The Morning Stream - TMS 2830: Grape Tasters

Episode Date: May 29, 2025

Limp Viscous. Brian Shows Us His Ball. Birds are real and they're spectacular assholes. Move your little stick around. FEP U! Shiny Happy Resin. Squirrel Beggars. I don't like the Lottereeeeeeeee. RFK Hoggle. Resin-mergency. Backup Rug. The Bird Feeder Economy. Greased up squirrel pole. Pope Bob. Artificial Deadlines 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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Hello, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is Thursday, May 29th, 20205. So we got another, hold on, is this the last one? This is it. This is last day. Last day of the palindrome. Oh, man. I'm a little sad. Did you enjoy it? Did you acknowledge and appreciate every single day? You know, I feel like I did, but maybe now, you know, when you get to the end of a thing. Now that it's over, it's like, oh.

Oh, there's so many more things I wanted to do. Yeah, it's like Deathbed. You're like, oh, no, I never went to Italy. It's a last day of vacation. I'm like, oh, wait, I never did go back to that ice cream shop that we passed after dinner that one night. Yeah, see? Now all the regrets are settling in, but I hope you guys at home enjoyed your little palindromic week because, you know, they only get so many of these. And there it is.

All right. Well, we've been busy this morning, getting ready for the show. Brian had a small minor, fixable in emergency with his resident. A little resident emergency. Less, you know, more like a, I've got to clean this up now, can't let it sit, as opposed to like, oh, no, the printer is broken. Yep, yep. And it's the kind of thing that, you know, you obviously, you troubleshot these for years. It's a brand new, yeah, and it's a brand new, like, not just new to me, but this is a brand new printer that just came out.

So this might be something, too, that, you know, I let, I let any cubic know about and say, here's a little issue that might come up for people. Oh, yeah. Yeah, good point. You might be the impetus for change. A pioneer, yes. Yeah, very nice. If it's happened to me, it's happened in other people, for sure. If you're a patron, you'll be able to hear that whole pre-show and, you know, it's a, I don't know why, but I'm fascinated by the process because, you know, we have these tools in our hands now. We can make cool shit.

Yeah. It's fun to talk about. So if you're not a patron, sign up and head over there and check it out. Exactly. Real quick here, on the, on the, on the, on the rug, speaking of messes and problems having to fix, the rug deal from yesterday, the dog bar. Yes, the dog situation, right? I think we've come to a meeting place on this. You and the dogs?

Are you in Carter? Me and my wife. Oh, okay. Last night I called Kim and I go, I sent her a picture. I couldn't get the carpet cleaners missing a latch that keeps the soap and the water from bubbling out of it. Coming out, sure, yes. Yeah, what you need. And I'm really glad I didn't start it up before I noticed this or else we would have had a bigger mess.

and I said, I'm not sure where this latches. Do you have any idea maybe it got lost or you put it in a drawer or something? And she goes, oh, is that what the spot looks like? And I showed her, you know, the carpet. Yeah. I said, yeah, it's like. Still a visible spot. Oh, huge spot.

It's just no matter what I did manually, it wasn't enough. So that's why this was going to be the thing. And she says, all right, we've had that rug for about seven years. I think maybe it's time for a new. Wow. It's time just to nuke it from space. Yeah. And I'm all like, I just got to.

all the shit out and the soap and the stuff and the thing and I'm about to do this hard work and you know I'm going to go for it and you're telling me we're just going to swap the rug out first all rugs aren't cheat as the other thing no yeah do you have a I don't think we have a backup I don't think so so for all I know if this means bare floor for a while and then we'll find a deal on something I don't know but man that dog's expensive at least it's a dog I shudder to think about all the money, and Tina will devoutge for this, all the money I've spent in relation to the bird feeder that she bought me for Father's Day two years ago. Yeah.

Like, you know, like getting the good bird seed, getting the stuff that is seasonal, you know, for when they're nesting or when they're coming or when they're, you know, whatever they're doing in the spring versus what they're doing in the summer. Yeah. Getting the spicy stuff to ward off the squirrels. That didn't work. getting a baffle to keep the squirrels when it was mounted on the wall. That didn't work.

Squirrel gate. Yeah, exactly. Buying a set of poles to mount it in the yard and then inadvertently cutting holes in my sprinkler system. Like, there's so many, if you trace the amount of money I've spent just because she bought me a bird feeder. Yeah. Yeah. You don't foresee these things when you first get it all together, right? No, no.

When Boomer came as a puppy, we just went, oh, easy dog, easiest dog we've ever had. And in fact, I was saying that right up until yesterday, where I said, Easyest dog. And then I went, no, you are now jumped ahead in the line. You are now one of the hardest dogs based on one day, right? It's going to take a year of normal behavior for me to get over what she did in one day. That's how that's going. Yeah, well, it shouldn't, you know, I mean, how you've really got to look at this as like a 0.25% of your dog's time is this issue.

Yeah. And I still love her. She's a sweetheart. Of course you do. By the way, just sent you a photo in our Discord. Actually, I sent you a photo in Discord, but earlier I sent you a photo in text. The Discord one is the, is now what the squirrels do. They come to the back door.

Oh, look at this, dude. And they beg for peanuts. This is, please, sir, may I have another? Oh, my gosh, you have really. Don't zoomie finger all of our catalogs on the table. No, definitely not. But look, this little guy here, let's get, we can. him in on him.

Yeah. Yeah, this is Disney era. It really is. It's like, you know, Snow White needs to be singing a song to this one. He comes up and, yeah, see, how can I, I don't want them in the bird feeder,

but now I'm buying, you know, bags of shelled peanuts and putting those out on the back patio for these guys. I do that in the morning. They come and eat their peanuts and they leave the bird feeder alone. Sure. Although I did watch one of them trying. So the other thing I'm doing,

because somehow the damn raccoons and squirrels are figuring out how to climb the pole and get around the baffle, I don't know how. End times. Yeah, it really is. And it's more really the raccoons. They're big enough that they can climb up the pole and I think they're able to reach around the baffle

and they pull off the front of the bird, the bird feeder that keeps the food inside and it dumps all the food onto the ground and then they eat it all. So I've been putting Pam, non-stick cooking spray on the pole. That's great. It's awesome.

and it's even better when you get a chance to see the squirrels run and jump onto the pole only to slowly slide down and wonder what's happening. Please tell me you have video of this soon. I don't. It always happens before I can grab my phone. Like, it's going to, though. I'm just going to set up a camera. That's the makings of viral TikTok video, number one.

It really is. Totally is like, get some good music going. It's perfect. That's amazing. And that stuff's pretty, that's harmless to them, right? That stuff. It is. Yeah, no, it's like, it's basically, you know, cooking well. They'll taste in probably be like, bleh, that doesn't taste very good, but it won't,

oh, God, Cyrinexas, have you considered a BB gun? You guys have never shoot squirrels. This is not how, look, we, they were here before us in terms of, you know. Right. Humans keep busting in. We don't get to also just kill the shit, or we shouldn't anyway. We can find a symbiotic way of existence. existing with these.

Exactly. You know, I don't mind them as long as they don't destroy my stuff. And it seems like we've got a treaty going for the most part. The raccoons, different situation. We do not have a treaty. They have not come to the table with their terms. Yeah. And even if you did, knowing if they'll honor that, who even knows?

I know. Well, Bobby Ann gave me some tips. She said, just go get a box or a bag of dog kibble. Oh. cheap cheap ass dog kibble and leave that out for the raccoons so i would have never thought of that that's a great idea of course they'll like that they'll love that yeah that's what she feeds them that's what kim is feeding the uh the raccoons yeah oh yeah that's right she's there feeding raccoons as probably as we speak i don't know um not this early they're they're they're uh i mean it's

1030 over there so yeah but they're they're like late late in the day sunset oh is that's what i think that is yeah that at least the the photos that i've gotten from bobby annar all night time That's a good point. I've never seen them in the day. What do raccoons do in the day? Is that when they're planning their skee-y little plans? Yeah, they've got a blueprint spread out on a table and a main guy with a visor on his head and a pencil and he's, you know, pointing to things. A little pewter, Bobby Ann figure moves to the thing.

He says, all right, target tonight. And they're making their little skeeby plans, little bastards. Right, exactly. Oh, they are fully nocturnal? Okay, so they're sleeping during the day. Oh, I didn't know that. I thought it was like they were awake kind of late afternoon like a, like a chimsy. There is that great video where somebody filmed, I thought it was in the day, but somebody filmed a dumpster and the door suddenly slides open slowly and this like bleary-eyed raccoon comes out looking.

