The Morning Stream - TMS 2901: Swantroller

Episode Date: October 9, 2025

From the Eye of the Cake. Talented Little Bastard. Uber Confessions. How did Tudors have sex, 'cause I really like wanted to know. The Fiber Thickens. Freebasing the Internet. Wink-wink Martindale. Waymo Money, Waymo Problems. Dump Right Into It. No Box for Robot. Brushed my dog, took my teeth out for a walk. Stink at the Town Hall. Swan Warden vs Terminator. The Sexiest thing is Rage and Horror. Spilling your Coconuts with Wendi and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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We don't mind as long as you sign up at patreon.com slash TMS. coming up on the morning stream from the eye of the cake talented little bastard uber confession how did tutors have sex because i like really wanted to know the fiber thickens free basing the internet wink wink martindale way mo money way mo problems dump right into it no box for robot brush my dog took my teeth out for a walk Stink at the town hall. Swanwarden versus Terminator. The sexiest thing is rage and horror. Spilling your coconuts with Wendy and more on this episode of the Morning Stream. Thank you very much. Oh, thank you very much.

Goodbye. Goodbye. Well, all the mess and shit, I thought it was some kind of monkey virus, like in that movie. The morning stream. They wouldn't give us any more fish. Hello, everybody, and welcome to TMS. Today is the 9th of October, and it is the morning stream. I'm Scott Johnson.

That's Brian. Hi, Brian. Hi. Hello. You know, you try to mix up how you say the date and stuff. Sure. And your brain wants to stay on the road you usually are on when you say this. date and today that actually was painful to try to change it up to divorce yourself into something

different something uncomfortable yeah that's good to do i was reading this thing yesterday about uh who was it was about some it's actually a game show host but i can't remember the name but you would probably know this guy uh i can't remember but he had this rule where his introductions had to change every episode wow or else he was going to quit or whatever he had to keep it fresh is it a wink martindale of course you know who peter to mark it is of course i know peter to mark it is who's peter cullen's uh the optimus prime isn't he or is he another there's another there's a or is it john co no peter peter cullen i thought was the guy's name no definitely cullen is the last name am i confusing too um all you're making me want is optimus prime hosting a game show that's what

you're making me want yeah no who is the uh Bill Cullen. Thank you, Lydia. Bill Cullen. Ah, gotcha. Bill Cullen had these big Coke bottle glasses and was the, I think the original host of the Price is right before Bob Barker when it was like a weird little black and white sit down show. Oh, I learned something new. I didn't know there was a pre-Prices right, Bob Barker. That's wild. It was a sit-down like talk show type thing. Well, kind of like to tell the truth, you know, what's the other one? What's my line kind of thing? It was black and white that people would sit down.

They would bring prizes. And there was no, there was no mountain climber. There was no Plinko. There was no, none of that stuff. And no walking around with a little skinny mic and all that. No. No. They'll call and just sat at a desk and said, okay, well, the next item that we're going to be looking at is a box of brillo pads.

I had no idea. I think, I think 42 cents. Bill? Was there a generation of kids that would stay home from school sick and watch that version? No? I doubt it. I could only, like, this was on some TV land game show, you know, history thing. And I can't even imagine watching a full episode of that monotony.

Oh, yeah, that would probably kill me. Yeah. I think I could do it. I mean, I loved, like, the Bob Barker era of... Sure. Oh, who didn't? Yeah. Like every, you know, they bring somebody up at every time.

It'd be a different game. You'd get that one where they have the piggy bank. They have to keep guessing numbers, but it's either in the price of the car and the price of the microwave or in the penny bank. And they'd always get the $4.92 in the piggy bank or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. And you'd have Bob Barker in a pair of like Johnny Carson looking pants. Sure.

Ill-fitting 70s pants. Oh, man. Sure. Those are great times. Good times. Those were great times. Yeah. The plot is thickened a little bit on my Google fiber front.

Oh, yeah. Really? Okay. Not in a bad way for me, though. I still win in this in this scenario. Okay. But I found out what's going on yesterday. I did a little more digging.

I noticed that it's the lines and the cones and the lookout we're digging trenches, warnings and flags and everything are just in this kind of big square. Our street is on this square. But it's like a bigger, it goes around the house is behind us into the street opposite of them and then it stops. but it's like an enclosed square with all these flags and every one of those homes has a little thing out front that says Google Fiber coming to your door and so everybody's going to get it right there and I went that is such an odd thing

considering I'm in an area that has massive and has grown massively since I moved here a lot more houses, a lot more blocks tons of them yeah so I thought well what is the deal here and then I remembered there was something when we moved in we live in this in this block that is considered it's called founders park okay and what that means is these were the first houses built here sure in oh seven or oh eight or whatever it was when this whole area was developed and we're one of those houses in fact we were a model home for that

okay i didn't know that until recently i found that out huh interesting that explains why some things are really well made here in the house and why some things are not as well made we're just just a little facade to help sell houses yeah i'm sure others can relate to that it's stupid how that works but anyway um and i went and i thought well this can't be a coincidence that the exact founders area is the exact zone yeah yeah and so i did a little more digging and found out that the HOA for all the new people is different than the HOA we're on. We're on some sort of grandfathered-in OG originators plan and it's cheaper. We pay way less than they do. And part of that is they get like law and service out in the front and on the curbs and all its other stuff and but also those prices

just went up. And for whatever reason, this zone got guaranteed by the planners or whatever that they would always just be grandfathered in. Yeah. Which is good. I didn't even know that. I'm happy to be paying less. That's wonderful. I'm sure you are. yeah um and so that's that's one part of it but the other part of it is all of the they have a deal okay so this isn't a city but it could be it's growing to the point where it could be and the resisting changing because once you'd go city you can't have HOAs anymore so it's still a incorporated i don't know what you call it a whatever they call that so people are all paying HOA fees and the new people pay more than we do a fair a fair amount of more and

Part of what they get is free base DSL Internet. Oh, it's included in there. Yeah, and they get that from... The base level, it's got to be garbage, I'm sure. Yeah, and they get that from CenturyLink. And they get... The phone company, okay. Yeah, and they get like, I don't know what it is.

It's probably 20 up and... Or 10 up and 30 down, or I don't know what it is. Some piecemeal thing, but they all get it for free. And for most people, that's fine. Do you know what kids in the house need streaming games, or you're not creating a podcast or something like that, then you're perfectly reasonable. Not a big deal.

But anyway, they all get that for free. Well, us in the founders area, we don't have that feature. Because we're grandfathered in, these things that were added on later, we didn't get.

