The Morning Stream - TMS 2891: Something Methy

Episode Date: September 23, 2025

Oh what a feeling, a mouse in the ceiling. Helpful hardware person. Cheating stoners. Thickened Beverage Plant. How Many Flushes. Why Do We Have a Mint Drawer? Hardware Person? Just Call Them a Tool! Law Offices of Naked, Sweaty, Pale, and Erratic. This Soap is Too Sharp. Built In Playtesters. Don't Touch The Green Ones. Was there a movie about baseball dreams in a field called something 'of Dreams'? Hot & Heavy then Toothpaste, with Amy. I don't like vampires who are les...BEEEEEEEEN! Permanent Sticky and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The McDonald's ice cream machine broke again, leaving a line of hopeful customers staring at empty cones and a cashier repeating, sorry, it's down like it was part of the menu. What is there to do with that buck 50? Why, sign up for the TMS Patreon is what? Get in there today! Coming up on the morning stream, oh, what a feeling, a mouse on the ceiling. Helpful hardware person. Cheating stoners.

Thicken beverage plant. How many flushes? Why do we have a mint drawer? Hardware person. Just call them a tool. The law offices of naked, sweaty, pale, and erratic. This soap is too sharp. Built in playtesters.

Don't touch the green ones. Wasn't there a movie about baseball dreams in a field called Something of Dreams? Hot and heavy, then toothpaste with Amy. I don't like vampires who are lesb-be. Permanent sticky and more on this episode of the Morning Stream. Oh, my lord. My doctor told me not to eat anything fatty. I said, what you mean like potato chips or something?

Something? No, he said, I mean, I mean, don't eat anything, fatty. Your kidneys are for pissing. Hello, everyone. Welcome to the morning stream. Fuck off, Hairball. Hello, everyone. Welcome to the morning stream. This is Tuesday, September 23rd's episode. of the morning stream. Can you believe we are 2,891 of these? That is unbelievable. And what are we going to do for I Love You 3,000? We need to do. Is there going to be a mug? Probably a mug. Yeah, I think the tradition, the tradition with the mug is pretty strong. I think we have a mug. I think so. Yeah. We love you 3,000 or what's another 3,000 reference? Oh my gosh. Ooh.

3,000. We got to come up with something good. For some reason, I don't think that's how many fleshes were in that product. I can't remember how many, but... Two thousand, no, how many... Was it two thousand flushes? Now I have to know. How many... Here's what we do on this show, folks.

We loosely remember some weird shit from our childhood. And then we spend eight minutes on Google trying to figure out what it was. I can't find it now. How many... What is the... Someone in the chat will know this. You guys can bail us out. Yeah.

It wasn't 3,000. 2,000 flushes? Might have been 2,000. 2,000 miles to TMS, like 3,000 miles to Graceland. Oh, right, yeah. That's a good reference right there. Yeah, a little Kevin Costner business there in that movie. Yeah, yeah.

Well, anyway, we'll see what happens. Leave her 2,000. That's what I'm thinking of with the 2000. Oh, yeah, your 2,000 parts. That was my favorite. So growing up, I liked it. Mine too. Yeah, I don't think they make it any.

Well, if they do, I never see it. Maybe they do. but I don't see the... I haven't seen it in forever either, yeah. I don't know why Irish Spring. She buys these weird, she buys these weird artisan soaps. I don't know where she gets them, but it's like, it's, it looks like, um, like solidified coffee, semi-transparent solidified coffee with little chunks of, um, wotted up newspaper balls in them or something.

I think we're living in the same house, I think. My wife does this same thing. And I don't like them. Some of them are like black. come out all black and soap's not must be black anyway and it looks like you're putting it on and it looks like you're rubbing charcoal all over you right totally and it's always uh it's got before you finally work it in it's got like the sharpest edges to it so i may i'm a i'm a i don't know about you scott but i may rub the soap under my armpits kind of guy as opposed to using a washcloth or a lufa

yeah and uh i don't want those sharp edges those those those honed plain pain points. Yeah. Give us some rounded edges and corners. Right. Leaver was good about the rounded edges. Yeah. Look, I like the Sasquatch brand ones. They smell nice. Once they're worked in, though. Yeah. At first, it's like, here, give me that brick and let me cut myself. Why are we doing that? Exactly. Exactly. What's the deal? This is the most what's the deal we've ever done. Anyway. Hey, we may have mice.

Oh, no. Yeah. And not the, and not the. And not the. Logitech ones sitting on your desktop. No, not this Macali one I really like, Macaley or whatever they're called. No, I don't know what's going on. So when we moved in here, there were some mice in the basement, but it was no big deal because we introduced a cat

to the mix and immediately we had no mice. They all are afraid to be here. So that's usually why you have a cat. Well, I think Decker is slacking in his responsibilities. Oh, really getting a little lazy. Well, there's this one drawer in one room where we have a bunch of mints. I don't know why we have stocked up mints.

But we have a bunch of mints. Like there's some, what are the curiously strong mints? Mentos. Or no, altoids. Altoids. So we got altoid tins in there.

We have some tic tacks in there. We have some gum in there, some other stuff. And it's just the place where you put gum and mints and things. And then if the car runs at, you go get a new tin, put it in the car. Totally, yeah.

It's where you need them the most. For some reason, you need mints in the car. Yeah. But for some other reason, which I cannot understand, apparently these aren't curiously strong for the mice. A mouse has gotten in there and dug into a few things, chewed a couple of little bags of stuff. Oh, no. And left the little mouse turds.

So here's my question for you. We want to humanely trap the mice. Yes. Yes. And Carter thinks that there's a version of that sticky material that won't be permanent and or make them go into shock and die. And I don't see how that's possible. I think those stickies are permanent sticky. There's another one because we had, I found a mouse here last year in this, in this very room, actually on top of the projector and the cat was going crazy.

