The Morning Stream - TMS 2785: Dowsing the Chilli

Episode Date: February 25, 2025

These TMS Vegas Prices are INSAAAAANE. They Really Hurt When You Put Them In. Swag Bag Mule. Fibrous Soda. SLAPPIN GLOVERS BALLS. Slow bullet she wrote. What Happens in Vegas is Happening in Vegas. That's My Tongue. Sodamucil. Who's That Pokemon? Warlock stains. Blubber from Nintendo 64. Judge Brain. I like games of Cheeeeeeeese. Hairless Cask Hole. The Eyes Have It with Dan and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If potatoes could talk, they might warn you against French fries or potato chips because, as we know, those things are murdered potatoes. What they would ask you to do instead is to support TMS at patreon.com slash TMS today. Coming up on the morning stream, these TMS Vegas prices are insane. They really hurt when you put them in. Swagbag mule. Fiberous soda. Slapping Glover's balls. Slow bullet, she wrote.

What happens in Vegas is... happening in Vegas. That's my tongue. Soda Musil. Who's that Pokemon? Warlock stains. It sounds like a Pokemon. It does.

Blubber from Nintendo 64. Judge Brain. I like games of cheese. Hairless cask hole. The eyes have it with Dan and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Nobody's saying you can't own a gun. Nobody's even saying you can't carry a gun. All we're saying is you can't carry a gun in town.

Try getting the operator. I think maybe that was the operator. The morning stream. You are listening to Adele de Zeme. Hello, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is February 25th, 2025. We've got a 25-25.

going on here. Oh, look at that. Yep. 2525. And looking forward to this one. It's a, it's a 225. Oh, uh, 2.0.25. Oh.

So close, you know. We're getting, it's, you know, enough to. It's fun. Yeah, enough to call it out, I suppose, right? Exactly. Exactly. We're not going to party or eat any food or anything, but it's, you know, barely enough to call it out.

Sure. Just enough over the edge. Uh, we hope you're all well. Hope you're all doing good. It is the morning stream with me and Bron. Brian, hi, Brian. I'm Scott. How are you? I am, Brian. Yes. You may have heard of me. Yeah. Why? What have you heard? Well, it's the rumors going around are that we have TMS Vegas fully in action right now.

Yes. You might say to yourself, hey, Scott and Brian, when are those tickets available? Well, as hinted yesterday, they're available now. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's right. Here, here's a big holder image for it just for funsies. If you guys go to the following URL TMS.Vegas, you're going to have to scroll all's the ways downs on the page, but you will find it. Down there it says, whoops, it won't show up on the screen. Hold on. There we go. Just pull that up. As you can see at the very bottom of the page, buy a ticket is currently linked. There it is. It's an active link. That's right. Now you might say to yourself, Scott, why isn't this just up on the TMS page? Oh, it's there too. We're not making it hard for you. You'll find it no matter where you need to go.

So you can go find that at frogpants.com slash TMS. Either of these two locations will get it. I'm not telling you to click that swag bag only thing, but you might want to just for fun. I'm not going to, but I don't let people experience that on their own. Sure, sure. That's a good time. And that's an important note to make here.

When you go to get your tickets, you'll notice that the swag-only option is not up there yet. That's because we need to get a full count on what we're doing with regular tickets before we do. They are less than last time. They were 69 bucks last time. We have dropped that price to $59.99. What?

Why are we doing that? Because the rest of the world inflates while we deflate, okay? Because we're crazy. That's right. Look at the swag, though. That's a mock-up. I'll get the real version once they're printed. But the coin this year is going to be awesome.

Very excited. We got a challenge coin, big thick one. We got new shot glasses this year with a big old frog pants frog on there. Nice. We got a couple of stickers, a die cut stickers, one of this year's

key art of me and Brian standing in front of the Las Vegas sign, Brian pointing at it, which is now the tradition of pointing. This is artwork I created a while ago.

We got Mario stuck in the Last of Us universe turning into a zombie mushroom head sticker. That's also in there. Carter's providing a print this year, five by five inch this year, and that's her capturing a monster

with a net. And there's me licking a Kirby-based ice cream cone. That is you. That is your tongue. Yeah, that's my tongue just for the record. Yeah, see how the weird little bumps on it? It's totally accurate. And also by popular

demand, we have a coaster this year based on the art as well. So all of these things in your package and less than last year and available now, but they will be limited. So get in there while you get them or while you can. If you're coming to Vegas, now's your time. Here's your chance.

All right. So again, TMS.Vegas or frogpans.com slash TMS. Either one. Brian, there's that. We've done that now. Oh, cool, cool. Right? We've done that. I think we've done that. I think we've covered it. Yeah, I don't think there's much else to say. We can say more about the tickets, but why would we? Let them roll in. Oh, and per usual, this is important. The way it works is you'll buy them. You'll have an email that confirms it all. That's all you have to do. When you get to the event, we have both your order number and your name. So it's on a list.

You just say who you are. Check it off. Bam, you got your stuff. Kim or Carter, whoever's going to be handed them out this year, we'll be giving them out. And since we're doing the board games early or a day earlier than usual. Are we? Tuesday, right?

I thought you told me. You can tell me that? It is Tuesday. Were we doing Wednesdays? I guess we were doing Wednesdays for the board games. I thought you had to move it a day early because they had another event scheduled at the. I did last year. Maybe I just kept it there this year.

Oh, I don't know. I thought we had a conversation about this. Maybe I may have it wrong. I might be, yeah, you know, I've been drinking. Either way, Tuesday, she'll be there to hand them out and give everybody their stuff. So you're not going to get this stuff in the mail. Although, when we have swag-only options, those people will get them in the mail. That's how that works. Okay.

Anyway, we're on that as we get there. All right. We got a phone call. Got to play this. Great. All right. Is this, did this come to us? What is it?

It's a voiceline. Dot app slash TMS, right? It is voice cast. VoiceCast. Dot app slash TMS. Yeah. Caste. Cast.

You gotta remember it's cast. Like podcast. Like the die has been cast. The die has been cast, sure. What else? The cast of Saturday Night Live. Sure. I'm wearing a cast.

Oh, except for Danny Carvey, Bill Hader and Dan Aykroyd for some reason. They should do their own thing. They should just do a little. one-off special. I would watch that. I heard Danny Carvey was exhibiting signs of the flu, so he didn't do he didn't show. Yeah, and Martin Short ended up getting COVID at

the 50th. No way, really. Yeah. Which is, you know, he's no young chicken anymore. You got to be careful. He's not. No, he's got to watch out for that sort of thing. Probably got it from Steve Martin. I mean, he's, you know. Well, they're always making out. Martin's teat. Suckling at his

stuckeling at Steve's teat. Yeah. Yeah, you worried there's a little bit of a spreader event there, right, all these comedians getting COVID? Totally. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Who at the Saturday Night Live 50th would you want to get COVID from? Like if you're getting to, you're never going to get COVID.

Who's COVID do you want? I think I want, uh, man, I think I want, well, Blake Lively was there. She didn't say much. No, she's pretty quiet. Um, I think, let's see. The audience was full of, I think I would take Ryan Reynolds, you know, that's, listen, I'll, I'll take Ryan Reynolds. Oh, Scarlett Johansson, yep. Was she there?

Listen to what signior? I did, oh, she was totally there. She even did, like, she did a couple sketches. She did the one with, uh. I mean, I get that she's with Jost and everything, so it makes sense, but is it awkward because her ex is there. Ryan Reynolds is there in the audience. It must be a little weird, you know?

I don't know. You know, never, he seems, they both seem like they're doing just fine. Like, there's no, there's no like, oh, man, this person definitely did better than the other. Like, yeah, they both kind of did just fine. Yeah, I'd take it from her. She can give it to me. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah, she going to give it to me.

Anyway, so we're going to play this. This is a call about a weird dude and good soda. That's the only way I can describe this. And it's Nick from Western Massachusetts who is calling in, and let's hear what he has to say. Hey, Scott and Brian, Nick from Western Mass here. Something really weird and gross happened to me while I was grocery shopping. Gross, grocery. Okay, sorry. So I saw a guy, rather older gentlemen, at the hot bar, looking to buy some kind of hot food. This is the gross part. He goes over to the macaroni and cheese, takes the tongs, grabs some of the macaroni and cheese, places it into his hand, and then licks it off of his hand. I can't be sure if said tongs, said tongue, and said cheese of macaroni all touched, but it was disgusting. I turned away very quickly, and then about, Five minutes later, I also then happened to see the same gentleman now perusing the chili at the soup section.

And this is the weird part. I look over, and I'm not kidding when I say this, he is spinning a small crystal ball over the chili, thinking very hard to himself about whether he should buy the chili. I don't think he bought the chili. In any event, I'm not entirely sure what that was all about. I think it might have something to do with dowsing, but I won't try to figure that out here. Lastly, I will say when it comes to the newer soda discussion, I am a huge olipop fan, and the cherry cola is my jam. Highly recommend it.

