The Morning Stream - TMS 2727: Itchy No No

Episode Date: October 29, 2024

Preshowing into the Void. Honky Dong. Is it too early for a learning sandwich? Kevin can F his car. Attack of the Grow Light Tomatoes. Poop News w/ Dr. Gerry. We don't need no AI Cats! Grumbly Guts. Self induced diarrhea. Hocus Pocus not Focussed. Garbaggio in a bucket. That's a penguin? It looks like a bird. Just your blower. Erin Brockajean. Puckin fuppets with Amy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Seems like we might have a high chance of awesome morning show weather. Thanks largely to your support at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, pre-showing into the void. Honky-dong. Is it too early for a learning sandwich? Kevin can eff his car. Attack of the Grasoy Tomatoes. Poop news with Dr. Jerry.

We don't need no AI cats. Grumbly guts. Self-induced diarrhea. Well, all to go together. Hocus, pocus, not folk. Got a buggyo in a bucket. That's a penguin. It looks like a bird.

Just your blower. Aaron Brockagine. Puckin' fuppets with Amy and more on this episode of the morning stream. Contrary to what you might think, this exercise has nothing to do with rock and roll, although it certainly needs the same effort. Seriously, though. We made a deal. Where are my emeralds?

The Morning Stream. They're coming to get you, Barbara. There's one of them now. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the morning stream. This is TMS for October 29th, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. Hi.

Hi. Hello. I'm here on the right side of your screen. Oh, look at that. That's true. You are. Although on my Zoom one, we're flop. we're flip flopped yeah exactly why do they do that how come they can't just uh so that because

you're more inclined like if you've got something you need to fix on your your hair then you're more inclined to treat it like a mirror than to be like oh I didn't think of that that's a great answer for that because I've never known in discord same thing if you're broadcasting out a screen it reverses it and I never understood why now I do yeah I don't ever learn shit this soon in the show it's a little early Literally, Brian. Come on. Let's work up to learning shit. Yeah. Take your, you know, this important class we're in right now. Save it for later. Anyway, it's nice to see you all. I'm running on fumes, but I feel pretty good regardless. It's weird. Sometimes when you have less sleep, sometimes you're a little fired up. Is that weird? That's weird.

Can't explain it. It is weird. Yeah. Maybe Dr. Tolbert will tell us why that is. We're going to hear from him later. That's exciting. I can tell you that. Brian, I changed a med. It's nothing to get into It's nothing crazy But my doctor said Hey we're going to adjust you up a little bit And I said okay cool Let's do it And it's just the digestion thing

I've been on forever So he gives me that And he says yeah You should be okay Yesterday I can't for sure Because I don't know for sure Could have been total coincidence Something else happened

But I'm pretty sure That the upped amount Caused me all sorts of issues yesterday Just about the whole day After the show Gutache Just grumbly all day just kind of horrible like brr just felt like crap most of the day it went away by the night time by

nine o'clock or so i was okay um but yeah like if you're gonna if you're gonna say hey up a thing you should warn me you may that's why they do some of the commercials you may experience side effects may include yeah and no tondagosa it's not the low tea it's something else it's not but it really messed with me all day and it sucked because yesterday was going to be a day of committed old like shit that's been on my list for too long get it done finish stuff you know just really grind into the stuff I've that I've let sit for too long and instead I sat on the couch a lot because I didn't feel good so yeah that stinks yeah wasn't fun you're looking forward yeah like you've got the day kind of cleared off to do that sort of thing your body says

oh day cleared off great let me let me fill it for you yeah let me go ahead and fill it with something completely stupid that just takes all day to get rid of. But anyway, it worked fine. Everything's fine. There was a hot minute there, though, where I was like, if this gets worse, this is like go to the hospital kind of pain. If it gets worse. Like, it was a certain threshold.

And I was like, well, if it exceeds this, I'm in trouble. You know, it could be in trouble. But it never did. It just bumped up there and never went higher. Was it just steady or like it? Anytime you, like, went to the bathroom, it would kind of get a little bit better? It was bad no matter what I was doing. just hurt, hurt, hurt,

all day and it got to a point where it was high and just high enough for me to go, ugh, this is bad, and just low enough for me to go, I ain't going to the hospital. It's stupid. I'm not doing that. So I didn't.

Everything's fine now. Let's just say it's the city's problem now, Brian. Yeah. Take that jerks down at the water sanitation. But the urban waste department sorted out. Yeah, jerks. Anyway, that was a lot of fun. So thanks a lot, Dr. Nammo, won't say.

Hey, about that cool ego motor, or mower, rather, we talked about it. We got somebody who apparently is all in on the ecosystem. His name is Jeff. My name is Jeff. And Jeff says this. Jeff says, hey, S&B, just now listening to your convo about the ego tools. We are saying it right.

Ego. Yeah, ego. It's dumb. It's a dumb name that they probably thought, all right, so let's see, go. But we need something more tech about it. How about electronic go? E, go. Yeah, let's never say those things fast.

Let's just always have a space and say E, go. Perfect. All right, print it up. Yeah, it's 2 a.m. Eat the rest of this pizza. We're all going home. We finally picked an end. Exactly.

We did it, folks. Take the next day off. Hate it. Well, anyway, says your conversation about the ego tools. I am two in the ecosystem. We moved to a new house and almost, sorry, with almost two acres to mow. And I got the big, bad ego mower, the 52 inch. it comes with six 12-amp hour batteries that's the biggest one wow yeah those are the big mom

and jamas yeah expensive those batteries very they are very not cheap that's what you pay the most for with this whole thing everything else feels like it's like decent construction but i'm never once going oh wow i've never seen such a solid state mower before it's very not plasticy but you know it's hard to explain but just the fact that you only have to buy it once is the is the beauty of it you don't have to buy the battery once yeah that's true if you're take good care of it. Don't let them sit too long on the shelf or run out or whatever. Anyway, so the mower can change all the batteries at once instead of swapping them one at a time on a charger. That's pretty cool. While the mower advertises up to four acres, I routinely get my

two done and still have some juice left to blow or trim. Since the motor came with all the batteries I should ever need, I was able to get the tools for a big discount. So that makes sense. If you've got four batteries, sorry, is it two or four, whatever he said, six, sorry, six. So you'll never need any other batteries. He's never going to need any additional batteries. That is like, so I mean, that he describes the mower. I'm guessing that that's the writing mower. And I think that confirms it with what he says down below. So yeah, must be. Six batteries, it has to be the writing mower. So you got the backpack bullet blower, the stringer, the riding mower itself, shop vac, misting fan. I don't even know they had that. Power inverter. That's something

Geordie has to fix before the captain. It's what Luke needs to go to Tashi State. It's to pick up. Oh, that's right. Yeah. He's all he's been wrong about the converters. He needs the inverters. Exactly. No, inverters. Inside, Luke, you dumbass. I just care, says, I can't justify the mini bike, but that would be so much fun. I've seen some videos of adults getting almost 30 miles per hour

on it. Yeah, they advertise up to 30, I think, is what they tell you. Anyway, he says, I consider the snowblower, but already have a very nice gas one. I think the next ego purchase will be a chainsaw. So they have that as well. I've read some advice on getting most out of the battery since they are dang

expensive, the TLDR is to keep them stored in reasonable temperatures so inside the house during peak summer and winter. That's a good point. And to also store them empty. It takes some planning ahead, but charging the batteries a few hours before using is what I've seen that most others doing.

You know, it'd be cool. Like, both Android, at least I think the Google pixel line and the new iPhones and they have for a while, have a have like the battery health mode thing so it only charged to a certain amount and kind of

keep you in the zone or whatever yeah they need that here this is what we need on these these things you know yeah yeah because these are spent more expensive batteries uh certainly easier to replace but nothing that you'd nothing you'd want to um uh have to replace on the regular because you've overcharged them yeah um i guess i need boy so so now we need something that i can leave running to deplete the battery fully. Yeah, what tool do you want to have? Like, you're blowards, your blowards, your blowards, your blowards, constantly blowing.

