The Morning Stream - TMS 2680: Tall Narcissists

Episode Date: July 25, 2024

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On this episode of The Morning Stream All right curly Enough's enough You can't eat the Venetian blinds I just had them installed on Wednesday The morning, the morning stream, two weeks. There's no such thing as two weeks in the news business. I think he might be right about that. is two weeks in the news business. You're on to the next story. Stuff doesn't last long anymore,

right? No. Two days almost. Two days almost. Hey, if you hear that voice and you're thinking, that's not Brian. Well, it's because it's not. Bobby. Bobby Frankenberger joining me, Scott Johnson on the TMS show, which is happening today, Thursday, July 25th, 2024. Bobby, hi. Welcome. Hi, yeah. I guess I committed the podcasting sin, which is to speak before being introduced. No, there's no sin in that at all. We have full forgiveness. I have atoned for your sins long before you got here, so don't worry about it. I'm at confession right now. Bless me.

For I have. For I have. Podcasting. Whatever. You look more like Jesus. I should be talking to you that way. Look at you. You know, you represent all that man needs.

I don't know what that means. All that man needs. All that is. Well, anyway, you might be saying to yourselves, hey, where's Brian? Brian, turns out, you know, his voice is a little effed up on Tuesday. Everybody noticed that. Well, we just figured it was smoke or, you know, something in the air or whatever. Next day, he's like, oh, man, this turned into something gnarly.

Big summer cold. COVID's negative, but I don't think I can make it on the show today. And I said, no problem. We'll bounce today. And if you're feeling better tomorrow, great. If not, I'll grab Bobby. We'll see what we can do. So he says, great.

I'm feeling like 80%, but I think we'll be okay. Well, this morning, the fever came. And things all got worse. and now he's testing positive for COVID. So, Brian, feels like he's got that version of COVID I had in 2022, which knocked me on my freaking arse. Ouch. I hated it. It was terrible.

I don't ever want it again. And also, Brian is now like patient number seven in my personal life. I don't know what's going on right now, but everybody's got the damned vid again. Yeah. I just heard this morning, Alex Albisu has COVID. Oh, no. I don't like that because I like Alex You know? Yeah

Or maybe other people in his house And he's waiting He's testing or something like that But but other people in the house So it's inevitable Sounds like Brian's experience I think you know Tina having it

And then a couple of weeks went by And he thought I'm in the clear I don't have to worry about it And I guess not Incubation is a different for everybody isn't it Tell us science man Bobby the science man Yeah there are averages

But it's different for everybody And who knows anymore because it acts so differently now than it used to so all of our information about how COVID acts is at least you know there are scientists who know very well how it works but people layman like you and I who all of our information is like a couple years is mid-pandemic old you know I was going to say yeah we don't I mean we haven't really that's not that COVID ever left or whatever but it's very much still around and and there but there's not a lot of news about it lately. I actually just

covered a thing for we do a little patron updates for science updates and one of the one I just did this week was about COVID actually first time I'd seen something in a while it was a that COVID they did some studies that

shows that the base it's it sounds boring the way I'm going to say it and it's okay that a long COVID rates have been going down which is it's not that it's boring it's just that it's almost you're like oh good okay cool that is good though because long COVID sucks I know people still with issues they got in 2020 that they're having to deal with my daughter my daughter Carter got it in like 20 well same year we did

22 she was in Iceland at the time but her her lungs have not been the same like they keep trying to do stuff to figure out why and they're clear COVID's a real thing and you know what I found out researching this um for the the thing that I covered was that, and I didn't know this, that early, before pre-vaccine times, long COVID rates were, and when I say long COVID rates, I mean, the rates among people who got COVID, how many of them developed into long COVID? Yeah. One in 10 people got long COVID, and that's crazy. I did not realize it was that high. Damn. That is high. And also, when they see, here's the problem I don't like about the term. They say long COVID. We know very little about it, right? like how to curb it or treat it or do whatever but also long implies that there is a finite

period of time you know that you'll be experiencing these problems right so like normally covid or any illness you're you're done in however many days and it kind of has its way with you and whatever level it does and then you move on um for something like this to stick around you say well you have long COVID what does that actually mean is that a year is it six months is it 20 years like what is it yeah it's different for everybody right and so that's the the frustrating thing. Some people have it. I think the definition is something relatively short, like maybe four or six weeks if symptoms persist or maybe it's just a month or two or something like that. And some people only have it that long, but some people, like you said, have it six

months. Some people who got it at the beginning of the pandemic are still experiencing long COVID and some in a really serious like severe way and and then all the symptoms are weird and nobody everybody seems to have different ones and it's all crazy but yeah that FP not FBI FDA guy that used to live up the street for me worked for the FTA I think it was the FDA anyway he was some kind of special agent guy kind of a big shot secret stuff all that super cool dude but he got COVID early in the cycle 20 late 2020 or mid 2020 and young. I think he was 39 turning 40. He had, he worked out all the time. He had a certain regimen he had to keep up for his job, like all this kind of stuff. All these requirements

for his health. He got it. Ended up with something that just made it. So his oxygen plummeted months later was just plummeting all the time. Just going down for no reason. Like lung function was just like all over the map. So that poor dude, now 43 or whatever. Yeah. Oxygen every day, all day. Oh, my gosh. They didn't fire him. He still works there, but, you know, good Lord. He's, if it is the FDA, which is federal drug, no, not FDA.

What's the one where they went after the David Koresh stuff? DEA. The DEA, yeah. I was wondering why there were secret agent FDA, secret FDA agent. We know what's in the corn and we're not telling you what it is. No, it's like that. These were, these guys were like. The expiration dates are off on this bread.

That's right. They're all fake anyway, it turns out. The conspiracy's true. Anyway, so he, that poor guy, I just feel terrible for him. But it used to be like this important agent guy that would like lead up task force and like, you know, put on a vest and like break into a place and make drug bust and all this. And now he's just like stuck with this freaking tank of oxygen all day because of this damn virus. Well, anyway, enough about that. The important thing is be careful out there, especially if you're at risk for other stuff. And don't maybe don't get it. Because summer, freaking f-that, summer colds were already dumb. It's already stupid. Yeah. But in brighter news, I heard that Utah had a birthday. It did yesterday. Utah turned, I don't know the age.

