The Morning Stream - TMS 2876: Skibidi Tradcasters

Episode Date: August 26, 2025

The Ham And Cheese Of Superpowers. Dial up predators. Lil Pink, tonight only at Red Robin. Jenna, The Vegan Predator. Pulling Harry Kim out of your Ass. Super moustache hiding ability. Beef heavy blaze. Carbonated donuts. Gun-pervious. Throwing the S. 55 Rollercoasters, Zero Puke. I Don't Like Tainted Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeat! Back in my day Superman was called Gladiator! I'll Take The Soup. How Dumb are We? with TVs Travis and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When David Lee Roth speaks, people listen. Or at least they used to. It was only when he supposedly implored everyone to sign up at patreon.com slash TMS that people truly listened. Coming up on the morning stream, the ham and cheese of superpowers. Dial-up Predators. Lil Pink, tonight only at Red Ramen. Jenna, the vegan predator. Pulling Harry Kim out of your ass. Super mustache hiding ability.

Beef heavy blaze. Carbonated donuts. Yum. Gun purvious. Throwing the S. 55 roller coasters, zero puk. I don't like tainted meat. Back in my day, Superman was called Gladiator.

Yeah, I'll take the soup. How dumb are we with TV's Travis and more on this episode of the Morning Stream. My grandma called me up. She said, you're like a fart in a hot skillet. And I never knew what it meant, but it feels like who I am. My worst qualities are, I'm not real thrifty. It's a darn idol in time. mind you stop with a little bit of a little i do you look it i a i'll be

m s d b ms this this is this is the morning stream for t what could a young cop like you want with an old fossil like me hello everybody welcome to tms this is the morning stream for Tuesday, August 26th, 2025. I am Scott Johnson. That is Brian Nibbitt. Hello, Brian Nibbitt. That is correct. I am your skibbitty tradcaster. That's right. Yep. Tradcasting it each and every day in a skibbitty way. That's how we rock here. Thank you Cambridge, universal dictionary for ruining yet another series of words for Americans. We do. We will have a well actually about that in a couple weeks. This Friday's play date, but next Friday we'll have a well actually about dictionaries.

So very nice. We'll get to that in a moment. But first, we're switching things around today. This is Travis, and you'll do well to listen carefully to what he has to say. Mr. Crawford has meetings today, all right, morning meetings. And because of that, he's there early. Hello, Travis. How are you? Hello. Yeah, I know. I don't like work scheduling me any meetings, but especially meetings during TMS. Yeah. I mean, what are they even thinking? Don't they understand what you do here. Don't they get it? You know? They just, they don't. No matter how many carefully prepared memos, I saw. on them.

Carefully worded, prepared. Yep, exactly. Well, I'm glad you're here and thank you for, well, you know, just doing it anyway. Thank you for making us accommodate. We can't thank you for accommodating. Thank you for. Yeah, we're happy to do it. Thank you for accommodating my work meeting.

We're very happy to do it. How are we supposed to go without you testing our medal? So let's do it. You come on here. You ask us hard questions. I don't know what the score is. I always forget. Yeah.

The score is irrelevant. Let's move on. Scores are made up and the points don't matter. Exactly. Right now, Scott is leading 6-2 over Brian. Oh, geez. All right. Yeah.

Yeah. So I thought he creeped up last time. I guess you won last time. No, I thought it was. No, you won last time. I did. I won the time before. I won the two times before that.

It was a shutout up until three weeks ago and then I get the two before the last time. That's right. Yep. So, I mean, Scott, technically, you could mathematically eliminate Brian from winning today. Could. But I could also fire you. Dan and move you to a more frequent slot TV's Travis. That's true. I mean, absolutely. I mean, depending on how things go, you might be all of November and December

every Tuesday. Yeah. Until I have a comeback. Yeah, exactly. There you go. Yep. That's a, that's a solid veteran move right there. Sure. I like it. I like it. Sorry, Amy, Bill and Dan. Yeah, we'll talk again in 2026. You might be back. Yeah. But for now. Lots of time to read books. It's all Travis all the time. Well, let's dive right in. Let's see how dumb we are or smart we are. All right. Well, we're going to start off with a TV series.

So you're going to get cast members of this TV series. Not characters, but cast members. Cast members. Okay. And, Brian, we're going to start with you in the bidding. Okay. Give me, I can name that series in two cast members. All right.

Scott, do you want to try for one? you feeling lucky now if I say one let me just make sure I have the rules right Brian won't be able to do it I'll have to do it and then if I get it wrong he gets his two

correct but if I say go with two and he gets that wrong then you don't get anything any chances well I get I get a chance to steal if you get it wrong right

no no if you say go with two then you can say you can take a guess afterwards but it won't be for a point oh well then i'll do one okay yeah all right so scott here's your one cast member of this tv series garret wang garret wang i don't even know if i know if i know that is um Eric Wang I probably do And I just The risk you take

Going with one Yeah It's better than no answer Do he play Oh no no No I know who that is From From

He's Harry Kim It's a Voyager Star Trek Voyager Harry Kim That's correct Wow Oh, very good. Geez. Hold on a second.

I don't know how you pulled that out, but I'm impressed. All right. So, geez. All right. Go ahead. I don't know. I honestly, I don't know either. I just, the name rang a bell.

Somebody last week talked about how he's coming to Fan Exx this coming week or two weeks from now or whatever. And it all came together. And then all for amazing. Absolutely amazing. Yeah. That is incredible. All right. I'll take it.

Yeah. So, Scott, you get to start the bidding for our round two, which is an. actor and we're going with titles of movies this actor has been in okay uh i'll uh two two all all right i'll take one i've got to do it all right brian your one title this actor has been in nobody well um even though i've seen the film the only person i can think of that What's in there is Mr. Bob Odenkirk, so I'm going to say Bob Odenkirk. I mean, that is a valid and smart guess. Yeah.

You wouldn't do the top dude and the thing like that. No, probably not. All right, Scott, your second name that you get, unless you think you can name it after one. Do you think you know? No, I need a second. Give me another. Second one. The dream team.

I know what that is, except for the basketball team. Dream Team. I've never even, I'm sure I've heard of that movie, but. This is nobody one, not two. I'm going to, I'll just say Christopher Lloyd because I don't know. He's the only other name in there I can readily think of. That's correct. That's right.

