The Morning Stream - TMS 2653: This One's For Allen

Episode Date: June 3, 2024

Feces Piecees. Bag of Gizzards. Expected Jerkness. 99 Shit Balloons. I'm a Salad Believer. Peanut Eminem. Goblins of Democracy. Meat spill. Dump the salad in the thing. Kurkey Tooking. Prince Charming: Necrophiliac. Old man yells at kids in tree on lawn. Cereal - It's What's for Dinner. Good Day. How Do We Pee Because I Like Really Wanted to Know with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. This one's for Allen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Imagine a pizza with no toppings. You guys are the toppings on our pizza. Help everyone eat at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, feces, pieces, bag of gizzards, expected jerkness. 99 shit balloons. I'm a salad believer. Peanut Eminem. Goblins of democracy.

Meat spell. Dump the salad into the thing. Percie-tooking. Prince Charming, necrophiliac. Old man yells at kids in tree on lawn. cereal it's what's for dinner good day how do we pee because i like really wanted to know with bobby and more on this episode of the morning stream this one's for allen it's the biggest thing to happen to

sci-fi ever i love the characters i love the aliens i love the special effects cat the bickard is my man The MorningStream. Talent in the can, ladies and gentlemen. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Monday, June 3rd, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian. Hi, Brian. Well, hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hello. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hey, hi. You know, it's been a weekend. It's been a real weird weekend.

We've had some, some real downs, some ups. I'm starting to, I'm starting to go a little stir crazy. I need my wife home. Oh, I'm sure. When is she back Sunday? Saturday. Saturday, okay. Sometimes Saturday, I think in the afternoon. And still haven't figured out what time I'm supposed to pick her up. So we're still, because she had to change her flight. It was supposed to be Friday. Then it was Saturday. So Saturday the 8th. And she did that because she has some other family coming in town unexpectedly in town there i mean and so they want to be there long enough to see them so since her sister bought the tickets it's no big deal to change them so uh she's

eating that cost everything's everything's good oh she got her sister bought them all for helping her move and drive and everything her sister bought them all uh Nate bargotsie tickets down there at the uh... Biloxi that big they have a big arena down there forgot the name of it well yeah the Biloxi don't let's call it that the Biloxi Dome I like that If that's not it, it should be. It's pretty good. Anyway, they went and saw him and said that it was great, brand new material. I guess he's getting ready to do a special, and they all had a real good time.

So anyway, she's having a blast. I'm a little miserable without her. So her income home, yeah, I'm not good without her. I kind of suck without her, to be honest. Yeah, Tina would be when she was doing her investigations job years ago, she would actually have to go on details that would last. sometimes four weeks. Oh, my gosh.

Yeah, like she did one in Boston. So we, Tristan and I surprised her once and we flew out there and had her friends kind of bring her to a dinner that she didn't know that Tristan were going to be there for about halfway through. Did another one in Alabama. And, yeah, it was tough. Those months without her were tough. Yeah.

Sometimes they have to go. And sometimes we have to stay here and hold down the farm. as it were. That's correct. Yep. Yep. I got to stop eating cereal for dinner, though. That's got to stop.

That's got to end. That is not what they meant by part of a balanced meal. No. They mean to eat it in the morning and to not do it two days in a row or whatever it's been for me. But I had a little, I had last night. Well, okay, so the kids were over on Saturday, Sunday. Saturday.

Wait, yesterday was Sunday. Saturday. And everybody was here, and it was great. We got to see everybody, see the babies and everything. And the girls made dinner. So they whipped up something. It was great. We had breakfast for dinner.

But in a good way, like, you know, eggs and hash. Yeah, the real good breakfast for dinner. Yeah, bacon and all that. And then last night, I was like, well, it's 6.30 and I haven't eaten. I'm a little hungry, but I don't want to go through any big, you know, hoops here. And I also don't want to order any. I don't want to do any freaking ordering, all right? I don't want to spend more money than I need to.

So I'm just going to look. Let me just look and see what I've got here. And I look in there, and I got, there's a frozen meal here and some kind of, like, ricey thing we had left over there. And I'm like, this is all fine. But what if I just had a big bowl of cereal? What if I did that? And so I did. And it was fine.

It was a good, I mean, it's just the honey bunches of oats thing. It's just fine. Sure. No more sugar than I'm supposed to have. But it was, you know, I didn't eat that much. And then I went to bed and I went, that's miserable. That's like I'm living alone in an apartment somewhere in my, 20s and I got nothing better to I have no other way to eat than cereal like who what am I

Jerry Seinfeld with the freaking cereal right what's the deal I wonder even if uh Jerry was a dinner cereal eater like if the character uh they always seem to be eating it in the middle of the day so I don't know like cereals cereal's a it's a fine tradition I just it is you know what I love cereal I'm like uh you know I'm big fan tina gets the uh what quakerote squares or or a big thing here. She'll get herself lucky charms and I'll occasionally, you know, do a handful of those. But that's just, that's just sugar bombs, basically. Oh, yeah.

Don't be eating those in my age. Although if that's all I had, I might have, you know. Sure, yeah, you would succumb to that. You could. What about, like, making a, like, take your sandwich, but then throw it in the toast oven and heat it up, let stuff melt, like do a nice hot Quiznos-style sandwich in the toaster oven. That's a great idea, except I didn't, I ran out of lunch meat.

And so all I would have had, you know, is just lettuce and peanut butter and jelly or something. Oh, I did do, I did a bag of salad for lunch, though, which reminded me of you. Oh, good. Yeah. Yeah. Brian's easy, right? Like, I need to, in the time it takes me to say bag of salad, I can make a bag of salad. That's how quickly it is.

It's cut, cut it open, dumping it a thing. I am stupid. And if I don't tell this part of the story car, it'll get mad at me. She's over there listening. So I get the bag of salad. I take it out of the fridge. Yeah. And I go, well, I guess I just open this and pour it in a bowl and then I find some dressing in the fridge.

And then I just, that's my salad. Oh, didn't? When you got, didn't come with dressing? It did. I just didn't know. Oh, it did. Oh, gotcha. Okay.

This is part of the story. Jumping way ahead. Jumping way ahead. So I pour it in there and I'm all ready to go. And Carter comes in the room and she goes, what are you doing? And I said, I'm having this salad here. And she goes, dad, all of it is in there. And I said, what do you?

Oh, I know what it was? I asked her. I say, hey, we're like a little crunchy things mom puts in salads. Can I get some of that? She goes, it's all in that. And I said, what do you mean? It's all in that. Well, at the bottom of this bag is this pouch of dressing and then a pouch of crunchy whatever's.

And so she's like pouring the lettuce back in out of my bowl, took out the two bags, crunch, put it all in there, shook it up, handed it to me like I was the dumbest guy in the room. Well, at least, at least, you know, you didn't have like a bag of, you know, things in your bowl with your lettuce or whatever exactly so it was good though you know like i think i'm a believer now i don't usually do salad kits but it was good it's it's uh so easy well okay so now and now you understand uh thanksgiving turkeys right like inside that frozen turkey there is a bag that contains stuff that you better not put in the oven with the with the turkey well here's the that implies that i that i do any of the turkey turkey turkey cooking uh when i know i know yeah and i do not even i'm smart

enough to stay away from that business. Yeah, I don't want to be doing any of that. But I did, I tried the gizzard before, the part they'd check out, or the part they put in the bag. And I know there are people that like gizzards is a reason they still include it, but I did not like it. It tasted like pennies, like dirty pennies. Yeah, yeah, a little irony. I'm, I don't know. I grew up with that stuff, so I'm a fan of the liver and gizzards and stuff like that. I kind of dig it yeah um and it totally comes from um you know my mom would always get that look you'd go to kFC and she'd get an extra thing of like the uh the liver and giblets and stuff like that oh i didn't know you could do that there that's cool yeah yeah there they're deep fried it's you know basically

one more one more deep fried thing to eat but still oh man deep fried and i we don't get along anymore no no not a not so good not uh yeah you don't want to be around me after about four hours after I ate something fried to stay away. Totally. Dr. Calhoun says, what kind of bag of salad already comes with dressing and stuff? The bags I see are just lettuce or they have pre-made salads and little plastic bowls. Yeah, no, Dr. Calhoun, there's, like, Archer Farms makes them.

I know King Supers has a brand. Maybe that is the Archer Farms, but you've got basically your bag with all your lettuce in it. And then you, inside there, you've got another little bag that's got dressing and croutons and seasoning, like the one we do for Caesar's season. salads, has your greens, your lettuce, and then it's got shredded cheese, and then the dressing already has the, I assume already has like the anchovy in there and stuff, and then the seasonings and all that.

