The Morning Stream - TMS 2674: Kinda Hootery

Episode Date: July 11, 2024

Nun in the Bucket. Hootie at Hooters. Mr. Roboto cohost. Weird meat nugget. Poop on Glass. All the Suddens. Snakes Gonna Snake. Bite Twice to Neutralize. Leopard print suspect. Cat Action Satisfaction. Taking the rage quit deal. Crusty Hairy Push. full burger habit. There Is A Zipcode Involved. Tech time with Wendi and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A little bird just told me that there is always room in the Patreon for new people. I really think this bird is on to something. Take his advice and sign up today at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, none in the bucket. Hootie at Hooters. Mr. Robato co-host. Weird meat nugget. Poop on glass.

All the suddens. Snake's gonna snake. Buy twice to neutralize. Leopard print suspect. Cat action satisfaction. Taking the rage quit deal. Krusty hairy push. Burger Habit. There is a zip code involved. Techtime with Wendy and more on this episode of

Morning Stream. Has this wild woman been hiding under that demure exterior all this time? To leggy, add a leggy. This is the morning stream with Scott Johnson and Brian Ibbett. Big old freaking dirt blanket. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for July 11th, 2021. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Nibbitt, and that's his cat, if you can see it.

And this is my cat, this big white fluff. It looks like I'm holding a white marshmallow, a white furry marshmallow. No, this is a cat. This is, it's a NARA coming to visit for a little TMS. We're going to get a little meow out of her, a little... She's not a talker when I'm holding her. She's not a talker, but she's a talker when she's walking around the basement. Not nearly to the level of Salem.

Salem just meows to meow. Like, Salem walks around, makes eye contact with you. Meow! Meow! Like, what are you trying to tell me? What's important? What's the deal? What's...

Yeah, fill me in here. Yeah, what's going on? Give me more. Give me more, cat. You know what's funny is I saw two random, maybe three, no, it's two, two random TikTok videos yesterday that featured a black cat named Salem. I thought that was crazy. Oh, really? Excellent.

Yeah, but see, and that, and that is why my cat's name is, full name is Salem, Massachusetts. Actually, full name is Salem, Massachusetts, 08903 or something like that. I can't remember what the actual zip code is. I change it every time, but there is a zip code involved. Whatever the zip code is for Salem, Massachusetts is. I love it. is for zip code. You could mail an entire package based on that cat.

That's right. Exactly, yes. Just a little buck, eight four, maybe. Beautiful. All right, let's get to some stuff. We got a show. We got Wendy coming later. Yeah, lots of stuff to cover.

Oh, your internet just went wildly low. Really? Wildly. Let's see here. Why? Is it back? Is it begin? Back?

It's like it was before we did the rest, Geez, really? Yeah. And I did nothing. I did nothing here. Let's see. Let me do another test my net. I wonder if Tina's doing something.

Damn that Tina? Oh, she might be. How Zoom doesn't do, you know, just should do its updates automatically. And then when Windows does it, we bitch, bitch, bitch. I don't mind. See, here's the thing. I don't mind manual. I just don't want, I hate when it makes me do a complete reinstalled.

Yeah. That's what I don't like. But Windows does this. It does things that don't work in my life, and it pisses me off every time. That is why you are turned off right now. You dick. I'll turn you on later when I want to play a video game. But until then, it just bumps me out because that's my window to the outside world.

Scott, this is how you subsist. Otherwise, I feel like I'm confined by these four walls down here. It's terrible. Hopefully we won't make you go too crazy. And Wendy will be here if you need help. It'll be fine. Good, good, good. Yeah.

Can we switch things up for today's Therapy Thursday and just why Brian needs a Windows machine with a screen, a camera facing outside to the front yard? Yeah, we need to know why. We need to know how someone should cope with isolation. That's a great topic, you know? Yeah, actually, it's not bad. It's not bad at all. All right. Well, we're going to get to it.

We got a bunch of stuff here. And if everyone at home who's like, wait, what happened? I paused all of you at home. So you didn't hear us troubleshooting. Oh, really? So they didn't get any of that fun. Yeah, the chat room did, but everybody else, sorry. Yeah, yeah, good.

Let's get to the, I went to lunch with Hootie 42 yesterday. One of our stalwart members of the community had a great time. I went in there, you know, I said before the show ended yesterday, I was going to get a salad. And, uh, yeah, I didn't. I got a, I got a big old, big old chicken sandwich thing that was very good. Chicken sandwich is a good, good alternative to a burger, so that's good. Yeah, and they even make one of those smashed burgers like you do on the big flat iron, sort of Freddy-style burger.

I almost, almost did that. But then I was like, you know what? Let's just go. Let's go with the white meat, you know? Yeah, good. Anyway, it was a great time. We chilled, talked out or talked to each other. It was like 103 out, so it was super hot.

So it was nice to hang out in the AC and talk to good old hoody 42. There are, there are 43 or 41 just like him, but. But this one is ours. This is our hoodie. Yeah. People should eat there, though. If you're ever in the South Jordan. slash daybreak area. There's this place called The Break. I've mentioned it before. It's like a bar

pub food place. And on the weekends, it's insane. I would probably recommend not going there unless you don't mind giant crowds and loud people and a lot of drunk people. But if you want to just have like good lunch or whatever, you go there in the middle of the day, the menu's amazing. The prices are decent. Super good. Really good. Cool. And every waitress there, none of them write anything down. They come up to you. Yeah. And they can. Oh, really? Yeah. And they nail it every time they come back with exactly what you ordered they never screw that up they're efficient they don't hang around and say a bunch of stuff they know that you want to just get to what you're getting to so you would tip them good it was great so highly recommend that

i always feel like i should test you know when when somebody uh shows up to my table and they don't have a notepad to write things down i always feel like i should really go elaborate with my order say all right um i'd like a burger um medium on the meat um um um i'm I'd like the fries all facing a northeast to southwest diagonal, and I'd like the ketchup on the side, but I'd like it placed at the 8 o'clock position on my plate. Oh, my gosh, I want to be there for this. Server, I'm sorry, did I say waitress, server?

Yeah, servers, I thought I said server. I thought you said server too. When somebody comes to my table, this is what I want to tell them. Yeah, I don't think he said waitress. I don't think I said waitress. I think sometimes. You might have said waitress. Maybe I did.

Oh, I probably did. Yeah, I think it was me that said it. Yeah. Yeah. They're kind of hootery a little bit over here. Like I don't know. It's appropriate that you went with Hooty, uh, with Hooty-402. Yeah. Well, that's true. But they're, like they're all dressed a little bit like they're at Hooters without the Hooters brand. And it's fine.

You mean like like with tight t-shirts and short shorts? Really short shorts. Really. And this is in the winter. It doesn't matter when. This is just kind of their, they're, I don't know if it's a, I don't know if it's a dress code or not. I'm not going to say because I don't know. But they all kind of dress like that. And it's fine. So what my. brain. It's hard for my brain to go their servers now, Scott. You know what I'm saying? Because they fit a stereotype of an older time and it's just hard not to call them waitress.

Just hard. But anyway, it's a great time. People should go there. So much better than the long black gowns that they wear at Habit Burger. Oh yeah. Those guys with their full burger habits that they wear. Full burger habits. Right. Burger habit. I have a bad burger habit. We don't go to Habit anymore because, Because ever since Kim broke a tooth there on some kind of weird, hard little meat nugget, we were like...

Like a bone, bone lift in the meat or something. Yeah. They're a little hard, a little fat little... I don't know what they... What those are. You know, a little... It's not like a bone, but it's like a little cartilage ball, you know? Whatever that is.

Yeah. Cracked a molar. Enough to break a tooth. Geez. Yeah. Cracked a molar. Had to have the whole thing replaced. She never has trouble with her teeth.

So it's super lame. And we just haven't been back. Sorry, have it. Maybe don't put little... bone nuggets in your in your burger how about that uh all right let's talk about uh some other stuff we talked about this yesterday a little bit um you know how it was going on about wanting to limit all the subscriptions that i have and feeling just feeling a little overburdened by that yeah yeah yeah yeah so i did that um i made a spreadsheet and uh took into account everything i subscribe to

and sure enough there's some stragglers on there where i'm like why am i paying for that like i pay for Nintendo online and I haven't been I haven't used it in three years three and a half years or something right I mean not not since like the heyday of uh animal crossing have I used the service so I'm trying to think of the last time so Nintendo online yeah I think it's been a while for me too um when I was doing the Zelda stuff there was no tears of the kingdom had no requirement for Nintendo online so yeah It must have been, it must have been 2020, 2021 during the heyday of good old Tom Nook and his rigorous payment demands. Yeah, that guy, bastard. But yeah, no, that was it for me.

And so I said, and it's only like $4.25. It's not like a huge expense, but I'm just like, well, why am I throwing it at nothing? So canceled that, canceled a number of other ones. I barely use PlayStation Plus, canceled that. I barely use, these days I'm barely using Game Pass. on the console, mostly on PC, so I cut that one in half. And then I finally did the big deed. Okay, here's a fun experience.

