The Morning Stream - TMS 2877: Nerbidy Tobidics

Episode Date: August 27, 2025

Mike Hunt's Pizza. You won't notice the chunking! Pulling A 48 Hour Johnson. Cashin' my Johnny Paycheck. AND YOU CAN'T READ RICE!!!! Tony Conan Doyle. Your slang is weird Toronto. Gosh Darn Dude. Quabble is the Gulltimate Word. Little, Yellow, And Different. 1984 is a short book, but feels long living through it. G.R.R Martin. The Morning Stream Kimchi Dogs. The Piven Scream. Room to Wiggle with Tom and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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And more On this episode of the Morning Stream You guys sweep in here Like big turtleneck vultes You stomp around in my garden And then you split I'll just pee here The morning stream, we're not toys, we're action figures.

Hello, everyone, welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for August 27th, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Ibid. Hello and good day. Good day to you, sir. Good hump day. Yes, indeed.

You're supporting the team we all love now, the bananas. That's right. The real team, the realest ever of all time. Because West Ham didn't do so well against the Wolverhampton wolves. Oh, I was going to ask. I guess the wanderer. Wolverhampton Wanderers or just wolves. You've got to call them one or the other, but you don't say, you never say the wolves apparently.

Oh, weird. I was corrected on that. So, wait, are they not? They're technically the Wolverhampton. wanderers is the name of the team but you can call them that or wolves and in this case we call them winners they won

they won they beat the West Hammer's 3 to 2 do they just do it because the names are close to the place they live so the hammers it's because it's West Ham yeah we should do that like the Seattle the Seattle

Adlers yeah we don't do that enough I don't think Right, no, it's true. Texas exes. Oh, that'd be like ex-wives. That'd be, you know, all my exes live in Texas or play for the Texas. Yeah. Yeah, but no, it would be like, it would really be like instead of the Houston Texans, it would be the Houston Hughes or something like that.

But the team name Houston Texans would still be one appropriate way of saying the team. But then you'd also say the Hughes. I get it. Yeah, we could do more of that. Why not? The Hughes or the Houston's or the... The Kansas City Chiefs or the Cans. The Cans!

I like the Cans with a C. He hates these cans! That's great. All right. Well, you keep being you. Europe, you're weird over there, and we love it. Yeah, yeah. Brian, we've got a couple things.

Okay, I've been holding on to this for days. I've just kidding. Yes. Let's just do it. You know what's going to be really embarrassing as if you already know about this. I'm going to... It'll be embarrassing if I not only already knew about it, but probably told you about it at some point.

Oh, that would be the worst. That would be the worst. It's possible. I'm willing to take that risk because how excited I am about this. If it is something I knew about, completely stricken from my memory. So I'm going to play a clip from it and then we'll talk about it and how much I'm in love with it. Here it is. Hello.

You ever hear of this guy, Johnny Paycheck? No. You don't like country music, do you? You think it's corny and twangy and kind of stupid? Well, you could be right, but it's always good to keep an open mind. You know, Johnny Paycheck here sold over 10 million records. That's on par with people like NWA and Gwen Stefani. In the early 90s, once I was watching TV,

and there was all this hubbub on the news about NWA and gangster rap and how it was just too violent. I got tired of watching this because I actually like NWA and Gansana. thanks to rap. So I switched over to the country music channel where I saw Johnny Paycheck being interviewed. And he had just gotten out of jail for shooting a guy, like he really shot a guy. And I thought, why isn't anybody worried about Johnny Paycheck? Why isn't Connie Chung picking on him? Johnny Paycheck was a dirt poor kid who pulled himself out of poverty with his music, became a working class hero, and almost killed himself. And one other person that we

know of in the process. And he looks a lot like Charles Manson. All right. So as you can tell that is Mike Judge. Okay. Good. Yeah, a lot of people pick that up in the tadpole. King of the Hill, Beavis and Butthead, all that. Right. And

he did this thing back in 2017 through 2018. There are only two seasons. A total of, let's see, 16 episodes is all. This ran on Cinemax, which is probably why nobody heard about it. Okay. All right. I mean, how often do you hear about the hot lineup at Cinemax, right?

Yep, yep. You just don't. You don't. These episodes ran 24 to 29 minutes, although how I discovered it was a total backwards, fall into a way on YouTube where they have them all, but they're broken up in a five-minute chunks and some playlists. They're official. They're okay and they're legal to play there.

They're just, for whatever reason, they decided to chunk them. I don't know why. Interesting. Okay. So that's how I saw it. But they probably, do they play automatically like in a playlist? Yeah, you don't notice the chunking? Yeah, they just, there's a pause, but it's not.

not that bad. And there's like a little disclaimer at the beginning that would be at the top of every single episode otherwise, but they do it on every chunk. So it's a little annoying that way. But it's doable. And I'm going to try to find other sources for this anyway so I can have these. Before, before Christine Fletcher gets to us, what's it called? This is called Mike Judge presents Tales from the Tour Bus. Okay. And I can best, and thank you for that. I can best describe this to Christina and everyone else listening. Christine is what I meant to say. Not Christina.

The Torbus show is an American animated docu-series and you may have heard me go animated and go, I'm sorry, what? You did say animated before, yeah, okay. All right, so here's the wild thing about this. So it's this combination. It's a documentary series. It's all music-based.

First season focuses on really weird country, a little bit of rock and roll because the second episode is about, let's see, that first one of the first episodes about johnny paycheck absolutely wild story didn't know any of it freaking blew my mind legit documentary of johnny paycheck's career but it's all told like when they do interviews with people who knew him or who worked with him his drummer's bassist all these people they're animated in kind of that mike judge ugly style bevis and butt head style yeah okay and they sit in these chairs and talk but it's actual interview footage but then there's it's interspiced

with actual footage of Johnny Paycheck in prison or talking on in some interviews. But then sometimes when a story's being told, Johnny Paycheck is animated and he's in a bar fighting and that's when the shooting took place. And it's this weird mix that is so enticing. Everything about it just kept me on the edge of my seat. And there's something about Mike Judge narrating

the whole damn thing, which he does, that just puts me in a place. I can't even explain it. It focuses, like I said, the first one, your first few focuses or Johnny Paycheck, Jerry Lee Lewis, that was a wild one. Oh my gosh, dude. I mean, we know about a couple of things

about that guy, but I didn't know half the story. Holy crap. Okay. It was crazy. In the interview, his wife, who was the young girl at the time, like she's in this documentary. That's what's crazy about it. It's like a legit documentary. But it's these crazy stories. They do George Jones,

Tammy Wynette, Billy Jill Shaver, Wayland Jennings. These are all like, kind of your outlaw country dudes in this. country. Second season is all about funk and they do like George Clinton, Rick James, James Brown, those kind of guys. That's cool. And man, I cannot recommend this enough. I completely, my favorite find of the year. And the only thing that's I'm pissed about is that it took eight years for me to discover it. Right. No kidding. I'd never even heard of this thing. So that's wild. And I know you like, obviously you like music, but I know you like good music documentary. I know you're not even a fan of country. But I know you're a fan of like... Well, I'm a fan of old country. Oh, well, this is it then.

