The Morning Stream - TMS 2897: Grindr Mishap

Episode Date: October 2, 2025

They all sound like Dave Matthews. And the sausage tastes like wood. Permanent Blast. Four Shit Shakes. KPop Demon Ramen Slurpers. What the fert is 6-7? A crazy person at a conference. Hair metal? More like wheelchair metal amiright? Southern dirt rock. Don't You Know Phil Oakley. Almost Getting Off the Island of Frasier. Rom Reading Rom. Skibidi Toilet 2: Skibidi Urinal. I ditched the News today, oh boy. Choosing Happiness With Wendi and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Woody Guthrie once saying, This land is your land, this land is my land. He was right in a bunch of ways, but he left out the part where you go and support our Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, they all sound like Dave Matthews. And the sausage tastes like wood.

Permanent blast. Poor shit shakes. K-pop, demon, ramen slurpers. What the fur to six, seven. A crazy person at a conference. Hair metal. More like wheelchair metal, am I right? Southern Dirt.

rock almost giving off the island of fraser rom reading rom skibbitty toilet two skibbitty urinal i ditch the news today oh boy you get soft there uh choosing happiness with wendy and more on this episode of the morning stream why would it give you the directions and not tell you the name of the town that don't make no sense now for all popular systems The MorningStream. Good. Real good. Hello, everybody, and welcome to TMS, the morning stream for Thursday, October 2nd, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. Hello. Good day. It's a Thursday.

Yeah. It's a happy Thursday. Friday Eve, as we like to call it here. Yeah, got a big weekend plan. My wife's home, but it didn't stop us from scheduling 50,000. things so uh oh sure yeah we got a baby's birthday three-year-old birthday on friday we got dinner with tanner and alex on saturday yeah they're in town for a concert yeah some japanese something band something sure something i'm actually not sure now i forgot what he told me it's some kind of electronica thing yeah he was wrestling between he was looking at dates for that concert here in denver and there in utah and i think he settled on utah maybe probably just because it's it's easier or closer or cheaper or something.

Yeah. But I can't remember the band either. Yeah. I can't remember it all. It was something good, though. Oh, Sleep token. Sleep token. Yeah.

Sleep token. Yeah. He, man, every season in the, um, that music game we were playing, he would pull out a sleep token song. That's right. So it's really good stuff. Yeah, big fan. They are good.

I just keep forgetting the damn name. It sounds like something I should be paying. I have to pay a micro transaction. for on an app to sleep at night like that's right oh I'm sorry you're all out of sleep tokens that'll be for the calm for the calm app you need to use sleep tokens yeah yeah more space points everybody good stuff anyway looking forward to seeing them and we got all kinds of stuff in between it it's going to be a bit of a wild weekend but I'm glad to be here on a Thursday and talking to you guys and bringing something a little bit different to the show today oh yeah yeah so I'm going

play we'll play this because it's it's appropriate usually just do this on fridays but brian i've got a contest for you sure it's a little bit dumb but um i happen across uh this video and i couldn't resist so i was like i got to find more of these and sure enough i did i found four of these you have four chances to answer correctly based on some audio cues i'm going to play for you and what these are are old hair metal band lead singers on stage with their vocals isolated. Oh, really? So it's just them.

Okay. Yeah, you'll hear a little bit of muffly stuff in the background because it's hard to extract that. But these are specifically also, it makes me never want to spend money on a ticket for any of these old bands because they're really just phoning it in. It's so bad.

So anyway, you have to guess. Now, the first one I think is easy, so I'm going to start you with an easy one. Okay. All right. So here's your cue. Let me turn that. Hair metal vocalist, great.

Yeah, hair metal vocalist. Your will definitely write up your, you know, is this or country? So, you know, we're going with the closest one. All right, here you go. Here's number one. Oh, why? Captain, the man who can be talking about. He's the colds up there with a bucket line.

He said, to be around and take me back to the start. I'm spilling. Oh, you're glad? I see it all with me in size. All right. That was Schmaxel Rose. you got it though it's excellent for sure now that was an easy one wanted to get out of the way but this gives you a taste okay of what to expect because they're all terrible god there's there is one that i'm fully expecting to be one of the next three that i'm that i'd be willing to say is a hundred percent locked to be one of the next three all right let's see if you're right here's number two all right wow is he seeing it is he like have a sweater in his mouth or something all of

these guys i mean i swear it must be that there's just so much noise in those arenas that nobody cares i don't know yeah exactly like you wouldn't be able to pick him out i mean i know so i know vince neal is going to be coming up as one of these or bret i'm sorry bret michael's is going to be coming up as one of these actually wouldn't be surprised if vince neal is another one of them but because I don't recognize that at all, I'm going to hedge my bets and say Brett Michaels. Is it Brett Michaels? No.

Yeah. That is your old pal, David Lee Roth. Oh, was that really? Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. And recently, too. Can I hear another little bit of that again?

Yeah, here you go. He's doing that thing he likes. Get on. he's doing that wow it's like it's almost like I'm hearing a crazy person at a conference like it sounds like there's just murmuring

like a like a discussion going on in the background and here's some guy walking through the lobby of the homewood suites you went to like a UFO conference and people are a little wackity there it definitely sounds like that all right here's your next one let's see if you can make this one out I'm going to be Vince Neil, that's your answer.

That might be Vince Neil right. Is that your answer, Vince Neil? I'm going to say Vince Neil on that one. Congratulations. All right. Yeah. Yeah, nailed it. I think I recognize that more from the song in the background.

Isn't that? Oh, shoot. what's that song yeah it's not uh are mine shout the devil or uh no oh i'm thinking of i might be thinking of axel rose again who my what song am i thinking of oh yeah you were yeah the dunna nana nina that is that is a guns and roses yeah yeah i can't think of it but it's we're both thinking of the same thing um this last little bit though sound like a bird it sounds like uh right exactly it's a peacock All right, here is your final one

And let's see if you can get this one I can get this one I can't get I can't get lyrics at any of these things No, no I picked out of that one though Uh, geez this one's a little tricky that is tricky

let's say it's Kip Winger oh I love it if it was Kip Winger sadly it is not that was John Bon Jovi was it really? Oh my gosh I'll play a bit of that again That is kind of yeah that is once you know it

it kind of becomes obvious Yeah fun though right Isn't that dumb? Like, they're all sound like this. They're all running around looking like 80 pounds overweight. Yeah. Just like they've lived life to the worst possible degree. Every excess.

Yeah. No, no, no, no cocaine line or fifth of Jack too far. Yeah. Basically. No crack rock unturned, as they like to say in the business. Domos said, Dave Matthews. They kind of all sounded like Dave Matthews. Yeah, that's true.

