The Morning Stream - TMS 2757: Moist Fitness

Episode Date: January 2, 2025

Wickless Wonder. Traffic Avalanche. Stair Condom. Like a Thousand Dead Fish. The Jordache Maneuver. Fig Newton of the morning. Moist Hoist. Take Take was Taken. I Don't Like Passenger Spider-Monkeeeeeeeys. Monk 'Til Midnight. I don't want to eat my car! Chickens are too Stupid to Get it. The No Food Restaurant. Oh by the way, Monk. Starting the new year with miscommunication, with Wendi and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can you smell it? Well, can you? That's the smell of a new year, full of new chances and new opportunities, and a new chance for you to saunter up to the Patreon and help your favorite hosts out for another 365. Patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, Wickless Wonder. Traffic avalanche. Stair a condom.

Like a thousand dead fish. The Jor-Dash maneuver. Figg Newton of the morning. Moist, hoist. Take-take was taken. I don't like. Like passenger spider monkeys. Munk till midnight.

I don't want to eat my car. Chickens are too stupid to get it. The no food restaurant. Oh, by the way, monk. Starting the new year with miscommunication with Wendy and more on this episode of the morning stream. People keep correcting me, telling me that it's cyber truck and not Tesla truck. I don't fucking care. The morning stream, one way or the other, this war ends tonight.

Morning, everybody, welcome to TMS. It is Thursday, January 2nd, 2025. I am Scott Johnson. That is Brian Hibbitt. Hello, Brian. Hello, and welcome to a brand new year. Yeah, that's right. I hope you're all over whatever.

hangover you gave yourself at home you know how about Brian how to go for you did you have the juice juice of the morning I did I had a juice of the morning I don't know why I called her that completely pulled that out of the sky it feels like it feels like you were trying to remember that song from the 80s that the singer just call me angel of the morning yeah by angel Newton, yes. Angel Fig Newton. Yeah, I remember her. She was great. Juice Newton. Anyway, sort of. I had a, I had one Topo Chico. Oh, all right. You want to be able to jump ahead to what? I think you should. And I also need a definition of what a Topo Chico is. Please tell me more. The topo chico is a hard seltzer. And they've got pineapple, mango, and strawberry flavors. And it's very light. low calorie and very tasty and a good mixer for other for other alcohols for spirits okay

is that what you did do you use it for that or used it just straight out of the uh no i used it i used it as a thirst quencher because uh nice Thursday so I'll get to I'll get to that in a second start out Thursday did a little freelance uh we had we were going live with a um one of my client sites that I've been working on for like two and a half months finally got all the they were They were dragging their feet with content, so it wasn't me. I finally went live with it, and then I decided, I'm going to go out and lift for a little bit because it's New Year's Eve. I have a great time lifting on New Year's Eve. People are usually in a really good mood.

They're having fun. They're going out to parties and stuff like that. I'll say that half of my lift rides, I left it, I drove for about four and a half hours and made close to 200 bucks. And about half of those rides were just people coming home. from work like, yeah, no, I'm not going out tonight. It's going to be a nice quiet night and fine with that, which is what, mostly what I ended up doing. So, um, one of the people that I was driving came from way up north, uh, and I had to take them down to downtown Denver for the avalanche game. And traffic for the most part, we weren't getting a lot of rush hour traffic,

but once we got closer to downtown, we got a lot of traffic for, uh, for the avalanche. Sure. So things are starting to get congested. And he and I were talking about the game. And I was telling, well, I don't go to Avalanche games, but we go to the mammoth games, blah, blah, blah. And I've got some good space in between me and the car in front of me. And all of a sudden I hear, and it's the car in front of me screeching to a halt, but not fast enough and slamming into the car in front of them. And, of course, I slam on the brakes and a little bit of, a little bit of, me going, but I stopped with about two or three feet in front of me, between me and the car in

front of me. But then I look in the rearview mirror because if I'm stopping abruptly, what about the people behind me? The car behind me, no problem. Stops in time. Good. My passenger is like, dude, good job, man. I don't know how you avoided getting hit there.

Like he was raving about that for the remaining 10 minutes of the ride, even calling his buddy who was meeting him at the game to say, dude, the guy. driving my Uber, man, and he said Uber, whatever. Totally just avoided an accident. I don't know how he did. So after we stopped, I kind of pulled around to get around the two cars in front of me, which I knew weren't going anywhere. And there is a line of about eight cars, some of whom had rear-ended each other,

some of whom had stopped with enough time, enough space. But it was basically like, you saw the first car, and it was a car with his bumper off, because he had hit the car in front of him so hard. And then a few other cars, a couple hits here, a couple hits there. The car in front of me hit. So I drove around all that. And he's like, look, oh, those guys hit. Oh, those guys hit.

Oh, man, that guy's bumper's off, you know. Man, imagine him in an actual hockey game where he's doing play by play. Especially the Avalanche game that he went to. It was a great one. They beat Winnipeg. And Winnipeg's the current lead in the division. So got him there. more rides and had to stop by about eight o'clock because I signed up for an orange theory

New Year's Eve deal, which was they shut off all the lights in the room. They have black lights and strobes and things like that going. And you just do a little special workout that they concocted for this. Basically it was like a on the rower. It was you go 400 meters. Then hop off the rower, grab a Y-bell, and then do Y-bell squats 10 times. Then back on the rower, 400 meters off. Then you do eight squats. Then back on the rower, 400 meters, then six squats, counting down 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, et cetera. Got it.

And then doing the same thing with weights over on the weight side. And then the treadmill was starting a 10% incline and taking it down to one. And it's, you know, wiped me out. did something to my shoulder to where I think it was the weights, like totally tweaked my shoulders, so I didn't go this morning. I'm going to try and go this afternoon. But at the end of it, they had the TVs on for the New York Ball Countdown. And so they handed us all like hard-siders or Topo Chico's or they had Prosecco from Costco.

It's a good old Costco Perseco. I didn't know that was Costco's brand. Is that their brand? of that? Kirkland. Kirkland is. Oh, no, I knew that, but Prosecco is a, is a Costco. No, Prosecco is a kind of, it's a sparkling wine.

Oh, okay. I thought you were saying that Costco sold, that was their house brand of sparkling wine. No, nope. Perseco, right, just the prosceco that they sell at Costco. Got it. Got it. Got it, got it. So that's cool.

We toasted the New York one. Then I went home and Tina and I watched Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen get drunk for a little while. And then we went to bed early. Yeah, nice. Celebrated 35 years of being a couple because our first date was on New Year's Eve in 1989. Damn. Look at you two going. That's fantastic.

Yep. Yep. So, the, the Ibbotsons, you know? What are they like, you guys, let's see, what else is that old? Okay, what happened in 89? Like, there's got to be some hot dog place everyone loves that launched that year or some other kind of cool. Something, yeah. There's something, right?

Some hot dog place. Definitely a hot dog place. What are those hot dog chains? Yeah, I love them hot dog chains. It's funny, I've been going to the gym too, and something I noticed today that really is weird to me. And that is the name of the equipment in this place, I think, is a mistake. So let me just show you something here. Okay.

Here's an example of some of their equipment. This is fine, you know, whatever this is. It's a free weight machine. They have all brands, all the machines in there like this. They're all branded this. And the brand is, right here, hoist. Hoist fitness. Now, the problem I have with hoist or hoist fitness in general is if you're not really looking,

if you're not squinting at it, or if you squint at it, I guess, the H is a little bit like an M. Kind of M, you know. M adjacent. At first glance, it could look like moist. Yeah, so when I walk in there, everything just looks like it's moist fitness. And that just puts me in a place, you know? Wipe down your machines.

don't be gross. Exactly. Don't be moist with your fitness. You use the provided towels or provided Lysol rags to clean things. I mean, the equipment's fine. You know, no complaints.

But today I have... What's your typical regimen? Like, what did you do today? Today was arms and chest. And as you can tell, let's see if I can shake here. If I hold up something too long, let's see if this happens. I'm shaking like crazy.

Yeah. My arms are just... Oh. but it's good and you know that thing I was having with my shoulder it has completely gone away after these workouts

so apparently all I ever needed to do was lift some damn weights so I took care of that and then tomorrow is cardio and I think we're getting the basketball court oh cool I think so Kim and I'll just shoot around

and dork off for that second half or whatever makes such a difference when your wife goes to that with you because number one you keep each other accountable it makes it harder for you to kind of blow it off and a spotter

patient you got somebody to talk to while you're on the treadmill I mean I talk to the people around me but it's not the same yeah I like a good spotter a spotter yeah I talked about this a little bit on a unpublished diary episode but there's a guy there today

who is in they have a track a running track inside and it's a they have lanes for people are just walking joggers and then the full on sprinters are on this outside track and it's all soft like a nice brand new like uh i don't know what you call that but so you're so it's not as hard on your knees it's not like cement yeah so you run around this thing doing your thing and there was a guy in that line or in my lane who he looked like late 60s or something

and i thought to myself this is great look at him out here this is what we all should be doing with one day i hope i'm when i'm his age i hope i'm out here getting some exercise and you know keeping keeping track all that and that's a good job and then it hits me like a truck like a thousand dead fish at once the stinkiest odory stink coming off this guy coming from that guy

I've never I mean it was like honestly like a whale carcass dude like just a big rotting fish so we went around him and then tried to avoid him most of the time

eventually tried to time your run so he was always on the opposite side of the track yeah we basically did and he was slow so our goal was to stay if we got close to him we would run faster and be on the

outside and get past him and Kim's really sensitive to the smells like that so she was just like dying she was like gay oh I would be too that would be I guess that would be the better instead trying to be on the opposite side be five or ten feet in front of them so that there's the most time for that smell to dissipate as you come

back around yeah yeah that's exactly the strategy it in front of him yeah you'll definitely smell if you're behind it but it was like a lake that's like you know had gone down too low it was bad a lake that doesn't have any water churn where the uh the muck just sits on top of it and stinks yeah and a bunch of dead fish on the shore for no reason that kind of thing is just really bad so all i'm saying is you know we didn't

we weren't rude but we weren't and we weren't into it if you know what i mean yeah yeah uh also so on new year's eve for us we did a combination of quiet night uh busy nights so we went from so everybody ended up leaving we were supposed to have two of the littles overnight because we just were gonna do it and that was going to be fun but Nick's little one Ramona had to go to the hospital we thought she just had an ear infection turns out she has

full on like baby flu and because we were around her we didn't want to expose the other two because Taylor and Dylan are taken van to Disneyland in like a week and a half and they're like I don't want him to be sick so we're not bringing him over we're like we totally get it we understand

so then we're like all right plans have changed so we dressed up a little bit and went a slackwater, which is a bar slash restaurant. Love that place. You talked about it before? Yeah, love it. Got their amazing nachos, got some wings, shared this weird chicken sandwich is basically like the pizza, pizza crust is the bread, but then everything inside of it is like this crazy concoction.

