The Morning Stream - TMS 2688: Ghost Plumbers

Episode Date: August 8, 2024

You'll get NO long show, NO Wendi, and NO Lieutenant Yar! Battle Dildos. This Baby Valley Is Uncanny. Thou Shalt Not Look. Lyfting my mom. Not Too Groggy To Guilt. I Need a Larger Face. A Little HIPAA Violation Never Hurt Anyone. Wasn't There Another One With A Chicken? Triangles Are Better Than Circles. DISCUSS! Bare naked bandit. Word To Your Mothers. Dominican DeLouise. Put That in Your Pipe and Ghost It! Only child duty and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you listen closely, you can hear the wolves howling deep into the night. They are calling you to join our Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS. Will you heed their call? Coming up on the morning stream, you'll get no long show, no Wendy, and no Lieutenant Yard. Battle dildos. This baby valley is uncanny. Thou shalt not look. Lifting my mom.

Not too groggy to guilt. I need a larger face. A little HIPAA violation never hurt anyone. Wasn't there another one with chicken? Triangles are better than circles. Discuss. Bear naked bandit. Word to your mothers.

Dominican del Louise. Put that in your pipe and ghost it. Only child duty and more on this episode of the morning stream. These droppings or deer pellets, or as some of the hunters refer to them, poopie doodles, can give you a fair idea of the number of deer in the area. If you're scared and you know it hide your eyes. The morning stream. When news breaks, we're there the next morning. Except on Fridays and the weekend. Hey, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is the Monday. It is the Thursday edition of TMS. It's August 8th, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson.

that is Brian. Hi, Brian. Hello, we're here on a Monday doing Monday things. Oh, wait, wrong show. Wrong show. Wrong show. No, we're, Brian was very dutifully helping out his mom this morning and we were starting late, but we didn't want to leave you with nothing today. We want to give you a show. Yeah. Turn right. You know, this is the, the perks of being an only child is that you're responsible for everything. You can't kind of share the load, share the duties of like, oh, could you take mom to the thing? Oh, could you take dad to the other thing? It's like, no, Brian has to do all of it and all of it he does. Of course, dutifully. Dutiful son. That's right. But it's, I hadn't thought about that before. When you're an only kid, you don't, you can't share the, the burden, whatever, and not that

she's a burden, but you know what I mean? Like, you know, it's hard. It's okay. She's not listening. Yeah, no, it is. It's hard. It's difficult. It's like, like, oh, all right, well, everything. You got to kind of going to be there for every, every need, every request, every phone call. My mom would be much harder if my sister wasn't kind of tag teaming with us all the time, you know, because she went out there yesterday and went shopping with her. I'm supposed to do some stuff this weekend with her. Like we're doing our duty as children for our aging mother, but it's a lot harder when you're on your own. So I guess hats off to Brian for doing that.

That's hard. Yeah, for taking the whole brunt. Yeah. The whole brunt. Yeah. Right in the face. you know that's right sorry sorry just getting situated here

I haven't uh haven't been even at my desk yet this morning to kind of do stuff so yeah just so people know Brian literally was in his car talking to us pre-show if you're not a patron you won't hear it uh or if you weren't here for the live stream but you just it's just like bam show Brian standing go like we didn't really give you much time to do anything but uh that's all right we got plenty to talk about today lots of fun stuff to cover and uh slightly shorter show as well So enjoy it.

As I start with this email, it's actually a text for us. It's another name thing, all right? Hi, Scott and Brian. Until very recently, I thought that the actor Donna Mici's name was Donna Mici. Good times, Tristan from Colorado, not Tristan, Ibit. He makes the point. Yeah, Tristan Adams, yeah, the guy with the most well-manicured and maintained beard and mustache. The guy just perfectly.

Really tight. Yeah. I need to take lessons. or ask him advice because mine's a mess. I don't know how to do it, right? Dona Michi. I think that probably, he's probably not the only one whoever, who thought that one.

I'm trying to think if there was never a name. I mean, I know I got like hotel names wrong, like the Ramada Inn and then the town of Yosemite. Oh, yeah. But I'm trying to think if I ever got some, like an actor's name, like, oh, that's totally broken up in a different place than, than I thought it was because yours was Ruma

Klanahan, yeah Klanahan last name, Ruma first name and I was sure of it until on the show we figured it out but I was positive I was saying it right all those years

I was totally wrong I think it was oh gosh there was probably some you know I probably for a while thought Monacham Began Monachan now that doesn't sound right

Monach and Began was like Monach M. Bagan. Oh. I thought of the middle initial M. There was some head of state like that where I was like, when I finally saw it'm like, oh, that's totally different than, um, then. Oh, I like Xander's Dom, Dom Della, wheeze. Dom Della wheeze. Yeah, that's all right. I'll take that.

Domdella is such a common. I mean, Dom isn't the most common first name either, but, uh, wow, is he, you know, all this time. So he's, his real name, his full name is probably Dominic Deloese. Yeah, probably. Boy, you do not think of that dude as a Dominic, right? No, Dom, in fact, when I hear anyone else named Dom, I'm sure it's always short for Dominic, but to me, it's Dom Deloese, Dom, and to me, that's just Dom and never anything else. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, there it is. Dominic Deloese, and it's not even spelled, oh, yeah, there it is. It is Dominic, yeah. Dominic Deloise. I'm going to call it, I'm going to say Dominic from now on. No. Minic, like short for Dominican Deloese. Yeah, Dominican Deloese.

