The Morning Stream - TMS 2807: Emotional Support Cobra

Episode Date: April 10, 2025

A cake of angels. A herd of spiders. Taka Shitty. Die-a-per. Entertainment Furniture. Is It Too Early For A Cough Sandwich. Spider infested tubes. Pee Completionists. It's all Doitch to me. Bartender Nonsense. Gibberish in cincinnati. 7 emotional support tigers is not enough. Sticky Boob Bra. Bimbo fan. Going all Office Space with Wendi and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ponder, if you will, a future filled with chocolate houses and talking cats. To have that crazy future, we need a normal present where you sign up for the morning stream Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, a cake of angels. A herd of spiders. Takashiri. Diaper. Entertainment furniture.

Hey, is that too early for a cough sandwich? Spider infested tubes. P completionists. It's all Deutsch to me. Bartender nonsense. Gibrish in Cincinnati Seven emotional support tigers Is not enough

Sticky Boobrah Bimbo fan Going all off the space with Wendy and more On this episode of the Morning Stream They still talk Bootling in Boonville We were told You can't understand them So we came to Boonville

And we couldn't understand them As we drove around the valley We learned that Zis means coffee Because an old timer named ZeeC Used to make his coffee so strong A jeffer is a fire because innkeeper Jeff Vestel used to like big fires. I'm not here to just eat some fried scorpions. The morning stream.

They wouldn't give us any more fish. Good morning and welcome to TMS, everybody. This is the morning stream for Thursday, April 10th, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian, Ibeck. Good day, sir. Good day to you, sir. Good day. You're having a good morning over there in Colorado?

Yeah, I think so. Yeah, just a weird week. Feel off. You know, the getting stuff for TMS is a good distraction from just what's been a really weird week, obviously. but slowly getting back to normal. That's good. I hope this weekend's awesome because it's only a few more or a couple more weekends

until we're all in Vegas. We're together at the great glowing light altar in the middle of the desert. That's right. Very exciting stuff. Did you hear about that? You probably did. Maybe it's in music headlines yesterday or today.

I'm not fully caught up. But did you guys talk about the sphere? I guess it's not really music related, but it is a musical. But anyway, they're bringing the Wizard of Oz to the sphere and they're reformatting it and doing a bunch of AI shit to make it fit and extend it and all that. Yeah, this is something that I heard about a couple of months ago on Five Honey by Midnight that they were talking about. And it's interesting. I'll have to see how they do it.

But I imagine, you know, you'll start out with, it's like, what a they're basically cutting the two-hour movie down to a one-hour thing oh i hadn't heard that that's interesting yeah yeah they're really trimming it down maybe the trimming it down down there was some some weird number they were trimming it down to for for the sphere and then the um i'm assuming that in black and white it'll be the the little screen you know on the on the wall and then as soon as she steps out of her door into uh oz it'll like full color and kind of expand and fill the whole spear and you can see him doing that for sure yeah like i i know they're gonna like there's a scene in the farmhouse where uncle what's his name is out of frame but he was actually

in the room when they filmed it sitting there as if he was in frame and so they're gonna digitally reproduce him sitting there oh um a whole bunch of i a i assisted trained shit it's all with the full support of warner brothers they let him have all this data to do it so i don't know i'm a little bit I'm a little bit torn, but I also don't, I'm not like, I don't love that movie. I'm okay. You know, it's fine. It's a classic. It is what it is.

I know Tina's a huge fan, so I was just curious. It was like, Tina's favorite movie of all time. I wonder if she want to go see that or not if that was a thing she'd do. She, she absolutely would if, but she wouldn't go in without some trepidation. Yeah. I wonder if tickets will be stupid expensive, you know. Because that's, oh, probably. That's what the sphere does.

They're not, they're not letting you in there for less than 75 bucks. no no no at the very least yeah it's uh yeah that place is they're they're trying to make their money to pay for it and they're succeeding i'm sure with uh the the eagles and uh you two and i guess um who uh fish i think is going to have a residency for a while there yeah it's funny they're getting all these jam bands that are that are wanting to do shows there grateful dead uh who else was going uh well there was some edm thing thing that Tanner told me about I can't remember who it was

it was maybe a group or various artists or something doing a big EDM show oh really separate from the electric from the Daisy Festival I think so I think so but I may misremember what he told me

but there was something EDIM going on Afterlife prevents anima the end of Genesis Good Lord Yeah exactly that was about That was about the time The Super Nintendo really dominated Toward the end of that stuff

Yeah. The end of Genesis. The Christmas Eve, it looks like it's... So that's already come and gone. That was the thing. It's already coming gone. Well, this one that I found has already come and gone. Maybe it's something...

Easily could be something else that they're talking about. Well, we'll see. The sphere, until it's rolling down Catamari-Demasi style down the street, I can't afford it. Looking up the stratosphere and Treasure Island along the way. Yeah. You're welcome for our cool idea, next Godzilla movie versus Kong or whatever you're going to do. All right, I got a couple of things going on. Let me tell you this.

So I did a thing. Some people are going to hear this and get mad because maybe even the locals. And in fact, I still have some. So if any of the locals want these, they are welcome to them, local listeners. But I found some very old, I thought they were gone, some very old Nurtacular posters. And I mean like the huge, massive banner style ones that were behind us. Yeah, those ones that aren't paper, but like a like Tyvex. or some sort of material like uh yeah i don't know what that's called is that tyvec is that what that's

called never heard of that type is they make um like the unterable fedex envelopes with that's very similar like a clothy oh yeah like that yeah there's this whatever it is yeah a couple of those are definitely like it's strong enough to put like a rivet in or a rivet hole yes but not strong enough to it's still pliable and you know flexible and all that could be hard to manually tear kind thing. Yeah, we had a guy who was like happy to make those for us every year and he always did this great job. And some of these are just large format versions of prints that are, you can say a little space dude behind me. Some are that size. Some are larger. Anyway, these are, and they're from various years from like 2011 all the way up to 2017. And it's just a whole stack. We were

cleaning out our food storage and realized there was a whole stack back there in this box and these tubes. And we just didn't know we put them back there. Anyway, long and the short of it, I was like, well, everybody who wanted one kind of got one back in the day. There were a few I pulled out to have all our signatures that just never went anywhere. I made... Oh, really? Oh, funny. I have one that we have that all of us signed. I'm guessing we signed a bunch that we're probably going to be used as prizes or something.

Yeah, and I just didn't get used or whatever. So I'm going to keep those and then we'll maybe charity auction those or something. But the rest of them, I'm like, well, I'll just toss it. It's okay. These are all recyclable. We'll just do that. and then it hit me if any locals

listening to this are like no I want one of those or something just let me know and I won't toss them until I hear from you but this isn't part of the main part of the story isn't so much that I found these things it's that when I did I found one of just one of them but one of them filled with spiders

filled with them Brian a whole like a colony or whatever what's it what's a what do you call that a group of spires a herd Chris Brown when you need them. What is a group of spiders called? Probably a tangling of spiders. Yeah, that's a good one.

That gives the creepy sense that you need out of it. A tangling, I like that. Could be a murder of spiders as far as I'm concerned. A clutter or a cluster is the group. Oh, that's even the worst. Those are terrible. Oh, my gosh. So I noticed this by looking down it and I see a little movement in there.

Wow, and they're living ones. Usually I'll grab a box that I haven't opened in a wall. open it up and there's like the bottom corner, like a bunch of crusty dead spiders that for some reason, able to climb walls, go across ceilings, do all sorts of stuff. But boy, you put them in Tupperware or in a plastic bin and their powers are useless.

They cannot crawl up the sides. That's true. I expected them to be just webs and dead, but there was like a load of living ones. I don't even wonder what they're surviving on. Probably each other. No! I didn't think of that.

They're cannibalistic. bastards. Anyway, I had this very short temptation to go outside and blow on it and go and watch them all go flying out, but I couldn't do it. I could put my mouth on that. That means you'd have to put your mouth on the end of a thing full of spiders. Yeah, can't do it. Just decided against that terrible idea very quickly. Anyway. So anyway, if you're local and you want... Yeah, you want some spider-infested tubes? We got you covered. Here's the thing, though. It was only one of them.

and I cleaned him out, unrolled it, the rest of them are fine, and you may or may not want these, I don't know. So if anyone does, just contact me Discord or email or the site or whatever and all. And you could easily, well, easily. You've probably already got a full carp because you're going to have Carter and Alicia,

you and Kim, and then all the stuff you have to bring to the deal. But if you brought a couple rolled-up posters, I'm sure somebody would take them. And if they don't, guess what? There's trash cans at the plaza. that's true that's true i might you know what that's not a bad idea there's some of these are smaller and would fit probably just fine in the car so and i've got tubes for them might make a

really nice table cloth for one of the game tables and then somebody could just take it at the end of the game table oh and everybody could sign it and write on it and there you go like just graffiti it up unless they don't want it that way i suppose i couldn't i shouldn't have sure yeah i like that you know what i like that all right uh we'll see what happens i'm an idea man you are an idea man did a great job never look down a hole if you want spiders not to be in there all right here's the lesson or here's a new lesson from jonathan he has things to say i'm going to play this call here you go hello scott and brian this is jonathan in brooklyn uh i can't really think of anything you guys got wrong this time as you apparently tasked me with calling in once i'd heard any such misinformation being disseminated from the font of wisdom that is the morning stream except for uh recently discussed the passing of bel kilmer and his role as doc in the movie tombstone Stone, where Scott revealed that he often forgot how well he played that role and then continued to talk about it for 10 minutes, clearly showing that he hadn't forgotten about how good he

was in that role. In regards to the story relative to pea jugs being left in recycling receptacles, seems likely to me that those are being left by an Uber driver who can't find a public rest here. That happens a lot here in New York, where you will, on any given day, find many bottles of pee lying around okay see you later guys but a whole entire jugs though like seriously exactly

that that implies that he's uh peeing in it ceiling back up keeping in his car until he pees enough in it to where it's full and then leaves it in a trash again yeah uh gross yeah no

Starbucks you don't even have to buy anything I mean it's nice if you do but you can go in and say hey can I use your restroom and they'll usually let you the the freaking lift app now shows you the nearest bathroom. I think actually Uber does too if you press the little coffee cup button on the bottom right side. Oh, that's cool.

