The Morning Stream - TMS 2665: What the FORK is that

Episode Date: June 25, 2024

Bakatakatikabadaka. Starts Latka, Ends Watto. Hand Pulling My Noodle. Space Avatar Tyler Mephistopheles. Big-Eyed Girl Genre. If I'm talking, I'm Podcasting. Genessee Degeneracy. Choked On Cheese Stick. Isn't there a film called something Sack? Barry can roll my dice. Benign Sporting Goods Tumor. Terminal One in the Pink. Raccoon Paul's Drag Race. Popping Cherries. Dan Says The 'F' Word With Dan and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If we could understand dogs, I'll bet when they bark, they're all saying, join the TMS Patreon over and over. Do what your dog says at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, Bacadakadda, but the goddha, starts Latka, ends Wado. Hand pulling my noodle. Space Avatar Tyler Milamest, Memphis, I'll fix that post. Very good.

Big guy and girl genre. If I'm talking, I'm podcasting. Genesee Degenerency. Choked on a. cheese stick. Isn't there a film called Something Sack? Barry can roll my dice. Benign Sporting Goods tumor.

Terminal 1 in the pink. Raccoon Paul's drag race. Popping cherries. Dan says the F word with Dan and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Mashed potatoes and a special treat for them. Chocolate layer cake pills. Moma, I'm worried about our children. Nothing like a good old burnt marshmallow.

The morning stream. They wouldn't give us any more fish. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Tuesday, June 25th, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson. with Brian Ibit. Hi, Brian. Hello, Scott. Still live here in Las Vegas.

Yeah. Live in Vegas. Let's sound a little more tired. I feel like a little more tired. I don't know. We went to Boulder City last night, hung out with James and Svet from Same Sex Mary. Me and Barry went out there and played trivia. And then they took us to some of their favorite places in Boulder City to have a few drinks. So we hung out with all of them. How late of a night? would you say you had it was a one o'clock in the morning kind of night it's not too bit that's not

too bad here he's back here at about midnight and i think i finally fell back or fell asleep but uh at about one do you sleep okay i mean i know yesterday you said that that bed's really good that this bed is is fantastic but uh yeah i wanted to i think i was really trying to finish the season of um so Silicon valley that i've been binging yeah so so it stayed up a little bit more but yeah, no, it's been great. And Barry, so we went out also with Mitzula. Mitzula took us around, took us to Shang noodles, which is the best noodles you can get in Las Vegas.

It needs to be, we need to actually make a, figure out a way to make a pilgrimage there during TMS Vegas. The problem is, is that they are so popular. They open at 11 o'clock, and when you get there at 11 o'clock, there is already a line of people waiting to get in. and by 1115, the place is full, and according to Mitzula, it will stay full for the entire rest of the day. They're that good. They're like hand-pulled noodles or hand, you know, what do they call the knife, the ones where they have the thing of dough, and they just go,

ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch. Oh, I don't know what that's called. Is that a guy that has a name? That has a name, yeah. And incredible, just like, you know, soups and chocolate. Mains and saucy noodles and stuff. I had Dan Dan, not the Tabletop Man, but just Dan Dan noodles, which they make with a lot of spice, and they're not kidding.

It's the only thing on the menu that's got a little chili pepper next to the name, and they are not kidding about its spice level, but it's very, very good. So do they, are they over in that Asia Town area? Yeah, it is okay. That place is amazing. Holy crap. It really is. And they've actually got two locations now.

They've added a second one because of the popularity. They added one to Durango Casino, which was another place that Mitsula took us to, where we got to see this brand, a casino that's been open for a year. That's part of the station group. And way off-strip, probably about 20 minutes off-strip. But one of these places where you've got all the amenities, you know, a lot of restaurants. I don't think this one had a bowling alley or a movie theater

but two of the ones he took us to had bowling alleys and movie theaters and they try to be these all in one thing so that you don't have a reason to go to the strip and yeah and it's pretty pretty nice but the Orleans tries to do that with their movie theater and their whatnot over there but the Orleans is also kind of gross

so I don't hang out there right now. It's still kind of gross yeah Orleans Orleans is old and it shows its age very very well also went to South Point and to Silverton Silverton was really nice. They've got a bass pro shops in the

casino, a full size bass pro shops. I guess it's more like a giant sporting goods tumor stuck on the side of the casino, but it's massive. They also have a mermaid lounge where they've got a giant tank full of fish

and on weekends they have mermaids that swim around in the tank with the fish and they dive down there's little hidden tubes and stuff where they can reget replenish their air and uh so they you know they swim down and wave to the people drinking and then go down and get some air and then keep on swimming around and do you see them do you see them get air or do they do that kind of off never uh but zula says that they they do it very stealthily they're very good about about not making it obvious that they're down there getting air yeah that makes sense i guess uh yeah but they didn't have the mermaids out when we were there on

unfortunately, I really wanted to see him. Did they have the topless, or did he say? I'm just curious. We saw photos, and they're fully, well, I mean, not fully clothed, but they're, you know, like bikini top, probably with seashells and then a, and then the mermaid tail like Stephanie and a Pets used to make. Yeah, and they all saying, I want to be where the people are. That's what they do. That's right. And none of them have any idea what a fork is.

You'll sit in the bar, you're like, oh, hold on, waiter, you brought me my spaghetti, but you didn't bring me a fork. And they'll, like, they'll be pressed on the glass like, what's that magical thing next to your... They've never, they've never seen anything quite like it. It's really, really something to them, you know? It really is. It really is. But while we're at one of these casinos, I think it was South Point. Barry, you know, we decided to sit down at one of these new weird tables.

So they've got these new craps tables. They had one at Harrah's, and they've had one at Harrah's, and they've had. had them scattered around the few places we go. And you know how a typical craps table? You've got, you know, the felt on the bottom with all the stuff printed on it. Yeah. And everybody stands around it, and then they've got their chips, and they put the chips on the felt, and tell the dealer, like, all right, put, you know, lay this on five, or give me a come bed, or give me a field bed, or whatever.

and that's how regular craps tables work. These are the same size as regular craps table, but they each have their own individual screen in front of them, but they still have, instead of felt, they have a huge video screen, and the video screen has all the markers that are normally on the felt, but they can put graphics and stuff behind it, and they also, once you actually physically roll the dice,

because you still do roll the dice, the dealer inputs the number that's on there, and then it shows up, and it lights up all the things that pay off with that number, both on the big video screen and then on the individual video screen in front of you where you make your bets. So instead of you giving chips to the dealer

and saying, put it on that or give me that, you're touch-padding everything and entering it in on your own. Interesting. Which is kind of cool. There's a little, and there's still the excitement, You've got those other craps machines where there's a giant pop-a-matic trouble in the middle with one paradise that just bounce up and down. Those you never really like feel any sort of sense of camaraderie with the other players around the table.

At least with this, you know, you're cheering. The whole table is cheering when everybody's winning, when you're rolling dice really well, that sort of thing. It also gives you the ability to enter in your own name or whatever you want to choose as your name. oh boy here we go yeah yeah so we had um things like um like uh fart gas yeah um perfect something something sac oh a film sack uh something something sack uh something something something sack i was trying to remember i thought it was something a little bit more i don't think it was film sack it was something um madzula put in but we're we keep changing our names and then we'd you know because that's so slow because you're waiting for everybody

to enter in their bets before you can roll the dice again. We've actually got some time in between each roll to, like, enter goofy names and then look and see what we all put in there. Barry, of course, did cork, dork. I did. All right, so after a certain number of roles, the background changes from the green felt to outer space or fire, depending on if the shooter's doing really well. So it looks like fire with all of the numbers and things printed behind it.

or it looks like you're flying through space. Or if you go far enough, it looks like you've arrived at a big pink nebula. Like a pink crab nebula. A brand new location somewhere in vast, the vast galaxy you've arrived there. Exactly, exactly. So I thought, well, that would be pretty funny.

And I entered in in the pink because, you know, we're now in the pink nebula. Well, the first time we ever saw this, And we got a message on my screen that says, the dealer has rejected your name. Changes right back to Terminal 1. Wow. So is the dealer like right there? Like he's a guy.

