The Morning Stream - TMS 2642: The Herps
Episode Date: May 13, 2024Printing The Plug Hole. Everyone Loves Dunaway. Hot Soft Bananas In Your Area. Benny & The Jessirits. You'll get no onions, small portions and no Lt Yar. Milk is Spicy. No Bread for Crusty Old Men.... You Know, 1 in 4 People Have Conspiracies. That'll Do Thor, That'll Do. Australia: My Favourite Outback. Yoda the Frog. Pepper Steak inflation. The Elephants have gone to a farm upstate. Pushing Whale Notifications. Stretching Doughnut Holes 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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Everyone loves Dunaway.
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Milk is spicy.
No bread for crusty old men.
You know, one and four people have conspiracies.
That'll do, Thor. That'll do.
Australia. My favorite outback.
Yoda, the frog.
Pepper steak inflation.
The elephants have gone to a farm up state.
Pushing whale notifications.
Stretching donut holes with Bobby and more on this episode of the Morning Stream.
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This is the morning stream.
Hello everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for the 13th of May 2024. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian
But hi, Brian.
Hello.
Hello, Scott.
How was your weekend?
You know, it was good.
Took Tina yesterday morning for Mother's Day.
Took her to a brunch, Oscar Padillo, who was like a winner on Chopped or one of those celebrity chef competitions.
Sounds familiar to me that name.
I don't know why it sounds familiar, but seen something with him.
He did a really cool Argentinian brunch menu.
Oh, my God.
And she had like a Catalina, it wasn't Catalina.
There was some sort of sausage and egg and potato dish.
I had some stuff with some grilled bread and bacon.
And then we got a side of plantains with bacon and like a caramel crema on it.
Yeah, freaking amazing.
Just absolutely amazing.
How do you do the, how are the plantains delivered to you?
Are they, is that a cooked thing?
Cooked.
Yeah, these were cooked plantains so hot.
um it's just like hot soft bananas basically is what it was but uh yeah i never i don't know if
i've ever had a restaurant plantain of any kind i don't think i have oh really yeah it's uh he also
they also do plantain chips so you get like a is it guacamole i think it might be a guacamole
and you get the it's funny how they slice them and then when they cook them when they bake them
it just goes beer like it curls up and um and you just kind of
dip them into the
into the guacamole
and it's just amazing.
They also have one of the best burgers
I've ever had at this place.
Sounds great.
Yeah.
Beats, I think it even
beats the bonsai for me.
Really? Because you really like the bonsai.
I really like the bonsai, but this one
is, and it's just a straight-up cheeseburger,
but it is so,
ah, man, it is so good.
I love a good straight-up cheeseburger.
It's one of my favorite things in a lot.
Yeah, you got to find a place that does plantain,
or go to sprouts or whole foods usually has them in addition,
you know, like in the produce section,
you'll be able to find plantains separately in a little smaller area.
And we can cook them.
Yeah, we prepare our own, I figure, you know.
Yeah, I think you can just fry them in some butter and, oh, man.
We took, we had, the entire weekend was Mother's Day stuff.
So Friday, wait.
Yep.
Friday?
Saturday.
Saturday?
Saturday.
I remember we did a bunch of stuff Friday, too, and I don't remember what the hell we did.
But anyway, Saturday after FilmSack, we went right down to have lunch with my mom.
And she got to pick, because that's what mom's do on Mother's Day.
She wanted to go to P.F. Chang's, or as she put it in her text, P.F. Changes.
P. F. Changes. Yeah, sure. Well, sure. Auto-correct probably doesn't like the Changs.
Yeah. It just says PF. Changes.
Yeah. She goes, see you guys at P.F. Changes. I'm like, all right.
Now, it's ironic that she did that because I think.
think there have been some changes at P.F. Changs. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, we took Tristan there for his
birthday in February. So I don't, I'm curious to see what's, that would be the last time I've been
there. So it's been four, three or four months. So last time I was there was 2019, 2020, right before
the shutdown is last time I was there. And it was to take my mom. Once again, she loves it there.
John hates Chinese food or anything that is an Italian food. He's freaking hates it. So she
never gets to go there. And she loves it. So we're like, any chance we get, we're getting my mom
tacos. We're getting their Chinese food. We're getting there all the things that John doesn't
like to eat. And so we go there. We meet there. My sister, Misha, and her husband, Ken, are there,
and it's my mom and John and me and Kim. And we sit down. And when I was there in 2020 or whatever
it was, I always get the pepper steak. I like it. I'm a fan. Yeah. Pepper steak was about
11 bucks last time I was there. The same pepper steak on the menu is now 1895. Whoa.
Now, that'd be one thing if it was, you know, lots of restaurants have gone through the inflation thing.
They've had up their prices. They've all done it.
You know, it's nothing new there.
But what is new is it's so basically double the price or close to it and about a third less the portion.
Oh, my God.
Than they did back then.
And I just looked at that plate and went, really?
Is this how we're going to do this here?
Because most places didn't reduce portions.
Are you bringing this to be in stages?
Because most places, like I spent less at better places in Vegas for better food, for better portions, for less money than I did here.
And it just seemed like, P.F. Chang's, I'm sorry, P.F. Changes. What are you doing? Why are you changing?
So anyway, it was fine. It just was like, this is a little disappointing. I don't know if I'm coming here again.
I've always felt like the food is a little bit better than the run-of-the-mill strip mall Chinese restaurant that delivers, but costs so much.
much more that I'll save the cost and get the strip mall.
You know, we have a place called the, it's really called Heaven Dragon, but we call it the
Heaven Dragon.
Perfect.
And they're pretty good.
There's Lou House.
Actually, Lou House is our favorite place to get delivery from.
They're really, really good.
And they've got amazing sesame chicken.
That's my go-to is sesame chicken.
But I've got a, you know, it's the first thing I do when I get Sesame Chicken.
and from a new place is I find a big piece of it and I cut it open, cut it in half and look at
the chicken inside and see if it's like, you know, A, cooked all the way through is the more
important thing, but also that it's, that it's decent. Like, it's not just all breading and
cartilage pieces of chicken and stuff inside. I've had that. Just you saying that brings back
memories, not of anywhere particular, but when you get a bad, you get a bad sesame chicken
or a cung-pow or something.
Yeah.
You remember it, but
Lou House makes a great
a great
sesame chicken, so that's our
go-to.
But I do like the heathen.
Not heathen with the TH folks,
but heaven.
Even.
Like it's heaving.
Ooh.
You're like, oh.
I got the dry heaves.
I got the dry heaves.
So then this other weird thing
happened.
So that was fine.
My mom's doing great.
We were talking and all this.
John's a crank.
He's a grumpy.
So he did, even though he doesn't like the food there, he still came with you guys.
So he sits down and he looks at this way, the poor waitress.
And I warned the waitress.
I said, just so you know, I go, he's 92 and he's really cranky and he doesn't like this kind of food.
So just know that going in because she seemed very delightful.
And we didn't want her to feel like she was being targeted or something because he always, not hard on the help.
He's just a difficult customer.
He can be difficult, sure, yeah.
And so we warned him or warned her.
And then she gets down to the business asking everybody their orders.
And he also wants the pepper steak, and he says, no onions, like that.
No onions, he says.
Just, just like he's Clinties would staring down a perp in Dirty Harry.
Yeah.
And then toward the end of when he's ordering, he goes, are there rolls or breadsticks or anything here?
Can we get rolls?
Rolls.
I'm like, John, this isn't freaking Olive Garden.
What are you doing?
And then I told her, I said, it's just he doesn't know.
He only eats Italian food, just to ignore him, whatever.
And then halfway through them.
I mean, there are egg rolls, but it's probably not going to be what he wants.
No.
Spring rolls.
Wrong kind of rolls.
He's just, I just want a bread-type roll.
I'm like, well, they don't have them here, dude.
This is freaking Chinese food.
And then later on, he's eating, and he looks at me and he goes, oh, this is so spicy.
Oh, oh, oh.
And I'm like, this is nothing.
Like, if this is spicy, then you think milk is spicy.
Like, what is your deal?
so it was just the whole
is the whole he's always just like this
and we now just have fun with it because the
alternative is that we're all irritated
yeah exactly all right
you can you know it's going to happen one way or the other
so you might as well just like
see it as a as a
comedy routine as
as a something to get irritated
yeah and then we yeah you sign the receipts too
you're like sorry about the
the old crusty guy who would give you shit
and give her a nice tip you know we make
we make a point of
making the help feel good, even though they had to deal with this.
Like, you just have to lean into it.
Otherwise, you'll go crazy.
That's, uh, that's how I've become with driving.
It's just like, you know, tailgators and, and people who just, you know, zip into your lane and don't signal.
And this guy who's trying so hard just to get one more car ahead, because he feels like if he gets one more car ahead, then, uh, he'll get to his destination hours faster than instead of just seconds faster.
Yeah.
But, um, the worst.
Yeah, I just kind of laugh at it now.
It's like, okay.
How's that going to work out for you?
You're going to get there still within the same minute, get to your destination.
And you're probably not even going somewhere where you have to be in a hurry.
No.
No, they just want to get the F out.
And I understand how sometimes that's subconscious, right?
They're not even paying attention that they're doing it.
Right, right.
That's almost a worse problem because they're not paying attention.
Yeah.
They're thinking of something else.
They're in a rush, whatever.
Like we saw a lot of that this weekend.
I think Kim's especially sensitive to it because you watched that accident that killed that guy the other day.
Oh, God, I heard the skim.
my gosh that was that's bad that's gnarly she undersold it too because i mean she was like in this
guy's car it's smoldering not smoldering the steam's flying out of the hood smoke is coming out of the hood and
stuff yeah he's pinned his legs bleeding it was bad oh geez anyway i was going to tell you this
other thing so we go to we go to kim's moms for her part of this thing and that was on
saturday also so saturday night after this early thing we go there oh thanks tay my other daughter
suddenly showed up with a egg macmuff
with bacon on it.
