The Morning Stream - TMS 2860: Vestigial Bone

Episode Date: July 30, 2025

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Let them keep thinking that and hop over to patreon.com slash DMS right now and help this show be the show. Coming up on the morning stream, he puts the Franklin in the burger. Make a nerdtacular moves. I swallow love darts. Fresh from the hooter. I don't like fake chucky cheese. I love the smell of mantacore in the morning. The Lincoln Leap.

Canine Lupus. Get the popsicle from the auto club. I herald your popcorn. Then you shall have no recommendals, no Tom Merritt, and no lieutenant y'ar. And more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Is this on a level, Claire? I remember getting some very strange phone calls. When I'm tired from get off work and lying in bed, I always pick this up.

The morning stream. The tingling means it's working. Hello, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It is yet another morning stream. Brian DeBitt is still gone. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Bobby Frankenberger sitting in for said Brian.

Hello. Hello. Yes. Brian's gone. There's a really great picture of him on Facebook of him, Tina, and Brian's dad in the middle. And when I first saw that, I thought, because he's getting some kind of award. I think this is, they built their vacation kind of around this trip for the award ceremony. Um, I think. Anyway, he can clarify tomorrow. But, uh, I thought it was like a politician or something in the middle. Because I've seen his picture of his dad in a long time. So, uh, he's getting some, getting recognized for some physics and medicine thing, which is pretty cool. And, uh, I thought, oh, they're going to talk about how they met their local congressperson they voted for. And he's out there fighting a good fight in Washington.

And it's like, no, it's his dad. It does look kind of like a picture like that, right? Yeah. It looks kind of like, oh, in part because his dad looks like a real, like, important dude. He does. Yeah, he looks like he's up to real business. Yeah, he's got that air about him. Like, this is not a, this is not a jokey buffoon like the rest of us.

he's run entire cancer departments at like big big wig hospitals and he's like a big big big deal this this fella you know but uh i'm excited to hear all the stories he'll he'll bring those back with him tomorrow and we'll find out yeah what debauchery he got up to in the heat wave that was washington dc it's been very hot there um couple things to get out of the way this morning nerdtacular everybody who came to thomas fagas knows this is happening this year uh or next year. Sorry, 2026. And they know that I announced it live there, but they may not either have heard that because they didn't go to Vegas or they just forgotten that I mentioned it. Well, we're making moves. All right. Making quick, quick moves. And one of those, big money moves. And one of those

big money moves is that we are, we set up a survey on the website. This is at frogpants.com slash nerdtacular, spelled just like it sounds. And, uh, in the, there the very first thing is this form you just go fill out this quick survey form and it basically just gives me some ideas about rough numbers of who might be coming or who is showing interest in coming the kinds of things they want to see there uh none of this is like personal info grabbing uh i'm not doing anything with it in fact you don't even have to use your email unless you want to get info later uh but while you're there you can peruse all the old old photographs of of previous events look at chris metzen and joey image how do you how can you not love that look at that look at jury

in his hoodie. Look at that. Look at Patrick and his flag. You know, Veronica. Look at these people. Look at my sister, Wendy. Look at me about 28 pounds lighter. You know, a great time to be alive. There's Stephen. Anyway, if you want to hop over there and fill this out, just really helpful in kind of knowing who's coming, what's going on, that sort of thing. Quick note, the plan right now is the heart of Salt Lake City. We're not doing the snowbird thing, at least at this stage. That's not the plan. And the reason for that is, tons of amenities, restaurants, bars, side quests, things to do in this little block of the city where it's beautiful down there and there's so much cool stuff. It's right by the convention center.

We're going to have our own convention space. It's going to be rad, but we need your feedback so we can make the best event possible because who knows? I don't know if it'll be a regular thing again or not. It may be. It may not be. Right now I'm treating it like let's do a big one off and see how it goes. But we need your feedback. So frogpants.com slash nerdtacular.

Go sign up today and be, or not sign up. Go let me know what you think. All right. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Also, Bobby, I need you to make sense of something. All right?

Oh, okay. I pinged you about this yesterday because I saw. I was going to pretend like it was, I was hearing it for the first time. The magic of radio. Yeah. No, in the interest of transparency. I saw this thing yesterday and I said,

I begged Bobby. I said, please, please, can we talk about this tomorrow? And you of course, you of course consented. So there are a lot of dumb things online. It's not, there's no shortage of it. But once in a while something will catch my interest. And this TikTok video from this dude bro, who's sitting by a pool

covered in tats, looking very dude bro-y, it's fine, whatever, live your life. He's got this query which didn't sound that sincere, but he asked this question and I thought what one more perfect thing to have than while our sitting co-host is a science guy who loves science loves to talk about the science of all things whether it be the climate or why did the egg explode

whatever it is in between all the science things right right so this way this way I don't have to be sitting in the chat frantically trying to type you know what 300 characters at a time to correct you and Brian right precisely. So in this case, you get to answer it directly. So I'm going to play the audio from this content. I'm not going to do the video. It's just distracting. But this is his question. You'll note he put some very sort of X-Filesie style music behind it to sort of enhance the what's going on kind of vibe of the whole thing. And then you can answer it. Here you go. Don't you find it odd that the

sun is a million times bigger than the earth? And the heat and the light from the sun travel 93 million miles all the way to the earth. And at the equator, it's scorching hot, but only 4,000 miles away at the polls, which is about a 0.004% difference. It's freezing. Make that make that make sense. Make that make sense, Bobby Frankenberger. Make that make sense. Yeah, yeah. He's very, very precise with his number. It's a wonder why he was so precise with that distance. between the Earth and the equator and the poles that he didn't get the the size of the sun compared to the Earth, correct? No, he sure didn't.