Somebody the other day was. I read or I saw some video somebody was complaining again about Bad Bunny getting picked for the for the Super Bowl Don't understand mostly I feel like it's bad pick because He's a he's quote unquote

A Dernferner Yeah And illegal Yeah even though he's literally He's a United States citizen He's a United States citizen You know who aren't Rihanna

The Rolling Stones The Who Yeah Name half the people Who have ever performed there and they are not citizens. It's such a stupid thing. But anyway,

those people are dumb, but this one person said, Shikira, yeah, right. Oh, yeah, Shikara, definitely in Brazil,

right? I think. Columbia. Oh, Columbia. I think you're right. I think it's Columbia. Yeah,

I think that's right. It's one of the places you get a lot of drugs. I know that. So, so America. Yeah. Yeah.

Let's see. what was I going to say about this? Oh, the bad bunny thing. And so somebody else's argument was, it's not that he's not a, you know, citizen. He is, but it's, you know, we can't understand anything he says. There's no songs in English. How will we know what he's singing? And this guy goes, well, let's listen to Jay Matthew's band for a minute. And they did and they played a bunch of stuff and nobody could, they couldn't get the words out. This was like, all right, fine. You got me. Yeah. Has Creedence ever hosted the Super Bowl halftime show? Oh, that'd be amazing. Holy crap.

That would be great, actually. Or just John Fogarty. I mean, I don't think we're going to get, we're not going to get creedons back together. No. We could get John Fogarty. But that means he has to do. He's more of a baseball guy, though. If he does that put me in coach song, I'm going to cry.

I hate that song. Well, that's a, what do you do center field as part of a football performance? I don't know if he would. Oh, probably not. You're right. Yeah. Baseball business. Yeah.

Yeah. I've been listening to a lot of credence lately. That's funny you bring them up. Oh, really? Yeah. Cool. you're in your acoustic phase i wouldn't call them acoustic but they are definitely you know americana kind of yeah the kind of southern dirt rock kind of you know borders on like i don't know

what to call it like what do you call uh southern so it's southern rock just southern rock i guess yeah yeah kind of like what's their names where they lost half the band in that plane doby brothers oh Leonard skinner yeah it's like that sort of stuff and oh i this is a thing that you'll maybe find interesting. I didn't know how good or I guess, okay,

I'll put it this way. When I was in high school, I had friends that were really into Molly Hatchet. And I didn't understand. Partly because I wasn't listening to them. And so I thought they were just some

brain rot metal garbage. I didn't know what they were. So I just kind of avoided it in my entire life. And then here lately, because of these playlists I've been playing of Southern Rock and stuff, they keep coming into the mix. And I'm like, who is that? That's really good.

Molly Hatchet. Oh my gosh. I've been missing out, you know? Yeah. I like them. Boy, you know, I guess I only know, I only know like a handful of songs. I've never done Molly Hatchet as a coverville cover story focus. So I know flirting with it.

disaster. There might be one or two other songs, maybe that I know, but I know more for the was it Frank Frisetti album covers? Who did the album covers Oh yeah? It was for Frisetti's the Hatchet guy with the horse and Yeah. Or he did at least one of them, I think.

I think I want to say he did more, but maybe not. Maybe I'm just assuming that every album by Molly Hatchet looked like a Conan the Barbarian comic book cover. Yeah, which I think is what happened to me is I went, oh, this is just some trash. Like, this is just some metal

trash. I'm not, it's not for me because I was into hair bands on. So it just didn't seem like it was for me. And I think I was wrong. There's a deeper, there's deeper cuts in that, their catalog. They've got some pretty, pretty okay stuff. So, yeah, I liked it. They have one of the most

unheavy metal looking logos, though. Oh, yeah. For sure. Right? The logo and said themselves. The albums look like metal, but the logos look like metal, but the for Zeta, sorry, yeah. but the the logo looks like Carnival

looks like you're going to the Renaissance Fair to see. Yeah, good way of putting it. Yeah. Trying to find one, but I don't have one handy. Oh, here. I'll put one in our chat here. Yeah. T.M.S. wherever it is. Right here. There it is. Right there. There it is. There she blows.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So this is, it's funny that this is the one you grab because this is exactly what I think of when I think of them. Yeah. So it's like this goofy, almost Monty Python style. Yeah, right, exactly. Flying circus font. A multicolor banner deal.

And then it's just such a hardcore, dark fantasy freaking barbarian thing going on. Oh, man, Frasetta was so good. Miss his stuff. Well, he wasn't the one to marry Julie Bell, right? That's different. Nope. Julie Bell married Boris Vallejo. I believe.

Boris Vallejo, thank you. The other guy, he did a lot of... The other guy who does incredible comic book painterly kind of looking stuff with massive muscles. Yeah, lots of movies. So was Julie Bell for that, for that. Oh, yeah, movie posters and stuff. Yeah, he did the, sometimes he do comedy. He did the first vacation movie poster.

Oh, really? Was his, oh, yeah, right. The one that's kind of modeled after the Star Wars, yeah. A little bit, yeah, it's got her up on her leg and he's holding his golf club or something. Yes, right. hi whatever I love that yeah yeah uh guys it's time for some news let's uh the news the newsroom's been back there working away for the last 24 hours and they've got stuff to say so we're gonna see what's up over there let's do it Brian it's the news and it's brought to you by well it's brought to you by

coverville today celebrating the birthday of a guy who turns 70 years old today he's uh he's philip oaky and you're like yeah another another name brian of some schmuck that I've never heard of. What are you doing to me? No, I'm going to tell you you've heard of him. He's the lead singer of the band, the Human League. So stuff like, don't you want me, baby, fascination or keep feeling fascination,

mirror man, seconds, but probably known outside of the Human League for working with Giorgio Moroder on what I think is one of the greatest pop songs of all time, which is the theme song

of the film Electric Dreams, the is called Together in Electric Dreams and it is such a fantastic song that no matter who's covering it it sounds amazing sure and we need to do electric dreams as a as a film sack movie oh yeah i've never seen it i it's always been on that list of like i i walk past it eight times at the blockbuster just never watched it's this is a movie aired repeatedly on hbo and gave me a permacrush on virginia madson still it's still intact still holding still intact i just just saw a rerun of a Frazier episode with Virginia Madsen as the new marketing woman at KACL. Oh, yeah.

He can't tell if she's flirting with him or if she's just flirting with everybody. Yeah, that was a good one. But it is really good. You know what? I really am fond of the ones that happen in the radio station. Those are some of my favorites. I am too, because I love Bulldog. I love Gil, the food guy.

