The Morning Stream - TMS 2679: Roomba Clanahan

Episode Date: July 23, 2024

Competitive Sweeping. Sneaky Alligator. That 70s restaurant. Karen Butthole. Home Malone. Everyone back in the Poo! Golden Starship Trooper Girls. Flaking Off Their Day Skin. Lift Your Gays. Dr. Tooth and the Subway Next Door. Coretemu. The Power of Laps Compells You! Cupping That Battery Bum. The Survey Says. The Shelf Of Shame w Dan and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Ha ha ha. The MorningStream. If you have job, you wear the pants. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for July 23rd, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian David.

Hi, Ryan. Hello. We're almost too, you know, one of your number days. Oh, I like the number days. 24 24 24 yeah all we need is um let's see what's there any more significance this year i mean we'll have lots of 24th but do we have anything where it's like i don't know palindromic or uh there's no twos or fours left because we've already had april april second would have been you know everything every double digit or single digit um how about the

british way do we have anything where the british way looks looks cool like where you do the year first yeah yeah yeah like um like 24 24 no not really right because it would have to be boo the fourth day of a month that begins with a two and there's only one of those and it's february so yeah what fun is this then screw screw you 224 you don't have enough of these lame oh it wasn't that points out a good one December 12 12 24 oh that's a good one yeah math problem i like math problem that's fine well i don't like math problems but i like that one. How about let's see. So if you do that

in British, 24-12 12-12 is a division math problem. I like that. It would be 12-12-24. It would just be Wait, don't they do the... Oh, I see. We do year-month day because you and I like organization of our

date-specific items. Because it's how it should be everywhere. It is. It totally is. Why don't people... Oh, I don't do it in our tabs because it's such common to write them down that way but why don't people like we really should i may change that but in the in like all my file sorting and stuff i make a point of having dates like that that matter because everything else can be you can figure it out but it will take you longer why yep yep just like can we all agree i don't think this is that hard man

anyway this seems like easier to it up than the metric system should be i i agree I'll tell you what's really easy to do, though. The simplest thing people can do right now is hop on their mobile device or their desktop device and hop on a browser and head over to frogpants.com slash survey. You might say to yourself, what's that about? Well, I'll tell you, unlike all the other polling going on right now, this is actually a really good thing. So if you want to check it out and offer some of your thoughts in the Frogpants fan survey, I would love it. It's really simple and short.

It's questions like where. your podcast these days. Do you prefer Twitch over YouTube or do you like multi-streaming? Do you ever bought anything on the frog pants store? Zibba-zabudah, this sort of thing. You ever been to an event before in Vegas or otherwise? This kind of stuff. All anonymous. You don't have to put any information about yourself at all. It's so you can you can say really rude things if you wanted. You don't have to, but you could. I'm just saying. Don't treat it like you treat the tad pool if you had surveys.

No. No, maybe be nice in your responses. But anyway, I'm just, looking to collect this stuff, get some charts going, and I love data, and just a chance to get some frogpants fan data. So check it out, frogpants.com slash survey. A lot of you have already done it, so thanks to those who have. But we haven't really announced it formally on the show, so there's my chance. And thank you for participating. I participated. I did my part. I did my part. Oh. Bishop Troopers. Yep, yep. One of the Golden Girls was a teacher at the school. She was blind. She had two robot eyes. I used to think that was cool.

Unless I have that wrong. She may not have had robot eyes. They may have just been blind eyes. And they were like all blasted out. But my memory is that Room McClanahan had like roboty, circutty eyes or something. And that's a weird thing to remember. But I have that. It is a weird thing to remember.

Oh, yeah. She just had, from the photos I'm saying she just had dark glasses. Oh, see, I don't know why I have conflated that to be way cooler than it probably was. I think it's because I was so blown away in 1996. or whatever, eight, whatever it was. Yeah, yeah. That Rue McClanahan, one of the recent Golden Girls was in Starship Freaking Troopers. I couldn't believe it.

That's really funny. To this day, I can barely believe she was in that movie. So weird. Yeah, when you said that, I was like, what? One of the Golden Girls, I didn't even remember this scene, honestly. But now I'm seeing Denise Richards and doing the little experiments and stuff. Yeah, all your regulars of the Starship Troopers universe. That's right.

What a weird movie. Anyway, there's something to watch for, if you're ever watching it at home, everybody. Watch for Rue McClanahan as Golden Girl No. 3. I wonder if she regrets the name Rue. Hmm. Only if she rude. Oh, now I've done it. Let's see.

Can she Rue the day? Yeah, no, I see where you're going. That was good. Was it just Ruma? Was it Ruth? It's really short for something else. Like maybe she was Ruth and she's like, no, I need something even. so wait it's not ruma then it's just rue mcclanahan did you think it was ruma clannahan i did i did

i'm going to go ahead and admit that right now i thought it was ruma clanahan i really did and i watched that show oh thank goodness i'm not the only person that searches for it other people thought that too well i did a search in google in the very first as i typed ruma everything came up Ruma Space Clanahan, so I don't feel too bad now. Rumba Clanahan. Rumba Clanahan. Just putting around your kitchen, finding those hard to find, you know, Cheerios you dropped a month ago, the Brumba Clanahan.

So, all right, so I think, all right, so she got her name from her, for, her name came from her parents, not just her, her parents named her, but her mother's name was Drada Rua Neal, a beautician and William Edwin Bill McLanhan so her real first full name is Eddie Rue McClanahan like she

got her first name like people named construction companies now with the merging of the first names of the founders I like that that's one way of living it just shortened it to Rue

dude I got to show you some early Rue McClan photos this is when she was just starting out good Lord no wonder they made her the on the show here did you put it and where'd you put it

dragging it now hold on there we go okay it's very very pretty yeah very pretty look at her with the apples she opened up an apple with a blemish on it with a bruise yeah and then doing it again with a bunch apples kind of naked yeah look at that

didn't that weird as something with apples I don't know what that's about she was lovely though if they're golden delicious apples they're just black and white apples you can tell uh anyway so there's quite a few bruised apples in here yeah what a weird what a weird thing to pose with is a bruised apple maybe we had low expectations for our apples in the 1950s i don't know yeah

maybe this was normal it's like oh yeah they're all bruised what are you what are you talking about you know i was in i was in a whole foods this last week in schmancy uh park city and uh that place has got so many dogs on leash it's insane they're all extremely well-behaved but man that city. It's just dogs. Dogs and Subaru's as far as the eye can see. It's like Colorado Nut Springs, Boulder. It's like Boulder for you. Yeah, Boulder is, yeah, that's absolutely Boulder. Just hippie, McDippy, every four feet. Anyway, I really like the vibe there, but the apples they had were beautiful. I was like, wow, Amazon slash Whole Food. You really killed it on the Apple selection. And then I looked at the price and went, you're going to get, you're asking $4.99 a pound

for these. Jeez. F off! And of course it's, you know, they send the crap ones down to South Jordan. That's right.

Screw. Yeah, now we got to deal with their leftovers. Right. Anyway, so I got to tell you the story.

We were at a taco place that we really like in Park City. I forgot the name. But if I could remember the name would be good because if people go there, I could recommend it.

But I can't, so I won't. But anyway, wasn't too far from where we were staying. And to give you an idea of that thing, the place we stayed was like,

like this, I don't know how to describe it. The entryway felt like I was walking into a Tarantino movie set in the 70s. Okay. Like Jackie Brown style intro. Yeah. Like a wood panel or shag carpeting on the walls or something? Kind of not quite. So it wasn't quite the interior. It's like the opening lobby space. And so there's a lot of tile and stuff. But the tile was like an old black tile that looked like it was all put there in like 74 and like an old phone box off to the left and it almost felt like they did this on purpose but it's very I mean it looked like mid 70s like exactly what you would think and it immediately invokes the feeling of all of that the kind of the wood paneling era of like oh there's going to be a murder here and the hard-boiled

cops going to solve the mystery was that kind of vibe and then you get in there and then the entry space or the like lobby space is kind of normal. We're like, oh, okay, I guess they decided just to restore interior in the exterior or is that way or whatever. I don't know. And then we get in there and their entire pool, they have a pool and a hot tub, but it's all enclosed in almost like a greenhouse glass portion of the building. Okay. And then all of the rooms are like spread around the sides of it. And it's the kind of place that on the surface of you look at and go, well, that's where 21 year olds go to ski for a week and party.

Yeah, a lot, very lodgy or whatever. I loved it there. It was weird, kind of, it's swanky, not in a rich, boogey way, but kind of like a, just kind of a he man, nice hat man. Kind of a boutique hotel kind of thing. Yeah, that kind of vibe. And here's the coolest part.

We're in the hot tub one night. Kim and I, we're the only ones. And then in come into that room about eight dudes and their, wives slash girlfriends from a biker gang coming through town. Okay. And they were staying there. The sons and daughters of anarchy showed up. It was a lot.

Yeah, they all looked like it. And they were so freaking nice. Yeah. I have never met nicer people than this group. They were so nice and so easy to hang with and talk to. And we kept talking about how you never see 95-year-old old guys or tall guys. And my point was me and this other six-foot-four guy were talking. And I'm like, you know, you don't see a lot of us in the inner 90s.

do you and he's like oh i hadn't thought of that before and the other guy goes his bike will kill him before age so we had this whole thing about how bikes what's going to kill this guy sooner his bike or his his height as an old guy or whatever right right

is it that if you're tall you shrink before you get to 95 or that you just die before you get to 95 I think you die before you get to 95 it's because your heart is so damn far from everything it's pumping blood to reaching all the extremities it's exhaust it from all that happened it just gives up it's just like oh shit this is too much so anyway we

had a great time in there and um just some of the hairiest tattooed up old guys you've ever seen like guys in their early 70s in this hot tub just flaking off all their day's skin you know talking about hog riding and all it was a it was a blast I love talking to those guys they were great super friendly anyway um we go to this taco place which is my original point to get dinner everything there's great the people are always nice it's fine uh waiting for our tacos very authentic mexican tacos street taco style stuff and they're priced pretty well which is nice in park city because nothing's priced well in park city and um we sit down and we hear this guy go and i thought of you because i just knows who had driven you up a tree sure but this guy just

tries going yes so uh and he's off in the corner he's got two people right around him i don't know if they're together i can't really tell how they fit into this okay But he's over there going, yeah, back in 07, that's about the time I started the thing with the stuff and the deal and Bipa, Bip, Bap, Bip. And he's going off about business things. And he's so. Right.

