The Morning Stream - TMS 2774: Moist Sockets

Episode Date: February 4, 2025

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Welcome back to TMS. It's the morning stream for Tuesday, February 4th, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. Hi, Brian. Hello. Hey, man. Hey, man.

Hi. what, it's weird. Right now, 50, let's see, let me check the current numbers here. It is currently here in Salt Lake City, 54 degrees. Yeah, 63 of the high. 63 it'll be today. What is this about? Because a week ago is like negative 10 or some nightmare. Yeah. Yeah, we had the 60s yesterday. Today is going to be a little cooler high in the 50s. And it's only, it's only 29 right now. This feels, this feels right, right here for January, but later today when it's 52, 53, and I'm sitting there in the dentist chair for two hours. Oh, that's today.

That's today. It was going to be last week, but ain't going with the flu. Yeah. No, that's good. Your congestion's kind of in check now. You're not going to be packing it out. Yeah. I'm hoping, I don't know.

I'm still going to have to take something. I'm going to take like a sinus max something like I don't know who makes a Tylenol sinus max I might even I wonder if I should take a gummy oh you know that would calm me right down there the problem is the only gummies I have are wanna stay asleep yeah and uh because they're they're made for you know I want to I want to make sure I stay asleep in the middle of the night sure and I don't want to fall asleep in the dentist chair or do I well also who's driving you? Is it just you? Or do you have a pick? Oh, I mean, no, I'm driving and driving there and back. Yeah. Yeah. So if you take a gummy,

that could put you in a, you could be in a bit of, I don't know what. Are you kidding? Scott, like, like I could count, no, I can't count because I don't have enough fingers and toes to count the number of cars that I'm pretty sure are high as I'm, as I'm lifting and Ubering around. It's like, this is like, okay, this person's either extremely, extremely old, like, like, shouldn't be driving old. Yeah.

Would not pass a current test. Uh, or they are super high. And then I pass them and I look like, oh, definitely high. Yeah. The hair, the focus, like you can see the, the focus on the road. Are people like, like pulling anyone over for this or anything?

I mean, it's impairment, isn't it? Doesn't it count? It is. Yeah. Yeah, it should. It should be illegal. It's like drinking.

Some sort of infraction of the, than just driving slow. And not turning when the green arrow goes off. So I wonder if you did a, or if anyone's done this, like a test between what an impaired drinking driver and an impaired weed driver, what the differences are. Because I'll bet there's differences, right? There's probably more of a steady, I don't know.

I don't know what the difference is. I have no idea. I've been told, but this I don't know, that, that driving while drunk is far more out of control than driving while high. Like driving while you're high, you're able to concentrate on the road and all that, whereas drunk, you know, the road is going br-o-year-you- It's more like just slower driving or more focused driving. Yeah, there's probably like an amount thing going on. Like, if it's five milligrams or 10 milligrams, you're fine.

But if you're up to 20 or plus, you're probably impaired or more impaired. I don't know how the laws work. But I kind of want to hear about, you know, gummed up Brian getting his teeth worked on, you know. I don't know if I do because somebody pointed out, it causes dry mouth and that's the last thing I need while I'm in the chair. Oh, right. Oh, yeah, that's true. I can confirm that. When I, when I, especially that horrible one I had in Vegas, that was the worst, one of the worst parts is all night.

I felt like I just wasn't getting enough water. I needed like a hose, like an IV attached to me or something. It was so bad. They're, they're going to novicane me up, apparently, for this procedure. So, root planing or whatever it's called. Oh, that sounds so bad. It does. There is no part of that description, no part of that, that name that doesn't just sound unpleasant as hell.

root planing. Root planing. Damn. All right. Well, I hope whatever it is is quick, painless, and full of stories for tomorrow. That's what I hope. Yes. Well, anyway, I'm glad they're getting it done, though. It's always important to take care of that stuff. All right. I got a quick thing here.

I got a question. I have some advice, actually. It's not even a question. This is just some advice for me. We had Ramona overnight last night and just giving her parents a little night off, you know. Yeah. nice and she's healthy and happy and sweet sweet little pee just love her love this kid and her and i bond quite a bit so we spent a lot of time with each other and last night was lots of pops and and romona wandering around the house because she's walking fully now and wants to get into

everything and i got to stop her from getting into some things and you know it's like having a baby again but she's just such a sweetheart and so much fun so i put her on my shoulders she's the only of the three uh that i can do that with that don't get freaked. Like, both Van and Phoebe do not like it. They don't like heights. So freaks him out. And hated it as well.

Yeah, it did not like being on our shoulders. And growing up with the, when my kids are little, I think only Nick liked it. So maybe it makes sense that his daughter likes it. I don't know. I don't know if that's a hereditary thing or not. But the girls hated it.

Nick liked it. Whatever, for whatever reason, though, Ramona loves it. So we put Mona up there and just walk around. I went, because it was warm. I could go outside for a long time while the sun was out. So I was out there with her. It was a lot of wind, but she didn't care.

She just loves being up there. So I'm six foot, almost four, six foot three and a half. Tall guy. As you know, Brian, we're both tall men, you know? Tall men, yep. And you can forget sometimes if you got like a little kid on your shoulders, just how much taller that makes the combined Voltron body of the two of you. Yes, yeah.

So I'm walking through the house and we're laughing and having fun, going room to room. She's pointing where she wants to go, and then I go there, and then she's, like, laughing and having fun. And then we go wherever she points next. And so she points down the hall toward my bedroom. And I'm like, sweet, let's go in there. And I make sure to duck really deep, you know. So I miss the, we miss the door, uh, door jam.

The rest of the ceilings are plenty high. So we go under that and we're in there and we're doing our thing. And then I get a phone call. So I grab both her feet and I pull my phone out. And I'm holding there and she's holding my hair. Everything's fine. I pick up the phone and says, I can't remember who it was. My mom or somebody says, hey, can you give us a call?

We got this thing about Phoenix. we need to beep a bit and I'm like oh yeah right I got to do that so I quickly put my phone to my pants grab her feet again start walking out of the room and she's kind of singing going d-d-d-d-d-d-d-you know making songs sing-song sounds and then you hear see if I can make this sound you hear this on the way out like that and I and the singing stops yeah and I go I go oh you know like I know what it says happened I'd forgotten to duck to go out I ducked getting in forgot to do it going out and she bonked her head now she didn't cry right away and i didn't do it that i could tell i didn't do that hard i wasn't moving fast it was kind of basic

so i took her off my shoulders turned her around and she had this look on her face and i'm going to try to replicate it but she just looked at me like this and at first i thought she was for those at home just dead face like mad face down a little bit like mad angry face yeah like the angry kid on the Simpsons that has the Maggie the Maggie war going on the the unibrow kid yeah kind of like that and I went are you okay you know like first I said you are you okay and she literally takes her right hand smacks me in the nose just goes whack and then went back to being happy as a pig and poo so I guess the lesson the moral of the story is a the 10 month old is not that stupid she knows what happened and be just be careful when you're tall like don't do what I did

that was bad I was so scared I heard her and I was terrified for a minute but then she was fine all night happy happy as can be never a problem later but that was that was pretty bad in the in the 90s that that software company I worked for um our boss had or my boss had two kids uh girl and a boy really young girl slightly older boy and um they asked if uh you know They said, hey, we're doing a mom and dad night. Any chance you'd be able to watch them. We'll bring them over to your house. It's totally fine.

We'll pay for dinner. Blah, blah, blah. I'm like, oh, yeah, sure, no problem. And said, well, you'll be fun. Let's take them out to Costa Benita. Oh. This was back in the 90s era, Casa Benita, when the food was garbage. But kids loved it because they could run around and have a blast and all that stuff.

