The Morning Stream - TMS 2874: Errant alligator

Episode Date: August 21, 2025

Say Pie to your Mother for me. No Gagging On Air. Wilhelm Ow! Sweet Bird of Tooth. The wet blanket of authority. Scott Hit The Sleep Corner. My Nuts! My Nuts! Goobidigah! Boney-Head Lizard-Face. Richard Chicken. Hokey Pokey Picture Sharing. Tasting 5 Soccer Moms In A Minivan. Great Nachos And Suspect Bathrooms. Brand New Cherry Pie Issue. Freebasing cinnamon with Wendi and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Yeah, we get to find out today what this cinnamon business is about with Wendy. I know. I'm excited to find that out. We've, you know. I'm a little nervous. I don't know why. Just to answer. It's not like her to give us the cinnamon challenge. Like, she's not going to want us to sit there and gag on air by by eating a bunch of cinnamon. I wouldn't think so. Yeah, I wouldn't think so. It's not consistent with her typical segment. Exactly.

I think we're safe. Not her jam. Not that the chat room wouldn't love something like that. Oh, yeah. Of course they would, yes. We're not doing that today. But you'll have to stick around and find out what we do do a little bit later. Hey, everybody.

It's nice to see you all. We hope you're well. And we hope more importantly that you are here with us. Well, are you? Well, good. You're listening right now. So good. That's good news.

I found something yesterday I had to share with you Brian because yeah this probably has come up before I don't remember if it did apologies to everybody but I found the original Wilhelm scream and it's not the scream that matters it's the one the guy tried to do and then the dude in the studio said nope I don't like it try it different and then we got the Wilhelm this is like all right so this is not from the movie but from the the VO work or What's the, what do they call that when the, ADR, VR, whatever it is, after the fact stuff. Post, post, post, yeah. In this case, it's almost more like, for them, it feels like they were doing almost, it's almost fully screaming, right?

It's like, we need a bunch of screams. Anyway, let's see what this sounded like and then what they turned it into. This was the actual studio recording. Oh, I forgot to get the guy's name. Anyway, but create, the dude. Is that Wilhelm? Actually, it might be. I forgot to look.

Mr. Wilhelm was trying to create the scream That he's famous for So here's what it sounded like Versus what they ended up with Here you go Oh Not an owl A real scream of pain

There you go He's like not an owl He goes I want a real scream of pain Says whoever that guy was But yeah let's hear that first one again It's pretty good Yeah I like that first one Yeah

That's a kick in the net yeah that's what that first one is square in the nuts but what we ended up with is fine this guy here man hard he's he's I want a real scream real I want a real scream real painful scream yeah just stick a knife in the guy and make him squealing uh can you give me uh grab your testes and just give it a little torsion a twist right there and then give me oh very good okay good My nuts. My nuts. What have I done to my nuts? That'll do, pig. That'll do. Anyway, I thought you guys might enjoy a little bit of the look behind the scenes.

So next time you guys hear a Wilhelm scream in a movie, which I know is unfortunate how often that happens. We don't like it either. Brian and I are not fans, especially new movies. No, no. Takes me right out of the movie. Like, as soon as I hear it, I'm thinking, oh, great Wilhelm scream. That's right. I'm in a movie theater watching a movie. Thank you for that. I don't know why they feel. like that has to happen. Why these directors embrace it. And it's not just, you know, your average big blockbuster movies that do it. Lots of little indie films take it. Serious directors with like serious work and Oscars under their belt. They use it. It's like, why do you all have to be? Is there

some rule or there's some ruling? There's like some underground like if you don't do it will kill you in your family. If you don't use it in your film, like what's going on with the Wilhelm scream? I don't know. Yeah. I don't get it. I say stop. People just say, It's a real, oh, people really love this little Easter egg. Let's do it. Yeah, I don't like it. I'm not a fan. I like Easter eggs, but I like the ones that are subtle and hard to find.

Exactly. Yes. Don't make one that I have to hear every damn time you make a movie. Speaking of which, let's, Brian, you got a little contest for me here. I have a little quiz for you, Scott. Let me give it to you in, in Discord. And you can share it on screen. Here's the deal with this is, oh, I'm in my best.

in TMS chatter because I was looking for that link to discounted Expedition 33. Here we go. So on Tuesday night, we went to trivia, and it was Geeks Who Drink Trivia, which gives us a visual or a video round every fifth round. So the fifth round, every game is visual. And they said, all right, name the video game franchises that these masked characters come from. and I'm happy to say

that I went right through it and got almost all of them and you'll laugh at the one I got wrong and you'll laugh at what my guess was on the one I got wrong. But I thought, all right, well,

let's give the quiz to Scott, but because he's the video game guy because of core and all that stuff. Yeah. Rather than have you name the franchises, which is way too easy, if I can get it, then it's way too easy.

Let's have you name the characters wearing the masks. Okay. um or the masks themselves or that sorts of the sorts of things so in discord uploading right now are eight images go ahead and share those with our fine folks on uh there we'll start with number one and work our way down yeah sounds good all right number one is shy guy from that is shy guy originally Mario two i think is where he first showed up yeah 85 sounds right and he carried through all the way till now he's awesome i love the shy guys

next guy is well that's from majora's mask but i'm not sure yeah i think that is link wearing majora's mask um so i'm i'm giving you that one because it also changed his other the rest of his appearance not just you know just kept link as his uh in his regular clothes but as soon as he put on the mask he had those flares coming out of the side of his head and the different uh oh was that skull kid that skull kid wearing the mask oh because the years

86? That doesn't because Major's Mask wasn't until like 99. No, remember they were asking me about the franchise. So they're saying what franchise did these come from which is why they're giving me the range. The Zelda franchise got it. Okay. All right. But definitely Major's Mask. All right.

This is Vega. It's Wolverine, clearly. Yeah, Wolverine with Extra Long Clause. That's Vega from the Street Fighter series. That's correct. He was just introduced, I think, in the new game or maybe that was Sadat

I can't remember Anyway That is Oh the name Come on now Twisted Metal The character is Oh gosh

Dang it I know I'm sweet dude sweet dude Very good yeah I was like Alright twisted metal Thank God I don't have to name the character But then yep

Hit me finally I knew it somewhere like that That is So give me the name of the mask Obviously you know the game it's from Yeah that's crash Bandicoot, and that's crash behind the mask. Correct.

The mask is the guy that goes, Goobriga, but I can't think of his name. That's right. He floated around, gave you advice, was always there to do shit. In the racing game, he's even more verbose. I cannot remember the name of this guy. The mask is called Aku Aku, Aku. Ait. Yes.

