The Morning Stream - TMS 2564: Mac & No Cheese

Episode Date: December 5, 2023

Phillip Thomas Michael Hall. Put That In Your Chicken And Melt It. Delivering Salt to your Face. Does the carpet match the horn? Burrito Body. I Can't Believe it's Not Cheese. Naked-Ass Saltine. The Hobbit Very Smooth and convincing. I don't like excessive peeeeeeeen. Doxing Joey Butafuko. Not-Quite-Pepperoni on Not-Quite-Pizza. As older, aging white men go. Cool Dude is Two For One. Hydrant baby, just drip some water under the tree for me. Literary Time of the Month with Amy 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 Patrions at patreon.com slash TMS, except it's pronounced patron, like Bob Decker, Ken, and Carlos Chucos. Coming up on TMS, Philip Thomas Michael Hall. Put that in your chicken and melt it. Delivering salt to your face. Does the carpet match the horn? Burrito body. I can't believe it's not cheese. Naked ass saltine.

The Hobbit, very smooth and convincing. I don't like excessive pee. Doxing Joey Buttafuko Not Quite Pepperoni on Not Quite Pizza As older aging white men go Cool dude is two for one Hydrant baby Just drip some water under the tree

For me Literary time of the month with Amy And more on this episode of The Morning Stream I don't agree that we should just sit back Swallow some acid and say well man Pollution's gonna kill us anyway So what kind of preparation is LSD

For what you're going to have to do to straighten it out. Do you want to know what's in the McRib? The morning stream. What do you say? We get nipple to nipple. And it's another time for us to sit here and talk. to each other on the morning stream it's tuesday december 5th 2023 i'm scott johnson and that's brian abit hi brian oh oh hello oh hello scott five days in that is one

sure into the air yeah i don't know what it is who's your santa today by the way did you have you already oh i haven't revealed it but you know what i'll debut it right here on the show let's just do it uh i did a i haven't posted it publicly yet but i did a um kind of a weird one let's see if I can find the damn thing. Okay, here we go. All art. Okay, here we go. All right, Chad, I'll put it up so you can see it and I'll put it in here so

Brian can see it. Basically, I was just like, hey, let's do something a little different today. Okay. So what I did as I delay for time, there we go. Oh, that's awesome. I made a Santa fire hydrant. And it's basically just the green hat wearing red fire hydrant with gloves and a taped on beard uh to celebrate the holidays yeah it was a lot of fun to draw so just mixing it up a little bit

today's santa of 25 uh check out frogpants.com slash santa for all of them although this one's not up yet but it will be by the time the show goes up so watch for that nice um anyway we got a lot of we got a lot of going on it's a tuesday we get things it's all piled up yeah neat little piles though easy to sort of suss through and dig through and figure out what we want to talk about like this we've organized into piles exactly right that's what we we do here? We keep organized so that you don't have to. A quick warning to Stephanie in our chat.

I don't know if she's in there. Stephanie Pets, she might be. I don't know. Are we about to talk about an app? It's not an app, but it is a video game. And I know she feels, you know, she's not as opposed to game games as she is, say, phone games. However, I don't think she likes to talk about games at all. But I don't know if you were on the planet Earth yesterday or not.

but the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer landed early because somebody leaked it internally. Oh, really? Is that what prompted them to say, oh, screw, let's just do it now? It was supposed to be today, and they had given us a countdown for a couple of weeks now or something

for it being today, but then somebody leaked a really crappy-looking, low-res version of it on Twitter or something, and they said, fine, freaking F it, we're going to put it up. so they put it up and said our trailer got leaked here watch our 4K version and

anyway it looks insane it looks it does look really crazy like I know I know they've made advancements with their engine I thought Red Dead 2 was a really great showcase of where they were headed this just is

it's incredible it looks insane and it also looks like it's very much in the what we expect from a GTA game first time with a female protagonist or at least one of them. It looks like they're a couple. Is that Michelle?

Rodriguez? Oh, what's her name? From Rodriguez. Is that her doing the voice? It sounded like her at first and I haven't gone back to look and see if it was her. That's a great question.

I don't know. I didn't look either. The mocap looks like her. Like the character design looks like her. And I'm all about. So you're going to be able to, they haven't said, whether you'll jump back and forth between them

or if you'll choose one. At the beginning of the game. Oh, and play that character all the way through. Correct. Like the last game, five, you had three protagonists, and you jump between them. Right. You didn't choose one and then stick with one. So in this case, I think it's going to be similar.

You're going to play some as him, some as her, and then some together, because you're a couple. I want to play her real bad, though. Bonnie and Clyde, basically, the modern body and Clyde and a sea of Florida man, basically. There is so much Florida man in that trailer, right? Yeah, the lady with the hammers. and uh yeah dude washing a watering his lawn in a in a fong yeah yeah freaking gator walking into a 7-11 or whatever all that stuff looks great but what i'm most excited about is it's set in vice city which was a game you know the vice city game which came out after three was a throwback it was it was set in the 80s

in a miami like city called vice city and it was my favorite setting for the series ever like since then Even to this day, I prefer Prefer Vice City. This is that, but in a modern engine, it's something like four times bigger than the last game. I can't freaking wait. And then you find out... Current times, judging by the social media posts you see in the...

Oh, yeah, big time. Yeah, there was some hope. I had a little bit of hope they'd put it back in the 80s, but it's fine. Sure. It's fine that they did this. And it just looks so detailed. There's so much stuff on screen,

so much happening in that engine now. that is almost photorealistic to the point of like insanity I can't wait to play it but I gotta wait I have to wait until 2025 like you do everyone else is exactly it's not even next year

it's the year after is uh have they did san andreas have I know san andreas was uh your California Southern California deal but was um was there a part of that that was Vegas like you could go to a Vegas clone

there was not misremembering it yeah yeah they totally was and it was called they have fake names for all these cities They did I'm sure I remember what it was Yeah It's all a big parody All the brands and the game are always fake

It's half the fun of the thing But I can't remember what they called Vegas Liberty City and yeah Yeah my favorite I like Liberty City It's fun it's basically New York I like San Andreas Which is basically L.A. or Southern California

And Southern California And Bakersfield and some of that But Vice City dude And they're gonna have like Little Islands off the coast of this place it's not called Florida it's called I forgot the name they have a fake name for Florida

so it's like instead of Florida Las Venturas okay yeah that's right Las Venturas Oh is that what Vegas was called? Yeah I like when they do that crap I do too Yeah it's it's like

it's like D.C's that's Metropolis It's Gotham City It's not Chicago, it's Gotham City Exactly Yeah The thing about San Andreas and then five which is set there again.

It's a parody. It's like an amplification of everything from Hollywood down to, you know, street gang stuff and everything in between. It's always been this like sharp social commentary on American culture and kind of in very ridiculous ways. The problem with setting it in Florida is there's already enough real life weirdness happening in Florida that how does the game go, you know, go, go, over that right exactly yeah you don't need to amplify it uh if anything you know for to make it believable you have to scale it down yeah even the lady and the moo with the two hammers in her hand in the trailer that's based on an actual social media video of some florida lady with two hammers really okay i was wondering if that the way they the showcased her i thought oh i wonder if she's

from a previous game and i never never saw her no she's like an actual person social media Yeah, looks very different than the real lady. They don't want these lawsuits or anything. Sure, sure. When you're double wielding two hammers and standing there looking at someone's camera, you know, you're pretty recognizable, I think. Yeah. Is there a guy in a bandana is telling you to hide your kids, hide your wife?

No, but they should, I hope. There's a guy with a major gold grill in his face. Oh, yeah. He looks awesome. They got a Lamborghini-looking, Kuntosh-looking thing like Miami Vice guys. used to drive. And if I remember right, Vice City had

not Don Johnson, the other guy. So, Philip Michael Thomas Hall. Philip Michael Thomas? No. This is a Philip. Was it, am I thinking the right?

I'm thinking of the Philip Michael. Michael Phillips. This is a three-name guy, right? It was a three-name guy. Right? Tubbs was a three-name guy. There was Crockett and Tubbs.

Tubbs was a, right. Tubbs was, Tubbs was... Philip Michael. Jaden, Louise, Frankenberger. That's the guy, related to our own Bobby Frankenberger, yeah. I can't remember. Tom Norm had me for a second. Oh, it's Philip Thomas Michael Hall.