So we're in the early part of Casa Bonita. Before the redo, you basically got in this long line, you carried, you know, you picked up a tray at the end of the line, and then you went down the line and you pick up whatever food you orders. It comes out of this mysterious doggie door towards you, put on your tray, and then you get escorted to a table. And you hopefully never get to see back there. They hope that, and you hope that. You hopefully never, exactly. That's why it's a doggie door. It's like the, like, shoo, comes out closer real quick.

Yeah, neither side. to see what the other side's doing ever. Exactly. So we're waiting in this long line in this big open market. Like, it's designed to look like a big open marketplace and, you know, the banners across the ceiling and flowers and murals on walls that are kind of look a little crumbly like they're coming apart. They probably were really crumbly, knowing the disarray that place was in.

So the boy is like, hey, can I red on your shoulders or whatever? smaller than that like not asking just kind of like doing the hands up like let me go on your shoulders I'm like oh yeah no problem sure so I get down he ups on my back I put the legs up on the shoulder I stand up and realize that in this

big open marketplace there's one wooden beam that goes across I was hoping you say oh it's just a banner got caught in his thing or something like that no it would be great no it's basically like stand up punk oh oh shit

like okay also didn't cry but we were like we were like so worried about the whole we're like watching the whole night like looking at his eyes got the little the little uh flashlight in his eyes making sure his pupils are dilating stuff like that uh yeah i did a bit of that last night it's crazy how resilient they are because you forget that a kid can really take like a fall you see him fall off couches all the time totally hit their neck and you're like oh no what do we do and some people even panic enough to take him to an ER make sure everything's okay but most of the time not saying you know be careful there are little kids but they're so weirdly they're not indestructible yes yeah it was it was bad enough that all the people in line behind us

all went oh I'll remember that sound it's like oh you would have been a viral video today in today's world. I would have, yeah, exactly. That would have gotten me some money from Alfonso Ribeiro on America's whatever. That's freaking great. Yeah, so you've been there, you've done it. It's tall guy problems. Yeah, you do it all the time. We have height issues. You know, Tristan was smart not to want to be on my shoulders. Maybe that was the whole reason. You don't want to be on Tina's either, but she's tall too. Yeah, but I've also noticed the women in our lives are a little more, they think ahead a little bit. You know what I mean? Like, I'm not 100% sure, but I'm guessing, even if Kim was my height, she would have remembered to duck on the way out also.

Of course she would. Yeah, I think it's just me. And I was on my, I was here alone. Kim went to her pottery class. I had the baby alone. The girls were downstairs watching some anime bullshit. So I was upstairs with just her. So something bad would have happened.

I mean, it would have been full emergency Johnson mode. And I would have had to figure it all out. Oh, the car was gone. Oh, it would have been screwed. So I was a little freaked out for a minute. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. But she hit me in the face.

everything was fine. Brian, remember we talked about lubering, Ubering and lifting? Remember that? Yeah, the combination of Ubering and lifting?

Yeah, we've got a call about that and here's what it is. Hi, this is for the morning stream. Does it just be or does lubering sound like a

birth control device that is sponsored by or made by K. Love the show though, bye. I mean, I think that was kind of the idea, right? A lubbering.

Yeah, I get you, yeah. Oh, like a, like the ring. Oh, I didn't even think of that until you just said it. Yes. Oh. Like the sponge or the... Exactly. Yeah.

The whatever. The ring is the point of it. Like, this thing is just going to cut off all circulation so that you prevent any... Yeah. No eggs, no eggs, no... No sperm and egg are meating today with the loubering. Exactly. Gosh. It sounds horrible.

The lubering. I like it. Well, the other option is Ubifting or something like that, which sounds... horrible. Yeah, I don't like that either. It turns out. You know, there is really no great way of saying it, which is why we settled on lubering.

It's as close as you can get. I don't want to say, I'm going to do a little ride sharing today. Boring. Boring. Ride sharing. No one even calls that. How about blifting? Let me do some blifting.

Yeah. Are you going to go back and call the internet the information super highway, you a bunch of weirdos? You don't call it. Ride sharing, I know that's how it started, but nobody says that now. they say lifting they say ubering they say yeah yeah is there a third one there probably is um yeah they're denver has denver co-op but it sucks yeah nobody wants nobody's yeah nobody uses

us driving in that one yeah somebody told me it's actually really nice but just no one thinks of it so they just don't use it right yeah i mean i'm signed up and and and i turn it on when i'm not when i'm in between lift and uber rides but no no rides have come in yeah and do you Oh, so that's a... Oh, I didn't realize that. I thought it was like an employee... I thought it was like a taxi service from the local municipality, meaning that it's not just drivers who sign up like you would,

but I didn't realize that. It's interesting. No, operates just like the other two services. If somebody has the app, they turn on, they request a ride, and it's cheaper for them, but nobody knows about it. And so I try and tell people to, you know, hey, by the way, you know, this is cheaper if you use Denver co-op, You might want to check that out.

But I also don't want to cannibalize the two that are working for me right now, which is Uber and Lyft. Good point. Good point. Real quick here, I found the, so there's a list on Rydster.com. This is what, this is all they do is they track all this stuff. There are, here are all your alternatives. Number one, they give to Lyft. These are Uber alternatives.

Lyft they give best overall and high marks and it's number one, of course. Interesting. And it's also, I only use Lyft when I go anywhere. I guess there's an alternative to Uber. To Uber, yeah. They're just saying, hey, if you're not using Uber, what are you using? And Lyft is easily number one. And kind of by far number one. Then you have VIA. They have the best price, apparently. Oh, really? I don't know where you can get via. I'm sure they tell you later in this. Yeah, I wonder. I got some called Bolt, Bolt, like B-O-L-T, best for customization, it says, whatever that means. Probably like being able to say, I only want to drive in this area kind of thing. Okay. So giving the driver some tools, I guess, to do what they want. R-O, A-R-R-R-O, best for stable fare rate. So one that, I guess it doesn't jump depending on if there's a baseball game in town or something like that. Get G-E-T-T, best for flexibility.

Curb, best for planned quick trips. I like curb, it's fun, C-U-R-B. Oh, curb. Okay, I thought that was another advantage of Arrow or Get with two T's. No, there's just another one. Number seven, they have grab. They're all dumb names like this. best for most services, whatever that means.

Probably food, driving. I don't know what they mean by services, but whatever. Eight Wings, the Z. Wings. Best for airport travel and barbecue sauce. Okay. Oh, wing, because it sounds like it's, if the name Wings makes me think it's very specific to airport travel.

That's my guess. Oh, that could be, yeah, just two from the airport. Yep. And then there's one more called OLA Cabs, which is best for offline utility. don't know what that means anyway there you go lift an Uber still the

still the kings but there are some options out there have a look at that link from Rydster that I just sent you about how to become a via driver like a step by step guide on how to become a via driver let's take a look here let's give it a click here open up dumb thing here we go

key takeaways text text text text text I don't think I don't think this guy has has filled out what it takes to become a RIA driver, or a VIA driver, and then understanding VIA. Explain what VIA is, provide an overview of how much. How much do they earn? Please provide an overview of how much they earn.

Who should drive it? Describe the ideal candidate for a via driver. Did they put the draft up and didn't mean to? What happened here? Yeah, I think so. I think he's put up his template and published it as opposed to just putting up there and saying, Ooh, I'll need to fill that one out.

This is written by Brett Helling, owner of Rydster.com. We're in trouble. If this guy owns the site, key takeaways. Look at all this. Let's hit the buttons. Text, text, text, text, and click here for text or here for text. Yeah. I keep hitting the text buttons.