Yeah, exactly. So, I mean, the George Jones speaks right to me because I love George Jones and Hank Williams, the original. Looks like that there's not a Hank Williams, but that would be a great one too because that dude went to jail. There was some stuff with him for sure. Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers, all that stuff. So this is the range of country that I like. And then funk, man, get out of the way. This sounds great.

It's so good. And it only ran people like, what happened to the show? Well, it was Cinemax and no one knew about it. How about that? That's why it didn't last. But I would watch, I hope there's a resurgence, and I hope that someone hears me say it. They go look at it. Tell your friends, you go look at it.

Let's get them to renew that. I mean, Mike Judge is having a moment. Let's bring it all back. You know, he's got new Beavis and Butthead, new King of the Hill. Let's have new tales from the tour bus. It's amazing. I loved every second of it. And it isn't just done for laughs.

there are moments that are pretty freaking funny because they animate a story that's real and then the way they animate it is just makes it funny so there's humor but it's more of a stylistic approach that just is so compelling I could not tear myself away from this thing I loved it so much anyway cool there you go I finally spilled the beans

that Johnson's been pulled out that was a 48 hour Johnson oh you never want those dude talk to your doctor if you're Johnson for more than 48 hours yeah if it's going that long, you got, you got some issues. Very cool. So YouTube is the place, the best place probably for this. For now, yeah, it's

the only place I've found. I'm sure that there's somewhere else. I'm sure Cinemax's they have a streaming sub the thing that people could do, you could probably find it there. But, well, I'm going to try to find like, I feel special. Like, I can't even explain how good this is. So anyway, you guys should go check

it out. It's also uncensored. Just know that going in, some swears, some stories that are just like, holy shit. We're talking outlaw country about Better be on the swears. Johnny Paycheck was crazy, dude. Really? All right, cool. Yeah, I just did the YouTube Save for Later link.

So there we go. Oh, there you go. All right. My recommendation, finally out. I feel better. I feel clean. It is now time for us to do a thing that will also help us feel clean. Well, what we have here is a bit of a game.

A game that involves one, Brian Dunnard. away all the way from south carolina brian done away welcome how are you this house is clean oh hi scott oh hi how are you what do you doing you know what you'd love that my judge thing you need to watch it it's real good who says i haven't maybe you have i never asked have you seen it interesting no i never seen it all right i didn't think so um yeah you should check it out because i know your judge your judge fandom goes just about as far as my i'm all about the judge yep i like the bevis in the butt head in the America. Mm-hmm.

So, yeah. It also is, I can't wait. The other thing I like about is it's kind of a window into what interests him and what makes him, what things that think he's, that he thinks is funny. Like him thinking that, wait, what are we worried about NWA? This Johnny Paycheck guy shot a guy. Why isn't Connie Chung interviewing him? Yeah.

Yeah, like he's really good at irony. At first, when you started talking, I thought you were going to be talking about the good family, that short run. That was bad. opposite the side of King of the Hill. Yeah, it was no good. That shows up. We did.

We did the conservatives. Let's do the liberals. No, no, do the liberals. No, they got that. That didn't work out because it wasn't good. It was just kind of crap. I mean, I don't even blame him. Yeah, it's moments.

But yeah, I'm with you. It was definitely not King of the Hill. No. But what is? Really? Well, I'll tell you what is. Where what can be, this game we play on Wednesdays where Brian Dunnoy joins us.

We play a little game. Brian explains the whole damn thing. So Brian, please explain to us once again as if we've never heard of this how this works. Okay, well, it's time to play the tadpooly feud. I've surveyed the tadpull on some nerbity topics, and Scott and Brang and after predict, nerbity, you heard me, have predicted the answer that they gave us. It's Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess.

The player with the most points at the end of the game wins the prize for their contestant, and I've pulled contestants from members of our Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS. Scott, you're going to be playing for Troy Perez. Brian, you're going to be playing for Advil. Adville. Yeah, I need Advil. It's spelled with a Y-L-L-E, which is really great. But Advil.

I assume they're doing a little play on words there. I actually don't know. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe it might be their name. Yeah. Not like the other version of Coverville where they just does add. Right.

Just ads. Yes. Yeah. This one's little yellow and different. Sorry, that's a whole different. I mean, my head, my head feels better. So maybe there's something to this. I don't know.

It's great. Let's do it. That's right. All right. You remember the aspirin that was a little yellow different? What was that, uh, Neuprin or, uh, oh, I think you're right. Motrin's still a thing. Neupren, I think is right.

I think that's right. Yeah. I think you got it. You know, the one I couldn't do growing up was Excedrin. That would make me into a hyper mess. That thing was a monster. Yeah. What about, uh, what about BC good, goody powder powders?

how about those oh my gosh that come from a dude who just wheels in a cart to the center of town every couple months hey we crushed up some aspirin you want to snort it yeah look you get things in the south

we just don't get up here in the north how's you say what there's the uh the caffeine the called two two twos in Canada somebody in Canada might be able to expose them but it's like caffeine aspirin and heroin or something

I remember with a third but there but it's like a little the combo combo drug up there? It's not heroin, obviously, but it's something else. No, it's something. Two-toes. Here we go. Is it just two-toes?

Well, I found some Toronto slang. It doesn't tell me what it means, though. It just says tutus. Oh, example, two-toes, everyone in Toronto, no, we've got the best slang words. What? I don't know. Oh, two-fours? Hold on.

