The Morning Stream - TMS 2712: Dave's Cable

Episode Date: October 1, 2024

I Can See Fiber From My House. South East Eat-Up. Stewardess, I Ordered the Non-Mouse Meal. The Dumbest of the Rings. Pete Rose Folded. Brian's meat is the most tender. Nobody Eats Chuck! Don't get into the van down by the river. Bet You Didn't See That Death Coming. TDS is Tedious. Faking Keanu. Searching for Sperp. Air-O-Teeka. Huffing on Strawberry Shortcake. Actual Red-Headed Stepchild with Amy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why do the chicken cross the road? Nobody really knows for sure, but most of us think he was on his way to sign up for the TMS Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, I can see fiber from my house. Southeast eat up. Stewardess, I were the non-mouse meal. The dumbest of the rings. Pete Rose folded.

Brian's meat is the most tender. Nobody eats, Chuck. Don't get into the van down by the river. Bet you didn't see that death coming. TDS is TDS. Keanu. Searching for SPURP. Arrow Tika. Huffing on strawberry shortcake. Actual red-headed stepchild with Amy and more on this episode of the Morning Stream. $3 for a burger, fries, and a shake. What if I'd brought Harold and the two kids?

For about $3, all four of you could have had chef boyardee, beef, ravioli, a salad, and a drink. Why shouldn't an enlisted man get in on the gravy? The morning stream. There, that's better. Try to enjoy your life day. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Tuesday, October 1st, 2024.

I'm Scott Johnson with Brian Abbott. Hi. Well, hi, Scott. Hi. Good morning. We're finally done with Monday. Monday's nothing but a memory. Tuesday is ahead of us in the headlights.

Yeah, you know, it's present. It's in our face. We have to deal with Tuesday. It's just here. What are you going to do? Sorry, my mic arm's a little loose. Why did that happen? What's going on over here?

I don't know. Okay, it's better now, you know. It's just a passive movement, I suppose. Eventually we'll make your mic arm move a little bit. Hey, what's going on? everybody hope you're all well um i feel like i'm living in an alternate reality of sorts here um i uh um kim so kim goes to alabama right she got home last night right and that was great she got home about 630 7 o'clock she stayed in this amazing like really nice resort they have there

on the coast and they had a great time her and her and her sisters is the whole thing they've been planning forever and they're just trying to you know with all this cancer going around the family they're Let's get as much time together as we can have, which I fully support, of course. And so they're having a great time. They come home, or she comes home, and it doesn't make any sense to me. I know that, you know, some meteorological expert could tell me, but right adjacent to where they were, one of the worst hurricanes in the last few years, tore right up through the country, flooded a bunch of people, damaged a bunch of stuff, killed what, we're in the 70s now as far as people. Oh, I thought we were just under 100. Yeah, last time I checked 90 or something.

See, even more than I thought. I thought we were still under 100. We knew that number would grow. It always does. But it just, it seems crazy to me that that thing literally just right over there. You say adjacent like the hurricane sees boundary lines and says, I'm just going to get this state and not touch that state. Well, that's what I mean. It felt like they, so they had nothing but sunny days.

Yeah. Isn't that weird? Beautiful weather. It's not like it's so far away. I mean, it would be like going from one side of your state to the other side, not even like, you know, crossing into a new state. We've got big states over. We grow on big over here on this side of the country.

Yeah, they're a little more compressed over there. Yeah, over in the, on the west, or excuse me, east side of this country, things are a little bit more like Europe. It's like a little smaller, squashed together stuff. And that thing, you know, tore a particular path like they do. That's what they do. They do a path. Yeah.

But I thought they would at least get like some. rain or some high winds. I would have expected it. Yeah, I would have said, oh yeah, Alabama, Mississippi, they're going to get hit with some rain. They won't get the level of rain and stuff and problems that they're experiencing in Georgia and South and North Carolina. But yeah, no, it just shows that this one really stayed east of the coast until it made landfall closer to the southern South Carolina border, northern Georgia border, right? Isn't that where it finally I think that was like epicenter landfall, yeah, I think. Yeah, yeah.

So, I mean, they have like five models, and the sixth one that some idiot drew on there was Sharpie. Yeah. But five different models that showed the directions this thing could go to. The wishful thinking Sharpie model. Yeah, no, she, so they didn't get any of it. And not only that, no flight delays. In fact, in fact, her two flights, both, in both cases were a little bit early.

and just no issues of any it's almost like it happened in a different world and I realize yeah you put enough distance between a thing and a thing you're not going to have any problems but I thought there'd be knock-on effects of some kind but they had none this is all good it's just weird to me that this it seems like it was two different worlds down there you know right well now we've got Kirk to deal with oh no or Kurt Hurricane Kurt Cameron oh crap that's a bad I kind of like that, Kurt. We need a better Kurt. Hold on.

Where is that thing at right now? Kurt is currently down by the Central America and is making its way more. That one actually might hit Alabama harder and Louisiana and eastern Texas and stuff. That's the direction. It might go way further west than Savannah. It's currently got 60. knots, 70 miles per hour, central pressure of 98mb. I don't know what an MB is, whatever that is.

And its momentum is northwesternly, 11 knots, 13 miles an hour. So watch out. Yeah, we'll see. 40% chance of it turning into a hurricane. Right now it's just a tropical storm. Yeah, I think so. So 40% chance of formation through the next seven days. So I think, I think all of us go into the,

south east coast meetup yeah monica's not here for me to to irritate with that yeah but uh yeah we should be we should be okay in savannah and if i get stuck uh in savanna i can imagine a nicer group of people to get stuck with yeah now if you have to resort to shame maddox if you have to yeah of course if you have to eat if you have to cannibalize somebody though who do you eat who's going to get even first at this event oh um ooh that's really good probably me because uh because now that I've been doing orange theory, my meat is the most tender. No, that's a good point.

You got tender meat. Yeah, I volunteer as tribute. There's just not enough meat on Chuck's bones. No. Yeah. Yeah, I don't want to eat Chuck. Nobody eats Chuck and gets away with it. Well, hopefully nothing comes to that.

But Kirk, it's so misleading. I'm looking at the National Hurricane Center's map, and he's way, way out there in the Atlantic. But it changes so quick. Like, he could be all up inside this shit in no time. I hate hurricane season. It's all this guesswork. Well, I mean, it is.

It's, you know. If there was only a famous baseball player who was known for betting on his own games, who could make the proper bet as to when this is going to make landfall. I was going to make a joke about, well, you know, Jeff Goldblum described that, that crazy butterfly in Central America flapping its wings. And that's what affects, we know that's what affects these hurricanes paths. It's what happens. Yeah, watch for that.

A quick note from a listener, TD, rode in and he said this via text 8014710462 he says hey guys i work as a tech for a local provider here in rhode island you don't hear a lot from rhode island that's nice to hear from somebody up there yeah um i am 100% convinced that brian's occasional cutouts on the air are indeed his isp having issues i have seen this problem before and getting this isp to understand or being able to demonstrate the problem is very hard to do in all caps uh mostly because it's intermittent and unpredictable i wish you well in your quest Oh, thanks.

So it didn't help much. Not TDS, but TD. Just TD, not just short of the sneaky little, it would be funny if it was somebody at TDS. Like, we're just doing a little. Listen, there's really, there's, as soon as fiber is available, we're switching, within reason price-wise, we're going to switch over to fiber. But right now we're in this weird pocket of the Denver metro area. That's literally a road, a north-south road that I can see if I go outside my house is the dividing line. And everything on the other side of that, on the eastern side of Indiana Avenue, you get all these different choices.

Xfinity and this and that and blah, blah, blah. On this side, we have two choices. It's the phone company's DSL and TDS. And DSL, we had Century Links, DSL, or whatever they're called now, for a long time. and that was far worse than the occasional dropouts that we're getting with TV. Yeah, I remember we had some big problems there. In fact, do you remember when you were,

there was a time where you were tapped into Dave's, you had a cable running from Dave's house? Yeah, he just took the cable the rest of the way down, by the way. When we were working on the fence, we finally pulled the rest of that cable out. It's been sitting here this whole time. Was the PVC in decent shape?

