The Morning Stream - TMS 2579: Industrial Rapping

Episode Date: January 9, 2024

I said Alaska, but I didn't mean it. Butt Dial Included A Butt. A Shower and Dayquil. For Those About To Commute, We Salute You. Integumentary, my Dear Watson. Ka-$-ha Bonita. Trusted Adult Cocaine. Teeth Buds. These stamps are Spicy. Peal off the Posh. Exposing the Man-Mound. Guy Wrapped in a Couch. I Don't Like Dunkin Feceeeeeeees. No More Unlimited Soapy Pillows. Our Books Are Due 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 patrons at patreon.com slash TMS, like John Oliphon, Kindwick, and Jonathan Rhine. Coming up on TMS, I said Alaska, but I didn't mean it. Butt dial included a butt. A shower and a day quill. For those about to commute, we salute you. Integumentary, my dear Watson. Cadolarha Bonita. Trusted adult cocaine. Teeth buds. These stamps are spicy. Pill off the posh. Exposing the men mound. Guy wrapped in a couch. I don't like Dunkin' Fee'sies.

No more unlimited soapy pillows. Our books are due with Amy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Know what? Now Wendy's is making bacon. No bacon. Bacon? Wendy's is making bacon. I'm not going to raise my voice.

This is the morning stream. Ah, that's the level of stupid we're looking for. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Tuesday, January 9th, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson, and that is Brian Ibitt. Hello, Brian Dibbitt. Hello. Now, have I... Hopefully getting closer. Yeah, go ahead. Sorry, I was just going to say, have I gotten past the five... You had a five-day bed. that I would screw the date up by five days into the show and I think oh that's right I said by no I said by the 10th all right so we're still good 10 we're still good and you haven't done it yet right

nope still haven't done it competition has been thick although I did sign some artwork uh as 2004 wow okay yeah and then I realized what I did I wish I could count that I couldn't count it yeah it has to be show it has to be show stuff right that's our yeah it has to be it has to be you actually saying it on the show now tomorrow is the uh tomorrow's the last chance there was a near miss today brian was almost not here and yeah he is here now though he got a i'm here now a shower a shower and day quill really is what did it it really is what it took you know i was feeling like i was feeling like hot garbage yeah warmed over garbage a bag of what was the what's the term uh what's the uh

oh i don't know bag of assholes or something like that what's the charlie sheen phrase it was a bag of smashed a tin can of assholes a tin can of assholes Or something like that. There's a smashed, bag of smashed assholes. That's a bag of smashed assholes. That's a pretty good sheen. That's not bad. It came from all the tiger blood and wizard and duh.

I'm impressed. Stuff like, yeah. Plus you have to just really nasal it up. A bag of smashed assholes. You get more nasally than more coke you snort. That's how it works. I guess it is. That's true.

Anyway, yeah, that's what I felt like this morning. and I texted Scott at 4.30 a.m. Like, you know, no good texts ever come at 4.30 a.m. Scott and basically said, maybe you want to find a co-host today because it ain't going to be me. And feeling good enough, maybe I don't sound good enough, but I'm feeling good enough to do a show. That makes me glad. I'm very happy. I am sad that you had the dip, but also, this thing going around is known for the dip.

It's known for the... Really? Oh, really? Like a lot of people are experiencing this? My, so I think Carter has it. It's been real up down for her. My thing was just straight, horrible sore throat and sinus infection thing for like eight days straight. And it never really varied much and then just went away.

I don't think this is the same thing. You got some gnarly ass. Yeah, I don't know what this is. But I was seriously thinking the last night I told Tina was like, I can't remember the last time that I felt this sick for this long. Like, it hit after the show yesterday. I basically did a little bit of freelance, then went up and laid on the couch and binge-watched the show that I finally finished up at 4.30 of the morning. Oh, my gosh. Four seasons of a future recommendal.

So you were up watching a thing at 4.30 when you texted me and you realized, don't I'm not going to. I was up as like, I cannot sleep anymore. I'm done. I'm out. That's awful. Yeah. I fail for you, dude. That sucks.

but, you know, you're here. I get another text at like seven something. And he says, you know what? I had a shower. I got day quill in me. I think it'll be okay. Let's see if I can get a little bit better here. And sure enough.

So be impressed at home, everybody. At Brian's stick with it. Yeah, see exactly. What I do for you. That's right. Because we have two rules here on the show about attendance. And the only rules we have are if you're sick, you get better and you don't come in here. So if you do, it's always like, well, you know, one of us will always say to the other one.

But if you're not feeling it, don't worry. you know remember health first all this stuff and then the other thing was oh do we even have another thing is that all we have i think that's our only rule i guess family stuff is a big family deal then well yeah that's true yeah family stuff always always comes first yeah so if it's tina's birthday well not that we not that we don't do shows on birthdays but you know what i'm talking something like that Tina takes the tina takes her birthday off i don't take Tina's birthday off no i don't even take my own off you kidding yeah freaking it's just another day to me yeah uh well Well, anyway, I'm glad you're here.

So, speaking of what we do and how we do it, and also the snow that we both had, we're frozen over right now. We've got all kinds of. Really? Yeah. Yeah, it's cold. Today's going to be the warmest day of the week at 44 degrees for a high today. Oh, my gosh. We have a high of 15 coming up on Sunday.

I don't think we go higher than 20 today. And then we get into the single digits and negatives next week. Yeah, okay. So you're getting the same thing we are. Yeah. And somebody told me that Colorado and Utah, while we were having, you know, some normal winter business, that we're not in the way of this cold or this, what do they call it, freeze? Yeah, the one that's coming up through New Mexico, apparently, is not what's affecting us, which surprises me because, well, it sure feels like that's the kind of thing they're describing in New Mexico, but apparently not. Yeah, I guess it's hitting states around us, so I don't know why we got a little bubble around us, but we do.

and good luck to Kansas. Good luck to Idaho. I guess you're right in the way of the freeze and Alaska. And who else? Did I say Alaska? I didn't mean them. I meant who did I mean? Oh, Montana, you're right in the way.

Montana? Sure. Yeah, look for that coming at you. But anyway, the reason I bring all that up is one nice thing about what you and I do. There's lots of pluses and minuses. But one of the pluses, I think, is that when there's huge amounts of snow, we don't have to commute 45. minute somewhere. Doesn't matter. Yeah, exactly. Just come downstairs to our studios. There's no snow to clear between there and here. We have a two minute commute. That's right. So I found a thing I thought was interesting. This is kind of a shout out to all our commuters out there. Maybe you're

even in your car right now commuting listening to the show. I don't know. But I found some interesting data on the average. Yeah, average commute time to work across the USA. This is as of uh 2023 so these are really recent numbers oh good because yeah because i think a lot of the lot of people's work styles changed during the pandemic a lot of companies said uh all right we're gonna let everybody work from home during the pandemic and then afterwards they said you know what we're gonna let you keep working from home because uh it's we can save on office space and all that stuff yeah so what you see here well let's see i can put it up for the chat as well because they should see this chart this chart uh it's kind of a heat map sort of uh really light yellow down

is kind of hot red and the hot red is the longest amounts of time people spend commuting and then the lighter or less and the old maps were more red and further west this one is more light and pushing toward the middle of the country trucker to the east yeah

but you can tell more populated areas makes sense they're going to have the most traffic right like you can't avoid it Los Angeles yeah yeah parts of let's see that stuff in Nevada up at the top. Yeah, the northern Nevada.

I mean, that's even further north than Reno. Yeah, that's dark. Dark, dude. What's that about? Yeah, I don't know. Probably, if I had to guess, let me zoom in here. Because that's like a 35, 40 minute. It just probably means that there's people who work in very rural areas, and they have

a long drive just to get to their office. Not because of traffic, but just because of the distance that they have to go. Yeah. And I'm trying to do a similar thing with ours. I'm looking at it and going, okay, Salt Lake, the little wad of Salt Lake in the center, top of the state. I don't know what this, let's see, what would that be east of me? That would be, I don't freaking know. But down here toward the bottom, you got, I assume that's Cedar City that's all lit up,

and that's probably because that's sort of a crossroads for everything. That makes sense to me. You got a real deep red in yours where people are going 40 plus minutes to get wherever they're working. Yeah, but that's, if that's west of us, that is, those are mountain town folks. Those are people who work in like Silverthorn, Vail, Aspen. See, we're, if you look at the Denver area, where we live is that lighter, lighter pink one to the right of the dark red. Kind of in between those two big dark red blotches. Oh, I see.