Oh, that ain't it. Anyway. Seriously, do we have to look this up? What are you... Chat room, you're so slow today. Come on, you're supposed to be on top of this. Let's see. Who played Tubbs?

in Miami Vice. Philip Michael Thomas. Philip Michael Thomas. Okay. All right. I think I had a lot of the right words, just maybe in the wrong order. Yeah, he was, uh, he played Ricardo Tubbs and he, uh, was in the game. He, he actually played a Tubbs-like character in the original Vice City. So I don't know if we're going to get those kinds of references, like, you know, some famous voices from the, from that era or from Miami related things. I don't know. But I'm stoked. Can't wait. 2025 bring it and for those complaining that it's taken too long and 2025 is too far off after an announcement uh i would remind you that 2011 is when they announced gta four and didn't come out till the end of

2013 so put that in your chicken and melt it uh what else oh brian yes sir good news uh bad news this might be good news or bad news i don't know what this is yeah but craft from the headline i don't feel like it's good news. I feel like it's not news that I care about. It's probably not news that's going to affect you, right? But I know we have some vegans in the crowd. They're probably thrilled about this. I don't know. We do. But Kraft's new mac and cheese is ditching the cheese. They're going vegan. So it's Mac. Okay. All right. What are they replacing the cheese with? Vegan cheese. I mean, it's already orange dust. I mean, is it barely cheese as it is, I guess. But um vegan cheese which i've had is quite good we made some here and it was great um i don't

remember how she made it i don't kind of don't want to know how she made it to be honest but whatever kim did to make it it was good and i'm i'm i would personally be fine with this but for the first time ever the household staple is going plant based with a new version of the boxed favorite that contains dairy free alternatives to its signature cheese it's called craft not mac and cheese and we'll soon roll out in grocery stores and two flavors original and white chip I'm taking issue with the name because it is Mac. It's just not cheese. So it should be Kraft Mac and Not Cheese. Yeah, Mac and Not Cheese. They put the knot in the wrong place. Unless they're replacing the Mac with something else.

3D printing the Mac with PLA. Oh, great. It's going to be FDM printed Mac. Yeah, who knows. It's not far from where it is where it is right now. It says here the craft partner with Notco. Oh, that's why it's got knot in there. It's part of that branding. Okay. Still is.

They're not still in the wrong place. I agree. This should be somewhere else. Do you have a photo of the box? Let's see. Do they? Doesn't look like it. They've got the, um,

unless, unless Yahoo Finance just doesn't have it. So maybe it's, uh, Kraft, not Mac and cheese. They have cauliflower. Oh,

that's interesting. So they do have, uh, Like cauliflower made Mac. Yeah. That's cool. That'd be all right. It'd totally be all right.

These people, these not go people, they make, they make plant-based Philadelphia cream cheese. I don't know how that, I'll bet that tastes weird. I'll bet you. I'll bet, yeah. I mean, look, I'm all for the, you know, let's have some alternatives. I'm glad that the clairs of the world can, you know, can choose not to eat animals and products, animal products. and do get to enjoy this stuff and it just ain't going to be me.

The, I don't never realize they changed the box. Like, the Kraft Mac and Cheese box looks so different than what I remember from the last time I had Kraft Mac and Cheese. Let me take a look here. The whole circular, drippy, smiley-faced logo is...

Oh, that's all new. Yeah, I don't recognize this at all. Oh, wow. Okay, when did this change? When we were kids, it was like you knew what you were looking at. Right. And it never changed, so I don't know when this happened.

It was exactly a thin blue box. I can't even describe what the logo. It just had the craft logo, Mac and Cheese, and just, you know, photo of mac and cheese. And that was it. I don't know if it always said dinner on there, but I still say that's a bit of a stretch. Oh, it absolutely did. Yeah, Kraft Dinner. That's a bit of a stretch, don't you think?

It's a real stretch, I think. It's not dinner. It's a part of dinner. Listen, it's been in there for as long as the bare naked ladies have sung about it. in if I had a million dollars. That's true. The Canadians always call it craft dinner, don't they? They don't even call it mac and cheese.

We wouldn't have to eat craft dinner, but we would eat craft dinner. That's right. Yeah, I just don't know if I look at a tub of that stuff that I'm supposed to microwave and eat. If that's all you're eating for dinner, what are you? Yeah, it's a sad dinner. It's like, is Kim out of town at your house as well? Kim's not there to make a real meal? Exactly.

Yeah. Trying to find the old logo. uh i know i get uh i guess it's he says it's always been called dinner craft dinner always eh okay kind of an older one i don't know trend car has it it's dinner if you had like four packs agreed at least two for me i'd need one of those boxes is uh isn't not enough for me it needs to be two at least is that closer to the original i just put in discord oh that's exactly it right there yes okay it was just uh right the one that uh the exact same design just in the smaller, thinner, non-family-sized box,

unless that is the actual size of the box that they consider to be family size. Yeah, it might be. I don't know. Oh, yeah, that one, it's hard to say how much is in it. 14.5 ounces. Is that a lot? Is that a lot of mac and cheese? See, the problem is it's uncooked.

Yeah, I can't. I got no basis for comparison for how much 14 ounces of uncooked pasta. does. Yeah. I like mac and cheese. Don't get me wrong, but I got to have something else with it. I can't just have it all the time. Do you have noodles and company in Utah? A bunch of those, yeah. Yeah, that's about the best thing to get is their Wisconsin mac and cheese or the new buffalo new. I call it new introduced like eight years ago or something, but their buffalo mac and cheese is really good. Oh, that sounds all right. I like grilled, grilled chicken, buffalo sauce, boom. You like the zucchini noodles or the zoodles or what they call them? Yeah, I do.

Yeah. I like those too, except sometimes there's like, I don't know, a little waiting pool of water. Oh, there's absolutely. Every single time you get it, there is a quarter inch of water at the bottom of your ball. Yeah, never really quite comfortable with that. I don't like that. I'll strain it quite a bit. Like, as soon as I get it, I'll tip it and get rid of the extra liquid because that's gross. I don't want sitting water in there. I know it's just from the, I know it's moisture accumulated from zucchini. a thing that's good for you. I get it. But I don't want three feet of that at the bottom of my deal. Three inches, not feet.

Three inches of water, yeah, no, please. Oh, Jeannie's husband likes broccoli in it. Yeah, broccoli and mac and cheese is good. Yeah, almost anything is. But on its own, I mean, what am I eight? Right. Mac and cheese needs something. It's a side dish at best. Yeah.

And at worst, it's not. No, at worst, it's not. It's like a desperate attempt to stay alive, you know? Right, exactly. At best, it's a way to keep your child fed while you go play more StarCraft too. That's what it is. That's right. That sounds familiar.

That's about where we were in the 90s. Pretty much. I remember once I cut up, so I got a big bowl of the stuff. I was a kid, and I cut up a slim gym into little circular things, little pucks, and then I filled it full of that, stirred it all in, and had myself a slim gym mac and cheese. And I have to say, it wasn't the worst thing I ever ate. Yeah, yeah. It added a little bit as, you know, I mean, it tracks with your more recent creations by, you know, for sure.

Even then, you know. My stepdad used to take a hot dog, a couple hot dogs, slice them and put them on top of a frozen tombstone pizza and then bake it. Oh, weird. Yeah. Wouldn't that just bake a bunch of pork flavor through the whole thing? Yeah, it's just basically. like, you know, it's like having not quite pepperoni on your

not quite pizza. Wow. I'm fascinated by that one. How would that be? Because it would be I would eat that. I think I'd try that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they get they get, you know, they cook up. They, they firm up

like like thick pepperoni, but that just don't taste like pepperoni. They taste like they taste like a baked hot dog. Yeah. They taste like exactly what they are yeah exactly um i would try that though maybe i will i've got a cheese pizza out there the frozen one oh do you really there you go is it is it tombstone or is it the de jorne uh it's one of those kind of things i don't know if it's one of those brands but it's that

baren perhaps oh i used to love red baron i did too yeah red baron had the best crust can you still get that and the uh the french bread the stifers french bread pizza oh yeah those were the bomb dot com those were good i used to my mom used to make homemade french bread pizzas and they were so good. Oh, yeah. See? Yeah. Highly recommend that.

That would be an easy thing for you, Scott. Yeah. French bread, cut it in a half, marinera sauce, toppings, cheese, bake in the oven, boom. Done. Done. Done. Right? Yeah.

I mean, this morning I had a handful of blueberries. It's fine. Okay. That's good. That's a good start. A piece of low-carb sugar-free bread toasted with butter and a little bit of Kim's homemade blackberry jam on it. and what else?

