The Morning Stream - TMS 2768: Counting Corvids

Episode Date: January 23, 2025

Moist Vales. Collad? That's a Typo. Muppet Julia Child. Sometimes a carrot is just a cigar. Orange Squat Goblin. Is It Too Early for an Oscar Nomination Fish Sandwich? Counting and Eating Crow. I Don't Like The Chieeeeeeefs. Thwell. 4 Years, One Moment at a Time. The Dana Carvey Method. Freaming on Paramount Positive. My EV sounds like a TIE Fighter. I can see calling that a wedge. Tubular Bells is a big thing in Trinidad and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Orange squat goblin Is it too early to get an Oscar nominated Fish sandwich? Counting and eating crow I don't like the Chiefs Well, four years, one moment at a time. The Dana Carvey method Freeming on Paramount Positive

My EV sounds like a tie fighter I can't see calling that a wedge Tubular Bells is a big thing in Trinidad And more on this episode Of the Morning Stream I just talked to a DNA test turns out I'm 100% swag money. There's a hole in the roof. Hello, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for January 23rd, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. Hi, Brian Abbott.

Well, hello, Scott Johnson. I don't know if you noticed how quickly this month went by, but it was very fast. Very quick. It totally. It's very, very fast. And even by these standards of months that we've noticed are going quick, this one seemed really fast to me. There were so many, um, so many days that I couldn't do anything because of, It was so cold outside. I would have looked like the Coldmeister when I walked out with little icicles hanging from my nose and blue skin and all that. So it's like, yeah, it feels like, it feels too fast, too fast. We've just got basically, what, a week, a little over a week left in this thing. Yeah, it's not, it's not your normal, it doesn't feel right.

But whatever it is, hey, look, I'll just say this. If time can move, I don't, not that I want time to move fast. Somebody the other day told me this. they said don't think of things like let's say you're in prison i'm just going to use that as the example because i don't want to talk about the other one but let's say you're in prison and you've got a prison sentence for 10 years for four let's say it's for four years okay prison sentence started on monday okay let's say let's say there's a prison sentence of four years because that works that works right you may be tempted the average human being may be tempted

to say well i need to take i need to look at this and go man there's four am i ready for these four years. Can I handle four years all at once? And this philosopher guy I was listening to and I cannot remember his name said, don't think, try to think of it as can I handle four years? No. Can you handle moment to moment? Yes, you can. So the idea is you focus on like right now and all the right now is that you're going to have and you'll do great. So if you're that prisoner in our little scenario and you're like, oh, it's rough. You know, I'm like, don't want to drop the soap in the community. prison shower or oh no the food is here is bad here or whatever just just take it one moment just one moment of the time you know so that's what i'm doing hey i got a question uh here's a question

brian i don't i don't know if this is gonna uh i don't know if this is really what i think it is but i think it was a little bit weird i was uh i was in a parking lot yesterday very cold out so uh home depo no it was uh swing by the taco belt no it was a cost it was a cost it was a Costco, but it was kind of connected to another thing, and I don't remember what that was, maybe a T.J. Max or something on the other side. Not connected, but adjacent. Yeah. And I'm over there, and I swear people didn't get the memo that Christmas is when Costco is insane. It shouldn't be so insane in January. I don't know what you people are doing there. No, it definitely shouldn't be. Early January, yes, because everybody's taking back something that somebody else bought for them at Costco.

Yeah, yeah. Late in the month, what are we doing? What are we doing in there? The TVs aren't all slashed in half or anything it's not like there's some deal that you can't get the rest of the year i don't understand it no door busters in late january i did get one of those hot a dollar 50 hot dogs though oh well you have to that's kind of a requirement it feels like a rule right yeah and now they have the kiosk where you order them and then you just wait and then they go get them at the counter so you don't have to wait in lines kind of nice that's cool yeah nice i don't know if they all have this but anyway i'm out in the parking lot and i see a site that to me was If I was a superstitious type person, I would see it as some kind of sign.

I saw, I saw three large crows, might have been ravens, because ravens are bigger than crows. Corvids for sure, right? Corvid birds. Right, right, very good. Sitting out there, three of them. Okay. Occasionally looking my direction, but mostly just milling around in a very small space.

They weren't eating anything. They weren't like picking it fries that somebody had thrown out of the car or anything like that. it's just like these three big ass ravens just sitting out there in my in my view for the entire time until Kim came out of the store that she was in so you were counting crows I was counting crows you're right and I and I killed one and ate it just kidding I'm I'm meeting crow today no I don't know it's another it's another scenario with crows that's the only one I could think of anyway I'm not saying it meant anything but I am saying I am I will say that it's ominous to

see three crows just or ravens whatever they were just sitting there the the the the rhyme which i think was um magpies uh you're counting magpies and then people started doing with crows and probably ravens i think any is is a magpie a corvitt i wonder if it is oh i don't know if it's a color is it strictly a color things i know there are a few other corvids they're they're more rare or whatever but i don't know i don't know how you determine but according to according to counting Crows. Well, according to the rhyme, it's one for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for boy. Oh. Six for silver, six for gold, seven for a story remain untold or something like that.

