The Morning Stream - TMS 2967: Dude Illegence

Episode Date: February 23, 2026

Phantom Tip Tingle. Beef Nuts. You'll get No Cold, No UTI and No Lt Yar. Salem Dreams of Being an Ice Dancer. Gimme the banana bomb! Typhoid Same Sex Mary. New Jersey's got 24 inches. Happy Kristen Day. Milking Rambo. Just a Small Heart Attack. Cats: How do they work? The Meaning of Life with Dunaway. A Desert of Suck. Unfortunate Cookie. Wet Dress Rehearsals w Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why did the chicken really cross the road? The question has plagued us for centuries, or at least for as long as we've known about chickens. Dumb birds. Anyway, support this show at patreon.com slash TMS today. Coming up on the morning stream, Phantom Tip Tingle. Beef nuts. You'll get no cold, no UTI, and no Lieutenant Yard.

Salem dreams of being an ice dancer. Give me the banana bomb. Typhoid, same-sex Mary. New Jersey's got 24 inches. Happy Kristen Day. Just a small heart attack. Cats, how do they work? The meaning of life with Dunaway.

A desert of suck. Unfortunate cookie. Wet dress rehearsals with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Scientists today in a new research domain have begun publishing findings that are turning such thinking on its head. For example, research in the new area of psycho-neuroimicanamine, I mean... We don't like it. We're too nervous.

The Morning Stream. Would you like a closer look? Hey, everybody. Welcome to TMS. This is the morning stream for February 23rd, 2026. I am Scott Johnson. He is Brian Nibitt. Hello.

Good day. Back and upright for a change. Yeah. For the last two weeks, I've been either a cold or UTI, and now I feel a-okay. You sound great. Yeah. Like you never missed a beat, you know? Like the Jonathan Colton song says, I feel fantastic. Well, the other side of this coin is I hope Tina feels better soon.

I understand she's got the gambu now. Well, that's what I was going to talk about in my intro deal. Yeah. Tell us about it. How's that all going? Tanner, maybe, I'm guessing. Tanner? No, chat room this morning. Oh, okay. Oh, gotcha. Okay. I didn't know. somebody in the chat said hey tina's got some pneumonia or something or no it was you actually it was i said it yeah but i thought that was well before you came in anyway yeah that's uh that is exactly

the case yesterday while we were doing film sack she was um contacting urgent care to see if she could get in there and um have them take a leak because she's she woke up uh Friday morning no Saturday morning with a cold. And strangely after we had hung out with James and Svet the day before. Las Vegas gone boo. That's right. Neither of them had anything. But so Saturday morning she wakes up with a cold.

Yesterday morning she wakes up and there's a little bit of chest pain just on one side of her, one side of her chest. And she's like, you know what? This kind of reminds me of a few years ago when I had. had pneumonia and I'm just going to get it checked out because I don't want to go through that hell again if I can get it dealt with early. Yeah, great idea. So she went off and did that. I played some Demio Dungeons and Dragons with Barry and I call her after or I text her

after I'm done and say, hey, how are things going over there? I mean, do you need me to come get you? Is everything all right? She's like, and she'd been giving me updates through the whole thing. Like, oh my God, they're so slow. here and blah, blah, blah. Yeah. And she's, well, I'm going to go ahead and

come home, but I need to then drive to the hospital because they're saying that there's some weird blip in my ECG that doesn't look right. And they think I might have had a small heart attack. And I'm like, oh my God. Yeah, but she's like, but I feel

totally fine. So I don't know. I'm like, all right, yeah, I'm driving you. To the hospital. I'm not, you're not driving yourself. Holy shit. So I drive her to the emergency room over at Lutheran Hospital and go in, get her checked out, get her in one of those little emergency room rooms, those little private rooms you get while they do all their tests and stuff on you. And after several nurse visits and PA visits where they like get her vitals and get blood and stuff. up all the little monitors and stuff. The dude, the doctor dude, comes in and he's like,

did you bring the ECG from the urgent care? She's like, yep, I got it right here. And he looks at it and he says, yeah, there's nothing on here that would make me worry. And the ECG that we did on you when you came in looks exactly the same. Who's reading the charts over in the other place? That's effed up. Exactly. It is zuffed up.

And B says, you know, while we've got you here, let's go ahead and do our due diligence. We're going to make sure and see if we can. figure out maybe what's causing the pain it's probably something viral but let's let's figure out and make sure so they put her through an ultrasound they do um oh yeah with the oh an x-ray and then the x-ray turns up just like a little uh dark spot on her on her lung and they're like all right this is what we want to make sure we're going to take a look at this we're going to have you take you upstairs and do it cats again we've been at this point we'd been there for four hours, you know, with various people coming in and not coming in for long periods of time and stuff like that.

Holy shit. Yeah. So finally, they take her up for an ultrasound, come back. About an hour and a half later, they come in like, okay, we're going to put you on antibiotics. It looks like you do have pneumonia, and that's probably what is causing the pain. So her at-home diagnosis is already, it's all come back around to that. Totally is. The weirdest part of this whole thing is that the pain she's having is on the opposite side of her body than where the dark spot was in the ultrasound. Okay.

Can't explain that because they're saying the pneumonia is in the side that's got the dark spot. She's saying the pain is coming from the other. That's weird. Is that like a just, I mean, what do they say about that? Is it an interpretive thing? The doctor says, I don't know. That's an odd one. I don't know.

I don't know how to interpret that. But let's treat this. Let's do the, let's get you on antibiotics. And then we'll just see if that gets any better. And by last night, after her first round of antibiotics, they gave the first to her right there. And then she's like the chest pain is almost nearly gone. Oh, good.

Yeah. It might have even just been like the pain of coughing or whatever. her, but, yeah, no, that's good. That's good. So she's on the men. That's important. Yeah. So, so a week of cold for me, or a few days of cold for me, then a UTI week for me. And then now a week of pneumonia for Tina, I think we're, I think we're just about done with February. Yeah. February can eat it, dude. That sucks. I don't like that at all. And now she doesn't even have the Olympics to binge while she's sick. I know they're done. It's usually your favorite thing. Yeah. Yeah. If you're, if you're actually perfect couple of weeks to get sick,

if you like the Olympics. Yes, exactly. You can just like soak in it. You can just binge the whole thing. I put a video in our in our Discord chat. As much as Tina loves the Olympics and I love watching the Olympics, I'm a little bit more worried about what our cat is going to do, what Salem is going to do now that the Olympics are over because she is enthralled with figure skating.