And I was like, yelling for me to come down and deal with this mouse. On the projector, because that's like what, mounted on the ceiling kind of thing? It's mount on the ceiling, which means it came down and squeezed through the little opening that I made to run the wires. and then even have like a plastic plate on, but there's enough of room up there that it squeezed through that hole. There's no other way it could have gotten. It couldn't climb the walls,

climb the ceiling. It ain't spider mouse. No. But I picked up... Parkour its way into your living room. No. No. But I picked up a humane trap

that has like an opening on one side. They go through like a little right turn. And when they step over this little seesaw to get the food, it closes the back on it. So they're stuck in there. Basically, they have to go through a one-way door, seesaw door to get to the floor. How does it indicate that they're in there?

Do you get her sound? Is it like a color? You just got to check it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, you just got check it. And I put it in the drop ceiling and I think the cat got the mouse. I think because when I got up there and I tried to get it off the projector,

this thing launched across the, like, oh. over the movie theater couches, right past Galactus, basically, my giant Galactus statue. Damn. And the cat was on it from that point. And we didn't see her for like a day. She was on the hunt. She was just staying right down here like, I'm finding this thing. So I think she might have eaten it.

But I decided to be on the safe side. And also because you always worry when you see one mouse, there might be 11. Oh, yeah. No. You never can be safe and just say, oh, there's just a mouse, right? Right, right. never assume so uh but regardless i have a put a trap up in the drop ceiling i check it every couple days and there's never a mouse in there so i think i think the mouse we had one mouse she got it

we're good yeah he told his friends its family said stay out here yeah but that's the kind of trap you want you want that humane trap that is um a little a little kind of half maze for them to get through i can oh i bought it ace hardware i was going to say i'll send you an amazon link but oh we just got a brand new ace that gives me an excuse to go in there oh there you go yeah i like it's the home of the helpful hardware person yeah they've changed their slogan instead of uh man right was it man exactly yeah i remember suzanne summer is seeing that jingle you know going back in time there he says the place with the helpful hardware man man so not so the helpful hardware person oh why doesn't work as well does it no no the so the extra

syllable really really uh screws things up oh was it folks now raven helpful hardware folks oh that works folks works that's far better than uh person okay yeah it's what picard did with the no one gone before was instead of no man has gone before right it's the same deal that's right no folks have gone no folks have gone uh mr ricard i think we should change that to one no one has gone before right uh well anyway i'll let you know the gender neutral folks to reflect the inclusive staff and emphasize personalized customer service baby Yeah. Yep. Well, that sounds pretty ace to me. I may go in there. I'll check that up. Yeah. Yeah. So the other thing, too, is that Kim is leaving for Mississippi a trip for their sister on, well, I guess she leaves tomorrow morning. So she's just here for the rest of the day. And then she's gone for another week. Now, here's the other, here's the twist of that story. Normally when that happens, we usually have Carter around. Maybe Alicia, they kind of hang out with, do whatever we're going to do. Sure. sure uh nope they're gonna be at fan x for the whole weekend and they're parking down there and staying

there they're in a hotel uh for fan x this year because they have a massive booth but their friends like six of them are doing this booth and so it's gonna be me the dogs the one cat and possibly a mouse i don't know right right all while they're gone so i have three goals and i'm i'm saying them out loud so that i have you know you know how you do that sometimes so that you have people who hear you do it, it makes you commit. That is the thing. You're basically providing accountability. Yeah.

This is why I don't ever tell people the things that I need to do because then I've got the easy excuse of like, well, yeah, the only thing I've committed to is Rock Puzzles Monthly. And by the way, if you've signed up, so many people signed up, if you signed up, find the link to the Discord. I'll put a new link in TMS chatter, but I'll join the Discord for Rock Puzzles Month. Yeah, I was going to ask you how that was going. It's going well. I, um, yeah, I am, I've drafted up the, the tiers that I want to do.

I'm sorry to interrupt your, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, this is good. Go ahead. I want to hear about this. I'm excited for this whole project. Drafting up the tiers, uh, tiers, uh, for rock puzzles monthly, obviously, uh, tier one, you're going to get, uh, the puzzles every month, duh, on a PDF format, download them, print them if you like printed puzzles, solve them with, uh, pro create or something. What, what's something that lets you load in a PDF in, use your stylus, your pencil or your Android stylus. I think notes let you let you do it.

If you're on an iPad, yeah, I think so. So you can do things that way. There are people who are like, is there a way I can get a printed puzzle every month? Because I don't have a printer anymore. Yes, there is. Ding! So second tier, just a little bit more expensive

because I got to cover envelopes and postage. But I'll print out these damn things and send them to you. And the benefit of that is that there might be puzzles in the few. There will be puzzles in the future. I'll just tell you right now where you have to cut something out, you're going to want to print these out. You can't do that on an iPad. Right.

And then I want to have a play tester tier that's like limited. Oh, yeah, get the real nerds in there. Limited, exactly. Limited, just a couple folks for play tester tier, but you'll get the puzzles early. You'll be able to shape the direction that the puzzles go in. You'll be able to say, ooh, this one's too easy, or, ooh, this one's too hard. Or maybe you should do this instead.