It's amazing. Raccoons are great. They're disgusting little trash pandas, but we love them. Exactly. Yes. I just don't want them in my bed. backyard if I can and there's you know they're climbing over the fence there's nothing I can do to keep them out physically so I've just got to you know give them something some sort of deterrent

maybe maybe spicy dog kibble maybe that's the way do they make do they make a uh shiracha flavored alpo or something you could spray a little capsaicin on the uh on the dog stuff yeah at my work yeah it wouldn't actually probably would work I bet but then they're not even a kibble yeah people are saying stop feeding them I mean I'm like basically if I stop feeding the the raccoons it means I'm stopping feeding the birds because right now the raccoons are eating the bird bird stuff yeah so ironically both our problems stem from trying to feed birds it they really do yeah right great in a bunch of seed and burking on the rug and yep yeah it's all comes all back to birds being dicks yep

I know there's a you know facts to people say birds aren't real but I say oh they're real and they're dicks and they're spectacularly assholes yeah yeah some of the worst i mean don't forget they used to be raptors they were like little pissy pissy little dinosaur shitheads that's right exactly back in the day uh all right so anyway there's that there's your update on that no more rug um hey we got uh we got an email or a text about how that whipped cream thing in the store may have gone down sure i mean was there a question on how it went down well chuck chuck buyers wrote in said how would you feel about this buy it before you try it that kind of all that stuff. Yeah. Yeah, we have a lot of discussion in the chat in the Discord about people who eat

grapes. Our own Bobby Frankenberger is a grape taster. Yeah. Which I'm fine with, you know, grapes, I feel like are the, the, maybe the gray area, or not the gray area, but like the, as long as you're not obnoxious about it and just open the grapes and walking around eating them all while you shop. Sure. But, but, you know, you want to pick up a bag of them. If it's already pre-priced, you want to taste a couple and just, or at least one, and make sure yeah these aren't sour or going bad or on the other end too ripe or whatever yeah I agree with that if they're pre-priced that makes sense the big question is even if they are ripe or weird and you've eaten one or two do you what do you do now do you buy the bag do you go back

and get another bag like there's there's some right okay here's the thing yeah if you people who taste grapes what do you do if you taste a bad a bad batch of grapes do you alert the grocery store and say hey mr. Albertsons this this bag your grapes taste a little sour. I've got sour grapes. Yeah, I got a little sour grapes going on over here. Do you flick a coin to your witcher? Like, what do you do? Yeah, exactly. Or do you just say, ma'all, let's leave that for some other chump? Well, here's what this person said. They are anonymous. I don't have their name. It says, in regards to the teen eating ready whip mid-shop trip. Yeah. I'm not sure it was a teen, though. It may have been a... I thought it was a teen. Wasn't it that

they described the whole family and said it was the teen who grabbed a... Maybe. I can't remember if it was a smaller kid or a teenager. But anyway, I don't think it really matters me. He says, my brother is diabetic, and I can think of at least two times where we're in the store, and she needed to eat something to avoid her blood sugar crashing. Considering it was a hit of basically pure sugar, I could see this being the reason. Seems like one of those situations where you don't know the situation, you should probably just move along. Sure, I guess we don't have full context.

That's true, yeah. Kid could have been diabetic, needed a hit of sugar. I mean, it's... Could be. Could be. Yeah. You know, type 1 diabetes will kick in sometimes when you are, when it's least good. good and you'll need a cookie or something and uh why not get a quick hit of an aerosol can full

a basically powdered sugar cloud right right um you know that's that's become my thing in the car when i'm ubering around is you know i don't know what kind of day this person's having if they're really if they're obnoxious like i don't care what kind of day you're having there's no reason to to tailgate me with you know a foot of space between our bump But if, you know, I'm being a little bit more, what's the word, accepting of idiots on the road and saying, you might just be an idiot that's having a bad day. Yeah, and sometimes they are idiots that are just idiots and are being jerks, but we don't, you really never know, I guess.

Right, right. Somebody cutting me off might be a situation where, oh, my God, sorry, emergency happened. And I looked down on my phone and realized I was going to miss the, I guess. it or whatever so sure yeah it's a good i think it's a good general rule of thumb to yep to do that especially if i get bad service somewhere i'm usually pretty open to the idea that they're having they might be just having the worst day ever and i do not want to contribute to that so exactly long as they don't poop in my food i'm fine yep i see you asked if i run a dash cam yep i do i have the the very rare ring dash cam which they made for a very short time and then

stopped making, and I don't know why, because it's so good. It's really, really good. Oh, I didn't know that. I thought they, uh, I thought that was still a thing they made. I didn't know that. It's, um, surprised me a little bit. It's a bar, or no, because it was a, it was a good price. It does, front and back recording. It watches your car when you're parked. So like there's a enough of a battery in there that if somebody comes and futses with your car, you get an alert on your phone saying, uh, there's some movement in your vehicle that maybe you don't want or something like that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's interesting.

Yeah. Well, uh, anyway, anonymous person. We get it. We do. We truly get it. We get it. Travis M. would like to grace us with this story, speaking of Lyft and Uber and that stuff. He says, hey, TMS, I work for Lyft and I had the worst experience so far. I drive out to pick up a customer at an apartment complex and notice that the rider wasn't inside the apartment that Lyft was going, giving me directions to. As I pull up, I see my rider walking with a cane in the rain. He opens the door. He opens the door. and puts his cane in the car and as I'm fiddling with my phone I hear the sound of something hitting the inside of my, sorry, inside of the roof of my car and out of the corner of my eye, I see a yellow tinged stream from the lower half of my rider's body. Oh, oh, m. I thought he was peeing, but it was so much worse, he says. And here's where I should probably warn people is pretty foul.

Oh, geez, yeah. If you're, if you're mid-bite, pause, finish your, finish your breakfast. And then come back. Especially if it's a runny yoke or something. Get that down. Oh, God. Get the runny yolk down now. Finish your over easy eggs real quick. Yeah.

Because then it goes like this. The customer had a, and this is his quote, an open wound and his stitching just popped. And that was pus streaming out of his knee. Oh, my God. Into the car, dude. Yeah. What is the amount of money? you get from Uber for that kind of cleaning

of like, probably the same as vomit. You know, it's like, yeah, $200 or $150 bucks. Probably. But what hit the inside of the roof of his car? Yeah, the roof part I don't get. Yeah. There's a location issue here that my brain can't wrap a head around. I hear the sound of something hitting the inside of the roof of it.

Was that the stitching went, bing? I mean, I don't know what else he means. It could be. anyway that's he puts his cane in the car and as i'm fiddling with my phone i hear the sound of something hitting the inside of the roof of my car and out of the corner of my eyes see yellow tint streaming from the lower half of my riders might have been his stitches or something i mean that's doesn't sound right but no that's foul oh jeez i don't know what you do and also i feel really bad this guy's not he needs proper medical care exactly i mean this is uh yeah this

is get some antibiotics man who oh anyway thanks for the story Travis em not to be If he was the TV's Travis, who would never. You still haven't heard back from TV's Travis. I've seen, you know, we've interacted a little bit in the Discord channel, but he still's not given us the final answer on the wagering in the TV's Travis trivia game, right? The one, two, three thing. Do you still get a three if you take the one?

Yeah, he hasn't, boy awfully quiet over there, Travis. I know. He's got his team of scientists working on it. Top men working on the rules. Yeah, they're always, I mean, he, He's the guy's always working on something cool. Who knows what he's up to. But yeah, let us know, Travis.

Let us know what's going on. All right. A couple more things. We got a call from a Canadian. And this is about how we say things that are Canadian. And ironically, it's from somebody named Silvane Boudouin. Baudouin. Baudouin.

Baudouin. Baudouin. Baudouin Baudouin. Sylvain Baudouin Baudouin. It's got Bo in it. I hope part of his message is saying how he pronounces his name. Oh, good point. I don't actually know. Let's find out. Hi, Scott and Brian. This is a longtime fan of your show and all your stuff and just literally came back to listening to you guys.

You guys were talking in the episode 2681, the Big Cheese, about how to pronounce or we're trying to pronounce the name of the new pope in how it's written. its source is a French-Canadian name and the way we would say it here or in Quebec would be Robert Prevo but you guys feel free to use it the way you want in the States but that would be how it would be said thank you

have a good day and love the show so we say provost or proffs what do we say what's that guy's name provost let me pull I'm pulling up his that's how you pronounce L-E-O that's crazy Current Pope Leo His real name was

Where is it? Let's see I know It's like I can't find it all of a sudden Boy they really want you to do the new one I guess The new Pope Here we go

Robert Francis Prevost So he said it's Prevot Peron Peron Franci Robert Francine Prévo Yeah pour gravy on those fries But he's a, he's Chicagoan.

So it's Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost. Hey, Bob. Bob Prevost. Robert. Yeah, I guess so. I mean, I should have known. It didn't look. Actually, it didn't hit me that that was like French origin, even the way that.

I didn't know, not exactly. But yeah, the Prevon. But now we need Sylvain Boudouin doin to tell us how to say his name. I know, exactly. I want to know. I'm sure we butchered the. crap out of it. Yeah. Well, in the meantime, Kristen has this to say. Hey, sword and blizzard rod. This is Kristen, still in Mountain, Georgia. Have a quick question for you. My sister gave me Zelda

Breath of the Wild for Christmas. I like it, but my husband loves it. He's been playing it like crazy. He's beaten it, the expansion mode, the master mode, still loves it. So, his birthday is coming up. I would like to get him a new Zelda game, but I have no idea which one to pick. There are so many different types iterations of Zelda. Can you video game experts, please tell me which one I should get him if he loves Breath of the Wild when they get something similar enough that he still loves the new one too thanks for the help love the show though so tears of the kingdom's the obvious exactly that would be exactly what i was going to say like great go right to the sequel yeah go right to the sequel it's exactly where you probably want to be if he really enjoyed breath of the wild

yeah and it picks up even where the um where the last game leaves off basically which is rare for nintendo they don't usually do sequels totally that's basically a sequel yeah yeah um i think I think Ocarina of Time to Masked Major is the only other example where they did a kind of a two-parter. Right, yeah. So it's been a while, you know, 30 years. I don't know much about echoes. Echoes of Wisdom is the one where you play as Zelda this time. Yeah, and I have heard wonderful things about that.

Really? Okay. Yeah, I'm, yeah. Very different game, though. It's like the cheapy, top-down, you know, old school. That's right. Yep. So it's right. So it's going to be closer to, like, classic Zelda games, but that one's also.

excellent. The one prior to that that's in the same style, that's a remake of the Game Boy game called Link's Awakening? Oh, Link's Awakening, okay. I think it's Link's Awakening. That is also awesome. But if you're like, well, what about all the old ones?

It depends on kind of what you have. If you have their online service, you can get all the classics, all the way up to Super NES and N64. But if you want WinWaker, the best game in the series in my opinion, then you need to either wait for a remake or go play it on a Wii

or get the old one and emulate it. So there's no real way to play. You can get Skyward Sword. I imagine all of these with the Nintendo subscription thing. You can probably play all of them. But Skyward Sword, you can probably easily get onto the Switch. You can

it's a buyable game on the Switch. They made a version of it. But there's no GameCube games on the service yet. The online service that gives you N64 and S&S and all that. No GameCube there yet.

Although I think part of the Switch 2 announcement is that was maybe coming. Okay. I can't remember. So you may, if that's true, you'll have Winwaker before you know it. Yeah, exactly. And it's the, I still say this. I love them all, but I love that one so much. Yeah, Winwaker is really, really good.

