The Morning Stream - TMS 2922: Yoober

Episode Date: November 18, 2025

Scott Forgot Where The Knob Is. Crouching Bacon, Hidden Devil. I blessed the rains down in Las Vegas. Brian Picks Up Teenagers. Time To Remake The Last Rat-Boy Fighter, Hollywood!! You Get NO Formula One, NO Football & NO Lt Yar! Miss Hulkingtons Attic of Garbature. Babydust. K Pop Cloud Hunters. Scott loves big dogs and he cannot lie. Importing The Boys with Amy. Virginia is for Pedros. Maybe Thanos was right. Women need less mana. Did TMS podfade on Monday cuz I like really wanted to know and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There are three steps to a happier life, never be late on garbage day, never get grapes with seeds inside them, and sign up for patreon.com slash TMS. How could you go wrong? Coming up on the morning stream, Scott forgot where the knob is. Crouching bacon, hidden devil. I bless the rains down in Las Vegas. Brian picks up teenagers. Time to remake the last rat boy fighter, Hollywood. You get no Formula One, no football, and no Lieutenant Yard!

Mrs. Halkington's Attic of Garbature. Baby Dust. K-pop Cloud Hunters. Scott loves big dogs and he cannot lie. Importing the boys with Amy. Virginia is for Pedro's. Maybe Thanos was right. Women need less manna.

Did TMS pod fade on Monday because I like really wanted to know and more on this episode of the morning stream? He looks at the hand of a man and tells whatever. It's true. Sipsy Dick will show you. Oh, no, Dickie. in the morning

the morning stream all the ladies love for lure hello everybody and welcome that's not right hello everybody and welcome to the wrong volume knob I'm Scott Johnson here on the TMS show with Brian Abbott, hi Brian. yellow. That's what happens.

You leave for a weekend, you forget where the knob is, you know? Yep, yeah. Always losing your knob, as the kids say. Don't lose your knob. Well, not the British kids. They're not saying that. No, if they are. If I learned anything from the young ones, it was, oh, that's more than just what you open a door with.

Okay, got it. Yeah, that was the first time I'd heard the slang word knob, I think, was the young ones. Yeah. Man, they had a bigger impact on us than I think we've given them credit for. know? For sure. I think so. Growing up. Neil taught me what Smeg was and the worst stuff for knowing. Yeah. And, you know, I don't know if I'm better for it necessarily, but I am definitely for it. Yeah, we've moved from it. We've moved from it. We're not near it, but who knows how far we'll go.

Yeah. It was those guys Monty Python, honestly. They were my biggest, like, jams and then later Faulty Towers. and then that's basically all that's basically it the rest of it was all like maybe i'd catch a little british comedy was mostly for my mom kind of stuff it was fine benny hill maybe yeah but my grandparents would watch like are you being served and and uh so it was you know it was my british grandparents that introduced me to faulty towers and monty python my dad as well my dad big money python fan yeah um but then yeah my grandparents would add other things like mrs calkington's paddock of garniture or something like that that sounds like all of them that's all of them it does right yeah i just verbally mentally typed in ai give me the name of a fake british

sitcom is that one about keeping up keeping up appearance is that what it's called yeah shit Perrick, McPerrick in the chat room just mentioned that one. Oh, Red Dwarf. Okay, Red Dwarf, I loved. Oh, yeah, I did too. That's later for me. That wasn't my 20th, I think. But, yeah, those are, they were very influential, you know.

They really were. Can't really take that out of us now. It's like our blood. It's in us. It's going to stay there. It is. It is forever. Oh, yeah, I'd talk you about this.

This is so weird. I don't know if Zoe's in the chat. I hope she is, because this applies to Zoe brings bacon. Because her name has bacon. Have I seen her yet? I don't know if I've seen her yet. I don't think I have either, but... Nope. I just typed her name, and it did not auto-complete.

All right. Zoe, if you hear this later, or if you never hear this, I'll put it... I'll stick it in Discord or something, but... I was at a cow outdoor cafe in Las Vegas this weekend. We were there for my nephew's funeral. Just a quick recap of that. It went very well, as well as a funeral can go. Very cathartic. Very, I mentioned Brian.

I got some real closure there. Heard of a lot of stories. I didn't know about Luke that just just... every amazing stories he's in a real he's just was the coolest i say kid he was only 10 years younger than me but i even told people i got up they asked me to speak i got up and pulled like a baby but part of it was uh how he just felt like a cousin because we were so close in age kind of like you and your uncle george um just flipped and uh anyway it was very sad but also like i say cathartic get everybody together great to see family we hung out with windy a ton um it's just good for

everybody and here's a little side story from all that. We're at a cafe Kim and I grabbing lunch and this is before a bunch of people got into town and I see on the table that we decided to eat outside because the temperature was not terrible. It was like 62 degrees and it wasn't

windy or raining yet. By the way, the rest of Vegas weekend rained the entire time down for it. Really? Wow. Got some flooding, some pretty high collections of water and stuff. Did it do that cool flooding that it does in the the link garage where it looks like a massive

flash flood in there. Once again the link is just a giant leak hole. I don't know what's going on over there. Poorly designed water flow in that parking garage. It's like it's all the gravity or something. I don't know what's going on, but it's right there it's all coming out. But the rest of the strip pretty fine.

And we didn't spend a ton of time on the strip, but we were kind of right behind it in this. I saw that photo. Were you in the um you weren't in the m gmc oh no because you were by behind behind ball or uh horse shield we were behind okay so you know where the hot shots golf is that we are hot shots yeah or uh top top i keep doing that top top it sounded right to me so whatever you know whatever that says it's like the eighth time i've called it that but um that we are directly behind that okay if you turn if you turn just to your north i think north of that you see the sphere

Our room had a pretty good view of all this stuff. Yeah, it looked like you could see the sphere pretty well. Yeah, it was actually, it was actually really cool to be there. It's the Club Wyndham Grand Desert Hotel. We have a thing there, so it was cheaper. So we went there. And it was nice, nice and proximal to everything and all that. But they're prepping for, oh, man, the timing of this trip.

They're prepping for F1 racing this coming weekend. Oh, oh, shit. Yeah, that's right. It's November. So we tossed that bullet by like this much. Yeah, no kidding. but already things are all like diverted they had the huge grandstands up already for where there'll be crowds during a portion of the race we could see that directly from the window um they so all all the roads that you think of that you're used to taking around kind of the the behind the strip roads on that side of the strip coval road yeah harman and all that they are all left up is just like a mess and so all i could think of was this is already kind of bad i cannot imagine what this is like next week so we dodge that bullet. Also, there was a football game

yesterday, so we left the perfect day to avoid the football rush because they had to park weird also, given all this change for F1, how they managed the football had to be handled weird. Anyway. You know, it's funny. I think about

Allegiant Stadium. It is Allegiant, right? Yeah. Allegiant, yeah. Yeah. And in all the times I've driven around it, and still haven't done, I want to do the tour. Mizzula says the tour is really, really cool. like seeing the technology and stuff they use there. I didn't know you could do a tour.

