The Morning Stream - TMS 2595: Recreational CPAP

Episode Date: February 6, 2024

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Hello, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Tuesday, February 86th. That looked like an 8th, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian. Hi, Brian. Hello. Speaking of Scott Fletcher, he also played Unreal with this last night. That was pretty fun. Didn't expect him to pop in. Yeah. Oh, no. I mean, as if you and Dunway already weren't enough of a draw for me. Now this seals the deal. Now this has happened, yeah, and Amy joined us. We'll talk to her a little bit about it. Oh, very cool. She was often killing me, so thanks to her for all my deaths. And it was a really good time. We should get more people in there.

I think Brian expanded the server to be up to 32 or something, maybe 64. I can't remember what you did last night, but that game's rad. Anyway, hi, everybody. Welcome to a brand new episode of the morning stream. We hope you're all well and doing good. We're going to bring it to you, hot and fast. you know that's right while it's still while there's still a steam coming off the top of it that's right quickly we're going to bring it to you that's right oh speaking of which i watched

a guy today on a video i was in bed and i was like kind of just trying to slowly get up and i checked my phone and i'm like what's this somebody shared it with me as my wife's shared it with me it's this dude who made who went and picked a bunch of peas fresh like a bunch of pods dumped it all in a big bowl bowl full of fresh peas which is already I love fresh peas Yeah, I do too Yeah Could just eat them

By the handfuls Right Yeah He takes this thing And using all outdoor equipment Including a smoker To cook it He cooks the peas down

To make this What look like The most amazing Split pea soup You've ever seen In your freaking life Oh wow And he grilled bread for it

It'd be so good smoked Oh Brian it looks so good It just made me want it I want it so bad now A little bacon in there Do you have any bacon? No bacon, but it was something he put on top. I don't remember now what it was.

It was one of these cooking videos where they don't tell you anything. It's just sounds and music. Yeah. Which are really popular right now or it's just sort of visceral like, I wouldn't call it ASMR, but the sound of the process of making it. Yeah, it's kind of food porn, like cooking food porn kind of thing. Yeah, I have a guy who does, another guy I follow who does PC breakdowns, like breaks down hardware.

And he doesn't talk at all. It's just really intense recordings of the sound it all makes. Right. So when you pull a card out or pop a thing and it's like these very, it's really good sound. Like it's not annoying or overmodulated. It's like he's got really good mics pointing at everything. Yeah. And I love it.

It's just. I need to show you. So I send a video to Bill because basically I was like, okay, I want to do this. I'm going to put it in our Discord here. He can show it. This is, there's a Japanese company that produces LED signboards. Oh, look at this. And it's, again, it's a wordless video, and it just shows you the process.

And I'm like, I could do this. I could so totally do this. Yeah, of course you could. I mean, look at it. They got the, what is this? Just regular 3D printing? Is that glass? Regular 3D printing.

Okay. They print the shell of the letter. and then they do like a semi-transparent resin fill on it and then apply color to the back of that and then put LED strips behind it and it looks amazing. Look at it!

I want to do something very simple. Like I don't want to start with, you know, giant coverville letters behind me. So maybe I'll, you know, actually TMS, good three letters, good easy one to do. So maybe I'll do this. You could integrate our, We had that logo with the big sun behind the clouds

Doing the face This one that I have here next to me That is slightly out of frame Yeah Oh yeah See that would work Yeah That's awesome

I'm just watching Yeah isn't they cool It looks so damn cool He's got one of those big fatty mice That helps your wrist not break or whatever Do you see that? The big old hand Yes right

The uh the little The vertical logitech Yeah I don't think I could use one Like maybe maybe I could get used to it It just looks like it's weird I tried for all Because there was a while

That I was having some real wrist problems and uh and so i picked one of those up and i was trying it out and it's like oh that's this is kind of cool if i got used to it if i had the time to get used to it and uh um did not uh did not continue using it and did not get better at using it yeah i use i sometimes have to put a brace on because i fold my hands at night and oh yeah this is literally like a grown ass freaking middle-aged man sleeping with his hands like a chick yes i see i do the same thing like I'm on my side, and I've got my hands crawled like I'm a freaking Siamese cat. Yeah, you're like a fetus again.

We're just like, I will say, so you remember that Phillips headset thing that I picked up that looked like an IUD. I stand behind that. Yeah. Because Dr. Jerry Tolbert confirmed that it looks like an IUD. Yeah, why not? He's one of the voices in this world I trust. And, but, so I've been using that with the Better Sleep app, right? So I, you know, put it on when I go to sleep.

I have no problems falling asleep, but I put it on when I go to sleep. And in addition to music, the Better Sleep app also has tired tales or sleep tales or something like that. And there are these little stories, sometimes nonfiction, sometimes fiction. And it's somebody reading, and it's always the same thing. It's different voices, but it's always, all right. I'm going to tell you the story of Otis the cat. Oh, yeah. And is it always an accent?

It's like an accented person? No, no, but there's a couple. The one I listened to last night, I've had an accent. Before we get started with the story, push your head down into your pillow. Be comfortable. Wow. Pull the covers way up. Wow.

Get warm now. Yeah. Close your eyes. Yeah. This sounds like my jam. Take a deep breath. This is about the time I fall asleep. I have not heard a single sleep tale story.

Oh, and it's sometimes... Not a single one. Like, for whatever reason, I pick a different one every night, even though I'd never heard the previous one. Yeah, yeah. All I remember from Beauty and the Beast is the introduction where the woman describes the beast's castle. Oh, wow.

Imagine a German castle with snow on the... Maybe your subconscious is fully aware of the rest of the story, and you know at some level you've heard. Yeah, maybe, although, you know, the one last night was about a cat that escaped out the door, because I read the description, not because I heard the story, because I read the description, a cat that goes around the neighborhood and discovers things because he got out the door. And who knows, maybe in my head, maybe I subconsciously absorbed, like you said, absorbed the story. Sure. But I don't remember actually hearing the story. You and I have exactly the flip side of the sleep issues. You get up, you don't sleep long or you wake up too early or you can't sleep middle of the night.

I sleep fine once I'm asleep. It's the getting there I can't do. And you're really good at that. And I don't know why. I can't do it. My brain's just like, I'll tell you what it is for me. And it's not the little sleep headphones.

It is the CPAP. The CPAP is basically, because I never. put the CPAP on recreationally, right? Like, I'll sit and watch a movie. I'll read a book. And those are things that can in the right circumstances put me to sleep. But there's never a time that I say, you know what, I'm just going to put the CPAP on and hang out for a while.

My body is trained that when that CPAP goes on my face, there's a countdown that starts. And it just, it just knocks me right out. It's almost like a mask with, you know, before surgery. Like a chloroform in it or something. Yeah, yeah. Like countdown. from 100 sir that kind of thing right yeah exactly a little anesthesiologist up there saying uh okay uh close your eyes brian and i want to go to my doctor and say can i get a CPAP even though i don't need one

like technically i'd need one because i'd really you know you can even just get the mask but just you know it's that thing and i'm sure wendy would 100 percent there's a there's a probably a term for this but it's you're basically associating sleep with that feeling and your body says oh there's There's that thing pressing on my face. Zonk. So really all I need to do is come up with something that is the associative thing. Right. That you only associate with sleep, that you don't do any other time of the day

or don't ever do recreationally or whatever, that you only use for sleep. And that will train you to sleep when you do that one thing. A plastic glad bag with no holes in it. That'd do it. Yeah, there you go. That'll work every works. Every time. Yeah, one time.

100% of the time works every time. It'll never not work if you keep it on. That's interesting. I didn't know that was a thing, but I don't, I currently have nothing to glom on to that makes me want to go to sleep. I just have this thing. Although, there are times where I'll, like, on a Sunday afternoon, hit the couch, put my head on a pillow and immediately I'm out. I'd like to have that at night, please. Why can't I have that at night?

What's the deal? Right, right. Yeah, I wonder if you could do something. like a squishy ball or something like that that you hold that see that doesn't even I don't know if your body would recognize that as a sleep thing you'd have to it have to put you basically pavloffing right you'd have to and you'd also have to somehow convince yourself the first time you use it that it's that that's what it does because I would still have that I don't know maybe squishing something like do you yeah I was just going to say do you use a sleep mask no I don't

do I I use nothing I lay down and then I my brain Maybe you do a sleep mask and associate the sleep mask with going to sleep. What if I squeeze? I could squeeze this guy. Yeah, but see, then you're flexing your, you're tensing up is the problem. Yeah, and that's not conducive to sleep, is it? No, no, I think I might have remembered one of my stories beginning with relax your entire body, let all the tension go. That was the last thing I think I heard before I zonked it.

Except your right hand, which will squeeze this little man. Man. Right. Exactly. But since I've been doing the sleep headphones, sleep completely through the night up until about 5.30, about half an hour before my alarm goes off. So I hop out of bed. I hop over to the couch, put my ear AirPods in, and watch a peep show episode this morning interrupted by a light to my right. And it was the UPS.

