The Morning Stream - TMS 2819: Savage Baggage Masters

Episode Date: May 8, 2025

Self contained underwater breeding apparatus. Shit! Utah is the best! Kim: Top Wife. Picture A Raccoon Holding A Meth Pipe. Play-ah stupid-ah game. Win-ah stupid-ah prize.. The Captain is dead but Tenille is my moms age. Bike Donkey Lovechild. COVID. Get it, Got it. Good. Hosed in Butter. Fozzie Bear Sperm Jokes. A specific 80s cheese. The Worst Moment in Star Wars. Oreo Double-Stuf Weekend. Higher Yoda, Lower Miss Piggy. Boiling Water with Wendi and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Picture a raccoon holding a meth pipe. Play a stupid a game. Win a stupid a prize. The captain is dead, but Toneel is my mom's age. Bite donkey love child. COVID, get it, got it. Good. Hosed in butter. Fossey Bear, sperm jokes.

A specific 80s cheese. The worst moment in Star Wars. Oreo double stuff weekend. Higher Yoda. Lower and Miss Piggy. Boiling water with Wendy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. A dragon cake that breathes safe, mysterious smoke. Jello that actually glows in the dark. Food that looks like hungry dinosaurs. Introducing the amazing special effects cookbook. Why won't you kids take a bath? Because I might go down the hole.

The morning stream. Maybe I can help you. I am Boba Fett. Hello everyone. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for May 8th, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Ibit. well good morning and happy Friday Eve yeah man it's gonna be good first weekend where it's just a regular weekend since Vegas you know I'm so looking forward to it it you know it's a it's a temporary respite because the following weekend I'm traveling again but it's gonna be nice to have this little this little Oreo double stuff weekend where I don't have I don't have a trip I don't have to entertain or or or make sure people get to the right place on

time and everybody's having fun and all that it's nice yeah it is nice i'm glad you're getting it too given how sick you've been but uh you're sounding great today we're talking pre-show brian brian says 90 i think you sound 95 i'm just gonna put it out there well thank you yeah i sound 95 i mean if it weren't for the fatigue i'd say i'm at 95 or even 100 but the fatigue is still hanging on it's like uh i get big winded just uh getting out of bed yeah i feel like i need to lay down Sure. I've just gotten up. I need to lay down. Exactly. That was a workout. Let me lay down to recuperate. Well, that's fantastic. Glad to see you all here. Let's end this regular broadcasting week with some style by giving you a Thursday show. Wendy'll be here later. We got, you know, windy stuff. So that'll be good.

Yeah. And also we got some more corrections, not corrections, but some more concord things. Yeah. Boy, this sure sparked a healthy debate about how city names are pronounced. It's a very unusual thing because I didn't, well, you know, sometimes we'll talk about stuff and we expect the feedback. I didn't think the Concord thing would go past the day we talked about it. Like, why is it a big deal with these people? But apparently it is. Anyway, we got this from Scuba Geek, who says, hello, Baltimore and Sydney. Listening to the episode 2818 in the pronunciation of Concord or Concord, I lived in Charlotte for 13 years before I moved,

and there's a city that's even stranger in rules of pronunciation. Now, I would say looking at that as Beaufort, because I, I think of Bo. Yeah. Anyway, versus Beaufort, South Carolina, Beaufort,

North Carolina. It says if you're visiting one in North Carolina, you say Beaufort. If you visit the one in South Carolina, do you do, how do you say the wide?

Bufurt. Oh, Buford. Okay, Buford. So Beaufort, B-E-A-U-R-T. And in one Carolina, it's Boe, and the other one,

it's B-U. Weird. So if a guy named Bo Bo, spelled B-E-A-U, is visiting South Carolina Do they call him Bue?

Yeah, Bue. Yeah. I don't like that at all. That's not cool. But yeah, this is the whole thing we're talking about. Every town, every city, every country,

whatever, they're going to have different pronunciations for this stuff. And that feels like, because that would have been like, you know, introduction of Southern Cajun French influence that EAU is, you know,

the, that pairing comes from, I assume, comes from, like, French influences and stuff. And it just feels like, like some people said, nope, I'm not going to pronounce it like that. We're going to call it Bu. Yeah. It does feel like that. I'm pretty sure you're right. I think Bo told me once that he, so he comes from French-Canadian background.

Yeah. And he thinks that his name was of French origin, he told me once, which I thought was nice. you know, is that the thing where you say, oh, I'm bringing my bow with me, meaning my boy, you know, my sweet boyfriend. I think that all came from France. That's all that stuff, right? Yeah. Yeah, Gato, G-A-T-U-X and, yeah.

Lafleur. I don't know. Bette-Rouge. Red stick, absolutely. That's right. He says, names are weird. Love the show, though, Scooby Geek. Scooby Geek, I have this to say to you, which is nothing to do with your message.

I would love if you wanted to pop in the show, some time and just talk briefly about scuba because i don't understand it yeah that'd be fun right i mean i's that just contained under the breathing breathing apparatus there uh uh scott oh my gosh brian i didn't know that scuba was an acronym no i thought it was just a i don't know what i thought it was i mean now that you say it it makes sense but i had no idea that it was short it was short for something. Yeah, yeah. Shit. It's an acronym. Yeah, self-contained underwater breathing breathing apparatus. I keep saying breeding apparatus. That's a whole different thing. Yeah, I don't know what that looks like. That's cool. I didn't know that. I had no idea. How do I not know

that? I've even done scuba classes. I've done, I did the whole training thing. Did you miss, did you miss day one? I didn't look at the syllabus, I guess, or whatever the hell they handed out. I don't know what happened there. I feel dumb. That's dumb. I should have known. I'm a laser. Did you know laser was an acronym? Stop. Is that really an acronym? Yeah, light amplification by stimulation of electron radiation.

Stimulation of emission of radiation. I love lasers. How did I not know that? What else are you guys hiding? What other words? I didn't know laser was an acronym. How do I not know that? Oh, yeah. Sonar.

Yep. Sonar, I knew. I knew that one. And I knew radar. Radar. And there's another one like that. LiDAR. I can't think of anymore. Yeah, LiDAR. That's right. FBI. Yes, although that's an initialism. Yeah, that's right. That's right. So if I did, ICE, there you go. We hate those guys right now. But yeah, ice. Ice. Yeah. International Chode Emperor, if that stands for. Anyway, well, there you have it. I've learned a little something today that I didn't expect to learn. So thanks, everybody for that. There you go. Well, good. We also have a nice workaround from a listener named Nubing. I like that name, Nubing. That's a good name. Yeah, like Captain Nubing instead of Stubing.

That's my first day on the ship, gopher. Be gentle with me. Why does he affect that boy? Why is he like, yeah. He does, right? It's, you know, Gavin the Cloud's, like, oh, Doc, why do you have to torment me so? the ship has never been more smooth on the ocean why did he do that because in like mary tyler morn he didn't talk like that not really it was more normal please he actually did he had a little bit of a new england kind of uh yeah go for please take my daughter vicky around and keep her away from duck yeah and annoyed this annoyed the audience for the next six years of the show

oh gosh yes man she suck anyway no offense to the lady playing her you're fine it's not your fault. Sure, sure. It's the way that shit was written. Anyway, this is a perfect Spotify workaround from Captain Noobing. He just goes by Noobing, but anyway. Yeah, we're going to sign him the rank of Captain today. Yep, we're in charge of those

things now. Anybody can do anything. My understanding is that anybody can be like Defense Secretary, so why not us? Why not us, right? Sure. Sure. So anyway, here's what it says. People should be like me. Subscribe to the Patreon and get the TMS slash Spotify connection. It's perfect. No lost episodes.

You know what? He's right, because all that does is it routes the ad-free, uh, perfectly, you know, extras bonus content version of the show that's on our Patreon that doesn't have songs removed or whatever, because Patreon doesn't do this. It routes that through your Spotify player. So if you just become like a base level monthly supporter of TMS at patreon.com slash TMS, then you're in. You get that. Yeah.

Automatically, you get that. I love it. People could do that with coverville too. By the way, we were talking about the AAC chapterized version. For the last 1,200 episodes of Coverville, I've been manually adding chapters so that people can skip and go back and hear songs again or jump right to a specific song that they want to hear. And it's only recently that I learned that a Apple podcast app has taken out the ability to listen to chapters. What? Which that was like the first one was like, hey, Bob Steve Jobs, we have chapter.

in the podcast app you can jump around they push that like crazy and as far as i know you can still make them in garage band right you can yeah yeah well all right i don't understand that that doesn't make any sense in fact that's why i had it in my head and we've been having this back and forth in the discord but i had it in my head that accs were an apple invention they're not or aACC sorry i thought those were their invention it isn't their invention they just really pirate or pushed it right they really pushed it because it was same file size or only slightly larger than MP3 but had

all this extra metadata they could store and sound quality far and above the quality you could get with MP3. The compression was a lot better. But yeah, you and I both learned recently that that was not an Apple thing. That was created by the

whatever the... Oh, who is the group? It's like in the name MPEG or something like that. There's some group that invented those audio code out those audio standards. Yeah, they're the open standard thing, which may include Apple may be on like the board or something or a lot of times.

Yeah, maybe they were involved in that, yeah. But the point is like, that you've been doing it all this time. How long was it not supported? So how long do you know have you been just wasting it? I don't know. I have no idea. But it is support in other things. Downcast supports it. Overcast supports it. Pocket casts

on Apple devices supports it, but not on Android, weirdly enough. It's the same app. That's weird. It's the same app. And we've looked at screenshots and said, yeah, you're using the right, you're downloading the right file, but for whatever reason, the Android version of Pocketcast does not give you chapters. It's so weird.

We have friends of PocketCast. Maybe they'll hear this and tell us there's a reason. Yeah. They like us. They like the shows on our network. Well, all right, then. There's your workaround. Sign up to the Patreon.

Simple. says he gets chapters on his pocket cast on Android. Dr. Calhoun, if you could chime in with, who is it, is it a trickster? There's somebody in, uh, trickster, I think. Yeah, in our Discord who, uh, the TMS discussion, who is saying that they're not getting it might be a setting or maybe it's a gift enable something or I don't know. Yeah, yeah. That would make sense.

