The Morning Stream - TMS 2918: Ernest Does Dallas
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You can eat grapes!
The paintball arena of death.
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I don't like it.
Empty Movies!
Fifty Shades of Aaron Gray.
Crispin Glover finally makes sense.
Dr. Sheeple.
HVak Badlands.
Two errands, one done away.
People died for this documentary.
Help me, Abi Nob.
Comet Barnacles with Bobby and more.
On this episode of The Morning Stream.
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Hello everybody and welcome to TMS.
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It is November 10th, 2025.
I am Scott Johnson.
That is Brian Ibit.
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It's good to see you all.
Good to have you here.
I have a, so I talked to you a bunch on film stock about this, but didn't talk about
my theater experience with, oh, yeah, right?
The only thing I heard is just the multitude of commercials that you got before your movie.
Yeah, and that's part of this.
the state of theaters is really interesting to me outside of the singular experience of having
an alamo draft house in town which i'm jealous of every time i hear about one i wish we had one
here and saw like i hope we do one day um because that is a really boutique experience of all across
the board and when it comes to the food and just the general vibe and the every and the special
stuff they do here and there and all that just sounds like it's the way to go to it's the way to
this is the way yes and we have decent theaters here they're not bad theaters but we have a few chains
some are national some are some are local or regional and they're all fine and they've all done
things like upgraded to the luxury seats across the board and you know all the seats are reclinable
and all of the all of these theaters that we go to and stuff so like they've gone nuts with that
they've improved their food stuff and all that but i'm telling you even on a big weekend where
predator badlands took number one at the box office
cleaned up real good.
There were four people in this movie theater on a Saturday night
with my wife and I.
Yeah. Seriously. Oh, my God.
And I just can't help but think.
Oh, here's the other thing.
All right.
That's a 10-pole movie right there.
I know. I don't get it.
None of the big hits of this year have had.
I mean, I don't have to order tickets in advance.
I just go and show up.
These three I always get her right there and they're available.
And no one else is there.
So I know it's all changed fairly radical.
since the pandemic and it's never quite recovered to its previous levels and you know we're never
going to see another maybe we will but we're never going to see the levels of of endgame in terms
of attendance perhaps or whatever probably possibly not yeah probably not if i had to guess but uh anyway i
do like the like you i like a theater experience and i want it to be good and whatever and you'd
think that it being empty relatively empty would actually make it a little better because then you
kind of get the place to yourself and you're not like crowded and people aren't making
noise it's it's you get the feeling when that happens you may as well just done this at home
because you're kind of on your own anyway and I paid triple the amount of money to see a thing
that I maybe could have waited for or whatever so there's that feeling and then there's this
other thing where I'm like all right we're going to get there 15 minutes early just so we're
there we get popcorn or whatever we're going to do sure sure we get there early and we sit down
and I was like I was telling you on Saturday they always they have a ton of
of ads most of them local before they get into actual trailers about five minutes before the movie starts
or right at start time or whatever it is sure and that's usually okay because there's a variety
it's all shit but it's a variety of shit and it's uh and it's um videos as opposed to slides right
because any way mc does until until the movie starts you get slides of you know local advertisers
and things like that yeah it's like that except moving you know mostly commercials like the
kind of stuff you'd see on local stations.
Sure.
And it's like, oh, great, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, uh, HVAC company's got
an ad before the movie.
Right.
So they show this stuff over and over and over and over.
And then they intersperse it with, hey, here at Megaplex, don't forget,
bab, bab, bab, bab, bab, and then they'll go off to another thing.
And so they have their little menuno style, uh, middle bits, right?
Right.
Right.
Right.
Except she's not, this lady's not hawking her podcast at the end of it, but whatever.
I don't blame her.
It's fine.
Podcasting card.
Uh, anyway.
what the difference this time was normally it's just like a ton of those and then you get to the real trailers and then you get to the movie and it's fine you live with it this time it was three ads and i'm not kidding about this is why i'm worried about the state of the of the business the ad business and movie theaters the same three ads on repeat out of order so sometimes they would do the same one right after each other sometimes it would be divided by the other two but then come back to that third one for 15 minutes straight
30 second ads or so
one after another after another
and it never varied from these three different
local things.
Wow. So when trailers finally came
Kim, Kim, who doesn't like trailers,
especially for stuff she's looking forward to, surely to look away
or look down. She's like, I'm going to watch
these because that was terrible. I need to watch that out of my mouth.
It's such a welcome form of entertainment that's
not those three damn commercial. It feels like the
John Mullaney, what's the new
Pussycat deal. Yeah. Yeah.
And it was just this feeling of
like, is everyone okay?
is this going to be all right?
Like, it just felt a little dire, if I'm honest.
Now, the movie was loud and beautiful and no issues, fun.
Love the movie, just absolutely loved it.
A huge fan of what I saw, and Brian saw it,
and we both had a great time.
And it turns out the trope you thought I would think of was the one I thought of.
We had a great discussion on Filmsack pre-show.
If you guys haven't heard, it was real good.
But all of that aside, just that experience was just so, I don't know, man.
It was such a bummer.
Last night we watched Frankenstein with the girls.
which I'm going to hold my review tell recommendals.
Oh, good.
Okay.
Can't wait to hear what you think of that.
I'm curious.
I will say I really loved it, which we'll make it worthy of a recommendal.
I'll get into the details later, but what a piece of art, that thing is.
But we watched that last night, and I realized as I'm laying there, I'm like, I've got really cheap popcorn here.
I have some grapes, which they don't give me that at the movie theater.
They don't give you grapes at the movie theater.
There's a shitter right over there if I need it.
Right.
And you can pause and not miss anything.
That's right.
I can pause it.
I've got a, you know, a good screen and the girls were here.
And we were all just had blankets and the couch is kind of laid out so you can kind of relax.
And I went, oh, I could just do this.
This is why the theater is empty.
Yeah, but it was so weird to walk out.
Like at one point, actually when we walked in, it's still sunny out a little bit.
It was starting to go down because it goes down earlier now with the chime change.
And we're walking in and I said to Kim, I said, to Kim, I says, I says.
This used to be like hundreds of people walking toward it and leaving it and having trouble finding a parking space and the same movie theater.
What is so different?
And I don't know.
It doesn't make sense because the theater for us was packed.
It was a full, you know, there were here and there, there were empty seats or pairs of seats.
But that's, I mean, there were people on either side of TN and I.
There were our row, I think, was full.
behind us was pretty much full.
The row in front of us was pretty much full.