Aku, Acku. All right. Which I think might be the first noise he makes when you pick him up. It might be. Later on, he's a goobitigah. exactly yes um that right there is the spy from correct uh team fortress two yep and i don't think he has any other name just the spy the spy yep that's all we need on that one he's awesome i do like how he's got a separate hat a separate hat mask as well as the face mask that's pretty good that's great

i love i love it he's those early like shorts they did they were brilliant they're so good yeah that stuff it was great i did a whole i don't I would watch a whole series of Team Fortress 2 character videos. There's a bunch out there where fans made them because they made that, that filmmaker thing that they made. I forgot the name of it. So there's lots of fan shit, but it's a lot of shit. It's a lot of shit. Yeah, it's not great.

The official ones were fantastic. Yeah, they were really good. I would actually go for a third game. That's what I want. All right. This one is definitely Hotline Miami, but I don't know the name of the damn chicken. I'm happy to say that I had no idea what this game was and my guess was Hatoful boyfriend

I love it which nobody at my nobody at the table appreciated the humor of but but you know I was like well he's not a pigeon but I'm pretty sure that's I'm pretty sure that's wrong I can't remember I play both games incessantly I still have this on three platforms.

I've never played a single game of Hotline, Miami. Oh, it's so good. There's also, I could tell you all kinds of stuff around it. It's a Devolver Digital Published game. The sequel is not considered as good as the first one, but it's still good. Soundtracks is one of the greatest banging soundtracks of all time. I know all this stuff. I couldn't tell you his name.

I don't remember. His name is Richard. Oh, geez. And the joke is that his nickname is Dick and he's wearing a cock mask and that's the whole ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. uh lots of penis jokes there exactly all right uh then so we're wrong on that one uh this guy is a pocket pocket man a pocket manster he is a pocket monster monster uh this is where i suck i'm so bad at Pokemon names um i'm gonna go ahead and call him bonyhead uh bonyhead lizard face

thank you for giving him a last name geese uh yeah if if if there's one thing Pokemon needs. It's characters with last names. Yeah. That is Q-Bone. Oh, shit. And Q-Bone wears the mask of his dead mother. Damn. The skull of his dead mother on his face. Is that? That's not really, is that true?

That's really true, yes. I didn't know that. That's terrible. Isn't that horrifying? Once in a while, you learn something about the pocket monsters that you're like, really is a monster. Good Lord. Yeah, you're terrible. What are you freaking? I mean, he didn't kill her, but You're going to tell me to drink a nice quianti and like, what's the, what's going on here?

So, all right. So I got two of those wrong out of what total eight. So I got six, right? Yeah, so very good. Yeah, nicely done. This is good because I'll never forget Richard again, given the. Well, three because you didn't get Aku Haku, but. Oh, right, right, right.

Yeah, those are hard. So I got six. Those are really hard. That doesn't seem like a great average. I think that's pretty good. I mean, listen, if I can get seven out of eight franchises because I didn't recognize that damn hotline Miami thing. Yeah.

Then I think six out of eight for the characters is impressive. Yeah, because I would have been 100% on your genres here. Yeah, yeah, you would have gotten all of them. Or not genres, I guess. Franchises. That's a fun one. I like that. Yeah.

I like it when they do, you know, they have some really good visual. How often are they video game related and stuff like that? Is it kind of a common? Rarely. No, not very common. It's usually movies or TV. It's like one out of every 10 is video game stuff. nice well that was super awesome i love that yeah i'll give myself a for that you should you've earned

that that is the appropriate noise and you've earned it and this for not knowing chicken man but who knows chicken man really nobody knows chicken man nobody knows chicken man nobody knows nobody cares here's what we do know guys we know it's time for a little bit of news so sit back relax and enjoy this it's today's news brought to you by brought to you by dave the snack network who says, Dave, at the Snack Network here, Snactacular is back for its third year. C-Sys and D-Sist is on its way. October 4th at Gilberts in Bellevue, Ohio.

Join us for a nerdy live show with snacks, games, coffee, and fun. Locals are welcome or watch the stream at YouTube.com slash at the Snack Network. Can't wait. Yeah. Dave's great. He came to Vegas. Super nice guy. Tell you, Dave.

Yeah. Eating them snacks, getting it done. He's good people. yeah i need to uh i like this idea of them doing their their little snacktacular thing every once in while i get a thing from the local comedy club comedy works here in denver that is like oh you've got comedians but then we've also got podcasters doing their live shows on tour thinking hmm you know maybe that's something to think about yeah why they even that like or five years or whatever you know right but what on tour on tour

So, like, we would, we would do our show in a comedy club on tour. I mean, I guess they're trying to fill time. Yeah, full days that, yeah. That's interesting. I should ask the, I should ask our local one. Like, do they have open slots? How do they do that? It'd be interesting to see.

Yeah. I could see, you know, they get big names in there all the time. But wonder if, you know, little old people like us could get a slot. That's interesting. We don't have to be funny necessarily, you know. We could be really lame. well I think why not both oh I think we could be funny but the rules are different right like comedian gets up has to be funny or else to be funny I think people are more forgiving of

a of a podcast or plus I doubt I doubt anybody who doesn't know us is going to look and say oh well these two gentlemen look like they'd be funny yeah they might be hilarious let's go spend our money and do it let's go devote an entire evening and a two drink minimum to watching a couple unknown dudes i'll bet we get a cut that's how that works we get a cut oh probably that's probably that that's to be right like you get a cut of the the door yeah just like the i assume like the stand-ups do some of them some of them have our merch at a table in the back sell our merch at a table in the back yeah merch tables we have to tell people hey we got a merch table in the back we have to say that a few times that's how comedy clubs work i've been there they got great nachos

uh right bathrooms are little suspect you love the nachos at your local comedy club they're so good, dude. If I could make them right now, I'd eat them for breakfast. They're so freaking good. I don't know why they're so good, but wise guys makes amazing stuff. All right. Let's get to this story about a dog walker. Okay. A dog walker discovers an errant alligator. Great way of saying that. I love that. Errant. Roaming around rural Idaho. That is not a native place for an alligator to find it. No. No. I'm kidding. Very weird. It is not unknown for Idaho wildlife officials, be called him for help with a moose or a mountain lion, you know, black bears, that kind of stuff,

because that's what I'd expect in Idaho. Sure. Same with here in Colorado. We have certain beasts we expect to cause in a little trouble certain times of the year, whatever. There's somebody posted on, I think on next door, but it got circulated around to the neighborhood group that there was a bear roaming around our neighborhood, like within a couple blocks of our house. Do you ever anyone see it or get shots on their cameras? None of our neighbors did, but yeah, a couple.

