because I'm flawed, broken, and unlikable. I've been engaging with the voice more and more, or sorry, I've been engaging with that voice for more than a decade. I talked to it and try to manage it, speaking of his internal roommate. In the same way Wendy describes, and that helps, but the situation doesn't change. So it's a cycle of maintenance, reassuring the voice that even if I'm fairly unlikable,

other people are too, and I should just be myself and keep trying. Thanks for the show, B. Yeah, I wondered about this. It's like anything, really, if you say to somebody, oh, my Bersaitis went away when I walked upstairs twice a day and you go, and then you go try it. Bursitis goes nowhere or it worked for a second but it wasn't enough because like you've always said on here at least I think I'm paraphrasing but you know everybody's different there is no standard single band-aid for any of this any more than there's a single band-aid for cuts and bruises right

like variety and and you need more help and they need less help and we're catering the need that you have you know we have to cater our care for you and that sort of thing um so it seems like it would be an interesting thing to visit and just maybe go further on how people like be can can more either more more more better internalize this stuff more better see what I did yeah what do you think called no better yeah more better sorry I really appreciate them writing in that's it it's a really helpful perspective because I think um especially when something seems to go easily for someone else or maybe it feels like everyone else,

like everyone else knows how to do this. I feel that way sometimes about dressing myself. Like, who took a class and like knows how to do this at every stage of life through decades of changing fashion? Like, I don't like it. And I'm not good at it. And when I look around and see people good at, I'm like, what did you do that? You know, it just feels like it's a skill, it's an ability, someone else has,

and then maybe everyone has it. And then, you know, you go to a certain place and you're like, nah, nobody knows how to dress. So that helps. But that's like a really common feeling that people can have when they maybe feel lonely. Now, I'm telling you right now, this is so ubiquitous. I will talk to people who you would assume had a million friends and connections and surrounded by family and loved ones. And you're like, oh, yeah. And they feel totally lonely or feel disconnected or feel something.

So again, we don't know the real story behind anybody, which is why we really just should just choose niceness every time because we don't know. But what this person is describing is that sort of I have this experience as I try to connect. I know I want to connect. I have interest in being closer to other people than I currently am. And when I do it, there's a particular thing that happens. And that is what makes us all very much. the same is that for someone who connects easily with others and just this is not the thorn in their side right we talked about thorns in the last couple episodes ago um that's not their

thorn then um you might be watching them and just like can't hardly believe it well i'm going to tell right now they don't have a voice in their head telling them they're going to screw this up that they have a voice in their head telling them they're going to do something else some other place it's going to be somewhere different right but i think that that as humans we look at each other as models and guides for, like, how things operate. And so when you're watching it happen easily for someone else, there is a fundamental difference maybe that's happening. It also could be that they're faking it or they do have that voice and they're overriding

that voice. Like, it's, we don't know, right? Unless we really stop and check with everyone what's going on. So, for example, so Brian, tell me, I'm going to ask you to help illustrate this for a minute. Sure. Okay. You're a very nice, friendly social guy. you go talk to bartenders randomly.

We know this about you. I do, yes. Yeah. Okay. Do you have any sort of inner roommate or inner voice sort of telling you to hedge your bets when you're interacting with people? Like, is there any noise going on in there when you're socializing? Hedge my bets how?

Like, you know, to protect myself basically from getting hurt kind of thing. Yeah. Not really. I feel like I probably run that risk without any sort of safety net, just putting myself out there. I mean, I don't think I share anything that could come back as something that, you know, they could use to hurt me like, oh, you know, you really like the spice girls? God, what a whack job you are.

Yeah, super vulnerable in these moments. I don't make myself super vulnerable, but I feel like I do share enough stuff that it's like I go right up to that, that fence or that wall or something that's, that still gives a lot of myself to the other person, but doesn't give them enough to where they can bend it and point it back against me kind of thing. Got it. And there's no, but there's no soundtrack in there. No, no, no, no roommate in my head that's saying, oh, don't tell them about that, Brian. Don't tell, don't mention that. Oh, it's going to be. trouble kind of thing or they're not going to like you if you just strike up a conversation with

them or you know nothing like that you don't have any of that going on okay so i want the i want the emailer to hear that right here is brian as we all know we all want brian's inner world right it is it is like uh it's got the the smurfs running around singing 24 hours a day you're emmon on the lego movie there's just nothing happening in there yeah no that's that No, but in this context, like, they're really, it's very peaceful in Brian's inner world. Yes, exactly. And this emailer does not have that experience. There is literally a voice.

