The Morning Stream - TMS 2802: Dirty Potters

Episode Date: April 1, 2025

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Tuesday, April 1st. Oh my gosh. It's Liberation Day. I keep hearing about that. I don't know what that is. Anyway, we'll find out. What are we from? I don't know. Maybe March.

Yeah. We're finally free from the bonds of March. Yeah, March. F.U. March. You kind of sucked this year. We didn't like you very much. We did suck. We got snow on the ground, but we also have, Brian, someone else on the ground here. We have Amy Robinson joining us.

Yeah, yeah. We also got Chuck way back there in the background. Hi, Chuck, waved everybody. There you go. Chuck, the significant other of Amy Robinson. Amy, welcome to the show. It's weird having you in studio. How do you feel?

It is. It's exciting. This is really fun. I'm getting a whole different perspective. It's a little freaky. Like, oh, this is where it happens. And now I'm underwhelmed by where I, you know, is this underwhelming? No, I mean, like, I would say I'm thoroughly wellmed.

She's wellmed. All right. Does the studio feel larger or smaller than, than you feel like it when it's on screen? Yeah. I think. Imagine those, imagine that was actually a, a well-prepared grammatical sentence. Right, yeah.

I think it's, size-wise, it's about the same as what I expected, but the layout is slightly different than what I had in my imagination brain. Sure. Sure. Did you, I mean, when people see behind me and you see all this shiz back there, it's hard to tell what this is.

This just looks like a dirty corner of some room. Yeah. And boy, howdy, is it? If you look at that glass, I've got to clean that glass. But, yeah, if you broaden things out a bit, you see a much larger space. back over there is where the girls have their desks and stuff where they do their business there's a little divider there where Charles is in charge as you can see there

and yeah we're we're just kicking it making it real we had a lovely dinner last night breakfast this morning uh I can tell you these these two are lovely uh welcome to the Utah mates oh yeah yeah thank you you guys got here when it was beautiful like the sun was out it was 70 something degrees you can see the mountains from everywhere like it was the best presentation best pitch we could give you and then today it snowed so congratulations you've seen the whole gamut well it was actually funny like i i looked out the window in our hotel this morning and i was like oh my gosh it's snowing oh look it looks exactly like when it snows in Atlanta yeah and chuck says oh well but with one key difference dear

see all those cars they're moving yeah yeah we don't shut down like you people right all right How often does it snow in Atlanta? I wouldn't have expected, like, is it even once a year? Is it even less than that? It's sporadic. Sometimes we'll get maybe two or three snows in a year. Sometimes we go entire years with no snow. But it's like never more than two or three times, I would say.

Well, we timed it really well because you guys came to the house yesterday by walking from your hotel. So they stayed very close to us. Oh, nice. For this part of the trip anyway, you guys have been in a couple of places for the conference you were here for it. Yeah. And so they walked all the way here. It's only about a mile, maybe a mile plus a couple of point two or something. And it's still a, you know, it's uphill mostly.

It's like a decent walk. But then it's rained and then it snowed and now you're screwed. Now you can't do that anymore. Right. Sorry about that. Yeah. No, it's okay. We apologize.

We took a brief lift this morning. Oh, actually, I have a lift story. Oh, shit. Brian, you have to, you're supposed to take notes or something on this, right? I am, I'm writing this down. Okay. case. I said I didn't talk to the home office.

My Lyft story this morning is not that exciting, but it was just funny. Like, you know, I hailed the lift from our hotel. When you're at a hotel, you expect the lift to like come to the front door of the hotel. Usually, yeah, that's usually what they do. It comes through the little breezeway. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly.

So we're standing out there and all of a sudden, you know, I'm not seeing any cars. And then Lyft says, hey, guys here, you got five minutes to get to your car. And I'm like, what the heck? he parked around the back of the hotel and I was like well that was a choice so you know did he tell you I'm in the

no no he just parked out there and like and I was like okay so I'm like following the the little GPS it gives you to go find the car so you know but otherwise uneventful I mean as Scott said it's like 1.1 miles away so it wasn't like

huge it's the shortest lift in the history of lifting yeah it was very very short it's just around the corner and up the road I've had employees where I have to pick them up. Like, you know, the staff at hotels will have me come pick them up in the back. And they'll actually do the pushpin. Like, they'll put the pushpin in the back of the hotel so that I know to drive to the back. But by default, if they choose the hotel, it should by default put the pushpin in the front of the hotel,

which is where you would expect as a guest. And this isn't a new hotel. This is a nice, it's a nice hotel, but it's been there forever. Well, I say forever, at least 10 years. that I know of. So it's not like somebody got confused. But this has been happening this week. I've had FedEx dropping more stuff in the backyard

instead of the front door where they're supposed to go. Something's in the air. Like deliver and pick up in all the wrong places is somehow in the air. I don't know why. The funny thing, and Chuck just mentioned this in the chat also, out the window of our hotel room, you can see the OCD anxiety treatment center.

Where's that picture? did you put it somewhere did you put that i think chuck sent it to you right there was a chuck let me grab in your chat with chuck is it in a no do we do it in discord chuck oh maybe you didn't just show it i saw it somewhere send it to me yeah maybe you just showed it to me at dinner but brian you got to see this because it's literally the and which is the back of the hotel right yeah and you're facing directly at this building that is this massive anxiety yeah uh you know panic attack center treatment treatment center thing. Right. Right. Um, so after hours, is there a buzzer outside that says, please press this buzzer, buzzer five times for entry. Yeah. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised, to be honest. Um,

I don't see. Well, when you send that Chuck, I'll show everybody, but I don't see it. Anyway, put it in Discord when you get a sec. But it's great. Yeah. I had a fun list story yesterday as well, actually. Oh, what happened? Wasn't, plenty of talking about this, but when you bring it up, Well, it was Uber specifically, but picked up a woman. So Kaiser Hospital, I think Kaiser is nationwide. I know you have it there in Utah. Kaiser Permanente. Is that the thing? Kaiser Permanente, yes.

Yeah, they're like an insurance. It's finished for Kaiser Permanent. I think they're like an insurance hospital chain HMO deal, right? Exactly. Exactly. And they pay for their patients' rides to some degree. So this was a ride purchased by Kaiser for their patient. And so this much, much old.

older lady gets in, a long gray hair kind of, you know, maybe I don't know, prepper looking a little bit kind of with the camo gear and stuff like that. I might be reading too much into that. But anyway, she gets in

and we're chitch chatting, oh, what's that creature you have on your dashboard? And I have a stitch bobblehead that sets up there. Oh, stitch and explain what that is. This is such a nice, clean car. What kind is I said it's a Pia Sol.

She's like, oh, I said it's a 2014. She's like, oh, it's very nice. Yeah, I keep it fairly clean. She's like, well, there's a spot on the backseat here. I'm like, oh, okay, thanks for that. Did the old gray mare leave the spot or was it somebody prior to her getting in there? It's like a very faint, like somebody dropped some water from their water bottle, like a little residue of water from a water bottle and it dried up and left it.

a little tiny ring. Not a huge deal. Not a huge deal at all. So we're chit-chatting all the way. And not two blocks from where I pick her up is the entrance to the highway. And we're chit-chatting about how warm it's been and how nice and how we're supposed to get some cold weather coming in today. And as soon as I get on the highway, she just stops talking. And she slowly pulls the seatbelt.

She hadn't put her seatbelt down. I didn't realize it until I heard like the, the seatbelt. sound of the seatbelt being pulled down and clicked in like that didn't say anything then we're on the highway so the the route to get to our place actually takes two highways

and it's this really dumb part of our highway system where you actually have to get off the highway drive down a regular road to get on the other highway there's not a there's not a place where the two highways connect where I can just transfer for one to the other sure so I get off

the highway immediately super chatty again like oh you know just just love this part of town is so nice and like oh okay cool yeah no it i like this part too there's some really cool shops in here and then we get on the other highway and it's silent again oh boy and after a minute she says do you always take the highway oh she doesn't like the highway she wants to go on the side road yeah so i do if the map you know it's basically the it's giving me the fastest route to get you to your home but we don't have to take the highway. Would you like me to get off at Union Avenue and we can take Alameda down?

I'll only add a couple minutes on the right. She's like, is that the soonest you can get off? I'm like, yep, yep, all right, getting off at this roadway. Oh, the poor thing. That's funny. Bless her hard. And she went from sweet to very racist and homophobic talking about her neighbors. Oh, lovely.

And I was thinking, can I get back on the highway now that she's a... maybe the highway was the best place for her uh you know to quash her uh feelings about certain things she went she got dark quick and like angry dark quick she says uh i said oh you from colorado originally she says oh yeah i've lived in lakewood my whole life i love leiquin but i hate the effin lakewood cops oh man and then she goes on to tell a story about how um uh one of the detectives used to live next door to her and hated her and would be mean to her and yell at her all the time and then he moved down to Castle Rock

about an hour south but he rents out his house to two gay guys and they hate her because the detective told them to hate her too and then there's the Mexicans a corner away who keep taking her rocks. Damn. Moving her rocks from in front of her house to put

in front of their house. How dare they? Like okay yeah this is this is really gotten bad but okay. Weird. Weird. You know, and Kaiser bought the ride, so I'm not even worried about a tip on this one. Yeah. I thank goodness she is not permanente, if you know what I mean. Exactly.

