The Morning Stream - TMS 2859: Bodega Beetle

Episode Date: July 24, 2025

Rotten Tomatoes With A Pinch Of Salt. Millie Madison. You Get NO Mufky, NO Fufky & NO Lt Yar! Dudes care about their bags. Jersey Mike's pregnancy testing and cigar bar. Is That Sabrina Carpenter In Your Pocket Or Are You Just Happy To See Me? She Has the Meats Right Here. Mainstream Stippling. Human Dot Matrix. Eat this book with peace and love. What's in Your Bag? A lot of 4s today. one. Gambit Booby. Triumph the Insult Comic Dad. Always start with P with Wendi and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You know what they say about a broken clock, right? A broken clock means you might forget what time it is. And right now, it's time to sign up at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, Rotten Tomatoes with a pinch of salt. Millie Madison. You get no muffky, no fufky, and no lieutenant y'ar. Dudes care about their bags. Jersey Mike's pregnancy testing and cigar bar.

Is that Sabrina Carpenter in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? She has the meats right there. mainstream stippling human dot matrix eat this book with peace and love what's in your bag a lot of fours today one gambit booby triumph the insult comic dad always start with p with wendy and more on this episode of the morning stream if there's one thing that i know is never to mess with mother nature mother-law's or mother-freaking ukrainians you got a rather large hematoma The morning stream. Looks like we missed the party.

Hey, everybody. Hello. Hello. Hi, and welcome to TMS. This is the morning stream for Thursday, July 24th, 2025. Happy Pioneer Day here in the Salt Lake Valley. Oh, let's listen. Can I hear fireworks yet?

Not yet. Not yet. I think, well, you know what? It's very likely you could if I went outside right now. Somebody would be doing it. Yeah, someone's got fire crackers at least or something. Yes, exactly. I hate it.

But anyway, it'll be over tonight. I can, my dogs can live on the next day. It's too bad that Brian is traveling tomorrow because it would be a 25 or a 72525. And I'm a little sad that you won't be here for that. Oh, yeah. Well, you're still doing play date. Oh, we are. You just won't be here to, too.

I just won't be here to enjoy the 725 25. Yeah. My stupid obsession with numbers will only have one fan tomorrow. I'm here to enjoy a 724, 24 for the Fantastic Four day. Oh, shit. That's right. Boy, they got a lot of fours today. That's great.

Well, no, they have one. They have one, four. Two if you count the movie. Right. Right, good point. And so far on Rotten Tomatoes, I mean, we both loved Superman and Superman sitting at rotten tomatoes. Listen, I appreciate the place. that Rotten Tomatoes serves in pop culture.

It's an important thing, and I'm not just saying that because we know people who worked or worked there. I can't remember if they still work there or not. I think she is no longer there. She's no longer there, but we, you know, still. Anyway, but the way really to use, I figured out the way to use Rotten Tomatoes, because I was thinking about that with the,

some things that I've liked recently that were lower on Rotten Tomatoes and other things that, you know, scored really high. high that I'm like, uh, did that need to be that high? But it's, it's really less about that percentage. That percentage is really just the, it's the inflatable waving arm guy that gets you in the door. Sure. And really what you're doing is from there, you drill down into those, those comments, those reviews and say, okay, let me start reading these reviews. And even in the

critical reviews, because listen, any chump can start up a website and say they're a reviewer and they end up on that left number of stuff. Yeah, I don't know what the process is, but it sure feels like anybody can do it. Anybody can do it. I've looked at some of these, and it's like, this guy is not even part of like a media,

you know, group or whatever. If FilmSack was reviewing new movies, FilmSack could have a spot in there. Yeah, we could have a spot in there, for sure. I mean, we still could, because I see one of the people that reviewed Superman, I looked at their reviews because they were like,

oh, this is blah, blah, blah. It doesn't even compare to the Christopher Reeve stuff. And I went back. and looked at their other reviews and they within the last month reviewed all the Superman films the Christopher Reeves ones, the

Brandon Ralph, et cetera, et cetera. Sure. Sure. And they didn't like any of them. Except like one of the Christopher Reeve films. Yeah, a lot of times these are the wrong people to be telling you about Superman. Exactly. So obviously we could somehow get film sec on the list and review

old movies like, Bangkok Dangerous. We give it a two. I might look into it just for funsy to see what it would be fine it would be great yeah that'd be cool but um but the way so that's what you got to do look at the number but the number is almost you know almost irrelevant drill down into those reviews and as you start reading them saying oh here's a guy who kind of knows what this movie is supposed to be like this is a guy who gets superhero movies what was his take on it he liked it great then i'm then i'm kind of up for it yeah you find You find reviews you trust and you can always, you know, count on.

Exactly. But then you get other reviews or like Superman, you know, doesn't quite compare it all the crap that Marvel has been pumping out, pooping out lately. It's like, okay, this guy's coming in with some preconceived opinions disregard his negative review. Yeah. I mean, I like it for its aggregate, which is the whole point of a percentage. It's just an aggregate score. I tend to think those generally hit the mark, even when it's something my life. like a lot more than they did or something that they liked a lot more than I did,

they generally, not every time, but on the average, they tend to hit right around what roughly it is. And that's enough for me at a glance to go, oh, if that's in the 20s, we've got a problem. Right. Exactly. If that's in the 80s, we're good. Anything higher than that is gravy. You know what I mean? There's one that I'm concerned about that I'm looking forward to watching. It's the newest, oh, who's the director, Oceans, Sutterberg. Soderberg, yeah. It's that new presence, yeah. Oh, presence wasn't Soderberg.

Who is it? It's the other director that is like that. Presence, hold on. It is Soderberg. I'm sorry, it is Soderberg. Oh, he's got, what, three movies this year? Yeah, I know. I was like, oh, maybe it's not him because he did BlackBag, but no, it totally is.

So this has an 87% tomato meter. This is what I'm excited to see because it's more of a thinking psychological thriller. And if it's good, it'll be a recommendal for me. But it's got a 52% popcorn meter. And you drill down into those reviews. And it's people who are really expecting gore and slash and blood and guts and stuff like that. It's less about how good was this movie and more about what were you expecting going in. And how did this dash those hopes?

Is this the Lucy Lou one? Yeah, yeah. It says 2024. Is this already out? It's already out. Oh, okay. It came out last year. Yeah.

January. In the last year, really? Yeah, it's old. That's crazy. I remember trailers for this thing, and it felt like it was end of last year, but you're absolutely, oh, no, released January 24th, 2025. It was released January of this year. Oh, okay.

This is, they've got two different dates on here. That's my other problem with Rottenmato. It says, it says, Presence, 2024, Lucy Lou, Julia Fox. And then if you go into it, maybe they just didn't get the release they wanted. It could, well, it could also be like film festival releases too.

Oh, right. Didn't quite go to theaters, went straight to Hulu kind of thing. Right. Oh, yeah, you're right there. February says, oh yeah, February started streaming on Hulu. Yeah, this says good reviews, 87%. 52 by the audience, though. Yeah, because people were expecting gore and slash.

And this is like, nope, this is a thinking thriller. This is a, you know, deeper. horror movie that isn't because of some horrific visuals it's uh it's horror it's horrific because of what you think you know the the atmosphere and what well

Fantastic 4 is currently trending at 4% higher than Superman at 88% that's pretty strong that's pretty strong uh no audience score yet uh superman has a 92 audience score which is pretty strong pretty excited about this Saturday you'll see it tonight

yeah you will you will text me and give me some form of review right like okay i was even thinking i might um record something in the car on the way back like a little video review that you could show on monday or something yeah i'd love that i'd do that hell yeah or tuesday or tuesday who's right here monday yeah but i'll do it tuesday for sure heck yeah no so and we won't do spoilers no spoilers some of you can't go this weekend we get it yeah we respect it's understandable it's fine it's fine by the way the um shirt i'm wearing today. I'm wearing my X-Men 90s shirt because I don't own a fantastic four related shirt in any shape or form. Well, you're in universe at least. So you're good. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. You know

I noticed first on the shirt without even thinking, without even focusing. It's all gambit all the time for me. I just see Gambit. Yeah. Many gambits. You know, I glance and I see, yeah, because there's a gambit right here on my. Your booby. Gambit nipple. Yeah. Gambit boobie. Yeah. But Magneto shows up pretty well, like right here. This isn't my own Sherry. I am on Brian's... I'm going to make a name for myself. I'm on Brian's booby.

Well, there you have it. Good stuff. No Happy Gilmore 2 reviews yet. I want to hear about this. I know it's going straight to Netflix. It's this weekend also. I would like to know if Happy Gilmore 2 is going to be any good. I'm nervous about that.

I mean, let me be honest here. Do you think it's going to be good? I kind of do. I love the first one and it's being directed by or co-written by one of those safty guys. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, that guy is, you know, partners with Sadler anyway, Sandler anyway. So, yeah.

I feel like we're going to see it regardless. But it's, it's probably going to fall into that recent Adam Sandler kind of non-shortcuts kind of stuff. Maybe. Or not shortcuts. Uncut gems. Oh,

right, right. If it's not like uncut, But, I mean, if it's happy go more one still makes me laugh. And that and Happy Madison, or Millie Madison are the only two Sandler movies that actually get me going that are supposed to be comedies. Yeah. Right. Lots of drama stuff. It's great.

Right. Don't count any of that. Those are all amazing movies, but they, you know, he's just. And I don't know if you've seen love rain over me. No, not yet. With him and Don Sheetle. It is, it is for, like, it slipped in and out and disappeared. And it's so freaking good.

