The Morning Stream - TMS 2944: Alejandro Pokerface

Episode Date: January 8, 2026

I can definitely see why YOU'd keep it. Throw it away with PEACE AND LOVE. Officer Throg Reporting For Duty! Brian's Huge Box. Attempted mayhem. I don't like Maude with an EEEEEEEEE! Huge Mansionish Stuff. And You Can Eat GRAPES. Big T! Big T! Chuck Your Covid Test in the Bin. I'm the cashier now. My Grandma will kick your butt... in Tekken. Extra Iron in this loaf of Bread. Well Steel. Well Razor Blades. Keep your Covid on display. Punish me with Wendi and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Coming up on the morning stream, I can definitely see why you'd keep it. Throw it away with peace and love. Officer Throg reporting for duty. Brian's huge box. Attempted mayhem. I don't like Maud with an E! Huge mansion-ish stuff. And you can eat grapes!

Big tea, big tea. Chuck your COVID test in the bin. I'm the cashier now. My grandma will kick your butt in Tekken. Extra iron in this loaf of bread. Well, steel. Well, razor blades. Keep your COVID on display.

Punish me with Wendy. And more on this episode of The Morning Stream. What had stuffed out hundreds of lives and leveled an installation worth millions of dollars? And a roused public demanded an answer. I just learned something messed up about birds. The morning stream. They wouldn't give us any more fish. Hello and good morning and welcome to the morning stream.

This is TMS for Thursday, January 8th, 2026. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. Hello. Hello. Good Morgan. you and everyone in our chat. Good morning to you. All you live people, we encourage it, you know.

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And thanks to everybody who always shows up in the live chat. We love having you guys. Absolutely. We love hearing you. We love seeing your live corrections to the stuff we screw up. That's right. Speaking of screwing stuff up, I got a question. for you before we get into what happened

on the trivia the other night, whether you think I'm screwing up. I don't know why this matters to me why it's important to me. I'm known to hang on to stuff that's stupid. Like, for example, I still have this now, I think about 18, 19 year old orange. Okay.

That just sat in a drawer and petrified itself and it never like rotted or stank or do it to anything. It just shriveled and turd hard as a rock. I don't even hear it. It's really hard. Yes. So I've kept it because that's just kind of cool and, you know, Van thinks it's great. So he loves seeing this sort of stuff.

So I tend to hold on to things that are dumb to hold on to and then I get real nostalgic about hanging on to him. Well, that's one. And then I found my very first bout of COVID in 2021, I found my positivity test. Like you saved your positivity test? Yeah. So I was positive for COVID that day and I kept the test that shows the little lines. okay um some have said hey that probably has dormant COVID in there and you shouldn't hold on to that I don't know but I mean maybe yeah I don't know how it works I'm no I'm no epidemiologist but most of

the internet thinks they are so maybe they can tell me but um is that that's a weird thing to keep right but to me it's like hey it's the pandemic it's a historical moment or something it's exactly it's like saving a piece of the Berlin wall but but more viral Yeah, well said. Not in a good way. Yeah, no, that's kind of funny. I mean, I can see, I can definitely, I can definitely see why you'd keep it. It's a, it's a milestone of a, of a time in our lives that we should never forget.

You know, when the world was completely turned over and a lot of people died. And we got out every night at 8 o'clock and bang pans together for the, first responders and medical staff who were keeping us safe, and then we slowly stopped doing that. And there was kind of a little bit of a sense of community, unless you went to a Costco, in which case you have people who would not wear their masks and fight. Sure. Remembering all of that, right? It was a time.

Yeah. Exactly. So that is, like, if you save no other memento from COVID, I feel like you should have something. Yeah, I agree. I agree with that. I think, you know what? You have convinced me that this is a fine thing to keep a long.

I only have this, the Twinkie, wherever that is. Oh, yeah, the Twinkie. Which is basically the same as the orange, but, you know, whatever. That thing's over 20 years old now. And then my COVID test, you know, just to be like this little landmark. Whoops. So I'm going to hang on to these. Now, the question is, orange and Twinkie notwithstanding.

Like, what would you do with that COVID test? I don't know. Would you make a little display? case for it would you great question dude like keeping it means that all right this is a thing I want to like a thing I want to remember but if you just put

in a drawer with the rubber bands and paper clips what's the point that's an absolutely good point so here's what I would like the audience at large to do those here live if you want but also anybody listening send in your suggestions about how to immortalize my COVID test do I

put it under glass do I put it in one of those like uh is that thing you're was talking about for your figurines. What do you call that? You know, like a display case. Display case, glass on the front and then, you know, whatever, little slots for stuff like this. Do I do it that way?

Is there some other thing I should do? Do I make a pendant? I wear it like a jaunty pendant. Jeez. That seems like a public weirdness, but whatever. What? I want to know. I don't know.

What do you guys think? Right in. Shadowbox. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. The, I mean, there's also the thought of, What about making a 3D printed version of that that doesn't have remnants of your snot on it that you could use as a reminder?

I don't remember this would have been early test. So what was the test type? I can think it was still a boy, you actually don't know. I don't ever remember one that was not jam this Q-tip as far up your nose as you possibly can. It's the AG test. was the AG antigen? No, AG was, shit, I don't remember.

But I think you're right. This had to have been, right? I don't think I did anything. Oh, no, we did a spit one at the hospital for our second one. That was actually like he had to spit, it was awful. He had spit in a bottle and that was terrible. I hated that. Yeah, no, the, uh, I didn't save mine because I was like my first, uh, positive test

because, uh, I was in California at the D23 Expo and it was like our last damn like, well crap how long have I had this yeah you had a mild first run no symptoms the first time around or mild symptoms enough enough symptoms to maybe say you know what let's just get a COVID test and then and I was like well crap I need to we still need to fly yeah mine wrecked me and I hated my second one though kind of cake it was easy yeah slightly I was kind of tired as all so I don't know I'll figure it out but somebody write in tell me what how a if you think this is the stupidest thing you've ever heard of. Great. If there are anybody out there who is an expert in infectious diseases or whatever is hanging on to this, like, am I going to be patient zero for a mutation

because like keeping this? Like I, you know, all comers. Everybody write it. The chat room, if we were taking informal poll of just what I've seen the chat room say, they would say, take Ringo Starr's advice with peace and love and chuck it in the bin. Put chuck it. All right. I mean, that's one option, right? with peace and love I only throw it away at peace and love all items sent to me

will be chucked in the bin Indeed So how did Trivia night go The other night Yeah so Tuesday This last Tuesday night Night before last was

Trivia We do We alternate between Kind of a regular Sit down slow paste Here's a question We're gonna play part of a song Here's another question

Part of a song We alternate between that And then Jeopardy Bar League. And I prefer Jeopardy Bar League because it is fast. You get 61 questions. Everybody gets the same 61 questions. You power through them. You wager. You double, you know, you double Jeopardy bet and all that stuff. And it just feels, you know, it still takes about the same amount of time, but it just feels like you're getting more, more fun, more action kind of thing. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And I think for the most part that my teammates agree.