Yes, anyway. So I did Mark still gave her, you know, good rating as a passenger, but then said, please don't give me this passenger again. I don't want to, you know, I'm sure she'll find another ride next time, but not for me. Thank you very much. Such a bummer because it's like at first you're like, oh, she got this thing. Oh, my gosh, I want to take care of you. and I want to cuddle you for not liking the highway

and you're scared, it's okay, it's totally fine. But the gaze, okay, okay, back on the highway. But the gaze is always a bad sign. Let me see how many speed bumps I can find in this route. Take it full speed. Well, here's hoping she finds a better way. I hope so. All right, we're going to play a call.

Amy, you know less in Prague. I think I do. Familiar with his work. Yeah. He's always, big fan. He's always letting us know what's up, that guy, especially when it comes to English and Prague and whatnot. And here's a little something about daylight savings and light and all that sort of thing. So we're going to hear what Les has to say.

Good morning, Scott and Brian. It's your friend Les in Prague in the Czech Republic calling, just to talk about the daylight savings time discussion. I've had this idea for decades. Why don't we just set the time halfway between and leave it? In other words, if it's time to spring forward, instead of going from 1 o'clock to 2 o'clock, at 1.30, we would change the clocks to 2 o'clock. That way, we would gain a half an hour, but then at the end of the time when we would normally fall back, we would be halfway between daylight savings time and standard time, if that makes sense. so it gives everyone a compromise between one side or the other. Just a thought.

Love the show, though. I think what he's saying, too, is you lock it there. So now if you have limited light at night, you only have that half hour problem. And then it flips the other way, you've got a decent amount of light. It's a half hour more. Or whatever it is. That's a great compromise. Why not that?

Basically, yeah, just saying instead of the next time we do that, we just go half an hour and keep it there forever. Yeah, basically that sort of thing. I like you. My problem is that I've got a bunch of things, devices in my life that have a daylight savings mode button, daylight saving mode. Go ahead and drop that ass. I do it all the time. You push the button and it just subtracts or adds an hour. I would say the problem with that would be you'd have to get the entire world to agree to that be on the half hour, right?

Right. You know, this would have to be a universal choice. Yeah. And then the phones would all work fine. they would all do their thing because that's all happening remotely anyway or that's all happening with you know servers servers are telling it when to do it so computers all that stuff would work fine but you're right the rest of the world is you know either one hour two hour three hour and then you tell them all okay by the way america is now 30 minutes and we're going to stay yeah and then

they'll just look at us in metric and go really you're going to make us do a thing but you won't do our thing freaking off and if there's one thing i've learned the world's great about immediately doing what each other wants. So I think less's plan is all set to go. Let's do it. It's funny because unless might know where this is, or Amy, you might know, there's a country that doesn't have a

full hour time zone difference. It's like there is a 30-minute time zone somewhere and is it Middle East or something? There's some weird I didn't know. Do you know what that is? I don't. I don't either. I've never heard of that. I'm looking it up really quick. That's wild. Yeah. I wonder what they even, if they even bother

with it. Because like, like Arizona, Famously, they're just like, we're not doing this. Right, yeah. So maybe if you're a whole country that gets stuck in the middle, or do they get recognized as a separate kind of 0.5 time zone, you know? Oh, yeah. Yeah. So, oh, it's, there's these even a weirder.

So India is 30 minutes. India standard time is 30 minutes off. Australia has Northern Territory, which is 30 minutes off. EUCIA, EUCIA, 45 minute. difference. What? That is wild. That's complicated. Yeah. That's super complicated. South Australia is 30 minutes, Broken Hill, Lord Howe Island, Cocos Keeling Islands are all 30 minutes off. New Zealand has a 45 minute difference. Probably a chunk in it or the whole country? The whole place? It looks like the whole thing. Chatham Island. There we go. New Zealand Chatham Islands. Canada, Newfoundland,

30 minute difference. Sri Lanka, 30 minute difference. Afghanistan, Iran, Myanmar. Nepal is another 45-minute one. That's so crazy. I had no idea. Yeah, the all these exist. That's nuts. That's absolutely nuts. You know what? Maybe maybe less is honest. Maybe we could do the 30-minute thing and no one would you notice. That's wild, Brian. Just join the ranks of those other countries that already do that. I want a 45-minute time zone. That way you can watch all your TV shows and that. All your dramas are 45 minutes long. Just your terrestrial dramas with the commercials removed. And as long as it's not on Peacock, because then you'll get enough ads that it'll throw everything off.

Yeah, freecock, my ad. Unless you pay for the stupid ad free cock. Yeah, the ad free cock. Why does that sound worse than free cock by itself? It just does, ad free cock. Ad free cock. It sounds like an upgrade. Yeah, like the menu, ad free cock and you're, I don't know, I don't want to know where this, I don't want to know where this menu is, but you pull up to, you know,

sex worker on Colfax. Well, would you like to add freecock? Oh, well, sure. Man, the tales I hear about this Kofax area, Brian always talks about. Sounds like it's, uh, it's, it's, it used to be this really cool. There are books like books, coffee table books showing all the cool neon and everything

like that. They used to be on Colfax Avenue and Denver. It used to be this thing where you, it was a cruising location, but it was like a widely accepted. You cruise this road because there's such cool. on now it's like the golden hours hotel which is by the hour and you know yeah colfax is not a not the savory uh uh welcoming avenue that it used to be we used to have a road call well it's still there but we would second south if you heard that being said when i was growing up that meant red light

district you know all that stuff i don't think it's like that now i think it got gentrified and it's all like happy go lucky is there a peach tree in uh peach tree avenue and uh we should find out oh yeah well i mean Atlanta is you've heard that old chris rock bit right about how if you have an MLK in your city that's actually like the most dangerous place to be like if you're yeah you're on MLK run um Chris rock as opposed to kid rock make sure we yes yeah you need to make sure you don't pre show everybody pre show or the rock you know you gotta got to make sure you have the right rock. Yeah.

Oh, so many much better rocks. Yeah, right. I'm looking at, so according to, oh, all right, in Brigham City, there's a peach tree shaved ice, but that's not a street. Okay. Peach tree avenue is a street name that can be found in various locations in Utah, including Saratoga Springs and Centerville. If you're looking for specific properties, blah, blah, blah.

Okay. So there are many seven peach trees. Hey, look at that. How do you feel about that as a? I did not know. Atlanta native. That's, you know, makes me feel even more at home. Do you think they'll start filming the Avengers movies here because of this?

I mean, you know. Probably not. Probably not. Probably not. It feels like an unlikely scenario. You'll see a little beehive icon instead of a peach icon at the end of your movies and stuff. Okay. I have a comment about the beehive thing.

Do it. So, um... I can tell you everything I know about the beehive state. This cracked me up so much. So we're, you know, as Scott pointed out, you know, we're, we've just been walking everywhere. We didn't want to. a fool with like renting a car or anything like that. We pretty much were like, okay, we're going to be in walking distance everywhere we need

to be. We'll just, after the conference, we'll switch hotels and we'll be near Scott, and then it'll be fine. It's a very walkable city down there anyway, yeah. Yeah. So we're walking, and I notice there's one of those signs that's got, like, it's not an interstate, it's the state highway sign. Yeah.

And it is, it's clearly meant to be in the shape of a beehive. Yeah. But it looks like a pile of poop. like a poo, like a, it looks like a poo-poo icon or a emoji. It does. And I'm like, I said to Chuck, I was like, why, I understand why some other states do that, right? Because like, their, you know, their state shape is not conducive to that. But like, Utah has a distinctive shape.

Oh, yeah. We could do it. And you could fit the number inside of the little, you know, box with a notch. Mm-hmm. The cutout. Yeah. Like, you could have Utah state highways that are like shape like Utah. Completely agree.

This is an old thing that I, as far as I know. know it's been in place since I remember when I was a kid, so I think they've never changed. But the whole beehive thing comes from, we're a state full of hard working bees, ready to go out there and do whatever the queen needs, whatever. The metaphor breaks down because we're not drones and there's no queen.

Patriarchal. Yeah. But it is, it's the idea is that we're busy worker bees, and you're never going to find a lazy Utahon is the idea. So then they start putting that imagery everywhere. Now, when it's actually drawn out as a, As a beehive, you get a little entryway, you see the lines.

You're like, oh, it's a beehive. But when you do like a sign, it's just like a silhouette, you're like, that is a shit. Right, yeah, it is. It's like, it's just a little bumpy, little pile. So, yeah, that cracked me up. It was also the conference we were here for in case anybody doesn't know. Oh, yeah, fill people in on that thing. Right, yeah.

So Chuck and I were here for a pottery conference. It's called Enseca. I apologize. I don't know what the acronym stands for, but it's like EnSik. C-E-C-C-A. I'm sure it's like National Conference of something ceramic artist, blah, but something. Anyway, but, yeah, so we were downtown at the Salt Palace was where the conference was being held, and we stayed at the Marriott down there.

And, yeah, we had a great time. We saw, like, some really, really cool ceramic art. Just, I sent, I sent Scott some of it just because I was like, dude, you got to look at this. This is awesome. Sure. And, but yeah, we had a great time. And we both, like, learned a whole lot of stuff that were really anxious to go home and get our hands in clay and try. And, yeah, it was, it was a really great time.

