The Morning Stream - TMS 2528: Barrel Fish

Episode Date: September 26, 2023

THIS is Why TikTok is Bad. Hands up the butt Muppets. A little bit of the old eggs and pecker. The King Formerly Known As Prince. The Kentucky part of Nevada. Exceptionalism drives into dumbness. Crawled Through the Shit For My Apple Watch and Made it Out the Other Side. Scooter's Gonna Scoot. Rowlf is two dudes. Nobody Likes Listicles. How Regular Is Your Cheese? The Bears Like Krispy Kreeeeeeeeeeeeme. Bear Don't Care! Modern Day Stupid. The stink of health. Writing Down The List In Your Head With Bill 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 Samantha Jane, Robert Hall, and Missplaced Geek. Coming up on TMS, this is why TikTok is bad. Hands up the butt muppets. A little bit of the old eggs and pecker. The king formerly known as Prince. The Kentucky part of Nevada. Exceptionalism drives into dumbness.

Crawled through the shit from my Apple Watch and made it out the other side. Scooter's going to scoot. Ralph is two dudes. Nobody likes Listicos. How regular is your cheese? The bears like crispy cream. Bear don't care. Modern day's stupid.

The stink of health. Writing down the list in your head with Bill and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Well, you better tell me quick. My imagination's starting to run wild in the suspense is building in my head. You kids don't shut up right now. I'm going to close all the windows and turn up the heater. The morning stream. Well, of course, I am the supreme being.

I'm not entirely dim. Good morning. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream. For what is it? September 26, 2023. That's what it is. I've just gotten that's right. That's right. Creening out of control towards the end. of the month? September. Where even were you? What even happened there?

For real. Like, I don't know. I've said this a lot this year, but September in particular, poof, just gone. Like, it didn't even happen. Like, I don't even know, I don't know what's real.

I don't know who's who. I don't know what's what. But I do know, it's time to make a show. We're back, everybody. Hope you're all doing all right. The very first thing I want to kick us off with this morning.

is a text from an anonymous person, which just intrigued me because I've never thought of this before. This question had never come up before in my head. And what better way to address it than to talk about it here on TMS? So here it goes, Brian. It's a question for both of us. What Muppets, all right? You know, the hands up the butt Muppets. Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure checking name you loving that description right now. Yeah. Hand up the butt experts, would you most trust to live in your house? So we're talking, I think it can cross over into Sesame Street territory because Kermit did and he's a Muppet. I mean, yeah, they may not be Muppets on the Muppet show or regulars on the Muppet show, but Sesame Street certainly introduced

us to Muppets. Yeah. So what would you say? Like, what's your first thought? First one is Ralph. Yeah, Ralph. The dog, the piano playing dog. I feel like he, I don't know. He just seems like the most down-to-earth Muppet. Yeah, Rolf's pretty chill. And he would also play music. I don't say Ralph.

Oh, I thought you said Rolf. He has piano. You know, he can do the piano. Yeah, he can play piano while we're in the house here. Like, hey, Brian, just going to play some piano. All right. I'll also go, I like that one. That's a strong one.

I think I'm going to go with, I can't remember's name. I'm going to look it up. It was off the top of my head earlier. Oh, the little guy, Scooter. I think Scooter would, like, clean stuff. He would take care of his stuff. Oh, he would totally, yeah, he'd be your assistant for sure. Yeah.

He would, yeah. I feel like Scooter's a strong, you know, list. He's going to, he's, if you say, hey, I'm leaving for a couple hours, will you make sure the dogs are, you know, okay, make sure they're walked and stuff? Scooter's going to do whatever you needed him to do. He totally, he totally be all over it. I think Janice from the, uh, from electric mayhem, uh, I think, uh, she, you know, I don't, I'm not thinking I want, uh, so many people saying animal. You guys are all nuts. You're insane.

You want animal in your house. No, you don't want animal. Or the Swedish chef, for that matter. You're cleaning up. You're spending all your time cleaning up if you want any of those people. Yeah. Um, no, Janice is chill. Janice is like a far out hippie chick. And, uh, she'd be, well, I don't even remember what instrument Janice played. Was she the singer of the electric mayhem she was uh oh right what did she do yeah uh i don't think she's saying floyd was guitar i think dr teeth was drum no animal was drums dr teeth was keyboards right oh she is uh is she bass because she's holding a guitar and all or a guitar looking device is she play okay she's a bass player cool looks like and let's see dr teeth the electric mayhem uh okay i just want okay here we go janis on

vocals and lead guitar that's all right so she's lead guitar artist okay yeah bass and vocals is Floyd pepper he's the he's the cool groovy uh Paul Schaefer looking guy yeah yeah yeah Floyd yeah Floyd pepper man such a good name um I'm not I'm not so sure that you wouldn't get some some pretty good action out of maybe uh the chicken Camilla is that her name the one that uh oh gonzo's all after all the time sure so we're just like just a chicken like the camel of the chicken well she's a you know she's a character she doesn't say much she kind of just keeps to herself she doesn't make a mess gonzos the problem what kind of action are we looking for you know a little bit of the old eggs and old eggs and

pepper pecker you know I don't know uh what's another one here uh someone said crazy crazy Harry no don't do that he has crazy hair the bomb dude yeah uh no don't do that uh let's see the news one of the other like isn't crazy harry another one that's like ernie with with uh new facial features added because then there was the uh the magician guy who threw fish wasn't he also another uh he was another ernie with facial like uh facial he looked like crazy ernie ernie on the weekend uh when that when that edible hits ernie goes that goes like that right right exactly yes wasn't swedams a big tall Louisiana. That's right. What's that?

Sweden's the big full suit guy? He was the big mom. Okay. That guy maybe. He's freaky looking, but he'll knock everything over. Like there is no mobility. Sweden says zero depth perception and peripheral vision. You could put him on landscaping, though.

You could say mow the lawn while I'm out, re-saw the back of the yard. I still think Scooter probably do all that for you, too, though. That's true. I mean, all right, if we're going to have multiple Muppets all at the same time, put Scooter in charge. There you go, yeah. And then you can have some little oddballs here and there because Scooter will keep stuff in the line. That's my thinking.

Yeah. Boy, I don't have it down here, but the... I have one of those that Amy crocheted. That's a bag from the Joko Cruise, basically. It's a, long story, but it's a container, but it's one of the yip-yp-yp dudes from that segment. Those guys are amazing. I love them. Yeah.

Yeah. Put them on phones. They're on phone duty. Communications and IT. That's where those guys are working. There you go. Exactly. Yeah, you've got to have a job is the thing.

So if you have a job for these things, then maybe you're in better shape. Like, Gonzo could be in charge of, I don't know, the YouTube channel, whatever. You have to have a job. Social media. Yeah. Social media expert, Gonzo, whatever he even is. Right. We still don't know what he is.

Is he an alien? We don't know what he is, Gonzo. Yeah. Oh, in Muppets in space, he's shown to be an alien. I don't know if that means for sure he was an alien, but whatever. Trash wildfire, again, Statler and Waldorf, crazy choice. Like, you want to be heckled day in, day out? Let's see he was the worst.

No, you don't want them in your house. Yeah. They're not going to make a mess, but they are going to be a pain in your ass the entire time they're there. They're going to bug you. You're going to have arguments with them. They're going to be like, cueing on people, whatever. Like, you're going to want them out. At Kermit, I like, I like the idea of Kermit, but he comes with a lot of baggage.

And her name is Miss Peggy. And I don't feel like you're going to get one without the other. Kermit on his own? Fantastic. He can just sit there on a log. I'll put a log in the house. and give him a banjo, and he can just play the songs all day long. But unfortunately, you know, that means piggy coming over a lot.

She's a lot. Well, let me cut you a deal. We'll just have Robin, the little Robin. He's Kermit's nephew, I guess. He's a sweet little frog, and he doesn't have any pig issues, you know? Yeah, yeah. He's not dating pigs. What the frick?

Why are frogs? Frog shouldn't be with pigs? No, no. I mean, the aliens shouldn't be with chickens. So, you know, questionable, questionable aliens shouldn't be with chickens. Rizzo the rat, maybe. On his own, he's all right. He doesn't, you know, he's not a troublemaker.

He just tends to be a little, you know, freaked out sometimes. I don't know. I feel like Rizzo could get some stuff done. Who do you want, because we can't do Swedish chef. Who do you want making your breakfast in the morning, Brian? Who do you pick? Oh, geez. And it can't be Dr. Bucson and Honey-Doo.