Was it still holding up and, you know? Yeah, yeah. Get the job done. No break. and the insulation, that sort of thing. Probably still pretty solid connection if we needed it, but we don't need it. No, he's on the same ISP as you. That was the point, right?

He is. He switched. Yeah, and he's switched also, so now he's on TDS as well. Yeah. So he's the first person. When we get a dropout or like a longer period dropout, we always text each other. Hey, you're in a networking? Okay, good to know.

This is not me. That's good to have somebody else to compare your notes with. I like it. Yes, it is nice. We got another one from Tyler, and he is from Tyler. He is from Texas, Central Texas, and I'm pretty sure there's a town in Central Texas called Tyler, Texas, isn't there? There is. Oh, yeah.

It's the Rose capital of the U.S. Oh, no way. Yeah. Yeah, we have a newspaper there. The Tyler, the Times of Tyler? Oh, what is it? The Times of Tyler. I spend a week there, I probably told this story.

And I'll tell it really quick for everybody who's heard it. But this was one of those trips where I went. three days before the trainer got there and to install our software and all the machines. This is in the, Can I Use Your Phone Company? Yeah. And so I got all the machines installed. And then I had the rental car. So I went back to the airport and Tyler, three gates.

Oh, I love a small airport, big fan. Yeah. To pick up our trainer. Yeah. A guy named Don Schmidt, who, you know, had like a lighter complexion, kind of really dark hair, a little bit longer, a little shaggier, tall guy, Gaunt. And so I decided to have some fun, and I stopped off at Walgreens and bought some poster board

and figured out the name of the local radio station, pop music radio station. Let's say it's W-A-B-C or whatever. And made a big poster board that said, W-A-B-C-W-A-B-C-W-A-B-C-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-Reeves. That's awesome. And then I got to the gate early and held up the sign and of course everybody's anticipation everybody's like totally like you know oh my gosh wow okay

wow and uh you're worried about getting a little crowd there that were like waiting for him to show up or anything a little bit a little bit of like oh my god what's going to happen you know so he comes in and this is this is one of those airports where there's no jetway they roll a staircase up to the plane and he gets off that way and so he walks in he sees the sign and this is a testament to how awesome Don Schmidt was. He had his sunglasses on, didn't take him off. He said, all right, let's go. And just kept walking, like, for me to follow him.

That's great. He anticipated your joke. I'm sure 95% of the people there looked at him and said, that is not effing Fiannu Reeves. But there may have been one or two people like, I don't know what he looks like. That could totally be him. Yeah, and them Tyler, Texas locals.

They don't know. What do they know? Exactly. They've seen Johnny Utah one. or twice. Two sandwiches, Johnny. That's right. Well, anyway, this guy.

So Tyler, Texas. So this is a guy named Tyler from Central Texas. I don't know what town he's in, but he's probably not from Tyler Texas. I have no idea. He doesn't say. He says, hi, this is Tyler from Central Texas. And I have a question about something Scott said yesterday. He said the word SPERP.

S-P-E-R-P. Did you really? Okay. Spurp. I don't remember saying spurp, but he goes on to say, I don't know what it means or what it was. for, but can he explain what Sperp means, and maybe why he said it. I need closure, says Tyler.

Well, keep in mind that at some point, Scott will get a correction from Bob Peterson on the correct pronunciation of the word spurp, by the way. Yeah, Bob, how do you spell, how do you pronounce Sperp? We eagerly await your reply on threads. Please get back to me. He loves hearing his name on the show. Oh, yeah, Bob's great. Is it Peterson or Pedersen? I always say Peterson.

It's Peterson. It's Peterson. I think it's pronounced Peterson. It's just a D. It's just a D in place of the T. Peterson. Okay. So somebody in the old country was named PED or PED. Peter.

Somebody who's named Peter. And he is the son of Peter. Right. Son of Salt Peter. Got it. Well, anyway, Sperp. I don't remember saying it. I need a time code.

I looked it up on the search thing that we got, the thing. Can't find it? It won't transcribe Sperp, will it? No. In fact, let's just double check. make sure it wasn't cashed from yesterday. So if I start searching today and I go, S-P-E-R-P, the closest I get was an episode from 2014.

I don't even see the word spurp in the results. Let's see what it says. And when I actually play it, let's see what we get. Tax their schedules too much for a thing that's just, you know, kind of a thing to do. So that's why I think you guys are going to be instrumental out there as contestants. And, I mean, you're going to be a huge part of this is what I'm getting at. Sure.

Well, I mean, and the good news is that with such a stable of great talent, the fried pants... You sound like you were in, like, Vegas or something, you know, on like a different kind of mic or something, yeah. You might have been. October 2nd, 2014. I didn't hear the word spurp. No. I don't know. And there's no, nothing with recent dates.

These are all 2014 results. Here's one from 2011. None of them say spurp. I don't know why the results are even coming up. I couldn't find it. So, Tyler, I'm sorry. I did as much. groundwork as I could

I don't remember saying spurp I don't know why I would say spurp I don't know the context I looked it up on Urban Dictionary it's not even a word It's not something Talia has told us to look up And said you know

Now you need to look up spurping Yeah yeah like I don't Actually I didn't look Let me try spurping No no don't do that I'm sure I'm sure it's a mixture of burp And something else And you don't want

Those two things combined Oh, I found, okay, I don't remember seeing this yesterday. It showed up today. Spurp, but it's not even close to some. Yeah, it says, to spiritually perpetrate, here's the use case. Did you happen to notice Yogi Bear over there spurping in the corner? Now, spurpees is a outbreak of herpes. That's a separate thing.

But I didn't say spurpees. He says I said spurp. So this is as close as I've seen any kind of definition to a word called spurp. Have no idea, Tyler. I apologize. I don't know where you got it, why you heard it. I don't remember saying it. If you can get me a timestamp, Brian and I will dig deeper, but that's as far as I got.

All right. There you go. As good as it gets. Now, here's a question for you, Brian. Do you think that Pete Rose had money on when he might pass away? Maybe not? Probably not. No.

Who knows? I mean, he might have. Yeah, Pete Rose. I don't know who here knows. A lot of people know that I, for years, up until 2017, worked on peterose.com, Pete Rose's official website and worked, met Pete Rose several times to produce that website. Right. Now, say what you want about Pete Rose. Did he, was he, did he always seem miserable every time that I met the guy in Vegas?

The answer is yes. Yes. Did he, uh, did he never remember my name every single time I showed up in Vegas and talked to about the website? Yes. Yeah. uh did he uh yeah that's about it that's about it did he did he pay me to work on his website yes yeah did he owe you any money though for the work that you did he owe you or did you ever feel unpaid he did not he did not

owe me any money and um uh and he even gave me a signed baseball that is getting washed out here but it says brian thank and you remember thank goodness he remembered my name probably because i wrote it down for him uh Brian thanks for covering all the bases Pete rose Oh, isn't that cute? A little covering reference there. So the current site, p.rose.com, is this your work or is this somebody took it over? It is not. Somebody took it over, but they continue to use some of my artwork.

And the thing is so freaking slow now. It's really slow. It's hosted on a potato somewhere. It's not great. Also, whose decision was this? Gray text on bright red background. I can't read that shit. Right.

Yep, not mine. The artwork that is mine are the three boxes that say merchandise, biography and appearances. But what they're doing there is they're using the hover version for merchandise and appearances. So they all originally looked like biography. And then when you hovered your mouse over them, they would look like with the red, kind of the red highlight and change the color. But now they're using merchandise and appearances as actual. Yeah, they're just static. They're not even, they don't mouse over at all.

Yeah, that's kind of lame. So he, you know, a lot of people think he was robbed of his. his accolades yeah he so here's here's where the defining line is right because he's got banned from the Hall of Fame because he bet on gambling

first he first he denied betting or I'm betting on gambling bet on baseball I think gambling they're going to be great it's going to be so good I can't wait for more gambling he he

didn't even admit it initially when the commissioner, you know, when he first got accused of betting on baseball, it took him until 2002 to go to Bud Zellig, whoever the commissioner was at the time, and say, okay, yeah, I bet on baseball, but it was only ever on my team to win. I never bet on my team to lose, which, you know, would mean that he could throw a game and make some money, and he never bet on other teams. I don't know why the benefit of betting on other teams. But because of that, they won't ever let him, Or they kept him out of the Hall of Fame. My guess is at some point in the next couple of years,

they'll put him in the Hall of Fame. It's just how pissed off the commissioners were at him for doing that, that they don't want to give him the satisfaction of putting him in the Hall of Fame while he's still alive. I see. So they could do a posthumous thing now. They could do a posthumous thing now. He really was one of the greatest players ever to live. He was amazing.