Yeah, and one of the few stadiums, one of the few, so don't, well, actually, there are a couple others, but one of the few stadiums where part of it is underground to kind of keep things cool. So part of it's above ground and part of it's below ground. Oh, that explains why it doesn't seem that tall. Why it doesn't seem, yeah, exactly. It's still a massive thing, but it does seem short from the freeway. and weird it's a weird right like it's made out of someone resin printed it you know right yes it's a weird weird thing we drove past a lot and I would love to go on that tour I didn't know that was a thing yeah

yeah maybe uh maybe TMS Vegas 2027 will we'll think about that could be cool do they charge you for that is that you have to pay for the tour I don't know how much it is but it's less than a wizard of Oz at the sphere but I don't know how much the tour is yeah what am I even asking do they charge for something in Vegas yeah right do you play is so damn expensive now. It really is, yeah. Anyway, so Kim and I,

so back to the original story, we're at this cafe and lovely food and I came remember the name. But out on my table, while I went into the bathroom and then came back out, this was laying there.

So this picture of bacon. Okay. All right. And on this picture, I see this picture of bacon. I'm like, what the hell is this? And I pick it up and I look on the back

and it's a wall of text. Oh, God, okay. Here's how it starts. Whether you follow the Bible or not, there are good reasons to avoid eating animals prohibited by it. For example, many struggle to exclude pigs from their menu, despite the Bible's instructions against it.

And it goes on and on and on about how bacon causes MS, liver cancer, hepatitis E, cirrhosis, and camels, horses, and donkeys will die if they eat it. Let's see, blah, blah, blah. It goes on and on. Yeah, boy. talking about like you'd lose me at the first four words whether or not you believe the Bible, six, seven words, whether or not you believe the Bible is like, okay, done. Yep, yep, yep. And it claims here, see, at the bottom it says the devil has been there all along and then an underlying text, find the devil hidden in the front of this tract.

Oh, so there's like a, then it becomes a puzzle at your table. So the only one I can think of, look over here, is maybe this thing looks like a little hell dog or something. You can see the eye here, the nose, the mouth, baby. I can't find any other satanic imagery in this. Boy, it's having the opposite effect because looking at that makes me hungrier for bacon. I know, right? Now I'm holding this up long enough for someone in the chat room.

You go ahead and cap this and then study it. Give us a different direction. to like yeah see if turn this around and get get it up here with a fuller image there you go yeah there you go okay so grab those two shots here's a tall one just in case that helps there we go good job i don't see satan in any of this no i don't either so and i also ate i went ahead and ate bacon yeah because that's this noise this is stupid right so the uh so the outdoor cafe just somebody walks by and like flip flip flip flip flip toss those on tables i'm sure The only one I hate worse than this, I'm just not a fan of like, go live your religion and leave people alone.

I don't have any problem with religious people or even if it's not religion, even if it's like, I believe crystals are here to tell us what the future is. Great. Go do that. Go go do it. And then don't come bug me. Right. Part what I am here to have my life. You are there to have yours. Good for you. Have it. Keep your bacon track to your freaking self. Anyway. So I'm, so, so, what was I going to say? Oh, the one I hate worse is when people leave a fake tip. It looks like a $10 bill or a 20, but you pull it out and it's a short fake one. And it's a little, a little pamphlet kind of thing. I could give you, here's the messaging there. I could give you money. But what I really want to do is give you eternal life. Read this thing. I want to give, I want to chase that person down, take that fake 10 and give them four paper cuts right across the right. eyebrow. Here's your change. A noise is crap out of me. But if anyone can find the devil in the bacon, let us know. I'm pretty sure it's not here.

And the goal is just to get us to stare at it and think about it. That's what I think. It's just funny that they would get you to stare at that side of the bacon. You'd think they would say, and look within this text for a hidden URL that'll award you five pounds of fake bacon. Yeah. And they did give me a, let's see, for more information. visit the uh let's see what's this called outside the camp youtube channel we see what that is real fast sure why not let's see youtube uh i'm gonna i'm gonna regret this

outside the camp here we go outside the camp all right it looks like they oh it's all about biblical dietary stuff oh really yeah they've got um Make sure you don't eat the leopard. Oh, look who they close. Come with a number four, and we all know what number four means. Listen to who they got on here. Hold on if you can find him. Hi, I'm Stephen Bolton.

There are many cases where when they take a look at it using MRI technology. Okay. For a minute there, they had a picture of what's his name that died recently with huge ears, the preacher guy, that we made fun of a lot. Oh, uh, yes, uh, fall, was that Falwell? Was it, Jerry Falwell? Or is that? Who was it? Yeah, the Snoopy poop dog dude, right? I think so. No, it wasn't Jerry. Oh, no, no, the one that the lady said to him, isn't

their guitar, hero, or a hero, or something or whatever, hero something? It's that, whatever his name was. They quote him because great source. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, just don't do this. Live your religious life. Be good people. live by the tenets of your beliefs and have all the faith in the world. Just don't believe in me fake bacon. All right. Hi, I'm Growing Pain star Kirk Cameron. And you might have found me from a pamphlet that I put on your table with a picture of bacon on it.

Well, you have to wonder, you're in Vegas with a, you know, celebrity, celebrity tract of some sort. I don't know. You never know. But it was, it was pretty wild. We had so much rain, though, dude. It was the weirdest thing. Here's a pick of me. And these aren't my nieces.

I love your pose there. Yeah, that was Chris, my nephew Chris's idea. But these are, one of him's his kid and the other one is, I think, just my nephew Justin's little one. Anyway, I was out there with a... It's like, K-pop Cloud Hunter. Is this what you guys are? Yeah, totally.

The girls were having a blast, and I'm like, fine, whatever. Let's do it. So, you know, out in the cardigan, looking like some weirdo with a purse, sort of. I don't know what I have in my arms. I'm holding that for Kim, I think. Of course you are. Yeah, so she could take the picture. That's what it was the whole time.

And windy and cold and just nuts for Vegas. I've never seen it like that. I know every November they get a little weird with the monsoon season and all that, but it was weird. I've never been to, I mean, I never was not wearing at least a jacket or layered up. And when's the last time you did that in Vegas, even in the winter? Just don't do it. Yeah. You're still able to walk around without a jacket, usually.

I mean, or at least something really, really light, like a hoodie or something. Wow. So it went really well. We had a great time and for as much of a good time as you can have at a funeral, but it felt good to do that and support my brother and, you know. Yeah, of course. Be there for everybody. So huge thanks to you, the listening audience, for giving us a little space.