I just take you to the top of the dock. Just does one of those pound sign return things. Yeah. That's great. Well done. Let's see. Okay. So they have some requirements.

must be 21 years or old past criminal yeah this is effed up though way to go rightster sounds like you guys got a real awesome no your website sucks um all right i was going to bring up a thing about something bobby said on the video yesterday but the person who i asked to let me just double check they didn't do it when i started the show i don't think they've oh i think they sent it oh they did okay okay we're going to find this excellent i want to hear it um all right so that's it going to take me one sec to bring up the video from you yesterday. All right. So blame Brett. Blame my ex.

Blame my ex. 134.38 into yesterday's episode. Okay, view on YouTube. He says, I'll tell you what he says, and then we'll see if we can find it. He says this, this is an anonymous person. He says, as a text, he says, as soon as Bobby leaves at the end of Monday show, Scott is looking for something. He tells Brian, if I can find it. But I swear it sounds like effing find it.

So we're going to see if this is correct, if I swore or not. I don't think I did, but we'll see. No, probably not. I'm sure. 134. Okay, it's as Bobby's leaving. All right, hold on. As soon as Bobby leaves is what.

Well, that's way past 134. Okay, hold on. They feel like this all the time, and they, and they, let's see. A tower? A tower. Sure, a tower. I like tower. You ready for this?

although she she lives in okay oh the big tall uh what is it called not great good well it's way past the timestamp so this didn't help me i'm glad we did this live fantastic content really worked that well yeah we need the exact timestamp uh down to the second yeah maybe he meant the audio timestamp and we're not and i'm looking at the video because that is different oh could be yeah especially if it's patreon that's a totally different spot than the thing so right right anyway he'll let me know come back to it. Yeah, we'll come back. We'll swing back around. We'll put a pin in it and then we'll swing back around later. Like they say in the business world. We'll get the synergy of that at the end of the webinar.

Oh, yeah, that's right. The webinar. We got this. We got this, you guys. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Someone also texted and said, Scott, have you seen American Prime Evil on Netflix yet? No. And the reason I haven't is not because I don't want to. It's a big Western, epic Western thing is just time. but I will get around to it. My understanding is there's a huge Utah connection in there because it's got the whole story of the Brigham Young-led massacre thing that happened out in the... I don't even know the whole of the story,

but there's like a pretty gnarly piece of history in there, and I guess they portray all that. Oh, cool. So that'll be interesting. Betty Gilpin, who's a favorite. Taylor Kitch, Shea Wiggum. Yeah, dude. I'd watch Shea Wiggum in anything.

Yeah, he's so damn good You could tell me I was Kim Coates Yeah, Kim Coats I'd watch him in anything Those two guys You could say hey those two guys Are in giraffe porn

And it's the worst thing you've ever seen I'd still watch it because it's those two guys Is that the first place you go How is that How is that the sheet at the top of the stack of cards Do you think there is any Do you think there's giraffe porn giraffe porn? I imagine there's

porn, there's got to be furry porn with people dressed as giraffes. I mean, probably, right? I'm just going to do it. Are we talking about just two giraffes doing it, or are we talking about somebody doing it with a giraffe? Well, I'm going to, I'm going to do a very quick brief.

Oh, good. Excellent. Of course there is. It's just a beast your algorithm. Of course there is. There 100% is. Gosh, dang it. Why is there something of everything? that's rule 34 though right that's the deal is it uh is it people dressed as giraffes or what is it yes okay giraffe well if you're looking so i see i see results for live action people and dressed as

drafts and then i see a bunch of drawn stuff like uh art oh sure yeah so yeah uh i don't know why i questioned it of course it exists that's the point of rule 34 it all exists all exists if you can think of it yeah there is a kink for it there is um well anyway i have not seen it yet I want to anonymous listener and I will and probably recommend it if it's good on the show here it's Netflix's attempt to make a big epic dirty old western and I'm excited about that so

nothing wrong with that I guess they did that with godless well godless was fantastic speaking of which are you are you into the season the new season of Severance no not yet nope we're pulling off until they're all available to binge I'm not going to tell you who's in it then I'll just say there's a godless connection that's

As you say, is there Michelle Dockery? Nope, not her. Oh, okay. But someone else you really like is in it. Oh, oh, Carrie Coons. Who's the other one? Carrie Coons. No.

No, there's the two. Carrie Coons in it, but it's not, she's not in severance. So it's a different actress. Okay, okay. So I'm thinking somebody else. Yeah. You'll know it. As soon as you see her, as soon as you see her, you'll just go, oh, awesome.

But they've hardly done anything with her yet. So I'm not, it's not a spoiler at all, really, to say she's in the cast, but I'll still let you find out your own. It's fun. Ooh, can't wait. Yeah, awesome. That was great. All right. I just finished season two of the night agent, which is excellent. Oh, yeah.

I heard about that. Kim watched first season. One, and I, you know, I don't feel like I can recommend, you know, I'd want to use a recommendable and just say, well, season two is good, because if you haven't watched season one, you need to watch season one. I move Catwoman. That show is so freaking good. Yeah, you really liked it.

Kim ended up watching it and liking it. I don't know why I didn't watch it, but I'd like to. I saw it's like way up in the rankings. It's like one of the top-rated shows right now, so that's cool. That guy, main dude, who plays The Night Agent, needs to, they got to pull him into the MCU somewhere. Like, he is, he is superhero-looking level dude. Who would you cast him as if you had to pick?

Oh, that's a good question. God, it got to be somebody that hasn't been cast yet that we haven't had as a character. You have to dig down to the roster a little bit, maybe. Yeah, or maybe some of the Fox people that aren't going to come over. Like, he, he could be a good, um, Warren Worthington. Is this the Gabriel Basso guy? Is that the guy? I think so. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Look at him.

Yeah. Have him, have him come in as the new, uh, angel. You know what? Good call. That's great call. Yeah. Did we get, uh, this is a dumb question. I'm trying to remember. In first class, did we have a, did we have a, Angel? I knew, I knew we had, uh, in the first one, Ben Foster was the. Yeah. briefly he was in there and it was kind of wrong the way they did it it wasn't very good yeah yeah and i love ben foster he's not the problem but the way that was written uh yeah i don't know in first class if they did i can't remember i'm trying to remember yeah they rebooted that character or not but um yeah i could see it he's also got a little bit of hawkeye vibe in him if we didn't

already have a hawkeye he'd make a good young uh what's khaki's name for guys clive not clive Clive. Oh, Jeremy Renner? No, the character. What's the name? What's Hawkeye's real name? Clint Barton. Clint Barton.

Clint Barton. He'd be a good young Clint Barton, this guy, I think. Oh, all right. What you think? Look at him there. Yeah. Handsome Clint Barton. He could be a Clint.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he could pull that off for sure. Not that they're going to repute him, but, you know. Funny, Ben Foster and X-Men the Last Stand, Ben Hardy and X-Men Apocalypse. So we didn't get Angel until X-Men Apocalypse, which explains why I don't remember. Sure.

Two bends in a row, though. That's funny. Yeah. Oh, yeah, this guy. Well, he's very young. I don't remember that at all. Why do we not remember him at all? Oh, because I never saw Apocalypse.

That's why. Never saw it. Oh, there you go. Yeah. Don't know why. Just didn't. Yeah, I know. It's just a summer to see.