He was 4,256. He's the hit king for a reason. Johnny Hustle? No, Charlie Hustle. I mean, say what you want about the dude's vices, his record is insane. He was so good. Yep, yep. But the only time I ever saw him in person was when I came to Vegas that time to see you,

or we were going to run into you, you were there with Uncle George and stuff, and we were in the... We were in the Cesar's Palace, going to the Palm Restaurant. Yep. That's right, back when they did that awesome happy hour thing they used to do. Yes, and he was down the way in one of those shops that sell those framed movie posters is with a thousand autographs of people all over. Yeah, like $4,000 to get like the original Star Wars cast signing your poster or whatever it was.

And he would just sit in there and even then I went, oh, he's grumpy. He was like grouchy with the people. He is miserable. He was just, he hated, I don't know, I don't know if he hated just talking to people, but because for a lot of times for the website, I would sit there with a camera on a tripod and take pictures of fans meeting him and then I have to talk to the fans and say, hey, do you mind if we use your photo for the website and all this and they're like oh yeah totally cooler no please don't so i would take a lot of pictures and you just sit there and watch his interactions with with people and it's like does he hate talking about baseball does he hate other people does he just does he just want to be somewhere else doing something else or whatever but um i think he wants to be gambling is what he wants to be

gambling he wants to be gambling but for that time that he was you know Cincinnati red i care remember who else he played for um but big big length of his time during uh during uh during his career playing for the Cincinnati Reds. And he was a great player. And has that famous, that famous dive to home plate, you know, another one of those great photos, those great baseball photos. And I have a, I guess it's a bobblehead or a statue or something also that he signed commemorating that.

But that one, that one's not customized to me, so I think I can sell it now. One of the things, ooh, I don't like this. sorry, I'm clicking on his website and there's some weird shit going on so they have you can get dinner with Pete this is before you died obviously Yeah, yeah

Or maybe it's a lot of people Or more money I don't know what should be I don't know where you get more money Now you can get a dinner of Pete But there's There's a weird thing going on On the upper, the top

And navigation It's like you know the shop Give me a leak Oh sorry it's just Peterose.com I can hand to you Oh is it I mean is it just it's not on the homepage though it's on the shopping page no it's actually on the so on the home page up in the top navigation where you have shop and appearances and everything oh yeah okay

you have r7 casino and that took me to a very sketchy russian site just now yeah they think that might be who he was promoting oh yeah look at that arena bclass dot are you you want to lose money yeah you come here to r7 casino we take we have the loosest malware is in the business. Yeah, I regret clicking that. 90% to win the rate on our malware. Any kind of like dot RU scares the hell out of me.

Anyway, uh, well, Pete Rose, uh, goodbye, I guess. How old was he? Oh, he passed. It was, um, 83 or something. 80, yeah, low 80s, I think. Low 80s. That's how I want to be thought of when I die on my 80s.

Gully, they really, like, they stripped out that dinner with Pete page. It's like what I start with when I do a website. Like, okay, this is going to be a little placeholder for the actual dinner with Pete page. We're going to have a photograph. We're going to have some copy about it

and then they'll dress it up. It's like they started with that. Well, given what a grumpy sacky was, I'm sure that whoever did this for him or whoever does it now, you know. It sounds like he wouldn't want to be around him very long, you know? No, but, you know, no, for sure. But I mean, there's still the website,

You know, why did they strip a lot of design and stuff? How do they manage to both take out a lot of the design and slow things down with this little bit of... Like, you go to these other pages. You don't even get a logo in the top corner. No, yeah, it's very weird. What's this Vavada? Yeah, what is that?

I'm afraid to click it. Oh, that's another Russian site. Is it? I didn't want to click it. Yeah. But he spent, I mean, he lived in Vegas, right? That's where he ended up. He did. Yeah, yeah, he lived there.

Yeah, that makes, I mean, if you're trying to deny that you have a gambling issue, but you make sure you move your ass to Vegas. I don't know. It's a little bit of a commitment. A little bit of a picture of the keep Pete Rose in the dinner. There's something weird in the door. Okay, cool. Let's see here.

Oh, I love that. Pete Rose, dinner with Pete Page. Let's see, I'm looking right now. Oh, yeah. What the hell, dude? There is something weird in the door. It's a, boy, ah, it's some kind of freak. So I've got a person. Here, I'll zoom in on the thing here.

Yeah, who's that, dude? It's a Grim Reaper coming to get all these old guys. Yeah, exactly. Are any of these other people anyone we should know? These are just old fans of Pete's. I think these are just, it's a group of nine people who paid to have dinner with Pete. This is a boomer convention. My gosh.

Exactly, yes. That there is no doubt that 95% of this debt, and was spent talking about golf. Yeah, dude. He can tell. We're complaining about whoever's in office. Right. Whoever isn't a...

That's it that looks like... This looks like the choices for the... For some state's senators. I've never seen whiter men in my life, though, for real. Right. Yeah, exactly. Except this mysterious figure in the doorway. We don't know what's going on there. Yeah.

And I'm watching too much from to not have it remind me of that. It's also kind of funny that in the picture of all these people smiling and staring at the camera, behind them, there's a picture on the wall of a bunch of people smiling and staring at the camera. Yeah. And I'll bet on that wall back there. There's a picture like it just, you just keep going in and just like, yeah. Love it. The never-ending photo. It's like having two opposite mirrors in a room.

You just look on forever. Quick note. I was just informed by my daughter. that they so we we use we have a partner we work with on stickers now who does a really good job on this stuff oh yeah I'm looking forward to get my first set of stickers from these people oh good I think he'll be very happy but um we had ordered this amount for these mixtapes that we did the TMS mix tapes yeah yeah and they sold out very quickly and I felt bad because we were like well should we do another run like you know I didn't know a lot of people are like oh shoot I just missed it good news although a bunch of you're going to hear this later

and not be able to get them. But we got a few extra in that came in by. We don't know why they just topped off our order with more. They gave us more than we paid for it. Oh, wow. So if you guys want to try to grab those, and it should be any second now, I think Taylor's in there right now,

setting it to active. There is a number left in stock. I don't know what it is, but if you didn't get them the first time, go to frogpants.com, and there will be some left today. Okay. Wow, cool.

And she's mailing out the rest of them today. So all of you who have ordered them should be getting your confirmation numbers. But if you missed out on that, You don't want to, and it's tax-free, it's shipped anywhere in the world. There'll be a handful of extras. So go now, frogpants. Stop, and order them before they run out.

Can you mind saving me one? Scott, can you save me? Actually, that's a good idea. Hold on. Let me tell her. Hold me two of these for me and Brian to have. Cool. Because I don't have one either.

Here we go. I always forget to do that, and then I sell something I really like. I know, exactly. I did that with, where is it? I do that with all the coverville t-shirts is that, you know, I sell them all out. And I'm like, oh, crap, I didn't get one myself. I don't know where I put it. Oh, here it is.

This thing. I mean, Desiree, I should get one right because I signed the damn thing. I signed each and every one of those stickers. That's right. That's right. Personally, by hand. See, this thing, I finally got smart and kept one for myself. Nice.

Usually I'm mad and I'm like, like, I barely have my own copy of dungeon runner or dungeon murder. Oh, really? I have it. I have it, but it's like, it was like an afterthought. Like, oh my gosh, we're about to sell out of these. Please hold me one. All right. Let's move on to today's news.

We've got news to cover. And, you know, people at home waiting for the news. So let's do the news. It's time for the news. And it's brought to you by. One of our favorite tadpoolers, Tandagasa, is streaming on Twitch. Catch him at Twitch. dot TV slash Tondagasa. That's T-O-N-D-A-G-O-S-S-A. That's right. He'll be at your meetup in the next week, I believe.