And we're sorry, no episode yesterday, but we're back at it. Okay. Yeah, if I would have been smart, I would have scheduled a colonoscopy or a shingles shot during that time. I don't know why I didn't. Like, because I was thinking about, oh, yeah, well, whenever I do my, colonoscopy which it was due this year uh still still a month and a half left for me to schedule that one sure um uh and shingles i was think well i might you know there's a whole day that i'm kind of having to give up and not do any podcasting or anything yeah and uh so you gave me a

perfect opportunity and i didn't take you up on it well i didn't clear it off a bunch of my uh i never think of this either because it's like you have stuff to do so you use the extra time to get it done and i don't think i had like that with medical stuff ever it's other people telling me so i feel you yeah i took advantage of and did a little extra ubering over the weekend and uh oh how'd that go um well had uh so my second one this year an uber scammer call oh shit where like basically as soon as you accept the ride and you're driving to it basically as soon as you drop you drop off the passenger before they do a call and they they come on hi um this is so-and-so from uber support because there a place you can pull over

safely and da-da-da-da-da? Well, because I've got that ring dash cam, it records the whole thing and I decided I'm just going to download the the whole video, both front view and back view and put it up on YouTube and do a little captioning. So it's now up

there. You can watch the whole video of me trying to scam the scammer out of some money. So basically, basically the gist of it is they they want you to pull over turn off your uber app and then go to a website address that they give you where you'll enter in your personal information in the ruse that it's that it's them confirming your driver's license and you then the credit card you want to be paid on or whatever to make sure you're legit as a driver that's the that's the scam yes exactly like

we've had reports of a lot of people using fake profile pictures and your name came up as one, so we just need you to pull over and verify who you are and da-da-da-da. That's crazy to me. It is crazy. And the fact that it works enough that they keep doing it, that they fool enough people, that it's lucrative for them. But my goal is keep them on the line as long as possible.

See if I can get to the pickup spot where I can start the ride. And the only way they can get out of it is by canceling, which charges them. Right. And they probably trained what? Bail right at the last possible second kind of thing? Well, they do a thing now where they put a PIN number in. And their passengers, you pick up. Usually it's when I pick up, I pick up a lot of, let me make sure I say this in a way

where it can't be isolated and used against me. For Uber, oh no, I need to put Uber in the middle of this. I pick up a lot of teenagers when I'm driving for Uber from high school. ah no that's guy yeah i get it yeah right i think you did that you did that the exact proper way weave that way yeah but uh yeah so like you know they'll give me the call that you need to go pick up so and so from such and such high school and drive them home and in almost every case smartly they've got a pin number associate on the account so as soon as the kid gets into the car you say uh hey euthan uh what's your pin number and he goes one five three two when you a burr bar and then starts the

ride. Well, obviously this kid Adam who tried to scam me and kept calling the system, Uber. He's like, Hi, this is Adam from Uber support. Like if there wasn't enough of a tip-off already, it's

the fact that he's calling it Uber support. Oh, I look forward to the titles coming from that. Uber. Yes. Uber. That's great. But in hindsight, I think what I could have done is still got into the pickup spot,

gotten as close to the pushpin, which he moved into as close as he could into a lake from its original position, but I think I still could have gotten close to it. Then a little five-minute timer starts, and when that five-minute timer runs out, then they start getting charged for wait time. So, you know,

it would have meant 13 minutes of me just sitting there. Just dicking with him. But I want to, you know, I want to teach these little shit's a lesson. and at one point Can I hear any audio from this? Let's play a little bit of this. You totally, yeah, yeah, for sure.

Let's give this. Brian. This is Brian. May I help you? This is Adam. Uber support. Uber. Good thing, Adam.

How are you? I'm actually doing it as well. Sorry, the reason for this call is because you do see that you on the link. You don't know, for the day pass some drive. at the moment by the name is Gwen. Is that correct? That is correct, yeah.

Okay, hold on a second. Yeah. Brian has, you immediately have a face of a guy who knows exactly what the F is going on. Yeah, as soon as I hear him say he's Adam from Uber support, I am trying not to start laughing and give up the ghost that I know exactly what's going on. And it's me like immediately planning my strategy of life. Like, all right, I see the route it wants me to go. Is there a faster way for me?

All right, I'm going to keep playing it. Pretty great, sir. You can go ahead and pull over in a safe spot where you are at the moment. That is a generated trip. It's an outcome to Uber support team to get in contact with you for verification. Perfect. Once you are for a little bit of a safe spot, we will explain now about this trip and verification. Already, sir?

Yeah, sounds good. I'm not like there's no shoulder. Here, so I got to, let me get across the street or there's none over there either. Let me get to a place where it's safe. Oh, I plan to. This video could go a little viral. I hope so. I didn't put one of those, I should have put one of those, like, you know, pictures of me going,

I know, right? That's the only way it's going to sell, damn it. It really is, yeah, scaming the Uber scammer, but I need to, yeah. Let's hear some more of this. A minute or so later, about six minutes. All right. All right.

Would you say your name was, Adam? Is that right? That is correct. Okay. That is correct, sorry. Still no shoulder over here. Still all one lane. Like industrial.

all this stuff over here. Industrial. Industrial. There's a bunch of houses. For all of the single lane one way roads, but it is like, and there's eight cars behind me too, so.

Oh, the Stitch doll rocking out the whole time. Stitch doll is laughing is that off too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they can, he's able to see my location, which is really Oh, yeah, explain that. How does that work?

Yeah, so he can see on a map where I am because he's basically he is a person who's ordered an Uber ride and by or not by proxy, but chosen the pickup location, which is

not where he's at. So he's able to like, you know, see where my car is at. The information he can get from that screen on the app is my name, my photo, the kind of car I drive and the license plate

and so that's what they always lead with is like hi is this Brian I can see you're driving a Kia Sol is that correct for our company for Uber and blah blah like that's how they you know it's like they they try and make it just a matter of fact that the information they have

they've got way more information of course right but you get more you get more of this for Uber or does it is Lyft just as bad I, the first one I ever got was on Lyft, and that was just post the pandemic, I think. And that one, they actually got me all the way to seeing the website, the fake website that they wanted me to enter my information on. I'm like, okay, like, no, did not give him any information, did not give him any, you know, any details. But I did turn off the app, and I did pull up the website and say, this is.

such total bullshit so icor calls it spears this call this form of fishing is called spearfishing i love that it's spear fishing okay cool interesting yeah if you i just think it's great from second one right you went yeah okay yep exactly some bullshit and uh by alcal you'll just have to watch the video so he can see where my dot is and and he can you know if he's paying attention he can see that i'm not on one-way streets and then i'm in a residential neighborhood and at one point he kind of does realize that and and if you watch the video you'll hear his realization and his realization that i'm effing with him so that's amazing i just put the full link in uh in the chat and then but you should put it in discord as well youtube as i'll put it in discord i wanted

to wait to publicize it until we did this show because i wanted i didn't want to spill all my candy in the lobby sure but uh youtube.com slash coverville you can get to uh you can get to it and you can watch me um do my best to string this guy along as long as long as I can. That's great. I love it. It's to the point now where I kind of want them to try it because I want to, I want to experiment to see if there's a way I can get money out of them.

