The Morning Stream - TMS 2668: Munkeys and Dunkeys

Episode Date: July 1, 2024

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I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian, Ibbott. Hi, Brian. Hello. Fresh from the bike ride and grinder over there. That's right. It was a grinder, man. Holy crap.

Yeah. How to go? Tell us all about it. Yeah, it was rough. It was, I mean, well, despite being rough. Okay, so I completed it. Completed both days for only the second time in the history of doing the MS-150. One time for being pulled off for bad weather, another time that they just did one day instead of a two-day.

One day I got sick. One weekend I got sick. But anyway, regardless, completed both days. and broke personal records on both days. I'd done, we calculated it out. I've done day one, start to finish five times. And like you said, day two, I've only done ones. And yesterday I beat both of those times by quite a bit in writing time, actually in total time too.

Didn't spend a lot of time at the rest stops. And for whatever reason, I think just all the preparation that I'd done in, April and May and June really helped a lot with being more prepared for this ride than I was ever before. Kept up on your Facebook and Instagram posts and stuff. Seems like you're having a good time. Didn't look too weird. Yeah. Yeah, I post from, I did the Instagram slash Facebook stuff every rest stop and talk about what I was doing.

Drink some pickle juice for folks so they could see the fun and joy of drinking very salty brine. in the middle of a ride which my God that stuff helps so much I don't know what it is about that stuff but it re-energizes me completely and they do this thing and this is why I hate day two

why I hated day two the first time I did it why I hated day two the second time there are far fewer rest stops day one has I think six rest stops and day two has four and you end up eating lunch

or they serve you lunch at the second rest up, which means if you leave the finish line somewhere around 6.30, which I did 620, somewhere around between 6 and 7, you're getting to rest up too at about 8 o'clock in the morning, and you're expected, or you're being offered a big fat hoagie roll with some ham and cheddar on it. And that was the last thing I wanted. I basically said, no, screw that. I have a salad and a few slices of watermelon, and I shoot any big, heavy, bready sandwiches,

I think was the right choice because I felt so coming off of the lunch stop on day one, I felt like, oh, that was maybe too much. I ate half of that hoagie, and it felt like it was too much. But then at the end of day two, the last rest stop is 16 miles or 18 miles or something from the end. And those are the most painful 18 miles of the whole two days because you've got a seven-mile uphill. slow like one or two percent grade uphill constantly for seven miles you've got a stupid hill

all these hills are so bad stupid and a stupid hill that comes off of a red light so you're almost guaranteed that you're going to be stopped at this busy east-west street as you're coming across north-south as you're coming across south on it and then you've got to cross it and immediately go up a sharp sharp hill

with no momentum. Any momentum you may have had going up, you've lost it at that red light. You've got to wait and then cross the street and then go up that hill. And people, I was writing next to, this was a new hill that they added for this year. And so we got up to the top of that

and everybody is like, what the hell was that? They have to feel like they had to wind us around to give us like a couple extra miles of hills instead of having us go straight over as we used to do for the previous. Why do they do that? Is that just to make it more challenging?

Or what's the point of changing that? Yeah, I think that there are the people who put this ride together. Yeah. I do a lot of thinking about this while I'm on the ride. Are your Lance Armstrong-looking, you know, bike dudes? Like, all right, well, we're going to have a nice tradeaway here. Let's see. If we have them turn left, that's kind of an easy turn into a good.

good downhill. If we have them turn right, they have a nice long uphill climb. Let's do it. Let's have them go up the uphill. You know, it's like, give them a challenge. It's like, no, no. Maybe give us, you know, give us an alternative for the fat bastards and say, okay, fat bastards go left, skinny dudes that are your, exactly what you picture when you think

of a bike racer go to the right. And speaking of bike racers, yeah. halfway up this stupid hill, this long stupid hill, the light hits me, the sunlight hits me right from the side. So it had gotten up to like 85 or 90 at that point. It was just like ready for it to be done. But it's coming from the side of me and I'm seeing my shadow on the right and then I'm seeing another bike so close behind me that he's like I don't see him in my helmet mirror unless

I really turn my head. He is that close to me. And I'm like, you're drafting me? I'm going 10, 10, 11 miles an hour uphill and you're drafting me? Like, how are you gaining any speed from this? And so I'm like, you know, I'm pedaling and I'm just going to go my own pace. I'm like, it stresses me out having somebody that close behind me. Yeah, it's stressing me out thinking about it.

I don't want anybody that close on a bike. Forget that. Yeah, but he's not, there's no way he's gaining anything from being that close. I'm not casting off enough enough of the Bernoulli effect to really. help push him, propel him forward. So, finally, the hill gets the better of me and I start slowing down a little bit. Maybe it's also just because I want him off my, shake him off my turd. And he comes up alongside me, and he's this big linebacker-looking dude.

And he reaches out his fist and says, hey, good riding, big fella. You're really killing it. And he fist bumps me. And like, big fella, what the hell? was he being was he being uh could you tell a little condescending like good job bro you're really you're really killing it out here but this guy you know he did not have the slim cyclist uh body like you'd expect he had like he looked like he came off the the front line for the Miami dolphins or something just this big big dude but like come on to say big fella what the hell right like you're gonna draft me for a while and then maybe he was uh you know making the move Maybe this was an opening he saw. Oh, maybe, yeah, maybe. It's like I'll get his number, call later, do a little riding together, you know?

Yeah, no plans for any of that. Believe me, the only soreness of my butt that I need is from that, that uncomfortable hard bike seat that I became friends with for 12 hours this weekend. Well, who knows? Maybe he was just being friendly and didn't know how to do it good. I'm sure he was being friendly, but, you know, the big fella term, maybe I didn't need so much. sure nobody wants to hear that uh well that's great so you're done uh ms is history we wiped it out yeah our team and and huge thanks again to everybody who listens to this show

who contributed whether it was five bucks or a hundred bucks i mean we had some incredible donations and and because of your donations um it pushed us over the one million mark for my team which is a friends and family team and is only the first or i'm sorry the fourth friends and family team not corporate sponsor anything like that to cross the $1 million raised mark in the history of the MS-150

Colorado so Jesus so they had a big event for us at the or not a big they had like a thing where they called us all up to the stage on Saturday after day one

and gave us all cookies that looked like money bags and rupees from Zelda basically with dollar signs on. It was really cool. It's better than

leftover hoagies that didn't get eaten or something like that. Way better than leftover hoagies, yeah, for sure. Nobody wants that. Well, that's great. Anyway, I'm glad it's over. I'm glad I did it. If you were asking me if I would do it again next year,

right now I'm on that. Yeah, probably. Here's the thing that entices me for next year is they're changing the route. So it's going from Boulder to Greeley and then back instead of Westminster to Fort Collins. So a much more east-west. ride than north-south but i have not looked up the elevations of those two cities to figure out

which day is going to be the worst day like which day is going to be the way more uphills and i'm worried that that uh greeley is is has a lower elevation than boulder so i'm worried that day two again is going to be like this all right a bunch of downhills and then uphill for the last 20 miles yeah and you can see the brain the brain trust we're at work here the people the planet they're sitting, like you said, a bunch of Lance Armstrong looking dudes going, you know it needs to be, we got to have some challenge in there. We got to get the... Right, exactly.