built-in playtesters is a big deal I like that so that's cool Amy's already a play tester like she was one of the first people I said you know Amy needs to be Amy needs to be in this thing yeah no doubt about it

that's awesome tell them the URL one more time so yeah it's rock puzzles monthly.com and very soon Patreon.com slash rock puzzles monthly but I'm waiting to hear back on on the I've reached out to my

ambassador contact the ambassador contact um fancy because they are they do have that feature in the works where it's like one account multiple patrons underneath it yeah people have been begging for that for a decade so years years and they say they're finally they're finally this close to cracking it marty i hope they have an easy pathway to taking multiples and merging that's the thing right it's like great and so that was my email to them it's like you know i'm not asking to be give me a early access to it, but what can I do now with this new one I'm creating that makes it easier for me to merge it into the Coverville one when the time comes? That's smart. Let me know what he says back because I'm really curious about how this is going

to work. We'll do. If it messes with it too much, I'm going to be like, I'll just do it the way I'm doing it if you guys are going to jack it up too weird. But if they make it easy, I'm excited about this change. It'll be good. Anyway, so what was Domo saying? Oh, Domo says, what was the answer to the sample? I'm not putting the answer in chat because people are still working on it but if you go to um oh did you already you already solved it i mean if you go to the the link that's in the email and type in that answer and just tab out of that field it'll tell you if it's if it's a corrector yeah you can find out for yourself if you got it right yeah yeah it'll tell you the actual answer if you get it wrong it does not uh no so it lets you keep trying and then

then but the but the uh discord the plan is for the discord to have specific puzzle discussion so people can be like i just need a hint i don't want the answer i I just want a little nudge. Sure. And so that's what's going to be available in the Discord. That's great. Go check it out. Rock Puzzles Monthly.com.

Mother Scratchers. All right. So here are my three goals. Ready? Yes. One, clean my studio. That's number one. It's a good, good plan.

Yeah. I got all kinds of crap I want to get rid of, move, donate, put on eBay. Just I'm going to make a big, big dive into that. Number two, I'm going to get a video up with some initial nerdtacular 2026 info, some pictures of the venue. of the venue. Good.

Yeah. Stuff like that, you know. And I'm going to do these videos. I'm thinking about doing them one. Every week I'll do something to just like say, all right, we got this going and this going. And check this out. And also, hey, guess what? We're now locked in for this person who's going to guest or Brian's this far on working on, you know, All-Stars or whatever it is.

I want, I just want to kind of give people something in the so that have 40 weeks or whatever it is. But ridiculous tiny amount of time we have between now. next June. It really, it feels like there's so much time, but I can tell you from, from TMS Vegas, it's going to go, it is going to go so quickly and you're going to realize, oh my God, I've got these eight things that still need to. Oh, yeah. Like doing Nurtacular for 10 years. Yeah, like every year was like this. And in fact, part of the reason I took the big break I did was because it felt like time was nothing. It would just be like, okay, that one ended. And now we're on the next one. And you're just like constantly running. It's rough.

I meant to ask, is Corinne involved in this one? So far, no, but partly, mostly because she's now a professor at the University of Utah. Oh, okay, cool. And she's very swampy. Yeah, she's been working there for a bit in that capacity and very swamp, very busy. However, she may at some point join the fray. We don't know. We've talked.

Oh, I hope so. Yeah. Yeah, we love Corinne. Cren's great. It'd be a shame not to see her at least come by and. Well, that I can kind of guarantee. She'll definitely be there. Oh, by joining the fray, you mean.

help joining the help team she may even help yeah she may join the team who knows um anyway so then my third goal is try to beat ghost of shashima finally that place that place is on fire those people need to be saved the mongols need to be destroyed and brought low so uh i'm not that far from beating this damned game and i'm tired of everybody teasing me about it because it's a huge meme encore that I, that Sushima still burns. So every time I bring up a new game I'm playing, I'm like, yeah, I'm playing this thing and someone will go, yes, and Shishima still burns.

And I'm like, I know, I'll get to it. I'll beat it. But I'm going to try, I'm going to try this week to get some time at night and actually, you know, crank it. So that's cool. Yeah, I'm going to, I'm working on finishing inscription. Man, that thing is great. Like all this stuff, you think it's this one little game. Oh, yeah. And then you're, oh, no, it's so much

more than that. But the next thing I want to play that I've already purchased because it was, again, huge discount was, where is it, for $6.46? And then you're going to tell me, oh, it's free on such and such, Brian. But I picked up Hades. Oh. In the anticipation of Hades 2 coming out. Yeah, Hades is an all-timer. Hades 2 comes out on the 25th or hits 1.0 on the 25th. It's already out, technically, in early access on Steam. Oh, really? Oh, it's a golden number. master like it's yeah early well on steam it's been on early access for almost a year and a half or something but the uh yeah but the the game the version that will hit switch two will be day and date 25th that's just the day you're getting the game they don't do early

access over there but um i hear one of the greatest rogue likes platformers oh yeah i wouldn't call it a platformer it's more it's top down kind of oh it is it's not platformer yeah it's like diablo view kind of look to it like three-quarter view, how I would put it. But as far as like Rogue likes, Action Rogue likes go, kind of King of the Hill is real good. Yeah, cool. I'm not sure there's ever been

a better one. We'll see what they do with the sequel. I haven't touched it yet. The reviews are already overwhelmingly positive on the Early Access version on Steam, but we'll know on the 25th. Great. Let's dive into some news. All right. Good, yes. It's time for some news, guys. Today's news is brought to you by

It's brought to you by What do Gwar and Kid Rock have in common right now? Well, they're in the news because of the battles between liberals and conservatives, apparently. You can find out more about this on Daily Music Headlines, but Gavin Newsom has banned Kid Rock from performing California because of his, quote, horrific music. Thank you, Gavin Newsom. I know I liked you. And Guar is being thrown into a boycott from the right side because they posted a video of disemboweling a President Trump lookalike on video.