Like a little mini Utah, like a little L there. It looks like a little knife blade pointing down. That's Jefferson County. Oh, I see it. Okay. Yeah. Aurora is the big Tetris block L shape to the right. to the east and then the ones to the west of us are like like you said like mountain town kind of

stuff so and then the far west stuff i assume are much less populated because those are areas where nine minutes is i mean you you would think it's like oh well out in rural areas you'd have further to drive but you also have zero traffic so yeah you just get on the road and take your truck where it takes you and you're done in nine minutes that makes sense but anyway it's a lot and i just feel bad for let's see is this la down here uh it looks like it's is yeah but LA I mean you could be you could be two miles from your office and still have a 40 plus minute commute yeah yeah I feel you have to go on the 405 or the 110 or something like that let's see what happens in tech who's got the worst in Texas hold on let me pull up it looks like

Houston over there in the yeah in the southeast although uh Dallas kind of north north central northeast yeah yeah pretty pretty left heavy I go I guess yeah um I'm surprised Mississippi has Yeah And Louisiana have so much red I've been to both I've driven both of those states Kind of up and down

And across them all Multiple times And I never really felt like Well I guess it's not the same As a commute though I don't know Right right Hard to say

Not a lot of working from home in D.C. No People have to go in to the office Oh yeah Jersey Philly up there Nice big dark red splotch it at Philly Yeah look at that Look at Long Island

Yeah That thing is effed yeah it's all red yeah it's all red you guys are screwed um anyway i'm curious what people write in with with their average commutes because you know some of you are going to be in a rural area and tell us different or why it works the way it does but i'm always just fascinated we probably have a lot of folks who work from home too yeah we probably do i know we do a lot of folks in our morning chatter from you know they're working at home a lot of them yeah yeah uh well anyway just thought it was interesting and uh yeah alaska probably the uh the easiest i mean who knows who lives

out there in the frozen tenders outside of your major cities but alaska big old uh nine minute swath most nine minutes or less swathed there oh yeah look at that holy crap how are the islands they're all kind of orange but not bad yeah kind of surprising the numbers on uh hawaii though yeah yeah so the main island's got some beef i love how this looks like it's just off the coast coast of Texas the way they had to arrange this. Of course. Yeah. Wouldn't it be great if it? It's just kind of freaking me out the proximity.

I don't like it. But yeah, what's the middle cluster that's lighter? That's your Kawhi, I believe, and I don't know what they're doing, but they got it going on. Yeah. Less commute.

But I mean, you would not think that is Maui one of those in the middle there? Yeah. You wouldn't think that there would be like 18 minutes to get from one side of the island to the other. How could you have a 40-minute commute? Yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah, Molokai.

Oh, Kauai is up north-west. Yeah, Kauai, Molokai, I'm sorry. Molokai, Maui, Big Island down to the right, and Oahu, kind of in the northwest of that little cluster. Do you officially pass today's geography lesson that I would have failed? There's no way I would have got to do it. Oh, well, then. I had to look it up.

You're suspended for cheating in class, Brian. That's fine. That's totally fine. Just keeping our class scenario alive. Well, anyway, salute the commute, I say, and all you people hard working every day that are forced to go into an office someplace that's a little further than you'd like, we salute you, okay? Yeah. I got a call that makes no sense, and I would like to play it on the show.

You ready for that? All right. I don't know who this is. You're going to have to tell us who you are. I love it. I love it when we have to translate somebody's called in message. Well, this one is especially hard to suss out because it's also very short. So I just want someone to claim it.

It's fine if you don't. But here's the call right here. That's it. That's all I got. You hear that? I did hear that. What does this remind us of? I don't know what to compare it.

It sounds like a butt dial that also... Included a butt? Yeah, included the butt. It's like the sound that the The falling block makes in Bowser's castle Oh, I like that Oh yeah, the big Wompa, Wampas, is that what they're called? Womps.

Womps? Womps. I think that might be it. Yeah, you know what? You're right. They get all pissed and get a mad face and go, and then they barely miss you. And then you got to go around and get them on the back because they have the Band-Aid on the backs. That's their deal.

Do you have any re-code that that came from? No, that's the other thing, It came through showing no. Usually I get phone number data. I get something. And this had unlisted or some other classification. So there's nothing there. Wow.

Other than that. So thwomp, that's it. Thank you, Silver Wisp. Oh, thwomp. That's very Nintendo. All right. Well, whoever thinks that's them, you let us know what happened there. All right?

Yeah, yeah. I'm worried about you. What if this was a last second? They misdialed us. They were trying to call 911 to say, oh, no, my butt. And then they hung up. I don't know. I have no idea. Let us know, though. We'd love to hear it here on the show.

Also, Mike Pacholic wrote in or called in and has a concern. So, you know, I got this T.O. Salamanca sculpture. He sent me the print. Well, he says this about that. This is Mike Pacholic. Happy New Year, Scott and Brian. Hey, on that sulture I sent you, there was a third piece that goes with it, which is a breathing tube. And it would have been in the bubble wrap. I sent you a text about it as well. actually goes into his nostrils that hangs down. If it's not in there or the box that's throwing out, let me know, and I will send you

another one. And Brian, the printer I printed that on is an X1 carbon, the bamboo lab printer. So, happy new year, guys, and I will talk to you later. Is that a fancy printer? That's a nice one, yeah. Yeah. The bamboo labs, new machines are just incredible. Are they all, do they're just filament, right?

Or do they do other stuff? Nope, just filament. Okay. Yeah. Bamboo labs. Look at these. Do you say the 1x carbons? Is that what he called it?

The 1x, yeah. Here we go. Oh. Or X1. It looks cool. Yeah. Ooh, I like how the filaments handled. It closed with a little multi-filament so you can do multicolor printing.

Oh, yeah. Look at that. Oh, my gosh. Some of this stuff they make is crazy. Yeah, yeah. Mecca Godzilla? Little tiny. any gears different colors all in one print oh that's cool yeah i'd take it these probably

are expensive though if i had to get it ain't cheap yeah 1500 bucks but uh it's not bad though uh i mean it's not bad for the quality and what it does yeah but my my um uh cobra max is uh it was four hundred dollars cyber monday oh well that's that's a that's a massive print that with they print a full-sized helmet-sized print bed. That's pretty good. Oh, they have another model that's only $3.99, but it's not as enclosed. But it looks like it's pretty cool. Oh, TV's Travis says, even red on airlight.

Who read on air lighted? Was it me or? Yeah, was it me or was it him or me? Because I don't know. I don't know what he means. Well, anyway, that's cool. I kind of want one, and now I will never get one because that's expensive. But that's very good.

Yeah, a little pricey. Oh, to answer Mike's point, I don't. I didn't. I went through the bubble wrap again to check. It's not, there's no nose thing. But I don't want him to send me things. I feel bad. So Mike, unless you have it handy, tell me what it costs to ship and I'll cover it because I feel bad. If you have to go do it new, don't stress about it. I'll, I'll just know that you. Tio can breathe. He's fine. He can breathe otherwise. Yeah. This is before his, you know, he got really into the treatment plan. Okay. That's really funny that he comes a little oxygen tube. I love that. I love it. Yeah. But it makes. sense also that kind of that kind of thing would have to be a separate print right for sure yeah because you got a little dainty thing that's not going to just stay in his face uh anyway thank you for that mike also this is important here uh dr talbot wrote in we talked

about teeth and teeth and whether they're part of your skeleton or not the whole the only part of your skeleton you'll ever clean your teeth thing and i i had real reservations about whether teeth a or truly bone but b whether they're kind of considered skeletal structure, even though a skull is often found buried with a full set of teeth. Yeah. Which, importantly, too, because that's how they do, like, dental records and find out who killed who and that kind of stuff. Exactly. So, he wrote in to give us the full skinny on this, and I have to admit, I'm a little surprised by the answer.

Okay. But it makes sense now that I've heard it. Anyway, here it is from the doctor's mouth. Since you said my name three times and summoned me, here's your answer. teeth aren't technically bones. They are considered by some textbooks to be part of the skeleton, but not the skeletal system. They are more closely derived from some cells that make up your hair and skin and nails, making them part of the integumentary system.

The more you know, love the show, though. Integimentary system. Yeah, I've never heard that, integumentary. It's integumentary, my dear Watson. What are my teeth, Mr. Sherlock Holmes? Well, they're integumentary, my dear. Watson no I don't I've never heard that before but also just saying like nails hair that sort of stuff being kind of in the same vein that for whatever reason

that makes sense to me now that I hear it you know what I mean because it's a thing that kind of grows out when you're a baby you aren't born with them exactly exactly or maybe you are out but they're tiny or I don't know how they bud in a baby I don't know where they start does the baby does the baby poop out with no baby doesn't have yeah when Your babies don't have teeth. They grow and they come out. I see what you're saying. Like, do they?

Are they there in the scabbard waiting to come out kind of thing? That's what I wondered. And then they grow out. But they're deep in the gums. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, Phoebe's going through that right now.

She's having a moment. She's not happy about it. Oh, the teething situation. They don't like it, dude. It turns out kids really don't like teething. And she's got three big ones on the bottom and a couple of molars popping in. and they just piss her off. But then she eats and then she's happy because she can crunch food and then she's all good.

But whatever. It's the life of a baby. We deal with it. Wait till she bites Van's finger and you guys make a video of it and it goes viral. It goes viral for the rest of time. That thing's lasted forever. Anyone check it on those kids? Is those kids in college now or what's their deal?

There's somebody check on Charlie. Yeah. Make sure he's okay. He didn't get into drugs and get spat out the bottom of the porn industry or something. something like that because that'd be sad. Aw. Wouldn't you hate to hear that? Charlie bit my finger and then

got addicted to meth. Right, that was on fentanyl. That would be a serious bummer. Anyway, thank you for those phone calls. You all can make calls to us, even when they're just this. It doesn't matter. Send them in 801-47-1-0-462. And if you have a correction or an answer because of your

expertise, the way Dr. Tolbert does his thing, more the better. We'd love to hear from you and correct ourselves. We're not prideful men here on the show. You know, if Brian gets something wrong, he's happy to admit it. If I get something wrong. I'll totally admit it. I'll absolutely.