But we were kind of, kind of cracked up at wherever we crossed the street downtown, the crosswalks are, like, little hexagon. So it's made to look like a honeycomb. And it was fun to hear all the people who were crossing at the same time. as us realize that that's what it was. Like, you know, like, oh, it's like the beehive. Oh, you know, it's very adorable. But like the downtown area, I got to tell you, like, until I saw for sure, like, oh, that's where the conference center was, I wasn't sure we were in the right place because

y'all's downtown is very quiet and very clean. Yeah, very clean. I mean, and I was just like, whoa. Famously, Adam Carolla once said on a show. show he's never and all the touring he ever did i'm not that big of a corolla fan but it's something he said once all the places he tours he prefers here because he feels like the streets are not gross yeah it says the only city he's been in where he's just like this this isn't gross now i don't know if that means we're spending extra tax dollars to keep it clean or if we're just naturally clean or i yeah

exactly just naturally yeah it's possible i don't know i don't know what the deal is but it's true it's a clean city no yeah for sure because if you walk around in downtown Atlanta i know it's not it's stinky yeah you know there's you know walk past one building it's gonna smell like pee and another one probably vomit depending on how close you are to a bar it helps it's not a it's not like a massive city right like we're not some huge metropolitan thing it's relatively small compared to other western states and so i think that probably helps yeah you know we have a an area that is a little sketch but they've also improved that and like what we're doing with homeless stuff is a lot better than what used to be

Or how are you supposed to say it now? Unhoused. Unhoused stuff. I always forget. It's a lifetime of saying it wrong. People experiencing homelessness as opposed to. There you go. Man, it's so many more words.

Couldn't they give us a shorter term? Unhoused is nice and short. House, you know. Unhoused. Unhoused. I like unhoused because it's, like you say, it's short and it's descriptive and also kind of describes a condition rather than, you know, right. It's not attributing it to the person.

It's also a callback to a really old George Carlin bit that I really like where he talks about that. He's like, you know, it's not a home. A home is an abstract concept. It's not a home these people are lacking. It's house. They need a house. Sure. You need to live somewhere. Right. I found, okay. While you were talking, I found, I think, the acronym. It is. So this is what the salt palace, was it? Yeah. Is that the salt palace? I love it there. We tried to get that for Nurtacular ones. It's very expensive. I'm sure. I'm not surprised. It's very large. It's very large. And they keep making it better, so it's not going to get any cheaper. Let's see. The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. There you go. I got the ceramic arts. National and ceramic and arts. I got those two, right? Well, all I know is the stuff you showed me, like pictures and stuff. Really amazing stuff that I would first glance at and not think, oh, that's a sculpture. That's something that was fired in a kiln. Right. I never think that of these things. These things are so intricate and so, like when I kiln something back in the day when I was in college doing like,

ceramics. This is a big lumpy shit. Yeah. Or a beehive, depending on your point of view. A beehive. Yeah. So many ashtrays. So many ashtrays for a family that doesn't smoke. Yeah, nobody smokes. That's all we could make. I mean, you know, Kim, Kim's been doing this stuff recently and she made, you know, some pretty interesting stuff, but she's ready to go back and like really go for it. Like, just got her feet wet. Kim showed us some of her stuff. It's very cool. Like, you know, little platters with like some scraffito art on there and stuff. It's really cute. Scraffito. Brian, you heard of Scraffito? Brian, you heard of Scrafito? I never heard of

Scraffito. Look at that. This is a cool piece of pottery. You're right here. That's beautiful. Now, wait a minute. Did Jamie make that? Oh, you did? Oh, you did. It's really nice. You have one as well. I know. I don't know where I put it back here somewhere. This is full of all my, this is like it's all challenge coins. It's scads and poker chips and challenge coins, but they're great. You'll have a new one to add to the pile come three and a half weeks or so from now. I know. Get your tickets, everybody. They're running out.

All right. Well, let's get to whatever's next. Oh, hey, you know that sip club deal, Brian, that you convinced me to try? Yes. I don't know how this happened, but I just wanted to, because I just did a little bit of historical look back on my habits over the last 30 days or so. And it's been a crazy 30 days with a lot of back and forth on the way on the other end of the, of the valley going to see my mom every other day or every day in some cases. And, oh, Wendy says hi to everybody, by the way.

She wasn't able to come in the studio, but she goes home tomorrow. I thank her tonight. I can't remember. Anyway, I figured it out. So my first visit ever to Panera Bread was in the year of our Lord 2025, early last month, meaning March. So we're just the first day of April. So the March we just, or the month we just ended, early in that month is when Brian said, or I got the deal and I said, hey, Brian, I should do this.

You're like, yeah, sweet, go do it. So we did that. We have now been to Panera Bread in that 30 days, no less than eight different times. So my first time in the place, first time ever. You want to get as much as you can for the deal. I mean, you know, it. If you're passing when you're like, why not, right? you're like I have it for free and then also they're always scrolling deals on there so it's like oh there's my free drink but also I can get a salad for a buck 50 yeah instead of the seven whatever and I'm like okay cool add that to the thing and and also I've come to the conclusion of all the chains it's the least gross it's good food it's why not I mean it's decent food you're getting a good deal on it I mean why wouldn't you yeah why wouldn't you do it so I'm so now we go there all the time I can see this episode sponsored

Buy Panera Brown. How many times I've been in the last month just to... Oh, yeah. You probably have some data. I go five or six days a week just to get the coffee because it's close enough that it's cheaper for me to get coffee there than to buy a bag of coffee and make it here. So... I wish they had to drive up.

That's my only complaint. So at least our location. Yeah. I wish it does because it's not a huge deal, but you pull in, you go in, you hit the screen, you do the thing, they give you your thing and you're out. It's like not a big deal, but it'd be nice if we could just... just, but this location doesn't have a, have a drive-up. I know some do, but anyway.

And the stuff you're getting wouldn't be worth doing the pre-order thing, right? Like, you're just getting a fun drink because you're just walking in and getting an empty cup and then go filling. Yeah, and sometimes, like, Kim will get like the roasted nut coffee, something, something, or I'll get whatever. Oh, hazelnut. Yeah. And so there's, so there's, you know, it's just a little more inconvenient. But we also kind of like hanging around in there. It's a nice cafe.

You open your notebook and do work. Yeah. You know? Yeah. I mean, there's worse things to spend your time doing. I mean, you could be Chuck sitting on a couch. Right. Yeah.

Just checking in. Chuck, check. Hemmond made a joke. How's he doing? He's doing all right. He's doing all right. He's doing all right. Yeah, we're good.

We're good. Hemman made a joke in the chat that only like eight of us will get, but it's really funny. And I want to call it out. Chuck is doing his best Stacy imitation from last year's team. Oh, that's perfect. That's dead on. There were so many times that we'd look over and Hammond's wife,

Stacey is just on her phone while all the nerds are playing board games or or recording a task or something like that. Yeah, it's perfect. You are now the, you are the Stacey of today's program. Congratulations. Someone had to do it. Quick question from Steve. It's a comics question.

He wrote this in. By the way, these calls, these voicemails, these texts, they all come to us at voicecast.com. This one says, hey, Scott, I know you're a big fan of post-apocalyptic stories. I was wondering if you've ever read the original old man Logan story from Wolverine Volume 3, Issue 66-272, plus giant-sized Wolverine 1. If you have read it, what did you think of it? If you haven't read it, I strongly encouraged you.

Didn't we talk about this? We answered this question last week, yeah. Why do I still have, oh, I'm on the wrong page. Yeah, maybe you look at April 1st. Yeah, that's stupid. Just kidding. There's your April Fool's joke. Yeah, I was on the wrong tab that whole time.

That's wonderful. Well done, everybody. You know what threw me? I had on air light there. Is we had a call from Les last time. Oh, and so, okay. Yeah. That's really funny.

So it worked. You had played the, so you've been on that tab for a much longer than we even realized. Yeah, but that clip was the right clip. It's just that he sent us another one last week and it worked there too. So from in my head, I'm like, no, I'm on the right tab. Everything's fine. That's great. Yeah.

Awesome. Okay. So this is actually the one I meant to read. You ready for this? I'm ready. Says YouTube Keep, this is from LSTS or sorry, LTST. That's just love the show, though. Oh, shit.

I thought that was his name. You're right. Maybe it is. You know what? Maybe it is. Larry the small... Toad. I don't know.

Yeah. Larry the small toad. You two keep mentioning Timu with something the... Sorry, with something the lesser of something bigger. I'm not quite sure what that means. Oh, like basically we'll say, oh yeah, that dude is the Timo Christian Bill. Oh, right. Gotcha.

All right. He says, I work for the USPS in a sorting facility. When Timu first appeared, we would get in containers and containers full. of TEMU packages, especially, or sorry, easy to notice because of the

orange and white packaging. As the months went on, we saw less and less of the packages, and today I can't

remember the last time I saw one. So he, you know, theoretically, Timu and the, in the chitter. Yeah, I doubt it.

I doubt it's true, but it seems like that's a big drop-off unless they're using UPS. Unless they've changed their packaging. Yeah. Oh, that might be. Not orange and white anymore.

Oh, yeah, good point. Or, you know, people, Well, when it first became a thing, everybody was ordering off Timu, and now people are starting to realize that, oh, this is garbage. It's kind of bad. Right.

Exactly, yes. Did you see? A rug I bought blanket is falling apart at the edges. I haven't hung it up yet, but I have that big $5 bill or $100 bill. It's not up yet. I do like that. It's supposed to be a rug. It is abysmally stupid as a rug.

It will never work as a rug. No one should ever put it on their floor. It is made out of nothing. But to hang it on the wall and have it. giant oversized like dollar is kind of cool. Wait, what is Franklin on? $100.00. $100.00.

