The Morning Stream - TMS 2634: The Temu Bellagio

Episode Date: April 22, 2024

He Died Monet-less. It's All Clothes & Lady Shit. Rose Gold On Air Light. Watter Fountain. It's A Fancy Bag. Palindromic and Nutty. Hiking Boy Fatty. An Innocuous Little Fart of a Movie. These Are Not The Fountain Drinks You're Looking For. shirtless dads holding babies. It's Dig Dug Week. I wanna see the rear view. There Are THREE Camels. Being nearly car murdered with Dunaway. Proving Children Horribly Wrong with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Be like Kyle Grossbeck, Joe, and Bill Cappanella, and change that for us. Coming up on TMS, he died monaeless. It's all clothes and lady shit. Rose gold on airlight. Watter fountain. It's a fancy bag. Palindromic and nutty. Hiking boy fatty.

An innocuous little fart of a movie. These are not the fountain drinks you're looking for. shirtless dads holding babies It's DigDug Week I want to see the rear view There are three camels Being nearly car murdered with Dunaway Proving children horribly wrong with Bobby

And more on this episode of The Morning Stream We can't be no normal family With him living in a garage And coming in a damn bedroom At 4 in a morning carrying hammers and shit Light off you want these cherry tomatoes But you got a hole in your neck

The morning stream. They wouldn't give us any more fish. Greetings, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Monday, April 22nd, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian David. Hi, Brian. Hello, Scott Johnson. Hello.

Welcome to another week. 4224. Darn right. We got our palindrums all week long, my friend. Yeah, look at that. So today, 4224. 4224, sorry. Then we got 42324.

So you're like, do, do, do, do it. That's good. Then you got 42424-2-4-obious. Yeah, which is even crazier. It's both palindromic and nutty. It's just nutty. 4-24-24. Yep.

Then we got 42524. Oh, it's just the gift that just keeps on giving. And when we're in Vegas, Monday, week from today, it'll be 42924. What? So it'll still be our first day with the people. Yep. The visitors, the Ted Pulligan's, would be a palindromic day. That's right.

That's right. We'll celebrate in Vegas for that. Yes. All right? I'll celebrate by riding the high roller wheel on 42824. Oh, that's fantastic. I'll celebrate by sitting at the base of it and watching you guys go up slowly. Hang up there with Tina, who's like, nope, no need, no need to go up there.

Me, Kim. No, Kim goes up there. She'll go up there with you. Cool. She always does. I'll sit down there. Mitsula's usually down there right around then. And me, Tina and Missoula will just, you know, while away the minutes while you guys slowly rotate around a thing and get drunk.

It'll be a lot of fun. Maybe drinks serve to us, sure. So we went downtown this weekend just for a quick visit. We wanted to see Nick. It's a long story, but he's doing, he just got a new job. And so the job he's at right now is at this Alan Edmund's fancy shoe place. And he's not going to be there much longer. And I thought, you know what?

Let's go down there and see him. We'll get lunch while we're down there and all that stuff. So we went down there. I saw something really weird. We are in an upscale. People in Salt Lake know what this is. It's down in the city creek area. If you know what that is, it's like fancy shops and there's an Apple store in there

and all these like fancy shoe places. And it's really kind of a boring place to visit if you're there for like nerd stuff because there's no like game stops or anything fun or toy stores. It's all clothes and lady shit, you know, whatever, it's fine. The fashion mall, like you have typical fashion mall kind of thing. Yeah, and it's just not a lot of fun stuff. But it's nice, and there's restaurants. No, no, Apple store, none of that.

No, well, no, it does have an Apple store. It does have an Apple store, okay. Green on airlight. No, green on Airlight? What would Apple be? I guess that would still be red. It'd still be red. It'd still be red.

No, it would be a Bondi Blue on Airlight. Oh, I like that. I like that. You did say Apple Store. I did. We can go back to 97 for that Bondi Blue, though. Holy hell, that's a callback. I love that.

Yeah. You know, that is an apple color. beige on air light would be another one. but everything was beige for a while. Or a rose gold airlight. There you are on air light. Rose gold, space gray on airlight. Yeah, I like it.

So anyway, we're hanging out and we go see Nick and it's fine and he's doing good and blah, blah, blah. And while we're there, though, this is kind of, like I say, kind of an upscale fashion mall type thing. Yeah. And there's a water, water, a water fountain where they get the water going, you know, squirting out and doing different shapes. and, you know, it's not quite Belagio style, but it's like a nice little thing. It's Belagio light. I think Belagio inspired. Yeah, it's just cute, cute little thing.

We have Belagio at home. Exactly. Belagio on Timu, Tamu, however they said. There you go. Yeah. So it's this nice little water fountain. It's fine. Kids are usually, you know, running around it, and it's just a thing that's in the middle

of this thing and kind of, whatever. People who have been down there, you'll know what I'm talking about. Well, as I'm walking by, there's a guy there in a suit. So this isn't like some, uh, homeless person or somebody otherwise is looking like they just kind of wandered in. They looked like they kind of belonged in an upscale shopping area. So a guy in a suit sitting on the edge of this thing has a bag. He's been shopping somewhere.

Didn't notice from where it was a white bag. It looked like a square bag with maybe shoes in it or something. I didn't know. Sure. One of those, yeah, yeah. It's a fancy bag. It's a fancy bag. With the fabric handles that he's holding on to as opposed to thin plastic.

painful stuff. Yeah, it's not like a target bag or something. Right, yeah. It's nice. So he's sitting there and he's wearing a nice suit and it fits well and his hair is nicely cut. He has a very short, very, you know, groomed beard. So my thinking is, oh, he's perfect for this place. This guy belongs in a place like this.

But he's sitting on the edge of this edge of the thing. There's their whole like lip around the whole thing. You can kind of just sit there. And he casually just starts dipping his left hand into the, into the freaking pond water or the fountain water yeah and bringing it up and sipping it drinking it just little so drink it out of his hand even yeah and and it's like a public freaking fountain water yeah there's no way that fountain water's like straight out of the tap dude there is like that stuff's just like recycled and who knows there's like pennies in there people have been thrown their gross

pennies in there potentially and kids have been yeah right okay in fact i could see on the other side of the thing kids splashing in with their hands. They weren't drinking it. They were smart enough not to drink it. But this guy just casually bring up a little handful, sip it, look around, check his watch, his very nice Apple Watch. He had one of the fatties, the hiking, hiking boy fatty ones, the Ultras or whatever we're called. The Ultra, yeah, the ones the Hyken Boy, like the more, but I know what you mean. I don't know what it's called. Is it just called the Apple Watch? Apple Watch Ultimate or Extra? Extra. The extra, everything, Apple is extra.

It is Ultra. Okay, Apple Watch. Is it ultra? Okay. I can run this thing into the side of a wall and not chip the glass. Wee. Yeah, the $800 plus one, whatever it is. He has this on, and he's looking at it, and he glances down.

He's looking around, goes back in with his hand, serps, just slurps up a little more water. I was free, I'd be honest, I was like, what that, this is not, this is an alien. He's like, Alan Tudik, style. doesn't know how to act and yeah not sure how to behave in proper society yeah that's an alien thing yes right really weird so anyway I don't know what to make of it

I just I walked on by we went to rocket or Johnny Rockets had a burger everything was fine but no did they still dance on the tables and do like the YMCA dance and stuff not in this one well if they do I've I think the only times I've ever been there I've never seen them I've heard tail but I've never seen it yeah

food's good though I had a good hot dog Yeah, it's a good burger. They're thin. They're thin burgers. They're good, though. Mm-hmm. Yeah. It's thin. It's thin, it's thin in a way that approaches what Freddy's does, but doesn't quite get there. Yeah. Yeah, it doesn't get the crispiness that Freddy's does for me. Yeah, which is all I really want, you know, wherever I go. It doesn't matter where I'm at. I kind of just wish for that. And they never bring it to me unless I go to Freddy's. But, yeah. Anyway, that was a weird thing. I'll never forget it. So to that guy, I salute you. May you ever drink. Maybe he's got an amazing immune system now, because he just. drinks had a public fountains?

I don't know. I don't know. Hate to see what he does in a public bathroom, you know? I mean, do they still have drinking fountains? That's actually, I know for a while, like, I remember going to places where during COVID drinking fountains, you'd always see them taped up with a white garbage bag or something, like somebody took a garbage bag, put it over it, and then just spun masking tape all around at like a builder's tape to kind of keep people from using it because it was

like oh my god this is how things spread yeah but i don't know if they've if you know at some point they took those out just because they're potential germ farms or if um i mean once i figured out covid was airborne only i think they probably i'm trying to think the last time i saw one i can't honestly say when i've seen a drinking fountain in public but it's been it's been a while yeah so maybe they did take it maybe it's like pay phones they're like we don't need these anymore slowly disappearing yeah i don't know they were already gross like the idea of you sucking on a thing in the middle of school, like seventh grade, and there's a piece of gum jammed up in the thing.