Like, not a problem. I'll usually do it like while people are correcting me in chat and be like, oh, oh, I did look up away. I looked it up. I looked it up. That's right. We'd like to be accurate and on time. We're not infallible.

No, not us. Not us. Not now. Not here. Okay. Let's get going to some news. we have some news we may as well do it so let's do it here you go today's news brought to you by abby makes some very cool stuff on her instagram channel and ships them right to you support a frogpenter artist and creator today

check out devils dame creations on instagram today that's devils dame creations yeah and it's like she's making um we're talking about name tags for uh tms vagus vagus apparently she makes them and does some of these really cool embroidery things. So I don't know if I, you know, don't know if I should still think about do a little 3D print name tag deals. Yeah, and she was there last year, so I'm sure she'd come again and bring it. I know, I'm so glad because, yeah, she missed a couple years. I remember prior to last year, the last time we saw her at TMS Vegas,

we were hanging out with her at the container park during the brother show. I remember sitting there. Oh, right. Yeah. with her and Shane and Gidgett all hanging out over there with the brother show

at the container park. Yeah, 2019, baby. Yep. Says, I'm just looking at some of these on this, on her Instagram. Some really good stuff. The embroidery blows my mind. I wonder if we can make a name tag

holder that works with those or works without, those work without, you know, kind of thing. Oh, I see what you're saying, yeah. Or it would work if you didn't, get one of Abby's name tags. Right. Also, I wonder about production. It's one thing to, like, tell a printer to make a hundred of a thing.

It's another to have a person have to sew a hundred of a thing, so I don't know. We'd have to talk to her, but I kind of like the idea. And she sent us a couple of things like this, which is what made me think to put her in here at all. But they're really well made. Like, the embroidery stuff is awesome. I'd love to get a hat done by her. Oh, totally. Yeah.

Anyway. These are super cool. We're checking out at Instagram.com slash devils dame creations. All right. Nice. Here's your first news story, Brian. Yes. There was, this is all over the place.

So this is not new now. This is old news. But this dude that got arrested for taking off all his clothes and jumping into a bass pro shop pond in Leeds. No, not England. Not England. Alabama. Leeds Alabama.

I was really hoping England would hop in and help us out here. here and not having that. It would be great, right? Yeah, that'd be awesome. Need some British. Well, speaking of England, by the way, hey, Zoe, can you hook me up with a set of those Spice Girls stamps, those new ones that just came out? Can we talk? Hold on. What are these? Let's tell me more. What do we got? It just came out because it's the Gasp 30th anniversary of the Spice Girls. Oh, my Lord. Okay. Yeah. They just came out with a first issue series of the, of Spice Girl's stamps. It's just basically like one of each of them and then a few group shots and uh oh here they are now are these uh work

these are stamps in the states or there's stamps that no no the uk okay these are royal mail stamps they call them royal mail stamps so so if i lived in the u.k i could use these to ship something from clapham junction up to uh to chatham yeah but uh but uh no not here in the u.s can't send anything internationally with the U.S. They have them all dated underneath and they tell you when the shot was taken. They're just photos, it looks like.

Yeah, and if, and if it, you know, you want to bring them to Vegas, that'd be great, or if you, the stamps, by the way, not the spice scrolls, although, you know, we'll take the spice scrolls anyway. But if weight is an issue, you can just peel off the posh stamp and leave

that somewhere if that takes the weight below the required amount you need. Got it. Yeah, because you got to get under the wire somehow, and that's maybe the way to do it. Yeah, just leave off posh. Yeah, fine. And she seems fine being left off. Leave Bex. Just drop Bex off of there. Yeah, she'll be fine.

Yeah, I'll buy you a baconator, Zoe. Oh, wow, that's quite the exchange. It is. All right, do it. I want to see these in Vegas now. I don't need him, but Brian does. All right? Get that done. Get that done. I need them. Get that done. Anyway, this dude takes all his clothes off, jumps into a pro-bash shop pond.

Right. uh in leads and boy was he happy he was just happy to be in there holy cow yeah i don't know why he's so happy i'm not going to show this on screen but the guy basically fully naked yeah fully naked you know but it felt like drop into the skivies but uh it felt like i was looking at nothing because the guy uh look it's a cold water uh shrinkage jerry yeah he had some serious shrinkage i was in the yeah i was in the bass pro shop contain i'm I was trying to do George and it off real. But this is a 42-year-old man named, let's see.

Oh, no, I'm sorry, this is not him. Yes, it is him. We have his name. Oh, there it is George Owens. There it is. 42-year-old man had intentionally struck a pole in the parking lot with his family car. Then he ran inside, took off all his clothes, and jumped into a Bass Pro Shop pond. And this is a really nice looking pond.

Yeah, every store has one of these in the middle of the store. It's a really nice, like it's got a waterfall, and it is like professional aquarium. Like when you go to an aquarium, you know, like you go to the Monterey Aquarium, you go to the Denver Aquarium, places like that. It is that level of quality of decor and viewing and fish inside it. Like, it's really cool. It almost looks like Casa Benita's sort of diver stuff, diver tan. Kind of. That kind of thing.

It's very... Still waiting, by the way. Casamania is still waiting for my invite. Oh, yeah. Is that even... Is that... What's the deal there? It's still going on.

Open? Still going on. But it's open, but it's invite only from the mailing list. And what we've heard from one of Tina's friends who did go, who got to go, is that it was a $100 per person. Just to do anything. To eat? To like, to eat. Like, all told at the end of the meal, their meal.

a drink, a drink, there are limited, no unlimited soap of peas anymore to soap of peas. It would be 100 bucks per person. That's a lot. Wes, you guys went a couple months ago? What did you pay? Yeah, I'd be curious if it was any less.

That's a lot. I hope it's less, because that would tick me off. That's a lot to expect out of the whole point of Casa Veneta was that it was sort of cheap, right? That was the idea. No, it was always expensive. It was, but it was 24, basically you had to, oh, that's not bad, 39 for the meal. That's not bad at all.

Yeah, that's better than 100. I'll pay that. Yeah. Yeah, that's worth it. Got a couple of people in there. And when did you get on the, when did you get on the mailing list, Wes? Yeah, because you're screwed on that point. Yeah, so it's like, it was, so 39 now.

So, yeah, it used to be like 24. You had to buy a meal to get in the door. You couldn't just say, I'm going to go in and just sit and have drinks and a soap apia you have to buy a meal to get in the door it was like 24 bucks on average for those okay so 39 not bad that's not bad at all yeah it's about the same i feel like that's about as much as everything else in food went up in restaurants during the last few years anyway but it sounds like it's still like does anyone get any shots of inside is it packed is it uh controlled packed like because they're only doing this from a list you have to wait in some kind of line like i don't know i'll bet it's

control packed because they're they're probably just sending out enough invites to not have a line so that you basically go and you order your food and not have to wait in a line at the entrance. I mean, we're bound to have some listeners who are like, why is this a big deal? This is Trey Parker and Matt Stone's place. They bought it. They featured it on the show a bunch of times. Improved the food.

Right. Saved it basically because it was going out of business or whatever, right? Yeah, yeah. It was they were going to go under. They filed for bankruptcy and these guys saved it because they had that episode where Cartman goes there. does each of the things you do in Casa Benita? I guess I should say, for those who don't watch South Park,

these are the South Park creators, Trey Parker or Metstone. Just in case someone out there has no idea what they're talking about. Well, I mean, hell. I was handed cookies by the guys, and I didn't freaking recognize them because they look so different now than they used to. When I remember seeing them in the 90s, they look like just dudes now.

They look like dudes our age, because they are. They look like back in their basket. ball days. They look like, you know, rough young people, but not now. Exactly. Exactly. Tray Parker's got a couple of chins since then. Anyway, haven't we all? Let's move on to this. Oh, anyway, the dude is naked in there. They pull him out. He flops out of the thing. Well, he actually pulled himself out. Flopped out on the floor. Look like he got hurt, but he wasn't.

I think he's just on drugs or really drunk. And they carded him off. He became a really fun meme for a couple of days. and we hope the people of Leeds can get over it, you know? Get over it leads. Just get over it. It's another one of your, you know, it's one of your things. That's what you do. But this is funny because we kind of back to back this. A week ago, we had that story in the bass shop with the guy stealing fish.

Yes, right. Exactly. And it's a bass pro-bass, by the way, not pro-bass. What did I say? Pro-bass shop? Pro-bass shop. That would imply the fish or the pros, doesn't it? They're the pro-fish.

Yeah, exactly. They're not anti. They're pro. Yeah, they're pro fish. They're not con fish. They're pro fish. That's right. Exactly.

Yeah. Yeah, and people were talking about how in, where was it? Some place where the Bass Pro Shop parking lot is where you park to then get a ride to the airport because it's cheaper than parking at the airport. Oh, really? You can just park there? And they apparently don't care if you leave your car there. Oh, that seems, and that must be a small number because otherwise that would be a problem, right, if it was too many. It would definitely be a problem.