And it's not technically... You're like the most excited Utahan that I know, and you don't know the age in your state. I know. I'm usually very pro. Although I should stop doing that because too many people move here. I need everyone to go back to thinking that we're weird and that we should... Well, I don't think we ever. stopped thinking that. Yeah, but we need to be so weird that we are to be avoided because you're making

our house prices do insane leaps. And even though things have kind of slowed in the housing market in general, they don't feel like they have here. And they certainly stopped at the highest point ever. And I think I looked at the stats. We're like third or fourth in the country right now on a sort of median house prices. That's too high for Utah. We need to go back. Here, I'm stumping for like an election. we need to go back to a time when Utah was right in the middle or didn't matter what you did on this side or this side we're right there in the middle happily in the middle

and we're weird so quit moving here that's what I feel like saying California slow your roll all right I know it's beautiful here it always has been I know that it's amazing and when you get here you go oh my gosh this is you yes we know all that but go back to thinking that we're weird or have horns or we're going to marry you into a 50 wife deal

or whatever you think, all that BS that's been around forever. I used to resent it. Now I understand it was acting as a bit of a bubble like a force field. It was all propaganda perpetuated by Utahans. Right. So that people would stay away. Get in the car and go to Idaho. Go up there.

Here it's great. You know? Yeah. Move there. The potatoes are amazing. They went and they made everyone's house prices triple here, which is great. If you own one, you're like, oh, you mean I paid $300? Now it's worth nine?

that's amazing. Sell your house and move on to South Carolina. We still have a good house prices. Yeah, the South, Mississippi, Louisiana, the Carolinas, South more than North. They've all stayed pretty okay. And you can get some, you can get a lot of space and a lot of land and, you know, pretty big house, even an older house for a fraction of what you'd pay here. Yeah. But it used to be, we were right there with you, Bobby.

We were there. It was like, hey, where can I get a, where can we move? It's not horrible. How about Utah? Oh, that'd be great. We'll have to dodge Mormons constantly, but let's go. But now it's like, oh, it turns out it's not. It's a small price to pay.

It's nothing like anyone thought. In fact, they're not even the majority in Salt Lake City anymore. That's interesting. I guess we'll move there. Ooh, I can get a house in Utah for $5 million that is, you know, 10 acres plus 14 bedrooms, giant mansion for the same price I paid in California in L.A. for a two-bedroom, one-bathroom rambler? Yeah, you can.

But now you can't, so quit doing it. Yeah. All right. Enough of that. Happy birthday. Oh, back to the point. It wasn't actually a birthday. It's Pioneer Day.

I always screw it up because it's kind of when we celebrate it, but statehood days a different day. This is when the pioneers entered the Valley in 18, whatever the hell it was, this is the part where I don't know the age and said oh yeah check it out this valley's cool let's do it and they stood high upon a hill and a beam of golden light

shone upon the valley showing them where to settle there are some tellings of the story that are similar to that basically Brigham Young who led that group over here he stood on top of a hill with his cane and said he's famous for saying this is the place and we have a lot of places in town that's what he said

Yeah. This is the place. And we have made it, we have made it into almost like holy writ that saying. So when you go, there is a, this is the place national, not national, but like a memorial park or something. There's a, this is the place, point of the mountain thing where supposedly he stood and made this proclamation. Like people really into it. So I would go ahead and so I would just say to our California friends, isn't that weird? That's too weird. Don't come here? That's weird, man. this is the place sounds so like I don't know it sounds so so like half-hearted like it's pedestrian right it's pedestrian this this is the place it's fun yeah this is the place I'm tired of walking I don't want to go further because they could have done that they could have gone up to Oregon and said oh okay I guess this is the place now they were like you know I've had it we've like 12 200 people have died on this trip our cattle are skinny and I really need to take a shit can we stop here that's basically what this is the place is. Yeah, somebody was staying next to him.

They were like, where, where are we going? Where, are we ever going to stop? And he's frustrated just was like, I don't, whatever, this is the place. Yeah, that's the place. Where do you want us to put this right there? That's the place. Yeah. Anyway, so now we, now we are what we are.

Anyway, congratulations, everybody who blew off fireworks until two, third, three in the morning. I hate that. And I don't really celebrate. Like, I don't, the parade is the other big thing downtown. I'd rather be put in. a that of boiling muger snotts. I don't want to, I hate parades so much, dude.

I hate them. I'm trying to think if there's a public thing that I hate more than parades. I don't think there is. I think parades are it. It's kind of like that feeling of, you know, when you go to a concert and it's like standing room only

and everybody wants to get towards the front. So people, like up towards the front of the stage, everybody's pushed up there trying to get. Right. So it's like that, but it's a long, like, it's a really long stage because it's down a street. Yeah, yeah. And so everybody's trying to get up next to the street and you're your elbow to elbow pushing each other and all that. But, but you only get like one minute of the show on that stage, right?

Because it just like passes right. It just passes by. I guess you get the whole thing, really, but it's, it's still like the whole place is cramped pushing standing room where everybody's trying to get to the front. It's basically the lazy Susan of. of public displays of entertainment. It's just this, they come to you. They rotate around.

And I, you know, look, I'm not, I don't want to decry anybody's awesome float that they took six months to build. And it's got a photo realistic version of the, I don't know, Virgin Mary,

whatever it is. I don't know what they do. But I have one memory of a, of a parade where it really turned for me. And that was when my kids were little, it was like, well, you got to take your kids to a parade.

they got to see you know let them have the experience their kids are excited whatever they'll see cartoon characters and all this so i remember going to our first parade taylor on my shoulders just a wee baby and or young old enough to talk actually so not that old so she was probably like 18 months two years she could say words and we're watching the parade and about halfway through it she just starts patting my face and i'm like it's matter i thought she had to pee or i didn't know what was going on full diaper i didn't know And she says, Daddy, we go home. We go home.

I'm like, hell yes. If the two-year-old's done, we're done. Let's go. Oh, got to go. She wants to go. We got to go. Yep, never went back. I guess we probably took the other two at some point, but I don't remember those.

So you're a tall dude. Let me ask you a question. You need to be honest with me. I'll do it. It's fine. It's fine. But when you are at a place like that and people are trying to see and then you put your child on your shoulders,

do you stand in the front or do you back up? I go to the rear, never the front. Yeah, thank you for being a decent human being. Well, partially, because I know what, I know how annoying that must feel, or I've always had an intrinsic feeling that I'm in the way, but always felt this way. And I don't mean like,

I don't mean like interpersonal relationship in the way. I don't mean like that. I mean like physically. By being so tall. I'm in the way. So when I sit in a movie theater, I go, I know I'm in the way. Before

stadium seating kind of took over and it was a little more flat I would watch movies almost on my back

is how far down I would lay. Because I hate the idea that somebody else is looking at my

big-eared idiot head which is already too big I'm very conscious of that and we're talking and me and Carter

were talking on the Monday show about social space or like public what's the word I'm looking for?

