The Morning Stream - TMS 2577: David Cop A Feel

Episode Date: January 4, 2024

Poetry of the Poultry. Self cooking chicken. Vent Your Engines. 80% Ibbott. The Puberty Angle. Living in a Damn Onion. Report Deaths for Tax Incentives. Ball Cock Not Included. Who names their toilets? 2038? Niceeeeeeeee. Tesla: Rise of the machines. Raw Meat for Speedrunners. Rob Lowe on The Floor. Your killer white cell count. Sincerely, Steve. David Coppafeel 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 Strange One, Rob Bollander and Alex Mitchell. Coming up on TMS, poetry of the poultry. Self-cooking chicken. Venture engines. 80%, Ibbett. Outright. The puberty angle. Living in a damned onion.

Report deaths for tax incentives. Ballcock, not included. Who names their toilets? 2038. Nice. Tesla. Rise of the machine. Meet for spee runners.

Rob Lowe on the floor. I guess it's speed runners. That's fine, though. Your killer white cell count. Sincerely, Steve. David Copephiel and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. This is Blinky Blanky Girl. She has over 10,000 views on Instagram, 6,800 on TikTok, and is up and coming on Meta and X.

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Who gives a damn? Hello, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for January 4th, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson, and that is Brian Ibbett. Hi, Brian Ibit. Hello, back from the dead. Back from the deep, dark hole you found yourself in.

Deck from the bed, that's right. Brian was sick, but... A little voicy voice problem, but I'd say I'm, you know, 80% now. 80's good. I like 80. 80's great. I was probably down to 55 yesterday. I'd say 55.

That's pretty, I mean, 55 is pretty low. That's, you know. It's pretty low. So this is a good jump back, though, then. This is a fine, what's the word? Yeah, like a little 24-hour deal, recovery. Yeah, so was that how long it took for Tina or is it different for her? Actually, I was a little bit quicker than Tina.

Not that I'm bragging, but, uh, yeah. That's great. Take that, Tina. Well, I hope she's feeling better, too, because, you know. She is, yeah, she's, uh, She is, it's just the occasional cough for her, and so far, so far the cough has been really intermittent for me. I've got my hand very close to the cough switch if I need to use it, but for the most part, it's been very, very occasional. Well, good.

Well, thank you, nature, for being less harsh than you probably wanted to be. You know what I mean? Sometimes they want to get you. The nature is a little nicer to me than it usually is, my friends, yes. Or your killer white cell count. was just on fire this week and it just was like not having it you know that's right that's right well you think you could just walk through the front door and you're gonna go john wick on its ass nice job's right exactly there is some uh speaking of john wick the director of john wick who a lot

of people think is the next name in all things action films okay i could see why you think that the guy's very good at those john wick movies oh yeah yeah he says that he would he would direct that to direct these upcoming blade movies in a heartbeat. Really? And it got me to thinking. They already got a dude, right? Well, they had a guy, he got let go, they got another guy, that way. They got Mershali.

You mean for director? For director. For director. Okay. Yeah. And this guy, if they didn't have a director locked in, Derek Kolstad, by the way. Yeah, hire that guy.

What else has he done? Anything? All the Wicks. Obviously, well, you obviously all the WIC movies, but is there? I don't know. Uh, let's see here. Something called One in the Chamber back in 2012. That sounds fun.

The package. Oh, he did Nobody. The, uh, um... He directed that? Odencirk. Odencirk thing. Yeah, executive producer and, uh, and, well, what's he? Film, oh, writer for nobody.

Oh, okay. I didn't think he directed it. But yeah, that makes sense, though. Boy, those movies are a lot of like, so, yeah. They really are. So, yeah, I'm not surprised. Ilya Nyshuller was the director on that one. Uh, yeah.

Look, Blade could use some... Actually, he's writer. So we got Chad's Tehesky or Tehlski is director on the John Wick films. So maybe that's when we were talking about a different guy.

Oh, I don't know. Yeah, whoever that dude is. I just saw this interview and he was like, oh, I'd do Blade and a heartbeat, he goes, he says. And then I started thinking about some of the close quarters blade combat you could do with that guy's directing style and it could be awesome yeah so go ahead and do it i don't know fire whoever you got and put them in there keep mahershal ali we're all set we're ready let's go yeah so we're talking chad stahelsky then uh this guy

is just pretty much done john wick except he um was second unit director his second unit for captain america civil war we don't like that yeah birds of prey the harley quinn movie um And that's it. And mostly stunt work, actually, for everything else. Tons of stunt work. So he's a stunt, like, coordinator or actual stunt man? I think, uh, looks like... Because that's cool.

It's funny, because it says stunt work. He was the Brandon Lee stunt double for, uh, the crow. Oops. Yeah. Oh, man. I want to... He was, yeah, no kidding. He was Keanu Reeves' stunt double for the Matrix.

Oh, okay. That one worked out. That worked out. Yeah, that one did a lot better. Yeah. But also a lot of coordinators, fight coordinator, assistant stun coordinator, very much, which makes sense. I mean, you look at those movies, and you can pretty much say, you know,

this is a movie directed by a stunt coordinator, a fight coordinator. No, yeah, and it's maybe his best, you know, it's like all those guys that start a music videos and then have huge film careers. It's like, just take a different path. Sounds good to me. Yeah. Well, I'm glad you're better. I'm glad Blade is being made, and I'm glad it's, we've finally getting some snow today,

I don't know if that's going to last, but we're, you know, this winter has been nothing so far, really. Yeah, yeah, for us too. Except the mountains. We're getting a lot of the mountains, which is good, good for you as well. Yeah. Lots of skiing. Lots of good times up there.