One million times larger. It's 1.3 million times larger. It's a lot, it's bigger than that. Yeah. Which he might think, he may hear you say that if he was sitting here right now and go, oh, well, that even better supports my thing because it's bigger and that means it's closer, which means there should be more heat at the poles. Yeah, right, right.

So that's kind of why I brought that up. Well, I wanted to say, like, it's even, it's even crazier than that. But so, this is really easy to answer. I'm going to assume that maybe this isn't a fair assumption, but I'm going to assume that this person is a flat-eather, and that's why they're asking this question. Yeah, that or they're just trying to stir stuff up to get hits. I mean, their eyeballs, it's one of those two things, maybe the same.

It could be exactly, they don't even have to be mutually exclusive. Right. Yeah. Because if you understood that the Earth is curved, it answers this question pretty easily. So the reason that the equator is hot is because the sunlight, the energy from the sun, which it doesn't matter how far away the equator is versus other parts of the Earth. The distance doesn't really matter because the energy is traveling through the vacuum of space. So it's not getting like it's all just photons. are going.

Right. They're not dissipating. Now, at very, very large distances, yes, it will get spread out more, but we're not that far away from the sun. So the angle is not really that big of a deal. But the reason

that it's hotter at the equator is because all that energy from the photons is hitting the earth directly. yeah like like shining straight down but at the as you move up towards the poles the earth curves and so if you think about all of the sunlight coming straight down we're so close to the sun well really we're far enough away from the sun that you can think about all the energy coming down to towards the earth in straight parallel lines all across the face of the earth right right not and what I mean is it's not coming directly down

perpendicular to the surface of the earth, I just mean that if you hold up a ball and on a sheet of lined paper, you know how the lines the lines on the paper will all be perpendicular hitting

the different parts of the curve of that circle, right? That's how it's happening on the earth too. It's all hitting, it's all coming. So the stuff at the equator is hitting directly sort of perpendicular to the earth whereas the stuff at the poles is obliquely hitting the surface of the earth

it's glancing off the side it's not coming straight down at the earth and so the same amount of energy is actually hitting a larger surface area like if you take one if you could measure like one square

meter of sun energy coming straight at the earth it hits a smaller space at the equator than it does at the poles that that gets spread out over the surface because it's hitting a curved surface and so less energy is hitting any given point on the earth the farther away from the equator you get it's that simple that makes sense to me and uh it just seems like there are people maybe this guy would do this i don't want to assume things about people but let's just say let me go ahead and do that

i'm going to go ahead and assume something about a guy all right it seems like he might be the kind of guy that would go, for example, and he would walk over to his giant radiator in the winter, right, big old heater, and then hold a baseball over here and go, see, it's just as warm at the top as it is in the middle because, and that's the same as the sun, like he would create what he thinks is a scale experiment with a baseball on a radiator, and he would be wrong about how all that works. So I guess I'm just using this as an excuse for people to check out All Around Science, the weekly podcast by Bobby Frankenberger where he and his fabulous co-host discuss all things science. All right. Can't do that. Check it out. Enlighten yourselves. But you don't

always have to be playing that music behind your shit to try to convince us that there's some conspiracy going on. If that guy were genuinely trying to get an answer, then he could email us that all-around science.com. There you go. I would answer his question on the show. I like that. It'll be hard because he was a random stranger I saw on my for you page on TikTok and has no connection to me at all.

But if we could somehow work that out, the universe is not as big as we think it is. We could make this happen. All right. Well, that was awesome. We're going to play a game now. Apparently, you have prepared a game. And by doing so, you have ensured that we here on the podcast are going to have a great time. To do that, we have to bring Brian Dunaway in here. It is a lot. Let's see if I can add him to

the call. I'm mostly killing time to do that. There we go. All right, here we go. Look who it is. It's old Brian Dunaway, joining us from some remote location in South Carolina also. Brian Dunaway, are you there? You're muted, by the way, Brian Dunaway. I don't if you saw that there. It is a little remote, isn't it? I mean, compared to where you are, I think so. Well, you'd know better to me. Where are you compared to where he might be? Oh, there you are.

You were muted. Hi. Hello. That's weird. I didn't mute me. Okay, anyway. Oh, hi, Scott and Bobby. Hi.

How are you? Hi. Bobby Scots. How remote are you compared to where Bobby lives? I'm, what do we decide? Bobby's like an hour and a half or so. I'm on the West Coast. I'm on the West Coast of South Carolina, right?

The West Coast. West Coast. Yeah, I'm in Columbia. So I'd imagine it's... It's about an hour or so. Yeah. Yeah. Who's the closest to like a good beach, you know?