Crowd awareness that kind of thing and how I think it's a very important parenting thing your kids very early what it means to get out of the way at the right time watch for traffic

at the right time these things all kind of work together you know don't be that person that's standing in front of people when they're trying to get by always be aware that someone else is around you these sorts of things so always really important to us and we I think it worked my kids are all very thoughtful about that but I think it comes from this feeling that I'm in the way all the time I feel that way now even if I go to what was something recent oh I know what it was street performers in Park City just a week ago

we're doing some cool stuff and I'm standing there and I realize I am the tallest person in this wad of 35 people right it would not be cool if I was right up on the line so I backed up

because I can see it I see over all their heads so yeah if you're not aware of your own physicality I think you're doing something wrong Like, I'll bet the, I'll bet tall narcissists are the worst people, you know? Right.

Because they don't, they want to be in your way. Yeah. Yeah. They think, they think that's cool. So, or they don't think about it at all because they, I don't know how that works for tall. I don't know any. I don't know any. It's an under, it's an understudied area of psychology.

Yeah. Tall narcissists. We're going to start digging into that here on the show. Bobby's our new tall narcissist expert. He'll be here next week, I believe, to talk more. All right. Let's keep going here. Oh, we found out, according to Tweet, that you can indeed control your dreams.

This has been a bit of often on on the show. But whether you can get into your dream and tell it which way to go, kind of direct your dreams. What do they call it? Lucid dreaming, I guess. Lucid dreaming, yeah. Before we play this call, where do you stand on the concept? I mean, lucid dreaming is a, it is a, it is a, a phenomenon. As far as I know, it's a phenomenon that does exist. I think the techniques

vary. But I think it's been demonstrated pretty well that lucid dreaming is something that does happen. It's just how do you go about doing it? Where you get into the fuzziness are like, what are the benefits of lucid dreaming? Maybe none, but it's cool. Sure. It is cool. I mean, I don't know if there are or not, but I'm more likely to assume that there are actually downsides because if you're in control, you're less asleep. In my just like guesswork here, again, I don't know anything about this, not a sleep scientist, but it seems like if you are in there controlling it and you are somewhat conscious of it, then your subconscious isn't fully taking the dump it needs to every night.

There's a little bit of an anchor out there to the conscious world, and that makes me feel like that can't be good for you for a long time. But what do I care? There are no old Tall guys, so it'll be fine before that matters, you know? That's the way I look at it. Yeah. All right, well, let's play this call from Tweep. He says he does it, and here's how he does it. Hey, guys, it's Tweep.

This is for TMS. A little while ago, you were talking about, like, controlling your dreams and stuff like that. For some reason, whenever I do, like, the Healy's thing, you know, like, you kind of lean back and, like, that's how you, like, go with your Healy's and whatnot, then I can know. know it's a dream and I can control the dream that's super weird yeah love a show though so I'm not exactly sure he says healy's

he's talking about those shoes that had a wheel in him uh that's what I know healy's to be yeah so unless it's something else and I don't know what it is but it sounds like he can I also heard Canadian Dr. Calhoun for sure he had a little a boot in there yeah um I think I already knew tweet was from there

I can't remember anyway yeah but so rainbow bright says she doesn't understand me neither But this idea of like, let's imagine you're in your bed, if there was a physical thing you could do that you got, I don't know how you would initially, how you would do this to start with, but a physical thing that would trigger the lucidity, that makes sense to me. I just don't know how you would ever start that. I don't know. Everything I've ever read about trying to induce lucid dreaming, first of all, I've read that it takes a lot of practice. There's no like one trick. You have to kind of like train your. brain, which I, that's a phrase that makes me cringe. That's a conversation for another day, though. It's also a video, a Nintendo game on the DS, wasn't it?

Brain training or whatever was that called? Brain train? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah. But the, anyway, the, I've heard like a reliable method for doing that is to, it's all about reality testing. So, um, you have to, you have to train yourself to reflexively, uh, reality test. And so what I mean by reality testing is just things that,

that check to make sure that reality is real right like checking the time on your watch looking at text and making sure that it it is legible and makes sense and stuff like that other things you know checking the firmness of the ground all these things and if you do that day all the time during the day like at regular intervals every 30 minutes or something like that and you just train yourself to be reflexive about it the I think the idea is that eventually in your dreams you would reflexively do that kind of thing too and then it's about you know recognizing that oh i'm not getting a predictable result and then and then it's supposed to like kind of trigger your your your subconsciousness or whatever you call it while you're sleeping because it's certainly not consciousness yeah um to be like

oh this isn't this is another thing and then and then to not not be startled by that fact into being awake. Yeah. I mean, yeah. I had a thing happened this morning, 4 a.m. I wake up with the greatest idea. It felt like the greatest idea I'd ever had in my entire life. But there are two parts of me, one that says, Scott, write that idea down. And even if it's bad, at least you've written it down. And in the morning, you can make a determination. I've done that before. So I was thinking, well, you should do that. And then this other part of me, which was about 55% of my brain, just with controlling interest says you're too tired don't get up you'll remember in the morning it's fine yeah fell asleep woke up again this morning about 630 and went i don't know what that was

i don't remember at all i'm mad at myself because i'm telling you bobby i thought i had the greatest idea and it really felt like it i woke up going holy shit this changes everything i'm not kidding now the world will never know yeah i'll never know yeah i'll never know I don't know. I have no idea. So someone with lucid dreaming advice, tell me how I can have another dream tonight to come up with whatever that thing was and remember it. And then I'll write it down. I will overtake the 55%.

And I have a thing right next to my bed. September sent it to me. It's this awesome sketchbook thing. I use it sometimes for this very reason and I didn't do it. Yeah. It's a, it's, it just takes practice. It just takes practice. And, and, and you have to train yourself to do it.

Nice. Oh, Claire. Sorry, Claire says, I've just learned something of Claire. Number one, she says she can lose a dream and she's going to send me some videos or something. Number two, she's on the underground right now. I assume that's like subway, right? Like their underground railroad deal. I didn't know.

You had, does everyone have that except, well, I guess we have it in America. We have it in New York and those are subways in America. But, yeah. But Ireland, if I go to Dublin or whatever, can I get into the two? you know and drive around I would imagine you can there's subways all over the place all right what makes you think that it would be why do you think it's weird that there would be a subway in Ireland I don't know you know what I need to go to Ireland because I have a picture in my head that is not correct it's just to me it's a guy standing on

some rocks going and then if it's not him it's a guy making a stone angel in a pile of potatoes. And if it's not him, it's somebody downing way too much Guinness at a pub somewhere. And if it's not him... Well, I mean, the entry into the to the underground, every tunnel and tube entrance is a giant, is in the shape of a giant pot of gold in Ireland. Right, right. And they're all at the end of rainbows. Yeah. And every food stuff, it has little marshmallows in them. yeah uh listen chat i realize i want to go to ireland i know i'm playing around with stereotypes here but i don't have a good image of things like what is what is a city in that there or scotland even like when

tvs travis gets back he can kind of fill some of this in i assume he'll spend some time in uh in the city as well as some of the outskirts where he's at now but anyway i'm just i'm playing around and i realize there's more to it than lucky charms i'm just saying i don't have a good image. I don't mean I have a bad image. I mean, I don't have a good formed, fully formed, you know, generative AI image in my head of what Ireland actually looks like. That's all I'm saying. Right. But I hope the blight passes over your house and moves on to someone you like less. All right, moving on. The blight, I know, was a lack of potatoes, not, or no, wait. Was the blight a lack of potatoes or was the blight a disease? Now I've forgotten.