And he's so. Loud about it. Like he's just, there's no whisper. The place isn't loud. There's no music or anything going on. I mean, it's a little bit in the background. It's not a big deal. But he's over there just going.

So when that investment opportunity came, well, I was the first to get in there and get on the top floor of the, you know, synergy and the bullshit. He's just like talking like a business guy. And this poor couple dude, one guy in a phone who would not lift his gaze, he's just staring to his phone. I don't know, lifting your gaze made me think for a minute

for some reason. Lifting your gaze. I pictured a, I don't know, some of you... John. His longtime partner picking him up after he falls in the shower. I don't know. David Furnish. So anyway, this is going on, this poor girls there.

And that girl's just going, yeah, yeah, yeah, like this, yeah, yeah. And I'm like, Kim, we're getting these to go. We're not staying here. I want to enjoy my tacos and not have to listen to this blowhard. Yeah, so we did that. And that gave us a cool opportunity to meet this Mexican-American family who were also at the same hotel, who were up there visiting family. And half of them were from Mexico.

They were actually here visiting from country to country. and they were so freaking nice that I want to stay with them and live with them because they had amazing homemade food they offered us some we were like declining because we're like oh we don't want to be a you know whatever and then they had a little chihuahua the size of my hands a little teacup chihuahua kind of thing with an unpronounceable name I couldn't do it and it had and he's only six months old and he's not yippy at all just the sweetest little thing and I'm petting him and and this guy says I said this on the Monday show but I'll say it again this guy goes I go that

That is, I go, that's interesting. I must have a bad stereotype about Chihuas. I just think they're always yippie. I'm supposed to be really loud. And he's, he's so quiet. And he goes, for now, my friend, for now. That's how he said it. That's awesome.

It was really, really fun. So that's just, those are just some of my fondest memories of the trip. But we had a great time. That's cool. My, you know, just saw the valley. It was beautiful up there, although we had smoke from that dumb fire. And that's all good now. It was like kind of a little bit nasty, but the, we didn't see Post Malone.

Supposedly he was in the Utah, but down at his, he was in his holiday house, which is down in the valley. So he's got like three places up there. So we didn't see that. An actual holiday, not his house for the, you know, whatever the weekend holiday was. Right, whatever he is in the mood to stay one night or another, he decided not to be up in the thing. But everything's like 10 degrees, you know, cooler up in the mountains. cool which is awesome i just love it up there i could live there if i could but so damn expensive we found a place that did breakfast stuff we almost went in and we checked out the menu outside their

cheapest menu item was it was an avocado toast that in the photo looked like no big deal just a piece of toast with avocado on it yeah maybe a little sprinkling a who know tomato this or that or whatever 1799 f that 1799 who's eating that who's eating that And I know who's eating that. This is yoga pants. Women driving their freaking Jeep Cherokees and Subaru WRX's over there. That's who's buying $18. Damn.

Such a old man complaint. You, kids, with your $17 over Kato toast. That's what it feels like the prize will be. It's like veil or aspen kind of thing. Where you just, if you're going up there, pack a lunch. Yeah. Don't eat there. Yeah, take your own food.

We did a little of that at night. That saved us some money. it's nice it was a nice get away a little reset you know how good that feels you just get away for a little and kind of jot down some ideas and think about stuff and you know people watch and all that shit oh and i went to the museum they got a museum in park city it's all about the miners and and i don't mean kids under 18 i mean like you know digging gold and that kind of thing that kind of minor yeah yeah and uh they had some rad stuff that i'd never heard of there some stories never heard of apparently there was a fire in 18 something that just wiped out the entire city

and everyone was like well that's that's the end of that no more park city no more mining camp we're done yeah and then a year later the thing had been like fixed and done and you know and this is back when it was like everyone thought everybody from park city was like a dirt bag these days oh yeah in the minor times 1800 times they were all just like dirty miners and you that's gross and whatever now is like the most highfalutin place in the way the state it's crazy so yeah so i partially blame um actor uh philanthropist and sundance creator bert reynolds or not bert reynolds robert redford yeah did you hear their uh i was surprised to hear that they were considering moving sundance and even more surprised that boulder is uh on the short

list yeah i heard about that that would be very interesting i wonder what the reasons are for that i don't know because he he's a he owns so much land up here he freaking loves it here but maybe he's not in control of that anymore i don't know maybe maybe the question is let's let's have you move sundance here do i do i lift that weekend and then maybe get uh you know get a car with uh steve bishemi and camille nonjani or something to the to the shoneys or something that would be amazing wouldn't it it would be great yeah probably you know i'd get is i'd get that woman the the the woman i dreamt about the actress she'd be the one of my car and i'd have to take 100 selfies and say, oh, my God, it was prescians.

It was, I dreamed it and it manifested. Well, there's always sightings here during that time. So I'm guaranteed you'd probably have a higher chance if you were. Probably, yeah. Lifting that. Because they also do it down in the city. So when they have the festival up there, there are showings that are happening in Salt Lake. In Salt Lake, so it probably would be some in Denver, too, so it wouldn't be.

Yeah, because there's two theaters up there for sure. The Boulder Theater and the Fox Theater would absolutely be playing. places where they would do showings, but that probably wouldn't be enough for all the stuff that's going on. So they probably have to do something in Denver, Golden, or something like that. Yeah. It's a real weird thing. Oh, I guess Park City is still in the running for the final six cities. I would think it would have to be, yeah. I didn't know if it was ever an option to move. No, I didn't either. I felt like, well, it's like Cochella or where it's locked into that place, South by Southwest. Well, we're concerned.

considering other places for South by Southwest. Maybe there are too many Californians here, and they're like, that's what we're trying to get away from. Yeah. Dicks. The current potential host cities are Atlanta, Georgia, Boulder, Colorado, Cincinnati, Ohio,

Louisville, Kentucky, Park City, Utah, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. And this is a big impact. $118.3 million in Utah gross domestic product every year. That's big. $1,600 jobs plus for Utah residents, 63 million in Utah wages and 12.8 million in state and local tax revenue. That would be a loss.

We would not be happy. What time year do they have Sundance? Winter, so like January. Wow. So it would be during the time when all the students are in Boulder. So that place would be a freaking madhouse. There's already a 100,000 population difference when the students, maybe not that much, but quite a huge difference when the students are in Boulder.

Maybe a lift driver would just make bank, though. Maybe, yeah. Curious about it. Maybe I wouldn't get as many. All right, welcome to Boulder. By the way, I'm going to send you over to the airport now. You're never going to get out of there. You're welcome.

The thing I'm reading is emphasizing they're trying to get to a climate where it's just a little less snowbound. And I don't know if that would help them to move to Colorado or not during that time of year anyway. If they did a different time of year, obviously they'd be okay. but that makes me think like Georgia would have a chance because you're not going to have that inclement weather there.

Right. Because they get snowed in a lot up there. Like you get like actors all up there and rental SUVs, yeah, just kind of trapped. So I don't know. A little clarification from Dr. Calhoun. I hadn't heard this.

So Sundance says they aren't moving the film festival. They just claim they're looking to relocate events during a renovation. Oh. Well then you would do, I would pick Colorado because you're close. Yeah, it's close by. I mean, what a crazy thing like to do, to move some events over? I would think that it would be like, no, I probably want to move all of them. I wonder what they're doing there. Maybe it's in, I mean, we're getting the Olympics

in 10 years. Maybe they're, I don't know what they're doing. Well, see, in this, this article you link to, Dr. Calhoun, says sources tell us that Sundance is looking for another city to host future editions of the indie film festival and market. Already Sundance has a contract with Park city to remain in the ski town till he's 2026 so it doesn't mention anything about a renovation unless i just haven't gone far enough it sounds like they're leaving i mean not leaving but potentially splitting right splitting splitting splitting splitting the indie from the from the mainstream sundance lab from the main festival i guess huh i'd be you know what would be cool just keep the indie here and then and now dr calhoun says oh never mind information says they were lying or newer

information says they were lying so oh shit So he's looking for, yeah, so it is looking for a new location. All right. All right, we broke the case. That's why we have you, Dr. Calhoun, to find the get down, drill down and get the truth. Yeah, no, he's a, he's a truth. That's where the PhD came from. Dr. Truth.

Dr. Truth. That's a Muppet. All right. It's not, his teeth. It's not just tooth, is it? Yeah. Who am I thinking of it? His early days he was Dr. Tooth.

Wasn't there a Dr. Tooth in a something else? Dr. Tooth. And then maybe that thing, maybe the Muppet is a reference to it? Why am I thinking that? No, the Muppet is a reference to Dr. John. Oh, you know what? I think that's what I'm thinking of. Okay, hold on.

You know what it is. Or Leon Russell. I know what it is. There's not like, I don't know, four blocks from here. There is a dental place. A dentist called Dr. Tief. Yes. Dr. Tooth and the subway next door.

is the band. That's embarrassing. All right. What else is going on? I had some fun this weekend. Oh, yeah. Tell me about, oh, yeah, plus you guys did you do your, the Tadpool meetup this weekend? We did, yeah.

I'll tell you about the Tadpool meetup first. We went to the Colorado Pinball Pub. There was, you know, it was a smaller group of us. We had Jeff and Nicky. We had Clark and his wife, Nikki, the Moors. And then we had, oh, shoot, Paul. I can't remember Paul's last name, but was that it? I think that might have been

it. A smaller group. And then of course, Tina and I. But you know what? That's all right. For the size of this place, that was a good-sized group of people because we had the run of the place. And there was two floors and maybe about 12 pinball machines that we could play in a couple video games. Some new stuff, a couple older pinball machines.