Look at that.
Which I can't eat till after the show, but I'll put it right.
It's fine.
They don't know how podcasts work.
Anyway, so we're over at her mother's, and that's fine.
You know, a bunch of families show up, whatever.
I'd like hanging out with her brother and stuff.
And we're all sitting around talking about conspiracies.
I can't remember what it was.
I can't remember how it started, but we were talking about cancer
because there's been a few cancer things going on in the family,
so it was a topic and her mom looks at me and goes you know every one and four people have cancer
and i said i don't think that's correct that seems wrong i said that seems high i said maybe
15 10 somewhere in that range maybe yeah yeah but i don't think one and four and she goes oh well
she's looking at me like well that's just too bad that's what it is and i said i said i saw it on facebook
I said, well, where did you get that number?
And she says, she doesn't like, she's not used to being corrected, but I'll do it every time.
I do it all the time.
And she goes, well, I'm just guessing, but I think that's correct.
And I'm like, you're just guessing?
Just guessing.
Because it just seems high to you?
Like, I understand we've got a, we got a family right now that's dealing with a couple of cases of different cancers, and that makes you feel like it's happening all at once.
And there's a sense that it's everywhere all the time.
but, you know, just making a claim that it's one in every four.
It's like, come on, man.
It's probably one in four people that she knows has cancer.
Yeah, maybe that's it.
I know, 24 people and six of them have cancer.
And I tried to explain that thing where it's like, oh, you bought a new car.
Now everyone on the freeway that has that car, you see them?
Exactly, yes.
Anyway, it's just always a struggle.
But she makes amazing homemade bread, so I had some of that.
So it all worked out in the end.
And then we went to the zoo yesterday, and the zoo.
is lovely.
Went there for Kim.
Kim wanted to go just somewhere with the kids.
And the zoo is always a good choice.
So we go to the zoo, and the zoo is great.
Except when we get there, we're all excited to see elephants.
The kids are, you know, vans like, elephants, elephants.
We go to the elephant pen and we're ready to meet, I don't know, Gladys and Leroy,
whatever their names are because they always have common names.
It's always funny.
And they've been moved to the Kansas City Zoo and nobody, no one can tell us why.
No way.
Yeah.
I thought elephants are like.
Like a dairy section of a grocery store.
Like, if you go to the zoo, they must have elephants.
If they send some to the Kansas City Zoo, they need to get some from another zoo to make up for the ones from the Kansas City.
Yeah, you're a rest-stop gas station.
You don't have soda?
What are we doing?
Exactly.
You better have elephants.
You better have giraffes.
You better have, what else?
Camels.
You better have.
Apes.
Got to have apes.
Yeah.
Apes.
Big cats.
Yeah.
Give me some cats.
Give me some apes.
Give me some bears.
They had all of those things.
Most were sleeping, because we always go at the worst time.
But no elephants.
Instead, they had these weird, large horses from some Arabian something.
Like big Arabian horses.
And I'm like, that is not a substitute for freaking elephants, dude.
No, it definitely is not.
No.
I was annoyed.
I should have had like a little cosplay trunk on one of the horses to say.
There's our elephant.
Elephant right there.
See?
It's an unusual Arabian elephant.
Big flappy ears taped to its head.
Right, exactly.
Because it was just like, this isn't the experience I paid for.
Like, what are we doing here?
But then somebody in the crowd, I just overheard people.
Somebody said, well, I think it's because the altitude,
it's hard for them to reproduce in the higher altitudes.
And maybe that's why.
I'm thinking, well, I'll bet you Denver's got,
I bet the Denver Zoo has freaking elephants in it.
Totally does.
Yeah, we know, we know the quota.
We know what has to be in a zoo for it to qualify.
as a zoo and
elephants are required.
You can't call it a zoo.
It's not a zoo without an elephant.
No, it's a standard for shit's sakes.
So anyway.
Yeah, exactly.
And we have altitude too.
Yeah, I was going to say,
you have it higher than us?
Higher than you.
So that lady was wrong, first of all.
Denver's higher than Salt Lake.
In every conceivable way.
Anyway, it was fun, though.
We got, you know, kids are fun and all that stuff.
But, man, just bugged me out.
And especially after I go to Vegas and see the Sphere movie and we get to see the biggest elephant taint I've ever seen in my life walk over me.
That's right.
That thing was freaking huge.
Right in our faces.
Practically 3D.
Insane.
All right, Brian, we've got a call from Tony.
Let's hear from Tony.
Let's hear what Tony has to say.
Hey, Scott, this is a message from the four of the morning stream.
This is Tony from Brooklyn, now residing in New Jersey.
Just want to thank you all.
I love all the shows.
Listen to them all.
bright in my day. Thank you, Scott, Brian, Brian, and Randy did the Luxo. Listen, I need to help, Scott.
I was wondering where I can get my hands on that, you know, the Dune Lady singing.
Anyway, I looked on the iTunes store and don't know whether there's an app for that or what have you.
On a few months, please forgive me. Anyway, Dunaway is the funniest one. And Brian, listen, know you. Have a good day, everybody.
Everyone loves Dunaway.
So everyone loves Dunaway.
Yeah, there's no getting around it.
We've just come to expect it.
Yeah, it's fine.
We live with this truth.
It's fine.
Here's what he means.
That thing.
Now, if I play much more than that, by the way, YouTube shuts down the video.
Does it really like it?
There's a limit.
It's interesting.
Yeah, they don't like it.
Well, they'll demonetize it.
They don't shut it down.
I wonder if you can do a little vocal thing on it, like slow it down 20% or something.
Or, you know, how you can do how people get away with putting it down.
full movies on YouTube because they slow
them down 20% or something. Yeah, or they're all
sped up or they're showing only like the
corner of the screen or
Right, right. It's so dumb though they do that.
But yeah, it's so where I can get that
He's closer than he thinks. Any of the
music services have the official soundtrack
to the Dune Part 1 soundtrack
Which is where this is from.
And all I did was sample that.
What song? Do you know the name of the song that?
Oh, good question, Brian. Let's see.
The Ballad of Mouadib.
Hold on.
I can actually tell you this.
This is great U.S.
Here we go.
It's from the song.
We are never, ever, ever getting Madeeb together.
We're never ever.
Let's see.
The Benny and the Jesuits is the song that you'll find it in.
That's the one.
Okay, here it is.
It is, I think, Harold of the Change, let me make sure.
Is it going to play?
Nope, that ain't it.
How about this one?
Nope, how about this one?
It starts right at the beginning.
It's the first thing you hear in the song?
Yeah.
Wait, why is this so damn quiet?
Oh, shit.
That's not it.
Okay, the problem...
Oh, is this it?
Erekeen?
Hold on.
No.
All right.
I don't know which one it is,
but there's a ton of these tracks.
What is it?
20, 30 tracks in the Dune Part 1 soundtrack,
and it's in there.
So just dig around and you'll find it.
All right?
And it's great.
It's a very good.
soundtrack anyway. You should listen to it anyway. Yeah, you should listen to it
anyway. I hate having to reset the counter, but I just got to
say, I got my, got my tickets to see Furiosa on the 23rd.
Oh! Woo!
Alamo draft house got my, and I couldn't believe it at like 30 minutes, within 30 minutes
of the tickets going on sale, the big theater, they call it the big show at the
alma draft house I go to.
already about 30% gone.
I still got great seats, but still it's like, wow, it's, uh, they went that quick.
There's demand, there is demand for this and seeing it even on a Thursday night, not even on
the Friday comes out.
So it says Friday, May 24th everywhere, but it looks like they're getting it early.
I wonder if anywhere here is, because I've been struggling about where to go.
Usually, I was going to say, most theaters show it on Thursday, even though it technically
opens on Friday.
You hear what, um, so they did an interview with George Miller and they said,
you know him and chris hemsworth apparently had a very good like a really good working relationship on the set
as opposed to tom hardy last time yeah sure so it was like he was just enthusiastically all in and he really
like working with him and he said they said well hey what do you ever think about doing an mccu movie maybe
the next thor movie you could come and work with chris again oh wow and he says well i've never
thought about doing an mcccc movie before but i would follow chris hemsworth anywhere and if they offered it to me i
do that movie. Now, can you imagine just for a second, a George Miller-helmed Thor movie?
Thor movie? That would be pretty damn amazing. I mean, I love, listen, Ragnarok is one of my
favorite MCU movies of all time. I don't feel like Love and Thunder lived up to the
the excellence that was Ragnarok. Yeah. But we could give Tychoa Tidi, you know, move him over to
something else in the MCU and have Miller do the next Thor movie. I'd be all in.
Yeah, I would also be all in.
So let's see where we end up.
Okay, it does look like I can get stuff on the 23rd at the Gateway and at the Sugarhouse Movies 10.
I have to look around, dude.
I want to see this so bad.
And my wife, the problem is Kim is leaving on the 26th for her trip to help her.
This is going to be her two week, her two week trip.
Yeah, where she's helping her sister move and driving across the country and all that.
And then I just don't want to see it.
I want to see it with her, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
I can't drive my wife crazy for the last eight years with me mentioning this damn movie all the time
and then not take her to see Furiosa on day one.
Oh, oh my gosh.
Yeah, no.
That's insanity talk there.
Come to Denver.
We'll see it at the drive-thouse.
Bring Kim.
I wouldn't have you to turn that one.
It kind of became a Trumpy thing, didn't it?
You guys will come to, come to Denver.
You'll see, we'll see Furiosa.
It'll be, uh, get some popcorn.
I saw it.
So, you know, I'm on like, complete no political news in my life, but I watched
some clip where he meant to say Jimmy Carter
to drag him for something,
I don't know what it was, because of course you would.
Of course, yeah.
But he said, or he called him Jimmy Connors.
I think, is he the golfer?