Oh, that's 24 beers. Okay. man you guys got some weird ones up there get me a two four of molsony they got one called the six of sixth another way of saying toronto after all this oh you just say if you're trying to say i can't we get home to get home to the sixth you're saying does that mean that it's probably the sixth province i don't want any i don't want any of this oh maybe whatever you're selling Canada i don't want it yeah you guys are weird all right we love you we love you we love you uh Brian let's play this game i'm so excited let's win some prizes

Okay, let's do it. Put your hands on your buzzers and give me your best answer to this. We asked 472 Tadpoolers to name their favorite 20th century author. Scott. Stephen King. Stephen King. Number one. Easy, right, easy.

Take that trip. I could even hear the whole question because all I heard was biblibing-b-b-b-bing. Well, that's the idea. Anyway, I got in early and got lucky, see? All right. All right. Well, that means you've got control of the board. Nothing, no answer is higher than that.

So the board is yours. All right. It's 20th century. So we're going to stick. What's your century? Brandon Sanderson in their local hero here in Utah. Sure. All right.

Show me Brandon Sanderson. Oh, my goodness. I guess that's not 20. That's more a 21st century, isn't it? Might be. although he was number 21 in the list of four people said Brandon Sanderson but yeah if he's

shocked by that all right has he really did he release anything prior to uh well that's really the question the more you say it and the more I think maybe he didn't even get started until after that he's fairly young so I think I jumped I jumped the generation

that's all right that's right it's early still plenty of points to be made Brian you finally get some some play time here nine answers left on the board who did the tadpole say is their favorite 20th century author wow okay well i'm just going to go with who i who who is my favorite i mean after king oh boy so much king oh shut up such a harsh shut up but all right i really was yeah i'm gonna go with

to tulkine oh yeah what are we doing jr tulkine all right show me jr tulkine number two yeah yeah yeah yeah see see i wasn't wrong after all i know where to go now i know what you do yeah all right i know i'm thinking um oh you do okay so i have a have a good i have a writer friend of mine and he and he won't ever shut up about ernest himingway and he become looks he's looking more like ernest himingway every day and i kind of love it i kind of love it all right yeah yeah and i know that's his favorite i don't know how the tadpool feels so you're gonna say ernest hemmingway is oh my god now I'm second-guessing.

Why do you say it like that? I'm just because you didn't clarify it as your answer, so I just want to make sure. Yeah, he's just being a proper host. His favorite author is Ernest Hemingway, but I'm going to say Larry Gamowke or something like that. Should I say that? Can I say that? Hemingway, then. All right.

All right. Show me Ernest Hemingway. Oh, okay. Gets your free guess, but. Oh, my God. You're still in it, man. You're still, you hold the ball. Oh, my God.

All right, I've also been looking at a bunch of 20th century sci-fi writers, writers, writers, whatever. How about we go with Kurt Vonnegut? Kurt Vonnegut. I like it. I like a shirt. I actually saw some interviews with him recently. He is a weird dude. He was a weird dude.

Yeah. He's a weird dude. Yeah. Still around. No, he died. Sorry. Vonnegut. Oh, shit.

Yeah, number 10, big points. Ryan, taking the lead with 12 to Scots 1. Wow, you're over-killing the recent loss here a little bit. Yeah, I know, right. But I'm kind of running thin because I've been reading a lot of books lately, but I'm trying to think of the, and when I was closing out the 20th century. Now, I was reading, when I wasn't reading King,

I was reading, I hate saying his name, I always get it reversed. I know you say it one way is the right way. And then I say it the wrong way. And then everybody goes, Resey's P-Ceas. And so I don't want to get it wrong. Sure.

What is it? Michael Crichton. You got it. Okay. Crichton. Crichton is right. Right. You nailed it.

Do you feel like people are going to correct to say Crichton? It's Michael Crichton. I have a lot of scars. Yeah. Okay. Apparently so. So sorry. I feel you.

I feel you. I feel you. I'm sorry to hear about that. Uh, all right. Show us the Michael Crichton. yeah number six and you're murdering points right side of the board cooking it my mistake was the wrong century i could still be in this damn it well you never know what these other what these other ones what the tadpool might say so sure well a lot of people been talking a lot about

orwellian futures so i'm going to say george orwell is he your favorite though he really he really did, you know, he really messed us up. He's pretty great. He's pretty great. He's iconic. Is he readable? Yeah. I just read 1984 again. It's very good. Did you really? Yeah. It's good. It's great. Sure. It's not that long. Yeah.

All right. Show me the Orwell. George Orwell number 14. Very high on the list, but didn't crack the top 10. All right. Let me crack. Over to Scott. I'm going to crack some of these others and say Frank Herbert.

the Dune novels, Frank Herbert. Oh, that's really good. Show me Frank Herbert. Oh, he's lower than what I was expected. Frank Herbert bores me to tears. Is that okay? Can I say that? You can say that. It's a subjective thing.

His books enthrall me. I love, yeah, I love the ideas, but man, trying to crack that nut. I'm like, oh, my God, just keep you. I tried to read Dune while I was in junior high. junior high and couldn't do it. Yeah, it's a, it's a thick, piece of business, piss of business. It is. Piss of business.

Maybe my more, you know, maybe my more, you want to palette these days would enjoy it more, but for right, for then, it was the wrong thing to read at the wrong time. Yeah, I tend to agree. Although I love it. So it's just not for everybody. I'll tell you who's not for everybody. Way worse than Frank Herbert. And if you're looking for something, it'll confuse you.

Worse and Herbert? Isaac Asimov. Get him in there. Oh, yeah. All right. Show me Isaac Asimov. Number eight. Oh, look at that.

We're tied up. I dare you to crack. Oh, I don't know, dude. Crack open those foundation books. Like, forget about the show for me. The show's way simplified. If you try to read the foundation novels, good freaking luck. It's so, it is so thick and rich and hard.

Is it so full of political intrigue that? It's not just that. It's just these concepts. It's just really dense. That's all. I would say Herbert is close. Herbert's close. It's just insane. His books. All right. I'm going to go with, by the way, you've tied it up. 18 points for you. Yeah, look at that. Oh, my gosh. All it takes is two low, low rungers there. Yep. Uh, uh, uh, Douglas Adams. Douglas Adams. Oh, you're going to hitchhike it? Yeah, let's hitchhike it. I mean, come on. This is the tadpool here.

Show me Douglas Adams. How did I not give Douglas Adams? Piece of a cat. Take number three on the board, yeah, taking Scott to 21. Now, for fear of Amy disowning me as a friend, I have to do Terry Pratchett. Got to be Terry Pratchett. Oh, yeah, yeah, for sure. All the disc world stuff, yeah. All right, show me Terry Pratchett.

