The Morning Stream - TMS 2690: Plushy Facehugger

Episode Date: August 15, 2024

Stinky Kid Waffle Pants. Asian don't raisin. Dessert Ramen. Great Joy Nub. Bright lamp aging. Aspirin zombies. inconvenient convenience fees. Facehugger-proof Headphones. Organ Hole. TMMeth. Chicken heist creates jail bird. Children Of The Beef. Cromulent Comparisons. Dividing 25 by 6 to 4. Abnormally Normal with Wendi and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Curse you Johnson. Coming up on the morning stream, stinky kid waffle pants. Asian don't raisin. Desert ramen. Great joy nub. Bright lamp aging. Aspirin zombies. Inconvenient convenience fees. Facehuggerproof headphones.

Organ hole. T.M.F. Chicken heist creates jailbird. Children of the beef. Cromulant comparisons. Dividing 25 by 6 to 4. Abnormally normal with Wendy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. That's a common misconception, often based on the confusingly similar terminology, used by some multi-level organizations or pyramid schemes.

That means a separation between corporate management and the independent contractors who sell our Mary Kay products. You've been raking my yard with a golf club. I want my quarterback. The morning stream. Tear out bad wood, put in good wood. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for August 15th, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian Ibit. Hi.

Hello. Oh, my gosh. It's the end of a regular TMS week with that, you know, not counting our bonus show tomorrow. But it feels, it just feels good to, I don't know, it was a short week because of your trip. It was like, it felt like a long week to me being here and working and. Yeah, no, that's the funny thing about it. It feels like it was about a month's worth of time in about two days. I hate that feeling. But I will say this, a early happy birthday goes out to my brother, Matt, the Korean weirdo that I'm related to, turns, I don't know what we don't know his actual birthday. I don't know if I've ever said this, but they don't have accurate records.

So we don't know. You should have let him pick his own birthday. Like, do you want, you know, 420? do you want uh do you want uh do christmas do you want you know if we should have that's a great that's a perk of being yanked out of your birth your birth country your first birthday present is pick your birthday yeah welcome to america you get to choose we should have done it i don't know why we didn't i should ask my mom dart at a calendar if you want and uh i might ask my mom about that i'm gonna see her this weekend how they came up with it that would be an interesting thing yeah because

i'm pretty sure they had to just fake it i don't think the orphanage offered any suggestions i think they just said we don't know and we we had a pretty decent estimate based just how we looked at when we got him but they said yeah he's going to be older than you i said okay but i don't actually i'm not even sure he is he might be 10 years younger than me for all i know because asians age differently those weirdos they do yes they do this is not a racist statement i'm jealous all of you age slowly and you look amazing it's not fair k t data is actually 75 i know that he's a he's been on an a r a r p r p guy for like 20 years already. That's hard for him to pee, but yet, look at him. He looks 16.

Yeah, but look at it. He's amazing. Looks absolutely fantastic. Don't understand. Anyway, it's good to be here. Don't get me started on you, Rainbow Bright. No, no, forget it. Listen, all you guys who look amazing until you die, I am not of that lineage. I come from the very white, very sun-averse, wrinkly ass, mother-effer, whatever, Scandinavians. And that's as good as it's going to get for me. I age 10 years when I walk by a bright lamp I have to tell you a funny story

after next week and the thing I can't talk about that has to do with lighting and baldness I'll tell you about it Really? Oh gosh, okay, can't wait. Yeah, that's a pretty funny little side note but it would give away the whole farm if I told about it was. NDA broken day.

That's right. Do not talk about bald people. anyway we got some stuff from listeners and we're also going to do a little food test today we got just fun stuff just racked up here like a like a packed show it is a pack show let's start with this one from ben who wrote in about bear because i was talking about how the bear bee killer stuff that uh pacholic sent was magical to me but i couldn't get my head around the idea well this is this is like the bear aspirin jump yeah yeah like how i it looks like white ground up aspirin. So who's in charge of making sure you don't F that up? Make sure you don't mix the two. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Freaks me out. But anyway, says, bear is one of the largest multinational

medical and crop science corporations in the world. If anyone's going to make zombies, it is probably bear. He says, you cannot fight the corpos if you don't know the corpos LST or love the show though, Ben. Yeah, it's a very short, it's a very short love the show though. If you just, it's love show though. Oh, yeah, love show though. Yeah. I guess that makes it a pure initialism, not an acronym, unfortunately. Or I guess you could say list, right? And that makes it an acronym? Isn't that the deal?

You have to be able to say it to be an acronym. It's an acronym if you can pronounce it. It's an initialism if you can't. Okay. We maybe get away with that one. Shane wrote in also. And Shane, this is not Shane who rotates slowly, I don't think. No, no, it's a different Shane.

Because this guy is the first time writer, so. Oh, right, because he's written in plenty of times, yeah. Yeah. Good point. He says, hello, scratch and burn, 12-year-old listener, I mean, 12-year listener, sorry. Jeez. He's been listening for 12 years. First-time writer, just listened to the show from Thursday, August 1st, and you mentioned Louisiana wanting to charge people who have a solar, who have solar power. I live in Tennessee, and beginning this past January 1st, if you own a hybrid vehicle, you have to pay an additional $100 or $200 for full electric to renew your tags every year.

Reasoning for this was to make it for lost gas taxes. Anyhow, love the show, shame. This is how they get you, man. The whole point of electrics, well, not the whole point, but big point of electrics was to get off of fossil fuel. Exactly. And go a different direction. The idea wasn't to figure out a way to subsidize all that shit into eternity.

What are you doing? No, it's, oh, my God. It's like when they came up with convenience fees, right? Like when you buy tickets online for something. Oh, here's a $4 convenience fee. Why? Because I kept you from having to hire somebody to answer my phone call to buy this ticket. This is why I need to pay a fee for convenience. I need to pay for my convenience. No, that's a perfectly cromulent comparison. That's exactly right. It's like resort fees.

It's like any of these stupid little things people insert in there because we're just that greedy. I promise you, Tennessee makes plenty of tax dollars without the freaking, this is some pressure from somebody who, what's the word when you go to Washington? and you you're a company and you have and you walk down the halls and you and you talk to senators like um uh you're um yes not super pat like uh but you're lobbyist lobbying lobbyist geez yes why was that word hard yeah because you're in the lobby damn yeah because that's the idea right is they're they're they're moving and shake it in the lobby and doing elevator elevator pitches to Mitch McConnell going you know we can't have this fracking Mitch and he goes So there's that. Hey, Brian, look what we got here. Look what we have here, everybody. Let's see. Do I have a food thing? I think I do. I had some bad. No, that's not it. I don't want that one. What's a ho? Don't you still have what's a food somewhere? Almost washed your food down. All right. That's a good one. We were given these by KT data, right? He brought mine to me at the movie. He sent yours in the mail. These are cup noodles. Camp Fire Smoors

Yes Was you surprised Oh yes Kim opened it up for you Uh right She did she poured Uh oh I did see it when it was dry though And it had um

Okay The little miniature marshmallows on top Yeah that concerns me Because that's weird and strange To put in ramen isn't it Yeah Because I mean But the hot water

Is it's gonna turn those into To sugar anyway It's like you're gonna break them down They're not You don't still see them in there No they're melted down Oh my gosh I let this sit for too long

These are It is congealed all ready and this is like i kept kept a thing on top of it to keep it hot you think you have um i'm moving it around a little bit you think do you think the marshmallow made makes the noodles behave like get fatter like oh something like it probably sticks them together like sticky rice oh good point yeah so this is supposed to be like smores it says artificial and natural flavors smores as far as i know just for for the record are like you know graham crackers marshmallows and what chocolate and you put it over a fire and roast them or whatever

how that translates to like this I don't know why somebody said you know this would be great as ramen yeah yeah who I mean I realize they're they're kind of into that now because we did what the what the waffles one was the what was the other one there was another one that was uh pay uh no's waffles yeah I can't remember some other third one right I don't remember what it was yeah yeah and I remember it being just very odd to even eat and I don't think I could finish I think I may have finished the waffle one but I couldn't finish generic breakfast ramen that's right it had like Bits of egg and stuff, that's right. So the smell of this.

It smells great. Yeah, it's not even, it's not even that sweet of a smell. It kind of almost is like, oh, this is, I don't know how to compare it. So here we go, I guess. I'm scared. Whoa. It's a little sweet. I mean, I, not the sweet I was expecting.

Yeah, maybe not that, maybe not as bad as you might think. You know what? Yeah. This is all right. Yeah, like a dessert ramen. 400 calories. I know. Boom.

Wow. How much sugar? It's like eating five eggs or something. Oh, there's only nine grams of sugar total. It's really not too bad. Oh, added sugar 17%. Wait? Oh, no.

I can't tell what that means. You know what? That isn't that bad. That's all right. I think I like that better than the waffle one because the waffle one felt like I was just smelling sleep over onesies. you know like stinky kid waffle pants oh crap drop my uh drop my uh chopsticks yep

well you were very authentic i did a fork yeah no on chopsticks but something weird down here hold a sec uh oh this is a mystery like a egg or something like a oh i want it to be weird like a this needs to be a live moment of like amazing discovery on brian's floor he's looking at the floor people listening at home on audio Oh, look at that. Oh, no! Oh, shit.

Oh, shit. I guess I can't talk. I don't know. Where'd you get that? Did you print it? Did this for a while. Oh. No, no.

Gosh, no. This is a plushy, a plushy facehugger. And I, I, I wore this part as part of a Halloween costume one year. By the way, I just found out that it does not fit over headphones. Oh. This elastic band that I safety pin to a couple of the legs so that I could wear it on my head. Yeah. It does not fit with a big pair of chunky headphones.

That's a good news, though, right? Because that means if they ever come, you just wear headphones on your side. Oh, I'll just put headphones on. You can't get me, facehugger. You can't reach. I love it. That's cool. I didn't know you had that.