That's what it is. A Benjamin. Yeah, I wouldn't have bought a rug with a dollar on it. That would have been weird. But those, like that tortilla rug thing or blanket thing I had? What a waste? So stupid. Yeah, you have to tell people it's a tortilla when they look at it. It's, you know, what do you know it's a tortilla? It's like, oh, that's kind of funny

and to wrap yourself in a tortilla is very it's funny but you always have to say see this yep it's a tortilla because it looks like a diarrhea rag it just looks like a blanket that needs to be washed it's freaking foul man someone was incontinent on or something have you uh have you ever amy bought a teemu thing i have not i have not bought a teemu thing i did buy i want to say i bought a couple things off wish and quickly learned my lesson back when you remember wish oh yeah that's what we used to say

is that's the wish version of whatever now people say T-MU version or whatever. Yeah. Maybe they're the same. Maybe Wish just rebranded as Timu. Yeah. Maybe that was their wish. Yeah.

Their wish was granted. That's good stuff. It's good stuff. Which is the Timo-A-M-A-M-A-B-G-A-B-Gy-M-A-K-E-M-E-KU-E-M-E-KU-T-MU-T-MU-E-T-MU-E-T-MU-T-E-W-E-W-E-W-E-W-E-E-W-E-W-E-W-E-E-W-E-G-E-W. I want to tell you. I want to tell about this weird thing. So we're in my mom's, my mom is still in the PT center to give people an update real quick. Not a ton of progress a little bit, but not near enough for the month she's been there. So now we're, we're just talking about what's next, right? In case like the insurance company says, all right, that's it. No more PT. She's not progressing because that could

very well could happen. So that means that there's a very good chance she could go into long term care of some sort or some other things. It's all a bunch of stuff right now. It's all hanging around our heads we don't know we're working on it that's what's going on and i'll admit it's been very stressful um that's where we were yesterday we met with like the pt advisor and the doctor and the nurse staff and all the people there social workers all this stuff just talking about what options are there and trying to understand the best we can her current status and all this stuff because we ain't getting it from john i can tell you that anyway he's a huge pain in the butt yeah uh but i also get he is fiercely in love with my mother and wants very much to say things like she'll be up

walking in no time. Like, John, she's not walking probably ever again. Positive attitude, but it's also a little bit of closeness blindness. Yeah, and denial as a result. So it's kind of frustrating because we're trying to balance all that. But anyway, we're basically that in the professionals. Tell us what the deal is. He doesn't like any of that because they're being honest, right?

So anyway, long and the short of it, my mom's been pretty stoned lately because they got around all kinds of wacko drugs all the time. And here's my favorite thing that's happened so far. We're sitting there and she's laying in her bed and I asked her some question, totally unrelated. And she's talking, she's answering me and she's right in the middle of the sentence. And then immediately goes, those two drawings up there, like in the middle of the conversation. It's kind of like saying, well, I had chicken and beef last week. And those two drawings up there, it's like that, like totally out of nowhere.

And she points out of abrupt. Yeah. She points at these two colored pages that these twin kids in their neighborhood brought, super cute. It's like, hope you feel better, blah, blah, blah. And it was this really sweet, like, image of a, like, a dog that's kind of an ice cream cone inside of a cone. And anyway, it's from some book. I don't know where it was from. But the kids colored it.

And she goes, which one of those is more artistic? And I said, well, what do you mean, mom? She goes, well, the one on the left, and this is what's crazy. This seems like a weird thing for her to jump to, but she's very sharp about what she's talking about and can see it. And she's got great vision. I don't know why I got so screwed on the vision. on my eyes but she's got great eyes and she says she says uh well the ones everything's colored perfectly in the lines there's no going out of the lines and the other one is crazy colors and

there's some out of the lines but it's also really shocking colors and stuff you would normally not see for like the cone is a bright red and and the other ones like a soft normal brown or whatever well apparently so these are they're twins so the idea is that they did it so differently what which one's the more artistic kid and i said the likelihood of which of these kids would show more artistic talent down the road would be the messy one would be the one that's taking chances

going outside the lines, thinking outside the box, all this sort of stuff. And she goes, she looks at John, and she goes, I told you! And I went, did I, what happened here? She goes, she goes, she goes, he thinks it's the perfect one,

but he doesn't understand because nobody can draw in his house. and I said, oh, man, did we walk into it? Like, is this a firestorm of a dumbest thing ever heard? Apparently, like, a long-running argument. Yeah, and he just, he was, and he was dead set on like, this is the one that's the artist, because to me, it's pleasing and right and normal.

But that's his brain. And my mom's like, I've got multiple creative visual children who have all shown that to be not the case. This is the safe way. This over here is the stretch your brain way. So therefore, this. So she was so adamant about it. about it. She was like, and she kept doing it, John, see? I want to back up, though. You made a

statement like, no one can draw in their house. Like, I know, I think I know what you meant, which was like nobody has that as a, as a skill or talent. Yeah, and that's her, her words. It sounded like John's house is like, like, footloose, but for drawing. Like, it's like, no, there will be no crayons. All right. I'm sad to say that that's closer to the truth than not. Oh, dear. Because he would have, he would have given no purchase for that sort of thing with those kids growing up. That that would have seemed frivolous. It's one of those deals.

Yeah. And my mom totally opposite. My dad definitely the opposite. And so that's definitely like one of the reasons there's so much friction with him is they just think differently. The other thing that happened this week is it was like, we are in there laughing with my mom. We are a laughing family. We have always been. Wendy and I are cracking up.

We're cracking her up. She's cracking us up. This is the Johnson way. We don't sit there all stern-faced. Yeah. John never laughs at anything. And it is in fact annoyed that we're in there laughing. He thinks that's bad.

So he's like annoyed that we're all having a good time. And you can see it in his face. And when you left the room, I said to Wendy and my mom, or my mom wasn't really this thing. I said, Wendy, have you, I was just thinking, have we ever seen him laugh? and all of us look like dumbstruck animals in the headlights. You're like, no. Oh, you should take it as a personal challenge. And then somebody said, no, I think I've heard him laugh.

I said, was it like a sarcastic grunt? Not really like a belly. Ha ha, ha, I'm here. I'm sharing a laugh with friends and loved ones. And he went, yeah, I guess you're right. And then we were all kind of like, he never laughs. So that seemed, this is what we're up against, that kind of stuff. You should take it as a personal challenge.

Be like, okay. Oh, yeah. okay now like a secret like maybe like even like a family contest like who can make John laugh who can make John laugh yeah win some kind of prize it feels it feels insurmountable knowing what I know about him but I suppose it's possible um he did kind of go in the middle of us trying to feed her we were trying to feed her something she goes she goes I'm not hungry anymore or something he goes like that I'm like Like, I looked at William, I'm like, that's not a laugh. That's not laughing. No, no, it's, it sounds like he's laughing. Like, he's meanly chuckling at her, like a sneer kind of thing. Yeah, not a laugh, not a true laugh, you know, one from the heart, one from the soul.

But we're not going to change for that. We're all like laugh until you can't. Like, we're, that's what we're doing. And she still giggles. I can make my mom laugh even when she's stoned and out of it and barely paying attention. I can get her laughing. that to me is way more important than going or whatever gerd noise he made

right exactly they say they say that laughter is the best medicine that's what they say I've heard that yeah those guys with their statements and their whatnot yeah it is really hard though I get what you're saying like how he's to be to be generous to him right like we're going to assume

that his oh she's gonna be up and walking like trying to think positively but it is it's misguided right because the reality is she likely won't. She probably will not. No, at the most, she'll have a need for people to move her to a chair all the time. Like, that's the highest current expectation that doctors have. Yeah.

And I tend to buy into what doctors say. And it doesn't mean that she can't miraculously one day go, I'm going to go for it. And I'm going to, you're all going to be shocked. I'm going to be 110 and running. You know, she could do that. Right. I'm not saying that's out of the window of probability.

but you know it's possible not probable right and well and the thing is like when you have somebody who's like aggressively positive that way um it can have the like an adverse effect on the actually negative yeah it's like because there's a guilt factor there's a shame factor involved like so oh if i'm not doing what john thinks i should be doing then i have failed in some way do you know what i mean it's like kim sitting there and she goes can i help you take your pills because my mom was struggling with taking her pills. She's kind of nauseous, not really eating as much she should and all this. And he's standing there.

And she goes, he goes, no, she can do this. And he goes, mom, can I just, like, maybe I can put them on your tongue. I can help you get these down. John goes, no, she can do it herself. And then Kim goes, well, tell you what, John, the meeting's starting, because we were leaving to go out of the meeting. He had to be at that or he wanted to be. Because he needs to always be in control, right?

Of course. So we said, you know, we're off. We're going to go to this. And Kim says, I'll take care of her. It'll be all right. And he goes, no. And, like, pulls his hand back. And she goes, but John, he'll be late for your meeting.

Puts the pills in her hands and runs. Because he realized he had to be in the meeting. Wow. You know what I mean? So it's just like he's really struggling. He's 94. He's almost 95. Like, all this stuff is, is what it is.

The important thing is everybody's getting to see my mom. Even when he says, I don't know if she's up to it. We don't care. We're going in. And she's always up for it. She's always stoked. to see everybody. He just has a control thing.

Yeah. His whole life he's been like that and I ain't having any. So, Wendy neither. Like Wendy and I are both the two lanky white folks in the family, all the Koreans with us. We're just like, look at him going. There's like 30 of us to one of you, dude. And you are also old. And we're trying to be cognizant of his needs and his feet.

We're doing all that. What we're really doing now is deferring to. to the experts through what we want to have done. We know they want to have done. So we're putting it on them so that he, his anger isn't this baseline. Their family never wants me to. Instead, it's like,

oh, these experts, what do they know? So then it's a little less on us and therefore a little less on mom. And anyway, anyway, anyway, it's a whole thing. We're doing what we got to do. All right. Well, enough of that.

Let's move on to some news. Today's news is brought to you by The Great Toilet Plugging of 2025. Oh, also John related. We're on our way out of the health facility thing, PT thing. And no one's there. It's Sunday. It's like hardly anybody's there.