A disease on potatoes? Yeah. I think. it was a, was it, I thought it was a lat, like they couldn't grow. It was more like a drought caused it. Famine. Yeah, that's what I meant to say. So blight is a famine or is a blight was a disease. Okay, this guy says yes. This guy says no. Oh, we're going to have to look it up. Can we look it up? What is the great famine in Ireland is what it says, also known as the great hunger, a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852. Did any of those diseases end up on a potato and call it the blight? Because that's the question, right?

Is the blight an actual, like, potato disease? Oh, it is. All right. I found some. The proximate cause of the famine was the infection of potato crops by blight. Okay. So blight is both a disease and the causer of famine, of lack of potato. Right?

Yes. The blight is the disease. Yeah. I'm sure they were all on the ground at the time going, you know what we've got here? A distinct lack of potatoes. But it's caused by the weird stuff on the potatoes. Right? Yeah. Yeah. All right. Enough of that. Let's move on to this. Oh, I got a quick quiz for you. Oh, I love quizzes. Because you're science adjacent, right? I shouldn't say that way. It's fair to say I'm science adjacent. you have a great podcast your very scientific mind all of these things all right so i'm going to play this quiz with you uh it's called the ologies quiz real or fake when uh given a scientific study ending in ology can you determine if that is real or fake uh oh so i don't know if i should i don't think i have any good uh let's see if i have a good sounder for this probably has something

um how about this actually i'll just search for ology and see if i have anything with ology i don't all right well how about science okay here's one i think science oh remember that i we used to do that one how about this one yep stupid scientific study of the day all right that was the thing we did way back wow that was a real throwback yeah how about this one no we know that one how about this one dogs got kidneys right he's got kidneys okay something about kidneys. Anyway, I guess I needed a new one for this. Here we go. Let's do it. We're

starting with this one. Oh, we have a timer of six minutes, I guess, on this, so we'll see how it goes. Oh, boy. Barnesology. True or false? Fake or real. Barnesology. Barnesology. B-A-R-N-E-S. B-A-R-N-E-S. I'm going to say that that one

is it's fake. It's fake. It's false. It says here, Oh, we'll find out of the end, I guess. Hippopathology. Hippopathology. Oh, hippopathology is definitely real. Oh, look at you with the quick answer.

Let's see, is that real? Well, we don't know. We're going to find out shortly. Penology or penology, P-E-N-Ology. Yeah, the spelling is really, really important in all of these. So penology, I think that sounds real. Yes, let's go. Real.

It's not about penises, though. I'm going to guess. All right. Latrino. sorry, latrino, latrinology, I believe, latrinology, yeah. If I wanted to, but, but I'm going to say no, that's fake. Fake, all right, fake.

Mesopaliology, paleonology, M-E-S-I-S-S-O-P-A-L-Y-N-O. It's in front of you, and the word is in front of you, and not only did you pronounce it wrong, you spelled it wrong, even though it's in front of me. Melissa, Melissa, Palinology. Yeah, I don't know how you pronounce it, but Melissa Palinology, I guess, maybe. I have, I'm going to say, I've never heard any of those parts of those words. The study of Melissa's is fake. Fake.

All right, we did fake. Oh, it might mean it was real. Dendro, I don't know how this website works. Dendrology is real. That's real? All right. It does turn green, I guess we got it real. Genology, it's just very brief.

Genology, J-I-N-O. L-O-G-Y. Oh, geez. Study of fake. A fake? All right. We're doing fake. Luke, what are you talking about?

All right. Paranormology. Like paranormal, you know, that word? Paranormal. Yeah, I'm going to say that's real in quotes. All right. Real. Oh, false.

What? Quiz. Sorry, Quiz-o-quizology. Sorry, I don't know why I want to keep saying O in there, but quizology. Oh, what's the root of the word quiz? I don't know. That's, that's going to be the real, the real thing. Like, study of quizzes is probably not what that is. But I'm going to say that that is real. Uh, real. Let's hit real.

Incorrect. We'll find out of the end what that is, I guess. Birdology. Birdology. No, that's not real. That's fake. Correct. Portugal. Portugalology? Like Portugal, but with ology at the end? Portugal, portagalology. That's fake. Let's go. That's a dumb word. You are correct. Fake. Palmology. I keep wanting to do the O. Like it's, oh, it's a Betty O'Brien. I keep wanting to do that. Palmology. Pomology.

That sounds science-y. Yeah, let's go for it. All right, we're going real. Oh, correct. Ano-eology, ano-eology. So it's A-O-N-Sory-O-O-A-O-O-G-N-E-O-O-E-O-E-O-E-Logy. Probably like ag-noyology. The study of Ag-N-O-E-O-E-E-Logy.

I don't know what this is. And yes, it's real. It's real. It is. It's green. All right. Punology, like P-U-N-N. I don't know if that's like, you know, who I made a pun, that's funny.

So what's a pun is, that's, yeah, words. Or punology. Probably not related to that. Maybe like, what's a sciencey pun, pun it squares are with genetics, but that was named after a person. I'm going to say fake. It's fake. All right. We're hitting fake.

Oh, incorrect. It is real. draw see draw ill's knowledge draw

drawless drawless I'm so bad at these I'm terrible at this shit yeah the real

title of this segment is Scott and Bobby try to pronounce

yeah and Bobby does them better than I do if um I none of that

sounds familiar I'm going to say fake all right oh you are correct vexylology V-E-X-I-L-L.

I know that one's real. I can't remember what it is, but it's real. You are correct. Two more questions. We've got a minute 37. Endobiology. Correct. That's true.

That's real. Oops, fake, it says. What? That's... Well, we'll find out. Spelliology? Spelliology, I believe, is real. I think I've heard that word before.

Correct. Nicely done. Oh, there's all... Did we get them all? You got 72%. Oh, that's not bad. Average score is 64, so you did better than the average. You got a 13 out of 18.

Will it tell me which ones, though? It isn't. Why? Those were hard. So some of them I know I'd heard before, but vexelology. I've heard of a vexelologist. What is that one? I want to know really bad.

We'll see. Won't give me any kind of break down. The study of flags. So it is real. But that's not the study of flags. I guess you might study like. What do you study? How they're constructed.

