The Morning Stream - TMS 2952: Claire Foy eh

Episode Date: January 26, 2026

Insufficient Zooming and Fingering. Surprise Broderick. The balls were slippery. Pervy Gooner. Coriolis Coriolanus. Funeral Bird. Picasshole. The smell of Facebook. Step-mother nature. Right brained, left handed, center toothed. Cuba Goodingsnake. And you can have RED ICE. Funeral Lasagne. Broncos Busted. Moist Anger with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Morning Stream. Prepare the Virgin. I don't like the sound of that. Hello, everybody, and welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for Monday, January 26, 2026. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. Good day to you.

Post Broncos lost hangover day here in Colorado is what we call it. Yeah, tight score, though. It was a tight score. and had had they maybe gone for just the field goal in that first quarter, they got really close and said, oh, no, let's do a fourth quarter run and see if we can do it.

And might have had a different turnout. Might have had a different ending result. But you know what? I got to say, Jason Stidham for not, or Jared Steddom, for not having any starting snaps this last season, held his own against a,

a good Patriots team and kept him to three points and the snow did the rest. Yeah. Yeah, snow did some hard, some heavy lifting. It really did, yeah. Let's see. It ended up being what, 10, 7? Let's see. I think that's right. I think that sounds right. That's a pretty tight game.

That's not like... It's a tight game and it was and all those points were scored in the first quarter. No, I think 7-7 in the first quarter and then they got a field goal in the later. But the cold weather made field goals and things like that, just so much more difficult probably because the

ball's a little slipperer. It doesn't go where you want it to when you kick it. You're running on a slippery field so you've got to kind of as you're running up to kick the ball for a field goal you're worried about slipping so you're being a little bit more ginger in your

in your run-up, things like that. I always like though that football's like, hey, other stadiums, well, there are some stadiums that close it off, obviously, that are domed. With the domes. But I like the ones that are out, like Green Bay. They're out there going, you know what, F this. You deal with whatever, whatever happens.

Patriot Stadium. Yeah. Same kind of thing. They cut to like, you know, here's what have been like if the Patriots had home field advantage. And, you know, obviously the big snowstorm going on the East Coast right now. It's a mess. Really bad, yeah. You know, it's great.

Last I heard from Dunaway, we're, he's in the green on, being on today. Okay, good. Yeah, he said that they called him into work at 11 instead of his usual time. So we're crossing our fingers that he can take a break immediately. Yeah, basically says he's got... Did you get something more recent than that? Or is that the latest?

I think it's the same too. Yeah, it's just like I'm feeling it says it looks promising. Other people are here. No major outages yet. Good, good. Okay. Well, we'll make it work, I think. Yeah, good. We will not miss his presence.

How about that? Thank goodness. I made a real, I made a big goof, Brian. You did. Okay. Tell me about this.

This is really embarrassing. So it actually brought some levity to an otherwise, kind of dour weekend. It was my mother's funeral. Big, thanks, by the way, to everybody who said such nice things.

Got lots of cards in the mail and just sweet people doing nice, generous things. And the community is just really awesome. So that was really great. and you know my mom and john and half my other extended family they don't even really get it that the people that the tad pool is

this other that they're more like family than just an audience you know you know what I mean right right they see it as what you know it's like the the tonight show audience didn't send gifts to johnny carson yeah on his second cancer or whatever it was exactly they don't they don't quite get that but i tried to explain it to those who wanted to hear it and they were they were all very you know gracious and we're just happy happy to have that out there so first of all thank you all for that second of all of course one of the only jobs i really had other than being there and i had to speak and i did uh you know

organizing with my sisters and all this stuff other than those basic things i had one other important job and that was to put together about a 10 minute looping video honoring my mother and we had photos from when she was a baby way back when they used to color colorize their weird black and whites is very weird. Oh really? Was Ted Turner a member of the family? No, it was like 1938 and so I don't know, it was weird. It's like that though

like blushy and it's off. Like oversaturated weird Yeah, I don't like it. Not a fan. No, no. But from that all the way up to she had a real real vibe in the 60s. Got a bunch of photos for that. And then then a whole bunch of stuff that kind of, you know, carries through family time and us growing up and then recent years and then all the way to the end. So I had a really good, and I spent some serious time and focus on this. I'm going to make a quality looping 10-minute video that'll sit out in the foyer.

Some say four-year. I'm French and I say foyer. Sure. Sure. Plus it's more fun. Yeah, exactly. And all our old friends and all the family come up and they see it and it's got nice music and it's, you know, people getting teary about it. everything came together. Feeling good about it. No, deft punk soundtrack to that one? No. Accidentally slide a track in there.

I didn't do that. So I thought I got it all good. No gaps, no double photo fades or anything weird. Technically just a good deal. And I had Kim's MacBook behind this TV, nice of hidden. It was just on loop. And everything was great. And about 10 loops through it.

my niece comes to me and she goes, you know you got people flipping off the camera and one of those shots. And I went, and this is in a church, by the way, that we're having this thing. Okay, yeah. And there are a lot of people there that are fairly churchy. And so I went, I'm sorry, what?

She goes, come here. So I go over there. I think it was Sean, Shawnee, my niece. Anyway, we're standing there and she goes, all right, watch. And we're about midway through it. And there's this scene where I've cropped into my mom and John at a family.

reunion in 2012. Okay. And this is a typical thing where we'll do a couple of serious photos with the family at these events. But then we do a goofy when everyone makes a dumb face. And most people flip the camera off because it's just a dumb tradition. It's a dumb, yeah, right. And it offends some people and it's funny when they're offended.

And, you know, we do all that. Right. This probably sounds like just normal, you know, normal family stuff. And it is. But I cropped it way in without really paying attention to the outer ring of this photo. Because what I was trying to get was my mother and John. John and partial of my sister, all making a ridiculous face.

So a fun little levity moment in the photos, right? So I do that and I crop it perfectly and it was big enough. I could zoom in nice without losing clarity. And I went thumbs up, moved on. Well, as I'm watching this thing with my niece, on the periphery of this image, there's like five fingers, including my wife's with her giant ring she always wears.

Big old hand with big birds going right in the camera. Now, by the end of this thing, I'm still, I mean, we ended up spreading through the family a little bit and everyone's laughing at me. But we decided not to, what am I going to do? Run home 20 minutes before the funeral starts and swap it out. Re-edited it. Right. I'm not doing any of that. So I said, we're just going to let it slide.

And if somebody notices, this would crack mom up. So this would be funny to her. That's exactly what I was about to ask. Like, your mom would have loved this. She would have laughed her head off. She's like, why did you crop out all the people flipping it off? why didn't you leave them in is what she probably would say. Yeah, John would have been angry.