My dentist claims that he skied the other day. This is how cocky my dentist is. He goes, he goes, so I'm up skiing. I'm boreding. He's snowboarding because, you know, a guy, he just turned 50 and he's feeling very, he's feeling his oats a little bit. Yeah, sure. So he's like, yeah, I'm up there and it's, you know, it's nice. like 38 degrees, really nice up there.

So I'm not wearing gloves. I'm wearing just a light jacket and just, you know, no hat. I'm just rocking it up there. And I said, oh, that's interesting. And he goes, yeah, and all these people came up there from Arizona. They were in some group from Arizona and they all were bundled up like they were going to die in the cold. And I'm like, well, yeah, they're used to Phoenix temperatures, you know.

You can't come up here and just expect it to be, you know, I don't know where. Right. You can't, you can't expect them to immediately. adapt to the cold weather of the mountains of Utah. Come on now. My sister-in-law, every time they travel from there to hear, even in the summer, she's like in a full-on jacket or sweater because she thinks this is cold when it's 85 compared to when it's, you know, I guess because it is.

It's 100 million degrees down there. So they understand. They live in a damn onion, an oven. I have that same problem when I go to San Francisco. I feel like, eh, I'm from Colorado. San Francisco is going to be fine. And just the dampness and the humidity of San Francisco, especially in the winter, is tough for Colorado. Yeah, I don't like, I like the nice dry desert air. That's what I like. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, let's move on. We got some stuff. I had a dream that was very weird. You may have made an appearance in it because I just, I woke having the feeling that you were there. I don't know how to explain that, but I think you were in this dream.

okay but you were not the subject of the dream which is this so in my dream and I have I have stopped trying to understand my dreams okay everybody so you can interpret them all you want but I'm done with that futile exercise I'm never going to understand my dreams I'm looking at this description and I'm absolutely dumbfounded so please so there is a chicken in my dream like a chicken little you know bird regular size chicken or a giant chicken like a regular chicken like a like you'd see in a coop or whatever And it waddle, well, to start with, it kind of was just waddling around, making little pecky noises and all that kind of stuff. And then in the dream, the big moment is it pulls up in front of me, stops in its tracks, immediately catches on fire. Like, just a big. Spontaneous. Yeah. Just chicken on fire. Imagine a chicken lit on fire, maybe even gas to help it go.

I don't know, but just a torch of a chicken just. And then he sat there, pulled out a little. little tiny book, little tiny black book while he's on fire and read me poetry for what felt like hours. I'm sure it was minutes, maybe even moments, because that's how dreams are. They're like flash in the pan. I may have had it between 6.30 and 6.35. I don't know, but it felt like hours in there and this flaming chicken just sitting there

with a little black book reading me poetry. And I couldn't tell you any of the poems, but it was all stuff like, together we fled from the place of yore and only found the locked door and you know this kind of thing all from a chicken on fire that was really good little rhyming couplet there by the way oh my i'm pretty good with oars i can get the oars done yeah but uh it was weird and i don't uh i don't like it no sir i don't that's uh man for somebody who doesn't drink uh maybe i need to maybe this a sign maybe yeah you know maybe maybe my drinking has has uh dull to the sharp point that would be my dreams.

Yeah, maybe. I mean, I don't know. I've thought about why I get these. And it's not like I'm doing anything crazy before bed. Like last night especially, I was like, I'm going to go to bed sort of early. I think I was head to pillow by 10 or something. Oh, wow.

Yeah. I was like, I'm going to get some extra sleep. I'm going to, you know, whatever. And we had kind of a high pressure thing going yesterday with the weather. So I was feeling kind of headachey and stuff. And it's like, just good time to go to bed. Let's do it early. Everything's fine.

Now, tell about 3.30 when I had to get up and pee, I had to pee. No, no dreams, no nothing. That was fine. Just woke up, peed my back to bed. Oh, really? Okay. So this came late. Post pee.

Yeah. I think it happened right before I woke up, honestly. Because I woke up at 650 and that's, it was after the dream. And then I just got up. It's like, well, I'm not staying in bed after this. So it really did feel like one of those dreams that felt long, but probably got inserted into my subconscious, like, a minute before I woke up. I don't know.

There's definitely a weird correlation between the things that you typically draw and the things that you dream about. Yeah, maybe. Your imagination works, like, it basically, it's the same road those trucks drive down, basically, is like, because I can see you drawing a chicken on fire reading poetry. Yeah, it's not too far. Well, see, that's another question, and I hate to use the metaphor given the proximity to what we're talking about, but what came first

the chicken or the egg? Do the dreams inspire the drawings or do the drawings inspire the dreams? I don't know. I don't necessarily think that one inspires the other. I think that your fount of creativity, whether it is

producing things that escape out your hands into a pencil, onto a piece of paper, or with your eyes closed in the middle of the night. I think it's like it is the geyser from which all of this spews forth. So I'm, yeah, so I'm, I'm, I'm, let's, let's, let's, let's give it a, uh, a, uh, a, uh, a,

puberty angle here. Oh, geez. No, let's not. But the point, but the point is like it's, it all spurts out from the same place. But it's like, uh, you, you got to, you got to get, you got to vent your engines, right? Right. Right. Exactly. Well, I think, and I think you vent your engines, whether you're drawing them or dreaming them but i think it all you know uh and i wonder if that's the same case for a lot of artists if um if you um you know i can't imagine i can't imagine the family circle

bill keene all he dreams about is our little dotted lines all over the city from the path that he took that day yeah but uh um but i think that you know they're probably like gary larson I would assume would have nutty dreams like you do. Yeah. He probably gets up and writes him down and that's where his best day stuff came from. Yeah, it's possible. Sometimes it feels like a full-blown mental illness when you're looking at a chicken on fire talking poetry. Sure, sure.