Oh, and a saltine cracker, which I still have a lot. The one you took a photo with earlier. Yeah, see the guy right there? I was just chilling. So wait, wait, wait, really? But you're still holding the cracker. Well, I ate one. It's a whole bag.

It's a whole sleeve of these things. How do you have your crackery need it too? I don't understand. I don't know what it is. Does anyone else out there like a saltine the way I do? Because it sounds like the most boring. It is the most boring. It really is.

But I love them. Bare, bare bones. I got to have chili. I got to have something with it. Klam chowder. Tomato soup there at the corner. Tomato soup would be good, yeah. But a saltine on its own?

I got to be in the right mood. Can you eat six of them like all at once right now? No. I've done that challenge before. Come on, right now. Live on this show, six. I've done that. I did that challenge one time and it failed miserably.

I couldn't do it. I don't know how, I guess, no, I guess the idea is that nobody can do it, right? it's uh what is it six of them at the same time and you can't eat them all i think so yeah i think is the uh the deal yeah we're not doing that on it it'd be great if i choked on a bunch of saltines on the air and that's the end of my uh podcasting career good night everybody oh wow a lot of saltine fans in the uh in the the chat tvs Travis says boring sure but i can do saltines just fine tally says she could destroy a pack of saltines yeah ooh katrina carousel katie says a saltine with butter is the best snack

It is good. Let me try butter on a saltine. Peanut butter on a saltine. I feel like any, like if you just take a saltine, add anything to it. Slice of cheese, peanut butter, Nutella. I haven't tried butter,

but that sounds like a way to go. Yeah. But a raw, like a raw, a boring ass naked saltine, nah, thanks. Give me something. Well, here's another, here's another easy,

Scott recipe for salt. It's just a method of delivering salt to your face. No, you're right. That's true. I think that's when I'm in the mood for them. I'm a little, you know, craving the salt? I'll even, like, scrape the top. You know the brownish bubbled up parts?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll just scrape all those off and then kind of take it apart. I'm like a little kid with a saltine. I love it. Oh, funny. But anyway, here's your recipe idea for the day. You take a tray and you load, or it can even be microwave. Time for timer.

You take a bunch of saltines. You lay them all out in a nice grid. You put butter on each one, just a little, not a lot. and then a little bit of cheese on each one, and then a single little jalapeno on top of each one. Oh, sure. Then you bake those for however long, and then those are amazing.

Eat those. Oh, God. Yeah, okay. See, you've already made the saltine that much better. Any of those things even on its own. Just a slice alipino on a saltine, far better than, for me, saltine on its own. Yeah.

No, that's a fair point. But I used to crush them up into everything as a kid, so that's just the way it was in my life. Tina's family grew up with the whole string cheese, not string cheese, like the can and cheese with the little nozzle on the top. And so on road trips, that's her super guilty pleasure, like ritz crackers or saltines and spray cheese.

What's that called? I had a name. Easy cheese? Easy cheese. Yeah, that's the one. Because regular cheese is way too difficult. We need easy cheese. I think it's half correct.

It's easy. I'm not so sure it's cheese. Oh, yeah, cheese whiz. Right. Cheese whiz is the other. That's the, that's the, Yeah. That's the brand that she'd get for road trips is cheese with.

Yeah, easy cheese and cheese whiz. We used to love that stuff. And I'm trying to think it was almost always ritz crackers, though. My mom had a thing with that combo. That's how we had to do it. See, now here's the thing. Like a saltine, a naked ass saltine does not sound good to me, but a naked ass ritz cracker, for whatever reason, it's a little bit more buttery, I think, and I'm all over it.

A club cracker, give it to me. But a saltine, maybe it's just because I felt like saltines were. were um the last resort food like basically it was like you know in college well i could go to the commissary and get something i could walk down to the grocery store and get something i do have saltines though all right i'll do a saltine like growing or at least in college it was like the quicker than rum and i need sustenance right now what do i have it was cheap yeah it's basically the same filler too, right? You're not really getting much out of it. Exactly. Nutritionally

speaking. But you give me a naked Ritz, you give me a naked club cracker? Any of those, I think, are great. You know what I like? I like a little piece of kimchi on this. Just a little... See, that's good too. Another improvement. Really, like anything you put on there, it supports both the sweet and the savory. Yeah, it's

basically a piece of bread. It's basically a delivery system for whatever you want to put on. Yeah. It is the FedEx of food. It's basically like the box, but inside the box is something fun. But sometimes you just eat the box. Sometimes you just eat the box. Oh, geez.

Did I say that out loud? Moving on. That one ended up as a show title right there. It'll be fine. Quick text. We've got to read. And then we'll get to our news today. This is from Trude, dude.

T-R-E-U-D. Almost like Trudeau. Or if you're pronouncing it like the psychiatrist, Troyd, Troid dude. Oh, Troyd dude. That could be. If you spelled like Freud, Freud, it doesn't work as well. You need to change your name this guy. But anyway, he wrote in, just a quick text.

I got this out of nowhere. Here is what he said, and I will just do it in a no-nothing tone, all right? Because I don't want to assume intent. It's a lot of periods, so this is the right. You're delivering in the right way. He says, we get it. Brian slobbers over Marvel, and Scott gets his jollies off with Mad Max. We get it.

That's the whole, that's the entirety of the message. Yeah, exactly. So Troy, Trude, dude, or whatever your name is. Yeah. I don't know what to make of that other than I assume what he means is he doesn't, he's, he's tired of Brian's Marvel love and he's sick of my Mad Max Fury Road love. I guess so. Whatever. All right, fine.

Is that what's going on? because uh boy i don't feel like and let me know maybe i do and i just don't realize it do i talk about marvel stuff as much as you talk about mad max i certainly don't do it in the glowing uh i don't think you do it in the obsessive way i do it but you your fan i think your fandom's well known i mean yeah it's everywhere like yeah uh your entire background is full of marvel memorabilia but exactly i don't think you are it's not like you're weird about it You just, you know what you like, and if it's something like this related. You know what, like what you like?

I wonder what this guy, I feel bad. Is there something a troid dude that you drool over that you like, that you enjoy? I'll bet you money. He's really into some football team of some sort. That's fine. There we go. It'll be some sports related thing, or he's really into Bitcoin or NFTs or some shit like that. Oh, gosh.

Wow. Oh, man. All right, well, if he hadn't stopped listening before now, we called him an NFT bro. Crypto bro. Oh, that cracked me up. I'm watching Gen V finally. Oh, good, yeah. I got to this part where the girls at a formal thing hobnobbing with a bunch of people to try to move up the list.

And she, I don't want to give anything away here, but there are people giving her her cards like to be her manager. Yes. And one of them just holds up the phone. So scan this QR code to get. an NFT version of my business car. And my eyes rolled so hard. I'm pretty sure I had to turn everything off

and reset my eyes before I could keep watching it because I'd annoy you that so much. Yeah. Oh, gosh. Yeah. Which was the point. They were trying to annoy me. Of course. That shows really good. I will say this. Gen V and the boys are way into

disgusting uses of the male penis. For sure. There is exactly. Like, They start, before they even write the story for that season, they sit there and say, all right, how many ways can we use the male penis? Yeah. How many ways can we use superhero abilities, superpowers, and penises? Yeah, and penises together.

And can we just copy and paste the word penis throughout our script? Whenever we need it, just command V, because they're going to need it five more times this episode. Like they're really into it for some reason. but I will say so I'm only three in three episodes in there's no way you hire Clancy Brown

for just one episode there's no way right he's coming he's around still I don't want you even tell me this but it annoyed me I'm not gonna tell you why would I do that

because he's Clancy Brown and I was like what you don't come in here for just one there's something we're gonna there's some reveal later right it's superheroes

Forst ghost Force ghost Clancy Brown or uh sure I guess I might have actually spoiled Oh, but by saying ghost. Good point. No, he's alive and well, everybody.

Mr. Crabs forever. Yeah, lives through everything. He's the Kiergen. Andy Dufrained did his taxes. Everything's good. Don't worry about it. Exactly. It's been out for more than two weeks.

I feel like the spoiler season is over on that one. It's also not, even if it is, it's not, it's nothing like you go, I can't believe it. It's not like that. This is like a very early story point that sets up everything else. Right, exactly. Yeah, Raith 86 points out Invincible. He's great in that. It's great you get Walton Goggins. Here's your hardest working people right now, it feels like. John Hamm, Clancy Brown, Walton Goggins. I think that's a good, I like that list a lot. Yeah. As older, aging, actor, white men go, these dudes are killing. That's so true. Like, I'm two, three episodes into Good Omens, season two. I haven't started Far

Fargo yet, but already, John Ham's butt. Okay, that'd be the fourth one. So you've got Walton Goggins, Clancy Brown, John Ham, and then John Ham's eyes. John Ham's butt. Yeah, exactly. He's apparently, so yeah, in Fargo, he shows his butt. Yeah. I haven't seen Season two.