Oh my gosh, really. Okay, I'm pulling it up. Let's take a look here. Let's see That'll work She just sits on the ottoman Looking straight up watching Watching figure skating

That's great That's got to be something to do With the ice is a great background For contrast right Probably yeah And the music And the movement And she just sits

That's amazing dude Watch the entire short program Just sitting there I love it Yeah I love it Cats Cats

What do you going to do with those damn weird animals? I guess let them watch ice-cating. How do they work? How do they work? They're so weird. She was really rooting for Alyssa Mew. Oh. She's got picks and everything. That's great.

We saw beef for a hot minute yesterday taking the kids home and they spent the night Saturday and we took him back to Tay's house and their cat beef just had its testicles removed. What do you call that?

It was debriefed. De-beefed. Been de-beefed. A de-beatering. Neatering. He got neutered, yes. I never know if it's neuter or spay. I always forget which one's what.

I know. I never clarified, Bob Barker at the end of, have your female cat spayed and your male cat's neutered. Yeah, he never said. So I was as a kid, I was just like, whatever, it sounds like the same thing. I don't know what you're talking about, you weird old man. Right, right. Anyway, so he's super chill.

He's on like some sedatives and he's got a giant cone on, but it's one of those squishy kinds. so it's not oh yeah not the hard plastic ones good yeah Taylor got her got them a nice soft one but the minute I walked in there's something about my sneakers that that cat wants to eat really yeah so she just launches across the room and starts fighting me as if no sedatives exist that she's not all goofed up in a thing or that her belly doesn't hurt or his doesn't hurt from the from the procedure all bets are off the minute my sneakers come in the room I take them off and put him to the side and then he immediately goes back down to just kind of oh really doesn't even

care to fight with them when they're off your feet nope only wants him when they're on and he came back after me when i put him back on to leave wow yeah a cat's nuts but we named him beef what do we expect beef nuts beef nuts hmm could go for some beef nuts um i don't know what they'd be but i could go for him anyway uh well that's fantastic let us now dive into the fun of oh donnaway hasn't called yet i'm going to tell you quick story while we wait for him Please do. Please do. Should be any minute now, I would assume.

Although, let me double check my messages with him. Okay. He said something, but it was to do with, yeah, play retro thing. So he should be here. All right. So you know what? I'll say to him. I'll say, hi, you coming?

And he'll say, oh, I forgot. And then he'll be here. He'll say, shut up. A quick recommendation. I had so much fun. You can hear a taste of it right here, actually. here. Wait, you won't hear that. Let me put it where I can play it. Oh, all right. That's just a taste. That's a seven-year-old laughing his head off.

And the reason he laughed his head off is me and Van played a bunch of video games yesterday. And I'm going to give you parents, grandparents, or anybody who has to maybe babysit a seven-year-old, I have the perfect list of the couch competitive games you should be playing with your seven-year-old in your life. All right? Okay. Number one. Ready for the list. Duck game. Nothing made him laugh harder than playing duck game. Head to head, weird ass, pixely thing from 2015 where your ducks, you're a couple of ducks and you shoot each other with shotguns and grenades and bombs. Phrenetic, amazing game. Incredible.

Nice. PC Switch and PlayStation is where that ended up. So you can get out of these places like five bucks if you can find it. Next up, Boomerang Fu. This is a game where you're... You're basically, you can be a sushi or you can be a hamburger, you can be a piece of bacon, these cute little avatar guys that run around these, it's a little, it's 3D, you run around kind of top-down style and you have a boomerang. Everybody's got a boomerang.

And you try to throw the boomerang and slice your, your opponents in half to gain points and win the match. So like a battle royale, but you're weird things that can be cut with boomerings. Correct. And they're all, and they're all, and the board is like a, like a bomber man size thing. So it's not like a big open world. It's like a, you know, a grid. There are power-ups. It is an absolutely amazing game. There's no online, but. Oh, this looks great. I've never played this. Super fun. That's awesome. Yeah, watch for it on sale. It's on everything. Switch, PC, Xbox, PlayStation's everywhere. Towerfall, another good one. That's an old Oya, a launch title. I'm kidding. It quickly came to PC and other platforms. PlayStation got it as well. It is older, too. It's like, 2014, 15, something like that. Amazing game.

Again, it's very similar. It's like duck game or any of the others. Like duck game, yeah. Running around shooting each other. Super, super fun. And then finally, his first experience with a worms game, we played Worms, WMD, and he got hooked on worms. I'm sure.

That's a great one. Yeah. A little less frenetic because it's term base, but he had a blast. And he was like, give me the banana bomb. So much fun. So again, that list is Duck Game. Boomerang Fu, Tower Fall, and Worms, we now have a rotation when he comes over. And it's good for your mental health to do this if you can find a seven-year-old.

I'm not saying just go out and find a random one. Probably needs to be one you're related to or you have permission. Make sure you have permission to play games with this seven-year-old. Exactly. If you don't, it's not a good scene. Yeah, yeah. Probably get arrested. Yeah, most likely.

We're going to play, speaking of games, we're going to play this game right here. We're going to play a little game called the Half Asset. is of the Mondays or the Monday morning half-asses. And we're joined by Brian Dunaway, who is here to play Little Half-Aasses with us. Whether he likes it or not, Brian, Brian, welcome to the show.

Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Hey, man. Hello, Brian. How's it going? I do it. Going good. Yeah, your work today? Yeah, I just, I just sitting here,

contemplating the, the meaning of existence. I know. Yeah, it happened. What have we come up with so far? Yeah, give us your, we need some info on that. What do you got? Let's see. Up tarts.

So far, yeah, that's about it. So far, it's like get up, go to work, return home, and just, you know, and go back to hope for the best. Yeah, play a few retro games, though. You'll be doing some of that. No, I mean, the important thing is you're here and that we're always glad to see you, dude. So thanks for being here. Totally.

We're going to have some fun this morning. This is actually, you know what? I was looking for the meaning of life and here it is right here. You found it on TMS. You found it. We brought it to you a clean. It was here all the time.

Just one, a few internet hops away. Welcome. Brian, Ibit, you're going to explain these rules because we don't know what we're doing. How the hell is it? Explain these rules. Welcome to the morning. Half-Ass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you the answers.

I'm going to give Scott and Brian in category and six possible answers, three of which are correct. And three, like a bad, EKG reading are incorrect. Depending on how confident you feel with the category, you could provide one, two or three guesses. But if you get any of those guesses wrong, you get zero points for that round. If you guess one, get it right, you get a point.

Two right gets you three points. Three right gets you five points. We're going to add up all those points after three rounds. And you're going to win a prize for your contestant. And contestants are uncold from members of the tadpool that aren't able to be here live. Scott, you're playing for Kristen Day. Ooh, I like that name. Happy Kristen Day.

Have you gotten your Kristen, Kristen Day tree? No, but I do. We like to wait until right before midnight, and then we put up the Kristen tree. Yeah. It's going to be great. Brian, you're playing for Ben Daskew. That's a cool name.