It's funny. It looks so much bigger in the photos and on the website and stuff that had a great time. And you basically pay 15 an hour, and then it's use of all the machines. So you go and play, everything's on free play. That's not bad. Yeah. I mean, that feels about what I would spend in quarters

as a young person in an arcade. You know what I mean? For sure, for sure. And especially with these newer games that are like, 75 cents for a game, three balls, and oh, you want to do two games? Well, we'll knock the price down to $1.20. 25 for two games.

I was like, yeah, all right. We'll do the 15 an hour. Sure. Worth it. Great, great ciders and beers and stuff like that on tap. That's great. I saw a photo that you guys looked like you had a great time. That's awesome.

Yeah. So that was Friday night, Saturday night. Thanks to listener, TMS listener, Anthony Renbarger, who is out of town and has season tickets to the Colorado Rapids, the local soccer team. gave us tickets to the Colorado versus Rayall Salt Lake. Your home team. Oh, okay.

Awesome. Rivalry. Are we rivals? Do you know the teams? Yes. You guys are apparently our biggest rivals. So we had four tickets, so we took Crazy Neighbor and Mrs. Crazy Neighbor and went and had some dinner and then went to the game. And first half of the game, we're sitting there watching and, you know, kind of refiguring out the what's allowed.

what's not allowed as far as fights and tripping and pushing somebody and touching the ball and not touching the ball and that sort of thing and we're watching the uh the weird dude i talked about last time who had a velvet rope a little retractable rope that he was letting certain people through even though you could just walk around the rope to get where you wanted to go why was he doing that was that just a to show a sense of weird just a weird uh thing at dick sporting goods uh park the uh the um That's really weird. Really, really weird. So the way the place is laid out, you've got the stadium in the middle, and then you've got like the close-up parking for, you know, the fancy people, and then you've got a big dirt lot for some reason, and then all the rest of the parking. And the parking is massive. It's broken up into several chunks with tree-lined roads between them.

and just a massive, massive parking area. Interesting. And that'll come into play here in a second. So half time comes, we decide, all right, let's go up. Little drops of rain are coming down. So it's like, all right, well, let's go up under the, into the concourse, and maybe get a drink or some popcorn or something like that. So we go up there and get something you need.

And the rain starts coming down a little bit harder. And the announcer comes on and says, Lightning has appeared in the area. Please make your way under one of the two concourses or go back out to your car and keep listening to the channel for future announcements. Wow. When it's safe to come back in and stuff. I'm like, oh, okay. All right.

It's fine. Sure. We decided to go up into the canopy, get some popcorn, get another drink. And we're sitting there and the rain is starting to let up. It's like, all right, cool. We're good. But apparently the lightning had not let up. Apparently lightning was still an issue.

So the announcer says, now we'd like you all to just go out to your cars and maybe you just drive home or, or if you really feel like it, you can stay in the parking lot and just kind of see what happens. But because of all the lightning, you know, maybe now it's better for you go to your cars, which is where I don't know why the concourses weren't safe anymore. Like why we couldn't hang out there. Or maybe there were just too many people under there. Oh, you hit some kind of limit, some kind of OSHA limit or something on that. Yeah, because it means you've got the two. long you know the the the uh the stadium is an oval and the two long edges they're east and west and those are covered by concourses but then those two curves where the goals are uh the upper levels

are wide open so you're out there and you're under the elements so everybody from the whole stadium is now converging under those two sides and so it's like all right well let's this is a mess let's just go out to the car and maybe we'll just maybe we'll just call it but we'll listen for announcements to see if they tell us to come back sure we start making our way to the car and we're not We're barely out of the gates, and the rain starts picking up, and the wind is, like, is, like, all of a sudden, just high-speed gusting coming right at us. And what that's doing is it's turning all the rain into little projectiles that feel like hail, but there's still water, but they are hitting our face. And we're, like, people around us, like, there are women screaming and kids crying, and, like, these things are pelting us the face, We're going, ow, ow, ow, and we're trying to run.

And Tina's got this little dinky, foldable umbrella that, you know, compacts down to the size of a gas station hot dog. And so it's not doing much. You know, it basically can cover her kind of well, but she's using it with her and Mrs. Crazy Neighbor and starting to come down on them. I mean, they're protecting the two of them. And we're running now to get to the car. and the wind and the rain are blowing so hard that it's actually reducing visibility. So I'm sticking close to Mr. Crazy Neighbor,

close to Dave, and we're running kind of alongside of them, and then just we kind of all, the two pairs kind of lose each other. So Tina and Carrie go, and we kind of lost them, and Dave and I are like, crap, where'd they go?

I don't know, but I think this is our parking lot, and we find a huge truck, and we kind of, of hunker down next to the truck and we're just kind of looking around and we can't see crap and we're still getting water on us, rain's coming down. I like pull out

my phone and the water drops are hitting the glass and like adding new letters to my text messages and stuff so I'm like wiping it off in my shirt and we're getting drenched by the completely soaked. Yeah. And so I get my phone and I like text

Tina and I'm doing the voice to text and I say we lost you period when you get to the car honk the horn so we can find you and Dave starts laughing

and he's like everybody's gonna be honking or you're not gonna hear them honking that's ridiculous what a stupid idea he's like still swears that was the stupidest idea and so we're like

all right well they're not in this section let's start making our way to the next section and just as we're moving and getting out of that first section we hear the only the lone horn honking off in the distance and it's Tina going meep meep meep meep meep and she's you know she's flashing her lights and it's like there she is right there david of course with the wind blowing it's like there she is she's right here Dave you get sure you weren't like a like a like a twisters PR event or

something that sounds like almost like it I mean the wind was sideways the wind was blowing the rain sideways into our faces and and it was painful and we were drenched we were soaked like i had to uh like david and i both kind of stripped down well he he completely stripped down to his skivies and we just threw our our uh tina had the uh fortunately had the plastic mat in her cargo area for carrying groceries because it's got little dividers and things so we you know we threw our clothes back there and they're just sitting on the plastic and uh the women are just kind of taken off their outer wraps, but leaving their tops on, of course. Of course.

Sure. Whatever. Yeah. But everything so soaked and the seats so soaked that Tina had to leave her car out the entirety of Sunday and a little bit yesterday with the windows down in our driveway just so that when she sat in her car seats, she wouldn't, it wouldn't rewet her clothes. It was completely. That's a gnarly. That's a storm, man. That's not just some, like, oh, it's sprinkling.

We're screwed or whatever. That's like hardcore. Absolutely crazy. And we're laughing our heads off. And Dave was recounting. He was like, when you started sending that text, I thought it was the stupidest thing ever, like to honk the horn. And I said, yeah. And what do you think is still stupid, but it just sucks that it worked.

Yeah. Stupid bit it worked. Interesting. Stupid but it worked. Yeah. That's such a Dave thing to hear. I love that. Yeah.

Well, that's great. I'm glad you guys. survived it you know yeah who won the who won the game or how did that how did that all end up did they keep going so they called it sure on a yeah i haven't looked um i know you can rain a little bit on a game and they won't do much for soccer but if it's like sideways wind gus and things you it's just like a nightmare you can't do it so they probably called it you know according to this they did play the full time they must have i wonder if they um uh yeah we won we beat uh real salt lake Three to two.

Bastards. But I'm looking to see when, like, when they restarted the game because there was no way while we were running to the thing that they started that game back up. They probably, yeah, they probably just delay, right? And then maybe this. There we go. Yeah. Late penalty after weather delay.

Oh, okay. Yeah, so big weather delay. Sounds like, well, I don't know this for sure, but I would think that a stadium would block some of that wind, some of the sharing of the wind, and maybe they don't, worry about it as much, but I don't know. Maybe, but here's the, so the, the game started at 7 o'clock. Yeah. Right?

First half, so 45 minutes, they play pretty much straight through with a couple little breaks of, like, oh, penalty or whatever, and they just add time to the 45 minutes. The news update that I saw said that the second half started at 1021 local time, so three hours after the first half started. That's a long time to commit. Apparently, they did continue playing. Yeah, just is like 12.21 a.m. Eastern time. Jeez, Louise.

I would like to have seen who was left in the stands. Right. Oh, yeah, I know. That would be great. I think, I bet I can. Got to be like two or three hardcores, right? They're just always there. It just decided that they're going to stay in the stadium and tough it out. They're true fans, Brian. True fans. That's right.

All right. Well, that's awesome. I'm glad you made it out and that you're all dry now. That's important. It was a lot of fun, yes. We have a quick, I don't have a good theme for this. Actually, maybe I do. Let's see if I've got something just randomly.

But sometimes we get stuff from our resident, one of our many doctors, but our medical doctor, Jerry Tolbert. And he corrects us on things sometimes. Sometimes we're just wrong. Or we have a question. He's like, I don't have an answer for it. I wonder what this is. And he corrected us on the duodenum last week. Oh, that's right.

Yeah, he was big on that. So he's got a little bit of a roundup here. Maybe this is our theme. Let's see. I'm a medical doctor. There you go. We'll do that one. That works.

Here's what Jerry has to say. Your friendly neighborhood medical doctor here to answer some of the burning questions that you left behind at the end of medical week on the morning stream last week. One of the first is about the diet soft drinks in a hot garage. The aspartame, the artificial sweetener that is used in drinks like Diet Coke and Coke Zero, does actually get converted to formaldehyde at a faster. rate in higher temperatures, but it's not being converted in high enough volume to really be dangerous to humans at lower levels. If you're drinking several 12 packs a day, then it can be pretty dangerous. But if you're having one or two, it's not really going to hurt you. The problem is it's just really bitter. And so it tastes horrible. So you probably don't want to

drink soft drinks, diet soft drinks that have been left out in the heat, especially in a hot garage above about 100 degrees or so. The second question was about the PAP testing. And it is not a pap that we are testing, but it is named after a guy named George Papua Nicolao. It gets shortened to Papua because it's easier to say. But George Papua Nicolao in the early 1900s was a pathologist and histologist. He looked at cells under the microscope, particularly the cells of the female reproductive tract, and discovered that certain cell changes were indicative of cervical cancers. And he was able to codify that.