Yeah, always that. And there's some people who drink super close to the point where their lips are touching that, that slightly rusted metal spigot that the water is coming out of. Yeah, I don't know how we, Generation X may live forever because we are so immune to diseases. Because we drink out of hoses and freaking public water fountains. Well, not fountains.

Well, I guess they're still called water fountains, right? Water, no, drinking fountains, water fountains, drinking fountains. That works either way, sure. We used to put a fake, we'd get the fake barf from the, like, the novelty store. And you'd put that little patty right there on the thing, and it would keep kids from using it. Like, they'd see, they'd go to get a drink and go, oh, there's someone barfed on it. But it was just us playing a joke. Nice, really nice.

Yeah, that's how we were. Big grats to a friend of the show, you know, we hear from Jeff Sire here in there, from Canada. and he writes in all the time And he had a little baby grandchild born this week And I just wanted to just give the dude a shout out Because he deserves it. Jeff Sire and the whole family Connor and Riley are the proud parents

And it's little Isabella is the girl Oh sweet Yeah and I think Jeff deserves to get some grandpa time I think that's great Oh for sure yeah So congratulations guys The fun of experiencing that He's going to make it great

He's going to spoil him rotten And basically is, yeah. Now, if you know, I got a question about this one thing, though. Sure. He sends me a little DM about it and sent me a picture. An adorable kid. His son looks great, all that. We met him last year at Vegas.

They came together. Yeah. And super cute and everything. There must be a thing now where if the, this just wasn't a thing when my kids were babies, but they expect the dad to be shirtless and hold the baby. to get that like skin-to-skin thing or something? Really? Yeah.

I think that's a thing now and I'm just not in the, I don't have the memo because this is not the first time. This is maybe one of the last 12 photos I've had from strangers who's like, oh, hey, my son had a baby. Here it is. Here's a picture of the baby. It's always with the dad and no shirt holding the naked baby up on them. Now I get it with the mom. She just had it, right? You bring them right up.

You immediately make that skin contact. It's important. I get it. But dad's sitting over there in his jeans and no shirt in the lounger with a baby. It's fine. Yeah. I just wasn't told about it. I didn't know about it.

I felt like I bonded with my dad just fine without needing that sort of immediate skin-to-skin contact. I mean, it's fine. You know what? If it makes brand-new dads feel closer to their brand-new children. And then I'm, sure, I guess. I don't have a problem with. I just wonder if there's any science around it, you know? Like, maybe there, maybe something's happened in the last few years.

I think the science is probably more, more for the dads than it is for the babies. I mean, the baby, you know, the baby's going to get that and it's food and nourishment for mom. It's going to, it's going to naturally just bond with mom more instantly because of that. But maybe this actually is more, you know, gets the dad's more connect involved. Because, you know, back when, back when we had children, Scott, we were pacing. back and forth in the waiting room with a cigar. That's right. It was the mid-90s, see?

And we were just waiting for the kid to be born. I don't know. Maybe Carter wouldn't appeed on me that time when she was two if I had held her earlier. If you would have bonded better with her, something like that. Yeah, that would have been great. Speaking of which, tonight on the Monday show, her sister Taylor will be joining us. We're going to have a double daughter, dad daughter night. Oh, yeah.

I saw you mention that in chat. That's awesome. Yeah. It'll be fun. I'm looking forward to it. So, you know, going to hear some stories from the oldest and kind of have her bring a little normalcy to the thing. She'll be here tonight joining us. It'll be fun.

That's cool. Any of the babies be, I imagine Van will be upstairs hanging out with Kim, but Phoebes. They might make an appearance, but mostly they'll be up with Kim. I mean, Phoebe's fully mobile and speaking English now. So she's just running around being a freak. She says this thing now where she goes, Carter, what is it? she says, she yells in that voice? Phoebe.

Oh, she goes, come on. We got, you do have video, send it to me and I'll play it. Anyway, it'll be great. I'm looking forward to it. Hey, Brian, a quick look at history today. Yesterday is history today. Okay, just one I wanted to pull off of here. In 1976, this is a significant moment for women in journalism.

Barbara Walters, or as we often referred to her as, Bawawa, whatever we said. Babawawa. Babawawa. That all came from Gilda Radner, who did a fantastic Barbara Walters' impersonation in the... S&L shapes so much of our view of the world. It's just the way it is. Anyway, she became the first female U.S. Nightly Network news anchor in the history of the medium.

We've had some since, not many, but some. But Barbara Walters, first ever. Is she still with us, is the question? Oh, gosh. No, she died two years ago? 2022, 2021, maybe? You are correct. 2022 is correct.

And I've forgotten about that. A lot of the 20, like the 2020 to 2020 people who die, I forget that they died. And I don't know what that says. I don't know what that means. Probably something to do with the pandemic. I don't know. Probably, yeah. It says here she died.

Oh, had an open heart deal. Aortic valve went bad. Oh, geez. Yeah. But she was 93. and she did good. So congratulations. Yeah, she was, she was, you know, her unusual speech, notwithstanding,

she, her interviews were, were poignant and illuminating to the people that she talked to. I loved, loved her interviews. She was great. And she was on, wasn't she on the view for a long time here lately, like in the last, her last few years of working? I want to say she was, wasn't. She in the first season of the view, and then she just got, I don't know, felt like she was irritated with the young ones that she was hosting with,

or maybe it was, uh, then she left. I think she was only on the first season. Yeah, she created the view. Oh, that was hers. I didn't know that. Yeah. And then she left it. It just was like, I can't stand.

Joy Beha. Yeah. Just said, I'm out. Whoopi, you're in charge. Here are the keys, she says. Right. Yes. He said, no, there was somebody. I can't even remember who it was between, there was somebody between her and Whoopi, wasn't there?

I don't know. I thought they crossed over. I never saw an episode of the view, so I have no idea. Yeah, I'd only see clips on the soup. That's my, the view experiences, anything Joel McHale would put on the soup. And that's still a thing, right? People, I can watch the view if I want to today. It's a show. I think. I think. All right. I don't know. I don't know if like, if it's all of the, like, for a while, it was the view. then there was the talk then there was the dude version called the chew the chew which I think had a

like Mario Batali or somebody like it had a that makes me want to die I hate that name yeah yeah fortunately that's gone 2011 to 2018 no the chew let's see okay here's uh

chue that's that sucks Carla Hall Michael Simon Clinton Kelly Mario Batali he was I think he might have been the reason it was called the Chew is because oh the Curtis Stone Event Nicole Brown was on for a while Yeah

Was there another Let's see I thought there was another one that That really came and went You know so much more about this than I ever will Yeah Well it's It's not by it's seriously

It's not by anything more than again Joel McHale clips on the soup because I've never watched an episode of the talk or anything like that. Yeah, Sharon Osborne, Julie Chen, Sarah Gilbert, Cheryl Underwood, Sasha Tyler. Sarah Gilbert from Little House? Roseanne. No, that's Melissa Gilbert.

Oh, shit. Got them mixed up. Yeah. Okay. Little sister, though, right? Melissa Gilbert and Sarah Gilbert? Oh, are they related? I don't know.

Aren't they? That's cool if that's true. That feels like a big age gap, though. Yeah, it does, doesn't it? Maybe not. Because I think Melissa Gilbert's like in her 60s or something now. Well, I don't know. Maybe Sarah Gilbert is older than I thought.

I mean, Sarah Gilbert was born in 1975, so. It could easily be then, yeah. Yes, Sarah's sister, Melissa Gilbert. Really? Yeah. That's wild to me. All right. I did not know that.

That's great. All right, Brian, how'd record story day go yesterday in the snow? Yeah, let's talk about record story day because that's far better. So record store day for me was good and bad. I had a very specific thing that I wanted to get. So record store, let me back up here. Record store day is this annual event. I think it's now by annual.

They have it twice a year now. They've made Black Friday a secondary record store day. And it's a way for independent record stores. So not your big places people go to buy records, which I don't know. I guess Barnes and Noble right now is the only place I can think of that's still around that sells vinyl. It's a big box store. Sure.

