The Morning Stream - TMS 2816: Holy Napkin

Episode Date: May 5, 2025

92% of what happened in Vegas, stayed in Vegas. Aerated Areola. Gene Simmons level of tongue. ClareGak, Unlicensed Chiropractor. There's Something About Monica. Rusty and Crusty. Higher than Most Weather Balloons. Moops Synthesizer. Really Washed My Cheese. Sink the Mayo!! Low Strength Covid. Misconstrued gogo bits. I Need More Vitamin Deeeeeeee. As long as you didn't lick it. Daily Boxer Briefs with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A small old lady chasing a lucky penny into a blinking maze of slot machines vanished into the neon heart of Vegas. With only her sequined purse and a trail of Elvis impersonators to mark her path. No offense, but if I were her, I just would have used those coins on patreon.com slash TMS. And support her favorite morning podcast. Coming up on the morning stream, 92% of what happened in Vegas stayed in Vegas. Airated ariola. Gene Simmons level of tongue. Claire Gack, a licensed chiropractor.

There's something about Monica. Rusty and Krusty. Higher than most weather balloons. Loops synthesizer. Really washed my cheese. Sink the mayo. Low strength COVID. Misconstrued go-go bits.

I need more vitamin D. As long as you didn't lick it. Dirty boxer briefs with Bobby. I'm sorry, daily. Let me do it again. Daily boxer briefs with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Take the credit for all. Ostex beef stew. In fact, you can take the credit for Osteak Spaghetti and Meatballs, too. It's okay with us.

I killed the wrong man as to which of why I'm here. M.S. D. M.S.S. D. M.S.S. D. The morning stream. Get your bleep and tannico out of my face. Hello, everybody. Welcome to T.M. It is the morning stream from Monday, May 5th. May the 5th be with you. Screw the 4th. Stupid. Revenge of the 5th. Oh, yeah, Revenge of the 5th. They just keep doing these Star Wars names.

Don't we have the whole year filled out now with dumb Star Wars references? Isn't that how it works now? That's the world we live in now. I don't like it. You know, not every day needs to be nerd day. No. Ah, whatever. Star Wars is great. Who am I kidding?

It's great. I actually watched Revenge of the Sith. while I was laid up in bed or in bed on the couch yesterday. Hey, it's Scott and Brian everybody. Hello. Oh, hi. Scott and Brian here. Yeah, we're here from the TMS show. You may have heard of it. We'd be gone a week, so we're a little rusty.

Brian, a little crusty and crusty. Yeah. Brian. Coming at you this morning, rusty and crusty. We'll have Jimmy Bob in the helicopter checking on traffic. That's right. Brian came back with a bit of a bug. So did it about, I don't know. Do we have a headcount? It's probably about. Oh, Nikki was keeping a tally.

I think... She's such a scientist. I think 8% of attendees... We had an 8% infection rate? Holy crap. 8% COVID rate. I don't know what our actual... Because some people don't have COVID.

They just have a head cold or something else. Whatever the hell you got is the worst of the two, I think, because COVID's a little weak this year. It's not like hardcore. So I don't know, man. It feels like the flu people got. the raw end of that stick yeah somehow i escaped it i don't know how like even the final night you and i are over on the side while the band's playing kind of yelling into each other's ears

and if you had if you were at all had any kind of communicable business then i shouldn't i should have i should have caught that both girls have both girls have covid we wrote a six hour a car drive with no masks nobody knew until we got home so we're in the car closed closed environment air conditioner blown in there they weren't coughing or sneezing or anything but how kim and i dodge these bullets, I don't freaking know. I feel like this is not my usual, uh, my MO. I should have been more worn down on this. Yeah. I do have good luck at cons though. Like I never, I never had a single blizzcon where I got sick after or during. Uh, somehow a lot of other people around me did. And I have that whole rule about not touching your face. That helps. Never put your face. Yeah. But, you know,

airborne stuff can't really control that. And, um, I, I honestly, I could be wrong. And maybe our scientist friend Bobby will tell us today, but it feels like my immune system goes a little into higher gear when I'm kind of like on point at a thing. Like I have to be, you know, something like that. You know, I, I, I wear, I run myself ragged at things like that. I stay out late. I get up early. I drink.

I sing loudly into microphones. Yeah. I are shared the COVID microphone that we all used. Yes. Yeah. I like how the microphone had protection, but we all didn't. Yeah, the microphone had like a little cloth condom on it. It was like a little shower cap.

Yeah, I appreciated it because it was better than I think just a raw one. I assume it filtered things. I have no idea if that thing works or not. Probably not. Listen, none of us want to experience the piano man. Microphone smells like a beer situation. No, no, they don't. You all think you did in the 70s.

You don't want to share a microphone that smells like a beer. But anyway, we had a great time. And today, you know, being May 5th, it's crazy because we literally had like six days go by of this show not happening. And that's a weird feeling. We're just not used to that much time going by, even for TMS standards because most of the, well, I shouldn't say most. Some of the previous years weren't as long, or at least you and I weren't there as long. And so it feels like we're like maybe one show shy of what we'd normally do. So coming back today is just kind of odd.

It just feels weird. It is. It does feel weird. Yeah. It's really weird. But anyway, we had a lot of fun. People were awesome. Great turnout. Wonderful human beings, despite our 8% COVID plus whatever flu business went around. And you know what? No, no, as far as I know, no situations like we've had in previous years, you know, where cheesy G got, you know, attempted to be turned into human trafficking and horrible room smell, room water situations.

and things like that. I feel like other than, you know, we all shared, we all shared some germs. We all shared some viruses. It's fun. Yeah. We helped build each other's immune systems is what we did. Exactly. But, well, Claire showed up with a broken ankle, right?

I thought she, oh, did she do while she was there? I thought she showed up with that. I think that's karma payback for tackling me from behind. I think that's what that is. Yeah, it should be. She hit me so hard. Tanner says, did she get a solicitation? Yeah, so I'm sitting there at, we were all going to meet up at some of these stadium craps machines to play

because we, you know, had a great time years, last year, all playing craps with the same, and sitting at these machines that let you enter your things without any stress of having a dealer. But all playing with the same dice, so I can kind of coach new players and things like that. And while I was waiting for everybody to come down, because this was after some event, uh these two ladies one of them whose arioli was peeking out of the uh the top of her dress oh oh yeah yeah yeah do i don't know that's nice that's awesome all right keep i mean i guess i don't know if it's awesome i mean those things should get a little air sometimes right i agree don't keep them trapped let the nipple free the ariola yeah um anyway they're walking by and uh they go hey

you winning and and I go no I haven't even started playing yet and then as they keep walking by me the other one goes do you need help oh Lord we know what that means like like it was a little bit like like hey we'll come help bring you some luck but it was also like are you having a hard time understanding how to play that game oh man I didn't know about this this was like middle of the week or something? It was after the video game tournament. So I stuck around to help

clean up, help load stuff back in Barry's vehicle, and then climb back into Barry's vehicle with rummy and squishy on top of Tina and I in the back seat of that little sedan.

Rummy and Squishy. That's perfect. Those are the perfect two guys you want to be mushed in a car. with. That's amazing. No kidding. Those three of us back there. Who was the third one? It was like three of it.

There were five of us in the back seat of Barry's vehicle. That's great. That's great. I don't know how I don't know how that all worked. Did Barry rent something or what was it like a? No, it's his own vehicle because he drove from San Francisco because he had, uh, right, right. He had three cases of wine to bring to Las Vegas. I forgot.

He had the entire, uh, the entire set of freaking sideways with him. It was insane. Exactly. And, you know, to his credit, he pretty much, he showed me, we saw him right before we left for the airport, we visited his room. And he showed me, and here's what I've left, and they were like four bottles or something. And so, I mean, he does know the right estimate. That's what makes him a certified Somali.

He knows the right amount of wine to bring to this sort of thing. Yeah, and I'll tell you this, something I learned. So we were out to dinner with them early in the week. and he's got, I don't know, what do you have there? Six wines or something? He brought six wines to dinner, yeah. Six wines before it's time.

It's really what you did. That's right, exactly. Anyway, I tried all six of them, and here's what I learned about that. At first I was like, I didn't eat a little sip, hmm, taste like dirt. Like the rest of these,

okay, put that back. Get the next one. Mm, it's slightly different taste of dirt. Mm, okay. And here's the thing. No poo-pooing on people's wine taste. It's just not my jam, although I did find one toward the end

that I kind of liked. It was kind of tart and I liked it. But anyway, all six of those, if you think you're just testing. Now I get why people spit it out at a wine tasting because if you consume every little sip, even if all you intend to do is taste it, at the end of six different wine tastings, you've got basically a decent size goblet of wine in your gullet because you've swallowed that much wine. And I didn't know that that was a, I don't know what I was thinking.