Your blowards, your blowards, your blowards, your blowards, your blowards, your blowards, your blowers, your blowers, your blowers, your blowers, your blowers, your blowers, your blowers, your blowers, your blowers, your blowers, your blowers, your blowers, your blowers, your blowers, your blowers, blowers, your blowers, blowers, blowers, you. Is it back? It might be back. Are we back? I hear the music, so I think we're back. Okay. Yeah, this happened the other day on CORE. There's a, um, it's only since Sequoia. I think loopback has a, it's rare, but this weird bug where I go into a repeat loop. You heard me just kind of repeating, right? And crusty. Yeah, your blower, jblower, jubloor, jblower, jubloer. Yeah, this happened the other night on core. The thing is, it got my spinner and my trackball working, so that's good. Oh, good. Finally, we found the missing link.

I only figured out the problem right there. Just needed to be blown over and over. So whatever that issue is, it's something with Sequoia and Loopback, and I got to talk to them, see if they know what's going on there. It's really weird. Don't love it. That's another way you can deplete the batteries. Just have it repeat. Yeah.

Over and over. Put it on repeat, everybody. Anyway, yeah. Oh, he does this thing, too. So it's fun fact, he's been monitoring the electricity consumption for the charging of the mower. A full zero to 100% charge costs him about 15 cents total. The gas mower I had had had two acres before that I would run through the two to three gallons of gas. He says quite the savings over time. Oh kidding. Yeah. So 15. That's interesting. I didn't, I mean, obviously you can

track your electricity and figure out the relative cost. But that's crazy cheap. 15 cents. That is crazy cheap. Yeah, definitely next thing I want to get is the snowblower. I don't need a thing you sit on and ride around to blow the snow. But I'd like one of those that you basically drive back and forth, you push it like a little handmower, and it, uh, and it throws the snow. Got to get one of those adjustable, uh, adjustable shooter. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Whichever ran. That, that should have a little spinner knob on the controls.

So that as I'm, as I'm pushing, I can be like, and then around the corner, you know, turn it. That'd be cool. That's what Darth Vader was adjusting in his tie fighter at the end of, uh, New Hope. Yeah. When he's like, when he's like steering his little deal and he's like, I always wondered about that Even as a kid I was like

What are you doing in there Exactly What is they You're playing Tetris You know He adjusted my lumbar support He's got a little tempest Game going down below

Stay on him And he's I'm almost on level three here Freaking Hold on I got them on the plus Hold on Really weird

Those flippers Come through the corners Really fast There's things about movies that you never forget That's one of them Yeah And it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, right?

Yeah, right? Yeah. For me, it's return of the king and the king eating that nasty tomato, the cherry tomato while pippin or whoever's singing to him all over his face and yeah. It's so hard to watch. Ah, so I see a lot, I saw a photo yesterday of somebody in a tomato costume, and it was two frames. It was this tomato costume was somebody going, like, Spirit Halloween style of costume, right? And then he goes over to the next frame And it's the king

Just staring at it going, oh It was great. That is awesome. It was a nice throwback. I enjoyed it. Yeah, it's very good. We have one more bit of info here from our good friend, Dr. Jerry Tolbert.

He sometimes calls in, certainly writes in a lot and shows up with a lot of live streams, but he wanted to do a quick clarification on what you're supposed to do for your colonoscopy scheduling. Okay? We were spreading a bit of misinformation, it turns out.

We were, yes. So he says this. your friendly neighborhood, family doc, here with a gentle correction from episode 2726. When you were trying to select your happy birthday songs, you said that colonoscopy starts at 50. After a few years ago, now it actually starts around age 45. So I wanted to make sure everybody was aware of that, so we didn't throw anybody off. Breast cancer screening now starts at 40 years old with mammography, unless there are other risk factors. Cervical cancer screening with Papua Nicolow testing and high-risk HPV testing starts around age 21.

and prostate-specific antigen or PSA testing for men or those with prostates starts somewhere around age 40 to 45, but it's based entirely on risk profile. If there's anything else that comes up, don't hesitate to page me. We will. The good doctor is in, everyone. Yeah, no, that's good. I kind of, I feel like I now know. I feel like I'm reminded that the 45 thing was correct because when my doctor said, it's getting close for you to schedule your next one. And she says, when did you last have it?

And I said, I was about 45. She goes, oh, yeah, it's time. so I got a schedule one and it's supposed to be some time either in December or January and I'm not looking forward to it Brian

no no self-induced diarrhea good time I really enjoy it yeah yep I need to get mine in 2025 as well 2020

that's right my wife on the breast cancer thing now has to go in every six months not because she's has any sign of it because she doesn't because all of her sisters

she's got this she's got high risk now in the family so broca jean yeah i think that's what it's called yeah is that yeah that is it right the brocogen the lorraine broca jean i don't know what's named after her the erin broca jean yeah brockage great movie yeah uh but she so her sister her mom well her sister that passed away was colon but still that's high risk factors so now she has to go every six months she's fine doing it it's not a big deal but uh oh and the good news her sister jose her sister Julie, as of this week, I think, rang the bell. So I think she's, oh, good. I think she's right now cancer-free.

And the doctors feel very good about everything. And then she's got to do some surgery and some other stuff. But other than that, she's doing great. Nice. Yeah. Tina's mom rang the bell last Monday. We could go yesterday. Oh, good.

That's great. Last radiation treatment. So. Good, good, good. Yep. Yeah. Does she get to, what was I going to say? Oh, they wouldn't let her.

or get vaccinations during radiation. Is that true of your... That's correct. Yeah. Yeah. Because her... Just because she's already got immune immunity issues, immune system issues. So, but she doesn't listen to the show.

She doesn't want to get them anyway. Oh. Now, she's voting for Kamala. And she used to be a Trump supporter, a Trump voter. Oh, I hope Tina's brother isn't listening. Because she's like, don't tell Scott, but I'm voting for Kamala. Yeah. But she still doesn't believe that the vaccine doesn't cause other problems.

It's like, well, pick your battles, you know. Sure. You don't want, you can't fight every one of these. I get it. Exactly. Exactly. Look, I think we may lose that little battle, but we'll win the war with voting for Kamlin, realizing that, wow, you know, once you really think about it, their side is saying a lot of

bullshit. So, uh, wow. Yeah, that's quite a turn. It is. It's a big turn. Yeah. Usually in four years. The whole women's rights thing is the big issue for her.

Like she, you know, she's, she's big on letting women choose what they do with their bodies, what their pregnancies and that sort of thing. Yeah. Which includes her decision to not or to get vaccines. Did not have the vaccine? Kind of, yeah, it really is kind of. you think about it, kind of related. Yeah, she should go ahead and have that choice.

I agree. Yeah, yeah. I wish she would take them, but also, eh, whatever. She just finished radiation. She just had a major milestone grats to her. That's fantastic. Yes, yes, exactly.

Our three hotel room monkey in our chat room says, Aaron Rogers is on the skits. I think it's the anti-vaxtans. It might be. Yeah, the Jets right now have, I think what is it, the most penalties? in the season in NFL up to this point in the season NFL history is something or maybe it's just the most penalties in the league there's some there's some record that they broke with the number of penalties on the New York Jets so how how many Rogers not not not not doing so well since leaving the the pack what's the early season record are they pretty is it real bad that's good question um let's see here um two and six right now is that right let's see that's sounds that does sound right fourth and a fc east yeah that sounds right that's not great no no well get

the vaccine aaron you'll be fine maybe it'll turn things around yeah need the better you and joe rogan go you know arm and arm to the the the wall greens and get the uh uh get the the vaccine i'm pretty sure joe's already got it you think so yeah i think he's i think he'll just do it on the secret like he's doing it all i think he's i think he said he did once at some point yeah i don't think he's, I don't think he's like really skeptical, but I think he got it. I could be wrong about this. Somebody out there's going to be a total Rogan show listener and correct me, but I thought he said he got it. I could be wrong. Yeah, I don't know. Um, uh, I always just kind of imagine that he would be the, the anti. Yeah, no, he's, he's, here's the thing about Joe Rogan.