Wait, who's Jimmy Connors?
Golfer, tennis player, golfer?
Oh, tennis, maybe tennis.
You might be right.
Tennis?
I can't remember.
It was a sport where you wear shorts
and just walk around slowly.
Yeah, yeah.
It was one of those, one of them sports.
All right, let's play a game.
Let's get Dunaway in it.
Yeah, sounds good.
Everyone's favorite Dunaway coming in.
He's in.
He's locked in.
He's just everyone's favorite.
Just send all your love to Brian Dunaway, I guess.
We'll be the chopped liver to Dunaway's Kobe beef.
Whatever he is.
He's ringing, but he ain't picking up.
What's going on there?
Oh, there he is.
All right.
Oh, that music means it's time for Brian done a way to join us and for us to play a little bit of the morning half-asses on a Monday.
Hi, Brian. Welcome to the show.
Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. How's it going?
Hey, Brian. Let's welcome our fun uncle to the show.
Yeah.
How do you feel?
Have I the fun uncle? How can you love?
The Tadpool's fun uncle.
Yeah. How do you feel about being everyone's favorite?
Everyone loves you.
First of all, news to me, but I love the idea being everyone's favorites.
I have a, I have a one of those things.
hey you know
it is you everybody
I'm a people pleaser
I'm always like oh everybody has to like me
they get you in small doses
you know if this was the
if this was an hour and a half
of Dunaway oh you guys would hate it
yeah you guys have no idea
like like post show
after film sack I won't let anybody go
we're there for like two hours
yeah
oh let me show you the latest
Laserdisc I got coming
I've got
I've got
I've got how
Stella Grotto Grover Grooveback on Laserdisc coming along with the...
And I can't wait for you guys to watch it with me next week after a film sack.
Yep.
You guys, if he was here every minute of the day, he'd be your least favorite, Brian, okay?
Oh, I'm a lot.
Oh, I understand that.
That's actually something I learned very early on, is that I am fun, and I have a certain level of energy,
but after a certain amount of time, people go, enough.
Yeah.
Enough.
It's kind of like I feel like how Robin Williams probably was when he was around.
not than I compare myself to him because he was he's a legend but that you know it's just like that
energy that's way up there sure and it's like how long can you take it yeah it's a long it's a lot
to have in your face for a long time but uh but for i for one and i think brian would agree are
happier here today okay always always uh done away we're going to play game i'm going to let
uh brian explain the damn thing and who might win what brian take it away welcome well okay
welcome the morning half asses a trivia game where i'm actually going to be giving you to the answers
I'll give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers.
Three of which are correct, and three that are like PF changes are incorrect.
Depending on how confident they feel with the category, they provide one, two or three guesses.
But if any guesses are wrong, they get zero points for that round.
Get one right, gets a point.
Two right gets you three points.
Three right gets you five points total.
Play with the most points after three rounds.
Winns the prize for their contestant.
And contestants are pulled from members of the tadpole that aren't able to listen live.
Scott, you're playing for Jason Sargent in Rochester, New York.
nice sergeant
sergeant
Brian you're playing for Chris
in Port Macquarie
Australia
Australia
It's my favorite
It's my favorite outback
Yeah
Is that your favorite outback
That's where you get the blooming onion
Is it the Port Macquarie Australia
I wonder
Hey if you go to the outback
Like the actual outback
Do they let you throw peanut shells
All over the ground like they do here
No they don't have peanuts
That would be weird
That's the Texas Roadhouse
Oh, yeah.
Always mix those up.
And I'm not sure they even do that anymore because of allergies and stuff.
They don't.
No, they give you, because Tina's mom likes that place.
So at the beginning of April, we went there for her birthday dinner.
Yeah.
They give you a bag, like a sealed bag of about 12 peanuts at your table.
And basically it's like, we'll just keep them sealed.
They can open them even if they want them.
But that's it.
That's insulting.
Just don't.
Just get rid of them.
Yeah, exactly.
just dump the whole idea
let five guys kill people with their peanuts
with their peanut allergies that's right
just peanuts come on
you know those guys are killing every which way they can
oh yeah right yeah they're killing you
with the the meat
you want to
we gave you fries and we also included
the rest of the bag of the fries
in the bottom of the bag there you go yep
and your bag is soaked through so hard that
there's no way you won't notice how gross fries
are after you see that bag oh god
no kidding yeah but I'll still eat them
I'll still eat every last one of them.
All right, let's get to your questions here.
You guys are going to get three questions, you know, maybe, I don't know,
don't be so bold on the first question or two and get some points.
But I, you know, that's just my idea for strategy.
You guys, you guys do you.
Let's get to question number one.
Varieties of Apple.
Okay.
So, which of these are actually varieties of apple?
Your choices are.
Fushu, Winter Banana, Pringle, Lobo, Telstar, and Mele.
Pringle banana.
I have the 50 freaking apples that I'm familiar with.
Where'd you get these from?
Jeez.
Yeah, yeah.
These come from the sprouts.
Okay.
Sheriff Lobos.
Leal.
Yeah.
Tell.
Telstar.
Tellstar.
Tell star.
Good Lord.
That's like a mobile company or some shit.
It's a satellite.
Um, I'm going with two.
I don't know.
Okay.
All right.
He's all looking sane to me.
There's no.
way these are real. Uh, all right. Uh, you guys, uh, went all over the board here. Winter banana
is indeed a, uh, a variety of apple. What, what shape is it? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
I'm guessing it's apple shaped and, and it's faintly like a banana. Probably. Yeah, it's banana shaped,
but it's cold, so it's really small. Uh, Lobo also a variety of apple. Uh, Brian coming out of
this one at one point, uh, Pringle, not a variety of apple, tell star.
being the third choice there.
So Lobo, Winter Banana, and Telstar.
I took I took Ibit's advice.
Fushu sounds like the most correct,
but the fact that it sounded the most correct
made me think it was the least correct.
And it's probably trying to make you think of Fuji,
is my opinion.
Like some of these are like so close to other kinds.
It's like, okay, but I do like the melee apple.
Yeah.
The melee apple.
Mealy or mealy.
Maybe that's how it's pronounced.
All right, let's get to a mealy.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
Who wants a mealy apple?
Let's go to a question.
number two, we're going to move over to
history. Things that happened
in 2000. In the year
2000. Ooh, this all feels right.
Yeah, which of these
happened in 2000? Dolly the Sheep was
cloned. Dora the Explorer
was debuted, not cloned.
Hurricane Katrina struck. Charles
Schultz died. Vladimir
Putin was elected.
And Bob Hope died.
Which of those, which three
things happened in the year
2000?
Going with two again because Brian's recommendation of strategy just does not sink into my head.
I've got to have more.
Greedy!
I'm doing those two there.
Got to go big.
You guys both have locked in your answers.
Vladimir Putin, totally elected in 2000.
Yeah, I heard that other day.
Was that his first election?
He's up for his 20s.
Yeah, he's up for his sixth or he just got, what, inducted or, uh,
Not inducted, what is that, what do they call that?
I inaugurated for his fourth term or something?
Sixth term.
Yeah.
It's almost like something's going on over there.
Yeah, I don't know how they, the election fixed, what?
Yeah.
Fifth.
You wouldn't they get murdered?
Shut up.
Door the Explorer.
Door the Explorer also debuted in 2000.
Bob Hope.
Oh, died in 2004.
No points in either.
Carol Schultz dying.
I don't remember that being 2000, but
okay. I thought that was 90s.
Katrina, very memorably 2005.
Nobody was fooled by that one.
And Dolly was actually cloned in 1996,
a little bit earlier.
Oh, my gosh.
Nicely done.
How's Dolly doing?
Yeah, she's still around?
I don't think she'd just put out a rock album.
Hello, Dolly.
Yeah, but does she end it every song
by singing the main line?
line one last time and then that's how every song.
Every single sign. But she bleats
it. So she goes, hey, yeah, hey, yeah.
Thank you for taking me on this journey.
Oh, it's a good journey.
All right. Let's get to question number three.
Brian, going into this one with one point, Scott with zero, but this one is where all the
crap can happen.
Which of these are months without a U.S. federal holidays?
So you get your U.S. federal holidays.
Three of these months don't have one.
Your choices are June, September, October, February, August, and April.
Three, don't have a U.S. federal holiday, three do.
Oh, my gosh.
Is the June of July?
No, no, fourth of June.
No, that's not right.
Oh, Scott's are you locked in?
Shoot, all right.
Scott's locked in, wow.
I guess I better straighten up then.
Slow-ass mother effort.
I don't think I'm right, but.
I'm trying to think.
Fine, I'm just going to go one there.
Okay.
all right
this is
this is it for all the marbles
so June
which Brian selected
does not have a U.S.
federal holiday
That's good
That's what you want.
Yeah, you don't want.
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, good, good.
August
Another month
another month without a U.S. federal
holiday.
February has
Washington's birthday.
Oh, shit.
October has Columbus Day,
September has Labor Day.
April, also, the other month that does not have a federal holiday.
So two points for Brian.
Just that me, I won?
You did.
That means you won.
You sure did.
Yeah.
That means that Chris in Port McCory, Australia, is getting a copy of Hero of the Kingdom
2 and Golfie.
Two games, courtesy of King Quasamibibi, Quamazabi, what was his name?
Quimimazabi.
Quimazabi.
Quama Zobby, I think is correct.
So congratulations to Chris.
But don't worry, Jason, in Rochester, New York.
I said it right, Rochester.
You don't say Rochester, Rochester.
You're getting a copy of Super 3D Noah's Ark.
I don't know what to do with that game, but it's super and it's in 3D.
Yeah.
All the, you got the two lions, you know, getting in there.
It was the gameplay.