That's all with Danny DeVito. They have a van or something, right? Yeah. I think Michael Keaton too, right? Oh my gosh. All right. Wow. All right.

I mean, it could have been Stacy Keach. You guys, you guys play amongst yourselves. You guys play amongst yourselves. I'm just going to sit down. I thought maybe it was like Stacy Keach or like that seemed like a total shot in the dark. All right. Yeah, so Christopher Lloyd played Bob Odenkirk's dad in nobody and nobody too. I forgot he was in that.

I'm sure if I would have seen nobody to it would have reminded me. That definitely helped. He's barely in the first one. He's a lot more in the second one. Yeah. A couple of other titles for him were Taxi, Angels in the Outfield, the Adams family. I couldn't do back to the future. That's too obvious. That's a little too obvious, yeah.

All right, round three is our song. Brian, you get to start the bidding on our song. It's time for random, maybe get a point. Let's go one second. One second. Yeah. All right. Here is your one second, Brian. I don't hear anything.

You didn't hear that? No, uh-uh. Oh, hold on. Is it a quiet start? I hope that's not the case. It's the sound of silence by Christopher Lloyd. Here it goes. Oh, now we're getting echo.

That's all right. I'll be quiet. We can do it. Okay. Ooh. Is that Robert Palmer addicted to love? No. Oh, that's 100% what I was going to say.

Now I don't know what to say. Dang. Give me, Scott. Give me two seconds. It's for no points, but. Sure, sure, sure. Here is two seconds. Oh, that's

Black Crow's hard handle. That is correct. Damn. I still wouldn't have got it. That's really good. Damn it. Okay. Yeah, that was a tougher one.

That was. Yeah, it's the skip beat that I needed to hear to be able to figure that one out. You're really good at telling the drum stuff. Drum stuff I'm useless with. I have no idea. All right. Round four is a movie. and we're going with cast members of the movie

and Scott you're going to start our bid cast members of a movie I'll do it in I'll do it in two two all right Brian you got to try in one absolutely yep all right here's your one

cast member from this movie Nick Frost well there's three that come to mine Although I'm sure there's more Let's go with the Let's go with hot fuzz That's correct

All right 33% chance Still unsure what the So this theme is elusive Yeah Yeah yeah well we'll get there The Harry Kim thing is still throwing me But whatever

All right A couple other names Obviously Simon Pegg I also had Martin Freeman Is in Hot Fuzz briefly small bit Rory McCann is in hot fries

Yardt Olivia Coleman Oh yeah Yeah she's great in that I love her in that movie That's the dude The mustache Who's also the king

In the house of the dragon I love him Patty Patty Patti dude Patti Considine I could watch him Eat bread

Freaking love him Love him Yeah he's so good All right Round 5 Brian you get to start Our Bidding on round 5

It's another TV series But this is going to be characters characters from the TV series. Ooh, that could be trickier or more obvious if you get the right character name. Still

got to go with two. I'm going to need two. Scott might get in one from a character name, a unique character name, but... I'll try it in one. Yeah, let's try it in one. All right. Scott, your one character name is Melinda May.

Jeez. Melinda May, so I've got to think about the rest of these people. Yeah. All right. TV series? TV series. Uh, oh, geez. Um,

um, Star Trek Discovery. No idea. Um, no. No. That's not. Yeah, she's the Ming-Nal-Wen character from Agents of Shield.

But let me hear a second name just to be sure. Daisy Johnson. How about, oh, yeah, and there's your Quake. That's Agents of Shield. Agents of Shield is correct. Nicely done. Nicely done. I never watched that damn show.

Oh. Now I like it. Now I have regrets. I have regrets. You know, there are some seasons that are better than others. Yes. Yeah. All right.

So the theme has been a tough one. I admit, there's been a lot of Star Trek guesses in the chat. I went a little bit off script with this theme. But the theme is actually DragonCon because I'm going to DragonCon. I leave tomorrow morning. These are all people going, I guess, I assume, right? Yeah, there's several Star Trek Voyager people. Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Robert Duncan McNeil are all going to be there.

Christopher Lloyd is going to be there. the black crows are going to be there Simon Pegg will be there so we'll know but they're from they're from Atlanta yeah the song one was the hardest one for me it was I couldn't think and then I'm like oh wait black crows are from Atlanta couldn't remember I didn't know that that's great

that's very good yeah I did learn yesterday that Maggie Lawson from Syke had to exit and so they're bringing in a different psych cast member but there's a few of them there's Arrow people there apparently Shatner is going to be there. Oh, very nice.

Cool. He still likes to do the circuit. The first couple of years that I went, we had our table. The podcasting section was outside autograph alley or whatever it's called. Oh, yeah, yeah. And so we'd be out there

and we'd just see everybody come in and out. When they came and took a break, they'd come right by us. And it was like, you know, we didn't get to sit and chat with them, but at least we got to see him. Almost got stepped on by Peter Mayhew. Oh, wow.

Me and Nicole. Kevin can confirm or deny this. I think when Shatner was here in Salt Lake, he did a stage thing with Stan Lee, the last time Stan Lee was here. Like together, I think. And I regretted not going to that so bad. I wanted to go.

I never did. I think that's what that was. There was some kind of big deal with the two of them, and I thought it was they were together, but maybe not. I don't remember. So we're tied on this, on today, two to two with no one getting the song.

So we have a tiebreaker. Well, Brian got the song, didn't he? Nope. No. I had to hear two seconds before, yeah. Oh, you got the band. I'm thinking about it. Some other people did, like Raven?

Happy birthday, Raven, by the way. Yeah. She got in one in one second. Nice. That's impressive. So I do have a tiebreaker. It's all right. It doesn't really tie into the theme very well,

but I just needed something with a lot of entries. So what we're going to do is starting with Brian, we're going to go back and forth. These are superpowers or abilities listed on Wikipedia for Superman. Okay, great. All right. X-ray vision. Correct.

Going back and forth? Yes, back and forth. Super strength. Correct. Flight. Yes. Um. Uh,

uh, uh, the, uh, Do I have to do the exact term? Like when he blows wind or cold or whatever out of his mouth, that whole thing? I don't know what that's called. No.

So you're saying like wind breath or freeze breath? Yeah. Yeah, that works. Okay. Heat vision. Correct. Or laser or whatever those are. Yeah, that's an easy one.