That's not a. science, though. Yeah, how is that scientific? I mean, I don't want to, I'm not poo-pooing it until I hear, but what's the deal. Yeah, vexolology is not what I'm poo-pooing. It's calling it a science. Because there may, I mean, there may be some physics going on that you're studying about, well, what's the perfect length for a flag?

What if the wind is it? Are there, how do you design a controlled, placebo-controlled trial of flags? Yeah, this is probably more of a, knowing how flags knowing how wind velocity and length no I don't even think it's that Vexilology is a lot more about the design of flags I believe Oh so like what's attractive what draws the eye

What says something about your history that kind of thing That sort of yeah I wouldn't call that science either I'd call that I don't know what that is That's that's something else that isn't science Yeah people in the chat I know what Vexillology is I'm saying it's not a science. This was supposed to be sciences, right?

Or maybe it was. Did the quiz actually say sciences or did they just say ologies? It just said ologies. Okay. Then I retract my complaint. It is an ology. Yeah, because there is some ologies that aren't necessarily science. Like symbology.

Or... What's another one? Symbology. What's the one? mixology is good 9 of 12 I like that Parapsychology Paras psychology

That's not real How about Oh well astrology Oh yeah That's the one I was really looking for Yeah That's some bullshit Wrapped up in an ology

For sure Yeah Sorry for everyone who Believed in astrology I had somebody They were trying to commission Some art for me Which is fine

I don't care who does And I don't have problems With anyone who has Whatever beliefs But He said that part of the What was the deal? He wanted it in a oh he asked

me what my astrological sign is. And I said cancer, but why? Because I'm, you know, July birthday. I think it's cancer, right? Unfortunate one, by the way. Got too many meetings for the word cancer. Yeah. I don't like it. I don't like it. I feel bad for the crabs. Yeah, the poor crab. Cancer crabs. Oh, man. You don't want those. You don't want the crabs or cancer, but what you really don't want is crab cancer. Cancer crabs. Oh, they'll get you every time. eggology is that another one chat yeah there's a bunch of these um ooh a frog pants art tarot deck don't tempt me september i got enough projects right now that would be rad yeah that would be kind of anyway i turned this guy down because he was being weird about what time a year i was born

and it was going to affect how much he was willing to pay for the commission and i went nah i'm good yeah i'll find someone else uh all right let's uh no offense to him if he's listening i just thought that was weird and that's partly why i didn't take your job Moving on to some news. We've got news to cover here. As you know, lots going on in the world right now, especially here in the States. Brian might be sick, but that doesn't stop the news.

That's right. Two weeks doesn't exist in the news business. Not in the news business. The news today is brought to you by 8-bit adventures. It's a podcast, and you can catch it on Twitch.tv slash 8-bit adventures made by folks in our very own community and wish them the best in there. All right. Let's talk about a Texas family.

All right. I know we have a few of those who listen and that's great. We like Texas families. They saved an orphan baby bird by wrapping it in a tortilla. Heartfelt story here. That's all I had, says the Texas family. That's the best thing I had. It's all I had was a tortilla.

Texas family got wrapped up on a, get it got wrapped up got wrapped up yeah get it well done well done who wrote this the guardian uh and if unforeseen animal rescue mission and saved a baby bird by cocooning it in a tortilla earning them praise for their quick compassionate actions in a viral 13th of july facebook post the west wild west wildlife rehabilitation center in amarillo texas that just that makes me think of a um something oh armadillo i always think armadillo's when i hear it amarillo why is that because they sound the same that's well yeah that's it's simple it's that simple i'm a simple-minded guy that's what i do anyway recounted how the employees just learned of the saga after receiving

a call from the ad longs the family of the at the center of the story the adlong said uh you know it's the worst thing on your peacock subscription of those adlongs oh boy you have to you have to go to a higher subscription tier to get the ad shorts. Yeah, they no longer do Freecock. So they only have Peacock and Peacock Premium. I miss Freecock. I do. Yeah, I do too. Mostly because I like saying it.

Anyway, let's see. They had no box, so they got to get creative. I wrapped my little, she calls it now her little bird. I lap, I wrapped my little bird in a warm tortilla and swaddled him up, says Katie Adlong. The Wild Wife

rescue people, the rehabber. learned that the adlong's ingenuity, or learned of it when she arrived at the family's address to check the bird out. The facility said that the bird was actually a Mississippi kite. Now, they don't mean it was a kite that had someone lost the string and it floated over the border and ended up there. That's not what we mean. Okay. Mississippi kite. Got you wrapped up real tight.

That's not a real song, is it? No, that's Mississippi Queen. Oh, Mississippi Queen. Mississippi Queen. You know, you did a good job there. of riffing. That was impressive. Anyway, they saved the bird.

And now everyone's good. That's all I had. That's it. It reminds me of this is the place. Yeah, this is the place. You guys, unpack. This is it.

Human finger found in Tacoma driveway and got ID'd and returned to the owner, the guy that's meaning the guy that had the finger. That's not the direction. I thought this story was going to go when you said Human Finger found in driveway. I know you'd think that meant

ooh, gross, where is it from? But they actually figured out who it was from and saved it. I don't know if they saved it, like made it work again. But here's what happened. The case of the mysterious human finger found in a Tacoma driveway earlier this month has been solved

and the digit has been returned to its rightful owner during the afternoon of July 5th, Tacoma Police or the TPD toilet paper department. Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's another one. Topical, petrified dengus.

Anyway, officers responded to a report of a finger found in a driveway, and let's see, we don't care about where they're at. This is Detective William Mews. All right. Mews provided an update in a statement to North, sorry, my Northwest on Tuesday, which is, I think, a paper, that a person saw the story and called the Pierce County. medical examiner's office, which is taking custody of the finger. The man identified himself by his surname and admitted to losing multiple digits

messing around with fireworks. Whoa, multiple digits. Yeah, they only found one, but many digits were lost in there. Mews didn't provide the identity of the man who claimed the finger in his statement. He did explain the latest prints, or sorry, the latent prints on the recovered finger corresponding with the information about the person available at the FBI database. anyway they found the guy and he got his finger back um let's see they made let's see do they ever get it reattached that's the part of the story i don't think they'd tell us wait how did it

how did it get to this person's driveway uh i think he was out there blowing up stuff oh nearby and then one of the one when he blew his fingers off one of them flew over to this guy's driveway and he just couldn't find it because it was dark right right i'm feeling some of this thing because they don't give us any any real info in fact okay I look down there is no update as to whether this thing is just in his possession or if he

got it reattached I'm guessing it was too dead to reattach if I had to guess probably yeah this is probably what's the movie where his fingers off for a long time or no they put on a new finger from like a zombie hand who what was

