The Morning Stream - TMS 2583: Burner Herzog

Episode Date: January 16, 2024

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Episode 2583. That's crazy. Crazy. 2,583 episodes of this stuff. We're going to be 2,600 episodes before you know it. And there'll be a new mug to celebrate. That I can promise you. Anyway, it's January 16th, 2024.

I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Ibit. Brian Ibit, good morning. Hello. Hi. Oh, hello. Hello to you as well. You know, when you live in a house with two bathrooms, and there are currently two, three, four.

Oh, yeah, you've got people staying with you, right. Six people. You have to coordinate, you know. You got to get up, you got to get that shower and shave. You almost have to work out a schedule the night before and say, all right, I'm going to get up at 5.30, take my shower. then, you know. Yeah. It's a little rough.

It's a little rough. But also, and then we're also limited by, let's see, that's two cars total. No, there's three cars. Wait. No, there's three cars. Because Steve, so Steve and Sarah, they're visiting. Mostly because Steve has some work stuff to do here.

And he has a car he keeps in Salt Lake. It makes him sound fancy. It's not that fancy. So he comes here often enough that that's beneficial. Almost probably three, four times a, well, probably three times a month. And it's usually for sure. little stays like two, three days, and then to California and then back to Mississippi and then

maybe out east or something. But this time, it's a longer project. So we had to come for a week and a half. So Sarah came with him. It's great having him here. It's not a problem. It's no issues. It's just, you know, you feel like you got to accommodate. And you're like, okay, oh, wait, I can't just sit on the toilet for an hour. I got to like, you know, I got to get up. Can't sit in there and play with my steam deck. No, no, not like I used to. Not like I usually do. Get away from it all for a while. Exactly. Anyway, we're glad to be here. Hope you're all well.

It's a Tuesday. We've got things to do. I got an eye appointment today. I'm looking forward to that. Ooh. Yeah. Anything. Is it just a check-in or what's the, what's the?

Check up. Make sure prescription hasn't changed if it has. Okay. Get an update. Just, you know, general. We do it every year. And it's always just good. Make sure your eyes are good, you know.

And especially now that you and I, we have that big discussion about how they're just extensions of our brain. We've got to polish our brain, you know. and make sure our brain's okay. My least favorite one is the pressure one that they do. Oh, I hate that. Yes. Yeah.

I hate it. It just feels wrong to be pushing on your eye like that. Because you're just pushing on an eyeball. Like, what are you doing? Right. Right. It's not cool, man. It sucks.

Yeah. But we love. That hit the air, like the air, p. Yeah. That's another one I'm not a fan of. Yeah. I don't like that either. I guess that's a good thing to do because then if you're having, if you get massive pressure in your eyes,

it's sometimes a sign of other problems or something. So I don't know how it works, But anyway, I'm not expecting any issues. They'll probably just say, they always do this. They'll go in and go, oh, that's right. You had cataracts at a young age. I'm like, yeah, I did. And then they keep doing it.

And then they do the whole, what letters do you see and the whole stereotype of everything. But not since that Asian doctor had years ago. It doesn't matter that he's Asian. I just, that's just part of the story. But that guy used to put his knee right in my crotch the whole time. Oh, right, right. It was like a weird great clip situation. situation. Back when I used to go to great clips, it feels like they would climb all over me while

they're doing their stuff. Yeah, he was like that. He was like that, too, and it was weird. I don't like it. It makes me uncomfortable. Yeah, I'm not, I'm not a fan either. That's, uh, you stay on your side of the chair. Yeah. You're, you know, you, you, you, there's new guys great though. Well, I shouldn't say new. I've had him for a few years now, but, uh, Dr. Tyler's his name. He's a younger guy, uh, super smart, really knows his stuff. He, he, he, he, he's, he, he's, he's, he, he's, he's, he, he, he's, stepped in when this really old fart retired. Uh-huh. And that guy was a little rougher with the equipment, if you know what I mean?

Like, he would get like, he just, the way he grabbed stuff and just kind of, er. Yeah, you feel like he's going to rip that, rip the mobile X-ray unit off the wall. I guess they don't use a mobile X-ray unit. No, whatever that thing. What do you call that? They have a, like, the, I don't know what that's called. The face thing, the, which is better? one or two, one or two device.

I don't know what else to call that. You have to look through it to also do the letters on the wall because it's really easy for them to, or do they just say, put this little plastic spoon over the eye or not, you know, and then tell me what the letters are. It's usually a little of both for me because they have to, they have to get real specific, I guess, with my numbers because of the surgeries and I don't know. Yeah. But I haven't had any problems, so I don't expect to have any. We'll go in there today. That'll all go fine. Wish me freaking luck.

good luck yeah as a result there will be no there will be no multiplayer games with the core fellas today I wish they're right oh right I forgot you've been doing that on the regular that's great yeah Tuesdays mostly been really fun we played deep rock galactic last week amazing game we played lethal company before that we played some finals we got plans we're gonna keep doing it so most Tuesdays when possible we are we are playing today

I will have eye drops and fingers my face, so not having. You'll have pupils that are like this big because they're dilated. That's right. I kind of do hope I have a new prescription because I'm, I've lost all glasses except one pair. I usually keep three

as backup on one pair that it's my main go-to. Then another one that usually is like a sunglasses tinted UV protection pair for driving. And then a third pair just as a backup of something gets broken or lost. Everything's

broken or lost except my main pair. So I'm screwed until, well, I'm not screwed. I just have to be careful with it. And then if it did change, I can get on, what's it called, weeby here. What is it? What's the place you get your glasses now? Warby Parker. Warby.

Weeby. Weeby Parker. Get on weeby.com and get me some sweet eyewear. So anyway, we'll see how this all goes. Were they, by the way, were they a sponsor? one point for you for they were for me i don't remember maybe the instance back in the day it's been a long time oh no it was it was it was here it was here on tms or no was it was it was definitely something with you because i remember them saying hey do you want uh you want a free pair of glasses

from warby parker so you can describe the experience of like doing a thing in front of your face and i ended up being like well i don't need glasses glasses but i'll take sunglasses and i still have and love those sunglasses. Oh, that's been good. Okay. Awesome. I think that was film set because I remember Randy doing it. Oh, maybe. Yeah. I think that was it. They're good. I like Warby Parker. And I also liked, I like Zeni OK. They're clearly not, you know, fancy. They're just basic. But they work. So, yeah. It's a lot better than what we used to have to do. Listen, kids, here's what we used to do. We would, the best, the fastest we could do was

lens crafters, which still exists, but you go to a lens crafters in a mall. About an hour. About an hour. You walk in there and they give you these glasses and you're going to walk out having spent $400 bucks if you want something decent. Then there was a while where you could go to Costco, you could go to other

eye places, but you were still going to spend. Target has a pretty decent. Yeah, it's not bad, but you're still going to spend a hundred or more for the most part. Then along come these websites and they're like, hey, what if we had tiny little slave children in Singapore

make your glasses for you. Oh, please tell me that's not the case. I mean, I don't know. I just assume it's cheap labor. I have no idea. Remember how we once had them as a sponsor? Yeah, it's probably not going to happen anymore after that. I don't actually know.

I say all this without knowing. But I assume it's because they're over, I know they're overseas. Like, I know they come out of China, I believe. And I know that the, you know, manufacturing is less expensive. And like a lot of things, they do that. So it's possible.

But they do the thing, which I think is brilliant, which is using, I don't even know if they use AI yet or if they did, but they use like your screens camera, your laptop or your phone or whatever camera to superimpose the glasses you choose onto your face. And then you choose three of them. They send you a box with those with no lenses so you can decide, ooh, I like these. I like these other ones. And then you send them all back, but let them know which thing you liked. Yeah, that was pretty cool. I think they still do that. It's a really good way to do things.