If you're trying to combine your Disney Plus and your Hulu separate accounts, Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They have a simple way to do it, but not in the direction you'd think. So in my head, I'm thinking, well, Disney is the tip of the spear for this. So you go to them for the combination. And then you can combine your stuff. And I thought, well, that'll be simple. Not at all. In fact, I had to talk to a dude on a little chat thing. And he's like, oh, yeah, you can't do it from this direction. I'm like, this direction. What does that even mean? He goes, well, if you go to Hulu and then go to your account, there's options in there to do what you're asking to do. And sure enough, I go to Hulu and you can take your account and convert it into Disney Plus. So I want the commercial free stuff to remain, right? So Disney Plus, Hulu Plus, and the ESPN bundle, I can get that one and save, I don't know, seven bucks a month.

or whatever, over what I'm paying now for both of them separately. And you can do it via Hulu, and it's the same login, but I can't do it via Disney Plus. That makes no sense to me. But anyway, it worked, and they're all there still, and it's fine. Goofy. So goofy, yeah, they don't make it easy, and you'd think that they would have figured that part out for the consumer side of things before the merge side of things, right? Like, all right, so we're going to do this whole merge thing with Hulu and ESPN and blah, blah, blah. what do we want the consumer side to look like and feel like, oh, screw that.

Let's just merge and then we'll figure all that out afterwards. Yeah, and Rainbow Bright says, I think Hulu is more of the parent company. They're really not. Disney owns all of it. So it's not, it should be easy from the Disney side. And for some reason it isn't. So anyway, I got that worked out. That was fine.

Then I find out that I'm paying for Paramount Plus twice. Oh, really? Two times. Yeah. So twice a month. 1199's getting yanked. I'm out on my account from two separate places. And I figured out why. It wasn't me that did it. So I got into that as an add-on through Prime, like he can do with Apple TV and everybody else. They all have add-ons, right? Everybody can do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I did it there. And you get that and you get to showtimes all bundled in now. The other one was Nick had set this up through Roku, told Kim that he was doing it only temporarily. I can't remember what the deal was. It was something on that they could only get through there. and they were going to do the trial. And so they were supposed to tell me,

hey, dad, we did the trial on here. Make sure you cancel it before the trial's over. It's a whole story. Anyway, they didn't tell me. So I'm over here getting billed twice on the same damn service. So that got canceled yesterday. So this is actually a really good exercise. And now I have a spreadsheet with totals.

I have anything that's a yearly, separated by business ones, separated by, you know, entertainment, personal crap, things like Zoom and other stuff that I pay for, Squarespace, whatever. And, oh, here's the best part. I was so angry about the Paramount Plus stuff. And there's really nothing on there right now that I care that much about. And I can always come back later.

I was like, I'm just going to rage quit the other one too. So I went to cancel it just to see what would happen. And they'd come back with, oh, we're so sorry to see you go. What if we gave you three months free plus the next two months after that, only 99 cents? And I'm like, yeah, that's what we're. doing. Absolutely, yes. That's great.

Oh, I love the, I love that. You know, especially, it works out well when it's something that is nice to have, but you could probably live without it. You could fairly easily live without it. The Sirius XM is the best example of that. It's like, yeah, you know, I like listening to Howard Stern when I'm in the car or sitting here at my desk and pull up the app or whatever, but I don't need it. I could live without it.

And so it's, you know, anytime Sirius XM says, all right, your renewal is coming. coming up, it's time for you to renew. I'm like, I think I might be done with you guys. How about if we send you a big box of muffins every month, if you stay with us, please? What if it gave you a free bacon for life? Exactly, which is, how about 12 cents a month? Could you do 12 cents a month? I know, it's so, and then it kind of is, it makes me both happy and mad because on one hand, I'm like, sweet, I'll save some money. As far as I, the way I look at it, you people owe me about 40 or 50 bucks anyway for this four, five months of double charge, so

hell yeah, you should give me a deal. But then there's a little part of me that says, give it to me anyway, just come popping in some time and say thanks for your loyalty. How about we give you some free time? If you can offer it for this munch, why don't you offer it for this much? Yeah, F that noise.

Really pissed me up. I mean, obviously, because if everybody got it for that little amount, then blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. We'll be able to pay our executives, the stupid cushy salary that they get. Yeah, and I will say this. We couldn't afford it. We couldn't afford Howard Stern if we gave you this price.

No. Everybody at this price. I'll say this about Roku, though. Roku's, so the way Nick did it was through Roku's add-on. Because Roku also has a channel, and then you can do add-ons of HBO. You know, it's like everybody else is doing right now. They all have these add-ons. And they, while most of these services, well, you know what, I'm going to say this about everything.

This applies to anything where you have a subscription. If you allow me to subscribe on a, a device, you should allow me to cancel on that exact same device. Yes. Yes. And not have to call and speak to somebody like you do a serious X-M. Actually, now a serious X-M I can do it via chat and that makes

the whole thing so much easier. No, yeah. That's not bad. Because everything on chat looks like this. Yeah. For those of you listening, I'm folding my arms and looking very indignant. Yeah. It's very stern. Nope, I don't need it. Even though I'm like

please, please, please, please. please please please give me the deal give me the deal you guys um but yeah so they make you go to a separate website on a browser somewhere and that's lame and they used to they and and and that's still better than what xbox live used to make you call and you talk to an indian guy and i hated that because it was a nightmare to cancel uh Xbox live back in the day these days you just go cancel on their website it's no big deal but in this case if you let me sign up in the paramount plus app on your device, you better let me cancel there. And I mean this for phones. I mean this for anything. If you let me subs in a certain place, you've got to let me cancel there. Otherwise,

you're yanking me around, you butt holes. You're trying to make it inconvenient so that I just give up. That's what you're trying to do. Hate it. All right. Let's get to a phone call. Brian, this is about something you asked about the other day. Oh, good. Okay. Yeah, wait. Costco gift cards, here you go. Hey, Scott and Brian, I'm calling for KeyMS. I just wanted to follow up on yesterday's episode when Brian was asking how Costco can get away with charging $80 for a four-pack of $25 gift cards. Well, I used to sell gift cards to nuns, and the way it works, the reason that they can do that is... All right, he coughed, and then he called back, all right?

I just cough switch. Nope, that's hang up button. I don't remember, I swear to God, I don't remember talking about this. Did I really? Yeah, you talked about how you couldn't understand how they went, how you can, I don't remember the exact like what we were trying to get to the bottom of, but something about how can they charge 80 when it's 25 each or whatever the deal was. Okay, that must have been forever ago.

It may have been a little while. It might have been a while. But then he wrote back and he, I think he intended for the, this next call to be fresh and new, but now you have some context as to him coughing and losing at the end, and now here he's back. Hey there, Scott and Brian. I'm just calling about the gift card thing from last episode. The thing with the gift cards is that when you buy a gift card, you're giving that

business essentially a zero percent interest loan that they might not fully collect, and if they do collect it, they do so with merchandise that they have a profit margin on. all of those things add up for real dollar value to the business so that's why they can offer discount on them so that's why you see him in every corner store uh anyway love the show though he didn't i'm i'm really really good point but we got to we have a serious check in the bucket though his first call said i used to sell these cards to nuns to nuns oh that's right yes and in his follow-up he said nothing about nuns put a hex on him to have a coughing fit that end of the call. Like, no, you must not disclose the fact. Yeah, I'm kind of dying to know more about this none thing. And he said nothing in the second call. Yeah. How much of that did he bring up in the next call? None. N-N-U-N. None. Um, it was, so yeah, that does make sense, right? Because they know that you are going to probably not even use the total amount of what's on a card. If you give a card to somebody and it's 25, they go spend 1849. The other stuff just, you know, who cares? It's just sort

lost in ether. It actually, that is a really brilliant thing. Plus, some people put in a drawer and forget they have it. And then all of a sudden it's like, oh, I have a Costco gift card. Oh, um, after 12 months of non-use, we'll subtract a dollar a month for handling fee or something like that until it's

absolutely zero until it's negated out and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. It's the same way. It's the same thing I always tell people not to pre-order digital games. Like if you're going to do a physical pre-order, I get it because you get something coming to you. But when you do digital pre-orders, it does nothing, because you're going to be able to get it

day one regardless. I, well, in most cases, yeah, but I do the, I did the digital pre-order thing with Nintendo, the Switch thing, because right, you were able to buy basically two brand new game releases

for about 75 or 60 percent of the cost of the two of them put together. So, right, it was like, if new games are 60 bucks each and it's 120 bucks to get to get tears of the kingdom and whatever the other one is that I got that I'm sure I really enjoyed and play the crap out of right um I paid 80 bucks or 70 bucks for a a card that allowed me to download those two titles anytime in the future I can't remember what that thing was called

but that one that's a whole different scenario right because you're getting a good discount on buying it early yeah that stuff makes sense right yeah yeah your digital thing or if you're getting like you're going to order a thing early and they will only give you the extra. If it's an MMO, you might get an extra cool mount because you ordered early. Or you get early access. Cosmetic items. Yeah, right. Weekend or before access or something. Those make sense to me. But if it's just straight up, this is 59 bucks early or I paid the day of and there's no other reason to buy it early, I always tell people not to because all you're doing is making it so everybody involved, mostly in this case of Steam, Valve and in other cases, Sony, Nintendo,

or whatever. They're just sitting on your money in a bank earning interest on your money for no reason. Totally. So don't give them extra. They're fine. They don't need your extra cash. But anyway, good luck everybody out there with your gift cards and may you all spend them wisely. That's right. Exactly. Then we got a call about how somebody listens to the show. Been a lot of talk about the two times. The speeds. Yeah. Yeah. This really brought up a lot of pain and consternation with people. Mostly with me. But anyway. Here's how this guy listens, and I like his method. Hey, guys.