this movie I just saw it someone in the chat it sounds really familiar to me like i just film sacked it or something fallout oh fallout that's it yeah yeah it was fallout the television show fallout it was um well it wasn't him but it was it was walton goggins uh lady friend she got her finger cut off and they had to use a a ghoul finger i think or something yeah i don't remember how that went got to watch it again um all right let's see what else we got here. Oh, here's one for you, Bobby. A New Jersey man. Get a rope. Just kidding. He admitted to

decapitating a seagull after he attempted to take fries from his daughter. Oh, man. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Decapitation. Talk about an anger problem. Right. Plus, this is like Utah State Bird. I got to have some pride here. Anyway. This is a real, like, he went real Papa Bear. He really did. Seagull. If you've seen that video for him, flying around of a, um, a seagull riding on top of another seagull. Have you seen that? No. Let me find that. Um, it's awesome. Hold on a second. It's just badass. It's total boss move. Seagull riding another seagull. Here's the search. I found it. Oh yeah. This is epic. All right. Let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me share this in two places one chat room and people at home you'll get to here slash see this and then bobby's

going to get his own copy there he is okay check this out i don't know if this will have audio or not not in my side but why isn't it playing oh this is a dump oh no there it is okay look at that that's just standing there i thought that we're going to both have their wings out nope he's like i mean does a little bit when things get unstable but uh he's like hey frank I paid for gas you drive Isn't that great though Yeah it does

It has sort of a like Like hey You want to try something stupid Yeah you want to do something dumb You think this would even work Like there's just a couple of They're like dude birds They're like still in there

Whatever the teens would be for birds I love that idea And for people at home who can't see it It's, imagine that you took a seagull that was flying, a still image of that, and then you took a seagull that was on the ground, a still image of that, and just put them together. Photoshop them on top of each other. Yeah.

That's exactly what it looks like. And they don't stay attached for very long, but once, because eventually it gets a little unstable, and you can see the other one trying to wobble off and then he flies away. But for a hot minute there, you know, those eagles, those seagulls were really getting to know each other, if you know what I mean. They were not mating, I should say. That was not what was happening. Yeah, you definitely implied that they were doing it.

They were floating. He was freeloading, is what he's doing. Anyway, back to the point here. The South Jersey man is facing charges, because you can't do this. He decapitated a seagull, although I guess you could say you can't do this and get caught. I feel like under the right circumstances, I could behead a seagull. I don't want to. But if the thing's attacking.

a kid or it's trying to poke my eyes out or some other non-believed bad idea that I can't think of. If one of those things was happening, I would cut the, I'd cut the head off. I'd break his neck probably. Yeah, if it was a type, but stealing your, like stealing Carter's French fries. No, we'd let that happen. That'd be funny. It'd be a great story, right? And Carter would love it. She'd giggle. Absolutely. Yeah. Oh, by the way, top of the show, people heard this laugh here. Hold on. so that is van he's five years old and that is him laughing guess what he is laughing at and i'll give you a hint it's something you can watch on a television and the other hint i will say is it is something many generations have laughed at so you tell me what you think it was i'll play it

one more time not so not there you go so it's not a decapitated seagull no um no Many generations have watched it. Yep. It's the, you can watch it on a TV. I don't know. The hamster dance. Let's find out. Is it the hamster dance?

No. The answer is Brain Bowl Bright as the big winner. Tom and Jerry cartoons. How did you guess that? I don't know how she got that. He is obsessed with those. And to the point of that kind of laughter, very common coming out of his face now. And it was probably something dumb like the dog,

Spike got hit in the face of the frying pan and his face stayed like a frying pan or Jerry pulled one of, you know, Tom's whiskers out and he made that awesome yell that Tom used to do. That's a good education in comedy. It is. I think physical, nonverbal comedy is something every kid should appreciate because I think it's the gateway to having a more nuanced understanding of what's funny in the world. not just that but um and and i know people may be listening and thinking that i'm joking but i'm serious old like looney tunes cartoons um tom and jerry you know all this all these old things especially the stuff like you're talking about that is that that that's that's no words like there it's just music right and physical and stuff like that it those are like you got to watch

it's like the basic basic education and comp comedic timing and everything was just so precise and distill it was just it was just great it was perfect and uh and it's good for it's good for kids to learn a little bit about comedy i agree it's still good it's still funny as hell and there's very specific eras and creators that i'm pushing him toward like this i introduced him to the tom and jerry stuff without her his mother's permission i was just like hey come here buddy you got to see this um i was worried that in my dark room and well i was worried that it might you know like an old one of these old school fears of like well what if he gets rowdy and start breaking stuff because it's funny now you know you have to

consider these depending on what kid it is but he's not like that at all and he sees this stuff and just sees the humor in it and now i can get more nuanced to him as he gets older i can go all right now let's look at the crappy ones from the 70s and the 80s where they tried to do tom and jerry again and failed why is this different why is it look different why is the animation cheaper why is the Why are the jokes not landing? Like, I want to teach him to be this nuanced comedy consumer. That may sound weird, but I really do. I want to do that.

I am doing that, right? Also, I'm exposing him to all kinds of cool stuff. He's watching Transformers, like, old Generation 1 stuff from the 80s. He likes super friends. Like, I've almost weaned him completely off anything modern. Not that those are bad. Like, Bluey's one of the greatest things ever invented. So he loves Bluey, but I'm trying to just,

say hey kid let's you know let's watch the stuff that's good and that means old stuff too and it's okay to like old stuff anyway uh there's that's it for today's news and uh that is roughly it for the show bobby it was a quick one all right i i you know what i've noticed what's that every time i'm on on a thursday mendy is not not every time she's been here a couple Well, no, no, no. She has been here, I think twice. I'm exaggerating a little bit, but but I think I notice it more because every time you're like, hey, you think you can do the show and it's Thursday, I'm like, oh, oh, I get to hang out with what? Oh, no, I'm not. Because she's not here. You know where she is? She's in, um, where is she? D.C.

Oh, well, that's a cool place to be. At the moment. Well, maybe not right now. Well, maybe it's worse or better right now. I don't know. I can't even gauge it. But she's there, she's going there with her husband for something. I don't know what it was, tickets to see something and I'm like wow what a time to go to DC and she goes oh it's better now than like anywhere close to November I'm like yeah that's good point so yeah for real so we'll find out next week it's hot right now though yeah really hot in DC so we'll find out if she had any fun if she was able to flip off Ted Cruz or Nancy Pelosi look I'm going I'm equal it's equal yeah equal opportunity bird right let's say flip in Ted Cruz is on one side of the street eating a baby

gopher out in the street and then over here Nancy Pelosi is sucking the life force out of a dog I don't know both of them are a little weird Wendy could just go both windows slap them up on both sides big 70s birds yep that's the plan because she is an equal

opportunity flipper I made all that up all right a couple of quick things reminder about the survey I'm going to be taking it down after this weekend and using the results to see some stuff interesting bits of information gleaned so far, though. I'll share just a couple of these. If I can find it. Oh, Scott, what'd

you do with the images? They're right here. Okay. Well, I guess I put them on threads. I can read them there. How long have you been consuming Frog Pants content was one of the questions. And look at this. Look at these percentages. Less than a year. Barely a sliver in there. Can't even see the color. It's blue. One to two years. A decent little piece of the pie. A little percentage there. Three to five years, larger piece of the pie.