Yeah, and by the end of it, if you're only getting a pair, you might still only spend about 20 bucks. 25, 30, maybe, if you're getting this fancy pair or something. Yeah. So that's why I always get two or three, because I end up spending less for those than I used to for one. It really feels like, you know, that should have been a paid sponsorship, what we just did.

It should have been something that we charged for. That's right. So weibi.com, everybody. That's right. Go check out. Webeepie Parker. Webby. Wibbley Wobbley Parker.

Yeah, webiporker. Porker.org. All right. I got a note here that I just thought was rad. A bunch of people and have been talking about this in the Tadpool. Various emails and a couple of texts.

I give you all credit for this since it wasn't just one of you. But all of the Siskel and Ebert episodes that we grew up on listening to what was it called down the aisle. At the movies. At the movies.

But also it started out as sneak previews. Like when I first started watching this called sneak previews and then they changed it to at the movies. Yeah. And I think this goes from the whole thing starts of sneak previews and works its way all the way through. Yeah. Okay. And it's the entire, there's an entire playlist of every single video, 308 total episodes, which is all they did.

It sounds like, oh, this I'm making, I, I don't mean make it seem like it's small. 308 is pretty, pretty good for a TV show. Oh, that's considerable. Yeah, because there's, you know, four movies, five movies per episode, I think they did. I think they start with 70-something with the movies A Star is Born, King Kong, 7% Solution, Enforcer, Rocky, and Nickelodeon. They have a whole episode up here about Star Wars and 77, 78, with, let's see, Days of Heaven, Girlfriends, the Big Friends, the Big fix. The whiz. The whiz. Excellent.

Yeah. Jaws 2 shows up on the next. I mean, anyway, the point is, if you were a kid in the late 70s, mid-80s, and you watched this when it was on, in fact, I might even play a little music here. Let's see. Doodle-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-dun-er-dun-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-duner. That's it, right?

I don't recognize this one. That's their original theme. That's day one. Is that their first in previews? Because I remember the one that went, Darn-d-d-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun. Well, let's skip down to... And then you got the Good and Plenty that came out wrong

that had Siskel's name on. No, it was the cup. It was the cup of soft drink that came out, like it was an automatic drink dispenser that came out wrong and had... You're right. It had Siskel's face on it or Ebert's face. That must have been like an 80s thing. Well, I'll skip ahead.

So, like, yeah. I'll skip ahead here to 19. Let's see. All right, well, here's, okay. It does sound like the smurts. There was a little bit of a smurf thing. Little smurf vibe, yeah. This is it.

This is it. That must have been when they changed the name too. That's great. Oh, I love it. That's great. That's great. Just that intro I want to go and watch right now. Yeah.

So I'm going to put this in the chat. I will also make sure. everyone can get it however they want it but yeah i loved those things and it's we know what's cool is this is just a great archive of like well let's think of a movie here uh like if you really want to know what they thought of what they think of ghost busters right like we can find that episode uh new movie came out this week asking what if ghosts were real and who are you going to call if they are yep like this one um where is it meatballs remember the the bill murray film meatball You can go back and watch that and see how bad they hated it.

Camp counselor. Yeah. What else? Raging Bull, 9 to 5. Oh my gosh. Raging Bull and 9 to 5 came out the same weekend. Came out the same weekend. Wow.

Anyway. Oh, caveman. You can go see the amazing caveman. And when they even gave us a sheet of paper that explained what all the different words were. I freaking love it. Anyway, it's all there and beautifully curated. There's a little bit of a third eagle sound to Siskel, at least in my impersonation. Oh, yeah, hell yeah.

He's got a third eagle vibe. Or even Ebert kind of had that too, a little lazily. I love the outtakes where they fight. A lot, Gene Ciskel, the Chicago Sun-Times. And I'm Roger Ebert of the Chicago Tribune. We work across from each other, across the street, and hate each other, except for when we get together to do the show. Did you know that Flash Gordon and Popeye came out the same weekend? Wow. I wonder, uh, I am sure I saw both of those on, on opening weekend.

That, as a kid, freaking Popeye was, it just felt like it was so disturbing. I love, yeah, Robert Alman. Yeah, Robert, or, uh, yeah, Robert Alman. I loved Popeye when I came out. I was so into it. It was weird as shit, though. It was weird. Yeah. Yeah, it was weird. And that's, I think that's what disturbed me about it. It wasn't like growing up, growing up and watching the Popeye cartoons, this feel felt like, um, like a dark version of those cartoons. Yeah, it would also be weird knowing, I mean, you'd have to be, you know, I think an adult at the time, and we weren't.

But if you went from the Shining and then a few years later, Popeye, that's a weird thing for Shelley Duvall, you know? Today that's like seeing the driver or driver and then watching a Barbie, right? Yeah, right. It's like, whoa, hold on now. Driver.

Yeah, driver, driver. Driver. Driver. Driver. Driver. Adam Driver. Nailed it. Anyway, that's up there and available.

I'm going to put it on Twitter and other stuff too, so I just want people to enjoy that of a certain age because it was a big deal for us growing up. All right, a couple things we didn't know. I got a call about a thing I didn't know, and also I can't verify it. So we're going to have to take this person's word for it, but here's the phone call, and then we'll talk about it.

Hey, this is Archie Nerd. This is for TMS. and I just wanted to give you guys a little bit of, like, random information that I just learned. You know, that song from Mission Impossible, you know, done, done, done, done, done, done, done, done. Did you know that that is Morse code for M.I? Isn't that crazy? Anyways, love the show, though. Bye.

Okay. I don't know. I don't know if that's true. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. It's, but they're all duts. It's not, there's no dashes. No. And also, something about this.

This just strikes me as bull crap. So if I go Mission Impossible, theme, Morse code, and there is a search, there's a common search for this. I get an auto-complete search. Yeah, I'm sure.

I'm sure. Okay, here we go. According to NME.com, which is a big music site, Mission Impossible stars, Simon Pegg, and Rebecca Ferguson, revealed the theme song Secret Morris Code meeting,

meaning, rather. Let's see. This is an amazing fact, says Simon Pegg. Dave from Dermont and Dave, and Ira Show, told us that when Lalo Schifrin, Lalo, Lalo, whatever.

Lalo, Lalo Schifrin, which I named. You did know, yeah, you absolutely did. Of course you did. You know all this shit. Wrote the original music, the theme that he put into it, two dashes, two dots, which translates to M.I. The actor explained while sounding out the tune.

Stop it, it's true, interjected Ferguson, who was equally as excited to share the little known fact. So I don't know. So if you do the M as dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun yeah which you do right like the theme song is dash dash dash dot dot dash dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dot that it's yeah the m is dash dash dash the eye is dot dot that's really cool it is cool i didn't know that that was news to me so maybe it checks out i guess if we believe sarah ferguson who i never disbelieve i

love her. Yeah, but she... Simon Pegg. No, I was kidding. I believe him to. I believe him too. Okay. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Actually, I think I'd believe him more because he feels like he'd be into the trivia and the geekiness of all of it. Right, right. And she's just there to confirm it, you know?

That's cool. Anyway, put that in your cheese and melt it. It's a new hot fact. The theme song of the Meg, by the way, is M-E-G in Morse code, too. So I'm sure you can watch the Meg. and pay really close attention to the theme music. It goes. I don't know how the Meg thing goes. I don't either.

But the Meg sucks. All right, I said it. I don't care how many of you are fans of the Meg series of two films? Those movies are terrible. They're so bad. And I like Bad Jason Statham movies. I will accept most of that without much hesitation. The Meg, powerfully bad.