You really can't tell the difference, in my opinion, and only five grams of sugar. Thanks. Love the show, though. Bye. Ollipop? Ollip. Yeah, I'm interested checking out Ollipop. Doesn't ring a bell. Let's see. Never heard of it, but I'm seeing O-L-I-P-O-O-1 word. healthy prebiotic drink it's another prebiotic yeah high fiber less sugar delicious flavor high fiber

they sure don't do a good job of making the cans look tempting though do they no they all look like the cherry one looks kind of cool but the rest of these are boring i guess it's all nostalgia but uh yeah they look like old school 50s stuff it doesn't doesn't it a little bit they do oh they have a crisp apple oh brian you like a crisp apple don't you i do i love an apple soda and i i i'm bummed that The only thing you can do is get Manzanita Soul, but... That classic grape, I would drink that. That's right. Peaches and cream.

Looks like it's available at Target, Whole Foods, Walmart. All right, cool. I might go get some... God, I want a... Find in the Soda Isle. I want a... They have a Dr. Goodwin, by the way. The names are just getting further and further from Dr. Pepper.

Like, you know, Dr. Thunder. I guess it was always At least they have other These are all doctors Mr. Pib never made sense to me Mr. I mean Mr. Pib Kind of was the original one of these wasn't it? Yeah, I guess so

Yeah, these all these look good I mean they look I don't know I look like I get made fun of by a gym rat Some guy would just see me drinking this and go What are you, a lady? Yeah, he'd do bro on me But I'll try these, I'll go get them

What does he know? Yeah, it looks like looks like the Target fairly close to me has these, so. The the claim of high fiber is a little concerning because why is there fiber in there? Does that make chunks?

What are we talking about? Sotomusal. Oof, I don't know about that. Looks like the target near me has cherry cola, grape, gleepe, root beer, cream soda, lemon, lime, and strawberry vanilla.

But no, no, I repeat, no, apple. Well, then they don't know you very well, do they? Those jerks. Exactly. Exactly. Real quick, that story about the guy, that is gross. Licking your hand, licking the macaroni off your hand is disgusting.

Why would you do that? Yeah. They have, also, most grocery stories, they're like a little sample things. So you just, you could sample it. Well, sample pop or something. Yeah, right, exactly. But, I mean, it's mac and cheese. Is it, do you really need to take, let's see, it's an amusing vintage, not too presumptuous,

good mouth feel. I think I will buy a pint. Yeah, it's very weird. And then him holding a crystal ball over the chili to see whether he'd buy it or not. That I can't give you an ex. I don't know what's going on there. I'm reading something. The spirits are talking to me.

They're saying, you're going to go to a different grocery store from now on. I don't know why anyone does. Why anybody thinks a crystal on a string is going to do shit for them. I'll never get it. I'll never get it. Dowsing, though. I don't want to give, look, I don't want to yuck anybody's spiritual yum. If you're into that stuff, that's great.

I'll have to do that if you like. But if you want to explain it to us, like in plain terms, why you think a crystal does shit, well, then let me know. I'd love to know because I think it's bull crap, that stuff. Yeah. I don't like it works. They are pretty. I'll give you that, Jeannie. She's right.

Hang them in your car, you know, you see the people with a little crystal going. I like those. They're a little distracting, but I like them. you know the chandelier covered in crystal hanging crystal unit deals look you got a ball right there

show us your ball Brian show us your ball right there it's a crystal ball with a who's the the the the Pokemon with the like hacking is it hacking

uh someone who's like in a cloud of it's the black one with a purple cloud oh I have no idea is the original original 150 that guy or yeah yeah no idea

I'm so bad at those. Let's see if there's a good view of them, right? Nope, I thought that would be a good view of them. Flea Borg. Weising? I think wheezing. Okay. Coffing, says the chat.

Coffing with a K? Hold on. Let's see here. Let's take a look. Let's go to the, let's go to the poker text. Yeah, go ahead. Let's make it real. Let's get it right.

We don't like to have fast this stuff. It is not wheezing. It's, let's see. Gassley. Gassley, that kind of makes a sense. It is that. It is Gassley. We have a winner. Congratulations going to. Becca Albright was the first to say Gassily. Well done. You get credit to Multi Beast. You were late, but you knew. You were late, but you knew. And so I'll hold this up. This will be part of my, this will be in my thumbnail today.

I like it. Yeah. This is really cool. Somebody got this for me. And then I went and bought a, a little light, like a USB powered rotating display that's got a light coming up from underneath. So it actually. lights it up really cool. Did they have, like, can I get a little fetus version of Pikachu and stuff like that in those kind of balls? Is that a thing? Why a fetus? You mean like a right chew? Well, no, I mean like, oh, I guess you capture them.

They're not like, yeah, they're not like eggs, I guess. I don't know why I'm thinking of it that way. This is like those things in the mall where it like, it's a weird three-dimensional image of you and your family encased in resin. Mm-hmm. Yeah, but this is like done with pixels and stuff, lasers or whatever. However they do it. That'd be cool, though.

If you had 150 of those, they all had each Pokemon up to 150. And this is heavy glass. This is not, this is not. Oh, I thought that was rubber. Oh, yeah, look at that. You could do David Bowie juggling type stuff. Totally could, yeah. I don't have anything to, like, give it a glass sound because it's solid.

it is solid glass like this thing weighs a good couple pounds it would hit your foot and hurt that we know that we know that we know that we know easing another gasly there you go we also got a call from another nick two nicks all right none of them are mine i'll take you out the grocery store just checking out the match of cheese some guys give me dirty looks from down the way i know i was trying to i was using my crystal i don't what the problem was, everything was fine. Anyway, this is what he says. Hey, Scott, it's Nick from Ottawa,

aka your gross human warlock you sprayed with. You were talking about cold food. What's good cold? Wedge fries. I don't know what it is, but cold wedge fries, really good. So when he said wedge fries, just talking about like the,

like they're cutting to, what do we call those here? Yeah, like basically wedge fries. I call them wedge fries too. Like it's a... Sounds wrong to me, but I get, you know, regional probably uh we i think we just call those not steak fries those are different um right red robin has steak fries wedge fries are just uh oh just like potato wedges yeah like potato wedges sure okay yeah

we just never call them fries i guess we just call them potato wedges but wedges are really good now cold though let's think about that for a second yeah see then they get because they're cooked and then they cool off they get floppy and i i want my fries uh crisp yeah i don't know i i think i'm not with them on that. Chop it up, put it with some eggs in the morning. Oh, well, then you go. But then you're cooking them, right? You're still eating cold with eggs.

If you're cooking them with eggs, yeah. But, I mean, if you have them on the side and you kind of mash them up and they're cold, you might, that might be all right. Overall, though, I can't, I can't abide by this. I can't get behind that. Yeah. That's a Canadian thing, I'll bet you. It might be.

Are you putting hot gravy and cheese curds on it? Then I'm in. Then I think we've got something there, but. Well, I will say this. I'm very grateful. that Blizzard made it possible for Alliance to play with Horde because if it wasn't for that and our raid team, we would not have a gross human warlock with us. So, Nick, I'm glad you're there.

I look forward to more. So he's gross because he's a warlock. Oh, yeah, he's disgusting. Warlocks are gross. They smell. They leave a stain wherever they go. They make those little. Yeah, it's science.

Exactly. We'll all be back in there on the fourth, I think, or whenever we're, I think that's our first night back. and Tanner and I are attempting to raid or tank together while Bobby moves to a DPS role for the next season. Yeah, he's been wanting to do that. So they're basically switching bodies. He's going to be, he's going to play an arcane mage. And Tanner's going to play a paladin like me and we're going to tank.

And we'll see how we do. We don't know. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But Nick, the gross human warlock will be there. Poor guy. He's great. Then I got this third call, which makes no sense to me.

So let's see if we can peel this. I love it. I love it when it's telling where we're playing detective. Yeah, because I don't know why he called it in. It went to the TMS line. That's the beauty of this new thing as it goes to the right show. So this isn't meant for some other show. I thought maybe play retro, but it doesn't seem to be a mistake in its short.

It's like a second and a half. Here it is. Blubber from Nintendo 64. Blubber or lover from Nintendo 64. Oh, lover. Blubber. I'll try it again. Glover for Nintendo 64.

Glover, maybe? Glover? Was there Glover? Glover for... Sounds like Glover. G.L. Was there a game called Glover? Not that I know of.

No. Let's look it up. Glover for N64. A couple people saying Glover. Let's see. That says N60. Take the L out of Glover. Oh.

And it go over. It is a game. lover yeah yeah this is it right there oh it's a disembodied hand yeah disembodied hand he's oh because we're talking about hamburger helper embodied hands yeah yeah oh shit now it all makes sense see this is why we do the detection the detective work right got to figure the shit out exactly exactly so him thing from the adam's family the hamburger helper uh hand uh what else do we come up with anything else? I can't remember now. I think that, was that it? I don't like this

Glover, by the way. I'm looking at it right now, and I just don't like it. I don't like anything about it. I wouldn't like the pinky, at least in the box art, the pinky and the the thumb are the same thickness and length. Nobody has a hand like this. Nobody has a hand like this. And there's also just four fingers and it bothers me a little bit.

Yeah, I don't like it. Not a fan. Here's an image that tells you what you do. The player uses Glover's slap, in quotes, maneuver on the rubber ball in the Nintendo 64 version. So you just, what, slap a ball until it goes where you want it? Slap the ball. Yep. That sounds like bullshit. Don't want to play it.

Extra for that. Yeah. Extra. Extra 10 on the table for that. 10 bucks. Yep. Exactly. Well, all right.