None of our, like, direct little neighborhood group did, but somebody else did within a block, a couple blocks of us. And they have a picture of this thing. It's a decent size. Like, it's, you know, it's great Dane size or maybe larger. There's a big fight on our next door right now with a pair of neighbors. One of them has dogs that are home all day while the people that live there go to work. And they have a, it's one of the townhome. So they've got a balcony type thing up high.

And they keep the dogs outside on the balcony all day, which is not great. Okay. I don't love that. So nobody's checking on them. They're peeing and pooping up there. There's heat. Yeah. Yeah, it's just not great.

Not great. If you're going to have pets, you better have a way to deal with it or else don't have pets is the way I look at it. Simple, you know, a crate is fine. Let them be inside where it's cool. And if you're so worried about them sleeping on the couch,

geez. Yeah. But I guess it's, I mean, they're gone for like eight hours a day. So these dogs have nowhere to take a crap or take a pee. So the fight on it on there is not that they're being kept there. It's that these dogs are,

pooping up there all day and then when the people come home about twice a week they go out with a hose on this upper floor and they hose out the thing and what's happening is it's going into a drain and then drains down to the na right next to the neighbor right next door right to their air conditioner yeah so their air conditioner's pumping like dog pee and poop smell through the house that's horrendous yeah now there's a big war brewing over there with these people I'm on the side of everybody else except for the dog owners. No, everyone but the dog owners. I don't know what you can do about it, though.

Like, what do you do? Who do you call for this? Was the police going to come? I mean, that doesn't seem like a police calling thing. Townhomes, isn't there like a, what's the equivalent, like a townhome? There's an H-O-A. There is an H-O-A. Yeah.

I think they're the ones. I think the H-O-A would get involved with that for sure. I wonder what they'd actually do, though. And then leaving the dogs out. as an animal control situation oh that could be maybe that's the way you go maybe you do that because you do fix one problem it solves the other one because they're not going to uh you know cart poop out from the crate inside the house right it just sounds like these people are bad pet owners no they're terrible dude and and horrible neighbors yeah if i was next door i'd be freaking angry about this yeah

i would not be happy about it uh well anyway we'll see what happens i don't know like what do you do if it were me, I think I'd call, I'd start with animal control because they have some authority. HOA just feels like a wet blanket of authority. Like, what are they going to really do? Because they barely do anything now. Exactly. All they do is bitch about what colors you choose for your garage paint.

Yeah. And for now, I think what the advice was on Nextdoor, maybe even Kim gave it, because we do this for our little side alley when the dogs pee a lot in the summer. The heat makes it just horrible if you don't take care of it. So we're cleaning up poop all the time. But if they pee, you go back there with some arm and hammer and you just liberally get some of that on there.

Whoa. What happened to my screen? Everything just went back. Oh, I just froze. Oh, there we go. All right, you're still frozen. Let me fix you. I'm still frozen.

Defrease me. I can de-freeze you. I just look snooty in my frozen face there. Very weird. You do look like you're looking down on somebody's. Exactly like, how dare you? All right. Why isn't it going back to the right monitor? There you are. There we are. You are no longer frozen. I don't know what happened.

I think I hit the sleep corner by accident. Anyway, the important thing is take care of your dogs. That's what we're trying to say. All right. Everybody, we'll see if you can get that going in your life. All right. We're going to talk to Wendy. Okay, sounds good. Yeah. It's going to be great. Alligator got dealt with roaming rural Idaho. It's totally fine now, people. You're safe and rural. I know to go back inside. We kind of distracted it and went somewhere else. But don't worry, the alligator turned out was brought there by a truck and left, and then

it's all good now. Everything's safe. Good, good. We're all good here. How are you? Hide your kids. Hide your wife. All right.

All right. Let's get to this. Therapy works. Guys, therapy works. Therapy does work. Wendy's here to talk about why therapy works. And Wendy, how's it going? Good morning.

How are you? What's that from? That is from Lower Decks, Star Trek, Lower Decks. Have you guys seen that at all that cartoon? I love that. I love that show. Yeah, it's really good. Oh, check it out.

And they canceled it so you can just binge it all now. Yeah. Yeah, because if they hadn't canceled it, it's not starting. Yeah. That's right. They finished the final season or the next one is they finished the final season. Something like that. The one with Janeway where she's training them, that's a different cartoon.

It's a 3D cartoon. That one is still going, I think. What's that one called? Oh. Oh, oh, oh, prodigies. prodigy that's it Is that still Or did that get canned?

I don't know No idea on that Paramount's doing like HBO They're just like chopping stuff For no good reason over there I don't know what's going on Anyway Wendy it's good to have you here

How the heck are you? Yeah you're doing all right Hanging in there? Yeah I took pie to your mother And Wow To your mother I got her some pie and some ice cream

Here's the funny thing I'd tell you this Take pie to your mother for him we go in there before we go I say hey I'm coming to see on Sunday I can't wait and she's like oh that's great

can't wait to see it and then in a very different sounding text so obviously she didn't write this I get this message it says hey bring me a cherry pie and vanilla ice cream from Costco it says

and it was also in the tone of a certain scrunched up little 94 year old man I could tell it was him right now not her oh really yeah And that's fine. Yeah, and she's not great with her pans right now.

And, you know, she shakes a lot. So I have a feeling he typed all of it. But whatever, it doesn't matter. So I'm like, that's fine. She likes that stuff. Let's go get her a pie. We go into Costco. We're looking for pies.

And they're like, oh, sorry, those are out of season. We only do those certain months. And when cherries are in season, we actually bake them here with fresh cherries. So the reason they're not here is because we're out of, you know, we don't do it until next, whatever it is, spring or something. And we went, oh, shoot. Okay. Do you have anything with cherry in it?

And they said, yeah, here's the strudel. thing and we're like okay we'll do that no big deal buy it got the ice cream that'll do went home or went to my mom's brought it in and my mom's like oh this looks lovely and john goes where's the cherry pie and i go really yeah i go well Costco says they don't make it anymore or they're not making it till uh till spring it's out of season that should be enough for most people yeah i mean he goes now i wouldn't have even gone that far right yeah that's past most people. Yeah, but then he goes, oh, now I need to look into this. There's, I have a lady who works at our Costco and she, her, I know her by name and she'll, she'll tell me what's going. I'll bet

they'll make one for me if I go. And I'm like, they're just out of cherry pies, John. They'll make one for you. Oh, Joe called me more cherries. Yeah, give me a break. Anyway, I was really annoyed by that, but also he ate it just fine and everyone seemed to enjoy it. Okay, I'm going to send you a text real quick. You need to see this. This is, um, from mom. And, What it was is I sent her a picture of Abe and his girlfriend. Uh-huh. And this was what she did with it. She's a cutie, by the way, that girl.