I should have done that. Damn it. Oh, that actually threw me. Am I out of them? It's on the Wikipedia. It's on their Wikipedia. Okay. Oh gosh

Super Speed Ah damn it Correct That's the one I was sitting on hoping you wouldn't Wouldn't do it Um Let's see Faster than speeding locomotive

Able lead tall buildings in a single bound Let's say Super jumping Because he can leap tall buildings And a single bound Yeah that's correct ability to impersonate a plane or a bird trying not to conflate movie things that are obviously bad

sure I know the specific way you're thinking about too yeah and it may be on there that's more a costume of ability more than a Superman ability yeah that's true he's impervious to if I'm to believe the Snyderverse he's impervious to bullet bullets

Yeah, I think I think no matter what you like at, he's impervious Yeah, he's like gun I'm gonna count that It's listed as invulnerability. Okay, that counts I guess That that does It's close enough

Yeah, because I was gonna also say like fire And put him in acid, all those things he can resist So I guess that's invulnerability in the end Um Ability to breathe in space Um, yeah Yeah, that's a good one Uh

Super sex Just kidding He can Oh Really good hearing Super hearing Oh good Yeah

Yes I would fall under super senses Okay Um Ability to be healed By sunlight That is Yes correct

Okay Shit. I'm running out. Ability to make himself look like somebody else in every movie. Yeah. Super mustache hiding ability. Yeah. It needs work on that, though.

Needs to practice. Well, I'm almost, I can't think of any more. I'm going to say, I'm going to dip into some of the bullshit and say he can turn the earth the other direction, if he needs to, to save Lois? No. I mean, it should be no. The answer should be no.

If any consolation, I was out, too. Does he have super smelling? Does he have the ability to smell? So that falls under super senses. Oh, that would be super senses. Yeah, okay. So then I was out too. Yeah.

There is genius level intellect. Oh. Oh. There is skilled hand-to-hand combatant, one of our favorites. Oh, sure. Yeah, the ham and cheese of superpowers. Yep. There's also things like super agility, super reflexes, superhuman endurance.

I guess that sort of falls under like the invulnerability. But, you know, there's a few of those. Basically, whatever the writer wants, whatever power the writer wants. Right, exactly. What's good meaning? It's like inventing new colors of kryptonite and what they do to them. And they don't have that dumb throw my logo at you and make you wrap up in it in cellophane, right?

That's not on the list. Nope. Nope, that was a Superman 2 only thing. Good. Yeah. Good. Never to be seen again in any form. Yeah.

Keep that off there. Well, yeah. That means, Brian, you win. You win, Brian. I'll take it. I'll take it. Yeah. I did real bad on that.

Well, they didn't do bad, but we got to the end and that was hard, man. If he would have started with you, I would have been the one running out probably because you and I were neck and neck on those and choosing probably the same one that the other one was about to choose. Well, well, freaking. done. That puts us at 6-3 now. 6-3 in favor of Scott. He's going to do it, isn't it? He's going to creep back up. This is going to be the comeback of the year. And by the end of this year, I'm just going to be like, damn it.

What's a good sports analogy? Somebody did this in sports. I don't know who, but somebody. He's doing the 204 Red Sox. Yeah. Now the Rockies every game. Every game. That's a good one. Well, we'll see how it all goes. I hope we gave you plenty of birth for your meeting this morning. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Good. Dude, have a great time at DragonCon. I can't wait to see photos. Make sure you do the walk that hallway between all the host hotels late at night and see all the really wear the sexy costumes. Yeah. Hey, your panel's getting live streamed, right? Tell us where people can get it. Yeah. If you follow the DC digital media on Twitch. And I'll have it also on my socials, TV's Travis, on all your. social medias. I'll be posting when I go live. I am live Saturday at four for weight you

haven't seen with the boys from uploads of fun. I'm having them watch The Sandlot. Oh, very nice. Two teenage boys watching The Sandlot for the first time. I'm really curious how that movie plays for them. They will have seen it earlier in their lives than I saw it in my life. Oh, wow. I didn't see it until just a few years ago. Oh, damn. Okay. Well, that's awesome. I can't wait to hear what they think. Good luck. Good luck with all of it and dress accordingly. Don't get too hot, you know, all that stuff.

Right. And we'll have Travis back soon. Thanks, man. Stay safe. Thank you soon. You can be all sweaty. All sweaty. I love looking at the photographs, like we're going to get a bunch back from Bill and

from Travis and Amy, everybody who's going. And always the really weird costumes that are so, um, are so specialized that 90% of people there won't recognize what they are. Yeah, I love that stuff. It's really cool. It's like the dressing up as speed stick, because 90% of the people there wouldn't know what you are. I love that

idea. Just go there dressed as deodorant. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, there's no like, this is not like this show has a very strict theme. It's not like all dragons. Everybody can be whatever they want. No, it's every corner of pop culture. I mean, Bill's going to be driving around a freaking car with Bender's head on it.

I saw the video of that thing. morning fan freaking test it's looking awesome fact if i think you guys can hear this let's see if i can make this oh yeah all right here you go i can't show it because the way this format is but i can i think you guys can hear it and it will be uh you can hear bender's voice here it is that's driving around and then he stops he makes the eyes get all crunchy like he's mad Fight my shiny metal ass Oh my gosh That's so great, dude

It's really, really cool Yeah I'm excited for him So well done All right guys It is time for this It is time for the news And it's brought to you by

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again by that that ordinary song but um how is it doing in the rest of the world well it's actually breaking some records and you can find out what those records are by listening to daily music headlines daily music headlines dot com nice good here hooty that is that is uh bender from the first episode of futurama that's his voice oh really wow yeah he had a slightly different take on the characters vocal it's a little like yeah like it's got a crust to it in the early days. It's hard to explain. Yeah. Interesting. Like all first... Good catch.

Like all first season animated shows, they tend to change a lot later. British man in the news. Okay. British man. I'm sure he's always seen this guy. Probably not. I'm sure.

Probably never... If nothing else on the local news, she's probably seen this guy. Sure. British man rides 55 different roller coasters in one week. Whoa. Yeah. And that's not even... It's been one week. Since I wrote

all those. I'm amazed that there are 55 different roller coasters in the area that he apparently went to. Yeah, there's a lot, right? Like, I, that surprised me. Yeah, like, if he was the U.S., I feel like, okay, yeah, I could do 55

roller coasters. Even in a week is tough. Yeah. I'm pretty sure there's more roller coasters per capita in Germany than anywhere in Europe. Oh, really? But I don't know. But he didn't go there. He didn't go there. So that's why I'm surprised.