It was the Amazon Prime guy dropping off some resin. And I looked over it. Swear to God. I mean, I had a blanket covering me, but I could have swore and he looked, he looked at me watching TV. I'm like, ah. Did your eyes meet you and this guy? Yes. Oh, yeah. They did. Yeah. That's fantastic. When he sent the photo of, you know how they always have to send you the photo to prove that they dropped your package off? Yeah.

I really, I zoomed in to see if I was in the photo shirtless but covered with a blanket in the background watching peep show. That would be amazing. That would be hilarious. We would show it here. We would show it on this show right now. Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah, but I looked and there was nothing.

He couldn't see anything. Damn it. Just the reflection of his flash. Yeah. He took three of those photos for himself that featured you. He might have. Only turned the flash on for the third one. My question about the sleep thing is, you said it does fiction and nonfiction.

Are the fiction, non-fiction is like Bill Clinton really was attracted to the young girl in the blue dress? I mean, what's that? about what do you do there let's see let me pull up a better sleep um there was one about galileo um figureo um let's see here nonfiction so here the nonfiction ones under the northern lights of iceland christmas in strasburg the road to green gables the red shoe diaries just kidding The Sleep Encyclopedia, Volume 2. The Story of Sheep. Oh, I should listen to that and maybe subconsciously absorb some talking points for Dr. Nicky.

Yeah. The Glacier Express. God-Ey's Dream of Barcelona. You can find out about the Sagrada Familia. The Netherlands by train. So I don't know. Weird. I don't think I've done any of the...

I don't know. I did Galileo, but that's the only nonfiction one. So they're not really like... They're not like news events or anything. It's just like... No, no, no, no. Galileo stared into the sky and saw lights. Yeah, it's got to be the most non-controversial thing possible.

So it's not going to be, you know, how Trump convinced half of the country that he won the election by Joe Rogan. Yeah, I don't, it seems like that would be not conditioned to sleep. Yeah, that would be problematic. No, it's got to be the most, the most... I wouldn't sleep. Not boring. but calming, like, talking about the train in the otherland by train, right? Or the road to green cables.

It would be funny if it was today's headlines. Like, it would go. Oh, God, it would not. Yeah, I would. Today, four stealth jets dropped bombs on Yemen. Yeah. A thousand people were killed innocently while only the target was hit marginally. Sure.

Like, the BBC news, a nice little British accent of BBC America. yeah yes uh i like it so yeah so basically um this is brian in bed listening to that yeah i know right yeah this is the problem i already have i don't need i don't need more of exactly no that's cool i like it i think uh you're better off for it i wish i had a trick like that i have to come up with something yeah or get one of these headphones i mean maybe that's the thing that the oh yeah you know what i've heard and you're not the first person to say that those work um yeah they're great phillips um you have a link or here i mean

I'm going to give you a link because Phillips Cacoon A couple of old guys talk about the reasons. Phillips. K-O-K-O-O-N because maybe there's a No, I don't think I get it. Oh, here's a 20% off with code Google 20.

That's really good, actually. Yeah, let's see, 20%. Yeah, that's nothing. That's not nothing. Yeah, that's nothing. That's not nothing. That's not nothing, yeah. All right, I'll look into this. These are those fancy IUD headsets here. Nice.

But now when I travel, it's going to be the CPAP and this. There it is. Oh, that does look like that. Holy crap. Look at that big wide-ass IUD, girls. Look at that, ladies. It looks like both an IUD and an op-art representation of the uterus at the same time. Yeah.

You know what? It's funny we bring up Phillips because I'm under the impression that Phillips is doing it so wrong from a capitalist standpoint. Here's what I mean. Okay. Everything I own that Phillips makes, and I have Sonicare toothbrush, a water pick thing they make, and I have a shaver, like a trimmer that they make. All of them I've had forever.

Their batteries never die. They never break. They never stop working properly. I've had this toothbrush for something like 10 years. I've replaced the tips a bunch, but they still works perfectly every time. I don't understand. Did they not get the memo about planned obsolescence? Exactly.

Make it break down just shortly after the warranty period. So, you know, we've designed a product that's guaranteed to work for a year and then it will crash horribly. Yeah. That's crazy to me, though, how good their stuff is. Yeah. They should make more stuff I want. I don't know how that'll work. Well, anyway, let's move on.

We got a thing here. I finished Squid Game, by the way. Oh, yeah, good. Okay. I really, really, really, really liked that series a lot. Yeah. Big Shock, everybody. A very popular thing was good.

So I decided to take your advice and I rolled directly into the game show. Yeah. Yeah. And there's a, okay, I'll say this so that there's no spoilers or anything. But that first episode with, they do the red light green light stuff. The red light green light. Yeah. And all you can think about while you're watching that is these poor people,

having to just sit there. Yep. Oh, man. It's rough. But there's this guy who annoys me to no end. Uh-huh. And I'm sure some of that's trumped up by the way that they edit and everything else is fine. Yeah.

You know, that's the thing. Like you look at this stuff and say, all right, how is this? Because now anything like this I look at with a very critical eye and say, how did they edit this to make him look worse? Yeah. Or did they really just edit? it did they just give you his greatest hits and say wow you know you just you just pick like five moments from this guy and he's a douche yeah i assume it's like a ton of b-roll because they don't know who's going to win so they get a bunch of b-roll ahead of time or maybe it's afterwards see i

just don't know but this one guy's so annoying yeah and i thought for sure when they were gonna because they had the little secret meeting with a couple of people where they where they kick somebody out but they don't tell anyone that they did it yes i'm sure that's going to bite them in the but later um just have a feeling but uh the guy they picked is not the guy i would have picked the guy who picked is the one that won't shut up about how awesome he thinks he is yes yeah damn it that guy oh i know i know and i have a feeling i'm gonna have to watch his bull crap the whole damn series so we'll see no well i mean no you don't necessarily we'll see good without thinking i won't take that as a spoiler i take that as hope that's hope that's hope the um i do like the the mother

and son. And after Nicole said that they actually rigged things to make it so that the mom could make it across the finish line during red light green light, I did searches and all I could find was somebody on Reddit saying oh yeah, I heard from one of the producers

that they rigged the games so that the mom could get and get through. And from there apparently it just spread like wildfire. Maybe there's more out there, but I did my... Yeah, that's not enough. I did my Googlist to to find information about that's not nearly enough to convince me that really bumped me out hearing that and I wanted to not uh I wanted that to not be the case and so far no no real confirmation other than somebody on red at saying that's not enough for me I need more than that yeah bring receipts if you're going to make claims bring receipts everybody then I'll then I'll believe you Dr. Kellynne says they made the people stand out in the cold for hours without coats filming red light green light that was done in a in a warehouse in a room in a in a building I don't think they were out in the cold.

It just looked like it was out in the, like, out in a... Somehow I find it appropriate that the show's got controversies. Somehow that works for me. Yeah, exactly. It kind of feels like that is the only part of this. It's kind of right on the money. Yeah, kind of like that. Anyway, I really enjoyed it so far.

I think them leaning into it is really funny, although I do think it's hilarious that the guard guys in red with the symbols on their faces. I think it's funny that the little control room, all they did was buy a bunch of joystick. and buttons for like making your own arcade game. Oh, that whole, you know, the stuff they do to kind of world build just feels so, that feels so silly. That feels really, really done.

I mean, on the one hand, I'm like, I get it because you're trying to keep the motif and, you know, you've got to lean into it or whatever. But on the other hand, I'm just like, dude, I, Amazon has those for 15 bucks. That's for if you're making your own little Raspberry Pi Arcade machine. I know what that is. Don't try to make me think it's high tech or cool. It's not. And I doubt very much him hitting that button

Made their thing pop It's some other device That's making their thing pop Right, right, the squibs, yeah The squibs. I do like the squibs, though. Dr. Kelloggled, I know that they had to stand for hours, dude. Oh, hypothermia, look at that.

I mean, they're inside that What you're seeing in that photo is not an actual wheat field In the background of red light green light, but I guess they just didn't heat that freaking warehouse. They don't look cold to me. A-holes, yeah. All right.

I didn't see any. Anybody shivering or whatever? Well, whatever. I mean, I'm not trying to defend it. I just, you know, I need more than just someone said something, you know. Wait until you get to, see, there's one thing that the game show has advantage-wise for people or disadvantage-wise for entertainment purposes is that just about everybody in the game show has seen the actual show. So there's a very interesting development and almost heartbreaking development that happens. for the

the cookie tins situation that you're about to get to. Is that the next, that's probably the next game, isn't it? I think that'll be the next game, yeah. Do they kind of do,

the ones that they base on the show, I assume they do in kind of the same order or similar order, I would think. Roughly, but they have to add a few things. Okay. So there are new games created

for the game show that weren't in the TV show. Plus they have the night time, you know, they've gamified the, we're back in the dormitory time. with like the two people who got who had to pick somebody out or whatever like they're doing all that stuff which is interesting i like it so far though it's good it's good stuff and i really

really really like the series i thought it was awesome and i can't wait for more of that um we got speaking of tv shows we got an email from let's see justin and phaithville he says hey slap and belcher this is about season three of true detective which i finished what a month ago or three weeks ago that's right You did your rewatching of all three seasons, or just two and three? Two and three, I'd seen one, so I hadn't seen two or three, so I watched those. Oh, so this wasn't a rewatch. That's right. This was the initial watch.