Is it more building or is it more collecting?
it's maybe it's animal husbandry is what it is it's a game fully focused on animal husbandry
do you know my favorite things so noah's arc one of my favorite things about it is anytime anyone
does a painting of it or depicts it at all there's always two lions you know two drafts two lions
two whatever there's always two by two the two lines I frequent love that because they both have
the they both have a main yeah yeah so they got gay lions on the ship that's what they're doing
that's awesome yeah well done good job everyone and no gay bears which you think if they're going to
have right we saw bear yesterday we saw a bear at the uh at the zoo and licking the bear armpit
of the other bear nice and all i could think of was like this is like idaho with the hairy
which which animal enclosure were they sitting in front of uh they just outside the boisey airport
that's where we saw perfect excellent uh there we go have kipper's showing nothing oh look and also
elephants get elephants on an arc not in the not in the uh salt lake cities
No, they go to Kansas City for some reason.
Oh, yeah, there's the two lions, dude.
All right, so we have a little question here.
Wabbit Magic says Juneteenth is a federal holiday.
I think that is correct.
It was.
Did it get kicked in last year?
It did get kicked in last year.
So prior to the release of this game, or I'm sorry, after the release of this game,
Juneteenth did, did, oh, but how does that affect the score?
Oh, that's right.
I still won.
Oh.
Oh, weird, weird.
Yeah.
But you're right.
Yeah, exactly.
You would have not gotten a point, but you still have the one point you got in the second round or first round or something.
Yeah.
Don't know what you win, fair and square.
That's the bottom line.
Brian needs to vet some of these questions a little better, doesn't he?
He's usually pretty good about that.
But anyway, regardless, congratulations to both Jason and Chris who are getting some games.
Congratulations.
You're a winner.
Except me.
But that's okay.
We'll try it again.
Look, Wednesday is when I get my revenge, and Brian will be back for that little piece of business.
Yeah, you kicked my trash pretty handily the last week, right?
Yeah, I did.
Take that, jerk.
Also, kiss our butts.
I got him.
You did.
Oh, you so got him.
He had no time to respond.
All right, weirdos.
It's time for a little bit of news, and let's do that now.
Here you go, right here.
It's time for the news brought to you by.
Brought to you by Talking Frog, Convinses Man to Kill His Dad.
Yeah.
Now, it's a movie.
I saw this, and I've been thinking about it.
Yeah.
Is it a movie in a series?
Yes.
In like a trilogy?
Yes.
Okay.
Well, there are more than three, but it's...
Oh, well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right.
Okay.
In its original form, it was a trilogy, yes.
Is it the Empire Strikes Back?
You are absolutely correct.
Nicely done.
I was thinking, talking frog.
I know these things are never literal.
I was also thinking like, all right,
Guardians of the Galaxy 2.
You know, Star Lord is convinced to kill his dad.
But it's not by a talking frog.
It's by a talking tree and a talking raccoon, maybe.
Yeah.
And calling Yoda a frog is a bit of a stretch.
But this marks the first one that I made up.
Oh, you did this one.
Yeah, I usually pick him from something.
But I thought, Brian's really good at this.
So I'm going to see.
I'm going to see if I can't fool him
And I feel like at least I made you think
But you still
You made you think
And question my
You know
If there was some obvious thing
That I was just not thinking about
But the talking frog is
Yeah definitely a
Definitely could have thrown me there
Chat
I don't know if in or Brian if you can even see it
Can you see my left eyes all puffy?
Do you see that?
Yeah what happened?
A little did you did you somebody fart on your pillow or something?
Best I can tell
these always coincide with when one of the kids pokes me in the eye and the other day
Phoebe poked me in the eye and since then I've had a bit of a little eye pink eye infection
kind of thing going on what do they call that a that is called a
conjunctivitis right conjunctivitis there you go that's exactly right sometimes you get
styes that's not what this is so it's all goopy and awful in the morning right now it's fine
I have some great drops for it but anyone in the chat who's concerned don't worry I didn't get in a fight
or get punched or anything.
That doesn't happen in a very long time.
Listen, I've got a sun blister on my lower lip here.
I did, you know, was not using my, I've got some SPF to say that.
That's probably what happened.
I was using chapstick, which doesn't have any SPF.
And I tend to occasionally get the old sun blister.
Well, we got the, you know, it's getting dry.
It's the herpes.
It's the herpes.
Yeah, Brian's herpes comes up here and there.
Yeah, the herps.
I like the herps.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone call it the herpes.
I love that.
Watch out for her, man.
She's got the herps.
Where's that, where she got that herps on her genitals or on her lips?
That's right, exactly.
Richard Simmons, you're familiar with his work?
I am familiar.
I've met him.
All right.
I put my hand up against his to compare.
We compared sizes, Scott, but it was just my hand.
Is that true?
I didn't know this story.
Yeah.
How did this?
So my aunt worked for Dick Clark Productions.
She was one of Dick Clark's assistants.
Like, you know, when he was doing band.
back in the 80s and early 90s.
So when I came out to California to visit my grandparents and visit my aunt and uncle,
they took me to a taping of bandstand where they tape three shows back to back to back.
And on one of the shows, it was the dude from Blue Lagoon.
Blonde hair?
Blonde hair.
I can't remember that guy's name.
But he had an album at the time.
I always makes him up with the greatest American hero guy.
I know it's not.
look like, right, he does look like that guy.
And then
the middle show was
Richard Simmons
because he had an album called Reach.
Oh my lord.
Did he sing in it? Did he sing or was it just overlooker?
He sang. It was like a sing, screaming.
I mean, it's Richard Simmons, so it's kind of a mix
of singing and screaming. And then the last
show was Sparks, and we left just
as they were coming in. So I got
to basically see Ron and Russell Mail
for a second say, hi,
oh my God, I love your music. Bye.
And, you know, we had to leave.
But, but Richard Simmons was, you know, he came, basically, we walked down to the stage in between shows,
and Richard Simmons was like coming, exploring the space or whatever.
And he was like, oh, my God, you guys are so tall.
Let me see how, put your hand up.
And my uncle, who's, you know, super tall.
Yeah.
Put his hand.
And Richard Simmons' hand looked like a little toddler's hand, basically, on his hand.
That's great.
about the same size of
8-year-old Brian,
I guess it would have been
12 or 13, 12- or 13-year-old
Brian.
So this is young Richard Simmons
in the thick of his workout thing and all that.
When did that album come out?
Hold on a second.
Reach. Richard.
Reach.
Simmons.
Halo Reach.
Halo Reach.
Fantastic.
Came with a 20-page exercise booklet.
Wow.
So it was, so they were tying it into
the whole workout thing.
You're supposed to play it.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it had just come out.
I mean, he was promoting the
album and uh got it uh 1982 so i was 12 years old good lord well apparently they found him too
which i thought recently he was missing right wasn't their whole thing for quite a while yeah yeah so
he's back and he posts on twitter still so here's how this worked he claims rosan bar tried to force
feed him on her talk show which is a thing i guess i forgot the rosan bar had a talk show actually
that's the yeah she ain't getting one now i can tell you that no well it might be on the
the one network or whatever that
I think it should be
on the freaking sci-fi channel
she's crazy
Richard Simmons spilling secrets
from his talk show appearance heyday
as he continues to dispel rumors about his
well-being the fitness guru took to X
formerly known as Twitter
to share
Elon should just change the name of it to formally known as Twitter
just forget the letter X just call it formally known
as Twitter I'm I support this
this movement
let's see
shared several stories
when he was a guest on shows
hosted by Martha Stewart
Rosie O'Donnell
Roseanne Barr
Wendy Williams and more
as he claims
his experience with Barr
wasn't a positive one
Simmons says
when they first met on a plane
they shared a pleasant exchange
after her sitcom took off
Barr also hosted a short-lived talk show
that had him on as a guest
quote when we were talking
I noticed something on the table in between us
it was a hamburger with everything on it
he wrote
he alleged she asked me Richard
you can you can't always
eat healthy, unquote. She got up
and tried to force feed the hamburger by pushing
it into my face and my mouth. Oh my God.
I was not amused. I snapped.
I grabbed the hamburger and shoved it
in her mouth and walked off stage.
This is something I was not proud of.
She screamed and yelled at me when I was leaving the stage.
Her executive producer, Jeff Wade, told me
she was going to sue me, and I told him
I will sue her first, he further
claimed.
That last part tracks.
It totally tracks like
yeah, I'm sure. I'm not
sue you. I'm sure she thought, oh, this
will be a really funny bit.
Yep.
Is it any surprise
that people like Harrison
Ford, Wilford, Wilford, Brimley,
I could name others, they don't
live there. They move the F
out. They buy a ranch somewhere
in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, why would
you want to be there, dude?
Everything I, it's just always just
we can find great examples of
people. I think it's not about the
location. It's about the person. I don't think
Oh, it's 100% the people.
It's the people for sure.
But, you know, like, you're either surrounded by the people or you get out of there.
You know what I mean?
But I see what you're saying.
It's like, oh, yeah, okay, it's the, I see what you're saying.
Yeah, definitely not the town.
The town's fine.
But if you got to be around Roseanne Barr, I'd rather be anywhere else.
Yeah, agreed.
Anywhere.
Take me to, I don't know, anywhere.
I'll go anywhere that she isn't.
We got a true.
Hobbsdog in the chat, disparaging Wilford Brimley, says,
because Brumley is another A-hole.
Yeah, he was known for being not very...
He's a little crusty on set and stuff.
But so is Harrison Ford.
Like that's what I'm saying.
I think these guys get tired of the rigamarole and they leave and they get a ranch and...
I'm sure Kossner lives outside of Hollywood.
Like, doesn't live in California at all.
Also known for being a little disagreeable on set.
Yeah, yeah.
But I don't know.
I kind of relate to these guys.
Like, you want to do the work, but you don't want to be...
You don't want to be in the trappings of it.
Yeah, I get that.
I see what you're just saying, yeah.
How about this one?
Cruise ship drug a dead whale into a New York Harbor,
prompting an investigation.
This is pretty cool.