Good omens. Season two, he shows his butt. Nice. He's still Gabriel, right? He is still Gabriel. Yeah, yeah. I'm, of course it would be, duh. I love that.

Nope, he's playing an all new character. Yeah, a brand new character. won't notice. Yeah, it's like Colonel Potter's back is a different character. I mean, if, you know, look, if I look like John Hamm, I would, I would be naked in as many things as Hollywood would allow. I'll take that as a positive review of his butt because I haven't seen his butt. No, it's a fine butt. I look forward to seeing it.

Oh, my gosh. Well, you saw it in Fargo, didn't you? Have you not watched? I haven't seen the new season yet. You're still bundling them up. You're still piling up. Carter suddenly appeared at my side. Yes, ma'am?

Oh, of course, we mentioned Good Omen's 2, season 2, and Carter had to talk to me about it because she loves it. All right, go ahead. Yeah. John Hamm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, really?

Different actors, you mean? Same actors do characters? Really? That's interesting. Okay. So she informs me and Brian, you're probably noticing this, that people, actors from the first season are back playing totally different. different people. Is that true in Good Omen? I've noticed, I'm only an episode two, but I have noticed a couple of them. New positions as opposed to new people. Oh, interesting. Or unless I haven't

gotten to what she's describing. Well, it sounds like you're on the right path, but I need to watch that. I love that first season. What am I waiting for? Jeez. And Carter watched the whole second season with smoothing on because she didn't know how to turn it off on that TV. So she watched the Good Omen Season 2 soap opera. It looked so bad, dude. It was like 60 frames, freaking, uh... I did not do. All right, maybe, she says she didn't. Unwrap the,

unwrap the Samsung TV from Best Buy, fire it up, and not adjust any settings. Let's, uh... I hate it, dude, so much. Why that's all on, why it's on by default, I'll never understand. Yeah, it's supposed to make things look better when it's in the store, and I don't understand how that, uh,

how that's the case. It doesn't work for me. If a movie was meant to be cinematic 24-frame film, then show it that way. Like, I get it if you're showing like aerial footage of Dubai. Yeah. And you want that to be maximum frame rate, you know, 120 frames per second, Dubai from the sky, 4K, 8-K, whatever. That makes sense to me. But make it easier to turn it off.

Like, literally, it should be the first option. I turn the TV on and goes, boom. Right, exactly. It should be, hey, do you want smoothing on? We can't do anything about The Hobbit, but we can turn it off for everything. else. Oh, the freaking Hobbit, man. Actually, what happens if you, can you run that without seeing it in that way,

I wonder? Because I hate it. I don't think so. I think, because I think the, the, the, the, the, the, the master is smoothing. So I don't think you can, I don't think you can turn it off. Interesting. If that's the case, that's, I know they made they made multiple versions, so maybe I just have to always. Oh, maybe they, okay, maybe they made a version. Maybe you can, on the blue ray or something, you can choose what version, but I bet you on stream. screaming, I bet you don't get a choice.

Yeah, and I don't like that. That's, that's effed, I say. That's what I say. All right, well, thanks for the text. And even though it's weird and I don't think we're as obsessed as you say we are, especially Brian, I think maybe I might be, but Brian's, he's not that good. I mean, my background would choose to argue. You could name any, you can name any superhero, any Marvel character, and I could have a

representation of them in my hands within 60 seconds. Probably, yeah. Let me try one. Can I try one? All right, yep, yep. We're staying Marvel, because I think Marvel's your game. Yeah, well, yeah, no, it has to be Marvel, yes. So let's go with, uh, go, go deep.

Go deep. Oh, geez. Feel free to go deep. Fing Fing Fung or whatever's name is, the dragon. Fing feng feng fume? Yeah, Fing feng feng fume. Yeah, so give me 60 seconds, put 60 seconds on the clock. 60 seconds, ready, go.

All right, Brian's going. We see him moving backward toward his pinball machine that is also Marvel related. We're, we also are having a nice gander at the, uh, infinity gotlet. He has behind him there, only to be surpassed by Captain America's Shield, which I don't know where that ended up since he moved it. You can kind of see, let's see, what else do we see back there? We see Iron Man in a position, some sort of pose. Where are we on the clock?

I don't know. He said start a clock. I didn't really do it. I just sort of pretend like I did, so I don't really know how much time has passed. Here he comes. We see his shadow. He's coming up. It's our time?

It's almost ready. How much time do I have left? Let's say 10 seconds. I had to guess. Oh my gosh. you do have a thing or fam what is it thing what is it fin fan fume fin feng fum right there he was referenced in that thing we just saw yes what if oh what if that's right it was a tony oh and then i heard it again and um i've been playing midnight suns and uh oh yeah somebody made it somebody

made a joke at the at the mansion about it in that game that game's great i swear to god adjust and bring him over because this is a lead figuring and this thing thing is, this thing is maybe, ooh, lead? Three quarters of a pound. I could figure out how heavy this thing is. This thing is really heavy. It's made out of lead. Don't put in your mouth, Brian.

But I just broke off a little bit of his horn. Oh, no. Yeah, look at that. Like, see his little horns up there? Oh, those horns are dainty, yeah. They're dainty horns, so, yeah, just, but that's all right. It was worth the bit. I'll glue it on.

I'll glue it on, I'll glue on Finn, Fing, Fum. It was worth the bit. everybody. All right. Well, that's fantastic. Let's now jump into, oh, and if you want to be like the guy, I sent that text, by the way, 801-4710462, it's time for the news. Oh, look, it's the news, and it's brought to you by.

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I just want to find that little piece of horn before the cat eats it. Oh, yeah, you don't want the cat eating old. A little chunk of horn. I don't think the cat will eat it. The problem is it's the same color as the shag carpeting in my office. So I think I might just have to, I think I might just have to break off the other horn to the right length and then call it good. Wait, what color is it was it green? You have green shag in there?

No, it's great. It's, uh, his body's green, but his horns are... Oh, beige? Bage. Gotcha. Yeah, I have beige, shag carpeting. That makes sense. And wood paneling.

No, I'm not a axe murder. Just kidding. And you get that, no wood panel. What's that cork ceiling called? I used to have a ton of it. Oh, that I do have the, um, yeah, this, uh, sectional drop ceiling stuff. Yeah. Yeah.

I always like that because I could do weird wiring and stuff in there. Yes, you just pop it up. You can have, uh, like move the things around drill a little hole really easily drop something through absolutely super easy and it's a great place to hide your weed this is true uh anyway red lobster in the news i've been there in ages brian was the last time you went to in the long time for me um easily easily over easily pre-pandemic so i would say four years since i've been to a red lobster oh i act all surprised and really you just went for we just went for the cheddar bay biscuits oh my gosh those are so good

yeah i think that's roughly the last time i went it was probably 2018 or something yeah uh well red lobster's endless shrimp deal costs the company millions oh no really yeah the cfo says quote it didn't work unquote oh no oh no let's feel bad for a corporate entity that screwed up their promo the ultimate endless shrimp deal reeled into too many hungry customers uh in too many uh sorry not into In two, like too many. Get their pun right. It's a pretty good pun. They worked hard on this pun.

They reeled in too many hungry customers at Red Lobster. And now the company is turning the tide after reporting millions in operating losses. In June, the seafood restaurant chain turned its historic limited times shellfish special into a permanent menu fixture for diners to enjoy. The special offered diners the option to choose two types of shrimp dishes, unlimited for just 20 bucks, with a side of Red Lobster's famous Cheddar Bay Biscuits, the thing Brian went for it, and that I also like. That's it. That's all you go. It's kind of all I want. Everything else sounds bad, especially

in landlocked Utah. There's no way a chain like that has good seafood. Yeah, I wonder if you can go there for lunch and just get like a bowl of clam chowder, and if they still give you the cheddar bay biscuits if you get something, like if you do lunch, because still that feels like that's probably a 2,000 calorie meal. Probably, yeah,

depending on how many biscuits you down, I guess. Yeah. Speaking of which, by the way, a good chowder and saltine. Oh, yeah. Again, why do you think oyster crackers are just basically little saltine hexagons? Yeah. I think it's probably where they came from or something, right? It feels like the same material or the same.