It was very good. So we got that, split that, and then I think a salad, maybe one other thing. I don't remember. Anyway, we get all that. Of course, we're not drinking, so we're just over by the bar. We got carded. and didn't drink. So we get to watch other people drink,

and that's fun because, you know, I could watch this guy slowly go. He's watching some college football game, and he's just slowly starting to, like, lose his mind over there. Really? Yeah, so that was fun. But then the girl, she comes up and she says, this is before we ordered anything,

she had the menus. And one of the menus at that place is always a month, here are this month specials. And it's always like themed around Halloween in October or themed around Christmas or something, you know, the holidays. in different months, different stuff. And they're always really good to choose from. So I was like, let's see what we got here.

And they had Benets. And I was like, Kim, you love Benets? Let's get some Benets. She goes, oh, I hate to be the one to break it to you. And I go, you don't have any Benets. She goes, we are all out of the Beny's. And this is all New Year's related party stuff. So I'm like, okay, well, just the one thing's gone.

How about the pizza that you guys are only doing today? Oh, well, we're out of the back. So they're out of that again. Oh, geez. So I thought, well, there's no way a third thing won't be here. So I said these dry rub wings with the something, something, Asian, this, that, whatever it was. And I forgot the name of it.

It was like New Year's wing, something. And she goes, you know, you're going to hate me. Why are you giving us this piece of paper then? Yeah, look, what on here is still available? What do you still have? I almost said that. I almost said, okay, why don't you show me what you do have left? on your menu, but I didn't do it. I just said, oh, that's fine. We'll just go from the main menu.

Everything was great. Food was great. So we did that for a while, very crowded, a lot of people around, having fun, laughing, you know, very New Year's eve-ish. But we know, we know where our card is punched. We know that we need to get out of there before it's insane. So we leave at about, I don't know, nine, something like that. And we go home, get comfortable, and we watched, we were supposed to watch that new carry-on movie with the kind of die-hard-like thing that's on Netflix? Yeah. Yeah. And I've been wanting to see it.

I've been talking about that, too. It looks interesting. But it's reviewing well, people like it. It just feels very die-hardy and that's probably okay because I like die-hard likes. But anyway, so we sit down to do that and instead we watched back-to-back episodes of, oh, actually, I can't tell you what we watched because it's a future recommendal. So I'll say that we did a thing and burned through it so quickly that we then watched a bunch of old monk episodes for no reason that we could think of except we're trying to stay up you know yeah I don't like watching the ball I can't stand freaking mainstream in New Jersey coverage I hate it I like I like

like I like I said I like Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen but then they like introduce some musical artists that I'm like yeah I probably don't need to remember your name yeah it's not going to be important and all that stuff all that stuff streams now so it's not like a it's not like I can't get it I just can't I can't stand it so we didn't watch any of that we watch Monk until midnight, rang in the new year, and then just went, all right, let's go to bed. That was it. That was the whole party. You managed to stay up until midnight. Good job. We made it till midnight. And it was while Monk was on, while I was also intermittently, because it was episodes I'd seen, I would read. I was reading my book and watching Monk, read my book, watching Monk.

So when the clock rolled over, I was in some form of ADHD behavior of reading and watching a thing at the same time. I don't know if that's the best way to start a new year, but it's the way I started a new year. Okay? Yeah. All right. It's a very good way to start the new year.

Why not? Actually, I think it's probably bad, but we'll see if it affects me poorly. What else? Oh, Brian, you went and saw the Nospheratu. I did. What did you think of that? Very good, really, really dark.

In more ways than one. Like, the whole thing you probably've seen from the trailers got a very, very muted color to it. I thought it was going to be black and white, but it wasn't. It was, it was in color. But very muted color in spots and very, very dark. Yeah. Your, your Mad Max boy, Nicholas Holt did very well. Yeah, I like him.

Holy crap, Willem Defoe was excellent. And it was an unexpected role for him. I hadn't read anything else about the film, so I didn't know what his role was going to be. I thought, oh, maybe he'll even be playing Count Orlock or whatever. But holy cow, really a couple jump scares, really powerful jump scares and a very creepy overall tone. They do, Eggers does some great stuff with shadow and light

to kind of convey Orlock's movement. um which is really really cool uh i don't know i really we really enjoyed it and um you can always tell when we leave a theater and we're kind of quiet for a little while because it's like we're processing it so you know we we were quiet all the way to the car and like okay well that was good that was good all right let's go let's go see the kids well i will definitely see it i love eggers so it's not it's a no-brainer it just a matter of when i see it i guess but um somebody in the it was it dr calhoun says he hated it just he hated it i think um Um, uh, free hotel room didn't like it either.

He was in here earlier and said, uh, Nosphorus, who sucked or something like that. Wow. He just popped in for a quick, uh, a quick old man yelling and left, did he? A little, little bomb drop and out. All right. Whatever it takes. I mean, that's stuff, you know, that's a, that's a, you'll know it if you want to see it or not. Right.

Exactly. Exactly. If you like the witch and, uh, and we, we do. We did. Then you'll probably like this. Uh, lighthouse also great. You know what? Oh.

White House is great. That dude, he makes, this is funny, this is funny to me. So Eggers and that guy that made the poor things, I can't think of his name. Yeah, Xanthromos. Lenthros, I think. And then the other guy, anyway, what I was getting at is he seems to, Willem DeFoe just seems to hang around the weirdos in Hollywood. Yeah.

Oh, that's true. He hangs out with that guy too. Yeah. They're all in his movies, or he's in all their movies. I'm kidding. It's like he just hooks his wagon to a couple directors and

Like he shows up at a party Whenever you're going to be filming I'm in Yeah You may remember me from Spider-Man But I like to do weird shit too They had a great Alamo Drafthouse

Had a great Willem Defoe Celebration video that they showed beforehand Showing him back in like Streets of Fire and All these older films

films with him and it and it's like oh my god just reminding me what a great uh what a great run this guy has with with incredible films mississippi burning and wild at heart freaking his is wild at heart that dude in the uh um the dude in the hotel room so freaking creepy oh yeah no he's great all i've never seen a movie i never saw a movie where he didn't jump out at me you know platoon and he doesn't play a creepy guy in platoon he's a really good guy in platoon but um and then he's got like a let's see if they mention it here like he's an extra in the background of uh uh was it heaven's gate maybe i don't know yeah they show they basically just show him um uh in the background kind of looking at what's going on in the film i don't think

he even had a speaking line in heaven's gate you just you just see him in the background and they pointed that out anyway i forgot he was in uh the original john wick movie i don't remember who played was he really i still need to see the fourth one yeah i haven't seen the fourth one either he's in the first one though china's not a you know she is it she's a she's a she's a instead of being a wick like she's a wick don't like so i've got to watch that one on my own she's the anti-wick i get it she's the anti-wick she's wickless uh the one movie i regret seeing that he was in was antichrist i don't know if you've ever seen that no uh-uh i won't even explain why but holy shit that movie

that did not uh and that's another one of those weirdo directors that's Lars von Treer that guy I'm it's like Willem Defoe's on a list Wes Anderson has him on the list this guy has him on the list all the weirdos have him on the list I'm amazed at Tarantino David Lynch has him on the list does Tarantino has

Tarantino used him for uh I don't think so but if you if he if he worked in the 70s he would use if Defoe is a huge 70s guy yeah then he He would be in every Tarantino movie because Tarantino loves to go back and find guys like him today that were like that then. I feel like he's less of a modern one he would pick.

But, yeah, Antichrist, you see Willem DeFoe. You sure do, and Megas, you sure do. Well, anyway, it was, that's good. I want to see it. I was curious about your note, what would Nicole Kidman say? Are you saying just because she'd say, we come here to be entertained? That's it. Heartbreak feels good in a place like this.

Yeah, I know she's AMC, but I figured. you know why not she's always got something to say about movies she would have she would just been happy that we went to the theater and she would have said i still like like look like a ghoul in lioness we watched the whole of season two of lioness which is i hear that's great it is such a good show scott you would freaking love it yeah i fully intend to watch all these tyler sheridan things yeah are great i enjoy all of them so there's no reason i shouldn't enjoy this i expect to enjoy it i want to see landman too the Billy Bob Thornton thing.

Yeah, right, Billy Bart Thornton. Over there, Paramount Plus counting on all their Sheridan properties, I've noticed. They're really into it over there. Anyway, let's talk about a quick note we got from a listener about EVs. That's electric vehicles for those in the wonder. This is from Steve Schmetzer. I think that's his real name? Probably real, right?

Probably. Yeah, Smetzer. You put an H in there. You put an H in there. I think it's just Smetzer. Well, here's what he says. Evie question for Scott and Brian. Hey, Scott. remember you talking about getting an electric vehicle a couple of years ago.