And we've done visiting her. John leaves just before us. And as we come out of the main lobby, he emerges from the bathroom. I hear the, you know, he finished. Yeah. And he's standing out there and we're like, all right, John, I'm going to go. I got a pee real bad, though. So let me hop in there.

Okay. I go in that room. I turn on the light. there is the biggest plug toilet water at the edge nightmare you've ever seen in your life I was going to say he James Marsden did 100% he did and I went nope and I turned and left but also this is just a go in the lobby all go and I get home just a side note what I saw in there oh geez I don't know what 95 year olds do at their digestive system that what I saw was not human It was not normal.

I don't want to describe it. I'm not trying to grow somebody out, but that didn't look like a good diet to me. It looked like, well, I'll just tell you, it looked like a giant granite rock had been jammed into this toilet. And I don't know what happened.

I didn't say anything. There's no staff to talk to. So I was just like, I guess they'll deal with it. I'm sure they have worse problems than this all the time. If that's what's in his butt, that might. Somebody wave when I can unmute, by the way.

Oh, yeah. You can unmute now. Story over. All right, let's get into the news here. We've got a few things. We'll probably get at least one of these in. Jessica Simpson, remember her, her whole deal? Oh, yeah.

Yeah, she liked the chicken of the sea because it was chicken. Yeah, because it was chicken. And, you know, I guess she was in the, what was it, the MTV thing? She was big for and then. Yeah, she was married to that guy from 98 degrees, Lechay, right? Nick Lechay? Oh, there it is. That sounds familiar.

And they had a reality show about their lives or something. That was the reality show where, yeah, exactly. She never saw a minute of that. Didn't she like... The only minute I saw was the chicken of the sea clip because they played it all the time on the soup. Yeah, that never would never watch an episode of that, whatever that show were. I remember it being a big deal that, like, she was wearing mom jeans. Like, that's my Jessica Simpson.

Really? Okay. That was a big deal. Like Jessica Simpson and mom jeans. I don't know. I don't know what that is either, but there's something familiar about that. Yeah. But she eventually was in that Beverly

or Dukes of Hazard movie. Oh, she was Daisy Duke. She was Daisy Duke in her Daisy Dukes. And that's fine and everything. Well, now we have a brand new hot off the press of story about Jessica Simpson in the year 2025. She has been drinking snake sperm to help her vocals.

As one does. Get this into the daily music headlines, Brian. Yeah, I know, yeah. It's a great story. Oh, God, no kidding. Well, actually, it's funny because I put this in here because it did come up in the, when we were coming up with stories, pulling up the stories for daily music headlines, Hammond I looked at this and I said, I can't do, I'm already doing a story about Donald Trump. I can't do, I can't do two unsavory stories in one episode. Yeah, this is perhaps the least savory of stories this one.

Sadly, yes, yes. Her secret to good vocals, snake sperm. In a silly Instagram reel, she shared over the weekend, Simpson said that she's been taking syrup-like supplements. Gross, right? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Wait, let's do a quick check on Chuck after this revelation. Yeah. How you doing, Chuck?

Okay. Are you done with your coffee now, Chuck? Yeah. I guess he can't hear me. No, he can't hear you darn it. He's very not okay about this. It's not a great story. It says here, it's contents for a mystery until a recent Google search.

They're like, what am I drinking? It's this Chinese herb thing. I don't know why I'm doing that voice. Because that's what she sounds like. It's pretty accurate. She's like, I don't know. My vocal coach told me to drink it. Simpson explained in the clip.

And they googled it and it's snake sperm. It's like a honey. She says, letting out a laugh. Nope. It's not like a honey. Nope. No. I'd let out a barf.

It would break my streak. Very much not like a, yeah. If you want a good vocal, it says if you want a good vocal, you got to drink snake sperm. She added. No, I really don't. Yeah, then I guess we're all, we're all just not going to have as good vocals as Jessica Simpson then. Does she known for her singing? I guess I don't know.

I mean, she sings. I guess so. I mean, obviously, because of this, but I didn't know that that was part of her. I thought she just was, I don't know what I thought. Yeah, that she was just celebrity for celebrity's sake kind of thing. Yeah, like the hills or the. Now, she, she was originally a singer, like her sister, Ashley, who famously, lip synced on SNL and did a barn dance to get off the stage when they played the wrong

lip sync clip. Oh, I forgot about that. Yeah. Oh, speaking of which, everybody's flipping out about why Morgan Wallen left SNL so in a huff. Right, just like abruptly left the stage. Yeah, and everybody's trying to tie it to his Instagram post and they think he was trying to be all, you know, Mega Hat or something. But I'm convinced, because I've seen this face before, on myself, that I think he had to poo.

That's what I think. Oh, really? Well, that's what Keenan Thompson thought. Keenan said, I think he had to go to the potty. Yeah. That's what he was close saying. I wouldn't be surprised. That face he was making was a face I would make and have made when there needs to be a quick exit because, you know, sometimes nature calls at a time you don't need it the most.

And I'm not ready to pile on him yet for this. I think perhaps maybe he needed to poo. Yeah. I mean, it would have been much worse if he had pooped himself on stage. Imagine that. Yeah. We'd be seen that in the S&L 100 Number 3 show, man, that would be the highlight.

But you could always pretend it was like a, I don't know, if it were me, I would have circled through the group and out the back. That's what I would have done. Instead, he like stormed out in front. Hug, hug, hugging your way until you could just kind of get down on your hands and knees and crawl back behind the drum kit. Yeah, that's how I would have handled it. But, I mean, you know, when you're in the moment.

Yeah, sometimes you panic and your brain just tells you to do weird. things I guess. Yeah. You got to go. You got to go. Nobody wants to be that dog from the Westminster Dog Show though. No. You know what I'm talking about that. Oh yeah. I remember that. Ain't nobody about that. Oh, he's just a little over excited or uh Tracy Morgan at the next game or whatever it was. Oh yeah. The poor guy barfing in front of everybody at the game. Oh my gosh. That was so sad. I felt bad for him because I just thought, man, is there a worst place to do that? Courtside with other celebrities. Obviously, cameras are already on you.

Oh, cameras are already on because, you know, it's a, it's a televised game and the report essay. Oh, looks like we've had some sort of illness from Tracy Morgan. We're going to cut your commercial. Oh, no. What if you yelled Liz Lemon in the middle of it. Liz Lemon? Trying to come up with a way to make that work. You did it.

You did it. Oh, we have an update. Chuck has left the building. My guess is all that coffee and all this talk has led him to have to go pee. Yep. No Chuck for a moment. I love the zoom in on the chuck cam. Yeah, a little zoom in there.

He's out. But we have this new bathroom in the studio basement, and he's in good hands in there. I can promise you that. All right, that is going to do it for today's news. We're going to take a break. When we come back from this break, Amy is here to give us recommendations for reading. We have her clip already. We are set to go.

It's going to be great. Stick around for that. Brian, let's play a song and take a break. Yeah, we're going to hear something from Theo Black. Theo Black is the musical project of a woman. named Katie Lynch, a Dundee-based alternative artist known for a very atmospheric and introspective sound. This is, let's see, her second album, I believe, and this is a brand new release.

Let's see, brand new EP, and the whole thing's out right now, so you can get the whole thing. This is great. This is a really cool song called Peach Sky. Go check it out. Theo Black is what you're going to look for. I couldn't sleep I couldn't sleep

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I'm dead now. Sorry about that. And we're back. Who was that again? That was The Oblique. I think I said it right the first couple. couple times and then right before we cut to the song I said Theo Black. Theo Bleak. The brand

new EP is called Bad Luck is two yellow flowers. It's available on Polly Boon Records and that was the song Peach Sky. Man, having a name like Bleak? That's rough. Bleak. Yeah. Yes. People are going to You know, her real name is Katie Lynch.

I don't know why she took, why she performs as Theo Bleak, but But it is what it is. It's what it is. Yeah, we're going to have to take it. It's so that when she comes out on stage, somebody can go, Theo! See, oh, we have the return of Chuck. Let's get the cam on here where he's coming back.

He's going to have a seat. There he is. Oh, there is. Oh, is that where you? There he is. Look at that beard, man. He claims he kept the beard going so that we could see it before he really inevitably gets rid of it before Vegas or something.

So I think you should keep it. So do some fun stuff with Chuck. Now you've got this great power. Like at TMS Vegas, you can, the first day, just cut like the sides of it down. Oh, yeah. He's got this. So I'll relay this info. You just start shaving.

Like day one, you show up with that. Day two, you show up with just like a little bit missing. Next day, mustache is gone. Like Wolverine? Yeah, Wolverine cut. What do you think of that? Yeah. Ironically, he had planned to kind of do that here. And just like throughout the show, just like take off a little bit more of it.

See if anybody noticed. That's why he disappeared in the bathroom. We just didn't notice any different. We just haven't seen the major cut yet. But, well, it's good to see him back. and also just for the fun thing i haven't been moving stuff around and i forgot i left it there but the uh on air light is right next to him you want to hold that up here hold on there you go see here i'm gonna go close up there although it says it's only backwards yeah well i think the videos

i think it's there you go actually he's holding it really backwards now for us but for you it's correct yeah everything's flipped for me right because i see the flip but everybody watching sees the right i don't think it's supposed to be that way but as you recall when we started the show. She was upside down. I don't know what happened there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, hey, let's get to this segment. We always have a little intro for it. So I'm a play right here. Here we go. One of the things that I enjoy also is reading. A music can only mean one thing. It's time for read this, a chance to remind each other how important it is to read books. And we have with us, of course, as we have in the entire show so far. Amy Robinson.

