The Morning Stream - TMS 2699: Big Potato Energy

Episode Date: September 3, 2024

Red On-Air Broncos. Fried Potato Root. Coke Adjacent. Wee Ball of Chicken. You Get NO Rest, NO Peace & NO Lt Yar! Multiple Ionics. Hush chips. Costco Flats. these wings are real, and they are NOT spectacular! More Mistakes Than An Applebees Karen. Free Hotel Room Vibe. Mono: Sound & Disease! Love Sports. Hate Sitting Around to watch them. Busy with Beatles Math. Reading Without Amy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Get in there at patreon.com slash TMS today. Coming up on the morning stream, Red on Air Broncos. Fried potato root. Coke adjacent. A wee ball of chicken. You'll get no rest, no peace and no lieutenant y'ar! Multiple ionics. Hush chips. Costco flats. These wings are real. and they are not spectacular. More mistakes than an Applebee's Karen. Free hotel room vibe. Mono, sound, and disease. Love sports, hate sitting around to watch them.

Busy with Beatles math. Reading without Amy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. The metabolation occlusions aren't holding. Damn it. I can't stop the heterocyclic declination. Fuse. Again. We need a biomolecular physiologist in here.

This man is dying. I don't know who you are. Do the bees know they make honey for you? This is the morning stream. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream. It's Tuesday.

And it's September 3rd, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. That's right. Yes. Hello, Scott. Can you believe we're already, what, three days into a new month? Can you believe it?

I can believe it. Yeah, this is one of those times yet where I'm like, oh, my God, I can't believe it. September already, no, I can absolutely believe in September already. I'm excited because we've got cooler temperatures. You got the, you know, the sun going down a little early. I don't like that part, actually. That leaves turning colors and all that stuff. You got football games to bet on and lose terribly with.

When is the season officially? start is that any time now this week this week Thursday Thursday is the first game of the regular season okay this might be the year I finally watch more football than I usually do I always say that I always say it and then I don't so I did this for the Olympics I did it with the NBA stuff I promised myself I'd watch more hockey in preparation for the you know Salt Lake getting a team oh right I did a terrible job of that last year so this year I got I got football and hockey staring at me I could make those two work. I like sports. I don't know what my problem is. I just get busy. I just can't, if I'm going to be sitting on the couch, part of Sunday watching a

three-hour game, I don't know, I got to be doing something else, tabletop game, playing Star Wars Outlaws on my iPad with the PS link or whatever or something. I just can't, I just can't sit there and watch the game in front of the TV. You give me tickets to a game, I'll go and watch and I'll have a great time, you know, at the game, but we don't get those tickets anymore. So, yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you ever, I can't remember if you ever get a chance to see, like, the Broncos play. Like you get seats sometimes, somebody gives you seats.

The phrase I just said before that is that we don't get those tickets anymore from Tina's mom so we don't get to go to the, Oh, I didn't know you meant them. I thought you meant sports in general. It was the quickest red-on air light. It was literally the light had not even gotten warm. I thought you meant sports in general. I didn't know you meant the Broncos.

Yeah, no, we used to be able to go to those games all the time. Tina's mom and dad had tickets. And she just with her hips and her not able to go up the stairs, up the ramps anymore to get to the seats. We had two whole seasons where Tina and I got to see just about every game. I think we gave one of the weeks to one of her friends that wanted to go. So, but then for two whole years, we went and saw the Broncos every weekend or every weekend they were playing. And, uh, yeah, it was all right. It was all right. It was, you know, the Russell

Wilson years, two of the Russell Wilson years. Now we've got Bonix. Yeah. And we're going to see how well Bonix can do for us. Everybody, we're, we're here in Denver, we're really tired of the, oh, here's the new savior who's going to bring back the glory days of Elway and Peyton. Manning and we've got our new we're going to put all our hopes on and now it's like yeah we'll wait until you go a couple seasons in and then we'll start believing that they're the the savior of the team yeah well i hope they do well this year it's been a while for them i hope so too yeah yeah uh Brian i got a question for you yeah I got a bag of uh where's the I don't have the bag anymore oh yeah I do I like that you save the bag I saw this on Twitter

so this bag right here yep bag of ruffles okay it's all going to now eating them all these are the cheddar ruffles a fantastic choice if you're going to get some a small bag of chips i like them a lot sure well while i open this bag i'm going to share this with the chat and uh with you so you can get a look at it again we have a look at this thing uh this showed up in there is right there yeah and it's as big as you think it is um it's about the height just about the height of the bag so if you measure the bag from okay seal to seal it'd be about that long yeah and i'm and i'm 100% sure that's just like a potato root that's exactly what it is it's a potato root is it was it at least was it fried crispy or was it

floppy and uh just chip colored a little of both it wasn't crispy like it wasn't stiff it was it was it was like a bend it and it wouldn't break yeah yeah still kind of had its uh potato energy you know whatever that means um and uh anyway the big question is it's obviously what it is not a big deal like you know sometimes the remnant of the thing It's made from, might make it into your bag. I'm sure this is true of any other kind of snack or whatever where it's, you know, made from a potato or whatever. It's, you know, it's there to remind you that what you're enjoying really did come from a potato. Yeah.

Actually, that's a really good positive way of looking at it. Here's the question, though, should I contact Frito Lay and say, I would like a giant box of free chips because this was in my bag? Because I'll bet they'd do it. Now, part of me thinks, yeah, do it. Why not? It's big corporation. What do you care? head. It's not going to cost them anything. But part of me thinks, this is a Karen-ass

thing to do, you know? It kind of is. It's like the, um, were you inconvenienced in any way? Really, were you, were you harmed or will you never eat ruffles again because of this? Probably not. Like, it's not at all. It didn't infect your enjoyment of the rest of the bag. I mean, you could, but it's, you know, it's, uh, they would certainly do it. They would absolutely send you, um, if at the very least, and probably most likely a coupon for a free bag or thing of of ruffles. Yeah, I would think so. They do something because that's what they do.

That's what PR does. They do something. Right. But I think I'm not going to do it because it feels petty. If you'd asked me in college if I would do this, 100%, I'd get a big old box of these coming. I'd be like, hey, something wrong with what the hell is this in here? And they would respond. I'm not going to do it.

I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to make a big deal. Plus, I got content out of it. We're talking about here on the show, look. Right, exactly. There was something that I did, some product that I got years ago, and I did a tweet thing. I reached out to them first from their website, which the only way you can contact a company now is send them a contact us email and hope it goes to somebody who cares enough to do anything about it, which, of course, nothing. And so then I said, all right, tweet and tweeted about it.

And then I ended up getting a coupon. What was it? It was, oh, it was, uh, was it just something coke related, wasn't it? Because I ended up with a big, with a coupon for a 24 pack. It was some consumable something, right? Like, uh,

it was some Coke zero flavor issue. Like I had, uh, three cans in a, in a box that were flat, had no syrup or just, you know, We're horrible. And I feel like that was, I think that was the deal.