Give them another, where can we give him another hill? Yeah. Yeah, I don't like that. Hills suck. Yeah. And C. Mavros must be from Colorado because he says, smell that Greeley air. And he is, he or she is not kidding because Greeley has a big slaughterhouse called Monfort.

And when Tina went to school up there, Wednesdays were the most, Wednesdays were the day you made sure all the windows were closed in Greeley because that was a big slaughter day for the for Montfort and it just the whole town reeked wow I hear now that it smells like that seven days a week that it's not just Wednesday they've up to production you know they got a they got more burgers to sell or whatever so hold on a second if you so uh I've been in a town before for an extended period of time where they had a local local paper mill and it

was kind of the same problem, made the whole town just stink? Yeah, yeah. Is it the, I mean, what, are we talking, like, gross? Livestock. Bloody, like, more of a bloody iron blood smell. Ugh. Yeah. Yeah.

But not rotting necessarily. Like, it's not like old. Not a rotting smell, no. Okay. That's good. Like, all right, just looked it up. Boulder's elevation is 5,430 feet. And Greeley's elevation is 4,675 feet.

So an 800-foot difference, which doesn't sound like a lot, but for this ride that I did yesterday, I did an elevation, total elevation for day two was something like 1900 or 2000. And that, so what that means is it doesn't mean that that's the difference between the two cities. It means every time you're going uphill, it's counting that as elevation. And it's not subtracting that if you go downhill. So all of that, yeah. So all of that is going uphill and uphill and uphill and adding on those uphill rides.

So, yeah, I don't know. It means, I think it means that there'll be a lot more downhills on the way to Greeley than there will be. I just remember last year kind of the same thing. Every year I think it's like, okay, I don't want to think about it for a while. But then it'll come back around. You're like that lady that has eight kids. They have the one kid and they go, oh, I can't do that again. and then six months later

oh you know I could have another kid and it's like you was riding I could get back on that bike I could do this again yeah oh yeah and I know I will because it's a good cause and I can't

I feel like I can't let the donors down all the people who like you guys all you contributors out there I can't let Aunt Barb down I can't let the rest of my ain't too proud to sag team down

and boy Aunt Barb and Uncle George had a rough time of it yesterday they both completed day one no problem um but day two for them was like chain slipping and barb has an e-bike and at one point her chain got lodged in the the motor and so they had to uh yeah they had to like do some major work on the uh on the ride one of the guys that i rode with a guy who actually listens to tms um uh had a spoke pop out oh geez and so is and so his back wheel kind of tacoed a little bit

like bowed because those spokes keep you know keep the keep everything nice and uh align just right so he had to like get out his little little spoke wrench and like adjust all of the other spokes to like flatten out his wheel like oh my god that probably took forever too that does that's not an easy job that sounds like it doesn't seem like an easy job and that's something that if i were if it were to happen to me uh nope calling the rider hotline come pick me and my bike up take me to the end i'm done for the day oh no wait that's interesting there's a number you call and say I'm down, I'm down, come get me. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's with the whole

sag things. The ain't too proud to sag. The sag wagon is the big van that'll pick you and your bike up and take you either to the next rest stop or to the end if it's, you know, if you're permanently damaged. Yeah. If you're temporarily damaged, you get to go to the rest

stop, but you can tell them, you're like, nope, I'm done for the day. It's probably a fun job, just stopping and grabbing people and taking them, I don't know. It seems like it'd be kind of a blast. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I have a good with that. Yeah, when I did the first, the first year I did the ride and I accidentally made the wrong turn, ended up on the extended course, the course that goes up to horse tooth reservoir. I got to the final rest stop before the reservoir, knowing what the hill was that was ahead of me, and said, nope, I'm taking the sagwagon in. And because after waiting for 30 minutes, 45 minutes, and the sagwagon never showed up, I'm like, screw it. I'm just going to do it. And I got. back on the bike and I went up that stupid hill up to horse tooth and I vowed never to make that mistake again. So, so it, you know, it was a learning experience and it was a beautiful route and I'm

never doing that again either. Well, there you go. I mean, you had the experience. You don't need to do it twice. You're good. Exactly. Exactly. Um, well, while you were riding, I was at the zoo because we had a chance to take van to the zoo and I have a complaint about the zoo. So we have a year long membershipy things remember so anytime yeah cool thank goodness because we got there at 3 30 in the afternoon thinking we got the whole evening we're good here as long as we want we're here that place closes at six what zoo closes at 6 p.m you know what I mean all zoos am I insane are all zoos closed at six yeah well our zoo closes entry gates close at four and so you but if you get in there at 359 you're in, but you have to be out by five.

I don't know if it's a, if it's a, you know, give the animals some time to not have humans staring at them time or if it's, you know, the feeding time or whatever. But I don't know why, I don't know why they close at that time. Filling in the chat says on a Sunday, sure. No, it's every day, we found out. It's not just Sundays. It's every day at six. And here's the other thing.

As we're leaving, tons of people are coming in after they're telling us, we need to go. And I said to the lady, I said, if we're, how come you guys are letting all these people in? Oh, no, no, no. See, after six, when we close, we have, often we have big events here. So this is a company. They're doing their event here tonight. So then it hit me. I'm like, oh, that's what they do. This is another revenue stream for them. They rent out the whole zoo to like an insurance company and they have a retreat and everybody goes to the zoo and they have picnics and, you know, play games, ride the train, check out the animals and hang out till eight or nine o'clock or something like that. Maybe, yeah, maybe it is. I don't know if that's a,

it seems like something you'd want to just capitalize on only on the days you know you've got an event. I can't imagine they've got those events every, every day. Because our zoo, I'm looking at our hours for Denver Zoo, and it's, you know, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day. And it feels like if there's not an event that day they really don't they should stay open right so i would if they i would think so it's weird i guess i um uh i guess i don't know i don't know why i was surprised also i would have been annoyed if i was in there buying full price tickets not on my pass but just a full price ticket at almost for and not knowing that they closed in an hour and a half i would have been annoyed yeah for sure so thankfully it didn't matter that much but it was still fun we had a good time get on the train

yeah did stuff and i watched a fat guy throw up into a barrel so i don't That was cool. I mean, it was, you know, I didn't ask to see it. I didn't want to see it, but I had to see it. From afar, you know, he was probably, I don't know. Well, they tell you, don't feed the guy standing next to the trash can. They don't put those little food dispensers right next to the guy standing next to the trash can. That's true.

Yeah, they got a sign right there. Don't feed this guy. Yeah. That's what they tell you. Also, we are now, let's see. Today's the first. We are four days away. from the 24th, no, I'm sorry,

excuse me, 19th anniversary or 20th anniversary, I forget which, of the great 2005 last time I vomited. So I'm excited. He reminded me of that. I was like, oh, yeah, that's right. People barf. I don't, but hey. So it was a, it was a Fourth of July thing or post-Fourth of July thing?

Yeah, it happened on the 5th. And it was after some bad, we got bad food from a local, Mexican chain that everyone that I can't go to anymore since then. And we're going to, you know, we're going to see a great burrito. No, it was, um, what's the hooties in the chat? What's the name of the damn place everybody goes to, no salads and everything? Shit. I forgot the name of it.