This is Alan. Jam in Birmingham. Just since we're talking about consumption of the podcast, I listen to half your show while I'm rock, walking or running. And then I'll listen to the other half the next morning on my way to work. Love you guys. Take care. Okay, but how, if it all, do you keep up?

Because if you're skipping, because that's two days per one episode. Oh, I guess you have the weekends and stuff, right? right yeah and uh but fridays if he doesn't listen to couch party or whatever so that's that is a way to catch up but um i mean i guess if it's the same pattern right so he listens to half of our show on monday uh while he's running and then the next half tuesday morning on his way to work and then then he listens to tuesday's show half while he runs on tuesday and then wednesday morning on his way to work and it's just like it's still a it's still a a pattern where he's getting both shows in, I guess.

I like it, though. Yeah. I think this is a good way to do it. Yeah, that's a good way to do it. Sure. He didn't say if he sped it up or not, but. No, it sounds like not. It sounds like he's just doing it.

That's why I like his method. That's true. Right. Proper content consumption. Sorry all you 2.0 people. Or all you gap closers, you know, with your closing of the gaps. That's right. You smart silence folks.

Yeah. I did hear, though, no matter what bed music you have, this stuff smart enough to just cut out everything and bit your voices. Yeah, somebody had mentioned in TMS Chatter that they'd never noticed. They listened at high speed and because of a little hearing loss on their part, but they listen at a high speed. And they've never noticed that we've had background music and said,

has that always been there or did you guys just punk us? And I'm like, no, it's always been there. It's been there since day one. I had music the whole time. Yeah. I mean, it depends on when, like with Wendy, it's off. when we have Tom, no, not Tom, stays on with Tom. Oh, recommendals, we don't have it.

Like, there are places where we don't have it, but for the most part, like all this sort of Scott and Brian banter stuff, always on, always back there. And it's weird without it, you know. If you don't hear it, it's like, what the frick are we doing? Anyway, so there's that. Thank you for that. Both of you sent these voicemails to 801-471062.

We're happy to play your voicemails, and we got a bunch that we're a little bit backed up on. so I will be getting to those pretty quick. Some outro ones, we'll watch for those. In fact, there's a couple of them we've been getting that really want to go to town for very long periods of call time about my whole AI prompting

isn't the same as being an AI artist and all that. It's all fine. They're all good points, but I can't address all that over and over on the show. So I'm going to put those in post and you guys can all kind of, you know, see what you think. All right? I'm not here to change anyone's mind on that stuff.

we can always keep in mind you do our pre-show thing they've saved some of those for pre-show and we could knock those out during our pre-so seconds do right not instead of in the full show oh yeah that's a good point we could totally do those that's a great idea

you went all chunky again and I don't know why I see you just type that yeah nothing nothing going on there is it let's see I don't know what the heck is going on oh there was a dude in the backyard this morning I wonder if he's the

the TDS protective services call or diagnosis or something like that. You're all good now though, so. It's what people are saying. All right, good. I don't know what's causing it. That's really. I don't know. Yeah, nothing, again, nothing changing here. Well, you're clear as a bell

at the moment. All right, here's a question for those of you with PlayStation 5s. Do it. When it's glowing yellow, that just means it's in standby motors. That means it's doing an update there. I wonder if it's downloading some. It is in standby mode and could be downloading an update. It doesn't give you a different light for when

it's updating. Pulse or anything like that. No, but it could be doing downloads or uploads, I should say. It easily, this easily could be an ISP issue and it just timed perfectly when I rebooted the first time. Yeah. And why, yeah, maybe he's, he went to lunch now, so now we have some

freedom from it. I don't know, I don't know what's going on. It's really weird. I like these people like, is the whole thing glowing? That might be an issue. The PS5 stuff, standby? standby it could be downloading it's it is going to explode yank the power of the ps5 it's like it's like the pitchforks and uh angry villagers torches and pitchforks growing mob yeah it's all sony's fault that's who i blame let's do it i canceled my ps plus account and now

they're pissed i don't know right exactly actually i did but i did it a while ago they can't be pissed now yeah they just you know they're they'll be pissed them no matter what you do um all right Let's get to... Downloading a foot porn, actually. There we go. I'm totally not a coward. Oh, yeah, there you go. We've cleared that up.

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Let's get to this story. A man bit a snake to death after he attacked him. This is how you get revenge. Oh, no. It's like quick. quick revenge yeah yeah man in india bit a snake after it attacked him resulting in the snake's death the man's okay 35 year old railway worker santosh lohar that is his real name was worked uh sorry was working on a forested region near the city of nawata in bahir

india and the incident occurred on tuesday evening when lohar went to sleep the reptile suddenly attacked him he reacted by rapidly seizing the snake and biting it back twice killing it. I don't think I'd think of biting it. I think I'd just hit it. No, I would not at all. That seems like the like, oh, you didn't get any venom in me. Here's the way I can make sure that I might bite the wrong venom sack and actually get some venom. Thank you. No kidding. Where do they keep that stuff? Is it behind their head? I don't even know where that stuff is. Where is the venom?

Bobby, are you here somewhere? Just leave it alone. Claire, you don't just leave it alone. The thing's biting you. You got to do. top of the food chain shit what are you going to do just oh it's fine go ahead and kill me let me die it's smash it with your with your clock radio that's handily kept next to you on your nightstand or your uh but but maybe not biting it geez yeah i know that i would react violently to a snake trying to kill me i would yes yes i would not go after it in the first place i would not be like seeking it out to hurt it but yeah i would sit there and go oh well snake's gonna snake yeah what are going to do it's a natural thing it's a natural course of life it's a circle of life

leave you alone sorry sorry for the inconvenience sorry mr snake um anyway he did it in some parts of india there's a superstition that biting a snake transfers the venom back to the reptile so that's probably why he did it um because he thinks that that's true maybe we don't really have confirmation oh actually well he uh no he says it in the next line it's funny that they would that This should have been the next thing that they said instead of the superstition, because he actually kind of confirms that. Oh, yeah, I didn't realize it was him quoting.

It is him. You're right. It says, in my village, there's a belief that if a snake bites you must bite back twice to neutralize the venom. Yeah, that could have been the line. They just had to fill in extra words or something. Yeah. Anyway, if he told India today, that's their little newspaper slash TV thing.

Facebook science right there. Bite it back twice to neutralize the venom. That's right. Sounds like something my mom would hit Lyon. The species of snake that bit him Is not been confirmed After the bite, Lohar was rushed to the hospital by his colleagues He was kept overnight and responded well to treatment

The Times of India reported Indicating he had been given anti-venom He was discharged from the hospital the next day So lohar, lohar, you're all good, bud You bite one of ours We'll send two of them to the morgue That's right Are you ever been bit by snake?

Never happened to you? Never happened, no, no I've been bit once, but it was a non-venomous Like a little homest, like your little homesnake? Was it? No, it wasn't Norman or anything. It was years ago. It was in, we were camping, but it was like, I don't remember the name of the snake.

It may have just been a straight, like, garter, you know, basic snake. I don't remember, but it had teeth and it hurt, but it had no venom. They took me to the hospital anyway just to be safe, but it was fine. I just had two little teeth marks for about a week and then it went away. We get all sorts of warnings, so we're really close to a couple, great masas over here for for hiking great gorgeous you know table mesa and and um but there's always signs around it because they are untouched and and you know aside from the trails um pretty pretty wide open hot land and we get signs all the time saying oh watch out here's what a here's

what a rattlesnake looks like and we get rattlesnakes apparently up there all the time and uh you know we talk about going and hiking up there and I'm like yeah it's really hot but I don't want to have to I don't want to wear shorts I want to wear like socks that then cover up the pant leg

some sweats or some Kevlar yeah I don't know how you I mean I'm sure there's something you could wear or something right some kind of leg thing you might look weird but it'd be better than getting bit I guess yeah there's no trees up there there's no like no shade it is just it is just hot and

flat up there. Great views of everything, but I don't want to go up there and potentially encounter a pissed off rattlesnake. Yeah, we got diamondbacks all over our sort of southern part of the state, and you have to watch for them. But I don't know, I feel like you don't see them very often. And if you do, I remember in scouts, they were like real big on helping you recognize what you're looking for. And that was, I don't know if I retained any of that. So if I saw a rattler in a relatively camouflaged bit of desert, what would I do today? I would probably, what would I do? I think what you're supposed to do is when they start rattling, you just kind of back away slowly, right?