Ben Daskew. That is worth so many points in Scrabble. I'm playing a lot of crossplay. What's the Q stand for? There's no real cue in there. It's a chaos. IW is what it ends with. So I think it's...

Oh, okay. What game, wait, which game you're playing? It's called crossplay. It's basically New York Times version of words with friends. Ooh. And it's... Why you've always got to be so different, Ibit? Why I'm going to do that?

Yeah, right. Because I'm paying for a freaking New York Times a subscription anyway, so I can have the daily crossword puzzle and all the other stuff. Oh, you definitely should do that. Yeah, that's your jam. Hold on. I'm trying to find this thing. I'd never even heard of it. I'll have to check it out.

Because I think they're games, some of those games they make freely available without the sub. They do. I think you can do cross-plate because Chris Brown is a free player. So he doesn't pay a thing for it. Okay, cool. Yeah. All right. Awesome.

Anyway, let's get to the actual game itself. Give you your first category here as soon as the server loads. Load, server load. Load, you dirty bastard. There we go. Now it's loaded. All right. Your first category is names that were once more popular for boys than

girls in the United States. So names that were once more popular for boys than they were for girls in the United States. Your choices are Meredith, Trudy, Zoe, Zoe, Madison, Grace, and Sandy. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm.

Hmm. I've already locked in because I feel confident. Confident. Confident. Confident. How confident do you feel? You weirdo? I don't know why I pronounced it that way, but we'll take it. All right. Let's start off.

Let's see what you got here. You both locked in on Sandy. Yeah, I think of Sandy Nelson. The singer, former Boulder City resident was friends with James and Svet. And Sandy absolutely was once more popular. That's good, that's good too. Sure. Sandy Kofax.

Yeah, oh yeah, Sandy Kofa. I used to know it. There was a man in our old neighborhood when I was probably junior high age. His name was Sandy. and I always thought that was funny, not because it sounded like a lady's name, but because we lived in Sandy, the city. Yeah.

I'm Sandy from Sandy. Yeah, Sandy and his address said Sandy Sandy Sandy in there. That was funny as hell when I was 12 or whatever. Anyway. It's even better if it's, I'm Sandy from Myrtle Beach. You should go brush it off. Choice number two,

you guys actually both settled on Madison. You know, like, like Darrell Han is. character in splash, right? Or Ashley Madison from bad people's marriages. Or Ashley Madison from many divorces. Yes. Madison was also more popular

for boys than girls. And you guys both settled on the same too. So, congratulations. Oh. Meredith, which Brian. I chose Meredith from this close to choosing Meredith because it's the only other one that sounded right. Damn it. Yeah. I watched Brian select it

and then unselected it and lock. and it's like, oh, man, so close. Poopie pants. So close. Well, maybe you'll feel a little bit more brave with question number two. It's your movies question. We like movies. We watch a lot of movies for Film Sack. You guys know movies.

You, but you don't know these movies, I don't think. Charlie Chaplin movies. Maybe you do. Maybe you do know your Charlie Chaplin movies. Do you know your Chaplin movies? Do you? But you know your Una Chaplin movies. Maybe not so much your Charlie Chaplin movies.

The Little Hobo, Safety Last, Tilly's Punger Romance. City Lights, the tramp, and Marsha gets confused. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Gosh, dang, dude. Yeah.

I don't know about this one at all. This is a scary Larry. I don't like it. It is a scary Larry. Scary Larry. All right. Well, you each pick two and you overlapped on City Lights. And back in 1931, Charlie Chaplin was in a movie called

City Lights. Very good. Very good. That's kind of the easy one right there. Brian, you also chose I couldn't decide because I'm trying to remember was it called the tramp or was he just a tramp? Or did he just get that nickname? Right? Yeah. The second thing. Right?

Because it was a little hobo. I couldn't remember because I think it was actually called the little hobo, but I can't remember. Well, in 1915, 1915, Charlie Chaplin was in a film called the tramp. Shit. You got that one.

I thought that was a trick. Yep, I would have too. A little hobo was a trick. I'll just let you know that right now. Well, you almost got me. Almost go right into that pitfall. Scott also chose Tilly's punctured romance. Oh.

What on earth made you choose? What made you do that? It sounded like a weird old, barely out of talkies name. I don't know. Well, it is the name of a film. Believe it or not. Oh. Yeah.

And it started Charlie Chaplin. And it's start Charlie Chaplin. Oh, 1914, Tilly's punctured romance, which must have been her hymen, was an early on. I don't know if I could go there, would you, Ibit? Wow. Trying to say that so fast. If anybody picked up on it. That's fantastic.

Yeah. Safety Last is a Harold Lloyd film. The Little Hobo was a nickname for Charlie Chaplin. And Marsha gets confused. was just put in there probably to confuse you. All right. Well, there you go. Safety last is actually a thing of mine.

I always say safety last. Yeah, I knew that one was the, yeah. Yeah, just as a good way to live, you know. Yes, and now we're getting the reactions in the chat room now coming from my comment. Oh, yes. All right. Just what you want. Just what you want.

Let's go to number three. You guys are coming to this tied, six points for each of you. So now we need a tie breaker. All right. Let's break that tie. I've got it. It's food. like food we all eat food i think we've all eaten every single one of these foods which one of

these three of these foods are ethnic foods that were actually invented for americans oh yeah three of these are actually invented for americans your choices are bagels general so's chicken fajitas chicken tica masala pasta prima vera and fortune cookies more like unfortunate cookie three of these were actually created four Americans, invented four Americans. Shoot, I can't change my mind, can I?

Not once you've locked in. Well, you know where I hesitated. You probably saw it. I do. I did see it. Yeah. All right. What do you think they're done away? Oh, he's locked in too. I'm gone. What do you think?

All right. What do you think, boy? All right. So let's start with, let's start with, let's start with some of the ones you didn't choose. Let's get the other out. Let's get these out of the way. Bagels actually invented in Poland. Yeah.

So not, not. The original condom? Israel. Yeah, that's right. Okay. Butem-bump. Chicken teakamasa. Invented in India.

Scotland. Oh, shit. Really? Yes. I would have thought that was fake. That's wild. That was fake. That one felt fake.

I need more info. Like, was that a family of Indian folk who'd live there and made a thing and then called? Or is it just some, ah, look what I made today on the Barbie. That doesn't make sense. You know what I mean, though? I know exactly what you mean. Yeah, for sure. General So's chicken, which was one that Brian selected, one of the two of the Brian selected.

Shit. Good. when you say that way. Invented. He's right. For Americans. That's absolutely invented for Americans. Why did I stay with it?

I know. I saw you choose it and un-chuse it. And then let's get to fortune cookies, which you both selected. Brian is one. Maybe. I guarantee that's one. Nope. It is not.