And now we use his technique for studying those cells to make sure that we identify. five cervical cancer quickly. It was one of the earliest tests for any type of cancer that we had that was fairly accurate and useful. As always, I remain your humble servant and if you need anything, just page me. All right. I love these. I love these, by the way. I do too. Because I just, I don't know, it feels like we have some authority out there. But secondly, can we just call it a PAP test then? Do we need to put smear? Yeah, my problem isn't PAP. My problem is smear. It's more like a scrape. It's a pap scrape. Get rid of all those and just say, okay, so it's named after Papadopoulos, whatever's

name is. Give him, give this thing, just call it the PAP test. We're done. We're done. No one's confused. Nobody goes, now which PAP test do you mean? The smear or the scrape? No, we know. It's the one. There's one PAP test. Right, right. All right. I don't think that's asking a lot of modern society to adopt that. I agree. That was awesome. I would do this on the regular if Jerry was willing. All we have to do is say stupid stuff about medicine on the show and then he'll correct us. Absolutely. Yeah. Anything you want to correct us on, if you've got the time to leave us one of those absolutely clear and what a great microphone you have recordings, Dr. Jerry, we will 100% play it.

We don't always get those, but when we do, I choose Dosecis. All right. It's so much better than recordings that, I don't know, just as an example, tell us in the first few seconds how to pronounce something correctly. and then go, yeah, and just repeat that for about another three minutes. Yeah, those are nice, long calls that we hate and we'll never. Just for example, I don't know. I can't think of any off the top of my head. No. Now, my favorites are the, I like the Bob Pedersen follow-ups the next day on that.

Those are my favorite. Right? Exactly. Yes. The magical stuff coming out of there. All right, everybody. We're going to do some quick news to get us started today. it's time for the news and it's brought to you by get on twitch and see what dm rob is working on today the dude is crazy creative and smart as hell catches streams at twitch dot tv slash that developer dad see what he's programming today yeah he's got cool stuff man mr september yeah mr september and i checked out his uh channel when he was working on some stuff and that guy's got some cool ideas so i think you should check it out i should um programming do you

Remember? I don't remember. Some of that went over my head, but super interesting. If any of you, by the way, are doing cool stuff that you do on the regular creative stuff, sometimes I just pull these out of our promote yourself section in our Discord. And that's where this came from. And I would be happy to do that more if you guys are promoting yourselves in there. So, you know, watch for more of that. Hey, Brian, a sneaky alligator in the news. Oh, no. Oh, no. That's a sneaky nut punch. Well, that's true, unless an alligator did. it, I guess. But that's not good, that's not good for anyone. So nobody wants that. Sneaky alligator caught hiding underneath a public shopping cart. Ooh, this would raise my hackles. This would take you from 11 items up to 12 items and put you in the wrong lane.

Yeah, that's right. And possibly cause. Looks like you've got a 12th item. You need to, no self-checkout for you. Yep. Plus potential foot loss, if you're not careful. Right, yes. Anyway, a yellow caution tape surrounded the front of a public store last week after a sneaky little

alligator was caught hiding out underneath the coral a coral a corral it's not coral is it at all when when you know when it's one shopping cart it's a shopping cart but when you see them in a group it's a coral of shopping carts that's what they've said here is that do you think that really is the grouping of shopping carts as a corral no no no the corral is like that little um the little thing with the metal bar is that you put all the shopping carts into you know in the parking lot oh that's called a corral okay corral well that makes sense you corral uh sheep into it Yeah, yeah, okay. That makes sense.

Like shopping at the OK Corral. I love watching those kids with the headphones on that are always, they always look like this kid. Headphones on, usually like a yellow. A blaze yellow safety thing. And they're out there pushing what looks like 400 carts in a row, like a big snake of them. I love that.

Yeah. Oh, do you, do you not get the guys with the, they have a little remote in one hand, and there's an automatic shopping cart pusher. no that they're controlling with a remote and so they're up in the front steering like basically able to kind of steer where this thing goes walking alongside it and pointing it and then they've got a little remote control that has the the send in the floater basically the machine that pushes all these carts from the back i have been to well we go to smiths a lot and we go to harmon's a lot and i don't think i've

ever seen that not at those anyway so i wonder i wonder they just haven't modernized or something I don't know. Yeah. Oh, super cool. Like, I want one of those, I don't know,

I don't know what I'd use it for, but just a little remote thing to push stuff around the house. You could find a way. You could find a purpose. Yeah. I like that. Lisa Royal said she stopped at the publics

at 1575 old trolley road in Somerville, North Carolina. South Carolina is what I meant to say, not North. Wow. Old trolley road. Seems like they should have a pigly wiggly

not a Publix. I'm going to ride my horse to the trolley road. Anyway, says it was so unbelievably out of the ordinary. I had to stop and document the moment. She told the local affiliate WFLA. Video of the gator encountered,

sorry, gator encounter shows shoppers and workers standing around the caution tape as carts blocked off the area where it was hiding. There's a photo in here. Really? Oh, good. I want to see the, I think you've got a gator in under the carts. Yeah, there he is. Look at that. Oh, wow. Okay. I'd lose my poop.

sneaky little gator although you're safe taking him from the back because he does not have the room to spin around and bite you there no he just whack his head on a wheel or something also it looks young that looks like a adolescent yeah it seems like pretty easy to catch too just basically put up an amazon box on either side and you've now trapped that gator yeah I've held a baby gator and never tell you about that I mean really cool in Louisiana yeah it was Mississippi or maybe may have been actually Louisiana now that you say that I think it was in Shreveport, Louisiana. Somebody had a pet alligator, and they let me hold it. And it was adorable little thing. And it didn't snap at me or do anything dumb. But I thought, when you're big enough, you're going to be terrible. So good look.

You're going to eat old ladies at the golf course. I think his name was Rusty. They called him Rusty. Yeah. I don't know if they ever farted it, and they went, Rusty, Rusty. Rusty. Rusty. All right, here's a fun one.

Finish us out, I think. Okay. a shattered salsa jar I played bass for them for two years they were great for a while that's actually how I got I'll put on injured reserve and wrestling I had a shattered salsa jar

that one will knock you out for a while you gotta be careful and it's a slow coming back from a shattered salsa bar it is you gotta yeah you really gotta ice that baby um it's this thing caused $20,000 in damages at a Massachusetts pool

Massachusetts. Get a rope, everybody. A popular pool in Massachusetts is back after a jar of salsa led to $20,000 in repairs. The town of Needham's Park and Recreation Department posted on Facebook that the lap pool in rosemary pool, a lot of pools here, was closed on July 14th. The reason was due to a glass bottle shattering and glass shards being found in the pool. So it wasn't even so much about the salsa. No, it was just the glass. Yeah, you can filter out the chunks of time. tomato and zesty ingredients. Pool officials issued a warning. Pool officials. That's funny. I mean, who's a...

It's a dude of the, you know, a pair of red shorts and a red wife beater carrying a floaty. He's a pool official. So dumb. He says, I'm going to have to ask you to leave. You're going to have to get out of here. Who are you? I'm a pool official.

According to Boston 25 news, I wonder Greg from Walkman can tell us more about this story. Anyway. Oh, yeah, right. Greg from Walkman. I think Greg from Walkman. I wonder if he'd say, ah, it was a wicked mess, he'd say. Tank top, yes. Massachusetts State Senator Becca Rauch said on Facebook that it was a salsa jar that had broken

and the pairs cost about 20 grand, which included draining, cleaning, refilling, rebalancing, and retesting the pool. Yeah. So there you go. So that's, it's weird to call that repairs. Because I think of repairs as we had to fix something, as opposed to we had to drain it, we had to sweep to make sure there are no shards, we had to clean it, we had to refill it with water, and we had to, you know, re-ph-test the water. I don't, I don't think of that as repairs. I'm with you.

There's nothing fixed there. We had to drain and refill the pool. I guess you've fixed your situation, but you haven't. Maybe there was a filter that broke. They didn't get into it. Maybe the glass ruined some filters or something. Okay, you know what that's possible? They don't explain themselves, though.

You know what I love about this photo, though? So it's showing the pool with about, I don't know, a third to water or even a quarter. And it looks like nun's race here. This is where the nuns race, because there's all these crosses. It's like crosses under each of the blocks. Yeah, is that normal for racing blocks? Is that a thing? And I just have never noticed it before?

You know what? I think so. but now that you point them out as crosses, I can't unsee crosses. Like, I can't... The power of swimming compels you! The power of laps! The vampires can only make it to one side

and they turn around and go, oh shit! I can't go back. So Romania's out of the Olympics. When does that start? That's soon. 24th? Three days, baby.

Yeah, this Friday is the opening ceremonies. So I told you this is going to be the year I actually pay some attention because I paid for that damn peacock subscription. I'm going to watch. Yeah. I'm going to have it on all day. Any particular events that you're looking for to sing?

I like some of the more obscure ones. I like water polo a lot. That's fun to watch for me. I don't know why. I just like watching it. Some people think it's boring, but I think that's great. I like... What's the one where you...

Oh, the dye, like all the high dive stuff? Yeah, the diving, yes. And what else? Too big a splash with her. They're definitely going to duck him for that one. You'd think I'd be into things like, oh, the basketball, men's basketball, that'd be great. And I'm like, no, we come in there with NBA players and wipe everyone's ass. Like, why are we even doing that?

Yeah, exactly. It's less, there's less of a thrill with the basketball. Yeah, you're like, oh, I can't wait to see these young up-and-comers. And then you see three all-stars from the NBA turned the corner with a flag, and you're going, why am I bothering? What are we doing? Yeah. I do like the triathlon, too. Like the, um, that one's good.

You know, we got a run. Now we get a bike. Now we get a swim. Yeah. Don't they have like skate, they got some kind of skateboard stuff this year or they used to or maybe this is last year? Something like that. Um, like Tony Hawk style stuff. I watch that.