I think they're really great, well-developed ancillary characters. And any time you bring him in, it adds an extra level of complexity and comedy to things. But the ones where it's just like, Frazier finds a woman and his neuroticness finally gets to him and he screws up the relationship because he can't stop analyzing it. That's just enough. Enough of that. Enough of those. There's way too many of those. It's like we get it, you guys. getting all it's the almost getting off the island of fraser yeah what it is and it's like to me it's like when the cheers crew would leave the bar they were never as good at episodes as if they were in the bar

you need to be nobody you know i do love the uh the the the cold open where it was uh um norm and cliff playing a joke on witty i think with his car or something like oh i don't remember they were they were hiding behind there hiding behind a car playing some sort of joke joke on Woody and it was a cold open to a cheer is that they actually filmed in Boston in front of the Bull and Finch or whatever it's called. Oh, wow. Because they were never there

for actual shootings, right? It wasn't a studio in LA? No, it was all Hollywood soundstage or whatever, yeah. But there was some cold open where they're playing the joke on Woody and my friend Alan is in the background of that open. Like walks by or something. That's great.

Yeah. It's like what's his name's kid? Lens kids in the very short frame of the Superman movie back there. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I forget which one, the artist one. Forget the name of the son. The one that is such a good artist, he makes all of their artists. Incredible artist, yeah.

He's so good. The rest of us just want to quit. Yeah. My gosh. Oh, my God. Peralta is his kids, man. I know, right? I mean, when you have that many of them, a few of them are bound to be great.

Yeah. Yeah. But they're all, but unfortunately, they're all great. Yeah. We're playing the numbers over there. that's right um here's your first story over 50 million pounds of jimmy dean like the sausage guy yeah yeah not him himself but his he's dead his stuff uh wait then who's doing the commercials is that also there's the state fair brand i don't know what that is i've never had it but um all of this

has been recalled for possible wood contamination oh no the sausage tastes like wood yeah 50 million pounds though That is so much. So this is like frozen corn dogs, sausage products, breakfast sausages, like all the stuff that he makes. It also says here that Hill Shire Brands, a subsidiary of Tyson Foods issued a voluntary recall in September 27th for, let's see, for more than two dozen products sold under the State Fair and Jimmy Dean brands, according to a recall notice. Defected products, including corn dogs. Well, they have corn dogs on a stick have wood stuck in them. there is already wood contamination by a stick by default it's the way there come that's probably that's probably where it came from right like something like um some sort of grinder mishap or something yeah the the the the corn dog stick maybe went into the sausage or ground up or something I don't know yeah that's weird I'm a big corn dog fan I'd like them a lot don't eat them all the time but when I have one I'm like a good deal so here's what you have to do these if these items are produced, or I guess

you'd have to purchase. I don't have the purchase dates. They were produced between March 17th and September 26th. That's a big wad. Yeah, you just looked on your box and it says production date and if it's produced between those dates, then throw it away and request a refund.

Smith's over here, he'll do refunds. He's just take it in there and they'll give it to you. So we'll Trader Joe's is really good at that and so is without even asking questions, you can do it at Sprout. Sprouts is like, yep, no problem. bring it in let's go that's cool we did that once for the former old target rules basically yeah yeah old target

old target not this new target I haven't been in there in so long it's a moving target haven't been in there in ages I have no reason to go in there but you know if anyone out there pops into a target in the next you know whenever and you happen to go by the toy section and you look over at the Marvel action figures like we all do like I do like you do uh and you see the Rom Space Night Marvel Legends, which is the current series out there,

please pick it up for me. I will pay you for it and pay you for shipping and give you a prize or something. Nice. I keep seeing they have a thousand banshees and they never have any Rom the Space Nights. And it's really cool like in this Rom the Space Night Marvel Legends action figure. Why is it so rare? What's the deal? I don't know. I don't know why they seem to have produced a million banshees and each box only has one rom the space night but he comes with a miniature rom the space night one comic book that he can hold and look at oh what that's great yes maybe they're just maybe they're

really popular or something are they can you get them online probably not probably i mean i can get it on amazon but it's a you know there's a there's a there's a price involved there's like a you know it's 30 something bucks but here i'll put in our here's here's a picture in our chat let's take a is this is the uh oh my gosh look at that that's a little more uh detail than i expected on that comic book it kind of is yeah yeah you can read everything exactly it looks like it's even mint like it's in in a my alarm in a mylar bag yeah it does look like that right maybe it's just printed weird but um that's great yeah somebody hook him up find it it's out there no no hasbro uh rom could ever bend like this no like the original the original the original

ROM that you could get. Yeah, look at this. You can pose him. Look at that. Yeah. That's great. I love that he's in shooting pose and he's got this blaster happening, but that's just always there.

You know what I mean? Oh, in the original toy, you mean like that, that, oh, I see which saying the blaster fire is always there. Yeah, he's just always going to have that hanging there. That's fine. Like, it's sitting, you know, he's pointing it down as his belt or hanging on his belt and it's just blast. Yeah, just blast, permanent blast.

it's fine yeah oh stephanie says game spot for 26 bucks it's not bad not bad gamespot.com yeah that's pretty close to the price of the other marvel i can't believe margill marvel legends are so down expensive now yeah why do they why do they charge someone what happened there i don't know everything got more you could get one for like 15 16 bucks a marvel legends figure and now it's now it's silly probably made in china probably tariff to helen back is my guess oh probably Yes. One final story here. So don't eat the Jimmy Deans.

Okay? Is what we're saying. Check your Jimmy Dean sausages and your state fair sauce or your meat products, your corn dogs, your whatnot. And throw them away. Throw them away, damn it. Here's a note that more and more children, kids, they say in the headline. Uh-huh.

Works either way, I think. Are getting burned making instant noodles because of a K-pop TikTok trend, according to doctors. K-pop TikTok. Medical professionals are warning against the new TikTok trend that has caused severe burns and children's. Officials at the Shriners Children's Hospital in Boston say kids have been getting seriously injured,

trying to recreate a scene from the popular Netflix movie K-pop Demon Hunters in which some of the characters slurp delicious-looking ramen noodles, the hospital wrote in a press release. I don't think this is the movie's fault. This is just dumb kids. It's, it's, uh,

Parents not watching their kids if they're, you know, heating up, boiling water in a microwave and putting into ramen. I'm trying to think of the – I mean, it's a scene where they just eat ramen, right? Or do they – I still haven't seen it. They kind of guess they slurp up a noodle. I need to watch it again because Tina hasn't seen it, and Hammond and I are doing it for a soundography special. Oh, nice. I got to watch it a second time, which I'm fine with because that music – I've listened to the soundtrack maybe a couple dozen times, but only watch the movie once.

I've heard the music a ton around here because everybody's playing it, but the film itself still haven't seen it. Okay. Well, anyway, it's at. Yeah, it's right there on the Netflix. It's right. It'll probably be there forever. Yeah.