I mean, I love Oscar Isaac, but my God, that was just the worst pick for for Apocalypse. Yeah. yeah that's what i heard at the time and also it just was like all right x-men you've lost your you've lost the plot where are you guys going it's also like hey you remember that thing we did with quicksilver in the last movie we're going to do that pretty much exactly the same again yeah oh that was that that's why that kid's familiar he was roger taylor in the bohemian rhapsody movie oh yeah he was good

he was good in that he was good in that i was listening to queen yesterday let me tell you something. You're already believe this, I'm sure, but Queen, there will never be, well, if there will be, they need to hurry up and do it in my lifetime. No one is ever going to sound that cool as Queen in a particular

The pairing of Brian May and Freddie Mercury. Mercury. The Mercury and May guitar vocals combo. It's unbelievable. Did you do greatest hits or did you do a certain album? I had a whole play playlist of pretty much everything and it just was like all randomed up and I'd listened for hours and you sometimes just need to do that you get away from like the commercialism of their success and the

you know forgetting about Flash Gordon and just kind of push yourself away from it a little bit and just listen in kind of a raw fresh way and there's nobody like them that just nobody sounds like they do yeah even like no one's duplicated it or copied it or no thank goodness I mean darkness try it a little bit to sound um i think they they sound a little queen like a little queenish queenish you'd say queenie or queenish i'd say queenish all right i like queenish yeah since bisonce told us we shouldn't use the term genre anymore oh yeah well she won for her country thing she did all right the other night well deserved that was such a slap in the face to the country music uh awards yeah that's the fact that the fact that she went from not even getting nominated over there for a very very good album to to to win

winning. I love it. I love it. Kendrick winning for a hate track is the greatest thing I've ever seen in my life. Right. Totally. Yes. They should just have a disc track category. Yeah. The Gravys for now. May as well. And you could have put Drake's in there, but it would have lost horribly because it was sucked compared to his.

Yeah, exactly. I'm excited to see, I don't know what his, like when rappers do the Super Bowl, it's always like I'm not sure what I'm going to get. And I really liked the throwback one with Drey and Snoop and everybody that one a few years ago. Yeah, it was good. M&M and like all standing on little houses. That was awesome. I thought that was really good. It broke my expectations.

So I don't know, I don't know what my expectations are for Kendrick Lamar thing. But I'm actually looking forward to it and to see what he does. I like him. Who else is with him on this one? I don't know. I think they've only said him. So maybe it'll be surprise people, you know. Surprise guests.

Yeah. Yeah, they ought to bring out, uh, I also, don't ask me what drugs I was on this weekend. I wasn't on any, but I would listen to a bunch of Missy Elliott for some reason from the 90s. Yeah. Get your freak out on. Yeah, dude. I love her like reverse audio thing. Yeah. Or whatever it is.

And then I don't know what it is about her in that video where she's like in a big trash bag or whatever the thing is. Yeah, that weird track suit trash bag thing. I'm super into it. from stuff. Put my thing down, flipping, and reverse. Yeah. Yep. I got all into it.

I don't know why. So maybe he'll bring her out, although I think that may have happened with the Dre one or the or whatever that was, the last one. I think she may have come out. I can't remember.

Okay. Anyway, the point is this. We got this text from Toots. Toots McLaren. Toots. Yeah. What's Toots say? He says, good morning, Scott.

Toots again. Do you remember, I think it was a couple back in the early years of TMS. I think he means. years, back in the years. What quizzed you and Brian on TMS Trivia? I think the dude's name was Dave. They fell off

the face of the earth, it seems. Whatever happened to them, you know they had talent, says Toots. I think he means Daryl. Don't you think? Daryl quiz us? We quiz Daryl. We quiz Daryl. Who called us and quizzed us?

Was it the guy from Atlanta who knew everything about our everything? remember that guy he would call and go all right on my list here it's scott one time said uh there's a chicken in the roof what does that mean that guy's name was began with a j and then he came to a nerd tacular and it was like during our q and a segment i said oh well so-and-so had uh wanted to ask us some questions and he pulls out a notebook yeah it's like oh man yeah uh jeremy or jason or uh i don't remember but he was so he was so he was so detailed like it was almost a little freaky how detailed it was and then he I think he just

he shown I think he's shown too bright and then just went poof it was just like I think so too he burned out like he he loved every single thing about our show and then all of a sudden just didn't like it was yeah he's got to go find something else and do that again I'll bet you he's done this six times since us or more I'm sure yeah yeah that's my thinking mr. Rogan on episode number 94. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised. Someone, but in the chat, someone's saying, is Daryl okay?

Yeah, I just talked to Daryl today on Facebook. He's doing fine. He just, he just got to a point where he's like, new stage of my life. I don't need, I don't want to. I don't even think Star Trek anymore. I think Discovery killed him. Yeah, he really had a hard time of Discovery.

Yeah. Kind of ruined his fandom. And like all that stuff ended. He quit doing that show about Star Trek. He quit doing the grumpy old men one. or whatever that was called. So he's, but he's fine, he's out there, he's doing it, still living up in Seattle and holding down the fort.

Doing great. Yeah. No bad blood with us and Daryl. None whatsoever. Yeah. None whatsoever. We try not to have bad blood with anybody. And we only have some like slightly tainted blood with one person that used to come on a lot.

We have, and we have blood of people that, that, you know, that we like that maybe don't like us as much. Oh, yeah. Yeah. definitely happens that definitely happens yeah but we had we had somebody who ideologically went completely off the rails at one point and we had to say yeah we can't do this anymore but it was it was a amicable parting it wasn't like nobody was fighting or farting you know nobody got mad if level-headedness was right here this person went down under that level of level-headedness yeah because you know how we are we're pretty we're pretty centrist around here we're not that

weird. Not that hardcore either direction, but that person. No, we're not talking about, we're not talking about freaking Bloody Sock McGee. Yeah, we're not talking about Bloody Sock McGee. He and I, it's funny, he still sends me Christmas cards. Oh, nice. And we

send him one. But yeah, we couldn't be on different, more different planes right now, me and that guy. That's unfortunate because we had a great time back then. I still have that signed baseball if I ever want to sell it. I'll probably keep it. wherever it is.

Hell yeah. I still have my Pete Rose. I guess my Pete Rose signed baseball is a little more valuable now. Oh, yeah, because he did. Yeah. He did. He did. And he still doesn't remember me.

Yeah, but you can't gamble while you're dead. So think of it that way. Nope, that's true. Exactly. Thanks, Toots. Here's one more. Brian got a pinball update. What's going on?

I do. So a pinball machine re-redux. I completely gutted. the inside of this one, so took out all of the arcade one-up stuff, and I've got basically, so I've got this other, the computer

that the PC that's basically going to be running FX pinball, got that installed, and I think I've got Windows set up so that when I start Windows, it skips the login, Windows login, pin, all that stuff, and just launches FX,

or FX3. three yeah yep and so got that i'm replacing the backglass the you know the the thing that uh i guess i'll point to it oh it's this hand it's this hand over here yes it's not a mirror image it's like it's a i've seen the correct version so this backglass right here is going to be replaced with a screen and then um the pc is going to drive all three screens so the backglass the uh the dmd which is that little it looks like orange LED lights and then the and then the screen itself nice so when you I'm so glad that you described what you meant by gutted because I thought maybe you were sad about something I know I was noticing like you know what I said gutted I'm gonna leave it

yeah I was like oh no it's something break it's like he found out there's rats in there and like oh no man yeah well I'm glad that's awesome there's gonna be so much extra room basically the inside of that case it's going to be monitor and then one little circuit board basically this guy this guy right here oh look at that loo guy

that's the whole thing this is the whole thing and then the PC which will set underneath it that's awesome that's going to be the only thing in that big cabinet area I might at some point

try and figure out maybe maybe get a mini PC and replace it because this is a an alienware rig that I got one of those cleaning machines

he's left over is like I'm keeping this that's awesome but yeah I might replace it with a mini like a little mini PC

that's got some some beef to it my this is you're basically going to that kind of hardware is exactly what I'm going to be looking for similar to that

like with a pie retro pie or something but I'm going to be doing that same thing for that huge cabinet it with a giant monitor is going to have this itty bity thing in there.

A little tidy raspberry pie thing. Yeah, this, all this does basically, this is the this is USB, so that plugs into the computer. And then all of these just each button and joystick plugs into each of these little white, white

bricks. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. I'm excited. I'm way behind. Now I'm behind. Now I've got to get in gear and bring this downstairs. We're going to work on this together, Scott. Perfect day. Actually, it's warm out. I can go out and get that thing and not be freezing doing it. Bring it down here.