Are you going to wear that or take that with you for the movie? I'm trying to figure out. I could put it around my neck like this, but watching a movie like this. Yeah, you can't do that. And it's Almo Draft House, and I can't eat or drink. with this thing on my face yeah that's great dude i want one is it plush you know it it is plush yeah super soft and the legs are have wires in them so you can bend them to fit around something was there any kind of organ hole or anything on the bottom there like in the oh wow that's almost

worse that's almost really yeah because it's just so like laid open uh i don't like it well this is you know this is what cane saw this is what uh yeah poor john hurt john hurt john hurt yeah Everyone thinks John Hurt died of old age, but we know. He died of an organ hole. Yeah. Yeah, that'd be funny. A great COVID mask. The spectator, this is awesome.

Do you mind if I mask up for the movie? No, no problem. It's not quite N95 compliant, but it'll do in a pinch. Right. Tina said I should just bring it and hug it like a little, like I'm scared. Oh, that's cute. Like a little kid walking around. Totally.

That'd be cute. The tail thing does not have wire in it. It would be great if you could make this wrap around. But it already has like a built-in kind of hook to it. So you can, you know, you basically just put it around your neck. I had a cap with a Nostromo patch on the front. And then a leather jacket. And I was cane for Halloween one year.

Oh, nice. Look at you. That's a perfect thing to do. Uh, real quick, the, uh, we do have some early reviews in, 131 reviews for the film and, uh, Romulus currently sitting, uh, no user reviews yet, because it's not out, out, but, uh, professional reviews. We are at 83%. That is pretty good. Pretty good. Okay. I was worried. I was like, oh gosh, do I even want to know? Do I want to know Scott how it's doing? But I'm glad I'm glad I know. It says, uh, so a lot of stuff I'm reading, like here's a review. Alien Romulus feels like it was, uh, re-engineered from a lab of all. Um, all the parts of the previous films, but it is a relentless thrill machine. That's all I want. Ooh, I like a relentless thrill machine. Me too.

It's my favorite kind of machine. Space horror at its finest. It is back to back or back to basics movie. Space horror, horror. Space horror. So finally somebody made a movie that comes close to the brilliance of the original. Oh. Oh, I'm so excited.

Oh, like it. Like it a lot. Well, anyway, that's this weekend. when are you going when are you uh thursday or no tonight tonight holy shit tonight oh today is thursday so you are saying it on thursday today yeah it is through yeah how about that it is thursday what you know see this is what this week did to me it's all left up i don't know it is well that's great dude i'll be doing core while you're watching a movie and then i'll go see it uh i think we're going

saturday morning or something nice i obviously i will be completely and totally spoiler-free when I'm talking to you guys tomorrow during the thing. Unlike me, Brian does not accidentally spill the beans.

That's right. Okay, no, this isn't a spoiler, but there's a face sucker in this movie. Yes, but I am very good at NDAs,

if anyone's listening in particular. I'm very good at those. Okay. For the most part, I'm good at NDAs. Anyway, let's move on to some news.

We got some stuff to discuss about, you know, things happen overnight. Just really. Desperately trying to find a photo of my facehacker costume from when I wore it for Halloween. I might find it during the show at some point. How many years ago was it? It was a while ago.

It was a while ago. It was, um, God, that's the thing. If I could remember the year, it'd probably be easier to find. I want to say it was, uh, 2016, 2017, maybe. So in your mind at the time, were you, were you a particular character in alien lore? Or were you just you? I was, oh, yeah, I was totally. absolutely ash

ash okay yeah I'm not I'm sorry not ash is the cyborg right that was cane yeah

not bill though here we go hold on a second this is where like here's how I had to find it or how I'm hoping to find it I still haven't found it I'm going into my

photos and doing it by location and seeing if that works I just thought of a fun trivia game I want to do with you is this how it works with you you just suddenly get an idea and then you think of

the trivia around the thing and maybe make a game out of it? Sometimes, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to write this down. Oh, absolutely. Trivia idea for Brian or actor. Okay. You're going to tell me what this? You're going to surprise me?

All right, so I'll tell you what it is. But I'll construct it and we'll actually do it next week or something, but here's my idea. It's not that revolutionary or anything, but the idea is that, you know how I do, I do this naturally where you'll say, hey, we've seen this. And I'll go, oh, that's got, um, that's got Loki and. even though the movie's I'll think of characters from other movies instead of the actors. It'll be right. It's that

movie where Thanos and Scarlet Witch get it on before Nick Fury tries to kill kill him. 100% that. I love that. And it's fun to do also it's a great way to cover for the fact that I can't remember names. And so I'm thinking

maybe it'd be a fun trivia to say, all right name the movie and then I go And you describe it like that. Like you just did and then you have to go, oh yeah, right. And then, you know, that could be fun. Do like 10 of those. I could do that. Totally.

No, I think that's a great idea. Why do I think, I was going to, did I do it? Did I end up doing it or did I just talk about doing it? I was going to do it for one of our, um, uh, Frog Pants All Stars games where it was going to be, and it was even illustrated out. So like you said, oh, here's the movie where, uh, Batman, uh, meets up with Wolverine and they, you know, do magic together or something like that. Yeah.

And it had a little, a little Batman Wolverine. and like back in the flash or something days. I can't remember if you did that, did you? I know I talked about it. Did I actually end up doing it as the question? I know we talked about it here, but I can't remember if you did it, did it. If you didn't, that's still a great idea and you should do it.

But I don't remember if you did it. That would be fun. Someone in the chat will remember. Somebody was there. For sure. Well, anyway, we're going to get to the news now. Everybody, sit still, relax, enjoy this. It's, you know, in a year full of news.

We're bringing it to you hard and fast. All right, here we go. It's time for the news, and it's brought to you by. Brought you by Coverville today at noon, I think, I hope. I think we're, yeah, we'll talk about that. But noon, today, Twitch.tv. The music of Phoebe Bridgers, because I realized, when I saw that it was her 30th birthday coming up, I realized that sometimes I get Phoebe Bridgers, Brandy Carlyle,

and Casey, not Musgraves, she's the country one, Casey Chambers, confused. Okay. And this was a way for me to say, all right, let's totally familiarize myself with Phoebe Bridgers music so that I can at least be able to identify Phoebe Bridgers if I need to. Gotcha. For a minute there, I can remember, now I know, she's awesome. She's like my daughter's age.

I always thought she was a lot younger than that, but anyway. Yeah, and I know her covers back and forth. like she does a great cover of Metallica's nothing else matters and of course you'll hear that on the show today but the only original of hers that I thought I was familiar with was emotion sickness I think it's called

which is a newer relatively newer hit that I clicked like on and it kept including it in my playlists and like automatically adding it to shuffle and stuff which was great I'm not complaining but I wanted to know more. I wanted to listen to more.

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12 p.m. I'll be playing with a deck, a Marvel boy deck. Not a Marvel boy deck. A Wiccan deck. Oh, it's Agatha all the time and all that. She's in there. No, Wiccan. Wiccan is the

son of oh it's a character I've never heard of it's character Scarlet Witch and Vision yeah Wiccan

yeah we even briefly saw we even briefly saw Wiccan in the Wanda Vision one of her kids dressed up as kind of as Wiccan was like a reference

to it or something as a reference to the yeah as a reference to the character so wait a minute that makes that person half Android or what how does that work

it you know I don't know I don't know how that all works. Yeah. It's magic. You know, there's magic. Exactly. Yes.

That's great. By the way, in our, in our Discord chat, you'll see the photo of me as pain from Alien. Perfect. Look at this, you guys. You've got to see this. Yeah, this is good. I like it because you almost look like. Wait, who's the other actor who's, he was in Paris, Texas.

he's in stuff we just we just saw him in repo man yeah harry dean staring that's who i'm that's the who that makes me think of because the hat i think you know the cow the kind of trucker hat yeah totally is because yeah brett uh he was brett in the movie uh brett uh totally wore the trucker hat i think he was the only one on the ship who wore actually wore uh a hat on the nostromo by the way that same year and you can show this one too tristan was uh the scarecrow character from the first Christopher Nolan Batman movie. I made those little syringes with siloam light sticks inside to make it look like... Oh, yeah.

I guess it was more the scarecrow from the Arkham video game, Arkham Asylum Video Game. Oh, I don't remember what he looked like. I guess he did... Yeah, I knew there was fingers like this, but I couldn't remember where. So hold on. Did you put glow sticks in there, or what? Uh-huh. Inside, we bought some syringes and then put some glow sticks in there.

And then, because in the game, he, you know, He's all huge towering over Batman and Arkham Asylum and dream sequences or hallucinations. And then he like has the needles and just, uh, okay. That's awesome. James him into Batman. Yeah. Freaking love that.

Did he do a hood or anything or just, uh, just, yeah, he had a hood. We didn't bring it to that, uh, that party, but we did, uh, we used that same burlap and made a really cool, uh, hood. That's great. Some early, some, some early Killian Murphy. Yeah, young Tristan, young Killian Murphy. or Sillian, Killian, Killian, Killian, 15 years ago, looks like.

It was 2009 that I was Kane for Halloween. Yeah, that looks about right for his age. That's awesome. All right, here's a weird sight. This is the kind of thing you don't see every day. 25 Great Danes, the dogs, you know, the big old freaking horse dogs, are seen running loose after a California woman was killed in a dog attack. So now these things are Roman everywhere, exactly.

Like a pack of Great Danes. I can't think of anything quite so scary. Like at night, if you saw an alleyway and 25 of these dogs just running down there looking all rabid and hellbent. And they're usually not, you know, you think of Marmaduke. You think of, yeah, Scooby-Doo, Leslie Hayes. They're very sweet animals. Yes, you don't think of it as being like pack animals. Yeah, it's a very odd thing to witness.