I hated it. Truly hated it. Really? Yeah. and I don't usually hate Like even that movie I don't want to do for film sack I hated it that much

Yeah And it's a perfect film sack movie On paper and in real life It's a perfect film sack movie But I hated it so bad But you don't want to even sit through it No I can't do it again I mean you ask me in 10 years

I'll change my maybe then I'll be like alright enough time has passed I saw that in theaters What a piece of shit Yeah I like how TRP double is not sure What you mean by Rebecca Ferguson Rebecca Ferguson.

She was in Rogue Nation. She was in Possible. Fall Out and Dead Reckoning. She's been the last three. She's the star of Silo. She's an amazing character in the Dune movies. The Shining sequel. Dr. Sleep.

And in the Dune Part 1 and 2. Translated Abbas album Waterloo into English. That's right. She's one of the Ben of Jesuits in the Dune business. She's the queen of the freaking, Atreides family. Come on now. I think I did say Sarah.

I said Sarah Ferguson or Scott said Sarah Ferguson? Oh, did I say Sarah? I might have said Sarah Ferguson. I do that all the time with her. So I'm happy to cop to it. I do it all the time. Totally by accident. If we call her Fergie for short, does that...

I do it all the time. I don't know why. Yeah. But I do. Yeah. All right. If I did, oops, I think it probably was me saying Sarah Ferguson. Yeah, we mean Rebecca.

you in that same damn thing yeah we mean me Rebecca did you know that her mom worked with Abba and because she's she's from Sweden Sweden she helped translate the lyrics from Waterloo Abba's Waterloo album into English shut the hell up is that true yeah that's

really true she's on the album cover is one of her mom's the back cover who's her mom her mom is uh what is it it is uh Nancy Ferguson what is it's uh She's really got a mom in Abba.

That's amazing. No, no. Her mom's not in Abba, but basically worked with the producer to translate all of their... Oh, there it is Rosemary Ferguson. So she helped Abba translate the lyrics from their 1974 album, Waterloo, into English. That's amazing. And also appeared on the sleeve of the band's 1975 self-titled album. Oh, there she is right there.

So that's funny. So she... Ha! So the album cover for the first... album by Abba. Is the four of them jammed like in the back of a limousine, but in the window must be Rosemary Ferguson, Sarah Ferguson, thank you, Rebecca Ferguson's mom. And by the way, the Rebecca is a load of C's, not K's.

Okay, I know a girl, Rebecca with two K's in her name. Oh, okay. I don't know why her parents did that, but it goes, Rebecca, R-E-K-K-A. K-K-A, huh. And this is the C-C-A, which I think is probably the norm, right? Yeah, CCA is the norm. I've only, I've mostly only seen the C-C-A, but I've seen a K-A-H, R-E-B-E-K-A-H. Oh, yeah, that's kind of out there.

And that's, where is that from? Is that a singer person, probably? Maybe, but I'm trying to think if that's who the, like where that comes from. is that um oh like part of the world or like yeah what part of the yeah exactly got so i'm trying to get to is i'm trying to figure out uh where that comes from entomology of uh exactly there we go entomology thank you germany i don't know i have no idea oh rebecca r e b e k a h was the wife of isaic and the mother of jacob oh oh right biblical there you go biblical there you go r e so it's the it's the jewish she had a rough she had a rough life that that mom

that was a real you had a real split in that family it was a really okay yeah I haven't I've not read the the biggest the biggest split of all time probably the biggest well biblical the biggest biblical split of all time is probably that

if I think yes anyway oh Rebecca in Hebrew is Rivica that's a cooler that's a much cooler name Rivka huh I want to be called Rivka interesting yeah can I co-op that from a whole other

faith and and a place and, you know, culture and be called Rivka from now on? Can I do that? Sure, sure. All right. Oh, Amy's saying that that's her Hebrew name is Rivka. Yeah, yeah. I just saw that and that's where I saw it.

Yeah. So that's interesting. Rebecca Ferguson, though, the point is she's amazing. No, I'm saying. Amy's saying it is her Hebrew name. Oh. Oh, I thought he said it was Rebecca's Hebrew name. So Amy.

Well, it is. It's Rebecca in Hebrew as Rivka, which you saw. And then she just, Amy just, posted, which is Amy's Hebrew name. Oh, now I get it. Because there's probably not a Hebrew version of Amy. So her name is Rivka Bat Sarah? Is the bat like, does a bat always in there?

It's how she changes into her flying form for what we do in the shadows. Bat! Carter, we got to watch that final season. Sorry, I meant etymology, not entomology. Homology, sorry. Entomology's bugs, yeah. Thanks for the correction. Yeah, and we do need to watch that season.

All right. Another thing we got, you know, Dr. Tolbert, he's out there helping patients every day, collecting insurance, you know, doing what you do as a doctor. Yeah, yeah. Occasionally, something will come up here where he is happy to give us an answer. He's always very generous with his time. And we got a question for him and an answer from him. Oh, I love it.

All right, cool. So enjoy this. name's Amanda and I have a question for one of your doctor segments, physician or even pharmacist. I have a person in my family who has peripheral neuropathy in his glutes and his butt. He is diabetic, however, his sugars are now under control. The problem is he has lost a lot of weight, which included all the fat in his butt. And so his sciatic nerves or the nerves that go from your back down your legs are directly hitting his sit bones, his pelvic bones, when he sits down.

So we've gotten a couple of pillows that have holes right where your sit bones are. And he is on Simbalta, which is helping. However, he has kind of given up on doing. any kind of exercise. I am trying to help him and wondered if you guys had any ideas on other treatments, other things he could do. I am working to get him back and exercising, but I wanted to see if there are other ideas or if this is going to be a chronic, life-changing thing for him.

Thanks. Okay. Amanda, thank you for sending that in. We got a direct tally says it's Hank Hill syndrome. Probably, it is, right? Yeah, he's got no butt. I'm the same. I have no butt. I have zero.

No assid all. No padding back there. I have no bum. So I have issues with this sometimes. So I totally get it. Here's what Jerry had to say. And I think, I don't know, you listen to him talk and you go, oh, right, this dude's like a proper professional. I like the way of smart people in our.

Oh, it's the best. It's the best. There's so many smart people in our audience. Yeah, professional artists and creators and doctors and scientists people and all that. And Windy. Think of Wendy. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, here he is with his answer.

This is a really great question. And as far as diabetic peripheral neuropathy goes, as you mentioned, keeping blood sugar under control is the best way to keep it from progressing, which is going to be the best way to keep the symptoms under better control. It sounds like he's already doing well with that. So as far as expanding what he's already doing, there are a few things that may help. I would recommend working on flexibility and improving the strength of his hip flexors. Those are the muscles that help stabilize the hip while you're moving around and provide some of that extra cushion like you were talking about. I would recommend that he focuses on exercises that aren't going to lead to a lot of stiffness and soreness later on. So overdoing it is absolutely one of the things you want to watch out for.

if you are doing 20 minutes and it feels okay the next day great if you do 10 minutes and it feels okay the next day great if you go to 30 minutes and it feels like you got hit by a train the next day you did too much the day before so scale it back and it's okay to go slowly when you're ramping up exercise the average person needs about 30 minutes of physical activity over and above their average daily activity about three days a week there's no magic number and no specific type of activity that counts other than the fact that you're getting your heart rate up and breathing a little heavier than usual. The tip that I give patience is if you can talk but you can't sing, regardless of whether you can carry a tune, then you're working hard enough and you don't have to worry about

overdoing it or undoing it. If you can sing a song or you are breathing so hard that you can't talk at all, then you are working outside of your limits of what's safe and healthy. And the type of physical activity doesn't really matter. You can dance around your kitchen and your underwear for all I care. Obviously he'll want to make sure that he's using the upper body more than the lower body if he's having a lot of issues with the sciatic pain. And so exercises like weightlifting or using a hand bike can give you some physical activity without using the legs or putting the back at risk. And simple stretching can go a long way to helping with both his pain and his flexibility and help with his mobility overall as well. There's no one.

size fits all type of exercise. So finding something that he can do and that he will do and that he feels comfortable doing is the best place to be. On a side note, I sincerely hope that he is feeling better soon and that the pain does decrease over time. And I want to congratulate him on keeping his blood sugars under control, since that really is one of the most powerful things that he can do to help control some of these symptoms. So two things. One, that's about a $400 visit right there. You're welcome. Yeah, you're welcome. Just give it to us in the form of a Patreon subscription.