All the things you want, the little shreds of carrots, the little bits of whatever you want. The one I got was this Trader Joe's Southwestern chop salad, and it, it's nothing to look at. Like, if you pour it in there, you're just like, oh, these are like the bits of salad. don't normally like, but actually it's very good, and the dressing was awesome. And I'm glad she showed me, because I would have been sad if I'd just dump ranch on there or something. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They're good, though. There's a whole, they found a whole article on Taste of Home that ranks the best five salad kits. Oh, really? Oh, cool. Put a link, share a link with me.

I'll link you up. Yeah, you, Brian is a connoisseur of fine salad choice. Uh, you might get some use out of this. But anyway, it's pretty cool. And I liked it. I would recommend it. it was very good. Once you understand how they work, then, you know, off you go. Nice. Oh, yeah, we get that Dole stuff all the time. I wonder if that's number one. Anyway, I'll look at this afterwards. Dole, Dole makes a good salad kit in a bag.

Oh, Dole, like the pineapple people. Yeah, well, like the pineapple company, yeah. Gotcha, okay. Oh, yeah, look at that. Premium kit. Southwest. Well, a lot, a lot of, oh, here's, I like how they do the pros and cons. The pros of the Dole one, widely available, vibrant colored dressing, universal appeal, due to its lack of heat and more contentious ingredients.

Sorry. Is it contentious? Yeah. Contentious ingredients, such a cilantro. Such a cilantro. Never heard of it that way. Yeah, contentious cilantro. Concee, easily overdressed, slightly less hardy than the others, whatever that means, hardy?

Yeah, I feel like you get enough of a good meal, a bulky meal in there. Yeah. I get it. Yeah. They also really like this one from Target called Good and, gather Southwest Choped Salad kit, but the con is you can only get it at Target. No cheese. The other con, no cheese.

Yeah, yeah. Looks good, though. Well, I'm, you know, I'm going to become a convert because it was very, it's highly satisfying that salad. Cool. Good. And that, you know, that for dinner? There you go.

That's easy and quick. And it does the thing that cereal does for you, which is gets you food in your mouth very quickly, but might be, might be slightly healthier than the, uh, oh, milk and I assume it's oat milk because that's what Carter drinks, right? I love the old. Yeah, we're all old milk here. Yeah. We haven't had real cow milk in years, I think.

It's been a long time. And oatmeal, and I don't like almond milk. I don't like any of those other fake milk, soy milk. I don't like that. But I do like, but I do like oat milk. The only problem with oat milk is you get used to it, but it's never as cold as it needs to be. So if you're using it in coffee or something, it's fine.

It's, you know, totally fine as a cream or substitute or as a milk substitute. It's not an issue. But if you're like a bowl of cereal, if you compare that to like a regular 2% or some kind of equivalent milk, the milk will refrigerate cooler than the oat milk ever will. It just never has quite that level of cold. And so I need it cold for the full experience. But I've gotten used to it. It's okay. It's been fine.

And almond milk, the problem with almond milk is too. twofold. One, I don't like how it tastes. And two, it feels, it feels like it's almost got like a grain to it. And I don't like that. Yeah. No, there's a flavor that kind of overpowers whatever you put it with. So when I drink coffee and I put almond milk creamer in it, it's like, oh yeah, I'm getting the almond flavor and I don't want that. Yeah. And sometimes I do want almonds. You know, like almonds are good and everything. But also-almers are great. And I love Marzapon. I love almond flavoring and stuff, but I don't know why I don't like almond milk. I don't know where I read this, but it was like a gallon of water. is needed for every almond in that thing to process it it's like that's too much water dude that can't be good for anybody so i guess the oh ratio is i think oat is a lot oh it's supposed to be a lot more sustainable is my understanding okay but i don't have anything in front of me so if anyone at home knows let us know cool speaking of food i am sci-fi wrote in and said the following for oh he said this is for the monday show but i think it fits better here yeah hey there cream and sauce, hearing Scott discuss the makeshift pimento roll-ups, ham and pickles.

I talked about this on this show as well. Makes me wonder, what other weird eggs, or other than weird eggs, what food is a staple with the family that you, sorry, that you're pretty sure isn't outside of your family. For me, it was a bagel with peanut butter jelly and cream cheese growing up. Love the Monday show. Oh, wow, that sounds good. Cream cheese, jelly, and peanut butter. Yeah, I would eat that.

None of this is offensive. That's all good. Yeah. I've done the peanut butter jelly. I've never done the cream cheese with those on a bagel, but I've had bagel with the first two ingredients. Do you have something where it's like, there's no way other than that this Ibit house

that this has ever been eaten somewhere before? I'm trying to think of it. I know, you know, there's stuff that Tina will make for snacks. We'll take celery and put some pimento cheese spread on it. There's no, that is definitely something other families do or other people do. I don't feel like there's anything that we make. That's probably the most unique. thing that we do right like she makes a killer veggie lasagna but that's there's nothing

unique about that um that sounds so good right now oh my gosh that sounds good yeah did she replace we got to make that we got to make that lasagna thing that uh genie uh suggested for the um uh the instant pot i know i got to get that done we were going to try to do it i don't think it's going to happen before cam gets home maybe i'll wait for her um what was uh What do you, what is she, maybe you already told me this. Does she use noodles for the, for the noodles or is she putting like zucchini or something? Okay. Nope.

Noodles, but, and then still having like strips of zucchini and squash and stuff like that. Okay, cool. Yeah, there, I know there are a few ways you can do that. I was, I'm always curious about alternatives because pasta makes me fat. It's freaking, it's my fat. My biggest mistake is eating pasta all the time. Yeah, and you can, you can substitute and just do the strips of lasar. strips of squash and zucchini and stuff instead of having the pasta in there.

I think you can still, you can do it like that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, for me, it's dog heritos, weird eggs. What else? It's kind of it. Although these four hot dogs I had in a row, maybe five now. I think about it.

They were, it's a bun. I try to toast the bun. I like doing that unless I'm in a hurry or something. But then the hot dog, I microwave it, take it out. It's a Nathan's beef dog. You add, I like sweet pickles if I can get them. So I got like four sweet pickles lining one side of it. Mustard in there.

Lay the dog in there. And then I put in, or I put some of that chili oil now on top of it. Oh, that stuff is so good on. Yeah, the crispy garlic stuff, that stuff. Yeah, completely hooked on it now. So that's all on there. And then sometimes a little extra, a little saracha or something. I like it, you know, a little spicy.

and then I eat that thing in seconds flat like I'm freaking what's that guy's name that ate the 15 minutes from eight go yeah like Joey Chestnut Joey Chestnut you're soaking it in water and shoving it down your gullet as quickly as you can yeah it feels like I do anyway but I don't know trying to slow down these days anyway thank you for that I am sci-fi here's one from Chris who wrote into our hotline [phone]

and says this hello sunny and Bono I was, by the way, I just saw an old interview with Sonny Bono right before the weekend he died. Oh, really? Gosh. On Letterman. And they asked him, what did he ask him? Something about Cher. And he said, so all these years later, do you guys, how did it go?

Do you guys still, do you guys have a decent relationship, you know, all this time later? Yeah. And he, and he, it's clearly complicated because. on the one hand, I think they actually really did still care about each other in a very, like, fundamental way, but also he basically, in so many words, and I cannot think of this, so I can't do it verbatim, but he was basically saying that she is constantly in his head and constantly driving him crazy, which I thought was really interesting to hear, but anyway, I forgot it. So he was mayor at the time or had just gotten done being mayor of Palm Springs or something, and then they got into a skiing accident out near little neck of the woods. It was in Colorado, I think. I think so in Aspen, if I remember correctly. Something like that, yeah. Anyway, sad stuff.

Here's this one. Hello, Sunny and Bono. I was thinking about how Scott likes to mention how people should change their names when they are horrible. Well, what do you think of Dick Van Dyke? Their names are horrible, not when the people are horrible, just to clarify. Just their names, yeah. People are great. We love them.

Anyway, he says, what do you think of Dick Van Dyke? Can a name get any worse? You may not want to talk about it because he is 98. Anyway, beep. Love the show, though. Look, he's, Dick Van Dyke is an institution, not just a man. You're fine, he does not need to change his name. I know, yeah, it's basically, he's, he's been a part of our lives for so long.

He's, he's separated from the name, or he's, he's ascended beyond the name. He is Dick Van Dyke, and that is what he should always forever be. That's right. And you're right about his age. He's 98. his birthday is in December so we're working on 99 I wouldn't be yeah go ahead I do want to issue a little correction in his email the anyway beep and then followed by the ah he's he's doing the hunk oh he's doing the beep ah is he oh I didn't even didn't even

click with me here here let's let's give him some love by playing it there you go um yeah no I think and I think a name can be worse uh Dick trickle I think still is the worst name that you can have yeah don't you think the best fake name though is still Rip Torn. That's a great name, isn't it? It is. Yeah. I love that guy's name. I love that you've got both a verb and a past tense, you know, a past tense synonym. Yeah, it's amazing. Like, his real name is Elmore Rural Torn Jr. His real name is Torn, but the RIP is made that up. I guess Torn is an adjective, not a past tense verb. Torn? No, because Torn, that's past tense.