But anyway. So they found this lady. She had died on a Northern California trail and was killed in what they're calling a domestic dog attack. They say a pack of 25 Great Danes were seen running loose in the area at the time. So I don't know if they've even connected the two, but it seems like that might be it. The body of Davina Corbyn, age 56 of Feather Hills, was found by a resident shortly after 2 a.m. On a trail called Blackhawk in a remote area of Butte County. Deputies and detectives spent the entire day capturing the dogs who were running loose in the area, says the Butte County Sheriff's Office.

an autopsy found numerous dog bites on Corbyn and subsequent DNA test confirmed she was the victim of a domestic dog attack. Sheriff's Department says it believes Corbyn was walking on the trail when she was attacked. DNA analysis of Corbyn's clothing is seeking to determine which dog or dogs bit her. They don't know that yet. None of these animals have been euthanized.

They're currently being held. So, I don't know. So, yeah, the guy who's got, or somebody residents who's got 25 Great Danes, I mean, it sounds, unless he's a breeder, which hopefully he's a breeder, but otherwise it sounds fairly, like, is he using these dogs for dog fights or, or, especially if they're aggressive like that? That makes me wonder, because they are not an aggressive breed unless you, unless you make them that way. Yeah. Hopefully he's a breeder. But still, I mean, that's, uh, which dog was it? That's crazy. According to a neighbor on the trail, uh, that pack of Great Danes has been a problem for years. He, he's, he's,

said in a quote, that came across the road here to me or at me. So I jumped in the car and left. He said that he and other neighbors called the Butte County Animal Control multiple times to complain about the dogs, including the day before the deadly attack. Nothing has been done about it until now. He says, that's a tragedy that shouldn't happen. Well, I agree. But the guy might be, well, I don't know why this is so hard to find. There must be somewhere where they're all coming from. It's either a rescue, a breeder, or a problem, and it shouldn't be hard for them to get the bottom of it. No, they said they found, didn't they say,

obtained a warrant for a nearby residence where they found the dogs. So they know where the dogs are. They're just got to do the cheek swabs, I guess. Like really, it's one bad dog and 24 members of his entourage. Yeah, a whole lot of, a lot of, a lot of, a lot of, a lot of it wasn't me faces happening in that pack. Rating and rebutting.

I always forget that. But Scooby was a Great Dane. I don't know why. Scooby's just Scooby-Doo to me. It was just a big brown dog. I know. Yeah, you don't think of him being like a relative of Marmaduke. You think of Marmaduke and you think of Great Dane.

But Scooby, for whatever reason. My only experience with a Great Dane a couple times, just that they're really sweet. And, you know, they don't have anything to compensate for because they're gigantic. So they're just nice and put their head, they'll sleep on you. You know, happy dogs. Occasional hip, hip problems like. most large dogs have.

Yeah. I mean, I've learned, this is, let me tell you what I've learned from our three dog night over here at the house. What's that? We have, you know, Ripley, great big. Black is black. The earth is white. The furtog of his hailed a night.

I wish I knew the lyrics to that song. That song for whatever reason, I don't know them either, but it really brings me back to a very specific part of my childhood, you know? Yeah. Like wood paneling childhood. Uh-huh. For sure. Whenever it was, that song was popular and on the radio,

for whatever reason, the sing-songy nature of it felt like it was targeted to kids. I think they even have kids doing the chorus at one point. Yeah, there's something about it that felt like it was a lot of. Tens, no, what's the name of the guy from Three Dog? I'll never remember it. It was like a Sesame Street bit. It felt like. It was.

Did, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, what of these things is not like the other. D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D. telephone ring exactly oh there's a bunch of people who were born in the 80s have no idea what the hell we're talking about I assume yeah I mean you guys only you guys all had Elmo

there's a bunch of you that had Elmo only and I feel bad for you Elmo was he was the poochie of of Sesame Street he was added he was the cousin Oliver of Sesame Street wasn't added at all until like the 90s or something

Late 80s, one was... Late 80s, I think, yeah. My comparison for him is always... He's the Guy Fieri of PBS. Because before Guy Fierry, Food Network was Food Network and had a very even spread. A wide variety of stuff on it. Yeah, and now it's all repeats of things he's in

because for whatever reason he's bankable. And I think Elmo was the same for Sesame Street. It was like, oh, well, the kids love Elmo, so let's just focus on Elmo. And I think that's a bummer. Because you and I grew up with weird animation and strange. puppetry and funky

uses of every aspect of it. 8, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. And that little, that typewriter guy that would come out and go, yeah, no, no, no, no, and he'd see a ball and go, ball. Ball! And then the ball would try to kill him or something. It was great.

Totally squeaky wheels as he'd wheel out into center frames. Trich, trick, trick, true, no, do, do. Love that guy. Like how many of you even know. no Grover exists. How many of you have seen Grover try to take an order from that bald guy who's pissed at the restaurant? Probably not many.

I mean, people of a certain age will know, but you guys don't know. Yeah. Anyway, so there's that. Watch for 25 roaming dogs. It's the worst theme gang of all time. How about this one? Elmo says, how is everybody doing today? Go ahead.

A New Zealand food bank is unknowingly or was unknowingly. distributing meth as candy oh no oh no yeah that's not good a charity working for the homeless people of Auckland New Zealand unknowingly distributed candies filled with a potentially lethal dose of methamphetamine in its food parcels after the sweets were donated by a member of the public so somebody out there donating meth candy cheese yeah pretty gnarly Auckland City mission rather on Wednesday said that it had a sorry the staff had started to contact up to 400 people to track down the parcels that contained the tainted suites, which were then sold, uh, sorry, they were, which were solid blocks of methamphetamine

closed on candy wrappers. It wasn't even like, oh my God. It wasn't even like a laced starburst or something. Right. It was exactly a starburst that was dusted with meth. It was like a, like it was a mento, a meth toast, basically. A meth toast. There you go. The fresh, the fresh hospital maker. Anyway, right. Three people were treated at a hospital. Speaking of which, after consuming them, they were later discharged. I'm sure they just were like, what the hell's wrong with me after eating that candy? The amount of meth in each candy was up to 300 times the level someone should take, or you would usually take. Shouldn't take it at all, but anyway.

No. Could be lethal, according to the New Zealand Drug Foundation or the NZDF. Wow. That's cooler than what's our FDA? DEA. What's our food one? FDA? Oh, FDA, yeah, Food and Drug Administration.

Yeah. I like New Zealand Drug Foundation. That's right. It is that, and it's not the drug enforcement agency. It's the, it's the food, right? It's the equivalent to the, well, food and drug. Except we learned here, what did we learn that they have their own, they basically have their own little military spy agency connected to it, right? Who was that that? Somebody wrote in.

Somebody wrote in, somebody wrote in and explained that to us, yeah. That feels like months ago. Oh, we should talk, I know we don't have in the show notes. We should talk about the celery. Oh, yeah. That Amy sent in, speaking of math. Yeah, I have that story right. here. Let's just actually

bring it up. Where is it? It's right here. I saved it. By the way, speaking of math. Check it out. Let's get more drugs going on. Oh, I put it. I schedule it. Hold on. Oh, you did. I'm sorry. No, no, no. It's totally fine. I think it's fine to bring it up now. Let's do it. This is from the Atlanta Newsfirst.com.

One ton of meth. More meth. Hidden inside a truck bed of celery seized from Metro Atlanta Farmers Market. So, like, you know, people out going, oh, let's buy some of this homemade salsa, and I'm going to buy a smoothie or whatever. I think I'll get some celery over here. Yeah, turns out it was full of meth.

And this picture, I'll get to show this to everybody. That is a lot of meth. Look at that pile. That is a lot of meth. Good hell. So they just basically had that in a truck covered with a layer of celery. Yeah. It says piles and piles of methamphetamine trafficked across the Mexican border were seized at the metro Atlanta area after officials with the DEA, you know, got notified.

It's the largest amount of meth ever seized by the DEA's Atlanta division. Robert Murphy, special agent in charge of the division, said in a press conference, he also said the third largest seizure of meth in DEA history for the year anyway. That's a lot. And let's see, they declined to specify the street value of the drugs. I would like to know that. Well, good Lord, a ton. I mean.

Yeah, what does that translate to you think? I'm that's cheap. Probably a few million dollars worth of meth. I don't know what meth sells for. I think meth's cheap on the on the street front but if you but this much it's going to add up to probably like you say millions if I had to guess uh let's see oh they found a guy let's see suspect identified as a Mexican citizen Jesus Martinez or they would say Jesus probably Jesus yeah uh it's just fun to say Jesus they would say I know Jesus

Martinez Jesus H Martinez Jesus H Martinez And then he got all tough on Mike And this guy says, Our goal is to take down the whole cartel They're responsible for this. That's the war on drugs, baby. That is, yep. Well, anyway, New Zealand don't feel bad.

That's going on everywhere, I guess. Oh, so the New Zealand deal, the street value is NZ dollars Or New Zealand dollars about 1,000, which is 608 here. So $608 per candy. Per candy. Wow. Yeah. They're really, um, uh, dumb, uh, criminals, uh, right?

Like, we're just going to donate these. Didn't they donate it to a, um? Yeah, it was like a food bank thing. They just don't. And they can't find who did, but they just gave it away, essentially. Which goes against my theory. I have this, every year, a bunch of people freak out and say, don't go out trick trick-or-treating.

There's a rumor that there's fentanyl. and everything and I always go people aren't people don't want to give away their fentanyl number one give it away because they paid for it number two they want those drugs them if they're addicted to fentanyl they're not giving away fentanyl and thirdly

that would have a legal paper trail or a breadcrumb back to them so I always just balk at that and go nobody does that but then I see a story like this and go well somebody donated a shit you know somebody's doing it yeah exactly maybe I don't know Maybe I don't understand the human brain.

All right, here's a Chicago woman in the news. Chicago woman. What's her power? What does she do? Able to divide 25 by 624. Wow. That was a deeper cut than I expected. It feels like that's another song that would have aired right after Black and White by Three Dog Night.