Yeah. We'll call it even. Yeah, we'll call it all good. We'll throw him a dollar or two from it. But no. And secondly, that was great. That's good advice for everybody, everybody. I need to stretch more.

Everybody. Yeah. All people listen to what Dr. Tolbert has to say. Yeah. Yeah, that's great. That's cool. Yeah. Yeah.

Stretching also a big deal. Like I think it's probably my number one helpful thing when I'm got. anything going on any kind of sciatic pain or any kind of weird foot thing or whatever for sure i'm so bad at stretching i just need to i need to do more stretching what i need to do is do it before bed like a way to kind of wind down you know and be a little looser so when i get in there i'm not all uh the stiff day transfers to the stiff sleep oh and then i can't sleep at all and all that listen to listen all these old people talking here this is amazing.

I've just given up on my back. That's right. I can't do it. It's a problem. All right, well, there you go. You remember when you hurt your coxics on the stairs? Do you remember that? Yeah, it was October, right around Halloween, like October 2018, 2019.

So Kim did the same thing on the snow last year. She slipped while she was shoveling, and it took her basically 10 to 11 months. It was like last month that it finally stopped hurting. Oh, that's, that thing sucks. Sucks. Yeah, that does suck. I mean, I remember my back issues, this time last year, around November, I could not lift my right leg, like, lift it and turn it laterally. Basically, like, if you put your, raise your knee slowly in front of you and then start turning your foot up horizontally.

I could not do that more than like an inch or two off the ground. And did physical therapy for, what, about six or seven months? Yeah. yeah that helped out didn't it horrendous oh helped tremendously yeah tremendously i would have even help more uh if my physical therapist wasn't such a chatterbox because she'd we'd spend about half the session with her like pulling on my leg and showing me new stretches and other the rest of the time she'd just be sitting there with you know her hand on the side of the the um gurney or whatever that thing is called the uh the the uh medical uh uh

saying, yeah, you know, we've been thinking about taking a trip to Ireland ourselves. And what did you think of that? Oh, where else did you go? What kind of, how was the food? What was the, this like, yeah, could you, can you stretch me or pull me or do things while you're talking to me or are you, uh, massage table? That's it. Thank you, my, okay.

Do like the, do like the dentist does. Keep talking, you know, keep working. Talk all you want. Right, exactly. Talk, right. The dentist, to a fault, talks to me while I can't respond. Yeah, but he's still working, you know. here's the thing if she'd get now what would you do if she got down there and went oh i found a i found

a tumor and then and then you'd go what and she'd say oh i'm just pulling your leg get it oh gotcha okay she's pulling your leg right yes i'm pulling your leg yeah that would be a great joke pull the other one yeah which is they say in the uk pull the other one pull the other one please uh that's it for that thank you jerry for that and also amanda for your question and uh i'm not I'm not going to make this, like, a regular segment or anything, but if somebody has a thing. I do love that we can facilitate medical advice. Did you, you already had sent that response from Dr. Jerry over to her, right? No, I just had, I'm saved her for the show, so she'll hear it here. Yeah. So today, I got it, I got it yesterday. So it all happened within a day, so she didn't have to wait long.

Yeah. In fact, you probably waited less time than setting up an appointment with your actual family practitioner and getting in there and getting a diagnosis and or advice. And we did it in a day. Take that. And if Amanda would have called before the show and said cancel, I would have to charge her $75 cancellation. For a missed appointment. That's right. I know how this works. All right.

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and is improvising everything on the fly. That's awesome. Come check it out. Search for GM seller, C-E-L-L-A-R, on YouTube. Very cool. Love that. That's a clever idea. Love it.

Saw that in the Promote Yourself channel. That seems rad. Nice. Let's talk about a story we got from James and a few other people sent this. James was first, so I'll use his name. Good. Brian, you have a few of these.

The come and go chain of this place. Yeah, it sucks. The gas up place, convenient stores and whatnot, which I don't know, well, we must have them here

because of the nature of this story, but I'll get to that in a second. They're changing their name. Oh, thank goodness. Oh, yeah, looks like they're changing to the jizz and whiz. Yeah,

well, that'll be good. Yeah, but they use the, they use a G, so it's supposed to be a little less. A jiz whiz, yeah. Um, here's why. They got bought by Utah company who owns a bunch of these. I think they're the Maverick people. We have a lot of these places called Maverick here. We bought that, that same group bought out the Circle K's that we're here. And they've bought come and go now, which was established in Iowa in 1959. This is an old-ass company. Uh, they bought them and they're now going to change their name after they were bought out last year. The new owners are reportedly worthy, uh, the double entendre of Come and Go's name could hurt its business prospects. Uh, uh, It wouldn't be bad if they just spelled it C-O-M-E. Come and go.

Because then you'd see it and you'd say, oh, okay, come and go. I get it. Like, all right, yeah. It would have been no problem. In fact, this could have been, this could have been the K-U-M is just... Do the rebranding that way now. Just change it. Right, right.

I would, well, I would come there and I would go there. Yeah. So they're changing it to Maverick. Oh, they are doing that. Well, then it is the Maverick people. All right. So here it is. They were acquired by the FJ management Maverick chain in April.

This is initially the Utah-based Maglet family that owns the FJ management reportedly planned to rebrand only the come-and-go locations in Maverick territory and leave the rest of the network unchanged. However, the tone seemed to have shifted later this year. Here is a quote, I think that there was some concern about the inadvertent double entendre of the come-and-go names as a source with knowledge of the deal. if you're going to grow cross nationally, which brand do you think will have more appeal to a new audience? Maverick or come and go? No disrespect to come and go,

but the answer is pretty clear, said another person. Love it. Yeah, so they're changing it. Do you guys are about to get a bunch of Mavericks? We've even got some already. So I think Maverick already established itself out here as well, but it'll be interesting to watch them change because we've got, there's a come and go just up the, up Indiana Avenue from us, maybe about five minutes away.

Yeah. So, we'll watch them, uh, we'll see it happen in real time, yeah. Right, exactly. Watch the, the logo change, the signage and all that stuff change. We'll see, they'll come, they'll go, and it'll be Maverick after that. That's right. That'll be great. It'll be your wingman anytime.

It's not like to spell Maverick the right way either. It's spelled without a C. I know. I don't understand this, why this even is a thing. It annoys me. a little bit. Looks like you should be pronounced maverick. Maviric. I'm going to go to the maverick and pick up some smokes. Ask your doctor if maverick is right for you.

Don't take Maverick if you're allergic to maverick. Maverick is actually a good. They're good. They're good. We like them here. We're happy with it. The Circle K is kind of a dump. They bought those. They're better now. So I don't think this is a problem. But if any of you are really sold on the come and go name, bad news. It's changing. Yeah. Sorry. Get those t-shirts while they're available. I wonder if there are. Come and go T-shirts. Probably, right, somewhere. Mugs at least or some kind of paraphernalia.