See, that would be, make way more sense to me that that app would be feature parity across the two platforms. Yeah, that's the whole point. point of, that's why a pocket cast is awesome. They kind of have this, they're one of the only ones where it's just like, we do everything, you know? And I love those guys. I will, I haven't, I haven't switched off a pocket cast since I started them, I don't

think. It's been years and years and years. I love them. They're great. Yeah. All right, we got a call, a Vegas call. Ooh, okay. We found out where the toothpaste came from.

Oh, good. Yeah. Turns out it was from a man's loins. Just kidding. That's not true. here's what we don't here's what we know about that hey scott and brian it's berry thank you so much for an awesome week i had a blast and i hate to admit it but i was the one that brought the kmc toothpaste i hang my head in shame all right that was barry barry got us the toothpaste did you then take you

back with him or what made it disappear i don't know that's a good question it just did it was we had it on the table we did our thing then you had everyone come up and then the toothpaste was gone and i don't know what happened yeah so if anyone knows where the teeth Tuesdays that's why. And if it's you, Barry, it's fine. You know what? Brush your teeth daily. You brought it. You deserve to take that giz sauce back with you. Yeah, it's yours to keep, man. You spent the money. You keep it. Barry.

Barry. We also got this. This is a, another call. This is a, uh, mergentor. I love his name. Murgentor. And it's in a related field. Sort of. It's about those sperm races. Here you go. Oh, yeah, okay. And Bert, I, uh, and this is Morgonator. And, um, I was just listening to the sperm race thing. And I was wondering about that whole sperm racing. If it's, is the setup via bracket.

And if it is a bracket system tournament, then how do they seed the sperm? Waka, Waka. All right. I love to show. Thanks. Bye. It's a terrible joke. That's a lot of work just to get to, just to get to drop the word seed as a pun.

Yeah, but using Waka Really did Hammer at home Because that is the kind of joke you would do Yeah, that's very Fossey of this guy It is Sorry, more, more From all those times that Fossey Bear did sperm jokes On the Muppet show

Yeah, when they went blue And cut it out for TV audiences That's right Hey, Kermit Waka Waka I can't do it I can't do the Fuzzy voice I can't do

The Fuzzy of the sensors Have rode in and asked You would be me Hello, stop doing those And I don't know how he See if I can do one he goes I can't do him either I can't I don't know how to do Fossey how do you do a Fossey

You do it's a light it's a higher growl register than I can do My growl yeah and then I gotta go into Waldorf mode or something like that if I start going high enough I can't do it yeah I just never really just funny because we can do Yoda We can do these other Frank Oz voices right but I can't do that one That one is that one is that one is that one is is uh he found he found like a little sweet spot that uh other people can't do nicely done frank oz director puppeteer and all around good guy all right uh do a lower miss piggy do a higher

yoda make him for nasal all right if they put you on the spot and they said disney a disney muppets you know jim henson productions they came to you and said all right you have to do one of these muppets and you have to pick the one that you think you can do the perfect voice for the entire future of the Muppets franchise depends on Brian a bit nailing this Muppet. Where do you feel the most confident if you got

asked? I don't, definitely not confident my Kermit at all. You heard it a second ago. It's it's identifiable as a Kerman impersonation, but it's not a very good one. I think with the

right amount of practice, I could get my Stadler and Waldron. I guess that was a statler, right, is the one I'm doing. Stapler. And I go, I could do the other guy. Yeah. Wait a minute. How come that happened?

I'm a little more confident in my stabler. It is a little Ralph, too, isn't it? It is a little Ralph. And I was going to say the one I'm least confident with is Ralph. I don't think I could do Ralph the dog. Or Rolf. Yeah. For me, it would be,

I'd do that. That's a pretty safe one right there. Yeah. Yeah. When the pressure's on, best thing to do is go Beaker, if you can do it. Bork, pork. Oh, yeah.

Swedish chef. Oh, is it to hurt? Just have to walk through an IKEA. The other day I made a joke that they were rounding up Muppets and deporting them if they had accents. So Pepe the Prawn for sure. Pepe the prawn, Rizzo the Rap, because he has an accent. It's an American, like, New York one. Still, you get wrapped up in that stuff.

Who is the other one? shoot oh the guy that throws fish kind of has an accent oh lou uh lou zealand yeah he i can't think anybody else but and then sam the eagle would stand by idly as these people were being carded off it's a bastard take them to guantanamo that's right gonzow doesn't have an accent gonzow's just an alien he's an alien but he doesn't have an accent he could fool him it'd be all right he'd be okay yeah how brown is there felt that's pretty much good see they This is what we have to do in these weird modern times is laugh at these things. Otherwise, we'll just be sitting here crying at these things, and no one's tuning in for that.

All right? Great, great. All right. I got to, you know, pride myself. Tina was impressed by this, but we were watching the news and they were talking about how the orange squat goblin wants to reopen Alcatraz as a facility for sending. Yeah, and actually, they want it to be a full prison again. right exactly and I said so they're going to spend

you know however many billions of dollars to make that thing livable because it's like Casa Benita it is not it is a crumpling infrastructure it need to it would need a lot of work just to make it a bad prison

and I said all that money just to what you know have a place to store 300 350 inmates and she's like is that all and then she asked A-L-E-X-A and Alexa said And 321 prisoners is how many Alcatraz can store. I love that you went.

She asked E-L-E-X-A. I know. And then you said Alexa right after. That's a freaking funny. But, but yeah, that's, wait, how many? 321. And I was like, I was, you know, you could have put me on jeopardy with those numbers, my estimation. I mean, it's a pretty small.

I've been there twice. It's pretty small. Yeah. So I think, I think it's a good. guess and also there's it's okay I know there's a lot of things that are ridiculous about a lot of things that are happening

right now that one really strikes me as weird because you could for the money that would take you could expand existing federal prisons or build new ones right you can make the horrible one that they have oh the facility that's just a bunch of warehouses

you could actually make that a little bit I mean you have to have these sorts of things. The better option is to not have them. Yeah. If you're going to be a dumbass, then these are our solutions Brian and I are giving you good ideas. If you're living conditions better in the ones that you've already got built, because

that is the stuff that they are showing and so. Or even if your goal is to make things worse for people, I still don't understand why you would take this thing that's basically a museum piece now. It's not meant to be, I think public, it's a, what do you call it? Who runs it? The National Parks, right?

I think so. I think so. I think it's national parks i don't think it's a national park park but it's run by them leave it where it is it's a historical relic it's not meant to be a thing that you make modern there's no way in hell you're doing that if you want to go make a hell prison somewhere else you're going to spend less money like just for a practical take out the evil for a minute and just look at the practical this makes no sense to me it is absolutely stupid it's because he basically his mind lives in 70s movies only one person ever got out of there clean east would clean east would make it out of there and where is he now?

Where is he now? Sorry, Stephanie. I couldn't resist. I got to inject some of those. You know, it was a really good use case, though, today. I liked it. Yeah, exactly. It's Thursday.

Give us a break, you guys. All right. Let's get to some news. We've got news to cover, and here you go. It's time for the news, and it's brought to you by. Brought to you by. the majestic return of Coverville today now that I'm back from

Vegas. We got to have a coverville. Today, celebrating the music of a legend that we lost while I was in Vegas. Mike Peters, lead vocalist of a band called The Alarm. Great post-punk band from England. Did a little

stint as the Children of the Revolution. But there's songs like The Stand and rain in the summertime. I mean, incredible, incredible songs. You're going to hear those covers later today. And also, just because when else am I going to jam something like this in?

Tony Teneal of the Captain and Teneal is turning 85. Let's listen to some covers. By the way, let's see, muskrat love, not originally by them. Oh, my gosh, that's a cover. You're kidding. That's a cover. They actually said, ooh, that's a song we'd like to cover and release. Wow.

Blown away by that, not knowledge. A couple songs written by Neil Sedaka that they covered. Get to me one more time. That's originally, but love will keep us together, I think originally by them. Anyway, that'll be today at noon.

That's that TV at Coverville. Nice. Nice. I used to, that was on repeat. The eight track tape and our camper was always on, always on. My mom. Really?

The captain, Newtidio. Oh, my mom and dad, well. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. I think it's mostly her. my dad i don't think cared but that was on all the time because it was eight track you couldn't rewind or he was just always on that song or muskrat love always on yeah is the captain dead

where's he gerald dragon died a couple years ago yeah okay uh i want to say 2021 maybe let's see but to niel is my mom's age sort of they had split up uh oh i didn't know they were actually together i thought it was a oh yeah no they were they were a husband and why for a while and then they split up 2019 he passed away Daryl Frank Dragon His real apparently is

Who names their Well whose family line is dragon That's cool I know it's great Yeah House of the Dragon His is Eloise And Carmen Dragon

Her His dad was Carmen Dragon There is a whole generation Of people hearing this Who don't know Who Captain Antonio is you're going to be

Brian is going to introduce you you're going to want to tune in to cover it up so you can discover this here's the thing as as cheese ball city I mean there is there is no band

I can think of that is more slathered in 70s cheese in early 80s cheese than the captain and Teneal she Tony Teneal had an incredible voice

and in any other era like you put her up against Florence in the machine, you put her up against all these other vocalists and you'd be like, all right, she really has the chops. She has an incredible voice control, incredible range and really soulful

like a big meaty bass in her voice. But boy, that was the talk about the you know, landing of the rung. I guess in the right time period because they made a lot of money on those songs. Yeah, they did great. They were huge hits for their era. Sure.

But Muscat love being a cover is a mind-blower to me. Yeah, it was, and I thought that it was by a band called America, you know, America, horse with no name and all that stuff. Been to the desert on the horse, I love that song.

