The Morning Stream - TMS 2959: Meat in the Middle

Episode Date: February 5, 2026

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So? So it would be nice to see. Well, it is fixed. No. The Morning Stream. Let's do the Time Warp again. Good morning all, and welcome to TMS. This is the morning stream for Thursday, February 5th, 2026.

I'm Scott Johnson. That is Brian Abbott right there. Good morning. Happy Thursday to you. Good morning to you. It's just a jump to the left. That's right. I was going to give you an update on this because I told you I put up for sale.

I had the double vision, so I was selling one of my visions. Oh, yeah, yeah. And no bites, not even at like five bucks or whatever. Really? Nobody cares. Just eBay. I mean, I could probably try some other marketplaces that are more nerd-centric or whatever. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. As a matter of fact, Jeff in our tadpool pointed me to one that I was going to check out. Is it like this kind of stuff? It's specific for nerdy stuff like this. Yes. let's see I guess I could do a search in my text messages Jeffrey Milton

it's not nerd deals on eBay that's not it no it's its own separate separate thing it is called oh my god it's got there we go it's a link Whatnot Oh it's a whatnot.com

Whatnot shop sell connect This says it's an app But I think there's a website as well Let's see Whatnot.com Yeah the live shopping marketplace shop, sell, and connector on the things you love. And it is very much this thing,

this kind of thing. Let me pull this over here. Yeah, it looks like they focus on the app, but the idea is you got nerd shit? Mm-hmm. There's the guy with, in fact, this dude right here, oh, it's a comic now. Fantastic four, but you had an action figure a second ago.

Yeah. Look at her selling a purse. Is that what that is? I don't know. Oh, shoes? Shoes. Well, I had a bad experience of shoes on eBay. Maybe I'll have a better one here.

there you go albums there you go a little credence little credence albums so I'll look into it that seems neat yeah if this thing re-liss again I'll just pull it and I mean what's the harm I can just try it

right exactly you know and and pull it and just see how it does with this sort of thing might be just fine what not dot com that's a great URL totally is you know

it's surprising that nobody nobody had it already Somebody must have squat on that for a long time ago. The only way those work anymore I've noticed is that, like, even one that I used to own that I let go, I'm so mad that I did. I go to it now and I forgot the URL, but it's like it's parked and some guys asking $80,000 for the freaking thing. Oh, geez. Like, why didn't I just park it and ask for $8,000? Oh, my God.

What was I thinking? Anyway. Hope you're all well. Hindsight. Yeah, hindsight. For every one of those, there's a thousand that you bought that are like, that are things that nobody. would ever want. So I got a fish question for you.

Okay. All right. We like fish. I like fish. They don't always give us more fish. We have a lot of fish clips here on the show. There's a lot of fish in our lives. Lately I've been eating these tinned fish.

So I think I talked about it a bit, but like anchovies, sardines. Yeah, that kind of stuff. It's good for you, good omega-3s. I kind of like them. I don't hate it. In fact, the fishier, the better, weirdly. Kim hates the stuff, but I kind of like it. I do, too.

I'm a fan of those. Salty, fishy. Yeah, something about it, but also, you know, they're good for you. So, good heart health stuff. So I've been eating those. And yesterday I got some sardines. And I was reminded that the way that these sardines are prepared before they're tinned with the olive oil and whatever they put in there, they cook them so thoroughly that in theory, the bones are supposed to be so soft that you don't even really notice them.

Right. You can just eat them. They're not. They won't get stuck in your throat or cause problems. or things like that. Yeah, they kind of melt in your mouth, not in your hands or whatever. Sure. And so here's the problem, though.

I get one of these and I pull it out and there's a kind of, you know, its spine is kind of hanging there. And my brain's like. Like a Mortal Kombat deal. A little bit. Yeah. Kind of hanging out of it. And I kind of went, well, I know it's okay to eat these, but do I, do I eat these?

I mean, if it's already separated, the spine's already separated out. Why? Yeah, why eat it, right? Yeah. Is there any good to those? Like calcium or something? I'm supposed to be getting from them bones? I don't know.

I don't know. What would you do if you saw these bones in there? You'd separate them if you could? I'd separate them out. I'd pull the, yeah. If the bones are already partially separated and I can separate the bones from the rest of the fish, there's no reason for me to eat those because I'm there for the meat. Yeah, I'm not there for the meat too.

I'm not there for the bone. Yeah, I'm there for the meat. I might even have a little French bread for the oil, you know. Right. I might be doing that, but I don't think I'm there for the bones. No. all right go somewhere else for the bones although disturbed angel

here we go says yes a lot of the nutrients are in the bones and a lot of why they're so good for you really really this is like finding out um you know avocado's are good for it be better eat that pit it's like no I don't want to eat the rind of the watermelon is actually the best part of it for you

yeah I hate that but but I get it it may that may be the case I don't know but then when I get the when I do the other ones um uh What are the little fish you put on anchovies? Yeah. Yeah.

I'll do either the anchovies or the salmon or the mackerel. And in those cases, I don't feel like I'm dealing with bones at all. They're just not in there. Or I don't see them. I don't know. And thankfully, these sardines and stuff have no heads. And the anchovies are headless too. You can get them different ways.

My brother, my brother used to eat them with the heads on potato chips. They put a whole little minnow-looking fish and eat it that way. I don't want to be doing that. Potato chip. I can't do a head, man. I can't take a fish head and eat it. I know. I know.

Crazy neighbor likes, like, he'll ask for at a sushi place, he'll ask for raw shrimp and it's whole, full on, head-on shrimp. And I can't do it. I can't do it.

If I'm going to do the shrimp, it's like, and it's cooked. I guess it's not raw. It's cooked shrimp, but it's cooked with a head-on. I guess I have one exception. too, it's, I can do crawfish.

With the head on? Tear them apart. Suck out this stuff, all that. Yeah, I can do that. Well, yeah, but you're still not eating the head. You don't eat, eat the head, yeah. Right. Because the head is still like a, yeah, it's still like a. Yeah, it's okay.

Exactly. It's an external exoskeleton. And so when I'm done, you know, it's tradition in the South, maybe everywhere, but you suck the head to get all that flavor out of there. But really what you're eating is all the brains and head goo that are in there. And you're really, you're sucking in the upper body, too. It's like, uh, um, Yeah, their head and body are barely two things. Yeah, yeah.

They're one thing. It's all one thing in a nice little, in a nice little nature made shot glass shell. You just go, yeah, yeah. And I like doing that. So I have, you know, my limits. But I definitely ain't going to just like chew into that and crunch that. That sounds terrible. No, gosh, no, no.

But all the nutrients are in the shell, Scott. You got to eat the shell. Well, speaking of those, if you, Kim made Japanese. What you call them? It's the way Japanese people prepare eggs when they're scrambled. Oh, yeah, yeah, the soft boiled thing or soft boil. Whatever it is. Yeah, you make it, it's like real creamy when you're done.

