The Morning Stream - TMS 2759: Guacodile

Episode Date: January 7, 2025

Pull yourself up by your butt strep. Butt Whooping Cough. Shnerkel Shnerkel Duffel Bag. Gonorrhoea Yet? When there are no Weirdos at the Gym. YOU ARE THE WEIRDO. Actually I Like Buc-eeeeeeeeeeeees. Snow Tedious. Don't go chasing waterfalls, or Bigfoots. Competitive Goat. Oh The Huge Manatees. Backpack full of goo. Cat sized dogs. Liquid Guano. Thickly British. There's Pottery in Denver, Too, with Amy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ever see a bird with nothing to do? Don't poke at it or anything. Those things are crazy and they'll peck your eyes out and eat whatever's left. Now that we have that out of the way, head over to patreon.com slash TMS and support your favorite non-bird-related morning show. Coming up on the morning stream, pull yourself up by your butt strap. But whooping cough. Schnurker-snurkel duffel bag. Gonorrhea yet.

When there are no weirdos of the gym, you are the weirdo. Actually, I like Bucky's. Snow tedious. Don't go chase. Oh, don't go chasing waterfalls or Bigfoot's. Competitive goat. Oh, the huge manatees. Backpack full of goo. Cat-sized dogs. Liquid guano. Thickly British. There's pottery in Denver, too, with Amy and more on this episode of the Morning Street.

I don't think about my face ever. My face does its own thing. And if you think about your face, you're going to shoot yourself in the foot because I don't work my face. My face is an extension of my body, and my body does its thing. Nothing is better than the chocolate-covered hot dogs. The morning stream, the good guys will come and get you. Okay? Good morning, everybody, and Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for January 7th, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Nibit. Hi, Brian. Well, hello. Happy Tuesday to you. Yeah, it's a Tuesday. Did you go, you do Orange Theory today? Was that a Tuesday thing? I did. Yeah. Today was unofficially a tornado. It was, you remember, I think back in October, we did these things called benchmarks where I had to do a running benchmark to see how long it took for me to run a mile. and a rowing benchmark to see how fast I could do 200 meters.

So we had a, we had benchmarks today, but it was kind of in tornado form where we bounced all around the room. And did the 200 meter row in 36 seconds. And I don't remember what I did last time. So right now I'm going to consider that my personal best. Nice. I'm sure it is. You've been going. It might be.

Yeah, certainly might be. Because I feel a lot better than I did four months ago, whenever October was. but this was Kaylee's first day vacuum. Kaylee is the one who does the, who says, like for the different speeds on the treadmill. She says, all right, three, two, one, push. Oh, yeah. All out. So today was her first Tuesday back from vacation since.

I didn't see her since before Thanksgiving when she told me I'd give off good daddy vibes and asked me how to change the winter. windshield wipers in her car oh that's right i forgot you did that yeah yep and uh then she said and this is going to be my last tuesday at orange theory she's moving to another no um another uh o tf in arvada so wow banana theory yeah they're getting her that's great that's right the banana theory by the way if you rearrange the letters in orange theory uh you get gonorrhea yet oh well thank goodness for that yeah gonorrhea yet yeah it's a question we should question we should all be asking ourselves occasionally every six months or so i wonder if i if i'd put on a like i could have

printed up shirts that um that say gonorrhea yet in the orange theory logo i like it it'd be great wear that to class and just see what they if somebody says anything like that i wonder how long it would take him to notice somebody's going to notice but it'd take a while yeah yeah i would love that you have to film that though that's content you can't do that just to see Just to see what, it'll still be the same splat logo, the logo that they have, but it'll be the, it'll say gonorrhea yet. Nice. Well, my trip to the gym was very uneventful. It was just empty.

I thought that by the seventh it'd be full of people. And I don't know if it's just the time I go. I would think so, too. Yeah, usually January is unbearably at the regular gyms, which is why I always hated going to 24-hour fitness. worst I don't know which I don't know which I mean whatever Jim

but it was January and the first part of February you had to wait for a treadmill or you had to wait for the Nautilus equipment

yeah that's the worst I don't want to do that and I was surprised it was just like kind of empty and not empty there are people

but I had free reign of most everything I needed and there were no no weirdos today that's the other thing I was surprised about I just expect more, I expected like the stinky guy from last week or the, oh, the guy who made really loud grumpy noises while he was doing something back there. Like, where are these

people? I need a little insanity in my life. And today was just normal. Everybody was just keeping to themselves. Everyone had headphones on. They weren't even playing news channels up on the TVs. It was like, really? Were they playing anything? Were the TV's off? They were on, but there was like TLC and freaking, so it's like some house flipping show. that kind of I mean it's almost worse right yeah but uh yeah yeah those things

those things feel just watching feels like exercise anyway yeah good point or or you know it surprises me though it surprises me how many things that we think are quintessentially happened here in America are happening across

the world and I'm going to give you an example that I ran into yesterday all right it turns out we were not the and this is true of a lot of things Like, Survivor didn't even start here. We were like a... The office. The office, good example, exactly.

And right, and there's like other offices that cropped up in other countries after the U.S. office. So a successful franchise often means it goes somewhere else. And you often hear about them, like the office, like other stuff. Sure. But I didn't know that in the Netherlands, you all got the Golden Girls. Because here's the Dutch version of the Golden Girls theme, Brian. I'd like to play it for you. It's going to be very familiar to you until you start hearing somebody's saying.

here you go Niemann's Leuker than you With you Vliht every day Forby Amazing A duffel bag

At least you just said Something something Duffel bag Duffel bag And you might like it Because again it's all These old ladies Like you would expect

But they're all going to casinos Nonstop Oh nice That's really what The Golden Girls So they don't Now we were first

We had the first Golden Girls They They did their yeah yeah but it's uh it may not be it may not be the only one as far as i know there's others i just didn't i didn't go that far but i found this found this on the on the internet and i just went what are we doing that's fantastic and they just go to casinos i love it yeah they get their duffel bag and they go to casinos uh all right i want to remind people it is early yet but we do

have the film fest this month the tms film fest is underway that means that you should start making your stuff i know a few people who are working away on it you have until the 31st which is a Friday this month to submit them at frogpants.com slash film fest. I'll be here every couple days to remind you of the link and what you're doing. All the rules are there. So we're going to know what you have to do and how to do it, how to submit it, all that stuff. Brian and I yesterday worked a bit more on our prize package, so we'll let you know what that is soon. Oh, really? We're not going to tease it yet? There's just more to add to it as all. So I think this week, though, you'll find out what we're totally putting in there. Oh my gosh. It's a sweet,

sweet prize package it is one that if you don't start working on your your submission now at least thinking about it you don't want to get to the whatever the 14th of the month and hear what what the prize packages and say oh my gosh okay now I need to jump on this yeah because we'll tell if you've slapped together your thing last minute you know yeah we're not going to give you good points for that stuff all right no so don't go making some quick slap dash thing where you went you can eat rice and throw rice at the camera uh-uh no no no that won't fly it's not here not in this judge not in this judge's chamber no all right uh anyway there's that also i learned this week uh so vans in uh disneyland for his birthday lucky kid lucky kid he's

there with his parents uh febe's here with us for three days and uh he's super stoked had a great time last time he went and he just he's turning six which is an insane thing to say that 2019 was six years ago i don't even know how to make sense of that uh but nonetheless here we you are and he's in so he's there now but right before this you know how as a parent and you're doing a big trip or something with your kids and it's around the time of year where everyone's getting sick from something and you're like trying to keep everybody healthy we're going on this trip everybody stay healthy like a day and a half before they go van gets what his doctor called and this is how i wanted to share what i've learned i've learned a new medical term he had a

a perinatal streptococcus, a case of perinatal, wait, perianatal, perianatal, perinatal streptoccus, or strep. Now you might say, well, Scott, what's the deal with that? And the answer is that strep on your butthole. Oh. Yeah. Yeah, how awful does that sound? The kid was in misery. He was losing it, just crying, sitting in tubs for hours is crying.