I believe you even mentioned the VWID in the same segment. Have you thought about picking one up? I am not a car salesman. I just wondered if electric vehicles are in your future. Take care, Steve. Well, I can answer this and say that whatever is next for us will likely be an EV. I don't know when that will be. My Passat is paid for, so we're not in a rush and we're also not in car debt, which is nice.

so I'm kind of like letting some stuff suss out with the alternate brands like we're no longer living a world where you're just looking at Teslas now we're looking at a ton of options including possible VW options I like what all the Korean automakers are doing Honda's got some what is it called prologue looks pretty cool I haven't seen that brand new I think maybe this year maybe it's first year so there's a lot of I feel like we're now getting to the stage where a lot of that the mainstream solutions are going to be present and we can all make decisions based on a broader

choice variety so i'm i think this year might be the year we maybe start looking but i'm not sure we'll end up with them by the end of the year i don't know what do you think yeah i'm it's definitely going to be happening for me in 2025 the Hyundai ionic and and i've been watching uh consumer reports for the last three years and just watching them rave and rave and rave about the uh the ionic five so that is that is likely going to be what I pick up. Nice. And I've been talking to people about, because my plan was to buy it, obviously.

The, like, what everybody's been saying is, it's still early enough in the growth of EV's battery expansions to consider leasing. You'll pay a little bit less, but the more important thing is, when it comes time to sell your EV after four years or five years or six years or whatever, your battery range is going to be like, yeah, I can get 200 miles on a single charge. Well, the current models are getting six, 700 miles on a single charge.

So your resale value on EV drops dramatically in this early stage where things like that are improving. So for me, it's probably going to be the first car that I lease ever. I don't think I've ever done a lease that I can think of. of. I know there's a lot of arguments against leasing, but you just made a pretty good argument for it. Yeah, my dad would be like, well, five years ago, ten years ago, my dad would have been like, what are you talking about leasing a car? I don't lease a car, you buy it. So you get the value of it. But if the value drops that dramatically, then it's really not, not, um, that changes the whole equation. If it's going to drop, the bottom drops out because your distance changes either

because your battery is no longer holding the capacity it needs to, or the newer stuff just has better capacity, what are you supposed to do? You just eat it. And I don't want to eat it. I don't want to eat the cost. No, give me, let me lease it. And then in four years or three years or whenever my lease runs out, then I'll lease something else or I'll buy something. Yeah. Or if it worked out so well that your car you leased is running great, you could buy out the rest and just say, buy out the rest, exactly. Yeah, I think that's possible. Yeah, I think that'd be all right. I'm with you. Everyone tell your dads, all the dads, shut up. Well, I'm waiting for the emails that come in that say, you know,

Oh, never lease a car. What are you crazy, Brian? Don't do that. You're nuts. Yeah. My dad, who says Hyundai just started making the onyck five in the USA. So it's now available for the government tax credit.

Oh, I know. Because the freaking lease prices I've been seeing are 200 bucks a month or $199 a month or something. That's all. Which is the other thing that makes it really enticing. Yeah. In this economy, geez. For sure. Okay.

Well, now that's it. That's interesting. Yeah. 2025 might be the year. We'll see. Yeah. For me and I'll let you know how it all goes. Yeah, let me know.

You know what? Beta test guinea pig, Brian. We'll try it out first. I'll see how it goes. My pleasure. Hey, check this out. Sharks and coconuts again. Got a message with an image.

I always like these. So if you're at home, if you're home listening and you can't see this, this is the image we got. This came from, say, he didn't leave his name. It says for TMS, a coconut shark debate while on vacation in Maui in 2021, I never saw a shark warning sign, but I did see this one. And it's a falling, caution falling coconut sign on a actual tree. Just one though, falling coconut. You think they could just get that coconut out of the tree and not have to worry about it.

What I love about it is he's just, he's staring up like someone says, don't look at the eclipse. And he's looking at it. Yeah, that's great. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, one would think if this was on the tree, I assume unironically on the tree, they do, they fall and you could get hit. So be careful out there, kids. All right. What else do I see, zoomy fingers?

Let's see. Do I see anything else that's worth it? I don't think I zoomed around enough, but they're, I did a game song for Zumi Fingers Johnson. Can somebody please write a, write a. I got questions about this up here. Is this an antenna or is that some sort of. I feel like it's a windmill that we're just seeing from the side, maybe. Maybe.

Maybe not. Might be. This house is an interesting bunch of color blocking going on. A little picnic table. Piccnic table. This guy looks like one of us. Got a friendship. Yeah.

I think he's got the beefy watch too. Yeah. He's got cargo pants. I think he's holding, what is that? He's holding an old condom. That's what we'll say there. And he wears a new balance. Got new balance on?

good shoes I like those I think that's about all there is and a dead body just kidding there's no dead body all right well done everybody time for the news let's get into it here we go here we go Brian it's the news and it's brought to you by brought to you by

TMS Fridays Fridays away for this show to happen again on Fridays with all kinds of special stuff just for patrons come join us become a patron at patreon.com slash TMS that sounds great we're going to be doing that tomorrow quick note about timing though it's going to be at 830

a half hour earlier than usual brian's got a thing we want to make sure we work around so uh just come half hour early all right yeah yeah i'll put up i'll put up the live stream tonight so that people on the patron know where it is and how to get to it and you guys will be all set uh all right it's funny that i'm about to read this because i just saw an episode of monk where it just happened my wife's in a monk right now so that's why we're saying it um yeah hold on me get rid of tree guy. There we go. There was an episode about a chess player that killed his wife for multiple wives. Anyway, oh gosh. Yeah, it was quite the episode, although they still kind of made it funny somehow, but whatever. Quite the gambit. So our first,

the queen was not involved, however. Yeah. World chess number one, Magnus Carlson. That's his name. Quits tournament after refusing to change his pants. Specifically jeans, yeah. He likes wearing jeans and they said sorry rules of this thing is no jeans and he said well eff off i'm leaving so the chess grandmaster of the world who was defending his title at the fide world rapid and blitz chess championships in new york when this happened official said carlson had broken the dress code regulations by wearing jeans and they asked him to change but the 34 year old refused uh governing body fide or fide i guess it's fide Fidi, Fide, I don't know.

Yeah, I don't know. Fide, oh, probably, it's probably based on the Latin for truth, which is Fidelis, so. Oh, okay. Fidei. All right, that works. Said it had issued a resigning or the reigning champion, a $200 fine is what that costs. I guess you have to pay when you wear your pants. Yeah, like you, this isn't casual Fridays here, dude.

I guess not. I honestly, I don't know, but I'm sort of. on his side because I don't think anyone gives two shits if he's wearing jeans like who cares it's just jeans I don't know it's like a it's like a the prestige of

of the chess championship you know it's like what can I compare it to does it need to be prestigious like is it supposed to be it's chess this ain't checkards man I play chess all the time a settlers of Catan tournament yeah but I played chess at ton and my Korean brother sitting there in her underwear playing chess.

Well, you're not, it's not a, you're not doing a championship. Yeah, no, but that's my point. You can play into your underwear at home, of course. I don't think it makes him any less of a grand. It doesn't make him any less of a grand champion if he's wearing jeans. Like, I don't know how that makes any difference. I don't know. It just, it feels like, I just, I don't, I can't think of something to compare it to,

but it feels like you want to maintain the dignity and the sanctity of chess. You want to dress at least as well as everybody in the audience. Well, that, see, that supposes, and this is where I have an issue with it, that supposes that there is a dignity or sanctity to the sport of chess. And I don't know that there is, is there? And like some inherent, like, oh, no, where your Sunday best of the chess tournament, the sanctity of it? You know what I mean?

Like, I don't know if that exists. Maybe it does that, and I'm just out of it. I feel like chess still has that. Yeah. All right. Dignity and sanctity in chess. Dignity and sanctity. Sure.

All right. That's totally fine. I can't think of another game that has the, you know, that I would expect that from. But when I think about chess, I think of, you know, I think of the, the pump, the prestige. It's a thinking game. It's a several steps ahead kind of game as opposed to like, you know, Magic the Gathering. Wear your jeans to the Magic the Gathering tournament. yeah that's what you wear your jeans you should wear your jeans there uh sure uh governor let's see

where is it carlson uh world champion between uh 2013 and 2023 so he's held it this long uh said he had a lunch meeting before the round and had to change quickly i put on a shirt jacket and honestly i don't even think about jeans even changing my shoes he told the take take take take the hell's that what's the take take take take take is that newspaper because it's a shitty name i don't like it take take yeah i don't like it either it's a it's a weird news source or or interview source yeah take take yeah i don't love it it's not my favorite thing in the world um he says here uh uh i said i'll change tomorrow if that's okay i didn't even realize it was today but they said well you have to change now and at that point it became a matter of principle for me so he left it's like

that's it so grandmaster yeah personally i think you should wear whatever the hell you want but I don't know what that look for all I know these people are the most uptight organization ever and you're never gonna it's never going to be allowed I don't know yeah but this is like the same issue I have with BYU you not letting people have beards or uh oh see I feel like that's yeah that feels like a different thing I feel like you know it's your championship you can make people wear whatever you want to it and if it's the if it's something as prestigious as chess then you know slacks doctors couldn't but just couldn't the school BYU can say the same thing. Sanctity of the

educational of the thing. You can't wreck the sanctity they'd say. Sure. Sure. The Talia says, yeah, Brian, wear your pearls to clutch. Can I, you know, can I long for the days when people dressed up to go on a plane and they weren't wearing

the pajama pants? All right. Now, this, this I agree with to a degree. Oh, wait. Oh, wait. So now there's the sanctity of airline travel stuff? No, to a degree. To a degree. I have to finish the sentence. To a degree, I agree with you. I think that there is a

wide chasm between formal dress and sweatpants. So if you could just have people meet us in the middle, I'm not saying there should be rules. I'm not saying anybody should force them to. What I'm saying is I would really like it if more people would wear at least something

not so adjacent to sweatpants because that annoys me too. I don't like it. Or people that take their shoes off. I hate that. That kind of thing. Cargo shorts. Okay. Or not. out okay to wear to the chess champion totally fine to wear cargo shorts why not cargo shorts fun i'm trying to figure out where the line is yoga pants uh sure i'm saying they should be able to wear

whatever they want to the to the thing they even even pajama pants yeah they should be able to i don't think i would i don't think it would be uh they're going to get shit for it and they probably should but i don't think there should be a rule that's all i'm saying you don't you know do you understand what i'm saying like i don't understand why it's why why why you feel one way for travel and not the same way for a chest chain. I feel the exact same way. There shouldn't be a rule. You should wear whatever you want.

