The Morning Stream - TMS 2662: Slippery Chicken

Episode Date: June 18, 2024

No TMS tomorrow, it's Juneteenth! Tubi or Not Tubi. My buzzers are in the wrong place. Rimming Everything. Interfenestration. Scott shoots hummus from his eyelids. HBO - Horrendous Body Odor. Cara B Meat. The Sausage King of Seinfeld. Deez Nuts Pro. Squeaky Crotch Grease. Liv Tyler: the Streaming Service. Some are More Zero Than Others. Boogers In A Half-Shell: Oyster Power! Thick Decadent Science with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There once was a man from Nantucket who signed up to be a TMS patron at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream. No TMS tomorrow. It's Juneteen. To be or not to be. My buzzers are in the wrong place. Rimming everything. Interfenestration.

Scott shoots hummus from his eyelids. HBO. Horrendous body odor. Kara B. Meat. The sausage king of Seinfeld. D's nuts pro. Squeaky crotch grease. Same thing.

Live Tyler. The street. streaming service. Some are more zero than others. Boogers on a half-shell. Oyster power! Nick, decadent Science with Bobby. And more on this episode of the morning stream. Hey, look, mister,

we save hard drinks in here for men who want to get drunk fast, and we don't need any characters around to give the joint atmosphere. Is that clear? And so much more. Do the bees know they make honey for you? This is the morning's dream. And so much more.

Hey, everybody. Welcome back to TMS. It is Tuesday, June 18th. I can't read. Maybe my eyes aren't as good as I thought. June 18th, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian. Hi, Brian.

Good morning. Hello. Good morning to you. Real quick, I want you to hear today's little intro thing again, but I want you to hear it as if you're watching, I want you to hear it as if you're watching George Costanza, okay? Okay, yeah. So listen to this. Hey, look, mister, we save hard drinks in here for men who want to get drunk fast and we... Sounds just like him to me.

It does. Oh, I thought it was Jason Alexander when you played that. Nope. But obviously the back, the audio quality is not 90s level Costanza. What is, yeah, a lot of people saying, yeah, I thought that was, that was him. No, some old, some old noir movie thing I captured a little bit of audio from. I don't even remember what it was from, but it's something from the 40s. I don't know who that guy is.

That's crazy, wow. Isn't that crazy, though? It's, um, okay, now imagine it is, um, it's Alan Ruck doing the sausage king of Chicago on the phone in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. All right, let's hear it. Hey, look, mister, we save hard drinks in here. Oh, my God, dude. Ha ha ha ha ha, ha, ah, that's great. That's like, I follow this TikTok account where,

guy takes popular songs and then ruins them by putting a face up. Oh, yeah, what was the one that he showed Nicholas Cage before? Now I can't hear anything but Nicholas Cage singing. Yeah, what was that? I sent it. Did I send that to you? You did. Yeah, I think I should be able to scroll back and see it.

Where is it? I know I did, didn't I? It's Craig Federici. There's the transporter and his swimming outfit. I can't find it. I can't find it either. I know I shared this at some point, but yeah, he, this guy's great because every day there's at least something up there. And then as soon as he puts his face up, you're like, oh, my gosh, I can't believe it.

And that's all I'm going to hear from now on. He's literally ruining songs for us. Anyway, was that from It's a Wonderful Life? It might have been that audio. That's a people were saying, yep. Okay. Nick from It's a Wonderful Life. I don't remember.

All right. Got a lot to do today. This is our, you know, the last day before Juneteen. which we are celebrating and are going to be gone for it tomorrow. So there be no confusion. There is no show tomorrow. I'm going to ride along Highway 36, those of you who are familiar with Denver or Boulder,

or specifically the highway that goes from Denver to Boulder, as hilly as it is, good Lord, I'm going to be doing that ride tomorrow. And if I'm feeling like I'm going to stop at the very top of the peak that overlooks Boulder Valley. But if I'm feeling froggy, I might descend into Boulder. Valley and then make the, you know, then make that hill back up to the, to the peak, which that is a, I think, four mile, I would say it has to be at least a 30% grade.

Geez. Four miles straight, no, no dipping, just straight. No dipping, just straight, you know, 30, 30 degree hill for four miles. And I don't know if I could do that. That makes my groin hard. But I'm at least going to stop at the top and take some pictures and say, I made it up here, everybody. Don't forget your crotch, budd. Oh, I believe me.

I've got a, I had to buy a new tube of, uh, of DZ Nuts Pro. That's the, that's the brand, DZ Nuts Pro. I want to call it D's Nuts Pro, but if there's no E, it's just DZ Nuts Pro. I'm sure they're, they're riffing on that, right? It's implied. The E's, these are implied. Yeah, yeah. Everybody knows what those guys are up to with their squeaky crotch grease.

That's right. Um, Rogen Dragons, D's Nuts, uh, pro. There you go. Yep. Sounds awesome. Yeah, sponsor. Sounds like a brand new subscription per month I got to pay. It sounds like something now that you can get on Fremont Street in Vegas.

That's right. Well, Brian, we're- Imagine Dragon's D's Nets. Yeah. Since you're usually out testing your physicality on your bike, let's test you mentally. Okay. Oh, well, okay. Let's test you mentally and auditorially because once in a while I like to do these things where it's a sound-based. I guess you'd call us a quiz.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love these. Okay, good. And speaking of things we sign up for and pay for a month. Monthly. This is a chance for you to test your might. Test your might. All right. And you're going to,

do you remember this? Sorry, this is from the game Mr. Dew. No, I'm just kidding. It reminds me, though, these fighting games used to always have these weird mini games. So that test your might thing comes from Mortal Kombat 1, where after a few levels,

it would be them busting wood or something. Yeah, yeah, you'd be, you'd be busting, breaking down a shed or something. What was it if it wasn't a shit in Mortal Kombat? And Mortal Kombat, I think it was just wood. Oh, a car. Yeah, that was a street fighter was a car. Yeah.

So you'd kick the shit out of like a Mercedes or something. Right. Right. Yeah. Such a weird thing. Like. That is a weird thing. Yeah.

No kidding. You know, you're sitting around going, hey, what do we have players do when they're not fighting? How about we have them beat the shit out of a car? Could you do a little, bring a little pencil and kind of game, hack it like you did with track and field? Where you do, do, lo, little, little, little, and it. probably he probably could yeah there was the best part about that is it created its own little weird kid economy because kids in wood shop would make a couple of bucks each on making these little wood things and then selling a specific basically it's a tongue depressor for track and field basically is what it was

yeah and it had a cool curve on it and the nice ones you'd spend five bucks on those for uh for uh retro no but no but we need to yeah that'd be a great topic and talking about those i bet you could 3d print it ones now oh easy if you can find uh if you can find our arcade with a track and field game in it. Well, that's the trick, right? And a lot of those, they ended up, I don't know if you remember this, but they started shipping cabinets later in the life cycle of that thing, and it had a ridge between the two.

Oh, really? Yeah. So you couldn't put something on top of it. It would be too high. And they were trying to stop people from just beating the game and, you know, I mean, it means less quarters, so that's why they did it. But I don't know, it's always a stark reminder. The arcade, as much nostalgia as we have for arcades.

it was just there to get our quarters like they weren't really there to have the smart ones had us had fun and pay for it but a lot of them were just like NBA Jam was just like yeah you were winning but now the computer's way better for some reason and you're and you're rim and everything you take so sorry more quarters I guess

like some games are terrible at that stuff I hated that yeah oh yeah anyway here Brian is your test your might for today you have to tell me I'm going to to play some audio each time, and you're going to have to tell me which streaming service does this logo sound belong to. Oh, wow. Okay. Ooh. All right. This is fun because, yeah, when you don't see it, they all sound like, uh, uh, you know, an old, uh, you know, a little bit. A little bit or an old computer or an old, you know, something. Yeah. Yeah. So they're all,

I think some of these are going to be obvious. And when we get to them, you'll know them. Sure. Sure. But some of these may be trickier. all right so let's start with this one see if you know what this is this one maybe is a little tricky here we go any ideas oh that is um i don't recognize it right off the top of my head so it might not be a service that i use a lot maybe it is though is that uh tuby uh that is it tuby let's find out incorrect it is youtube originals youtube originals so a little tricky not a thing you're watch any of those yeah i don't either not really a fan is cobra kai i guess kobra kai was a youtube originally for a hot minute yeah yeah yeah for the first season then it went to netflix after

that yeah uh all right how about this one this isn't easy that's your that's your that's your netflix they even name their uh their newsletter and their annual shareholders meeting is da dumb yep they're they're into it uh okay this one gets a little trickier here you go Um, is that Amazon Prime? You are? Let's see if you're correct or not. Hold on. My buzzers are in the wrong place.