Something you could buy at the place. Hell, there's some of the Mavericks in Central Utah have little sculptures of tanks made out of bullets. I saw that, took a picture over here. Yeah, on our way to Vegas last year, we stopped at a Maverick, and they had a little, there's more than that. There was like a plane, a tank, a car maybe, something else, but they were all small sculptures that were made out of like 30. art bullet Wow 30 out 6 bullet casings

It's the It's the new freeze dried toads playing musical instruments We're wearing sombreros basically Kind of yeah It was a real cheeseball, real cheeseball Yeah Yeah looks like merchandise.com and go.com You can you can still get the

Come and Go hats, come and go teas, beanies Uh Everything so if you want If you want a piece of history Get the get the come and go poncho for $2.99. There you go. That's the cheapest.

A poncho? Yeah, a poncho. Who sells ponchos? That's crazy. Apparently come and go. Like you'd stop at the come and go on your way to the concert when it's raining and get yourself a come and go poncho. Okay. But that coming and go poncho will protect you from all sorts of splashes and, and, uh...

Sure, sure. Just common everyday stuff, you know. Whatever. Common everyday stuff, exactly. Yeah, that makes sense to me. So, yeah, get ready for Maverick. Come into a town near you. That's right.

Amazon is selling products with AI generated names like, quote, I cannot fulfill this request. It goes against OpenAI's use policy, unquote. Really? Okay, all right. This is a thing. It says here it's no secret that Amazon is filled to the brim with dubiously sourced products from exploding microwaves

to smoke detectors that don't detect smoke. I guess that's, I never looked for one, so I... I didn't know that. I guess it may not be a secret, but it's a heretofore and be knowns to me. Same. It says, we also knew that Amazon reviews can be assessed pool of fake reviews written by bots. That's definitely true. I've seen that.

Yeah. But the latest product, a cute dresser with a, quote, natural finish, unquote, and three functional drawers takes the cake. Just look at the official name of the product listing. It is literally, I'm sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request. it goes against opening eyes use policy. The dresser's name reads, My Purpose is to help provide,

or see, yeah, the dresser's name reads, the purpose is to provide helpful and respectful information to users brown. Yes. So this is the brown version of the, my purpose is to provide helpful and respectful information to users. There it, there it is. It's also available in black.

This article says if we're in the business of naming furniture, we'd offer something less of a mouthful. The listing also claims, it has two drawers when the picture clearly shows it has three. There's apparently a lot of this going on. Anyway, it raises this question. Is anyone at Amazon actually reviewing products that appear on the site? That part is unclear.

But after the publication of the story, Amazon provided a statement. Here's what they said. Quote, we work hard to provide a trustworthy shopping experience for customers, including requiring third-party sellers to provide accurate, informative product listings. We have removed the listing in question and are further enhancing our systems. okay yeah you work hard to do it but you didn't get it so then you took it on i don't know this stuff's hard i know it's a volume problem you know there's just too many probably there's a some polyurethane hose that's called i apologize but i cannot complete this task it requires using

trademark brand names which goes against open a i use policy is there anything else i can help you with 10 millimeters by 3 millimeters. It means there's no human involved in the process of submission. It goes right from, we're producing this. Get it on Amazon. Button pressed, walk away. Lame. I mean, in one, I guess in one way, I'm thrilled because it means I can spot it and avoid it, you know.

Yeah. I almost don't want them to fix it because this is a good way to tag something that's bull crap. But they have a volume problem. the stuff scales hard when you want to become the shopping place for all things everywhere at once you just this is just a problem part for the course it's gonna happen yeah i need to understand who these teemu people are you see this everywhere tmoo ads every everywhere i go yeah 20 teamu ads and they're always touting some insane deal that there's no way it's possible and sure enough if you click through it's either not the price they said in the ad or it's some other hitch i don't understand the teamu thing

The Timu Thing seems to have come out of nowhere and just exploded on everything. Isn't it just, I mean, isn't it a thing like Wayfair and Wish and stuff like that? It's just a cheap, like basically Amazon with cheaper, flimsier crap, basically. I mean, I think so. It also seems to be like, it is like Ali Express, Rainbow Bright. It's what it reminds me of. That's the, that's the one I was trying to think of. Yeah, not Wish, but Ali Express.

Yeah, but it comes, when you see an ad for it, it's usually like you want to buy a, I don't know, a video game system for $14? And then you click through and it's actually $30 and it's some shitty knockoff garbage machine. Pray station. Yeah, the pray station. As in pray that it works. Yeah. When you receive it. Not pray is in the accent.

We're not trying to, we're not trying to do that. No, no, no, no. We knew exactly what you meant. And I had to bring it up and make it worse. Yes. Yeah, I'm glad you. Yeah. Well, just to be safe, I don't want any emails accusing me of something.

Of course. If you go to TEMU.com or whatever it is, one of the first things they do is they give you like a roulette wheel or some kind of gambling equivalent of get a coupon or whatever. And then they immediately are like, do you want to give us your information? Do you want to get us for your information? They constantly are poking you for that. It's my only experience with that. And I was like, I'm getting out of here. I'm not going here ever again.

Exactly. Yeah. This screams identity theft to me. Yeah. It's real gnarly. Has anyone, I mean, does anyone in the chat know if, have any of you bought anything on T-moon had an experience good or bad? I'd be very curious. Yeah, actually, any experience.

Maybe you need this Taki's Fuego sweatshirt, Scott. Let's see it. See what you think of that. See what we got here. Maybe you'll be as excited to wear it as this kid is in the photo. Look at that nine-mile URL you gave me. That's amazing. I know, yeah.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Two things. One. One, that's not a bad price for a hoodie. That's not bad. Eight dollars and 47 cents. Not at all. I'll give them that. But I have real concerns about anyone who likes taki so much that they're willing to wear a hoodie for it. You know who to warn that is what's her face from oranges the new black? You know, she loved those tachies. She probably, uh, uh, uh, uh, she would have easily worn this. I guess so. Like fourth season was about them getting tachies.

There's a review here I'd like to read that doesn't sound at all like it's fake. Okay, from this sweatshirt? From this sweatshirt. Awesome Christmas gift. My granddaughter is four, and this is a perfect fit. It's a polyester-type hoodie, no liner, but vibrant colors. Definitely worth the prize. Good buy and good quality.

I was shocked how well it was made and the color, to be honest. glad I gave it a shot. Thanks to the maker, good job. Yeah, that doesn't sound like planting. I was shocked how well is it made, and the color, to be honest. I was shocked by the color, to be honest. No commas where we need them, of course. Of course, yeah.

I think that might have been, that also might be poorly translated. Yeah. Yeah, and there's a lot of these, oh, weird, they got like, see, and I'm not even sure. It's everything. It's like such a weird combination. of things. Yeah. It's like heat shrinkable tubing right next to stainless steel measuring cups right next to a heart print pullover sweatshirt. Yeah, they don't, they don't pull any punches on the

weird combos. Yeah. Like, look at this. Super bright 800 lumens flashlight right next to replacement covers for your, for your floor mop. Like, what's the point of that? Right, yeah. Then glasses with no lenses in them next to that. Like, I don't know what to make of this thing. You know, it could be a segment. It's like, what weird T-Mew thing did we buy this week? It isn't any good. Right. We just have to make sure we use a VPN or something.

Not only do you need a VPN, you need burner accounts on everything. In fact, you know what you need? We need to hire a burner person, just a person who doesn't exist who is tight. A burner? Someone that we can get rid of if we need to. Yeah. Yeah, somebody who's disposable. It doesn't sound very humanist, but I'm into it.