Yeah, and I think I'm three or two maybe into the new one. So I'm pretty much all in on that show right now. Anyway, he says, hey, slap and belcher, that'd be you, you're Belcher. I'm Belcher. That's fine. That's okay. You're Mr. Belcher. That sounds, why does that sound familiar?

Because Bob's Burgers. Oh, Bob Belcher, duh. I had, I had Belvedere, but that ain't right. Oh, yeah, Mr. Belvedere, sure. In a recent episode, Scott mentioned he watched or re-watch seasons two and three of True Detective. Season three was shot where I live, which was a big deal because it was 100 million-plus production on that thing. Shortly after the production began, I learned that my old childhood home was being used in the series. Ooh.

It was not until the show aired that I recognized it was the house of Mahershala Ali's character, Wayne Hayes. That's not just being used in the series. That's a fairly important location. Holy cow. Yeah, and the way they use it to show time jumps and stuff, it's a big deal of that house. He says it was used throughout every single episode. There are many scenes at that house, interview scenes, and Wayne, when he is older, scenes in the kitchen, dining room, scenes in the backyard,

and a number of scenes in my old bedroom, which had been furnished to look like a library. Much of the decor of the house was unchanged from when I saw it 25 plus years ago, which I sorry which is probably why it was chosen so it was bizarre to see the inside of my old house nearly the way it looked when I lived there and every week in the series I have old friends from school who were scattered across the country who watched the series and were freaked out at seeing my old house week after week on HBO anyway it was distracting as hell to have this going on while I was trying to watch that season's episodes I wonder if you have ever experienced something similar to this love the show though Justin Justin this happens all the time anytime it's

something shot where I live so if I see see the sandlot. Anytime I see the sandlot, I recognize every location, including the actual sandlot. It's all stuff I've seen in person or been to. And that happens a lot when something's filmed here. Do you remember the movie in this 80s or late? Maybe it was very early 80s called Susanna Smiles or something like that. Okay. It was this really heartfelt kind of these kidnappers took this girl. But, and it was just for most. money and they ended up she really she really like rubbed off on them meaning they just really liked her in the end and felt bad for her and it became like they were almost like i don't

don't even know if you could do this today because we just kidnappers are dicks right but yeah but they but they they became attached it was susanna smiles susanna sounds like uh what's the one uh bet midler and judge reinhold sounds like that right um yeah people are intolerable people No, it was called ruthless people. Ruthless people. Kind of like that. Oh, Savannah smiles. Her name was Savannah.

Okay. Anyway, it's a big deal around here because all of it was filmed in the city and we recognized everything. So it is distracting for me to see stuff where I know where it's been filmed. And I assume it's got to be similar for you if you see something in Denver or whatever. Dumb and Dumber, which is actually between both, like shared between both of us, right? It's, you know, your airport and our, uh, Aspen or, what was it? Aspen streets, some place. Some place out there in the mountains.

When the real world was filming in Denver, that was probably the most like, oh, yeah, I know that place. Oh, my God, why are they going there? Oh, that's a horrible place to eat. Don't do that. It was like that for Tina and I way back in whenever that season aired. Yeah, and for that movie, it would have been, what, 94? 94 for Dumb and Dumber. Yeah, in early 90s, both Colorado and Utah had really good.

good tax breaks for filming. So we got a lot more stuff done out here. That all ended, and that's why everybody went to Georgia. So I'm guessing if you live in Georgia now, everything looks familiar because everything's filmed in Georgia now, all of it. Yeah, yeah. Every movie, every series, like everything. Like you get to the end of it happily, lovingly filmed in Georgia.

And listen, that's great for our friend Dodd. Good job, Dodd. Yeah, good job. And Amy and Chuck, you guys ought to try to get some cheap cameo going on, you know? Just like. right totally ibbit bomb in the next mccu movie or something there you go have somebody in the background I love that idea perfect perfect anyway uh thunderbolt yeah because sometimes they don't see this in the edit you know that kid

no no go right by him nobody's gonna see that like the kid in the back to the future three pointing in his crotch they didn't right no one thought to take that out yeah stop that Verne. They didn't acknowledge it at all, so come on. Fern clearly has to pee. Marty, can you take him to... Marty. He's got to pee.

It's your kids. He has to go back to the bathroom. Which means, actually, you don't want to jump forward. You don't want to use a bathroom back then. It's just a hole in the ground. You don't want that. Well, anyway, thank you, Justin from Fayetteville. That's a fun little deal.

And then we got some Morris Code stuff from our old pal, Jeff Seyer. You know him from such things as Canada. Canada, yeah. He's up there. And he has this to say. Scott and Brian, you guys are talking about the Mission Impossible song being Morris Code. Brian likely knows this, but the Rush song Y, Y, Y, Z is also Morris Code. Did you know that, Brian?

Yes, it sounds like you're saying Morris Code. I always do. My bad, it's Morse Code, but I always say Morris, and I don't know why. I think my dad probably did. Chuck Norris Code. um he says it's how the song starts the story is that when the band was flying back to Toronto they were invited into the cockpit to talk with a flight crew as they were approaching the city as they talked a beeping noise started and neil pert the drummer asked what it was

the pilot said they had crossed the outer markers for the toronto airport and the beeping was morse morse code for y y z which is the three letter airport code for uh person or pearson international airport jeff sire i didn't know that at all that I knew the Y, Y, Y, Z was Morse Code. I didn't know how that came about. I did an episode of Guess the Connection, trying to figure out when this was, based on these, the dates of the songs I picked for it.

But you actually hear Morse Code in a lot of pop music. Y, Y, Y, Z is a good example. Astronomy Dominé by Pink Floyd. I didn't know that. their early albums. Planet Claire by the B-52s. I didn't know that either. She came from Planet Clare.

What part of it is Morse code? Just the... The beginning of Planet Claire is all Morse code. Really? Do do, do, do, do, do, do. And then it goes into the keyboards. Oh, I can hear it now. All right.

London Calling by the Clash ends with Morse code. Yep. At the end of where he goes, Never had to like you, like you, like you, like you. And you hear the Morse code at the end of that song. Love it. And I have SOS by Abba in here as well. But I think that was just because that's frequently typed with Morse code.

I don't think Abba has any Morse code in. But it's, you know, nobody, you know, that came about because of Morse code, that phrase. Yeah. But they definitely need help is what they're saying. They need help. They do. They need help. That's great.

Also, this is a little surprising because I thought, I thought it was notorious that Neil Pert, drummer for Rush, would never fly. I thought he would only drive or motor his bike. Yeah, no kidding. I wonder, I want to know the full story in that. Maybe that was, maybe that was it. Because he would go, he would get into that,

I mean, I think it was even Jeff who told us this, where he would get into his big, his big, uh, momo cycle and just drive forever, like do 3,000 mile trips for concert events and stuff like that. Yeah. Uh, yeah. Our chicken, yeah, there's a craftworks song. I actually had it pulled up here. It's just not as well known. The craftwork song, because that was the other one I chose for the, for the episode was, uh, radioactivity uses, uh, Morse

co. Oh, that's cool. That's great. Yep. You know what I love? I love London calling. It's one of my favorite songs of all time. Now that I know that, I'm going to, I'm going to listen closely to the end and hear the Morris Code. Great, great album, really from start to finish. Yeah. It's such a good album. And what do you think the chances today that today's title will be Morris something? Right. Yes. It will probably be Morris Code. Yes. And it's funny because I've been watching David Morse on, uh, on St. Elsewhere. And I don't, I don't ever say David Morris. So I don't know what's wrong with me. Right. Right. I don't know. Yeah. It's weird. Anyway, uh, let's get to today's news. We have some. We need to share it with the world. And here comes the intro for it right here.

It's time for the news, and it's brought to you by. My debut novel, Healing Notes, is getting released on February 13th, 20203. That's a year ago. They probably meant 24. Yeah, I think they meant 24. Typeo. It will be available in e-book and paperback wherever you normally buy books. This might not be the next great American novel, but it is a sweet demisexual romance about healing from trauma, going to therapy, and facing the unexpected and very relatable parts of life together.

While it's mostly a romantic drama, I've sprinkled in as much humor as I can manage to balance out the more heavy elements of the story. Finally, I promise that while the spices are rated, you will not encounter any version of the phrase, oh my God, you're so big anywhere in this book. That book again is called Healing Notes, and we don't have an author in here, but... Oh, yeah, did she not? Malia Emery, congratulations on getting published. I love this. Yeah, isn't that cool? I love it. Healing notes wherever you get your books.