Longer, 90.7%. Wow. That's a Pac-Man whose mouth is almost closed, that chart. Look at that. What do you do with that? What do you, what does that information tell you, though? Do you think like you are, you know, does that mean you're going to cater stuff

toward that percentage? Or does that mean, oh, we need to We need to make our show more accessible to new listeners? What is that? I think that there is a combination of lessons here. One is that there's, I create the kind of long term, I think there's long term loyalty with what I do. Right. It's good to know what your strengths are, for sure. Right.

I think that's one thing. So that means, hey, people that found us in 05, they're still here. That's cool. Longevity is cool. People hanging on that long is cool. However, this doesn't say great things about like new people. growth uh growth and part of that is a thing i've had a problem with with not just podcasting but just creator content in general what has happened is the more mainstream it's gone and people

like former talk show hosts or comedians or well-known celebrities start their own shows those are that's easy for them to immediately build an audience because they're carrying it from somewhere else yep it is harder for independence to grab new eyeballs than it's ever been It's very hard. That stuff just doesn't get surfaced like it used to. It's also late in the game. There's tons of people competing, but it's much more difficult to get new people. So I think that's some of that.

So I don't know. Multiple lessons are being learned here. Yeah, I almost want to write an essay titled The Myth of the Independent Podcast or the Myth of the Grassroots podcaster or something like that. Yeah, because they can't exist. They do exist. you the biggest let's talk about streaming for a second the biggest streamers right now are streamers who were nobody's that nobody knew about and then they were huge due to whatever circumstances timing got lucky drake came on their thing whatever their things were um the important lesson there

is not that it can't be done it's that the probability is astronomically low sure that you'll do it and and and even if you have a hundred people watching your stream that may seem low to you because the people you follow are doing 20,000 people watching simultaneously. That 100 puts you in the top 1% of Twitch or YouTube streaming. Yeah. But you know what's funny is that you're talking about streaming right now, which almost goes to support the point that I have, which is that that's not the case in podcasting anymore.

It's really hard. Oh, it's even harder. It's really hard nowadays. Even harder. I agree with you. Remember back in the day, well, I don't know, I can't speak for everybody, When I was growing up, everybody who played basketball thought they could be Jordan if they wanted. Sure.

Like all it took, this old pull your bootstraps up and you can do anything kind of bullshit we tell each other and ourselves. As if it's completely equal playing field and there are no advantages of some over others and all that sort of thing. And so everybody felt like, well, I can be like Jordan or at the very least I can be like some other secondary player. I can be Pippin. I can be, you know, Rodman, whatever. the bulls were the big example and the truth of it is your chances your actual just percentage chances

were so astronomically unattainable that it was just folly it was just it almost was like a religious belief for yourself where you just faith that you could do it and not real like no actual plan of attack

and I feel like podcasting and even YouTube people video all this stuff it's the same problem but way way worse in terms of the numbers. The numbers are terrible. In fact, you had way better chances being Jordan

than you have being Kaisenat or Joe Rogan or name anyone else who gets all the hits. Like those are outlier exceptions to the norm. And mostly my data shows me from what I've seen so far. And again, I haven't really parsed this too far. but what I've learned the most from it is that my belief, my long-time belief that's slow and steady is a happy place to be, meaning growth, but it's on a lower curve, there's no giant spike of hawk to a girl ratio to crash, you know what I mean?

Like this, this instead of this, is a better long-term plan. It's a conservative plan, not even a plan, it's just a conservative, like, growth line. but it's a good happy place to be where bills get paid content gets made people are happy community is built trust is built over time right i feel like that's a that's a place i'm very happy to exist in and i feel lucky to exist in because i even think that is now statistically very improbable for a lot of new people trying to do this yeah one thing to keep in mind is um and tally said this in the in the chat and remind me of this is sampling bias the way that people are getting this survey you're going to you're you're not by by nature of how

your your the survey is going out you know and this is not anything not a fault of your own it's just how it works right um the the the casual listener or you're probably by virtue of the fact that's shared on social media which has to be a place where people follow you um that's where most of the people are going to interact with it, those are probably going to be more loyal people anyway. So you're probably, so you're, you're more casual listeners and people who've been listening for less time is probably bigger, but maybe not a lot. You just don't know. I don't know. Yeah, you can't tell. Absolutely, it's biased. I mean, biased in that sense. Like I didn't, one thing I avoided doing in it is how awesome on a scale from one to 10 do you think I am or how cool is this content? I didn't do any of that.

Because that's a waste of time. You're going to get way, it's going to weigh more on the positive side than it's actually, actually true. Also, some of this like, here's this one, all current shows you consume regularly and all that apply. So you could choose multiples. And it had everything from Word on the street up to TMS, Core, you know, the bigger ones. And if I go by download numbers and view numbers, Core has everything beat by a pretty good margin right now. Core is the biggest thing I make. the morning stream, not distant, distant second, but a distant second in relativity.

But if I look at this result, the morning stream is out and ahead with 80.9% compared to 54% for core. Well, that does not correlate. But it does correlate with where the bias of the test of who's going, who's most likely to sign up for this, rando quiet lurkers who listen to core and have for a long time, they're not bothering with this. Right. They're playing their video games or whatever it is they're doing. Morning stream people are very active and super into it.

So you see that in a lot of these. Like there's no way to avoid it. But it does give me, it gives me an idea of where the, you got to focus on your tips of the spear anyway. Here's some advice, everybody. You can't please everybody. I can promise you that. if I've learned anything that is a that is a strict truth but what you can do is you focus on

those who are the most active the most loyal the ones that show up when you need them the most most the ones that are there every day those people you people are very important and these numbers reflect where they come from so I'm learning less about this is this chart here about the shows is less about where did they where are they listening And more about where are the most active, like, participant community-focused listeners coming from? Which shows are those? Right. And it's interesting.

Like right now, but also, there are questions. I took the survey when I saw it. There are questions on there that are obviously intended for people you already know are listening. You want to know some of their opinions about certain things. So it's still, it's a very useful survey for people to take. Regardless of whether there's sampling bias, you still want to know certain things about the people. who are listening and what their preferences are and what kinds of things they like. If anything, I'm more interested in what the most active biased people want, because they are the ones I want to focus on because that's...