That is correct. Okay, good. Nicely done. So I get that one. That one helps. All right. How about this one? That is Disney Plus.

Nicely done. You're killing this so far. You know what this proves Brian is a avid, user of services. He's really good. All right. I have an avid user of services, yeah. But basically what I do is I think of

what TV theme song usually comes after that. Yeah, no, fair point. That's what I would do. My brain wants to go like, like if you hear the HBO thing. Yeah, right.

I immediately think of Game of Thrones or I think of Curb your enthusiasm. Curb is a good one. I hear the tuba right after that. Yep, exactly. All right. here's one for you i think that's max speaking of which let's find out if it is correct it is

nicely done right kind of killing it so far all right how about this one after uh yeah after yesterday now you won yesterday i did yeah dirty bastard the team great here we go yeah i'd yeah whatever she has she has too many names that woman she does have she does have too many names although Although if you would have said Phoenix, I would have allowed it because the Phoenix force was technically different than it was more than just Gene Gray. So I would have allowed it. All right. Fair enough. Here's this one.

Oh, God, the one that starts with, yeah, the audience. Is that Hulu? You are? Correct. Okay, good. Well done. How about this one? Um, that's HBO.

Let's find out if it's HBO? Paramount Plus, sir. Paramount Plus. Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah, we already did Prime chat. That was earlier. Yeah, yeah. Here's, uh, this one.

Peacock. Oh my gosh. You are, Freecock or Peacock, I would have allowed. Yeah, nicely done. Um, ding, ding, yeah. Here's this one. I think that's a, is that birds? the end of that one? Hold on.

Is it like a little peacock sound? Like wings flapping? Oh, maybe. Because yeah, then the, then the, I guess so. Yeah, I guess. It's funny that they don't use the bong, bong, bong, bong, which was, you know, associated with NBC forever and peacock is a, is a, yeah, they should do like a, they should do like a variation on that. I agree. Yeah, yeah. Stick it, stick it to the, uh, to the nostalgia there. Yeah. All right, here's one for you. Oh, shit. Is that HBO? That is Apple TV Plus. Oh, good Lord. I definitely should have gotten that one.

Damn it. It's a nice one. Yeah. I like that bass, man. It's right where I want to. Oh, is it? Oh, is it? Is it?

Is it? I got to watch. I want to binge that shit. I'm excited. Spoiler alert. It's going to be more recommendable next week. Unless they really F things up for the finale. Yeah.

My gosh. I'm so excited. And by the way, Chuck keeps asking this. I'm going to tell you that it's not. Tube is not in here because Tube is literally sings the word toby. Well, if you say, FreeVee does as well.

FreeVee. Yeah. And Tube goes to, too, Tube like that. Do they? Okay. Yeah.

It's super good. I really like it, but it's obvious. So I'm not playing it. All right, here's one for you. Okay. This one's tricky.

It's also kind of secondary. So it's not a cheat. Yeah. No, but it's going to be like, so I know it's not FX. I know the FX one by heart. I mean, I know, you know, is that AMC plus? Let's find out. Is it AMC plus?

Oh, you're close. It has a plus in it. It's Discovery Plus. Okay. Which I do not have, and probably you might not either. I don't know. A lot of discovery shit is on Tom Max now. Yeah, oh, that's right.

I was going to say, I think I get it as part of a bundle. And I can't remember if it's part of the Disney, ABC. ESPN bundle, but no, you're right. It's part of the Max bundle. Yeah, I think Max just has a bunch of their content, and then they also have their own channel. Here is one final one. All right.

This one is, again, a little obscure. I knew it, but I don't know. I feel like I might not have if I was, if I just had it played in my ear. So anyway, here we go. Whoops. Is it the CW? Let's find out.

Is it the CW? Sony. Here's the thing. They have a service called Sony L-I-V originals. I assume that's live. There's no E in there. So it's Live. Right.

It's all movies starring Liv Tyler. Lord of the Rings trilogy. And you get a little left. Over's for a series. Oh, I would love that. Just one channel. A bunch of Air Smith videos. One channel, nothing but live Tyler.

That's amazing. Well, you did pretty well. I think you got, let's see. You got... I feel like it got more than half. One, two, I meant to keep track. One, two, three, four, five. Did you get Paramount?

No, you missed that one. I missed Paramount. I missed Paramount. I missed. Do you get Peacock? Yes, I got Peacock on Miss Discovery. Seven, missed Apple. Apple, yeah, that one, I feel.

You got more than half. I think that's, that's a quality run, dude. That's a, you know, that's a, that's a, what's the word I'm looking for? Not reputable. That's a, that's a respectable. Respectable is the word I was looking for. I knew it was an abel. That's an abel.

Always with the abbles. That's right. That's right. Here's a quick text from a listener who thinks they may have found your lady. no they have a recommendation for a solution yeah a method to find your lady those who are wondering what i'm talking about brian's got this actress in his dream and we can't figure out who she is so this is the ongoing saga here and and here's here's what makes me even more convinced that she's real the dream was month ago however maybe even you know uh six weeks ago yeah but i still

visualize this lady in the in the role that she was in in a sitcom so i think dream stuff tends to fade after a while, especially if you just see it, have a experience it at once. Oh, yeah. Last night I had some crazy dreams. I couldn't tell you what they were now. Oh, my dream was that at 247 a.m., sorry, 247 a.m., the cat threw up on the duvet. Oh, wait, that wasn't a dream. That was real, and I both had a hard time getting back to sleep after that.

Thanks, Salem. Sometimes dreams come true, you know? That's right. Yes, exactly. Not a good dream, but a dream nonetheless. All right, here's what she, or Gene from Brooklyn says. Yeah. Scott and Brian, about Brian's mystery actress.

I like that. Yeah. I call her carbonated meat. That's her name. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kara, cana bonated meat. Yeah, Kara B meat. Carabee meat.

Yeah, Carabee meat. She says, or he says, I don't know if Gene's a he or she is. Gene's a he, yeah, Jean is, we came out here, and we went to New Terrain Brewing, and had a lovely evening. Nice. That sounds all right to me. Yeah. Did you ever think, oh, guess, uh, um, who's come?

Someone's coming to Park City and I get to see them and now I forgot who's coming. Oh, really? Oh, cool. Shit. Now I feel bad. I got to say who it is. I got three or four people. All of them are saying, hey, I'm out there in July and I can't, I get confused about who's

coming when. Uh, it is, uh, oh, Vincent Manucci. That's who's coming. Oh, nice. Look at you. Yeah, he's a great, he's a great dude. We're going to try to get out there. Yeah.

Anyway, it says about your mystery actress. Did you ever think about hiring a professional criminal sketch artist and seeing what he comes up with? You may now return to your regular scheduled programs, says Gene in Brooklyn. I mean, I don't even know where you'd hire somebody like that. I know exactly. You don't, do you just call someone up? There's got to be, I actually would be surprised if there's not, and you technically can do this with AI, right? And just say, um, uh, describe.

you know, long, straight, dark hair, heavy eye makeup, full lips, smaller nose, actress, and then have them come up with it, and then just adjust your prompts and do that sort of thing. Yeah, yeah, you probably even get like a guy, like Matthew Sargent's style probably is pretty good at you describing something and having him drawout or whatever. Oh, wow, there's a bunch, there's a few new names added to the list here. Well, it's, I can already tell you it's not. uh julia armand what happened to julia armand she just disappeared after sabrina didn't she uh i don't what happened to her i don't know i don't know she was great uh definitely not julia armand or arm or or moore how are you saying she was in that um that sean connery first night with richard gear

chan carnery uh the camelot love triangle thing um page turco let's see page turko uh she's Not Page Turco. She's still working. This, uh, Julie Aramond. She's, yeah, she's most recently in, uh, Walking Dead World Beyond. She's in, uh, a couple of prime time things. Let's see. Some unreleased films that are in post production.