But the six of us played. And as usual, because we've even got a couple people who wants to be a millionaire and jeopardy and stuff, we kicked butt. But we kicked most people's butt in the room, except for one guy who was playing solo, a guy named Eric. Uh-oh. They got a ringer. Who was a ringer. He was five points behind us going into. a final jeopardy.

Wow. And our final category was Saturday Night Live. And we're thinking, all right, well, let's, we need to bet enough that, that we, oh, no, I'm sorry. He was, he was five points behind us going into the second board, a double, or a final jeopardy, he was, uh, 12,000 behind us. And, and one of our guys, Dave watches jeopardy every night, does the math and basically says, well, Hulls-Hauer needs to wager exactly this amount to maintain first if he gets it

right, even if the other person doubles and blah, blah, blah, like he gets all that stuff. So he told us how much we needed to bet. And we ended up getting it wrong. The question, and I kick myself because I should have known this. And I should have, at the very least, guessed because you lose your points whether or not you guess and get it wrong or don't guess at all. but the question was a host in 2024 and a lady gaga song both share the same name with with or without a hyphen or when the hyphen is removed what is that name what one of her songs one of her songs a song that actually lady gaga performed on SNL and oh and they mentioned that she was from the bear so it's not poker face or something. it's not poker face because poker face only works as a right so this is a person whose first name

is the same as a lady gaga song she was a host uh this person was a host in 2024 and the lady gaga song i think was performed in 2011 or something oh my gosh i don't um and i core i think i George has it, right? Oh, is it. It's Iowa Debris. Iowa Debris from the bear. There's a Lady Gaga song that is A yo with a hyphen, a hyphen yo, I think. Yeah, yeah.

And I was going through the names. I'm like, you know, we're like, only two or three of us. I think only team and I had seen the bear. And so we're like going through it's like, well, there's Iowa Debris. There's Jamie Lee Curtis. There's Abby Elliott. I was naming off the all the women, the very few women on the show The Bear. Yeah, there really are very many.

It's a lot of dudes. And they're like, yeah, I don't know any of those as Lady Gaga songs. I said, what was that Lady Gaga album or that song that she did that was like her mom's name was Joanne or something? Oh, I don't know. Could that be it? Is there a Joanne that we don't know about that we can't think of? Well, sure enough, there is. But I.O. was the right.

uh was the right answer so okay yeah that's wild man you'd have to and he didn't get that did the one dude didn't get it the dude didn't get it right either his his bet was so basically we ended the game 300 points we were on the 20 000's okay like 20 000 uh 800 and he ended up at 20 500 or something ridiculous like that only 300 points away and he's like if i would have if he said if i would have been another 150 then i would have had you when we both would have gotten it wrong yeah but uh that's wild man did he stand up at one point his mustache fall off and ken jennings ran out of the room uh you know it it seems like well this guy this guy's this guy's very um uh very he would have fit right in on the big bang theory if that if that tells you anything like oh okay

hi my name is eric uh i know this one just want to come over and introduce myself how do you guys all know each other and we're like sure we all play trivia together and blah blah blah cool that he was a nice. He was very nice. Came over and chatted and yeah, his, his, uh, player name was Bebel-Brox. It's like, all right, you're, you know, you're, you're, you're cool. You're one of the, yeah, you're one of the fold. Yes, exactly. That's great. It's impressive, though, to do that all on your own. Wow. It is. Yeah. He's like, I don't like the pop culture questions. I never bet on those. And I'm really good at the academic questions. And I'm like, oh, I'm the exact opposite. Yeah. Could join our team, maybe. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Anybody drop it out. We need a new guy or

Exactly. Tina, go sit over there. We'll put this guy. No, no, no, of course not. Of course. Never. No, she came in handy. There was a question, there was a category about nepo babies. And she was able to name one of them. Like, we had a question about Maya Hawk on Stranger Things. We had a question about one of the Apatau kids, or maybe it's the only Apatow kid. Mod Apatatat.

Yeah, I like her. And then there was another one that Tina was able to get that we had no freaking idea. And Tina knew it. She was like, oh, yeah, that's so-and-so. And she knew it because of some, you know, TV show that she watched that none of the rest of us watched. That's great when you have somebody swings in with a hard one like that. Real quick, if I could rename, I'm not saying I'd do it, but if I was presented again with having another daughter, I would consider the name Mod. it's great.

Really? It's old timey, right? It's coming, it's, you want it to resurface, like make it come back. Yeah, because it kind of work. I mean, at least it works from Maude Apatow. She's super bright, funny, seems like a very nice. I say kid, but she's in her 20s. But she, there's something about the name Mod that I like as a almost ironic modern name.

Because it doesn't, in some ways, it's like, who's the grandma name Mod? Right, exactly. Like, here, DoorDash here for a mod? Oh, oh, you? Oh, okay. Yeah. Would you spell it with the E on the end or without? I'd put the E.

Yeah. I'd go classic. That's the Arthur's character. Yeah, pretty sure she does that as far as I know. Yeah, I don't think Mod Adams, we talked about yesterday with Octopusy. Oh, yeah. Does Mod Apatow? Yeah, Mod Apatow spells it with an E.

Freaking Monica says, no E! Okay, all right. Jeez. Geez, all right. Hey, I got a quick thing before we get to today's news. I wanted to just point to this discussion that started in the TMS Discord about cars. And it came from our discussion yesterday about cars. We were talking, or I made some comment about how certain European cars during the trivia,

or during our Tad Pooley feud, some of those cars are known for lots of breaking down. Like, Audi's aren't great. Volkswagen, a lot of electrical issues. Stuff like that. And a whole bunch of people, especially Racer, I don't know, I was good, his numbers or wrong. Anyway. Racer 5.5.5. Yeah, whatever it is. We'll call him Racer for short. Racer, sure. He's very, very in like the old car world. Oh, yeah, big time. He's restoring cars all the time, doing all kinds of work. And he kind of, you know, poop, not poo poohed, but kind of made us question some of the numbers that was thrown out yesterday. Sure.

Anyway, it turned into this really fascinating discussion about what cars really give people trouble, what ones won't. Honda fared real well in this conversation. Some of it is, I didn't realize this, but if you're going to have a problem, or if there's going to be a series of problems with a certain car or make, you're not going to know, but the dealership knows, and they keep that to themselves. They don't share that data. so a lot of times you're just getting random samplings of people going my you know four runner died over the weekend must be a toyota problem and the and you just assume that that's the issue but their point was i can't remember who said it basically because these dealerships would do that do most of the maintenance certainly in the warranty period they keep all that data to themselves we really don't know who's the most reliable versus who's not right and in the last four or five years the big biggest issues, this is the part of the surprise me, the biggest issues have come from a transition to more hybrids, full electrics, and just standard drive chains, including more electronics in ways that we didn't used to. And some of that stuff is just new and weird and not

perfected and broke down for, you know, just because it's new. So like a lot of Hyundai stuff with like batteries and junk were issues and things like that. So anyway, it was really, interesting. So if you want to just, if you're into that, if you're into cars and you just are curious, it was just a really good conversation. It was a cool conversation, yeah. And everyone was civil and cool and had their opinions, but didn't be like, oh, you're stupid if you think Hyundai's are good. We're the opposite of the internet in there, I'm telling you. Yes, exactly. It's somehow, it's of the internet, on the internet, but not the internet. Not a representation of the internet. We, we, oh, man, I want to do the voice, but we get the best