Man, that's a good one. Number four, very good. I'm going to fill these out, baby. Yep, yep, yep. Let's just run the board. C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis. Oh, I don't know, very good one. All right. Show me C.S. Lewis.

Oh, damn it. All right. I'm C.S. Lewis all the way down to number 29, believe it or not. All right. You guys, where's your lion witch and the wardrobe love? I know that some of you are like he was a Christian nationalist at heart. I don't like his. It was a big deal. And him and J.R. Tolkien would hang out.

They were buddies. You got to give that guy some crime. I'm out of the tadpole. I should have that one. Well, it was. who's your favorite 20th century out there so maybe all the c s lewis people just also happen to like jare token more or something like that fair point i actually and i do too so i don't blame yeah it's all right two answers left on the board we got ourselves a very tight game

this is getting kind of tough now because i got two slots left to fill in there is it going to be i don't know um you know what uh how about uh Neil Gaiman. Neil Gaiman, sure. That's a good one. Yeah, that's 20th century. Every time I turn around, he sees me. I'm like, he's still doing it out of the book.

Neverwhere was fantastic. Yeah, he's great. All right. Show me a Sandman. Show me Neil Gaiman. Oh, goodness. Surprisingly. Yeah, Neil Gaiman, high on the list.

I really didn't get his stuff until after, like probably early 2000s when I really started taking. people started telling me you got to read that you got to read that very surprisingly number 49 yeah i'm a little surprised although he's fallen pretty far given his uh recent yeah there's another there's a couple authors on here that i'm not mentioning because i know there's some anger exactly some problematics um yes all right how about uh uh i'm not going to say dan brown i hate his books say dan brown no it's my principle alone i'm not saying dan brown um i really don't like him let's say what's another science fiction guy let's do uh ray bradbury ray bradbury all right

this is your you're down to your third strike let's see if you get it here show me ray bradbury oh really he loves that mars stuff uh ray bradbury number 18 on the list did that crack the top 10 damn it all right all right brian here it comes down to this. So Scott's leading 25 to 18. There are two answers left on the board. Five points and seven points. You need the seven point answer to even have a chance. That'll tie things up. I'm really not liking how dude heavy this board is right now. And there's one I could say that's massive, but I know the tadpole is very angry at this person right now. With good, with good reason. Oh, right. Yeah. I didn't even think of her.

How do we feel about Stephanie Miller? Let's do some Twilight. No, I better not because I'm sure it's not up there. That's not because I don't want it to be up there. That's definitely 2000s. Right. Because remember that was. Then we could go some Anne Rice up here.

I think that's not a bad idea. She likes interviewing those vampires from what I hear. She does. Some of her books, I have no trouble. Some of them kind of, I like Anne Rice pretty good. You know what? I don't feel like I'm going to get those. last two regardless. I'm going to get some love

to Anne Rice. Do it. All right. You can have Anne Rice. Show me. Show me Anne Rice. You can choose rice. No, Anne Rice. Where is she? She is down

53. 53, which is really surprising. Yep. And Rice did not make the did not correct the top 10. Let's look at the remaining two. Number five. Martin. Dr. Seuss.

Dr. Seuss. Dad got what I said, Dr. Sox. You did say Dr. Seuss. I didn't think they would put that. Mm-hmm. And number seven, author of your Wheel of Time series, that is. Robert Jordan. Robert Jordan.

Number seven. Of course. No Martin Love? No, George R. Martin Love. No George R. Martin Love. That kind of surprised me too. He was, I mean, who was up there, obviously. Where was he?

I think people think he's more of a 21st century author. maybe yeah number 23 on the list his first book was 90 90 something yeah it was kind of late 20th century yeah she who shan't be named number 13 f scott fitzgerald jim butcher you can say your name come on i mean cam it's more fun to do that i like the way i like that better actually john steinbeck r l stein uh hindline clancy dan brown number 22 octavia butler i think might be The highest. What is Octavia Butler? Wait, wait, wait, wait.

What is? She was a butler. And she did it, apparently. Which series? Is she write a series or what is she? I feel ignorant. I feel ignorant. I'm having to look as well.

Kindred. Oh, okay. Wild Seed, Bloodchild, and other stories, Survivor, Fledgling. I've heard of Blood Child. Where's my boy, McCormack McCarthy? He didn't make this list or did he? He did he? He did not.

Let's see. I don't see where he is. Timothy Zon, Agatha Christie, Anne McCaffrey, Ilona Andrews. Then we start getting into the ladies. Surprise that Margaret Atwood didn't come out higher. Maybe she's also 21st. She might be 21st.

Margaret Weir and Tracy Hickman can't be separated. Harper Lee, Harlan Ellison. No, Harper Lee, good one. Dean Coons, Chuck Polonic, also not getting a lot of love, all the way down in the 30s. Brian's favorite author, right? My favorite author, Chuck Polonic, yeah. Yeah, I buy his books automatically, side unseen.

Anthony Bourdain, Anthony Conan Doyle. Oh, yeah, it was awesome. Cormac McCarthy down at 53, tied with one vote with all these other ones. Deserves higher than that. Yeah. Ernest Klein. Oh, yeah, that's a 100% 21st. Yeah, that's a good point.

Judy Blum. Fleming way down, only one person for Ian Fleming. He's going to be sad. Yeah. He'll survive. He'll live. Well, that's awesome. Great list, you guys.

You guys have a real deep pile of what you like and what you don't. And we love hearing that. Brian Dunaway, you and I sat down yesterday to play retro episode and it was freaking great. We did metal slug. So go check that out on the Play Retro podcast. Brian, tell the people who won what they won today. Not me. I bet, yeah, yeah.

I was responding to Jeannie. She said Anthony Conan Doyle. Did I say Anthony? I thought I said Arthur Conan Doyle. I just heard Conan Doyle and it is assumed that's what you meant. I don't know of another. I wonder if somebody Tadpool wrote that and I just read it verbatim like Incrimand. Anyway, Troy Perez, you're getting a copy of the Haunted Island, a frog detective game and the first Templar, the Steam special edition of that game.

So those are coming to you. But Advil, don't worry. you can stop those headaches and play Grand Ages Rome. Oh, you're going to love that. It's good stuff. All those games are good, actually. The Haunted Island, the Frog Detective game, ridiculously fun. Yeah.

