The Morning Stream - TMS 2867: Chonky Trash Pandas

Episode Date: August 11, 2025

The Art of Nintendo Power. Tusken Walrus. Dat's a SPICY birdseed! Old Yeller goes in the blue bin. Isn't there a bleep called bleep something. Fumble Fingered Twitchy Boy. Scientific American't. Gorgon is alive. Button-Down Miles Morales. Boo BeVille vs Fanny Love. Non-Reproducing Cryptobros. Drinking All Day and Making Mexico Pay for It. I dream of silver women. Packed with crap, just like my colon with Brian Dunaway. Screw You, Worm, with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The morning stream. Ironic, isn't it? An archangel needs a monkey to get a vision from God. Hello, everybody, and welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for August 11th, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian. Hi, Brian. Hello. It's good to be here. It is. I'm glad you're feeling better. You had a weird short fuse illness thing that lasted not long, but gnarly. It seriously was like a 24-hour flu. Like all of the, started with a headache. It started while I was doing a, and I forgot to talk about this on TMS. I feel like I'm the worst podcaster ever for not knowing how to promote shit. But Thursday afternoon, Tom Merritt, Eileen Rivera, Ham and Chamberlain, Anthony Lemos, and I, all of your. daily music headlines people did a live stream talking about music how we produced the show but also

just music in general it's still on youtube you can get to it at the daily tech news show um youtube channel and watch it but um uh it uh right like during that i was starting to get a headache and i was coughing a little bit and then phew just spiral down and for 24 hours i was a freaking mess Yeah, it's one of those 24-hour bugs that just comes out of nowhere and then leaves at the end as if everything was fine, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I wish actually kind of wish all illnesses were like that, to be honest. You know what? I do too. I was feeling well enough on Friday evening to still go out to dinner with Tina and go to Costco.

We went to Costco looking for ideas for food for Tristan and Kay's elopement reception that we're doing here in a couple weeks. I'm making sliders. Basically, I'm just going to sit behind the blackstone and cook sliders, pulled pork, and grilled veggies for everybody the whole time. Fine with that. Sounds all right. Totally fine with that. Yeah.

But we're kind of getting ideas for other things we could make ourselves or buy there and serve. Nice. Yeah. Well, we don't even need to bring up the other purchase you made while you happened to be at Costco. Yeah. Let's just say.

It's sparked me to get out all of my other Switch games and re-evaluate which ones I want to sell with my Switch 1 to make room for. At some point in the show today, we should share out that link you had. That was pretty awesome. Oh, that thing's great. Yeah. That was really cool. By the way, I see people complaining about, or not complaining, but talking about my shirt. This is, I'd almost want to do the Zoom, but I'll never get Ob's bot back to where it should be.

but this is a bunch of little Miles Morales Morales swinging across the rooftops of Manhattan. It's a ton, like, it's another Roosevelt's Spider-Man shirt. People are like, I think maybe he's got to court or something like that. But big thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Taffey who linked me to a dude on eBay who was selling this shirt in my size. Oh, nice. Still with the tags on, like bought from, or maybe it was even somebody from Universal.

but selling overstock but this was a great deal on a Roosevelt shirt It looks great I like the colors I do too Like I could get away With wearing this to court

Because from a distance It would be You know People wouldn't say Hey you're covered with a bunch of little Miles Moralesis Yeah Morales

Cezus Mileses Both his names That aren't great for plural Miles is Spider-Man's. Anyway. Spider-mans. Well, that's great. Well done there. Real quick, I wanted to mention my visit to Leighton, Utah, which is this sort of northern little city just outside of Ogden. And Layton's pretty cool. It's got a lot of interesting stuff there, restaurants and things. And one of the things they had, which I have not known about for four years, is the Utah Retro Gaming Expo, which I don't know how I didn't know. I just didn't freaking know. This would be a thing I'd want to go to, and sure enough, I loved it. It was awesome.

It's like a giant swap meet combined with, like, a bunch of live play stuff. They had a million CRTs there, so I could feel Dunaways ghost in my head going to bring one of those home with you. Yeah, probably like a bunch of, you know, Commodore 64 and Vex Treks and stuff like that, systems all over the place. Everything. And a lot of it's for sale, so you can go in there and, like, do exchanges and, you know, find even newer, some new stuff, but mostly it's ancient stuff. you know i couldn't afford any of it because it was all ridiculous some of it was really cool though but um it's cool it was awesome and they had these they had some like o g old school game director designer guys the guy that made the original leisure suit larry was there oh that's cool uh the guy sergeant

slaughter was there for some reason he looked a hundred probably close wow yeah no kidding i wonder why that is uh the guy plays jacks in two of the mortal combat games was there he was cool just a lot of like you know mix of of uh of stuff and it was really cool my favorite thing though was this room called the art of nintendo power nintendo power being that magazine they did for years and years and years i used to collect it love that magazine and used to bring it home like from school and just pour over it in 1986 87 whatever it was just loved it that's cool and uh that room that room is full of like original cover art and original sketch approvals and all this stuff like full size not like a little magazine cover but like here's the finished piece and here's his lemming sketch before they turned it

into a front cover painting and anyway had all that stuff in there so all these old magazine covers that you remember from those from those days they had like a full gallery in there was really really neat that's cool anyway there's big recommendation it was great there's uh there's one it probably is like the same circuit. We've got the Pinball Expo, Pinball and Gamer Festival or whatever it's called. Pinball Showdown and Game Room Expo, September 19th and 21st here in Denver. And I'm guessing that they copy and paste the list of exhibitors right from the one that you went to to this one. The same kind of thing, though.

Everything's set on free play. You walk up, and a lot of them have. the prices on them. There's somebody's personal piece that they want to sell, that sort of thing. Yeah. When this thing was everything

from handhelds to, you know, console, it was everything. It was everything you can imagine. It was really neat. And it's apparently run by some local game exchange guy.