I think you're right. And don't they have break dancing this year too? Yeah. Is it an exhibition or? Yeah. Olympic skateboarding will be, yep. I don't know the dates, but, uh, so there will be skateboarding as well. That's cool.

Oh, and I like all the, the versions of volleyball, the indoor, the outdoor, all of it. love that not just because of cute little bums not because of that no okay i like a cute bum i'm not saying that i don't sure who doesn't but yeah on a lady i like it on a lady okay i think you know i've been watching Deadpool i've been binging the uh the the two deadpool movies and that ryan reynolds has a cute bum too people are mad just the shaping of the suit have you seen the have you seen the controller the xbox uh special edition controller oh yes yes it's got a bum on it it's got a bum yeah it's amazing and you can't get it it's only through this contest you you can't buy them. I'm sad. I want one.

That's a bummer. It's a serious bummer. It's also a missed opportunity. If you're going to have all that bum space, fill it full of battery life, you know? Oh, sure. Oh, yeah, battery bum. Battery bum. I don't even care how heavy it is. I'll just cut those cheeks and go, yeah, this is going to last me two weeks. It's fantastic. That's right. So they've actually got some events that are going on before Friday. They've got rugby and football. I think it might be maybe it's just paring down the team.

or something. I don't know. But the actual opening ceremonies is on... Actual opening ceremonies are Friday. Friday. Okay. I'm kind of looking forward to it just because I'm going to have it on all the time. And France isn't so far in the future. You know what I mean? Like usually it's like, oh, here and...

Overnight, yeah. Nagano, Japan, it's freaking 3 a.m. I'm like, well, shit, this isn't... I don't feel connected when it's that far away. Is it the pentathlon that has shooting where they've got a... Uh, what's the, what's the decathlete? That's not it.

Decathal. Maybe it's Decathalon. Oh, I can't remember. There's one of them that has shooting that I really, I like when they have to do all sorts of different things. Is it a decathlon? Maybe it is the decathlon. I don't know. Deca is, what, ten, right?

Right. Ten events. Yeah. You'd think they would, you'd think that's enough events to have some shooting in there, right? I would think that they'd run out of events. Like, all right, well, we're going to have them shoot. We're going to have them run. We're going to have them swim, cycle.

Let's, I don't know, have them do judo on the way to the next thing. Okay, doing judo poses. All right. Maybe we should have them. Yeah, that's funny. Diving? Can we have them dive to one location? Wow, it's weird.

If you search for... Oh, you're right. It is. It's combined with skiing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Biaathlon is the shooting and skiing. Oh, which would be winter, I guess. Yeah.

Yeah, they do have shooting this year, but it's not... It's just... pistol and air rifle and oh gotcha okay handball you got to win for hockey there dan in the chat and it's not this this not this time you got to wait for winter boy um take about the that's of watching fencing too fencing is kind of oh yeah fencing's fun i like the noises they make in fencing yeah huh huh ah bull and they've got their are they tethered to the back like it tells how far oh right i wonder if they have to do that anymore if they can do all that with cameras and sensors now

and stuff. I wonder. Oh, I don't know. It's really interesting. I don't know. But I love watch. I like that too. That's a good one. I'm sure I will find things to enjoy. I like the boxing. The boxing to me is less of a big fake millionaire party and more of like, here's the actual sport of boxing. Let's see how

they do. I like that. Oh, surfing. Surfing I like watching too. Surfing is cool. Yeah. Because they have to like, there's, you know, they have to like accomplish three things like like staying on or moving unpropelled,

propelled by the waves for X amount of time and then going through a curl or something. What is the, let me see what the, if they have details on that. Are those indoor or do they have a coast they do those on? They're doing them way outside of France, like somewhere else. Because you'd have to, right? Oh, Tahiti, okay.

Okay, if you have the right conditions. Like, I don't know how. It feels like they'd want to control the conditions, and so I always assume that was an indoor thing now. You know, with a pool with like artificial waves or whatever. Oh, that would be great. Like one of those, like they have at water parks where it's just like a really, a magical place.

That's right. So it's a lovely place. It's a magical place, Tahiti. Yeah, where they have the, like at water parks, the water forced into an automatic little, surfing curl. Yeah. Otherwise.

We control the conditions. Yeah. Otherwise, you're relying on Mother Nature to get it right? Like, how does that work? Yeah. I don't know. I don't understand that sport. Well, you, you know, you pick your wave and, uh...

And you ride it. And you ride it. Yeah, you ride that wave. I get it out there for a long time and you don't get the right wave and, you know, whatever. Well, we're going to let the right wave in. Oh, you know, they ought to do. One final thought on this.

Sure, sure, sure. Can we have a summer Olympics version of some form of curling? it doesn't have to be on ice but like a rock in the dirt or in like some slick grass or something where they just like and they got a rake in front of it what they call it not a puck

what is that thing called the stone the stone on some sort of like ball bearings or something yeah yeah I think this should be the unifying sport between all professional Olympic games what brings us together curling curling

what starts isn't that basically shuffleboard It's like, you know, I guess kind of, yeah. Sort of. You're using a, yeah, I guess you're still using a stick to push the thing. Sure. Yeah, but your shuffleboard, well, is there a shuffleboard competition? I don't know if there is. Let's see.

It's like with the old people at Olympics or what? I don't, creative competitive, competitive sweeping. That's not bad, Matuba. I like that. Feather bowling. Feather bowling is interesting. Let's see. Shuffle board.

Shuffle board. it says what do you think this is a cruise ship i guess okay so no no shuffleboard so no shuffleboard all right geez yeah they didn't have to be so rude about yeah all right well don't look mascots by the way what do the mascots look like oh i don't know uh they're always dumb to me but let's see france oh they're weird they're weird birds with okay here you go you're ready for this yeah let's see it and giving you uh giving you a link to the page Oh, they're like, I don't like them. Yeah, they're like.

No, I don't like these. They're like cherry-dipped Dairy Queen Sundays with ribbons for eyes, like medals for eyes. Yeah, what do you think, chat? Oh, yeah, the ribbons come around the sides, like they're almost like eyelashes. Eyelashes or glasses. I guess one of them is wearing sunglasses. Yeah, these are all, these are terror. I don't like these.

Yeah. And the fact that they don't have a lower part of their body makes me think, wait a minute. So is that their skeleton coming out of the bottom of them or is that, are they wearing some sort of cloak and what do they look like gawas or something underneath? What do they look like underneath those? It's like a severely injured starfish. That's what it looks like. I don't know why this is, I don't know why they chose this. I don't like it.

I'm sure there's a story. They never have good mascots. Like, the mascots are always just wackadoo. Pride 2020. Yeah, I don't know who approved this, but I don't like it. European bullshit, man. Take that, French listeners. All right, let's move on to taking a break.

When we come back from this break, we will have Dan, Dan, the Tabletop Man here. He's already in the chat, stirring it up. He'll come in here and stir it up even more. So look forward to that. Brian, tell us what we're playing before we do that. Sure. We're going to go to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Yeah, I spent quite a bit of time in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania at the newspaper, a whole week installing for all the reps there, and made a little trip out to a nice little trip.

I think it was like a two-and-a-half-hour drive to Atlantic City because there's really nothing else to do in Harrisburg. Anyway, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Group, the Jelly Bricks, have a brand new single. It's called That Way. No, it's not a cover of the Backstreet Boys. It's just called That Way, but you'll want it this way. Big thanks to Wicked Cool Records for sending this over to me. Here are The Jelly Bricks and That Way. There isn't a thing you said that I don't believe.

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I got damn near lost my nose. And I like it. I like breathing through it. And I still think that you're hiding something. To get the dwarf scroll too, you need to kill many monsters. And we've returned. Who was that one more time? Those were the jelly bricks from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,

and a song called That Way. Which way did you go? That way. Go that way. I want to go that way. Tell me why. Oh, those guys. Ain't nothing but a heart break.

Tell me why. nothing but a mistake tell me why i never want to hear you say yeah i want to save this for film all right you guys what are we doing here i don't remember his name geek jock that's it i was like it's not dan what does he go by the name of dan patrice i always forget his nicknames but uh that's okay because now we have this what's wrong one where is it there it is a tangent for him be careful may cause drowsiness

frog pants his own resident a dude what knows about pills and expert in all things tabletop gaming it's Dan

Patrice everybody hi Dan welcome back greetings programs you know just just pills just pills that's yeah

I made it sound like you're a dealer or something I don't know why did that that was no that's always the fun thing like I'm just

just a drug dealer yeah he just just shilling out them them opioids, I guess. That's what everyone says you do. That's Big Pharma. Dan's part of Big Pharma. Well, it's, I'm even worse now because everybody hates PBMs and stuff. Like, that's the benefits providers and everything. So I'm on that side now being, you know, working for Medicaid and stuff. So I'm, uh, I'm even more hated than, than most places. But I just

sit there and make decisions. I have nothing to do with all the money and stuff. No, no, no. And it's not like you got, you don't, you don't have little packs of like thugs outside waiting for you to get to your car and stuff like that, right? You're fine. No, well, no, nobody, well, I mean, they would have to know where I live because I work from home now since I don't have any drugs or anything. I just do all prior authorizations, you know, are online. Thank God. You know, even when people went back to the office, we were just a remote position, which is great. Yeah. I mean, you talk about rolling out of bed and it's, you know, except that it's, I work at 1230, but I mean, I just throw a shirt, shirt and a t-shirt and shorts on and just move over to from one desk to the other when it comes to working at my. my desk. Well, here's what I picture with you, Dan. I picture you in a room surrounded by stacks of either played or unplayed board games, right? And I think you're like, okay, pre-authorization, something with this and that and the other and the farm of that. And then you're out of the corner of your eye, you're like, I wonder if Gloom Haven could be converted

to a single player video or a card game. You know what I mean? Like, do those things because they're your passions, do they distract you at all as they work from home? I'll have to, I'll have to send you because there are some nights where we're done early so i worked till nine so there are some nights where we may be done at seven so i just literally five feet from my work desk is my table at my game topper uh game toppers lc they have like these game toppers where it's basically things that would go on like a folding table but they're an awesome uh gaming table and you know kind of you can put a play mat right on there so i actually have games set up almost all the time i actually had um the uh the the Gloomhaven, the newer one that came out,

geez. Jaws of the line? Yes. I was funny. I'm so close. I was running to my, I just couldn't grab Jaws and the Line. So sometimes I'll have Jaws and Alliance set up and I'll just go over there and do a couple turns or if I'm waiting for something to load. I'll go, you know, I'll do a couple turns and or make some decisions. And I've even got my other computer that I'm on right now, which has board game arena. So when it's my turn on some of those, I'll hear it go off and I'll just walk over here and do my turns. And like I said, I'll have to send you a picture. this is my bonus room so it's my gaming room and there are all sorts of games all over the place unfortunately

I have to I really need to clean this up because a lot of times you know I've got a lot of games for my charity and stuff I'm here that I'm getting you know that I get in all the time to give away at the charity but I have a lot of the played and unfortunately plenty of unplayed games like every other gamer in this world the uh you know they they call it I usually call it a shelf of shame or the pile of shame but it's like the uh people like to call like the untapped potential pile like nobody wants to negative But it's, I like to shelve shame because there are things that I just need to get, to get done that are just a little bit everywhere. But my son actually works at the neighborhood pool. So I can give you a little input on his pool thing. Cool. All right. Tell us how that qualifies as repairs. So it's, it's kind of hairy.