So I get back to the hotel and I am kind of out of. of it and I'm a light lightweight as you know as it is so I kind of wandering around the hotel room going oh shit what is this what this feels like she's like yeah I think yeah maybe that's what happened there and then I also learned this like you with tequila I laid down very tired slept about a half an hour woke up and then stared at that ceiling for like four hours oh geez I don't know what the hell that's about that is not an expected outcome of alcohol consumption that I was in the uh and we even went out after that we went to that uh like that little hidden speakeasy in the cabinet of curiosities that was

awesome that place was great but um second time i've been there and it has their their prices i think have gone up by a factor of three and then now require a two drink minimum which they didn't before yeah so i got the bill and i'm like about blah blah blah yeah i think i actually made that noise. And so you had you had mock tales there that looked really good. They were good. That were basically two dollars less than

the full on drinks, the rest of us were having. And so we kept going even after the wine. I won't name any names, but I think the remaining, and they do this thing at the lock where they give you a little card and you fill it out saying, what kind of mood are you in? Are you in like a

dangerous mood or happy mood? Or happy mood or a sad mood and I got all the scoop on that from the bartender it's like yeah if you're in a fiery mood you're getting tequila yeah if you're in a uh I don't know there was some other ones like if you're in a pirate mood you get wrong or something like that it wasn't quite that obvious but but I was able to kind of pinpoint what the spirits were going to be based on um it makes sense right like he's he's doing he the attempt has to make it look a little magical, like they're really doing something neato, which helps justify

the price and all that. But it was... But it's such a gimmick. And boy, do they charge you for that gimmick. It was cool space. I mean, I thought that little place was red, yeah. And it's in such an ugly half being built, the hotels

always feels like it's being constructed or redone. It's what used to be ballets and is now the horseshoe. And that's the like fluorescent light hallway that takes you to the monorail basically next to the gift shop and the uh uh the fudruckers or whatever the hells down there didn't you tell me i think you're the one that told me and i just don't remember this because i do remember it when it was ballies way back but that that tunnel thing

they have outside used to go all the way to the strip right you could go you could just walk right off the strip and go up yeah before they put the all the shops in the front there it's funny you think about Vegas used to do a lot more with the presentation in the front of the hotels and some of them still do, obviously, Belagio does it right with the fountains and things like that. Bally's used to have that long disco tunnel on a moving walkway

all the way from the strip that would take you through. And either side of it were just like fountains and water features and rocks and stuff. And they said, well, this is dumb. We need shops. We need a freaking wall burgers here and a tattoo shop and a cowboy bar and this and

that. Now it looks like a old, like a crappy street and cyberpunk 2077 somewhere exactly exactly looks like barter town yeah it's a little barter town you should hear pigs underneath the grates every time you walk by one yeah I feel like you know blade runner town in there which I'd like right but it's a weird feeling to do that in front of valleys but exactly anyway that was right and like you on to oh yeah let's give it a shot let's see what we get here I'll bet you I get in Brian's in and Alcabobb uh refreshed it he also sent you a a one link password is it a oh really okay hold on let's see what we got

here al-cabab you're a good man you're a good man you're a man about town he's a very good man um let's see why you're doing that let's see the uh but yeah the luck you know it's something if you've never been you can even just go to the outside part and not go to the speakeasy inside it's it's mild to look like some um foreign travelers collection of curiosities that he's collected over the years little skeleton this little um uh statue this this medallion over here this other thing and each one has a number on it so you go to the website and you punch in the number and it tells you the history of where that came from the genuine real history of that thing not you know it's it's not one one dude's collection but it is uh like a um it's a lot

of real artifacts from different places yeah it was cool and when brian took us there it just felt like oh this is the bar because there's a bar out there is a guy there's a bar out there's multiple dudes running a bar and then there's all these oddities and they have little labels and you can kind of open stuff and I'm like this is cool on its own I really like this this is great I'm glad we came here after the thing and then Brian's talking on some phone and I'm like what is yeah what is he doing and then it dawns on me this is this there's a there's a look Brian gets when he knows shit that everyone else doesn't know which is common in Vegas he knows lots of little tricks and secrets and stuff like the first secret pizza

ever saw it was because Brian pointed it out the first time I ever saw any of these like little hidden things Brian knew about the little hidden thing of the candy so the uh the candy shop at that Italian restaurant we went to for dinner oh yeah that was cool everybody's doing one of these now feels like just they are they are yes because it's like it makes you feel like you're I mean it's it's the reason I do it it makes you feel like you're in the know like hey I know something let's go there because there's a place hidden in there that I can take you to yeah it was cool but that one does it so much better like it looks like a full on candy shop in the middle of this Italian restaurant, and the door opens, and there's a super cool retro boomboxy nightclub

with Rubik's cubes and Merlins and things like that all over the place. Yep. That place was great. And Brian had the same look on his face. I should have known. He says, hey, let's go get some candy. And I went, oh, that's that face. But I wasn't really wasn't clicking. And I said, Kim, do you want anything? He goes, oh, you know what I like. Get me like a turtle or something. So we were like fully intending to go in there. And then Brian goes like behind the counter and I was like well that's awfully bold but he still got that face and I'm like oh shit something's happening here and then door opens up whole new world in there crazy yeah and then so we come back to the table like hey ladies you need you need to go check out the candy shop and

they're like no we're good thanks thanks for not bringing us back anything great no doubt it was it was great though that stuff's cool um yeah I I man I had so much fun all across the board just okay so Let me tell you something I broke and myself on purpose, something I wanted to do. Okay. Now, you know I don't like, I don't love, I shouldn't say I don't like, I don't love karaoke because I don't like singing in front of people. It's not my favorite thing in the world. Right, right. Yes. You've done a great Fred Schneider, but that's not singing.

No, not at all, even though I did Fred Schneider again this time, a little bit twice. Oh, did you? Well, in our room, Wendy and I did. So I don't know what was going on with Shane. Shane had what we called the holy napkin, which was this napkin, everybody's putting their requests on. And Wendy had written on there, Rock Lobster, when she meant to put Love Shack.

Okay. Rock Lobster doesn't have any singing in it, really. It has a little, but it's mostly just Fred Schneider going, Rock Lobster, and then everybody has matching towels. Yeah, so it was a bit of a goof. But Wendy really wanted to do it with me, and I said, all right, cool, we'll do it. And we got up, and then we were expecting Love Shack,

and it wasn't. So I was like, all right, well, we'll just go through this. And then when it's done, we'll do Love Shack. And then we did Love Shack, and that was fine. But then that song kept coming up. It was like haunting Shane. Every time he tried to do something new or a video would end, Rock Lobster would start again.

It was just always queued. Poor guy. Anyway, I don't know what happened to the Holy Napkin, but someone needs to find that thing and give it to Shane or give it to us or something. We all want to preserve that. Claire apparently has it, actually. Claire, do not let that get out of your hands. Let's get, laminate those napkins.

I want a scan of it. That's what I want. Give me a good picture on that shit phone of yours and send it to me. That's a really good way of doing that because we had Barry's phone or Barry had the phone that was connected to it. So basically, you couldn't, we weren't pre-signing up for anything. It was like, all right, that song ended. And then four people would all get up at the same time. And then all four would sit down like, oh, you got, you don't know you.

And then it was a. mess. If we would have had a little sign-up sheet and we could have just listed, then I'd been like, all right, next we have Amy singing popular from Wicked and stuff like that. Did she do that one? She did, yeah. That was her Kristen Chanoweth moment.

She was great. It wasn't not, Amy, I'll say this. Amy is not just a singer, but she performs. Like she did, still alive by Jonathan Colton. She did popular. And it's a performance from Amy. It's

not just a, like, I get up there, I'm like, uh-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Amy, it's a, it's an experience with Amy. And I mean that in a good way. No, no, in the best possible way. The Amy Robinson experience is what you're talking about. Yes, exactly. That's great.

I, I missed that, unfortunately, because we had the, we're big enough group. We had, like, I think four rooms at the karaoke. I think so. Yeah. And here's where I broke my, my thing. I went in there with a very specific desire in mind. which may have not been great for Tom Merritt because I think he thought because we were his ride that night

I think Tom thought that I'd get in there do Love Shack or something easy and then we might bolt early because he's not really a karaoke guy either so he was thinking oh well yeah that'll get me out of here I think he thought he was gonna have an earlier night but what happened is I went in there with a very specific notion in my head which was

I was going to knock this stoop it's not even a fear it's just this thing I have about singing in front of people. I have no problem talking in front of people. I have no problem improvving on a stage in front of people. I have no problem with that shit. So why is it hard for me to get up and just sing when no one's there. No one is a professional singer. Some people are talented but it's not like we're all going in there with cred or whatever. So I just said to myself, nope, we're knocking it out this time. We're going to go for it. And at any time anybody wants me to do one, I'm going to do it. I'm going to come up with one of my own. So I was thinking about, hey, Van's favorite song right now is Teenage Dirtbag. He freaking loves that song. plays it all the time so Kim and I did a version of it dedicated it to him sent him to see that yeah sent him a video in our room which is great yeah that was in your room and uh bobby am recorded it very nicely of her to do that um and we sent it to van and he hasn't stopped watching it he keeps put it on a repeat loves it so that was worth it but i just hung around to the better end i think you left before i did like i yeah it was late and i think you can see it tom merritt's faces like

I think I made a mistake being here too long. But anyway, I did it. I sang a bunch of different songs. And with different people, I sing one with Barry. We should have done one. I don't know why you and I never did one. I don't know why, yeah, I don't know. You, I think I was already just ripped out.

My throat was gone after doing what's so funny about peace, love, and understanding by Elvis Costello. That was like, all right, this is, basically this is me pulling the pin on the grenade of my voice. Yeah. I'm blowing up any chance of doing any other. songs that night. But yeah, I did Our Lips are sealed

by the Go-Go's with Barry. It's a good one. There's some people who have some misconceptions about what that song is about. Sorry, Monica. That song is not about, it is about keeping a secret because Terry Hall of the specials was having

in a relationship with somebody else and then he hooked up with Jane Wheatlin of the Go-Go's and the two of them wrote that song together about their secret relationship It's not about Virginia But the go-goes did used to haze their

Oh should I Yeah, well this is a true thing I mean this is a little story Sure I like a good story The go-goes used to haze their roadies By slipping Polaroids of their naughty bits

Under the door And asking their roadies To identify which go-go Each photo belonged to Oh my lord All right Yeah This is a new story for me

is where the basis of of somebody's misconception of that son came from. Oh, the go-goes. Just with the vaginas and the photos. I mean, what are you going to do? Also, how can I become a voluntary roadie for the go-goes? Is there a place where I can sign up online?

I think we missed the prime era for that, probably. I'm thinking. Yeah. I mean, no, you know, I'm sure there's, I'm sure it's fine. I'm sure it's fine. it's totally fine yeah it's fine you know what am i what am i even saying really i don't even know what i'm saying um but also the other thing i was going to say about the uh about karaoke night so so anyway so that was my goal and i felt really good about doing that and and just getting over

it like like it's it was just fun and you don't have to be drunk to do it you just have a great time you can sing you love the songs you know singing dead or alive with barry was a riot that really wrecked my voice that night and the next day i was trusty from that song. But that's fun. And I feel bad that in previous years, when 9 of 12 would organize stuff, that I was a little bit of a wet napkin in there. So September, apologies for the moisture of my napkin. That's right. Nothing to do with the holy napkin that Shane had. This was the first time I sing at karaoke at TMS Vegas as well. Oh, really? I didn't know that. I figured you were in there, belting it out all the time. And I know we're always in separate rooms to

kind of hold court in the various spaces, but I always assumed you were spread around the, yeah, the TMS butter on the bread, you know, but I always assumed you were in there just like cranking it every time. I didn't know that. Well, let me rephrase that. I assumed you were in there singing. I don't know what cranking it means and everyone. Some totally different. Well, anyway, I had a blast with that and I just, you know, grateful that we did it. It was super fun. And Kim never does that. She has. hates, like, public, like, singing or speaking? She hates those two things.