It's about a guy whose wife died in 9-11. And so he just sits at home and he plays Shadow of the Colossus all the time. And it's a lot of video of Sandler playing Shadow of the Colossus. Weird. That game is a vibe for sure. It is, totally. But I should watch that. I'll put it on my list.

You should watch that. It's so, so good. Well, we'll see. Can Happy Gilmore bring back the magic of the 90s era Happy Gilmore? Sure. Maybe. I think we're going to see it regardless. And you brought Julie Bowen back.

you brought back Shooter McGavin Christopher McDonald yeah Christopher McDonald Love him Oh Sazanek says No Adam Senderler

personation Shabogoo There you go Homshi my movie It's Ben Stiller's in this I don't know who he plays Uh Yeah

Ben Stiller plays a character called Hal John Daly The actual golfers in it Yeah Who else do we care about Travis Kelsey Yeah exactly

It's like Cameo City from what I hear Margaret Qualley, she's in it. Oh, we love her. Yeah, I like her. If she can just stay dressed for one movie. Just one movie, Margaret Qualley, can you please keep her clothes on?

Yeah, her mom would like her to do that. Oh, Eminem plays it, but some role in this? Weird. All right. I mean, I'm watching it. It's on Netflix. Why wouldn't I? I already pay for that crap.

Exactly. All right, you guys, it's a new day. Wendy will be here a little later. Got a couple of things I want to talk about. First off, I need your help in helping me, all the mystery. I tried to take a photo, but it felt weird because of what I was taking a photo of. Okay. Kim and I went to Jersey mics yesterday, and we decided to eat outside on, they had a kind of like a cement patio and tables and stuff. And it was really nice in the, in the early afternoon,

wasn't too hot yet. Some was beautiful, a little bit of cloud. It was just a breeze. It was great. So we're like, we're eating outside. So Kim and I go, we get a couple of sandwiches. I get the, I get the Italian with everything in it. It's a great one. Yeah. Kim gets, Kim gets some kind of provolone roast beef thing and then we get to oh we had chips in the car from the store so we opened a bag of chips from the car and all save some money instead of you buy a bag of chips from the store it costs less than the little bag of chips yeah you buy with your sandwich yeah it's the way to do it plus we shared it and we had drinks already from a swig that we stopped by earlier so we had everything we needed all those dirty soda places yeah just one of our many here in the valley

there's so many we just we're like we're just starting to get those here yeah it's it's It's expanding like a virus, honestly. But so we get those. We sit outside and Kim says, what the heck is that? I look over my shoulder. What are we talking about? She goes, look over there in the weeds. And so I look over in the weeds and laying in the weeds and I should have gotten a picture of it.

But I just thought it was a little too weird to take photo of it because I wasn't going to touch either thing. Okay. Of course. So if I took a picture and then threw them away, which would be a good thing to do because it's trash, fine. But not these two items. So right there on the ground is a pregnancy. test. Okay. It's positive, by the way. Two lines. I got real close, got the plus or whatever it does end there in a little window. Kim confirmed that that's what that meant. I wasn't sure. I mean,

COVID test. Who knows what tests? I didn't even know it was a pregnancy test until she told me. I didn't know. And then right. Somebody peed on it. Yep. Exactly. Someone held it in their urine stream, like the commercial say. And then right next to it is a cigar, a big fat cigar that's like like burned about halfway with a bunch of ash lane next to it. And they're just laying out in the middle of the thing. Right next to each other. Now the only thing I can think of is. Clearly together.

Like, like, oh yeah. Are they close enough together that these were discarded at the same time? They feel like it. Which makes me think what happened is you got a couple. They're a little tipsy or something. I don't know.

But it's in the middle of the night. She's like, well, let's find out. Pea on the thing. Positive. Smoke a cigar to celebrate. That's the best I have. yeah but you're like it was a full cigar wasn't it it was about half it was half smoked yeah it's half smoked here's here's my here's my theory ready yeah all right uh yeah what does the uh what

is the uh the the the pregnancy test say pregnant for those for those who just listen to the podcast i had a pen in my mouth that i was pretending was a cigar yeah and then the the gaping mouth of the realization that you're going to be a dad just drops the cigar. Yeah, you know what? That isn't bad. It was half-smoked. Also, that was clearly triumphant the insult comic dying, too.

Oh, yeah. You are pregnant for me to poop on. Oh, man. I miss that thing. You're not doing that anymore, is he? He totally is. 100% is. He was part of that Colbert

cut into the audience with all of the other, like basically they did a little jokey thing with Colbert when he did his show at the beginning of the week where they played, it was Lin-Manuel Miranda and Weird Al-Yankovic performing I used to rule, what, Vita LeVita?

Oh, yeah, Vita LeVita. And they're cutting to the audience and they show John Oliver and John Stewart hugging. Then they cut over and you've got Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel hugging and then looking

surprise. And behind one of the pairs is, oh yeah, you had also had Anderson Cooper and late night guy. The late writer for us and L. No, no, no, no. The guy who does watch what happens and does all the

Real Housewives. Oh, I don't know that guy. Reunion guys. That guy for as much as I hate, oh, was it Jimmy Fallon and Seth? That's right. Andy Cohen. Thank you, Lydia. I saw Seth Myers doing something. Yes, he was part of it as well. And behind one of the pairs was uh was what's his face with uh triumph insult robert smigel smigle yeah love that guy love

the insult dog my favorite thing about any election ever was when he would do coverage of it and go to the stuff i remember when he tried to talk to ted cruise one year 2016 i think was the year holy shit that was funny that was great i think the the star wars line the the episode one line is is still my favorite triumph thing especially the especially just the comment he finds some woman, I found an actual woman in the crowd. Yeah, that was great. You have your choice of all of these men,

none of which have any idea how to please you. Yeah, he was like, I think that put him on the map. That was the one that really put it over the top. He, for whatever reason, I guess because, you know,

Dr. Odyssey isn't shitty enough television. We occasionally watch the new Hollywood Squares. It's kind of, like when we're cooking we don't want to put on something that we want to pay attention to so we'll put on like some game show it'll be usually jeopardy or something along those lines oh ken jennings is in the new happy go more keep going of course he is yeah so uh but this new hollywood square is i'm going to tell you right now it's it's a drew barrymore joint and if you want to see the game show equivalent of of the the process of of taking a group picture but everybody

wants to stand in front of everybody else like everybody like moves from the back to stand in front of everybody else this game shows the equivalent of that it is like that would annoy me everybody trying to talk over each other everybody trying to out ham each other but then you've got triumph the insult comic dog who's over to the side going you guys are all stupid why are you so stupid is i mean is it worth it as a background watch though like you're saying it's worth it as a background watch well it isn't it isn't i mean I mean, there are a few folks on there I really, really like. I like Whitney Cummings.

I like Mirosorvino. I like Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog, none of whom do this irritating thing. But, boy, Drew Barrymore irritates the shit out of me. Yeah, I wish I could disagree. It's not, if there's something, I know it works for somebody, obviously. Disagree? She's got talk shows and stuff. Yeah, I just don't like her, I don't like her delivery.

I mean, she and Katie Perry come across as people who've spent so much time growing up in front of cameras that they don't know how to not be on, if that makes sense. Like, there's, there's no, you don't get a genuine, a genuine Drew Barrymore or genuine Katie Perry, I think. I mean, Drew Barrymore saw Tom Green naked a lot, so maybe she's still struggling from that. And just along, by the way. Like, she did it just along for a while, too. I didn't know that. Yeah. I just kind of think the Tom Green thing was a weird relationship.

It's got to be weird, right? Because he's weird. I can't imagine it's not all day long. Would you like a delicious cheese sandwich? Delicious cheese sandwich? Getting all up on her face like that? Yeah, exactly. Like, you know, he seems like he'd kind of be on a lot, maybe not always on, but.

Yeah, kiss me on the lips. I just sucked the milk from a cow out in the back. Blah. Blah. Oh, I saw a music video last night that you'd absolutely hate. I can't remember. Addison Ray, I think. I should just make you watch it and see what you think. No, I already know.

It's the one where she's doing traditional wife. It's dance and singing. Is that the one? No, no. This is the one where it's called Diet Pepsi, and she's writhing around in a car with some dude who's the driver, and he doesn't ever really break from just driving. But she's crawling all around.

At one point, she serves him a banana split. off of her foot gross like has the cherry stem between her toes and he and plucks it into his mouth uh uh with her foot yeah i think i'm good i don't need to see it no especially the foot part you know they'd lose me right there that poor driver man that's that's an uber night you're never going to forget it's exactly yes yeah is that how it's presented she's he's like an uber type guy No, I think she's, they're presented as he's their boyfriend and girlfriend, and she's trying to coax him into the backseat for a little muffky, fufky, and he's not having it. He'd rather just focus on the road. Thank you very much.

Just keep moving. Just keep going. Exactly. I told your parents I'd have you owned by 11, and damn it, I'm going to do it. I'm trying to find the, I can't find it's not her then. It's not Addison Ray. It's one of these other singers. There's some controversy about a video someone just made that was, like, glorifying, like, 50s-era wives where the husband's dominant and all that.

Yeah, I can't remember what it is. Like, patriarchal family stuff. And now they're all mad at her. I don't know what it is. You know, I try to stay out of these culture wars, Brian. Of course. You just try, but sometimes you just can't help being in there. Can't help.