And it just, she, thumbs to the photo, remove. And I can't even fit it all on one screen. She did it again on Sunday. I mean, I think what's happening is every time she shows the picture to somebody, she just keeps hitting thumbs up. She's double tapping up over. she she is i think so and she is i'm sure she's showing this to everyone who wants to see it because it feels like it feels like the text version of the hokey pokey

she turns herself around after every pair of doing that's right i don't really like it well what's funny is right before i sent her the picture this is the best part she talks to ab it's on his birthday and she says now i hear you have a girlfriend he said yeah her name's really and mom goes no that's not right not accept that her name is Lily and so she just they moved on and then they send the picture and then this is what she does

so I kept thinking well she's ambivalent about this Lily no she's just feeling she's got mixed feelings about Lily the thing so for listeners at home who can't see what we're doing here on video it's oh yeah it says thumbs up to a photo remove thumbs up to a photo thumbs up to a photo and repeat that for like three days

and plus whatever Wendy can't show us because it's too long yeah her screen capture can only capture so much God, that's really, that's fantastic. So I don't have the cherry pie issue. I have the, you like my son's girlfriend? You don't. You like her?

Mom's got Nintendo finger. That's what she's got. Yeah, she's right. Yeah. Well, that's great. But she, overall, though, I don't know why my mom seems so cogent and put together, given that she's been in a bed and locked in this bed situation since, what, March? Yeah.

End of March, whatever it was. Oh, yeah, end of February. You're right. That was when the accident was. and she's just as sharp as ever kind of like do you know what I think it is yeah what is it she's always wanted to just sit down and not do anything this might be like her ultimate

yeah this is kind of the best vacation ever yeah it is John has to wait on her hand and foot she just tells him to go away when he's annoying like I think she's loving this people bring her pie I mean he has visitors my inlaws are over there with her favorite food you guys are showing up all I mean I think I think she's loving it. She might be enjoying it.

What a great way. This is truly the golden months of your later life. In a bed. I personally would need to be given a special cocktail to end it because I could not be in a bed. No. I don't know how I'd lose my mind. No, I'd be done that first week. I'd be out.

Be like, all right, somebody just get a pillow. When you're 87, you might be like, finally. I don't know. We'll see. Yeah, well, there you have it. Hey, Wendy, we've done our homework and did what you asked. We brought these cinnamon and the sugar things. Now, you said them the most recent text to have it mixed.

So we have mixed our cinnamon. If you've got them both, mix them. That's ideal. Ideal is a little sugar, a little cinnamon, probably equal parts. Mix them. All right. And if you only have cinnamon, then you're going to not use the same amount. It's kind of a lot, right?

And if you just have sugar, this is not the day for you. because that does not do it again. Now, roll up a $20 bill. Yeah, exactly. Now, note it. Okay. You have a razor blade and a piece of glass. All right, no.

Real quick. Yeah. Why did they need a razor blade? Is it a cut? It was just easier to cut. You could use a credit card, right? In some of those movies? Right, Ryan?

Right? Yeah. Yep, you use the razor blade because a lot easier to get the cocaine off the side of a razor blade than it is off the side of a credit card because of the one millimeter thickness. Good point. You waste like $8 of cocaine. game that way using your hotel key card to cut your exactly all right so we got it here in front of us it's all it's looking real shiny

all right so we got everybody got there's raise your hand if you've got yours ready because once i start this you can't like start late it doesn't work because people start reacting okay okay wow reacting i'm worried now wendy this is really important you have to listen to my full instructions before you do it okay All right, do it. Here are the full instructions, and then I will say ready, go. Okay. So here are the full instructions.

You pinch your nose completely. So you literally cannot breathe out of your nose. That needs to be pinched completely before you do anything else. Doing that now. And then you take this a teaspoon worth. It doesn't have to be a lot. Whatever, you can even just sprinkle some. And you put it on your mouth.

But you do not do anything until I tell you. And I will say, this is what I'll say. I'll say, what does it taste like? And you have your nose still pinched. Okay. Then when you're, tell me what it tastes like, great. Then I will instruct you when you can release your nose, okay? Okay.

Okay. So it's going to sit in our mouth for a little bit until you tell us what to do with that. Exactly. But keep your nose pinch. That won't get edited out into something out of context. No, of course not. Of course not. All right, here we go.

All right. Okay, good. Punched my nose. Punched your nose. Put it in your mouth. Keep your nose pinch the whole time. And I want you to taste it. Tell me what it tastes like.

Doesn't it taste like anything. It tastes a little, I'm getting a little cinnamon vibe. Are you getting a little sugar flavor though? Does it taste like sugar? Yeah. Add more sugar. Okay. Now all at once, we're going to do this together.

You're going to release your nose and tell me what happens. Okay. Cow to stand. Oh, wow. Oh, weird. Now I get the cinnamon. Like I was just getting like a little bit of sugar before, but holy cow, like, Now it's like the rush of cinnamon.

That's weird, dude. Yeah. So let me tell you what just happened. Okay. Cinnamon is a smell. What? It's a smell in granular smell form. Look at it.

It's not a taste. It's a smell, not a flavor. Okay. You know what? You're right. That taste I was getting before was the sugar. I think my brain was trying to compensate and go, yeah, because it knows there was cinnamon.

Because it's like, it should taste like cinnamon, so it must taste. like cinnamon but as soon as i've done this before to people i don't let him know it's cinnamon at all in there i just give them a small you just say and i'm like put this in your mouth but don't don't do anything with it trust trust me entirely with what i'm about to put in your mouth one time no lie i mean and i've used it in presentations you know trying to show like what we think is real sometimes isn't or what we have believed like faulty beliefs or like using it in some psychological principal way, right? And one time

I was hired by, it was kind of, I don't know, they were some meeting for something, I can't remember, but I was in Sweden and I went to this conference and they asked me to present on some psychological principal and I was like, oh, I'm going to do this. I get there and it's like in this beautiful forest, it was this amazing setting. And they

had me do my presentation in an old church. So I'm standing in front of across and all these people and I'm having them pour something in their mouth and I'm like the promise is not Kool-Aid I promise I'm not going to hurt you

anyway it's one of my favorite moments anthrax do you have to ask people first if they have like you know allergies or anything I usually check for allergies but I forgot to do that sorry I hope everyone's okay no no but Brian and I I think Brian and I kind of knew we if we did we'd say

because we knew what ingredients we knew When you cinnamon was going to be involved based on the fact you told us to get cinnamon. Sure. Okay, but so cinnamon never. I've never met a person with this cinnamon allergy, by the way. So if mom loves, mom loves, or no, mom has no smell right now. I still think she's got some kind of weird long COVID and she just won't admit it.