Anyway. Taco, Taco Johns. No, those would have probably been a cafe Rio. That's it. Cafe Rio. Oh, yeah, we have those out here. Yeah. It's not the first time.

We had a weird running with them, but, uh, yeah, they, we all got. got it. The whole family got food poisoning. And that was the end of that. Never eating there again. That's funny. So 20 years. Or no, I guess if it was 2005, so 19 years. 19 years, yeah. So we're working on next year we'll really... Are you going to do something big for the 20th anniversary? Oh, yeah, dude, I'm really going to blow it out next year. Like Epicac pie or what's the castor oil, like a nice castoril parfait or something? Yeah, we'll do it right here on the air. We'll eat it on live. By the end of the show, I'll be.

hurling in a buck. It'll be perfect way to celebrate 20 years. Nice. Anyway, also, what else? Oh, we got a thing about the middle of the country. We were just talking about where the middle of the year is and it's tomorrow. Yeah.

We also had a discussion about when the middle of this country is or where the middle of it is and sort of Middle America slash, you know, Midwest, all that sort of stuff. The middle of the continental United States, yes. We got a, someone wrote in, let's see, do they give their name? They did not. It's a text. It says,

Hello, Scott and Brian. I'm currently listening to episode 2660, kissing Kansas, and you guys were wondering what the midway point of the U.S. is. I'm unsure if anyone else has written in about this yet, but I want to let you guys know that a small town of the small town of Kinsey, Kansas, boasts that it is the midway point. I have a lot of family there, and I'm hoping to call it, or I'm happy to call it home once again soon.

I'm sending a picture of the midway sign. It didn't come through, by the way. It was like some kind of web p format that didn't even, Oh, sure. That didn't even work either, even though I should be able to see WebPs, but it didn't work. Anyway, he says, I'm sending a picture there to show you where it's located with the parks near the museum. So, yeah, if you're a little town and you're right in the center of it, and you know that, you'd probably make a big deal out of it.

You have, like, parades and shit, right? Yeah. So I'm looking at their website, kinsliekS.com, and lovely, lovely Web 1.0 site here. No flashing gifts, but liberal use of the shadow, drop shadow filter. Oh my gosh, look at this thing. It's like the year is too, speaking of 2005, look at this website, good Lord. Yeah, anyway. But the top left there shows might be the sign that there that he's talking about that says,

New York, 1,560 miles that way and San Francisco, 1,560 miles that other way. Yeah, yeah, I think that's it. That must be, I'll bet that's the same sign. which is uh that doesn't make you the center though having two big northern cities that direction like pick two cities they're diametrically opposed well this is interesting they have they also have a minutes city council minutes section to the website oh nice and they stopped keeping those in 2018 so i don't know how active these uh the side is but uh if i'm ever in kinsley i'll stop and look at that sign i can promise you that absolutely that's pretty cool

I was hoping they had like a photos page or something. I'm just looking at the different visitors. Here we go. About Kinsley. This has got to have something. You would think. Kinsley is known for its Carnival Heritage Center Museum. It's also known for its prominent halfway sign marking midway, the equidistant point between San Francisco and New York City.

Wow. I'm looking at the, they've got a gallery here. It is really not much going on here. So here's what I, okay, here's what I want to do. I want to print out, 3D print, a map of the contiguous 48 states, right? Yeah. And then perfectly, like, balance on a pencils tip wherever Kinsley is on the map and see if the whole U.S. map stays balanced.

That's what I want to know. Interesting. Would we have to account for any curvature? I guess we don't. the maps are maps. It'll be as flat as maps. It should be the same amount of space on all sides. Their news section, last

updated May 29th, 2020. Same day for another post, then 2017, then 2016. I'm guessing not a lot happens in Kinsley. I'm just going to put it out there. Not a lot happens, yeah. Seems like a small town. Congratulations, basketball lady coyotes. Good job, guys.

City Hall now set up to take debit and credit card payments. Holy shit they have come far it's time for me to reach out to them and say can i read to your website please yeah please just i'll do it for free it's so bad let me just do it um all right we are going to take a turn we're going to call done away we're going to play a game we're going to give away some prizes it's the monday tradition uh here on the morning stream a little uh note programming note later in the show we will have bill to ran today and we have swapped positions with him and bobby this week because bobby had a thing

So I look forward to a little bit of confusion there. All right, here he is. Let's do it. Joining us now, Brian Dunaway, who is not at the center of the country, but he is the center of our hearts. Hi, Brian. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. That's awful, sweet of you to say. Well, we of course.

But did anyone say that I was at the center of the country? No, no. We were talking about it. Am I like it, the Tootsie Roll Pop? We're talking about a town in Kansas that is supposed to be the exact center of the country. And more and more, I'm finding information that it's not, that it's Lebanon, Kansas. Now, these guys, you know, Kinsley might be the center between New York and San Francisco, but Lebanon, Kansas is the...

Please tell me their sign and going into the city, something like, no, we're the center. That's what it should be, right? Exactly. It's like Shelbyville and Springfield fighting with each other. That's right. That's one, but Shelbyville on the map. Yeah, no, there, this map says, welcome to Belle Forch, the geocenter of the U.S. They have a sign that says in 1959 following the admission of Alaska and Hawaii

of the Union, the U.S. coast, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, designated a point 20 miles north of Belforch, South Dakota's the Geograph Center. Oh, that's funny. Okay, I'm on the page. Oh, I thought it was on the page for Lebanon. So anyway, okay. Belforch is the center of the U.S. if you include Alaska and Hawaii.

Oh, my God. Technicality. Oh, my God. Contraminous, or contraminous, United States. Yeah. So I got a question about that. How do you, do you don't measure the water? Do you just crunch all the land together and say, well, this is the distance between

if Hawaii was mushed up against the coast? What about the soil erosion? What happens then? So it's almost like a pointless thing. because now these two little towns are going to have their signs they're going to have their people

and what's the point does bodies of water inland count two you skip over those right do you count the great lakes like do you you know do you measure from

this land is my land this land is your right yeah come on yeah it's a great that we should we should have uh yeah July 4th it's a great week to talk about

where my land is Yeah. Yeah. How is your land? Do you like in your land right now? It's a little hot where your land is. This land is great. It's not as bad today. I've actually had a good bit of cloud cover recently where I'm at. And that makes it a lot better. Yeah. Doing better. Not great, but better. We have some beautiful cloud cover today. It's going to be an amazing day here. All right. Well, that's your weather. Now we move on to sports. And a game that Brian Ibbett has devised that he's going to have us play. Brian explained the whole damn thing so we know. We're done. That's right, Scott. Yes, welcome to the morning half-ass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you the answers. I'll give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct. And three, like both Lebanon and Kinsley, Kansas claiming to be the center, are incorrect. It would be underground because the earth is round. Oh, thank you, I-Corps. Depending on how confident they feel with the category, they can provide one, two or three answers. But if any of those answers are wrong, you get zero points for that round. Get one right, gets you a point. Two-right gets you three points, and three-right gets you five points for each round. We'll them all up at the end and the player with the most points gets the prize for their contestant these are the contestants you'll be playing for scott and brian scott you're

going to be playing for colton in nashville sweet love it bring it brine you're going to be playing for roman caballero in jacksonville florida oh hey hey hey it's the battle of the vills nashville versus jacksonville yeah oh look i think you'll do it'll be fine you can you're going to work hard for your guy they're done away and it's fine. I hope you maybe come close to winning. That's all. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Well, then, yeah.