It can't be. Yeah, definitely not. Well, why couldn't it be Bunsen Honeydew? Because he blows shit up constantly, and it's not just his friend that gets exploded. Like, half the time... He's just... Yeah. No, but it would have to be one of the Muppets that has hands.

It could not be, like... Kermit is not making breakfast with these, like, his dangly spindles sticking out of the front of his body. That's a good point. So it's got to be, like, I don't know, Bert, Bert had hands. Bert did have hands. Bert did Bert have hands? Oh, no, Bert doesn't... Ernie had hands.

Bert did not have. Ernie had hands, yeah. Yeah. Bert had the weird dangly arms. Yeah, he did, yeah. The only problem with two-handed puppets, the ones that actually have articulated, you know, man-hands inside the gloves,

is that that's two puppeteers in your house. Yeah. So now we're looking at them as we don't really get the Muppets just on their own walking around, like with the green screen Muppet vision. We're talking about, no, we're getting Muppeteers. Right. And so if you had, if you had Burt with the sticks, at least it's one puppeteer and a stick. Yeah. Well, Ralph is a, you know, Ralph's two dudes.

Oh, yeah. She had these two dudes at the piano. Yeah. Oh, frick. All right. Well, I think we've answered that question pretty well anonymous. I don't know why you wanted to be anonymous, but I respect it. Yeah. Your desires are. This question could have gone one or two ways. And if it went badly, I wouldn't want my name associated with it either. That's right. And as usual, this text could have been a meeting.

Or no. How's that go? This meeting could have been a text. And it was. Hold on. They're like Jeannie and Jeannie Saris are saying, yeah, they don't really know the real Muppet show. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Are you talking about us or somebody else? Yeah. You're talking about us? Because we know, I grew up on that shit. Are you kidding? Love them. I watched the Muppet show the other day. Just the other day.

It's all on Disney Plus now, and I was watching that. Yeah. So you got a... Sandy Duncan, the guest. Was she the guest star on the one you watched? It felt like she was always the guest. Even though she was, I think, maybe on once, maybe twice. Maybe, maybe twice.

But even then, there were others with, you know, duplicate appearances, and nobody felt like they were on more than her. And I assume that's just because she has a presence about her. So she sticks with your head. Yeah, it's weird. Genie says nobody repeated. They did not, never, nobody ever came back for a second time. Really?

None of them? No, Alec Baldwin on. on the Muppet show. Oh, darn it. Lindsay Wagner just canceled. Can we get Alec Baldwin? Get Alec Baldwin down there. Don Knott seemed to always be on.

It felt like it, but if he was only there once, I guess, I don't know. Trying to think of the most. The one I think of the most is the one where the time in a bottle one. Oh, yeah. It was such a great song, like such a great time. Oh, my gosh. It's just amazing. The way that they adapted that and worked it into a Muppet thing,

I still think about that all the time. But there wasn't, I mean, that, that was just, like that one didn't feature the guest star. That was just, uh, it's just, Muppets. Yeah, and that one. As far as I know, I don't think I had any people in it, other than their hands and their bodies underneath. Underneath the floor, I control you, what they say. Okay, that reminds me of something. I just said I think about it all the time.

Sure. What is this stupid viral thing going around? You may or may not have heard of this, Brian. I'm not sure. Probably not because I'm out of the loop on a lot of these things. Well, listen, for whatever Brian misses on some viral thing, he more than makes up with, like, music knowledge just yesterday. I was like, hey, Brian, what do you think of this cover?

Is this one of those is too close to the original? And what do you think of this? And he's like, yeah, we play these guys like 10 times or whatever hell it was. And I'm like, shit. I don't remember names. I don't remember anything. That song is already in our, it's already even going to be in the queue to play this week for somebody. Those guys are so great, though. I went so deep on them last night. I just listened to

them all night. But anyway, uh, so here it is. There's this question going around. I first saw it on, I think TikTok's where I saw it, but it's been showing up everywhere. People asking men specifically, how often do you think about the Roman Empire? We even got a text about this. And they want me to know, or they want us to answer the question, how often do you think about the Roman Empire? And the thing about these videos has been, they just catch some dude unaware. He's in the kitchen. looking at his paper someone comes in and says how often you think about the roman empire and the husband or dude will look at him and think for a second ago i don't know probably a couple times a day and then the women are freaked out that this is a thing so the idea is that all men think about

the roman empire all the time and i'm here to tell you that i think about the roman empire way less than i think about ancient egypt or a half a dozen other things i i do like ancient history. I like mythology. I like video games set in these things. Like, there's a lot to like about this stuff. You know, the tutors, like, there's TV shows that, uh, that we also like that take place in the Roman Empire as well. Yeah, but I think more about the Old West, Egyptians, uh, freaking, uh, oh, uh, Nordic stuff, like ancient Norway business, uh, Vikings and all that. way more than I think about the Roman Empire. Yeah, this is why TikTok is bad.

We did it. This is why social, this is the reason social media sucks as much as it does because of things that are viral like, how often do you think about the Roman Empire? I bet I think about Roman Brady more than I think about the Roman Empire. And I haven't thought about Roman Brady for a year, a couple of years, at the very least, the last time we were talking about days of our lives. Yeah, I probably think more about Roman Farron.

than I do the actual thing, which sounds like combining the Egypt and ancient Rome, but no, he's a guy, he's a reporter, me of Pharaoh's kid. Like, I don't understand, I don't understand why this is, I understand what they're trying to say. They're trying to say, oh, is this like a man thing where they're like the Romans with the, you know, they get the horses on there, the, what do you call them?

The horse drawn, whatever's, and they got the spears and the whatnot. Like everyone's all badass and everything. sure I don't I don't think this is a thing and I think and I don't want to blame you know it's not obviously it's not just TikTok but everybody who's doing this please stop doing this it doesn't make any sense because we're talking about it like they're doing it because oh well I don't think about that often but other people do oh my gosh I better share this yeah to see who else thinks about this it's also a sampling problem because the videos that you're going to show up about this are people who are saying oh yeah I think about it all the time if the guy said not I don't ever think about it. You're not posting that video. So the only videos you're going to see the ones where it seems shocking that they think about it all the time. Let's not a way to sample anything. But we all think it is because we're stupid in our modern day.

Yeah, exactly. Brian's right. It's created a culture where people are dependent on shares and likes and follows. I want none of it. Listen, I'm happy for the people who follow me and I'm happy to put stuff on threads. all the time for whenever I find something that, you know, I see something that strikes my fancy and I share

it. God, there was, I really wish I could have taken a picture of this person. So the, I was behind a car the other day. That had a sticker for the something school of business. Could not remember

the, but it was like for some college something school of business. Sure. But it was one of those stickers that you put on the inside of your glass because it's reversed and the sticky part is the part that is the right way around, right? So instead of having a sticker on the back of your window, you'd have the sticker inside or on the outside of the window.

You have the stick on inside so that it's protected from the elements. It probably is like a vinyl peel-off sticker thing. They had put it on the outside of their window, so it was in reverse, and it makes me wonder, how they graduated from business school if they couldn't figure out how to stick a for the back of the car. So you're saying,

graduate business school. If you couldn't look at this thing and figure out that it needed to be stuck in the inside of the window. That does feel like a basic tenant of the degree you're aiming for at your local business school. I agree. Yeah, exactly. What the hell, man.

Also, I got to say something about car stickers. They're fine and everything. but we put a Transformer sticker on Kim's car, not too many years ago. Okay. It was a Decepticon sticker, just like the logo of the Decepticons. Yeah, yeah. And I don't know why we did it, and Kim doesn't care. So it got on there.

And I don't know if the inside ones are any better. Probably not, because the sun's hitting them either way. But you let a sun bake on that for even just a summer. Oh, yeah. Now go try and take that shit off your window. Also, it fades real bad, so it looks ugly. So then when you go to take it off, it's a nightmare. You can't peel that stuff off.

It's like chipping away at dirt. It's horrendous. So don't do it. I'm just saying stickers on cars. You all, I know you all do it. I sent a few of these out. Somebody sent me a, I sent somebody this bomber man sticker. And they put it on their window in their car.

And I thought, oh, I'm not going to say anything by really, you know, you're going to have to pay. That's going to fade. It's going to look like shit. Then you're going to have a terrible time getting it off, you know. And even the car grade one. Dugan takes that stuff off like nobody's business. That's true. When I clean this stupid machine off,

let's see if I can find it real quick. I'm going to try to guess what the stupid machine is. Hold on. I'm going to be wrong, though. Let's say it's a computer lid. Oh, it is a laptop. That was close. It's a laptop, yeah.