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Exactly. Gwar's been doing this for years. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's not like Travis says, so a normal Gwar show, yeah. Exactly. They've done Hillary. They've done everybody. I remember the Bill Clinton one was really gnarly. Yeah. I don't know if it was disembowling, but it was like hyper sexualized and oh really that would make sense

yeah yeah I basically introduced it on the show as in Guar's gonna Guar news yeah no doubt honestly people upset about that just don't know what Guar's been up to yeah they are equal opportunity offenders

I think anyway but that's the world we live in now everybody's got to pick sides on everything freaking everybody go out and put your head in some ice water or some shit calm the hell down on all of you. Had it with all of you. All right. Here's a new story. Eminems have spilt, have been spilled. Spilt? Spilt? Spillage? Well, have spilled. Have spilled across New Jersey

highway after a tractor trailer crash. Oh, man. Careful. Don't touch the green ones who get horny. I was going to say parts of that exit ramp is making people very holly. They're like hubba, hubba, and the red ones, I guess, still give you cancer if you're old and you believe such things. What was the deal? Remember the red ones? Well, it was red dye number five, which, which I think was turned out to be bad for you, didn't it? The original thing that they were using for red coloring in food, actually. Oh, I think it caused cancer in mice, speaking of mice.

Laboratory rats or something. Yeah, something like that. Well, anyway, Marshall Mathers. These days, everybody want to talk about spilling M&Ms all over the highway. Nobody moves their lips when they open the mouth and where's Drey or something like that? Marshall Mathers smeared all over the freeway. How are they going to get them up? Dozens of boxes of M&M spilled into the interstate.

This is in Warren County on Monday night when a trailer tractor struck a parked truck along the side of the highway. Oh, geez. Don't park your truck on the highway, by the way. Don't do that. Trailer tractor, Karen Candy, was traveling west near milepost 2.4 in Knowlton at about 10.15 p.m. Nothing good happens after dark. rear-ended the parked vehicle and let's see

both box trailers were torn asunder and as a result of the crash these M&Ms were just and there were peanut M&Ms by the way so the big ones oh yeah big baddies smeared all over the freeway just did they melt on the road

because we know about the hands in the mouth but how do they handle the road new marketing campaign coming you can feel it oh look at it's all the it's like the the Halloween size packs the fun size packs oh well that's no good given the time of year we're in exactly what are these kids gonna do without their M&Ms oh yeah they're all in a little

little bad oh my gosh I want to be a guy that just runs and grabs a box and runs out kidding just a box be happy with that yeah they're better for you than regular M&Ms not much but a little because they've got the protein of a peanut yeah and they're just less chocolate density I think I don't know sure whatever it's probably all bad anyway I hear spaghetti sauce with peanuts is all the rage. Oh, man. You know, if it's your mom's. Call back.

That's to be your moms. Naked and high. That was a flight attendant who, quote, according to his own words, let himself down. Okay. This is a British Airway story, not some Florida thing. Call them yourselves down. Everybody. All right.

We all assume it's somewhere in the U.S. Every time something shitty happens. I would have assumed it immediately. Yes. I kind of would have to. Yeah. British Airways flight attendant who was found naked and high on drugs in a plain toilet. That's how you know this is British, because we would say bathroom or laboratory.

They say toilet. In a toilet. During a transatlantic flight has been told by a judge, he let himself down. Oh, the judge told him that, not him telling himself that. Right, right. See, I was thinking he was letting himself down from the, or she was letting herself down from the drug. Like, don't worry, I'm in the bathroom. I'm in the toilet letting myself down.

But it was really like, oh, you really, you really disgrace that British Airways uniform. You let yourself down. Hayden Pentecost is his name. Oh, wow. Great name. He's Pentecostal. 41 years old, given a six-month prison sentence. What is he?

Okay. Yeah. It's been suspended for a year, though. So he's, you know. Only a year. Yeah. I mean, they gave him six months, but they suspend. So it's like one of those suspended sentence things.

It's like, we're going to put you in jail for 30 days. because of these circumstances or because you helped us with the investigation we counted as time served or whatever it's like one of those deals I'm surprised like the suspension is not a firing

that feels like those are grounds to oh I definitely think he's fired that I think is a guarantee oh I see okay six months prison sentence suspended for year I thought suspended from work for a year but suspended this prison sentence now I see how you're explaining. Yeah, yeah. I think that's how. I mean, obviously, courts are different over there.

I don't know how they do stuff. I think that's exactly right. It's like, wow, okay, your suspension. Get yourself clean, but come back and we'd love to have you helping, helping passengers in case of an emergency. Yeah, we've got a lot of M&Ms in the States. You can help clean up. It's part of your, your penance. That's right. Judge Hannah Duncan told them, quote, you don't need to tell, or I don't need to tell you just how serious this offense was. it would have been frightening for any passengers to see you in that position you let yourself down

in that accent it's kind of it's kind of like your dad's saying I'm really disappointed in you oh really hurts that one the worst yeah just yell at me could you just yell at me instead

yeah yell at me and put a foot up my butt you know exactly yeah it was let's see he was also ordered to complete 80 hours of unpaid work and pay 150 pounds, right? British, yeah. Yeah. In costs. It's pretty damn cheap. Yeah, it's not bad, actually.

I think the six months prison sentence is the harder core one, although it got suspended for whatever that means, but he also asked, or see, after he admitted performing an aviation function while impaired on drugs, Islesworth Court Crown, heard Pentecost was due to work on a flight to San Francisco, or from San Francisco to London. Heathrow Airport in May before the journey, he told colleagues he was suffering stomach cramps, but insisted that he was fit for duty. He was disheveled, pale, sweaty, and erratic and naked.

Naked. Naked. Naked. Nekid, disheveled, pale, sweaty, and erratic. Yeah. Have you been injured in a lawsuit called the law firm of naked, disheveled, pale, sweaty, and erratic? Drugs are a hell of a drug, you know. Yes. Didn't it never, did say what... No, it never gets into what he was on.

Yeah. I have to assume... I don't think of bath salts on the level of... Yeah. Yeah, like meth, something methie or something hyper, I don't know, not something that chills you out, I'm guessing. Right, right. If there's just heroin or something, he'd just be going, what, no, and doing that like, what do you call that? The fentanyl hang or whatever it is they do. You know what I'm talking about?