Oh, shot's fired. All right, let's get to this. Let's get to the first question. Remember, you're going to tell me the three things that match the category. Let's start with question number one. I love this one. Songs that Bill Murray has sung in a movie. So which three of these are songs that Bill Murray

has sung in a movie? The bare necessities. I shall be released. Do wa-ditty-ditty. What's so funny? about peace, love, and understanding, Silent Night, and you've lost that love and feeling. Three of these, Murray has sung in a movie, and three of them, he has not sung in a movie.

You get no bonus points, if you tell me the movie. No boinus points. No, no, boino. No, boino. I think I know these, but I'm... So I'm feeling saucy. Let's go three.

I'm doing three. Okay, all right. Ooh, that's what I did, too. You both sauceded in on. three very good all right um the bare necessities where uh where did you sing that one uh newer jungle this is the new jungle booker it is the new jungle booker it is the new jungle book exactly where he where he's blue the voice of blue and bill murray indeed sings uh the bare necessities uh silent night probably from on he had that movie he was grouchy he was scrooged horrible horrible movie

scrooged it was a horrible movie and he did not sing in that movie no uh nope uh what What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding? Neither of you guys picked that. He sings that in the karaoke bar in Lust and Translation. The other one, Scott got Duwadiddy. Of course, he's saying that in Stripes when he's doing the exercises with his. I should have stayed with two. I was going to do two.

And then I, damn it. It's good to go risky with the first one because that, you know, that may dictate things. Because exactly. That's where you've got nothing to lose, right? You've got no points, so you're coming into it. And, Brian, you've lost that last, lost that. Love and feeling. That was Tom Cruise and Top Gun. Come on now. All right. Let's get to question number two. There's no sense they couldn't have both sung it.

That's true. It's true. Yes. It certainly could have. All right. Words once protected as trademarks, which three of these are words once protected as trademarks. You've got elevator, aspirin, trampoline, gasoline, gasoline, toothpaste, and videotape. Three of these were once protected as. Please don't have a gasoline. gasoline, trampoline. Please. It sounds very dangerous. Three of these are words once protected as trademarks. I'm going to go a little more conservative this time. Try two. All right. You go with two?

My way with two. Two? I'm going with two as well. I'm going with two as well. Probably shouldn't have. Okay. And both of you for your two chose aspirin. Aspirin was once protected as a trademark. Very good. Scott, you went videotape. Brian, you went elevator. The actual answers are aspirin, trampoline, and videotape. Scott, three points for you.

The giveaway there was that it wasn't separate words, and that's what made me think it was maybe trademarkable. Oh, as much I guess it would apply to toothpaste. It would apply to toothpaste, too. I was thinking, when I did this question, as I was entering because I always play along, right? I was thinking, oh, well elevator sounds like it would be a this sounds like a high-tech thing. It elevates

you, it is the elevator. So I thought that might have been somebody's trademark name, but I'll tell you what, though. I never thought much about toothpaste, but man, there was no thinking there. No. No. Paced for your teeth. No. No. Just like, hey, how are your teeth? They're a little dirty? You need,

what do you need? Some paste? Here's some toothpaste. I got this I got this concoction. Yeah. You mean paste like glue? Why would I want to apply paste, uh, gluce, uh, substance to my teeth? Props to you for not including obvious ones like Kleenex. I mean, some of those are too easy.

Well, of course. Of course. These are good. Band-Aid, I guess is another one. Exactly. Exactly. All right. All right.

Let's get to question number three. Uh, this is poisonous mushrooms. Which three of these are poisonous mushrooms? Your choices are fools webcap, destroying angel, deadly galerina, blinding Angel, Death Spore Thalid, and Nice Whisper. Three of these are real poisonous mushrooms. The other three totally fine to eat. Cook them in your next pizza.

Oh, my gosh, dude. Some of these sound obvious, but obviously that's part of the trick here. It's pride of the trick, right? You're going into this round three points, Brian. I know, I know. You either need to go to and try to tie or go all in and try and win it. I don't know. You can't say whether these are even all mushrooms, right?

I can't say that. No, I cannot. Okay. I want some of these to be true. I'm going to go with things I want to be true. Instead of things that are true, I'm going to go with things that I want to be true. Sure, sure. I'm choosing one.

Okay. I don't feel confident on this one at all. I want that one to be true. I mean, death spores should be true, right? I want that one to be true. I picked the two that I want to be true. Death Spore. You guys went with the whole right side.

Blinding Angel, Death Spore, Thalid, and Knights Whisper, I am pleased to tell you that all three of those are incorrect. It's actually all the ones on the left. Fool's Webcap, Destroying Angel, and Dudley Gallerina. Those were your three right ones. But that means, Scott, with three points to Brian Zero. You win, and you win the prizes for your contestants. So congratulations, going to. Colton in Nashville, you're walking away with

Football Manager 2020 and Hyperlight Drifter on Steam. Hyperlight Drifter is an all-time great indie game. That's a fantastic video game. They're going to love that. You're really good one.

But Roman Cabiero and Jacksonville, Florida, you're going to be getting Titan Quest anniversary. Also, congratulations. I won't lie. That's also a very good game. It's really good. And the remaster is even better.

The only loser here, really, if you think about it, is Dunaway. To me. Yeah. You're the only one. So congratulations. Congratulations. To you for being the greatest loser of today. Now, Wednesday, you'll get a chance to make up for it.

All right. So you'll come back. Rematch. Yeah, it'll be a rematch to end all rematches. It'll be a great time between now and then. Dunaway, is there anything you'd like to say or recommend or tell people that you're up to or anything at all before we go or let you go? absolutely we're playing toe jam and earl this week and we're going to talk more about it later but i've already started working towards my retro achievements

what do you think the first one is scott uh oh probably doesn't one of them fart a lot or something there's some kind of um yeah it's the 90s everything's gross right yeah it's all boogers and stuff like that so i don't know what the first one would be though it's been forever since i play that game so i'm guessing it's like a fart is that right is that the first achievement no it's not i think it's be excellent to one another i think that's right Oh, okay. Well, that's kind of sweet then. I like that.

Yeah, I like that, yeah. Well, good luck on all your playthrues before we have to talk about it for real on Friday. And we'll see you on Wednesday. No you. No you. All right. There he goes. Brian's time for a little bit of news and it's coming in hot.

Today's news is brought to you by... Brought to you by trivia for Brian. Scott asks, what was the first movie to be rated PG-30? And I remember talking about this on FilmSack, and I can't remember if it was the, you know, we talked about it being the first popular film to be PG-13, if it was actually the first film. But it was either Indiana Jones in the Temple of Doom or it was Red Dawn. And I want to say we talked about it during Red Dawn. Was it Red Dawn?

Let's find out if it was Red Dawn. That is correct. Nicely done. Yeah, the Indiana Jones one was one of the ones that forced the change. That prompted it. Okay, that's what it was. I knew that that was somehow related to that. That one and Grimblins were the two that were the big push.