I figured it'd be a story about him going there, but yeah, definitely not. Claire, no, I know how big the UK is. I just don't think there are that many amusement parks in the UK. Yeah, it's not about size of country. It's not a matter of size of the country, exactly. Yeah, I don't even know that we have that many compared to this. It feels like this is a lot. Anyway, this amusement park of fishing out on from England on a quest to ride every roller coaster in Britain and Ireland,

broke a Guinness World Record by boarding 55 of the thrill ride. in a single week. They announced that Dean Stokes. It was stoked to do it. Stoakes. Dean Stoakes. It was totally stoked. Right, all those rides.

Age 36 and the inaugural holder of the record, so this is the first time the record's been made and is the first holder of said record. For the most roller coasters, ridden him one week after surpassing a record-keeping organization's goal of 30. That's a lot more than 30. Yeah, it's a lot more. Boy, I mean, he could have stopped at 31 and just,

and like, all right, good, did it. But he, like, really wanted to make that bar so high that it would be difficult for somebody else to match. Yeah, good luck. Whoever's next. Now, Josh 3.0 says up there, chip theory, says, Ohio alone has 183. I'm, I'm feeling like that, you know,

on initial reading is like, oh, yeah, that's got to be, he's just joking. but like Cedar Point alone has 20 something, doesn't it? Yeah, I guess it's 16 to 20. I guess I'm thinking parks and this guy's talking thrill rides and that changes things because you'll have parks with many different roller coasters in the same part, right? Yeah. Wait, who's talking about thrill rides?

The article. Oh, I thought it was roller coasters only. Well, he says real. It says roller coasters in the thing and then it says thrill rides in the content. I don't know if that means, you know. I think the record is. roller coasters. I think he's not, I don't think he's expanding it to, you know, right in the

Zug Spitz or the the Rockin' Back and Fourth Pirateship. My point is, though, you're going to have these places that's like a single park, but you've got four roller coasters in the park. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I see what you're saying. Yeah. And I think, like I said, I think Cedar Point has

a couple dozen roller coasters, or at least, you know. That's a lot. Jeez. It is a lot. Yeah. Raven says Ohio has three major theme parks still. Damn. Wow. Wow. Okay. So you could do this in Ohio maybe. Yeah. No shortage of rides up there. Let's see here. First visited my first theme park as a teenager and quickly realized, I love the adrenaline rush, says Stokes. He told this to the Guinness Book of World Records people. I enjoy finding new theme parks to visit and taking in the whole ambience of the theming, the music, and through to the rides themselves.

He likes it all, Brian. He just loves it. He does like it all. he started his attempt on August 2nd Brighton Palace Pier Zoe you have to tell if that's a good one ended one week later at Thorpe Park and Surrey I've been to Brighton Palace Pier that is the the site of the Helter Skelter which inspired the Beatles song it's like a little candy cane looking slide circular spiral slide

oh nice you've been on that slide I have not I just went to that pier but I've had Brighton Rock which is like peppermint sticks that they sell there on that pier. Very good. I bet they are. Probably legit, real sugar and all that. All that.

And I'm confirming right now, 183 roller coasters in Ohio that are currently operating. So I'm trying to find out how many of those are just in Cedar Point. No shortage. They're out there. No shortage. So, you know, somebody really wanted to, oh, 17 roller coasters in Cedar Point. Wow.

A lot. Jeez. 19 roller coasters at Magic Mountain And so let's say you've got an amusement park you go to to do all this to do your record breaking You do all the big roller coasters Do you count it if it's a roller coaster in kiddie land

But it's still technically a roller coaster Oh, good question I'd like to see the actual record thing And see if they have any kind of stipulations like that But I'm guessing If it's called a roller coaster Probably counts yeah maybe but that seems kind of lame it does yeah but i don't know what the distinction is do you say

adult coasters or non like is that even a classification to say yeah i think so to say adult roller coasters sure okay you have to be so tall or whatever speed or something or height or something like that some other qualification um it here's what blows my mind if there are 183 roller coasters but there are only 17 in cedar point man that's like every every city right Cleveland Cincinnati, Kent, and everybody has to have an amusement park with a bunch of roller coasters in Ohio. Sounds like Ohio's got...

They have a love for the format. Where it's going, where it's at. Yeah. They like it. He said his original plan was to ride more than 60s in a week, but weather led to two theme parks being unexpectedly closed during the week so he couldn't go.

It wasn't his fault. He would have gotten 16. But you know what? There's always next year when someone tries to challenge this and then he has to do it again. He could do 60. It's fine. Yeah. you know at uh in my age i don't feel like i could do it i don't i feel like i can do one and then i'm

happy i'm good yeah i feel like i could maybe do five or six like if i went to magic mountain it would be me picking from their 19 roller coasters like okay viper i'm doing i'm doing uh they don't have superman the ride anymore which was a really cool like um mag mag lev coaster. You sit in it kind of thing? You sit in it and it was all done with magnets as opposed to like starting you off on a high spot and making you drop. You would start at a flat surface and then just rock it and go up a ramp and then back down the ramp. Have you ever seen like a serious breakdown

of a ride of any kind? I have. Like a serious like one where people were injured. Not her. Just the right. Final Destination 3. No, not, I mean, hopefully not one that was terrible like that. But I've seen like a ride where I forget what they called it here. In Lagoon, this park near us, been there forever since I was a kid all the way until now and it's still there.

But they have this ride that's like a big red thing. And on each end there's these two capsules. And I think you can fit four people per capsule. And then the way the thing swings, it's like this weird combination of let's be upside down, but also the cage is rolling. Yeah. So each of them have an axis. that they rotate. Yeah, I didn't like that right.

I did it once, never liked it. But I watched once, and I was probably high, we were probably in high school. It just went up for one of its turns. I'm, and like, stuck. And the thing kept rotating because there was momentum on the top and the bottom. And I think it took them, the guys at the bottom that got out right away, but the guys up top, I think it took like an hour to. I'm sure.