Really? Yes. Invented. Confucius say. Invented in Japan. What? So not China. I thought this was a

San Francisco thing. We've all grown up thinking it was the you know, this the lucky fortune fortune cookie company of San Francisco being the one that invented apparently invented in Japan and brought into America after that. I don't even know what to say.

Everything I think is a lie. I was the same thing for me. I was like, well, I would have locked in on that one too, 100%. Dang, dude. All right. So, so's chicken fajitas. And pasta primavera were the actual answers. Oh, me.

Man. I can't think of what pasta primavera is. Is that just noodles with vegetable like peas and carrots? Yeah. Well, it means springtime, doesn't it? Yeah. I think it has, yeah, like you're saying, it's got maybe roasted tomatoes, some beans and stuff. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, that's springtime to me. I think I like it, okay. It's all right. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I don't like? It is Olive Garden.

I don't like that we're tied because now I'm scared. now we've got to go to a tiebreaker. Let's go to, oh, this is a good one. All right. Oh, my God, both of these are good. I'm going to pick the top one. Okay. Well, to get to the tie, it's funny because I guess Brian has one more correct selection

because he chose General So's Chicken. Otherwise, you guys pretty much matched. So, Brian, I'm going to let you decide if you want to give the answer or give the higher or lower. I can't remember. I want to give the higher lower because Scott never lets me. do that. Okay. Good enough. All right. Scott, as of 2018, so I know,

seven years or eight years ago, what percent of U.S. children ages 12 to 17 have a smartphone? So as of 2018, so you've got to think back eight years ago. Okay. What percentage?

What was the, sorry, the age range? 12 to 17. What percentage of U.S. children, 12 to 17 have a smartphone? I'm going to say, that's too damn high. 62%. Okay, 62% is incorrect. Brian is the actual answer higher or lower than 62%.

Oh man. That is so lower. Lower, really? Uh-huh. Do you think the actual answer is lower? Well, then read the question. They begin because it sounds like to me, you're saying that over 62% of kids in that age group in 2018 had a cell phone.

That is what I'm saying. Right, exactly. That's bullshit. Okay, he says lower. Okay, lower. The actual answer is 79%. Yeah, baby. Look at that.

Woo! 79% back eight years ago of 12 to 17 year olds had smartphones. Scott wins. Of my local group. I am not. Yeah, I think there's a lot, there can be a lot of, but, and I think that's why I thought it was higher. Because my experience where I live, every kid has a cell phone by at least by 14, 15.

Even in 2018, they did. Like, 2018 is that that long ago. The pandemic changed a lot of mentality. And so, sure, but I think in 2018, it's not that different than today. Smartphones are already beat. Obviously, you are correct, but obviously, I didn't think so. Obviously. All right.

Well, I win. Congratulations. Looks like we're all celebrating Kristen Day, because she just won a copy of intravenous 2 and cat bait Hmm That sounds I don't know what cat bait is Never heard of that

Intravenous two I've heard It's a It's a figure skating team And then Brian DazQ you're gonna be getting a copy of Dr. Livingstone I presume Reverse escape room

So it's like I guess a room you're trying to get into Maybe Oh weird I don't know that one either How I would translate A reverse escape room Yeah I don't know how else that would be

Right you'd want to get in Not get out You'd still So, but it's still, you're still sort of escaping. Maybe it's a room you're trying to stay in, but the room keeps doing things to push you out. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're never going to get it. You just stay there.

That's the game. Right, you just stay in that room. Wow. Exactly. That's wild. Well, well, well, well, done, everybody. Happy Kristen's Day. What'd you, would you call it, Kristen's Day?

Yeah, happy Kristen Day. You get one of these, Kristen. Congratulations. And you also get these codes. And all of this stuff is going to go out to you guys via your private messages in the Patreon. So watch for those. And we're finally getting down to, a lot of you signed up to get these codes,

obviously, because we've been doing this for a long time. I think we're finally getting down to where we might need to ask for new players. Let's see, let me do this. Check this real quick here. Patrons for Contest. Oh, actually, I lie. We have a ton still.

So never mind. We're good for a long time. Rest of our lives, maybe. There's a ton in here. Which is good. It's good to see you all, you know, piping up. Yeah, it's fantastic. Brian Dunn away.

You and I are going to have a little watch retro tomorrow night at 4 p.m. I'm very excited about this. We don't know what we're doing it. Yeah, it's been super fun so far. If you guys haven't been coming. Last week we watched nippleless Rambo, so we've got to top that and that's going to be tough. Is there a like a Rambo knockoff that doesn't have

nipples? Is that the actual Rambo cartoon? Oh, the Rambo cartoon. Yes. And he has no nipples. He's shirtless. It's muscily. It's massive. He looks like big old Rambo guy. I remember. Yeah. But no nips. Bizarre. Yeah, because they didn't want the kids to know that people had nipples.

Could you milk me? I kind of want to see the Robocop cartoon now because that's another card-ar thing that got turned, you know, rated G for kids. So weird. Anyway, more of that coming up. We'll talk more about it tomorrow and then, of course, play retro this week. Brian Dunaway, is there anything else you'd like to say for yourself in your defense? No, just thank you guys for making my day better. Oh, thanks, man.

Always happy to do that, man. Our day is better for having your day in our day. Yes. Kiss our butts. All right. It's time for us to check the clock. Yeah, it is time. Yeah.

It's Bobby Time. It is Bobby Time, which means everybody put your, take the suckers out of your mouths or whatever you're doing. Sorry, I'm just stalling all I pull this up here. Okay. Yeah, please take the suckers out of your mouths. It's a terrible choice of distraction. Here it is. Science.

Bob is hungry and the soup looks good. It sure does. Bobby, welcome to the show. Why does the soup look so good? Well, you see, what happens is light reflects off the suit. Oh, it's science. Oh, see? I like this.

But that's not where the perception happened. No. No, your rods and your cones and your whatnot, right? That's right. Yeah. Especially the what not. If it wasn't for the what not. Yeah, if the what not makes everything better.

Hey, Bobby, it's good. Oh, we really see you in your hyper-exposed camera view at the moment. There we go. That's more what we expect from Bobby. It's good to have you here. We're going to do a little science segment. Bobby comes in here about once a month to cover all things. I'm about every three weeks, actually. To cover all things science. Not all things. Maybe usually a specific thing in science. Something science. We've had a lot of Bobby lately. We had you sitting in as co-host for a day or two. We had you come on talking. I'm glad you reminded me when I came on why I was here because I couldn't remember am I promoting artacular. Am I filling in for Brian? Yeah, you never know. But I'm glad you're here to talk science because science makes me happy. Let's talk about today's subject. What do you got? Well, I wanted to start with, I'm surprised the doctor, Brian, when you, when you were talking about Tina and the pain on the opposite side from where the pneumonia shadow was. I'm surprised he didn't, surprised he didn't mention. Did he mention referred? pain?