Yeah, yeah. I will say this. The Sabrina Carpenter, she knows how to make funny music video. Her, you know, her newest one, man child or man something, is hilarious. The one she did with Jenna Ortega from Wednesday for taste is really funny as well. It's like a, it's like a beef, like an episode of beef, but they're being a lot more brutal to one another. Anyway, I don't know anything about it. Yeah, kind of like in the Sabrina Carpenter these days.

She's like, she's big enough. She's smaller. She can fit my new bag. Yeah, she is. She, and you actually, she could fit in the front pockets of you knew back. I think this little side one right here. That's the Sabrina Carpenter pocket. Yeah, I keep her in there.

I don't think TSA will have a problem with that. They'll just let it through. Did you, did you pack it yourself? Well, most of it, the Sabrina Carpenter packed herself. She packed yourself in there. She's very sufficient. Could you please remove your Sabrina Carpenter, sir, and lay her on the belt? Yeah, and I'll be like, she can.

Let me rephrase that. She can do it herself, all right? Yeah, yeah. All right, I got a question for you about if you're, wife has anything that she is really into that you can't stand and i thought about you know you guys in your time at the real housewives or any of that stuff on the bravo network is there any of give me an example of one of those things where she's like down to clown sitting there watching it and you're like nope got to do something else do you have an example you know i mean the real housewives thing is

about it and she doesn't i i have not been in the room when she's watched any i don't know if they're all on summer hiatus or something but i haven't seen a real housewife in uh in a long time dr odyssey but i can't really call i can't really call her out on that because we both watch it to rip rip the hell out of it yeah we watched it ripped on it and then quit and we'll never go back i'm so glad you quit so bad we're we're seeing it through to the end i don't know why i don't know why we're deciding to uh it's such a trash fire man it's so bad it really is and you know You expect better from Joshua Jackson. I expect better from everybody on that cast.

I expect better from everybody involved in the project. I expect better from the network. I expect better from humanity than that show. It's so freaking bad. However, my wife has a show that I would argue is a lot like that in terms of its badness. I don't know if anyone out there seen 2015 to 20, however long it ran, the show called Blindspot. This the tattooed lady? Tattooed lady, all mysterious.

She has no memory. Where'd she come from? Yep. That's an MCU SIF right there. Yeah, she's an MCU alumni. Jamie Alexander. In fact, she was back and forth during the filming of this.

Ashley Johnson's in it. Ashley Johnson plays the nerd, computer hacker lady. She's great. It's not that the, again, it's not the cast fault. Good cast, but good actors, good actresses,

all this stuff is great. But holy crap, this show sucks. And I'm telling you, and I like some good espionage, FBI, CIA, there's a mole. once in a while like right now they draw around the mole with the tattoo or is it a mole like an actual

mole oh an actual mole oh okay got you although they're for all I know there may be an episode where they have a mole problem we have to solve this crime right here nope that's just a mole oh okay we need to see the tattoo on your butt this episode I've you know and I've given you guys some like like some great recommendations that that you can say hey Kim here's here if you're looking for like a procedural drama crime thing. Let's get you over to Department Q. Yeah. You know, that's your, that could be your, your, um, she'll love it. She'll love that name. And I will love it too. That one is one we're actually going to plan on watching together. I have to wait for her freaking watch through of this garbage thing. And it's got people like, uh, for a stretch here, we've got

David Morse. Love him. He's great. But man, what are you doing in this show? Uh, what's her name from some kind of wonderful? Can I give her name? Oh, um, Mary Stewart Masterserson. Is that it? yeah she's she's currently yeah she's currently the head of this FBI special unit she's very good but again what are you doing in this like this show is still have a did she still have a pixie haircut oh yeah I don't think she knows how to do anything else yeah no I'm glad that's one thing you don't ever want to change it's like that actress um she was in I know you didn't watch iron heart but she was also one of the friends and better things another show that you guys need to watch the one of Pamela Adlon um there's an actress who

always wears a big Farrell Williams hat. And no matter what show she's on, I'm going to find her. Is it Pharelli Williams? It's Forelli Williams. Let me see if I can find the actress.

It cracks me up because you think that as you know, a person who does a show, there we go, Cree Summer. C-R-E-E-C-Summer. C-R-E-E-Summer. Is it C-R-E-E-E-Smer just. summer just spelled like you would spell summer well here we go oh yeah every picture of her is a huge hat yes she always is wearing that what is that about you think i don't know but it's like even in her roles like it's like she's thinking arby's 24-7 yeah look she has the meats right here look at exactly but her character is like it's written into her writer and there she's

without it you got a normal head it's not she's hiding something in there oh yeah you're expecting like a point or maybe her maybe a little receded here maybe that's why i don't don't know i don't know either but it's really funny how like directors now have to write the hat into her character because she wears it as part of her as part of her character that's wild to me i don't think i could rock that hat no i couldn't rock that hat no i look like i'd look like a freaking uh pencil eraser yeah if i wore that thing she's she looks like she's gonna be able to she was in a different world people are saying that she was in a different world with lisa bonnet oh I don't remember her.

I don't remember that show at all. Look at the size of that hat. It's a massive hat. That hat is bigger than the entirety of the prime logo behind her. It has a huge. It is. Like, you are smuggling something in that hat. Yeah, here she's being a little conservative as she went out on the town, you know, with

her husband, who's a handsome man, whoever that is. He's handsome man. Yeah, look at him. He's got a phone in his shirt. I can see it. He does. He could probably even tell what model it is. Yeah.

You can see the camera orientation on that thing? Anyway, so Chris Summer and her hat. Yeah. All right. We'll look for it. Anyway, I think Blind Spot sucks. Send in your emails and tell me why I'm wrong. Just garbage television. We watched the first season of that and very quickly went off. Did you say how far Kim was through it? She's almost done, I think. Oh, good, good. Because Department Q's up next. We're doing that. Yeah. Yeah. I'm looking for it. And she does like quality TV. It's not like this is an issue. But there are things sometimes where, you know, like her yearly watch of Gilmore Girls. Nothing intrinsically wrong with the Gilmore Girls. It's just she likes certain. things just, it just likes to go through it.

It's just go through it and then watch it. And then I'm in the other room going, did he just say that what I think he said, yes. Oh my gosh, honey. She's like, shut up and trying to listen. It's just that part of our life. It's what we do. Yeah.

By the way, Dr. Calhoun confirms, if you Google search, why does Cree summer, but don't finish it? Google search will auto fill always wear a hat. Why does Cree summer? Oh, yeah. Ah, that's great. Good for her.

Where are what you want to wear? I'll give you one more recommendation too. It's a recommendal I did from a long time ago, but again, you want that really good crime procedural line of duty from the UK is so freaking good. Did I watch that? Maybe not. Oh, I'm thinking of, there's another one like it that's not that. So, yeah, it's also like the bodyguard, like the, um,

That's the one I'm thinking of. That's it. Yeah, with not John Snow, but the other one. Stark. Stark, brother, he got killed at the red wedding. Yeah. Yep. I don't know if you've heard of this red wedding.

Two weeks, two weeks. We are well past the two weeks. Oh, do you see the new teaser poster thing for, um, uh, breaking bad guys new show? Um, shit. No, no, no, not, not movie. Not, not, not actor. the creator. Why can't think of his name? Two weeks. Two weeks. Yeah, two weeks. Two weeks. I can't think of his name. Vince Gilligan. How do you forget a name like that? Man. Vince Gilligan. It's got a new show. Yes, it's called. Let's see if I can find this for you because this looks great. So it's sci-fi, which I did not know. There it is. This is from the creator breaking bad. That's the one to Patriotish. Happiness is contagious. Contagish.

The, so the two bits of good news is this is a sci-fi show, but also reassured, Seahorn is coming, isn't it? Oh, she's so good. I know. And it's on Apple TV Plus, so, you know, there's three things going for it. They haven't made a bad sci-fi show yet, in my humble opinion. Yeah, yeah. All right.

Well, anyway, watch for that. Awesome. Hey, I got a quick message from Hanky-Tanky-Tanky. That is this real name. Hanky-Tanky. Yeah. Where you get that from? Tanky. Anyway, we'll assume

his name is Hank. I have no idea. I'm going to guess that it's like that he's a World Warcraft Tank. Oh, I like that. And maybe his name is Hank or Henry. Maybe his character is Hanky-Tanky. He's a Torin. He's a Taran Warrior. Warrior? You want Warrior? Okay. Torn Warrior. And he plays as a

tank and he's Hanky-Tanky. I like it. That's actually kind of perfect. It kind of is, yeah. I've never understood why Hank is short for Henry. That's weird to me. Right. I don't get it. Henry McCoy. Hank McCoy.

I don't get it. Right here. Yeah, he's on there somewhere, right? Every blue thing you see on this shirt is Hank McCoy. It's funny. Now that's all I can see. I don't even see Bate Gambit anymore. I just see the blue.

Because everything else is kind of like, all right, they could be rogue. That could be Gambit. They could be Storm, whatever. Actually, Storm is the other one. Always white and always... Oh, it's going to ask you who that was. I assumed it was Storm. I never liked the white or the silver costume.

I really liked her original Dave Cockram, black with the gold edging. Totally agree. The thing. on her head. The 80s, 90s, uh, storm's not my favorite.

Yeah. Yeah. I know a lot of people think of that, but I don't, I don't like it. Give me, give me 70s, early 80s all around.

Uh, anyway, so Hanky Tanky says this. He says, hey, bored and the stipple. Yep. That's important for the message. Sure.