At least until their next price hike. Everybody's hiking their prices. Yeah. Man, just chill out for shit's sakes. Nickel and dime the people to put you there. Exactly. Let's see. It says here, this is Dr. Colleen Ryan.

Colleen, probably, not coline. Probably, Colleen, yeah. Water boils at 212 degrees. This is Fahrenheit for those over the seas who are wondering what the hell that is. And the design of these cups makes them extremely easy to tip over. When they do, the hot broth and noodle spill under the skin. She is an associate surgeon at the Shriners Hospital in Boston. While adults can receive second degree burns from just five seconds of exposure to hot water at 140 degrees,

children have much thinner skin making the temperature threshold or injury even lower. So you got to, you know, I feel like this should be just, I don't care if there's a movie involved. Don't be spilling ramen on yourself. That's it. Right. If your children are into the ramen,

be there in the kitchen with them while they make it. Help them maybe. I don't know. You're a parent. Now, if this kid is 12, it's kind of on him. You know what I mean? If he's five, I get it. Six-year-old, I get it.

Oh, yeah, absolutely. But a 12-year-old, 13-year-old kid, I think they, if they're spilling and burn themselves, they're just dumb asses. They're not, that's not because our parents are dumb. So, you know. It's also really funny. I mean, it's expected that this is a TikTok trend. Oh, yeah, no. Anytime anything real popular happens, then some trend will happen there and then some controversy around the trend happens.

Just the way it goes. I just learned, we had a trivia question about a TikTok trend is having kids shouting what two consecutive numbers based on a Scrilla song. Oh, I know this. I'm sure you do. Yeah. 6.7.

That's it. Yeah. Because you're on the TikToks, Scott. Well, I don't actually know what it means, though. I've heard it said and people go, yeah, 6.7. According to the trivia question, it's absolutely meaningless. So it's just something to say. It's just something to say.

6.7. That's really stupid. It is really stupid. We did get the question right because one of our, one of my teammates, had just heard about it hours earlier at a company thing. Really? Yes. Well, the one I saw, somebody took an old, from our childhood,

took an old Sesame Street thing, the one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, that thing. And then when the six, seven happened, they did this font work on it where, like, exploded up on the screen with the six, seven. Oh, really? And I was like, what are we doing here? So I checked the comments, and the comments are just people rewriting six seven over and over. sure great excellent i mean we have memes here on the show i get how these things work they sure permeate and people use them or whatever but i don't i'm sure that you know what if i went to check my meme or whatever the name of that side is i could probably find the origin but i don't

you know what kids we don't want it we don't care enough about it no to uh to take to make the effort thanks thanks for no this doesn't feel like it has skibbitty toilet legs it feels like it's a shorter yeah yes there you go it's just numbers because michael did you know michael bay bought the rights to make a Skibbitty Toilet movie? I'm not kidding about that. Really? Yeah, that's the truth. Here, let me find this thing.

This is not an onion article or something? No, I thought it was too. Don't feel bad because when I heard about it, I went, no. Okay, Skibbitty toilet. Let me get the confirmation. Unless I have been completely, if I've been trolled, then I'll admit it. Right. Skibbitty toilet, movie.

Here we go. John Goodman. Oh, that one's fake. Hold on. Let's see. everything we know about Michael Bay's Skibbitty Toilet Movie

Here we go Most notable infamous franchises Rise and Relevance past Blah Blah Blahs The YouTube series Skibbitty Toilet Michael Bay himself Will be helming the explosive

Film Let's see Update There's been an update in 2025 and April Skittie Toilet movie movie is already Something of a punchline

But it showcases how big the brand Has become Set to be helmed by director Michael Bay, Skibbty Toililet, surely a movie that will put Guyats in the seats. I don't know what that is. Yeah, I don't know what that is either. That must be another phrase that we're supposed to know, but we don't. And it comes in the wake of other meme movies like Minecraft.

Minecraft's not a meme movie. It's about Minecraft. Yeah, there's memes in it. There's memes that I haven't seen it, but I assume there are memes in it. This is insane. You know what? If he actually makes this, I'll see it. pay real money.

Because I don't think you do. At some point, you have to look how stupid this is and not do it. Yeah. Have you seen any of these shorts? Have you watched any of this stuff before? I've not seen any of these shorts. I think we pulled one up when Nicole first told us about the phrase skibbitty toilet, right? That she heard from Mateo.

And so she's like, I had to look this up. She gave us a link. We showed it on screen. That is the extent of skibity toilet, my skibity toilet experience. I mean, it's basically just, hear me find one. I can just put up. It's a dude in a toilet laughing and yelling or whatever, right? Yeah, and it's all done in like the Half-Life engine using, not Half-Life, but using the Gary's Mod engine.

So it's all in-game. And what you're seeing here is basically it. There's other stuff. Like they go out and go to war with some other things. And then there's weird shots like this where the toilets have jet packs and they fight these secret agent guys. I don't know. Like someone is listening to this. going, oh my gosh, you guys, I have no idea.

Yeah, I'm right with that. These TV guys, see these guys. Okay, I see them, yeah. This is the whole thing. It's really. Is that, that's the enemy of the skibbitty toilet? Yeah, I think so. Why that guy's dancing, I don't know.

Huh. It's just brain rot. And I'm not opposed. Look, I'm not opposed to brain rot. Honestly, look at these guys. Oh, there's skibity urinals, too. It doesn't bother me that much, but, like, what's this guy got for? Oh, this is someone else posting it.

Trying to see how many users this dude has. Because it's a lot, I think. I can't find his name. Oh, well. Anyway, coming soon. Yeah, great. Not in any hurry to go see the Michael Bay Skibbty Toilet film. No.

But if it actually gets made and he's the director and stays on the project, I'll go see it. That's my commitment. And if he doesn't, I'm not going. It's the things that the Skibbitty Toilet guy has seen is the problem. I think about, uh, I mean, how many toilets... Jokes on you. I'm into this shit.

What's Travis then called us? Well, anyway, we'll see how it all pans out. In the meantime, we are going to bring my sister in here and do a little bit of the conversation. Let's play this for her. Guys, therapy works. It does work. Wendy, does therapy truly work? Can you confirm or deny?

Oh, wow. We're going to start with that. Wow, that's a heavy topic right off. Is it seems like it works? It seems like it works. It better or else you better say it works. I think it does. I think there is something interesting, though.

I mean, we can find different things where it is not the best tool. And sometimes it really is. Sometimes it's not. Talk therapy is different from other kinds of therapies. I mean, you just land on a giant topic. Oh, my gosh. Maybe that should be another day. Yeah.