Hi, Amy. Hi, friends. Oh, hi. So you had to say. say hi friends or else what are we doing? It's the beginning of my segment. That's how it starts. That's how it begins. Let's see how it ends. Amy, of course, reading books all the time. Very busy reader and find stuff that we like or that we might like here on the show.

Tell us about what we're doing today. Yeah, so I sent you a clip for this. This is one of those finds I just came across accidentally, interestingly, interestingly. And it was suggested to me, I think, probably on Audible. And I thought it sounded funky, so yeah, we can go ahead and just play the clip. Here's your clip. As soon as I pried open one of the crates, I knew something was wrong. Someone had tampered with my shipping crates, with the crowbar still in my hand.

I examined the mess. The glass and copper antiques that had been carefully wrapped in old newspapers were now exposed. There could be no doubt that someone had rifled through the contents. The strange thing was, nothing seems. seemed to be missing. Even the jar containing a small amount of gold was there. Instead, as I removed the glassware and pushed aside the tangle of newspaper padding, I saw that something had been added. A three-foot stone gargoyle stared up at me from the wreckage that used to be carefully organized antique alchemy artifacts. The gray creature looked similar to the famous

thinker gargoyle, with short horns and folded wings. The main difference was that this gargoyle held an old, leather-bound book in his arms. That was odd. I leaned in for a closer look. There was something... The gargoyle blinked. My fist tensed around the crowbar. I stumbled backward, falling into the large couch.

I laughed at myself. I'd seen a fair share of magic shows in my time. I knew what this gargoyle was. You're the best-looking automaton I've ever seen. I am no automaton, a deep voice emanating from the automaton said. He climbed out of the crate onto the hardwood floor. I gasped and fell off the edge of the couch. This is right up my alley.

Yeah. What do we got here? This is called The Accidental Alchemist by Gigi Pandian. And it's a really interesting, modern, but also kind of supernatural stuff going on. Obviously, there's a gargoyle coming to life book. This woman buys a house in Portland, Oregon, and it's a major fixer-upper. It's been an abandoned house for years and years, and no one in their local community will go near the house because they think it's haunted. And she says, oh, that's perfect.

Sure. So she buys the house as a fixer-upper, and then she starts unpacking her shipping crates, and there's a living gargoyle that has stowed away in her item. Ooh, very nice. There's what, five books here in this series? Yeah. How far have you gotten? Only the first one. Just the first. Yeah. Only the first one so far. But yeah, it's a fun, it's a fun little read. It's got it's got a good little whodunit mystery going on. And also, you know, some plausible yet clearly bullshitty explanations of what alchemy is. And, you know, like I say, it's like it's one of those things that's like an effort to make. make it sound like it could be possible, you know, uh, you know what I mean. Like, it's like this magical thing that we all know is, is make believe, but it makes it sound like it's science. I like that. It's like, uh, it's not exactly the same, but like Star Trek and its techno babble tries to have a semblance of science in it and that sort of thing. I like it

when magic tries to do that too. It's kind of cool. Right. Exactly. It makes it, it, it gives you a little bit of a of permission to even more suspend your disbelief right and and just kind of go along with okay in this world this is this is what happened you know what I really like the freaking cover art style is so I know right isn't that cool I love that kind of um what do you call that the kind of uh that ink stuff where it's super reliefy like dark contrast I love whatever that style's called there's probably a word for it and I don't know it but but yeah all of them kind of have the same style which I also am a huge fan with with series where they don't, where they're, it felt like it all got written at once.

Yeah. And they all just are consistent. And I just love that kind of stuff. Yeah. Yeah. And it's, I did actually read the first, the first chapter of the second book, which is the masquerading magician. And because, you know, you get the, the first chapter or the second book a lot of

times when you read something on Audible. And, uh, yeah. And it was also, it was good. It was just as engaging as, as the first book. There are points in the book where it gets a little bit much. I'm like, okay, I don't actually need all the ingredients that you put in your tea. You know, I don't actually need to know all of that. But it's one of the funny things about this is the gargoyle is French.

And so he has a very French accent. Oh, shit. And also, he's apparently he eats. Like the French. Wee, we. Yeah, they do. Baguettes, from what I hear. Yeah, baguettes and cheese and wine and, you know, not German stuff, though.

Right. No, no. No. But, yeah, no, no. He, the, one of the first things he asks her is, you know, if she has any food, and she has taken to veganism. And so he says, oh, my God. It's really, really funny. Like, she is, she is a vegan and, you know, he's like, oh, well, I cook, I cook.

Bring me these ingredients and I cook. I don't think the French are fond of, um, they like their duck and their meat, don't they? Yeah, they like, I'm sure there's a vegan French person. Bacon and butter. There has to be. There's butter in everything. Yeah. But for whatever reason, I never go, ah, those French vegan.

Like, I just don't think about it. Yeah, French vegans, exactly. It's not in my mind. But I think Patrick these days has to eat a little better than he used to because of some gut issues. How you like that? Patrick, do a little, you don't have HIPAA in France. I can say whatever I want about your guts. But anyway, I don't want to besmirch.

I don't want to besmirch the entire, you know, the entire French countryside. If any of you want to write in and correct me on how many vegans there are, that'd be fine. Do it. Sure. Is there a number? There's got to be a number out there published. Yeah, sure, got to be. Well, that's great.

Would you say this is, like, more geared toward younger audiences, older? Yeah, Y.A. Yeah, yeah. I think it is. I think it probably would be somewhere, it's a little bit more mature than YA because, I mean, there's no, there are no spicy scenes in there, but. There's no hot French goblin on lady action? Ew, no. Oh, man.

That's a bummer. What are you going to do? He ripped open the straps of her bodice. I don't know why I knew bodice was coming. I knew it, though. It's like a word you only, it's only in novels that have Fabio on the cover, basically. Why is bodice just such an easy target? I don't even know what, what is a bodice?

Is it the tight thing that hold your waist? It's like a girdly kind of thing? It doesn't, well, so that's a corset. But yeah, specifically if you have a dress, the bodice is what, you know, what your torso is in, the part of the dress that contains your torso. Okay, so like neck to waist. Right. So your body, it's probably some source in the words there.

Yeah, right, bodice. See, this is the other reason we have Amy here is that again, this is stuff that we'd normally get in chat. We'd have to say like four minutes from now, but now she's here and we can get it right away. Oh, that reminds me. You should send me those pictures of those lady dresses you're making. Oh, yeah, yeah. Can you send me that? Yeah.

That reminds us because that's kind of a. a bodice, right? Yeah, yeah, they are. Lady dresses. So, sorry, I should clarify. She's doing some, some, um, uh, sculpting of some mugs, like, you know, they're mugs, right? Do you idea?

They are, they're mugs. But they look like these really ornate, like, neck to waste looking lady things. I don't know what to call them. I'm doing a terrible job of describing this, but Chuck will send you the picture. It'll be there in a second. Chuck has sent me photos. Have some context. Oh, you know, we didn't show yet.

Sorry, while we're thinking about it, Chuck sent me. oh there's the there's the place yeah let me zoom in a little so right out their window man the freeway was kind of empty today or is that yesterday might have been yesterday anyway um that's the ocd and anxiety treatment center that it's literally right out your window but it must have felt good if you knew if you thought like anxiety was coming yeah and you're like what are we going to do whatever will we do or if chuck started counting his steps or washing his hands 400 times yeah right go right to the ocd anxiety treatment center across the street walk across the parking lot yeah right Yeah, the unfortunate thing is how many cracks he would have to avoid in the pavement.

Okay, here we are. This is, okay, I really am excited to show this because this blew our minds last night. She was sharing this during dinner, just kind of the projects they're working on. Chuck had some cool stuff too. Okay, Chuck, it's fine. Good cool stuff. Oh, that's so cool. Look at these.

Aren't these rad? And they're at these, is it the stage they're at right now, as we're saying here? Yes, that's where they are right now. They are work in progress. but yes so they've just come out of the bisque kiln so they're they're hardened and uh you know so they've been fired once but they'll they need surface decoration and glaze and whatnot and then i'll put them back through and high fired them i know i know brian likes a good bisque right brian big bish yeah different different kind of bisque here but still so you can call this a bodice

this one in the middle is more like a ceremonial dress thing yeah so i'll give a full description. So the one on the right is meant to be a corset, and it's kind of up on a little pedestal, you know, and it's going to look kind of old-fashioned-y. What you can't see is in the back of it, I actually used high-fire wire and put little wire loops on the back. And when it's all finished, I'm actually going to put it. That's something else I learned yesterday, Brian, what high-fire wire is, I learned about that. That was cool. It's quite that can, they can, it's good under high temperatures yeah it sounds it sounds it sounds way cooler than really all it is so one melt but also

it made me say it was like wait that my old mac used high fire wire to connect my drives it does um the first ipod i had to connect with high fire wire that's right that one looks real good and then this one in the middle describe this so the one in the middle is actually like that's that's where the series of mugs is going to end up and that is actually uh r bg's descent collar. Ooh. So. RB.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Oh, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Duh. I knew that. She had a special collar that she would wear whenever they would be issuing a ruling that she was dissenting on. And that was her descent collar. And so the series is, the beginning, it's actually going to be five mugs.

There's two other mugs there that are, they're also out of Bisk, but I don't have a photo of them because they went into Bisk as we were traveling to Utah. Into Bisk. Got it. Yeah. But the two other mugs are also, you know, ladies' garments. So anyway, we start with the corset. And then we move to the one on the left there that you can see.