It's really good. Anyway, we had some of that. And I was reminded because she's like, make sure there's no shells because she's very, if she gets even a titch of a shell. I am so with her. I don't want, I don't want shells in my eggs. And I will, I will, you know, I will really, reach into the hot pan with my fingers if I need to.

Although, here's the amazing thing. Like, you crack an egg, you dump it in the pan. It's like sizzling, like, oh, crud, there's a shell in there. You grab a fork, that shell is going to run away from the fork. You grab a spoon, the little shell runs away from the spoon. You use the edge of the shell you just broke. It's like a magnet, dude. Like the little shell fragment goes right up to the, like, it's trying to re-combobulate, basically.

and you basically toss, you know, you'd basically be able to get that egg shell. It is weird how repellent it is to everything but its own kind. Isn't that weird? It's amazing. It's really. Claire says, well, your shells have bleach too. Not in this case. These are, my brother-in-law has chickens and he's always given us eggs.

We have like 50 eggs are all fresh out of the cloaca of a chicken. Cloaca. We sometimes get the farmer's market or the sprouts or whole foods, usually sprouts. Sprouts is good and their prices aren't terrible. They're not bad, yeah. You know what? Shout out to sprouts. Those guys are awesome.

Especially during like when egg prices were shooting up everywhere else, sprouts still had them for the same damn price. And they always seem to have them. Like it, uh, yeah, don't know how they weren't affected by everything else going on in the country with eggs. So Claire says still eat the shells then. No, so this is the point.

It's not about, we're not, we don't, forget about bleach for a minute because we don't care about that. Let's say, We're not eating the shells because they're bleached. No. We're not eating the shells because they're shells. They're shells and they're gross and they feel like sand and it's crunchy. It's a terrible surprise in your otherwise normal meal.

So I've been at restaurants where we have gotten a lovely egg breakfast from a place reputable, blah, blah, blah. And Kim will find just a scrap of a shell. And she'll just push it forward and sit back and fold your arms. Or we'll tell the people, oh, there's shells on this. But I don't like doing that either because I don't trust the kitchen. You know? Oh, you don't think they're... I've been...

I worked at a Chi-Chi's. I know what we did to people like that. See, that's the problem. Your experience at Chi-Chi's now makes you feel like that's going to happen to you everywhere. And it could. It could be happening everywhere. You don't know.

Yeah. That's a double-edged sword of the whole like, I worked at the back and this guy used to like rub the French toast down his pants. And I was like, crap. Now I'm at a restaurant and I'm eating French toast. And now all I can think about is Horatio Sands back there, you know, rubbing the French toast. orange toast the inside of his

sweatpants. I mean, the good news is he only did it. I love that you called him Horatio Sands. It somehow works. I don't know why that works. Well, because he was, that was the character in Road Trip. Who does that to somebody's, yeah, it's Horatio Sands in Road Trip who they stop at a

diner and somebody's, I can't remember what the deal was. Maybe Sean Williams Scott was too demanding or too much of an asshole or something. And Horatio Sands says, oh, let me go ahead and take care of that. And they show him in the back and he's like,

oh, yeah, putting it back on the plate, little dusting of powder sugar and brings it back out to him. Yeah, the good news is usually if it's your first time out with the food, no this good, you're fine. They didn't do anything to it unless someone's disgruntled. See, you just never freaking know. Never know, yeah. So I just figure, I'm sure I've eaten stuff I shouldn't be eaten.

But, oh, yeah, DJ Qualls. That's right. It was DJ Qualls that was all demanding about, you know, his French toast wasn't cooked enough or something. something. DJ Qualls that big head and that tiny body. A little teeny tiny body, yeah. Yeah. I liked him in Breaking Bad. That was fun. Yeah. You have to tell me if you're caught.

He's great. He's the best. One of those weirdos. Well, anyway, that helps me. I feel like I have a better handle on... Do you know? I mean, because, you know, I said, don't eat the bones and people in the chat room said, eat the bones. Well, I'm going to eat him if I can't pull him out or I don't see him. And most of it. of the time for there's three sardines in these cans big headless sardines kind of you know head to tail basically three sardines doing some kind of 69 orgy in there right and uh butts to nuts

yeah butts to nuts and i took or i ate the first one and i didn't even notice it there it wasn't visible second one i kind of pull it it halved out and then out came the spine and i went yeah and so i pulled the spine out through that away and then ate the rest. And then the third one, I couldn't tell again. So I ate two spines out of three. There you go. So you got, you got, you know, you got nutrients. I wouldn't worry about it. And I would have done exactly what you did. I would have eaten the other ones just fine. Plus, you also want to keep that outer, whatever that is. Like on salmon, they always tell you the fatty, weird, scaly, almost iridescent stuff. That's good for it. It's got the good fats in there.

Do you, when you're eating tinned fish, do you try to do it huddled around a barrel on fire? No, but when, okay, funny you say that. I'd like. to do it right here while I'm watching film sack. So I had I had the tin right here and I had the thing pulled back and I have some crackers here. So these are the crack. I didn't finish them, but these are the crackers that I used. Oh sure. Yep. Like club like club crackers. Is that what those are? Yep. Yep. Like those and then you just, you know, fork a little on there and have a thing. Do what you got to do. And then here's the problem. I go, all right, reminder to self, I throw the tin and the top roller thing in the trash.

here and then I say don't forget tonight to take that out there upstairs oh no and then I forget so now it's in there and you can kind of smell it in here yeah it's a wee bit fishy in the room yeah overnight overnight sitting in the trash can fish water for fish oil it's not great yeah that's gross so you want to talk thick and liquid Brian I got you something yeah there you go exactly yeah I'll be taking that up after the show I would dip bread in that right after you open it but I would Do it the next day. No, no, no. While it's open and fresh, do it.

Yeah. But anyway, may all your, everybody within the sound of our voices, may all your omega-3s adhere themselves to your rotting arteries. I don't know why we have mice. Yeah, exactly, right? I mean, that's a, actually good question. I wonder how attractive this is. I don't know.

Would mice be attracted to oily, fishy smell? I mean, I don't think they would. That's more like a raccoon kind of deal. Yeah, that's more raccoony. And the thing is, if they had gotten in here, there's no way they would get out because this is way too deep. Yeah. And I don't see any in there. Yeah.

No, save it. Next time, just save it for when you're going on a flight. A nice little cross-country flight. Oh, people love it. Yeah. Have to be Southwest, though, right? You can't do that on another island. No, don't do that on a Delta.

Frontier will take me. That's right. Yeah, they'll take you. Uh, yeah. Here's another ad for our credit card and also a guy in row five. Please stop eating sardines. Anyway, sign up for our credit card. There's always somebody and there was some big onion salad fish thing or whatever.

Somebody's always doing that. So gross. It's gross. I can't even, I barely can eat on a plane when there's food on the plane. Get me off that thing before I eat. Brian, we got some news to do. We got to inform the people. And, ooh, it's sponsored by something.