Yeah, on the road, trying to get the big prize or whatever the hell they did. What was the thing with Cannonball Run? They were all racing. Yeah, I don't know. Listen, I watched It's a mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad world when they were trying to get to the big W. Yeah. But I don't know. I know the premise of Cannonball Run.

I don't think I've actually sat through the entire movie. It was on all the time, syndication all the time on our local channels, but I don't even think I've ever watched it fully. I don't think I've seen, have I not, I don't think I've seen that one, the Mad Mad, Mad World one, or? Oh, my gosh. Wasn't there another one like a chicken, not chicken run, but it was like, it was road race, a road.

What's that called? The one that had John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson and Whoopi Goldberg rat race. That's it. Thank you, Rainbow Bright. Oh. rat race yeah i like that one yeah you've seen that one right yeah i have seen that but i have chicken fried isn't there a chicken fried movie or something that's a chicken fried movie but that's a that's a that's a kentucky fried movie oh chicken fried movie well i mean it's pretty much the same

yeah kentucky fried movie is an anthology thing with um zany little vignettes almost like uh um what was that movie was it movie 43 what was the one that came out where Hugh Jackman had testicles hanging from his chin oh shit I don't know do you're not aware of that is that oh is that one where it's like a whole bunch of directors did segments yes yes oh I never saw it 34 something or a number it's oh 43 yeah yeah I never saw that I didn't know he had testicles saying from his chin, weird. He produced it, the Peter Farley of the Farley brothers, but then, yeah, then they had a bunch

of different, like Dennis Quaid, Greg Kinnear, Will Sassau, Seth MacFarlane. Why did Hugh Jackman have nuts on his face? What was that about? I want to say he was on a date, and it was like a first date, and, God,

I barely remember it's like they were trying not to not to trying not to talk about it like it was the elephant in the room. Yeah, that's really weird that he did. Well, I mean, I guess the whole thing was supposed to be like a hard R like, hey, we're,

here's a mainstream hard R thing with a ton of actors you know and it's real dirty. Get in here. And as Jeannie says, anytime anybody describes their movie as zany, it kind of takes me out. I'm like kind of done. Zany is, I mean, that's a zany thing.

There you go. There's a little clip you can watch. on the oh gosh let's take a look here oh gosh here it is it's all oak isn't that's gorgeous that's horrifying oh wow jay this well mr h this is a vicious swash i can't i can't that's bad i don't like that it's almost like like all right what are some what are things that they would be passed over as uh sire d'at live skits uh let's put them all into this movie yeah They're very realistic, those testicles. Very good prosthetic, yeah.

Ironically, it's at an angle and a height that I'm not, I don't think I've ever seen. You know what I mean? Yeah, well, no, that is, yeah, you only know what they look like from the top down. Yeah, top down or else I see a guy in the gym and go, well, there they are sort of perpendicular but low. I'm not used to seeing them up in your neck that really threw me dude that's gnarly wow is that worth seeing me is it funny

is it good is it there are funny moments yeah it's um it's very like it's also like a sorry not live episode in that way where there are funny moments uh very funny premises um and maybe maybe not a successful landing of the actual joke at the end i gotcha well then i think i'm safe and not maybe Well, you know, if the opportunity affords itself, perhaps.

The opportunity arrives, yeah. It's not film sackable. It's too, it's too, um, kooky to be a good film sack thing. Yeah, that makes sense. But it's a mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad world. Oh, my gosh, that would be such a great film sack. We just have to give Dunaway enough time to watch the whole thing because I want to say it's, oh, it's one of those.

It's two and a half hours long maybe. Yeah, Dunaway doesn't like those long movies. No, but my gosh, that is, I would. I would call that one of my five favorite movies from pre-1975. Wow, really? From the pre-Star Wars era. Yeah, Bombat says 3.5 hours. Wow, is that true?

Is it really 3.5 hours? No way. That seems insane to me that that's that high. Like, do you sure there's not like a theatrical cut or something? Because that sounds like a director's cut or something like that. Um, let's see, 159 to 163 minutes general release. Oh, the Cinerama Dome Premiere was 192 minutes. Oh, that must be the one.

And the criterion collection is 197 minutes. And weighing it a whopping 202 minutes is the original cut envisioned by Stanley Kramer. So, okay. So, yeah, three hours and 20 minutes. Just make it a series. My gosh, that's insane. For the director's cut. Wow.

But, I mean, that one had, listen to this. Listen to this. This is like, I can't even think of an equivalent today for something like this. But Spencer, Tracy, Milton Burle, Sid, Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dickshon, Phil Silvers, Jonathan Winters, Edie Adams, Dorothy Praveen. Jeez. Like, every big name comedian in 1963 was in this thing. Yeah, it would be today, it'd be like, I mean, think of all the modern comedians. It'd be like that. It would be like, yeah, Will Ferrell and Seth Rogen and Pat and Oswald and, you know, like basically every. Yeah. Yeah, that's wild.

Holy crap. I mean, I would watch the theatrical on Film Sack, you know, the four hour one, or three and a half hour one is probably not our best choice, but I don't know. Right. Oh, my gosh, Jeannie. So you're not a fan of this. It's funny, she says, I was happy they put everyone I didn't want to see into one film. Oh my gosh How like

Sid Caesar and Buddy Hackett Freaking Buddy Hackett And Phil Silvers is so hilarious In this thing Buddy Buddy Hackett is He's one of my favorite Like if I was a little kid And Johnny Carson was on

I was almost always bored Unless Buddy Hackett was on And then I was like This is great Freaking Buddy Hackett is the man Love that girl Oh my gosh I kind of want to watch this right now

But I don't have the time Oh, another time. Yeah. I only have I have time for, oh, we'll talk about this in a minute, no time for a coverville today. Oh, shit. Well, we get to that. We'll get to talking about that. Hey, what else do we have at our top topics today, Scott?