There's way more shit than I thought I was going to get today out of this. This is amazing. Yeah. Yeah. So girl. Hold on. Girl. What does that mean? Let me think. I don't know. I don't know. The kids are all, no one's pregnant. Okay. Not that you know of. Yeah. Kim can't get pregnant. Secret never to be told. That is what it is. Yeah. something i thought it was left untold or something like that okay secret never to be girl what is girl one for sorrow two for joy three for girl and four for boy well i'm gonna have to think i don't know if i've tried to do it adam durrance on the show before but uh it's pretty good though

it's not bad yeah i mean i think i would if you did that and saying that i would go oh he's doing count of pros so i think you're right on you got the dana carvey method going there it's pretty good that is the dana carvey method yes exactly Well, anyway, if anyone has any thoughts or feelings, just email us, call us, leave us moist mails or text or whatever. Moist mails? Voicemails. Yeah. Moist veils. Yeah, don't do moist veils. Nobody likes a moist veil. Leave me a moist veil, please. My wedding veil was very moist, it turns out. Anyway, let us know what you think Three Crows means or Three Ravens. Yeah, maybe it just means that somebody dropped part of their $1.50 hot dog bun in the parking lot of Costco. Yeah, that's probably what it means. Also, I put in, I said this on Blue Sky and some people were writing back and they had NFL conspiracies because something about the Ravens. Oh.

So everyone's going to kind of see what they want to see, you know? Sure, sure. They got their own perspective. Were they chewing up some dollar bills that somebody left on the ground? That's pretty good. You know what? We haven't talked about this yet, but bills are who I'm rooting for. I want to see the bills go to the Super Bowl, and I want to see them win because they're 4-0.

Oh, I would love to see the bills go all the way. Yeah. I would love it. And I would love her. I don't want to see the Chiefs again. Please, no. I'm sick of Kansas City. I'm sick of all, everyone telling me how Mahomes is the greatest player of all time.

I'm tired of seeing Taylor Swift every other play. All right. She's great. It's not a smack against her. But we got to quit. There's a game going. Quit showing me the camera where she's sitting there reacting. Quit it. Exactly. All I want to know is, you know, who she's in the booth with. And once I know that, we're done. Okay. Then we're done. Show me once. You can say it once. She's in the booth with, uh, with Julia Child and Amy Mann up in the Taylor Swift.

Oh my gosh. The corpse of Julia Child up in the thing. The corpse of Julia Child up there cooking, uh, going, I'm all out of white wine. Oh, this is how you stuff a chicken. I don't know why she talks like that, but anyway. That was Muppet, Julia Child, by the way that you were doing. Yeah, I kind of felt like it went very Muppet. Anyway, whatever this means, I can't wait to hear your explanations at home because we'll probably get somebody like in the Netherlands. Oh, here in the Netherlands, three crows means you're going to die in two days or something, you know?

I'm looking forward to that. All right, we've got to follow up on what the COLAD thing might have meant in that email we got. It turns out it really kind of means nothing. Also, I put the Tolbert thing in the wrong category here. But anyway, I'll explain. Hey, soup and bun, says this listener, in regard to the COLAD, this is the thing that came up during the discussion about soup and the episode called Soup You Can Suck.

It is possible that they were creating a portmanteau of co-lab, I mean collaboration, an ad like advertisement. It's a co-lab that is also an ad mixed in with cold. It's odd, but it also sounds terrible, like a terrible marketing idea more than a typo. Still love the show, though. Well, an anonymous listener, it's not that. According to Dr. Tolbert, it must have been a typo because Jerry Tolbert, actual doctor, MD, said, there's no such thing as a collad. So there you go.

Yeah. And it's, you know, the idea of it being, well, we're going to take the word co-lab, which is already a hard. horrible abbreviation, or collab, and add the, and put a D at the end. So it's like a collaborative ad. But the phrase was, General Mills said the drops are, quote, the ultimate cold or colad and flu season comfort. Yeah. Yeah.

I think you're 100% right. Yeah, it is a typo. Sometimes a typo. Sometimes it's a typo, and that's all it is, and you don't have to see more than that. What's the phrase? Sometimes a carrot is just a carrot or whatever. What's the phrase? I can't think what's this. A cigar is just a cigar. That's it. It's not a carrot. Yeah. I mean, it works. Sometimes a carrot is just a carrot, right? It still works. I can apply it. All right. Anyway, thank you for that, but I think we, I think it's a typo. It's a typo. Yeah, it's definitely. It's a typo. You have trained me to that. If I hear the word typo, it's just, and even though,

he doesn't say it in the episode. I just hear him saying it's, eh, it's a typ. For sure. Sure. Your Warburton, here's the thing. Like, I want to do the Saturday Night Live thing where, like, when somebody, when somebody's got an impersonation that they have, they just nail. Yeah. Everybody else just, yeah, like, no one says, well, I'm going to try and do that one, or do an impersonation in the next sketch or anything like that. Your work, Burton is so spot on. I'm officially going to stop. It's all the only one. It's the only one I came. I feel. like I come close to the sun on. I don't, I think your George Lucas is, it's one I stay away from as well because I don't know how spot on it is, but it is, you own, you own that one. I've been done that in a while, yeah, that's funny.