Let's see. There's a 3DS game, too, that I really like called. Was that Link Between Worlds? Is that 3DS game? That was so good. Link Between Worlds, yes. Top-down kind of 3DS. Yeah, so good.

Yep, that one was good too. So, Metacritic ratings put, wow, Ocarine of Time at 99. Yeah, it's an all-timer. It is. Four Swords, 95, Wind Waker, 96, Twilight Princess 96, Skyward Sword, 93.

They really are no bad Zelda games, really? They really aren't. Well, that's not true. Zelda 2. Zelda 2 is difficult as hell, but it changes so many things all at once that, you know, when you're, when you play Legend of Zelda and you're like, oh, I really like this. And then you go to this weird side-scroly thing where you're fighting a shadow version of yourself that's impossible to damn kill. Yeah, that's hard. I don't like the 2D scrolly bits.

No, no. The only thing worse is those original CDI. They had a deal with Nintendo. Phillips. Oh, on other, yes. Terrible,

terrible, terrible. Don't even look at them. Those you probably can't. No. Even if you can get them on the switch, don't. You'd have to go through some hoops. You can emulate it,

but I do not recommend even going. Pretend those didn't happen. They're that bad. But yeah, I think you're pretty much in luck with everything. And if I was going to say, all right, you're on a switch already.

What can I do like today? Tears of the Kingdom makes the most sense because you're going straight from one to a sequel. And you're going to be already familiar with every bit of the control system, the buttons, everything is going to be very, you're going to basically just be able to jump right into the other ones. It sounds like he's already okay with weapon damage, which sucks.

I hate how weapons play. I hate that too, but yeah, I get it. If you're okay with it, then you'll be okay with Tears in the Kingdom. But I would argue that if you're going to use the online thing where they have the old classics, I would pick up. Wind waker Well, they don't have it on there yet So I do

Skyward Sword No, it's wrong with my brain It's a big, you'll get it for free Because it comes with SNES What's it call? What's the SNES one? I'm getting it. In time, link before time.

Link spends some time. Link to the past. Gee, to the past, okay. Here I am recommending a thing I can't remember the name of. But that's probably the height of the 2D era. That's a As good as it got.

So good. Such a great game. Yep. Well, thanks for asking. Thanks for your question. Brian, we ought to do some news. Let's do some news. Let's inform the people.

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way to japan um but it didn't quite end that way but really okay yeah it was a long time ago is the one where i ever tell you the story of the guy that went up to the cabin and banged on the banged on the door of the uh you think you have yeah i think i talked about that that that almost ended that way um jeez he tried to escape the plane above the ocean like an idiot But anyway, Japan flight had to make an emergency landing after a man tried opening the door. You can't be doing that. A Japanese plane headed from Tokyo to Texas, the big T's, you know, had to make an emergency landing after a passenger tried to open one of its doors during the flight. Al-Nippon Airways, or All Nippon Airways, Nippon, Nipon, Nipon.

Nipon. Nipon. Or probably Nipon. Nipon. But the all, I didn't know that was part of their name. I just knew Nipon Airways, but I never knew. So it was all Nippon airways. Sounds like a dry ramen company.

Yes. You know what I mean? Like package of Nippon? No, I think there is. Oh, Nissan. Yeah, Nissan Foods. Oh, maybe that's what I'm thinking of. That might be it.

Yeah. They do the ramen. It's great if they own airlines as well, you know. It's like, oh, the ramen people are really expanded. They've done great. Anyway, the A&A, as they're called for short, this was Flight 114 was diverted to Seattle hours after taking off on Saturday due to an unruly passenger. Port of Seattle police told media that they had been notified of a man who, quote, attempted to open exit doors during the flight, unquote.

The man who was not identified, I'm not sure why, was having a medical crisis and had to be restrained by the other passengers and flight crew. He was later taken to a hospital. It's unclear if he will face any charges. Pretty sure that's a big no-no. But I'm sure there's some, like if he was having them in this. Right. If it's a medical issue, what is it like a guilt, not guilty by reason of insanity kind of thing. The guy in my flight was more of a psycho drank too much and punched his wife on the flight. Oh, geez. He sucked that guy.

That's where you break out the duct tape and just duct tape him to the chair. I got to hear the, because we were in business class. We were up close to the captain, and we saw him if they're banging on his door. The captain came out. and threatened him just said first of all you will never fly this airline again that's already a thing we're not doing ever will you fly this airplane again or on this airline

and we might just take you to Alaska and drop you off there and leave you there and leave you at the police let you find your own way back from it was this Japanese businessman who was just totally out of control and then and the guy finally said he would sit somewhere away from his wife

by himself he made all these concessions and was bowing 50 times and all this stuff so it all worked out in the end but i have to when you're above the atlanta or the pacific ocean you're like holy shit what is going on in this plane yeah last thing uh you want done especially if you're close to were they the front exit doors or the middle of the plane exit doors middle uh oh i guess if he was banging oh he was just being your guy was just banging the cabin well he did both so he banged on the cabin door but before that he had gone to the side door and was like yanking on the thing and jerking on handles and

And then the, he got sworn by attendants. And then they, then he rushed past them and went banged on the captain's door. Okay. What's weird is he never said much. He was really quiet. So he wasn't going, ah, bab, bab, bah, bah, bah, or freaking out or, you know, any of that. He was just like quietly trying to wrestle the door open, slapping his wife, tried to punch a flight attendant and banging on the door of this captain. And the only everything I heard him to say was, so sorry, so sorry.

And he kept bowing his head. So it was one of those things. Wow. Anyway, moving on. Let's see. He was later taking the hospital. Okay, the safety of our passengers are a crew of top priority,

and we applaud the efforts of local law enforcement for their support. It says an ANA representative. While the plane was waiting on the tarmac in Seattle, Tacoma International Airport, a second person was removed from the flight for unruly behavior. This was a rough flight type,

apparently. Not good stuff going around. No kidding. Flight data shows the plane made it to its destination, though, eventually. So it all worked out. Do we feel like there's an issue? I mean, okay, we want those exit doors to be openable in case of emergency

and very easily openable in case of emergency so that the passengers who've been good and read their little card and who responded, yes, they will assist the flight crew in case of an emergency. We want them to be able to get out those exit doors when the time comes. They have to be accessible, right? They have to be accessible, but is there, can we think of a better way to make them, you know, how do we make it so that there's like a little switch that if there's not an emergency, those doors can't be opened, but who, the person who might be having that emergency, the captain or the one of the flight attends could be the one having the emergency and can't flick the switch that says now open those doors. doors. Yeah. You know, there's got to be some sort of, I don't know, it feels like those, it feels like

if there's a danger of people opening those doors when there's not an emergency, there needs to be a way of making those doors not open. Yeah. Not an emergency. What's your contingency plan, airline? Right. Right. I'm sure they have something that they work on.

I don't know, because it certainly seems like, you know, there's, there's, I guess you never hear about somebody successfully opening those doors during a flight so you'd have such bad i mean i guess the decompression alone would be enough to i actually i don't know how that works they have a way to recover from that it would suck all the do it would suck the people um not if it's one of those doors that just pops off i know um like the the exit doors above the wing i think when you open those they come completely off oh so right off oh shit yeah well now i don't know I'm going to look real close next time I'm in there. Disturbed Angel says you can't.

The pressure keeps it close. So really, they just can't open those doors when the plane is up in the air. Because movies tend to tell us lies, you know? Yeah, exactly. Never bet on black. No, I'm kidding. Always bet on black. They make it seem like the bad guy can just open it with a latch turn and we're done.

Or the plane will always split in half and the back end will fly away from the front end. Right. But all the people, or a majority of the people in the front half and the back half the plane will survive and find each other before the others get them. Exactly. Unless you're that one actor that JJ likes a lot, he was always dying early. Oh, yeah, I know you're talking about. Yeah, it's Greg Grunberg. Grunberg.

By the way, so since that new duster show on HBO is a JJ thing, Grunberg's in that. Of course he is. He's the head of the local FBI office in Phoenix. He's fantastic in it. I love grunny. Yeah, he's great. Talked with him over email very briefly when he was in the band called Band from TV. We'll play on.

We've been banned from TV, but about doing an interview. And it never materialized. I was going to try and get him on for a next top podcaster interview segment, but things didn't work out. I mean, what a guy to be able to interview and ask about any. of the facets of his career his movies his tv shows his work with j james his music etc i didn't know he was in music at all that's news yeah um so uh but anyway um yeah he's he's uh he's in that duster thing i've been meaning to watch that it's a it's real good it's a week by week thing right it is yeah kim and i saw the first episode and then she went out of town so we haven't been able to catch up

but it's probably good i'd rather like cram a couple two three in but it's uh it's just so the vibe is so exactly what they're aiming for like this like 72 73 desert city just I love stuff like that like that's awesome vinyl the series on HBO

deuce was really really good I love I love those when they're done well those like 70s 80s period pieces period piece television show series that work really well yeah they costume and like set wise they've nailed the aesthetic like no other it's almost too much it's almost like close to a cartoon not a cartoon yeah not in a bad way like they get right up to the edge okay but it's more like uh like

what was the tarentino rodriguez combo uh oh uh dusk till done no the other one the two movies the two movies uh grind house the grind house thing yes it's it's a lot it's like that backdrop that vibe okay all right but it works okay yeah yeah i get you i see what you that's good josh holloway looking cool in his older age i like it awesome yeah handsome man no matter how old he gets he's got a big mouth though and i don't mean like he's a big wide jaw oh yeah it's just out to here dude just yeah like it's like the joke listen freckles i swear i saw a bear we're gonna go the other side of island i don't care if you're coming with me or not if you jack if you i didn't have this much of an accent but brand's giving me one no

Nobody would know what we're doing unless we told you. That's right. It's like my friend, Kathy, just always, every impersonation she did, it would begin with the name of the person. I'm George Bush. Her impersonations. I love it. Yeah. All right, here's a story.