But it's a way to get people to come to the independent record stores, pick up some brand new stuff, limited edition stuff, but then also stick around and pick up some great used records and things like that. And that's what I do in the past. Oh yeah, Walmart, I guess, has vinyl now. So, you know, I've done that. This year I didn't. This year I wanted to get in and out of there, so I didn't spend any time looking in the

bins that weren't the official record store. Doread A Ben's. But I had one specific thing that I wanted, and then a few other things that I kind of wanted. And the thing that I really wanted was this, so you know I love Sparks, the band Sparks. Sure. Every, for the last couple of years,

they've had anniversary releases of their first albums with new quality, thicker vinyl, like the whatever gram-pressed vinyl and blah, blah, blah. And clear and bonus tracks and things like that. 180 grand vinyl, thank you. Clearly, you can tell, I'm just such a great record store day guy because I know exactly the gram vinyl.

Anyway, so that was my main thing that I wanted to get. I also wanted to pick up the Lily Allen picture disc. I wanted to pick up the garbage EP that just came out. There's a Kim Wilde album with all of her original, like kids America and checkered love and Cambodia remixes and things that's brand newly released there was I mean there were there were a few things on my list but the primary thing was

sparks so I looked on their site and said okay there's a record store relatively close to me that I love it's called electric cherry it's in old town Arvada and they sell cool vintage everything so cool and they're doing it They open at eight. So I'm going to get there at seven, get in line. And then this other place that's a much bigger store, which is the one I usually go to your after year called Black and Red.

They open at 9. So if I get in and out of Electric Cherry quickly, I can head up to black and red and pick up whatever I don't get Electric Cherry. Cool. Perfect. So I get my coffee. I get in line. There's already like 30 people in line at Electric Cherry.

It's snowing. It's like blizzardy. conditions or cold, it's just a little soggy and wet. You know, there's about 30 people in front of me. And Electric Cherry is, it's a store that maybe holds. Man, if you put 10 people in that store, you're kind of going to be playing the car shuffle game. We're like, all right, I've got to move the bus back to get the convertible forward so I can get this car out kind of thing. And so they're letting in, they're letting in six people at a time, which,

works fine because there are actually six crates, six wooden crates, full of record store day stuff. So you go in there and you, you know, I'm watching, waiting for my turn to finally go in. I get in and I start looking through and the first thing I find is this awesome, which I wasn't planning on buying, this awesome guerrillas Cracker Island vinyl, double disc set, clear vinyl, different cover, extra, so a second album with a bunch of extra tracks on it. I was going to ask, is it all covers on the other album or renexes or something?

No, no, it's like a Dave Grohl, like a track that Dave Grohl is guesting on and stuff. Oh, no way, that's cool. I have to go look that around. Let's see. Captain Chicken featuring Del DaFunkey Homo Sapien, controller featuring MC Bin Laden, Crocodillas featuring De La Sol and Don Penn.

Silent Running featuring Deli Omitai. You haven't listened to that. That might be... Oh no, Silent Running was on the original. There's a new version of it. Tame and Paul, a new gold. Anyway, and then it's got a poster in it. That's cool.

Like a little two-sided one-sheet poster. Got the whole crew on there? Yeah, yeah. Somewhere in here. I don't know where it's... The cover's just got... What's his name? I always forget the name of the characters. This is... Yeah, this is...

Murdoch. Murdoch, yeah, the wizardy dude. Yes, exactly. Yeah. I love that shit. Yeah, I do too. I'm a big fan. I would, his records are, his they records.

I was like, I was, you know, it's easy to forget that it's not those characters making those albums. But anyway, I love, I love those. That particular record, freaking great. So good. Exactly. Yeah. So somebody in the chat room is saying it sucks for the, like, you're just trying to get limited crap and not supporting little artists.

O Contrere, this is like, this is a way to support the little independent stores. You're totally getting it wrong. Like, this is a way to support the record stores that don't get all the attention like Barnes and Noble and Walmart and stuff like that where people are getting vinyl. So also picked up this Lily Allen, it's not me, it's you, which is the album that Greg Kirsten produced of hers, which is great. and it's got a Zoe trope. Oh, look at that.

So as you have this on the as you have this on the turntable, it spins around and... What does it, what does it animate? I can't tell what's on there. It's Lily spinning around in front of those giant letters that make up her name. Oh, cool. So depending on how, because it's going to be a different speed at which the inner ring spins, obviously, than the outer ring. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I love stuff like that.

Yeah, it's really, really cool. Yeah, you can see, like, here's her sitting on her giant. Here's Lily Allen sitting on her giant A. Her weird brother from Game of Thrones is behind it holding the A-up. That's what I like to think. Grayjoy, yeah. That's right. I can't think of his name.

Alfie. Alfie Allen, yeah. Alfi Allen. And then picked up this garbage EP. I still haven't talked to Iceworm to see if he picked it up, but if he hasn't. Normally they do, like, they give you a little ticket inside that's got a code on it so you can download the digital. um the digital versions of the songs and so you can have them to stream in your own library instead of having to transfer them from vinyl to digital but in this case they didn't but that's all right i'm

i'm going to hook up the uh the the turntable i've got and get them recorded and and uh listen to them this week i'm excited to check them out a lot of the stuff is streaming anyway right like you can find some of it is like obviously lily allen that album's streaming you can there's nothing bonus on there the i don't know if the garbage EP is streaming yet eventually i'm sure it will be I wonder if the guerrillas' second half thing is available somewhere. It might be. I have to look that up. But the Sparks thing didn't have an electric cherry.

So I got out of there, got my stuff, bought it, got out of there, got up to black and red, still about 40 minutes before they were opening. So about 8.20 got up there. And they, because of the blizzard, they actually brought people into the store and just snaked them through all of the, they have used books. and used records and CDs and cassettes and things like that. So they basically have the line sneaking through all of the aisles. And I'm looking at it's like, all right,

there's probably a good 100 people in front of me. It's going to take a while. But I've got my list of remaining things. I'm looking for a couple things for KT data in case he can't get them and get to the front of the line. And just like last year, the person who was maybe five or six people in front of me grabbed the one copy that they bought

of the Sparks album and happened again. Happened again. So like they had the you know the rumors picture desk, the Flewwood Mac Rumors

Picture Disc I was going to pick up. They had already run out of that. The Olivia Rodriguez, there was a really cool disc, an EP of Olivia Rodriguez and Noah Khan covering each other's songs. Noah Khan does this great song called Stick Season. and it's his big hit and so they've got on one side Olivia Rodrigo covering his song

and then the other side it's Noah Khan covering one of Olivia Rodriguez songs. That's cool. I like that. But they were out of that one. They had 20 copies of that one. These things are super, super limited. Like there are the Sparks thing, there were only 1,500 copies worldwide. And this is a record store day happens everywhere, not just in America.

but they were able to buy one copy, they sold it. It's like, ah, dang it. The Yellow Electric Cherry actually has struck up a conversation with her. Probably if I wouldn't have struck up a conversation with her, I would have gotten to black and red 10 minutes earlier and been ahead of the person in line who bought the Sparks album. Oh, man, if you could turn back time, you know? Yep, exactly.

If you could turn back time. By the way, Cracker Island Deluxe is available everywhere streaming as well. It's got all those extra tracks as well. Not all that cool art, though. I can tell you that. Yeah, cool art and the cool vinyl and that sort of thing. And again, it's making money for the record, the independent record stores. Happy to support them.

I love supporting the little record stores, independent comic shops, independent record stores, the comic book toy places. Happy to support that as well. Yeah. Places are great. man all right we're going to play a game it's time to add dunaway to this call see how he's doing see if he's ready to play oh i should probably log in let me do that real quick here chat you distract you distract brian for a minute while i log in because i'm not in open audience window there we

go all right there we have it hopefully done away's around and we can do this thing he's not answering that doesn't mean it anything no Oh, he answered, so we're good to go. Here we go. Let me play his theme music. Here you go. Brian Dono-Way, what are you doing? Welcome to the thing.

How are you? Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Welcome. I'm glad to be at the thing. Yeah, welcome to the thing. I'm glad to be at any anything today after nearly being murdered twice today. Oh, what happened? Tell me what happened.