We need a burner person. All right. we're going to take a break. We're going to take a break and bring in our favorite burner person. All right. His name is TV's Travis. He's going to do a little quiz. He's going to test our...

Oh, I love it. Great. He's going to test our might. All right. So let's see how that goes. Before that, though, Brian, a song. Do you have one? Yeah.

Let's go over to the Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Texas area for a rock duo. Hector Longoria on lead vocals and Jeremy Garcia on drums. These guys are awesome. They perform as Indigo. but it's spelled N-D-G-O. Four letters, N-D-G-O, but pronounced Indigo. Get it? I get it.

This is from their brand-new album. No, this is a brand-new single that they've released. It's called Selective Hearing. Big thanks to the O'Donnell Media Group for letting me know about this one. This is great. Here is Endigo. It reminds me of this, by the way. Windigie.

Yeah, it's a little bit. Windeggie. All right, we'll take that break. We'll be back shortly. Stay tuned. Running a mawarkin' and that better's all we know. So I don't want to know

Just what you're thinking about now I don't want to know Just want for less than less now You say my never sit inside a chair You kiss my face And then you walk away You're making my feelings With childish reasons

You know what I'm meaning With selective, hear it, hear it Round around jumping up like I can't even Cat about the top be breathing You're so nice you hear and hearing Haven't Never the same three words we said when we were young I can we choke under the weight of growing up

Oh I can't feel like that one Somebody knows about it I don't want to know Just what you're thinking about now I don't want to know Just one thing's got me in my feelings For childish reasons

You know what I'm meaning Your selective hearing, hearing Right around dropping you're like I can't even I don't believe it You're so active, even, even, even We've been our hearts on the side This is the hand that we got I know that we'll never stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop

Stop, stop, stop We're there are hearts on the sides This is the hand that we got I know that we'll never stop Stop, stop, stop, stop Stop, stop We've got our hearts on the splice, this is the hand that we got, I know that we'll never stop, stop, stop, stop! Cloud me and my feelings for childish reasons, you know what I'm meaning, your selective hearing, hearing

Right door I'm jumping like I can't even Got back I be breathing You're selective hearing, hearing I don't want to know Just what you think you're about now I don't want to know Just want the last to know this loud Rock your arm,

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Tell me more about that song. Sure. That's the song Selective Hearing. It's a brand new. single from these two guys from Corpus Christi, San Antonio area of Texas. They perform as Endigo. Not Indigo, but Endigo. N.D.G.O. Windigie. All right. Sit back, relax. It's time for this. This is Travis, and you'll do well to listen carefully to what he has to say. It is Travis. It's TV's Travis. Travis Crawford calling all the way from where he lives.

In the frozen, frozen north. Yeah, dude. It's cold everywhere. right now. What's with all this, uh, somebody, or Nashville got snowed yet, snow yesterday, uh, freaking, uh, weird places that never get snow.

It's crazy. It's like, we're up to, uh, ooh, 25 degrees. It's getting balmy out here. That is balmy. I think it is six outside right now.

Damn, dude. Wait, it was like winter, winter woke up late for school and missed the bus. And then it just ran into the classroom through all the homework on the desk and it's like, here I am. Because we had nothing. We had,

we had no snow at Christmas. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, nothing, nothing at Christmas, nothing at New Year's. Last week, two feet of snow. Damn, dude. That's a lot. So we lose the bet, or we lose the contest.

I'm currently at 24, so I think we're the hottest of the three of us. The high today, 33, that'll happen at 4 p.m. That'll be slightly over freezing. Maybe I'll walk the dog. Yeah, I was going to say, that's about what we're supposed to get up to. And it'll be the first time we've gone above freezing in the last four or five days. All I do is think of pipes during this. It's all I do. I know.

I know me too. It's like, we've got a couple going that are on full on drip mode right now just to just because during the thaw, you want them to be doing that. I hate that. I hate that feeling. I hate thinking about it. Yes. Yeah. Well, anyway, we do like thinking about hard trivia questions,

especially in pop culture. And we're going to get some of those today from Travis. Travis, lay it on us, man. What are we doing this month? All right. So what we're going to do, I'm going to change things up a little bit. We're still doing betting per round, but we're doing a best of five. Oh, okay. I have five rounds for you.

Good. I like that. Yeah, because three seemed like it. One of us just wasn't getting a chance to catch up. And once again, I will urge the chat room to, don't worry about showing us how smart you are. We know you're smart, but save your answers from the chat until after Scott and I give our guesses.

Yeah. I don't look at you during this time, but it's still be good if you didn't do it, you know? Exactly. All right. I close that whole thing off And I look there Or I close my eyes That's right

There you go So round one this week We are going to do a movie title So I want you to guess the movie title We're going to start Scott you're going to start the bidding By cast members Cast members of a film

Or of films How many cast members do you think you'll need To guess this film? I think I could do it in three Three Mm-hmm Who-hoo starting off good All right

I like that, dang. Yeah, so I'm, it's either two or let them have it. I'm going to let you have it. Go for it, Scott. Okay, all right. Let's give a shot. I think that's a very good, it was a very good number. Yeah, here are your three cast members.

Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, and Reginald Vell Johnson. Great. One guy I know real well, the other two. I've heard names before, but I have no idea. Oh, geez. This is hard. Wanted to bring it a little harder one. I mean, I'll just guess.

I'll just guess because I don't know. Because I think what you're doing is you're giving us one that we would know if you said other names. Maybe, maybe. Although I'm trying to think who knows what I know anyway. When you do figure it out, you'll be slapping. yourself, but that's okay. I'll just say die hard because I don't know.

Okay, that is incorrect. Oh, right, because it's going to be the second one because he was the police officer. Die hard two. That is correct. Die hard two. Damn it. Crap.

So, wait, who were these other actors? Buddy Badie was his wife in the movies. Oh, is that who that is? Holligerio. Hollygenero? Okay. Yep. And then Reginald Val Johnson is the cop,

um, aka Carl Winslow. Yeah. But some other actors would have been William Atherton, so that wouldn't have helped you because he's in both. He's the reporter guy, right? Yeah. Did you get that? You get that okay? This man has no dick or whatever the deal was? Yeah.

William Sadler. Sadler, yeah. Oh, William Sadler would have been out of it because he was only in the second one. Yeah, he was the bad guy. And then also Fred Thompson. Oh, I love Fred Thompson in movies. He's great. Yeah. He died a little too early. He did. Politically. All right. So round one goes to Brian.

All right. actually he's an old kind of he's an old kind of Republican that I kind of liked when he was running for president and stuff yeah I liked him that was a long time ago when they were vote for president Fred Thompson

are you kidding me absolutely I would too anyway sorry round two no problem all right round two Brian you're going to start the bidding on this we are going for a director and I'm going to give you titles of movies that he directed

or she this is one where I feel like Scott's got a good advantage she knows his directors. I'm going to start with four. Four, all right. Scott, do you think you can do it in four? Do you want to guess fewer? Well, seeing how your first question was constructed,

I'm a little wary, but I'll go ahead and do it. I can do it in three. In three? All right? Brian, you have a chance to try it for two or make Scott go for three. Yeah, I was wondering if he was going to go three. year two on this one um i'll take i'll take two i'll try for two all right all right yeah i feel

like it's a if you know it really depends on how you're how you give these to me but uh i could either get it in one or none really for me Jurassic Park in Indiana Jones who's the director exactly let's make it those two yeah yeah um all right so your two movie titles are Paris Jeetam I'm probably mispronouncing that But you know Nope I think that's right

Election Okay Election Yeah That is That is Andrew Payne Ah it's not a judge No

Alexander Payne That is correct Alexander Payne Oh damn I feel, no game. I feel like a little, I got a little technicality win on that one. Yeah, but well-earned, freaking, oh, Alexander. As we all know, though, being technically correct is the best type of correct.