Right. That's the point that you're making. Yeah, that's the rubber in the road right there. So, thanks for being a rubber to my road. Not the kind you leave out there after a weird night on the town. That's a weird thing to say. Also, lots of you want T-shirts and clothes. I don't know why that is, but I'm working. on it. Oh, and our Discord to not on Discord ratio here also biased, but also interesting. 67% of people who took this test are also on the Discord, 32% not. If anything, I'm surprised at the knots because I thought people would be on there. And then finally, oh, all the reasons why they don't do it says, I don't use Discord. Other persons says, I don't even know what that means. No interest. I find it hard to navigate Discord. I'm old, is one of them.

I don't talk too much. I'm shy. Yeah, no, I like the honesty. This thing was anonymous, so nobody had to give me their name, and I like it. Someone just wrote, made me laugh.

I don't, I don't get it. Anyway. Cool. Oh, and another thing, this is another strange bias. Have you ever been to a, whoops, it skipped past, what happened there?

Okay, have you ever been to a frog pants event before, Nurtacular TMS, Vegas, etc. 86.2% said no, and only 13.8% of you have come. So that's data I can do something with. That's me going, we've got to get more people to Vegas. Got to get more people to this or that. Or let's go to the East Coast and do a thing or whatever. So that's interesting.

And then many and then the predominant number of people, or sorry, 62.5% said they would love to come to an event if it made sense. So anyway, it's a really cool thing. thanks for taking it everybody. If you haven't yet, go have your feelings be made over at frogpans.com slash survey. You can do it on mobile or desktop.

Again, you have to sign into anything, do anything, no name, nothing. It's anonymous. And that'll be the last you'll see you that thing. All right. Also, we're running out of fallout prints over at frogpans.shop. If you have not picked up your collection,

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collection. If you click that, you will see a bunch of fallout-inspired art that I did, including a Nukakola building like tower thing, uh, vault boy getting his hand knocked off or cut off and being happy about it. And a hackable terminal from the game. All of these things, Fallout fans will know what they're about if you like the show and if you just like the vibe, but get free shipping in the U.S. and grab your set today. I was told by my new show store runner my daughter Taylor that we are running out so if you have not done it perhaps now is your time and finally a couple of shows coming up tonight 5 p.m. core will be on we're going to talk a lot about the pre-patch for world of warcraft the war within which dropped this week and

uh I played a bunch of it and uh cross guild thing happening for core listeners some other cool stuff so watch for that played a ton of final fantasy and a bunch of other things and we have plenty to talk about so join me and john and bow tonight five p.m. Mountain time right here. And I'll be in the chat. Join me in the chat. Yeah, join Bobby in the chat. Boy, the back and forth and there will be epic. All right. Uh, what's the other thing I was going to tell you about that? That's it. Oh, play retro. Also tomorrow, 1.30, normal time and film sack this weekend, all things willing. Hopefully, Brian will be healthy. I don't know. We don't know. Uh, send him your, your, your, your thoughts and your, uh, your, your love via Discord and other

places. Uh, we hope he feels much better sooner. And Bobby, I have to you to thank for making sure we had a show today. So, thanks for hanging out with me. Anytime, you know, I'm always, if nothing else, I am your backup co-host. That's my, that's my sole purpose in life. That's right. You look like Jesus and you save podcasts like Jesus also. So well done.

You paid the ultimate price. And anyway, one of the prices that I pay is making sure you get a chance to talk about your cool show so people flock over there and check it out. Tell them all about it, will you please? My show is a science show, because I am science adjacent, and it's called All Around Science. And my co-host and I, we talk about science every week. And what's going on in science and just the things that are exciting to us in science. The past couple of weeks, we've been doing a big, a couple of mailbag episodes, answering a ton of questions that listeners had.

Those are always fun. I love doing mailbag episodes in our... science show. But today, in fact, in about an hour, we're going to be recording next week's episode, and I'm going to do a whole roundup on the bird flu. Have you seen a bunch of news headlines about bird flu lately? I have. Lots of, well, some confirmed cases of bird flu popping up and stuff. Yeah. It's scary. Yep. It's been, it's been creeping up the past few months, and I'm going to go back and kind of do a roundup of everything that's happened in the past five, six months having to do with the bird flu. And, um, I'm going to go back and, um, I'm going to do with the

Bird flu and where we are with that and let you know whether or not something we should be worried about. So tune in for that. Yep. Watch out for bird flu. Where'd you dig up this shit bird anyway? Yeah, shitbirds. That's what birds are. All around science. I should say it again. All around science.

Yeah, do that. Please. And don't forget what Romney said. I like PBS. I love big bird. He loves big bird, even though it's got a big old virus in him. All right. Do you tell you I brushed up against that guy's junk once? Anyway, that's a whole other story. I talked about it in here. Didn't I talk about it in here? I think I did.

I'm sure you've talked about it. Total mistake or, you know, accident. It wasn't on purpose, unless he meant to. All right. Oh, and it's hilarious. I didn't even realize this. So he makes this big bird coming. I like BPS. I love Big Bird.

He, that was at an event with Muppets. Yeah. That I accidentally brushed up against Mitt Romney's, uh, oh, wow. Frontal lobe. It's a little. All right. Oh, and I don't know what this means for for play date tomorrow.

We'll see how Brian's feeling. We could always do a play date without him. I hate doing that. I'd much rather have them there. But we'll let you guys know. So keep an ear on Discord and all that stuff. I'll be around if you need me. Oh, and if anyone's ever confused about when things stream

or go live or podcasts go up, I made a whole page for this. You just go to frogpants.com slash schedule. and the whole thing's there real time. So if I change something, I will change it, and you will see it like that. It will always be current. So not only, you know, there's other places you can find out of the schedule, but they're not always accurate.

That's the place to be, if you're ever concerned about what's happening that day. All right. I think that's everything. I feel like I'm just yammering today. We're going to go out on a fun note here. I got a song to play. And I picked this one because I'm just in the mood for more of his amazing music. So many of you know our main theme of the show, which goes a little something like this.

This thing that we play every week or every day. This is Eric Van Skyhawk, who musically goes by the name Skyhawk. And he made that for us years ago. For those who've been listening for more than five years, you'll remember App Slap. He was my co-host on there. Eric and I've been friends forever. And it turns out I dated his girlfriend once in high school and didn't know it. anyway he writes music here and there and does some amazing stuff i've always liked eric's stuff

and he in particular did a song called echoes not too many years ago um i'm not even sure it ever went anywhere else public but it was something i had here and uh could play uh so i have been off and on but i don't think we've ever played on the show so i'm going to change that today and it's going to get played on the show all right so this is echoes by skyhawk we'll see you guys on monday You know, So, Thank you. So, you know,

I'm going to be able to be. You know, I'm going to be able to be. Thank you. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Yes, get more at frogpant.com. The blood of uranus can never be destroyed.