He's, because he's got the biggest podcast platform on the planet, there's an assumption by some that that must mean it's all way more important than it is because at the end of the day it's just another stand of comedian who later in his career made a podcast there are tons of them and they all kind of sound like this now the difference is he gets really prominent people on there

sometimes they're wackadoos sometimes they're really smart he has like these science guys I don't even listen to the show but I know enough about it to know who he traips us through there and I think it's easy just to go like we should apply some of a greater importance to what he's doing at the end of the day he's just kind of a dude he's a dude's dude and he's taught and he asks questions sometimes they're dumb and sometimes they're not and i don't know it's like a lot of a lot of freak out

over nothing with that guy in my opinion yeah yeah but when you're that prominent i guess you can't ignore it you know yeah no that's very true you are who you are uh Brian let's uh dive into the news let's have some news yeah yeah and most of it's uh well none of it's uh well none of it's political. So that's great. Let's do that. Here we go. It's time for the news brought to you by. Have you listened to Wait, you haven't seen from our pal TV's Travis yet? No. We'll fix that ASAP and check out the show wherever you get your podcast. That's wait, you haven't seen. Man, good show. We've been on it. We can say for first-hand experience. It's awesome. Thanks to him, I have seen. That's right. You saw, uh,

Halloween, first Halloween, right? Was that you? Yes, yes, that's right. Yeah, first Halloween. Nice. I saw Wanted, and I did it one other time for a thing I don't remember. You need to go back on there for the Goonies. Oh, no, I think we found out that somebody else did Goonies on what you haven't seen.

Yeah, I think so. And so that's why he couldn't have you back for that one. So I guess we need to do it for Film Sack. Yeah, put it on the list, baby. We need it on the list. It's ridiculous that you have not seen Goonies. It's super stupid that I haven't. Yeah, yeah.

I admit it. I will not take any high road on that. I don't know what happened to me. It's like, oh, you got your Pirates of the Caribbean and my stand by me. Yep. I can't wait. You got that guy with the weird face and you got the grandma from, throw mama from the train. And you got all those kids that grew up to be actors. I can't wait.

Let's get in there. Right. Right. Well, Sean Aston, little Brolin. You got Martha Plimpton. You got your Carrie. Martha Plimpton, highly underrated as well. She really is.

I love her. Was it Raising Hope? What a great show. Raising Hope is amazing. Yeah. Loved it. Time for a rewatch. Yeah.

What's some Kerry? Mulligan. Keep letting you say Carrie Strug. It's not Carrie Strug. That was an Olympian. Carrie Green. Thank you. Amy.

Good job, Amy. Why can't I think who that is? Carrie Green. Carrie Green. It seems like she was in a lot of stuff in the 80s, right? Or am I just based? seeing it on I can't picture her for some reason

but I haven't seen the movie so that doesn't help yeah let's see Cary Green I and D B Summer Rental the Goonies oh

Lucas she was in the love triangle between Corey Hame and Charlie Sheen yeah I know this face looks like she quit work in around 2012 so yeah

I like her though yeah she's not much older than us let's see here yeah she was born oh let's see 67 a couple years

All right, here's your first story. This is for Amy and Chuck. Not really, but it reminded me of you guys. Yes. Outnumbered by puppets, population, or sorry, depopulated village in Japan crafts dolls for a sense of life. There's just no more kids being born there. Japan already on the whole has kind of a population issue, slowed birth rate. So what are they doing to solve it?

Well, they're filling it up with puppets with most of the population gone. Go ahead. Do any of them have giant human-sized hands and little tiny heads? I wish. Get your pinhead in Japan, baby. Woo! I love that. He's the best design of all those puppets.

I'm actually curious. So, Amy, I know you don't like horror movies. I don't know if you've ever seen Puppet Master or if Chuck has seen it. Once they're imbued with the soul of a human being, are they no longer puppets? Because they're not controlled by... I didn't think of that. You know, someone separate? They either have to have their hand up their skirt or they have to have the merit.

Marionette deal. Or however else you're going to do it. I think, like, we were talking about this. This was one of the topics we had on the drive from Atlanta to Savannah. Or maybe, was it Savannah? I think it was Savannah this last trip. But, oh, she'll answer on a segment. Good, good point.

But she asked, what is a puppet? And we each took a turn in the car saying, oh, here's what we think a puppet is. It's something, it's an animal or a human avatar controlled by outside me. and blah, blah, blah. And then she said, well, what about, you know, what if you have a waffle with a face on it? That's not a human or animal. It's like, oh, yeah, okay. So I guess any sort of object that you control with your hands to represent.

And it got into a really good discussion about it. But I think the puppet master puppets cease to be puppets as soon as they're imbued with the Egyptian magic, whatever it is. Yeah, it's just a form of possession at that point, right? Right, right. Yeah, I don't think it counts. It's like if Ernie got up and walked around by himself, which would not be cool. Everybody would freak out.

I would not be good. Also, I was going to say about that. I had a puppet thing to say, and I forgot what it was. So I'll move on now, unless I might remember it. You know how you do that? You move on and then you remember it? And as soon as you think about something else, you remember it. Absolutely.

That's how I remember things for trivia as I start thinking about something else. And then it's like, oh, yeah, yeah, that's Charlie Sheen. Stupid brain of mine. Yeah. Well, anyway, this is what the Japanese are doing. They got fewer than 60 people living in Inchonono, Inchino, Iichinono. Iichinono. Iichin no.

And most of them are past retirement age, as younger people have moved away for jobs or education or whatever. So they're replacing people with puppets using old cloths, fabrics, and mannequins. A little freaky. It's a little weird. Like a Japanese horror movie. Residents are stitched out of their own population of puppets to keep them company. Some of the puppets ride swings. Others push firewood carts smiling eerily.

visitors. They should just do robots. That would be the way to go. You know what I mean? Yeah. What's the point of this? Oh, I know what I was going to say about the puppets. So Muppet babies,

not puppets. Right. That's what I was going to say. Oh, Muppet babies are not puppets? No, they can't be. Because they're CGI, you mean? Not even CG. They're just hand-drawn animation.

You know the Muppet babies, right? Back in the day? I've never watched a single episode of Muppet babies. I love the Muppets. And I saw the Muppets. And I saw that. I saw like a still image or something early enough to say, that's not for me. Oh, they revived it.

That's what they've done. So there is a CG new thing on Disney. Yeah, I just one of the we even talked about it recently about with Nicole, I think. We were talking about Muppet Babies and. Yeah, and she likes them and I hate them, I think. Yeah. So the old one just looked like this, which was, you know, just hand-drawn cartoon things. They're not puppets.

I could argue that my little ponies aren't ponies because they're hand-drawn animation. Well, but they're not puppets. No, I'm saying the puppet part. You can say these are Muppets. You can say they're Muppets, right? These are Muppets, but by the argument you just made about the Savannah trip, these aren't puppets. They're not Muppets. No, they're definitely not Muppets because there's nothing.

There's, the artists are controlling them with their hands. Oh, there you go. See? Oh, shit. Different way of controlling them, I guess. So, all right. So in the old. 70s and 80s Muppet movies when they used a camera trickery to make it look like Kermit was walking.

You saw his body and his little legs underneath him. During that time, was he not a puppet? So when you... He'd still be a puppet because he would still be, he's being controlled with sticks that are just being green screened out. But the one where it was the bike, and the bike is controlling the movement because his feet are attached to the wheel. Oh, right. There we go. That's a good example.

That might not be a puppet. That might be something else. Unless you count a bike controlling a puppet as a puppet. Who's controlling the bike? The bike isn't... Good point. It's not running on its own. You're right.

So then if a guy is controlling the bike... And you're really just controlling a puppet of a curmit on a bike. Right. As opposed to controlling a curmit puppet on a bike. Yeah, exactly. The whole thing becomes a puppet. The whole nightmare as a puppet. I know my brain.

My brain. I still stand by it, though. At least the 80s one. Can't speak about the CG one. Well, CG one wouldn't be unless they have little CG people, little CG arms, like if you never see their legs or anything. Yeah. But I mean it would be the same issue though, right?

Because you could say the animated, hand-animated one from the 80s was artists drawing it, therefore they're being puppeted. And then you would say, well, these are 3D artists puppeting them. I mean, the same argument could be made, but I don't think either holds water because it's just a different art form, you know? And what's this dumb little purple bird? Yeah, I don't know. Did they run out of Muppet characters that they could turn into babies and said, well, we need to create one. Yeah.

You couldn't have a little baby. That's definitely not a baby Sam the Eagle. No, no, definitely not. And Sam the Eagle, baby Sam the Eagle exists, at least in the old cartoon he did. So I'm sure they're just like, hey. There's so many puppets they could choose from. Yeah, it's weird. Also, I don't know anybody in real life who ever had a beanie with a propeller on it.

No. That was only a cartoon thing. It was only cartoons. But if anyone's going to have one, Fossey feels like a decent choice. So I like who they chose to put it. The artist just said, the animator said, well, young Fossey needs something. How about one of those old style propeller beatings? What's weird is they made this bird prominent.