But you were saying, okay. And I would judge you. I would judge you. If I sit next to pajama pants guy, I'm judging that guy and I'm irritated that he's wearing those pants. Yes. Oh, but you support his right to wear those pants. Yeah, he should get to wear his dumb pants.

He should, if he wants to be a freaking slob on that plane, I mean, I'm not going to, I don't think anyone should force him not to be a slob on the plane, which obviously they already don't because everybody wears whatever they want on the plane right yeah exactly yes but you're right whoever's organization it it is like if you're running the chess thing if you're running a school if you're running the airline and you want to make rules like this you certainly can sure i just don't know if i would go on your i don't know if i'd fly on your plane that's all right well let it let it be known let it be said that uh you come to tms vegas Vegas you can wear whatever the heck you want in our audience sweat pants pajamas pants cargo shorts

A speedo, fine, you know, like Big Brucey did last year. Just nothing but a speedo. It was great. We got no rules when it comes to what you guys, no dress code rules. And thankfully, neither does Vegas. Vegas has, seems to anyway, have no. Like, do I wish there are times I'm in a casino walking around and going, what was it like back in like those Sinatra days when everyone was in a suit and a fedora?

Yeah, you're dressed up to go to the casino. I mean, you know where you still get that kind of a little bit is at least it's been 10 years since I've been on one, but on cruise ships. Usually it's like, oh, no, you're coming to this dining room, nothing less than a jacket, you know, suit jacket and pants. You don't have to wear a tie, but you do have to wear a suit jacket because they don't want the cargo short. Am I alone in here? No, you're still in here, right? Who, me? I'm here.

Oh, there you are. Yeah, okay. I didn't see, I wasn't hearing the background music and I didn't see your little icon up at the top. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you're fine. But, yeah, cruise ships, you know, they try and keep the riffraff from their cargo shorts in certain dining rooms and things like that. I'm trying to remember ours in 2022 what they did. I think we had, I think Kim and I brought fancy clothes for the dinner nights, but I can't remember if everybody in there did or not.

I don't remember. I remember it being pretty dang good. And I remember our waiters were Mario and Luigi. That's funny. They was not their real names, obviously, and they were from Singapore, but they love telling us. They love going, I'm a Mario, this is a Luigi, and they do the voice and everything. Nice. Those guys are great.

I hope they're still. Aha. Here's your food. Here's a little steak medallion. Uh, let's see here. Scientists built tiny VR goggles for mice, finally, finally. Been waiting for this for a long time. Humans aren't the only ones getting into the virtual reality craze.

have debuted a new technology that allows mice to more realistically and adorably experience VR in the lab. Researchers at Cornell University developed the tech, which they've aptly named mouse goggles. Okay. It seems a little easy.

Along the nose. It's not intended there. Sure. It says in experiments with mice, the rodents appeared vividly to respond vividly to stimulated, I can't read, simulated stimuli while wearing the goggles. The innovation should make it easier for scientists to run animal studies involving

VR. I don't know why mice, though. They can't really tell you how they're doing, right? No, but they can, I mean, guess what are they trying to track with the VR? Like heart rate or pleasure centers of the brain is out there monitoring because I can say, I really

felt like I was there in that forest. It says as funny as the idea sounds, their actual applications for it, says the article. Ideally, VR can allow scientists to simulate naturalistic environments for mice and more controlled conditions. Right now, though the most commonly used setups are pretty clunky and mice often are placed onto a treadmill while they are surrounded by a computer or projection screens. So the idea is that if you make them feel like they're in a natural habitat, but really they're in a cage, like I don't know what the end result

of that is like... Oh, like if they're seeing if they're calmer because they're not, not any cage and they're kind of seeing other things, other things around them. So it's probably for testing. So like if you've got a comfortable mouse who thinks he's out in the wild and now you're doing other experiments on it, it will be more chill so that the experiment can say, all right, we took a relaxed mouse and did this. Like this doesn't feel like it's in favor of the mouse. This feels like it's in favor of us and more testing.

Do you know what I'm saying? Like this isn't good for the mice because the mice don't need it. What is animal testing ever good for the mouse? No. No. I was trying to find like a silver lining and go, oh, yeah, the mice are eating better. They've improved their lives. No. Hell little. And it's not like this is going to be applied to like, all right, we finally figured out a way to make mice happy. We're going to give them a little VR headsets. Yeah. Yeah. It's for us. It's pretty. It's always for us. Anyway, I guess they, their heads are kept fixed to goggles where they are fed unusual or visual stimuli to see what their responses are.

Is there a picture of this? Let's see. Yeah, I'd like to see the, uh, what the little... Oh, that is definitely not it, though. Is it? Oh, no way, dude. I think that's it. Holy shit. That looks like, yeah, that's got to be it.

Because when they said fixed, I thought they meant it was wrapped around their little heads. No. No, so they're just basically what's holding... So really, something's holding the mouse to the goggles as opposed to the other way around because that thing is like heavy... Yeah, it's big. It's at least... Heavy A. F.

I mean, what are you... We're talking like a size of a half a phone or something. it's pretty big see there are any more and now that's it that's crazy to me but think of it this way you could have a scenario

where imagine a chicken farm I don't if you've ever been to one but they're disgusting and they're huge and they're I hear that's what I hear yeah I saw the videos for like the documentary is about all the meat

processing and fast food and all that sort of thing they're all like mashed in there and so close to each other which is the whole point of like open range is better Imagine, though, a future where all the chickens have their own little headset. And they're like, I'm in the wide open nature.

I can say that because I can see it. It's great. So it's the matrix for chickens. Yeah. And then the matrix. The matrix. And then it tastes better because the meat's less stressed. See?

It's a softer. I think that's the, that's where we're headed. You guys, chickens, VR. Let's, let's do it. And the little rooster, Morpheus says, you want to take the blue pill or the red pill? They'd be more like... Want to see how far down this rabbit hole goes? Yeah.

Chickens are too stupid to get it, though. They'd be like... That's it. They just said, they just said that. Oh, I'll send him a raven. Yeah, I'm a raven. Never more. Check this out.

A Rolls-Royce driver. Driving a Rolls-Royce like you do. Got arrested for a DUI and possession of a monkey. Oh, I think you always wanted a monkey? This is from the Chips Patrol people over there in California Highway Patrol. I appreciate the chips. They made an unusual arrest on Monday night and confiscated a spider monkey.

They said that this dude's rolled Royce, uh, it was a Rolls Royce ghost. I guess that's a car. I guess that's a model. Hadn't heard of that before. Okay. It was north on Highway 99, north of Avenue 17 for excessive speed. The driver was allegedly driving on the inner influence and was arrested. Marijuana was also found in the car with a spider monkey.

It is believed to be one month old. I think you can have So California is an illegal weed state But I don't think you can drive with it I mean not on it But obviously you can't because that's impaired But I don't think you can have it in your car That's no

It looks like I mean Possession of an exotic animal is what it says on the bottom there Or right I'm just talking about the weed though Like I'm trying to I'm sorry I was talking about the monkey Yeah side note If you're in California and you're driving on the highway And it's legal there

Can you drive with some in your glove box Or is that illegal? I would think that you could I mean you have to get it home Like you can't There's not a way to go from the dispensary to your house Without it being in in your car Fair point

So I wonder if it's like open container The way they do it with beer You know what I mean? Yeah Boy I don't know I think it's got to be It's so tough

I mean that turns into such a gray area Because open container Like you can't You open a bottle of booze The bottle is open That cap is often bent or whatever, so it's easy to tell. Or the can, you know, the pole tab on the can, a lot easier to tell. But the little pill bottles that weed comes in, so I hear.

Or the Ziplock bag with the edibles in it, you know, you just reseal it. You can't really tell open container versus closed container with pot. Yeah, good point. So if you got a bag of this that you just purchased in the back seat, you're probably fine. I wonder why the article even brought it up. Probably because the guy was impaired. bit. I think because he was, yeah, he was under the influence, but the possession of the monkey, I guess, I didn't realize that's the part that surprised me is that you can't have a monkey.

Yeah, not in California. They're illegal there as pets anyway. The monkey was safely taken to animal control where he will receive the proper care. Some next level monkey business said the CHP on their social media post. You know, cops like making jokes on their social media. Have you noticed that? Oh, yeah. What a, what a, what a, what a fun bunch of guys they are until they give you a ticket. Sure. Maybe the weed is for the monkey. I don't know.

I'm curious to see. Let's see. Which states, is it legal to have a monkey? I guarantee one of them is Minnesota based on that documentary I watched. I'll bet you that's on there. Or Missouri.

Sorry, not Minnesota. Missouri. Missouri is, where is Missouri on this weird map? Missouri is legal. You can have a monkey in Missouri. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas. Arkansas, Texas, Florida, of course, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Connecticut, and West Virginia.