Hey, check this out, Brian. You know, we talked about your new tabletop or your, sorry, your turntable, is what I meant to say. Yes, yes. And you talked about how it controls which side and speed of the record. This is the different thing, Scott. Oh, this is not it. This is about the piece of art you sent me and how it arrived to me. Oh, I thought this was about that.

he kept talking about this incline belt thing i'm like oh is that like the thing on the record player i thought that's what this was all right no no no this is about the yeah this is about the tongue depressor um oh okay the yeah the piece of art you sent me and how it arrived what it looked like when it arrived here that's right i misread this okay so he says this is for tms uh you are sorry sorry i say we're all talking about the rubber band and the tongue depressor and brian's mail piece i missed on the male piece yeah on the tube uh he says it is there to keep the part of from rolling on an incline belt for parcel sorting machines. David from Minnesota, or sorry, Michigan.

No, Minnesota, amen. Minnesota, yeah. So, okay, but that makes sense, right? You got to keep it straight up. The scanner's not going to see it if you don't. It won't know how to sort it. Yeah, otherwise the tube just rolls. But I would think that once it gets through the sorter,

the male person would be, like, they would grab that, pull the tongue depressor and the rubber band off so they could reuse it for the next tube that comes through. But I guess not. Yeah, I guess not. It just, it seems like a bummer that we, that people had to do that for me. If I'd have known, I would have been happy to do it. I just didn't know that was a thing.

I didn't know that was a thing either. They must hate tubes, dude. Postal workers, write in and tell us how much you hate tubes. Oh, and why don't they, you know, you know, like the, you occasionally get those things that are like Toblerone triangle, extruded triangles. Yeah. It seems like those, why not make those more the ubiquitous, hey, you got that. something you're rolling up as a poster? Great.

Here is a triangular tube. It won't, you know, the pressure that it puts on the item itself won't cause whatever you're sending to fold into those little cracks, and that won't roll around. It'll take up probably about the same amount of cardboard, maybe a little bit more, but then you don't have to worry about another thing that's going to roll around unless we put a rubber band and a tongue depressor on it. I think that's why we, I think we bought those exact Toborone-style ones for these mats that we're making right now.

Oh, did you? Okay, cool. Because those roll up like a poster except they're rubber. Yeah. And I think we went with those. Yeah, neoprene. I think they're like, I forget the thickness, but it's enough to make a pretty good size roll.

And so we were like, well, we could do tubes or we could do these triangle things. And I'm like, they're cheaper. You do the triangle things. Let's do it. And you know what's cool about the triangle things? You can stack them, right? Like you put three down and then two upside down in those three and then another one on top. And it's like great.

Whereas if you try and do a stack of tubes, guess what? They're just going to roll until they're just flat layer of tubes. Yeah, they'll even be better in the car on the way to the thing. The sorting machines will just have them laying flat. Look, everybody wins in this scenario. Triangles, everybody wins with triangles. That's right. Triangle Man, triangle man.

We've just established the triangles are better than circles. I agree. I agree. What more needs to be said? Speaking of Deadpool and Wolverine, no spoilers, but we have somebody asking for something like it. And they also have a quick question that I can clarify. So, hey, Scott, does the pre-show for this past Thursday TMS exist anywhere? I noticed it's not on the Patreon, and it made me figure it was because you and Brian had a spoilerary discussion about Deadpool and Wolverine, of which I would love to hear.

The answer to that is no, we did not have any kind of spoiler or discussion about it, but also that file got borked, and that's why it doesn't exist. So the reason you got no pre-show that day was for that. However, this idea that we could have some fun with some sort of little bonus extra, you know, Deadpool, Wolverine discussion, I'm not opposed to that. That sounds like fun. I'm not opposed to that either. Yeah. Who else could we get in on that? We could get like Dunaway or somebody or...

Dunaways, yeah, Dunaway's seen it. I wonder if Schleiker's seen it. That would be a good, that'd be a good for some to talk about the comics coast-to-coast guy and the major spoilers guy and then you and me. Yeah, I think that'd be fun. So if people are into that, we would label it as such, Jeannie, for sure. We wouldn't do that. Yeah.

And we'd spell label correctly, Gene. Well, look, should. doesn't like buddy hackett you can't expect too much from the label sometimes i have to be a free hotel room sometimes sometimes i haven't heard from him in a few days i must be doing okay here on the show i don't know when i don't hear from bob just give a shout out yeah go ahead to somebody awesome in the chat room rufus the motor city kitty fan right we talked about him earlier this week and uh um he reached out to me and said hey i've got a turntable that's arguably better than the one that your wife is getting you

for your birthday and I'll sell it to you cheap he and I've been talking over Discord and so when you go to wire cutter and say hey show me turntables and their first one is

here's the best one under $600 and then here's our budget pick what Tina was going to get me was the quote unquote budget pick which was a nice turntable. It was very nice but then but that first one, the very first one the wirecutter mentions, it's like, hey, here's one that's great, but it's, you know, just under 600 bucks. That's the one that, uh, Rufus, the Motor City Kitty fan is, uh, is selling me for about the same price as what we're going to pay for the budget

pick. And, uh, dude, I could not be more excited, uh, about this thing. That's great. Yeah. And it's in gray condition. What's the, what's the maker brand? Is it a thing we can look up? Yeah, Fluence. F-L-U-A-N-C-E. F-L-U-A-N-C-E Turn. Fluence. First thing that came up, let's see here. Hi-Fi turntable. Oh, these look nice.