Here's another shot. Oh, yeah. And it's just always there. Maybe there's a baby animal. Yeah, baby animal, baby piggy. I wonder if this is any good. I don't want to judge. No, no.

You can look at that and know that it's not. I don't want it to be. but maybe kids like it. I don't know. I'm ready for me to trigger some email, Scott? Do it. Tina and I had never seen Hocus Pocus. Oh shit.

Before? Yeah. Oh my God. It was horrendous. I don't like it either. It was like watching 90s Nickelodeon style acting for two hours or an hour and a half. Tina was ready to turn it off in the first couple of minutes. And I said, people love this movie.

Let's give it a chance. Made it all the way through it. We made it all the way through. Although poor Tina, she watched it, I fell asleep. I slipped through two-thirds. That movie, okay, I'll go ahead and say it because I, we agree on a lot of things. I 100% agree here, 100%. I don't like that movie at all.

It's bad. Yeah, it's really bad. I don't understand who it's for. Okay, so if you come to me and say, I was 12, it meant everything to me. I get that. When your kids, you accept all sorts of things. I thought Land and Lost was awesome when I was a kid. Yeah.

It was amazing. But it's shit. I know it's shit. I still have fond. feelings for it, but it's shit. It's shit. Baby Muppets, the old animated baby Muppets from the 80s, the only one I've seen, so I won't judge the new one. Garbogio in a bucket is terrible. You have three good actresses who are all so busy trying to wrestle the scenery from each other

to chew on that it's just a mess, just a big, squirly mess. So, all right, good. You're not going to line up. Judging by the Tadpool, I don't think I'm going to get hate emails about. Others agree. That's good. Yeah, about hocus pocus defense. Maybe from Brainbo Bright. Yeah.

I think I might get it from Brainbo Bright. Are you going to do this? You're not going to watch the sequel, the new one, right? They made a new one. I can't even imagine. I can't imagine what it would take for me to watch the sequel. Yeah, it'd be able to take a lot for me to do it. Yeah.

Yeah, whatever. For D.H. Ike, are you saying the Muppet Baby Penguin is called Summer? That's a penguin? They're not realized. It looked like a bird. Hold on. regular bird. That's a penguin. I'm looking

at it again. Let's see it again here. Oh, I guess the feet are penguin-y in the hands. Okay. Okay. Yeah. See what it's... I mean, it's not... The face is a little screwy, but see how it's got the, like, platyposed feet and stuff. Okay. All right. That's fine. Summer the penguin. Still,

still. Where's, um... I mean, I know Oscar was a Sesame Street Muppet and not a Muppet's Muppet, but Oscar would fit in really well right there. Yeah, do that crossover. What the hell were they thinking? Elmo. I mean, but, um, Muppet wise. What about a baby scooter? We're, you know, we're some of the human

babies. I think Schueter was in the old one. Is he in the new one? Was he? Was he in the thing? Yeah. But it was a long time ago. Baby Scooter Muppet. A baby sweetums. Let's see. Yeah, maybe he just said it to. Yeah. He is in there. In the new one. Oh, and there's a, there's a, ooh, he has a girlfriend or a sister. Here, look at this one. Oh, geez.

Think of this one. So they, oh, yeah. So now we got. Tom, Augusta says Skeeter. So it's definitely misses the sister scooter so that is sister scooter i like that he wears an apple watch uh scooter well he worked for google last in that movie remember that you did that's right yeah that's pretty weird but o g scooter like original scooter i really relate to scooter oh for sure yeah absolutely he's just trying to keep things together and yeah god did he really wear a satin jacket oh yeah he did that green one yeah i love it they make it look fuzzy in the new cartoon, but

Big fan, big fan. Love me. All right. Anyway, did we bear off course enough with the the Japanese depopulated puppet village? Yeah, I think we really have. Is there photos of this, by the way?

Let's see. Oh, yeah, let's see. That seems like it would be nice and nice. Oh, there is. Oh, my gosh. Oh, geez. This is the opening credits to Fromm is what we're looking at here. They didn't try very, they really didn't try very hard.

These are lame. No, scroll down to the ones on the stuff. swing and the uh oh oh yeah oh i don't like it like no i've not liking it either no i can get this movie on shutter probably twilight zone episode where they come to life after the sun goes down or something so the point of this they said was to give the place a feeling of life and stuff going on this isn't doing that it's not doing that at all it's giving me the feeling of death you know I expect Harold Perino to come running out of that corn screaming any second. Exactly.

That's jacked up. All right. Yeah. Plus those aren't those are also not puppets. And I'm pretty sure Amy would agree that those are mannequins. They're mannequins and scarecrows. Yeah. Right.

What is wrong with the world? Well, they don't know what a puppet is. Not even a news article from NBC News. I expect more from them. Yeah. I don't know why I would, but I do. All right. Well, let's talk about this guy.

An Elliot Lake Man. Elliot Lake. Elliot Lake man. Was found dancing and urinating inside a minivan. He's in the Saltstar.com. Where is that? I'm looking like salt, Salt St. Marie. Is that, uh...

I don't know where this. Let me see. I'll figure out where the Salt Star is. By the way, did he stop dancing once he finally peed? You'd think the things were tied together. It turns out he was actually kind of... crazy and not tied together. So here's the thing.

When I find, we go to one of these newspaper articles and I don't recognize. Oh, is it Sue St. Marie? Thanks. Never been there. You know how I know that place? From the train game.

What's the board game where you're connecting cities? Oh, oh shit. Take it to ride. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's how I know. So Sue St. Marie. But anyway, when we find one of these newspapers and I don't recognize the city that it comes from,

I go up to the top, I look for the weather, and then I click on that and see where, you know, I can usually see where things are. Sure. I can't even, I don't even see it. There's not a weather section up here. Nothing. Yeah.

No. That's weird. Oh, here we go, Ontario. Oh, okay. Yeah, all the Timons and. It looks southwest. Just the image of this cop car even. Ontario, Canada.

Well, it says here. Canada. Canada. It says here that, let's see, this guy relieved himself on his steering wheel after treating police to a display of dance moves facing multiple charges. So they fielded at a complaint Thursday around 530. I know, weird, right? Of a man who was slumped in the driver's seat of a blue minivan on Highland Place with a monitor,

or with a motor running, rather, not monitor. Police attended and tried to speak to the man. He was dancing to music inside the van and ignoring police. He then proceeded to urinate all over the steering wheel and driver's seat area. The man continued to be uncooperative. Eventually, entry was gained by, and the man was safely arrested. Gross. In his possession was suspected fentanyl crack cocaine and crack pipes.

There was also an open bottle of rum, cans of beer, empties, both empty and full inside the van. The minivan was subsequently towed and impounded. This dude's 49. His name is Kevin, and he's busted. Maybe don't, I don't know, if I'm going to, if I got a cop at the thing, banging on the thing and I'm loaded with drugs, maybe this is all you can do. I don't know how it works. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's not like you're, all of a sudden, peeing on the steering wheel makes sense to you and then dancing. Yeah, there's no, like no, something's either wrong.

Or maybe not even a filter. It's, it's not like we would say, oh, if there was nobody around, I would totally pee on the steering wheel and dance. Yeah, that's how you have to look at it. If no one's here, doesn't make a sound, that whole idea. You have to, if I'm alone, do I, I, I, I, if I'm alone. do I peed in a bottle alone, but that was because I had, that was to avoid being all over my car. Right, right. Exactly. So just outside of Beaver, Utah, wasn't it? It was, uh, yeah, right between Beaver and Fillmore, which is great because Fillmore Beaver. And that was back when the Beaver Liquor was there still. So you could go to Beaver Liquor and that was great. Uh, yeah, no, you got a pee in a bottle. I've done it twice. I did it there on that trip when this, we got snowed in from Vegas. And then, what was the other?

time i did this oh oh bad traffic one day took a weird side road turned out to be worse traffic and i had a piece of that i used a bottle and then i put it on my neighbor's car remember that i came home put it on her car yeah that was that was not normal behavior she was very upset about no no what were you what were you on when you did that i was on her name was sally which you if for anyone to think sallies don't exist anymore they're like a figment of like the 40s yeah her name was Sally Blazer and She had a I wish she had a blazer

It'd be funny But it was a Honda Yeah And as soon as I came home We just had a thing Between each other You know you have like Another adult friend

Where the teasing is Is good and healthy and fun And you're having a good time It's like that with her Like leaving a bottle of urine on the car Yeah so I first thing Very first thing I did Open the car

Walked over there Sealed top and everything Plopped it down on the back of her thing While she's looking She watched me do it And then I went in the house and she was like... Fantastic.