It's kind of like a 50s style dress. Yeah, I love that one. I do too. That one, honestly, I just absolutely love how that one is starting to turn out. And you were saying at the end of it all, there might be other elements like a bow or something that wouldn't be baked. Yeah. Yeah. So on the corset mug, when it's all finished, I'm going to put actual.

cloth ribbon through and to lace up the corset. That's cool. So it's going to be really, yeah. That's really cool. I just love how the handle of the mug is just the perfect, you know, arm on the hip kind of thing. Yeah, exactly. That's what I was, that's what I was going for. That's really cool.

I can't wait to see these when these are done. By the way, little known fact. When Ruth Bader Ginsburg was in charge of a, she was in charge of a parochial school, they called her Master Bader Ginsburg. Did you know that? Just kidding. That's a terrible joke. That's true.

Terrible joke and pretend I never said it. Pretend you never heard it. All right. Excellent. Well, this is fantastic. Why is... Well, the series is going to be, you know, like I say, it starts with a corset and then it goes up through kind of history. We have the 50s dress and then one of them is going to be a little smaller mug and it's going to be Ruby Bridges, little jumper that she wore for those who don't know, Ruby Bridges was the first black girl to go to school like after segregation.

ended and she was famous photos all those photos yeah but all the photos that you know people's grandparents don't want don't want people to see

because they don't want to be recognized as a person throwing rocks especially that yelling lady she's always in those photos yeah I think she was in your in your in your uber earlier yeah

you might have had her so yeah sounds like she might have been the one geez but then then after that I've got one that's going to be

Sally Rides astronaut uniform and then the final one in the series is going to be the RBG descent caller and the name of the series is when there are nine and that is because RBG was giving an interview and someone asked her you know when will it be enough women on the Supreme Court and she said when there are nine and you know of course they kind of looked at her askance and she said why not there have been nine men yeah why not why does that sound so crazy yeah shouldn't sound so crazy. Right. Exactly. So, yeah, so I just, it was, it was just a, one of those, I woke up, you know, in the morning with a sudden inspiration. And for once, it was a good idea. You know,

oftentimes those ideas are kind of garbage. But as you've pointed out before on the show, right? Like, wake up at 3 a.m. and go, oh, my God, that's brilliant. And then it's like, what was I thinking? But these are, I think, I think this is a really cool idea. And I'm really excited to to bring them to life so well it's very cool and of course was a sidetrack from the book but that's fine we don't care we want good books we want good pottery yeah and bad jokes about ruth gaiter ginsberg's name right so we got all three all of it uh so again this is the accidental alchemist mystery series uh book one you can get it on an amazon by the way for kendall's only five bucks right now so uh good deal and then of course if you want paperback they have that as well right around 17

bucks. I also want to reiterate my endorsement of public libraries by pointing out that the Salt Lake City public library, holy shit. Yeah, right? Like that thing is amazing. Yeah, it's really cool. I don't talk about it enough. The only problem with it, it's not really a problem, but it's not a problem for me. But because it's public space, what you end up with is a lot of the unhoused folks we talked about before. We'll hang out there and there'll be little tent cities and stuff out front and there's been a big fight from some to remove them and make it more, you know, sort of family friendly. I would argue it's already family friendly as people aren't hurting anybody. So I don't think it's a big deal. But you get in there, the shape of that building is cool anyway,

but you get in there is freaking massive. It is. It's huge. And it's like, it's like a big atrium almost. Like you're indoors, but you feel like almost that you're still outdoors because it's so airy and there's a there's a hanging sculpture from the ceiling there that's like all these little little you know ornate little things and you look closer and they're butterflies and then you look even closer and it's like the butterflies are reading books and then you look a little bit even closer and the butterflies themselves are made of of pages of the books and so it's like the words on the page are taking flight it is I was like I was just overwhelmed I was Like, this is, there's a glass elevator.

Oh, yeah? I mean, it is, it is a really impressive, impressive space. We went to the public library because, uh, they had some of the pottery exhibits that were on the tours that we were here to see from Enceca. They were kind of spreading them out all over the place. And one of them, they, I don't want to say one of them. It was almost like a little scavenger hunt. Like, here, go around the library and see how many pottery pieces you can find because

they were almost all there for Enseca. Um, but they had. They had exhibits in some of the oddest places, which I thought was cool. There was an exhibit at a skate shop. There was an exhibit at this LGBTQ plus owned bookshop called Under the Umbrella. Oh, that's a great little bookshop. It was a lovely little bookshop. And I actually told them that.

I was like, you guys have the cutest little shop. If I'd had time, I probably would have bought something just because I wanted to support them. You didn't go to King's English by chance. No. No, we didn't. So good. Such a great book story. I hope it stays forever.

Probably won't. Yeah. I mean, if like the book, the bus tour that we took was like we would get off the bus and we'd go to, you know, most of the places were galleries. But some of them were in these sort of odd spaces. And they would say, okay, we've got like 20 minutes in this space. You need to be back on the bus. And we're grownups.

So we're going to be on time. And the bus is going to leave at this time and we'll leave you here. And so, you know, nobody ever got left. So that was good. but yeah if if if I was at we did pick up somebody who who missed her stop at a bus so we like picked up a straggler on our on our bus tour but uh you're probably all over the place the only time I can ever tell the only time I could tell when an actual convention is in town a big one at the South Palace there were two ways to tell if it was Comic Con it was obvious because everybody's dressed like Darth Vader or whatever lots of people out walking streets looking like they're a cosplay the only other time I can tell like I wouldn't have been able to tell with this one unless people were walking around with like arms full of you know pottery it was a it was a little bit obvious because a lot of people were wearing like overalls and stuff like there were a lot of jumpsuits a lot of overalls a lot of a lot of dirty potters well the other one I could tell was this one

they had a dwarfism conference in salt lake city and it was tons and tons of little people and we didn't know about it so here I am six three dodo head walking down the road and you'd come up to like an intersection and like five little people cross and then a four go the other direction and a car would go by with little people driving and I thought did you suddenly feel like you're in Lilliput? I felt like something had taken over and this was it. Like they were rising up or something against the tall tyranny or whatever, but it was so strange to experience that.

And then I went, oh, I saw a sign or something that said this way or whatever. And they had a whole big thing, which was cool. Yeah. And famously Billy Barty's from here. the actor, a low-person actor, yeah. So he was, yeah, he passed away, but he had a whole thing, not like, not a shrine, but like a dedicated thing to him. And so it was a big positive thing, but I'm a big dumb dork and I don't know what's

happening. And I was left to my imagination. I'm like, what are we doing? Is this like, who's the guy that gets tied down? Because he fell asleep. Gulliver? Gulliver travels. Yeah, Gulliver's travels.

I felt like I was about to get tied down or something. Right. Yeah. that's what that was the reference i made earlier i said did you feel like you were in lilliput yeah that's the name of the place but yeah pretty wild anyway uh oh the wait that's what that is that's what they're called is little put yeah i don't remember that story you know what i know about that story that the 10 dance and didn't adaptation for tv once yeah and with his actual wife right like because mary steen virgin was in that oh did they is that where they met

i don't think so i think they probably knew each other and then they you know i think they were already married he was still with whoopee planning some bad choices at a party. But yeah, that's all I know about it. I just don't know enough about that book. It's like tiny little guys, tying down a huge guy, and Ted Danson did it once. I think there's a revered that one of the little, because it's, that, that story is full of vignettes, right? And so that's one of them.

And then another one is where he is tiny. The broad, brog dignadian, broad dignadian guards or whatever. Yeah. You guys know so much more about this than me. I can't, well, I know what I know. I just can't pronounce it. Brob Dignagian, birds. Brob Dignagian?

That's cool. That's cool. I wonder, are they Kiki or Buba? We haven't been talking about this so much yesterday. We got to do a Kiki Buba thing on the show. We do. We do. Because Carter blew my mind with that.

I'm like, I hate how old I am to just now learn that that's a thing. That's so cool. We talked about it last night. Anyway, we'll do it tomorrow on the show maybe. But anyway, there you have it. Your book this week, your homework is The Accident and alchemist find it at your local library or if you must buy it go spend your money wisely go to a local bookstore support an independent bookstore yeah i agree and there are plenty of them now still all right

and even barns and nobles having a rejuvenation i think some of that stuff's good for everybody when you see something that was falling apart before growing like that that means good things for the book industry in general there's a swing back for sure and amy your star is about to rise oh Wow. That sounds exciting. I was telling y'all this story last night. It was so fun when my son was much younger. He used to call it Baroness Noble. Oh, Baroness Noble. So cute. I love it. I like it. I mean, as far as I'm concerned, it's as good as the other one. Right. I mean, like, why wouldn't you? That's one of those things where you read it and you look at it and you're like, yep, I understand why you called it that. Yeah, I have no problem with it. I used to call the hotel the Ramada Inn. That's right.

Ramada. I've called. That's what's happening in one of the rooms. It's happening at least two-thirds of the rooms. They're known for it over there, you know. That's right. Well, all righty then. Good job, as always.

We're going to get out of here. A couple of quick things. Daily music headlines, we keep bringing it up. But we should probably tell people where to get it, Brian. What's going on with that? Yeah, that makes it really easy. Dailymusicheadlines.com is where you can subscribe. Really, really easy.

or I think you can get it on Spotify or Spreaker or any of those Apple podcasts. But yeah, daily, quick, that's the most important thing. Quick, five minutes, you're in, you're out. You've learned a whole bunch about music. We had a story about

about Bach today. Bach, still in the news, amazingly enough. Ask your uncles, everybody. Ask your uncles what that is. A story about who else did we talk about there was a there's a new like it seems like every day we're announcing a new music festival

god there was one yesterday and had like every band on this is one I'd want to see Remy Wolf Vampire Weekend the last dinner party is like I think I want to go up to what is it's like somewhere in New England and go to that festival but yeah no all sorts of cool things

and it stretches all across every genre rap metal we talked about anthrax today we talked about Miley Cyrus has a new album, so all sorts of stuff. I bet Hammond was stoked about the anthrax discussion. He liked them. He made sure to pull that one in.