So, yeah, they were nice enough to put that sticker here on the bottom. Great. And then, oh, that wasn't enough? Oh, no, they have to put them, you know, all over the inside as well. here and here. Gugan, baby, that stuff is going to come right off. Like, what are these people? Trapperkeeper kids from the 80s?

This isn't even your computer. It's on loan to you. It's on loan to you from a company, for Pete's sake. Very weird. You put stickers all over. How often do you get those now? You still do those, I know, but is it all? No, actually, very few.

We're clearing out our inventory. It's really been slowing down. And I think that company is probably on a hiring freeze or something. But, uh, so it's more, it's more like, yeah, I think we're going to try and figure out a good place to sell all the ones you've got, Brian, and we're going to, we're going to wrap up that, uh, business. You sure. I mean, it sounds like it could be a thing that would come in waves, but maybe that, maybe the, maybe the, maybe the party's over, you know, the part. I mean, I've gotten, you know, uh, in 2021 and 2022, I was getting eight to 10 machines a month.

maybe even more than that, like, uh, maybe in the size like 15 machines a month. Since the beginning of 2023, I've gotten a total of four machines. It's not, that's not a lot. Total. That's not a lot. I remember when you were like inundated with them, you were like, there are so many. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, the basement was at the point before we did the, uh, the storage locker, the basement here was, was insane packed with these damn things. Nice. Well, maybe one day, Brian, will once again be a repository for many old MacBooks. These aren't that old. Some of these are like 2019 MacBook errors, 2020 M1s. Oh, yeah, there's some in here that are pretty nice, pretty nice. We have a place here that'll let you take if you have old computers and you don't want to deal with it. Like you don't want to race, like zero state your drives and all that stuff. They'll do it all and guarantee it.

guarantee wipes and all that stuff and they give you all kinds of certification for it and they'll give you 50 bucks if you gave them a whole computer um that is all i'm ever going to do from now on i'm done i'll let them recycle it because that's what they're doing they're recycling it if i have something that's still working like a good usable thing i'll give it to one of my kids or something but but uh if it's old as thing uh i know they're giving you a piece of paper that says we certify that we will clear this thing off and not copy your data off onto our own blah blah blah yeah

I agree it's a little dubious because what you know how how guaranteed is it I suppose unless you are

physically watching them do it and really you can do it you boot up the thing command R

uh disc utility zero state drive boom you're done is that all I thought that's all the

that's all the case you don't even have to have an external you just have to have it plugged into power internet

recovery on your MacBook will let you do it without any additional software it's built into the I think it's Windows where you have to

have either a special utility or something like that it's kind of a nightmare also here's it here's some advice this is what I do now all my important data data that I don't want anyone to take none of it is on my bootable drive all of it is on either externals or secondary drives that are removable so when I when I move

computer to computer as infrequently as that is all that stuff just moves over and all I'm left with on that C drive or, you know, main drive is installed application, you know, like all your launchables and stuff like that. So when I do zero out those drives, I feel more confident that nothing got left. Or I didn't leave anything to chance because they're all on these other drives, these externals. It doesn't mean it's 100% safe.

Somebody could steal one of those drives. I understand that. But at least I'm not handing, you know, going to recycle. Yeah, you're not giving a machine with all of your sensitive stuff on there. No, that's good. You can't do that, you know. But that wasn't always the case, and I've got an old machine in there in the other room that I really need to get rid of. That's old as dirt, dude.

I don't even know if it'll boot. And if it doesn't boot, then what? I've got to take these drives out. I've got to rub magnets on them or something. Put a nail through them. Put a nail through them. It's actually fun. It's actually an enjoyable experience.

Pull the drive out, bam, bam, bam. And then you feel like, yeah, I've done this. I've done it. Yeah, that's a great idea. I'm doing it. um let's move on to new zealand for a moment okay from louzeland to new zealand yeah let's talk about new zealand yeah uh joshua and indiana wrote something about new zealand he says i was listening to tms 25 24 and i had a factoid for you we like facttoids here i love facttoids yeah sure

i wonder where that term came from facttoid like you they're just facts either way maybe smaller than others but why it's a tinier fact yes it's a small fact all right well here's a small fact much better much better word. Much better amalgamation portmanteau than listicle. Not a fan of listicle. I do not like listicle at all. Yeah. Yeah. We can all agree here, right? Everybody in the chat, everybody listening. Nobody likes the term listicles. If you could burn words, that word. I kicked BuzzFeed right in the listicles. Oh, shit. What are they going to do? I'll have to rehire their news team. Anyway, so here's what he says. Did you know the United States and New Zealand are the only two countries that allow direct-to-consumer, pharmaceutical advertising, Joshua

in Indiana. I didn't know that. No, kidding. That's crazy. So when you go to New Zealand, you get a commercial going, ask your doctor if it is right for you. It may cause, bear, bear, like they let you do all that down there. That's right. I didn't know where they're only two. Holy shit.

Out of take. Don't take, Demasol, if you're allergic to Benisol. Yeah, that's insane. Like, what do they show during their equivalence of Lester Holt? What do they show during the NBC Nightly News in these other countries, whatever the equivalent of the nightly news, if it isn't a parade of pharmaceutical advertisements.

I hope there, Lester Holt is literally just Lister Holt, because you say it with a higher. Lister, Lister. I'm Lister Holt. Welcome to the news. Yeah, I don't know. Like, the idea that, like, I assumed everybody had commercials about medicine. I assume so, too. At least, you know, I would have assumed Canada.

I would have assumed the UK. You know what? But the reason we do it makes sense because we have a profit-based medical system here, which sucks ass and should die. But we have it anyway. It is what we have. And so, of course, you're going to do this because this is the money machine. In other countries where their medical systems are nationalized, right? They don't want to be advertising you anything because why would they?

I don't know. I guess I understand it. But New Zealand also has socialized medicine, so I don't know. Yeah. I don't get it. I don't know. I don't know what's going on. I mean, you know, how are you asking your doctor if it's right for you, if you don't see a commercial that tells you it's probably going to solve your problem?

Because the person who has the problem is wearing the same colors as the logo for the pharmaceutical. How is it going to work? Oh, shit. I didn't think of that. They're always wearing the same color. They are, right? Yeah. Yeah.

Why is that? Because they're the ones that are benefiting from the drugs. So it's like, oh, blue and purple, just like the logo. So they're, it's, oh, wow. They're doing, they're getting the treatment from the thing. And if we have anyone in the pharmaceutical business, could you write in and explain to us the naming conventions that you use to name your stuff? Because I don't know why anything isn't just called seabrees or something like that instead of propeninal.

Or, you know, why is it always these noles? Well, isn't it usually like an abbreviation of the active ingredients in it? Like, if it's, I have no good example that's coming to my mind. But let's say it's, you know, either. Let's say Lipitor. Sure. Lipitur. Lipids, right?

Lipids. Right. Lipids. Lipitor. I'm going to look this up. What does Lipitor actually do? Okay, so Lipitor, used with diet, weight loss, and exercise. Oh, an exercise to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke.

It's a heart medication. Right. But it treats high lipid levels and cardiovascular disease and stuff. Right. Correct. Oh, here we go. And its actual thing is called atorvastatin, vastatin, of a torvastatin, of a torvastatin, maybe. Where's the accent? Atorvastatin.

So, okay. That's the reason it's spelled under the name Lipitor It's nobody looks at this And it's got some lip-a The lipo comes from this Lipitor is used to lower the amount of fatty substances Such as low-density lipoprotein Okay, so that makes sense

You got your lipo Your ator is the part I don't get It's like I guess the Atoravastin Or like whatever you said, the generic name But I just think they ought to get more creative than this They're all hard to say The only reason OZempic is called OZempic

Is it so those people in the commercial can go uh oh oh sam pick and use that song you think the song came you think that you said we need something that'll fit uh the song uh magic by uh oh god who was that pilot pilot the song of pilot was the band the one hit wonder that uh gave us magic i think so and of course they would license that song because that's all they've got and why wouldn't you but yeah uh yeah i don't know man freaking i don't get it and you know what dan we'll ask dan he'll come in he'll tell us what's up That guy that emailed me and said, Dan didn't talk enough about board games and too much about medicine. Guess what?

I have a medical question for Dan next time he's on. All right. That's how it's going to do. Well, at least I wasn't here to steer him more towards board games. That's right. By golly, I love me some board games. You're a big fan. I'm printing, I'm currently in the process of printing an insert for clank catacombs that Dr. Jerry was nice enough to send the two of us.