Of course. Of course he would. But he's two, multiple things. He's a little bereft. He's also a grump. He doesn't remember things. And his eyes are leaving him.

So I don't think he would have noticed, even if he tried. So as long as that was cool, we were just like, yeah, this is the kind of thing that we would crack up about. These are the things we're going to talk about her up there at the podium here in a minute. Like this is,

this is like my mom's, she laughed at everything. So she would have laughed at this. So it was all fine. But for a hot, second there. I freaked out. And then I freaked out again because later, while we're all milling around doing the luncheon thing, the TV disappears along with my MacBook and cables and adapters and stuff. And I thought, and you had even tweeted or posted like, you know, this event

and everybody's coming in seeing family. Why am I worried about my MacBook getting stolen? Yeah, yeah, it's exactly right. That was what that was from. And I couldn't find it. And then the mortuary people are really nice. So I knew that was. their TV, but I didn't know if they, maybe they thought it was their computer or some guy doesn't know. Well, they probably didn't want, you know, we got to take the TV out of here, but we don't want to just leave the MacBook out there, so I'm sure my guess is, and you can tell me that they put it away in a nice little safe place for you. They did. They put it behind a table, uh, neatly behind a thing. It was hidden. Just nobody said anything. That would have been nice. Yeah. But also wasn't that big a deal.

I survived it. Yeah. I got through, Brian. I got through. Good. I'm glad you did. And I'm glad, uh, glad everything went well. I'm sure. It went really well for what it is. The family and the extended folks and friends and stuff like that was cathartic for what you guys needed all at this time. We did for sure. And in Wendy's case, her family is leaving in a ice storm. Well, two kinds of ice storms. Right.

One is the weather. Yeah, right. And the other is a bunch of the capital letters ice storm. Yeah. So there's a lot going on on her end of the world. So she, her son was on a separate flight because they couldn't book it any other way. And he ended up walking in, putting his coat on, like his suit coat on, and sitting as they started the service. Okay.

So he just literally got there in time. So it was a lot of that sort of thing. But then we took a chunk of Saturday and everybody went to my sister, Misha, as we crashed the place. Wendy's friends had it catered for as a gift for the funeral. And we just ate like pigs and hung out and laughed. and at one point I stood in one side of the room just kind of looked at everybody and you can't hear yourself over all of it and I went that's the deal yeah that's what she would want John would hate it by the way he always hated it right he hated when we would get together and talks he hated

it he hated when everybody was talking at once but this was like the the scene of like camaraderie happiness family people catching up who haven't talked to each other in a long time and yeah it was amazing so that all that stuff was really good good. Here's the only thing is my mom is now, you know, we've got some closure on all this. She never told me a secret, and I found out the secret. Would you like to hear it?

It's not that controversial. I love to hear the secret. Apparently, she was in New York at one point and took a picture with Ferris Bueller. Look at that. Wow. And it was in a photo book at the funeral. I'd never seen this photo. I'd never even heard about this trip or that she had hung out, and it was during one of those

like, he's on Broadway with Nathan Lane. I was going to say he's doing a play, a producers probably or something. Yeah, producers or I think they're odd couple for a while or something like that. I think him and Lane were doing that as well. Anyway, like, it's like, bam, there's Ferris Bueller and I'm like, I kind of was, I said it out loud like, mom, you didn't tell me, you got to see Ferris Bueller and person? That's really cool.

Wow. Probably didn't talk about that car accident, but anyway. Yeah, probably not. Probably. I just want to say, Jennifer, Jennifer Gray and the, oh, no, two. late. BioCal said it immediately. BioCal was right. Johnny on the spot with the

she took a picture with a guy who killed someone? It's like, oh, good Lord. I knew that was coming. I was trying to head it off at the past, damn it. Too slow. But anyway, everything went good. It was fine. I wish I could say the same for Kim's mom, but, you know, now we're dealing with that. But, you know, listen, it rains, it pours. This was the 18,

I'd be a blind old man on a porch if I if I if I survive my appendicitis appendicitis when I was 16 and it burst right I'd probably be dead then so let's think of the positive at least it's not the 1800s yeah yeah they know how to do cataract surgeries and they can take care of your appendix when it burst exactly yeah back then we'd all be we'd all be toast well now now Kim gets the full focus and and you know support and yeah not like she wasn't getting support before but obviously it was like all right well, we've got this funeral coming up, then we've got your mom's situation. Now it's like, all right, now we can kind of pour all our support and emotion and backing to you guys.

It does make a big difference. Being split like that is rough. And we only had to do it really for two weeks, but that was not a thing I would recommend for people. It was bad. Not like that at all. Somehow managed to keep stuff running. I had a whole DNS mess yesterday that was planned months ago. But because of all this, it was just like the worst thing to deal with.

It's all good now. everything's fine. Good. Anyway. DNS. I know, right? Stupid internet. It is the stupidest thing.

It's like, okay, why, everything's pointed to the right place. The certificate's up. What the heck? Why aren't you showing up? It's the most archaic part of the internet that's been there forever that we could have made better by now. Somebody out there, some IT professionals all into like the server end of things and why it still has to be this way.

I will gladly read your email about why you think this is just, just the way it's going to be forever. But I am telling you, if I can get, if I can get computers to make photos and, and sing songs, I should be able to make it propagate freaking changes to your DNS faster. Or more reliably.

Exactly. There's so many things in life that are like, come on, why haven't they fixed this yet? The other is a little automatic toothbrushing thing you put into the top of your mouth. It goes, wash brushes all your teeth,

flosses in between them, you pull it out, you put in the bottom one, or even the same time sticking in both there and just do it. Oh, I mean, with a little straw hole so you can breathe. There you go. Brian, maybe we need to, we need to do it. All right, I'm going to 3D print it.

We're going to try it out this week. All right. All right. Prototype on its way, everybody. Oh, yeah, that reminds me. Trying stuff. You don't have this near you, do you? No, I do.

You know what? We'll do it. We'll take Dunaway and then we'll do it after. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. We'll do that. We'll take it.

We'll eat Dunaway, then we'll eat those. Oh, whoops. The volume on this is all bad. Hold on a second. Sorry, everybody. There we go. There we go. Hey, everybody. Look what it is. Who it is. Look what it is. Hey, what are you, Brian Dunaway?

Oh, hi. That's kind of hurtful. Oh, hi. It's gotten, Brian. Hey, man. Hey, you seem to be, you seem to be having internet in power and that's good. I'm glad. Yeah, yeah. We, of course, you know, this is what always happens. It's like you'll have like about 10 or 15 of those. those instances where it's like, it's going to be the storm of the century. Everyone prepare. And then you do all the stuff and then nothing happens. And you're like, after about 10 times, you're like, whatever, I'm not listening anymore. And then guess what?