people in the frog fans discord but actually do but we really actually really do yeah not the lie that the voice would tell us that lie right exactly um anyway so go check that out be on our discord frogpans dot com slash discord you'll find the tms group and there's all sorts of fun stuff there including if we say something dumb or wrong we do a bunch of corrections on fridays you do well actuallys and we'd love to get those as well so keep it coming keep it happening time for the news today today's news is brought to you by brought to you by coverville uh going to be today after the show at some point there's uh this is the this is the final day for this damn project that i'm working on for this this uh trade show conference thing that's happening one week from yesterday so there might

be a couple things i need to do before i can jump in to coverville or might work out that i get coverville done and then get on this stuff but regardless there will be a coverville today celebrating the birthday the 70th birthday of bernard sumner Bernard Sumner, lead vocalist of the band New Order and Electronic and Bad Lieutenant and part of Joy Division. Any relation to Gordon Sumner? None whatsoever. Yeah, no sting connection there.

Seems like an uncommon name, but maybe it does, right? Yeah, unless, you know, I needed to go further back to like a, like a great, great, great grandfather or something. But, um, uh, so covers of new order, it's, it's 90% new order with a little bit of joy division electronic in there, but everything you want to hear, bizarre love triangle, blue Monday, true faith, temptation, subculture, love will tear us apart, getting away with it, regret, confusion. It sounds like, uh, my prom date, uh, all that stuff. It's going to be coming up, Twitch.tv slash coverville today after TMS.

Quite literally, a lot of those songs were the soundtracks of our prom. They really were. Like, yeah, like Blue Monday. I mean, you could not go anywhere at the age that you and I were, if they were playing music and people were expected to dance, you always heard do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, down, down, down, down, down, yeah. Yep. Doop, do, do, do, do.

Well, there you go. Check that out today. A 92-year-old grandma in the news, this is a fun one. I like this story. I do, too. This is reported by GameSpark, and she has won, this 92-year-old grandmother, has won the Tekken 8 tournament within the Japanese senior citizen e-sports league, which, A, is rad that they even have the damn thing. Yeah, right. That's so cool.

I love it. to see, I want to see all the competitors, but, yeah, this is, you know, I want to go to a nursing home where they're playing Tekken with the TV like, all right, we're going to pause Matlock for a little bit and hook up the PlayStation to everybody can play Tekken. Well, now you made me want to hear Mattlock translated into Japanese. I want to hear that. I want to hear it all dubbed over. I don't know if that exists, but I want to see it. Anyway, so this thing is a biannual tournament, and within the event, players compete against one another in Tekken 8. This is not, you know, they're not playing at the level of the Evo players or any of that stuff, but, you know, it's a senior division. And somebody in their 90s winning is pretty rare. This is the unique thing about the tournament. It's all about players who are Japanese senior citizens.

Hazako sake. Sakei. Okay. 92 years old, ended up winning the whole thing with Claudio as her go-to. her main Claudio's a great character In the final I never played Tekken

So Oh Tekon's great You should play Tekken I mean I never play a lot of the fighting games I you know I got I got my moral combat

And street fighter fix And that was enough for me Well I take that back Of course I play the Marvel Superheroes one And DC Kingdom Come Was the their fighting one

Is that right? It was called Gods Among Us One and two God's among us That's it Amazing series Yeah we gave one

of those way Last couple I did. I think Monday we did, yeah. Great game. In the final, she ended up defeating Goro Sigami Maya, not to be confused with the forearmed Goro character in Mortal Kombat. This is a 70-year-old Lili player. That's the character this person prefers.

Care e-sports has been slowly uploading videos of the entire event. So this is something I'm going to go check out. I haven't seen any of the shed. It would be hilarious. But I want to watch it. Let's see. It was especially unique times. tournament considering its participants. The CARE Association went all out and treated it like any other tournament where you see the fighting game community participants. They were all handed arcade sticks to use like the whole smear. They had commentary, all that stuff. I think that's really awesome. They apparently I've been hosting tournaments since 2019. They started it with Shogi and Othello or Reversey here in the States. I love that game. Well, I know Othello. I know it is. I don't think it's. Isn't reversy and Othello the same? They're the same thing.

but I thought Othello was the American. Oh, maybe. And Reversie was the Japanese one. I played so much Othello. I love that game. Yeah, I liked it a lot when I was younger. I bet I bet though if you put me in front of it today, I would, my muscle memory's gone.

I don't remember how to play it. Yeah, because there are certain things that like, it's almost like, um, like a Pac-Man, uh, pattern. It's like, all right, you got to make sure you do. You don't do these three things because you basically lose the game down the line if you do these two or three things. Yeah, it'd be

fun to get back into it because I just, I don't know, I miss it. But here's this lady, by the way. Oh, she's awesome. Look at her. Kick an ass. I love the pose. That's great. Yeah, that's awesome. Kind of in the mood to play Tekken now. Oh, Osmond says, Othello was the board game, where it was the computer version. Okay.

Oh, I didn't know that. I didn't know that either. Here is some of the video. Let's see if I can get. Okay. I love the pose with the hands up. There's the poorly filmed commentators. Okay. What's he got behind his neck?

Is that like a... I don't know what they're doing. What is that? It looks like that would prevent you from being able to lean back in your chair. And I don't like that one bit. No, I don't either. All right, so here's the two grandmas or two of them up in the corner here. We make it full.

They get their sticks. Oh, nice. Oh, they're up in the corners. Whoa, we got a lady with a chainsaw on her hands. Okay, and then the panda, sweet. The panda. I don't know if they do any close-ups to the ladies. That's what I really want.

Yeah. Here are all the participants. It looks like some of them might be remote. Like these two ladies are in two different homes or something. Yeah. Like how smart they all are. All these people wearing masks to protect the elderly. That's what you should be doing.

Totally, yeah. Dumbasses. Everybody who doesn't, I mean. They care about their elders in Japan. That's right. They're running out of people, so they've got to care for what they got. Anyway, kind of a cool story. That's great.

Let's move to this one. Cops forced to explain why AI-generated police report claimed officer transformed into a frog. Yeah, that's right. Well, once he picked up Mjolner. Exactly. Law enforcement has quickly embraced AI for everything from drafting police reports to facial recognition. The results have been predictably dismal in one particular glaring and unintentionally comedic instance, the police department in Hebrew. City, Utah, Utah connection.

Where's that in relation? Not too far, just outside of Park City, so it'd probably take me, I don't know, an hour and a half to get there. It's a nice, I like Heberd a lot. It's nice there. But apparently they got issues with their AI police.

Yeah, the police are lazy. Yeah, it's a quiet little town, although it's getting gentrified by rich people, so there's some huge mansion-ish stuff out there now. Yeah, sure. Which makes everything go up, but whatever. Anyway, they were forced to explain why a police report software declared that an officer had somehow shape shifted into a frog. This according to Salt Lake based Fox 13, this is our local affiliate here. The flawed tools seem to have picked up on some unrelated background chatter to devise its fantastical fairy tale ending.