Yeah, and he's got the black piano, like the piano black model. Yeah, like these. It's a bummer. I do like, I really, really like the white, but, you know, whatever. I can get, I can. You can deal, yeah. I can deal.

Ooh, these are pretty. I like these a lot. They're really sexy. turntables right there with the those lids are cool yeah i like this this is nice all right well i you know what good deal good deal man totally did you uh and i forgot to ask you rufus did his ears with the acrylic um platter or with the uh aluminum platter or which one i just i could i could reach out to him via discord but but some let's um let's let's pin him down here for an answer is it a is there an advantage one to the other?

No, I think the the acrylic just looks nice because it's transparent. Oh, I see. It adds one more level of sexy to the turtale. According to this, it's aluminum, but you may have the option on the model, I don't know. But they broke them all. I don't know which model he has.

Probably the RT80, I'm guessing. These are sexy. Very sexy. Yeah, there he says, yeah, no, but you can buy the acrylic and some people light them up. with LED. Oh, my God. How cool with that? Oh, no way, dude. Oh, yeah, here they are. Semi-translucin acrylic. Those are on the higher-end models, but you can swap. Yeah, they are. That's nice. You can buy that separately. Well done. Save a little money. You got the thing you wanted.

A cool guy in the chat. That's all good. Exactly. Exactly. Thanks, Rufus. Yeah. Listen, I may not have any Spagnolos sending me a Mac Studio, but I got somebody selling me a cheap turntable and I can't complain about that i don't think i have thanked i don't think i think mark enough for the for the deal he gave me he gave me a great deal it's a love i am so i am so needing one i i just can't why'd i get a model that i can't add ram to what the hell was i thinking scott well i would i don't think the studio let you either i think the studio's locked in on the ram yeah oh i thought you i thought you could add ram to the studio no then i would just then i would just have the opportunity to put in a a shit ton of RAM

when you do it. So I don't know if you heard the news, but they're doing a brand new mini with an M4 that is like half the size of the current mini, twice the capacity using the new M4 chip. That could be pretty rad when that hits. I've not heard about this.

Let's see if they have any details here. At least three USBCs. The only complaint about the Mac Mini is the few ports. Like how but maybe that's one of the things that they would say oh yeah I know this is something we're gonna

we're going to oh there we go but tube even says double the USB good because that's just yeah you need more you need more inputs you just do yeah I really like that device but I needed more inputs and the the studio definitely has more inputs the mini deserves them and the mini had them with the Intel the last Intel model before the M1 they had like double the ports and then they didn't so stupid and then they should reduce like oh people aren't gonna need to plug in a bunch of things or they can

get a hub. Yeah. Like, no. Lame sauce. is what that is. Well, maybe here's what I'm thinking. I might not need the M4. I might just be this, but this might bring the prices down on the regular Mac Studio M2 and it's like, perfect. Then I can get one of those

for a decent deal. Yeah, the maxes are really fast anyway. You're not going to probably even notice that, the difference between that and the M4 anyway. Exactly. Hey, Apple people, reach out to me. Yeah. We got any good Apple pals that uh you know we do i know we have some great apple pals in the chat room but uh or the tadpool yeah we need a good deal good deal uh hunt everybody hook a brother up hook a brother up all right

here is uh we're gonna do some news today's news on tms is brought to you by brought you by coverville won't be happening today but will happen sometime this weekend uh Friday Saturday maybe even Sunday i don't know um and it's going to be a Counting Crow's cover story because Adam Duritz has been doing his funky warbly poetry poetry poetry for so many what it's 60 years now that Adam Duritz it's a long time no wow I know so we're all going to say shal la la la yeah and listen to some Adam Duritz and the counting crows on the next episode of Coverville nice we'll see we'll see when it happens tomorrow they're coming to fix the plumbing so I can close

the gaping hole in my ceiling. Oh, very nice. Yeah, I was going to ask what the status was. I guess they just haven't scheduled it yet or whatever. Um, we, they gave us a quote and then I reached out to two other plumbers. Um, get this. Yeah. Uh, it feels like another top of the show thing, but whatever. Totally fine. Who cares?

Um, you're, okay, so you're, uh, you're an independent plumbing person, right? You're like, you make a living running your own company, your own plumbing company. Uh, somebody comes to you and says, hey, I've got this thing that needs to be done here's you know here's the problem

and here's what we're experiencing and here's the stuff I've done so far I put a gauge on and measured my my house water pressure the PSI my current water pressure and all that oh cool okay can you send me some photos of what the area looks like yep here you go okay great

yeah definitely looks like something I can do I'll get in touch with you I'll get you a quote in the next 24 hours okay 24 hours comes and goes I reach out and say hey how's that quote. Are you close to getting me a quote? No response. Two, independent plumbing companies uh, you know, who, who make a living out of doing this, not even a response to say, oh, we're really slammed right now. I'll get that to you and, in, you know, tomorrow morning or, or I'll get

it to you ASAP. Like, you and I both work for ourselves. Yeah. You and I are both our own bosses. And we run a company where, where non-communication is, um, is death for us. It means you're not going to get the job. You're going to not get the project. New client reaches out to us and says, hey, I got an art commission piece I'd really like to have done. You're going to respond, even if it's to say,