Yeah.
And it was one of those, again, one of those theater experiences where people clap at the end,
which is like, I can't like this.
There's nobody, you know, Tractonburg ain't here to hear it.
But you got to love the fact that people enjoy the movie so much that they're going to
clap to no one.
They're going to clap to just say they enjoyed it and appreciated it.
Yeah.
And that's really all that's left what you're paying for.
the theater experience. You get, you know, a bigger screen, obviously, than you'd have at home,
but you can sit closer to your theater, your screen at home, your food, your snacks are all
included in what you've already bought for your house. The only thing now you're paying for is
that communal experience and seeing things, I guess, before they come to a place you can get
to them, even if it's Plex or, or rent, you know, paid a rent or whatever. Those are really the
two big things you're still paying for are seeing things sooner and seeing it in a communal
experience. And if people disappear, if people stop going to theaters, then it's really just
going to be, you're paying for the premium of seeing these things sooner. And that's not a big
enough deal. Not really. No, especially with so much content, so many other options. It's like,
well, why would I put myself through that? And that's why I say, if we can get a more boutique
style experience like what you get with that. It can be somebody else. It doesn't have to be,
just somebody who's got the same idea right like right because there are other places that do that
play you know serve food and they have a zero tolerance policy and maybe you know maybe it needs
to be the frog pants theater and you you know you get a one screen theater but you're but you
have your uh strict about about uh people talking getting their phones out uh you know that whole
comic yeah whole comic book shop uh board game slash thing we always talk about this is always the adjacent
an idea i want to have right next door to it is a theater yeah connected theater someone help us some
billionaires board make it help us we need to make this happen that's right exactly you got money to
spare come on let's just spend some of it let's do this for sure anyway uh that movie's rad though
if you like predator i highly recommend it's a good time i think that uh here's how i'm going to do
because the girls i've seen any predators yet so ahead of that coming home here's what we're going to do
they're going to watch one okay and then i think i'm going to tell them they can choose
not to, but I'm going to say go one and then jump straight to pray. Yes, that's what I was
going to say. One prey killer of killers. That's it. Exactly. Yes. Yes. I'm doing that.
I'm going to tell them that. They have their own agency. They can choose. Sure. And if they want
to go back and watch Predator 2 and The Predator and Aliens versus Predator and all those,
then sure, it's all there for them. But, but yeah, no, this is a good, what you're saying
is absolutely correct. Those are, you have to see
prey. You have to see
the original. And Killer
of Killers is fantastic frosting
for that whole cake. Yeah. I-Corps
got a good point. Show him the last 10 minutes
of Predator 2, which is like the
there's an alien skull on the
wall. Oh, sure. Sure.
I could just show him a screenshot of that,
you know, and I have to fire that up to do
that. I mean, I'm not even saying Predator 2
is absolute garbage. It isn't.
The AVPs are terrible. Wicked
is wrong. She's saying it's decent.
no they're terrible uh so i i think we're going to do that and we'll do the animated thing just
prior to this that's the order that's what we're doing yeah there you go perfect yeah i don't want
to put them to the hell it is like all these reboot attempts it's just too much you know but it is
kind of funny that uh last week we get um predator badlands which is the latest installment in a
franchise that was started with an arnold schwarzenegger movie this week we get the running man which
is a remake that is of a another 1980s Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.
Yeah, hopefully it's a, from what I hear, it's a bigger take on the book, which is
exciting because the book, yeah, the book goes nuts.
It's like, the book isn't, we've found some second-rate American gladiators and we're
going to have them chase after these two guys.
Yeah, the way they did in the movie, if I remember right, it was kind of a set of chaos.
Right, right.
They had a paintball arena of death.
yeah there you go that's a good way putting that it's everyone who ever kills glen powell gets the money
yeah i love the yeah yeah i'm excited though i mean edgar wright freaking i'm jazzed about that's your
it's your it's your open world campaign for hunger games is what it is yeah there you go
you know they maybe from brunt for i heard that the director for brian has decided to move his
eyes a little further away oh good it's like digitally uh used digital processing to do that
Yeah, might be AI, so watch out for that.
You know, who has eyes further apart, like on the sides of their head, prey?
So this week, your last week you get predator, this week we get prey.
Yeah, there you go.
No, no, he's not.
He would also be predator because his eyes are closer to front of his head, like a wolf.
They're very beady.
Let's say that.
They're beady, yes.
Speaking of beady, we got to do this little beady thing right here.
I mean, he's not all that beady, but we'd like to welcome him to the show anyway.
It's Brian Dunaway, everybody.
What's going on, man?
No, hi, Scott and Brian.
Just being my little beady self, you know.
A little beady, beady, beity, beady.
You're a fan, right, of that show?
Whatever book.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, you were into it.
I respect that.
I respect.
Aaron Moran.
Yeah, come on, yeah.
Aaron Morang.
Were you going to say Aaron Moran?
Eric, no, what's her name?
Gray.
I mean, gray, that's it.
I'm in the both.
I had a huge crush on her.
She died recently and it made me sad, I think.
No.
I thought she died.
Didn't she?
Aaron Gray, I thought she did.
Did she die?
I thought she died.
That's some BS.
I love Aaron Gray.
She, you know what?
I take her back.
She's alive and well.
I've been to say, I met her a couple of times at Dragon Con.
It seemed like that would have hit.
Yeah.
Home for me if it had happened, you know, it's like, oh, no.
Did you get to meet?
So look at this.
You get to meet one of your crushes at, uh, at Dragon King?
I've actually met both.
I've talked to Aaron Moran, and she actually did a promo for Extra Life Radio back in the day because I pressed her to.
And then she was so nice and gracious, such a sweet person.
And Aaron Gray, she's also a sweet person.
Always like hanging around the tables, walks around the front of the tables and stuff.
Yeah.
I liked her as the girlfriend of the guy who adopted Jason Bateman on Silver Spoons.
she wasn't mom she was a mom figure but she was like the girlfriend of was she his like secretary
or something that turned to the girlfriend or something i don't remember that at all wow you know what
silver spoons left such a small impression of my life i guess he's the he's the dad he's the real
biological dad but he didn't know he had a son until mom what passed away and then he got possession
of ricky schroeder and then i guess it was rickie schroeder you know what i'm confusing
I'm merging, I'm absolutely merging silver spoons and it's your move.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, good enough.
Because they were both rich.
They both had whatever they wanted.
Yeah, Ricky Schroeder, not Bateman.
That's right.
And he rode around.
Oh, you did.