Storm of the century destroys everything. Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of the south in a nutshell because you guys will have years where it's like, oh, hurricane season looking gnarly this year. And then everything just kind of skirts. And then one year, like, that's not looking too bad. Oh, no, there's something for.

Oh, we're done. I hate that for you guys, but also, you know, you're on your toes and that's what counts. Yeah, that's right. We're on toes, man. We're still, the last thing that happened was that hurricane, so we're all still a little skittish. It's like, so when we get announcements, it's like, oh, we'll get the generators back out. I get you, man. Nature.

Nature don't care. Nature does not give a shit. What a big meaning nature is. We should be nicer to it. You know, she's actually portrayed kind of nicely in the smirfs. And the butter, the butter commercial too, right? There was a butter margarine commercial where Mother Nature is like this. Oh, she was great.

She felt like this flowers all over. Yeah. Yeah, she's sort of churning butter for us. It's great. That's kind of a nice retro thing to bring Brian Dunaway how to talk about as a retro butter commercials. Representation of the Mother Nature. Didn't pop a Smurf date Mother Nature in like a couple of episodes. Am I just making stuff up?

He's a pervy gooner. So probably. Did you watch that after? after like having some dental surgery or something? Did you watch the smirps? I can imagine. Before and after. Papa smurf dated Mother Nature.

Oh, that made me choke. I don't know. He's going to find it. It probably does exist and somebody's going to find it. Well, what's the rule? What's the rule about if you have a kink? Yeah, there you go.

If you have a kink, it's probably in the internet. There's a whole subreddit about Mother Nature fantasies. Probably is, dude. It's really stepmother nature, is the porn. You're terrible. You're going straight to hell.

Do not best go. I think that was pretty fun. It was hilarious, it was hilarious, but you're going to hell. Oh, please. I've known that for a long time. They've already spray painted my name in a parking space down there. Yeah, they're comping. They're comping your hotel rates down there.

You're just going. Exactly. Yeah. Anyway, hey, let's play a game. I like games. Sure. How do these work? How does this game work?

How does it work? It's time to play the tadpulli. No, it's not. Why does this say tadpulli feud? Because I typed the wrong thing. Let's fix that. Yeah. Welcome to the morning half asses, a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you the answers.

I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct and three that are like the rules for tadpooly feud, incorrect. Nice. Depending on how confident you feel with the category, you can provide one, two or three guesses. But if any of the guesses wrong, you get zero points for that round. Get one right, gets you a point. Two right gets you three points. and three right gets you five points.

We're going to add up all those points at the end. And you guys are going to win nothing. You're going to get nothing, but you're going to win prizes for contestant proxies that we've pulled from Patreon. Scott, you are playing for Matt Eanes. Nice. Hi, Matt.

I will be playing for you. And Brian, you're going to be playing for Sen from this week in MCU. I don't know that was a thing this week from MCU. Yeah, I didn't either. And I kind of want to check it out now, but that is literally his username on Patreon, that whole thing. Yeah.

It's a brilliant way to get it promoted is by putting it in your Patreon username on TMS. What an inexpensive way to do that. I'm impressed. We would have promoted him either way, but, you know, use this everywhere you go. That's great. Yeah, I've been in several Marvel mobile games with Sen as a friend in those games. So he's into it just like me. You are a friend.

A friend. And he beat me to this week in MCU because I was thinking about something like that. Anyway, let's get right to the game. put your hands nowhere near your buzzers I was scrambling I was like oh no but what wrong page there's no button here that one that one I did on purpose the the feud text I did not

all right let's get to your first question we all love Shakespeare we all know Shakespeare like the back of our our hand which of these are actual tales from the bard which of these are actual Shakespeare plays King John King Henry the 3rd all's well that ends well the merry mistress orpheus and coriolanus we definitely went with the uh coriol anus the the paths less traveled these are hard

king john is that really a thing john do do do do do do do do do don't john all's well that ends well i think is one of his phrases but i don't know if it's a name of a damn play all right keep speaking out loud and giving me more hints yeah all right henry that oh yeah I don't want to tell you no keep doing it no I can't do on I can't do it all right I'm gonna go with this one stay on because I'm too bad I'm too fat sorry TRPW is gonna be mad at me again so I'm talking about porkins sorry oh are you not talking about pork no it's a whole thing well we need to give his name William William Hootkins. Every time he comes up, I'm just trying to, I'm trying to be respectful. So I won't bring him up again. I like him. He's top men. How much you live?

I'm going to start this timer. Yeah, start the timer. I don't freaking know. Just for the record, folks, Scott has not chosen any yet. I'm doing that. There we go. All right. He's locked in. All right. Well, let's start with Scott. The last second thing, you went. real quick there and shows King John. Yeah. Oh, good job. King John is one of Shakespeare's plays.

Oh, look at you. Never even heard of it. I debated on that one. A guest. Well, there's two kings on there, so I thought maybe, you know. I know there's a Henry, King Henry the something, but I don't think it's a third. Henry the, the, Henry the Eighth. It's not the third.

Yeah. The third was not interesting enough to write a play about. He's got a few Henry's, but King Henry's, but not the third. Is the eight silent? Henry. Henry? Yeah. Andry King and re-ingens.

Let's see, Scott, you also chose all's well that ends well after debating as to if it is a Shakespearean phrase or a play. I'm happy to tell you that it is a play. Gumb it. So Scott's got two. I'm so excited. He also chose Orpheus and is what Brian. So did you. So you're either going to live together or die together.

And I'm happy to say that you both. Don't have it. Don't get it together. Orpheus is not a Shakespearean play. However, Coriolanus is. So get your Carol's Anus out and watch that great play by Shakespeare. I should have gone just one, although I started with Orpheus, so I was screwed either way. Yeah, you, exactly.

Like you, you're gone from the get-go. But your last two that you had it was great. Poop. All right. Well, I'm Thelman, he's Louise. We died together. Well done. You both drove off that cliff.

But guess what? There was a little platform that you landed on just below the edge of the cliff. Oh, good. Were they holding hands? I can't remember. For the reason, they have a memory, they were holding hands. Yeah, their hands were up in the air holding them between the scenes. Exactly.

Yep. But that little platform that you landed on, kind of like the edges of those buildings and the stacks, is left-handed people. Which of these are actual left-handed people? Your choices are, Marie Curie, Hank Aaron, Tom, Cruz, J. Edgar Hoover, Pablo Picasso, was never called an asshole, and Stephen Colbert. It's true. Pablo Picasso is never called an asshole.

Is that true? Yeah. At least according to Jonathan Richmond, who... Oh, that's right. Created a song and titled it that very thing. That's right. I think he might be wrong. I bet someone called him. You think so? You think somebody called him an asshole. Somebody somewhere. They were like, Picasso.