You get in a car? It was like a car thing or what? What happened? Jesus, it's like every morning coming down the little, little, two lane highway thing we got going to work is uh there's always people who were so excited about getting to work i suppose that they're willing to kill themselves and me along the way right anyway yeah yeah i got a camera and stuff in my in my car now so yeah whatever i'm glad you're okay yeah i just don't want you i don't want you getting hurt you know that would suck right but then i'm like

i'm walking i took my little walk because i was feeling all stressed and stuff because that's not the right way to start the day off having somebody almost run you off the road and then so i'm like doing my little walk around my little town here to take a little break and then this this guy like zips right in front of me into a parking lot i mean he was flying yeah and i saw his license plate and i'm like he's a judge he's a freaking judge you got a freaking judge plate back there gonna run me over and i'm like i'm so i'm glad to be inside with you guys well good i'm tired of being i'm tired of being angry it'd be a real it'd be a real it'd be a real hoot if you had to do jury duty and that was the judge on the case wouldn't that be fun of

that'd be a real point at him i point at him and then i do my two i things and i pointed him again yeah that's exactly yeah well there you have it uh nice and done away is already even won today like he doesn't even realize he he hasn't even played half asses yet and he's already won because we're not going to watch crossroads this week yeah yeah yeah that actually that actually improved my mood by about 2 000 when i saw that i was like i was like okay you win some you lose some yeah and you're definitely won that one uh all right let's let's explain these rules brian want you tell us how this the game works and who's going to win what i will absolutely do that welcome to the morning half ass is a trivia game where

i'm actually going to be giving you the answers i'm going to give scott and brian a category and six possible answers three of which are correct and three that are incorrect like uh people's opinions of uh independent record store is not getting a great benefit from record store day that's that's how wrong that is. I went to a record store day. Did you? Nice. Yeah. Anything up, cool?

They didn't have any of the cool stuff like I heard you talking about a few minutes ago. All they had was some stuff left over from previous ones. I didn't get there to like 11 o'clock. And the rush had already been there. Unfortunately, the record store that I went to, I was like, oh, cool. And I was like, well, I said, I'm going to order a couple of things. And the ladies said, well, this is actually our last month here. We're shutting down.

I was like, oh, man. Are they moving to another location, though? that's what I said and they said nope we're just going to be selling some of our stock online and that kind of stuff and I was like oh man one last record store day I was going to say visit them as much as you can support them pick up stuff

before they go and give them a good send-off if they can't make it unfortunately yeah all right anyway if you get any of those guesses wrong by the way you get zero points to the round get one right gets you a point two right gets you three points and three right gets you five points the player with the most

points after three rounds wins the prize for the contestant, and I've pulled a couple lucky contestants for members of the tadpool that aren't able to be here live. Scott, you're going to be playing for Alex Seamus in Hayward, California. Nice. Nice. Hayward, represent. Heyward. Brian, you're going to be playing for Brian Cole in Kansas City. Right, yeah. Kansas City. Get around. Yeah, that's great. You should always play for the Brian of the customers. I think that's the way to do it. That's great. Yeah, exactly. I see your comment in chat, Scott.

I see it. I'm telling them to stop riling you up, not the other way around. It's one particular troll. Why are you guys doing in chat? What do you? I'm not looking at chat anymore. I'm here. Pay attention to me.

Let's be present in the moment. Here's the thing. The thing is. There we go. I was going to say it was a good stall because the half-asses site was delaying for me again. Oh, oh no. Who are they, wait, who were they rallying up, by the way? Are they rallying ibibb it up or me?

There's a troll in there trying to get me all rattled up. Oh, oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were rallying me up about people trying to murder me to do. No, no, no. No, nobody wants you murdered. That's a universal thing. Yeah, please don't. And nobody's disappointed that we're not watching crossroads either, Brian.

No, by. Rest is sure there's nobody out there going. I think Randy's just a little bit disappointed, just a little. But he has no reason to be. He hasn't seen it. He has no idea. If he is actually upset that we're not going to watch that, I would be shocked because there's nothing there. It's nothing to see.

It's an innocuous. It's a little fart of a movie. The good news is that don't feel like my watching Crossroads went to waste. I recorded a special bonus bonus episode. So excited. I'm so excited. All the patrons are going to receive where I completely go through the whole movie. 30 minutes I describe every plot.

point and every ridiculous thing that happens in this in this silly little movie and uh and i don't have to listen to that either right that's not that's not on me right i don't have to you you took a bullet for us dude you really did so much my pleasure my pleasure happy to do it you're going to come kiss ibbett next time i see him he's going to get he's going to get a done away kiss yes um all right well let's go ahead and get to your questions oh should i tell people what uh what they might win Yeah, that'd be good. The winner is going to get a copy of Elder Scrolls Three Marowin, the Game of the Year edition. God, that on its own really should just be enough of a prize, right?

But they're also going to get a copy of Hero of the Kingdom Three, and then our runner-up isn't going to go away empty-handed. They're not going to go away at all because they're not even here. But they're not going to go away empty-handed. They're going to get a copy of Farabell, which I don't know anything about. What is that? Farabell is a turn-based strategy game where you start at the end of the story, your cleverness and strategic prowess and your inventive capabilities in order to

survive. It looks cool. I've never heard of it, though. I think I'll just play dig-dug. All right. You sure will be. All right. Sounds good. Let's do it. Let's get to it. All right, your first question. Oh, I'm excited. Here's what we've got today. We've got art, music,

and history today. Oh, I like two of those things. Well, let's start with art, which is also kind of a little bit of history. great painters who died penniless oh my lord six six great painters who uh left uh shuffled off this mortal coil without a penny to their name uh thanks estate thank you uh children uh you can't take it with you can't take it with you i mean that's true yes it's true you know a good point they all died penniless they left their pennies behind uh your choices are tishin edward hopper claude monet yon vrmeer or johan vermere sometimes for a two. Rembrandt and

Vincent Van Gogh. Did you say Van Gogh? I did say Van Gogh. Okay. That is actually correct. Yeah, we've all said Van Gogh. Yeah, we've all said Van Gogh, and it's okay, I guess, because that's what people are used to, but... Yeah.

Boy, this is... Yon Vermeer, Max Trollbutt says, I low-key love Vermeer. Vermeer is the one who did the girl with a pearl earring, and it's a very famous, very cool. Yeah. And then Rembrandt makes my teeth white. No, Rembrandt, I think, have the numchucks, right?

Or did Rembrandt have the size? I can't remember. It's definitely not right. No, it's definitely not right if you're doing it by toothpaste. That's for sure. All right, I picked. Do you know what? It's still a thing.

You can get it. Oh, yeah. It's named after him, I think. I think that brand is named after the painter. It's a little weird, though. I'm sure. It definitely is, yeah. It's a little weird, though.

It would be a cofield's impressionist. It would like, I guess Rembrandt wasn't an impressionist, but impressionist to lighten your teeth. You can really make toothpaste sound weird if you stop and kind of go, tooth paste. Toothpaste. Taste. All right. Okay. Well, you guys are playing a little bit more, I like this.

You're playing a little bit more conservatively for your first round. Brian, you went with Vincent Van Gogh, correct? although I know we might actually have some Dutch listeners who might be able to even refine my pronunciation a little bit better and I hope they do. So Vince Van Gogh did die penniless. Jan Vermeer

also died penniless, which Scott said. Nice. Good job, Scott. And our third one is Rembrandt. Damn it! Claude Monet were just rolling in the dough. He actually had a safe full of gold coins that he would swan dive into, much like the Scrooge McDuck.

Yeah. Quad Monet, you'd see him in there like, oh, I love the ballerinas and the, the, the, uh, has anybody seen my nephews? Waterflowers and stuff. I mean, his name is Monet. It sounds like a way of saying money. It does. He died mona less. Yeah, Monetless.

All right. All right. Let's get to. I guess that's the reason why Rembrandt had to sell his likeness to the toothpaste company. That's right. That's right. Exactly. Yes.

By the way, you're ahead, dude. You got a point for that. One point, starting going to the question number two. With a point, let's go to our music round. It actually very appropriate for all this talk about record store day because this can only really apply to records. Which of these were triple albums? You know, in CD, they can jam these things onto a single disc or a couple discs, a double disc set or whatever. And, of course, streaming, it's all one pile of digils.

But which of these, when they were released, were triple albums, three record sets? Triple. The Wall by Pink Floyd. All Things Must Pass by George Harrison. Sign of the Times or sign O the Times by Prince. 69 love songs by Magnetic Fields. San Danista by The Clash and The Blueprint 2 by Jay-Z. 69 love songs feels like a trick because you know that's going to take at least three.

Yeah. With 69. It's 13 or 23 love songs on each album. Yeah. So these were at the time, for clarification, at the time of their release, they were they were triple albums yeah the like when they were released on vinyl

I'm trying to figure out how you why you're why you're asking well you say triple albums I guess I need definition what does that mean triple album comes with three records three discs three vinyl three vinyl discs got it not triple platinum or triple that's what I'm confusing is triple yeah no no triple

like a three albums three records in the Geez, Ibit. Geez, he don't know. Nothing about vinyl. Jesus. I don't know, dude. How many vinals do you own, Scott? Probably three or four, maybe.