Yeah, I don't, you know, Morburton, I should have gone to his concert. Oh, your McConnell, yes, your Mitch McConnell is another one. You own, you own that one. Sad, sad days, though, because he's done after, isn't he done now? Did he? Is he already out? Or did he retire? What was the deal? He's stepping down or something. I think he's already out, I think. I think. I think that's right. Yeah. Paul Stanley's not even, doesn't sound like Paul Stanley.

No, your Paul Stanley's great. All right. I'll take those three. That's, that makes me happy. I do. Then there's more. I'm sure there are more than we're not even thinking about it. Yeah. You guys, but here's the thing with Brian, his best impressions are a guy we don't want to talk about right now. it's also James down in Vegas and it's incredible that nobody else knows how he talks unless you've met him

right he's not on TV or anything so he can't see him in a movie so it's hard to know but when you know it's like holy shit Brian how did you how did you do that and then and then your other one that I really like is Ken Kratz which again is very specific

we haven't heard from in about 10 years yeah yeah you have to be a very specific kind of Netflix watcher to remember who the hell that guy is. So I feel I feel safe that, you know, you're not going to take my orange squat goblin or my James or my Tina voice or anything like that. Oh, you got 50 bucks to the Borg9? Yeah, the Borg9's good. Solid.

Got 50 bucks. I do that too now. Every time I see something that's 50 bucks, I yell at it and people don't know why I'm doing it. They're just like, I feel like saying, well, I have this morning show, and I have to explain. But I don't want it. I just say. Right. It's too much work.

Yeah. And all it is is it's not even a reference to Ernest Borgnight. It's usually just like something costs 50 bucks. It's like, how much is the dress? 50 bucks? And I go, you got 50 bucks? And they're like, what are you doing? So I have Brian to think for that.

All right. Another email here from David Jackson. He sent this email about a song. He says, he's got and Brian. I'm looking for a song played at the middle. of a morning stream about six years ago I do not know if you have kept a record of that long or kept a record that long

the only thing I remember about this is that it was called cold the singer was female and the album cover had a girl in a white coat if you could help me out that would be great you guys make a great show thanks for all your time well David I wonder if this has prompted anything in Brian do you remember this at all yeah just hearing that is not enough

for me to say oh yeah that's here's exactly who that is I think it might be the band called the Fontains. I did a search on what I've played. So there's a couple things I can do here. I can look in, I have the folder where I keep everything I've played on for indie in the middle and for the middle request in one big playlist. Right now that that entire playlist is 4,382 songs. I don't know how many years back that goes because at one point I had to reinstall my library and re-put everything back in.

But, um, uh, so I found a song that's just called cold. It's by the Fontaines. And that might be it. Um, the album cover. Is that a lead, lead singer girl? And that man? And it's a great song. Oh, fantastic song. It's from an EP called Woman. Two, I believe. It's like... Sorry, chap. Sorry, yes. Yeah, they like it when I say woman, and I forgot I said girl again, so... Well, and I made the same mistake.

Oh, yeah, no, she is wearing a white coat. It's probably the Fontaines. Oh, I think you found it then. That white coat. There's two people on the cover, and one of them is the woman lead singer, and she's wearing a white coat. So it's probably it, the Fontains. F-O-N-T-A-I-N-E-S.

Now, what you can do as a listener, is go to coverville.com and then after coverville.com put a slash you go to https and then a colon and then a slash character and then another slash character what is this internet you refer to how does it work so after after coverville.com you put a slash and then you put tms and then a year like all all uh one word lowercase tms and then a year so 20 2019, 2020, whatever. And that'll pull up a list of all the songs that we played, cover-wise, and in the middle-wise, in that year. Big, big, big, big, thanks to Ice Worm.

Who does this? Yeah. Basically, I'm a Patreon. I'm a patron of Ice Worm's patron. No, I'm a patron of Ice Worm's Patreon. Yep. He's awesome. Get that one right.

Because he does this for us. And his regular content is good too, like album reviews and Star Wars Dice Game and stuff like that. But anyway, so yeah, if you are looking for a song, just pull up coverill.com slash TMS and then the year and do a search for those songs or search for the word cold and see if it comes up in that list. And then nine times out of ten, it'll even have a link to where you can go listen to it right away. Nice. Great way to find stuff if you've heard it here and our character. about it. Real quick, Jeannie asked where that Denver thing, I don't think it was a restaurant but it was just him on a website

or something. It was Denny's or Village Inn. Oh, it was Village Inn, right. That's right. And he said this. Start your day with a mouthful of the Denver. It's just a burger they had, right? I think so. It was like it was a Denver Omelet Burger.