So we don't get free internet. We can have CenturyLink and Comcast or others, but we have to, you know, with 100% we have to pay for it. So then I'm like, okay, well, that's interesting. So then a little more digging.

Turns out CenturyLink, has some kind of wink wink, wink, nod, nudge, nudge deal with the founders of this place where they said, hey, if you make it so that Central Link's kind of your partner for all your internet and keep other competition out of here, that'd be cool. And part of that promise was like 10, 12 years ago, they said, oh, and we're rolling out fiber ourselves. So keep Google out of here because we're going to have our own fiber in here. Well, they have never done it.

It still has not happened, yeah, obviously. Right. And so 10 years, 12 years later, suddenly this little block shows up with big Google signs. What I think happened is Google finally said, because Google stopped right where all this starts and went past where it all ends to the next city and just kept going and just leaped us entirely. So I knew something was fishy. But somebody somewhere, I don't know if it's someone on my street, somebody in this neighborhood made a stink. I figure maybe you'd have been at a town meeting or what do you call those? What do you call that?

Like a town meeting or like a board meeting or not board meeting because it would be residential meeting. Like a neighborhood. I don't know what the hell that is. But anyway, somebody probably went to one of those meetings and said you're holding his hostage and we don't even Town Hall. There you go.

You're holding us hostage and we don't even get the option here in the OG neighborhood that was here. right you all get your free internet but we don't even have that we don't even get the free internet yeah exactly so either give us something yeah so what's happening it appears as google has just it they've gone instead of having to go through the let's call us the i don't know instead of cutting through the cake they had to go to the center of the cake and carve out a little block in the middle so there are houses like on all four sides around you that aren't going to be getting this benefit well on the outer skirts of that line. So the old neighborhood, it's basically, let me think here. Actually, we are one corner of where it starts. Okay. And then everybody passed this little corner, they don't get the option. But everybody likes in a big giant square going back around and over. So it's probably, it probably encompasses 25 houses, 30. Oh, wow. And that's it. And so we're getting it. As soon as next week,

nobody else is. That's funny. It's the weirdest thing. And there must have been some legal reason why they caved because or whatever. And part of it might just be that CenturyLink's just dragging their feet and never did the fiber thing like they promised and maybe they're about to

lose it. Also, I don't think it's legal to block certain kinds of competition. So maybe that's where they start letting up. I don't know. Maybe. Yeah. But anyway, that's what's going on. I can see this leading to like, you know, oh, now these guys get fiber. We want fiber. Screw you, H-O-A. quit your little agreement with Centrelink

because they haven't delivered on their promise. Yeah. And they'll start branching out from us, is my thinking. Yeah, yeah. You know? So anyway, it's crazy. Well, good for you. Yeah, nice.

Yeah, I'm excited. So what I'm going to do? I mean, I'm kind of over the moon about it. I can't wait. Yeah. Oh, I would be too. I'm getting it. And then I'm going to have,

I will keep one secondary DSL backup for the rare time. Things like that happened last week. Yeah. Yeah. For the rare time. time that as far as i know google up time is real good so i don't think i'm even going to have to deal with it but i'm going to have it there so the listener we're thinking of you you know yeah yeah always them that we're we're we're back up that's right yes anyway i'll report more on as it as it goes

but i was thinking about going out and just doing a video and and then stirring up some trouble in the neighborhood oh no like go like man on the street to all the other uh yeah put it on next door and say weird why is this only going in this border i wonder if these people across the street about not getting a fiber internet but your neighbor across the street will yeah exactly see what they say yeah holy shit i could i could really kick up some i don't want to though because i've enough going on in my life you know i'm busy brian i'm busy yeah well plus i mean what's the joy of making other people feel bad scott come on now no i if anything i would only i would want to do it to stir up the chances of them all just getting options like let them have a choice and let this thing

spread. The thing is it is a little disruptive like you can't park in front of your houses right now. There's there's you know ditches and these weird ribbons everywhere and part of the front not the lawn in your in your

lawn lawn but just outside of that. That little strip on the that strip. Yeah they've all got ugly trenches in them right now that are probably not going to look that great until they heal up over a year or two but I don't care. I'm getting fiber man. Yeah exactly. Yeah bring it on. Yeah I checked and

And Xfinity will give me fiber, but I don't want Xfinity. Their prices, the first year, nice and cheap, 50 bucks a month for the first year. Great. Sounds great. But then it goes way up. 140 for what I'd be needing, and that's ridiculous. Yeah, I did the same. I had them, because for a while, they were my only option.

That's what we swapped out for the 5G T-Mobile box thing. Oh, right, yeah. Which has been great. It's been really good. No big issues other than a couple times. where it went completely out sometimes it's a little because it's basically a wireless 5G technology a weird storm system will cause it to be a little fruity or something sure um i wish everything well fiber is so that's why this fiber is exciting but i wish everything was as consistent as

dsl just faster right because dsl is always like just rock solid consistent no problem it's just slow in comparison yeah um so anyway i'll uh you know who knows maybe as soon as next week, TMS will be streaming from this place anyway at the highest rate possible to where Brian, we barely have any lag anyway. Did you say this time next week? It's that quick you think? It could be that. They told them. That's what they told me. Wow. Yeah, they said we could have it as early as next week. Jeez. Okay. That's amazing. I think it's because they're starting literally right out in front of my house and then moving toward the square on the other side. So it still seems like you'd have to finish all that up and close the loop? I don't know how it works.

Yeah. I don't get it. I would think that's crazy. I'm not going to count on anything, but that's what they told me. We'll see what they say. Well, it'll prove me, folks. Won't make me look any better because your boy here is still rocking TDS, whatever that is, cable internet up and down. Oh, is it a cable? It's a, I didn't know it was a cable service. That's cool. It's a cable service. It's not bad. We're getting a via coax. No, no, you know, all things.

I mean, we haven't had horrible downtime in a long time I think of so I mean, I guess that's a plus And those blips we were having Have gone away Yeah, whatever those were I forgot about that That we'd get that little quick little

Yeah Things would be back on That seems to be way better now Yeah All right you guys, we got a lot today We're going to dump We're going to dump or jump Maybe jump right into it

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just the way you are, all that stuff. Today, Twitch.tv. I also don't like Uptown Funk, but I do think he is a talented, haunted little bastard, for sure. Did you like it when it was called Walk the Dinosaur by Was Not Was? Did you like it better when it was that? That's why it's so familiar.

Yeah. Is that what bugs me about it? Maybe. It's what initially bugged me about it. It's like boom, boom, shuckalak-lac-a-boom. Wait a minute. That's Walk the Dinosaur. What are you doing?