Yep, very, very cool. Love to hear when one of our own is doing something red. Oh, show. Pizza shop. We got a pizza shop in the news. Unforeseen circumstances. I'm sorry, it should have been, it should have been unforeseen circumstances was typoed as unforeseen circumcisions.

Yeah. Went viral. A Pizza Hut location in northern Ontario has gone viral for its pizza. not for its pizza or specials by the way but rather for an unfortunate typo I actually saw this well before I found the article and I saw it, I don't remember where.

Of course, yeah, this was all over the place for a while but I love the I love the we're talking about it. It's a rough one. Autocrrect and typos have become a commonplace in the business world and signs, emails and advertisements, but in an age of social media they rarely go unnoticed. That's the deal. Last week, the

Pizza Hut location in Timmons, Ontario which apparently the town of Timmons opens in a new tab. Yeah, I was going to say. Is that how I get to, is that how I get there? You open a new tab and you're in Timmons. That's a very funny thing for them to put. Why would you say this in your article? I think when you copy it and pasted, yeah, I think, because that's a, that would be a link, right?

So some kind of metadata. If you're copy and paste, it's not a link, but it's basically just letting you know, by the way, when you click that, it will open in a new. tab so you won't lose this article it's probably programmatic where they yeah it's if you looked at it it'd be a link but it translates it to this when you copy it i don't know anyway it closed its doors at the last minute and posted a sign that said uh they were closing for unforeseen circumcisions on the door uh which makes sense because i've never had to leave a tip at uh pizza hut no you know what they don't need your tip well sometimes they say we need just the tip and then brian leaves just the tip. Just drive that joke in the ground. Yeah, let's do it as far as we did. Notice I stopped.

Yeah. Let's just keep it going. Let's keep that thing alive. Oh, it's dead. Yeah, there's your sign, everybody. Dude on foreseen circumcisions, the dining room will be closed this evening. Sorry for the inconvenience. Open for takeout and delivery only. Love it. Then they pointed out that George Decay retweeted it, which I hate articles that just talk about how people tweeted it, you know? Yeah. Like that's news. Yes, that's. Like, we need to fill some more space. I know. And we can get some SEO of quality names in there that people will find.

Yeah. At least, at least they don't do the dumb thing that people seem to do, which is put quotes around what they deem to be the most important part of the sign. So the dining rule will be closed this evening. Yeah. Yeah. What? It's weird.

I don't understand the, the psychology behind sign making. But I will say this. What if it was? circumcisions and we just we're all laughing we all think it's a typo maybe it was maybe maybe it was like a whole group of them said crap i needed a quick circumcision yeah me too oh no close we got the pizza cutters look like they might do the job you know yeah maybe somebody had an accident maybe two of them because it's it is oh i see what you're saying like the um sure yeah those those pizza the dough mixers have a big twirling blade in them and you work

worked there, right? Can you... I never worked at a Pizza Hut. Who am I thinking of? I did work for Pizza Hotline and Dano's Pizza growing up. I think I'm thinking of Tom Merritt or somebody. Somebody we know worked there. Actually worked for an actual Pizza Hut. Yeah. But I'm just trying to think if there

was anything they would be doing there that would cause their junk to get circumcised. Horrible story. Horrible story. I mean, you know, like you said, the pizza cutter. That's definitely a... That's definitely the way it goes. Yeah. That's what you can

expect. How about this? A man partied for four days, unaware that he had been shot in the head. Oh, geez. So apparently the part of his brain that he got shot in was the part that recognized that you've been shot in the head. That's right. Dr. Tolbert, could you please tell us which part of the brain stores our information about where we're shot? Let's see. So this is how it works. Sounds like massive head wound hairy a little bit. Imagine partying with your friends for four days while also being completely unaware that the entire time you had a bullet lodged in your head. Well, university student, Matthias

Fasio, Faseo, I don't know. Fachio. FACIO. FACIO. FACIO. I don't know. Required an emergency operation after doctors made the astonishing discovery that he had bullet fragments in his brain, according to Indy 100.

It's a website of some sort. I was hoping he was like a like a racetrack. Like a racetrack? Yeah, that just does news. Before we do the new race, we'd like to announce. Dude, got a bullet in his head and party for four days. You got a bullet in his head. Party for four days.

They only give the news every loop. Every day. They really got to pair it down to just a couple words every time. I like that. Let's see. He initially went to the hospital after experiencing some unexplained arm spasms. I think it's explained, but whatever. Yeah.

Well, they were at the time unexplained. Now they're very much explained. Yeah, we have an explanation now. It says he'd been shot on New Year's Eve. However, the 21-year-old simply thought he had been hit in the head with a rock or something, seemingly oblivious to the seriousness of injury, Faseo, fascio, whatever, carried on with his life as normal, swimming with his friends in the sea, partying and visiting the beach. Yeah, that's visiting the beach. It's not a hole you want to get sand into.

No. I mean, I guess nobody has a hole they want to get sand into, but a brain hole is not a hole you want to get sand. or salt water into. Oh, my God. And your brain hole doesn't have like a sphincter item that'll block it from getting there. That'll block it, right. Exactly. You're going to get sand in there, which is like getting glass in there because glass is made

of sand. Yeah. Boom. Boom. Look at the science on me today. Oh. It was days later, after traveling 200 miles from Rio de Janeiro to Luis, or sorry, Uis. How did you say that?

Oh, huis de fora? Huis de fora? Okay. Well, you do pronounce the J in Rio de Janeiro, so it's probably, it could just be Juis de Fora. Oh, yeah, that's true. That's probably right. I can never remember which Latin languages pronounce the J as an H and which actually pronounce the J as a J. So this would be... Because you say Hylisco.

Right. You don't say Jalisco, right? Right, but that's Spanish not... Correct. What's wrong with me? Portuguese. Portuguese, geez. Portuguese, yeah.

So Portuguese, I think, is, I think they're different on the J. They're the hard J. Yeah. Kind of like Spain is, they do the, the Barthalona thing. Right, Barcelona. Yeah. Which just never sounds right. I'm sorry to your whole nation.

Oh, I like it. I kind of wish, you know, we use that all the time here. It doesn't sound right. It just throws me. Can I put some cheese on your pizza? See, it's awful. We had an unfortunate circumcision. We had to close the restaurant.

No pizza for you. Anyway, this neuroscient surgeon, surgeon, who treated fascio, facio, facio, facieo, Flavio Flavio Flamentia, or Falcommetta. This now it just feels like they're making up names, doesn't it? Yeah, but that name's great. Flavio Falcon meta. Falcometa. Yes, I am Dr. Falcometta.

I will find what has happened to your head. Only my wife caused me Flavio. He explained why the young man would have been getting arm spasms from the gunshot. Part of the bullet penetrated his brain, which caused compression in that area and led to his arm involuntary movements. It had ended up a few millimeters from where it did. It could have caused much more serious damage and left his arm or one side of his body completely paralyzed. It was very risky for the patient, but we believe that in 20 to 30 days, he will be able to continue with his normal life. or as he would say it

continue with his normal life yeah yeah you will be fine he will be fine in 20 to 30 days relax while I read you the story of Otis

I can only hear what's the name yeah yeah yeah I'm Tony Ramirez he just has a way with that stuff I suppose he says Bartholona right because he's from Spain

yeah he must or he changed it so he doesn't you know he had to unlearn it or something I don't know does he say he's Antonio Bandedath have you seen desperado

once upon a time in Mexico the worst of his films perfect all right one final story here we got a trendy Japanese cafes customers are enjoying

cuddling with pigs. This is a feature. Of course they do, yeah, because, you know, it's... Makes perfect sense, right? Japan takes a fetish and makes a cafe out of it, basically. That's what they do. Yeah. Next time you're in Tokyo, Brian, try this. First, they were cafes that allowed pets, then came

to cat cafes, where lattes took second place to feline interaction. The latest craze in Japan, the pig cafe. It was wonderful and very relaxing and enjoyable, says Brad Loomis, a software engineer from Pullman, Washington, after visiting Tokyo's My Pig Cafe or Me Pig?

Sure, me, pig. Probably me pig. What's that you got there? Ah, that's me pig! With his 21-year-old daughter, Paige, they were among dozens of customers in a recent morning taking selfies and breaking into huge smiles. The pigs, a miniature breed, trotted around the room, looking for a cozy lap to cuddle on.

The pigs are surprisingly quiet, although they do snort, now and then. They don't like to... They don't like to... I hope not. That would be a bad experience. That's the idea if you actually pour a latte on them. That is the sound they make. Yeah, your hot coffee pig.

Let's see. They don't like to be alone, making for great companionship. Unlike the stereotype, they're very clean and don't smell. I mean, I already knew pigs are way cooler than we take them. Yeah, yeah, I like pigs. This would be the best way, too, right? Because you don't have to have them at home. But you could go here and experience cuddling with them.