There you go. Good day to do it. Yeah. I might do that today. I think I might. You should. Good content for your YouTube's. Yeah. I need to get the need.

Everything's content, you know. Everything's content. That's awesome. Not that I've been using this. Not that I've been doing content with this, but oh well. You may still at some point. You know, as you get closer.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The installation and, you know, maybe putting in the monitor I'm going to do show how I do it. Nice. We'll see. All right, you guys. It's time for some news. And you're just going to have to groove on it. Today's news is brought to you by.

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should have been cloudy cream or something right doesn't sound good though That sounds bad. No, it really doesn't cloudy cream. No, that's thick and liquid in it. As you see that, your giraffe porn is what you do. Gross. Ah, the giraffe porn industry.

When will it ever stop? Krispy Kreme gave a family of free, so they gave him free donuts for a year. So years worth, 365 days worth of donuts after their baby was born in their parking lot. So this tells me two things. One, the hell were they doing there. too, Krispy Cream, I don't think it costs them anything. I think Krispy Cream is almost 100% profit business. Pretty much.

I mean, it's flour, sugar. It's like nothing. And they charge you 25 bucks. There's no little overhead on those donuts. It's like a $25 box of donuts, a dozen, whatever it is now. It's expensive now. It used to be cheaper. They're really expensive.

So they give donuts away. It's your birthday. You got married. You go there and ask me, they'll give you a free dough. It's a day. It's Valentine's Day. come and say, I love you and we'll give you a box of pink donuts or whatever.

This sound kind of good, though. Give me some Lamars. Give me some Lamars today is what I want. After my dentist, I'm going to hard light it over to the nearest Lamar's. Remind me, I don't think we have them here. The Lamars, do we? I don't think you do. Yeah. That's a bummer.

Because when I save my cheat days, I like to do it with something that's worth cheating. You know what I mean? Yeah. Lamar's donuts are worth cheating. Like, that's... They sound good. let's take a look here

Lamar's doughnuts Utah probably not gonna be here Arizona Colorado Kansas Missouri Nebraska Boo yeah

well they have a perfect Yelp rating geez well done guys I'll tell you why their name their slogan simply a better donut

can't can't say it any better than that nice I'd love to try one next time you know what I'm going to Arizona in March or yeah

Sometime in March, I'll, maybe I'll get one. Oh, yeah, right, in Arizona. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, that'll be fun. Anyway, so this is how it went. Bennett, this lady, her real name is Shania Bennett. She told local 12 news about out of Alabama that she feels like superwoman after the affair. The affair, meaning this event. She didn't have an affair.

The birthing, yes. Yeah, yeah. Bennett went to labor on Wednesday. She was having an affair with a donut. Yeah. I know guys that have done that, but that's all I'll say about that. Anyway, the child's father, Keon Mitchell, helped her into the car, started driving to the hospital. Major winter storm in Alabama.

This is during all that horrible, the crazy winter stuff. Made the drive difficult. It definitely slowed us down. He was driving and I was scared. I was thinking I was going to start panicking and driving fast, but he did a very good job. It goes on to say, I don't know how I stayed calm, but I really was scared, says Mitchell. That's the driver. About a mile away from the hospital, Bennett could not wait any longer.

I've been there before, too, but it wasn't a kid. Like Brian at the airport that one time. Remember that? That was fun. Yes. Oh, yeah. I heard about that. Yes. Mitchell pulled over in the Krispy Kreme in Dohan, Dothan, Alabama. Dothan. Dothan. Many doffin spies died to get us that Krispy Kreme. Oh, thank goodness. They were willing to sacrifice themselves.

I felt the baby's head at the red light. So once we got to the Krispy Kreme parking lot, I couldn't stop pushing and I saw him sliding out. Wow, we're getting graphic here. Come grab him. grab him she says uh it's an experience to remember it definitely is the happy couple named the baby dallas and while crispy cream was closed during dallas's birth the manager promised the family free donuts for a year which they have now done oh and to host his first birthday party there oh terrific yeah let's get the kids uh let's get some early diabetes type two

going and uh get them started on the road to diabetes fantastic yeah uh i love that story though I felt the babies had the red light. I was going to say, we tried to go into Krispy Kreme, but they wouldn't let us use the bathroom unless we ordered something. So we went back to the car and had the baby in there. I'm sorry, you're going to have to,

you're going to have to buy donuts. We can't let you use the bathroom. You need to buy a donut, ma'am. I just can't imagine, like, the feeling of knowing that you're in a red light and the thought is that I can feel the head, man. Yeah. Oh, geez.

A car is no place for a baby Just don't have babies and cars Gosh dang Don't have babies and cars I think that car is totaled now right Oh yeah It's like that one my dad got That had the bullet hole in it

And the bullet's still in it And the blood soaked chair I still don't know how we got that And the police didn't impound it I'll never understand it And my dad's not here to ask So I don't know what happened But at the time I just accepted

Whatever explanation I was given But how did we get a car A Buick with a blood-soaked headrest and seat, a bullet exit wound or bullet entry into the far panel and the bullets still rattling around in there. How did that happen? From an L.A. car auction,

how was that not an impounded vehicle taken out of the circulation? I don't know. Right. Right. I don't know. I don't know now. I can't explain it. Here's what I can't explain. We're taking a break.

When we come back, Amy will be here. We've got a book to recommend. And before all that, music, what do you got? Dang it, I wasn't ready because I was so busy. I was focusing on writing a great title. But that's all right. That's all right. I got it right here.

You remember last week we did a lot of bands that had members from other bands that people were familiar. We had Tom Robinson from Aerosmith and another dude. How about Richard Patrick from Filter and Danny Loner, Loner from Nine Inch Nails getting together? filter a nine inch nails you know what you're in for um this is a band called deadly apples okay yeah yeah any kind of like uh disney uh oh like a snow white white kind of thing i didn't even think about that yeah maybe just curious um this is montreal

based rock metal powerhouse uh sure is the this is the brand new single i don't know if there's an album coming but this is just a single it is called volatile here are deadly apples No one gets away We don't need to stay For safety It's all gone We'll strip it away Hysteric

Not safe space It's in your brain All the darknesses In your crazy Now this must be I wake I wake up in this dread I crawl down for my face

I'll fade away now when I see You took everything and now you want me Now there's nothing left Now Force to fade away Made up the virtues When you escape Are you one of us?

I jumped out in face All your skin is dry Storn above my head Now first has me left I wake up in distress I crawl down from my heart My face I'll fade away now

In the sea You took everything And now you want me Now you want it all Now you want it Now you want it all Now you want it

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And we've returned. Who is that one more time, please? inch nails through a filter, you're going to end up with deadly apples. That is deadly apples with the song volatile, brand new single featuring Danny Loner from, uh, from nine inch nails and a dude from filter. Nice. Do you want to take my picture? That's them, right? That's filter. I think so. I won't remember. I was going to say, you know, I could tell you nine inch nail songs. I don't know if I could tell you a filter song. I think that's a filter song. And that's, I think you're right. I think so. And isn't the, I think the lead singer for filter is the

is Robert Patrick's brother the actor oh that would make sense yeah take a picture yes so what so the T1,000's brother is the lead singer I think is the lead singer of filter yeah that's great that must be a fun you know Thanksgiving or whatever sure yeah yeah those two hanging out I was a Terminator

I was a Terminator what did you do yeah what did you do I made some big songs they were like number one for a while do you want take my picture you know that one what's the other one Nice shot man Hey man

Nice shot Yeah that's the other one I liked filter I think I think I did Yeah it's just fine Yeah It's only two songs I can tell you though

I'm honest I can tell you that When I start singing down here And it happens when I do my songs For Film Sack Or whenever I break into song here My cat Anara starts rubbing back and forth

Against my legs Because she thinks I'm wounded And in pain And she's Trana. That's adorable. She says, that noise must be because dad's in pain. So, uh, let's see. I love it.