Like while you're driving, you can say coffee break and then all of a sudden the screen will change to where you can get gas, where you can get coffee, and probably where there are restrooms nearby. Yeah. Well, I mean, also, I have a feeling that New York is going to be different than other cities.

Obviously, it's different in Denver and different in Salt Lake. There are plenty of places. Maybe it's a traffic camp park. to park. Yeah, you can't park to go and pee somewhere. But even jugs. So 9 of 12 in the chat, September says that her... Your white privilege is shown.

My privilege of driving around strangers for pennies. Yeah, yeah, that's definitely a white privilege. Would somebody like this privilege? Because, yeah. Anyway, 9 of 12 says that her son worked at a gas station or a 7-11 and says that it's truckers doing it. So maybe it's truckers. Because truckers, you know, you'd need long haul, big old jug, open it. a little bit more close it that's a lot of blood water yeah the ring camera definitely would

pick up if it was a semi driving down the street and the guy getting out and putting the uh pee jugs in there oh good point yeah see there's there's that part so there's yeah yeah so that's the part about this that's weird all they've got to go on anybody anyway right like they have a they have a whole device and tool for that sort of thing yeah plus they um you know whoever's doing this is doing it very slyly i suppose they could do it slightly i don't know but and it's all in one place where the more massive amounts are piling up so it seems like there's something there's more to it it can't just be freaking you know truckers very various truckers stopping and dumping a jug or various Uber drivers dumping a jug it just does something's

missing it's more complicated but Jonathan I appreciate it to your other point though oh sure yeah oh and to Rainbow Bright is asking blood water it's about my two weeks ago realizing for the first time of my life that blood or sorry water is basically or pee is basically blood water because the whole job of water is to go clean your pee or clean your blood and then come out as pee anyway uh jonathan's first point which was that i didn't i mentioned how doc holiday's role was so good and how i'd forgotten how good it was well the reason i went on to talk about it for 10 minutes because i watched it again a week and a half ago that's why i was talking about it's not like i went oh didn't he play doc holiday i forget how good he was

and then talk for 10 minutes about how good he was. I had just seen it again and was reminded why he was good, Jonathan. That's why I said what I said about that. So I appreciate it, Mr. Brooklyn Man with the big brain. I get it, and I appreciate it, but sometimes, you know, sometimes a butthole is just a butthole. I don't even know what that means.

And we will have a well actually about peeping blood water from Tanner, who chimed in on kind of a little bit of a correction. um we actually we could yeah we could we will have well actually is tomorrow so why don't we just uh throw that in yeah we can throw it in there i put in there i asked uh somebody or did i do it maybe i didn't i want somebody to compile that for us because brian and i don't have time because there's a whole list in there plus a bunch of people talking about random stuff i need somebody to go in there disseminate all that down here's a job for chat gpt if i could get it into my discord or i wonder if um just somebody going in there and in the

well actually channel because the problem is that there's so much other discussion and crap that happens in there if they pinned it like pinned actual well actuallys then we could go up to the pinned list go over all those delete them or unpin them when we're

done with each one and then um nailed it let them compile for the next time nailed it it's perfect we could do that cool um so if anyone wants to go pin their well actuallys pin their well actuallys you got till tomorrow so get in there and

get it done. All right. You did. You did. Jeannie says I tried to stop the random chat. You totally did. I was there for it. And yeah, you're absolutely right. All right. Keyboard users, especially you Windows users, Cash has a tip for you and I'm going to play it. It's important little tech tip. Hey Scott and Brian. It's Cash, your local mechanical keyboard nerd. I'm here with a helpful keyboard shortcut of the week. On a Windows computer, you can press and hold win plus shift and then use the arrow keys to move any application window to a different monitor. Now put that in your back pocket and smoke it. Anyways, love the show

though. Love it. Thank you, Cash. Cash responsible for my awesome keyboard that I had, he made for me. Oh yeah, the one you put on, yeah, that's super cool. That's awesome. So instead of actually having to drag the window from one monitor to another, you just windows shift

and then arrow key and it'll whatever the active windows will move that direction to the... Yeah, I was trying to find a Mac equivalent of this. I don't think one exists. It's actually a pretty cool feature. Every once in a while I'm like, oh, man, Windows, you don't have this option I need. And then they have an option I didn't even know they had.

It's pretty good. But then they patch it and ruin my sound setting. So, whatever. Whatever, Windows. Super cool. Thank you, Cash. That's awesome. If you guys haven't seen his channel or any of that, you should check it out.

Just look up Cash Keyboard on YouTube. It'll take you there. And he goes through these mechanical builds and did one around the one he made for me. And it's, I'd love this. thing. I'm never going back to anything else. I freaking love it. It's so good. The only downside of it is, not that it's a problem, but I have this mute switch up here. So if you hear, so if Brian hears me typing, he's going to hear like, you know, you're going to hear that, right? But when I do need to, what I do, if I've learned myself to time it real well, so Brian will say, oh yeah, I've got

done, then I'll hit me. And then nobody can hear it. So I just got to remember not to screw that up and everything will be fine. That's really funny. You're muting everything with the keyboard. Oh, here's my PSA for request for help in the... Yeah, I signed nice son. I was like, yeah, he's covering it. I'm not going to...

I forgot. I wrote it in here. I thought I did this yesterday and I didn't. Which is why you thought you had done... We talked about it before because you typed it. Because I typed it last night. Anyway, that was just to remind everyone to help us with the bud actuallys. But this pin idea Brian's got, that's...

the way to handle this i like that a lot let's use bobby says that's what he does for the science show so oh nice our way to do it good job bobby using true science to get the job done brian tell me your uh you had a thing about an uncle you wanted to talk about yeah you know um going to the funeral and and again thanks people are still emailing and sending their condolences i'm trying to this this week has been really good as far as having a distraction of doing the show but also doing some prep stuff for TMS Vegas and back on daily music headlines and that sort of thing. But I know I've been probably a little emotional and maybe a little like I snapped at Luke Sightwalker who probably, well, let's face it, he did deserve it. But anyway, but one of the people that I got to see at the funeral is my uncle.

So my Aunt Diane, she is my stepdad's sister. and then her husband is Jim and Jim's mother Marian Donovan was the inventor of several things. She invented several things and holds several patents but she invented the disposable diaper

and uh that's wild to me like baby diapers adult diapers all of it just diapers well I mean I think when she when she developed it was for babies okay that same that same diaper technology

scaled up real nice. Does she get... Scaled up real nice for adult time. Does she benefit from that? Like, was there patents that extended into other use cases, and she gets licensing for that? Or how does that work? I don't know.

I don't know. And she passed away, boy, quite a while after. I never met her, obviously, but it was after I had met Jim. So she passed away in 1998. I haven't watched it, but they said, oh, yeah, she was on the Merv Griffin show, and there's a YouTube video of her talking about the disposable diaper on the Merv Griffin Show because she was a guest on.

Wow, that's awesome, though. That's a cool thing. Yeah. She also invented the way of folding Kleenexes, the C-fold and Kleenex boxes so that when you pull one out, the next one sticks out. She invented that. Dude, she's... Look at her. Yeah, here she is right here.

I know, yeah. Mary and Donner, she has her own Wikipedia thing. Yeah. It's got everything in here, including all our inventions. Oh, man. Dude, being related to somebody like that is badass. It's pretty badass, yeah. Yeah.

Poor Jim, man. He hurt his foot recently. And he's a pallbearer. He was one of the pallbearers. And we were, like, really worried that he wasn't going to be able to do it. Because his foot had swelled so much, we couldn't put it in a shoe. And so he showed up, like, he showed up that day to do the pall bearing. And he did fine.

But from the front, look. totally normal until he walked away and you saw that he had cut out the entire back of the shoe he was wearing. So basically he turned a pair of black sketcher sneakers into like one of them was a slipper basically with no back to it. Wow. Also an inventor, Jim Donovan. Yeah, no, that's great. Whatever you got to do to bear the pall, you know, you got to get it done. Exactly. Yeah. Wow, that's cool. I think I may have found the, well, I found the something. Let's see, revolutionizing diarist. Okay. Oh, this, look at her

lovely lady. Here, I'll put up a little video, we can see. Okay, yeah. I haven't even seen this, so awesome. That's her there. That must be her. Give me give it some volume here. Hold on. Disposable diapur. Born in Fort Worth, Indiana in 1917. Marianne O'Brien grew up

surrounded by machinery and invention. Let's see. Get to where she made. Donovan did not have instance. with this idea. She toured the major U.S. paper. That's just some dude talking, but yeah, seems like, well known for this. This is awesome.

That's really cool. Diaper. Diapur. You know, the disposable diapur. Disposable diapur. Well, that's awesome. All right. I don't know anyone in my family who invented anything cool.

Oh, that's not true. My dad's related, well, many generations down the line, but he was related directly to Eli Whitney, who invented the cotton gin. Oh, yeah. Who likely extended the slavery period, unfortunately, by making that thing.

But he's also related to Abraham Lincoln, who emancipated the slaves. So, it kind of neutralizes it. So it kind of works itself out. There's balance. There's always balance in the forest. That's right. Perfect. Right. They're like a vote for,

either party you neutralize each other you know right that's funny cancel each other out um time for this you can do a little bit of news today and it's a brought to you by brought to you by daily music jeez louise can't even talk about this damn show the daily music headlines uh where today let me take a look here um oh yeah that's yesterday stuff sorry i didn't you think to mention it um plus today's uh... ilene's day so it's not like it's in the back of my memory coichella got announced. So you can find out folks like Lady Gaga, Green Day, Missy Elliott, Charlie X-C-X

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It's tasty. I like their cake better. A cake of Angels? Angel food cake is what I call. Oh, I got it now. Yeah. Duh. But anyway, Daily Music Headlines.com is where you'll find that.

You can hear Eileen today, lending her. her awesome method of delivery news to this little show. Yeah, Thursdays are her deal from now on, right? Thursdays are her deal, yeah. Nice. Never been to Coachella? It seems like it's hot and sweaty. That's what that seems like.