After winning a $5 million lottery, a Winnipeg man says his ex-girlfriend ghosted him. Hmm. It sounds like bad timing on her part because it does. Yes. let's find out more let's see whoops I skipped it there it is Winnipegman is suing his ex

claiming she ghosted him after winning $5 million of oh he won it Yeah I was like oh she won the ticket She won the lottery That headline is not great If you like a thing you should put a ring Yeah

I think maybe suing is a That's a real stretch She said yep I can finally afford my way out of this situation yeah that's that's a little much um all right well let's see uh but he claims the ticket was his now here's the let's get to the yeah this is where the rub is uh the lawrence campbell launched a five million dollar lawsuit in manitoba court and king's bench uh of king's bench love that uh earlier

this month against his ex partner crystal and mackay uh as well as the western canadian lottery corporation and the manitoba liquor and lotteries uh organization there according to the claim It started on January 19th, 2024, when Campbell went to the Canco convenience store on Isabel Street to buy himself a 649 lottery ticket. At the time, the claim alleged Campbell and McKay were in a loyal, committed, and promising, romantic relationship. Oh, it's lovely. Sure. It says after buying the ticket, the claim said that Campbell handed it to McKay, she recently lost her wallet.

He had lost his wallet. Oh, there it is. He lost his wallet. Ticket was then forgotten until a few days later when Campbell found it on the ground at a friend's house. The claim says Campbell scanned the ticket barcode onto his phone. All right. Quote, that's when they found out he won. He couldn't believe it. He had won the lotto, 649 jackpot. The claim read. After calling friends and family members, the claim says Campbell and McKay went to a nearby shopper's drug mart to report a video of the two

verifying their win. Okay. Okay. A record video. Sorry. The problem started to arise when according to the claim, the two spoke with someone at the Western Canada Lottery Corporation and told them Campbell would be ineligible and unable to claim the winnings as he did not have valid government-issued ID. Now, here's where the problem happens. Yeah. Okay. So, I mean, I think that, you know, it's all normal up until now. It's probably right in the rules there of the, you know, this written on the back of the ticket and very tiny letters, must have a government issued ID to claim winnings. Yep. And then here's what got, here's where it got weird, though.

Okay. It was really overwhelming. I was very excited, McKay said, during a press. conference telling reporters the winning ticket was a birthday gift from him all right so he then says she had been asking me for three weeks to get a ticket but i never went and got one he said during a news conference then we drove one or sorry then we drove by one and i was like okay may as well go and get you one right now the claim said mccabe deposited the five million dollars into her bank account does it work that way they just hand you the five million that's how it works i mean no i mean i I imagine that they ask for your routing number and bank account number, and they deposit it.

But it can happen just as simple as that. They just ach it in and you're done? Yeah, but I'm sure it was, you know, the, like, this didn't, this wasn't three days, two days later. I'm sure it was like a, it's probably like a couple, a few days. Yeah, they don't really indicate. But here's what she said, or what happened. She puts it in the bank account. Campbell didn't have an active account, so he couldn't do it.

Oh, loser. Yeah, this is where it gets bad. No, no ID, no bank account. No. You should have ghosted him a lot sooner, but. Yep. And then in the days following the win, the claim alleges McKay did not return to the hotel room that she had been sharing with him. She basically just said, she didn't show up.

Yeah. But the money in her count and took off. Yeah. Now, I understand why he's mad because she took the money and ran. Yes. Is it a suable offense? Like, I don't think so. Is it?

Like, she had the ticket in her possession? Yeah. I don't know how you win this one. I mean, he bought the ticket, he claims, and had her hold on to it. She says that she'd been wanting a lottery ticket for a long time. Her goal in life was to get a lottery ticket. Like, we cross this item off the bucket list. I've now got a lottery ticket.

But, I mean, it sounds like, I don't know. It's, it is absolutely, he said, she said, there's no way, unless you've got video of the purchase to show that he pulls the money out of his wallet and buys the lottery ticket. Well, I guess they're not arguing, they're not disputing whether or not he bought the ticket. But was it intended as a gift for her or what? But maybe that's all you have to prove. As he checked on his friend, by the way, the friend who's floor, like he gives the ticket to her. He then finds it on the ground at a friend's house a few days later.

Is that friend ghosting you too? Because I think I might have known where she went. starting to smell a little fishy about how who's got what and where they're all at right now. Right. And this guy is not invited. That's all we know for sure. Yeah. He's not part of it.

Well, anyway, good luck to him and his horrible situation he finds himself in. Yeah. I mean, you know, the right thing, even if she wants out of the relationship, the right thing is to give him half and just say, you know what? Let's cut it. Two and a half million dollars, whatever it is after taxes. cut your losses and say, you know what, we'll move on out of this loving and committed romantic relationship. Yeah.

I wonder if there's, I guess it's probably the same up there for taxable lottery winnings, right? I'm sure. Yeah. It's half the point that they do it is they get extra. They basically get a double dip. It's like, a bunch of tax money makes the lottery. Then if you win the lottery, we tax you on the money we already taxed. Right.

The money you spent buying the ticket. taxed and the money we give you is taxed but the winnings are taxed as well somehow it feels like the house has an advantage here with the lotteries oh amish overlord says i think Canada doesn't tax winnings okay well i mean Amish overlord show us your resources show us your sources i can't just take a little comment seriously unless exactly not that it matters but i wonder first of all i didn't know Canada had one i guess probably lots of places have them yeah yeah um we just don't. Why wouldn't they? It's a really easy way to make money off of

your people, your constituents. What are your, what's yours called? You got one there. The Colorado lottery. Very simple. Yeah. Idaho has one. I don't, we don't, we don't, we're the only one I think in all the, Utah, yeah, the western

states that doesn't have one. I think so. Which is weird because maybe Wyoming may not. I can't remember. But all the places that touch us, I think I'll have lotteries. and they're always poking us going You want lotteries, you want lottery

You like the lottery? You like to win much money? There's definitely a situation Yeah, we've got Mega Millions here as well, Rainbow Bright So we always get those things like Oh, the Mega Millions jackpot is up to 200 million Or some dumb amount And my mom is a

She always says, well, if I win, I'm buying a ticket today if I win, I'm giving you half. I'm like, great, okay. And if I step outside, I might get hit by lightning too. So there's that. There is that. But the, I was it going to say, the, something about the lottery, something about, I can't remember what I was going to say.

We can go to windover and get tickets, but then there is a way to do it so you can win the Nevada stuff. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's what I was going to say. It does, I know. It's not the case, but it does seem like every time I turn on the news and they're showing some some huge winner on the Colorado lottery, not the Mega Millions, but the Colorado lottery, it's somebody from another state. Yeah, yeah.

Either they came here to ski and they bought a ticket and they won, or they were driving through and they got a ticket and they won, but it's all, it's absolutely a grass is always greener kind of thing, where I only notice it when it's somebody else. Yeah, if we're in Idaho, we always get one. It's just for shits and giggles. We never win anything. Yeah. It's like two bucks.

All right, well, that is it for now. We're going to take a break when we come back. My sister, Wendy, will be here. We're going to talk about something very specific to the whole time management thing they're working on over there. I think Brian is in that class, yes. I'm in that class, yes.

You're going to get some bonus stuff today. Before all that, though, Brian, we probably ought to play a song. What do you got? Well, shoot, why are they giving away for free if I had to pay for it? All right, let's get to a band called Witches Ride. Witches Ride.

They're about to come out with their new album called Collector. comes out June 19th, so a little less than a month away. This is the first single from the album. It's called Among the Crowd. It's described by the band as a bit of a dark rock opera about a preacher who loses his following and sells his soul to the devil in hopes of getting it back. There you go.

That's actually the concept of the whole album, not just this song. I love a return to the concept albums. That's more of those. Me too. A huge fan of those, man. Like, you know, the wall? Why is the wall so cool? The wall.

That's so good. Each song makes the others better when it's a concept album. All right. The band is called Witch's Ride. Here is Among the Crowd. With no option, let it all go. Drop the love to fall. follow all of my dreams

What's it take to say? It's gonna be okay What's it take to say? It's gonna be okay I'm on the crowd I found my sanity to night In all your eyes my love Settles here within

The only home I've ever known Oh, I've ever known Saddle's here within the only home When no regrets I took A chance on this long shot So Lord, oh my pride to grace this age What's he take to stay? It's gonna be okay

What's he takes you say, it's gonna be okay. Along the crime, I found my sanity tonight in all your husbanda settles here within the only home I've ever known, I've ever known, settles here within the only own. I'm on the brawlify my sanity tonight. I'm madly proud of all my sanity tonight. In all your eyes, but all settles here within the only home I've ever known. I'll ever know.

Settles here within the only own. Among the crowd, I find my sanity tonight. In all your eyes, my love settles here within the only old. Did you know adults 60 plus lose more than $60 billion each year to financial exploitation? Greenlight's new family shield plan empowers you to monitor your accounts for suspicious activity, protect yourself with up to $1 million identity theft coverage, and reassure loved ones that you're safe with location sharing and place alerts. Get peace of mind today at greenlight.com slash protect. That's greenlight.com slash protect. we have a serious problem the fiends are trying to resurrect the arch fiend we can't let that happen i see

the agencies broadened its horizons you've temporarily saved yourself from a swim in the toilet and we're back oh oops that didn't work that's the wrong one there it is and we're back hey what was that song all about there right there sure that's the band And Witches Ride, their new album, Collector, comes out June 19th. That's the first single it's called Among the Crowd. Nice. Sounds fantastic. It's really good. It's really, really good.

All right, we're going to get Wendy in here. We're going to have some fun, have some chat. Let's play this right here. Psychosomatic. That boy needs therapy. Psychosomatic. That boy needs therapy. It's too early for a fish sandwich.

It is so early for a fish sandwich. And my sister is here, not too early, not too late. Right on time like a wizard means to be. Hi, Wendy. How are you? Hi. I'm good. How the heck are you? What's your life like today? I'm good. How's this clean feed working? This is nice. It's nice, right? It's really nice.