That similarities now are never going to leave me. That's crazy. He's never going to leave you, yeah. Well, he's fine. I like him fine. He's fine. Sure. Sure.

And is he still in gambling, is he still in gambling, Vegas or whatever. Is that I don't think so? I forgot about that. Yes, I'm sure he is. I was like 400 grand or million or whatever the hell it is. I forgot about that nuts. That was crazy. Yeah. That was weird. All right. Watch that today. Happening pretty much right after the show. Yeah. Yep.

California police pull over a self-driving Waymo car for an illegal U-turn, but they can't give it a ticket. Just wad it up and throw it in the front seat. And there you go. Oh, I love that idea. When it returns back home, then the... I love that I did, just toss it in there and say pay that you, whoever gets this car. Police in Northern California understandably perplexed when they pulled over a Waymo taxi after it made an illegal U-turn. By the way, have you ever been in one of those yet?

I have not. I have not, but we're just now getting them in Denver pretty soon. Yeah, I heard rumor. We're getting them here soon, too. Maybe they're doing a big expansion. All the more reason to sign up for Rock Puzzles Monthly, folks, because that little side project of mine, the Uber and Lyft driving is probably going to be going away anyway. Do they show, do they, is it, they have data showing that this is cut into that pretty hard?

Or do we know in the areas that it's in? You know, I don't know. That's a good question. I should ask my brother in Phoenix, they've been there forever, and they kind of started testing there. So they've had Waymo for years and years and years. I should ask him, like, do you ever do? I mean, this is an interesting question. Do you, for people who've used it, how long do you have to wait?

I imagine you request it just like you would in the other ride. how long does it usually take for you to get a Waymo to your door? Yeah, I'd be really, yeah, like what are the differences? Right. Between the two options. It's close enough in price between that lift and Uber. I imagine some people don't want the kind of the fear of the autonomy of like, well, this thing just took me to a parking lot and drove in circles for two hours and I couldn't get out of the car.

Or some people might be like, oh, I don't want to have to interact. with a driver. Give me a driverless car. Yeah, I could see that. Yeah. I could see some people want to be on their own. I drove, uh, did a little Ubering yesterday. And, um, first woman was from Bali, Indonesia. And the second woman was from Italy, from the Venice area. And the third woman was from Lithuania. And all three of only three rides for the old day, all three really long rides and all three of them told me their life story of how they got to america and and all that sort of thing like it if i did a podcast of uber stories these would be some great episodes like you know talking about talking to these women yeah yeah bet they all had great stories the lithuanian woman

would not i mean the whole time i barely the only things the only words i could get in was were things like oh wow oh neat really oh that's cool well she had a lot to say yeah she just went She would have had the same conversation Whether she was in an Uber or Waymo, I think. My niece Morgan was just in. She was just in Bali doing some kind of trip. I don't know what she was doing there. Really?

Yeah. That's a big like vacationy, the rich and famous kind of place, right? It is, yeah. I don't know much about it. The beaches are just beautiful from what I see, but they have flooding issues fairly regularly, I think. Or recently they've had. Yeah.

I could see that. Yeah. Well, here's the problem with the Waymo thing, is if you get a Waymo, you're going to pay Waymo money. Waymo. I don't know. Actually, I don't know if it's cheaper or what the deal is. But anyway, these officers stop this vehicle because it made an illegal U-turn. It's nice to know robots do that too because I feel better.

It's surprising. I mean, if your system knows that it's illegal, that it's making U-Tune here would be illegal. I'm amazed that a Waymo would do that. like you wouldn't be like, nope, I've got to drive around the block. Because that's the right thing to do. Oh, I love its voice. I want it to be that. I want to, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Hello, are you going today? How may I serve you? It looks like you want to go to MicroCenter. Is that correct? Thank you, passenger. See you next time. Yeah. It says, let's see, officers taught the vehicle,

declined to write a ticket because the citation books don't have a box for robot. That's, that's a, Yahoo making a little joke funny. There you go. Officers contacted Waymo to report what they called a glitch. I don't think the company has responded yet, but it could have been one of those deals

where, like we had one of these out near me where it was a normal it was a legal U-turn area and then they put up a sign said it's no longer a... Oh, sure. So it could have been that. I ran into areas all the time where there's a different, just using my regular map

you know GPS stuff on the on the iPhone where it says this is the 30 mile an hour zone and and the signs clearly say 40 and so it's like okay yeah this has definitely been updated recently yeah I did that yesterday in the car in fact the car said the speed limit was 50 and the area I was in had signs that said 65 so something hadn't been updated and you worry about that because if you got like a really old person who's just like well the car says 50 and they just aren't they don't budge when you're going to have two people too slow and they'll get they'll get tickets for being too slow and right well i was looking at my GPS screen not at the signs on the curb i see everything i see on a screen is real uh black swan nicknamed mr terminator this this story spoke to me because of my ties with uh the mendoza clan

from years of course of course uh black swan nicknamed mr terminator evicted from a town after drowning the local birds, other local birds. Wow. Okay. It was gnarly, dude. I haven't even seen Black Swan the movie, but maybe there's some stuff in there. Yeah, you'll be surprised if you think it is anything to do with this.

Probably not. Is that a, that's a Paul Thomas Anderson deal, isn't it? Or am I thinking of Jaredofsky, or Jared, not Cheritovsky. Darren Aronovsky? Aaronovsky. I think that, I think it's Aronovsky, but I might be wrong. I mix those two guys up, constant.

Sure. We talked about that on, what you might call it? Yeah, Darren Aronofsky confirmed. On FilmSack, I think we talked about the confusion between the two. I don't know why I did that, but, and I don't even think,

if I watch one of each their movies, I can tell, I just don't know why I do that. It's really weird. To me, they're the same guy. Anyway, a black swan has been removed from Stratford upon Avon after it became aggressive with the area's famous local mute swan.

I think that's where, is that where the bard, William Shakespeare is from, Stratford upon Avon. Oh. I think. I think you're right. I mean, I know that comes up in Shakespeare talk. I guess so, yeah, right? That's why he I think that's where he's from. Yeah.

Where he did all his weird writings. I don't think anyone ever calls them weird, but it's fine. The bird, not to be confused with the bard, named by locals as Reggie and also nicknamed Mr. Terminator, was captured by Swan Warden Cyril Benis. There's a Swan Warden.

That's cool. Swan Warden? Oh, it's too bad you couldn't have, like, made a christened yourself the Swanwarden back when Mendoza was around. Folks, please clear out of the air. I'm going to be dealing with this bird right here. I only climbed, I only climbed as high on the rank as Swan Comptroller at the time. Swan Troller.