Exactly. They had a, America did have a hit with that song before Captain Teneal, but it was originally by somebody else, and we'll talk about who did the original version of that song. Someone in the chat says,

air supply would like a word. Yeah, they're pretty slathered in the 80s cheese. They're pretty slathered in cheese as well. But there's something about the Captain and Teney. Neil. Brian's right. There's a real specific... I mean, the dude wore a captain's hat. Yeah. It wasn't a real captain of

anything. They were like, they reminded me of the erythics a little bit. And by that I mean, lady up front, singing all the time, guy in the back just doing shit. You know? Yeah. Yeah, I kind of like that. All right, but let's do this story here. You know, meta, the Zuckerberg

deal over there? Yeah. The Facebook turned meta deal? well a report finds that meta's celebrity voiced chatbots they have that's a thing you can do over there could discuss sex with minors if you ask the right questions good job Zuckerberg good job I saw an interview with him the other day he's so weird so he sits at this table and the still rocking the the gold chain turtleneck look no he had like he seemed to have cut down the curly hair a bit. He wasn't wearing the chain, but he did have on his big

thick meta glasses, the ones with all the AR stuff going on. Sure. And he sat like, I don't know how to describe this. Just like, he sat there like a mannequin the whole time. He didn't budge. His arms are like flat, 90 degree on the table, stare at the host.

Answer question, national question. Sit up like this, like total robot shit. It was weird. I didn't like it. I don't like him. He weirds me out. That's disturbing. Yeah. He gives me the willies, that guy. Anyway, this is the deal on this. AI chat bots available on the meta platforms like Facebook and Instagram can engage in sexually explicit conversations with underage teens, according to a new report on the Wall Street Journal.

That's a reputable source, you know? Yeah. The WSJ, they call it. WSJ. Sure, sure. It says here, they say, after learning about the internal concerns regarding whether the company was doing enough to protect minors, it's a lot of, it's. spent months conducting hundreds of conversations with the official meta-a-i chatbot as well as user-created chatbots available on the meta platforms. And one reported conversation to chatbot,

user, actor-slash- wrestler, or used actor-slash-wrestler John Cena's voice. And these are, by the way, I think these are approved. You can't just have, you have to. Yeah, one's built into the system. You can't add your own. Yeah, I don't think Cina is not aware. I think you sign, you sign your name away when you should do this. Anyway, describe a graphic sexual scenario. to a user identifying as a 14-year-old girl. Jeez. And that man was John Sina. And that pizza delivery guy was John Sina.

In another conversation, the chat bot imagined a police officer catching Sina with a 17-year-old fan telling him, John Sina, you're under arrest for statutory rape, unquote. Jeez. Weird. Narlie, man. spokesman at meta told or described the WSJ's testing as quote so manufactured it's not just fringe it's hypothetical well if they were able to do it they were able to do it you dipshays

exactly yes that's the point hypothetical is you know we think we could do this we're pretty sure we could do this no this is here we did this and here you go here's the chance the transcripts of the audio and whatever that sounds like legal stay out of trouble talk from them so it sounds like to me yeah The company estimated in a 30-day period sexual content accounted for just 0.02% of responses shared in Meta's AI and AI Studio with users under 18. Well, I guess you're kind of admitting that you got at least a little bit of something going on.

Exactly. Oh, it's just 0.02%. Yeah. You know what? This cake I made, Brian. It's 118. Right. You want my cake?

There's only 0.2% cat shit in it. Do you want my cake? I don't want it. I don't want it if there's, even if there's 0.02% catch-in. So lame. It says nevertheless, as they went on to say, nevertheless, we have taken additional measures to help ensure other individuals who want to spend hours manipulating our products into extreme use cases.

We'll have even more difficult time of it, says the spokesperson. Don't be so dickish over there. I don't trust meta as, oh, my wife brought me water. You're the kindest human on the planet. Thank you. Love you. I'll make it up to you. I don't know how.

Watch. Oh shit. Sorry. I got to get a battery for that. That's a whole story, Brian. My studio door has one of the code locks on it. Yeah, exactly. One of those. And the battery died. And because I locked it, I didn't know any of this before. I locked it to leave for Vegas. Oh, no. And you can't unlock it if there's no battery. Yeah. Well, there's a key. And that's how I got in. But we haven't changed the thing yet. and Kim had to go hunt for the key to bring me water so sorry babe I will make I'll clean up dog poo or something I don't know what

there you go anyway Brian meta they suck that's that's the deal there meta sucks yeah but they can't but only 2% 0.02% of their audience knows how and what they suck yep also they or what John seen is willing to do

in his virtual farm what John Cena's willing to do exactly gross All right, here's a story about an Akron woman from Akron, Ohio. Sure. Oh, I just, somebody from Ohio. Akron Beacon Journal. Oh, that is actually where this article came from, right there, the Akron Beacon Journal. Oh, you've been here, yeah, yeah?

Let's see. I have. Ohio, we had so many newspapers in Ohio, Dayton Daily News, Cincinnati Inquirer, Cleveland, Plain Dealer. Does Columbus have a thing? Columbus has a paper, right? Columbus something Democrat? Columbus. I don't know.

Maybe it was just the Columbus Democrat, something. The chlamydia? No, they wouldn't call it that, what they? That's call on a call me baby. Call me maybe? I don't know what it's. Yeah, that's that. When I was there, I did not look at a paper.

I'm not sure what they have. No, no. Most people don't these days. It's dispatch. That's it. Oh. Columbus dispatch. There you go.

I always like dispatch. It sounds action-oriented. Like, all right. Get those out. Get that out there. Dispatch it. Dispatch it. It's like police and calling in a robbery. Get into dispatch and make it, make something happen. I like that. Yep, Toledo Blade we had, Dr. Calhoun. Yep, we had them all. The Toledo Blade. I like that.

Toledo Blade, yeah. What is that? What's the, they just like the word blade? They thought it was sharp. They just like the word blade. And there was a blade, where's the Blade Citizen? There was another one. This is a Restle Snipes. He's a Blade Citizen. Kind of, yeah. North County Blade Citizen. countryside California bleed citizen yeah nice to that one too yeah yeah ohio might have the most papers per uh because there's so many cities that are like you know there's some little small

cities that each had newspapers and we had a ton like it was you know there was no shortage of reasons for me to go to ohio in the day back in the day somebody texted me or sent us a messenger an email i don't remember what but they said hey i don't know if you saw this but uh they rated Toledo or sorry they rated Ohio the least or no I guess it wasn't the least but it was way down the list on places to live oh no really yeah and he lived there and I was like oh that's too bad I liked my time in Ohio and he says he says but guess what they ranked number one and I'm like please don't tell me they ranked my state number one I don't like this and here's why I don't like this cost of living is already shooting up enjoy all those new people moving to your state

Scott gosh dang it I hate these lists I just want to be average Like, I know Colorado's been through this. You guys get this all the time. And you guys, your prices shot up, housing shot up. Like, all I hear from my aunt in Denver is like how shitty the housing market is. It's horrible. Yeah. Is this the business?

Yeah, business insider. The 10 best states, U.S. states to live in. Oh. Let me identify a motorcycle. Hold on. That's a motorcycle right there. Okay. Ooh, the AI ones are so bad.

Have you seen those lately where they're doing capture with the AI images? Because sometimes it'll, like, show us them. motorcycles. I'm like, I don't know what that is. It looks like a bike had sex with a donkey. And that's a motorcycle? Like, it's effed. Oh, I can't even pull up this article because there's like a create an account to keep reading. Oh my gosh. This is why newspapers fail. Yeah. Keep news. Yeah. Quit putting paywall. You know what? Paywalls make sense to me. If you're going to put like really good curated content behind a paywall, I get it. But like the basic like, blah, here's a headline. Don't be doing that to me. Yeah. Exactly. Come on now.

Yeah, Beehive State number one right there. As if we needed this. The lowest smoking rate, 6%, the 12th lowest rate of violent crime. Yeah. Eighth graders averaged the fourth highest score on the country on standardized math tests. They're also finding out it's not the Mormon haven. Everyone thinks it is. So they're like, oh, I don't want to be a bunch of religious, whatever.

It's not like that. But you know what? It is like that. It's as bad as you've heard. I have 15 wives myself And they're all over the place Kim's just top wife right now The rest of them

It's just crazy here It's culty, don't come Everything's except for nerdtacular But it'll be awesome Low crime rate Beautiful City All those things I just said were alive But for those who are thinking

I'm moving here from California And going $2 million That's a deal compared To my flat little thing in L.A. Stay where you're at Have some pride in the California state All right Bastard.

Louisiana, lowest ranked state, Alaska, Mississippi, New Mexico, coming up from the bottom. Yeah, it's... Alaska, really? Alaska, yeah, Mississippi, New Mexico, West Virginia. I don't see where Colorado is. We're not in the top ten and we're not on the bottom of ten, but it doesn't show me where the rest of the pack is. You want to be... You are where we want to be in terms of that kind of notoriety.

I don't want to be... Right. You're right. You want to be in the flyover part of the list. Yeah. Yeah, because all these things that are people... are discovering I have known my entire life and and I don't like I liked when you all thought we were to be avoided I liked that yeah yeah yeah oh well uh anyway this Akron woman who

I haven't talked about yet yeah sorry Akron yeah yeah we went down a path there I liked it though was fun uh Akron woman arrested on drug charges Monday after a pet raccoon was found with her meth pipe oh uh Bobby Ann folks I was gonna say her name was bobby Ann her and her raccoons man Oh, my God. Just the fact that, you know, they come up on the porch, she pets them, feeds them kibble. So adorable. I know. It's great.

I still don't understand how she doesn't know for sure that none of them are like rabbit or won't bite her and give her something nasty. She doesn't know for sure. But the fact that they're friendly and they don't attack, or if they're unfriendly, they just, they're standoffish. They don't come up to her. Meanwhile, you know, they come in my backyard. They yank the front off of my bird feeder. so that all the food dumps out onto the ground. And then they split the clear plastic squirrel baffle in half.

They broke it in half. Does I call it a squirrel baffle? Yeah. The thing that keeps the squirrels from, or no. Right. It blocks them, right? That's the thing you were telling us. The blocks them from getting to the bird feeder.

It's like a clear plastic dome. Oh, okay. And it goes down so they can't get purchase on it. They can't. Exactly. They can't get purchase. Right. All right, well, that's cool.

Anyway, so this lady, she's 55, aren't they always? It's our age. Accrauma woman arrested May 5th and charged of multiple drug offenses after a raccoon was discovered in her vehicle, holding a meth pipe in its mouth. All right, so picture a little raccoon holding a meth pipe. Go on. Adorable.