But whatever. She has no. Yeah. She thinks it's the, she was like, oh, it's the brain surgery, but I think it's not. Anyway, whatever. She's self-diagnosing anyway. But she can't. taste anything right now.

And so in theory, if you gave her this, this would be her with the nose plug, but she'd never have the sensation of after that. Yeah. We should try it. Next time you go over there, do it. Okay. I have it pre-mixed in this thing.

Here, mom. Put this in your mouth. Yeah. And she loved sugary things. She just can't taste them anymore. Is it cherry pie? If it's not cherry pie, I'm calling Costco. And Costco will make me my own.

That's right. They'll make me my own. Yeah. That's the level of control he has. I want his kind of confidence that the world will operate exactly how I want to. Yeah. No, he thinks he is the middle of this where all the spokes go out to all other functioning society all come right into where he is. Exactly.

That's kind of confidence is impressive. It's insane. Anyway, okay, so the point being, and the reason I had you guys do this, I have no idea why I was even telling you, but it's cool, though. And it's a fun way to, like, prove a fun point of, like, you know, things aren't always. what they seem. You can go your whole life. I mean, no one's probably walked around and be like, oh, I know that cinnamon is a taste.

Like, no one's thought that. Sure. But it isn't. And it is a smell. And it is a, like, I just like that you have this like, bleh feeling because I love that. That's insight. That's like, oh my gosh, I was wrong.

So I've never, yeah, you realize that when you're, especially around Christmas and Kim will burn one of those cinnamon Christmas candles. Mm-hmm. I'm not, I always knew I was smelling it, but I didn't realize that that's really all I'm doing ever with a cinnamon smell is smelling it. And so while we're not saying cinnamon, which comes from a bark, and we know it's a material, we're not saying it's some invisible fume you can see.

There's a thing. It's a tangible thing. Right. But your human's ability to detect it is all olfactory. And if you are like certain animals and stuff, you may have a different reaction to it, but people just don't know, right? Yeah. And it's just a fun way to, like, throw someone off in their confidence that they know how things work. Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah.

Because it gets to curiosity or openness a little bit, which, man, if we all had a little more of, it'd go a long way. Yeah, I agree. You know what? I've just, it just now occurred to me. When I was younger, oh, my gosh, I can't believe you just brought a memory out. This is like therapy. Ooh. That's probably 12 or 13, and I tasted, or I don't know why we even had them, but, you know, cinnamon sticks, they're like the. actual bark. Sure. Yeah. And usually put them in a drink or you see them. You put them in a, you put them in a, you put them in a hot, uh, like an apple cider, hot apple cider. Yeah. And I remember going, oh, they smell so good. They smell so good. I'm going to, I'm going to suck on one. And I did. And I had now have this memory of being bummed that I couldn't taste anything. Really? Oh, wow. So I actually did this to myself when I was about 10 or 12 or whatever I was and

didn't know I did it. We forgot. Oh, wild. And actually, that kind of brings back a memory for me, too. Last year, I did the same thing, but I used pumpkin spice. And then when I released my nose, all of a sudden, I could taste five soccer moms in minivans. It was amazing. Well, only through September and like early November, though, right? That's right. Yes.

Yeah, whenever Starbucks is offering it. Well, that's fantastic. You know what I think is a taste, but definitely is a smell. But it, okay, so in Swedish, you say, like when you say, like, when you. smell something, you will say that you feel it. Isn't that like a hilarious? Like the verb. It's like the verb.

The Swedish verb is for taste. And people will say like, oh, that smells so good or, you know, like there's a, you're using the verb feel sometimes to talk about smell. Which I think is hilariously real, right? Like when Elliott got in the car after football practice last night, I could feel the smell. It was deep into my situation.

It was so gross. That explains why the song Flash Dance did so well in Sweden because it was, oh, what a tasting. Yeah. Oh, what a tasting. That's wild.

All right. So our lesson that we've learned is, well, what is our lesson? What do we learn here from this? If you could sum it up. That cinnamon is a smell and not a flavor. All right. Yeah.

And that it's, it's kind of exciting to be wrong. I guess that's it. You know what? I like that. I like, yeah. I love learning new stuff. I love learning about problems we have in the world because someone can't be wrong. Right.

Right. Just name one quickly off the top of your head. What is a worldwide problem because somebody can't be wrong? I mean, there are many. Well, it was the size of somebody's inauguration event. Yep. 12 years ago or however long it was

that and it just went down from there. Yeah. 100%. Like insight or awareness or you know. Yeah. I don't know. Just your basic,

I'm not, you're basic like, hey, there's more to learn. And I think as we get older, there's some things that happen to brains, which is like you've seen a lot. And so our brains are very efficient

at, saying, oh, I know what that is already, right? Whereas a kid, you know, you take a little kid on a walk, it's amazing what they see that you're like, oh, wow, right? So, great example, walking my dog last night. Suddenly he's got something in his mouth, it's dark, I can't see it. Turns out it was a squirrel in a trap. Oh, oh, God.

And I lost my mind. But you know what, if I was a kid, I would have thought that was amazing. I don't know about rabies. Your dog had the squirrel and the trap and it smelled like the whole. Oh, yeah. All I can do was the metal part and he's a hound. So he probably smelled that the second we walked out of the house. Oh, no kidding.

Wait, is it like a sticky trap or like a metal? No, it was my guess is it was like a rat trap somewhere. Like basically like a giant mouse trap, but they used it on a squirrel. Yeah, it was really big. And probably, and it's near the house where they feed every animal. animal. She's like Cinderella with the birds and the deer. I can relate. I know.

I know it was not them. Trying to kill this. Brian, you just need a raccoon-sized trap. That's all. I do. Exactly. Yeah. I thought about making, we have a lot of raccoons. I was thinking about making something with a trash can and cutting the lid, sort of

cutting the outside rim of the lid off except in two places and then putting food on there so that when he got up on there to eat the food, the lid would rotate. and he'd fall into the trash Oh, the poor things. Because you don't want to hurt him,

you just want to relocate him. I don't want to relocate him, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, is there a procedure for that? Like, do they say, hey, everyone, bring your

It's a good question. Where would you take them? Yeah, is there like a... Oh, yeah, there's a, yeah, raccoon drop off about three miles down the road. There's a big metal bin. A facility.