Wait, wasn't, Bateman was Ricky Schroder's friend.
Yeah, I think he showed up.
I think he showed up as a friend character.
Yeah, briefly.
Not a whole lot.
I thought you were referring to that angle.
Okay.
That would be funny if that was the case.
It would be great if, like, then all of a.
sudden, now he's on...
Because the one you said is a spin-off of
Silver Spoons. Now I'm just messing with you.
Now you are missing with us.
Hey, I got something we missed on film site. I may as well
air out right here. I know Randy's not here, but we'll
understand. We didn't even
talk about it, but we did accidentally.
We did two movies back-to-back.
Diamonds are forever.
And
at close range.
And we didn't bring up the fact that
Crispin Glover in at close range
is the son of one of those two weirdo guys.
He's Mr. Wins.
He's really actually Mr.
Wins' son.
It's his real life son.
That's his kid.
That it like,
you know,
look at that guy and say,
dude,
that looks like a weird,
older,
Crispin Glover,
but he really actually is.
Too much.
That's him.
That explains too much.
Yeah,
explains a lot about that dude now,
you know?
I don't like it.
If his dad's like his character,
or all it explains a lot,
but I don't like it.
Well,
anyway,
here's the good news.
We're going to play this game.
We're going to have
some fun.
I gotta give you an image.
Here's Crispin Glover and his dad.
And it's like looking at like a time traveling Crispin Glover back to the future style.
Like, wow, look at that, dude.
See, now you see him together.
You're just like, oh, of course they're related.
Totally.
Oh, my gosh.
He almost looks like Crispin Glover's cartoon double or something just like here's the movie.
I don't know, he looks like his son more than he looks, son looks like him.
I don't really need this on a Monday.
You know what?
It's just so, like, it's like, oh, okay, Crispin Glover finally makes sense.
Yeah, yeah.
I feel some closure.
I don't know.
Yeah, totally.
All right, well, let's play this game.
Brian, do you want to explain how it works?
Who wins, how it works and all that fun stuff?
Oh, I could do that.
Yes, welcome to the morning half ass is a trivia game where I'm going to be giving the two of you the answers.
How nice of me.
I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct.
And three, like Ricky Schroeder is a main character on Silver Spoon.
is incorrect.
Depending on how confident you feel with the category,
you can provide one, two, or three guesses.
But if you get any of those guesses wrong,
you get zero points for that round.
Get one right, gets you a point.
Two right gets you three points, and three points.
And three right gets you five points total.
We're going to add up all those points at the end of the game,
see who wins.
And you guys don't get prizes,
but you know who does?
Tadpoolers, who are patrons,
who I'm assigning to each of you.
Scott, I am assigning Carl Woodridge to you.
Oh, I like Carl Woodridge, I think.
I think I've talked to him off.
I like his his bourbon.
Brian, I'm assigning Alex Mater to you.
Come on, Mr. Alex Mater?
All right, come on, Abramatic Mater.
Alex, Matter, get her done.
All right.
I was hoping you'd make the cars.
Yeah, let's see how we do.
I need to reload the server here.
All right.
I love that you think is a server.
But go ahead.
Well, it is a server.
I have to reload the server.
The game server.
All right, let's get to question number one.
Question number one, places that earnest.
goes to in his film series.
Oh, my Lord.
I was trying to hit the buzzard.
I know you were.
I know.
I heard the space bar going crazy.
Which of these are three places that Ernest goes to in his film series?
Your choices are camp, Mars, Vegas,
college, Africa, and jail.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
Two are very easy, aren't they?
Two are simple.
The rest.
Holy shit.
I want this Vegas one.
I don't know if that exists.
But, um, hmm.
How do I not know this other one?
Gotta be that.
All right.
Oh, you're going with three?
Yeah.
Crap.
I'll go to the same three I knew you went with.
All right.
He probably did.
We probably did exactly the same.
You did exactly the same thing.
I know which one Scott did.
I'm not.
You totally did know which one.
All right.
So let's get to the easy too, right?
Ernest goes to camp.
Yeah, of course he does.
That's correct.
Ernest goes to jail?
Yeah, of course he did it.
Yep.
Now, both of you settled on college.
Yeah.
And I watched Brian Dunaway's selection.
It's Africa, but.
Because I remember, I can't remember if it's like the Trippendorf, was it
Trippendorf tribe or whatever it is.
Oh, Crippendorf's tribe.
Yeah.
I'm getting that cover art mixed in with.
like those close up faces of earnest and i was thinking i think i remember seeing one where he did
like an africa thing i couldn't remember and then you decided not to africa and you switched
because college went three i knew you went three and i didn't want to i didn't want to blow my chances
i would rather be okay you better be equally wrong as opposed to correct yes well sure enough
ernest went to africa did he really you had no memory of this at all like none me neither
me neither and i thought i was kind of up on the whole earnest goes to thing i kind of like those
movies and i would have went with africa if scott hadn't went to college because i was
i was i was like listening to you like i'm watching you selected then unselected then selected
like it is is like an epileptic seizure going on because it's flashing so much that was to keep you
from that's keep you from uh running the timer on me oh really okay well it worked but yeah yeah
i mean i'm guessing i'm guessing this is like the worst thing he possibly ever did right like this
just a safari basically a safari thing if i remember correctly all right there it is oh good lord look at
that i'm i'm gonna go ahead and call that semi cultural appropriation bullshit that is i don't like it
oh so you're fine you're fine with him stealing hillbilly humor oh yeah but uh yeah stealing it yeah stealing it
dude he was he was quite helped define it was quite the dapper intelligent man he that was that act was
stolen wait are you saying that hillbilly humor is not intelligent
yeah what are you saying
what are you saying about hill
I didn't say
yeah what Brian what are you saying
Are you worried that the hillbillies are going to come get you
Come on
I think hillbillies listen to this podcast
We got a couple
I would argue here's another
Here's a shot from the film
He's running around with some folks and doing some stuff
And I haven't seen it
Maybe film sex should think about it
Maybe not
Right
You know what I mean? Nope, I don't
All right let's get to
And look at the
the the actors who are portraying
Africans give him the same look we all give him
what is wrong with this guy yeah exactly yeah I love him I can't
I can't deny it oh my gosh I just found
somebody who's in it though oh never mind that's not him I thought it was
who's who's in Blade Runner kind of the bad guy
also scanners
Roy Batty dude right oh no in scanners
also Starship Troopers
these a lot of Air Hoven stuff Michael Ironside
I thought it was him was not in was not him
Blade Runner. Yeah. Good news, everybody. Michael Irons. Oh, what I say? I meant total recall is what I meant.