It's pretty cute. According to the Springfield Township posted on Facebook, this is a beacon journal. Do you ever go there? You did. Oh, yeah. Oh, we talked about this. That's the whole thing.

That's exactly where it all started. Oh, shit. We've come full circle. Oh, no. We can't go back there. Officers conducted initially a traffic stop at 7.15 p.m. They identified the vehicle's owner who had been an active or had an active warrant against her and a suspended driver's license. They detained the driver.

They discovered the raccoon named Chewy, like the Chewbacca. Yeah, exactly. You do a good chew. That was a pretty good chewy. That was good. I can't do it. I can kind of go. Wait, I can't do it.

Do it again. Let's hear you do it again. Yeah, that's pretty good. I can't do it. Anyway. Oh, yeah, the worst moment in all Star Wars history. Fantastic. Exactly.

Anyway, this thing's sitting in the driver's seat, had a meth pipe in its mouth. Officers further inspected the vehicle. After that discovery, you ended up finding a bulk amount of meth. I don't know what that means, a bulk amount. You know, we're never going to, we can't even do. here in the States, we're so anti-metric system that we make up shit for how much meth you have. Right, right. A kangaroo pouch-sized amount of meth.

Four dog tails to the beaver's face worth of meth. Anyway, crack cocaine also and three used glass meth pipes. So that raccoon had been at it for a while. I'm sure it was all just the raccoon used it. Yeah, I'm sure. Trying to get them off of it, officer. We've been working on it. been in rehab three times, just not

working out. Is there a video? He's one open to trash candy falls right off the wagon. I want to see this video. Oh, there is video. Oh, is there video? Yeah. Oh, my gosh, he really does have the, okay, I mean, back that up. He really does have,

come on, why can you move back? Why isn't this player any good? This player sucks ass. Come on, I'm grabbing you. I'm moving you. Hello. Well, anyway. What kind of player the okay there he is look at him

that's great it really is the working end of the yeah you know what that tells me that tells me that the raccoon actually likes it like I'm mad at this lady

because I think the raccoon has experienced some of the meth that's not good don't be doing that oh that's not good all right well Akron you're living up to your reputation oh there she is in the back seat

look at her Oh, I don't know what happened. He's an adorable little raccoon. Bandit brought, it was bandit's fault. He brought the crack. Oh, that car is a mess, though. Gross. God, it is, yeah.

Why is there a cage on the other window? I don't know. That is weird. I guess so you can drive with Chewy the raccoon. Yeah. I think you're right. Okay. Enough for that lady.

That's that business. Okay. Oh, this is cool. This is just a little bit of a faux pot, a little bit of an air, but it made me laugh. Jail enters lockdown mode after a convicted killer goes missing for 12 hours. So that's a scare. Oh, no, the killer is missing. Gosh, yeah. But then the cops realized they just forgot to bring him back from the courthouse.

Left him over there. Oh, fantastic. That's pretty great. So this is from The Independent in Jonesboro, Georgia. Do you ever go there? I don't think so, actually. Okay. We found one, you guys.

We found one, Brian has not been in. I don't know the Jonesboro Independent. No. Did the AJC a lot, went to the Atlanta Journal Constitution a lot, and to the Augusta Eagle? Eagle. No, that doesn't sound right. All right. That may be that on.

I have no idea. Probably right. But no, no Jonesboro. Well, oh, Dan Newscom in the chat says, I'm from Jonesboro. Borough, Georgia originally. Nice. Nice town down there, Dan. So you like it? You a fan? Anyway, here's the deal. They went into lockdown. Officers could not find this dude, this inmate who was convicted of murder only for cops to discover they had left the inmate at the courthouse holding the holding cell there overnight. So over about 12 hours, this Julian Brooks Deloche guy went

missing. He was convicted of murder in 1984. He was busted for this misdemeanor recently. He was granted parole in 2010 from the original conviction. So it's a little complicated as to when he committed said murder. Kind of doesn't matter, though. If you got a convicted murder, you probably don't want to lose track of it. It feels like you kind of need to know where that guy is, you know. For sure. Anyway, Clayton County Sheriff LeVon Allen told WSBTV that jail went on, sorry, that the jail went on a lockdown after officers searched for him.

But the next morning, they realized they had left him in the building. This is, this is, again, what we've three paragraphs in, and they've told us, the same story in each of those three paragraphs? It's just wonderful. I love when they do this. I hate it. Man, did you ever, like when you went to these papers, do you ever go, all right, enough of that shit?

Quit writing three headlines in a row. No? Never interacted with the editorial department at all. It was always with, or not editorial. I mean, we never did interact with an editorial, but we also didn't interact with the news bullpen. It was all just on the sales side. You ever work with any of the cartoonist for anything?

No, no. That would be awesome. That would be awesome. And I think so many of those, even back in the 90s, I think you never saw those guys actually at the newspaper. They worked from home and they submitted their stuff to a syndication company, which then sold their art to several different newspapers. Oh, that's true, I guess. Unless you have one that's like a high profile, like Pat Bagley works for the Salt Lake Tribune and he works like in there. I've been to his office, it's like a beautiful, he's been there forever.

It's like the, I think he may be the longest employed political paper cartoonist in the country. Wow. I think that, I think that, or at least he's up there somewhere with it. So I think that those are unique cases, though. Most papers, you're right, they do like a, it's more, it's more. For the editorial or the political cartoons, they'll usually, I think you're right, they usually have a guy, but I never interacted with them either. Oh, darn. All right.

I'm fascinated by that business. business because they're in such a like especially right now they have serious spotlights on them for sure yeah what a great that now would be a great time i mean the last several years great time to do that because everybody's so focused on politics here you know they're looking to see what your take is on it so yeah let's hope they don't get rounded up in the night and taken somewhere oh let's hope the fact that i even say those words and it's remotely close to the edges of truth is really an actual possibility is that right that's really effed man that's effed Uh, anyway. Back to our comedy show. Let's see. What do we got here? Oh, um, n m n mn, oh, they never figured. They did it. By the way, the next three paragraphs, still the same thing. Yes. Same thing. Yeah, pretty much. Until they say the holding cells do not have beds, only benches, toilets, and sink. So finally we got some new news on this. Finally get something new, but, uh, they figured it out. Somebody probably got fired, but, uh, don't

lose your murderer. How I lost your murderer. How I lost your murder. Like, did they leave them unsupervised or was he he was in a holding cell there so it's not like he was well they probably had guards and stuff I'm sure yeah but they probably this is more like a the guys who shut down the jail and didn't have the right information

are probably under some scrutiny now if not like on leave or something I don't know how that stuff works anyway we all make mistakes you know yeah sure I left I left a shirt in Vegas in the closet this guy left

a murderer at the courthouse. It happens. What's the difference? Just go to the last one found for both. Yeah. There you go. Did you guys find a, did you guys find a killer? Oh yeah, we've got them back here in the box. Hold on. Hold on us. Oh, yeah, there he is. There's a murderer here. What is it? Is this one or this other one? Oh, that's the one right there.

Also, just a side note to the independent.com. Maybe write more than just three things in your story. All right, moving on. You come up with new information rather than rehashing the same information for three paragraphs straight. Yes, please. I don't think it's that hard.

An American tourist in our final story. This is great or not great. What the luggage company? That is a brand, isn't it? American tourist. I like their stuff. They're good. Is that the one that had the, no, Samson is the one that had the ape jumping up and down

on in the commercials. Yep. I have a memory of O.J. Simpson for some. reason that was hertz retic car wasn't or was that was that one of the language companies oh well i know i did hurts but i can't remember now maybe i'm mixing the two up but there's something with him running through somewhere with a bunch of bags maybe it's just hurts and he's hurrying up to his car shit maybe let's see if uh i don't remember hurts commercial 1978 uh oj running through the airport got it you want to see it yeah let's see it and i'll bring up i'm going to bring up the samsonite

one because it's fun you kids at home you don't even know what we're talking about Samsonite luggage 1770s commercial Okay, I'm going to look at yours first here All right, so we got OJ Doing OJ things You know, murdering people

All right, here we go That's right, exactly Nobody does it better than her Nobody does it better Perks leads the others by far If you still need to be over there Nobody does it best for you. Hurt's a superstar.

Nobody has more of what it takes to rich you at Fairmont, Mustang, LTV, or other fine car faster. Hearts the super... Other fine car. Other fine car. Okay, so now... Hold on. I'm a TSA. This is going to take some time.

First of the color go through TSA. Sorry, hold up. Stop running. He just leaped over the turn style. We can't do that. that anymore. No more of that, yeah. All right, here we go.

Samsonite Luggage. Here's the guerrilla commercial. This was big time famous and you and I were younger. It was like their claim to fame. Let's see. Let me get this going. Okay. Samsonite.

Dear clumsy bellboys. Brutal cab drivers. Careless doormant. Ruthless porters. Savage baggage masters. Savage baggage masters. All over the world. Okay.

Those close-up shot are definitely not of a real primary. No, they 100% that's a dude in a suit when they close up to their face. Also, the noises it's making, that's totally a dude. Yeah, they, what do they call it, master? What was it? Savage baggage handlers. Savage bag masters or savage baggage handlers. That should be a band.

or something. The savage baggage mess. Yeah, I'd see them at the sphere. That's great. All right. Well, that was a fun walk-down memory lane. Yes. So, yeah, I've construed those ads to be the same thing.

I think I thought his bags got beat up and then he was happy because they weren't. But I think that's... Because they survived the... Yeah. Like they got sent to a zoo beat up and then... And then he gets him back and it's like, oh, I'm so excited. My bags are coming to run through the airport. That's amazing.

All right. Where was I? Oh, this American tourist. I'll tell this quick. He impaled himself on a spike at the Coliseum in Rome. He lived. He's okay. Well, he will be okay.

It's kind of a mess, but he'll be okay. So American tourists visited the Coliseum in Rome took a turn. For the terrifying, says the article, If a man impaled himself on a fence and was left dangling and screaming in pain while other visitors looked on in horror, according to the Italian news outlets of the time. The gruesome incident took place at 5 p.m. on Friday, 47-year-old American attempt to climb over a fence

in the Piazza del Cosis. Colossio. See? Wee, pooh. I went French, Italian, Spanish. All right, great. Presumably, to get a closer look at the historic Roman amphitheater, according to reports by Il Messagerio.