And they might have been hanging upside down that whole time. I guess one side, if it's four people and people, probably two in each end of the capsule. It's like that, yeah. Probably two people are right side up, two people upside down. We did that article years or months ago where there was a roller coaster in a loop that had stopped mid-loop. Oh, yeah, and it was like, yeah, dude, and they were up there forever, weren't they?

They were up there forever. Hours of time. The thing I have with the roller coasters, I don't have a problem with the fact that, of course, they're fallible, yes, they could break. But you've got to have a better plan for if the loop stops, mid loop and those people are upside down. You have to have a faster way of getting those people out of there. Yes. Yes.

I don't know. Maybe having the whole thing like you can disengage the loop and have the loop rotate or something. I guess you can't do it because it still has two ends that can't bend. Listeners, if any of you out there listening hear this and have an experience like that, just tell us what it was like. We'd be curious if you were getting stuck on a ride or had some. something gnarly happen. Not just some dude puking or something.

I mean, like, you know. I don't know if I want to hear any, any horror stories of amusement parks before you. Can we wait until after I go to, you know what? Yeah, we should wait until you're back. I'll hold these messages. Yeah, we'll keep them in a little vault until you get back.

Let's talk about this vegan firefighter. Okay. I love this story. Here's all the vegans and our listeners. Our listeners, we have a lot of vegans, so this is for you. vegan firefighters first blaze so the first fire that they were ever involved in involved 40,000 pounds of rib-eye steaks. I did not inhale. No.

I mean, that must have been weird to even be there. But anyway, a probationary firefighter in Missouri had an unusual initiation into the profession when her very first fire response involved tens of thousands of pounds of beef. the Doolittle Rural Fire Protection District, which serves the small town of Doolittle. I love it. I'd love to live in Doolittle. Oh, I would love it. I don't care where it is.

There's probably multiples. If it's a tiny town like this, let's go. And they got a lot of meat there, so it sounds great. Apparently, 40,000 pounds of ribby. Yeah, no issues fine in meat. Revealed that it's only a vegan, it was, sorry, that it's only vegan recruit, Jenna Ulrich, was among those called out Monday morning

to a tractor trailer fire on Interstate 44 that was eastbound. The truck was hauling 40,000 pounds of revised steaks. Ulrich, whose father, Glenn, is also a firefighter with the department. Probably not a vegan, though, if I'm guessing, I guess. Probably not. He likes his meat. Well, no, she's the only vegan on the in the department. Oh, right, they already said it.

That's true. Yeah. They probably get along fine, is all I'm saying. They're probably, I'm sure. I'm sure. Yeah, you can, I have a vegetarian daughter, and her and I, we get along great. So, it's fine. Yeah.

was assigned to the hose line and could be seen in footage shared by the district spraying down the burning fire. Her father was working alongside during the response. Nothing says welcome to the fire service like sending the probe. I guess that means newbie. Probe, I guess so. Yeah.

Out to put 40,000 pounds of flaming rib-eye steak out. The department joked on Facebook highlighting the irony of its vegan firefighter taking on the beef heavy blaze. Stakes were a total loss by the way. Oh. Over cooked.

Yeah. I mean, I like him well done, but. Yeah. Not that well done. Oh, do you really? Oh, that's your, that's your, uh, oh, it depends. If it's a steak, medium rare. Okay, good.

If it's, I was afraid that, I was afraid that you don't like food. No. Yeah, I don't like eating good food. Yeah, I like rare to medium rare on a steak. I like, yeah, medium well on anything besides ground beef. Ground beef, I like well done. Yeah. I don't want any pink in my burger.

Oh, really? I'll do medium well on ground beef. I just don't. I don't trust it. The Red Robin, Little Pink, Little Pink? Yeah, good with Little Pink. Yeah, they always have to ask you, right?

They're trying to hedge their bets or whatever or limit their liability when they tell you that. Exactly. I told them Little Pink. It's not like a rapper. Somebody named Little Pink. Lil Pink performing tonight. Yeah, I don't like any pink in the burger. I don't know why.

That's always just been a thing with me. me. I think maybe as a young person, I got really sick on some tainted beef. And ever since then, I was just like cooked that all the way through. But with steak, it's like, the inside is, whatever it is, the outside of what matters. So just sear that real good. And exactly, let's go. Love it. Yeah. Yeah. Get it all up to heat, but just give it some sharp words on its way from the kitchen to my plate. That's right. Speaking of food. Yeah. Zoe sent me a list of Minnesota's they have their big state fair right I think that's why she went right

I don't actually know why she did she go there specifically for the Minnesota state fair I mean she's got her best friend there so there's a reason to go for any reason but I think that's how they timed it's why they timed it okay so you'll have to tell oh you didn't go she didn't go I know oh this year she does go so okay I don't know why I'm confused about this I thought she was there all week or something but anyway my sister went and here's what they've got they've got some amazing stuff I'm going to put this up here so we can see it. I'm going to look at it as well.

These are the new foods this year. We got Afro Bean Pops from the Afro Deli. That sounds great. I don't know what's in there. Well, I know. Black-eyed peas, onions, jalapinos. Yeah. Yom. I'm at the stage of my life where if you put jalapinos in everything, I'm fine with it. I love them.

Yes and no. I get the hiccups with fresh jalapinos. Like the ones you get with fah. You know how they just, it's like freshly cut, not pickled or anything. Pickups of plenty. I don't know why, but... Weird, weird reaction to that.

It is, yeah. Nothing else though. You don't get swelling or anything, like, allergic or anything. Nope. Okay. Wow. Yeah, I like them. The pickled ones we made recently, I could just eat those like candy.

I got like, I just crave it. I need to, crave it all this. That's what I need to do is get the, um, the Kim's kitchen recipe on those pickles. Oh, they're so good. They're so good, Brian. Oh, really? Reflux, says Dr. Jerry. Okay, very good.

Is that what that is? A form of reflux? guess so okay but you don't get that with other peppers though just that no um that's an interesting question no you know what um i've had fresh habaneros out of the neighbor's garden and no uh no hiccups that's not bad yeah that would rather have that than have hiccups with every pepper i would too right because then you're dealing with like every single yeah you wouldn't want it after that right right and you're you know you like to eat and i love peppers i live in i live in a freaking state that has hatch chilies every season or every fall that are fantastic.