No, there's a, the place I usually took, well, where I used to take the squirrels before I finally said, okay, going to have squirrels I might as well deal with it I'm probably getting close to that with the raccoons but it's a

a frisbee golf park about two miles away so just just down the road Brian do you know that the animals have a meeting and they talk about which house you feel like they're finally making some headway with they really are like where things are headed

you're like and one of them's going to be like like, hey, if you go back to the Ibit's house, watch out for a trash can. Don't eat anything off the top of a trash can. Those things are smart, man. They'll figure it out. Who knows? Well, that's wild. All right. Well, let's get, we actually have a question this week. We do have a question. We've only got time for a two-word answer, but here's the question. I know. I did think, do you want to just save that for the next time? I mean, we can. We can totally save it if you want to go deep. It's a fairly hardcore question. It is a really hard question. Yeah. Maybe maybe we do save it. Now, this isn't

to say that we're not, you know, we don't feel some urgency for the people involved. We do. Okay, wait, hold on. Back up. I am, I am going to the state fair next Thursday, so we better tackle it. All right, we're doing it now, then. We're doing it now. We're skipping emails. Here it is. Dear Scott and Wendy, how do you approach a friend who you suspect is self-harming in parentheses, cutting? She's 28 and I'm 27. I work with her. She has no family in town and no other friends that I know. Is there something I can do so that she is safe? It's a very short email. Not a lot of details, a couple of interesting ones, but let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. This is important. Okay. So I would like this person to look up mental health first aid. And there is a training. There's courses. There's all sorts of things. So I'm not saying you're going to be actually qualified anytime soon in this. But I think it's helpful to recognize sometimes understanding the right and wrong things to do in a mental health crisis, are really powerful and important, okay?

So I'm going to use that as kind of the backdrop. So the five steps of sort of mental health first aid are like you approach, assess for risk of suicide or harm and assist. So that's like you see someone in public maybe or a friend of yours and, you know, kind of this story. Then you approach. You need to ask them how they're doing. One of the biggest reduction in suicide attempts and successful suicides is just somebody

asking, are you suicidal? Right. And you're having those thoughts. Right. So step one is to approach, assess the risk of suicide and harm, and then assist, and you're going to listen non-judgmentally. That's step two. Step three, you're going to give support and information. Step four, encourage appropriate professional help. Step five, encourage self-help and other support. So let's just start with that. Step one, approach, assess for risk of suicide or harm and assist. I, if this is somebody, I mean, they don't say how close they are to this person. So it might feel kind of awkward. Other than the work, you know. Just that they work together. That implies some, you know, association, I guess. And the fact that they, that they know that they don't have any family or friends in town. Yes.

They're seeing a risk there. Yeah, exactly. Right. So they're already in tune to something. So something I should clarify really quick. Cutting and other forms of self-harm versus suicidal attempts or ideation or plans, they can be very different things. And this is why most people are confused.

They don't know what. which is which, and everything's scary, right? And so it's not important for what I'm about to suggest necessarily, but it's helpful sometimes for people to understand. Most cutting or self-harm behaviors are not active movements towards suicide. They are usually psychological relief. So regardless, someone is in psychological distress, if that is what they are doing to survive day at day, right?

So they still do need help. They still do need your care. They still don't have those supports in place. And so they are at risk for having, you know, very difficult things happening. Whether it's actively ready to take their own life or not is not always the case. I want most people who don't have this training or have any sort of background in this to think of it this way. There is no difference in the role that you would then play. you don't need to know the difference between that.

If they're going to kill themselves or if they're just harming because of psychological pain, they're in psychological pain. Just like you wouldn't walk past someone who's bleeding on the sidewalk, right? Right. So I get this is different in that there's this social part, there's this, I don't know what I'm doing, all that. But I want to promise you something. If you have the, I see you, I see your suffering, I care about you. are you okay? Can I help you get help? That's the second step. If you just ask how someone's doing

and they're like, fine, you're like, okay, bye. Like, ah, I don't want to talk about it. Or if they say, yeah, I'm not doing well and you're just like, I don't know what to do, then you're not going to be helpful. So you need to know some things to do. So do a little local research. What is, usually there is the 988 number that's a national number you can call them and ask them this exact question and say walk me through how how I can handle this so you feel some extra support they can do that phone call with you you can ask that person to call that number like there's that resource others is like what do you have around you locally so that when someone is self-harming you know what agency is available to give them how

help. How can you, like you work at the same place. You probably know what insurance company you currently have. You know, you can look up on your company website. Like, what is the emergency mental health help or, you know, phone numbers for therapists? And they don't give enough detail, so I don't know how close they are as like friends or are they strangers. But if you are, if you come in with compassion and you really try not to make it about your fear, because it's really easy to be afraid. Sure. But really about I want to help this person and listen non-judgmentally and then have some

support to offer because that that encouragement of appropriate professional help goes a long, long way. Most people are just so overwhelmed. They don't know what to do next. Or a lot of times when I've met folks who have been cutting, I think now people look it up on the internet more than they used to before that was available. They just thought they were alone. they were the only person in the world that ever did that kind of thing.

There's a lot of hiding. And so to have someone see you, especially if they come in with compassion, can be really validating and helpful, right? Some of that will depend like what we talked about, like what's the relationship already and how much is too much. And, you know, we don't have a lot of information to sort of say, do they go to lunch all the time? Do they, is it just there in a cubicle three away from me?

I barely talked to them. Exactly. Right. Yeah, right. That's hard. Right. And so this is where I recommend this to people a few times just to get your confidence up because you want to do something that's hard, right?

You want to do something that's helpful and you don't want to harm anyone. And that is a noble and an important beginning. But knowledge is power. And when you, you might just need someone to coach you through it a little bit. So I would call 9-88 and just say, hey, I'm a friend of someone. somebody in this situation, help me know what to do, what to say, and they're going to walk you through. That's a phone call. They are thrilled to be getting because they have someone nearby who can be helpful. I like the idea, too, that they can join you on a call with this person so that

they're at least with somebody that they're comfortable with as part of this. Yeah. And you can encourage them to make that call with you. Yeah, 100%. Yeah. And you will already kind of know what's happening, right? They will give you some guidance and then you make your approach and you, you know, express that care and sort of, you know, and for many people, they're just like, I don't know what to do. I would do something, but I don't know. And so that needs to be your first step. What do you do? Which obviously this email is one step. Talking to 988 is a great step. Looking at mental health first aid resources online can be helpful because you will recognize like you know regular first aid physical first aid you're like oh they're bleeding stop

the bleeding or can they breathe are they breathing do they have a heartbeat like we have these really distinct ways we know um what to do and not to do and we're always calling for professional backup like it's so built into us to do that because a we've been trained over our lifetimes and it feels like somewhat logical or second nature now right um but But it's the same method, except for you are the one having to say, are you injured psychologically or emotionally? And I think that can be really daunting to step over into that space. Well, for sure. Now, what if the, just maybe a silly question, I don't know, because I don't understand this stuff very well.