That's fantastic. Here's the bit. Let's see if I can read it right. Quote, the body cam and the AI report writing software picked up on the movie that was playing in the background, which happened. to be the princess and the frog police sergeant rick keel uh he told this to the broadcaster referring to the 2009 disney musical uh quote they were sorry uh that's when they learned of the importance of correcting these a i generated reports yeah proof read folks proof read trying to find the actual the actual transcript would be nice uh oh it'd be great yeah if it's on there find it uh yeah i can't

I didn't print that part, which is unfortunate. That's too bad. I'd love to see. And then the officer transformed into a frog and waited for the perps kiss. It doesn't say anything about it. That's too bad. Part of this comes down to just, they're not tech savvy to know that once the output is made to maybe check it and make sure it didn't hear something. Yeah.

Because it is just translating what it hears. And AI is very good at that unless you're in a loud room or something. What are they doing watching the princess and the frog in the station, the police station? while they're filling out police reports. Well, I think in this case, it was at on site somewhere. Oh, so the body cam, okay, I'm sorry, you're right. The body cam software. Yeah, body cam software, or the body cam picked it up,

and then later, when they ran it through this, the thing did the frog. Right, they used the body, like the A.I picked up, listened to the body cam audio footage to, uh, gotcha, okay. Right, which is just, if you're, if you're savvy enough about the limitations of this stuff, you would have caught it. You would have said, oh, it's a good thing

they weren't watching a porn. I know, right? I do like their... And then the policeman whipped off his pants and delivered a pizza. I do like the image.

Oh, is that there? That's great. Their article image. Now, what's nice about this image is it's an actual frog from a nature photo and then they photoshopped a hat on it.

I appreciate that over doing some AI bullshit. Over an AI thing, 100%. That's exactly. Even the shoddy way they did it is better than seeing some AI slop generated stuff.

Yeah, I would rather not see that if I can help it. Yeah, yeah. All right, moving on to the story. Looks like we don't have Wendy yet, but I may, oh, let's see. We got text. Let's just, let's check.

Stahl for a minute, trying to get the dog back. Okay. Dog did something, George. She's trying to get it back. Add you when you. I'll get you, damn it. I'll get you back. Timmy, I think.

Tommy, sorry. Transgressions. Dog's name is Tommy, I believe. Okay. Here's the, this story. A woman charged after me. Mississippi Walmart shoppers say they found razor blades in loaves of bread. Oh shit. Oh, geez. Okay. That's not an AI problem. That's a, that's just a, that's an eye problem. That's what that is.

The woman who allegedly pushed razor blades into loaves of bread and two Biloxi Mississippi Walmart stores has been arrested. Thank goodness. Camille Benson, 33 of Texas. Of Texas. Not of some town in Texas. Not of, not of Mississippi either. So she drove from Texas to Mississippi to cause her problems. That's right. And she is of Texas. She is of Texas. She's been charged with attempted mayhem. Oh.

I mean, look, if you're going to... That's what I'm saying. If you're going to get charged with something, I would be okay with mayhem. I know. What are you for? Attempted mayhem? Oh, all right, dude. Nice job.

Does that mean you're trying to dress up like the guy in those all-state commercials? Those all-state commercials? I'm a rock. that's about to fall on the hood of your car. Those always throw me, because I remember that actor from Oz, the prison thing on HBO, and he was a horrible, nasty human being in that.

Yeah. I think of him from Brooklyn Nine-N-Nine, where he was kind of the same character that he is on those commercials. That's right. I forgot he was even in that. I kind of like him as an actor, but it's hard for me to separate it.

Yeah. You know, so when I see him in this, or something like this, I just think, Oz. Anyway, it says, let's see here. She's 33. Her bond is set at 100 grand. That's normal. I have no idea.

Harrison County Jail Records on Wednesday morning. Did not list the attorney for Benson. Who could be reached for comment on her behalf? A message left on a phone listed a possible relative for Benson was not immediately returned. Anyway, customers reported finding razor blades in the Walmart Super Center. That's good. They found it in the place, not when they got home. store yeah hopefully you're able to see like a you know a tear in the plastic bag or something to

clue you in on all right well here's a problem where you when you were a kid and you'd go through the store yeah my mom my mom would take out like if we had food we were getting she would open stuff and start eating it in the store and give us stuff because at the end of it she's still going to pay for it sure of course because she had the packaging right no no no we never did that oh you never did It never did it. No, I'm sorry. I'm not saying that you never did it. I'm saying, yes, you did. Your mom did that, but my mom did not. Yeah, I thought you meant they didn't have packaging. I was like, wait a minute, I think they had packaging. Yeah, we went to one of those weird generic supermarkets that didn't even have packaging, not even the black and white package. I don't know, I don't know, Doritos. She'd open those up and we'd be all munching on them.

and then you get to the thing and the lady would just scan the code on the bags. Yeah, yeah. And it all worked out. We couldn't do grapes that way because she would always say, don't do the grapes. Because it would change the weight. Yeah, because you were eating stuff that would then affect the price. Right. And that wasn't cool.

We couldn't do that. I remember a big discussion we had about this that led to some very heated discussions in the discord about whether it's stealing. And the things that people would eat, it was like opening up a box of hostess ding-dongs and eating those while they shop. Yeah, that's exactly. Yeah, we had a whole thing about a year ago about this. Yeah.

The ethics of eating grapes in the store before you pay for them. The grapes were the catalyst. The grapes were like the great divider. Like, oh, no, we totally eat grapes because you got to make sure they're good. No, you never eat the grapes because it changes their weight and it throws off like, how do they know how many grapes you've eaten? Well, I'm going to verify what I remember with the person who's about to Come on, let's do this.

Something wrong, Batman. Has anybody seen Wendy? Wendy, I got a question for you before we welcome you officially. Are you ready for this? Oh, yeah, sure. Okay. When we were kids, my memory is that mom, when we go grocery shopping, and I mean when we were little, little, and sitting in like the cart,

we're still small enough for that. Where your legs are coming out by the handle? Yeah, yeah, sometimes. Although I was pretty lanky. I think I was walking around by them. But she, it seemed like this was pretty common practice that some of the things in the cart she would open and we would, including her, we would all kind of snack on a bag of chips or something

before we got to the checkout and then they would just scan the bag and they were all fine with the store was fine with it. You were eating out of a bag you were going to pay for. Sure. Do you remember that or am I? Yeah, I do. All right. It wasn't like all the time, but it was, yeah.