I don't know, man. And then it's, you know, fine for the rest of the day. It's not like I'm sitting around going, ah, chickens are on fire. You know, like I don't have day. I don't daydream these things, but lately nighttime, just funky. Well, anyway, I can't wait to hear everyone's interpretations. Please feel free to send them in. Here's what it means.

You had rotissory chicken for lunch. That's right. We got a text from Steve. His name is sincere Steve. Sincere Steve. I would have never, I didn't ever question his sincerity until now. But now I do because this makes me think this is an alter ego of Steve's and he's not always sincere. I don't know.

But he says, Dear Scott and Brian, I am delighted to inform you that in 2024, everybody born in 1962 will turn 62. Love the numbers, though. Steve. Wow. Do we know anyone? Who do we know? Do we know any Tadpoolers? Anybody 62 year olds? Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I'm guessing that

sincere Steve, since your Steve must be 62, otherwise he wouldn't be thinking about this. Oh, maybe, or he's close to it or something. What year do we turn 69? What year do the people born in 69 turn 69? Is that let's find out? Like 15 years from now, is that right? Is that right? Jeez.

Um, so in, uh, um, it's 38, 2038. Uh, is that right? Is that right? Let's see. Web of magic seems to confirm. You are correct on the years, 15 years. Uh, that doesn't seem like very much. Does it?

It doesn't. Well, I don't know. It does. It doesn't. It doesn't. My perception of 15 years is not what it used to be. No, no. Neither is mine.

It's going to go too quick and I don't like it. No. I don't. Well, we'll celebrate it then. We'll get to the big 6-9 and we'll laugh and say nice. We'll say, buddy who was born in 69 is turning 69 this year. Yep, and the whole chat will go, nice. Nice. All right.

Thank you for the text, Steve. 80147-10462. We got another one that's, it begs the question, did we do this? Good morning, Sko and Bri, when U-Line catalogs were first mentioned on the show. I made one comment about them. Two days later, I got one in the mail. I hadn't got one of those in the previous 10 years. So he thinks maybe our evocation of all things, U-Line, brought him a catalog.

What do you think of that? It's kind of like we cause celebrity deaths because we talked about them. We also cause receiving the U-Line catalog. Now, he says he made one comment about them. Did he make them, it depends on where he made that comment. Did he make that comment to U-Line? Or did he make that comment in chat or in Discord or via text or whatever? To his mailman as he drove by?

Yeah, exactly. Mailman said, oh, I got a Yule and Ked log for you. I've always got three or four here in the car. Just in case, prop myself up on the chair with them. That's right. They do pretty good at holding my weight. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know, dude.

I will say this sometimes. You know, that celebrity death thing that we get nailed for sometimes? Yesterday I was, it hit me that I, there was some article. about Lieutenant Dan, the character. Oh, yeah. And I went, I haven't seen Gary Sinise forever. Like, where's Gary Sinise been? And a little part of my brain went,

don't be talking about the guy right now. You know? I mentioned Gary Sinise in the New Year's Eve trivia questions. Oh, did that come up there? Yeah, I talked about Gary Senes. Oh, maybe that's what maybe think of it. He says, Forrest, the day you become a shrimp boat captain, I'm going to be an astronaut.

That's right. The next year he was almost an astronaut in Apollo 13. That's right. No, that's probably what spawned it because I could not remember exactly where I was thinking of Gary Sinise at all from. Like, why would he pop into my head? That must have been it. But I haven't seen him forever. And I don't know what's going on there.

I'm sure someone said he's really active on Reddit, which is a weird thing to hear. But I've, what Gary Sinise movies have been? Yeah, let's see. He was in a TV show called 13 Revenue. reasons why for 10 episodes in 2020. He was in two movies in 2020.

I still believe in Joe Bell. Okay. But nothing since. Joe Bell. Joe Bell. What was Joe Bell? Joe Bill. Is that a movie or a TV thing? That's a movie. That's a movie.

Okay. Oh, here we go. A 2020 American Biographical Drama Road film. directed by Reynaldo Marcus Green. With your Mark Wahlberg, your Reed Miller, and everyone's favorite Connie Britton. Yeah, like her. Like her a lot.

All right, well, then he's fine. I guess I just haven't seen movies he's in. That's fine. Yeah. I don't need to see him all. I just like the guy. We just hope he's okay. He's 68.

Oh, man. Too bad he wasn't born in 69. Wait, if he's 68, that makes him, let me do the math. He was born in 55. 55. Oh, I don't know. I close the top, but I'll, I'll, uh, oops, what did I just do?

Oh, no. Oh, no. You've destroyed your entire desktop as because of it. Oh, I've changed the, uh, I've unended the last song, uh, line in our deal. He was born in, uh, correct, 55. Oh, my gosh, look at the math on me today. Amazing. Yes, impressive.