Denver Omelette Burger. Yeah. And it looked great. It looked good. It looked burger with an egg and then ham and onions and green peppers in it or something. Yeah, and the smooth voice of one Patrick Warburton. That's right.

All right. Awesome. Thank you, David. Ask the eight ball. Yeah, that's the eight ball. Wedge sandwich follow up. Hey, TMS, listener to January 15th TMS, a wedge sandwich is a thing. Just north of New York City and Westchester County is a sub slash hoagie slash grinder called a wedge, says Craig in New York City.

I don't know. Craig in New York, let's see, wedge sand. So it's really just another term for a hoagy, submarine sandwich, hero, grinder. I guess it's just basically... It has to be Westchester County, though, in New York. Like, that's local. Apparently so, yeah. Just in Westchester County.

Oh, it even says that here. I just found it. It says a wedge sandwich is a type of sub sandwich commonly found in Westchester County, New York, where it is called a wedge instead of a hoagie or sub. So, Brian, we would look at it and go, well, that looks like a... Hogi to me, but they would say, no, it's here in Westchester, where I don't know what voice they'd use.

It's a wedge. New Zealand, yeah, the, this is what, you know, when the X-Men go out for lunch, they go get a wedge. Yeah. Because Westchester County is where the, the school for gifted youngsters is.

Now, a lot of people think the wedge is this. Here, I'll pull it up here. That's a wedge sandwich, and I could see why. It's built, it's, whoops, it's shaped like a wedge. but I don't think that's what they mean Yeah You can get these anywhere You ever buy these at a store

You go to grocery store And buy it a little pre-packaged little half sandwiches Do you ever try that? I have. Yeah. I don't think I've ever had one. I always made me nervous

It just seemed like a weird thing to have I don't know It just seemed like I was asking for trouble. I mean you're yeah you're you're you know That one looked good I would not get one that was Tuna salad or egg salad Yeah

That's a bad idea But that would look like it was pretty good. And you could probably, you can tell by looking at the bread, even through the plastic and how old it is and how crusty and gross. That's, that's true. I just, I guess I just have never been in a situation where that's why I was at the store or whatever. Yeah. But a gas station one? Hell no. I ain't doing that. No, no. I don't know how long those have been in there. Although this looks all right. I'm, I'll make the, you know, I'm on a road trip. I stop for gas. I'll, I'll, I'll go the extra a few yards to whatever fast food places near the gas station to get something

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My sister, Wendy, is not here today. We talked about this before. Some may have forgotten, but she had some stuff. She said it last week before she left. But one thing she wanted us to do is make sure to share the seminar that she did that she was talking about last week. I think a bunch of you may have attended it. It was open to anybody who signed up for it. So she gave me what turned out to be this massively long URL and a password that is ridiculous.

And so I decided to make it simple for everybody because you want you to go there and check it out. Let me bring it up here real quick. It is over at frogpants.com slash Wendy with an eye. You'll see it on the website. There it is for those who are watching live. This URL, if you hover over it, Brian, you can see what a beast it is. It's like stupid. It's not, I can see your mouse, but I don't see the...

Oh, it's not below it. Sorry, let me click into it. Here it is. It's this long Zoom thing. that starts with oh god yeah you can't yeah zoom u s02 web dot u.s zoom's up yeah it goes on for miles somebody needs to create a uh a tiny URL out of that absolutely which is basically what i've done so she is she is uh did that long awkward pause in the beginning where she's just waiting to like give it a few seconds before she starts talking yeah look at this you guys hold

let me go back there it is she's like okay Wendy getting ready to talk And then it's like, you're on. Yep. Go. At least she's not resty bitchface like me. Oh, look how cold it looks in... Oh, it looks freezing out there. In Minnesota.

Oh, my gosh. It's like negative one or something yesterday. Anyway, it's up there and the password is there. So if you were trying to find this, literally it says, get the seminar here and there's your crazy path. That's the other thing. The password they made her used? Look at that ridiculous thing.

So you just copy it. paste that shit into the thing and you're in you can watch the entire thing so again made it easy for everybody case letter p that's right it's horrible uh and i told her that i said this password's terrible she goes it's all i would give me and then i was like fine i'll fix it anyway frogpants dot com slash wendy with an eye frogpants dot com slash wendy with an eye okay there you go you're all in go check it out whoops didn't mean to do that all right uh let's get to some because we got some damn it Brian

it's the news and it's brought to a spy brought to you by coverville today celebrating the birthday of a dude who has the record for having four top ten songs that are exactly eight words long the titles are exactly

eight words long and those those eight songs are things like Caribbean queen no more love on the run there will be sad songs to make you cry get out of my dreams and into my car

and and a fourth one that I can't remember but anyway he's got that's a guy named Billy Ocean and uh love Billy Ocean big fan you know I did too back in the day and it's like

hearing these these covers as I was putting this thing together I'm like damn you know I I kind of slept through his earlier stuff and he's got a great song called Red Light Spells Danger that never, I don't think, was a big hit in the U.S. I think he's from Trinidad and it may have been like a, I didn't know that. I had no idea.