Oh, okay. Ernest goes to Africa has a guy that looks just like him, but it's not him. There you go. That's what we've all learned today.
Well, we found something even Michael Ironsides didn't want to appear in. No.
We can't get iron sides, but who can we get and stay? Let's get Timo Iron Sides. All right, let's get to question number two. You know, this is something that Ernest might have encountered in Africa. Which of these are actual venomous snakes? Your choice.
are the green anaconda
the western coral snake the puff
adder the Mexican king snake
the rainbow boa and the sidewinder
okay
I'm pretty sure I know two
these and the rest you're a puff adder
I kind of quit telling you how many I'm doing
why do I keep doing that I know because you're an idiot
my wife
would agree my wife
all right all right oh look at that
all right we've selected uh both of you locked
in and this time you locked in
on all four different ones.
So let's start with
let's start with
this one down here, the sidewinder.
Sidewinder is
venomous. Scary is
crap. Yeah, I thought I thought I thought
about choosing that, but let's look over at the
puff adder. The puff adder
is venomous.
Oh, look, Scott
took it then. Good job. So now you
each have one.
Almost a little puff adder.
One of you selected the
Mexican king snake. The other one of you selected
the Western Colesnake. One of them is
poisonous. They're venomous. The other one is not
the answer is
the Western Coleskney.
Good job, Scott. And we were
both, we both stay away from the constrictors.
Good job, Scott. Yeah, we do. Because constrictors
are just squeegee. They don't poison you.
Here's the other thing. I knew these two were
correct, but I wasn't sure about
Sidewinder for some reason. I don't know why.
That's the most like famous movie,
you know, like someone's always getting bit by a
sidewinder, but why did I not think of that? I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
All right.
Let's get to your last question.
Scott, going into round three with three points.
We're going to go to U.S. history.
Which of these presidents were shorter than six feet tall?
Less than six feet tall.
Your choices are Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Roosevelt, George H.W. Bush,
Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, and Ulysses S. Grant.
Three of these presidents were shorter than six feet tall.
Franklin Roosevelt, we're not counting when he was stuck in a wheelchair.
I know.
I knew it. I was thinking it. I was thinking it. And I was trying not to play it. Thank you.
We are the standing Franklin D. Roosevelt.
That's the lowest of hanging fruits. Yeah. All right. I have chosen wisely. We'll say that. That's all I'll say. We'll see.
It will not say how many I chose. I went, I went with the older the president. The average height of Americans was shorter. So I thought the oldest and then one who I did.
think as a shorty sure okay fair enough all right so let's uh you guys both locked in and uh let's
see you guys locked in both on richard nixon i'm not a shrimp you used to say oh that's right he did and
he was lying because he was five foot 11 which is short didn't he has to stand on like a uh
there wasn't a joke about him to stand on a box or something he he had trouble because of
our current tv was a big thing and our current president does that a little bit yeah they have a little
block he has to stand on. I don't know if it's to keep him from falling forward or I don't know
what's going on there. Right. They have to keep him from falling forward because he has that weird
posture thing where he sticks his butt out. Yeah. He's the second, he's the front half of a centaur.
We don't know where the porous part is. I love it. I love counterweights. I love that idea.
It's a counterweight maybe.
All right. Let's see. So you guys, I went. I went all in because I had to. You did. You totally
had to or else you weren't going to get anything. Let's look at your other choice. One of your other
choices there, Brian. You chose Ulysses S. Grant.
Ulysses S. Grant, the
shortest person in the list here at 5 foot 8.
Wow.
One of the older ones here, further back, yeah.
Yep, exactly.
And also buried in Grant's tomb, as people may not know.
Oh. Who's tomb is that?
Ulysses S. Grant is buried in Grant's tomb.
Oh, wow.
In Grant's tomb.
Let's see.
one of you chose Thomas Jefferson,
the other one of you chose Theodore Roosevelt.
One of you is correct and one of you is
incorrect. Oh, good job, Scott. You just whoop my
butt then. Well, I don't know.
Maybe Thomas Jefferson's the shorty.
No, Brian actually is absolutely
correct. You did, yeah.
You're not in your answer,
but in that Scott whoop your ass, yes.
Theodore Roosevelt was
5 foot 10. So Roosevelt
Nixon and Grant are your three
presidents shorter than six years. Here's
how I knew the Roosevelt one, for
sure it was the ken burns documentary the roosevelt's which is a fantastic thing if you've
never seen it it does both presidencies and it made this big point in the beginning about how
what a shorty theater was and what a tall guy big lanky dude franklin was right uh tell polio got
him but yeah anyway you tell polio got him dude i creamed you today six to zero
the hell is that you whoop me i should if i had a fed of stuff with that africa i still
would have a little better about it that's right um yeah so who who who
won what, Brian, what we give?
Well, let me tell you,
you guys win absolutely nothing,
but Carl Woodridge is going to win.
He's going to get a couple of great games.
He's getting Lutus and Animal Rescuer.
Oh, Lutus.
Lutus.
I don't know either of those two,
but I'll bet you the Animal Rescure ones,
one of them Chorkears I like.
Oh, probably.
But Alex Mader, don't worry.
You're getting some stuff, too.
You're getting a copy of Tandum,
A Tale of Shadows.
That I know is good.
That's a good game.
Yeah.
Kind of winners all around.
Now, the only losers,
are people who thought that tomorrow we were doing play retro this week we had to bump it
one day so it'll be wednesday the whole week's a little weird i have to do monday show tomorrow
i have to do play retro on wednesday it's all in preparation from leaving town and also to make
room for today's what could be the final word on the street word on the street because of their
inability so far anyway to get anyone to pick up the publishing end of this thing it may be the end
So today we're going to talk about what that means and blah, blah,
it's going to be really good.
But because of this, everything got pushed.
So me and Dunaway Wednesday, right?
Yeah, I thought you were going to say that we were waiting to Wednesday to put maximum pain on this week's episode.
Oh, gosh, I wonder.
Is that the topic?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I wonder what he's referring to.
Yes, Max Payne, the grimacy, face, slow motion bullet time.
Bullet time.
Yeah, we're going to do Max Payne.
For some of you kids, you think it's just a movie.
Well, there was a video game first.
Yeah, we watched it for film site, didn't we?
It was Mark Waldberg.
We did.
He did not make that grimace face one time.
I was disappointed.
No, no bullet time.
