The Morning Stream - TMS 2770: Two Big Fat Burritos

Episode Date: January 28, 2025

Distinguished Toast. Reserve Poop. Is it too early for a 650 lb fish sandwich. I don't like Bukeeeeeees (lawsuit). Believe it or not, I'm healing your dog! Damn Dirty Aped it Up. Eat The Flowers Brian! He did WHAT to the shark?! Gonna Need A Bigger Broom. Fees for Food Delivery. Expensive! Not Having to Go Pick Food up. Priceless! CARRLLLLLL??? Taxes on hot brown drinks always go well. Giving the meat away. Comparing Beavers. TESTED TEAMS with Bill The Maker Duran and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hey, is it too early for? for a 650-pound fish sandwich? I don't like Bucky's. Lawsuit. Believe it or not, I'm healing your dog. Damn dirty aped it up. Eat the flowers, Brian. He did what to the shark? You're going to need a bigger broom.

Fees are for food delivery. Expensive. Not having to go pick up food? Priceless. Carl? Taxes on hot brown drinks always go well. Giving the meat away. Comparing beavers.

Tested teams with Bill the Maker Duran and more. on this episode of the morning stream. Selling is service. And service is selling. Service is selling. And selling is service. Newbies. That's a term for newcomers to the internet.

The morning stream. Good. Real good. Whoops, I was muted. Hi, everybody. Good morning. And welcome to the morning stream. It is January 28th, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian.

Hi, Brian. Well, hello, Scott. Holy cow, that clip you played hearken to be back to a song that I looked for back in the 90s. So my old, you know, you and I both used to listen to Dr. Dempento. I think we both also used to record. Oh, yeah. Dr. DeMento and listened to it.

And there was a song by the. hypothetical profits on there called person to person. And I think you, you know, I only remember I'm playing it maybe once or twice. And I was like, oh, I love this song. And then when the first inklings of the internet were happening for me in the early 90s that was, you know, starting to log on there. And I was like, oh, I could, I might be able to find a record store that has that. And I went through so much work to find this single.

And I still have the single over in the other side. the room, and bought the single, had to ship it from the UK, I think, and it was this song, person to person. And if you, I gave you a link to it, it reminds me so much of that clip you played at the top of the show.

Here I'll hit play. That's the, that's the single, the vinyl, right? Because I do it. You have fantasies to do. You have fantasies. Do you have alternating. Yeah, personal announcements.

Person, to person, to personal announcements, Masonic, stereophonic, high-fi, futuristic, linguistic, influential, existential ex-con, gone straight, once say, Mid-Atlantic, good-looking, well-endowed, and demanding, understanding must be Virgoor porous rising, easygoing,

likes cooking, so selling, a personal ad. Get lost, self-indulgence, insecure. This is weird, I can totally hear it now. Like this, if I play this again. Selling is service. And service is selling. So.

Some weird commercial. Right. And here's the thing, Claire. Like, I've listened to this so recently. I thought about, didn't have not thought about this song for years. Since I got that single, I put it in my iTunes library. Yesterday, post show, I'm like, whatever, something made me think of that song. So it is currently.

the playing song in my iTunes. Like, if I were to hit play right now in my iTunes, you would hear the second half of that song because I started playing it. So that's the weird synchronicity experience that Scott and I have sometimes. We have that on the show once in a while. It's weird.

That's a weird. That's a deep one. That's a deep cut. So damn bizarre. Yeah. That's a very, very deep. By the way, take pre-show off of our... Well, I was going to leave it up like I did the other day on play retro like an idiot.

I'm teasing. This was on purpose. Okay. No, I'm not doing that. I don't want. I still get heat for it. That whole video is up there on YouTube and everyone's like, how come this says pre-show so long?

I'm like, damn it, I'd change it if I could. I can't. I wonder if there are people who like scrub through the YouTube video. Oh, I guess no, because only the patrons get the pre-show stuff, right? Yeah, the actual pre-show, they're the only ones. So when it goes away, that's what everybody else sees. But in that case, they saw it the whole time. I got you.

Or most of it. It's super annoying. Anyway, it's nice to see you all. hope you're all well um i got a couple of quick things this morning was crazy for me it was an insane morning i got up very early um took the dog to a uh an appointment to get her tooth removed this is we talked about this last week she has a cracked yeah poor thing forgot what tooth it is it's like way up in the back and it cracked from a bone or something so they got to remove it and uh so we spent a week giving her meds that all worked out great took the swelling down now that she

goes into the thing they take it out we pick her up sometime today i don't know when that is going to be but here's the worst part of it. There were a few things that made it a pain. One, traffic was crazy because there's new construction that made all the turns wrong on the maps. It was all wrong. So the map's going, turn here. Both Google, Apple Maps, and Ways.

We're all saying this wrong stuff. Really? Oh, God. Yeah. Which tells me this is new construction and no one was told. Yeah. So it's like, turn right, and you'll be at your destination. And I look right and I'm like, yeah, there's a giant barrier there that says, none shall pass.

So I didn't go there. Anyway, we figured out on a roundabout way and got there finally. And we thought we were going to be late, but it turns out the lady was a little bit late. So we had to wait around for that. And then she got there, the lady to open the place. And it's called, let's see, GAVet. The GAVet, which stands for glad. Greatest American vet.

Believe it or not, I'm healing your dog. It was something sort of like that, actually. Oh, really? No, you can't remember exactly. But anyway, we drop it off. We drop her off. Now, here's the funny, here's the worst part. Boomer thinks she's out for a party.

She got, we got the leash out. She's like, oh, jumping around like an idiot. She's so excited. Wherever we're going, she doesn't care. She just stuck. We get there. She's still excited. We get to the door.

She hesitates. She's like, I think I know this place. Wait a minute. Yeah, kind of just hesitates. Nothing ever happens in here. Yeah. And she was there just a week ago, so she knows the smell. You know, the familiarity's coming back to her.

But then she's like, hesitates. But then she's like, all right, well, maybe this is fine. She goes, it was fine last time. She says to herself, she says. And then she just trots in like it's nothing. And we put her on the scale. And that's fine. They got a slippery floor.

And she hates those because that's how she hurt her hip. So she's paranoid about slippery floors. And so she's being real tiptoe. But for the most part, good spirits. Lady comes out. That triggers it. She goes, and recognizes the lady. Yep, and proceeds to nervous poop everywhere, all right?

Oh, no. And we spent the whole day before doing the whole, like, instructions, like, have her go a bunch times, don't feed her past this time, no water after this and, like, all that stuff, because it's surgery and all that. So we did all that. But she somehow has reserves, and when she gets nervous, it just, she just starts plopping everywhere in the room. Oh, geez.

And then when we think she's done doing that, the lady picks her up to take her in the back and she proceeds to like poop three four more logs on her way out the thing so she's terrified now so now she's in there i'm sure she's under it's all going fine it'll be quick and easy and out of there but but and it's going to probably cost me around 300 bucks is the current estimate because it's just the one tooth it's not like extracting a whole mouth right right right not for the poop the poop is free oh the poop is free and they can keep it poop is free yeah they can hold out of that yeah yeah the tooth yeah the tooth we got to pay for You can't wait to slap 300 bones down on a stupid tooth.