I know, I know. Music festivals, aside from that one that I was talking about that's up in the northeast that Ambassador Gomo really wants me to come out for. There's just not enough of a draw for the typical music festival for me to want to stand for as long as I have to do to have to find a bathroom, all that stuff. I don't want to do it. I mean, I know it's not as bad as like, well, I say it's bad. Some people love it, but it's not like Burning Man where, you know, everyone reeks and all that shit.

I'm sure it's, you know, it's a lot of Instagram influencers out there going, I'm a Coachella. Peace. Exactly. Let's talk about these cops. They're in Missouri. So someone wake Nicole up. a cops investigating a Missouri foster mom who traded one of her kids for a monkey. Yeah, to boost her exotic animal collection.

We're always talking about these Missourians and they got this exotic animal problem. It's always like these Tiger King people and stuff out there. To be fair, it was a foster kid. Yeah, fair enough. I mean, no, I'm certainly not trying to use that as a defense. That's horrible. But I'm saying, you know, it wasn't one of her own children. That wasn't like one of her own kids.

that came out of her own body as somebody else is. A foster mom in Missouri has been taken into custody as authorities investigate whether she gave up one of her children in exchange for a monkey.

Brenda Douche. Deutsche. De Tutsch. Is it Deutsch? I think Deutsch. Kind of like douche in this case. It's more appropriate for sure. She's from Windfield, Missouri.

She fostered more than 200 children over the years. Boy, somebody check on these other kids, too, because she's willing to do this. What else is she willing to do? What else is? Mike Grave looks awfully new. Yeah.

It says over the years, she's done about 200 kids, or she's had about 200 kids. She's also reportedly, during that time, been a collector of exotic animals. Douche now faces three felony counts of neglect. I'm just going to call her douche. Child abuse, child endangering, according to Lincoln County prosecutor, Mike Wood.

That was fun growing up with that name, I'll bet. Let's see. Never got teased at all growing up as Mike Wood. would. No, no, I'm sure it was just free sailing. No issues. The charges stem from allegations of a missing child that was in later located in Texas. Quote, a woman who had come forward with some information regarding the systematic abuse that was going on in the home had said that they had been asked to bring the child down to Texas to bring the monkey back and return. That's so weird. Leave the, can only take the monkey.

Bring the monkey back. Obviously, we have to do more investigation to see what actually is happening and find out what is true. According to KSDK, I guess that's a local news station. I'm guessing, yeah. It's a weird one, though. I guess they always have Ks, but I don't know, I'm used to different. I'm used to numbers, too. But usually they don't, usually they say, you know, according to Network News 4 or eyewitness News 6 or something like that.

Usually you just don't see the call letters. It's very weird. Unless they're in Cincinnati, WKRP. A probable cause statement that douche arranged to get the girl to Texas to stay with her friend and the child was allegedly left alone in the house with exotic animals and dirty conditions. Those two things go together, I guess, you know. Oh, yeah, for sure. It was exotic animals.

Go back to the dirty conditions and bring me back a monkey. Yeah. You know, talking about WKRP in Cincinnati, has there ever been a TV show that had a more memorable opening song that you could sing along to and an intelligible song that closed the final credits. I'm trying to think. So that the, you know, baby, if you've ever wondered, wondered, what it's like, you know, we all know that one.

We all sing along with it right. Yeah. The ending track is that, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Oh, yeah. it's really weird that they did that now that you say it it is i forgot i forgot that was even a thing they don't they don't end with like a version of the opener a reprise of the opening no it's like a whole different song and it's

completely unintelligible is an actual is an actual band actual song or is that something they made it for the show do you know i think it's an actual i want to say it's an actual band It sounds, to me, it sounds like Fee Waybill in the tubes, but I'm sure it's not. I'm sure we'd know if it was, but... I wonder if that's partly why they can't ever stream that damn thing, because I... See. You know what I mean? Here's the, here's the, uh, performed by Jim Ellis, an Atlanta musician.

Um, let's see, who recorded some of the incidental music for the show. According to people who attended the recording session, Ellen didn't have lyrics for the closing theme. So he sang nonsense words. give an idea of how it would sound. They decided to use the words anyway since he felt it'd be funny to use lyrics that were deliberately gibberish. That's freaking amazing, dude. You were right the whole time.

It's gibberish. Oh, my God. I love that. Do you want to play? Here's, I've found a YouTube if you want to play the, uh, I'll tell you a little. I'll probably ding me, but I'll play some. Okay. Let's see what you got here.

Here we go. Link incoming. All right. I'm going to, sorry, YouTube. you're getting paused everybody in the stream you're fine you'll hear this here you go okay it's amazing they just nonsense isn't it it's just nonsense yeah it's amazing they just made up shit i love it uh i forgot all about that and and now it's i hear it now and i'm like oh yeah that song would have sworn that would have been some radio hit or something that's crazy crazy to me oh

somebody nine and twelve somebody needs to cover it but cover the gibberish words oh yeah don't make up real words like just don't make up real words i mean it sounds like he says bartender i feel like he's saying bartender at one point but uh he might be seems like guys something bad ordering a drink hold hold stop the presses i found a cover of the closing theme shut up Tell me it's slowed down and I can hear them do it more deliberate bad words. Do you what I'm saying? I'll just give you the link. I found this without playing it.

So I'll let you... Okay. This one would probably only get dinged for because this is not the licensed version. Yeah, it just depends on what the channel does. But let's see what they do. Here we go. I swear bartenders in there. Yeah, he just, it's just nonsense, dude.

Just nonsense. Just nonsense. That's actually a really good cover. Really kind of close to the original, but. Yeah, he's on, he's doing piano guitar and then bass and then singing. That's cool. That's great. People are talented, you know?

People are talented. Totally. Brian, you should record. Here's what you should do. Okay. You should record your film sack intros. But like that guy with a mic and you in the middle going, yeah, and then pretend like you're... Oh, sure.

You know what I'm saying? Like, do a whole production of that. I'm sure you wouldn't get dinged. Oh, yeah. It's not the dinging. It's the extra days of work. Yeah. It's the huge production that is what I just described.

Plus, I use a karaoke track. I don't know how to play a musical instrument except for this really done. a white plastic guitar behind me that all I have to do is press the chord I want and press a button to have it play that chord. That is the thing I would watch. All right. Moving on to this story, police escort a Gloucester man, mum, not man. Gloucester. Gloucester, sorry.

Why did I say Gloucester? It's not even close. Mum, meaning a mother, off a Ryanair flight. I guess that's an airline over there. I don't know. Never heard of it. After she is unable to pay for Pringles on the flight. Really?

That's the, seriously, that was the, it's funny, I got so cut up in the first part of that headline. I didn't look at the end. They'll arrest you for all sorts of things. It says here that, How many Pringles did she eat? Well, it says here she was left in shock after the police were called, or called after being unable to pay for a tube of Pringles.

A tube. Pringle tubes. Let's see. Officers escort. of the 55-year-old off Ryan Air. Does it just a dude name Ryan? Made his own airline? Yeah, Ryan. This is my airline.

Hey, guys. What's going on? I just decided I didn't like any of the airlines that are out there. So I made my own. And it's called Ryanair. Anyway, she's on this jet. She ate the crisps from the trolley before paying. All right. That's what she said. The trawling meaning the thing, the thing in the middle, like your drink cart.

Yeah. So I guess instead of them, instead of them swiping your card and having people that have to stop and do that for everybody, I guess there's a machine. Oh, no, it is the in-flight card machine. So it's still the trolley. It's still the same way it works. I was thinking it might be like a, like it, you know, they just, they push it down the aisle,

and people swipe their card and push a button to get what they want or grab what they want and pay for it. I actually like that idea. I do, too. It would be so much, so it would be great. Yeah, just make it a robot and have it be flush against a, aside, so if someone has to get out, they can squeeze behind it. The problem is that if you're a window person, you're still giving your card to a stranger to have them swipe it for you.

Oh, shit, I didn't think of that. Hand it to the aisle person to... It needs to be a robot where a little arm comes over and goes, what would you like, sir? Right, exactly. Do the whole thing. Yeah. It says here, this lady, her name is Anne-Marie Murray. She ordered the Pringles, water, and a cola on a flight from Tenephree. Tenifree?

Tenerife. Tenerife. to Bristol, I can say that one. On March 28th, the bill came to seven euros, or pounds rather. But she was unable to pay when the inflight card machine would not accept payment and she had no cash.

Three officers arrived to put the housing association worker in the back of their van. Man, it feels like you could just I mean, we're the people around her. If there's somebody who has a heart next to her, they're saying, don't worry about it. I'll pay for it.

It's totally cool. You know, pay it forward with next time, you know. That's actually shocking to me that nobody, nobody offered. I just, yeah, I'd do that in a heartbeat. You don't want to be a heartbeat. That's a dumb thing to get in trouble for. Like, oh, shit, I don't have the money. It's seven bucks.

Somebody help her out. Help the poor lady out. Especially when, uh, they're carding her off and somebody could easily just say, you know what, I got this. Don't, you know, we don't need the police to cart her off. Yeah. Monica says maybe they had no cash, but no, they're taking cards. That's the point is it declined her.

card. So somebody else with a card. Tenerife. Tenerife. Okay. Yeah. Is that how you say it? Tenerife? Yeah. Tenerife. Well, there you go. Anyway, we don't know how it's going to go. Here's what she says. I was doing my best to pay. I tried to tap and pay, but the machine didn't work. They tried with another machine and when it still didn't go through. I offered to get cash when they landed, but they said I couldn't do that. I think this, I think Ryan ought to somebody call Ryan. His airlines

kind of suck. This goes right to the top. Some bullshit, man. Yeah. I don't like this at all. I'm with her. No kidding. But the next time I go to a Costco

and my car didn't go through, what are they going to do? Throw me in the back of a van? Right. Yes, apparently so. Yes. In these strange times, you never know.

In the news, also, we have a Nevada man. We're about to see a lot of Nevada men. Nevada man. Yeah. I'm going to see them all when we go there. I was arrested after seven emotional support tigers were seized from his home. That's a lot.