Okay. But Colorado, Utah, nope, illegal. No monkeys. Georgia, Louisiana. That must have changed. My dad was in his 20s. He owned a monkey. But I think that law hadn't been enacted yet.

It's the one that kept pooping down his shirt. He had to get rid of it. And the states I just mentioned, um, uh, uh, legal without a permit and then there's a few that are with a permit as as pets so if i want as pet okay yeah north dakota you have to you have to get a permit in the dakotas wyoming nevada oklahoma mississippi alabama tennessee virginia delaware indiana and um michigan they have a whole department dedicated to monkey permits i'm sure they do you'd have to have something in place some kind of bureaucracy to do that yeah probably have to bring

a picture of the monkey you want to own so they can make sure it's a good monkey to have. It's PMD, or no, DMD, the Department of Monkey, no, that's two departments. It's two departments, the Department of Monkey Department. Yeah, it'd be Department of Monkey Pets,

DMP. DMP, the dump. I'd work there. Sure. Yeah, I got demoted to the dump. I'm sorry, that's an ape. Yeah, the whole thing with that ape movie that Nicole originally recommended

and then I ended up watching on the HBO. Yeah, Chimp Crazy. The whole thing set in Missouri and they have like the most laxed laws in the country when it comes to having tigers and whatever you want. You can just get it while you're in Missouri.

For whatever reason, they're all down with like endangered species. They don't give a shit. Just have it. Keep it. Let it bite your face off. The whole shebang.

All right. Well, that'll do it for, today's news when we take or now we're going to take a break when we come back from this break my sister wind you'll be here hopefully with an email that she maybe has forwarded has she done it yet no maybe she'll just read it i don't know maybe yeah she's just going to surprise us with whatever it is yeah we'll find out what's going on oh it says my extra email it's a monday like like we do yeah let me double check and make sure it's not my spam because she said she sent it to the right one uh real quick here let's go to spam and uh got nothing nothing all right

Well, let me just say nothing. You've sent me nothing. It says, hi, Don, or hi, Jerry. Let's see. Hi, Don. Let's see if I can search for it. Okay. No, that ain't it either.

Okay, so we don't have it. But you know what? We're going to work it out. And when she's here, we'll figure it out. That's how it'll go. We do it live. F it. We're doing it live.

Brian, do us a song live. Not really, but sort of. What do you got? Oh, these guys are great. Olympia, Washington, country punk maximalists, Pigeon Pit. They're going to be releasing their brand new album, January 17th on the Ernest Jenning Record Company.

Wow. That album is called Crazy Arms. These guys have a little bit of a, I get a little bit of a Decemberist kind of vibe to them. Do they have a, for fans of, I love it when they say, for fans of, no mention, no, of that in here. This is the brand new song called Bronco. here is the band Pigeon Pit.

It's just another habit to get used to you hold it like a semi-white grass in the park on my back through the shirt out of bar from me last year's. You don't know the corner I curl up in the back of your mind. But you follow me down and you know you shouldn't follow. I got shit. I got to tell you we both know I swallow like the carvins in the mirrors the truck star bathrooms. Baby I see it everywhere. It's just another come up in the pit of my stomach at the bus stop.

I'm foggates falling, shit I need you to get out of here. It's a couple of best pills and my tin sniffs. I give an hour on the beach to this pack of six. You want to meet me in the dining with your secret? Bottom hold a bitter on my tongue. The taste is water swallowed for once. You won't be down in the garden's grove. Downer the darkest, ripe this fruit grows.

Flushing lights. lights, I please miss automatic. Between my eyes just teased static. Whatever you don't want to hear, baby, that's the way it goes. Pick my wrist against the sunrise. You're the bottom between my bare thighs, sagging. Rock for Bronco I was made to ride your highs at worst. I'm choking down my thoughts of cross-tops.

A little bit of coffee just for good luck I wouldn't clean you up or leave If you'd walk away I would But in the end of you're dead And a choice you make I'd turn out by my shade and you just disengage So obviously it's in my brain

and watch a sunrise from the back voice So you're a car park in the driveway When I back down To look destroyed to these gears A fixed note So in down just point your handle bars On a hole you found The signal is light

Apeasman's automatic Between my eyes just tease that And whatever you want to hear Maybe that's the way it goes From my list against the sunrise, you're the bottom of the stream of their fast-clad it. Like a brokow, it's made to ride you behind the rose. I'm burning letters, I don't know books, I'm burning letters, I don't know books, can lay down the burnt out the hallets of my stone reflection,

all my quiet harm drowns, the sunburned showers, Sharpie notes bright strangers on her arm I light a candle for my body happy birthday Bird ride and a meat pull me up Because I'm not breathing I'm always fixed down in the deep end Where every moment a broken glass So hold in stealth a furtive lens

Faulting squares a light across an empty bedroom floor I live there even Beneath the bad voice the mental season She's like the year ago and call it even All this love my friends That love each choice To ride your highs and loves After five years, I've been making sneakers at gunpoint

In a sweatshop in Wuhan By I'm a lin, Tuber Mabur, Obo Mabo? And we're back. That is a band called Pigeon Pit. That's where you keep your pigeons. From their brand new upcoming album. Oh, it has to be a typo. It says 2025.

But no, of course it's going to be 2025. New album is called Crazy Arms. This is the first single from the album. It's called Brum. Donko. Nice. Yeah, we have to get used to the new year again. Yep. I'm dead set on not effing that up. I'm going to do my best. So hopefully everyone in the listening universe will never hear me accidentally say the previous year. I think I did pretty good in 2024. You did. I don't, I don't ever remember catching you doing a 2023 in 2024. I held the line, as they say. Well done. All right. We'll give Wendy a call. See what we got going here. I mean, you know, making her read. There's worse things. I can have her read, but whatever it is.

Totally. And I'm sure whatever it is will be great. I'm not worried about that. No, of course. And she didn't pick up. Let's call her again. Ring. Okay.

All right. This is what we do. We make a podcast live. Sometimes even the first show of the year is zuffed up. It's okay. You do what you can. Oh, hi. Hello.

Is this Wendy? Yeah. Oh, good. Here's this. Oh, hell no. You will start. stop now. There you go. Hey, Wendy, welcome to 2025. Is that me? That was you. I don't know. That's a great one. Yeah. Nice. A long time ago. Hey. By the way, Discord's ring was like a Santa.

Yeah. Wow. It's their holiday theme. I know. I wish it would stay the same because I really like it. They do one for Halloween as well that we all quite like. It's pretty good stuff. It's nice to have you here. At least let you choose. You know what? Let users just pick from the year's best one and play that every time. I do Christmas all year. Yeah. Maybe they're listening. Probably not. Maybe. All right, Wendy, the closest I got email from you is this, you said search for the, hey, Dave or whatever it was, or whatever you said. Yeah.

The closest thing I got to it was a no better you email thing, but it's not a reply or anything. It's just like the one that you guys sent out to say, hey, time has finally arrived. Hi, Don. Welcome to No Better You. Yeah, that's it. This is it. What are you expecting? Oh, I thought it was like an letter, an email from somebody.

like a thing of an issue yeah like somebody's email because there's nobody's email here it's it's just uh it's just your it's it's your boilerplate like uh what do you call it like hey welcome to the program and could you click on all the links and stuff it's like a normal email correct no here all okay i i sent him a everyone if you're like what's happening i it shows that you got it and it shows that you opened it so that's what's weirding me out and i have obviously there's bug happening but it shows that you got it um so this is it right here i'm showing so brian can see so i sent you a preview so you could see yeah but that's what he says hi don't i have an explorer i have an explorer no better you health and p.e course button should i click that

yeah okay i'm gonna click that okay all right and don't read the whole thing people need to get the email oh i i agree but i'm just trying to find what you're trying to get me to have i don't know what I'm supposed to have. I got it. And you're like, I didn't get it. I'm like, is it in your spam? And then I'm looking at my stuff. It's like he got it and opened it.

Yeah. I was just looking for like a forwarded, whatever you call it. Like a, like somebody sent you a message or something. Oh, I see. Yeah. If there's something in here. Let's start the year with miscommunications. Yeah, let's do it.

Let's do it. That's great. So I still, I just get a register today thing. Am I supposed to have that up? Is that what we're looking for? What I did, you're in a, you're in a category. and I'm glad you're asking about this because we're trying to be really nice when it comes to email because just the courtesy that you don't often get, right?

Which is you signed up a long time ago for real steps, right? Remember that? Way back. And so anything you've been getting was through that. Well, I have moved everything now to No Better You, and I just don't want to spam people who don't want to hear about it, right? So I'm making everyone, it's sort of like you're on a list that people just need to say, yes, I would like this. That's great. I like that a lot. That's a great. I wish there was more of that in my email world. I know. And I will not talk to anyone again if they don't click over. So do it or die.

So you're saying opt in, opt in, not opt out. I like that. Opt in, not opt out. And for people who are like, they have purposely put their name to this new stuff, like they're already, they're on different lists. They got different emails, right? So just trying to be a good internet citizen. You know what I mean? Sure. That's great. Yeah. But it's exciting. I need to just complain for a second about what it takes to do this. All right. I just, listen, that no one should be advertising themselves by saying this was so hard for me to do. But I feel like giving birth is literally easier.

Wow. Truly do. It takes less time. Oh, yeah. Because one of your kids had their guts on the outside. That seems like that's a big statement from you. Let's be clear. My labors are like two hours long.

So I guess that's probably why I find this more difficult. Anyway, just the design and figuring out all of it was just so much work. Anyway, but when the email out went out, went out yesterday, the level of like, first of all, relief and then like, I don't even know what I'm doing, you know, swept over me. So anyway, it's going to be very good and very exciting. But the design part, I have so much respect for designers, for anyone who has ever built a website or created anything. You know what? Getting someone not to jump off a bridge is so much easier. I'm designing a website.