Isn't that the thing? Because I don't think they're going to, they're not prone to attack. It's all defensive. It's all defensive. So you really have to get up in their beak to have them be pissed like that. Exactly. So be careful out there, everybody. you don't want to get bit.

But if you do, or if it starts to attack you, and it's this gnarly like Mr. Lohar had to go through here? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go ahead and kill the snake. It's fine. Go ahead. I'm not going to bite it back, though. That's not the solution I'm going to be going on.

Oh, yeah, I'm not biting it for sure. We don't have a good enough. There's no good urban legend here that makes me want to bite a snake, you know, transferring venom back and forth. Give me a break. That's stupid. Yeah. Where did that come from?

Bite it back twice to neutral. the venom that's such a weird thing where it's got to be ancient like a really old idea because we know it has to be or or just somebody made it up and said let's see if i can get this to stick let's see if i can let's see if i could make fetch happen with this one i wonder how many things in life are like that where they just they just try really hard to make it happen and then it some some stuff just gets through and it stays with us those bastards we got trolled man the guy who told you to bite it twice to transfer the venom you trolled the whole country of India, that bastard. Right. Right, exactly, yes.

At least to that village. Let's go to Columbus, Ohio for this one. Yeah. The police arrested a suspect accused of breaking into West Columbia pet store where several animals were set loose. I don't know if it was for altruistic sort of let the animals be free sort of reasons. We don't know exactly. But Columbus police arrested a suspect Tuesday morning, they believe, broke into several businesses on the city's west side, including a pet store where several of the animals were released into the wild, or that is to say, the city. Officers with the Columbus

Division of Police were called to roosters, where, let's see, that's the street, I guess, where after 3 a.m., I don't know, I don't know why they give us these addresses. I know, well, because it's a police blotter kind of thing, but roosters is a haircut place, isn't it? Is it? I don't know. Is it roosters like a... Sounds like a bar. A hair salon for dudes? We have. have them here, and I drive by them, but I obviously have no reason to go to them. I've never heard of it before. I don't think we have them. Yeah, Roosters Men's Grooming Center. I wonder if it's the same thing.

Oh, could be. This is at 3 a.m. Police were notified of burglary alarm going off at that place. Officers discovered that the restaurant was, oh, it says restaurant. Oh, there we go. Rooster's Wings. They have a place called Rooster's Wings in Ohio. There you go. Officers discovered that the rooster, sorry, the restaurant called the rooster. or roosters was broken into defectives detectives obtained video evidence showing a man with long hair wearing leopard print pajamas

that's pretty cool bury the lead inside the restaurant's unclear whether he was taken from the restaurant or not about 100 yards away police found that the pet land store had also been broken into and several animals were seen running around in the parking lot police recovered two dogs multiple birds

a hamster and two bunnies I'm impressed with getting the multiple birds back. That's impressive. Yeah, no kidding. Because birds don't just sit around waiting for you to grab them. They get the F out. Yeah, they get the F out. They fly. Hamster, no problem. Bunnies, piece of cake. Dogs, all right. But the birds are like, woo-hoo, freedom! Yeah. They're out. Birds are weird, man.

We saw a couple of Corvids. I think they were crows. And Corvids, of course, you know, whole levels above regular birds as far as intelligence and capability and stuff. Yeah. And I was watching. them on a wire, tugging back and forth on something that I don't know what it was between their beaks, but they were on a wire over an intersection, and they were pulling back and forth like tug of war on something, but they didn't look like it was fighting over food or it was trying to, one was trying to dominate. It looked like they were up to something. Like they were sawing, using a saw blade that they found to cut the wires. Yeah, yeah. Maybe if I have internet problems,

I should watch for crows. I don't know. But, uh, I don't trust. those things I love I think they're awesome they're impressive as hell but I don't trust a crow dude they're up to some shit all the time we're all worried about you know terrorists or freaking spies or Russians or whatever

our big existential fears are for me those crows are gonna get us it's the next umlaan movie is gonna be all about the crows and how they're they've been plotting this whole time and now they're now they're gonna do it now they're speaking of which are you gonna go to his new thing about the serial killer at the sting at the concert you heard about this you're going to go see

that no it looks really good it does that you know the dude you're watching is the dude and it's like oh my gosh yeah no it looks really really good who's the it's some uh somebody josh hartnett josh hartnett that's right yeah haven't seen him a while what a great what a great like new direction for for the dude yeah i think so it looks good i don't you know one what is one suspects that the shamalama ding-dong twist ending will happen. I kind of, I don't want them to. I'm just saying, I hope. It feels like the twist ending is,

oh, the dude you're rooting for is actually the serial killer, and it's given away in the opening minute of the trailer. So maybe we just don't get a twist, and maybe it's fine. Maybe we don't need a twist. We just need a great story. I'd be great. I'd be happy if there were no twist, because he's got plenty of other movies with twists

and guess what? He can do more with twists. Let's have one without a twist. How about that? Yeah. Maybe the twist is there's no twist. That would be the good twist. I was getting vibes from that Robert De Niro

Wesley Snipes movie from the 90s. Oh, was that any given Sunday? No. Was it just the fan? No, the fan. The fan. Yes. Yeah.

I remember thinking that was all right when I saw it. It's different than this, but, you know, it's a guy trying to kill a guy, but. I was getting a sudden death. vibe. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Jean-Claude Van Dam.

I unabashedly think that movie's fun to watch. I don't... I think it is, too. I think there's nothing wrong with liking that movie. Although I still haven't seen it since we films acted, but it's the kind of thing that I would see on a streaming service, and I've got an hour and a half to kill, and I would just watch if I could.

That movie's great. That's really good. Oh, yeah, Rainbow Bright mentions the three-part Unbreakable series. Have you seen... You haven't seen Split or Glass yet, right? I've seen neither split or glass yet, right? I've seen neither split, flit nor glass.

Oh, wow. Yeah, got to do those. They are really good. It's a good triptych. Maybe watch Unbreakable one more time, even though I know you've seen it a bunch because you really like it. I do.

I've seen that probably 10 times, but I would definitely see it again. And I wouldn't mind, I would like to see these other two. The only concern I have is everybody really pooped on glass. And I just makes me, I don't want to be sad.

People poop on glass. No, I think glass is good. They just put an extra ending on there. that you don't need. I think there's a great reveal that you see, like, on a tattoo, and it's like, oh, that's great. And then they, like, go further without needing to go further. But I think glass is good. Okay.

Splits good. All right. I'll have to check it out. Why do I remember it being so hammered? Don't, you know, don't sleep on glass. This might be. You know what it is. Don't pass on glass.

I'll try to treat this the way I did Quantum Mania. I ended up liking it a lot. I thought it was great for what it was. I don't think it's the greatest movie ever made or anything, but I don't think it was the garbage everybody said it. I don't even think it's the best Ant-Man film, but I think it's good. I mean, it came close for me.

Thematically, I like what they're playing with in it more than maybe the other two Ant-Man. Well, I haven't seen the second one, so I can't speak to that, but the first one. So I kind of liked it maybe even more than the first, but that had a really low score from audiences and critics. So Glass does two, so maybe I'm just missing out. I should just see Glass. What is the score on Glass?

37 critics 66 watchers people audience at the time I went well I'm not watching that but now I feel like 66 is a very good that that feels accurate to me that seems about right is that about how you felt about it you felt like it was right around that it was a good resolution I mean I put them in that order

quality wise unbreakable then split then glass but I feel like glass is a really good wrap up to the whole series especially you know it was cool how the split thing was a surprise to people that in all of a sudden at the end of it you're seeing Bruce Willis's character and it's like oh holy crap this is all in the same universe and and that was one of the things that was great about split um was that surprise um that was the twist right that that movie's twist was that we're in that universe yeah i think i'm trying to remember yeah because i think the rest of it is just a really good thriller just a really creepy thriller Yeah, I need to see that one still. That's his highest rate. That one's pretty highly rated. Not highest, but highly rated, 78, 79.

Oh, wow. Okay, yeah. Split is pretty universally liked, I think. I would, yeah, go watch the three. And I think you'll absolutely enjoy the over-arcing story between the three. All right. I just maybe be more forgiving than I was on the extra ending that gets tacked on. was it was it was that part supposed to be it was it was kind of like you remember how we had all those extra endings that uh the lord of the rings uh trilogy we had like everything gets resolved and now we're back at the shire and oh no everybody's married now blah blah blah it's like okay well great we didn't need all this but it was good oh okay so it wasn't like a twist at the end that's not the version of that okay no the twist happens i think the twist happens before before the final ending for me it did anyway

Well, let's hope his new thing is good. I really hope it is. Yeah, I hope so, too. I talked to somebody who I know as a screenwriter in Hollywood, and he claims that Shaman's very sensitive to anyone criticizing him. Oh, really? Yeah. Boy.