Authorities this week got a surprise when a cruise ship,
let's see, that had recently docked in New York Harbor called in a report
that they had a dead whale stuck in the front of the ship.
Oh, gosh.
They didn't drag a dead whale.
They pushed a dead whale.
That's push notifications, not, uh,
Not drag.com or whatever.
Right.
Oh, my gosh.
The cruise ship called the MC, or sorry, MSC, can't read that right,
Merviglia.
Maraviglia?
That's exactly how I would say it.
Yeah, Mariviglia.
Maraviglia was returning from Bermuda when it came to port in New York.
The statement from the cruise line said,
we immediately notified the relevant authorities who are now conducting an examination of the whale.
We are deeply saddened by the loss of any marine life.
BBC reports that the whale had been identified as a sea.
whale, S-E-I-Wail? Never heard of that?
I haven't heard of those, no.
Endangered species is found to be 44 feet long,
it can weigh up to 100,000 pounds,
and often found in subtropical, subpolar,
and temperate ocean regions, according to the NOAA fisheries.
So it wasn't anything they did wrong, but imagine, like...
Well, we don't... Here's the thing. Do we know...
We don't know if the cruise ship killed the whale,
or if the whale was dead and the cruise ship just happened to get caught up in it
It was floating by.
They picked up their dark passenger on their way.
That's right.
Just like Dexter.
Yeah.
I wonder, though, like even if they knew it was out there, what are they going to do?
Those ships can't turn on a dime.
They can't suddenly avoid things.
Yeah, I don't know.
Do they, can they, I know they can't turn, but can they stop?
And then the whale just kind of floats.
If they know, if they know it's far enough ahead, I'll bet they could, right?
They have enough time to stop.
It's like a train.
You've got to have so much.
Oh, no, I mean, once they've got the whale on the front of the ship, can they...
Oh, I see.
Can they reverse thrusters and just stop and let the whale kind of keep continuing on in front?
Probably, right?
So they either, so now the explanation is either they hit it, it was dead, or they hit it, killed it, and just went, well, I guess we just keep going.
That's why they have to investigate it, yeah.
They got to figure out if they're...
If, because Claire says the rumblings of the ship sound like whales, so it attracts them,
they get to figure out some sort of sound that they can make underwater that is a,
that sounds more like a warning, right?
You just have some sort of device that emits a, uh,
Roe-you-you-oh, something like that.
Just sample it right from the show.
Use that.
That's perfect.
Use that.
Just use that and it just scare the whales away.
Perfect.
It's funny because on our cruise, the whole point of a.
stretch of it anyway was to go out on the deck and
look for whales and we saw a bunch of whales
but part of me was convinced that
we were seeing them because at the exact
same time I could angle my camera down and I
could see these pipe things shooting
excess food waste
from the buffet shooting
it into the water and I'm thinking well that's why they're here
chumming the water and attracting them
yeah that's what it felt like to me but
I don't know do you see that new cruise ship
is it I can't remember which
crude line it is but they have
7,500 people on there, 2,000 employees.
It's like the biggest cruise ship in the history of the world.
It's like a small, it's a town.
I mean, it's basically a city.
It seems like it's like competition, right?
Like every each carnival and Norwegian,
and they always have to top the other one with something like,
well, we have a water slide on ours.
Oh, we've got an entire tube system on the top of ours,
and we've got a roller coaster that we've put in ours.
I mean, eventually bucket list item, I would like to go on a Disney cruise sometime because I've heard they're great.
And I want to go on the ones that's got the Marvel dining room.
I think it's the Disney Wish.
Oh, that's cool.
I didn't know.
That was a thing.
Yeah, Marvel dining room that's got like, it's made up to look like PIM's laboratory.
So it's all weird.
PIM food, kind of like the one they've got in California Adventure, but they've got videos and stuff like that.
That would be the one I'd want to go on.
on but I can't I don't I don't think I want to go on any more cruises no I don't I'm kind of good too I don't need
I've done it once now and I'm like okay that's fine it was my my ideal trip is going somewhere and
having the freedom to explore and kind of discover discover it myself right as opposed to we're going
to dock and then at the dock you've got five different tours you can pick from and and but make sure
you're back at the back of the ship by this time because we're leaving so
You know, two hours before we need to come back, you need to come back.
You've got to start thinking about how you're getting back to the cruise ship and all that.
All that rigamarole.
It's just, that's, I don't like it either.
I'm with you.
By the way, this ship, okay, so I confirmed it is Royal Caribbean.
It is 10,000 total capacity of people.
10,000 people, geez.
Wow, 10,000.
Yeah, 20 decks, 18 of Witcher for guests.
It looks, well, it looks like a terrorist target to me, if I'm honest.
Like, why wouldn't you, why wouldn't you try to bomb this thing?
It feels like, it just feels like we're, you know, we're ripe for another Titanic or something.
Yeah, that thing is, I mean, it seems neat, but it was it worth it?
Was it worth it?
Yeah.
Well, I'll tell you what is worth it.
Taking a break and coming back with our old pal Bobby Frankenberger.
Yeah, that's right.
He's back with some more science.
And, you know, it might have something to do with these weird skies we've been having.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, solar flares.
That's right.
So stick around, and we'll get to that in a second.
But first, we need music.
Brian, do you have music?
Play music.
It sounded like I was saying, the danger zone thing from Archer.
I've been watching a lot of Archer lately.
Yeah.
Finishing, like, seasons that I never watched, never got around to.
I like the humor I love.
Archer's humor, I absolutely love.
Sure.
The animation just always felt a little stiff to me.
It was really well drawn, but it felt a little stiff,
and that was a hard thing for me to get past with Archie.
Yeah, those, those, those, those, those, those,
guys came from what adult swim and they were used to doing like space you know it was all very low
rent animation which i guess is part of the appeal but i'm kind of with you if you're going to go to
like fx and do a proper series i could have used a little movement a little more movement but i mean
the voices the voice work the the jokes the writing fantastic yeah yeah anyway uh still enjoying it
though hey let's go to uh where these guys from my gosh i don't know where
I should have looked ahead to see where these guys are from.
You know what?
I'm not going to tell you where they're from.
You have to go find them yourself.
This is a band called The Mendenhall Experiment.
Those of you want some nice, some heavy stuff, you got it right here.
This is like your deep driving bass and drums and yelling vocals and stuff like that that that I really like, actually.
They've got an EP coming out called Chasing Ghosts.
This is the first single.
It's called Say It.
Say It.
I don't know if it's followed by Don't Spray It.
But the track came out this last Friday.
The album comes out soon.
So check it out.
Let's see.
When does the album come out?
Again, it's like I, this one's paragraphs and paragraphs of stuff.
I couldn't be bothered to read the whole damn thing.
Sure.
But they've been inspired by groups like Korn and Pantera, and they just sound amazing.
Here is the Mendenhall Experiment and the first single from their new album.
The song is called Say It.
The
Bhophaar.
Bhaar,
Bhaar,
Bhaar,
Bhaar.
Bhophe.
Bhophe.
A
A...
I close my eyes,
I close my eyes, imagine I'm on fire, protected from these phantoms,
haunting my ammo
They silence all
Dig underneath my skin
But I won't let them win this battle
This choice in yours
Will you accept to feed and hide
Will you say it out, say it out now
This life is far
It'll become something more
So just say it out, say it out loud
The planes ignite
Reminding me it's time
To put away my fear of all I cannot control
I will not fail
It burns beneath my skin
My weapon is within
is within it's not over
The choice in the heart
Will you accept to feed and hide
Or will you say it out, say it out loud
This life is far
You will become something more
So just say it out, say it out loud
This is your life
This is your life
This is your life
This is your life
There's choice in yours
When you access to feet and hide
Or just stay it out, stay alone
This life is part
You don't think there's something more
So just stay it out
Stay down.
Stay down alone.
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Well, I'm just washing a dress for your big party, silly.
I could taste blood that time.
And we're back. Hey, who was that again?
That is the band, The Mendenhall Experiment, and their song, Say It.
I finished three-body problem.
Oh, yeah, cool.
And loved it thoroughly.
I was, I hated that it was over when it was over because I wanted more.
I know.
I want more so soon.
I like, I know, I want to know what happens, yeah.
I just need to, like, they did, they went to the, I don't give anything away,
but, you know, the scene with Benedict Wong toward the end.
Yes.
And he's trying to teach them a little something about humanity.
And I went, all right, next episode.
There are no next episodes.
I got to freaking wait for this thing.
Exactly.
I really liked it a lot.
It's so good.
Yeah.
Let's get in here, Bobby.
Yeah.
You should have Bobby, like, do a, like, a lot of uninterrupted talking.
can eat that egg McMuffin because it's just getting
colder. I mean, you should see it. It's just
kind of molting over here. It's like, oh,
you know what I could do? I could put it on this little space
heater. It might
actually work. It might keep
it warm, yeah. Watch the plate
shatter or something like that. I just feel bad that you've
got this great
egg macmuffin sitting there next to you.
My kids and wife, they know better, so
I don't know why they bring this stuff to me when they do it.
But anyway, it's time to welcome our
old pal Bobby, and we do that by playing
this thing right here.
Bob is hungry and the soup looks good.
It sure does. Let's talk to Bob. Hi, Bob. You look hungry.
Hello, Robert. Robert. How's it going? I am usually hungry about this time. It's lunchtime here.
Oh, yeah, it's true. It's noon, 30, no, noon 06 where you live.
How does the soup look?
I'm not a soup fan.
Really? That's great because we have a whole clip that talks about how your soup looks good.
And the soup looks good.
How are you on chowders?
Better with chowders?
I think so, probably.
Yeah, if I have to eat a soup, I'd prefer a thicker one.
I don't dislike soup.
You don't go for the soup.
There's not much food I won't eat.
I like all kinds of things.
But it's at the bottom of the, like, if there's anything else, usually I'll pick it.
Okay.