Yeah, right around the time when Sesame Street was good. That's about when it was happening. That's right. Back when Sesame Street was good Before they were just phoning it in Yeah, we liked it when Jim Henson was still there After Mr. Hooper died that Oh yeah, when Hooper died

Remember how devastating that was? Yeah, yeah None of us were okay No, because it was like we knew it was real We knew that it was You know, the Mr. Hooper really, the actor really passed away Yeah, it wasn't like they did a fake funeral For a Muppet or something

It was a guy He was a real dude. Yeah. And they're none of them around anymore. Maurice died. Didn't David just recently die? Oh, really? Yeah, I think so.

I can't remember the lady. It was the tall black guy with the mustache, right? He wasn't David. He was... David was the little kind of sheepish-looking white guy. Okay. Ah, shit. Maurice was the Puerto Rican guy.

Gordon was, yeah. Gordon. Gordon. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, no, Marie. we just saw her in oh no not Maria

who's the woman we just saw in West Side Store the remake of West Side Story Oh Rita Moreno yeah yeah She was she was She was on Sesame Street once or twice She was on yep So I don't know who's still around But all I know it oh and then Spinney died

Who was Big Bird Yeah big bird Of course Jim Henson Man I'm telling you Oh wait Amy don't worry We're not hating on Sesame Street Oh not even close We're joking about how it's just

you know, it really jumped the shark when snuffle up, I guess, was able to be seen by more people. Yeah. I mean, these are the things. Oh, yeah. When we were kids, this is what we would think this way, because this is what they gave us. This is what we had. By the way, by the way, somebody in the chat room corrected me, Rita Moreno was on electric company, wasn't she? But I'd like you to notice who corrected me that Rita Moreno was on the electric company.

Who was it? It's a guy with a screen name, Easy Reader. Ah. Uh, that's, that's not fair. He clearly came in with some of the things. Clearly, yeah, clearly, uh, is that, uh, Morgan Freeman? Is that Morgan Freeman right there?

Yeah, no kidding. I used to love that stuff. And they do the two heads next to each other and go, chicken, yeah, can, chicken. It was all,

yeah, compound words or whatever. Yeah, whatever that was. I love that. Yeah. Easy reader, did you get your name from like your,

your screen name? Did you get it from electric company? I'm curious, or is it, was it from something else? And it just happened to be the perfect storm today of, Dr. Calhoun, get busy reading or get busy dying, yeah, that's awesome. Get busy reading.

He says you know it. So easy reader confirms completely, wow, you were, you were, that was the last time I saw the silent Spider-Man. Who shot ropes out of his hand somehow? Yes, right. Full-sized ropes. All right. Anyway, back to Chicago Woman.

But we die. we sure did she says or no here's the deal she got a nine year sentence a lot of legal stuff today uh nine year sentence for stealing 1.5 million dollars in chicken wings that's a lot of wings and it's also quite the sentence for a lot for all the chicken wings i guess that's well into the um felony out of larcen yeah yeah the crosses uh for sure i wonder what i think i mean a hundred thousand or something i can't remember what the um the line that you crosses oh 1.5 oh for i think it's like yeah is it like a thousand or six hundred nine hundred something or something yeah oh is it even

maybe it's more than i thought i don't even know maybe it's less than that okay so if i stole a thousand let's say i stole a two thousand dollar scooter i think that puts me about doing that yeah i have been there's a guy up the road you know he looks he looks like he looks like he looks like he looks like he could be pushed off his scooter really easily yeah that you're saying yeah i've been i've been scouting out of the area oh you're talking about a like a uh like it was little uh zip scooters or Are you talking about a rascal? Like a more rascal than Zip, but more like, more like, he rides this thing that looks like a cross between, it may have actually three wheels like a rascal or, you know, like more like

a. Does it have a seat or do you stand on it? Seat, he sits. Okay, okay. But it's fast and he can go on roads in it. Oh. But it's small like a scooter. I can't explain how this.

This thing is weird. I also, and he also seems to stop and talk to this dude that's in one of those layback bikes where you're laying on the ground yeah i don't know i i don't know i see so many people writing on those in the uh ms 150 i don't know i mean i've never tried one so i don't know if it's easier but i can't imagine going up big hills recumbent style and what that how that if that is better or worse it seems like almost impossible the way the way i think of it does but it must work it must be okay the way they do it yeah yeah i've never been on one i don't know what they're like seems awkward to me. I'd try it, though. Someone had a recumbent bike. Let me know here in the valley. I'll try it. And then I'll steal it from you and we'll make it. I'll talk about it on the show. Perfect.

Well, anyway, this school, so the school district official in Chicago, she used to be a school district official. Good Lord. Really likes that chicken. Given a nine-year sentence after pleading guilty to stealing a staggering $1.5 million worth of chicken wings. That has a lot of chicken wings. Wow. I wonder how much, if you could do like a, a, a charge. comparison between that and the meth that is in that candy. Right. What is the current conversion rate from meth to chicken wings?

I would like to know. Vera Lindell, apparently not the air to the pillow fortune. Mike Lindell here, we're trying to sell $1.5 million of chicken wings stuffed in my pillows. The word is he's got so much like warehouse debt right now that they're

going to, they're done soon. Yeah. I can't. I can't. Can't keep packed and looked at that and sell a lot of pullet pillows anyway food service director at harvey school district 152 near chicago stole the huge amount of fast food during the pandemic and it's aftermath all these people with their little sticky finger pandemic moves remember this is the thing toilet paper and all that shit everybody was trying to make a little buck on the side uh-huh anyway so this was her plan to steal all the uh wow and then like dole it out for high high prices yeah wings were right wings were skyrocketing in price

during the pandemic. I think all chicken products were for a while. Yeah, I think you're right. Chicken stuff, eggs had a moment. There was another basic. It was rice or something like that also went and had a run. Right, right. Flower.

Flower was impossible to get at the store because everybody was freaking making sourdough. A little love toward Free Rangers who says she didn't have a plan for this theft. She was just winging it. Nice one, dude. But now, now she's chicken and going to jail. She's chicken, see? She's chicken. I was afraid.

You're scared, you see. It says when the wings were meant for children doing remote learning, but we're still getting school meals. In total, Lindell, she's 68, ordered more than 11,000 cases of wings from the school district's food provider and then picked up the order herself and never delivered. They were calling it a massive fraud. This happened between July 2020 and February of 2022. The theft was uncovered during a routine audit. When it was found, or when it was found, that the annual food service cost was $300,000 over budget only halfway through the year. Duh.

Duh. No kidding. Oh, my gosh. So hopefully the kids didn't have to, like, subsist on bread and Capri's son or something. I know. What a lame thing to do to kids, man. It makes me mad. Yeah.

You know what? Go to jail. That's fine. She'll be 77 when you get out. So have fun in there. Chicago woman. I know, right. All right, I think, well, I got time for this one.

Wendy's never on time, so we're good. I'm going to try to see if she remembers something about Sesame Street. So in case I forget, poke me. Because her and I had a thing about Sesame Street that we always did together that I hope she remembers because I think I'm vague about it. Anyway, we'll get to that in a minute. A YouTuber shoots video making Peacock Curry. and then got arrested. Boom, boom.

Coming in NBC this fall. Yep. Must eat TV. That's right. There's major backlash. Also got arrested. So it's a universe are from teleganserlla. Let's see, Telagana's Cirilla.

This is a place. Telangina. Telangina. Sererla? Circella. Circella? Anyway, a video of this dude preparing and consuming peacock curry went viral on the internet. The video faced massive backlash on social media.

People accusing the YouTuber Kodam Pranay Kumar. No, this is right. Of promoting illegal wildlife consumption. That's not right. That's not right. What do you think a peacock tastes like if you had to guess? Like a million pounds of chicken. Probably right.

dreamed out that it wasn't chicken or a peacock it was made from chicken that they found in Chicago a big warehouse full of chicken I mean our zoo is just full of peacocks they're just every five feet and I'm never once in my life gone I wonder what those tastes like

you know just don't think about it you know I'd rather eat I don't know why it's weird to me but to eat a peacock seems very strange if things were you know end times and I had to kill a bird or die well okay I'll eat a peacock but it's not going to be my first choice

I think once you pluck it probably looks like, you know, just about any other bird, like turkey or chicken or whatever. And probably, probably on the, more on the pheasant side of flavor-wise, you know. Yeah. I started a, or someone recommended a book. I might start it. It's about all the proteins of the world have gone. Something happened genetically, and they're all poisonous to humans now. So in the book, you can't have chicken, beef, you know, pork, it's all gone. and all animal life of any kind and that includes like grubs and stuff other sources that also has had this problem so that that's the setup the thing so they make human they make cannibalism legal but highly regulated soilent green basically kind of but it's highly regulated and people are aware of it so when you go buy to a brand of you buy meat at the store in this story yeah this apocalyptic idea you're buying human and meat. I'm pretty excited to read it. It sounds interesting. I don't love, you know. Children of beef. Children of the beef. I love that. Well, anyway, she's, or where were we? Oh, this dude, he's in trouble. Promoted illegal wildlife consumption. He's now facing charges under the Wildlife Protection Act, the National Bird of India, Peacock. Oh, I didn't know what. That was their national bird. I didn't know that. That's, you know what? That's a much cooler national bird than our stupid California seagull. It doesn't make any sense. Right. I like that a lot. It's colorful, like, their, you know, their costumes and their Bollywood and all that stuff.

Oh, that's a good fit, yeah. I didn't think of that. Yeah, it makes sense, yeah. All that color, but you pluck them and eat them. You're in trouble there, Poon Jab. They look just the same as anything else. Pran Ray, I mean, or how do you say his name? Anyway, this is a big deal over there.

It was set up in 1972, and now he is busted because he both participated in what they call hunting and killing a strictly prohibited beast. And they did it. So don't do that. Be nice on YouTube. Let's see. That's going to do it for us. We're going to take a break when we come back from this break. Wendy will be here.

We had a great email for her about friendship and how to navigate that. Yeah, very interesting friendship. Yeah. Yeah. Quotes around that. Asterisk next to the word friendship on that one. Yeah. Friendship with a lowercase of.