That it's her own fault because she bit one of the bones that are supposed to be Ripley's that are too hard for her. And she did it anyway. So it's her fault and our fault for having three dogs. But anyway, the long and the short of it is that all is well now. I'm here. I made it back. As you say, because she can tell which ones are Ripley's bones. She's just not reading, right, the label and saying.

Yeah. She needs to get with it. She needs to grow a pair and learn how to exist like a proper dog. Anyway, she'll be back soon and everything will be fine, hopefully. Cool. Got a quick call about our film festival. Ooh, cool. All right.

I started doing a new thing where I'm having some help with call vetting. Oh. So that I don't always know what people are going to say because I don't want to. I like the surprise. Oh, so this is great. So you get to hear it first. like I do. Oh, great. Okay, cool. Yeah, the only thing I know for sure is that they're not overly long

because we're always, you know, don't send us three-minute phone calls. We're not going to play those. Sure. But if they're like a 30-second to a minute or whatever, we'll play them, and then that's all I'm going to know. We're going to try this for a while, see how it goes. So all I know is this one is about the film festival in some way. Okay.

So I'm going to play it. Here you go. Hey, Space Ghost and Brack. This is Kyle here, calling for the morning stream, also known as Bill Bow Hanson and the community. probably by nobody, because I mostly just lurk and hang out. But I just wanted to give you guys a call and say, hey, congratulations on your 32nd film festival. That is fantastic.

32 film festivals is certainly nothing to sneeze at. You give Fred and Cairns Film Festival or run for its money. And I just wanted to call and say congrats. You're really doing it, and can't wait for number 40. I don't know. See you. I don't know if I understand. Oh, really?

I don't get the reference. What's the reference? 30-second film festival. In other words, instead of seconds, 30 seconds, he's looking at his 32nd, like it's our, yeah. Oh, my gosh, dude. I didn't, I don't know why I didn't expect that basic sort of call. So whoever is vetting gave you, because you've got actually in the text that goes with it, and whoever vetted it basically said, okay, put this as the header.

Yeah, all it says is, uh. 30 second film festival and congratulations is all it says so now see now this is a good experiment we get to see what's under the hood here I probably could if I had heard it before I would have figured out what he was talking about

I guess this is way more fun yeah it's a little bit more fun like this one an SNL clip all this says is it's Jay from New Hampshire and it's about NSL show length show length okay let's see what that is

right 15S This is Jay from New Hampshire For E-Fink G4 on the internet's there Oh yeah Have you guys noticed I'm giving you a topic here I'm watching FNL on Peacock It was an episode with

Charlton Heston It was 25 minutes long He did the monologue It was a bunch of funny stuff Maybe three sketches And then goodbyes It was no Trump and Heston And then like the next episode

After that With John Let's go It's 45 minutes What are they doing Love the show And I could do it All right So did they used to do that?

Yeah I didn't know that No no no It's always been It's always been 90 minutes Except for you know In cases where there's a Interruption or technical difficulties

I can't think of an example of that But I'm sure there has been one But it's always 90 minutes So the ones on Peacock are abridged And it ticks me off Because it's like oh I want to see What the You know

Like the the Ebersol years Like, I want to watch one of the Billy Crystal and Christopher Guest episodes. And it's like, great. You get the cold open, the monologue, a couple sketches. Sometimes, sometimes weekend update. And maybe one of the songs, but it's really, it's a. Is someone determining that they're not, like, what's bad about the episode and then they strip it out? I think so.

I know that there are some that they've actually taken out, because of content, God, what was the one that, there was one I heard about recently that was in the 20th season. It's not like Charlton Heston came out and went, I hate the Jews. No, but it was, but there was something that was probably, you know, taken out, probably in the case of Charlton Heston, it was probably just, well, these sketches aren't funny.

Let's go ahead and pull them out, which irritates the crap on me. No, give me the whole show. I want to see the sketches that worked. I want to see the sketches that didn't work. What is it, you know? Yeah, that's part of the historical record of the show. And one that's this long in the tooth, you want to have everything.

And I'm sure they have everything. They're just not giving it to us, I guess. All right. Yeah, it sucks. I wish they wouldn't do that. And I don't know why they do it, but they do it. There was one I watched a YouTube channel called, It's like the history of SNL, and I can't remember the exact name of it, but these two guys review every season.

They watch every episode of every season, which they must be watching the abridged versions too. And they talk about the controversies, the things that were going on during the show, but also the things that were going on outside of the show, like which hosts, they basically said, yeah, we're never, we're, we're never having this guy back on again. or she didn't get along with this writer or this person insisted on doing all their own sketches and not allowing the writers to contribute sketches, et cetera. And it's fascinating, but they don't mention anything about getting a bridge. They just talked about, you know, on subsequent re-airings of this episode, this sketch was taken out because of this content. Okay.

I could see that, I guess. I don't think they should, but. uh whatever it's like that i like what they did with um was it who i can't remember who did this maybe it was max or hbo before before ebersault or what's his name took over not ebersol the guy over at max that everyone hates anyway before he took over they would show like world war two era uh looney tunes oh right yeah not very sensitive for even their time and they would put a little disclaimer and say things have changed blah blah blah i like that i like that yeah that's the way that sort of thing.

You know, this is a thing of its time. And there might be some insensitivity or some things that don't age well in here. And you're, uh, take it at your watch at your own risk. Yeah. It's, it's, I'm sure, I'm sure, uh, what's his face is, uh, Norm McDonald's OJ joke. Some of those have probably been edited it out because that was a whole big thing at the time. Yeah, might be. Oh, man, those are great, though.

He was so good. Those were great. It was so damn funny. Um, there's, you can buy seasons one through five on a 30, DVD set for the low, low, the low price of $565.56. Just the first five seasons. Oh, my God.

Yeah. So I don't think there's a complete, there must, I mean, how could you do a physical full set? You could, but it would just be insane. It would be massive. Yeah, it would be really crazy. That seems crazy. Okay, hold on us.

I mean, it just seems crazy to have a 37 disc set for the first five seasons. I guess. Okay, I guess. Yeah, 90-minute episodes. You could do it on less Blu-rays because you have more capacity per disc, but... Yeah, what do they do? About 20-something episodes per season? 20-24 or something like that, yeah. Yeah, all right. So, I mean, I'm never going to pay that, but...

Oh, gosh, no, no. But it might be the only way you get the end of bridge stuff. If you really, if you really want the complete, yeah, the complete thing. Probably somebody has it on their Plex server, probably. Yeah, probably, I'm sure. probably where those YouTube guys are getting it for all we know maybe yeah it's true it's funny i searched for why do all why do all the old s&l episodes on peacock all right they short and there's a whole thread on uh on reddit about it monica was saying that yeah that people have been

mad about it for a long time but i guess no she said she's been mad about it for a long time but i'm guessing that there's a lot of people like her who are like irritated about that yeah that's weird charlton heston and then 15 minutes weird Because I remember he did a There was a parody of Planet of the Apes where What was the deal with that? Aped it up? Yeah.

I don't remember that at all. I got no memory of that. I'm sure it was good or bad or maybe it was terrible. I don't know. I did watch. So there's a new documentary series on Peacock about SNL. And Tina and I watched the first one last night. And it's really, really good.

It has all of the auditions. not all, but you see a lot of audition tapes or audition performances by current people, people from the previous era. And it's amazing. Like, Kristen Wigg comes out. They basically tell you, all right, you've got five minutes, do like five characters. And they sit in the dark in the audience. You can barely see them from the stage, apparently, because the lights are so bright.