Definitely me. Oh, definitely, yeah. Yeah, yeah. All I've got is lake water, lots of it. How often, Bobby, do you get, do you go to the lake, you know? To the lake, sorry, the coast is what I meant, but yeah. Well, my, my in-laws, I used to, I lived near, I grew up near the beach. I grew up near Charleston.

And then my in-laws still live there. go down there very often but I'm not much of a beach person I don't like going to the beach very much uh well look oh I am a beach person I think it's your is that mean you're mountain folk it means he's a sexy he's got a sexy body and doesn't want people to uh you know gaze upon it yeah yeah for too long I get too much I get too much attention when I'm at the beach you know yeah it's like it's like staring at the uh how is it feel like the sun is hitting your equator the whole time you're there the equator yeah the equator I actually like I actually like a beach house if I can just casually go to and from the beach.

It's all the getting there and coming home that I don't like. Oh, that's how I'm, uh, that's how I am with, uh, camping. Give me, I need a hotel. I need a hotel bed. That's a camping for me now. That's not camping. It did, you used to not be, but for me now, it is now. It's glamping.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to sleep on the hard, freaking ground. F that noise. Uh, anyway, hey, you're here. Uh, we're going to make a good game out of this. And also we have some prizes today. Here are the people that could win today.

Well, they're going to win no matter what. So whoever wins, these people are winning. Whether I win or Dunaway wins, it won't matter. They're going to get these codes. It will just depend on which of us wins because I'm going to be playing for Derek Monk. He is a patron. So Derek, if you're listening to this, you are on the line here for this today. And then Bartosie Gallic Gajik.

Gajik. That's who you'll be playing for, Brian Dunaway. codes are proteus or proteus sorry fantastic first person shooter words are hard i love proteus proteus is such a cool game if you haven't played proteus you're an insane person you should play it and then the other person will win sonic and all-stars racing transformed collection a good yeah like a mario cart like that is actually good uh so there's all that uh let's take it from there bobby what do you have for us today all right it's time i don't have a name for this game so uh anybody listening if you want to

suggest a name for this game, but it's a no name game game. It's the no name game game show where you get to show off your science vocabulary. Oh, goodness. All right, here's how it works. I'm going to give you the name of something real from the world of science. Yeah. It might be a body part, a bizarre body part, a strange piece of lab equipment, a medical term, and then I'm going to give you a few possible definitions. Only one of them is real. The rest are decoys in your job. got and Brian is to figure out which one's real and all of you at home can play along too. I'm excited about this. I want to know

what bizarre body part Dunaway has. Is this kind of like, is this kind of like watching Bugs Bunny? And they throw the tags over K9. Oh, I don't remember that. You don't remember that? No. They would like, the coyote would be like running and they would stop and they would like put a little

sign and say, K9 lupus. I don't know what it was. Oh, like to, I get you. Like where they would say canine lupus. dog to win dog lupus um no i know what you mean though they would say what their actual genus was very brief like they would freeze for second and say the yeah yeah roadrunner is this here's the full science name i get where you're going i like where your head's at it's also very retro of you i like that also it is canis lupus is the fox i think yeah lupus oh i didn't know that oh

But it's not spelled like lupus like that, but lupus. But it's like Lupine, like you always hear lupine. Yeah, right, right. Or, yeah, yeah, okay. Sorry, I just wanted to, I got to back up my South Carolina brother. Yeah, well, it's fine. We're here in Utah. We don't know what we're doing.

Well, anyway, let's go ahead and continue down the road here. Who wants to go first? I don't care who goes first. Let's do Dunaway. He's our guest. Dunaway will go first. Okay, so what we'll do is I'll ask you a question, Dunaway. you're going to get a chance to pick from one of four choices.

If you get it right, then you'll get a point. If you don't, Scott, I'll give you a chance to get a half a point by picking one of the remaining choices, okay? Got it. I like this. Got it. Yeah. All right. So here we go.

First one, round one. The word is petrachore. And here are your four options. Petrachore. Either A, the earthly smell after rain. B, the scent of ozone during a lightning storm. C, a hormone released by plants under stress Or D, an ancient fossilized resin used in perfumes

Wow, those are all amazing Also like the idea of my stressed out plants You've ever go outside and they're all stressed out Dogs are roam in the neighborhood It's like, what is that? Is that some mantacore or petricor? Yeah, I can't smell one of the two It smells like manticor outside It smells like manticor outside

All right. What was that A1 again? An earthly smell after rain. I should just, I should like send these to you is what I should do. An earthly smell after rain. I miss you. That's up from that song. So my choices were essentially after the rain, ozone, plant stress.

And what was the other one? Ancient fossilized resin in perfumes. Oh, wow. That's wild. I'm going to just go. Plant stress. I'm going to go with a. A?

Yeah, Petricor is that that earthy smell, right? Is that that was the A? You are correct. Oh my gosh. Well done, dude. Hold on, let's give you a thing. I didn't even have it ready. There we go.

Nice job. Petricor, yeah, that's the name that we get after that earthy smell when it's rained. It's caused by plant oil. oils and a compound called geosman, which is made by soil bacteria. It gets kicked up into the air. Yeah. You got to stress out a few plants and then you're good. Humans are actually especially sensitive to it.