Swan Troller. That's good. Swon Troller. I love it. Anyway, he says, let's see. His warden, I guess his warden's been there for 45 years, geez. Wow. He says that he's now being held at a local, or not duck,

the swan is being held at a local park before he will be moved to the Donish Waterfowl Center in Devon. Quote unquote, to live with the nice family upstate. Yeah. That's what it sounds like, right? It does, yeah, exactly. last name is Benis, like Elaine Benis, wow. Yeah, Benis.

I've never heard a real person named Benis before. But he spells it like Dennis with a B. I think Elaine is B-E-N-E-S, if I remember. Yeah, or there might even be a Z or something because remember the episode where the guy thought she was Mexican, that she was dating, and she thought he was black, but they were like ambiguously

Oh, really? Yeah, it's a great episode. I've forgotten about that one. I remember the Changstein episode, but I forgot about She's like, aren't you Hispanic? He's like, aren't you black? And neither one was heard. It's great. It's really good.

He says, let's see. Very exciting to have a black swan appear. The black swan not native to British rivers was so regal in many respects, says this warden guy. However, for some reason, this fellow, Mr. Terminator, as I call him, decided that this would be a quite nice place. So during the winter months, it was lovely to see. Everybody fell in love with them, at least initially. Oh, you're right. Here we are.

the Stratford-Ponavon made more popular by William Shakespeare. There it is. I missed that before. Everyone was coming to Stratford to see the black swan. The problem is he started killing all these other mute swans. And I don't even know what a mute swan is,

except it feels like a mute swan wouldn't be able to complain. Right, right. He's good. Oh, shit, the black swan. Hard for us to do the joke of portraying the mute swan. when we, you know, want to show that doesn't have dead air. No, we can't do that here. This is, this is...

So Mute Swans are famous for their S-shaped neck and orange bill with a black base and a black bump. Okay. Okay. I'll buy that. Yeah. I'm into it. I'm into what they're selling. Too bad there aren't mute geese, like all of them.

I know, right? Oh, mute geese would be amazing. That'd be amazing. All right, we're going to take a turn. We're going to turn directly into the traffic of helping each other out, trying to, trying to, trying to solve your issues and your problems with this. Sorry, Wendy. Sorry, Wendy.

You're all right. All right, that's a, well, that was a weird one. Hi, Wendy, my sister Wendy of Therapy Thursday fame. How are you? My name has been used in so many weird contexts. So many. Yeah. Why?

I keep looking for new ones and I don't know why I do that to you because most people I just play their little intro forever and never change it. But for you, I keep looking for new Wendy's. And I found this. Well, how many times says Scott? Like, how else do you say that besides like, Scott? Scott. I don't know. Scotty. Scotty comes up. Scottie. I hate my name. My name's dumb.

Real quick. I found this cool. I found this cool website. People might be interested. This is how I found that windy clip. You, it's called clip.coma. is the website. So clyp and then dot cafe like a cafe you need that. And you just search for any phrase, name, phrase, anything. And from any TV or movie, it will just give you a ton of results. and you can find your name mentioned in, you know, some old 40s movie, something from last week, like just huge list. I don't even how it does it. That's cool. And you can even narrow it down to specific years or length. That's really slick.

Isn't that cool? It's free, too. So that's kind of nice. There's like a competing version of this that costs. Don't do that one. Yeah, no. That's cool. Yeah, do things that are free.

Make people work for free. That's what I see. It's such a good solution to all the problems. Yeah, all our problems are solved suddenly by this recommendation. Anyway, Wendy's here. She is the Therapy Thursday person who comes on here and slums it with you guys. In her real life, she is an actual therapist, helping people all the time with real problems and the purveyor of no better you.com. We'll talk more about that later.

Let's get to this email that we got from you to share from somebody we'll call, I'll just call them Jay. I don't know if they want us to use their name. They didn't say. Okay. Hey, SB and W. I know you've talked about this before, but maybe you can give some specific steps to take for my situation. My problem is that I can't unplug ever.

I'm glued to the news and social media 24-7. I'm obsessed with gun violence and constantly overwhelmed with the fear every day when I send my three kids to school. It's making me anxious, angry, and exhausted. I want to pack up and leave the U.S. forever, but I can't. I'm divorced and their dad is here. and I wouldn't do that to them. Still, I feel trapped and scared most of the time. Do I just throw my phone in the toilet and get a landline?

Do I even need to be informed? That's what I've told myself for so long, but I'm not sure my sanity is worth it anymore. It's killing me, thanks, Jen. Or shit, I gave their name. Well, anyway, this person named Jen. The person's name is Jen. There's a lot of Jens.

So here's the thing I wanted to just insert real quick. I heard a quote from country songwriter, singer, Zach Ryan, I think is his name. Might be Zach Brian. You'd think I'd remember that with so many Brian's in my life. He was being interviewed about what he, you know, the state of things and social media and the sort of thing. Sure. And he says, I'm pretty sure people weren't meant to hear about anything that wasn't out of earshot. In other words, we grew up in tribes and villages, the human race, I mean.

you're better off not knowing what was going on in the other tribes yeah you the most you would hear is like oh so and so dropped his his basket of coconuts down by the river and you would hear that through hearsay and then you could maybe help you could go do something about it or make a better basket or you know there were things you could have action on and it was about one person spilling their coconuts but anything more out of earshot we weren't we're not biologically able to to handle 60 billion voices as we flick through them for hours on end, just being told a million things. And then not having any way to be actionable about something some guy in Australia said that was controversial or whatever. I'm summarizing here, but he basically had this whole thing

about this is how he has had to stay sane, is to remember what biologically he's meant to handle versus what the world keeps telling us that you need to be informed. You need to have 50 billion voices telling you 50 billion things when we really can't not just don't but can't so that was a thing i don't know it related it made me think of this so i don't know wendy if that's helpful to yeah i mean i've never said that on this show before so yeah it feels like we're repeating it yeah look we've got this if you were a famous singer i would probably have you know people would have heard me say it i guess sure no he's absolutely right and and and i think more And more, I mean, I don't think I have a day now in my job where most of my clients were having a

conversation about this. It is most every day. And I think it's because the toil like it is showing. People are worn down. And so maybe your, you're sort of behavior with information before just kind of was here or there, like it wasn't a big deal. You were just excited about. the things you're excited about and yeah you'd hear some some sort of crappy stuff but i mean i think truly the algorithm has found the sexiest item it confined and that is rage and and and horror and all the things that get our attention right because if we if we really boil this down to what is happening our eyeballs are um our our our our leverage in life our attention are this where our money goes that's where our you know people don't want anything else from us truly they want our attention

and it's so hard to get someone's attention now because there's so much. And the thing that gets it over anything else is going to be the worst, the most dramatic, the shocking, you know, it's sort of like, you know, I think I've said this before. I would never be good at predicting future cool stuff because I'm like, there's no way reality TV is going to work. Right? Just who wants to watch that? That's terrible.