That'll allow me to put the contents of the adventuring party out. on into the same box. Oh, look at that. That's pretty good. Yeah. I like that. We have so much family in town. I think I'm going to corral some of them this weekend and play that if I can.

Oh, yeah, you should. A maximum of four. Yeah, four is the cap, right? Four is the cap, right? Four is the cap, but totally worth it. I can do two on that, though, right? Two people, obviously. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I think you could even, there might even be a way using the app to play it solo. Solo rules, yeah. I always like when that stuff happens when you can play a game solo. It usually requires somebody to go through it. it and like change some of the core rules but i like it yeah yeah and then definitely having an app that says oh yes okay well your opponent rolls and gets this blah blah blah yeah what i also like is weather corrections check this out this is a text okay robert robert and hendertucky we've proven we know all about uh medication in the pharmaceutical industry let's move on to meteorology yeah meteorology it's our

meteorology moment we call it here on the show our brand new awesome segment uh do we have a theme for it let's see, the meteorology moment would be better, right? Because it's an M, it's alliterative. Let's say, let me look for the word thunder in my files. Here we go. Struck dumb at birth by a

thunder clap. There you go. That's perfect, actually. That movie would be so shitty yet so fun to play clips from. Anyway, this is from Robert and Hender Tuckie who has a monsoon correction. We were talking about monsoon rains and storms in Vegas and

other places. He says, Dear Scott and Brian, monsoon is a seasonal change in atmospheric circulation and precipitation, not a single storm. Even we in Las Vegas have a monsoon season. It's cute, but it's also still a monsoon. I'm affectionate for a program in spite of vague reasons. Guys, well done. I love that alternative to love the show, though.

Perfect. Exactly. I assume, now, I think we've cleared this up before, but Robert was originally from Kentucky, moved to Henderson, Nevada. I think that's why it's Henry Tucker? Yes, exactly. I think that's right. That's amazing.

Or at least maybe he's part of the part of Henderson that reminds him of Kentucky. I don't know. Is there a place like that? The Kentucky part of Henderson in Nevada? You know the big difference is legal weed. That's the only difference in those two places. Legal weed. That's right. Legal weed.

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Cheese consumption might be linked to better cognitive health, according to a new study. Brian, how much cheese to eat in a day if you had to guess? Ooh. I had a cheese stick yesterday. One that was attached to the pretzel necklaces that I left in the refrigerator and did not take with Meadabier Fest because I forgot them.

But I had cheese sticks and meat sticks on that thing. and that's why I put it with a fridge, and that's probably why I forgot them. And that's just like what, cured meat, like a... Yeah, it's like a slim gym, just a little short slim gym. Okay. Other than that, how much cheese did I have yesterday?

So I probably would say I had less than a quarter cup of cheese. Okay. So not a lot of cheese. Not a lot of cheese. But I also think you're fairly cognitively up, you know, on things. You're there. You got the brain. Yeah, I like to think so.

Yeah, smart guy doing all your trivia and your business and whatnot. Sure. All my trivia and my business, yes. Apparently, you eat like cheese. My business is trivia. Your biz. Cheese consumption is linked now to better cognitive health. Recent scientific publication.

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute or MDPI. No, really? That's real. That's a company. Somebody thought that would be a good name for a company. It's like, what do you want to call a company? How about the multidisciplinary digital publishing institute? It's a terrible name.

Or I guess it's an institute, not a, it's an institute, not a, company, but still. Still, bad name. Bad name. As soon as we veer into medicine or science, we get bad names. That's how this goes. We just talk about it.

Anyway, the nutrients journal suggests that there might be a correlation between regular cheese consumption and better cognitive health in the elderly. Over the years, the nexus between dietary habits and their impact on physical well-being has been firmly established. However, the realm of cognitive health is still, oh, and its relation to

food intake is an area that is still being actively explored. Dairy products, especially milk and cheese, have previously been under the microscope with some studies hinting at their protective benefits for the brain. But the evidence has been inconsistent. So that's where this cheese thing comes in. Apparently. So check this out.

Team research analyzed data from 1,500 plus participants, aged 65 and up, recruited from a particular pool of geriatric survey that the team concluded once per year every two years. That's a long-term study. These individuals are all based in Tokyo, Japan. Well, that's not fair. They eat better over there. Let's come to Madison, Wisconsin, or Milwaukee. Yep.

Yeah. No offense, Madison or Milwaukee. No offense. None whatsoever. But no, if we want a good test, let's go to a place that thrives on cheese. They wear it on their heads. I've seen them at Packer Games. They have giant pieces of Swiss cheese on their heads.

Yep. This thing had a special focus on cheese consumption. It says, Cognitive capabilities were then gauged using the mini mental state examination or MMSE. We got another one. Another live one here. A wildly used 30-point test of cognitive function among the elderly includes tests of orientation, attention, memory, language, and visual spatial skills for the scope of this research. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

They found that those who had regular cheese did better on the tests. So I'm not saying I'm about to get some cheese, but maybe I'm about to get some cheese, but maybe I'm about. to get some cheese, you know? Maybe go get some cheese, yeah, for sure. So the MMSE, this is, Tina does this, or had to do it. No, maybe, I think no, actually, she does it now in her current job because it's part of the adult protective services. And it's basically testing the cognitive abilities of patients.

And I think she even had to ask me this. It's the, I think it's even the same test that Trump famously, uh, uh, uh, uh, as with light colors, yes, the one where he's like, chicken sink right exactly identify a camel right draw a clock my mom had to do this

over and over after her brain surgery because they had to just keep making sure that she was up to par and she always passed but early after the surgery there were times where she would just sort of do the Mitch McConnell stare just sort of stare

but it was early after the surgery and then so later this got easier and easier and so that was their way of gauging how she was recovering so that's that's interesting I guess you'd use it for everything where you need cognitive test. I think so. All right. So let's let's go right into this one, Scott. Question number one. Go. What is the year? Well, it's 2023. I assume it means this year. What season are we in? We are currently in fall. What is the date? Today is, I forgot the date.

September 26th. I saw you look up until the right. I had to look. 26th of September. Uh-huh. Yeah. What day of the week is it? It is Tuesday today. okay um let's do uh let's see uh we won't we won't worry about that one all right count backwards from a hundred by sevens by sevens by sevens i don't know if i can do this uh hundred i'll start you off a hundred yeah a hundred uh 93 uh huh 87 sorry 87 no no oh 84 Nope Wait This I can't do a math one

I'm the worst at math You could have to give me this test at 13 I would have failed to Let me give texting Kim right now I think we need to Get some extra care in here That's right exactly Let's see

Okay repeat the phrase No ifs ands or butts No ifs ands or butts There we go Okay good Passed let's see make up and write a sentence about anything oh really okay yeah you don't have to write it down just tell me a sentence about anything okay a giant flatulent horse took two donuts from the bar very good

contained a noun and a verb which is what we're looking for you uh you you you barely passed good job congratulations barely passed they must have really waited the question about count back by sevens Yeah, that one's worth five points to count back. Because I was actually excited, because you said count back from 100. I just thought, oh, that's easy. 100, 99, 98, 97. Like, that's easy. Yeah. No, right.

And then you're like, do it by sevens. It's like, oh, all right. Oh, here's an alternative I could have given you for that one. Spell world backwards. World? D-L-U-O-W. Right? They get that wrong?

D-L. What word did you think I said? World? Yeah. You said world, right? I did, and you put a U in there? D-L-O Sorry, D-L-R-O-W.

Holy shit. I didn't send on that message to Kim now. I can do dog. Yeah, I think you spelled wood backwards. Then I spelled wood? Oh, wood with a U, yeah. With a U, yeah. world the

yeah d l oh shit you need some more cheese my friend yeah give me some someone someone send me one of those cheese subscribe to monthly cheese packages you can get

that's right cheese of the week cheese of the week cheese of the week that's amazing loot cheese cheese crate by the way if you're out there and you sent us some funyon flavored lays potato was it lays it some potato chip

please let us know because mine arrived and I'm sure it's because we're talking about funnions and how funnions is just a flavor and not an onion discuss and uh we don't know who send us these and so we want to make sure to give you credit I'm sure yours is yours is uh I think mine is at the thing today at the P.O box so I think Kim's going to swing by there and grab it or I might go out later we'll see good um yeah funnions are either fun nor onions discussed. That's so true. But we'll eat them here. We'll do it. Oh, we'll totally eat them on the show. Are you kidding me? Absolutely. We don't care. And from what Brian said, I don't know 100% what's in there, but it sounds like there's more exotic takes on the funnion formula in there, more than just the usual, it sounds like. Oh, I don't know. It's it's laced potato chips that are funyon flavor. I mean, basically it's just instead of giving you a ring, they're just giving you a flat surface. Oh, but they taste like funnions. They taste like funnions. Oh, yeah, we got to try that. That's weird. Yeah. That's going to feel funky to do that.