You'll take something over soup.
I get it.
Yeah, but if you serve me soup, I'll eat it.
I'm not going to be rude.
Where do you stand, like scientifically, where do you stand on cereal is just morning soup, cold soup?
How do you feel about that?
That's a good question.
That's a good point.
I think it is kind of like, but does soup have to be cooked or is soup just stuff in liquid?
I mean, gazpacho is what?
That's basically cold soup, right?
Yeah, and it's, but wasn't it cooked first?
No.
No, gazpacho is, nope, at least the gazpacho I've made, it starts cold and ends cold.
You never cooked it.
I think proper
Gospacho is never supposed to be cooked
as far as I know, even the ingredients, like
separately. However, my wife
makes Jambalaya, which is intended to be cooked
and hot when it's served, but it's also
very good the next day as like
honestly you can dip like corn chips in it.
It's like a stew. Yeah. Yeah, it's more like a stew.
You can do it cold and do it hot, whatever you want.
If you go too far down this road, you start asking
weird questions like, well, this isn't
so weird, but like is chili soup?
Probably that's not too weird of a question,
but then like is Boba tea soup?
Oh, shit.
I mean...
I think the straw is what...
A spoon.
Maybe it's...
If it's a meal you eat with a spoon, it's soup.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What about oatmeal?
Oatmeal is...
Oh, damn it.
It's more of a stew.
More of a gruel.
It's more of a stew.
Like a goulash.
Yeah, like a goul.
It's more of a casserole-type breakfast casserole.
It's a hot dog, a sandwich?
I mean, this is a...
These are a...
Questions of Plague Mankind for a long, long time.
I mean, we still call tomatoes fruit, and they are technically, but what's wrong with us as a race?
We're all wrong.
Well, anyway, Bobby, it's good to have you here.
We're going to start things today with an email because it feeds right into what you're going to talk about.
It says, Dear Saturn and Betta, Goosey, I'm not sure what that means.
Is there probably Beetlejuice?
Oh, it's the way it's spelled.
Yeah, that's a very weird.
That's the way that is actually spelled.
I know.
Yeah.
The movie ruined it for.
me, man. The movie changed it to an actual
beetle and juice. Yeah. And now
they say it twice in the title and they expect
me to learn anything. Geez.
Well, anyway, so I have a question for Bobby.
Now that the solar eclipse is done,
can I go back to safely staring at the sun?
Love the show, though. Blind Ryan
from Michigan.
So that obviously have nothing to do
with these Aurora Borealis business,
but closer
storms, yeah. So now that we're having those,
Bobby
forewarned me that
perhaps that was coming. There is no harm at looking at those, right? You can stare at those all day.
No, no. No. All right. And in fact, technically, technically it's no more dangerous to look at the solar eclipse than it is to look at the sun without being blocked. The risk is, and the reason people are worn about it so much is, A, you don't normally care about looking at the sun. So you're just more likely to be looking at.
at it and B because most of the light if not all the light or at the time when it's dangerous most of
the light is blocked so it um it doesn't you don't get the like it doesn't hurt your eyes as quickly
so you're just more likely to be looking at it for longer when it's it's just as much so like
the radiation is just as damaging as it would have been without you know they're being in a
It's just that we don't know
and we feel like it's less
because the strain on your eyes is less
because it's being blocked
a big portion of it.
So for us...
Just that one,
those few minutes are moments
that it's fully eclipsed,
that's safe.
And then as soon as any...
You don't want to stare too long
because...
Yeah, there are just too many factors
because like it depends on...
And how long the total eclipse
is in totality
depends on where you are
in the path of totality. If you're close
to the edge, it won't be for very long.
If you're in the middle, it'll be for longer.
You know, all that kind of stuff. So it's just like,
it's just people are like,
just, you know what? Just don't look at it at all
without.
That's right. Yeah.
Instead of explaining all those details
and everybody's going to get it right.
Yeah, exactly. Right. All the cabin.
It's a public health messaging, which
in all seriousness,
messaging has to think about things like that.
So just in terms of the messaging, it's just like, you know what, just for maximum safety,
don't look at it without the glasses.
Yeah.
All right.
Come on.
These are good ideas.
I like what you've done here.
Well, let's talk about today.
We're going to stay in this cosmic realm.
We're going to talk about this solar or these solar flares, solar storms that created basically
turned half the world into a chance to feel like Finland or whatever.
Yeah.
or other Norwegians who get to see the Northern Lights.
Save us all that airfare to Iceland that we've been looking at.
For a lot of people, probably the only chance
they'll ever have to see the Northern Lights in this context.
Well, where I am, for sure.
And I did get to see it.
I know, Scott, you tweeted about how you missed it.
I did.
I didn't know about it until I woke up the next day.
And everyone's going, oh, you missed it.
But don't worry, it'll happen again tonight.
And I went, oh, tonight, cool.
I'll make sure I'm there tonight.
guess what we had nothing but cloud cover we couldn't see shit so because we had this weird storm
roll in so yeah i'm still i'm still screwed brian did you get to see it i don't know if you guys
talked we did yeah we um we went out friday night we were lucky uh that friday night wasn't
overcast because last night and siren night were but um this was one of those things that
we had to use the phone camera night night mode phone yeah yeah uh thing to be able to see but once
we did it was like oh my god like purples and stuff in the sky is really yeah a lot of
I had to do the same thing. I had to use my phone. I could kind of see like the faintest, like maybe pinkish haze to the sky. It was not very, I would not. If I wasn't looking for it, I wouldn't have said it was anything. So, so there's, there's, I definitely need the phone. And I could, but with the phone, I could see it. And I've heard, I have a friend who recently went to Iceland for like a month or two ago.
and they had the aurora there while they were in Iceland,
and they said it was really hard to see even there.
So it's apparently a very common thing
that it's not anywhere near as easy to see with the naked eye
as photos make it out to be.
And it also doesn't move like you think it does, right?
Like you see these little videos of them going,
yeah, and those are time lapsed.
They're time lapsed, yeah.
Exactly.
So I set up the phone and did time lapse video
and got, didn't get a lot of movement.
You definitely like brighter and then dimmer and then brighter again,
but I did get some really cool airplanes.
You went, through the light.
Yeah, that's cool, though.
Yeah.
Is that the first time you've ever seen it?
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, me too, me too.
First time I'd ever seen it.
So a lot of people, so the northern lights, just as a quick,
I'm sure a lot of people have read about this because it was a huge,
thing, but the northern lights are basically just what happens when the solar wind hits our
upper atmosphere and interacts with what's good, with all the, with the, specifically the oxygen
and the nitrogen in our atmosphere. And, and also, because I've had people ask me before,
Aurora Borealis and Northern Lights, same thing, two different words for the same thing.
Right. So what happens is the very high energy particles that are coming on,
of the sun during some sort of a solar event like massive flares that create coronal mass
ejections or something like that they strike they end up hitting the upper atmosphere and they energize
the oxygen and nitrogen molecules and send them into a higher energy state they they cause the
electrons to go into a higher orbit around the atoms and that just gets some real energetic but
But then those are really unstable states for those atoms be in.
And so when the electrons drop back down into a stable state, they have to get rid of the
energy somehow and that energy gets released in the form of a photon, a part of a little
packet of light.
And that's what we're seeing is the energy being released after being captured by oxygen
and nitrogen.
So in many ways, you're actually seeing the oxygen and nitrogen that is in our atmosphere
or when you see the Aurora
because that's what's releasing all that energy.
So that's kind of neat.
That is cool.
Yeah.
So how come,
so there were some fears from some people
that this was going to start a global EMP sort of event
where power grids,
communication grids,
all that stuff would get a little screwed up.
GPS.
And I'll admit,
as far as I heard,
were hit by it.
Some were,
and my 5G was kind of shitty for a day.
I'll say that.
Yeah.
That's a good point.
Yeah, no kidding.
Mine was bad.
Now that you say that.
Yeah, I had bad.
In places that are normally full bars, wonderful, no problems at all, ever, total, total weird, inconsistent connections.
I'm not here to be conspiratorial, but I just feel like there was something there.
I wonder people who don't know if there's a ton of people going to T-Mobile, AT&T, you know, there are different carriers and saying, I'm switching.
You guys suck this last weekend, so I'm going to a different carrier.
Yeah. I didn't hear anything about cell phone networks, except for Elon Musk talking about the Starlink satellites having some trouble. So it's entirely plausible that that happened and affected your cell phone signal and everything. But it could also just have been coincidence. But definitely things were affected by all these coronal mass ejections.
and solar flares coming, there were GPS systems.
Like I said, Elon Musk reported that it was, that they were managing it.
They didn't destroy, nothing got destroyed or anything, but they were affected.
Also, there were apparently high frequency radio blackouts in Australia, China, and Japan all reported that.
High frequency radios are things like, it's pretty serious, actually.
There's, there's emergency frequencies that use these high frequency.
bands. Aviation uses them a lot for navigation.
And so those had some blackouts periodically over the weekend.
And GPS, they were worried some farming equipment, like a lot of the farmers across North
America were warned that it might affect GPS because massive like industrial size,
like big farming operations use GPS to do precise.
Precision planting for their, for their, I'm not a farmer.
I don't know what things are called.
Tractors, yeah.
Oh, gotcha.
Gotcha.
I thought precision planting of their crops, but yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, whatever those tractors are called that plants the seeds.
Combines or.
Yeah, something like that.
I don't know.
Yeah.
They use GPS to do precision planting of that kind of thing.
And so they were warned and a lot of them stopped planting, which is a big deal because, you know, everything has to be.
Slows production. Right.
Yeah, it has to be time.
pretty well for the season and everything.
I mean, if you've ever played Stardue Valley,
you know that delaying by a day even can devastate your profit.
It's actually the least favorite thing I have about that guy.
I hate that aspect of it.