And I apologize. I don't know if it was a he or she, but the day route. Yeah. Okay. He didn't mention referred pain, no. Referred pain is just where you can feel pain. It's so common. That's why I thought it was weird that it might not have been brought up.

Yeah. It's just where you feel pain in a place where the source of the pain is not. It happens commonly with heart attacks. That's coincidental. I know you said it turned out to not be a heart attack, but it's just, it's just, just because in the in the spinal column where those pain signals are are sent a lot of a lot of times they share a spot in the spinal column and different parts of the body do and so the sometimes the pain can be like like the processing or the the source of the pain can be confused because

they're all coming into the spinal column in the same place is that why people get phantom pain is that a similar issue or it's like i don't know i mean phantom pain is specifically I don't know if this is what you're referring to but that's when you lose a limb, right? You lose a foot but you still can feel like the foot is there or whatever? I don't know I don't actually know neurologically what causes phantom pain

so I wouldn't want to speculate but I know with lung stuff was it just literally the opposite spot but like this opposite side roughly because the pain is not a sharp pain so it's not like she can kind of pinpoint notice right

here. It's kind of like a, it was a widespread pain. Yeah, yeah. And so yeah, that'd be interesting if it is like that, like you're saying referral or referrals. That would be referred pain. That would have been my guess from my amateur doctor. From the, the doctor kit you ordered from the back of a comic book. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. Anyway, I just thought, I just think it's interesting that what referred pain is in the first place. But that's not what I came to talk about. No. By the way, this is the phantom pain. I always think. Oh, there it is right there. You found it, Scott. Excellent.

Metal gear solid, the phantom pain. Great game. I look at that and the bottom of my right foot hurts. Oh, weird. Weird. Yeah. Because my right, my left eye hurts when it's the right eye that's missing. I look like that and I feel like I'm having a heart attack. I love that game. Well, of a sudden, I look at that in my pain in my snake

is unsolic. The fact that they despite the fact that they had Kiefer Sutherland in the main role, which was a huge mistake. That is the best Metal Gear game. It's so good. Anyway. Cool. It all comes back to video games always. It does for me. Anyway, Bobby. Sorry.

Go ahead. The thing that's happening in the world of, like in science news right now is all about Artemis 2. You guys are familiar with the Artemis Moon Mission. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yep. We're planning to send people back to the moon and it's coming

up soon. And that excuse my rhyme. It's a nice rhyme. Very good. Yeah. We've been planning this, and when I say we, I definitely don't mean me, but humanity has been planning this for quite some time. We haven't been back to, we haven't been to the moon in over 50 years. It was like 1972 the last time we went. Holy crap.

I was two years old. Yeah, yeah. Brian and I were two years old when we last went to the, we had men on the moon. Yeah, I believe it. It's been forever. It's funny because it just felt like something that they were doing for a long time, and they really weren't. Like they did it for three years, 69 days. 72 and that was pretty much it.

So when they did the, when they did, that's insane. Sorry, that just blows my mind. I swear, I swear. And boy, the trash we've left up there. A couple of flags. A golf ball or two. Tom Hanks in his shoes. Oh, wait, he never made it.

Yeah. That's a sore, sore subject. Don't bring that up to Tom Hanks. But to your point, Brian, it was talked about so much. And I feel like even when I was a kid in the late 80s that, like, I still felt like, oh, this is just a thing we do. We go to the moon. Yeah, yeah. You know, like, it very quickly became like, oh, that's what people do.

We, like, we go to the moon now. Totally, yeah. But apparently to NASA, it was a been there, done that. Got the rocks, brought them home. Right, right. But we want to go back to the moon, and we've been planning on it. And so Artemis 2 is the mission that we're going to send to. the moon, but we've hit some hiccups.

We were supposed to possibly have already launched by now, but there have been some delays, as is often the case. It's really not uncommon to delay space missions in general, and then when you're going somewhere as far as the moon,

you know, you want to make sure all your ducks are in a row. No, you don't just hop in the Millennium Falcon and take off. Right. Like we, that's the, maybe the future holds eventual all the safety mechanism, in place that that's the kind of space travel we have. Sure.

We're not even near that, dude. Wouldn't that be amazing? Just not go to the moon. Exactly. That is without honor is what that is. That's right. Yes. Is this, by the way, so sorry, the...

You're fine. They, do you think it was the space shuttle initiative in the 80s, 70s and 80s, that really derailed the idea of going back to the moon because that was like the new hotness and we just wanted to get shuttles up there and do all the things we did with shuttles until they blew up and then we stopped doing shuttles? Do you know what I mean? I don't know. I'm sure science historians and plenty of people know why we stopped going to the moon. But I think it's really expensive and risky to go to the moon. And it's not as close as you might think it is. A lot of times we think the moon is a lot closer than it really is. But it's very,

very, very far away. Yeah, I think I mentioned this before, how amazed I was. was to find that you could put all of the planets in the solar system between us and the moon and still have a couple thousand kilometers left over. That blew my mind. Like I think of Jupiter's being this, you know, Jupiter and the Saturn is being these massive, massive planets, which they are, but that just shows you how far the moon is from us. Sure. And then therefore how far those other planets are from us. Like Mars, we always want to act like Mars is next door, but my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. So far. Yeah. The low Earth orbit is like, it's like 100 miles up or I think I think some satellites are like a thousand or two thousand

maybe a thousand miles up um so that's you know really far away but the moon is like 240,000 miles away um so it's very far away um but anyway so we we're planning to go there and we've sent um this is Artemis 2 that is going to send people to fly by the moon for the first time in 50 years. That's what Tom Hanks did, flew by the moon. He did. He did like Star Trek. He whipped around it, didn't he?

Yeah. And he cried the whole time. Slingshot it, yeah. And he cried a lot and then... He kept going, Wilson! Yeah. And Ed Harris just got nervous and nervous and more nervous back home. That's how it went out.

That's exactly right. Yeah. I'd been pretty nervous having Clint Howard in the room. That's just me. Go ahead. The Artemis One though, we've sent the first Artemis space mission

Artemis is of course the mission name of us going back to the moon. You know, you had Apollo, now it's Artemis and that's why they called Artemis being the sister to the Greek god Apollo, his twin sister. So, you know, they like to name moon missions in a

were they fraternal twins or none of this matters, but were they fraternal twins or exactly exacti twins or whatever they call? They're, their, Artemis was a woman and Apollo was a man. All right. Oh, yeah, it does. At the very least, fraternal.