We figured it out. Thank you. Whoever sent that. We got no name. So I appreciate it. If you want to send your own message in, voice cast. App slash TMS. Do it today.

I love the way those sound, though. They're great. Oh, they're great. Feel free to do more than just leave a four-word message. Yeah, you can do whatever you want. But we prefer them. Well, I'll tell you what, there's a happy medium. If you're doing two and a half minutes, probably not going to play that one either.

Right, right. But if you're going to do a second long, we're probably going to be either confused like this or not play it at all. But if you give me something in the 10 to 20 to 30 second range, oh, sweet spot. baby perfect perfect exactly yeah that's the target get in get out there you go that's right get it done all right brian yes sir follow up last week i think it may have been tms friday you said this oh it was yeah because it happened Thursday late thursday night yes so somebody's shot a bullet went to your house your mom's house hit a wall behind her that's right and you window in one room and then went through a wall behind where where she was sitting yes and so since then i was

curious if there are any updates or any new information. So I went over there, Tina went over there and hung out with her for a while and installed some light fixtures and stuff like that. It was basically, you know, like, hey, while you're here, could you do this and do this? Which is fine, totally fine. Happy to do it. Some of you guys get to meet her, by the way, at TMS Vegas. She's like 2018.

Yeah, 2018. She came to that bar at the, what was that bar? It was the... I really liked it. I know, so cool. The roadhouse? Roadhouse, half outdoor, half indoor kind of thing. Yes.

Everybody, when we weren't up doing our show on the stage and watching Bob Laugh, Bob Logg, the third, in his flight suit with his telephone glued to his head playing box guitar, that whole thing, just amazing. Still the wildest performance we've had it. event of ours without a doubt yeah nothing comes close it was great like I mean he sounded awesome and the music was really good it was just so cool yeah he was unbelievable really good so anyway so we went over there Saturday and uh and I got to see things first hand I was able to

somewhat do the dexter thing where I like okay I didn't put up actual red wire but I did like stand in front of the window where the bullet hole is and then kind of turn around and look at where the hole in the wall was and then kind of position it back to see where it must have come from. And it's way too high for the house across the way to have shot it directly because it would have been more of a more of a straight shot with a little bit of decay going down. This was a full-on arc. So I think it must have come from further. It was a 45 bullet. And so I think it may have been from either one street over or even the back of the house to two houses down. So not the house across the way, but the house on the other side.

Interesting. So we still had the theory still that there's some idiot kid out there dorking off. Some probably. Yeah, definitely not somebody shooting at her because. that angle, there's so little way to predict that arc that it's going to make. Unless they were in a, unless they were in like a helicopter hovering, like that angle, you wouldn't be able to shoot directly. And plus, where she was sitting, you can't see from outside.

So somebody, this is not somebody trying to, trying to hit my mom. The other thing that made me feel a little bit better was where the bullet went through the wall and then landed. it wouldn't have had a lot of velocities still going because of how where it landed on the ground behind the chair in which she was sitting so if she were sitting a little bit further back yeah it would have it would have maybe uh it definitely would have left a bruise but i don't know if it would have broken skin because it would have lost a lot of its velocity when it came through that wall sure it was on the ground bouncing when it went when it landed behind her so it was it was low, but still, I mean, you know, regardless of, that is just a thing to kind of make us all feel

better, like, all right, well, if you were sitting a little bit further back, it wouldn't have killed you, but it definitely could have, would have left a mark. Could have hurt. But, uh, so that just makes us feel better, but still, you know, the police have the are the po-po, oh, the people are going to ask with the police on it. Yeah, they're, I don't know if we're going to hear anything about it. They went nessed around in the street over. and they said that nobody

heard or saw anything. That's wild, man. Sean Bloom says there's an episode of murder she wrote that's a lot like this. Oh, really? The good news is we're talking about, it's more like slow bullet she wrote. There's no, you know.

It's not nearly as dark. GD. says, how do it go through the wall and the window? So the window hit the window first, very little resistance. Yeah. Broke. You basically did a bullet hole shot. Oh, that's what I was going to ask. It didn't like shatter, right? Just like a little...

It's shattered, just like left a little hole. Bullet through the window first and then through the... Through a wall opposite the window. And the splintering and stuff is pretty... That'll slow your bullet down. For sure. Especially that old... It is that old wood paneling that's got the black vertical stripes every plank width.

Yeah? Yeah. Well, it looked... I mean, I don't have the... photo anymore, but it looked, it's just scary to see a freaking pole hole in her house. Yeah, I don't like that at all. But she's doing okay then, right? That's the point.

Yeah, she's getting sleep now. She wasn't for the first night or two, just from worries about it. But she and I are, yeah, we did a lot of hugging on Saturday. Oh, that's sweet. Yeah, yeah. Well, moms, man, you know, you got to. Yeah, you got to protect them. You got to keep them close.

Yep, keep them close. Keep them, keep them, what's the word? Keep them. There's a phrase. Keep it. I'm thinking, keep it secret. Keep it safe, keep it secret. I'm thinking a Lord of the Rings like a dumb ass.

Oh. That's not it. Don't keep your mom secret. All right. Yeah, please don't. Please. I asked her, this came up, hanging on a conversation with my mom at dinner at my sister's house the other night.

We were there for a big family get together. And she said, she's eaten. And I said, hey, do you remember, I go, you know my co-host on the morning stream Brian she goes yeah and I go his mom they got a bullet came through the house didn't hit her or anything but you know I told her the story so that's pretty scary isn't it she's like yeah that reminds me of that car and I went are you talking about the one with the thing she says yeah I would never drive it your father thought I should drive it I was never going to drive that car car with the bullet hole yeah she goes I refuse to do it I wouldn't drive it and I was like mom

I think I drove it to school a couple of days like I like parked it at the school with the blood with the blood caked into the thing. Really? Oh my gosh. Yeah, because I was young and stupid. Anyway, so that story got around a little bit. Well, all right. Apparently so. Yeah.

There is some, there was an update. I just went there and, you know, did my best Dexter to figure things out. But, uh, uh, scary stuff. Yeah, it is. Watch out. Guns are everywhere. It's time for the news brought to you by. Need an art committee.

hoping for something particularly awesome will give Carter a swing at miss carter.art and see what she can do for you that's right she's very busy with commissions right now but she is taking more if you're interested in her particular style which is very very good she lapped me years ago so go go get in there get it done I want second dinner to hire her for a bunch of Marvel snap cards she'd do it in a heartbeat she'd work there in a heartbeat like that she her stuff would be amazing for those. Like, that would be another set. I think I've got just about all of the Scotty Youngs, and I do now have all the Flaviano, whatever that guy, Flaviano, artwork ones. Because I wanted, if you collect all the Flavianos, you get an emote, an emote that you can use during game,

and the one I got is Galactus going, okay. So whenever somebody does, like, a flex, like, like the Ms. Marvel, like, or the, black suit, Spider-Man, going, woo, I just reply with, Okay, okay, okay, I eat your planet, okay?

I'll send you a photo. It's such a great emote. It's fantastic. That's great. I love that. I like anything where Galactus is like that. There's nothing they can come back with that amount. No, there's no coming back from that.

Are you kidding me? No. Forget it. All right, well, let's get to some of this news here. Calling a man bald. Uh-huh. Is sex-related harassment, according to an employment tribunal? Sex-related harassment.

Sex-related. Okay, I need to know more. Meaning, I think, I would probably, the term gender-related would probably be more accurate because men suffer from, you know, early baldness. Some women do. That's true. But they're saying it's specific to men. Anyway, here's what it says.

Hair loss is much more common among men than women. So using it to describe someone as a form of sex-related harassment, a judge. judge has concluded or a judgment has concluded according to the study making a remark about a man's baldness at work is the same as making a statement about a woman's breast size really that's what they're saying i don't know man i disagree i kind of do too but as a bald man call me bald i'm bald i'm not like i'm i'm not hiding it with a toupee i'm not wearing beanies or anything like that to cover it up i'm fully fully uh aware that i'm bald and I accentuate it by

you know really give any good shave and stuff trying to figure out where this is from oh it's British so this happened in Britain this ain't here but breast size is such a it's such a not a personal thing I mean it is a personal thing but it's such an aggressive thing

because you're either commenting that that they're you know that they're large and you know like a flirty hit on kind of thing or you're commenting that there's no nobody says you know what

you've got the right size breasts no and then even that is like a is like a come on it's like there's no there's no appropriate well obviously there's an appropriate way but there's no positive way to do that bald dude your head looks really

well shaven today thank you I shaved it today yeah there's a neutral there's a neutrality to it too and there's no neutrality to your breast size And there's nothing that you can say that it's like, oh, yeah, it's very normal for us to sit around and talk about whose breasts are the right size or not. That doesn't make any, it makes no sense. Here's what it says. The ruling made by a panel of three men.

I wonder if they were bald. It doesn't say if they were bald. Right, exactly. Anyway, it says making their judgment, lamented their own lack of hair. Oh, they are bald. Shit. Comes in case. I thought that was going to be not the problem, but they are bald, it says.