Oh, cool. Really? Yep. Him and Dunaway are real pals now. They hang out all the time. Oh, that's cool. Good. Yeah, I haven't seen a list of everybody that's going to be there. That's going to be fun. He's a cool dude. All right. Let's move to this story here. A boy, little boy, six years old, abducted from California. And you might think, Scott, that's a dark story. I don't want to hear about kids getting abducted? Yeah, geez. Well, I got good news. Boy, that was abducted at age six in California,

found alive more than 70 years later. And he's still six. What? Oh, man. Talk about Lost like shows. That's a show right there waiting to be written. Luis Armando Albino, Albino, Albino. Was six years old in 1951 when he was abducted

while playing at an Oakland, California park. that's a problem. You go to Oak Town, you get, you get kidnapped. Yeah, yeah. Seven decades later, Albino, I keep wanting to say Albino, I apologize. Albino has been found thanks to help from an online ancestry test, old photos, and newspaper clippings. Bay Area News Group. Oh, wow. Yeah, it's crazy, right?

Bay Area News Group reported Friday that Albino's niece in Oakland, with assistance from the police, the FBI, and the Justice Department, located her uncle living on the East Coast. he is now a father and grandfather, as you might expect, is a retired firefighter and Marine Corps veteran who served in Vietnam, according to his niece, 63-year-old Ada Aidelquin. She's 63. It's crazy. Alita Alequin.

She found Albino and, let's see, reunited with him, him with his California family in June. So this is back in 1951. A woman lured this then-six-year-old kid from the West Oakland Park where he'd been playing with his older brother and promised the Puerto Rican-born boy in Spanish that she would buy him candy.

Well, where was the don't take candy from strangers rule then? In 1951, we didn't know that. Like, oh, by the way, we told kids in school, like stop drop and roll and do whatever people have, whatever people ask you to do if they have candy. Yeah, candy's worth whatever, yeah, whatever happens, if there's candy, do it, do it. Right, whatever that van looks like, get in.

Yeah, that's right. This is before we had like safety seal. on medicine bottles. That's right. Car seats, bike helmets, come on. You know, when they say Make America Great again,

this is what they're talking about. We're going to go back to a time with, I don't know where I was going to that. We're going to go back to a time where we had no seatbelts. We're taking the seatbelts out of the car. Great. I'm sure that won't.

That definitely won't be a problem. Let's see. So she lures this kid, And instead the woman, so she kidnapped a kid, flying him to the East Coast, where he ended up with the couple who raised him, as if they were, he was their own son. It was essentially the situation where this lady wanted, I need a baby. I need a baby. And they've got a baby. Let's see, he grew up, didn't say where on the East Coast he lives. For more than 70 years, Albino remained missing. But he was always in the hearts of his family. And his photo hung in relatives house. As he said, his mother died in 05, but never gave up hope that his son was still alive. It'd be great if she was still around. I mean, obviously, it's not going to happen.

I mean, yeah, like, but 70 years, so he's 76. His parents have to be, I mean, obviously, mom's passed away. His dad was still alive? No, his dad, I think his dad long died. They didn't say here. Okay, okay. Let's see. Did they say it?

Yeah, they didn't say about his dad. He's going to be older than most of the relatives who are welcoming him back, probably. Because you could be 76 and your dad could be 96. Let's say he was 20 when he had you. Sure. It's possible, I suppose. Even 94, 92. The Oakland police acknowledged her efforts saying, quote, they played an

integral role in finding her uncle and that the quote outcome of this story is what we strive for unquote who later said we're pissed the Vegas got our team and we're still sad the raiders don't play yeah and they're taking another one those Oakland days who knows maybe heading to Vegas right now it's the plan but who knows if that'll happen yes I was going to ask you there's no confirmation yet but we still think that's possible right still think it's possible still think it's um because Salt Lake was in this rumor mill for a while they were talking about coming here and I don't know if that's a thing or not. I mean, I think they're definitely

going to Sacramento for a while, or they're already in Sacramento, definitely going to Sacramento, and then probably to Vegas. I think it's 51% likelihood. If he rose, if you were here, you'd tell us what those odds were that.

Yeah, he'd have money on it already. You know, he'd have a couple grand on that it was going to Vegas. Exactly. Exactly. I think that's great. I would love, I think a baseball team in Vegas would be cool. I don't know how locals feel about it, but Keep in mind, that one, that one would absolutely interfere timing-wise with TMS Vegas every year because, you know, the, the rate is wrapped up by then.

The Stanley Cup sometimes overlaps if it's going on. Yeah, and the F-1 stuff happens later or right before or after. November. In November, so well, before and after. Is it happening this year? They do an F-1 now, or do they? Yeah. Yeah, they've already.

They've already, or they're in the process of re-ripping out those new trees that everyone bitched about that they killed in front of the Bellagio and planted new ones. But they planted the new ones and planters that they could just easily remove as opposed to having to dig them up. Oh, that's smart. Yeah. Should have done that in the first place, dummies. I had done exactly. So, F1, I thought they chose a different host city every year or something like that. No, it's expected with Vegas for five years, I think.

I think somebody in a showjo could confirm this. Oh yeah, she'd know. She's on the ground. Mitsulu maybe he'd know. In fact, I'll guarantee him to know. Yeah, that dude's freaking font of information if you need it. If Salt Lake gets them. So this Ryan, I forgot his last name.

This guy that owns the jazz and is now, Ryan Reynolds. He's got his mobile company and then the jazz. At aviation gin. Yeah, I'll end this. And the soccer team. or the football team. The football team and now the hockey team. It wouldn't surprise me if this guy isn't deep pocketed enough

because he really wants to bring all these sports to, he wants to make Salt Lake a big hub for it. I don't know what took us all this time, but anyway, this guy's super into it. So there's a good chance he'll out bit him and get it. If we did get a pro baseball team here, it would be like, it'd just be crazy because all growing up it was always like,

all we're ever going to get is the jazz. This is what we have. That's as big as we're ever going to get. That's it. That's the kind of town we are. We're a one team town. It's like Reno. We don't get anything special here. That's just how it's going to be. And here I am in my middle age going, holy shit, we're going to have three of the major sports. Football would be insane. If we had football team here, holy shit, we would just lose our minds. We'd be like Denver. We'd be done finally. We'd be like Denver. We got all four. Yeah. We'd finally be like you guys. The three of them suck at any given time, but we've got all four. That's the trick. Actually, the avalanche on the nuggets are great. right now. And who knows, you know, we had a couple, we've got a couple wins under our belt with the Broncos. Who knows? Yeah. Oh, the other thing, so speaking of Mitsula, he, he sent me a little list of the concession prices for the new hockey team, like hot dogs, drinks, and all that

stuff. Uh-huh. Yeah. I expected $8 hot dogs, $12 burger. I expected expensive. That's what you expect. Three dollars for a hot dog. Really? Uh, like four for a burger. Um, the drinks were like a buck ninety nine like it's not bad that's like that's what it costs you to order it not what you cost to get food yeah also it's like those menus where they just put a three and not and so i'm thinking is that 30 dot zero zero or is that like 300 dot you know i don't know right right yeah but uh no i was very happy to hear that they're trying to they're making a big deal out of it too they're trying to be affordable and family friendly it's probably the first like what they'll do for the first season is like really make it entice people to do it and then they'll say well that was really

just introductory pricing but man a live event sports hot dog one of my favorite things on this planet I love yeah I'm with you I want one right now I want one right now I mean I could eat a hot I could eat a gas station hot dog so I'm not a good person to ask about this stuff I do like those I like him on the rollers unless they're all wrinkly if they look like some you know old man's wrist I don't want those Jerky, no, you're not in. No, forget it. Yeah, I don't, I'll get my, I'll get my slim jims in the package. Thank you very much.

All right, there's that story. That's a fun one. Let's talk about this one real quick. A mouse crawling out of a meal forced a plane to make an early landing. Chicken or fish or mouse. You want a mouse? Chicken or fish or mouse. Don't eat the mouse.