oh, yeah, definitely would like to help you with this. But I won't be able to get to it until the first part next week. Is that okay? Yeah. But just a ghost, it's like, come on now. Yeah, don't be ghosting people. I don't know what it is about plumbers, but the word is from our plumber that they're having,

the plumbers are having a moment. like there's a lot of old pipe shit happening and a lot of new technology pipe stuff being replaced and they're all swamped and have too much to do and maybe this is just like the independence are just overwhelmed or something but i still you just got a call you got a call and say yeah we're swamped i i don't think i can get you quote for another four days that's fine tell me exactly because that's the difference between me saying okay well didn't work out this time but but i'll keep you like next time we need some plumbing work done i'll totally reach out to you again. Now it's like, oh gosh, no, do I, no chance do I ever contact these plumbers again for another future job. Yeah. Forget that. Yeah, you're not going to, so goodbye. Brian's pipes next time they go bad. Exactly. Exactly. Stick that up your pipe. Yeah, put that in your pipe and smoke it. Uh, all right, let's get to this story about, uh, oh, I hate this story, but I'm going to read it anyway. Oh, God. Okay. Um, because I just, uh, just, all right, here's the deal. We're not going to get into the religion of it. I just want to get into the point of it.

Louisiana governor tells parents that are against this Ten Commandments in Classrooms Law they passed down there. The deal is every school has to now display them in Louisiana. Oh, really? It has to be in class. They don't have to necessarily, like, read them as part of, like, the Pledge of Allegiance. And now we're going to read the Ten Commandments. I mean, you get the impression this guy would love it if they did, but I think that's not part of the law. Anyway, he says to people who don't like this, tell your child not to look.

so this is the reason I have a problem with this to me it seems simple the way it should the way it works in this country if you do a thing like that then you have to say all right do the Muslims have a top 10 thing we can put up do any other what's the do the Jewish have a top 10 list yeah and they put their top 10 up there

can we have the satanic people do their tenants up there like are you going to because if you don't then F this noise. And also saying things like tell your child not to look. Hey, what if I came to you and said, we're opening a drag show up the street? How do you guys feel about that? Horrible, it's an abomination.

Okay, don't have, just tell your kids not to look. Yeah, I'm going to come up to your house and ring my doorbell with my dick. Don't answer the door. Yeah, don't look at the video. Don't look at your ring camera if you don't want to see it. Yeah, don't check your notifications for my penis on your door. Exactly.

I do like, yeah, the, right. DJ Stangle says, Mom, what does adultery mean? What does covet thy neighbor's wife mean, Mom? Yeah, it's like that, I mean, I did that diary episode a while ago now, but this concept of, you know, wanting to mandate government telling, you know, putting religion back into schools and government that you don't understand the can of worms you're opening because it isn't your one little narrow viewpoint. If that was everyone's viewpoint, fine. It's not, though. And I don't even mean non-religious people. there are 240-something-something Christian sex in this country.

That's everybody with a different take. So the minute you start having one take, the minute you have one take dominating, then others are going to say, well, no, here in the Methodist Church, we think these three things that you aren't saying. So we need those in there. You're going to just create chaos.

So don't do this stupid stuff. Yeah. Teach them at home, do whatever you want. Go to church, talk to your pastor, do your thing. It's fine. That's where that stuff belongs. That's where it belongs. It's really dumb.

Anyway, it says here, tell your child not to look at him. He told reporters, the Louisiana governor, well, you know what it reminds me of. Back in the day when they announced the Xbox one, and they flubbed that announcement so bad. And the current head of Xbox at the time,

I forgot his name. Somebody asked him, I think it was Jeff Keely, asked him, well, what do you say to people with older games? Because they wanted to play them on their backwards compatibility. and all that. Don Matrick, that's his name. And he said, well, for those people, we have something called the Xbox 360. I mean, just basically just like, don't look. Keep your old system and play it

on there. Yeah, it was just the worst thing you could have said. And it reminds me of this a little bit, because clearly they haven't thought these things through. Anyway, the governor defended the controversial legislation during a news conference announcing how Louisiana intends to fend off a lawsuit that argues that it is unconstitutional to hang the Ten Commandments in a state-funded school and in college classrooms. Landry, who is the governor, first signed the GOP-backed legislation in June, making Louisiana the first state in the nation to require it.

They had to exhibit it in posters showing the religious text, which was revealed to Moses in the Bible, and remains revered by the followers of the Christian faith. Or I would say people who like to cherry pick certain scriptures and not others. Right. By the way, before you send your emails, yeah, okay, now I know that the Jewish top 10 list

is the same as the Christian top 10 list. Oh, I didn't know that either, so don't feel bad. Yeah. I had no idea. That makes sense. It's Old Testament. They share a lot of that stuff. And the number one.

Did you get that, Paul? Right. Do not covet their neighbor's wife? Ah. All right, David. Very good. What I would say? I have a, I have his book.

He put out a book in that late 80s called the top, the ultimate David Letterman top ten list. And it was just top ten lists to the whole book. Yes. That one sat in the company bathroom at the company. where I worked, where I did the, you know, if I could use your phone, that company. We had that book in our, in our bathroom forever, or in the company bathroom forever. And it's just gross to think about, obviously. But, listen, people wash their hands. It's fine.