Uh, do you guys remember the stipple technique to use, uh, used to have to do in art classes and art school, little pen and ink pips to make larger images. Does anyone do that anymore? Thanks.

I remember it. I imagine people still do that in art school is probably where probably like you want to study a technique that even if it isn't in vogue or people still do it as much like i don't i don't see a lot of like mainstream stipple art no but i had a full set of those was it coenor those pens that had the little ink wells the little plastic ink wells that you'd unscrew and fill with with ink but then the nibs were all different sizes and the white cap had a colored circle on top that told you you what size, 0.1, 0.5, 1.0, whatever that you had to use for those. Yeah. Here's an example

of it. Those microns. Those are, I have a set of those now, but man, back to the case. I do too. You know what? I learned. I learned this the hard way. You buy a set of microns. You think you're going to use them all the time. If you don't, man, these things dry up. Dry out quick. Yeah. It sucks butt. But anyway, this is the technique. It's probably a good example of it because this is not. That's a great example. This one is more impressive. Like this elephant is like, Whoa, dude. Whoever did this is very good. If you zoom way in, you can kind of see it.

Wow. It's just a technique you don't see mainstreamy anymore, really, but for a while there, and certainly in school, this got pounded into me. People are like, oh, yeah, this is one of the great, the great methods. You need to do it. You know what? It teaches you patience because you can't stipple quickly. No.

You have to, you know, it takes time. And it also teaches you, because it is so slow, teaches you form. Like, it makes you stop and check a lot. Exactly. Look at your source. Yeah. I think it's, to me, it's like human dot matrix kind of. It kind of is.

This is MacPaint. Like, you remember how we have the MacPaint brush that just did airbrush, but it was really just dots? Yeah, that's basically it. So anyway, if you don't know what we're talking about and you're listening at home and you can't see this, go look up Stipple. It's sound or is spelled just like it sounds. And you'll see a whole bunch of examples. of it. But yeah, totally remember that. And also, I agree that it probably isn't all that common now. No, not outside of art school, I'm afraid. No. This just in, thanks to liquor and

guessing, Hulk Hogan just passed away. Well, normally, I would be a little sad if this was, if you told me, there's a bunch of wrestlers, like if you said, oh, hey, Randy, the Randy Savage died. I was sad then, because he was a pretty nice guy in real life. I'm not saying I'm happy that anyone dies. became a piece of poop later on. I think he was

well if you talked to other wrestlers he was a piece of shit the whole time was never not a piece of shit but

all right that's fine let's see I don't see this anywhere yet the US Sun reported six minutes ago

TMZ reported at six minutes he always gets it right so it would not be surprised let's see yeah

dead at 71 outlived by Ozzy by six years, seven years. Broke last year last month. Five years. I wonder what it was. He was in pretty good health at the, all the election shit.

Jeez, that's right. I forgot about that. Yeah. Ripping his shirt off to have a Trump t-shirt on him. He's got his new freedom beer. Look, I'm not talking ill of the dead, but the stories that came out about that guy from even way back when everyone loved him, dude is a douchebag. That's all.

that's all right well breaking news everybody that's where you're here for let's get into some news quality news content it's time for the news and it's brought to you by brought to you by coverville going to be at noon today back to its normal time

twitch.tv slash coverville a tribute of course to Ozzy Osbourne we have to right so not just covers of the things you're expecting like Sweet Leaf and Paranoid and Iron Man and Warpigs, all that. But also a lot of his solo stuff, Crazy Train, Barked the Moon, Shot in the Dark, Mr. Crowley, Changes, which was a Black Sabbath song. Anyway, covers of, you don't have any by Ozzy Osbourne in the set yet.

Maybe I'll change that. Maybe I'll add an Ozzy song because he did some covers recently. I guess I won't do Staying Alive. I'll have to figure out some. did he do uh i didn't know he did covers at all that's wild he did yeah that's cool i was listening to him this morning in the shower i played um mr crowley i had uh a bit mama i'm coming home playing and i played one more what was the other one prince the prince of darkness album has um purple haze pictures of matchstick men by status quo born to be wild by step and wolf oh all the young dudes by mott the hoopel kind of want to hear that yeah it's a it's a really good album uh It looks like Fire by Jimmy Hendricks, maybe. Yeah.

Yeah. All right. Well, that sounds awesome. Check that out. So wait. I'm sorry. Did you say when you were doing it? Is it noon?

Yeah, 12 noon at Twitch.d.vee slash coverville. Excellent. Check it out the usual time. Before Brian leaves town, he's going to drop a big Aussie fest on us. All right. That's right. That's right. Exactly.

I'm going to drop a big Ozzy fest and leave. Goodbye, everybody. Goodbye. All right. Let me just say. What's the album that Mama i'm coming home's on that is that self-titled diary of a mat no um it's way later than that it is yeah uh osmos shit it may have been self-titled wasn't it maybe it was it's the one where he's turned

to the side kind of black and why i got little wings on him little bat wings i don't i don't have it in my library is it no more tears that song's on there but is it called no more tears anyway uh that whole album i think it's his best album i'll just throw it out there i know a lot of people really want the classics. There's some bangers in those for sure. But as far as like top to bottom, great album, the whole thing kind of holds up. I think that out is it no more tears chat says, okay. That is a great, great album. Some real good stuff on there. Yeah. Joe Guyert says Chuck Mangione died too. Didn't he die a while back? I thought, uh. Yeah, I thought he died during the King of the Hill run that he kept showing up on. Because yeah, I thought that we talked about,

I thought we talked about him on this show where we said, if you don't think you know, Chuck Mangione, you have to go back to that friend's episode where Joey sings, or Joey and his neighbor sing, good morning. It says he's 84, but, and he hasn't died yet. So not only did he not die a long time ago, he also didn't just die, is what we're saying. Either that or we're just not. It just hasn't come through yet. Hasn't come through.

TMZ doesn't have it. and they usually have the deaths. They're usually really quick, yeah. Damn, dude, Hulk Hogan and Chuck Mangione in the same day. I'll take Chuck. But you remember when we lost Farrah Fawcett and then the very next day we lost Michael Jackson and everybody sadly forgot about Fairfosset.

Yeah. That sucks. It would suck to be the first person to die right before somebody huge so that people forget that you did. What's great is I don't think Ozzy will lose any short. shine on his, on the memories. No, no, definitely not. I think, I don't think Chuck Mangione's going to steal the thunder. No. I did a video this morning. Or even Hulk Hogan for that man. Ozzy is so uniquely individually him. There's nobody like him. Yeah. Like it's one of those

things where you can name 100 singers, bands, artists that all kind of sounded like everybody else or at least iterated on other people's work. Not that guy. I mean, sure, say what we want about his music. I'm not even talking about that. I'm just saying as a singular personality in music and in rock and roll or heavy metal or any music, really, name another guy like Ozzie. There's nobody like that. Nobody like him. Yeah. Just so singular in his whole thing.

I respect it. A lot of drugs, a lot of issues, a lot of other problems, but I respect the persona. Who from that era didn't? No. I mean, and he was really open about it. I'm a junkie. Yeah. Brian, we got a story about Hungary, the country.

not my state of not your current state of I am kind of hungry right now Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation

Oh no Yeah they came in all four of the boys You're going to chuck it in the bin No No To eat this book with peace and love Hey Paul Are you finished with that dictionary

Oh shit I'll eat the rest of it Tens of thousands of centuries old books are being pulled from shells of a medieval abbey in Hungary, Hungary, in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could wipe out centuries of history. This is pretty bad. The thousand-year-old, I want to say this right, Pananhalma, Pananholmah? Panan-Holma. Arch Abbey is a sprawling Benedictine monastery that is one of Hungary's oldest centers of learning.

And UNESCO. UNESCO, yeah. Is that one of those acronyms we can say? It's one of those you've been printed as UNESCO. Got it. World Heritage Site. Anyway, restoration workers are removing about 100,000 handbooks from the shelves and carefully placing them in crates. The, sorry, the start of a disinfection process that aims to kill the tiny beetles burrowing into them with peace and love.

Damn. I know. It's gnarly. The drugstore beetle, also known as the bread beetle. The drugstore beetle, really? Drugstore and bread, yeah. Huh. I don't know.

I assume the bread beetle moniker is, because. they like bread? Does they like to eat bread? I guess they like to eat bread at drugstores. Yeah, or they need to, I need to go to the CBS and get my prescription re-uptor. I don't know what they do. I like bodega beetle. Can we, do you change it? I kind of like that. Take both of those other names off

and call it the bodega beetle. I would. Which of the Beatles, the actual band beetles? Which of them would we call, would we nickname the bodega beetle? Well, let's see. George was the quiet one. Paul was the cute one. I think it would have to be Ringo would be the bodega beetle. Yeah. Sorry.

ringo. Anyway, it's often found among dried food stuffs like grains, flour, and spices, hence the bread thing. But they also are attracted to gelatin and starch-based adhesives that are found, you guessed it, in ancient books. So that's bad. I hope they

hurry up. This sort of thing you should probably, I'm not trying to tell them how to do their job. But if I was in the business of preserving ancient relics, sites, books, libraries, whatever, I would have already been, and maybe some of them are, but well at work, digitizing everything. Oh, sure.

Doing other restoration, preemptive stuff and not waiting for some weird beetle to infest your library. That's all. No offense, guys. I'm just saying, get ahead of it. Maybe put a bunch of bread in the center of the room and they'll go, oh, shit, bread. Like, oh, this is a lot easier to eat than the books, than the starch in the books. These take forever to eat. There's bread on the other hand.