We can detect Petricor at concentrations of less than 10 parts per trillion. Good Lord. And by comparison, sharks sense blood in the water at one part per million. So that's about, we're about a thousand times more sensitive to Petricor than sharks are to blood. in the water. My brother, my brother used to tell me that it was the smell of worms coming out. That's what he would say. Yeah, well, not exactly

true, but, uh, yeah. Right, close enough. But that's all I, that's what I think of now. If I see worms, I assume I'm smelling worms, but you have, you have educated me today. That's petricor, yeah. Yeah, yeah, wormacore. Yeah. All right, you're ready, Scott for round two? It's your turn. Do it. All right, round two. The word

is frisson. Frisson. Fristen. I'm glad you got this one. You be frisson, all right? Yeah, F-R-I-S-O-N. Frisson. Here are your choices. A, a type of mild frostbite that affects nerve endings.

B, a goose bump-inducing emotional reaction to music or art. C, a temporary eye twitch caused by cold exposure. Or D, a French term for thermal equilibrium in the human body. Frisson. Frisson. Frisson. Frisson. friscia fris

the French one's the last can you tell me what A and B were again A is a type of mild frostbite that affects nerve endings or B and B is a goosebumps-inducing emotional reaction to music or art I'm going to I don't know why

I just B sounds right to me I'm going to say B B sounds right to you you're an artist you you have probably goosebumps bump-inducing emotional reaction to music, right? Yeah, sometimes. So you feel like you have experienced frisson in those moments? I have.

Oh, he's talking even longer. That's bad. You are correct. Oh, I got it. Yay. Well, he put the ibbit on us. Yeah. Pull the card from the imbit neck.

That's great. Yeah, exactly. Friscent, it's that tingly, goose bumpy feeling you get from like powerful music or dramatic film scenes. It's tied to dopamine release in your brain's reward system, reacting to surprise or beauty it's a cross-cultural experience so they've it's been it's been known to happen it's not a cultural thing it's everyone experiences it you know what i'm going to do from now on in every Pixar movie when they knowingly start yanking on your emotional strings yeah i'm

gonna yell frisson it's the frisening everybody sit down is the friscied everybody y'all feel that that's frisson i'm gonna say yeah in the movie theater yeah oh yeah hell yeah i'm gonna get kicked out, but I'm going to be proud of what I did. I am learning today that there's a name for everything. Yep. So this is the unnamed name game. Yep. Well, let's see if you can figure out

this next one, Brian. It's the term is it's not as complicated. It's love dart. Oh, a love dart. Okay, so is it Cupidcore? Well, I played, I played Kitar for them for two years during college. For Love Dart. Yeah, they were great.

So what is a love dart? A? A mating dance behavior in dragonflies. B, a pheromone spraying spine used by skunks. Holy crap. C, a tiny calcium harpoon used by snails during mating. Or D, a vestigial bone found in some species of bats. These are all horrible. You should be ashamed to yourself.

Now, what was the name of number? You guys have gotten all of them right, both the questions right, we got two. Yeah, too. I'm better at root words and stuff. because I kind of can narrow those things down. This is a tough one. This is a, you have to be, you know,

you have to be familiar with some of these things. Let's see, that last one was a bat of vestigial bone and bats. Yeah. I'm assuming they assume they love dart. So they assumed they had like a second reproductive. I don't know. Put your love dart away. Put your love dart away.

So it was, give me those again real quick. I'm sorry about it. All right. A mating dance behavior in dragonflies. Maramone, spraying spine used by skunks, a tiny calcium harpoon used by snails during mating. That was it. You think it's it? You think it's it?

I feel like, I feel like that's what, yeah, I don't know why. It feels good. It feels good. The love dart feels good. It's good. Yeah, yeah. You heard me. All right.

All right. Well, you're correct. You guys are doing. Oh my gosh. What? How did you get that? That was a total, total guess. I don't know.

I was going to go with the skunk. I wouldn't have gotten. No. Why choose a sleep number smart bed? Can I make my site softer? Can I make my site firmer? Can we sleep cooler? Sleep number does that. Cools up to eight times faster and lets you choose your ideal comfort on either side. Your sleep number setting. It's the sleep number biggest sale of the year. All beds on sale up to 50% off the limited edition smart bed plus free premium delivery with any smart bed and adjustable base. Ends Labor Day. All sleep number smart beds offer temperature solutions for your best sleep. Check it out. at a sleep number store or sleep number.com today. Well, it's, I mean, they're both spines or harpoons of a type, so, but yeah, snails, they stab each other with love darts during mating. Oh my gosh, dude. It seems like I remember watching something on snails. And yeah, the reason they do it is really interesting. So snails are

hermaphroditic. They, they can, they don't have to, male, female doesn't matter. They can meet with each other. That's the reason why they're in no hurry. Right. There's just choices everywhere. There's many snails in the sea. But what they can do is when, so they transfer sperm

and the snail can either use the sperm for reproduction or they can use the sperm for consumption like food. Oh, okay. Goodness, gross. All right. Thank you for sharing that. It's a little gross, but there's nothing right or wrong about nature.

No, no, it's only our perspective on that makes it gross. But like, snails are weird, man. They got, they don't need, they don't need opposites to attract.