And they won't laugh unless you really, really slay. you will get silence in response. Kristen Wigg comes out and does five characters that all become legendary Kristen Wig regular characters on the show, like the Target Lady and the Ant that comes on Weekend Update and talks about movies but hates everything because why do I want to sit in a theater and look at Matrix Reloaded? Oh, my God. I'm okay with compilation style stuff, I guess. You know, like if they're going to put, they're going to do, give me the best of, of Kristen Wigg doing the Target Lady or whatever. Oh, yeah, yeah.

You mean like the DVDs and stuff? Yeah, I'd be okay with that, you know? Like, at least I know what I'm getting. And it's not me expecting to get full episodes on a streaming service and only get them half. And I think they've got that on Peacock. Like, I think you on Peacock, you can find the, like, the best of Kristen Wig, the best of Will Ferrell, stuff like that. Sure. Yeah.

Well, there you have it. That's, uh, we figured it out, caller, whose name I forgot. It was EFink G4. Oh, right. We haven't seen in the chat room. We haven't seen him in the chat room forever. Yeah, been a long, long time. Hope things are, I hope things are well.

Come, come hang with us live, man. Yeah. Let us know when you upgrade to a G5, too. Yeah, let us know. Yeah. And then they'll go to Intel and then their own chips eventually. Uh, quick fast food review. I decided to get some Taco Bell yesterday.

And you might say to yourself, well, Scott, that sounds like a stupid idea. And, you know, sometimes it is, but sometimes you just crave it. You just want it? Sure, sure. I want it regularly. I'm a, you know, I'm an unapologetic Taco Bell. If I've got the opportunity and I need something quick, Taco Bell for me is just fine. Yeah, I like it too.

And I decided to nab this new canteen chicken crispy taco meal. Oh, sure. This is with the grilled chicken as opposed to. like the deep fried business. Yeah. And first thing I want to mention, all of the delivery services, we went and got ours, but all the delivery services show this at like $12. It's only $9 if you go in there.

Sure, sure. Man, you pay more for that stupid service. But anyway. They make you think it's only fees and tips and that, but it isn't. It's this other stuff. They jack it up. But anyway, this thing called Cantina Chicken Krispy Taco Meal is what I got. And, of course, the photos look great.

and the delivery where what you actually got is not necessarily as good as what they say it's going to look like. Sure. But, so this taco here is the one. The problem with this taco is when I get it, it's not open, like cool like this where there's a little bit of, like it looks like a regular hard chill taco. Like an actual taco. Yeah, it's mushed together. You have to peel it apart, basically. Sure.

Sure. To put the sauces and stuff. Exactly. And it shouldn't be that way, but whatever it's still, you know, if it tastes good, that's really all I care about. Uh, the avocado verde salsa sauce packet, these are amazing. Yeah, they charge for those too. Like, you'd think, oh, cool. Like, I can just go up and when I get another, a different order, I can just say,

oh, yeah, give me, uh, give me a couple packets of the avocado vera de salsa. No, they charge for that. It's not like their regular hot, mild fire and Diablo sauce. Yeah, 25 cents a piece for those. Ah, bastards. I know. They know they got a good thing going. It's a freaking rip off.

But, uh, anyway, I, so I got the. thing, and it comes with two of these of the packets, so that's good. And then you get the little nachos thing with the cheese. It's nothing fancy there. I got to say, these tacos pretty damn good. I don't even know what's in there. I'm sure they explained it here.

Did they say? I don't know. Maybe. Sure. Whatever canteena means. It's their, like, new higher quality. Here we go. Cantina Chicken Krispy Taco is made with a crispy taco shell filled with slow roasted chicken going for going for fast food

chicken so soon scott three cheese blend creamy jalapeno sauce and more three cheese blend grilled on the outside oh right okay so they do it's like those uh beria uh things where they do the grilling of the cheese on the outside and put the berry meat on the inside yeah as you can imagine they don't do a very you know the craft the craftsmanship here is a little i'm sure it's not right exactly yeah not exactly taking a lot of pride in presentation no but that that that sounds really good. So it's really just cheese and chicken and then more cheese on the outside and then you get the avocado verde salsa.

Yeah, in a weird way it's like a chicken cassidia with a different form factor. It sounds fantastic. It was really good. I'm going to go ahead and just say it. I thought this was pretty damn good. I still say 10 bucks is too much for what I got, but that's just the world we live in now. And, you know, getting used to it,

I suppose. But yeah, if you were tempted, it does taste good. It will not look good, but it will taste good. You'll lead the jaws of life to pry it open to put the avocado sauce in there. And also, this location stopped doing Baja Blast Zero, and I don't

know why. I know. Brian, I was so pissed. I was so mad. Oh. So I ended up just getting Mountain Dew Zero, but I was so annoyed. I'm like, give me Baja Blast. Not nearly as good Mountain Dew Zero. They may have just been... Don't get on the Pepsi Zero. They have on it. Fountain Drink Pepsi Zero is...

Haneous. Hidious. It's heinous. It's heinous. It's so bad, you guys. Why, are the wars even, do we even have cola wars anymore? Did Pepsi just give up? Because Pepsi's are just lost, is what they did. They just gave up. They just said, oh, fine, we'll just make trash. We'll just make poo water.

You guys go ahead and win. Lame. I decided to do some lifting Ubering, Lubring. We're going to call it Lubring yesterday afternoon. And the same thing happened. Basically, I got a couple rides that took me up to Boulder and then Boulder because it's all the students up there who truly. lazy to go out and get their own food.

It's me delivering Chiba Hut, which is like a Chipotle wrap kind of place and snarfs, sandwiches, and Jersey mics and Jimmy Johns, et cetera. Then I get an order or a thing to take, like to go and do a floral delivery. So apparently Uber works with one of the grocery store chains out here and does their floral delivery for them. So I'm like, all right, cool. And I go and pick it up.

And then I see, oh, wow, this thing is going all the way out to NYWAT town outside of Boulder, about 30 minutes outside of Boulder. So I start driving it out there. I get to the address. Or let me rephrase that. I get to where the address should be. And I get to where the little pushpin is. There is no house of that number. There's 42.

There's 78, but there's no 60 in the middle. As a matter of fact, there's a street. So I'm like, all right, well, shoot. And Alba's Dumbledore come out and say, Magic Street, nothing. You're supposed to drive as quickly as you can towards this wall, and you'll go right through, trust me. So I'm like, all right, well,

hit the button on the app that says, can't find a dress, and they say, okay, please hang on for five minutes while we see we can find out. So I'm like, all right, well, great. I grab the phone and pull into one of the driveways of these places, ring the doorbell, say, hey, I'm looking for this person, or I'm sorry, I ring the doorbell, first house, the 78 house, no, no answer.

Like, great, okay. So I go to the 42 house, and I say, hey, do you know this person, guy named Carl, I'm taking some flowers to him, supposed to be 60 between your house and this other house, but there's no house there. He says, no, I know my neighbor is on, you know, three or four down on each side, and there's no Carl in any of those. I'm like, all right, cool. So hop back in the car.

And by this point, Uber is saying, go ahead and cancel the ride. You'll still get paid for it. Okay. Does that also mean the food was, they didn't order food? It was floral. Oh, it's floral, right. Keep forgetting you did flowers, not freaking food. All right.