Now, imagine, Brian, if I was behind you or you had, ooh, I know, you had like a thing in your ear and I was in another group with a microphone. And I was like, okay, Brian, you've got to really think hard about what you're about to say because this could go really badly. And then people won't love you. Right. Or you might get rejected so hard right now. like imagine how that would mess your mojo, right? The fear really is not, it's less, it's more about, um, less about somebody being mad at me and some,

and me ruining somebody's day, saying something that just, that they take with them past our interaction and, like, I was thinking about this today is that, that I, you know, through this show and through whatever I do, I, I try to radiate positivity and,

And it's my own way of saying, well, the world sucks, and no one's ever going to have the authority to say, all right, everybody, stop sucking. You just have to kind of like stop sucking yourself. Let me rephrase that. You just have to start being a positive influence yourself and hope that it rubs off on other, rubs up on other people, maybe not the right way either. It's going great. But you're fine, Brian. No one's thinking these things.

I don't know. Well, not until I draw attention to them. But, like, if I get somebody in my lift in my car as I'm ride sharing. and just saying, hey, how are you doing it in? And I'm like, okay. I'm like, oh, well, that wasn't very believable. We have eight minutes till I get you to the coffee bean and tea leaf emporium. Tell me what's going on.

Like, it's me joking around with them and trying to just brighten their days so that they go off and maybe radiate a little bit of that themselves. Because I feel like just like any radiation, the more you transfer it to anybody, the more it dissipates over time. So you have to create, you have to make people create their own. radiation. So I'm radiating that to somebody else and hoping to create their own little chemical reaction for themselves so that they can kind of radiate out to other people and hopefully make a little small community a better place. I always have the emailer to hear that Brian gives himself a job every time he interacts with

people. And I don't even think that I'm doing it. Like it didn't dawn on me that I was doing it until today and like I was thinking to myself, you know, what if I just instead of lifting started doing the streaming thing? more and doing that daily at the times that I would normally be lifting. And it's like, no, I kind of like this, you know, seeing if I can brighten a stranger's day kind of thing. Yeah. That's awesome.

Okay. I'm not really the nice guy that I make myself sound. You're using, you are an emotional vampire. We got it. Yes, exactly. So this person is like having really opposite thoughts or, right? And so you can imagine if you had the thoughts that Brian has about. about people that, you know, you have a purpose with people.

You have like, there's a connection you're making. You probably get energy from that. There's lots of good things happening there. So it's just easy to be your friend. It's easy to connect with you because you're doing a lot of the heavy lifting of a social interaction and it's not heavy lifting for you. It's just connection, right? Which is great.

And for other people might be looking around going, oh, man, everyone's got this ability. And really, it might just be brilliant. But there's a few people out there, right? But most people find small talk hard. Most people have, you know, a varying degree of their interest in other people or not, right? Like everyone's on different spectrums here. But I hear this and I hear that something happened to you, something maybe, you know, underneath happened for a long time. It could be a one-time thing.

I don't know. It's something happened to this emailer that there's that voice protecting them from. from getting too close to anyone. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And it may be the most obvious thing is usually not the main thing. Sometimes it is. And this is my experience when I work with somebody is I'll ask those questions like,

okay, so, you know, does this relate to anything you've been through before? And they'll have like the story. They'll either say like, no, not really. Or they'll say, oh, well, one time and it kind of hits. And then I can keep directing them a little. And eventually we find a story that they haven't thought about. about in years that, I mean, it's so on the nose. You're like, oh, you never thought of it.

And it's because that's not how our brains work. They don't hold up that here's the really obvious reason. I have this trauma. Sometimes they will be. Or ignore it or whatever. Yeah. But especially these social ones. These social ones tend to be cumulative over a lifespan.

You have people react to you a certain way. That feedback loop starts to build the stories inside of you of how the world thinks of you or treats you. And so that whole dynamic, this is why bullying or, you know, treating anyone as an other is so painful and difficult because they start to build a script

and that roommate gets going about who I am and who wants to be with me and who wants to talk to me or not. And then we start sort of acting in ways that unfortunately fulfill that same prophecy. So if we all take the microphone in our air situation, we walk into a social situation, And what were the words exactly?

Oh, it says, I try it. Here we go. Situation doesn't change. Reassuring voice that even if I'm fairly unlikable, other people are too. I know it says he says he's trying to. That's when he's trying to. So where's the part of the beginning, I guess? Every interaction I have with somebody is lousy.