Oh, my gosh. finally Taylor figured out like well they were taking to the doctor either way but she had done some searching around to see what the hell this thing was and yeah sure enough to do that too yeah so he got but he got butt strapped which is a thing I didn't know existed until uh until this week he got butt strap butt strap butt strip and uh pull yourself by your butt strip um so he it's all good though yeah they immediately gave him some kind of kid by antibiotics and right before Disneyland where you're sitting on a ton of hard uh hard seats like hard um uh ride theme park ride seats yeah yeah bumpy ones ones that go up and down you're just asking for it yeah just asking for

it so he's on these antibiotics it worked right away like the very next day he was feeling better so anyway if you're out there in the world and and and there comes a need where you need to remember what perinatal streptococcus is yeah there you go it's a but hole It comes the time when you just need to feel good that you're, that you just have a cold. Think about poor, man, it is butt strap. Yeah. And for any of you home going, that's gross. It's just another entry like your nose or anywhere else in your body.

You get stuff, you get strep, you get colds, or you get things. And that's what you get. But really you got to watch out for the butt whooping cough. Oh, it's the worst. It's the worst. But R.SV. Oh, man. But bronchitis.

Got to take him outside in the cold. But kite. There you go. Butchitis. Askeditis. Something like that. Ask your doctor. Butchitis is right for you.

Exactly. So we got a listener who thinks my trip to Jersey Mikes is, he thinks I should go back. Here's why. I'm not going for a while because that chicken. Yeah. Yeah. It put me in a mood. He says this for TMS.

This is Michael from North Dakota. Scott, if you can get back to Jersey Mikes, you should do it before it all goes downhill because it got sold off. so apparently they got sold yeah maybe further downhill might be the missing adverb in that or adjective in that in that statement in that comment yeah and i don't want to that that doesn't motivate me to go if no exactly it's like hurry up and go back to the place they gave you food poisoning because it's going to get worse yeah yeah and i mean if they got bought out maybe they'll be well taken i mean i have no idea what the buyout even means yeah but it's not going to change my need for time to go back.

I can't eat, I can't go there. And I like the poultry meats. I'm into the turkey and the chicken. I mean, just because the chicken was bad. You could go back, not have the chicken and feel just fine, right? Because you've gone many times, not had the chicken. You've always had the Italian, been totally fine. Yeah.

So, but I understand, I understand the once-bitten twice shy mentality of like, no, that place, you know, I felt rotten for 12 hours. I'm not going, not going back. Yeah, and it's not that I think that it's always going to be bad. It's that I now, like, hey, Scott, you want to go spend $12 on a thing that you're going to eat where last time you were sick there? It just doesn't make sense in my head to do this. So I'm not doing it. I'm not going.

Sorry. I will tell you that the T-Mobile Tuesdays just came up, Scott, and firehouse subs. Buy one, get one free, medium, hook-and-ladder sub. I get that one all the time. I like that one. It's good. So there you go. So now you and Kim can go get a hook and ladder.

You can finish yours and eat a third of her leftovers. Yeah, why not? And then we can all get to do this all over again. Well, the hook and ladder should be. I mean, hey, it's a dude. Oh, you cut out. We haven't had that in a while. TDS cut out.

You know what? No, that was me. I opened up the photos app because I want to send you a photo of something in a second. Let's take a look. Well, that's weird. No, no. It's going to be when I talk about the next thing in our, Oh, gotcha, gotcha.

Okay. Well, anyway, the nice thing is also that firehouses right across the street from Jersey Mikes. So I don't even have that far to go. Hopefully they don't get chicken from the same source. I don't know. Yeah, let's out. Probably not. Well, you never know. They might all be like, you know, the Cisco Foods thing might all come from the same place.

Could be. But it might have just been that Jersey Mikes left their chicken out for too long before they served it. Yeah, it all comes on a slow truck from Jersey. That's the problem. Monica, see what you can do on the ground there. Thank you, Michael. Jersey bikes is much better, the closer you are to New Jersey. That's right.

Thank you, Michael from North Dakota. We appreciate it. All right, Brian, tell me what you did this week. I went, so I did some lifting yesterday. And third ride I got, I see a pop up in the app, $65 ride up to Fort Collins. And it's about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, 3.30. Actually, she, I think, might have been my second ride. It was really, really quick after I started.

and I'm thinking, all right, well, that gets me up there. Will I get rides back? Who knows? It's about an hour north of where I'm at, a little over an hour, or 15 minutes north of where I'm at. So, this is where burying them go to meet their daughter a lot? Yeah, where they used to go. That's where she went to school.

CSU is up there, and really, really, it's such a cool town. If we left Denver, if we left the Denver metro area, it would either be Fort Collins or Longmont because those are they're both they both have a really nice feel like a good small town vibe to them enough of a small town vibe that I'd really like it nice I'm a fan of such things what be cut out again

sorry did I really okay I didn't pull up I didn't pull up an app that time that time probably was TDS and now it scares me because TDS notoriously has had problems when there was snow yeah yeah and we've had a couple weeks of nothing all good Yeah, exactly. Weird. All right, well, anyway, it should be okay. So drove up to Fort Collins, and then I got a few rides while I was in Fort Collins,

and then I'm like, all right, I want to leave Fort Collins. So I changed the app to say, only give me rides that get me closer to home. So it just will only give me rides that go southwest. And I don't get anything, and I'm like, hmm, Buckees is on the highway between Fort Collins and Denver, and it's about five miles outside of four. Fort Collins. I'm going to turn off the app and I'm going to stop at Buckees and I'm going to get the barbecue that everybody's been raving about.

They have a, in the middle of Buckees they have a little barbecue station. And there are guys in there working hard and making barbecue sandwiches and every once in a while they go brisket fresh off the bone and then they all go

or something like that. They do some sort of chant where the whole group of them all do something at the same time. That's great. And so I'm like, all right, give me a barbecue sandwich. And the choices are turkey, pulled pork, and brisket, sliced brisket. I'm like, oh, man, I'd really like to, I want to try all three of them just to see how they are. Well, fortunately, they have what's called the three meat sandwich where they take a little bit of turkey, a little bit of pulled pork, and a little bit of brisket.

Nice. And so that's what I got. I got the barbecue, the three meat barbecue sandwich. holy cow freaking awesome oh my god this barbecue sandwich is the bomb it is so like it is it's not worth it for me to drive the 45 minutes up there from home but if I'm going between Denver and Fort Collins and it's around lunchtime or dinner time

I'm stopping I'm getting a barbecue sandwich because that was so good so is that your closest one that's the closest one you can't it's the only one in Denver only one in Denver okay I think there's I think there's going to be one in on the way to Colorado Springs, but that's no, no, no, no closer to me than this one up in, in Johnstown, I guess it is. Sure. But, yeah, no, it's, I am, I am, I'm a convert. There's still a barbecue place here in town like better called KT's barbecue, but this place is,

if KTs is a 10, this place is a 9.5. Nice. Yes. That's great. And, yeah, exactly. Oh, Luke Sightwalker says, I'm not sure about eating at a truck stop car wash. Oh, you don't know. You don't know what this place says, dude.

That's like saying that Disneyland is a frozen dessert retail shop. Yeah, you're totally right. Like, it's not the kind of place. It's not what you think it is. In fact, that's what sets it apart. The whole point of it is, is that it's this super mega crazy, I can't believe they do all of these things at a rest stop gas station. That's not what you think it is.

Yeah, exactly. No, I mean, they have a whole wall of jerky. They've got 18 icy stations, including frozen Dr. Pepper, which I had to get. Got to get a frozen. Oh, wait, tell me, how's that work? Is that just like a slushy kind of thing? It's a slushy. It's a slurpy. That's Dr. Perth's slurpy, and it is so freaking good.

I don't know why, but it's really, really good. I love that stuff. Um, the, uh, they've got, um, a whole section of housewares. So you can buy a nice ceramic, um, ramekin to make creme brulees in and the torch to, to do it, et cetera. And then over on the other side, they always have the latest, uh, Roosevelt's shirts. Oh, right. We talk about these. You love these.

