The Morning Stream - TMS 2970: AARP Centerfold

Episode Date: February 26, 2026

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The Morning Stream. Raw meat. Do you like raw meat? Hello and welcome to TMS, the morning stream. That's right. It's Thursday, February 26, 2020, 26. Oh, we have it. There's our day right there.

It's fun to say. I like the hesitation as he realized. It was like, February 26, 2020, 26. Yeah. I've been leading up to it all week and then it kind of creeped up and grabbed me. Snuck up, yeah. Pinch me on the bum. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Nibitt. Good morning, Brian Nibb. Hello.

As we inch ever closer to 3,000, look at that. We love you 3,000. TMS 3,000 coming up in 30 episodes. 30 measly episodes. That's really not that far off. Like that's one month. What is that going to be? A month and a half. April. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to celebrate. We're going to have a 300 or 3000 mug because we always do a mug. That's just the thing we do. It's a tradition around here. Of course. And who knows what else? How else could we celebrate? Who knows what else? You know,

might dress up as Tony Stark and say, I love you 3000. Yeah. Might happen. Probably not. No. Let's face it. Probably not.

I don't know what I, how else do you celebrate that number? There are no other traditional. It's not like another, like what's another 3,000? I can't think of anything. Even the year. 2,000. Like 2,000.

Yeah. 3,000. Yeah. Leaver 2000. Nope. 3,000. Yeah. I don't know where you get another 3,000.

No, no, nothing. You know what? Everybody, send us donations of $3,000 each. And we'll come up with reasons. Yeah, we'll come up with something really good. Oh, man, you won't believe it. We'll spend at least a third of that on whatever it is. You know what?

And you can put a decimal in that place, among those four numbers, but not before, but among those four numbers anywhere you want. That's right. Do it however you need. That's right. Futurama set in the year, 3,000. 3,000 miles to Graceland's a great movie.

Oh, there we go. Yep, 3,000 miles to Graceland. All right. There's a couple of common 3,000s according to the chat. I can't think of any more, though. Anyway, it's good to see you all. Glad to have you all here. I did a thing yesterday that almost made a guy fall down some steps. All right.

Totally not on purpose. The FedEx guy or sorry, the Amazon driver guy. He's in the blue van with a smile on it and all that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or is it, that is a smile, sort of. It is a smile. Yep. Oh, yeah, it absolutely is.

and it's connecting A to Z because Amazon has everything from A to Z. Oh, that's a logistics reference. The arrow goes from A to Z. What was their original? They had to have something different in the original logo, right? I think so, too. I can't remember what the original Amazon logo was like when they were a book reseller. Let's see.

It looked like, oh, interesting. It was more like a road here. I'll pull this up. It looked like this. Oh, it's see-through. Gosh, dang it. That's not what I want. Oh, yeah.

Like a right like a shot of it. I didn't expect it to be transparent. There we go. Like that. So it's like, oh, a little road through the Amazon. Interesting.

Yeah. And it's an A. Kind of an A there, everybody. And then they, let's see, then for a while they had this. Oh,

that's crazy. This was phase two del Boca Vista. Look at that guy. That's the big circle. Oh, oh, weird. Like zebra. Like,

like okay we're a river going through a zebra now yep and it looks like there are others i do not remember so let's look at this history now you go frowny face this third thing whatever this third thing is is just names earth biggest bookstore then amazon with a giant oh it looks like a sun or a uh what do you call it when a sun gets blocked up by the eclipse an eclipse look how quickly right like first they Like in 1998, they had zebra river. Then they had Garamond extra condensed. Yep. Yep.

Then they had Amazon Circle. And none of those were like, no, we don't like any of these. How about a big frowny face underneath the Amazon? Yeah. That's fun. I always like seeing this because it always kind of gives you an idea of where visions were before things changed. Yeah. And how in the beginning it was just like Bezos going,

I'm going to make a bookstore online. or whatever his weird laugh was. Yeah. Anyway, so to the point, he was, this dude was bringing me boxes and he had two big boxes in his arms. And then there was something for, I think there were maybe dog food or something. I don't know what they were. And he chose to come around our curb and up, or sorry, the steps and then up to where the main porch is. He came there right at the moment that me and Boomer were going outside to take Boomer for a long walk.