Let's find out who when I pushed this. It's time for. The news brought to you by. Brought to you by Coverville today, doing a little bit of a tribute episode. On February 2nd, we lost Chuck Negron. He was best known as founding member and lead vocalist of a band called Three Dog Night, known for a lot of great songs, things like Joy to the World, black and white, just an old-fashioned love song, things like that. Guess what?

A lot of those are covers. A lot of those are covers of other artists. Their biggest hits, most of them are by other artists. So in some cases, you'll hear the original before their big hit or in other cases you'll hear covers. But all of it will be today on Coverville at Twitch.tv.tv slash Coverville pretty shortly after this episode of TMS. Maybe we'll do a raid again. That was fun. Oh, that was fun. We could totally do that. We'll do a raid this time. People seem to enjoy that. Yeah. Everyone likes a good raid.

Yeah. Kept quite a few of our TMS listeners entertained. So there you go. Yeah, that's fantastic. Let's get to this story here. I'll give you the quote first. They saw them on their dishes when eating. It's a weird thing to quote. It is on their dishes when eating. When eating.

This is about mushrooms that are making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans. So what they saw were little people running around their plates. Right. Oh my God. And people are all having the same hallucination with this mushroom. That's a very specific thing, right? It is.

It is. It's not like you just. you know, hallucinate something out of your own life. It's like, nope, we're all seeing little human, little, little people. And that makes me wonder if those little people are always there and the mushrooms just delight to see them. Yeah. Actually, it does.

Maybe they're right now, right now they're all swarming my can of sardines. Yeah, you don't know because you can't see them. You need to go eat the magic mushrooms that lets you see them. Oh, boy. And then I'll leave those in the trash. Then we're in trouble. The little people eat those and then they'll see even little little people running around everything.

Oh, shit. Oh no, where does it end? Never ends. Well, anyway, only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions. Every year, doctors at a hospital in the Yunnan province of China brace themselves for an influx of people with an unusual complaint.

The patients come with a strikingly odd symptom, visions of pint-sized elf-like figures marching under doors, crawling up walls, and clinging to furniture. Do-do-dun, do-dun, do-dun, do-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d. One of them's kind of dumb. One of them stinky. What about over there? It's not stinky.

There's no stinky, isn't there? What is it? Hold on. I'm going to test my knowledge here. Okay. All right. Let's see how many. The seven dwarves.

Sleepy? Yes. Mopee? No. Already. Already fit. There's no Mopee? There's no Mopee.

There's no Mopee. There's no Mopee. No. I would, you could say, Scott, if you get this, if you can tell us one thing, we'll save the world. And I'd say Mopee and the rural would end. I swear there's a mopy. I swear there's a. No, do you want me to help you?

Yeah. Well, okay, wait. Let's forget I said Mopi. I get one mulligan here. Yeah, okay. All right. Sleepy. Yes.

Say Mopey again. Dopey. Dopey is who you're probably thinking of from the Mopee. Yeah, I think the Mopee to the Dopee. That's a title. Dopee. Stinky and Sarge. I have no idea.

Okay. I don't know why I can't think of him. I can't think of him. Sleepy, sneezy, bashful, dopey, doc, happy, grumpy. How many is that? Oh, I should count it on my hands while you're doing it. Yeah, all right, you count on your hands and I'll start over. Sleepy, dopey, doc, grumpy, bashful, happy.

Did I say sneezy already in this second batch? Nope, no. So sneezing. Sneezy. And we're at seven, so you know. Oh, that's seven. Oh, that's seven. Oh, that's seven.

Oh, that's seven. Seven. Yeah. I don't know what to say about that. That's almost worse. That's great. Than Chester the Cheetah being a tiger. That's really funny. Yeah.

Oh, my Lord. What the hell happened there? I was saying him. I wasn't counting them. So whatever, people. All right. Maybe there is a gas leak. I got to get that radon tested. You know in my head, I was thinking you had to get to 10 because I got hands up. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, right. I'm like, well, we can't leave these fingers just hanging here.

Brainy, uh, dwarfette and, uh, grandpa. Yeah. Or Papa. I don't know why. I don't know why I want to say there's a serge in there. I know there is. Yeah, you're thinking of Doc. It must be Doc.

Yeah. Why would I think Sarge, though? I don't know. That's really funny. Maybe that those, well, anyway, that movie, the little soldiers or the tiny soldiers. What were they called? The one of it was small soldiers? Small soldiers.

Yeah. Tommy Lee Jones was the, I think he was called Sarge, I think. I think it was called Sarge. It'd be appropriate. It'd be perfect, yeah. All right, well, anyway, these people are hallucinating, kind of like we are. And they, anyway, so they found out what this is. The mushroom or at a mushroom hot pot restaurant, the server set of timer for 15 minutes to warn us.

Don't eat it until the timer goes off, or you might see little people. They warn people about this when they're there at the restaurant. But some people eat them early. this has a connection to Utah weirdly. It says, this is somebody named Colin Duhmer or Domnard. Domnaar. Domnaar. Domnawer.

Okay. I would say Domnauer. Sarge? Sarge, Sergeant Domnauer. Sergeant Domnauer. Sergeant Domnauer. It actually sounds like it should be a thing. It does, actually.

A doctoral candidate in biology at the University of Utah and the National Museum of Utah, who is studying L. Ascicatica. Asa. El Assydica. Asitica? Azeatica.

Ejatica. Ejatica sounds. Sure. I feel like you're closer than I'm ever going to get. Ejatica. Ejatica! You're out of order! This whole court's out of order.

It seems like common knowledge in the culture there, unquote. So, yeah, if you take these mushrooms, you're going to see little people to matter who you are, it sounds like. All right. Let's a little question for Scott and Brian here and for the tadpool. I'm curious. You order your little hot pot. We're going to hot pot tomorrow for lunch, by the way, for Tina's birthday and Tristan's birthday.

Let's say they say, all right, here's these mushrooms. They're going to make you see little people unless you cook them for 15 minutes. Do you eat them? Or do you start early? And you will not have any other side effects,

no other problems like it will no long lasting issues or anything like that. You'll see little people for maybe, let's say an hour. Let's see people for an hour. Do you eat them at 13 minutes? Do you eat it at 12? I think I would. I'd be like no other long-lasting effects? If it's no other effects, meaning it won't make me panic, freak out, run around like an idiot.

Yeah. Like all those things. If all it does is give me the visual and I can calmly go, oh, there's the little people I heard about. There's the little people, exactly. Well, then I had 100% do it. Tim, you've got to see this. There's little people running all over my plate. They're bathing in the hot pot.

Eat the mushrooms now. Yeah. I would do that. I would do that. It's about 50-50. Like, you know, just going down, like Raythe says, eat them raw. Matuba says, hell yeah, I'm seeing little people. Spot Monk is, nope.