Yeah, it was probably cheaper for premium to make. Is premium the company? Who's the company that makes the salteens? Yeah, premium, right? Yeah, that's the brand. Cheaper for them to create little saltine discs and put them in a bag. Now, that's a logo and a layout, I feel like never changed. I'm sure it has.

Yeah, for sure. They changed the font. Like, they've made a fatter font, but it used to be like a helvetic semi-bold. And now it's like, I think that's a titillium extra bold. And it's got that cute little R thing. Yeah, the R curve makes it a non-standard Swiss, but it's, yeah. Oh, my gosh, you can tell we went to this class, the same freaking class. I loved fun class, man.

I did, too. Typology 1 and 2 are two of my favorite things they did in college. But this bowl of hot soup, I think, is probably a newer photo. But for the most part, this box would come out when I was a kid and I had a upset stomach. My mom would pull a box of these out. For sure. I just blew. That and seven up, man.

That was the cure for everything. It was. But it's funny, I still like saltines, but I don't really like seven up or sprite because I think of being sick when I drink it. Yeah. What about ginger ale? I'm better with ginger ale because that was never an option. For whatever reason, my mom, that's just something she didn't have. around so ginger ale now to me is just like a nice refreshing thing and other people are like oh that

reminds me when I had the flu I don't want any ginger oh yeah yeah well anyway uh here's the problem the uh 20 bucks wasn't enough while the move certainly accomplished getting more hungry customers in the restaurants 4% over the over year over year so they had a 4% increase of traffic company posted an operating loss of over 11 million in its third quarter last month the Thai Union Group, they own Red Lobster, which is a little weird. Uh-huh. Because they own a ton of Thai restaurant chains and then Red Lobster? Do they, Thai Union Group?

I'm assuming, or is it just a group that's from Thailand? Oh, it could be that. That's a good point. I just assume if you're going to be, yeah, that's a good point. That's a stereotype because I love Typho. All right. Want to know some weird brands that Thai Union Group owns? Give it.

This is a surprise to me. Chicken of the Sea. Oh, all right, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, let's see, uh, red lobster. A lot of businesses outside of the U.S. So chicken of the sea and red lobster, the two U.S. things in Thailand, they have a bunch, obviously. King Oscar in Norway. Um, Indonesia, Malaysian, Singapore, they've got I. I.M. I.M. Brand, but it's all seafood stuff. I am. Not I.m's like the dog food. Yeah, no. A.Y. A.A.m. Um. Uh. Not IAMS, but a lot of French stuff, too. Parmentier and Petit Navir, Navir. Yeah. And then in Germany, Rougain fish.

I want some Rougain fish. Yeah. Give me a big old steam and plate of Rougain fish. Mmm, some delicious Rougain fish. Well, I guess they screwed up and they won't be doing that again. Yeah. I think anytime you promise all you can eat, you're running the risk. of Mr. Creosote, basically,

like a bunch of Mr. Creosotes for Monty Python coming in and cleaning you out. It just so happens. I'm going to All You Can Eat Sushi tomorrow night, this place that I really like, a conveyor belt place called Sushi Rama. Really good, really good sushi anyway. And I go there and I spend tons of money. But they're doing it all you can eat sushi thing tomorrow night. Tristan and they're going to go,

and we're going to make them rue the day they came up with all you can eat sushi. What's the, how much does this cost, you know? 50 bucks. it's not bad no i can i can put away more than 50 bucks worth of sushi and they do all the weird ones you like you like all the authentic he uh stuff right i do yeah i like uh i like octopus i like um uh fresh water eel i like uh so you're gonna make them regret it because that's all the expensive stuff i love it oh yeah exactly so what they do is they on their conveyor belt they've got different color plates depending on like how much they are right your your california roll comes out on an orange

plate your uh your you know yellow tail comes out on a blue plate and so it's like we're going to be focusing on the blue plates but the um color code it like world of warcraft or diablo or something where the gear is better depending on the color or whatever exactly but the reason is so that they can just you just basically go and you don't order anything because it's all conveyor belt and then at the end of your meal they just count the number of plates in front of you and say oh you had six orange plates that's eight dollars you had um five blue plates that's 17 dollars whatever yeah but if it's all you can eat 50 bucks and done oh it doesn't matter yeah i want to go to this place is there one here i'm taking the plates as they come and uh but they do the thing that that all the all you can

eat sushi places do that um that gets you is you have to eat the rice like you have to you can't just say eating the sashimi, screw the nigeri. They make you. Because that's the cheap ingredients there and that fills you up. It is and it's the filling. It's the filler ingredients, exactly. That's a good point. We have a, there's a new.

Oh, go ahead. Oh, go ahead. Oh, Hobbsdog says they don't think they, you guys have Converbalt sushi places in SLC. I thought we had downtown, there's one called, uh, I don't remember the name. There's a real fancy one downtown that I swear has that option, at least. It's also got other seating and other styles, but I'm pretty sure they have a rotating deal. I don't know.

I thought the one we went to in, oh, no, that didn't. When you were here for the Warcraft movie in 2016, that sushi place did have a... Didn't have a belt, no. No, that's right. Subame rotating sushi. Looks like they might. Yes, it is a rotating conveyor belt sushi place in Salt Lake City.

Nice. Oh, they have one in, uh, one in, Ogden too. Conveyor belt sushi and Ogden with bullet train delivery also. So they've got like the, you know, you order something specific and they deliver it by a little miniature bullet train. Oh, no way. That's great. But this place, oh, this place has

exactly the same, like the sushi ramma thing, right, where you've got the different color plates coming by on a yeah, here you go. Take a look at this. Let's see if this photo comes, if this goes right to the photo I'm looking at. Oh, yeah, there

we go. No, but I can find it. Let's see. It's called Subame. T-S-U-B-A-M-E. Let's see. Oh, look at this place. It should be one of the first photos you get. It's reviewed well.

Yeah. There's the rotating hoo-ha. There's the sushi. Like a refrigerated conveyor belt, so sushi doesn't go bad as it wanders around the restaurant. It's covered up, so some nobody is going to be. breathe on it and make it bad. It's reviewed well. Yeah. It looks like it's they mostly do, well, they do from 1130 to 9 every night and 10 on the weekends. I might try this out. Yeah, you need to think you need to go check it out. Report back, Scott.

Kim, love sushi. So do I. Yeah. Well, Red Lobster, good luck to you on that. Good luck with that. We hope everything goes well. We're going to take a break. When we come back from the break, we're going to hang out with Amy. Yes, that's right. It's literally Amy's time of the month. We got a couple of follow-ups for her. She's got a couple of books to talk about. Very exciting stuff. So get ready to get your reading glasses on, everybody.

Amy will be back after this song Brian chooses. Brian, what are you choosing today? Yeah, we're going to New York City, New York City for this one. Big thanks to dark secret media for letting me know about this. Panic flower, spelled with a K, Panic flower with a K. Brand new EP, their debut EP, as a matter of fact, called Dark Blue. This is the title track from that.

It's a little bit dream pop with kind of grunge influences, if you can believe the combination there. Anyway, I dig it. Here is Dark Blue by Panic Flower. I'm bed with an uptrak in my mind. Because what I thought I knew now. Can't be divine A flash of what could be in Space and time

Because what is love when you can Maybe be mine Dark blue Without you without you die who without you die blue

without you a change of heart would be worth all the pain Have a glimpse of you all live in this same. What do you see when you look at me? Because I hope that you wanted me to be dark blue with the hell of you. Die blue without you

Dye flew without you Oh, oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.

Why is it every Why is it every Christmas I get drug out of my warm bed just to see some stupid old relatives? I will eliminate this Christmas spirit before another day is past. even handle that muscle-bound female Shira. Didn't know Skeletor is such a sexist guy either. Anyway, who was that again so we can give them full credit? Sure, that's Panic Flower, and the song is called Dark Blue. It's the name of their new EP, and it's the title track.

Fantastic. Yeah. Love it. All right, Red Fraggle 3, on her way, into the call now. Get ready, be ready. I got to give her some kudos myself because she recommended a thing that Tina had on our list. Not a book, but a TV show based on her recommended book, Lessons in Chemistry, which we binged and love. The whole thing was fantastic.

Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. No need to read that book now. Whoops, that's not it. Where's their thing? Unless I'd like more. Yeah, more is good. One of the things that I enjoy also is reading.