Uh, write this day down, everybody, you'll never forget it. All right. We're going to do some news and it'll be fun. So here you go. It's time for the news. brought to you by brought to you by no coverville today but there will be the plan is there will be a guest the connection tomorrow morning and you guys have had three weeks to work on that guest the connection so uh hope we have a winner i don't know but uh we'll find out tomorrow and there will be a new

game and a new prize issued tomorrow that's guess the connection at twitch dot tv slash coverville at nine a m mountain time would that be a digital prize or a physical prize a physical prize. Oh my. Yes. That's exciting. This is how I get rid of a lot of the things that aren't quite up to like get rid of it on eBay level or it's too big and I've got to take it to like

GameStop, but small enough that I can throw two or three things in an envelope and a padded envelope and somebody will be really happy with them. Yeah, it is great getting rid of stuff like that. I'm trying to organize all my stuff into piles of this is definitely leaving, this is maybe leaving this I should sell, and then

I get distracted and play shapes instead. That's how things go for me. That's the problem. Well, for me, it was Disney Dreamlight Valley for a long time. Oh, yeah. All right. Let's talk about this Tesla robot.

Now, some people have assumed they meant the new one. They're making like a humanoid robot over there at Tesla. That's not what this is. This is a car, one of the robots, like you'd see in any car manufacturing plant. Okay, like an assembly line

looks like the robots that Tony Stark makes that help him hold stuff while he welds it. Yeah, great big arms and pinchers and stuff like that. That's exactly right. So here's what happened. A robot at Tesla

allegedly attacked an engineer. I don't know why they got to use language like it's a human. It's so stupid. Sure. Whatever. Stabbing its metal claws into his back and arm and leaving a trail of blood on the machinery according to a 2021 injury report. So this is actually an older incident.

Oh, wow. Yeah. Just came to light. The resurface. So the Tesla robot documents have finally been unsealed. That's right. You've been excited for Epstein's Island list. Guess what? We got now. We got this.

It says here, let's see, whereas the resurface incident comes amid new concerns over automated technology and reports of injuries in Tesla's factories have been allegedly swept under the rug. The 2020 report, 2021 report said that the worker was given no time off work, despite eyewitness accounts saying the engineer was severely injured. Quote, we've had multiple workers who were injured and one worker who died whose injuries or death are not in those reports that Tesla is supposed to be

accurately completing and submitting to the county in order to get tax incentives. Wait, you have to do that just to get tax incentives? I guess. That's really interesting. Shouldn't you have to report deaths for a whole bunch of other legal reasons? Well, I guess we have to put these deaths. Nothing certain in life except death and taxes, and apparently they both go on the same form. Yeah, no kidding. I'm trying to imagine anything scarier than the, the role. robot that works next to you welding a car together, just suddenly lurching to the left and

stabbing you in the back. And see, that's the question. Like the, you know, allegedly attacked an engineer. Those things, there's no AI program, as far as I know, programmed into robotic arms and assembly lines, there's a very good chance that Joe Dufus, and I hate speaking ill of the injured, the trail of blood, Joe Dufus, just probably didn't, didn't, stay a required distance away from the arm and the arm was doing its usual jit jit jit jit jit thing and went yeah yeah my guess is it didn't it didn't suddenly

become sentient and decide to rebel against the humans this article would like you to think that but this article is smoking the crack uh yeah well we hope he healed up after that i guess he's had a couple years now so uh and let's uh you know let's do the real quick thing before all these names come out in the Epstein thing. I'm going to sit the over underline of former presidents

at two. Do you want to take the over or the under on that? The thing is I think it's exactly two. How does one bet when you're so sure about that, like in a sports situation? Do you do the over? You can't know. So then, yeah, so you basically would be a push

if it turns out to be two and you bet. the over or the under if it does turn out to be exactly two then oh crap so we could say 1.5 is what to use Travis I'll do that yeah 1.5 I'll take the over I'll take

I'll take the half the 0.5 president um yeah because I'm I'm virtually positive that Clinton and Trump have been there 100% I don't like Bush know shit about it and I know that current guys

I'm sorry but he just didn't know and neither did anybody else. It's these two chuckleheads. Oh, come I never got an invitation. I never got asked. Come on, man. We're going to ask. Come on. We never got asked. Is it because I was the only vice president then? Come on. Should have gotten an invitation. Come on.

All right. Where was I? Oh, let's do this story. Okay. And yeah, by the way, so that thing, that list hits, right? And I thought I would here almost immediately as soon as somebody had time to comb through it. There are plenty of fake lists out there. There have been those for a year. Like they already, forget about those. But this thing, I thought they would disseminate it and have a whole list so it could

just easily, without me having to go crawl through 400 PDFs myself. Right, right. Have a distinct, give me a top 10. I can't, I don't imagine that it's just a spreadsheet. I think somebody does have to go through and parse the list and actually put the names. Yeah. From the list into a, into a spreadsheet. right yeah i think so i would i would assume so the documents are so it's 34 uh 34 gigabytes of data

yeah uh if you want to download it but i don't want to go through that you know yeah i mean people in the chat are telling us that the list is already out um but i i i haven't seen it yet i haven't found i mean i know the list was unsealed i know it's out but i haven't seen a list list oh yeah it came out yesterday so i have i have a link to the actual documents i just want someone from a but it's right but it's not just a clear i want to stay clear list. Yeah, I want a trusted source to go through the documents, so I don't have to. Which feels like some media's job to do. So do that. Make it accurate. Give me some transparency so I know that you didn't fiddle with it or you don't have a bias in it. And let's just see what you got. I want to see it. Someone in the chat room is saying, I'll send you the TikTok. No, I don't want a TikTok. Send me a Google doc, not a TikTok. If the TikTok has an actual list, fine. But how are you going to prove that? You know? Yeah, right. So yeah, give me something concrete. I just want to know. I want to know. I want to know who went over there.