McPerrick is 100%. Yeah. Ensor sold. It says, sure. Bridges Diesel says, I cook him for 10 minutes just to roll the dice. Yeah, dude. Living large, man. Yeah, the 10 minutes, I think the 10 minutes is a good idea because then you, you know,

you're you may be shortening the sensation of them, but also you're killing any other thing that might be bad for it on the... Right. Oh, that's the other thing, exactly. You don't want food poisoning in general. But if you're guaranteed, none of that. Guaranteed none of that. Amy says absolutely not.

Joy says, maybe. I'd do it. Claire says, dip them in the sauce and try them. I'd do it. Well, Claire says, having been purposely food poisoned by someone at Hot Pot, no, someone purposely... Purposefully food poisoned, do you? Oh, I don't know if I even want to hear this story.

I mean, you can type it in there, but I don't know if I want to read it. Sounds awful. That sounds like the meanest thing you could ever do to anybody. Give them food poisoning. Matubis is I'm bored and lonely. I'm undercooking it. Just to have some friends. Yeah, you're about to have a room full of friends, buddy.

Yeah, it also kind of depends on the mood I'm in currently. I don't think I want to do this. Yeah, for sure. I'll come. Okay, I'm not answering. I'm going to ask them tomorrow. I know they're going to say no, but I'm going to say, do you have the mushrooms that make you see little people? Yeah, see what they say. Yeah. What's the words they can do? We have those in the back with it's only by request. It's our secret menu. You can either do animal style or the mushrooms that make you see little people. I'm totally doing it. Yeah. Damn, dude. It depends on if I think Tina's going to be driving tomorrow. So yeah. Oh, I also have to take Tina out to dinner tomorrow night for her birthday with other friends. So maybe I shouldn't see little people before like, you know. it'd be nice to know how long that lasts

happy birthday to Tina early though yeah I'll pass that long yeah hope she has a really good one yeah she didn't send her request so she's not getting anything played no listen you have to do the work people yeah exactly um one final note here before we get windy in the in the room

ikea releases a gigantic hot dog to make hostcos look small yeah yeah this is uh size does matter when it comes to conveniently convenient hot dog access. And people are 3D printing things to carry them around on too. Like, for your card to put your big hot dog on.

Oh, that reminds me. I'm going to make sure we have a good photo with us. Let's see. Oh, yeah. I want people to see this. Anyway, IKEA, so they release this thing. When it comes to hot dogs, cost those buck 50, beefy. Or sorry, beef glitzy.

Glizzy. Glyzy, sorry. I've never heard the term glizzy. I've never heard glizzy in my life. Me neither. I got to see. Beef glizzy, dude. Beef Gleazy.

Can we make it? You know what? Make those two Zs dollar signs. We got a rap name. Yo, yo, yo, beef glizzy in the house. Yeah, I've never... Oh, geez. It's also, don't look it up on Urban Dictionary, but...

Yeah, just another term for a hot dog. Gizzy. A glizzy. Okay. Where is this from? Dextero.com. See, here in the States. Never heard of it.

Maybe it's a regional thing. Anyway, the beef, Glizy is the Undisputed King. of food court, but new competitor has arrived to take the crown. Hot dogs are nothing new to IKEA. Actually, I had one there recently, and it was dinky. Wasn't that big? They haven't done the new ones yet when I went, so I'll have to go now to see what it is.

But when you're not getting lost in the store, customers often make time for the food court to snack on anything from pizza to the chain's beloved meatballs. The Swedish retailer has unveiled a half meter long dog. Hot dog. Half meter. Hot dog. 20 inches

of hot dog. Oh my gosh. dude. That's a lot. The official coverville. Yeah. I appreciate you throwing out the the imperial there for people who don't get it. Oh yeah, there you go.

I like it. There you go. That's how, oh my gosh, I can't eat that. That's too much. No, that's ridiculous. 20-ish is a hot dog? Come on. Does the bun, uh, let's see if I can find a photo.

Does the bun match the dog? Yeah, baby. Oh, there it is. And it does not. Oh, look. It really doesn't. That looks positively inappropriate. It is, I'm going to go ahead and say this is like them just being jerks.

This is just them. If this was April, I believe it's April 1st, like basically, yeah. I may still go do this, though. What's, is it 19 bucks? Is that what it says on the right? Oh, it better not be. DHS 19. I don't know if that.

Uh, no, see. It doesn't say anything in the article about the price. Yeah, it just says more to love, more to enjoy. Don't stop. It's so lame. I hate how they say this. But you know, you're eating this by pulling it through the bun until it matches the length of the bun, and then you're going to eat the bun with it with the last half of it.

Oh, there it is. 517 U.S. Oh, all right. That's probably more reasonable than you expect. Even if I throw half of it away. I'm doing it next time I go to you. You and Tina should do like the dogs in the Tramp. Lady of the Tramp.

Yeah. Meat in the middle on this big giant. Sure. Two meter dog. We'll have a stereotypical Italian behind us with an accordion playing that's a moray. Yeah. And yeah. Yeah, I love it.

I love it. We need photos of this or else it didn't happen. Probably didn't happen either way. Well, that's fantastic. All right, guys. That's all the news we have for you for today. Apologies that there isn't more. Boy, I think we all need therapy now.

Yeah. Both of those stories. Oh, well, good news, because there's this. Something wrong, Batman. Has anybody seen Wendy? I have, and she's right here. My sister Wendy, the therapist. Hi, Wendy. How are you?

Hi. Hey. How are you? Well,ish. You're doing Wellish. You're doing okay-ish. Okay-ish. Hi.

Question for you, Wendy. So you go to a hot pot restaurant. They say, all right, well, we've got a mushroom here that we're serving you. make sure you cook it for 15 minutes because if you cook it for any less time than that, you're going to see little people running around on your plate. No other side effects, no other problems. That's a real thing, apparently. It's a real thing.

If you cook it for less than 15 minutes, then you're going to see a bunch of little people running around your plate. Would you do it? Do you cook it for the full 15 or do you undercook it? Yeah. Oh, that is a great question. Would I? I would want to see little people for a minute.

I know. That's what we think. That's what we think. And you know, I don't see much because of my A Fantasia, so I'd love to see a little something that's not there. Just visualize some little people. Yeah. Actually, so let me ask you this right now. This is a great follow-up on the A Fantasian thing. I can picture this right now happening all around in front of me. Totally. I see little people climbing, jumping. Yes. Jumping rope over here. It's like they're in a little single file conga line.

And every obstacle on my desk, they're climbing around like they're parkoring. Yeah, it's really easy for me. In fact, I draw a lot of pictures like this where big giant objects are being crawled on by a bunch of little people. Right. I've got a giant stitch that I'm standing in front of in this one right over here. Yeah, and he's got a little tiny brine out front. Little tiny brine. So I'm already kind of into this concept.

I can visualize it, but Wendy, you can't even visualize what that might be like. Is that true? Okay. So let me explain because it's kind of a spectrum. Everyone can see slightly different things, right, when you actually think about it. So here's a great example. This morning, I have a. no idea what the conversation was, but at some point, Adam said Brett Fav.