Yeah. Get like 20 bucks out of that guy. Yeah. I probably would get six bucks out of him, right? Like basically, if I get to the pickup spot, the five minute timer ends, my guess is once he sees that I'm there and that I'm not turning the thing off, he's going to cancel the right. He'll be out like three or four bucks.

That's amazing. but yeah I love it I love it go watch the video pump up the numbers let's go viral with this thing

I love it share and share and subscribe or maybe maybe should I should I do a thumbnail I probably should add a thumbnail to it at some point

you make some pretty great faces I think you should yeah you do that cross-eyed I mean Brian Brian can do it I mean he's got

it's copyrighted ibbit face he does you know the old ibut bum that's right it's fantastic stuff more than a decade old? No, hold on.

2000. That's almost 20 years old. Well, 2020. 2013, right? Or no? Oh, eight, I think. Oh, eight. Oh, is that old?

Wow. A couple years. You're at the 20 year mark, man. Think of that. Wow. Yeah, I don't like that. I don't like how time's moving. All right, we're going to do a quick news story.

Yeah. Amy coming up, some other fun stuff. But before all of that, this. Brian, who's brought us the news today? Sure. It's daily music headlines. That's a podcast that I do three days a week. And Eileen Rivera does it the other two days a week. We bring you all the big headlines from the music world in short five minute episodes. Yeah, it's like, you know, while you're brushing your teeth, you can be listening to us on your Amazon device because it is available as a, what do they call that? And echo alert. Oh, what does that call? It's like a brief. Brief, echo brief.

Echo brief. So get it there. Today you'll find out about a punk band called Bad Nerves that just released a brand new song in preparation for their UK tour. Fans are loving this song even though it's less than a minute long. Good on them for putting that out. Good Lord. DailyMusikheadlines.com.

Excellent. Here's your news story for the day. Inside the hidden world of social media sperm selling. Did you know this is a thing that you could sell your sperm on the socials? No, I didn't know. Do I... I hope people don't need samples. Yeah, they need to see a free sample before they'll, you know, really commit.

Here's the deal. There's this dude name Amman. He's going by the name Rod Kiss Me. All right. Rod. Good Lord. Couldn't come up with a better first name. If he's going to use the last name, Kiss Me.

Yeah. This guy claims to have very strong sperm. Yeah. It may seem like, you know, I don't know how he'd know that. Right, right. Like sperm, sperm at a microscopic sort of atomic level is all about who swims the furthest. They've been tested. They have done of the toughest, the strongest, fastest swimmers. The best swimmers. Actually, some of them actually swam for Harvard.

Doge coin. Part of the rowing team. It says it may seem like an eccentric boast for a Facebook profile, but there are no dang corner of the internet group where rod and other men advertise themselves in a community where women and couples come uh in many cases to fulfill a lifelong dream parenthood so basically they're going around the usual yeah what do you call it methods or channels to sure right the official going going around the official means of uh i don't know making sure you're not uh horrible and have some terrible genetic disease that you'd be passing on

and all these things that the safeguards are there to protect. Terrific. STDs, you name it. You never know what this guy's got. It says they offer people a chance of parenting in an unregulated, dangerous, but surprisingly straightforward way. Members of groups say sperm donors, UK. It's not here, you guys. It's in the UK.

Take that, Zoe. Yeah. Start a family here and get your baby dust here. Baby dust. That's not a quality that you want to advertise for your sperm. it comes out like that cherry powder in the lickamix packet or something yeah like when i when i walk rainer really long walks about about a quarter of the way back she's doing she's think she's still marking the place with pee but it's just a little puff it's like nothing it's like little that's what that reminds me of

just blowing dust you know baby dust uh anyway offer people this chance to have the kid uh this is doing part to a prohibitive cost of the official route through the human fertilization and embryology authority or the H-F-E-A. If-ya. That's a regulated clinic, so the government's got their thumbs on that. For those who do things by the book,

the cost can easily run into tens of thousands of pounds. That's UK money. Everyone knows this. I don't know why I said that. Especially if they do not become pregnant the first time, so they've got to keep going. It's kind of like in vitro here. very, very expensive. Yeah.

And if it doesn't work, you got to keep paying out the butt. So they came up with the, I mean, this is what people do. You know, if you make it hard to do one way, they will find other ways and they're not always the safest ways. Yeah, I was going to say, if there's, if there was a company that did the background checks and the, um, the health, uh, screenings and stuff like that and did it for, for less, then, then it seems like, all right, that might be, we're getting closer to a reasonable alternative. But the reason it is 10,000s of pounds is because they do all those tests and make sure

that you're, you know, that you're not passing some horrible thing on to the chidron. The chidron. You can't. Yeah, you can. What do you don't even know? How do you know? He hasn't been tested for any. Like, exactly. Who knows what Rod Kiss me is going to give you. Yeah. Nothing good for a baby. Rod. Why do they have to have these names? I don't know. I wouldn't trust. a guy that sounds like he also might do porn on the weekend. It totally does. Yes. 100%. God. Giss me. So stupid.

All right. Well, there's your news. My name's Larry Gerter. Would you like my sperm? Yeah. You like some of my sperm? It's pretty sweet stuff. Some of my baby dust. Yeah. It's fast. They move quick. Rivets. Baby rivets. Would you want to see? He wants a bit. Gross.

All right. Hey, everybody. Guess what? It's time to read. Follow this, Amy. Yeah. this. One of the things that I enjoy also is reading. Oh, look who it is. It's our old pal. Amy Robinson, A.K.A. Red Fraggle, joining us from her

home in beautiful somewhere near Atlanta, Georgia. I'm not going to give too much away. Amy, how are you doing? I prefer to not be docks. Yeah, I don't want to dox you. She's in coming Georgia. Yeah. Fitting with the last article. Yeah, we've got to keep it all together. Oh, you have a dog with you.

Look at this. Hold on. Here we go. This is Beauregard. My office manager. Oh, look at him. I want a dog right now in my lap. I've been wanting to have a talk with you about the, uh, about the lotion you're using on your face.

It's gross. I'm tired of licking it. He has opinions. I assure you. What's the breed here? I forgot. Is he a chihuahua? Chihuahua.

It's a chihuahua. Yep. I want one. He's a big, though. He's like 10-8. Yeah. Taco Bell. My little one is in the little bed over there on the floor. So there she is.

Oh. She's like, pink donut. Yeah. You know what? I think they get a bad name, chihuahuas. I think they're great. And I think that people. I mean, yeah.