Great, okay. Yeah. His name was Sykfried. Just kidding. Yeah, I was going to say, what was Tiger King's real name? I cannot remember. I can't remember that. Oh, uh, what's her face?

Oh, I can't even remember her name. Damn. Carol Baskin was her name. Carol Baskin. Yes. His name was. shit oh joe exotic oh chat got it joe exotic yeah i believe forget joe freaking exotic this kind of nah me gonna break me out of prison meh meh no he's not uh nevada man he was arrested

wednesday several tigers seven of them to be exact were seized from his home uh said they were his emotional support animals we're also gonna you're going to be their dinner is what you're going to be. Anyway. Yeah. Yeah. Your most of support dinner. Let's see. Officials rated Carl Mitchell's home in Perumph. Perump? We know that place. We know someone from there. You do. Katie Telmo. That's right. That's right. I wonder if she heard about this. On Wednesday morning. I want to always put an H at the end. So it's perumpf. I know. To me, it just is. So I'm just I just can't help it. So sorry, Katie. On Wednesday morning, this happened. They arrested the dude on suspicion of resisting arrest. Mitchell, age 71, did not have a special conditions animal permit

to own the animals. If you're going to say their emotional support, you actually have to go through the paperwork and stuff. And also, I don't think tigers are on the list, but I could be wrong. I don't think so. I don't think you could just put any animal on the list, can you? I don't think so. Yeah. That's my emotional support, King Cobra. Right. Can you? I don't know. Someone out there, you know what, we need an expert. We got like a Dr. Tolbert style animal guy out there somewhere give us the real skinny they said that

let's see we've received information over the years that he has been walking the tigers loose around the property and off the property in the desert according to Sheriff Joe McGill my name Sheriff Joe McGill you're gonna give me them tigers a really good name

great Nevada Nevada sheriff guy name he said in an interview with NBC there in Las Vegas he says there have been social media posts from him with people interacting with the cats which is also in violation let's see he said he's rescued these things from from Joe Exotic

the guy claims might be true and says that oh you know they just explained there's boy all the names that we're looking for are just in the last paragraph Joe Exotic Carol Baskin everything all in there

all the names we couldn't remember he's serving a 21 year prison sentence currently Joe Exotic is So good luck to him. And one final story. This guy's going to go join him. I know, right?

You're going to have some good company there in your prison. Now we'll talk about another man. He's middle age, this one. But this is kind of cute. He's got a trading card game that went viral in a small Japan home. Oh, okay. In the small town of Kawara in Fukio, Fukuoka, prefecture. Fukuoka.

Fukuoka. I'm sure someone's going to say that better than us. Sure, sure. Says something unexpected is happening in the Sedocho Community Center, where kids in most parts of Japan are obsessed with Pokemon cards or perhaps the franchise's latest smartphone game, Pokemon TCG Pocket. Nice ad they kind of threw in there for that. Yeah, no kidding.

The children of Kawara are clutching to something a little closer to home. They are playing a trading card game where the stars aren't fantasy creatures, anime heroes, or even famous baseball players, but Ojsan, a middle-aged or older man in the local community. You've got to see this guy. Look at this happy little smiley guy. I got to see this.

This is great. Yeah, they have the whole thing. Oh, my God, it's awesome. Look at him. How cute is that? Oh, that's so cool. It says there's all the cards. We get a nice look at them all. Yeah. And everybody, you know, you've got to catch them all. It says

on here that... I like on some pose, like they're holding their fists up like they're ready to fight too. That's great. And some of these are him at different ages. So it's like here he is as a young man. Here he is when he's older. No idea what any of these descriptions say, but they say on the surface it looks like any other TCG.

Let's see. If you take the firewall card, for example, it features Mr. Honda age 74, a former fire brigade chief who helped keep the town safe for decades. There's also a Soba master Mr. Takash shitty. Oh, it's different dudes. how shitty

Takashita Takashita Takashita Takashita Yeah 81 who runs a local Soba noodle making class Now holds legendary status

I mean this is freaking great Like all the old guys in this town It's pretty great That's really cool Yeah God what a great way to like Also teach these kids about

You know respecting their elders and knowing who these people are So now when they walk down the street thing, go, oh, I have your card. Thank you, Soba Master. Yeah, thanks, man. Keep those noodles coming.

It's really cool. It says here, you're going to pay 500 yen for three cards if you include a shiny card. Or no, a pack of six, sorry, that includes a shiny card, which is, you know, like. Wow. So he's even having these things, like, printed up to the point where he can put shiny ones in certain things and in certain packets and stuff. That's great. All the rage in Japan. We should do this.

Who would we have on our old guy cards? You'd have to be the same kind of thing. right, a town where people love their elder people. Man, this is such stark contrast to, I feel like once we're done with, like, if you're over 70 here in this country, we just kind of say, go away to them, don't we? Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Yeah, I wish, we disregarded is, the elderly gets mistreated and disregarded. It's pooping. It's poop. It's working for companies that are working for agencies that stop that kind of elder disregard and abuse and all that sort of thing. I agree.

I have a bonus store if you want one. Yeah, do you have one? What do you got? Sure. Oh, you feast your eyes. I'll put in a link in the right there next to Song Break. Got it. This is, just released last couple days, the list of things left in Uber's in 2024.

Oh, we've done a list like this before, but this is new info. This is great. This is a brand new list. Zempic live lobsters here are the weirdest things left in Uber's. last year. Let's go through some of these. Oh, my gosh. A mannequin head with human hair. I don't like that.

Let's see. What's a Viking drinking horn? What even is that? Oh my gosh. A Green Bay Spidey made some for us. I think you've got one or... Do I have one? I was going to send one to you. Yeah, it looks like a... Oh, I do have that. Yeah.

There's right here. Mine might be over there, but I... Yeah, oh, it is over there. I see it. I didn't know that's what it was called. yeah there's a Viking drinking horn and uh have you drank out of it at all nope nope I have not I kind of want to I'm scared though I don't want to wash it out and I don't think I've got anything that can go all the way down into the very uh tips of this thing to uh and their actual are they actual animal horns did you say or do you make these out of something I no I think

these are actual animal horns and it's even etched with us that's right and he did you give You, I think mine came with a little wooden stand or something? Yeah, a little stand. I got a 3D printed stand for mine, but, yeah. It was some kind of like little kickstand for mine, I think. So don't leave these in an Uber. No, because apparently people are. Ghostbusters ghost trap.

That's cool. And keep that one. Giving somebody right to Comic Con or something. A chainsaw, breast milk. I mean, technically the breast milk was there when the lady was there. number seven is my turtle my turtle my turtle why is it my turtle i don't know why it's why it's my turtle instead of just a turtle it's not my breast milk my chainsaw my ghostbuster's ghost trap that's a very weird way of putting that a urinal which i assume is probably one of the little

portable ones hopefully one's little portable ones yeah fine china um what the hell is 10 it's sticky boob bra What's a sticky boob bra chat? Sticky boob bra Ladies in the chat we need you We need to hear Is this oh is this like for Really really revealing dresses so that you don't pop out Like they've got adhesive

Oh is that what it is? I'm hoping so because otherwise it's gross A sticky boob bra A bra for sticky boobs I love how many I love how many dudes piped in Before we got ladies to answer Rates like pasties a strapless bra says the chat okay that would make sense okay all right never never heard a sticky

boob bra aviation headset that's kind of cool shrek ears all right uh let's see 20 testing kit why is 14 14's weird a pink fan that has two hearts and the word bimbo you know somebody like they had to type that in too lost and found here's what somebody left in my car yeah uh 17 surprises me two mattresses hold on how do you not know when the passenger gets out and they leave two mattresses behind is there is there an uber service or whatever yeah is there a newber service where you put stuff in the back of a van or a truck or something like that is that a thing you can do i don't know i don't know i mean you never had to carry a mattress in the back of anything never had to care

i couldn't i couldn't even if they wanted me to that's really weird I can get a rolling, one of those rolling walkers into the car. I can get, I've gotten like multitudes of golf bags and things like that, but no bicycle. I don't think I could do, I could do a bicycle if I had to. Oh, I'd take that back. I did do a bicycle. We had to flip the seats down and he had to write up in the front with me. You don't do a rack or anything like that for your bike?

No, I should. I wish I had a rack for my car. Every time I thought about getting a rack and the money involved with it, I thought, well, I've got a little portable rack that I can put on there when I do need to take my bike somewhere. But having a permanent rack, it's like, I'll wait until I get another car, and I never have gotten another car. Yeah. You do the one on top or the rear if you did it. I would probably do the rear. Yeah, I think so, too.

Because then you're going to hit some weird garage where it won't fit or some shit like that. And it'll be like. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, we'll forget that it's up there. And right, exactly. go through a drive-thru and smash it on a window, a cover. This is a weird one. Number 18 is 15 hookahs.

I know what a hookah is, but why 15? 15 of them. That's a lot, right? That's a lot, yeah. I mean, a hookah is like, I can't remember the last time I saw a hookah, but they're big. They're like bombs, but larger. Oh, this must be the things that people said. That's why it's my turtle.

So it's the thing that they go into the app and say, You know, left something in the Uber. Okay, what did you lose? So somebody typed My Turtle. Oh, I see. That's their claim. Which is why number 27 is a very large portrait of myself in a brown box. Yeah.

That's why these are, yeah, there's another one. A photograph of me and my friend at Benihana. That's a good one, though. Benihana photo. Hoverboard, mini-fridge. Lady Liberty Crown. That's weird. Boiled eggs in a can.

Yeah. I like divorce papers. That's a fun one. Let's see. Blue laminated paper with yellow smiley face. Fake blood. I think I just leave the blue laminated paper with yellow smiley face. Feels like that's easily replaceable. 48's might be my favorite. Chicken sculpture. That's a fun one. Chicken sculpture. It says here the most forgetful cities, New York at number one, then Miami, Chicago, L.A., Washington. San Francisco, Boston,

Newark, Dallas, and Houston. Denver did not even make the list. Yeah, the big, big city, coastals, really. I would think Vegas would have a ton of things being left in. Because the drinking is so much more rampant there, and you'd have people

who walk in with something or so drunk, they forget it, and then they walk out. But I guess they're also not going to be hauling a mattress from one hotel to another or a chicken sculpture horse. Yeah. I wonder if it's mostly phones in Vegas, probably? Just like, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I'm sure it's mostly phones. Sometimes like one of those big legs. Probably a wallet or a... Oh, yeah, wallet's got to be common. Yeah. I mean, if you had to name the thing that you've seen the most. A plastic glitter, glitter gulch cup filled with pennies. That's right.