Anyway, came or comes in case a case between a veteran electrician and the manufacturing firm where he was employed. Tony Finn, who is in line for compensation, had worked with the West Yorkshire-based British Bung Company. Love it. British Bung Company. BBC, you know. That's amazing. I love the word bung. It's awesome. Bung, I know, yeah. 24 years he was at this place when he was fired last May. He took the company and did the tribunal claiming, among other things.

had been the victim of sex-related harassment after the incident with the factory supervisor Jamie King. Finn alleged that during the shop floor row in July of 2019, King had referred to him as a bald seword. Yeah, okay. Now, over here, that's a little more harsh. Over there, it's just kind of sling. Exactly, right.

It's like, you're such a, they use it like, ah, what an ass. That guy's such an ass. Yeah, you bald ass. It's like saying that. Yeah. But for us. Oh, yeah, you can't use that word here. No, not.

like that. And if you do, you better talk about yourself. You know, he can't really use it against somebody else. Anyway, the tribunal heard Finn was less upset about the Anglo-Saxon language than the comment about his appearance. The allegation resulted in the panel led by Judge Jonathan Brain. You know, like people mess up to Brian, but Brain for real. But Jonathan Brain. I bet he gets a lot of Jonathan Bryan's. Yeah. Judge Brain. for no reason. Anyway, deliberately on whether, or deliberating on whether remarking on his baldness was simply insulting or actually some form of harassment.

Quote, we have little doubt. Being referred to in this pejorative matter was an unwanted conduct as far as Finn was concerned, he says, and the tribunal found, this is strong language, although we, as we find, industrial language, industrial, yeah, industrial language was commonplace in the West Yorkshire factory floor. In our judgment, Mr. King crossed the line by making remarks. personal to the claimant about his appearance. So basically it's anything you say about the guy's appearance and you're going to go to the judge and get a... It's just funny that, you know, over here

I'd be much more insulted by the seaword. You know, they were to call me, that Brian is such a bald seawart. Yeah. Way worse. I'd be like, okay, take offense. I don't care. But...

Yeah, put any adjective there. Yeah. Say ugly, say old, say anything sea word. I don't mean you. I said I was fine with bald. I don't mean you. But you put any adjective before that sea word and call anyone that. Over here, the part, the first part isn't the problem.

The seward is the salt. Yeah. You know, everything else is, you know, paprika and oregano. But boy, that that, that's, that seward is the, is going to make the wound hurt. Yeah, it really ramps. things up. Anyway, I guess good luck to Tony Flint, Finn and his new fame. You're better off not being at the British bung company anymore. Maybe, uh, what does bung mean over there? It's like a, it's an electrical, uh, stopper or something or a hole. I know that

like there's a nautical bung. Like, um, so when people say bung hole, they are actually talking about a thing. Like a real thing, not somebody, not bum hole. So a bung is a stopper for closing a hole in a container. Opening to a cask, says Bobby Frankenberger. Same thing, I guess. There we go. Yep. Okay. Well, then when I call somebody a bunghole, I do like it. I love that one. You're just basically, you know, you're a cask hole that does not contain a cork. You're a corkless hole. You're a real cask hole. What a cask hole that guy is.

These are all very interchangeable. I like it. They really are. There's a, in Salem, Massachusetts, when Tina was out there for a work detail, 30-day work detail, Tristan and I went out there to go actually to Salem and see, like, she was in Boston,

we drove up to Salem just to see, like, the park that they did for the witch trials, like the memorial and stuff and all that stuff. And there is a liquor store there called the bunghole. Nice. Yeah. I'd go there. Just to go there. I don't drink. I'd just go there. Just go there. Do you guys sell a t-shirt? I'm sure they do. There's no way they don't. It's like it's like beaver liquors. Oh, yeah. I'm either getting a selfie. I'm doing something at the bunghole. Or the bung. What'd you call it? It is called the bunghole, right?

It's the bunghole. Yeah, I'd go to the bunghole. I absolutely would. I would spend time at the bunghole. But yeah, the beaver liquor thing happened in beaver. Utah had a liquor store, a state liquor store called Beaver Liquor, and they had to change it, or they did change it. I think that took a bunch of city council maneuvering to get rid of it. Really? Yeah. And then they also changed because Fillmore, you get to before, Philmore is this other town, you get to before you get to Beaver.

These are very small towns. And Fillmore Beaver used to be the exit. So it literally would say on the sign, Philmore Beaver, and people got mad about that. yeah could see why so they got rid of that too yeah yeah the fact that is bunghole liquors i mean it's it it's it's it's multiple yeah it's way worse it's multiple levels and uh they have a couple t-shirts uh you can get one that says i got it in the bunghole sweet implying your you know your booze the second one is we're not number one but we're right up there nice right up the bunghole yeah right up the bun hole i see what they've done but is spelled with two teas just to me

sure that you uh really get the pun it feels like it feels like it's that's a hat on a hat really yeah that seems a little obvious yeah it's like there's another one what is this one oh this one just says bunghole the hole in a cast keg or barrel through which spirits flow can i get teepee at my bunghole at the bunghole sure you can i'm sure you have to go to the bathroom and grab it because that's what uh you always heard bevis say bunghole i like it it's a fun term yeah so uh if you're gonna planet bung next to to Uranus is one. Turn the other cheek. What is this one? They have a lot of

t-shirts. Some are pretty clever. Bunghole Lickers. Don't like it. Turn the other cheek. Gross. Gross. All right. Let me ask you this. Make our hole your goal. Oh, my lord. So when people say bung that together, I need to bung that together and make it work again. There's a similar reference. I'll bet that's more the definition

for the UK, right? Like, why the electrician company is you know i guess it's still not a positive thing uh we're not just going to do a great job we're just going to bung together whatever you've got and call it good yeah or you say uh boy i really bunged that up i've heard that before right right well bung fun word b ung use it frequently everybody we're recommending it big recommendation uh let's talk about pet monkeys sure let's go from bungs haven't you always wanted a monkey my uh my uh my my nephew, the reason we were all getting together, my nephew, his wife, and his three kids are all moving to Japan. She's from Japan, so they're moving to this town where she was raised. And it's apparently two things. The town is known for having the most snowfall of any one geographic point in the world. Oh, really? Which seemed crazy to me, and I'm still not sure I believe him, but that's what he claims. I forgot the name. Wow. More than like, that's crazy. More than like some spot in Alaska or Canada or... That's what I said to him.

I say, you sure? And he goes, look, here's some pictures. And based on that alone, he may be right. It was like walls of snow to get anywhere. Just wall, like higher than people. It was crazy. This is the place that's got all those hot spring pools with the monkeys in them. Is it?

So that, I think those may be the same monkeys, but there's an area there like a refuge. And it's the pissy monkeys that want to take your wallet and your phone and stuff. Do you know the kind of talking about? The ones that are just kind of always looking pissed and like doing. miss. Yeah. Yes. Right. And like grabbing your phone and running up a tree and that's the last time you ever saw your phone. Yeah. Exactly.

Those guys are great. Anyway, good luck to Thatcher and his family. We hope you guys do go out of there. It'll be nice to, you'll enjoy seeing them. That's in a couple weeks. Yeah, it leaves. Well, we saw them. The dinner thing was for us last Sunday, but they... Oh, I thought this was, okay, this, they're in Salt Lake. For some reason, I thought

this is who you were visiting in Arizona. Oh, no, no, no. That's that's a whole other thing. there's too much of that going on right now don't be honest too much family I would 100% move to Japan right now I love that idea Japan's cool man they don't like us though they don't want you to live there

I've heard they like you like you like me would they like you would they like me yeah everybody I talked to over there including his wife who's Japanese yeah he fits in because he's half Korean they don't like white people to live there

it's like kind of uh yeah it's kind of a I don't know what the word is for but not racism, but it's like something else. It's like a Middle Kingdom thing. India's that way too, but yeah, they don't like, they don't want you, they want you to visit, they want your tourism, they love your culture, they like to, all that, but there's some, something. Come to Tokyo, stay for a few days, but then GTFO.

Yeah, get the, get the F out. Or they want you to come teach English, but they don't want, if you're there for any other reason, like, I think I'll stay. It's like, no, get out. Something like that. Here's the problem. I could totally teach English there. Problem is I'd have to learn Japanese.

to be able to teach english yeah that's true there's only so many props i can bring yeah i wonder i wonder what they expect from that cell phone because they actually went yeah when carter was in korea they told her she could do that but i'm like you don't know korean she goes they don't seem to care you just i'm like well then how do you bridge the gap how do you talk between the two how do you how do you go from yeah hey you none of you know this so now you'll know it like how do you do that probably through imagery, right? Like you don't have to Oh yeah, Dr. Calhoun. No, they don't want people who know Japanese to

teach English. So I guess you just say, you know, you have a screen and you say, instead of knowing the Japanese word for dog and then saying, dog, you would just show a picture of a dog and say, dog. And everybody in class would go, dog. And then you'd go to the next thing.

Cat. Sure. Chris in the chat says, cultural isolationism is a tradition in Japan. That sounds like what I heard. Oh, Cultural isolationism. God, that sounds fun. Yeah, which is weird because they have so much culture that is influenced by us and tons of our cultures influenced by them. It doesn't seem like it's working, is what I'm saying, culturally. Right, not terribly isolated.