Sorry. Yeah. So I'm like, eat the flowers, Brian. Eat the flowers. I'm going to eat the flowers. Like the, you know, it's a beautiful big bouquet of like white roses and purple flowers. Like it's a gorgeous, you know, big old bouquet. And so I'm like,

all right, well, oh, here's what I'll do. And in the flowers themselves, there's a little card that also just says, Carl. But then has a phone number on there. So I start looking on there, the thing, I find the phone number. I call it. I get some woman's voicemail.

I say, hey, I'm trying to do a flower delivery to Carl. The address on here, it's pointing me towards a house that doesn't exist. Can you call me back and let me know and give her my number? Great, nothing. So cancel the ride. I get paid. And then I immediately, get another ride that takes me way up to Longmont,

which again is another like 15, 20 minutes from where I'm at now. Right. And as I'm driving this lady, and it's funny because she sees the flowers in the front seat, she's like, oh, those are pretty. I'm like, yeah, yeah, I told the whole story about the botch delivery.

And as we're on our way up to Longmont, my phone rings, and it's the number that I called, calling me back. So it's this woman calling me back. And I say, hey, you know, here's the situation. She's like, yeah, I don't know where that address. came from but it's you know here's the new address it actually should be um 80 80 60 instead of 89 60 so like nine blocks off big big difference yeah that's not a tiny goof that's a big goof

exactly it's a big goof so i say all right well i'm taking somebody up to longmont but i will swing back down on my way back and i'll turn off the app and and come back down and deliver him to you she's like great so i do that i go up to longmont drop this person off come back down find her and as I'm doing this is I'm at a red light you know like like getting ready to turn the turn rides back on because I'm getting close I'm like let me see how much I'm actually getting paid for this this delivery uh three dollars to drive it from Boulder to Nywat and then come back and re-deliver it to to Longmont because the address is like cheese whatever you know that isn't cover the gas I don't think does it pretty much barely covers the gas it's like but I you know

it's it it was the right thing to you. Even if I knew that it was only $3, I still would have done it because I could have said, here, Tina, here's a lovely bouquet of flowers. Oh, are these come around? They were somebody else and it didn't get delivered. She would be like, why didn't you work harder on finding who it should have gone to? Yeah. No, because it was obviously a really nice gesture somebody was trying to do in earnest. And that's good karma. That's good karma. That's good karma. It's good karma. And it hopes someday it pays me back, but still it's like, you know, all right. This is, I really should look at,

like, A, how much I'm getting paid for a delivery, and B, how far it is before I, before I hit the button and say, accept. Yeah, you're not, those miles are never coming back on that odometer. They are never coming back. Those are the hour. Oh, Monica, they did tip me. The lady who called me gave me another $3. So I made six. Oh, yeah, six bucks.

There you go. You know, but it's not her. Somebody else sent them to her or to Carl, who apparently she lives with. So somebody else sent them. She's like, oh, my God, these are beautiful. I'm like, yeah. So if it's a. So she shouldn't have.

me. The person who sent them gave the wrong address. They should have been the extra tip. They should be like, oh, here's an extra 20 bucks. Sorry about all the hassle. So if you, this happened with food, would you, and normally, let's just say they sent you on a goose chase and no one ever called you back.

Sure. And it's been half an hour and the food's getting cold, like all that kind of stuff. Are you allowed by Uber or whoever to go, I was just going to eat this then or throw it? What are you supposed to do in that case? Totally. If I cancel it right, this happened with Lyft years ago, couple years ago. Pre-pandemic, I was, or maybe right after things opened back up for the

pandemic, Uber was food delivery for a while, separately from Lyft. There was a thing they were partnered with. I can't remember what it was, but then we go to Chipotle and pick up two big fat burritos, breakfast burritos. And the address that they gave me was the middle of an intersection. There was like, you know, there was. No, no street address. It just said, deliver these to 88th and Sheridan or something like that. So basically not even like, oh, you're taking him to the men's warehouse or this or that. So I get there and I'm like, well, there's no obvious place I'm taking these.

So I call no answer. Like I call the number associated with it. Oh, that's right. Call the number associated with it. And they said, the person said, oh, yeah, no, I found a cheaper delivery. And so I thought I canceled this one. So I'm like, oh, okay. So I've just basically got these two big fat Chipotle burritos.

I had already eaten breakfast. I wasn't hungry. I wasn't going to eat them just because they were going to go to waste. So I found a couple guys who were actually working a construction site right by where I was supposed to drop these off and say, you guys want a couple completely sealed Chipotle burritos? They've got pork, green chili, blah, blah, blah.

That's great. That's good. No waste, no waste, no, no, exactly. Case or whatever I'm trying to say. But I do like that you threw out men's warehouse as the, possible. It was one of the possible of the possible. That's what's on that corner. You got Men's Warehouse. You have

a quick stop. You've got a Starbucks because every intersection has a Starbucks. Too many. There's too many out there. And a parking lot, an RTD parking lot or something. There's so many. I always wonder, like, I saw a commercial on some

service where they were running commercials for Starbucks. And, you know, all companies are going to have an ad budget and they're going to have, you know. Sure. I get it. They mark it. But of all the places out there, I at least understand why they need advertising. Because they're everywhere. Why does Starbucks need to advertise? They're everywhere. And the only thing I think of is, I mean, I guess it keeps the smaller chains at bay or it reminds people that, oh, they're, I don't know. I don't know. It just seems crazy to me. I don't know. You're everywhere.

You have advertising on every corner, basically. Yeah. Yeah. It feels, if there's a company out there that probably doesn't need to advertise at Starbucks. Yeah. Driving down the street is a Starbucks advertisement. Yeah. My wife says they should advertise how burnt their coffee tastes and then nobody would go there. It's true. You can cover it up with as much pumpkin syrup as you want, but it still tastes burnt.

Yep. And it might go up because you get those tariffs on the Colombians. So here are the two things. It's funny you brought up floral arrangements because the two things that are expected to skyrocket as a result are coffee, obviously. Huge export. But we'll, you know, Peru and others are. They can step in, I suppose. But coffee needs the right climate, so you can't just grow it anywhere.

Right. You can't grow it here as easily as people think. They're like, oh, just grow it here. Screw those guys. It doesn't work that way. Right, right. And the other thing, cocaine, I don't think the cocaine business cares about Paris. But also, they already kind of go under the table.

I don't think that matters. But the other one was flower arrangements. Columbia is the largest fresh flour exporter in the world. Oh, really? Yeah. Wow. So it's not like you couldn't, you know, other options exist, but they are very big on that. And so there's even a chance the thing you delivered was a, for Colombian flowers.

Maybe, yeah, maybe all the expense, why it was such a cheap delivery is because, you know, they paid 80 bucks for the freaking flowers. Yeah, it'd be interesting to see what happens. But there are too many people who drink coffee for this to stand, damn it. Jury said on a show, I saw this as well, Weston brings it up, he said on a show, he didn't think the tariffs were going to happen at all that they're just threats we'll see yeah i mean i hope not yeah i'd love it if they didn't happen yeah tariff wars lead or trade wars lead to real wars and i would like none of they do and you know we we we all know how much stuff we get that is from other countries that we rely on and keeps the prices down but my god you know having to

rely on american manufacturers for everything is not feasible no not as currently constituted I don't think we can handle a reset That like Flattens everything and starts over We don't all got musk money Okay Yeah So take it easy

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I was trying to embellish. I was trying to flower it up and it was like, ah, screw it. I'll just read what's put. Sometimes, you know, sometimes it is what it is. Sometimes you just got to read, read what's in front of you. A fisherman. Sure. Reeling in a near.