She's doing all right. Yeah, not Jessica Hecht. I see her in everything lately. She was, uh, uh, uh, Ross's ex-wife's new girlfriend on friends. Um, but she was in something as somebody's mom recently. recently um i think we just finished up and i probably recommendled jessica hecht let's see what she just did oh tokyo vice yeah she was oh Tokyo vice is so good elgort's uh mom in Tokyo vice that show is great that show is real good it is great it is absolutely great

i need to uh i got to keep going though because i'm behind on it but i really like that show new season's great oh wow um well anyway be kidding. Trout says, I can't remember. Is First Night the worst movie ever? I mean, I wouldn't say it's the worst movie. I remember liking it, but I wouldn't call it the worst movie or I wouldn't call it the best movie. How would you even, I don't even know how you say what the worst movie is. It's impossible thing to say anymore. There's too many. Isn't it the room? Can we all agree it's the room? I mean, the room is pretty high up there, but it's also watchable with your friends and you can have a good time with it. So I don't know if that makes it better. or worse, or if that, you know, if that solidifies its position is the worst, I don't know. So it can't, so even having a bunch of friends that watch it with you won't make, like basically it can't even help the worst movie.

So super troopers, for example, or super trooper. Yeah, we could sit and watch that and have a good time, but we can't, nobody can say, that's a good movie, right? Yeah. There's just so many that are bad. And it's so, it personally interpreted that I don't know how you do it. I don't know how you do it. What is the worst film ever made?

Who knows? That's such a... Boy, that is such a tough list to make. Yeah. Coming up on Brian's bonus sack in August. What is... What is the worst movie ever? Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, you know what? We might even have the answer to that in the tone that you're seeking, Brian. It might be... I move Catwoman. It might be Catwoman. Yeah, well, Catwoman's up there, yeah. I hated that movie. Maybe I will do that for my bonus sack.

I'll do, I'll watch Jili. I'll watch, um, Ishtar. I'll watch these movies that are, that are frequently on lists for being the worst films ever, and I'll finally announce a winner. Yeah, let's make it definitive that Brian will finally solve this, this question. But, but it's, you know, other than the room, like, it has to be a movie that has a high enough profile um

had high profile expectations bonfire the vanity is another great example right you had you had all these a list actors and it's based on a beloved book but the movie was just crap so it can't be like this unknown

what was that um not Jean-Claude van dam but uh the other the Swedish dude that was in um Swedish

dude. Retro gray. Retrogris. Oh, retro gray. Yeah. Yeah. E-Man. What's his name? Dolph. Gulf. Golf. Lundgren. Jeez. Dolph. Lundgren. Yeah. So that has to be, that, exactly. Part of being worse is how disappointing it is. No one, yeah. No one expected Madam Webb to be good. But everyone expected bonfire the vanities to be good.

Yeah. Also, I could go outside with my phone and film a dog turd for two hours, just straight. That is the worst film. And then I could say, oh, look, you guys. guys, it's the worst movie ever made. I don't think that should count because it has to be like, there have to be certain rules. Like, you had a production team and you had money to do it. And you, I don't know,

I don't know what the definition is, but you have to, that is actually kind of a fun one off. I think it would be a fun one. And these are all movies that I've avoided because they're known as being the worst. And I don't ever see us watching Ishtar or Bonfire of the Vanities for film sex. So, this will be good.

People start to jump into the Discord into the film sack thing and recommend movies to me that are notoriously bad from high expectations. And I'm going to pick four of the worst and watch those for my bonus sack. Nice. Real quick, there's a list of the top 100 worst movies of all time according to Rotten Tomatoes, and it's all based on scores. Now, these are all zeros. but some are more zero than others, I guess. And are the high profile, though, right? Like high profile movies that are definitely, well, some of them.

Like, for example, number one, the number one worst movie, according to them, is ballistic X versus Sever. X versus Sever, really? Oh, see, that's a great example. Although that one I feel like we would watch for film set. We need to at some point. 2002, it's got Antonio Banderas, Lucy Lou, all those people, Ray Park. Yeah. A recent, let's see, I don't know how recent that is. Left Behind is a third place. That's your, per Cameron deal, right? This is the Nicholas Cage one. Was he not involved on that one? Oh, the Nicholas Cage one. That's right. Yeah, it's supposed to be really bad.

Something Eddie Murphy did called a thousand words in 2012. I don't know what the hell that is, but here's a high profile one. I'm a Leonard Part 6 beyond that list. It should be. It should be. It probably is. I haven't gone down enough. that gaudy movie with John Travolta from 2018 that's on here oh yeah yeah but then again you know I would think that battlefield earth would be higher on the high expectations low low results yeah you'd think so right yeah I would think so TRPW suggests pink flamingos I'm not going to watch divine eat dog shit thank you very much you can recommend that movie all you want I don't I don't think I've, you know, I think that's one movie that I just don't need to see. But I hear that...

Isn't that thing, though, considered cult classic-y, you know, John Waters stuff? Yeah, yeah. It's his whole thing to offend, right? It is his whole thing. I mean, yeah, it is so... It is John Watt... It might be the first, the highest non-mainstream Cry Baby, movie that John Waters ever made.

Well, my pick... Oh, Little Nicky is a good one, too. Yeah, that's a bad movie. Yeah. My pick is staying alive. That had a lot of, you know, Goodwill going up to it. Sylvester Stallone directed it. I mean, what a piece of shit that is.

Did we watch that for Filmsack? I want to pick something we haven't watched for Filmsack. If we did, I blocked it out of my mind because I hate that movie so bad. Well, anyway, there you have it. All right, good. Yeah, it has to be, by the way, when you make these recommendations, has to be something that we haven't watched for FilmSec, and likely wouldn't watch for FilmSec.

I don't want to, I don't want to, um, take food out of our freezer if we've got something to be really good for the guys to watch. Yeah. Battlefield Earth, I found it. 3% on Rotten Tomatoes. Wow, 3%. But we did already watch Battlefield Earth. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we already did. Forrest Whitaker

and John Travolta. Hot piece of shit, that movie. Yeah. I can't believe that's got three much. I'm sure Hudson Hawk is somewhere on that list too, Scott. I know it is. I'm sure it is. Let's see. Hudson. No, I don't think it is. I'm going to guess, all right. Then I'm going to guess 8% on Rotten Tomatoes.

going to be my guess for Hudson Hawk. Hudson Hawk. Let's find out. This is great. Yeah. 31. 31. Yeah. That's not bad. 56% audience, you know, not terrible. No, that's not bad. Free Rangers asks, will Madam Webb be on film sack at some point? And if I have my way, yes, it will.

Oh, hell yeah, it will. That is kind of made for film sack. Yeah, why don't we? Of course we would. We 100% should. Yeah, yeah. We've seen way worse stuff than that. we have and this this has so many laughably bad moments that it's um that it's made for film sac might even be a really good we don't do watchalongs it's been a while since we've done a watch along but yeah be a fun one though um okay real quick i have a call from down under to correct us on we talked

about my state bird being the california seagull oh yeah yeah apparently we've been calling it the wrong thing all the time here's what he says Yeah, good-day Scott and Brian. They're not sea-gulls, they're gulls. They're actually land birds. I'm calling from Melbourne, of course. That's the whole call. That's the entire call.

Oh, really? I thought of it might have been Orlando. Okay, good. So I guess they're just called goals, but here we call them California. I think we call them California Seagulls here, but I think they are California goals. Oh, there's the Wikipedia. California goals from Dr. Calhoun. Interesting, yeah. Yeah.

So we just been saying around. And down here in Australia, they'll kill you. Yeah. Medium-sized goal. We've got 10 varieties that'll take a man's heart out. It says smaller on average than the herring goal, but larger on average than the red billed goal. I don't know what either of those are. It lives not just in California, but up and down the entire west coast of North America and has breeded, or sorry, in breeding ground inland.

The yellow bill has a black rim. is that always true weird so anyway there you go the Pasadena sea chickens there we yeah that's the Utah state bird it's the Pasadena sea chicken and it even says down here contrary to its name the California goal is the state bird of Utah so we all say it wrong here it's like the Ukraine instead of just Ukraine that's what we do we put oh sure we put extra shit in there doesn't belong yeah yeah well well done everybody nicely done let's now dive directly into the big pile known as The News.