Like if we complain, was it because we complained? We were like, we want this now or something like that. I don't know. Oh, I'm just as soon. I mean, I've shopped with children for years and they're always grumpy so you I could see the temptation in Sweden they used to have a bucket of bananas like a big stand where you just they were free bananas so you just go over and get your kids a banana white shopped it was awesome I like that yeah but it was the same idea yeah I do remember that actually

I didn't remember thinking it was weird the only thing I hated was when she'd have you stand in line and then she'd go get something real quick oh I hate it I hate it now Kim will do this sometimes now I'll be in that thing and I've got all the stuff and I'm ready to go she's the one with the purse. I didn't even bring my wallet and she'll go, oh, hold on. I forgot something. I hate that feeling. It's like, we're in line. We can't do this now. Oh, I hate it. That must be a universal pain for anyone. I think it's a traumatic. I don't know. Yeah, I don't like it either. Well, I remember as a kid thinking, I'm going to have to pay and I don't have any money. So I guess I work here now. Like, take off your apron. Give it to me because now can you teach me how to use that? Yeah, check out. Yeah. I guess I work here now.

That's great. Well, anyway, it is good to have you here. It is my sister. She comes on Thursdays. We do therapy for people a little bit. She's a real therapist, not us, but she is. So oftentimes, it's us getting a little therapy here on the show. And we love that.

We love everything about it. It's good to have you here, Wendy. Thank you for being here. We're going to do an email. How's that sound? You want to do that? All right. It actually fits real well because her and I talked offline about, we had this really

depressing one and we're like, should we start the year with this? Oh, we'll get to it. They're just not the first one. Yeah, it was a hard one. So instead, we're going to go with something that I think leads well into a new year. And you had already sort of offline been saying, we've got to come up with a way to talk about renewing goals and what we're going to do this year. First of the year, everybody thinks about resolutions.

And so it's like, all right, do an episode about resolutions? I feel like we kind of touch on it every year in some way. And this is an interesting one because here's this email from a dude named Short One. Okay. Um, that's how he, I assume he's short. I don't know. I don't know what the deal is with his name, but I love it. No time for love, Dr. Jones.

Yeah. And he says, even references it. He says, hey guys, short one here. That's my name, not this message. Though this message might also be short. And it turns out it is short. Anyway, says, uh, I was wondering how I can better take all the stuff Wendy has said in the last decade.

More than that. Um, and actually apply it to this year. Gotta say it feels like, uh, sorry, it feels kind of overwhelming to do it all at once. which I guess is part of my problem. Anyway, love the help you can give for a guy staring down the barrel of a new year, hoping to find a better path, signed a short one. So what do we tell that the kid from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? Short one.

Oh, short round. Sorry, wrong guy. Short round, yeah. Okay, well, we can tell a couple different things. First of all, that's very nice that you would like to apply all the things I've ever said. And that is overwhelming for short. I think, you know, one important thing to think about, and we've done this a couple, guys, how many New Year's have we talked about? We've done a fair amount of this.

Which I think it's this point. It's like every year we have all these great ideas for the year, but then. Yeah, like, what do we do with it? Yeah. So here's what I suggest, because I think shifting it as you get older, for me anyway, has been super helpful because I think there's a natural energy that comes in January after you've cleaned, put the tree away. or you've like there's some of the chaos that was just like inevitable around you you now maybe all the kids are back in school or you're you know you have some sense of like I have to change this and there's this burst of like throw it all away you know so often yeah I think it's

very natural I think it happens naturally with humans and then what we've we've given it a name and it's new year's resolutions we're going to do new year new me we're going to do all these different things and, you know, it's like a fresh slate. I think for those who have been in school most of their lives, they're like, oh, yeah, this also can kind of happen in September where you're like, all right. Here we go. Yeah. So you just use the energy, but what people tend to do, which is also very human, is to have a really long list and make 200 categories of all the things they want to change, which is impossible. But we have this exuberance that sort of makes it seem like it is possible.

So we sort of make these goals and then what is the research by February 1st, every single one of them is stopped. It's like 90% of people, right? And that's because we're like white knucklely get through. We're actually making our lives kind of suddenly hard and miserable by doing it. And of course it's not going to work, right? It's not sustainable. So my suggestion is we're going to use the word resolution for its root word rather than

what we've all come to believe a resolution is. We're going to use the real word of resolve. So I'm going to have you guys do this with me and short one, hopefully you're listening. Take something already, and this should be the first thing that pops in your head. It's something you're already maybe starting. You've been doing, you just like to do a little more. It could be anything. But what are you resolved to do in the next little while?

not the whole year just in the next maybe January maybe a couple weeks could be tomorrow what do you resolve to do and so you already have the feeling correct yes okay can you guys share one what is something both of you are resolved to do the old favorite yeah and it's not just i mean that's the that's the general which i know you do you say that you're going to fail but um it's get on the either the treadmill or the bike four times a week i've got to get training up for the you know, the next MS-150, so got to start gearing up. So you feel resolved to get on your bike four times a week. Yeah.

And is there anything in the way of that that you can identify that's in the way of that result? My own, my own motivation. And that's a big hurdle. Yeah. And that and what, so right now, Brian, we are one week into January. Yes, we are. One and a half.

How many times you've been on the bike? Oh, let me, hold on. Let's see. What's the eighth? Zero. Okay. So, good. It's perfect. That's perfect. You know why? Because you would have already stopped by now if you had already started. So I highly recommend. No one start January 1st. You should always start later. Right. Pick the middle of the month. Okay. Do you have it written down anywhere? No. No. And it's because I don't believe in resolutions because of that reason. It's more like a, yep, I need to do. this i'm not going to start on january first but i need to start doing it you know in the next in the next week or so see there we're already already saying i've already like gray area week or so so what what would it what does it take for it to kick in like how think about your history

what is the yeah the thing that gets you to get your behind the thing that starts me is when i start freaking out about being ready for the ms 150 and what that entails and like Okay. Usually I do inside cycling and treadmill, you know, a little bit here and there. And then about March, when it starts warming up outside, I'm like, oh, my God, the MS-150 is like in three months. I better really get on the, get on the ball and do this. Okay. So can you imagine what, well, I want you to imagine, let it, let the feeling arise.

Sure. when I say you cannot start writing four times a week until March. Then I say, but Wendy, I won't be ready if I don't start doing something now. I'll be freaking out and stressed out about it. Okay. So what I just suggested was literally no different than what you will do. You will just start in March. But the difference is your brain, and this is the thing that really matters here with some of these things.

we'll have almost a rebellion reaction. And some of us more than others when we tell our brain what to do. And especially when it's hard and especially when there's literal brain candy in our hands or some other distraction that would taste so good right now, we'll have a rejection of that. So it's like reversing psychology just a little bit, which is like, okay, Brian, you can train for the MS-150 in March. And then what you could do right now is resolve to do. something much smaller that your brain won't rebel against, but that is physically active.

So it could be something like every single day, I do 10 pushups or every single day I go on a walk. Every single day, I move myself a little bit. And it might be the bike, it might not, but you are not making it about the bike. Okay. What happens when I say that? That feels much easier. It feels more attainable and feels like something I can say, cool.

Right before lunch, I've got, you know, time before lunch. I'm going to go out and do a walk around the block, a little path that we usually do. Yes. And so no matter what your resolve is to move every day a little bit, and then you may find yourself on the bike. You may not. Regardless, you have moved every day. And then in March, when it's go time and all of the right emergency.