This photo, this top-down, they're called micro-pigs. That's interesting. I knew they were saying that they're the small variety, but micro-pigs. Wow, is that why it's my pig or M-E-M-I-Pig? Oh, I'll bet. That's probably, yeah, a little abbreviation or a little... Let's take a look here. This photo, oh, yeah, look at them.

They're tiny. Yeah, they're tiny. But look at the woman over on the far right. She has four pigs in her lap. Yeah. Dude next to her has zero. Doesn't seem right. Zero pigs.

Why, she's a little pig hoarder. is what she is. Yeah, this is some horse shit going on here. Yeah. I don't like that guy. I don't like him at all. Oh, maybe it's her I don't like because she's hoarding the pigs. Maybe because she's hoard the pigs.

She's a pig hoarder. All right. Sorry, my wife brought me a nice hot drink. Thank you, babe. Yeah, look at that. You're the best. Carter, are you in here? Yeah.

Okay. We did a cat cafe when we went to Japan, but it wasn't a cafe with cats in it. It was a cafe with, it was a cafe with, um, Just themed? No, the servers were dressed as cats, but not like in a mascot costume or furry costume way. They just had the ears and they walked around, you know. Oh my gosh, I want to die. With their paws up.

And like when you needed them, you had to go, meow. Can I get a refill on my diet Coke? Miao. They made you do that. They asked us to do that. And did you do it? Of course. Yeah, went in Rome?

Yeah, when in Rome, I guess. Yeah. And I took a picture with them and it was like, it was like, kind of like they were in maid costumes, but, because they have made cafes as well, but they have, uh, uh, this is like cat maids kind of. That is freaking weird, dude. Yeah. Uh, but it's Tokyo.

This is what you do. This is how they do it. Yeah. That's right. We do have a, we do have a couple cat cafes in Denver, though. Like, there's one I can go to that's maybe about 20 minutes from here. And, uh, you go in, you pay your money. you get a latte or whatever and you sit down at a table and a bunch of cats run around and play with string or hop in your lap or all sorts of stuff.

I wonder how you manage that as the cafe owner. Are they trying to get a certain breed of cat? These are friendly, cuddly ones. No, they get them from a local shelter so you could actually adopt them. If you, you know, you're sitting in there, it's like, oh, my God, this calico is just adorable and loving on me. you could, you know, start the paperwork then and there, I think, to adopt it. Yeah, so, okay, here's the deal. I would not normally gravitate to a place like that.

But if I was in the market for a cat rescue, I would absolutely do this. I would go. I would try the food. It's a great showroom. Like it's, yeah. Let me sit in the Model X. Oh, yeah, this is really comfortable. Does the seat reclant?

Oh, it does. Okay, I'll take this one. Yeah. And I'd take, I pick the hair out of my food. Would you do a puppy cafe? Like, being more of a dog person, you would totally do a puppy cafe. Oh, 100% I would do a puppy cafe. Or even old dogs.

Like, if it was a rescue like that, that's cool. I like that a lot, actually. I think it would smell weird, but maybe they're good at that. I don't know. I like the word, and by weird, you mean horrible. Horrible, yeah. It would smell horrible. I mean, I like the smell of a, like, Carter's dog Ripley.

I can cuddle with her. I love how she smells, even when she's a little dirty. It's like a pure dog smell in her fur. I just love that. But Rainer, on the other hand, you give her three days on her own. I don't want to smell that, dude. She reeks. She excretes something gross.

I don't know what it is. I love my dog, but she excretes something. It's foul. Anyway. Let's take a break. When we come back from this break, we're going to spend some time with Amy and our little segment we call Read This.

She's got a couple of clips today, so I'm excited to find out what we should be reading. And we'll have a little smack talk about her time in Unreal Tournament yesterday. Why not? After that, we got, you know, just kind of summon things. up. So if you're excited about anything I just

said, you got to wait just a sec because Brian's going to play a song. What do you got? That's right. But don't worry. We'll give you something really cool to listen to while you're waiting for all that. Let's go to Baltimore for a group called the South Hill Experiment. This is cool.

This is a couple brothers named Bairdon Goldwash who had a couple of records, moonshots and sun strikes in the last few years. K-E-XP and K-C-R. have loved these things, and I can see why. After listening to this song, I was like, oh, I need more of this in my life.

It's kind of electro-funk, a little bit of trip-hop, a little bit of funk. I mean, this is so cool. Best thing to do is just let you listen to it. The brand-new song is called Little Monk. It features Cary and Riggins, and the album, the single, just came out. They got a brand new album coming out along with this as well. It's called South Hill and Friends. comes out March 1st.

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Tell me more about that great band. Sure. Isn't that awesome? The South Hill Experiment featuring Karim Wrigan's doing a song called Little Monk. Check out the brand new album, which comes out March 1st. Sounds great. Lots of good music coming out in the early part of 2024. That new, that full complete for 90s punk fans,

that Green Day album's great. Oh, it's so good. Yeah. Such a return to form. Not that their recent stuff has been bad or anything. It's just been a little more experimental. This is like, you remember Green Day? Well, guess what?

This is Green Day's back. Yeah, baby. Pog form. That's very good. Also, that Blink album's really good. And I'm not even that big of a blink fan. That's very good. Cool.

All right. Let's get Amy in here. Okay. And you know her is Red Fraggle 3. Some of you, okay, because you follow her on YouTube or whatever it is, you know. And she does this thing where I have to play this little segment. So let me do that real quick. Where the hell is it?

Here it is. One of the things that I enjoy also is reading. Oh, look who it is. It's Mrs. Robinson joining us. Never really thought of you that way. Coo-Coo-Coo-C-C-A-Listics. Yep, that's right. It's good to have you here.

How did you feel about yesterday's play? It was pretty fun, right? We had a good time. Oh, man. It was so much fun. I actually, when I set everything up to be able to play with you guys and I got logged in, I had never actually played Unreal tournament before, but I have played first-person shooter death match type situations before. And I got it all set up just to make sure that I was all set up. So I played a little bit with the bots that Dunaway has running on the server. And I was like, man, this is just as much fun as I remember.

And I suck just as much, if not more, than I remember. But, man, it's fun. It's coming back to me like a bike, like riding a bike. At first I was like rusty and I was like, oh, I don't know. It fills off. And then it all comes flooding back. And I swear I felt 25 years younger last night. I was just like, this was all I was into.

And people don't. Right back into those times where, you know, we had T connectors and coax and all that mess, you know. You'd have to try to dial up to play anybody. The default connection for playing online in this game is, do you have a 56K modem? Like, it literally asked you that. Yeah, for real. And I was like, wow, that's so funny. And I remember one time, one of my boyfriends that I dated when I was in college, that was the setup they had.

And they had, like, both apartments, like their apartment and the apartment right across the hall from theirs. They had run coax between them so they could have these big land parties. and they would play like quake and quake arena and stuff. And at one point, they had them hooked up to their speakers. And the neighbors called the cops because they thought there was actual gunfire. Oh, my gosh. Because they had it turned out too loud. That's amazing.

All of that stuff where we would figure out ways, my neighbor and I did this with phones. We would connect directly across the street from each other. There'd be a cable out in the road. and people would drive over that cable. But we didn't care. We were just like, we got to play, and there was no better way to do it back then to get kind of the land experience.

But dial-up was bad, and people were picking up phones and all that. But the thing with this is, I don't know if I'd talk about this very much, but Unreal Tournament is, as much as anything in my life at the time, is responsible for me jumping into content creation very early. Oh, right.

Yeah, if it wasn't for that game, I wouldn't have done. Because it was odds that you were doing a show for it, like a pre-podcast podcast. Yeah, that show was called, what will we call it? Oh, Infiltration Radio. And the mod was called the infiltration. And something you still get installed.

People are interested in seeing what that was. But it was this kind of realistic mod for the game. And I started making comics about it, made it a radio show about it. There was no such thing as podcasting, but we just had one and put it up on the web and people could download it. And it is, I look back now,

and it is very much, that era is very responsible for where I started to at least point in. And that meant, you know, the forums that we ran and all this stuff that we did was very reminiscent of what even I'm doing today. So I just have so much love for it. And to be able to get back into it and play with friends and blow some of your heads off was just a treat. Oh, yeah.

That was so much fun. Yeah. Yeah. It really was. And by the way, Dr. Calhoun, sir. Oh, he's a bastard. He's a bastard. Really?

Oh, funny. I saw a mention that he played with you guys, too. All right. I need to get in there. He's a bouncy little sucker, too. Like, he was like, going, boing, boi. His ability to dodge us, because we played Instigib on Facing Worlds, which anyone who knows in Real Tournament will know what I'm talking about.