So we work, we live in this neighborhood where they have an HOA. So they have the neighborhood pool. So you have to have an attendant on there. Basically almost all day long, they have an attendant. Now the attendant, you kind of sign in because you have a key that you have to get. and every year they change and you've got to pay your dues or whatever to get in there so the attendant just sits there

watch people sign in and you have to inspect like the bags and stuff they bring in because glass anybody that owns a pool or has thing pool is this glass is the worst thing in the world because think about shards of glass so shards of glass are so bad if any you can't even bring them in they'll just tell them to go put it in

yeah they can't be that's why they inspect your coolers and stuff because if you have a just if anything glass breaks in a pool area like on there you've got to basically drain it and clean it because that's so crazy you know i mean you could get into your eye you can get into your ear you can ingest it inhale it anything like it's just in case it gets into the pool you have to do all that like it's one thing you know you have kids you have to make sure that the the rubber diapers and then have like it's like a rubber diaper on top of an

extra diaper if they're going to be in the pool so that if there's any floaters oh yeah not just yeah so yeah if there are any floaters in there You don't necessarily have to, depending on how extensive the pee or poo is, you don't necessarily have to drain it. You just got to maybe, it might be closed for 24 hours to shock the hell out of it with all chemicals and stuff. But when it comes to glass, there is almost nothing worse than glass. You've got to drain it, sweep it up, because you can't take any chances with any of that. And you were talking about earlier about the storm you were caught in, you know, being the South and being a gazillion degrees every day, you have storms almost every day when it gets into this heat of the summer. and if it's thundering or lightning

you got to like scream you got to clear the deck because if you don't scream somebody's going to call and complain about it. DJ got somebody called because everybody was getting out of the pool anyway and it was a thunderstorm coming so you've got to clear the deck for a certain amount of time and if you see lightning they've got to get out of the pool area

but he didn't scream loud enough so somebody had to call some Karen from the HOA had to call the bosses that handle the pool to say that he didn't clear the deck with freaking Karen butthole you don't need to be doing that. It's funny.

You know, they take it with a grain of salt. They know those people are everywhere. Well, let me, let me ask you this question. So when I was at a, we were at a local pool once, I've talked about on the show before, but they had a, let's call it a catty shack moment where somebody pooped in the pool. And it was a, it was a kid. It was some kid, it may have been some leaky diaper. I don't know what the deal was, but somebody pooped in the pool.

And they were like, beep, beep, beep, everybody out of the pool, and it was like a big freak out. everybody gets out of the pool and then they spent maybe 20 minutes scooping around with big long things and then pumping something in there I assume chlorine or chlorine adjacent disinfectant I don't know what right yeah that's kind of part of that

they've got a couple of chemicals that they'll throw in it nowadays and then it was like 20 minutes later and they were like all right everybody back in the pool and I went yeah I'm not getting back in this pool I'm good I don't think that was enough how long ago was that from was this a while ago? Some years ago. It's probably five years ago or something. I think everything's changed. Like everything in the world has changed when it comes to

things like that when it comes to, you know, obviously feces or any sort of bio, you know, biomatter and stuff like that. They have to, they shut it down for at least 24 hours around here when something like that happens. Because it's a pain when you, when you drive past the pool and you see nobody there, you're like, yep, somebody peed in the pool. Yeah. See, I would have preferred that because I would

have believed in the process. Instead, I just went, yeah, 20 minutes isn't enough. I'm out of here. I'm not getting in your damn pool. And all these people are like, yeah, we're getting back in the pool. And I'm like, yeah, you're getting back in. Swap the L for another P. You're getting back in the poop.

Anyway. And DJ's best friend here, he has a lot of dirt bikes and stuff like that. And they, you know, they'll go riding around here. Last summer, it was kind of evening time. And his bike was at a neighbor's house. And they were just sitting around like a little campfire, like a little, you know, a little bonfire in their front yard with the little fire things.

And anyway, so he went to get on his bike to go back to his house. And hiding in his bike was a copperhead. Oh. It was staying warm because what happens around here is, you know, in the evening time, you have like the greenways and stuff like that, down the blacktop when you're, you know, walking greenways stuff. So the snakes will come out if you're by a ravine. And that's how they keep their body temperature.

So, you know, keep themselves warm. It's because the, you know, the black top keeps, absorbs the heat more. So this must have been going towards kind of the motor. And it was just hiding in there. And yeah, so he had to run to, you know, they had to run them to the hospital to get some anti-venom and stuff. And they had to keep an eye on it for a while. He was fine. It was, you know, painful in a pain and he asked for a couple of days.

But yeah, he ended up getting bit because of, just because, you know, if it was an alligator, no big deal. You know, just a small alligator. But this was a, you know, and the babies are the worst. They can't control. Exactly. So, like, and generally, animals with venom, they know they're not eating a person. So generally they're not using up, you know, very. you know, very valuable venom on a human.

They're just trying to get away, so they may just bite them. But juvenile snakes, they don't know, they can't control what they put out. That's why it's, it's more dangerous when you see the smaller snakes, the smaller venomous snakes than you do see an adult. I mean, you don't get bid by anything. You don't want to take any chances. But that's generally what happens with animals. I didn't know that. That's an interesting twist.

Like the babies don't have the ability to, to, just like real babies. They don't, they can't control themselves either. They just have no idea how to control their, the output of their venom. That's wild. So it's just like you see a baby one. There's a just housing everybody down there. Just spitting everywhere. What's the wrong here?

That's funny. And finally, so my daughter was in Paris this past weekend. So she's doing the, she's doing an internship in London for six weeks. And she's back in a couple weeks. But so they took like a day trip or a weekend trip over to Paris. Stuff like that just can't even fathom that. It's so weird. Yeah.

It's like if I drove to, if I drive to St. George, it takes longer than if I was in London and I wanted to go to Paris. It's so weird. And he just hopped on a plane and they went over to Paris. She wasn't there six hours. She had her phone lifted from her. Who was the stinky frog bastard French person who did that? They were probably wearing one of those hats from the Olympics. We found out that the mascots are based on the revolutionary hats.

Oh, is that what it is? Yeah. Well, that's how they still phones. They just squat on the phone, pick it up with their loose hands. And I walked away with them. There's a little tiny leg. That sucks, dude. I'm mad for her.

That makes me mad. Yeah. And, of course, we were in New York because we drove up to New York for the weekend. DJ had a camp up there. And so I was a good excuse to go see my parents because I haven't been up there basically to visit in like 10 years. You know, with COVID and everything, I haven't been up there forever. So we just happened to be up there.

So it was even more of a pain to try and figure everything out. And, of course, she's 20. So she's freaking out. You know, your phone is like your lifeline in these worlds nowadays. But, you know, life goes on. It's a valuable lesson. You know, I always tell her, just keep everything close to you. Don't let anybody in your space.

You kind of zip everything up that's important to you. You know, you just try to remember everything. But, you know, kids, you just don't know. And anyway, those people are so damn good at that sort of thing. You know, there's no telling how it happened. But, you know, luckily, we got back here. We got a new phone. We got everything kind of fixed.

And she's got her computer. And she used a different SIM card. So when she went over there, so you got a SIM card for a track. So we did a lot of the things to prevent anything from being worse. But, you know, it was still kind of crappy because now that we got home, it's easier to kind of, you know, put out fires that way. Yeah. My daughter loses loses her phone every five seconds, so I relate to this. She's not here to yell at me, so everything's fine.

Well, Dan, let's get to some board games. There's one with the dubious title that I'd like to get to first. It's called Rock Hard. Tell us more about this. So next week is GenCon. So that's, of course, the biggest North American convention is Jen Con coming up in a couple weeks. I won't be there, but we always do a show on the Geek All Stars with our top 11 to try and top 11 to buy. So I brought a couple of games today for your top 11 to buy, and these are both.

This is my usual. We've got kind of a, even though both of them are going to be good for you, Johnson, and Ibit. But one is more of an Ibit game and one is more of a Johnson game. So this one here, if you remember the band The Runaways, I bet I'm sure you've probably done covervills on the Runaways. couple episodes. They were, um, one of the first albums I owned was their Queens of Noise album. I actually still have the vinyl around the, around the corner in the basement here. I should put that. That's actually a great, that's a great album. It's really good. It is a great

album, yeah, with Cherry Bomb and the title track and, uh, holds up. Yeah. And of course, everybody knows Cherry Bomb. I'm trying to, I'm, you know, I always grasp it up what other big songs they had, but, you know, they had charm. Was that Joan Jett's band too? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Joan Jett Lita Ford, both came out of that, Sheree Cury, Jackie Fox, who were about to talk about, and, oh, who was the last one? Thank goodness they were banned because, you know, without that, would we ever gotten that terrible duet with Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford? Would that have ever happened without? Not to mention the great line, went to a party last Saturday night, I didn't get late, but I got in a fight. repeats it the next time.