Oh, sure. Yeah. Dingo, dinkle. You're showing an old lady flying out of the roof of her house on a stair climber. It seems like you don't want the little kitties to see that one. Yeah. There was stuff, you know, pulling hearts out and junk and eating monkey brains. And, I mean, I can't fault them for trying to find a middle ground.

No, no. You don't want those 12-year-olds thinking that they can grab an inflatable raft and jump out of a plane and survive. It's an impressionable time in a young man's life. That's right. Never forget those years. They're important. That's right. Let's get to this story.

It's about a donkey. It's a pet donkey. Donkey! In California, five years ago, a pet donkey was lost. They found it this week or a week a half ago. He's been spotted living with a herd of wild elf. elk. He was adopted, you know, like picked up. Awesome. Yeah, I just picked up and like Mowgli and the before mentioned jungle buck living with a pack of wolves or whatever it was.

Yeah. This is that Tarzan story told again. When Diesel the donkey ran away on a hike near his home outside of Sacramento, California five years ago, his owners have assumed the worst ever since. They figured he was gone. Perhaps dead, bloated corpse. We don't know. Ew. I mean, you know, it could be less, could be worse. Anyway, he says he's not aggressive. He's a lover, not a fighter, says Terry Drury. He told an affiliate K-O-V-R in 2019, days after Diesel's escape. But right now he's scared, he said at the time. Well, years passed without a sign of life from Diesel until earlier this year when a hunter spotted him or spotted and filmed a herd of at least a dozen elk in the northern California wilderness. among them strangely was a wild burrow or burrito which is little burrow uh drury is positive the monkey the donkey

donkey is in the hunter's video is her diesel uh finally we saw him as her quote uh this month after the instagram video began making headlines finally we know he's good he's living his best life he's happy he's healthy uh and it was just a big relief so they're letting it go it's just Yeah, let him live. He's, exactly, he's living the life. He's, he's found his, his tribe, his people. So for five years, you know, you don't want to take him back out of that and go visit him. Go see if he remembers you, but I say let him live with the, the other one.

Yeah, let him have a good time with you. Isn't it a bummer that, you know, we pronounce monkey like that, but we don't pronounce donkey like that. So it's like a donkey. It would be great if it was called a donkey. It was pronounced donkey, but still spelled. If it was done, it was the other way, it'd be. monkey? A monkey. Yeah, I don't know if I like that. None of that sounds right. Oh, we're going to go see the monkeys. And maybe a donkey if we get lucky. And maybe a donkey. The donkey cage.

Yeah, I don't know why we do that. That's weird, isn't it? It is weird. English. How does it work? It's very inconsistent. Here's a nice story. I've waited a long time for this, says a woman, who earned her Stanford master's degree to age 105. 105. Oh, man. Nicely done. It's like a She went to live with a herd of elk. That's right. She's also the temperature of Vegas right now. Virginia Hill-Sopped took 83 years to get her master's degree from Stanford University. Now at 105 years old, she's finally graduated.

My goodness, I've waited a long time for this, she says, walking across the stage on Sunday to receive her diploma. She was cheered on by her family, grandchildren, and the 2024 graduating class. Daniel Schwartz, the dean of Stanford's Graduate School of Education, were called worrying he would tear up as he introduced Hill-Sop to the stage. I used to know a hill Sop. I doubt they're related it. And I bet this one, this one I think is H-I-S-L-O-P. Oh, yeah, I'm swapping that L-N- that S, aren't I? H-S-L-L-O-P.

That's probably why I'm doing it because they, that's... Because you're well, you're familiar with the Hillsop. Yeah, and they were very nice people. And I remember they grew a bunch of strawberries that they would never have enough. They could never consume because they had so many. So all the neighbors would get a bucket of strawberries every year from the Hill-Sops. Nice. Yeah, it was nice.

They were good people. I assume some of them are still alive. I don't know. Still good people, I suppose. Good people with good strawberries. It says, before I even got to the teary part, the crowd had erupted and broke out in a standing ovation, he said. Virginia got her education at a young age. She just didn't get her degree. It's a great opportunity to come back and celebrate the life of come back in education.

Hilsop, or sorry, Hizlop. It's hard for me. It's hard. It also doesn't feel like it's the right. like we like those LS combinations. The SL is in the middle of where it is harder. What if it's high slop? It might be high slop.

High slop. You know? Sure. His lop? His lop. His lop-eared bunny. She had to leave Stanford early in 1941 when her then fiancé George was called to serve in the Second World War, the Great War. They called it.

Or no, that was the First World War. That was the First War was the Great War. The Second War was the Not-so Great War. one they called the war to end all wars was that also one that was i think world war two was that or no yeah i always i always think it's one because it i used to i used to go it's kind of ironic if it's one right yeah it's like no it's not you're not done yet it's not the last one it might be yeah might be oh there we go yeah people uh people are confirming world war one the word the word end all wars well it didn't work guys didn't at least they didn't try that again then for world war two right well well

that one. That tagline, Phil, let's not use that ever again. Yeah, exactly. It says she left Stanford in early 41 when this happened, and it was unable to complete her thesis. She put her degree on hold and her university days behind her. She'd later moved to Washington to raise her family. When her son-in-law contacted the university recently, though, she discovered, or he discovered, that the final thesis was no longer required to obtain that degree. She was eligible to graduate decades earlier. She just didn't know it. Excellent. So she's done. She sounds like she's pretty with it, too. Totally, yeah. 105. Good for her.

Well, done, lady. It's awesome. What does she think of the internet? All right. Moving on. One final story. A Florida man has been arrested after shooting and destroying a Walmart delivery drone. It's spying on me. When you look at this guy's face, too, you'll just be like, course he did. Can I just predict it? You probably can.

Yeah. Let's see, where is he? There he is. I mean, look at that guy. Oh, yeah. that's that's a guy that would shoot a drone out of the sky right there for sure yeah he's behind bars after he allegedly schlott shot a delivery drone rendering it inoperable in lake county this is the deputies who were called to the walmart after drone delivery representative reported the incident so is that how it works now if you get one of those and i know they're happening now you a guy at walmart literally like up the road from you can load up a drone and his it's just off to your house, right? I see that how works. Yeah, I don't know.

I have not, I don't know if they do these in Colorado, but if they do, it makes me want to order something just so I can see what this experience is like. Wild. Yeah, it's really cool. And I guess it's, it's not, it's not, it's not, what's the word I'm looking for?

Like, he's not piloting it. He's plugged in your address and the drone is going up, going on the route. And so, you know, you've got to worry about, like, what about competing Walmarts? Yeah, yeah. Could there be, like, a little no-fly zone because they both go in delivering to neighboring addresses from different directions but crash into each other? I'm guessing there's probably some kind of like elevation, de-elevation thing it makes when, like, it knows something's kind. Because I'm sure they're, I don't know any of this, but I would assume that they would want them to be aware of each other.

I would hope so. I would hope so, yeah. You don't want your stuff crashing. Some sort of agreed upon frequency that they operate on that says, oh, approaching another drone, back off, or whatever. It says while waiting a drone delivery descent, this crew stood in front of a home. And this is, by the way, this was all a test. This wasn't like a regular thing.