Yeah. And she let it loose, man. She was dancing around, being a nut job. Her on teenage dirtbag was great as well. Yeah. And she won the freaking, that was crazy. I didn't even know she was in it. But she won the cover or task film.

Oh, yes. Oh, my God. That was such a great, like, a surprise player. And not just being a surprise player goes on. to be the only person who continuously fooled me. I mean, all right. The final, that final task, I told Hammond, let's do whatever we can to keep this thing moving because I can see this being like five or six rounds before we finally get it down to,

down to one person. Yeah. And it was like, it was like shooting gallery target practice. I was like, mouth, hand, mouth, oh, you know, probably should explain to people what the final. Yeah, what is the, what's the final thing, Brian, describe it. But it, it, it, I, it was luck. I mean, there was a lot of like, okay, what would this person, what would this person try to make me think they're doing?

What, what are they overemphasizing? And would they overemphasize it, even though it's in the place they're over-emphasizing? Right, right. And, yeah, that's, I figured you absolutely knew that those factors about it. Like, you were not going into this going, oh, it's, think he might he's either his tongue in his mouth or you know what i mean like i knew you'd be prepared none of you seem to have any reaction even those were the sourest sourball candies that i could find um they they they're sour for like 30 seconds and then they're actually they taste

great yeah uh this is a place where kim gets weirdly competitive when it comes to like if someone gives her something gross or hot yeah and there's and there's something on the line she'll hide it really well and her she also has this guys don't make it weird at home okay i'm just gonna say something here but i'm just gonna say it she has a massive tongue it's very long okay she can do jean simmons levels of tongue this all sounds bad i'm just trying i'm just you know just just just saying so i think she's very good at like she could roll that thing up and hide it back there real good if she wanted and and hold a straight face out of you know whatever none of that sounds good i take it all back i never

said anything but you know what i'm saying she was anyway she fooled brian which is the you know everybody else did she did yeah amy fooled me once uh kim fooled me twice and that was the uh that was the that's what it took to win super fun everybody else i was able to get in just one shot and claire said all right brian i'm gonna try it now you guess where i put it and i turn around and then i face her again i'm and i said because it's claire i don't think it's in any of the places i would expect it to be oh boy but she did fool me because she actually did have it in her mouth oh she did and she fooled you yeah oh I didn't know she fooled me well Claire fooled a lot of people I said I said I think it's under your head I wasn't I wasn't gonna say

what I thought she had done with it but uh well my lower back still aches for Claire uh after her tackle she hit me real hard here's the thing if that was it was it was early in the thing I think day one we were all just standing in front of hash house and I was talking to, I don't know who, there's a group around. And I just out of nowhere, I was relaxed, so that was probably good. If I'd have been stiff, like, if I'd have been, like, kind of holding the still or rigid or nervous or something like that, it probably would have been worse. But she got me from the back so hard.

All the wind goes out of me. I kind of lurch forward. I wasn't even sure it was her. I thought, am I getting attacked by some psycho, you know, in the plaza or something like that? Right. And it turns out I was. No warning. Turns out it was a psycho.

Usually you can hear her coming, right? Like, you know, there's a like a soft breeze on your ankles because she's kind of approaching really fast. But. And then by that, now, just so I can say this, there's no hard feelings, had I been, had she knocked, because, you know, my back has gone out before where I am, like, flat on my back for days. That didn't happen. Had that happened, that may have been a problem. However, it was fine. Love being around Claire as usual.

Let me just say this about her status on the fine. final night. She was higher than most weather balloons that night. My gosh, dude. It was watching some Kate Bush level performance art shit when she was dancing. It was fan freaking tastic. This is Kate Bush

and her weathering heights. It's me. Totally right, dude. That's exactly right. And she was just so out there. And I remember saying to her, oh, don't suggest things to her while she's in that state because at one point I said we had those pepper we had the peppers at the arcade thing the big thing for

drinks I guess the jalapeno yeah yeah and I said hey you should just eat a bunch of those I was kidding she opens it up just starts hucking them down her throat I'm like no no no no no no I think I think she was faking that did we actually see any go in her mouth oh yeah she's chewing them oh really oh I thought she was I thought she was faking that wow I did too at first I'm like what are you doing you're an insane person but also kind of adorable and uh yeah let me just say this about Monica. You all know her on the show. She's here on her weekend stuff and all that. I

will protect Monica. I will take a bullet for her. Let me tell you why. There's something about Monica. I can't explain it. But you just want to just like just keep her away from the evils of the world. I can't

explain it. She's so sweet. She's wonderful. She's a little sister none of us ever had. And she's just the sweetest person. You want to wrap your wings around her and protect her from harm. Yeah, and I think part of it's because she's very expressive and she is. All it takes is one little

expression. I'm like, well, that's 300 emotions right there you just did. I don't know. There's something I didn't expect and I've seen her before. We went to BlizzCon a couple times and all that. I don't know what the hell that was about, but anyway. We had a blast. There's more to say I'm sure we'll get to it at some point. Later on the week. Yeah, we'll think

of things and write them down. And you did hear right at the, well, some of you haven't heard this because you haven't seen the video or the audio content we'll get that soon from Kevin and put it up on the feeds and everything so for those wondering if all of these shenanigans will be given out it will be so you'll get to see all of taskville fantastic stuff this year um boy i lost hard though oh my gosh oh just terrible dude freaking at the first task kind of killed you yeah just murdered me and i don't know why i was so up in my head about it i just knew i was too on the look for tricks i should

have just let my gut kick in and go and there were tricks they were there were there were many things around. Hopefully that one of them is hanging on your wall or you at least brought it home to hand it. Yeah, it's over somewhere I think in here. I don't think Barry ended up at that. Anyway, well, or maybe Hammond has it. Somebody's got a big print or Hammond

has a big print that I'm supposed to Plaza print. Yeah, and then I'm going to take, so everyone sign that, I guess. I'm going to take a picture of that, a really good scan and then make prints and then make him, like if anybody wants one, I'll just do them for cost. Oh, cool. Yeah, let's do it at cost.

like you want you all want a print everybody get a print anyway uh but if you maybe you heard the rumor i put it in other places uh we announced in 26 nerdtacular 26 coming next year um it's going to give brian a much needed break on tms Vegas but also uh will still involve a lot of the things you love about tms Vegas including all the tms people uh very few details right now you're going to have to wait a month or two before we have any kind of like close to dates or some of that stuff because really right now it's just like venue when But it will happen. That's the plan.

We'll keep you up to date. Don't send me a bunch of DMs asking about dates because, again, I don't know them yet. Oh, I'm just glad you're going to be the one getting all the DMs about dates. Yeah, it'll be nice for a change to pull that off your back some. My wife needs to request time off for the year by the beginning of September. Could you give me the dates for... I've had five people, though, DM me and ask if Brian is doing frog pants all. stars again. Oh, really? As opposed to doing TaskVill. Yeah. And I said, I don't know. We

haven't talked. Like, that's how early this is, guys. We haven't really made solid any of these things. But we'll figure it out and let you know. Okay. Yeah. You know, I'm kind of okay with doing that. Well, I just need to get a new buzzer system because every buzzer system that I had is either one I can't borrow from that person anymore because it's gone or the one I had is broken. So I think I just need to buy one and I can find one. Sure. We could rent, if we need to, we could always rent one or something like that. I can get one on Amazon for 60 bucks, a Jeopardy level buzzer system. Oh, is that all they, that's all they cost?

Well, for now, anyway, until the tariffs kick in. We're going to put tariffs on the game buzzers, tariffs on the game buzzers. Can't have those people playing Jeopardy. Got to keep them, got to keep them away from that. That's going to raise the prices on Jeopardy. He did it on foreign movies. We call it, we call it Jeopardy. We call it the Trebek show.

Truebeck, Romans, Swiss, with Strebeck. Did you ever see Dagnet? Yeah, Pip's Trebek. That was Tom Hanks' character. You know what's great about this? Your cold is actually contributing to the authenticity. It kind of enhances it a little bit, doesn't it? Yeah.

It's kind of nailing it. He just announced he's doing it for foreign films. How stupid is that? Anyway. Oh, geez. It's really dumb. We can't have another parasite. Parasites are bad.

Oh, my gosh. Oh, one other thing I was going to say, speaking of the event, if you were somebody who came and went and forgot to get your bags or weren't on there on the game show day or whatever. Don't worry. I'm making arrangements to make sure yours gets to you. So we've got a list of people who we didn't see there that we didn't get bags to while they were there.

So if you have already reached out, I'll make sure the rest of you are good. Also, if you wanted a bag, or if you've ordered just the swag, and a bunch of you did, thank you for that. We sold out technically on the site. Yours will be shipping ASAP, but if any of you were like, oh, shoot, I missed it.

soon I will have some count of whatever's left, and there may be some left. If there are, we'll put those back up on the site. You'll be able to still get those, and those will ship to you directly when that happens. So anyway, there's that whole thing. I'll let you guys know more about that. And then one quick movie review. Okay. Brian saw one, too, but he's saving it for tomorrow.

Saving it for tomorrow. I'll tell you mine real fast. I went and saw Sinners with the Michael B. Jordan. Halt sinners. I'm not that one. Two of them. Two Michael B. Jordan. We're in it.

It was Michael A and Michael B. Jordan. Yeah. And that's not a spoiler because it's in the trailers that he plays two roles. I'm going to tell you, though, he is so good at the two roles separately that there's no possible way he's not nominated this year. There's no way. Love it. And he deserves it. Cougler deserves.