I don't have much. Do you have the Billy and the Boingers? No. Oh, nice. Yeah, the Bill the Cat and Opus and Yeah. Let's see. God, I've got a

Target, basically Target's version of the ikea thing that i had to put together to put all my vinals into i need to i should uh take oh my god records are so heavy everything i'd try to put them in it really are yeah this is going to destroy this thing yeah all right you guys are both locked in you both locked in on the wall by pink floyd let's just get this out of the way now no that was a double disc set damn it on the wall uh sign of the times by prince was um single album maybe no i'm sorry that one was a double album 69 love songs by Magnetic Fields was as was sang anista by the clash that's a great album

with um magnificent seven and hitsville hits uk and um oh god that's a that's a that you know you get your should i stay or should i go and your combat rock and um rock the casbo and all that stuff but san anista for my money perfect clash album perfect i don't think i i probably heard it and don't know I've heard it if I had to guess stream it if you have not listened to send these to buy the clash put it on today stream it today it is uh all things must pass by george harrison which is our third triple album first first album after first solo album um if you don't call wonder wall music which was a soundtrack um because i think that was released while he

was still with the Beatles but all things must pass was his first true solo album and it's got what is love and my sweet lord and i mean it's it's it does not have i've got my mind set on you i hear you getting ready to ask that question nope i already i already knew it's not on there you already knew that it's not on yeah i knew we were good there so we're safe all right cool you'd have to go further into the 80s for that nightmare to happen we were yes all right let's get the question number three uh brian's still leading one point to nothing but now we're going to go into history, because you guys love history. Which of these famous people

were named for a U.S. President? Your choices are, Frank Oz, Rosie Greer, Andrew Carnegie, Jim Thorpe, Dwight Yoakum, and Woody Guthrie. Three of these people were named for a U.S. President. Three of them were not.

Named for one? Named after one, is that is, right? Named after, named after, named four, same thing. Same thing? Okay. Yeah. Making sure I'm not... It makes so sense, though. I don't want to read into it. That's the reason I ask Because none of these are president names That I know of

Yokem, Guthrie I'm assuming what you're saying Is the first name is the first name The president that they were named after And that's kind of how I was taking it Yes, let's let's say that the first name Is probably the most likely Is most likely because you're not going to change your family name

To be There's no there's no president Yolkum As an example No, although that's a great idea. Let's get him in there. President Yolkham. I just watched him in that sling blade. He's terrible in that.

Mean old bastard in that movie. Oh, right. I forgot about that. Yeah, he's a douche. All right, I have, not in real life. He seems like a nice guy in real life. But in that movie, he is a... He's a douche.

Terrible man. All right, you guys have locked in. You both settled on Andrew Carnegie, and then Scott, you picked Jim Thorpe, and Brian, you picked Woody Guthrie. I will tell you, Woody Guthrie, do you want to know which president he was named after? Woodrow Wilson, probably.

Yeah, kind of our only Woody. So he's really Woodrow Guthrie. Rosie Greer named after Roosevelt, FDR. Damn it. Oddly enough. And Dwight Yoakum named after Dwight Eisenhower, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Those are your three.

Unfortunately, that means that Brian, with one point is going to take it. That's all right. You deserve it, dude. That was a hard one point that you got. I was. I played the long game. It was a hard fought one point. Yeah. Sometimes you got to be really conservative. I don't know if it's better to be conservative at the beginning of the game or later in the game. Is it? Do you think, Donneway, you think that's the way to do it? Okay. Yeah. I guess you know. Because then you know, you know, if you need to go all out for the third question or the second question.

It's interesting because I've never really figured out a good strat to make sure I, you know, or I can't really, I don't feel like I can stack the deck here. very well, which is a good game because you don't want to be able to stack the deck. But if that's the strategy, I need to use it more. Very good. Well, that means Brian Cole and Kansas City, you're getting a copy of Elder Scrolls Three, Mirro Wind, Marowind, I'm sorry, Game of the Year edition, and Hero of the Kingdom Three.

You're getting all the threes. Congratulations, Brian Cole in Kansas City. But Alex Seamus, you're not going away empty-handed. You're getting a copy of Farabell, a game that none of us know anything about. So please tell us. to know. Tell us all about how that game is. Turn-based and that's all

we know. But I'm a big fan of that stuff, so don't worry. Good job, Brian, good job, Alex. You both get one of these just because you won something. Congratulations. You're a winner. Brian Dunaway, do you have anything cool going on between now and the next time we speak on Wednesday? Well,

since we're not really doing a film stack this weekend, I'm dig-dug and really deep into the dig-dug. So I'm going to be doing that stream that tonight, tomorrow, hell, Wednesday night. I don't don't know. It may be all week dig dugs. Yeah, Dig Dug 2, though. You're going to dust off the Digdug 2, the terrible

sequel and play some of that? I think I will. I'm going to break out my Atari Fight Stick, which somebody recently asked me, do they still make those things? No, I haven't found them anywhere. And if you don't haven't seen it, there's an Atari fight stick that's kind of like the console part of an arcade machine that just

has two sticks on it and like, what, six buttons? I love it. Yeah, they're cool. I wish they kept making them. They're popular. People like him. You can find them once in a while. You can get them on eBay. It was a deal with them, right? MicroCenter had some.

What's the deal? It's like got their name on it. I think it was a exclusive. And now, yeah, now you can only get them on eBay and they're way too expensive. So good luck.

I'd be surprised. There's a Microsenter near me. I'll have to look and see, oh, it's not near me. It's an hour away. But it's always worth the trip when I go down there.

I go there and I end up spending hundreds of dollars more than I was planning on spending. Yeah. I go there because I need like, I need some resin for a project really. click and then I go in there and it's like I've picked up a glowing keyboard because I didn't need one but they might I'll have to see if they have any any new sticks you need it you'd need specific what's the cable connection you need for that though just USB right yes USB oh yeah then they've

definitely got that do you have Brian do you get the one done away the one with the ball or I can't remember yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah they had two they had two versions and that's the one I really want it because you can play it with just like anything anything yeah centipede and whatever would be perfect for all that stuff I was so much fun yeah good good luck find him on everyone I don't think they make them uh well all right then done away uh we look forward to wednesday and of course play retro this weekend and when he said there's no film sack there is a film sack it's just not the one you all expect there'll be one on on uh on sunday while we're well we're out of town uh go kiss our butts won't you do that oh you bye

Oh, you. Oh, no, you. Oh, it's time for a break. We're going to take one. And when we come back from this break, Bobby will be here. We're going to do some science. So just stick around. You thought, hey, we're four minutes into 10 o'clock.

Don't worry. He's still good for it. All right, he'll be here because that's the kind of guy Bobby is. We're giving him a little bit of time to fly back to, you know, land on the runway, run into his station set up with his microphone and his headset. That's right. And get ready to tell us some... Got to do his eight-point wing check

or whatever the frick these people do with their plans. Anyway, Brian, why don't you tell us what song will play before he gets here? Yeah, let's get to an artist that we've played here on the show before. Lauren Minier, she has a brand-new album coming out called Chasing Daylight. Comes out later this year. Does she have a date on this thing?

I'm sure she does, and I'm not seeing it in the top couple paragraphs. But this is the first single from that album. It's called Real Me. This is kind of that blend of indie pop that I kind of like that I, you know, tend to, tend to put on the background while I'm working and stuff that I really like. Anyway, from Nashville, now she's in New York City. Here's Laura Meneer, Lauren Meneer, and Real Me. Will you let me as a real me?

Want to get better? I'm scared to let go. I'm afraid to lose you, losing control. It can't get worse than the pain that I know. So I cling to you like you made of gold. I don't want to disappear. I don't want to break down If I don't go

I'll be gone Will you love me when I'm free Yeah All these broken parts of me Are they the ones you need? Yeah I need to believe I need to believe

I need to believe I need to believe I need to believe I need to believe believe where you love me as a real me my jeans are polished the shiniest cage

you never know that I need to escape I'm scared to leave me I might make a break for it cling to me They, whatever it tapes, I don't want to disappear. I don't want to break down. If I don't go, I'll be gone. Will you love me when I'm free?