How does he recover after the happening, poor guy? Yeah, I know, right? And I think he's just real skittish about it. So he says things like, even if somebody in the business even makes a remotely comment that maybe a movie of his wasn't that great or something, he'll like shun them on all social media he won't talk to them at parties he's like gets really really sensitive that's what this one guy says so take it for whatever that's worth i don't know if that's you know yeah i don't know why he even knows all this but that's what he

claims but um anyway i don't want to use names because i don't kick up more dirt of course the the the twist ending is that he really doesn't care yeah he doesn't give a shit he's fine with all the he's fine with criticism yeah says his highest rated is something called the shark is still working? What the hell is that? 100%. Yeah, you know why? Because two people saw it and they both liked it.

That's why it's got such a high rating. Oh, it's a documentary. That's interesting. He just produced it. It's a documentary about Jaws. Oh, interesting. And how influential Jaws was on film forever. Actually, wouldn't mind trying to find that.

Oh, that'd be kind of cool, yeah. 100% on that one. Surprise ending is that the shark is still working. That's right. We are, we're going to take a break because it'll soon be time for my sister. She wanted me to go an extra five minutes or so. So we did.

Hopefully that means she'll be ready when we come back from this break. Brian's going to play a song. Tell us what it is. Yeah, Rosie Lowe. She's a singer-songwriter producer. She's got a brand new album coming out August 16th on Blue Flowers Records. Can't wait for that because I am loving the two or three tracks that she's released early from this thing. Really, really good.

The album, let's see, told you the album. is called Lover, Lover, comma, other. Oh, I didn't tell you that part. Yeah, the new album is called Lover Other, because that's hard to say. The performer, Rosie Lowe, this is one of the singles from the brand new album. It is called In My Head.

Here is Rosie Lowe. Something's got me stirring in the summer breeze. I can feel the change. Can't mind if you don't like inside of me. I do it anyway. I was in my head. Couldn't get it out. Be such a shame

If I could be without Almost in my head Couldn't get it out Be such a shame If I could be without If I could be without If I could be without Some days my reflection is

shade green my pockets can go frame be such a shame be such a shame if I could be anyway I was in my head

couldn't get it out be such a shame if I could be without I was in my head Couldn't get out Be such a shame If I could be with all If I could be with us

If I could be without Sorry it took so long Well here comes my 10,000 yen now I see, and what is that supposed to mean? A little financial man matter, right, Taki? Yep. That's not very fair. Never mind, I'll just worm it out of you tomorrow. Nobody's afraid of death. That's crazy. I'm afraid of propane.

And we're back from the song break, but I don't remember the name. You must tell. me oh i'll remind you that thing is called in my head the performer is rosy low make sure to check out her full album which comes out august 16th on blue flowers records that album is called lover other singer is again rosy low is that our first uh playing of her because i feel like her name's familiar um let me take a look uh let's see what's great is i can go back through everything that we've played on that's our first thing of Rosie Lowe.

I don't know why that name's familiar. Maybe I've heard something on the other side of it. Maybe. Yeah, she's had, I don't know how many number album this is. But let's see, she did an EP called Right Thing in 2013. She's

Devon-Difford based one of British music's most idiosyncratic artists, effortlessly weaving R&B experimental electronic and jazz introspection. Really cool combo. Nice. 2016, cheerleased control and then filled it up with you while you in 2019. So this is her third album, or fourth release.

All right. Now, for those at home hearing this at 2X speed, how does Brian's crusty sound to you now? Because you're crusty again. Really bad this time. Okay. Don't know what that's about. I don't know what to do. Yeah, I mean, again, I'm not, I'm not.

open anything or launching or that this computer is still off. It's got to be something from the host, from the IEP. I blame the dude wandering around your yard poking at stuff. Yeah, probably. I did see a dude out there, and I was out there refilling my earseating. And you know, you steal those guys with the blaze orange vests. And it was back there, something behind the yard, maybe spy technology. I don't know.

Yeah, it could be. For all you know, he's, you know, he's doing, what do you call that? RecCon, no, not RecCon. He's getting some surveillance, yeah. He's going to go back to Kim Jong-un and say, we found him. He's got a great goatee. He's bald. He lives in Arvada, and we're after him.

We got him, Mr. Oon, or Mr. Kim. So I guess, I just let me know how I sound, but I will, I will last during my statement and the therapy I've gone through without any crudely disruptions. Yeah. Wow. That sounded amazing. I mean, what's great about that? This is like living, when I was growing up with Matt and we barely knew any English,

I got really good at my brain could go and really focus in on what he was saying so that I knew it. And nobody else knew what he was saying. So I wonder if anyone else knew what Brian said there. accept me because I knew exactly what you said, but it was really hard. That was a rough one. All right. We're going to call Wendy. She's not answering.

Perfect time, Wendy, to be late to the call. Yeah, no kidding. Oh, you sound good again. You're fixed. He reconnected the wires. I guess so. You sound fantastic now. Whoops, cancel that.

All right. Ring. All right. Let's get her in here. Here we go. Hi, Wendy. Hello. Hi.

Hi. No, you're fine. Today is full of technical difficulties, and you're not one of them. You're fine. You're great. Okay, good. Mine was more of an emotional difficulty, not a technical. Oh, that's too bad. I hope everything's all right.

Everyone's okay. Everyone's okay. I knew it was going to take it a little minute, and there we are. All right. Well, good. Thank you for your patience, everyone. It's all good. Nice to see you.

Oh, I should do your thing. Here's another Minnesota tradition that's not so easy to throw in the garbage. That's right. The tradition of having Wendy on the show on Thursdays and talking about technology or technology about therapy here's here's let's do it let's talk about technology here's the funny thing about this not funny but you've been gone for two weeks straight not nothing of your doing but we had a holiday last week with the fourth the Thursday before that I had a thing so people are like whoa where's windy I got all kinds of emails between

then and now going where's windy what happened is everything okay yeah I'm like we just week since we've had you on yeah we only missed two oh Brian's back to weird again gosh I don't know what that is, man. Freaking ISPs. Anyway, Wendy, it's good to have you. We're going to get right to it. I'm going to read you a thing that you agreed was a good topic. And you still do, right? We're still good with this one. All right. Everybody out there with anxieties about, you know, doing some tricky stuff in front of people, that sort of thing. Get ready because this is a good one. Here it is. Hi, Wendy, huge fan of yours and all that you do. Well, that's a lot, Wendy. It's a lot. I do a lot of crap. You do a lot of stuff. I'm heading back to college to get my

MBA Masters of Business Administration at 42, and with a failed attempt at a different master's program, I'm learning how to learn all over again. That sounds intense already. Some remarks the beginning of the course load, and already I'm feeling the familiar tectonic plates of anxiety shifting in me, grinding together with the thoughts of how much I have to do in an already pretty busy life. Making time for reading, notes, studying, and practice questions feels very heavy right now. Then the real fare kicks in, tests and quizzes. I really forgot or didn't even notice in my undergrad how stressful appraisal of my knowledge really was. It's shocking to feel my heart race as the thought of a simple 10-point quiz or at the thought of that and how small it makes

me feel. Is that a thing? Feeling small and weak by something I'm trying to learn? It's only been a week or so it's only been a few weeks in a handful of quizzes, and I think I'm getting the hang of it. But what can I do to ease the pressure I'm feeling? Every student has to face this at some point, and I thought maybe my experience life would temper this anxious feeling. Thanks for being you. Cheers. Wow. 42.

That's an interesting time to go back and go forward again. I always admire that, though, when people can do that. Or they get the desire to do it. We talked about a 105-year-old lady last week that got her master's. or Ph.D. or something. That was pretty awesome. So, but these, but this also seems like a lot of, you know, a lot of people have, not just quiz anxiety, but just like, you know, am I learning what I'm supposed to? Am I actually smart? Now they're testing me? Does that say I'm bad if it's like low on the scale, like that

sort of stuff? I think we can totally relate to that. So, give us some great advice. All of us can imply in our lives. Okay, here we go. No pressure. Number one, 42. If anyone recalls, 42 is the year your life kind of falls apart, right? And so, no, 42, 42 is a great, an age where things start to maybe feel weird. You don't feel like yourself. Maybe your home runs are get weird. You're gaining weight you didn't mean to gain. You're feeling off.

Work is boring. You're burning out. Like, there's a lot that goes on in midlife that the magic number in my mind is 42. And so here we are going back to college to get an MBA. there's got to be a million 24 year old annoying people in your program right literally the opposite of 42 is 24 and there is a version of 24ness that is stupid and sort of like you know a probably have just been doing school so quizzes and tests don't mean much and there's probably other people at various stages of course right but you're going to

look at the ones maybe who it seems like it's going well or easy for and it may be just they're on a roll and they've been taking quizzes, 20 straight years. And here they are. So this is no big deal to them. You're coming back from whatever your other life was, right? And you have a big life already existing. And now we're adding quizzes, right? Whereas maybe the 24 year old might have a girlfriend and a part-time job or something. Like, it's a really different load. So all of that, just to validate this is really hard to do this is a tricky time of life to do it it's an awesome time of life to do it but we have something happening that's interesting is and i think it's old um so when we go back to previous life and i they're listening they could send this in but just

what was school like for them before so sometimes we can just have a muscle memory or even a post-traumatic response to some things we haven't done in a long time. So it'd be interesting to know. That'd be my first question is, what was school like when you were a kid? What was school like? You went to college. What was that like? You know, give me a sense of how you've always felt around tests or quizzes. And if we see the through line, like I have never loved it. I've always been really stressed out. I always feel like I'm under a microscope and I'm not good enough or whatever that might be. Then we'd go, okay, this has been going on for a long, long time. Let's look at what is instigating those feelings.