This thing will get Best Picture nomination. It'll get Best Director nomination. It is one of the most mesmerizing, interesting movies I've ever seen. it is not simply what you think it is which is oh it's in the thirties during prohibition it's duke joints and black culture and and it's those things and it's also the vampire thing that they tell you it is but it ain't it ain't normal it's very unusually done beautifully shot i freaking loved this movie right now i think we're sitting in my favorite oh you should totally see it currently the plan is to see a thursday i'm very curious what you're going to think

because I loved it. And this is one of those cases where I will say stick around to the end or stick around but for the mid credits because it's not like an MCU style stinger. It's like really important story stuff. I hope one guy got up and left and after this thing ended. I'm like, that guy's stupid. He missed out on it really cool. I saw three people leave right when the credits started for Thunderbolts.

Ding. Yeah. Asterisk. I can't wait I can't wait to talk about I'm not going to talk about the asterisk but yeah but it means something

we finally get to find out what the hell that's on there for right that's what you're saying yes we do yes all right but people left before the credit when the credits started like what are you thinking? What are you thinking is this your first Marvel movie I guess if it was a Sony one you might it's a 50-50 chance

you're not going to get some extra shit but if it's an emcee a movie you stick around you stick around and all i gotta say is in a word claire not saying anything ryan coogler could direct anything and i'll watch him that's how good this was you guys need to see sinners it's fantastic now don't take the kids there's some suggestive sexually a business no nudity really though but a lot of like you know kind of raw talk stuff and then there's uh you know it's violent it's got some some stuff it's not the gorious movie we've ever seen not even close for vampire movies but it's awesome

I don't know what else to say about it musically you're in for a treat there's so much it's so cool anyway sinners rad Kim and I saw it yesterday and freaking loved it uh all right Brian it is almost time for us

to do a game I mean it is time it is literally time are you yeah I'm still getting that air it's still saying no password's incorrect and I'm double checking it all it's all viewed here did you use one password link that alcabob sent you I did and it's

that's still getting thrown me to air Unless I maybe I have the wrong login link. Is that possible? No, because, no, it shouldn't be because I'm using a, let's see. There's a long one. Here, I'll show what I'm using. Okay. And you tell me if it matches with what you've got.

I'll see. I don't know if it'll matter because I don't know the login link that you use. Look at that insane thing. Look at that beast. Oh, I know. Yeah. Oh, geez. It's like a, it's like a Google.

That's like an Amazon link. A lot. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know if I'm supposed to have that. That's what I usually use. but I don't know. Take out everything but the first

up to the first dot com. The first slash, yeah, the dot com. All right, let's give it a thought. And just see if. That gives me a resource you're looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

I do not know what I'm doing wrong, Al-Kabab. Let's see if, it's really weird because the whole, and you know what could do. let me let me just try a different browser I don't know definitely try a different browser let me try that

this is funny you know people like it when we do text support on the podcast they're they love it yes they're into it I think we just last done away too oh did it kick him out maybe something's up

something might be up um hmm maybe maybe you got hacked while we were gone alco bob um all right so let's do oh it was going to say

Well, let me get a pen handy just in case. Well, you'll type your answer and DM me. Oh, yeah, duh. We already talked about that. You don't need a pen. Yeah, I don't need it. You know, it's funny. When you have a keyboard connected in a way to send you stuff and I still look for a pen,

I don't know what that says about me. I think it makes me stupid. You know, I'll have to manually keep score, so I have a pen. That's true. Yeah, you'll have a pen. We'll all have a pen, pineapple pen, pen, pen, pen, pen, pen, pen. All right, let's get done away in here so we can get this going. Bobby hang in there

I know he's in the chat so he's not going anywhere All right These first shows after a trip or a crapshoot Yeah you never know it's going to work or not I feel like last year I had some other weird issues All right here we go Brian Donaway joining us

Oh man it's been a while dude how you doing Oh it has been a while oh hi Scott and Brian It seems like it's been forever for me Because you guys went to Vegas without me. Thanks a lot. Yeah. We tried. I tried. And I know you tried too to make it work. But looking forward to hopefully seeing you in Salt Lake City. Yeah. I will tell you this. It will be a lot easier sell on my side. I haven't had a day

off in two and a half months. Yesterday was the first day I've had a day off. Jeez. From, yeah. And oh my God. I was like, I didn't realize how depressed I'd become. It'll happen. Any days off. And I was. I was like, I woke up today and I was like, what is this mental energy and good feeling that I have? That's why, that's why for me, had I gotten sick, I think I'd be feeling very different. But I came home with so much like motivation and excitement and like, I don't know, just really washed my cheese this time, this trip.

Washing my cheese. Did you watch the red stuff off there, the little, you know, the little red. Oh, yeah. I don't like that. No. Is that wax? You're supposed to eat that? I don't eat the wax.

No. I know people who do eat the wax, but they're wrong to do that. They should not. It tastes the same. It's like eating the plastic covering a craft single. You take that off. You guys take that off? I feel like I've had a sandwich where by accident the cheese slice included the wrapping and I bit into it. I feel like that's a memory I have of when I was much younger or something. Sure. Sure. My mom screwed up. All right.

Ted Lee. Another way just gave you. See if that one, that's a much shorter link. Try that one. Let's try that. Is that what you use, Donaway? That's the one I use. I still get the same air. Same air. Yeah. Something's weird.

All right, then. We're going to do, we're going to kind of manually do this. We'll DM our answers to Brian. We'll make it work because that's just how we do things. Brian, why don't you explain how this works? He looks like he's lightened, so he'll still do his the same way. Oh, okay. Welcome to the morning.

Halfass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving the two of you the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct. and three, like eating the wax wrapping around your cheese, is incorrect. Depending on how confident you feel with the category, you can provide one, two, or three guesses. But if any of those guesses are wrong, you get zero points for the round. One right gets you a point, two right gets you three points, and three right gets you five points. That's a lot of points. It has a lot of points.

The player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant. Contestants, what? Yeah, I pulled a couple from the tad pool that aren't able to be here live. Scott, you're playing for Janine in New York City. Oh, New York, City. Brian, you're playing for Alex in Phoenix, Arizona. Oh, Phoenix, favorite of mine. Yes, yes.

I used to live near. I used to live that way. Yes. Yes, yes. All right. Let's get to the game. You can still see, oh, are you able to see the choices, Scott? Let's see.

I don't know. are you able to see those let's see no i can see nothing i can see the choices i have to log in to see them i'm going to do something here because i think i can copy and paste them into a dm without giving away smart you may do mine me just you just let me just yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah because i ain't got no answers over on this side oh yeah you guys should put them in the oh you don't have oh right i see what you're saying yeah you think i have answers so you could grab you could do screen grab into the unit there. There you go.

Thanks, thanks, thanks, Scott. Oh, excellent. Okay. Which of these are subatomic particles? Your choices are muon, boson, positron, melaton, melaton, helicon, and bariton. Oh my gosh, dude.

So these are subatomic particles. Subatomic particles. I feel bad. I should know all of these. Yeah, you should. um i'm just kidding you shouldn't you don't have to know them um let's see here what have we got barry baritron what berry bariton bariton bariton um all right i'm gonna see if i can copy yeah make this

easy for brian by copying okay here we go so now i'll send you a dm with my answers this is all going good okay just according to plan this is exactly what i want exactly okay one of these looks like i don't have to keep for both of you i just have to keep score for one of you. That's right. Let's see. I'm going to try. That one looks like... Burt is not an answer. No, that was just to bring your...

I know, I'm kidding. Everybody knows Fertt is a plastic that you put around your sheets. I don't think this is... Or wax, excuse me. I'm going with these two. I don't know. I'm locked in. Okay. All right. Sounds good. You guys both correctly jumped on boson. Yeah, the boson particle. Absolutely.

Points for both of you. for that, maybe. Brian, you went with Positron. I've been watching a lot of TNG this week. They talked a lot about Positron. Positronic brain. Data has a Positronic brain. Well, what if they just created that for Star Trek?

It's very possible. Yes. But in this case, they did. Yeah, Positron is a subatomic particle. So is Moulon, those ones on the right, Melotron, Helicon, and Bariton. All three of those are musical instruments. The Melotron being the most famous.

It's almost like a Moog synthesizer. Oh, well, that, yeah, now I'm interested. What are you talking about? A Moog synthet. What are you talking? You know what that is. You ever heard of the Moog? The Moog's amazing.

What's that documentary? Brian, you have you, you, how do you spell Moog? Moog. Moog. M-O-O-S-M-O-S-M-O-S-M-O-M-O, so it's Moog. It's Moog invented it. Yeah. Or maybe it's Bob Moog invented it, and it's the Moog.

synthesizer there's it's um three four ways in the same sentence well i think that's the point is he he he's named something maybe and then the other thing's called it's spelled the same way but instead of his name i think is bob mogue but it's the moog synthesizer because people started calling it moog in that stuck although might be moog in both places but anyway i don't remember the name of the documentary you told me to watch once but it was really good it was just called moog or moog is it Is it Moog is in blue? What? I'm just kidding.

I was trying to watch your brains. Gerbils get us to speed. Did Brian get points on that one? Did Dunaway get points? Brian did get points. He got three points for that. Bastard. All right.

I use my positronic brain. Oh, because it won't. Oh, interesting. It won't advance. Right. So let's see what happens. Yeah. All right.

Let's go to question number two. Did it update for you? It did. Okay, cool. All right. Which of these have computer languages named for them? Okay. Which of these have computer languages named for them?

Monty Python, the Yosemite National Park, Pizza, René Descartes, Anna Ang, by They Might Be Giants, or The Oracle of Delphi. Holy shit. Can you put those in there in a screen? Yeah, I'm putting it in now. Either one of them is fine. There you go. There you go. Oh, cool.

That's what I've seen. Oh, my gosh. I know that one. And I typed, they might be giants, even though it should be, they might be giants. That may be giant. I should know all of these. They'd be giants. Okay.

How about? I don't know these. That's kind of what I was thinking. Zander confirms Bob Mogue said it's pronounced Mogue, but that he's fine with people pronouncing it Mug because it caught on that way. So, yeah. Mug. You big Mug. Okay.