I love it. That's amazing. Does she do it? Big fluffy cat. No, she's not making it. That's a shame. Uh, well, all right then. You know what time it is? It's this time, right here, this time.

One of the things that I enjoy also is reading. Look who it is. Oh, that won't turn down why. There we go. Hey, look who it is. It's our old pal, Amy, joining us for Read This, a once-a-month thing we do where we try to recommend books

and get you guys off your butts and reading books. Amy, welcome back to the show. Oh, hi, friends. How's it going? How's life in the Red Fraggle life, the Red Fraggle World? Oh, it's pretty good. You know, it's a little hectic.

It's my daughter's senior year, so we got lots of applying for scholarships and shopping for prom dresses. Oh, my goodness. Gosh, yeah, it's such an exciting year, school year. Yeah, always a big deal doing that stuff. Well, good luck with it because that's a pain in the bum, some of that. Yeah, there's lots and lots going on.

Lots and lots going on. Well, that's great. I'm glad to have you back because literature is our middle name here at TMS. Yeah. Actually, I guess it's... I guess our middle name is actually mourning, but we'll take it. Whatever. Anyway, it's good to have you here.

We're going to get straight to it. You've sent me a link here. And now this is a little unusual because it's just like a TikTok. video but I before I play anything you want to say about it before we yeah so I actually I actually want to preface all of this with a story of my own please do lead right into all of that so you know you guys all know that Chuck and I run our you know we're small business owners and so we have our little peeperspuppets dot com and which which does pretty well I'm not gonna you know not gonna downplay it or anything but uh you know occasionally like any other

business we get a customer who's not satisfied and you know we try our best to make right with that you know um but i just wanted to kind of tell this story as a little bit of a PSA like always even if you have to complain because sometimes you do right sometimes you didn't you didn't get your stuff or the stuff you got had a hole in it or you know whatever right if you have to be be kind about it Because you never know, right? Yes, Chuck, we are going to talk about this. Oh, I love it, dude. Chuck is unaware that this is always being told me.

Oh, really? Are we really? Okay. Well, so because there's a reason. So, and I'll be brief. But basically, you know, we had somebody order a pair of peepers, and they ordered it late on the Friday before MLK. Okay. So it was like late afternoon, Friday before MLK. So the next business day would be Tuesday, right? And then that particular week was when there was snow all over the southeast. So literally everything was closed. Like mail was slow. All that kind of, you know, everything was just grinding to a halt. All right. So this person had ordered a pair of peepers and hadn't gotten them yet.

and opened their email, like just coming in hot, right out the gate. They're like, you know, it has been more than two weeks. So I go and I look this person's order up. And Brian, I'm certain you've probably had this experience. Scott, I know that your merch stuff is kind of off, you know, you have somebody else. You have a Dave to handle this for you, but ask Dave. It's all, it's actually all, it's all Taylor now. Oh, it's all Taylor.

Yeah. So, yeah, so that's Taylor. But even before that, even before, well, even now, I still get all the feedback. So if somebody's pissed, I'll know about it. It's rare. So you probably know that too. Yeah, I've definitely gone through this before. It's a pain.

People will exaggerate. And I am certain, I think sometimes people write these emails off of vibes more than they do off of facts. But yeah, so her more than two weeks. Yeah, no. it had not it had not been um and in fact when i looked up the tracking the tracking indicated that she would get her order uh 10 days after she ordered it so it hadn't even been a week you know it had been like a little over a week um so i responded and i said i was like just

very like oh so you know sorry for the delay but you know with the holiday and the snow and everything. Things are behind. You know, here's, here's the tracking for you. I, you know, once it's in the post office's hands, I don't really have control over it. But then I looked and this person's address was like 15 minutes away from my house. So there's the lesson, folks, is because if she had been polite, if she had. if she had been kind I would have

immediately stood up from my desk on and made her a brand new pair of peepers packaged them up for you, gotten in her car and hand delivered them to her for sure. Of course you would have. But since she was going to be nasty, I'm not doing that. Yeah.

And I don't have to. Karma comes back pretty quick when you least expect it. It's one of these situations where her behavior would have resulted in some immediate local karma. And she missed out because she decided to be a poop. Exactly. Exactly.

And, you know, so like I say, and we've had orders like that before where I'm like, oh, man, I actually feel really bad that this went badly, but this person was so rude. I don't want to encourage that, you know, but I'm like, ordinarily I would have, you know, maybe thrown in a couple extra pairs of peepers or something, you know, trying to try to do nice things. for people make up for whatever inconvenience they've had. Costs nothing to be kind, everybody. Just do it. Exactly.

So that leads us into the TikTok I sent you. And the reason why I brought you a... Okay, I have to cover up the chat completely because they're just a distracting bunch of... Yeah. Well, this is a great thing to do, by the way. We have learned over the stairs. This is exactly what we should do.

I had it mostly covered, but I could see, like, the last entry, whatever the last entry in the chat was, I could see it there and it just made me giggle and threw me completely off. So, anyway, so this, the reason why I sent you a TikTok is because this book is like hot off the press and in fact, hasn't even come off the press yet. It is available in ebook form currently, but the audiobook and the print book are still in publishing and they are based off of the TikTok series for the TikTok I sent you and so this is awesome I didn't know I wasn't sure what the connection would

be here but now I'm very curious okay here we go I'm gonna gonna play this let me get it so everyone can see it because they can actually watch it at home for those just listening you'll get the audio here we go hi welcome to hell please proceed your assigned level let me turn her up just a little bit she's kind of quiet how about that okay Okay. I have methods for this. And that made her go silent. Why? What happened there? Apparently, this does nothing. Oh, no. Oh, wonderful. You know what? I'll just refresh it. It should come back.

And I'll mute. Okay, so this is loud as she gets, sorry, right? Please proceed to your assigned level. If you have a problem with the fact that you're down here, please remember, today is not the day, and I am not the one. If you want to continue to make it my problem, you can eat a bag of death. Don't touch me. I have been a victim every day of your life. I have been persecuted because of my beliefs. Oh my God, I turned out drinking with the Valkyries for this. Okay, Karen.

That explains so much, actually. Okay, so you're a hardcore evangelical nationalist, white supremacist, anti-vaxxer. See, that's what did you in Cupcake, and you kicked your daughter out for being gay? Of course, I kicked her out for being gay. I couldn't let the devil's influence into my home. Christians were already being so persecuted. What in Ohio? The liberal agenda was everywhere.

They burned down the Christmas tree in front of Fox News. Oh, no, that was real Jesus and Loki, actually. I hooked up with your daughter in a church parking lot, actually. She's very talented. Joke on that on the way to level six. What the hell is this thing? So they made a book based on this series? Yes, yes.

So the creator's name is J.C. And she created this entire series. I assume that she has worked many, a many a customer service job and decided to create this series based off of oh what if there was a customer service desk in hell and uh what would that what would that look like and i mean it is it's it's like 500 plus something videos and i look forward to them whenever she posts a new one uh so she then has she's done a lot it's it's gone a lot further than just, you know, being able to talk back to Karen's. It's, you know, she's got lore

around a bunch of the different characters who run the help desk with her, some of the demons that are down there and whatnot. And it's great. She does a really good job of building this world and essentially the book then sort of sprung out of this. I love things like this, where some, you know, a creative person just kind of does a thing on a lark, you know, just, you know, oh, this will be fun, ha ha. And then it just blooms into something spectacular. Isn't that kind of how we got like Dungeon Crawler Carl, Carl, is it a good example of that? The other one would be like, Silo, Hugh Howie just on a lark was like, you know what,

I'm going to try this 99 cent Amazon self-published business. Look at that dude now. Like, wow. Yep. Freaking successful as hell. has no sign of stopping. Like sometimes you just got to freaking go for it, you know, do a thing. That's exactly right.