That was annoying.
Anyway, so we'll do that on Wednesday this week,
which means we'll talk to you again before then because we'll be doing Ted Pooley Feud on Wednesday.
Brian Dunaway, is there anything you'd like to say in your defense?
No, I don't know.
I just like you guys a lot.
I hope we get to spend forever together.
That's so nice.
I hope so, too.
He was just trying to keep me from saying kiss our butts.
For sure.
For sure.
Yeah, it worked. It worked. It absolutely worked.
All right, guys, it is time. It's actually exactly time for the following.
Science.
Bob is hungry and the soup looks good.
That's right. Bob is hungry and he's here to talk about it.
It's Bobby Frankenberger, who we missed last month because of his busy schedule.
He was teaching kids doing good in the world.
But now he's back. Bobby, hello.
I don't hear Bobby.
Bobby, turn on your microphone.
and push the little button on your roadcaster duo.
Indeed.
Something is muted.
You're definitely connected.
I think he did the up.
He did the higher one.
Oh,
I hear you now.
I can hear you.
Hello.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
How are you?
I'm doing great.
How are you?
You know what?
Great.
Doing great.
It's been a while though.
I don't like,
I don't like how long it's been.
I know.
Yeah.
It's been over a month, hasn't it?
It's something like that.
Apparently I forgot how to connect properly in that time.
Well, things happen.
But you were teaching kids.
Tell people what you do here and there for science and kids because it's actually kind of rad.
I'm not trying to embarrass here or anything, but it's a cool thing you do.
Well, it's not embarrassing at all.
I love doing it.
I do podcasting, of course, but one, the thing I love to do more than science podcasting is I like teaching kids science, and I've been doing that for a long time ever since, ever since, like, my daughter was in elementary school with the school that she's in.
would go into her class and help teach science there.
And my younger daughter is also at that school.
So my older daughter is in middle school now.
But I go in and I've continued to help the teacher that I was helping when my older
daughter was in there.
And so like I help multiple teachers, not just the one that is teaching my kids.
And I'm actually, I'm working on possibly creating a teacher.
position for me at the school.
Oh, cool. Oh, that's great.
That'd be amazing, dude.
That's, uh, don't know if that's going to actually happen, but, um, but, but we're trying,
I'm trying, the needle is moving forward on that possibility.
You're going to teach, uh, teach these kids how to fly a pop, a prop plane down at the airport?
That would be great, but I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't,
I can't teach, uh, people how to fly for money anyway. I can't get paid to do it.
Hey, by the way, AI would not let me ruin your day the other day.
So we're on this dumb SORA app, and he did this very nice flying video of him talking about controls and instruments and where he's flying and he's in the plane with the headphones on like he's live streaming it.
And I said, make the plane go down in a horrible fire, blah, blah, blah. And it did. But you got out and saved everybody. It was like a real nice ending to the whole thing. So I failed or AI failed. I'm not sure. I didn't want to hurt you or anything, right?
I get it. There's all sorts of things I try to get it to do, and it's like, I don't know if I can do it. I'm like, you're, you know, it's funny to me is like a lot of times I'll suggest something and I didn't have like inappropriate or violent or any kind of thought in mind. I just describe something and I think it's just going to be funny. And Sora comes back and says, look, the video is against our guidelines. I'm like, I didn't make the video. You did. Yeah, it's your video. First of all, second of all, when I type
the word, show me a giant purple dinosaur.
I'm not breaking any
kind of copyright, but you
think I am, because you know, I mean, it kind of
knows I'm trying to get him to do Barney, right?
Sure, sure. But, but
it's really
up and down, whether, like I can, I could say,
have Richard Nixon throwing up violently
and it'll give it to me.
Right. But I'll say, have, I don't know,
Ronald Reagan riding a donkey,
you know, juxtaposition of a donkey, wrong party,
all that, it won't do it. Like,
sorry, it's cross our guidelines. Really? Okay. I've seen pictures of Reagan throwing a fit and like chucking darts at people. Are you kidding me? I don't know what's going on in there. Anyway, Bobby, you're here to talk science. We're going to get into it. What is the topical thing we're going to hit today?
So I haven't been here in a while, but there's fortunately been a big science news thing happening that has sort of dominated the science news cycle for a couple of months.
And that is, have you heard of this comet three-eye Atlas?
I've heard comments and talk about it.
I haven't heard anything about this.
Yeah.
A little bit of stuff, but I don't know where.
Is it supposed to be hurtling tortoise or something weird like that?
No, no.
It's just passing through the solar system, but lots of people are trying to make claims that it's actually an alien space.
Yes, this I did hear about, yes, I heard about all the conspiracy theories around this comet.
Oh, wild. Where do they, for fear of asking, why do they believe that this is alien in origin?
Well, two main reasons. Well, actually a lot more reasons than that, but two reasons that I'll point out right now, which is one, that it's a little bit of a strange asteroid or comet, and I'll explain why in a minute.
But the second big reason that people are making a big deal out of it is because of the astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who is trying, who is the one really kind of
pushing this idea that he thinks it could he wants to acknowledge the the possibility that it's
an alien spacecraft which on its surface sounds like well why wouldn't we think consider that
you know as but but while you do want to so I do think that it's important to like I'm a big
believer in SETI looking for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence like you you have
to look for those things because
whereas
the odds that we're ever going to find it are
incredibly, or astronomically
pun intended, very low.
Sure.
If we were to find it,
it would be
so impactful and change
so much that it's worth looking for, even
though it's very
unlikely that we're going to find evidence
for it, right? Yeah, we should look at it from
whatever angles are prudent.
Like, right, we don't know what it is.
We have to look for it, and we have to consider the evidence in a scientific way,
not in a anomaly hunting kind of sort of way that Avilob does.
He, I don't know if you remember there was an interstellar comet that came through our solar system
few, several years ago called a muamua.
Oh, yeah.
Was that the one that was, right, it was the size of a bus or something like that?
Yeah, Avi lo.
I think sort of made his first entrance into the public stage
by talking a ton about how he thought that that was an interstellar spacecraft.
Okay, so he's got a thing where he likes to do.
Yeah, he's got a thing, and he goes on podcasts, and he writes books.
Yeah.
All right.
I mean, I was diagnosed last year with a minor case of Bobby Loeb, but it's fine, a little cream.
Yeah, exactly.
as long as it, you know, it reduces the swelling.
Yeah, the inflammation is really the worst part.
It's an abnormal lobe growing.
So because this thing is far from Earth, I mean, what are we supposed to do?