Boy, I can barely remember. But I remember what I got back was a, you know, a tweet and a letter and a coupon for a 24-pack. And then when I tried to do the same thing, after having no luck with Kia's customer service after replacing an engine for a recall that they then announced six months later, six months after I dropped all that money. jeez i'd be mad about that very mad about that oh kea what are you doing yeah yeah the ev6 is off the list it's not on the list for for the next car i think it's you know we're 99% sure it's going to be a um ionic five yeah the ionic five something something was just announced they're going to build it in atlanta or in georgia uh the next year's version and people are stoked about it what's it called

shoot hunday just this is just today Really? Oh, I haven't seen the news on this. Hyundai Ionic. Was it the six? Crap, I can't remember. All right, here we is. In the news, it says, oh, here it is. The 2025 Ionic 5 lineup will be all made here.

So big jobs growth for the Hyundai plant, but also could really shake up the EV market here in the States. That's probably the one I would eyeball if I was looking for it. They say family, though. So there's like, what, multiple versions of the Ionic 5? There are multiple Ionics. Like they have, it's not, it's not like, oh, this year it's the four, next year it'll be the five.

Their ionic four is more like a little sedan. They might have even had an ionic three. I think I've only ever seen an Ionic four and an ionic five. That's interesting. Yeah. This one comes with the more standardized ports too, which means it's open to 17,000 plus chargers. Good.

Yeah, all the Tesla. The charges that were uniquely Tesla, which is, Hyundai invested 7.9 billion. Okay, cool. This is good. Oh, 8,500 new jobs and 300,000 electric vehicles produced per year. That's a big deal. This is a big deal.

Yeah. I would look at one of these. That's what I would do. Yeah. Well, anyway, bag of chips, got a stick in it. You move on. You just live. You know, it's totally up to you.

You'll get something. You'll absolutely get something if you reach out to them and show them a photo of what came in there. Like, oh, yeah, just potato root. But here's a coupon for, you know, maybe even a, maybe even one of those Costco flats of Ruffles Cheddar or whatever it is. Yeah, that'd be all right. Go down to Costco flats. Sounds like a country band.

Where you race, where you race cards. Wow, we're going to go down to the Costco flats. Yeah, yeah. It's the hot new place to rev my engine. I also did this once with a, what did I do it with? Oh, Freddy's hat, gave me that hot, that chili dog all upside down and smear it all over the box once. So I sent them a tweet, and they sent me two gift certificates and a very nice letter.

And I wasn't even complaining. I was just like, whoa, what happened to this hot dog? And they were like, oh, shit, we need to fix this ASAP. So Freddie's still good in my book. Those guys are great. They're good. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, we're getting, are we, because we've had such bad luck with reaching out to companies directly and hitting up their customer support via their website or whatever, I think is it now we're just acceptable, not acceptable, but is that the right way, just to go right to social media and say, you know, here's how you wronged me. How are you going to make it good? Feels like it. Or do we? Yeah, I think so. Feels like it.

I don't know. I don't know for sure, but it feels like they're, that's the place where you get the quickest response. Certainly proven with the last two interactions I've had, both with Coke or whoever it was and Kia. Yeah. um k and c and c and k we call c and k you know c and k music factory also a uh non recommendal the opposite of that not a blech not a blech mental but like a well maybe that's it it's gross do not go to i don't know last time you've been to a wing stop brian it's been it's been years there's one that is not too far for me but it's also right next to a mod pizza and a Tokyo jo's and a lot of

options that i like a lot better so if i'm going to go in that area both of those places have to be on fire before I probably would go to the wing stop. Yeah, those other places are way better choices. And we should have made that choice. Let's have a block up up the street. Yeah, do that instead. When they're cooking, the winds go on the right way, I can smell the wings. Yeah, they make great chicken wings there.

They're fine. Wingstop is disgusting. I don't know how they're still in freaking off a business. I don't get it. Honestly, we go the other day because we got hungry for wings. Kim and I were both like, you know what sounds great? Wings. So we're like, let's go.

What's the closest thing? well on the maps it says the closest things of wing stop haven't been there in years yeah we'll try that no problem don't get especially don't get the boneless and here's why the boneless are basically a little tiny core of chicken yeah little wee ball of chicken inside and then a huge bumbling dirt clod of a thing yeah yeah and they deep fry the hell out of it of course and it comes out all oily and disgusting it was bad bad like bad food I do and I think I had to pay 12 bucks for that. It was like 12 bucks a plate because he had to get the little combo thing. So their prices went up like everybody else's, but it was 1,000% this was not worth our time. It was so bad.

So I'm just saying if there's a wing stop near you that's doing it right, here's the thumbs up for you. For everybody else that had my experience, freaking F that place. It's so bad. Right. There's a place in Denver here that I've driven people to in Lyft. who've all raved about Fire on the Mountain wings. It's a lyric from a or maybe even a song title, a Grateful Dead song title called Fire on the Mountain. And I've heard that these are spectacular wings. None of them are really close to me.

We've got one in the Highlands and one in Washington Park, both of which are, you know, a good 25, 30 minutes away. But I need to go and try their wings based on what I hear from people, is that they're the best wings in Denver. I love a good plate of wings. I really do. Yeah. I just need them to be good, you know?

Yeah. And wing stop. Garbage. Garbage. Got a quick shout out to our pal Jerry Tolbert, the good doctor. Yeah. He is the good doctor. Where did I put it?

I said it here. Mine's upstairs, so there's no way I'm putting it on camera. Oh, here it is. All right. Brian and I both got in the mail. A copy of Mantis. A colorfully cutthroat card game of rainbows and revenge supposed to be real good been hearing good things about it big family game uh loads of fun

made by the exploding kittens we were we were big fans of exploding kittens so so uh like looked at and said oh it's from the exploding kittens people great but hadn't heard anything about it so don't ask uh don't ask um dan what he thinks of exploding kittens he does not like that game oh really yeah i don't remember what his beef is but he he one time i brought it up so what do you think of that? And this is off air, I think. Or maybe he was on air. But he said something to the effect of like, yeah, we don't talk about that game. I'm like, okay.

Anyway, this looks great. How to, you know, collect matching sets of cards, steal cards from your opponents. Feel pretty good about things. Get out smarted by your opponents and watch them steal your cards back. Feel, sorry, feel not so good about things. Repeat this emotional roller coaster

until somebody wins. Sounds good. Yeah, I'll try this. I'm going to play this weekend. And they go get the kids over and crack this out, you know? There you go, yeah. Well, we'll see how that goes. Oh, I dropped it. There's nothing in there that's breakable.

Oh, no, the Hummel figurine, the mantis Hummel figurine that comes in every box is now shattered. Oh, shit. All right, one final note here from Jeff Sire. We always like to read his correspondence when he writes in. We get the Canadian perspective. Here's what he says. Scott and Brian, I'd like to comment, not a correct. on a remark Scott made on Monday show.