But, yeah, I think I must have read that thing through over the course of the 18 years I worked there. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, it was, it's a lot. But don't put these up. I hate this thing. It's going to get struck down, I promise you. The coalition of people that are taking them to court include Christians, also Jewish, also Unitarian Universalist, non-religious groups. This was a bad idea. You probably did it performatively as an executive action that you think everybody would go,

oh, I love that we're putting church. And it's going to last about five minutes, and it will not help your political career past this. So well done, Governor Jeff Landry, you rotting a piece of garbage. What do we think the overall? under for Jeff Landry is on the number of those commandments that he's broken and breaks on a regular basis. I'm going to say seven. I'm going to say probably has a committed murder. And maybe there's a couple grayers on one or two of them, but he's definitely, he's definitely broken seven. Oh, easy. Seven out of ten, easy. It's like, it's like the, the, the, the Microsoft Apple

split when you buy something from them. Steam. 30% goes to the, to Steam. 70% goes to the developer. This guy's got 70% of bad. behavior in the Ten Commandments. I promise you that. For sure. All right, here's another weird one. I get this lady. She makes hyper-realistic baby dolls for a living.

They go for as much as six grand, US. Oh, we're skipping over the dildo race. Oh, did I jump over that? I didn't mean to do that. Jump over it. That's even a better way of saying it. Why did that happen? All right, back to this.

Sorry, get off to the races. The Whippersnapper's weekly dildo races create good vibes. Get it? vibes. Anyway, the Whippersnapper 8806 McMillan Avenue and Knox Henderson is known for its unique and irreverent one-off events, such as Barbiland and Willie Wonka pop-ups and the 90s themed parties. I don't know anything about this place, but apparently the stuff they do. Sounds great, yeah, the Whippersnapper. With the Bar's weekly dildo races, however, it might have an unlikely longstanding tradition on its hands.

Yes, you read that correctly. every Thursday. Let's see, where is this? In Dallas. Okay. Every Thursday, the Whip invites customers to race dildos, aka vibrators. You may be familiar with them.

To be more specific, contestants choose from the bar's in-house selection of these things, which comes in a wide variety of vibrant paints, or prints, rather, ranging from roses to aliens, and then they pick the intensely setting. Oh, intensity. Can't read. Intensity setting that the,

they will be most effective with. Then they place the device on the top of a sloping track and let the buzz and jerk of the thing work its way down. So these things are all lined up. And they race down to that thing. And they see which one gets to the bottom first. Yep. The first one that crosses the line wins.

Operator makes it to the next round. Let's see. The champion of the evening takes home a cash prize, which was a hundred bucks when it happened the time they were talking about this. Wow. That'll buy you one. I think it'll buy you a one dildo. right there

yeah this feels like like robot what is that called the robo robot battle what was the thing oh uh bot bot bot robot wars what is it

robot wars maybe robot wars something wars bot wars shit is it bot wars yeah the thing where so basically they're going to have people now who are performance enhancing their battle bots

geezer that's it Thank you one sleepy panda. Yeah. Yeah, this is going to be like battlebots where people are like customizing their, uh, their dildos to, like, like, you know, they're going to bring in a, you know, one that's been modded. It's got like a big swing arm with a blade on it and stuff like that. Right. Love it. Uh, it says here these were, uh, purchased just for the event and have never been used for their original intended purpose.

Yeah, it makes sense. Like, like the ones, uh, Ali Spagnola put on her, uh, uh, car. Yes, right, exactly. She did not use those before she stuck them to her car. Was it her car or was it something? She did everything to that car. Yeah, that car. I don't remember something with music and I don't remember how it went.

But every time, I swear every time I look at her, it's a car thing. So it feels like it was right. I think she just sold that car. Like she covered it with AstroTurf and then pop sockets and then Chia or something else. And now I think she just sold it, sold the car. Geez, I'd buy that car. I think it's just like a Mozart or something or a

something like that little tiny car I'd take it or fiesta Speaking of realistic things This lady here As mentioned earlier Before I skipped the other article Makes hyper realistic Barbie dolls for a living

Or not Barbie baby Is what I meant to say Baby okay All right Barbie might be more interesting to some people Hubba hubba Anyway These go for six grand

Until you find them headless on a beach Yeah no kidding Oh that's a good callback that was a weird story. Thanks. Thank you very much. Do you sleep well at night? Ask this article. Aren't you ever afraid that your dolls might haunt you?

Well, these were among the questions Andrea Lee's friend asked when visiting her home. Lee tries to take such questions as a compliment. After all, the more life-like her dolls appear, the more it affirms that her skills are, her skills as a reborn doll artist. I don't know what that means. I guess it's for, I mean, I don't know, is this a creepy thing where if somebody has a baby died, stillborn or otherwise? I think I'm Reborn. I don't know. I'm not seeing...

Yeah, I'm not seeing them specifically saying that, but the term Reborn. Yeah. I don't know. A reborn doll, because there's a collector, right? Yeah. A reborn doll collector, so that doesn't quite make sense with... Oh, here we go. Before the dolls are, quote, unquote, reborn, they only go three stages.

Creation, detailing, and dress up. In the first stage, sculptor shaped the doll before sending it to prototype artists like Lee, who are trusted to paint new doll models. It doesn't specifically... These are freaky. They are really freaky. Yeah. I'm watching some of the video.