No, it's exactly what the human wants. It wants to see drama that they're not. actually sort of involved in. So there's like innocent, cute versions of this. But I think as we, you know, we're inundated, there's, there is a real effect on our well-being. So recently, I've been looking at a couple different studies as I'm focusing on happiness research and some stuff. And I found a lot of stuff that has just been like, well, yeah, okay, this makes sense. And here's some proof. One of it being a study about people who consume a small amount, of information so for example remember the old days where the paper came a boy

threw it in your driveway and you got it and you read a couple things and then you went to work like that amount is someone being fairly informed feeling like they kind of you know that need we all kind of feel like we have is which is I got to know what's going on it it satisfied that to some extent and then you like went on with your day so the balance of your time was really different than what it probably is today. So like everyone pull out your phone and what have you been looking at and how much of it would be quote unquote news cycle information, something terrible happening or endless commentary about it from people like your favorite country singer, right? Like you are

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Visit Connix-Ontary.com. Let me share something real quick that I'm just so ironic that this is today's discussion. And I didn't actually see your text till this morning. So I didn't know we were doing this. But I made a very specific choice this morning when I got up to not grab my phone to immediately go do other stuff, get ready, brush my teeth, take care of the dog, whatever it is. and not do any of that. I listened to some music.

That was it. And I don't normally do that. Normally I grab my phone. I'm like, all right, did I get a bunch of replies on stuff? Do I need to talk to anyone? Did I get text? I need to worry about. And when I got all done and ready,

almost time for the show, I thought, well, I better make sure there's nothing weird going on. So I check. And I got text from mom. She answered me from last night. I got your message. And then a notification for a story on the BBC that says,

how did the tutors really have sex? What happened in the 16th century bedrooms? And I'm like, even the BBC's trying to get me salacious nonsense. Yeah, they're stepping it up. But anyway, that was it. And so I can tell you, I don't know if it's evident in my presentation today, but I'm a way better mood. Oh, it is evident. I can, I sense at the minute you answered the phone.

Way better mood today than I was even last night or the day before or, or whatever. But I will admit there's like there was a pole. There was like a, I'm in the bathroom like, you know, looking for what I'm going to wear. Okay, I'll wear that sweatshirt today. I haven't worn that before. And I go, or in a long time, and I go, oh, where's my phone? Where's my phone?

Right. Like, you still feel like this weird pole. And I ignored it. And it's not that I haven't done this before, but it's, it's rare. And you just don't think about it because no one's stopping you. No one's warning you. There's no sign up. that says don't pick up your phone you know you're just not doing it and and for people who just

naturally do this i have so much admiration for them because they they they are making choices everyone could make it but it takes effort if you're already in there right if you haven't if you're not sucked in then it doesn't take as many choices but you know where does their phone sleep when is it on and not on like yeah i mean does the iPhone even need to be turned off i don't think it does You know what I mean? Like, everything is built so that you, the ease with which you can do something and make a choice that actually, and here's what I'm getting at with some of the research I've looked at, is that it is subtle and it is slow, at least initially, but it absolutely deteriorates our ability to enjoy life. And so, for example, you did one morning and you enjoyed your life more. Like, that's how quick it can rebound, which is super cool.

but it also is the constant drag of day after day after day has an impact. So, okay, so going back to you read the newspaper for a few minutes, you're informed, they have looked, and they've done this for a couple different decades. So it's different kinds of news and how we're accessing news, right? People who have a sort of certain amount of access to news versus people who have way more. So we might think more is better, right? People who have way more are less likely to be able to predict. actual risk. They think everything is worse than it is. They are not able. I mean, think

about if you're listening to murder podcasts like all day long, you are going to think and you're going to be wrong that most people are murderers, right? But if you've read for a few minutes, like if you just read Tudors and how they had sex, well, let's say that was the only news you had access today. You might wonder a couple times through the day like Tudors. That's gross. Okay. And that would have been your mental poll. But most people are looking at 86 different things their brain could go in all of those different directions. No one dives very deep because it's impossible if you're looking 86 things. And it is taxing our brain. And this is just biology. This is not like you're a good person because you,

and that's our problem, right? I need to be informed. That makes me a good person. I hear that constantly. But how will I be informed? And I love that the emailer was just like, I've been telling myself this for so long. Do I actually need to be informed? And the science tells us, no, you need to somewhat and for it. You are in fact going to be much better at life if you know a little bit. But if you know way too much, you are, you're not actually, you're going to get worse and worse at the ability to see what my community needs and my safe. All of the things we are theoretically paying attention for. We do much better when there's less. So I always tell people this. And this would be my advice to Jen's is to pick one source and take. So Scots is the BBC

and it's their ancient history sex series. And that is all Scott gets to read on that day. Okay. So pick your source that you like, because guess what? You're going to do that anyway. And the algorithm is only going to feed you that anyway. So pick whatever you like and go deeper. So do one thing deeply.

Okay. Maybe you can scan two things and go semi deep, but no one should be doing more than three to five ever, right? And what you do is you do that and then you eliminate the rest. and I have watched, and this is what got me excited about this email, is I have currently three or four clients doing this exact thing where they are allowed to be informed. I'm allowing them to be informed about something that matters to them

and that they can go deep on. So this person, obviously, is very concerned about gun violence. And if you are just getting sprayed in the face with the hose of everything around that and constantly, you know, people trying to get your attention to get you to domain, donate money or participate or whatever and you just get hosed in the face and do nothing then you're going to stay in powerless and fear and whatever so go deep on one topic or one place that you enjoy and then um then this is the very key part turn everything else off see how you feel about your life and then do one thing that actually matters right and so in each of my clients cases i mean we went

from one week i'm blown up my life i got to get to Canada i cannot do this anymore to I am volunteering at my kids' school, and I am actually enjoying making dinner for my friend and create, like building actual ritual in life that brings the meaning. So our problem is not that we aren't happy, or we aren't built necessarily to be happy, but what our problem is we give ourselves

so many ways to be unhappy. So when we sleep bad, or when we are constantly staring horror in the face, right? It's just impossible. It's impossible, you know, to do that. But we're built for this. So I wanted to share something that I actually talk about a little bit in the class that's coming up. And you guys may have seen this. Oh, let's see. Scott, I'll send it to you. Yeah. Turn it over. It is been around a minute, but it's the cognitive bias codex that somebody made with Wikipedia. I don't know who to give credit for this too. I should have looked that up. But it is all the ways our brain has biases and problems. forms. So when you pull it up, it's like so cool. Oh, that's cool. That's cool. That's a fun.