It is. It's going to be like, ah, this is the flavor I'm used to, but not the shape. Yep. I was hoping for a torus. It's like these M&Ms tastes like cinnamon bears.

Okay. Exactly. Speaking of bears. Oh, my gosh. Transition. Amazing. Wow, well done.

Yeah. I didn't do it on purpose. Bear Raid on a crispy cream. Bear invaders loot in Alaska donut truck. Oh, boy. Oh, no. When you live in Alaska, you never know.

know what you're what you're going to get two bears on an alaska military base rated a crispy cream donut van which i didn't know that was even a thing i guess it makes sense sure they've got to deliver their donuts to convenience stores that's true our smiths has a little area for them they also have that done for donut area and i'm here to tell you if you're in the utah area or parts they're around and you can find done for donuts you will die they're so good yeah why put them why man why even put them in the same store as uh crispy cream i agree It feels like it's like saying, here's a steak and here's a slim gym, which you'd rather have. Here is a pound of sugar with a little bit of a baked good inside.

Very good for you. Yeah. It says here, let's see, here we go. Two bears did this. The driver usually left his doors open when he stopped at the store. But this time, a sow in one of her cubs, I didn't know mom bears are called sows. Did you? Oh, I didn't know that either.

It's news to me. They were loitering nearby. sauntered inside where they stayed for approximately or probably 20 minutes it says on Tuesday morning the probably is weird anyway the store manager for

Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson J.M. Express What is what the names? I'm going to run down to Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson J.M. Express and pick up some donuts. You need anything? Oh God. Are you going to

Are you going to the Joint Base Elmendorf-Ritchards and JMM Express on on Lookout Road or over on Main Street? Oh, no, I'm going to the Joint Base, Elm, Dorf, Richards, and JMM Express on Highway 21. Did you know they installed, they actually built a Joint-Beselman-Dorf-Ritchinson-Jamm-Express on Highway 21? So much easier to get to that one, because nobody knows about it. You've got to think these people just call it joint or the Express. Going to the Joint Base. Yeah, because why else would you do?

Oh, my gosh. I think that's a, and maybe, and this is just a guess from the name, that it's, that it's a commissary-type place that's near two military bases, the Elmendorf and Richardson military bases, maybe? Yeah, I don't know. The J.M. The J.M. Express is probably the store. That's probably what you really call it. Yeah, I'm going to go down the J.M. Express. Yeah, I think you're right. But 20 minutes, the guy, the Krispy Kreme dude just leaves his door open on his truck for 20 minutes. Maybe it's because it's Alaska, and it's a military base, and you're usually safe there. I guess.

I don't know. Hey, boo, boo, but you keep an eye out for the driver. I'll avail myself of some of these delicious donuts. Yogi, you're such a prank, he'd say. The bears chomped on donut holes and other pastries, and ignoring the banging on the side of the van that was intended to shoe them. Quote, I was beating on the van, and they were not moving. I could hear the braking, or I could hear them breaking open the,

the packages and everything she said i was like they don't even care she says well they're bears dude they're bears if the van is rocking just keep eating donuts i just saw the most oh it was in dark winds uh this isn't a spoiler but uh dwight's in it um can't think he was rain wilson r n wilson's in it and he plays this skeezy sleazy yeah the car dealer car dealer guy and there's scene where his van is rocking with him in it oh yes right one of the ones he's selling on his lot yeah i don't like it no sir and he comes out like all disheveled and kind of adjusting himself and stuff yeah it's gross it's gross rain wilson should not be doing it in a van that's all i'm saying it should be you should be enjoying bears beats and battle star galactica that's my whole take on life

anyway they finally got these bears out of there the bears got a ton of stuff and good on them they're bears bears win that's what i say um there's a brand new team there's a brand new team TV show that is claiming King Charles, you know, over there in the England. The king formerly known as Prince. Yep. The King formerly known as Prince. That's great. I've never heard that before until now.

I've never said that before. That just came out. That was really good. Well, anyway, according to this, King Charles pivoted, sorry, pivoted, piloted. Pivoted. I'm pivoting. Piloted a UFO in Canada of all places. Oh, yes.

Yep. If you thought some of this UFO shit. going around was stupid enough. I've got great news for you. It gets stupider. King Charles once flew an FBI or FBI. What is wrong with me? UFO.

New show, Nub TV has claimed. So there's some new show called Nub TV. Oh, I wish it was, maybe it's pronounced Nube. Noob TV. Noob would be great. NUB. So Canadians, let us know what the hell this is. I don't know what's going on.

Filmmaker and Nub TV host Mark Christopher Lee, who recently called on the British Monarch to help push for disclosure. regarding alien spacecraft has stated that he has received testimony and evidence regarding the royal family's interest in UFOs dating back to Earl Louis Mountbatten

Prince Philip's uncle that guy, that's a name right there. Earl Louis Mountbattene. Yeah, it could be Lewis, might be Louis, I'm not sure. Oh yeah. Prince Phillips uncle who allegedly had a UFO land on his broadlands estate because of course the aliens

would choose a very auspicious location to land aircraft for the first time. I hate this kind of stuff. Drives me up a tree. Anyway, interest then passed on to Philip, who died in April of 2021, age 99. Philip! Remember him?

Uh-huh. Very good. Who himself was regularly briefed on the latest UFO news from his private secretary. Secretary, they would say there. Secretary. Philip took a keen interest in the Rendell-Sham Forest incident, which has been dubbed as the British Roswell. You know, I hate this stuff because it assumes so much about where they prefer to land.

Do you know what I mean? Right. Why would they have that preference? It's like, oh, I heard they landed right there on the White House steps once. Yeah. Why? They don't know shit about our political system. They don't care.

No, exactly. I hate that kind of thing. It's like a form of exceptionalism that drives into dumbness in a really significant way. I don't like it. Anyway, the show investigates the outlandish claim from a former colleague of Charles, who says that they were working on Project Serpico in Sandy Point in Canada in 1975. The alleged project was set up to investigate new forms of transport with particular reference to magnetism. The source said, or the source also alleges that they had secured technology developed from the Germans after World War II,

which itself was developed from a crashed UFO. So Hitler found a UFO and said, developed some... We got some technology from it. Make nine of them, he said. Make nine! The alleged project was set up to investigate new forms. Oh, I already did that. In 75, whilst stationed in Sandy Point, the then, I love that term.

The then. The then Prince Charles was alleged to have flown one of these things, a similar craft, that looked like a version of the Avercourt. I don't know what that is. Avercar. Oh, Aviccar. Like an Avrocar. Like an ultra light, I think, right?

Yeah, it was like a hover car thing they made. I've seen video of this. Which they developed unsuccessfully in Canada in 1959. Charles Kraft actually three pilots, three pilot domes all encased in a heat-sensitive glass dome to protect the pilots from the magnetic effects given off by the larger craft controlling their flight. AKA, he thinks that King Charles is fully aware of the UFO conspiracy and is part of hiding it. F off, whatever. He couldn't drive a screw, let alone. and a UFO.

Yeah. Come on now. Yeah, it's dumb. I don't like it. No, sir, I don't. Finally, Terry Z had a story for us. Oh, Terry Z. Yep.

lives in Chicago. Terry, shout out to Terry. Been around the community for a long time. He put this in our Discord. He said, woman rescued from outhouse toilet after climbing in to retrieve her Apple Watch. Oh. Yeah. What generation?

Uh, what does it say? That's the question. Yeah, because if it's like a, was it an ultra? If it's like a Gen 2, freaking. leave it. Yeah, let it go. But if it's one of those new ultra-nice ones. I mean, and what do you, how do you,

how aggressively are you wiping that your watch comes off as your, yeah, that is some very vigorous wiping. Or very loose band, like get a better band or something. I don't know what she did. Well, we'll find out. It says here, this is in Michigan, by the way. The woman was rescued Tuesday from an outhouse toilet in northern Michigan after she climbed in to retrieve her Apple Watch.