Yeah, really low latency. We're not, we're not cutting you out. You're not cutting us out. It's working nice. We like our feed clean. Yeah, clean feet. We like it clean. Okay. Keep your feeds clean. So you can hear me if I, like, raise my desk or something, probably. Probably, but you sound better here than you used to sound on Discord. So maybe we, maybe we won't. The only downside of this thing is, what, it's, it's, it's trades low latency for it's a little more sensitive about room noise so like I can hear things

happen that maybe in the past was a little less but it's it's a better trade off because it's so much faster so much cleaner cleaner on the clean feet so Brian you're going to hear my birds is what we're saying that's right I'm going to hear your birds I'm going to hear the ballpoint pen if you're doing any kind of pen action yeah right there's the one right there you might hear Brian type occasionally you might hear me hit a mic You never know. You never know what you're going to get. Anyway, it's great to have you here, though,

because not only you're my sister, you're an actual therapist, you all the time with real stuff, and this week is no different. Also, the purveyor of all good things over at know better you.com, which we will talk about a little bit later. But today is a little bit kind of adjacent to all that, right?

We're going to talk about something that's kind of sort of connected in a big way to what you guys are talking about right now over there. So I'm just going to read it. Here it is. unless you had anything you wanted to start with I shouldn't say. No, this is, get it

to it. All right, here we go. Somebody is going to call themselves J.B. They also, they give a little information down here. I'll read that first. They are 38. They are male. Partnered with a cat whose litter box, I keep forgetting to clean. That's what it says at the bottom. I'd probably say much about the message.

But anyway, here's the subject. Time and Struggle. Dear Scott, Brian, and Wendy, I've been meaning to write this for weeks, but sending it just feel like a small miracle. I'm reaching out because I'm really struggling with time and it's affecting my life in ways I can't keep ignoring. Time is slippery for me. I constantly lose track of it. I'll think something will take 15 minutes and then lose two hours. I put things off until quote unquote later and later never comes. I've tried calendars, alarms, color-coded to-do lists, but nothing sticks. I feel like my brain

won't cooperate. This is hurting my work, my health, and especially my relationship. My partner is incredibly patient, but I can feel the strain. They say it is like I live in a different world where time is flexible and they're left waiting or rescheduling around my chaos. I've missed dinners, forgotten errands, bailed on plans, and I know it hurts. This isn't new. As a kid, I would always be late, losing things, forgetting assignments, staying up all night to finish what I should have done earlier. People told me I was smart but not living up to my potential. Oh man, do I feel this? I internalize that as laziness or failure. and I still carry the shame.

Lately, I'm wondering if I might have ADHD or something similar. I've read stories that sound just like mine. Time blindness, emotional swings, and constant low-level anxiety about forgetting something. I feel like I'm always running, but never getting anywhere. I don't want to keep disappointing the people I care about or myself. I think this goes deeper than reading or, sorry, needing a new system. I need to understand what's really going on. Thank you for reading this and for your time.

J.B. Wow, that sure fits right into it. what you guys were working on over there, doesn't it? Totally. Yeah. It's exciting. Well, there is so, there's so much, you know, one of the reasons this even exists and why I've cared about time is, A, I'm a fairly productive person and I use, like, artificial deadlines to create emergency. So I get that done, right?

Wow. I have plenty of actual deadlines to create emergencies. I don't need to fabricate any new ones. Yeah, I fabricate something. I mean, like when I create something that nobody's looking for, right? I have an artificial deadline. I think your mic went up. Her audio just got, yeah.

Got muffled. Let me make sure something. Oh, no. I don't think it's, it sounds like you're, something got muffled. Like, you're talking through a shirt like your lovelier fell down. Are you're, what kind of mic are you on? Is it just the room mic? No, it's headphones.

Oh, weird. Oh, weird. Here, I'll turn you up. Do I still sound weird? Oh, there you sound better. Is that from you bumping it? I'm turning her up a little. Okay.

Okay. Keep going. Sorry. Go ahead. That's me leaning forward. It's a little more muffled than it was before I said anything. Yeah. Ryan, I feel like it was you.

Move your little stick around. Just see if it does anything. My sarcasm. My biting wit broke your mic. Yeah, it did. All right. Say something. Yeah, you sound better.

Still a little muffly, but it'll work out. It'll be fun. It'll be fun. It'll be fun. It'll try to speak clearly. Excellent. Okay. Okay. So what is really apparent to me when I'm working with somebody is like we sort of break down various elements of their life. And it is almost universal that people struggle with managing their time. And there is a whole range of what that even means, right? Someone might just be, I overcommit. I can't say no. You know, I got a lot of my plate or, you know, whatever. Or I just can't seem to focus very long. It can be different things all the way to.

And I think this guy is in a kind of a different extreme category when it comes to time that it's always been tricky, right? So you have people who are like, I don't remember as a kid ever even thinking about time, like just living my life, you know, get my stuff done. And I think to someone who has spent childhood years hearing that you're not doing a good job with time, hearing why aren't you A, B, or C, or this kind of idea of like, you're smart. why are you not able, you know, to clean up your room and turn in your paper on time, right? And so there is a massive impact on emotional identity, emotional development, and sense of identity, right? This thing. So, Scott, you said real quick, before I continue it, I was just going to say, you know, I have found no one who has sleeps well when they come to see me and no one who is really

managing their time very well. Those are really common things. So this is why I'm excited to do this class because I think it applies. to literally everyone everybody yeah this the writer you know says what's wrong with me i think something's wrong with me it's like nope it's the same thing that's wrong with all of us yeah it's really really true we all we all have a form of this but yeah you mentioned something like it was very familiar to hear um you're not living up to your potential oh yeah you just share is that based on how you handled time or um yeah i do and i think i think for me junior high in high

schools where this manifested it was uh because prior to that you're a carefree kid who who cares like you're just having fun time means nothing but when you're you have deadlines in the form of homework in particular that's where I would sometimes hit a wall and when I would hit that wall it would be like oh there's a report due and I have two weeks to do it and my brain would go well that's plenty of time and you'd go do something fun and then you'd come back to it and then you'd say I don't want to do this right now you go back and have some more fun and then eventually it's the day before and you now have to cram and this isn't going to be news to a lot of people this is how a lot of people do things just literally procrastination the definition of it is is procrastination

um but it was kind of chronic and i would do it all the time and i know it drove mom and dad nuts but where where i was told that i wasn't living up to that potential where there were teachers who were saying your test scores are through the roof you test in the high percentile what is why why are you failing this class and the answer was always i'm putting the work off too late or I didn't turn it in at all, or especially in high school, where I was like, quick caring. I was like, well, I don't get around to it.

And I just wouldn't get around to it and not turn it in. But then test day would come up and I would like ace it. And so that drove my teacher's crazy. And it drove me a little nuts because I knew I could see it, right? I could see the problem. And so there was always that feeling of, I knew what they were saying was true. Like that was,

I was hindering my potential by not doing the groundwork on the, homework and the other stuff that was like hard or took time or whatever um and oftentimes the way it would work is it wasn't as hard nearly as hard as my brain would make it even on the night before i would whip it out and go oh well i could have done that like last tuesday what am i doing this for that would happen a lot i do that now with stuff i'll get like a project or a commission or something and it'll stress me out even though i know i've got months i'll be like oh that one that one that one and then i'm like scott just sit down and do it quit worrying about it just do it and i'll do it And I'll go, well, that wasn't that bad.

I'm done already. Let's send them over the sketch. Hey, they approved it. We're on our way. We're almost done. Like, in two days, we're getting paid. Like, it's not a big deal. But I would always create the big deal by putting it off, doing something else, coming back, bribre, bha, bha, all that sort of thing.

So that's, to answer your question, that's kind of what is that. No, that's really helpful. Because I'm going to riff off that a little bit. And it may apply to the emailer or not. I don't know specifically, but then I can get into what he's talking about. well but so there is a very first of all I think the type of brain that does really well with here's a report due in three months start writing about it now is it is a certain kind of brain and but the expectations in school for the longest time

have been you know centered around that kind of brain so if your school had only been test taking and that was the measure of your work you would have never had those conversations, right? Sure. But what was built in is this other form of learning and the concept, the pedagogy behind it ultimately is, you know, gaining information over time helps you learn it better theoretically, right? And there are certain brains that 100% that's working great for, and then there are brains

where it is absolutely difficult and then leads to this like sort of spiraling problem where you think you're broken or something's wrong with you because you're not doing what the whole classroom expects and what other kids seem to be doing without even trying. You know, they just, they just turn it in or whatever. Okay, so first of all, noting that those differences are real and there are plenty of people with them, it does mean, though, if your industry or the school you're in or the family you're in, that structure works really differently from them, it can cause a lot of a sense of self-worth really getting trashed, right?

And it's really frustrating. So one of the things I really care about when I'm working with somebody and their relationship with time is to help them adjust that identity and to sort of maybe even heal some of that stuff, recognizing, as a client put it once, I have a Ferrari brain in this, like, this shell of a car, you know, and everyone is thinking like, oh, you're driving this crappy car, but my brain is actually a Ferrari engine. Like I can do a million things. I just can't do it the way other people can. My car can't keep up with it. Yeah, right. Yeah. And I can't.

And so then, you know, we have lots of various things that sort of go on like that. So commonly you'll find this with folks who are diagnosed with ADHD or have a lot of those same symptoms, maintaining focus long enough to do certain things can be really tough, switching. You just want to switch all the time. But I'm going to give something very specific that Scott would apply to you then and probably applies to you now. And Brian, this may resonate with you too. I think the emailer might feel this as well. So a very common experience when you have ADHD or some types of neurodivergency is a feeling of absolute, almost repulsion, almost a physical

like stop or, you know, kind of response to having a demand placed on you. So we call it demand avoidance and so for example like I have a kid with this for sure I will walk into his room it will look like an inventor exploded in there it's a mess so many things I can't even describe and I will say you need to clean your room and the 10 minutes before he's in there thinking I should probably clean my room so he's starting to mess with stuff and put things away which let's be honest is never cleaning it's just moving things around but it is him thinking it's his idea right the minute i say clean your room it became a demand and his brain will respond like it will activate the amygdala like it will literally see it as a threat whereas another

kid might be like okay that's annoying i was about to do it and then just cleans his room whereas my child and many others will just it's almost like a biological requirement not to do it right Like a, yeah, like a deterrent, just the, the way of asking that the, the method of asking is the actual deterrent itself. Yes, yeah. And if I had said nothing, he probably would have partially cleaned his room. Yeah. So this idea, think about this as an adult in your work life. You are given a project or you're given, you know, here's this three month window.