Yeah, the dealer's right there. Okay. And instead of a typical craps tail, you need to have three guys, right? Four people. You've got someone managing the chips, the one person on either side who are checking everybody's bets for the six people that would be around that curve. And then another guy who's the stickman who controls the dice and passes them to the person who's rolling and collects stuff. I don't know why this is so surprising to me. I didn't expect the group effort.

I thought I would just take a dude and you'd be done. Oh, yeah. No, it takes a village to run a craps table. Wow. On this one, though, the stickman, you just need one person because the money is all done automatically. You just need a guy there to use the wooden stick to pull the dice over to whoever is supposed to be throwing them. Right. And the pop-a-matic dice are not in this case, as you said.

So are you manually rolling dice? Yeah, yeah. Okay, so it's manual dice. You're physically rolling dice, which is nice. I like doing that better than the pop-a-matic trouble where you're just pushing a button and it's bo-b-b-b-bh-bh-bh-bh-bh-bh-and doing the bets for you. Sure, sure. So it's, so it just requires fewer people to manage,

and they can probably put these machine or these giant craps tables in, and have a smaller staff to be able to manage them. So we started playing this for a little bit, and Barry goes on a freaking heater. He, we count, well, they show you how many rolls you're currently up, and they show you all your past roles. He rolled 53 times before he finally sevened out. Oh, my.

Which is, for anybody who plays craps, they should know that, I mean, they know that that is a massive undertaking. That is basically there's another bet you can make on the craps table that says hot shooter. And the top number is if you bet a dollar on it and they make it 50 rolls, you automatically get $100. Neither of us put any money on that because we had no idea this would happen. But, yeah, Barry completely ran the table for a long time and made us all some money, which was very good. Not bad for a big tall wine-drinking dude, yeah, that's amazing. That's wonderful.

Yeah, so good on him. And one more quick thing. I forgot to talk about this dude that we met. We went to a place called Happy Camper, which they just added to the fashion show mall, but it's on the outside facing the strip. And it is an indoor-outdoor bar that's kind of really done up like a foofy garden party with a lot of fake foliage and lights, you know, string lights and things like that. Yeah.

They've got some really good pizzas. We had a couple of those, and they were fantastic. And a nice bar. Barry and I decided to sit at that bar, get a couple drinks, order some pizzas, and take him back. After we take our leftovers back to Chris Brown and Kooch, who decided to stay back at the hotel. Sure. While we're sitting there, the open seat next to Barry gets filled up by a guy who is focused on us. We are his two new friends.

and he's drunk I would say he's he's buzzed he's maybe tipsy but he is so focused on us and it's a little bit loud in there I have a hard time hearing him over the music but I swear to God he was talking like

Lottgo and Lottgo would on taxi would go into his full weird tapatitapatatat da really kind of talking now Barry says well I understood a few of the words he was saying he was speaking english yeah and i was like did he have a really thick accent and what he would do

is he would he would go and he's like but he could get that the little growly and then he'd start laughing because whatever he said was so funny so it'd be ah te cut up but that the way oh i love this guy i don't even know who he is i love him he he was so excited he wanted to talk about all the girls around the bar. He showed Barry video of his, uh, his hotel room at Trump Tower because he was so, he was so like, oh, it's so technologically advanced because, and he's showing us the video screen or the TV actually says, good morning, Tyler. And it knows my name and it actually says, good morning Tyler. It's like, wow, that's, um, some high tech. That's some real cyber there, dude. Yeah, I've been, I've been to a couple of, uh, local days ends that do that, so. Yeah, exactly.

Not that impressive. He seemed, but man, when a guy's that stoked, it's hard to yuck his yum, right? Like, he's just that's like. It's hard to yuck as numb or yuck is yum. And we were really trying to be polite to him, but also, you know, doing responses that anyone should be able to pick up on is like, oh, yeah, no, that's really cool. All right. Well, hey, it was a great meeting you, man. You would kind of take that as a closer.

But then he would just come right back with, ah. Wow. So did he ever leave? Did you have to leave? How did that work out? He eventually left, and we watched him kind of go to another part of the bar and find another table full of people and just kind of latch on to them. And the bartender comes over to us, and she's like, yeah, I know he's acting all chummy with me. This is the first time I've ever seen this guy, but he's acting like he, you know, like he sees me here all the time.

I've never seen this guy before in my life. and um we we just kind of watch this guy disappear so we're like all right well cool we got our pizza we paid our bill uh we have a little bit of our drinks to finish up and barry says i'm going to the bathroom runs to the bathroom and sure enough there's the dude uh waiting in line for the bathroom that again starts talking barry's ear off and barry's like oh yeah okay cool well you know going into the bathroom now so i guess this is you know cuts us right off here bye see you yeah goes in goes to the bathroom comes back out the guys He's gone. It's like, great. Okay, cool. So he comes back. We finish our drinks, and then I feel something, you know, somebody sitting down next to me, kind of bumping into my arm. And I basically just, you know, automatically go, oh, sorry, here, let me give you some more. Oh, hey, it's you.

It's Latka again It's Latka again Still don't understand He's right next to me I still don't understand The word he's saying So I'm like uh huh yeah That's cool

Oh yeah No that's great All right well we're just leaving We'll see you later Grab our leftover pizza Swig the last bit of our drinks down And walk the heck out

Oh I was afraid this was gonna end with He's your Uber driver Or something like that Yeah I know right Oh God Yeah no we That was the longest time We spent outside walking

But it was 10 o'clock at night and it was like maybe 90 degrees it was like all right this is this is kind of this is kind of okay yeah it's doable when the sun's down you can do that it is for sure yeah still still a little sweaty when you get back but still a little sweaty

but hey that you get back in that air conditioning it's like all is forgotten I love that you're just your name for this guy is Trump Tower dude I like that yeah I guess his name was Tyler but he told Barry his name was something else and it was some weird like Mephistopheles or, okay, was it introducing himself as the devil,

but it was some weird, like, weird little space avatar name kind of thing. Yeah, well, that's great. You made a new friend, Brian. Made a new friend, and boy, I hope, so glad we moved away from that part of the strip. Are you glad you didn't exchange numbers or, you know, tap your phones or any of that shit? Did not. And didn't even say, like, if he asked Barry what we did, I don't even know if Barry said that I'm a podcaster.

Just because it's like, yeah, let's not even introduce some way for this guy to get in contact with me ever again. Oh, my gosh. Imagine him in the chat today. That would be something. You would see him in chat going. I have to admit, the whole not up being able to understand is a whole separate problem. But there's something about people who start. here and then end up

there's something about that that's very endearing. I don't know what it is. It's like he was cracking himself up, but he really had to finish this last little bit before he started laughing. Yeah. It's a very specific kind of mannerism that I always appreciate and enjoy in the moment. But I think I would have been like you

super nice to him while he's there. Yes, exactly. All right, well, I got to take a dump. I'll see you later. Yep, my cues will slowly, I'll start with a oh, that's cool. And then I'll turn to start talking to Barry again. If that doesn't work, it's like, oh, yeah, no kidding.

All right, well, nice chatting with you, and then I'll start talking to Barry. And my cues will get less and less subtle over time until it's finally like, okay, been great. Bye. Bye. See you. Go away.

Actually, you don't even want to say see you later or see you because he'll take that as I'll meet you by the bathroom or whatever, you know. He'll take that. Yeah, exactly. It's like, oh, we'll see you later. Bye-bye. Well, you got one more hot night in Vegas. No, I don't.