Anyone know where the hell that is? I didn't come all the way here to not have that. A giant leg Half filled with vodka That's good stuff Well anyway We're going to take a break When we come back from said break

It'll be time to hang with my sister She's back this week We got a little thing to talk about And it'll be good So stick around for that Before that, though, song Brian Brought What do you got? Yeah, we've played the band

Lights before Lights is primarily one person And what is her name should be right here in the I guess she goes by the name Lights she does because this is written and produced by lights the brand new album is called White Paper Palm Trees

and although this comes from something called A6 Okay Oh sorry She released two new tracks White Paper Palm Trees and the song we're about to play which is called Surface Tension

from her forthcoming album A6 There we go So the album is A6 The Performer's Lights This is her brand new song. It's called Surface Tension. It's got a very cure feel to the beginning, which I really like. Here is Lights.

What is my doctor going to say? It's out up in the phone night every day. It probably wouldn't matter anyway. It probably wouldn't matter anyway As you feel when it falls out of focus As you feel when nobody even noticed We love with friends for show this Serping plagues coming down like locust

I don't think I really will know this I don't think I really want to... Surface tension You know I love you dear But I can't even look in the mirror Everybody's toxic Everybody wants it You know I love you dear

But I I gotta get out of here I just want to touch me Notice, suffering will see me For a moment You know I can give you everything fancy You could leave a cuckin' blood Like a benchie.

I don't think I really want to. Surface tension. You know I love you, dear, but I want to disappear. Everybody's toxic. Everybody wants it. You know I love you, dear, but I gotta get out of here. I don't know this is the world so on a bitch. I understand this feeling not.

What is it has? What is love or? I understand this feeling not. Why is the world so a bitch? I understand this I feel not What is that What is love or which is wish

I don't think I really want to know this I don't think I really Yeah Surfance Tensions You know I love you dear But I can't even look to me

Everybody's so said Everybody wants to say You know I love you deal Oh, no, I gotta get it! I understand this feeling, why is the world So, a bitch

I understand this feeling What is heart, what is I love, or I'm afraid This feeling Why is the world So on a bitch I understand this

I feel not What is it, what is life, What is need, or which is wish I don't think I really want to know this. I don't think I really want to... What was that? That is the darkest of angels. The fifth rider of the apocalypse.

Why don't you put a flower in a lapel and squirt water? Tell me about lights again. Sure, that is Lights from her brand new album A6. That is one of the new singles. She's released at Surface Tension. I was going to say, you can see her in Colorado. She's coming to Miao Wolf on May 24th, but it is already sold out. It's a sold-out show.

Whoa. Your Mowulf has a concert area? Yeah, most of the Mial Wolf actually do have a little concert venue in them. I think even the Vegas one. I know the Santa Fe one does and the Denver one does. Sometimes Tristan has to work security. security for concerts, which he really likes. Maybe he'll get to work the security for lights, who knows.

No, that's cool. Yet, I would assume the Vegas one. I mean, there was a lot of offshoot connected buildings there. I assume probably one of those or something. Probably. Yeah, since we just went to the, what do you call it, the exhibition thing. The exhibition, right? And the cool thing is at least the one in Denver.

Like, obviously the theme, the whole Miao Wolf theme carries through into the venue, the concert venue as well. So there's all sorts of weird projections and glass with stuff being shown behind it. And really, really cool stuff. Pretty rad. All right. Let's see light. Let's get Wendy in here.

See what's going on. Psychosomatic. That boy needs therapy. Psychosomatic. That boy needs therapy. Lie down on the couch. It's my sister, Wendy, an actual therapist. Someone who helps people all the time with real problems.

She comes in her on Thursdays and does that for you at home. Wendy, what's going on? wow yeah you like that intro what a buildup yeah i am alarmed uh nothing yeah everything's everything's fine yeah nothing's on fire no everything's great yeah yeah hey you know how um uh was i was i was i was gonna tell you oh shoot it was something mom related when i told her forgot all right well come up with it later and text you because you know we have each other's phones it'll all be fine no one needs to hear it's cool no i mean it's not a bad it wasn't a bad Dang. It was just something. It reminded me of something. What was it? Something Kim said about their visit yesterday. And it made me think of something from our childhood. But I can't remember it. So I'll tell you later when I figure it out. Anyway, it's nice to have you on the horn here. We're going to go ahead and do a thing. We missed you last week. But, you know, Last Duke was crazy. You were recovering from a whirlwind trip that just never seemed to end. That was insane.

Yeah, it felt like working 24 hours a day is what it felt like. But, yeah, I'm glad to be back and just working normal hours. Yeah. There was some good, you had some pickleball in there, though. That was fun. I did. I kicked some serious pickleball. Yeah.

Did you beat Ken? That's all it matters. Yeah, easy. He's an old man. He is an old man. No, actually, the best people in the world of pickleball are old people. So I would, that's not true. Yeah.

But it was a lot of fun. Well, there you have it. Look for Wendy in Vegas. where perhaps pickleball may commence. We don't know yet. Trying to figure that up. A pickleball court at the plaza, you certainly could make use of it.

Yeah, they expanded it too. They added more courts. Do they really? Yeah. Some of it, they, well. I probably need to reserve it, though, right? Like, that's probably a thing that humans do. No idea.

Probably. Who knows? I got it. Homework. I've written it down. Is there a pickleball rep at the plaza? Like a guy, his whole job is to just pickleball. He's the pro.

Yeah. I love that. There's a pickleball pro. job AI will take away. Anyway, hey, let's get to it. We got this email, Wendy sent to me. It fits right in with kind of a suggested topic her and I were talking about. Given current climate, current things going on, the sort of ups and downs that we're experiencing, specifically when it comes to financial matters. And, you know, stock market fluctuations and the stuff recently, which is just pretty insane. We're going to read this email. It kind of goes along with

that. This is somebody we're going to call D. and CINCII, or I suppose Cincinnati, is what that's short for. Hey guys, long time listener. Really appreciate the compassionate and grounded way you tackle tough issues. I'm writing because I've been struggling with this intense financial anxiety and it's becoming harder and harder to manage. With everything going on, especially the unpredictable economic policies and rhetoric coming from Trump, I find myself constantly on edge. The markets feel so volatile, and there is this looming sense that anything stable could shift overnight. It's triggering a lot of fear in me. I'm a parent of two kids, and my partner and I both work full time. We're not in crisis financially. We're keeping up with the bills,

but it often feels like we are just one policy change or market dip away from everything unraveling. Questions about job security, the rising cost of groceries, and the consistent or constant political chaos are wearing me down. I wake up at night worrying about whether we'll be able to afford life, not just now, but in the future too. My question is this. How do you stay emotionally grounded when so much feels out of your control? I want to be present for my family. And not let my anxiety bleed into our daily life, but it is really hard to keep that perspective. I'm doing the best I can, but the uncertainty is exhausting. Thanks for everything you do.

Love the show, D. Yeah, I think we can all relate to this. God, yes. This feels pretty prescient. Anyone out there that thinks everything's fine, you know, you can keep your emails to yourself. Anyway, where do you want to go with this one? Because I have a feeling a large portion of today's listeners are going to want to hear how to deal with this.

Yeah. This is a tricky one. So let me ask both of you. Actually, I'm going to pick your brains for a second before I respond. But anything in this resonate with you and why. Like, pick the part out that fits you. I assume you both don't have two small kids. So there's that part.

Don't have two small kids. But more than just a little worried about everything. Tina works for the county for Adult Protective Service. but again that some of that money does come from federal sources and if they cut jobs if they cut funding um she's lowest on the supervisor totem pole so she would she could lose her job or get demoted or something so we we are worried about that a lot of my clients my freelance clients are uh facing problems with um uh the tariffs you know we got um um um um company or one of my

sites is a souvenir shop. I'm sure they get a lot of stuff from China so he's obviously really worried about it. Another client that is in education and they're worried about things. I told them I'd help them out for as long as they need because, you know, I'm not going to let

their site fall, but I'm not going to charge them for it. But yeah, so much, super super worried myself here about all that stuff. Yeah, yeah. Okay. throw your bits in and so similar similar feelings to brian um speaking from like the like this i'll look at it just strictly from the frog pants point of things um my worry my worry comes down to a few

things which is it may be later that we see it but these things tend to affect um a pandemic was a good example of this they tend to affect kind of downstream what regular people can do so if a regular person right now can subscribe to TMS and throw Brian and I their $10 a month for their special level or whatever and then they get into a bind where they're like every penny counts we're going to have to cancel this we can't have Netflix and we can't we can't support our favorite podcast name or whatever then those things tend to those those things tend to happen with this other stuff starts it so it's not like an immediate thing yeah um I've moved any of any of the stuff I sell on the store I've moved all uh locally for the most part

part, but there are some things I get from China. One was the challenge coins for this year's Vegas thing. And if I had a missed that by, if I had ordered it one week later, I would be thousands of dollars in the hole on that. And so they got here just in time right before all this stuff hit. So I don't know what the future of that kind of thing is. If it's resolved by then, I don't know. So there's some of that thrown in there. And just the overall sense that, you know, there's always this paranoia when it comes to being content creators of, or even doing freelance for people. I was on a phone call this morning about a possible book job and they were talking about some of these anxieties and having to roll back some other budgets and

going, well, we're just, we're just being cautious on this side. So over here, here's what we're going to do. And as I'm listening to this, I'm like, I think it probably everybody's doing a little bit of this and the net effect of that is you you cut out stuff that may feel or seem extra to you so if you're if you get a lot of benefit out of my game show core for example that's great until you things are tight or you're laid off or you're a government worker and they throw you to the wind and now you're like well I can't afford all these little extra things so the actual trickle down that everyone talked about for 40 years is actually the reverse trickle down it's a trickle down of loss, right? So I do, I do worry about it. Like, I'm absolutely worried about it. But where