You ever see pictures of people on fentanyl? They're just sort of, they're standing, but they're, oh, there's like somebody has left all the, pulled all the wires out of them or something. Yeah, really, really weird that they can still stand. I don't understand that. Very odd. The weirdest thing I ever saw personally, and I think I talked about on the show, was that guy that had synthetic marijuana,

which can be real bad. Like regular pot, no big deal who cares. But the synthetic stuff is all over the map in terms of like danger and what it's mixed with and laced with and all this. We saw a guy at a bus station. Kids are younger. This kid or this guy at a bus station,

or I guess track station, came barreling up there, stopped was holding a styrofoam box of Chinese food and then leaned against the thing and then just started doing that droop to the point where he was just standing there hanging with his and then his hand

held up high with his chau main in it and the police came and had to help him and everything but the whole time just held his chow main you know you know what are you going to do gotta hold on to the chau main Yeah, you paid

the poor guy. He paid like $8 for that Chalman. You got to hold on to it. I get it. All right. One final story. A cheating scandal rocks world stone skimming championship. Oh, no.

It's nothing sacred. I've actually been trying to find they, somebody posted the audio of the commentator explaining the, the, the cheating scandal. And I'm trying to find the audio because. It is such a thick Scottish accent. You can only make out enough words to determine that they're speaking English, but you won't be able to figure out any other words they say.

They're trying to find that. Is that in this? Let's see. I got video here. Is this a set? See if it's in there, yeah. I just hear audio. Jump ahead a minute or something.

Come from the island themselves and we check to make sure that nobody's up to any funny business. He's pretty understandable. Let's try up here. There he is. Hold on. Then you can start moving your body about together. Yeah, we get him. It's been really good.

All the volunteers have been really helpful. Really good atmosphere too. Everyone's cheering each other on. Yeah, they all seem pretty chill. This may not be the story, though. This might just be like, hey, we do our cool thing we do. Oh, yeah, it could be right. Yeah, not the controversy.

Anyway, the way it worked is this. So there's a cheating scandal. Competitors are disqualified for tampering. more than 2,200 people from 27 countries. I didn't even know this is a thing. Attended this year's event, tiny island of Eadsdale off the west coast of Scotland. They all go there to skip stones and find a winner for the year.

Yeah. And I'm a big fan. Love it. When I was a kid, go to Lake Powell and just like, wow, see how far I could go? Sure. I don't know that I could compete with these people, but, you know. No.

Well, I mean, somebody obviously didn't think they could compete, so they had to cheat. It says rules state that stones must come from naturally occurring the island state so that place there had to be like stones from there however some were have found to have or had been ground into

a suspiciously circular shape to help them bounce on water hmm shame shame shame yeah there was some doctoring says they oh I don't have my cowbell down here darn it I was going to do the shame bell that would have been great

anyway they said somebody else had a piece of metal or something anyway they're out of there they're in trouble don't cheat you know this is a weird sport as it is keep it weird don't don't make it don't ruin it you know this is just what a funny thing to cheat at is is stone skimming i wonder what the top prize was for uh do we have it in the article probably not no they don't say i mean it seems like a i love weird stuff like this but i do too why would you get so wrapped up in it that you would cheat at a thing that is not the stakes can't be that high you can't be yeah i don't know why you cheated

any sporting things but well sure people do for i guess you know if you're in the mbba and you throw a game because you're getting a million dollars and i could see that motivation i would hope i wouldn't do it but no people do it shoeless joe jackson you know with the baseball and all that right yeah i've seen the river i don't know what's it called chicago black socks what's the name of the movie if you build it they we'll come. What's wrong with me? Field of Dreams. I've seen that movie, which was absolutely factually correct the entire time. No supernatural or anything involved in that one. No ghosts. Yeah, none of that. No, no, just straight up. All right, guys, it is, it is time for us to do something a little bit fun. A lot fun, if you ask me. You know what? You're right. I've given it,

I need to give it more credit than that. More oomph, please. Yeah, let's throw a little oomph this way and play this. One of the things that I enjoy also is reading. De-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de. Well, well, well, what do we know? It is time for us to do a little read-this with Amy Robinson, joining us now. Hi, Amy, how are you?

Hello, friends. Hello. Good. It's lovely to see you. How the heck are you doing? You doing all right? Yes, I'm doing okay. That's fantastic to hear.

All right. There's Amy. right there, everybody. There she is. Hello. Yes. She comes on the show and talks about reading recommendations, which I think is important. We all should be reading more, you know?

It's true. Yes. I'm almost fully done with my complete reread of the first law series from Joanne McCrombie. I could talk about it a few weeks in a row here. And I'm in the latter quarter, I think, of the final book. That's the only part. That's the part I remember least about my first read-through. I am jazzed for people.

people to discover these books. If you haven't read the first loss series by Joam McCrombie, I am telling you magical. So good. Anyways. All right. I'm going to my TBR. Stick it in there. My extensive TBR does. You got a big TBR going? Is it a, you know, I do. I do. Well, you know, I mean, since I started doing this segment, like everybody has, everybody has their favorite book and they're like, hey, you should read this, you know. Yeah. Yes. I have a, I have a large TBR. I was trying to figure out what it was. Okay. To Be Red. That's the... To Be Red. Yes. Sorry. Sorry. Yes. I thought... I think To Be Red is the... If you pay for Tooby Red, you get the naked movies. That's true. That's exactly right. But you still get ads, which is just such a disappointment.