Yes, at the least. But they're also, they're gods, so maybe, who knows, I don't know what they do. Yeah, they're doing weird things all the time. They're eating their children and barfing them back up. They have a whole different structure, those god twins. Yeah. So the first one, we sent the space system, the Orion capsule and everything and the launch system. We tested all that and sent that out to the moon and it flew by the moon and came back and

everything's fine. So we're trying to now send people up. The difference in this mission is that we're going to, of course, have people in it, but also we're testing life support systems because it's not going to land on the moon. It's every step of the way. We want to test to make sure everything's working. It's not a, they're not like, they're not like fly by the seat of their pants, space cowboys like they used to be in the Apollo days. Leaving Gary Sinise at home with a cold. Right. Oh, poor guy. I can't stop making references of that movie. Sorry.

I can't help it. It's a great movie. It's a great movie. It is. They're going to be doing testing all kinds of things like testing comms capabilities. They have this new re-entry pattern that they're going to be testing. I know. Maybe this is boring to some people, but not to me.

Normally, what they were going to do is use... So when you're coming back from the moon, you're going very, very, very very very. fast, right? So again, as was told to us in the movie Apollo 13, if you come in at too shallow of an angle, you'll skip off the atmosphere, right? Yeah, we can't have that. And so they, because you're moving so fast, and so typically they avoided that, but they were going to try a maneuver that took advantage of this skipping phenomenon off the atmosphere. And the reason that that happens, by the way, is because as it's coming down, one, Once it starts hitting all the air molecules, it'll, in the atmosphere, it generates lift.

And so you're just coming down and then the air starts to lift you back up. And if you're going too fast and too much lift is generated, you'll just get lifted back up into space. Physics are similar in water and stones, right? When you're skipping a stone, same idea. Yeah, I mean, fluid, like water is a fluid and the atmosphere is a fluid. And so the mechanics are the same. You're right. You're exactly right.

That's the same thing that's happening. You skip a stone off the... That's why the analogy is made, right? Because a stone is leaving one density of a fluid, the air, to a higher density, the water. And then it causes sudden, very fast lift to be generated when that stone hits the surface of the water. Gotcha. And the same thing's happening when we hit the atmosphere. But we were going to take advantage of that.

Again, I keep saying we, but I mean NASA. I just wish I was part of NASA. Of course. Of course. I have a friend who works there and he doesn't tell me shit. Seriously. It drives me crazy. I know. Doesn't sound like a good friend.

We're actually very close to each other for easily 30 years or something. And when he went off to work at NASA, which is always his intent, he just was one of those guys that had one goal and that was it and he was going to do it. And he's there still and he's got something to do with this program. But every time I ask him, I'm like, so what's going on over there? What are you guys doing?

Well, I'm not able to divulge the He can never tell me. Pisses me out. That's funny. Anyway, sorry, go ahead. Well, they were going to take advantage of that skipping thing and actually do a skipping entry, but it didn't, something didn't work out. But they're testing a more steep angled entry. Like I said, maybe that's not exciting to people. I think that's really cool.

That is exciting. Yeah, that's cool. So they're going to be testing that. They're testing out crew performance and health. You know, they've, they've, it's a whole new spacecraft, so they need to make sure does it block radiation properly, are the life support systems working properly, all that kind of stuff that, so putting people in there will help, you know, it's like you've got animals moving around in there now. Is it going to hold up? You know? Yeah. So, oh, yeah. So what, do you know what kind of other experiments they're planning besides just, hey, we're back on the moon?

For this one, they're not planning any. It's enough for them to just be trying to get it to the moon. So we redid it again. We got there again. That's goal one. And then if there's subsequent missions, assuming this one goes well, there's other stuff they could do. Right? Set up a little tent.

So they Artemis I, they autonomously sent it there. Artemis 2, they're going to be driving it basically. I mean, they'll use a lot of autonomous ways of flying it to get there. But once they're there, see, this whole new Artemis system that they're going to be setting up, is hopefully a system to prepare for putting installations on the moon, which will require us to land on the moon and then take off and go back down over and over again. They want to have an orbital sort of like base orbiting the moon that will be a system that new missions can go to,

dock with that, and then use that as sort of like a rendezvous. They dock with it, and then they change some things around and then take like a, I don't know, a drop pod down to the surface. That's the goal. That's what they want to eventually do. So this is one step at a time. They need to figure out everything that's required. And one of those is figuring out how to, you know,

the best way to use this craft to rendezvous and dock with other things. So they don't have anything in orbit yet, but they need to practice the maneuvering and docking procedures. And the way they're going to do it is they have this, they have this fuel tank that's attached to the Orion capsule called the the interim cryogenic propulsion, the ICPS. It's the interim cryogenic propulsion stage. It's all the fuel that takes them to the moon.

Sounds like the big bad guy in Tron. The ICPS? Yeah. It's so much better than just the ICP because then you'd only be drinking Fago. Face paint. Exactly. Yes. Yeah.

Yeah, this is just filled with liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen, not liquid orange soda. It's not full of FAYGO. It's too bad. Whoop, whoop. So, but yeah, they get there. What they're going to do is they're going to have that fuel tank. It'll be released from the Orion capsule, and they're going to pretend to dock with that is what they're going to be doing. I just think that's kind of funny.

They're like, what are we going to practice? on, let's just use that. Well, they get sent, you can get, I mean, that's a thing you can gather data from, right? Like, you can learn things and then make the right choice later or whatever. This just feels all very preparatory to me this trip, which is fine, which is great. You need it. It was February 2nd was the launch window that they were looking at. That was delayed because there was a hydrogen leak that they found during the wet dress rehearsal.

It's called the wet dress rehearsal. Yeah. I mean, I've heard of, it's funny, because you hear about a dry rehearsal. We're going to take a dry run at this or a dry rehearsal. But I guess if there's a dry rehearsal, there has to be a wet rehearsal. Yeah. Well, the reason it called a wet dress rehearsal is because a wet rehearsal is because what it's primarily testing and rehearsing is the filling of the fuel tanks. Because a lot can go wrong in that.

And that's where they found hydrogen leaks. They did resolve that. And they were, so they were looking good for a March 6th launch window. And the dress went well. They did secondary testing. That went well. And then after the fact, there was a helium flow problem. And so now that's going to require them to take the shuttle off of the launch pad and put it back into that big giant building where they do all the work on it.

The vehicle, what is it, the VAB, the vehicle assembly building. Or building, yeah. And so. huge thing. Yeah, it's huge. You've seen it in pictures before, I'm sure. It's where they actually filmed the moon landing right there in that building. Yeah, that's where they filmed the, they falsified all that, all that.

Yeah. Everything says, too, all the shuttle things. Right, exactly. All that stuff. That's the. Yeah, fake space news in there. Yeah, it was hard to do. Yeah.