They can just go for it. They make their own, they make their own lube in a way. Yeah. They're only just, they're like, kryptonite is salt. And, uh,

is that true? I'm, I've never experimented with that. Oh, is that true, Bobby? Is the salt thing? Is that,

is it a particular type of salt, like table salt or is it? No, it's just because it draws the moisture out. dries them out yeah yeah and it does it so rapidly they kind of freak out it's I used to it was a kid I did this I don't do this never experimented like that's got your serial killer I was a terrible kid yeah so what the love dart does is it uh it just injects a hormone it's a separate it's separate from the sperm but it it just puts a hormone into the snail which

uh shuts down the the consumption process of the sperm and makes it so it it will it will only be used for reproduction. So the snails use it to make sure that their sperm transfer will go towards reproduction. Yeah. So they're like Nature's Little Cupid. Sure. Yeah. Funny enough,

it was the original title for the song by the B-52s, Love Dart, Baby. I'm making my next. Love Dart, baby. It was the Love Dart. I'm writing my Valentine's card right now. There you go. Snails on your next Valentine's card. Sure.

All right, Scott, you're ready? Yep, do it. Here's another one. Number four for Scott, what is an autoclave? An autoclave. Sounds familiar. I actually think I... You may have heard this term before.

This one, if you've got some familiarity with labs, you may have heard or some people listening may have even used one before, but what is it? Is it, A, a rotating camera used in deep sea research. B, a pressurized oven used to sterilize lab equipment. C, a chamber that freezes samples instantly with nitrogen. Or D, a sensor for detecting heat signatures. Okay. Sorry, what was the name of it again?

I got the answers. An autochlave. Yeah. So we've got the camera, the oven, the freeze chamber thing, or a sensor for heat. Don't you love how me is God have to like simplify it for our brains? Yeah, next time truly we'll get a Discord channel where I can just send you guys the option so you could look at them. But yeah. For some reason.

oh it's either it's like a science fiction memory i'm having it's either heat or freezing okay and i guess one's a sensor but there's something about it being a enclosed thing where we put an alien specimen and it get it in the autoclave someone yells i honestly i have a memory of this it's an emergency autoclave i love that this yeah um i'll just take a guess. It's either B or C. I'll say I'm getting that wrong. I'll just say B. I don't know. B. So you're going with B. I'll go with B. A pressurized oven used to

sterilized lab equipment? Yeah. Well, that's correct. Oh, wait a minute. Like if I was a if you're like a doctor and he had a bunch of tools, you would put those in the autoclave. Yes, absolutely. That's exactly what you would do. That's how surgical equipment gets cleaned in hospitals. They're not, you know, people, you don't have dishwashers clean in the scalples or anything like that.

They, uh, they put them into the autoclave and, um, it's like a pressure cooker. It's, it's, it's, it just uses heat and pressure. It sterilizes stuff up to like 120 plus Celsius for 15 or 20 minutes. I have the weirdest memory of something in a movie or a TV show where the autoclave was either broken or they needed it to do something. They had a mighty darn good for two dummies got. Yeah, I feel like great. Real lucky is what we're doing. That first one I knew, the second one, I was luck.

Well, let's do one more for each of you, and then we'll hopefully, hopefully we can find a winner. If not, I do have a tiebreaker, but let's see. All right. So, Brian, you ready? Here's a word. Give me it. Borgasmus. Okay, I don't know.

That's not even a root word I could think. Resistance is futile times, too. Actually, I do think I pronounced it wrong. I'm remembering it's Borberigmus. That's what it is. Borberigmus. Now, yeah, that can act. Okay, all right.

I make, okay. Well, pronunciation is important. That's why I wanted to make sure to get. Yeah. So is it A, the uncontrollable hiccup reflex during digestion. B, a rare muscle spasm in the lower back. C, the medical term for stomach growling, or D, a type of gas bubble that forms behind the lungs. A borgarigmus?

Borberigmus. Borberigmus. A borberigmus. It almost sounds like it's not spelled like bulb or nothing, right? There's not like bulb and part of that. Pitchard done away at dinner going, oh, Borberignus. That's really bulbin out. That's great.

All right. What do you think, buddy? Give me to me a good. Simplify them. Give me to the one's a gas bubble, right? So it's either a hiccup reflex, right? B, muscle spasm in the back. C, stomach growling, or D.

a gas bubble in the lungs. It really feels like if you're going to name something, it's going to be the stomach growl. So I'm going to say, I think you see. Yeah. I feel like if you're going to name something stupid, it's going to be that. All right.

All right. See, the stomach growling is correct. Oh my gosh. Are we going to ace this? We did ace it. God, you guys are doing so well. Did we ace it? Well, no, I guess now we have a tiebreaker because we both,

none of us is going to. Well, no, you got one more first. Oh, okay, okay. We'll see if you just... Don't feel it's got. Okay, one more rant. Okay. Damn it.

Oh, this is pressure I don't need. You know what this means. The next time we play this, Bobby's going to up it to like a 1,000. I'm scared. We're going to have to play on the hard mode. Terrified. He's going to murder us.

I'm terrified. All right, Bobby, lay it on me. All right. So, um, oh, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, that's, it's simple. Stomach growling. That noise is stomach growling. Borgorgasmus.

I just had it. I just did one. I just had one just now. Yeah. I felt it. And it feels like somebody would need a name for that. That's the only reason why I guess. Hunger farts.