I want to know who went. Because some, here's, here's the truth of it, whether we like it or not, whether some people's biases like it or not. Some people went over there, just had no idea, did nothing while they were there and came home. Went because they're billionaires on this thing. I got invited. I'm going. It wasn't a sex party every single trip. So those people, I feel really bad for anyone who's like that. And I don't know who they are. because I have no idea. What I need is a list that says these people went there and went there specifically because they were taking part in underage sex parties. And we have proof. And here's the proof. That's what I want.

So I know the right people to A, shun and B, not support in any way. You know what I mean? Right, right. Make it easy for us, the American public. Or international because you got Prince Andrew, not William, sorry, William. You're fine, buddy. You're good. as far as I know.

But also, according to the list that, the Al Jazeera list that Dr. Calhoun sent over, Michael Jackson, Stephen Hawking, and David Copperfield. Yeah. Yeah, the Hawking one's making the joke rounds right now for obvious reasons. Sure, of course. Yeah, I don't know, man. I'm trying to not be in the salacious part of this. I just kind of want a little bit of closure on it.

It's like I'm sick of this damn list existing in the vague. paper. Now we have it. So what is it? Let's just be done. Yeah. Let's just get it over with. Pull off that band-aid. I know there's a lot of really influential high-money people involved. I understand that. F-that. If they're pedophiles, freaking out them. I don't care. Do it. Put them in jail. Every damn one of them. I don't care who they're affiliated with. I don't care who they vote for. I don't care who they are or what they are. They should all go to jail if you've got the proof. That's the thing is the, you know, seeing somebody, seeing Michael Jackson at a party is one

thing, knowing that he participated in any sort of underage activity at one of Epstein's parties is a totally different thing. Maybe a different example. David Copperfield. Yeah. Oh, is he on that list? Copperfield's on it? David Coppafeel. Yeah, Copepheel. David Coppafeel. He went, but he made the orgy disappear. They never asked them back. That's right. Exactly. I bet he made a lot of women disappear by saying, hi, I'm David Copperfield. Yeah. Hello. Okay, yes.

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Explore over 350 plus programs at ASUonline.ASU.org. All right. Here is a story for you. Four men are charged. We promise this is not a continuation of the whole bet on two presidents thing, or one of them owns a gold toilet. Totally unrelated. But four men charged over the theft of a six million dollars. although this says $6 min, they mean million. Well,

MLN. Oh, is that an L? That's an L. Yeah. Oh, I hate how close. Yeah, I haven't seen abbreviation for million MLM like that. Yeah, that's why it's,

I think that's why it threw me. Yeah, that's a weird way to do it. It should be a capital M, right? Six capital M is your appropriate abbreviation for a million. Yeah, if it were me, I would do that. Yeah. These people, who knows what they're thinking.

But anyway, it was a $6 million dollar gold toy. from an English palace. Ooh, fancy. Four men had been charged over the theft of an 18-carat golden toilet from a palace in southern England where it was kept as an art exhibit before being stolen in an early morning heist in 2019, according to prosecutors. The fully functional toilet valued at 4.8 million pounds. That's $5.9 million.

That must just be the gold and that's it, right? Yeah. That's the value. Jeez. Yeah, certainly not the wax ring is not part. part was not taken into the calculation. No, they didn't think of that part. The plunger, the ballcock.

Not included in the calculation there. I love the term ballcock. Yeah. We talked about this golden toilet before on this show when it was put in. Yeah, I think so, didn't we? Years ago. Well, I guess 2019 or so, something like that. It says, was part of this exhibit, blah, blah, blah,

an Italian conceptual artist. Boy, it's an artist with a lot of grant money. Britain's Crown Prosecution Service of the CPS at James Sheen, age 39, was charged with one court count, rather, of burglary and two counts relating to the transfer of criminal property, that being the toilet. Three others, Michael Jones, Fred Doe, these sound like fake names. That sounds like a fake name. Fred Doe. Is your brother's name, John? Like what's going on, Mr. Doe?

Exactly. Borah cuck, or gaguck, gucuck, gucuck. Guckuck. Guckuck. Borga cuck. Boragakak. I'm about one of those at IKEA a couple days ago, actually. I still need to put it together.

Well, they still make you assemble those. That's a bummer. They do, yeah. If you go and get a Borgicuck there, unless that's a soft Gey, Borgicuk. Oh, I like that even better. Borjaicuk. Boreguk.

That's even a better, that's a better name for IKEA. It's a better IKEA furniture. It's a dresser. Those people all got to charge as well. Police said that at the time of the theft, the burglars broke into the palace with two vehicles and took the toilet sometime between or before 5 a.m. That's right before you need it.

It was not immediately clear if the toilet named America. Oh, really? Oh, really. Yeah. Gold toilet named America. Nice. Nice. Sounds suspiciously like it's trying to be poking fun.

Yeah. Seems like maybe you're used. using your art to poke us in the eye a little bit there. Yeah, a little bit. Surprised the toilet isn't holding a gun and eating a cheeseburger. That's right. By the way, this palace, it's called Blenheim Palace. Yeah.

