The Morning Stream - TMS 2597: Royal Alchemist

Episode Date: February 8, 2024

The Hands Don't Scan. How about a Buoy. Push My Cans Really Hard. Favorite German Girl Band - Die Lollipops. You Get No Line Buzz, No Mice in the Attic, No Lieutenant Yar! Annoying or Cornbread. Shmerp is weird. Boot A Judge. Stuck Brian In The End. Don't dip to close to the UPS. Scooping chili with your arms. You Say Busyemi, I Say Buscemi. Trust the meth, not the Tylenol. the original of the cover is terrible. Thin Mint speeding tickets with Wendi and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TMS is brought to you every single episode by the support magnificent patrons at patreon.com slash TMS. People like Young Art, Erton, and Mr. Robot. Coming up on TMS, the hands don't scan. How about a buoy? Push my cans really hard. Favorite German girl band, die lollipops. You'll get no line buzz, no mice in the attic, and no lieutenant yard. Annoying or cornbread.

Shmurp is weird. Buta Judge. Just stuck brain in the end. Don't dip too close to the UPS. Scooping chili with your arms. You say Busemi, I say Busemi. Trust the meth, not the Tylenol. The original of the cover is terrible.

Thin mint speeding tickets with Wendy and more on this episode of the Morning Stream. Here we have a focus of acnecrosis. Note that some of the nuclei have disappeared and the cell walls are blurred. We took these pictures, James Garner. Can I take your coat? It's kind of warm in here. The morning stream. Conan the Barbarian. The Barbarian.

M.S. D. M.S. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for February 8th, 2024. Scott Johnson here. Brian Abbott there. Good morning. Yes. Hello. Although from my perspective, I'm here and you're there. Oh, I don't know. Yeah. I had thought of that. That's a problem. How are we going to work that out? Thunderdum. Oh, okay. All right. Two enter. One leaves. There. One man leave here. Leaves here. Comes here. Leaves there. It's right. Exactly.

Hey, all. It's good to see you all. We're going to do a show. We're going to have some fun. We got a Thursday lineup, which includes me sister Wendy. She's on today. YAR, helping you with her therapy. That's right, doing therapy. We got a great little weird message for her that is really intriguing and short. And she said, she told me it was perfect. So I'm like, all right. Oh, good. God, I looked at that and I said, you have more questions?

Because I have more questions. Oh, I got a list of questions for this person. Yeah, yeah, but it's fascinating. And I know, I mean, I know the thing that she's going to bring up. Well, we'll get to it. Yeah, we'll get to it. It's going to be great. so stick around it'll be toward the latter portion of the show real quick here i got a

had a thing yesterday happen i'm on d tns and joe who produces helps produce the show says to me also comes to tms vegas can't wait you see him and his wife again oh cool joe says uh hey during the show i heard like some line noise from you oh no so we confirmed it and i'm like there are a few things in this life brian i hate worse i was going to say they're like you tell a podcaster that like i'm getting a really weird buzz on your line and you're like where how do I start effing troubleshooting this because especially when i can't hear it and everybody else can i hate it it's like trying to find mice in the attic it's just like so annoying so i spent an hour and i got all sweaty and i'm pretty sure i'd look like

doc brown in here just kind of oh oh oh like trying to find it i'm tracking every little cable is that too close to a power supply is this thing connected to a thing and i did find out eventually it was just a little dip of an XLR cable that was hanging just a little too close to an uninterruptible power supply. That was it, and it went away, and it's fine now, and now it's all tucked away and away from it. I don't even know how

it got down there, probably because I got the new mic and was moving stuff around. I don't know. But, yeah, it's... We can put a man on the moon, but we can't come up with decent shielding on cables. Right, and it was the kind of light noise. I don't mind it if it's loud, because then I have to deal with it. Well, then you can, right.

It's way easier for you to troubleshoot. You like start moving cables. You have your headphones on. You walk around. It's like, oh, no, I'm not hearing it. Okay, it must be this thing right here. Must be this thing. Yeah, exactly.

So what I had to do is I had to push my cans really hard, smush my cans in into my ear. So I could hear this little. He hates these cans. And I could, I isolated it so that I knew it wasn't the mixer and I knew it wasn't. But this all took like an hour. It sucked. I hated it. Every part of that process.

What a pain. Oh, my God. Pain in the butt. So thanks, Joe. And it's all solved now. Thanks. Thanks for creating all this extra work. for me, Joe.

Yeah, I appreciate it. Thanks, Joe. You go, Joe. But anyway, that's all good. Cleared up now. Nobody should hear it. There was probably a little of this yesterday and I didn't know it. So apologies to TMS listeners.

If you heard, some of you have extra great hearing and you probably heard a little buzz. I don't know. I do a pass on the final show that is supposed to get rid of any kind of low frequency stuff. So maybe that worked. But apologies if not. All right.

All right. We got a great phone call that I absolutely love that I have to play. This is about accents, and we talked about it on the show, but I just love her delivery. So anyway, here it is. Hey, guys. This is Nikki Meadows from the PMS Discord. I'm the one who called unless a vood-ro-d-ro-voicemail. And the reason why I did that is because, well, as I mentioned, I am from West Virginia,

and I hate the sound of my own voice because I have one of those accents that I say I sound like cornbread. every time I listen to myself. So that's why I did not call in, like, leave a message for Splex. So I am dreading hearing this on air. And the story that I wanted to tell was about the mispronunciation of booey. I'll give you the short version. Arnese calls a booey a booby. And it's just the cutest little thing ever.

So anyway, have a great day, guys. Thanks so much. Bye-bye. I love your accent. No kidding. Yeah. You give me a southern. a southern accent i'll take it any day of the week it's comforting it reminds me of being back

in you know kim's hometown where i know the food is good and and the the to the porch chair i'm going to sit on and stare off into the sunset is going to be beautiful and i can hear the birds and i can hear the bugs and i don't know i don't find that at all annoying or cornbread i think you have an amazing accent you should use it all the time yeah and and you said it right there like i have no problem with cornbread either. So, like, I bet you make a killer cornbread. I love cornbread. And if you don't, need to get on that.

Yeah. And the tadpole all agrees, like, a lot of love for the accent. Now let's talk about the booby. Well, it still doesn't explain why the call came through the way it did. Oh, yeah, right. Right. Yeah, she said the reason I did that. Yeah, she didn't really.

She went into her accent. I don't think there was the, I don't think it was the accent that made the call sound like that. It was just a mangled, corrupted MP4 file that was attached, which makes me think that, because this time she, it came through as an actual voicemail, there just had to be some sort of corruption on the voicemail line. That's my theory. I can't think of any other reason. But I'll weigh take her voice over that any day. So, yeah. Call any time you want.

You sound really great. For real, Nikki. Like, I mean this. We were talking just about the call map and how it chills you out or whatever. Was that Tuesday? Whatever it was. I think it was Tuesday. was um that thing i or you should tell me a story before yeah exactly yeah last night was

alice in wonderland read by but it wasn't it wasn't the actual alice in wonderland it was like it was bizarre scott tell me more find it here tell me more i must know more yeah it was it was um you and alice in wonderland oh okay all right by samantha narrated by samantha by samantha often, join Alice as you journey through the intriguing signs, sights and sounds of Wonderland in an immersive recreation of this classic tale. So it's not the story of Alice in Wonderland. You're hanging out with Alice as she's checking out Wonderland and describing it to you. Oh.

In Samantha Boffin, she's got an accent to, and I can't remember what it was. Because really, I heard, I'll close you. your eyes. No, I did hear enough of this to be like, what is this weirdness? That is weird. So was it like, um, just like, point, this is like a point of view. It's like, here, here's what I see when I get here. Okay. Yeah, exactly. Like, oh, we're going down the rabbit hole and oh, now we're doing this. By the way, Samantha Boffin of British voice actor and voice over coach, uh, described as warm, confident, captivating. You know what? That's what you would want out of a reader of voice things. That's what you want. That's right, for sure. Her elevator

pitch is master of the soft cell, the reassuring, and the authoritative endline. Oh, the soft cell. The band. Yeah, not the tainted love soft cell, but the, oh, crap, how did I just get roped into buying a car? I was just talking to this British

woman, and now all of a sudden, I'm broke. Really? They call it a soft sell. Yeah, the soft sell. Okay. All right. Look, you know, when you hear commercials and it's like, maybe it's Kelly Clarkson telling you about Wayfair or something. There's just like the soft sell. Like, oh, you need this.

Here's the link. Go buy it today. Sure. I think I'm susceptible to the soft sell. Yeah, I think we all are. Well. Because hard sales don't get me. I don't, I get mad.

I'm just like, don't try to shove this down. That's right. Exactly. Pay no money down. Just make the payment that's on the window. Yeah. I don't like that. $49 a month.