Which I think it means The Message. I don't know what that means. Messagerero. It's just a newspaper called The Messenger. Nice. The man fell and was skewered. By the sharp metal bars of the fence, he began screaming, bleeding until he became unconscious. An ambulance rushed to the scene.

Medics found the man had suffered a severe injury in his lower back and was preventing him from moving. So they did a little sedative stuff there to get him off. Took him back. Let's see. It took around 20 minutes to detach and stabilize the tourist. according to that news source, he was then taken to a local hospital in critical condition and underwent emergency Italian surgery and received 80 stitches to close the wound. It was terrible, a tourist told you newspaper, man.

Yeah, it would be terrible. Be careful, man. Don't be climbing fences and freaking Rome. What are you doing? Inspired the most recent season of Yellow Jackets. Oh, shit. I got to catch up on that show. I'm so behind.

Oh my God, I just finished. I just finished the, what is it, fourth season? Whatever, the one that just finished a couple of weeks ago. I think it's four. Just finished that during the binge watch. My gosh. I love that show, but. Goes places there.

Yeah. It goes places and the person that you think you're supposed to be rooting for turns in the person you are like rooting against big time. Yeah. Yeah. You know, they got to hurry up and finish that shit up because I got these three or four actors who are hitting it big and they're going to start demanding more money. What's your face from, uh, companion and, and heretic?

That's her name. Sophie Thatcher? Sophie Thatcher. I think that's right. Yeah. She's so good. She is so good and she is about, uh, she's about to hit it big. Man, you know, she gets this gig a few years ago and they're like, yeah, you're going

to play a young version of, uh, Juliette Lewis. It's like, oh, okay. But she freaking nails it. Yeah. Like, it nails the impersonation without a feeling like an impersonation. Yeah, it's really good. And then what's her name from Fallout? Oh, right.

Yes. Big Eyes. Yes. It plays the dead friend. Dead from the get-go, folks, like. Can't remember her name. I need to see that show she's in that brief series she did

where she's a serial killer or something. I keep hearing that was real good and I just never got around to it. I can't remember her name. Someone in the chat, will say it. Stephanie, yeah, that show. Yellow Jackets is gory and violent, I'm afraid. So I would recommend if that's

Especially as it goes on, right? Like it gets... It gets this last season It goes places I got a cutoffernell That's it. El Pernell, Ella Pernell. She's great.

What's the other thing That's video game related she's in? And she was worried about getting typecast Because she doesn't play games at all And she was worried There's a whole interview about it It's to fallout and then What's the other one?

There's another game thing Arcane Oh, Arcane, does. Yeah, that's League of Legends, exactly. Yeah. That's what it was. Well done, everybody. We've all done, we've come to, we've figured it out.

We solved the mystery. Don't jump over fences. Now, let's take a break. When we come back, my sister Wendy, we'll be here. We got an email. It's like a regular old therapy Thursday. So put on your therapy pants. It's going to be a good one.

Brian's going to play a song before we get there, though. I am. And, you know, as we wait for the white smoke to come billowing out of the chimneys at the Vatican. Let's go to this one right here. Here's a band called Starling. uh los angeles band they've got a brand new album called forgive me with a comma but nothing after the comma this is something new for me i've never i've not seen an album that ends with a comma it's really weird they're just dangling there um big thanks to uh kensie davis and uh fled magazine

for getting this one over to me big hassle media is where this one came from i love the song is called uh i can be convinced the brand new album forgive me comes out june 27th so go check that out via Sunday Drive Records, here is Starling. Whisper good night You pull me into the clubs and take me off. And I'm caught in your thoughts. You cannot speak without a turn You can't call me up and please me

up and hope that I don't come back into my name Please me please me hold off I would open And kiss me Don't know I won't be afraid I'll be afraid I'm in my hands

I'm going to your strong Yes to teach I am sure My own instincts. I can't adjust anymore. But I'm excited by the point in here. Take on me too. I strangled. You know,

Who, who Mm-hmm Sleeves me, Oh, Sleeves me Oh, You kiss me long enough I'll be afraid of all the body in my hands like you to the eye on.

I'm trying to do. Thank you. We're going to be. I must know something. Yes? Has she ever suffered a grave illness, one that may have seemed nearly fatal at the time? No, not that I know of. No, never. What the devil are you driving at?

She shows the signs of one who has looked upon the gates of hell. Down and down, around and around? And we're back. Brian, who was that one more time? That is a band from Los Angeles called Starling. Their new album comes out. June 27th and is called Forgive Me. That's the song I Can Be Convinced. Nice.

That could be too. Maybe I'll be convinced to give that band a shot. Maybe you will be. Maybe I will be. Psychosomatic. That boy needs therapy. Psychosomatic. That boy needs therapy.

Lie down on the couch. Lie down on the couch. It's time for Wendy to step in and give us what for. My sister, Wendy, on the phone. Hi, Wendy. How are you? Yeah. Hi.

What's all? How are you? So Wendy also escaped any illness, which is crazy. I don't know how she did either. Yeah. What happened after I left? It's crazy. Maybe you were the carrier.

You were the non-symomatic carrier. I just dropped it and walked out. Yeah. Because you were there long enough, I think, and especially, you know, like at the bar and everything where everybody was doing the live show, it's, it's, to have been exposed. So I don't know why you or Misha for that matter or me and Kim, I don't know how we did it. But all I know is this.

Everybody seems to be on the upswing now. Brian's feeling better, you know, the world's healing. Yeah. And then you and I will have explosive diarrhea for a month. It'll be fantastic. We'll see how that goes. It's good to have you here. It was really nice seeing you in Vegas.

Everybody really loved hanging out. And I know soon here we'll have a video. up where you talked to a bunch of people up on the wine floor. Yeah, I've got it ready. I need to put it in a little YouTube. Oh, you have it. Awesome. Okay.

I do. Yeah. KT. Data just sent it to me. And I just was watching it before we started. And, man, I move a lot when I talk. Okay. That's all. I think that is a, what is that?

That's just the thing everybody does. You know, they get on the spot. Yeah. Maybe one day we'll do a whole episode on why we justiculate. so much as humans when we talk and why is it worse when it's pressure like if it's a room full of people you're teaching why is it much more of this and I just want to know where where to get one of those sweet um uh visual sand timers those like that digital blue sand timer that's what I want oh that thing was cool I felt how it breathed it was breathing yes it pulsed yeah yeah

all right Logan if you're in the chat could you put a link to how you bought that yeah where Did you get that, Logan, holding out on us? Yeah. Have you ever seen Logan play? He's a real meditator, so he uses it for a message. Did you see him last year play the arcade games? Because he was our winner last, or not, was it last year he won? Yes, it was last year that he won.

He is the funniest arcade player you'll ever watch his face. He needs to meditate after that because my God. He's just, I've never seen anybody. Yeah. Absolutely. So who won this year? I actually don't think I know. Who was it, Brian?

Juicy. Juicy won this year. Do you see when? That's right. Beat Shelly at the very end on a game that they were both brand new to, that Tuben game. Oh, they had never, either of them had played Tubin? No, they had both played that game for the first time that day at player one.

They decided let's just, you know, go with the cleanest slate possible. Tudan's awesome. Shelly didn't know that she needed to go through all those gates. She was trying to go around them and pick up cans and things like that to throw at Ducey's tube and he was just zipping right through the gates and that gave him the speed timer and all that stuff. Yeah, walked away with the big prize this year, so there you have it. Yeah.

And COVID for him. He deserves a win. Yeah, he does. Especially after, you know, all those losses he's been taking. I don't know what that means. All right. Hey. Pickle ball.

Pickle ball losses. There you go. No, he didn't lose. No, I bet he's just, you know, it's Freud and Freud, which is made up, but it's the opposite of Freud and Freud. You're excited when someone. and has something good happen. Has that?

You should coin that. I like it. Freud and Freud. It sounds like the law firm. Yeah, the law firm of Freud and Freud. Have you been injured an accident? People are really happy about it. Come to Freud and Freud.

People are really sad for you. It's where you like a person. You want them to succeed as opposed to Scheid and Freud. Well, we all feel that way about Ducey, so we concur. All right. We're going to get to our email this week. It is a therapy Thursday. It's where we do a little therapy-free-fine folks at home.

This email came to us. from someone we will refer to as D, and their subject was coping with the loss of a dream, which was very intriguing when I first saw it. And I sent this to Wendy. She's like, yep, we're doing this. So here we go. There's Scott, Brian, and Wendy, long-time listener, first-time therapy emailer. Hopefully this lands in the right place and maybe sparks a discussion on the show.

If shared, I'd like to go by D. Well, we got you covered there. There's often talk about parenting on the show. And while I'm not asking for that to change, I'd appreciate advice on managing the pain I feel when I hear those stories. maybe others out there feel the same since i was 16 my dream was to be a father to do better than my own divorce parents to guide a child through life and experience that journey at 40 i married a woman i loved before the proposal she said if you want kids you better propose soon but after we married she changed her mind due to family rumors about her father and i mourned the loss of that dream

uh years later she changed her mind again and we tried for two years uh naturally and through three rounds of IVF with no success that second loss crushed me. I fell into depression. Our relationship turned abusive and eventually ended in divorce. I later realized I hadn't supported her through, though, sorry, through our shared grief as she needed. That regret lingers as well. Now I struggle with the sense that I lost myself or let myself and my future family down. How do I cope with losing such a lifelong dream? Stories about parenting, both joyful and painful, always hits hard, making me feel like I have missed one of life's greatest experiences. I've thought about the adoption or fostering, but my current one-bedroom

rental isn't ideal, and I feel I need to work through this grief before bringing a child into my life. Any advice on processing this kind of loss would mean a lot. Thank you to all three of you. Every show, every therapy session has made me or helped me in some way. I appreciate you more than I can say warmly, says D. All right. Yeah, this is hard to remember sometimes, but when we're on here doing this segment and it's an email about, oh yeah, my son. is doing good and then one of us will have a story well tristan did this or nick did that you forget that there are people listening potentially that that's going to just kind of burn a little bit because maybe they can't have that or won't or physically can't or was it stuff just didn't work out or

whatever so first of all i just wanted to say we try to be sensitive of those things and i apologize for anyone who's ever you know feeling a little left out when we talk about that stuff you get those messages all the time around Mother's Day and Father's Day, too, from companies who do stuff that say, hey, hit this button if you want to opt out of all of our Mother's Day messages because, you know, you don't want to sell, look at Mother's Day things for whatever reason. Yeah, exactly. So, Wendy, what do you want to do with this one? Where do you want to go? Yeah, it's tricky. And, you know, the desire, well, okay, and maybe to have everyone relate to this.