Yeah. Why wouldn't you want that all the time? Check out these. Athena's whipped feta. This is whipped feta topped with slug. Schoog? Shug. Is that shug?

S-C-H-U-G. I guess it is shug. Cutting down on the shug. Middle Eastern green sauce made with jalapinos, garlic, cilantro, parsley, and fresh herbs, drizzled with extra virgin olive oil and sprinkled with crunchy something. It cuts off there. Yeah.

I'm not going to click it. Birthday cake cookie dough on a stick. Nice. I don't know, man. I mean, if you're into that, great, but that would kill me. I do. I'm Mr. Sweet tooth. I can't pass up birthday cake cookie dough.

But I could eat a bison meatball sub. Look at this. I could eat that too. Oh, my gosh. All right. So bison and bacon meatballs from Minnesota-based, each in bison and hidden stream farm, topped with

bison gravy bison gravy quick pickled cucumbers crispy fried onions and sour cream served on toasted wild something something bread that looks amazing

just makes its own gravy just add water to your bison yeah dude they'll be they'll excrete it immediately yeah put a little cup out there for it I'll just rip through some of these

canoli gelato nachos which is like a sweet nacho kind of thing with gelato and you know obviously chinole's in there Caprize, capri-curds, mozzarella cheese curds? Capraise, maybe capraise. Like capraise salad and like that name?

Prez-a-salead, yeah, because it's mozzarella. Caprizi. Caprizy? The way it's spelled is weird, right? Yeah. No, that's the way it's supposed to be spelled. It doesn't look right. I might be pronouncing it incorrectly. I feel like it's missing a P, but I'm not known for my fancy spellings. It's what I love about you, Scott.

The new discoveries I find in every show notes when I tune in. Yeah, it's a good time. Cherry, Bigfoot, Limeade, float. Sure, that looks amazing. Let's eat that. Chicken fried bacon fries, China sugar-crust tidbits.

You went right past the chicken fried bacon bites, or bacon fries. Yeah, I would eat this. Beef bacon strips double-bredded in tempera flour and fried, garnish with fresh pro, the Cashville hot sauce, Nashville hot sauce.

Yeah. Yeah, man. I would eat that. All these look great. The sugar crusts tidbits are basically just the old Taco Bell cinnamon crisps basically. What do you think? What do you think of this hot honey jalapeno popper donut? Oh, geez.

I mean, take away the hiccups. Yeah, no, it's the pickled jalapeno. So I think I'd be fine with that. Yeah. Halapeno cream cheese, crumbled bacon, pickled jalapenoes, and drips. drizzled with hot honey. Yeah, I'm in. Yeast raised donut.

I'm not sure what a yeast raised donut is. What does that mean? I mean, it's raised with yeast. Yeah. Isn't that how? I guess it is what it says, but I don't know. I'm just picturing a donut like that to be super sweet because that's how I think of donuts. Maybe it isn't.

Maybe it's more neutral. I bet it is. Yeah. Oh, one last one here. Okay. Hula, Kalua, pork. Yeah. Give me that.

Kalua pork, man. Give it to me. You guys have a Hawaiian place really close to you, don't you? I think I've heard you and Carter talking about it. Yeah, I've got a couple of them here that are pretty good, and they have that there. I should go get it. One about 20 minutes away. It's not too bad. It's not too bad. If you ever out that way, you can...

Exactly, yes. Stop there and do your thing. Anyway, go look at this list, you guys. It's up at the... Just search for Minnesota State Fair New Food. And any search engine will get you this result, and it's all of it looks amazing unless you're vegan, then you're going to hate it. You're going to hate everything about it. Right. So, yeah, KKetsumi confirmed. So, like, not a cake donut, just a, just your regular

raised, like your typical raised donut. Oh, okay. Yeah. All right. And because you don't put stuff on it. You get, right, exactly. It's more like bread in there. Well, no, it's just your typical raised. Like, it's your crispy cream style donut. Oh, I thought those were, as opposed to, like, the cakey, not cakey, uh, right. Winchels. I guess winchels. I guess winchels. has both, but I always think of Winchels for the cake donuts. Because the ones that Krispy Cream are all potato, aren't they? Or something? What are those? They're like a potato, potato donut?

Hold on, Crisp. I don't know. Potato donut. Really? Yeah, I think so. Potato-based. Like potato flour or something? Yeah, here it is.

Crispy Cream donut recipe. Let's see. does potato flour create yeah there it is they do with potato flour potato starch there you go there you go cool yeah what makes them different i guess i'm looking for a carbonated donut where can i get that yeah it's some carbonated beef yeah can i give you a really quick i know we got to go to another segment here but can i give you a really quick uh trivia question do it in what year did AOL shut down dial-up internet.

2000 and it's going to be some crazy recent 2015 2000 it'll be August 30th 2025 they shut down dial-up internet Oh my gosh

happening this this month and they estimate they still have 500,000 people who sign up who connect to AOL via dial-up internet. Who are these people? That's wild to me. Like crazy, yeah.

I mean, I know you have all kinds of things in life that are grandfathered in. You just have them forever. I get it. But, man, that's surprising to me. That's more people than I would have ever thought. It's so funny. And they're just paying a monthly thing and connecting to their phone. Yeah, yeah.

Wild to me. I know. Claire says predators. Why would they be predators? That is a weird thing to say. You know what I think they are? Very old people in rural areas. That's what I think they are.

I think that's it. Exactly. Yes. Predators. Actually, predators wouldn't use that. They'd be using like, you know, VPNs and Tor and all this. Right. Yeah, they'd be doing much more.

Like ways that they could protect themselves. I need to get me some victims. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to dial in to AOL. I guess AOL used to have a lot of problems with chat. rooms and stuff that's true but yeah uh all right let's get to some emails i got this email from an anonymous listener it's actually a text hi guys i have a question for brian brian where do you go and buy download your music instead of a cd windows please i don't think it matters does it yeah in this

case it doesn't because i do i still do apple music i do uh apples iTunes because um the format is compatible i don't have to worry about you know moving things around i i i keep every everything in an Apple Music library because that's what my DJ software automatically pulls from. Otherwise, I'd have to put songs in a folder and drag them in one at a time. I like the ease of use of using Apple Music. Apple Music, Apple iTunes is what I use. Some more hot percentages dropped by Claire just now. The internet is 99% predators, so why not dial up? Yeah, I'm sure that's exactly right, that percentage. That's the, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a statistics from the Pew Foundation, just like 43% of vegans are named Jenna.