Right? I love these. And so this is one that I will be wearing. You will see me wearing this one in, uh, Vegas. um if you can pull up the one i just gave you in discord oh not this you're not wearing it wearing it i'm not wearing it now this is this is my colorado mammoth shirt let me pull this up here yeah i had to as soon as i saw it i had to text uh west who's in the chat right now and say dude check out the new roosevelt's shirt look at that look at that x-men 97 business man

like like everybody's on there too morph and bishop and uh sunspot and Magneto and oh my god it is That's great So freaking There's storm You got any sentinels on there It's all heroes I assume All heroes

Well Magneto's on there Oh yeah yeah And I guess Magneto start out the season Leading the X-Men as a Filling in for For Professor X Oh yeah and the new

The new stuff And the old one he's just like Skeletor level villain The way they treat him Yeah yeah pretty much Pretty corny that's great so basically my ride the ride that i took up to fort collins paid for that shirt nice nice sandwich shirt drink and a good time is what you had yes exactly so lydia grace

bauer in the chat says why did you call it a roosevelt shirt yeah it's r s delti um if you glance at it looks like it's result yeah that's the brand right it's the brand of the thing which is yeah it's the brand roosevelt's yeah they're great they're supposed to be uh well made and last forever again that's the weird thing about buckies this isn't just a gas station no and and uh i don't even know if they have a car wash luke sight walker i know you're i know you're luking right now he's doing little luking it's fine he's doing a little luking but i don't even think they have a car wash now this thing is like a i would shop here before i shoped at a walmart like it it is cleaner nicer more well laid out organized shop with so much

so much more stuff yeah and the food's amazing the food's amazing find a picture here so you can get an idea of the scale of these things yeah they're massive and they're in 49 or 48 states and i think utah is not one of them oh no utahs one of the holdouts i think so i haven't checked to be sure there may be some remote place that i don't know about utahia or the two that don't have uh buggies that's how it feels but they're massive these places are not i mean look there's a huge truck in there with a bunch of shit to buy like yeah little little stuffed buggies like somebody sent us somebody remember somebody sent us a couple plushy buckies yeah it's more of a super store really yeah there's the wall of uh uh beaver nuggets right here yeah all the different flavors and stuff i mean i can only eat two of these and feel good about it but yeah people love them i have a friend in tennessee who pronounces it boosies they don't know they seem for whatever reason boot they're gonna rip your endocrine system right out of your body whatever reason they're convinced that it's not buckies i don't know why no matter what i tell her she's

like no it's boocies that's what we call that's funny yeah uh boosies boosies anyway like you can go look at all the seafood and shit and beef and meat and chicken and whatnot that's the jerky uh oh that's the jerky station man yeah up there you can say oh let me try the the hot and spicy peppered and let me try this let me try that i i was really tempted to go buy some jerky but here's the problem is that I don't want to consume. They still had a 45-minute drive home, and if I bought the jerky, I would have consumed the jerky on the drive home.

Yeah, yeah. It's massive. You should go. Get out there, Luke. Yeah. You're a sightwalker. Go walk some sites. Walk the buckies.

Yeah, what are you doing? All right. Well, there you have it. Let's get to some news today, and we got to inform as well as entertain. So here we go. Today's news is brought to you by. Another year of the Frog Pants Fantasy Football League has concluded.

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It's a different Matthew Johnson. just so everyone knows. Right. This is the one who we constantly see in the chat as nightmare when he's in. That's right. My brother would not LC night. El C night, yeah. My brother would not be able to run this event. He doesn't know what I think about

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winner, boop, boop, done, submit. But that's all the time I had this week for stuff. That's all I ever did back in my office days. That's it. I'd get the sheet. I'd fill it out. I'd hand it to somebody and say, all right, let me know how I did. Exactly.

Tell me on Tuesday if I want anything. So thank the goodness for people like Matthew Johnson who get it all done. Have ever heard of an orange dwarf cave crocodile, Brian? You ever heard of these? I have not. Does the letters rearrange for syphilis or anything? I wish they did. That would be great because these look like they might have a little syphilis or at least something wrong with them.

Oh, gosh. Really? Very weird. But this is almost like a thing I should say for Bobby. Oh, they're kind of cool. They are very cool. They don't come with duct tape around their mouths. No, you have to bring your own.

It's an aftermarket purchase. Yeah, just so you know, none of that is included. Like a lot, you know, they're always trying to screw you. You know, they leave out the tape. Bastards. Anyway, these crocs that crawled into a cave ate some bats and then started mutating into a new species at a rapid rate. See, normally evolution of a species takes a effing long time, right? Yeah.

You don't get blind lizards in a dark place overnight. It takes a long time for stuff to adapt and build up other senses and who cares about their sight because it's always dark, that kind of stuff. It takes sometimes millions of years. Yeah. But in this case, we don't know the exact time frame. But we do know that they went in there. That's what they did. They ate a bunch of bats and then they came out looking pretty weird and had this weird orange.

orange look to them. Oh, thank you, dear. My wife brought me a very nice hot drink. Thank you so much. Oh, nice. Yeah. Yeah. Um, it says here, uh, these live in the Abanda cave system in, uh, what is this? Ogoogie, maritime province Gabon. I don't know. Gabon, yeah. Where is that? That Africa? Country of Gabon is in Africa. Is an African country? Okay. Um, by the way, their skin turns orange because they swim in guano. Oh my gosh, really? Is that true? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's the... Gross. That's gross.

It's like, oh, cool. They got this really cool orange skin. Oh, yeah, because they're swimming in bat shit. Yeah. Yeah, that'll have an effect on your complexion, I would assume. Yeah. Anyway, here's why they're cool. Deep inside one of the cave systems lives in unusual population of orange dwarf crocodiles.

They live in a complex darkness. Feeson bats and swim in liquid guano, aka bat poop. I'm glad they cleared that up so we knew what guano was. Liquid guano is... Quite possibly the most disgusting word pairing you're going to hear it today. Sounds like a street drug, doesn't it? Liquid guano. Do you give me the liquid guano?

Yeah. My whole city's hooked on it, says this fake person we made up. It's unknown how many crocodiles are living in these caves or when they adopted the subterranean lifestyle, but they may have been down there for thousands of years. Scientists would say they may be even in the process of evolving into a new species. Cave-dwelling crocodiles were only studied for the first time in 2010. And in 2016, there was a study that compared them to their forest-dwelling counterparts showed a number of differences between the two.

Their diets are very different. The cave crocs feeding mostly exclusively, anyway, on a bounty of crickets and bats that cling to the cave walls. Cricket bats? It sounds like cricket bats. Yeah, like the British need to watch out. There's a shortage coming. That's a wicked googly.

Have you ever played cricket, by the way? No. I was involved very briefly in my 20s. in a pickup game of cricket, a guy I knew whose parents were British and I can't remember the deal. They worked here and he was born here. I don't know what the deal was.

But somehow his parents were very thickly British by accents. And they loved cricket. And they had a full cricket set like the bats and the stupid outfits and the... Yeah, the two, the opposite wickets. And I guess you, what, you balance something on the wickets that if the ball hits it, it knocks it off, and you have to run circles around them?

I think so. I don't, that's the other problem is when I, he said, come over here and check this out. We went and tried to play a game. I don't remember anything of what we were told. It was like, it was like the worst board game rules ever. I just didn't retain anything. So I'm still not sure.

Yeah, I'm still not sure how cricket works, but I do remember the holding that, that weird flat bat at that angle that's almost like golfing. Mm-hmm. and whacking the ball once. That's all I got. I don't remember if you had to run to something after that. I think we did.

Yeah, I think you round, you run around the two. Still bases, right? Back and forth. There's still bases, sort of. It's not like a diamond. The bases are just the two wickets that you run around. Is there a diamond, or is it just the two things in the middle that you have to run around? I can't remember because my brain is so baseball addled that I'm mixing it.

And I know I'm mixing. I can tell by the way I picture. it but when my dad and i went england in um for my 16th birthday we we found a cricket match and decide to sit and watch it for a while and i can't remember if my dad knew the knew the game and tried to explain to me or if we both just sat there and said oh i guess that's what you're supposed to do oh i guess that's you're supposed to do that next oh that's what you're yeah and he i mean obviously he's of the ilk right i mean he's he knows the british he was born there and moved here when he was 14.

Yeah. Yeah. So, I don't know. He would have, he would have been the right age that if they had it in school and played it, he would have been playing it. Yeah. Because that was a thing you'd do in these, like, schools over there, right?

You'd have cricket teams. Yeah. You had your P.E. You probably played football and you probably played cricket. I picture rowing. Always, always rowing is what I mean. Picture, a group of kids out on the Thames with their pool. Yeah.

Oh, I got one guy on a dunt's hat, yell him through it or whatever. Uh-huh. Yeah. Good times. Well, anyway, these things are going to, they're going to keep growing. And you're going to have a lot of orange poopy crocodiles walking around. Man. So it's a bummer because when you see these and you're thinking, oh, right, this is so cool.