I think this is a really not uncommon. And then you're sort of surrounded by people talking in their various stages and ways they do about things. So you may have somebody who absolutely just does not want to have children and talks about it all the time to you or posts about it all the time. And, you know, they're in your periphery and you're just like they don't, they can and they don't want one. And I want one and I can't. feels yeah it's really it's really painful so i would start with you know at various stages of our lives when we're grieving or or think of it as like the button or the the uh the trigger for you is pretty raw um we naturally will do this we will stop maybe following a person who's going to

just talk about baby gear or something like like stop putting ourselves in the path of that that could be tricky on relationships and you know sometimes you might have to say to some somebody, hey, like, this is a sore subject for me right now. So we have, it's kind of twofold. One is kind of protect yourself a little bit. And then the other is what we'll get to is a way to help here, which is things need to be grieved. Yeah. And worked through rather than often what we do is we just let something kind of fester it by avoiding or, you know, so the twofold, two prong thing.

So I just want to start with the first one. So I want everyone to relate to this. what is the thing as as you're listening to me right now what is the thing for you that if someone talked about a lot brings up sadness loss grief it could be mother's day it could be father's day it could be um kids no kids it could be you know maybe you're a professional baseball player and you're now not you know like it it could be every time the dodgers is brought up or something like you you may have a variety of things i just want to everyone to kind of channel that for just a moment, right? So we're, we're all relating to this

thing. And I don't know if anyone can the chat or you two could offer something, but what does it make you want to do? When we pay attention and focus on, I don't have what someone else's has and they're bragging about it, or someone keeps bringing up this thing, or I keep getting notifications or freaking mothers and fathers day comes every year or you know whatever it is so do you guys have one first of all something that can sort of yeah i have a career one okay you don't have to tell us about it i what i want to know is what what is the feeling that comes next as or the thought or feeling that comes next as you were you were you here in Utah, when the nieces were having the baby conversation? Just curious if you were here for that. I can't remember if you were at that dinner. Okay. We kind of had this exact thing happen. I won't use names here, but one of the nieces who's, you know, having a load of babies and one of the nieces who can't right now. Also, I think one of them experienced a miscarriage or a couple of them. And one of them was just going on and on and on about how great and easy. And, you know, this is the age to do it. And if we don't, we'll all age out. So we've got to.

to start now before we're in our 30s or whatever, all this kind of talk. And the whole time I'm sitting there going, like even I'm noticing this. I'm going, oh, no, no, we shouldn't be doing this. Like, look at her face. You can see. This is not good. So that's what this reminded me of. But I don't have any that I feel, I don't know how to feel, but I feel a little guilty about this. I don't feel like I have this in a family way. I don't have any big regrets. Like, but I do have a career one. Brian, you have what's yours without also explaining what you have? I know I'm trying to think

I know I've got stuff like this I've got a co-host that keeps talking about how happy he is that he's healthy after driving back from What an ass. That guy's such an ass He won't shut up about it. He just can't let it go.

I don't know what his deal is. I'm kidding. I'm totally kidding. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I know that there's something like that. I can't think of what what it is. It's hard to, it's hard to, I don't know, it's hard to pinpoint a personal one, isn't it? Yeah, it really is.

Well, and I'm guessing if I asked you, find one from the past, it's a little easier to find one. Oh, yeah. Because as you age, some of this gets easier. Because if it's pre-kids and you want kids and now you have kids, well, that button's gone, right? Yeah. It could be, you know, my kids are a doctor or whatever. And you're like, financial stuff. Like, you know, hearing people in the backseat when I'm driving.

him around talking about, oh, yeah, well, we just got back from a trip to Turks and San Caicos and, oh, we're doing another trip out to, you know, coat dessert or whatever. It's like, okay, all right. Yeah. That's a good one with you. And you get her tip. Yeah. Yeah, you better tip like you got money back there. Exactly. Yeah. Damn. Okay. So you're going to jealousy that I get when that goes on. Okay. So that was my question. What's the feeling that comes when you think about it? it's definitely like some jealousy of like okay all right you know what did you what what uh fortunate situation did you land in that i have not landed in and it all be from working hard yeah i do that sometimes i could i could see that like for me it's more like they it kind of goes

with my career one but there was a time there was a pinpoint in time very early in the internet sort of age of suddenly people can create things and put them on the internet that i feel like i just didn't recognize the whole the the the the the wide open shot that was mine to take and i just because we're all new to it i really know we're i'm talking like late 90s early 2000s here and i and i and i i just to this day always feel like if i just would have known where it was headed i could have done this started here and i could have been the biggest thing there in that thing and it would have been just like the perfect time i don't know why i sometimes obsess about that because there's brief window at that point where those who got it, got it, and those who didn't, didn't,

and some got lucky. And I just felt like I should have been smart enough to know what to jump at. And that, I don't know why it bugs me so bad, but it does. Okay. So when, if someone came along and was bragging about that, they jumped in at the right time, you'd be like, yeah. Yeah, that would bug me. So jealousy is kind of a word.

Is there any other emotional words? Anyone in the chat have any of they can throw in of like, what? responses you have internally when these buttons get pushed for you. Oh, gosh. Let's see. We have jealousy. We're looking. We got similar things, start early enough.

That's Travis. He's feeling that a little bit. Let's see. Yeah, the rest of you are being kind of quiet about this. They're not exposing. Because it's hard. Nobody wants to be talking about because what it does is, and this way I don't want to tell their story necessarily, is it just reveals the thing you have that.

that's sticky and probably needs a little work. Here's a good one that kind of relates a little. I won't use his name, just I don't know if he wants us to. He says, we had a really tough year with my first kid and my wife had postpartum depression. It's still hard for me to find joy in other people's perfect, in quotes, births. Yeah, I think that's a thing where people were, oh, it was so, I was glowing the whole nine months. Right, right. And then people with swollen feet and issues, it's like, oh, man.

Yeah. That's a good one. Right. And your kid seems like you have the real, real going on. And there is the, you know, happy. Look how perfect our family is real. And that is, yeah, really annoying. And social media has quadrupled this for everyone, right?

This existed before, right? It always has a little bit. But there's nothing like a curated, pixelated version of perfection in your face. Yeah. Okay. So, all right. I'm going to throw in some words, since this is tricky for people. All right. So jealousy, it could be, I mean, I'm not going to speak for D here, but I'm assuming you're seeing crappy parents left and right and thinking, are you kidding me? Like, I could do this. I'd be freaking awesome at this. And so that's hard. That's hard to, you know, feel like why not me, why everybody else gets to do this thing, especially if they don't even want it, you know, or some some version. version of that. So it can feel like spite or resentful or you could start getting a little bitter. There's lots of places this goes, this sense. So we'll talk specifically about the children thing. I mean, this one is, you know, this one has a time clock on it. It's kind of like yours does,

Scott, it's like too late, you know? And that can just feel more and more and more stressful. And so I've spent a lot of time working with clients who want children really bad. and are unable or not partnered and don't want to do it without a partner, whatever the story is. And so what I found, especially if they're, you know, women in their 30s, that when they freeze their eggs, this is often a choice they make. They'll freeze their eggs hoping that one day. And what it does is just calms them down significantly, right? Because they're giving themselves more hope because it's like a clock that's just stressful.

Think of any time a clock is used to stress people out. this is it, you know. And it's really hard. And so what do you do during that time? So it sounds like, okay, he's always wanted to be a dad, wants to do it better than his parents did, and marry someone thinking, this is the thing. The fact that she said, if you want kids, you better propose soon. Oof.

Right. That's rough. And then they try, right? They're trying. And three rounds of IVF, that is not nothing. And, you know, things got rough. And that's because it is really difficult on a relationship to go through fertility. You know what I just realized, too.

I don't know if this tour leader will apologize for something I've just said. But I just realized I'm saying in my career example, talking about miss shots or something, I still managed to make a cool podcast network and media thing that I'm very proud of and is successful. And I'm never going back. And I did the thing I wanted to do. So there are people hearing that, hearing me say the other thing and going, well, oh, fine. I can't even get 100 listeners from my, whatever. I promise you, this is the thing I'm actually trying to be better at, but I'm not trying to,

I don't want more people to feel bad today because of that stupid thing. Oh, poor, poor me. I didn't notice one thing in 2001 that I could have taken advantage of. So anyway, I do love, though, this is a great example of Scott when at TMS Live, when you gave me the final award for like having a cult-led meeting in a penthouse and I've had a couple people since say to me like that's funny coming from your brother who literally has a cult so don't be just I'm not a cult leader you are and you yeah no it's that idea of like you you can't quite appreciate what you do have sometimes until you stop and and really do

look at it like really look at where I'm at so this is what I'm I want, you skipped to the good bit, Scott, and I'm, so you're right on track. And so I'll just skip there really quick, which is, D, your life, you need to look at it, right? See what is good. And, you know, you're, I don't, I don't know the age at this point, 40 something, right? I don't know if you've heard of some of these celebrities who have kids in their 80s, but, you know, maybe there's time. El Pacino, one of them. Yeah, that's right.

He just had one recently. And I guess also De Niro tends to do this, too, he has old. I think it's, I think they both are like in their 80s and have kids under five. Yes. Yes. And I know, listen, I know a blank, I can pass out some phone numbers, just kidding, of women who have frozen their eggs. There are so many ready, ready to do this, make this happen, right?