Well, it's not that far from Earth, actually.
It's passing between the orbits of Earth and Mars right now.
Well, what I mean by that is nobody can go out there and touch it as it flies by.
You know what I mean?
No, we can only image it using, like,
telescopes space telescopes radio telescopes all the all the imaging tools that we have and it is a
very interesting comet so it is worth thinking about and that's what we're talking about and that's
one of the frustrating things is that when people like avi lobe go out and and and spout their
nonsense about how it's it's a spaceship um it it sort of you know drowns out all the
interesting things that we could be doing talking about um this comet which is
is it is only the third ever interstellar object to pass through our solar system.
Really?
Or the other two?
Well, and I shouldn't say the third ever.
I should say the third that we've observed.
So plenty of probably have passed through our solar system before humans were around or
before humans were looking and plenty have probably passed through while we were able to look
and just missed it.
Right.
but it's it's the other two were that umuamua that i just mentioned and then also there was another
you know asteroid slash comet that happened a few years ago that that has a weird name um but uh we
there wasn't a lot that was talked about about that one i don't think at the time but this one
this one's really really interesting it's a comet i think it might be the first like fully
comet interstellar comet and so that's to pass through our
solar system, you're saying?
Yes, to pass through our solar.
So it's a comet from another star system, somewhere else in the galaxy.
Right, because usually comets are, they have an orbit around our sun, and so, yeah.
Well, until now, all of the ones we've ever observed have been from our sun.
Yeah.
And they usually are just blobs of ice that were chunks of ice that were formed around the
same time that the planets were formed in the solar system.
They're kind of like leftover stuff that are floating in a very large,
wide orbit away from the star like really far away which is why they come in real close sometimes
and then and then end up going out for a long time afterwards you know think things like hayley's
comet oh right only come around every what 70 something years right right so um we got any
we got any death cults around this one do we know anybody like uh not that i've heard of no like the hail
Bob.
Yeah.
Oh, right.
Yeah.
The Kool-Aid and Nikes.
Those make for some amazing documentaries.
So I'm always, I'm not 100% opposed to them.
I don't like when people die because of them.
Sure, of course.
Right.
You know, it's interesting.
It's a good, good future documentary choice around this.
But so, so at this stage, though, because we can't really know about the alien nature of it,
or whether or not it's an alien thing in this Avi Nobby guy or whatever.
What's his name?
Avi Lobby lobe.
Avi lobe is
Avi nobi
Obie
Obie noby
Help me
Obie noby
If he's
If he has even an inkling
I'm correct about this
We're not gonna
We don't have a way to know
Right
Or is there a chance here
To really learn something crazy
When it passes
So there are lots of things
We can learn
That are like about comets
About interstellar comments
But the only real
so like so far nothing has happened that makes actual scientific scientists think that this is
anything but natural right if it were to suddenly stop and turn around and start you know
beaming messages at us then sure maybe we might have to reconsider whether it's yeah we'll
reevaluate at that point yeah i hope we would right now it's doing everything you would
expect. And there are really interesting things. So, so a lot of the speculation about it being alien is fueled by some strange things that we've seen about it. Um, uh, whenever light bounces off of something in space, it gets, it tends to get polar, light gets polarized whenever it reflects off of any kind of surface. You know, this is why we have polarized sunglasses that filter out polarized light is because, you know, if light bounces off a cloud or the surface of a lake or something like that, it, it, it, it's,
change we can filter out some of that light because it it um some of the light will start to change
how it spins or or something like that right the sure the actual particles of light right well
this happens in space as well and so you can learn things by looking at the polarization of the
light because if it bounces off you know um ice crystals it will tend to polarize in a certain
way that's different than if it bounces off of say um CO2 right gotcha um so if this thing's
made of some alien alloy like it's likely i shouldn't have watched pluribus right before we talk
right because it's all about this idea of a communication and then they're like and then they use it
and then i don't want to give anything away that shows freaking got me by the nuts man i'm so
i've heard it's really good i'm that's it's next on my list oh it's so good yeah it's a that's a week
to week because uh well a because scott's watching it and i you know i know how these things can
sometimes go. They can leak
out a little. You got to stay ahead of it
so that you don't get spoiled as well. Right, exactly.
But it's also
this is like event
kind of television, so I'm really excited. I'm on
board too. Freakom Vince Gilligan, doing it again
something is crazy. You're right, Scott,
that if it were to bounce off of some alien alloy, it might
look, the polarization might happen differently.
And lo and behold, the
polarization that we're seeing
of the light reflecting off of the
surface of this comet is
very different. It's polarized in a negative band, which is very different than what we've ever
seen on any other comet before. That's strange. But there are explanations for it, right? It could be
that it's a more porous surface than we're used to seeing. It could be that it's made of some
material unexpected. And that lines up with some other things that we've seen, though, because
another unusual thing is that when we look at the spectroscopic data, like more information
about the color of the light, then we see that it looks like it has a high nickel to iron
ratio, the comet does, which is very unusual. We normally don't see that kind of those levels
of nickel inside a comet. Yeah, well, if it came from another star system that would explain that
or could explain why, because it's just going to be different there, right? So it's almost like
you have
the type of
critical thinking skills that a scientist
like Avi Loeb. Yeah,
Avi Loeb. Me and
Obie Lobby over there. Hobby Lobby and I need to get
together. Because
you
you can't see something unusual
and immediately jump to
aliens! Yeah, of course.
Of course. There are, you have to rule
out the other explanations and there are
plenty of explanations.
It might be
that the first time we've ever seen
a very unusual comet that's coming
from somewhere outside of our solar system
it might look a little different than we expect it to
you know
so weird
I know
so the other things it has a high ratio
of CO2 to water
in it and
there's potential explanations for that
like it could have been exposed
to galactic cosmic rays
speaking of that's another thing that they've found
is that it seems to have a radiation
a radiation processed crust
is what they're calling it, which they're saying
is because it has been in its
three to seven billion year journey to our solar system
probably been exposed to some
intergalactic or just some
galactic interstellar cosmic rays,
right? Which changed
the surface. Comets
that we normally have seen
inside our solar system do not
get bombarded by these types of cosmic rays
because the sun has a, has like a bubble that exerts of force around it that prevents
most cosmic rays, most of these glass cosmic rays from getting into our solar system, right?
Right, right. So the comets we've seen so far would not have been exposed to these types of
cosmic rays. And maybe this is what it looks like when they do get exposed to it, you know?