I don't know who he is. Oh, really? So maybe not part of the same circuit. Best I can tell. I'm not sure. That's what KT Data told me. He says he knew about this guy. I've got to go out and visit their store

because apparently this is, he's a big shot in this world. Yeah. It's really neat. I think I'm going to do a one dayer for this one at the Denver Marriott Tech Center, $45 per person per day. And you get a wristband. You basically, you know, access to everything, play all the games you want. And some people just bring brand new, like the new Tommy game by the Who.

Yeah, it should be really cool. Yeah, you should go to that. That sounds awesome. And this thing had all the free play stuff for the arcade. the pinball, but it was mostly focused on console stuff. But they had some people that were just like artists hanging around and had artist booths and they sold stickers and prints and all that stuff. Okay.

So this is less, yeah, the one here is more like a pinball, pinball and arcade game showcase. This is like outfit your man cave with, you know, that, that Mr. Doe that you've had your eye on for several years. Yeah, which all sounds good to me. I'd be in. Both of them sound fantastic, right? I would, I can't wait to go back. It was really, really awesome.

So big, big thanks to my wife who sent me there on a mystery date and it was a good time. All right, we're going to play a game when we, when we get Dunaway in now. Oh, here he is. Okay, he's in. We're going to play this now. We have him. We have him. Brian Dunaway joining us as he does on a Monday and a Wednesday.

what's going on buddy no hi scott and brian uh oh that's a good question i don't i'm not sure you ever have one of those days it's like it's just like running at you full speed like a you know like a like a nightmare but it's not a nightmare it's just it's like ah yeah it's like that today i'm having one of those days too yeah i'm having one of those mornings the whole morning was just packed with crap that i didn't feel like doing packed with crap just like my colon yeah yeah just like your dirty dirty colon your mud pipe is the kids say kill john wayne that's right But I don't think the kids call it mud pipe. Does no one call it a pipe?

I don't know. I don't know what people do it. Well, good news, everybody. You're here. We're going to play a game. Brian's prepared that game. We have some people who could win some prizes. Actually, will win some prizes.

The question is, what will they win? So, Brian, explain it and let's play. Sure. Well, welcome to the morning. Half-Ass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category in six possible answers, three of which are correct. And three, like a 24-hour virus that makes you buy a switch to

are incorrect. Depending on how confident you feel with the category can provide one, two, or three guesses. But if you get any of those guesses wrong, you get zero points for the round. Get one right, you get a point. Two right gets you three points. Three right gets you five points because that is how math works in this house. The player with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant. And our contestants are patrons. Patreon.com slash TMS become won one today and win prizes. Sorry. That's my mistake. Um, we'll talk about the prize to see and let's go ahead and get started. Not really a toy. More of a fumble fingered twitchy boy thing happened. I will say that the, um, uh, the 10 second rule also is applying here. So if I feel like you guys are taking too long. Jesus.

Yeah, Alcabab, Alcabab installed this across the board. Stop, stop talking. Stop being into my time. Yeah. Your precious time. Yeah. All right. let's start things off here

you guys should have no problem with this one this is right up our alley with film sack and movies and things we grew up with and women which of these six are bond girls your choices are plenty O'Toole kissy Suzuki Tinkle fluff

Boobaville Dr. Molly Wormflash and Fanny Love three of these are actual bond girls three of them are not I want you didn't put in the ones that we usually think of the easy ones yeah yeah all right

a lot of vagina no that's it that was uh Austin Powers yeah it's close enough though it may as well up in close enough yeah all right I'm doing two because I don't know oh dang it all right I'm doing two as well then fine all right you guys between the two of you selected four totally different ones and um

kissy Suzuki absolutely yeah that's a definite one you only live twice the Japanese James Bond let's see how about Plenty O'Toole Scott you chose plenty O'Toole yeah from Diamonds are forever Plenty O'Toole I was hoping that was it I know honestly it really is just a guess I have no idea

the other two that you guys chose between the two of you were Boobaville Boobville and Fannie Love boy two two different descriptions for parts of the female anatomy and I'm happy to say that neither of them are Dr. Molly Wormflash apparently was from the world is not enough.

Good Lord. Have we done that one? No, we have done. Not for Film Sack, no. We need to do that. Is that the one with, because Denise Richards plays who Christmas Jones or something like that? I can't remember. That sounds right.

Yeah. Is that the one with her? Those later Pierce Brosnan ones, actually all the Pierce Brosnan ones run together because they're just so. Full of BMWs? Yeah. Pretty much, exactly. Thank you, TV's Travis. That is the one.

So Dr. Molly Wormflash and Dr. Christmas Jones, because she was supposed to be a rocket scientist, wasn't she? Yeah, yeah, yeah, she was, too. She was. She played smart. Nah, I never bought it, dude. Are you kidding me? No way.

I mean, and that's who she's supposed to be? That's not what I, that's never the vibe I get from Denise Stretcher Girls. Well, she had a lot of experience with rockets. Go ahead. Well, with tiger blood anyway. Let's get to question number two. Number two, let's go to,

games. Monopoly specifically, what are the three most visited monopoly properties on the board? Is it? Baltic Avenue, New York Avenue, Oriental Avenue, Park Place, B&O Railroad, or Illinois Avenue. Most visited.

That's right. Oh, thank you, TV's Travis. Christmas Jones is a nuclear physicist. Might as well be a brain surgeon for either way. It was never convincing. Right. Not for me. Um, all right. Most visited. Damn.

Most visited. So, um, we can talk about what makes these the most visited afterwards, but there's, there's very specific reasons. Um, and this came from scientific American, by the way. Oh. Oh. It's a good source. American.

Not American. Trustworthy. Trustworthy sort. Yeah. So just one, just one scientific American. Yeah. American. Yeah.