All right, Scott. The final word to see if you guys are tied or not is do claw. I know what this is. Do claw. I have no idea. All right. Go ahead. Is it A, a type of early morning mineral deposit found on high altitude plant.

B, a minor non-functional digit found on the. limbs of some animals, C, a weathering pattern seen in sandstone formation shaped by freezing dew, or D, a curved tool used in veterinary surgery for hoof trimming. Dew claw. Early morning mineral. Early morning minerals. A minor non-working digit, like a finger would be a digit or a, like a toe or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Not a number that doesn't work. Right, right, right, right. Like you give someone a false phone, a fake phone number, that's a do clock. So it's not a number, that's not a number that isn't working for someone who's under 18. That's not a minor digit or anything like that. Let's see, a weathering pattern. Give me that one again, the C? C is a weathering pattern seen in sandstone formations shaped by freezing dew.

I like that one, but. and a curved tool you're a curved tool you know what this is done away you actually know yeah shit yeah shit it's a good thing you didn't get it or yeah he didn't get it right Scott

okay I'll just go with the one that feels good to me I'm gonna do sometimes just go with what feels good I'm going with weathering pattern it sounds weathering pattern seen in sandstone formations shaped by freezing dude Yeah. Incorrect. Damn it.

Oh, sorry, Scott. The answer is, well, I said, Donaway, you can tell me what the answer is. Yeah, yeah, it's that freaky digit that hangs out the back of freaking dog's legs. Oh, the thing up here that's up at the little do claw thing, yeah. Yeah, that's called a do claw?

That's called a do claw. Oh, my gosh. That's terrible, dude. That's right. So Brian got three and a half points, and Scott, you only got two points. So who's our winner? The winner will be Brian Dunaway, first off.

He's the big winner. Well, you know, sure. But our big, big winner, the winner that really matters are, in this case, it is Bar Toes Gaelic, who will receive a code on Steam anywhere in the world. I assume that person may not be in the States. Sonic and All Star, sorry, Sonic and All Stars Racing Transform collection, fantastic stuff there. Still plays really well. But don't worry, Derek Monk. You're going to get a copy of Proteus.

Another excellent game. A game I highly recommend people grab if they haven't already. You're both getting free games. I'll send those out to you directly on your accounts on Patreon. All right. So watch for that. Coming to you direct. Hey, Brian Dunaway, yesterday you and I sat down and did some incredible machining.

Ooh, yes, we did. We machined it really incredible. You might remember it from your 90s high school days. Did you ever play that, Bobby? Yeah, did you ever play the incredible machine? when you were a kid? No, I don't. Or a teen.

You'd have been a teen, I think. You've ever heard of Rube Goldberg machine? Oh, for sure. Yeah, Rub Gouldberg, you know, like a mouse trap. Sure. Yeah, basically, you know what? In a lot of ways, mousetrap, the digital game is kind of what this was. Yeah.

We didn't really bring that up, but we talked all about it. It was a big deal. There were sequels or other games today that you can buy that are a lot like it. But if you have any fondness for those games or you had a physics teacher who made you play that in computer lab in school. Good news. We talk all about it, where it came from, who made it, and why it still holds

the hell up on play retro. That was yesterday, frogpants.com slash play retro or wherever you get your podcast. Hey, Dunaway. I think you're great. Okay, there we go. That's it for him. He's out of here. Let's get into some news

because why not? It's time for the news. And today it's brought to you again by another podcast you all need to be checking out called all around science bobby tell us more all around science is the weekly science podcast that i do with my co-host morrow we talk about just interesting things that are in science that we think are cool and interesting we answer lots of questions from listeners and we usually hit a science news topic at least one every week so um it's just our it's just our place to get together and and geek out about science because most of the people in our lives

like our spouses get too irritated with us constantly being like oh guess what i guess what i learned today yeah yeah no that's awesome go check it out it is at all around science dot com if you're looking for the website you can also find it wherever you get your podcasts and uh you might recognize the album art created by a dork uh a dork made it that's what i'm saying yeah that's what i did i searched the internet dork who does art yeah and you skip past all the whale penises and got straight to me. Dork art. Yeah. Is that a true thing? I was always taught growing up that a whale penis

is a dork. Is that true? I think that's what I always heard. Okay. I mean, you know, I'm just looking for scientific verification. So, you know, why else is Bobby here today? Google says a whale penis is commonly called a dork. That's great. It's felt the same way, too. D-O-R-K.

Do you think they're like animal scientists, whale specialists sitting around in like a college atmosphere right now going, hey, okay, we need to study the dork. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Probably is. For sure. Okay. We've finally amassed enough dork for this

for this exhibit at the museum. That's right. We know all there is to know about the dork except the one that makes album art for Bobby. All right. Hey, everybody, it's time for us to do a little bit of news. Marvel's $80 popcorn bucket that they did

for the Fantastic for I herald it's beginning It is not only out and available I saw this the other night when we were at the thing Or the other day Set the World Record in Los Angeles That's what it looks like there For those watching live if you can't see the video

World Record for Most Expensive Popcorn Well it sure sounds like it right They were they I don't think that parts too Because I've seen some pretty wild ones for over 100 bucks But this one was shaped It's shaped like the devouring villain Galactus offers unique twist on movie snacks during its unveiling in Los Angeles.