You guys were discussing the woman at Applebee's who thought it was $15.99 for the whole table, not per person. You remember that discussion? I totally do, yeah. Scott said he had probably never been more wrong about anything in her whole, or that she had never been more wrong about anything in her entire life. I would put forward that someone who was capable of a mistake like this has probably made bigger mistakes than she made at Applebee's. It's a very fair point. He says, for example, I thought my library car, could be used to buy stuff at the Walmart

kind of mistakes. Who am I kidding? She probably doesn't have a library card says Jeff. Yeah, I don't well first of all if anybody who thinks their library card could buy things at Walmart that would be I would like to meet them and condemn them into their face. But yeah like you know of course it's not her biggest mistake. She's definitely been more wrong about other things in her whole life Mr. Pidantic Jeff Sire. Okay. Okay Jeff Sire. Yeah, what are you? Let's listen to you

for six hours a day and see if you make any verbal mistakes. That's right. Any errors in language or grammar or whatever. Are they, are him and Bob Pedersen, they might be, but they might be related. Never seen them in the same place at the same time.

They might be the same person. That's right. Never in the, it's got a real Clark Kent vibe going on here, Jeff. That's right. That's right. I know every once in a while, there's somebody who pops into chat.

I can never remember their name. It's like ST something. and get a very big free hotel room vibe from a big Bob Peterson vibe to him and I don't think it's Bob I wonder if it is him though it might be it might be because his Twitch name is free hotel room

we don't know what he uses on YouTube yeah he's something he's just Bob Pedersen on on threads so yeah who knows what he's doing yes STD Stoic squirrel that's who it is STD sexually transmitted disease isn't there a disease called ST something?

That's right. If you guys want to write in like Jeff did, he used the email address, which is the morning stream at gmail.com. You can also text us at 801471062. It is time for this. Time for the news, brought to you by. Brought to you by Turkey-based Schwarma. Scott, tell me more.

Kim makes him in meatball form. It's all turkey, no beef, no lamb. the reason we do turkey is generally better for you, but also just less fatty and all that. And she makes them into balls. She puts in the, what's that,

the stuff that makes it swarm of the spice. I forget what it's called. Samba Olek, is that what it is? That might be it. I don't remember. She said it out loud a number of times and I always forget. But she made just a giant batch of these the other night. We had non, homemade non.

Pickles we made from the garden. she made her own taziki sauce unbelievable this stuff and I've been eating it for three days just going in there we got a whole bag full of the meatballs garum spice yeah garum salo that's it garum salas that it

anyway I go into the fridge and there's a bag of these meatballs and I just reach in there I'll even eat them cold brine I don't care oh yeah no these sound amazing they're so good all right let's get to this story the world's oldest man celebrates his 112th birthday and he says it's just luck his longevity good good you know what about times somebody doesn't say oh i drink a bottle of whiskey every week for my life and that's

how i lived 112 no you know what it's just luck you didn't you didn't get hit by a car you didn't catch some some disease that you know weakened your immune system or something like that it's just luck yeah sometimes you just get the lottery of life and you live a long time and you keep your faculties and all that stuff works out for you and you don't have to attribute it to some you know cigar once a week have me help me live it's like no exactly don't be telling people that they're all going to smoke cigars and die early because the chances of them dying or higher anyway the world's oldest living man is celebrated his 112th birthday at a care home in southport today John thinnestwood was born in Liverpool in 1912 good lord wow that's the same year the

titanic sank to give you a little you know like 50 years old when the Beatles came out like that's how old he is he was like you kids and you rock and roll about that time exactly yeah whatever it is it's too loud he became the oldest man in the world in April this year when his life

sorry and said his life long life is down to luck when John was asked how it felt to be turning the ripe old age of 112 he said in all honesty no different well yeah than the previous year sure yeah really feels like Like 111, if I'm being honest.

I mean, I assume he doesn't mean his whole life, right? Like, obviously, when he was 25, he probably felt different than he doesn't have very different than what he felt, yeah, 112. Can you imagine being, see, 112, when you were 10, you were 120, or no, sorry, 1921. So by the time you're 10, you're seeing real, real time, like, flappers, silent films. Holy shit. Provision, you're seeing. All of it.

the wars. Yeah, no kidding. When Titanic, Titanic was in 1912, wasn't it? Yeah, the year he was born, yeah. Yeah. Did they? I wouldn't remember that. You'd be able to say, where were you in the Titanic sink? I don't remember that. I wasn't born yet. Yeah. And he was, he was, what do you mean, red on airline number two, Mason?

Oh, Brian did. He's talking about the night. The Titanic? Yeah, because I'd said, I'd read the top line. That must be what he means, because I don't know what else he means. Oh, that's the same year as the Titanic. I was busy doing the Beatles math, I think, at that point. Beatles math, B math, we call it. B math, you know, we learn that in school, Beatles, math.

Yeah, something about 64, and when you're there, will you still love me or something? It's an important number. It's an important number. Well, anyways, the point is, what is the point? He's alive and doing good. He says he takes it in stride like anything else. Why I've lived that long, I have no idea at all. so there you go

nice Hey did did you guys also this is the thing I don't know because we're so freaking America

centric over here did other parts of the world do a around the same time a prohibition like was that a worldwide thing

or was it just here? I think it was just here okay so I think it was just just America so if you were in England or something

you never stopped drinking you just were like yeah I mean I think in Rome they drank more like in Italy boy

they lowered the drinking age to nine I think in Italy during that time. I should know this from that awesome documentary. Yeah, the Ken Burns deal. So good. That's an American thing.

Got Keith, David. Oh, Canada did have a temperance movement, but never an amendment. Interesting. Okay. Okay. So Canada tried, but they failed. And now they have legal weed, and we don't nationally anyway. Right.

It's funny how things turn. Let's get to this story. Speaking of the UK, we're going to stay over there for a minute. Okay. People are always complaining. that U.S., like Jeff was saying somewhere. U.S. was, oh, that was on skim. He was talking about how news down here, we're very U.S. centric, right?

We don't do a lot of international stories. And even when we do, it's always framed as this is how it affects America, right? Right, exactly. Yeah. Not here, not TMS. We bring up the stories. We don't discriminate. The other places are afraid to show you.

That's right. Like the U.K., let's do this story. their very first teacherless AI classroom is set to open in London. And I don't know how I feel about it. It feels like this is not ready. It's not ready for this. It feels too early, right? Yeah, yeah.

A little too early. Anyway, private school in London opening the UK's first classroom taught by artificial intelligence instead of human teachers. They say the technology will allow for precise bespoke learning while critics argue AI teaching will lead to a soulless bleak future. I lean that direction. Can't argue with that. David Game College, private school in London, opens up its new teacherless course

for 20 GCSE students in September. I don't know what that means. No, either. GCSE or GCSE. Someone of Zoe maybe knows, what the hell is. General Certificate of Secondary Education. Oh, there you go. I like that.

It must be common over there, the way they say it. Yeah. Oh, yes, you know, GCSC, yes, right. Yes, oh, very good, very good, yeah. Very good, yes, yes. That's for 14 to 16-year-old, says Zoe. Okay, that's the age group we're talking about. So it's like seniors here.