I don't like that. at all i want to be i want to be coaxed into it slowly i want someone i trust if she's british that makes it even better let's do it i like it speaking of british people i don't know if you heard but uh the king the king uh the king what's his name now jorge charles charles good think of his name uh it's got the cancer and uh yeah they came out and said he was not going to do any kind of uh medical treatment instead he was going to do herbs and potions oh no what is this what herbs and potions yeah like i don't know Do they have a modern Merlin working for the monarchy? We've got the royal alchemist coming in to see you today, King Charles.

Yeah, that was a weird thing. I heard one of his spokes and say that. We tried to source some eye of newt at the local sprouts. We're not finding it, though. Yeah. What that tells me is it's probably further along than we think. And also, it's also kind of a, it's bad for him. Like, don't tell people this is how you do it.

It's not going to work. None of this works. Poor guy waits 70 years for the throne. Gets it for six months and gets cancer. Thanks, Elizabeth. That's a real pain in the arse. So who gets it after him then? Who's next to the line?

It would be one of the boys, the older boy. Yeah, which of the boys is older? Is it to Andrew? No, wait, Prince Andrew? Yes. He's the one that's not, he's married to the, what's her beak? Kate Middleton. Kate Middleton.

William. Well, William, people are saying, I'm sorry, Prince William, not Andrew. Andrew, who's Andrew? Oh, Andrew's the one that's in trouble for going to that island. Not even one of the son. No. I'm thinking of William. Everyone thinking of Andrew,

William, yes. Yeah, yeah, not his gross brother. All right, so that's interesting. He's very young. He's very young. He could rock that joint. But do we have to sit through another one of these coronation things? One of these things?

Of course, yeah. Oh, no, I don't want to do that. You know what I'll do? Andrew's the pedophile. No wonder that's what, no wonder that name was stuck in my head. Epstein. Yeah, he's the. He's the Epstein Island guy.

He's the Epstein, buddy, yes. So I was thinking, here's what I'll do. If they do another full-blown, out-of-control of coronation thing with all the pomp and circumstance, I'm going to just go watch all of the time South Park did it with the Canadian royalty episodes. Have you ever seen those? No, I'm not. They're amazing, dude. Oh, they're really good?

I guess I need to see those. Yeah, there's so much South Park I still need to catch up on. I was great. I stuck with it, like, religiously for the first. four or five seasons and then kind of dropped off and picked up episodes here and there and uh i've got one episode left of freaking peep show yeah and i think it'll be time for me to go back to south park wow going down to south park and i have myself time so how long how many episodes was peep show like what am i looking at uh nine seasons six episodes of seasons oh uh 54 episodes that's a beefy british

production they don't usually go that long when you think of it it's like that's two seasons of an american 30-minute sitcom yeah but for them they usually like We're doing two series and we're done, or through after two series. Nine series, not seasons. Series. You'd like a new series? Yeah, they have a very weird way of looking at it. And I don't know what the last episode is going to bring us,

because, you know, Jez is in the middle of being this life coach who stole wanks into a flannel. Mark is working on the decision between the girl he lied to about, being a college student and his south ex-wife. I don't know. I don't know. How can they outdo themselves, you wonder, on this final life? Yeah, how can they outdo themselves?

I don't know. Maybe Kevin will come in with a big thing of chilling and dump it on the floor. Maybe that's how we go. Maybe. Kevin, wait, who? What? Yeah. Still the most most.

Oh, office. Yes, right. Yeah. Most anxiety-inducing moment in the office that I ever saw. Yeah. By far. Like, there's nothing. else you could do to me to make me more uncomfortable than dump that chili all over the

foyer and then try to scoop it back in with your arms like that's give me it back in yes oh my god just freaking awful dude oh my gosh um all right we got another we got another email this is or a voicemail this is very short but it's great um this person almost did a drive-by in a way so here you go hey i just heard about tms 2591 you watching parasite congratulations love the show though I just left the weird noise that he left in his car. Is that the sound of where is the off button while I'm driving? I can't hang up. Yeah, that's what I felt like.

Well, thanks, man. Yeah, it was a glorious moment. I realize this is a bit of a, um, it's the word where it's, you don't get to, it's not as satisfying what you finally do it, not, not the, uh, anti-climatic. It ends with a whimper, not a bang. Yeah, because how do you actually celebrate a thing like I watched a movie, even though it was a big deal and a conversation. for us for so long. Like, how do you crescendo that? You don't really. You just kind of let it happen.

So that's what we did. So whoever you were, you're, oh, wait, did he say his name? Hey, I just heard about. No, he didn't. Well, thank you for your anonymous call. We appreciate it. Yes. Finally, somebody sent this over to me and said, you guys need to read this. Dear Spank and Bob. Here is a video link of Steve Busemi, Bouschemi, Bouchemi, Bouchame, Bouchama, whatever we want to say, explaining the pronunciation of his last name, and it would seem both are acceptable. Here's what he said. I'll go ahead and play this audio. I say Busemi.

Now that, let me stop right there. Yeah. He says Busemi. That may be fill a lot better. That was the correction that I said when we were watching Desperado. I'm like, oh, it's actually Busemi, because that's what's on his site. But he says Busemi. But wait, there's more.

There's definitely more. I say Busemi. You do. Growing up, my family said Busemi. Busemi. That's a new one to me. That's, I think my dad came up with that. But the correct, you know,

like Sicilian pronunciation is Bouchemi. So when people say Bouchemi, that's very close to how I think what the real pronunciation is. So I don't usually correct people if they say Bouchemi. So he's fine with it. Bouchemi. Busemi? Busemi. Right, exactly.

So it's funny though that you know, my family does this, but it's completely against this whole Sicilian, you know, our whole Sicilian heritage. Yeah. I like that part where it's like his dad had to come up with a way You hear this a lot, like a lot of immigrant stories where they're like, yeah, we changed it from Smurp to Smith because Schmurp is weird and they didn't want to get teased or maybe there was, you know, people were given Italians a hard time right around then so you wanted a name that was less Italian or something.

So there's a lot of motivations for it. But you hear about that a lot. Yeah. Like I think even Trump's dad was something else, Dr. Dr.U-M-P-F. Yeah. And they changed it. And remember we had that same clip.

with Charlize Theron, where I think she even says, well, you know, I pronounce it Charlize Theron, but the actual pronunciation is Charlize Theron. Yeah. With the Gillen Halls, we had, I think, an audio clip where they say, well, you know, in actuality, it's pronounced Guillen Hall. Yeah. People are pretty down on this remake of, what's he doing, Roadhouse. and I'm actually kind of excited about it.

I don't know why. I don't have any reason to be excited about it, but I actually kind of, I don't know. Something about it. I like him. Yeah, I mean, I like him. And, you know, it looks like, it looks like had there not been another roadhouse,

this would have been a very, you know, interesting movie. But the fact that it's, that it's a remake of a movie that I don't feel anyone was really clamoring for a remake of. No. When are they going to remake Roadhouse?

Yeah. It's considered. such a, you know, a classic that it didn't really need it but I kind of also there have been times where that sort of stuff surprises me when a remake works. Sure. Oh, yeah, sure. I'm going to hold

out hope, but the director's mad because Prime, Prime originally promised, this is Doug Lyman. He makes, you know, freaking born movies and stuff. Yeah, they had promised him a theatrical run first before it went back to Prime and they changed their minds

and are launching it on Prime and he's pissed about it. So he, like, boycotted the premier red carpet thing and it's all mad so dug lineman's all pissed i don't know if that will have any effect on the quality of the actual final product but yeah probably not because i'm sure he's like to say well don't worry we're not going to do another take we're just doing this for prime now yeah yeah that's people people go be watching this while they uh you know while they cook their uh hamburger mac and cheese so don't worry about don't worry about getting that line just right that's right um norm says connor mcgregor is in for the irish vote yeah that i

Is this his first acting gig outside of UFC stuff? I don't, maybe he's been in other things I just haven't noticed. I don't know. That's a good question. He's a scary looking dude. He is a very intimidating looking fella right there. Connor McGregor. It's our old MacGregor.

Actor, Roadhouse. So maybe he doesn't have anything else. Known for beating the crap out of people. Kicking a shit out of his opponents. Game of War, Prepare for War TV series. like there's there's a lot of him playing himself in stuff like you know ufc 25 years in short this sort of thing but uh could be his johnsina moment he's gonna break out could be yeah yeah i'm i'm uh who said wait who says he's a jumped up co-cad dirt box fingers is he's a jumped

up co-cad i'm not gonna say that to him i'm not i'm never going to tell him that this was said by a guy named dirt box fingers whose real name is yeah we had him on the show we know what's up that's right uh well anyway of john scene You know, when do we get another season of, what's its face on the thing, the thing on, from Suicide Squad, the character, peacemaker. When do we get another season of peacemaker? Here's my guess, because it did well for them. I'm pretty sure they wanted to do another one,

but I'm pretty sure that James Gunn is so bombed with just getting the Superman legacy thing done. Yeah. Sure. So my guess is they'll return to it and they'll want him at the helm like they show ran it before, but they don't, they need to get him freed up. So probably a while. Yeah. But it's something to look forward to, you know?