Oh, gotcha. Okay. So really, yeah, all right. So I don't know how, that's why I'm saying. I don't know how common this is yet. I know it is in some places. I just don't know where these places are. I know I can't get it.

So, you know, I think it's. And obviously he's, it wasn't a delivery to his house because he would have been expecting it. So he just saw it and said, hey, I'm shooting that thing. Yeah. Where did they bring him my USB cables? Peepo, pew, pew. Take it out. While awaiting the delivery, the crew stood out front of a home located in a cul-de-sac.

When the drone began to descend, one of the reps said he heard a loud shot. This is consistent with a gun, he said. The rep told deputies he saw a 60-year-old white man wearing blue jeans and a blue shirt at the side of his home, holding a gun toward the sky and the drone. My guess is this guy had, he's already got a drone problem. He is sick of these drones. He's, exactly. He's already paranoid about them. Yeah.

So he's looking for him. He thinks people are spying on him. They come zipping around during the summer and he's like, what the hell is that thing? And he's had enough. And the one day he chose to get his vengeful moment, he shot a commercial one out of the sky. Right. And now he's arrested. He will pay $2,500 worth of damage and what else?

criminal mischief and discharging a firearm in public or residential property which I thought you could do in Florida without any trouble I guess not I guess not I thought they were like shoot them wherever you want to shoot him exactly like if it's above your property

if it's within the the borders of your home and directly above it although I guess this was landing in a cul-de-sac so yeah yeah well good luck to him and his blue t-shirt.

He needs to indicate, talk to the FAA and get his house marked as a no-fly zone or something. Yeah, something like that. Avoid this guy's place, no matter what. Exactly. All right, we are going to take a break when we come back. Bill Durant will join us on a Monday as he swaps with Bobby. And we don't know what he's bringing, but I'm excited. I actually know one thing he's going to mention, and I'm very stoked about it.

So watch for that. That's coming up right after this song that Brian has to now explain. Yeah, so we got a band called Chaser. They are Southern California melodic punks. They have their first new album in three years. It's called Small Victories. And this is really, really good. The first album was called Dreamers.

We might have played something from that on this show before. But these guys are great. The band is Chaser. The brand new album is called Small Victories. Here's the first single. It's called Stay Gold. A torrent in black, we walk away, everyone in disbelief, we gathered here today, and now left with only memories, but your spirit carries on.

Unlike the same, girls had nothing gold in life can never stay Yeah, you remain Will I found my way Without you forever home I fly in blind and in my mind The thoughts I can't ignore Will I walk away From the stronger than before

Until I see you on my final day Will I find my way? I struggle with the choice I made. I could have seen you one last time Well I've gotten in a way A heart of gold you've lived sincere And it's last there will remain and shine out through the news

And still we'll never know what fate As in its planet until the day So it's a day Will I find my way Without you forevermore I'm flying blind and in my mind Thoughts I can't ignore Will I walk away

From this stronger than before Until I see this, Until I see you on my final day Will there be a time like I seen I'll be living every dream And the image takes the breath right out of me Yeah Will there come a time in my life

When my world will be all right And your revolution won't be all I say Is it a dream Will I find my way Will I find my way without you're flying in my mind? And I'll find my way Without you forevermore I'm flying blind and in my mind

Our thoughts I can ignore Will I walk away From the stronger there before until I see you on my final day will I find my way when will i see what's beyond my mouth in the trees when I find my way when will my world ever be wronged when I find my way your heart of gold will always stay where I find my way your heart of gold will never fade My cover in this world is fashion modeling.

But because I have no sponsor, the other models refuse to work with me, and so I've remained somewhat obscure. Obscure, huh? Maybe there's some other reason they love to hate you. Could it be that you're obnoxiously perfect? Thanks. I suppose I should be flattered. Who do you think you're talking to? Have you lost your mind? And we're back, everybody. Hey, Brian, what was that song one more time? I forgot already.

Oh, I'm happy to tell you. That's a band called Chaser, Southern California, melodic punk band. That's their first single. I'm sorry, really, it's the third single. They've released three singles total from their brand-new album, Small Victories. That is the third one, and it's called Stay Gold. Nice. but not pony boy no

the pony boy not part of the the title if anyone else out there's reading red rising you'll know why stay gold has real has a dark meaning to it oh really interesting oh yeah so good gosh dang it that series uh all right welcome to the program everybody one builderan we have a little thing that we play for him

so I'll do that first where is it there's still something wrong isn't there bill for my money there's never anything wrong with builderan he comes and joins us on the monthly to talk cool stuff in the maker world i know he's been making cool shit i don't know what he brought today but i'm excited either way bill welcome back hello and good morning good morning it did bring something pretty freaking cool you know what you know what's great oh well i don't know in order to do this in but i'm just going to say the thing you're going to talk about that it was associated with the good

news is, it is being received with unanimous praise. Probably, probably because I made a prop from it. I'm sure it's 100% the reason is because you made a prop. I'm sure it's not because the video game that they made is great or that they're right. All right. Let's quit teasing everybody and tell them what you made. What do you got here?

So a while back, the folks from Cyan Worlds reached out to us. So the Cyan Worlds made Mist. They made Riven. They made a bunch of other games. in that series they made a bunch of other games not in that series they're still around they are still doing it out in Spokane Washington yeah they remade missed a couple of times and then recently they remade Riven and that just came out

last week yep so they reached out because they wanted to work with us in some way and this remake of Riven seemed like a really good opportunity for it and they actually let us pick they said make whatever you want from Riven, make something cool, we'll support it, and I decided to make the dagger. It's called the Moyetti Dagger from Riven. Right when you start the game, you're in this little cell, and right when you step out, there's a huge version of it.

It's like 10 feet tall behind you there, this big old, big old dagger. Yep. And there's little icons of it all over the place. So it's kind of this iconic thing from the game, which is one of the reasons why I wanted to make that. There was another really good reason, and I'll tell you that in a minute. But let me tell you about the build. So every once in a while, I just got to do a project that really pushes what I'm capable of.

And that's what this one was. This dagger, I 3D modeled it. It's a fairly simple design for a 3D model. I 3D printed it to make a prototype and kind of figure out the scale and everything. Also, if anyone wants to print their own, I have the 3D model. is available for free. You can go print your own. You'll need a quarter 20 or a 6mm rod,

threaded rod to put it together. But yeah, that's all free and available. I 3D printed the whole thing as a prototype, and then I started making each of those parts out of aluminum. Oh, wow. Is this that, Wayne, is this first build with anything aluminum, or have you done that before? I can't remember.

I've done a few little things here and there, but nothing quite so ambitious as this. It turns out there were some aspects of this build that I did not account for. So I learned a lot. I learned a lot. I also broke a trim router. But I had a spare. Yeah, no, you know, you're not living if you don't have a backup trim router somewhere.