See, I'm doing it too. I'm like, all right, well, let's bring it back to American perspective. That's like seniors and juniors. Let's frame it right to the American. Yeah. It says the students will learn using a mixture of artificial intelligence platforms on their computers and virtual reality headsets. the platform

Let's see The platforms learn from what the students Excel in And what they need more help with And then adapt their lesson plans for the term I still think you could do some of this And still have a teacher though That part, yeah, exactly

That part is cool But still have a human teacher They gotta have a human being in there with them as well I can't imagine it's just like walk in Power button They sit there for the next hour And Boop beep boop beep

Yeah I don't know I don't know about this I need to see it in action. I don't want to judge it too harshly. It's easy to be biased on this stuff. But it says strong topics are moved to end of term so they can be revised. That's interesting. Strong topics.

Strong topics. I assume that's like hard math and, uh, I think things that they're strong in based on the thing earlier, like what they need more help in. So topics that they're strong and moved to the end terms so they can be and revised, probably revisited. Okay. While weak topics tackled more immediately in each student's,

lesson plan. I mean, there's an effort here to make this more individually based. So I do like that. I like the idea of that this kid needs his own path versus you can't just apply the same template to all 50 kids. And I think that's good thinking. It just feels early for this, you know? It does. Yeah. Do they do, how does, how does gym class work in this scenario? You know? Jim class is, you know, installing chips into computers and memory cards and video cards and things like that. It's that kind of exercise. Sure. Whatever you do to get your heart rate up, I guess.

Right, yeah. Let's see. Yeah. So anyway, if anyone knows about this, or are in the education system over there, let us know. I'm curious. Yeah. I mean, the news definitely would try to sensationalize it to make it sound like, oh, there won't be a single teacher anywhere for my. Miles near by this AI situation.

In reality, it's, no, we're actually just using AI in tandem with these teachers that, you know, just to help customize the lesson a little bit more to each individual students so that we can. Yeah, it's one classroom to start with. It's not a whole school. Right, right. So what I pictured in my head when I first saw was like an entire campus full of kids with headsets on and not talking to any humans at all. And it's clearly not that. But I don't know, you know, you're going to see a lot more of these weird experimentations. and I suppose that's okay to, like, poke around, you know,

we've got to learn how this stuff's going to work, I guess. Yeah, and using it for education, far better than using it just to create, here's what Brad Pitt would look like if he played Colossus. Yeah, it's a good way of putting it. Yeah. Trying to think what classes in school, I would have, this would have worked better for me.

I think... Like what AI classes? Yeah, like, if I had math classes, I hated math. growing up and I learned just enough to get by and so when it started getting to the complicated stuff like calculus classes and all that I was just the worst and I always felt like part of the problem wasn't that I couldn't grasp or think in the way I needed to

it was the presentation that just put me to sleep sure so could this could something like this come in and go all right well Scott clearly little 15 year old Scotty can't get his shit together so how are we going to help him well AI will determine that he is really bored by the face of it all. So what do we do to spruce it up inside of his headset so it's actually fun or something?

I don't know. Yeah, no, like basically some kids are visual learners. Some kids learn only by doing. So, you know, this is where that could really come in handy and say, oh, yeah, okay, for our learned by doing students, here's what they're going to do to learn the same material. For our visual learners, we're going to put it into graphic form. For our, you know, kids who just like text,

here is the most boring ass way. Yeah, like there's something to that. I just feel like you've got to... Well, maybe that's all they're doing is just taking it easy. This is a slow approach. So there's nothing really here to criticize. It's just...

Right, right. Let's see how it goes. See how it plays out. Let's see what your results look like. And they could look like, well, we thought this would be better with more AI supervision, but really it turns out it needs to be a con...

I'll bet that's the answer. It's like, well, it's a combination. We need teachers for this, and the AI is going to assist the teachers and helping the kids. That is where this all... ends up if I'm to guess if I'm to if I was a betting man as they say otherwise you end up with a blue screen of death at the beginning of the class and the kids all just go home yeah and uh yeah

nobody knows until until the end of semester oh yeah no we we we just showed up to class we did other things the the software never worked but there was no human there to tell so we just played on our phones all day yeah well that's the other thing I wonder how much of that they get to do like can they even have their they probably have rules about the stress well I mean classes some classes have rules about that anyway right You can't have your phones out during class and all that. Such a different thing. I'd be my rule if I was a teacher.

Oh, yeah. If I was teaching, I mean, what were our distractions? I would have a, I would sneak. My Walkman was a big, that was a big no-no. Yeah, I had that out all the time. I was always getting in. I had to smuggle that thing into classrooms like nobody's business and grew my hair long so I could cover up the headphones, the, the, the headphones.

Yeah, every one of you wonders why our hair was so stupid in the 80s. We were covering headphones. It's covering up those big orange foam. Yeah. sponges that we had on our... Yeah, we didn't have a sneaky little earbud. We could, like, snake up in there. Oh, no, exactly.

It didn't work that way. Although, I did have one of those old school radios that had a mono output, and it did have a little earpiece. Yeah, the thing that would, like, you could curl it behind your ear and interior, like, your Secret Service agent kind of thing. Yeah, I used to try to get away with that sometimes, but that got taken, like, two, three times or something. Yeah.

I needed distractions, but I don't know how kids do it now because they're so hooked on their phones and you go to a class and how do you not just immediately have you, your teacher go put them in the drawer or whatever they probably do if i had to guess probably they have those things like you have at the comedy comedy clubs where you have a zippered pouch with a lock on it you get to have your phone right next to you but you can't open that pouch until the class is done that's right when mega says Scott says he had mono um I did have mono sound and the mono nucleosis mononucleosis yeah a couple times I think that was nasty kissing disease yeah that's what they says

That's how they put it. I went to an art camp at the university, sorry, Utah State University for two weeks between my junior and senior year. And I made out with a girl who had mono and nobody knew it. And I went home with mono and I was sick forever. It felt like weeks. It was awful.

I hated it. I was just tired all the time and kind of had a fever here and there. And it finally went away. But the girl, her and I were supposed to be the only people that had it. Well, then two other dudes got it. Interesting how that works. Yeah. Now the math is starting to form in my head, and I'm like,

okay, Casey, were you, that was her name, were you maybe a little more, and turns out she was, she was making out of everybody. That was her thing. Yeah. Cool. You want to make sure everybody got that mono. Yeah. I wonder she's up to today. No idea what happened to her. Let's move on to this story.

a toddler who cried nonstop during a flight. You were hoping I would have a nice story here where somebody stepped up and said, oh, let me help or whatever, you know, try to help the kid. I try to do that. Kim definitely does that. We try to do it.

It definitely does that, yeah. Yeah, you want to not be part of the problem. Well, this kid cried so much that two strangers on the plane locked the kid in the bathroom. Oh, my God. Like, I'm visualizing them just wrestling. the kid out of the mother's hands and locking it in the bathroom.