It's such a shame. It's like, oh, I'm getting really hot and heavy here. And suddenly I've got to learn about toothpaste. What the hell's this about? Well, anyway, it's good to have you here. We're going to dive right in and talk about your recommendations. You got a little audio. We got a link. We got all kinds of fun stuff. Tell us about it. Yeah. Okay. So I will admit, I had a little bit of a hard time this past month just simply because, number one, it hasn't been a full month because, like, Travis and I did that little switcheroo. And the book I started reading, I was like, I very quickly realized. I was like, eh, this is not going to really fit for the show that will. It's good. I'm enjoying it. And I'm going to finish it. But so it took up some time. That book was called Barry Our Bones. In the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab, who if you remember back when I recommended the Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, same author. And so I jumped on that because I really enjoyed Adi LaRue. But that book was a little bit, it was just not, it just wasn't something that like the Tad Pool at large I thought would really super enjoy. It was very kind of niche. Yeah, it's, you know, lesbian vampires. Oh, sweet. That's, okay. That's it.

So I thought, okay, for my, for my, you know, if you're into that, I recommend it. It's, it's cool. It's got, it's got some interesting looks on some vampire lore. It concentrates really heavily on the whole, like, having to be invited in thing, which I thought was a really, she had an interesting take on that. So if you're into that stuff, cool, there's a bonus wreck for you. But then I felt like, okay, I need, I need something that's going to appeal to a little bit more broad. of the Tadpool audience. And this one came along.

And I'm so excited because I actually get to give you guys a read this and kind of a bonus recommendal also. So you can go ahead and play the clip. The clip is actually not from the audiobook. It's from the trailer. Oh, goodness. All right, here we go then. Our latest cold case is from May the 11th, 1973.

Oh, my God. Isn't this room usually for Jigsawes? Not on a Thursday, no. Welcome to Cooper's Chase. We investigate cold cases. Everybody gather around. We're a team. All systems go.

Roger that. There's been a murder. An actual murder. Now we've got a real case to solve, isn't it? Wonderful. Obviously, RIP and all that. Who are you? I'm sorry, how rude of me. Am I hearing Helen Mirren?

You are hearing Helen Mirren. It's so good. So this was from the Netflix movie that recently dropped called the Thursday Murder Club. And it is based on a book. And it's actually an entire series of books by Richard Osmond. And the premise is basically this very, like, if the movie is at all true to the book, like, I mean, who, like, the most posh old folks home I've ever seen in my life. Like, it's actually like a refurbished castle in the UK. Oh, wow.

Yeah, like the, yeah, most amazing looking old folks home ever. But anyway, these people who live in this old folks home, and they. they have their little Thursday club where they get together and they solve cold case murders and it's hilarious it's like you know it's really really good

it's kind of in it's got some of the same DNA as that show with Ted Danson the one where he's the man inside man on the inside or something like that Brian you saw that recommended that didn't you did and I loved it yeah that's right

yeah it was great it was great and it was yeah it had kind of that same kind of DNA where it's like all these you know all these aging foes but this is all British these aging British actors and you could see it's got Ben Kingsley you've got your Pierce Brosnan I mean he's actually Irish but yeah close enough fantastic it's fantastic so these two that's funny these two when did this come out 2025 geez these two just finished mob land last year together Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan go ahead and just keep putting them together forever. They're fantastic these two. I love them. Oh, yeah. That's very cool. Oh, I'll watch. I could watch Helen Mirren. Yeah, I could watch Helen Mirren,

like, you know, scramble eggs. I don't, you know, I mean, she's great. I love her. She's so great. Oh, Jonathan Price, Brian. I'm like, check that out. We just saw him. Yeah, the, uh, the price of them. Oh, and his character is so precious in this, in this story. It's so, yeah, I don't want to, I don't want to give it away. But he's, he's, he's actually. Helen Mirren's character's husband and has a fair amount of dementia going on. And so he's, yeah, it's both sad and just touching. He's a great actor. So I'm, I'm all in on that guy. I can't do no wrong for me. Except for. Yeah. Well, and he was in, he was in the other, what was the other, oh, shoot, it wasn't the, wasn't Department Q, but it was

the, oh, shoot. The other British, like, cop show thing. Recent one? Like something recent? Yeah. Yeah. There's, like, been, like, three seasons of it, but he's in it. And he plays the guy's grandfather.

Oh, yes. Who was also in MI5. Like, right? Yeah, isn't that the line of, is it line of duty? Slow horses. No. Slow horses. That's it.

Yeah, he's, uh, oldman's. He's oldman's dad? He's old man, right? Oh, no, he's, I'm sorry. He's the young kid's old dad. Oh, okay. Right. The kid they kind of set up in the first episode.

He was older Prince Philip in the later seasons of the crown. He was great in that. He's good and everything. Name something he's bad in. Maybe the G.I. Joe movies. Maybe those. But I'm not even saying he's bad. It's exactly.

I just don't know why he slumming it in there. You know? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that new season. I mean, sometimes you've got to pay the bills, right? Yeah, yeah. It's new.

Oh, is it? Oh, I'm excited for that. Yeah. Big too. Um, but yeah, I mean, like, that's what, uh, what's her name? Kate Blanchett said that she did that, uh, borderlands movie because she had to get out the house. Yeah.

Like, I mean, sometimes he just are bored and needs something to do. Bill Murray said he did Garfield because he thought it was a movie about the president, didn't he? Yeah. Oh my gosh. He committed sight on seeing as he thought it was that. And then it turned out to be not that. And he apparently very grudgingly did his lines. He was just like, allegedly, right.

I know. I know. It seems it. Even if it's a joke, it's one of the funnier, you know, funnier things he's said recently is the, it was a movie about the president, Garfield. That movie's bad. Yeah.

It's a bummer. But yeah, this story is really great. And it's, you know, if you like mysteries, if you like a good who done it, it's, it's really fun. And they're a quick, quick read. And if you need, you know, if you need some good, you know, pulpy stuff to just take with you, go sit out. on a nice fall, crisp evening, and just read something casual, they're great.