So if I feel like I'm talking so much to people that I think everyone knows what I'm about to say. So just forgive me if this is new. I hope it's some of it's new. But all of these responses, all these anxious feelings are really a protective mechanism, right? Like be, be good enough. So I'm going to kick your heart rate in and get you to freak out a little bit. So you perform really well on this test.

So you are good enough. But what we know is there's too much adrenaline. There's too much stress that can come from this. So our performance actually goes down. So it's freaky. So there's just sort of optimal stress for performance. And it's like that system has been given too much gas. And now we're like in panic or freeze or that type of thing.

Right. And so he describes it, right? My heart's racing. and this is for a 10-point quiz. So that is like, oh, wait, this is not even a big deal. Look how I'm responding. This must mean something. And his term, I think this is a he, sorry, is their term is feeling small and weak

by something I'm trying to learn. Like that comment is really interesting. So we're having a biological reaction to stress about, a thing I need to do. It's not something I've been doing for the last however many years. Maybe jobs you get evaluated a little bit, but there's nothing like a pop quiz to make anyone think, uh, you know, not ready or maybe whatever. So here we are with all that happening and the responses you feel small or weak is telling. Okay. So that's why I would go back to the childhood and find out what school has meant. Any teachers that were both

good or ill influences. When did you feel small in an academic setting before or week before? Could it be tied directly to like the subject? You know what I mean? Like obviously when you're doing a master's, you're narrowing in. It's not general education or whatever. And so maybe that's, you know, I'm trying to think what would make me feel small and weak.

It'd probably be a subject that I'm just not great at or didn't think I was ever going to study or if I suddenly went into, I don't know even what it would be, you know, astrology or something or astrophysicist type stuff, would I just feel overwhelmed by how much I don't know, you know, that kind of thing, or is it just maybe it's something they do know and this is just a thing you've got to do your first few quizzes before you know if you're, you're unstable ground or not. Right, right. Absolutely. So I think some of that might just get better as you get more practice, right? It sounds like that's maybe even started a little bit. But I think the question they're asking is, like, I'm having a big reaction to this when I

theoretically wouldn't. But just take, for example, this idea of having a quiz make you feel small. When you're 14, does a quiz make you feel small? No, because that's how you treat young learners. And quizzes are not the best way to learn. it's just what gets kids to do their work and it can measure knowledge like actual learning is a quiz the best way to actually learn it's just the best way to maybe get you to do something because we're using surprise if it's a pop quiz we're using your grade all these motivators

to get someone to learn is very what's the word when you treat someone too young oh um yeah no not cool not pedantic. What's the word where you're like, anyway, I'm not going to find it. Don't you worry. But anyway, that idea. And when you're 42 years old, it's not an appropriate setting for a 42 year old to get a pop quiz. Imagine you're at work. And someone's like, all right, pop quiz. This is for your bonus. You got to get 10 questions right. I mean, we go to trivia night for, you know, maybe the same reasons. But you feel young and happy there. This is, it's a bit infantilizing. And that you do voluntarily. You know what this stuff. Yeah. Done to you. Exactly. So I think we have a couple of those potentialities, right?

That this is just weird that a 42-year-old has to take tests. So valid. And then it's also, you haven't done this in a long time. So that's stressful. The fact that there are some words they're using that show smallness or weakness could be explained by some of the infantilizing that it would be to get quizzes at 42. But it also is likely that competitive thing. everyone there is you're suddenly in an environment that maybe elicits some old feelings um for the other night

I came home and Abe was watching um breakfast club which by the way I had never seen what oh wow I know I know you guys I've also never seen Titanic I have a huge list of movies everyone in the world has seen that I have not paging TV's Travis paging TV's Travis you know listen hold on a second You have never seen, I can't believe that. I mean, Titanic is fine. I don't care about Titanic. That's fine if you don't see that. But the other one.

Isn't that wild? But I feel like it's such a cultural norm. Like, I feel like I get it and I kind of know the basics. I just haven't sat and watched the whole thing. So I sit down at the end where they're all communicating their real feelings at the end. And then what's his name? Pumps his arm in the air in the last scene. That is the weirdest ending to any movie.

Okay. Because he's cheering the fact that they, are who they want to be and Brian the nerd has just finished writing that letter to John Vernon explaining all that. Yeah. Exactly. It was great. So anyway, my point is like, there is this moment of like, oh, the feeling, even though

that was not necessarily my high school experience, but like, oh, bring us back to that library or to the room, to that feeling of being different from others, right? It just was like a funny moment. I was like, I've never seen this, but I feel like I have. because I know the angst from it, the feeling from it, because it is so familiar. That's why I think it resonated, obviously, with that whole generation. Right. And then the parents were all terrible, just very funny.

And I think you make that movie now, and it's just like, my mom is so helpful in my life. My mom's my friend. It's not going to be the same movie. No. You make that movie now, and it's five kids sitting on their cell phones quietly in a library for two hours. Yeah. Also, that's a pretty modern library. I was a little.

No, that library is awesome. I freaking love that. Well, the big statue in the middle. Who had a school library that had two levels and a big statue in the middle? Yeah. No, that movie, Wendy, that's the first rated our movie mom and dad ever took me to. Was that movie? Oh, they took you to.

Yeah. Because they wanted you to see your teenage age. Well, I had begged, I'd begged them because it was like, you know, supposedly the thing of our generation. But for me, it turned out it was. But it was just, that was a formidable moment because I was like, oh, my gosh, my parents are taking me to an R-rated film. How's that even possible? You know, and it worked out great. And it represents this like vibe, right?

We'll call it that for short. And you go back to school and you're back in the vibe. And that is telling of like maybe this is some old stuff, which would be nice to lay down and not have such an effect on you. So what I would do if this was just like a buddy calling me and saying like, I'm freaking out about quizzes. What do I do? I would do a little combination of a few things. I would take a minute and ask them to write out or think through or talk to their partner or whatever through their cool experiences.

So like I know this stuff and I still struggle to do this with myself sometimes. So stuff is just like off or not going quite well. I'm always like, yeah, yeah, just keep trying or whatever. But the truth is you need to actually process and take a minute to think, what is actually happening. So go on a walk with your partner or friend or whatever and just start to talk about cool. What was school like for you as a kid? What teachers do you remember?

Ask yourself this question. Do you have any school stuff that is not maybe that's a little sticky, never resolved? Maybe you haven't told anyone about. And just see the benefit of getting it out. And what will happen is your brain will release some of it. it'll be like, oh, yeah, remember that. Oh, yeah, remember that. And so if you have an old friend from school, that would be the perfect person to talk to about it. You know, I will still talk about my middle school gym teacher. My friends and I will bring her up once a year because that

woman had no mercy. She did not care if you were hemorrhaging with the words cramp. She would make you run to the stop sign. And so we made up a song about her. I mean, she is a figure in all of our minds, right? And if I could never exercise again, and I don't know why, and I hate exercise so bad, it makes me so miserable, it's probably pretty important for me to think about Shana Nava. That was her name. You want to hear the song? Yeah. Yeah. Johnana Nava, Seanana Nava, get a job. And the job was anywhere but our school because she made us all run. And I think now she was probably just a sweet athlete that was like, ladies it's not that big a deal just go and at the time we thought she was a witch turns out she was

probably really normal but if i could tie my i i can't run to a stop side now no matter why i don't know why i could go back to hey let me think of some of my formative years what kinds of things happened in school so was there a quiz this feels like so on the nose but i promise you it might be Drew, was there a quiz where you were publicly humiliated? Was there a pop quiz that you thought was super important? The teachers, like, this is a huge part of your grade, and you got caught not being ready, and you felt shame. When did you feel small or weak in school? Yeah.

Did somebody pick on you, et cetera. I'm trying to think if there's ever anything like that for me, because I also hated quizzes, but I never felt, they were never felt very public. It never felt like it was a, the teacher never go, I noticed Mr. Johnson over here as an today. Like, it didn't happen like that, like a movie or something. No, but in art school, we had the, what was it called? It was basically where you, each person had to go and show the piece of art that they did to meet the needs of the project and why they made the decisions they made and jury, I guess, the call jury, basically. So we'd have to give up there and explain why we drew what we did. or painted or created

the trade show display that we did or et cetera. Right, right. Which, you know, that that'll, maybe it doesn't have to be public, right? It could just be private failure or, or like,

what's his name's character? Your dad's going to beat you up if you don't win. Or if you don't have perfect grades to get in the college you need to, right? Like there's internal versions of this that go on for people. Also, I find it interesting

when anyone goes back to school, anytime after their 29th birthday, like you've got a story, you have a life, you've done some things, what are you doing? That's interesting, but that can feel like being behind or delayed or, you know,

you maybe aren't just feeling the most confident right now, right? So it could be something like that. And find a mentor in your program or find another 40-year-old that you can have coffee with on a regular basis and talk about these snot-nosed kids and how annoying they are. Like a way to not let this sort of get stuck, but keep moving forward. So I like a kind of combo of look in the past, see what might have affected this.