Yeah, if they start noticing that there's a crap ton of cars in the parking lot with people getting their luggage out and stuff. Yeah, we have a couple of places that are scattered around town. Maybe I have this wrong. But I think you can park at one of the two or three of the track stations, which is our light rail system. You can park there, get on the tracks, go the rest of the way downtown, into the airport,

and then fly and leave your car there. Maybe you used to be able to do that. Maybe you can't now. I can't remember what the deal was. But usually we do. When Kim and I go to the airport, it's usually we'll just do long-term parking. Because you don't really have too many people we want to, like, you know, have them take us. There are people.

I know, exactly. I just hate it. People take you the airport, but, yeah. I hate making people do things. So I usually don't do that. We're not too far from the light rail station. So we'll sometimes do that. Like you said, the tracks will sometimes do the light rail.

But that adds an extra hour onto your, onto your, uh, getting to the airport on time kind of thing. It's like, uh, just, you know, especially if you already had to be there at six. The last thing you wanted to do is get up so you can get on the train at five in the morning. Ugh. Ugh.

That sounds miserable. I hate it. Yeah. Yeah. I hate early flights. Uh, well, anyway, here's what you would be arrested for if you, Brian, jumped into this thing naked, okay? Okay.

All right. Tell me. Those are the charges. The man who has since been identified as George Jones was taken into custody. and charged with public lewdness, number one. Check. That's your, that's, you know, pants off. That's your naked Ken doll, smooth, like a dolphin, lower, lower nethers.

Exactly. That guy, I don't know. I'm glad he was drunk and having a good time. Let's just say it that way. Yeah, yeah. Let's see. Disorderly conduct, sure. Didn't feel like a very orderly piece of conduct.

Assault in the second degree. I think that's maybe the car. Could be, yeah. Or he maybe fought somebody as he was, as they were trying to pull him out. I think he, well, so he flops out on his own. Yeah. Oh, he did. But then he's just laying there on the ground, like a wet fish.

And then all these guys swarm around him and help him up. As far as I know, he didn't resist. But who knows what that is? Oh, it says here, resisting arrest. So he must have resisted somehow. So that's another count. And then two counts of reckless endangerment and two counts of criminal mischief. I like that one.

you're up to some mischief there, son. Ah, quit your mischief. Yeah, that's some dark business. All right, moving on to this story. And we'll keep you updated, everybody, if things change for old 42-year-old George Owens. All right. There you go, yeah, good.

Some riders were trapped in the world's tallest roller coaster after a scarf gets stuck in a wheel. This is one of my worst nightmares. I hate this idea so much. God, geez. Yeah, I already don't like heights, but the thing I'll deal with with roller coasters is when you hit the highest height

usually the first one where it's kind of easing you up there and then drops. That's all very intense and everything, but I also know how temporary it is. It's not going to last the whole ride. So I'm usually okay with that, even though I hate heights so much. But if you're telling me I'm stuck up there,

because some Yahoo got his scarf stuck in the gears, I'd want to die. That sounds like all. And it feels like she's lucky that it just got stuck as opposed to started pulling her neck towards the wheels like a hungry escalator

or something can you imagine you get that you get that visualization I don't like any of those things although I have seen some fail videos where I'm assured people lived where I was sure they wouldn't like guy working in a factory in China

where they're wrapping things with huge plastic wheels or sorry big wheels that have clear cellophane plastic on them and then they wrap these things and it's like an industrial wrapper which sounds like a really hard-working rhymer. Someone who rhymes in the same songs. I'm an industrial rapper.

That's right. But this video I saw, this guy was like just doing his rounds, had his hard hat on, check a machinery, what occasionally reach into one of these spools and flick out something, like maybe a little something got in there. No problem. Moves on to the next one. Goes to flick it.

His wrist or something on his sleeve or something gets caught in this thing. And it just proceeds to wrap him up like a, like Frodo in the second movie like Shilob like that before anyone comes over there to help the poor guy and he's like a limb sticking out of this thing and he walked away he walked away in the video so I think he's okay but man that's good

geez somebody hasn't seen that man he could have been like could have asphyxiated in that thing or he'd be like when you find a rat in your McNuggets or whatever they just get in during the process imagine being on the other end you're, I don't know, you're in Singapore and they've offloaded a huge container full of goods. And you're going through him going, right, that's a couch, that's a couch, that's a couch, that's a guy wrapped in a couch, and he's starting to rot, you know. That couch comes with a potato.

Oh, gosh, dude. It comes with its own potato. Oh, my gosh. Anyway, geez. Don't be doing that. So what happened here? Thrill seekers, riding one of the world's tallest, roller coasters, as I said earlier, it was the tallest, just one of the tallest.

Got stuck after a loose scarf became entangled, one of the train's wheels. The movie World Ride in Australia's Gold Coast came to a halt. Lucky Phil, maybe, I don't know if he lives anywhere near this. Let's see, came to a halt on the left hill. Our roller coasters will kill you. Yeah, murder you. We have four of the deadliest roller coasters. Real the world.

Your illness is contributing to that voice. A little bit, yeah. It's added to the voice, yeah. I like it. Uh, footage taken by Mary Dian Yap. It's a great last name. Yap. Shows, uh, rider, operators attaining to the ride, which can be, uh, sped up to 115 miles per hour or kilometers per hour.

That's a fast ride. Um, Miss, Miss Yap age 24 says, just looking at them was nerve wracking, to be honest, especially as I am afraid of heights. Uh, in a statement, Warner Brothers movie world, I guess is a Warner Brothers joint. I'd never heard of that before, but whatever, said a control system was used to safely stop. the ride and confirmed all passengers have been taken off safely. So they have ways of dealing with it. But this is one of my worst nightmares getting stuck

either upside down on a ride that high or at the very tip-top of the thing, which is what happened here. I just can't, I can't even... Yeah, this is basically they're going up the thing to get to that first hill. Yeah. So they stopped it before

they actually went on the ride. But that's the... See, then you get this whole thing of like, all right, how do we get all these people off who have to now go down these precarious looking stairs and ladders and oh yeah no yeah your backup get off it system is scarier than the ride yeah so i don't know it's not to tell your kids but i don't you know it's on the right operators they should have like said oh yeah no no loose clothing scarves usually they do that right like if you've got loose clothing or objects put them in the little cubby holes or put him in the little bag that's in front of your seat or something.

Yeah. But she should have been, you know, she should have been smart about not wearing a scarf on a roller coaster, but also. Any loose stuff like that. The operators should have been like, ma'am, you cannot wear that scarf. Yeah. Roll it, take it, take it off. Unless you had it. I wonder if you could wear it in a way that looked, like if it's, I don't know, if you're wearing a coat and you got a scarf just under the collar and it's wrapped really tightly up to your neck.

neck. Maybe people wouldn't, wouldn't even know it was a scarf. Yeah, but if it's wrapped up tightly around your neck, then it's not going to be loose and flopping around catching in wheels. That's true. Yeah. You know what? I blame the teenagers you have hired over there at the world. What is it? World coaster, world movie, a movie World Ride. Never heard of this. Yeah, never either. But it's Warner Brothers, so who knows? Maybe it's, what do you guys? Here's the Matrix. Here's the Matrix section. Wee! And then here's the. Here's the. The Bugs Bunny stuff, I don't know how that works. That's right.

Like you Phil says, yeah, the Gold Coast is only eight hours and 53 minutes away from him. So the other side of the country. It's a bit of a ride. That's on the west side, right? That's about two hours shy of me driving to Brian's house. Yeah, he's in Sydney. Gold Coast is in Queensland. Okay.

Okay. There you have it then. Here's a story you like. Yeah. Well, I don't know if you like it or not, but a child in Auburn. I'll be the judge of them. Okay, you be the, you know what? You judge this.

let's see if I can find this there we go child at Auburn school finds jar of cocaine on the playground jar of cocaine and then taste preserves or something yeah I know like somebody left a that's a good point

that's a weird way of saying it maybe it was just a straight up jar and there's no other word for it but the weird thing to keep your cocaine in it anyway he ended up tasting the powder as well because he was curious oh good because he watched cocaine bear and watched those two little kids in cocaine bear

the first thing they do is start tasting the cocaine. Yeah, kids do. They love it. They can't wait to put their finger in there. A jar of cocaine was found on a playground by a student at the Auburn Elementary School last week, according to a letter sent out to families of students of Evergreen Heights Elementary. The student found the powder in a glass jar and tasted its contents. Testing done by the Auburn Police Department determined that the powder was indeed cocaine.

Cocaine. Cocaine. The child was okay. If you want to get down. The job was okay, but at this point, it's unclear how the jar got there in the first place. We bring this to your attention, says this quote, because it is a great time to remind your students. They should never eat, drink, or inhale something that, unless it comes from a trusted adult. I'm not even sure you'd say that.