No. So, I don't know. I don't know how it works. So my nephew's just slightly nervous. He's half Korean, half white. And he's a little nervous because the Japanese know he's not Japanese, but he knows he's fluent in Japanese. but he's like yeah it's a thing it's weird over there but i think with all the kids and then his wife being you know born there it'll be fine yeah yeah japan does not like korea doesn't matter what they say doesn't matter for all friends right now they do not like korea and okay koreans don't love the japanese either lots of bad history bad blood between those two countries so so really if i go there and and move there and start teaching english and all that sort of thing

And then, you know, somebody says, well, we don't really like, you know, Americans here. I can say, but I'm not Korean. They're like, good point. Yeah. Have a nice day. You know what? Stay here. You're better than a Korean, they'll say.

That's right. Yes. Are we get, Goseymas or whatever it is. Even my brother, my Korean brother's a little bit. I wouldn't call him. He's prejudiced against Japan a little bit. He'll say, he'll say, he'll say, I'm trying to think of a scenario I brought up with him before. Maybe like, um, yeah.

Yeah, that actor's sure cool. He goes, yeah, but he's Japanese. I'm like, oh. Wow. Yeah, it's just like a thing with them. It's weird. I don't know. You're talking thousands of years of history.

There's so much there. It's impossible. Of course. Yeah. Well, that's it for this. Oh, I didn't even get to what the pet monkey did. That's okay. I'll save it for tomorrow.

I'll save it for tomorrow. Find out what the pet monkey did. Stay tuned. Yeah, got off on a tangent, and we never got back to it. but we will get back to Dan visiting us soon. That monkey did something horrendous. Find out tomorrow what that is. It's the ultimate clickbait.

You have to come back here to hear. It totally is, yes, exactly. But if you want to hear Dan talk, you'll have that in a minute. Dan, Dan, the Tabletop Man's going to be here. We have an interesting question from him from Cindy, my favorite eye person regarding a medication that they're given out a lot. She had an Apple product. Yeah. My eye person.

A little I, big B person. Yeah, my eye person. Anyway, that's coming up next. Before that, though, song break. You'll never believe what this monkey did. Click here. Emily Sweden wrote in, said, Hi, Brian.

I think you and the TMSers will enjoy my friend's band, Mermaid Bate. I already love the name. They are an awesome band from New Zealand, who are so fun and funky. I would love to show them some appreciation by requesting one of their songs on the show. Recommend this one, it's a bop.

have a nosy at their Instagram too. If you're curious, they're fun to see live with their crazy nautical outfits. I did. You'll find them at Instagram under the name Mermaid.bate. Nice. B-A-I-T in case you're curious.

You'll find the website Mermaidbate.com. com.N.Z because, you know, it's all so silly. Thanks so much. I've been a listener for over a decade, scary. Appreciate you keeping me sane and uplifted through these crazy times. Love the show though, Emily from New Zealand. Emily, is there anybody, like, do you guys need people to come teach English in New Zealand?

Yeah, you guys don't know English, right? It's a non-English. Yeah, some with an accent, you know, band meeting instead of band meeting. You know, we can do that. And meeting. Can I live in a, can I live in a hobahole with a round door? That's what I want. Exactly. As requested, here is the song Beggin' Dog, the Marcos Alonzo remix from Mermaid Bate from a single from last year.

I'm going to be able to be. Black leather strap, slap bingo on the booty in the back room Pink-eyed ladies sipping sweet lemonade in the front room Your deliciousness comes drifting on the wind I have to be some place but I don't remember when I'm going to get some because I want some I'm going to have some

because I need some Like a begging dog Like a big and dog Like a big and dog Like a begging dog Like a begging dog Like a big and dog Like a big and dog

Like a begging dog Like a begging dog Like a pig and dog Like a pig and dog Like a pig and dog Like a pig and dog like a pig and dog Late night Sunday

You come tapping on my old sash window I got a million different ways That I should tell you where to go But your big ocean eyes and the wichity lies in your hair do. You got me acting saying things that I really don't want to. I'm going to get some because I want some. have some because I need some. Because I need some.

Like a big end up Like a begging dog Like a begging dog Like a begging dog Like a vegan dog dog I'm going to be the one of the

I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to be I'm on the I'm on the

I'm You tell him I'm coming, and hell's coming with me, you hear! Hell's coming with me! Do you like dogs, Arnold? Yes, I like dogs. And we've returned. Who is that one more time? Sure.

That is Beggin' Dog by Mermaid Bait, the Marcos Alonzo remix. So, so fun. What a fun band that is. And, uh, excuse me, big thanks to Emily Sweden for letting me know about that. Nice. I'm one of what Stephanie thinks of Mermaid Bate. And she's, she's going to give them a listen and go look at their fun nautical outfits. You're going to do.

I think that they're yacht rocked by the way they're dressed. Oh, I'm excited. Very excited to hear this. All right, you guys, it's time for this. Here's a tangent for him. Be careful. May cause drowsiness. Look who it is.

It's our old pal, Dan. Dan, Dan, the tabletop, man, all the way from North Carolina. What's going on, man? Greetings programs, and glad to be back. I missed you guys. Yeah. Talking about last week, you know. You had a haircut.

All the snow and stuff like that. I had to work in that haircut. You know, when you work the weird hours, I already 12th or did an hour. When you work weird hours, man, you've got to work things in whatever you possibly can. And then we had our second snowfall of the year, which would probably be our last one of the year. So we got, I think it was like Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. It was snowy. So it wasn't bad because it's gone in like 24 hours.

I didn't know. You guys got any snow in North Carolina. That's just shows what I know. Apparently, so I like it down here. You know, I wish we would get like three snows a year. But apparently before the first snow of this year, we hadn't had snow in over a thousand days. Oh, my gosh. Which seems really unusual because I think, I feel like it snowed within the last couple of years.

But that's what all the news was saying. It had been a thousand days. So a thousand days is how many years is that? That's a little over three years. A little over three years. Wow. Three and a half years or whatever. You get a bought and paid off a car in that time.

That's crazy. Well, Dan, having you here is always a treat, of course. And we're going to talk about board games in a second. But before we do that, Cindy sent in a message. And I'm going to read it to you. And you're going to help us understand. because Dan is in the full-time profession of working in the pharmaceutical industry. He's Big Pharma.

That's literally the guy they talk about when they bring up. You just put a hit out on my head by saying that. You're the most hated man in America, Big Pharma. Anyway, here's what Cindy had to say. She says this. She's local here to me and an awesome human being. She says, hey, can you pass this question along to Dan next time? He's on the show.

I work in ophthalmology slash optometry practices. And we recommend artificial. tears a lot. That's true. She recommended artificial tears to me last time I was in there. Yeah. She says,

you're never going to cry again. Just use these. Anyway. It's just like, you know, your kid tells you a sad story. Hold on, hold on.

Oh, that's so sad. Oh, man, what a sad tale you've told me. That's a big thing. They'll just get always dripping down your face. That's right.

Exactly. Yes. And there is a technique. We'll get into this in a minute because I'll table this. I'll talk about a technique when I drops because people could use this too. Oh, absolutely. I love a good

technique. That's fantastic. I still haven't gotten over the time I learned that you can taste your eyedrops. I hated that. That was a bad time. We'll get to that in a minute. Anyway, or officially flavoring. Very much so. And not well. Lately, blink, not the, there's other stuff

called blink, but not the doorbell or whatever the hell. There's other stuff. Anyway. Sure. Has been sending us dry eye pills. So not drops, but pills. My doctors have been taking time or haven't been taking time to learn much about them, so they're just sitting on a shelf in our office.

My question is, do they actually work and do the benefits of taking a daily pill outweigh the benefits of using drops four times a day? Thanks, says Cindy, your local I-Tech. Well, Cindy. They really hurt when you put them in. I'll tell you that. Yeah, they do.

You got cram a pill in there and then hold your eyes shut till it totally disintegrates is the worst. Tucking under the real gritty. Probably a great way to absorb drugs, though, right, in your eye? Because you got like, I don't know. Oh, probably. It's like, well, in liquid form, yes, it's an excellent way to absorb drugs. Just like as little, speaking of bunghole, the amount of, you know, the absorption in your bunghole is highly, a lot higher than you, you think.

That's why they're oral on it. Those vodka tampons are so popular. That's still a thing. I wonder people are still, I guess, probably are. And it's interesting. So I keep waiting for there to be like real like, you know, drug drugs, like elicit drugs in eyedrops. Because remember, I think it was The Batman, where they were calling them like whatever tweakers or droppers or whatever it is because all the drugs they were using were in their eyes. I'm waiting for something one of these days to come out.

And that's how we're going to get is the, you know, the absorption of whatever hallucinogenic to be through the eyes. But yeah, you'd be surprised how good the, you know, and for certain molecules, the absorption is really, really good. And then it's all a matter of whether it's going to get in because it's not, it's very, very vascular, but getting into crossing over the different barriers and getting through a lot of things is a lot of things. Anyway, which is why you can use certain eyedrops for certain other things, but not a lot of lot. And you just have to worry about side effects. Getting into the question, and then I'll get into the eyedrop thing. So the question here, which was kind of, you know, when I deal with doing prior authorizations all the time, you see a lot of different eye drops. And usually you see the eye drops for either allergic conjunctivitis, which is basically a lot of times you're, you know,

allergies, you know, like pollen and stuff like that, or things like pink eye and, you know, other, you know, which is, you know, infectious conjunctiveitis in that way, or you see some, you do see some dry, or a lot of times glaucoma. So you have the glaucoma that you see a lot of, those drops are very, very popular. Now, this is what threw me off because I had never heard of what the question was, but then it took me a second and I did a little research into it. And this is basically just another supplement to help, you know, to help. possibly things like lutein and some other things in your, you know, other vitamins and minerals that may go as you get to a certain age as we are, we're not even really, guys like us aren't

really even there yet, even though over 50, you know, you could start to decrease a lot of your vitamins, minerals, especially in your diet and such. But what happens is, you know, and I can't imagine a lot of, I know there's a lot of ophthalmologists or an optometrist that are pretty invasive and stuff, but I don't think anybody's doing any blood tests to see that you're low and your different vitamins. But there are things like acuivite and eye caps and things like that. And that's what this kind of is. It's just another supplement for use with lutein and other different ingredients.