Is it? Yep, exactly. All right, so one-to-one is where we're at. One-to-one moving into round three. I would have given you that. A couple of others that I had on the list were about Schmidt, Nebraska, downsizing, and sideways. Sideway still being my favorite. Oh, it's such a great one.

I'm not going to drink the up and below. Yeah. All right. So round three, our music round, we are going to have snippets from a song. Let's see. We are starting with Brian, right? Yeah. What are your options for time?

I have two seconds, four seconds, six, eight, and ten. All right. right i will do six seconds six seconds scott remembering last time fewer is it four is the next one down what was it

four would be the next step down yeah okay so you're doing it in twos yeah oh shit we need to try at least I'll say four I can do it in four four seconds all right Brian do you think you can do it in two seconds

I'm gonna go for two yeah all right he's going for two Two seconds here are your two seconds. Oh, Bo, Boo! Tears for Fear's songs, shout from the album, songs from the big chair. Damn it. That is correct. We would have both had it, but damn it, Brian.

Nicely done. He went for the risk, and it paid off. Yes. Does he get bonus points for all the extra info? Because that was good info. No, I do not. I don't believe I do. No.

So here we are, two to one, going into round. four, Scott, you need this one to stay in the game. All right. You're going to be bidding first. We're going to do an actor, and I'm going to give you characters that this actor has played. Interesting. Okay. Okay. What are my numbers? You have, I have six listed.

Okay. I'm going to say I can do that in, ugh. I can do that in four. four all right Scott knows how to play this game he does yeah I will I will go for three I can do it in two all right I'll do it in two okay

you ready for this here are your two characters this actor has played all right Jim Malone and King Arthur Jim Malone and King Arthur you know that that the only one actor ever played King Arthur

might as well uh yeah we've never that story's never been told a bunch of times nope definitely not all right uh that's all we have that's just all we get you bet too oh oh oh another one uh uh uh uh you we send one of those them to the hospital you send one of theirs to the morgue um uh uh uh uh shit uh shan

Sean Connery, Sean Connery. Correct. Wow. Jim Malone, dude. The untouchables? I think so. Unless, well, it must be because I got right. Wow.

Yeah, he, uh, uh, did you know what that took? It took, that was a weird thing in my head. It was like, I saw, I always think of that scene that you send one of them, the hospital, we send one of them to the morgue. Yeah. And for whatever reason, I pictured him saying that, but in the King Arthur, outfit, which was from it's from the Kevin Koster

King at the end of Robin Hood, yeah. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Well, that was technically King Richard, not King Arthur, but good enough. Did I screw it up then? Does that mean I lose? No. Oh, where did you play King Arthur? Oh, he played King Arthur in First Night with... Right, with the whole

cheating on, what was it, Julie Armand on that one? Who was the... Yes, I think so. Was the wife? Yeah, and Galahead or Sir Galahad? I'm glad I missed I screwed up the character. Sir Galahad was Richard Gear, right? I think gear was

Lancelot, wasn't he? I'm sorry, Lancelot, not Gallowhead. She cheated on with Lancelot. That's what I meant, yeah. I have not seen that movie, so I'm glad I screwed up my reference. Hey, you know, I'm just glad that I'm not the only one who has a brain that connects things that way. No kidding. Well done. That makes me feel better.

A couple of other characters, by the way, would have been on the list. John Patrick Mason That was the rock, right? That was the rock. Marco Rameas, the hunt for at October. Oh, okay. James Bond. But also, because it's me, of course, Juan Sanchez Villelobos Ramirez.

Of course, yes. Totally right. Because I love the fact that the Scotsman played the Egyptian character with a Spanish name in that way. What a weird. Such a weird character. There can only be one, except in the second movie where he'll come back. And then there can only be two. Anyway.

Yeah. The less we say about the second movie, the better. Yeah, no kidding. Coked out fever dream. All right. So, round five, this is for all the marbles. Yeah. And I'm going to go into your guy's wheelhouse here, and we're going to do sports.

Great. Okay. That's been fun playing. If it isn't Steve Young or Dan Marino, forget it. Or not Dan Marino. Who was your guy? What? So this one's going to be tough.

But what I want you to do is I want you to name the professional sports league based on team names from that league. Oh, interesting. Okay. Oh, interesting. Because there are a few where there's like, you know, multiple professional leagues with the same names. Interesting. Okay.

Brian's turn. And we are going to start with Brian on the bidding. You have up to, I have six listed. Okay. I will, I will say five. Five, all right. Oh, gosh. God, do you think you can do it in less?

So not my wheelhouse. I'll throw in with four. Four? Yeah. Okay. I will go. Brian, you have a chance to go for less. I will go for three.

Three, okay. I'll probably lose, but I'll go for three. And we'll hope that my degenerate gambling experiment of December, 2023 helps me out here. I guarantee you're in a better position to get this than I am. Yeah, it gives you the minor advantage on this. We're talking big four, right? We're talking your big four leagues. We're not

talking like arena football or Right. No, NFL Europe. No, Bundesliga. No, no Bundesliga. Okay, good. That's a shame. All right, so here we go. Here are your three team names. We have Giants. Okay, yeah.

Cardinals. Yeah. Rangers Okay That's that's gonna be your I hope I'm not just getting lulled into a false sense of Security here but I believe those are all MLB teams

That is correct The Rangers was the giveaway Yeah there's a the Texas Rangers But there is a there is a hockey Rangers as well Yep the New York Rangers and New York Rangers And then you've got two different cardinals. You've got two different giants. Yeah.

That's actually an ingenious question because you can... That's a very clever, yeah. Yeah, you really throw that off. Yeah, and the fun one with the Giants is right now you have the San Francisco Giants in Major League Baseball and the New York Giants in football. But the San Francisco Giants were the New York Giants in baseball prior to moving to San Francisco. Yeah. Yeah.

I didn't realize they had two Giants teams in New York before they moved to San Francisco. If the football team was there at the same time, I don't know if it was. Yeah, I think the baseball team predated them by quite a bit, but I think they ran concurrently. I'm not 100% sure on that, but yeah. I like it when a city's sports teams are all like, you know, cubs and bears, right? Like, you know, have a little bit of a, a little bit of a theme. Yeah, or you go to Pittsburgh route, and all the teams have the same color scheme. They're just all black and yellow.

Right, right, black and yellow, yeah. Or you could do one that's very thematic with the New Orleans Jazz and the move them somewhere that's not known for jazz at all. Or lakes. Yeah. I don't know why they didn't. I don't know why they didn't rename it. Should have renamed them, but whatever.

Some of, yeah, that is one of my favorite scenes in the beginning of basketball when they're talking about that. And they're like, the Minneapolis Lakers relocated to L.A. where there is no water. And New Orleans Jazz relocated to Utah, where they don't allow music. Yeah, where they don't allow music. Great joke. That's great. Nicely done.

That was fun. And also, a bit of a nail bit of a nail biter today. Geez, Louises. Yeah. That's the way you want it to happen. You want it to be a nice little close match. I'll take my loss. And I'll wait a month to try again.

It's fine. Are we keeping overall track of this? Does anyone know what the run is? I'm sure Brian's ahead. Over all right now, I have... Brian is... Actually, I think, got a sweep going. Really?