Oh shit. I'm in the wrong place. The News. Thanks, Remo, Williams. Hey, the News today is brought to you by who? News, the adventure begins. Brought to you by Trivia for Brian. What's the space between windows called?

I want to make the jokey answer, wall, because between your windows there's a wall. Do you mean between, uh, uh, panes. Between panes of windows. So like if you had, bing, bean,

yeah, let me show you something, by the way. So if I type, you can't see this. Yeah. Except I typed, uh,

there we go. I typed a bad board. Um, and then I go, oh, I'm going to make the, uh, make the text white.

Or I'm going to make the text, or the, the text gray and then I'm going to make things white. No, I'm going to make this the same color. It's only, basically, I,

I saw what you typed in there because when your cursor, when you're... Oh, when I highlight it? When you highlight it, you can see it reverse. But I would not have gotten, what was it, infestration or what is it called? It's called interfenestration. Interfenestration is the term. So I need to move that field. I didn't realize it highlighted for you when I highlighted it.

Yes. But now that I know that you put the answer there, I'm not going to look. I won't, but just don't highlight it. Just don't select it. Yeah, I won't select it. I didn't know that. Interfenestration. Yeah, interfenestration. So somebody says, hey, we need to paint between the windows.

Where? Interfenestration. Yeah. What does that mean? That's between the windows, you say. Yeah. That all makes perfect sense. Between the pains.

Yeah, between the pains. Also, because we don't have a show tomorrow, do you want to say anything about Coverville this week? Or do you want to save that for Thursday? I guess we could do it Thursday. On we can do a Thursday. I was debating on, because I'm not going to do a Coverville one of the next two weeks, and it's either going to be not Thursday or not next Thursday. I think next Thursday makes more sense because that'll be,

I won't ride the day before the MS-150, but I will go on a 25-mile ride two days before the MS-150. So yes, Coverville this week, and I'll tell you right now, it's going to be the 40th anniversary of Purple Rain, Purple Rain. Sweet. Purple Rain, baby. covers of every song from that album. So, Baby I'm a Star, let's go crazy.

I would die for you. So good. Such a great album. Such a landmark, all killer, no filler album. My favorite song on there, my favorite Prince song on there is,

or my favorite Prince song is on there, and it's the beautiful one. Well, let me tell you my favorite thing about Purple Rain, the movie. Prince's character is called The Kid. The kid, yeah.

That's dumb. But also, Morris Day plays a character named Morris. Yeah. Yeah. That's pretty great. Your favorite thing about that movie is in Prince talking with a puppet in the mirror. Oh, that movie, I've forgotten so much about it. We need to watch it because what a weird thing it is.

It's very weird. I think it's an amazing. The soundtrack is like all-timer, right? But that movie's weird. It's a weird movie, dude. Yeah. uh let's get to it though i guess it's there it is right there it's like a weird little uh i could tell it's got a little a little mustache on it yeah yeah it's looking good um all right

let's talk about the story here a crocodile you know crocodiles are mostly australian but they're in other parts of the world too i think yeah uh was terrorizing an australian town so residents decided to take matters in their own hands and they cooked it and they ate it Fair enough. Look, I think, you know what? Yeah. Better, you know, it was him or them, basically. That's right.

So they did it. 11.8 feet of it, they ate. Wow. Remote island, remote Australian community, which is a lot of the communities on the Australian continent, has taken revenge on a massive saltwater, a crocodile by eating the 3.6 meter beast blamed for devouring pets and chasing children. Well, it's better than it's, than the other way around.

For sure, yeah. Have you ever eaten gator? You probably have. Yeah, if Kim's from Mississippi, you probably have had lots of Cajun food when you go down there, if not. The thing is, I never had, I don't think you've ever eaten gator. Well, I had gator down there, but not with her. And then since then, the only gator I've eaten was up here in that gator cheesecake at the Bayou Bar downtown. And it was very good.

It's just got gator meat in it. It is surprisingly yummy. It is. If you're, you know, vegans turn away for a month. moment here but it's a slippery chicken meat is what it is it really is but if you season that stuff upright oh man so good so good highly recommend gator meat we used up a place here called bayou bobs and i don't think they're around anymore but they have really good um cajun food and we'd always get gator bites or whatever they were called um as an appetizer would they like uh what do you

call it um deep fried yeah fried yeah yeah like little hush puppies except they got meat in there in the shape of a bell, a boot, a bar, a ball. What was it? No, bell boot, ball, and... Bell boot Bivdevo. Bell boot beats bears, Battlestar, battle, yeah. Battle cat. I don't know what they...

But all I know is this. There's not enough southern food places around. There needs to be more. I realize we live in the landlocked west. The seafood is going to be weird. I get it, but more of that, please. We can do cradads up here, though. You can grow those like crazy.

Exactly. And, you know, the freezing technology is getting to the point where you can get, well, there's a place here in town called Water Grill in downtown Denver. And I will swear by their clams, their muscles, their oysters as being some of the freshest I've ever had. And I don't know how they can taste this good being in a landlocked state. They ship them in daily or something like that. They must. They must.

Yeah. Little Necks from Oh Catch them in the morning Freezing Some Prince Edward Island Little Necks Oh my gosh

Bring them Bring them on Not the raw ones Oh I can't do it Not the oysters Steamed Yeah give me steam Well oysters raw

But give me some steamed Cleans Give me cooked all of it Can't do raw oysters Man There's boogers on a half shell Oh they're so good You put there

And you know what I did have them one time when we were horking him down in Mississippi on this really cool bar that was out in the middle of a pier in the sound there was awesome. And they put enough of this gooey red stuff on it

that they were actually quite good. But I still felt like I was eating somebody's poker. Probably that cocktail sauce or is something different. It was something different. It wasn't just standard. Well, I don't know. Cajun's the cotton.

Maybe that's all it was was just their version of that, but it was really good. Other than that, though, I can't do it. I just can't think about them. I can look I can pop my eye with a with a needle I can't eat them oysters Fair enough fair enough you know that valid

Valid statement Let's see They decided that the They decided it was a significant risk to the community In this statement the police said the predator had been stalking and lunging out of the water at children and adults And it also reportedly taken multiple community dogs In a waste-conscious move, the crocodiles prepared for a feast in the traditional manner, said police. But not before authorities took the opportunity to give local children an impromptu crocodile safety session,

including an up-close look at the dangers within our waterways. Oh. It was a teachable moment. Kids go up and take a closer look at its teeth or something? That's a good question. It was probably just them going, all right, don't forget. Give it around. Keep your hands.

away from the mouth. Croc meeting? Wait, nope, sorry, wrong island. Croc meeting. It's good. Croc eating? Anyway, it was real good, I guess. Moving on to this story.

Airlines, or American Airlines, I don't like that airline. I've never had a good flight. Yeah, I'll do it if I'm going, I've had to do it, going overseas, but typically I won't do it in domestic flights. And I'm not saying there's any connection to 9-11, but the two airlines, I have the worst time with are American and United. Those are the two I have the worst time with. And they were two, you know, they were involved in that. I would say it has very little to do with the security that got those people on board. No, nothing to do with that, but I wonder, I always wonder

if it's possible that these guys just have some little, you know, thing that just dogs them now. Do you know what I'm saying? It's like being, what's it like? If your name, if your name was, is you're not Ted Bundy, but your name is Ted Bundy? Sure, sure. It's hard to shake that. It's just always back there. If your name is Adolf, if your name is Adolf, you're always going to be haunted by Adolf.

Stigma. There we go. Yeah. Stigma attached to it. Sure. Okay. Yeah. You think that, I feel like maybe it's still there with American.

I feel like United. I feel like Boeing is the company that has stigma attached to it right now. Yeah. Where, like, you can even go on Airfinder and say, here's the flight I want to take. give me the airline that's not using a Boeing jet right now. Yeah, I just always think about it. Maybe it's because the United, so I was on a United flight from New Orleans to Denver and then from Denver to home. And on the leg, or actually he was there the whole time.