Johnson! Freaking out over there. I miss our teasing matches. Because she did it to me all the time. There was always stuff like that. Anyway, let's see here. Yeah, so he peed and he's in trouble, so don't be doing that.

Yeah, don't do that. This might be a thing. Let this be a lesson to you. Truth. Check this out. A woman left disappointed after Northern Light Style Aurora turns out to be a local tomato factory. Yeah, I could see how you'd get the two confused.

I definitely need to know more about this. Do tomato factories emit a glow? Apparently they must, and why they're, why she mistook it for that, who knows? But it says a woman was left stunned after seeing a so-called mystical glow of a northern light-style aurora over the skies of southern England. You're all like, who can be Florida, isn't it? No. No. England.

56-year-old Dee Harrison's excitement soon turned to disappointment after realizing the warm magenta-colored vista was, in fact, coming from the light. of a nearby tomato farm. Well, is it a factory or a farm? Now, let's get into that. If you're growing a product, let's say you grow corn. Yeah. Are you manufacturing corn? Are you just...

You're just farming corn. You're a farm. You're absolutely a farm. But if you have a processing plant that strips the kernels from the corn, then I'd say you're a corn factory. Ooh, you're a corn processor. Yeah, that's still not really a factory, is it? Because factory implies complete assemblage of something or fabrication of something.

Yeah. I wouldn't even call, like, Cuner's Del Monte canning, I would call that a cannery and not a factory. I would too. I think you're right. I think we need more, we need some clarification on this one, too. You're assembling, if you're assembling corn cubs by putting the kernels back onto them, that's a factory. Now, if it's a cartoon Muppet, assembling corn. What do we have there?

There was another one. There was, what was the other one that we said is, uh, uh, uh, uh, miss miss spoken let's see we had the puppet we had the puppets we had something else that was oh I don't know shoot did we just do it we just talked about it and we just talked about it but maybe not I forgot if we did maybe not yeah oh I wouldn't put it past me to forget it probably no me neither we neither I could swear we had a third thing that we were like and this is totally misspoken too this is not what this thing is yeah it might have been some more mannequin versus puppet ire.

Yeah, that annoyed me. After I saw those photos and then you brought it up, I'm still annoyed by that. That's annoying. Like, don't tell me you got a bunch of puppets when you don't. You don't have puppets. Yeah, yeah. You have mannequins.

Totally, totally. All right, where the hell am I? Oh, yeah. So this person, yeah. Tomato, tomato farm. 56-year-old Dee Harrison's excitement turned to disappointment. She realized the warm colors were coming out of that tomato farm. She spotted the reddish hue while driving to work

through the village of Bramford, Suffolk, at around 5.15 a.m. Nothing good happens at that hour, all right? I'm just saying. Don't be driving then. The cleaner posted three photos of her discovery into social media with the caption, Guess it's an Aurora. Not seen one before. That's quite the leap, isn't it?

It really is. Well, she'd never seen one before. In her defense, she doesn't know what those things are supposed to look like. Yeah, that's true. So it got hundreds of comments, but eventually she was told that this beautiful glare came from the Suffolk's Sweet Tomatoes LED light units, which are used to encourage the growth of its stock. So they must be not just LEDs, but they're emitting, what do you call that? What's the light that the plants need to grow well that normally not infrared? No, not ultraviolet either.

UV light? Yeah, UV light. Oh, it's ultraviolet. I think that's right. Yeah. So at night when you don't have regular sun, plus I don't think Southern England is known for its regular sun anyway. You'd do it this way. That makes sense. We had the best tomatoes of our life here. We had so much tomatoes and cucumbers this year. But the tomatoes were insane. And we realized it's because we moved to the tomato plants this year to a place that basically pivots all day with sunlight. It never doesn't have sun. So tomatoes love the sun. And I'm not a green thumb guy. I don't know shit. I don't have a show on, you know, PBS about. how to grow your garden. I don't know any of these things, but I'm telling you,

put your tomatoes in the sun, you will freaking jack those things up. They're awesome. Were they heirlooms, like those big, well, those ones that are different colors. Oh, love those. Yeah, and they kind of come out,

like split and weird. Really weird shapes and stuff. Those are the best. Like, you can just, a little sprinkle of pepper, and that's like, that is lunch right there. Yeah, it's a good,

you can eat it on its own. It's the only tomatoes I actually really like. I hate store-bought tomatoes. They're gross. Anyway, do that. The social media, or sorry, the social media user who pointed out the lights in the factory. It was a 34-year-old Adam Cotterol replying to her post.

These are lights from a local tomato factory. It has full-spectrum lights that shine red into the sky where there is low-lying fog or cloud. I live up the road and have seen it many times or a few times. So sorry, lady. At least he was nice about it. Yeah, that's nice. Instead of like doing a bunch of laughing emojis, those are the grow lights at the tomato farm. Yeah.

it's nice once in a while to see somebody not be a dick automatically yeah that would be the dickish thing would be you know doesn't that not that often everywhere I go people are pissed people are mad and just want to be dicks you know yeah I did it the other day somebody said or I said something about spending a bunch of time with the grandkids and somebody said replied to me very nice reply and said oh I'm so excited for this when this comes I'm so excited this and that I can't wait to have these you know these new babies in our lives and it's very sweet and then somebody to him saying, why? And I took it as, I thought he meant like, he's being an ass.

Oh, right, right. Like, why would you enjoy it? Yeah, why would you enjoy that? That sounds like it's terrible. And so I fire back at this guy going, what do you mean, why? It sounds like you might really enjoy it. Don't be such a jerk about stuff like this.

And then later he goes, I know this person. I was just asking why because I thought maybe one of his kids were pregnant. We hadn't heard yet. And I was about to tell my wife. And I went, oh, man, I'm sorry. This is just, this is social media 101. So I had to apologize, and I did, but I felt bad.

Oh. All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back from the break, we're going to talk with Amy. She's going to clarify that whole puppet thing, and she's also going to recommend books, because it's read this with Amy. You know what you love it. She'll be here in a minute. Before that, though, we must take a break and play a song.

Yeah, this is a good one, too. This is one that I recommend, even if you like it a little bit, go to YouTube and look for the video for this because it's a really cool animated punk rock rat music video like they replaced the band with really cool animated

style rats almost like guerrillas style they got a brand new album called Ethereal Collapse the band is called Parent Teacher

The song is called Murder And I mean that It's M-U-R-D-E-R-A-H-H Murderer Wow All right That sounds awesome

And also perfect Perfect for the Halloween week it sounds like perfect for this week again why i picked it uh once again again murdera uh by the uh by parent teacher from their brand new album ethereal collapse side I know you understand that you're doing alone On the outside I know you understand you won't be doing alone

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Time I'm dying From two side crying you burn Around White line violence Inside your silence and silence And searcher You're Hold on down

Oh Yeah Everyone down Everyone Everyone When are we asking for more When there's fire at your door You're falling asleep

While they're reaching for the wheel Not a beautiful friend Not a feeling that you feel Right now Just don't take it from me Look at your future is new Time are dying from suicide crying you burn White light silence inside your violence I'm sure

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From their brand-new album, Ethereal Collapse. I'm just putting the link to the music video into the chat room so they can all click it and save it for later. That's right. Save the date. And don't forget, QuickTMS.com. I will also contain this information. That's right. It won't contain the link to the music video

unless Mike hears this and decides to do that, but... Maybe he will. Maybe he will. Do you hear that ice worm? He likes garbage for a reason. That means nothing. I don't know why I said that. All right, check this out. Y'all, right here.

Where is it? I can't find it. One of the things that I enjoy also is reading. Hey, look what we got here. We got our very own, Amy. She goes by Red Fragel in the chat And we love having her on Amy, welcome to your monthly effort here.

How are you? Oh, hello, friends. I actually, since October is a long month, I got a bonus. You got two in October. Look at you. It's a two Amy month. We call it that when we got into October. You said, hey, by the way, congratulations on a two Amy month.

Yeah. You want to clear up this whole puppet thing? What makes a puppet thing? Yes. Yes. So, Brian, you, you almost got there. You almost got exactly where, so I did. I gave the whole little table a lesson from my dear friend, Areta Bumgardner, who teaches Puppetry 101. And she says, a puppet is anything you can pick up and bring to life.