And, uh, you know, so, and that's what she did. And so she, as she was building more of the lore around these characters, she found there were, there were so many stories she wanted to tell about like their backstory, how they got there, who they were, all that kind of stuff. And, you know, so the book is basically the origin story of the main character, uh, who you saw there. Her name is Lily and the inception of the help desk. Because basically, I mean, the book starts with her dying of cancer.

What's the title of this book? Did you say the title? I don't know if we did. Oh, I'm so sorry. Yeah, shit all look.com. It is for whom the bell tolls, but bell spelled B-E-E-L-L-L-L-L-E. That is the title of the book, and the author is J-C-L-L-L-L-N. So J-C-L-L-N, and the author is J-C-L-L-L-N.

There we go. And, yeah. And the name of the series on TikTok, if you want to go and watch more of her TikToks, is called Hells Bells. Again, spelled bells like Southern Bell, which is funny because she's from the Pacific Northwest. So, you know, but it's, it's great. I really enjoy all of her world building. I really enjoy the way she has conceptualized the afterlife. Um, it's, it's very Terry Pratchett in a way because it's like essentially whatever belief system you have, you can choose to be judged based on that belief system. And then either you adhere to that and were a decent person or you weren't. And so you can, you know, earn your paradise, which the main character, Lily, she, you know, she, she, she lives in paradise. She just,

volunteers in hell because it's fun for her. So highly rated. People really like it. It's averaging a 5.0 review from like 7,688 ratings. That's really good. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, it's a, it's a, is this like mind blowing, you know, change the world literature?

No. But is it super fun and engaging? Absolutely it is. And I will say there's there's some, The author has a proclivity for romance novels, so there are some spicy scenes, and in particular, some characters and demons kind of hook up. So, you know, be prepared for that. If you're in hell, you'd hope there'd be some sexy business, you know? Right, right?

Well, I mean, frankly, in heaven, I hope they're sexy business. Because there's not, that would suck, right? Yeah, wherever the sexy business is. get in the way but yeah oh you know practice you never know

what actually maybe it'll help yeah right exactly never yeah yeah yeah yeah I mean

yeah I mean and it's what I really like this is this is kind of my favorite part of the the lore around her

version of hell is that it is a punishment realm quote unquote but the first two levels of

hell are really just therapy. They're just, hey, you know, you kind of didn't, didn't do great with this. And so we're going to help you work on that. And then souls can choose to reincarnate or they can, you know, like some souls choose to just go into the void and just not exist anymore, which is a choice they can make. Um, and, you know, once, once they've worked their way up through, uh, the therapy levels, so to speak, um, they, they can earn the choice to, you know, okay, well, you didn't do so great that time. So go try again. Um, you know, and so I just, I don't know, I, there's something about that that really appeals to me that it's, you do, I don't have to believe that your beliefs are wrong in order for mine to be right, you know? Um, I, I always, I just, I, there's something about that that really appeals to me. Um, and, you know, so, and it's, like I say, it's fun. Um, but yeah, she, she, she, she just wanders around in the afterlife and just out of curiosity, uh, goes down to see what's, what's up in hell and discovers that they have, uh, you know, they have some issues with, uh, some souls that feel a little entitled to not be in hell. And, uh, she's like, well. I have skills in this particular area.

And I've always wanted to be allowed to talk back to some of these people and maybe beat them senseless with a bat. So I'm all in. Yeah. It's also a very, it's like a uniquely, uniquely modern thing to go from a social media series of videos that a lot of people do and are just meant to be sort of throw away like you'll see him and then move on. but then somehow that turned into an idea where you could say, you know, we could make this into a book and these concepts could go further and we could tell a deeper story or whatever and still kind of maintain the, you know, it's a little like, you know, the weekend and post Malone starting on SoundCloud these days and, you know, megastars starting out of nowhere.

Like it's a new kind of discovery and I think it's kind of great to be. Yeah, I agree. I really love it. I mean, Jonathan Colton, same thing, right? Like, he started with, you know, his song a week. Yeah, thing a week. And just putting them up on his website, selling them for 99 cents before Apple Music was even a thing, you know. Right.

So he basically invented iTunes before Apple did. You know, and now he's this huge star, you know, for nerds, but still. Sure. Nerd star. Nothing wrong with a nerd star. Exactly. Big fan of nerd stars. available now on Amazon 1299 on Kindle looks like you can get the paperback as well and it's selling

really well this isn't some little dinky thing it's like doing good yeah and she actually just announced either yesterday or two days ago like I mean within the last couple of days she announced that she's working with publishers like she self-published the first book and now she's moved on she has like a like quote a legit publisher now and so they're have signed her on for a three-book series. Dang. So I'm excited. You know something I just noticed here?

This is crazy. She purchased and lived on a 35-foot sailboat for eight years after college. That sounds awesome, dude. Sounds great. Yeah. I remember that because when I first started watching her videos, she still lived on the boat. And she would, you know, she would intersperse like Hells Bells videos with, like, videos talking about, you know, her boat and the maintenance on the boat and all that kind

of stuff. And, you know, her life kind of took a little turn. And, you know, she was not able to keep the boat. And, you know, so she moved back in with her parents temporarily. And, uh, but I remember when she posted about, you know, selling the boat. And it was, it was really hard for her. Probably a bummer. Yeah. You've fallen in love it. It was. You do that for eight years and you'd love it after that. She was weeping. Yeah. But, um, yeah, but I think it's really cool. I mean, as young as she is, like to just up and do that like i would not have had the courage to be like hey i think i want to do this you know sure um when i was when i was her age so good on her i think it's i think it's awesome that's really cool um check it out you guys it is called for whom the bell toes

bell is told with an e like the name and is available anywhere you get your books yeah don't don't accidentally read like the old one i mean do but you know but but that's not what i'm I wouldn't expect any, I wouldn't expect any spicy scenes out of Orwell, you know. It's a great book, but yeah, you need to know what you're reading before you get in there. I don't think I would want that. You'll get a chapter 8 and go, what was Amy talking about? This is nothing like you said. Right.

Yeah, like what? So yeah, be sure and put the E on the end of the bell. And real quick before I go, I have one more thing. I want to urge everyone to use your public library. You guys, if you haven't been to the library lately, it is, you know, when I think of, when I used to, when I think of the library, I would think of, you know, the dusty card catalogs and, you know, stacks and stacks of shelves and like the plastic covers on books and that, that particular library smell. and then like a big round desk with somebody with like half moon spectacles who is fussing at me about you know not getting my book turned in on time or whatever it's not that now it's not that at all anymore um i as a function of doing this show i realized like you know i'm buying a lot

of books that i'm probably only going to read once and that seems silly right like that's that's what the library's for you go and you check out a book and you read it and you bring it back, like, to-da. So, and I used to have a library card when my kids were little, right? Because libraries are great for that. They always have cool programs for little kids. They'll have like story times and things like that. You know, there's always something going on for little kids at the library.

But even if you don't have little kids, I'm telling you, I went to go sign up for my library card at my local branch. This place was amazing. They had, like, lines and lines of, like, really nice looking computer systems there. They have a fully equipped television studio, like a video-making studio that you can, you could just use. That's awesome. You can, like, shoot, like, broadcast quality TV. They have, pardon me, again, audio recording equipment, same.

You can just go there and use it. They have a maker space. Jeez. with like, excuse me, like crickets and 3D printers and sewing machines, laser cutters. I mean, I can't even express to you like how shocked I was when they told me this. I am sorry. I have to cough. Hold on.