You asshole. Look at that. First, we hit you with Coriolanus, and now we're talking to about Pablo Picasso's apple. Wow. There's a, Happy Monday, folks. We got a, we got a theme today.

I like it. Won't be, won't be using this in my demo reel. Well, I'm just going to have to guess again. And maybe I'll go a little less crazy here. I just watched,

I watched J. Edgar Hoover and Boardwalk Empire. But then, I don't think I ever saw him do anything with his hand. Did he sign anything that you're watching? I think I paid attention to is the problem.

Now I want to go back and change my answer. That feels like a tell. Take it. I'm picking two. All right. Okay. Let's hone in on the one that you guys both selected.

You guys both went for Tom Cruise. Oh, was it risky business or was it was picking him risky business or will we be able to handle the truth? I don't know. It's not bad. It's not bad. I liked it. Or will you guys come out on top gun? Gun.

Tom Cruise is a lefty. Sure enough, yeah. That was the only one I felt pretty sure of. He's a center-toothy and a lefty. I was going to say, you'll never guess from where his tooth is, which side of the side of the side. Which hand he uses most. Left-handed people are right-brained and center-tooth, apparently. All right.

Then you guys went off the rails with your choices. Because we buried or because we are idiots? Which is it? It's going to be a fun one. I'm going to do it this way. Scott chose Hank Aaron Brian chose Pablo Picasso and Stephen Colbert Obviously artist right

You got to pick Pablo Picasso That's what I was thinking And Stephen Colbert kind of gives off that left-handed vibe Please to tell you that those three are the wrong answers Shit Marie Curie and Jay Edgar Hoover We are having one of those nights again For days I mean

We are killing it Aren't we? All right well yeah you're killing it right All right. Let's get to question number three. You know, Scott, if we fail enough times completely, he'll have to make the questions easier at some point. Yeah. Yeah, that's true.

It's a fair point. Guess what? It ain't going to be now. Your question number three is perfumes for women. Which three of these are actual perfumes for women? Your choices are Cuba Jungle Snake, Warmfront, Elitus, Pigeons Blood, Facebook, and, detour. Three of these.

Three of these are really actually perfumes for women. Three of them are not. Detour? Detour. Ditor. Warm front. Yeah. Warm front.

And Cuba Gooding. She came in like a warm front. Cuba Gooding snake. All right. I'm picking one because I'm scared. Oh. Take it. I almost went one, but I was like, well, Scott's going to go all in.

I guess I'm going to find out here in a second. You're going to find out here in a second. has really no reason when you guys are both coming to this thing zero to pick more than one, right? All right. Let's see. Brian, you chose, let's go with this top one right here. Pigeons Blood. Too insane not to be real.

Too insane. It's real. And it's made by the Yana Company. It is an actual perfume. Oh, my gosh. Pigeons Blood. I feel like the name would put you off. That's all.

Yeah, kind of. Ooh, what's that smell? Oh, pigeon's blood. Okay. Please remove your Tinder profile and never contact me. again. Yeah. I smell like something.

I can't quite place it. Yeah. Now, I'm actually going to do something I haven't done, which is talk about one that neither of you chose. Okay. Facebook. Dang it. Cuba Jungle Snake is a perfume made by the Cuba Paris company.

Yeah, the old CJS, yeah. I had a girlfriend once that were that, yeah. Uh-huh. You could always tell when she walked in the room. I'll tell you that. That's right. All right. now let's get your other choices you chose facebook and detour as excuse me as your other two choices

scott chose facebook brian chose detour i know is that pigeons one make me gag uh looks like we are going to a tiebreaker damn either of those are real elitus is the other perfume i thought facebook was just so stupid it had to be real i know yeah i've heard of detour before some kind of kind of perfume. Or maybe I'm just imagining it. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, Jeannie's right. Facebook is not a perfume or a cologne. But it sounds like some dumb idea someone had in today's age where they're like, we're going to call this one. You know, to match the modern social era we're in, we're going to call it Facebook the scent. But then what would it smell like, freaking servers? Or it smelled like Mark Zuckerberg's

shitty hathead or what would it be? They wanted to go with Zuckerberg, but they went with the Facebook. And they didn't even call it the Facebook. everybody knows. Yeah, duh. All right. So how do we do this? Do we have... Well, let's see.

I'm going to decide here. All right. So, Scott, you got King John, Allswell, that ends well. You got Tom Cruise. Brian also got Tom Cruise. Brian got Pigeons. So, Scott, you did have three correct choices while Brian only had two. So you're going to get to choose what the pick is on this over-under question.

Okay. By the way, for those keeping track from Yist's, Yesterday's pre-show, film sec pre-show, Brian, lost $10 on yesterday's both games because the Rams didn't win. Ibit Brian. Ibitt Brian. Yes. 10 bucks you lost.

I was worried at first. I was like, wait, when did I lose $10? No, no, it was me. You know what? That's why they call it gambling because what you're doing is gambling. Let's get to the question here. I think that, you know what? Wisdom, right out your hole today.

That was perfect. They call it gambling because you gamble in it. Because you're gambling. Yeah. All right. You guys have seen those, like when they show those harps that like people are playing and it's like the typical harp shape and a woman sitting in a chair and she's like. Always wearing a really long dress skirt. Dream sequence starts at this right. They're wearing a dress. Yep. Just heaven forbid you wear one of those with pants, I guess. Anyway, how many strings does one of those have? Scott, you get the choice of giving a number or going over under? I would like to go over under.

I would like Brian to say the strings numbers. Okay, sure. All right. Brian, how many strings are in a classical concert harp? Well, I dated a girl in college. You dated an angel? I dated an angel. And she had one of these.

Yeah. And it was, and if I remember correctly, it was 18. 18 strings in a classical concert harp. I'm going to say trying not to think of too many cartoons where they, you know, when a porky pig dies and he plays one on the way up. Right, right, right.

I'm going to say it's more than that. I think the classical harp is way more than that, actually. So I'm going to say higher. All right. The actual answer is 47. Woo! Scott is correct. Are you thinking of like a handheld?

I never dated nobody in college with a harp. get real. He avoided those girls. He didn't talk to them. You didn't The Kenner twins. What are one of those Those two girls that were popular on YouTube

for a while playing? They would play carp duets And it would be really weird and awkward Like it was a really strange. Those two have definitely taken showers together recently. Yeah. It was creepy.

I didn't like the comments. The deal. But I knew I had a guy worked for, his daughter played harp, and she did it pretty competitively, and she was really good. Wow. You sit and watch somebody

who really knows the harp. That's amazing. And her fingers were like hard as cement, her tips of her finger. Like the calluses. It's like electric guitar calluses. Yeah. She could tap on a table and you could hear it go

kink, kink, kink, kink, with her fingers. It's crazy. Wow. Anyway. So there you go. I feel good about that. What did our winner win? Well, congratulations.

is going to Matt Eans. Matt, you're going to be getting Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town and Caravan Sandwich. Nice. Oh, I just got that game. That game's great. Cool. Hopefully you didn't use this code. No, I didn't. I bought it. It was on sale. It was like 11 bucks. I think it might still be on sale.