They're evolving into this orange style, into this orange pattern. No, it's just they probably come out green, but because they swim in so much orange. guano they just turn orange yeah they do say so the the the doctors that are indicating there may be an evolution happening here are more talking about their uh fundamental stuff like their diet never leaving the cave yeah that kind of stuff so right those do lend themselves to a quick quicker adaptation so i could see what he means but we're still probably yes i know you know what a thousand years about something well that's a crock of a different color but no unfortunately because it's poop.

Yeah. But I wonder how, like is it? How bad do these crocodiles smell? That's my question. Yeah. They've evolved to not have a sense of smell. Oh,

they, well, either that is just don't care, you know, just get used to it, I guess. I don't know. I don't know how crocs.

Crocs are weird to me. The closest I ever got to one was in Mississippi, in a bayou. Not a controlled environment. It wasn't like a park or something. Oh, you actually, like in the wild, like a bay you saw a crook.

Yeah. Okay. We were out, We were out, like, pants pulled up to our knees, tiptoeing around, looking for something. I don't remember what the hell we were doing. Something found you. Yeah, and we saw, like, a little lump going moving. Oh, my God.

And we were like, ah, so we got out of there. And it did eventually kind of submarine up and surface and kind of sit there for a long time and then went away. So we were never really in danger because we got out of there, but it was, it was, it's a little scary. There would be alligators there. Good point. Oh, yeah, it was definitely a gator, not a crock. Yeah, we saw them in. Florida, but it was one of those

controlled environments. We went down there with Tristan when he was four, I think, did the Walt Disney World thing, and then just did a couple other things while we were in Florida and said, all right, let's go, let's go to one of these places where they have alligators and you can

toss raw meat to them and stuff. That's always fun. All right, cool. Done. Didn't that one. Put that off your list of things you want to do in your life. Been there, done that. Got the T-shirt. I got a, I saw a video of a guy getting his head clamped, you know, because they always have a guy who's out there going, look, I can put my head in there, and he won't buy down, but look how powerful it is.

If I put a carrot there, it shreds it as soon as he slams it down, wasn't that great? And then the guy accidentally gets his head bit. It's like, oh, gosh, really? Oh, yeah, it's gnarly. If I knew where that was, I'd put it up. It's not, it's far enough away. It's not gory, but you can definitely see, like, like, and then just starts ganking his head around, and the guy's just, like, trying to pry the thing off.

He gets up and walks away, so I assume he's all right. Okay, so he's all right. But, yeah, it feels like it's going to be one of those videos from that the YouTube channel that I forwarded over to you. Every time there's a new video, I say, dude, check this one out. This has got some good stuff in it. I ended up, I see that all the time. I see that all the feed now because I sub to it, so I get those lot. Okay, good.

So I don't need to keep sending you. I mean, you can if you want, because I may miss one. It's totally fine. That's why I send you stuff. I appreciate you doing it. Well, you know, it's what friends do. We send each other videos of naked, I mean, of the things. I've said too much

I've said too much Let's talk about this Texas teenager That's a home of Buckees They've got Buckees everywhere down there More Buckees in Texas than any other state There's actually three Buckees for every person in Texas Is what Really?

The statistic is, yeah Yeah, that's pretty good There's actually a Buckees that opened up Inside another Buckees Is that true? No Oh, I want that to be true I wanted that to be like a

I guess they don't work that way but like you know how you go to like an IKEA and there's a like a restaurant in the middle or whatever yeah so in my mind it didn't seem impossible because Buckees would pull something like that

they would but you know what they would absolutely it's like come to the first Buckees inside another Buckees would be great for whatever reason that fits their M.O. For sure anyway a Texas teenager accused of using poison to kill a rival's competition goat. Oh, geez.

I love a good competitive goat. Like, if you would have stopped the first eight words, it would have been it would be a whole different story. Oh, yeah. Poison to kill a rival. Yeah, exactly. I know a rival.

Oh, that kid's going to spend his life in prison. Oh, show goat, okay. Yeah, it's a freak out. It's a goat. Texas teenager has been charged with animal cruelty after she was accused of using pesticide to poison and kill a rival's competition, show goat.

Authority said, you know it would be great as if the goat died the way those fainting goats do, or the way they faint. Just fall over. And they just stiff and stuff. Anyway, authority said, Aubrey, okay, here we go, this name. Yeah. Van Landing Ham. Van Landing Ham. There you go. Van Landing Ham.

Van Landing ham. Everyone should have one in their van. That's right. When Van learns how to fly hands, he's obviously going to have to learn how to land him, too. That's right. That's right. Living in a van down by the river at that point. She's 17 years old, so still a miner. Used a drench gun to force feed toxic pesticide to the goat. Is that a super soaker, a trench gun?

I don't know what that is. What is a trench gun? Sounds like a power washer or something. Trench, yeah. What did I say trench? There it is. Oh, it's funny. Like the first thing it comes up, drench gun for goats.

So it's apparently like you, how you water. It looks like a giant syringe or almost like a water thing for your prairie or your guinea pigs. Would you put that down their throat or something? I don't know. Oh, I see what you mean, like the tip they might lick at or something. Yeah, there's a couple other ones that look like, that look more like a syringe and more like something you'd hang on the side of the cage and a guinea pig. yeah look at that it is like a syringe weird okay so it's probably like hook it up to their mouth give them their medicine yeah be i want to see some video of how you use a drench gun though

animal injector livestock syringe semi-automatic stainless steel vaccination gun um you want a video of uh yeah i'd see one i want to see one getting used yeah here you go oh this is exactly where i need to share the thing start at 11 seconds copy paste. It's going to be here in our disport again. All right, here it comes. Y'all. Let's see what we got here. Oh, yeah.

Okay, I'll tell you. I'll tell you where the place. I'll tell you everything. I'll tell you everything. Just stop. Don't do it anymore. So if you've got like antibiotics for your stuff or whatever, it's probably how you do it. Oh, look, he's got a little backpack full of whatever goo he's got to put in there. That's cool. Yeah. Look at this old guy. It does look like the colors in his purple gloves.

he does look like he's using a super soaker or that he's a Marvel villain. Yeah. Yeah, it's very, it's got a very 90s Marvel villain vibe. It totally does. Oh, he's doing it again. He already gave him some. Oh, he's just showing how he does it. Maybe it was a different one. It could be a different. They all like the same. They got dumb sheep part.

How many does he have over there? It's like one, two, three. All it takes. Three sheep and you're out. Yeah. Well, that's wild. Anyway, so apparently she uses this thing. But she filled it full of pesticide, poison, and then fed it, force fed it to this goat. It says here, the goat's name was Willie.

According to the arrest affidavit obtained by multiple outlets, Van Lendingham reportedly confessed deliberately poisoning the animal and an act that was captured on CCTV footage. Oh, there's your trouble. Oh, whoops. Yeah, goat died 21 hours later after convulsing and showing signs of respiratory distress. Oh, God, okay. That's not worth it.

doing that all the funny just drained out of that yeah but you know what they need to do this is a movie of the week kind of thing like it is like a right like a uh after school special yeah got my goat yeah got getting your goat starring van landingham and she's only 17 so it's like mean girl stuff it writes itself this is perfect yeah yes totally does the goat the g-o-at killer yeah oh man uh i would watch that i'll admit it yeah i would too uh here's one two Portland This is also a little dark But here we go

Okay Two Portland Oregon men Died while searching for Sasquatch In Skca-Sca-Mania County Oh I want to go to Skamania County I imagine

It's all Bamp Bamp Bamp Bant B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B- Like you know, pick it up You got to bring your own Horn section All that stuff They won't let you in if you don't bring your own these two guys

the reason I bring up the story I don't like celebrating anybody's death I'm not going to celebrate there but I do think that if you think you're out looking for Bigfoot and you're serious about it you know maybe don't go do that because it's all bullshit

maybe don't go looking for Bigfoot maybe don't do that I mean you know spending a lot of time looking for something that doesn't exist you could die from that right from spending too much time in your life looking for something that you will never ever find Yeah, we've had, listen to what we've had for many years now.

We've had aerial, infrared photography, which means that we can see heat signatures in the forest, and we can tell when something is there. And if it's a sheep, we see it. A deer, we see it. If it's a bear, we see it. Nobody sees any giant hairy men there because they don't exist. You bunch of freaks?