Okay. For a good poo walk we were going to get in. Yeah. And I walked out and Boomer, who doesn't really bark at anything, starts going, Boomer, losing her mind because it freaked her out because he was standing right there. And this guy goes, blah, and teeters a little bit. And it would have, he almost fell into, like, our flowery, whatever zone that is over there. Oh, my God.

Yeah, you're not expecting that. You're, you know, like, all right, well, got to put somebody else's anchor charger on their porch and take a picture of it. Exactly. So he was a little freaked out. And I said, oh, man, I am so sorry. that's terrible timing goes, oh, it's okay, I've had way worse. Then all right. Cool.

Had a naked fat guy come out and greet me at the door. Oh, can you imagine? I bet these people have stories. I bet they do. And it's, you know, I signed up for Amazon Flex. And I still have never done it because every time I look for an afternoon thing, all the afternoon routes are gone. They give you morning routes, plenty of them.

But because of daily music, headlines, you know, I could be back in time for TMS, no problem. Get out there at five, do the deal, but because I've got daily music headlines three days a week, it's like, well, can't really do that and be back in time to record with Hammond. But I'd love to see what it's like to, you know, go and drive and deliver packages instead of the old people. It's just your car, right? It's not like you have to.

Yeah, it's just your car. Okay. Yeah, you pull up, you get a, you get a, you wheel a cart out to it. It's already filled with your car. route stuff and you load up your car. Yeah, Bobby, I was on the Amazon Flakes waiting list for probably about a year before they finally approved me. And so now I'm approved. Now I can take those, but the only ones I can take are ones that are truly for me. Speaking of logo changes. Look at Apple in the beginning, man. Oh, I know. That first Apple logo is so grateful dad. It is so

like, like, um, hippie, giffy man. The, uh, partling main cider company kind of thing. Yeah, it looks like a beer brewery, local brewery. It looks so much older than 1976. That thing looks like, you know,

the, what was the big brother in the holding company of the 1918 fruit gum company or something like that? Right. I always forget the name. The stripy one, of course.

And then it all just sort of stayed the same just with slight alterations. I do like the 1998, how they said, let's, you know, we really like the look of the, the iMacs, that plastic-y glass. It was like their big return logo.

It was, yeah. It's funny, they went monochrome in 98 to 2000 and then came back to it, 2014 to present. But I kind of like this bottom chrome one with the chrome. I kind of like that. The 27 and 2013. Yeah, I think that's cool. Sort of a fan. Anyway, fun stuff to look at it.

It's cool. It's very cool. All right. Brian, how's it going with the court deal? So, you know, yesterday was going to be my day to call and find out if this thing was really on. If, like, the court case on March 4th was really going to happen. Before I even had the chance to do it, the Denver District Attorney called me and said, hi, you know, I just want to check in with you and make sure you're going to be, you know,

that you're planning on being an eyewitness and coming to the case and testifying on March 4th. I'm like, oh, yeah, okay, yeah, I was, I was, I'm planning on it. She's like, you know, are you, you're comfortable doing that? I'm like, yeah, I mean, you know, all I have to do is answer your questions to the best of my ability. Right. And I said, you've seen the video, right? And she's like, no. And I'm like, okay, I thought that's the whole reason you guys were bringing me in because of this video that pretty much lays the case out flat, like, can't really argue it.

It's also your only connection to this, right? It is my only connection. Well, I was the, I was an eyewitness. I was the first person on the scene after the accident. Okay. I called in the 911 call to, to, um, you obviously saw it. I'll go down and all that. I saw it'll go down.

So I think that's, that's the other reason. Um, but I thought for sure it's like, okay, well, you know, other people showed up to the accident. They were on the other side of the exit. So they were able to go up to the car. But, uh, when she said, no, it said that there was a video in your, in your file, but I haven't seen the video yet. And so I had to send it, but because it's not fair for me just to send the DA. No. The video, it has to go into a thing.

Like, it's funny. It's like evidence.com is the website. Yeah, it's like it's basically joint discovery. You can't keep it from the defense or from the prosecution. So both of them have to look at it and just got that to them this morning. I had to find it. I could remember what I called it. But your video might be what calls it off.