He changed planes with us. The entire two-leg flight, we had one of the flight attendant guys that was on one of the planes that hit the towers. Oh, really? And I had the hardest time getting that out of my head. So that's, I think that's, so that's a me problem with United. Like I've assigned a dark thing to that because I, because that guy actually came and gave me a Coke. You know what I mean? Weird, yeah.

And then you remember him. It was like a month later that this thing happened. And he was on that flight. It was awful. Wow. I hated that. Oof. That was my least.

Okay. Yeah, that would be, that would be a sobering reality to have to experience. Okay. Yeah. Very sober. enough. I'm no longer a drunk. I got sober. All right, check this out. A passenger is sued by the FAA.

Hold on. American Airlines passenger is sued, not them suing the FAA, but the FAA is suing this passenger after being duct taped to a seat. This didn't make sense right away, so I had to read into it. Sure. An American Airlines passenger was gagged and bound with duct tape in her seat after being accused of attempting to open the aircraft door mid-flight has been sued by the FAA. for doing what she did.

Heather Wells, age 34, was flying from Dallas to Charlotte, North Carolina, on July 6th, 2021, when she began causing a ruckus in the plane. Oh, I like a good ruckus. Is that the official term? Were they causing a ruckus? I like a ruckus.

It's a good time. Biting and spitting at staff and passengers and allegedly attempting to open the front cabin door. A viral video showed her duct tape to the seat in the aftermath of the incident. The FAA find Wells a record there's a record number, $81,950 in civil penalties. Yeah, that's pretty gnarly.

They say they were, at the time, they were battling a surge of wayward passengers disrupting flights. I remember that being a thing in 2021 or so, like half pandemic, half working our way out of it, weirdos on planes. People got weird. So many weirdos. And you hear the occasional one like Rip Jeansley talking about the lizard people and that sort of thing, you know, a few months ago.

But back then, like, we get further and further away for the pandemic. We forget about banging pots and pans for the medical front line. We forget about, you know, that kind of sense of camarader we kind of had with people a little bit for a short while there, drinking bleach, put the light in, drink, eating the light or something, and then we forget about the passengers who frequently had to be pinned or duct tape or whatever. I remember being happy. I didn't have to fly during any of that time

because I didn't have to see any of that. We fool a lot, and I never encountered anyone like... Yeah, I mean, obviously, you're only getting to hear about the weirdos because that's what makes the news, but... Yeah. I kind of wanted to see it. I wanted to see one happen, but... Never did.

I feel like, maybe we just need to, you know, whatever the plain equivalent of airlocking somebody is. Maybe there's one bathroom that has a door that goes outside that's controlled by the flight staff and you put them in that bathroom and then you just go yeah just vent them yeah give them a parachute and all that stuff have it automatically open we don't want him to die okay Brian wants murder but I want to see them I want to see them land with their pants down in the field somewhere that's what I watch the news Scott every day and I feel like God maybe Thanos was right 50% the problem is what 50% right right right exactly

that's the problem uh all right then you can control the 50% it'd be great yeah that'd be great i don't think we have that option i wish we did here's one of my favorite stories of the week we'll end on this book there's a book about book bans so a book that's about banning books has been banned by a florida school board i love it oh my god i love the i love the headline book about book bans banned by the Florida School Board. That's right. A book about bans have been banned from Florida School District. Banned this book is the name of the book, a children's book written by Alan Gratz, who, you know, grats to him, I guess. Gratz to grats. Yeah, yeah. It will no longer be available in the Indian River County School District since the

school board voted to remove the book last month. His book, which came out in 2017, follows fourth grader Amy Ann Ollinger. As she tries to check out her favorite book, Olinger is told by the library she cannot because it was banned after a classmate's parent thought it was inappropriate. She then creates a secret banned books library entering into a quote unexpected battle over the book banning censorship and who has the right to decide what she and her fellow students can read unquote according to the book's description on his website. It's a peculiar case of life imitating art. Jennifer Pippen, a parent of the coastal community, challenged the book. I mean, the reason I like this story is because Florida, you are the

you're the worst you're the worst florida you really are the worst you're really giving them a run for their money though but florida yeah you're you're you ban a book about book bannings yeah so i'm actually writing a book right now about them banning this book uh yeah let's just keep that yeah no let's keep the circle going i want to see it never end it's a it's a it's a snake eating itself in the truest form but also like okay if your book about banned books what is the inappropriate part of it. Right. Well, the fact I'm sure that they feel like whatever book that she wanted

the character in the book is something that contains something. Oh my God, the kids can't see like a transgender character or a same-sex relationship or... Sure, but if that book, but even if

they don't, even if they state in the children's book, and I don't know if they do, I haven't read it. But if they state the reasons, it's still not a book with the content they're banning. It's them. Right. It's a book about a book with a content they're banning. So if they're trying to sell me... Maybe they just don't like the magnifying glass pointed back at themselves again. Well, I think that's exactly it. But I guess what I'm saying is

if you're trying to convince me that it's a good thing to ban other books due to their content, and then you ban a book without any of that content that just purely challenges the concept of banning. I no longer believe in your altruistic plan to ban, but like that you really have anyone's best interest at heart or that you have, freaking F off, you dicks. Exactly. Big 70s bird, right up your hole. Right up the, and I'll even give you the Wad, you know, the Wad bird.

Yeah, the 80s bird. Look at these. The 80s bird, yeah. Yeah, take those too. Do you have those little free libraries around your neighborhood? We do. We got like a little, what do you call it? I guess that's basically what it is.

Maybe there's a name for it, but yeah, we do have those in there. I don't know what's in there. I never look, but it seems active. People are always putting stuff in. Yeah, people are always putting stuff in. There's like three on one of the bike trails that I go on. And I'm always happy when I see them full of books. And I always think, oh, I need to bring some of my, you know,

I'm not going to bring the Adobe Photoshop 3.2 manual and shove it in there because I'm sure no one's going to need to borrow that one. But I think about some books that I could probably donate there. there was a new story recently about somebody who was going into those and taking all of the books and then they'd go to Barnes & Noble or border I guess borders in a random way but they'd go to Barnes and Noble and try and sell them the books that came from Barnes and Noble and trying to get money for them right right the worst thing you've ever heard it's not just seems like yeah I agree maybe not the worst thing but it's horrible it's a horrible thing it's a horrible thing like stop

everybody stop it like because this here's my thing with when people do this. It will come back around to you eventually. You will eventually be on the other end of this stick. Yes. So why- somebody does something like this to you? Yeah, why are you doing this to yourself? Or whatever precedents you set,

then they can fly right back in your face. And you think you've got... I hate it, dude. It makes me want to throw mud at people. People are dicks. I hate it. All right. There's that.

Let's now take a break. When we come back from this break, Bobby will be here. Yeah, Tuesday science. That's right. we had to swap places with him and Travis yesterday. So today, he'll be here. We'll talk about some kind of cool science.

That's coming right up after this break. Brian, let's play a song before we do. Sure. This is a band called Coastal Club, and I'm thinking maybe we've played something by them before as well. They have a brand new EP that comes out tomorrow, July. I'm sorry, no, comes out next month, July 19th, not June 19th. It's called All of the Things you said.

No, it's not tattoo. It's not that weird Russian duo. This is Coastal Club, and it's all. of the things you said. It comes out July 19th, brand new EP. Big thanks to Clarion Call Media for sending this one. Listen, if you're a fan of Young, the Giant, Passion Pit Vampire Weekend, and I am, you'll probably like this.

Here's the brand new single from Coastal Club. It's called Lost My Head. left me open you knew i was leaving gold shoulder hardly noticed you came to me grieving you're so convincing i think i'm losing it are you tired of leaning Sore shoulder, got it twisted, but you had me believing. I've got it backwards, I think I lost my head. You're so convincing, I think I'm losing it. I nearly lost my head. I nearly lost my head.

You pulled me to the edge Reverberating, what are you waiting for? I feel the pressure buried in things you said. Were you waiting for a change in the balance? You knew something that I didn't know. I've got it backwards. I think I lost my head. We're going circles, handshaken, so convincing you made me feel.