I didn't realize that. I thought it would be like a yes or no. But clearly there is nuance. I know. Hey, my whole job, I don't think works. Yeah, I don't think my career works. Right. Exactly. Yeah. But it is definitely more complicated than you might have found. Well, there you have it. That's great to hear that. Wendy is my sister. See you. Bye. Bye. Bye. I guess we're just short. Thursdays are now a lot shorter. Yeah, man. Wendy is my sister for those who don't know. She is also a practicing therapist for those who don't know. And she comes here and shlums it on Thursdays and helps us with your problems at home. And you're like another week from being here again. I think.

think. Oh, really? Yeah. Why don't you just, why don't you just move back to me? Yeah, just come back home. It'll be fine. And every time I come, it's so pleasant. Yeah. It's always the week she was here, we had the shooting. Oh, right. Yeah, literally you're at my mom's house like, what, four minutes away from where the, where the killing happened. And the place mom moved to is next to the hospital where he was taken. Yeah. Yeah, it was not, it was a not fun time.

Yeah. And now there, that hospital is, the news again because there's some mix up on autopsy results or something. So there's all this scrutiny. Oh, there's of course going to be some sort of like conspiracy. Yeah. Oh, there's tons of them already.

So many. It's kind of the worst, but it's nice hospital. It's all right over there. But anyway. Talking about a business. Yeah. Yeah. It's going. Okay. If you have hospital needs five out of five.

Yeah. Check it out. Five stars out of five stars. Just don't get an autopsy, that's all. We are going to, so you're coming here for a thing you were already planning way before you came here this. This is supposed to be just a fun one here. Yeah, some friends are hers. Try to remember this, everybody. If you have friends from high school

that you feel like you just fell apart or it just didn't happen, Wendy is like the poster child for how to make that work because these are all the same, this is the same group you've had since high school and you guys every year you make sure you do stuff, right? Yeah, since...

Wild. Elementary school, a few of them, and then middle school, most of them. That's wild to me. I don't feel like a lot of people get that with people they went to school. I mean, we've all changed a lot. And truly, if we met today, we'd probably get in fights. But we have a long history of, you know, made it work.

And yeah, it is pretty wild. I forget to appreciate it sometime. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. Well, I'm going to read us our email this week. It's a little bit of a long one. Actually, this version is the wrong one. Let me put this back in here. Wendy and I talked about it yesterday. There we go. All right. This is from somebody we'll call RK. And he wrote it and says, thoughts on this therapy Thursday. Hi, Scott, Wendy and Brian. I'm hoping you might be able to share some insight and advice for my current situation. I've actually been on this segment once before when I moved to Costa Rica to teach for a couple of years. This time, however, things are different and I'm struggling a bit. Here's the background. I'm 34 years old, an American citizen and have been teaching in the U.S. for the past seven years. I currently live in Alaska. I'm

a single or i'm single i'm a single i'm a single i'm a single i made him italian drink and doubles while i may while i maintain close ties with family were fairly spread out across the country and usually rely on face time and phone calls to stay in touch growing up i was always proud to be an american i served in the air force came from a long line of service members while i don't or while i know our country has made mistakes we've always believed in its core values and identity over the past few years, though, I've watched the country I grew up and become something I hardly recognize. The past year, especially, with increased attacks on teachers and public education, immigration, policies, and ice raids has left me feeling that I can't stay in a place that

goes against my values. I could go on about gun violence, rising costs and other issues we face as a country. In the past, I felt I could weather the storm of different administrations, but what worries me most now is that a large percentage of the U.S. population agrees with the actions being taken. After several trips abroad, I've decided to emigrate to South Korea. This guy's really going to be everywhere at some point in his life. Yeah, I'm kidding. Says I've already deep into the process and I'm currently waiting for my visa to be issued before leaving at the end of August.

So this is, this probably has just happened. Yeah. I don't know why this one got stuck in the peep. But sorry about that. Anyway, he says, where are we here? September. Here's the problem. that said, I'm struggling. I haven't had a full night's sleep in weeks. My sleep is constantly

interrupted. I'm becoming more irritable. I'm carrying a general sense of negativity about my surroundings. I'm not a happy person at the moment. Some of this may stem from lack of sleep, but I also wonder if it's shifting, sorry, if a shifting or loss of identity no longer feeling connected to my home country mixed with worry and uncertainty about the future. I've been trying to stay active, working out, planning, learning Korean, and I seem to we do, uh, I seem to do better when I'm talking positive, excuse me, taking positive, uh, productive steps toward the move. I was hoping you might be able to advise on how to process this new reality or manage stress levels during such a big life transition. Thanks for all you do.

TMS core and all your other shows have been a constant in my life for years and always cheer me up. You truly make a difference. Well, thank you. Uh, R.K. We'll call you. Um, um, great email. Yeah. That, that, that, so he's actually, what's crazy is my brain, I'm having a brain fart because I really want to know how it went now. Because he, you know, this is right before he left, assuming he left. But let's assume he didn't or that we're not there yet. How do you approach the state of mind as written here? Well, he also is saying what this wasn't like, I got to figure this out before I move.

This is probably ongoing in the sense of he's, he's feeling a lot of loss, right? And so moving is this thing of feeling like he's sounds like, sort of aligning with his values a little better because what he thought were his values no longer feel like it fits in the country he lives in. And so this new country is going to, you know, I mean, he's obviously lived in Costa Rica. And I don't know that cultural country values of South Korea all that well because I just have my brother who taught me bad words in Koreans. Yeah.

You know, I'm now no expert, but I can say some pretty offensive things if I want. But, you know, he's going to be a visitor in a, in a land, and he's going to adopt some of those ways. And, you know, but what he's ultimately saying is, like, my home doesn't feel like my home anymore. Yeah. And it's really depressed him, right? Right. So I think it's a great, a really great question. And you all got to forgive me that everything turns into my happiness class promo.

Well, you know, as it turns out, it all seems to be related. It really does. I think it's because everyone's miserable. Honestly, it's really apropos. But it really is, there's a couple things going on. So my most recent email I sent everyone and you can go to my website to get this free document. But it's called The Grief Hour and what it is and it's exactly the thing I would suggest for him is to go get it and follow the instructions. But basically, let me say this, we don't grieve enough as humans.

We don't, we need to grieve. As a cute teenager I ran into the other day, she just started crying. And I'm like, are you okay? And she's like, oh, it's just like, it needs to come out. And it just is now. And you seem safe enough. And so she just started crying. I was like, oh, amazing awareness, because you're not wrong.

Sometimes we just need to cry, let it out, grieve, whatever. But most of us are just plowing through life. And every morning, I'm going to make a big assumption here, every morning, 95% of you, are reading about horror and devastation and anger and hate and nightmares, and then having your coffee and going to work. Yeah, kind of. Yeah. Every morning, every morning I get out of bed and I make the same sound.