And so you can look. And what I wanted to show you is you look at the core tiles, right? There's the what we should remember and it shows you how we edit and reinforce memories after the fact and, you know, whatever. And so you can click on any of these things and then I'll pull up the Wikipedia page to show you with that. This is really awesome, dude. I know. Isn't it cool? I'm impressed just from a technical standpoint.

Forget about the actual value of the content for a minute. right? I know. I love it. It's a beautiful way to visualize information. That's, I love. Yeah, they did a very good job. Yeah. That's great. And so if you look at the quadrants, you have what should we remember need to act fast, not enough meaning and too much information. Our brains, I mean, look at the green with all the too much information. We, I mean, we have so many problematic mental behaviors that mean too much information. We don't process fairly, correctly. We don't process fairly, correctly. We won't remember correctly. We are primed to see things that we might not have seen otherwise. We're drawn to details that just already confirm our existing beliefs. We see flaws in

everybody else, not ourselves. You know, it's just, anyway, so if you want a deep dive to see why you're- I'm doing this later for sure. This is rad. I know, that cool. Yeah. It's super cool. I just gave it to the chat. So chat, it's in there. We'll also put it in other places, Discord and stuff, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so like there's a hundred of these, thousands of these. I think this is pretty, I mean, it might be all the ones I've ever heard of. But anyway, so it's pretty cool stuff. But I think, and one of the things I'm going to do in the class with people is help them see their own cognitive biases and how they play out and making them miserable. Because so often, we don't even know

these things are happening. And then we wonder why we are so miserable. And so when I have my clients get off social media even for a week or get off the, I am quoting real hard with my hands here, the news. Then what happens to them is that there is cognitive space for some other things to happen and all the biases that happen as they're ingesting that information. Right. And so you might be like, oh, what do I do with this? Well, there is some definite better ways to handle it than I think what the technology has been designed for us to do, which is scroll eternally. and never get off right um yeah and i don't know if you guys have heard of this you know sometimes you only hear about it because of the connections that you have but a lot of younger folks who are

just like pretty sick of this and miserable are getting landlines like you know the dumb phone movement trying to get dumb phones back and just hearing about this like yeah like going back to retro tech like uh yeah like um digital cameras so that they don't have to have a phone with them and And it all comes down for like the, you know, buying vinyl and cassettes and things like that, kind of that, that moving back. Do you see that as a good trend that a lot of, like my daughters, both my daughters are way, way into that. Like they want to, they're moving to much more. Yeah, just more analog like stuff. Yeah.

You know, in particular, they're, both of them have bought into these like, their, they're traditional cameras with all the traditional. sensing and flashes and all that stuff, they've saved digital files because nobody's running a photo mart anymore. But even in Taylor's case, she's doing photo shoots where she's taking actual film shots and then taking into a place where a week later she finds out how they turned out. Like they're kind of doing this weird thing on their own. They're feeling that pressure to back off a little and not. Yes. Yes. And analog, what it does, like anything analog, because okay, we got to remember moving forward through time, which you both have done. Good job. And when things were added and parents freaked out because they were like, oh, these boom boxes are going to be the death of us. And that was adding technology and ease. But the difference between some of that analog and what we have now is those were communal. My cute neighbors in their 80s were like, your house is so quiet. My kids were so loud. It's because all the music they could ever play had. to be loud, right?

Yeah. There was never a way to put it in their own ear in the in the 70s. And so or the 80s or whatever. And I mean, it became that way, but that became more individualized experience, less communal. So one of the challenges we have is what we're craving is connection with people that feels safe. Yeah.

And what we are doing is spending so much time utilizing all our cognitive biases, by the way, to think there are so many enemies. Yeah. Right? Oh, yeah. And that is the, you know, playbook of fascism and totalitarianism, right? You have to have people afraid. And who better than to be afraid of your neighbor who is a slightly different religion or color than you, right?

Like that has been throughout history. So that fear and building on that fear, there's so much power in managing people that way, unfortunately. And so I think what we all need generally is have less. fear and have more communal connection like more real stuff because one of the I was looking down at that one of the things here it says we think we know what other people are thinking there are six biases that we use to think we know what other people are thinking yeah right and then the one next that we project our current mindset on everything like our brains are constantly doing screwed up things in order to survive but those things mean we're going to

have a bunch of made-up stuff in our head if we don't check our biases, if we don't. So if I hate anybody, I really need to sit down and have a chat with that person. That's the best way to break that apart, right, is real-life experiences. And the more we're isolated, the less real-life interactions we tend to have. So we have these things happening at the same time, right? Overload of information and scrolling. I mean, nobody feels good having their head bent over for hours a day. If you did that without a phone, we would call a doctor. Like, you're not, you're not okay. Right? But we're smashing our organs, our hands down. Like, we're not doing ourselves any favors. And so people investing in chiropractic right now. It's, it's like the, you know,

cash, the cash situation making it hand over fist doing that. Yes. A hundred percent. And, and that is, you know, so we behave in ways like we're not okay. And then we wonder why we're not okay. And so it really is about identifying, okay, there's a couple things I do that don't make me feel good. So, Scott, you found one. You found that if you start your day reading everything and, you know, managing email, even if it's just email, you are bombarding your whole system out of the gate with stress.

Yeah. And you have no wind up to life. You have no pay attention to anything, right? like you are you are setting yourself up to be miserable for every single day and we all do it and most of us don't think twice about it we just think that's what what it is but most people are aware that this is creeping this is a creeping problem i i bet if i asked everyone to raise their hand is this worse for you than it was a couple years ago you would say yes oh yeah yeah yeah yeah which is funny because it try not to get you know i'm not trying to load this on too heavily on

of one aspect of our lives. But there was a bit of, there was a moment there in 2021 where I thought, oh, okay, we're gonna, we're okay for a minute. And now that's back and it feels worse than ever. Yeah. And everyone knows what I'm talking about.

I'm not trying to dance around it here. But, but yeah, you just can't help but feel it's worse. And I thought I learned some things, right? Like I thought I learned how to, I don't know how to say this. I thought I learned the first time how to deal with this stuff because I experienced it,

made bad choices with my own mental health, and then said, well, I'm not doing that again. And here we are now. And I'm not doing some of that again. It's just worse now. I don't know. I can't explain.