Yeah. All these broken parts of me. Want you to see the real? Me. Can you hear the real? Me The night we met when we went home You woke up with my makeup

Or did you see something I couldn't see I could see My love was broken I was bruised I put it on the line for you Did you see something I couldn't see

I couldn't see Will you love me when I'm free All these broken parts of me I play the ones you need Yeah Can you hear the real me Will you love me when I'm free Yeah

All these broken parts of me I want you to see the real Real me, yeah Can you hear the real me? Will you run me when I'm free? Yeah All these broken parts of me Yeah

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real me. Nice. Go check it out. All right. Let's get Bobby in here. I feel scienceless without him. Here we go.

Ringing his bell here. Let's see here. We got it in a little intro for him. We sure do. There's still something wrong, isn't there, Bill? That's a wrong one. Science! Bob is hungry,

and the soup looks good. I got two B clips and I hit the wrong one. Hello, Bobby, not Bill. What are you doing? How are you doing today? I'm doing all right. How are you? Fine.

You're not Bob at all. You're Bill. It's good to have you here, man. He comes on here and does some fun science content. Yes, that's right. It's not always, you know, directly affecting people, but sometimes it is. And it doesn't matter because we love science in any form that it comes in, especially when it spews from your mouth.

So thanks for being here, man. how's it been how's your some science for us that's right we've missed you the last couple of weeks how have you been I've been doing great getting ready for Vegas and just you know

just living life it's pretty stressful I mean it is but yeah life life is hard you know life is hard I get it I have a request that I that I floated by you real fast that I'd love to get out of the way so I don't forget oh yeah let's do it let's do it now this perfect time

yeah um so my daughter is doing a project for school. And so their school is really cool. And every fifth grader, which is the end of elementary school, they have to do what's called an impact project. And their impact projects are sort of like they have to do a bunch of research. And the whole point, they research and learn about something.

But it's focused on like, like, helping. either a community or finding a cause that you want to have an impact on. And so it just gets kids like trying to make a difference and stuff like that. And Zoe for as long as any of us can remember, has always said she wanted to be a zoologist. She loves animals and everything. And she loves our zoo. And so she decided she wanted to help our zoo, our local zoo,

by raising money and giving to help them with their conservation efforts. And so normally I would just let her. do this on her own but there's something about my daughter and she has she has a she doesn't have a and i don't know why this is but she doesn't have a lot of self-confidence and so she thinks when you talk to her about this she set a goal for 250 to raise no and she said she kept she was telling me the other day she said i but i don't think i'm going to like there's no way i'm going to get 250 i was like well don't don't second like you could yeah of course you can like yeah yeah Yeah, you know, that whole thing.

So I try to do that, and she's like, no, that's too. So she's really down on herself for some reason already. And so I decided to ask Scott if I could get on here and encourage everyone listening to try to prove, like, this is the only time you want to prove your kid wrong, right? Oh, hell yeah. Heck yeah, dude. I decided I wanted to prove her wrong and see if we can make her not only meet that goal of $250, but maybe exceed it. So it's really simple. I just made up a tiny URL and there's a donation thing.

We came up with this really simple platform that doesn't take fees out of the donations. It's just tiny URL. Tiny URL.com slash help the zoo. Help the zoo. Okay. Yeah, and she put this together to like all of the little description is her. She put the, it's a little thing.

Now, when you go on there, the first, you can put any dollar amount in it that you want. You just have to, you know, click on donate and say, whatever it is other and also it'll try to tell you that you need to tip that's how they do it without fees is that they just ask people to tip a percentage of the

but I did it without tipping just go in there and put other and zero unless you really want to help out the site if you if but the point is that it the tip goes directly to the site whereas everything else goes to Zoe exactly the amount that you donate goes to her and the tip gets added on

on top of that. So it's not going to get cut out of the amount. It's like a volunteer fee. I kind of like that system. That's cool. Yeah, yeah. I like it. I like it. But I wanted to make sure people didn't know you that people knew you didn't have to do that. Yeah. That's great. So yeah, that's the request. It's simple. She just loves animals. She wants to help them. And she, and I want to prove her terribly wrong that she can't get to $250. That's right. Tiny URL.com slash help the zoo is where you want to go everybody and we'll smear this all over the place today yeah because we not only want to prove her wrong we want to prove her horribly wrong we want her to be so wrong yeah I want her to never forget how wrong she was about this

because she deserves a win so let's do it everybody let's rally around her and get it done tiny URL dot com slash help the zoo uh all right that's now that's the science of helping people Tell us the science of whatever else you brought. A real quick add on to what you were talking about earlier about skin-to-skin infant bonding. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I don't know a ton about it, and I was putting together the last details of what I was going to talk about today. But I did read an article a few years ago that was written by a science-based medicine, OB, obstetrician.

um and uh and so science-based medicine is just a a newer practice about it's it's sort of like evidence-based medicine but evidence is not always good evidence so science-based is is more of a like hard science approach anyway it doesn't matter um the point is that this is good info I believe you yeah and the article basically said that skin-to-skin contact for infants is kind of a pseudoscience now it's not ever bad to do it that's that's a that should be made clear unless you do it the wrong way because then you can and they tell you about this when you have like there's a proper way to do it so that you don't like increase CO2 intake for the kids and stuff like that right but um but the idea that it's necessary and that it promotes bonding and all this kind of stuff is it's kind of a

pseudoscience that was mostly promoted by midwives and lactation professionals, which again, I'm not saying midwives and lactation professionals are bad. I don't think they intentionally did this, but there were some bad design studies that were made 20 or 30 years ago that kind of got jumped on excitedly by people in professionals who wanted to promote this like being connected to your kids. But it turns out that there's the evidence is not great that it actually does anything does anything but I did it

and I liked it sure yeah it's probably it's probably much more beneficial to the father as a as a way

to just get an instant kind of bond kind of yeah you were saying that before and I kind of was just I guess reiterating giving or supporting it

or supporting that with something that I read a long time ago but I don't know a lot of details so definitely I'm not an authority on that no well there you go

then a little something extra there for your trouble rip from today's headlines that's right today's beginning of the show that's right yeah uh well cool what i did want to talk about today was an article i read that um says okay so let me ask you um question for both of you but i know brian might have some thoughts about this if you had to identify a trend in song lyrics today compared to 50 years ago brian what would you say the difference is and we're talking we're probably talking pop songs right if i um well i'm going to talk about five specific genres but pop is one of them uh pop rock rap rnb and country songs pop has for me and i don't know if this is really true but it's something that i feel like i've noticed that pop has become very um anthem like uh empowerment anthem

heavy um okay uh and you again maybe it's the old man yells at the radio kind of thing but it feels like um like a predominance of the of the lyrics you know talking about this is going to be great and you can do this and um and and all that sort of thing especially a female artists which is great i mean again to kind of support zoe in the zoo thing which already has surpassed the goal um my god thank you everything stuff like that you want you want encouragement and empowerment, female fronted bands and female artists do that sort of thing. But other, I've noticed that song titles have become shorter, if that's anything, but that's obviously not a lyric thing. Well, simpler, simpler, shorter or shorter song titles kind of is a good segue to what this study that was done is saying, there is a researcher, Ava,

Zen Girl of the Innsbruck University found that lyrics have been getting simpler and more repetitive over time. Oh, sure, sure. Yeah. Yeah. And there's there's a lot more that they found in this study, but what they did was they they analyzed 12,000 English language pop rock, rap, R&B, and country songs like I said. And they studied them between 1970 and 2020 and 2020 and found that over time lyrics tend to be more personal and emotionally charged, which I think kind of is in line with what you were saying

about female artists and everything. And so yeah, more personal and emotionally charged than they were 50 years ago. And yeah, so what they did was pretty simple. They used, like everybody

does nowadays, they use some AI to help them with this. but what they did they went and used a virtual music encyclopedia called genius have you ever heard of that i have heard of that yeah i thought that was gone for some reason but maybe it's still around music genius yeah yeah well what they did was they um they used that and uh because it provides release there is there's other a lot of places they could go databases they could go for lyrics and everything but they used that one because it provided release year and genre information as well which they wanted to correlate and stuff.

Right. And they pulled that data and other data having to do with structure, language, emotion, and song complexity for these five genres. There's, yeah, I mean, they're probably using, there's some tools out there that I use for websites for when people are doing posts that rate the complexity or the language difficulty of a post and says, all right, it's kind of like, could a fifth grader read and understand this, post and it's probably using something similar to that to determine the complexity of the lyrics and

you know we're gone from the days with like scritty-poly using the word hermeneutic in the lyrics and paradigm and on to girl club dance fire exactly single or or two syllable words are everywhere um but uh but yeah it's not hard to take AI and say you all you have to do is define what you mean by complex, right? And then you get the AI to look for those features and everything. So what they found were some interesting things that I thought would be fun to look at. There are two types of broad analysis that were done to the music. The first one looked at lyrical trends that were most present for each release year.