See, but as a web designer, I feel the exact opposite, right? Like, it's what you know. It's what you do. It is what you know, but I am just in awe at the level of sort of what it takes to make something just look basically nice. Like, what? Sure. All right, I'll shut up now, but that's how I want to start my year with my final complaint

and now I'm complaint-free for the rest of year. Well, I know you've been working. Very good grievances is over. Yes, thank you. I know you've been working on it for a long time, and it's great to see some fruition there, man. That's awesome. Yeah, it looks really good. It does look great too. You did a great job. Yeah, it's a nice sight. Thank you. Well, let's all thank my husband. I was going to say, I smell a lot of atom work here. Yeah, and you sense how much I had to bug him to do it is really what I'm going to

do you do. Did he do all your illustrations? Do you know? No, he didn't draw that like himself. He bought them. He bought them. I don't know how it works. That's totally fine. I was just curious because he's secretly you're very good artist, but we'll never show anybody what he draws. So I was curious. Yeah. No. I, at one point I thought, I should get Carter to do all my work. And I, hey, I've learned you can switch images out, guys.

Did you know this? Yeah, you know what? The internet is crazy that way how you can switch images around. It's insane. Turns out. It's great with everybody links to your image and you change out, you can change the image out to anything else and it changes on their website too. Yeah.

Crazy. I know, it's kind of, I feel 100 years old. However. Let me just say this. The actual, like, I've finished with all the course, the filming, the everything. I have coaches ready to go that are awesome. And many people who've done it before know both of them or one of them. Last, you guys know Logan, right?

He comes to TMS Vegas. Little Logan? Like Logan's mom's Logan? Little Logan? Which Logan? I don't know. We know multiple Logans. You know multiple of the Logans.

Logan, why is his last name skipping my brain? Logan. It is good to run. Logan. Logan's run. Dreadnecks. Dreadnecks. Oh, yeah, yeah. There we go. I knew you'd have a code word for him. Yeah. We call those nicknames, but yeah, I like that. He's helping me. Definitely Bates is the other one helping me. Anyway, it's going to be amazing and so fun and so good. Now that the flipping design is done and I don't have to decide on colors and stupid. I like it. You went with a color scheme I like. I know some people think I overuse these colors, but I love blues and oranges. A huge fan. I do, too.

Yeah, big fan. I don't know why. People think you overuse it. Why? I'm what? I think it's, well, it's not just me. It's like a lot of, um, and I'm not saying this to make you question your choice because I think it's the perfect choice.

Uh, but like if you look at a lot of movie, movie posters, it's very, very popular to go a combination of, of orange and blue. But I think they're so complimentary that that's why people do it. So stick with it. I like it. They are. Uh, it turns out that was our high school's colors. Do you remember that?

Uh, yeah, the, the fight and bangles or whatever the hell we called ourselves. Yeah, and I didn't realize that until recently. Okay, Larson, I'm so stupid. Logan Larson is his last name. What's his quote name? Red Rock. Dreadneck. Red Rock.

I don't remember what you said. I don't know if you just triggered the winter soldier, so. No, it's dread necks with an X. Dreadnecks. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah. I should get my own fake name. What do you guys call it?

You should, yeah. Yeah, what could we call you? They called you Tedge in high school, right? Didn't they call you Tedge in high school, right? Didn't they call you. Pedge? That was a thing. Wodge. Oh, Wodge.

I'm thinking to Taylor. She did, she did that. Taylor Elaine Johnson. They called her Pedge? Tedge, Tee with a T. Oh, Tedge. Yeah. Ooh, that's good.

Yeah, kind of like Wodge. Today's going well. All right, everyone. So now which one of you is going to read the email? Good luck. Yeah, what email is still a big question. I don't know what I'm reading. I don't think we even have an email, do we?

No, we really don't. Okay, I have a question for you. Let's talk about how a new year often works. Well, usually how it works is, the day after it starts you're very confused that's my excuse today like I've had multiple clients being like is it today like nobody knows what day it is it's very confusing right but let me ask you this about when you start this is my own fake email I'm making up right now when you guys start a new year do you have any sense of like a jump in motivation or like

you're like the new year's resolution thing obviously but also like you or you like dread or Does it mix? Like, what is your experience when a new year rolls run? And when does it start for you? Like, are you on New Year's Eve going, all right, tomorrow, I'm going to, or are you, if you wait until you? I used to be. I used to do the whole, like, all right, this is going to be, you know, I'm sure there were

years that I signed up for like 24-hour fitness on a, on January 2nd, right? Okay. No, these days, like, I mean, I started doing the gym stuff I'm doing now. I started that on Labor Day. It was like, I'm doing it now. No, I'm not going to wait and, you know, do it. Why start it on a, yeah. Plus, you know, when I go in next time, I know it's going to be like a lot busier because of all the people who are starting it this time of year and that sort of thing.

Don't go back to February. Yeah. So, yeah, no, I don't think about any fresh starts and saying, I'm going to start doing this on January 1st or I'm going to stop doing this thing that I shouldn't be doing on January 1st. I just stop it when I decide I want to stop it or start. I actually think it's kind of a relatively healthy way to do it because you don't set yourself up for a bunch of false disappointment about yourself. At least for me, I can only speak for me, but in the past when I've gone overboard about all right, new year, goals, here are the 10 things, have to do them.

And then when I don't do eight of them or for whatever reason something changes, I used to get way too hard on myself about it. Yeah, plus it gives you a chance to spread them out. Like instead of saying, like you say, Scott, doing these eight things. on January 1st. It's like, all right, you know, I'm going to start doing this now. Let me see how it goes. And then in a month, if I've got time, I'm going to start doing this out of the thing and try and do it on a regular basis. Right. I think that, so I think there's some value in that. However, all of that being said, this year, I did decide there are a couple of things that I'm

dead set on completing this year. All right. Let's hear it. So I'm not being real, like, hard on myself about strict timelines, but for whatever reason, it just sounds like a good time to get it done. And I did this in a similar way in 2022, late 2022 through 2023. My goal was to build, design, draw, create, complete, print and launch a Kickstarter for my last card game. That was a, that was a very specific goal for that year. And I was dead set on doing it. And I did it. And that felt great. It would have felt terrible had I not. Because I really put a lot into it. So this year, I've got a couple of things like that, and I'm just dead set on doing them. And one of them is one, one of them I'm going to do because people tell me it's a bad idea.

When that happens, I do it anyway. Really? All the time. It's a good thing to do? Almost always for me. My whole life has been this. And it's usually things like, you can't. This show started because someone told me I couldn't do a morning show.

Don't tell me what I can't do. They said, you can't do a show every morning. And I went, oh, yeah, watch this. And then we did it. So, and we're what, 13 years on? Freaking, I think we did all right with the plan. So it's like, it's like that sort of stuff. I cannot stand when people who aren't actually creating anything tell me I shouldn't create

something. Freaking F right off is what I say to that. And I go do it. So this is a year where I'm going to, whether it kills me or not, I'm going to make a, at least quarterly, maybe more frequent, but I'm going to make this. frog pants magazine thing i want to make i'm going to make a zine like a 90s ass freaking print it you want to here's a pdf if you want it zine with like movie reviews music reviews cool art uh you know interesting commentary a bunch of people contributing to it that kind of thing

i want to make this so bad and i had somebody go well it's not the 90s anymore this isn't really viable on the digital wear a bit bad and i'm like oh yeah watch this I'm doing it anyway. Roll up your sleeves. Watch this. Yeah. So I'm doing it for hell or high water. It's happening.

So there's a few things like that where I am definitely locked in this year. But I'm for the most part trying to find ways to be less hard on my, you know, on myself and just do what do it's right in the moment. Like we started going, same with the gym thing. We started going before the end of the year, Kim and I. And I've just been quietly going and doing our thing. And we went today and it's feeling great. and we're really happy with progress. Everything's going great.

And I just refuse to look at it as a, you must lock it in as a goal and then check so many times a year. How is your goal? Beep, boop, beep. I don't want to be a robot about this. I just want to do it because it's the right thing to do or it feels good, right? Okay. So you're bringing up something really important. There is an urge to make a change, especially if you have been living or in certain ways don't feel good, right?

Like every one of us over eight at a given holiday thing and thought, okay, I should really because you don't feel good, right? Like there's a, the one sense will lead to the next sense. And it kind of depends on your history with these kinds of things and your age. This is my running theory. The urge to change and do it differently and start over and, you know, varies based on how yucky you were feeling and how much you want to not feel that way. and then also how optimistic because you haven't been worn down by life.

So as you get older, you tend to go, I've had so many New Year's experiences now, you know, what works for me, what doesn't. So it sounds like Scott, you have found a key, which is, I want to do something already and I can retrospectively write that down as a goal. Does that make sense? It's not like you're trying to trick yourself, but I already want to do this. My motivation isn't questionable. And that is also just regularly going to the gym, starting in September.

Great idea, right? Like, I'm just going to quietly make it a part of my life is a way more sustainable situation than a burst, right? So here's my question, though. And Brian, you can answer this as well. Is there something everyone listening can just think about that has already worked for them? So, Scott, you wanted to make the card game? People told you not to, which was enough fire. and you wanted to anyway, and then you just did it.

Is that the best way for you to set goals? Well, and that- Right. Same thing for you. In that case, it wasn't, that one was not people saying you shouldn't. Nobody told me that with the game. But the game, but I had a similar motivation behind it, which was, I can make this. And I, and part of me was saying you can't.