American. And it's not, sorry. It's not. scientific americant yeah we don't live in that world all right you guys are both locked in once again you've locked in on four completely different answers shit uh let's go to new york avenue i know new york is right new york avenue is right new york absolutely is right yeah your orange properties by the way are your best monopoly source and the reason is dyes and numbers be well and and cards you've got a lot of cards and spaces on the board

that um send you to jail and if you pay you your way out of jail, most common role is a seven, and seven spots from jail is New York Avenue. I had no idea that that was even a part of the math. I had no idea. Yeah, that is number one, the number one, the number one most visited property. What about Illinois Avenue? That's up there in the red. The reds are the second best properties to buy. So Scott, you've got Illinois Avenue, correct. Now, again, between the two of you. Is it Illinois? It is one. It is one. 100% not Illinois. Yeah. If you do that, people in Illinois will be

Illinois with you. That's right. Yeah. That's right. Illinois. And it looks like people are saying in the chat that Oriental Avenue has been renamed to Rhode Island Avenue. Thank goodness for that. Yeah, that's not a term. I think it's a term that we only use for rugs now. Well, I'm not taping over mine. You can forget it.

You're keeping Oriental Avenue. Sweet. They can take my Oriental. and allow me to pray it for my cold dead hands all right now the remaining two that you guys chose one of you chose baltic the other one of you chose park place park place gets you a lot of money if people land on it baltic doesn't because it's one of the cheapest properties but it's right after go so right which is it because when you get to go to go yeah yeah that's right the answer is uh neither uh zero points for that round bno railroad is the other one i believe that's because there are cards that lead you to B&O Railroad.

Oh, that's right. I almost went being, oh, of course, the cards. Same boat as the last one. We both got a couple, and then bam, we got killed on the third one. So maybe you want to think about this last one. I should just went one both times. Both times I got pressured. I'm like, I should do two.

No, I'm idiot. Sorry for the pressure. Let's get to the last one, and we're going to go to mythology. mythology, our last category here. Mythological characters who only had one eye. Your choices are, the Grey Sisters, Odin, Polyphemus, Osiris, Typhon, and Shiva. Three of these only had one eye. Only one eye, if you can believe that.

There might be a trick question here. Oh, there might be. Can it mean one eye between? them or does it mean each one of a person? Well, let me clarify. Oh, dang it. I should have asked. Who only had one eye.

Yeah. Let me clarify. Mythological characters only had one eye. Are you saying they're not mythological? No, I'm just reading the top. He's just reading the question. I'm not going to make it easier for either of you. All right.

Look at you guys. All right. You both settled. the Grey Sisters and Odin the Grey Sisters yeah from Perseus and the

that's correct yes three witches that only have one eye between them they lead Perseus to the location of the Gorgon Yeah after he takes her eye and is all like mean to him Oh yeah that's right he does Yes exactly Odin of course

Yeah Norse God only had one eye and they finally did that to Sir Anthony Hopkins in the Thorne movies to make it accurate The other one by the way, I guess it'll reveal that you guys both got it right, because obviously you both chose the same thing. Tie break. Polyphemus, the other one, that was the character that John Goodman represented in O'Brother

Where Art thou? I always forget, because he's just called the Cyclops in conversation. Like, you don't ever hear it. Exactly. A full name, yeah. Shoot. All right. All right.

So we're going to go to our tiebreaker. Our tiebreaker, um, let's, oh, that's really funny. I'm not going to do that one because that was. just used on a game show not that not that um you know what no let's do it i don't watch game shows you guys don't unless it unless it's card sharks i don't watch any of it this one this is funny this was the deciding game in a or a deciding question in a game i just watched with uh where nigan dragged a bunch of idiots around in a bus all around europe and they had to figure out blindfolded where they were um nigan from uh yeah uh walking dead and this was the deciding

question. The actor, not the character, right? Correct. Yes. Richard not Richard Dean Anderson. It's Jeffrey Dean Morgan. I knew he was a dean. I know he was a dean, and it wasn't Harry Dean Stanton. All right, but this was a deciding

question that gave somebody a million dollars. So, let's see how you do. How many islands comprise the city of Venice? And Scott, I will give you, I will give you the option of guessing the number or guessing

high low based on Dunaway's guess. High low. Okay, Dunaway. Highlo. How many islands comprise the city of Venice? All of them. And this number probably changes a lot since Venice is sinking.

So I'm going to get an accurate current number. Where do you say it's more than two you think? Shut up. Hey, I'm not helping you. Gee, sit over there with your high low. Okay. Are you still there? What are you okay about, I mean?

He's just looking at up so he knows. I'm confirming that the number on the card is still the current number because Venice is sinking New Islands could be formed every day. Yeah. Okay. So go see Venice if you have not gone to Venice. Well, since it's a question, if it's since it's a stupid question, it's got to be more than 100, right? So I'm going to say, oh, one hundred and twenty-eight, because that's a, that's a, yeah, 128K size of memory. Yeah.

It's a 1K of islands or way less than 1,024 islands would be 120K. I'm not saying that the answer is that, but I'm saying that that's that. Scott, is the actual number of islands in Venice higher or lower than 120,000? I'm going to go lower, but probably not by much, but lower. It is lower, and it is not by much. Only by 10. Brian, you miss him by 10 islands. 118 islands make up.

Take it. Yeah, dude. You hear that? You hear that ding? Congratulations. You hear that? Scott Fletcher talking. He's talking to me, not done away.

You hear that? I went. I hate you so much. Well, there's good news because everybody wins. Brian, tell everybody who won. what today. Yeah. So, Scott, you were playing for Ed Perez. Did I ever say who you guys were playing for? I think so. I didn't.

I thought you did. Oh, maybe I did. Oh, I did. Yes, because that's part of my banter. Scott, you played for Ed Perez. Ed wins. Hello, neighbor, hide and seek and party hard. People love that hello neighbor stealth game. They're both good. Party hard's also awesome.