I thought he was just like some California guy. I had no idea. No, no. Born in Trinidad. So you're going to hear covers of that, of course, of Caribbean Queen, get out of my dreams. I've got a great version of when the going gets tough, the tough get going, which I don't think when the going gets tough, the tough get going, nine words. Damn it.

Sung by Jessica Beale. So I'm sorry. Get ready for that. I'm sorry. What? Jessica Beal? This is Justin Timberlake, Jessica Beal, singing when we're going gets tough, the tough get going. With, I think, backing vocals by Dan Stevens, Legion, if I remember correctly.

Wait a minute. Why is this happening? What is going on? They've both been vampires before, by the way. It's a, oh, good, wow. Good call. It's from a movie called Easy Virtue. and um weird uh the movie itself was yeah okay never heard of it but um but this song is fantastic

there's uh it's a great great cover that's very crazy to me but that's a what an interesting thing these this number of syllables yes or words i guess yeah yeah um so uh part of the show will be that the last part of the show is going to be a patron submitted set it's going to be the first of our submit a set. So if you're a Coverville patron at a certain level, you get to submit a set of music and I have to play it. You're required by law. Yep. I do have final say. Like, no, we're not playing that song. But, uh, are you have any off top of your head? We'd be just like, nope, sorry, can't do it. Oh, geez. If somebody, yeah, if somebody put in their program as set, the Madonna version of American Pie, that's not happening. That's not. I didn't know that was

the Britney Spears cover of satisfaction. I can't get no satisfaction. Nope. I didn't know that was a little sort of exit. I didn't know that was a thing. Yeah. Now I want you to play them. No, no. You're not going to do it. You want to hear that song? Go listen to it.

And I'd like to see how far through the song you make it. Oh, that sounds bad. It ain't going to be the whole way through. I just wrote them down because I'm absolutely checking these out later and I'm sure they're terrible. They sound so bad. Oh my gosh. All right. Yeah. Fantastic.

Anyway, that's at noon. Mountain Time at Twitch.tv slash coverville. I have a new set with Bullseye on Marvel Snap. Then we'd be playing a new deck, and I really, really like it. Nice. Nice. It's back. Everybody Snap is back.

There'll be sad songs to make you cry. I did do that one. There's another one that he's got that is. Dude, I like that guy. You know what? I could, I, there are times in the 80s where I was rocking out to that dude. I was into it. Here's the only problem I have with, oh, is it leverally hurts?

No, love really hurts without use too few songs. Anyway, here's the, here's the thing that when you listen to a lot of the originals, they leaned a lot on the, the one preset on the keyboard, on the Roland keyboard that is that it sounds a little bit like a, like a, um like a xylophone or uh what's the um metal tube xylophone is that a oh uh um oh what is that called the tube version of it yeah the metal tubes is like boo you be it shit not it's it's a little like one of those is it a marimba which would explain actually uh trinidad that's a big that's a big thing in trinidad tubular bells No. That's a album.

Right? It's a tubular bells. Oh, that's a great album. No, it's not the tubular bells. It's the keyboard sound like it begins. Oh, it begins. That's what Friends are for by Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder and all those. It's like, it's that sound that every artist,

I think, I won't even say the greatest love of all by Whitney Houston begins with that keyboard sound. Yeah, there's, I know, I mean. I'm going to try to find it. What's it called? Is it just called? Wait, that Warwick song starts with it? Hold on.

Yeah, that's what Friends are for by Dionne Warwick. Let's just find the beginning of that song. Yeah. That's what Friends are for. Vibes. I think that's vibraphone. I think that's right, Kitch, you, yeah. All right, here it is.

Let's just here it. Here we go. Oh, wait, that's a harmonica. That's Stevie Wonderfone's harmonica. it's not it. Do the beginning of Greatest Love of All by Whitney Houston. Greatest Love of All.

Man, I put in the word great and the first result was Greatest Love of All. Crazy. Oh, gosh, really? It's wild. I don't expect that. That. There it is.

That. It's that keyboard sound that everybody had programmed on their rolling keyboards. What is it, though? You think it's just a synth thing or there's no actual? It's just a scent thing, but I think I think it is based on vibraphone, yeah. Okay, all right.

That's wild. It's the, yeah, like if you pull up a picture of a vibraphone. I haven't thought of this, and I have not thought about that sound in 30 years. Yeah, yeah. But every, boy, you go back to the 90s and like all of the pop songs, not the stuff that you and I were listening to, not the grunge or the Brit pop or anything like that. but the yeah there it is right there with those the metal tubes

it's a series of tubes it is a series of tubes that is the sound that is the sound of those keyboards are emulating is the sound of that okay so when you just so I understand the physics of this you strike one of these up here with your with your thing

with your stick yeah and it makes just like a and it just creates this and now I'll play that again I just want to go here we go why isn't it playing Oh, shit. Hold on. I muted it. Here we go.