300 kilogram tuna. What is that in pounds? Just for all us dumb Americans. 300 kilogram 2 pounds. That would be 661. Holy shit, that's a heavy fish.

That's a huge fish. It's a big fish. This is a big old tuna. Battled both monster fish and the hungry shark that bit the tuna's tail and attacked the boat. Oh, gosh. Well, that would have lightened the tuna up a little bit. like bite the half the tuna off and then you're good to go right exactly yeah crew or force to fend off

the raging predator uh with a broom you know like you keep on your do you keep a broom on your boat that seems like a weird thing to have on your boat but sure you got to you know you can't you can't you can't just if you're swabbing the deck you can't just go right to a mop you got a broom you you got to sweep the crap up first and then you can swab the deck maybe yeah that's a good point they never show this old salt you got a yeah old salt i like that I just, I like how they phrase it, though. Fisherman beat shark off with a broom. Yeah, I don't know.

Love the term. The phrasing needs some work, right? A little bit, yeah. Beats off shark with a broom. Anyway, they had trouble struggling and hauling the fish on board. The trip began when fisherman Jay Curley and his mates, Michael Baird and Clayton, Somerville made plans to catch yellowfin tuna over the weekend. I thought you had to have a mate.

Well, maybe you still have to, but I thought you had to have a really serious, expensive license to even go after a yellow fin. Oh, I don't know. I thought that was a thing, but maybe, I don't know. They set off from Hood's Landing in Ottawa. Atawa. That's not Ottawa. Attawa. Yeah, I don't know.

Where is that? Manukal. I don't know where. Oh, New Zealand. Okay, these are all places in New Zealand. Oh, it was a band meeting. That's what it was. We missed the band meeting about the shark.

They went down to Taika Watiti River, Wakido, I don't know, out in the sea and started fishing. After snagging a couple of yellow fins, Curley's line was struck by a monster fish. I thought it was a big Tudor. I won't do his voice. I'll spare you all. But it was sort of mythical out there, he says. So I didn't really say anything, says Curley. After 45 minutes, I got a bit of look at the fish.

45 minutes of tugging on it? Oh, my gosh, dude. Jeez. That also sounds bad. 45-minute tough. I don't even want to beat a shark off for 45 minutes. No, that's too long. It's too long.

I got a bit of a look at the fish, and we knew we were on to something pretty substantial. It was still probably around 30 to 40 meters away, so I couldn't really get an ID on it. Anyway, they eventually got it close enough where it looked like it was all done, and then a shark comes along, bites the tail, tries to pull it away. It doesn't just take the tail, like snags it, and now it's part of your part. Chomp. Yeah. But they got it out. You got it out. You guys see this picture, everybody.

Let's see. Things are a beast. Look at that fish. It's massive. My God. Where to go. Can't cancel video. Show me him.

There we go. Look at that thing. Missing tail and all. Yeah, look at the tails all shredded up. Wow. So I'm trying to think if you're these three dudes and you catch a fish like this and And Yellowfin tuna is an edible fish. Do you take this back and just like everyone gets fish?

Because you're not going to keep this in your freezer. You probably, what, cut it up in town and everybody's got it. You have someplace process it. I don't even know. I don't know if you, what you do, right? It's like, you know, maybe if they were doing a, because it looks like it was a fishing tour, right? because they've got that sign sorry bluefin

I meant to say yeah it's a fishing well it looks like I don't know is it oh it's funny oh yeah okay so they were fishing for yellow fin but they got a bluefin they caught a blue fin

yeah the sport fishing club ink so they might have gone out as part of like a maybe not necessarily a tour group but just like some sort of organized let's see we had a good go fish aboard just seems to see anything

about what you do with it later yeah oh here we go there would have been about 200 slabs you could say it could feed 200 people but they don't say it would have been about 200 slabs what do you mean there would have been yeah i don't know if that means they kept it or oh what old on you went right pad there was something about giving the meat away uh ultimately the group retreated about a kilometer way to evade the sharks successfully hauled the fish aboard um he had been giving the meat away to ensure it could be enjoyed

fresh oh okay good yeah good for him yeah i feel better about that that. I don't want I'm just killing a fish for no good reason. Yeah, no. And by good reason, I mean, you know, feed people. They will not be enough for some vegans, I know. But you pescatarians out there, you know what I'm talking about. That's right. Yeah.

All right. Listen, I love yolefin. Yolefin when I get it as part of my sushi plate. I don't know what I ever, I've had. Chirashy bowl. Lots of that, but I never know what, I never know what kind of tuna it is. I guess it's in the menu and I'm just not paying attention. Yeah, I mean, if it's just straight tuna, it's the red.

Toro I don't think It might be blue fin That's a really good question Like if you get that That red slab of tuna Is it Toro? Because I know the yellow fin

Is lighter colored It's not It's not dark red like Like the regular tuna You get in the sushi What's this one here? I got a fake one that someone gave me Tmu plastic

I don't know who gave me that Nurtacular But that's probably closer To your yellow fin right Yeah that looks like a yellow fin Yeah, totally does. This is fake little rice patty underneath it. Yep, yep.

Look at that. It looks tasty. I'd eat that. If it was real, I mean. If it was real, sure. All right, let's talk about Pokemon. Sure. Pokemon players known for their scrappy attitude, I guess.

Yes. And their willingness to ignore burglaries and robberies as they drive their police car to go catch a snorlax. That's right. Do you still play Go at all? Is that a thing you do? No. No? I haven't opened up the,

haven't opened up Pokemon Go in a couple of years. It's been, it's been a while, yeah. Yeah, I don't, I assume it's still a thing and people are into it. Yeah, yeah, I still see when I, some days when I go by a couple of the hotspots in Arvada, I will see clusters of people all on their phones, and I recognize them as being some of the people who still play Pokemon Go. We interrupt this program to just say, Raven CETG in the chat room

is on his way to a performance review. I always forget who's logging in there. I know, I know. The wife or the husband. They're both awesome. They're like the same person in my head for some reason.

Yeah, he's Winemagus. No, what is his She's Raven. He is not WinMegas, but it's another W. It's a regular one. Someone who's in here all the time, right?

Yeah. Oh, Josh 3. 0.0. In Discord is WinMegis, right? Is that the deal? I don't freaking know. Anyway, yeah. The point is, uh, she's going in for a performance review right now. So good luck. Good luck. I'm sure you'll be great. Get the raise. Tell them, uh, tell them, uh, tell, give them what for, all right? Screw middle management. Rise up and take what yours. Yes. Oh, Windmagus is somebody totally different. I was getting

Josh confused with WinMacon. See, this is, this is my point. This is so hard to mix everybody up. We apologize. We know. know that when we see you in Vegas and stuff, we know who you are. We're good. But when it's just names, it's easy. It's small. Yeah. And Tina knows everybody by a different name because she's on Facebook in the Tadpool group. And so she's like, oh my gosh, did you see what Melissa just posted? I'm like, I don't know who Melissa is. Yeah. And you're like, Wonderkind 400. Oh, yeah, I know who that is. Oh, yeah, I totally know who that is. Yeah, exactly. Right. We got a weird mix of that around here. Anyway, so here's a brawl of a, this is about Pokemon.

cards, not go. Gotcha. It happened in Costco in Southern California, a video posted on social media, of course. Two people appeared to be embroiled in a scuffle over a Pokemon card sold at the Los Angeles area Costco.