Okay. And my brain immediately produced a picture of Brett Farrb later years for just like a flash. So I could see him with gray hair, like, I don't know at a press conference maybe, something like that. And I just pictured him. And then it poof, it's gone. So I am not zero, whereas I don't know if you know this Scott, but Morgan and Jade, our nieces, have zero.

They can't see nothing. We talked about this when you were here. And it was actually a really funny conversation because we're trying to get Jade to picture anything. And she can't do it. And it was hilarious to watch because she's funny. I mean, she's actually just genuinely, like innately funny just being herself. But she could not picture. And it could be simple stuff.

Can you picture a book open on the table? She couldn't do it. Right. And then your daughters, I was asking them, like, guys, can you? And I just said some word. and they both were so funny. They were like, yeah, and they played an entire movie with their eyes open. I was like, okay.

You're on the far end. They are the far. We are the Johnson or my end of the tree, the genetic tree went way over that way. Everything's visualized. On the other side, you got the, well, Misha and our blood relatives. So maybe there's zero, there's zero genetic connection. Yeah, there's no correlation. But I should have something, but I only have a little.

But anyway, but I can pull up Brett Farb. And for one half second, I could picture. your plate with a couple of little guys on it, but it is not. For just a second, then it goes, poof and disappear. Whereas you guys have like a storyline, a jump rope. Yeah. And, of course, like, that continuation is crazy. Totally.

Yeah. Instead of, I see a red plate. Like, I had a second. It was a red plate. You know that you are special today. Yeah. Plate you give out someone's birthday with a couple little guys dancing on it for like a second. Zaitam in the chat says, that's me.

I didn't know. Sorry, I didn't know it was possible to visualize. anything. And that's something that's something that said. She goes, that sounded like you guys were just making that up. Turn a phrase. Like, I'll picture this in your mind. You're like, okay. She didn't know it meant actually picture it in your mind. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. That to me is so foreign. That's funny. Wow. Maybe

that's why we're, is that why we're all so divided? There's the visualizers. There's the, there's the far end who can't visualize anything. And then there's Wendy who kind of can, but then doesn't. And that's the perfect. You've got the nice little medium there in the middle of it. I feel like I don't get too stressed out because I can't see the ending of whatever is going on. I only see one minute. Oh, I can make some gnarly ending to my head.

Man, that's the problem. That's the problem. How are you, Wendy, how are you with things like when you're driving? Do you get out of a lane fairly early if you see that it's coming to an end? Are you the type that's like, nope, I'm riding this until the lines start separating from the main road to the far right road? Yeah. Oh, I do both. I do know this, that whatever line I choose will suddenly be the worst one.

So I just, I usually try to stay put because I and remind myself, like, if you move over, it will all stop. And it does. It just makes me wonder if that, if that's a thing, right? Like if it's a Fantasia that makes you not be able to visualize, oh, this lane's ending, I need to get out of it. I'm visualizing the end of this lane. I'm thinking about what it's like when I'm going to have to get out of this lane. It used to be this way at grocery stores, but now you go, now you're just waiting. for the self-checkout thing.

And that feels like it could either be a brawl or a very polite exchange. It's never, it's not that whole like, if I get over here, it might go quicker. Now it's, who's gonna get that one that just left? Totally. I'm gonna kill that guy. I'm pushing, I am pushing this person over to get to that.

Yeah. It's not good for society. But anyway, hey, Wendy, actual therapist, Wendy, who comes on the show on Thursdays, does therapy Thursday, is my sister, but that's really where our similarities in. That's not true. We're both very white. that's true.

Like ghostly, I feel like you're quite than me. Practically translucent. Oh, I'm wider than you for sure. There's no question. You have a good hue.

I don't have a good hue. I don't have a good hue, but I don't have your hue. But I have very soft hands. I don't know what that's good for. You do have very soft hands. I don't know why. And my wife has sandpaper hands.

She could actually finish her. Never done a day of work in their life. If you guys have a credenza, you need to repaint. Kim can just come over her hands on it. My gosh, her hands. They're so,

her dads are like that too. She just has these. I don't know. I can't explain it. They're like sandpaper. 30 weight hands. Anyway, hey, let's get to this question we got this week because that's what happens. People send them in. This is a good one. Wendy immediately said, yes, please. Let's do it. It's perfect. So we're going to do it. The subject of this one is one sided friendship or emotional sinkhole. Almost like a clickbait line there, you know? Right. This one word will define whether you're not your friend is an emotional sinkhole or a lifelong friend. Yeah, click to find out. The last one will surprise you. Anyway.

Hi Scott, Brian and Wendy. Call me Mabel. All right. I just met you. I wish they'd have said maybe. That would have been funny. Very funny. Anyway, I'm writing for advice on a quote-unquote friend who has become an emotional drain.

A year ago, I reconnected with an old friend online. I started with nerdy talk and books, but quickly devolved into him venting about his miserable marriage, his struggles with depression. He refuses therapy because his wife, quote, doesn't believe in it, unquote. things spiraled recently when he went to the ER for a panic attack. I empathize. I have panic disorder myself. But now he's using me as his only support system.

He then confessed that he's been having an online affair and the other woman just dumped him. He claims that he can't leave his wife for fear of losing his daughter. I'm laughing at how painful this must be. All of this is like, yeah, this sounds like my life would be a nightmare. Anyway. Oh, God. He claims he can't leave his wife for fear of losing his daughter.

but he's using that as an excuse to stay in a toxic cycle and keep cheating. I'm done giving advice because he has an excuse for everything. Every Discord chat is one side. I don't want to abandon him, but I am losing my mind. Am I a monster for thinking he just needs to act like an adult and get a divorce to make it weirder? He hypothetically asked me to move in with my husband and I if he leaves her. That's a weird. That's a weird.

Yeah, great. Yeah. We work from home, our spare rooms, our offices, and we've never even really met in person. He lives hours away, and the whole thing feels off. How do I talk to him without hurting him while protecting my own peace? I can only say, sorry, I can only say, quote, your feelings are valid so many times before I sound like a robot. Am I the asshole? Oh, yeah, that was a good.

What do we tell? What do we tell Mabel? Because, oh, man, I've had these, these sorts of things happen. in lives where you got somebody who's just like such a drain and no matter what you do it's just a drain yeah they don't want to hear your advice they just want to dump and it's like no i'm not you know this does nothing for me and especially if you're not going to listen to my advice it seems like very obvious advice if you're not going to listen to it what's the point yeah what's the line where you say i'm being a good friend and regardless always here for you kind of stuff but then right they're not

They're taking such advantage of that that it's actually toxic you're doing it at all or that you're part of the cycle now because you're letting it all go. So Wendy, take it away. Where do you want to go with that one? Okay. Well, there's a couple clues in here that we're going to follow. And one is the whole thing feels off. Okay. Let's just start there.