I mean, there's some giant hairy men there, but not these. No. Not a big foot. No, and the ones in Idaho are nice. Those guys are nice. Go check them out. Oh, yeah. The big hairy men in Idaho.

Anyway, these guys, age 59 and 37, were found dead in a heavily wooded area of Gifford Pinchot National Forest after a three-day search. They had been reported missing since December 25th after failing to return home as planned on the 24th for Christmas. Let's see. Utilizing footage from a safety camera search teams located the vehicle belonging to the near a road so there's cameras out there too guess what those cameras don't pick up they find the truck they find the locations they find your tracks yeah guess what they don't find big foot big foot they don't find big foot uh yeah anyway it took 60 people to get in there and get them out they were ultimately found dead it says they died like most most likely to the

exposure to the elements uh it's just too cold uh difficult terrain whether conditions combined to be uh or sorry sorry combined with the men being ill-prepared as contributing factors let me tell you the number one ill-prepared factor believing you were going to find bigfoot all right that's that's something that they should have been prepared for it's not finding bigfoot yeah i believe i believe i've made my point very clear today that the mistake here was the belief in bigfoot yes i wish their family's the best i hope this never happens to anyone ever again Don't go looking for Bigfoot in the winter in Portland. No.

In a forest. Bigfoot, he hibernates. You know, you want to, if you're going to go see, look for Bigfoot, look in the summertime and take lots of water and leave a trail of bread, not breadcrumbs. Leave a trail of something that animals won't eat. That's right. That's right. Dude, I know a professor at a local university who still thinks Bigfoot is real. Get out.

Makes my head spin. Yeah. Makes my head spin. I mean, he's in a, it's a physical education department thing. It's not like he's teaching zoology or, you know, human evolution or anything. No, but I mean, he still is in charge of educating other minds. Yeah, and he goes up to the Pacific Northwest all the time on these little trips with his dad to try to find Bigfoot. Wow.

And let me tell you something about those trips. They always end with one common factor, not finding Bigfoot. Amazing, yeah. Really weird, Brian. You wouldn't believe it. Can't believe it. Wow. We're going to take a break.

Leave a trail of Legos. That's the way to do. Yeah, leave a trail of Legos. That's exactly right. Or maybe, I don't know, siloom glow sticks. Go to your rave supply store and get some glow sticks and leave a trail of those. That way, you can find them in the dark. Oh, I love that.

You go, you crack them, and then chuck them, crack them. Yeah, that's great. I don't know how long they'll last, but hopefully long enough. They still make those? I was always, as a kid, I was told if you broke those open, you'd get like 50 cancers immediately or something. Of course. I don't remember what the deal was. I don't know.

I think they still make them because I gave out a bunch on New Year's Eve to passengers. Oh, in the car? That's great. Yeah. Yeah, I had a bag of them that I got years ago for something else. And I'm like, ooh, let's get rid of a bunch of siloom light sticks. That's awesome. All right, we're going to take a break.

When we come back from said break, we will spend some time with Amy and read this. We're going to learn about a new book. That's exciting. It's a new year. It's time to pick your new reads for the year. So she's going to help us do that in a minute before that. song break, Brian brought with his own self. Yeah. I love

French pop. I love French toast, and I love French fries, but I also love French pop. And you're about to hear some. This is a band called The Oracle Sisters. They have a brand new album coming out Valentine's Day. Yes, February 14th of this year, but this is the first single from the album that's called Riverside. Here are Oracle Sisters.

Perfect. Early in the morning Came round too soon Don't go asking nothing Songs will rest on the avenue Thoughts there were a whisper A-bouncing right off of those walls.

Open up the window, says songbirds free. The iron on the day glow, scent of rain on the summer breeze. How far are you going? Is it more than money can't buy? Listen to the whistles in the morning traveling through a thousand different lights all on the riverside. Don't go askin' nothing, silver to go, so you're going out walking further than you've been before.

You say, where's the answer? signs that never came by Listen to the whistles in the morning He was tangled by a thousand different lights All on the inside With your mind on his soul Is your silence untold With your eye on the road

Does your tantal take his toll With you drawn in the sky Oh, that you can't live now Oh, long Oh, longer inside Oh, Oh, longer in the side. Oh, longer in the side.

Oh, longer in the side. Oh, longer in the side. you know I'm gonna I'm I'm I'm I'm

I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm You know what I'm going to be. I didn't order a pizza. We'd just eating steak. Why would I order a damn pizza?

Horace. What's your language? You are hers Landau then? Yes, but I didn't order a pizza. It's pizza, Grandpa. Come on. Did you order pizza when you knew we were cooking steaks? pay for the pizza horace. It's pepperoni with extra cheese. No, that's not the answer. Then what is?

This is. Okay, that's a song. Okay, that's a song called Riverside by a band, a French band called Oracle Sisters, a three-piece band. They're not sisters, but that's a great name. It is from their upcoming release, which is called Divinations, which comes out on February 14th. Check them out. They're going on tour, Oracle Sisters. That's a great name for an album from a pair called the Oracle Sisters.

That's great. Yeah, a trio, yeah, Divinations. Yeah, love that. For sure. That's awesome. All right, Amy incoming. Yeah. Like the Southern Wind or something like that.

I don't know what that means. I don't know. I don't know. But it's all good. It sounds really good. Sounds great. One of the things that I enjoy also is reading. Well, well, well. Oh, this won't turn down. There we go. It's fun, but it's loud. It's loud. It is time for us to hang out with Amy.

Amy Robinson, joining us all the way from beautiful downtown Atlanta. Not really. She's not in Atlanta, but she's near there. And she's on video today. Hi, Amy. How are you? The burbs. The burbs. I like the hair, the color change there. Very cool.

Thank you. Thank you. Yes, this is what happens when I go to my hairstylist and tell her to do whatever she wants. Nice. Very nice. This is what happens when I go to the hairstyles and tell them to do whatever they want. Yeah, Chuck has a similar issue. Yeah.

I love all, I love that we got a kitty cam going here. We got a little kitty back there on the pink. Oh, no, those are those are, those are, my dogs. Oh, those are dogs? Yes. This is my little doggies. Look like a cat. What do I know about animals? I know. Well, they're chihuahuas and the black

one especially. They're cat-sized. Yes, that's violet. She is very cat-like. This dog is like, yeah, she's her own boss. Well, that's great. It's good to have you here. How's your new year so far? You've already written, you've already

read like eight books, right? And that's how it works with you. You're just write on it. No, you know what's interesting is I have read a new book that we will discuss today, but I have been sort of nursing the seventh book of dungeon crawler Carl because it's so good. But I'm also like I'm at a point where it's like, oh my God, this is so exciting. I have to keep reading. But then also I don't want it to be over. You don't want to like, you know, slurp it all up in one sitting.

You want to like savor it. Right. Now that they're making a TV series or whatever, you're probably pretty excited. about that, yeah? I am. I'm excited, but also, you know, concerned because I'm like, don't mess it up. And, uh, you know, my son was asking me like, well, who should be the voice of what? And I said, Jeff Hayes, Jeff Hayes, or I'm out. Just have him do it. Like, he's the guy, he's the guy who does the audiobooks. And he's amazing. And like, yeah, I'm like, Jeff Hayes has to do something or I'm out, you know, I'll still, I'll still watch it. But, you know,

you'll protest you'll be protesting though i will be like y'all jeff hayes he is the voice of all of them but yeah especially donut like i i love and it's it is really good for those of you who are you know crawling the dungeon with us like i very much recommend that you pick up uh book seven i think the audiobook should be coming out next month sometime um and And I, of course, will be re-reading or re-listening to all of them. I heard an interview with him where he said how surprised he was at the success of this thing, that when he started it, it wasn't, he was just kind of on a lark like he was just kind of goofing around and having fun with this narrative.

It wasn't trying to, you know, didn't think he was on to some mega hit. And sometimes that's a lesson in there, man. Sometimes just make something you think might be fun for yourself. and suddenly it'll explode and everybody wants to hear it or read it, you know? Well, didn't Silo start that way as well? Silo was like a series of short stories on a blog post, I think. Yeah, Hugh Howie, Hugh Howie's, I interviewed him once. He's super nice guy.