You're describing a thing, though, like a piece of paper is torn. Oh, I see. Right. Yeah. But you could say... He tore. Tor would be the past tense of the verb tear. Tear, yeah, because tear is tearing. That's right now. Tor is past...

You're right. Past tense. Right. I guess I have torn the paper, yeah. Dr. Calhoun, torn. Yeah. He's torn like that song. He's like the song I did for The Hitcher. Yeah.

By the way, if you guys haven't heard Film Sack, Brian had a banger last night. Yeah, I'm wondering if I give you those... those, oh, what if I put them up on my own YouTube and I don't care about monetization? They'll probably, it's probably so close they just take it down. It's not a matter of you're not going to get monetization from this song. They were probably, so what happens to me every time I play them and forget to take it out of the YouTube, they will, it's usually just, they just kill monetization on the file. So I've never had them ban it or block it out or anything like that.

So I'll put them up on Coverville, take them off monetization. Then when you put up the film sac YouTube, you can just. put a link to my song in there. Yeah, it's totally fun. I mean, 99% of people are still just audio listeners, so they all get it. But, yeah, for those YouTubers who miss it, you can get it that way.

It's a good idea. I just had fun with that damn stupid. That stupid post-shark-jumping Chicago song. Boy, it makes you wonder how the same band they came up with 25 or 64 turned out a piece of crap like you're the inspiration. Sorry for those of you who probably maybe used it at your wedding or had your first dance to it at homecoming,

but my god that was that is no dude it's it's uh we built this city levels of bad it really is yeah yeah and and the same kind of fall from grace as far as i'm concerned when you go from jefferson airplane to starship and then make shit like that because airplane jefferson airplane has some bangers man some great songs they did oh yeah white rabbit and somebody to love and miracles which we heard at the end of crank and oh my gosh the argument someone just brought up that new m&m track the arguments i've gotten into on line already about that song because a whole generation of people are like, I can't believe he took Sugar Ray's song and used it in his rap song. I'm like, is there a Sugar Ray song that uses Abercadever?

There is. He covered it. And so I'm like, you guys, freaking Steve Miller is still alive. What are you doing? Yeah. Yeah. And that was not a very good Steve Miller song. No. It's kind of nice to see those same ingredients get used for something a lot better. Yeah, I agree. And I actually think that's, I think it kind of is pretty good. There's a, there's a lot of backlash about some of the lyrics, I, you know, whatever, his lyrics have always been a little backlash-inducing. Well, yeah, of course. It's what he does. It's Eminem for L-Six.

I got lyrics. I write Todd's lyrics. Mom spaghetti, something, something. I'm trying to decide which Spass Girl to impregnate. That's right. There you see? That's not very nice, is it? No.

He's always been, he's always been. He's always been in the same conundrum, so it's fine. You know, Marshall. You and Marshall Mathers have a very specific thing. in common you know like yeah exactly you know that's where we'd bond in our discussions that's fantastic uh well anyway but dick van diegne does not need to change a thing about him or his life or whatever okay clearly i'll have what he's having he's 98 damn years old uh let's get a done away in here and let's let's have some fun with him like like the toy that he is uh we deserve it you know

we deserve to have him here and he deserves to be here and he's ringing he's ringing he's ringing and now. All right, let's talk to Brian Dunaway. He's standing right there like a weirdo. Hi, Brian. Oh, hi. It's gotten to Brian. I'm not standing like a weirdo.

That hurts. Hey, you know what? There's a guy on our, a guy on Facebook who is mad at me for. Wait, wait, say no more. Well, it's in our, but it's in our tadpool, right? It's like directly from a listener who is angry because. Every time, he doesn't like that I say, kiss our butts and hang up on you. Okay.

He wants me to, I don't know, to do something else, but also I explain that I hang up on everyone abruptly. Everyone. And it's not show stuff. I'm talking in life. I talked to my mom yesterday, my sweet mother at 85, who's, you know, been sick and on the edge of eternity there. And I still go, all right, click. I still hang up on her like that. This is how I do it.

All right? So he doesn't like it, he doesn't like it, and he likes you a lot. And that's why he doesn't like it. Well, that's nice. First of all, you're absolutely correct. God's a jerk. Yeah, he was right. It's an expected jerkness.

So it doesn't hurt, really. It just reminds me of who he is. No, you. No you. It's kind of the conversational version of the Irish goodbye. It's like, abrupt end without saying goodbye or anything like that. Yeah, just the way I do a thing. My favorite was

There was a guy that I used to know That I had to call There was a guy I used to know There's a guy I used to know I had to call And every time we'd end the conversation He would always be talking Talking talking

Had certain cadence Then he would just stop and go Good day And then he would hang up It was the weirdest thing And I love doing it Yeah That would be

That is actually pretty good Should I adopt that and do that for no on I think it's pretty good It's pretty good It's like this It's like this conversation is over. Yeah, Paul Harvey is his conversations. That's amazing.

Well, we're glad to have you here. We're going to play a game. We like to, oh, I got to log in. What am I thinking? Let me do that real quick. You need to log in. Can't play without logging in. But I could describe how the game works.

Yeah, why don't you do that while I log in? That's great. Yep. Welcome to the morning. Half-Ass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you guys the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct. And three, like that guy's opinion on us hanging up on Brian Dunaway, mid-sentence, are incorrect. Depending on how confident they feel with the category, they can provide one, two, or three guesses.

But if they get any wrong, they get zero points for that round. Get one right, gets a point. Two right gets you three points, and three right gets you five points. They'll play with the most points after three rounds. When's the prize for their contestant? But who are these contestants, you say? Do you say it? Who are these contestants?

Oh, who are these contestants? How fat are they? I'm so glad you asked. Scott, you're going to be playing for Hazel Aspinall in Wagon, Lancashire, England. Oh, I had to take that for a month for some allergies, some hazel ethanol or whatever you call it. It was hard. It was hard. What did side effects?

Don't take Hazel Hospital if you're allergic to hazel aspiral. Brian, you're going to be playing for Kim Wolf in Atlanta. Oh, yeah. That's a great name. That name is familiar. Isn't there a famous Kim Wolf? I think there is. Wolf.

Are you here on the show, Kim Wolf, Atlanta? Comedian or something? maybe oh it's just the survivor you should know this she was on survivor she was a big deal on survivor um she would only been known as kim it was far as uh as i'm concerned on survivor they never never say who their last name is until after they're like uh really popular sure Kim wolf you probably know her looking at her right oh totally know her oh yeah yeah yeah these are at land view right probably yeah she was like maybe even season well first few seasons American seasons.

Yeah, like early. Oh, Michelle Wolf also is a comedian, yeah. That's what I'm thinking of as the comedian. She's very funny. Anyway, sorry. All right. Well, there are you. There's our Kim Wolf.

Kim Wolf connection. Not necessarily the same person, though, right? No, 100% not the same person. Yeah. Scott Wolf. Are you thinking of Scott Wolf? All right, let's get to our game here. Team Wolf.

Maybe some team wolf? No team. No, Tim. Two, Popeye? Not Popeye? All right, let's get to first question. Sports is our first category,

but you guys know your NBA. Sure. Which of these NBA stars won the MVP award? Is it Alan Iverson, Bill Walton, Jason Kidd, Dennis Rodman,

Charles Barkley, or George Miken, or Mekin, three of those fellows won the MVP award. Three of them did not. So, most valuable players.

But by what By what determination, like Ford's MVP? No, they have an NBA one where they give you, and it's kind of like For the season, right? Right, for the season. They do it in football too, but the football thing's called something else. I can't think what's called. Same thing.

The Heisman Trophy. Is that, no, it's the. Heisman's college, right? That's college. What is there? Oh, shit. Is it just MVP? I think it's the, they have the Super Bowl MVP.

What do they have for the, just for the season of, I thought they had a whole league thing, like a season. Yeah, I thought they did too. Anyway, definitely not high-in. I've got my answer. Okay, all right. Let's see. You guys have gone all over the board.

Bill Walton did. Why is it not MVP? The what? The most valuable baller? Oh, I see. Most valuable baller. I get you. Bill Walton, yes.

He was nominated for, or won the MVP award. As did Charles Barclay. but not Dennis Rodman You got greedy Dennis Rodman Bill Walton in 1978 and 1993 for Berkeley I mean Rodman won

playoff stuff Most valuable player playoff stuff But I guess probably not a whole Like a whole season I don't know how that shit works But I remember it was always like Rodman party in all night in Vegas But somehow scored a ton of points

And blocked 50 shots He's MVP somehow even though he's crazy I remember stuff like that. But anyway, I was wrong, obviously. All right, well, Brian, going in the second round with one point, Scott at zero, but we're going to change things right now with, boy, you know, I have some gimmies every once in a while, like where it's like, all right, well, just here's some easy points across the board.