Donoway, I want you to do me one tiny, tiny, tiny favor. I love you guys, too. Kiss our butts. All right. I have to look and see if it's Anthony Conan Doyle in here. They might have. I don't know why you would have said Anthony other than it being written. No, it's Arthur.

Oh, you know what? Anthony Bourdain, Arthur Conan Doyle. I thought I said both names. You did, but I said Anthony Bourdain. Oh, and then I said Anthony Conan Doyle right after. Yeah, they're one right after the other because it's in the one, so they're just alphabetical. Yeah. So maybe his friends, maybe his friends called him Anthony.

We don't know. Maybe. We don't know. Yeah. Well, the good news is it's time for us to do some additional guest having here on the show. We're going to do it now with Tom Merritt. Isn't technology wonderful? It is.

It's okay as long as you've got a guy around who can. really bring it you know bring the sauce and uh that guy is tom merritt uh tom what's going on man how are you i'm i'm good how are you i'm doing fine welcome back yeah welcome back did you have a good little time away with uh with the with the good wife i did yeah i did uh i i burned the crap out of my legs because of being dumb the first day there forgot to apply uh sunscreen oh it's a horrible way to begin a vacation rookie mistake yeah it was the i i i had i covered the the top and was like oh my legs are in the shade Tom

you know people don't think about the fact that you get reflected light if you if you can see it the sunlight is getting there and the sunlight contains you be raised that's what you see it's reflected sun yeah I know better these are very white men problems and I have the same exact issue I could be in the shadiest of shade when I was in Mexico

I got burned no matter where I was I could be indoors getting burned yeah stupid Where did you go, Tom? The Big Island of Hawaii. Oh, I didn't realize you guys went to Hawaii. That's awesome. Yeah.

Well, you know, you're not far. Actually, with Salt Lake, you probably got some good direct flights. When I was growing up, Hawaii was always like, ooh, exotic destination in L.A. and San Francisco, where I've been living for the past couple of decades, it's, you know, you can get cheap flights. It's not long. It's like five of hours.

Yeah, yeah. Well, Tom, I'm glad you're back. I'm glad you're rested. Had a good time. Let's talk about maybe a tech headline or two. What do you got going on today? Well, sure, then. Do you know Microsoft?

I'm aware of their work. You've heard of them. I've heard of that. A little outfit up there in Washington State. Sure. So they are letting their insiders, which you have to sign up to be an insider. It's kind of their beta program, use Xbox Cloud Gaming on the core and standard subscriptions. Oh, just part of their just including it.

It's a perk. Yeah, brand, brand new thing. Xbox cloud gaming where you play the game in the cloud has only been available to the ultimate subscribers, the $20 a month subscribers. But if you're on the core or the standard plans, you can now play it. And if you're on just Game Pass core and standard, you're going to get access to some PC games as well in the cloud. Oh, see, this is something they talked about ages ago, forever ago, before we were mad at them for all the layoffs recently. they were saying things about how their goltimate goal third party and first party they wanted all of your PC purchases you just by the way I hate to interrupt you but you just said

goldimate for goal did I say gultimate brilliant the gullimate gottimate got com somebody get that domain quick we're gonna make a lot of money um yeah they were gonna the whole idea was like you could fire up your streaming whatever and you could play anything that you have on the platform across both directions was the goal. And there's a lot of complications to that. People think it sounds easy. It's like, well, yeah, just put them online. What's the big deal?

The big deal is usually licensing and third party deals and their own games, stuff they publish themselves, probably not a big deal. They can do the work that's needed to make all that work. But to get everything kind of under the same thing is kind of what their ultimate goal was, I think that would be a really amazing boon to the service, which is already doing pretty good.

If they want to boost it, I think having all that stuff available would be kind of awesome. Yeah, up till now, if I've got this right anyway, cloud gaming was a feature of the ultimate tier. And if you pay $20 a month, you can play games in the cloud. What it looks like they're trying out is the idea of cloud gaming is just a feature everybody gets, and there might be differentiations based on which games are available.

If you're at the ultimate tier, there might be a few more games available or you might get prioritized latency, you know, so that you've got the best streaming service. I don't know how they're going to differentiate them, but it looks like at least for the Insiders program, which you have to join by just going to Microsoft or you can go to Xbox.com and punch around for the Xbox Insider program. That's the one you want to be in for this.

Then go to Xbox.com slash play and you can be on the lower price tiers and play some games. And including some games you own, right? So there's the games that are part of GamePass, but then there are also, I, you know, I own this game, but I can play it in the cloud on multiple devices now, which is another thing you can do with the Xbox cloud gaming and with the PC game pass as well. Yeah, so that's a nice little park. I like it. I'm not part of the Insiders program, but it'd be a no-brainer if you're in there. I mean, it's free to join. You just, to join the Insiders program, you have to say, I would like to join the Insiders program.

You have to say it three times, though, and then click your heels. You might have to say it three times. That's quite possible. But yeah, and then you just, you are beta testing stuff from Microsoft. That's why they do it. So, you know, your mileage may vary. Things might be buggy or not everybody wants to deal with that. But it's similar to getting the betas of Android or getting the betas of iOS or

something like that. You're getting earlier access to features because of that. So, yeah, this just came down the point. Pike. There were some other things to talk about today, but I figured that was, that was interesting to me because it really does point to the idea that Xbox is going to be available everywhere. That's, that's really their ultimate goal on top of what you were saying, Scott, is, you know, you want to play a game? Great. Pick up whatever device you've got and play a game. And now not, you don't have to pay $20 a month to do that. You can, you can do it for lower price. And there's been a lot of talk

about the idea that Microsoft would provide a free version of this with ads. And I think allowing the lower tier, the lower cost tiers of GamePass to access that is a step towards testing the waters on like how many more people can we handle on this service. Yeah, they have room to to wiggle here that other companies don't. Like they can fill with this. You might even call it wiggle room. They have wiggle room. Yeah. And they don't, they have some, Some of that they have over their competition. Sony doesn't have this level of wiggle room. They can't exactly experiment in ways that are potentially money losses, right?

They can do things because of their deep pockets that Sony and others can't do. So seeing them do it, I think, is good. I kind of wish they'd lay off less people and then experiment. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know. There's a conflict in my head. Those two aren't ever connected. I know they're not connected.

I know. I understand that. I just hate it. I hate it regardless. It's not like there's one room with 10 Microsoft people in it, right? Like, you know, this is a huge company, and you're not laying off the people who are doing the other things. Would you rather them lay off people and not add features? No, here's what I'd like. I'd like them to keep good people and add features. I'd like that. Do you know that the layoffs were all bad, we're all good or bad people?