That's horrendous. I know. That's really bad. Two airline passengers who locked a stranger's trying child in a bathroom have caused outrage in China. This isn't China, by the way. We're staying out of America right now. Yep. Yep.

And sparked a heated online debate how to handle upset children in public places. The incident went viral last week after one of the women involved posted a video on Chinese social media, which showed them inside a locked laboratory, is how they say it. Oh, so it was a woman inside the bathroom, a plain restroom with the child? Yeah, I think they locked her. I think the idea is they locked her in there with it with their kid. Okay. All right.

Well, at least it wasn't like just put the child in there. It'd be funny if it was like another stranger in there and suddenly someone thrust a baby. Hold on. I'm going to put on occupied, occupied. Occupato. Anyway, a kid appeared about a be about a year old. That sounds right. Says, we won't let you out until you stop crying, a woman sitting on the toilet,

told the toddler as she struggled out of the adult's lap and reached for the door, according to the video posted on Duyan. It's a Chinese, China's version of TikTok. Now, a bunch of dumb Americans are going to go, hold on a second. I thought TikTok was the Chinese version of TikTok. Isn't that why we're trying to ban it? No, it's all, it's complicated. So it sounds like this woman was one of the strangers.

Like a woman sitting on the toilet told the toddler as she struggled out of the adult's lap. At no point do they say the mom, you know, told the toddler. And so I don't know where the mom is out there being pissed, I guess, or something. I guess so. Wow. As the girls stopped crying, the women filming the video picked her up and told her, now if you make a noise again, we'll come back to the bathroom. Jeez, Louise. That's mean.

That is totally mean. Yeah. I mean, I also, where's the other mom? That's the other problem I have with this is where's the parents? I would have intervened. I wouldn't have let that go down. I don't think. I guess it looks like it was a grandchild, they say, in the first line.

And so probably not traveling with mom, but traveling with the grandparents. But still, they're too old to know what to do. Yeah. Oh, Tim Russell said it was one of the strangers. Toddler was traveling with grandparent who consented. Oh, geez. Yeah, fine with me. You go walk it in the bathroom.

Oh, my gosh, man. Also, is there any cultural thing here? Is this a thing you do in China and we're just seeing it out of the eyes of not being in China? like this is normal to say take my grandkid and it takes a village let's all be the village and shut it up right right right oh we've got thankfully we've got these two strangers in the village who are willing to step in and help with this child situation yeah i don't know how that works but i've i'm curious about it yeah uh all right here's our last story of the day officials probe a death for wells fargo employee who was found in her cubicle four days after last scanning into work oh god this is a example of people are not paying attention at the office because four days good lord yeah yeah uh 60 year old women uh 60 year old a rizona wells fargo employees scanned into her office on friday uh on what appeared to be an ordinary work day then four days later she was found dead in her cubicle denise prud home age 60 was found dead august 20th in her office in tempi uh she had last scanned in the building on

seven a m on august 16 a friday and there was no further scan in or out of the office 10 people police respond to the Wells Fargo I don't have to give the street because somebody had finally found her a security officer said they think they found a dead woman she was pronounced dead at 455 p.m.

Cause of death is pending so they're still working on this. I saw this on all kinds of like news coverage. Really? I don't know why because I don't think there's any foul play going on as best that they can tell either.

She probably just had a I don't know a heart attack or a you know sometimes people just die. it just plays on people's fears that they are forgotten and they are you know they will die unnoticed with no family or friends around them it's yeah yeah the story does go on to say that the building was a little bit the part of the building she was in was kind of less people there remote okay so and it's not like there's a checklist that the you know that somebody sees the uh they like have a list of who's checked in and who's checked out and uh oh we still have one

employee that has not checked out yet. Or maybe she was that employee. Maybe she was the one who looked at all this. Like she was one who monitored or all the lights to make sure. Okay. All right. Melissa checked in. Now she's checked out.

Okay. How about Bob? All right. Bob checked out. It's possible. It's entirely possible. But yeah, like when I was up at, when we went to L.A. When I was touring Blizzard, they have a lot of remote work going on now.

As opposed to that. It used to be, it had tons of empty space in that campus. And there was a couple of office. buildings where I was like, there's one guy way over there at a cubicle. Who still works, comes into the office, comes into the building to work. Yeah. Or that's his day too, because they have like a three off, two on kind of program going on. And I think most of them are Wednesday, or no, Tuesday, Thursday come in.

Yeah. And we were there on a Monday and part of a Tuesday. It just felt abandoned almost. It was weird. Weird. But they, yeah, like, you could, that guy could die in that corner. and I don't know what people would know right away because he's way back there with nobody there

a huge room all these old computers and cubicles all empty one guy in the back like if he died nobody didn't know for a few days but the custodial staff has to come in there over the weekend on the Friday like after work closes for business on Friday they go in and they like sweep and clean up things and you'd hope that they would say

hmm this woman's eyes are open but she's not breathing or you know you'd think so yeah maybe they don't Maybe they don't clean one. Did you lift your feet so I could get your trash can? Thank you. She just totally ignores me. That Karen, always ignoring me, or Denise Prudholm.

Jeannie's saying maybe they just weren't good cleaners. Maybe. Yeah, that's not really of, clearly. Or if you're in a building with Hardlingman in it, maybe they don't do it. Maybe they do those every other week or I don't know. I don't know how it goes. Oh, yeah, the Colorado guy, they got abandoned by his co-workers. Yeah, that was gnarly, dude.

it is right did that ever come out would they they intentionally like leave just leave him we're going did that happen i don't know i heard the i heard the first part of the story like oh we found him he was you know uh on a hike and they did a missing person's thing for him but i don't know if the if the employees are like oh god i really hate hanging around bill maybe we could just maybe you could just leave early let him get an uber home from the uh from the trailhead right freaking rude uh okay here it is. Group of Colorado office workers on a hiking retreat abandoned one of their party on the mountaintop, leaving him lost and stumbling alone during a stormy night.

It looks like he made it okay, though. Jeez. It was 80 miles west of Colorado Springs. Let's see. 15 hikers left. 50 hikers came. Only 14 left because of that. I thought he died.

You said he came out okay? I think he made it. The man left behind was apparently the last to reach the. the summit. He began to descend, discovered his coworkers had picked up the items they had used to mark the route. Oh, bastards. Got off course. Let's see. Send another pin drop. He was sending pin drops. I'm trying to see. Oh, this is a different thing then. There was one six days ago that was a, this might not have been, yeah, this is just 36 year old man died by hiking and camping near Boulder camp. Oh, okay. Separate thing. Yeah. That's a separate thing. We get those all the time

here too. It's like one guy goes out and doesn't come back kind of thing. Right, right. This guy, I guess he ended up getting service and got 911 at one point, so. Okay. He's good. He's mad at his coworker. He's like, you dick. I'm sure he is, yeah. Come back to the office on Monday. I'm not having donuts. It's not donut day for me. F you guys.