No, I don't know. Anyway, before we get there, though, we need Brian to play this little song in the middle. So what do you got? Yeah, we've played the band Hines, H-I-N-D-S, quite a few times before here on the show. This is the last single they're releasing before their album comes out. The album is called Viva Hines. It comes out soon, September 6th via Lucky Number Records. Big thanks also to Grandstand Media for sending this over to me.

This song is called The Bed, the Room, The Rain, and You. Oh, it reminds me, boy, speaking of 70s songs, there was an older song, had a similar kind of title. remember what it was but it had the rain something the rain down in africa no yeah no a little bit older than that um i'll figure i'll figure it out while we're listening to the uh to the song uh anyway this is uh hines from their brand new album viva hines comes out in a couple weeks this is the bed the room the rain and you is it that on the horse it is the horse or the horse no no not on no horse with no name no feels good to be out of the rain at the rain by uh counting crows Luke Sightwalker. No, it was something

something with multiple commas like the something the something in the rain. Oh. I don't know what that is. Yeah, I'll find it. I'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. But anyway, here's this one that Brian talked about instead. For now, and we'll be back in a moment. I've been searching all around

Let me know where I can find you The bed you see The room is you The ring you see The back are still I smile for you Your eyes are blue Let me know where I can find you

Blinded among those to the top Set up fire to this world There's a road that drives me home Let me know I can't find you The light is you Oceans I do With you, the black bear's too, I'll point with you, your eyes are blue,

Let me know where I can find you. I see you do, let me know where I can find you. You're ready to say it feels me too. Let me know where I can find you. Let me know where I can find you. You know, I can find you. I can find you. I'm going to find you.

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That's landrover USA.com. Do you know why Kid Songs is the best kids' home video series in the world? Because every tape is all about things kids love to do. Yeah, like riding roller coasters, joining the circus and flying planes. Flying planes? Kids don't fly planes. I had some bad Puerto Rican food and I threw up. And we've returned.

Hey, Brian, who was that again? Yeah, that was a band called Hinds. H-I-N-D-S. I'm trying to make people not look for ketchup when they're in the streaming music services that they use. That's from an upcoming album called Viva Hines comes out at the beginning of September, September 6th. The song is called The Bed, the Room, the Rain, and You. Not to be confused with the song I was thinking of, which is called The Rain, the Park, and Other Things by... Who was that?

Cousels. Oh, okay. I was going to say, now we have a whole new mystery. You've got to find out who's saying it. Yeah. Yep. The rain, the park, and other things. I love it.

Here's another Minnesota tradition that's not so easy to throw in the garbage. Yep, that's the tradition of bringing my sister on here once a week as often as we can to talk about some real therapy and real people's lives. It's my sister, Wendy. Hi, Wendy. Hello. I don't know why I keep making sure people know you're my sister. I don't know why I do that.

It's important. Who is this Yahoo coming on telling people to do things? Yeah, who is this? Who says Yahoo anymore? Nobody does. No one even uses Yahoo anymore. I think people should say Yahoo more. I like that.

You think so? Yeah, you'd be a big Yahoo. That's not bad. Who's this Yahoo taking another bite of small? Where's ramen. Yeah, no kidding. So are you guys, are you guys over the honeymoon in your state yet about your cool governor getting, you know, VP ticket? Do you guys want to hear it?

I'm ready. Do it. Lay it on us. How does the average Minnesotan feel about this whole deal? We are solidly, um, okay, people would argue. That's not true. We're pretty purple, right? There's a, there's a decent balance.

Right. Uh, theoretically. But, yeah, we not just, not just because. Because Prince was born and lived there and all that. I mean, have you seen the memes about Prince has always been right? Yeah. We're going to make everyone purple. Anyway, it's great.

Yeah. No, I just people, I think people like him. I think everyone, it's everything's partisan. So if you don't, you probably don't like him for the reasons, you know, whatever. But for the most part, I think the realness of him and just sort of he is, he's a lovable figure. And here's the other thing. That dad energy is like for real, right? And he, during the pandemic, so he was elected 2018 and during the pandemic every afternoon at 2 o'clock or whatever, he got on and gave us updates and told us everything that was going on.

It just felt like this reliable dad thing. Yeah. Yeah. And then the best thing, and I need to look up her name, but he has a sign language interpreter that was with him every day. and she is the most fun human being to watch. Is she like a super aggressive? I love. Hilarious and so cute and amazing.

And I think he should take her everywhere he goes. She's the best. I love it. So stuff like that. Just there's like the wholesome thing is like not a show at all. And he just genuinely really cares about kids and families. And that's that is so rare to be true, I think, from a politician. it feels like that it plays well you're supposed to say these things um i mean it's actually part of

the obviously it's it's going to they're using it to their advantage as you would because you're trying to win a thing but but there's something there's really something nice about knowing that it can happen in modern politics to bring somebody who is kind of abnormally normal you know what i mean yeah not not some extreme on any direction of any direction of any kind just a dude who thinks kids should eat stuff like that but also he's going to go hunting this weekend so i'm going to sign this bill 100% y'all are going to go to school and make sure you're fed no one's starving and i'll see you later because i'm going to go hunt some raccoons or whatever the hell i'm doing this weekend like i like the videos with his daughter too oh i know granddaughter

daughter daughter daughter yeah he just looks old he's only 60 but they i mean they struggle with infertility for seven or eight years and they've talked about it their kids It has some special needs stuff going on. Like, it's just a real family with real things. And there's just not the, yeah, like his finances just crack me up, you guys. He does not own a single stock. Yeah, there's no stocks. No stocks.

And there's some fun, like, local, like, stories, right? But I'm sure that they've gotten out that are like he's in Congress. He was, his students convinced him to run. This was kind of his foray into politics. and he won a local election here, and then he went on to be a representative. And they had some budget issue where no one was going to get a raise that year in the legislature.

And he said to multiple people, he's like, I'm making four times the money now. I've made my whole life. Like he's just not that guy. And that is so weird. And I know everyone's going to want to find where that's the crack or not true or whatever. But, you know, it's,

It's just pleasant. And, okay, so here's my main stump speech that is, you guys, you're like, this is not why we listen to the show. No, no. No, whoever's already rage quit, it's fine. They're already going to. Okay. All right. If you can find a nicer guy is going to help you change your tire and then maybe put some tampons in some bathroom for women.

I don't know if you heard of the pink attack. You know, expensive it is to be a female in this country. No, dude. So I think tampon Tim's a great name. Anyway, so he, this is, this was the coolest thing. So during, well, let's see, 2023, legislative session, I believe it was, is that right? Yes, because we're in 2024. Yeah.

They were passing a bunch of things kind of at the end there, and that was the, maybe I'm conflating a couple different times, but the school lunches, the, you know, making that law and some other things. They were just for families and whatever. And they extended benefits to families whose kids age out of special ed services in school districts. And so, Allie, my oldest daughter, has special needs and is in one of those programs. And she finished her program at age 21. And we did a graduation. Everything was kind of happening. And then a week later, we get a call from the place and they said, you're not going to believe this.

but Governor Walsz just signed a bill that was passed. And all sorts of people made it. He just approved it. Right, right. I'm not giving it all the credit. Pushed it through. But that gives each of all these kids, these services till they're 22. So I got to have my child go back to this incredible program for an extra year.

And it was so a can I've never had that happen. Have you ever had that happen where something that mattered to you directly connected to you? A, happen that. It's rare, it's rare, right? I think maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe mom and dad and that Garn, Senator Garn thing to get Matt a mat over here. That may be a similar thing, yeah,

because that was like a, that was like a direct high level government change just, it felt, I mean, obviously it affected other people. It really started with one family and that, that's a rare thing, you know? That is rare. And this was this moment of like,

so we joke, we were going to name our next dog, Tim or Waltz, we haven't decided. Just how much our individual lives were impacted immediately because of something that he and the legislature cared about was just like, oh, what a weird feeling. I feel like it's usually just things get worse or the decision to make feel less like you are known or cared about. So I just, we're big fans in our house because, you know, we got a direct benefit, which isn't. that what every voter ultimately starts to feel is that nobody cares about what matters to them

and or even worse somebody cares about taking away a right you already have stuff like that and so and he's younger by the way then he's younger than brad pitt and he's younger than tom cruise so just keep that in mind everybody he also is not going to put filler in his face but he is also the same age as Kamala. They aren't the same age. Yeah. She's ridiculously young looking for her age. And he's kind of old looking for his age. And he's been a grandpa. Yeah, he's been a grandpa for the last 40 years. And when you ask him, he'll say, well, they're like, oh, you look older. And there's a quote of him just saying, I taught high school for 20 years, you guys. Yeah, what do you think happens? Exactly. Well, I'm excited for you as a Minnesotaan, because I clearly, Minnesotans are pretty stoked about them. And it seems pretty, like you said, pretty purple the excitement. It's not. It doesn't feel so one-sided. It feels like a lot of people are stoked. Well, and his comment real quick with his daughter, did you guys see the video where they're talking about that she's a vegetarian?

Yeah, I did. Yes. And she's meat some turkey. Yeah. Is that turkey in Minnesota's different? Still meat. She's like, still meat. And he's like, oh, but it's different here.

It's whatever. It was like me, it's the conversations I have with Carter every other day. And it felt so genuine to me because we talk like that. We tease each other. I always, when there's food and there's a. bowl of beef. I go, Carter, you want some, right? You want some of this? And she's like, Dad, I'm going to hit you in the arm. Like, we have that same kind of thing. So to see that on a stage like that or a national kind of exposure like that, it's really heartening, you know,

it feels good. And please look up videos of him petting cats, because it is the opposite of JD Vance, obviously. But the, I mean, if a cat likes you, I'm telling you. Yeah, no. We're holding pigs. He's a very, he loves pigs. Yeah, and he's a hunter. And he's a hunter. And he is a gun owner and he is a teacher. And he is, you know, I just, I'm a fan. I'm a fan of real people. So, you know, our other brothers, Scott. Yeah, the other, the other one.