I don't know that, actually. They may have been horrible people for all I know. Actually, that's not true. I'm not saying they are. I know two or three that weren't. We're absolutely great people, and I hope they get better jobs after this. But, yeah, I'm not trying to defend layoffs here either. But, you know, as somebody who like you runs a small business, I understand that there are times when you're like, yeah, I just can't spend, I'm not making this money anymore. And I've got to, I've got to spend it on certain things, but not on others.

So it would be like, Tom, you know, you've cut back on things, but you're launching a new show. show while you're doing that? How horrible of you? It's like, well, if I didn't, then I would just die. The only difference is you and I work in the hundreds and thousands, not hundreds of thousands, I should mention. Hundreds and thousands. Where they're working. Very good distinction. Where they're working in billions. And so I just think there's, again, some wiggle room for them there. They could just, it doesn't have to. I mean, sure, that's easy to say for us, I guess. yeah yeah i'm not sure i have no shareholders to please i understand there's that that's a massive difference that's the other thing difference well i actually think that makes it harder for us when you've

got shareholders to please uh you know you you you've got you've got places to blame uh whereas for us it's like uh the shareholder i'm pleasing is my stomach yeah like i don't eat yeah i don't yeah i don't have a place to live my house payment yeah that's a more demanding uh uh uh motivated I think. Yeah, I think so. Well, today we'll talk more about this and other topics. In fact, I have a Sony topic I'm going to talk about today on the Daily Techno show live. Yeah, it's going to be great. I'm looking forward to that. So you're going to want to tune in right around 2 p.m. Mountain Time. I got it right. Didn't say 2.30. And when you do that, you'll get to hear me and Sarah and Roger and Tom and we're going to talk about some great stuff. So check all that out. Tom. Tom. Is there anything else going on you'd like to mention here? Yeah, sure. Free Tom newsletter. Freetomnewletter.com. Took a week off. of writing it. So I'm, you know, to those of you who already subscribe, I'll be back writing again this week.

I'm headed to Oklahoma for a wedding this weekend. Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Oklahoma. Yeah, I'll either write about that this week or maybe next week, depending on when I published the newsletter. But, yeah, when you say Oklahoma three times, it appears. It does. Yeah, exactly. Geez, I didn't realize.

I was channeling dirty rotten scoundrels for some reason. Oh, I love that. I forgot that was a thing. I forgot that was a thing. Oklahoma, Oklahoma. But anyway, yeah, Brian Brushwood on Corkillers this week described my newsletter as homespun and authentic. So if that appeals to you, just an email from me talking to you about stuff going on,

check it out, freetomnewsletter.com. There's also a paid tier where you can get my novels. Oh, very nice. I got one going on right now called The Girl at the Bottom of the Lake, which is about two young kids trying to become Dimension Rangers. in a world where only women become dimension rangers. But a young boy shows that maybe he's got some potential, and that's a problem for some folks.

So check it out. That's all at freetomnewsletter.com. I mean, you had me at there's a lady at the bottom of the lake someplace. That's what you had. Yeah, exactly. That's how you get you. All right, Tom Merritt, have fantastic week. We'll see you soon.

Thanks, Tom. Oh, gosh, darn, dude. Cool. Okay. Brian, I got a thing I'd like to share with you. Share it. Shut it with me. This is a thing I found that I thought was interesting.

We're always talking about food on here, you know. We are. Always makes me hungry to stop it. Brian's talking about his amazing smash burgers. I'm eating corn ribs, you know, whatever it may be. Well, it turns out the most popular pizza in America didn't come from some fancy restaurant. Didn't come from some Michelin Star Place.

Didn't come from a local favorite even. It came from a gas station. Really? That's right. Are we talking like, all right, so pepperoni? is the most popular, I assume, like the most popular one. This came from a gas station, or this is a different thing? No, so here's the way it worked out.

So I got some audio. I don't know how well this will play. Let's see. I'm going to hit play here and just see what we get. I flew out to the Pizza Capital of America. I'm sorry. Can we take that again? I flew out to the gas station pizza capital of America, the outskirts of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It's the home to over 42,

gas stations that serve hot pizza. And I'm here to figure out why the business is booming here and across the country and how you, or even I, could get into it. Because it's an unorthodox business model that presents a surprisingly profitable opportunity. So I pack my bags. Anyway, he goes on, but it's a gas station called Hunt Brothers. Well, okay, I take that back. It's the gas station is called...

Jizzah, hold on. Casey's, sorry. Casey's, okay. The pizza is called Hunt Brothers Pizza. So what this is a deal with these brothers who came to them and said, hey, what if we put our pizza, kind of consignment sort of? Like, we're going to just sell our pizza here. You won't have to make it or worry about it.

We'll just bring you a fresh supply, all that. It's like saying, you know, like the Slurpee people saying we're going to put our machines in your 7-Eleven kind of thing. Exactly. And so imagine that if Slurpee was like an independent thing and they did a national contest, who makes the best drink, sugary, icy drink, that that would, win and you'd be like from a from a gas station what anyway the takeaway from this is there's this movement to get away for these gas stations want to get away from having to be food marts or or do all the work of being a food mart like have the rollers the food rollers yeah sure yeah

instead they bring like a third party in like these hunt brothers guy and say you you make meatball subs or you do i don't know chicken wings and so now larry's chicken wings are the chicken wings under the heat lamps that you're picking up at a 7-Eleven and then and they're a cut above they're like way better than than what 7-Eleven would normally do this is the idea so the idea is that you Brian or me or anybody else could have some recipe and go down to Casey's or anywhere else and say yeah we'd like to consign our I don't know what's something cool we'd make uh we would make uh sushi dogs there you go exactly sushi dogs green river sushi dogs how I gave up with It'd be called the Green River Sushi Dogs.com.

Green River Sushi Dogs. And then the world would be like, whoa, these are amazing. And then these gas stations get tons more traffic. People get their gas there. You'd grab a sushi dog. It's like this new kind of gig economy kind of movement happening at gas station. So I just thought it was interesting. In what history do you say the best pizza in the world happened to a gas station?