I'm flying out in a couple hours ago. Oh, I thought you left. Oh, no, I guess that's right, because you're back for the show tomorrow morning. I'm back for the show tomorrow morning. So back to normal and back to my bike, which I miss so much. I've been biking every morning at the stationary bikes and the hotels. And this morning, the only bike that was available was one that wasn't plugged into anything. But it was one where as long as you were peddling, it would give you like a speed and a time.

thing. So the plug was sitting on the floor, which I think just meant that it wasn't synchronizing with anything or showing you TV. It doesn't matter. Put my iPad up there. But yeah, I'm ready to, I'm ready to be back on my own bike and get back on track for the ride in a couple days. Yeah, you're coming up real quick, man. Real quick. It is. Yeah. Well, we got a couple of quick guesses as to your dream girl, movie girl. Okay. TV girl. All right. We're going to get through these real quick here. Mark from Sydney, Australia. wrote in and says, Dear Scott and Brian, regarding Brian's Mystery Dream Girl, the first actress

that comes to mind when he mentioned the similarities to Wendy Malick and Alina Douglas. Oh, Ileana. Ilya. Ilya? There we go. Yeah. I have a neighbor named Ileana. I should know that. It's a pretty name. You know Ileana Douglas if you start. She has really big eyes. She was very striking

features, and she was on a lot of sitcoms in the 80s. I want to say she was on Matt about you maybe. Oh, I know who that is then. Yeah. Okay. By the way, Big-eyed girls are way in right now. Everybody loves that genre girl. They're all over the place. Anyway, similar in age and appearance,

failing that, the other name that came to mind was Shawnee Smith, who definitely gives off that clueless vibe in some of her roles. Hope this helps narrow it down. Love the show, though, Mark and Sydney. So look her up Shoney Smith right now. I cannot think who that is.

Somebody else suggested Shawnee Smith. Yeah, about the right age. Oh, same age as us. born in 1969. Oh, I love her. Yeah. She's in, uh, yeah, the saw, a bunch of the saw movies, but I think she was in, uh, oh crap, was it not the rock, maybe it is the rock.

Hold on. Uh, she looks like the rock lady. Hold on. There's two ladies in the rock. Oh, really? Okay. Uh, the rock, 1994. I am incorrect.

That is not what I know her from. What am I thinking of? uh well anyway uh she's in the island we saw that for her film sack yeah yeah she's some voice stuff uh grab theft auto vice city yeah anyway uh she oh she was she was redhead in armageddon in 1998 i might be thinking of that then although that should have a that's probably a tiny role that i didn't really notice i think it's i think she's probably one of the women that uh climb all over uh boshemi at the at the strip club when they've got all the money and they're taking patrons away from the other

or taking girls away from the other patrons. It's a good guess. Still not her though. Still not her, but thank you heard from Sydney. How about this one from Nobody? This is an anonymous texter. He says, is Brian's dream woman, Kate Berlant? Berlant. Let's see here. Looking her up.

Kate Berlant. Kate Berlant. Oh, I know her from things. Yeah, let's see here. Let me find some other photos of her because I've just got the Wikipedia photo. Kate Berlant. Sorry to bother you once upon a time in Hollywood. She does family guy voices. Oh, yes, I've seen, I've seen her and stuff and I don't. She's a voice in Archer. You just watch that. I still am. I just took a break from Archer to watch Silicon Valley. It's not her either, I don't think,

but I might have to look at some videos because she's got a very, a very similar looking vibe to yeah and she's in the range of age and all the brunette bit and all that she ticks off well well she's actually much younger she's uh 36 oh wow a lot younger um

yeah but um maybe i'll watch a couple of her YouTube videos afterwards and see if that's all right once again we narrowed down at least two we chip two more off the potential block of candidates and we'll get there that's right we'll get there exactly yeah Tyler from Boise has a way for you to like to

Tabasco, because you had said here on the air, and I agreed with you, by the way, that Tabasco is kind of boring and dumb. And I've been to the Tabasco factory in Louisiana. It's awesome. It's really fun to be out. It stinks. I think it smells amazing in there. Oh, it does it stink. Oh, it's like a paper.

It smells so bad. I don't know why. Something about the process. It's like a yogurt, like the Danin place that is like 20 miles north of me. If you drive past there, you feel like you were driving past a diaper. It is so bad. Anyway, this guy says, hey, guys, this is for TML. that's just to warn you, I'm a bit behind.

I heard Brian talking about he is not a Tabasco fan because it's heat and no flavor. I still agree. Anyway, he says, I agree, and I feel the same about saracha. I do not feel that way about saracha. I love saracha. But he says, I'm a big fan of the Tabasco Chipotle and discovered Tabasco Saracha, a combination of those two things. Do yourselves a favor and tried.

It's amazing. I'll never go back to regular saracha after that. Love the show, though. Tyler and Boise, ID-ho. Interesting. I've had the Tabasco Chipotle, and I love that. For a while, you could only actually get that at Chipotle restaurants, where we could only find it at Chipotle restaurants. And it was a much better flavor, that smoky, smoky pepper flavor. But Tabasco Chiracha. All right, okay. Yeah, we need to find that. The Tabasco Chipotle is what Carter and I used in our video when we made the jambalaya. Jambalaya that week. Yeah. Oh, cool.

And it's really, really good in there. Highly recommend that. But I didn't know they had a combo Saracha Tabasco. I will absolutely seek this out. Maybe even today I've got to go shopping. Might see if I can get some. Tyler, you may have saved Tabasco. The brand has now been saved by Tyler and Boise. Well done.

It might be. Yeah, we'll have to see because I'm curious now. So, yeah, I'll totally try that. And then finally we got a call before we get to some news today. And this call is interesting because it's about a thing that I think is probably a common question. And we always talk about red on air lights here. if somebody didn't hear somebody say something or whatever. We put up this thing.

Thanks to Builder Ann for that original meme. But this is a question about rent-on-air lights in general, and let's hear what he has to say. Hey, morning, stream. This is Kiki-Byrr calling for Simone and Maloney. Very important question for both of you. Do you guys have an

on-air light outside of your studios? I know you both work from home, and it seems like that podcasters would have outside their door, so people know that they're recording a show to also live in their house. Yeah, important question, do you? Well, I have this one. It's currently on.

It's hard to see in the camera, but this is a neon-on-air sight light, and I have it voice-activated for when the show starts. Oh, that's great. It's right here to my left so that anyone who comes in the studio doorway over there, they can see that I'm on air because it's right here. So I don't have one outside. I kind of wish I did. I'd have to do some...

I'd have to do some work, probably get some work. probably get some Wi-Fi thing or something to do it that way. But yeah, I keep this here for this very reason. When the show's over, it clicks off. And then my wife knows she can come in and talk all she wants or whatever. Sometimes they still forget or just because we're all, it's such a familiar family here. Yeah. That's just like, hey, do you need?

And I'm like, I'm on the air. You know, like that happens. But yeah, I keep one around. I have to admit, though, it's mostly because it's fun and cool and just to have one, you know? Yeah. Oh, yeah, for sure. How about you, dude? I've got one in my studio.

I have one behind me that's kind of on all the time because it's now just me and Tina. And if she hears me talking, she knows I'm doing a podcast because there's nobody else I'd be talking to or I'm on the phone. So I've thought about having one. I've got the stairs that come down and a nice wall right above there. And I've got another run-on-airlight that I could attach to an Alexa-powered switch. and do exactly the same thing. Just basically say, Alexa, turn on red on air light and have her do that.

But for right now, it feels like, well, that's way more work than we need to do because, again, if Tina just goes to the basement door, she can hear me talking. The way the basement is set up, it's pretty easy to hear if I'm on the phone or recording a show. Maybe if she walked in the room here in,

it's not like she's going to go, oh, I don't know, I can't tell he's talking. right exactly yeah so if you know if we ever if tristan ever and k ever had to move back in with us or something like that then I probably would rig something up but for right now um nope no need for it right now but

they're just for fun they're fun yeah part of the business just to have a cool thing and I guess technically mine's a pink and blue on air light right yeah that's cool though yeah my daughter got it for me it's very nice that's very cool Amazon, it's like 12 bucks. They're cheap. Nice, nice.

Excellent. Well, there you have that. Now, let's inform. Time to do a little news brought to you by. Brought to you by. Some more trivia for me from Scott. He asks, how many full 18 hole, golf courses are in Las Vegas. Hold.

Please hold. Golf courses. All right. Well, so this is just purely going to be like a, how close can I get to the actual number? So we're talking about in the city of Las Vegas, not in the, you know, the Summerlin and Henderson and Brumph and all that sort of thing. Right. I would say probably, I mean, what does Clark County extend to? I don't even know.

Like, I know Vegas is in Clark County, but I don't think it's all of Clark County. It's whatever the Vegas. Yeah. wherever you would say your borders to Vegas are, which is a little weird, right? Because doesn't that new sign next to the stratosphere indicate the actual...