You know, this is why I've often, I mean, half my job also is talking to people about how much they are so tired of being in meetings, meetings are killing everyone, right? And it's that constant reiteration of what we're doing and saying what you're working on. I mean, it is a bit of a managing that three-month window for a project to make sure it's getting done, right? But this idea of like, okay, these demands are put on you as an adult. And if your brain rejects those demands, you're in trouble because that's a lot of things. That's paying a bill. That's calling the doctor to make an appointment.

That's, you know, any pressure to do a thing you need to do can have this same response. So one of the things that we do, and we're going to talk about this in the course a bit, of how to navigate around some of these things that happen in our brain that feel so frustrating and feel like a personality flaw when really it's the wiring of our brain and we just got to work a little differently with that wiring. And it would be something like I would walk into, you know who's room and it would be a mess. And I would recognize that I'm about to create demand avoidance, right? As the parent, as an individual, you know, he'd have to set a timer or figure out some other way that works for his brain, right?

But as someone coming in and offering a demand, you know, I'd have to get a little more creative, right? And here's the key. You identify the value, not the demand. So, for example, Scott, you get a project, they gave you three months. Yeah. And you have now this ticking time clock. It's going to bug you most days. It's something in the back of your mind.

It's taking up energy in time this whole time. Then you knock it out in two days and you're done and you get relief. So you've rewarded your brain, basically, for doing it at the last minute. And sometimes we're more creative at the last minute because we juice is to the wall. You kind of the juices for it. Yeah. Yeah. And so we get really used to this rhythm.

But if we take out the demand on time and actually ask about your values, So let me ask, Scott, with this three-month project, what is it you actually value about any of it? Oh, man. That's interesting. I mean, okay. Well, in the case of this commission, for example, I obviously, you know, it's a business decision to do one. So it's money. And the other might be creative.

challenge, I suppose, although in this particular case, it's not, and it's not particularly challenging, but it's actually fun. The project's fun. There's something about the fact that I had a buffer of time that's a larger window than I'm used to that makes me not, not the, it's weird. People are just automatically think, oh, you're just putting it off because you have so much times. You can just put it off because you have time. And I, I don't think it's that. I think the bigger windows made me go, ah, but so much can happen in three months, and what if these other projects come and burr? You know, you start to panic around all of the things that you will or have to do during

that time and how much changes in three months and this sort of thing. So I build this like picture and a map of everything that has to be done around it in a way over complicated manner. It's all silly. Mental Gant chart kind of thing. Kind of, yeah. And it's kind of point, there's no reason for it. really all I need to do, that's the worst part is I know this, right?

It's not like I'm, I don't understand it. I know that the way to do it is you sit down, you get the sketch, you pound it out, you throw it to them, hey, what do you think? Approve it. Okay, cool. Let's go to ink and color. All right, great. Here's the process.

Here's my Venmo. Whatever, whatever the final stretch is. Like, I know the steps, and I know that they're actually simple, focusable, bite-sized steps. So you see the chasm between I know a thing and then why am I not doing? doing it. You don't think in high school you knew you were supposed to do that homework and turn it in? No, no. But I did. I mean, I knew that, but I knew that I knew that I had, like, even if it was like, hey, you have three days to read this chapter and then we're going to have a pop quiz. That was enough for me to go, like, simultaneously like, oh, no, I got a thing. I got it to have in three days. And then also, but I got three days. Like, it's a weird conflict. Yeah. Yeah. And this is where identifying. So it was fascinating. It was fascinating.

If anyone was listening, Scott went from saying his values about the project to immediately saying, well, anxiety, though, that's my friend. It came in. He gave me all the ways to do and live life, right? But actually, I'm going to make you focus back on the value. So the money, and it's something you knew would be fun. So if we can focus our energy, like if I went into Pete's room and I said, how do you feel about having a space that you can be creative in?

or, you know, like, identifying why does this clean up? Why would that even make it, like, what are his values around that? It might be just like, oh, it's fun when my friends come over and we can build crap on my desk because my desk is clean, you know, like you're putting into, I want to create a space that feels good to me. If that's the value and you focus on that, then what happens is the amygdala calms down and other parts of your brain lights up and goes, oh, yeah, I really want a space where I can be creative.

Sure. And so in your case, you start worrying about time. So much can happen in three months. Hilariously, if you focused on the value of like, my time is valuable or this, I know I can do this in two days because you know. And what I want is to have this done because I do value my time. So there is some room for other projects, right? So it is a way of talking to yourself and guiding yourself to do something differently. the trick is knowing how to intervene because most of this stuff is on railroad tracks that were built

when you were in sixth grade, right? And so we're having to rewire some things. And so that's why learning, being interested in how you operate with time is so valuable. So I love this email for this reason because it's like you can hear the story throughout. It ruins everything. I am bad. I've never been good at this. If you read this and said, you said these things out loud, you're going to believe these things, right? This is a deeply scripted story, which means there's a lot of neurons that are currently wired to have this story feel real and true all the time, right? So one of the things you have to do is start finding where it's not true, identifying some of these values, and then having some, you know, some strategies and some support to try it differently. And how we

wire our brain is we practice something. So, Scott, you practice delaying projects. What would happen if you started, you got a project, the second you got that project, you sat down and wrote down your values and tied everything to what I care about here. And maybe you're just like, I don't even care. I just care about the money. And then you stop and you go, okay, if I wait three months, then I'm actually disconnecting from I care about the money. I'm caring about my anxiety. If I cared about the money, I just get it done. so I have room for more things that make money.

If I care about the fun, then, you know, and to set your life up so that you are going to make the time to do the thing because you value it, not because the old script starts playing. Right. Does that make sense? Yeah, no, it does.

I never really thought about doing that. Like, usually what I do is go, oh, how long is that we're going to take? And then I'm also gauging the potential person on the other end. If I know them, it's easier. But if I don't know them, there, maybe a first timer, there's issues of like, how picky do I think they're going to be during the proof process? Are they going to change their minds? You know, I don't sound weird.

Is there a little bit of that, like pushing it off to, like, give them less time to change their minds and less time to be picky? A little bit. You want to close the window for them. Well, not only that, but I also want to, I want to try to control how much, how, like, I feel like I've actually kind of gotten good at this. I've gotten good at a system of here's what I charge and then I have pretty good intuition that they're going to be hard and nitpicky and not really sure what they want. I can usually gauge that from their initial contact with me. So I plan based on that of like, all right, well, here's how it works. It's half up front. It's once you approve the sketch, we're on our way. So that sketch phase is really important. But then there are times where I feel like

they already know that, and I don't need to focus on that, and that we can get right through it. So there is that, and during that, because I'm playing that little evaluation game, I'm rarely thinking about this values thing. Yeah. And so that's maybe something I need to just be mindful of next time I'm evaluating. Because you already have a process. This is something I'm always telling people, and I think the day I realized that was like, what?

That's real. So if someone says, what is your morning routine? You're like, yeah, I don't have one. Yeah, you do. you get up every morning and do things. You have one. Something already exists, and that's true in your business and your work and your to-do list or however you live your life.

You are currently operating in a particular system. It may not be thoughtful or intentional, but habits are there. Our brains are 100% like, how do I make this more efficient? Oh, I'll do the same thing every day or some form of the easiest thing and not maybe the thing that's best for you. So if you start to be more thoughtful or think about it, So, Scott, you've got your program the way you do it. You sort of have a checklist or a philosophy

that you're living your work by. Add a literally, maybe you write it down, a values evaluation, right? Where you just spend, it's five minutes max, where you're just identifying your values and then thinking about your time value. So all the training has led you to be on your heels when it comes to time, right?

Your brain kind of, operates that way a little bit, what would look like, I am consciously deciding how the time works this, this round. Right, right. So maybe it's that I do it this Saturday. I got the, you know, I got the call Tuesday, and this Saturday I've got like a two-hour block. I'm sticking it in there. And I, instead of it said demand, it's the value about my time, which I've already established, acts as a motivator. Right.

And there's lots of other things you can do with time to make this easier. but it's it's connecting to the value so when I when I look at this email and I think all right we don't have any sense of and I don't know what this person does for a living that would have been interesting but like what is the what are the what are the what are the values and you can hear it in the lamenting yeah my values are not feeling stupid my values are you know and they're and I'm hurt these there are all these places that I'm hurt and I want to do it differently. And I'm just going to guess nobody in your life, I mean,

do you two have any history of anyone teaching you a organizational method or parents and not only? I'm watching that Maria Kondo thing on Netflix. Yeah, I mean, I did the way, after after kids, she's like, no, this doesn't work.

I take it all back. Nothing sparks joy. No, thanks. I did the Dale Carnegie thing, which touched on the what was it called the emergent task planner or led me to the emergent task planner which I used for a long time and it was a really really cool really good way of doing it just basically saying don't overload you know keep everything on a to-do list but don't make that the to-do list that you look at day to day do like put only put on the to-do list the things you know you're

going to be able to accomplish in one day and then if you accomplish all those yep then you go to the the rest of the thing and and pull a new one from there. But it's, yeah, so Dale Carnegie training was about the closest that ever closest I ever did is that getting things done thing. Oh yeah. The method I still use every day that has

worked for me, has been a big boon for me, is the brain dump idea of once something pops into your head, even if it's a distraction, but it's something you want to do, think about, watch, whatever. Don't try to keep it in your head all the time, dump it. So I

I have this, never remember it. Yeah, so I have this dumping system where I dump, dump, dump all day. And then I go to that at the end of the day, usually at the end of whatever I'm going to call my work hours, sometimes those are weird. But whenever that is, and then I go through them all and I make action out of them or chuck them or that wasn't worth doing. And so get rid of that or this one is worth doing. So put that as a priority or whatever. I do that every day. That's huge for me.