But if this person, they do all the things you're recommending. Yeah. And that person just says, nah, I just like carving cool little symbols on my arm. It's just kind of a cool thing I like to do. It's like tattoos, but it's my own art. you know what I mean like what if their answer is just something like that is that usually a lie is that usually a maybe nobody says that and I'm just this just my own imagination taken over I don't know I mean they could they could say oh it's nothing you know I see what you're saying like

they could shrug it off or try and explain it to something else and kind of distract the situation yeah I mean is there any situation where it's actually not availed problem like is it you know It would be like, you know, my, for example, my mother-in-law would see a tattoo and think you're now, you're now going, you're in the, you're in the fastest train to hell. Yeah. So because of that, she thinks everything's over. But obviously tattoos don't mean that. I'm not saying that that's the same here, but, you know. Right. But it's possible there's something else going on that you are misinterpreting, which might be a fear. Like we can think of a bunch of fears you might have, like, are they going to ever talk to me again? they're going to think that I'm I'm budding into business that's not my own. I mean, you're running a risk in a relationship to confront somebody at any time you do anything like this, right? Yeah. So the person wrote, you suspect is self-harming or cutting, right? So they're similar ages. Yeah. And you know they don't have support. You're suspicious that they're cutting. And that might be, do you see cuts, repeated cuts on their arms. Like, that would be,

a question i would ask what are you actually like they're caused by working on a rose bush over the weekend or something yeah right exactly very obvious yeah are you are you actively seeing them do some self-harm behavior some some forms of self-harm are scratching and scratching till you bleed picking like your cuticles till they're bleeding like there's other forms of self-harm that don't get quite the same attention but are of a similar ilk and the reason is they create enough physical pain to stop the psychological pain and that's ultimately what self-harm behavior usually is doing is it's flooding the brain with endorphins because of injury in order to sort of overwhelm the the pain circuitry that is

the psychological pain they're in right so regardless friend needs help right but your your influence is only what it is and you you might be stepping on a limb. So you could say something like, I may be getting all this wrong. You know, you can kind of couch it that way. And if they say, oh, no, I just like scratching my arm with a needle. It feels good. You could be like, oh, that's interesting. That usually doesn't feel good to me. Tell me more about that. Or you might just be like, oh, cool, okay. And invite them to hang out with you because they have no family and friends in town or something. Right. Like you're, it's different, you know, when I'm going to give physical first aid to someone. It doesn't matter if I know them or not, right?

Yeah. I don't need to know their inner workings to decide if I should stop the bleeding. Yeah. But when it is this kind of thing, it feels way more complicated because of that. Like, do you ruin a connection? Are you, you're putting some things at risk. And so I think it takes bravery and I think it takes just checking in. And guess what? This goes back to the cinnamon. Look at me making a full circle. Yeah, I like this. You could be wrong. And if you're wrong about it, be humble about it just like oh it's because i care or i've seen someone harm self-harm before and i worry about them or um this is just because i this is i care and i maybe i got it wrong right and the truth is someone might be lying to you and that tells you like

oh well this i i may not be the one that can be helpful um and you just keep building a relationship with this person because that's actually a foundation that means you can help somebody you know often when someone dies by suicide um i've just recently been listening to aubri plaza on um amy polars podcast um you should definitely listen to it's good and they they address her her husband died by suicide just that last year yeah it's recent i was going to say very recent yeah and she talked about she feels like she's in the movie the gorge that's how it feels oh wow yeah intense right and And so she shared a little bit on the show and I thought Amy did a good job of like acknowledging it.

And then, you know, also it's a comedy podcast. So they talked about funny things and you know, whatever. But it got me thinking about like you are, you don't, you know, you think Aubrey Plaza knew this was going to happen. She didn't or she wouldn't, she would have tried something to stop it. I don't know the story. Yeah. Yeah. But the fact that it happens without anyone knowing who's close to somebody.

is really scary and really hard because people do hide things and it's not it's not obvious but here is someone who is seeing something that cutting some evidence of cutting and is concerned and so it feels like an ethical or moral obligation it's automatic for me because of my code of ethics and I have to live my life this way professionally and it means I live my life that way anyway I feel like it's just a great way to live life where you are ethically concerned about the people around you. It's just you need to know what to do. I think that's the biggest part. So hopefully some of this information is helpful. And I know we can Google stuff and be like, okay, but I think that's why the 988 thing is so powerful and so needed is it's a real person walking through the details. What I would do if I had

them on the phone, right? Like you can get to what they need to feel supported to do the thing that's ethical or helpful because they want to they wouldn't have written this if that wasn't already like on the yeah right yeah for sure well uh i want to hear how things go this is this one i'm very curious about partly because we don't have a lot of info so i feel like i'm on i'm on the edge my seat a little bit about details um but anyway let us know hopefully this advice helps and uh hopefully you can get some help for your friend and maybe it'll you know at the very least it'll show you have compassion and maybe this will increase a relationship that you

would want anyway and you can be someone to lean on. So let us know how it goes. Wendy, is there anything people should be doing at know better you.com? Yes, go to it. P-N-O-W, B-E-T-E-R dot, no, you dot com. Thank you.

The letter you. I just need you to give me your email for now. We're going to start sending out some stuff soon so you can see what's coming. Um, the next class is going to be so fun. I cannot wait. I've had some very cool experiences this summer that have, uh, are guiding this class. Um, and are just, it's going to be really fun. So anyway, more information coming. So sign up there. And then next week, Scott, um, I will be at the Minnesota State Fair, which is called the, the great get together. And it's where two, three million people gather and eat fried things. And it is so fun. I have. Please. Please come. I really want to go. It's honestly so fun.

Anyway, but here's the exciting part. And this year, I don't know if Abe will drink nine cups of free milk and vomit in public, but hopefully he will. Do you do that last time? He did that last year? Yeah, nine is his record, and then he puked. So what we told him, it doesn't count. So eight is the current. You have the most delicious milk.