It's freaking heft up. I don't like it. It is. And it's like a car accident. You can't quite look away. Yeah, not quite. I need to know if I need to. pack up and hike over the

the Canadian border, right? Like that, there is just that feeling and we can make it so much worse and we can also just deny it exist at all. Like you can imagine many stages and places people go to handle all of this. And it is our lack of self-awareness, which is one of our cognitive biases, right?

Of knowing what is a good balance for us, what is healthy for us, and what means we can, you know, do something we want to do or we care about doing um one thing i find just wild because it is just the opposite of my personality is like these people in portland like dressing up in costumes or like playing the bagpipes or whatever i've been watching love the videos of the people in the inflatable panda costumes and squirrels and stuff like that i love it yeah and i think okay there you are being yourself and taking a step in a thing that matters to you yeah

That is not something you do on your phone scrolling. And I do think this illusion that we've done something because we have, we are a task. It's a task to scroll through. It is a, you know, and it wakes us up, by the way. Have you guys ever noticed that where you're just like super sleepy in the second you get a little fun device in your face? You're like, and I'm awake again, right? Like we're torturing ourselves in so many different ways. So sometimes it's figuring out your own rhythm.

So I would say to Jen, first of all, go to this. this website, read about all you've got me in my. Oh, no kidding. It's great. I'll make a short URL for it too because it's a little unwieldy, but I'll make something that's easy to tell people about. This thing is rad. And it's been around for a while.

Like, this isn't new. When I showed Adam, he's like, you mean the U.X designed beautiful? I was like, okay. I was like, this is where our world's meet right here, baby. But it is. It is really, really cool. And it's humbling. When you start to read some, you're like,

Oh, no. What is that? The list length of effect? What does that even mean? I've made too much long of a list or whatever. I don't know what it is. But it's good. It's good for you to play around and see where you might have some hiccups. I had a client the other day just say, I need help with self-awareness. And this is someone I also, she'd have to kill me if she told me what her job was because she was in United Intelligence and she would have to kill me. And I'm always like, come on, just tell me something. She will not. So trust me, the secrets are safe, everybody. Anyway, you know, we did the no social media thing. She lives, you know, in D.C. with all of the chaos and is like, I cannot tell you how much more hope I have, how much more trust in people that I have.

And I'm seeing such good work from so many people who are smart and care. And you're like, yeah, you miss that if you're focused on everyone's a moron because I saw it on TikTok. but she asked me how can I be more self-aware and I was like I just need everyone to note you don't ask that question while you're in the flood zone and overwhelmed and miserable yeah the self-aware question right you are in survival mode yeah yeah self-aware is a different brain state that's interesting too that's actually good to hear because you do forget that's oftentimes times of tension and stress do do bring good stuff to the surface oh yeah you know powerful effort uh strong sense of of community and like these things can come

out of that absolutely and you just if you're not exposed to it you just don't see it you just are like yeah i'm a lot to see everybody is effed up as as you see on tv right now now tell me this the last time you saw a piece of good news can you guys tell me well it was the last time you saw something lovely well the bigger question is do i remember it because maybe it was there exactly i don't think I remember. It's sounding, I mean, I heard some this morning just sounds like the, we're in the first stage of the, or I guess yesterday afternoon, we're in the first stage of the, uh, um, hostages coming back. The, the, you know, uh, Israeli, Palestinian thing in a first stage of getting resolved. So that was, that was some good news. That is good news. Actual like resolution news, like something where I could go. Yeah. It was what I'm getting Google fiber next week, possibly. No, that's not it. That is good news, though. It is good news, but it's not really, I mean, it's news for me, basically.

I think it's actually going to be hard for me to answer that. I don't know the last time I read something, saw something, heard something where I went. Oh, a bright light and a dark room. I don't think I've had that lately, which is partly why I did what I did this morning, because I'm just like, all right, I'm out of the rage bait algorithm for today. I don't want to do this. Yeah. Don't go back in.

But you can seek out. I mean, and our brains are built for this, right? It will remember 10 horrifying things. And then the one compliment, the one good thing is just a slipperier because that doesn't keep us surviving. But reducing the negative input, increasing our focus and awareness on some of the good stuff makes a massive difference in our brains and how we feel. And we wire a little more to look for those things, you know, when our good buddy,

Mr. Rogers said, look for the helpers, he was describing neurology, actually. Like when you are in a hard place, if you can train yourself. You can literally train your brain to see good and to see the helpers and to be the helper. But you have to put effort into that versus- You have to physically look for it, yeah. You do. And the other brain- By the machine.

Yeah. Exactly. The machine is training your brain all day long too. is training you to think everyone is a killer and everyone is a psycho who's ready to narcissist you or whatever right like it is the the awareness and the prep that it is giving us is making us all so it's also important remember he was talking to children which is a reminder to us as adults that we need to we need to take care of kids during all this you know what I mean like do we really want to send another generation forward with just nothing but negative input and I don't know how we control that because they're being targeted by the system,

by the algorithms, by the apps. But, you know, he's telling kids look for helpers. We like to take it and extend the metaphor to adults. And we can and should, right? There's there's obviously benefits to that. But every once in a while, I'm like, yeah, he was talking to kids. Are we really taking care of them? Are we doing what we're supposed to be doing to make sure they're okay? I always think that. Anyway. Right. And I would argue most parents in their fear are, you know, there's a, there's a lot of hope in a new generation of parents who are just really do care about the psychological, emotional health of their kids and have skills and access to ways to do that better than maybe other generations, right?

But it also means they're feeling a lot more and they're, and it's scary, right? This is, this is hard. And so, you know, for parents out there, if you can put that phone down, please. please figure out a way to do it because again admit it our risk assessment is off like we aren't actually better at anything because of it now there is a way to do it and that's sort of reasonable and this is part of adulthood right is figuring that out i don't know if you spend any time with teenagers which i have been hanging out with a few recently and they're just brilliant and so aware and it's hard it's scary to be that aware and hard right like most of us were like a lot of

that skip off into the 95 or whatever you know like and that's because we're we sometimes underestimate that that children actually are resilient to so much more than adults are adults facing it you know we're running out of steam so yeah yeah children are the future there we go yeah we're going children are in the future watch them put the let them lead the way how's the song go that's pretty much yeah you're actually you stumbled right into it or T you did it was a Deep in your psyche. Teach your children. Well, that's another song.

We could do all sorts of fun stuff. All right. Well, Wendy, this has been great. I know you've got stuff piled up here to go to. So we're going to hustle through this. But tell us what's happening at no better you.com for you. All right. So this is the final week to sign up.