That's right. With the claps. I forgot about that. Yeah. Yes. So anything you can pick up and bring to life is a puppet. So, but you. But, you know, it does have to have that element to it. So, yes, I would agree that the things that were shown in that news article are not puppets unless they are picked up and manipulated by the people around. So if you're talking about animation, whether it's traditional, 3D doesn't matter, whatever, those are not things being picked up. Like, there needs to be a physical item. You pick it up and you manipulate it in some way, right? So, okay.

So now we get a little bit tricky. In the case of the Muppet babies and just, you know, standard 3D animation type stuff, I would agree. However, there are animated television shows that use digital puppetry. And so they have an actual puppeteer with a Waldo and it's like a programmable rig where they are manipulating. an animated character in real time on the screen. Basically, they're like v-tubers, sort of, right? The idea that you've got a rig, it's a 3D rig, and your mouth movements, your eye movement,

your hand movements, whatever it is you're controlling, manipulates the thing to move in real time, that could be maybe a form of puppetry is what you're arguing, right? Okay, so that's a different thing. You're talking about like mocap where they have like the ping pong ball, I'm talking about their actual puppetry rigs where the puppeteers control the things with their hands. You know, it's like a, it's a very complicated mechanism that is, you know, it's in its digital. And the puppeteers themselves can actually like reprogram them so that like, oh, if I move my right hand, you know, this way, then the puppet blinks or something like that.

But it's highly customizable. My friend Raymond actually got to work with these on a show called, oh, shoot, what's it called? It's called like Bubbles and Splash or something like there's like a little kid show. It's like a like a preschooler age type splash and bubbles. Splash and bubbles, I'm told. And, you know, it's that kind of age show with little fish, right? And the fish are controlled. Splash and bubbles.

he came over and said splash and bubbles again splash and bubbles so i found i found an example i'm a show right now can i don't know if you can see that oh that's right there with the uh that's what this says i'll send this to amy on i'm going to share the video there too so you can see it um hold on one second here oh yes camera there you go yeah so it's kind of it's kind of an interesting hybrid between animation and puppetry because it's not it's not animation strictly in the sense that like there's not somebody drawing every frame but it's also not you know it's not a physical object so it is it is kind of both yeah sid the science kid is another good example of a show where uh the the actual characters even though they are animated characters on screen

they are in fact puppets um an excellent one you guys would definitely know wheatley from uh the portal two game you know the the little eyeball who turns turns out to be the bad guy. Spoiler alert for a 20-year-old game. Yeah, he was actually, it's really fascinating. The puppeteer who performs Red Fraggle, her name is Karen Prel, she helped to develop that character. And she performed the puppetry for Wheatley in the game. Oh, wild.

I didn't know that's how they cat. That was a long time ago, too. It was like 07 or no. Yeah. Yeah. So it's really interesting technology, the way they, you know, kind of hybridize all of that. But yeah, like those lines are getting blurred for sure. So this one right here that I'm showing is in there. So in Unreal, you can do real time puppet rig crap. So this is somebody doing what you're talking about, manipulating eyes, hands, all that. And then they real time it into an unreal virtual space. That's really cool. That is really cool.

I mean, and that is, that is, A, just as good as some sort of long, arduous CGI process, way shorter in time. And the results, and it kind of allows more acting to take place than somebody doing CGI and, like, doing key frames and tweening between them and stuff. The fascinating thing to me is the one you were just showing me, it was really impressive, all the sympathetic movement that they were getting off. of the fur, you know, on that character, because like, you know, he would, he would sort of walk in and his fur would kind of bob up and down after him, right? Like, so that's what we call sympathetic movement. It's like what you get out of, you know, a lot of puppets that have like crazy hair, like animal. You can see like when he, when animal breathes, like his whole, all the fur on his face kind of breathes with him, right? And that's because it's actually not fur. It's made of ostrich feathers. But, yeah. So yeah, that's. what that rig looks like. I found an exact. I found, so this is wild. I'm putting it up now so you can see it. But this arm, that's the rig. That's not that one, but it's one like it. The idea is, I mean, even the hands got the mouth up there. See that? Like the mechanism for the mouth and and I assume all these wires are running off to send movement info. It's not wireless or whatever,

but that's really neat. It makes me want to do something like that. Yeah. Are you guys, You guys are going to fiddle with that at all? You're going to get in, you know, I don't know. I'm, oh my gosh, I would love to, but I'd be afraid to you because that stuff is expensive and I'd be scared. I'd break something. I mean, because I can't afford to replace it if I break up it. Yeah. It's really cool.

So speaking of puppets, I was going to do this after we talked about the books, but it's a perfect segue. So I'll go ahead and mention it if I can. Sure. I would like to give a little plug for this weekend on Saturday. If anyone is in or, you know, somewhat near the Atlanta area, the Puck and Puppet show is this weekend. It's our annual Halloween show that this year we're calling it the Halloween Hangover Show. And it is at the Center for Puppetree Arts this Saturday. And I created a tiny URL for it.

So it's tiny URL.com slash HHPFS. So it stands for Halloween Hangover. Puck and fuppet show. Puffet show. I'm so glad you've gotten to the point where you can say that quickly and not screw it up. Yeah. You have to be careful. Yes. This is awesome. This is, and it's this weekend. Oh, man, 15 bucks is all. Get the ticket. Buy your tickets, you guys. Can I, yeah, can I lodge a complaint really quick, by the way? Yeah. I was doing a really quick search for tickets for Amy Mann and Jonathan Colton this last couple days ago. And I'm like, oh my gosh, okay, they're at a venue on Broadway.

I can get Groupon tickets for $24 each or $30 each for good seats. Like, boom, let me order them. I order them, get them right away. And then I click the map to see which, because we have a Broadway that goes right through downtown, straight south, and tons of little venues on there, all intimate, great little concert settings. And I look at the map. Like, oh, apparently this is in Los Angeles.

Oh, shit. Oh, no. So I deal with Groupon and no, we can't give you money back, but we can give you credits you can use. I'm like, fine, I'll find another concert that I want to use it for. No, no Amy Man for, or no Groupon for the Denver Amy Man concert. And it's $70. Like, how come I can get $24 tickets if I'm in Los Angeles, but in Denver three times that? That's crazy.

That makes no sense. Makes no sense. I still want to see it, though, but I'm going to see what I can, what I can. Have they been doing this for a while touring together? I didn't even know they were a combo. They did a cruise together. I knew she performed there, but yeah. I thought it was just more like, hey, she's one of the people that comes and does this regularly.

I didn't realize they were collaborating that way. That's cool. I would love to see that. Yeah, they do. They do a fair amount of collaboration. In fact, some of Jonathan's more, you know, later albums, she has collaborated for, you know, writing and singing and. all kinds of stuff so yeah they're they're good friends the two of them and she can i tell you she radiates like i i mean she's super cool obviously but she really what you're going to talk about yeah

she does not have a a welcoming vibe to her at all she is resting murderer face yeah yeah for real like she is very intimidating and very like no she just radiates don't approach me and talk to me She smiles and you're like, oh, everything's fine. She doesn't smile. They're like, oh, good. Okay, she has teeth. Now, you guys know how I feel. I have this exact problem.

I hate it. Hate it. Oh, one more point really quick. And then because I know we were running short on time. But those puppets that you're talking about with like a human-sized head and hands, those are called humanettes. Humanettes. Okay.

All right. Oh, yeah. But I used to me to talk about with the movie, the puppet master, once they're imbued with a human soul in their, they're talking. And they start walking around on their own. They are, oh, good, good job on the Amy Mann pictures. That's a great. See the difference here?

It's like, man, what a difference. A smile can make. And I get told us all the time. You can see, like, where you're like, nope. Like, do not, do not disturb. And then, oh, hi. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

Once those, once those puppets are imbued with the Egyptian magic and the soul and then they start operating on their own, now they're not puppets. Now they're just golems or something. Yeah, yeah. I would say, yeah, I would call them golems at that point. Because unless somebody else is manipulating them, even though

they are sentient, I would say, yeah, that they are golems at that point. So that 15 movies or whatever we figured out that are in the puppet master series, all misnamed. Yep. They're all, all of them. All flagrant misrepresentation.