I understand this little tweak of reality,
but it's like, I'm seriously,
I'm one day from winter and you're telling me all of this lettuce
is going to crap tomorrow morning.
I hate that.
And it would have,
if you had another day,
it would have been able to be able to be.
It would have been fine.
I would have put it in the dumpster and sold it for a
profit pisses me up.
That's where you sell.
That's where you sell your crops.
It looks like a dumpster.
It's like a weird looking wooden dumpster thing.
It does.
So,
what was I going to say?
So had they not,
let me ask you this,
because I cannot get this visual out of my head.
What of all those,
these industrial planters who rely on GPS
to get the planting done?
Would they just suddenly go,
ah, shit, and just start planting all over town?
Like all up in the road and like,
oh no, they're in the,
They're in grandma's garden.
They've gone wild.
They've gone rogue.
Yeah.
I love that idea.
I do too.
I imagined like all the rows would have been like diagonally across the fields instead of straight and lines.
Mm-hmm.
Right?
Yeah.
Or crisscrossing, you know, like lettuce is mixed with soybeans and the world is going crazy.
Yeah.
But I don't actually know.
So it's entirely plausible.
I did read a book that was about this very thing.
a solar flare so powerful that it knocked out the entire world's, like all the grids, anything
electronic was fried, obviously for the sake of fiction. What would actually have to happen
for that like a planet-wide level event to EMP everything out of commission?
It would have to be pretty large, but it's not outside the realm of possibility.
these are things that um that scientists and uh and people in industries that are affected by this
like like the the power grids across countries and and um and GPS you know and satellites and
also communications networks they they think about and they plan for this because it's not
something that could not happen and it's it's almost like one of those things that it it
it will eventually happen and it's just a matter of whether or not we have upgraded the infrastructure
to such an extent that it can handle handle it um there's always a famous one that was that's pointed
out from i think it was in the 1800s or something like that there was a big solar storm that happened
and actually caused a bunch of problems with the telegraph lines oh wow yeah and so
people were communicating on those people reported that they could hear ghostly voices across
telegraph lines and and um and a lot of them just overloaded and shut down and stuff like that so it's
all my dots are turning into dashes oh my god and what are these asterisks the uh but uh but it's
it's not an unreasonable thing and and when people are quote unquote freaking out about it it's
you know, maybe they
should wait and see,
but it's hard to say
that those are irrational fears that people have
because it's something that absolutely could happen
and it's very difficult for us to predict it.
We can predict it better now than we used to be able to.
This is why we send probes and satellites out
to monitor the sun.
And we can see
where a lot of the magnetic
field lines are bound up and tightly wound up. We can see where there's a lot of solar flare
activity and we can see when that's going to be pointed directly at the earth because that's
when you have to worry about it is when these regions of the sun are pointed directly at the
earth. If stuff shoots off of it during that time, then that's when we're likely to see it.
And we can predict it pretty well. We knew that something was going to happen before,
It actually did happen.
I think a week before people were talking about how, like, oh, around May 9th, this is when we're going to start to get that.
And so we knew.
We didn't know how strong it was going to be.
But even a couple days before we kind of had an idea because you can see when it's going to happen before it happens.
And that might seem like a weird thing to people because you think everything that's coming off of the sun is light.
And if we can see it, doesn't that mean it's already reached us?
Right, right.
But it's not entirely the truth because the light gets to us, but what causes these things to happen is actual plasma from the sun, which has mass and moves considerably slower.
So we actually get a visual of what happened before the plasma, the super hot plasma reaches us.
And do you guys, you know, normally this all happens and you can see it in just in the extreme northern and southern.
regions of the earth close to the poles but the reason the stronger the storm the more south
it will happen because you know the magnetic field lines around the earth are sort of like
it's almost like donut shaped around the earth right imagine a donut with a very small hole and
the earth is right in the middle of it oh I can imagine that donut just that's a big donut
I had one at Pinkbox the other
Yeah
Is it
Would you say that
Is it like going around
Kind of parallel to the equator
Or more going around the
So the magnetic field lines
Leave the North Pole
Make a big loop
Around and then come back into the South Pole
Yeah
That's right
It's almost like a figure eight
Right
Because it's like
If you take a cross section of it
It looks more like a figure eight
Yeah
But if you extend that all the way around
It ends up being a Taurus
Is the technical
sure okay yep but uh but it's like donut shaped right donut totally yeah now i get it okay yep
and so this plasma is attracted to these magnetic field lines and so normally so what
happens is it it hits the magnetic field and it almost and it gets redirected away from the earth
around the earth um and and so it protects the earth this is why we normally don't have to deal with
this and a lot of the plasma will stick to the magnetic field lines and sort of like a big
giant slide they'll slide along them and then end up hitting the atmosphere near the north and
south poles but this plasma storm when it's really strong when it's stronger it uh it will it will
deform the magnetic field lines because it's like it's blowing against it think about that right so the
side that's facing the sun gets sort of compressed and and pushed towards closer in towards
the earth and the side that's facing away from the sun gets extended out and stretched out
And it stretches that hole, similar to what happens when the thing that you're making with your 3D printer gets put inside the person that it's supposed to be put in them.
It stretches that hole.
Got it.
Got it.
Like a donut with a tiny hole.
You want to make a bigger hole on your donut.
I get it.
Yes.
Yeah.
Exactly.
So it gets blown on the other side that's facing away from the sun and it stretches.
And so there's a bigger hole.
so the plasma
can reach further south because of that
and that's what happened
because it was a very strong storm
it came very far south
and right
and so a lot of us got to see it
which was really cool
yeah it is cool some of the shots
I think it was September
in our community on Discord
she put up some stuff
her daughter took in Oregon
the Oregon shots
holy shit in Oregon you guys
yeah Oregon really got the best show
it looks like
it really did it was beautiful
and yeah we just got purples here but yeah I never got to see it I'm annoyed and then we're done right
it's passed we're through it's yeah but apparently in another apparently in another I think
maybe two weeks there might be there could be another one there's another bunch of flares yeah
that's great there's another bunch of flares that are sunspots with flares that are making
its way towards the central disc facing the earth. So we'll have to see what happens with that.
But it was a big one. It wasn't just one either. That's why it lasted all weekend. There were like
seven or eight different CME events, coronal mass ejection events that happened.
It sounds so much gnarlyer when you say coronal mass injection.
It really does. It sounds, yeah. So it's, and if you break apart the word, it makes exact, it makes perfect sense.
The corona, coronal.
The corona is the upper atmosphere of the sun,
which is where all this plasma comes from.
Right.
And then it's the mass.
It's a mass ejection.
So it's ejecting mass, which is the plasma is matter, right?
So it's ejecting mass from the corona.
That's why it's called a coronal mass ejection.
And none of these are signs.
We know enough about this phenomenon.
And no, these are not signs that the sun is rapidly deteriorating, or this is a...
Oh, no, no, it's a perfect...
It's exactly what the sun has.
always and will always do. It's just, that's how stars work. The sun is doing its job. It understood
the assignment. Yeah, it's got the assignment. What happens is, we have a very regularly
shaped, um, magnetic field around our earth, right? And the reason ours is shaped that way is because
we have a solid core surrounded by liquid metal and, and the motion that, so they, they move,
they rotate at different rates. Yeah. And that just creates a magnetic field, but it's very
regularly shaped but inside the sun um ever it's all plasma right right so everything is moving around
everything else and there's no right solid or liquid anything that can move in a regular way so there's
magnetic field lines like spaghetti inside the sun they're just everywhere yeah um going in all different
directions and so some of those will will extend out like a loop around the surface of the sun
and then whenever one end of the magnetic field line reaches the other end it'll sometimes
snap apart like a rubber band I'm sure you may have heard it referred to that
the tension builds up and it sort of snaps like a rubber band and that's what
causes these flares and if they're big enough mass ejections well some of the ones
we have in video form you see it do that I that whole thing you're just talking about
it's like you'll see that little ring come out oh yeah it'll like pop and then
send shit in two different directions or whatever yeah I mean are we yeah yeah
it's the force of that magnetic field
like snapping that actually just
shoots plasma away from the surface of the sun
and imagine how forceful that has to be
for plasma to escape the gravity of the sun
and come all the way out
it's a lot massive forces yeah yeah crazy stuff
well good and we're all okay that's the important thing
and we all have internet internet's fine
power's fine you know
5G seems to be back to normal
although I am switching to T-Mobile
Actually, we're thinking about switching to, so Comcast Xfinity has a pretty screaming deal on wireless.
If you already use their home stuff, you move to their wireless plan.
But I'm nervous because it's Comcast.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
I don't think I trust it.
They're already weird.
Anyway.
You got to deal with that customer service.
That's right.
That's worse than a coronal mass ejection right there.
I wanted to mention the elephants at this.
zoo real fast.
Please.
The elephant in the room is the elephants in the zoo.
Yes, please.
You were wondering about that.
I don't know specifically about your zoo, but I know ours.
We lost our elephants as well.
And I was reading about it.
Apparently, the elephant population is going down.
And so even in captivity, the elephant population is going down.
So what a lot of zoos are doing is when their opportunity arises.
They're sending their elephants off to other places where they can get many
of them together to sort of try to raise the population, to have them breed together.
So that's probably what happens.
Yeah, a little... Organizing elephant orgies is exactly what they're doing.
Orgy fints, they'll call them.
Well, Bobby, as always, this is good information that you've shared with us.
I feel like we've been scientifically edified, and I'd like you to now tell people where to get your
show so that they can get more of this stuff.
Well, all around science is the name of the podcast that I do on a weekly basis,
co-host and I'm Mora. We talk about whatever is just interesting going on in science at the time or,
or, you know, what's in the news. And this past week we talked about, I don't remember, I have such a
bad memory about these things. It was, oh, mechanical batteries. That's what it was. You ever heard of a
mechanical battery? No, sir. Well, they're used all the time and to help provide stable energy
reliability for the power grid and they're they don't use chemicals they use
mechanical means to to store energy and they're very interesting so they're
always moving I assume there's mechanic meaning some of them are when I say
mechanical I really just mean not chemical right so but there is a type of
battery that's just always in motion it's called the flywheel storage
system and it's it's it's very interesting there's
There's pumped hydro.