Classes start Monday. And how it works. And, you know, Brian, you've been through this, that classes get released Monday. And then we all meet live on Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. To do the thing. Yeah, and that is, do the thing is not happening. It's going to stop because we do the labs for the class.

But what happens is everybody can meet and we work on this stuff together and it's really fun. And then if you miss it, you can watch the video. So you can do all this out without talking to a single person. But what is so fun about it actually is the group dynamic and the friendships that get created and just such good people. It's just, it's really fun. And I don't know about anyone else. know I'm just like steeped in this, but I am practicing what I'm preaching and I am telling you, I am 10 points above everyone I know in terms of my well-being, just because it works.

Like everything we're doing is very much well, well-researched and documented and you do it together and you have the support to do it is just such a game changer. And I feel like 2025, I don't know what anyone needs more than to work on their well-being and making sure they're okay for themselves and their families and I agree you know everybody so anyway so please head to know better you.com it's the um happiness molecular happiness course and the signups are ending midnight on Sunday and uh hope to see you guys there yeah that'd be awesome take it easy I'll see you when you get here you're on your way to in real life soon yeah yeah we'll uh we'll hang out at moms and uh you know she'll wonder she'll call me mark four times

It'll be great. Yeah, and she'll tell me my hair's weird. And we'll have free ice cream. Yep. And no spoons. They don't have spoons there. They don't have spoons. I know.

They never have spoons. I'll see you soon. That's so weird. B. Y.O. Spoon. It's really weird. They don't have spoons. They have this ice cream machine for all the people that live there and visit and no spoons for the little cups. I don't know what's going on.

And that's the third time I've been, no spoons. That's funny. Get your shit together. Yeah, no kidding. I like you say, you're going to start bringing your own and just like, spoon to my pocket. That's right. A quick note. Just reminding me of this. We have a group or Discord channel in the Frogpants Discord. Frogpants.com slash Discord if you're not already in there called do-gooders. And the entire point of that thing was to create a place for people to get together and come up

with ideas and support each other and trying to do good things in their community or report back on how something went. It isn't just a bragging stone where you're like, well, today I put my blanket down so a lady could walk through the mud or whatever. It's just like a good place. to talk about doing good in your community, or your family, wherever it may be. And I forget to promote it. When you talk about putting your coat down for somebody else to walk across,

you're giving people ideas of, you know, you know what, I could do that too. So it's not, you know, even though it might seem like a brag, it's like, no, here's what I do, and it made me feel better, and it made the person I did before feel better and gave other people ideas. So, yeah, hop in there.

It never hurts to share that stuff. I agree. And there's a ton of good stuff in there all the time, and I just always forget to promote it. So go check that out and let's do some good. All right. Yeah. One quick note from Jamie who sent us this email, text rather, and says,

Dear Skibbitty and Boosin. Busen, I think maybe. Bussing. Probably be bussing. Bussing. Yeah. Is that a thing still? What even is that phrase?

Bussing. God, I don't know. Yeah. Busting. Short for busting. I feel like it was like a way back in the Rund DMC era thing. But maybe it's something new now. I don't know.

My Adidas. All right. It goes on to say, I had a good laugh listening to your discussion on brainwrought words in 2897. You're right, 6-7 is indeed nothing at all. But when you started talking about the Skibbitty movie, which I would rather watch paint dry, he says, you talked about putting Gai-Ats in seats.

Gai-ats equals butts or ass. Guy-ats, okay. Why, though? I have no idea. Butts is easier to say and is less syllables than Gai-ats. Yeah, great. And where does that even come from? I don't know. I've got to go look it up. I guess we can look it up. Putting gats in seats.

Funny enough, my 10-year-old daughter created a username to play a game with me on iOS, and her username was literally Guy at 67 or 67. This is my life now, says Jamie. Yeah, I don't know. You know, when we were kids, we just didn't have the internet to show it off, but everybody had dumb words we used all the time. And then we had our little friends group that would do it. Yeah. But we didn't have a place to blast it out or, you know, meme it. Exactly. Yeah. We had to just do it in our local groups with our friends, gats apparently is the way to pronounce it, or gats, is what people are saying. All right. So you put your, go, I'm going to, get in seats. I'm going to kick your gat.

Then why, why have an extra T and a, uh, why in there if you're making up a word anyway? I don't like it. I'm sure there's some entomology here where you can look at how I'm sure there is too. I just don't care. Yeah. You know what I'm not doing today? Finding that out. I'm not doing it. Right. Yeah, I'm not looking that up. No. Uh, uh, uh, send your emails and your text. send your stuff. Go find all that stuff at frogpants.com slash TMS. You will find links to everything, including a way to request songs or otherwise contact us about whatever

you feel like doing. Speaking of music, Brian, let's play some music. Yeah, sure. And don't forget, Bruno Mars coming up in about half an hour at twitch.tv slash coverville, starting that up right away. All right, let's get to a request. This one comes to us from a person

whose name is Hannah. Hannah says, it's my dad's birthday today. His name is Curtis. He has been my hero since I was a little kid. I watched him fight cancer several times over the years and beat it each time. No matter how bad the treatments made him feel, he always made sure we all felt safe and taken care of. He made sure that we always had Christmas presents and had birthday parties. Even when he was so drained from treatment, he would still play with us or take his places that we wanted to go. I still remember waking up one morning and

he'd fallen because he was so weak from the treatment, his lip busted, but still sitting there cracking jokes and making sure we weren't scared him being so brave and kind has made me the person that i am today so please play this song on october 9th so he knows how much he means to me signed hannah white oh it's really nice i couldn't give you one of these there you go yep happy birthday curtis um the song that she wanted to hear was a cover of zach brown band's my old man and um um the only version that i could find that didn't sound a lot like the original was this a cappella version by the band home free i've played home free on the show before they've just got a bass singer in in in their ranks that is absolutely amazing like has a

a bass voice that you just you know reverberates all around you makes you feel like a warm blanket uh anyway here is home free covering my old man by the zach brown band He was a giant And I was just a kid I was always trying To do everything he did I can still remember Every lesson he taught me

Growing up Learning how to be like my own man. He was a lion. He was a lion. We were our father's pride, but I was defiant when he made me walk the light

He knew how to lift me up and windle let me fall. Looking back, he always had a plan. My old man. My own man Feel the callous on his hands and dusty overalls. My old man Now I finally understand

I have a lot to learn from my old man Whoa Whoa Oh Oh Oh My own, my own man, I know one day we'll meet again as he's looking down, my own man. I hope he's proud of who I am

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