Well, well, oh, I want that turned down. Hold on, okay. Hey, look who it is. It's Amy joining us. Amy Robinson all the way from the American South. What's going on with you? How are you? Good morning, friends.

How are you? Good. It's been too long. I feel like we've talked to in a month. I know. I know. Yeah. Well, yeah, it's my literary time of the month.

That's right. I just finished two more, since we last spoke, I finished two more smaller, small-ish horror novels. I think maybe it's out of my system now. You're slowing down. You're not reading three in a weekend anymore. Well, I'm about to dive into, so my goal was I had two that I really wanted to get to, and I did that.

I loved them. This last one called Brother was so good. Absolutely loved it. This woman who wrote it is from, originally from Poland. and she has the most unique writing style. I just absolutely loved it. But anyway, my goal now is moving on to that dungeon crawler Carl thing. Oh, yeah.

I downloaded that myself onto my iPad to read. Yeah. So next up. I can not wait for you guys to dig into those books. They're so good. I can't wait. Heard nothing but amazing things. Even after you spoke to us about it,

people were following up like crazy with it and said it was awesome. Anyway, today. I don't know if you heard my stuff at the beginning as you were getting into the thing. But lessons in chemistry, great recommendal from you. I did. I did hear. And yes, I will say, um, you don't, I mean, the story is pretty much the same. Obviously the book is going to have a little bit more detail. But I will say that, um, Harriet, the, the neighbor completely different in the book. Oh, really? Interesting. Yeah. I loved her character in the show. So I, I also did. And I, I, I'm glad that the show made the change that they did because there's none of like sort of the civil rights situation in, in the book, like, you know, Harriet's basically, yeah, she's, I mean, her race is not specified in the book.

So I kind of just assume, like, she's kind of an older white lady who dislikes her husband a lot. And so there you go. Interesting. Very interesting. Wow. Okay. Yeah. So, I mean, you know, and there's like, like you say, there's some differences and there's, um, there's a good bit of, of more detail in the book. But I loved, I loved what they did with, uh, Rayne Wilson's character. Like he's, he's really like. I just love this trajectory for him of like playing these horrible, horrible characters. All these horrible people. I'm sure he's, I'm sure he himself is a lovely person, you know, because like that seems to be the, the trend, right? Like if, if they play just complete.

heard him on some interview recently and he sounds he seems like a really down to earth nice guy he's a huge nerd too yeah yeah i remember what i saw him in where he played like this really skeevy flandering um uh car salesman yeah car salesman and it was dark wins that is correct dark wins okay yeah yeah he had that van that he would coerced girls into yes that he'd used for uh both advertising and yeah he was he was a real people of work in that in that series i always think of him in that role that little brief role he had in the uh the movie juno where he's like the you know the convenience store clerk and he's like he's like that's one doodle that can't be undid home skillet i love the term home skillet no one uses

that enough i know that one went way away you know my son and i were talking about that the other day that like you know generational slang and whatnot and cool was the only word like that that I could think of that really has like the complete staying power that it has right like I mean since what there are ones like you know like you guys say rad and stuff like that but like those are clearly generational right like millennials and Gen Z they don't say rad you know um groovy is another one like I say groovy and like people older than me say groovy groovy is great um but like you know just cool is like the only slang word like that that I could think of.

The only other one, so you'd give, I'd give that one the award for longevity because it's like late 40s, early 50s that started happening, right? And we still say cool. But dude, which kind of came into real vogue late 70s, 80s, has shown some real stirring staying power. Like that seems to go, that seems to cross generations. I hear Gen Z saying dude all the time and I hear old farts like me saying dude. Yeah.

Yeah, no, that's a good point. That's kind of why I brought it up because I was like, hmm, I wonder, you know, I wonder if these guys can think of anymore because that was the only one I could think of. Yeah. So now you can say cool dude and you get both for the same. And you get two for one. That's right. Well, before we get too deep into what you're bringing this week, I do want to play some follow-ups we've got in previous weeks.

Amy's heard these. She usually knows what's coming. Here is, I can't remember what any of these say because I've been holding on these so long. So I'm going to play this first one and then we'll respond. A follow-up to Amy's segment. Hey, this is Michael from Evanston calling for TNS. Hey, Scott and Brian, I'm just listening to yesterday, the episode of the day, and one of the callers called in Taco Bo, Dungeon Crawler, Carl.

Yeah, I'm going to back that up because after hearing Amy talk about it, I listen to the audiobook and pure joy and was blown away, and I'm almost on the fourth book now. Yeah, reading it might be fun, but the audiobook is phenomenal. I know most people don't have time to do audiobooks or can't focus like you always say, but the character voices are just spectacular. And yeah, I just want to back that up. Anyways, cheers, guys. That made me want to ask you if that, I don't remember talking about as the time, but all the parts are done by different people? Is it one of those kind of audiobooks?

Or is it one guy? No, but when you listen to it, you would swear they are. Because the voice actor, his name is Jeff Hayes, he's amazing. Like, he, I know, he does women characters and you would swear that there is a woman in the booth, like, recording that voice. It's, you can, if you listen real close, you can hear some of, you know, some of his inflection coming through that's kind of the same that goes across. But like, man, he's really good. His characterization is really, really good. And, you know, I mean, it's, dungeon crawler Carl is told in the first person from Carl's perspective. And so he reads it in Carl's voice, which is that Patrick Warburton.

kind of thing, which is hilarious and awesome. And then, you know, there's other characters that are like these, you know, princessy, foppish, you know, bad British accent characters. And it's just, it's just great. And you would swear that there's a full cast in there, but not just him. And, yeah, and it's impressive because I've seen videos now of him doing reads like at conventions and stuff. And he's not, you know, because sometimes I picture people who do that, that kind of switching between characters. Like maybe they record some of one character and some of another. Nope.

This guy is just talking to himself, right? Like, he's just going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth seamlessly. And it is impressed. It's a master class in character. He looks 14. I don't know why he looks so young. I know. Right?

I'm like, holy crap. this guy is really good. And that his bio that you're showing there from Sound Booth Theater, Sound Booth Theater has episodes where they did the book as like a full-blown, full-cast, you know, sound effects kind of a deal. And so those are available there if people would just want more. But I loved, loved, loved, loved the audiobooks. Yeah, it said there, says here he co-founded or founded.

that this site. Yep. Sound booth theater. Yeah. That's cool. He's a big deal and he looks 14. I don't get it. Let's also move on to this one here. There's another one. Good morning, morning stream. It's me again, the Nicolore Carl fan. I would just like to apologize to Amy. I did go back and listen to that episode actually right after I'd left that last message and I should have let you know. I do try and touch up on all eight hours of the morning. morning stream and and then also film sack i'll try and do a better job scott i'll try and do

a better job brian don't give up on me i'll continue to support you through patreon because i love you guys talk you later thanks for the show never we'll never give up on you yeah yeah no matter what occurs yeah right we'll give you a red on air light but that's okay that way yeah that's fine we give those out freely here it's it's fine brian gets them i get them sometimes our guest get some that's what the red on air light is for right right there when we need it the most uh all right let's get to the business at hand you brought a couple of clips with you and i have no idea what these are so explain yourself i have a i have a couple of books that i want to recommend they're both rather short i figured people you know it's a holiday season these aren't holiday themed books but

i figured you know with it being the the holiday season maybe people don't have quite as much time to sit and read something lengthy. So I give you a couple of little, you know, little shorter reads there for you. Okay. All right. Here's clip number one. The job was what I wanted to, helping people. Not the way I'd help them before at the hospital, but still, I would be serving others, plenty of helping to do. Checking out patrons' books, DVDs, and audiobooks, answering their questions about overdue fees with patient grace, policing the computers, making sure the guy in the baseball hat who comes in on Fridays doesn't watch porn while he's pretending

to job search. I sneak up behind Friday guy, as we've come to call him, and lean right over his shoulder so my breath is hot on his neck. Hey, I say, he jumps and fumbles, tries to click

screens to cover up the giant tits I just saw bouncing before my eyes. Then he looks up, red-faced. You know, the rules, I say, drawing up to my full height. Yes, ma'am. I feel a deep tickle when he calls me ma'am and obeys me like a scolded dog.

I'm watching you, I tell him. Yes, ma'am. After a long pause, I walk away. Every time I think he won't come back. But every Friday he's there, eyeing those tits, waiting for me to catch him. I guess he likes the game of it. I like the game of it too. It isn't like my hospital days, but it's better than nothing.

All right. I need additional information on what this is. Right. So many questions, right? So this is a book. Is Bobbi all the cover of this one? Actually, no, the cover of this one is great. It's called How Can I Help You by Laura Sims?