We just wanted to see, we're ordering from Jimmy Johns. We want to come in here and make sure, did you want us to, we'll even pick it up. Want some thinny chips? An Italian nightclub? Yeah, it's just not cool. I assume that these retreats are designed to have you all grow closer to each other, not leave a guy.

Right, yeah, exactly. Bastards. Trust falls and that sort of thing, but apparently not for this, not for this company, not for this. Not for these guys. This group, yeah. All right, Brian, we're going to take a break, a song break, if you will. And when we come back, we're going to do a read this, but not with Amy. She's down with COVID.

She went to DragonCon and Codd. everybody's COVID over there. Not feeling well this morning. Last night she was like, I think I can do it. I think I can do it. And I'm like, please do not push yourself. This is not, we can make do. And then this morning at like 5 a.m.,

she's like, I'm not going to make it. I don't feel very good at all. So I'm like, you know what? Sleep, rest. Yeah, get the rest to you that you absolutely need. Make sure Chuck waits on you hand and foot. Yep. And takes care of you and tends to every need.

That's right. And Chuck, hold your breath. Here, did Chuck, how's you say? Did Chuck came out okay? I don't know. I don't know if he did. I hope he did all right. Maybe all that bike ride and just really boosted him. I don't know. Maybe. Maybe. But anyway, I do have a book to recommend anyway, despite her not being here. So stick around for a read this after this song that Brian brought. Yeah, this is an artist named Tycho. T-Y-C-H-O. We got a brand new album from him called Infinite Health

came out, what was the day on this? The 30th. So, yeah, Friday. Co-produced with Grizzly bears Chris Taylor. Now, Tycho on some albums has gone with vocals, some albums purely instrumental. This one is purely instrumental, and this is amazing. This is so, so good. This is one of the singles from the album is called Phantom. The album is called Infinite Health, Health, which sounds like that guy in Liverpool has. So good for him. Tyco and Phantom. We're going to be able to The phone. The face. Thank you.

I'm going to be able to be. So, uh, So, you know, I'm going to be able to. So, I'm going to be able to be. The fact of it. The fact of them.

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Brand new song called Phantom from a brand-new album called Infinite Health. The whole thing is fantastic. Great little EDM instrumental kind of stuff. Not as pulsy as EDM. Electronic music without the D. No D. No D? Yeah, I like less pulse in my electronic music.

Yes. Yes. I mean, some of it's all right. but I would prefer a more mixed beat if you can do it. Yes, this is what you got with Tycho. Well, good. Hey, everybody, you know what time it is.

It's time for this. Whoops, where the hell did it go? Right there. One of the things that I enjoy also is reading. All right, we're going to do a read this without Amy. I hope whatever she's reading is making her restful and feeling better very soon. But I'm going to tell you about a book I'm reading right now.

So all you genre fans and zombie freaks, get ready, because I got a good one for you. I grab this book on Amazon, Kindle Unlimited, which is a thing I pay for. It's like five bucks a month or something. And I really like it because there are a ton of really great books in there that are part of the Unlimited program. And it means you basically can just read them, you know, to pay for them. And they have deals for books if you're an unlimited person. If they're not free, they're books that are like vastly discounted. So big fan of the whole way they do that over there.

It's one of my few favorite things Amazon does. I really like it. Anyway, I picked up this book because I was in the mood for a little bit of genre. After my epic science fiction journey through the Red Rising series, still cannot say enough about those books. But I was looking for something a little more popcorny, a little more goofball. And I think I found it. Here's a clip.

And then I'll talk about it. Here you go. Nothing was as terrible as the sound of a man crying. It was the whimper of a wounded animal dying in the street. A man crying was a foreign sound that, once heard, could not be forgotten, no matter how hard you tried, especially when it came from one of these men, the sheep dogs who protected the sheep. Officer Derek Hart lay on his back in the dark roll call room.

His fingers curled around the chain that held a pair of worn dog tags around his neck. He had never served in the military. The two pieces of metal were not to identify him. him as a soldier, but instead were all he had to tie him to his best friend. It was a cheap toy made of thin metal and meant to be snap free and lost days after a child received them for their birthday or a weekend trip to the toy store. The chain on Derek's set had broken on more than one occasion during his childhood, but he always replaced it with another. All right. That is the opening book or the opening read from the book called Calamity. This is book one of the Calamity series.

And Calamity is a story about some sort of outbreak that creates not so much as zombies. They call them rabids. They're basically human rabies, basically, is the way to look at it. A little bit more like 28 days and weeks later style zombies, that sort of thing. Okay. They still have their, like, are they able to talk and have their wits about them or more like, yeah, like the rage virus? Just full of, like more like the rage virus, more like just out of control, swinging, screaming. gotcha. Okay. Just chaos.

And, yeah, like Revers. It's a good one, Graham. Except I still don't get how Revers know how to refuel their ships and do maintenance. Right. They only fly into New Jersey where someone has to refuel for them. Yeah. It's a very strange combo they have there. But anyway, I like it, but it's still weird. Anyway, this is, it's really good. There are a million of these, right? There's a ton of books that are like, hey, whatever, if zombies broke out or some other calamity. and how do we deal with it. And they are often kind of, I don't know, they're, what's it like? It's a, you know, they can, they can get a little repetitive, like you kind of know what the

plots are going to be. And this one does something different. It really focuses down in on some characters, this first one that they talked about. And then his best friend Brandon also gets a point of view, a family somewhere in the Midwest. The outbreak starts in Florida and spreads very quickly. And gets to the point where they're like, the government is telling people to shelter in place, but they're also now going to bomb those places and kill everybody because they can't contain it.

And it's starting to spread very quickly into other southern states. A lot of this takes place in Alabama, Tennessee, and they're kind of working their way sort of northwest to get away from it. And it's everybody from like this lowly sort of small town cop they talked about in the clip all the way up to like the vice president's daughter makes an, parents in this thing. She's out running around trying to survive and can't find her dad. And anyway, it's that whole thing. It's very, very good. I just like how it is not the typical because it focuses more on these characters and less on the outbreak. There are some moments of people trying to take advantage of the situation. There are riots early on in it. There are people who are just, you know, taking, you know, taking everybody's cars and money.

and gas and everything because they're trying to take advantage of or whatever. But these zombies and the spread of it is so fast that it doesn't take any time at all. Like seconds, maybe 10 seconds after a bite and they turn. And it's hardcore. If you like that kind of stuff, I just think this is like a cut above. This is like a nice restaurant versus going to McDonald's. It's a good burger. Like a better burger.