It's party hard good, too. Okay. Played the hell out of it. Do Kid and Play appear in your party hard game? They do not, but you do. House party. You do kill a lot of people who might be kid or play. Oh, geez. Okay.

I don't know. It's a party gone wrong. Sure. That sounds like. But don't worry, Colby Preston, if that is your real name, you're going to get a copy of Goner, which is spelled G-O-N-E-R. Also awesome game. All of these games. Oh, good.

Courtesy of Sunbun. Thank you, Sunbun, for sending all these games. I don't know what it says about me that I played all three of these games. I don't know what it means. You play everything, Scott. What it says about you is what we all expect, which is, oh, hey, have you heard about this game? Oh, yeah, I played it. Yeah, I play video games like I go to arcades.

It's like an arcade. I like video games. You play, you play video games like I play Marvel Snap all the time. All the time. I never beat any of them, but I sure play them. Well, there you have it. Nice job done away. You help somebody win something.

Now, here's the good news. Tomorrow, you and I are getting our shadow run on on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System on Play Retro. But I also played, I play the Genesis version, too. Did you play that one? It's not as good as the SNS version, if I remember it. We'll see, fart. The new games are really good, though. The, like, modern, it's been 10 years or more, but they're really good.

Those are awesome. So, anyway, we're going to talk all about that tomorrow. Play Retro, FrogPants. Dot TV will be the live place. Brian Dunaway, there's one last thing for me to tell you. And that is, kiss our butts. All right. He's gone.

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could be eligible for these codes. It's now time for this. If I can find where I put his thing I've lost it. There it is. Science! Bob is hungry and the soup looks good.

It is Bob slash Bobby slash Robert only his mom calls him that. Hello, Bobby. What are you doing this morning? Oh, my God. So many things. Yeah? Mostly you're just here. You're here. You're with us. You're hanging out, which is great. Love having you here. Oh, you know what I can do? Send me some muted audio or video. Yeah. Yeah, here. I'll mute it quickly. Yeah, there you go. Okay, awesome. That'll come through in a moment. When it does, you'll get to see his shining face. Oh, there it is. is. Okay, there's Bobby. Pulling them right over here. It's the wrong size, but I can fix that. Oh, he's blown out, but that's all right. A little bright, but that's all right.

Yeah, well, we love you. We love you bright. And what looks like right now is that you're just, oh, there we go. It looked like for a second that you were just wearing a flannel shirt and you were shirtless underneath it. So just, you know, how we roll here in the south. That's right. Pretty hot. Pretty hot. It's good to have you here, Bobby. We've been, we've been remiss with our science knowledge. think for too long really it's been a couple of weeks i mean you were here guest hosting we had some science but it wasn't quite the same as you coming from the outside in and saying hey let me drop some big bombs on you got to get updated on science and if you were uh subscribed to daily science brief my daily science podcast you would be yeah oh of course you should be watching that listening to that

listening to his weekly show all that stuff yeah today though he brought something special i have no idea what it is i'm making a big deal out of nothing here what'd you bring um well um well uh It's got it up to be nothing. Yeah, a lot of pressure now. So I've been working on the podcast today, and I'm still grappling with a lot of information about the executive order from Thursday that kind of puts science funding in even more danger.

You know, so I figured I'd talk about something a little lighter and maybe less threatening, and that is that it turns out that there's a, their flesh-eating worms threatening to invade the United States. Oh, good. I'm glad you went light and not... Are these all ancestors of the one that RFK had in his brain? I think these are their co-conspirators, maybe.

But, yeah. Descendants, I guess, is the word I meant. Terrific, okay. Yeah, that's great. Tell us more. They're not brain worms. They're just flesh-eating worms. Just flesh-eating worms.

What happens if we mate these with the radioactive killer murder hornets? Well, the funny thing is that we are, act we are going to try to stop these with re irradiated flies let me explain so the the the worm that we're talking about is called the new world screw worm um and um yeah it's this funny it is funny i play keytar for them for years yeah the new world screw worms they were great yeah love those guys what they do is they they come from flies called the screw worm fly and those flies lay eggs in the open wound of wounds of animals tiny holes it's really easy for them to get in because it can be like tick bites as small a hole as that

they what they do is they the flies they'll lay eggs as many as 400 at a time and when the eggs hatch the larvae drill into the flesh like a screw that's where they get their name um so that's where the the screw worm itself is the larvae because i mean they go like in a spiral pattern that go they actually screw into you yeah and they kind of look like a screw oh i don't i don't like this at all this is bad no yeah this i'm glad we're dealing with this with whatever means necessary even if that means the radioactive flies yeah yeah whatever it takes man don't be screwing into my flesh it seems like it seems like they went right to plan eight uh h with radioactive flies yeah i don't like it yeah so yeah so when they do they

screw in there they start eating the flesh and they have a chemical reaction it causes the flesh around the worms where they're hatching to become putrified and ulcerous and rot and stink and then attracts more flies which lay more eggs and then you keep repeating until basically the animal dies from from infection and from giant gaping wounds if you i i'll leave it up to Scott, whether to look up and put pictures of this on there because it's pretty horrifying. I'm going to look for one. So can you tell me why these are suddenly a problem and we've never dealt with them before? Did something mutate? Well, the question as to why is pretty open. We don't really know the answer to that. The leading guess is probably because of warming climate

change and so they're able to to move and and stay alive longer longer a longer warm season allows them to to mate more and all this kind of stuff but it's happened before actually that's what their little face looks like by the way oh he's got a little mustache yeah I wish like a little tom cell I wish that's all it was they they are they're nasty they don't I don't get a good idea of size from these photos though but um because I don't know what to compare these to do you You know how big they actually are? The size of a walrus. Yeah.

Or, or, or, or, just coming at you and screwing you. That's a good question, though. I actually don't know their size. But like I said, this has happened before. Back in the 50s. That was my Wallace impression, by the way. I don't know if anyone caught that. It was a good one.