Oh, weird. That's what's coming out of that, eh? I didn't know that. That's what's coming out of that. I mean, they're doing it with a keyboard and not actually, I assume not actually using a real vibraphone, but it is a, it's a keyboard that is, you know, the preset is to sound like a vibraphone. I feel like we're learning something every day. This is great. Yeah. All right. Well, on to the news.

So, yeah, coverbill.com. Also, Twitch.com. Google today at noon. Yeah, exactly. All right. So here's what you do, because I think the 11 to noon core thing we're doing today ends right around noon. So it should be perfect. Cool. So there you go. So go watch the core and Xbox and then flip over to me. Yeah, that's right. When you're sick of me and Bo, go to Brian. And then when you're sick of Brian, go to hell. Oh, boy. All right. Hey, a coffee company may have some money for us. So let's see how this goes. Oh, good. All right. What do we have to do? Well, here's what you have to do. The company will pay you $75,000 plus health insurance. Plus, plus, uh, didn't he plus. It's Disney Positive is what that service is called.

Oh, you know what? That's a great way to look at it. And Paramount Positive. Is that on, is that streaming on Paramount Positive right now? Yes, I can. Now I want to do that. I want to do that now just to irritate everyone around me at home. I'm going to do it.

Kim will say, where's that landman show? Also, that's on Paramount Positive. That's right. And then just... We're bringing back the word swell. Yeah. We're calling movies that you can watch on one of your services, framing. Framing.

Oh, yeah, that's framing on Paramount Positive. Yep. Yep. Framing on Paramount Positive. Oh, that Swell movie is framing on Paramount Positive. Oh, my gosh. The greatest sentence ever uttered on a radio show. Well, anyway, you get insurance, travel costs, a whole bunch of stuff. So, Brian, you like to travel?

This might be perfect for you. do all you have to do is tour and document the trip on social media all right so i'll get more into it here maybe you're a vegetarian so driving the weaner mobile is not for you that's another one of these things where you can drive the weaner mobile just means you're driving you can be a vegetarian and drive a giant hot dog those people that are like sexually attracted no animals were killed yeah people people that are sexually attracted to cars you know that whole fetish whatever that is yeah yeah yeah yeah you think the we're wheeler mobile is like their ultimate like oh man the wiener mobile i don't know i mean i think it's the car shape is probably what

attracts them not it's oh good point the people who would love with their cars who have those you know who do who are on those shows where it's like my strange obsession or my strange kink or whatever it is you know they're with regular cars they must love something about the regular car shape and and the wiener mobile is just you know tracks a whole different kind of kink i'm not saying that it's a problem or that you should out yourselves or anything like that. But if anyone in a listening audience can call in about this and say, I'm a car, I'm a car quote-unquote lover, and here's what I look for. Like, are any of the EVs in your little date book?

Do you have like, you know what I mean? Yeah, I imagine that's not an issue either, right? Because it's, you know, oh, do EVs have a tailpipe? Oh, I don't know, do they? I wonder if that's a thing, you know, like if, That's a thing for people, for guys who love their cars, doesn't need a tailpike. Do EVs, and we're going to find out, do EVs have? Yeah, no, they have no exhaust to expel, so there's no reason for them to have a tailpite.

Says here that, let's see, like your cars relative to you, blah, blah, blah, but, but sometimes they put stuff in these cars to make them seem like regular cars, right? Didn't they add sound, like an add a sound to, because some of them were too quiet and that became a danger, so they added a sound. Oh, right. Yeah, and some of them you can program, so it's like a different. It can sound like a truck. It can sound like a four-seater or whatever. What might just sound like a tie fighter? Yeah.

I wish my neighbor would do something because he just has the standard Tesla sound. And I hate that sound at like two in the morning because it just sounds like, yee-you. Yeah. It's like, all right, back it in and go to bed. What are you doing? This drill. Yeah.

Bastard. Sorry if he's listening. Yeah. Anyway, it says here, a tailpipe can be added when the electric car is purchased if you want to, but there's no reason for it. They don't use them. You could have a tailpipe. You're just primitively with a banana, and it would be great. Can I get the tailpipe at it and can I get a banana permanently affixed in there?

I would love that. You kidding? That would be so cool, actually. Play the prank on yourself before a kid has a chance, you know? I'm not going to fall for the banana and tailpipe. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Why don't I or not remember what that is? Hold on.

Okay. Movie. Yes, good. Eddie Murphy. No. Yes. Is that right? Okay.

Beverly Hills Cop. One. One. Okay. Not two. Okay. I feel good about that. Judge Reinhold, I think, says, we're not going to fall for the land and the tailpipe.

And then Eddie Murphy impersonates and go, oh, you're not going to fall for the banana tailpipe. That's right. Okay. No. It's a great scene. That's a great scene. What a great movie.