The container drew excited fans to the TCL Chinese Theater and set again its world record. The mammoth movie snack holder tied to the upcoming movie, blah, blah, blah, measures 20 inches or 51 centimeters for space points, people. Just kidding. I like the metric system. Don't send me your emails. 17.5 inches tall. It boasts capacity of 341 ounces. That's 10 liters.

of popcorn or anything. That is really big. It's very big. Maybe too big. I just got out my ruler. It's taller than a ruler. And it's, wow, that's really big.

Yeah, it's really big. I would, by the way, never pay for this. I don't even think Brian's Super Marvel fan would pay for this. It just seems ridiculous. You know? Give them to us for free. We're a podcast.

You know? Yeah. Podcasters get a lot of really, they're very important in the society. Oh, man. I don't even know how we would do it without us, you know. How don't we move on? Lacey Knoll, tour guide to the Chinese theater,

presented the bucket of the eager onlookers and said, it's $80 and people are already currently eating it up, she says. Oh, how funny. That's a non-biased position there. Chat's right. Ibit would just 3D print one. Like, why would you need to buy one of these? Just make it.

That's too big for the printer. You'd definitely do it in chunks, man. Yeah, you definitely would have to do it in. multiple parts. Yep, but you'd have to cure it really well if it's on the resin, because you don't want that resin goo in your popcorn. It'll kill you. It's poison. Yeah. Anyway, the Galactus container isn't about size. It features metallic finish, piercing blue lights for eyes. Those are LEDs built into the thing. Added to its appeal as a display piece long after the popcorn is gone. The record-breaking popcorn represents more than just a novel

way to serve cinema snacks. It's part of a broader strategy to make more. more money. So, but here's the question. What, what is the actual thing it broke? The record. The record. Uh, okay, record breaking. Let's see. The buckets are fantastic. Maybe it's the popcorn bucket. Galactus containers in just about size. Let's see. It doesn't actually say what the record is. Reuters. This is disappointing. Hold on. Uh, it must be the size. Because what else would it be? Yep. Says it's broke the Guinness World record for the largest popcorn container commercially available. Okay, well, that's a dumb record and I hate it. That is a dumb record. I don't like that. Records shouldn't be. I'm going to go print

one a little bit larger and then make it commercially available on Etsy. Yeah. It would be something people could buy and you could then apply to the Guinness book and then they would just change it and say Bobby did a better one. Yeah. I don't, that seems really dumb to me. I don't know why. What they should have done with this is they should have made the opening of the popcorn bucket at the bottom. so you hold it upside down. That way when you're done with it, you can wear it as a helmet. Oh my gosh.

Well, also for 80 bucks, you should talk. You should be able to push a button and have it go. Or have you be almost out of popcorn and have it go. For 80 bucks, it should do my taxes. It's pretty, that's expensive. It should go, I hunger or something. A little voice chip in there, you know? And then its mouth opens and popcorn spits out.

That's right. Or I'll tell you this. For 80 bucks, it ought to have its own silver surrogers. that comes and warns me that it's on its way. I harold his beginning. That's what that's what I need. Yeah, that'd be great. You put popcorn in the microwave and then the silver surfer starts like spinning around.

Yeah. These are the things. Popcorn's coming? These are the things I want. I herald your fatness. I herald your unhealthy habits. I herald Galactus. It'd be amazing.

All right. Where are we here? Let's get to the next bit here. Chuckie Cheese. Charles Emerson Cheese. Actually, I think we've determined here on the show that Chuckie Cheese's middle name. The middle initial is for entertainment, I think. Yeah, it's Mr. Entertainment Cheese.

Yeah, it's Charles Entertainment Cheese. Frommage to his parents. Caught in a credit card fraud trap. Oh, my God. Not the official mascot, of course, because that would be very weird. But a Chuckie Cheese mascot had to be. cough up some serious dough to bail himself out of the pokey that's what they used to call jail back in like the 20s so let's bring that back the pokey why do you think they call it the pokey

maybe i don't know maybe i don't want to know yeah that's my first thought yeah there's a big guy in their name sam who's a little pokey if you get my drift i don't want that anyway after getting arrested at a charles entertainment cheese joint in florida they wrote that in the article Yeah, that's not me. That's them. It's unclear, but it appears Tallahassee cops knew the identity of the man inside the mouse and knew where he worked because they promptly arrived on scene and removed the faux mouse from the joint right in the middle of a children's birthday party in progress. I like that they clarified that it was a faux mouse. Like just in case you were wondering if they accidentally removed a real mouse instead. Yeah, or a dead mouse, which would be a music performer. Which would be, yeah, an EDM performance. That's right. Chucky cheese, here he is right here. They actually took this, I mean, it's hats off by now.

You can see it on the car. But they actually, when they arrested him, let's see if I can get video of that. No, they don't show. Oh, there it is. They actually did it in the Chucky Cheese, too. Yeah. What about the kids?

Look at them back there. They've blurred them out for their safety. And they said, sorry, kids. Chuckie did some bad shit. And they. Oh, what a lazy Chucky Cheese. He's wearing blue jeans when he's. He's in his costume.