Birthplace and ancestral home of British wartime leader Winston Churchill. Oh, nice. Great. Let's see. It was saddened by the loss of the toilet, says the place. Which also had been on display previously at New York's Guggenheim Museum. So we've seen it here in the states. And here it was called.

It was called Britain here. No, I don't know. I don't know how they did it. That's a fun story. Here's a story that will warm your heart, Brian. Sure. Not that you need it. You've had a low-grade fever.

You don't need warming. You need cooling. 13-year-old. This ain't no, Brian's getting better. You hear songs and things. This is how you know. Exactly. That's when I crossed the 80% line.

And then it's like, oh, Brian immediately goes into song when he hears a few words. Yep, and a measly 20%. It's all you got left. You're going to have that by tomorrow, I think. Anyway, a 13-year-old, this is super cute, the story, becomes the first person to beat Tetris on the NES. So this is the old NES version of Tetris. I'm going to remind people before I say anything else about this story, because people forget this, the original version of Tetris on Game Boy and NES and maybe a couple of other iterations before they changed this did not have. the reserve piece functionality so right yeah you couldn't see the next oh so that's different than

being able to see what the next piece is the reserve piece like like being able to say ooh i'm going to put this piece over here give me the next one yeah like if you're you see a long one but you don't need it yet and you're like well i'm going to put that in reserve until i need it there's a mechanic for that jamie yeah to use that one james um but you you and then you can pull it out later when when you need it right so did i have a fever dream or did did you did you You and Bobby talk about this with Tom yesterday, or is that a different thing? No, this is the same one we talked about it. Okay.

This is just more detail. We have very little to go off yesterday, but here's the deal. The classic puzzle game Tetris has been around for over three decades. We know this. There's a kill screen in the game. This kid hits the kill screen, and the entire internet loses their mind. But here's the fun bit. It was considered to be unbeatable until this kid did it.

Really? And now, now there are, I don't know how many, maybe hundreds of people, now making the attempt to beat his score because if he can do it in whatever it was 29 minutes oh so it's the speed so basically obviously you can't once you get to the kill screen game over you can't go further than that so it's really just a matter of getting to the kill screen faster yeah and now now it's like raw meat to these speed runner people they love this stuff yeah and so i watched a bunch of this yesterday oh yeah it was great it's so it's it's really actually pretty fun rabbit hole to go down. It's a good community, like a really supportive community. So when somebody's about to

break some big record, the others trying to break the same record don't get caddy. They actually like root on whoever's going to get the new record. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, see, that's good. Yeah. I like it a lot. It would be, that would be a fun reality show, by the way. Can you imagine a reality show based around speed running? I would watch the hell out of that. Yeah, I think I would watch that too, like a reality competition. I did have to watch the new Rob Lo game. show uh while i was sick basically i'm laying i'm laying there on the couch like trying to figure out what i'm going to watch to fall asleep ended up watching logan which didn't help uh yeah that's kind of you want to watch i've seen this enough times that that i could probably fall asleep while i watch it

yeah but didn't but um rob low's new game show the premise pretty pretty dang cool but of course it's a primetime game show so it's loaded with will they did it do they find out after the break but it's uh they've got a giant floor the game i believe is called the floor because games now have to game shows have to be the blank yeah i've noticed that the wall is the floor and he's he's single hosting this right it's just him up there single hosting this and the game the premise is this floor is divided by is divided into a hundred squares a little grid and it's a it's a you know LED floor like it's massive and it's got LED uh underneath it's they have 100 people

everyone gets a square and in their square it says when they signed up what their area of expertise was so this person's is barbecue and this person's is dogs and this person is sci-fi movies right so everybody's in their little grid and they're a little square with their one

subject that they picked when they signed up for the show somebody's picked at random and they immediately have to choose one of the four people connected to them ordinally, no diagonal, just orthogonally, I should say, orthogonally connected to them

and challenge them at their area of expertise. So if Bill is sitting there on his barbecue space and he picks Joe, who's next to him with dogs, he has to answer questions about dogs. And are these real categories? Barbecue dogs, that kind of stuff? Yeah, yeah, these are real categories. All right.

So they have to go back in forward. And in the case of dogs, they're basically going back and forth with a video screen that shows them a dog breed, a photo of a dog, and they have to identify the breed. Beagle, a basset hound, da, da, da, and they go back and forth. Whoever wins absorbs the square, and the person whose square got absorbed is out, and now that person, you know, basically has a few more extra squares that are tangent to their own square and kind of take over the territory. it's it's a very clever concept if it wasn't so game showy i'd love watching this yeah but uh i like the concept too everything you described sounds like fun that seems like a fun so is it by a winner is determined by also who has the most squares or those disappear yes if you're kicked no no when you basically it's territory yeah so i mean as you absorb squares

you'll take over more and more of this board and if you say you know what i'm gonna i'm gonna go back to my territory like they win a game you've got the choice of continuing to challenge people or go back to your territory. So you go back and then they randomly pick another person. Well, if they're attached tangentially to you, they can challenge you.

And you might have the category now of the person you ousted instead of your own category. So if dude who had dogs won, he would absorb barbecue. And that would be his category, which is a category that he did not... He didn't sign up for.