He had said in that interview, something to the words of, it just started out as this cool idea, and he thought he'd write it for himself and he'd put him up in little pieces for 99 cents and do it on Amazon. He's just one of those, you know, Amazon self-published guys. And it just exploded. Like I, there's, there really is something there. I think a lot of people sit down with grand plans and go, all right, I'm going to tell this story. It's been brewing for all these years and I'm ready to finally put it down and see what I can make of it. And let's talk to publishers even before I'm done and, you know, getting ahead of yourself too much.

And instead, I think maybe, especially today, the way to do this is to just take your cool idea, even if you think it's dumb and just for you and just do it and then put it out there, see what happens. Yeah, yeah, I agree. I mean, and that's kind of true of a lot of things that we do. I mean, drawing is the same way, right? Like, how do you draw? Sure. Pick up a pencil, you know, and just, even if it's just doodling, just make something. And then, you know, who knows, one day you'll make something really great.

Speaking of making things. Yeah. Does Carter actually watch the show? She doesn't, but she's, Carter, are you in here? She's in here. Tell her not to look. Okay, you can't look for a. second i want to show i want to show this to you so stay stay over there and don't say anything okay

go ahead so you know she and alicia have been playing that cult of the lamb game yes yes she said that she wanted a plushy of the final form of leshy the big boss yeah oh my gosh dude i won't say a word other than now she knows there's something going on but i won't say a word well she knows she knows I'm making it. Like she saw an in progress photo, but she hasn't seen it finished. Like I'm getting ready to package him up. Like he's even got his little his little butt tag. Oh, he's got his little but

that's awesome. That's really great. Yeah, they're obsessed with that thing. He's ready to go. I freaking love that game. I just like, she said that, you know, just randomly on a stream and I was like, I bet I could make that. So this is actually, this is the first thing that I've ever made

that I didn't have any kind of pattern or anything. I just was like, I bet I could make that. And then I looked at the picture and then made it. That's great. You just use a quick reference photo and bam, you're in. That's awesome. I mean, I know it's very weird looking, but trust me, if you've ever seen that, you know,

if you go look for Leshey, Colt of the Lamb, like, I think he's pretty accurate. It's spot on. Yeah. I think so. Just for comparison, I can actually show people this character real quick here because it is, here it is. Okay, check this out. If I can put it up here, here we go. so there's just one version of it but oh that's so cool yeah yeah and i got like the three layers

of teeth yep in there like we got all the branches it's perfect it's perfect and i had to i actually went out and searched for um you know multiple different pictures to because he spends most of the fight he's like kind of you see he's like in the floor but he's made of like those bulby things and so i had to go out and look for other pictures where because like there's parts where he comes up out of the floor. So I was trying to figure out, like, okay, how many little bulbies should I make? I'm impressed with the, uh, anyone who can do stuff with yarn and string. And I don't understand it.

So you guys are all geniuses to me and I don't understand. I don't know, I'll never get it. I don't think I could do it. You probably, it's probably not true, but you sit me down and train me and help me learn. Sure. But it feels it looks like impossibility whenever I say it. I can't do it. Oh, that's awesome.

This fuzzy yarn is like, is not easy to mess with. because you can't... Oh, yeah, because it's thicker, right? You can't see the stitches, and so it's like hard to, you know, it's hard to get started. But I got used to it after a while, and it's really soft and fuzzy, so he's very cuddly. Nice. Well, you're going to... I think she's going to lose her mind when she sees it. All right, well, let's get to this week's book.

You've got a... We got a clip. Do you want to just dive right into the clip? You got anything I want to say about it? I do. So, I will say for the clip, there's a bit of a content warning for, I would say, like psychological treatment cruelty? All right. I don't know.

It sounds very specific, but you'll get it when you hear it. So, yeah. It's my favorite cruelty. So let's see how it goes here. Here's your clip. Mental health professionals of the 1960s make their 1990s counterparts look like Mozart's trumbling upon Salieri's lesser work. I suppose I should consider myself fortunate that some of the more experimental techniques

of the 1960s had not yet made their way to cosmopolitan Northumbria. The first to discover this was the twitch, an unfortunate woman whose real name was Lucy, whose Tourette's syndrome was treated by a mixture of apathy and brutality. If our warders had a notion of habit-breaking therapy, they acted upon it by hitting Lucy across the side of her head with the palms of their hands whenever she twitched or grunted. And if she became louder as a consequence,

as frequently happened when provoked, two of them would sit on top of her, one on her legs, one on her chest, until she nearly passed out beneath them. The one time I attempted to intervene, I received the same treatment. After two months, I was ready to leave. I see now, I explained calmly, sitting in front of Dr. Abel's desk,

that I suffered a mental breakdown. Obviously, I need counselling, but... Dr. Orchus, explained Dr. Abel. I think what you suffered was rather more than just a breakdown. You suffered a complete delusionary episode, indicative, I believe, of more complex psychological issues. I looked at Dr. Abel, as though for the first. first time and wondered just what his measure of success was not necessarily a cure i decided so long as the

treatment was interesting what do you suggest i asked i'd like to keep you here a while longer he replied there are some fascinating medications coming out which i believe would be exactly what you need some very promising developments have been made with the phenothiozines that's an insect poison Yeah, it is. Dino-Scythine. Yeah. All right. What do we have here?

This sounds very British to me. Yes, it is very British. So it's called the first 15 lives of Harry August. And this was one of those just random finds that came across my feed. And I said, oh, that looks really fascinating. essentially this guy was born in the 1930s and he lives and he dies and then he lives the exact same life again oh man and yeah pretty quickly so kind of a groundhog day but on a larger scale sounds like yes yes exactly and it's really really interesting because there's a lot of there's a lot

of historical fiction going on in there but the clip you heard was from i can't remember the the numbers of his lives, but it was one of the earlier lives where he got married and he made the mistake of telling his wife that, you know, that this was the case, that he really couldn't actually die, that he just lived over and over again. And, you know, and she figured out that he really believed it. He proved it to her by saying something like, well, in two weeks, the U.S. is going to have a huge scandal and Nixon is going to resign and then after that you know this other thing is going to happen and all of it of course happens and she kind of freaks out and has him committed to a mental institution geez and that was his experience at said mental

institutions so um yeah so it is it is a little dark uh I would say for the for the book itself I I mean, obviously, that section is very, like, you know, the psychological treatment and the abuse that people went through during those periods of time where, you know, the treatment is certainly worse than the disease. Sure. You know, we were just cruel to people who we thought were insane. And, you know, obviously that's kind of hard to read through. there's also I mean there are a few times much like in Groundhog Day

where you know he tries to commit suicide sure and or rather he does and then just it resets it goes again you know like okay well let's just go again so yeah it's but it's really really interesting

and there's I don't want to spoil too much about it but he is not the only one who has this experience and yeah and so then the and then throughout throughout history apparently there are people like this and uh yeah and figuring out how where they fit into the universe as a whole and and all that is it's really really interesting sounds like a new twist on an old idea and i like that a lot who's our author here did we say who this is who wrote this uh no i did not claire north

is who wrote it oh here we go oh a young author Carnegie Medal nominated author whose first book was written when she was just 14 geez yeah we got a we got a phenom here folks this girl uh oh she's got a bunch of books they're all widely highly regarded all right you've got you've got me one of the review says

from like a big publication like a big reviewer thing says I do not say this lightly this is one of the best books I've ever written in my entire read in my entire life that's crazy that's a crazy thing to read about your work that's awesome no kidding Jeez, no pressure. Yeah. So it's really, really good.

I actually listened to a whole bunch of the audiobook. I was driving from my house down to south of the Atlanta airport, which takes roughly an hour. And, you know, so I was really, really into it by the time I got down there. It is a little slow to start. I will warn you of that because, you know, he kind of gets into his lineage and, you know, who his father was and who his mother was and, blah, blah, you know. And it is very, you know, it reads very sort of posh and British like that, you know, but, you know, so it sounds a little dry at first. But then it gets really interesting. Well, you've convinced me this will be on my reading list this year. So I am going to definitely check it out. I love this concept. Very cool. Very nice. Check it out. And that's up on everywhere. You can get this book on Amazon, of course, in book form, Kindle, all that. But you can also get in all the other stores and audiobook as well.

So go look for it. Cool. You had something else here, a little something, something here. Yeah, a little bonus. Yeah. So speaking of putting things onto your reading list, I learned about this thing called the 52 Book Club 2025 reading challenge. And so it's very similar to like, you know, like kind of a draw tober kind of a situation where you get kind of these fun, quirky prompts. and then the rest of it is up to you.