Let's see how they do with this. This is not that situation. Words for platypus in other languages. Words for platypus. Oh, my God. Words for platypus in other languages. Your choices are Zobach. Chiaco, Utconos,

Duas, Hloop and Nabiger. Three of those are names for platypus and other languages. Three of them are not. I can even tell you the three other languages, and I don't even know if that would help you. None of this will help.

I don't know any root words from any of these other languages. These all feel wrong. Sometimes it can reason through stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there's no reasoning here. I don't have a large enough database of languages. That's right.

Oh, did I mispronounce it? Fuzzy Bipolar Bear, okay, after we Plattipoose. Yes. Plattipoose. All right. Let's see here. You guys, again, all over the board here, Brian just went with one. Scott went with two.

I'll just say, the only one you guys got right was Nabger. Damn it. But I think I did. That's, that's, oh, let's see. Nabjeur. There we go. We'll reveal that. Fuzzy bipolar bear, Nebjj.

Okay, so Nebjur is how that's pronounced. Interesting. Nebjur? Yeah, my card doesn't have the umlots over the A. So nebjur, nebjur is which language then? Oh, if I had to see in the umlots, I would have gotten it. So it's Swedish. Utkanos or Utkanos is Russian.

Zobok is Polish. The other three are words for silly. Duas is Dutch for silly. Shiaqu is Italian for silly and Hlupp is Czech for silly. You're so Hiloop. The guy does it, you do a dance and make a funny face. Oh, don't be so hloop. All right.

Well, now we should be doing a lot better with question number three. It's food. We all like food. Sure. Food. God, I totally needed phonetic pronunciations for that one. You're right. All right, let's go to food for category number three.

Scott's still at zero. Brian, one, this is for all the marbles. Types of pasta. And let's see how many of these names I'm going to butcher. You've got Elyche, Genetic. Or Jameli, Nurigas, or Trugo, Orchete, and Zibibbo. Zibbo. Your nickname in high school, everyone called you Zabibbo?

Zibbo feels like it should be. Yeah. No, I was Bibby in high school. It called me Zabibi, or no, with no Z. Just bibi. I don't see the extra option here for none of the above. Oh, Scott's off, damn it, all right. Yeah, I don't.

All of these are total guesses. I have no freaking idea on this stuff. Going with that. Okay. There we go. Wow, Brian, playing it's super safe. Just locked in in with one. Scott locked in with two.

Paid off for Brian. Ah, shit. Yeah. It is a type of pasta. So is Jameli. But Orichete is the other one. That one. Orteugo sounds like that.

Orteugo sounds legit. Like somebody somebody. It does. Or Trugo or like Bordium. Actually, the other three, Ortrugo, Nurgis, and Zibibbo are all white wines. oh yeah you're a white wine already shouting at us he's out there listening saying Brian those other three are white wines he's a torque dork he knows he is he's a cork dork but there you go that is the game two points for Brian that's enough to win it congratulations going to Brian and that means by proxy congratulations going to Kim Wolf yeah in Atlanta oh good job not since your time on Survivor have been such a winner congratulations In fact, you get one of these. Congratulations.

You're a winner. Who does our loser win, though? Talk about what they get, by the way. Holy cow. Winner, so Kim Wolf, you're going to be getting a copy of Fashion Police Squad and Coramon. Awesome. That first game is awesome. It's like a throwback, first-person shooter pixel thing that is a riot.

I love that game. Cool. Excellent. And because our winner last week already had it, Hazel, you're getting a copy of Yakuza. like a dragon. So you're both walking away with pretty good, pretty good prizes. I agree. I think everybody wins on this one.

Congratulations. Nice job. Hey, Dunaway, I'm going to not hang up on you today. Oh, that's nice. It's nice.

It's nice. It's way kind of short too, so I mean, why not? Yeah, plus people forget, people forget that you and I may as well be brothers. We've known each other forever.

Yeah. We're as close as you ever going to be to any other friends in your life. There's never ever anything mean going on. here when it comes to done away in us so just so everyone knows that's how this works hey brian done away i hope you have a wonderful day oh no what scott i'm going to say as well to know you thank you you can go out and hang up now so i'll be last to hang up go ahead goodbye okay you hang up all right uh hey everybody well done that was great love giving prizes away and uh great game as always brian so get into some news and uh see what we find in the news today

it's time for the news brought to you by a guy that's alone in the forest kisses a dead body while seven other guys watch all right well so uh if he's alone in the forest then where were these other seven door i mean these seven other guys uh watching from well doc and sneezy and dopey and uh these weird guys with these weird names seems like you might know the answer to this thing and if is it a dead body or a sleeping body scott well let's get into that Because whenever there's the fairy tale, you have to be woken with a kiss. It's a state of like, it's not death, I guess, but it's, what, coma? If we had to give it a-coma, yes, if we're putting it into actual medical. Sure. Medical terms. So in modern parlance, the way this works is this person's been in a coma. Somehow a kiss is all it takes.

Yeah. And then these seven little weirdos watch the whole time. You know, Amy brings up a good point. He's not a doctor. He just sees a dead body of a woman in the forest and kisses it. He doesn't have any sort of medical degree to find out, oh, she's only sleeping or she's, you know, hmm, that's an interesting. Yeah, it's borderline necrophiliac going on there.

Exactly, yes. We don't like that. Not one bit. No. All right. Here's a story for you. North Korea. They sent over some garbage to South Korea.

a balloon. They sent it over calling it balloons full of sincere presence for goblins of democracy. The goblins of democracy. This came from North Korea's Kim Yo-Jung, Zhang, who is the sister to the current country's leader, Kim Jong-un, defended sending an excrement-filled balloons or series of balloons to South Korea, ship balloons, to South Korea and said the balloons were sincere presence, sent to goblins of literal democracy, who are crying, for the guarantee of freedom of expression, unquote. 99 ship balloons.

In a speech carried by the North State Korean-run news agency called the Korean Central News Agency, or K-C-N-A on Wednesday, Kim said the international law cannot be applied to nor govern the flight trajectory of the balloons, refuting a claim from the South Joint Chiefs of Staff that the balloons launch is a violation of international law. She dubbed the balloon launch as North Koreans' freedom of expression her remarks appear to target the South Korean government stance on allowing North Korean defectors to send balloons to the north

which mainly carry anti-North Korean materials that could undermine the legitimacy of the rule. So the way they do it is they turn right around and send poo-filled ones down to the south. Nice. Yep, she says, yeah, go ahead. So it's like, even putting water in a balloon is difficult. Like, how do you get poop?

to through the little nozzle, like, without having somebody really gloves on, picking up poop, and shoving it into the opening. And then somebody has to blow up that balloon, right? I mean, I guess you just use a, you just use a helium pump, but still. Maybe they hook it up with a source, if you know what I'm saying. Maybe that's what happened. Excuse me, that was a loud one. No pop button there? I could have, but it was so sudden and so harsh.

I couldn't reach in time. I guess, okay, people are correcting it. I guess there were balloons, helium balloons that carried bags of poop as opposed to balloons filled with poop. Oh. Oh, okay. Even though the headlines says feces-filled balloons. Yeah, the headline's bad. Here's what they, here I'll show you, chat.

This is what we got. No pictures, I'll click that link as well. Oh, yeah. That's like it is like a weather balloon. Yeah, so there's the bag of Schmoo there. Yeah. And then they get that over there. Oh, look at this guy walking with it.

Yeah, they need a correction there, uh, Korea, Junang Daily. it's not a feces-filled balloon. That is a feces-filled bag being carried by another balloon. That's right. We know our feces-filled balloons, and that is not one. That's right. Well, anyway, there's that. She added that the South Koreans should, quote,

continue to pick up rubbish scattered by North Koreans in the future. So the trolling will not end. It will keep going. Yeah, all right. Yeah, that seems like kind of a weenie, a weenie thing to do, doesn't it? It is. That's like a, that's like neighbor, you know, neighbor fight.

Like literal houses next door to each other kind of fight. Like, dang it, your dog. Well, never mind. I guess that kind of happened. Yeah. That kind of happened to somebody on this show. Yeah, it happens. Maybe poop that was left in somebody's yard and they flung it across to the other.

Yeah, you expect it for neighbors. You don't expect it for countries, you know. I could see my neighbor doing it. But by the way, I got to complain about this same neighbor. All right. Oh, really? It's been a while. We get along.

Yeah, we get along. Everything's fine. But their kids are older now. They're a little kid that was a baby when they were being freaks. It's your kid's Tesla neighbor. He's now eight or something, nine. And he rides his bike, his little motorized electric bike, of course, because they're all Tesla's over there. So, of course, their bikes are electric.