Oh, here he goes. With an inner voice warning me that everything I have ever done to connect with someone has failed because I'm flawed, broken, and unlikable. Yeah. there we go flawed broken and unlikable you don't just feel that way or have a roommate spontaneously generate yeah no is it seems like it seems like this sort of thing is normal for per one-on-ones that you've had and now you've got a record of like for example when I go let's use an example for my family we have an extended family issue let's call

it that way on Kim's side of the family where anytime and this isn't just me anybody in the family, when they need to visit Kim's mom, they all go in going, oh, she's going to lecture me today, oh, she's going to judge this, oh, she's going to, but we all have that. Every one of us is sure how this interaction is going to go, and it's going to be judgmental and annoying, and it's going to suck. But we don't immediately go, all right, now, that's over with. I'm now going down the street to talk to the guy who's fixing my car. I expect him to be judgmental and condescending. You know, like, we don't carry it on to other people, especially strangers. We just have these specific things.

You know, like I know when I'm going to go see John that we're going to, we're all bracing for a Johnism to happen. You know, whatever it may be, we just know it's probably going to happen. We don't know when, but it will. And everyone's got these dynamics with specific people. It seems like the problem is when you do it long enough or around it long enough that the script is it's everyone, not just that person that you get all in bundles about. it's the other it's anyone else you may have a perfectly pleasant time with but you can't get over the template it's you've applied it to everybody you're going to meet i mean that's the difference right and i'm making a big leap here because i don't know the story but that sounds like a very

fundamental maybe parent wound right that your interactions with your own with your initial caregivers can have an impact of feeling broken unwanted unlovable yeah yeah if if it's everyone around you, right? Like when it's one person and it's a one-off, that's usually just because it's a personality conflict, right? Right. But if everyone you believe thinks you're broken, that's probably started pretty young.

And that usually means, you know, some kind of peer traumatic thing at a younger age or a fundamental family sort of response to someone. Because again, I mean, we talked about this, I mean, maybe on and off for the last 12 years, but, you know, the mirror that is held up to a child is the face of a parent, the face of caregivers, the face of teachers, the face of other students in school or whatever. And that reflects back to you how you are, even though that

person has their own issue, that person has their own agenda, that person has their own problems and that their inability to sort of show love or connection isn't all just a one-way street. But it can really feel like you're broken because why are they treating me this way? So I hear all of this, and I mean, number one, I have a really, you know, plithy, pithy, Aunt Piffy, Piffy answer. I'm going to start calling you Aunt Piffy. Yeah, just for fun. So weird. Anyway, answer to what to do next.

But I think I would say at its core sort of figuring out how to, and this is why therapy, and again, I'm, you know, telling them we go to therapy, is that you're practicing. a relationship with a person, right? Like, I have a relationship with every one of my clients. I have particular roles. There's boundaries. It's one hour a week. It's nothing more than that. But it is specific, in that specific microcosm, we practice relationship, right?

Yeah. We practice me being safe, them being more vulnerable. It's the one time it doesn't go both ways, though. And that's where it's really powerful. Because if it has to go both ways, you people are going to have to listen to what's going on in my life, you know? And it's boring or it's, it's, then you're like, I don't know if I trust her after hearing that, you know, like it, it's, it complicates things.

And that's all human relationships are, two people not being therapist with each other. And that count, that balance that you would normally require in real life, you get to practice in an imbalanced situation, which allows people to heal from some of this stuff that has occurred, right? They don't need to worry about the therapist's feelings. feelings. And yet people still do, and sometimes therapists are stupid. I get it. But like, there's also just as this amazing little practice that can happen there. So I would really highly recommend that and highly recommend getting some practice with a person to work on these deep-seated feelings of brokenness or unlikability. Because they are, you weren't born like that. That wasn't, that's not you. You are not broken. sure but something has happened and some messages have gotten through that are not okay and not true but man your system has built a bunch of walls around that and the hard thing and this is where

loneliness really kicks in for people is that what you think between your two ears on your own can get real toxic real fast and it needs to be processed right so what is the difference between okay here's me this morning I'm walking my dog my my my One kid is playing football. And there's another kid in the neighborhood who he plays football and the mom is outside. And so classic me. You guys, honestly, sometimes I think I need to get checked. Anyway, we're chatting for just a second and it turns out like Elliot's position, he was tight end.