I was spreadsheets. So many frozen eggs. Because there was plenty of people also in this same boat, right? And want this. And he wrote something interesting. He says, now I struggle with the sense that I let myself in my. future family down and that framing might need a little reframing and so i would recommend i mean if i had my my druthers you talk to someone about that and and look at how you can reframe that because your

life is not over and you do need to grieve what wasn't right right and any regrets people do have often you know like if regrets were written on tombstones that would make the graveyard way more fun to walk through right you would totally learn like whoa they regret that that that that would be that would be that would be like oh my god I regret not doing that too I didn't even thought about that or right now I got a new list dang it yeah and so to move past regrets while you're still alive and healthy and have another shot at a relationship and maybe children or at least some other versions of making life better for kids like that exists right adoption fostering you know maybe you're not in your one room rental at the moment in a

position to do this but there is absolutely you the sentence I love the most is to bring um where does I feel I need to work through the screen before bringing a child in the life yeah you got to do that that's for sure but also this is that whole like fix your own mask before you worry about the person next to you on the airplane yeah yes 100 percent which sounds so sometimes that So unintuitive, right? Because if you're sitting next to a little kid, you're like, I've lived a long life. You need the oxygen. It's counterintuitive.

Yeah, it's so weird. But in the middle of it, you pass out and there we are. And I read this, actually, when I read it quickly, I put joyful down where I need to bring joy to a child in my life. And so I mix the words up, but I actually think that's a really important point. Like, if keeping track of grieving what you need to grieve and keeping track. of what is it you actually really want here? Because what you may think you want is it's not coming or it's not going to look that way. And everybody, right now, look backwards into your life.

Would you have predicted you were B here in this moment? Go to bad, positive or negative. No, not really. 15 years old. Any guesses that you would, A, have streaming video in your hands? Well, probably not that. Yeah, definitely not that. Right?

So you're nowhere near anything. you could have imagined, but is some of that, can you imagine, would you have imagined this? I mean, I knew I wanted, like, for example, on the family front, I think, I knew I wanted a family one day, but I didn't know what that looked like. I didn't know when it would be. I figured I get married way later than I did. I got all these ideas of what that was like or what it would be. And there really is, it's none of that. So I was wrong about most of I just, but the core desire was there. I just didn't know, but whatever images I had at 15 of what that world was is not, what I ended up with, not even close.

Was that like for you, Brian? Because you and I grew up in the same era and all that. Did you picture you and Tina in the life you'd have? Not at all, no. I mean, I did as soon as I met her. I said, oh, yeah, this is, this is, you know, the woman. Well, actually, I didn't when I first met her. We were just friends for a long time.

And it was until one Christmas break that she and I both independently reached out to the same person and said, Has, you know, Tina ever said anything about me in a romantic standpoint? And she was doing the same thing, that same weekend. Nice. That's so cute. I love that. That's great. So that was the moment we're like, okay, this is the person we're going to be with for the rest of our lives.

And prior to that, no, hadn't visualized any of that with her or anybody else. Yeah. Yeah. And honestly, if you have no vision of it, then you're just like, oh, here's life. But if you have, you know, your vision board since 13 and you have, this is the plan and how it'll work, it's going to be a lot harder. Because it's going to change a lot. And so I would recommend, you know, I don't know if Dee has done that, but he's 16 wants to be a dad. Yeah.

And so life is one shot. And so how to make that happen, there's both a version of like grieving the loss of what isn't. and then, you know, figuring out how to make your life what you want it to be. We can't always predict. We can't control everything. We can't control other people, right? But we can put ourselves in positions and places where things could improve or change or have an option, right? So nobody just magically adopts usually.

You usually have to go through some paperwork and background checks and some other things, right? You have to make some effort to have the dream. So, but like, like Dee said, before bringing a child into your life, you've got to grieve and go through the work of grieving and, and bearing and letting go this previous vision. Right. And then, and then things open up. It's kind of the magical part of life that you can't quite understand or don't know how to make happen sometimes. But there is an order that has to, these things happen. And you've got to get yourself right.

With yourself, and not get yourself right for being a future parent, but get yourself right with yourself. There you go. And then everything else will slowly fall into place. Right. And then be open to all the ways that parenting or caring for kids or improving their lives opens up to you. And I don't know what D does for work, but maybe it's totally unrelated to all things,

children. And, you know, and that's totally fine. Maybe it's not. I don't know. But is there a place in your community? or in your life or in your extended family or friends' kids or like how can you be I mean I'm telling you I have at least 15 coaching jobs available to you in a community everywhere which is like please we need someone to coach the same place we need someone to help here you know like there's a lot of chances to be um have some of that natural fathering tendency to go somewhere yeah I'm telling you the thing we have not enough of is good dads and so you know that might be frustrating also to hear because you're like, I know, just give me a kid. Yeah, there's a sense of like, well, that's not the same, but, but it can be

pursue, it can be really rewarding. Like uncles and aunts in the right context can be just like the most important people in some of these kids' lives. In fact, and you can, you can serve roles there that the parents can't even serve in terms of like trust or I need to come talk or I'm afraid to tell my parents this. I need support, you know, those kinds of things happen with, with nieces nephews. And that's a really wonderful kind of parenting. It's not the same, but it's a kind of that.

And it can be really rewarding, I think, for a lot of people. And this is so not scientific. So everyone with science backgrounds, pokeyers. Yeah, Bobby's not listening now. Go ahead. You're good. Bobby and Nikki, close your eyes. This, like, boiling water.

When you want a pot of water to boil and you watch it, what happens? it takes forever it's still boils it's still boils right it's right it's still boils it's you know the watched pot never boils bullshit of course it's going to boil the same amount of time i mean it does but it's your perception yeah your perception is yeah yeah i love that though way and do something else come back it's boiling right that i have watched this happen over and over and over and over and over with people when they are i am so desperate to marry or i'm so desperate to find my person and we work on all of the putting the mask on yourself things, you know? Yeah, yeah.

Like, let's heal this wound and this, this giant father-shaped hole in your heart and this abandonment issue. And, you know, we start to do all of that work and they are, they are finding themselves. Then it just happens over and over. The right person comes along and you say that, but it's actually they attract the right person at that point. And so there is something. thing about that that's a little magical about not staring down fatherhood as the end goal

but figuring out these other aspects of your life with an openness to when fathering options arise, you know? Sure. Good dad, good guy vibes are we need. And so, yeah, I would highly recommend active grieving on these various parts and maybe finding someone to talk through with this stuff with you. So you can see, you know, people are, you know, we're good at doing this with one another, but it's risky sometimes of like seeing, oh, man, this pattern, here we are, seventh round.

And you're like, wait, what? We're just, our self-awareness is tricky when it comes to sometimes our pattern. So having a neutral professional would be helpful to just help you grieve and see where, you know, certain things are getting in your way in terms of. progression. It's a brave email. I really appreciate it because it is really hard to admit that stuff because you're like, I'm supposed to be happy for all these freaking parents or, you know, and we're all doing a version of this a little bit. Sure. I don't think. Yeah, I think it's hard to avoid. And some aspect of your life, there's going to be this thing. Even if it's down to just

like my neighbor sprinkler system didn't break, but mine did. Right. That's, that's a dumb, it's kind of dumb and surface level, but it's still this feeling. of like, oh, great for you with your perfect sprinklers over there. Yeah, must be nice. It must be nice to have those pipes. And children are so forever, right? Like, you can talk about that endlessly. And so it's not like your friend who became a parent comes back and is like,

hangs out with you again. They change. Yeah. And so that loss can be all sorts of places. So I would make a loss inventory. What are all the things you feel like you've lost, you know, in the plan for your life? and how can we find some peace with putting some of those expectations in the ground and those hurts and those pains they get worked through.

And on the other side is a life. And that's the beauty of it. And the hard thing is we get really comfortable sometimes with, you know, if it's years and years and years of feeling something. And this clicking to clicking clock, clicking clock, clicking clock, clicking clock, The freaking clock makes it so much harder too, right? Because you're just, when we get panicked, we're not in our best head. So I'd advise some processing, which I think go a long way.

I think, so, okay, something came up this week. It's not necessarily related, but it kind of is. And I thought of you and I just like had to get it out of me. So it occurred to me, oftentimes when things are a little bit fishy in public or whatever or in, you know, a national viewpoint, there. are people that like to bring up that Fred Rogers quote about look for the helpers and it's supposed to come for people to say, well, as bad as it seems, look at all that people that are actually helping and look for them and then, and now you feel good. And it hit, it hit me like

a ton of Brex, I'm sure I'm not the first person, but it hit me that he's not talking to us. He was talking to children and he was talking about us as the helpers. He's not saying to these kids, look for other people like you. He's saying, no, look for these, look for the strong adults in your life that can make a difference because you're they're the ones out looking out for your best interest he wasn't talking to us to make adults feel better in our little white lives you know that wasn't it it was look for the helpers and then the lesson is we're the ones we're the we're the helpers we're the ones that are supposed to lead the way have the kids follow we're supposed to be anyway we're supposed to be exactly so anyway reminded me of that

because you're you know you're talking about maybe stuff that he could do coaching or some other stuff that might be that way. But that's, those are the helpers we're talking about. Those are the people we need more in this world. And you can be one of those, you know? Yeah, absolutely. And he can also,

but still baby be a father. Like we, the story's not done. And that's, that's hard too, right? I think if you talk to anyone with fertility struggles is like, it's just this hope that is so hard to, to lay at rest until there really is evidence that,

it's late at rest and then some grieving can happen. And so it's kind of midstream a little. And that's, you know, further towards the end of the stream. And that's hard. That's a hard place to be. So I would really reach out to, you know, your support system. I mean, I would ask Dee, who can you talk to about this on the regular? Because it's possible it's just never been processed at all.

Because this is awkward, you know, with your, you know, playing darts at the bar with some buddies. And you're like, can I talk about fertility? again, you know? Yeah, do it. That's maybe not happening and it needs to. It needs to be processed because it is, it is so foundational to the life that you wanted. And so to be really kind to yourself here, I think you need to also realize it's important and important to have a safe way to communicate this, right? And we can fill in the blank with a bunch of other lost streams for people um this one is just particularly tough because kids are everywhere and you know there's lots of chat about stuff and it just can be really relentless um and you know you're

seeing a pregnant lady in public or you see a dad act like a doofus and you're like no you know it's hard pretty triggering a lot of doofus dads out there man oh many doofus dad you know the big d right uh all right then this is great uh all right then this is great uh d let us know how things go. We hope you, uh, uh, that this was helpful. And I'm glad that the previous episodes have helped you a lot as well. Wendy, anything you want to mention before you go? I do. I would like everyone to go to know better you.com and, uh, look, check out the time mastery course. That's what we shared when we're in Vegas. There's also a free, um, you know, I like to do a little free thing with stuff. Um, I will put a link in the chat really quick, but it's just the how to stop procrastinating.