Hurry it up. Exactly. Slackers? Slackers? Trouble makers. That's it for that. Oh, quick note. We got some big news for TMS listeners who are coming to Las Vegas this year from

to TMS Vegas. If you guys keep your eye on the Frog Pants store on the 19th of February, that is a Monday. And that's two weeks away, I believe? Yeah. Yeah. That is our day for the tickets to be live. And there's a few reasons why it's not just up today. Brian and I talked about this morning.

It's not important for you guys to know, but there's a few things being settled about it. But as soon as we have that already, regardless of what we have ready, we are putting those tickets up on the 19th. And they will be over at frogpans.com slash store, but also you'll link it straight from VivaTMSVagas.com, as we always do. So it'll be easy to get it all in one place. That's right. So that's the plan. You now have a date. It is the 14th or sorry, the 19th of February.

two weeks from well less than two weeks now but two Mondays away and y'all are will secure your tickets in a reasonable and efficient fashion all right and and last call please if you did get your hotel room booked prior to when we have the code please please let me know go to where did I put it is it on Viva yeah it's on Viva TMS Vegas there's a little four mini to fill out. Please let us know because, you know, it counts towards our group rate, even if you bought your hotel early.

So please go to VivaTMSVegas.com and do the thing. Fill out the form that lets me know you bought them early and put your confirmation code in there so I can let the plaza people know. Everything is cooking smoothly. We're all stoked. This is all happening. Get excited. Currently, by the way, the billboard outside the plaza says Super Bowl party on the 11th,

Show us your T-Ds. Oh, our T-Ds. Our T-D. Show us your T-D. Our touchdowns. Correct, yes. Can you imagine being there this coming weekend? My gosh. No, no.

That is never, no March madness. No Super Bowl weekend. None of that. Yeah, I don't even want CES, man. I don't want anything where the whole world is there. It's too much. I know, but I do want to go to C.S. one of these years.

That is a, I don't know if I'd call it a bucket list, but... Well, I've been twice. It's pretty cool. Yeah. It's just a madhouse, though. Yeah. It's a lot more spread out, though. When I, the last time I went, wasn't quite, this thing covers everything now.

It's like across the entire strip, it feels like everybody's got something. Yeah. So it's a little easier, which is... Yeah. Super Bowl is in one place, and then it radiates pain from there. That's right. Exactly. And it goes out this way.

Yeah, I do have the, uh, I actually do I still have it. Yep, I have it up in the background. the strip airy cam that goes around. It's a nice sunny day in Vegas today as opposed to what it was when we looked at the live stream a while back. I was thinking the other day, this is a weird thing. This popped into my head. Yeah. Do you think there's a, because, you know, taggers, they're everywhere.

Every major city has people tagging walls and stuff. Do you think there's a group of like elite taggers in Vegas who are just looking at the sphere trying to buy their time. They're going to find the time and they're going to execute. You know, they've got a heist,

basically, heist film planned where it's like, all right, here's our, this is our ladder guy. Do do, do, do,

do, do, and his name slides in from the side. Yep, yep. And I can do anything with a ladder. Whatever kind of ladder you need,

I'm your ladder guy. Yep, there'll be a little tiny Chinese guy in a box. They'll have, you know, this whole plan, this whole he's planned out,

And who was the bad guy in the first movie, became the good guy in the third movie? What's his name? Oh, yeah, Andy Garcia. Andy Garcia. Benedict, I think. Whoever that is in charge of the dome will just be clueless about this happening. Right, exactly. It'll be the former Ferris wheel guy that was going to put up a Ferris wheel on the south end of the strip before the high roller came up.

And he's like, oh, no, I'm on your side. Let's take down this dome. Yeah, he wants revenge. He's sick of it. That's right. He has to live at Circus Circus or something. This movie, this movie writes itself. Let's get this going.

It does. I know. Let's make this thing happen. Yeah. Call it Oceans 15, the Dome or something. Yep. Call, call, who's the director? Call him.

Call him over here. Call that guy. Anyway, all right, there you go, everybody. Let's get into some news and find out what's happening in the world right here right now. Hey, Brian, it's the news, and it's been. Brought to us by who? Brought to you, oh, sorry. Brought to you by Coverville today at noon at Twitch.combe, Twitch.D.V.V.D.V.D.V.

, you know, you know where to find it. Coverville at noon. Today, we've got a little tribute to Melanie Safka, singer-known just by the name. Melanie. Brand new key. Look what they've done to my song, stuff like that. Tribute to her. And then we're also going to have a couple sets celebrating the birthday of Nora Jones. She turns 45 next month, getting to her a little bit early. And this week I learned that one of her biggest songs was, in fact, a cover. I love it when I discover that, and I'm not just telling other people that for the first time. Wow, very nice. The first song that introduced a lot of us to Nora Jones, daughter of Ravi Shankar,

the first song that a lot of us heard for the first time when we heard her was Don't Know Why. Yeah. I know what I saw the song Don't know why I didn't come Dude and anyway Cover Somebody else did it And the original version

Is not very good So I'm not going to play it But I'm going to play another cover of that song Interesting I love that song I didn't know it was a cover She's got such a great voice Yeah

She's I mean she owned that song Oh yeah She's got a singular voice you might say That whole album man Oh so good Anyway That's a 12 o'clock PM Mountain Time At Twitch.com

slash coverville, and I will be playing a new super giant hit monkey deck on Marvel Snap that I'm having some fun with. Super Giant Hit Monkey. Super Giant Hit Monkey. Those are two separate characters, Super Giant and Hit Monkey. Oh, I know Hit Monkey. We've seen, there was an animated thing for a while. Yeah, the animated, exactly, yeah.

Wonderful for getting another season with that with Sudakis. And I know you said you liked this because you saw it at the thing with Disney 23 or whatever was. that was awesome that show yeah yeah and i just happened to just catch it because van was like this is cool let's watch this and i'm like all right let's watch it you're four let's see how this goes and it was so good marvel is marvell's starting to get a little bit of fun animation going i agree they can keep it keep it happening but uh yeah i did where they still kind of suck as the more moon girl adult stuff yeah the the the the kind of suck still is like the serious the serious level of animation. Yes, exactly.

The Avengers animation stuff. If they can get that right, I'd be all in, dude. That'd be great. You know what? We've all got high hopes. I think March, they're saying X-Men 97 comes to Disney. Yeah. Disney Plus. I am looking forward to that.

Me too. We've got a quick text that came in before I read this first news story. Question for, Are you tempted to make humming noises now to drive Scott Nuts? You know, I need an artificial line noise from Brian. He would never do that. Right. Just like, just like go. Yeah. Oh, dude, that would suck so bad. You can fake it pretty good, I think. Yeah, that's really, really funny. No, I'm not.

Listen, the last thing I'd want to do is irritate my co-host because all he has to do is start eating an egg or a banana on the show and turn about his fair play. That's right. I have some toast I didn't finish over here. I could really make things bad. I'm sure you do. Yeah. You make things real bad for Brian. Oh, an international text just came in. It says, okay, Iroche companies to pronounce a few easy ones to start. I don't know why it says Iroche. Iroche companies, okay.

Sligo, Mayo, and Galway. Those are easy. Galway? Harder. Armga, Tyrone, and Offley. I don't know if those are right. Bit harder. Litrim.

Donogal. Donagal. Donagal. Whatever. Donagal. Donagal. and Laos or Laos Laos

says you do pronounce vowels wrong 90% of the time says This is probably clear If I had to guess Oh of course it is Yes of course it is I don't know who the hell that is All right

Let's get to this new story Weigoo beef You know the good beef That's what you love it Yeah yeah As a wigue Wagyu I remember

I say Ygue But I don't know That's another one That you know I just pronounce that one Like it looks W-A-G-Y-U Wagyu, Wagyu, yeah.

They used to, what was the other one you, before, before Wagyu took off, there was another kind of Kobe, Kobe beef. I had that in Hong Kong. It was insane. Oh my gosh. Yeah. So good. We had some in Japan at a Teppaniaki restaurant. It was fan freaking tastic. Well, this beef has been added to the Washburn Rural High School cafeteria menu. Really? Lucky kids. Oh, goodness. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. This is a semester, Wagyu beef is an option for students at Washburn Rural High School. For many, this beef is preferred because of its high degree of marbling, which gives it a richer texture and flavor. The meat comes partially from Japanese beef cattle, which is extremely rare in America. U.S.D. 437 is working with the Booth Creek Wagyu out of Manhattan, who is pleased to get

students the nutrition they need for each school day. Quote, the owner of the company, values doing business with schools, and he wants to give back to the community. And we're getting such a good price, food service proviser Stan Valis said, quote, it's extremely affordable and it's a high quality product. Yes, and our lunch ladies will definitely cook them to shit. Yeah. They will definitely give them the care and attention that this beef deserves before they shovel it out to the kids. I'd worry Gladys would just boil it or something, you know. Yeah. Oh, yeah, exactly. I mean, that's, you know, that's, I'm certainly not going to be smirch, lunch ladies, lunch counters, cafeteria work, and stuff like that. But the whole goal of that is to get a ton of food out as quickly as possible and not do each meal, you know, giving it the care and attention that a Wagyu beef would deserve.