And there's a whole series of them. So, yeah, and they are. They're charming. They're funny. And I did. I loved the movie on Netflix. It was so, it was just so much fun. David Tennant is in it.

I mean, I saw the trailer, and I was already in like the first like four seconds of the trailer. And then I saw that David Tenet was in it. And I was like, okay, you don't have to oversell it. it you know yeah i'm already in let's go uh well that's great uh it is course up on the pumpkin cottage as well uh and uh got this link last night from hooty it is available in paperback ebook uh forums all that kind of stuff so go order it through them we'll put a link in our uh it's already up quick tms dot l i has it uh has it already ready for you to to support the pumpkin now i got a question

for you, Amy. Are you when it comes to this time of year, you know, we're hitting fall and then Halloween and it's just kind of that vibe of the change in the weather and everything. Do you, although the change isn't as drastic in Georgia, but do you get,

do you, are there books where you're like, all right, it's Halloween season, time for Amy to get her horror novels on like your lesbian vampires or whatever. Do you get into that? I don't, I don't tend to read horror stuff just because I don't do scary things very well. There have been a couple of books where people have been like, oh, wow, I'm surprised you read that.

And I'm like, yeah, you know, it wasn't so bad. But I, stuff that really, like, I can't read stuff like Stephen King or whatever, even though I know it's all great. And like the story is wonderful, but it just messes with me too much. I just can't. And, like, you know, anything that messes with my sleep, I can't, I can't be having that. I don't blame you. You know. How about you, Brian?

Do you get into it, Brian, like this time of year? Do you, like, find yourself drama? Do the horror movies and stuff? Yeah, I don't, you know, we're books, books. What are you talking about? These books things. Y'all need books. I do need books.

No, there's, my TBR is ever growing because I never catch up on it. I've got, you know, more dungeon crawler Carl that I need to read that I want to read. I've got this pendulette book that is staring at me right here on my desk next to me. So I need to do that But yes, I'm drawn to the scary movies and TV shows Absolutely this time of year I do get into the season of it I will say that

Like I love If I weren't always so swamped With all the other things that I do I would totally Go all out for Halloween decorations Like the people who get like the 20 foot skeleton And stuff like I saw Ali Spagnolo did the like the herb

mirror covered skeleton That was amazing Oh, that's what you have the mirrorball one. Yeah, right. That was, that was just bonkers. Those guys that do that where they cover themselves in the little mirrors and then walk around out in the sun or whatever, I feel like I'm losing my mind when I see those people. Because visually, visually, it really messes with me. It makes me go, is everything real?

Who am I? What's got? Like, it really messes. It's like people that do, you know those shirts where they separate the colors to make it look like it's blurry 3D almost? that's hard to explain. I wish I could find one real quick because I don't even know how I'd look. But there are people to wear those

where it's like the red and blue glasses 3D, but they separate the stuff so it makes your brain think has been blurred out of control and my eyes actually kind of hurt. You put something in there? Maybe he'd put one in there. Oh, that's a mirror guy.

Those mirror guys just freak me the F out. I can't figure out why. Is that weird that I'm even sensitive to that? probably no no because that obviously I would mess with your mind you're looking at something that is in all these forms reflecting something from all other directions yeah it's worse in the sun

punk outfit yeah you do this out in the night no big deal put that guy out in the sun yeah I feel like the world's ending like we're really gonna have you know we're gonna have that actual rapture today or whatever's going on ants everywhere are freaked out like yeah you put him in a flashing light disco where he's like

reflecting the colors from all over the place. That's really going to mess up that. Yeah, it's really weird. But anyway, I'm looking forward to as soon as I've finished. Do you all want to see the crazy thing? Yeah. Go ahead. No, go ahead.

I was just going to say, I'm going to watch. Do you want to see the crazy thing? Yeah, show me what you got. Show me your crazy thing. What is that? My crazy thing I've been working on. This is a mug, but it's made to look like, you know, a woman in a corset. I actually put, like, loops on the back.

I'm so sorry, Scott, like, I, no, you're good. We just kept talking over each other. You're all good. Is that a bodice? What's a bodice compared to it? Yeah. Yeah. So this would be, yeah, it would be like a corseted bodice.

So I'm doing a whole series of mugs for an art show where it's going to start with this one. And then I've got one that looks like kind of like a 50s style dress. And then I've got a couple more that are specific people. And then the last one is like a black mug with RBG's descent collar around it. And the name of the piece will be when there or not. Because RBG was quoted as saying when she was asked, when were there be enough women on the Supreme Court? And she said, when there are nine. So I'm working on this.

And I brought it home because I was thinking I was going to, like, detail it and, like, you know, put, like, painted on lace. But then I realized, like, I put these hooks in the back so that I can put actual ribbons back here and make it a corset. So I am instead, like a crazy person, I'm making my own lace. I'm gonna like I'm like adorned the whole thing with like this handmade lace that you know that I got patterns for so you did like you see you knitted that lace into its form or whatever I crocheted yeah I crocheted a bunch of this lace so yeah that's like that's a lot of insane right can I see the bottom of that that piece you just showed yeah let's see the bottom I like I'm a bottom lover yeah although now you're showing me there you know the very bottom Oh, the very bottom. Oh, I see. It's like, it's kind of like the bottom of the cup is like, you know, I could stick my finger in there all the way through. It's kind of like a pedestal.