But that game is so cool. They're going to love that game. Cool, cool. There's a little bit of localization issues with some of the language stuff, but it's fine. You'll get past it. It's a beautiful game. Yeah, really neat so far. Well, don't worry, send from this week in MCU.

I gave you another plug there. Thank you. Or you're welcome, I should say. You're going to get a copy of Shogun Showdown. Nice. Who can watch the miniseries the longest, I believe, is that game. Yeah, that sounds right to me. How much stuff happens in a week in the MCU?

Probably enough to talk about, right? I would think so. Yeah, I get enough news of like, you know, Marvel getting ready. Actually, Wonder Man comes out. out in a couple days. I think Wednesday, Wonder Man. And I don't know if Disney is going to drop, because what they did with Ironheart, which was good, by the way, if you have not checked out Ironheart, it's worth watching. They dropped, I think, all the episodes at once. I don't know if Disney's going to do the same thing with Wonder Man. Yeah, I'm curious about that. They do that a lot, so maybe

you'll get lucky and get a couple of them. I do really like the, just the premise, like how they're, how they're taking the comic character and kind of translating them to the MCO. I think it's a really, really, really clever way of doing it. I know so little about that character. About the comic character. Yeah. So I'm super curious about it.

I'm looking forward to it. Dunaway, you lost and that's okay. All right? Do you feel okay? Are you feeling all right? I feel okay. I'm going to make it. Are you going to make it even though.

I'm going to pick myself up off the depths of despair and I'm going to find a way. what I really what all I really hope is that you guys don't get too hammered by this storm that you don't lose power heat and internet all those things that's what I really want for you the most I like all of those yeah those are all good things modern conveniences that we forget are you know we take them for granted so don't do that all right yeah don't do that also kiss our butts Got him. A little correction here. All episodes drop tomorrow. So eight episodes, Disney Plus, Wonder Man, a good three-hour television event. No, like four-hour television event.

Each of these things are half an hour. That's wild. I didn't know they were going to do that. Ben Kingsley's back is Trevor Slattery, which I can't wait for. We'll never, no, we will see him coming. You'll never see me come. Oh, I see what you're saying.

I see what you... Yeah, because he is there, see. Yes, we see him coming. Well, that's awesome. Looking forward to that. Guys, get ready. It's time for us to learn something together as we play this. Science.

Bob is hungry, and the soup looks good. Well, good, because Bobby is here to talk about science. Funny enough, it might even touch on this whole storm thing. They'll have to find out along with us. Hello, Bobby. Welcome to the program. Hello, how are you doing good? Oh, look at you all Star Warsed up.

like this shirt. Star Wars. That's cool. That's classic, dude. It is. Yeah. I like that a lot. Nice.

Nice. Nice. Some 1977 Zara-looking artwork. I love it. Look, as a Christmas present this year. Oh, very nice.

2020, 5 went out with a bit with a force. It went out with a Alderan bank. Aren't we happy when our family gets us? Yeah. Right? That's rare.

So when they do. Well, what usually happens is Stephanie feeds. all the good gift ideas to the rest of the family to them. Yeah. Well, that's good. That's what our wives are for.

That's what we do for our wives as well. That's right. We're all trying it anyway. We do our best. Here's the question for you. So when you come on and do a science segment on the show and you have your own science podcast and thinking about scientific stuff and issues all the time. Yeah.

Sometimes science and what's happening collide. And today it's like that. We're having a in some places. We're seeing science outside our windows. That's right. We're having some, in some cases, record-setting ice storm business happening in this particular part of our hemisphere. And you, Bobby, the science nerd, man, have got answers. Why is this happening? How can we have to deal with this this year? Yeah, you're right. It seems like there might be science all around us. Oh, all around science. All around science. Get to where you get your podcast. Go today. Yeah. Yeah, so right now there's this crazy storm covering, I think the last I saw is it might be affecting in some way like three-fourths of the U.S.

So either with just unusually cold temperatures or ice storms like we're having here or incredibly high amounts of snowfall. And this has happened before. It's not like this doesn't happen, but when it does happen, it's usually because. of the same reason. There's a sort of like atmospheric reason that we can see coming. And that's why we got all the warnings about this happening. I'm looking at the CBS News chart they made. I'm a little annoyed because the snow, they went ahead and colored blue.

The ice part of the storm, they went ahead and made dark red as if it's heat. Right. It feels like there would be a better color for us. For sure. It's like the heat miser and the snow. Meister fighting across the U.S. right there. I think really you could have done... You could have just done the lighter blue up top

and then a darker, I don't know, harsher blue below or something. Yeah. The red really throws you, but... The red was a bad for ice. Yeah, but look at Denver over there getting a taste. Yes, we are. Yeah, we're not getting any of this.

Got nothing. That's amazing. I'm impressed. Yeah, we are... Look at that. We are right in the... We are right in the return address section of the snow and ice attack. And I think this thing changes, you know, obviously the patterns change, and I don't know how old this chart is, but it's roughly that.

So why is it happening, Bobby? How can we have to deal with this? So the reason this happens is because of a phenomenon that is always existing around the North Pole called, and you're probably heard of it before because it's been talked to, it gets talked about a lot whenever these big winter storms happen, and that's the polar vortex. You've heard of the polar vortex, right? I own one for a while.

They're four-wheel drive, but you can also get the two-wheel drive one. And Ford stopped making them, but anyway. Yeah, go ahead. The polar vortex is this, as the name suggests, is this swirling mass of air that's around the poles of the earth. The one that concerns us, of course, is around the North Pole. And it's a very large area covering much of northern Canada and all the way around to Russia and completely covers the Arctic regions.

But it's this huge giant region called the polar vortex. And it's a system of circulating air, right? And it's low pressure. And what it does is it causes it, the polar vortex, because the air is spinning around like that, it contains very cold air that is up there. And what I mean by that is it contains, containing it I mean it it holds it there it creates sort of a wall there's a jet stream

there's a there's a northerer polar jet stream that is caused by this swirling mass of air and that jet stream is what holds all the cold air in now normally normally this whole polar vortex is pretty strong the winds are circulating pretty strongly and it keeps it nice and circular up there and fairly predictable. But what happens is occasionally it warms up in the polar regions. And there are lots of reasons why that might be. Some people speculate that it's happening more frequently

because of climate change. Other scientists and meteorologists say that the data is not clear. Like that probably is contributing, but it's probably caused by other things as well. But the point is that when it weakens, when it warms up, it weakens that vortex and it starts to get wobbly shaped and then big lobes of it can can drift down southward. And essentially what's happening is since the jet stream, since that massive, that wall of moving air moves south, it allows like the wall that's containing the super cold air at the poles gets,

that boundary comes down too. So it allows the air to come down towards us, which is why you get like South Carolina and Georgia and getting very cold ice storms, but then Florida is like nice and toasty warm because it's that wall, that boundary has drifted all the way down. Is that how pliable is that wall?