Sure, sure. I have a feeling it will not be, the final presentation will not nearly live up to the hype. No, exactly. Yeah. There is a, so this is in northeast Kansas. I wonder if this affects the high school age kids of Stephen Schleiker. I don't know if he's listening right now. Oh, yeah, I don't know. That would be interesting, right?

I would love it. If they're getting this wild you beef, yeah. Yeah, and get some first person experience there. See how it is. Right. That'd be down. In other news, Tesla owners are told not to wear Apple virtual reality headsets while driving their Tesla's. There were some videos of this as the problem.

There are, yeah, there's some, I've saw some great videos this week of people, uh, you know, walking crossing the street, sitting in a cafe, you know, doing the whole, like, yeah, they're pinching around while they're driving. I mean, I watched, I've watched a couple reviews. One of the guys is saying the pass-through is excellent. Like the, he was able to play a game of ping pong with another person while wearing the, uh, while wearing the headset because the path through is so good. Yeah, by, by all accounts, the pass-through is like legitimately, Like the best there is, and the way that tech is working is really nice. So I could see why people, if they had a car with an auto drive option, why they'd want to at least fiddle around a little bit. It is illegal to do it. And also, Apple is very, very, very prominently on their product says, do not drive with this, any car. It doesn't matter what car.

So it came down to U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttage Edge. Boot Edge. Boot Edge. Edge, edge. Boat, edge. Never forget. Posted on X, formally, Twitter. How long are we going to be doing that?

Oh, no. Did they really? Oh, geez. Why they keep doing that. To say that all current vehicles require the driver to be engaged, quote, at all times. However, one driver admitted this video, or his video was a prank. Tesla and Apple have contacted, have been contacted for comment. They don't really need to, though, because, again, both companies, Tesla and Apple have all sorts of information that says,

do not wear headsets, VR headsets, AR headsets, headsets of any kind while driving this car, and Apple's like, don't wear this while you're driving. It's not like they have to respond. It doesn't their fault. People are idiots. Videos online show people. Big Donald needs to say, please don't consume a Big Mac while driving a vehicle.

And L'Oreal needs to say, please do not apply mascara while driving a vehicle. Yeah. Or phones say, you know, have the iPhone say, reminder, don't text while you're driving. No, it does actually. Like when you first get it, it says, yeah, turn off this function that monitors and shuts off when you're in the car. That's right.

The only thing I hate about that is if I'm in the passenger side and I want to take a picture of something, it thinks I'm driving. And if I'm not, it's very hard to be quick enough to like close that, tell it no, get into the thing. Okay, now I can get to the camera. Now I take the picture. And by then the thing's gone that I want to take a picture of. It's the only thing I hate about it. I understand it.

I'm glad it exists. It's, you know. Turn that off. Turn that function off. I don't have that going on my phone. I don't know. There's, I think there's like a setting or something.

Oh, I didn't know you could. I thought that was a built-in deal. Okay. I have to look at that. No, the only time I ever got yelled at was Pokemon saying, you're moving awfully fast. Are you a passenger?

Press this button that says, yes, I'm a passenger. And, uh, yeah. Well, also, the story illustrates that sometimes people do this stuff for the likes and the views and they don't actually mean it. They're not actually driving like this. And so what ends up happening is the top level of transportation secretary government has to respond to it just because someone pranked you. I hate that about the modern day. I hate it. I know it's always kind of been like this. Like one freak out about Tylenol, change the whole industry. One freak out

about laser razor blades in your candy bar on Halloween. Change the entire candy industry. I know that This isn't new, but it's just so easy now to pull that lever and have everybody domino up to the top. It's annoying. It's annoying. It's annoying. I'll tell you what. It is. Let's see.

One, oh, let's see. What's this? Oh, one. Oh, okay. Video post online people showing drivers, seats of cars, which have autonomous mode while wearing the Apple headset over their eyes. One was reposted by Buttigieg, who wrote, Reminder, all attention. advanced driver assisting systems available today require the human driver to be in control and fully engaged in the driving a task at all times. So it's a good point. Good reminder.

It is a good point. Yeah. I mean, you just shouldn't, regardless, even if you have a Vision Pro on your face or you're applying mascara, you're eating a Big Mac, I mean, the, you know, those things, the, the Tesla's with the driver assistance still requires you to touch the wheel, or have your hands on the wheel in case something goes wrong. Of all of those things, the only thing done while driving is eat a I've eaten a burger before while I drove. Yeah. I have done. Oh really? Yeah. You never applied mascara. No.

No. No, never did that. Never put on a headset. Never. I never text while I drive, ever. No. Well, I use the voice to text as you as you've heard. Ha, ha, ha. Yeah. Ha ha, ha, period. Yeah. Yeah, some of

that I'll do. But for the most part, I'm pretty boring when I drive. I don't do anything crazy. We got a story here about Costco Oh good That's where all the people go Get your bulk cheese and your whatnot Yes your products made by Kirkland

Run the gamut from jeans to cheese If you want a big thing of nacho cheese They got you If you want some toilet paper On the other end of that nacho cheese They got you there too Yep A woman returns Costco couch after two years

And she is testing the very limits Of the return policy Her quote is I just didn't like it anymore, unquote. I don't know how to feel about these people. Yeah, it feels like, you know, you're definitely taking advantage of the system. It's not like a, you know, a trade-up every couple of years like the next program at AT&T. This is, you know, six months, max.

And that even, that's even feels pretty dang generous. Like, by a couch, it shouldn't just be like a, blanket thing across the board of you've got X amount of time to return any product you buy at Costco or Target Target bad with this stuff as well They used to, they've tightened that up with TVs

and stuff, right? Like I think they have Yeah, exactly. It's like 90 days or something like that. Yeah, which is long enough that, you know, enough time that you can go get one now for the Super Bowl, put it up, then after everybody's gone, after everybody leaves, and you clean up all the remnants and the chicken bones and all that sort of thing, you go back to

Target, you take that thing back and say, yeah, Just don't like it anymore. It's not really my thing. This, of course, happened in a viral TikTok video. She says, uh, we just don't like the color anymore, says this lady named Jackie. Uh, the video had been viewed three. Again, doing it for the lulls, doing it for the lulls. That's right.

Three million times this thing has been seen since it was posted late January. Uh, she explained that she did not have the original receipt, but recalled the date on which it had been originally purchased. That allowed Costco retail clerks to process the transaction and issue a full refund. And they did. I told her the date, I bought it. She looked it up on the computer, told me exactly which one it was, that was it.

She asked me if there was anything wrong with it. I said, I just didn't like it. Adding, they gave us a full refund to his card. So yeah, it worked, says this person. Pleased with her experience, she has encouraged her followers to purchase their furniture from members-only store, to say Costco. Quote, buy your furniture from Costco, girl.

They can return it, and then you don't, when you don't like it no more, she says, I hate this. It's almost what she said. There's a few different words in there that I can. Yeah, you said they can return it. No, you can return it when you don't like it anymore. That's right.

I don't know. I would never do this. I couldn't do this. Yeah, no. It's, uh, I just wouldn't feel good about it. No, it just feel exactly. I've worked retail. And this is a, who do you think has to pay for that?

Costco does. Yeah. But it's their fault. They need to tighten up their return policy. I agree. Apply that TV. You made a TV and computer change to like 90 days. Apply that to every.

everything. Apply it to everything, exactly. 90 days is enough to know whether you're going to like anything you buy there. Yes. And it's still very generous. Most places are not going to do that. What does Amazon gives you, what, 30 days or something? Something like that, yeah. And that's pretty generous.

That's pretty generous. And boy, Amazon returns could not be more convenient and easy, right? I bought some heat set inserts because my outdoor bird feeder, I wanted to add a bigger perch and then some like little side rails to it so birds can hop on the side or on the perch.

Bigger birds can eat out of the bird feeder. And so I get some heat set inserts that you basically heat up with a soldering iron and push into the plastic and then you can kind of screw things together as opposed to having to use glue or something like that. And these heat set inserts were basically pushing. They're built in a crappy way and pushing the plastic, the filament, into the rails of the screw, like basically into the threads. So I couldn't actually screw anything once it hardened.