That actually is a thing that I integrated really well. and I feel like it was a strong add to my productivity. Because prior to that, I was just like, how am I going to remember everything? And I don't know, I don't know what to do. And then I would go, what was that idea I had? I don't remember. And now I have a place where it's just all there.

And I just have to go through it. Yeah. And some of it is useless. The brain, it's like, oh, yeah, remember this? And the problem is if you're not sort of committed to the thing you're doing or have a plan for how you're sort of living your day a little bit, then you can just follow what. whatever trail gets sparked in your head.

And we all do this. Even if you're really a productive or you've got a good system, you will be like, oh, what's that thing? And then you will go down a rabbit hole. You've done this for sure, right? Where you go down a rabbit hole and you're like, why did I even start this? Yeah. Oh, it's to look at the weather. And you're like, what?

I know. Yeah. Even get on the weather app. You know, so the phone is built to mingle us in this way. Like it's to take you your eyeballs in other places. it is truly built for that, and it works so seamlessly. And so having some structure that you can rely on is really important. So I would suggest for this person, A, to sign up for my glass.

I would also suggest, you know, the therapeutic part of this, like I just hear a lot of pain. I hear a lot of identity theft, really, where you're, you know, your potential and these sort of maybe a life of consistently feeling like you're not living up to that and disappointing people and your relationships are hard, right? There's, there is some things to work out there. But I also know maybe a nice diagnosis of ADHD officially might go a long way. I know a lot of folks have found that very helpful because then it's like it sends them into the direction of like really understanding how executive functioning works and doesn't and what they can do to train their brain to do better things or you know there's medication treatment some other things so that's something i would also

recommend is you know it's kind of a a piecemeal solution where you're going to look at a couple areas this isn't as simply as like get a planner but man do we all know what's the term productivity porn where you're just like look at this new pencil i know exactly solve my problems this the tabs are color coded that's going to totally solve my problems Totally. It's the gear problem. Not only that, you have a million YouTube channels and everything dedicated to all this. So everyone's

an expert now. It's not just two books at Barnes & Noble. It's like 400 influencers I want to tell you out of that organization. Got a lot of requests from people asking me to explain how I manage all my time. Here you go. Like and subscribe. Smash it. Exactly. And so the narrowing it down

to like what actually can work for you individually is different than here's this great setup. And I that I can read about, and that's what I love about what we're doing is that we've got people helping you, individualize it, and find out what works for you, and then other people, you know, can share their thing. Because it, it, I mean, I sent an email out this morning, maybe no one got it yet, but the email was about, because I think about this a lot, handing Scott our great-grandfathers or our grandfather who fought in a couple wars, handing them an iPhone 16.

and saying What do you think? Yeah, what do you think of this? Like it would Create a reminder. Turn it on. You know? Like I had an Android in my hand.

This is no hate for Android. I know you have taken the brunt of a lot of things. But I held a Android, my mom's Android in my hand. It was ringing. I was like, oh, I do not know how to answer this. Like I could not figure out how to answer that phone. And I thought part of it is because it wasn't a modern Android phone. got this ancient ass cheap thing that john won't let her upgrade so there's that but i've never

even tried it it was those same button icons on the bottom is like well that's like a a circle is that can record something then there's an arrow what does the arrow do you know it's like i'm what the one button or the zero buttons or what just imagine from you're from any other era and i i pointed out at the email this is the people who raised they raised children who then raised you. And the people who raised you had a wristwatch and a wall calendar. Mm-hmm. Right? They say the word slack to someone 80 and up and they'll be like, what? Like, pronounce, you know, the slacks? Like, it's such a different world. And so, like, when I asked both of you, does anyone guide you, yeah, well, maybe you found some popular, you know, day planner,

or you found a training or whatever. And that works here or there piecemeal. And that's what's tricky is that if it works for someone else, why isn't it working for me? And of course, what we hear is that, oh, everyone's got it together or it feels that way, or look how productive that person. There's a lot of social comparison that just did not exist for our parents in the slightest, right? That makes you feel even dumber or like, why can't I get my act together? And there's a lot of internal noise that is problematic to around these things. And this can be, I mean, we could swap out time management for relationship skills or, you know, other things where we're really can be really hard on ourselves.

I think time just touches everything and affects, you know, how we see ourselves, how our relationships and our workflows, all that. So anyway, yeah, I would, I would do a couple things here for him and hope he can get some help and probably a diagnosis might go a long way to help them understand as well. If you didn't get the email, just checked and I did get it. And it's all about this. It continues right down these lines, helpful in its own way, but also. So this class, obviously, is going to be a big deal for people.

And I don't know if this person who wrote in is part of that or not, but definitely. They were not yet. Yeah, definitely log in over there and, you know, see what your options are. Maybe you are. Maybe you aren't. I don't know. But I feel this particular one this week, I think Brian can concur. There's a lot of creatives in my life.

A lot of people do content. A lot of people who hands and lots of cookie jars in a way that stuff serves us. But in some ways, it just blow. It blows us up and blows us all over. Yes. Yeah. So, you know. And has a special kind of strain that you don't, well, I mean, I don't know anyone that goes

to work and comes home and stops working. I don't. That is, that knows. Anyone who owns their own business certainly doesn't. Never does. Yeah. And people who, I mean, you know, your salary, they're expecting you to get stuff done. And we're distracted.

We're burned out. It's really hard. I always think I have a bunch of clients who are in that world who will say, I want to be a surgical tech. because once I'm, I leave the OR, they can't make me do surgery after, right? Yeah. You know, finding really concrete. Like, that's the level of desperation someone wants to get to is change their entire

career path so that people can't keep asking for more of their time and they don't have a way to stop it. And that's crappy. One of the things that, you know, I'll talk about in the course that I paid for. Yeah. I'm just kidding. Is that, is that I see the ride share. stuff that I do, the Uber, the Lyft, whatever, as a, as a way to do something that I can't take

home with me. Like, there is no to-do list that comes from picking somebody up, driving them to the bank, picking somebody else up, taking him to Jimmy Johns, take him home, whatever. Like, I end that those couple hours, and it's like, I don't have anything left to do with that job. That job is over the second I dropped that last person off and drive home. So I think I use that as a, oh my God, this to-do list is so overwhelming. You know what?

I'm going to go drive around for a while because that won't add anything to my to-do list and it'll keep me from looking at my to-do list. I do similar things. We have this problem where I don't have any, you know, we always make this joke that our bosses are jerks. Yeah. They don't give us time off. They're, you know, regular time off. It's like a weird thing.

But it's because we're making all those decisions. there's no five o'clock, bing, everybody clock out and go home, there's always the feeling of I could go longer or what if I went shorter and then you feel bad

because you went shorter and then you got to go back and do it at 8.30 because you didn't do it earlier and I'm prepping TMS at 10 o'clock last night going, why did I do that? I could have done this at noon.

Like this sort of like where the monkeys are in charge of the zoo is part of the problem. Yeah. So we have to do special stuff. Brian's story of like going to do something else that deactivates certain parts of your brain and activates others.

You know, it's called active rest. We need it. In fact, we need a lot more rest than people think. And for our brains to work optimally. I mean, we've all experienced the diminishing returns of just cranking something out. And, you know, it's not your best thing. You feel exhausted. Yeah.

And you eventually burn your, you burn yourself out. It's so easy to do. to get to that point because the, you know, the demands on you will never end, especially in certain industries and certain places. Like, it's, there's just an endless, endless amount of, that they will take from you. So, you got to be. Will Brian, will Brian walk away from your course, a new man? Is this going to change?

I hope so. I hope so. Me, Del Carnegie and Wendy Dunford, those will be his two. Those are the two, right? How to influence, how to win friends, influence people, and watch cat and chicken porn. There you go. That's right. The book.

This is the key. Oh, that's who that is. Yeah. Okay. Because when anyone says Carnegie, I think of Carnegie Hall and all that. Of course, yeah. How do you get there, by the way? I have no idea.

Practice. Oh, practice. I feel like the room is that his name was spelled differently or different, and then he changed it to Carnegie because he wanted the connection. Because he wanted the note already of the hall. It worked. Oh, my God. That's brilliant. Oh, that's funny.

I don't know if I'm making that up. How would anyone know? You'd have to look it up. Look it up on the internet. Do what I love to do? I love when I'm with people and we have a question no one has an answer to. And then everyone just goes, yeah, there's no way to find that out. And we know one pulls out their phone and we just let it die.

It feels like a weird luxury for some reason. It's like an inside joke that I love. I love it. Yeah, nobody, man, that's such a rarity these days just to say, I guess we'll never find out. That's unknowable. Sorry. Some knowables are never going to be knowable.

Just don't know. All right. Well, let people know what they can do in the meantime over at knowbetteru.com. No better you, spelled K-N-O-B-B-E-T-E-R-U dot com. Go to the Time Mastery link at the top, and you can read all about what we're doing. It starts next Monday. One thing I just want to tell people is that, and because, you know, you don't make a time course and then expect everyone to give them all your time.

So it's pretty short. Two classes will drop every Monday. We have a live lab on Thursdays at 7 p.m. Central. If you cannot make it, it's recorded. You can watch it another time. We have a couple options for coaching in the week to work with small groups and even one-on-one. And they're really flexible and can work with your schedule,

especially the individual. And it's going to take a chunk of your time. It's not going to take all your time. But I promise you we'll give you back. so much more time. That's awesome. Right? And so it really is doable, but it'll go a long way. Excellent. We're really excited. That's fantastic. Know better you.com. That's a you, the letter you at the end, guys. The letter you. And the no is a K-N-O-W, not an N-O. Because there is a better you. That would be yes, better you. Okay. Yeah. This is just to know yourself better. To get to that, yes, you need to know. Yeah. There you go. See, nailed it.