No, that's to be ridiculous. 99% of vegans are named Jenna. A vegans are named Jenna. That's funny. I take your point, Claire, but I don't think that percentage is correct. That might be hyperbole. He also went on to say, next you can recommend ska, jazz without lyrics or minimal lyrics. Do you know of that at all?

Is that a combo? Yeah, so ska jazz, it's funny that he, he spelled it S-C-A-W. I think he just means ska jazz, S-K-A-Jaz. And there are so many, the New York ska-jazz ensemble. It's funny, if you go, if you search ska-jazz ensemble, you get about eight cities that have bands that are called like the Sydney ska-jazz ensemble. And the New York one is one of my favorites. a great album where they do

SCA versions of jazz classics like Take 5 by Dave Bruback Oh, what's that? There's another one. There's not a Miles Davis But there's like another famous instrumental That they do. Anyway, ska jazz ensemble, start with New York and see where that takes you

And you'll find some really good stuff. Awesome. That sounds great. I mean, check that out. My own self. Yes, you should. I think I will. I'm into that lately. I like a little background. Oh, good yeah then then you'll like that and minimal lyrics so start with their new york album they have an

album called new york and it's really good and we'll definitely check that out uh we got one from tom a says i went to see fantastic four last weekend and the marquee out front said weapons now on sale love it nice that's great uh i hope you enjoyed your ff visit and also see weapons it's very good nicely done and i'll call it ff4 i've been working on it it's all about you know in life it's just you got to keep working that's it you do it's true yes you got to you got to take the time to practice yeah you got to workshop everything um real quick here on the weapons front they had some stats released yesterday and it currently is leading as of this last weekend it is the most profitable or the most box office horror movie of the year just edging

out sinners and the most recent um the one you just said you mentioned it a minute ago um yeah giant log and it hit me in the face i'm driving a car there's a log final destination the new one geez yeah bloodlines uh it just edged out those two so well done to zach creaker and company yeah i've got to watch that uh that new one i think i'm Tina wants to Tina's fine with seeing that one, so I guess I'm going to wait for her, but we've got, we've got to watch the, we're watching the Billy Joel documentary, which is really, really good. Is it? I was going to ask you about that. Yes. We got through the first two and a half hours last night. Oh, it's a beast, yeah. I keep hearing how long it is. Yeah, but does it feel self-indulgent or is it okay? Is it not too?

No, no, there's, it's warts and all. Like his first serious relationship came at the cost of a best friend, really. damn and he's not afraid to to talk about a couple really low points in his life with um uh you know attempted suicides and stuff it's really really heavy stuff but um where's this streaming but uh HBO okay so yeah i know there's a company soundtrack thing that there's a bunch of live stuff that's on oh cool been hearing that because it's just showing up in my playlist and it sounds great like always i mean he might go down it i don't know when we decide this but he may go down is just maybe it's already done one of the greatest sound songwriters of all time like he's just i think so it's hard to deny it right like you can give it to lennon and those guys or whatever but

so you see his his process in this film and it's it's hard to not want to put him in like the top 10 of uh yeah of greatest songwriters of all time and uh scenes from an italian restaurant still is my favorite and watching his process. Apparently that had a lot to do with Phil Ramon, the producer, about taking all these disparate parts that Billy Joel had written for songs and said, let's put them all into one. It tells such an amazing, like, story, multiple stories in a seven minute. I mean, I miss songs like that were seven or eight minutes of something that's just that.

I could hear it any time. I'd love that song so much. Totally. I've been listening to The Stranger on, kind of on repeat lately. I don't know what my deal is. And it wasn't because I knew this documentary was coming. I've just been in the mood, you know? It's coming up on the 50th anniversary of that album,

and I would love to do a Coverville open stage project where I get, you know, Paul and Storm to cover a song, Andrew Allen to cover a song, Renee and Jeremy to cover a song. Like I've got all these bands that I talk to, maybe Brother would like to cover some. thing for it. Oh, hell yeah. I just got to figure out how they all can make money from it. I want the bands to make money from it. I don't care if I want to break even. I don't care if I make money from it, but it would be nice to get some, oh, same six mirror, of course, you know, get them. Oh, that'd be great. They know a few bands that probably would be up for doing

something, too. And could you imagine a James and Svet doing the title track, the stranger with the whistling, but then going into Zen, I've, saw the stranger hit me right between the eyes. Just hear. Perfect. Perfect for them. Could just hear James singing that one. You know what?

They are hearing this right now. Go ahead and spec one up for us and play it here on the show. We'll make this happen. Yes. Love it. Finally, Mel, from Thomas from Missouri. We've had a few Missourys today. Mm-hmm.

Missouri. Says, hello, steel, and bouncing boy. I don't know. Is that an actual character? the DC universe? Bouncing Boy? Yeah, Bouncing Boy, for sure. He's a sphere, spherical little dude in the Justice League. Terrible. That's terrible. It is horrible. It's absolutely horrible. What were they thinking? Anyway, with the new Superman movie out, I thought I would recommend a book that kind of inspired the creators of Superman. The book is called Gladiator by Philip Wiley,

and it was released back in 1930. Where's Daryl? 1930. Right. Says, while Siegel and Schuster never came right out and said they were inspired by the book, the similarities between Superman and the main character of the books are kind of undeniable. The book is about a young man. It has roughly the same powers as the early depictions of Superman, but he doesn't get to use them like I think most people would imagine themselves using those kinds of powers. It's an interesting book, sorry, an interesting look at what would probably happen if a real person had those kind of powers. Love the show, though, Thomas.

Very curious about this. Didn't know it existed, didn't know. I didn't either. Applied to Superman. and I've never heard of this. So it's called Gladiator by Philip Wiley. See if you can still just buy this somewhere. Or if it's open source.

I mean, 1930 is a long time ago. 1930 seems like it should be 95 years old. Coming up on 100 years on this thing. Here we go. There's a fan of Wikipedia page. It seems like a lot of info on it. I don't know. Oh, I love that cover.

I know. Is that awesome? Yeah. That kind of, what do you call that? Art Deco. The Art Deco propaganda business? Yes, yeah. So cool.