Something that they find in a jar on the playground? Yeah. And the non-descript, like, the first thing you think of is to taste it? Or rat poison, or it could have been something far worse than cocaine, my God. Yeah, I don't know. I wish they could talk to the kid. they won't because he's a minor and you're not going to do that. But I would love it to, I would love to know the mindset of a kid who's, let's say,

let's say he's eight years old. Yeah. That's about the time for this. Yeah, right. And when I was eight, and if I saw a glass jar out in the, out in the, you know, during recess, and I see that it's full of a powder. What are my instincts? Are they to grab it or go near it at all?

is it to grab it, take it to a teacher? Is it to just ignore it because whatever, it's just more trash? Or would I open that thing and taste it thinking it's like sugar or something? Yeah. It feels like of all of the, the paths, the multiverse of paths that you could take. Yeah. The last one is, I'm going to open it up and taste it. I agree.

It's like, I'm going to ignore it. I'm going to take it to a teacher. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. I agree with this. This is a dumb thing for you to do, even if you're eight. all right so i'm judging what was he hoping it was like country time lemonade mix or something like that or uh that's so specific i love that liquor stick powder or something could be i think they

maybe thought it was like powdered sugar maybe they maybe their mom makes powdered sugar donuts or something and they were like ooh it's like that stuff my mom makes i don't know i would never do it but i then again when you're eight what do you do when you're eight i don't know i don't know I don't want to judge this kid, but his parents may want to spend some time. Go over the rules. Go over the, go over the, what you do when you find a nondescript jar of powder. Yeah, I promise there's a better path for this kid if you can just help him out. Final story, this is great because Florida, we love to hear about what you're doing.

You know, we love you. I don't know how that best pro shop wasn't in Florida, but whatever. Yeah, I mean, close, but not quite, right? an exploding toilet at a Dunkin's in Florida left a customer filthy and injured according to a lawsuit I would think that this would be the natural thing if a toilet exploded

you would go away filthy but let's see what they say As opposed to the regular filthy and injured you get at a Duncan this is of the toilet variety just using their toilet in general which I would not do unless I had to I really wouldn't I avoid public bathrooms when possible I'll use them if I need to though

it's fine I gotta go I'm in a mall it's fine whatever let's go get it over with but i'm not choosing to i don't want to nobody should want to anyway here's what happened a customer has filed a negligence lawsuit against duncan claiming he was or uh injured rather by a exploding toilet as one of the coffee chains locations in central florida or in one of those uh paul carrowack carrow sorry i was pulling up the song Carowack, yeah. That's exactly you spell Carowack. Is that like Jack Carowack? Same guy? Well, same name.

Same guy. Same exact guy in the story today. It's destroyed by Paul now. Yeah. That's the name you decided to change. He's like, oh man, people keep recognizing me as Jack Kerouac. I'm going to change my name to Paul. Yeah, the one that doesn't rhyme or sound is good coming out of my mouth. Anyway, seeking more than 100 grand in a lawsuit filed Wednesday and see the state of Orlando.

State Court of Orlando. There is no state of Orlando. Well, I mean, it's debatable. Yeah, that's true. Claiming he suffered severe and long-term injuries following the explosion of a toilet in a men's room in a Duncan location in Winter Park. This is about a year ago. After the explosion, he left covered in human feces, urine and debris. How did he determine what the debris was?

That is not the Boston cream you want to walk out of there. No. No. Nobody wants debris either, because that's so undefined. Debris. Debris is like the worst. You're like, oh, human feces, you're like, oh, human feces, you know. You're in, oh, and debris.

And debris. Whatever. Yeah. Debris. Yeah. That's French cheese, by the way, debris. Right. There's no.

Yeah, go ahead. I was going to say, there's no information here about what caused the toilet to explode. No. No. In fact, here's my guess. I love this next paragraph, though. I mean, we do need to read that. All right.

I'll read it. Here goes. When contacted Thursday by email for work. Oh, no, no, the one before that. Oh, all right. Let's see. The employee told him. Yes.

Okay. I sought help from the workers and the store manager. So he's limping out of their covered in poop, ready or whatever. An employee told him that they were aware of the, quote, problem with the toilet, unquote, since there had been previous incidents, the lawyer says, without diving into further details about the explosion. Right. So, oh, yeah, that toilet always explodes.

We need to put a sign. We need to put a sign on the exploding toilet, boss. Well, that's why it gives me more questions that answers, though. Totally does, exactly. What is an explosion in their mind? How are you defining it? Is it just, I mean, does it, is the porcelain intact, it just spews out its contents? Because I would say that's probably some sort of satanic possession of a toilet.

Yeah, yeah, you got to bring in. Or does the entire, we keep replacing that porcelain toilet, it keeps exploding. Yeah. And when they say explode, do they mean the porcelain? explodes it's truly an explosion or is it just a gusher some sort of plumbing plumbing expelling its contents at a at a forceful rate yeah because when he says debris i could say is that is that toilet ceramics right or is that plastic from the bowl or is that or are you saying paper products and other i don't know what you're saying oh sure the debris could be the

paper yeah so i just feel like this paper i hope they have the details right if he wants as much otherwise this is all's a little too big yeah yeah uh but good luck carouac and your toilet problem we're gonna take a break when we come back from this break we will get to hang out with amy uh it's been a month and maybe a little because we had the holidays and so i feel like we're we're due for books for books yeah due for books we're due for books our books are due is what we're saying at the library here with uh with amy so we're going to do all of that but before we do Brian brought a song. I did. Yes, we're going up to

Alberta for this one, a rock trio named Royal Tusk. They're about to go on a Northern Light Co-headline tour with Broken Love across Canada from February 20th through March 16th so you can go see them. They're going to Vancouver, Colonna, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon,

Winnipeg, Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto, which are all just like in one little tiny cluster, as we know, with our Canadian geography. Sure. This is their brand new third full-length album. It's called Altruistic. It comes out next month.

Here's the first song from it. It's called Here On Out. Here's Royal Tusk. Haven't you already yet enough? Yeah. Say, haven't you already had enough? Don't stop giving it all. Don't stop giving it.

Haven't you already yet enough? Somebody should have told you give it up. All the things that you could ever love You lost is time to walk away Some people while they're born without luck And you're not in the perfect little club Don't you down so they can level up and up But this is where you'll stay

Just stop giving it all My friend won't get in it. easier here on out are you going to stand up if you had enough when your backs against the wall just don't stop giving it all don't stop giving it all Worst of all, you do it all in vain, in vain, in vain, it's aren't we ever day. Don't ever let them say that it's done. Let's stand your ground till the bed of learn. It's dark as always just before the dawn, a darn, that's something's gonna change.

You won't talk like the dates. Don't stop getting it all, my friend won't get it in here. Here on our own. Are you gonna stand up if you had enough When you're maxing against the wall Just don't stop giving it all When the walls are wrapped the gates Will you let them in

When the walls are at the gates Who will stick you get in When the walls are at the gates Will you let them in When the walls are at the gates When I was you at the days When you left them in Haven't you already yet enough

Don't stop getting it all My friend won't get it easy Easier Can you run out Are you gonna stand up If you were enough Just don't stop giving it Don't stop giving it all

My friend won't get it easy Here on out Are you gonna stand up If you're at enough When you're mounting against the wall Just don't stop giving it all Impressions of our Earth from space Swirls of blue and white and green

illuminated sharply against a black background A distant cold beauty As the beaver swims And we're back And we're back Tell me about that song again Sure that is the band called Royal Tusk from their brand new album called Altruistic.

That is here on out. Nice. Sounds very, I don't know, generous of them if they're being altruistic about their album. Very nice of that band. Yes, exactly. Do all do good things. All right. Oops. Crap. Hold on. Join a call. All right. I effed up and called her funny. Let me try that again. Red Fragel. There she is.

Okay, now she's coming into our little group of happy, happy times. Yay. Let's get her in here and let's play her intro if I can find the damn thing. Oh, I'm all off here. Here we go. One of the things that I enjoy also is reading. Well, we also enjoy reading also. And we like to do it with our friend Amy, Amy Robinson, aka Red Fraggle 3.

She is here to talk about some books today. Amy, welcome back to the show. Oh, good morning, Fred. Good morning. How are you? Fine. How are you? How have you been? How were your holidays and all that? Oh, my holidays were, they were nice. It was, um, it was kind of low-key, you know, we were all kind of relaxed. There was no big excitement, but also no big drama. So that's good. That is a really good. That's, that's how you want it. Right?

Yeah, yeah. Got to chill and, uh, hang out with my son, who's been away at college. So that was, that was fun. Yeah. And, um, yeah, so. Good, good times, good times. How's that going for him? Is he on the dean's list? Is he, you know, what's his deal there in college? Is it working out? No, poor kid.

Like, he struggled his first semester because we discovered, I'll just go ahead and HIPAA violate him. He discovered that he has ulcerative colitis, which is like kind of a cousin of Crohn's disease. It's not nice. And it's one of those, like, chronic things that you have. have for the rest of your life but he struggled with that like his whole first semester we were in like the diagnosing it phase and so he was just that's a lot kid was always always on the toilet

yeah that's bad ulcerative colitis is a reckon ball there was a time where um i had a friend who had it and it was just he could you could tell how miserable he was all the time dealing with that he's had some good some good um uh doctors a pretty good doctor since and some therapy stuff is working for him. I know it can be different for everybody, but I hope I hope he feels better. That sucks. I hate that. Yeah, he's, so yeah, he's gotten treatment started, and he seems to mostly feel better.