Wendy, it's always good talking to you. I hope everything's good on the. home front there and Kim's in your time zone right now. She's in Chicago. What's she doing there? She's there hanging out with friends and watching raccoons on a porch pretty much.

Just chilling out with Bobby. You know Bobby Ann, right? Oh, yeah, yeah. They're just kind of having a girl's week and enjoying themselves, eating all the good food and all that while all the husbands work away or whatever we're doing.

Slave away. Taking care of dog barf? Printing tie fighters. Printing tie fighters, exactly. variety of things that keep us busy uh anyway uh but we'll do this again next week so have a fantastic one and uh enjoy the first of june bye now wait oh how do i oh good she can leave sweet that worked out nice um okay everybody you know what time it is time for us to wrap this thing up yesterday we had a couple of emails that we held over i'm going to read those real quick a text from les and

prague uh i love when he writes in he says hey scott and brian les nesman here usually calls in so it must have been in a place where he couldn't do it. He says, just heard an episode where Scott mentioned Van's love of physical mail. I thought I'd suggest postcrossing at postcrossing.com. It's a free website where people send and receive postcards from around the world. You create a profile. Kim could mention, or, sorry, Kim could mention she's a grandma to a boy who loves male,

plus his interest in like Marvel, Star Wars, or animals. When you click the quote, send postcard, unquote, you're assigned a random member in their profile, and then you write them a postcard with this special ID. once it's received and registered, your address goes into a queue to get a postcard from someone else, possibly from a totally different country. But I guess you never see their addresses, so it's good. There's no docks in here.

He says, I did this for 10 years in Tennessee and mailed over 3,600 postcards. Wow. It's a fun way to connect with the world, love the show, less. I'd never even heard of this. This is news to me. That's so cool. Oh, my God. The van would love that.

I'm even thinking. It's like pen pals, man. It's kind of like pen pals. How much is it, though, if you have to send a postcard to, I mean, these are actual physical. Yeah, these are physical postcards. This isn't like you're getting a digital postcard. I see photos on their website of like recent postcards.

If you scroll down, it shows you artwork. So are these people scanning in the postcards? That's why I was wondering if it was digital. So it's like, okay, so. Well, 11 days, 517 miles. So they sent a physical postcard. And you just, do you pay for that? this I assume you pay you pay to send a postcard like the the service is free but you're paying

for a stamp to send a postcard to someone in Germany or Australia or wherever that's pretty wild so it's kind of kind of pen I guess you can say whatever you want right on the yeah yeah interesting all right well there you have it that's kind of cool yeah I like it less thank you for that down there in Prague with good ideas now go out to now go dance at night with a bunch of Germans or whatever you do. Unz, Unz, exactly.

There's Baron Zima over on the corner. All right, here's one from Cali Sky. She says, he or she, I'm not actually sure.

Why we need our pinkies because I talked about don't need it. Yeah. They'll fall off eventually. Yeah, they're just kind of, we're going to naturally select our way out

and not needing pinkies one day. It's like tails. We don't need tails. Anyway, high Scott and bass line in, or solo in baseline, sorry. In defense of our pinky fingers,

without them, playing the guitar, piano and most other instruments would pretty much be more difficult. Also, I need it to hit shift and control for games. No, that's because that stuff was built around you have in a pinky. If you didn't, we'd find ways. It would all work out.

Would your actions per minute go down if you have one less digit to push a button? Absolutely, but you'd never know because that would be the high model mark. That would then turn into, everybody's actions would go down basically. Yeah, and you wouldn't know they went down

because they were never down to be they were never up to begin with you didn't you weren't born with the pinky so for all of you knew people don't know this but yeah i mean our pinky toes once were as long and as big as our big toes and just over time of the natural uh evolution of our species those pinky toes have just gotten smaller and shorter and yeah stubbier i love the idea that my pinky toe was as long was as big as your big toe that'd be gross don't let that guy Save your well-actuallys, okay? Yeah, I know. Yeah, keep it to yourselves, you weirdos.

Anyway, catching a bunch of shows, I hope this isn't redundant. If somebody already made my point, then boo-ya, hug the ghost yo, Cali-Sky. Well, thank you so much for that. A reminder, oh, by the way, all these voicemails, texts,

all this stuff, they all come to us very easily and simply at voicecast. dot app slash TMS. Use it at your frequency. Okay? Hold on a second. So, Batuba says, RFK might be working on a way to get rid of our pinky.

And that in and of itself is funny. But after RFK, he put Hoggle. And I'm really, I'm assuming you mean the character from Labyrinth that now that I think about it kind of looks and acts a lot like RFK. Please tell me that that's our little nickname for RFK now is Hoggle. I need to look up Hoggle. I can't remember what he looks like. He's the little short dude that helps Sarah through the labyrinth.

Oh my gosh. This guy right here Yeah Looks just like RFK Jr. Does he talk? What's his voice like? I don't remember. I'm going to help you get through the labyrinth if you just follow me.

Hold on. I got video of Hoggle. I want to see if it matches up. He doesn't. No, he's got a very fragile kind of voice. Oh, darn it. Okay.

Well, yeah, look at that. Geez. Get some lotion hoggle. Well, there you have it there. I love it. Thank you, Batuba. I'm going to enjoy that forever. Nicely done.

Today, noon, Coverville, Twitch.combe, Core at 1, 1 p.m. Core. Don't forget, we got Core. And then 9 a.m. tomorrow, playdate for TMS. We're going to be jacking it. Sorry, jackboxing it. Oops.

I can't wait. I missed it last time because, what was I'm doing when you and Monica did? You were in, you were traveling. You were on your way to Kansas City, right? Or no, no, that was just her hosting. That was just her hosting, but. You were here for the last games.

Was I? Okay. I think so. I think so. Maybe I was, yeah. I thought you were here. Yeah, no, I know you were because there was a funny thing you drew in Drawful and I Okay. Now, I can't remember shit. Well, I'm looking forward to drawing some more funny shit.

Yeah, it's going to be great. So come watch us. We're going to do it live. We'll have a whole bunch of us in there. there. And patrons get preference on playing, but everybody can watch and play at home. That will be tomorrow at 9 a.m.

Right here, frogpants.tv, and FilmSack this weekend is a roundtable. A discussion about coming of age films. That's going to be fun. That is fun. Oh, my gosh. I can't wait to talk about coming of age films. Yes, because as if we have not talked about them already. Exactly. Yes.

I will fondly remember our roundtable discussion of coming of age films when I watch the piece of crap called Double Trouble, which is the following week, which I watched, which I watched last night. Did you watch the last night? It's terrible, right? It has to be terrible, it is, it is, it's going to be up there as one of the worst things we ever want. It is like, it is like, what was the one with the dumb cop, the, um, bionic cop dude, not robocop, but the, oh, super cop, uh, super snooper. Super snooper.

that it's really we're talking super super low oh shit I'm so excited yeah yeah exactly it's I'm so excited that's great and the twins and the whole thing it's gonna it's gonna be awesome so there's gonna be yeah I couldn't even decide what thing that's gonna gross you out the most there's so many oh good all right well look for that the following week and then uh you know lots of content coming check it out that's right Kim will be home tomorrow thank goodness for that that'll do it for us, frogpants.com slash TMS for everything you might need. Brian, let's play a song. What do you got?

Sure. How about something going out to our very own J. Funk-Tastick says, howdy, scratch and bum? Oh. Gern? Bum. Are you bum? I guess you're bum. I'm scratching and your bum.

Well, that's burn. Scratch and burn. Oh, even better. Sometimes those RNNs get so close together. This is a request not only for my birthday, but the day that I'm closing on my new home. I'm sorry I missed TMS Vegas, but I needed a place to live first. What can you do? congratulations by the way one of my favorite songs of all time is learn to fly by the foo fighters

and my favorite cover is by the rockin one thousand which was a thousand drummers playing the song i'm a semi-retired professional drummer and it gives me goosebumps every time i hear it thank you guys for everything you're doing for keeping me sane during this month of home buying stress i'm so ready for this new chapter in my life and i can't wait for nerdtacular next year cheers awesome jay grats on the housing i know what a pain that is so good job yeah no kidding and happy birthday or Happy Dersh Day to you. Oh, yeah. Let's give him a Dersh Day.

Hold on. There it is. Happy Ders Day to you. Yeah, celebrate it, man. You did good. This thing, this Rockin 1000, is really cool. And this is one of those things that you want to definitely go and check out the video for Rockin 1000. But it's a musical project where they gather a bunch of musicians altogether, a thousand of them.

and have them play a song. And in this case of of Learned to Fly by Foo Fighters, it's absolutely amazing. Some great drone footage and stuff in the video too. So make sure you go check that out. But this is their cover of Learned to Fly. Here's Rockin' 1000.

Ride and hell of the angels This could take all night Thinking in a devil to help me get this right Hook me up in your revolution This one is alive I'm looking for a lot in the water that's what I'm looking for the sky I'm looking for a sign of life looking for something to help me when I cry I'm looking for a conversation looking for the side of the line

Make my way back Oh, when I look like I hide I think I've got a lot. I think I've got a nice We can't wait one night And give it all the way to give me one last ride. that's right With it have to the ever drive

To just save my life Runic at the end was that everything's wrong I'm looking for the kind of waiting Looking for a kind of night Looking for something and return our pride I'm looking for a competition looking for the tide of pride

and pay my way back for well in the sky I make my way back and go and then I know with me I can't find taking the door fly to make inside my own

lie along with me I can't quite make it alone I'm looking for the sky inside my home I'm looking for the sky baby looking for a star of life looking for something

healthy when I fly Looking for a competition Looking for the tide of sight of life Made my way back cold when I looked at Looking for the sky to take me Looking for a sign of life Looking for something happening happening were not right

I'm looking for a complication Looking for the side of pride To make my way back door when I lose to hide I make my way back go when I lose to fly. Make my way back go when I lose to Thank you. Thank you. Those pants are made for froggin.

If you know what I mean. I actually don't. Frogpants.com. We call a tornado. It's just a little fart.