The fight captured on video by X user. I'm an X, X, X user. An XX user, yeah. Distinguished toast. That's a good name. Tried. Yeah.

Oh, what did I put? Distinguished. I like Distinguished toast better, actually. Disguise Toast is not nearly as fun. Anyway, January 16th, this happened at a Costco in Atwater Village, the Los Angeles Times reported. In the footage crowd around the about a dozen people were clamoring to get some boxes, presumably where the collectible card games were being held, when two adult men who seemed to be caught in a tug-of-war over some of the cards swung into the frame,

one of the men wearing a green jacket ends up in the, sorry, with his arms around the other bearded man. Hubba, hubba. Well, it's very effective. wearing glasses and a ball cap sorry during the awkward struggle the awkward struggle I like that at least one store employee as well as several nearby watch the ordeal while others try to make their way

around the tussle meaning nobody tried to intervene and they just tried to avoid it moments into the fight a young woman approaches the doing and yells stop let go it's unclear if she was released or sorry she was related to one of the men and was perhaps concerned for their safety as she was, or if she was just another customer

in the store, possibly embarrassed over the mildly violent display. Anyway, get the F off me, bro, says the bearded man. So that's pretty cool. Let's take a look here, let's see if we can get a... I know, I'm looking to see if there's not a video or is there a video on...

Now, there's just B-roll or photos of what Pokemon cards look like. Thank you. Yeah, they didn't do the... KTLA-5. I hate going here, but let's go here. Let's see if the video. Oh, there we go. There's the video.

Oh, yeah. Look at this. Yeah. What is this? Toilet Paper 2020. There's a woman. Oh, elbow right in the face. Elbow to the face.

All right. You know what? Like, the guy with the black jacket clearly has it. Was the other guy, the guy in the black jacket, rip it out of the guy with the green park his hand? They don't show that part, but yeah, see, there he is. It looks like he's coming to. get it, but who knows?

And meanwhile, dude in the gray hoodie is like, I'm taking my five, I'm taking my five boxes to the register. Yeah, I'm getting the F out of here. I'm just going to go ahead and say that I think that just no matter how deep your Pokemon fandom goes, this is dumb. Yeah. Yeah. This is super, super stupid.

Yeah. I wouldn't do this if it was like Scotty Young statues or Spice Girls albums or anything you're into, forget it. Anything I'm into. Like, if I get a record store date and I see. the guy grabbed the last cover album that I want that like he gets the last copy of the album I want I'm not going to like jump on him and tackle him for it no no it's just not where none of this is worth it although a lot of the comments on the videos say that they think these are scalpers and they know who

they are oh so maybe it's a resellers yeah that's what rufus says in the chat too that they're resellers yeah okay so Talia says the actual story was that the older Asian guy got the box and then the a hole yanked it from him well the video is not clear on that But if others saw it there, I guess. I wouldn't doubt it. It looks like somebody who's been wronged. Yeah. So everyone's an A-hole, basically, yeah.

Yeah. Here's what you do is you have somebody there from Costco managing it. He hands everybody a box. Nobody takes more than one. You get your box, you walk away. Simple is that. I don't know why that's hard. That's easy.

It seems easy. You know that there's going to be like a mad dash. You put these out there, you know there's going to be a mad dash to get to them. Have somebody there managing it. Yeah, come on, Costco. I'll even pay an extra $0.25 cents per hot dog, if you can make that go better. Right. There was something in the news about Costco is now able to sell Coke products again,

so you can get a Coke with as part of your $1.50 hot dog combo. They couldn't do that before? No, apparently it was just Pepsi products. I didn't know that. I thought I got Coke there. I guess I didn't. All right. I don't know where Kim's getting our Coke zeroes.

from probably the grocery store yeah here we go Coke is returning to Costco's food courts Pepsi is out see ya Pepsi four days ago oh so they're doing one or the other there's no like I guess it's one or the other yeah

and there's signs all like they're the big sign that offers that shows the deal here I'll put it in here it's weird though like can't you have I mean every store a grocery store has both you can choose yeah why can't you do that at Costco I think it's, you know, probably some exclusivity thing.

It's like, uh, hmm, like with, with fast food places, they can say, even though, even though in the back, you can go buy Coke or Pepsi products, like in the, you know, the, the big pallets, you can get whatever you want. Oh, they're talking about fountain drinks. That's what the chat says. Yeah, yeah. I'm sorry. Talking about fountain drinks. Yeah. Sorry. At the, at the $1.50 hot dog combo, I said. No, you're, I've followed it into like the whole brand thing all the way to the back of the store. Yeah. That's cool. because, yeah, so we must be getting Coke there. But that's good, because I got a hot dog there, I don't know, day before Kim left. And they didn't, they had Diet Pepsi. It was the best I could do.

Yeah, yeah. F that. Now, hopefully you'll be able to get Coke Zero with your hot dog now. Yeah, I'll even take a Diet Coke over Pepsi. I used to be kind of, I used to be sort of middling on, I was like, oh, Pepsi's all right. Like Pepsi's okay, like the waiter ass is Pepsi okay? Yeah, it's okay. But I don't know.

I've had a hard turn on that. I'm sorry, but the Coke is just better. It just is. Yeah, Coke Zero is better than Pepsi. And you RC people, don't come at me. I don't like what you got either. What you have is bad. All right?

It's not good. Right, right. Bucky's in the news again. We are always talking about Buckees. Oh, yeah. Buckees. Sue's North Texas gas station chain, claiming its logo is way too similar to their beaver logo.

Oh, really? Oh, I got to see. Let's see the, uh... Let's look at the comparison here. Let's see the logo. So here's the bucky one. Oh, yeah, look at that. Yep.

Superfuels and Buckees. Yeah, Superfuels looks like a... Pretty darn similar. It's more of a puppy, but... It kind of is, yeah. But it's definitely... Doggivie cape. It's got the color scheme, the yellow circle.

It's not a yellow circle. Blue circle, the circle. Like, they're having a go here. Yeah. I don't know if you should be able to sue them, but I do think they're having a go at them there. Yeah, for sure. Here's what it says.

Lawsuit filed by Buckees in the United States of America here. U.S. District Court claims Superfuel's logo is too similar to the Buckees Beaver. In the lawsuit, they say the Superfuels logo prominently features an anthropomorphic and cartoon representation of a smiling animal that closely... Why is my phone ringing? I thought I had my stuff turned off. Hold on. Let me do that real quick because that's annoying. I don't want interruptions while I make a show.

Do not disturb. Okay. Anyway, it says even the coloring and the expression are too close. Also, right-facing angle, which is a problem. Oh, well. I mean, trademarks are... Yeah. I don't know.

I'm with you. I mean, I think they designed it intentionally to look like Buckees, but I don't think there's grounds for... It's close. I mean, it's reminiscent. If the dog was wearing a hat, a baseball cap, I think you'd have something there, but... Yeah, having a cape. I don't know, I'm torn on this. I think that they should have, I think that they should, I think that Superfuels is having taken the piss here a little bit, but I don't think this, I mean, this is like GameStop, this is like GameStop going after Smash Burger for using the same amount.