There's one type of battery where they just, it's never been made, but it was they thought
about doing it was you just lift up a big heavy thing and hold it there.
That's what you do.
That's how you store the energy.
It takes energy to lift something up.
So you hold it there.
It's a bunch of potential energy.
And when you want that energy back, you drop it.
You drop it?
Yeah.
Really?
That's a wild idea.
A lot of them work that way.
So if you want to know about the different ways that mechanical batteries work and how they're literally, they're used now, it's not, these aren't just theoretical, they're used to stabilize our power grid to handle when we need, like, demands and peak energy usage and everything. So, um, this is really cool. All around science. This episode we just released today. Very nice. Well, go stare at the sun. No, don't do that. And we'll see you later. Bye.
Uh, that's great.
I'm, uh, that sort of stuff fascinates me. How could you, could you imagine shrinking that tech down to your phone every once in a while just feels like something dropped in your pocket?
Exactly. Ah. Oh, it's just my battery, uh, recharge in itself. That's right. It's all fine. Oh, I need to retake that photo. Why? The thing dropped while I was trying to take it. I don't know if that'd be very practical.
Well, no. Brian, I got a, I got a quick email to get us out of here from cheese biscuit. Yeah. Cheese biscuit. He says, uh, I like cheese. This is the, the insight on the, the, uh, the insight on the,
whole Buckees thing.
Yeah, which Tina finally got to see in person.
Talk about the one you went to first.
What was that like?
Because you got some hands on.
This is the new Buckees that just opened up here in Colorado.
North I-25, about three quarters of the way between Denver and Fort Collins.
So it's about an hour north of Denver.
Not someplace you want to go just on a whim.
But if you're going to Fort Collins anyway, it's not by Buckees.
You approach the place.
and from the outside it looks massive
but there is like a
in front of it is this long
you know you've got your
regular gas stations that have like
four bays of
pumps
oh right right had like 30
30 bays of pumps
and then you've got the big parking area behind it
so you park and then we go in and it is like
a
imagine the biggest department store
you've been in that just stretches
on forever and like, oh, okay, they've got
clothes here on the right, and then
like swimming stuff, and then
gifts, like those
cheesy bears
made out of pieces of log
that you put in your front yard
that says, hi, neighbor, or whatever.
And then
you continue on, you've got a
wall of jerky, and then different
kinds of beaver nuggets. They really, you know,
when we got that box from
tap tap percussion
last week, and they had like
four different kinds of beaver nuggets.
It's like, oh, wow, that's amazing.
Oh, yeah, that's just the tip of the iceberg of the types of beaver nuggets that you can get.
So, again, like, I'm assuming a ton of other flavors, like salt vinegar and frigging...
Yeah, exactly, like dill and, you know, all these salted caramel and stuff like that.
Wow.
So then you go a little further.
And in the middle, they've got, like, a fudge, like a place where they're making fudge.
Yeah.
Like 20 different kinds of fudge.
We had to get a sampler box, of course.
And then beyond that is another thing in the middle where they're, like, a fudge.
like making pulled pork and grilled ribs and stuff like that,
like smoking ribs here in the middle of the restaurant and smoke going up.
And it just smells absolutely amazing.
That's it.
That's what they were yelling, brisket on the board.
Wes says brisket on the board.
I was trying to figure out what they were all chanting at the same time.
So they're chanting brisket on the board.
Wow.
If we weren't going up to meet Barry and Bobby Ann and Rand and everybody for a really incredible dinner in Fort Collins, we would have gotten food there because it smelled so amazing.
That's great.
God, the place is just insane.
Like, in addition to the wall of jerky, you've also got like a counter, kind of like you have at your grocery store, your produce counter.
But instead of all the different kinds of fish and lunch meats and stuff, it's just different flavors of jerky, about 20.
different kinds of jerky uh you would hope a place like that would be like rife with jerky
you know yes and we did we did pick up some terriaki some bohemian garlic some uh classic and
and so far everything we've had is uh is has been amazing but holy cow buckies i see why it's just
like such a uh monumental thing when people go to buckies but it's just it's crazy to see i want one here
there's they have the the freaking maverick people have such a stranglehold on the convenience store market here
I just need them to sneak one in yeah make it happen we got all kinds of truck stop shit here so
just kick out of flying jays and do that for sure Amy says their food is really good oh then I
need to make you make another trip I need what I need is some some lift ride to say uh well
we're going almost to Fort Collins I want to get up to the buckies up there and I'm like cool
Hell it.
I mean, get something to eat.
Yeah.
You should change your handle on the app to Buckees,
and then people going to Buckees will choose you.
That's right.
Trying to figure out ways to ensure you're going to Buckees.
It doesn't quite work that way.
I could put in destination mode and say Buckees,
and just see if I get, I'll get rides up to Buckees.
There you go.
But then I have to find ways back to Denver,
and that's a little bit tougher.
That's perfect.
Here's a little Bucky insight from Cheese Biscuit.
He says,
TMS Buckeys. We have a lot of Buckeys in Central Texas, and they are always crazy and insanely busy.
I asked an employee once if they ever have a slow period.
She took a moment and then said, matter of factly, quote, Sundays after 8 p.m.
It was very specific.
That's a rough job.
I've worked food service and understand rush hours, which tend to be limited over a full shift.
Working entire shifts every day in full rush with no end seems like hell on earth.
Please be nice to Bucky's employees, Cheese Biscuit.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it seems like that's crazy.
That was the other thing that really surprised me.
It was not super busy in there.
Like, we could get, we did not feel like we were bumping into people or having to wait to look at something.
It was, this was a Thursday at about 6, 6 p.m.
And wasn't busy at all.
It was, like, if it was that busy all the time, no problem going there and no issues.
Sure, sure.
Well, as the word gets out, expect that place to explode.
It'll get busier and busier.
Yeah, I'm sure when it first opened, it was a madhouse in there.
I kind of want to try these pickle-flavored, uh, dill-flavored.
Yeah, pickle-flavored beaver nuggets.
Yeah. I love to get a bag.
They're not good for me either way, but that sounds like way less sugar than these things.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
Too much shug.
All right, well, that'll do it for us today.
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Brian, let's get out here with a little music.
I'm guessing you got a little something there.
I do have a little something.
This is going out to our friend Kursa,
who we just saw in Vegas with Ducey.
She goes by the name Kadoosey.
Caducey.
Which is funny because so Tina and I rode with them to Excalibur to the Play-Playground thing.
And we get in the car, and it's nothing but K-pop playing in there.
And we're like, so who's the K-pop thing?
and they both are.
It's like, all right, cool.
But no, this is not a request for K-pop, amazingly enough.
Kirsta says, I'm putting in a late request for Ducey in my 18th anniversary, which was a few days ago.
I'd love to hear a cover of or by Daft Punk, Incubis, Collective Soul, or Weezer.
Thanks, love the show.
Signed, Caducey.
Nice.
Listen, I'm all over daft punk covers, and I've got one that's a favorite of mine, and I'm surprised.
I've never played it on the show before, but I'm going to rectify that right now.
this is by
Australian musician
and cover artist
Natalie Imbrulia
people think that her song Torn
This is right I'm torn
I'm a little hit
That was actually originally by
Was it Edna Swap I think was the original artist?
Oh shit another cover
I had no idea that was a cover
She turned it into a big hit
Anyway she put out an album in 2015
called Male M-A-L-E
in which she covers male-fronted bands and male artists,
including Daft Punk's Instant Crush,
one of my favorites by that band,
and she does an incredible job with it.
Here's Natalie and Brulia and Instant Crush.
I didn't want to be the one to forget
I thought of everything I'd never regret
A little time with you is all that I get
That's all I need because it's all we can take
One thing I never see the same way around
I don't believe it and it slips on the ground
I want to take it to the place in the roche
But no one gives us any time anymore
You use me once you fled looking it was dark
You made an offer for it then you ran off
I got a picture of us kids in my head
And all I hear is the last thing that you said
I listen to your problems
Now listen to mine
I didn't want you anymore
Oh
And we would never be alone again
Because it doesn't happen every day
Kind of counted on you being a friend
Can I give it up or give it away
Now I thought about what I want to say
But I never really know where to go
So I chained myself to a friend
Because I know it unlocks like a door
And we will never be alone again
But I never really know where to go
So I chained myself to a friend
Some more again
It didn't matter what they wanted to see
He thought he saw someone that looked just like me
The summer memory that just never dies
We worked too long and hard to give it no time
He sees right through me
It's so easy with life
cracks in the road that I would try and disguise
He runs the scissors at the seam in the wall
He cannot break it down or else he will fall
One thousand lonely stars
Hiding in the cold
Take it
I don't want to sing any more
anymore
I listen to your problems
now listen to mine
I didn't want to
anymore
Oh
And we'll never be alone again
Because it doesn't happen every day
Kind of counted on you being a friend
Can I give it up or give it away
And now I thought about what I want to say
But I never really know where to go
So I chained myself to a friend
Because I know in a much like a door
And we will never be alone again
Because it doesn't happen every day
Kindy, can't hear you being a friend
Can I give it up or give it away
And now I thought about what I want to say
But I never really know where to go
So I chain myself to a friend
Because I know what I'm locks like a door
I don't understand
Don't get upset
I'm not with you
it around
It's all I do
When I'm with you
And we will never be alone again
Because it doesn't happen every day
Kind of can I earn you being a friend
Can I give it up or give it away
And now I thought about what I want to say
But I never really know where to go
So I chained myself to a friend
Because I know it unlocks like a door
And we will never be alone again
We will never be alone again.
We will never be alone again.
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