No, I know. It was also your Tuscan Raider impersonation for this keeping track. It's kind of the same exact sound. Sorry. Anyway, go ahead, buddy. So back in the 50s, they had a bunch of. these flies that did invade um all over the southern united states and they it was a real big problem because it was uh doing a lot of damage to livestock right um killing livestock and and whatnot

yeah this is an image of what that looks like where they're screwed in oh yeah and so you see why they're called screwworms they kind of look like they're drilling in yeah sounds like there are a lot of them it's really horrifying when you see it yeah um the uh so the way that they figured out to get rid of these because they did eradicate these screwworm flies from the united states and actually from most if most of central america as well and and north america so what they did was they studied the the mating or the life cycle of these flies carefully studied them and looking for a weakness and uh and they found the flies they all only, once they turn into flies, once the larvae turn into flies, they only last about two

weeks. And, and this was the key thing, they only mate once. So once they mate, they're done. They don't try to mate multiple times. Now, the reason that's important is because they thought, well, here's what we have to, all we have to do is create sterile flies and introduce, if we could create sterile flies and introduce them into the population, then they would, uh, they They would try to mate with the female flies, and they would think it was done, and they would do it. They would be done. Why choose a sleep number smart bed? Can I make my site softer?

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right but but no offspring would actually be made from that so they would yeah basically they would be they would think that they're they're prolonging their generation but in effect it was like dead a fruitless a fruitless effort screw worm flies aren't sitting around waiting for their eggs to hatch and to see if they were successful in making

you know a baby. They just try and say they say all right I've done all I can it's all up to you now yeah exactly the children are their future and so we we uh we put a little kink in that plan of theirs

and so what they did they would breed a bunch of male screw worm flies and they irradiated them to make them sterile and then they bagged them all up and released them from airplanes over the

So this room so didn't we have a thing a couple weeks ago where they released something else from airplanes mosquitoes or something right? So yeah yeah this is not this is not a unique

technique. This is called the sterile insect technique and it's been used in different populations of insects and it's being studied right now. You're exactly right. It's being studied right now as a way to deal with mosquito populations. Okay. Wow. It's crazy that

has this been going on for a lot longer than we've been hearing about it or have we just decided to get more involved with bad nature? With nature that we don't like. I'm all for it. I don't like this nature either.

I don't like screw worms or murder harness or whatever. But it just feels like we're using this technique a lot more. We're hearing about it a lot more. I think it could be that you're just hearing about it a lot more. I know I've heard about it for a while. So it could just be making it into popular news media more. Gotcha. Okay. So, but right now, so they did get eradicated, like I said.

They pushed them all the way back to Panama down by Central America. Oh, so this is working. Cool. Okay. Yeah, and it was, it was, they were gone for decades. And there was like a sort of a natural biological barrier in that the, the animals that they would lay the, their eggs in didn't exist for a long range between where they were pushed back to until now or until further north. And so in 2022, they started to see more animals becoming infected in the population of screw worm flies pushing further and further north. And now they're only about 370 or so miles south of Texas. And so they're coming. Yeah.

Why are they always coming to Texas? It's always, I know where it connects to Central America, but I'm just saying. Yeah. It's like it always is like the gateway to the giant bees or the gateway to the huge worms or whatever bullshit we have to deal with. it's always coming through Texas. Come on, you guys. Everything's bigger than air. That's why we're trying to build walls, Scott.

Yeah. We need to build a wall to keep the worms out. But in this case, this technique is cool because it doesn't, we're not going to have six months from now a conversation that says, well, we brought in these irradiated flies, and now we don't know how to get rid of them. So now we've got to bring in the irradiated birds to eat the irradiated or whatever. You don't have to do that because they're sterile, right? Since they're sterile, they die out.

There is no reproduction. there is no right they're not going to reproduce so whatever their genetic the the change in their in their DNA that that would have potentially get passed on and create some crazy you know mutated line lineage of flies that's not going to happen because they're sterile yeah we can't have that yeah can you radiate crypto bros next yeah I mean that would be the dream yeah science hasn't figured out how to do that yet we just need to make Crypto Bros. Non-reproducing. That's all.

Exactly. That's all we need to do. Yeah. Just have them not be able to make babies. Everything will be fine. They're doing, to make this method more effective, they're also using in Texas and south of, well, you know, they're preparing to use this. A synthetic bait that they call swarm lure, which mimics the scent of open wounds to,

which imagine being the person who has to deal with. Yeah. Nope, needs a little bit more, a little more iron sent to it. Back to the lab. It's like those people who used to... A little bit more putrescence. Needs to taste people's pee to see if their blood sugar was high or low or whatever. Oh, God, yeah. Could you make this a little more fetid, please? It's not fetid enough. So, yeah, dealing with the screw worms, that's since 1950. It's a good time. Good time to be alive, I figure. Well, this is interesting. I kind of want to to do a follow-up later down the road and see if it worked you know i want to see video of the

planes that are launching flies out the back of that yeah yeah that's kind of cool swarms of flies yeah that's sounds scary i'm playing um i'm playing a video game right now called one fly i think it's called somebody donated it to me and it's it's literally just you have whatever the life expectancy of a fly is in what part of the world you choose. It's like 76 seconds here in the states. So it's based on some scientific housefly data. And the seconds are hours, but they play out as seconds. And you fly this fly around the house and you have to find things on your bucket list before you die. And one of them is, it's none of this 2D kind of black and white art. It's really neat. But you basically, there's a guitar. And as I got closer to it, it zoomed in and let me strum the strings.

And then it said, one of my bucket list things was learn to play the guitar and it crosses it out. And then I have to go do other shit like that. And eventually, I think you get to be fast enough where you get everything the house has to offer in the time limit before your death. It's a weird-ass game. Anyway. So it's like a road like. It's very rogue-likey. It's very rogue-likey for sure.