I like the, I like letting everybody know. Yeah. The honesty is amazing. That's great. It's not quite a, you have to take off my headphones and throw up. No. Never forget. Sorry, I just had like that little tickle in my throat thing and I was like, I didn't want to just like be like right over the mic.

Sure. I thought Kim, I also didn't want to just mute out of nowhere and not tell you why. I thought Kim brought home some kind of boat flu because she started coughing in the middle of the night. It was just the change in, you know, humid climate in Mexico to here just makes her so she's got dry throat all the time. But I was like, no, boat flu! Ah! Didn't happen, though. Everyone's okay.

I just had a glass of water delivered too much. Oh, that's nice. Nice. The smile. Sure. It was the dog, not Chuck, everybody. Everyone calmed down.

That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no, the dog's over there. Well, that's great. This looks like another winner. And also libraries, dude, I mean, you won't know until you get into your local one or whatever. And they are going to vary.

Obviously, not all of them are going to have big video suites for kids to learn how to do production video or whatever. That's awesome, by the way. But ours has. similar things and it is so much nicer than you think your library is. We all think of when we were kids and it was just kind of a smelly, dusty place where they've warned you if you didn't return it, you were going to spend a bunch of money and it just kind of was like a cave. It's not like that anymore.

These things are like barns and nobles, but free kind of. Yeah. They're great. And I mean, they have coding labs. They have, and there's all sorts of like, you know, online learning type stuff they offer and it's all free. If you just get a library card and, you know, for your local municipality. And actually, my library, like the Gwinnett County Library, you can get a library card for them, even if you don't live in our county.

You have to pay 40, you know, the one on Peachtree. You know, what's really funny is that there is a library bench near me that's on Peachtree Corner Circle. I love it. which is the most annoying street name. Beach Street Corner Circle. It's awesome. And it's not a circle. It doesn't.

It's not like, why did they name it this? I freaking love that. I also love the callback. That's great. Well, that's awesome. Go to your local library. Support it and, you know, do cool activities there. They have so much cool stuff for kids.

Kim's taking the little ones there all the time. And also you can do the thing with the, for e-books, I forgot the name of the app, but if you have a valid card, Libby, that's it. Libby is the name of the app. There's a thing called Canopy with a K, with a K, like K-A-N-O-P-Y. Movies.

Yeah. You could stream movies for free from your library, you know, and it's just part of your local library service. Yeah, it's awesome. Use them. Use your library. Completely agree. It's really great.

And I've been getting a lot of books that way, which has been super easy. And there were like big titles, like brand new releases and stuff. You know, like a library would be like that. All right. Well,

this is awesome. Amy is always a pleasure. Tell Chuck, thanks for letting us borrow you for the last 20 minutes or so. Tell them thanks for delivering water to you. Hey, when's the film festival?

Oh, soon. Probably today you'll get the link and then we'll talk because you're one of our judges. She's not a reviewer. She's a contestant. I submitted it. She did submit one.

Well, I originally had you picked for judging, too. So we got to make a decision, I guess. Oh, really? Yeah. Because she's our book lady, right? Yeah, these are movies, Scott. Well, no, but I mean, she's one of our,

we're only having people come on to do segments, Brian. You know what I'm talking about? So people who come on the show and do like a segment, I picked for judges. I picked you if it's not, we have to just make a decision if we think it's okay for you to review. I totally find it. Absolutely.

Or not review. I don't know. Amy, how do you feel? What is your meter tell you? Yeah, sure. I will, you know, I mean, obviously I will attempt to, I will abstain from voting on my own submission. And then, yeah, I'm totally down. All right. Well, I think we're going to keep you. We need the breadth. And a couple of women really is what we need. So we're keeping the women. The women and the lamentations. Have a fantastic week, month, day, life, two weeks, however long it is how we see you again. I'll see you. Bye now. See you. That's awesome. This book sounds great.

I think I'm going to check it out. Why won't this close? There we go. Okay. Hey, everybody. That puts us at the end of the show. And here's the deal. Not much to say here except go to our website.

Frogpants.com slash TMS. Some of you will say occasionally, how do I submit songs? Or how do I pick up this link? Or how do I look at your quick TMS thing? Because I forgot the link. well remember that one quick tms.l i but if you don't remember it it's also linked at our website frogpans.com slash tms so my point is whatever it is you think you need it around this show it will be there there yeah it's there in place is right there that's right uh also soonish you'll see tickets up for

tms vegas uh which is also a very easy URL tmsd Vegas you can go there who gave us that again it was the nice donator was that Chuck Oh it wasn't Donator Tanner just said That it was available

So I went and bought it Oh I thought Someone bought it for us It's gonna be 50 bucks a year No nobody donated it to us That thing's 50 a year Damn Not Vegas

What do they call that a TLD Top level domain Yep I think that's right I didn't realize Those were so expensive Some of those are cheap Like

But worth it TMS dot Vegas Come on Totally worth it. Why wouldn't you get it? Well, anyway, that'll be soon. So watch for those. All the details are up there, though, already about what we're doing and stuff. So watch that for changes, details, tickets, all that stuff.

That's it. I think we're out. Brian, do you have a song? Let's do a song. I do. Man, you guys, for as light as parts of January were, this first week of February is top-loaded. A lot of you have birthdays this week. and I'm going to try and get to, I'm going to get to as many as I can, which is five,

and then push some of them to next week. So if you don't hear your birthday request this week, I promise you will get everybody's birthday request will get played this month, even if it's a later week. Are there a lot of birthdays in this time of year that you have to sift through every year? It seems like there are in the Tadpole and in my house. Yeah, it feels like we got a July. First of Tina's birthdays on the 6th. So we have like a lot of early ones, and then we have a lot of July, mid-year stuff.

It feels like, I don't know how much we have late in the year, but it feels like there's like these two bumps where everybody got born. This is definitely a big bump, yeah. Anyway, Cage wrote in and said, Hi, Bosque and Sise Noodles. Nice reference there. Could I please hear a cover of this must be the place from the talking heads for no other reason except it's always had a special place in my heart? Oh, yeah, and because it's my birthday. Sorry, must be getting old by Mr. like Mr. Miyagi and drinking. too much glape signed cage

oh so you want a glape we can give him a glape I think you want some mr. Miyagi too but you don't have that on your board anymore not like I used to but it's pretty easy to find we just have happy dershday yeah let me give you the let's give you a okay so let's give you one of these here if I can find it this one yeah

that's it oh there it is happy boss did okay and then we did was the other one called glape we haven't heard glape in a minute let's see here it is Glepe. Gleap.

Most racist use of grape we've ever heard. For sure. All right. Well, this must be the place. My favorite talking head song, hands down. What a great. What a fantastic song that is. This is a version that came out on record store day.

So this is one I only have on vinyl. There were these 45s you could get that had the original version on one side and then a cover on the flip side. They called them side by side. It was really cool. concept. They don't do them anymore. Bummer. Anyway, this was one of them. It's by band called Wilding. Here is, This Must Be the Place. Home is where I want to be, pick me up and turn me around. I feel now, born with a weak heart, guess I must be having fun.

The less we say about it the better Make it up as we go along Feet on the ground Head in the sky It's okay I know nothing's wrong Nothing Oh

You got light in your eyes is where i won't be but i guess i'm already there i come home she lifted up her wings i guess that this must be the place well i can't tell one from another did i find you where you find me there was a time before we were born if someone's This is where I'll be We're out Oh We drift in and out Oh

Oh Singing to my mouth Letting the days go by Letting the days go by Into the pool again Once alive Let the days go by Let the world and hold me down

Once in the lifetime Water's falling under ground After the money's gone Let the case go by Water's flowing on the ground Once in a lifetime Once in a lifetime Oh

I'm not plenty of time Oh we got running lives And just standing here beside me I read the first day of time Never for money Always for love Good night

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