Yeah, doesn't everybody have a backup trim router? I mean, I thought that was standard. So I learned a lot about using the C&C router to cut out really thick parts. Some of the stock was like an inch and a quarter thick of aluminum. And there are very custom parts, too, three-dimensional surfaces at a couple of crashes. So when you're using a CMC machine, any time the machine stops moving when you want it to continue moving, that's considered a crash. In this case, one time I was telling the machine to go way too fast. and the spitting bit that's cutting the aluminum

ends up burying itself in the aluminum the machine stops moving and if you leave it for a minute or two maybe not a minute for a little long the router starts smoking I learned oh geez oh god that's not

that's not what killed the router a couple more crashes later and I actually cracked the housing on the on the router so that I'm surprised I'm surprised it had enough I mean, what caused the crack? I always think of aluminum is so soft and malleable and stuff.

Yeah. So it was part of the router that cracked. And I think it was a cast aluminum part on the router that cracked. It was also the, there's a little button on the router that holds the spindle in place so you can put a wrench in there and tighten your bits. I may have been horsing on that a little hard. And I ran it into, and I basically drove it into a chunk of a little. aluminum three or four times.

So I was cutting a machine with the machine too fast and also I was cutting a slot, a very thin slot and once it got deep enough the chips that it was producing were enough to clog it up and bind the spinning bit.

Oh wow. So I learned you got to either cut a wider slot or have air blowing in there to blast all those chips away or something. You got to do something different to prevent that. from happening. Yeah, that sounds gnarly. Also expensive. I don't want to know what one of those costs. Yeah, it's probably a lot. Yeah, it's not too, too expensive, but it was definitely gnarly and a little nerve-wracking. I was basically, so some of the cuts I set up, it took like three hours. So I had to sit there and babysit this spinning whirling dervish of death and destruction. I had to babysit it for like three hours while I waited for it to finish up. So it was a little nerve-wracking. But we got all the pieces cut. out and then I

needed to sand them all. There's just no getting out of it. I end up having to sand everything I make. Sure. The CEC router leaves these little tool machining marks everywhere and you just got to go in there with a sander and remove them all. They look like, yeah, they look like little like 3D print filaments

and stairs up. Yeah. Totally. Yeah. So I did that. That was like five straight days of work. And then the handle I had to, of course, make from real wood. And I used my wood lathe and a place of rosewood. Yeah, I'm watching

do this on the lathe right now and putting the five little grooves in there. That is so cool. It's so satisfying. It's really, really fun. Oh, that it is. Yeah, that looks like it would be. I haven't used my woodlather than a few years.

It's really satisfying to crack that thing out. And realize I still know how to use it. Always fun. So you're using a hand jigsaw thing. I don't know what those are called. Yeah. On a punk of metal. Right.

How'd that go? So that didn't, it didn't work out great. I ended up using a drill press to drill a bunch of holes around that perimeter to then go in and cut out the material. Okay. So that was, that middle part there that I was trying to remove with a jigsaw. I didn't need any of that. I just needed to get rid of it. And I thought it would be quicker to do it by hand as opposed to letting the CNC machine do it.

That was a bit of a, that was a couple days of struggle right there. Oh, I'm sure. Yeah. Yeah. But we got there. We got it across the finish line. Nice. Again, I learned a ton. You had a very short, well, you and I spoke offline, so I already knew about this part, but you had a very short deadline for this thing. Yeah. So here's the reason why, and it was really cool. We were going to deliver this for the Ribbon launch, which was Tuesday, which was just under a week ago.

Yeah. And then they said, well, I said, you know, I want to go deliver it. Spokane, Washington's like four or five hours away. It's a bit of a drive. but we could make it out there, and I would love to deliver it in person. And they said, well, you know, we're having our launch party on Saturday. If you want to come up for that, which I did. I really did, but it cut three days off my door. It means that all of a sudden you've got three less days to get everything done. Yeah.

But we did it. We got it all done. We drove it out there and delivered it in person. So they're in Spokane, Washington. I got to hand deliver it to Rand Miller himself. one of the two brothers that made the original Mist, he's still there. It's a really cool guy, still making

video games. We got to film with him, so he's in the end of our video. In the video... No, that's Rand Miller, right? Yeah, Robin did the music, I believe. And a lot of them. I know they were both the two,

like in the first game, they're the two guys. Bring me just the red pages. Red page. Don't bring me the blue pages. That's right. So, yeah, we got to meet the whole company. It's only like 30 people. They're the oldest independent video game company in the world, and they're still out there doing their thing.

In the video, behind us, if you see the end of the video where I'm delivering it to Rand Miller, and behind us, there's a large version of the dagger that I made, right? Oh, look at that, yeah. So they commissioned that. I like your special effects that you just, like, you teleport in or something. Well, you've got to use the missed book to teleport. Oh, you linked, right. Of course, you linked there, of course.

Yeah. Oh, look at that big one on the wall back there. That is so cool. Here's the fun story about that. They commissioned that for Ribbon in 1997. When they were making the game, they thought they were going to use that in the game. They ended up not using it in the game. They ended up going with a CG dagger.

But that one there, they had to commission a real one to get made. So they hired Jamie Heinemann's company. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. But this was in 1999, 1997. This was before Mythbusters. Yeah, right before a couple years. He handed the job over to one of his employees, one Adam Savage.

So that was made by Adam Savage. No way. Wow. Yeah. That's cool. So that's one of the reasons why I knew this story. It was one of the reasons why I wanted to make the dagger. That's pretty awesome.

Is this actually, so question for you, I don't want to reveal too much behind the curtain here. But is this his genuine reaction opening this and seeing it for the first time and all that? Or did you guys already look at it? We already looked at it ahead of time. Okay, cool. That's how you do it. Yeah, you don't want him to, you know, open it and go, oh, this sucks. I don't want that.

And then that's your footage. Yeah, I know. How much is that thing way, by the way? It's significant of a couple pounds. Even though it's aluminum. Yeah, it looks like it's got some heft to it. It does, and it feels really good. So everyone at Sand was awesome.

Rand was really great. Just really genuine, really pumped to have us. be a part of what we were doing. The studio they have there, they own the building, they own the property. When they had a lot of success with MIS, that's what they did. So they're really permanent. They have all the props. They have all the props that they made for Rivid and Mists still.

I got to play with them. We shot another video with just the old props. That video just went up on our YouTube channel. I got to hold the original MIST. book. Whoa. Oh, really? Oh, very cool. Dude. Yeah. Yeah, that's not, that's not even like a, it's not like a replica. That thing they used in the video, like in the game. Yeah. That's so cool. And they still have, they have all the costumes they made. We're going to have to go back to film more because they just had so much cool stuff. We didn't get to cover at all. Did you, did you get to see? Oh, what am I, what am I thinking of here? Oh, did he get to see your book that you made? Did you take that with? We also brought our book. of course that's awesome you put a little video screen or something in yours right is that right to yeah so i used this old cell phone which could actually play missed on it and that's so when you open the book the screen is showing yeah i love it so you can actually play missed on the uh phone

in the book from mist i love it that's great that's awesome that's really great dude well congrats on that whole thing and and tell me build time on this that that blew my mind you did this in like what less than a week or about a week i started it i started it on a Monday and we delivered it on a Saturday. Jeez, Louise. Yeah. That's a lot. It was a lot.

It was a lot. I'm not going to live. Especially because you're trying to... And I'm not way steep in another similar project right now. Yeah. But especially because you're like, not only do I have to have this on a certain day and I only have this much time to do it, but I'm also going to decide to really push my boundaries on this one.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Probably something I haven't done before. Yeah. We could go wrong. Congratulations. You beat the odds. I'm impressed. It's awesome.