No one ever has that problem No A piece of cake So I sent that along to you But you can download that for free And the Time Mastery course You can read all about it there I would love to have you

It starts June 2nd And what's awesome And I think I said this in the video When I get the video rendered I will send a link out too So people can see it But is that I've been using All of these time mastery skills

To get this thing done I love it So that's the It's so great And it freaking works. Use the recipe to create the thing that you demonstrate with. That's right. It does.

And one thing I just want to note that's very kind. We have some generous folks who have offered to help with scholarships. And so if you are money is tight and you want a little help, even if it's just a little bit or you need help with the whole thing, please reach out to me directly. Oh, nice. And it's just hey at no better you. com. Nice.

And we'll talk it through. No, every time I look on the page and I see health and PE, that just reminds me. of the two classes I will slough to play at the arcade this afternoon. That feels like I've just, those are the two classes I can get away with skipping and I'll be at the Cottonwood Mall until like, you know, two. And it's not a problem. But your time mastery, please don't skip. No, no, do not skip that, guys.

That's a class you need. I'm all registered and signed up. I'm ready to do it. That's awesome. I know. I didn't know how you wanted that revealed yet, Brian. But I'm so excited to have Brian because A. He's just regular people like everyone else.

You guys, don't be afraid of people. And also, you know, literally every one of us could use help with time. I suck at time management. I look over at teen and I said, you are the one person I can think of that I know that does not need this. Like, Tina's like, all right, it's 12.05. I'm done with lunch. Brian, I got to get back to work. It's like, wow, I want to sit and watch John Oliver.

Okay, fine, sure. Yeah, no. Fine. Way to ruin my vibe. Harsh the vibe. You and I are screwed without our. wives with the time. We are. We totally are. Yeah. Put us on our own. Also Wendy, Wendy looks so scholarly in your new, uh, your new photo on the site. Look at her. Look at that. She's like a professor.

I am very scholarly. Yeah. You don't want to use the, uh, the poker chip thing that I made for you, huh? Yeah. You little animated two-face poker chip gift. Yeah, that was pretty great. It was great. That was awesome. Can I just say with the taskville, that was so fun to do. I love Nicole. We, I, I, I just was also thinking, Brian, you gave a group of people, four of which are mothers, speaking of mothers, to be quiet while they cooked. Right. That is our dream. It is basically like you were talking about how, you know, not waking up the baby. And I was thinking, not waking up the baby and making a bloody marriage.

That's kind of my growing up life. My own mom. It was so fun. I mean, yeah, we didn't break 60 decibels once because we're like, yeah, we know how to be quiet around children. And it's technically a cooking challenge. And I give that to Kim and you, like who I know. What were you thinking? Yeah.

Kim's, Kim's Bloody Mary, one of the best bloody mary's I've ever tasted with a basic recipe. Yeah, but not my bucket. Not the bucket we made. Yeah, why? And also, not the 11 jiggers of tomato juice that you poured in the, uh, I mean, Wendy asked about five times that night, what is wrong with you? she kept saying to me and I and I guess what I was overthinking your knife skills were freaking me out well that that's true Kim already complains about that but I was so I was so out of my own head or in my own head about the challenge that I was just like it's got to have something

more to do with this measuring thing I have to be very careful about like it's so stupid now I look back on it but at the time it felt like I'm my Brian's going to get me again I got to think I got to think outside the box, and instead I was in a... I didn't even mention... So back behind you, there was a can of SpaghettiOs, and on top of it was a deck of cards or a box of cards. For the vinegar task, if you would open up that box of cards, it would have had 11 aces,

which hopefully would have gotten you to the 11th cup for the vinegar, too. Man, and I also picked, didn't I pick up the... You picked it up, yeah. The, what do you call it? Oh, you picked up the pH test strips, which is the best one. That would have been the best thing to have. Spaghettios for? Nothing.

Just to throw you. See? Spaghettios or spaghettios. See, Brian's out to get us all. This is the thing. What adult brings Spaghettios to Vegas? Is that the can? Yeah, this is the can.

You flew back with the can. I love it. Him and Chamberlain brought the Spaghettios to Vegas. Oh, okay. Wow. Maybe someday I'll tell you what was behind the SpaghettiOs, but not now. Okay. Okay.

So there was a reason. It wasn't that you're a grown man who only eats spaghetti. Sounds like a Netflix true crime series behind the SpaghettiOs. Can't wait to find out. Wendy, have a fantastic week. Glad you're feeling good. And may we all meet again at the fires of TMS next Thursday. Yes.

I know. Oh, she did one of her quick. See, she does quick goodbyes too. She does. She's very good at those. It's in all of us. It's in all of us? It's in all of us.

It's in all of us. All right, guys. That's going to do it for that bit there. We have to get out of here, though. Couple things. Coverville at noon, Twitch.tv.TV slash coverville. Right. The alarm, Mike Peters, and Teneal, Captain and Teneal, both celebrated on today's show. Nice. Then stick around for Core at 1pm. We've got news of a, not really leaked images, but images from an FCC filing of the handheld console co-created by AIS and the ROG team and Microsoft.

It looks like it's really going to happen. You're going to get basically a GamePass device. Don't know much more about it, but we're going to talk about that and a whole bunch more stuff on core. So tune in for that at one, frogpants.tv. And then FilmSack this weekend, join us for G.I. Joe and the rise of Cobra. Real American hero. Yeah. And then Brian reminding me who Cobra is and I kind of am pissed. I hate it.

I'm bummed that I said something because apparently that's a, I watched it yesterday. It's an important plot. Oh, is it like a plot point? I've seen the movie in theaters, but I forgot all about that reveal. so I'm not too worried about it. Sorry. When it comes to that point in the movie, you'd be like, oh, thanks, Brian. Did this thing have Destro or no, the big metal guy?

Can you tell me to say? Do you want to be surprised? You know what, I'll be surprised. I can't remember what they did. I've got no memory of it, which tells me it's not a great movie. But we'll see. We'll see. Yeah, that I will say, no, I won't say anything.

We'll talk about Destro during film set. All right. All right. We'll hold that one in. I do have a very vague memory that's for some reason Oh, I can't think his name else In the mummy, the whale

Foslou No Oh, Brendan Frazier Shazer shows up in this Do I am I right about that? He does, he does A little A non-credited cameo

Why I remember that, I couldn't tell you I don't remember anything else about that movie Anyway, well that'll be this weekend So check that out. Lots of shows, lots of stuff Oh, and a skim tomorrow after TMS Friday. So there will be a TMS Friday. That'll be tomorrow. And then when that ends at around noon, Kim and I'll do a thing. And then when that ends, I'll watch FilmSack. And when that ends, who knows what'll happen? I don't know. You'll have to tune in and find out. Exactly. Exactly. All right. It's going to do it for us. Thanks for listening everybody. Frogpants.com slash TMS is the website. You need a song to take you home. What do you got? I do. Well, Dan Newcomb. We talked about him earlier in the show. Dan wrote in and said, hello, Scott and Brian, on the 8th. That's today. I'll be hitting one of the birthday. with a five in the front, and it took me four weeks to remember to send this at a time that I wasn't driving. I would love to hear Caroline Riley's cover of Kesha's Die Young.

Caroline is a local Atlanta pop-punk artist and a friend of my daughter, and I would love to see her get some wider exposure. If you want to play one of her original songs for in the middle, that would be awesome, but she has a plenty... Oh, she has a bit of a potty mouth in those. Thanks for the years of entertainment. I hope it's not too early to test the ship's bacon, cheddar or sausage. Never. Never too early. So let's see if we can do that.

Too early to get a fish sandwich okay here we go I can definitely no that's not it no that's not it hey two are I get a fish sandwich then this one let's test the ship's phaser then this one the tendicus bacon cheddar ranch and then for no reason hibert him all right there you go

oh I haven't heard that one in a while I have the poker chip or the challenge coin from Mike of that one too oh I love those things they're so hybridum so great you guys should see all these chips we got they're like they're never going to do these again they're like this like one time thing and we're hoarding them

We're not giving anyone these. Yes. Yes, exactly. So F off. All right. So Dan Newcomsetta right there. Caroline Riley's cover of Die Young, originally by Kesha. This is a single that she released this year, and it's great. And the fact that she's a friend of your daughters is even cooler because this adds such a hard edge to the song that I really, really like.

Here is Caroline Riley and Die Young. Heartbeat to the beat of the drums Oh, what a shame that you came here with someone So while you're here in my arms Let's make the most of the night like we're gonna die on We're gonna die on We're gonna die on Let's make the most of the night like we're gonna die on

Young hearts, out our minds, run until we out of time. Wild child's looking good, living hard just like we should. Don't care who's watching when we're tearing it up. That magic that we got, nobody can touch. Looking for some trouble in night. Take my hand, I'll show you the wild side. Like it's the last night of our lives. We'll keep dancing until we die.

Your heart beat to the beat of the drums Oh, what a shame that you came here with someone So while you're here in my arms Let's make the most of the night Like we're gonna die on We're gonna die on We're gonna die young Let's make the most of the night

Hey young hunts taking shots stripping down the dirty socks music up getting hot It's me give me all you've got it's pretty obvious that you've got a crush That magic in your pants is making me blush Looking for some trouble in night Take my hand I'll show you the wild side Like it's the last night of our lives We'll keep dancing till we die I hear your whole heartbeat to the beat to the beat of the drums.

I would a shame that you came here with someone. So while you're here in my arms, let's make the most of the nightlife we're going to. I hear you all heartbeat to the beat of the drums. I would shame that you came here with someone. So while you're here in my arms, Let's make the most of the night, like we're gonna die young. Hello, I'm gonna die,

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