So what I would say to Mabel, I'd say, all right, Mabel, let's just talk about this off feeling. and when else have you ever had it? And I, so if she's listening, that is what I want you to do. When else have you felt this off feeling before? And if you never have, okay, but my guess is you have in some form, some point in your life. And when you think about that, then I'd say, all right, tell me the stories of the times you've felt this off feeling. And I'm going to, you know, gamble that it was many times where somebody was using her or mistreating someone. or something shifty was going on or turns out that person was running a pyramid scheme behind

everyone's back. You are, there's a thing that happens and this is very common for women especially, that there is so much pressure, training, teaching to have you acquiesce to somebody's demands or make everything go smoothly or help people get along. Like a lot of the communal get along feelings and behaviors are often done by women, not only done by women, but very, very often done that way. So I would get into that with her. Like when have you been protecting the scene or other people from some toxic force before? Like I would get into why and when this has happened.

And the reason that's so helpful sometimes is that people then start to go, oh, yeah, I do this. Or because anyone could reconnect with an old friend who has turned toxic. That is not, that isn't like magic. That's just a Tuesday for the world, right? Right. People are getting weird as you have not been around them for a while and they come back and that weirdness is there. And we have this sort of like old obligation maybe, right? So you're maybe willing to put up with something longer than you would if this were a new online friend.

Let's say she just met this person. And after a minute or two of talking about books, it was immediately, into this venting, you would find a way to exit, right? You'd be like, well, you cannot build a relationship like that. So why is now any different than it would be if this was a new person? And it's typically because of those factors of the old connection, makes people feel an obligation. Maybe Mabel has spent her life in a certain role of making sure other people feel heard

and seen and are, you know, helped. But this is a different beast than someone who needs a one-off favor or is a close friend who reciprocates and is having a hard time. Those are healthy and those are normal places where you would put your energy to be helpful. So Brian, you said something interesting. They do not want your advice. So why in the world is anyone giving this person advice? And it's not because she's an advice dispensary and can't help it. It's because that's what he's doing.

He's asking for advice over and over and over. constantly yeah he's asking for it and then and then not the saying he's not interested oh i don't believe in therapy yeah 100% he is not actually asking for advice he is asking for a place to vent yeah and validation and maybe some other things but it comes across as because it's so problematic everyone with a regular brain would be like well he needs help and he needs advice but then he won't take it and so that's where you this is a very common math problem. If you are ever in a position where after you've shared a couple of thoughts and the person does not either take that advice or keeps coming and asking, even though you've talked about

like this kind of idea, then you are, this isn't the place where any advice will ever work. And that includes a professional giving advice or a neutral party giving advice or your doctor giving advice. Like, you have to be able to hear for anyone's wisdom to be allowed in or to make any shifts. So it sounds a little pessimistic, right? Like, you can't help anyone unless they want to be helped, but it's true. And so that would be the other question I would ask. So working, I would work with her on, does she trust her own gut? So that would be number one. That would be probably what I would mostly focus on is how have you not trusted your gut in the past, how have you? And what are the differences in the outcomes when you do and don't? Like really get into,

like, you know, you actually have a radar and that radar sometimes can be a little broken with various people. And so you're working on that. That could be a really core. That's interesting because it didn't even occur to me that part of part of the problem is that she may be fully, Mabel in this case may be fully aware of the problem and knows that it's getting nowhere and that it's actually harmful to hurt. Like she's expressing that to us. Yes. And that is the sign. And so I never really thought about that before. When you're feeling those feelings, that's you, it's all, then it comes down to you, do you trust when you say that or not to yourself? Yeah. Like, am I right about that most of the time? Or am I not? Have I misjudged that in the past or whatever? That's a really interesting thought process you never think of in the,

the middle of this. Well, and she gives it away in these two final paragraphs. She's like, something feels off, which is I have some radar that has been tuned to something being wrong. And it's something is wrong, right? But another part of her is like, but how do I magically not hurt him also talk to him and protect my own piece? Am I the asshole?

That question right there is this other thing, which is what is her training in her obligation to make almost a stranger, I mean, kind of a stranger, like the priority in her life. I mean, putting his piece or his needs over her own is what she's legitimately doing right now. So I would be real interested in we override the feeling that it's off and we over rely on, I have a job here, whether I like it or not, whether it's good for me or not. And does she do this a lot? Yeah. That's interesting.

If this is a one-off and Mabel's like, this has never happened to me, I cannot even understand what's happening. She would probably not be this far. That is what my guess is. You would just kind of piece out a little bit, maybe stop responding. If this is not the first time, which I'm going to guess it's not, you have some tolerance and we're hitting the end of that tolerance, right? Like, I can only say your feelings are valid so many times before I sound like a robot. And here's the challenge. Feelings are always valid.

People feel things. but people's behavior and what leads to those feelings aren't valid. And so he's making a bunch of dumb decisions and not getting the help that he needs and putting it all on her. And guess what? Here's what happens. He feels better because he's let it out. Because he's unloaded.

Unloaded. She feels like crap. He keeps going. And can we just, for every, for me, please, can we just talk about believing in therapy is not a thing? It is not a belief system. It is not. Belief is the wrong word.

It's a science. You either have tried it and it didn't work and you don't like it or you've never tried it. Those are the only two options. Can we just take belief out of these words? What if they're a poo-poo head? Sorry. Yeah, I mean, I know that I'm preaching to the choir here a bit, just how much therapy has grown from being this thing that's like, well, I do it, but I don't tell anybody I'm doing it. I'm ashamed of it.

To this thing now, it's like, yeah, I'm in therapy. Guess what? I'm a better person. You would not like me without therapy or. Right. Right. It's a good thing. Be happy that I'm in therapy. You're totally right. The stigma has so done at 180. It's amazing. I think more than anything, it's the word belief that it's making me absolutely cranky because people are like, I don't believe in, like I had someone the other day, but like, I believe in the Constitution.

I was like, right. Because no one else likes it. What are you saying? Or I believe that we need to support our troops or something. And I'm like, I know where you. using the word. It makes me feel insane. So there you go. That was just for me. That's fine. No more writing. Let me tell you some. I can visualize what you're saying. Yes. Let's have a webinar about it. Yeah, let's do a webinar. I think you should do. I can visualize world peace. And I can say, I believe in world peace. No, I think it's, it's that a little bit of it's like, I believe, I believe in vaccines or I don't believe in vaccines. your belief has nothing to do with anything. I choose them or I don't. I like the science or I don't.

Like that's fine. Say those words. Don't say belief. Does that I agree with you 100%. I don't know why we've done that to ourselves. I think it's indicative of why none of us are getting along. Probably. I really do.

Probably. Because it's one thing to say, I disagree. I have different ideas or this is my belief. It's just. Anyway, it drives me crazy. So thanks for let me rant about that. No, no. It's what we're here for.

But believing in his, and hilariously, his wife doesn't believe in therapy. So you have somebody who could, as a grown adult, go get himself some help, but his wife doesn't believe in it. So therefore, we're going to just keep cheating on her. Like, there is nothing about what this guy is doing that is healthy. So if you have a feeling things are off, you're correct. That's correct. This is super unhealthy.