They are nowhere near. I mean, of course they can be. Any dog can be mean or, you know, whatever. And I will fully cop to the fact that yes, they are a bit yappy. but you know I mean like when you're that little like you gotta bank noise exactly you have to make up

for for lack of intimidation you have to carry a big stick that's right they have to compensate it's like people who own giant trucks you have to compensate for something yes I don't know what but they are they're very very sweet they're not at all ankle biters or you know

any ferocious thing at all they're just this they're just sweet little lap dogs yeah kind of want one one day maybe i don't know rainer's rainer's not gonna be here forever maybe my next i kind of want a little little guy next time like a little bitty dog not too yippy i don't want the little like

pomeranian like little keep it in your purse deals i want like at least a chihuahua looks like it's had some street time you know we're a we're a midsize we're a midsize dog family here we like them you know uh larger than a uh like pug or larger i think is what we'd be what we'd be getting it's a good

range. I like that. Fair enough. Also, I wouldn't mind a pug either. But I will pet that dog. I want to pet that dog. If I get the chance. Can I put that dog? I rode in a car on Friday with a gigantic, like, brown chocolate lab.

And I mean, this thing, if I tell you, like, his head was like the size of Beauregard's entire body, like this dog. But he's so sweet. I love big dogs. You know, one of those big, dumb. sweet dog, you know, is all he was. And they got nothing to compensate for her. They poop bigger than furniture and they lay in your lap and chill. Right. Right.

They're great. Yeah. And this dog not at all afraid to just like climb up. Like he thinks he's a lap dog full on. I love it. Yeah. Well, it's really good to have you here. It has been a while. And by the way, I'd never know you had a nose operation. You look great.

I did. Yeah. So I had to have my septum fixed. it was this is the second time around apparently this is a common thing that happens that you know that cartilage can kind of move back to the way it was over time so they had to kind of go in and and fix it but yeah it's and they said you know aesthetically my face won't look any different and I yeah you look great yeah it's not like uh I do have to play something though that you sent us whilst recovering can I play that real quick I haven't had a chance to play it. This was Amy not long ago.

I don't remember this. You may not remember doing it. I can kind of tell on the call that you might be full of pain numbing drugs. Okay. All right. But here it is. It's only 25 seconds. Enjoy.

Hey, guys. It's Amy. I feel like poo because I had that surgery on Monday. And it turns out that recovery time from surgery is like longer when. you're in your 40s than it is when you're in your 20s. So, yeah, I just thought I'd share that knowledge with y'all. Anyway, love the show, though. Do you not remember sending that to us?

I vaguely do. So I think it was for like when Wendy was not here. And so you were doing a call now. But then you're like, you didn't end up doing the call now or something. Because like, oh, right, you guys had like a jumbo-sized feud or something. Oh, that's what it was. It went forever. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, it was almost the full episode was, uh, was few. That's right. Yeah. Yes. So yes. Yes, I do remember. And, uh, yep, that, that was me. Well, yeah, on Twitter live. Yeah. Had a, you had a real, uh, morphine has kicked in vibe about you there. But, uh, yeah, enjoyed it. It was funny, too, because like, I, I, I had never take me, the painkiller they gave me, it was actually tram at all. And I had never taken tramadol before. And Chuck was like, oh, you know, I've had that before. And Chuck was like, oh, you know, I've had that before.

It's really, it's not a big deal. It's fine. It's not even as potent as like, you know, oxy or anything like that. So I was like, okay, sweet. And I had oxy, like back when I had my hysterectomy, and I treated it like it, like, I had a healthy respect for it. And I, you know, I took it only as directed and then got rid of whatever was left over, you know. But with the tramadol, I was just like, hey. And I did not take that much of it because, again, I have a very healthy respect for painkillers.

and, you know, the possible bad effects upon your life that they can have. And, man, I was, like, in a fog for days after not taking that anymore. And I was just like, and then it was also this weird, like, battle. And I found out that chemically, Tramidol has a portion of it is kind of chemically similar to Prozac. and I take a different antidepressant and so it was like the Prozac and my other antidepressant were like battling out for who could make me happier

and so yeah it was the whole while I was like it was like unless I was like in a fog it was either that or I was like on high high speed like somebody was holding down my button and making me go you know at 2x speed it was crazy I was looking at a description here it says it binds to opioid receptors in the brain, but also alters the serotonin and neo, I can't read that one, transmitters, so it can mess up, if you're taking other meds for stuff, you can really

mess those up. But yeah, that far, that few day fog thing, I get that from taking. I'm the worst. I'm such a lightweight. When I really get hurt and they need to give me the hard stuff, just put me under, man. Just don't even, yeah. Yeah. I can't do it. Just knock me out. Well, I'm glad you're good. You seem great. Yeah. I'm good. I'm good. And I want to wait real quick. I want to just shout out to how amazing the frog pants community is. I won't dwell on this for too too long. But some of you who are in the Discord may have seen my post in the do-gooders channel. And as a result of that, we had one person who wanted to remain anonymous, reach out to me and want to make a very, very generous donation. And to kind of help my niece get back on her feet. And I just want to, like, express how amazing and wonderful that is and how much I treasure this community, because you guys are awesome.

There are some very kind people among us. And that's why losers don't – not losers. It's why jerks don't last long in this group. Losers. If you're a jerk and you come in and you're just here for jerky stuff, you last about – I mean, not even saying mods kick you. You just figure it out. You find no purchase here, basically.

Yeah, exactly. There's just no, yeah, there's nothing for you here. Like Rod, kiss me sperm. It's not going to find purchase. Exactly right. Yes. Anyway. Oh, I forgot. I had a thing I wanted to mention about that. So, I mean, I don't know as far as, like, how, you know,

somebody being able to speak to the strength of their swimmers or whatever. But there is, I did find this out. There is a difference between, like, x and y sperm like physiologically um because i asked you know i always thought it was weird that in my family like for five or so generations back there was nothing but girls right like my my mom used to joke about like how we don't make boys we just import them to make more and um and then i of course ruined that because i had a son but uh you know but to be to be fair like everybody was super excited about me he was the boy and he

is still the boy will be forever. But I was like, okay, that seems weird. Like, I know it's the sperm and all that, like, kind of decides it, but, like, that's kind of an anomaly, right? And so I went to my biology professor and asked, and she said, well, I mean, it can have an effect. So why sperm tend to be faster swimmers, but they're smaller and a bit weaker. And so, and so, like, X sperm are a bit beefy.

and so they're slower but they're they can last longer in say not a terribly hospitable environment so if say your environment was particularly acidic then you might just like kill off all the Y sperm and then the X are the only ones that are left I just thought that was really interesting it's like a character selection screen in an RPG like well you can get this one which is better in combat, but this other one needs less mana. Right, right? I was thinking like it's like selecting like, oh, you know, do I want to be, do I want to be Kong or Yoshi and Mario or whatever? You know what I mean?