I don't care if my watch is blessed by the Pope, cost me $15,000. Well, maybe then, maybe. Yeah, but certainly nothing under $1,000. No. No, $600, $700 is making me climb down into Schindler's List Zone down there. No thanks. The funniest phone drop thing I've ever seen was a video of a girl worked at a Wendy's or something. and she was using her phone

while putting fries down and she was looking at her phone and putting the fries down in the friar and then she went to go put it in her pocket and she didn't aim it right or didn't get it close enough to the leg hole and it bounced out and went into the friar and so she scoops this thing out

pulls it out with a pair of tongs lays it there and just looks at it like hoping it's going to work again I don't think these are rated for no probably not but why was that being filmed Why was somebody filming her looking at her phone making fries?

I mean, that's a great question, right? Yeah. That's what, you know, when you ever you show me videos of like, hey, here's something really funny going on. It's like, all right,

unless this is like CCTV footage or they were completely expecting something else to happen, why was that being filmed? Let's see if I can, oh, I found her. Okay.

Okay. Oh, it's a, it's a security line, security camera. Like the Wendy's recording yeah they have a security camera or something okay

so that makes sense right like way more sense totally makes sense so chat I'll put this up and we watch for a second so this is the lady I was thinking of I said lady she's like in a teen or something yeah and you can see her so let's let's let a little loop again she's pulling it out right now

oh I guess it didn't go in the basket it went under the basket that's even worse yeah so she went she took it out and then dropped it oh my gosh it just gives me the gas. Oh, I mean, it's not a toilet, but

I'd be so pissed at myself. Deep-fried phone, baby. Oh, that's kind of funny, actually. Well, this lady, her name is not released, by the way. I wouldn't want it out there either. Lowered herself into the toilet after dropping the watch at the Department of Natural Resources boat launch in Dixon Lake. First responders were called when the woman was heard yelling for help,

the toilet was removed, and a strap was used haul her out of there. Oh, quote. Is it a strap or was it a Milanese loop? That's a great question. It depends on how much money you have and how much you're willing to plan. Was it a silicone band or was it a... Yep.

Didn't they change all that? Oh, no, the Nike band got all weird. The leather, well, they also, they're getting rid of the leather ones. Oh, were this just not selling or something? No, it's part of their new dedication to animal, small footprint products. All of my products have no animal stuff in them. products. Yep.

Fantastic. Here's a quote from the police. If you lose an item in the outhouse toilet, do not attempt to venture inside the containment area. Serious injury may occur. That's not all. You're down there with other people's poop. Yeah.

Also, another statement from the police, don't stand so close to me. They said that immediately. Yes. Pulled her out. Oh, they do, do, do, do, da, da. Yeah, no kidding. Northwest Detroit is where this was.

40 miles northwest of Detroit. So not northwest Detroit, but north of Detroit. Anyway, careful out there, everyone. Don't drop your stuff into the pooper. All right? Do your best. If your watch has a tendency to fall off, take it off before you use one of those board parties.

Game straight. We're going to call Bill in a second, but we can't do that without a song here to break up the show. What do you got there for us today? Yeah, going to Sacramento, California. A band called Enemy of Fate, led by singer and songwriter Tiffany Fabiani. They're comparing her to folks like Adele, Stevie

Nick's, Lady Gaga, Annie Lennox, and Anne Wilson, because she has got a big, powerful voice. It's so true. She tried out for the voice in 2019, 2021, and didn't advance, but she didn't want to give up on making music. She

got back into it, and here is her passionate and personal debut track. It's called Dear Dad, here is Enemy of Fate. staring in the rear view mirror choices ride or wrong is this just my reflection or a goodbye song Bleeding, love's paddle field

She left, never looking bad Even now you'll never know You'll rape what you saw Spend my life chasing the ghost Dear Dad I owe nothing to you I've learned to speak my true Despite it all I won't fall

Dear Dad I wasn't the one who left now Who's written who Despite it all I won't fall Dear Dad Train within always sink of swim never good enough I was bound you lived on hoping not to be found reaching when I'm on the edge promises that you never kept memories scattered on the floor

you will reap what you stole always man you could be. Dear Dad, I owe nothing to you. I've learned to speak my true, despite it all I won't fall. Dear Dad, I wasn't the one who left now who's missing who. Despite it all, I'm all.

all I won't fall Dear Dad Worth more than you've ever shown Kids in my own you'll never know No regrets that had burned I found peace and I had learned To forgive, I never forget

What a harmless man you could be Dear Dad I owe nothing to you I've learned to speak my true Despite it all I won't fall Dear Dad I wasn't the one who left now who's missing who Despite it all I want for

Dear Dad That's about it for Barbara Blackstone and the surviving passengers It's for your boobs We've returned. Here's a recap of said song we played. That's right. That song is Enemy of Fate and their new single, Dear Dad. Oh, sounds like it might be a very personal song.

Yeah, I think so. From the lyrics, Geroentee. Guarontique, like the French Cajun you are. All right. That's right. Let's get Bill in. See how he's doing. I know he had a recent bout with the COVID's.

That's right. The Rona. Yeah, the Rona. I think this is a second time. Or Barry has Rona too right now. Oh, no. Vegas? Was it Vegas?

Maybe. He thinks it might have actually come before Vegas, like during some travel he did beforehand. Oh. But played D&D with Barry and Tanner and our new edition, James. Yeah, so I'm going to roll that D4. Yeah. Oh, you know, I let me go ahead and use a frostbolt on them and, yeah, yeah, you know, we're just going to see what it happens. Oh, my gosh, I need to get into a game and see how that goes.

All right, listen to this. There's still something wrong, isn't there, Bill? Well, I hope not, because you had COVID, but I hope you're doing better. You doing better? You good? Doing better. Oh, that's good. I was sad to hear it.

It sounded like you got a little DragonCon to swipe from somebody and brought it home with you. And that can happen. Yeah. So despite getting COVID again at DragonCon, I did last year. Oh, was it the same event as well? You got them all done. Yeah. I mean, if it's going to happen, it feels like that is the place that's going to happen.

Sure. Yeah. Despite that, and let's hope this doesn't become a thing. I had a great time. DragonCon was amazing. Yeah. I'll bet you did. You never have a bad time there.

Are you kidding? I saw off pictures. I could tell you were smiling. Oh, yeah. We figured out the event. We don't do any work. We just have a lot of fun. Yeah, that's how you shouldn't do it.

By the way, though, I know you weren't going to, I thought you were, there was some talk that you weren't going to take your Ghostbuster gear, but I saw you in your Ghostbuster gear. Did you change your mind? Oh, we brought it. We brought it all. Okay. I had to take apart my proton pack to fit it in my luggage, but it worked. Good.

Sorry, my cat's just making a fuss behind me. um we also did our tgri costumes from teenage mutant ninja turtles too also a hit we ran into someone else who had the same costume we found another dude in an orange jumpsuit oh my gosh that is such an obscure one i'm i guess i shouldn't be shocked that dragon con would be where it happens yeah um still that seems that seems that seems crazy to have that match you know i uh i saw you guys in the there's a great video that that um by the person who i think always makes these videos basically it's like the culmination of all the cosplay at DragonCon 30-minute video, but I saw you guys in there. I saw, like, you know, it's the weirdest thing when you see people, the things they choose to do cosplay on, because there's some really obscure shit. I saw two people, one of them dressed as an AMC theater's employee, and the other one dressed exactly like Nicole Kidman from the commercial for AMC theaters. Yeah, my friend also elicited that. That was freaking brilliant And then

Willem Defoe and Pattinson from Lighthouse Or that was called the Lighthouse? The Lighthouse, yeah. The Lighthouse, yeah. With a giant seagull and, oh my God, incredible. Where they all looked black and white and stuff? They were black and white.

Yeah, they were totally done up black and white. Of course. That movie gives me the Willys. Well, yeah, it sounds like another good, successful one. COVID aside. Anything you do different with your... stuff this year? Do you learn anything? Did you go, oh, you know, I should have. No, we just had fun. We also did a meme costume. Brittany and I, I just put a link in Discord. It's

the hella Taika Waititi meme. Oh, yeah. And that was, that was a hit. That was so much fun. Oh, yeah. You told you told us you were going to do this. Look at this. Oh, that's great. Your Dragon Kong cosplay photos. That's amazing. Nicely done. I wasn't sure. When I first saw that photo. I thought it was your brother. You guys are starting to melt back into each other. I mean, I know you've always been twins, but there's something going on right now. It's weird. Yeah, he was there as well, him and his wife, and we all had a really great time. So much fun. That's awesome. All I could think about while you were gone was, though, I was playing Starfield like a wild man. And I thought, Bill's going to want to make this gun. Oh, wait a minute. He'll make this gun. Oh, and these three guns I just found, he'll make all these guns.