I'm going to just, I don't know, so I'm doing these. Okay, Scott is doing those. Okay, very good. All right, points or answers are locked. Again, you guys settled on one of the same ones, the Oracle of Delphi. Yeah, Delphi programming language. Programming language, absolutely where that came from. Brian, you went with Monty Python, Scott.

Everybody talks about it all the time. Python! That's absolutely where it came from. Yeah, Python is, money Python is what inspired the name of the Python language. René DeCart, no. Yosemite, no, and Anna-Ang, no. Leaving pizza as the other.

There is a programming language called pizza. Damn it. I should have known the Python thing. You know what? It threw me because I was like, oh, that's comedy troupe. That's dumb. That's no. And then I just wasn't thinking.

I know a little Python even. I know you do. Look at your pants every day. You see a little python. I'm just saying. What are you saying? What are you saying? All right, Brian, what do you, what points did he get?

I'm just writing these down. He got another three points. Yeah, so he's at six. Six to zero. Holy shit. I'm watching everybody lose their shit over Oracle. Yeah. Oracle is not a programming language.

No, Delphi is the program. Delphi is. Yes. Yeah, Oracle is a database and a company. Yeah. settle your tits put your python up come on man

yeah come on now all right but a little bit of Vegas still left in me I guess let's get to question number three people who voiced themselves on the Simpsons which of these people voiced themselves on the Simpsons your choices are Bob Hope Robin Williams

George Harrison Gary Gygax Michelle Obama and Ken Jennings. Do I spell, do I pronounce Guy Gax? Guy Gax. Guy Gax. Guy, Gax is right. Yeah. So no Michael Jackson. All right. Yeah, he didn't give us the easy ones. Also, Jackson, Michael Jackson's not

credited. What's that? Michael Jackson wasn't credited in the thing, which is weird. Can I, now Scott's going to, okay, there we go. I was about to capture it. And I was like, I had already selected one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, wait a minute, let me, all right. We're watching. We're looking. We're watching.

It's coming. Waiting a little longer, waiting patiently. This is how cave people did it. Okay, here we go. Wait your aerial. All right. I actually feel pretty confident about this one. So I will put...

I think those two. Okay. All right. I've got Dunaway locked in. All right, Brian, here comes my answers. I'm going to... Do you say it's your birthday? Happy birthday.

Happy birthday, Lisa. Love it. I love how Clicky Scott's keyboard is. There you go, click, click, click, click on. Okay, all right. Some Browns. Some Browns. Okay, we're locked in.

You guys both settled on George Harrison and Ken Jennings. Oh, we both did? Very good. He both did, but Scott chose an additional one. Those two are correct. So, Brian, that is an additional three points for you. Yeah, baby. I don't think Harrison was even the Sloan Beatle on that episode.

I think there may have been, I think, well, I know he's been on it before. I can't remember the same episode, but I think McCartney and Ringo are in different episodes. Yeah, different episodes, I think, but they all did one. Now, Scott, you added Bob Hope, so you chose three here. I am positive. It's possible because Bob Hope was still alive during the beginning, but I don't remember I'm doing any. I am positive on the Bob Hope, but we'll see. You should be positive on the Bob Hope because that is absolutely correct.

Yeah, Bob Hope also voiced himself on the Simpsons. Very early on. Good job, Mr. Johnson. Yeah. I'm flattering way. Yeah. So that gives you five points. Unfortunately, it's not enough to compete with Brian's nine points.

He really cleaned up on this one. Michelle Obama, there was, you know, she did appear on the Simpsons, although she was voiced by Angela Bassett. And Guy Gax appeared on Futurama. Yeah. Not on. That was a fan. By the way, fantastic episode of Futurama that he's on.

It's so good. Really? Oh, yeah. One of my favorites. He has to roll a D20 for anything he does on the show. That's awesome. That's great. Robin Williams was voiced by Dan Castellanata.

So when Robin Williams was on the show, it was really, Dan. congratulations going to Brian Dunaway and by proxy. Congratulations going to Alex Erickson in Phoenix, Arizona. You are getting a copy of Imperium, Romanum, Gold Edition. Good Lord. And 12 is better than six. There you go, 12 is better than six. Congratulations.

Scott Fletcher agrees. That's well done. It's not an uneasy name of a game to play. No. When you get a cold. you get a little bit of a cold, yeah. Imperium, robidub. They're all good, though.

Astronarch, I have played. Astronarch, rather. Yeah, that's what I was just going to say. Janine in New York City, you're getting a copy of Astronarch. Nice. That might be Arc. I'm not sure.

I loved it, though. Arc, probably. You know what, Astronarch. Kind of like Arch. No relation to Astroneer. No. Or Archinart. Not.

Archonaut. Well done, everybody involved, even though we had some issues, uh, tech issues. It all worked out in the end. I'll work with Al-Kabob and figure out what's going on on my side.

But we'll figure it out before Wednesday. We'll figure it out. Hey, Dunaway. Dunaway, today at 4 p.m. You and I are getting together for a little the old play retro.

Tell people what we're doing today. Absolutely. We're taking our drills on our Game Boy events and we're playing some drill dozers by request from Scott Jansen. He has fond memories of this thing. And now, so do I?

It's so good. It's so good. Yeah. Do you remember the, the Rumbly? Do you remember the Rumbly and the Tumbly's? I do remember the Rumbly in that cart. And thankfully, it's not required to play the ROM or else I'd be a real bummer. But the game is a late stage GBA title from the Pokemon people, of all people. Game Freak made it. And it is so underrated and so wonderful and so worth playing today. It holds the hell up. It's

fantastic. I love that game. Yeah, they squeeze that in between two Pokemon's. Yeah, they do. They're like, what else can we do? Pokemon Penball had that Rumbly Well, we're going to talk about that one a little bit As well as one that use a solar panel Oh, really? Really weird, yeah, yeah.

There's also... Actually implying the people who play video games Leave the house and go outside. They were trying to force people to do just that. You had to charge your weapons up by a little sunshine. Yeah. I love that. Oh, that's great. A little vitamin D for your D bombs or whatever. That's right.

Uh, Dunaway, I can look forward to it. It's going to be 4.30, or sorry, 4 p.m. Mountain Time today. It's already up and scheduled on the stream. So if you guys want to check that out, we'd love to have you live or check out the podcast after at frockbans.com slash play retro. Brian Dunaway, kiss our butts. Oh, I can't hang up on them for some reason. There we go. All righty.

We're going to take a break when we come back from this song break. We'll have Bobby here. We got some science to discuss and also a little promotion of something rad he's working on. That's all coming up after this. this, Brian, let's play a song. What do you got? Oh, geez. You think I'm prepared at all for this after a lot? All right, we're going to a single from a group called the Manic Standstill. This is going to be an interesting week as far as music, because there's a good mix of pop and rock.

I'm not playing a song by the group that I sent you a photo of that looks like the dude has a Lee Press-on Soul Patch. Yeah, you look at it far. I was noticing you look far enough away at it. It looks like his mouth is open and he's got pink teeth. It's so weird. It really weirded me out. So the band Extend still have members of the band Go Betty Go. The video was actually directed by Nicolette Valar of the band Go Betty Go.

This is the debut album is coming out there. It also looks offset like it's... Yeah, it's not curned, right? Yeah. It's bad kerning. His nose looks like AI now that I look at it too. It's weird. I'm so focused on the sole patch.

I missed the nose. Anyway, this is not the band you just saw on screen. This is the manic standstill. The brand new album is coming out later this year via wiretap and double helix records. Here is the song Bulletproof. Running away from the family travels. and her favorite shoes

No more than the tail and up to hitch height so sure she had nothing to lose She was 10 feet tall and pulled in crowd Went to good hands and her innocence

She was 10 feet tall Pulling pride Pulled in her She was Bowled Oh Oh Oh

Oh She was only To sing With a dancing Crees But you cut those short With five

Mines He left her For death lying and bleeding into wonder Oh, she tapped me tall, her proud With no good heads or so innocent Who can't be taken to tell? I'm pulling proud

Was she pulling for love She got to her knees, the ones that were meant for dancing and stumbled in front of the bright headlights returning to the world as a different girl one who knew their wrongs are and always said right No, they never said her right She was tempted, darling, pulling around. One study's done, there's nothing left to grow.

No one's deadly darling, pulling around, pulling around What she pulled it, oh, oh, oh, what she pulled it, bro, oh, oh, oh. That's our report for Wednesday, January 27th, 1982. Thank you for joining us. Now, if my paw hadn't invited you, you hear why, I'd just punch you right in the nose. And we're back. Tell me who that was again. Sure.

That's a band called The Manic Standstill from a brand new single. Their debut album is going to come out later this year, but that's the first single. It's called Bulletproof. Nice. Like a coffee with a little butter at it, you know? Right, exactly. All right. We're going to get old Bobby in here.

I love that kind of coffee. Yeah, it's good, right? I actually kind of like it. I don't even like coffee. Yeah. um why isn't bobby bobby did you change oh no there you are thought he changed his name

changed your name that would have been really weird are you no longer bobby are you not bobby will you not tell us all right we're going to get him in here we're going to have some fun here we go science

bob is hungry and the soup looks good it sure does and bobby frankenberger is here fresh from Vegas to talk to us about that very thing bobby welcome to science with you how are you Welcome to Science with me It's with Bobby

Yeah Bobby of course As I mentioned earlier Quite the vocal talent I didn't realize He could belt it out like that I guess never I love doing karaoke I love doing

Rolls your filament behind him by the way Oh yeah Oh yeah I rearranged my office There's the 3D printer back there Oh you did It's all flipped Sort of yeah yeah yeah

I like it looks good Well Bobbert Robert Robert Robert Robert. Bobby is what your mom called you. Hey, it's good to have you here. Any additional things you want to say about your Vegas experience before we get to our science topic? That was, oh, I have a, let me share this picture with you. I got a picture I saw that was taken of us while we were getting ready to do DTNS. And it's just a simple picture. But what I love about this picture, I just put it in our chat, if you want to share it with people. What I love about this picture is we're all getting ready for DTNS. And you, Scott and Brian, you guys are just sitting there chatting it up. You know, you got things to talk about on DTNS but you know you're relaxed and Nikki and I who are getting ready for our

science segment we are like in laser laser focus super focus putting taking notes researching I think there's a lesson there about how we do things versus how you guys do things you know I just thought it was such a funny contrast in a picture

just the show notes of DTNS live there's like you know pages of of what Dr. Nikki and Bobby are going to be talking about, and there's a page of what Scott's going to be talking about the Nintendo Switch 2. And then mine is, Brian is going to tell us about the technology of Taskville. Yeah, you did an amazing job, though, I think, even though most of that wasn't written down. You explained it all.