And some vitamin D, which is also really good for eye health. And having it there is probably pretty good. I think, especially if they're giving samples for it, it would be cool for them, you know, for the eye doctors to give it to their patients. I'm not sure this is anything, you know, unless you're a doctor, you know, either you're a GP who has seen your test results or, you know, it may not hurt. Obviously, there's a lot of different ways to look at things in the world where there are people, I would say there's two different types of pharmacists that take everything and pharmacists that take nothing. I'm one of the

pharmacists that take pretty much no drugs a lot of times. And all the pharmacists are taking every supplement and every medicine in the world. You know, take a multivitamin. If you're getting up there in age, maybe you need some other supplements, but don't go broke taking a million supplements. If you're going to use this as a supplement to your regular daily bite, then it'd be fine. You know, it might not be, I don't know if it's worth 40 bucks a month because there's probably other supplements that have the lutein and other things in there that are going to be a lot cheaper. But, hey, if you can get free samples from your doctor, go for it. A lot of times you'll see dry eye is what they're talking about with, you know, Scott, and that's probably, I know you've got a lot of different eye issues and stuff. And a lot of times some of the side effects of some of those glaucoma medications could be some dry eye.

And there's a thing called sojourns and stuff like that that are different ways that you get different dry. eye and dry mouth. You know, as you get older, everything just stops secreting. As we know, as you get older, everything stops secreting. I know that's really disgusting. Sorry to put that there. I like it. Yeah, we're all, we're all a bunch of freaking raisins now, everybody. Right. Exactly. And so there are, and there are a lot of different reasons for that. Obviously, age is a reason. A lot of times polypharmacy, which is basically people taking a lot of different drugs. So you're going to get things like anticholinergics are used for a lot of different things out there. And what they do is, I've said this before in a past, but it's been a while. So when you have

the anti-colonergic side effects is, it's a can't see, can't spit, can't pee, can't shit. That's basically what you do. That's basically, that's the moniker, because it just dries everything up. Sorry, I threw the S bottom out. It's all good. It's going to be a nice, convenient rhyme. It's so much easier to memorize when it's a nice, when it's a nice rhyme. Yeah. Oh, you'd be surprised. I mean, when you're in basically in pharmacy school and med school, half the things you learn. I mean, think of how much easier things are when your monikers or songs, stuff like that. So it's always easy to

I mean, I still remember what is it, Kingdom Philem class, order, genus Species, King Philip came over from Jeremy Swimming. That's a, you know, that's a big science thing when you remember all those. Okay. It's impressive. Holy crap. So you remember with stuff like that. I'm sure. Wow, that's a good one.

Yeah, you're like learning, you're learning with phonics, basically, is what you're doing over there. Right, right. Yeah, hooked on phonics. And a lot of the, a lot of the main drops that you get for dry eye are generally immunomodulators. You'll see a lot of things like rostasis or zidra or yusevis. Basically, it helps to produce some of the lachrymal glands and from, you know, an immune because you're basically at your immune system shutting everything down.

And also, you know, that's why you've got to worry about, you got to figure, not worry about you got to figure out what's causing the dry eye and then that's how you treat it. You want to treat the root cause, you know? And there are some other drugs, again, for sojourns that like Ivozac, which helps to produce your salivary glands and your lacrimal glands

to help do that because you just have natural and there's a lot of other different ways that you can produce this. I mean, that you can treat these different things.

But let's get back to the, so if you have eye drops out there, I know a lot of people, Scott, you use eye drops every day? I do at least once a day. So I don't, I'm on no eye medication of any kind,

but I have since the surgeries back in 2014 or whatever it was. And they told me this would be true. When you get like cataract surgery, especially early, you're probably going to experience a level of eye dryness that others don't have. So he recommended it at the time, and I think Cindy even since then, it said just, you know, have them handy, do them when you can, that kind of thing. So I've been pretty good about it.

I have these ones that are like the little twist off top single serving ones. Yeah, I use those. And they're just saline. I don't do anything special. And they're good. They work great, you know. Yeah, and like she recommended, those are, you know, a lot of those different drops, especially the rewetting drops and things like the lubrications are really, really good. A lot of times you will get things if you, let's just say you do have, you know, if yourself or a child does have pink eye or you're using things for glaucoma, just be careful.

You don't ever want to, this is why this, what I'm going to tell you is a little bit easier to do for yourself than, because you'd never want to put the tip directly to your eye. And that's easy to just mess up and do because you can reinfect yourself if you do get the tip of the, the drug. you want to kind of put your and I don't know if the sorry I wasn't I didn't see the video I knew you put a video up there so I don't know if that's going to help if that showed what I'm going to tell you so you know the bridge of your nose so the top of your nose between your eyes has a little indentation yeah in most of us so it's it goes kind of down now if you most in most eyedroppers if you have like a five or a 10ml eye drop bottle are going to be round all right so if you rest the side of that you rest the side of that on the bridge of your nose and it's

going to the tip is going to hang directly over your eye. If you put your head back, you can put that there, and then you just kind of squeeze. I'm doing it here like you can see it. That's why you can't hear me. Sorry. So you put your head back and then you squeeze and that drop will go directly into your eyes as long as you may want to hold your eye open too because

naturally if people don't put contacts in every day nobody really wants to touch their eyes unless you've been doing it for 50 years like some of those were contacts. But that's a good way to... So you say it's like rivering down that side into the eye or are you saying like drop? No, no, no, no. You will rest it. So you, the picture of resting, like, almost like a pen.

So a picture resting a pen on the middle bridge of your nose so that the tip of the pen is directly over your eyeball. Directly over the middle of your eyeball. So you have the dropper is on its side. So it's going to be horizontal, directly on its side, hovering over, yeah, just like what Brian's got right there. So then you would squeeze and then the drop would go directly into your eye. Okay. That's pretty good. And that's it.

It works really, really well. And it's something, it's one of these dump things. things that nobody ever really thinks about, but it's a good teaching thing. You have to teach, uh, um, we do not condone putting chapstick in your eye. No, I wouldn't recommend it either. What I usually do is I do the pull down the lid and drop it in the lower part of the lid, but, uh, but I kind of like this, because it's like your, your nose is like a built-in, uh, uh, rifle, rifle stand.

Yeah. Yeah. Like, like, like, like, get right exactly pointed right where it needs to be. So, love it. And for most drops, you know, again, most things, pulling your, pulling the bottom, I look down is just fine. The problem is people have a hard time judging distance. Again, the most thing, the best thing you're trying to be here is you're just trying

to avoid contact with your eye or your eyelid or even, you know, always wash your hands before you're doing things of this because you don't even want to touch your fingers to that dropper because, as Scott knows, there's a lot of nasty crap on your hands. Yeah, there are. All the time. There's bad stuff on your hands right now. Your mouth, it's neat enough, and that'll... I've been touching this keyboard,

scratching this dog's nuts over here. Oh, really? No, I'm not doing that. I'm just kidding. I only have female dogs. A friend to all animals. They have no nuts. Well, that's great.

So there you go. A little bit of eye advice, and it sounds... Cindy, if you're listening, and I know she is, she listens every day. It sounds like you're okay to be giving them blinks out, you know, let them try it out. Speaking of which, real quick on the... Save them some money. Yeah, yeah, for sure. On that vitamin thing, real quick, what they test for and stuff,

I have a doctor who always tests for D and B, one of the Bs. B12, B12, B12. Probably B6 and B12 or two of the big, actually B1, B2, B6 B12. Probably B12 was also a big thing as you get older for your energy. But D, my God, my wife is always harping on making sure that if anybody's not feeling good, get that vitamin D. I mean, I try to tell her she doesn't get nearly enough vitamin D. And that's something that, you know, all of us that are married with kids know that we don't get enough vitamin D with our wives.

It's a bad joke. Went over everybody's head. No, I got it. I got it. I got it. It was good. I liked it. You got to get that D.

So vitamin D and vitamin E, excellent. And, again, take a multivitamin. If you get a good multivitamin, you're going to get a lot of those. But it never hurts to get a B complex in there and some daily vitamin D, especially, you know, if you're not out there, you know, getting a lot of sunshine and stuff every day. You know, everything helps. So, you know, a lot of times. Overcast, you know, winter months, stuff like that. Make sure you're getting it.