We share two brothers, one of the brothers. He and I talked about politics a long time ago. We had to stop doing that. But one of the things we were talking about is we would both agree on a requirement to be a legislator. You had to have worked as a teacher, a police officer, a fireman, like a firefighter. you had to work in a hospital cleaning up stuff something you had to have a real job at some point like public public facing service yeah yeah service oriented thing yeah i think that would count if we were

in retail i think that would count you know what i completely agree but let me let me let me pose let me posit this thought you guys agreed on that that's good agreement do you think he agrees today i mean do you think that that's enough in this particular case not to get too much into what my brother's politics look like, but I don't know. I don't know if that, like right now, do you think he's going, well, there was that deal I made with Wendy some years ago about I guess I'm in. Like a real person.

Yeah, I don't know if that's going to happen. Actually, what I really love more than anything, let's just put it this way, is I like that Tim Walts is actually the guy Republicans think they would vote for. Like, he is that I could have a beer with him. He's like real. I could home with that guy.

And I also spent 20 years in the military. yeah yeah people look people put them people all over the place i'm not bold sizing this but i'm saying everybody everywhere can twist themselves into all kinds of pretzels in order to fulfill whatever narrative they want to fulfill and unfortunately it won't matter it doesn't matter they're they're going after things that they normally act like they praise and uh f that noise i hate it totally totally um all right this is state is we're we're We're here. I'm excited. May your purple ever shine. Purple, purple rain. Ever rain. That's right. Every rain, perfect, yes.

There you go. All right, let's get to today's thing. So we haven't helped anybody in a while, and it was, you know, it's feeling like we needed to help somebody. So we got this email. Wendy said, that one's great. I said, good. I pasted it in here.

I'm now going to read it. Here's how it went. Hi, Scott, Brian, and Wendy. I'm having an interesting conflict at work that I would appreciate some insight on. I started a new job recently, and there is a co-worker who has taken a strong liking to me. Let's call her Kate. I don't think that's her real name. No.

For example, she must. moved her desk location so that she could sit nearer to me, and she invites me and my spouse over to their house for dinner weekly. She often also says that I am her bestie, even though I don't really know her all that well. She and her husband are very religious, and my partner and I are not. They do not drink alcohol or swear or watch rate at our movies. I assume they do. This is very different from, she didn't say that part. It just kind of assumes the writer does. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It says anyway, this is different from the way we live our lives. This isn't to say we are frequent drinkers, but that is

the kind of, that is kind of besides the point. These differences wouldn't be a big deal, but it seems they judge us for our lifestyle, and we often lack the common things to talk about because we consume very different media. Honestly, I'm not totally sure why she wants to be friends with me slash my spouse. Kate, again, not the real name, lacks a filter and often says things that come off as insulting. Here are some examples. Number one, saying that my accomplishments at work are only because my direct supervisors are nicer than hers. I swear I've heard that exact line at work. I have totally...

I think her name's Kathy. You only do well at work or Karen, Debbie. Yeah, Karen, Kathy. Because your bosses are nicer than mine. Janice from accounting. Anyway, saying that people, here's another one, saying that people who swear are bad people when she knows I have no problem swearing. And number three, commenting on lunch that I brought as being unhealthy or a lot of food

and also indicating that I should be trying to lose weight. I am at a healthy weight and go to the gym most days. There are other examples, but those are the ones that come to mind while I was drafting this email. She says things like this almost every time we talk. Basically, I would like advice on how to gently get her to pump the brakes on being friends with me without creating an unpleasant work environment. My boss thinks I should tell her that her comments are hurtful, but I am unsure how that would go. I think I know how it would go. Anyway, for context.

So here's some context. We love it when you do context, by the way. So take note of this, everybody, when you send your stuff in. For context, I am a 25-year-old female. I will only be at this job for another year. And after that, my partner and I are planning to move away. Kate is 27, grew up in a small town and was homeschooled, although she thinks that people wouldn't be able to guess that she was.

That's a question of kind of a funny line. We're going to have to maybe talk about that. In quotes, wouldn't it to be able to guess? I would be happy if Kate would just be a work friend, but that seems to be a boundary she doesn't understand and I don't want to be mean any advice is appreciated anonymous so this is an interesting one right

I don't know like I think everybody can relate to this in some way like I'm in my head I'm going who have I known like this and I feel like it's a lot but I can't pin one down it's more like like characters we've seen in movies who are like that like cable guy you know Jimmy Kerry glomming on to Matthew Broderick

or baby reindeer or that sort of thing where these people are way more invested in your life, almost seeing you as a project as opposed to a person. That's what I'm wondering if Kate sees the emailer as, oh, here's somebody that I can fix. Like here's somebody that I can, like your project. Yeah. Yes, exactly. My mother-in-law does it better this.

Sorry if she hears this. She won't. She doesn't listen. But she does this a lot where she'll see somebody who she just assumes is a good project. And that means, oh, I saw her, I don't know, pull up from home from work and her dress was a little short. I'm going to turn her around. And so she kind of starts going over there, inserting herself, bringing bread over, which is nice. But, you know, sometimes it can be overwhelming.

So we definitely, I think everybody listening probably has somebody in their life who's maybe a little bit like this. So where do you want to go with it? How do we want to help Anonymous out today? Well, I think, I think, Brian, your intuition here that there's an agenda that's, outside of sort of just a friendship yeah just a friendship because if we if we take just fundamentally what that means it's like you don't start a friendship trying to change a person so guess what I want to be friends with you but I need you to not eat that much and also did you not swear I think people who swear are horrible but but you know but I sure do like hanging out with you

come on for dinner this week yeah right and and so it's very possible Kate's got good intentions and this is just how she interacts with the world. I'm going to just assume there's a couple of things. Listen, I know a lot of people successfully homeschool their kids and are lovely and all that. But sometimes the, I don't think anyone can tell thing

is just like, yeah, I'm normal. I did a bunch of different things. But one of the tell signs, the giveaways, is maybe some social behavior that is not appropriate, right? And we can all do that. We can all not know exactly what we're doing. They're 25 and 27.

They're still figuring stuff out. That's okay. But these three examples are like serious negging, right? Like, yeah, yeah. This is not a way to make friends and influence people. And so obviously this email is just nice and is like, oh, we're all right. So my first question would be, okay, so we're not going to diagnose Kate. I think Kate's clearly going to do Kate.

Kate, we're not going to change Kate. Let's start with giving her that. We're not going to change her. I also noticed one quick thing when you said, how do I get her to pump the brakes on this friendship? You're going to have to pump the breaks on the friendship. Kate's not pumping any breaks on the friendship. Whether she wants you to, you know, influence you religiously

or wants you to stop eating unhealthy, whatever her agenda might ultimately be. Who knows? It might just be this is how she operates in the world. So we're going to give Kate some lovely amounts of grace here that she maybe doesn't realize she's coming across this way. But I'm noting a couple of things that the emailer is writing. So this avoidance of conflict, right?

I don't want to, if I set a boundary, you know, there will be consequences. Even Scott, you guess. So let's actually have you finish that thought, Scott. What's your guess if she set a boundary or pump the brakes on? Oh, my gosh. Like what she'd say and do? Yeah.

So what did Kate do if our emailer set a boundary about this relationship? Okay. So, I mean, often these things come down to how you set it, right? And what you say. And so with her partner saying, you should just tell her you don't like it. It makes you feel bad, whatever. I think you can you can say that. in two ways you can either get in there and go

you don't know this but you're really making you're harsh in my vibe and I can't stand it please stay five feet for me you could say that or you could say I have concerns I mean you can just have these different approaches I think either one of these in this case it's going to be hard to do it in a way that doesn't hurt yeah and so

yeah go ahead Brian and I'd be prepared for like a like a sort of a guilt thing on the other side that Kate would pull like a, God, I was really just trying to be nice to you. And I guess, you know, I'm just too, you know, maybe you're just not the right friend. It would basically be some guilty. I'm trying to think of a good example of what Kate would probably say. But it would be, it would be with the intent of making the emailer feel bad for not accepting her, her suggestions, advice, and, and, weekly dinners. Right. Yeah. The weekly dinner part is the one that's throwing me because Yeah. It means it. Is it just invitation or are they eating dinner? I don't know. That's a good question. Like they invite, they invite them over to their house for dinner weekly, but I don't know if if the emailer goes every week or has gone at all. But it's like, oh, you really should come over this week. Yeah. And is the emailer planning to move because of this? Right. That's a, that's a fair point.

Yeah. Okay. So interestingly, you both gave. and this is common, I was hoping you would, you both gave why one would want to set a boundary because you were afraid of how the other person responds, right? And that's whatever, and that's a human thing to be like, okay, I don't want to get in a fight and work. And she even wrote, like, I just need to have this last for a year and not get awkward. And she obviously talked to her boss about it too, right? Her supervisor is just like, like, yeah. Yeah, just let him know it hurts your feelings and you don't, you know.

whatever. Okay. So here's what I want to propose is that the assumption is that you only have, you either ignore this or you hurt her, right? There is a third way. The third way is to recognize that here is a person who might be able to use a real friend, right? So I know you don't know very well and you wouldn't consider her your close friend she has some weird boundaries right and those boundaries are making it so you don't actually want to be around her yeah and you would like less contact guess what she wants more contact she wants and she's acting there's an insecurity to how she's behaving because she she on some level feels that yeah and maybe doesn't know how to maintain friendships right so if we can think in this third way it would be something

about can you care enough for her to give her some feedback and share how you're feeling in in the in the in the guys or the caveat or like the bigger picture of I do want to be friends this is making me want to not be friends so rather than I will leave you if you don't behave the way I want which is no one wants to say that but that's how it feels when you're confronting someone a little bit um and most of us are not raised to handle conflict well, certain sort of people worse better than others. And like it's because it's uncomfortable and maybe when something was uncomfortable in your home growing up or you had different experiences, you didn't witness or get practice at having an adult conversation to

resolve it. You saw avoidance or you saw over dramatization or you saw, you know, someone go in a corner and cry. Like you maybe didn't get like, oh, this is a skill that I can learn and grow and figure out how to, you know, have a relationship with her. So I feel for the emailer, this sounds like a terrible position to be in, right? But what I want to emphasize is that you have a ton of power in this. You just don't realize it. In fact, you wouldn't be in this position if you didn't automatically have some power with this person.