He was doing really well. And all of a sudden, the coach's kid is his ankle is healed and he's back to playing and now he's tight end. One of those deals, right? 100, one of those deals. And Elliot comes home from school and tells us, he goes, oh, there's some news. He goes, some kids are thinking like it's nepotism and just like that. And he's like, you know what I'm thinking? I'm thinking it just feels great to still be a starter.

So now I'm a right guard and I was like, are you? Is this real or fake? He is such a not, he's, what an old soul in that. He is like, I want to play football, but he's not competitive, which I don't understand why those two things are happening. Right. It's a little weird. He likes to fit things. Honestly, it's the kind of kid.

I can tell people this without any hesitation. He's the kind of kid that if he sees you get hurt or you are in need, he'll be the first one to rush over and do it. So I will not be surprised that during a regular season game this year, if somebody on the other team doesn't get helped by your kid and maybe even loses the game as a result, because that's the kind of kid he is. I don't know why he's playing football.

He's got no blood. I'm telling you right now, he doesn't even like any of the other players. He's like, they're just not good people, Mom. And I'm like, okay. I mean, there's a few that are nice. But here's the thing. This already happened. But they didn't lose the game.

This already happened. The football gets like thrown way out of bounds. Elliot runs and gets it and gives it to the ref. And the ref goes, instead of like a ball boy or something like that, he's like, let me get that for you. It's like halfway across the track. It's not close. And he runs and gets it.

And the ref is like, what are you doing? And he goes, I was just helping. And the guy's like, please don't do that again. And he's like, okay. It's really funny. Anyway, he's adorable. We all love him. He's great.

Whatever. He's going to, I want him to be president. That's what I want. There's no one more honest, which means he'll never be president. Yeah, nobody like that ever becomes president.

No one honest has a shot and he would never make it. But anyway, so I'm talking to this mom and you can see, her kid hardly plays and you can see her so angry about this development. And she's just got the like Minnesota. a mom, like, me, sound. And here's me. I am smiling. I'm doing the nice, happy thing, and I'm like, yeah, it's fine. Like, okay, you know, I'm trying to, like, walk away. And this is why I think I need to be checked. But here's where I'm no different. Everyone does something

similar, right? We either have an internalizing of it or an externalizing. And I'm just giving you the example of how I externalize and it's really helpful. And that is, she leaves all like, And I immediately, pretend I'm talking to my dog, but I immediately say things out loud. So I say, wow, I am not like her. She's not like me. Or that is the weirdest lady. Or I'll say like, and it can be me doing something really embarrassing or whatever. I will like, it's like I'm talking to someone next to me going like, oh, my, I'm such an idiot.

Did you see that? You know? But I'm talking to myself, everyone. I am going to be a crazy lady in a store. It's the plan. But here's why, and maybe I'm just trying to make myself feel better here, but here is what I think I'm doing and what I think often is happening just inside someone's head is they are seeing their oddness.

I'm odd in that interaction. I am not a football mom lady. I'm not doing it right. Like I should be mad at that coach and I don't care. You know, but like I can tell I'm weird. I'm the weird one in this interaction. but of course I think she's actually weird but I'm the weird one and what do I do? Do I think of that as a bad thing or a negative thing, right? I think of it as a funny thing. And I, and one of the ways I do that is I talk out loud. It's like I'm, it's like calling a buddy to say, can you believe this thing just happened? I'm just doing it by myself. I do that sometimes. I thought that was a really weird thing I would never admit, but now I feel better because you're saying you do it. I do this all the time. I think it's healthy except for when you get caught in a public place. Yeah, exactly.

I mean, you're just, then you can, it's like a, it's like a pressure release valve. It is. It is. It's like, and that same impulse we have with other people, right? But here's what happens. When you don't let that out, where does it go? Like, I'm such an idiot. Say it's the same words.

I'm like, oh my gosh, can you believe I just did that? That's hilarious. Yeah. And all of a sudden, because you're not saying it out loud, it probably takes on more, like you start to believe it, even though out loud, you'd probably say it jokingly. I had this almost Tourette's like thing where when I used to, when I was playing basketball, you know, just pick up all with people back in my 20s and 30s, I had this thing where I could not, and I couldn't control it, honestly. If I screwed up, if I took a three point shot or a far away shot and it missed, you know, banged out of the rim, I would go, Scott! Like that. And I do it now, I do it now with like certain video games or any, any, but it was back when there's any kind of sports at all.