Well, anyway, this is fascinating stuff. Bobby, there's more to be had on the science front on your shows. Tell people where they can get them. yep we're now to this week is the first week we're doing daily science brief five days a week we're five days a week now oh cool yeah it had to get through the summer yeah thank you had to get through the summer with kids being home all day and then um and so now we're doing that um so check out daily science brief for stories like this and other ones we do several a day just quick 10 minutes updating you on science news and then also the weekly podcast um all around science

where we take deeper dives into like one or two stories and just geek out about science because we love science. Science is great. We all love science. Science should never leave. Bobby, you should, but only for a while. We'll see you next time.

Oh, I didn't close this thing. I can't kill him. There we goes. All right. Hey, we did it. Brian, I got a couple things. First, tell me about your raccoons. Apparently, they're a bigger pain.

They're still continuing to be a problem. climbing up the pole where the bird feeder is and basically I cut video of them because I set up a camera and outdoor night vision camera and I've got video of them on top of the thing. I think I gave it to and you showed it here. So I tried a new thing where so what he does is he eats out of there but then he pulls the front of the bird feeder off so it dumps all the food out onto the ground. So over the weekend I decided, all right, let's take some of the bird food. and we know that birds are not affected by capsaicin, that they can eat hot foods and they don't know, they don't have any reaction to it at all.

That's why they sell bird seed, anti-squarele bird seed that's already spicy, already. Oh, I didn't know birds didn't have a way to receive. Maybe we talked about this, but I didn't know. Way early on when I was having the squirrel problems initially, people were talking about that. I just don't remember that. But yeah, that's crazy.

So birds don't have whatever received, whatever taste bud receivers. Whatever it is. Yeah. So you can spike the bird seed with heat with hot sauce and only the squirrels and raccoons won't know about it. So I decided instead of going and buying more bird seed, I took some of the bird seed that I have. I took a bottle of Carolina Reeper hot sauce that somebody was nice enough to give me that I don't. Oh, don't put cute ones on screen.

They're cute. Look at them. Look how cute they are. These guys just want to come hang out of your house. Yeah, I just want to, the ones I have are big, thick, chunky, not adorable racco. Sure. So I took some McCurial hot sauce, Carolina Reaper hot sauce, put in Tupperware, put some birdseed in there, shook it up to code the whole thing. And then dumped it underneath the bird feeder, like where they would normally pull off the front of it and then eat from that.

Worked for two days. Oh, shit. Yesterday, last night, they started eating the hot stuff. The hot stuff on the ground is now two-thirds gone. And they climbed up, pulled the front off of the bird feeder again. This time, one of them got a whisker stuck in the bird feeder, like in part of the plastic that's holding it. And he apparently had to pluck it off his face because that thing is jammed in there so tight.

I imagine he was stuck up there for a few minutes before he finally just like ripped his face off of it. They're willing to do what they've got to do, you know? Exactly, yeah. Here's the, here's the live shot of that record. There you go. That's more, oh, look at the, like, alien goo dripping from. Yeah. He's got the cleanest teeth of any raccoon I've ever seen.

Yeah, he's taking good care of him, I think. I don't know. Except for that left fang, a little, little, he's not getting between the teeth is the problem. Oh, yeah, it doesn't floss like you're supposed to do. Dumbass, dumbass thing. My hands don't skin. Anyway, so, uh, so, uh, so what, I'm going to do now is just at night

bring the bird feeder in for two weeks and then wean them away from it and just hope that they move on and go away. Just give up on this house. They're a pain in the bum. They can be.

They really are. Need to ship them off to Barry and Bobby Ann let them have them. Exactly. Exactly. Well, there you go. Very cool. By the way, we got a mash-up I'd like to play. Ooh, let's hear it. Yeah, this is cool.

This is from our old pal, Jamie. And this is called Brian's Impressions. All right? Okay. And I don't think it includes like the Trumpy ones. I think this is old stuff. Yeah, he's going back through the archives. This would be pre-Trump, probably.

Yeah, this is some time ago. So let's find out. So those of you who are triggered, you should be fine. Yeah, you should be all right. I got an email yesterday of somebody who gets very triggered by it. I think you're going to be okay on this one. one. I didn't preview it, so I don't know. But apologies if it does. Anyway, here it is. Enjoy. Whoops. There it is.

Hey, just getting a pollen. Don't mind me. They got a thing in their bum. Do do do do do do. Do you get some pollen. Anyway, we're here to fix the cable. You don't have to use one chicken. One chicken you still have to use. Christ is lab growl. And no RFID chips. We promise. There are no RFID. chips in this one chicken much plant product yeah hi can i take your order as soon as i'm finished posting this instagram of how much i hate my job juab county jewab it's a religious muscle hi i'm gonna go work on my jewabs oh that's gonna work on my jew doubts that was a terrible joke don't don't eat your meat on on the thursday yeah don't eat you meet on the friday yeah my backseat

looks like you've exploded a cow in there and you're maybe going to to my company? What are you doing? They don't pay me enough for this. It looks like you took a shit. Admitted undergoing regular Mugworth V-Steam Treatments at the Tickin Spa in Santa Monica, which cleanses her private parts in uterus and provides... Something to perform this?

It was a place. It's a sorting hat. You're going to go to the Mugworth V-Steem treatments at the Tickon Spa. Viginas Clean Outis! Oh, well, no, he still don't have it... It's not bad. You're not quite other. Now I'm in focus. All right, good.

Well, it's very sparkly. I made you an Apple watch band from my own human hair. Mr. Tensch, have I not told you how I made this thing? Hello, Agent Ford, hello agent Tinch. You know, I was going to throw that lawnmower out, but, you know, be a much better idea. Yeah, we should not shoot that shit. Shake and fill up with Tanneride and go shoot it in the world. That's right.

Well, Kethalup is going to be my appetizer, and I'm going to have a taco salad and a Mexican pizza right after that. Did you take these same seven ingredients and make a whole other dish? That's right. Thank you. This next paragraph is a quote. You need to do it in one of your accents for the Australians. All right.