It's okay, stewardess. I speak jive. here's what this story says airline meals hardly carry high expectations but this week a passenger faced whoa why did my thing just flip out there we go faced more than just a disappearing supper after a mouse crawled out of their meal

forcing the flight to make an unscheduled landing the incident occurred on a Scandinavian airlines SAS which is also isn't that the secret service it's the CIA type thing in the UK or something the SAS I think anyway they happen to share share that acronym, I think.

The MI Sick or M.I. MI5 is like their FBI, right? And then they have essay, I think their SAS is like their secret ops stuff. Like, maybe even more like Navy SEAL type. Oh, really? Okay. Like, that's what, um, Sean Connery's character in The Rock, he was an S, former SAS guy.

Gotcha. Oh, yeah. People are saying like the Navy. Okay. Is that what it is? Special Forces Navy. Special, yeah, like a special forces thing. Anyway.

Womack, he says, Womack. I knew it was you, Wormack. Anyway, this flight to Oslo from Malaga, Malaga? Yeah, sure. Malaga? Malaga. There's an accent over the A, but I don't know if that means you put the emphasis on that, silver, if it just does a pronunciation thing, because I don't know what, I don't know,

that must be another Norwegian. Malaga. Sounds like it. It's on Wednesday. You're going to take it right at Malaxian and end up in Malaga. You know what I hate about? Let me say something real quick about Gallagher. Sure.

I hated this. And even though it's a feature of the game and it's kind of its defining feature, I don't like the double ship thing. I don't like it. No, it's cumbersome. It makes you more likely to get hit by something. Yeah, your bigger target, not only that,

you are also giving up a backup guy. So it's taken from your image. of lives and now you're yeah i don't like it it's never been good it's a quarter borrowing against your future lives yeah it's like ooh i get two bullets so go back to one anyway uh let's see i remember i remember amy playing that in uh at the the the most recent uh tms Vegas and dancing while she's playing and it did it she was into it she was kicking she was kicking butt at that damn game yeah her and um um uh What's her name on Miss Pac-Man?

Cheesy G. She killed it on there. She's so good at Pac-D. Do not play Miss Pac-Man with Cheesy-G. Frigin G. She walked up to that Gorf thing and beat it like it was her horse. I don't know what the phrase is. Yeah, how do you beat it like her?

You look like a red-ed-ed-ed stepchild. She just happens to have red hair. That works out nice. Yeah. Anyway, this airline uses strictly prohibited rodents, or they, sorry, they strictly prohibit rodents. rodents, they don't eat them, on board, because an animal can chew through electrical wiring. That's the real reason this is a problem.

It's not because it's gross. They landed the plane because these things can chew through wiring and cause... We prohibit rodents without a ticket. Here's a quote, here's a quote. Believe it or not, a lady next to me opened her food and a mouse jumped out. What wrote this passenger, her name is Jarly Borstad. I heard the greatest American hero theme, by the way, when you started that line. Oh, really?

Believe it or not. A lady next to me Opened her food and a mouse jumped out Robert Stack will be the guy No, it's not Robert Stack. Who was that guy? It was Robert Culp. Robert Culp.

I get Culp and Stack mixed up. William Cat. Cat and mouse. Back to the boot. Oh, shit. It says Olstein Schmidt, spokesman for the SAS, said that in line with our procedures, there was a change of aircraft and the passengers were flown to Spain.

Oh, Malaga, Spain is the. Malaga, Span. Malaga, whatever this. Anyway, they went to Copenhagen, so, you know, got a little of that going, and a couple of hooker ladies, and you're all set. Clearly in Copenhagen, it's Chew. Chew is the... Oh, yeah, they got a lot of choice in Copenhagen.

That's right. They put a little baud between their gum and cheek and invite the cancer right into your bloodstream. Let's go. Let's see. It says this happens, when this happens is extremely rare. We have established procedures for such situations. and also include a review of our suppliers

to ensure this does not happen again. What my big question is, if the mouse is alive, that narrows your search, because I don't think that happens at the factory level. I don't know how food is prepared for planes. I've never seen how it's done video on this. I would love to, actually. But something I saw somewhere, it's like a cooking show.

What was that? Oh, Better Feed Phil. Phil Rosenthal and crew went to, South Korea or something and apparently there they got like a whole warehouse of chefs who make the food fresh for each flight so they like make the food then carted onto that flight right then they fly off to get next on them and they keep and that's how they do it maybe it was a Korean guy but he worked for in I don't remember it was something it was something crazy because in my mind I'm like wow everything we eat on our planes is in a little like wrapped bag it's a little

little tray with yeah with like a tinfoil cover on it I mean at least the ones that we've gotten for international flights I can't probably last time we actually had a meal on a plane was a couple of them on the way to Ireland the big long flights yeah

yeah I don't even think we won't even get offered one on the way to Atlanta it's a three hour flight a three and a half hour flight or whatever it is yeah they'll give you a we probably will get like the snack box which is like, you know, crackers and cheese. Yeah. Do you have a favorite to the plain snack?

You know, it's just like, oh, we've got to have that. Like pretzels or whatever they do. I like, I really liked it when you got a bag of peanuts, but obviously they don't do that anymore. That's gone. The mix that they give you, the kind of checks mixy thing that they give you on Southwest isn't bad because they do have,

they don't have a shortage of the best piece of the mix, which is the really hard melbatose circles. Oh, yeah, I hate those. You hate those? Those are the best part of those. Look, there are tons of flavor in them. I'll give you that, but I don't like how hard they are. I wish they were like.

Oh, my gosh, it's the best. It's like, great. We should travel together and I'll give you whatever you want out of my pouch, and you give me all of those little melbatose. It feels like it's like a little tiny slice of baguette that they soaked in Worcestershire sauce and then put in a shrinky dink. Yeah. No, that's great. That's actually dead on. I'll eat them if I have to, but I would much prefer about six of the other things in there. Like there's a little banana shaped almost like a caramelized Asian cracker thing in there. That's like the shiny one. Oh, I don't like those. Oh, you can have all mine. All mine are yours.

Okay. Can I have your little nubby little bread nuggets, like little. Is it the ones that have like have little muscle? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, bumps on them. Yeah. Can I have those? I want those. You can have those, but I want any shriveled up checks pieces then. Oh, that's a hard trade. Yeah, those are good, too, right?

I got a whole bag of those over there in the storage room. I should eat those today. Not the whole bag. You should eat the whole bag today. Just like a nice little bowl of it, you know? I'm amazed that with Kim out of town that you haven't already. I know. When I told her I had the cereal and kimchi, her eyes rolled so hard.

I think her vision has been affected. I don't think she's right. I'm sure. All right. We're going to take a break. Look for a future TMS Tad Pooley feud. What is the best thing out of ChexMix? Yeah.

Why not? That would be a fun. That would be a fun stupid thing for our stupid morning show. I like it a lot. We're going to take a break. When we come back from this break, we're going to spend some time with Amy, speaking of Amy. You're going to bring a book for us to read. I'm also going to tell you when I finish that I think you should read.

I'm on to my next one. And that'll be all coming up after this break. Brian's got to play a song, though, to kind of break it up so what do we got i do uh emmy brook this is a brand new single from uh i'm sorry emma emma emma emma emma brook b r o o k e um this is what does this kind of fit fit in the uh vein of like a um not quite as as air airy is like a lord or something like that but still like an edgier pop not just straight up, you know, your pot. Maybe like Casey Musgraves.

How about that? Okay, sure. I like that. Very soulful, very cool. This is her brand new single. It's called Enough of Me. She's from Austin, Texas, I believe. And thanks to Clarion Call Media for sending me this one.

Those guys never let you down. Everything they send you is good. I've decided. They really are. Clarian Call is one of my favorites. There are a few that immediately when I get, I'm like, I'm pretty sure this. This won't be good for the show.