And he rides this bike right through our backyard, right through the back lawn, because he doesn't want to go around it. It's just a shortcut for him. Now, once it's a lot. while I understand, but it's constant. He'll run back and forth over that thing constantly, and now I have this trail in my nice otherwise manicured backyard, this trail

of bike, and his mom just sort of lets him do it. So, I've got to go over there and talk to him. Yeah, that's an issue. I'm dreading it, you know? I'm sure. I'm just, yeah, and I think you know, you're good at being diplomatic about it and just saying, hey, here's a photo

like this. I'm starting to get a trail worn on my lawn. Could you maybe ask him to to not go, you know, cut across. Yeah. He also climbs one of my trees, which just is a liability I don't want. Oh, geez. No kidding. Yeah, don't be climbing that.

I mean, I don't. In your backyard, your front yard? Back, it's like a backside yard thing. It's small, but it's got trees and, you know, a relatively small strip of grass back there. And that's what he's riding across. And then that's the trees climbing on. And it's just, so it's not fenced.

That part of our yard is not fenced. Sure. So most people know to go around it. It's fine. But these people sometimes use it as their dog toilet or the kid's track. And it's like, come on. Chris in the chat says, get razor wire. I don't think I'm going to go that far.

Oh, geez. Yeah. I'm not going that far. Tina's dad does. So they have a house on the corner. And so when it snows, you'll see tracks of cars that just cut across his lawn, or cut across back when he was alive that would just cut across his lawn and leave tracks in his yard. And it wasn't like, you know, there's a stop sign at the end of the street.

So they're having to cut in a lot to miss that stop sign, like far into his lawn to do it. And he was thinking about like putting a cinder block under the snow, like basically putting in there before a big snowfall. So there'd be this hidden cinder block that they would hit with their car when they did it. We did that with a rock for where they back in over there. And that worked. It was on our property. So it's not like they could move it, you know. Yeah.

No, totally fair. So you could totally do that. I don't think that's, as far as I know, that sort of stuff's not legal, or is not illegal. No, I don't think it's, yeah, I don't think there's anything illegal about doing that. But also, I don't know what my rights are when it comes to some neighbor kid climbing my tree. And if he fell and broke a leg, am I liable? If they fell and hurt themselves on your property climbing your tree, they, they, you would technically be liable, whether or not the. Why?

That makes no sense to me. That's effed up. They came over, no permission. that'd be one thing if I said, hey, come over and come over there with no permission and no way to prove they didn't have, they had permission, that shouldn't, those laws suck if that's the case. That's, that's shitty. Yeah, lame, lame. Where is there's, I'm sure there's a precedence or something. I guess, uh, yeah, I guess there's a Reddit thing. A neighbor's kid jumped over our fence and climbed a tree in my backyard. He fell from the tree and broke his arm. Now the parents are

demanding that I should pay for medical expenses. F that shit. F that. Exactly. Yeah. I guess the answers that people are giving are just put a sign up that says, you know, please don't climb this tree or something like that. And that's enough of a, that's enough protection for you to be not liable for any injuries. That's you got to love in your backyard, a bunch of signs, one that says stay off my tree,

one that says, don't ride across my lawn, don't poop here. poop out of my yard and all that stuff yeah don't back your car your boat up on the side we shouldn't have to put a list of rules in our yard it's true i agree with george over there i agree yeah yeah uh there's that speaking of uh spills uh a meat spill uh a meat spill i love the term meat spill i mean you put the word meat in front of everything and it's funny yeah i don't know why why is that Why is meat funny? Meat cake. Yeah.

Meat head, meat monkey. Whatever. It's funny. Yeah, exactly. I like it. Meat spill forced a four-hour closure of I-880, wait, 880, northbound lanes in Oakland, California. So according to California Highway Patrol, or Chip. Patrol.

Chip. Like chips. Chips. In Oakland, served, oh, you know what I have? You know, whenever I say chips, hold on. I had this right here Remember that show? I totally do, yeah.

Had that The punch and John, man. What's his name? The dad of Chris Pines in that. He's the guy's in charge. What do you call him? Not the general, the sergeant, that guy.

That's Robert Pine. Anyway. Oh, didn't know that. That's cool. Yep, they're related. Anyway, it says in Oakland, this thing happened issued severe traffic for morning early on Friday

evening after a meat spill reportedly it was chicken and beef these were all just parts it says chicken and beef parts was it on its way to to an airplane food service sure feels like it should be something gross like that

said let's see the lanes were fully reopened shortly before 9.30 p.m. The alert was to say let's see but I don't care about that everything was shut down photos clear to social media showed a reddish sludge Across all the northbound lanes of the freeway chat. Here's a picture of it.

So you can see it. People at home who can't see it. Trying to be better about telling them what we're looking at. Yeah. Yeah. For the non. For the audio only listeners. That's a tiny photo, but this little truck, it basically is like a snow removal truck.

He's removing all this meat. Like a plow. Yeah, he's plowing up the meat. It's a meat plow. Apologies to vegans and vegetarians, having to see that. But, uh, that's nasty. Ethel, the meat plow. Yep.

Um, anyway, they had to clean all that up. It was kind of a nightmare. They got it all, though. And Taco Bell said thanks for the extra stock. You're going to finish that? That's a Taco Bell said. Yeah. They were not going to throw that away, are you?

They were very happy to keep it and put it in them tacos. But it's truly ground beef and ground chicken right there is what they're picking up. Yum, yum, yum. All right, on that note, we're going to take a break. And when we come back, we'll have a meat spill of our own with our own Bobby Frankenberger. He'll come on here. talk about some science. So stick around for that. We need a song

though to break it up. So, Brian, what do we have to play? Yeah, this is a band that we've played before. They have an album coming out called Dark Day's Night. It comes out June 5th. Oh my gosh. Comes out Friday. No, comes out Wednesday. That's weird. Book the, sorry, movie. Book, whatever. Album that comes out Wednesday. Book movie. Book movie. Not neither of those things.

Nope. Usually Friday's a release date for albums, so it's kind of surprising. This is the latest track off of the upcoming album, Dark Days Night, by this band from Dallas, Texas. They are The Intemperate Sons. This song features Amir D'Rourak on vocals here. Here are The Intemperate Sons and Amir de Mock, Derok, with Cheese Louise and talk, falling under. Strolled along a garden path bushes full of thorns Place your hand over the leaves

Watch his skin get torn Into a cold and hollow shell Forced into personal hell Falling under Eat away the life you've lived, stick poison in your veins. Try so hard to keep it in. in you insane Right away

Into a cold and hollow shell Forced into first little hell Falling under Drap forever to be something's left here yeah falling out of falling in order

I Failed a rainfall on your face, smell the air of light, fire that burned that day The day you went and died Rought away Into a cold and hollow shale Ford stand to personal hail Falling under Trap forever

All of shell forced into personal hell falling under All right, when I was like six, I got so attached to one of my Animal Crossing villages that when she left, I cried so hard that I threw up. Just give me the baby. And we're back. Tell me who that was one more time. That was the Intemperate Sons and Amir D'Rock from the upcoming album, Dark Day's Night, a single called Falling Under. Nailed it.

Nailed it. Nailed it. Nailed it. the dismount. Yep. No issues. No issues whatsoever. Science.

Bob is hungry and the soup looks good. Indeed. It is Bob, or as we call him Bobby, I don't think, his mom probably calls him Robert. I don't know. We've been through this. My mom calls me Bob. Yeah.

Bob. She's the only one who calls me Bob. She says it like that, Bob. Does she call you and say, Bob, I need my toilets backed up, come on over, or what? What's her deal? No, she lives in Ohio. and I live in South Carolina. That'd be a long time waiting

for that unplugging of the toilet. Were you born in Ohio? Did she move there? I was born in Virginia. I've lived in a lot of places. I was born in Virginia, moved to California, went over to Scotland for a while,

back South Carolina, Minnesota. Scotland? What brought you there? The Navy, family in the Navy. Oh, Navy family. I didn't realize you had a Navy brat. Yeah, I didn't know you were Navy Bratt or, yeah, I guess that's. what they call you it's fine right you guys are cool with that the brat part yeah i'm fine i get

usaa insurance out of it oh yeah yeah oh that's cool you still get that yeah it's uh you can have it for as long as you have a family member or a parent or something i don't know how far the extent i don't know how close the family member has to be but i know that since i have parents that were in the navy then then i qualify i had a i had a family member this is such a side note, but it irritates me to this day. But I had this family member, I won't say, who joined the army, just under the age limit, just barely under it, like, by six months, joined the National Guard, or the Army, we went for the Army first, ended up in the National Guard.

Anyway, did it just shy of it for the sole reason so he could have these benefits, right? Which I understand. It's fine, whatever. But all he did during his time before, during and after that, was complain. about socialist ideas, free health care in other countries are all broken and everything sucks. Meanwhile, his whole reason for joining was to get free health care. That was his entire reasoning. I've never been able to make the math work on that. No, it's a little, it's kind of funny. Wow. And Brian probably has a decent guess as to who I'm referring to. Yeah, I think I do, yeah.