It takes a big space. I mean, with AI tools, we're really coming to an easier time. It's much easier. Now we don't need as big a room to do all that in. Yeah. It's not a lot. The Sora do moon landing. So let me ask you this about what is...

I'm sure they know this because they'd have to know. Therefore, this is why they know the helium is a problem or the hydrogen leak was an issue. When do they know? Like, what is a standard to say we're good? There's never a good enough, right? There's always... When there's not a hydrogen link or a healing problem. Right.

But what I mean is like at what point do you go, everything's perfect? is perfect. The captain doesn't have diarrhea anymore. The dog we brought on for testing is asleep. It just seems almost impossible to ever get to the moment where you're like, yeah, we're good. Yeah. Well, that's why it gets delayed so much is because and why that's normal for that to happen is because everything has to be good. And when this problem popped up and they're anticipating, I've seen it in the news, people talking about it on social media, some of the astronauts, they're anticipating that more just moving it from

the launch pad to the VAB will cause more problems. And so, because it's moving around, it's shaking, it's on that, like, it goes four miles on this, like, really slow crawling, like, tank. It's wild to see those things.

Yeah. Yeah. Find video of it. It's crazy. And more problems will happen, and they have to keep testing it. On the latest, not this past episode, but two weeks ago, we did a whole episode talking about how the details of how the countdown works for a space launch. And more on my co-host. She goes into a lot of detail about at what point you can abort. Because you can abort this mission almost right up to the point when it's going to, I mean, once they launch, once they ignite the solid rocket,

boosters on the bottom like the big solid fuel once they ignite that you're going beyond the point of the point of return yes because those can't be turned off so once those get ignited you're going somewhere

hopefully it's where you were planning to go this is something you've talked about recently I think on a side note because you talked about how there's a T minus and then there's also an N minus it N minus it's an L minus I L minus, that's right. Yeah.

Which is fascinating. I had no idea. Yeah, simultaneous clocks. They can be rolled back. They have contingency built into them. Sometimes the clock will be jumped forward and jumped back, depending on if something happens. Because there's even wiggle room in the countdown

so that if they encounter a problem and they need to redo a step, it's not going to throw off, throw everything off. That's cool. That's actually, if you've ever heard them say, this blew my mind while I was listening during the episode while I was listening to Moore, explain it. If you've heard them say like T minus and counting, you know, or whatever, they'll say T minus and counting, that's end counting is actually has a specific meaning and it's not just a fun way of saying things. It's not just, we're counting.

All right, guys, this is it. And the rest. No, and the reason and counting. exists in the terminology is because they can pause it. Sometimes they'll say L minus and holding. And that means they're pausing the clock and they're waiting for a specific amount of time to continue the clock. T minus and counting means, okay, this is the time and we're still counting. We're still going.

The clock is still going. Interesting. Wow. So all that kind of stuff. But the launch window. I need to listen to that episode of. Yeah, you should. All around science is the podcast name you're searching for.

but uh... Thank you I needed that um all around science yeah um but the uh the new launch winter is going to start on April 1st

hopefully things will go well and be good and there's nothing weird about April 1st to pick as your day to do a thing yeah right no problem I'm sure we'll get yeah we'll get no jokes about whether it got either delayed or not yeah right right exactly

but uh but yeah it's gonna be they found aliens just kidding Just kidding. Hey, so I'll look forward to that, of course. All of us who are interested in space travel are going to want to tune in and see how this goes. You and I have talked a little bit about this, but one of the cool pages in the Tom Merritt book of visiting TMS is that we have started to crowdsource a bit of sort of a question pool from people about tech questions they have for Tom on Wednesdays. We are going to start doing that for Bobby as well because it worked out really well. really interesting questions. I have to think we're going to get some great science-based questions,

maybe even more so, because it's less based on news and it can be just about anything that's going on in our world. Magnets, how do they work? Exactly. The ICP. That's right. So it's good news, Bobby, that we're going to be doing that. Anything you want to say about that or solicit while we're talking about it? No, just, yeah, send in questions because I will select some or one or whatever. Every every time we've got one, I'll try to answer it the best I can. The idea is just to have some more better motivated, not better motivated. When there's news to talk about, I'm definitely want to talk about it. But a lot of times when it's TMS time, I'm like, well, I've got plenty of things I can talk about,

but it's just like random news stories. Will everyone find it interesting? I don't know. I find it interesting. And that's fine. I'm happy to do that. Right, right. Are there any topics that you say, don't even write about this?

Don't ask me because I won't answer. I refuse to answer any science questions on this subject. Flat earthers. No, maybe not. Definitely not. I'm glad you asked that, Brian, because the truth is definitely not because I've just, as cheesy as it might sound, I'm a very curious person. I love to dig into everything. I figure if it's something you don't know, you have the joy of learning it.

Yeah, that's what I love about the podcast. That's what I love about just science communication in general is I don't know. I'm not an expert in any of these things. So I love. My question right now, dear Bobby? Where is the G spot? Okay, cool. Sent.

Yep, there you go. Dear Bobby. Science hasn't figured it out. We'll call it, dear Bobby. And by the way, just send those to the morning stream at gmail.com. If he gets them through his other sources, that's great too. Either way, this will get funneled to him. And we'll talk about it on future shows.

And then, you know, when big stuff happens, like April 1st, if it does go off as planned, we'll probably have an episode with Bobby all about the flight. For sure. And all that. So watch for that. Bobby, anything else you want to mention before we go? No, that's it. Check out All Around Science. That's a podcast that I listen to also, even though I'm on it.

You listen to it as it's being recorded. That's right. Sometimes after just a test. It's fine. Yeah. Sometimes you got it. Bobby, take care. We'll talk to you soon.

All right. Very good. Couple emails. Yes. Let's get two of these. It's a daily ritual of ours. Here we go. This is about the jugs of pee.

These came to us at, Voicecast.app slash TMS. And this is from Bernie, who has some news. Okay. Bernie says, congrats, Scott. According to Business Insider, Utah made the top of the list for best states to live in last year. Your number one, says Bernie. Yeah, and we're not that happy about it.

Yeah, good. We're trying to keep houses and food and cost of living lower. Yeah. We suck. Don't come here. Well, here's, and when people, when people ask. you have to do is say yeah yeah yeah but that was last year yeah that was last year yeah you're you're out yeah it doesn't matter yeah you should see it now you got you need to present your

second and third wives at the border exactly yes you need you need i don't know what all the other stereotypes are you need uh you keep with a hole in it that's right pour all your alcohol out okay yep and don't even mention the word gambling of uh no poker or uh yeah put your keep your playing cards to yourselves. Any of those other things you've heard, they're all true. Yes. We're not amazing. Except we are for that brief window. You all come to Nerdtacular. You'll see how amazing it is. But we're just prepping it for that. Yeah. It's going to be, you're kind of going to be in a bubble of great in the middle of a desert of suck. Oh, man. I'm telling you. Keep housing prices lower. All right. Exactly. Alex also wrote in from Savannah.