It was all improv and it was all, you know, having an idea of what I was going to say, but also Tom's expert leadership in saying, well, now, Brian, tell me about da-da-da-da. He is very good at that. He's very good. I don't know anyone who's better, but that was a really fun show. and I will say that the science side of it where you guys had to do your stuff you guys killed it and it did not feel like

you were lifting from notes or you know had those references it just felt like a natural back and forth it was really good so turns out we try hard and so our two science based correspondence here on the show fantastic work as usual yeah well Bobby we'll keep people guessing as to what we're from Roading here in a minute

I think some of them already know but we're going to We're going to dive right into today's topic. What did you want to talk about in science? Well, when we got on, from speaking of Vegas, on the way back from Vegas, starting as everybody was leaving, there was starting to be a little bit of talk about, you know, people getting sick and testing for COVID. And you guys mentioned it earlier about how I think there was like at least 10, maybe a dozen people who've tested positive for COVID since. And then there started to be a lot of conversation about taking. making at home tests and just a lot of talk about COVID and everything. And I was trying to chime in there and say what I know.

And I know Dr. Tolbert was in there. And it made me realize it's been a long time since we've talked about COVID. A lot of people may have forgotten about things. And there's been changes about how we think about COVID, how the CDC thinks about COVID, how COVID testing is thought about and done. And there's been things that we've learned about not just COVID, but the world as a result of research that was done on COVID, and I thought, wouldn't it be a good time topical, at least in our community, topical, to have a quick update on COVID stuff, you know?

Right. So that's what I thought. I think that's a good idea. I mean, you know, we're here we are in 2025. We're out of what we think of is the, you know, the dire window of that thing. The worst part of the pandemic. Yeah. Yeah. But now it's like a thing every year and there's boosters, hopefully, every year. There's, you know, it's still not great. And, you know, some people are affected adversely in ways that others aren't and all that stuff. But it does feel like we're at a place where it's milder. Like I can tell you, my daughter and her friend who got it and we didn't know it until we got home, they're both doing, they're okay. This isn't like the first bout, which was gnarly, you know, like the worst thing ever. She still has issues from, from the original one,

kind of long COVID stuff. But the second, One in my second one, when I had my second one was like a piece of cake compared to like a flu or a cold or whatever. So I guess there's, I have questions about why is that and is it universally true that it's just a weaker strain but easier to catch? Like where are we in the history of that thing? Well, so I'll start by saying that a lot of what I'm going to say is going to seem to have this sheen of a lack of concern. but that's not true. COVID is still exists. It's still a thing and still something we should all work hard to avoid. But a lot of the reason that people feel like it's so mild now and is because of a couple of reasons, primarily that so many people are vaccinated now.

So this is a big win for vaccinations and you should definitely keep up with those vaccinations. That's why it can be so mild. It's because it's harder for COVID to take hold. If you do get infected, it's harder for it to stick around because you've got vaccines that help, right? So that's a big win for vaccines. So keep up with your vaccinations. Keep the boosters going. I mean, I guess they're not really calling them boosters anymore.

Just get your vaccines, right? Right. And they're recommending like every three to four months for those still, or is it? I believe that it's moved to yearly. It is moved to yearly. Okay, cool. Yeah, I had mine, I got mine six weeks before, or maybe it was eight weeks, six weeks or eight weeks before TMS Vegas. And that's probably what kept me from actually getting COVID was having that booster.

Yeah, and Dr. Tolbert's in the chat saying, confirming that, yes, it's annual for the COVID boosters. And the three to four months number that you might be thinking about is that's what you hear thrown around for if you get COVID, like what kind of like generalized immunity you might have as a result of post-infection immunity. That's exactly what it is. Yeah. You definitely don't rely on that because that immunity is not as good as vaccine immunity. We've talked. We've been through this. I remember that after I postponed Deadpool Wolverine four times last year because I'd COVID.

Which is not a thing Brian would do. of his own volition, like putting off Wolverine and Deadpool is like, I don't know, that's like putting off food. Yeah, right. How was Brian expected to not see that MCU movie? Yeah, so, but is it, how are we on the front of like vaccine availability on that yearly basis? I don't, I don't hear it being, I've not heard it.

My wife's a pharmacist, so she does COVID vaccines all the time, and I used to to hear all the time when they were on shortages. And I don't hear that anymore. So I'm assuming that it's fine. Dr. Tolbert in the chat could probably confirm because they'll have some in their offices and everything. So I'm not hearing anything about shortages from the people and from the news, people that I know and from the news.

So I think it's fine. Just go get your vaccines. You can get them just about everywhere that you can get vaccines nowadays. There are a couple of reasons. Like, COVID is still when you, if you do contract it, COVID, is still worse than the flu in many ways. It's generally considered to be more dangerous. There's more chance of complication, more severe illness, and risk of hospitalization and death.

So COVID's still not something to sneeze at. Pardon my pun, but yeah, there's some differences, right? Like the symptoms for COVID, usually they'll pop up somewhere around two to five days. Or you'll get symptoms two to five days, up to 14 days after infection, right? So you're not going to get the symptoms right away. Whereas with the flu, it'll usually pop up about a day after your infection. So there's all these little differences, but it's still considered to be a riskier health-wise. infection in the short term and the long term right yeah my both my daughter my

younger Carter my middle kid youngest daughter I guess she has a thing with what is it it's a heart palpitation thing brought on by any kind of stimulant didn't happen before COVID her doctor says yeah it looks like this is probably as a result of that so it's a thing that's treatable and watchable or whatever and Taylor just got diagnosed with um shit i forgot a potts which is her doctor is saying possibly tied to that as well like it's just a change in some of the way your organs work and that's shit's scary man as far as i know neither of my it is it is yeah so so what i wanted to talk about is is going to have sort of like two parallel seemingly contradictory messages one is going to be that the cdc generally just

treats this like a respiratory infection right now in terms of their guidelines. That's going to sound like not a big deal. The other parallel seemingly contradictory line that I'm going to walk here is that it is not something you should just dismiss because there's a, A, there's still plenty we don't know about COVID. We're always learning. And B, there's a lot of these long-term and serious health effects that can, that we know have increased risk when you have COVID.

So blood clots are one thing that we definitely know you have a higher risk for when you get COVID. And that can lead to pulmonary embolisms that can lead to heart failure, all sorts of things, right? Bad things. Brain stuff. And speaking of brain stuff, that's another thing that COVID does that other respiratory infections don't do is it impacts the brain in a way that we haven't seen before it inflammation in the brain which can lead to which is suspected to be what causes all of these um neurological symptoms that we've seen from covid like um the brain fog and memory loss confusion you know and and smell and taste loss

that everybody talks about that's suspected that it's because of these effects of inflammation on the brain that that are still not well understood and And in really severe cases, people can have long COVID and long COVID for really, really long time, can lead to chronic fatigue syndrome, which is, or myelagic encephalomyelitis, I think is how you say it. Good Lord. That's a big one. You have to say it really, really slowly. The stone doubt. The people who have been suffering from that, like, holy cow, it does not look fun being, being.

bedridden for I've seen some people who've been years since that they are in the bed now and they just are just it's COVID it was in it caused or or seemed to be the onset was because of COVID and we don't understand

why yet hopefully we will but these are these are the things that could happen so yes definitely take precautions and all that kind of stuff when it comes to COVID yeah because they're still effective obviously Well, if you look at the data, don't listen to your neighbor or do your own research because sometimes people will send you in the wrong direction.

I still have a neighbor who thinks it's both a hoax and created in the Wuhan lab in China, which is weird because if they made it and it's a thing that you want to be mad at them for making and releasing into the world, then I don't know why you think it's a hoax. But anyway, that's a conversation for me and him, probably never again because I don't like talking to him about it. But the point is, yeah, get out there and do that because, you know, most of our years in Vegas, even the ones that we did right after all this and we, you know, there was still the looming threat of it all. Yeah. Pretty rare that we've had not, I don't know if I want to call this an outbreak, but it's, maybe it is, but it seems like it's been pretty rare that we've had this problem. I remember one year, the first year back, Ducey got it.

And he was like yelling next to me, like during board games and stuff. not at me but next to me and uh i never got it from from that exposure so it just seemed like okay good these are it's just less and less and people are you know it's going to be small or whatever and then this year everybody decided to get something just freaking out of control it just happens it just happens but that leads me everybody was talking about testing and staying home from work and that's another thing that is that i think is worth reminding either reminding or updating people on the information because it used to be, you know, if you got COVID, you needed to quarantine at home, you need to do all this testing and spend, you know, a week home or three to five

days home from work and all that. And all of those guidelines that businesses are generally come from the Centers for Disease Control, CDC. And CDC's guidelines, a little while ago, I think a year, 18 months ago, maybe more, they updated their guidelines to treat COVID like to follow the same guidelines as any other respiratory infections. So they also tell you to get vaccinated. But the idea about going to work is you've got

two criteria for going back to work after you have COVID, which is first your symptoms need to be improving. They don't need to be gone. They just need to be improving. And you need to have had no fever for at least 24 hours without fever reducing medicines like ibuprofen

or whatever, acetaminopin or any other fever. reducing medicines. If you're fever-free for 24 hours without medication and your symptoms are improving, CDC says, go ahead. You can go back to work. Just, you know, be cautious. Don't, you know, share drinks and screaming each other's faces and everything and or sneeze

on your cubicle next to you. You'll be fine. Yeah. That feels like in some ways I see, I can, I get why that's, uh, why they would make that change, given the overall heft of everything. But given that there's these fringe things that happen to individuals, there was probably some, you know. Well, it's all risk, we're risk reward, right?