Motivators. Yeah. They all show up. So what you have been doing, and people often do, is they waste the early. times of resolve or motivation because the truth is when you look at as if you've been alive longer than 10 minutes you can pay attention to like oh when does what works for me and what doesn't so if I okay I'm going to ask one more question for this hopefully our listeners like getting something out of this but can you think of a thing one or two things that typically prevent you from

either moving or getting on the bike or like what's what are like classic like what's the catnip that I could just be like, you're brilliant, and then it's like, you're, you're out. No, I tend, I tend to do, like, I tend to say, oh, I've got too much such and stuff to do. I've got this Etsy thing I need to get printed today, or this needs to get out, or this freelance project needs to happen, or whatever. And, and I use that, even though it probably would still allow for me to get a 10-minute walking around the neighborhood. Yeah. It's, I still see it as like a, oh, no, can't do it because, you know, I can't afford that even 10 minutes to walk around because I've got this big project to do.

I mean, I kind of did it earlier, although it is a big project. But, you know, we kind of saying, yeah, Coverville might get pushed because I've got this big project. It kind of feels like it's that same thing. Yeah. But there's always something. There's always something. There's always something. Walk around the block.

Exactly. And I'm able to push that off by saying, no, I've got too much to do. So if we have this limited, we've talked about this for years now, but we have a limited amount of willpower. and we can that's why everyone uses it up that first month of January and then they go back to their baseline of whatever they were already doing so let's say you were regularly exercising once a week and you're like I really want to do it four times a week so for some reason it worked once a week and so it can be really helpful to analyze why that one time happens why it's a habit why it seems easy why I don't even think about it anymore and usually it's because there's elements

of habit building you've been using, right? So you have done it regularly. There's some kind of reward for doing it, et cetera. So pay attention to those pieces and then what you use your willpower for. So in your case and in your story here, we'd be using your willpower to make sure you move every day because I think by the time March comes, you will be very motivated to get on that bike. We don't even have to find the motivation then.

No, it'll be, it'll automatically be there. But I'll have that already, if I don't do something beforehand, I feel like I'm going to be overstressed when March comes. And I'm like, oh, my God, I've barely done anything to prepare. So, yeah. Right. Like if it truly was, I could make it so you cannot sit on a bike until March. I promise you, you'd probably start running.

You totally would. You totally would because, yeah, just the thought of that, like, you telling me I can't do it, makes me want to do it more. Yeah. Yeah. But you take the most. motivation that, or you take the willpower you're going to need to start to build a habit. So we, we've talked about habits before, but you sort of have a couple components to habit building.

You have to have it. It has to be rewarding. It needs to be easy enough to do. And our biggest problem, as humans, is to make it too big. So that's why, if you said every single day, whether it's midnight and I forgot to do it, or it's 2 a.m. or it's, you know, before I will walk for 10 minutes. or I will, you know, I will stretch. It doesn't even have to be big. The smaller it is actually the better. And then you just make sure it's happening every day. That's where you use your willpower.

You will not run out of it. By the time you can really make a habit. You will start to feel your body need it. You will start to build your schedule around it. Like you've just got to use your willpower for a bit of time. But it has to be really, really, really small. So I really recommend this. I've been doing this with clients this week where we talk about,

what in their life they want just a little more of or a little less of. So I'm going to have you guys both do this. Scott, I'll pick on you this time. I want you to think about something you want a little more of or a little less of. And then I'll tell you how to work with that. So one client just said, I would just like to like myself a little more. Versus I need to love myself.

That's a big jump, right? And like I was saying before, our brains, and especially if you have a very neurodural virgin brain, your brain is going to go, no. You are not going to tell me what to do. Right. Right. So what you do is it's subclinical, that's not the word, but like just sub level of demand where it's like, oh, that's not asking that much. Then your brain's not going to rebel against it, right? So this client just wants to like herself a little bit more. So we start breaking down like, okay, what would that feel like? What are some things that help you feel that way that are small, small, small. And if that's your New Year's resolution is to like yourself a little bit

more, it is so doable and your brain will let you do it if you plan and keep it small. Most of us don't though. We just go, I want to be a different human being. Yeah, why do we, why do we do that? Like, if I want to lose weight, I know how to do it. I know exactly how to do it. And I know that it's going to take time. And but everybody wants to do that shit overnight. It's like, I got to lose 30 pounds in a month. It's like, no. And then they get frustrated when they don't do it. Right?

When they look at the scale and says, oh, my God, I did all that exercising today. And how come I, how come I'm still the same weight? Yeah. And that is the beauty of the human body, right? We'd all die, literally die if we had what we wanted here. Which is we should survive famine. And so we're going to stole the fat and we're going to never let it go. Like we are, we are one.

of nature, right? And so you've got to think about, all right, so I'm fighting a system that's very old to keep me alive. What if I take this smaller? Okay, so Scott, I want to lose weight. You probably have a number. And you're going to find people will be like, you've got to write it down, you got to read it every day, you got to, you know, there's definitely versions of this that I think have

worked for people. But I think there is a more gentle approach that is long term, that is really much more sustainable. So take your, I want to lose some weight. Let's find the smallest component of that. Tell me what you want to feel a little more of or feel a little less of. That's interesting. Wow. Okay. That's a great question. When you start talking about little, then I have to, I kind of have to break it down. Then I would say I want to feel a little less snacky, which is a stress-easy thing for me. Sure. Yeah.

So instead of me going, oh, mom's not doing good today or, you know, something's wrong with somebody's ticket for nerdtacular, whatever, I'm thinking of some recent things, those things make me go, I need a bowl of something here to deal with this. You know what I mean? Like something's small, but let's go. Let's, whatever. I want to get, I want that small thing to be less. I'd like to not have. that okay so less snack crutch or what i want to be less yeah less stress eaty okay so one thing yeah go ahead so when do you hear like is it almost like a voice saying go get a bowl of cereal a little bit it's like a um it's this thing i also punish myself every day where i've kind of

falling off that wagon we're all like before bed i'll be just like oh gosh dang it what are you think and you big dummy you probably gonna get heartburn tonight dummy dummy dummy dummy like i really give myself crap for it when I've when I've fallen off that wagon that day but then there are days where even by accident because it's just so busy I didn't I didn't fall into that trap and those days just feel better they just feel like oh sweet I didn't do that and I don't have to now and good night you know what I mean yeah you're you're describing probably a very very relatable and common thing for people is the cycle of, I behave, I'm a good boy, pat my head, I misbehave, I'm naughty. Yeah.

Punish me, yes. Punish me. So we don't have to go down the rabbit hole of where that comes from for everyone because it's going to be slightly different. But some of it is just, again, how am I identifying what is good, what is moral, what is right? What is a good behavior or et cetera, right? And so that's why I like to help people move away from some, like, 30 pounds lighter Scott is the best Scott, you know, and move to, you want to feel a little less snacky. Yeah.

Like, think about that. If we could just feel a little less snacky, we'll start there. That's where we're going to use the willpower. Okay. So, for example, when you are, so we have emotional eating that's happening a little bit. And we also have, people just have food noise, right? So in their head, it's like, feed me now or there's a snack. Let's go get that, right?