So that's all I'll say about that. Anyway, enough clues for everyone. Right. Yeah, that's exactly. And that's, I could go on for day. but I won't. Bobby, it's good to have you here. Let's get some science in this week. It's, you know, it's early. We're starting our week fresh. Let's feel good about our scientific natural world around us. What do you got for us today? Um, I, I wanted to talk about how we pee-pee. Oh, good Lord. All right. Nice. I didn't have this on my bingo card. Let's, let's hear it. I do love the double, like saying pee-p-p, you know, it actually, because saying pee, whatever. It's, it's, but saying, going pee-pee, I think is. Ever since, ever since I had kids,

I've been very excited about the excuse I have to bring that phrase back, basically. Yeah, because that's how I say. I don't say, oh, I need to use the restroom. I say, I got to go peepee. And I enjoy saying it. Did you have a potty phase where they all wanted to go potty? That was a thing for my kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was potty, pee pee. Yeah, for sure. I don't like potty, but I do like pee. Yeah. Don't isolate that and use it for anything nefarious, please. That will never get used for anything else. Yeah. I like peepee.

Anyway, so yeah, tell us about, I guess, you know, we all have to pee. So, you know. Yeah, I was just reading around stuff and stumbled upon this article on Knowable magazine that talked about the science of how and why we pee and all the complexity that's involved. You think it's pretty simple. Like, I always thought it was just your bladder fills up once it. gets full enough. It triggers an urge to pee, then you pee, then you no longer feel the urge and then rinse and repeat, right?

Sure, sure. But it's actually a lot more complicated than that. I was interested to see. Scientists did used to think it worked that way, that it was just basically like an on-off switch, you know? But then the article was, and scientists, ask questions like, well, maybe it can't be that simple because then how do babies learn to use the bathroom, you know, because Because at some point, you, like, early on you don't have control, and it is kind of like an on-off switch when you're an infant, right?

Yeah. But we all eventually, well, most of us anyway, eventually get control over our bladders. So it must be a little bit more complicated than that, right? You'd think so, yeah. Yeah. I mean, there are times where I've got to go so bad, but I'm also so tired that I don't want to get up and I will just deal with it. That to me says that I've got some, you know, it's not up to chance. I've got some control.

You've got a little bit, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Also, though, I think about things like, like, whenever I go to the, whenever I get into bed at night, I always go to the bathroom before I sit in the bed, even though I'm going to sit up and, like, read or look at my phone or something like that, right? Yeah. And then even if it's only like 10 minutes later that I decide, okay, time to go to sleep, I still have to go to the bathroom again. Not everybody's like this. This is definitely, you know, like a me problem. But, you know, some people are just, you know, they have, but it's, it's, it's, I think it's behavioral, but I still, if I, if I choose not to, if I know in my logical brain, hey, Bobby, you just went to the bathroom. You didn't drink anything in these 10 minutes and you don't have to go again. I will lay there and, and I will feel like I have to go until I get up and, like, drop a tiny individual drop of urine out and then, and then go back to the bed. And then I'm fine.

Yeah, there's also this thing of like, specifically I would go like a nerdtacular would start. And I would have to pee so bad when I got there. At least I thought I did. But then I would often be too late. There was no time. So I would just get into whatever and get on stage and we start doing our stuff and rolling with the day. And I would not have to pee. I would be fine for hours, actually.

And I never could quite explain that other than I knew it had to do something with my nervous response or you know it's fight or yeah you make me think of like when i'm sitting on an airplane um i often feel like i have to go when i don't or um you ever i feel like anyone i talk to go ahead the threat of not the other threat of not being able to go is what makes you feel like you have to go yeah i think that's related to what i was about to say which is um the uh i feel like a lot of people i mentioned this to have have the same experience but when you're a kid and you were hiding, like playing hide and seek, if I was hiding in like a, like a dark closet or something and just sitting there waiting, I felt I really had to pee. And I don't know why.

But so the point is like, obviously it's more complicated than just your bladder's full. Now you have to pee. And some researchers have for a long time wanted to figure this out. Because they, I guess they feel like understanding the complexities of how you have to lead to that kind of research helps you understand different types of incontinence that exists in people and how you can treat that and stuff like that, you know, understanding the complexity of it. So first, you have to understand how the bladder works. Yeah, let's get into that. A little, little funky little ball bag unit deal we got going down there. It's pretty cool. That's something else on your anatomy. Oh, but yes, there is a bag, a sack of. Sure. It could keep, you could keep your weed in it. Anyway,

Actually, it's true because they can detect weed a long time later after you, if you pee, if you do a lot of weed. Anyway, sorry, go ahead. That's right. That's right. The bladder is a, it's like a stretchy sack. It holds about two cups of liquid or half a liter for our non-U.S. listeners. That's pretty, that's more than I thought. Yeah. Yeah, the average person is about two cups of liquid at its fullest.

You probably don't usually get to that point before you pee, but it can go. And it expands. It expands, your bladder is very, it's got like one of the highest, if not the highest ratio of like, like, its smallest size to its largest stretched out size. Because like your stomach also stretches out, stuff like that. There are other organs that stretch out. Right. But your bladder will stretch up to six times its empty size to when it's full.

It can get six times bigger. But anyway, when it stretches, the walls of your bladder, are full of these nerves that are stretch detecting nerves. They can actually detect the tension and stretching of the walls of the bladder. And it sends that signal up to your brain, right? But the bladder, when it's empty, it has a couple of things that it has to coordinate, and this adds to the complexity of things, right? When it's empty, the outer muscle layer of your bladder is relaxed, right?

It makes sense because it's just going to let things fill up, and it tightens whenever you're, you're peeing, whenever you're letting the urine out. Right. Because it has to contract the walls, the muscles contract to squeeze it out, right? And the opposite is the case with the sphincters. I love that word. Ever since Beavis and Butthead, I love that words. The sphincters that surround. the urethro, which is where

it comes out, the sphincters squeeze to hold the urine in and they do the opposite, right? So when the bladder's empty, the sphincters are tight and the walls are relaxed. And then when it gets full enough, it has to they have to swap.

The walls get suddenly very tight and the sphincters relax. And it's a beautiful coordinated dance. Can I play a clip from last night or yesterday's film sack? that reminds me of this? Here you go.

Your urinary spinkers as tight as a knot right now. You couldn't piss to save your life. Wow. Country legend, Dwight Yoakam, everybody. Dwight Yoakam, catch him while you can. Who's how topical this?

That's right. I had no idea, you know, until you started talking about it. Okay, so when somebody, I've noticed this, men of a certain age start getting asked different questions when they go for their checkups. Whether you know this or not.

When I was going in there, let's say at 30, they never asked this question. I go in there now, and I get it every time. And this isn't happening to me, but they still ask it. They go, are you noticing any leakage? And I say, no, I'm not noticing any. What would be the signs of that, I usually say?

And they're like, well, perhaps you wake up in the morning and part of your bed is wet. And I'm like, no, that is not happening to me. At least not now. But they ask that, I assume, because that, quote, unquote, sphincter, it's not quote, it's actually sphincter. I assume that thing, like a lot of things, it gets to get weak over time. Right, right.

It's not a strong. It doesn't hold back to get. Right. Loses its power. Sure. Yeah, a lot of people will lose muscle tension in a lot of different types of muscles. And it's just another muscle, right? But there's other reasons that could be leading to that.

And I think we don't fully, scientists don't fully understand everything that goes into that type of incontinence. because the so so that whole dance of of switching and making being able to hold your urine being able to release it and everything has been a mystery for a long time and it's only in the past only recently in the past couple of decades maybe even a lot of it in the last decade have we been kind of figuring out more specifically how the brain is involved because when you're an infant it's just a spinal cord reflex, right? It doesn't even make it to your brain. It's just the bladder gets full, sends a signal to the spinal cord, which sends a signal back that says, let it out. Yeah.

It's a, what do they call that, though? The auto, what is it called? You're thinking of an autonomic response. That's what I'm thinking of. Is that what that is with a baby or no? Yeah, sure. An autonomic response is just, it's basically a behavior that happens that you don't have to think about your heart beating, breathing, breathing.

breathing, stuff like that. It's all autonomic. And so, yeah, exactly. That's autonomic. So there was a scientist back in the 20s who decided he wanted to figure out a little bit more about what controls are peeing. And so he experimented on cats and started, this is awful. We don't do a lot of this anymore, but started to, used electrodes to burn out parts of the brainstem of cats. to see if, you know, what would happen?