Yeah, I mean, the thing is, like, all right, let's say you move them to some sort of of storage how do you know the beetles aren't going to be there too you've got a really like you know these things have to be sealed in Ziploc bags or something yeah I don't know how they're going to do it acid board acid free board backed uh my lar you sure hate to see ancient stuff go to crap though oh for sure yeah bummer anyway good luck guys down there and hungry uh or I guess over there not really down there over there out there on out and over um anti woke dad I'm not going to get political with this, but it's impossible not to, but I just, I just want to tell you the story.

This is his own term, he calls himself that. Anti-woke dad, who fled with family to Russia to escape LGBTQ plus indoctrination, his words, now has to go to war for Russia. They've enlisted him in the army, and he has to go fight in the Ukraine, whether he likes it or not. Wow. Frontline, in fact. despite being assured he would serve a non-combat role. Derek Huffman, age 46, aren't they always,

feels he's being thrown to the wolves after being told that his job in the military would be a correspondent or a welder. Well, that's quite the range, isn't it? Yeah, those are two very different things. You're either going to be a currently, you're either going to write or you're going to weld. Yeah, yeah, that's like, uh, yeah, that's too, that's weird.

I'm trying to find a connection. I can't. Unless you were writing about welding. you know and now our man in the in the street our welding specialist right here is now on the scene to give us a report

of what's been going on in Ukraine according to his wife this is all going on Deanna is her name Huffman had no prior military experience adding that his limited training

was conducted in Russia she suggested the language bear has made her husband particularly unprepared for the horrors of combat quote unfortunately when you're taught

a different language you don't understand the language necessarily how are you really getting taught she pondered yeah uh you're not it's a weird the daily beast it's a weird article um i guess he okay so i guess just the fact that he moved to russia to get away from the the gay stuff happening in texas the gays yeah keep from like you said the indoctrination i'd rather die in the ukraine by uh grenade than hang out with any of the gays basically right okay what's wrong with him

Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, what's the, what's the term? Oh, Amy said it, Fafo. F around and find out. F around and find out. Yeah. I don't know. Look, people, I support his desire to make the choice he made because it's his choice to make. I think he's totally wrong about why he's making it. But you know what? Go ahead and make it. And then now you have consequences. So enjoy those while you can. Welding. or probably not riding. And I know it's Ukraine not the Ukraine either. I think he's going to be it looks like he's going to be carrying a gun and being sent to the front lines. Yes. And Claire, we know it's Ukraine, not the Ukraine. We just

mess it up here all the time. It's just a habit. We can't help it. Others taught us this. It isn't our fault. Exactly. Yes. I saw this, I saw Seinfeld episode yesterday where Kramer's on a bus or maybe it's the subway and he was saying something about the Ukraine and he wouldn't stop saying,

the Ukraine and a guy goes why you give Ukraine so much trouble back then I thought that was just a Ukrainian not using as the's and ands and conjunctions and everything else but no it's because we didn't know and that's what they taught us we learned everything we thought we knew from Kramer on Seinfeld that's that's so true and the the woman who answered the question during the Miss America pageant who said uh I believe it's because the iraq and the other places uh don't have maps and that's why the iraq needs the that was the wildest thing to this day i don't know poor woman i you know i hope that she's gotten past it i think she talked recently or not maybe not recently but i saw some interview where she talked about it

talked about the how she she was just terrified up there and yeah yeah i would be too you know what i'm sure i've said dumb things on on stages yeah um Chet says he also wanted to get away from immigrants. But he's literally immigrating to Russia. Yeah, why would he, if they want to escape from immigrants, you don't go to another country because, well, I guess, I guess you're now the immigrant. Yeah, he's the immigrant.

The irony hurts. Exactly. Everybody else is not an immigrant there. Plus, I don't think Russia's real big on immigrants other than the ones that support the party plan, you know? Yeah. I don't know. It's a weird thing to do.

Don't do this stuff. Just hang out with the gays. The gays, exactly. I love the gays. I love the gays. Moving on. I'm plucking the kids from the school. You're turning him gay.

You send Billy to school in the morning and he comes back, Marianne. Remember Marianne? I like they're better than ginger. Man, I have some things to say, but I won't say. About recent events, recent things. I just can't do it. I can't bring myself to do it. I know. I know.

It's hard. Listen, we'll make fun of the guy in other ways, but no point in getting current shit going on. No. Yeah. No. But it is definitely a Fred's pulling off the mask moment and finding out it was him the whole time. Surprise. Which surprises nobody.

It's almost like Fred pulling off the mask and everybody's like, yeah, we knew it was the old man who ran the amusement park. The audience is not surprised at all. We know what's going on. but there are some people who are like, what? No, what? Have never seen those photos? Where have you been? By the way, Dr. Calhoun is 100% right.

There's no way Trump like Marianne more than Ginger. Oh, no way. She had a... Mary Ann may have been in Iowa 5, but Ginger was a 10 everywhere. Which one looked younger? Mary Ann looked younger. Yeah, but I mean, Ginger was... Ginger is, you know, dolled up.

We know he likes the dolled up. He does, but apparently... I can grab her coconuts. They're into it. He likes him a little bit younger now. Maybe he thought Ginger was like, well, she was pretty young. She was, what, like 20 when she was in the show? Something like that.

It's not that young, but, you know... Yeah. He wishes... Well, never mind. That's all I'm going to say. All right. That is that. Let's see. Wendy's not here, so I'm going to do one more story.

Okay. A naked man. Oh, we love our naked men. We do love our naked men stories. Oh, yeah. Anytime we can get one. A naked man accused of trying to burn San Carlos Park gym hides in a tanning bed to get away with it.

And it would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for that. The personal trainers. This guy never seen. What was it? Final destination. Three was it that we saw? Yeah, I think it was three. The two girls that got cooked in their bed.

beds. Anyway, this was a, let's see, this is attempting to burn down a planet fitness located in San Carlos Park. Deputies responded to the gym. Went in there, they found a, they said there were reports of a naked man running through the gym, crawling into the ceiling and attempting to start a fire in the bathroom. Fantastic. It's a 25-year-old guy, probably on drugs, if I had to guess. Surveillance footage shows him sprinting through the building on clothed, entering multiple rooms, and then eventually lying nude under the hydro massage bed. Oh, that's different than that. Oh, that's not a, yeah, hydro massage is what they have. in the malls.

Their title does not match their story. No, hides in tanning back. Oh, later. Okay. So in the video they showed him in there and then he moved. Okay, I get it. He was arrested, charged with indecently exposure, arson, criminal mischief, and providing false information to law enforcement, but had a golden tan by then.

Deep, a deep dark tan. And some muscles all loose from the other thing. That's right. From the hydro massage. I like those. You ever do one of those in the malls? I've never done one in a mall. There was a place that had them.

They were a little more... They didn't need to be private because you could be clothed, but we did one in a place that was a little more private. And I really liked it. Really? Yeah, chilled me out.

Didn't make me feel claustrophobic. Love the sound. Like you're any human car wash. Well, your head's out, so that helps. That does help. But that feeling of like... Well, I like a weighted blanket. So I kind of think that's like that's like that.

You know, my claustrophobia is really just the Bruce Willis die hard, walking through the... you know a little lighter yeah come out to L.A. Come to come to L.A. Yeah, exactly. Lighter's all you got. Oh, man. That's right. Exactly. I'm more of an Andy Dufrain and a tube problem full of poo. Just because it's full of poo.

That's full of poo. Yeah. It was a tube full of Salina Gomez Oreos. You'd be fine. Yeah. I don't care how clean you come out on the other side. I ain't going to your tube of poo. All right. We're going to take a break when we come back. My sister Wendy will be here. And we'll talk about a, like kind of the science of happiness. We could all use a little of that, I think. We really could, yeah. Yeah, we have an email for it and all this stuff.

So we'll get to all that in a minute. Brian, let's play a song first. Yeah, we're going to go to, well, London for this one, a London-based but Australian-born producer, songwriter, and DJ, who goes by the name, hi, H-A-I, lower-case I, H-A-A-I. Good luck. Her real name is Teneal Thrasel, and she's got a brand-new album,

called Humanize that comes out October 10th via mute records. I'm going to tell you right now, I love this thing. Every track I've heard on here, and I had a hard time deciding which one I was going to pick, but I did pick the most recent single. This is some awesome breakbeat, electronica, psychedelic, edm-me kind of stuff. It's so, so good. Again, her name is, hi, H-A-A-I. The new album is called Humanize.

is hey! We're going to be able to be. Thank you. You know, I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to be. You know, I'm going to be able to be. Bees Savage. Be Informarge.

Bees Savage. Bees Savage. Beershage. Beish. This marriage. You're savage. You're swanage. This marriage.

Bish. This marriage. Beis Irish. This marriage. Brioz savage. Hewish. Beach Spanish. Starish.

It's Irish. We're gonna swanash, we'll miss varnish, we're this father, we're this father, we're this father, and we're swanish, and we're swanish, and we're swanash,

who's foward up, who's foward, who's foward, who's fada, who's fada, you know, Goodsla, who's stilla, who's ada, who's

schooler, who's gotta, who's gotta, who's gotta, who's star, who'sada, who'sada. Ida,

who's a, who'sada, who'sada, boomerah, who'sada, I am Ard, supreme leader of the revolution and the next ruler of the world. I still love him, but he's dead. And we're back.