Like, we can't shut everything down every time there's an outbreak. It's just not, it's just not feasible. It's just doesn't, we just can't. And we're way better at treating COVID now. Doctors and all, they understand. the disease better and they understand how to treat it. Early on, we didn't. There were no

vaccines. We didn't know what this did to you and people were dying all the time. We didn't even know how it was contracted at that point. We were still wiping down every surface. Really early on, yeah, we were just we were still spraying our cardboard boxes, right? Yeah. Right. Yeah, so

now that we understand it a lot better, it's a lot easier to deal with. Now, again, that's not minimizing the the cases where people have severe illness or have have really gnarly long-term effects. But we can't shut everything down for that. We just need to take caution, right? But testing, a lot of people were taking tests in the chat and talking about testing. And some people were testing without symptoms, with symptoms, how many times are they taking the test and all that.

So what kind of testing should we be doing? Well, there's two types of tests. Most people are talking about, when they're talking about testing, they're talking about the at-home tests, which are antigen tests. There's also another type of test that typically health care providers give called a nucleic acid amplification test. You're not going to be doing those at home. So don't worry about that. We're going to talk about the antigen tests. Those are the ones you take a swab and stick it in the thing and you wait for a line to show up.

Right. Yeah. Everyone's favorite thing They do with their nose It's the worst Right Worse Makes you want to die

You're just like Oh my gosh How many swabs 10 Oh shit I know I know I've been doing it for the last four days It's the most uncomfortable feeling Like

Well and not only that You are already sick And your nose is already kind of raw And you already got all the other symptoms So you're up in there Cranking on what's already hurt That's just awful Yeah

Yeah it's not fun But in general the antigen tests are pretty reliable when it comes to positive tests. The way they work is they are looking for pieces of the virus and then without going into detail

about the chemistry of how it works but what's happening is they're looking for pieces of the virus and then they are making getting a signal from that and then making copies of that signal. The chemicals are making copies of that signal and sort of like

replicating it over and over and over again so that there's a bunch of it in the sample so that's easier to pick up. Right. So it's just making a bunch of copies, not of the virus, but of pieces of the chemical that detects it and all that kind of stuff. Right. So that's why they're pretty good if there is COVID in there. If you get a positive result, it's almost certainly because you do have either active COVID or recently had COVID. Now, what if I, what if I held it in my urine stream? Is that the wrong thing to do to get the proper test results you're using a pregnancy test oh shit oh my gosh you guys I'm pregnant but they got five stripes that way sorry continue it was dumb um the uh negative tests are a different thing right so here's something to know about negative tests there I looked up a

couple of papers on this this morning to to make sure that I was up as up to date as I could be It looks like around 20% of negative tests, around 20% of the tests have incorrect results, all right? So, false negatives. So that means it's showing that you have a negative result, but that's not true. You actually are positive. Is that higher than we should expect? That seems high to me, 20%. um that's i i don't know how common that is with other tests because the

this is kind of the only at home virus test that a lot of us are familiar with i know now there's like the combo covid flu tests you can get at home but uh but these are the only ones that i'm familiar with i don't know what the the test rate is or the the false negative rate is for other kinds of tests so how about false but there's always a false negative chance. Is there a percentage of false positives as well? Yeah, it's much smaller, though. Okay. So it's, it's, it's much smaller. Okay. The, but because there's a 20% chance that, and this is, so here's the important part. This is, there's a 20% chance of a false negative after symptoms have developed. So you have symptoms of COVID. You've taken a test. It says it's negative. There's a, there's a 20% chance that that it's not negative. So that, that's, that's That's why all the experts say you should not rely on one negative test. You should always take two, a second one if you get negative, but you should not take it right away.

You should wait two days for another negative. You can't really be sure because is it because the test failed or is it because you don't have enough viral load in your system for it to detect? You can't really be sure. And you may never have enough viral load to show even though you go through a course of it, right? Like if you just... That's also possible. But your chances of a false negative twice in a row are way smaller.

Way, way, way, way smaller. Okay. So that's why, especially if you wait 48 hours before you take the second test. Okay. Okay. You wait the 48 hours to be sure. I could have saved a lot of tests. I would have done that.

How many do you go through already, Brian? I've done four. Four? Not bad. Pretty good. You're getting good at these tests. We got a box of six from the CDC the day before they closed down, sending out the free ones. So still have two left I can use in that box. Nice. Nice.

Yeah, that makes sense. That sounds like you. Sorry, go ahead. Those false positive rates are nowhere near as big with the nucleic acid amplification tests. So if you want to go to like a, pharmacy that does them. I'm saying NAAT, like the nucleate whatever, but those are the

PCR test. That's, I just, those that's the name you probably have heard. Yeah, PCRs. If you go to your doctor's office or a pharmacy or something like that or some other place that's doing PCR tests, those are way more reliable in general. But yeah, so

don't you feel like Brian, after you've done that many, you're just like, I remember when COVID was a big thing and we were doing them, I have the kids, I have myself, got stuff, and I was doing all the tests. I feel like I'm like an expert now and I can. Oh, totally. You get so good at it and you're like, you want to open up a testing center and just even with this box, I never

once unfolded the instructions. It's like, all right. Here's the swab. Like, set everything up. Take the thing out. Don't eat the silica gel packet. Do not do that. You know, swab, swab, swab, swab, swab, open up the cap, dip the thing in there. Do do, do, do, do do do to do. Pull it out, squeeze the

sides. Drip, drip, drip, drip. wait 15 minutes it's it's become like tying my shoes i can do those things uh and you kind of feel like you kind of feel like a scientist of sorts bobby what's the what's the one where you spit in a tube is that is that the PCR yeah i mean if you're spitting in a tube and giving it to someone and they're sending it off to a lab or doing a test of machine yeah yeah that's the test to tell you whether or not you're a pure breadcock person great perfect because when because when COVID first happened. To a test.

Yeah. Well, we got our first test done. They were like that in a line out in front of a hospital. Really? That's it. Those were the PCR test. Okay, that is BCR. All right.

I've never done a spit test with that. I did not enjoy the spit test. It's like your body goes, oh, you want some spit? Guess what? I'm going to shut it all down. You get all nervous and dry up. It's awful. And you have to get enough to fill this freaking tube up to a certain line.

And it's also disgusting. What an effing. I hated that. Now, what my wife always tells people when they're asking about COVID testing, if they don't, if they, because I was talking about this 20% false negative rate was after symptoms developed. If you don't have symptoms at all, my wife just tells people, just don't bother testing. Like, just wait until you have symptoms. Because the chance of a false negative with no symptoms is as much as 50%. You're just like flipping a coin at that point.

And then you had a false sense of security and you go out to a mall and hang out and you may have had it, but you think you don't have it too early, right? It's the idea. Yeah, yeah. The CDC even says if you don't have any symptoms and you kind of think you might have been exposed, just take caution. Wear a mask, social distance, that kind of stuff. Like you don't have to quarantine. You don't have any symptoms. But just be careful.

Yeah. We just, that's basically what we've done in the house. Carter and Alicia are wearing masks. but they are we've we haven't come within six feet of each other since we got home and so far you're doing it right then you're doing it right i've had nothing all they do is veg on the couch and watch anime right that's they're all right i want to do that that sounds all right i want covid yeah it's true yeah exactly except for that one thing you're going to recommend i'm so excited oh i watch smile i was a little disappointed oh it was really good i didn't didn't like it as much

as i was hoping smile one or two Which one? One. Oh, yeah, I think two is better than one. Two is a better. Okay. Yeah, I like them both, and I think they kind of require each other. But two, I think, is vastly superior.

It's very good. Is it? Okay, I'll give two a chance. Yeah. Give it a shot. Give two a chance. But yeah, that's it with the current state of COVID. We've learned a lot about everything, about the world since COVID.

Like I said, the things about brain. Like, holy cow, we didn't know how much just common rest of, illnesses can affect the brain. Lots of research going on on that. Long COVID is still a mystery, but we're working on it. One of the coolest things that we learned or that has been developed since COVID. We know about MRI vaccines, all that kind of stuff. That's old news.

We talked a ton about that. But now places like the CDC and other places that are tracking virus spread and outbreaks use wastewater tracking now as a disease surveillance tool. and that was something that was not done before so that's really really cool because wastewater data and when we say wastewater data we're talking about sewers and looking at people's poop and pee in the sewers

checking your poop for COVID yeah yeah yeah because you shed the you start shedding the virus before you show symptoms so looking at wastewater data can give people an early give scientists

and experts public health experts an early sense of when an outbreak might be about to happen. And also, it's a way to get way more data on the population level without having to rely on getting people to test, right? Is there, is it not possible for someone to take a two-gallon bucket of raw COVID and pour it in the toilet to try to skew the results, right?

It would be difficult. That would be challenging. Okay. Seems like it would be hard. Two-gallon bucket of COVID. Ask for my name. Yeah. No, but if, you know, people would probably, there would probably be people,

up and arms about the privacy of it, but I actually think there's, would be some benefit to them knowing, you know, which, which house, like having the, the results of that be a little bit more granular, don't have to publicize it and, like, put a red light in front of their house that says, bing, you've got COVID, but at least might be able to tell people before they find out some other way that they're, they've been tracked. Yeah, and they don't have it. And if they were doing that, then that would be something, but they're just looking at the wastewater plants right yeah yeah they're at the plant level right they don't know whose house it came

from right no no no that would be cool though right like that would be cool wouldn't it like exactly like i mean i'm not asking people to dig through my poop but i'm maybe i am maybe i'm asking that it'd be neat if there was like a little laser array in in in in your toilet bowl exactly right oh that'd be great we're kind of like what they used to have at the uh star trek experience in las Vegas where you go up to the urinal you pee and then like you get a little dispel play on the mirror in front of you that says 18% vodka 4% pineapple juice

I don't remember that is that really what they did that's awesome yeah I mean it's fake obviously it's definitely fake but the urinals would all pop up with this like analyzing urine and then it would list off what goes in that's a great I didn't know they were doing that that's great they should screw with people

they should screw with people so your sugar content and indicate you will have a diabetic coma in the next half hour please report to the bridge You must play more dragon, lucky dragon machines to be secure yourself. Exactly. More of that. I think some of those things might even still work even though it's a timeshare office now.