I would yell my name when I would screw something up. And it wasn't to anyone else, to any of the other players. It was all in my own head to yell my own name. And I did it anyway. And it felt not Touretti, but kind of uncontrollable. Yeah. To the point that it just became what I did. And to this day, I don't have, I don't have, I don't think I have the

wherewithal to hold that in if I was doing any kind of competitive anything. Like, you know, playing cornhole or something, throwing a bag toward the thing. If I miss, by barely missing it, I'll go, Scott! Like that. Okay, this is genetic. I was thinking I was just kind of weird, but I am remembering now your whole life doing that. Yeah, all the time. Yeah, all the time.

Okay, but here's the point of it, guys. It's not just that we want to brag about how we embarrass ourselves in public, is that there is an externalization that can be really helpful, right? That, like, okay, instead of internally screaming, Scott, you're a moron. instead you yell Scott out loud. And then no one else actually yells at you because you've already done it, right? Like he protected yourself. It is kind of, it is like a like a hardcore form of self-effacing, right?

Yeah, like real loud, real quick. And no one's going to go, Scott, you idiot. You missed that shot because you already just yelled at Scott. Yeah. Versus that quiet internalized version where you just let it rattle around in your head. Now, this is what I want to do is go start talking to yourself in public. Like this is the answer. to mental health. No, it's that I ask yourself this question. How often are your mistakes? Because

that's really what we're talking about. Often are your mistakes or your social faux paws or whatever dumb thing you've done internalized as I'm a bad person versus externalized, right? Like one of my favorite things to do is call a friend and say, I did this terrible thing. And then they have a story that's even better about how more terrible they are. It's the best feeling in the world. Like trying to out terrible each other. Yeah. Like I'm a bad mom. Oh, you're a bad mom.

Let me show you. Oh, you got nothing on me. It's so helpful because not only is it externalized and it can be validated, right? And so there I'm talking, you know, we're talking to someone who maybe doesn't have that resource. They don't have someone they run to and call and say, look at the silly thing I did. Because at some stage in your life, shame was so thick around making a mistake that your system just in internalized all of that and carries it around with everything you do. And then what happens in order to protect you,

these parts of you that need to warn you, you're going to do something stupid, they preempt any good socializing. They preempt any good connection, right? So I can't walk up to the bartender and just be like, what's up? Because I have 40 minutes of self-berating kinds of conversations already in my head. The bartender's going to hate you.

They talk to people like this all day. They hate when somebody just walks up and does this. They're going to, like, spit in your drink because they hate you doing the chit-chat with them so much. You can fester. Right. Right. And so that is your, like, operating system. And the feeling is always like, why can I connect with anyone?

Well, no one could connect with anyone if the whole time in their head a voice is screaming, you're broken. Right. No one can. So that's why you need someone to help you with that. And they, you know, they didn't indicate if they've ever gotten that kind of help. I really hope they do. because there's some things from your past that probably are connected to this

that can need some attention and some healing so that you can have different kinds of experiences when talking to people. It doesn't mean it's going to be easy initially, right? You're going to have to practice. I'm sure, Brian, if we really combed through your history of communication with strangers, there's a few bad ones, right?

Nope. Nope, right? Yes, probably, yes. All right. Yeah, there have been. Right. And so you have this, that dynamic. is true for all of us in just lots of different places.

That's why I think we love when like someone famous or, you know, social media-wise that sort of portray a perfect life or like, well, look at what I actually mistake I make. Because we don't get access to that. We don't see through any of that, especially when it's, you know, all curated or something, right? And so when you do see it, it's like, oh, it's normal. And I'm telling you, this idea that you are having these voices in your head about a social situation is incredibly common. And where it's most common, I think it feels like folks who just don't have a lot of exposure to have it break down too. So, for example, talk to Jen Zier about their phone call feelings.

Like, how do they feel about making a phone call? Yeah, it's weird. They just have no practice. And so to rip on them or just be like, these kids. When did they answer a home phone? They have never answered a home phone. Yeah, they don't have that connection. In fact, if anything, I'm seeing it start to go back that way because they're discovering, like kids.

That's what we were saying yesterday. Yeah. Yeah, my kids at age, Tristan's age, I think these kids are like, well, hold on. Why am I sending you a four-paragraph thing when I could just call you and, you know. It'll take two minutes or take a minute just for me to get the answer. It's almost like they reverse the saying from this meeting could be a text to this text could have been a meeting. could be a meeting. Yeah.

Because some of that is that craving of social connection. I think we're seeing a pendulum hopefully swinging back a little because we got real isolated as a species. A little bit of a correction maybe, right? Yeah. Yeah. I hope so. Yeah. And then here's the other thing.