You know what I'm saying? That would be great. That would be great. they could come back and go, well, we didn't know we had this level of evidence. That guy's story is stupid. We're done. He's settled. We're done.

Exactly. We just showed him the video and he said, okay. I really hope and I'd take a plea deal or something. But that'd be nice. But yeah, in any case, Wednesday looks like another Wednesday without Brian on TMS next week, potentially, if he does not take a plea deal. so let the bidding for the co-spot commence. That's right.

I guess is there. I still have a strong feeling something will I'm hoping pull out last minute. They always do. Settled but plea deal. They always do these things. Like vast majority in the 90s

percentile. These things don't go to court. So we'll see. And who knows how long it'll be till I find that it might be the morning of or it could be the day before or something like that. Yeah, that's true.

And it is still a court proceeding. It is, yeah, this is actually me coming in and, uh, sitting down on the witness stand and, uh, I don't know, state your name for the record. Brian Coverville, I bet. I dare you are. I dare you to wear one of them, the bowling shirts you like and a hat. One of those hats you like. A funny hat.

Like actual, my actual funny hat. Yep. I dare you. I don't have any way to. I don't have any other way to motivate. I'm not going to take a selfie while I'm on the stand. Do you mind if I put this on my Instagram real quick? You want to do it? Hold on the camera, Judge.

You want to do it? Yeah. Yeah. I don't think they let you do that. Right. But Jay Funktastic says use the Tina voice in court. So my wife and I were coming back from a concert that night. And this guy blows past me in his white charger.

And my wife goes, oh my God. He almost hit. goodness. What would they do? What would they do? You didn't, like, let's say you didn't even warn them. Like, they're just like, okay, just tell us the best your ability. You're okay, cool.

Hand on the Bible or whatever they do. And then whole truth, nothing about the truth. And then Brian does the voice. Oh, I would shit myself. I would laugh at all right. Well, it's funny to say that because today at three, I actually have a Zoom call with the DA to basically, you know, run through what they're going to ask me and my responses.

and all that. Cool. It's, it's, you know, it's going to be a lot of, nope, you don't need to go on that much detail.

Like, it's going to be a lot of, nope, say less. Yeah. Yeah. They always do. My subpoena,

my subpoena stuff I did back in the day was like that. It was like, no, that's, don't, because we had prepared for trial and ended up getting settled.

But basically he says, he'd say, okay, how would you answer this? And I go, well, I got that email back in June. And I don't remember what I did with it.

other than I replied with this information. Okay, that's too long. Back it up. Back it up. Right. What do you want me to say? I got a mail email and like I had a really hard time under, I had a hard time translating what that defense lawyer wanted me to do. Yeah, exactly.

Getting it down into a little short response thing. Yeah. And I fill air. So what am I going to do when I get up on that stand? I'm going to fill air. Right. Exactly. It's my natural state. It's the worst. It's the worst thing you can do.

How many, how many courtroom? dramas, Scott, have we seen where you put somebody up on the stand, there's a pause, and because they're nervous, they say too much. Yeah. Yep. That's usually the core of the whole damn thing. It is. It's either that or, and a surprise

witness coming through the door. Yep. Or getting Jack Nicholson to admit that he ordered the beatdown. That's right, exactly. They're all the same. You're done right. I, you're done right. I approved it. You can't. The red light or whatever it's called.

Kind of in the mood to watch that again. I know. It was good. It's really good. Poor Carl Reiner, man. That's one of his best movies. Let's talk about something real quick. We got... Actually, I want to do this news story.

We're going to the news. We're doing the news. Get ready for the news, everybody. Here it comes. It's the news. Brought to you by. Brought to you by Coverville. You're going to have a double shot.

Double cover stories today on Coverville coming up right. after TMS. First up, Chili, what's her full name? Roz. Roz. Doyle.

No, Rosalind? Can't remember a full name. Anyway, Chile, the C of TLC. It's, you know, T-Baz, Chili,

and Left Eye Lopez. Anyway, she's having a birthday, so we're doing a really quick TLC set. But you can guess the four songs that would be played in that one.

I'll bet that waterfall song makes it. I'll bet you're right. Probably not. number one, probably the most covered song I have by TLC. And then because both Peter Wolf, lead singer and Jay Giles, the guitarist of the Jay Giles band are celebrating birthdays. Well, Peter Wolf is celebrating his 80th. Jay Giles passed away a few years ago, but he would have also turned 80.