She wants to be near you. And so like anyone, you might need to have some rules about how that would look. So let's just start with how she talks to you about certain things. She might, you know, you could sit down and just say, can we have a chat? I've had this experience with a couple people. It's not exactly like this, for sure. But it's just giving them feedback that's hard to hear. And it's really affecting my desire to trust them or ability to be around them or to trust them, right?

And so I will sit down and have an adult conversation with them emphasizing that I care about them. And that can be authentic. You care enough, right, to not tell her, confront her. You care what she thinks and feels. So you just channel that and you have to be brave and you have to say, hey, can I take you to lunch Tuesday and can we talk about something this is hard for me to do? But sometimes you'll say things to me that may me feel really bad and want to be less of your friend. I assume that's not what you're trying to do. What can we do to make this better, right?

You've got to be clear, and it doesn't have to be blammy, but it needs to be like, we're going to talk about this thing. So in my experiences of doing this, I have, knock on wood, yet had anyone do the thing I'm afraid they're going to do. Sure. Most of the time, they're just so grateful because they had no idea, like no idea that was coming across or no idea that when they said this or that, that it was really offensive. And most of us, we hear it, we take it in, we sort of nurture the wound of this person said this thing, right? And if we could shorten that incubation and move it more towards action with, here is another person who maybe hasn't been modeled any of these things. And maybe you haven't either, so it's going to be awkward. And you can say that.

This is going to be awkward. I want to hang out with you. I want us to be good work, friends. You can say the truth. You don't have to say hang out if you don't want to, but I want us to be good friends at work. Can we talk about our relationship? And that might seem like, what? We're having a relationship discussion with this person.

But the thing is, she's coming at you a lot. And that in her positive way, I'm assuming she thinks like the unhealthy or a lot of food comments, she is probably just used to people talking about how much food someone eats. That to me is a social faux pot that or she's really mean. So one of those two things are happening. I like enough of the clues that I'm leaning towards a social faux law that she just does not realize how that's coming across. Like if you sat down at lunch with her and said, tell me how your parents talked about food, weight, and your body. She might be like, oh, yeah, they're constantly telling me.

I mean, you know, like you might find all that's been modeled to her is judgment about food and body, right? So, and I'm giving everybody a benefit of doubt here. and you will not know unless you have a conversation. I hear you that it's scary. I hear that most people don't want to do that. But it is part of growing up and growing in skills and growing in maturity. And 25, I hate to tell you, is when this begins. Yeah.

So if you, I'm trying to think of an example like this, there is the age-old effort of ghosting. And by that, I just sort of mean, hey, has it going? cool oh hold on i can take this call you just get busy right right it's like oh you know say hi but i'm on my way to a meeting but i just want to say hi real quick yeah yeah you want to you want to go out on thursday night oh shoot i can't i've got this thing with my mom but you know maybe in the future you kind of just do these little push-offs and then eventually they stop asking and they still feel it but what i'm asking you wendy is that even a reasonable way to do it like the problem is

is that her desk is she moved her desk right next to the emailer. So it's, you know, you can do that if they're on the other side of the building or a few cubicles away, but you know you're not on your phone eight hour, full eight hours of the day. Yeah. Yeah. So what would you do? Would you, is that a bad idea? I mean, it's an idea. I mean, because I think some people will be tempted to do that. I have to admit, I would be tempted to go that route because I don't see any other positive outcome because it's too there's not enough emotional intelligence being exchanged it's right right and and she's moving in a year so do you really want to spend all this energy and effort you could just do subtle side stepping and ghosting for a year yeah absolutely right

um i am a therapist though so i am going to advise i'm going to advise testing this out uh i mean i would be a hundred percent tempted to do what you're saying So it's not like I think I'm like, I'm great. I'm not. That would be one of the plans in your like, all right, do I ghost her? Do I do this? Do I do this? The fourth way.

Yeah, right? The fourth way is ghosting gently, right? There, okay, the fifth way is you become, oh, you guys are going to have to help me, remember his name. The guy in, what, in the shadows, the emotional vampire. Oh, yeah, yeah, Colin Robinson. Colin Robinson. You could just turn into Colin Robinson. and ruin it the other direction.

Like, there's so many options. Kind of like the taming of the shrew. You just kind of go the other, like, just hang over the whole time while she's trying to get stuff done. Yeah, it's a little reverse psychology. Just be like, what are you guys doing Friday and Saturday night? So you could, you could do that. That's the fifth way.

But I like. To just make a day of it. So if you're not an actress, this might be tricky, right? To pull off some of these other options. And so... And you have the risk that this is what they really secretly want, too. Like, and then you're really committed. Oh, gosh.

And you got to double down and get method or you're going to, yeah, it's not good. Don't do, don't do that one. Really, it's maybe a strategy that's just important to start to figure out how work, relationships work. Everyone learns the hard way, some of this, right? Where, okay, I got too friendly with this person too fast and turns out they're really mean and hard. and I need to pull back. What do I do? Do I have a conversation

or do I slow ghost or whatever you want to do? What are you going to feel comfortable? You're going to not need to be a little uncomfortable and then what are you going to be comfortable living with? Because the outcome, you can't fully predict. You also wouldn't predict Kate would be like this, the first day you met her.

This is just the nature of working closely with people and you know, you're the same age and they're excited about you. And they, you know, Maybe there's something to, you know, just sort of subtly setting some more boundaries and, you know, move on with your life. Great. But if you had to stay and work with her, I think the sit-down chat would probably be more important. I don't know.

There's just a lack of general maturity often when it comes to human beings, when it comes to these things, right? And when you meet someone who's quite good at this, it could be like, wait, what is just happening? You're saying out loud, you know, we're talking about the elephant in the room just calmly and together and figuring something out, right? That would be a great place to work, right? That'd be great if your boss could help you do that. It'd be great if that was modeled to everybody. So we could be honest and we could share stuff and we could, you know, get over aggravations and whatnot. But most people are definitely opting for staying comfortable, right?

And that's really a question here. what is your comfort level and can you push into your discomfort a little to have a little more authenticity with your interaction and then just don't put up with someone insulting you that's that's ultimately my biggest problem with this is that we're just going to let her talk to you that way those sugar-coded insults there's you know there's a couple people I know who do that same kind of thing and maybe they don't realize it or maybe they do realize it it just it drives me nuts but you almost want to do and maybe there's a way to head those off at the past the next time and just say oh ouch that hurt why you know why would you say something

like that to me and kind of put it back on them but do it in a way that is almost like like not angry but in like a you know just making them realize like um just baping the the dog on the nose with the newspaper kind of thing yeah i would do so here's what here's what i'd say if they said something like one of those like you said brian like mirror like a hidden you know yeah sugar-coated sugar carding there you go that's the word i would i feel like my reaction that i would want to use now i feel like it's different now than it would have been when i was like 25 totally this is the other problem is i have zero patience for inauthenticity now i hate it right so this sort of thing i would be immediately turned off by and i would find a way out because i would just be like uh

but here's a way to do it they do one of those sugar-coded insults and you go even with a smile or kind of a smirk you're like well that wasn't very nice at all just like that's all have to say right and then they're left now they have to say something like just enough to say hey I know what you just did and that's not cool so knocked it off smiling sometimes the simple one is the one that will get them thinking because they're going to be caught off guard and go oh yeah and there's enough social rejection in that to get someone to kind of stop yeah right because all you're doing is just stating the fact that that wasn't nice and that's it yeah yeah yeah this is not a good idea but this I have actually done this because it just came

out and I couldn't stop myself is I laughed like kind of like like a really like shocked laugh and then I went that was amazing whoa did you hear that and they're like what like that was like the most passive aggressive sentence I've ever heard and I'm just laughing yeah and they're like and I was like sorry I was just a good one that's good that's a good way to do it was very effective and I didn't even mean to. But you also sound like Tim Allen there for a hot second. I did. The other thing to do when she says stuff like saying that people who swear are bad,

you just drop the F bomb and then walk away. Like you use your real personality. I mean, I think that's what's kind of tricky. Like maybe you're just real sweet and just want to never hurt a fly. And this is your real personality coming out. But like what, what is it that you can sort of like, I don't know. I think of, is it Jim Gaffigan, I think. He says shit every once in a while on his stand up just to keep a couple of people away.

That's a great way to look at it. Just protect yourself a little bit. And so maybe, maybe stop playing the game of her game and be you a little more. It might be helpful. Yeah. Next time she's like, oh, boy, sure is. cold out yeah no shit and then just go back and then don't you know act like it was nothing it should be like oh but yeah i i think there's a way around this the you get the fact that you're

not going to be there much longer is a huge boon here because yeah yeah exactly even if you make things awkward yeah it won't be awkward for very long you'll be out of there in a year plus so it'll be that bad i guess a year can be a long time if you're stuck right next to something but uh yeah yeah i guess the alternative of of another the other kind of awkwardness is worse i look forward to follow up on this one because this one almost has like a television prestige Netflix show quality

series coming for this one yeah and depending on who's writing it things can get real awkward so be careful out there Wendy is there anything else happening this week or going on that you would like to oh you had dinner with the Victorines with Leslie and stuff that's cool yeah this is

freaking Leslie immediately upon arrival gained a Minnesota accent. Oh, wow. Yeah, it took no effort. She could just do it. I was blown away. It was really impressive.

Wow. It was great to see them. And then they reminded me that you have a podcast in the world out there that I don't pay attention to and showed me the video of Carter doing your makeup. And it was so. Oh, wow. So the first time you didn't see that. Yeah, I didn't really publicize that around the family chat groups.