It'd be great if you go pee while you're at the timeshare. Sure. Well, that's great. So, all right, good information keeps us up to date. Here's a couple of things I know for sure. Bobby and Mora at the live show did an incredible breakdown of how, in particular, some gambling overall, but slot machines in their role in current gambling. like fascinating stuff man the way that they work the way they've evolved the way that people

treat them it's not what you think if you haven't heard that live episode is it up did you guys post it it's up right no and we we will sometime in the near future but we um we're it's sort of going to sit in the wings a little bit for as a bonus episode so subscribe to all around science to get it when it does come out because it will eventually and you're in for a fun one because i thought that was really great did some fun audience participation stuff it's just a great Great episode. And how about that Mora? Isn't she great?

Dude, she's awesome. Yeah. I mean, when she was, you guys were doing your show, I went, oh, okay, I get it now. She's amazing.

I've heard her before on the show, but she's got stage presence, and she's just good at this. And then she shows up at karaoke and once again blows my mind with all of her. As far as I'm concerned, Brian,

you really missed out. She won karaoke. I wish I would have been in that room for a little bit. Yeah. The first song she did was Taylor Swift. and Shane, you know, bless his heart, Shane, had such a tough time. He had the song playing and there was nothing on the screen.

Like it was just no lyrics. But she nailed every single bit of it. Wow. She killed it. And she just, I don't know, she's the most well-rounded human at the event. It felt like, sorry everybody else, but she was great. Just kidding. You're all great.

Bobby, tell us now, we get something to promote a little bit here. So in that vein, what's going on? So I've got a, okay, brief, brief context and set up. So the world is the way it is, right? That's really enough said. But because of that, the economic situation of the world is in such a way. I found myself trying to think about, I'm going to need to work here soon because I don't have a, I'm a stay-at-home dad. kids are getting older. And so I thought, what do I need to do something that I'm passionate

about? I love science. I love science communication and I love podcasting. I think I'm pretty good at those things. Right. We agree. And I love editing audio and researching and science and everything. So I thought I need to really finally, once and for all, before I go get just some regular old day job, I need to make a real solid go at this podcasting thing, right? Not that I haven't taking it seriously before, but I mean like, you know, as a money-making endeavor, right? If I were to go do something else and I didn't try this, I would hate myself and always wonder if it could have been possible. So that's what I'm doing. And this is going to be a two-phase process. And this is phase one. I'll tell everybody later in the year about phase two.

But phase one is I'm starting a new podcast called Daily Science Brief. And what it really is I've been thinking about this for a while. What it's really borne out of is whenever we do all around science and Mora and I talk about science, there's lots of things we discuss that we're going to talk about, but there's so much science news happening all the time. We leave a lot of it out because we only really cover one or two

things a week. But there's tons of stuff happening all the time. Because it's briefs, we're talking like whitey-tidy science and also boxer science. You want to let breathe. And underwear you can buy briefs with science on it. Oh! I'm

man, this is really going places. What about science boxer briefs? If you want both, you know, the advantages of both. Yeah, that's a great idea. So daily science brief, it's going to be a 10-minute podcast. It's going to be coming out every day. We're launching on May 13th. But there's a sample episode out there right now that you can download.

So what I need everybody to do, Patreon, I'm not going to talk about too much yet because they're being a real jerk to me right now. You know, I tried to, has this ever happened to you guys? I tried to set up a Patreon. In the middle of setting it up, they deleted my accountant for suspicious activity. Oh, geez. Really?

It's not like you were in there doing a bunch of other stuff at the same time or anything, right? I mean, I was trying to hack their servers, but... Oh, well, there you go. You know what? This is like, I just got flagged on Steam for something dumb. There's something going on with automation. I think the world is adopting AI automation techniques, which I expected to come, and they will refine them.

themselves over time and be reliable. But I think early on, we're going to see a, speaking of false positives, it can be a lot of weird shit like this. And I think that, I think you got caught in one of those webs. The only thing I can think of is I started setting it up and then like a week or a week and a half later I finished and maybe that triggered something on their end. But I'm trying to get that worked out. Eventually that'll be, and just, but what I need everybody to do, and we've heard this

story before when you're launching a new podcast, what I need everybody to do is go out in your podcast app, search for daily. science brief and it'll pop up and go ahead and subscribe to it because when the first episode comes out on May 13th there's like I said there's a sample episode now totally fully produced it it's exactly what you can expect to get from this when it comes starts on May 13th but when May 13th happens and that first episode comes out I want I want all the podcast apps and aggregators and everything to get a sudden surge of downloads and them to think oh this is a something to pay attention to.

We need to. And then they'll start promote. You know, their automated systems will promote it, put it up there and listen, and it'll help me out a ton. And maybe by the end of this year, I will be able to keep doing it because the experiment will have been successful. Sure. I think that sounds great.

I would love to see that happen. 10 minutes, 10 minute episodes. Each one will have about four science news stories of the day and about two minutes each. So quick hits of science just to get you caught up on what's going on and and give your science, your daily science brief. I'm personally jazzed about this because I'm finding lately as I'm trying to navigate the world of sort of daily news that I want. It's usually I'm looking for creative stuff, gaming stuff, trying to avoid the political stuff where I can, this sort of thing. If there's one thing that I like the most, it's daily podcasts that give me just the

succinct thing of the day. I really like that stuff. So, like, Daily Tech Headlines is great that way. Brian's new show. Daily music headlines is a lot like that. Here's another one. Like, these are fantastic additions to what I want to fill my head with, you know, instead of the crap I usually do.

So, so this is great. Thanks to everybody who's helping me set it up. Scott did the art for me. It was really simple, great and simple art. And Tanner actually did the outro music for me. I'm using some music from him. And, um, so. Yeah, love to help do it.

In fact, which one do you end up going with? Was it the bluer or the darker blue? Which one did you do? The darker blue one, but you, you know, you sent me everything I need to just change those colors whenever I feel like it. I'm just going to show the chat here and we get a little sandball here. Oh, very cool. Yeah, nice little thing. Look, I like to think that little dude down there is a little bobby pointing to the sky.

There is. There's the science. There's the science. It's up there in the sky. Look up. Point the dish that way. Well, Bobby, always a pleasure. Tell people where, anything else you want to say about where to go, what to do, any of that stuff.

No, I really just everybody, everybody focused on daily science brief right now. That's what I'm really pushing. You'll hear me talk about that a lot lately for a while. And yeah, that's it. Fantastic stuff. Sorry you lost your belt to my wife this year, but there's always next time. Bye now. but the video of him walking into the

the room with that was hilarious oh that was great yeah yeah and then Kim holding it over her head and running around with it that is so not a Kim thing she never does shit like that it's so funny she let loose and she wasn't drinking so I don't know can't explain it drunk on life drunk on Vegas drunk on drunk on winning that's right there it is okay couple quick things I mentioned earlier I'll say it again

I just want to make sure people are aware of this if you came to the event but missed your swag pickup we will do our best to get them shipped to you watch for contact info on that many of you already have your info but if I don't I'll be reaching out to you. If you order just the swag bag and any other store items that you may have grabbed with it, those are shipping ASAP

you should be getting confirmations in your email soon and if you missed out entirely I like I said we will have a count of what's left soon so you can still pick one up hopefully soon. Reminder today play retro at 4 p.m. Monday show normally today at one but we're moving it today because Carter is still COVID-y enough enough of the vid you know

want to give her another day a little rona still a little rona a little bit of rona showing she would she'd feel more comfortable with it just so she's not in here breathing on me and stuff which I'm totally fine with as well so we're going to do that tomorrow barring any other weirdness

Brian you got anything today going on you want to mention before we go no it's going to be a day of kind of taking it easy now that I'm back from Vegas it's time to get back to work on the red on air Oh, yeah. Right.

So I've got some really good ideas for what I want to do since the red outer box is not working. We're going to do a black outer box with a red insert, but still need to have something with the black to keep the light from coming through the front. Nice. There'll be some work still happening on this. Very nice. Oh, I almost forgot. Before, for anyone who may have heard it or was at the event, you're wanting more details on what's going on with me and Jerry Tolbert's medical. show that's all coming soon we'll have info soon he's in the chat today it's just reminded me

because i saw his name um we're very early stages but we're going to get there pretty quick and when that happens probably have them on the show talk about it a little bit uh let people know what they're in for that sort of thing so watch for that it's all medicine science today man i love that uh that's such a great idea for a show because we do that so much with uh with jerry anyway it's going to be good to listen to i can't wait to hear it yeah it's going to be great very excited uh that going to do it for today's show. Frogpants.com slash TMS will get you links to everything you might need, except for

this song, Brian's about to tell you, and then that will be there and available for you to click. Jeff Collins wrote in, My Garage Bay in Discord. Excuse me. I'm out of coffee. I'm out of the soothing hot liquid I was drinking earlier.

Another year and time to ask the cover master to dig deep into the hard drive and find a song he has not played for a while. I'm typing this in November 6. 24 so not sure how things will leave you in May but happy Cinco de Mayo thank you for the great shows Scott I am turning 48 can I get a Mr. Miyagi as well oh my gosh uh yes so let's see I have both birthday things handy yeah happy boss day there you go happy birthday cool very good all right so seeing as it's uh sorry about that seeing as it's Cinco to Mayo

um and because this song is on my mind we're going to hear it. This is a Spanish band, Mexican band that dresses up like luchadors and plays surf rock. They've been touring now for a long time with Nick Lowe. I've seen them four

or five times as Nick Lowe's backing band. And midway through the show, Nick will leave the stage and these guys will play a bunch of covers while they wait for Nick Lowe to come back. One of the ones that

that they do with Nick is a version of a song that was originally by Nick Lowe, but is way more popularly by Elvis Costello. And you would have heard me singing it last week. It is, what's so funny about peace, love, and understanding? This is Lo Strait Jackets covering the Nick Lowe version from a single of the same name in 2017. You know, I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to

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