I've got it backwards, I think I lost my head. I got it backwards. I think I lost my head. You're so convincing. I think I'm losing it. I nearly lost my head. I nearly lost my head. You pulled me closer. You pushed me to the edge. Reverberating, what are you waiting for I feel the pressure buried in things you said

If I'm not insane Then the whole thing They'll shatter to pieces pull back the thread and just watch as the fabric unravels you place the blame I lost my brain you placed the blame I nearly lost my brain I nearly lost my brain I nearly lost my lost my head You pull me closer You pushed me to the edge

Reverberating What are you waiting for Was there a motive To all of the things you said All the things you said, you will have no tricky, no vaccine, and no lieutenant, you're This is a spicy Korean condog. And we're back. Hey, Brian, who was that one more time?

Yeah, that's a band who looks like three mustache wearing baristas from your local coffee shop. They're called Coastal Club. Their brand new song, Lost My Head from their EP. all of the things you said, which comes out July 19th. And so much more. Great. Exactly. That should be a staple clip.

I love that you're using it all over the place. It's pretty good. It's your Federigi doing his Federigi things. Oh, it's that guy. Yeah, right before a little bit of parkour. And so much more. And so much more. Oh, man.

I love him. You can change the order of your apps on your home screen and so much more. And I can't wait for Andrew. users to tell us how they've had that for months. Exactly. All right. Let's get Bobby in. Bobbert.

Bobbert, we call him sometimes. His mom does. I don't know who does. Nobody does. Oh, he says nobody does. Remember, he even said his mom doesn't even call him Robert. Why would she? It'd be weird.

All right. Here's his intro right here. Science. Bob is hungry and the soup looks good. It sure does. And Bob is here. known as Bobby to us and to you and I all the way from South Carolina

to join us for a little science talk Bobby welcome back to the show. How are you? I'm doing well. How are you? Oh, I'm great. Look at you all gussied up and ready to rule. Yeah, got the lights turned off in the studio and the Frankenberger studio today. Or something is a little different than usual.

A little darker. Usually we can see the pictures and stuff behind you. You got a little? Yeah, there's this weird art thing hanging from the lamp, so I think I turned it off. for that. Tell me what the weird, what is the weird art thing? I'm interested now.

You can't really see it. I wonder if I can turn, here we go, see that? Oh, look at that. Yeah, that is weird. It's a twisty jellyfish is what it is.

Yeah, so it's, it's kind of like a chandelier. This is for audio-only listeners. It's kind of like a chandelier that was made out of old bottles, like water bottles, and they were like spiral cut down the side so that they make almost like a,

a fat slinky. Oh. That's how like... Slinky is my wrestling finishing, by the way. I like, I like, uh, I like, uh, I like that cut of French fries. The, uh, yeah, that's a really good description of it, actually. They're cut like, um, like, like spiral French fries. Yeah.

Um, but, uh, so do you have the light off? So, do you have the, but all the bottles were, were painted and it was from my daughter's school. It's actually, she just graduated from fifth grade. She's leaving elementary school and, um, the, uh, This through various, it's a long story, but through circumstance, this piece of art that she helped make when she was in kindergarten has followed her from classroom to classroom by accident. So it's been with her the whole time. And then the teacher, her fifth grade teacher, as she was leaving on the very last day of school was also saying, hey, I'm going to, I'm doing something different with the classroom. I don't want this anymore.

Do you and you guys want it? And she said yes. And so it's kind of like a cool artifact of her elementary school. That's awesome. Very cool. So are we off to middle school? school slash junior high now or what's next? Yeah, she's going to be in sixth grade next year.

Oh, see some kids in August. Some kids go, where I grew up, I had, our school was sixth grade, uh, started. Well, no, six, yeah, sixth grade went, went early into junior high, but I think most people was until seventh. For me, it was seventh, eighth and ninth, we're in junior high and we don't have junior high. Yeah, that's interesting because it's all, sixth grade is always middle school around here, but I know some places, some districts in South Carolina that started, that started, starting in fifth grade.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So do you keep the light off to not a trachia? Yeah, right. Yeah, right. You don't want her to. You don't want her to. You want her in there going,

one, two, three, one, two, three. You can't have it. Well, anyway, hey, Bobby, let's lay on thick the science, you know? Yes, get in the brain space. Yeah, let's do it. What'd you bring? Decadent science. Yeah, I was, uh,

I thought I was reading through science news and I saw something really interesting. We're going to talk about it. We're recording this week's episode tonight and I'm going to talk about it on the show. Normally, I try to bring something different here than I do on the main show just because there's a lot of overlap in our listeners. A lot of our listeners come from here. So just trying to give people different things. But this is a really cool thing that I wanted to tell people about because I think it's going to be hard to see. It's a celestial event.

It's a star event. and it's only going to happen for a very short time sometime in the next few months and you need to be aware of it if you're going to be if you're going to want to see it and that is the opportunity to with the naked eye see a stellar nova which is an explosion on a star not just a character in Starcraft

yeah well let me can I ask you let me ask you this question why how come 2024 is such a visual astronomical year we've seen all this stuff isn't that amazing we saw all the aurora borealis like everywhere on earth yeah had a eclipse yeah a total eclipse yeah yeah it's been an embarrassment of riches from space this year sure yeah at least for the u.s right because or at least for north america because um there's total solar eclipse has happened all the time but but not over over uh any particular area so same deal with this one u.s. uh good a good vantage point for this

there's this worldwide phenomenon that we're all going to see no i think it might be, I think it might be hard to see in the southern hemisphere. I'm, I can't say that for sure. I'm really bad at like stargazy type, like finding constellations and how that works. But I think north, northern and southern hemisphere see different stars most of the time, or at least some different ones. Sure. So I don't know. But I know that the constellation where this nova will appear is in a, is in a constellation called the Corona Borealis. And Borealis refers to north um that's why you have the aurora borealis it's the northern lights um but uh so so that makes me think that maybe it's easier to see in the northern hemisphere are and well this this is an

event a cosmic event that actually occurred what tons of light years ago and yeah three thousand years ago is when when what we're going to see actually occurred because it's three thousand light years away okay crazy um crazy yeah yeah but this is an event that happens periodically so So it's a nova. So what a nova is, a supernova we've heard of before, that's when a star, a very massive star, gets late in its life. Not just late in its life, at the end of its life. Because it explodes. The whole thing explodes.

And it's a very dramatic event because the whole star explodes. Now, a nova is not that. A nova is different. It's where an explosion happens, but it's not the whole star exploding. it's usually some sort of like collected layer of gas on the surface of an already dead star like a white dwarf and then it explodes all the gas collects so much enough to cause a thermonuclear explosion all across the surface of the star damn and so it creates a similarly bright event but it can happen more than once in fact this one that we could see we should be able to see some time within the next few months happens once about every 80 years.

And so it is kind of a once-in-a-lifetime event, but it does happen periodically. And they've said it's been being observed at least for about 800 years. Well, let me ask you this question. How do we know this, given that it hasn't reached us yet? How are we seeing it? How are we detecting it, I guess? before we see it. Well, the way we detected is through x-ray,

so we can see it. Well, so you're wondering, so you've got to wonder, have we been able to see it for 800 years, and then how do we see it now, and how do we know more about it now? The way we see it now will be with, like, x-ray telescopes,

because, and with visible light. The Nova itself is visible, but the way we know more about it and what type of star it is when it's not, you know, able to be seen with the visible, with the naked eye, is through x-ray telescopes. Let me tell you a little bit about what's going on with this star. So the star is a white dwarf star. It's in the Corona Borealis constellation.

That's called the Northern Crown, I think. I did a lot of looking, because I'd never heard of the Northern Crown. Me either. I think stargazing officinados, people who like to do a lot of stargazing and know a lot about constellations, probably have heard of this one because it's not uncommon. It's a B tier, maybe C tier constellation. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It ain't your Ursa Major, let's just put it that way.

Yeah, it's no Orion, that's for sure. That's right, exactly. But it's the Northern Crown. It's near, it's right next to Hercules, which is another, I'd say that's a B tier, maybe Northern Crown is C tier. But if you look up online, you can easily look up Northern Crown and figure out how to find it. It's not hard to find.

I was able to find it. But it's just not one that you normally look for. But it's out there. You look for it. And one of the stars, there's a star in that constellation that you normally can't see at all. The Northern Crown is usually pretty difficult to see if you live in a place with a lot of light pollution. It's not super bright. But this particular star that's in it, even if you live in a place where it's easy to see,

the constellation is easy to see this star you can't see because it's a white dwarf it's called T CRB or T Corona Borealis What a white dwarf is is it's a star that is basically a dead star

So a star we know is what it does and how it powers itself is through nuclear fusion in its core right? That's what makes a star you know, bright and you can see it. And that's what our son is doing.