Uh. Right. So that is what we're putting our psyches through daily while we then go walk around, most of us in our safe neighborhoods, living our fairly boring lives. and but we have like pre sort of set ourselves for managing the worst things we probably could imagine happening right okay so that is the start and then we're wondering why we don't feel so good and so here's the thing everyone is saying the same thing in their head but I need to know what's going on right okay so there's a combination of things happening so here he is paying attention

And paying attention is an important thing to do, but we are built to pay attention to a newspaper that came out in the morning and that you physically read. Maybe that was even too much for us. I don't know. But we were not built to be sprayed in the face with hot flaming oil every morning, right? We don't manage it well. So we aren't processing it out. We're just getting numb to it. We are or we're deeply in despair because of it.

you know, our systems will all respond a little bit differently, and then we feel pretty crappy. And what we don't ever do is actually grieve any of it. So I'm taking news specifically because that's how I'm sure this person in Alaska found out all the things about America that he is not liking and feeling disconnected by. And you know, you mean like the royal news. Like he's not getting it from necessarily, oh, I tuned into CNN last night and heard all of these things. He's getting it from potentially. social media and podcasts a million sources youtube sources yeah yeah and people who are just like version of it you can find exactly people sitting in their car giving in their hot takes right

like that is where most of us are hearing the rage or hearing the unbelievable thing or you know whatever and so it it's it's like it has the tendency the unofficialness of it actually is more affecting in some ways which is why it works so well it's why the algorithm will just keep giving you what you want to hear and it will get further and further down that particular road. You are miserable and you have not processed one thing you've heard, right? So let's just take, okay, both of you woke up this morning. Both of you saw something terrible. Tell me what it was. Give me one thing. Oh, that's funny because today, and I mean this, 100% I mean this. I made a point of not doing that today because Kim got home last night from

Mississippi and I was like, I want to be present. I want to be here. And in the morning, I want to wake up and hang out with her. We're going to feed the dogs. We're going to talk. We're going to discuss our week, what we're doing. Like, I avoided, I didn't even open my phone today, except for music. I did for music. That's all I've done.

Did you hear what you just said? Yeah. You just said, I chose happiness today. Oh, did I? Yeah, chose it. Yeah, you opted for happiness. I did opt into it. I opted to be present.

Yeah. Therefore, awake, alive. And I would add the happy part. Yeah. Most days of the. I'm not going to be, I'm not going to pretend like this is me every day, but most days it'll be like, all right, I'm on the can. Here's my phone. Well, let's just check my replies. Okay, cool, cool, cool. Wait, what's that guy talking about? Oh, why did I look? I don't want to know about, you know, the Hegseth thing in front of all those generals. This is so stupid. And then I'm mad for two hours. Exactly. Okay. So, Brian, do you have one since you? Yeah. Today was an unusual day for me, too. But I did not choose. happiness. You chose violence today.

Chose violence. I chose violence. Just sat in the morning. I didn't have to do daily music headlines. So I just went to the kitchen, made a bunch of Molotov cocktails. And then I went to, no, I'm kidding. But no, because I didn't have daily music headlines this morning, I'm like, oh, you know what? I can do the New York Times crossword.

The Thursday New York Times crossword with a cup of coffee and sit there. And we watch, you know, regular local news until 7 a.m. And at 7 a.m. switches to the Today Show. And I did not turn off the Today Show when Savannah Guthrie started chatting about the government shut down and that stayed on. And so it was a matter of like keeping my focus on, all right, oh, this is really cool. New York Times crossword puzzle all about Mind Sweeper and oh, what the hell's going on in

the government. So Brian, by choosing violence, you chose you chose multitasking. I chose, yeah. Which was laziness of not turning off the TV is what I chose. Because you would have really enjoyed just the coffee. I would have. I would have. Right.

Okay. So you were close, Brian. You're so close. I was close. I made an attempt in my lack of reaching over and picking up a remote. You know, I like having noise on in the background at all times. I don't like dead silence, whether it's music or just some dumb YouTube video of some guy who's wandering through Disneyland talking about how long it takes to get on to Indiana Jones.

Sure. Woodworker. Whatever. It's all the damn time. Let's keep it away from a news. Okay, so a great example of like just a small thing that we're adding. Okay, so let's take this idea that any of the above things, anyone has read that has caused them to feel horror in the last, you know, week and a half,

did you guys do anything to process that terrible news? And when I say that, process meaning you really sat with it and felt it, you talk to someone else about it, you cried about it, you worked through it, like any, any working through of any of the traumatic information that has come into your head. No. I did not. No, I finished the crossword puzzle. I turned off the TV.

I came downstairs and I started working on an ad for Camilla red kidney beans, actually. Oh, okay. Yes. Yeah. And maybe a government shutdown is not enough horror, but like, you know, you have seen things or heard things, right? Most people, you're just being normal. Most people don't immediately go process that, right? And we don't necessarily need to do one right away or, you know, every time we hear things, we stop and need to cry or something. But we're talking about an accumulation and it's tricky. And this is how we know, and this is getting back to the emailer. We are aware of. of everything. I don't know if the United States has a good track record of not being horrifying in certain things, if we knew it all at all the times, right? I don't know if that's true. I'm not going to speak for any other country, but our history is rife with problems. Yeah. Right? And so that our attunement to it, our constant attention to it and that things have

actually gotten so much better and it's the contrast is really pretty interesting. So to be alive right now is fun, and we're not always great at having historical context or knowing what other people experience to know if it's so much worse or better, right? That's why I read history when I'm stressed about current events. I read history. Exactly. In fact, my kids were asking for extra history books to read. I'm like, you guys are nerds.

But it was to just have more context. And I think because it also makes them feel better, right? Oh, it absolutely does. I'll tell you this. The other day, I was like, I'll take a current thing. Let's just say, oh, Portland, you're a bunch of crime rid and whatever. We're sending the military in there. And I go, I hate this. I hate this. I hate this. And I get all bummed about it. And then what I do is I go, all right, let's go dig around. What was the, what's the, who were, who, what leaders were the worst to their own people? Regardless of class or anything else. Like, who was just terrible to their

own people? And I learned about some dudes like, I forgot his name now, but this Indian ruler started his rule with just the most iron fist horrible bloody awful rule and then he found buddism and became one of the most beloved caring uh society lifting individuals in in leadership history of any kind this is all like you know bc era stuff and it was a it was a great deep dive but it's great to get context on like all right people as long as we've been keeping record have been here for whatever reason we feel compelled to put someone in charge and then we have varying results from that sometimes it's good sometimes it's bad sometimes it's terrible but there's there's there is this feeling sometimes you can get where it's just like no it's just to us and it's right now

because we're living it now whatever your perspective is on the current set of things you you think that what you you may think Trump sucks or you may think that everybody else but Trump sucks either way you think you're experiencing this for the first time and that humans have never gone through this so going back in time and seeing it even more recent history but going way back even just as it has a way of like clear in my head it just makes me go oh yeah okay well we're good and humor really helps with that too right when when you can laugh about these okay right so history is helpful there's also this dynamic of you're seeing it and then doing nothing with it Now, this guy, he's moving to another country, right?