He doesn't want that. sign up for. So that part of it's kind of interesting, but... That sounds all right as a core concept. I like it. It's a very clever core concept, yeah. Little two network TV. Somebody who claimed that their specialty was books. And so it

showed them book covers, and removed one word from it, right? So it's like blank shades of gray, 50. Okay, good. And it gets to the blank of wrath. And he goes, book. book. Your specialty is books. Yeah.

Even I know it's grapes of wrath, you dummy. Yeah, exactly. That's funny. That sounds like a fun, you'd need the grid, I guess. But you could do this on a board. It's probably a board game thing. You don't need a grid.

Or I think it would actually be a fun multiplayer online kind of game. Yeah. Like a, I don't know, the kind of stuff we do on PlayDate would be really fun with something we could do. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Like, you know, get 25 players, a 5-by-5 grid and then do the trivia questions that way.

Oh, I would do that in a heartbeat. That sounds like fun. And I don't need Rob Lowe to do it, okay? I don't need perennially handsome Rob Lowe to accomplish any of that. No, you can get it done without him. Well, anyway, grats to that kid. I think that's awesome. And now the world is all trying to beat it, even though the record prior to this was kind of stagnant.

Nobody was going after it. That's the way this stuff works. I'm sure, well, yeah, exactly. it's somebody's going to say i've got the uh the the the best record on toe jam and earl try and beat that folks yeah all of a sudden yeah suddenly suddenly it goes crazy it's funny i watched a online documentary on youtube by this guy i actually don't want to spoil his role in all of it because there's a there's a point to his role in it but go look for look for just search uh youtube for documentary uh space what how would i put it uh

I guess punch out, just punch out, because it's the original NES punchout. Okay, it's about the game punchout, catch it. And the records around it's the real Glass Joe? I'm actually the real Glass Joe. I'm Glass Joe. Look at my horrible glass features. No, it's not. My jaw, easily breakable.

Although Glass Joe, the character, plays a huge role in speed running that game. Oh, really? How you beat him matters a lot. Anyway, I learned a lot. It's like things like two hours long, and I thought I was going to be bored. I was actually riveted by it and it basically just talks about this 10 year old stale record

in NES Mike Tyson's punchout and then the sudden freak out that it caused when someone figured out just one slightly new way to shave like a second off the time and then this mad dash

for everybody to try to beat it and then who ultimately did and all it's it was so I was so into it I couldn't turn it off huh interesting I'll have to look for it okay punch out

I'll never be a speedrunner, but I sure enjoy, you know, seeing it. It's really cool. Yeah, yeah. It's a fascinating competition thing, and it just feels like I ain't got time for that. I ain't got time to play something as quickly as possible when there are all sorts of new things that I want to finish as enjoyable as possible. But look at these kids, right? You got the 13-year-old Tetris player. You got the 16-year-old darts kid, the phenom in the UK.

Is he really 16? Have you seen that kid? I have seen that. quote unquote, I've seen that kid. He looks 36. He does. Oh, no doubt. Like, he's got a better, he's got better facial hair than, uh, I saw that just went.

No way. That kid's 16. It felt like somebody was wearing a, a kid's suit saying, hello fellow teens. I'm here to throw darts. Right. That was weird. I imagine they have to vet him, obviously, and make sure that he really is, especially if he's going to be playing in a junior league.

But I want to see an interview with the, the, uh, Lester Holt story that I saw about it. They didn't have an interview with them, but I want to see him, like, you know, stepping up with his beard and go, yeah, well, um, so I've been playing darts since I was about eight. And I just got my license, and now I can drive anywhere I want to play darts. Can't wait until I'm able to drink.

When I'm 21, I'll look 55. Um, well, anyway, yeah, kids are all right, you know? Kids are already. The bottom line, what we learned today is kids are all right. The kids are going to be okay. They're beating records having fun. I don't know. That's right. All us olds die. They'll be fine. All right. Children are future, it turns out.

It turns out they are. The man arrested after opening heroin, cocaine, and meth store in Canada. Oh, fantastic. Yeah, this is no good. Vancouver Man was opening a store. It's called an Arby's. That'd be great if they just converted a commonplace. Anyway, this dude has heroin, meth, cocaine, MDNA, sorry, MDMA, and arrested less than 24 hours after launching his little business. Duh. Jerry Martin is his name. That sounds great to be named Jerry Martin opening a It is a mobile shop called The Drugs Store in downtown Eastside Wednesday. So this is a

like a thing you can move around, different neighborhoods. A pop-up shop, basically. Yeah, is what it sounds like. This is a neighborhood that has been ravaged by the overdose epidemic. He said he wanted to give people a safe supply of drugs that have been tested to ensure they don't contain fentanyl. Except for the container of fentanyl. Yeah, except for the fentanyl, which you can also buy through this guy's mobile home.

Which is at least with sweet and low. Right. Oh no, then forget it. I'm out. I don't want that. Let's see. They said da-da-da-b-da-da. Okay, see, police said that they started gathering evidence after the suspect started selling cocaine, crack, and methamphetamine and heroin out of the back

of a mobile trailer. We support measures aimed at improving public safety for people who use drugs, including harm reduction services and discrimination, or decriminalization, sorry, said someone in a press release. However, we remain committed to our position that drug trafficking will continue to be the subject of enforcement. So get out of there, dude. With your pop-up.