Like, why are you doing this? This is so much work. Why are you giving this? Why are you even trying this? and my other half of my brain was like f you other half i'm making this so there was a little bit of argument with myself but really that one i didn't get too i didn't get any pushback from it but it was one of these things where ironically where i started getting into the mud on it and getting real work done on it was when i got covid the first time in 2022 and that particular bout

of covid was bad like all the worst symptoms just feeling like garbage all the time but for whatever reason that week I cranked out so much stuff on that game and I don't know where that came from that was a weird bit of energy that I had nothing I had no energy for anything else you barely get off the couch but working on that for some reason just fit and it and I and I tore through it and I worked at it and it was easily the most like substantial part of the job got done then and then made it much simpler or easier down the road for me to to fill out all the all the empty spaces and to you know to polish everything and all of that so that being said it it was still kind of retroactive because i wanted to do that one before and haven't and i've been sitting on it for

years and i've had the domain for like 10 years and just putting it off putting it off putting it off and then finally at the end of 2022 i'm like all right now we're doing it right now we're doing it it's just like we're going let's go and so i don't know if that's retroactive or if that's just active or if that's just the stars align in a very specific way to make me active. Like I can tell you this, nobody walked up to me in high school and said, Scott, I'll bet you'll never get straight A's. And then that made me do it. It didn't because the motivation wasn't already there.

So what you said about that, I think is key here. If you already have like, well, I know I want to make from start to print a finished workable fun card game, I know that I want to do that. so now it's just a matter of like clearing the path to do it that's very different than a thing you hate doing and then suddenly saying i'm going to have a goal to do it it doesn't always then you're just setting yourself up for like massive disappointment you know well and that's what i want to emphasize as people think about this kind of thing because what we get wrong is we do too many hard we we don't have enough natural motivation other than the burst of

it's a new year and I feel gross so I want to be the new me or or you know whatever you're seeing online starts to motivate you to be like I got to change you know new year new me all that stuff that isn't sufficient for anyone to do the thing they don't want to do necessarily so I would say start with something you already want to do so I maybe I've mentioned this before but every new year's eve or New Year's day my family we all draw our hands like we We trace our hands. Like the turkeys you do at Thanksgiving is a little good. Yeah, exactly.

We trace your hands, and then we write five goals on our fingers and on the fingers of the hands. And then everyone decorates the hand, right? And the goals are things like kind of this idea of like, what do you already want to do this year? And then here's the funny thing, because it's absolutely zero motivation at all, is that if you do it by the end of the year, then you get five bucks for each goal. So, Max, you will make a whopping. $25. Yeah. And the money is kind of the joke part of it, but it's the idea of like, this isn't

going to motivate you at all. And half the time you forget what you even wrote down or whatever, right? But you're already writing something that you like. And when I've noticed this, as we've done this for probably over 10 years, I have hilarious, cute little hand drawings and all the drawings together, which is really fun. And my kids just get weirder and weirder with time. That's what I have evidence of is their hands are now disturbing. I'll send you a picture of one.

You'll be like, uh, maybe that kid. Kidney's therapy. Anyway, it is very like, what I found over the years doing this is that the kid who says, I want to be in a piano recital and is taking piano lessons, it's coming. Like, that thing is happening anyway, right? But this idea of, like, it's like a further intention or really, we're trying to articulate maybe. these are some things I'd like to see myself progress, you know, as I go along. Maybe it's, and for kids, it's like, play a sport, you know, try snowboarding or whatever the thing is.

And these things can pretty much happen or if they don't, we laugh, you know. But I've noticed the adults in the family tend to do the wrong way. We tend to do the, do a thing I thought I would never do. Or I think I want to do, but there's nothing motivational about it. Or the daily things. I think those are the harder ones, right? Like, I want to write daily, okay, but why are you writing is, it gets pretty tricky. So the why matters.

So, Scott, Brian, share with us for you. What is something, it's almost like, let's repeat what's already worked when you've lived long enough and you know what works for you. So do you have an example of something that has always worked for you that you just do? Or don't do, as you know, it doesn't work. I mean, the, the big one that we obviously we've already talked about is just not, not starting it on a on a specific date start it right away you know or say by this time next year i want to be done doing this or doing that i almost said i want to be done doing x i'm never going to be done

doing x um the you know doing things like i want to be done lifting by the end of this year right like like have enough um podcasting stuff and stable client base to not have to pad it with driving around for a few hours a day every week or things like that. But it's more like a, yeah, I'm starting it now, not, not, I'm not going to wait until, you know what, this is something I want to do. I'm going to wait until February 1st and that's what I want to start doing it. That's never worked for me. Yeah, there's something arbitrary about, I mean, it's just human construct anyway.

Like what is it, a year is something we made up, how we tell time every day, 24 hour clock the way the calendars work it's all iterative of over time but for the most part it's all human made and really the only thing that we can count on is the sun goes up at this time and it goes down at this time and so we kind of work around it accordingly plus you're motivated at the time that you say you're going to do that that is when you need to start doing it not two weeks later because it's the first day of the month or the first day of the year yeah you're motivated enough to say you're going to do this do it while you're motivated to do it and that and and saying all of that which I agree with. I also think there is some value in demarcation for some people. Certain

personalities want to say, I can't, you know, I'm feeling this way on a Thursday. I'm starting Monday, this is happening. I think that's, that's an okay thing to have. You get your little fence posts. Yeah. Which is why I'm saying, look back backwards, what has worked for any given individual in the past. And then try to recreate some of those pieces, right? So I will always, always meet someone for exercise. I like the social component to work out is super motivating for me. And so I can know if I ever want to train for something, I got to train with somebody. Like that's just a known fact because I've done it enough to know that, right? Or I know that I will never love mornings. So I'm going to let go of that idea that I need to get up and, you know, that's someone else's

goal. That's someone else's deal. That isn't you. So look at your own stuff and look at what's work. So sometimes, you know, so we jokingly put down yesterday a couple of things like do the dishes. And Adam's like, I'm done. I've done my goal for the year. I did the dishes, you know? Like you need to reward yourself a little bit. But also like what is something you're already planning to do this year and then make that what you want it to be? That might be the actual effort. Like, okay, I would really like to go on a weekend away with some of my friends or with my sister or something, right? You have that goal to do that. So what you do is just plan it now and start thinking of things to make it better. Whatever other things you wouldn't normally sort of have the time to do, you just make that

maybe the thing you want to do. So I would advise everyone to look backwards first to see what you've done successfully. And some of those things, you may never even have thought of as goals. You may have never thought like, oh, I got to do this hard thing and I'm going to write it down. and we know from research for you to do a goal you really need to write it down and you need to make it easier on yourself and you do a bunch of things to make something like that happen right however i think we are we are dopamine driven species and we need to have some rewards while we are trying hard things or trying to change things right so look at how you've been successful in the past see if you can't implement that in to whatever you're thinking you want to do this year um and then i highly recommend this as well this is this is i'm just telling you what my family did yesterday because I got nothing else is we always also write down what our family wants to do that year and it's really fun to like it's stuff we haven't even thought of and then we write it down and then we just try to make it happen so something fun right but then this is the one I love is we we do predictions for the next year yeah and so my kids are crazy and

say weird things and like last year Pete said he believed the New York's New York State would change their flag why that's a weird one I don't know I don't know, stuff like that. That makes no sense. However, we were reading through them. We got so many things wrong. I thought Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey would be engaged. I mean, what do I know?

And we do a lot of sports betting and songs of the year and that kind of thing. And Adam always has one that's very gloomy and he's always correct. So he predicted the war in Ukraine, weirdly. Oh, wow. Yeah, he didn't specifically say all the right part. But he was like, there will be a major war breaking out with Russia and someone. And I was like, come on, you are so negative. And then three months later.

Anyway, but his prediction from last year, I forgot because, of course, we don't read it until the next year, was that a major U.S. political figure would be shot. Oh, wow. That happened. I'm like, dude. I know. Anyway, so. I don't like his predictions.

No, they're always so negative, whereas mine are like. The 49ers will win the Super Bowl. But just kidding. My prediction this year, though, is that the Vikings will at least go to the Super Bowl. Yeah, you think so? That's some pretty high hopes you got for your Vikings. I know. I know.

There's this hilarious comedian being interviewed. He has bet $1,000 every year that the Vikings would go to the Super Bowl. And he's done it for 25 years. Oh, my gosh. Well, they did beat. Who's a being in a land or disappointment? I know. They won.

None of us are all prepared. They beat the Seahawks. Or who is it? Seahawks? Yeah, Seahawks the other day, the day before Christmas. And then, who is it? The Packers beat them, though. I don't know, man. Oh, we beat the Packers. Oh, you're right. You did. No, you did. Look at you. You're a true Vikings fan. I know. My next door neighbor very sad that day, by the way. Sorry. Here's the thing about this is I, you know, you get into whatever, but I did not suspect. I didn't see this coming. But there's something about never actually winning anything that makes you, like a fan really fast. Is that weird? It should be the opposite. But I, like, you know, I'm a fan of losing and camaraderie about that.

Anyway, so it's hard not to join the Vikings because that's all they've ever done. It's disappointed. Well, yeah. It's a little like post-90s jazz here. Like, we had a moment. We had a moment there. And then it was gone and Malone and Stockton left and then everything went to poop. And I'm tired of hearing that we're in a rebuilding year every freaking year for 20 years.