Those are just such guilty pleasures, though, those two songs. I like the one with Maziazborn. I remember being annoyed by it was just such, it was the white snake era, and it just felt like everything was the same then. I don't know, I can't explain it. It just wasn't the kind of rock I expected out of either of those two people. And just, yeah, and so this one is Rock Hard,

1977, and this is by Jackie Fuchs, so I guess she goes by Jackie Fox as well. Well, Jackie Fuchs is her, obviously, her real name, and Jackie Fox was her runaway stage name. Okay. So she, and apparently it's always awesome when you see, you find out that people are big gamers. You know, and you see like actors and other people,

they're all, you know, or sports figures that they're big gamers. It's pretty cool. What's your name, Kristen Bell and Dak Shepard? They've got a regular game of Patan that goes on all time. They're always talking about. Apparently, probably with Celebrity Catan. Yeah. Exactly.

Chris Catan. This is pretty cool. The Taggy Fox is a big, and she's apparently, and it's always cool. Like, this has nothing to do with her being a female or anything, but the fact that she is such a genius, you know, she's got a PhDs and she's done. She went to Harvard, a law degree from Harvard. Obama was, Barack was a classmate of hers. And I played trivia with her.

Like, I've competed against or with her and posted a photo in our little group chat. Maybe I'll put it up in the, the FrogPens Discord. as well, but she is awesome. She is... Yeah. I mean, I think it's more... I think it's more because they're rockers that you don't expect them to be so smart. Not, you know, no offense to anybody's a rocker, but it's just not one of those things that you're like,

oh, though, they must obviously be smart. You know, they do things that I couldn't even fathom with, like, I can't play guitar or anything else. God, Ray and May, man, astrophysics, PhD. Absolutely, yeah. Yeah, yeah, good example. Yeah. And, uh, but, yeah, so she's a huge gamer and she's designed this game, Rock Hard 177.

It's been put out by, uh, Desrofizabeth's put out by, uh, severe games and it's one of my top 11 and of course I always do that because top 11 everything is better that goes to 11 so that's why I've always done the top 11 games for trying by and then she's also got that a little bit in this game

because some of the levers that you're kind of pulling in the game you know as you're keeping track of different things actually go to 11 which is pretty cool the little dials oh that's great like you've got the amps so your your card is an amp that you keep score on and

It's got, it does, everything goes up to 11. That's fantastic. Those are basically all your attributes there. So you've got different things like chops, reputation, songs, royalty, and craving, which is an interesting thing that they talk about in her designer diary. So basically the game is all about being a rock band in the 70s. Like, and she picked, she even, in this designer diary that she has that she put out, she even talks about why she picked that time of, you know, the 70s before some other things, you know, started coming up.

And then she also, instead of drugs, they kind of use candy. You know, they kind of sugar-coded it a little bit, so to speak, no fun intended. So they have candy that helps your day go on, helps you get through things. But it's a work replacement game. And some of the games that they described it as kind of similar to Flamecraft, Lord's Waterdeep, these are not like overly complex games. I mean, they have some depth to it. But these are not games that are very hard to learn.

They have a weight of 2.5, 7 out of 5. on BG, which generally you're a medium-weight euros are about a three. I think this one, from seeing some videos and reading the rules, I think it's more of like a two to two-point-two. So a very, very approachable game. Like I said, Wads of Waterdeep is very easy to learn and very easy to play. So basically you're putting your workaround and you're getting different things, and that's going to help put up your attributes and help your reputation

and help you have a better band and you're getting other things that happen in your band. And then throughout the day, depending on when it is, you'll be going to either doing your job, because everybody, you know, if you're just in a fledgling band, you're going to have a day job or a night job. So you're going to have another job that you're going to bring in some money to help you do all these things. So you're doing a lot of these sort of things in this game. And it looks great. And just from having her talk about it and some people that I know that have gotten early copies of this have said it is really good.

And Devere has been putting out some amazing games lately. So they've got some good pedigree lately as a publisher. They're kind of a, I think they're kind of a European publisher, but they've been putting a lot of other kind of their own type games. They'll put out games from other publishers, but they put out their own type games, and this is going to be one from them.

That's awesome. Three Ring Circus was another one they put out recently. So, yeah, I think this is going to be a really cool one for this Gen Con. That's awesome. Are you, I don't know if you saw it in the photos on board game geek, they've got a photo of fake money. I'm a giant fan of board games

that really go hard, go ham on the money that's fake. Yeah. I love this stuff. It's so cool. It looks like real dollar bills with like coffee stains and yeah, someone's drawn. Which is pretty cool. Love it. One of the games that has the Firefly the board game possibly has my favorite money.

You might be able to Google it Johnson while I'm talking. So has one of my favorite fake, you know, I don't generally like paper money in games, but this game here, Rock Hard and also the Firefly the board game, that money is just so stylistic. so good in your hands. Usually me, I either want some chits or give me, you know, metal coins or kind of like poker chips. It's like what I really like. But the money that they did in Firefight. Oh, yeah. That's cool. It's really, it's amazing. It has this really, and because a lot of things in Firefly are very Asian-inspired, just kind of the way that they kind of did their

story. So that's what they kind of had that in their money. And it just feels good. And of course, there's all sorts of rules in the U.S. about like what what you can or can't do. And you have to really, you know, these manufacturers have to really go by that as far as when they're making fake money, especially money that looks that close to real money. Like Rockhart has money that's very, very close to US. Yeah, it looks

real, like the kind of money, you'd see a dollar when you're a kid and your friend wrote, did a little cartoon on it, and like they are going for that look of like, here's some nasty money we've had in our pocket for a month and they really nailed it. You like this Firefly money right here? Oh, you have some Firefly money. Look at you. It's your Asian Firefly money.

Did you buy that game? You have that board game? No. No, this came in a loot crate, but this is the stuff that's in the game as well. Love it. I want that. It just feels like that feel to it, too, is really cool. Yeah, I like that a lot. It's got a very clothy kind of feel to it. Yeah. That's awesome. All right. I want fake money. Oh, I have some right here. Yeah. I have a whole stack somewhere. Oh, I don't know where it went.

All right. Well, let's talk about your other one here. You got something called... Let me go through this game. Oh, yeah. Go ahead. Oh, sorry. Go ahead, John. So it's called landmarks. Yeah. this is a fantastic game and I wanted to make sure I put that picture in there because it kind of gives you the good vibe of it for the game. This is going to be put out by

Floodgate games. This will be out at Gen Con. This is a very, very light game. It has very codenames-esque type feel to it. It's like the code names 2.0 in a way, even though different designers and everything, but it just has that feel. So in this game, you're basically you're trapped on like an island

and it's got all these hexes on the island. And then whoever, and again, it's got a co-op and a competitive mode, but We're just going to talk about the co-op, because I don't really care. Like, this is more fun. Games like this are more fun when they're played co-op. So one person's going to be giving the clues. And they are kind of very much the code names way,

where you're just giving a clue. And you're trying, the person who's given clues is going to flip over a card. And it's going to have three words that you're going to start out with. So in this example, they have swamp, fence, and bubble. And they're going to be put out on a certain way in these hexagons on this kind of island. Now, all the things that are pre-printed on the board, as far as island go, whether it's mountains or water, has nothing to do with gameplay.

It's just aesthetic. But what you're trying to do is the person who is going to be giving the clues writes a word down that's going to be trying to get the other people to go to a certain spot. So you're trying to get them to place this word on the board.

Now, depending on where you place this word, you can either be, it'll either be like a trap that you might lose some water or might give you some more water. So the way that, the thing they do is I think you have like seven clues you're allowed to give, and that's how much water they have

on their excursion, trying to get again you're trying to escape the island and there's a certain spot i think it's like a green spot you're trying to get to now depending on where you actually get wherever they place it you're going to put a word that you think so if it's going to be like in this example here they have like fence and bubble and then they have daycare like somebody would write daycare on their hex and then give it to the players and then they have to figure out where that would go with just swamp oh okay okay so where the two words would intersect you're trying to give clues so you're trying to get them to go to certain spaces, but you're trying to

avoid the curse spaces and other, in traps and curses. So as you're doing that, you have to really watch the clues you're giving so that you don't get them to those bed. And of course, there's other spaces that are just blank that are nothing. So you don't necessarily, you know,

you don't want to waste, or maybe you have to go through the nothing to get to the good stuff. And then... Yeah, treasure or whatever, yeah. And like code names, they probably have like an automatic clues one. Sorry. You've got a grid. I think they're get you some leg, that you've got a grid, basically, that shows you on the hex where nobody else can see it, but you, where all those hidden spaces, those hidden hexes are, that now, yeah, that makes sense now that I see that. That's really cool. Yeah, that's awesome.

Yeah, that's why I, this is a really, this one picture I sent you guys was really good, because it shows you kind of like the words on there, like what the person giving the clues would see, and then kind of how you have a blank hex there with the dry erase. I absolutely just love these. Again, this is a party game where nobody really cares. win or lose, by being co-op, you can just sit around a table, you know, your sweet spot, like when you're having people over, it's probably like five or six people over. And then you just have everybody else is sitting there, but everybody's involved. But you have that person, let's just say, Kim is just not feeling it. Like, she's just not really in a word game. She just wants to be there with you guys.

Sure. Because she's just a little intimidated by the idea of a game like this. But she doesn't really have to do anything. But as she's sitting there, she's like, oh, I know that answer. It should go over there. Like, so it gets everybody in on it. Sure, sure. I love it.

That's great. That looks like, I mean, that's, this one's right at my alley. We love, we're a code words family here. We love that game. Yeah. The one that's, uh, the Marvel one, we finally got that one. It's great. Did you?