Right, yes, exactly, yeah. I mean, technically we're all ex-sperm, so I like, I kind of like to think of it that way. We were all once, all of us talking right now, we were once sperm. And now we're not. Don't think too hard about the moment you entered the world is all I'm saying. I don't like to think about my mom and dad, you know. Yeah, nobody needs that. Putting Virginia to send him Pedro down to Virginia.

But anyway, there, there it was. We were going to see if we could get through without it, but there it was. There was. Amy, you brought a book. We should talk about your book. We should talk about this book. Yeah. So this book is for folks like me who are done with all of the currently released dungeon Crawler Carl and need a fix. Excellent. I can't wait to hear it. Let's play the clip and then talk about it.

Here we go. Jason woke up naked, face down in the grass. That was not how he expected to wake up since he had gone to sleep in his own bed and his own Darth Vader boxer shorts. The last thing he recalled was doing what he did most nights, playing video games until he got tired and then fumbling his way into bed. Jason rolled himself over and sat up. He ran a hand over his head. He ran a hand over his head, only to be startled when he realized his hair was missing. He felt about his head with both hands, but his head was balloon smooth. He made a quick check with his eyes and hands, realizing there was no hair anywhere on his body. I thought it was meant to look bigger when you trimmed. Looking around, he saw that he was boxed in between two long, tall hedges. After an unhappy glance down at his

bald, naked body, he set off at random to explore. He quickly discovered he was in a hedge, maze. Jason's first thought was to climb one to get a better sense of his location, but a closer examination of the hedges changed his mind. The hedges were something very prickly, and he was very naked. What the bloody hell is going on? As if in response to his question, something appeared in front of him. It looked like a touchscreen, floating in the air, disembodied. There was text on the screen, which he read, New Quest, Stranger in a Strange Land. You have awoken in a place you do not know. Explore the area to discover more.

Objective. Explore the hedge maze. Zero of one. Reward. Simple pants. Huh. This reminds me. Wow.

So very dungeon crawling. Yeah. Like in its... I was going to say, it's like same genre, same shelf or something. Yeah. I don't know. This guy woke up in Rust, apparently. Yeah.

Oh my gosh. I forgot how naked you are in the Rust game. So naked in that. game anyway go ahead yeah so it is in fact it's a it's what's called lit RPG which is the genre um and so the name of this book is he who fights with monsters a lit RPG adventure and it's written by Travis Deverell um and yeah it's it's it is both it is very similar in that it's like okay here's a regular guy who suddenly finds himself in this very strange and somewhat like you know, fully immersive

RPG type of environment. But I would say this is more it's less that like the running man. So like Dungeon Crawler Carl is like oh, okay, it's all, it's Earth. It's just aliens have destroyed it and made it into a an intergalactic game show.

Right. Whereas in this series, he is literally in a different world. He is, there are parts that I had to edit out for time, but like, he looks up and there are, there are two moons. And he's like, oh, well, that's weird. And, you know, so that kind of thing. And, yeah, so it's, it's very interesting. And one of my favorite things about it is sort of Jason is, he's a very different character than Carl, but he's also very willing to just kind of accept, okay, this is where I am. Let's check things out.

You know, like, how hard can it be? You know, you know, and, you know, he gets himself into and out of trouble. The really, really interesting thing is that apparently the world that he gets sucked into, has, the interpersonal relationships are a bit different. And so his particular style of, you know, sarcasm. and maybe being slightly manipulative, that kind of thing is very foreign to all the people of this realm. And so it kind of gives him a leg up.

And that sounds really sinister, but it's, I mean, it's actually not. He's actually a really good guy. He uses his somewhat darker powers for good. And, yeah, I don't want to give too much away, but it's, it's really fun. And it took me a big. It took me a minute to get into it. Yeah. It took me a minute to get into it. But yeah, and it's a big, it's a nice big, beefy series. So it's about, there's about 12 books in the series. And yeah, it's, it's really fun. It looks like it's on, if you have Kindle Unlimited, all of the books separately are free or part of that service. I shouldn't say free. It's a subscription, but it's cheap. But if you buy the entirety of it, it's 8688 for 12 books is pretty damn good. And they're all reviewed like tons of 20,000 reviews. and you know five almost five stars every time four point seven on average seems like people are into it yeah yeah i i quite enjoyed it it's really fun um so like i say it took me a minute to

kind of get into it um mostly because when i started listening to it it it just felt like i was like okay this is like diet dungeon crawler carl but it's really not it's it you know like I say, it's in that same vein where it's, okay, normal person is thrust into, you know, a world that, an RPG, yes, exactly, like, oh, I'm in a, you know, I mean, you can even argue that dungeon crawler Carl is adjacent to something like, uh, ready player one, which is a lot like other, you know, they're all kind of iterative. Yeah, I just mazes and monsters. It was just Tom Hanks going crazy and thinking he was already in a fantasy world. Yeah.

Similar thing, though. Like, never-ending story is basically this idea, right? Modern people getting sucked into things. Oh, last Starfighter's a great one. Last Starfighter is a great example. Oh, my gosh. Perfect. Oh, I want him to remake that thing.

Remake that movie. Me too. Oh, no kidding. With special effects now. Yeah, and you got all these rap-boyed actors who look like they're 18. Let's get in there. Jeremy Ellen. Get like a fined wolf part.

Yeah. I'm into that idea And have that other guy Have that Have the guy from Shoot He played the He played thing

And uh Oh, Eben Moss Bachrock Put him in the alien thing It'd be perfect in that makeup That like That guy Do that

Yeah Yeah I remember that That guy was so great I love that movie Oh I have I need to go watch that movie now That's huge huge fan I wish I wish It was more accessible

I don't think it's streaming anywhere that I know of well anyway that's fantastic now quick note pumpkin cottage does not have this series yet so we don't have a link to give you it for them but it is just about everywhere else in terms of major bookstores it's obviously a bit of an indie you know collection but uh who knows one day it may show up over there but uh hooty let me know this morning they don't have an actual um way to get it yeah that's my that's my bad i should have checked that ahead of time yeah can happen it happens it's all good um next week i will have made a bunch of progress in a new book I'm reading, or next, sorry, next time we meet.

And I'll be able to tell people about it a little bit as part of our discussion. I plan to get those reports done by the next time we have one of our conference calls. I've got our Penske file right here and we'll see how it goes. My TPS report has a cover sheet. That's right. Let's read is right here. Let's see what, wait, let me see. What if Kitty Pride stole the Phoenix Force?

Oh, right. No review yet, right? You're kind of in the middle of things. so far the binding is really good the book's weight is pleasant oh good that's the only review so far all it matters we got already got that hard part out of the way sometimes you really can judge a book by its cover

that's true yeah that's the truth well anyway we will be doing more of this next time can't wait in the meantime amy is there anything else you'd like to promote or talk about before you go um so Brian and I have and Brian Travis and Phil and I have some things cooking up. We'll just pull it Johnson and just leave it like that. Oh, interesting.