And the cover is just, it's black, but then it's got like that the library card thing you know the thing of the first page that yeah the little sleeve that they put a little yeah they put a little card there and it's on fire um so yeah it's uh it's really good it's uh i mean it's like i say it's short it's kind of popcorny but it's good and it's that whole feeling you have where you're like i have so many questions yeah that's this book uh you know so it's as you can hear you know it's told by this woman who is working in a library, but then she drops little statements every once in a while about like, well, my days in the hospital or when I was a nurse, I blah,

blah, blah. And, you know, I want to help people, you know. And, and you get, you get more and more curious about like, okay, why is she in a library and why is, why was she in a hospital? And why, and she has a different name now and what's what's going on there what's happening and uh and you slowly start to realize like oh she's completely an unreliable narrator and uh and right about that time we switch narrators to a new person who has come to the library named patricia and she is also an unreliable narrator but for different reasons and so they these two women kind of get in this very interesting cat and mouse they both are suspicious of each other kind of situation and uh that sounds great sounds like good intrigue a page a real page turner right there yes yes and it doesn't have that

many pages yeah it's about 250 pages so like i say nice nice uh short read and i i edited a bunch of it out not so much for content although a little bit for content but for time um just because she has a very slow cadence. You could kind of hear that. So I had to cut out some things because I wanted to get the Friday guy stuff in there because it's funny. But yeah, she kind of, it seems like she kind of gets her rocks off by quote unquote helping people. And, you know, so yeah, that's what I'll say because I don't want to spoil anything because it's fun. All right.

Yeah. You want to get your rocks? Wait, don't get your rock. I don't know what you want to do. Good luck with your rocks, everybody. It's all I'm saying. Awesome. All right.

Well, here's book number two. Any set up here? Do you want me just play it? Yeah, you just, well, I will say this is an excerpt from, the second book is a collection of short stories, and this is an excerpt from one of those stories. All right. Here we go. I am simply put the most brilliant medical mind in human history.

I know it sounds arrogant for me to say so. but there's a point where modesty has to give way to universally accepted facts. I invented the world's first and only universal anti-hypoxient. If you're reading this, it's likely that you're a lame and unable to grasp what an anti-hypoxion is. Simply put, it's a chemical that protects your body cells from the harmful effects of oxygen starvation. You may be thinking that's not needed very often. Drowning, perhaps. Lung diseases, maybe? Well, you're not. you're wrong, of course. But it can't be helped. You're not a doctor. Or if you are, you're not one

on my caliber. Hypoxia is what kills people. Whatever the cause of death may be, the actual reason they die is because oxygen stops getting to their cells, most notably to their brain. If your heart stops, blood stops moving around your body. Then your cells die because they aren't getting oxygen. If you get shot and bleed to death, you don't have enough blood to transport oxygen around. Do you see? It's all about oxygen. Oh, man.

Some deep medical stuff. Science. Yeah. Science fiction. Yes. So this is by our good pal, Andy Weir. I say good pal, like, you know,

because he wrote The Martian. Oh, Andy Weir, you know. Yeah. I love that guy. I not only love that guy, but. Oh, that's already a big plus in my book. I always like to remind people that he worked at Blizzard and wrote or sorry, programmed.

It was the chief programmer on Warcraft 3. Put that in your chiefs. Wow, that is cool. Yeah, he was a Blizzard guy before he left and wrote the Martian and then his whole life changed. But anyway, just a fun thing to bring up. I love facts like that. That's so cool to me.

So yeah, this is actually, this one is really cool. I found it because, you know, I'm on Audible all the time. And this one is available for free if you have an Audible subscription. Like, it doesn't cost you a credit or anything like that. And it's called The Egg and Other Stories, all by Andy Weir. And they're great. They're like each story's about, you know, between five, ten minutes long. They've got some good, you know, good things in there.

Like, you know, the Andy Weir detailed science fiction like you just heard. There's also a couple of things in there where it's like a nice surprise twist at the end. In particular, I recommend if you only want to consume one of these stories, My favorite of all of them was called Annie's Day. And it's read by a woman, so it's read from Annie's perspective. And yeah, I'm not going to say anything else about it because it's so fun to just go on the little ride with Annie on her day and be appalled at what's happening. That's what I will say. Okay, fascinating.

that's a you've left me wanting more yes so yeah and you know like i say these are these are great they're little little short stories by the mind of andy weir you know what could be better what could go wrong exactly and it's free you know are they very would you say they're very um andyware style is very like science over fiction but it's still science fiction like you take scientific fact and knowledge and stuff and uses it in ways that like the martian is very much this right it's like well if we can get there, then what? And then you think of all the hard science behind what you'd have to do to survive there, to get home, to do all that stuff.

Is it like that, each of these short stories kind of covered in that sort of stuff? Because that clip sounds like it. Some of them, yeah. I think, I mean, Annie's Day, not at all. It's not science fictiony at all. It's just fun. Yeah. And then, like, the egg, the titular story is,

It's more of a, it's more of kind of a spiritual kind of imagining than science fiction, I would say. The, the biggest one that's very science fictiony is the, the one we just heard a clip of from anti-hypoxient. And that one is, it's kind of funny, right? Because you can hear in this guy's, the delivery and everything, like, I am the best medical mind of our time, right? Like, oh, you're a supervillain. Okay, great. You know? So, yeah.

And yeah, I mean, it's there, like I say, they're short little bite-sized stories that we get from Andy Weir. It doesn't go as deep into the science because he doesn't have time because they're short. Because they're short stories, yeah. Yeah. I like that, though. I like when an author makes like, or even just, you know, a compilation of authors doing like a theme. I love that stuff. Yeah.

You gave us something like that recently, although they were separate books, but it was a collective of like short books all around. What was that? You recommended it? I downloaded them all. I still haven't read them. Crap. Go back in time and listen, everybody. There was a whole string of these books. I don't have my Kindle here. I'd look it up. But they were. Well, I gave you specific recommendations for how to get into reading Discworld. That might have been it. No, it was something else. You did give us the right, the correct order. which to start, yeah. Yes. You are the person I recommend for that, by the way, when people say, where do you start? Like, ask this Amy person. It's a very personalized thing, right? Like, there are some people where I'm like, oh, yeah, you need to start with guards,

whereas, you know, somebody looking for something for their teenage daughter, read Tiffany aching, you know. Oh, interesting. I didn't realize that, you know, I guess that would make sense, right? Something, you find something that connects to that person that they could immediately synced up with for that, huh? Yeah, exactly, exactly. And so, yeah, but, and by the way, with it being December, here's my annual recommendation

of Hogfather. Everyone should, everyone should read and or consume it in some way. There was a, there was a BBC miniseries that was made of Hogfather, and it's fantastic. So if you do nothing else, like, watch, watch that, because the, the Susan character is fantastic and the villain is really super creepy and uh and it's it's really good so yeah my my annual uh recommendation of hog father has come around so nice yeah i remember you did this last year i think yeah i'm going to say it every year i think because everybody should read it it's really good all right well only one more before grand theft auto six think of it that way next christmas

one more hawkfather before one more hot yeah that's how we measure it because we refuse to do metric here so we're starting to do some unique new ways of measuring things Yeah, like how many bananas and how many, yeah, how many giraffes? Yeah, there you go. No, that's great. Great selections this week or this month. I still feel like we see each other every week, but we don't. We just talk offline all the time. So it's just like you're here.

You're one of our sisters. It's just the way it is. That's how it is now. Aw. Well, I just got through with it. Aw. Well, I just got through with a, you know, a round of real steps with your actual sisters. Oh, nice.

Yeah. was that was super fun. I'm going to be posting video from that later on because like they always do on the last day. We always do some kind of movement every, every meeting, right? And so for the last day, we've, it's kind of become a little bit of a tradition that our, our movement for that meeting is that we get up and do a little dance party together on Zoom. People are welcome to turn their cameras off if they're self-conscious or whatever, but we all just kind of get up and dance. And I, of course, get up and dance with a puppet. Of course you do. And so and Chuck came in and I was completely just into it and I'm, you know, I'm watching the, the screen and I'm looking at what the puppets doing and everything.