I keep doing that. Eventually, my luck's going to run out. But hopefully not on the project I'm doing right now. Yeah. Hopefully no more routers of any kind will fail on you and, you know, no more new tools to buy. Well, good job. It's up at punishprops.com. Everybody all linked up, ready to rock.

You can also find it on the YouTube channel as well. Bills are anything else you want to leave with us today before we go? Yeah. One more recommended video here, our pal Ali Spagnola. She has done so many weird things to her car. and he recently turned it into Pikachu. Oh, yeah, I saw this on her TikTok. This is great.

And she finally took all the chia stuff and the pop sockets and all that stuff off it. But she went nuts. She went way over the top of this build, put all sorts of features in it. It's bananas. It's worth checking out. That car has been, that car has seen some business. And I look at it now, even with these changes. And it still just seems like she had a new car for it.

Does that make sense? It's not a mess. There aren't Chia pet shit still hanging on. You know what I mean? Or all the pop socket things or all that stuff. Oh, I forgot her about her dildo thing. The music. Yeah, I've seen that right now on the video.

I forget all about that. Like a dildo piano or a vibrator piano. She's awesome. Well, that's great. Go check her out as well. Alex Bagnola on the YouTube there. Bill, have a fantastic week, month, year, really. but we'll see in like you know four weeks is all all right and uh say hi to your wife and your cats

and all that stuff all right see you friend bye now that's great i want one of those i want more aluminum things in general i'm a fan it's my favorite favorite metal i like it it is a good metal it's light and pliable and relatively easy to work with and uh yeah yeah i like it a lot uh all right well there goes bill tomorrow bobby so come back for some science tomorrow we're going to talk about something very weird. It's been coming across my feeds, and he decided to do it. I'm really glad because I don't understand it. Oh, good.

Yeah, it's going to be... I can't wait to hear what it is. It's going to be something else, man. It's going to be good for me and you, because when you and I hit our, like, 70s or 80s, we're going to want this technology that's coming. Excellent. Penile extension technology. Great.

Can't wait to talk about that on the science segment tomorrow. Nailed it. All right. That's it for that. Warpforged had a question, though. Okay. I think he's in the chat. today. I saw him earlier.

He had this question. He texted. He says, do either of you believe in aliens? Are they walking among us is the follow-up. And here's the thing. I've already made this clear, I think. I think that it's impossible, given the infinite nature of the universe,

it's impossible that there isn't other life somewhere. Correct. I'm completely with you on that. Yes. Now, the poll, are they walking among us part? Probably not. Probably not. Probably not walking. They hover. and they live in Finland and that's what we know

so far. Yeah, that's all we know, right? Just a few inches above the ground and what is it? Heartbeats through their skin you can see it like a baby fish. Yeah, you see a baby fish heartbeat coming through their chest and that's how we know their aliens. I don't think anything's walking among us though for a minute. Yeah, I don't think I don't think there are human-looking aliens

walking among us. If aliens have made it to Earth, they're probably looked in a form that that's something that we just don't recognize as alien or don't see or something like that but i think it's far more likely that they're on their world far away and we're on ours and neither of us have uh developed the warp technology to to go and see the other yeah so the end my answer is always just they probably exist yeah uh but that's all we have it'd like to pontificate further than that that's where

people get into trouble it's like well i saw something up in the sky yesterday and it's real blurry and hard to tell well it's okay yeah yeah it could have been anything you're Weirdo. I got a floaty in my right eye right now that if I wanted to, I could say it was an alien hovering right over here. You could be like, you know, I've just got the sight. I can see the aliens. You can't see them. You have to be like me and have the special sight. Like the ghost guy from a couple of weeks ago. Freaking up that guy. Right. There's somebody posted a video or not somebody that we know, but somebody posted a video of potentially seeing aliens flying above red rocks during a concert. And listen, I've been to Red Rocks, and I've breathed the air in a crowded audience of attendees to concerts at Red Rocks, and I think you could pretty much see anything you want to see. Yeah. If you've got an imagination, you can see it, you know.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, there's an article about it right here. Red Rock's employees report seeing UFO in night sky above-framed Colorado concert venue. Yeah, probably during a fish concert, is my guess. Leftover salmon. The aliens are flying high over the string cheese incident. Yeah. This guy says the amphitheater employee said the large disc-shaped craft, of course,

appears to have three levels of windows. Windows 10, 11, and a preview of 12. It's a lot of windows. Three hard drives. Windows 3.1 and 95. Yeah. We just need a Florida guy to show. shoot it down. That's really all we need. Yeah, I know, I know a guy. We know a guy. He can

you know, yeah, I know yeah, he'll do that for us. Yeah, he's currently paying a horrible bill for his malfeasance. Well, anyway, thank you for that word forage, and there's your answer. If you'd like to send in your own question, thought, comment, whatever, it doesn't matter how crazy or weird or off you might think it is. Send it in and we'll read it. 8-1-47-1-4062 or you can email us the morning stream at gmail.com. Our website is frogpants.com slash TMS, and you may noticed that everything over there seems to have had the furniture moved around. Big, big site changes.

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the dear listener, to go and to experience yourself firsthand. Nice. All right, that is it for today. We're going to get out of here. But with some music. And to do that, but with, we're going to need Brian to tell us

what it is we're going to play. So please tell us. Yeah, sitting on that seat for 12 hours, my butt width has increased by about three or four inches. Nico rode in and said, hello, Schnitzel, and Bratworth. I'm sending this message from Breton, Germany,

at the Pieto and Paul Festival. I'm normally from California, but I got to go on a trip with my university to sing at this glorious Renaissance festival in Germany. I'm only here for another week, but I thought it would be appropriate to request a song from Romstein, one of my all-time favorite bands that's also

from Germany. If not Romstein, then anything German would be rad. I'm listening to all the Frog Pan's shows on the 12-hour flight home, so I know I'll be in great hands. Keep up the awesome work, signed, Nico. Nice. Well, hopefully you're having a great trip. Nico, that sounds fantastic, and I can't wait to hear about you getting

to sing at this. I'm guessing like an a cappella group or something. Tell us more. When do you get a chance? But hope you're having a great trip. Romstein, not known for doing a bunch of covers. However, I do have this one. This was a single that they released in 1997 covering another German band, and one of that German band's most favorites are famous songs.

That band is Craft Work, and the song is The Model, or Das Model. Here is Romstein covering Craftworks, The Model. Ladies and messieurs, we have the honor this night to you present the new collection of Ramstein. She is a model and she is a model and she sees good out. I'm going to take she today today today with me to me to my house. She will be so cool, and she comes nigham! She comes never at run.

But, for the camera, there's she what she can. She trinked in the nightclub server sect, correct. Sheidelberg light, your young's lex stradralled. She's good out, and She's good out, and she's Yeah Yeah

Yeah We're going to be. She stands to show for the Consum Product And it's from million-oen-augged Her new title-build is just fabul-aubst I've got it. I must see

I think she has it has got it. I'm going to be able to be. Oh, This show is part of the FrogPant Network. Yes, get more at frogpant.com.