It's the actual entrance to Las Vegas. Yeah, the sign down by Mandalay Bay should say, Welcome to Paradise, because it's not you're not in Las Vegas down there. You're in Paradise, Nevada. And Las Vegas really is kind of the downtown area.

I'm... Okay, so if we're talking about Las Vegas proper. I don't even know if you count like the win because the wind has that big huge one behind it, but that's that's paradise. That's not Las Vegas, Las Vegas. I'm thinking, all right, so if you got Las Vegas in the downtown area, this could be like a little trick question where it's like actually there is zero in Las Vegas. They're all in outside areas of Las Vegas. I also don't know if there are some, like on the other side of the highway, which would also be Las Vegas. I'm going to, let me say, I'll do a number. I won't say zero, even though I feel like there could be a little bit of a trick there. I'll say 20. You're actually a lot closer than I thought you'd get.

I was going to give you a hint and say there are, someone just got as many felony convictions as there are golf courses. So there are 34, no, 37? what was it? 34, exactly. 34 golf courses. That's, that's... Full 18 hole golf courses. That's crazy to me. That is crazy. But I also think, and they didn't get specific in the question that I found, but they don't say where these are. So my guess is, even if it's still Paradise, they're counting it. Yeah, probably. That's my guess. So they're counting the win one, but obviously not counting top golf because that's not a golf course.

That's a golf range with very cool video game circles to hit on the ground, enjoy tremendously, but not a golf course. No, I assume that I assume the wind one was just nine holes. I didn't know it was a full course. That's crazy back there. Oh, yeah. It might even be it's so massive. I would even say there's the possibility

that there are two full, 18 hole courses back there, and it's 36. You look at a map of Vegas, and that space is huge. It goes all the way from Las Vegas Boulevard to Coval Road, and And it's wider than the wind hotel property. I think it might even extend into the Encore property.

Oh, yeah. Here's a picture chat. This almost looks like, it's almost like Central Park in New York, you know how you see the aerial shots, and it's all building, building, building, street, street. And then suddenly there's a lush green giant thing in the middle. It's kind of what that looks like. That is huge.

Yeah. I've never looked at this before. I had no idea. That's crazy. I wonder if that's 18. or if it's if it's 36. I wonder what that costs. Probably a fair penny.

Yeah, probably. Oh, it's beautiful. Look at all the stuff. All right. I don't golf, but that's really nice. It's pretty. Yeah, we've got one by us, and I actually do,

I ride my bike through it. There's the path that I go on actually goes through it. And theirs is weird. It's like five nine hole, golf courses, if I'm remembering this correctly, and what they do is they start you on different T's and you still do 18, but you might do a different 18 than you did last time because they'll start you on hole 10 and take you through a whole 27 or whatever it is. Oh, wow. That's amazing.

Yeah. I had no idea. Well, of course. It's freaking Vegas. What am I thinking? Of course they have. Yeah, exactly. Well, well done. I think you were within striking range. I think you were good. Close. Close without, closest without going over. There you know that. Yeah. Yeah, it's like 20. You just won 21. Well done. Perfect. Michigan men had to, and this is men meaning multiple men. Michigan men, okay.

Not just a man, but men rescued a wild raccoon choking on cheese. Oh, thank goodness. Choking on cheese. Was it you that has the raccoon problem? No, yours is a squirrel problem. I do have a raccoon problem. I did for a while. The raccoons came and just took the, The plastic container that I was keeping the bird food in, got a hole in it, and then dumped it all over the back patio. Like, turned it upside down and got it all dumped on the patio.

Dirty, dirty bastards, those guys. Yes, dirty bastards. Well, anyway, a group of Michigan men has gone viral after they rescued a wild raccoon that was choking on food. Three men were hanging out in the Janice County one night. A Genesee. Is it Genesee? Genesee. Yeah, we've got a Genesee in Colorado as well.

What does that remind me of? Tennessee. Something. Oh, I know. Oh, it's from O Brother We're Art thou. And the guy that plays, who am I thinking of? Shit, there's something there. I can't think of it.

I'll think of it later. Anyway, it's something that Big Dan says, as played by... Oh, really? John Goodman. Yeah. I cannot think of what it is. Something about Genesee. Anyway, maybe it's fricacy.

Shit. Anyway. One night, while the wild raccoon approached them, Tyler Whalen, Bill Boskey, and John Potensky. Plazensky. Or is that a T? Is that a T?

That's a T. Tzensky, probably like teradactyl, that P is silent. Yeah, that P ain't making no noise. Anyway, they said the raccoon didn't attack them, but rather appeared to be in destruction. stress. They went over to the animal, which stood on its hind legs in a way that made it clear it was choking. Is that what they do? They stand up and go, pointing at their neck. The group said, see, he patted the raccoon's back and the raccoon welcomed the help. That's what it says. I don't know what that means. It says, Whalen didn't think Boski was doing it correctly. He began coaching him on how to do it better. He patted the raccoon lower and the animal coughed up a piece. of cheese

free to sorry free to dumpster dive another day the raccoon sashayed away why sashayed why you got to say that it's ruPaul's it's raccoon Paul's drag race really annoying one of the men happened to capture the rescue on video which has since been viewed

tens of millions of times oh really okay wow the men have nicknamed the raccoon rocket after the character from Guardians of the Galaxy because that's as far as their imagination goes I guess let's see if we can find a little footage here yeah I gotta see this damn thing too now

am I blocking it somehow I might be blocking it by by just having a ad blocker I can't get it to come up coconut cheese somebody in the chat has a better shot of this viewed by tens of millions of people please post it and I'll play it yeah Las Vegas news

I swear this is a thing we've talked about before but now it's now it's new again because we we had them in Utah and i think even colorado had one at one point but uh Las Vegas now the home of a mysterious monolith that just appeared outside the city out there in the desert remember that thing with the big metal uh deal yeah there was one out by red rock wasn't there yeah something like that and then out here it was in um outside st george or something like a similar thing probably the same group uh six foot six foot five monolith appeared on a hiking trail near Las Vegas, Nevada over the weekend. Members of the city's

Metro Search and Rescue found the mirrored structure near gas peak. See, it's a trail in the Desert National Wildlife Refugee, part of New York Times, Johnny Diaz, or no, per the New York Times, Johnny Diaz. Officials have no idea where it came from. Quote, we see a lot of weird things

when people go hiking, like not being prepared for the weather, not bringing enough water, but check this out, wrote the police department on a Facebook post. How did it get up here? and then they put a picture of it Chad, here's the photo It's just another one of these things

It's just like the Utah Those cool mirrored monoliths It's very sharp, very cool Gotta be the same people, right? Yeah, oh, I would think so Either that or it's a copycat I wouldn't even call it a crime It's just like, you know

They want you to think an alien is involved somehow You know, and there are far worse things People could be doing with their time This is, you know, give both sides of the aisle a little mystery to figure out together Now, Scott, I waited long enough in that click on Detroit raccoon video showed up, and this is spectacular, man. So, BioCow posted a link to the YouTube video in chat, and the force, the fact that this raccoon is not running away while this guy is slapping it on the back fairly hard, and this raccoon is just sitting there, oh, got it. So maybe it did appreciate the help.

I think it actually did appreciate the help. Yeah, let's take a look here. We're at a certain time stamp. Here we go. Oh, yeah, look at him. Just, he wants the help. He wants the help, yeah. Or he's so choky that he doesn't.

He's like, I don't know what else to do. Sure, all right, human, help me. Did he finally get it out? He did. And then he sashayed. Is he sashay? He sashayed. He kind of stumbled away.

Yeah, I don't think it's a sachet. Probably because this guy broke his spine or something with his. oh my gosh all right well they made they did it good job guys they did it good for them michigan really funny though tvs travis is anywhere near where you live out there i wonder i think Travis is in the chat maybe i think so yeah uh oh uh by the way uh my favorite part of this article is how the local news says quote i'm assuming it's in a new wave artist or something no one talks Oh, the monolith, some new wave artist. Yeah, that sounds like someone who doesn't know what they're saying.