But these things are like the most popular, like the flavor-wise, these things are just amazing. is what this guy is claiming. This guy in some contest they did, which is way later in the video, but some like taste test thing. And they picked them out of all the other brands, all the other things like your dominoes or whatever. They've put one of their pizza devices or whatever

into a gas station that is five miles away from me. Oh, you got to try it. I'm going to have to try it. Talked about it on the show. Hunt Brothers. Can I find one? I didn't even think that. Yeah, there's a, the website, HuntbrothersPisa.com, has a find a location near you. I don't know. I hope Sonic still has those pickle slushies because I still haven't had one of those. Oh, yeah, we keep trying to. It's hard. Yeah. You have to get them in the morning or something?

It really, yeah, there's no way I'm ever going to get one of those. They don't, I don't think they serve them that early in the morning. So. All right. Closest to me, Colorado. Damn it. Oh, no. You've got to come. I've got to come to Colorado to... I got to go to Fruta. Is that how you say fruta? Fruta. Fruta.

Or Grand Junction. Those are my two options. Yeah. The six hours. That's six hours away from me. That's almost like an alternative to Green River. Yeah. We could be in Green River around the same time.

Pretty much. But there ain't no hunts pizza there. So, no well. All right. Well, I'm going to have to get one of these and let you know. Yeah. Maybe I'll do a sweep and hit the gas station and get that and then go to Sonic and get a pickle slushy

because there's one in that same direction I could make a little sweep I like the combo it sounds all right the problem is the problem is that you know kidding

the problem is that I'm not eating my leftover uh modemaki today if I do that oh yeah I don't yeah maybe you still want to eat that maybe I just get one slice you know

there we go my wife's making some kind of a burrito thing today I think I'm eating that nice yeah something she's doing some kind of burrito thing she's doing for her brother's company

a couple of people they were paying her to make meal prep for a week. So she'll make a ton of the whatever it is, ends up being it's all high protein like because they're both like weightlifting bros. And so she'll make these tons of them for the week to give to them. And then she'll just always make me one or two. And today it's these burritos. And I'm excited to see what those are like.

Apparently I can lift weights after and I'm going to gain a bunch of muscle mass. That's the way it works. That's what happens. Yeah, I don't know. I think it's just one after the other. That's how the math works. All right. Hey, some quick emails. Yeah. Rob wrote in. Hey, Scott and Brian.

You were talking about the Wilhelm scream. And you weren't really sure who the guy's screaming was. Best guess is that it was Sheb Woolley. That's what I read as well. There's no, this is not confirmed because it's a little bit of a mystery as to who it was for sure. Right, right. But they think it was Sheb Wully, singer, songwriter and character actor. He's the guy that wrote Purple People Eater. Yeah. Not just the guy that wrote. I mean, he's the guy who sings it. One odd, one hoard, purple people eater. See, it'd be hard. There's probably some voice analysis that could compare the scream and then him sing in and go, yeah, same guy. I don't know. It is listed on his Wikipedia page, Shubb Wully's Wikipedia page, says that he is the guy as opposed to there's speculation that he's the guy. But we don't know for sure. We don't know for sure, I guess, yeah. They died. Someone's going to their grave with the secret. I think so, yeah. Somebody's kid. Shubb Wully is already dead, so. Yeah. He's not telling. Kevin Wully, his son. there's got to be i would assume that that audio that we have of uh all right give me another scream how about another one oh how about one that sounds like jeremy piven falling off a roof

yeah that's so bad can i play that real quick i do please do i do i think i have it i'm glad brian brought this up because man it's the worst scream we've had in a long time yeah does jeremy Piven falling, getting pushed off a roof in a roof in Judgment Night. If I can find it, where is it? This is the most recent. Yep, here we go. August 22nd. Yep, here it is. I found it. I'm keeping this one

forever. I'm not even sure that's Jeremy Piven. It might be Shib Wully. Yeah. I mean, it's Jeremy Piven fallen to his death, but I think they've 80-yard that. Anyway, so bad. That's good stuff.

Thank you, Rob. Appreciate that. We got one from NOMIC, who says there are, oh, hey there, sourdough and brisket. What's with all the food today? I know. Stop it. Sounds so good.

Bread's still my cryptonite. I freaking love it. What do you guys think about, or sorry, what do you think it would be the minimal effort to get a Wikipedia entry? I'm not wanting one myself. I'm just curious with the latest work someone would need to do for an entry to stay on the,

least work to do to stay to get an entry on there and have it stay love the show though nomic uh i don't know cover song podcast that's about the least work you could do it ever yeah i don't know who started mine i don't know who contributes to it i have zero idea where mine came from and i'm happy with that because i don't want to be one of those dudes that makes their own damn Wikipedia page and then has to fight keeping it up because a lot of them get taken down like i've got friends in semi-high places whose pages just got pulled because they don't think they're significant enough. Same. Other podcasters in the, you know, in the early podcasting groups. Dan Class, I think his Wikipedia page might have gotten taken down. Yeah, seen, that's a

crime. He needs, he deserves it. Totally is. Yeah, he's not on here anymore. There is another, let's see if I can find it. Maybe it was Bill. Bill had one for a while and then it got pulled. Bill Duran. Oh, really? He deserves to keep his up there. I've never had mine taken down, but I did have somebody, not hack it, but somebody go in there

and add a bunch of bullshit once. Someone caught it though and fixed it, so it was no big deal. So the guy whose podcast came out 10 days before mine and is still running, the only person who's got a podcast that has been running longer than Coverville, is a guy named Dave Slesher who does

Evil Genius Chronicles. He doesn't have a his own Wikipedia page and he should like he's he's got the longest running podcast of all time it's probably in here and I've got mine

it's probably this is why somebody told me this once and I'm probably not saying this right so if anyone any contributors to Wikipedia can clarify this but my understanding is when there are multiple connections it's when you get anchored so you having other Wikipedia entries

pointing to you saying so like on the on mine it'll say Brian Ibit and Scott Johnson hosts the morning stream, one of the shows on the Frog Pants Network, that link is going to go off to you. Yeah. And then if you get enough of those, I think that creates anchor. That creates the staying. Yeah, because I've got, you know, not just TMS and Film Sack and Coverville.