Wow, that looks like a baby sleeping. I don't like this. It really does. I know. It's disturbing. Disturbingly accurate. Wow. But it doesn't specifically say

why they're called reborn dolls. No. Maybe they've come to Jesus. I don't know what they mean. But this, lady, she's, uh, she's Singaporean. And, uh, she's 50 years old. She looks about 20 years younger than us. So I don't think it's fair that Asians look so great when they're older. Uh, she begins selling her dolls on Facebook in July of 2021 and quickly garnered her

following among doll collectors worldwide. Among the sellers, her doll, uh, dolls reborn or reborn dolls look the most natural, detailed and realistic. Praise Jessica Wu, age 40, a collector of such things. Uh, everything looks very real. The doll's face is rosy. Her skin looks like real. Her skin looks like real babies and her nails. I think this is a little weird. It is a little weird, but if you've lost a child, you know, then this is probably a very comforting therapeutic kind of thing. I guess so maybe there are amazing, like freaky, amazing.

Your wife could probably talk to this, but I guess when you're, when people with dementia in the sundowning phase, they like to have dolls. Yeah, probably, yeah, for sure. That seems like a thing. I've seen a few like that on TikTok and stuff. But maybe kids, too, like a little girl would like one. I don't know. Well, maybe speaking of callbacks, maybe you take one to the Olive Garden and then you just leave your daughter alone with it.

Oh, my gosh, dude. That's a great, that's not only a great callback. That's perfect for this story. I totally would do it. It is. Yeah, could be what happened. That's great. I think it's weird, but also the craftsmanship is undeniably amazing.

Yeah. She's really good at it. I wonder what the skin, if the skin feels life-like. You know, wouldn't have been as creepy if I didn't do the hand gesture and go, Life-like. Life-like. It doesn't say the material that I can see. I assume some form of, what's the stuff you always use?

Silicon or, the stuff they use for like, not ballistics, ballistics gels, not the same. Oh, oh, oh, yeah, right. the stuff they use for like that I just don't know I can't tell oh how does that help someone grieving it's like a dead baby says Jeannie I mean that's how I would feel about it it would seem too weird to me even if I was so I cannot speak for somebody who went through such a terrible thing I cannot imagine like some like a Cid's case where you came into a crib and your baby was dead that would be insane and if this helps them I don't want to poo that but my impression would be I can't have this realistic looking version of the baby I lost. I couldn't do it. Well, and maybe that's it. You don't have it, you don't make it, have them sculpted to look like the baby you lost. You just have a baby that, that basically offers the same comfort as like a, um, a stuffed animal that you can kind of squeeze and take care of, you know, and just maybe, um, oh, did I cut out for a few seconds? Oh, a little bit, but it wasn't too bad. Okay. A little bit. Uh, probably because I was

loading those weird photos. It can happen. Yeah. Um, well, anyway, I'm not in the market lady six grand's also too much so there's that yeah you're kidding anyway uh let's talk about bare naked bandit hijackers it's been one week since i broke in the car perfect uh bear naked bandit hijacks car in iowa and runs over owner before plowing into a tree and it's all on camera oh good and unlike the olympics this is the kind of thing i can show i think uh Uh, let's see here. Man in Des Moines has been arrested for allegedly hitting a man with his own car, uh, meaning the guy who's car was got hit, while attempting to hijack the vehicle while completely naked.

Tyler Johnson, I guess, without the age. Oh, oh, any relation? I don't think so. They're missing the age, so that's my excuse. Yeah, yeah. Uh, was spotted sprinting in the nude on Court Avenue in the heat, uh, in the heart, rather, of Des Moines before about 3.30 a.m. Nothing good happened in then. Nothing.

No, no. Name a thing that's good at 3 a.m. Brian, unless you're with friends and hanging out somewhere. What's good at 3.8? Getting up to make the donuts. All right. Dunkin' Donuts. That's something I think you have to do at 3.30 a.m.

Yeah. It's all robots now. Getting up for your morning zoo radio shift. Yeah. Yeah, they start early, those people. They do, yeah. Let's see. The man who looks to be Johnson can be seen running back and forth on the streets in downtown.

A man whose Johnson looks to be out. Yeah. It can be seen. Johnson with his Johnson. The footage then captures him heading toward a car while a woman can be heard screaming in the background. The man comes to a stop in a parked car where the man is sitting in the driver's seat with the door open. The naked man suddenly jumps over the driver and into the passenger seat while a witness yells, No!

The confused driver exits the car as the two appear to begin arguing as the naked man attempts to close the door. As the driver throws a punch at the naked man, things take an even more dangerous turn as the hijacker then quickly. puts the car in reverse, knocking the other man to the ground, and dragging him in the still open driver's side door, and it hit it. Oh, geez. Not good. It's bad. Let the naked man have your car. It's not worth your life to fight the naked man for your car. It really isn't. Oh, there he is sitting there. Oh, yeah, this looks like a, this looks like a guy who got naked in a car, for sure. Is there a video or something? Yeah, I'm trying to find video. I can only see photos, but Oh, here's some YouTube.

Let's see if... Oh, the photo of the guy. Yeah. Jeez. Here he is. There's a blurred out video of him running. Oh, sure enough, yeah. Look at that.

Oh, my God. Popup City. Jeez, mary. Dot US. Yep, he's running toward the car. Why are they there at 3.30? Everybody go home and get some sleep, dude. Yeah, this, this, uh, doesn't know?

This looks more like Florida man than Des Moines Man. Ooh, he just punched him. It didn't do anything. Oh, shit. Oh, is that all on the video? Yeah. That's not. Marley, dude.

Watch him deck him. Well, they didn't show it again. He just backs out. Wow. All right. Well, good job, Tyler. Yeah.