Did you like to know how my stupid brain works when you say white dwarf? Here's how, this is what happens. When you say white dwarf, I think Peter Dinklage. That's all I can think of. And I'm not kidding, by the way. Like when someone says white dwarf, I think of Peter Dinklage. It's just, yeah. And then when somebody says, Red Dwarf, do you think of that scene in Elf when Peter Dinklage is really angry at Will Ferrell? climbing across the table oh man that's such a great scene I always forget that yeah you can't help but visualize I always forget that or not a fantasia the hyper fantasia

I always forget that's dinklage always I don't know why I just do but anyway uh no so so what we're but I guess my bigger question is how do we know it's from 3000 like I guess this is maybe too big of a question about how we measure things now and stuff like it's probably Well, that's just from a lot of careful measurements and what we know about how fast light travels and the red shit. Yeah, triangulate how far something is away by

when the Earth is in its orbit and say, okay, it's here when we view it from this part of our orbit. And then as we move to a different part around the sun, oh, now we can see it from here, so that means it's this far away. Sure, that would be one way you could measure how far away it is. I mean, that's how I would do it.

that's that's one way a pleb would measure it a pleb sure sure with my with my rudimentary giant telescope and well the the challenge with that is that you you could measure the angle like you said but the challenge is that if it's 3,000 light years away you could probably observe it over the course of several years and it still will look to be in the same place in the sky because it's so far away yeah that's true sure sure but so the way we measure those things is through measuring red

shift of light. We know a lot about how light shifts and stretches out as it travels through space and time. And so we can measure the red shift of any particular star and compare it to other ones and all this kind of stuff. And that can tell us a lot about how far away it is. Interesting. And so the math behind that is very technical and I don't understand most of it. So that's as much as I understand is that they can tell how far away something is because it's very measurable and happens the same all the time how much light shifts in the visible spectrum or even the not visible spectrum as it travels through space. Man, the language of red shift. Listen to this. In physics, a red shift is an increase in the wavelength and corresponding decrease in the frequency in photon energy of

electromagnetic radiation such as light, the opposite of change. A decrease in wavelength and increase in frequency and energy is known as blue shift. Good Lord. Is there a brown shift? There is let's see, is it in the scale? No, there's no brown in this shift. No, but we got some purple. We got some yellow, green. Yeah, it's a, it's a spectrum. Like light itself is a bit of a spectrum, you know?

Yeah, it's a spectrum. It's literally a spectrum, not even a bit of one. Well, that's interesting. So how do you recommend, like, watching this stuff? Like, can we... So what you need to do is you need to find out where this constellation is, and you need to find it in sky. that's the first step and then and you can Google all this there's you won't be able to see it

right now unless it happens tonight but but NASA thinks that sometime between now and September is when you'll be able to see it and it's it'll only last for a few days in fact NASA is is you want citizen science astronomy people to help them identify as quickly as they can you know we can point a whole tell we don't have that many powerful telescopes so I'm assuming they're not just going to point a telescope at that spot for the next four months, you know, waiting for it to happen. So they're hoping people will help them, I don't know, because they can study what's happening when it happens. Because the white dwarf, like I said, it's at the end of its life, right? A star, like the size of our stunt, our sun will eventually turn into a white dwarf.

After it's spent all the fuel inside of the star and all the hydrogen has fused into helium. and then it turns into a red giant and it puffs out all of its outer atmosphere and then there's no more fusion happening. What you have is a ton of helium and carbon and some other stuff, but a ton of heavier elements that have been fused together and they're just as densely packed as they can possibly be. In fact, physics doesn't allow them to be packed any denser, but they're not massive enough to continue to fuse. So it's just this big block, this big sphere of densely packed material. It's very hot because it's been undergoing nuclear fusion for millions of years, hundreds of millions of years. But the red dwarf, the state of the red dwarf is usually, is that just gravity holding what's left together?

Like, that's all that is, right? We didn't have gravity. Sort of. Well, a red dwarf is still, it's just puffed out. It's actually interesting how that phase happens, because our society. turn into a red dwarf. So gravity wants to pull all the material from a star together, right? And it would smash it all down into like a white dwarf right now if it could.

But what's preventing that from happening is the energy of the fusion from inside. As the fusion reactions are happening inside the core, all that energy is pushing outward while the gravity is pulling inward and it creates an equilibrium. that makes the star the size that it is. But that's why a white dwarf becomes a white dwarf is because once it runs out, no more of that outward fusion pressure is happening, so all of it gets collapsed in.

But before that happens, well, the core will start to stop fusing, but there will be a shell of hydrogen around the helium core that is still fusing. And because that shell is technically volume-wise, is it's technically larger than the core was because it's only, it's happening now on the outside of the core. It causes a larger, it causes more pressure

and it causes the star to puff up more. Weird. But eventually that doesn't happen. Now, this star is, this white dwarf, which has passed all of these phases, is actually in a binary system with a red giant. I mean, that's why this periodic, Nova happens is because this white dwarf, which is about the size of the earth, but has the mass of the sun, is pooling material from its neighboring red dwarf and sucking it onto the surface of the white dwarf.

And then eventually it pulls in enough material, about every 80 years, it finally pulls in enough material onto the surface of it that it gets packed down and then causes a thermonuclear explosion, which causes. causes it to be super bright for about a week. Is there any chance that this white dwarf was previously a sun and a habitable system, like a life-bearing system? I don't mean like humans, but, you know, like there may have been plant-lives. I think from what I understand, it's not likely that of a habitable planet. That's my favorite word, by the way, habitable. Habitable.

It's fun. It's just fun to say. But it's not likely that a habitable planet can live. in a binary system. I think I've heard that before. Don't, I don't know if that's, I'd have to do research on that to be no for sure, but I think I've heard that before

because of the forces between the two stars. Yeah. Becomes a three body problem there. Yeah, dude. But I think all the planets that might have been in there get flung away or something like that because of the interacting forces and stuff like that. Whenever they show two sons

in a science fiction movie or something, I always, that's an eye roll moment for me because I just don't think you can, I think there's just too much at play there. You've got these two gigantic energy sources in the same system. Like how are you, how do you have a planet full of people?

Just end up with a desert planet basically is, with some power evaporators or moisture evaporators. Sure. I think we should evaporate some powder as well. I like that. It's nothing wrong with that. yeah you know what I'm saying if you spot this new star

what'll happen is it'll be a new star that appears in that constellation that's how you'll know and like I said you look up online you'll be able to identify it even if you're not watching it day after day and don't suddenly see oh there's a new star that's how people 800 years ago realized something interesting was happening by the way

they just saw a new star and that's why they're called Nova Nova, Nova means new and so anyway if you see it and you can spot it You can look at it with some binoculars, maybe with the naked eye, depending on the light level in your area. But if you can spot it, then you're looking at something that is, it's a thermonuclear explosion that's happening 3,000 or happened 3,000 light years away. Yeah, for a little context that was the beginning of the bronze age when this would have happened or happened.

So, you know, it just gives you some perspective. Yeah, about how long ago this actually happened. Yeah, I mean, at least humans are around, so, you know, there's that. Have there been any discoveries of binary stars that have satellites around them, like, you know, planets orbiting? And do they, you know, does it, does the orbit then change almost like a, I don't want to say figure 8, but kind of like an elongated ellipse around both stars? Yeah, I don't know. I'm not sure. I don't think it would work that way because binary star systems don't probably

form together. Right. Okay. Oh, okay. Gotcha. So one or both of the star systems or stars come close to each other and then start orbiting each other.