You know, it'll take a little while to get to an equilibrium with it, but I'll tell you what, the therapy that they've got him on is super expensive. It's insane. I'll bet. It's like, like 25 grand per shot kind of thing. Oh, really? That's a lot. That's too much.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy. I'm going to go ahead and say that's too much money and we should do better with things like that. It's all Schrelli. Martin Schrelly's fault. It's all his fault. We'll blame him for all the drugs that are too expensive.

I like that. Well, anyway, it's good to have you here. We're going to learn how to turn our reading minds back on for 2024 today. And tell us what we've got here. You've sent me two clips. So I want to make sure I do these in whatever order you would like. I did. Yeah. So they have a underscore 1 and an underscore 2 so we can go with underscore 1 first. Oh, that sounds great. Perfectly, perfectly named. Yep.

Yeah, it's a really difficult code to crack there. It really is. Let me see if I can see the number. Oh, there they are. Okay. Yeah, I do have numbers on these files. Here we go. Let's play the first one. And you can tell us all about it. Here we go. If only the old man would start writing again, pick up a pen, a pencil, a typewriter, a stick to write in the sand. thing. Hugo would even take dictation if Jack asked him to, and he had offered. Please, for the love of God Charles Dickens and Ray Bradbury, he'd said to Jack as recently as yesterday. Write something. Anything. Waste in talent like yours, it's like burning a pile of money in front of a poolhouse. It's cruel and it stinks. Millions of children out there and

former children too would weep with joy if Jack Manor Masterson ever published a new book about Clock Island and the mysterious master mastermind who lived in the shadows and granted wishes to brave children. Jack's publisher regularly sent boxes of fan mail to the house. Thousands of children urging Jack to write again. SOS. Those letters begged. Save our stories.

What was the name of the book? What, the island that they said? Clock Island. Okay, I could have sworn they dropped the F bomb and said it was called F Island. I don't know why I heard that. Well, I mean, you know, it could just drop the L there and it would also be dirty. It would also be just as bad.

Yeah, good point. Tell me what we're hearing there. That's a whole different island. Dana Delaney lives on that island. It's a whole different thing. Goodness gracious. Yeah, so the name of this book is The Wishing Game by Meg Schaefer. And this was a charming little story.

I think I picked this one up off of book talk. And, you know, it was, I just got it somehow onto my TBR, and so I read it. And it's a charming little story. It's basically this aging author who lives on an island with the illustrator of his books. And he's taken to not writing anymore, but he's one of these really prolific children's writers. And he suddenly decides that he's going to kind of, kind of, be a willie wonka for grownups and invites a bunch of kids who once tried to run away to live with him on Clock Island, sort of their golden ticket to come and play his games and try and win a fantastic prize. I like Rachel Jacobs, the narrator. I've heard her before and she's pretty great. Does it hold up?

Yeah. I mean, so I like, I like her. voice when she's just reading or doing American characters, she cannot do a British accent to save her life. Like, her, like, the more of Hugo's dialogue she does, you heard a little bit of it there in that clip. Yeah. It's, I just, I just laugh.

It sounds like Brian trying to do an Australian accent. It's so bad. I mean, at least when Brian's doing it, he's, no, I mean, at least when Brian's doing it, he's meaning to sound. Australia. Yeah, and like, but she's got like this gruff thing going, like, she just gravels in the back of her throat and, oh, I, right, you know, that kind of thing. It's like, I don't know, maybe she watched a little too much Ted Lasso and decided to try

and be Roy. I don't know, but that part of it bugged me. But other than that, yes, like she, she does a fine job narrating the story. And, yeah, I thought it was a charming little book. not, you know, it's not mind-blowing. It's not earth-shattering, but it was a fun read. I got, I got pretty good invested in the characters and I enjoyed it. Nice. I enjoyed it. Check it out. That's the wishing game. I'm looking at it on, on Instagram, freaking Amazon. They've got every, every version you want. It's all up there. Yeah. Yeah. It's your, it's your deal. It's highly

rated too. So it looks like a good one. It's a charming story. I did read, I always, whenever I'm prepping to do this bit, I go and I look at Goodreads and I look at the people who give it one star just to see, you know, because I'm not going to come on here and tell you about a book that I think is one star other than like, I might give you a little blip and just say, hey, this book, I didn't like it, you know, and it won't be my whole segment or anything. But yeah, so I always go and see what people say. So some of the people with this book, they had a decent point. There's a there's a plot line with like a teacher's aide, like a kindergarten teacher's aide who really, like she has just fallen in love with this little boy, not like romantically, but like wants to foster him, right?

He's an orphan and she wants desperately to foster him, doesn't have the money, can't support him, you know, but they, you know, she tutors him and they get along really well. And some of the reviews on there have a good point about how like maybe it's not so, appropriate for her to be promising that she'll adopt him or whatever but when she knows she can't keep that promise and I'm like it's a story y'all like you must be fun at parties you know like it's a story just go with the story people get hung up on weird stuff man you know like stuff that is just not I don't know that big a deal I could share a story but I won't because I know the person listens to the show but I had like a whole thing about something so

dumb, end up in a conversation. And it really just came down to some people are grumpy and just want to express it, you know? I feel like that's what happens here sometimes with books and reviews. I mean, they have a fair point. Like, some of it was like, like, you know, she lets him sit in her lap and stuff like that. And it's like she's still sort of working in a capacity of being his teacher, you know. And so like, I mean, they have, they're not wrong. They're just a bummer for no reason, I think. But that's, that's me. Yeah. This is only her second book, by the way. Meg Schaefer's written another book called Lost Story. Other than that, she's still kind of new and a lot of excitement around her work.

So check it out. Yeah, yeah. Tell us about our next little clip here we have. So, yeah, so the next one is the one that Brian mentioned having a picture of his cat on the front. I think that an actuality, that is the author's cat. But, you know, if you, you know, if you, If you read this book, you might want to be a little careful what you say in front of Anara there. Really? Okay. Yeah. All right. Let's play it and find out.

Whoops. Thus it was, as I was preparing my peanut butter on toast, I heard the name Jake Baldwin from the iPad I had running on the kitchen island. I stopped mid-penet butter spread, knife in hand, as co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin announced that my uncle Jake, reclusive billionaire, owner of the third largest chain of parking structures in North America had died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 67. Are you hearing this? I said to my breakfast partner, who was not my wife, Janine, because she was no longer my wife and no longer living with me. She was now back in her hometown of Boston, dating an investment banker, and if her Instagram account was to be believed, spending most of her time being well-lit in enviable vacation spots around the

globe. My breakfast partner was Hera, an orange and white cat, who, after I had retreated to my childhood home after the divorce and layoff, had emerged from the backyard bushes and informed me through meowing that she lived with me now. Wow. Obviously, Will Whitton in there. Will Whitton. Yeah. Doing his thing there. What is so, I only know John Scalzi's science fiction stuff. And that doesn't sound like that's what this is. Uh, It's really not. It's got a couple of science fictiony elements to it, but it's mostly not a science fiction novel. This book is called starter villain. And essentially, this guy, Charlie, who is the narrator, he comes into a bunch of money through his rich uncle Jake, who apparently was one of the world's richest supervillains. and and then you know along with it came all the problems of being a super villain and uh yeah that the science fictiony part comes in when there are uh there are intelligent animals and uh i'll just

say that because i don't want to spoil like if you read the blurb to the book they spoil are a good bit of it i see yeah i'm seeing those now so i won't read those either but this yeah this sounds hilarious is it is as funny as it sounds it is quite funny i i enjoyed it it's it's fun romp. I literally read it. I started reading it on Saturday, finished it on Sunday. It's a really short, you know, really now, I mean, I didn't have much to do the rest of the day because like, you know, everybody was out. It was just me in the house. And so I was like, who, you know, and while I was doing other things, I'm listening to Will Wheaton tell me this story. But, you know, I mean, it's a, it's a, it was a fun little ride. And, and it's, uh, it's, it's very self-content.

I'll put it that way. Nice. Yeah, it's very, so it sounds like it's in the same realm as, or not realm, but same feel as dungeon crawler Carl. As a matter of fact, people,

you know, people who bought this also bought dungeon crawler Carl. So that same kind of. Yeah. Yeah. It's, satire or, or maybe not satire,

but, it's got that tongue placed firmly in cheek. Yeah. Yeah. Good, good. Well, Scalzy is a good writer for that stuff, even in no man's war,

which was fairly serious. Or Old Man's War, sorry. No Man's War. Old Man's War is fairly serious. It still had this, like, kind of biting, I don't know, not really, man, kind of commentary, I guess, but I love that kind of stuff from him. He's a very good author and worth checking out. I keep hearing good things about Kaiju Preservation Society, but I haven't picked that. That one is great. I think I reviewed that one on the show last year. Did you do it here? Oh, I don't remember that. That's great. Yeah, it's the same. It's got, it's kind of, I wouldn't say it's the same because obviously it's a completely different story. But it's got the same, like, kind of arc to it. It's self-contained. It's a quick little popcorn book. It's easy to read. It's not going to, it's not going to, you know, require a lot from you to read it.