I still haven't seen the new one I keep thinking I need to because people like it. Oh, yeah, it's good. Yeah. It was good, yeah. Enjoyable. I like Murphy right now. He's fun to watch, you know. Was that thing?

Oh, was it, it was, Red Fraggle says it was the second team of guys. It was not the, it was not Billy and. Rosewood? No, Billy's last name was Rosewood. Oh, Rosewood and. Klinger Gilden Kranz I don't know

Neither of those things I can't remember Chet Roswood and Gilden Taggart Thank you Amy Taggart Man I want to play

I want Amy and Chuck to come and play Trivia with me in Denver here and we're just going to clean up We're just going to do a five-night sweep through the town Oh they'd be great

And what if somehow that night was like Muppet trivia Oh my gosh You know Who was the voice of Sam Eagle? Anyway, back to the story. Back to the coffee company. I need to know more.

Well, let me tell you more here. Let's see. Camillion coffee, or yeah, Camillion. Right? Yeah, Camillion coffee. That H looks wrong, but whatever. He's looking for two members for its inaugural brew crew.

So we could both go, I guess. The job is pretty simple. Traverse the country and share the company's coffee while documenting the trip on social media stops will include south by southwest in austin texas las vegas nevada we already go there all the time tell your ride bluegrass festival in colorado you already live there with that yeah yeah not hard for you and the pay for this particular gig is almost as much as the combined salaries of both hot doggar and peanut peanut which is the i guess i don't know who's doing peanuter but the the the hot doggers the other thing the the planters nutmobile it just basically looks like

a giant peanut oh does it really i want to i want to i want to want to kiss it like Homer and go, ooh, taste like a peanut. Anyway, those hired for the job will earn $75,000 as well as a comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits. I love this idea that you're driving around on a coffee mobile and you're like, you know, totally. I haven't had a cleaning in a while. We're going to go to a local dentist and get a cleaning.

It's very weird. A daily per diem for food and essentials, so you're getting paid that, paid housing for the trip, and basically all the caffeine in your system you can handle. if you want to apply for the gig they're being accepted through February 12th to get the job you will need to be over 21 with a clean driving record that would make sense

and an experienced content creator and have a nomadic spirit yeah we both have pretty good experience in content creation I'm not very nomadic though I'm kind of a home point I don't feel yeah I feel like Tina would have a big problem

with me doing this yeah yeah she wouldn't want to go with you though maybe she'll go with you though go together no because she you know then then neither one of us are making money at home good point she's got uh you know she's got her work that she's got to do so she gets a pretty good you guys get good insurance through her gig right pretty good stuff we do yeah yeah thank god yeah mine sucks ass it's all through me and it sucks hold on hold on scott yeah let me give you a link this is their website and uh it is spectacular all right let's take a look

Let's have a looksy. Oh, my Lord. Pull up the thing on, on, uh, before you share it with the, all right. Well, then, here we go. Oh, look at the, who's the guy in the suit? What's that about? It looked like the, it looked like the two guys kicking the, the, the fact, it is, it's the kick in the fax machine from, uh, office space. Oh.

Really? Yeah. These guys are wacky. They're wacky. and crazy, you know? Yeah. Has anyone tried this coffee? It's supposed to be good.

Do I have to wear that, that chameleon suit? Yes. I'm going to drive to drive around in that. Yes, you're 100% required to do that part. I think they should require to do it. It's really, that's really weird, man. Very weird. It is great, actually.

Let's look at their Instagram page just to see what we got on there. Okay, so they haven't hired the guy yet. Why not do it? not the they're accepting applications until speaking of Muppets Whoops Let me scroll that up So you can see it

Oh they do have a Muppet Oh it's a peppy the shrimp Pepe the King Pran The King Prong yeah I can never say King Prong I always say shrimp I don't know why Well there you go It's a deal of a lifetime

Go sign up today at Camillioncoffee.com I think Hold on There you go Oh I'd love it if a if a tadpuller got this gig Hell yeah oh my gosh can you imagine because they would check in with us all the time you know yes I'd be down all right two have been arrested two people for impersonating firefighters yeah this is terrible

firefighters in california using an illegitimate fire truck in palisades fire in los angeles these are people from Oregon Oregonians they are arrested for reportedly impersonating firefighters and using an illegal fire truck. What does that mean? An illegal fire truck. An illegitement fire truck. What does that mean, though? His parents didn't...

Like, it's like a... It's the offspring of a... It's a basque. It's a John Snow of firetruck. It's probably like a retired fire truck that they got their hands on. It doesn't officially work or anything. I could see that.

Yeah. There was a time in my life where I wanted either a yellow school bus, an old fire truck, or any of, like an old, big ass, like, public-y, public kind of vehicle. And then I was going to convert the inside and have a little hot tub in there and just make it, like, for, there was a hot minute at my 20s where I was sure this was my ultimate form. I was going to do this. You want to drive the bang bus, apparently is what it is kind of. Kind of, yeah.