Like there's, we're all very different. I don't know if you've met people who have no food noise, but they exist. They don't, they don't want that sweet that's in front of them. Like nothing, food just doesn't, isn't as appealing to them as to other people. Their ancestors were sticks. I don't know how they survived. But the rest of us, the vast majority of us come from snackers, right? Okay. So we have a combination. Everyone's going to be a little bit different. And to beat yourself up for it is classic. It's classic that we're like, well, this must be my fault. And it's, you know, there's definitely factors happening that are not all up to you. But what might be up to you is, okay, I want to feel less snacky. So I know a couple of things. One is I probably need more fiber in my actual diet. So Scott, how's your fiber?

Good, actually. That's something I've really improved over the last couple years. Yeah. So you could start a snack with something that has higher fiber or protein, and that tends to be helpful, right? So you could snack a little better, sure, and feel a little more satiated longer. But my guess is it's the second one. That's the more common challenge. And that is stress, feelings, and you're like, you know what, dopamine would be great in my brain is. Yeah. And here's the thing.

It's so funny because back in the day, there was a literally a biological switch that almost felt overnight. for me up until about 2016, 2017 or so I stress starved. If I was feeling a whole bunch of stress, I would not eat. It was the opposite. And it would actually was kind of a problem the other way.

And then it was fine. It wasn't like I was starving, but I wasn't stress eating ever. It would be if I was stressed, I was like, well, I'm skipping lunch because I got to deal with this or whatever. I just wouldn't even think about food. It would put me off of food. But then one day, I don't know. where can't explain when or why but went click and then anything that stressed me out I was like

food sounds really good right now to cover up my feelings like I don't know what I don't know what happened there I really don't maybe it's a metabolism age you know how old were you in that would have been 2016 I would have been 46 47 yeah that's about right um so there's that there's because hormones have all hormones play a role in hunger and like if you feel satiated and cravings and so it could be absolutely related to that. I think the other thing too is maybe your skill set didn't jump from one minute to the next to handle the stress or to feel the feelings. So that would be my suggestion.

So let's say I was your therapist and I would say, okay, so the one thing we want to feel less of this year is a little less snacky. Yeah. Okay. So we make sure we're eating well so we're not needing more snacks because we're not, don't have enough nutrition or something, right? And then the other would be, okay, before you go snack, there's nothing wrong with the snack, first of all. But before you do it, take a minute and try to lower your stress, try to feel the feeling, identify the feeling, right? Like, sometimes it's

just you're sad or you're scared or you're overwhelmed or whatever. And if you take a moment with those feelings and allow them even just naming them or saying them out loud or writing them on a piece of paper sometimes is you would be really surprised um and so the so managing stress identifying and experiencing feelings is literally how you are less snacky in 2026 so so it's it's something like that so short guy i short guy i was that one short um i don't know what he was what he was thinking for his, like, goals. But I would say whatever he has felt overwhelmed about, just narrow it down to this idea of what do I want to feel a little more of or a little less of.

So if it's something like I want to feel a little more peace, then look around and see what takes from your piece and then find something very small to add to your piece or eliminate the thing that is stealing your piece. Start there. use your willpower to make that thing a habit, and that thing will be a habit within six weeks and become just part of what you do. So, you know, I got off news in October. I don't even think about it. Like, there is zero. I don't. And when someone, I mean, there's a lot of crap happening, and I have a lot of people telling me about it, don't you worry. It's not like I don't know. I do. But I'm hearing it from people. If you're living currently in a state with a lot of news happening Yeah, apparently, you guys, everyone's so obsessed with us.

Get over it. I mean, it's a mess. And so that, I mean, I have friends reach out and like, are you okay? And what do you think? And, you know, so we're having dialogue around realities, not ignoring it, but I turned on, I think it was the daily show just like a minute. I was like, oh, it'll be fun to laugh. You guys, it's been so long since October. And it felt like being assaulted.

And I was like, oh, no, remember when this was funny? and this was cathartic. And now I'm feeling like they're trying to kill me right now. It was wild. And it's because it's such a habit. It's just built in. And, you know, I can break that habit pretty easily. It's really easy to break a good habit with something that gives you a lot of dopamine.

Right. So, Scott, your snacking habit, you could easily create one. And then you could break it by, you know, some sugaries. Well, let me, let me ask you this because I feel like I have actually done. so I bring it up because I still think it's kind of a problem, but I've actually made it, it's been way less of a problem. Like I actually accomplished making it an incremental fix kind of thing. Yeah, the more healthy thing. So yesterday instead of a bowl full of Snyder's pretzel freaking those things I'm addicted to. Yeah. Which are not good for me. I don't care what anyone says. Those are no way those are good for me. Instead of that, I had a couple of small little, the baby pickles and Kim put in there some, I can't remember what all. But it was like, in some, nuts and stuff, like things that are good for me in there. Yeah. More like a little charcutory bowl.

And so I am doing that more than I used to. Here's the problem, though. I'll do that and then I'll go upstairs and I'll see a open sleeve of Oreos. And I'll go. I know. I just, there are days where I'm just like, the world is insane. I need an Oreo and I need it right freaking now and I can't stop it. Even though later I'll be in bed going, why did I have that Oreo?

So that's the cycle, that's how we should really phrase this. Scott wants to feel a little less of this cycle, right? So you have a couple of points. And this is where you get a friend to talk through this with you, right? Where are the points that the cycle has to go through? So it's be real good and then be exposed to an Oreo and then justify that an Oreo is the way to manage my stress and then feel bad at night. And then you find just where can I intervene? in helpful ways and it might be freaking eat the Oreo and it's not about deserve or this is the right thing it's just like I'm really sad and I want an Oreo but by saying I'm really sad it actually helps this is different than so when people experience sometimes a binge response where

they just cannot stop themselves often that's because they've over restricted and our body's just like, are you kidding? We're going to die, eat everything. And then there's also pieces of, like, it's like a shame or an emotion. You can, the only way to get it to stop is to feed it, feed it and feed it and feed it. And so a way to break through with that is to access the emotions that are actually driving, you know, the flurry of the feeding response, right? So have an Oreo. Like, go get an Oreo on purpose after your chakutory board and be like, I'm so, sad and then eat your freaking Oreo and then at night if your brain's like that was naughty like no that was kind yeah I'd give an Oreo to anyone who was sad I really ever thought of it that way

that's interesting because if you deny it then tomorrow you're going to eat five Oreos because you'll say I deserve it because I didn't eat that one Oreo yesterday well see this is this is the worry that I would have is that I would start to justify it using that logic and saying you're already justifying it you're saying I deserve this because things sucks yeah yeah So this is just honest, right? Yeah. And when you're honest about the emotion, you'll have one or two instead of nine. That's the difference.

Right. Yeah. Which from a caloric perspective is a big difference. Yeah. Right. Which is really all I'm trying to do, you know, keep those numbers. You get those numbers lower. There's your natural way and your healthy way to lose weight over time.