80. 80, yeah. Wait a minute. An 80-year-old. My blood runs cold. My memory has just been sold. My angel is an A-R-P. AARP magazine.

I get a deal at Denny's. But for real, that sounds nuts to me that he's 80. I don't know. Adrenal really hits me for some reason. Isn't that crazy? Damn. All right. Anyway, so celebrating birthday, so we're going to be doing a couple of J. Giles' sets of music.

So, of course, you know, your love stinks, your centerfold, your freeze frame. But this was one of the hardest working bands in Boston doing a lot of covers. These guys were hitting clubs and they were huge at the time. Before they hit it big with Centerfold, they had quite the catalog already going. So a lot of older stuff, a lot of older covers that you're going to hear from the Jay Giles band. Nice. Right after the show today.

We'll do a raid. Twitch.tv slash coverview. That's right. Watch for the raid, y'all. Get ready to get on that wagon. Those raids have been working well. People have been coming around. sticking around for the music and enjoying the music and the the snap, the Marvel Snap playing.

Nice. You know what I want to check in on is that Marvel Rivals deal. Yeah, you know, because you've been playing some Overwatch with Boe lately. Yeah. Rivals is just basically Marvel. I need to get back in there. I played like crazy for two weeks and then just really got out of it. And I've been bad about video games altogether, Expedition 33, sitting on hold after

the gestural village, gestal village. Oh, yeah. Dispatch. Next thing I'm excited to play. Waiting for me to get to it. It's like So good. I know. I'm no time. You'll rip through that. You'll rip through that one in like

no time though. It's so quick. I know. I just, I need video games in my life that aren't just like, all right, I've got a minute. Game of Marvel Snap. Done. Beep, boop, beep. Exactly. I'm with you. All right. We got to tell you the story. This is pretty great. How much cocaine is in

Nantucket's sewage out there in Massachusetts? Well, it turns out a lot of cocaine. A lot of cocaine. Okay, good. Yeah. Eight months of wastewater surveillance, which is a thing they do. A bunch of that data is now shown

consistently elevated levels of cocaine in Nantucket's sewage, which spikes in October and December of 2025 that they were nearly three times the national average. even as island and it's an island it's a thing off the coast it's not even a uh connected to the rest of the world right right uh maybe that's maybe that's part of it maybe that helps yeah says there were uh see even as island police have made numerous high profile cocaine bust including the largest in department history i didn't know about that there we go so it's a lot of people flushing coke down the toilet because of an oncoming bust yeah if i've heard learned again anything from tv

cops are banging on the door while a lady is frantically flushing her cocaine down the toilet. Exactly, yes, we've all seen it. We've all been there. We've been there. Freaking what's her name and Goodfellas just cramming cocaine down that toilet. And he was so pissed to her when he got home.

Anyway, I love that movie. The levels of harmful substances and NTecut's wastewater including fentanyl and meth are far below the national levels. And even nicotine levels are largely remaining below average there. But for some reason, the cocaine is everywhere

dramatically outstripped benchmarks for the region and the country at large and have the most attention making national headlines let's see they go into how it's metabolized don't care about that

so it's because Nantucket's cocaine levels are above national regional averages while BZE is often at the below average I'm not sure it BZE is Benzo let's see

Benzo let lech codonine Benzol not benzodia benzodiaepine not those. No, it's Benzoil.

Benzolelelec. Oh, gosh. This is where we need a, this is where we need a chemist. The red phone to, yeah. Yeah, we need a Dan Patrice or we need a Jeffrey Tolbert or Jerry Tolbert. Benzo.

I think we start calling Jerry, Jeffrey. I like that. Jeffrey, sure. Take that, Jerry. Just got a text from my dad. Oh. About the trip to Burlington. Yeah.

Yeah, I cannot figure out how to break this word down. Benzo lecoggini lecline. All right. I'm going to believe you. Lescanine? I don't know. It's that. It's whatever that is.