It's this amazing map that really is maybe the greatest capture the flag map of all time. And in there, we had Instigib, the mutator that makes it. So if I shoot you, Brian, with the laser rail gun thing, you blow up immediately. You just explode. There's no. Oh, geez. No taking damage. One shot. You're dead. Calhoun is a freaking boogie monster. Just jumping. I mean, she's not wrong. He is everywhere. And I'm missing him constantly on that map. Just, I'm killing everybody else is fine. He is, he is just a juker and a jiver. And Dr. Tolbert showed up. He was, he was, he was, he was a surmountable, but also difficult. Fletcher, like I mentioned, some of these guys, they didn't know they had the skills. So anyway, it's really fun. And I'm really glad Dunaway's

running that server. Well, I'll join you and I'll be the easiest target you can find. I will be... No, bro. That's me. I'm telling you. So I have determined that my husband always says that he's like the worst dancer. But if we go somewhere that, you know, where there's dancing, he will be happy to go out on the, on the dance floor and be the worst dancer so that everybody else in the room who thinks they're the worst dancer feels okay. They can go out there. Okay. Like, you know, he's, I mean, he's not Elaine or anything, but like, you know, it's, yeah. So, anyway, that's how I feel about my performance in Unreal Tournament. I am the worst player so that nobody else has to be. Well, didn't Chuck, didn't, uh, didn't Chuck get him for a second? And Chuck said, um, where's the, where's the cleric or something like that?

Where's the cleric? Yeah. No, he was, he was like downstairs watching it. And we were trying to goad him into playing. But, like, he was like, um, no, I don't see a cleric option. So no, thank you. Yep, no healers. And then people are like, well, we should get a heretic or hexin on here.

We should be. So now we've got all these ideas. But if anyone out there's like, dude, I love that game, how do I play? If you want to be a part of our server, you know, often it fills up pretty quick. So just know that. But you can hop in there any day. Just go to RetroGib. That's GIB, retrogib.com.

And Brian Dunaway set up all the info you need. Even if you don't have the game, there's a way to install it. Yeah. Super, super fun. It's my situation, which is perfect. super easy it is if you follow the the brief very brief instructions that done away has laid out there super easy like yeah there's no step four it's all three steps yeah and i would say that we'd go easy on you but no i won't i will not go easy no no nobody's going easy i had one map

where i was like i literally didn't even get out of the weapons room i was just like constantly my head was just constantly on the floor i was like all right well that's it for me It does that vertigo thing where if you get headshot, your head is the camera view. And it kind of fly. And the whole camera is like spinning when your head falls down. That's pretty great. It's fun. All right.

Well, let's get to some book reading. Back in 99, my parents would have told their kids, you need to read more books and play less unreal tournament. So what book should we read this week? All right. So I gave you two clips. Let's start with the young adult novel that I was. I'll play this one. If we can't have a reasonable discussion in this classroom, then I'm going to have to end this lesson right now, he tells us.

I want all of you to take out your grammar textbooks and start the exercises on pages 25 and 26. They're due tomorrow. Lucy regains some sort of courage and pipes up. Mr. Davies, that's not fair. We were having a reasonable discussion, but they, she nods her head over her shoulder, unable to look in Mitchell's. direction again. Are the ones who ruined it? I don't understand why you're punishing all of us. Lucy. Did I, or did I not, just announced to the class that it should begin the grammar exercises on pages 25 and 26 of the grammar textbook. Mr. Davies spits. Yes, but Lucy begins. No,

stop. Mr. Davies interrupts. Stop talking. You can add page 27 to your assignment. Mitchell and his friends collapse into laughter, and Lucy sits there, stunned. When the bell finally rings, I grab my stuff and head out as fast as I can. I spot Claudia making her way down the hall toward me. Hey, I say, hey, she answers. What's happening? We just got all this grammar homework. Mitchell was bugging that new girl, Lucy, and instead of dealing with him, Mr. Davies just assigned the entire class all these extra pages of homework. Let me guess, Claudia says as we head down the hall. make me a sandwich oh my god however did you figure that one out i answer my voice thick with mock surprise mock surprise uh no idea who that is or what this book is but that voice is sure familiar to me

am i supposed to know who that is i don't know why it's familiar i don't i don't think so okay i have the susy jackson is the narrator oh you know what chad stephen stephan stephan epa says christin bell that is who i was thinking That's who I was hearing. Oh, it definitely sounds like Kristen Bell, yeah. And I could see that. It does not, it is not Kristen Bell. I kept thinking Amy Poehler when I was listening to it, but there's a reason for that. And the reason is this book is called Moxie, is written by Jennifer Matthew, and it has been adapted into a movie that is available for streaming on Netflix.

So if, and it's, and it was directed and produced by Amy Poehler. And she's actually in it. the main character's mom and this is a great story my my daughter actually made me watch the movie she's like mom you got to watch this movie it's great and mostly because she knows i am i am y'all know me i'm very i'm very feminist and you know i'm i'm usually very kind very easy going but there are certain buttons that get pushed and one of those buttons is school dress codes and it drives me freaking nuts because they're always sexist as crap and they always target girls and they you know and it's never evenly distributed you know it's just it's just creepy

all of it's creepy and you know the crap with teachers pulling out rulers to freaking miserable girls skirts oh oh gotcha yeah like i'm like this is a catholic school okay gotcha no no like yeah like making sure their hand is the right length from the floor and all that yeah you guys got it way worse than we did we only got jock checks we've talked about that before not everyone did but we did and that was about the only humiliating thing but girls they got subjected to every kind of like double check the length of this and why is your neckline so low and why is your haircut the way it is it was it was weird well and everything is about like oh well the way you're dressed is distracting and I'm

like distracting to whom you know like it's not distracting anybody I can see like you know And it's, oh, well, if your clothes are too revealing, then you might distract the boys. I'm like, wait, so I am responsible for the fact that peckerhead over there can't pay attention because my shoulders are showing. So anyway, I don't want to get off on that, that rant too much, but she knew that that would be, that I would, I would resonate with this movie really, really well. And so she made me watch the movie. And once again, my, hey, I bet this is a book read. flags went off and sure enough here it was it was a book and I thoroughly enjoyed both the movie and the book and there are enough differences to where even though I had already seen the entire

movie I was able to enjoy the book just as much like I knew the overall arc of the story and where it was going to go but there were enough differences there to where I really really liked both of them and you know I mean Amy Poller's awesome and yeah love her What's the title again? Sorry, I meant to Moxie. Moxie, that's right. M-O-X-I-E. There it is.

Yeah, it's great. I mean, basically, she sort of starts a little underground feminist movement by putting out a zine. Remember those? Remember zine? I had a zine. It was like Mad Magazine. It was a total rip-off, but I had one for one. Yeah.

So she created a zine and, like, you know, clandestinely distributed it around school. and sort of accidentally created a gigantic feminist movement in her school and leads to all sorts of interesting changes and activism and stuff. So, yeah, I recommend it for anybody who either is a teenage girl or has a teenage girl as a daughter or, you know, just is interested in the stuff that teenagers are. I just personally like reading young adult stuff for the same reason. think, Scott, that you like, you know, dealing with little kids. It's like they just, you know, it's, it's a more, adults are boring sometimes. Adults are lame. Adults are all set in their stupid ways and they suck.

And kids are amazing. And then I just love content that is like, I'll, but there are 10 new episodes of Bluey and they're all brilliant. And the one about art and drawing will make you cry. It made a grown ass man cry in the form of me. Really? Oh, wow. Okay.

Let me tell you, I had to, last week, I shared this with some people. I had to take my daughter to the hospital last week. And nothing is freaking worse than a children's hospital. Can I just tell you? I mean, my daughter's 17. Oh, yeah, I'm sure. She's 17, but she like just qualifies to still go to children's health care of Atlanta. And so that's like, that's where we went.

And, uh, and man, that is the worst because you're just surrounded by all these little kids who like don't understand why they're sick or whatever. But man, I was so happy. I look up and there's blue. on the screen you know and I was like oh that makes everything better be all right yeah everything's better blueie's here nothing can go wrong you know bandit will make everything better for all I dread the day that show doesn't get is no longer in production I really do it's so good I I feel like they're gonna make enough of it that to where it'll be like it'll it'll it'll just be perennial you know it'll

just stay around it like infinitely rewatchable kind of thing yeah it already is like you can you can sit down and watch any of them without any but like any hesitation I never go, oh, I've seen this one. It never happens. It's always good. It's like Futurama or any other it's like Seinfeld. Like even other stuff where you just think of as a comfort watch, cheers, first few seasons of cheers. It's just never not okay to see it. That's how

bluey is and maybe even more so. It's so good. That's cool. Yeah. Yeah. Real quick about this movie, the principal's played by Marsha Gay Harden. Can I just say that a mean principle being played by her is a perfect casting? Oh, yeah. Totally, yes. It's great. So, and that's one of the differences in the book, in the book, the principal is a guy.