And then in your present interactions, it's like exposure therapy and you need support. While you're exposing yourself to quizzes and papers and stress and pressure, make sure you're not doing this alone. And I get your life is busier. In fact, I don't know how anyone does grad school who has a child. That's amazing or has a full-time job or has a bunch of things they have to take care of. That is incredible. But you can't do it alone and you can't sort of expect perfection. There's got to be some realism here.

And that may be from olden days too. Like I'm this kind of student. So when I moved to Sweden, did not speak Swedish, I started attending Swedish classes. I had never in my life worked so hard to get a freaking D. I thought a freaking D on my like verbal something. And I thought I was getting an F and have to start over. And she was like, oh, here's your D.

I'm like, because A, none of it mattered. But I was an A student my whole life. I'd never gotten anywhere close to like that maybe a B once, right? Like I didn't know what it was like to get a D. And then I have never. felt like I earned something so much.

Like I had to work so hard. And that was, I had a couple moments where I'm a student again. And guess what? I loved being a student. I love answering questions. I love group discussions. Like it was so fun to be back in that setting. But when my grades started rolling in,

I realized like I have no business speaking this language. It was a threat to the ego that was based on what I experienced in the past. And I couldn't just like get the teacher to like me and make it easier. That didn't work either because I couldn't communicate. And so it was really humbling. And there's something you can do with the really humbling thing. And, you know, Swedish didn't matter in the end. It wasn't for a job, right?

But it's a choice that you sometimes might have to consciously make that what's humbling about this or what makes me feel small is just my system's way of like, hey, you should be better than this or further along than this. or it's just trying to make sure you're okay. But the idea would be like, hey, and this is the thing I want this person to Google, is the concept of growth mindset versus fixed mindset. There's all sorts of books on it. But just this idea, and this is why kids, if you see a kid who's been trained in growth mindset,

it's something to behold. Because they are like, I'm learning this. Or like they make a mistake or fail or strike out or something, and they're like, ooh, chance to grow. And it's just a way to think about it, versus the I should already know everything on this test or I should be getting straight A's because that means I've arrived. No, it's called learning.

And that's sometimes hard for us to get our heads around if we were trained a different way to think about grades and learning and growth. Yeah. Now, if you took that Swedish test today, how do you think you'd do? Just curious. Oh, I'd kill it. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm mainly because I still study Swedish. every day. And then I understand it perfectly now, but I don't, I still sound like an idiot, but I, I can at least say the right words. But at the time, I mean, it was, it was very much my first year and, whew, it's a little intense, because you're not, because it wasn't just like you were in a place where you needed to hurry up and learn the language. You had to, you had to, you had to live it. You had to, everyone's getting started in a whole new, like, I don't even how you did it. It's crazy to me. I had that experience of the immigrant parent experience where your kid speaks it better than you

and the teachers get them to translate because there was a few people who didn't speak English well. Most people did, but, and so they would stick with Swedish and my kid is like annoyed that he has to translate for me or tell me something. And I'm like, oh my gosh, this is so painful.

Like so painful. Or just having a taste of that. It is a very privileged experience to have a taste of it, but it was really helpful to experience. I have so much more empathy for anyone who ever has to learn a second language. Then also there's that part of, I was 38, 39, my brain was not quite the same. And at 42, you can feel that. You're like, my brain doesn't learn as quick or it doesn't absorb as much.

I feel like I have to work harder maybe than the college kid whose drinks all night and gets up and takes the quiz in the morning. Those days are gone. And so a lot of sympathy for yourself and empathy and compassion and and then build a little bit of a like a hype team for yourself. Yeah. So there's that combination of things. One is let's see what trauma in the past has made school hard. See what we can sort of take out of your system there. The other is really find your support you have here.

And the other is just to recognize or write down and have it so you read it every day. Like, I'm so cool for going back to school. to just remember we're obsessed with youth in our culture and it sucks because the best versions of us are not 25 they're not 29 no our best versions are more mature and more seasoned and more interesting and more nuanced and like it's it's unfortunate it was just nice then because you're better looking and nothing hurts you know oh yeah yeah that's really true i mean like those are the value. That's the value of being 25, I think, is that you just... Not being 25, yeah. Doesn't hurt. You're better looking just because you're younger and

we're obsessed with younger. And you sleep, when you sleep, you sleep should read a song about. Oh, they totally should. Taylor Swift should. This entire conversation could be a Taylor Swift song. It is a Taylor Swift song. And you can sleep better. That's another one. Uninterrupted sleep anywhere. There's a lot of things. Biologically, they're awesome. Yeah. It's just interesting because I understand it. the feeling that you're like i remember when i was still doing college courses in my i guess i'd have been 24 25 and i remember thinking i'm the old man in this class you know so it's all relative anyway you always think this of yourself you always think oh i can't believe look at these 18 year olds in here i can't believe i'm here they all think i'm a grandpa no you're

25 you dingus you're fine like like like like that kind of what we do in our own heads is always so much worse than what's actually happening. Right. And, and you're going to be 45 anyway, and now you're just have your master's degree. Yeah. That's pretty awesome. That's pretty awesome. You know, I think this person should be stoked. I'm stoked for them. I know. They should. And you don't have to suffer as much, though. Like, that's, that's maybe what I'm hoping is that you can find a few tweaks, do a little self-care, a little self-therapy, get a buddy, like find some ways to make. this a little easier on yourself and see if you can ease some of this and just it's going to make it easier yeah yeah well let us know uh listener how did how how did your tests go and also i don't know

they didn't really get into it but i'd love to know oh no they did master's a business administration i don't even know what you used that for it just use that for like i don't know business leadership management stuff like that kind of manager or um get you more money in some way sure sure oh we got work Oh, I've got an MBA. Great. Here's an additional $2,020 a year. Warpforge in the chat says, I'm in college at age 50. That's awesome.

Congratulations, Warpforge. I didn't know that about you. That's cool. Well, anyway, let us know. We'd love to hear back from you. And hopefully this helps other people with their anxieties when it comes to education and everyday things like this. May all your quizzes?

Let me say this really quick. I remember, it just popped in my head. I remember being in my abnormal psych class, which is a very, very fun everyone everyone in there found out that they were mentally ill and everyone they love is mental ill it's really fun class anyway um that class there was a woman in her 40s had come back to school yeah and i remember just being so annoyed by her and i think back to why i was annoyed and i was annoyed because she didn't need to do to date or she didn't need to go to parties or she didn't need any of the stuff that college also requires of you so she could just

study all the time and be perfect and I remember just being so annoyed that that was unfair and I think huh maybe 42 year old feel feel yourself a little here like other students might be jealous of your experience they might actually be looking up to you and thinking some other things than you might think that they just think you're old yeah the opposite of it because part of this so you're right about the feeling of like, yeah, I'm doing this a little later than is expected by our culture. But the thing you don't know is that other people see you doing that and breaking the trend and doing something rad. And I have nothing but admiration. I don't, in fact, I don't know anybody who would look at that and go, oh my gosh, I cannot believe you're going back at 42. Like, that's just in our

hands, man. Everyone's amazed. Everyone's amazed. And they're all, at the very least, they're just passively happy for you. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So I wouldn't worry about them at all. And, you know, Okay. Yeah. Go ahead. Good. All right. Sorry.

I'm excited to pimp something. Pimp it. Do it. So I'm going to pimp my own stuff very soon. So I really enjoy. It's supposed to be July 1st, but who are we kidding? But I love this email when he says he's a huge fan of mine and all that I do. So I need you to do the thing when it's time.

It's not time, but I appreciate anyone who cares about the crap I do. But in the meantime, which it'll be in the next few weeks. In the meantime, I just sent you a link to this, Scott. Mainly, I just want you to buy this for your grandkids. So this is my friend just designed and created a puzzle. And it's the freaking cutest thing. It's Moose Plus Fox is her little brand. And she made this, you know, those like animal puzzles with the names and the pegs and the letters.

And anyways, so cute. Look at that. It's awesome. I love this. Isn't that amazing? And she's just like the nicest, human i've ever known and she's like here's my puzzle so i bought one and i'm going to write the craziest review i can't wait um she's a billion of these these are great and the letters matched

that oh they totally matched the animals like e for elephant and anyway and she did all the artwork and did all the stuff it's adorable so thought you have a child a grandchild in this age range and kim does all this crap i think you should surprise everyone by buying this puzzle i'm doing it i'm buying it for uh i'm buying it for phy because she's at the age where this would really ring for her. Exactly. It's perfect. And she, I don't know if she wrote on there yet, but when I read it, my girlfriend, you got to write on here that it is non-toxic paint and it's, it meets all these standards. She's just like, oh, yeah, I should probably. I'm like, yeah, brag about that stuff. Not the description yet, but, um, she needs to change that. Yeah, for sure. I'm going to, uh,

buy a puzzle. Isn't that cute? I just grabbed it. Even if a great price right now, like normally 15 bucks now, at least on mine, 379 right now. What? Yeah. It's happening. Mine was 15. Dang it. Mine's also 15. Hold on. May, Brian, you got something special. Yeah. Business price.