But then you have the other part of you that you've got to deal with, which is why. Why do I have to take care of him? And that's what you're doing. You are working for free for a person who needs someone to work for them. Right. Truly. Yeah. And whoever the therapist is is going to be paid to recompense what an annoying person

it is to work with. No, I'm just kidding. I'm sure he's fine. But it doesn't seem fine. He has not been a good friend to you at all, Mabel. And so that is something to calculate. Are you in this equation? Do you matter?

And it sounds like protecting my own peace is her way of saying like, how do I be okay? Well, I can tell you right now, this one-sided friendship is a, one-sided friendship is an emotional single. That's a terrible subject line in the end because it's, it should just have is. One-sided friendships are, is an emotional single. And you can tell in this email, that's what it all is for her. It is. And, you know, so no, no, you're not a jerk. No, you didn't sign up to be this person's therapist.

But, you know, you can keep being in this situation or you can set a boundary. Now, boundaries are hard if you've never set them. That's why I like to go into somebody's past. Like, hey, tell me when things have felt off. What did you do? What did you not do? And you find out sort of their ability to not people please and set a boundary or something. Like, what is the hangups for them in staying away from toxic people?

their life. I would ask, of course, about mom and dad and relationships. And, you know, is this a pattern? Is this feel familiar? And then there's just the basic stuff of like, well, you're a human being who someone's in need. And so you're trying to help, which is awesome. When you do that to the detriment of your life and now this weird hypothetical thread of him moving in, oh, doesn't that just make your stomach turn to think about it? It gives me the big gas. I don't like it. Yeah, do not. Do not do it. Scott has the big guess. I have the big guess. And that you would ask, and that she would ask, am I a monster?

That's strong word. What is it? That's a very strong word. Am I a monster for thinking he just needs to act like an adult and get a divorce? No, you are a human, normal person who thinks he should act like an adult and get a divorce. Or just act like an adult and get help, you know. I think there's a letting someone, you know, you want to be, there's a combination, right? You want to be there for somebody. Right.

And then there is a limit to you being there for someone as part of your duty or even that's helpful. And that helpful thing can turn toxic as well. When someone needs everyone to be in a toxic dynamic with them, that's what we're doing here. He's pulling you into that. And so I would think about boundaries. There's a great book. I'd have to stand up to find it. But about setting boundaries.

that's quite good. I'll stand up you. I picture you in like a library, like a big. I totally do. Yeah. And I can picture it. I can see it.

Just rub it on in. One of those ladders that rolls around the inside. Oh, I would love one of those. Exactly, Brian. Or one of those grabbers, the little grabber, you reach up and pull out the book. That's what I picture. I know that's not what it is. It is not.

I wish it was where my head goes. And did I give the book away because now I can't find it. You might have. Classic. By the way, I've been reading this is totally separate while you're looking just so I can just say it out loud. But I can't forget to tell you. I forgot to tell you while you were here. But I finally started that, um, the War of Art book that you told me to read.

Oh yeah. Yeah. For years. Yeah. Years. I bought it the day you told me to get it. It's been sitting on my stupid bedside. I finally last night went, I'm opening this and reading this.

Yeah. So I don't have much to say yet, but I started it. How many years that take? I think that's three years. Oh, okay. Not terrible. I thought it was like 10 years. Okay.

I found it. It's set boundaries, find a piece. Okay. Set boundaries find peace. Send set boundaries find peace. The author is Nedra Glover T-A-W-A-B. She is adorable. And people find it quite helpful.

Boundaries, find peace. I'm going to put this up for people so they can have a reference. There it is. Okay. I mean, I should remember. because it's in the title. For sure. Quick GMS.

I assume this is it. Oh, yeah, this is it. So I will send you a link. Looks like it's available on all the popular formats. And then maybe, Hootie, if you're in the chat, if you guys have access to that book, let us know. We'll use your link. Yeah, I'd rather use a pumpkin cottage link than an Amazon link for sure. What are you talking about?

Because we use a certain one that picks, it's like a book. Basically, you order through them and then they just give like 70% to a local book. store you choose. So, is that it? Kind of what that. These guys own out in Springville, Hootie and his wife own a bookstore, a small book, family owned bookstore out there.

And so we try to, whenever possible, we try to, the books we talk about on the show for different segments and stuff, we try to give them first dibs rather than, you know, more Amazon money if we can help it. Ooh, I love that.

I wonder if they would let me do that from another state. Because every Christmas, we always get like 10 books. And we ordered it from this place. It's like a, it's like a clearinghouse. And, I mean,

they have paid. to small bookstores over a billion dollars doing this. Like, it's incredible. That's awesome. Who did you reach out to me in a DM or something? He just posted one in the chat. Oh, we put it in there. Yep. Yeah, reach out though about the like whether or not about Wendy's question. If Wendy can out of state do this sort of thing with you or not. Yeah. There you go. Because if it's on, because if it works with online ideas, then why wouldn't it work anyway? Seems like it would have it easily work. I assume. I thought it was maybe a Minnesota thing, but it could be state, states wide. But wouldn't that be great to always just have your favorite bookstore? You just,

They get the money every time. I agree. I'd love to do that. Very much agree. She says, he says 100% you can. Oh, yeah. Okay. All right.

Next Christmas, dude. I sent you a link in your text, so you should have it now to that book. Actually, but it's the whole store in there. Excellent. Yeah, maybe one time when you're here in the back home or whatever, visiting, we can stop by their store. It's pretty cool out there. They're moving right now. It used to feel like it was really far away.

And now it's just like one straight line of building. Yeah, kind of. And traffic. It's very weird. Well, Wendy, this is great. I hope Mabel finds some help in this and lets us know back how things go. Yeah, please do. This one is helping people, Mabel.

Yeah. Mabel. Put your own oxygen mask on yourself. Yeah, totally. I got a little spicy there, so I hope I didn't scare. No, I think it is good. I just don't want her to continue. Also, I think the spicy bit about the word belief, the way we bandy it

round. I think that's really good to talk about. Oh, it's making me so mad. And now I'm just thinking about Brett Farv a lot. I'm thinking about him. I'm just happy to... Just visualizing. See, he just popped in my head again and left. He's a... Hey, name anyone famous. Let's see if we can make it happen again. Charlize Theron.

Okay. Did you visualize her? She's gone. That quick. Oh my gosh. She's probably 25 minutes. She is still walking past the war rig, telling everyone to be quiet because those guys up in the hills. I got it all figured out, dude. Of course she is. It's still in there. It's still going.

Hey, give me one other person. Ready to go. George went. Okay. It's a little deep cut. Yeah, he's sitting at the bar and cheers, correct? Yeah.

And it's gone. And now it's gone. See, I see him in a recent interview before he passed where he's talking about his career and what he used to do. I can picture him in the movie house right now, that haunted house movie house. Sure. With William Cat. Yeah.