Here's where I was getting out. I was hoping to see a little ARR. Oh, you wanted to see the stamp. Oh, no, no, no. I made this, I made this piece like a long time before I got that stamp. Yeah, I threw this piece several months ago. So, yeah, like that, so that's the insanity. This is why I have no time to.

you know, decorate my house for Halloween or anything because I do crazy stuff like this. I'm like, this is how, this is like the stuff that I'm crocheting to make this lace. It's like this thing. That's the wrong with that. Most people run out to like a, you know, a craft store and buy some crappy stick on lace, but you're

going all the way. I think this is awesome. You're doing it the right way. I figured if I'm going to submit for an art show, you know, that it's like, oh, okay, if I can say, oh, I made the lace myself also, like, they'll be like, oh, that's even more impressive. for sure. Yeah. That's great. Very cool. Go check out this book we talked about this week. Also, Amy is all over the place as Red Fraggle. Anything else you want to say? A Red Fraggle 3, I should say. Anything else going on? Get your books from Pumpkin Cottage because we love them. And this was the Thursday murder club for the shit out of luck.com folks. And I will see you guys next time. Have a fantastic week. See you later. Oh, shit. It won't let me hang up on this part. Yes, it will.

there she goes. Okay. I know, right? Missed it by that much. All right, you guys, it is time for us to jump ahead here and do this. Oh, we got an email. This is for Brian mostly. Oh, good. We're going to share with the world, though. This is fantastic. Hold on. Let me pull up this image for them to see.

Okay, there it is. All right. So, here's the deal. We got this message about thick and liquid. Hey, smooth, and bumpy. I got something for Brian. I am 2.5 hours north of Wendy or Wendy, however you spell it. But ever since I heard of Brian and his thick and liquid hatred, I have been meaning to send this pick. Apparently, here

in Superior Wisconsin, we have a thickened liquid plant. Honestly, I have no clue what they make. I'm guessing it's thick and liquid. Medical grade. Or the power, probably the powder that they add to stuff to make it thicken, maybe. Yeah, something like that. But I'm sure it's a specific

kind of medical product. So it would make sense that you would have, they're not just going to do this at the Nabisco plant, up the road. Right. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, says, come up here next time you're visiting Whitney and spend the day checking out what the Duluth Superior Air has to offer for sightseeing right on Lake Superior and check out the thickened liquid plant, says this anonymous poster. So, Brian, I'm going to just stick this up in everyone's face. If you zoom into the side of this nondescript building. They really went out of, went all out with the advertising, with the marketing

and the signage. They went nuts. Yeah. I mean, look at that. whole piece of tape basically that's on the side of that way it's Kent precision food group's thickened beverage plant and um if there's one one word that makes me think delicious that's not thickened it's precision yeah precision food group after john's brain bleed they gave him a bunch of the stuff and i thought of you well i was looking at his little bottles yeah it's good stuff you can have my share he can have as much of my share as he wants yeah you can have it all as far as i'm concerned go ahead and clear them out anyway thanks for that thanks for noticing and remembering brian's hatred of thick and liquid yeah i don't like it either for the record but i think you gagged on it

i i physically gagged uh while i was uh tasting it on the show we had i think it was coffee we had a couple samples sent in by somebody and i tried the coffee and just that that texture still kind of makes me a little nauseous just thinking about it. I think Gene, you won't like this, but I think I found the clip of you.

Yeah, this is the aftermath of Brian drinking thick and liquid. Here you go. There you go. Yeah, that sounds right. Yeah. That is a gag that tells you that Brian's a loud barfer.

That is, yeah, yeah, if there was any doubt, I mean, the city of Arvada knows that allowed barfers. There are people at the, whatever they call Nevada, the seismic geological survey,

they get a little they get a little oh we had a bump I think it's just Brian Barfey all right carry on. Okay good no earthquakes

everything's okay well anyway thanks for sending that in and to all those who expected to mash up in post yesterday to you I say sorry I screwed up

and forgot to post it and it's because this room got filled with people after I got ready to do all the post work and it got nuts and I forgot to stick it in

so I'm sticking it in today's yeah yeah it's fine it's no big deal you waited an extra day did it really hurt that bad no all right uh so watch for that coming in post uh here in a minute brian we should leave these people with a song we should um now i put in our in our discord by the way i put a link to uh suzanne summer singing the ace is the place of the floor oh no way let me i gotta hear it uh oh shit i remember this just looking at the screen Just, right, just the thumbnail, yes. Here we go, guys.

This is a, we must do this. Hold on. Get the volume up. All right, here we go. Ace Hardware presents Suzanne Summers. Ace is the place with a helpful hardware man. He knows you need to fix things.

He shows you how you can. His price is right on everything and he's got your favorite friend. Ace is the place with the helpful hardware man He's so helpful, yeah Ace is the place with a helpful hardware man I've never seen a video or a commercial With less to do with the place Right

There is zero shots of an actual Ace hardware It's like you're visiting The worst Las Vegas show club On the strip Freaking terrible, man Oh my gosh, the things we used to do with ourselves In the 70s and 80s were we thinking uh all right now we can play a song well now we can play the song so um rob a k pinstriped

said uh brian atomic tom is an indie band from new york that i met way back in 2008 when they played a show at a music bar in virginia their genre is alternative and sound unique in every song they play i've become friends with them over the years and would really love to hear the above song or any of their songs really played on the show their new album the way it never was was was released back in July and while biased i think it's some of their best work yet also brian they have some great covers including don't you want me pump it up burn the witch and an especially good version of maria carries all i want for christmas l oh man that's great signed pinstriped uh sure enough uh went down a big rabbit hole with these guys i picked up the song that uh that rob

was uh requesting that he recommended but then i also picked up the um all their covers and uh he He's not selling him short. They're really, really good. Also picked up there of a good cover of Cindy Lopper's Time After Time. And let's see, pump it up. Don't you want me human league? Yeah, those are the ones I picked up. Those three right there.

So very, very cool stuff. But the request was for one of their originals, one of their non-covers. This is Wake Up the Night. Here's the band, Atomic Tom. Nice. Here it is. Thanks, everybody for listening. We'll be back tomorrow with a brand new Wednesday edition of the show.

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