Like that sounds like he has some cool skills and he can live in a lot of places. So he's just like doing that thing. But is feeling this real disconnect from his country. And that is, and this is going to be true for family connections, any other piece or thing in life that is complicated is that sometimes we just really crave that it would be simple. right so let's imagine you have two emotions happening the exact same time one is you know you're excited about something and you're also devastated by something that is really hard for any of us to be like you know what I love I love having that at the same time we actually kind of it's kind of uncomfortable it's difficult

we don't quite know what to do with both and you know like I can both be this and this or I feel this and this and that sort of feeling is not comfortable in our brains. It creates some cognitive dissonance. It creates some, you know, emotional disruption to be of two minds, right? And so you can both love your country and be really mad at the things that are happening in it, but you have to actually know how to sit in that. And that is true in a relationship. That's true in if you're raising kids.

That is true with a neighbor that it's a, it's a. a human challenge to be able to do two things, emotional things at once and be okay. Most of us have to try to, usually have to get out of one of the feelings that makes us uncomfortable. This is why when you find someone all in one camp, that's what they've done, right? They're all in and they cannot see anything else because it is scary. We're sort of not built for it and it takes work and effort. So Scott, you gave an example of a dude who went super swung to the other side of peaceful and calm and gentle, but had to grapple a guarantee with being problematic, right? Or the hard work of that.

Foray out of his comfort zone. Exactly, exactly. And most of us are not thinking, like, I need some deep inner philosophical work on myself. I need to grapple with, you know, and some people are, right? But I think most of us are just ingesting, going about our lives and these sort of horrors and griefs and watching people rage at each other is traumatic. Unless you grow up a home where everyone is screaming at each other all the time, you're not used to it in some ways. But I think we've all become used to it. It's like we're all in an abusive house. And so we're getting used to levels of rage and the stuff that gets thrown around.

and it is traumatic. I don't care if you're aware of it or not. It is traumatic. So when something's traumatic, we usually need to process it to get back to some healthy homeostasis. So that's my recommendation is that you grieve. So I'm going to talk to him specifically again, that it is time to grieve the America you thought you had. And it's and working through that. Just and it can be anything grief is absolutely tied to happiness they are absolute shaking hands right like if you don't work on moving through grief in your life happiness will never be yours because it is it weighs you down it comes out sideways um it is actively it the process is healthy it's necessary but when it's stuck or it is piled upon piled upon piled of things you have never worked through or grieved

And oh, man, it has a huge effect. So I would really recommend he do think, think through that, think through what grieving might look like. Happiness being on the other side of getting through that grief, like thinking it was like a, you know, once you get over the grief hill or the mountain. Yes. Happiness is the valley on the other side. Yeah, it's on the other side. And then there's more grief in that valley. Yeah.

Because that's how life works. Yeah. But you can only do grief and stay forever in grief if you, if you never process it. And then happiness is really, really hard to fit in there. So when I look at his story, I mean, he has this amazing opportunity to live in these multiple places. He sees how functional other societies are. He sees other cultural things. He can really appreciate.

But there is nothing like your own where you are from, right? It's your family of origin. And when you look at our American family of origin, we have a whole history of violence, political violence, especially. um taking stuff from each other rich being real mean a bad poor suffering uh people owning each other like we have a long like difficult history that i think if you're comfortable and you're in a group that you know has a lot of privilege you just have an experience maybe in your in your life and so it can be shocking to be like how how is this the place and you ask anyone who's maybe had a different experience from you, they were like, well, it's always been this way for me anyway,

right? And so it's waking up to what it is can be painful, right? Waking up to find that the person I married is actually a psycho or something. Like you're, you're the scales fall from your eyes. It's difficult. And so I would challenge anybody to to grapple with their own grief and loss. So I would even say, make a list of what you thought America was for you, for anyone, what you thought everyone believed in what you what you you you did and what do I need to grieve or cry about you'll find that some of those things still do exist maybe you still have some hope but maybe sorting through on purpose rather than what I think most people do I think most people just keep watching the news and keep seeing that it's so bad and and then literally carrying that and doing nothing with

it well it's hard to it's hard to forget or it's easy to forget that the the rage is a business now And it's a lucrative one. Like you can make a lot of money. And I don't just mean big mainstream billionaire, you know, media companies. Some dude can get online right now make a YouTube channel that farms rage. And within six months, he'll have a giant following and a big paycheck every month. Nice little paycheck. Yeah.

So it's just that's the other thing that's really hard to forget or hard to remember is that that's, that's the right now that's where the money is. I always say follow the money. It's really helpful right now to follow the money because if you do actually go out of your way to follow it, in all of this stuff, you see it move and you go, oh, well, then I'm just a sucker. You know, I am really just in a, yeah, yeah. Perfect example. Charlie Kirk is murdered? A friend of mine goes, is Charlie Kirk your neighbor? She had no idea who this person was. And she looks it up. And she goes, oh, he's just a lovely family man. And a good Christian. And I was like, so that's what the algorithm fed her, okay? Interesting.

Yeah. That person next to us. Yeah. But what she's looked at before, she's a confusing. I bet the algorithm doesn't know what to do with her because she's very confusing. Anyway, but that's what she gets. And then my other friend next to her looks him up and goes, no, no, no, he's a bigot. And he's a misogynist and he's horrible.

And we're all standing there. And I'm like, okay, well, there's the algorithm. It gave you both what you want to hear and what, and, you know, so guys, guys, what's the truth and it was just a really interesting discussion to have and then i recently saw something maybe you guys saw this on them the the old crackle barrel logo problem yeah sure that happened um essentially they found that you know 40 percent of all of the the posting and the spreading and the whatever was just bought yeah always is yeah so so take that those numbers and that can seem like yeah yeah of course but how real is it that someone with the name you don't recognize

in a picture that you don't like is saying a thing that's making you furious i mean sex used to sell remember when they sell like um hamburgers with sex now it yeah now it's just kind of free just go get it right you look at the new big mech ad and if you look really closely at that patty it it spells the word hate yeah and you're like i'm gonna buy it now it's just food flying in the air slow motion that but it used to be a hot chick on a car are eating a burger. And because it works, but what works so much better is rage. And so if you're hearing this and you're like,

I have a lot of rage, I'm going to tell you right now, you need to grieve. And I know rage feels like the opposite of grieving. Stop feeding your rage. And you also need to look at what you are not actually processing. But we never stop feeding ourselves the rage. And that's the thing that really, really needs to happen. So to this guy, first of all, I hope you have a blog.

last in South Korea. I hope you get all of the things you're looking for. I myself have lived in another country where I fell in love with that culture and saw so many things America is missing. And then I also saw the things America has that no one else has. And it's a complicated mix. Yeah, there's no, there's not a country in this planet. There's no country in this planet, nation, group, whatever that doesn't have one of these complicated paths. Like I, dude, Europe's great. love my British friends, guess who has a really complicated past? The Brits. It's a freaking mess, man. And I'm, and I'm just saying, like, it's easy, it's easy right now because, you know, big boy in the block gets all the attention. I just think we get so bunged up in this team mentality.