Can it shift suddenly? Like today it's touching Denver, but not much more west than that. Tomorrow out of nowhere, it could just go and the whole thing shifts to the west and takes out a bunch of stuff. Like how flexible are the walls, I guess is what I'm saying. It can move over days, like over a matter of days, it can definitely move halfway across the country. But it's usually pretty predictable in those short time spans, right?

Like we can see when it's going to be moving and predict it. But only to a certain extent. I mean, we were expected, we were forecasted here to get, possibly an inch of snow, but then the boundary for where the ice and snow, that ice snow boundary that you just showed on the stream, was started over, as it got closer, started to drift north. And so we ended up only getting ice storms. Now, there's a lot we could talk about about like why this even happens. Why is there even a vortex in the north? What is it that causes ice storms and why are they so dangerous and, and all, all that kind of stuff. But the vortex itself is caused by the Coriolis effect, which is a really cool phenomenon. You guys, I'm sure, I've heard of the Coriolis effect.

Yeah, it's what makes water swirl the opposite direction in Australia when you flush the toilet. Yeah. Well, that's largely a myth. That's not what happens. But it's what they say it's called, right? When they tell you that, it's what they refer. It goes opposite. They call, they cite the.

Coriolis effect. Yes. Yeah. But it's, what the choreolous effect really is, is that, um, so, so it's hard to visualize this. This is sort of a visual thing, but I'm going to do my best. That's, um, that's what I try to do is visualize things in video forms. Yeah.

Um, but, uh, so when, when something leaves the ground, like if you, if something gets launched into the air or you throw something in the air, when something leaves the ground, you don't, it doesn't just go straight up. It also goes in the direction of Earth's rotation, which is west to east. So does that make sense? Like we are kind of launched forward by the rotating Earth at the same time. Similar to like when you drive a car and you throw an apple core out the way, you know, the momentum that you've got in the car and the way. Yeah, the energy and the velocity of the reference frame that you just left is still contained within you.

right? So that's why we can jump up off the ground and we don't like the earth at the equator is rotating like 1500 feet per second. All right. It doesn't seem like it's that fast, but yeah. Yeah, I actually did some quick math for us at our general latitudes. It's a little bit different for you guys. You guys are a little bit further north. For me, I'm a little bit further south. But roughly between us, it's about it's about 1,200 feet per second that we're traveling with us, which means if you were to jump in the air and you did not have the energy of being launched forward,

then two whole football fields would pass beneath you in the half second that you jumped in the air. I feel like as a species, we would struggle with this, you know? That was the case. I feel like we're not built for it. Thank goodness for the physics involved, because we'd be dead. So the reason that's important is that

the fur, so at the equator, obviously, it's 1,500 feet per second. Where we are, it's 1,200 feet per second. So as you go further north, or closer to the poles, but we're going to talk about the northern hemisphere. Everything I'm saying is the opposite in the southern hemisphere. But as you travel further north, the speed at which the rotation is happening is slower.

So if something leaves the earth and then starts to move north, it still has the end. Like if something were, if to leave the earth at the equator, it's, it's moving 1,500 feet per second to the east, right? Mm-hmm. And if it starts to drift north, it's still moving 1,500 feet per second to the east, but the ground is now moving more slowly underneath it. Right? Oh, right. Okay.

Do you see what I'm saying? Like, if you were to leave the earth at the equator and then move to north to Denver, the, the, the, you are now moving. 300 extra feet per second to the east, then is the earth below you? So that's the Coriolis effect, is that everything kind of seems to, as it moves north in the area, it drifts to the east.

So if you were able to Superman your way from where you live to where I live quickly, not take a plane, not drive, because it's too gradual to notice. But if I could get there, you know, just really fast, supersonic speed, would I feel that, do you think, the difference?

The Coriolis effect? Yeah, because, I can travel it so fast, I wouldn't notice the difference because it's not. But you'd spin clockwise as you, as you, as you did that. Yeah, I would go up. My toilet would suddenly get weird. So I don't think you'd feel it, but you might, if it's, if you're moving fast enough, it might cause you to drift slightly to the east. But you got to remember that the air, the massive air is also being affected by the Coriolis effect. So you're moving within an air.

mass. Got it. And so that brings us back to why I even brought up the Coriolis effect, which is air masses. Air at the equator is also warmer, which means it rises, then it drifts northward where the air is cooler because generally speaking, warm air is going to move. Well, it's just, it moves north, okay? And as it moves north, it drifts to the east. So that, you see this effect as you get close to the to the, to the, to the, you know, the

the polar regions. And so at the, the opposite also happens with the Coriolis Effect, by the way. When you're moving south, you start to move to the west because you're going slower and the ground beneath you is now going faster than you were moving, right? Yeah, right. So what that means is in the northern hemisphere, if you're moving north, you're going, you drift to the east. If you're moving south, you drift to the west.

So you're always moving to the right. There's like a right-hand rule here. And so that creates a sort of vortex, like there's this vortex that happens. The swirl as the air leaves the north pole and it moves outwards to the south. It drifts to the west and creates this spinning vortex. And it's very strong because of how cold the air is there. And then the air that moves north, it moves as well. And it creates this jet stream and this boundary because these moving masses of air hit each other.

Okay. That's interesting. I keep trying to just find some way to say how New England had an advantage in the game yesterday. But they're really not training any different than we are. Their balls are moving faster because they're further north than our balls because we're further south from them. Gotcha. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

Right. I mean, you train in where you're from, so you're used to it traveling a certain speed, right? Yeah. Yeah, that all makes sense. So, okay, to bring all this together and sort of kind of make it make sense, a little bit more, the, the colder the air is in the North Pole or in the Arctic regions, the stronger that force, that vortex is. And the reason is because of the temperature difference. So remember, it's holding, it's holding, it's containing a bunch of cold air.

So if the warm air is, if it's very cold in the poles, then the air that's coming from the south is warmer. And it adds that energy to the vortex in that differential, that energy difference causes the vortex to spin faster. And then a faster spinning vortex is able to stay nice and circular and contain all of it. It's a nice tight circular vortex, right? It holds everything in. but if the air in the north in the north pole and the arctic regions warms up then the difference in temperature is weakened so that slows the vortex down which then causes it to get wobbly like a spinning top if it slows down it starts to get wobbly and then and then that's when wobbly edges can drift down and bring really really cold air to the south wow when it gives it when it stops how does that happen because we're not done with winter by the time this brunt of it is done so it's Was it just chilling? This is like, all right, I'm done blowing for a minute.