You should watch these puppet master movies and tell us what you think of. them because they're so bad no thank you oh there's there's really nothing scary about them maybe yeah they're not scary they're just stupid they're just so stupid i did i did actually go against your advice because i couldn't take it and my curiosity got the better of me about woman of the hour it was really good um there were there were a couple of very disturbing scenes but um i'm i'm okay i'm not like losing sleep over it and i was really impressed with how well that movie was done.

It was really good. It's so good. Yeah. And it's not what you think, right? You're thinking, all right, well, Annie Kendrick is the star of this. She's going to figure it out and she's going to catch the bad guy. Like, well, I'm not going to say anything more because it's within the two weeks.

I'm not going to spoil anything. But it's not like it's not what you think from that from the trailer. So. Nice. Speaking of recommendals, don't sleep on that chimp crazy thing that Nicole told us about. everybody it is worth seeing if you think you're going to see another version of tiger king it's not that even though it's the same director but it is not that it is something very different there's no carol baskin in this one not not really there's some people you're like what the

hell are these people thinking there's definitely you know some human quirk involved but it's mostly about the apes and it's fascinating and also legal stuff it's really good i liked it a lot she was right about it i wasn't sure i got the first episode and i went eh and then it got really good after that. So I highly recommend it. All right, let's get to these books. Which would you like to play first? The one labeled one or the one labeled two? I would say the one labeled one, Scott.

I would think that would be the way to go. So let's give that a shot. Here we go. Liam took a seat on the gray couch, overstuffed throw pillows on either side of him. So Liam, how was your week? He'd been seeing Dr. Constance once a week for the past five months. She claimed they were making good progress, but he wasn't sure he agreed.

Do you want to talk about what you mentioned in our last session? The news reading? How did that go? It wasn't what I was expecting. What were you expecting? When I went in to observe, the people were old. Pretty much every volunteer I've seen there is older. I figured I'd be reading with someone in their 60s or 70s. He hadn't been prepared for her.

Not even a little. Liam? Dr. Constance interrupted his thoughts, and he realized he'd been silent for well over a minute, possibly longer. The woman I was reading with, she was young, probably in her late 20s. She was, she was cheerful and kind. He swallowed hard. She was so beautiful. Dr. Constance was quiet a long time before asking, Liam, is it possible you're attracted to this woman? Even if I was, what's the point?

Her head tilted to the side as she watched him with curiosity. What do you mean? He leaned his head against the wall and stared at the ceiling. We both know why I'm here. I'm a monster. Someone like her, she deserves far better than the nightmare that I'd bring into her life. I like the voice actor reading this book. Yeah, that's really important.

I don't know who that is, but that's my really good voice reading. excellent thank you thank you thank you yeah so well spotted that is me um so this book was actually sent to me by a listener of the show and uh she wrote it and asked me if i would read it and then review it and it was kind of an embarrassingly long time ago when she sent it to me i am sorry to say but i finally got around to reading it and i i loved it i thought it was absolutely charming the name of the book is Healing Notes by Beth Hope. And yeah, it's, it is a love story. It's, it's not the usual fair that I would, I would feature on the show because, you know, it's just a straight up love story. But it does deal with a lot of really great stuff that,

you know, Wendy would probably talk about. There's a lot of like religious trauma, you know, just all sorts of, all sorts of healing. Like these two people, are very broken when they meet each other. And neither of them thinks that they deserve anything good in life. And then life shows them otherwise, but they have to work through it. And it's really a beautiful story. I think I will admit that one reason why maybe it took me so long to read it is because I was afraid it wasn't going to be good.

And then I would be like Yeah, it's hard, right? Right, this awkward thing of like, thank you for the book. Yeah. And then I would have to wrestle with like, okay, do I talk about it on the show or and just like gloss over the fact that I didn't think it was good or, you know, whatever like. But I really, I really did.

I really loved it. I got really invested in these two characters and their growth. And I and I really did. And I thought she handled a. lot of the subject matter really, really well. There's there's some very sensitive subjects in there. Nothing is graphic at all. But, you know, and there is some consensual spicy scenes in there. So that's kind of cool. But for those who are looking, looking for that. But yeah, it's honestly, I just thought it was a beautiful love story. And I told her as much. And so as soon as I finished it,

I knew I was like, okay, this is the very next book I'm going to feature on the show. It's only three books, or three books, three bucks on Kindle, really cheap, perfect time to grab it, get the paperback for 15. It has reviewed well on Amazon as well. It seems like you're not alone. People like it. Yeah. Yeah. I really thought it was just lovely.

I really did. So I was very, very grateful to her for bringing it to me. So, yeah. Big ups to Beth Hope. That's awesome. If she's listening, and we hope you continue. Always want to promote a fellow tadpooler whenever we can. I mean, writing a book, that's impressive.

Yeah, it's not easy at all. I sit here and talk about them, but I, you know, like. Awesome. So, yeah, but that's why I did the reading because the audio book does not exist yet for it. So that's why I picked out a reading for it. And for the interest of time and content and whatnot, like there's, there's a lot more flavor text in there that I removed so that the clip wouldn't be too long. Sure, sure, sure. I'm looking at a sample now and it looks like it's written really well. I love hearing when

you guys are doing creative, cool stuff out there. So make sure to let us know when you do. And Amy's the perfect one to send books to, so keep it coming. Yeah. Awesome. Let's get into the other one. What do you have here? Anything to set up? All right. So yes, this other one, it's, I think it's good and timely and that's what I'll say. It's a complete right turn from this you know so total fantasy thing

so go ahead and hit it. All right here we go. The wizard bowed. What is the name of this place, sir? Said the wizard. The blacksmith shrugged. Bad ass, he said. Bad ass.

Repeated the blacksmith. His tone defying anyone to make something of it. The wizard considered this. A name with a story behind it, he said at last, which were circumstances otherwise I would be pleased to hear. But I would like to speak to you, Smith, about your son. Which one? said the Smith. The wizard smiled. You have seven sons, do you not? And you yourself were an eighth son? The Smith's face stiffened. The Smith drew a couple of stools from under a bench. Then the Smith said,

I know what son you mean. Old granny is up with my wife now. Eighth son of an eighth son of course. It did cross my mind, but I never gave it much thought, to be honest. Well, well, a wizard in the family, eh? You catch on very quickly. Hang on, I'm trying to remember what my father told me. A wizard who knows he's going to die

can sort of pass on his sort of wizardness to a sort of successor. right? I've never heard it put so succinctly, yes, said the wizard. So you're going to sort of die? Oh, yes. When? The wizard thought for a moment in about six minutes time. Good Lord. I love how she reads. Who is this? Who is that? Oh my goodness. So there is a whole cast of people reading for this one. I believe that is Indira Varma. I don't know who that is. Love her voice. She's a really, really good idea. It is lovely. I could listen to her, read the phone book.

For the younger people, a phone book is where we used to have our, that's where we used to docks people and we'd send them to everybody's house. There really isn't a modern equivalent of the phone book. It is, hey, what's your number? Right? Because you can search for a business by going into maps, but, you know, looking for a person. online it's just creepy now yeah we yeah we know we know her she's in a bunch of stuff yeah the tv series rome i remember that she was like the wife at home or whatever she does a lot of video game voices she's a mission possible dead reckoning part one she's great she's as pretty

as she sounds good lord bill nighy apparently has a has a part in this audio book as well so oh cool yeah stuff is just great yeah he is great love him so uh the name of this book is equal rights by Sir Terry Pratchett. So I'm going back to Discworld. And the reason I say it's timely is a couple of reasons. I mean, as you can guess from the title, although it's equal rights, like R-I-T-E. So it's a little clever there. But the crux is, as you could hear there from that introductory scene, there's a wizard who's about to die and shows up to imbue his powers to, an eighth son of an eighth son and which you know how we have like the seventh son of a seventh son here on Discworld eight is the magicy number um so you know that was just Terry Pratchett being Terry Pratchett and uh so and then you know they they go up to where his his wife is there with the midwife and oh look it's a girl so wow yeah and so then and on Discworld it's like girls are witches and boys are wizards and like or you know at least if they're

magic users at all right like and so so this kind of turns that on its head looks at traditional gender roles and what different talents are as far as you know what you're born with nature versus nurture all that type of thing so you know it's timely in that in that regard. Also, as we know, Discworld is my, is my happy comfort place. And I have anxiety about everything until like next week, you know, and possibly thereafter. So I decided I needed a comfort food. And Terry Pratchett was it. So good news. Free, if you have Kindle Unlimited, it's currently $0 over there. And only 99 cents on Audible. So good time to pick it up. you just want the paperback 1199 it's pretty good also here's a photo of that lady and now you know

her right you know her oh totally no she was one of the sand uh snakes right oh yeah right totally forgot about that in the game of thrones dornish uh yeah she was the good she was the good she was the kind of leader tough one right she was yeah i forgot about that she's great in that uh she's also in the podcast series disc world tiffany aching oh i love tiffany aching so much that's cool like That is probably my absolute favorite series. You know, Discworld is a humongous, like, super series. And then within it, they're kind of sub-series. And so the Tiffany aching series is five books long.