So some of those trends were repeated lines of music, or rather lyrics, repeated lines. They found that all genres had an increase in the number of repeated lines over time. Interesting. Yeah, but that rap had seen the most increase over time. Yeah, that makes sense. I think that kind of makes sense if you think about songs like that, right? I was going to ask you about rap in particular because it does feel like if as rap, grows as a genre and becomes more mainstream over time, that is a, that's a technique to be very

repetitive, right? It's a rhyming repetition. It's not just for stanzas. It's not just for, you know, middle of the song where you're going to hear a lot of the stuff twice or three times or whatever. You're going to hear it constantly. And so that affects the overall data, right? Yeah, it certainly does. And that's exactly why they decided to isolate the genres as well, is because they wanted to see, you know, yes, overall, but what are the trends per genre? And a lot of them trend in a similar way, some more than others, but there are some of the trends that they mentioned that are different. For example, let's see, the positive emotions, because they looked at emotional language, for example, positive emotion in

in songs actually decreased in pop and rock music over this time frame, whereas positive emotions in rap songs increased over this time frame. That's interesting because that kind of goes against the anthem, uplifting empowerment kind of stuff. Yeah, like it's more like you can't do it. Might as well give up. Don't even try.

But you know what I thought about when I read that was that around the 90s you know especially when when like alternative and grunge music became more popular it's and then you started to see from that came like like emo movements and so there were a lot of like personal and vulnerable trends in music lyrics and so I think it makes sense to me after reading that and thinking about that that that there might be a lot of negative emotions in song just because when people are just like you know tearing like ripping their hearts out and exposing them in in their music you know you're going to get a lot of that yeah just say

adele yeah but i have to imagine that there's i don't know how you quantify this but there's a ton of music that i guess this is quantifying it but there's a ton of music that is just about breakups right and those are never happy and that never like that that's perennial right like every are we getting more breakup songs? Are we getting, like, I wonder if this even lends towards, are we getting to more, to a place maybe where we're going to see more kind of protest songs? Like, I know.

Interesting. It's always kind of followed the trend of politics and world culture trends. And, like, during the Knicks and stuff, like, there was a spike of protest songs. And during, like, you know, the Vietnam War and Watergate and all that. of thing. I mean, are we going to get to another one here with the political turmoil and

stuff? I mean, we've been experiencing it for years. It's not like it's going to happen this year, this turmoil, but I wonder if that's also attributing to the negative trend, the downward trend of the of the it's funny that you said. I'd love to see some, some like cultural and historical analysis brought in on this as well. Because in the discussion, they said that this, this this this look this study was definitely just wanted to quantify and analyze the trends um and they were they they specifically made the point saying that they don't have any like sociological interpretation of what's happening um but but that this data does exist and there are definitely some trends that exist um we talked about positive emotions and how that worked it's the funny thing is

there is an increase in negative emotion in rap music and music overall, which I thought was interesting because it's like rap music also had an increase in positive emotion. So it's almost like there's just an increase in emotional language in general in rap music. Country music had the least amount of negative emotion increase, even though all music seemed to have increased. And that might be, though, if you think about older country music, it's always been sort of personal, you know? Oh, yeah. Yeah, right. It's not about, it's more about what, you know, this girlfriend did to my truck or this, I mean, I'm not trying to, like, do the very stereotypical my truck, my dog, my, my girl, and my, my mom kind of thing. But it's always been about the,

the every man. They never, you never, you, you, not never, you rarely get country. songs that reflect on global issues. We're not going to get a Hamas the new Garth Brooks song about Hamas or anything like that. Right. But it's you know, and I think because the audiences maybe look

to country music as an escape from all that more than fans of other genres. And it's funny when you talk about how people look at lyrics, that was the other way that they decided to interpret or analyze some of this data.

So this was all, this first part was all about. Yeah, yeah. Well, so this first part that I talked about was all about lyrical analysis, right? They were just almost like language analysis. The second part, they went into deeper onto, into views of lyrics and characteristics of lyrics compared to release year. And one of the interesting bits to me in there was that they looked at, they were able to see they used last FM

to do a lot of this analysis because they could see with that platform that streaming platform they could look separately at how many times a song was listened to but also you could apparently on that platform see how many times

the lyrics were viewed separately from listened to and they found that for older rock songs as compared to newer rock songs people were looking at the lyrics on older rock songs a lot more than on newer rock songs. And the opposite-

It's because you had artists like Bob Dylan. You can't understand what he's singing, so you have to have the lyrics up for old. Like, what the heck is Robert Plant singing about in this song? I think that's more of it that modern artists are sing a little bit more clearly, I think. That's one of the reasons I actually wanted to talk about this with you is because I thought you might have a perspective on why some of this stuff. Yeah, I actually, I do pull up lyrics. That's funny.

I probably fit this as well because I've got, you know, the Apple Music has got this great. The interface on it, you've got a little button where you can have a sidebar with the lyrics. Or if I have it on my phone, you basically just can say, yeah, put it on shuffle, play music, and then put the lyrics for every song as they come up. But if I were to tell you which songs I look more towards, because my, my, I just do a radio station and it pulls out. up everything from like old Bob Dylan songs Led Zeppelin, whatever, all the way up to things like Foster the People

and St. Vincent and stuff like that. And I think I do tend to look over at the lyrics and say, what did he or she just sing? Probably more for the older songs than the newer things. Yeah. And so again, they don't know why that is. They just thought it was an

interesting observation. For country songs, it was actually the complete opposite. New country songs, the lyrics for newer country songs get viewed a lot more than older country songs. And so why that is, I don't know. But it is interesting. I think some of it is they wear the themes on their sleeve. They're not a lot of hidden messages in those country songs. And I'm not, I don't mean that as a negative at all. It can be very positive. But if you hear proud to be an American, you kind of get it. Right. Like there's not a lot of subtext there. But if you hear, we talked

about the other day, but you hear Springsteen do Born in the USA, there's a ton of subtext that nobody pays attention to them. Initially, you're inclined to say, oh, born in the USA, he's proud to be born in the USA. And it's like, no, it's about how we treated people coming back from Vietnam and, you know,

et cetera, et cetera. Very anti, non-jingoistic song lyrics. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Some of the one, a couple last quick things is that they found that in terms of emotion

that anger was a big there's songs use a lot more angry language in terms of because we talked about how emotional language was being used more and also negative an increase in negative emotion and

anger seemed to be one that that popped out a lot more and who knows that could be you know cultural political who knows how much of it how much of it gets swayed or or how much is how much of the anger scale is pushed down by like a single band like rage against the machine is so prominent in that way how how does it account for i mean guess it's all averages at the end of the day but there's always like these one band or one genre or something that feels like it would skew your data you know it's

possible for sure they did like I said they did look at 12,000 songs so so hopefully that that kind of minimizes the effect of any anyone but but the existence of of bands like that still kind of represents especially if popular groups like that still represents the in my thought it represents the the cultural position you know where we are in the culture right if If they're popular, then they're popular for a reason, you know. Right. It's interesting. Well, the whole idea is everybody think differently when you listen to your music today.

All right? Yeah. Pay attention to what you're hearing. I love to see, like, if you've got a link to that study, I find that stuff so fascinating. So if you get it to me, Bobby, I'll put it on QuicktmS.LI and check it out myself, but if other people want to see it, I think it's really cool. Yeah. If you're new to the show, QuicktmS.

dot L.I is an awesome place where like a lot of the subtext of what we talk about during the show gets put. Like we don't have this in show notes. We don't have this in other places. So it's a great resource to find out what album got mentioned. What recommendal happened? And what did Bobby talk about. And I'm trying to do better about that. I mean, we talked all about, um, we talked about some app. I can't even remember what it was last week. And I said, I'd put it on a quick tms. And I never did. But, uh, but I'm trying to get better at like just keeping it up in the background and then adding like, oh, we talked about this app or this movie or whatever and trying to get a 10, I am looking at some sort of a science news article or just reading a paper and I'll just

make sure to pass that on to you from now. Yeah, please do. I have some good news. We have a total of $5.5 now. Nice. Doubleed. Double her goal. Double but plus five bucks.