Brian, who was that one more time? Sure. That was, hi, H-A-A-I with a brand-new song, Hey, Hey, hi, from a brand-new album, Humanize, which comes out in October. But go listen to everything that's available right now, and you'll freaking love it. Ah, it sounds fantastic.

Let's do this. Psychosomatic, that boy needs therapy. Psychosomatic. That boy needs therapy. therapy down on the couch it's too early for a fish sandwich oh I disagree I'm hungry I can do that my sister Wendy is joining us for therapy Thursday hello Wendy hello Wendy I hear her computer fan yeah her hiss right maybe she went somewhere she probably did because she text me says hey I'm ready when you are I said no worries we're just fin oh I think I hear

coming this is her she logged in but but then went to go get a couple yeah I think she thought she had a minute yeah hello Wendy Hello. Greetings. Welcome. Yes. Oh, hello. Hi. Hello. Hi. How are you? Hi. How are you good? We're doing all right. You know, hanging in there, keeping it real. Do I sound good? Do I sound normal? You sound fine. You sound fine. Yeah. Okay. I mean, I just, I keep it on full repair. Maybe that's my future. Well, I can change it too to see how it sounds. Actually, you know what? Let's see how you sound in the monomix right now. Okay, say something for me. Hi, how's it going? Oh, it's a little cleaner. Let's try it a little louder.

A little bit of hiss, yeah. Well, I can cover for the hiss. The his, the fan. I have a fan on the top. That's probably the hiss, yeah. Are you hot? Are you very warm where you are? Yeah, yeah.

It's called summer, bro. We want to keep you, we want to keep you warm, so I'm going to put you down on this and we'll see how this sounds. Okay, say something now. It says no headphone. Yeah, but ignore that. It doesn't mean what it means. Oh, okay. You're fine.

I'm going to put you on full repair. because that was better. All right. Hey, everybody. Wendy is here and she is great. She's not only my sister, but she's someone who knows stuff to answer questions to help you with your problems because she is an actual therapist. Wendy, we're going to talk a little bit about the science of happiness, but we're going to do it through the lens of an email that you sent me. I'll go ahead and read it. It goes like this. Hey, Scott and Brian and Wendy, with the world feeling so heavy right now, constant bad news, political chaos, climate issues, and personal stress. It's easy to feel overwhelmed or hopeless some days. That's why I've been trying to intentionally build more

joy in my life. I recently read about, quote, happiness habits, unquote, small daily actions intended to boost mental well-being over time. Examples include writing down a few things you're grateful for, spending time in nature, or texting a friend to check in. It made me wonder, what habits or mindsets truly make a difference when things feel hard? Does science suggest regular practices for feeling more grounded or joyful, even? even during difficult times. I would love to hear what each of you does intentionally or unintentionally to maintain your happiness. Thanks for all the laughs, unique stories, and occasional deep dives.

You have helped brighten some dark days, says Jay. Great email. And it's funny this comes up when it does because I've been doing a little bit of this myself, but I've been guessing about what will bring daily moments of joy. So I'm excited to have Wendy kind of either correct that or, you know, give us more direction on this sort of thing. So let's get into it and respond not only to Jay, but talk about the science

of happiness. Okay. So let's start with the bad news. Uh-oh. There's no such thing. Nobody can be happy. Oh, no. That's the thing. Yes. We're going to get out of the way. Okay. So

50% of our experiences of negative emotions is inheritable. Uh-oh. that means half of our experience of how often we're negative, the kind of way we process negativity, those emotions, we have inherited. So everyone's thinking, hmm, this explains some things, maybe, right? Sure. And 35% of our well-being is also, like our sense of well-being,

and how we feel like the good stuff hilariously is also inheritable, not 50% is stronger. And that's the survival bias, right? We came from scared people. I don't love the, that seems like a high percentage. I was hoping you'd say like 20% or 10. That's why it's bad news. And then our sense of life satisfaction that's inheritable is about 32%. And here is the cool part.

Okay, here's the good news. Are you ready? I love some good news. Yeah. Let's do it. Our experience of positive emotions is zero percent inheritable. We do not have any that we know of biological reason for us to how we experience positive emotions. So the cool part about that. Yeah.

Yeah, it's learned. It's practiced. It's sort of one way to think about the whole percentage pie is 50% is, biology, 40% is intentional. So that's where we can choose positive or choose negative, right? But we get to choose that. And then about 10% we can chalk up to circumstances, which people will be like, whatever, circumstances are much higher. But that is kind of the makeup of a human in terms of percentage and what we inherit in terms of how we are experiencing moods and in essence kind of happiness. So people love to ask happiness questions.

And I always like to start with this, like, it's really hard to define that. So let's just do it real quick. Can you two define when we talk about happiness? What does that even mean? Give me your textbook definition real quick. What is happiness? Oh my gosh. Brian, do you have a.

Yeah, like a feeling of, you know, happy doesn't necessarily have to mean elated. It can mean, it can mean satisfied or not satisfied. what's the word um uh feeling complete or feeling um like like things right now or are in a good place where i need them to be content that's the word i was looking for kelly okay in the chat feeling content can you know that just feeling content and safe and and um complete feels like it would make me happy. I love this so much because you are mimicking what it's like to actually study the science of happiness because it is so hard to define.

And scientists have not, the one definition does not exist. Yeah, I'm sure it doesn't. That's great. Way to illustrate how hard it is. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I assume it's difficult for anybody to describe. For me, this is going to be almost a cop out because it's too easy. but the most I've ever felt a sense of pure happiness that is to say no feelings of of concern regret worry about other things any feelings of like well this is cool but you know and then adding some baggage or any of those things are is when I hug van or Phoebe and they just kind of stay there for a minute put their head on my shoulder and chill

and that's it. That's the closest I've ever come to this. I don't know any other way to describe it because there's a purity there that I can't replicate with the rest of the world that is pure from their, they're giving it in a pure way and I cannot describe any better feeling.

There's no better feeling than that. And during that moment, it's a brief moment. During that moment, I think of nothing else. no other world issues no other my own issues nothing financial nothing emotional nothing just this is a perfect moment

and that to me would be a thing to strive for I don't think it's I mean it's not obviously it isn't a thing people can do all day every day for the rest of their lives some people try to do it drugs and they don't succeed but yeah but I love that feeling yeah it would it would stop working yeah if all you did was have that hug this is an important aspect of this because it's it's yet again a reminder that true happiness

needs the conflict to find the you know like anything you don't know how good it feels to not have pain unless you've had pain you don't it's why it's hard to relate to others who have gone through horrible things and we always say oh I must I know how that must feel no you don't you don't know how that must feel like until you felt it you really don't know so to me it's this extreme it's an extreme example and a very specific example, but it's the only time that I ever feel that way 100%.

Like there's lots of times I feel that way about something I created or I drew something I'm really proud of or Kim and I have a moment or some other thing in my life. But that, whatever that is, is just like if you could squeeze that out and sell it, man, you would make some of fun. Well, okay, you're bringing up two really important points. Everybody wants it and they'd pay for it. and they do think they're going to get it by buying things, of course. But like, it feels so good.

And we are built to want the good things and we want to avoid the bad things, right? That's a survival response, right? And we want it a lot. But you also bring out the most important point is that happiness is like every other emotion. It is fleeting. It comes, it goes, you can't always predict it. You can't always make it happen, et cetera, right? So often when people are wishing that it was a permanent thing, I just want to be happy.

What they're saying, I think Brian, your definition is nice, like content, safe, all of those things. But those words aren't happy. Those are other words. Happy is this joyful experience that if it lasted all the time, A, we never get anything done. But also, that would mean all emotions had that same mechanism. So that meant sadness never left. That would mean anger never stopped. That would be disgust, never went away.

You know, like we cannot have an emotion full time. And that is, so we're striving and clawing for a thing that's impossible. But like you were describing, Brian, the background of happiness is possible. It's like having your screen saver actually be contentment, safety, good things, you know, positive vibe. whatever. That can be the background, but it doesn't exist without, it has to come and go. And all, like Scott, you're saying, the opposites also have to exist for that appreciation. We have a mechanism in our brains, which helps us really get used to things quickly. You've probably noticed, let's say a few years ago, you had never ever expected A to happen. And now it happens

a week. And you're like, I mean, I guess that's life now. Like we adapt. We just, we've talked about this before on the show that when I'm sick I always go to a percentage and say yeah I'm feeling about 75% or 70% and then when I'm feeling well I say all right I'm at 100% and scus is something like man I'd kill to feel 100% and and it's like well you have to readjust what your 100% is to when you are feeling you know you're not sick you're you're not going through any any issues or anything it's like that that should be your new 100% and hey if you go over that readjust your 100% yeah but you have to adjust your you adjust your baseline really is what you're just your baseline exactly and then it's easier to it I like that you used 100%

yeah I didn't even mean to yeah so okay so the idea is ultimately it fluctuates and we we adjust to a different setting and usually what people will find is if they downgrade, like let's say you go do a humanitarian trip in another country that really does not have any of the comforts you are used to, you are going to probably experience some of the most happy moments of your life with the opposite of what comfort is. So comfort is really different than you used the word safe before. And I think safe is like, I am not going to be murdered safe. I'm loved. You know, you could talk about different versions of this. But the actual comfort is the opposite of sometimes what happiness is. And so we, we move towards

comfort because our biology is screaming for that comfort. Please, please, please, have the temperature be 72 degrees forever, you know, or, you know, please, no bugs, or whatever the thing is. And then you go do something that has meaning and less comfort and your happiness shoots up, which is interesting, right? So we can find this. We can get the yacht. We've all been dreaming of that would give us our full realized happiness and our happiness can go down it's one thing that's going on here is we're terrible predictors of how happy we will be so we get that thing that we're that we're striving to achieve or striving to a hundred percent yeah our brains are like you know when we will be happy it tells this story over and over and over to get us to move forward

to get us to do something to make sense of the chaos to pretend we have control but then when we get to actual thing. We have so many studies to show this. It's pretty funny of we're like, oh, it's fine. Well, this thing I thought would be the most blissful moment of my life is okay. You know, and it's because we're terrible predictors of that future outcome. So we're all a little materialistic for a biological reason. We're all striving for more comfort for biological reasons, right? But actual happiness or well-being or going back to my stats here, The positive emotion, which is joy, happiness, contentment, gratitude, awe, love, excitement, you know, all those positive things, those are zero percent inheritable.