Yeah, like Grace Jones. Let's see. Or David Byrne. It says, or somebody who's just a big 2001, a space odyssey fan, says Brett Hutchins, the helicopter pilot. He told the local news, KSL TV at the time. He's the Utah one. Saw it in the Utah desert. He says, I have to admit, that's been about the strangest thing I've come across out there in all the years of flying.

Jeez. Doopi doopi-do! I think they're a fan of 2001, a space odyssey. So dumb. The full title of the movie. If you, okay, so, if I was to take my favorite movie and I wanted to make a thing. What would I, yeah, what would I do? Like Fury Road thing.

What would I do? Yeah. Oh, yeah, thank you for clarifying. You would leave some sort of certain. circular flame with a skull, like what Nux had on his steering wheel. Ooh. Yeah, Morton Joe's symbol thing. I love that. I mean, Morgan Joe's symbol, but have a large one in the desert somewhere.

Yeah. You know what? Not bad. Yeah, and you've got that metal artist that you know, that the guy who did the trophy and had all the, the guy who, he's already no stranger to creating weird mysteries around space, things flying. the sky right mm-hmm he's the still can those people are still convinced that was a UFO that he's lying yeah I'm like the thing the guy has it in his garage he has footage

of him making it building it putting it in the air and then taking it down and no one believes him they all still think it's well I mean some people it's a cover up yeah he's like he's I haven't talked to him in a while I should check in on him see how he's doing he's a tortured artist but he doesn't

he makes the most amazing stuff I don't know if I ever explained this but one of the things he does is full whatever size wall you may have at like your very expensive lawyer firm or whatever, let's say you've just got a giant blank wall and he'll get commissioned

for like $200,000 commissions he'll build a giant perpetual like marble machine. Really? That just constant marble drop do do do do do going through the thing. You know like a what do you call that? A perpetual

motion. Yeah but there's a what's the thing where it's like oh like marble run like kind of, but there's a name and it's a guy's name. Oh, a Rube Goldberg device. That's it. Yeah.

He'll build basically a giant perpetual Rube Goldberg device that constantly... I feel like we're playing $20,000 pyramid. Okay, yeah, like that, but a guy's name? Uh-huh, okay.

Yeah, no, like, you know, that close, but... And then Dick Clark's like, eh, sorry. Oh, sorry. Oh, you found our lucky seven. All right. Name things that, uh,

that you'll find on a patio. Tondagosa says choplifter. I see you, Tondagosa. I see what you're up to there. I know what you're up. He does this in every... So when we have this game on Play Retro where we try to guess what each other, what this audio each other brings and what game it is.

And he always says choplifter in the chat. That's his job. That's his go-to guess. That's what he does. All right. Finally, we've got a couple more of these. How about this one? Okay.

All right. Perfectly centuries old. cherries. All right. So a jar of cherries. Unerthed. You could still eat them. They're probably a little tip. They're a little tipsy, but you could eat them. These were unearthed at George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate. Maybe all the rumors were true. It wasn't just apocryful. He's into the cherries, man. He was totally into cherries, yeah. Says here, George Washington never did cut down the cherry tree, despite the famous story to the contrary, but he did pick, sorry, pack away quite a few bottles of the fruit at his Mount Vernon home.

Dozens of bottles of cherries and berries. Cherries and berries. Cherries and berries. We should go there and get a crepe. Sounds like a place you get a crepe. Doesn't it? A berry, berry, no soggy bottom, crepe. Yeah, that sounds all right.

It says impossibly preserved in storage pits uncovered from the cellar of his mansion on the banks of the Potomac. We're discovered during an archaeological dig connecting, or sorry, connected to a restoration project. Jason Burroughs, Mount Vernon's principal archaeologist. Sounds like a weird thing to say, but whatever, I guess. Yeah. Said the discovery of so much perfectly preserved food for more than 250 years ago is essentially unprecedented. They really knew what they were doing.

Finding what is essentially fresh fruit, 250 years later, is pretty spectacular. He said in the interview, all the, sorry, all the stars sort of have to align in the right manner for that to happen. Whole pieces of fruit recognized as cherries were found in some of the bottles. Other bottles held what appeared to be gooseberries or currants or though testing is underway to confirm that those

are those. They are partnering with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is conducting DNA tests on the fruit. They're also examining more than 50 cherry pits recovered from the bottles to see if any of them can be planted so you could get new cherries out of these old-ass freaking George Washington cherries. George Washington planted,

you know, a genealogical cherry trees I would doubt that they... I cannot tell a lie these cherries are delicious I mean I would think maybe I mean they're talking like they're perfectly preserved

yeah do they mean like maraschino preserved like you know kind of pickled preserved I'm gonna guess like probably but not in that that liquid but probably more in like a well maybe I'm thinking more like

like a like a cherry, not a jam, but like a pie filling where you get whole cherries in like a thicker gelatinous syrup kind of thing. Like a filler type thing? Yeah, yeah. I could see that. Yeah. I mean, would you, okay, we've eaten weird things on the show.

Somebody sent us this. Like a little packet of these. You'd try one, right? I would. I would try one. Yeah. I mean, obviously, you can look at it. You'd know instantly if 200-year-old or 250-year-old cherries are bad.

from looking at it would be green and moldy or black. It would probably be black, and cherries aren't supposed to be black. I like tomatoes, yeah. Yeah, so I actually think it would be pretty dang obvious if they were harmful to you. Yeah. We made our own homemade Maraschino's last week, and how we did it was, I say we, Kim did this. Yeah. She, her neighbor, this very sweet 83-year-old lady, who we just love up the street.

We're always taking her stuff, and she's just so nice. Anyway, she has a giant, she has giant cherry trees that are just constantly shedding cherries around this time of year. And they're the bright, I don't know if they're Bing or what kind of cherries, but they're so bright red. They're almost a cartoon cherries almost. Okay. All right, cool. And we went over there and she's like, well, these are just going to eat them by the birds. Do you want them?

Kim's like, well, hell, yeah, I want them. So she goes over there, brings back this giant bucket of these bright red cherries, perfect cherries. We ate a bunch of them and used some for other stuff. but the bulk of them, Kim, made quick marasino cherries. So it's almost like how you do. You can do pickles in like a brine and then in the fridge. You can hurry up the process that normally takes a long time. You can do it quicker.

It's like something like that. But a little less sugar, a little more tart. These things are insane, dude. They're so good. Did she use pomegranate juice? Isn't that what? It's in there, yes. It's in there, definitely.

I don't know. I think it's probably more of that. unless because usually there's a ton of sugar in there and she was aiming for like I don't want sweet so much as I want like a tangy and you still put it in drinks and stuff and whatever we had a bunch of mocktails the other night for these kids that were over and put those in there

and they were stupendous they were so freaking good. That'd be so good like a Shirley Temple basically put that in some seven up. Yeah I thought of you like if we had a whole jar of these I would they'd be at your house if we lived in Denver. Yeah. You'd already be putting them in your little homemade drinks there. I would. I'd be muddling them in an old fashioned is what I'd be doing with

them. I'm going to assume that cherries go in an old fashion. I've no idea. Charries go, you muddle a cherry for an old fashion, a little bit of whiskey and bitters and yeah. What do you do? What does it mean to muddle it? What do you do? You've got one of these little, almost like a mortar and pestle, but you put the cherries in the glass, and then you've got a little plastic device that has a little bumps on the bottom. Looks like a little miniature baseball bat, a thick baseball. A thick baseball. ball bat and it's got little bumps on the bottom and you go ear ear ear ear ear ear ear ear and you muddle the cherry that way i've never just gets the liquid out but keeps the keeps some mass in there so that you know as you're finishing your drink you can uh you can poke at it with your

straw and get a little bit more cherry flavor out of it and that's awesome yeah i want to try one now uh so there's that i think that's going to do it for today we're going to take a break when we come back from this break uh what do we have today oh dan will be here yeah dan dan dan the table top man yeah we got we got a text question for him that made me laugh so we're going to read that to him it's also highly highly misspelled uh oh great so that they know uh hot kettle yeah yeah exactly let me just go ahead and give this guy shit um anyway we're going to take that break first though and play a song and brian has one prepared so what are we doing excellent um all right so boy Boy, is this appropriate for having Dan on?