And the thing is, I hit a goal that I was very proud of, but then I just stayed there. I had another goal after that goal, which was like another 20. 20 pounds. If I can do that, I'll be very happy. That was a happy place for me. That got rid of snoring. That did all kinds of good stuff for me when I got when I was that way. So I just, you know, the people talk about plateauing. That's what I've done. And I hate that. I hate that also, but maintenance is important too, right? Yeah. The yo-yo and gating it all back isn't good for you. I hit that first goal and didn't rebound, which is. Yeah, makes it rare. Right. So you're just at a beautiful plateau and you want to go into the ravine again for a minute.

You know what? It's funny. Right just now when you said that, I got a notification, email notification that says, Wendy at No Better You says, stop fighting herself. I know. I sent that at 6 a.m. I know. I don't know why I just got it.

But anyway. That's so funny. Okay. Well, speaking of, I do need to run, but I sent you a link for a registration page for people who I sent an email to everyone who I have their email. If you don't, Scott can link the registration page. I'm teaching a free class on January 12th, 7 p.m. And if you sign up and miss it, I will send you the video after.

So if you can't be there, that's okay too. And it's actually going to talk about, I mean, Brian, you did the time mastery class. We're going to talk about what our brains are doing with procrastination. I feel like January is a good time of year to talk about some of those things. Yeah, for sure. So we're going to sort of talk about how to stop finding your brain. A lot of what we talked about today, but go specifically into sort of procrastination and productivity and how we really sabotage ourselves when it comes to, I got to get stuff done. Why don't I do it?

I'm just, you know, staring in the void, which is what we, I think most humans are struggling with. So anyway, I'd love for people to join us. That's on the 12th, which is next Monday, seven. So maybe you can post that for me. I will. I'll put the thing up there. If you go to Know Better You.com, everybody. that's no, the K-N-O-W better and then the letter U.com.

Okay, she didn't know it. Go to that place and you'll find it, but also get the specifics out to people as well. So that would be great. Wendy, awesome. I'm, unfortunately, you and I'll probably be talking more in the next couple of days, but between now and then, I don't mean that because I don't want to talk to Wendy, everybody.

Don't read into it. I do. Unfortunately, I have to talk to you. Yeah, the reasons we're going to have to have frequent conversations is not the funnest, but that still doesn't make sense unless you know what's going on. Brian knows, but I'm not sure everyone else knows.

Anyway, either way, have a fantastic time between now and then and help go take your dog to pee. All right? Okay. Bye. Tommy needs to pee. Tommy needs to pee.

I love this Campanola says, Brian should make a box with the printer, specific to Oreo daily consumption, just Oreos like five per day with a sliding lid in white and brown. Can you do that as a food safe device? Would it work? No.

No, but I'd have no problem eating Oreos out of a 3D printed box. By the way, Campanolo is a free hotel room. Oh, is it now? Yeah. Have we learned this just recently that that's who that is? I knew this right from the get-go because his logo still is the same ST. Oh, interesting. I've gotten some meat, some text and emails lately that sound a whole lot like what he would say.

I'm sure. I do love your idea. I kept a polo free hotel, Bob. Good job, Bob. That is a really good idea. It's less about the Oreos for me. It's more about driving around, oh, I need to get gas somewhere. All right, I'll get gas.

Oh, I probably should go in and get something to drink. Oh, they have donuts. I better get a donut. That's my problem, is that I do it. You stack it. Yes. I do the same. I got to stop doing that.

Real quick here. we're going to get out of here before we do oh someone who's just said it oh the Wraith says you can get food safe filament I thought there wasn't a thing is that I didn't think you could Rath I thought that if you if it's something

you can melt down and put through your printer at this point you can't get something that is that is food safe because heat would well I guess plastic bowls would also melt eventually at some heat yeah melamine and stuff like that will still melt but yeah I'll look into it

I'm not eating Oreos like I'm not going to drink soup out of a 3D printed bowl. But Oreos, totally fine with that. Plus, it's the, it's the porousness, right? It's the problem. Exactly. I don't want something that, you know, a hot liquid or a or oatmeal or pudding or anything like that. I'm not going to, oh, Googled it earlier today. Okay. I believe you, me. Wait. No, that changes everything. That sounded sarcastic, but I, but I kid you. I'm seriously, if you, if you

looked this up, like last I checked, there was no food say filament, but if you looked it up today, then I believe you. But it sounded really, I like how it came off. That was funny. Oh, well, that changes. Wait a minute. You Googled it today? Oh, you Googled? Did you find this on Reddit?

That's pretty good. All right, we're going to get out of here. A reminder today, Corps will be on at 1 p.m. Yeah. Mountain time. We will have a big, meaty, first, well, second of technically our second core of the year. Last week was our awards for last year. So this is our first proper episode.

The Oscores. Yeah, we had a really good time with that. That's cool. I hope people enjoyed it. It was long. So I think today will be a little shorter. I say that, but it never is. So whatever.

But in the meantime, Brian, we need to put a song in their hearts so they can like skip down the street before we have that episode. Well, this one should do it. Rob from Springfield wrote in and said, The Tornadoes, Zach and Alex, have finally crossed the finish line into adulthood. Two decades of synchronized chaos, inside jokes, and double trouble have all led to this moment. The tornadoes are now legal, lethal, and ready to take on the world.

And how do you celebrate a storm like this? With Vegas, of course. Dad is packing up the duo and unleashing them on the strip, where the lights are bright, the dice are hot, and the buffets are endless. No, go hit that wicked spoon. If you're doing a buffet, wicked spoon of the cosmopolitan. Still the best one, although you are going to pay through your teeth. still really good but it's but you get different stuff than you'd find on any other buffet which is

which for me is like oh wow bone marrow cool i've never had bone marrow this is a great place also everything seems fresher everything just seems better i don't know i don't know what their deal is it's just a better buffet so absolutely uh blackjack tables beware slot machines prepare and bartenders good luck for 21 years yeah have him show their id this is you know with tristan when i took him there if you show your id this shows oh i just turned 21 yesterday it's like oh free drink from every single bar yeah they want to hook you in for life so they totally do and what does it cost them they were going to give you that drink for free if you put 25 cents in a in a volcano slot machine or whatever sure any who uh for 21 years zach and Alex

have been a whirlwind of energy laughter and unforgettable stories now they're stepping into a new chapter one filled with freedom adventure and maybe a few questionable decisions the kind that make the best stories ever. So, here's to the Twin Edos, double the fun, double the chaos and now double the cocktails. Vegas won't know what hit it. He says, pick a banger, suitable for this occasion. Well, when I think

of Las Vegas and that first time hitting the strip, I think Elvis Presley and I think of the song, a little less conversation. This version comes from the music de Paris Danielle, Volume 7 from 2009. It is the Kings Off Cash, and I checked, it's not

the Kings of Cash. They have an extra the Kings off cash and a little less conversation. Perfect. Tomorrow is PM edition of the show, not PM Friday. We call it TMS Friday. We do. Yeah, it's been a long time. So it was called TMS Friday. We call it TMS Friday. We were giving it a new name, Department of War. Anyway, come check it out. That's tomorrow. If you are a patron, you'll get in for the live show as well as all the extras that come with that. And we love doing that. So check it out tomorrow. Our first proper TMS Friday of 2026. That's going to do it for us. Thanks for listening. We'll see tomorrow. Little less conversation, a little more auction,

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