That being Georgia and said for TMS, Alex from Savannah checking in. You, jerks. Y'all talking about the tip tingle caused me to to feel it a while on the elliptical while at the YMCA. Longest and most uncomfortable 20 minutes ever. Come on, guys. So he actually phantom pain to that. Phantom tingle. Yeah. Phantom tip tingle from all the...

Phantom tip tingle. That far away. That's the problem is us talking about it made... Talking about Brian's deal. Yeah. Me made me have a little... I had a little pain that night. Did you? It was a little empathy pain.

Empathy pain. Yeah. Because any, listen, if you know anything about men, we have the one spot if we were the Death Star and Luke had to shoot it, shoot the missile and to destroy the Death Star. Yeah. It's right down here. It's right here.

Exactly. And I don't, I'm not saying women aren't, you know, sensitive as well. I'm just saying. Did nature put any, like, have we evolved into any sort of covering over that area or any sort of protective bone structure protecting it? No. Yeah. Like a little bone cage?

Oh. Yeah. Why haven't we, why hasn't that evolved yet? I don't know. It'd need to have a door, I guess, for the, uh, doing it. We need a little bone temple is what we need. Bohn temple.

Yep. I have a little, uh, Ray Fines garden the gate all painted and red. Singing, singing girls on film. That's right. Covered in iodine or eidine as he says it in the movie. You know. Uh, thank you, Alex. Thank you, Bernie.

And thank you all for your feedback. Keep them coming. All the ways to contact. are on the website of frogpants.com slash TMS. There is a Monday show today at 1 p.m. So tune in for that. Carter and I will be here. We're going to talk a bit about a project

we've been trying to do for almost 10 years. We're finally doing it. Oh, cool. I can't wait for it is. I will tune in as I often try to do. Very excited about it. So we'll see how it goes. You can find more about other shows happening at frogpants.com

slash schedule. And Brian, you got anything going on today? You want to mention before we do get out of here? Um, no, just getting myself kind of plugged back into the real, the first real day that I've had in what feels like two weeks of being able to like do a show and then do other things and not feel like, all right, I got to go lay down on the couch and watch some Fargo and drink some cranberry juice. Yeah. I'm glad you did that though and took the time that you got. Yeah, I need it. Because the people are, you know, probably out there thinking, geez, I mean, can you not, do you have to use your penis to podcast?

what's the deal? The answer is yes. Uh-huh? The answer is yes. Exactly. The answer is how many awards? How many podcasting awards do you have? There you go.

But no, the real story is it was less about that and more about the fevers, which were, which were frequent and, um, and caused so much brain fog and what was I working on and what was this and this sort of thing. and now that I'm as clear-headed as I normally am, again, which is probably about a 40% diminished capacity, but certainly far better than I was last week. Now the real work begins. Yeah. Well, our best to Tina, I hope this is a quick recovery for her, and that sucks. I hope so too, yeah.

She's getting what she needs, and that's the important thing. Until urgent care to maybe slow their role a little bit on the diagnosis. Jeez, no kidding. Holy shit. surprised when I went there for my UTI that they didn't tell me that I need to have a leg amputated or something. Yeah, you're having four strokes and your

back sides on fire. And you're slowly turning into a woman. But anyway, here's your prescription. Good luck. Yeah. Anyway, well, let's play a song to leave them all with a little something, you know? Sounds good. James wrote in, also known as the Q star

in YouTube chat. He says, I mark my 60th trip around the sun on February 22nd. I'm a big fan of Pearl Jam. I've seen them live, 10 times so far 10. Ha! Any PJ cover would be great. Thanks for the great show.

That's great. Do you think he knows that he's seen them 10 times and how important that album name is? What important number 10 is for Pearl Jam? I wonder if he knows. He probably does. Don't see him 11 times because that'll blow it. No. I don't even know if he can see Pearl Jam anywhere.

You can see Eddie's solo, but... Oh, is that... Are they done doing things? I don't know. I don't know if they are officially, but I know that he does a lot of solo stuff. Actually, we just saw, I didn't even talk about this, but we watched Song Sung Blue over the weekend. Oh, how is that? It's good.

It is, it's one of these biopics that feels like, hey, here's something good happening to them. Just kidding. It's horrible. Oh, shit. But then here's something else good, but don't worry. It won't last long. Nope, it's horrible again. But, no, Jackman and Kate Hudson are fantastic.

and that time that this couple, this new Neil Diamond Interpreter Act got to open for Pearl Jam. Is that called? They call that an interpreter act? They don't call themselves a impersonate, Neil Diamond impersonate. He's a Neil Diamond interpreter.

So not even like a cover band. It's like a whole other level because he's actually, it's like Elvis. Yeah, exactly. He didn't want, like, he didn't want to be pigeonholed as. He's a, he's a, uh, uh, Neil Diamond impersonator and just be like, all right, welcome the cruise ships. And he's like a Neil Diamond interpreter.

I didn't realize it's based on a real, real people. Based on a real thing. And, and, and this band actually did open for Prilja because Eddie Vedder was a huge fan. That's great. And so they have a, they have a, uh, an actor who comes and plays Eddie Vedder. And he's pretty good. He doesn't sound like Eddie Vedder as much, but he, um, does he go, Revenber her?

looking all that. He doesn't. They don't actually have any, any pearl jam. Like, you only see him coming out and joining them for a song. But he looks a lot like a young Eddie vendor. They found a good, they found the right casting for that. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah.

All right. I have to see that. Anyway, James wanted any Pearl Jam cover that isn't Jeremy. Oh, I like Jeremy. Well, that's an easy one to solve for you. This is, you know what? I didn't even open my thing because I rebooted right before the show. This is a cover.

of Pearl Jam's Just Breathe featuring Willie Nelson. This thing came out about 10 years ago, 20, are you 20? No, I guess it was maybe earlier, 22 maybe. I thought it was like 2016, but it's more recent than that. This is, this is Willie Nelson singing Just Breathe covering Pearl Jam. Yes, I understand that every life must end. Uh-huh.

As we sit along, I know someday we must go on. Oh, I'm a lucky man to count on both hands the ones I love. Some folks just have one, you know, others they've got none. Stay with me, or let's just breathe. It's never gonna let me win Under everything, just another human being, Oh, ha, ha, ha. There's so much in this world to make me be healing

Stay with me All I see That I didn't time One knows this more than me Every day as I look upon your face everything you gave and nothing you would take on nothing you would take I'm a fool you see

no one knows this more than me I come clean I would take everything you gave till I die on the other side This show is part of the FrogPants Network. Yes.

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