And I love them making that adaptation for the movie because it shows how, like, women can very easily adopt their own internalized misogyny and, you know, project it onto the world and, and just say, oh, well, you just, you just need to, just need to ignore them and just redirect, you know, like, you just, just sit there and take it. it, you know? Because we all know women like that. And it was, oh, she's perfect. And I saw, I saw her on the credits too. And I was like, oh, Marcia Gayharden, this is going to be fun. I'm going to have somebody to hate. Yeah. If you need, hey, right. Not because I don't like her, but like, she plays that character so well. She plays a villain character very well, or at least, you know,

controlling strict. Yeah. Of all the, in, and so if you look at the 2000s and I look at female villains, there's nobody that does it better than her in the middle. Like to this day, she's the most evil person in any Stephen King adaptation, for that matter, ever. She's so good in it. I also see Clark Gregg's in this. So the return of Agent Colson. Oh, perfect. Excellent.

Oh, yeah. He's great, too. Like, he just, you just love him and just feel a little bit bad for him because he's kind of thrown into the deep end a little bit. But I don't want to give too much away there. So, yeah, definitely, this is kind of a bonus, like a go read this, but also watch this. You know, it's a little bonus A redimental and a recommendal. I didn't know Amy Poehler was directing anything, which is very cool.

I didn't know she had done that. So that's awesome. Yeah. Cool. Let's talk about your, so again, that is Moxie, everybody, the film and the book. Tell us about this next one. What do you got here? So the next one, while that one was a young adult novel, this is a not-so-young adult novel.

This is for an 85-year-old. Like, exactly. This is for those of us who like a little bit of intrigue, a little bit of spicy. Go ahead. Ooh, spicy intrigue. Here we go. Somewhere from inside the house, I hear Ben's voice a touch louder than usual. My lips thin.

The thing about my husband is that he can charm the birds out of the trees, but only if you play by his rules. Don't get me wrong. I give as good as I get in our relationship. And I enjoy the games we play as much as he does. But what happened last time has soured things a bit. I'd feel safer if I was in another country right now. I slip on a pair of sunglasses, tinting the grey world sepia.

And then I light a cigarette and wait. Someone will allow curiosity to beat their social anxieties. Well, hello, house number five. The curtain twitches, and the door swings open. I adjust my gaze to see the tiny woman exit the house. Her purple tinted hair is cropped fashionably short, and she wears big, thick, rimmed glass. reminding me of the old-school fashion designers who aged ungracefully after the swinging sixties.

She makes a bee-line straight for our house. She glances at the removal men. There's nothing more stressful than moving house, is there? I shape my head. I'm Effie, by the way. Beryl. Have you lived here long, Beryl? Oh yes, longer than anyone, she says.

I know all about this place. It's history in everyone who lives here. I lean closer to her. tell me everything i'm nosy beryl's eyes sparkle and she leans towards me eager to gossip and give me what i want let the games begin oh my gosh moving house is very british i like right yeah it is very very british and as a couple people in the chat has spotted that is billy piper yeah you know such a such a crush on her as uh as a companion and dr who rose i Eccleston's companion.

Well, and I guess into Matt, not Matt Smith, into, what's his face? David Tennant. Yeah, right. Yeah, well into David Tennant, actually. Like, that was a heartbreaker of an episode when Rose left. So, yes. Anyway, so this book is called We Play Games, and it's an audible original. So if you have an audible account, this is one where you can just put it in your library.

You don't have to spend a credit or any money. thing, you just get it. Included. Cool. Yes. And it is really good. I found it really, really fascinating. And it switches between, it's all told in the first person, but it switches

narrators throughout. And so you get some of Effie, you heard there, and then some of Ben, the husband, you know, later on. Oh, I love him. From Legion and, you know, a bunch of other things. Yeah. Oh, he's great. Yeah.

Yeah. It's really, really good. The new voice of what Corvo on solar opposites too. They may, they should never get rid of him doing that, by the way. He's so good. I agree. Yeah.

That's an improvement. Fantastic. Anyway. So yeah. This book is great. It's basically there's this couple who they move around all the time and they play games with people and each other as the title suggests. I mean,

essentially they kind of con their neighbors and swindle them out of things, and then they move around. Oh, that's cool. It's not cool to do that, but it sounds like... It is a fascinating story. Brian, I think you in particular would really like the story. I'm already intrigued just by, and the fact that it's done kind of as an audio drama a little bit is what I'm gathering.

Oh, yeah, because there's a huge cast, as you can see. I mean, it's mostly, it's mostly Fee and Ben, but as the, as the book continues, you get sprinkles in of, of several other people. And you also get, like, these little interstitials of, like, online forums where people have, have created these little groups of, like, their victims, essentially. It's, like, support groups online. Oh, I love it. the least people's victims and like people have been horribly manipulated by this couple yeah yeah totally oh this sounds great yeah so yeah it's it's really really interesting and at first i thought oh okay this is going to be one of those books where i hate everybody but maybe not so much maybe there's

some uh maybe there might be some redemption in there for some of the characters okay that's very cool yeah it's a it's a really good uh little little listen um and uh you know i i ripped through it in a couple of days of you know just listening to it while i was doing chores or doing work or whatever and it's really really gripping and of course you know those voices you can just listen to them oh yeah she has an amazing voice the uh the house made is this lady's first book uh sarah a denzil and this is only her second book i'm always blown away by the fact that people with one or two books have huge hits on their hands like this. You know what I mean?

Like, it makes me want to write a book. We should all write a book. Everybody write a book and then give them to Amy and then Amy will judge them. And then before you know, it will be New York Times bestsellers with our second books. Yeah. We'll have our own little reading list.

Like Oprah has her book club list. We'll have our own little reading list, like the TMS reading list. Let's do it. Excellent. Let's do it. I love it. We need a stamp to put on the corners of the artwork for all these over on the website. There you go.

Yeah, fantastic. You can 3D print the stamp, Brian. I'll print a stamp. Look, we all, see, we all contributed. We got it done. Exactly. We play games in Moxie. Brian, are those going to be on QuicktmS.L.I today?

They're already there. They're already there along with something else, right? You get something. Oh, yes. I do have a little bonus this week. So I wanted to mention just a little self-brag here. It was so exciting. One of my friends, Stacey Gordon,

She is the puppeteer who performs Julia on Sesame Street, who is the autistic Muppet that they've had it. And she got the opportunity to go and be on tested with Adam Savage. Cool. And she was there to sort of teach him the basics of how to puppeteer on camera, which is harder than it sounds. And Adam very quickly discovers how difficult it is in its story. amazing and adorable, but the super exciting part for me was that she heavily featured peepers puppets. Oh, cool. Good. That's great. So awesome to see. And I was like, she sent it to me a few days before they dropped the episode.

And she called me, she's like, okay, I have to tell you a thing, but I need to be on the phone with you because I like need your real time reaction. Like, I need to know how you actually react to this. And when she sent me the picture, I was like, oh, I was like, I see why you wanted my reaction. Oh, my God. You know, and so it was super, super exciting. It dropped last Monday, so not yesterday, but a week ago Monday. And we have been inundated with orders for P-vers since that was super exciting. Some fantastic publicity, holy cow.

Yeah, well-done. And so now it's like, now I get to say, as seen on Adam. So, yeah. So that's the other link that I sent you there. If you want to throw that up or, you know, throw that somewhere where people can find it. I'll throw it in the chat also. Real quick, I wanted to mention too, Scott, when y'all were talking about the sleep stories and such earlier, I have something similar. So if the one that Brian said you, if none of those, like, float your boat, there's a similar one. on an app called Calm. Oh, yeah. They have sleep stories and, oh, my gosh, they're my favorite. The one that I have listened to, like, in the easily in the double digits, possibly

over a hundred times is Killian Murphy talking about being on a train in Ireland. Oh, I heard about this. Oh, wow. So good. And, like, also they've got like Tom Hittleston reading Meadipoo. And, I mean, all kinds of great narrators in there. And they've also, they have like, just plain, you know, meditations where it's like, okay, now it's time for sleep. Brian's right, though, they all start with.

So before we get started, make yourself comfortable. Get your favorite pillow. Get into a position where you're nice and comfy and you can just relax. You know, like, it'd be great to hear Killian Murphy actually do that part because I wouldn't hear anything else after that. It would be, I'd be done. You'd only hear Killian Murphy tell you how to get comfortable and you're done. That's a take you deep. I mean, you laugh.

I'm trying to see over the bigie blind is. That's pretty much where I zonk out as well. It's like, Killian Murphy starts telling me it's time to go to bed. And I'm like, okay. Okay. All right. I'm good. Well, good news.

Harry Stiles has one. Let's play a sample here. Oh, yeah. A good little sample. Here we go. I'm Harry Stiles. and tonight I'm going to help you

drift off to sleep okay cool dude I just turned 30 that one I actually I've tried that one I don't like it because it's a poem it's like

it's in like couplet rhymes and so I found my brain actually not deactivating because I was like oh how's he gonna rhyme that that word or whatever you know like I don't know it was distracting for me

that it rhymes um so i like i like the i like the ones like the train ones are great there's a lot of train ones um i guess you know people think that's relaxing to be on a train ride yeah that is where there were a lot yeah in better sleep as well i think i need to try calm because when when my uh current month subscription runs out with better sleep maybe i'll switch over because i do like i do like a little celebrity uh action in my ears yes yeah uh but that's the one that uh mrs crazy neighbor really raves about is column. Well,

calm is fantastic because like on like annually they will have a sale where you can literally buy like a lifetime membership and then you never have to pay for it again, which is what I have. So and it's I mean, it's expensive for an app. It is pricey. Yeah.