So I said, hey, need to return these. They say, awesome. What do you have near you? Do you have a Coles? Do you have a Petco? you have a UPS store and you just basically have to walk it in there don't even you just basically take a QR code and the object doesn't even have to be in its the Amazon box you don't have to tape anything back up you just hand them the container of heat set inserts and show them the QR code and you walk out of there with a 10% off coupon for Coles yeah it's pretty crazy and do they I know they partner with Coles but do they own Petco or is that same kind of thing as partnership with them same kind of thing partner with them where they're just basically a uh uh uh uh uh stand in the back of the pet co where you take your stuff we usually so you can also do a uPS store the problem there is it gets weird with boxes and stuff at the uPS store

oh see at the uPS store here again same situation you don't need the original just the just the box that the thing came in but not the amazon box yeah you're supposed to but ours is weird i don't know why oh do they do they ask you to box it back up and pat it and something like it depends on when you go in and who's there it's like it's just a funky exchange so we take them to food Um, whole foods now, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's the easiest way. Just walking.

They give you a choice of which place is most convenient. Oh, I like, I have some shopping to do. I'll just take it there. Like that, that makes it the easiest damn online thing to, to deal with for sure. Do you, what do you buy at Coles when you get that extra cash? Do you like, socks? I'm wearing them right now. But, uh, bought, uh, new pairs of socks because, uh, the previous socks I had, uh, the eight pack of around the house socks all,

all seem to get holes at the same time. Like, they all had, they all deteriorated, you know, a year, 18 months or whatever, but all at the same time. So did I get out of those Kirkland brand socks? Yeah, there you go. Yeah. Every time. All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back from this break, we're going to spend some time with my sister for Therapy Thursday and get her professional take on a really strange text that we received.

Yeah. That's coming up after this. But first, music. What do you have? Music. Yes, this is Mark Daly. um he is uh he's actually going out on tour right now to support the band mr big you remember mr big um this uh this guy's irish but we won't hold that against him his name is mark

daily and uh this is some this is some rocking right here he's got a brand new album coming out called devil's arms this is the first single called i want to be more here is mark Daily. I want to stop my life again. Fight my life again. You will see, thoughts of power and frustration This time I'll be I'm meant to be The world has gotten all that I

Want to be more I want to be more I want to tear this world apart Live every beat that's in my heart Be free without disease Find out where my soul's been hiding Who will I be? Because I want to see

The world in all its glory I I want to be more All my life, I'm looking for a miracle to bring this heart to love. Oh, I try to be more, be the cure to everything I know I can't be. Just want to look inside I will find out of life I will find a line

I will find a ride I want to be more Oh I gotta be more Oh I need to be more Nah-na-na-na-na I gotta be more

I wanna be more I wanna be more You're a real down-home good old boy, aren't you? I want to go get something to eat before I'm 30. And we've returned. Who is that one more time? Sure. From his upcoming album, Devil's Arms, that is Mark Daly

and a song called I Want to Be More. The devil's arms. I like that name. That's great. That's right. All right. Wendy at the ready, I believe. We'll get her in here.

So excited that we're going to get to see her in Vegas in April again. Yep. She'll be in Vegas. She'll be there with my other sister, Misha. They're going to make a little sister trip out of it. It'll be great. Very excited. Maybe this time I'll participate in the little morning out on the patio at the pool deck,

you know, whatever the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the. awareness wellness uh check or whatever it was oh i don't know what it was yeah welfare check is what we call last time last time we sacrificed the weakest among us that was fun we did that oh good good yeah just totally participate in that killed them slowly with a knife i'll explain the situation to wendy don't don't worry hey look who it is it's my sister wendy who joins us here on therapy thursday like she does most thursdays Wendy welcome back to the program to the program i'm here how you doing hi guys hey hey hello good did see that video i sent you with the weird experiment, that kid looked like Peter in about four years or something.

Isn't that weird? I'm kind of. I didn't quite see it. But isn't that weird how we always can't see things that others can see? Yeah. I don't know if it was just the, I mean, I was trying not to have the hair be the prominent feature there, but it was hard not to. No, I can see a little bit in his face. It's also this fascinating.

For context, so people know, it's that weird experiment where you put a divider between one of your arms, is out of your view, but a fake arm is in its place in front of you. And then you have your regular arm over here. And then the person doing the experiment tickles or touches or stimulate your hand at the same time it does your fake hand and your real hand that's out of view. And quickly your brain starts to go, well, that's the hand that they're doing. So at some point, they'll freak out and just take a hammer out and slam it on the fake hand. And some people feel like a real sharp sense of phantom pain.

Oh, I'm sure they do. Yeah, exactly. Oh, my God. It's really interesting. Anyway, that's what that was about. It actually kind of relates to our email. Yeah, it does a little bit. Yeah, actually does. Weirdly enough, speaking of which, let's get right to it. So this came via the text line, which you are all encouraged to use. If you'd prefer that as a way to get a hold of us, 8014710462, or you can email us the morning stream at gmail.com.

And here's what this one said. When I said this to Wendy, I was like, is this even a thing we can address? It seems kind of interesting to me, and I just didn't know. And Wendy says, perfect, let's do it. So I'm kind of excited for how you're going to even talk about this. Have I ever said no to any of them? No. Sometimes you'll go, well, I have this other one that might be better, you know, like that. But other than that, you're right.

You usually don't. I would love someone to get me to say no. I think that would be a good challenge. Yeah. With Wendy, she'll always say yes unless it's, can you draw this for me? And then you'll say no. You won't do that. Anyway.

There are things I'll say no, too. But in terms of this is like, oh, anything. I'll let's tackle it. But anyway, I was just wondering, like, if I say, No, I hope the guy were out. Well, here's what it says. It says, hi, Wendy's and the boys, of course. I guess that's us, Brian.

That's us. We're the boys, of course. Wendy and the boys. I love that band. Here we go. It says, I have this weird problem lately, and it kind of just started about a month ago. Frequently, when I look at myself in the mirror or even catch myself reflected in a window, I don't recognize myself right away. It sometimes takes 10 to 12 seconds to figure out that it's me.

To say it's weird is an understatement. Thought maybe Wendy would have. some ideas or what I should do. That's the length of this thing. We don't have a name. We don't have any other background. Other than that, they seem very willing to ask the question and not sheepish about it.

So, you know, sounds like they want an answer. So I don't even know what angle do you even take for this? Like, what do you even say? Well, I have some questions, of course,

which would be, have you recently lost or gained weight? Have you had an aging spurt? Because sometimes that happens, like suddenly you just look more tired or different. Did you, and Nicholas Cage recently changed faces? Right. Did you get a whole new wardrobe?

What happened a month ago? Yeah, yeah. That's really probably the most important thing. I was thinking like this isn't like a multiple personality or disassociative identity disorder kind of thing. No. No. You can have, I mean, the way. You still are feeling like you're the same person.

You're just seeing somebody else in the reflection. It just takes a minute. Yeah. Well, and 10 to 12 seconds, that's long. It is a long time, yeah. Like, stare in a mirror. Now, and my other question would be, is this like in your bathroom mirror? Oh, yeah.

Or is this like you catch a glimpse, like, obviously the glimpse in the window, that happens for a second where you're like, well, who's that? Ah, but 10 seconds is a long time to not know who that is. That's the part that struck me. It's like one thing to just see a glance and go, oh, it's kind of dark in here. Oh, for a second, I was like, who is that in the mirror? I've done that. Everyone's done that. But like 10 and 12 seconds of sort of looking at yourself before dawns on.

If you don't, if you don't have a lot of mirrors in your house, right? Like you don't have a, you don't see yourself in the bathroom mirror every morning or you don't see yourself as often. Could this happen like where it was like, oh, well, that's what I look like. Crazy. Okay. I mean, it's still 10 to 12 seconds. It's still long time. And maybe the estimate of the 10 seconds is not quite right either, right?

like um maybe they're much shorter than that they could be exaggerating yeah but even even five seconds seems like a long time like it seems a long time so also they spelled recognized with an s so is this a British friend oh maybe British yeah did they do that yeah good point and maybe the mirrors they're different or something I don't know um the other they'll operate on the metric system yeah metric mirrors yeah and so really I'd be the most interested in what is happening what happened a month ago and and so a couple quick things you would rule out was there's some kind of head trauma right so you're always especially like if this is an adult never had this problem before suddenly has this problem and not a young adult okay so

kind of I'm making up things because they didn't give me information but if it was someone just like in midlife and suddenly they are having this experience I would want to know Have they changed any medications? Has there been any trauma to the head? Is there any been really big changes in their life, like a job loss or a divorce or a house fire? You know, any kind of trauma that might just kind of be messing with their neurological pathways, right? So first rule out the biological stuff and then any sort of psychological stuff that maybe has happened.