This is a female, so higher voice, Australian. All right, here we go. It had to jump a couple of fences to actually get to me. And by the last fence, I thought, oh, my God, this kangaroo is not going to stop. I like that you prefaced it by saying, all right, female and then just didn't do anything close. Exactly. Or are you saying all females in Australia sound like men? You'd never say that.

You don't think. Never would say that. Absolutely not. No, not when you've got, every, you know, every actress, I'm like, oh, my God, she's really, really good. How great. Oh, she's Australian? Well, now I'm done. I'm done for it.

That's great, though. Love it, love it, love it. Thank you, Jamie, for putting that together. I guess that's an old one. So it's, you know, it is what it is. It's old. Yeah. It's fine.

No Trump here. All right. I still use a lot of those over and over again. Brian, I've also got some emails today. Cool. Caleb on book recommendations. He says, hey, Scott and Brian, upon a recent conversation you guys had regarding book and TV show recommendations, especially Scott's talk about the show Foundation and how you have enjoyed how they've handled the empire.

I have a book series recommendation I think you both would really enjoy. The series is called the Sun-Eater series. Okay. Sun-eater. Yeah, it's good stuff. It's Galactus. yeah does he only would he ever eat planets

okay yeah that's a bummer he doesn't like hot food he has a rating like I can only do a two out of five that's right he on hot ones he didn't do very well on hot ones he gave up after the first set of wings

I mean he was not alone I harold your chicken thighs I harold the gallon of milk you'll have to drink after this I saw her and Thanos together And weapons they were fantastic Yeah I know I'm really close

Really close to getting teen on that one We love absolutely love it It's number one Rotten Tomato Or number one box office Over freakier Friday It's all I could think about all weekend Yeah I had dreams about it last night That's all I know I've seen a good movie

Is when I think about it all the time Nice That's now tied for first For the year for me This and Sinners are my two favorite movies Yeah It's so good anyway he says the series is called the sun eater series with the last book due out later this year set thousands of years in the future it is a massive space opera with fantasy elements mixed in uh in a sea it is one man's account of his deeds over the course of his life good and bad full of weird space religion aliens truly excellent dialogue between characters and the scale of the series is immense and something i think you guys would enjoy this sounds right up my alley i'm gonna totally read i'm gonna grab this um i can't recommend this series enough the audible verse

version is very well done as well. Love the show though. Caleb from North Carolina, or sorry, North Canton, Ohio. It's very different from North Carolina. Very much, yes. I'll grab it. That sounds great. That sounds really cool. I'm sorry, what was it again? The Sun Eater series. The Sun Eater series, yeah. All right. I've got, I've got Dungeon Crawler Carl on the stack before that, and then a book by, um, called Lucky, I think. New? No, random. It's called Random and not new. his books are always great they really are he's got I love his

his wit comes through in his writing so yeah that actually might be a good one if he does the audio book I might I might look that up nice even though I've got the book right here Jeff Seyer wrote in says Scott and Brian

this is regarding half asses I think a couple of weeks ago not exactly sure when how far this went back but he says listening to trivia yesterday specifically the population question for Indian Nation Do you remember this? Yeah, I totally remember this, yeah.

There should be a fourth correct answer. As stated, the question was Indian tribes with 2010 population bigger than Green Bay, Wisconsin, which is about 104,000. He says the issue is these Indian tribes are not solely with the USA. While there are 80,000 Iroquois in the USA, there are also about 45,000 Iroquo in Canada, which also puts them over the population of Green Bay, says, Jeff. Yeah, I think, I mean, you may not have been specific about the states, but I think it was kind of implied that. was who we were talking about i don't know if it was i mean i don't that we've had a couple questions on on ken jennings questions that have come up the um i'll just say we we didn't get to a

well actually and we'll probably get to it on friday but um regarding the jules verne sequel to 20 000 leagues under the sea um or beneath the sea that the the book that um that he quoted as being the sequel was not the sequel. Oh. And T-R-P-W corrected me on that one. Nice. Yeah, we probably will do this Friday. And I playfully jabbed back at him. I don't know if he took it as playful, but I playfully jabbed back at him.

Sure. We'll probably do that Friday because we missed it last week. We didn't do it. Yeah. That's really why I was sick. I was just trying to get out of well-actually. Sure. Oh, and speaking of which, if you would like to correct anything we say, go to our Discord,

and there's a well-actually fun. a groom in there and the TMS grouping and you can just go in there and add your thing. You know? And then we'll see how sick Brian gets this weekend. Exactly. Yeah. I always look forward to those. I do too. Actually, it's fun. We don't mind being wrong.

No, for sure. It's a fun, and it's a fun segment and it gives us a chance to learn and grow together, which is the point. That is the whole point. Exactly. Here is somebody from Denmark who says, Hello, Scott. A quiet hello from Denmark here. Oh. Just a little bit of it.

Hello. Hello, I am in Denmark, I am a Dane. So as I tried to leave a comment on the YouTube, TMS 2866, but it kept disappearing. Yep, kept deleting it. I don't know why. I didn't delete it. I didn't know. Yeah, I don't know why that would happen.

That's really weird. Anyway, it says, in my humble opinion, I think you are a little harsh regarding the Alborg Zoo. Oh, this was the zoo. Yeah, that says bring your animals to the zoo to feed our animals. Oh, your pets and stuff, right? Yes. And I, oh, sorry, my wife scared me. Oh, thanks.

Well, we're really going to take advantage of our forgetting to cancel the sip club. Oh, nice. We spaced it. So Kim's, we're going like every day when she has to have to have a pass. Dude, it's worth it. Go go in the afternoons and get their citrus punch is really good. They're, I'm not usually a floral drink person, but their lavender, blueberry lemonade is awesome. And it's super low calories.