So that's what I do. Like right now, I'm taking a, I take a 5,000 C, whatever it is, vitamin D every day. And when she told me to start doing that because my numbers were low, that was a big difference for me, energy-wise, really helped. And what you could do, too, and I stress this all the time. So, and this was the other part of when I'd say that people take way too much supplements in their lives. remember your stomach the membranes and lining in your intestines there's only so much like think of your stomach and your intestines as think of them as doorways there's always so many people and so many vitamins that can fit through those doorways so if you take too many things you're just all you're

doing is fuel in your poop that's all you're doing you're not really getting yourself because you're only going to get so much back man 10 20 years ago when this big explosion of everybody's got to take a gazillion things of calcium which is still good to do but it was a big explosion of everybody's got calcium thousands of thousands of milligrams calcium now the thing is your body's only getting in a certain amount of elemental calcium and all elements so like scott if you're taking that multivitamin and then you're adding to it it may even help if you wait till later in a day to take those extra supplements now again however you can get into your body if it's easier to get it in all at one time then that's going to do what you're going to do because if you're just going to forget to take it

then you might as well just try and take it and get what you can but it wouldn't hurt to stagger those meds you know those vitamins throughout today because again the thing is you're only going to absorb so much. And again, if you're taking a lot of supplements, there's a lot of other things that go into those tablets. There's sugars. There's fillers. And, you know, weight gain due to excess tablets is a thing. Like, they don't really talk about that a lot. But that is definitely a thing. But what about those guys that go out and tan their taint in the sun or whatever? Is that work? Is that a thing? Let me tell you, my God, the sun, there's not very many things. I mean, I love being out in the sun,

but there is not a thing out there that is as caustic and harmful to us. It's crazy. I mean, I'm not saying everybody needs to stay inside. You want to get some sunlight and everything too. But, man, overdoing it and even forcing yourself. I mean, you never know drive by what people are going to shoot into your, you know, when you're tanning your taint. You never know what.

Oh, yeah. Think of the target you're creating if you're tanning your taint in the front yard, man. Like I would be, I would take a baby. Yeah, I'd BB gunshot that. backyard behind a fence. Yeah. Talk about stray bullets. My God.

A little wrist rocket right into the taint. I'd do it. Well, anyway, put vitamin D up your butt is what we've learned today. It'll help you absorb it faster. Dan, now give us a board game that we should play. All right, so we've been talking about a lot of different things. So let's talk about cheese. Oh, I know this sounds really weird.

And this is a, so this is an Astroscare. So this is a Brian game that Scott would enjoy. Just let him teach. Let them learn it and let somebody else. Let me teach you. Yeah, let them teach you. Because it's not necessarily all that complex. I don't think it's, you know, even on BG, they say it's 2.47, which is about medium.

I think it's a little lighter than that. I think it's just kind of some of the mechanics of it. So this is all about making cheese and kind of farm. I guess it's kind of farming cheese in a way because you're getting cheese. So there's four different quadrants. Now, if you look at the pictures there, what's really cool about this game is basically on a lazy Susan, which is really, really cool. And there is modular kind of boards that go underneath, and the different boards are modular, and you can kind of change the way the setup is.

Now, what you're doing on your turn, you're only really interacting with your side of the board on your turn. We should say the name of this thing, right? We haven't said what name it is. What is it called? Oh, it's called Fromage. Formage. All right, there you go. French cheese.

It's an excellent design duo that have been around forever. Matthew Amali, I'm sorry, Matthew Malley and Ben Rossett, who do a lot of great games together. I think they did the Mad King Lugwig games and castles of Magick King Lugwood Ludwig. So what you're doing in your turn, you have a certain, you're different, everybody's different colors and you're putting certain cheeses out onto your board. Now, depending on which type of cheese you put out there,

and you got your little dudes that you put out there, and they stay on the board for a certain amount of rounds. So as you turn them, when your guy's looking back at you, your piece is looking back at you, that's when he comes off the board and the cheese that you would place underneath, it stays and then your piece is there. Now, every different piece part of the board has like almost a little mini-game.

There's area control. There's kind of things that you get as you do there. There's also points for different adjacencies. So there's a little different ways that you're going to score in each one of these pieces. But again, you're only interacting with your side. And then the more powerful places, you have to keep your player piece on there for longer. And you only have three pieces to put out there. So you're really kind of, you're gauging how long you want to, you know, how powerful of an action you want to do. And you want to, so when you put your guys out there, it's very, it's very possible if you put too many guys out there

you may have a turn where you're doing nothing because you're waiting for the board to rotate to get your guys back. So it's a really, really, it's amazingly fun. It is on BGA now. So if anybody that likes to play online board games, it's on BGA and it's real fun to play. There's a little bit more to it with your player boards,

but I don't want to get into that right now. Just the whole type of the way you're playing and the whole idea of the lazy Susan and you're almost playing multiplayer in a way because you're only interacting with your side is really... Yeah, I love the fact that every, quadrant is different like you're you know like you're saying like you're here you're dealing with the sheep or here you're dealing with the the country of france and dealing with the different

cheeses there in the different areas it's very it's very cool i like the little i like the little pieces of cheese those things are cool yeah the bits are really really cool um yeah and what's cool is so i don't know if you could tell so see how that's dual layered board there and kind of the types of cheese are underneath it those pieces actually are also um you know they're slightly variable like there's only there's it comes with different colors and stuff so it's slightly valuable so you have when you're putting a board together not only is that top four

layers can be in different orders the pieces that you know they're almost kind of the layers on the bottom are also different so that interacts a little bit different oh so that's really so they've got it's kind of like who's could do where things line up with this quadrant but if you put it in

a different quadrant different cheeses will show up under those holes exactly oh that's really clever design it's really you know again does that change the game i mean people are always talking about replayability uh i mean it's a little bit of variability i don't know if it crazy increases the replayability it kind of does and then you're kind of also drafting different things for your player board which is also increases the replayability but i've played this game about five or six times it's a blast it's really really it looks cool you know if the name wasn't already taken they could call those little cheese

pieces they'd call them cheese it's that'd be cool wouldn't it or uh cheaples Cheaples. Cheaples. Oh, I like Cheapels. Cheaples is good. Well, this looks pretty neat. Is this thing I can get anywhere, like a Target-type deal, or I've got to go some more special for it? Probably, yeah, a friendly local game store or online game realtor.

I would always like to tell you to shop local and see if you're a friend of local game store has it. But I don't think this is going to be in a mass market as of yet, but it is pretty wide. And it is getting a lot of run. So a lot of people, it has gotten a lot of popularity. And it's definitely in my top, you know, it has made my top 11 for this year. So it's, I think it's kind of one of these surprise hits for people. I don't think people, you know, it did pretty good on Kickstarter, but then I don't think people realized how good it was going to, you know, it's already right around a top

thousand on BGG. So, I mean, this one, you could see it in the next, in the next year or so, again, it's the top 500 as it gets more copies get into the wild. I just learned something from it. In the board, it says that a place with fromage is called a fromagerie. And so does that mean in English, that's a cheese? Is that what that means? Yeah.

I feel like I'm learning something every time Dan comes on here. It was amazing. Cheesery is also how they describe my humor as very cheesery. Oh, very cheesery. Yeah. The look, and we love it. We actually have a place called the mac and cheesery over here that does nothing but different kinds of mac and cheese.

Do they do lobster mac and cheese? They do. They have green chili mac and cheese. They have, like, a lot of them are like, Old pork I hope so like Old pork they have the Denver which is ham and green pepper and onion in it yeah

I want all of the things you said just now Dan this has been educational check it out forage available on wherever you get your board games and if you want to read more about it of course boardgamegeek dot com or no board game geek dot com yeah has it so go check it out

we have one more yep oh we have another oh we have another one look at this well if you have time I could do that other one No, let's do it. Let's do it. Absolutely. All right. So this is another one that's in my top 11 for this year, because as we know, everything goes, everything goes to 11 and better.

It's better to go to 11. So this is definitely a Scott game because there's like maybe one page of rules. And it's all about creating your own dungeon. This is called Stone Spine Architects. The theme is just blah, but, you know, some people will like the theme better. And this is kind of why I think Scott would like to gain better because of the theme.

Now, you're basically making the architecture of your dungeon. And how you're doing You just get a hand of cards, you draft one card, pass it to the left, just like Seven Wonders. And then you're placing your card into your dungeon. Now you're doing one row at a time. You're going to end up with four rows of four. At the beginning of the game, you're also going to have kind of almost like a blueprint card where it's going to tell you different things that you want to have in your dungeon.

Like at certain spaces you may want a Colbold, at certain spaces you may want traps. There's going to be different things you're going to have in your dungeon, like, you know, oozes, cobalds, traps, treasure chests, and point symbols in there. And again, that blueprint is going to tell you where you want different things, and that's going to help you get more points. There's, you're going to get different, depending on what you draft, you're also going to get different monies that you're going to, you know, money that you're going to use at the end of the round

to get other kind of chits to put into your board to help you in case you didn't get it. Now, there's also, you know, obviously chambers because you want a good complete dungeon. There's going to be on your board, you're going to end up having a beginning of the dungeon and the end of a dungeon and a real good maze is going to have a place to get from the front to the back. You know, you want to get to the exit. You know, you don't want to block yourself out. But it's really one of those things where as you're drafting, you've really got to be careful to be able to get other places to meet up in the right place. And that's kind of the fun things.