Cooking. Just get you intrigued for it. I hope it's a cooking show. That would make me happy. You don't want me on a cooking show, my friend. Too bad. No, that's great. Can't wait to hear more about it.

That reminds me, everybody, if you are looking for a good nerdtacular updated video this morning, it's basically just a quick talk about when the ticket. it's going to be for sale they're going to be early bird priced it's happening on january 5th the whole video is up everywhere it's on youtube i put it on all the channels it's on discord wherever you go you'll find it and um if it spawns any questions uh feel free to funnel those my way uh very much looking forward to chuck and amy being a part of that as well amy indeed yes we are we have signed up we said you know unless galactus eats the planet we'll be there and you never know what galactus is going to do right you never do yeah so we have to be

be careful there. He's just doing what he's got to do. Yeah, it's all he knows. Why everybody hating on Galactus? Exactly. It's all he knows. I get grumpy when I'm hungry too. Yeah, that's right.

You want to be mad, be mad at Thanos. I don't think Galactus deserves the hate. You know, I think Thanos is misunderstood too. When I'm out on the road, I'd be happier if half of the cars weren't there. Maybe our universe's version of Thanos. He doesn't snap the cars away. No, but, you know, but if the drivers are gone, the cars will be gone too. Eventually, but you've got to clean them up first, you know?

Like, you don't know when it's going to happen. I'm not saying, like, you know, while I'm behind him, have them snap and get rid of half of them. Just before I get out on the road, let's snap a few of those drivers away. Yeah, or do it at like two in the morning when most people are home. Right. Perfect, yes. I used to wish for like almost like a, like a portal gun type of situation, but like more of like a, oh, I'm going to zap. this person in front of me because they're being a jerk. And so it doesn't hurt

them or anything. It just makes them go back to where they started. Oh, I love it. Oh, nice. Like you're basically, they spawn at their last save point. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. And then you can go spawn camping. It's like, I'm not harming anybody other than you know, just messing up their schedule.

I like it. I could have used, I could have used that device this last weekend driving home. That actually, you know, when we write our RPG lit, this is the story. Yeah, this is how we start. There you go. I love it.

We got the Zaps people back to their last save point. Now we just need a handsome, alluring British voice to read it. And we are all set. Amy, stay out of trouble. We'll see you next time. Everybody else, listen to this. Hear this. Oh, hear this.

Get this email to read here. Made me laugh. You know how I made it real clear the last day that we were not doing a show? We talked about it all week. Yeah. I made a real. I was really making a. an effort to like put it in all the places. I wrote it and played, you know, I just really,

so let people know that we were going to be gone. I get this email late last night. It may have been post midnight, maybe even today, I guess. It says, hey, scuzzy and burpee. Or scus and burpee, sorry. Scus and burpee. In the morning. He says, Hey, Scott, how come no show yesterday? I checked the feed all day and nothing. What gives? His name is Porn Duker. Now, he may be playing around here. Sure. He could be. He could just be taking the piss, as they say. How far is that tongue and that cheek? I don't know. I can't tell from the text. Right. But if he's serious, I don't know what I don't know what else to do when I let people know about scheduled changes.

I have to, you know. How do you do it? We did all we can, really. I think we did. I think we did. Porn doker. It's up to you, buddy. It's funny because, you know, you get the people who say, oh, I'm not cut up on shows. I just wonder why there wasn't one yesterday. Like, well, if you're not caught up on shows, you know. They're just collecting them, Brian.

Do you just like to go and look and make sure they're there? Yeah. You're like a month behind? It's like going to your comic bookshop and you grab the issue and you take it home. You don't read it. You just keep grabbing issues and you never read them and you don't know why the July issue is not there.

I think I'm going to start reading Rom Space Night. What do you mean you don't have the issue 39? Oh, my gosh. It does feel like that. that so I you know porn duker maybe you were maybe you're having the laugh here because it's possible because what we're doing right now we've done before where we're kind of you know make a little fun and it's a good way for him to like get his you know get us talking about him on the air yeah so maybe porn duker got everything you wanted and more good job porn duker good job man uh quick note

because we were off yesterday no mashup but there will be one today fireside stories tales from the drive through and post today sweet don't know what jamie's got going on there my guess is it something to do with that time, Brian did the fish sandwich business? I don't know. It is not. I listened to a little bit of it. And no, you might be surprised as to what it's about. I also put it in our music folder today. I saw that smart, smart man. Yes, good job doing that. Because last week, guess who forgot it for a day? Me! Yeah, I get a text from Jamie yesterday. Hey, do you want to just give me access to the TMS song folder and I'll just put it in every episode that it's supposed to be. No, I'm going to do this. I'm not going to do that. I'm going to do this for

now on, Jamie, don't you worry? Plus, look at these big yellow highlights I put in our dock today. I mean, how am I going to forget? I'm impressed. Yeah. It's very, very. And you should see the big pink one in my checklist. Usually it's like a 70 point type, bold. Yeah. I figured I could slow down on the font as long as I put the file in there. You know what I mean. As you say, if you put the file in there, because then when you grab the song, uh, you just grab the song. I I grab the thing and stick it in, yeah. Because this is what I'm already in there doing the song. Don't isolate that, folks.

Jamie for the next match of. Future material. I grab the thing and stick it in. Other than that, we are done. Today will be a Monday show as well, even though it's a Tuesday because I was out of town. Carter and I will catch up on that. And then tomorrow we will have play retro with me and Dunaway.

Everything got shifted today, but all good other than that. Yeah. And there was a film sack while we were gone. It was a round table. So go check that one out. Oh, there's a good one. Like, you know, we talk about a performer or director, somebody like that, and say, sure, everybody knows about these three movies, but what you don't know is this movie right here,

they're like unappreciated genius things. These gem movies that nobody, well, I shouldn't say nobody's seen. Many people have seen them, but they just get overlooked. They really do. Go watch After Hours, Martin Scorsese's. Oh, yeah, use that for the post office. actually. Oh, did you really? Oh, cool. I had to, I was, I thought, which movie that everybody mentioned could I go get something from? And I went. Oh, awesome. Went and got her from that.

But, uh, yeah, it was really good. I hope you guys go check it out. We'll be back to normal with a film this week. So, uh, watch for that. I think we're, didn't we slot something in? We did. Oh, yeah. It was something that was like, oh my God, it's available. We better do it now. I'll tell you what that is. It was exciting. Something was exciting. It was exciting. And that film was. Coming up right. Legend. Legend.

Yes. Tom Cruz. Mia Sarah. Tim Curry. Tim Curry and the big devil outfit. Oh, so excited. I was showing on Amazon Prime. Not a lot of dialogue, but I don't care.

This is a, this is a weird one. Oh, how do I not do a parody of Sweet Transvestite from Transylvania from Rocky Har for this one? You have to. Well, you don't have to. I think I have to. I mean, it's... You're not required. I have not even seen the movie since.