This is a band called Hockey Dad. Wow, as if it was planned. It wasn't even planned. This is a band, big thanks to, let's see, Farmer and the Owl, BMG for sending this one. They've got a brand new album coming out, and it is called, let's see. This is the song, Base Camp. Oh, here it is. Rebuild, repeat.

A brand new album from Hockey Dad called Rebuild Repeat. It may sound like I don't know much about this. I've already listened to the whole album twice because I really liked it. It's got a very cool, it's Power Pop, man. It is right up my alley, and I think it's going to be right up the alleys of other people. Here is the band Hockey Dad and Bass Camp. I've been thinking about where I've been thinking about where I place my feet I'm so stable can't you see solid as rock

When I'm dreaming about 30,000 feet Looking down between the streets I don't feel so high I've been waiting and look at the kinnas spot I keep wondering when the climb's gonna start Take a leap and put my foot out on the rock I'll be sliding down the hill looking at the top

I want to get higher I want to get higher I want to get higher and then I'm done I want to get higher I want to get higher when the air gets higher and then I'm done

I've been to do La-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. I've been waiting in the beginning spot. when the climb is going to start Take a weep and put my foot out on the rock I'll be sliding down the hill looking at the top I want to get higher I want to get higher

I want to get higher and then I'm done I want to get higher I want to get higher When you get started In the last time I want to get higher I want to get higher

I want to get higher I want to get higher In that I'm done I want to get higher I want to get higher When the air gets higher In the end uptime My la da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da.

My lord, this muggy November weather gives me the horribles. Stand up for the lady, you bore. And we're back. Tell me who that was one more time so I can know. Yeah, sure. That was Hockey Dad from their brand new album, Rebuild, Repeat. That is the first single, and it is called Base Camp. Nice.

Nice. Lots of spent oxygen bottles and... That's right. And Cliff Bar wrappers left behind. Sherpa bottles. Uh-huh. Maybe somebody's torn a backpack that they're just going to leave behind. Mm-hmm.

Sometimes a body, apparently. Sometimes that happens. Yeah. The wrong place and the wrong time. Those definitely happen here and there. Here's a danger for you. Be careful. May cause drowsiness.

Oh, look who we have here. It's Dan Dan the Tabletop Man joining us once a month for a little bit of game. talk and maybe a little medical talk hi dan how are you greetings programs and how is everybody today oh man super doing great super duper how about you know how about you forget about us being a hockey dad i like to rock out just like hockey dad does there you go so just like the band so you need to listen to some hockey dad and and share a common interest with some independent musicians i'm uh i'm not doing as well as all those fans down in Florida after the Panthers won the Cup last night

and they are still partying. I'm sure they are. First Stanley Cup. Yep. I mean, all the players, this is kind of like a tradition now where for like the next 24 to 48 hours, those guys are just in a constant party. I think Chuk just took it into the ocean, just took

the cup into the ocean for a dip. And they were at some club too pouring beers over the side of this club down in Florida to fans down there out of the cup. Oh my gosh. They're enjoying it in uh boy that sounds like a blast it does sound all right except for all the people kissing that thing too much and then everyone else drinking out of it it's freaking gross oh there's definitely got to be a stanley cup cold that comes down for over the next week after i mean they wipe it down

a little bit but then once it's in the hands of the of the players all of south florida's got their lips on that thing yeah oh geez yeah very gross tonight what gross got out the most that's good though they uh that's awesome that they won i was i was i was that was a hell of a playoff like everything about that run was really, really good, exciting hockey stuff. It was exciting, and I was really excited. I was rooting for Edmonton to get the Cup after rallying back from a 3-0 deficit, and unfortunately, they couldn't pull it out. I was so torn because, I mean, McDavid, I mean,

McJesus is so damn good, and he should get a cup before he retires, one of the best players ever to play. But, I mean, everybody hates Corey Perry. As a Keynes fan, I hate half the guys on the, Panthers, too. But I love Maurice because he was a Keynes coach for so long. So it was like so kind of torn, but I was kind of I was still happy for him. And plus, you know,

America. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Keep the cup here. We need all the wins we can get right now. So let's do it. That's so true. Dan, I got a quick text that someone sent in for you that I want to read before we move on to what you're recommending this week. And it goes like this. It's an anonymous

person. He sent this to 801-47-1062. And he says the following. For Dan, O-Zempic is just fen-fen for millennials. He spelled Ozempic and Millennials wrong. Not that it matters to me that much, but I'm just saying you should know that to know how serious perhaps he was about sending this. He does have, like all of us on our

phone, some sort of autocorrect, so I don't know why these got wrong. But anyway, he says Ozempic is just Fen for millennials. Do you agree? Yes and no. Because Fen-fen was the big thing. I guess it was 90s. It was a kind of combination

of two weight loss drugs. that everybody was using back then. The problem was even back then, we knew how bad it really was for you, like going to blow up your heart bad. I mean, that's how bad Fenn Fenn was. And now, OZEPIC, yes, it is the latest craze,

and I can't tell you with all the GLP ones how many people are on them now, but it is pretty much, I mean, it's so much safer for you as far as the body goes, although this is what happens with things like this. Whenever there's, you know, every 10 or, like probably even less than that, there are these wonder drugs come out.

I mean, even you can use things like statins, like for cholesterol, early 2000s or kind of when a statin boom happened. And there was a couple that really weren't as safe for you as the other ones and they got removed from the market. But and then, again, every now and in, things just go so crazy. And eventually little side effects and things like that that make it not as good for you start coming out. And with those epic, I think I mentioned this in the past, kind of like, like some of the gastric paralysis and some of the GI stuff, because it does kind of mess with your emptying, and that's why it is good also,

not only with what it does for your blood sugar and such to help get your weight down, but the gastric emptying and such like that with your metabolism is why you're able to lose weight. But it is a lot safer than Fenfin. My God, Finfan, you still see people on fentamine, and it is for weight loss, and it is very much something that you've got to really be monitored on,

because, again, it's not great for your heart. It doesn't have long. It's not going to work forever for you because eventually your body just kind of catches up. And it is a little bit of addicting. And it is kind of has, it's all the, you know, rage on the street as well because, I mean, it's really basically just amphetamines. It's really all it basically is. Yeah, it's basically a form of speed. You know, you're trying to hop up your metabolism.

I had a guy that I worked with who had a heart attack after six months or something on Fenfin, and the doctors attributed it directly to the Fenfinn. no other conditions and we all thought that seems crazy probably has an underlying heart thing they haven't found or something like that sure enough though he quit he quit taking it and he's I don't know he's probably 75 now never had another issue ever again

like just totally fine so I think that may have been the contributor and that's why they took it off there at least that combination they took it off the market right yeah well I mean half of it but you know they don't use it as much they do it's a little bit more controlled as far as how much they use it like they don't use it nearly as much

they did. I mean, they still use part of, I'm pretty sure the, um, the first half. I'm trying to remember pentolamine or, uh, anyway, part of it is not even on a market anymore. So you're only really, and then other weight loss drugs that were out back then aren't even on the market anymore, just the phentermine, which is still around in tablets and capsules. Um, but from seeing all these kind of people, you know, the doctors using it and they're haunting it off as for type two diabetes. Meanwhile, people's A1C is like 5.1, which is you got to have A1C of 5.7 or more. be considered quote unquote type 2 diabetic and for you to use this you really especially to get it covered by a lot of insurances and especially for the state because i work for uh basically

medicaid and people get in certain states they will cover for weight loss in certain states it's only cover for type 2 and when you get these chart notes and doctors are trying to pawn it off as type 2 and it's like no this person does not have diabetes they may be overweight but they do not have diabetes which again that's one of these things that you could fill a couple hours of like people just think if you're fat you have diabetes no that's uh i'm sorry you're sorry, is that an F word? Can I say fat? Is that all right? I think you can go ahead and say it. So it is not necessarily, I mean, it is one of those things that can happen. And it does make it easier because when you are overweight, you do have

insulin resistance, which you basically, the insulin is not getting the sugar into your cells. So that's why the first things they'll do is use metformin, which is basically like a key to go into the lock, to open up the cells to get the sugar into the cell. So it's not in your bloodstream and you're not kind of gaining weight and not having hyperglycemia. anyway, not any, you know, they always talk about, like, when you're a kid, people be like, oh, you're going to get diabetes from eating all that sugar. No, I mean, being obese doesn't help you, but if you're not predisposed, if your pancreas is not predisposed to have diabetes, it doesn't matter how much sugar you eat, you're not getting

diabetes. Yeah, there was a guy. I was just reading about the world's heaviest man, the current, the current Guinness guy, and he's not diabetic, which is crazy to me because he's like, four. He's like 1,400 pounds or something. Now, obviously, you know, more obesity, more risk. Other health problems. Yeah, higher risk and also other, yeah, exactly, other issues for sure.