And so the idea is to get you maybe out of if you're in a rut or, you know, you don't know what to read next or whatever, it's kind of to maybe push you out of your comfort zone a little bit. And yeah, some of them are really, really interesting. Like, some of them are kind of mundane, right? Like title that starts with the letter M or, you know, has a cross-ings. over in a shared universe, right? And so that's actually two prompts because it would be two books. And, you know, there's one number 47 is, I think it was blue.

You sound like music league prompts too. Yes, yeah, exactly. So some of these are really fun. And yeah, so it's just a kind of a creative way to make you seek out new reading material. and, you know, there's no prize. Yeah, that was a good one. I like that a lot. Some of these are funny because it's like title is a spoiler.

How would you know that, though? Well, I guess that'd be a book you read. Joe dies at the end or whatever that thing, not Joe, whatever. Yeah. Yeah, but would you. Yeah, there's one called like spoiler alert, the hero dies. Oh, so you could do, okay, so you could find it based on that, I guess, so you don't have to know. And I imagine people on social media who are doing this will also say, hey,

Here's a book that fits this week's clue if you want to try it. It's one with a spoiler in the title if you need one. Yeah. One thing says very early on is this is not a competition. If you can't even get them done, maybe apply one of these prompts to two books. And you can still count it as 2052. Yeah, for sure. And yeah, and it's very, I think I see Monica in the chat saying, that's too many books for me.

No, no. Like the idea is not necessarily to, you know, read all 52 books. like everybody knows it's you know life exists so uh you know your if you want to do the challenge your challenge belongs to you and i mean nobody's like looking at rules nobody there's no prize or anything like that it's just literally like for you so if you want to say hey i just read you know i can't think of a good example but i i just read a book that like ticks off three or four of these do it. You know? Yeah, I like it. Well, yeah, use it as a checklist too. Right. This is great. Is somebody who enjoys Inktober and things like that from an art side? I didn't

realize there was a thing going on with the reading side. This is very, very cool. Love it. Yeah, I didn't either until I kind of looked for it. I was like, you know, I could kind of use some, you know, some good ways to, first of all, find new material for the show, but also to find new stuff to read. So, and yeah, and I came across this and it looks really fun. Oh, well, while they even they even sell some increasing my reading this year so it's not a not a resolution but this is definitely something that will help me yeah i've no i've been reading like crazy for a while now and i'm still still doing that but i don't have a lot of it's very random what i'm doing like i'm sometimes i'm reading two books at once and i get further in one and then go back to the other one

after that one's finished even though i started that got distracted with another book and then came back Like, I'm all over the place. It'd be fun to have a little more demarcation to what I'm doing. Yeah, I cannot do that. That I have so much trouble with that. I just can't. I'm like, my brain just won't let me do it. And Chuck is even more so the case.

Like, he used to be when he and I first started living together, he was like, I can't watch more than one TV show at a time. Yeah, like we have to watch the whole. Yep. Yeah. I'll have to watch the whole series finish it and then watch something else. This is like me and Bo. What? It's like there's some stuff like I will still have to watch the latest Marvel thing week by week.

But man on the inside, which we just finished. And my God, what a great recommendal that was. So good, right? It's so freaking good. It's like, it's like I like only murders in the building. This feels like that vibe, but better. And don't get me wrong. I love Short and Steve Martin.

But holy crap, this Ted Danson is freaking delightful in the show. Anybody who says out there, yeah, I don't really care for Ted Danson, go watch Man on the Inside. You'll be converted. Oh, there are people that don't care for Ted Dancing because we didn't even have words with those people. When we talked about, when we talked about Man on the Inside, I can't remember if it was, I think it was Nicole who recommended it. There were people in the chat room who were like, yeah, I don't really like Ted Danson. Why? He's great.

He's an all-timer, man. That guy's legend. He kept, what's her, Kristen Bell in the bad place. Is that why? Only for that one season. And then he was totally on their side. Exactly. Then he was good.

Yeah. Spoiler in the. So as to your focus thing about reading, though, here's, so I do this with video games, very bad at it. And Bo and I talk about all the time because when Bo gets a game, he focuses and does nothing but that, maybe to excess, just hardcore. Five hundred hours later, he's like bleary-eyed and didn't sleep or whatever. I tend to walk into my Steam library like it's an arcade and I jump around.

So I'll be like, all right, 15 minutes there. That was cool. Let's go do 10 minutes here, five minutes here. Ooh, this one I got into for a good couple hours. But now I'm going to go play joust for no reason. Like I do this sort of thing. It's probably undiagnosed something. But I can, you know, there's a like I'm kind of on the bow thing where it's like if I get a triple a title like a Zelda thing or the PlayStation

Spider-Man, that sort of thing. I've got to keep playing that until at least I get really tired of it or until I finish it. And throwing in a joust here or a game of Marvel Snap or this, that's totally fine. But I'm not going to start yet another AAA title

while I'm in the 11-0 of it. And I've been known to play like, I've played two MMOs at once before, like a psychopath. Oh, you're a crazy person. It doesn't make any sense. I agree. It's insane. I just don't. I can't do it. It's mostly, and it's exactly what cyborg dude says in the chat i can't remember the controls if i start playing another game

all of a sudden i forget oh right shoulder is this uh trigger is this uh yeah yeah all the muscle memory is gone and yeah my current obsession right now is dungeon keeper because you guys were talking about that and then like we realized we could get it on steam for like two bucks and so if you if you never played that it was an old pc game back in from the you know the 90s and it's so good it's so good it's It remains the best that that weird little subgenre got. They kind of invented it and then maximized it. They've been games since.

Even now, there's modern games that try to capture dungeon keeper. They can't do it. It's not as good. It's so good. I love it. So it's such a great game. I also played a little Gallagher last night and I thought of you, Amy, in last point. Oh, wow.

You know, so let me say. I have this up on my, I have this and I have all the little bugs, too. They're all too tall for me to reach right now. Oh, look at that. Yeah, they're all, like, crawling up my desk. That's so cool. Are those, is that purler? Yeah, they're made of purler beads.

Yeah. That's awesome. So you know this sound right here then. Hold on. That's it. Oh, trust me. I know all the Gallagia sounds, even the ones you got wrong. When we did that, exactly.

When we did that quiz, Amy was not just correcting me. She was correcting you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I said Scott a whole thing in Discord later. And I was like, oh, this will not. Stan, Johnson. That was wrong. No, it was like getting homework back from a teacher. Like, it was like, oh shit, I got this test wrong. I didn't study hard enough. Like, you really schooled me. It was great. Well, anyway, that's a bit of an offshoot from where we're at here.

Go check out this 2025 thing. They even have little stickers you can buy and apply them to your books that you read if you want to do that. Looks like they're cheap too. That's the the 52 club. club so the and then the number 52 book dot c l ub and you should go check it out and also our book this week was claire norths fantastically reviewed the first 15 lies of harry august see what we did there how we said everything again so the people at home don't complain that we didn't say it twice to see no no shit out of luck dot com here no that's right not here amy anything else cool going on before we let you go oh no i'm excited for you know my trip out there in a couple months but we'll talk before then yeah i'm excited to see you

guys we're gonna we had a little bit of scary yesterday because it hit me kim goes so yeah my cruise with my siblings is such and such dates and i went wait please tell me that doesn't cross over i was like a whole i was like a whole month off it doesn't cross over at all it's all fine everything's good but i panicked for a second because i would have felt really bad but you guys are are going to be here what do you come in here for it's like a puppet thing right yeah no there's a pottery thing Pottery. Yeah. So we're going out there and there's like a, it's like a pottery workshop thing, like a weekend long workshop thing.

And yeah, so we'll be all nice and messy. There's pottery in Denver too, Amy. Okay. Well, this just happened to be the thing that our instructor told us about that was happening. No, that's great. I'm excited. We're going to go to dinner and hang out and it's going to be great. So I'm very excited to see you guys.