You can pay a little bit more for this burger, although this is free on Kendall. But it does feel like. a cut above the usual. And I've read plenty of usual. I'm not bagging on that stuff. I like cheesy, you know. Walking Dead and Dawn of the Dead. We've seen all that. We've seen all that stuff before. Yeah, it's pulpy and ridiculous. You're saying it's a lot more character driven, you're saying? Yeah, more character driven and just a little bit more thoughtful. And that's cool. The writing style is really good. I like the Sam Winter guy a lot. And I'm only on book one, but I'm about 48, 50% through. And I really, really quite like it. So if you want to check,

it out. It's available in all formats at Amazon.com slash calamity book and you can search for Calamity wherever you get your books. Nice. Brian, are you reading anything right now? You got going? I'm not. Nope. I'm reading well, I'm reading the, actually I am reading

a graphic novel. One of the ones I picked up at the the second in Charles when we were dealing with that lactosing, somebody throwing milk in the food court. it's the X-Men Hellfire Gala

which I they advertise the crap out of this thing and so far it's pretty good I'm about like there's I think five or six issues collected in this thing that were part of the various X-Men series and then a standalone storyline

and that's interesting I think it was more I think it was more a way to give some artists a chance to draw X-Men characters in new costumes that were more fancy dress kind of things. I could see that, sure. It's fun changing up settings and stuff, but if your story's not as compelling, then it's like kind of empty calories. Do you have an X-Men run that you, like, swear by and would tell everyone to read and that kind of thing?

Yeah, the Dark Phoenix saga, without a doubt. Chris Claremont and John Byrne just hit that thing on the head so perfectly. And they've done some things to kind of neuter it in retconning and stuff. I mean, obviously, bringing Gene Gray back, which was such a bummer, things like, oh, no, there's this great sacrifice that she gave for her team. And, you know, the whole Dark Phoenix entity kind of taking her over to where she wiped out an entire star system with life in it. It's such an incredible storyline. and the whole hellfire club and how horrible those people were.

And, you know, again, now I'm a, Frost is a member of the X-Men off and on and things like that. It's, you know, for the time it was, it had such a massive impact on me. That's just, 90s, 2000s? When was this? 80s. 80s, really, that old. 80s, yeah. I couldn't remember when Dark Phoenix was the thing.

I'd have even been, I think Phoenix's first appearance, what one, X-Men 108 or something was even late 70s. Oh, wow. Okay. Much older than I thought. Yeah. Yeah, to the point where, let's see if I can find the dates. Probably get this on.

January to October, 1980. So they introduced Phoenix in the late 70s, and then she had her, she turned. Gotcha. and um so uh that whole thing this is all just i just checked just to see it looks like the entire run is on comics or uh it's marvel unlimited it's got to be on marvel unlimited yeah i would be surprised if it wasn't and there are so many yeah i mean uh hundred issue 129 january is when the the story starts but you could easily go back to um uh go back to issue 106 or 107 where

wherever it was. Oh, 101 was when you first, was when Gene Gray first turns into Phoenix. Oh, gotcha. And you could go back there

because, you know, she was, she was, she had some good powers that she was doing good things with for a while. And then,

uh, then some power corrupts ultimately. Yeah. Or power corrupts, absolutely is a phrase. Yeah. Um, and,

uh, so seeing, that whole path. That's the way I read it. I started George, my uncle George had the the X-Men collections from 94 and then actually had issues. Actually, you know, I take the back. He had 94 and forward the actual comics. I remember John Byrne.

He kept in the bag and read them. Right? No kidding, dude. John Byrne was yeah, he's the one known for taking away the fortress of solitude when he did some DC stuff. when he did the Superman thing. Yeah. Oh, yeah, here it is. He drastically reduced his powers.

Eliminated the fortress of solitude, got rid of crypto, kept Jonathan and Martha Kent alive into Clark's adulthood to enjoy their adopted son's triumphs as well as to provide him with support, grounding and advice. He also made Lex Luthor the wealthy business owner as well as genius, but that was the first like, oh, super company Lex Luthor. Yeah, he was kind of. controversial when that happened he was yeah his his art style for me is uh he's always been one of my favorite artists yeah um i picked up that you know we were talking about like you said that

superman run i was when we started with issue one on a superman run um it was uh i think it's right here it is man of steel number one man of steel number one so that was when i collected both marvel and dc for a while and i got that and teen titans and of course all the um uh uh Crisis on Infinite Earths, George Perez, another one of my favorites. I mean, those classic, those classic comic artists, the ones you grow up with, and the ones whose style you try to imitate when you're drawing the characters, when I'm drawing my Wolverines and stuff like that. It's, you know, back then it was a John Byrne Wolverine or a Dave Cockram Wolverine or whatever.

I didn't know he, oh, okay, so he was English, moved to Canada. Oh, Brun was? Really? Yeah, it was England, moved. to Canada for a while and then came to the U.S. and then in 88 became a naturalized U.S. citizen so he's an American, but born in Britann.

Yeah. And very ingrich. I don't know what is, what he's been doing since if he's still doing comic stuff. I know a lot of the creators went and either form their own companies or started drawing

for like image and things like that, but I don't know what he's in the 70s now so he's probably effectively retired but he's been doing stuff cover here and there and that kind of thing yeah must be great though to be i mean he's controversial generally speaking sure um in the community but to be a great writer a great artist and being comics what a what a awesome combo it's usually like oh the the pairing of so and so and so like him and clermont at the time he and clermont at the time but yeah or miller and um Oh, who's the guy

Quightly who had a really good run on X-Men for a while, Mark Miller and David Quightly. But yeah, John Byrne, like his, for a while he was doing She-Hulk writing and drawing, and it was some of the funniest. It was her fourth wall-breaking stuff that then became, you know,

the staple of the She-Hulk storyline right into the TV series. Yeah, one of my favorite of the Marvel series. I like it a lot. Yeah. I know people, people are all mixed on that. I'm not. I thought it was great. Oh, love it. Yeah. No issues. I mean, would we have Deadpool breaking the fourth wall in his comics if we didn't have She-Hulk doing it, you know, 10 years earlier in hers?

Yeah, good point. Yeah. Freaking Leifeld's like, I'll do it. I'll do that. Yeah. I'll make bad feet and I'll do it. I'll do it. I've been watching Batman, Cape Crusader, the new series on Amazon. on prime, which I really, really like. It's the, it's like 1950s, film noir style Batman stuff. And they do change up a few things. For example, Penguin is a woman named Oswalda, Cobblepot. Yeah. And they change a few other characters like that. But there are times when they show Bruce Wayne and it looks just like John Ramita's Peter Parker. Oh, really? So, so much. like genre made is Peter Parker. And this is,

oh yeah, this is the one that Bruce Tim came back to work on, right? Yes, yeah. Him and Bob Kane. Well, Bob Kane's dead. And I never saw,

right. I never watched much of the Batman, the animated series. I know it was really good, is beloved by a lot of people. I never saw any of it. But this one obviously doesn't continue that

because of those character changes that I mentioned in the time frame. But how's Dietrich Bader as Harvey Dent? he's good the Hamish is that how your pronounce

Hamish link later right later I think so is he Batman he's Batman he's your Bruce Wayne and Batman and I remember watching him on oh what was the TV show he played this this goofball

let's see I've got to find it oh he He's Father Paul in Midnight Mass. In Midnight Mass, yeah. Oh, the crazy ones. So it was the one with Robin Williams, before Robin Williams passed away, is that TV show where he ran an advertising agency. Right.