But if you think about it in terms of like, you know, it's like 50 bucks a year or somewhere around in there, 50, 60 bucks a year. But then if you only have to pay that 60 bucks once. Which they do, like around Thanksgiving-ish time, they'll have a sale. Yeah. When they, when this is it at first launch, when the app first launched, though, I may, I hope I don't have this wrong, but I think the guy who came up with this app is the same dude that

did that. You remember that viral thing where it was a thousand little squares and you could pay to advertise something inside of it? Oh, yes. It was a little pixel, like a little slightly bigger than pixels. And you could zoom out, but you zoom in and you could find your, your, your, you know, Your set of pixels. I don't remember what that was called.

Or by a block of them or something. That was the same guy, really. That's that guy, I believe. I think I have the story right. Funny. And this was his next big thing. Million dollar web page. There you go.

That's it. And it was a weird moment in internet history. But anyway, this is his thing now. And when this started, it was free. Then it was very cheap for a lifetime thing. It was like three bucks for the app or something. Then they had to change it to monthly. Then they changed it to be more monthly.

So right now it's 15. bucks a month or if you do the yearly it's only 530 or 583 a month that's a big savings oh no kidding wow but that's still yearly so i i like the idea of waiting till it's um yeah so it's like like you're saying like 59 60 bucks a year yeah but yeah wait till it's uh wait for the black friday deal all right i'll sit on uh i'll sit on better sleep until then and then i'll jump into the the buy it forever well that's a good idea you've already kind of got something that's working so they seem to do that like once a year and i'll i'll i'll always let you know. I'll keep it in mind and I'll let you know like, hey, calm, how's their

lifetime thing? Yeah. I think it's this guy. I hope I didn't get this wrong, but I'm pretty sure this is the dude. I can't remember now. There was some connection with that guy. Anyway, uh, what else? That's it. Hey, this was great. All this reading and, and, and, and you being here, what else can you ask for? Really? What else? I mean, well, I'm going to be in Vegas. So, you know, you'd ask for that. Very excited. Hell yeah. I'm very, very excited. excited to see you guys we're sad for the reason well not sad for the reason we're sad that the thing that almost pulled you away from Vegas didn't come through but we're happy that the the end result of that the byproduct of that is that we'd get you in yeah and don't worry only fans I'll give you another chance down the road it's oh Wayne I've got I've talked about the wrong thing sorry my bad show us your feet show us your whole different show us your muppet give us your Muppet feet I want Muppet right now maybe they want

Maybe they want Muppet feet. It's fine. Don't worry about it. There you. Peeper's feet. Yeah, Peeper's feet. Well, Amy, it's always good talking to you. I have a fantastic time, and I hope to see you in a frag situation soon.

Bye now. All right. See you in a frag situation. See you in a frag situation. I'm not sure what that means, but okay. I don't either, other than I'm going to shoot her with my rocket launcher. That's all I know. Oh, gosh.

It's not getting any better. No, it's not. uh my my flat cannon nope still not getting good no uh forget the whole thing and forget i ever said anything hey brian we're we're uh we're done except i do want to say today speaking of games today at uh 12 noon i will be playing some warhammer 40k um oh shoot what's the name of the damn thing ah duh whatever warhammer 40k online or something no it's a shooter co-op thing and my brain just went dead on the name of the stupid thing. Anyway, I don't know why I didn't write it down earlier, but me and Bo and John, we're doing core play today at, like we try to do

on Tuesdays now, and it'll be at noon, go to about three. Dark tide. Thank you, chat. Jeez, Louise. Dark tide. Cool. That game has gone through some amazing changes recently, and we thought it'd be a great time to pick it up and do a little co-op. So we're going to play that today on stream. That's at 12 noon if you are interested in such things. What else? That's it. Hey, everybody, we got a website, has all our links on it, including stuff we talked about today, things we do when it comes to requesting songs, our Patreon directly, all that kind of stuff. You can find it at frogpants.com slash TMS. Let's get out of here with a song, speaking of which, from Brian.

Brian, do you have the song? This one, this one actually is way, way, way delayed. Oh, I take that back. I guess actually was, oh, yeah, this is way delayed. But I had to get to it. Anthony Penigan, who goes by Aunt P. Mann in the chat room. Hello, Scott and Brian. This year on January 29th, I turned the big 4-0.

Whoa. I would like to request any cover song featuring a rap song turned to a rock song or rock song turned into a rap song. I really like from Ashes to New, forgot about Dre, but that might be too swary for TMS. Thanks for all that you guys do. I'm a daily podcast listener. I usually start first thing the next morning as I walk my dog. Also, one final question for Brian.

I believe you stated when Marvel Snap officially released. You are collection complete. Have you been able to maintain all that with the new card releases? No, I have not. I don't spend money on cards, but I will get good cards using collection tokens or using the, if there's a, I use the, what you call the spotlight keys. If I need two of the cards in the spotlight key selection, I'll go for that as well. um how many new ones are there are there a ton of new ones here recently or there have been you know what i'm i'm i'm most i would say i'm mostly collection complete i'm probably 90% but i don't have i don't have

alias which is the big one of the big like meta-breaking cards right now or it was anyway until a couple changes um uh and i don't have some of the new ones that came out i guess and there's a couple new ones even coming out today that uh that that that i might get because i've got four spotlight keys so I could guarantee getting both of the new cards. Well, I guarantee, of all the people I know who are playing that game, you have to be the most collection complete compared to anyone else. Yeah, I mean, my collection level is 10,689. Take that for whatever it's worth.

Sure. Well, well, well done. Still loving the game. Taking a break from while I wait for new content in Disney Dreamlight Valley, I'm back to playing Snap a lot and still loving it. Um, although death stranding has been taking some, uh, attention from me as well. What do you think of that so far? Just curious.

Uh, so far, I really like it. Um, uh, but I see what you mean. A lot of cut scenes, a little bit of action. A lot of cut scenes, a little bit of action. But I'm still really early into it. So yeah, I have to admit I'm very intrigued about the second one too. So, you know, we'll see. We'll see how it goes.

I'm curious, yeah, you'll have to let me know what you think as you go. Because I kind of dropped off pretty early on that game and I'm, maybe I missed out on, you know, the amazing part. I don't know. Right. Right. Right. Exactly. Anyway. Cool. So there you go. Anthony. Yeah. How about a rap song turned into a rock song? This one's fun. One of my favorite bands from the 90s, a group that had a hit with, oh, what was their big hit? The song that I loved was a song called 7475, which is really good.

It's a band called The Canells. And for a compilation called When Pigs Fly from 2002, they contributed this version. of Cypress Hills insane in the brain. That is definitely not the song that you know by Cypress Hill. Here are the Canells. Put the white on the flam for your temper, just toss that ham

in the frying pan like spam and done when I come and slam. Then I feel like the son of Don't make me wreck shit Hectic next tick a check I'll be going like general electric And the lights are blinking, I'm thinking It's all over when I go out drinking

Oh, making my mind slow That's why I don't fuck with the big 4-0 Bro, I got to maintain Because a cracker like me is going insane Insane Inane in the membrane Insane in the brain Insane in the membrane Friends insane, got no brain

Insane in the membrane Insane in the brain Insane in the membrane Friends insane got no brain To its shit under cover I was torn from the blubber The blabber to watch that belly Yet fat or fat boy on a diet

Don't try to jack your ass like a looter in a riot Mike's just fat like a sumo slamming that ass Even your face in the grass You know I don't take them too low Lightly punk's just jealous Because it can't outright and you like kick that style Wicked Wild

Happy face crack You never seen me smile Put that name frame I'll explain Casper like me is going insane Insane in the membrane Insane in the brain Insane in the membrane

Friends insane Got no brain Insane in the membrane Insane in the brain Insane in the membrane Friends and say, I've got no brain Like you were Armstrong, play that trumpet I'll hit that ball and break you all something soon

I got to get my props Cops come and try to snatch my crops These things want to blow my house down And run the ground to the next time to get mad When we can create my pad when I'm up in there. When I'm up in the night Real scared Yes, I'm the pirate pilot of this ship

Find it with the ultraviolet dream Hot's my lid like me Not that you believe in the unseen Look, don't make any glass train A stoning like me's going insane Insane in the membrane Insane in the brain Insane in the membrane

Friends insane, got no brain Insane in the membrane Insane in the brain Insane in the membrane Friends insane Got no brain Insane in the membrane Insane in the membrane

Insane in the membrane Friends insane Got no brain Insane in the membrane Insane in the membrane Insane in the membrane Insane in the membrane Friends insane got no brain

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