Yeah, don't listen to Nara. That's terrible. So found that in some parts of the brainstem in an area called the Pons, but some parts of the Pons brainstem area, if you burned this part out, cats would still show an urge to pee, but wouldn't be able to. Oh. Oh. And then there would be another part in the brainstem that if you burn that part out,

cats would never show an urge to pee but would involuntarily pee everywhere so it would be like the opposite, right? Okay, so that's interesting is my mom had her brain surgery. One of the reasons they wanted to do it is they were worried that the part of this benign tumor that was growing was pushing on a part of her brain

that was threatening to make her completely incontinent if they let it go. So they get rid of it. And she had had some symptoms, not too bad, but like if she had to go bad, it'd be like, oh, this is like a problem. She gets that out, nothing. It's all good now.

So there must be, like, our brains have the same area, I assume, where if you squeeze it or cut it or whatever you're going to be from. Yeah. And in fact, we did find out that that does it. And the doctor was called Frederick Barrington. Barrington, I like that. Frederick Barrington. Yeah. More cats for you, Mr. Barrington? So he delivered them to the back door, as usual.

He did his research at the University College London, too. So he's definitely like, like, down in Abbey probably style. Perfect. I love it. Trying to kill as many animals as Edison, Mr. Barrington. But the area, that part of the brainstem was called Barrington's nucleus, it became known as. And so it was a stop in the signals. So what happens is what we now know through a bunch of research is that there's a very complicated multi-step process. And the simplified version of that is so the bladder began.

to fill slowly with urine, eventually the stretch sensing nerves in the bladder will send a signal to a part of the brain called the peri-aqueductal gray. Brain areas have very complicated names that all make perfect sense if you know what the Latin stems mean. But to normal people like us, they sound very complicated. But the peri-aquiductal gray, it's responsible for a lot of things but one of the things it does is mediate certain autonomic and motivated behaviors like you were just talking about Scott autonomic behaviors so the

signals of the full bladder gets sent to the periaquaductal gray and then that gets forwarded to another area deeper in the brain called the insula that sort of acts as a sensor that says okay it's getting fuller it's getting fuller it's getting fuller it's getting fuller and then the more

full it gets the insula will send fire off more and more signals, I like to think of it kind of like a Geiger counter. Like the more and more full it's going like Bip Bip Bip Bip B B B B B B B B B Right. It sends more and more signals to the next place it goes is really interesting. It's the prefrontal cortex, which we hear a lot about

because that's where it's, they say it's kind of like the part of the brain that makes us human, right? It's one of the last parts that gets to that develops. But the prefrontal cortex coordinates lots of sensory input. actions and sort of coordinates in accordance with like internal information like thoughts and memories and goals and feelings and stuff like that right yeah so so it's interesting that the signal goes from this sensor the sensor signal goes to the prefrontal cortex where um they think that it does the job of determining whether it's socially acceptable to pee right now oh interesting

So that's where a lot of this like... Do dogs not have this? They don't have this part of the brand. Maybe not. I don't know. They have to have something that regulates it, right? Because they do know to hold it a little bit. Oh, yeah, for sure they hold it.

That's no question. Their motives might be a little different than ours, but they often do hold it. But I've never seen one outside where it's like, I don't know if it's acceptable for me to pee right here. Or until they see something they want or want to claim as their own. Yeah, that's true. That's true.

They're working on a hold of. different set of motivations than we'll ever understand. Right. Right. Right. So, yeah, it gets to the prefrontal cortex where the question of, is now a good time to pee happens, right? That's where that question gets asked. If the answer is no, the prefrontal cortex will do what it does best, which is continue to inhibit activity or inhibit actions in the brain, right? The prefrontal cortex does a good job of saying no to the rest of the brain. so it keeps saying no but if the answer is yes now I'm at a toilet and it's a good time to pee or wherever at a tree

who knows or a bottle in the back seat of your car sometimes that happens whatever you need yeah yeah Starbucks Cup whatever yeah it'll finally it'll send a once it gets that yes

signal it'll send a signal back to that peri octa aqueductal gray back in the brainstem it sends a signal back that says we're going to send a new this signal is going to now go to Barrington's nucleus which then sends a signal to the bladder that it's

P time. All right. So it's a very, the whole point, you don't need to, we're not being quizzed on this later. The whole point of all this complicated dance is that it's, it is to to kind of get the idea that it's, it's much more complicated than just the bladder is full. There's this,

there's all these signals going on that get input from other areas and all that kind of stuff. So it's very, it can be very complicated to figure out what causes P problems in people. Sure, sure. Can I do some Kegels? Is that a thing I can do?

Kegel? Well, so that's one problem, Kegel. So women often have urinary incontinence issues, especially older women later in life more than men. And that's one of the causes it can be is a weakening of the pelvic floor. Um, and, uh, but, but, but another, that leads to another problem. So menopausal women actually, so the general population experiences about 11% of the people in the general population experience overactive bladder syndrome. You've heard of that before. Yeah. That just means you're always stimulated to pee. You feel the urge to have to go a lot. Right. Constantly. Yeah. Um, more than, more than what is typical. So I hear, I hear it depends. I also hear that it depends.

So yeah, 11% of the population experienced that, but 45% of women in menopause experience that. And again, it's not totally sure why. This one's a really interesting one as to why they think that is. So when you're going through menopause, not you, but when women go through menopause, there happens to also be a proliferation of immune cell. that develop in the bladder that can lead to these little tiny bumps on the inner wall of the bladder.

Oh, it's like a physical thing. I figured it was just a bad signal. Yeah, well, it does lead to signaling problems. So one of the things that the inside wall of your bladder can do is they can sense the presence of E. coli. I don't think it's meant necessarily, I don't know what the evolution of that is, but the presence of E. coli will send like, a high amount of E. coli in the bladder will send signals to the brain that you need to pee. That's actually, that's a UTI, urinary tract infection, is caused by E. coli. And that's why when you have a UTI, you feel like you have to pee a lot, is because it's sensing this E. coli. But these bumps that develop as a result of these too many immune cells during menopause, they think, causes the inside wall of the bladder to become incredibly sensitive to tiny amounts of E. tiny amounts that might not cause a problem otherwise. Oh, I see what you mean. It just stimulates that sensation of having to go.

Right. They think that that might be what's happening with that. Some other things that can have bedwetting. So there are these neurons in the brainstem also. There's neurons all over the brain. Go figure. But there's these neurons in the brainstem. It's an area called the locusts corulius.

I'm saying that right, but basically it's this area that starts, we'll start firing a rhythmic pattern whenever the bladder gets to a certain fullness. And that rhythmic pattern can cause like wave-like firing patterns to spread to the outer layers of the cortex. And the end result is that it actually causes the brain to get roused and be more alert in about the 30 seconds before urination happens.

And it causes people to become more focused. And they think that this might be, what actually allows us to wake up right before we need to pee at night. Oh, interesting. And you can mess with that. Obviously, you drink too much before you go to bed or whatever. You can change the natural course of things. But yeah, if you're having an average night, that's really, that's really interesting.

I always say, do do do do do like worst code basically. Yeah, it's like, hey, wake up, wake up, wake up. This just in, wake up, wake up, you're going to have to pee. Right. So bedwetting sometimes might be the result of that, uh, being a malfunction in that system right right so uh is there are there things people can do to um either strengthen i mentioned kegles but can you is there a way to strengthen work on dietary or is any of that part of any of the knowledge or the research we have on all of this

stuff so that people can i don't know ward off things like what in their bed or uh you know i i don't think there's anything you can do if you if it's a brain problem or a neurological problem, which sounds like a lot of this is, unless there's medications, there are medications that are being researched and some that have been developed that sort of, most of the medications act on the bladder itself and maybe the signals being sent from the bladder, but there are more being developed that are trying to target what we're learning about that happens in the brain itself. But, I mean, you know, just the typical advice of don't drink a bunch of water in the hour before you go to bed.

and um or or longer you know uh one of the things i notice about uh vagus gummies the the the hc has a tendency to make it so you just feel like you don't ever have to pee again like you just i don't know if it dries you up if it creates dehydration of some sort if it does just the outward outward um essence of dehydration and it's just fooling you i don't know but all i know is there there were nights where like in Vegas this last trip i would have a gummy me that day and then that night, I wouldn't pee that night before bed and I would not wake up having to pee. I peed in the morning just fine, but it wasn't urgent. That felt like there's a trick in there somewhere, you know? Not that those are the medications are working on, but obviously

something's going on there, right? I don't know if it's dehydration or what it is, but it sure made it so I didn't have to pee. It's really weird. If it was some sort of dehydration or something like that, I would have, I would expect that you would have peed a bunch before you went to bed at least because, because that would have meant that the water was just going, or liquids or whatever, were just going straight through you. Well, part of it is in Vegas, you're already sort of dehydrated because it's hot and you're, you know, yeah, I mean, that's true. That's a good point.