And so that's why I think I've heard that they, that if they do have planets with them, they don't last very long because they'll crash right into it. Well, not even that because there's a lot of space there. They might never crash into each other. but two star systems might have each of their own planets and then they come into close enough together to start orbiting each other and all the forces involved in that probably just fling planets all over the place and they probably just get shut out in fact I think that's where a lot of people you've heard of rogue planets before sure I think that's the thought about rogue planets or that's one of the hypotheses anyways that rogue planets are the result of of star systems or two stars two star systems or stars coming together where at least one of the of them has planets and they just get flung out of the system. Or it could even be, you know, with a star that does go white dwarf, you know, and a far-way, far enough planet that loses some of that gravitational pull

and then that planet just kind of veers off into space. Yeah. Bob, you've been messed around with, um, uh, it's a called, I think it's called Universe Simulator 2, 1 and 2. You play with those games at all? I haven't really, I think you've recommended it to me before and I just haven't gotten to it yet, but, um, you should give that a shot. super interesting yeah all the all the math in it all the all the basis of it is is set in like known physics and so

when you do things like what if the moon was 25% larger what would that do and then you can set the you know set the universe back into motion after you've made this change and it's always wild what ends up happening it's stuff you don't expect like the moon didn't crash into the earth but it changed just enough to the earth's uh own orbit that it ended up pulling away from the sun little bit and got froze and killed almost everybody and if you're on the wrong side of the planet you're all dead like stuff like that it's really interesting it just sounds like something you might enjoy fiddling with so it's a trip i think i would or shooting like a grain of sand speed of light at the earth or something yeah oh yeah that stuff's cool you can do all those things yeah it's rad

you can also just introduce like a new planet you're like okay well between saturn and freaking pluto we're just going to plop a a thing out here and we're going to call it larry and then we're just going to stick it out in the middle of nowhere and just see what it does yeah we just see what it does we pick a point where we know it's it's not like it's frozen there it's part of you know it's in whatever orbit it would be in if you put it there and then just chaos occurs it's like you forget you forget what a delicate balance this all is because if you introduce something weird like that you would just it the whole thing's effed you know and we're done i did google real fast just now if a binary star system

could support planets and stuff like that and apparently the thought is that yes they can and it's thought that it's possible that there's a percentage of binary star systems that are capable of supporting habitable planets now whether or not those actually

exist is another thing but yeah because you think of I mean I think of tattooing and the twin sons and I always thought all right well there's going to be a time in that orbit when those sons aren't sitting right next to each other Luke like how do you do you go between them Do you go around both of them as a pair? Yeah.

Yeah, because if one's or, if one sun is orbiting the other sun, one of them typically larger than the other orbits around that and then you've got a planet orbiting around those. Way older, way, way older than the TV show, by the way. Like 1700s or something was the first talk about this. Yeah. Well, it's interesting. I love this stuff.

It is. It's really fascinating stuff. Yeah. So watch for it. Come in soon. You're going to have some visuals, everybody. Yeah, I'm sure when it pops up in the news, I'll at least mention it again, but yeah, I thought people would be interested in seeing. I think it's really cool to, it might just look like a spot of light, but just knowing that that's this like periodic explosion from a white dwarf stealing stuff from its neighboring red dwarf is kind of neat, or a red giant is kind of neat to think about.

Right. I didn't know Dr. Calhoun put in here a link, but I didn't know that the Alpha Centauri system has three sons. I didn't know that either. Yeah, it's a triple star system. Yeah, that's wild. I had no idea. And I've played Alpha Centari, the video game. I don't remember it having three.

I played Alpha Centauri. I don't remember the game having three sons, but maybe I just don't remember. That's amazing. That's awesome. All right. Everybody needs to go to all around science.com or wherever you get your podcasts and find that show and listen to it because Bobby and his co-host are amazing. and they tell you cool stuff so go check it out bobby anything else you want to mention um no i think we covered it all um just check out the podcast that's uh that's you got it for me well good and thank you

for uh being flexible this week and being willing to come on today that was oh yeah no problem i was i've been on tuesdays in the past that's when i used to be yeah i've been on thursdays i've been on mondays yeah still no wednesday i mean you filled in for me on probably every day of the week and a wednesday yeah that's right we've had i mean the couch here has a a Bobby-shaped butt on Tuesday. So you fit in just nice. Bobby, have a fantastic week. And may all your stellar events be large.

All right, bye. Well, there he goes. That's it for him. A quick note that today we have, we have to make this mention. No show tomorrow. Happy Juneteenth, everybody. We're honoring the national holiday.

It's federal holiday. Also, no DTNS either. I will not be on that because they are also not having shows tomorrow. Oh, look that. Okay. So we'll not. well, not to be around for the show. But we'll be back Thursday.

We got all kinds of stuff to bring you on Thursday. So don't you worry your little heads. Yeah. Wendy will be here Thursday. She'll solve somebody's problem and and we'll be all fine and good with the world. That's right. Go to Vegas on Friday and create some of my own new problems.

All the new problems coming this weekend in Nevada. I'm excited for you because, I don't know, it just sounds like a cool concert. Yeah, it's going to be a good show. And, you know, doing TMS Vegas, I have a great time seeing everybody, of course, and have a really good time out there. But I never feel like I've got free time to just do something I want to do while I'm out there. And so I'm going to have a little bit of that.

I'll actually have a little bit of solo time for part of that. A little pool time, dude, go around the, if they have a little river. Did not get any of that before, yeah. Yeah, we never get that stuff on Vegas, TMS. Anyway, watch for that. Also, oh, a quick note, if anybody. out there ordered the leftover swag stuff that I sent out. It's all been shipped and all of you've gotten your tracking and everything. But if any of you, we had one person get the mug and they were

missing the other stuff, we have no idea why. We think we just had one box where for whatever reason it didn't get thrown in there and we thought we checked and it didn't happen. So we've only had this happen once. No big deal. We send him out and got make sure he's covered. But if any of you run into that, we please let me know so we can fix you up ASAP because I'm pretty sure. I still think it was just the one dude, but if any of you have this problem, please let me know and Kim and I will take care of it. All right, that's it. Frogpants.com slash TMS for all your needs. That's going to do it. Brian, let's play some smusick on our way out. Some smews. Yeah, this is going out to our friend, Amy. She says, hello friends. She says just like that. It's your pal red fragled

requesting the song for my sweetie and a person, Chuck, Chuck Amy's person. His birthday is June 18th. Happy birthday, Chuck. You should go out on a bike parade today. And I'd love it if you could play a cool cover of Holiday in Spain by Counting Crows. In lieu of that, any Counting Crows cover will do. Happy birthday, Chuck. You're my favorite. Thanks. Bye. You can almost hear saying it, right? That's weird. How easy. Both of those things you say that she says. Congratulations. I don't know why that play. But that just absolutely sounded like her. That's weird. It really did. So I don't know if Anaton is in the chat today, but happy birthday, Chuck,

and hope you guys have a wonderful day. All right, Holiday in Spain, a great Counting Crows song, and believe it or not, I actually do have a cover of it. This comes from a 2004 tribute to the County Crows called Dead and Dreaming.

A bunch of different artists collaborated to record some songs for this one, and number one fan drew the straw that said, Holiday in Spain. It's close to the original, but they do change up some elements in there. They keep it a little bit more, or instead of the build that you get with the Counting Crows version,

number one fan kind of keeps it mellow throughout, stripped down throughout. Here is Holiday in Spain by number one fan. Awesome. We'll be back Thursday with Wendy. And so much more. Come on back then, everybody. We'll see you then.

I got no place to go, but there's a girl waiting for me down in Mexico. Got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin. If I bring a little music, I could fit right in. We got airplay rides, we got California turning up the window side. We got big black cars and we got stories how we slept with all the movie stars are made Take a holiday in Spain Leave my wings behind me Drink my worries down the train

Fly away to somewhere new Hop on my tutu'll be your engine driver in a bunny suit If you dress me up in pink and white But maybe just a little fuzzy by it later tonight Well, she's my angel, she's a little better than the one that used to be with me Because she'd like to scream at me Man, it's a miracle that she's no living up in tree I may take a holiday in Spain

Leave my ways behind me Drive this little girl insane Fly away some like there Everybody's gone They left the television screaming That the radio's on But someone stole my shoes But there's a couple of bananas

And a bottle of booze Oh Happy New Year's baby We can probably fix it if we clean it up all day We could simply pack our bags And catch a plane to Barcelona Because the city's a drive I may

Take a holiday in Spain Leave my wings behind me Fush my worries down the train Fly away is someone new Take a holiday in Spain Leave my wings behind me Drop this little girl insane I fly away to someone here.

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