So that means it's 100 percent. You're up to you. So all that to say, that was very luxury, all that to say, we're going to get to what the emailer is asking, like, what are the daily habits I can do that are going to make this make my happiness go up so first i want to tell everyone's of highly happy people is that we're doing exactly that's the new book so if anyone wants to take a free test to see what your happiness levels are that are uh the the well researched ones the ones we use um at high levels of learning here go to authentic happiness uh it's a upen dot edu website so you just click on that and there's a bunch of

questionnaires, and you can do the authentic happiness inventory. I think you have to put in an email. A general happiness scale, there's the PANIS questionnaire. Anyway, so you can, if you're interested in testing yourself a little bit here, there's a million of a life satisfaction questionnaires, meaning, flourishing, all those good things. Because we have a model that in positive psychology we use. This came out in 2011, I think. But the idea that the acronym is Perma, P-E-R-M-A,

and it's the stuff that creates healthy, happy psychology for somebody. And the P stands for positive emotions, which I'm going to get back to. E is engagement, like you're engaged in your work, in your life, creating, you know, opportunities to have flow and all that good stuff. R is positive relationships. M is, what is M? Why did my brain just cramp on me? m is meaning that's right and then a is accomplishment okay so maybe we'll do a series on this but let's start with p we're going to start with the positive emotions and you know i always like starting with

p this is about the joke yeah always with the p let's do it oh my gosh i was so ready um tip your finger uh that's amazing okay all right so i want to just ask a couple questions so um i want to be happy or I want to be happier. We hear it so much, we don't maybe think about it this way, but I, I, I want to actually ask what our motive is. So let me ask you to. You want to be happy. Sure. You're human. What is it you want from it? What is it you're actually seeking? If you could be happy, you would then have what. Why do you want to be happy? It really is what you're saying. Exactly. Thank you for the. I don't, I don't know. This is a really good question. I mean, it's, you know, it's easy to get really philosophical about what is, what is happiness. You know, you can kind of go down that road. Because it's obviously something that's so important, people decided to put the pursuit of it in, in our founding documents. Yeah. Yeah.

A hundred percent, right? Literally. We've been told from the get-go that that is what we want is this happiness and we are free to pursue it. Yeah. Yeah. We were a little. And trust me, that was not. common vernacular at the time i mean we haven't studied happiness in a systematic way to like

the 80s you know what i mean like it's pretty weird so yeah it's it's your god-given role here guys pursue happiness right right so why so the pursuit of happiness as as as but the quack caveat of why well because it's better than the alternative if i look at the if i just look at it from a chemical standpoint, it just sure feels better to think you're happy even when maybe it's artificial or temporary. So maybe that, because survival means wellness, wellness ties possibly to happiness. Happiness means you're doing okay, which therefore means you're surviving better than you would if you weren't.

Yep. Yeah, I mean, it's health and safety and all those things. It's the, it's what our body tells us, you know, that we don't need. need to flee from. We've got happiness. We're not in danger of getting eaten by a large animal. We're not in bad health. We're not in this or that. You know, it's, all right, happy is, is 100%. Yeah, 100%. And here's what's tricky about it, right? If you have all of those things, you will get bored. That's a bored of love, though. What are we doing? How is this the system that when we finally get what we want, we're actually bored.

And it's because it's more complex than that. But, yeah, I think survival is a huge component of it. I love the work on, like, what different cultures find beautiful and how different, and different sounds and different, you know, like, what are the differences with people? And one universal beautiful scene for almost every culture, I think, it's almost unanimous, is a water, like a view of a homestead or a place that's safe and maybe surrounded by mountains and enough trees

and then a water source. And it's like, oh yeah, we find that beautiful because we need all of that so we don't die, right? So happiness is all these emotions. So I'm going to give us the definition or throw in it's experiencing all of these positive emotions in some form at some sort of regular interval so that it feels at least like there's happiness it's usually that we're really feeling connected there's a bunch going on there right and it the coming and going just it's like we just need enough of it to not be miserable or something right so the idea here is why do we want it well because we're human beings and it feels good the problem is we pursue it in all sorts of ways that don't actually work.

So pursuing objects or things or, right? Like, I mean, who hasn't shopped and gotten a little high, right? Who hasn't gotten this thing they worked really hard for and we're super excited about? And then they were just overjoyed. The Amazon truck to pull up in front of your house to deliver this thing that you know is, his existence is going to make you happy. It's like my bag, Brian. My new bag was like that this morning.

It showed up right before the show and it's like, The bag I order. It smells like leather. Oh, it's like having a cow in the house. I love it. It smells like leather. Yeah. So, okay, so this is actually a really great example of like missing the goal.

Sometimes the goal is this thing out here. And then we, you know, you look at your Instagram and you're like, I don't have the thing I want and I'm seeing other people have that. And is that a form of happiness? No. It's called taking the things that we think would make us happy and then talk. torturing ourselves with it, right? Right. Yeah.

That's why social media can be such a double-edged sword. Like, you know, you're seeing what everybody else is saying that they have that made them happy. Yes. And you're saying, well, I don't have that. I must not be happy. Yes. And I can't count as many times I have witnessed someone being so weird in public and actually semi abusive to their children to take the pictures that look like happiness.

And I just, I don't know why I'm always present for those. But I'm always like, uh, could you abuse your young, perfect looking children in another place, you know? But that's because it's curated and whether it's real happiness or not, I'm going to guess a truly, deeply happy experience you're going to want to maybe share. But if you're in the middle of it and you want to share, you have reduced the happiness actually involved and then the internet does the other thing which is like is so funny sometimes and amazing and hilarious and like you're finding joy and positive emotions there too so it's

complex right so i'm going to give the emailer a very specific thing to do so i want everyone to think about the positive emotions you would like a little more in your life and and we're going to name some of them okay so maybe write them down if you got a pen joy contentment gratitude love, awe, excitement, fun. What else we got? Peaceful. Safety, healthy. Healthy.

Healthy. Excited for, like looking forward to something. Charged. Motivated. Motivated. Anything that you're like, I interact with a person and I get that oxytocin boosts of like bonded, connected, belonging, all these good things, right? Okay. So we write a bunch of those down.

pick one of them and give me an idea. I'm going to have you guys do it. But everyone else, I want you to think, how can I make, again, remember, this isn't genetic. This is 40% all your intention. Your intention matters as a huge percentage that you get to do with the skill, with do with practice, and do with creating, like the researcher or the emailer said of having regular practice, right? so pick one and then let's find a thing to do to make that happen so pick one you two i'll pick uh joy i kind of like motivated because you know when i'm sad i don't feel i feel

depressed i feel uh i'm not gonna i can't do it i can you know i don't have the energy to do it but when i feel motivated i'm pretty sure i feel happy about it okay love it all right so we got joy and motivated so what you would do is and everyone doing this at home you are are, have the emotion you're interested in feeling a little more. No illusion that you're going to feel joy all day long or you're going to feel motivated all day long. But how do we increase? And we don't increase something usually by one big effort.

We usually increase it by regular, sustainable things that feel, that build to opportunity, right? So Scott, you can hug your grandkids every time you see them and have a second like this over and over and over. Yeah. We've already solved your joy question. You have a built-in joy machine. Lucky you. Any other way you might have a regular thing that makes joy possible.

Think of creating this scenario or the... Because I can tell you right now, there's plenty of grandparents who've hugged their grandkids and have never experienced what you're talking about. And that's because your presence of mind, your openness to it, your availability, your willingness, your willingness to surrender all the other things

you brought something to that moment to experience that joy it is not automatic even though it might seem so to you because you're not like okay I will let my self-filled joy but where else in your life

could you let yourself feel joy or find joy and then Brian I'll ask you okay well you make a really I didn't really thought about this but you made a really good point Like, I don't, it's not like inherently when I, it's like they're going to be over today.

When I go see Phoebe and pick her up and hug her, it's not like, oh, there's the dispenser over there. I'm going to go grab it. Well, right. It's, it's your hugging because you want to hug her, not because, well, I'm expected to hug her because she's my grandchild. Yeah, I love seeing her. It's just absolutely love seeing these kids and love having them over and love spoiling them and love giving them suckers. And even when they puke in the night, it's fine to clean it up, deal with it. Like, I hadn't really thought of it that way, but yeah, I do bring something to that.

But I also know in my heart of hearts, there's somewhere in the back of my brain that always reminds me, you know, one day they're going to be teenagers and not give a crap for a while. They're going to be like, they're going to be busy with their lives and you're going to be going, I sure miss that. And that'll just be how it is. Sorry, that made me forget your question. Can you ask? Yeah, my question. How about you be thinking? How do you intentionally practice whatever you need to or build into your life?