But yeah, that was pretty fun. I couldn't wait to get it off my face. I don't know how you, how you, when I say you people, I don't know how women constantly or anyone who does makeup on the daily, I feel, I feel for all of you. That seems like a pain. My eyes burned all day. I felt like I was always having to be careful not to rub wrong so I'd smear something onto the clothes. I didn't want to get it on. Like, I was blown away by that. And I don't know why after all my years on this planet, I didn't ever truly appreciate that process. And that was just a silly goof let's have fun version of it i just don't get it man 45 minutes to an hour and a half

in the morning i don't know how you guys do it the water line on your eye was just so fun i never even heard the term until she told me what it was like honestly me neither i was like what is he what is that thing oh it makes it look watery what is the point of looking like you're kind of crying i think it's like an anime look or something i don't know it's very weird but if you guys if you're hearing this you're like wait what the videos up and fall it at YouTube.com slash Scott Johnson. And you and lipstick, don't ever do that again. I'm not doing that again. No, ever, dude. Ever. I'll do chapstick at the, that's the most I'll ever put on my lips again. It's the only stick that's going on these lips. That's right.

But you, thanks for Thomas Chambers in the chat reminding us, but Sesame Street, you had a Sesame Street. Oh, thank you. I was, I was going to completely forget it. Thank you, Thomas, and thank you, Brian. So here's, here's the question. We were talking earlier about, you know, the days of Sesame Street, and it was at its best. And then along came Elmo and they kind of changed the whole format. And we were comparing it to Guy Fiery on the Food Network. And it's kind of the same thing. Anyway, there was some cartoon short thing that they'd play on the regular,

like they often did. They're, you know, counting videos and all that. There was something they did with a giant clam or a oyster or something that you and I would make fun of all the time. Do you remember what that was? We do the voice back and forth. It was like, do you have any memory of that? Because it was you and me specifically, like, Thanksgiving would come.

We were even adults by then. And we'd sit down and you'd go and you'd do this voice and I'd do it back. And then it was this ha-ha. And it was always about this weird Sesame Street thing. Do you not remember that? Wendy, we can tell your Google searching right now. I know. I'm looking, I'm trying to even just find an image of the clam. Yeah, it was a giant clam, cartoon.

Sesame Street. Let me just see. And it was like a or something like that. That's familiar. Does that sound like close to something that would ring a bell? I cannot.

Ikemore may have found something. Let's see. We'll see what he found. All right. This might be a. I think this is it. Okay. I'm going to play the audio.

We'll see if this is it. Okay. Hold on. He's the guy's dreaming of a fish. Mm, boy, fish. He's really wearing too short a shirt for his body. I agree. He looks like he's eating more than fish.

All right, here we go. Oh, yeah, he keeps catching plants, throwing him down. Okay, it's nights, day. Days are passing. His beard is growing. Oh, here it is. A talking clam. The reason that you're not catching fish anymore is that you pull out all the plants.

Let me explain Watch Everybody knows that little fish Eat plants And the big fish eat little fish And my hands don't see There aren't any plants around There won't be any fish to catch

All right Got it That means If I put back the plants The fish will come back Right is this the one he's got to make the sound

hold on it might be at the end I care about the fish just up until the point that I catch them and cook them and eat them that's close but it's not it I core you came so close to the sun damn it all right I'm going to find this and I'll send it to you

just one more thing Mr. Clam could you make some ASMR sounds for me please yeah no kidding I remember that one though, and I remember being fascinated with the idea that if you took the plants, I remember though, even as a kid going, well, he's catching all the plants with his fish hook, like, right.

How is that work? It's such a weird thing, man. Is it a graphing hook or a fish hook? Can we just note the slowness of that, like the slow tempo? And just the other night, or it was last night, we were talking to dinner, what each of us think is funny and what memes will make us laugh or whatever. And Abe calls the things I think funny, Normie. It's like, oh, everyone, that's Normie.

And then he shows me chaos things. Do you know that this is? Chaos. No. You guys, that something's wrong with him. How is this funny? It's just like loud, screaming, weird things happening. Please, someone.

This is the stuff. This is the stuff. Yeah, it's stuff that Nick likes. It's like, I think I know what he means. It's like, it's like ridiculous. It doesn't make any sense. And that's what makes. it funny yeah like the more the more nonsensical the meme and yeah and more funny it's like skibbitty

it's like the skibbitty toilet crap oh yeah okay okay and so he's trying to show me some things like and he tries to move it towards more normie so I can get it and I'm like okay this makes me feel 300 years old but I was thinking about that the intensity of what a kid can view now versus that clam situation yeah yeah no it's it's insane what they're all right that is a wild contrast yeah we got a whole out we got a bunch of alphas who are gonna have to tell us after some study you know how things went yeah like we are not okay thank you but you know what's good though as much as you got skibbitty toilet yelling at them and weird weird things on youtube and everything else you also have something like bluey that comes in and says calm down

slow down everybody and bluey brings it back to center i really like that as a thing that like my my two little grandbabies love bluey and as long as that holds that's cool he can still like Transformers. You can be in all this other stuff. But, you know, if they've got a good center stuff like that, I'm happy. Here's a, see, you remember stuff like this. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, Nancy. It's on that era. Someone out there find us this freaking talking clam or whatever noise it makes. It's not the talking one that puts the plants back in like we did. It's something else. And then I'll send it to wind. It is very possible. You and I did this back and forth and I had no idea why. Yeah. Yeah. It's possible too. I did that a lot. I'd say things, and I do with my kids.

I'll say a thing. They don't know where it came from, but they know we do it all the time. Anyway, we'll figure it up. Wendy, fantastic stuff. We'll send that to you when we get it. May the rest of your week be fruitful or whatever. That means. We'll see you next time.

All right. Oh, I could listen to that all day. You know, ladybugs and their picnics. You got to watch out for those guys. You know what I'm saying? They're in trouble. They're trouble with a cap of. little tea. I'll tell you what's not trouble. Today, you'll be getting to Coverville. Brian, remind

people what time. Phoebe Bridgers turning 30. It's going to be at, well, she's going to turn 30 later this week, but Coverville will be happening today at 12 p.m. Mountain Time that is in a little bit more than an hour, hour and 15 minutes at Twitch.tv.tvill. Again, I'll be playing Snap. A new Wiccan deck. Wiccan is the brand new card this week, so I'll be having some fun with that. Wiccan just gives you a lot of extra play if you if you use up all your energy over the first three rounds the first three

steps so there you go what's his main power in the comics is he like a is he like he's magic he's got magic powers kind of like similar to Scarlet Witch okay that makes sense yeah and he wears a cool head thing kind of like Gambit you know

where you've got like instead of the thing that covers your face it's like it's like a headband with side side deals. So that your tanning Chatham just kind of pushes out, kind of pumps out of it a little bit. You're right. Exactly. Exactly. Tanding Chatham.

Easy there. Easy there. Anyway, Carverville, 12 p.m. Mountain Time, Twitch.combe slash Coverville. Good point. I forgot about that. Also, hey, Core tonight, 5pm Mountain Time come for Core. It's Shapes 2 release day. Everybody, Shapes with a Z, too.

I've been brailing about this forever. I love the old one. The new one is amazing. I've had like about a month early access to it before it came out. I can tell you now without any hesitation, it is addicting as hell. And if you like any kind of automation games

and you're just trying to get that dopamine rush from whatever that brings you, Shapes 2 is going to take your life over. It's so good. Out today. Anyway, we'll talk about that and more encore tonight with John and Beau, so check that out. Also, couch party tomorrow, 10 a.m. for patrons.

If you're around, come watch the latter half of the second Venom movie with us. We only have about 45 minutes left I think. Cool. Perfect. So come check that out. And then play retro at 130 tomorrow as well with me and Dunaway. And after that, this weekend, we do have a film set coming out. So check that out. Also, Carter wanted me to pass on her thanks for all the nice comments about her convalescing from her surgery. She's doing great. She needs a little help up and down, but for the most part, doing awesome. And her dog's having to relearn how not to get all up on her and stuff until she's healed.

So that's fun to watch. That's it for us. Go to our website. If you need it, frogpants.com slash TMS. links to everything. Big thanks to all our patrons and everybody who supports the show in various ways. We really, really appreciate it. So much so that we'll play a song now that Brian has carefully and thoughtfully prepared for you. This is very true. Oh my gosh, Glitch. Quit sending requests like glitch took my my mention of hey, need some requests for the rest of the month literally and is entering one for every day of the week. Oh, my lord. For next week, like, oh, I guess he's probably done then.

He just did Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, the same song. Okay. He's up there, glitch. Anyway, cake tapper wrote in and said, hey, Scotch and Bourbon. It was my 58th birthday, and I'm hoping you can help me celebrate it by playing a new cover that I recently heard by one of my favorite country bands. Since my birthday falls on Friday, feel free to use this for any open date. Love the show, though.

Is it too early to get a fish sandwich? No. and in fact well first he has to suffer through this happy birthday and then he can have this hey uh is it too early to get a fish sandwich and this hey too are i get a fish sandwich got to play them all kind of play them both all the big heads yeah all right it's a cover of the tom petty song free fallen by the cadillac three this is great um uh don't know if i did i pick this up brand new or did i might have already had this oh yes this was on the uh on the came out this year called Petty Country, which is a bunch of country music covers of Tom Petty songs. This is a good one. It also features Breeland, I believe on vocals. Here is Free Fallen by the Cadillac 3. Loves Jesus in America too. She's a good girl crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend too.

And it's a lonely living in a sheet of her. There's a freeway running through the yard And I'm a bad boy Because I don't even miss her I'm a bad boy For breaking her heart And I'm free Free falling

Free party And all the vampires And all the vampires Walking through the valley Move west down Venture Boulevard And all the bay I have boys Standing in the shadows

In the good girls girls, I hold broken hearts. And I'm free, free falling. Yeah, I'm free, free falling. I want to free falling out, free falling out, I want to glide on, I want to ride home, I want to write her name, I'm going to free fall Out and there's nothing Gonna leave this world for a while

And I'm free Free falling Yeah, free Falling Oh Oh Oh Hey

Oh I'm free Free falling Oh Free falling Yeah, free falling. Yeah, free falling. Yeah, free falling.

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