With the drugs store. The drugs store. With your food truck for drugs? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. kind of understand the thinking he's capitalizing on this idea that if you provide drugs safely you're going to have less problems yeah i mean there's measures in a lot of cities to have safe

using zones like where you can you can go and take your drugs with a somebody there to make sure that you don't overdose and if you do overdose there's a doctor on standby that will will help you right right very controversial those places by the way it is just tell them to quit taking drugs that's the answer could take a name drugs i don't understand addiction at all so i say take away their drugs i don't know why he has that voice sorry to everybody i don't i don't either but he definitely disapproves whoever that guy is yeah wherever that loser is uh that is it for your news and today because it's a short day that is it for your show all right i have an interview i have to do i know it's short sweet to the point

no windy today you'll have to get your therapy another way until next thursday that's right yeah including me i i i often meet brian and i have to give our life examples to her we're going to miss out too you know yeah she'll say she'll say something like if either of you uh have dream Brian let's talk about a time when you uh did the soul drugs out of a out of a food truck yeah how did that make you feel how did that make you feel exactly well we'll find out next week when Wendy returns here on the show for her first appearance of 2024 uh that is going to do it for us but we got a lot of stuff coming up so I would like to point your squinties to core tonight at 4 p.m that's right

4 p.m. Mountain Time. There will be an episode of CORE with myself, Bo and John. A big weekly roundup of all things video games. If you are interested in being there live, it's at 4 p.m. right here at frogpants.tv, or you can get the podcast later. No coverville today, but Brian did mention

tomorrow 9 a.m. He'll be doing guest to connection. Correct. And you should probably want to check that out, win some prizes. That's right. Twitch.tv. And then right after that, couch party. What if we did another couch party? Let's do it. Couch party. uh 10 a m so about an hour after that and we will be watching the remainder of what's left of the first

season of what if correct and then uh we'll probably do a break from that for a while and sneak something else in we'll see for sure yeah because i i just finished watching season two of what if so i'm not ready to to do that again somebody suggested real genius and oh the bell kilmer thing yeah yeah i do that sure sure why not people heck yeah i love that movie i don't remember the last saw it. I don't have so few. I remember him. I don't even know if it's a, he's like a cocky, good-looking science guy in college or something. Correct. Yes. And that's all I remember. And he's helping his buddy Mitch, who's also smart, but unlucky in love. And, uh, um, biocas, or what about the Goonies? I feel like that's a, we got to let TV's Travis weigh on that one,

because that does feel like a perfect weight you haven't seen to do with Scott. Yeah, the fact that I've never seen the Goonies requires more, I think, more, you know? Yeah. Because if I still, I don't know why I've never seen it. I don't know what my deal is. I own this thing, two copies of it on various media. Hilarious. Yeah. I don't know why. It's good. It's good. It's, you know, it's a sweet story about a kid who lives in the Northwest who's about to get evicted. Oh, well, I can't wait for an Astoria. Is it in Astoria? I think it takes place in Astoria. Twin Peaks 3, the record. That's right. All right, well, that is, oh, who else did we forget?

Oh, FilmSack this weekend. We're doing Throw Mama from the train, so... Correct. Come see if Owen doesn't really have a friend. You'll find out this weekend. Find out if Owen really doesn't have a friend. That's right. And tomorrow afternoon at 1.30 p.m. play retro with me and Brian Dunaway.

I forget what we're doing. Crap. What are we doing? Oh, um... Speed running, toe jam and Earl. You heard it here first. What was the? Daron, Aaron, Nair, Nair. Near, near, near, near, near, near, spy hunter.

Jeez. Oh, nice. Awesome. The Peter Gun theme. That's how I have to remember the name spy hunter. So we're doing Spy Hunter, one of the quarter-sucking machines of our childhood. And we'll decide whether that stuff holds up or not tomorrow at 1.30. That is it for today.

Except for a song. Brian, you got a little song that you worked on or wrote yourself and sang. Oh, no, none of that. I wrote it myself and performed it with this voice. Lucky you all. I don't know how I'm going to do that for film a sec. I've got to, you're going to have to pick a song with a low register, a little berry white. Yeah.

Can't get enough of your mama, babe. James, aka slash blank in the chat and discord, said, hey, bright and sunny, January 4th will be my 20-year wedding anniversary to my beautiful wife in my beautiful home and my beautiful car. I'm not sure how we made it this far, but we did. We met when I asked her to swing dance at a party in college. We slow dance to fade into you by Mazzie Star And I knew she was the one If you can find us something fun to dance to I would love that

Here's to another 20 plus Love the show though James That's awesome Congratulations 20 is no small feat No no that's very good So James yeah the That's such a great song Nezhi Stars fade into you

And last year A new artist that I've just recently discovered for myself And I'm not sure other people have found her as well. But one of her songs also made it into the Coverville Countdown. I love

her voice. She's got a very unique voice and a unique style of singing that just draws me in. Her name is Valerie June and on her album Undercover from last year. She included this cover of Menzies Stars fade

into you. Hope you all like it. Hope you all like her voice. Some of you might. Some you might not. I don't care. playing it. Here's Fated to You by Valerie June. See you guys on Monday. I want to take the breath that's true I look to you and I see the truth I look to you to see the truth

You live your life, you go in shadows You come apart and you go back Some kind of night into your darkness Colors your eyes with what's not there Fade and you never Fayed and you strength you never Fade into you.

I think it's trying to nail. A stranger's light comes on slowly A stranger's heart is out of home into your head and then it smiles gather your heart feed him to you

Strange you never knew Be mad to you I think it's strange you never Be that to you. Strange you never. Be that to you. I think it's strange you never, I think it's strange you need me. Get more at frogpants.com

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