That's amazing. Your daughter cannot see this, but anything but a giant win for her, you know? Yeah, I'm very excited to let her know because I've been trying to, she was telling me all about how she thought, no, people aren't going to do it because people don't take kids seriously. And I was like, we're going to, you're going to be taken seriously. If I can help it. We believe that children are our future. There's one of those uplifting lyrics from, from days of your Whitney Houston. But before everything got all angry. Before everything got all angry. And no, you can't do it. Yeah. And when they said, we believe the children of the future, they were talking about Maloney's. millennials, you're the future one. That's true. Because they were the kids then, you know.

I wonder if she would have adjusted those lyrics had she been able to. We believe the children. I believe the children go to Starbucks, get their latte and send them on their way. Take that, millennials. Oh, the board game room. I'm supposed to mention that before I go to it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Real fast, again, I've got like eight different things apparently on my agenda for my segment

this week. The board game room. Just real fake, anybody going to Vegas? We've talked about the board game room before. You can go onto the TMS Vegas. What is it? VivaTMSVegas.com. VivaTMSVegas.com is correct, yes. And there's a spreadsheet link on there that'll take you to the board games that people are bringing and stuff like that. Check that out. But what do see our board game expert, I guess you know, maybe. He wanted me to pass on that if you're planning to go there. And even if you're not, it's a lot of fun. You should go. But if you're planning to be there, you should be there right when it starts, which is what, 11 o'clock that day? We get the room, I think, at 11, yeah. Yeah. Be there right at the beginning. I'll try and get there

about 1230. I'm just kidding. Be there right at the beginning because Ducey has a really great warm up planned for everyone. He wants to play this game called Action Castle and literally, literally everyone can play it and it's very you don't have to know anything about it in fact I think it's best if you don't know it much about it at all when you go into it it's sort of it's called Action Castle it's basically

a stand around not really a board game but a stand around everybody plays everybody is it's sort of like everyone is a text adventure game all at once and do see if he's running

at which he did last year, he is the game and we are all users and we all take turns giving, like, the commands you would type into a text adventure and then he tells you what happens as a result of your command. He's basically, he's Zork is what he is. Yeah, yeah.

And it's very fun. So everyone should go, it's a good warm up because it's really easy and no prep at all and you don't have to know anything. Yeah, and keep in mind. So that starts at 11 a.m. just confirmed. I'm not sure exactly which ballroom they're going to put us in. I think

they can tell me now. But this is a good, this would be a good day to have a big breakfast that will carry you through until lunch, or at dinner, because we've got the ballroom until five. So basically we have six hours,

11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the board game ballroom. And don't worry. I mean, you can, you can leave. You can leave and go get lunch, but you're not going to want to. But can you're going to, you're going to want to stay there the whole time and play all the games because there will be so many... Do we get a bartender again in there? Yeah, because what better way...

What better way to spend 11 a.m. in Vegas than with a nice cold gin and tonic. That's what I'll be there. Exactly. That's what I like. So, yeah. All right. Awesome. Congratulations to your daughter. Again, this is great. Yes, thank you. I'm very excited not to tell her. Thank you, everyone listening.

And anybody's getting the podcast, don't stop there. Help the Zoo. that's what we're doing yeah help the zoo you guys every every zoo needs a little help and you could be the change that the zoo all right so get in there and get that done we're going to our zoo uh the week we get back from Vegas we're going there for a big birthday thing and you know now I feel a little inspired to look around and say hey is there anything here and we can do things for and see what they say you know tell your daughter she had an effect on a bunch of lame adults tell her that that's right uh Bobby everyone go check out his show it is all around science you can find it

wherever you get your podcast. If you want more great science content, Bobby, have a fantastic week. We'll see you in Vegas. Thank you all. Bye now. Bye.

It reminds me you got to call Schleiker and remind him we're not here next week. Oh, yeah, yeah. Not a big deal, though. I mean, I feel like he's heard about TMS Vegas. He was thinking about coming, too, but it wouldn't be, it's a good reminder for him for him for sure.

I would have loved to have seen him there. That would be great. I would, seriously, like getting, we're going to have Bill and Britt there. Like, if we had Nicole, And Andy and Stephen, we would have all of the regular guest, guests as, as, as, uh, guests. Yeah, all the regular TMS guests as Viva TMS Vegas guests. Yeah. Guess would be guests. Absolutely.

Guests would be guests. Oh, yeah. And Brian Dunaway, of course. I mean, I don't think of him as having a segment. He's got two segments every week. How could I not think of it? Yeah. I would love to have him there. But we, he's just part of our life. It's hard to think of him in any other way. It's hard. And, you know, we have. Fletcher there. I think we'll figure out a way. We've got to get him there for 20-25 Dunnway. Even if I have to fly to

South Carolina and pick up everybody along the way and bring him myself. Just drag his ass out here. My God. How fun. Just thinking about that. It's like, what a great fun road trip. Kind of like the movie Crossroads, which features Britney Spears,

Zoe Saladana, and Taryn, what's her face, doing a great road trip, along with unrecognizable Anson Mount across country. Yep, that we're never going to have to see because Brian took a bullet for the team. I watched it for you.

Wait till you hear my description of the whole entire movie. Oh, man, it'll be great. We can finally put that thing in our rearview mirror and never think about it again. That is it for today, tonight, the Monday show,

Carter and I will be doing that here live and also her sister Taylor, my daughter Taylor, will be joining us just to like a little sneak in, hey, there's the other kid. What does she have to say? and then maybe one day Nick will do that. I don't know.

Yeah, it'd be cool. Get the whole damn fam daily in there. Yeah, I'm excited about it. So that'll be fun. We'll get all kinds of, I'm sure there'll be a lot of dirt about me. You haven't heard before, and I'm very excited to express that to the world. That is going to do it for everything. Frogpants.com slash TMS.

Go there. All the stuff is there, linked there. All right, you can find it easily. All you got to do is just go there, frogpants.com slash TMS. And just know that if you didn't manage to get it, ticket the tickets are no more they don't exist anymore if you didn't get a ticket you're going to get a ticket you ain't going to get a ticket although i guess if you emailed me i could work something out but i'm just saying the main thing i hope well yeah this is probably my

aunt and uncle aunt barb and uncle george come into this thing i wonder if they if they bought tickets or they just assumed well we know a guy they probably assume that and you know what for the legends the legends that are them they're fine Yeah, they're not going to get swag. They're going to get, they'll get to come to stuff, of course. Yeah, of course. And the same way my two sisters, they didn't have to get tickets. They're coming.

Yeah, yeah. So anyway, just know that and everything's good. I've got help bringing all these boxes up, thank goodness, because there's a lot this year. It's going to be very handy for that. Yeah, we used to fit them all in my car, but this is a very different load than previous year. So, anyway, big thanks to Hammond and to KT Data and to, I forgot who's doing it. Oh, Norda, Rich Norda out in Provo, he's helping us. Guys are all awesome.

Is it Rich? I think it's rich. Kim's been talking to him. Anyway, that's going to do it for us. Brian, let's play a song and get the F out of here. Okay. Ryan from Michigan, also known as Gaming Savant, wrote in, said April 21st is my 41st birthday, so any time around then should work.

Song, Umbrella by Lauren Ash, like right into it. Speaking of songs with repetitive. lyrics you uh you know riana's umbrella is a great example of that uh ella ella ella ella um this this is a lauren ash from a single that she released last year this is a new discovery to me and this this brings in a hard edge also just realized both songs today in the show recorded by lauren's oh sounds awesome yeah not yonnie's but lauren's yeah lawrence all right everybody lorins uh tomorrow we're going to be here tomorrow right that's happening uh we're here week there's no reason not to tune in to the show tip your weight staff we're here all

week yeah we look forward to seeing you all then and tomorrow please come back we'll have who's here tomorrow i don't even know uh oh bill's here's here yeah we'll get a little pre-vagus bill that'll be fun i want to get his take on what he thinks of fallout given his uh love of the genre oh i'm four episodes in teen and i love it's really good it's so good yeah did you get to Did you get to the episode where, let's see, where is that line? Is it this one? A lot off of you want his chair of tomatoes, but you got a hole in your neck. Amazing.

It's amazing. I knew those first episode or second episode. Second, I think. Look seeing Ben Linus in there. Oh, my gosh. No, no, no. It's not a spoiler at all. He's definitely in the cast and in the trailer.

So you're good. Yes. Okay, good. And he's, you know what? You can even say he's there the whole season, but, uh, I'm not saying anymore than that. But just in a way you may not expect. That's it for the show. Thank you all for listening. That'll do it for us. We'll see you next time. Bye. dark you can't see shiny cars that's when you need me there with you i'll always share

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