Like finding some confidence in who you are, right? Like your nerdiness, your weirdness, you're like there should, there can be a move towards pride in that. But part of that is learning to like yourself. If someone told you you weren't likable, you've got to figure out why you like yourself. Because everyone's likable to some extent, right? There's something we like about ourselves. And a lot of people will just, you know, to protect themselves from ever feeling rejection or shame or some of these really hard emotions, they won't actually take any risks that it takes to get to know yourself or to like yourself.

Right. Or another voice pops in and it's like, oh, you're just a copycat. Or, you know, whatever all that going on in there, you have too many roommates. is what I'm getting at. And so having someone help you sort through that is, is helpful. So here's where my plith, plithy, piffy. Piffy, yeah, plithy, yeah, plithy, why not. Here's my pithy answer.

Piffy. My pithy answers are read a book, and here are two books that I would recommend. Ooh, homework, all right. Give it to us. Yeah. So one is called belonging, and it's the science of creating connection and bridging divides by Jeffrey Cohen. This is a, this is a more scientific kind of dive in to what connection is and how to, you know, literally do some of the actionable things of connecting. So that's maybe a little

more that academic a little bit. And then the other one is you will find your people by Lane Moore. And this is the how to make meaningful friendships as adults. So we've got belonging by Jeffrey Cohen. You will find your people by Lane Moore. Just to show up. Lane Moore. Got it. All right. And the Lane Moore one is a little more like for everybody. And she's a comedian and a writer and a musician and, you know, basically writing about like how difficult some things are to do when you're a grownup and finding, finding your people. Oh, I know who this is. This is, we've seen her in things. She's like, yeah, I don't, I don't, can't remember what though um she's written for the onion the new yorker yeah and she's funny tv stuff or maybe i follow her on twitter or no facebook instagram or something i don't know i've seen this

person i know i know i know i know yeah so that's more of a fun a fun book version of this thing and this is maybe for people generally um you know as you get older you start to find things funny that you wouldn't find funny or you start to relate to old people in new ways like oh no i understand that now. And you just didn't, I hate, I hate to admit that that's happening. But my favorite joke, here's the joke that I just think is so stupid and funny. And that is, you know, it's like a meme, right? You got a picture of Jesus. Maybe I've told it on this story, or in the show before, about picture of Jesus with his disciples. And it says, you know, no one's talking about the real miracle of a man in his 30s having 12 friends.

It's so funny. It's so funny because it's super true. Like that, there's the real miracle. And also, like, how'd you do it? Well, it got a little violent there. But, you know, you, like, have to make friends as a kid or as a kid is really a different ballgame. Totally. One last quick one of my kids' stories. Seriously, new school year, lots of weird things you're happening. Also, we all know I'm raising Scott in my youngest. child and it is not going great um you're you're raising about four versions of me in different children but he he is the most prominently like my youthful 11 year old idiot weird self not not idiot really is idiot is not a far cry but anyway he decides the first day of school middle school guys middle school right where you get beat up he goes he's like i know what i want to wear i don't know where he got a fedora but he found one sweet sweet brian you're like And florescing green shorts and a maroon shirt that has a pizza pie melting in the shape of pie, like a nerd pie.

Like a nerd number pie. Yeah. So it's a pizza pie. I get it. And then a red, I mean, nothing matches. Can I be clear? A red Oxford unbuttoned. And he is so proud.

He is like. I dress myself. Yeah. And I said, how about the second day? You know? What? Maybe like a week in. A little day.

save a little bit for day two. And he's like, absolutely not. It has to be the first day. I'm like, okay. And then he goes to school. I'm like, how was it? He's fine. And I'm like, what?

Anyway, he's just, I don't know. He's a mystery. And then I asked him yesterday. I say, hey, so are you making any new friends? I was like a ton of new kids. Like making any new friends? And he goes, yeah. And then I goes, yeah, just kidding.

I'm not. Middle school boys are the weirdest. Wow. I was like, said the kid who wore a fedora on day one. Right. Wow. I remember even feeling that way. He is really me, that kid.

I know, except he's good at math. That's the only difference. Yeah, he loves math. I don't know why that part got lost on me, but... But I'm telling you, this is the moment where friendship making starts to be hard, right? Like, awkward, self-awareness, like, stinkiness, all the things start showing up. And it just gets harder. Then you get to be...