And then if all of that's just fine, I would literally have this person look in a mirror and demonstrate it for me to see. Yeah, I'd be curious to know what they, if they don't think that's them, if they don't think they look like that or they don't think that the person they're seeing in the mirror is them. You almost like have them describe who they're seeing in the mirror and see if it matches up with how we see them. Yeah, I wonder if they have trouble. It'd be good to interesting to ask them if they have trouble seeing other people in their life for who they are or if they ever have. a moment of like this is my mom and I'm pretty sure it's her but she looks different to me today

like those that seems like all of that could lead to I don't know if it's Alzheimer's but you know there's there's conditions neurological stuff where people can be face blind I've heard of that before yeah yeah and I have actually don't know this maybe you guys do if you have face blindness is your own face confusing to you I don't know no idea I've never I've always wondered about face blindness but I've never thought about how you look to yourself like your own face And, you know, with aging or with injury or with illness, you can just like kind of have a like, bleh, who's that? And, you know, or you don't, you feel a certain way in your body and, you know, you're experiencing it from an outside view. You see a picture of yourself, that kind of thing.

So that's all within the range of sort of normal and not biologically driven or whatever. People can have that experience. But if, let's just take the 10 to 12 seconds at its face and then, you know, something's probably going on here, right? The other weird thing I would rule out, and I know this sounds like dramatic, but, you know, if we got any brain things going on that are like pressure from a tumor can do wild things. I mean, Scott, our mom had a benign tumor on the prefrontal cortex, and she was fully

seeing very weird things. Yeah, that was very odd. And she loved it. She used to say, I could sit here for an hour. hour and stare at a clock and just be like, whoa. Oh, wow. It's almost like drugs with her. It was almost like,

it was and it was pleasant for her in a weird, when a way you kind of don't assume that's going to be happening, but it was trippy. And that was just pressure from a tumor on a particular set of neurons. And so that is sometimes the thing, right? So I'm not positive what that would look like other than, you know, you want to rule out all of those different things. But let's just talk about where, what is, I don't know if it's this, but might be interesting

for people to hear about, but just we've maybe talked about in the show before, dissociation or depersonalization or de-realization, if you've heard of any of those terms. And there are differences between those things. So, you know, dissociating is, we have a couple different versions of that, like officially. There's like a dissociative amnesia, a dissociative. a fugue state, identity disorder can be dissociating, and then depersonalization. So depersonization is you really just feel detached from yourself and your own identity. And so that's just, you no longer feel like you are in you or you are you.

So that would be the one psychological question I'd have here. So you sort of catch yourself in the mirror. You don't look like yourself. You're staring at yourself for a while until it clicks that it's you. is that getting worse? That would be another question I would want to know how often is this happening

and is it getting worse and does it feel like you are not yourself in any way or is it more like running into someone and eventually it dawns on you who they are you know kind of what does that feel like anyway

but depersonalization it's not super common people can definitely have it and when you ask yourself or when you ask someone sort of like what it's like or what's caused it. Often there can be something traumatic that is led to it. Often when you can't control your experiences or we've talked a little bit about when trauma occurs and you kind of separate the brain will do this thing where it kind of

in order to protect you, it leaves its regular surroundings. It kind of goes outside your body sometimes and there's a lot of versions of this. And it's, You know, it can come from violence or trauma or any of those kinds of things. Our brains will do some things to protect us that way. So that would be another set of questions. There's an actual word for this thing. Let me play what the Internet says it's pronounced as. Okay.

Procephagnosia. Procephagnosia. Tell me about it. I didn't look it up. So it says people, let's see, people tend to compensate for this by relying on others. Let's see, where's the actual definition? Here we go. It is also known as face blindness.

cognitive disorder or face perception or misperception, which is the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one's own face, and when that's impaired, while other aspects of visual processing seem intact. I'm skipping ahead past that part in parentheses. The term originally referred to a condition following acute brain damage, so the trauma part, I think we're dead on there. And it says there's three kinds. There's aperceptive, which is case is acquired with someone in the earliest processes of their lives. So as babies, they develop it. Associative, which is typically used to describe cases acquired

with spared perceptual processes, but impaired links between early face perception and the semantic information humans hold about each other's memories. And then finally, developmental, which sounds like the first one, but some people may not see it till later in their lives. So that's interesting. So as an adult, this is going to be a really rare

it sounds rare it even says here it says very very rare affects very few people but yeah when it does must freaking suck but the idea of it just happening out of nowhere yeah it doesn't make I don't think that's what this is no but it's possible I mean you can you know have someone check it out and find that out but I mean the other question would be does this happen with anyone else are you because I don't you so to recognize other people in your life, especially people who are close to you, yeah. Or doesn't, and here's the other thing that's kind of popped in my head as you were saying that is just like, does it take you a second to recognize anyone else or yourself, but you

can recognize them, is not face blindness, but it is, I'm thinking in terms of just like attention or, so for example, think of if I interrupted you in the middle of something and your mind was completely somewhere else and it just took you a while to orient to the moment right it's like an extended version of that is possible too um sure yeah because if you're not doing this with any other faces it's just your own then you know we got something else going on there right but if it's but if you're if everybody else is uh taking a second for you to recognize them so would would mental trauma lead to this sort of thing where because you've you've talked on the show about disassociation before which can be have all sorts of sources and and stuff is it possible that i mean again we don't

know what this person but if somebody has a really traumatic experience emotional experience that that trauma can translate into disassociation i just didn't think it could go that far as to be a kind of a physical disassociate you know like this association for me like i experienced a little bit of that when i was pulled off those meds years ago and i remember at this just horrible weird feeling of like not quite knowing who I was or where I was or or what was real around me like not not like hallucinogenic but like all the feelings were wrong of of what existence was like I knew if I saw myself in the mirror or you know grab my own a hand or whatever I knew that what those things were but it all felt wrong yeah and I don't think that's the same as this this sounds like

full on like who the hell is that and 10 seconds later going oh it's me Like, that doesn't feel like it's the same. Yeah. Well, I think what you've got, you would have been in the category. There's about, I think it's less than 20% of people will have this experience in adulthood after the age of 20. Right. Probably because they have more resources and brain development in place, but it doesn't

mean they won't, right? So obviously violence or traumatic events can create this. And in your case, you had sort of a chemical version occur. Yeah, I don't know. I just want more information on what is going on for this person before I would call it any of these things because none of them fit. And so it's strange. But I would talk to your doctor. Let's start with that.

I would just run this by a medical professional because it may be a side effect of some medication. it might be and the fact that it's just started a month ago there's you know you want to pay attention to anything that is sort of strange that just starts um sometimes you'll find people they're like oh i've done this since i was a kid you're like okay we got a long pattern of this like there's there's a connection to whatever right but anything that just starts suddenly in a especially in adulthood that um is a psychologically weird thing like this feels sort of benign, like, oh, well, you just stare harder at the mirror for longer and then you'll know who you are, right? And most people are not going to be like, oh, red flag,

go get help right now. But, you know, maybe in your next meeting with your physician, mention it and say, this is weird. Does this ever happen? And, you know, off for any other symptoms that might be occurring? Because if we take, if you take mom's brain tumor, or anybody having some anomaly in their brain, how do you usually know? well, there's usually some sort of mental processing that shows itself, balance, something, you know, suddenly you're nauseous all the time. Well, we've got to look at all the things. Right.

Usually a scan is what you got to. And there might be a couple of smaller symptoms that this person's ignoring or is it even registering that there are other symptoms of something like this going on. Right. But they see this one is kind of the one that takes front and center. Right. There's like a. Yeah, I would ask also. What else is new, if anything?

Yeah. And kind of really think about it. Because, yeah, most of us just incorporate, oh, well, this, and I got a weird bump there. Okay, I guess I'll live with that. Yeah. You know, you just address to it and incorporate it in what you no longer pay attention to. So this is often why people go a long time before certain things get checked out. The other question I would ask, I mean, I don't know, I've forgot what he said here.

or they said about having it's weird as an understatement. Yeah, just their experience of it. Are they scared? Yeah. Is it, yeah, that's definitely weird. Because that's the thing. With mom's tumor, I would have thought she would have been scared. And instead, she was not.

In fact, she kind of liked it. She was chilling. She was like, it's stared at a wall. So maybe he's, maybe he or she's not having that. They're just feeling like, Oh, that's weird. I wonder why that is. I guess I'll ask the question of the show I listen to.

You know, like maybe it's just real chill, and they're not really being affected that way. I feel like if I did this, I would lose it. But I don't know. Maybe I'd see this person in the mirror. Like, I'm trying to imagine that. Imagine looking at yourself. It sounds like a TV series. Yeah.

Like, this is how it starts. Yeah, it's like a black, no pun in tem, but it's like a black mirror episode where you really don't know. Something has changed you or you have. changed yourself or you somehow part of you knows you're looking at yourself but you don't know that that's wild that's wild like and our brains are such we forget how how like tender this pink little blob is like if you just mush it in the wrong way susceptible to damage it is yeah yeah you're mush it in the wrong direction and suddenly you got like you know this weird dichotomy of I am who I am but I'm not seeing myself in this reflective surface that just must

be mind-boggling. Yeah. Yeah. Can't even imagine. And one thing, like, let's give them a real protocol here. So, yeah. Go find yourself a mirror. Oh, yeah.