Oh, I'll check that one out. I didn't know they had that. Yeah, yeah. I haven't looked that hard, if I'm honest. The afternoon drink game is strong. If you don't get coffee in the morning, getting drinks in the afternoon is a great way to use up that sip club and make it worth it. Well, there you have it.

I do both. I get coffee in the morning and then I get a big drink in the afternoon and I don't pay. And I make Mexico pay for the whole thing. That's right. Brian drinks all day is what we're saying. I do. You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning. That's right.

Um, anyway, says, I think the word pets is being misinterpreted around the globe. They are not talking about dogs and cats. And then the animal, or sorry, and if the animal had to be put down anyway, why not use it instead of throwing it in the dumpster? The, is that what you guys do in Denmark? Throw your animals in the dumpster? Well, we couldn't save poor spot. Oh, man. He's going in the dumpster.

I didn't ever, I heard of that. Anyway, the zoos have to get the meat for their animals somewhere, mice or snakes, horse meat, or tigers, or tigers or. lions, et cetera. It's the story of Marius, the giraffe all over again. I don't know that story. I don't know the story of Marius, the giraffe, so I guess I'll have to Google that real quick. I have to look that one up. Um, says, I'm not trying to start a war with you guys and I'm not sure I'm making any sense. To be clear, I love animals. We also have cats. The dream of TMS 1983 came true. I don't know what that means. The dream of 19, TMS, 1983 came true. What do we do on that episode? I love animals. We have two cats. The dream from 1983.

So you must have had a dream in episode 1983 of TMS. We could go back and look for that. Yeah, we could probably... Oh, no, we don't have them that far back. You don't clear those, okay. They clear about once he... Well, I clear him.

We always have about a year of notes. Anything past that, the spreadsheet starts to choke and die. Oh, so Marius, the giraffe, was living at Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark. Yeah. Though healthy, he was genetically unsuitable for future captive breeding, as his genes were overrepresented in the captive population, so the zoo authorities decided to euthanize him. Oh, my.

Oh, my goodness. Yeah. Wow, okay. All right. Now we know that story. His body was then dissected and necropseed and public educational class and then fed to the zoo's lions. I don't know if this is helped me or hurt me in terms of the overall understanding of this.

You know what I mean? I'm not really sure. Right. I found that the giraffe, geez I found that old episode Let me just see if I can do anything with it It's not going to give notes obviously So I'm sure

Oh you're making that up Hold on listen to me These are just like random fake characters You never heard of you wouldn't care Let's do Oh see now we're getting into the rudders here The rudders? It's not even a sentence

I just made that oh yeah I did I don't know what I meant there Yeah that's I can't be hard to find that's a two-hour episode you'd never be able to find it it's a needle in a haystack this quickly so yeah if someone wants to find what that is because now i'm super curious what was the dream the dream of tms 1983 yeah someone go back digging around had to do with pets it sounds like yeah and you're not and uh don't worry at all um never never said his name didn't say his name from denmark we are definitely not we're not starting to war with you i if if they do mean like

yeah the pets that you were going to be euthanizing anyway you probably still have him euthanized and then give him to the oh yeah I don't think they're done like oh old cancer filled Rufus what are we going to do with him they don't just okay buddy hop into this cage

and fight for your life you're not doing that obviously God that's horrendous yeah all right well thanks for all your feedback everybody we love it emails and texts and voicemails all that stuff's encouraged you can find links for all of it at frogpans dot com slash TMS

today there's only one show later It is the Monday show, and that will happen a little bit later. But also daily music headlines, which I assume is already up. Yes, it is. And find out why Katie Perry is being fined by Spain to the tune of 6,001 euros. Oh, my gosh, dude. Yes. Is that?

I don't know how much. Is that a lot? No, it's only like, like, you know, 10,000 bucks or something. Oh, that's not very much at all. Not that much, but. Like, again, I don't know why. I was thinking of numbers of me, that disparaging. Somebody please correct me on the, the conversion from dollars to euros,

because I'm sure I've got it wrong. But it's something, it's less than, it's $10,000 or less, I'm thinking. Yeah, it's not like pesos or, uh, or yen or, uh, or yen or right, anything that where it's like a million pesos equals 10 bucks. If I'd lived in Japan, if I was in charge, I'd change that shit. That's what I'd do. I go, you know what? I go, you know what?

I go, you know what? I go, I go, you know what? Or says about 7,000 bucks. Okay. Thank you, Iker. I would be like, we're changing this. Yen is stupid. We're going to make it so that it's not.

How much is that hamburger? How much is that bowl of noodles? Oh, that'll be 15,000 yen. It's like, why? Exactly. Yeah. Shorten it up. Give a column yendites or give it another, whatever you got to do, but compile them.

Well, make it like, just shift everything to mega yen. So you're basically taking out the last three zeros. So, oh, that burger, seven mega yen. Yeah, instead of 7,000 or whatever. whatever. Yeah, and you could go terry yen and, uh, uh, yeah, I like this. I like this a lot. Uh, that's going to do for a day show. Yeah. Brian, we have to play a song though. These people need music in their lives. What do you plan for them? And, uh, we haven't done an indie at the end yet. So let's do an indie at the end. This is a band called Distressor. These guys are from San Diego,

the San Diego, Los Angeles area. And, uh, they're described as, shoegaze heaviness meets emo urgency. You know what? I hear it. It's totally true. This is a song called Broken Glass. This thing freaking rocks. And it is the brand new single from the band Distressor. Take it down to feel like me. But why we can we now wait? When no more time

it stays away The wind rise I'm going inside Now you You know Each will We'll drive every life can be. Bye.

Just stay here. You're just Oh, really, right? I'm going to die. I'm still so high. Can you rest of the way? I've gone outside. We're going to be.

Stairs the right Can you rise No way in life Those pants are made for frog. You know what I mean. I actually don't. Frogpants.com. We know that's a bunch of bull.