Do you think the Hobby Lobby guy, you go long enough in your life of saying that's an alien,
that the idea there is that eventually if you say it enough one time it will be do you think that's like kind of
like the herald camping thing where you know yeah just like well one day of the rapture yeah i'm gonna
one time in my life i'm gonna be right about this you know what i mean well you know that's what a lot of
um a lot of like in the in the what do you call it the the the psychic prediction community
yes there is believe it or not sure a lot of psychic people psychics out there making psychic
predict it's a community like they're all there's a i mean there's tons of people that follow all of
them yeah and uh around the end of the year in fact around this time um they start making predictions
about what's going to happen in the next year yeah and um oh gosh if it was only possible for us
to see this as a pattern of doing it right before a new year which is only a human construct
anyway and we made up what a new year means what a bunch of horse shit eff these people they do
exactly what you're describing though they they usually throw out dozens and dozens and
so many predictions in the hopes that well one of if even one of them gets close to right if you keep
saying the card is the squiggly lines eventually you're going to be right yeah but you probably will
die while you're waiting to be right in this case a clock a broken clock is right twice a day
whatever it is yeah it's like that's the currency that psychics use to to sell the
their quote unquote services as they say like oh so and you know i predicted that this was going to
happen you know yeah right um but uh but they what they don't tell you is the the 50 or 60 other
predictions they made that same year that didn't happen right right it's too much of an infinite
monkey problem like you know uh bio cowtok brings up the lottery yeah i'll play the same exact
numbers every week and if it were an infinite you know if i do this for an infinite number of
times i will win the lottery at some point but you're not going to live
an infinite number of years so no uh uh you know meanwhile the guy that did win the guy that did
win on brian's lottery yeah thinks he was blessed by the lord or something so he's got his own
version of what's special going you know what that's exactly the humans are the worst we're so
we just want to we just want to assign something supernatural to everything that we see like oh it's
it's a sign from god yeah but i should have stopped at that red light yeah and look i don't
Contact with stellar alien intelligences is an exciting proposition to matter who you are
because we are curious creatures who want to expand past ourselves.
But we just get all bunged up in the dumb stuff, you know?
And I don't think that Avi Loeb is doing what the psychics do.
I don't think he's just going to predict.
Well, he probably will try to predict that it's aliens every time something comes into our solar system.
But I don't think it's because he's hoping that one of these times I'll be right.
I think he genuinely does think that something, something could be, like each one of these, I think he's being genuine about it.
He's just being a bad, he's not using critical thinking.
And it's a really good example of how you can be a scientist.
Unfortunately, you can be a scientist and not be good at critical thinking.
that they're not necessarily
connected
I think that in
the population of scientists as a whole
probably do have
are in general
as a whole more
critical thinkers exist in that group
than in the general population
but that doesn't mean that it's like how you can have
doctors that believe in weird stuff
Oh, yeah. I saw a guy...
To become a doctor, you don't have to take a class on critical thinking.
I saw a dude on social media today.
I don't remember which, what, I was checking my replies.
And I saw this guy who claims to be an MD and said, don't let them fool you.
High cholesterol is actually good for you.
Hashtag, wake up sheeple or some stupid hashtag.
And you're like, well, A, I have no way to confirm this dude's credentials.
Right, of course. Yeah.
I don't know if he's really a doctor or not.
But, yeah, we live.
Living in a time.
How much do we just love the wake-up sheeple?
Oh, dude.
I hate it.
It's just, I will listen to anything you say if you end it with wake-up, sheeple.
Yeah, F that noise.
Can't stand it.
Yeah. Well, we'll see.
You know, we'll measure it.
We'll look at it.
We'll see when it passes through.
And then maybe we'll come away going, hey, that Matthew McConaughey's in that trying
to get our attention.
I don't know.
It's already passed the closest it's going to be to the sun.
It's headed on out.
It's not going to swing past.
the sun because again if you were to if you look up if you google the trajectory of this
comet just to see the line of it it's very obvious that it's coming from outside the solar
system it's moving very fast and it just got a little too close to the sun and then it's in its path
just got bent a little bit and it's just going to keep going um and so it's it's just a comet we're
learning a lot about it we're learning one of the cool things that that it's it might be teaching us is
it's giving us evidence that the way comets and solar and planetary systems and everything form
in other star systems may very well be the same very common like the way it happens here
may be the way it happens everywhere because we're seeing a lot of features that are very that
tell us like oh okay this this seems to be wherever it came from it was made at a in using similar
processes. So you can see, like, different
compositions slightly because of where
it is, but... And where it's passed
through, right? It's been in a
long journey. It's picked up some barnacles on the way,
right? Right. And then, but then you can also say,
but it also picked those up in the same way, the ones in our system do.
So therefore, physics-wise,
we're now, we have more knowledge about
we're not, we don't have unique comets here. They seem like they
form in the same everywhere. And that's good information to have, even if there's
no aliens involved, you know? Everything we're seeing
is yes different and unusual and interesting but none of it is hard to explain so all right well good
luck hobby lobby with your attempt to change our lives uh bobby you have a science podcast that
everybody should be listening to on the weekly tell us what it is and how to get it um it's called
all around science we talk about science every week uh we just finished the last episode of a three
part series just came out today and it's on the um the Nobel prizes we took a little bit of a
different approach this time. In the past, we've taken one episode to cover all three Nobel
prizes. This time we decided, let's give each one of them. It's enough breathing room. And we
talked about each one in a three-part series, you know. So if you want to know what is really
cool and interesting about the Nobel Prizes for this year in science, then check that out all
around science. And I'll probably be talking more about this in the coming weeks, this particular
story and giving some more details and stuff.
Just curious, how many science-based Nobel prizes are there?
There's three every year and usually they're given, each one is given to three people.
So nine people usually win the Nobel Prize for science every year.
And, but yeah, it's in physics, chemistry, and physiology and medicine.
Okay.
Those are the three.
All right.
That's interesting.
I didn't know if it was like a big old list or you only ever hear about, you know, peace prizes and stuff.
I think there are only five prizes that are given out every year.
The other two are in literature and peace.
Humanity?
Oh, peace, right.
Isn't there humanities or no?
I think peace is kind of what you would think of as the humanities.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you got to really do something that promotes peace, I'm telling you.
You can't just fart around.
You've got to really go for it.
Anyway, Bobby, it's always talking good to you.
It's always good talking to you.
And we'll do it again real soon.
and may all your passing comments be filled
with little green men.
We'll see you next time.
Bye.
Bye.
We are going to read a quick email
and then we're going to go today.