College is probably the best time because everyone has time to hang out. Right. And then after that, you better have some nice co-workers. because it's Susan and you, and that's it. Yeah. You know? Yeah. So if that person, the person that is email does not have co-workers and maybe works

from home, that's like a really common thing, right? It's really tricky. And so read some of these books, get some ideas, find a therapist, find someone who can help you with some of those internal things because, man, those are hard to kick just. And it sounds like some good ideas already of like trying to soothe that voice and work with that, you know, if maybe a little extra help will go a long way. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, I want to hear back from B as well. Did any of us help you be? Did you read these books? Did you do your homework? Let us know, though. We would love to hear back from you and hope things improve on your end. Wendy, it's always good to talk to you. Realsteps.org is a place you can go and check out.

It is. And we are, it is November officially. Elena moved across the planet and we had a, you know, we're back on track, though. Everyone is. Oh, good. We have a lot of really fun things. It's going to be a really great one. So November emails will be coming out.

So stick your email in on real steps.org. I promise you will not be spammed. Yep. And we'll, yeah, it's going to be great. I'll talk more about it as we get going. That's great. You say she moved across the world. Where'd she go?

Well, just Florida. Might as well be. We did have a very hilarious conversation about her kids in school there. And I was like, I don't think Florida's okay. No, Flora's messed up. Something's up there. I got issues. It's kind of across the board there.

I have friends who they're like diehard Floridians and love their state, and they're talking about moving. That's how bad some of them feel about how things are going. She's like, the school bus didn't come for a week and a half, and they never said anything. Wow. Jeez. Things are weird. I'm like, you might want to. I don't know.

Driving to school. Anyway, it's going to be great. Sorry to divert, but yeah, the real step is going to be a blast. We have a lot of good, fun, new things. and lots of cool people so coming soon everyone keep your eye on the prize Wendy we'll see you next time okay bye bye all righty that was great that was great it was a good one I hope that helped anyone who was listening really hey look we got a little schedule stuff coming up a little PSA we got a couch party tomorrow 10 a m mountain time right patrons you know what to do it's give me

the last time you hear me for a few days mm-hmm you're not going to hear Brian tell like Wednesday well you hear him on film sack this weekend but oh yeah you'll hear me there other than that uh but couch party we're finishing she hulk and we're doing it tomorrow 10 a m be here if you want to watch that with us it's a thing we do on discord and it will only let in patrons so if you're not a patron maybe still get in you could get in if you went in today for a dollar you could watch with us tomorrow yeah and if you can't be there for some reason we record the whole thing in both video and audio and we put that out on the patreon as well uh coverville happening today.

Yeah, Coverville. Again, it's Sticks. The music of sticks. 1 p.m. Mountain Time, Twitch.com, I'm going to be doing some more painting on stream. This, this,

oh, this Thanos is done. I kind of want to, maybe I'll bring it over for the post show. Yeah, you can give it. Yeah, how hard is it to grab? Is it a thing you can grab, fast? No, I can grab it in 10 seconds.

All right, Brian's going to grab his Thanos, shake it around, and let it hang out for the world to see. I didn't know he'd finish painting. is Thanos. I knew he's working on it. I know he's working on his big Millennium Falcon deal, which we'll talk about in a second. Okay, here it comes. Look at this. Look at this. I'm not bringing over the base because the base is massive. And because of shipping, I don't have his other arm connected. Oh, look at that guy. So I had to use

tape, this blue, blue painter's tape and mask everything off. Paint the whole thing black and then masked off the areas that need to stay black and then did another spray with gold and looking tight yeah this thing is it's it's basically ready to ship um and then here's his uh oh his arm with his big swordy deal it's going to be a lot easier to ship if i ship this if i package this um or wrap it separately from this whole dude that's really cool that's yeah this is a commission uh uh print and paint job for tweak in our in our community. We love Tweet.

Tweet's amazing. Take a bunch of pictures of this thing, and I'll put them up online, but this thing, it came out fantastic. It is beautiful. Did you film, didn't you stream the first part of your Millennium Falcon build? I did, yeah. And I figured out some things like better microphone I need to do. I've got my little road microphone that I'm going to use for it.

Better lighting on me, even though the lighting on what I'm putting together. And I've got a little closer setup now for the camera, so you can see what I'm doing a little bit closer. Nice. But, yeah, no, as soon as the box number two comes in, we'll do that, but I might still do some mini painting on stream because I have a thousand little mini-marvel characters that need to get painted, and so I need to get those streaming. That'd be great.