I mean, I hadn't really thought of it that way, but yeah, I did. The bang bus without the banging, you know? Right. for a long time I wanted one of those PT cruisers with the wood panel sides and then I would buy a cheap surfboard and permanently glue it to the top like I'm you know always heading to the beach to go surfing that would make the PT look way cooler than it is for sure it would totally make the PT look cooler yeah because the PT by itself just like the Walmart parking lot is one of the ugliest cars ever made it's silly looking but you strap a like you said wood paneling strap a surfboard to the top of the thing or the side of it yep And then put, like, something hanging great from the rear mirror. Yeah, it could be your basic, like, fuzzy dice or it could have been, yeah, there's a lot of things that, but it would definitely have to have some great dashboard, dashboard art. The testicles of your enemies, you could hang those there.

Sure. You know, that a puka shell necklace. That would keep everybody from getting in trouble. All right, well, that's it for the news today. We are ending short, as I mentioned. The core coverage of the Microsoft Xbox event starts in a little less than an hour. So if you want to come back and watch that, that's great. And then right after that, you're going to head over into Coverville on Twitch, twitch.tv.combe, so please do that.

Also, we are having a regular core episode on Friday because John can't be here today. It'll be me and Bo for the live thing. That'll all go up on the feeds and everything. John will be back tomorrow. He's got a big family thing today so he couldn't be there. But tomorrow he'll be here normal time, noon. So watch for that. Also, TMS Friday tomorrow for our patrons.

That'll happen at 9 a.m. like always. Normal stuff there. It's going to be fun. Brian's giving me a hint. Great movie review. Yeah. And a trivia quiz for Scott that isn't trivia. You'll have to find out what that is.

I'm so curious about what the hell that is. I have no idea what to expect. A trivia question that is not about trivia. Yeah. It came from Barry. They're basically, I'll just say they're not trivia questions. They're a different kind of questions. And they came from Barry and they're great.

Oh, Barry. Barry with his ideas, you know, that guy. Barry. He's got ideas. Barry. Anyway, so that'll be tomorrow. And also, we got a film sack this weekend, play retro this weekend, all kinds of fun stuff. So keep your eye on the prize.

All this stuff will show up everywhere on the Frogpants Network. And a huge thanks to everybody for being so awesome. That is it for us. Frogpants.com slash TMS for all your needs. Everything is linked there that you're looking for. So go check it out. Brian, that'll do it for us. and let's play a song.

Yes, sir. Yes, we have a birthday for our very own Braimbo Bright. She and Claire both have a birthday coming up on Saturday, so you can probably guess who's getting the request for the next couple days. Today happens to go to Desiree, Rainbow Bright. Hello, T-Tox and Nairb. Oprah once asked Cher and Tina Turner how they felt about getting older. Cher said, it sucks, which made Tina Turner crack up.

And then Oprah said, well, what about that wisdom you gain? share said f that and i became a share fan in that moment my birthday is on january 25th and i would like for you to play a cover of any share song in honor of saying f that to getting old here here love it thank you and can i get a you guys sound kind of spark oh my gosh favorite darrell cloak says uh is it now i like that one too so let's find it um darrell uh sparkly here it is found it you guys sound kind of sparkly And a reminder, that's him naked in his bed. He's naked.

Remember that? We're calling him at the ass crack of dawn for him, and he has not gotten out of bed. And he's sitting there in his ass crack of dawn. It's gross. But I'm happy we have it, and we'll keep it forever. Thank you, Desiree, for that. Anyway. Right, for sure.

So I get tired of playing the, if I could turn back time and believe covers. I mean, not tired of playing those, but I feel like we've all heard. that song. We've heard it being covered at Infinite Items. So it's maybe time for a different share cover to introduce you to. This one is great. This one just came out last year on an album called Road Runner. It's

a cover of Bang Bang My Baby Shot Me Down. And the singer's name is Caitlin Butts. Here is Bang Bang My Baby Shot Me Down. Awesome. All right. We'll see patrons tomorrow. We'll see the rest of you Monday. Have a great weekend, everybody. We'll see you then. I was five and he was six

We rode on horses made of sticks He wore black and I wore white He would always win the fight Bang Bang He shot me down Bang, bang I hit the ground Bang Bang Bang That awful sound Bang bang

My baby shot Shog me down Seasons came Seasons came and changed the time When I grew up I called him mine You would always laugh and say Remember when we used to play Bang Bang I shot you down

Bang bang you hit the ground Bang bang That awful sound Bang bang bang My baby shot me down Music Played and people sing Just for me, the church bells raise

Now he's gone, I don't know why, until this day, Sometimes I cried He didn't even say goodbye He didn't take the time to lie Bang bang He shot me down Bang bang I hit the ground

Bang bang That awful sound Bang bang My baby My baby Oh, my baby, oh, my baby, baby, baby. Oh, my baby, show me down. My baby's shutting down.

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