I worry about it most, because I'll find a way, life finds a way, whatever. I'll eat bark if I have to, whatever you got to do. But I'm mostly worried for my kids. And I'm worried about the world they're facing, in particular Nick and his little baby and his wife, because he's just trying to make it, just trying to get through it and, and, and barely scrape by, housing and rent are still ridiculous. None of that's dropping off. But, you know, things are going up. It costs too much to go to the grocery store anymore the way, you know, compared to what it was even a year ago. So it's just like we have a lot of anxiety pent up about them and how they're, how, what they have to face. And so, you know, if I could just get to a place where Kim and I talk

about this all the time, but if it was possible to somehow to pay off the house and be done with that forever, then we could be a more stable lifeline when the kids needed it or, I don't know, man. It's just like this, it's all this unknown stuff. So everybody's okay, but it's that feeling of like, well, it could tip any second. And that's true of life in general. I know this is true. You could be on an airplane and suddenly drop dead from a heart attack at 30,000 feet and someone would have to sit next to your corpse for the next four hours. Like, we know these things happen. So it's not like life isn't full of unpredictable moments of, oops but this one feels a preventable and dumb as hell but also um it just is greater risk

kind of across the board for everybody involved it's not just people with tons of money in the stock market I have nothing in the stock market I have a little 401k that sort of sits there and grows and drops and grows and drops over time and it's very diversified so it's in tons of things it's not you know it's not it's not all one stock or whatever but when I see the mega rich go from oh no these tariffs are going to be a problem to hey we just made 500 million dollars each because they delayed them 90 days so now we got a we got a artificial fake bump of profit that we wouldn't have had otherwise like it's that adds to the anxiety because you're also pissed that some are some are benefiting from this chaos and by and by some I mean a very small

percentage of human beings, while everybody else has to be stressed about where their next paychecks going to come from. So the whole thing just freaking sucks. So that's where I'm at. It's good stuff. Yeah. Yeah, I just wanted you get that out, which is actually part of what I'm about to suggest. I think, you know, I'd love to have a discussion about the ineffectiveness of tariffs as a tool. And also, you know, I'd love to have a discussion about the ineffectiveness of tariffs as a tool. and also as a bargaining chip as leverage

and the every hundred years we try it because everyone is dead who knows better from the last round but Scott you're sort of hitting on the thing

that I think it feels more real every day which is oh the chaotic clown is the feature

right and the benefit is always just to the same few people and And what the rest of people are left with, the regular folks, including every one of the people who voted for him, will have the fluctuating ground underneath them. And that is what this is talking about, right?

So let's say you're all in on Trump and you think it's great. You can't wait for him to stick it to China and you get all your things and you feel like very justified in this world. And you don't care that your 401K got cut in half or you don't have one and you just, you're fine that other people suffer. I mean, I want you to look in the mirror real quick, people. But anyway, what ends up happening in those worlds is that the people that start getting affected or are really stressed out or are the ones being harmed that has just increased and increased and increased. And I watch these families that have fought over the politics for a long time are now really

finding their disconnect and their pain is just like a loss of humanity or feeling like they're even cared for because it is affecting them, you know, directly. So we have, we have a lot of chaos that creates a lot of suffering for the, there's your trickle-down economy, right? And this, this family sounds like they're in, they're experiencing this. And it's the fear for the future, fear for your kids. What does that even look like? Are we able to make things happen for ourselves, let alone for our kids? And then what's the future for the kids. So take that amount of stress. Take that, you know, usually presidents only have so much impact on the economy hilariously. That's going to be a different comment after this round

because of how slowly things usually work and, you know, etc. And so we blame a lot of stuff on presidents that maybe haven't been their thing. And we also will maybe fail to look at our local, leaders as the ones making the decisions that affect us the most. The problem is supply chains and food supply and how we all get goods now is definitely impacted not locally. And so we are having this. I have one guy to blame, the chaos. I'm reading it and staring at it. It's like the doom scrolling times 1,000 because it is even more freaky. And so what I'm finding with people is just literally they go to the store and what they bought last week is now two bucks more a pound or whatever and they are going to be unable to sustain that and then the people with the plenty

of money which there are plenty of people with plenty of money will not bat an eye and it you know and there we have the rub right people will get poorer and the rich will get richer and we will be I mean aren't we like three times the disparity that was the French Revolution we are really pushing the limits of this and it does okay so I want to talk about the fear sorry I had to get that out everyone thank you um but the fear that it instills in people and then what human beings do when they're afraid yeah right and what we can do about being afraid so there's number one is that sometimes we're over consuming the thing that makes us afraid because we need to know like why has there ever been a town crier why is news even a thing why is gossip a thing

Why is, you know, the lights in Lord of the Rings where they have to light the hill on each hill? That's important, yeah? Because what you're doing is you're saying we're in distress and something's wrong, we need to do something. This is the most basic part of being a human that is in terms of surviving as groups and species, right? So fundamental stuff. And then now we have access to the most horrible things happening everywhere in the world all at once. and then even in our own backyard and, you know, so we consume all of that, which does a few things to our nervous systems. It creates fight or flight or freeze response. And if you're listening

and you're hearing me say these symptoms and you're like, nah, it's not because of my phone usage. It is because of your phone usage. And that is in the morning, hard to get out of bed and just scrolling. Going to bed, hard to go to bed at a decent hour and just scrolling. Okay. And that means your sleep's disrupted. That means you're more tired the next day. You're going to bed worried and with your brain on fire. Won't shut up.

Or you wake up with your brain on fire in the middle of the night. All of those different factors. So we're consuming and we're consuming when we are supposed to be winding down or winding up, which is interesting. Because it hijacks some natural processes we really could use to feel better in life. Then we are overeating garbage or we are over trying to control certain things that are dangerous for us to over control, which might be eating. I mean, we have both ends of that scale. Then we also have this sort of the impact on relationships. I mean, it goes all sorts of directions with our bodies being high cortisol and fight or flight pretty much a lot.

right and so you know I think investors over time would say hey don't look it it's the long game don't look right and there's value to that concept because it usually writes itself or you know overtime blah blah blah we have a lot of evidence of this however when it's you and it's this moment it's hard to believe that's true it's hard to believe like all the old things apply now that usually could soothe you or made sense or you know when you have to You know, when your stockbroker's crying, you're in trouble, right? So there's all this just generally going around. So I would suggest for this family, let's get specific for what I would suggest for them.

And this might sound insane to people. But really, if you are really wanting to feel better about your situation, you're going to have to do a couple things. One is to make some rules around how much you're consuming of the chaos and the bad news and what you're are like to restrict that to a shorter period of time maybe it's one 15 minute news sort of podcast or something that kind of gives you the roundup and you're like okay now I kind of know what's going on and we talked about this before or a really deep dive into one thing right so instead of spending this quick changing I mean you are creating absolute powerlessness and chaos yourself by scrolling that's literally what the the

apps will do to our brains even it was all funny things even if it was all like happy go lucky stuff it's still chaotic quick changing our attention constantly um and not stabilizing our cortisol levels right so really get that under control this is what what i meant when i said it's crazy if you did not if you just gave yourself a boundary you do not look at any news or social media before nine a m and after 9 p.m. You do not. So we're talking from 9 to 9. You're welcome to do what you want. You will be shocked how much different your day will feel. Doesn't mean you even stopped looking at stuff. It's that you stop doing it at those bookends of your day. Yeah, it's massive. So I would say there's this one thing you can actually control here. And it's the amount of input. Now,

are we all addicted and controls a strong word there? Yeah, a little bit. Right. So figuring out ways to sort of reduce that. So then the second thing being the antidote to anxiety really is action. So, you know, the protests that happened last Saturday, right? So I've had a couple people ask me just, are those effective? You know, I mean, does it even matter? Does it mean anything? And you ask yourself, like, okay, so sitting home and worried, is that doing anything

for you is gathering with other people who are concerned and making fun signs and feeling like you're part of something help. Maybe it doesn't shift the needle on the political thing you're upset about, but it absolutely does shift your anxiety out of the, you know, sort of the ruminating version and puts something into action. Now, are there other things you could do? Sure. But it's this idea of humans do not do well when they are frozen and stay frozen. and so anything you can do to act that is in your best interest or your community's best interest is going to be beneficial. So if we look at their story, we've got two young kids, both full-time workers. They're currently doing all right financially, but they are afraid all the time

that something is going to happen that's going to just create chaos. And so if, if, and you guys throw in your thoughts here too, if, you know, you spend too much time reading about it, thinking about it, having it, the input, just at any point in the day, it's allowed to interrupt you to tell you then how terrible something is, then you are creating your own emotional dysregulation and it's, A, not your fault because the stuff is crappy, but there will always be crappy stuff. That's literally the definition of news, right? And so thinking really hard about what creates emotional stability and groundedness, we know some basic things. you know, constant input's not going to be great.

We also know, and I'm going to make a guess here, we just finished our round of health and PE with No Better You. And one of the guys shared something that he'd taken away, which I thought was super cool. He has put his phone down while he puts his kids to bed. And most of us are so unaware of how often we are using that as a way to manage our lives, escape our lives, or just we're distracted or bored for 10 seconds, right?

And here it is, you're putting your kids to bed. I mean, raise your hand if that was ever fun. Literally not once have I enjoyed putting my kids. And so it's really tempting, right? And he said he was able to put his phone down and really be present. And what happened was he was less feeling. He felt less chaotic. The kids did the same stuff, right?