Yeah. And I feel like you've really, you've got to play with other Marvel people, right? Like you can't, you know, you can't have grandma over and say, all right, we're going to play Marvel code names. All right. Purple face guy. And, uh, you have to give, you have to give clues that could trigger you to. picking Thanos and

Captain America right like it's sure that sort of thing no that's and they have you know with more code names pictures does a good job of this because the way they draw the pictures

very similar sometimes things are bigger or smaller so you can really kind of hone in on like even shapes and the picture yeah that basically that's the basis for the Marvel yeah the Marvel ones the really the basis of it is pictures and it and it does a it's a

perfect use of it like it's almost infinite what who they could partner with for that they could just keep making branded oh sure versions of the game and do it with maybe they even have with DC I don't know but they could do it with just about they have a they have a Harry Potter yeah yeah at a white elephant party or something and we still haven't opened it because the people we play with wouldn't be familiar enough with Harry Potter for them to say oh yeah well that's Hermione or that's Neville Longbottom or whatever yeah I wonder that one probably we get multiple characters

Yeah, super specific the way that one worked, I would guess. I don't know. The iconography and Marvel stuff is just a little easier to spy, I think, for your average player. But that sounds great. Landmarks, it's called everybody for just a repeat answer as to what we're doing. You can find it on board game geek. And, of course, we will put these on QuickTMS.L.I, both these games. So if you want to check those out, you can.

Oh, do we not put those? I thought we put games up. I typically don't. I do when he has his big top ten lists and stuff. Oh, I thought we always did. My bad. No. Yeah, my bad. Never mind.

Don't go to a quick DMS. I probably should because, you know what? I will, especially because you've offered it up. Because that's one of the things that people say, hey, what was the game that Dan was talking about today? So I will, and especially the fact that he provides links to him. I absolutely will. Yeah, let's do it. What I'll do is since, you know, I know there's some, you know, thankfully, you know, the Tadpool is so great.

I know I've got a lot of listeners on a Geek All Stars from the Tadpool. But what I'll do is I'll send you guys my top 11 to try and buy by the end of this week after we record just so you can, you know, just so if people want a little bit more to see if some of the newer games, they'll have that list, too. And in case if you want to throw it up or if you just want to share it either way, it's fine. But I don't have a price for Rock Hard. My guess would be about $50 or $60, but Landmarks is only $25. Oh. Because that's the price of those. That's pretty good.

Not bad at all. That's a fun. That's a good price. And it seems like, like you said, just a really easy pickup and play with just about anybody kind of game. Yeah, nice bent. Yeah, I would say this will be a target soon. It should be, it's kind of that type of game where it should be either, it'll definitely be at Barnes & Noble, but it should be at Target. I love how Target has this reputation now of having, like, all the cool board games.

Yeah, like having a great board game section. I think that's cool. I like that. Well, Dan, we want you to stay on Target as well. And, you know, enjoy the rest of your month before we see you again. Is there anything you'd like to promote or talk about before? before we go. Just, like said, this week, I'll have the top 11 to try

and buy on The Geek All-Stars, and we don't, I know a lot of times we veer off to TV, movies, gaming, everything else that we feel like talking about it, but this would be just the game-centric. So anybody that'll be on a nice long drive if you're on your way to Jen Con or on your way to grandmother's house, you go, if you want to listen to a whole bunch of games, that'll be, we'll have

this week. So check that out on the Geek All-Stars podcast or The GeekallStars.com. And I hope you guys have, stay cool as best you can for the next, Yeah, and may your summer Olympics make you feel like it's winter Olympics. I don't know what that means. Bye now. All right.

I know he loves hockey and, you know, I assume that he would rather watch that. But I probably could ask him. Let's see. Brian, we're about done here. A couple of things, though, real quick. Rest of the week, Normie is hell, except Thursday we're doing something a little different because Wendy's out of town. She's going to D.C. and she sent me this message.

She goes, hey, I'm not going to be there Thursday. I said, oh, she goes, well, I go, what's the deal? She goes, some last minute travel. it's a whole story I won't get into it but we're going to DC and I'm like you're going to Washington DC right now like oh gosh like now and she's like I know right and I'm like all right well good look well stuff going down enjoy yourself I guess better now than you know a month from now or two months from now or it's just going to get worse and worse the or a hundred and five days from now oh boy is that is that the count down I think so I heard it this morning on

NPR I think they said 105 so So enjoy your forward-looking deal. All right. What else? So shows and all that stuff. Tonight, play retro, though, because we couldn't do it Friday. It's a long story. Trying to get out of town, conflicted.

We couldn't do it. Sure. So we're doing it tonight and again on Friday. So you're getting two play retroes this week. One's just making it for last week. But that'll be tonight. We're talking about Gradius and not to be confused with Gravitar. But Brian did inspire me to want to play Gravitar more.

So congratulations there. I played Gravitar while I was out of town. Well, you're not talking about me. Gyrus was the one I was confused. Oh, I thought you said Gravatar. That's not what you said? No, but Gravatar I really like. Yeah, that's a cool one as well.

Oh, shoot. Gyrus was the one that's circular-like tempest. Like, Gyrus was the... Oh, right. You're moving around the outside of a ring and shooting the things in the middle. But... That's right. Between the two?

I think Gravatar is a better game. So good. I'm glad I sort of some tangentially inspired you to play Gravatar. Gravatar's got a brand-new-ish... Not remastered, whatever they're called. Recharged, these Atari Recharged games? Oh, really? Yeah, it's very good. Checked it out, played it this weekend.

Retooled. Retooled. Retar. Not retired. Yeah, that's right. Oh, I forgot about this one. It's like the one where you've got to go into like weirdly shaped areas and pick up the fuel tanks and things like that. It's like a more reactive or a more interactive lunar lander kind of vibe.

Yes. Which I'm also a huge fan of. So anyway. Oh, that's such a great game. That game's really good. And I think it's only $10, $10 on Steam. It's cheap. Anyway, so there's that.

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Not Fallout boy, that's the band. Right. But I think they named themselves after him. Anyway, I think it's fault point. They named themselves after the Simpsons character, radioactive men's sidekick. Sorry, Carter yelled something. What?

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um let's get out here frogpans.com slash tms is the place to go brian let's play a song get out here yeah this one's get out to tvs travis says uh no special event so any free day you've got i just heard on the show you kick started this album and thought the tadpool would love it i think so too i can definitely see why you like to test the ship's phasers oh my gosh that's a lot should we pick some of that and do some of that um we'll do the phasers let's test the ship's phasers I can definitely see why you like it all right

we always think I can totally see why you like it it's really I can definitely see why I know I can definitely see why we have what is that it's the Berenstein Bears thing the Mandela effect I always think of it as I can definitely see why you like it oh I get it wrong in my head

you always think totally yeah although I think we've also said I can see why you like it like we've even taken out the definitely oh that's true and and Zoe big thanks in the chat Currently, T.B. Travis is touring the country of Scotland, and I think he already got to see the TV Highlander guy or something.

Oh, really? Oh, that's cool. Something like that happened. His photos. Yeah, TV's Highlander. Yeah, TV's Highlander. But it's awesome. A guy gets to go back to some of his roots and he loves all that crap. I'm excited for him. Good for him. That's so cool.

Grats, Travis. That's awesome. So the album that Travis is talking about is Allie Gertz's. peeled back, which is a cover of 9-inch nails is a pretty hate machine, right? Is that the... Pretty hate machine is correct? What's the one with Had Like a Hole? It's the...

It's a blue. It's a pretty hate machine. It's, um... Can I find it before the Tadpool? I think it is Pretty Hate Machine. Oh, it is? I was sure that was on Pretty Hate Machine. I am...

Oh, boy, I got that wrong. I know. Well, these days, when you just say, hey, play, play some 9-inch nails on your Apple music, and it just starts going through everything. You can't tell what album's which. That's true. So, you know, what-evs? Yeah, Downward Spirals is the one with March of the Pigs and Closer and Head Like a hole, which is the song we're going to be playing right now. This is... Wait a minute. This says Tread Like a Hole's on Pretty Hate Machine. I'm looking at their

Wikipedia. It says it's the first track. Can that be right? Hold on. Hold on a second. Let me look at, because I'm on the page for downward spiral. I'm like a whole terrible lie down in it. Sanctified something I can never have. Sin. Yeah, it's according to this. I'm according to people in the chat room. I thought I was losing my mind.

Okay, I feel better. I feel less stupid than I thought it was. As you should. I guess closer and hurt were on downward spiral. So there we go. So back to pretty hate machine, which is what I said at the beginning. Is that their first, that's their first album, isn't it?

That's the first album, yeah. Oh, my gosh, that's a long time ago. All right. Anywho, um, so that's, so, so,

so, Ellie Gertz decided she was going to cover nine inch nails. She called it, uh, peeled back, and she just released it, just came out, uh,

um, uh, this year. And it's now available everywhere. Uh, go pick it up because you're going to love it. You're going to hear it right now. Here is head like a hole by alley Gertz.

And then Scott pushes a button. God money, I'll do anything for you God money, just tell me what you want me to Got money Melt me up against the wall God money Don't want everything, he wants it all No, you can't take it

No, you can't take it No, you can't take that away from me You can't take it No, you can't take it No, you can't take that away from me Head like a hole Black as your soul I'd rather die

than give you control Headin like a hole Black as your soul I'd rather die To give you control Bow down before the one you serve. You're going to get what you deserve. Bow down before the one you serve.

You're going to get what you deserve. God, money, he's not looking for the cure. Got money, he's not concerned about the sick among the pure. Got money, let's go dance. On the backs of the bruised And money's not one to choose You can't take it No, you can't take it

Now you can't take that away from me You can't take it No, you can't take it You can't take that away from me Head like a hole Black as your soul I'd rather die And give you control

Head like a hole Black as your soul I'd rather die Than give you control Bow down before the one you serve You're going to get what you deserve Fow down before the one you're going to get what you did. And like a head like a whorek as your soul.

Black as your soul. Had like a home. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Yes, get more at frogpants.com. This nightmare will never end.