Amazon's got it for all those liars. Sometimes they do this. They'll create a link and it's like, oh, they have it. And they go and they don't have it. It just goes to the most popular books right now or something. Yes. A-holes. Let's see.

Can I get it on eBay, maybe? Can you get it from Hootie? Oh, Hootie. Who's in the chat? Hootie, can you get us this book? Let us know. We're here to hear. hear it from you, buddy. If you'd like to send in your own emails, questions, thoughts, whatever,

we have email, we have a voice line, we have texts, we have all of it. You can find it all at frogpants.com slash TMS. We're going to play a mashup on our way out the door today. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, this is from Jamie. And Jamie, of course, swooping in with something he's calling fireside stories. And I'm pretty sure this is the, the OG You Can Eat Rice Story. Oh, sure. Yeah, probably that. So let's enjoy it together. here we go once again pull up a chair as Scott explains why you can eat rice my friend Andrew one of my best friends in the world he and I met in our early 20s and right up and tell probably five six years ago you couldn't separate us we were hanging out all the time but things

got crazy got busy with him with business and me with my stuff and they got way more kids and we got less than they do and they just got super busy so we haven't seen each other a lot but one of my favorite stories that ever happened actually happened to him just before I met him and this is how it went down right okay so there's this restaurant called hoonan express people probably have one near them maybe I don't know and so he's working at this place and while he was there one of his jobs was to put these big giant barrel looking huge pots of rice on this stove thing cook the rice dump it into wherever it goes and then be done with it but there's you know you go through a lot of rice during the day because everything they serve everything that they deliver is just buried in rice because there's always rice right right so he said

somebody said okay you got to put the rice and I said cool so he puts on these like two or three big huge pots on these giant burners and he's got it going on and then something came up where he had to go do a quick delivery and he would have been back in time but instead he had to run some errand some personal errand completely forgets he put on the rice

and all that was left at the place was the guy who owns it so it's a little angry Chinese guy with like no hair right I don't know why that particular detail matters but he's this angry little man you know just an angry man he's just a really pissed off little Chinese guy and he's not there at the time it's my friend and this guy who's run on the front counter and nobody else. So he leaves, forgets about

the rice. And nobody else knows about it. No, nobody. The other guy, and even if the other guy did, he wouldn't know what to do with it because apparently wasn't trained to do anything. So Andrew comes back to the place, still not remembering what had happened. Uh-huh. And he walks in and the old angry Chinese man is standing there. And he goes, oh, welcome back to, welcome back. He goes, he goes, oh, hey. And he goes, so Andrew, are you very hungry? He goes, I don't know. You hungry right now? I guess I'm a little hungry. Oh, you're a little hungry, eh?

Walks into the back room, storms out with this giant pot of like black burnt rice, slams it on the floor, rice goes everywhere, and he goes, Then you can eat rice! That's the Hunan Express story. It got fired. But it was the greatest story in the world because angry Chinese guy yelling, you can eat rice. Like he should be in a movie or something.

Totally. Oh, you're a little bit. I can just see this guy. Well, there you go. Scott doing his semi-offensive Chinese voice from the year 2011, I think, is when we told that story. Wow. So, enjoy. Oh, it's so great.

Thank you, Jamie for that. Thanks, Jamie. You're always doing good work over there. All right. A couple quick things. We've got to mention if you're looking for what's going on in the world of us, find it at frogpans.com slash TMS, rather. if you're looking for our schedule Frogpants.com slash schedule

if you're looking for updates to what's happening with NerdTacular that's all up on the site as well so go check all that stuff out Brian you got anything else before we play a song nothing today but working on one of the things that

that this extra a little bit of time during the mornings is actually going to afford me to create like it's I want to use it for creator time and not for just filling with freelance or lifting or ubering or things like that. So hopefully we'll have an announcement of that pretty soon

and a thing that people can download and check out. Ooh, very nice. Yes. I'm guessing we're in the 3D printed and related. We are not. Oh, shit. This is the other thing. Oh.

Yes. That's exciting, you guys. Stay tuned. Right. Please do. Yeah. And tomorrow I got a thing I'm going to tell Brian about that I'm so, in love with.

I can't believe you're giving me like a 48-hour Johnson. I know. I'm pulling this Johnson as hard as I can for about 48 hours. Part of it is I want to rip through the rest of it

so I can speak to the whole of it, which I should be able to do by tonight. Even if I don't, I'm bringing it up tomorrow because it is like finding gold accidentally. Didn't know about it, had no idea it was there, total fumble into it thing,

came out of there going hot damn and you're going to love it even though I'll say it's music related. It may not be a genre you're obsessed with or love, but it's, oh, I can't, I'll say it tomorrow. I'm so excited. Cool. I love it so much.

All right. That is it for us. Thank you all for listening. Let's play a song and leave these people to their devices. Yeah. So this is an artist that I'd never heard of before. We're doing an indie at the end for this Tuesday. But I'm going to dedicate this to Raven who didn't get a birthday request in time.

Happy birthday. This is a brand new single from a guy named Avery Tucker. It's called Malibu. It's the first single from his announced debut solo album, Pa, P-A-W. Malibu, he says, is about the journey of being a mirror to someone, how at first they love the version of themselves that they see reflected in you. But as that image sharpens, the reflection just starts to feel confrontational. Jeez.

Crazy. He, let's see, lives in Livingston. Montana and Encino, California goes back and forth between there. Produced by Alaska Reed and A.G. Cook. Anyway, it's the song's called Malibu. Here is

Avery Tucker. And I guess it's this way you're on the phone Worried you're not bright Not enough young-hearted You want to be what I don't Oh What do you wish in for When you wake up and feel

insecure The waves pulling and cover you Like I'm the moon, you're Malapoo How come when I come out I'm floating you I'll come when I come out I'm floating you Floating you, blowing you, blowing you, blowing you, put it in you, put it in you? baby you got high and put your hand on mine ask me what I thought you're doing with your life

to tell me the truth is it even me that you're trying to make believe using me like God closing your eyes while I talk Oh, I keep wishing for a way to make you feel secure. There's passion when you hold the shore. The moonlight pulls the water more. And you lay there afraid of what you'll do. You used to love the moon in Malibu.

You know, and I'm going to be. Frog pants, the F is for fun, the R is for right on, the OG is for OGs, that was good, and then pants. I kind of like it here.