Yeah. And he could, he reduced his own volatility. And that was just your 20 minute ritual of putting your kids to bed, just having your phone in the other room. And so working on some of that discipline in order to create some more stability in your day is really going to go a long way. So that's one thing. You guys have any thoughts on that before I say the other? It feels so, I guess it takes a long time to push your kids to bed. I'm just trying to think when my kids were little, they weren't smartphones yet. Nick was seven. So I'm just trying to think

how often, what this sounds like is more like put your phone down just when you're done with the day and don't look at it again until tomorrow morning. Right. Right. There's also that ritual too, right? The ritual of putting your kids to bed becomes this thing that takes you away from all those thoughts and thinking about what's on your phone and thinking about what's on the news. It's like a a distraction or shift of focus right yeah yeah right right yeah I'm just trying to think in our case like how that this looks more like hey it's dinner phones are away we're having dinner we're done with dinner we're talking we're hanging out we're catching up on that show we want to see uh all those things and we're just not looking at our phone and the only thing we have on there is if an emergency

happens with mom or something I'll get notified but other than that we don't need we don't need it right That kind of what you're saying for us old? Exactly what I'm saying. I do have a caveat for wordle and strands and the mini puzzle. If you want to do, like there's a couple things that are not going to create, they're going to create groundedness. Like if you used a meditation app, yeah, but that's not what people are doing. These are not the people who don't feel grounded.

That's not how they're behaving. And we're really bad at really seeing our behavior. That's why I have people always look at their usage on their phone. and they're like, whoa, six hours. And you're like, six hours today. You spent looking and blah, blah, blah. Like I had a client super depressed, and I think I've told you guys this before. And I was like, hey, let's look at TikTok, how many hours?

And it was eight, eight full day hours. And you're like, I wonder why you feel terrible. Well, it's because our brains really, truly should never be doing that. And it does make us not feel stable. So that's just one piece of this because, you know, the truth that still is, that there is a Cheeto in the White House flipping stuff around and making his rich friends richer. And that sucks, right?

And so, but paying attention to it, is that like I'm going to watch the train as it comes to hit me or what are we really actually doing? And some of it is this false sense of control if I know something is, you know, I know something. That's human. Like, I need to know it's coming so I can prepare. Sometimes it matters.

Sometimes it just is chaos. And that's what's so hard to always, tell so i always like to tell people if like you really got to know find a comedian to tell you the news um or get get your serious news from a place that you feel is reputable and it's a short of you know period of time but i'm i mean this guy isn't talking necessarily about like oh he hasn't mentioned his phone use he hasn't mentioned how much news he watches but i'm going to guarantee if he listed that and i got to look at the usage on his phone it wouldn't be good And so that would be my first sort of thing to tackle is just how can you reduce that?

The other is to make sure you have places that are safe to communicate this. I think that's one thing that I'm finding with families that are pretty divided is it's so hard to feel like you're just not understood or your fears aren't valid or, you know, whatever that dynamic is. So make sure you've got, you know, humans, we joke, oh, don't be in your echo chamber. But guess what? We do need echo chambers a little bit, not maybe internet ones. They don't seem to help us as much that are because they tend to make us more extreme, right? But like our neighbor, our buddy, our spouse, our kid, our pet, I don't know. Whoever is like, hey, can I just share how I'm feeling and I'm frustrated and we're frustrated a little bit together can really soothe your nervous system.

So I do this. I do this with you all the time. I don't know if you notice this, but if I have a little beef, I'll. I'll throw it out and just say, oh, my gosh, dude, did you hear her? And I always worry a little bit that I, because I know every day Wendy's taken clients that are laying all of their day on them, right? So I always worry a little bit. It's like, should I even say this? Because I don't want Wendy.

Like for all I know today, she learned one of her client murdered a family of five or something. I don't know what she's dealing with. But it's a little extreme. But you know what I mean? Like so when I come to you and go, can you believe these tariffs? I'm like, am I just adding to a pile that's going to make your day harder? Or do you get to vent through that too? I guess what I'm asking is, it's to this whole point.

Is there too much of, when should you know not to commiserate with your friends and vent with your friends and it's making it worse for your friends? Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. So a great question would be consent, right? Like, let's just apply it from sexual things to this thing where you're just like, hey, is it okay if I barf on you and that person it will be like yes please because I am also so frustrated rarely are you going to have um I mean I I find for me I I know how to help a client I am not feeling that way I mean if a client murder their whole family I have a different response but typically I

I we are actively progressing and they are feeling better like it's it's not the same as if a Random just came and started dumping all their junk on me and walked away, right? Like, it's different. So what you're asking me to do is commiserate with you. You're not asking to dump on me. And you could check with me. You could just say, hey, is this too much? And I'd be like, no, I love it.

Let's send me that every cartoon you ever draw. I love it. Yeah. Because it, I mean, I have shown your cartoons to people as I'm having a conversation with them to be like, see, doesn't this explain everything? And it does. Right? And so I absolutely love it.

Is it unhealthy, is it unhealthy that I want to draw cartoons when I'm frustrated about the thing I'm frustrated about? Is that bad? A hundred percent, no. That's 100% healthy. I'm glad you said that because I really don't know. Because I'll do a thing based on something shitty that happened and I'll just think, why am I, am I wallowing in it by drawing this? Like, what is my actual point of this? And to me, it feels cathartic, but I'm not really sure.

So that's good to hear. If you think about it's processing and then you happen to create something. What is a journal, right? nobody's you're like processing something but then that there's a product there that what do you do with right and in your case people like to look at your art so it might be a little different in one sense but it is also process yeah right so go do some painting or whatever and you're like I'm just going to throw this away or scream in the void right we have a lot of versions of what processing looks like and if it works awesome as long as you're not harming someone else

I'm happy with lots of the ways people process. In fact, rage rooms are all the rage because you can go process and somebody has picked up on that need. We almost did one in Vegas where they had a whole office room and you could just break computers and chairs and screens and all that. I know. That's an amazing. Does that sound awesome? Oh, my gosh. Yeah.

I did love this meme where it's like, you know, the state of society is indicated by what office show Adam Scott is in. And I'm like, oh, I wish it was Parks and Rec Air again. Oh, my gosh. That's a great idea, though. I have an office you can just destroy. Oh, yeah. They have basically their places let you donate, too. So if you have a bunch of junk you're trying to get rid of, they'll take it and then they'll use it.

Broken monitors there all the time. Yeah. Yeah. So much better than paying at a recycling place. I just go donate it to a rage room and let them. Yeah. And then they'll recycle the parts and bits and pieces and family. Afterwards, it's fine, yes.

Same time, and it's better for them too. Yeah. Okay, so let me address the last part, their direct question, which was how do you stay emotionally grounded when so much feels out of your control? So that is a great state question always, right? How do you stay emotionally grounded? He needs that is already a big step. Yeah.

Right. What, when so much feels out of control. So let's talk about the opposite for a second of how do you, how do you make? someone feel out of control or how do you make someone feel emotionally unstable and you there's many ways I don't want us to get too elaborate but I like to always think about a treadmill example if you're on a treadmill next to someone and they are cheering for you you the Hawthorne effect is what determines this right they've studied this you will respond differently being cheered on obviously, and then you will respond by being witnessed, you behave a little differently.

And then if someone is ripping on you while you are trying to jog on this treadmill, you cannot not help it. It's going to affect what you're doing. And so if you think about feeling out of control or emotionally ungrounded, or not grounded, right, what are, who's yelling at you on the treadmill? Because you're on a treadmill. Life is frigging a treadmill, let's be honest. and you're raising kids and you're doing the thing like who is yelling at you and who are you

inviting to yell at you and who are you know because sometimes that's going to happen but also do you have enough other things in your life where you feel control and you feel grounded and if the answer is no and you can be upended so easily think of it you know i'm going to mix all my metaphors but like gardening right your soil needs to be sufficiently stable for anything to grow in it. And so look at the soil around you. What do you, what have you maybe neglected in terms of building what's around you that has created this sort of shallow place where something can feel like, oh, it's going to tip over any second. And I get, I'm talking, I am not talking about the large economic situation because that is, it's real. So I don't want to

demean that. However, I think where people have control and where they can be emotionally grounded is within the five miles from their home or their immediate, you know, square footage of their home. Who are they with? What are they listening to? Where is the stability coming from or not coming from? So checking those things. And then what I always do with people is we really work on the inner resources of stability. Like what is going on internally? So I would ask this person about other points in their life where they have felt unstable emotionally or ungrounded or, you know, when have things been out of control before? And I'm going to guarantee in every single kid's life, there is a moment where they felt

some lack of control. They weren't sure they belonged. They didn't know if they were loved. There are some destabilizing elements of growing up that get stuck in our system and then play out throughout our adulthood unless we do something about it. so we may be looking at you know so scott i don't know if this resonates with you but i mean i've lived so dang poor i have like i could go right back i'm ready yeah exactly how to do it we're always talking about how we're always talking about around here why i'm so cheap about stuff and i tees came all

the time like you know hey we're going with the kids to dinner i'm like what's that going to cost me like the first thing i say and it comes from this this era that we grew up in as young impressionable human beings where my dad lost everything like every penny that we had House, motorhome boat. Stabilizing. Gone. Completely destabilized. But we persevered.

We stayed a family. We did what we had to do. You know, it wasn't great eating for a while, things like that. But it did give me this weird fallback training that if it came to it, we'd figure it out. You know? Like, I have no doubt we'd figure it out. It's just this feeling of like, I'd really prefer we don't have to. I'd really prefer that just by the goodness of the work of our backs and our, and our,

and our intent to do well out there every day and to commit to what we did for our job and then people pay us a living wage for what we did. Like, I'd like that all to stay stable. But if it doesn't, we'll find a freaking way to do it. And as much as I hated going through that in high school, well, I was a sophomore when it happened, you would have been, what, getting out of elementary school

going into, yeah, fourth, fifth grade, whatever. As hard as that is as a kid to go through that, it's incredibly valuable now as a as a reference point to say all right if it gets bad again we know we know what we can do you know i can i can dumpster dive all i need to or whatever notches on the belt is it has to get tightened yeah yeah 100% and also knowing like okay so there's trauma turned into you know maybe it isn't always adaptable everyone so don't think we've got it all figured out however that it there's also a framing that is helpful and and and and and and And so understanding it is step one, right?

Like what, what has you been through that this is triggering for you? So when someone is incredibly wealthy and has never experienced these kinds of fluctuations, and maybe they do for the first time, this would be, you know, quite alarming. And then also they maybe never not, they don't have those same issues. And so they're going to just see this differently. So I would be really compassionate with whatever it is you have been through and maybe acknowledging what you've been through. And then this person's partnered.