But also, as I say that, there are anticholinergic things. I think that's the right term for the medication I'm thinking of that cause you to, to dry up, cause, like, You can get like dry eyes and dry mouth and and it can lead to constipation, which is also a fluid retention issue, right? I kind of wish the medical industry wouldn't refer to things that helped you pee as diuretics, you know, because it just sounds too close to bum stuff. It's like, why can't you come up with a better word? Well, I mean, the reason it's called diarrhea is because of that, because it's all related to how much you're holding in water, right? Yeah. I'm just saying if you're going to have the you're going to have a word that is you know you hear

the word diarrhea and you go oh geez okay that's a bummer ru-hoo diarrhea right but then you say well don't drink that that's a diuretic and my first impression is oh no I'm going to have the shits all afternoon it's like no it means you're going to go you're going to make you pee and then it's more complicated by the fact that coffee seems to have a diuretic property but it also makes you poop. Yeah. Yeah, what's going on, coffee? Yeah, poop and pee. Pick a lane. Why only give it? Let's just call diarrhea what it is and just call it the shits. Yeah, let's just call it the shits. Exactly. We go to the doctor. What's matter? I have the shits. Oh, yes, the case of the shits, they'd say. Yes. Well, that's on your chart. The super interesting stuff. I like, you know what? We're all, you know, biological beings with needs and urges and whatnot. And I like, I think that stuff's good to address here and there. People are like, everybody.

that's listening, though, has to pee real bad because I've been talking about it all the time. Yeah, it's like yawning. It's like all of a sudden, now we all have to pee. Yeah. I could have made it worse and played, like, some audio of like a tinkling sound or something. That would have really, like some waterfalls or... Exactly. Just somebody pouring water and a trickle

from a pitcher into a glass. Yeah. Like, here's... If I do a search for water tinkle sound, this is what I get. I'll see how this goes. Yeah, does that help? Yeah. Yeah. You're right. You should have been playing that. That's a flow max right there.

That is a brook. That's not bad. If you're peeing like that, maybe get some advice from your doctor as to what's going on. Well, Bobby, always a pleasure to do this. And, you know, look, if you're worried about other scientific matters, not just how you have to pee, but, you know, how space works and that sort of thing, you've got to show all about that. Tell people where to get it. It's called All Around Science. You can just search it on podcast finder things or go to all around science.

me and more talk about science stuff. That's what we do. That's what a science podcast is. And this past Monday, yesterday, or today, what am I talking about yesterday? Today, the episode that came out, we talked about hot and warm blooded, hot and warm blooded, that's the same thing. Warm and cold-blooded animals and what they are and how that is actually not a binary. There's sort of a spectrum.

You can be sort of both at the same time. Some animals are a little bit of both. But next week, I'm really excited about next. week also, so you should subscribe if you're not, so that you can get next week's episode. I'm going to be talking about, I've finally heard enough news items or read enough headlines to say, I want to learn about what the heck is going on with Neurrelink. The chips that Elon Musk is personally implanting into people's brains. But maybe I'm wrong that he's not the one doing the surgery, and that's what I'm going to find out and tell everybody. He's definitely not the one doing the surgery. He is definitely making money and using his money to do it. Could it self-drive my car? That's all I want to know. Maybe.

If you can do that, then sure, sign me. I don't know. I'll find out and let you know on next week's episode. Okay, cool. Because I want to see, the guy who's in a wheelchair that's using it, he's like mostly paralyzed. It's interesting to watch the stuff he's doing. So, you know. I did read that apparently he, one of the first things that he did was have like an eight-hour all-night binge of Civ 6.

Yeah, yeah. Played Sib 6 with it. with his mind pretty much. Really? Wow. Nice. Yeah. It's really cool. There's video of this floating around out there. It's pretty interesting. So I will look forward to that episode of All Around Science, everyone. Where's your, oh, there you are. Bobby, always good to talk to you. Have a fantastic week. And we'll see in a couple of weeks. Bye now.

Thanks, Bobby. See, I didn't hang up on him. He hung up on me. No, that's right. Working on it there, guy at home. Whatever. Oh, don't change. Never change. All right, I'm not going to change in that we have to end the show, so there's no change there. However, I'm going to read a quick email that we got from a listener. This might have been a text because he didn't leave his name. A perspective about trucks' work. We've been getting tons of stuff about backing trucks into spots.

Yeah, yeah. We apparently opened a real can of not worms, but a lot of interest in this. We opened a real can of truck nuts. Truck nuts. We sure did. Oh, I saw a pair of those yesterday. It's been a long time. Saw him in the road.

I wanted to reach out and just. Yeah, come off. It's like, giving your car a mullet. Yeah, totally stupid. Anyway, he says some perspective on truck drivers and how they do it. He says, in regards to your truck drivers parking backwards, I am one of them. I drive a RAM 2,500 and park backward. My reason for doing so is more of a personal reason.

I used to pull forward, but one day I had to back my truck into a parking spot next to my garage to unload something from the box. The box, I assume, is like the bad, basically, yeah. Is that what he means? Oh, he might mean the bed. I thought he meant like maybe, because sometimes they have those big, like, storage things that are like built into the truck almost. I don't know what those are called. Oh, right, right, right. Yeah, like those tool boxes on the sides.

Yeah, he might have been that. Across the back. Yep, probably more like that. He says, said bed if you meant the bed. Yeah. He says, next day, the cops called me and asked me if my license plate was missing. Well, it was. Overnight, somebody stole a truck like mine.

And since my front license plate was facing the alley, he stole that and put it back on the stolen truck. That's crazy. In Wisconsin, our front plate has no registration stickers, and that is what caught the parking enforcement's eye, the plate on the rear of the truck with no stickers. Had I parked forward, he would have stolen my rear plate, and the cops would have never run into the plates, or run the plates, and I would have had a headache of getting new plates and fighting any tickets as a result. So basically, out of fear of idiots, I parked backwards.

But even though I drive a big truck, I pee like a normal person. He doesn't stand two feet back from the urinal. like Alpha Pier from last week. Yeah, so you guys have done something here. You have changed my perception of people who buy big trucks. You've done it. I used to think everybody was a dick overcompensating for something. I had a real stereotype about it in my head.

Sure. And while some of those people, I'm sure, exist, most of you are normal. The ones that tailgate me, I still think that about you and there's nothing that's going to change my mind. You're overcompensating for something, not a little man. Yeah. but uh but once you part but all this parking info it's just i don't think it's so bad think it's fine yeah no and this and this is an interesting reason why like uh i i get the safety issue that a lot of people brought up this is an interesting like protecting your license plate issue it's very

interesting yeah super interesting so thank you for sharing that if you want to share your feelings or thoughts on anything we discuss here on the show 801-471 0462 or the morning stream at gmail com it's going to do it for us brian we should get out of here but if we do that we have a song to play as a promise. We do have a song, and this one is not a request from a listener. It's a dedication to a listener.

This performer, this band, was somebody that Alan, A.K. Wabit Magic, requested for an episode of soundography. And so I knew that he was a fan of this band. The band is Allison Chains.

So going out to in tribute to Wabit Man magic to Alan Roth. This is Down in a Hole by Ryan Adams covering Alice in Chains. This was from the album, Follow the Lights with the Cardinals from 2007. Here's Ryan Adams and Down in a Hole.

me softly in this wound I give this part of me to you sand rains down and here I say the golden red fowers in a turn in blue down in a hole

and I don't know if I can be safe See my heart I decorated like a crate You don't understand who they thought I was supposed to be Look at me now man who won't let himself be down in a hole

feeling so small down in a hole losing my soul I'd like to fly I've been so denied I've been in a hole and they put all the stones in their place I've beaten the song

so my tongue has been burned all the taste I've been guilty of kicking myself in the deep I won't speak no more of my feelings beneath I'm down in a hole feeling so small

I'm down in a hole losing my soul Like to lie All my wings have been so tonight Burying me softly in this warm I want to be in time I give this part of me to you I want to be in sight

The sand rains down And here I said Holding rare flowers In a tune Yeah I'm blue to In sight I'm in a hole

Feeling so small Down in a hole Losing my soul Down in a hole Feeling so small Down in a hole Out of control I'd die to die

My ways have been so denied Hey Scott and Brian's this is Monday, May 13th. Talking about the whale on the front of the cruise. ship. I didn't think this would be a reason I'd ever call in. But it's actually way more common than you would think of. I used to work on a cruise ship myself, and you've heard about it quite often. If you ever look at the front of a cruise ship where it meets in the middle, so it actually has like the boat end that goes down. But if you examine the part under the water, there's almost like it's like a, I don't know what you call it, but it's like a spike practically that hangs off of the front of the boat. So it's not uncommon for that part of the water. of the ship to steer a whale, and then it's just on there. What are you going to do when you're in the middle of the ocean? You can't do anything about it. So, yeah, it's similar to, like, people living in, like, you know, rural Michigan or Wisconsin,

Montana and hitting deer. It sucks, but it happens pretty often. Anyway, I like slow grow, though. Bye. This show is part of the FrogPants Network. Yes. Get more at frogpants.com I just want chicken nuggets.