Yeah. I don't think Charles E. Cheese has been living up to his name. He was on. Maybe he was off work that day. Come with me, Chuck E, says the TMZ article. Fantastic. Wow. Anyway, this was not his first fake credit card caper.

He allegedly did the same thing at least once before in the last six months. Let's see. Jones is charged with theft of a credit card, criminal use of personal identification information, and fraudulent use of a credit card more than twice in six months. He was booked and released Thursday. on a thousand dollar bond yeah I feel like you ought to be able to charge him with like

falsely impersonating a child's mascot you know what I mean was it wait did I miss something was he is he not a real chucky cheese is he doing is he faking it he was fake you know what they don't say does he work there that's what I assumed is that he worked there he has the helmet it's like that it's like that Delta pilot

co-pilot yesterday did you hear about that guy no so right before this flight the police stormed this this plane and pulled a pilot off of there arrested him and you know cuffed him and took him out of there charged with like a bunch of horrible stuff like child porn and a bunch of other stuff so it's part of some long-term scheme they finally caught him or whatever but can you imagine being on that flight sitting there just getting ready to watch read your book and put your earphones in and you look up and you see cops carting out a what appears to be just the main pilot in cuffs going

oh my gosh what is happening to my flight I would be freaking the F out that would be my first thought is oh my God now this flight's getting delayed yeah I would be so freaked by that as a flight as a flyer I don't like flying anyway I don't need weird things to happen while I'm on my flights I need it to go smooth as possible

no turbulence and no lieutenant yard hopefully someone does a title i see a good chucky cheese for uh in replacement for bees has already made the list so that's great yeah yeah uh well that's going to do it for today's news and for today's show like i said it's a short one today uh no recommendals big changes coming next week but none that are going to affect most people too much but we're going to do some tweaks to the format uh we've been planning these for a couple of weeks and in my own head for about a year and uh they're all We're adding carpool karaoke.

That's right, baby. Bringing that British guy back that no one likes to host. What's his name? Forgot. James Corden. James Corden, yeah. Do I get that right? Wow.

Corden, yeah. You know, it's this huge brain inside my tiny hat. Just pumping out the info, pumping out the facts. That's what I do. It's all good stuff, though. We're looking forward to it. I'll be putting out some stuff this week to explain what it all is. Oh, no, that's not true.

We're back tomorrow. we have a normal show tomorrow. Brian's back in town. Wendy will be here. It's like all normal tomorrow. All right. Sorry. I don't want to overly confuse things. Next week, there are some changes, but tomorrow is just like normal. There's nothing, we're not gone. We're here. And Brian will actually be back. And he can tell us all the debauchery that happened in our nation's capital. I'm looking forward to it. He stormed the capital. I mean, I know that for sure. And at some point, he scaled the entirety of what's the big spire, not Lincoln Memorial. Washington Monument. He climbed that whole thing all the way to the tip.

He yelled. Just wanted to check, is there really gold up there? Yeah, yeah, yeah, because there's a rumor about that. Well, I don't know because he didn't say. I don't want to spoil it, but maybe he found gold. And then he leaped off, parachuted to safety into the loving open lap of the Lincoln Memorial. Right. And landed right there where Lincoln's crotch is.

So we're going to hear all about that. Okay, all about that. that the Lincoln leap. Yeah, that thing I just absolutely did not make up and is totally a real thing. He's going to talk about that tomorrow. It's going to be great. In the meantime, I'm going to leave you guys a little bit of a song because Brian left me a song to play. And it's a good one.

It's an indie in the middle, but kind of an indie at the end kind of game. And this is, let's see, my Veronica and friends. Oh, it's two bands. This is interesting. Okay. So it's a split EP called Farewell Skylines. This thing's out on the eighth. So it's right around the corner. And this is, let's see, L.A.D.I. Bands My Veronica and Friends House are putting this together. I don't know who these guys are, but I really like this track. I pre-listen to it before the show, and it's very, very good. The song is called Sacred Heart, I believe. Let me make sure that's correct. Yes. Again, check it out when it comes out in full form coming soon. I think that'll do it for us. Bobby, huge thanks for being here.

Go check out his shows, guys, the Daily Science Brief. And, of course, all around science on the weekly. All right, do all that stuff. It was really good having you for a couple days, man. Yeah, it was fun. I always love coming on here. So thanks for having me. You bet.

And we'll see him soon on an upcoming Monday for another science segment, of course. I think maybe even next Monday, actually. Yeah, it's your turn next week, isn't it? well good i guess maybe maybe oh i took monday off this week so maybe i don't know what it is we'll figure it out guys that's the that's what we do here on the show thanks for listening we'll see you next time Sacred Heart in the park

I'll follow you down Coincident 10 pulls around your house. Honestly Heard sometimes staring in Blinded light Appeared myself Right under me

Shadow Never nurture The sun is the river With all my grief and all my size But to know the shrouding heads I thought I could hear the way up there I'm So you're on the shore Not believe when I see it

It tastes left to know It tastes left to know It just like you know. Whatever be bringing in here? Never be bringing me out. Whatever be bringing me. Bring in me I want to see

be Never Me Free at me Free at me I want to take your heart Wear them loud and proud, friend, be large and in charge.

You're always welcome at frogpants.com. We know that's a bunch of bull.