There's been many, like, video games in the past. Like, you know, what was the old ones like, like pipes or whatever the hell they were called? You know, different types of games that you would play. And even Bioshock had that mini game where it's almost like connecting the circuits. That's kind of what you're doing is you're kind of using the corridors and you're wanting to connect the different corridors. It's a blast. It's easy to play. You play 20 to 30 minutes.

one BGA, board game arena, you can play this game. It's awesome. It's not very expensive. This one might actually be in mass market, but it only plays, you know, it's a one hour wonder, plays great at it. It's a great solo, plays at any place from one to five. It's so easy to teach, because within like five

minutes of starting, you know what you're doing. And this is actually a good grandma game, too, because, you know, what I call a grandma game because, or grandma-grandpa words, there are the people that always go, let's just play. Right, right. I don't need to know I'll figure it out as we go along. And you really could with this game.

It's really, really good. It's not very expensive. I love these tiles, these like dungeon tiles. The way they create like artificial depth in the art is one of my favorite looks. I love that look so much. That's so cool. Yeah, this looks like a banger. I'd play this.

Look at these little pieces, little chits. I like the gelatinous cubes. Yeah, man. Everybody likes a gelatinous cube. You get all those kind of skeletor stuff in there. Skeletor. Skeletons. And there's other ways for scoring.

won't get into that. You know, you're drafting other things at the end of different rounds, but just drafting is just so much fun and so easy, just kind of getting a hand of cards, picking one and sending it on. So that's why I think Scott was, I think that's a good, good mechanism for you. Take one, pass it on. Good deal. I'm like the grandpa, grandmas. Just play. Let's just learn it as we go. That's right. That's the joke anyway. Hey, Dan, this is great. Now we've got two games to everybody. Frommage and Stone Pipe Architects, right? Spine. Stone spine. Stone spine. What I say? Stone, I don't know what I said. Stone pipe. Oh, pipe. Stone spine. Go check it out. Dan, anything else going on on your side of the world? Do you want it to mention to people? Tomorrow night, we're recording our game of the year show on the Gig All-Stars so you can see what game I actually put into, you know, when we have the conglomerate of all our different All-Stars, the people that are on the show and all the different co-hosts. We put everything together, our top 11 list, and we get our top 11 for the year. So that'll be a lot of fun.

fun, and that should be out by the end of the week on the geek all stars.com. For the year of 2024, right? You're like the Oscars. Yes, for last year. Oh, yeah, yeah. Not for, yes, for the game of the year for 2024. Yeah. This is the beginning of the year. I'll be at a really cool little convention next week called Adam, which has got a lot of influencers and reviewers and stuff. Go to the board game ranch. If you ever heard of the board game ranch, you do a search for it. It's an Airbnb down in Missouri. It fits up to like 20-something people, and it's got a huge 3,000 library, game library. It's crazy. You could have some really cool little events down there. It'd be a great place for

a little TMS me up for sure. Nice. But it's the board game ranch or the gamers ranch, I think it's called or gaming ranch, board gamers ranch, down in Missouri. I'm going up there. So keep an eye on my Twitter, a geekjack Dan down there because I'll have some great games for next week. There you go. If you can stand using Twitter, you can stand following Dan. All right, that's the deal. And I know a lot of people are really hoping, me included, that you're going to make it to TMS Vegas, so keep us. Yes, I'm still working on it. I've got a meeting next week with with higher up to see if I can see what kind of strings I can pull to get that weekend off. It's a mess. I'd love to have you in task, is what I'm saying. Oh, my God. I've been I've been

studying up and watching the, because I've never watched that show before. Now I'm trying to find, see what kind of shenanigans you're going to pull on us, Brian. That's a lot of shenanigans is what it is. All shenanigans, nonstop wall-to-wall shenanigans. Dan, have a fantastic month. We'll see you next time for even more. See you, boys. See, Dan. All right.

Cool. Cool, cool, cool. We did it. Reminder, today I did a live coverage of the Xbox indie event. So today is the Monday show. Yeah, so even though it's Tuesday, we're still doing it. Me and Carter, noon today. Check it out.

FrogPants. TV. There's already a live stream all set up. So if you want to catch that a little bit later today, you can. Brian, do you get anything else going on today? I got nothing else going out. Actually, I take that back. A new episode of Soundography coming out today.

I believe, oh, I have to see who it's about. We did Black Sabbath last week, so that's the one that's currently up on the feed. And the next episode, oh, I'm sorry, no, Cheryl Crowe is the newest one up on the feed. The episode that's going up next is going to be, oh, Lovin Rockets. Ooh, I like love it. Man, they came out of Bauhaus and Tones on Tail and really had a great run. And I had not listened to a lot of those episodes or a lot of those albums. So really, really cool.

Bowhouse is great, man. They pooped out Peter Murphy. He did his own thing. Then you got that. David Jay. What an awesome source material for these guys. A lot of great content for that one. Paul Masseus is joking.

Maybe I don't know if he's. joking, but he says Black Pink. We're doing an episode with Tom Merritt about K-pop at some point this season. So even though you're joking, don't worry. We've got Black Pink coming on the show. Yeah, there you go. Those girls are great, man. They sure are.

All right then. Well, check all that out. Also, just a reminder, we talked about top of the show. We'll mention again at the bottom of the show. Tickets are available for TMS Vegas. Head on over to TMS.Vegas to get your tickets and or FrogPants. com slash tms has a link as well it's also up on the frogpants shop so it should be easy for you to find all the details are there uh it's important you grab them so if you're coming you gotta grab

them if you want swag especially uh and we can't wait to see you guys in uh the end of april for sure uh it's gonna do it for us today brian let's play a song and leave these people to their own devices yeah this is a fun one here oh my gosh this is gonna this is gonna really test my french this whole thing. Maxime Paradis Girard wrote in and said, Hey, Sassiz and Brioche. Maxime from Quebec, Canada, can't believe it's been 13 years already

since I've started listening to TMS. And also, the first time I've requested a song on my birthday, just getting to 38, so hopefully not the old lady. Nope, you get the little kid. Yeah, here, I'll do it for now. Happy day, say, do you. There you go.

Love it. Happy birthday. You guys are part of my daily routine, and you've kept me sane. and help through difficult times. Also big thanks to Wendy. Marisci beaucoup and love the show, though. Can I get a clip-clop and honk?

Oh, my gosh. She wants it all. That's okay. We're here to give it all. Let's see if I can find the clip-clop's going to be the tricky one. Let's see. I should have it handy, but let's see. Clomp.

Okay. Here she is. All right. So this is that lady. In the snowboard clip-clop. And the clip-clop? All right. And then what was the other one?

What did she say? A honk. Oh. Oh, honk, we can do that guy. Where is this one? This guy? There we go. That's the guy.

There he is. Thank goodness. All right. Very cool. Well, Maxime, hopefully you enjoyed all that. He says that his favorite artists include Three Days Grace. No problem. I've got some great covers to play for you from them.

Let's get to this one right here. It's a cover of the song by Gautier and Kimbra from so many years ago. It's somebody that I used to know. Here is Three Days Grace. Now and then I think of when we were together. Like when you said you felt so. happy you could die told myself that you were right for me but felt so lonely in your company but that was love and it's an ache i still remember you can get addicted to a certain kind of

sadness Like resignation to the end Oh, is the end So when we found that we could not make sense Well, you said that we could still be friends But I admit that I was glad it was over to cut me off, make it like it never happened that we were nothing. I don't even need you love, but you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough.

No, you didn't have to soup so low. Have you friends collect your records and change your number? Guess that I don't need that though. Now you're just somebody that I used to know. Now and then I think of all the time It should be over You had me believing it was always something that I'd done But I don't want to live that way

Reading into every word you say You said that you could let it go And I wouldn't catch you hung upon somebody that you used to do But you didn't have to cut me off Make it like it never happened that we were nothing I don't even need your love But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough No you didn't have to soup so low

Have you friends collect your records and change your number Guess that I don't need that load Now you're just somebody that I used to know That I used to know That I used to know Somebody That I used to know Now you're just somebody that I used to know

Hey, Scott and Brian, this is Ron from Ohio. I had a question. I was listening to TMS 2777, and you guys were talking about the pinball machine that you guys were working on. Are you able to get the pinball game? That was on Windows, like the original Galaxy version of one that, you know, you usually play on the PC. Is that one available for the pinball machines? Just curious. Love the show.

Thanks a lot. Hi, this is Rishi B from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Hello there, Braces in Sealand. Rishie B, taking a break from Political Talk Radio to listen to the morning stream yesterday. You guys should be so blessed. And you guys mentioned fluoride, and I wanted to not necessarily react to anything in particular that you said. Just something of interest I thought you might like to hear also. So I'm a public health guy, and I have zero capacity for any health conspiracy nut.

But when this issue of fluoride started bubbling up again, I was like, isn't this like settled science? Like, how in the heck is this coming up again? And so what do I do? Just like any of our favorite superheroes do, any time a problem comes up, I said, go to the relevant studies with sufficient sample size data. So I emailed you a study that I found from the National Institute of Health. It's a couple years old. But I was really surprised to find that it's not quite subtle science.

How much fluoride is necessary. So it looks like fluoride most likely, since its usage started here in America and Canada in 1945, fluoride most likely has reduced the worst of the worst dental problems where you need like osteopathy because it's like hitting the bones like the dental problems are hitting the bones in your mouth so to reduce that but beyond that how much is necessary isn't quite settled so just something of interest take care love you bye hello I'm a tailor and your pants size is frog

you're always welcome at frogpants I'm the son of a bitch is going to smell just like the slaughterhouse