So guess what I want to talk about for the rest of today? I'm going to guess guns in Starfield. That's right. Actually, one more quick thing about DragonCon. I actually filmed my own little costume music video over on the Punish Prop channel. So while I was on the floor, I had my phone and my camera with me, and I took some footage and cut that all together. So anyone wants to see what my DragonCon was like. That really captures it all.

Nice. Nice. Oh, yeah, there it is. I'll play a little bit of this while we talk. All right. So, Starfield. having COVID right when I got back from DragonCon was a great excuse to sit down and play 100 hours of Starfield

and I've got to let I've started a list of things I want to make and I've actually started building something nice and do you when you do this you say you make a list is it just like your play a little pad next to you you just take notes like right now the list exists in my head but I should write it down but like you know resin foam foam board things like that right like what am i going to need a hose yeah or just really just a list of the things

i want to make oh gotcha okay so like the spacesuits are an obvious choice i got to pick a favorite spacesuit and the weapons are another pretty obvious choice but the world is full of just neat stuff like i want to make a bunch of different chunks uh containers the food there's like a food franchise called Chunks. I want to make a bunch of those. I want to make the data pad, the slate that you read everything on, because those are everywhere. Oh, yeah. Those are cool because they open up hidden secrety stuff. They're like, uh, it's like, oh, I found it at a place I can go get a free ship and a suit that's rad or whatever. Yeah. I want to make the toys. There's like the Galacta cat plush toy. Like, how much fun would that be to have just sitting

around? There's so many, it's, I mean, they've done, they spent 10 years populating this world with stuff. Yeah. And it's all neat space stuff and I want to make it all. Yeah, there are some things. One thing I will give these guys big props for this time. And I couldn't always say this about previous Bethesda games. I love them all, really. I'm kind of a Bethesda head like you are.

But, you know, Skyrim or even the Fallout series up to Fallout 4 and even 76, the areas and the places you go or like the rooms you enter, a lot of common assets that they use throughout the game. So it's going to look familiar every time you go anywhere. They're not drastically different. What surprised me about this game is you not only have the different surfaces, different planets, different ecosystems and all of that, but when you go into these bases, these caves, these outposts, they are very often wildly different from each other. Like, aesthetically, you'll walk into one and go, well, this looks like something from Alien, the first movie, the whole design aesthetic, basically the inside of my ship, and now this is, you know, the building looks like that. It's very Nostromo. but then you'll go to another planet for another mission and you'll walk into

what is essentially a big corpo office space it is so drastically stylistically different that to me is so impressive because that alone and this is even out in space that alone has made just everywhere I go feel like new explorable space

that is not just repeating oh totally I love it you go to Paradiso is like a vacation planet with a beach you can steal you can steal swimsuits and make all of your crew wear them. It's so much fun. Everyone walks around a bikinis on your ship if you want. It's fantastic. Actually, my favorite, the neon dancers were my favorite outfit. I bought a bunch of those

and made everyone at my ship wear them. Nice. Terrific. Are you doing, you doing any ship building stuff in there? Yeah. Yeah. I haven't really touched that yet. I've done, you know, I've gotten new ships. I've improved those ships. I've bought upgrades and all of that, but I haven't done any of the actual builder stuff yet it's pretty daunting the shipbuilding and that's another thing you could make right you could 3D model or 3D print your own little spaceship model I might have to do that it's a pretty daunting system there's a lot to it you can't just get every piece from the same location so you've got to travel to a lot of different locations to get access to all the stuff you have to upgrade your perks so that you can have access to different

pieces and it's a lot and people have been building some crazy stuff um so i i built a bunch of ships and i'm going to build a bunch yeah you'll spend your your time your time in this game is not over you're still you're there for a long time all i can think about is you for half the time i played i'm like this is yeah my gosh so the i have started a project i'm building the rattler um from uh it's one of the pistols because i love my space pistols and um i've got a new video coming out next week about how i collected all the reference images which is useful for any video game, but especially this one. So in the game

you can load up your inventory and you can get a 360-degree view of any item, of your helmets, your spacesuits, your pistols, your chunks. So it's a great way to record I just do a video recording of the screen and like rotate around

an object to get views of every angle, which is crazy handy if you're going to make the thing. But then also Brittany, who's an absolute superhero, was able to through the game files and extract the low-poly 3-D model of the pistol that I'm working on. Oh, nice. God, that makes them so much easier. How does she know how to do that? That's crazy.

She did lots of research. There's a Starfield Discord where people were talking about how to figure that stuff out. Wow. That must have saved. I mean, that would save you a ton of time where you're just not only just trying to find it. Yeah, that's great. Now, the low-poly model, you can't just 3D print it. It's missing a lot of features. A lot of the features on the final objects are added with textures, like normal's maps and all that. So the screenshots I had, I overlaid that with the 3D model, and then I was able to start modeling the whole thing in Fusion 360. Basically, just build the parts over that 3D model and high definition with a high level

of fidelity. And it went great. I've got most of the parts modeled, but I'm starting to figure out how they go together. I printed some of the parts. Parts last night. I have a 6K resin printer and they look awesome. Very excited about that. Yeah, I bet. And I'm going to have some moving parts, which is really exciting. So the magazine on the front of that thing pops off. There's two tabs you squeeze to slide the whole thing off. So I've designed a little mechanism for that and I'll be testing that today and see if it works.

What? So this little, the barrel thing, well, I guess I don't have this pistol in the game yet, but I assume when you reload it, the animation is saying exactly what you're saying. you push the two things and how it comes. That's cool. What is it with you and the stocky little pistols? You'd love that. Yeah, I don't know. They speak to me. Yeah, chunky.

I think you called it chunky online. I agree with that. They're like chunky pistols. Yeah, chunky revolvers are my thing. But then also I'm going to make it so that when you pull the trigger, the top slide on it kicks back. Oh. I have a toy that I turned into Robocop's Auto 9. It's a plastic 9 millimeter.

And I took it apart and I looked at the. mechanism and it does that same thing. So it's a mechanical thing. When you pull the trigger, it just slides the whole thing back and then it kicks forward. So I'm going to copy that. I haven't figure that out quite yet. Maybe I'll do that today. I'm really excited. Wood green handle grip and all that stuff. I got some real wood. I'm going to see and see the wood. So I'll have real wood. Yeah. You bastard. I'm going to come to your house and steal this while you're sleeping. This sounds wow all right uh any is that so that's your big that's your current one but there's plenty of more you may you may have you may be building guns for years you know yeah and i'm gonna have to make a

space suit i'm leaning towards the mark one right now um the mark one space suit oh that's the one you can go in the basement and sneak out of the side of the glass yeah that's the one which i did almost immediately i don't know if they so there was a patch yesterday that got rid of all those hidden chests that had extra money in them um people are exploiting like the one in the It's western town. I always forget the name of it. Yeah. So they got rid of all that.

And one thing I didn't check is if they got rid of the, essentially the exploit that is, if you line up just right, you can loot from that thing. But you're not supposed to be able to, especially at level one or whatever. Yeah. I tried it yesterday. I actually tried to do that and it didn't work. So it's possible they fixed it. They may have patched it. That's a bummer.

I like jank. I like jank. I like jank they leave it in. I don't know why I just like it. Yeah. I've seen so many videos of weird, like people slowly. rising up in the air as they're talking to you or faces with no skin

just eyeballs and teeth. It's a Bethesda game. All the charming expected. All of that said, it's one of the most solid at-launched Bethesda games in their history. Maybe the most solid.

They're known for like game-busting bugs and all kinds of problems and you usually wait some months before things get ironed out. But I'll give them some credit. I feel like this time while there is some jank, it's all charming jank

and it hasn't ruined my experience. Although, if you listen to John from Kor, he's pissed because he was building a ship and there's some very rare bug that happened, which meant that once he was done, you couldn't retrieve the ship you built. So it was like no point. And if you brought it up in the editor again, it was just, it showed blank, even though it said it was all there. So it's a weird one off, but it was like five hours of building. He was pretty.