You just go on a ride. That's awesome. A quick note about stuff we like in common. Hugh Howie, who did the Silo series, which had a very successful first season on TV and all that now. The books are amazing. and you and I are reading him simultaneously a while back. He announced on somewhere, one of the social media things, that he is currently writing a whole new novel set in the Silo universe.

And he says he's very far along. So I'm very excited for whatever the hell that is. Yeah, I have a couple of other things. They're like, you know, like Audible Freebies. And some of them were Hugh Howie. Yeah, like, let me see. Machine learning is available. Oh, no, I need to.

I would have to spend a credit on that. Never mind. But yeah, it's a collection of stories by Hugh Howie. So, but yeah, there's a bunch of stuff out there from him. And I'm like, I want it all. Yeah. Yeah. There's something about his style.

Just really grab me and always, I mean, I love all his books, but very excited to see whatever's next from him. Oh, yeah, here it is. Machine Learning. I hadn't heard of this either. let's see oh this looks good this just came out right oh no it's 2017 it's been a bit but still i would like to check this out some incredible fiction says the first review uh all right excellent well uh there you have it uh go check these out uh the scalsy book once again is called where to go

starter villain starter villain and uh brian you're going to put these up on quick tms. dot lee already there yep awesome so go to quicktms.l i everybody you can find uh her picks every time we have them. Amy, it's so fun hanging out with you. I hope you're doing well and can't wait to do it again. I am. Well, hopefully, you know, I had to have a toe nail removed yesterday. So my toe is like super sore.

Oh, sure. Oh, God. Yeah, it's not, yeah. I mean, the actual removal was fine because I was all numbed up. But let me tell you. Russian mobster with pliers or anything. Hope not. No, but let me tell you, like, if you ever have to have that done, you know, as much as

as much as nobody likes going to the dentist and having to have a cavity filled or whatever and that, you know, get the shot there. So if you have to have one of those shots in your toe, so much worse. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah. It's a million times worse. Try to get one in your heel. I had to do that once.

It was terrible. Oh, yeah. Terrible. It's awful. I think it's because there's so many nerve endings in your feet, you know? And so, oh, my God. But yeah, she kept having to give me more of it to get my toe totally numb, which I was glad she did. don't get me wrong, but dang it hurt.

When you go to the dentist, are you slow to numb when they do your face shots and stuff, or do you numb up pretty good? I think I numb up pretty quickly, although, like, when I had my wisdom teeth were weird. Like, I had to get my wisdom teeth out, and I had a dentist who, like, didn't put you under for that, which I, yeah, if I could go back and change that, I would. I'd be like, no, I want to go to someone who's going to just knock me out. Actually, now that you say that, I did the same thing. I didn't know I had the option.

They gave me happy gas, but I didn't have, they didn't put me out for it. I hated it. Yeah, same. And I, you know, like my bottom two were really badly impacted, and I felt every bit of it. And my favorite thing is when the dentist tries to tell you, oh, that's not pain, it's pressure. Yeah. And I'm like, here, let me quickly punch you in the face and you tell me, is it pain or pressure. Yeah, you'll kick him in the nuts and walk away and go, you'll be fine.

That's just pressure. It'll be fine. It's just pressure. Yeah. Damn, dude. Well, I'm glad you had it done because obviously stuff like that needs to be done, but I do not envy the process. That sucks. Not pleasant, yeah. But we are very excited. We had a meeting a couple days ago. Some of you may have seen in the Discord where I kind of announced that Chuck and I would probably not be able to come to Vegas. Oh! Which we're very, yeah, we're very sad about that. But the reason for it, is really good. So we have an opportunity to do three interrelated puppet show pieces in a festival called

Experimental Puppetry Theater here in Atlanta. So if you're in the Atlanta area, like right after Vegas, it's May 1st through the 5th, I believe. Yeah. Then if you're anywhere near there, I totally recommend coming and seeing the show. We're waiting to hear back from the director if our pieces got accepted because if they did, then we're going to get like, you know, some small amounts of money to actually produce the show. And then, you know, then we make this into a real thing, you know. And so it'd be like a

stage thing? Is that the whole deal up in front of people? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And XPT is like, it's a, it's a curated set of short form puppetry pieces. And they're all, It's an 18 and over show, so it's not, you know, it's not Sesame Street. And it's all about kind of pushing the envelope, kind of doing something that you haven't done before or that maybe hasn't been tried before. A lot of the pieces are just kind of weird. Some of them are really artsy. It's kind of like, I would say if you like stuff like Meow Wolf where it's really strange, also kind of funny and, you know, like, and visual. engaging.

XPT is definitely something you would enjoy seeing. And, you know, they do it every year. We've never done it because when I first learned about it, my kids were like six and four.

And it's, I mean, it's a whole other full-time job to produce one of these shows. Oh, yeah. And so I was like, okay, well,

that's just not feasible right now. I can't do it. Well, now, you know, my oldest is in college and my youngest is a junior in high school and driving herself places

and stuff so yeah yeah you know now's the time so um so yeah so we're gonna we're gonna we're crossing our fingers i will announce it as soon as i know but yeah i hate i hate that you're missing tms or they're potentially missing tMS Vegas but uh if there's any good reason to do it this is an incredible opportunity incredible reasons yeah that sounds awesome let us know as the you know as the tadpool uh mob if there's anything we can do to help yeah yes i definitely will I may actually be hitting you up for like 3D printed stuff. I'm not sure. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, absolutely. But yeah. I'll get on a lot faster than I did your stamp. My stamps. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah. So we will know, we should know by this weekend.

I was hoping to know by today, but we're not. We don't, we don't know yet. But we will, we will know by this weekend if our pieces got accepted and then we'll go from there. So, and, you know, I mean, I guess if you want to be on a. be a bright side about it if my if they don't get accepted then we're coming to Vegas so all right you know either way you either it's a win yeah it's a win win let me ask you let me ask a question I always want to ask a puppetry person yes a puppets

and marionettes are they allowed in the same conversation are they part of the same world they are okay so marionette can even happen at this event you're saying people meet oh yeah it definitely does um marionettes are one of the hardest puppetry art form just because it's so difficult to, you know, manipulate something with strings and really give it emotion, you know, it's, it's really difficult. They're really, and they're, plus they're, they're unwieldy and they don't travel well, right? Like, yeah, strings everywhere. It's really hard to move them around. But absolutely, there are, there are marionettes.

We have a marionettist who regularly does pieces in the Atlanta Puppet Slam as well. And he does amazing, amazing work. So, yeah, absolutely. So I'll give you a quick primer on puppetry here. Please. Just like real fast. So there's five major types of puppets. All right.

So you've got marionettes, we just mentioned. You got hand up the butt. Hand puppets. It's kind of like the Mr. Rogers puppets or Punch and Judy. Sure. Those are hand puppets. You know, it's basically like a glove that you just stick your hand in. And then you've got rod puppets, which are exactly what they sound like.

little things that are on a stick and they may have some little mechanism usually like a little trigger or something where you can operate their mouth or whatever but mainly they're being moved around with a rod oh you know what when it counts as that is the brian that episode of fargo with the puppets yeah the dream sequence utopia uh yeah but the part with the puppets where it was kind of bad you know what you know what i mean yes that's that's very much punching that was very much punching judy yeah and they were and those are those were called stick puppets then that's the name of that technique? Rod puppets.

Rod puppets? I think those are more like, but those are more like hand puppets, right? Like, well, no, I guess not because she was up above them. She wasn't moving with her hands. So they were almost like. Right. I always just, this thing with the sticks,

I always picture, or rods rather, I always picture like the little old timey stage with the opening and then a bunch of crowd out in front of it and then just like little. Yeah, that's like you're punching, though, right? Yeah, and that's what you're visualizing. Yeah, and that's what I thought we were seeing

in that Fargo episode, unless I don't know what you're hand puppets. Those are hand puppets, yeah. Sort of like, like I say, like Mr. Rogers and stuff, like those are, those are all hand puppets. So you've got, and I'm sitting here like doing the hand motions. You're gesturing. We can totally see. We can totally see the gestures you're making.

I have, I have a laptop that I need to set up and then I can get this set up to where I can actually do video on these segments. And I'll keep you posted on that, but I promise that's coming. So, okay, so we've got, we got marionettes, we got hand puppets, we got rod puppets. Then we have hand and rod puppets, which are Jim Henson-style Muppet puppets where your hand is up operating the mouth. And then you've got like you guys' puppets that I gave you. Like the ones that we have, yeah, from two of us. Those are hand and rod puppets.

So and then there are actually, you know, if I'm, I'm grouping them badly. I don't remember how they're actually supposed to be grouped. But there's more than that. But then there's shadow puppets and body puppets, which are, you know, Basically, if you got somebody in like a full mascot costume. Your snuffle up against your big bird. Yeah. Exactly.

Yep. Those are body puppets. So yeah. Oh, you know what? I take it back. They're marionettes in Fargo. I'm looking at the scene. Or are they, she has them on a string?

They're all strings. Yeah. And the part where he's doing the horrible thing with the bat. Yeah. I don't want to give too much away. That looks like a combination of a someone holding a stick. And then they're also being suspended by wires, which must be. So you know what?