Get some help, bud. How's that fentanyl treating you? Yeah, get some help. All right. That is going to do it for us. Hey, some big stuff coming up, though. A couple things here. We got Core.

Probably tonight. I may have a meeting that will push it to Friday. We'll let you guys know. I'm waiting to hear back. I have this thing coming up I can't talk about yet. but if it happens I've got to be in a meeting tonight if it gets pushed

then we're fine but either way core is either tonight at five or tomorrow night at five one way the other core is happening couch party will happen tomorrow and we're going to watch or start the new

or the second Venom movie yeah I'm actually looking forward to this because I quite like the first one contrary to my expectations I quite liked it better than you expected

yeah a lot better than I expected and then play retro tomorrow at 1.30 as usual Well, FilmSack this weekend, we're doing Police Story with Jackie Chan. And if you're a FilmSack listener, recommendation, you can watch it in various places with a subtitle. But if you want the dub, which is what we'll be watching and capturing, that's only on YouTube for some reason and is free. It doesn't matter who you are or what kind of account you have. It's free to watch on YouTube. We'll put a link out or something so people can get it.

Good idea. Anyway, we're doing that. I think we've got one in the Discord in the FilmSack folder. chat. I can't imagine we wouldn't put one there because it seems like the most obvious place to have that. We'd be dumb if we didn't, you know? Yeah, yeah. So we'll double check that. Also, a quick note that we are ripping through these game mats that I put up. I didn't expect them to sell so quickly, so I think you better hurry. We're probably down to maybe six of the original pre-order available.

These are to the 24 by 14 inch, brand new, drawn from the ground up, Blue Prophecy, big old game mats. for your card games, your tabletop, even your mouse and keyboard if you want. Whatever you want, they're available now. If you live in a foreign country, I apologize shipping so high. It's freaking ridiculous right now. Like somebody said,

it was like 50 bucks to go to Australia. It's like, what the hell? Wow. I know. Jeez. Just that size of tube. They're expensive. But all you people in the States.

Yeah. Everybody in the States, you'll be fine. It's like four bucks or something. Yeah. Anyway, available now. And also a brand new sticker from TMS coming next week. That's just tease. But watch for that also.

And then a final note here from David, who sent us this note via email. Hello. Finally, relaunching the Kickstarter for the complete Demons in the Darkness Kickstarter. Any way you could mention it, it would be great. Well, of course. There you go. I want you guys to go look for Demons in the Darkness on Kickstarter. I'll pull it up here so we can show it.

There it is. Cool. Look at this thing. It's badass. I love this art. Oh, that's great. Yeah. It's a 44-page black-and-white horror comic about what a total,

What if tabletop gaming was real? No, it is real. Actually, evil is what the thing says. Oh, was it saying evil? Oh, you're right. Yeah, it says, what if tabletop role playing was actually evil? You would not believe this cornflake-sized chunk of cell in my eye. Oh, I totally believe it.

It's so bad. I have to put my readers on so much more than I used to, man. This thing was supposed to have dissipated by now, and it's still just floating. I hate it. Anyway, it's out there. It's up there. Get in there. Get a part of it. It's launching soon. That sounds interesting to you and you're a comic reader and like tabletop gaming. Oh, boy. Thanks, David, for reminding us. We appreciate it. And finally, frogpance.com slash TMS for all your needs. Brian, you brought a song to play today at the end here. What do you got? I did. Yes. Chris wrote in and said, Throwing Copper is one of my all-time favorite albums. Can the covermaster dig up some cool covers of either of these songs? They didn't get enough airtime in the day. A pillar of Davidson or the

Dam at Otter Creek. Thanks, roll the dojo, bye, signed Chris. Nice. Unfortunately, Chris, no, I don't have good covers of either of those. Couldn't find anything that A sounded different from the original or, you know, took anything in a new direction. So, we're going to go with a cover of a song, a very popular song from that album.

I alone, listen, that album is great. And any song you get from that is fantastic. Going out to Chris, here is I Alone by, let me pull up my notes on Hold Those Halls. This is by Anuk and Sam Betlene or Bettenes. That's why we're the readers, folks. This is from the Jan Dukkowski presents two meter sessions from 2003. Anuk and Sam Bettenes with a cover of I Alone. We'll see you guys on Monday for, well, hopefully.

I'll let you know if something changes. I got something coming up. I can't talk about it. it may affect early next week. If it does, you'll get plenty of notice, I promise. But right now, we're planning on a Monday TMS. So be here, all right? All right.

See, everybody. It's easy enough to be wise. Measure these things by your brains. Sinking to Eden with you. Lonium, the church by and by and by. wait till you hear it save your right You need them your boat is at sea Your anchor is up

You've been swept away And the greatest of teachers won't hesitate To leave you there By yourself, change to fade Yeah I am lonely I love you, I alone tempt you, I alone love you. Fear is not the end of this.

I alone love you, I alone tempt you, I alone love you, I alone love you. It's easier not to be great, measure these things by your eyes, long to be here. Long to be here by his resort Loving the church by and by To crater the baby in space Leave you there By yourself change to fail I alone love you

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Only love can save us now All these riddles that you burn Yeah, yeah, yeah I alone love you I alone tempt you I alone love you Fear is love you not the end of this I alone love you I alone tempt you I alone love you

I alone love you I alone tempt you I alone love you I alone love you I alone love you I alone love you I love love you This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Yes, get more at frogpant.com. What?