89 or whenever, it was on VHS or HBO or something. Sure. But already I'm thinking, oh, this is, this might be, this might be what has to happen. We'll see. I just remember continuing my Mia Sarah crush. Well, how could you not? I mean, Simone, we all had a crush on Simone after watching Ferris Bueller. I had the worst crush.

I just thought. Simone or Sloan? Sloan. Simone was... You're right, Sloan. It was like a dude's name. was Pee-Herman. Yeah, Sloan, at the time anyway, when I first heard it, I went,

that's such a cool name. It's like normally a dudes, but it's a lady. He's an 85, you didn't hear a lot of those, so that was kind of cool. Yeah, no, it's funny. One of the, uh, I saw in the baby books of this was not an embellished mom's story, but, uh, Sloan was one of the, one of the choices for, uh, for my name if it wasn't Brian. Thank God.

I don't, listen. Sloan, if there's a slow listening, hey, power to you. I don't, don't want to be. I don't feel like I'm a. You're not a Sloan, I don't like it. I don't like that. Sloan and a Chandler, almost a Chandler. Really? Yeah. I was almost a Stephen. Stephen Johnson.

Yeah. I sell like I'm doing your taxes or something. I almost forgot that name a second after saying it. Well, and some people still call me Steve by accident, which is really annoying. Oh, it's funny. Yeah. And Steve gets called. brother-in-law Steve gets called Scott all the time, so I don't know. It's weird how it worked out.

I think I would have hated the name Chandler up until about 1993 and then it'd be like, yep, Chandler in it. I'm wearing it proud like a badge. That's right. And then later hate it because we've been over, too much Chandler, right? Got over Chandlered, yeah. Well, anyway, we're going to take our leave. We do have this to do. That is to play a song.

So could you do one of those for us there? Well, we talked about him a second ago and you're going to hear him after the song, you're going to hear his handiwork anyway, Jamie wrote in and said, Scott and Brian, yesterday marks the three-year anniversary of when I first met the love of my life. We didn't know it at the time,

but that day would change both of our lives for the better. It's been an incredible journey of growth, but also one of pure joy and happiness. It's a great feeling when you find your person. I trust the covermaster to find a song that fits this milestone perfectly. Love everything you guys do. You've always been like a second family to me, and I love all of your faces.

Jamie TMS mashups. Oh, it's nice. And she is very nice. He caught a good fish. Yes. I'm so glad that she. People aren't fish. He met a wonderful woman who completed him.

You know, you play off the plenty of fish in the sea kind of thing. There's a whole dating size, plenty of fish. You know what? I take it all back. It was a perfect scenario. Well done. So he gave me a few choices to pick from. Um, not a lot of the artists that he chose have covers that aren't collegiate

a cappella, but I found this one right here. And what's great about it is that, um, it is a sweet song about, you know what? If it rains, you can hang under my umbrella Ella, Ella, Ella, Ella. Um, this is the band Fly By Midnight from their Boombox series EP from 2017. It is Rihanna's umbrella. When the sunshine we shine together, told you I'll be here. forever said I'll always be a friend took a note almost to get out till the end now that it's raining more than ever know that we'll still have each other you can stand under my umbrella you can stand under my umbrella you have my heart and we'll never be a world apart maybe in magazines but you'll still be my star baby because in the dark you can't see shiny cars as when you need to

me there with you always share because when the sunshine we shine together told you i'll be here forever said i'll always be a friend took enough i'll stick it out till now that it's raining more than ever know that we'll still have each other you can stay under my umbrella you can stand under my umbrella these fancy things will never come in between you're part of my entity here for infinity when the wars took its part when the world has doubted its cards if the hands hard together will mend your heart when the sunshine we shine together told you i'll be here forever said i'll always be a friend took a no thought must to get out to the end now that it's more than ever know that we'll still have each other you can stand under my umbrella you can

stand under my umbrella you can stand under my umbrella you can run into my arms it's okay Don't be alone. Come into me. There's no distance in between our... So go and let the rain pour. I'll be all you need and more. When the sunshine, we shine together, told you I'll be here forever, said I'll always be a friend.

Took an oath, I must take it out to the end. Now that it's raining more than ever, know that we'll still have each other. Under my umbrella, you could sit under my umbrella. Under my umbrella, it's raining, oh, baby, it's raining, oh, baby, it's raining, coming to me to me, coming to me, coming to me. It's raining. Oh, baby, it's raining. Come in to me.

Come in to me. Once again, pull up a chair as Scott and Brian share a story by the fire. What will they talk about today? I got to tell you a funny story. So, yesterday I had meetings in town like I do on Wednesdays. Had a craving again for a whopper. Again, the only fast food burger I can stand. Okay. I get a craving occasionally for a whopper.

And so this one I go to always has, it always seems like it's fresh and right off the rack. And I never get mayo, so they usually make them fresh for me because I don't want the mayo on there. I get in the line. And I know what happened. I'm not here to tell you that there's a ghost at play or there's any kind of weirdness going on. I understand what happened. The way this happened was really weird. Okay. So I get up to the window.

And I'm not even fully stopped yet. And I hear a girl's voice go. Hi, welcome to Burger King. We get you a freaking donut, freaking something, branded blah, for a dollar. Go ahead and order when you're ready. And I said, yeah, I don't think I want that. I just want a whopper. I don't want the combo meal.

I just want a whopper in like that strawberry smoothie. I'm trying to, you know, fries are the things that kill you. So I just thought, give me the burger, give me the smoothie, and then I'm good. I'm out of here. So I said, just those two things. She goes, just those two? I said, yeah. Great, that'll be $4.55 at the freaking window.

And it was that fast. Right. It wasn't like any kind of transition. There was nothing exchanged hands. It was immediate. Just those two? Yep, just those two. That'll be $5.58 at the freaking breakfast.

She went from little diminutive lady voice to hardcore deep voice man dude. It was disconcerting. Sure. And this is the third or fourth time I've been to this particular Burger King and had a weird experience. Right, because you were their 200th customer or something that day. Yeah, yeah, some bull crap that doesn't exist. That's really weird. But yeah, just immediately, when I got to the window, of course, now I'm like, who was the girl voice?

What have they done with her? Right, right. Was it him the whole time? Was he doing, like, Monty Python voice and then changed it to a man at the end? Like, what was going on? Like, I still, it just weirds me out. Would you like to add some dipping sauce? I think you'd really actually have some fun with that.

Our nuggets are fresh. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, it was that quick. It was that feeling of, like, you change genders in the same sentence. That's hilarious. And I really wanted to say something. I was so tempted. Get up to that window and say, you know, here's my 10, give me my change.

And by the way, where's the girl? What have you done with the girl? What's in the box? I wanted to go. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Yes, get more at frogpant.com. Help me to not give in to the wild things coming into my mind.