I've got stuff I did for the Denver Post. It doesn't look like my Mercedes stuff is in here. So maybe I need to, maybe I need to go in there and add that just as one more little, um, tendril to keep this thing alive. But, uh, my photos for 2014. geez those was mine mine is from near ticular 2014 as well going on there that's crazy how crazy is that that's really funny yeah so they i don't know how up to date it is let's see they they got it's pretty up to date and all the shows this is yeah mine uh mine still says i'm member and former coordinator of the denver podcasters meet up i mean i guess technically i'm still a member because i haven't

left it but right right yeah it see that this so all these references i think helps too yeah So you got all these references, you get like, you know, they link me off to Veronica, Leo, Tom, Kurt Schilling for some reason. Well, I know why, but whatever. The Jack Thompson Sees and Assist thing, like all that stuff in here. You've got some, yeah, exactly. I want a controversy section under mine. Yeah, dude.

I mean, I don't want one of those that's really bad, but I don't mind the weird ones. It's fine. Yeah, my dad's name was Blaine, Claire. My middle name is Blaine. Blaine? Yeah. That's not a name. That's a major appliance.

It sounds like one. doesn't it? What's the joke from Pretty and Pink? Oh, I don't remember that. His name is Blaine? That's not a name. That's a major appliance.

Yeah. His name is Blaine. He is related directly to both President Lincoln and Eli Whitney, the man, the first,

the former being the most responsible for the ending of slavery and the second guy most responsible for the upping of slavery because of improved production. Isn't that great? Interesting. Wow, that's kind of wild.

Yeah, I love that he's related to both. And then my wife's related, she was, she is a descendant of one of Jefferson's slaves that he had a relationship with and children with secretly. She's got that bloodline in her, which explains her awesome skin, by the way, why she can tan and I don't. So we got this like Jefferson's slave bloodline. we got this Eli Whitney making slavery worse and we got

Lincoln making it better I like it it's like being related to Obi-1, Kenobi and Darth Vader at the same time. No kidding. Yeah,

that's kind of crazy. That's really funny. Anyway. Yeah. Chat, are you going to fight over you're going to squabble over words?

Is that we're going to do today? Quabble, I made up a word. Quabble. Are we going to quobble over words? That's fantastic. Quabble and quibble.

We'll just go quobble. Let's do it. Hey. It's the, it's the gultimate uh new word yeah ultimate gultimate dot com check it out today um okay let's oh am i related to tom hanks because he's also related to lincoln i didn't know that must be uh my mother's name is donna and uh to answer claire's question so donna and blaine johnson were my parents there you go and his dad was named feral uh johnson and my mom's name mother's name was

Dolores Wilson old school. Oh, well, then you know you're related to Tom Hanks because he married into the Wilson. Oh, that's right. Maybe that's how. Yeah. Yeah. Actually, that might be it. I don't actually know. Maybe we're married. Or maybe we're

distant cousins. Maybe we're married me and Tom Hanks. Oh, shit. Final message here. This is from, let's see, who is this from? This is from Thomas. From Missouri. We always love hearing from him.

Hey, Scott, have you heard the musical duo Gotta Girl? They are great and have a surprising singer. If you haven't heard of them, Ask Ibit. He talked about them on soundography. Brian, tell me about Gotta Girl. Should I be listening to them? You should, and you have, because I've sent them to you before, and we were considering, like, one of their songs,

way back during one of the Nerdtaculars, Taylor had put together a video, like, montage of all of the people attending and having a great time at Nerdtacular. And I'd given you one of their songs as like, well, here's a possible background songs called Revolution, kind of like, uh, come join the Revolution. And so you've heard of them. It's Mary Elizabeth Winstead, uh, from Fargo and Scott Pilgrim and all those things is the lead singer and Dan the Automator, like, you know, two, two people you love from, from, uh,

the things that they've done, joining forces. Well, I'm trying to find. I actually still have that video and I can't find it now, but, um, I can hear it in my head now because I played that video a lot. Well, you didn't use it. She didn't end up using that song for that video. Did we not use it? No, no, no. The video, the song you chose was great also. But Revolution by Gotta Girl is the

was the one I recommended. But they have a very a very cool old style 60s lounge vibe thanks to Dan the Animator and actually thanks to Mary Elizabeth Winstead's voice. She's got a very smoky, smoky, cool voice. And yeah, She is married to you and McGregor, yes. Oh, that's right. They met on the set of Fargo, I think.

I think so. It would make sense, right? Anything but Vargas, she was like, I'll marry anybody. That's right. All right, well, there you have it. Those are your emails. Thank you for sending those. If you want to do more, go to the website, film, film sack, frogpants.com slash TMS,

and you will find multiple ways to contact us, and we hope you do. In the meantime, if you're looking for more shows coming up, check out the schedule. Frogpants.com slash schedule. and Brian, unless you've got anything else, we owe these people a musical arrangement. Let's give them a cover to go out with. This isn't a request from a listener. It's a request from me.

I've been, of course, loving as a lot of us have, the Alien Earth series. And Noah Hawley always does a great job of finding some great music to play at the show. A lot of classic rock at the end of it, punk rock and heavy metal and stuff like that, just amazing stuff. But we don't really talk a lot about the,

the music in the middle of the show or specifically a person who is acting in the show who we know, who we might not realize is also a musician. Adam, the older bald guy who is one of his young cavaliers. His helper, right? His main helper, butler, dude. That's Vivian from the young ones, who is also an incredibly musician, comedian and musician and is the lead vocalist for a band called The Bad Shepherds

who do really cool, like they've released three albums of covers of using old English folk instruments, things like your mandolins, your fiefs, your things like that. This is their cover of The Clashes London Calling from the album, Yan Tjian Tethera, Mathera from 2009. Here is London Calling. London calling to the faraway towns Now war is declared and battle come down London calling to the underworld Come out of the cupboard you boys and girls

London calling now don't look to us But phony Biedlemania I've bitten the dust A London calling See we ain't got no swing Apart from the ring Of that truncheon thing The Ice Age is coming

The sun's zooming in Meltdown expected The wheat's growing thin, engines stop running, but I have no fear. London is drowning, and I live by the river. London calling to the imitation zone. Forget it, brother, you can go. London calling to the zombies of death quit holding out and draw another breath London calling now I don't want to shout but while we were talking I saw you nodding out

London calling see we ain't got no high apart from the one with the yellowy eye The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in, engines start running, the weeds growing thin, a nuclear era, but I have no fear, London is drowning and I live by the river. You know, I'm going to be able to be. London calling, yeah I was there too, and you know what they said, well some of it was true, London calling at the top of the dial, and after all this won't. Don't you give me a smile? London calling. London calling.

London calling. London calling. Your pant size is frog. You're always welcome at frogpants.com. Yeah, burn, baby. Burn.