When you talk about this event coming up, this is what I'm thinking of. Is this kind of. is this kind of artsy-fartcy puppet business that you don't normally associate with puppets, just a little darker, you know? I like that. Yeah, there was a great piece last year by a guy who'd never done, never done a puppetry piece before and just decided to go out and do this, and it was amazing. It was basically like a giant praying mantis.

The praying mantis was like basically a body puppet. It was huge and it was so ridiculous. and you know she's like on a diet and so she's trying to go vegan but she has all these bugs that are her like her courtesans and they're trying to put on a show for her and then of course she ends up eating the whole cast by the end of the that's cool that's great it was hilarious it was really really funny and that was a body puppet wow okay that's cool it was um that puppet It was amazing looking. But yeah, it's stuff like that.

And they do film pieces. So, like, strictly speaking, films like Lyca and, you know, Wallace and Gromets, stuff like that, those are like stop motion animation. Technically, those are all considered puppets as well because they are, you know, their little forms and you manipulate them and move them. One of my good friends is the director of education at the Center for Puppetry Arts. Her name is Areta Bumpgardner. And she says, in her Puppetry 101 course, she says, a puppet is anything you can pick up and bring to life.

So, and I love that definition because then literally anything is a puppet, you know. That's true. But I got puppet, puppet T.O. Salamanca here. Hey, everybody. Yeah, exactly. You know, I mean. And then she come, when she teaches that class, she comes with like a basket full of like, you know, just random. stuff like kitchen utensils and things like that and says okay everybody just go pick something up

and play with it and make a character out of it you know um yeah and it's it's great so yeah I mean puppets are awesome you guys like they're it's not it's not just uh it's not just you know the Muppets although we of course we love them and they're wonderful the Muppets are everything but uh you know it's it's it's a wide wide world of stuff you can do with puppets. What kind of, what category would you put Thunderbirds or Team America,

those puppets in? I don't know. They move marionette style, but then their mouths are like some triggery thing. Yeah. So does that make them up? That would still be a marionette then.

That'd be a marionette. Yeah. I love those. Yeah, you can have all kinds of really complicated mix with marionettes. And there was something that was done. It was just several years ago where

somebody decided to do reverse. This is actually another puppeteer friend of mine, decided to do reverse marionettes where all the puppets were operated with helium-filled balloons. Oh, weird. I know, right? So that's what I mean by when we say XPT is experimental. It's like, yeah, it's really, you know, out of the box kind of thinking. Oh, cool. Well, it sounds challenging too now that you've described all that. So I wish you all the luck if they approve you guys to get in. I think this sounds almost kind of hard. So thank you oh yeah it's definitely going to be super hard and i'm going to be working a lot so yeah so i will need all the luck but all right course you will get all the luck you can stand from us uh awesome well

good luck with all that let us know how it goes a part of me secretly wants it not to happen so you come to Vegas and part of me doesn't because i want to see you do a cool thing so i'm happy either way how about that we're all happy either way right yeah all right we'll have a fantastic uh time until we see you next and read lots of books, will you? Thanks. You too. Bye now. I meant to mention this book. I'm reading right now, which is about a 600-pound man in Britain. There are a bunch of doctors and a couple of hospital engineers and people at his flat

about to take him, they've taken a wall out of his flat, and they were about to take him to the hospital to have his leg amputated. And this is all being told from the perspective of the big guy. Right. Right. And then right as they've done this, they've strapped into like this, this carrier thing and left them on the floor and they're about to finish up and get them out of there. And then something goes wrong. They hear sirens. People are like checking their phones, scurrying off. Suddenly the doctor who was there with him the whole time just bolts and leaves. He's not sure what's going on. He's left there all night. Nobody's there. He hears sirens. He hears explosions. Chained a stretcher, basically. Yeah, he can't do anything. He eventually gets out. I won't explain how. But. It's a whole story. But eventually it gets loose. Kind of, yeah. The world has strapped him in, though.

And he turns out he's like the only survivor of something. He can't quite explain. I'm not done with it yet. So I don't know the resolution. But it is absolutely one of the weirdest books I've ever read. It's crazy. I'm trying to remember the name and I can't. I have to look it up.

Sounds wild. All right. Hey, guys. This is toward the end of the show where we do end of show things. And one of those things we're going to do real quick is read an email from Lydia, who emailed us at the morning stream at gmail.com about generations and says this, hi, I guess I need to figure out how to be in the chat. But anyway, you should come in there.

You're welcome any time. If you want to come and be in our chat, we'd love to have you. Regarding your conversation about labeling the generations, that's a creation of the marketing business. They lump large categories of age groups together in order to design marketing campaigns to appeal to them. we all also use them use them because nowadays in my opinion humble opinion sorry I forgot the age because in the age of the interwebs all info is everywhere everything all at

once that's my rant well not a rant just to share info I looked up once to try to figure out me I assume they mean them anyway I'm on the cusp of two baby generations officially baby boomer, 1961, daughter of a World War II vet, but feeling too young to be thought of as a boomer. Sure.

I mean, Brian and I are at the top of X, but there are times where I feel like we fit better in millennials. I don't know why. Just do. I relate to the millennials.

Oh, really? I don't know if I feel like I fit in the millennial thing, but, uh, well, it depends on your, I mean,

this is part of the problem, right? We have labels for what we think millennials are. Right. Exactly. Yeah. Or Gen X for that matter. Yeah.

But I'm, you know, both of us are age-wise pretty far from that. The whole thing's so dumb, though. These categories are so dumb. It is. It's like, oh, you're in the Z category. Sorry. Let's see. I'll bet though it will be some shuffling in the near future as I'm feeling those who experienced the pandemic will have a different life requirement and value as a result, i.e. the mass quitting in retirements post-pandemic. Wow, maybe I should have blogged about this as it just fell out of me. Have a great day. Stay well. Yours truly, Lydia. Well, thank you, Lydia for

the thoughts. I love it, Lydia. Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah, I don't know, man. This stuff with generational gaps and it's never been any different. It's always been this and we always give it names and we always act like we're smartest about it. But right, of course. It's just going to go on for it's just marketing. It's just a way for Coles to say, hey, get your new millennium wear. That's right. Get over here and get that on. Free avocado toast. Well, now you're talking. See? Yeah, now I'm interested. Anyway, thank you for that. If you'd like to send your own email. or calls or voicemails in the show. You can do that 8014710462 or you can email us the morning stream at gmail.com. It is time to get out of here with a musical selection, I guess, unless you've got anything else you'd like to tell anyone about Brian, everything else.

I've got nothing else. No, I'm going to do a little more freelance and then I'm going to go rest for the rest of the day and see if I can just finally get rid of this thing. We'll see. I hope so. That'd be great. Yeah. Hope so.

Andrew Heim wrote in and said, high-spotted coil and bilby. In TMS fashion, I've completed my 47th rotation of our solar system, and I ask for a cover of Rainbow Connection to celebrate or any other Muppet cover as they bring a smile to my face every time I hear them. As always, you guys bring laughter and happiness to my daily commute on the train. There we go. How long is that commute on the train?

Thanks, and here's to another TMS year, Andrew from Down Under Asher 77 in the Tadpool. Whoops, sorry, I mean a percent. I love that sound. That's good. You could play him a happy birthday instead of that horrible. Yeah, let's do that instead. William Schatner farting. And he sounds young enough.

Let's party. Only the old lady goes to the old ladies. That's right. Yeah, 47, so pretty close. P.S., don't let those drop bears get you. They're a crafty bunch. The bears that fall out of trees onto people. Oh, okay.

Drop bears, they'll kill you. We have the five most deadliest drop bears. Let's go to Rainbow Connection. This is a version I've not played before. It's by Emerson Paris from the 2015 album Art Crimes. It's lovely. She's got an incredible voice, or at least the singer of this voice. Half of the songs on this album are sung by a dude.

The other half are sung by a lady. So I don't know if it's Emerson and Paris are two people. They might be. Anyway, here's Emerson, Paris, and Rainbow Connection. Why are there so many songs about rainbows and what's on the other side? Rainbows are fissions, but only illusions, and rainbows have nothing to hide. so we've been told that some choose to believe it

I know they're all wait and see well someday we'll find it the rainbow connection the lovers and dreamers in me Who said that every wish will be heard and answered When wished on the morning star

Somebody thought of them And someone believed in And look what it's done so far What's so amazing that keeps us star-gazing? And what do we think we might see? Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers in me. All of us under its spell

We know that it's probably magic Have you been half asleep And have you heard voices I hear them calling my name Is this the sweet sound I've called the young sailors The voice might be one in the same I've heard it too many times to ignore it

It's something that I'm supposed to be Well, someday we'll find it The rainbow connection, the lovers and dreamers in me. Get more at frogpants.com. How are you this morning? I'm doing good. Thank you. I'm sure this question has been answered like five times by now

because I'm about a month behind on episode, but moths have dusty wings because, well, they're actually tiny scales. They give them the ability to fly, apparently. This is just from a quick Google search. I'm no moth expert, but also butterflies have these tiny scales. They're just not as dusty like as moths. Pretty interesting stuff. What does this mean?

Are they fish? Are they flying fish? I don't know. You decide. See ya.