Coverville on, where did you do it? I did that on YouTube. So YouTube, Coverville. Okay. YouTube.com slash coverville, no ad sign needed. And then the only coverville, the show. and guess the connection will be on Twitch because of music

stuff. Since I don't do a Vod, it's like, let's do it over on Twitch, you see it live, where you get the podcast but no Vod storage. And I want to have other things be stored on YouTube. Yeah, Twitch only goes after you for archive stuff. It seems like

they don't have a good police for the live stuff so much. If you're big enough, if you were doing like a, let's say you had 50,000 concurrent watchers and you were watching, I don't know, diehard or something, they would get you but they'd get it they'd get a little upset but but uh no they don't care about the live stuff especially since i can you know show them emails and show them the files from labels and artists that they sent uh for me to play on the show and my and of course my ascat bm i and cac

license receipts that's right yeah got to pay for that shit uh core is also happening tonight 5 p.m so our normal time we have a lot to say we're probably going to vent pretty hard on this Unity News for those following it. You'll know what I'm talking about. We'll talk about that. And a bunch of other stuff. Also, my singular obsession this week has been Starfield and nothing but.

So every time somebody talks about it, I just want to buy it. I just want to buy it. Games really good. It's really solid. I mean, you know, like I always say, if you don't like Bethesda games, you're probably not going to like this. But if you love them the way I do, you're going to eat this shit up.

Anyway, that's tonight, 5 p.m. for the live show and then of course up on the podcast right after that film sack is also having an episode this weekend. We're doing the born ultimatum or as I used to call it the board old tomato that will be uh this weekend Saturday. So tune in your film sack ears for that should be a good time. Oh, and we had to bump. We had a lightning strike yesterday and it totally zapped everything out for me and I lost power for a while. So we couldn't do play retro on time until it came back and then it was too late. So we're doing it Saturday after film. Sacks. And when film sack ends at around 1130 or so, Brian Dunaway and I will fire up that episode. So there will still be a play retro this week. Don't you worry your little heads. Cool, cool.

All right, that's it. Patreon.com slash TMS for all other support and needs. We'd love it if you guys had over there today and check that out. And become one of our supporters. Huge thanks to those who do. FrogPants.com slash TMS has links to everything else you need, including requesting songs or getting the mega feed or a million other things we do here on TMS.

It's all links. linked over there. So go check it out. That'll do it for us. Brian, let's play a song and go. I love that idea, Scott. And this thing is just, this Thanos here just worries me so much. It's like, this is hours worth of work here. Uh, Siren X wrote in and said tomorrow, September 15th will be the 17th anniversary of my 21st birthday. Oh my gosh. Let's give him, you know what, Sarenx, since it's you, let's give you. Let's give you the alternate. The one I just, I have to put it in proper place here, but let's just see. Birthday. Okay, here it is, right here.

This is for you. Happy birthday. Makes me uncomfortable. It really does. Five months late. My request for April 15th didn't happen because that was the one day that that month that Scott had to cancel at the last minute. So I'm finally getting around to Trang again.

Can I get a, let's test the ship's phasers, honk, ah. yours in this life and the next syrinx shan i think so let's see phasers are here let's test the ship's phasers oh um is it the one that's combined is that what he's talking about or is there oh is there is there one that is combined what i can't remember what i did wasn't there something like that i don't remember oh gab simpson says no no um let's see let's find what was the other one uh honk ah oh the honk ah guy okay that there he is right perfect excellent uh and serenix Is anything you think would sound good during a dramatic fight scene and an action movie? Well, geez.

Thanks for narrowing it down for me, Sera Naxi. You make me not regret when we got rid of all three Ushans on the NTP. But all right, fine. How about this one right here? From the appropriately named band, Cybertronic Spree, they did a cover album in 2019 of the soundtrack to the 1986 Transformers movie. And they covered the Autobot. Decepticon Battle from that soundtrack, originally done by Vince DeCola.

Here's Cybertronic Spree and Autobot Decepticon Battle. You're going to be able to be. I'm going to be. You know, I'm going to be. I'm going to I'm I'm

You're going to be. I'm going to be. I'm And so. I'm going to be. And so. And so. I'm going to be.

We're going to be able to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to be. We're going to be. We're going to be. We're going to be. We're going to be able to be.

We're going to be. We're going to be. We're going to be. We're going to be able to be. We're going to be. We're going to be. We're going to be. We're going to be.

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...and... ...and... ...and... I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to be. We're going to be. I'm going to be able to be.

I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to be. You're going to be. Get more at frogpants.com I can't believe I ate that whole thing. You ate it, Ralph. Sure.