I don't want to... Are you wondering how does it go back to normal? Yeah. Yeah, why... That's the part that's weird about all these things to me, is they go from kind of normalcy to extremes. Yeah. And then back.

So it's actually really, really cool, because if you imagine like an amoeba blob, which is this weak polar vortex and a lobe reaching down into the United States right now, eventually that lobe will get lower and lower, and then it'll break off. It literally will break off from the main vortex and because it's broken off now the jet stream kind of Corrects itself. It's now it's it's separated off and where it broke off is the jet stream is now further It's closer to the Arctic and it can sort of over time

Get back to its normal strength because that lobe Broke off. Does that make sense? Oh, yeah, I get it And and that lobe that broke off will become a cold weather low a cold low pressure system which is not many low pressure

systems are warm because warm air rises creating less pressure on the surface of the earth but cold low pressure systems happen because of this like breaking off

of a lobe from the polar vortex that's one of the main ways and it happens it's got a whole name it's called like a Raspi wave pattern or something like that that's not important I'm going to check on that later, though. Yeah, Rossi weight pattern. We ain't messing around here on the TMS show.

No, no. But yeah, and so what happens is you have really cold air low to the ground, right? Because cold air is heavier. Right, right. So this cold mass of air stays really close and low to the ground. And then when these, because that happens fairly, not fairly frequently, but it does happen more often than we have these crazy ice storms that are all over the news affecting people. So why does it create an ice storm is because at the same, right now, at the same time that this weakening jet stream, this weakening polar vortex is pushing a huge mass of cold, low altitude, cold air towards the southern United States.

There's a very moist, love saying that. The best word ever. Everybody's favorite word. Yeah, everyone loves moist and moisture. Yeah, there's a lot of moisture coming from the Gulf stream and the Gulf, the Gulf areas, the ocean in the south. You know, the ocean. You know what?

I was trying to, I was about to say the Gulf of Mexico, and then that made me think of the Gulf of America. Sure, and then you got mad. I get it. And then I got angry. This happens a lot. I feel you. I feel you. man. Yeah, so the Gulf of Mexico

has a bunch of moist warm air that is moving and it goes over top of the cold air coming from the and so what happens is you've got three sort of layers. This moist air being sandwiched between cold air coming from the vortex and then cold air that's just naturally way up high in the atmosphere. And so the top of that moist layer gets frozen and then ice and snow falls through it and melts and then it refreezes again low to the ground

but there's not enough time for it to form like sleet at least here where me and Brian Dunaway are living and many others yeah lots of people here in the south who are getting ice storms and what happens is it creates super cool droplets that haven't had time to turn into sleet and snow right? Yeah.

And so there are water that are super cool to pass their their normal freezing point and as soon as they hit anything they instantly turn to ice and so you get trees that are just... Oh they explore my sister's she has video of this

before they left Minneapolis to come here for the funeral they had trees near them exploding. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's a wild idea man I know we get it all the time here where I'm sure you've seen these pictures these beautiful pictures of trees that are just covered in a layer of clear ice, you know? And it happens all the time here during these ice storms. And that's why it's because liquid... Or at least on one side where the wind's been blowing it against it, yeah.

Yeah, and it's really an interesting phenomenon because it's not ice that's... You will get some sleet and drop ice pellets on the ground, but most of it is just liquid water that is super cooled. And as soon as it hits something, it instantly turns the ice. And then it becomes really, really dangerous to drive on. It becomes dangerous because it's ice. It's not like snow. It's not. It very quickly makes...

Instantly slick as opposed to having any sort of... Yeah, yeah. We had roads closed all over the place here. We're all over Facebook. I was seeing pictures of just the roads around my neighborhood with cars smashed into light poles and all kinds of stuff. But you guys just aren't... When I was in an ice storm in Mississippi, they just were not... The infrastructure was not...

It's not like people can't deal with it. And also, you know, we get a little defensive when people make fun of us and say, like, you guys don't know what you're doing. And I do too because it's kind of like, you know, you can't make fun of me. But if I'm being honest, we don't know how to drive in this. Yeah. Is there something wrong with me that I kind of like those videos, compilations of cars sliding around on ice that are like going sideways? There is something about them, dude. There's like a cathart, not catharsis.

That's not the right word. Yeah. The slow moving ones. The slow moving ones are good. And I think I like those because I know they're okay. They're not going to be injured. As long as I've seen ones where somebody's not getting killed. It's like, but you put it to the blue Danube, the dur dur dur dur, do.

And it's perfect. It's like, you know. Yeah, something about those. And also the other thing is we do the same thing. When I say things like, oh, man, it's cold today. Oh, how cold is it? It's like 22 degrees out. and people on the East Coast are like

or you know Minnesota the Dakota is they're like are you kidding me you care about that oh big big baby or you guys if I say it's a little windy and then you guys have actual hurricanes like we don't have any comparison so we're all in this together nobody ever says to me that it's windy I don't ever say

oh yeah well I have hurricanes something anybody who says that they can just F right off yeah it's the United States not the states of differing We're united Go ahead

Anybody ever said to you Oh it's a little windy here And then you're like Yeah well you ever seen a tornado Let me tell you about that There are things with lots of wind It's okay It's sometimes you know

It's not full main character syndrome But there is a tendency for people If you say how bad something was For them to go Oh you think that's bad And then they tell you theirs It's just humans We're hard

We're complicated creatures I think people just want to share their own experience as well, but do it in a little bit more of a kind way. Yeah, I like that. Be kind. Rewind. That was my, I was proud of my sister at the funeral. Her main takeaway at the end was be a little kinder, be a little nicer, be a little more friendly. And it really stuck. Everybody needed to hear it. It was good. I had this very, very old person come up to me later and go, your sister changed my life today.

Wow. And I'm like, it only took 98 years or however long. Right. But you got there. It was great. Not much time left for that change. No, you better get out there and put it to work. Put rubber to the road, buddy.

Well, Bobby, all of this is fascinating, of course. We don't, we usually, we have very basic weather here on this radio show. So it's nice to have real weather talk from somebody who knows what they're talking about. Tell people about your show, where they can find it. and what's up over there? Our podcast is all around science that me and my co-host more

we come and talk about science, what's going on, and mostly just whatever we feel like is making us curious and interested at the moment. This episode that just came out today had a friend of both of ours, which is Logan Larson was on our show.