Right. There's nobody, nobody looking at this thing and saying, I think that's a Buckees. nobody was looking at that giant superfuel's dog cape thing and saying yeah I think that's a Buckees let's go to the Buckees nobody gets fooled by it so that's what that's the standard I would use in court if I were the judge or I was the the opposing side I would say is anyone confused about yeah like other than that the logos are not alike at all like the font text all this stuff the brightness of the yellow none of that's there yeah yeah and I am not a fan of the Buckees

beaver logo I don't like it either it's just old you know yeah yeah they just stuck with it it needs an update anyway yeah that font's ugly not a fan anyway uh it's true super fuel zones two locations in dallas one in irving texas uh uh bucky says in the in the uh in the document or in their suit uh buckies wants any quote ill gotten gains that they may have gotten through their sign so what like okay you can have a percentage of all of our sales that we've gotten since we put up the sign with ill gotten gains some bullshit that is some bullshit i started this very neutral when i read the article the first time i've come out very anti i don't buckies but buckies is cool but i don't i don't

like bucky's lawsuit all right i don't like it yeah i think it's it's a little uh horse pitiless yeah frivolous is a great way of putting it uh all right we are going to take a break when we come back our old pal bill will be here we're going to talk about making some stuff and uh that'll be fun looking forward to that brian let's play a song in the meantime yeah so yesterday we had a song that uh from a band that features uh tom from aerosmith how about today featuring a band that features brian wheat from tesla whoa um this is a band called violet breed i'm trying to remember if we've played violet breed because this is their second single from this album we might have played the first single i can't remember but this is uh the second single from their upcoming album it's

called 10 Years Sober. The band is Violet Breed featuring Brian Wheat from Tesla. My demons and my scars And in the street lights You watch me fall To my lowest low My darkest dark I went and lost it all

And there is nothing you could do Nothing you could say, baby Nothing's gonna change my mind And there is nothing you could do Nothing you could say I will go ten years sober If it gets you all Show a different side, live a different life, baby, you better believe

Because there is nothing you could do nothing you could say Because I would go 10 years sober 10 years sober A rough night confusing stars It was tough and you Not easy to forgive and let down hard But in your halo of shining light

I'll be free from warm safe and warm protected in the night And there is nothing you could do Nothing you could say, baby Nothing's gonna change my mind And there is nothing you can do Nothing you could say

I'll go ten years sober If it gets you over Show what if I live in a dip in life Baby You better believe Because there is nothing you could do Nothing you could say Because I would go ten years or by

Ten years over One and only One and only Be my only One and only Be my only One and only be my only There is nothing you could do, nothing you could say, baby,

Nothing's gonna change your mind And there is nothing you could do, nothing you could say Because I will go ten years sober Ten years sober Show a different side, live a different life, baby, you better believe Because there is nothing you could do, nothing you could say, Because I would go 10 years over, 10 years over. Ooh, I would go 10 years over.

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Go check them out. Congratulations on Ten Years Sober. That's great. Right? Yeah. Pretty good. all right um punish props that's who it is that's what we're doing that's right let's bring in bill let's see what's up with him let's dig into the world of makers there's still something wrong isn't

there bill man a minute minute man i sure is it's bill deran all the way from the pacific northwest and the home of punish props dot com bill de rand welcome back to the show how are you hello friends good morning doing great oh that's good man it's been i feel like it's been forever but it really hasn't been that long since we talked to you. A lot's happened in the last month. Yeah. Yeah, you've been busy. I've seen some things. Yeah. Online there. I want to hear. Yeah, yeah. So, uh, let's catch up with Bill.

Let's talk about inspiring all of us to make more shit because you're making something cool. So what do you do on these days? Uh, so you all know that I occasionally get to go work with Adam Savage and Norm Chan down in San Francisco. And all the amazing folks attested. Uh, well, all, there's a whole bunch of merry contributors who also, like me, get to occasionally work with Tested. And over the last years,

we've all become pals. We like working together, and we're getting our own tested YouTube channel called Tested Team. What? Yeah. That's awesome. That's cool. That's very cool. It's YouTube.com

slash at Tested Team, or if you just look it up on YouTube, you could find it. Please subscribe. We're going to be making some cool videos over there. I'm going to go right now. So this is already up. You already got some videos is right there. Yeah, there's already some videos up there.

I don't have a video up yet, but there is like an intro video explaining the whole thing. And then everyone else has started, started contributing. They can film there in San Francisco. Most of them are local since I'm remote. We'll have to do things a little different. Sure. So let me ask you this. How often it will be like, you know, hey, everybody, your old pal Bill and I'm making a thing.

and it's just you or will always be collab stuff. Like, what's the plan with the channel, I guess? Great question. I think the plan is to try and loop people into the videos, not just have a solo person talking at a camera. So far, most of the videos have been done that way. So again, since I'm up here in Seattle and they're down there and just go, we're going to have to get creative.

But we have some fun ideas about how we're going to do that for some upcoming videos. That's great. That's very cool, dude. I'm excited. and I'm hitting that subscribe, I'm hitting the subscribe button. Yes. Yeah. I'm liking and subscribing, fam.

All right. As we have been instructed to do. That's right. We've been told many, many times. Oh, that's awesome. Oh, you're in the little collage here at the Welcome to Tested Team. That's cool. Yeah, they stuck my face in one of the spacesuits.

Oh, that's awesome. I'm very excited to see what comes of it. You probably can't say, but you probably already have projects in the planning stages. maybe sort of I'm uh so the the theme norm really wanted us to share stuff that were like

obsessed about things we should collaborate with things we could do deep dives on and I wanted to do something on bird photography which is something I've been doing a lot of the last few years

and I haven't really talked about it so we're planning a video hopefully I can I have a there's a spot where we have some uh kingfishers down on uh puget sound and uh hopefully we could do a video where i filmed myself going there to capture images of a wild birds which would be really fun nice can i tell you what we're obsessed with in our house right now bird wise let's hear it uh ravens corvids of all kinds really uh but really just mostly ravens the big ones and oh my gosh and if

there it's not a crow and oh my goodness if you see a crow and then you see a raven you'll realize even though they're both look the same ravens are so much different they sound different they look different their heads are shaped funny they make tools out of rocks they'll go find like a toothpick and a rock

and MacGyver themselves out of jail they're insane that's right yeah but we've gotten obsessed with them especially like their mimicry they do some crazy you know they can talk like parrots and stuff but they do it in the low register so it's like yeah right you hear a parrot go crap I want a cracker

and you hear a raven and he's like, hello, I would like all your money, please. Like, they talk hello. They're amazing. So, yeah, I'm, I've become a little obsessed lately with birds. There's also a weird bird. Oh, Brian and I talked about yesterday, but the starlings and how they can mimic, like, babies crying or.

Oh, right? And, like, car alarms and stuff? Yeah, yeah. You put them in the right place. Well, there's some museum, or there's some zoo in, like, New Zealand or somewhere that had to take them and hide them. away for a while so they would reset their brains because out there people were teaching them how to cuss all the time yes so kids groups would come and they'd just be like eff off kid and just

like swear at the kids anyway it's my own my own little bird obsession lately but you know a lot about birds that's great i i will look forward to that video that sounds that sounds awesome yeah we've been um uh it's it's fun well bird bird birding and bird photography it's fun to get obsessed with because it's something you can almost do passively. We go for a walk every day and we just notice the birds. We have our little Merlin Bird app and we can pay attention to the birds that are out. So we're going to cover all that in a video. And I think that'd be really fun.