And they are my absolute favorite. Well, I hope Tiffany's doing better now. Not aching so much. Yeah, no, aching is nearly as much as she used to. Well, that's great. Tiffany healing. Fine, fine recommendations, a little something. from column A and B here, and I like that a lot.

So enjoy both those recommendations. They'll be up on QuickTMS.L.I as well. Amy, Amy, anything else you want to mention before we go? I mean, yeah, go pick up your tickets to the Puck and Fuppet show. And, you know, with the holidays coming, Peepers Puppets make a great stocking stuffer. I'm just saying. Yeah.

Grab them while they're hot. What's that tiny URL again? Give it to us one more time. It is tiny URL. H-H-H-P-F-S. Excellent. Go get it. And I think that is case-dependent, if I understand it right.

It's all lowercase. It's how it worked for me. Yes. Amy, well done. It's always good to have you here. We will talk to you soon and have a fantastic Halloween. Thanks. Bye.

Bye now. Bye-bye. All right. That brings us to the end of today's program. Now, here's an important aspect of said program. Not really. so yesterday yesterday got all jacked up for me

there was no Monday show as a result so we're going to do that on Wednesday I know that makes no sense but Wednesday night after all the DTNS stuff Carter and I will be doing it then today are you regretting the the title the podcast name choice slightly because if I have to move things around it's just annoying but also people

It's so much explanation if it has to move from Monday yeah people like meaning on it so maybe it worked out I don't know but I also have play retro today because Dunaway's got some stuff this weekend and we want to make sure we cram it in. So today at 1.30 Mountain, that'll be 3.30 his time. We'll be doing that here at frogpants.tv. So check that out.

Unusual day, but we're happy to bring it to you on a Tuesday. Other than that, I think that was the only weird switcharounds this week that I can think. Oh, and Corr might be early Thursday because it's Halloween and John's got kids and everybody's busy. Oh, sure. You've got to take him trick-or-treating. Yeah, so we might actually do it right after or close to after TMS that day. Oh, wow. Okay.

get that four hours in early so yeah yeah we'll let you guys know as we get a colster right now I think I put it on the schedule at like 12 or 1230 but if it changes you'll see that change in the schedule and if you're like schedule what schedule all the live stuff can be found frogpants.com slash schedule made it all in one easy place super easy to do go check it out it's right out of the calendar so when something changes you see the changes immediately check it out that's frogpants dot com slash schedule and that includes the show everything else can be found at frogpans.com slash TMS. We are now going to leave. Brian, to do

that, we have to play a song. Do you have a song? We do. And today is going to be a fun one. This one is going out to Kev, aka Crazy Birthday Request. I heard this recently and thought it was a good cover, although I'm not that familiar with the original.

Wow. Erasure played a part in my youth. So the cover is by Erasure. The song in question is Blondie's Rapture. And Kev I feel like you're kind of lucky. It's my least favorite blondeie song.

I don't know why it is. It's the, I love the part that's not the rap, but the rap is so, it gets dumb. It does. Now he's only eating guitars and did it, you know. Something in bars. There's a weird, like, where the people meet. Like, it's, um, there's some parts of the, like the, like the goon and or whatever hound gang. Like, then the chicken tastes like wood.

Is that kind of rapping? Right, right. a little bit. Yes, it's almost, my name is Sam Malone, and I'm here to say, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. It's my least favorite kind of rap. Yeah. Yes, but, I mean, it is the first, like the first non-rap rap song to make the charts

or something like that. So, I mean, it's, you know, there is some nostalgia to it. There is some, there's some groundbreaking to it, and I've got to appreciate what Debbie Harry was going for there. But there's just points of the song where she has to slow down her words because she can't fit enough words in the thing to get the cadence right. Anyway, we're not here in the Blondie version. We're here in the Erasure version.

This version comes from a B-Sides collection, so it's not the version you get on Cowboy. This is from an album called From Moscow to Mars, the B-Sides from 2016. Here is Erasure and Rapture. Try-O-O-O- oh oh Oh Oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-choo-choo-choo-choo-tchoo-choo-chch now. Dancing very close Body breathing

Almost comitose World to war people hypnotized And they're stepping Lightly It's not in that child. Back to that, Sacrialia

Spireless movements and a wild attack Face to face to face. Two-face, sightless solitude. And it's finger hopping, 24 hours open in interaction. Fatsy! Five, proud, fair to tell me everybody fly, OJ, spinning my set my mind, flush is fast, flushes,

Fast, fresh is cool, François set by a flash like a troupe And you don't stop, Shoshop, go out to the parking road, And you get in the car, and they drive you'll far, And you drive all night, then you'll see a light, And it comes right down, and it lands on the ground, And out, the car's the man from ours, And you try to low, and it's got it down,

And he shoots you dead, and eat you dead. And then you're in a madrimals, you go out all night, eating cars, you get a wax, When you comes to Mercury's, Super Rules, and you don't stop. And you don't stop, do you keep on, eating cars? When there's none of the cars, you come out at night and eat out of us, they'll be for me. Face to face, don't cheat to cheap, one to one, men to move fast, toe to toe, don't move too slow,

because the man from Mars is free with cars, he's eating cars, yeah, wall to wall, tour to tour, water all, it's going to need a malls. Wrapture, Peter, take the tour, through the sewer, don't strain your brain, Through the trend you'll be seen in the rain and I'll stop to punk rock. Turn to toe, dancing very close. Body breathing, almost come at all. people hypnotize understanding lightly

and it's not in action Well now you say what we want to be just half you. Just have your party on TV Because the man from ours won't eat up bars When the team is on And now he's gone back up to space When you have to hassle with the human race And hit pop

And you don't stop, just blast off It's your shot Because the man from ours Stop eating cars and eating bars And now he only eats guitars Get up Get up Get up!

Get up! Matcho! Matcho! Matcho! Matcho! Rapture Hi, sheep and bad. This is Fabian the farmer calling you.

And your last week on the morning stream, you had a news story about somebody illegally obtaining and using sheep for breeding or something like that. got me to think it and reminded me of a movie I've watched years ago called Black Sheep. That is about genetic engineered sheep gone wrong. A black comedy horror film from New Zealand is like 2007, I think it was from. Anyway, you guys should check it out. Might even be a good movie for FromSack. All right.

Hi. Hi, guys. This is Jeannie Soros, aka Jeannie. Anyway, calling regarding the kiss cam that Brian was asking me about. First of all, I want to say that I feel it in honor that you are, we are frenemused as far as hockey goes. Anyway, I did work on kiss cam. Usually when I was working on that, I was just doing the graphic overlay, but it was always fun to watch the direct. in the room and choosing between them and the camera guys out in the arena finding all kinds of people who were just looking to be on there or you know just whatever that was whether it was kiss cam or just trying to find someone who's having fun or whatever it's always fun to watch them discover and

realize that they're on screen you never know how they're going to react uh great show guys thanks bye hello morning stream this is thomas coming to you from new hampshire just saying hey and uh you on monday we're talking about the abacus briefly i had one and the whole time i was in high school that's where i used my teacher taught me to use it i got to be pretty good they have what they call secrets for adding different things and it i had been pretty good i was not allowed to use a calculator until my senior year and even, and probably not until even the end of it. And even then, it was just to check my work. I got to do everything on the abacist's tail, but then I can use a calculator to check my work

afterwards. And I don't know where that thing went to. I got out of high school, went to college, and I probably around my parents' house somewhere. I don't know where it is. I haven't seen it for 30-odd years now. But they were quite fun, and they are not too hard. to use once you get the hang of it. So anyway, just

thought you'd like to know. See you guys later. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Yes. Get more at frogpant.com. The new health and fitness section? I'm not sure but I'll find out if I can use your phone.