And I listen to him, it's like, yep, confirmed. But clarion call almost always right on the money. This, she describes it as the, I'm not taking your shit anymore approach to her song. So there you go. There you go. Listen to this with that in mind. Here's Emma Brooke and Enough of Me. Bet you'd still call me, baby, if I saw you out tonight somewhere alone,

bet you'd try to take me where we used to go, and I wouldn't blame you on bed. Always thought you're kind of stupid for losing a good girl who wanted you bad. What more did you need? Nothing better than that. You've had enough of me I gave you everything That weakness you'll be looking for You won't find like every time before Wouldn't look in your eyes

In fall to pieces tonight Between all of our back and forth Baby you've had enough enough. me you don't deserve anymore you know how to play me just right wasn't hard when I loved you like the way that I love myself now I love me too much to keep letting this history repeat you had enough of me I gave you everything that weakness you'll be looking for You won't find like every time before Wouldn't look in your eyes In fall to pieces, the nights Between all of our back and falls

Baby you've had enough for me You don't deserve anymore Anymore Anymore You've had enough You've had enough of me I gave you everything That weakness you'll be looking for

You won't find like every time before your eyes and fall just pieces tonight between all of our back and hearts. Baby you've had enough for me you don't deserve anymore, anymore, oh, oh, baby, you've had enough for me. Oh May I have some oats No I am starving brother Someone's lucky keys

And we return. Tell me about that person or that band or that group. One more time, please. It's a person. Her name is Emma. Emma Brooke. And that's her brand new single. Enough of me. Go check her out. She, any note of her touring? Oh, I'm sorry. Born and Bread in the Garden State. So, Joyzee. She's moved to Austin. Oh, okay. Just seeing if there's anything else here. No, that's it. They're all moving to Austin. They're all moving Austin.

So Emma Brooke, and that was the song, Enough of Me. Nice. By the way, this is me as soon as Kim walked in the door last night. May I have some oats? Yeah, that's the first thing I said. I need to eat normal food. I have something cooked, please. Something a person should eat.

Not a dog. All right, we're going to get to this thing here with Amy. Let's get her on the line, on the call. you know what okay it's weird i'd look for amy i get chuck if i look for red fragger i'll get amy it's weird there you go i don't know why because uh well because amy is chuck's person that's true and chuck is amy's person chuck is chuck is amy's person right she's in charge so that's how he comes up yeah yeah she's lord of her all she surveys let's do this you guys one of the things that i enjoy also is reading

the world of reading. We do that with our friend Amy Robinson, who joins us each and every month. Talk about books she thinks maybe you'll enjoy. Amy, welcome to the show. Oh, good morning, friends. Good morning. Nice to see you. Good to be back. It's good to have you back. It's good to have you back. Yeah. Been a while, like maybe a week longer than usual because we had a, we had all those weird Mondays, or those weird weeks where we had to push people. But it's good to have you here. We're going to talk about books before we get too far in it. A quick note about a book I just finished that I wanted to throw out to any science fiction horror fans out there. I read something called Dead Silence from an author named S.A. Barnes.

And it is like this weird combination. I found out later the author is obsessed with the Titanic. And I don't mean the movie, but I mean like the Titanic. The actual ship. Yeah. And stuff around it, which makes so much sense. The Titanic, not just Titanic. Exactly.

But it makes so much sense now that I've read this book that this person is so into that. but imagine the concepts that are surround the Titanic, but in the Far Fung future and in now deep outer space, it's like Titanic meets alien meets haunted space, house horror type stuff. Wow. All kind of rolled into one. It is great. I really, really enjoyed it.

It was a fluke that I even found it. I was looking around for just some cool stuff on Kindle Unlimited, saw it and went, well, we'll give it a shot, got hooked from the beginning. Absolutely loved it. It's called Dead Silence. if you like any of the genre I've just talked about you'll be interested in it

so go check it out Amy enough of that very cool isn't that fun I actually I love finding books that way I mean I also I love I love getting recommendations from people I trust obviously

or something you know I'm like oh I'm in the mood for this kind of genre you know that that goes well sometimes but I just love it when I just randomly stumble across a book or a series And that's what today's series is actually. But first, but first, before we get to, before we get to the book, yeah, I was taking notes.

So I can tell you, I have used the term spurp before. And it sort of means to me, to me, when I say something spurped, it's like, it's like a squirt, but not quite as much. So it's like something like spurped out, you know what I mean? Yeah, kind of like a spurt. What compared to a spurt? Is it more or less than a spurt? Oh, I like that. Oh, yeah.

I would say, I would say, I would say it's about, yeah. It's one and a half spurs. One and a half spurts. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good, that's a good way to put it. Yeah. Like, so something just spurt.

Like, if I'm going to, if I'm going to do the dishes, say, and I take the, the the bottle of dishwashing liquid and I go, spurp. You know, to get the, I could see that use case. That seems like, seems like a normal way to do it. It sounds like that, just like that. Yeah, yeah, exactly. That is the sound of a spurp. Yep, yes.

Like, what are you doing in there? I'm spurping. Oh, maybe, maybe don't use it in that. Yeah, it doesn't sound right. It doesn't sound good. Leave you alone, mom, I'm spurfing. No, I'm glad. Another, another potential there is like a spit burp.

Oh, spurp. Like, uh, yeah. Somebody suggested the swallow on a burp. Like you, like when you go, burp. Oh. See, that's a verb. That's a, that's, you know. Well, yeah, but there's a, but you got to have a subcategory.

That's great. Because a burp, burp is like a burp, right? And if you have a spurp, it's more like a, I don't know, like a little, like a little thing that kind of squeaks out, right? Like, you know, spurp. Okay. Somebody get on the Urban Dictionary. Let's get these definitions going. Yes.

Let's get some good definitions on there before the horrible ones. Yeah. And I swear, half of those people make them up as they go, I swear. Of course they do. Yeah. It's like for sure. Yeah. It's for the people who aren't academic enough to create a Wikipedia.

Oh, that's the other thing. As a redheaded stepchild, I object to the idiom beat like a redheaded stepchild. Fair enough. Oh, my gosh. You know what? I just realized that you're the first person I know who is a redheaded actual stepchild. It is true. You were a stepdaughter, right?

You were a stepdaughter. Yes. You're redheaded. I've never known one. I was a stepdaughter. I can't believe it. We found it. It's not just a myth.

It's a real thing. And I, you know, this is going a little dark, but I did get beaten on one side of the family. So there you go. Jeez. Well, then don't beat the bridge. You want to save Alderan, provide me an alternative. Yeah. Yeah.

Give me another target. Yeah. I like that. I like that. If you're going to take away something, give me something in return. Give me a simile, not a simile. What is that a, how well did. did cheesy G. Beat G. Beat it like a dirty rug. Oh. Okay, great. Good. Good. Yeah, but I grew up as a dirty rug. It doesn't work. Just kidding. Well, anyway, that's awesome. I love it. I like when you take notes and like hold our feet to the fire. Yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's just fun because it's like, oh, yeah. And, you know, reintegration. It's a cornerstone of comedy.

That's right. Live and learn. Yeah. Yeah, the callback. Well, let's start. Well, let's start. talk about your, I guess you have a clip for this, but let's talk about this week's entry. What are we doing? I do. I do have a clip. This clip is a little bit longer than the ones I normally bring, but, you know, I normally bring two books. And so I figured, okay, I'm only including one clip. So this one can be a little bit longer. And it is because I'm setting up an 18 book series. Oh, my gosh. Wow. Okay. So we're going to hear an excerpt from all 18 books in rapid succession yeah the rest of the show and the rest of the week will be dedicated to these clips so get ready everybody uh let's play it here we go my dog once took a bullet that was

intended for me a bullet that ripped through his chest narrowly missing his heart and exited through his shoulder blade effectively shattering it amazingly this bullet did not kill him ten years ago I adopted Blue as a present to myself after I broke up with my boyfriend one hot early summer night with the windows open and the neighborhood listening. I asked the man at the pound to show me the biggest dogs they had.

He showed me Blue. The man called him a collie mix and he was stuffed into the biggest cage they had but he didn't fit. He was as tall as a great Dane but much skinnier with the snout of Akali the markings of a Siberian husky, the ears and tail of a shepherd, and the body of a wolf, with one blue eye and one brown. He looked at me from between the bars, and I fell in love.

I'll tell you, lady, he's pretty, but he's skittish. I don't think you want this dog. He was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. I brought him home, and we lived together for 10 years. But when I first met Blue, a lifetime ago now, I had family and friends. I worked at a shitty coffee house. I was young and lost. I was normal. Back then, at the beginning of this story, before I'd ever seen a corpse, before Blue saved my life, before I felt what it was like to kill someone in cold blood, I was still joy humbled. I'd never even heard the name, Sidney Rye.