But like, for example, he can't get out of bed. That's not good. But 1,400 pounds, 1,400 pounds, or whatever it is, and still not diabetic. When I first heard that, I went, that, I mean, even though I know the two aren't always mutually exclusive, it's still shocked me a little. It's like, really? All right. Well, you lucked out on that point. there, buddy.

Yeah, well, I mean, most of the metabolism is just so bad and your body's just not clearing anything out. But, again, I don't want to, I know it's polarized now, but I mean, it's one of these things where these drugs are so good, especially if you do have type 2. And, I mean, if you have good insurance and you're a little overweight and you need that kick, just, I just want to stress people. Like I always say, just don't assume the drug's going to do everything for you. Always, I always recommend diet and exercise.

If you're trying to lose weight, you know, diet and exercise alone may not be everything for you because everybody's body's a little different. However, if you use things like GLP1s or even SGLT2s, you know, if you use things like that with diet and exercise, it can really help you get yourself back to a manageable weight and then just move on and you can get off the medicine and just kind of keep living that healthy lifestyle to help you out with your weight. So is the shitty, a crappy pancreas, it's just, what, luck of the draw, genetics? What is that? What's the deal with? Yeah, and genetics are very, very interesting because type 1 diabetes, has typically been what they call like north-south genetic where you're more likely to have it if your parents have it and then type two they found if your siblings are have type two which again that kind of can come a lot of times with age as you're going to get older your body's just not processing the the insulin as it used to that's more kind of east-west you know horizontal where you're more predisposed that you're going to have it if your siblings have it so it's an interesting how that kind of works but yeah i mean sometimes your pancreas just just has a little

thing. And that's not something that's easily replaced. I mean, pancreas is not something, unfortunately, in the body they haven't really figured out a way to, you know, get you in more of them. You know, pancreas and livers, there's plenty of things that can be transplanted. Those are a little bit harder to do things. And are obviously all liver transplanted.

That's, again, I'm going on a tangent there. Yeah, no, I like a good tangent. There's nothing wrong with that. Well, all right, then. Let's get to our favorite tangent, which is, hey, what should people be cracking open and playing on the weekend? And, well, Dan's quite the aficionado of board games and tabletop. So, Dan, why don't you fill us in on what we should be doing?

I wanted to talk about, so this is the type of time of year where we get the SDJ and the KDJ, which is Spiel Deschars, which are basically these are the Spielderzschears, and then there's the KDJ, which is a Kenner Spiel Deschars. And then there's also another KDJ, which is the Kinderspiel Dechars. We don't worry about them. That's the kids game of the year. But it's fine. There's a good games in there.

So there's a good post on BGG if you want to find out what the kids' games are. But anyway, I want to talk about the Spiel DeShars. They're more of your kind of entryway games. It's funny because these are almost, as much as we love to make this joke, the SDJ are more of the Scots games at a year, and the KDJ is more of the Bryan games in-of-the-year, because they're more of the Kennersfield is more of what they call the connoisseurs games. So they're the more, you know, kind of in-depth games and a little bit more. But also, the SDJ are just great. So people that love both of those types of games, I mean, Brian, you'll love all of these games.

So I wanted to mention them real quick. So the first one I mentioned is a game called In the Footsteps of Darwin, which has a pretty cool, pretty cool theme to it where you're kind of Darwin going around the world. Darwin famously went around trying to wrote in this book where he was collecting all the different species of the world talking about them.

I'm not a history buff, so forgive me if I screwed that up. But anyway, in the game, you're basically just drafting tiles. The Beagle, I think, was the name of his boat, was it moves around the board and you're basically just drawn a tile and you're putting it on your board and then you'll get some points at the end of the game. So nice and easy. Scott, I just taught

the game so you're all set to go. Sweet. That's the rules. That's it. That's all I need to know, eh? That's it. We'll worry about scoring at the end. This is how I like to play games with my wife. I'm like, I'm going to explain how to play. We'll worry about scoring at the end. And it's so fast to play. Almost all, actually, all three of these games are

so fast to play. They all play in, I would call like a super filler in a way. They're less than 30 minutes all three of these games. So in the footsteps of Darwin, which is a good game, probably my least favorite of the three, but just because the other two are really, really good. But it has the best company name. I don't know if I

mentioned this one. And the company who put this out is called Sorry We Are French. Oh, wow. That's a great game. That's amazing. Yeah. I really like the classical art styles real cool. I like that. It's gorgeous. Wow. Surprise. It's not, sorry. We are Canadian.

Yeah, I know, right? It's pronounced, therefore, spelled differently. That's why. Sorry. Sorry. We're French Canadian. That's what they should do. Sorry. I can't remember there's another Darwin game. Somebody in the Chad will remember it, but there's another Darwin game that came out. A lot of times

when they get a theme or in board gaming, a bunch of games with the same theme or mechanism to come out. So there's another Darwin that game that came out, which is much heavier on the heavier side. This is the lighter one and it is nominated. Next up, we'll go on to the one that I think is a little, it's a surprise

that it made the SDJ. I figured this, in my mind, this is more of a KDJ because it's a little heavier to learn but it's got a great theme and the learning is just a little bit longer to teach. It's called Sky Team. This was put out by Scorpion Mask. This is a really cool game about landing a plane.

So it's a two-player game where you're rolling dice and before the round you can kind of like talk about strategy bit, but while you're playing, there's no communication which is really weird thematically because I'm pretty sure a pilot and co-pilot would be able to talk to each other about landing this plane. But anyway, For game purposes, you're rolling dice and you're trying to do things like control your speed, the flaps, how level you are.

There's all sorts of different cool things that as you're placing the dice, you're kind of accomplishing these things. You want to get the planes out of your way because there'll be planes in your way. You want to get your speed so you can land to not overshoot the runway. Obviously, you don't want to roll the plane or flip it in any way. So there's a lot of cool things. You can use dice for coffee, which helps to adjust the dice. there's a lot of different airports that are involved in here

and a lot of different difficulties you can play. The game is great. It's just a little heavier than what I would think for the SDJ, but I think you guys would both absolutely love this game. It just takes a little bit longer to teach. So purely, purely, oh, sorry,

I was just going to say a purely co-op experience, right? There's no head-to-head. Absolutely. Okay. Yeah, yeah. No, not head-de-this is purely co-op. Because, yeah, one person is not trying to crash to plane while the other person is trying to land there.

That's not bored. That's the experience. That's the expansion called Con Air. Yeah. There you go. This board is freaking gorgeous. Like the altimeter, a little plastic altimeter that you move back and forth, the little cutouts they have for dice. This thing is, like, this thing is engineered so beautifully.

Yeah. The production value is amazing. They did just announce an expansion that's coming out later this year called Turbulance. That's because everybody's climbing for it. So it's kind of funny that's right at the perfect time of year where they just got announced for SDJ and now they got an expansion coming out. I think it's out later in a year. That'll draw a lot of, a lot of pre-orders.

I mean, when you get a nomination, not even just a win, when you just get a nomination for the Spiel of Jars, you're talking about millions and copies sold throughout the world because everybody's going into these games. And they even put out recommended titles each year for all the different, I won't get into those, but all the different awards. The last one. How come, by the way, how come that game looks like,

at least on board game geek? it looks like Tommy Chong is is playing the game in the cockpit. Look at that, Brian. I just put a photo on this. Oh, hold on. Let's see. I'll see the photo. It looks like Tommy Chong to me. It does look like Tommy Chong. Like him and they should get

him and Cheech to like play this game in a cockpit. That'd be amazing. You know, imagine that guy is like, hey, can you can you just take a picture of this? It's a game about flying a plane and a plane. They probably sold it by cockpit. Sir, please get out of the cockpit.