And Hamish was the goofy guy in the office. So thinking of that and hearing him, well, Alfred, did we have any leads on where Harley Quidd left? Yeah. It's like, yeah, this is kind of weird. All right, I can kind of get behind it. Yeah, I like him a lot, but as Batman, I haven't heard it yet, so I got to check it out. Yeah. Hearing amazing things about, though, people love this thing.

It's good. It's really good, yeah. Definitely in the style of the animated series in the 90s, too, from what I can tell him. For sure. Absolutely, art-wise, yes. Although his cowl, they have decided to go with the. big ears yeah yeah and they go out a little bit which is a little bit different what do you think of that new what do you think of his new big square logo that turns into an axe head have you seen

that in the new uh comic run hold on no it's a very controversial fans are like I hate this new logo and it's like well it doubles as an axe so I don't think it's that big a deal let me see I can find it um okay uh there it is it is a yeah here we go I'll give you a link it's a little yeah here we go I'll give you a link. It's a little weird at first, but then when you hear that he takes it off and puts it on a handle and uses an axe, maybe it makes it weirder, I don't know. That is what is Batman using an axe? Yeah, it's a little weird. I don't know if this article's images of him using it.

Wow. Okay. Yeah, that... Look at that thing. It looks like it's like Batman's been redacted or something. Yeah, right. Exactly. It's the cyber truck version of Batman's what it is.

It's really weird. So that's the thing that you see on his chest? Yeah, but it's also... It's also like a... It's not mainline Batman. It's like a... I forget the name... Let me even say here.

Revamp, Absolute Batman, which is always a little weird. You know, Star, they'll do this with Spider-Man where it's like... They'll have a run where it's a weird universe and he's got laser eyes or whatever the shit they do. It's kind of like that, but it's just... People saw that and went, oh, my gosh. And a bunch of people online were bugging James Gunn and saying,

can you please do something about this? and James Gunn says I don't control the comic book side I can't do anything about this I can tell you we're not going to use it for the movies but we can't do anything about the comic books it's like we've protected this bat's identity yeah

it's got a censorship bar over it right exactly so weird yeah it's DC version of the Ultimate Universe that's a good way of putting it Darganin in the chat says all right that's it you come back and have another price where they have to, you know, pair off some of the bad, the bad influences.

And it'll be infinite. Yeah, and it'll be infinite somehow. It'll be a crisis of infinite proportions, yeah. Of course. And somehow dark seed, side, seed, side, seed. Sure. Is it seed or side? Seed.

I can't remember. Whatever it is, I get corrected whenever I say it. So I don't, I don't remember what the right way to pronounce it is. Yeah, he'll show up at the end and go, ah, it was me that did it all. Is it side chance saying? Side, dark side. Okay, so really is just supposed to be dark side. Oh, man, I'll always get it wrong.

And I also think dark seed is a cooler name, but whatever. I think so too. Dark seed. Dark seed. He's a dark seed who plants himself and ruins the universe. Where's dark side? Did you remember to water the dark seed? Yeah.

It was like something Wow wants me to do for a blue check marks or whatever you call them. Oh, geez. There are many of those in the new game. Lots and lots of, they've changed it, though, so that instead of, just being a blue version of the regular exclamation point it's like a very unique symbol I actually really like it it separates it all very good from the rest of the game the new wow expansion's good typical dailies yeah they're still dailies but okay they're they're pretty fun it's pretty good I like the new expansion quite a bit it's very

good I'm sure you do and I'm probably I'll probably be there with you in a few months sure take your time you got a Star Wars game to beat some Star Wars stuff right now And technically I do too. I'm supposed to beat it and play it more so I can talk about it on CORE. Oh, really? I've been behind. Oh, I need to go listen to Coren here John's take on it. Yeah, he was very John snarky about it.

Yeah, sure. I would expect nothing less. Yeah, that's what John does. All right, that's it for the show today. Thanks for listing everybody. Plenty more coming up this week. So stick around, including TMS all week right down to Friday where we do another couch party.

And it's going to be great. Can't wait for that. Also, tomorrow should have Tom and Randy, Nicole, all that. Yeah. Your usual Wednesday business. In the meantime, though, we'd like to leave you a little song, a little request. Hey, Brian, you want to play that? That's right.

You remember last week, I accidentally read the wrong email, the wrong introduction to a song, a request. Came in from Darren from Northwest Pennsylvania requesting a cover of every time we touch, performed by Electric Callboy. Well, today, I'm happy to say, I listen to that song, and it's got so much damn cookie monster screaming. I'm sorry, man. I'm not playing it.

I can't do it. Even though I stretched it out from last week, and I promised you today, I can't. I listen to this thing. No one's going to like it. No one. A few people might like it, but I don't like it. Yeah.

So, Leslie, Logan's mom, Leslie Vigdorien, had a birthday yesterday. She says, hi, slurp, and burp on Labor Day. I'm going to become the answer to life, the universe, and everything. Not sure I'm ready for that responsibility. I have a sixth grader to raise. Holy cow. Anyway, since you all have been making fun of my favorite girl group lately, I figured I'd request a cover by them.

Yep, I'm talking about Hanson. About five years ago, they sang too much heaven by the Beach Boys. I'm sorry, by the Bee Gees at the Sydney Opera House. Very different band. They sing at Acapella and it's amazing. Thanks, guys. Love the show, though, Leslie. And that's what she says right there.

some some technical notes for me about recording it and stuff like that um yeah can't believe uh you've got a sixth grader now leslie that's insane to me how is he that old the frick yeah um this is an incredible performance of the bg's too much of an acapella by zach Isaac and taylor hanson can't believe i pulled those names you did all right there it was good in air there uh it's uh like it says recorded live at the Sydney Opera House earlier this year and it's fantastic, oh no, I'm sorry, five years ago and it's great. Their harmonies are

just as tight as ever. Here is Hanson and the BG's Too Much Heaven. Nobody gets too much heaven no more it's much harder to come back. I'm winning in line. Nobody gets

too much love anymore. It's as high as a mountain and all that you glide oh you and girl we got a lot of love in store and it flows through you and it flows through me and i love you so much more than my life i can see beyond forever everything we are will never die loving such a beautiful thing. Oh, you make my world a summer day. Are you just a dream to fail away? Nobody gets too much heaven no more. It's much harder to come out. I'm winning in life. Nobody gets too much love. anymore it's as high as a mountain and all that you collide oh you and me girl we got our highway to the sky we can turn away from the night and day and the tears you've had to cry

you're my life i can see i knew tomorrow everything we all will never die Loving such a beautiful thing When you want to read The light of a bed for all to see Our precious love Nobody gets too much of love It's as white as a river And harder to cross

Nobody gets too much heavy no more It's much harder to come out I'm waiting in line Nobody gets too much love anymore It's as high as a mountain And harder to climb This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Yes.

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