David Madison, I think Wisconsin.
I could be a different medicine.
It's the one we always think of anyway.
So as Dear Scott and Brian,
I was listening to you to talk about your perfect glasses
that you want to dupe.
Did you know, because I didn't until I mentioned it
to my eye doctor and he said so,
but you can get a prescription
just for computering?
Yeah.
Cool.
I didn't know that.
No, this is great.
I have a funny tail into this because I'm an idiot, but I'll get to it.
Okay.
For me, this was life-changing.
I'm normally near-sided, but I've gotten to the age where I can't see really close with my prescription on.
Basically, I'm corrected out past where the monitor would be so everything is blurry with my normal glasses on.
But this prescription allowed me to reset all of the font sizes to default.
Oh, man.
Nice.
That's a good sign in your life.
I love that.
And it's a great, it's a great, uh, demarking, uh, description.
Oh, yeah.
These, these glasses finally allowed me to reset all the font sizes to default.
I love it.
No, you forget how much of that you tweak until you don't need it.
Totally.
Yeah.
Uh, so I highly recommend next time you go to your doctor, your eye doctor to get them to give
you a computer only prescription in addition to your regular one.
I was so amazed that, that at work.
Uh, I mentioned it to people who were like, oh, yeah, you didn't know that.
I've had one for years, unquote.
I really wish someone to told me this earlier about.
Best of luck in securing your computer glasses.
Love the show, though, Dave and Madison.
Okay, so...
Well, sorry you work with a bunch of douche canals, by the way.
No kidding.
They all, this sounds like a rotten day at work for those people.
Totally, totally.
All right, so here's why I'm dumb.
I wear these.
The reason I'm wearing these is because these are my old, old prescription
that somehow are perfect for computer distance, and I don't know why.
They're great.
So I was on the hunt to, like, duplicate these.
I think that was the whole conversation on the show.
Because other one, my regular prescription glasses, wherever they are,
it's horrible this close but it's great for distance movies driving all that and uh i didn't know
there was such a thing as a computer prescription for just anybody and it turns out you know i have
one they gave me they gave me they gave you three they give you at the time of your thing
you get a contacts one you get a distance normal like the ones you want for your general use and
then you get a computer one and i didn't even have to ask it was just in this three part thing
you just got one automatically that's hilarious i'm so annoyed so i'm waiting for i gotta get i can't
find my paper so i'm going to have cindy i tried to text earlier but now she's probably
answered since i've been on the show but basically i just need to get that sent to me and then
i can get some extras made and then everybody's happy so that's so cool i i had no idea about this either
so i'm thinking well next time i go i'm totally getting a set because that's what i you know
this is the only place i keep these readers here at the desk because um uh uh the
the only place I really need them.
Yeah, it's the only place I need them except driving in movies.
Because I usually don't, I don't wear glasses most of the day.
It's just, sure, sure.
Just need some, you know.
And if I lean in a bit, it's okay.
But my mic's out here and I don't want to do this.
Right.
You don't want to actually have to have your mic like, I'm right here.
Yeah.
Hello, everybody.
Yeah, exactly.
And then we have the same, you know, cataracts or not, I basically gave myself the same thing aging
eyes all get, which is your muscles atrophy and they can no longer adjust.
Well, I can't do it whether I want it or not, because they're not real lenses in there anymore.
They're fake.
Right.
So it's the only option I have.
So A, grateful for this from Dave.
And B, Cindy, send me my PDF, if you don't mind.
Please get me my papers.
Get me my papers.
All right, stick around after the song today because there's a mashup in post.
It's called Classic Fireside Stories.
You're going to hear the original.
Let's see, is this the one for maybe the fart gas story?
I think it is.
Oh, cool.
A awful lot of you are doing SORA videos about me saying fart gas and then bees can be out of my mouth.
Yes, that's great.
Anyway, so perfect timing for that.
Thank you, Jamie, for that.
That'll be after the song today.
And I already mentioned all the show changes, so don't have to do that again.
Frogpants.com slash TMS for all else.
Brian, you got anything else you want to mention before we go?
Yeah, nothing else.
Oh, no, I take it back.
Post a new episode of Uncle Cousin.
So episode six of the YouTube series went up on my YouTube channel.
YouTube.com slash coverville
and that's me and Rainey
talking about her Halloween
talking about
she's got a new understudy gig
which is great
oh yeah right
for the acting school
she's at acting school
and then also
what New York City was like
living there
after the election of Mom Donnie
and how everything went nuts there
yeah there she was right there
how come your niece is so pretty
and you know
just a lovely person
How is the genetics?
How do you guys share genetics?
I don't get it.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Yeah, she got the right end of the gene pool there.
She got those good ibbit, the dimple things you get.
Well, it's the dimples, but also that comes from, so that's my mom's side of the family, my mom's brother's daughter.
So that all would come from my Hungarian grandmother.
The Hungarians, once again.
Once again, bland food, but pretty pretty people.
Top of the gene pool.
Cool. Nice job.
Right, exactly.
Cool.
Yes.
So go ahead and enjoy the most recent episode of Uncle Cousin.
We had such a blast.
And we got listener questions to answer finally.
So I've been plugging those for the last week or two.
And got one from TaxiCap that we answered on the show.
Very nice.
All right.
Let's play a little music and leave these people.
A little music.
This one is indie at the end.
This is a performer who goes by the name Jord.
Jordana.
She has just announced her spring 2026 tour, and her brand new EP came out last week.
It's called Jordana Land, of course, because why wouldn't you?
She's big on the synthesizer, guitar, like, this is some fun pop.
This is a song called Blouse.
Here is Jordana.
Anything we've got going on
No, and
I don't want to feel
Like anything other than someone
You could want to be with
I just wanted to tell you
I'm left with
I'm left with only questions
You never let me know
Late night racing around
A million little reasons
I couldn't let you go
Taking off my blows
Using just your mouse
Thinking about almost everything we do
Wait up in the house
Sleeping on the couch
Wondering just has seen everything to you
I'll see what you do
Feel a little old now, but I'm finding you as necessity and routines.
I think I'll let it show now, because everything I do is proving it to be more than sweet.
I just wanted to tell you, I'm left with only questions.
You never let me know.
Late night racing around with a million little reasons.
I couldn't let you go.
Taking off my brows, using just your mouth,
thinking about almost everything we do.
Right up in the house, sleeping on the couch,
wondering just this ain't anything to you.
This is true how did you know how did you want you only here?
Did it what you're only here?
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