Okay. Let's see. Okay. Yeah, let's find yourself a mirror. Let's do it. Let's just go to the doctor with a little data. If this is England and they might need to come with some data. Not that that's not true in America.

It's true in America. But this idea of like, all right, get a mirror. Set a timer on your phone as you are. approaching that mirror and then just pay attention to the sensation what happens and then when you like you're you're not recognizing your face yeah and does it even happen if you're doing it on purpose does this require an accidental glance in a mirror um and then time it and maybe it's one second or two second and it feels like 10 because it's freaky yeah because time does weird things when you know and then kind of what does it feel like um and then

does this always happen? Just pay attention for a whole day. How often do you look in a mirror and, you know, have this happen? And then look at all your medications, anything you're taking, any supplements you're taking, anything new you've added in the last month, any, you know, just kind of take stock of all of those things. And then if it doesn't make sense to you or give you some clear idea of what to do next, run it by a doctor with all that data and see if that can be helpful. Yeah. Yeah, it seems like the thing to do. And there's no real reason to not, I mean, how do I put this? That's basic, you're giving them homework and that homework makes sense to me. But I just saves the, and it saves going to the doctor and having them say, okay, go home and try these things. And then you've made another two month appointment. Yeah. Good point. Good point. Because you know what? Good people in that field. They're kind of, you got to take the date you get. It's hard. Yeah. They're tired. Yeah. And so finding out, like, what is this experience actually? And then. then my other final question would be, who else have you talked to about this? And if it's no one, is that because you're embarrassed to say it? Is it feel odd? Or you don't want people to think you're crazy?

Like, what's going on with that? And then if you do mention it to someone, you know, like kind of the support social aspect of things, right? Often you'll be like, oh, someone will go, oh, I have that too. Like, oh, you too. Or it's, nope,

that sometimes that. the feedback back that that's not okay, you should probably get some help can be helpful within your support system. What if it's a two-way mirror and there's just a dude living in there? Oh, my gosh. It is a black hair episode. You're getting punked or something. Yeah.

He's been very good so far at moving with your movements, but now you're questioning who that actually is. And it's a good progress you're making. An old Warlock Pinchers crank call that I remember from high school where a guy calls a mirror shop and this whole call is recorded. A guy calls a mirror shop and says, yeah, I'm looking in the mirror and this person is not me. Wait a minute, describe yourself and gets the guy on the phone, the salesman at whatever furniture place this is where he, quote, unquote, bought the mirror to describe himself, hold on, I think it's you. I think I'm seeing you in the mirror.

Do the guy start questioning his reality on the other end of the phone? The guy is like, okay, you take care of yourself, bud, something like that. You get some off the phone as quickly as possible. I love it. That's great. Yeah, let us know. We should do a whole episode where everyone sends in how they're feeling, the real life things that make them think they're being punked.

Yeah, right. Because a friend of mine told me this the other day. This is so wild. She apparently, she's a labor and delivery nurse. And when someone comes in to give birth, they give them Tylenol right at the beginning. Really? Because it helps recovery with early pain management, just inflammation that's like, It's just they've found it to be really helpful.

I didn't know that. The person comes in and she, on her chart and her record, good for her, to be honest, but said she had used meth at least once during this pregnancy. Whoa. And my friend says, okay, so we start out with a time and all. The Tylenol does these things. And she goes, you know what? I read the Tylenol could give a kid autism.

So I refuse to take the Tylenol. And she's like, looking for Camerol. cameras like is this real yeah are you punking me here how do you know meth and not a Tylenol okay yeah sure why not trust the meth avoid the Tylenol yeah so let's do a punk show i yeah because i i don't know why this reminds me of like yeah just this freaky moment of how real life can be freaky right and scary so just just know we're in your corner we can figure this out and it may fade the other things sometimes with stuff like this, it just stops. Yeah, that was going to be my

question. Like, it could be, I don't know, a high pressure thing and the headache started it or, you know, it could be a totally temporary deal. If it's been going on for a month, though, I'd worry. Yeah, because we got, yeah, and that's true. So take your data to your doctor, I think

is a good plan. I think that's a great idea. And let us know back, because I'm bizarrely curious about this. I just kind of want to know where this ends up because I've never really heard of it, before. I'd heard of face blindness, but I didn't know you could do it to yourself, A, and B, have it last 10, 12 seconds and not knowing it's you. Yeah. That's just really weird. And there are there any other, this is the other thing I would ask them. Are there any other aspects

that aren't visual in your life where you question who you are? Like, are you just laying in bed going, this doesn't feel like my body or this arm isn't my arm. You're having depersonalization. Yeah. Yeah. That stuff's just wild. And are you from England? Am I right? Yeah. Is that the use of S, does that prove that you're from England? Okay. That's right, exactly. And then so all of this will be a lot less expensive for you. Congratulations. Yeah, so enjoy that.

Yeah, enjoy that. That's good stuff. Well, Wendy, this is great. As usual, we'll do more of this in upcoming episodes. If you guys have any questions for Wendy, keep those coming. We'd love to respond to those. And again, we'd love to hear back from this person. I have something to share.

I have a favor to ask the community if you guys are up for the irony of me telling you to buy cookies um is let's see i gotta find it um so my friend okay scott you remember katie yeah i love katie she's the best she was my favorite of all your friends nothing wrong with the rest of your friends but she was the bomb i know but she's the best love her to death she is at the super bowl right now her company is doing something for the super bowl and i keep joking like she's gonna be in one of the commercials she can't tell us anything you know i guarantee she's not one of the commercials i do not put 48 mothers of two in commercials Anyway, she's awesome, but her daughter is selling Girl Scout cookies, and they are trying to go to the sequestrian camp.

It's very cute. And I thought, oh my gosh, I bought so many cookies. I can't even tell you. And they ship anywhere, well, not England. I think it's only in the United States. They do not recognize sending shipping to England. They do not. So, is anyone needs some Girl Scout cookies in your life?

You can't find yourself a Girl Scout. I have one for you. She has a cute website. This is Katie's daughter. who is the cutest child in the world. If you need, the lemon ones are unbelievable. Have you had them?

No, never had them. I don't think I have. Oh, you've got to do it. I mean, I'd try it. Sure.

I'm going to, what do I just send you? Her little website. Yeah, send me a link. Yeah. And then we'll put it in the chat. I'll send you link. And then,

yeah, please everyone buy your cross-coat cookies from Mia. So she can go play with horses or whatever. Anyway, I mean, you got to buy them anyway. You may as well get to buy them. from Mia, right?

I know. And, you know, your local kid, you can probably find one. That's great, too. But a lot of times, I don't ever see anybody selling them. And if I don't know a kid, I'm like, where are my cookies coming from this year? That, you know, that no soliciting sign on our door is a double-edged sword. Yeah, it keeps the guys away who want to redo our windows or paint our house. But unfortunately, it also keeps the Girl Scouts away.

There you go. Exactly. One of those signs that has the exception on it that says, no soliciting unless you're selling Girl Scout cookies. Yeah. That's a good idea. They do make those, yeah. Yeah, except some guy's going to dress up like a Girl Scout and try to... Just to try and sell us windows, you think?

Yeah, I don't trust it. Something about that would throw me off, but I love the... If he does that, it goes through that much effort just to try and sell us windows. If nothing else, he's going to make it on my TikTok and help me get some views. He'll give you a, he'll sell your windows, but he'll give you a sleeve of Oreos because he has to keep up... The sleeve of thin mints, exactly. A sleeve of thinnments, which you must freeze because that's the best. Yes.

That's the only way. Did I ever tell you I got to have a speeding ticket because of thin mint girl scout? No. No. Oh, yeah. This was awesome. Tell me that. I had a car full of Girl Scouts because our daughter did it. And I'm driving.

And you know that it's, I call it a speed trap. But, you know, the freeway goes from like 70 to 60 without telling you suddenly. Like an Orum scott down there. Anyway, I am flying. This dude pulls me over. and I say to the girls because it has to be a teaching moment I'm like listen

no crying white girls this is not we're not doing that what we do is we're honest and clear and don't make up stuff so he opens the door and he's like so why are you going so fast

I'm like well I'm bringing a group of Girl Scout cookies I mean a group of Girl Scouts home from camp and he's like did you know that the thing changed I'm like I was not aware of that and he goes Oh, I love Girl Scout cookies. I go, oh, what's your favorite kind?

And he's like, I love the thin mints. I'm like, have you ever had them in the freezer? And he's like, no. I'm like, oh, dude, this is the best. And the girls were like, it's. And then he takes my license, goes away, comes back. And he's like, all right, you guys have a nice day. And I was like, yes.