I just wanted to go back to just people on the ground. Like, and Scott, you're right. And that's exactly what I would recommend to anyone is that you are adding on purpose. I'm quoting that because it's really hard, but you're adding misery-making elements to your life every day. And then when people are like, I don't know why I'm so miserable, it's like, oh, no, you're literally adding it to your day every single day and engaging in ways that are making you mentally sick and emotionally exhausted and in despair. And that sounds crazy to be like, guys, this is a choice like when I at the beginning when I was like you chose violence Scott chose happiness we it is there's a half a second a quarter second we have that we can make a different

choice it's so hard I know we're all in in the midst of this and this guy's case he's just like I got to get away from here so I can manage this right and I think there's value to that and not everyone can do that so what everyone else needs to do is also find a way to get some space and my my best advice for this is to get as local as you possibly can do the thing you care about and actually do it because everyone who is quote unquote needing to be informed. I mean, that is a universal sentence I hear from people, but I can't get off my social media because I need to know what's going on. And yeah, that's how human brains are built. But I always like to say, okay, so tell me what you've done with literally any of that information. One thing. And it's usually, well, I fought with

my mother-in-law on Facebook. And it's like, okay, give me one thing. Now, there are people, of course, who are like, no, it's on the ground. I'm going to go do a thing because I care about this thing. But it's almost impossible to do that when we're flooded all the time. You guys, it's the handbook of fascism. We all have, we know this. Flood the zone.

Flood the zone. And so the key is to turn off the hose, choose happiness, and do the thing that matters. Do the one thing that matters, and it can be so dang small, and you've got to start there. So that would be what I recommend. I mean, he's already moved on. I'd love to hear from him. So if he hears this, please write in, tell us how you're doing. And maybe if you're willing to do the grief exercise, so it's at no better you.

com. K-N-O-W-E-T-T-U. Dot com. Under the therapy 101, it's just the grief hour. And it just guide you through how to do grieving. I have clients who do it once a week. just like as a regular practice, it is a game changer, I promise you. But it just kind of guides you on to like how to process something.

Because most of us are not taught. Our parents don't sit us down and go, now this is how we go through all our feelings. If they build up and we need to feel better or we need to lay something down that has been bothering us. Like nobody teaches you that, right? And so it's a guide for that. So check it out. All right. Do it.

Wendy, always good hearing from you. Can't wait to see you again. and I guess we'll barely see you because you're going to be busy, but we'll see you a little bit here and there, right? Maybe. Yeah, that would be fun. You can stay at Misha's because that place is empty right now. I know.

I might go party. Just swim. Yeah, you could swim. I mean, the pool's warm. You could do it. I just play pickleball by myself. Yeah. Side of the court.

Yeah. Sweatting to the oldies. I love it. Wendy, a fantastic week and we will talk to you next time. Okay. Bye now. I don't know if that means we'll see her next week or not.

Oh, yeah. Good point. If not, we'll do it. call now. Start getting your questions ready just in case there's a call now segment. Yeah. All right. That's going to do it for today. Frogpants.com slash TMS is our website. Everything you're looking for it, you'll find it there. So go check it out. Brian, let's play a song and get these people home. Yeah. And just a reminder, Coverville today, Human League starting up in about 15 to 20 minutes, probably close to the bottom of the hour. If there's a top of the hour, there certainly has to be a bottom of the hour.

sure um so that'll be um uh coming up here probably at uh half past over at twitch dot tv slash coverville nice uh core today at 1 pm as well everybody so if you want to see what's going on in the world of your favorite video game hot damn you want to know why EA's in trouble right now for selling themselves to the Saudis we'll talk about it you want to know why Microsoft's stupid for raising things and their stupid price then you'll get to hear about it so state of play uh just happened to you'll talk about or is that that state of play that was another it's another thing more recent state of play was last last time oh yeah you'll talk about the new steam autumn sale probably oh yeah that's definitely going on it's earlier than usual which i have a theory about so i'll see i just picked up

uh rogue book finally because it's three dollars rogue books is awesome buying it great game yeah yeah of course love it been on my wish list for for months nice anyway uh Troy wrote in said uh all having gone well i will have married Tracy by the time i hear this episode we were from opposite sides of Australia and met on a holiday tour of the USA. We just connected over there in the heady days of 2019, and after another quick holiday and meetup, we had decided to see where the relationship would go right before COVID kicked those plans right in the nuts. After a year of weekly video dates and long phone calls Tracy moved from Melbourne to

Perth to see if we could stand living together. Fast forward through some holidays and life experiences, and now I'm honored to be able to call her my wife. Tracy, I can't wait to share many more days, holidays, experiences and life with you. I love you so much Signed Troy. We'd like to hear a cover of TNT as we're now

Tracy and Troy. Oh, I love it. That's great. That's a great tattoo, one of those tattoos where you put your hands together and you get the full thing. There you go. We'll do a little TNT matching tattoo or connected tattoo. This one, I'm surprised we haven't played on the show before, so let's get

to it. It's by the band Hasey Dixie from their hillbilly tribute to A.C. DC from 2005. Here is TNT. Point, point, point, point, boy, point, point, point, point, point, point, boy, boy, boy, if you know what I mean, point, point, point, boy, boy, white, boy, women to the left of me, women to the left of me, women to the right ain't got no gun ain't got no night don't you start no fight oh i said boy cause i'm t n t n t n t and i win that fight t n t and t m'n t m'n t m'n't i'm a power to love t n t and t watch me explode

wanted man public enemy number one you understand so lock up your daughter lock up your wife lock up your back door run for your life the man is back in town

so don't you mess me around boy I said boy cause I'm TNT! I'm down the might T T T TNT! I'll win that fight T T T TNT I'm a power load TNT Oh!

T&T, more, more, TNT, I'm Danamac, TNT, I'm Danamac, TNT, Halman that's right, TNT, I'm a power to load, TNT, watch me explode, This is part of the This show is part of the Frog Band Network. Yes. Get more at frogpans.com. Shut down. Shut down immediately.