I'm, I need to know more about this dog that took a bullet. Yeah. Right, right. So, yeah, this is from the series, Sydney Rye Mysteries by Emily Kimmelman. And as I said, they're a series of 18 books. And I really, really enjoyed them. The first one is called Unleashed. And as you kind of heard, it's almost like, you know how when you have like those detective noir kind of stories and there's always like the private detective who's kind of like jaded and seen too much and that kind of thing.

It's like that, but it's her origin story. And so you get her, you know, you get her from before she was hardened and jaded and whatnot. And Unleashed is literally the story of how she became Sidney Rye. And then, like I say, there's like 18 books in this series. I couldn't stop. I've read them all. Oh, my gosh, dude. How long are these books?

Are they short? They're quite short. Yes, they're quite short. So audiobook-wise, they're like, you know, eight or nine hours. And on Audible, you can actually get, you can get two, like six of them you can get in groups of two. so like one through five one through three you can get like with one credit on audible and then like five is it five through seven or seven through nine I can't remember but anyway like there's like two sets of three you can get with one credit and so yeah I mean and you know remember I wasn't here last month because I had COVID so I like ripped through these right because I had nothing else to do but sit around and you know so. So, yeah, they're great. And, I mean, are they wonderful literature?

No. Are they entertaining as fun read? Yes. As F. Yeah, they are. They're absolute like popcorn books, man. You can just sit there and just consume them. And I will say they are, they're a little spicy.

At one point, I was listening. And you heard, right, the narrator of the audiobooks is a woman named Sonia Field Sonia Field and she had you can hear like she has a very

sultry voice and so I put her on I put the audio book on in the kitchen while I was doing dishes one day and there was a little

bit of spicy scene there it's not you know and Chuck was like you're listening to porn I was like it's not porn did you reach for the

for the nearest fan or magazine and I do declare. And he was like, it's erotica. You're listening to erotica. So, but it's not, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's not at all explicit in that regard. I mean, there, but there are some steamy, you know, kind of spicy scenes in there.

And, you know, and there's certainly lots of language, lots of violence. And, and, and, and the tagline for these, for these books is the dog, the dog, you know, doesn't die, but the bad guys do. And so that combined with the way that I, well, right, like the way that I found these books as I was just like scrolling on Instagram and Emily Kimmelman's Instagram came up. And it's really fascinating because like you said something about the, the indie clip that you played and like they're kind of their strategy. That's kind of Emily Kimmelman's strategy for marketing her books. She's like, if you're somebody who gets upset about, you know,

women's rights or, uh, same sex marriage or anything like that, stay the hell away from my books. They're not for you. Go away. I don't want you to read them. I don't, you know, like go away. And so she like, you know, she loves, uh, she loves just trolling people who try to get her to, you know, be, be nice and try to market her books. She's like, nope, not for you. I don't want you to be interested in my books. Go away, you know. And so I was like, okay. And then I read the thing about the dog. And I was like, okay, I'm in. So. I can't believe they're 18 of I'm in. I'm grabbing this first book right now, but I cannot believe they're 18 of these. That's just nuts or 19. I love the cover. It's really cool too, by the way. At least the one that's from

Goodreads is really, really cool. Yeah, her eyes up above the city like that. And it looks like it's consistent. All the books have a version of that. It's like something different in front of her face. Yeah, yeah. It's really cool. They do.

And it is. It's, they're, like I say, they're really fun. Claire Gack asks, is there a trigger warning required for these for violence against women? That is a good question. I would say, I would, I'm trying to, I'm trying to think how to answer that without a spoiler. and so no I don't think that there I don't think you there is there there's implication there's reference to violence against women and the people who are

perpetuating that get a good bit of comeuppance so it's not it's not the girl with a dragon tattoo it's not that like you don't have to go through all of that type of trauma. It is alluded to and then, and then they, you know, they do that where Sydney or I hears about it and they regret it. So, yeah. Do you think these, do you think these were all written at once and then she just did? Do you know what I mean? Like, I don't know how you write a series like this. I don't think that because the way I figured out that I was done with the series was by looking at the publishing dates. And the most recent one, the 18th one, came out this year.

And I was thus bummed because it didn't, it's not, it's not like it's an ending. You know, I thought, okay, cool. Like maybe, maybe this will wrap everything up in a bow and I can feel the closure. Nope. I still want the next one. That's great. They're all, and they're super affordable. These books are like five bucks a piece as all, if you're doing Kindle.

Yeah. They're kind of pulpy. They're, you know, they're, they're not, like I say, they're not, they're not, you know, don't go into these thinking you're going to get some very flowery, impressive prose or anything like that. It is, it's, you know, it's popcorn, but it's really fun popcorn. I like, I like, I like, I like, this kind of stuff. Sometimes we want the John Wick and we don't want the remains of the day. That's right. Right. Exactly. Exactly. So, yeah. That's a great comparison, those two. it could have been you could have said almost anything but those that's a very funny pick those two movies summer's in rodent or whatever that movie was sometimes we don't want that sometimes we want uh yeah and i'm more often than not like i don't even like um i mean i like genre fiction a lot but i like i like mysteries not that often like it's kind of rare for me and it sounds like this is just a good combination of like well even say it here it's like treasure hunting and murder and mystery and all that i'm like oh i'm definitely

definitely grabbing this first book. And if I get hooked, I'm blaming you for it. So, nice job. Oh, good. Yeah. I mean, and like I say, they're very easy to just rip right through them. They're, you know, they're like, you know, between seven and nine hours apiece, uh, audio book wise. So a person reading, you know, with a normal, you know, book, like a text book could probably get through them in an afternoon. Yeah. Um, you know, or one of them, I would say. If you get all through all 18 and one afternoon, you've, does something, you've got a problem like it's you are you are a bot and uh you're evelyn wood clearly right yeah you're you are you are you are barry allen and uh yeah yeah enjoy your humongous metabolism right

yeah even even paperbacks are only like nine bucks this is a good deal for books like this and this reviewed really well people love this series yeah it's kind of funny i went i i did a thing like i often will peruse some of the some of the comments just to see like sometimes sometimes the people who dislike a book maybe they have a good point um but for this one i went looking at the negative comments because i knew what i was going to find i was going to find a bunch of people who were butt hurt about about what the book is about you know so um yeah it's uh but it's it's good fun it's um there's always there's always some element of mystery to each one there's always kind of kind of a who done it. But they, she travels all over the world. They're,

you know, she starts in New York City, but then there are, there are times when she's in Costa Rica. There's times when she's in the Middle East. There's, there's some in Ireland, actually,

interestingly enough, or Eastern Europe also, you know, so, and she, she goes all over. So it's awesome. It's really good.

Check it out. Available now. Look for the, if you just search for Sydney, Rye, mysteries. You'll find all of them on Amazon. And they have a big combo pack or you can just pay it once. It's like 64 bucks. You get the whole thing. Oh, nice. And of course there's a link in quicktms.coms. Very nice. And like I say, the first one in the series is called Unleashed. And

that one's really fun because she starts off as she gets a job as a dog walker and finds a dead body. Actually, one of the dogs that she's walking finds a dead body. And the whole thing starts from hilarity ensues. Right. Yeah. Amazing. Yeah, check it out. Available now.

And Amy, always good to talk to you. You're going to get to see Brian this weekend coming up saying. I am. I'm so excited. The good news is there's going to be Tina with me. Yes. Good news.

That's even more exciting. Like, we love Tina, man. Tina's the best. So how many people, how many people you cram it into that Savannah car, the van thing? I believe. Oh, the car or the, yeah, the band, there are going to be eight of us, I believe. Good Lord. I'm waiting for Chuck to yell at me from across the hall and tell me I'm wrong.

So the Robinsons, the Duceys, the Ibits, and... And, oh, shoot, Chuck told me this last night. He'll probably say in the chat in a second. Mike from BC, I think. I heard I go. So, yeah, there are a couple of other people that were picking up along the way. Oh, here he comes. He's going to tell us.