Yeah, you did. You had to give him a box or something. I know. I didn't. We didn't have them with us because that'd be weird if we took them from camp. But anyway. And I said to the girls, see, just be honest and also mention your Girl Scout status. Right, exactly.

Why not? You know how to get to that guy's heart. And now he's been fired for, I don't know. Excepting bribes. Yeah, taking bribes. Accepting bribes. He also learned you just take me in the freezer. They are good.

But anyway, so I sent you the link, Scott. You could use that. I just texted it to you. Oh, you texted. Also, she'll deliver the cookies if you're in the L.A. area. They live in L.A.-ish area. Oh, I thought she was in New York. Why did I think she was in New York?

No, because you can't have kids in New York. You can, but you can. But then she used to, she was dancing and stuff, right? That was years ago. That was freaking a hundred years ago. She lived there a long time. Yeah. She moved away before, I don't know, before kids.

Oh, wow. Let's see, her kid's my kid's age. So 12 years ago. Oh, okay. So it's been a bit of time. Yeah, time keeps moving somehow. It's weird. I don't like it.

It keeps on slipping into the future. I wish it would just, I wish it would just chill out. So please, please, please, by cooking. from Mia and then get an extra box for someone you love and try the lemon ones. That's right. I should be in a Super Bowl commercial. You really should. You totally should.

You really should. It's working. I agree. It's getting hammered right now. Now, don't come to, don't come to Vegas. Don't come to Vegas expecting when you need to have your cookies with her, though. No, no, no.

No, no. You'll be long gone before then. No, I'll need to talk to her about the weight I gain for meeting all those and cookies. Then we'll have a wellness meeting check to see what Brian's. exactly perfect and we'll sacrifice the weakest problem yeah it'll be great uh windy have a fantastic week can't wait to do this again we'll see you next time thanks bye by now bye bye all right that was great uh we got a thing that we're going to listen to uh whether even though my conscience

tells me this might be a mistake but i got a an audio file from one claire gack always a mistake yeah she wants to clarify uh this is a clarification of course of um some pronunciations yeah Yep, because we got all that wrong. So let's hear what she has to say. Hopefully there's not a lot of swearing or otherwise besmirchment of one's character in here. Here you go. Right. I need to correct you on your pronunciations.

It's Sligo, Mayo, and Galway. Then Arma, Tyrone and Offaly. And then Leetrim, Dunigall, and Leish. Duny Gal. Brian also did terribly. So, yeah, that's those corrected. You're welcome. I like the cheese.

He stuck you in the end. He's like, Brian's bad. Yeah. Thanks a lot, Claire. I like, you know what? Anytime we do some Irish shit, you can send me one of these and tell us when we got it wrong. It's fine. Not every time.

I don't mind it. It's fine. All right. There you have it. I'm going to be sending her a list of American cities that I want her to pronounce. And she needs to record it. And, uh, yeah, get on it is what you need to do. Um, okay.

Before we get out of here, some reminders, coverville, remind the folks when and where. Yeah, noon, mountain time. So coming up in about 90 minutes, an hour and a half, the music of Melanie and the music of Nora Jones covers and covered. Boy, Nora Jones, not as many covers of Nora Jones, but boy, she put out some great covers. And she even did a whole album of Everly Brothers covers with lead singer of Green Day, Billy Jor Armstrong, called Billy and Nora. and it's all, it's called Foreverly and it's all Everly Brothers covers with them doing the harmony vocals.

It's fantastic. So you hear something from that. That all is coming up. Twitch.tv slash Coverville at 12 p.m. Mountain Time. Awesome. Check that out. Also tonight we have an episode of Core

at 4 p.m. usual time and that's Mountain Time. We have a lot to talk about. Big shake-ups happening this week in the Xbox world, but also a few other little things and the games we played. I also should have a little time with that,

skull and bones alpha or beta open beta i hope before then if not lots to talk about next fest is happening on uh steam which means all kinds of new demos it's going to be a fun games night so check it out that's 4 pm at frogpants.com slash core if you're looking for details right here on the live channels play retro tomorrow uh also if you are a patron of the show you can come to our couch party tomorrow we're going to be continuing our watchthrough of all of firefly that's right Episode two, or is it technically three since the pilot was a two-parter? I think it's technically two on the list, but I think you're right about it. I mean, it's the third hour, I guess.

It'll be the third hour, yes. A third hour on firefly. And we're doing the order in which it was intended, not the one it was aired in. Correct. Pretty sure this is the train heist, which originally was the pilot or the one shown first. I don't know. Anyway, that's tomorrow, 10 a.m. Mountain Time. Come for that here on the Discord.

And what else? Play retro tomorrow afternoon. Me and Brian Dunnell, we're going to talk about what is considered to be one of the worst, if not the worst video games ever made, Superman 64. Oh, yeah. The reason we're doing it is not to like celebrate, what's better than you thought, or it's still, it's fun now, or no, we're not doing that. Nope, still sucks. Yeah, but it's a history, it's a study as to why, first of all, Superman games are hard

to pull off, where he is the protagonist. And I got all kinds of theories on that, but also what went wrong and who did it? why and just the whole mess of it. It's just fun. So we're looking forward to talking about that. Skim some time between now and then as well and a film sack this weekend where we'll be talking about Hollywood Homicide.

Harrison Ford, what's his name? Channing Tatum. Well, it's the other one. Oh, it's the other guy. Yeah, not Channington. The other guy. Black Hawk Down Guy. Tate McGillicuddy, Jr. Esquire. I don't remember. What's his name? I don't know. He actually's

doing decent work now. We used to fun of him but he's a good actor anyway that guy oh yeah josh hartnett josh hardnett thank you thank you mid the the yeah that guy the struggle is real the struggle is real uh and then there'll be a new episode of the monday show on monday with carter and i uh by then it will be a podcast right now it's just that stream and i put it up in a few places people seem to like it we're going to keep doing that on monday afternoons that's a lot of stuff so keep track of it all over at frogpans dot com slash podcast and that's going to do it for us oh we sold out of the thing yesterday the um the zombie pack zombie it was a limited run i knew we'd sell out if anyone didn't get it i apologize if there's

enough demand we might do a second run but we only ordered the one so once we get those fulfilled we'll talk uh that is going to do it for us if you're looking for any other way of contacting us for here for the show song requests whatever it may be frogpans dot com slash tms speaking of songs and speaking of requests you probably got one right there all lined up I've got two, and they match, like the song and the request, and they fit together like peanut butter and jelly. Corey from Brisbane, pronounced that right. Hey, scones and butter. I wanted to make a request for the birthday of my loving girlfriend, Taya.

She is turning 29 on the 8th, though we won't hear this until the 9th here. She's the love of my life, and I can't wait to spend the rest of it with her. Hoping this message will be the end of a wonderful birthday for I wanted to request a song from or by. Yeah, I know. One Direction. She is an absolute super fan and absolutely unapologetic about it, which is one of the things I love about her. And she's also recruited me into the fandom. If you can't find anything that works, then a Disney cover would be great too. Thanks for fulfilling this request. It means a lot. Love the show, though. Corey from Brisbane. Nice. Listen, there's nothing wrong. I've become a big Harry Stiles fan in the past couple weeks because of the episode I did last week of Coverville, which was Harry Stiles turning 30. And so I actually featured the song, that we're about to play for you in that episode because it is, in my opinion, the best cover of a One Direction song. The best cover of the best One Direction song.

The song, of course, is the one that introduced us all to the band, What Makes You Beautiful, at least here in the States. It comes from the ska band Victims of Circumstance from their 2012 album Decades. Here is What Makes You Beautiful. You're insecure, don't know what bore, you're turning heads when you walk through the door. Don't need makeup to cover up. Feel the way that you are is enough. Everyone else in the room can see everyone else but in you. Baby you light out my world like nobody else

The way that you flip your hair gets me all the rough But when you smile at the ground It ain't hard to tell You don't know you're beautiful If only you saw what I can see Then you know why I want you so just to think Right now I'm looking itchy and I can't believe You don't know you're beautiful

That's what makes you beautiful You got it wrong To prove I'm right I will put it in a song I don't know why you're being shy And turn away when I look at your eyes Everyone else in the room can see it Everyone else but you Have you light up my world like nobody else

The way that you clip your hair gets me over But when you smile at the ground It ain't hard to tell you don't know You don't know you're beautiful If only you saw what I can see Then you know why I want you so desperately Right now I'm looking at you and I can't believe You don't know, you don't know you're beautiful, oh

That's what makes you beautiful La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La Baby you light up my world like nobody else The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed But when you smile at the crowd it ain't hard to tell you don't know you don't know you're beautiful right of my world like nobody else the way that you clip your hair gets me all the well but when you smile at the ground it ain't hard to tell you don't know you don't know you're beautiful if only you saw what i can see then you know why i want you so just to think right now i'm looking at you and i can't believe you don't know you're beautiful oh you don't know you're beautiful oh Bo. Get more at frog.