I've never won one of these? Oh, shit. Oh, you haven't. No, but the pressure is on, dude. The pressure is freaking on now. Okay. Well, all right. It's a new year. It's a new year. Yeah, right. Fresh start. Fresh start. Yeah. Wipe that, that chalkboard clean. We're starting over, everybody. Pretend Brian never won those five other times. We've moved to a best of five. So you've got a better chance now. I got rocked. Well, nicely done. Good job with the shock on. That was a good one for me. Well done, everybody. That was super fun. Hey, Travis, tell people where they can find more of you in the world. uh easiest place is go to my website tvs travis or any of the socialism tvs Travis uh this week i did um for wait you haven't seen i watched uh what the hell did i watch i don't even remember now

you got to watch i watch so much crap um we did do uh cheers this week for those were the days that was a lot of fun going back and watching we're doing pilots again and so we watched the pilot for cheers and it's super impressive how how much they had those characters down right out of the gate. I love a pilot. I love a pilot that's consistent. Like Seinfeld terrible pilot, uh, friends, awful pilot. Hated it. Yeah. Um, and they changed

kind of drastically in the second episodes. That's usually the case, but once in a while a show will get it right and it's kind of amazing when they do that. You know, you know what it's going to be. Yeah, I don't know if you saw the, we watched the Emmys last night. It was cool seeing they got, uh, Ria Perlman and Ratsenberger and George Wendt and Frasier and, uh, um, Ted Denson back together for the cheers reunion

and they actually had them you know in a cheers set I don't know why Woody Harrelson didn't show up I don't know why Shelley Long didn't show up but it was pretty cool to see to see all of them back together again didn't Shelley Long die?

Yeah I just saw that Kirsty Ellie died I don't know if she was I'm thinking yeah that's it yeah just this last year that's too bad she didn't go I just saw that they were all on the Emmys this morning and we recorded last night and I was like I wish I'd have known this 12 hours ago I'd have said something about it Um, the movie that I did this week for what you haven't seen was bicentennial man.

Oh, okay. I had never seen that before. Yeah. I saw that year. I don't remember a thing about it, but I've seen that movie. I remember thinking it wasn't very good. I remember thinking it was okay, but not great. There was the other one where he was a, like a kid and an adult's body, Jack, right on the same time?

Jack was a couple years earlier, but yeah, it was in that same stretch that he did a lot of those kinds of movies. It sort of had that Robin Williams formula. I feel the same way you did, Scott. It was good, not great. Like, there were things that could have been better about it. But, you know, we had a discussion. There was a bunch of names of other people for the role. And so, like, we talked about, could we even see anybody else playing this role?

It was a lot of fun to talk about. Yeah. So. That's great. Well, check it out, everybody. That's TV's Travis. You know him, you love him. Stay out of trouble.

And we'll see you next time. Bye. Bye. All right. He is off. in the wind. Okay, we talked a little bit about New York, New Year's Eve things dropping like the ball in New York and the potato and all that stuff. Dropped a person in drag on New Orleans in Bourbon Street or something like that.

Somewhere they were showing a slipper with a person in drag getting dropped. A slipper, interesting. Yeah, giant slipper. Well, giant high-hield shoe. Oh, okay. A silver slipper kind of thing. Got it. Yeah. Well, we got this text from Jamie in Maryland who wrote in and said, good morning, Scott and Brian. This is for TMS on episode 25, 275, rather. You were all talking about how New York City had a big apple drop for the new year. In the town I grew up in, down in the southern Maryland area, they would drop a stuffed muskrat down a zip line to a cage for all the New Year's things. Thanks for all the laughs, Jamie. Well, there's no context there. What's that about it? I know. Why a stuffed muskrat? I love it into a cage.

age like this is how we celebrate southern Maryland where the great muskrat capturing of 1927 is always commemorated screw these muskrats put them in cages we hate them that's a weird one um also on the same subject we got one from i am sci-fi who lives in new york uh is ian he says hey there streamers and ball drop uh nobody who lives in new york city outside of recent transplants would dare step anywhere near time square on New Year's Eve. Yeah, I believe. You also need to avoid the subway around there at least until 3 a.m.

that night. And did I mention that those people haven't gone to the bathroom in hours? Yeesh. Mind you, the Applebee's on 42nd charges about 800 bucks to watch it from there. So maybe that's a better alternative. Eat mediocre burgers and frozen mozzarella sticks and watch the

ball drop while drunk on frozen margaritas. I appreciate the audio medium, however, says Ian. That's great. Yeah, that's sounds like a nightmare like everything about that sounds horrendous like 800 bucks on an applebee's to watch the ball drop from the comfort and safety of a of a warm a warm mediocre family restaurant yeah like locals in

Vegas anytime the Raiders play in time the nights play anytime the F1 is doing their shit all the locals are like no no thank you yeah by the way Talley explains it for us it was Key West where they did the drop of a super-sized red high-heel shoe carrying a female impersonator Christopher Peterson. Oh, so like a Miami kind of vibe.

Like a... Yeah, yeah. Okay, that's cool. That makes sense for that side of the world. I don't think we do anything fancy here. We just... I don't think we drop anything. No, we have fireworks downtown and that's it.

I think that's something like we do. It's just boring. Not much to it. What would we drop, though? Let's think about that. A beehive. You could drop a bee hive. that's our little state thing

you could do um oh let's see here what do you do and what's what's a you guys are the mile high city what else can you do there Colorado we drop a big doby is what it would be these days a bong yeah but no I feel like

Colorado you would drop a yeah you can't really do mile high you could drop a a giant boulder you know a a light lined boulder or a it's not that for Boulder? Yeah.

That's the thing. We don't have cities like that that could do. Like what's Salt Lake can do? Like a big salt rock? It's dumb. Yeah, I don't think that works. I can't think of it's a whole way bobblehead. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. That's a hard one. A Rocky Mountain Oyster. Yeah. A testicle. A bull testicle. A big old bowl testicle. You ever have one of those, by the way? Have you ever eaten one of that? I have. They're good. Yeah. They're not bad. No. I was surprised how much I, I don't, I don't seek it out, but I liked it.

Right, exactly. If somebody provides me, provides me a nice deep fried Ruckeman oyster, I will consume it. Oh, mine wasn't deep fried. I'll bet that's better deep fried. Oh, really? Yeah. It's way better deep fried, yeah. Mine was more like, I don't know, broiled and had stuff on it.

I don't know. It was okay, though. Yeah. But deep fried makes sense. I would do that. Deep fried out here is, I think I've, I've only ever seen them deep fried, but they probably have places where you can get them grilled for those people who are watching their weight.

These prices are nuts. I always say, anyway, that's going to do it for today's show. If you want to send us a text like these fine folks did or a voicemail like we had earlier or any of that stuff, that phone number is always there for you. Put it in your phone and keep it 801-471-0462. If you'd rather send us something in Discord, you can do that. Or you can email us the morning stream at gmail.com.

All the links to all this stuff are over at frogpants.com slash TMS. We're out of here. Brian's going to play music. It's a musical time of the morning, so let's play some music. It's a musical time of the day. This is great. I'd heard of this band, and this forced me to go back in their library and buy a lot more of their stuff. Troy, Yavang, wrote in and said, hey, Suzaphone and Buccina, I forgot to make a birthday

cover request last month, and I heard you were short for a request in January. So, can you play a cover of Cherobrock by Brass Against, if you've ever dreamt of playing the tuba and a rock band this band is for you thanks sign troy a k yvang um yeah the brass against is awesome like they you know start off with uh rise against the machine uh covers but they've branched out into rock and grunge and and uh this great cover here of cherub rock by smashing pumpkins this is from their fourth album called simply brass against four from 2021 here is cherub rock Thank you.

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