Here. Matt from BC Matt from BC So there's seven of us Yeah Okay That's not bad Here's what's going to happen

You guys are going to pick up A hitchhiker It'll be the eighth And then while you're Yeah And you get about an hour into it And you're going to see a fallen tree In the road and a bunch of crows

And then Brian knows what happens next Yeah Not in October man I'm not doing that Nope People the audience know exactly what that reference is No. I hope they learn because it's great. All right. Well, this is awesome. Amy, always good to talk to you. Have a fantastic rest of your week. And you guys be safe down there.

Thanks. Oh, and by the way, I was listening to play retro the other day. If you want to do a strawberry shortcake episode, I am totally down. Oh, we're 100% bringing you in for that. If we're doing those. That would be hilarious. I mean, we talked about on the show, obviously, but my sister's obsession with all things, strawberry shortcake back in the day was, really something. And that I remember the video game based on it. So Dunaway's got this idea that if we do, if we cover that game or maybe a few games like it like from that era, we want somebody who really gets the strawberry shortcake vibe. You seem to be that person in the chat. So you are absolutely coming on to talk about that game. Or not even that game, just about the, the, what do you call it? The culture around the strawberry shortcake, blueberry muffin, bull crap of

the day. Okay. Yes. And I would, like I said on that episode, I would huff on that episode, I would huff on their dolls because they smelled so good. There are scented candles. I have them. I bought, there are scented candles that are scented like those dolls were. I bought them for myself as like a little present to myself. And I just,

every time I light them, I'm just like, blueberry muffin. I could just sniff her hair all day. It sounds creepy, but I'm telling you. I have a thing for it. It's so good.

All right. Amy, stay out of trouble. We'll see you soon. Tell Chuck to keep yelling from down the hall by. All right. Uh, there goes, Amy, into the, into the fray. I meant to ask her if they had any kind of flooding her. I know parts of Georgia.

They did. They had their basement, uh, got flooded. Oh, that's right. I forgot to say something about that. But it sounds like things came out better than they could have. Like they found the leak. Yeah. Um, nothing got destroyed except for some flooring and subflooring and drywall or something,

a little bit of drywall. Was it, but was it part of the storm or just a separate incident? Like a, just a leak? Part of the storm, I believe. Oh, jeez. Okay. Helena. A little Helena.

A little hell in you. Yeah. Not as bad as what Asheville or Columbia got. Well, slow your roll, Kurt. We don't need any more this week. Yeah, Kurt. Keep it together. All right.

We're out of here. Who's a famous Kurt? I keep thinking of Kurtz. Kirk Cameron, Kirk Douglas. Who's a famous Kurt? Kurt Busiak. But only a few people know who that is. Only nerd.

How about Kurt? Kurt Wagner. No, only a few people know that. Oh, Kurt Russell. Good Lord. How do we forget Kurt Russell? Geez, Louise. Yeah, thanks. Oh, Kurt Cobain was a big one.

Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut amazing actor. There we go. All right, now we got some good Kurtz. And that's about it. There's Curtis's, but we're not counting Curtis's. No. Curtis Blow, Curtis Armstrong. Curtis Johnson, the bugger.

Wasn't that said Johnson? That's Curtis Armstrong. Oh, that's Kurtz Armstrong. Who am I thinking of? Curtis Johnson is somebody. Curtis. Maybe a relative. I don't know.

I would hope I would know that. Why does that sound like a famous person? Oh, yeah, Kurt Schilling. Is American football coach? Maybe that's something. Oh, yeah. Maybe. I think that's it. Well, anyway.

Hurricane Kurt. Yeah, lots of Kurtz. Leave us alone. Don't come, don't landfall. Hey. We want Hurricane Russell. That's what we want. get that going. There we go. Yeah. A change in schedule this week because yesterday

Carter got, I shouldn't say, roped in. She was willing to do it because it's a nice thing for a sister to do. But she watched her niece and nephew last night over at Taylor's house and it went long. We thought she'd be back by about seven. It didn't happen. So we had to bump the Monday show to today. So you're going to get a Tuesday Monday show today at 4 p.m. So me and Carter back out. False advertising. I know, right? It's just so every time we have to do that, it feels wrong because it's like, it's Monday. in the name. It's in the name. That's right. You know, so we don't do in the morning stream

at any time but morning for us. That's right. So what they have. Except was TMSPM back in the day. But still, but still. But even then, it was morning somewhere, right? We figured. Yeah, exactly. But at night. But at night. I haven't heard him say that in a long time. We got big news about that tomorrow, by the way. Something happening with

TMS on Friday. So do tune in and we'll... The Johnson will be unpoled tomorrow. Yep. We will unplug the Johnson tomorrow. Been all plugged up all night. All right. That's it for today's show. If you want to look for stuff related to this show, you can find it all at frogpants.com slash TMS.

That'll do it for today's program. Brian, why don't we play a song and take him home? Yeah, let's go to this one from Bree, Commissioner of the Tiny Poang. I don't know what that means, but hi, Brian. My husband, Mike, has been a daily TMS listener for a decade. And his birthday is October 6th.

We're doing this one a little bit earlier. She had the first, it's funny. She put the first as the date of the request, but she submitted the request, September 10th, so I don't know why date of request is the first. Oh, because the 6th is a Sunday. Oh, is that it? Just getting it in early. She's smart.

Nothing wrong with that. I'd like to say that he is my favorite, and I love him very much. Could you play a mellow cover of any 21 pilot song for him to wish him a happy 35th birthday, please? Thank you. And thank you, Bree. Do you want to play a little happy birthday sounder? How old did they say? 35.

35. Oh, you get one of these. Let's party. With a side of diarrhea. Oh, yes, the tiny poang. Yes, Bree had me print up a little miniature IKEA chair, and I painted the wood grain on it. I painted the seat to make it look like a cushion. I should put a photo of this thing somewhere because it came out so great.

But, yes, the tiny poang. Of course. That would totally make sense, Bree. I didn't understand it until that. By the way, I just got a text from a listener who says that he thinks that speep, or no, what's our word, spurp? Spurp. Spurp might be an IKEA furniture. He's going to try to find out. He's going to see if he can find out. Yeah. Two Alan Ritches to assemble the spurp.

All right, let's get to this. Ben Schiller recorded this one back in 2016 on his cover sessions album. It's a cover of 21 pilots stressed out. Oh, man, stressed out. What a great song, track, an album. What a great album. So good. All right. That's it for us.

Thank you guys for watching, listening, and hanging out with us. We will be back tomorrow with more. See you then. I wish I found some better sounds. No one's ever heard. I wish I had a better voice, sang some better words. I wish I found some chords in an order that is new. I wish I didn't have to rhyme every time I sang.

Was told when I get older, all my fears would sing Now I'm insecure, and I care what people think Blurry face and I care what you think My name's Blurry Face and I care what you think Wish we could turn back time To the good old days When our mama saying us to sleep But now we're stressed out

Wish we could turn back time To the good old days When our mama sang us to stick But now, we're stressed out We're stressed out Sometimes a certain smile would take me back to when I was young How come I'm never able to identify me what's coming from I'd make a candle out of it if I ever thought

I found, I try to sell it, never sell out of it, I'd probably only sell one, maybe to my brother, because we have the same, no, same clothes, home grown, and stones, throw from Greek, we used to roam, but it would remind us of when nothing really mattered out of student loans and tree our souls, we always take the latter. My name's blurry face, and I care what you think. My name's blurry face, and I care what you think. Wish we could turn back time To the good old days

When our mama sang us to sleep But now we're stressed out Wish we could turn back time Through the good old days When our mama sang us to sleep But now We used to play pretend Give each other different names

We would build a rocket ship And then we'd fly it far away Dream of out of space, now the life and out of face, saying wake up you need to make money We used to play pretend, give each other different names, we would build a rocket ship and then we'd fly it far away Dream of out of space, now the life and out of face saying wake up you need to make money Wish we could turn back time through the good old days When our mama sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out Wish we could turn back time

Through the good old days When our mama's saying us to stick But now we're stressed out We're stressed out This show. part of the Frog Pants Network. Yes. Get more at frogpants.com.

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