So joy is an option. So one example might be for folks who can't stop taking pictures of everywhere they are and every moment. Every sandwich. Try this. The next time you're in an amazing situation or place, take one picture of the people. of the people you're with and maybe the thing that you're looking at and then put your phone away

and then be as present as possible imagine you're taking pictures with your eyeballs imagine like you're letting it sink in so Scott that's what you do naturally here sometimes some of us will need to on purpose move into joy and be available for joy because we've stopped distracting ourselves

with things that have to hold in their hands or you know whatever the thing may be right so because our brains are really trained now to like well joy later we'll be looking at these pictures or i will post this and i will get some joy from that right but we're actually diminishing the initial space to just practice feeling that okay so brian let's move on to motivated yeah yeah uh what do you do in your life to make motivation and be feeling motivated just available to you here or there. You know, I wish I knew the formulas like to just say, oh, well, I do this and that automatically makes me motivated.

But it is, you know, when I do feel it, it is because I'm anticipating what something is going to feel like when it's completed or finished or at least moved on to the next phase. It's, you know, it's, you know, this came up in the time management or the time. time mastery that it's not about feeling like you're done with something but feeling like you've progressed with something whether it's like saying okay well instead of saying you know this website will be done in two months i can say well this landing page will be done in two hours and then i can move on to the about page and it'll be done in about two hours and i'll be done with this one and it's it's you know it's the it's the small joys of

microcompletions that um that lead to the motivation it's it's you know you look at an elephant you say i can't eat that elephant all in one bite i have to i have to take chunks it's a horrible metaphor because no one wants to eat an elephant yeah because gross or chunks yeah also really really important thing of you're managing a positive emotion you're adding to it by managing your expectations, your time and your like approach, right? That is, that is a fantastic way to do it. And then also you can, another thing from the class, if you remember, is like really celebrating wins. Yeah. So when you have completed something, if you just move on to the next thing. And sometimes it's as simple as I got out of bed and took a shower today. And that is worth celebrating when you're

at various stages emotionally, right? But the celebration and the, this is why we do graduations. This is why we have wedding celebrate. We need that as humans. We need to celebrate cool things. It's why we have participant ribbons. It's something I used to poo-poo all the time. Like, oh, you know, why do we just get a ribbon just for participating? But it is because of that.

It's because you need those little motivations to, so that you're not like, I didn't get first, second, or third, I get nothing kind of thing. What was the point of doing this? that there's a little boomer in all of us right and that is a boomer it is such a boomer yeah right it's a boomer everybody need to have a participant ribbon and you also know they are such an emotionally healthy group so we should copy them but my point is this there is um we have heard things about how to be happy you're bringing up a great point of like what habits might work or not work um what you know don't cry about it is literally the

the worst emotional well-being advice we could ever give, and that gets stuck into people. So sometimes it might be important to question, like, where did I learn about feeling positive? Or if you got in trouble for being too loud and excited when you were happy, you had to shut that down. I mean, this gets way more complicated, obviously, but there is something to think about there, which is, okay, I want to feel these feelings. And have I ever thought of what's, A, standing in my way to feel them and or am I doing anything to get me there? So maybe you guys have seen the, it was a while back, but people were like, I wonder why I don't feel well after I drank no water and stared at the screen and haven't had a vegetable in 10 years. Like, we know the answer is these regular ongoing things.

And so as everyone has written down a positive emotion that they're interested in and they're coming up with steps to do that, think of it. as what are regular things I can do? So let's say I chose gratitude. Okay, I could write every single night three things, and we have enough studies to prove that this is life-changing. Three to five things I'm grateful for every day. And that is going to absolutely change how I see things, what I look for. I will feel gratitude in huge amounts.

And all I've done is write a couple things down every day, right? So that is a habit that leads to feeling. more of a positive emotion. Another one, like awe is one of my favorites. Aw should not be happening all the time, right? I'm standing on the moon looking at the earth, right? Okay, so it's like, yeah, aw, A-W-E, ah, not A-H-H. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But also. Those are good, too. Those are good, too. That could be what you're into. Right. Is somebody not into awe? I'm hoping so everybody lives, ah, ah, ah, ha, ha, ha. A-H, A-A-H, A-W-E.

Or it could be like, looking forward to something, you've got to plan it, right? You've got to make something happen. You get excited for something. If you haven't felt excitement in a long time, plan a thing, you know? So there can be so many different things of this, but you've got to do a couple steps. So that's everyone's homework, right, the positive emotion, which you have control over. I'm not saying what just happens to you because, There is real stuff that doesn't feel like positive emotion all the time.

That's normal. But we can have some control over having these positive potential experiences because we've intentionally put some steps into place. So that's your homework, figured out. So I'm going to email us for next time. I have a couple more on happiness we can do if you guys are interested. What that was like for you? And we could talk about some of the other parts of the formula.

Yeah, absolutely. We could all use a little more happy. science right now. I think that's great. Well, good stuff as always, Wendy. And I hope this helps Jay. So Jay, let us know how things go for you. It seems like you've got some pretty good ideas yourself. And this idea of texting people who you haven't heard from in a while, that's actually a really good thing. Do that more. It's so good. I do it a lot and it's nice. Especially it'll be like, hey, we haven't had an email from like, for example, I haven't heard from Jeff Seyer in about two weeks. We usually hear from him every other day on the show. And I thought,

just check in make sure everything's okay he's fine but it's still worth checking in you know make sure people are okay people you care about reach out uh well that's good stuff wendy anything happening at no better you dot com we should tell people about right now there should be but there is not but feel free to give me your email so when i'm ready you will know yep yeah get over there right now no better you that's a you like the letter you dot com and sign up and you'll be all set for whatever's next. The class is just finished for Time Mastery, as Brian brought that one up earlier.

It was really good. I highly recommend it to everybody, so when you do that one again, people should jump in on it. Thank you, thank you. Health and physical education coming up this fall, lots of fun stuff on the horizon, so check it out.

Wendy, have a fantastic rest of your week. All right, thank you. Okay, we'll see you later. Bye. Bye. All right. We did it. Quick note about shows.

Today, Coverville at noon. Don't forget, check it out. grab Brian before he leaves town that's right here here the last thing you'll hear from till next thursday we got a whole week right that's right yeah whole week weird he'll be here for next week's therapy Thursday maybe you'll have some stories we can relate to I hope so you'll also at some point probably hear me give a review of uh fantastic four first steps I've told Scott that I'm going to record probably on the way home from the movie tonight a little bit of a review.

Love it. Just a really quick, spoiler-free, like, hey, here's what I thought. Yep. Did they do it? Or are we back to Angry Blogger Michael Chickless meets a dude from Niptuck? I'm going to combine all of the fantastic. Yeah, just put them all together. Even the 94-1 that never made it to the years.

The Corman, yeah. Yeah. We're just doing this to hold on to the intellectual property rights. I did like that those guys were all invited and showed up to the premier. The red carpet. Yes. Yeah, that's great. That's fantastic.

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is gifting me with a new movie. Last year was Deadpool and Wolverine. This year I get fantastic four first steps as it is on a Friday. Feel free to drop this on the 24th or wherever. Made it to 51 and still going strong. My lovely wife Heather made a request back in May for our 10th anniversary and it was fun to listen

as Brian explained that the requests are for covers. It's true. They're just for covers. It's true. She's heard a lot of your content by proxy as I've been a fan for a very long time. Anyway, before I get to the song, I'd like to thank you again for the content and community. Keep creating, and I'll keep the Patreon fed. When I got my bachelor's degree back in 2019, my fine arts requirement ended up to be a class called the Music of Prince.

Did he have to do any stippling? I had to take it as he was. I had to take it as he was and still is one of my favorite artists ever. There we go. I'm asking for the covermaster to hit me with the hottest cover of. or buy the purple one that he can think of, something with some energy. Again, thank you for what you do, gentlemen. Yours in this life and the next, furry Viking.

Oh, that's very nice. Thanks, man. I love it. Yeah. Huge Prince fan here myself. And this is one of my more recent acquisitions and one of my more recent musical artists that I am just in love with. She's just got such incredible voice. The woman's name is Holly Humberstone.

And she is an indie artist that is absolutely worth following, worth listening to. Check out her album, Paint My Bedroom Black, I think is what it's called. It is so good. And when you start listening to her cover of I Would Die for You, be ready because it does ramp up into that energetic thing that you're looking for, Ferry Viking. It may not start out that way, but it gets there. Here is a single that Holly Humberstone released a couple years ago,

back to 2022 with princes, I would die for you. I'm not your woman. I am not your man. I am something that you'll never understand. I'm never be true, I'll never lie, and if you're evil, I'll forgive you by and by, because you, I would die for you, darling, if you want me to you, I would die for you. I am not your lover, I'm not your friend, I am something that you'll never comprehend. No, I'm not. I'm not your friend. I am something that you'll never comprehend. No, Don't need to worry, no need to cry, I'm your Messiah, and you're the reason why, because you, I would die for you, darling, if you want me to you, I would die for you. I would die for you. You're just a sinner, I am told, be your failure when you're cold, make you happy when you're sad, make you good when you are. back. I'm not human. I am a dove. I'm your conscious. I am love. All I, all I really need is to know that you believe. I would die for you, darling, if you want me to. I would die for you. Darling, if you want me to.

If you want me to I would die for you If you want me to And I would die for you Darling if you want me too And I would die for you Those pants are made for froggin, if you know what I mean. I, I actually don't.

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