I might even do a bird video over on the Punished Rob channel because I'm kind of feeling it right now. We got any updates on the Bender robot? I was going to ask you this anyway, but you just reminded me. How's that? No, it's been on the bench for the last couple months during the holidays and everything. But we'll get back to work on that probably this week or next week. Nice. So then those videos will be over on the Punished Props channel.

Carter wanted me to ask because we watched some season one Futurama the other night. And she said, is Bill still working on that robot or that car thing? And I said, I think so. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Exciting. So the tested team has a bunch of members. These are all pals of mine. I just wanted to go out on the list real quick because everyone has kind of a, not really a specialty, but a thing that they're likely to be covering. So Joey is like the cinematographer of the team.

he's way into camera gear so he's got a video up on cook lenses you can go see him deep dive into that Josh is the other video production guy he hasn't have a video up yet but he'll probably do video production stuff Jen Schachter is just like a force of nature

she's a maker of all kinds they did a video with her and Kate where they Kate went to Japan and bought a bunch of weird tools and they just went over their weird Japanese tool hall which was super fun oh yeah that's cool kate is a model maker she has some oscars for making models for movies she's quite good at what she does uh mel does electronics type stuff and electronic music there's a great video on that then shod does a lot of 3d printing and other things so that's kind of the

group right now like i said all awesome people with things that they're just crazy into and they're going to share all that so again please subscribe yeah yeah like and subscribe smash it that's guys, get it out there. As the kids say. That's great. I'm excited for you. This is a very cool little natural, it feels natural. Like, of course you guys are going to do this. Basically, like, Tesson had

this like, Andrea, folks sort of orbiting, and they're like, well, what if we did something with you guys? So I'll probably have a couple of videos go up this year. We'll see. I'm not sure how many we're going to do. Everything's kind of up in the air, but more than anything, it's just going to be fun.

It's going to be people who are really obsessed and really good at the things that they do diving deep into that stuff. Yeah. And to your point, get there early so that when things start landing, you'll be all set to get this stuff. So check it out. Tested team on YouTube.

Came up right away when I searched for it. So shouldn't be people to find it. Very cool. Let's talk about a little side video. You got a little something here to share. What is this? This is one of the videos. It's called a one day film shoot. Joey did this. So Joey, like I said, he's their film guy.

uh he does he films music videos he helps uh people movies and stuff he really knows his stuff so he went for practice and to practice using some lenses he went to a pinball arcade nearby where he lives and said hey can i just film a short documentary on your pinball bar yeah and the guy was like yeah sure no problem so they took a day to shoot it and then joey showed and talked about how he did the shoot how he set up everything how he um breaks down what footage he gets and then in post-production how he puts it all together. As somebody who makes

videos, this is like this is a gold mine. This is so cool and it's this arcade looks so awesome. It does. Does it? Yeah. They've got the new 007 machine. Yeah. He's got those sick prime lenses on there too. Shallow

depth of feel really. Yeah. Yes, to get the Boca effect. Wow. I've got a labyrinth machine back there. I used to Yeah. I went to the place where they build those. That's right. That's an awesome machine. I love that one. I figured you guys would appreciate that. Oh, yeah. Hell yeah. I want to live there. Are you kidding?

In there, I mean, like literally in the arcane. Crawl right in. All right. Well, awesome. Bill Durand, of course, punishpops.com is the place you're going to find all this stuff referenced in the YouTube channel and all the other stuff. Bill, have a fantastic month, and I'm sure the next time we talk to you, you will have taken over the entirety of YouTube. I hope so. See you next time. I like that logo too of the place. Let me see if we can get a timestamp on it.

But the rewind, it looks a little bit like an upside-down Atari logo. Oh, yeah, there it is. Let me back it up some. Oops, in the wrong one here. There it is. Oops. See if we can get a pause on it. Yeah, that's cool.

There it is. Yeah, look, it's like an upside-down Atari logo. I like that. I like that's how you do it. Upside-down your Bucky's logo. totally that's great that's great i love it all right nice job uh there goes bill and now cool here goes us uh before we go though quick thing yeah if you want to see gregg street and hear about the latest and greatest in his attempt to make an mmo in 2025 today's your chance because

it is our monthly episode of word on the street with gregg street and uh their game codenamed ghosts from uh fantastic pixel castle her hosting that episode today at noon mountain time and uh go to Frogpants.TV if you want to watch live, you can ask questions in the chat. We'll be funneling those through as well. And we're going to meet their new, I think that's their new head of production. Oh, cool. I think is who's coming on today. Her name is Juno, I believe.

Anyway, I'm very excited. I'll know more here in a minute, but that's happening today. Noon, mountain time at frogpans. TV, or if you want the podcast, go to frogpans.com slash street. Brian, let's get out of here. Unless you got anything else, you have anything to promote, say, do? Yeah, nothing else to promote. Man, this is that today flew by. So quick. It's a quick day, and that's good, because I have some prep.

I got it is. It's great. You have some prep to do for word on the street. And possibly a dog to pick up somehow in between. Oh, right. Poor thing. Yeah. Anyway, let's get a song out. What do we got? For sure. This one's going out to I am sci-fi. Ian Levinstein said, hey there, Skone and Binyay. Today is my 41st birthday. Holy crap. One year away from the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything. This past revolution around the sun has been a complicated one full of unexpected turns, changes, and new life developments. Even as 2025 brings its own challenges and tribulations, I'm overall confident this year will

turn out pretty darn good, or at least in crossing my fingers accordingly. Anyway, for my annual request, I'm going with the cranberries and their version of Go Your Your Own Way. Love the way Dolores' voice worked with this Fleetwood classic. Thanks, as always, for being a useful distraction these past nearly 12 years, you darn group of freaks. I looked it up. My TMS anniversary, TMS aversory, is the way he writes it, is April 10th, 2012, when Ibit did a Culverville crossover, those three days. Scott was out. Love the show, though. Ian, I am sci-fi. I forgot you did that. I totally forgot. I forgot I did that, too. Yeah. Like, the only time I've ever done a TMS thing that wasn't with you. Yeah, what did we do? It was like your marathon thing? Or what? I don't know.

Three days. No, I don't know. It just must have been three days you were out and I did a Coverville episode in April 2012. I have to go back and see what we did. That's wild. For sure. Very cool, Ian. This is Cranberries.

This came from a really cool tribute to rumors called Legacy. Came out in 1998. This is one of the best tracks on there, too. There's a lot of like more mainstream pop stuff, but Cranberries was a nice. alternative. Go your own way. Here are the cranberries. When you won't take it from me You can go your own way Go your own way

You can call it another lonely day You can go your own way Tell me why Tell me why everything turned around. Packing up, shacking up, it's all you want to do. If I could, maybe I'd give you my word. Open up, everything's waiting for you. You can go your own.

You can go your own way You can call it another lonely day You can go your own way Go your own way You can go your own your own way, you can go your own way, you can call it another lonely day. You can go your own way. Go your own way. You can call it out of your lonely day.

You can go your own way, go your own way, you can go your own way, you can go all in another lonely day. Go your own way You can call it another lonely day You can go your own way Go your own way You can call it another lonely day Roses are red, and I love to dance. When I'm looking for great shows, I go to frogpans.com.

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