And we thought that's what the Vikings year was, was rebuilding. And look at us, 13 and 2, you guys. Look at us. Here's the thing. I think this ties nicely into psychology. So my childhood exposure to the jazz in the 90s is trained me for only being fans of teams that disappoint you and never win. Even when they should, even when there's a moment in time where they're like, this is our one time we could take this ring. In fact, two years in a row.

greatest receiver of all time. I mean, I love Jerry Rice. Don't you get me wrong. I love the 90s. Yeah, you're a big 90s fan, right? I am. Scott, I'm very excited for the zine. I think that everyone wants a retro 90s zine. I think it's. I think so, too. It's not even meant to be so much retro as it is like,

here's a movie review from TV's Travis. Here's Brian's review of this new album from The Cure. We get personalities from around the network doing stuff, but also just I want to go back to like a arts and entertainment vibe of like hey and it's not even that nicely printed or whatever I wanted to just be that so I hope I did to do a ask Wendy section like a like the old we totally could do that do that do you want to do that because I can make that happen okay 100% all right but it's got to sound like a 90s question so whoever whoever writes in make sure you speak in 90 for 90s for 90s for 90s

vernacular. If Bill Clinton claims that he didn't have any relationship with that girl. Yeah, we go all the way back. All right. This is great. I think everybody, you know what, there's a big takeaway today. Don't overgole yourself with stuff that you already hate. Like, find what you love and then find a way to maybe turn that into something great. And I don't know. I think that's- repeat your success strategy too. Like you may not even know you've done it, but think about it. What have you done that you're like, yeah, that was great. Yeah. I like, I like, take the formula added to this new thing you want to do yeah do something fun do something fun uh Wendy it's always a pleasure I hope that your turkey hand yet next year yields all positive correct and uh I sent you the images so you oh you did let's see I missed it um and let me let me do a plug that's a little more professional now that I'm warmed up who did this one with the robot fingers and stuff who did this that's any guesses that's got to be Pete that's Pete okay here you go Pete guts on the

outside um uh dunford look at this that should be his oh shoot that should be his uh like his i don't know his his his mobster name yeah look at that this is another one you need to like turn into scott you know like do the the real more realistic scott art yeah i would love to do that actually maybe i will what do you think of this one this is so who who's the one with the bandages that's probably that's elliot okay because it's always healing from something that kid he's always meaning. Yeah, probably. Now, this one I got questions about, hold on. This is, it's just the little finger. Who is this? This is. Oh, that would be funny. That would be. Just. So the one with the face on it. Is this Abe with the face? Okay. Yeah. It took him. I had him for, I had his attention for two minutes. That's all I got. Nothing from. There are other years, other years where you would be like, that kid needs help. Did Ali do one? Nothing from Ali's. time, right? Oh, I can send you allies. It's just a really bad drawing. I mean, I like really bad drawings. Okay. Well, I'll send it to you and you will be like,

okay. I, uh, Abe continues to be very surrealistic. Like putting that face there, it's just weird. It's freaking weird. And I love it. Yeah, always. Yeah. Always. That's great. All right. Well, that's a grand tradition. Uh, send that just whenever you're able. There's no rush. Uh, and, uh, Wendy, I hope you have a grand, a grand new year. I hope all you. Your goals are met. Stop. I have to do my pitch. Oh, do your pitch. Yeah, do your pitch.

Community. Okay. Hi, everybody. Wendy here. Wendy made a goal last year. She wrote it on one of her fingers. She wanted to start a new program and she has done it, folks. All right.

Yeah. So no better you.com. Go sign up for emails. The actual live website where you can do all the things is, you know, coming. But the class is starting February 3rd and that's not all there will be there. So if you're like, yeah, I'm not interested in learning how to stop yo-yo dieting and like myself again. I don't care to feel good in my skin again. That is maybe not for you.

But there's going to be a lot of other things that are courses on sort of healing in her child wounds, which is my favorite, and how to make relationships better. And just sort of all the things, really what it is is I have realized that I could teach something to third. 30 people and they could take away the things I've learned of after 25 years of doing this, right? Like I just want to make it a little more accessible to folks. And so that's what it is. Lots of classes on different things and all of that's coming soon. But the actual sort of flagship deal starts on February 3rd.

Nice. Check it out. I promise your emails will be pretty and they'll be in orange and blue. It'll make perfect sense to you when you receive them. And like it was for me because I got something I didn't know I was getting. And if you're confused, please. send me an email because I would also, if only Scott is confused, I will be thrilled. But if anyone else is confused, let me know.

It is No Better You, the letter you, there at the end.com. Nobetteru.com. Go check it out. Wendy, have a fantastic week. We'll see you next time for more. Thank you. Bye. All right.

That's hilarious to me. All right. We did it. We got through yet another Thursday. This week, obviously, a little, you know, all over the place with the play date yesterday and all that. That's up for viewing. if anyone missed it and wanted to just go watch us laugh and have fun.

You can watch the play date, yeah. That game we played in the end, the two rounds of that. I freaking love that game. Blather round, it's such a blast. Really good. I can never remember the name, but I love it. Love that game. That's good.

Good time. Brian, tell us about Coverville. Is that happening today this week? It's happening at some point today. This is going to be, I'm still going to do it live and stream it, but the episode is going to be for patrons. It is the leftovers. So we did the end of year coverville countdown,

counted on the top 40 covers of the year. Make sure to check those out. They were great episodes, a lot of fun to do. But there were all these songs that didn't make the cut. There were 41 through 68 that you guys didn't get to hear. So I'm going to do an episode that has all those songs in it, just so you can hear what was still really good, but didn't make the top 40. Love it.

That'll be coming up at some point. I've got an Orange Theory workout today. You're going to have lunch after that. So probably closer to 2 p.m. today, maybe 1.30, 2 p.m. is what I'm going to be recording that. And again, if you're not on the Coverville Patreon, make sure you go check that out, patreon.com slash coverville. And putting your $2 there, and you'll get every episode like that that I do.

Nice. Also, core today at noon. That will happen in a couple of hours. Myself, Bo and John, what are we doing today? why it's our best of 2024 episode. Oh, fun. Yeah, a bunch of categories. We pick our game of the year.

I mean, who cares about game awards.com? Come over here and check this out, man. That's today at noon. So check that out, frogpants.tv. If you want to watch the thing happen live, if not, you can check it out later. Of course, wherever you get it. Play retro tomorrow.

We also have a morning version of this show, TMS Friday, that will happen tomorrow at 8.30 a.m. This is for patrons only. So if you are not a patron, you will not get it. But it will be live. We even play the song live. It's all kinds of stuff we do on there that we don't do in the... And trivia for Scott tomorrow.

I'm not sure what we're going to stump him on, but it'll be fun. Do you do a movie tonight? I forgot if you said. Not doing it tonight. We were going to see a complete unknown tonight, but we're like, let's do the film psych movie tonight and see a complete unknown tomorrow night. Gotcha. And are you doing an extended edition or the theatrical?

I'm doing, I bought the director's cut. I paid for the director's cut of Dark City, so we're watching the new thing. Yeah, I did the same. I'm so excited. Yeah. Can't wait for that movie. I've never seen it. I bought the DVD right after the movie came out, and so, or when the DVD first came out,

so I never got the director's cut. This will be a brand new, brand new watching of Dark City, really. I'm excited for you. You're going to love it. It's so good. I hope you do. I hope you do. I'm like way hypey on it, and I hope everyone else who hasn't seen it isn't disappointed,

but that movie is like one of my favorite things in the whole world so we'll see how it holds up that'll be film sack this weekend so check that out that's going to do it for us frogpants dot com slash tms for everything let's leave them with one more song brian one more song one more okay uh chuck you know natamaton amy's person uh wrote in and uh and said i recently learned that my friend brian loves the song romeo and juliet and i wanted to share this version with him if he hasn't heard it and um first off He says, loves the song. I'm sorry if you misheard me, Chuck.

It's not a song I love. It is my favorite song of all time, the dire straits, Romeo and Juliet. It is the perfect song. It is very good. That song is, I have no argument against that song. That song's fantastic. It's really good. So good.

Anyway, he recommended the version by the Indigo Girls, and I almost sent him a photograph of a stack of Indigo Girls CDs that I have over in the media class. And I'm a big Indigo girls fan, love Emily and Amy and love the stuff they've put out, even together and solo. But he says, if he's heard that one, then maybe the Cliff Eberhardt version. Well, Chuck, I'm happy to say that that was a new version to me. He released it on his 1995 album, Mona Lisa Cafe. And I really like, I think it's accordion that I hear in this.

That is, I don't know if I've heard a version of Romeo and Juliet that has accordion. So we're all going to hear it together. Here is Cliff Eberhart and his version. version of Dyer Straits, Romeo and Juliet. Love struck Romeo, sang the streets on serenade, laying everybody low with a loved sun that he made, finds a streetlight, steps out of the shade, it says something like, well, you me, baby. Oh, God.

Juliet says, oh, it's Romeo. Nearly give me a heart attack. He's underneath the window, she's singing, hail I'm my boyfriend's back. You shouldn't come around here singing up with people like that. But anyway, what you're going to do about it?

Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start. And I bet You exploded into my heart I'm again I forget The movie song When you're gonna realize

It's just that the time was wrong Juliet They come up on different streets, both were streets of shame, both dirty, both mean, the dream was still the same. I dreamed you dream for you, and now that dream is real, so how can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals? And you can fall for chains of silver, you can fall for chains of gold, you can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold. You promise me a Everything promise me thick and thin

Now all you say is, oh Romeo, yeah, I used to have a scene we're young And Juliet, we made love you used to cry You said I love you like stars above I'll love you till I die And there's a face for us And you know the movie's song When you're gonna realize it's just that the time is wrong Until yeah

I can't do the talking Like they talk on the TV Can't make a love song The way it's meant to be I can do everything But I do anything for you I can't do anything Except be in love with you

All I do is miss you In the way we used to be All I do is keep the beat The bad company All I do is kiss you Through the bars of a rhyme And Juliet, I would do the stars with you Any time

Juliet We made love you used to cry He said I love you like the stars above I love you till I die and there's a place for us you know the movie song when you're going to realize it's just that the time was wrong julia we made love you used to cry said i love you like stars above i love you till i die and there's a place for us you know the movie song when you're going to realize it's just that the time Time is wrong.

Juliet Oh, looks like their ears caught in the audio cookie jar at frogpants.com. Shut your nasty little face.