And I'm just completely laser focused and Chuck was surreptitiously recording me from the doorway of my office. So I'll be posting that later. Go look for that if you want to have a good laugh. your kids will be ever grateful they have this footage now that's awesome right yes forever uh all right cool this has been lovely i can't wait to talk to you again it is a red fraggle three on youtube sometimes she's on their hucking clay you should watch that throwing pot clay hugger it's true it's true i'm gonna get back to that very very soon i was actually gonna do one in the next couple of days but i was building a puppet and i i did the damn thing where i cut my finger with a persona blade and it like it was like the back of my thumb to like right on the knuckle and so and

if you don't know what a persona blade is imagine a razor blade but like on steroids so it's like super duper sharp which that part of it is good right because you know the sharper it is you want it to be sure of course if you're going to cut yourself when i pull out the fresh exacto blade out of the little plastic slider box that I have, it's always like, okay, must be super careful because just brushing this against anything, we'll cut it right up. I'd never heard of a persona blade.

I didn't know what that was called. Yeah, persona blades, I think they're, like, hairdressers use them for, like, doing razor cuts and things like that. But, like, so that's where you can get boxes of them. But puppet builders love them because they cut through foam and things like butter. You know, they just, but,

because of that they're really sharp and so I cut myself and so now I'm like I can't throw clay now because I have this wound yeah but you know it's healing up nicely so it should be fine good so your so your pottery has a cool little um bandaid curad imprint on it you know it's unique yeah little texture exactly it's some bandaid texture yeah little uh little DNA for future generations to extract and make more of you. Have a fantastic... There's a little of me in every pot. That's right.

Have a fantastic rest of your Christmas time. Okay. Thanks. See all too. Stay out of trouble. We'll see you soon. I can't find her thing to move her from the thing. There it is.

Got her now. Oh, the book, somebody in there ping to me, DM me. I won't say who in case they don't want me to say. But anyway, they asked, what was the name of the book? I just finished this book I read. It's sort of horror, but it's more thriller. I don't know if I'd call it horror.

Anyway, it's called Brother. Brother. By Ania Anhorn, or Alnhorne. Alborn, sorry. Ania Alborn is her name. But I loved it. It was awesome. Real good.

I'm going to read her whole thing, but I got to read this Carl Dungeon Crawler stuff first. Yeah, yeah. I've been reading like I'm wild man lately. That's great. I need to get back to it. I just need to do it at a time when I'm not tired. because it'll just knock me out.

That's the whole reason I stay away from it at night is reading just will put me to sleep if I'm not careful. Yeah, big same. That's why I can't do audio at all, at least with paper and or Kindle, I can just, you know, I have to focus to get it, right? You got to read and focus. When I'm listening, I'm just like, what am I doing?

Oh, what can I do while I'm listening? Oh, look at that. Oh, I need to fix that part of the wall. It's got a thing on it. Yeah, it's really hard for me. So when I was out jogging all the time, that was easier. But even then, I'd still drift. All right, we're going to read a quick message we got from Joey.

We've had this for a little bit. So sorry about the late read, Joey Image, famous wrestler. Yay! He listens to our show. Hey, guys, quick message for TMS regarding the mystery pasta in New Jersey that you talked about on Tuesday to 7th. As you all know, just to get people caught up, this is the mysterious mounds of spaghetti that were found in uh in the forest correct they fed there was a ton of it out there i couldn't figure out where it came from the police were baffled blah blah blah yeah he says i'm 100

percent italian and from new jersey and i've lived here all my life the story was a big thing with the italians in my neighborhood which is most of the neighborhood and everybody thought it was hilarious also took cook trivia notes number one the town this potostrophy happened in he actually took the time to put it in parentheses yeah yeah He put pasta plus catastrophe. He's like, no, we get it, Joey, we get it. Happened in a, as Scott mentioned, Old Bridge, New Jersey. Trivia.

Metallica used to live in Old Bridge, New Jersey. Oh. Oh. Is that where they formed? They must have formed there. Right? Is there like high school kids then? Probably, yeah.

And then he says, number two, the mafia does not exist, winky face. Oh, wow. Okay. I don't believe you, Joe. Joey. Joey image is 100% Italian. I did not know that. So your last name is probably not really image.

It's probably like DiMaggio and you just took off the D and the O. I would love to know his real last name because, yeah, there's an image I think it's just his wrestling name. Yeah. DiMijaggio. Let's see, real. I'm going to go, Joey Image Real name. Let's see if we can get a result. Oh, look at this.

All right. Oh, this is a drummer. Okay. There's a punk drummer. Let's see. He was a drummer for both the horror business and night of the living dead sessions in 1979. That's not him.

Let's see. Wrestler. Oh, the misfits. He played for the misfits. Oh, okay. I'm familiar with the misfits. Is that why you named yourself that, Joey? Let's see.

Retired wrestler admitting, admitted to hospital. This isn't you. Yeah, Joe, you'll have to tell us. We don't know. We don't know. Oh, here it is. I may have just found it. Nope.

He's in the, okay, so there's a pro wrestling wiki. His photo is in it. His name, Joey image is in it. Nothing else is there. No biography. No, I want to hear, like, your finishing move. Let's see here. It doesn't say, I want to know all these things, Joey.

Fill us in. Yeah, tell us, tell us. We must know. That's going to do it for us. Thank you all for us. Maybe he doesn't want us to know. That's fine. It's fine. It's fine. You be as private as you want to be, Joey. It's your image. You decide. Hey, that'll do it for this show with that bad pun there. We're also on Patreon, as you may have already heard us mentioned a few times. And we'd love it if you went over there and checked it out and signed up at patreon.com slash TMS. We can use all the people we can use this time of the year. It's, you know, an expensive month. And boy, howdy, it'd be nice to have some more patrons. So hop over there and help us out. That's patreon.com slash TMS. We're going to leave now, but we can't do it without a music.

musical selection from the vast library of Brian Ibit. Not without you. Not without your help. BioCal rode in. Again, to this one a little bit earlier. OJ. Fongtastic says he knows Joey's real last name, but doesn't know if he should say it. Oh, I want to hear it. Yeah, maybe, let's hear it from Joey, because if Joey doesn't want us to know his real last

name, there's probably a reason that it's not anywhere. Yeah, it's probably Buttafuoco, and we don't want that. We don't want Joey Buttafouca. Go go ask your uncle. if you're not sure of the reference, everybody. Yeah, which is such a, such a, oh, my God. Remember when scandals were just so quaint? Yeah.

Like, it seems like, oh, she, he cheated on his wife with this, this young girl. Oh, my gosh. Simpler times, Brian. It's like, that's a blip compared to the kind of crap we see these days. Jeez. Yep. All right. BioCow says, Hi, Brot and Skyin.

In the 90s, Volkswagen had a great series of commercials, and one of them featured a song by trio that had a super basic electronic cassio beat. I think I'm the only one who ever purchased on CD, but I'd listen to it all the time. Hey, bio cow, yeah, yeah, right here. Yep, look at it up right there. That's because my cassette wore out. And I liked them before they were in.

Yeah, I found these guys. Yeah, Trio and Arrow was the name of the album. And they'd play the video on the local public access music video channel. And it's these three dudes sitting there very stoically playing their instruments, German dudes doing this song, Da, Da, Da. Anyway, fast forward to last week when I was in the car with my music on shuffle and I heard that familiar electronic beat, but it sounded slightly different. Little did I know that a band I liked had covered this classic song from my adulthood. This week is my birthday, the seven, so a couple days from now, and I'm turning 50 minus one or two.

So I was hoping you could play a cover of da, da, da, da by Elastika to help me feel young again. Thanks both for all you do, signed BioCow. No, thank you for your freaking all your cool shit. You'd make everybody all the time. Yeah, and thank you, BioCow, because I had no idea until I put this, found this song for you, that Elastica covered da, da, da. Indeed, they did, and they recorded it as part of the Radio One sessions, the BBC Radio One session. So they did this thing live. and, you know, like anything you hear from Elastica, they're freaking awesome.

Like on the Brit Pop, like, you know, in the 90s, the UK had Brit Pop going on with blur and Oasis and Swade and Pulp and all these sort of things. And Elastica was always on the harder edge while America was doing their Grunge thing. Elastica felt like they actually could have straddled the line between Brit Pop and Grunge. kind of the garbage side of things. Love Elastika. And thank you for helping me find this thing because I had no idea it existed.

Covering trios, da, da, da, da. I don't love you. You don't love me. Ishli Bishnich, do leaps be schneesh. Here is Elastika. I'm sorry. I wasn't expecting that last bit. Wasn't expecting any German?

Yeah, heck yeah, man. That was great. I listened to that album like crazy. That's awesome. All right. Here it is then. Enjoy. What you do and what you don't. What you will and what you won't.

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