That's amazing. All right, sorry. Tell us about your third one. Sorry, I didn't mean to... Okay, so the third one, which I think is going to win. This is my prediction for the win. Just because of the fun value. And again, this is one that Scott, I'm going to teach you now in less than a minute here.

This is called Captain Flip. And this one is such an easy game. Basically, you play two to five players, but it's sweet spot is really in two, two to three is where the sweet spot is. You have a bag of tiles. And basically, you just draw a bag of tiles, and now tie. If you think about them, basically they're two-sided. So when you draw it out, you're basically just drawing it out and put it on a table and you're looking at it. Now, you're going to either put it on your ship, basically because you're filling up your kind of your, because it's captain flip.

So you're captaining like a pirate ship or just a sailing ship. And you put it, you're either going to put it on your ship or you're going to, if you don't want that one, you are now going to flip the tile over and you get what's on the back. But once you flip it, that's final. That's your final decision. And then you're putting these tiles somewhere on your ship. You have to go from the bottom up, and then obviously you're going to stack them on top of each other or put them in a new row. And they do different things where they're either give you points or if there's a thing called a gunner, where if you have three gunners in your ship, you basically will lose the game. But there is a couple of ways.

I think the monkey is who flips the tile, it makes you flip a tile next to it, so it's a good way to get a gunner flipped back over to its other tile. But it's just quick, easy fun, has those kind of laugh out loud moments because like when you draw something that you really don't really. want but then you flip it over and it just screws you because you don't you know you can't do anything with that tile it's just kind of real cheeky but it's such an easy quick game to play you can learn how to play it and then once you're done with it you just play it again in 20 minutes the first person to fill up uh four rows basically what triggers end games and there's other there's different uh shapeships that you can use uh which all have different kind of ways of scoring at the top of the rows uh but just such a a really cool game the artwork is amazing

I love these ship structures that one of them's like a crackin you build on top of the cracking essentially The cover art of the box art This is just totally at my alley I love this stuff Looks like the people look like Mad Magazine

More Drucker drawings or something Yeah it's very It's very specifically stylistic In a very specific way It's hard to even label it But it's really cool How you kind of see the different artists You know the board game artists

How they have their different different ways of drawing. And a lot of times when they go with the different games, they still have that same way, you just tell somebody's art. You know, like Luke Ramon from Sky Team. He has a certain design and then, you know, that you can see. But with Eric Hibbler and Adrian Reeves from Sky Team, their design

as far as their drawings, you can see them in other games, which is pretty cool. And that same thing with this artist, which is Jonathan Akamante. Very cool, the different designs. Nice. And when is this awarded? When do we find out the winners? It should be, it's usually the mid-June, I think, is when it comes out. Generally, they'll do the Kinderspiel, probably be like within the next couple of weeks. They do that one pretty early as far as the kids game.

And then generally the other two will come out sometime mid-July, early August or so. Actually, the winners, July 21st is when it says the winners will be out. All right. So that makes me. Cool. I'm sure we'll probably have a little follow-up on that next month when we have you back. Yeah, I'll probably just mention out when I mention a game next month for you. Well, Dan, make sure you guys follow him and all the stuff.

Geek Jock on our Discord. You can find them all online, all the other stuff. Tell them about your show, that kind of stuff. Where can people find you talking about things? You can find me on the Geek All-Stars podcast where a little late. Holidays are a little weird. And my traveling was a little weird this month. I drove 900 miles last week, guys, in one, actually more than about a thousand miles.

I had to fly up to Burlington. And then I drove to Canada to get DJ. And then we drove basically the cannonball run all the way back to North Carolina. because my daughter's going, went to London. So DJ needed, I was trying to get DJ at home to see his sister. So we get home at like 6.30 in the morning, and Lauren flew out at like 5 o'clock of nights. That was a crazy week last week. Jeez.

Anyway. Yeah, but it's for your kids. You would drive 900 miles and 900 more just to be the one who took your kids places. You can find a Geek All-Stars podcast. And I also do Munchkin Land podcast, which I do the Munchkin Minute, which I talk about on news. There'll be one coming out this week on Major Spoilers Network. with the great Stephen under the rest of the major spoilers crew over there. And it's all about news.

So I'm going to talk a little bit more about the SDJ and some other great news and some other hot games from Origins, which was this past weekend. So in geek jock, Dan, on Twitter or X, we're not going to call it X. We're just going to call it Twitter because I refuse to call it. Yeah, and I can't call it X. But I do want you to make sure you don't take any pills you don't know the origin from, okay? Just be careful out there. Please don't.

Bye now. All right. There goes, Dan, into the wild. That's a going to do it. that's going to do it for the show. That's going to do it, yeah. We're done. There's still stuff coming up.

I don't know what's happening today. Oh, there's a brand new word on the street happening live today at noon, so check that out. That's me, Greg Street, and their new studio talking about their game. We've got some cool progress to talk about. I think their head of UX design is on there, which is kind of a big deal. User experiences is a big work. It's huge.

Yep. So watch for that. That'll be live. at frogpants.TV at noon and also on the podcast afterwards. And Brian, when's your flight? When do you get out? 3.30, I think I fly. I leave here. So I get back home at five something, maybe six. Nice. Yeah, a little bit of time to kind of wind down before I have to get up tomorrow morning and do this all over again. But finally back in front of my regular setup, which will be nice.

That will be nice. Don't forget to check us out tomorrow because we'll have recommendals. We'll have Tom's Tech Time. All the usual. Wednesday business. That's going to do it for us. Brian, let's play a song before we leave. What do you got? Absolutely. All right.

So this one was a pick that I felt like I had to do because, well, he's here in town with me and I feel threatened by him. Physically, he's a very tall and imposing gentleman who is apparently a really, really good craps roll. He's very good to throw in the dice. Very good. I'm talking, of course, of Barry, who wrote in and said, Hi Scott and Brian.

Here's to 33 years of marital awesomeness. Barry Ann and Bobby, quote unquote, will be a part this year, but we are always together in spirit. We defer to the covermaster's superior greatness to pick a song. Aw, that's sweet. That's sweet.

Well, Barry was just, you know, with me there at the concert. What was with me last night, too, playing trivia. But he was just with me at the concert a couple nights ago, seeing Elvis Costello and Daryl Hall. But prior to that, the last concert he saw

was the night before, two nights before with Bobby Ann. They went and saw Stevie Nix and Billy Joel at Soldier Field in Chicago. And so I decided to go with a Stevie Nix song. I've done Billy Joel songs for the two of them before because they both love Billy Joll, but they also both love Stevie Nix. So how about this one? This is Sophie Jones and Michael Carpenter, two of my favorite indie artists. They are so good. They released an album in 2020 called Stevie, which was all covers of songs by Stevie Nix, either solo or with Fleetwood Mac. They do this one right here. Here's Seven Wonders by Sophie Jones and Michael Carpenter.

So long ago, certain place. Certain time You touched my hand All the way All the way down to Emelight But if our paths Never cross

Well, you know I'm sorry But if I live to see the Seven Wonders I'll make a path to the rainbows And I'll never live To match the beauty see again The rainbows'

Yeah So it's hard to find someone with that kind of intensity You touched my hand I played it cool And you reached out your hand to me But if our paths never cross Oh, you know, I'm sorry, but If I live to see the seven wonders

I'll make a path to the rainbows end I'll never live to match the beauty again Rain goes in Oh, then So long So long ago time it's a certain place you touched my hand and you smiled all the way back you held out your hand and if i hope and i pay oh if i'll forget someday if i live to see the seven wonders i'll make a path to the rainbow then i'll never live to me to me to live to me

match the beauty again. If I live to see the same wonder, I'll make it back to the rainbows and I'll never live to match the beauty of that same beauty again. If I live to see the same beauty again, if I live to see them, I'll make it back to the rainbows and the world. I'll never live to match the beauty And I hope and I pray I'll let my work out today This show is part of the Frog Pants Network.

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