Oh, cool. That's great. He talked about coaching. He has a very, he's a coach which is different than a therapist. And so we talk about what are those differences, but there's a lot of overlap, and we wanted to talk to him

because he has a very sort of evidence-based approach to his coaching. And we, of course, as a science podcast, appreciate evidence-based approaches to anything. He's great. He also has the twisted, weirdest face when he plays arcade games. Really?

I need to get into the science of that. Yeah. One of those TMS Vegas years, I think it may have been the year. one. It was. He, in the finals, I just got a real good angle and look at his face when he plays. There ain't nothing like that. You know, I do a thing with my tongue where I'm like, you know, when I'm playing something, but.

Yeah. When I used to play the guitar, when I used to play the guitar, I had the stupidest look on my face whenever. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think we all have a dumb look at one point or another, and we should celebrate each other. S-Dyheim bass face is what it's called. Yeah. I should also mention this a bit of. a Johnson poll, but Bobby is helping me with programming at this year's Nurtacular event.

And as a result, we are this close to releasing a skeletal, as Beau Schwartz would say, or skeletal as normal people would say, look at what the current schedule looks like. It's actually pretty firm. I shouldn't say it's skeletal because there's a lot of meat on the bone. But, you know, barring any other changes, it's looking real solid. So soon as that's available. It's basically whenever Scott decides, I don't know what. he's had going on lately. Yeah, I know, right.

Nothing going on around here. Jeez. You know, could you make some, could you make this a priority scout for pizza? Exactly. I mean, June is not going to get here any quicker. So what the F?

Yeah, as soon as Scott's ready, the schedule is pretty much ready. So I'm really excited for people to see what sort of events we've got planned and how it's going to look and all kinds of stuff like that. And for people who are doing those events to finally see what time they're going to be doing those events.

That's right. That's right. Yeah. We got Brian doing trivia shows all night long, all the way until 4 a.m. He just doesn't know it yet. It's overnight trivia. So tuck in. Overnight trivia with Coverville.

I kind of like that. Pajama trivia starts at 11 p.m. And naked trivia right after that. So tuck in. I love it. Well, anyway, Bobby. Just some layers, people. Make sure you get your all-around science on.

Everybody, go listen to it. Bobby, always a pleasure having you on. And we will talk to you soon. My good man. Bye. Bye now. See, Bobby. Oh, you're, that didn't hang up on him.

Did it. No, it did not. Now it did. And that one's gone. Okay. Cool. Ah, right there. We're here, everybody.

Let's get to, what time is it? We got, you know what, I'm going to, I'm going to play, I'm going to read this one. You know what I'm going to, okay, here's what I'll say. And we'll make it quick because it's fast. It's a quick email. Here's your thing for it. This is about the jugs of pee. He says, since Scott was at a funeral, was there loads of funeral potatoes there?

And this is from somebody named Hope. Maybe they were just hoping there would be lots of funeral. potatoes there. I mean, I did. They were going, they were going, hope there was. Here's hoping at the end of their thing. Unfortunately, John was in charge of who

picking the food and he chose lasagna, the traditional funeral food lasagna, because his Italian blood will eat nothing but things made in Italy. Oh, please tell me that you had umpteen foil trays, foil pans, filled

with lasagna. Yep. A couple of vegetarian ones. The rest were meat and it was for as far as the eye could see. Actually, it does sound really good. It was actually pretty good. I'm not going to lie. But I didn't get to have any funeral potatoes. Brian, let's do this thing too, which is I got a little thing for it. Would you not eat my

pants? All right. We're going to try. Sorry, that is so much but I love the what's a foodie, but that is an all my favorite food. It's pretty great. I want more food sent to us so we can use that intro more. If you guys at home have never seen the reporter lady getting pecked to death by a bird or a goat or whatever it is.

Is it a bird or a goat? I don't remember. It's an amazing. It's one of the greatest viral scenes over. Okay, so do we know who sent us these? Oh, I was hoping you had the box. All I have is this, not the packing. So I'm not sure.

Dang, I didn't think of that before we brought it in here. I didn't think of it either. Here's the thing. When I opened this up, because it came to Brian Abbott, Coverville Media, we'll see. It's like, oh, it's got to be from Mike Pacholic. So I didn't keep the box. And I, so whoever sent this, I apologize because I reached out to Mike Bicholic and said,

hey, thanks for the Goo Goo Clusters. And he said, nope, wasn't me. It wasn't me, says. And I had her in the shower. Did you send us Google Clusters? It wasn't me. Did you send us funky Oreos? It wasn't me.

You sent me some of those corn nuts? That was me. So these are, well, someone in the chat might even be the person. So we'll find out. I hope so. I hope somebody does fess up because. These are the Google clusters. Was it the same person?

Did you get? I got different flavors. Yeah, so did I. Oh, you mean other stuff. Yeah, there's another, we got another thing from Matthew Bach. Oh, our board game, one of our board game people. Yep, exactly. And you'll be receiving this at some point.

But this is a lovely, like a kitty carry-all of funky Oreo cookies from Japan. Oh, my Lord. Yeah. I want that. I'm never getting rid of that box, either. I'm keeping that box. I'm hanging that up somewhere. That's great.

It's a Christmas ornament for a weird tree. But that one came from Matthew Bach. And I don't know if Matthew Buck also sent the Google Cluster. He might have. So whoever this was, go listen to the Goo Goo Dolls and then tell us that you sent us the Google Clusters. Look at that. It was Johnny Resnick sent us the Google Clusters.

Oh, Johnny Resnick. Fantastic. I wish you would jump out of that ledge, my friend. That's right. No, that's third eye blind. Oh, whoops. We got the band. All right.

So, all right. Which one do we want to? You've eaten them all. What do you got left? Let's do the pecan. Because that's the only one I have left. All right. Blue package.

Sent me peanut butter, the original, and pecan. Pecan only one. The rest are two each. Oh, wow. You got, uh... That's what was in the box. I don't know. There were four in mine.

I had, uh... By five total. If I had four total. Unless Tina ate one before I got to it, which is really positive. Oh, could have happened. Yeah. All right, here we go. Oh, shit.

I dropped it. Okay, I'm eating the peanut butter one because it went way over there. There you go. Oh, that was such a good one. I wish I could eat the peanut butter one again. Although I love pecans, so I'm not going to complain. This is like a marshmallow turtle is what this one is. Oh, that's good.

How much sugar is in each one of these? Oh, don't look. It's going to kill you. Oh, my gosh. Mm-hmm. Total sugar is 18 grams. 17 of that is added 220 calories for that whole unit

I'll be having a bite and that's all but that is fantastic I can see why these are probably one of those regional like you gotta have them's they are and and I will say to the previous

three that I ate Tina and I divided them up into quarters and ate them you know each had a quarter at a time that is the way to do it except this time you horked something down there a little bit I did I swallowed rung got a little pecan lodged in the esophagus well there you go whilst we

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