I'm going to rub Chuck's head. all right that's the plan good plan yeah you know just shine it up a little oh no he's got like the the winter I saw the beard and the buzzhead and everything where's that at it can I look at that

does enter discord somewhere where is that where did I see that photo was it on Instagram or I want to see Chuck I want to see Chuck's beard all right I mean it's full yeah I'll I'll send it to you there find that send that to me hold on he's coming here there you go oh wait hold on let me pull him up to the camera guys hold on

chat can't see him wait come back come back come back oh there it is all right yeah you look like oh shit the chat still can't see why why still showing the amazon page there we go there you look at that oh man it looks good chuck keep it yeah that going well it gets hot in atlanta so also that's good form for a sumo deadlift yeah yeah you look great i'm still rubbing his head That's the rule. Well, fantastic. Amy, always good to see you. I hope you have a fantastic couple of weeks. We'll see you next time for more.

Read this. Thanks. Bye. Bye. All right. A little window problem there. Okay. I see that.

It's too many windows. Too many windows. Not enough time to move them. A quick note before we leave. I just wanted to give a shout out to Mr. and Mrs. Taffy guy. They have gone through some stuff lately. In particular, Mr. Taffy guy, lots of family loss, lots of other stuff going on. And I just wanted to reach out to them and tell them, I hope they're doing better.

We're here for them. You people if you came to Vegas. Yeah, I'm thinking about you all the time. Mrs. Taffy guy is great at, like, reaching out and letting everybody know what's going on. And I've talked to both of them recently and just my hearts go out to you guys. It's a lot of stuff. I won't get into details, but 2024 was a shit year for them. And anyway, if you know him or you talk to them on.

line or whatever, reach out and tell them how you're thinking about them. Yeah, exactly. Brian, we're going to now vacate the building. Sure. And I'll throw out a quick reminder. The Tadpool meetup, Denver Tadpool meetup happening again on the 18th of this month. We're going to Game Train USA. It is a board game bar that makes you feel like you're on a train with all the cool things that happen on trains.

Yeah. Watch me, Agatha Christie. But everything else, cool stuff happens. on trains unless you're in uh let's see the stephen segal what was the stephen segal movie where he was on a train what was that called uh that was called under siege two oh that's no no no no no uh under siege is the first movie right but there was another one that was on deadly ground

no what was under siege two setting were they on a train i think you might be right under siege two might be the one i'm thinking of because they moved i know they moved to a different vehicle basically dark territory Yeah, 95. Let's see. Yeah, it's a train. Oh. It's under siege, too dark territory. Okay, cool. It sounds like we need to watch it for film set. Hell yeah. Casey Ryback hops on a Colorado to L.A. train to start a vacation with his niece early into the trip. It's basically a diehard like. Yeah, I was going to say it's, oh, I watched. God, should I use it for, I'm not going to use it for recommendals. I want to just say it right now. Carry on is a lot of freaking fun. Yeah, I got to watch it. I want to. Yeah, it's really. good. I mean, it's not, it's not, you're not going to say, oh, my God, that was so perfectly done, no plot holes or, or, uh, things that, you know, but, um, seeing freaking, um, Bateman, Jason Bateman, uh, in this kind of role, really, really unnerves

you how good he is at playing, uh, uh, cold-blooded killer. Yeah. No, I, I'm with you. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, it definitely, I'm all, see, I say this all the time, I'm for diehard likes. I like the formula. So if they do them well, bring them on, keep making them. I don't care. Yeah. That's a genre I like, so I'll check it out. And watch it soon, not because it's going anywhere, it's Netflix, I'll never go anywhere,

but there's a little bit of Christmas movie, including one of the best scenes ever to use WAM's last Christmas ever. Really? Because that's a high, that's a tall order. Actually, I can't think of any other movie where it gets here. Yeah, I can't either. Yeah, name another movie. he uses Last Christmas by Wham

and a... Yeah, we're getting Wham again twice. Is that playing in the bar when What's His Face British guy comes to America and accidentally lands in a Wisconsin bar with January Jones and Oh.

What's his face's daughter from 24 and... Oh. I want to say that might be Last Christmas playing in that bar. What's that movie though? Love Actually. Love Actually. Is that Last Christmas playing? oh it is smooth you're right it's smooth uh santana yeah oh all right yeah the wisconsin bar that has you know the first time you saw that the saw the movie you thought oh well this is obviously a dream sequence

yeah yeah by the way that movie that everybody loves for christmas or a lot of people do my wife loves it it's the one where Cameron diaz and what's her name from titanic uh yes yeah jack black's the movie editor guy and all that what's that called it's funny monica stone just said the hollow Right before you start describing it. So that's the movie. I really, really dislike that film. I don't like that movie. It puts me off every time I watch it.

I sit through, I try again every year. I'm like, all right, here we go. Let's get a full 20 minutes. I don't think I've ever seen it. Do they, like, they trade, like their long distance friends, one in America, one in England, and they trade, they send friends over. Not really. It's more like, it's more, you're describing probably a better movie.

I'm describing something That's probably a Hallmark movie Like I like Jude Law My kids say Carter and Taylor both say That Jack Black is awesome and sexy in this one I don't get it He's very attractive, not sexy They say he's very attractive in this

Okay all right So I don't know what that means But anyway I just don't I just it doesn't ever grab me And there are other movies like this that do So I don't know what's going on with me Jack Black by the way is slowly And Randy Deluxe

I'm not going to say one is turning into the other their lanes are starting to merge on this highway, this great highway of life. Yeah, they are looking at you. You would have a hard time in a lineup picking who robbed you, yeah. Although I would say Randy just to give them crap, you know. Just to give him shit.

I ever told you about the time I started turning into Jack Black. And never stopped. Followed by three simple rules. That's right. Brian, you could be Kyle Gas. You guys could get together and do... I could do the Kyle Gas thing, yeah. Once I'm done doing the Larry Mee.

Miller impersonation. Love it as the doorman on Seinfeld. Brian, let's get out of here. Do you have music to play at the end here? You get some things? Oh, crap. Well, I guess I could throw something together. How about this one for Macaddock, 89?

Sweet. Starting my 36th rotation around the sun and hoping for a good one. This actually, we had two birthdays yesterday. And I do need some more requests, folks. So please get some requests to me at frogpants.com slash TMS. I have four, including this one, four requests for January. So I need more requests, okay? Yeah, you want this year to be devoid of requests?

No, or quests. Why not? Or quests. If you don't, I'm going to start pulling stuff, and I'm going to promise you. January, all vintage lounge covers by postmodern jukebox. Good Lord. You guys have heard the threat. that now, but you won't like that after the 14th one.

That's a real, that's a real threat, you know? Yeah. I actually had a chill when you said it, so. Yeah. It's like when, uh, when my trainer says, all right, you'll do this or you're getting burpees. It's like, oh, yeah, we're doing whatever, whatever you want. Snow angels, okay. Freaking anything but burpees. The worst. I hate burpees. Absolutely hate burpees.

Yeah, not allowed in my house. Anyway. Uh, but burps. Yeah. Um, all right. So Mac Addict said that his favorite bands are the December, Jukebox the Ghost and Guster. Great, great trio right there. Let's go with Decembris. This is a fun song.

It's an apology. And it's called The Apology Song. This is performed by Wakey Wakey, Wakey, from their 2008, Wakey, Wakey Wednesdays series where they were releasing a new cover song every Wednesday. It was great. Here is Wakey, Wakey, and The Apology Song. Very nice.

Also, this one's for you. 37, man. That's an age. Or you say 36. Hope you have a very happy. be dus day. Yeah. Get all that you can while you can. All right. That's it for us. Thanks for listening. Thanks for being here. Here's that song. We'll see you tomorrow. I'm really sorry, Stephen, but your bicycle's been stolen. I was watching for you until you came back in the fall.

I guess I didn't do such a good job after all. I was feeling really. Really sorry, Stephen, and I spent all morning grieving. And everybody's saying that she'll take the news gracefully. Somehow I don't think I'll be getting off that easily. I'm in her no harm when I left her a lot outside the Orange Street Food Farm. was just running and didn't think I'd be that long And I came out, she was gone And all that there was there was some boring old dark

They stopped to the place where your bicycle had been I guess we'll never see poor Madeline again Let this be consolation, Stephen, all the while you were in England. I treated her with care and respect and gave her lots of love, and I was generally pretty good about locking her off. So where is she going? Yeah, I bet she's on the bottom of some French town pun. Routly abused by some Hesha's joyride.

So I wrote you this song in the hope. See, you forget me even though it was wrong. Being so careless with such a great thing. And taking your poor Madeline away. Away Away Oh, Away

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