There's also a new programming, like a music building tool that is coming under fire because it lets you use AI to not to copy a band, but to copy what it feels is the essence of that band

sound. So it's like, you know, instead of copying straight up riffs from the Beatles, you'd have that Rickenbacker guitar combo, George Harrison Slighty kind of stuff. Yeah. So anyway. That's a really,

that's a really interesting discussion point. It is. Because on the one hand, I'm like, you could do something interesting with that. Right. But then, let's see you're, you know, there have been some great cover albums where

the Ree Beatles project is one of them, where they do modern songs. There's a cover of Pink's I'm coming out or get the party started I guess is the name of the song done as the Beatles but it's by a band

that just knows the Beatles music and their style so much they're able to recreate that sound I love stuff like that I do too but if there's you know there's a band that kind of needs help hearing that to be able

to reproduce it themselves and they're still going to create it organically cool I'm good with that but if it's like oh boop beep beep beep beep beep create a version of flowers by Miley Cyrus but put it in heavy metal

and it cranks it out in anthrax version of flowers then that's that's lame it just feels it just feels a soulless when they do that it totally does yeah so I got I have feelings on that but that's good does the show for this sort of stuff you guys check it out yes we're all about it and you don't get any opinion

you just get the news that's right the raw music headlines.com that's right nice but if you play it backwards you hear Paul is dead. Paul is dead. Man, I miss those satanic panic days. I do, too. Although we're having some of that now. But still. When you get an album and you actually had to physically stop the turntable and move it backwards on the turn table to hear it. Oh, that's what I miss. Yeah, that was great. I heard a comedian. My son sent me a video of this comedian talking about how He was like, I would have kids absolutely, if I could parent the way I was

parented, because literally my parents were never around. My mom's favorite thing to say was get out of my sight. And it was true. Like, we were just feral. And then people have said to him like, yeah, well, that was a time when it was, it was safer than, no, it wasn't. It wasn't safer. It was just we didn't all know that there were predators freaking everywhere. And now we do.

I mean, you know, all those little code Adam signs you see in stores, that happened in the 80s, folks. There was actually a kid named Adam and look it up. It was the kid, what's his name's kid? Like, you'd get the posters that just had a red hand, which I think meant, you know, this was a safe place to come in and get away from bullies or somebody chasing you or something like that. So you don't have to, like, hide in a dumpster. Yeah, Adam Walsh, right, chat room? Is it the Adam Walsh kid that was, what's his name, had the whole show? America's most chased after unit, whatever was called.

I thought it was because there was a kid named Adam who got like, he wandered off from his mom in a supermarket or something. And he got kidnapped and all they found was his head. Yeah, that's Adam Walsh. And John Walsh was the host of that show. That's what inspired him to make the show because they never could find Adam or they couldn't solve Adam's case, find out who did it. Never made that connection. Got it. Got it. Okay. Yeah. It was a big deal.

America's most chased after kid. I couldn't think of the name. Whatever it was. It's been a while. It's been like 30 years. All right. Well, this is all well and good. Let's shut her down. Hey, oh, real quick, Kim and I are doing a skim today at noon. In between a bunch of crazy. We've got like, I got a bomb dropped on me this morning from a client, so I got to work on that. Missing a whole day yesterday, turns out kind of screws you up, you know. How dare you go take care of? They're right. I know. You know, we live in a capitalist society.

Capitalism, baby. Your nerve. Anyway, I work to do. So today's going to be a little bit nutty. But if you are in the Salt Lake area and you hadn't heard, we are doing a meetup at the South Town Mall tonight. Going old school, baby. Going old school. There's an arcade there.

Great big one. We're going to go do some fun stuff there and just hang out and meet and greet and all that. KT. Data will be there. Of course, the Robinsonsons will be there. Let's do a quick Chuck Cam check on Chuck. He'll be there. There he is. Yeah.

Oh, Hammond says he'll be there. I was going to actually say I need to shout out to Hammond because he actually took us out for dinner while we were downtown. And Hammond, remind me the name of the place we went to eat because it was really tasty. It's not blue iguana. No, we've eaten it. Panera bread. We have eaten at Blue iguana twice, though. That place was.

Blue iguana is legit, man. It's so freaking good. It's Mexican food and it's just about the best that you could find here. I'm sure there are little places I don't know about, but it's so good. Yeah. Let's see what he says. He may have answered by now. Oh, Market Street.

Oh, yeah, Market Street. Grill's amazing. Really, really good. Yeah, they're great. That whole gastronomy restaurant, not chain, but they're like a group down there. Amazing series of restaurants. So good. I had like the mushroom risotto and we had crab cakes and as an appetizer and everything. It was very fan.

I felt fancy. Yeah, but just keep in mind, you want to come move to Utah. It's terrible here. Oh, yeah, no. We got the, you've seen my 12 wives. They're all everywhere. They're all over the place. And by the way, all of those pictures you see with like the mountains everywhere,

that's just a green screen. Yeah, none of that's real. Yeah, that whole clean city thing. Plains as far as the eyes as far as the eye can see. Yeah, forget all that stuff I said about how clean our streets are. All right. Keep prices low. Stay in California.

Colorado's stupid. Tell your friends. Yeah. Yeah, Brian, they have the same problem we're having. In fact, you've had it sooner than we did, and it's like, it sucks. Stay where you're at. Or keep going to, everybody moved to Austin. That's fine.

Go ahead. We don't care. Austin already ruined it because they wouldn't keep their mouth shut about how cool the place was. Exactly. Yep. Yep. Don't come here. We don't.

We definitely don't have, we definitely don't have some of the best national parks in the country. We definitely don't. No. No. All right. That is today at New Me and Kim was the point there. We're squeezing that in. somehow that's going to still happen and then we're going to meet up with these guys

later it's going to be fantastic so check us out noon me and kim catching you up on all things johnson that'll do it for the show everything you need to find or use or get for us is at frogpans dot com slash tms that's a great place to link off to our patreon request songs over there order tickets for tms vegas which is hurtling at us at uh great speed uh lots fun stuff happening so please head over there today and uh use it frogpans dot com slash tms brian let's play a song and get the f out Okay, Trey from Memphis rode in, said, Hey, they're a scrotum and bean bag.

Oh, geez. Yep, about nine months ago, my wife woke me up at 4 a.m. to make sure the stick she peed on was correct. And after eight years of trying, it finally said she was pregnant. Before I got in my car for seven hours with my soon-to-be brother-in-law for his bachelor party, I went to a Walgreens to get some more test just to make sure. And as I got in the car, this song came on and I lost it with excitement. Well, here is celebrating the birth of my beautiful baby boy.

I've taken so much parenting advice from this network and so thankful for everyone to hear. Love, Trey from Memphis. Awesome. Very cool. Congratulations to all of you. Her due date, they actually moved up her due date. I believe it was yesterday and I'm waiting to get some news to hear how everything went. But congratulations, Trey from Memphis.

And that's awesome. Yep. Very cool. So the song that he heard in the car was Good Luck, Babe, by, Chapel Rhone. I love that one. We all love Chapel Rhone and her Midwest Princess goodness. This, but he

wanted to hear a metal cover of it. And I listened to like five metal covers before I finally found one that I liked and didn't have a bunch of in the middle of it. This one has minimal. This is by a band called Covercolt, which is spelled with

K's and Umlats. And it's just great. In some sort of what's that style of fun, the black letter Oh, yeah. Yeah. What do you call that?

Gothic, I guess. I don't know what it is. Gothic, German, Gothic looking. Anyway, it's a single day release last year. Here is Covercoat and good luck, babe. It's fine. You can say that we are nothing but you know the truth. And yes, I'm the fool.

With her arms are like an angel through the curse on roof. I don't want to call it off, but you don't want to call it love. You only want to be the one that I call, baby. You can kiss a hundred boys in bars. Shoot another shot, try to stop the feeling. You can say it's just the way you are. Making a new excuse another stupid reason Because good luck, babe, or good love, babe

You'd have to stop the world just to stop the feeling Good luck, babe, or good love, babe Could have to start the world just to stop the feeling Cliche, who cares, it's a sexually explicit kind of love affair And that cry, it's not fair, I just need a little love and I just need a little air I think I'm gonna call it off, even if you're calling love, I just want to love someone who calls me, baby

You can kiss a hundred poison bars Shoot another shot, try to stop the feeling You can say it's just the way you are Make your newest kiss another stupid reason Good luck, babe, or good luck, babe You'd have to stop the world just to stop the feeling Good luck, babe, or good love babe You'd have to stop the world just to stop the feeling

When you wake I'm next to him In the middle of the night With your head in your hands You're nothing more than his wife And when you think about me all of those years ago You stand it face to face with I told you so You know I hate to say it I told you so

You know I hate to say But I told you so You think it's a hundred boys in bars Sure another shot try to stop the feeling So you say it's just the way you are Making a new excuse another stupid reason Good luck babe Good luck babe

You'd have to stop the world Just to stop the feeling Good luck babe Good love babe You have to stop the world Just to stop the feeling You have to stop the world just to stop the feeling. You have to stop the world just to stop the feeling.

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