Now I'm also visualizing. Yep. I can see a whole lot more. Is it exhausting, you guys? Is this exhausting? Yes, it can be. Because I have to feed all these people. Like, you know, they want snacks.

And your neurological output. They need to be entertained. No, trust me. Okay, you know what it would be so cool. Who owns some fMRI machines? Because this would be awesome to get us all in one and see what our brain is doing. And what you would see is that my visual centers of my brain would not be activated. And yours would be.

Dr. Tolbert in the chat, do you have an fMRI? You have a functional MRI machine. Can you bring an fMRI machine with you to do you take? Yeah, bring it here to Salt Lake City. Hey, hold on. Do I know anyone in Salt Lake could let us use one? That would be so cool. There's so many cool things.

Obviously, a lot of studies are done there. But I would love. Also, we could do some focus tasks and we could identify officially your ADHD, Scott. Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. There's some really cool. Like you would, I mean, maybe I could find somebody I could send them to you, but just the image differences in a brain trying to focus.

that doesn't have ADHD and one that does. And the way the brain is lit up is, it's shocking. You're like, oh, this is why it feels like that. I'm all about it. Make me your test subject. I'd be all into it. Yeah, that'd be so cool. All right.

Let's do it. Let's do it. Wendy is available over at no better you.com where stuff's happening. Anything you want to mention there? Yeah, classes is starting. Our first live meetings tonight. So if you're in it, make sure you show up. It's going to be a really, really fun group.

Yeah. So you'll have to wait until next time for the next thing. Yeah. Go sign up. way, get your email in there so that when the next time rolls around, you guys are all set to go. Wendy, have a fantastic week, and we'll see you next time.

Bye now. All righty. We do have a quick email I'd like to share. Let's hear that quick email. It's from Dave. Dave says, Dear Scoot and Boot, we call it the Bronze Fonds, but informally, the Wisconsin tadpoolers

will have a referendum on a rename. Dave from Miss Madison, but my hometown is and will always be a Milwaukee. So he doesn't, I guess he doesn't like it, doesn't like the bronze Fonz. I guess not. And formally, the Wisconsin Tad Pools will have a referendum on a rename. All right. Because we said Bronzy Fonzie, didn't we?

Bronzy Fonzie, which I think is a lot better because, you know. Yeah. Yeah, you know, he was the Fons, but he was also Fonzie. Yeah. You can't call it the Winking Winkler. You got to give it the character name, yeah. You can't say Fons without the in front of it, right? So it would be Bronze the Fons because he was not Fons.

he was the Fons. Yeah. Or Fonzie. Right. Fonzie. Fonzarelli. If you're a parent. Arthur Fonsarel, if you're nasty.

Yeah. Yeah. I got it. We got it all worked out. But Bronzy Fonzie really needs to happen. I love it. Yeah. Thank you, Dave, from Madison.

But I'm sure you miss Milwaukee. The bronze. The Fons. Yes. I love it. Thank you for that. And let's get out of here. A quick note that today, as you mentioned Coverville,

right after this. and we'll do a little... I'll launch OBS now so we can do a little raid action. Yep, we'll do a little raid. Send you folks over there. And then also today at 1 p.m. Core will be happening. Myself, Bo and John, another episode of Core.

It is Thursday. That's when we do it. Sit in and enjoy that live at 1pm Mountain here at frogpans. Dot TV. And then... What's big on core today? What's the... A couple of big hairy things.

One is the... The... Oh, steam came out, Valve came out, said the reason we haven't given you guys prices on all that new hardware they announced was because of the the timing was terrible they made the announcement and like a week later ram prices exploded and it wasn't their fault it was just what's going on with ram and it skyrocketed ram went from 150 bucks for a 64 gig uh ddr 5 you know kit of ram went up to like 900 dollars it was ridiculous so now they've come out and basically said hey we thought we'd have pricing to you already we're

still planning on first part of the year to release these things, but we can't give you pricing it because that market is a freaking F-ball. And so we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about how the game Ashes of Creation may have just screwed everybody who supported it. Oh, right. Yes. A big messy MMO problem. Didn't have enough money to keep it going, right? Something like that, but there's some skeeby behind the scenes like the board never intended the game to stick around. They just wanted to get the early cash grab. There's a lot of stuff. around. We're going to talk about that. So, anyway, big, big episode today

on the show. So watch for that at 1 p.m. Frogpants. TV. Brian, let's play a song for the people. Sounds good. Another request for somebody, Peter Fisher wrote in, said, hello, Scott and Bebop. I'm going to forego the heck sentiment about my trip around the sun. No, the sun just finished its 55th rotation around me. Ooh, the power of being self-centered.

Oh, sorry, didn't know what happened there. Anyway, I'm turning a year older, either in a day if this is Thursday or three days ago, if it's Monday. Guess what? It's in a day. And it would also be the birthday of many notable people, Babe Ruth, Zsa Jaja Gabor, Ronald Reagan, Bob Marley, Axel Rose, Zoe brings bacon, me and Tina, you know, Brian, the one that says, Brian, to you reportedly.

As to my request, I want to hear my favorite song from the Who's rock opera Tommy, Sally Simpson. As for the cover artist, The Hillbenders, the record a whole bluegrass version of Tommy. Thank you. and Good Day, A, from Canada, the land of the holy money. Oh, nice. Nice.

Yeah, the hillbenders did an incredible job doing a whole bluegrass version, an opera of Tommy the Rock Opera. It was great. It came on 2015, and it is now my favorite way to listen to the full album, Tommy. And it's everything in there, pinball wizard. See me, feel me, all that stuff. And anyway, it's all there at the real me. It's really, really good.

The hillbender's Tommy a bluegrass opera. And from there, we get Sally Simpson going out to Peter Fisher. Happy birthday. Enjoy your 55th rotation of the sun around you. Well, outside the house, Mr. Simpson announced that Sally couldn't go to the meeting. He went on cleaning his blue rose. And she went inside a weeping. She got to a room and tears flashed a picture of her new Messiah.

She picked up a book of her father's life and threw it on the fire. She knew from the star deep down in her heart. She and Tommy were worlds apart. But her mother said, never mind your part to be what she'll be. Well, the theme of the sermon was come on to me. Love will find a way. So Sally decided to ignore her dad and sneak out anyway. She spent afternoon getting ready and decided that she'd try to touch him.

Maybe he'd see that she was free and talked to her this Sunday. She knew from a star deep down in her heart. She and Tommy were worlds apart. But her mother said never mind your part to be what should be. She arrived at 6 and the place was swinging to gospel music by When group after group appeared on the stage and Sally just sat there crying She bid her nails looking pretty as a picture right in the barefront row Then a DJ wearing a blazer on a bench Carolus said

Heo! Sally jumped up on the roster She ran across the stage to a spot-lit figure and brushed him on the face Then Tommy World Round and started deep down and But her mother said never mind your part Kid a chair and blood trickle her head a chair and blood trickle her teeth She had to try But you couldn't see through the line

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