You buy one cup for $2 or whatever, and then you can refill it as much as you want. So you get these cookies, and he just frigging drinks milk until he barked. It's so stupid. But the best part And I mean the fun things we've done Like my kids have been in cheese carving contests And butter sculpting contests And they win because I don't know why

That's great How sweet It feels like you should be all Deep fried milk or something Better than deep fried It's so fun And you get to go to where the miracle of birth And there's baby animals everywhere

You're literally watching them bored But here's the reason we have to go Thursday I'll tell you this We moved here 10 days later, 20 days later, we're at the state fair because everyone's like, you've got to go. And we are like, we are fresh off the boat. We have no idea what was happening. The first thing we see are the llamas. You guys, have you ever seen a llama?

Sure. Try to follow a course. Oh, no. That I've never seen. So funny. So these llamas have hats on and like petticoats and they're dressed hilarious. And they cannot, we did not see a single llama complete the full course. because they're super disobedient

and there's these teenagers just dragging them through we laugh so hard and we've been back every single year we've never seen the llamas again and finally I'm like when are the llamas so it is Thursday morning

sorry everyone but I will send you a video of the llamas because it is so much joy yeah it's also I assume Thursday's not quite as crazy as the weekend anyway so it's a better day

yeah we've gone on some Saturdays before and you kind of want to die but when you come to town we'll go on on Tuesday yeah oh that'd be great Tuesdays sound great. Way less people. All the fun. The biggest pumpkin grown all years, like three billion pounds. That's awesome.

Very cool. We'll have fun. That sounds like a blast. Super cool. Yeah, we'll do a little call now episode or something while you're gone and in your memory. But we'll have you back after that. And then everyone go give me your email, please. Yeah. Emails to Wendy. We'll see you soon. Yeah. All right, Brian. Very good. I'm glad we covered that today. I am too. I think it's important. Yeah. I don't want to give that. another week.

It would just burn a hole in our heads. Or two weeks it would be, yeah. So I'm glad we did too. All right, quick couple things. We have a bunch of shows coming out to today. Coverville, what time? Noon. Coverville is actually going to be pretty close to when we finish this show.

Oh, very nice. Clears up my afternoon for a big freelance project that is going to be that I don't want to interrupt with half before and half after. So plus it's a, well, I also have to prepare a bunch of crap for the party this. weekend oh right you got it's gonna be crazy here for the next the next 48 hours are gonna be absolutely nuts with prepping stuff for that party i did watch the film sac show last nights or the movies so oh got that out of the way sure but um so cover real today celebrating birthday of john phillips he's uh the founding member one of the four members of the mamas and the

popas got some great covers with folks like rufus waynwright um who else did i find there was like some really surprising versions of Mamas and Papa's songs. Julie Lendon, Robin Hitchcock from Robin Hitchcock and the Egyptians. Jacob Dillon from the Wallflowers, some really cool stuff across the board. Awesome. That sounds great. Do check that out. That'll be coming up right after this or pretty close to it.

Right after this. Yeah, just go to Twitch.tv slash Coverville and tune in. That's right. And I'll play some snap because I won't have. have time to set up a discounty for streaming in Twitch. Oh, right. Yeah. If you're not all set for that,

you may as well not do it yet. Yeah, I'll wait until next week or something. Also, today, Core 1 PM, big video game talk. We just had Gamescom's main event. And it's still going, but most of the announcements are out. We did a little live coverage the other day. We'll break some of that down. Some of the stuff we're excited about.

It is, after all, the world's largest game convention in the whole world. Yeah. Lots of fun stuff. So get your German pants on, your later hosen. It's time to talk about gamescom. Then TMS Friday tomorrow, 9 a.m. It's a normal week, right? Or is this our final? No, it's not.

It's a normal week. That's right, normal week. Yeah, two weeks actually, oh no, I'm sorry, one week until play date. Oh, except I'm gone that weekend, so it'll be, we'll push it a week. Gotcha. Because I'm gone on the 29th weekend of the 29th frame. Okay, easy enough. Anyway, yeah, tomorrow, normal.

9 a.m. TMS Friday for our patrons. You've got to be a Patreon person. So get in there, sign up and be in there. Film Sack this weekend, as Brian mentioned, Judgment Night, 1993's edition. Don't get the wrong one. Make sure that's the one you're watching.

If you see a, you see a, who are we looking for? Cuba Gooding Jr. is the first person you see in the film. That's right. If you show me the Cuba Gooding Jr., then you're in the right place. Yeah. Emilio Estevez will show up. That's right. A few other luminaries from the late 90s.

Dennis Leary. Michael Dorff or Steve. Steven Dorff. Yeah. Love a little Stephen Dorff. Stephen Dorff. He's great now. I like him in new stuff.

He's a great evil cowboy, like a mean cattle rancher and a lot of westerns. It's very good. And maybe the most irritating Jeremy Piven you'll ever see. Oh, and that's a... It's a plus. What a draw, right? I'm in. I'm sure he'll remind me of Dave Matthews about five different times.

He totally will. Yep, that's great. I'm driving an RV. Brian, let's get out with a song. You got one? Sounds good. I do. This one is going out to our friend Tom Waller. I'm sorry, Tom Walter. Hey, let's put on the glasses because this spreadsheet is tiny. Brian, I'm requesting this song in honor of my beloved mother, Evie, who passed away on April 15th of this year. When my sisters and I were children, Evie would walk around the house singing in her beautiful opera voice.

Of course, as kids, we would groan and beg her to stop. as if it were the worst thing we'd ever heard. If only we could hear her singing now would warm our hearts beyond measure. Evie was also a lifelong Elvis Presley fan, so Can't Help Falling in Love holds a special place in our memories. Having Andrew Bacheli perform it would be the perfect way to blend her passion for opera with her love for Elvis. This performance would not only be a tribute to her voice and her spirit,

but also a celebration of the music that brought her joy. Her birthday is August 23rd, which falls on a Saturday this year, since TMS doesn't have a show on Saturdays. Never say never. I'm requesting this song for August 21st as a way to honor her special day. Thank you, signed Tom Walter. Oh, man, sorry about your mom. Yeah, that's rough.

And hopefully this version brings you some solace, some joy. This is a version by Andrew Bichel. He's joined by American Idol performer Catherine McPhee to do a little bit of a duet. This was on his Amore album from 2006. Here is, Can't Help Falling in Love. and have fallen in love with you. Shall I stay? Would it be a seal?

Can I help falling in love with you? Like a river flow Surely to the sea Darling so it goes Some things are meant to be So take my home Take my home Take my whole life too

For I can I'm falling in love with you When I fall in love Some things are meant to be Are meant to be Take my head Take my whole life to you. For I can fall in love with you.

For I can help. For I can help. falling in love with you. In Pants. If you're looking for something froggy smooth, find more at frogpants.com. I didn't get the golden dragon. ACAS powers the world's best podcast.

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