Yeah. It's Coverville business price, baby. Dang. All right, everyone to get Brian to order it. I want to figure this out because I want to get it. But if I can get it for three, that's even better. Yeah, I'm showing $14.99. She's not going to get any money if we all buy it for $3.

Oh, yeah. All right. Buy the $14. There you go. Exactly. How is your listing saying that? Always looking for a deal. I don't get how you as a cat, by the way, puppy.

kitty trout. How are you seeing this at three bucks? It's not there. It's just 14. I just sent you my screenshot. What the frick? Business price. Huh. What does that mean? Because, because clearly they see that, oh, Brian needs this for his business. Let's give him a good deal on it. That's really weird. All right. Well, that is weird. Yeah. Okay. Only Brian can buy it at that price. Everyone else, pony up. Yeah. I may not have good internet today, but boy, do I have prices on jigsaw. I was going to say, your internet is giving you discounts today is what it's doing. That's right.

I've got discounted internet. Exactly. It must be something with a business thing. Is that what's going on? All right. I'll figure that out. It has to be. Yeah.

I thought I had that. All right. Well, anyway, that's awesome. Hey, Wendy, have a great time. I guess Abe's home for the break, right? That's fun. Yeah. He's, if I told you what he's doing all of something?

Uh, uh, a window washer. Oh, no way. That's fun. And so he's up on those big booms and. cleaning the weirdest places. He cleaned the county jail. It's not wild. And like all these very big business parks.

And my favorite story, it happens probably once a week, is he'll be washing a window and someone inside in like a board meeting will wave to him because they think he's waving at them. Oh, because he's doing this. Yeah.

And he's only seen one naked person and it was a really old lady in a restaurant. Oh, wow. He's doing great. That's great. No, that's what you want. If you're going to see anybody naked, make sure it's a really old lady in a rest home. Yeah. Just watch The Shining.

Yeah, no kidding. He's doing good. Speaking of which, Shelley, Shelly DeValle died today. Funny enough. Not funny enough, but. My almost movie, Mom. Yeah. She's pretty great. Anyway, Wendy, have a fantastic week.

We will see you next time. Bye now. Okay. All right. That was awesome. Yeah. Well, we're at that. Currently in Krusty Town or am I in good sound?

You're in good sounding town right now. Okay, good. It was back and forth. It was sort of... I know, yeah. Never knew. That's what definitely makes me feel like it's something on their end and not mine.

Yeah. Because nothing's changing here. I've, I don't know, like nothing's syncing or updating, and it's just this computer now running, so whatever. Yeah, they're doing something over there. Hopefully improving your speeds, who knows, you know? Maybe. By the way, we never talked about Shelly Duvall, so I feel pretty good about that.

Yeah, we didn't. We never brought her up, but it is not our fault. we know jk grammar did but yeah we didn't bring it up uh she's great though i loved her and almost everything i ever saw her in i hate this headline on hollywood reporter though let me read you this okay all right says shelley duval the sauceride rail thin waif who starred in seven films it's like why you got to do that a sauceride whale rail thin waif it's like just a great actress shelley duval has passed oh my god like people are going to say now I don't know who this Shelley Devon.

Oh, Sasseride Rail Thin Waf. Yes, now I know who you're talking about. Really annoyed. Yeah. Why not just say, like, you know, a star of Popeye and the Shining. Yeah. Yeah, it's lame.

Don't be doing that. Also, she just keeps mentioning all the men she worked with. I don't know. She's great. I really liked her a lot, and she was compelling and everything. And she really was, yeah. I even love that Popeye movie.

I'll admit it. Yeah. No, I think it's weirdly. uncomfortable and off-putting, and I love it. Indeed. She was 75, doesn't say cause of death. I know she went through some really rough times recently with some mental health stuff, and I hope her family and everybody's

doing okay. Currently in season six of Silicon Valley, and Bernie Capelle just showed up as a multi-episode arc as one of the board members of Huli, and I completely forgot he was in this thing, but he's

basically the main person of the board that always is talking to Richard Hendry. The doctor from Love Boat? From Love Boat, yeah. Is he just, is he a philanderer in this as well? He's not. That's the funny thing, but at one point he goes, what the eff? And he says the actual word.

It just is like, so, wow, that is so unloveboat for him to say. He looks young enough to run for president in this photo. Look at that. How is that a qualification anymore, Scott? Young enough to run for president. Well, that's the joke, see, because look at him. Oh, gotcha. Gotcha, okay.

See that photo? Because good Lord. It kind of looks a little Mitchie, right? Like a little Mitch McConnor? A little Mitchie, yeah? I can hear him doing it. I'll have Lorne Tews delivered to my steakroom. That guy.

Turtle Man. All right. That is it for today. We got Coverville, as Brian mentioned, all things willing on his internet. Either way, there'll be a show. So watch for that. There'll be a show. You might get it as a podcast.

But if I go live with a stream, if things get them. themselves worked out, then I will, you'll see a little notification on threads, X, Twitch, all those things. All the stuff. Check it out. Core tonight, 5 p.m. Got a lot to talk about. Big bombshell news about game pass going up.

And whether or not that's a expected thing, good thing, bad thing, we don't know. We're going to find out. We're going to talk about it. Plus all the other stuff we did this week in gaming. That's core tonight at 5 at frogpance.tv. We have a couch party tomorrow. We are watching Venom, the first venom. at least half of it probably

Yeah half of it Yeah we're doing it We chunk them out in about our Our chunks So With a little preparation for the upcoming Third Venom movie That's right

We get these two done Then I'll have no excuse To wait another four years Before seeing Venom 3 Let's see what else Oh play retro Tomorrow 130 We've mentioned that before

JetSit radio Getting some time on there And then FilmSack this weekend We are doing Scarface Scarface Yeah part of your hot action Hello to my two and a half hour movie.

It's a long one. It's two hours at 45 minutes, actually, yeah. And you, is it you that never saw it? Yeah, it was me that up until last night had never seen it, but I'd seen enough. I mean, I knew what it was about, and I'd seen the important clips up until last night, but watched the whole thing last night. And, yeah, it's, well, I can't wait to talk about it. There's some things. It's like, okay, I mean, it's, it's, it does what it needs to do.

but I don't think it deserves all of the posters and T-shirts and rap songs and that sort of thing that maybe it gets. It's a thing of its time for sure. Yes, I think so. Probably a big part of that. So, anyway, that'll be this weekend, so watch for that. And then a quick note about the store. We've been doing this big sale, blowing stuff out.

My daughter just brought a gigantic car full of things for me to sign today. So when I'm done here, I've got to go do that. And it's going great. There are still some there. But so you know, Sunday night, all of that stuff goes away. So if you want to get it now, now's the time. These deals are insane. I sound like selling electronics in the 80s.

These deals are crazy and they're going away. But anyway, at about 11 p.m. on Saturday night, or Sunday night, we're closing the store for maintenance while we do the overhaul. And that means everything in there will not be there anymore. So if you want it now, now's the time to get it. We can fulfill all the way up to that point. but once that's gone, it's gone, and then we're off to the new plan. So just so you know, this is your chance. Get in there at frogpants.com slash store.

Okay? Okay. That's it for us. Everything else is at frogpants.com slash TMS, and Brian will now present us with a song, hopefully with good internet. We have no idea. Let's see if this goes through. Yeah, Greg for Walkman wrote in, said,

Hey, They're History Man and Dementus. July 11th will be my 57th year of waking up on this little rock. I would really love to hear a cover of Monkey Gone to Heaven by the The Pixies, see you in Vegas. And is it too early for a fish sandwich? Oh, my gosh, Vegas. Is this an old email? He requests the Ibit remix.

No, no, he sent this in last month. I'll see us in Vegas 2025. That's great. He's already planning. That's fantastic. He always sees us, yeah. Yeah, well, here's this then. Hey, is it too early to get a fish sandwich?

Classic. Nicely done. Love you all, Greg Forockman. That's probably what my internet sounds like, right? Yeah, a little bit. Like I'm coming up over the intercom. All right, cover of Monkey Gone to Heaven by the Pixies. I love this version.

This comes from a 2022 album called Viva, Songs of Freedom. And, you know, your first thought when you hear this band name is, oh, are they Russian? They might be. I don't know. This is Wotka Travolta. Good Lord. Pronouncing that exactly how it's supposed to be pronounced. Wow.

With their cover of the Pixies, Monkey Gone to Heaven. Have a fantastic day, you guys, and we'll see on Monday for all the people skipping everything else we mentioned. Okay. All right. know. to happen This monkey's gone to happen

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