I mean, I have like a hundred different saves. I still save every five minutes. Same. Make fresh saves every once in a while. Yeah. Quick save. Often, everyone. Brian, I don't know if you picked it up yet,

but that'll be your goal is to make sure you have a quick save. When I get it, I will quick save. Yeah, when you walk into a room and you're like, well, this is going to be fine. Just quick save anyway. Quick save anyway, just in case. You never know if there's a dude hanging out behind a barrel with a gun. Yeah, highly recommend that.

Well, that's great, dude. I'm excited for this project. How soon do we start seeing video? I guess you're probably when you're done with the project, right? Yeah, a couple weeks, hopefully. Like I said, I started 3D printing parts today. the files will be i'll make my printed my stils and everything available so if anyone else wants to make this thing they can i'm going to print it on my resin printer but i'm also going to test it on my

fdm printer so hopefully it works for everyone uh and yeah a couple of weeks i it's i'm kind of obsessed with it so it should be done soon very very excited to see this thing uh keep your eye on his chin beard account on x slash twitter and uh everywhere you follow bill course punish props dot com hey you probably got a little bonus something this week like you always do i do my do my buddy Tom Sandlatter made some carbon fiber parts using molds that he 3D printed. And I think that's just the coolest thing ever. And I'm looking for an opportunity to make something out of carbon fiber. Oh, no kidding.

Oh, dude, carbon fiber. How do you, that sounds, I don't know what you do to do carbon fiber. I guess a lot of chemicals and shit, right? Just some epoxy resin is what you would use in the carbon fiber cloth. It's actually a pretty simple process. uh the technique is really where it comes in and then since you can make anything with a 3d printer you can just make a mold is it is it like super malleable when you put it into the mold and you just the the liquid helps yep it's a it's just a cloth the carbon fibers really okay oh so that's

nothing like i thought i thought you had to melt down a pot of this stuff and then okay interesting carbon fiber's cool man it's so cool yeah i one day i want us all to be wearing it You know, it's just the standard style of the day. Sure. Everyone's got carbon, you know, like playing cyberpunk or something. We're all wearing carbon fiber t-shirts and shit. Amazing. Go check that out.

That is Make Real Carbon Fiber Parts at Home from Thomas. How do you say his last name? Sand-Latterer. Sand-Latterer. Wow. There's somewhere around. He's got good style sense. I like his avocado.

His avocado shirt. That is such a Brian shirt. Look at that Brian shirt. like I'm looking in the notes to see I know he says where to get the resin and where you get the stuff to make the carbon fiber where did you get the shirt dude come on put that in the notes too

cough up your shirt source buddy Bill always good to hear from you man I'm glad you're feeling better too and can't wait to see progress on this thing have a fantastic week and we'll see you later friends see you in space bye all right there goes Bill

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Let's get out of here with a call. This is from Amy Robinson. Now, a little story on this. She'd sent a call via phone, but then hit a dead spot. And so all it was was basically you're saying, hey, it's Amy, something, something, something. And then big long space, big long space. And then, so anyway, we'll see you guys soon. Thanks a lot.

Bye. And I was like, hey, I really want to know what you said. So she redid it in a nice little audio form here. And we're going to play it now. So here is that call from Amy. Hello, TMS pals. It's Amy. I was listening back to some old episodes. And Scott, you mentioned the whole thing about loving it when kids come up with a mispronunciation of a thing that's just so dang cute and you're sad that you know it'll go away eventually. So I have a potential fix for that. And that is to kind of make it a family joke. So I'll give you an example. When my daughter was about five, we, you know, and I have always always always loved Pink, the artist. And, you know, she has her radio edit of the song, Raise Your Glass.

So in the chorus, she has a lyric that says, all my underdogs. Well, my daughter thought that that lyric was on my other nose. And my daughter's now 16. Obviously, she doesn't think that anymore. But as a family joke, when we sing that song, it's still on my. other knows. Okay, love you guys. Bye. It's a lot. We do that a lot around here. Oh, God, yeah. I'm sure this is true, Tristan, as well. You have, like, these things they do.

Not just Tristan, but Tina. Like, we went and saw a yacht rock review, and they did the song Africa by Toto. Darn right, Tina, we're both singing a hundred men from Mars. You know, the hundred men from Mars can ever do. Yeah, it's the, that's maybe my favorite of the misheard lyrics. I love that one. Yeah. But like this happened in high school for Carter, but we still do it to her. We were sitting around reading something. She read a, it was a, was it a game? I think it may have been a game we were playing.

And she was reading a card and she said, he was in prison for possessing. Then she paused and went, Narcotis. And we all went, I'm sorry, what? And she goes, oh, narcotics. Anyway, never let her forget it. Anytime anything comes up with a drug reference or anything,

we're like, hey, Carter, you want to hear about narcotis? And she gets annoyed, sufficiently annoyed. but I do it too everybody does it then we all glom on to it the dog for example our dog Ripley will now forever be when I go in the room I go

Rippery like that because that's how Van called her for years So she's Rippery until the end of time Yeah Chocolate milk is chocket milt Because that's what Tay used to say When she was a kid

Like Dohetros Deh, that's right Dehitros Deh Ohos Or no Dehotries That's what it is Dehotries

That was that you had to hootry. Yeah, close enough. But they, you know, these things stick. And I'm glad to hear, I used to think we were a little weird, but I think it's everybody. So it's what you do. Close people. Keeps us humble.

Yeah, I was going to say, people that are also close to each other, you can give each other this kind of shiz because you're close. Exactly. You can take the joke. There's a reason why, I mean, I can't ever air this stuff publicly. But you should see the things done away and I send each other offline. If we weren't, if you didn't know it, if you didn't know we were friends, you would think we were the worst,

enemies. Right. Just the stuff you say back. Oh, the things we say, they're horrible. But to us, we're laughing and having a great time. People in the not know, they'd be like, what are you doing? Why would you say? This is a, you consider this person a friend? Yeah. And we're always trying to outdo how gross the last thing was. It's just a thing we do. So I don't know. I encourage this. If you can find friends and family where you can be like that with them and no one walks away but hurt, that's an amazing, amazing relationship. You want those. all right all right

thank you Amy for your call always good to hear from you we'll see her in a couple weeks here for read this we got some

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if you do yours you'll be part of that great family do it today check it out that's patreon.com slash tms and now yeah music yeah all right this is uh this is one that's actually a couple weeks old finally getting to it steve steve of the uh steve and carey slash cleo good morning scurvy and bilge today this 12th of september you know 14 days ago i celebrate my 39th birthday yes this day did creep up on me than I dare to admit so much so that I completely forgot to get this in earlier. Don't worry, Cleo got in a request for you.

I should have known when the Halloween decorations started hitting the shelves already. Anywho, wanted to celebrate with two of my favorite covers. I'll let the covermaster himself choose which, but if neither fit the feel of the day for you, I'll let you surprise me. Thank you both for everything that you do that makes our mornings, evenings, and weekends brighter. Azure Wind in the Tadpool. Nice. I always forget Azure Wind is that.

I know. Yeah, she throws me every time. There are so many people like that that is like, oh, yeah, I forget that that's your avatar name. Yeah, we're not good at it. Anyway, his choices were everybody wants to rule the world by Weezer, which I feel that's one of those ones. It's like, oh, man, couldn't you've Weezered this song up a little bit more?

It sounds so close to the original. But the other one is The Angels, and we got to get out of this place. Great cover by The Angels. Going all the way back to 1980 for this one from their album Dark Room. a cover of the song by The Animals, Eric Burden's band The Animals. Here are The Angels.

We've got to get out of this place. See you guys tomorrow. One, two, three, one. So, I'm going to be able to be. In this dirty old part of the city, When the sun refuse to shine

People tell me there ain't no use in trying And now, my girl, you're so young and pretty And one thing I know is true You're dead before your time is you See my daddy in bed and dying Watch his hell is done in the night He's been working and saving his life away He's been working so hard

Yeah Every night of days I've been working too Yeah We've got to get out of this place And it's the last thing we ever do We've got to get out of this place Because girl has a better line for me and you

Now my girl, my girl, you're so, my girl, you're so well. My girl you're so young and so pretty And one thing I know is true You've been dead before your time is you See my daddy in bed and dying Watch his hair is starting to play He's been walking a slave in his life away He's been working so hard

so hard every night and day Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah We gotta get out of this place If it's the last thing we ever do We've got to get out of this place

Because girl in the better than life Oh, I'll meet her Come here We've got to get out of this face if it's the last thing we ever do. We've got to get out of this place. Because girl is a better life of me and do. We've gotta get out of this place, and it's the last thing we ever do.

We've got to get out of this place because girl is a better life for the end of you. Don't be a new You