So I would check with your partner on their experience too because everyone comes from different backgrounds and, you know, what is their take on what emotional groundedness is and what did they, what have they done in their life when they have felt out of control? And so getting control in healthy ways looks like putting energy into your immediate environment and improving it, acting in ways that feel consistent with your conscience, right?

So my answer to the protests or anyone doing a thing that it's meaningful, there's power in that for that individual and then collectively. And that humans are, you know, I mean, we're not the French. The French really believe in it. But it really is this like, hey, I can put my money where my mouth is and that is psychologically more healthy than Skrush. screaming in the void with an anonymous account. You know what I mean?

Like the psychological health is what we're getting at. So reducing input to a reasonable amount, way more peace and breaks, right? So that's the 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. thing. Like, what, listen, if you haven't, you don't get to look at your phone before 9 a.m., you're probably at your job by them. Yeah. Right? And so maybe you're reading.

Maybe you're listening to music. Maybe you're making a good breakfast. Maybe you're talking to your family. Like the antidote to so much of this out of controlness is the actual real people connections community in your life. And then finding a place to put some of those feelings in productive ways is the answer to becoming more emotionally stable and grounded. Worrying, letting it stay in your head, constantly feeding it with new terrible things, you know, trying to pretend for your kids that you're fine. you're stuck on your phone and they are trying to play a game with you. I'm telling you the most, you know, sort of be in the moment is to get on the floor and

wrestle with those kids or whatever the thing is. I mean, you actually have an advantage with, I doesn't ever feel like you have an advantage when you have young kids. It doesn't. But this is the advantage is they are in the moment. And so go on a walk with them and see the world through their eyes. Make it a practice. Build it some rituals and habits around that.

Ask them what they think at dinner. and make dinner longer and have no technology anywhere. That will get you more grounded and more in the moment with your own life. And so it's small and there are little pieces here and there. But you've got to do this for four more years, dude. So buckle up. Yeah. And hopefully, hopefully that's it.

We'll find out, I suppose. Anyway, yeah, no, this is great stuff. I hope the listener to sent us in gain something from this and let us know how things go. And, you know, I can tell you right now, there's two little ones upstairs. I heard the little feet. Those are great distractions if you can have them around. You can figure out a way to focus on kids, partly because they need safety and you making sure they're not touching hot things and all that. But also because, man, talk about humans that are in the moment.

The kids don't care about any of this. Yeah. They don't know anything. Also animals. Yeah. Give yourself some animals. They absolutely just. It's the best.

I'll do the cats. Yeah. You have the babies. I'll have the cats. Yeah. I don't have to change no kitten diapers. Find some place to give your time where there are things that put you in the moment, right? So maybe it's just once a month you go do a thing that's part of your community betterment situation and just like be there and do it.

You know? Yeah. There's just. And. And. what you get from this from from from grandkids from animals from you know helping other humans is like actual hope and you know if you really talk to a kid like really hear them you're like oh we're going to be fine this is amazing and just remember everybody dies yeah that's true

everybody everybody dies for deep thoughts from jack handy yeah jack handy uh excellent stuff as always, Wendy, good to talk to you, and I hope your week is going good. I talk to Abe a little. I don't know if you mentioned this, but every once in a while, I'll just check in. Say, hey, dude, thinking about you. I hope you're doing well. Send something nice to your mom, you know, that kind of thing. But he's, I just love that kid. Is he coming, when you guys come in the summer, do you know? Yeah, we're going to bring him just, he's, because he's got a busy college boy now, you know? Yeah, he got an internship doing research for the medical school. So he's really excited. That's so cool.

Yeah, and so he's like a full-time adult for the summer, but we'll bring him for the 4th of July weekend. Oh, good. That'll be fun. We'll need his massive muscles that he's managed to cook. All right. Well, have a fantastic, yeah, go ahead, Brian. Before Wendy goes, Brainbow Bright suggests let her know to go watch Heretic.

Oh, yeah, yeah. I wonder what you'd think of Heretic, the movie. Oh, Heretic. I mean, he said Territic. The discussion is probably a lot, but the, The horror element's probably not so much, right? Yeah. I wonder what you'd think of it.

Maybe I'll just slip the horror part. Yeah. You might, that movie's interesting. The movie is such an interesting thing. It's barely horror. It's more it is, but it's like there's so much psychological elements to it. It's, it was really wild. I kind of have not been able to stop thinking about it.

It's really good. Why was she suggesting that, though? You know, what we should do sometimes. Someone should suggest I watch something and then we'll talk about it. It has to be, you know, like a good psychological thing. Relevant. Yes, exactly. Yeah, but I'm not a huge fan of horror.

No, that's a little tricky for me. You should watch adolescence and then we should talk about it because that. Oh, see, that one I am really like stuck. I don't know how to make us to watch it. I know, but it's got, it's got that relevant you're talking about. It's like full of, full of revel. Right after we've got a couple episodes left of White Lotus and then adolescence is our next next on deck. Maybe we did, maybe Brian, we time at the same time.

Here we go. It sounds good. Yeah. I really liked it, but it's not an easy topic, but it's also only four episodes. You can get right through it. It's not hard. Oh, my gosh. Okay.

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Bye. All right. There she goes. See, I haven't hang up on her fast. That's the deal. Yeah, yep. Chat room, you're all here while we want to tell you one fast thing. That is what is remaining in your programming for the rest of the day. Let's start with Coverville today at noon. What's going on?

Yeah, Agnitha Faltzag, one of the four members, one of the two A's in Abba is turning 75, so today will be, actually turned 75 earlier this month, so today will be an ABBA cover story. It's been a while since I've done one, like 500 and some episodes since I've done an ABCA cover story. So we're due, we're well overdue. So covers of all your favorites at noon, Twitch.tv.tv slash coverville. Does that SNL thing, they did that one time count as a cover where they were doing the close-up faces like the ABBA video and they're going in each other's faces. Do you know what I'm talking about? Have you seen this? Yes, I've seen it. I vaguely remember it. It's from years ago, right? It is.

It's one of my favorite things ever. I absolutely freaking love it. But I doubt it can count as a cover because there's laughter and stuff in there. It's like the face, like one person's turn and the other ones got their face right in front of them. And they're just cracking each other up. They're all, like none of them are staying in character very well. It's really, really good. Anyway, today noon, right?

No, that won't be on there, no. Okay, we'll be on there. Check it out, Twitch.com. TV slash Coverville today at noon at 1 p.m. I believe, although I haven't heard back from the core guys today. I'm a little worried they haven't answered me, so I'm not sure what's going on. But we're supposed to do core today at 1 p.m. That should happen if it changes, I'll let you know. But after Coverville, roll right into the core.

We'll talk about gaming. We'll talk about $80 switch games. We'll talk about all kinds of fun stuff. So check that out. And this, tomorrow, at 9 a.m., you'll have a patron-only version of this show, TMS Friday, happening tomorrow. Part of that will be your beefs, not your beefs. Oh, yeah, Wicked Kitten is tomorrow? Is she tomorrow?

Well, actually. Which is good, yeah. So, well, actually, it will be tomorrow. Oh, no, Wicked Kitten is on the 18th. I thought she always said, I want the one closest to Friday the 13th. Well, I would think that Friday the 11th would be the closest thing to Friday the 13th. Yeah. The problem with that is that we're not seeing a movie tonight.

It's Jeopardy Night. So we're going to the pub quiz to play Jeopardy. So I won't have a movie review. I'll have trivia, but let's hope Monica would be there to kind of fill in the gap for tomorrow. But I guess not, Monica. We'll have something else besides a movie review from me. All right, we'll figure it out. Anyway, that'll be tomorrow.

I get that extra hour for you and you only. So please sign up to Patreon and you can get it now. Patreon.com slash TMS. Film sack this weekend, we are doing a roundtable, roundtable, roundtable. Round table episode where we discuss going to the movie theater, what we expect from that experience, what it actually is and what we think should happen in the future. That was a great discussion.

I really enjoyed it. So come check that out. That's going to do it for us. Frogpants.com slash TMS for all the things you might need, except the thing you don't know yet, which is the song Brian's about to tell us about. Yeah. This is going out to G-E-O-V-E-O-V-A,

probably is how it's pronounced. It's my birthday again. I really am one of the, I'm really the tadpuller with a need for cookie monster metal singing songs. I'm sure this got translated or English is not their first language. But since I can't have that, I would wish myself a happy 42nd birthday today and go for a Taylor Swift cover. English apparently not my first language either.

You know what, though? The lessons are working the duolingo lessons. You're going to be fine. Yeah, really working out well. feel free to play this on a patron Friday or other days if the exact date doesn't work out. Yes, the birthday was yesterday the 9th, so

happy birthday to Vodun T-H-E-D-U-N or Gear Ova. Wanted to hear this cover. We played it a couple. Well, I think I've played it once before on this show. Happy to play it again. This is a cover of Taylor Swift's anti-hero covered by the band, Pendulum,

very heavy medley, which is great. We're going to be able to be. I have a day where I get older, but just never wiser. Midnights become my afternoons. When my depression waxen waxenched all the people, I'm ghosted, sad and in the room. I should not be left to my own devices. They come with crisis.

If vices, I end up in crisis. is tired I wake up screaming from dreaming One day I'll watch as you're leaving Because you've got tired of my scheming For the last time It's me I'm the problem

It's me I'm tired Everybody agrees I'm standing ready at the sun But never in the memory It must be extolled always rooting for the anti-hero I literally never feel like anyone's a sexy baby

And I'm a monster on the hell Too big to egg, I've slowly lurched once your favorite city Pairs through the lot but never kill Since you hit my comfort narcissism, my disguise is altruism, like some kind of congressman I wake up screaming from dreaming one day I'll watch as you're leaving and life will lose all it's leading for the last time It's me I'm the breath that is me

I'm deeply Everybody agrees I started at the sun But never in the mirror Must be exhausting Always rooting for the end in the row Feelings here are you in a row Those pants are made for froggin.

You know what I mean? I actually don't. Frogpants.com. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-mm, mm-mm.