You know what? I'm going to copy and paste in the chat room and let somebody break it down for me because usually I don't have a problem breaking down a word I don't know. This one, there's some weird letters going together and I don't know where the emphasis should go. Well, and you're not wrong on your estimation here. It says because Nan, this is the quote, because Nan tuckets cocaine levels above national regional averages and this other stuff's at lower averages.

the most likely explanations include major dumping events. Oh, there we go. So people are like, ah, shit, it's the, it's the pokey. Or it's the po-po. Cheez it, it's the cops, whatever. And they have to go and dump all their cocaine. It says repeated small-scale disposal.

Let's see. Concurrent with alcohol, which changes how cocaine is metabolized. So, yeah, they don't think he's, just people pooping out cocaine as much as it is like regular dumps and maybe they have overages. Yeah. Still kind of a mystery. Benzo lecogne.

Hold on a second. We're still working on it. Benzoi lecane. Is it benzoid lecane? Yeah, it's at zoi. You don't really see zoe too often in a thing. No. She's in our chat room.

So lecine. Let's see. Let's find if we even find our guy that does it. Oh, please. Yeah. Today we are looking at the word. for a drug that is frequently flushed down the toilets. All right.

Is this him? It might be him. No? Wait, maybe. All right. Do I have audio? Popson and recline found one too. Okay.

Probably the same one. This is a lady. Let's see. Come on, lady. Say something. Benzoleikonine. Ugh, that's a hard one. Bezilecanine.

Penzolecone. I can't find our guy. I have not taken any benzolecone. How come nobody's got those, I love it when I can go to a dictionary site. Yeah. And they have the multiple voices I can choose from. Let's say dictionary.

Okay, I'm just going to see if I can find this. This is always fun. Oh, here we go. Miriam Webster comes to the rescue. Let's play it. Benzile echinine. I don't think that's right. That doesn't sound right.

Benzile will. Oh, hear that again. Okay, here goes. Benzoil-Eckinine. That's not right? I think that's bullshit. I don't think that's right. Benzolechokine.

How about this one? Benzolech-Gene. A robot. Benzolech-lech-Bin. That's hard for everybody. Yeah, exactly. Talking Moose. We can't figure out what you're saying in the middle there.

I'm glad I don't have to use that word a lot. And no wonder they shorten it to BZE. Totally, yeah. I would too. Anyway. Enjoy licking me. There's that story. Check this one out.

A meta executive, you know, over there at the formerly Facebook now meta company. Sure. They used to make cool VR products and now they're dumping it all. Now they just watch us all and report on us all. And yeah. Bastards. Anyway, a meta executive goes viral after an AI, email assistant deleted her entire inbox. Yikes.

Oops. Now, there's one problem I have with this. I don't know if this means. They don't really get into it. Because when you say inbox, you could just mean the current mail that's in the inbox, all other mail that's been filed away or archived is fine. But they don't get into that. They just basically say inbox. I assume that means her entire. She wanted inbox zero, basically is what she got. And boy, howdy, did she get it? A meta employee went viral after revealing an AI email assistant was she was using for email management, had to leave her entire box without approval. Summer You described how she used

OpenClaw AI to help manage her inbox. Oh, I've heard of them. Someone was advertising for them on some podcast. I can't remember what podcast it was. Somebody had an ad for it. Anyway, to help manage her inbox, quickly lost control of the automated cleanup process. She said the assistant began deleting emails

despite instructions to confirm actions first, forcing her to rush to stop it, manually. In her post, she described the situation escalated as the assistant continued deleting messages while she tried to intervene from her phone. No! Right, right. Oh my God, you can just see it. Like, it's nothing you can do like you're watching a slow motion accident kind of thing. Yep. She says, here's her quote, nothing humbles you like telling your open clock confirmed before acting and watching it speed run delete your inbox. I couldn't stop it from my phone. I had to run to my MacM any like I was diffusing a bomb, said the meta employee.

That's really funny. So she's just a meta employee. This is open clause is not a meta product. No, no, no. Open clause, some other, it's some third party thing. Just the fact that she's meta is, is coincidental, ironic, but not. Yeah, not directly connected. Yeah.

Look, ALLMs are really good at certain things, certain tasks. Sure. And they're very time-savy in a lot of ways. and there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of arguments you could make for that. Yeah. I'm not ready to hand my keys over to one and say, delete my emails, but make sure you confirm it first and not know for sure. 100,000% that it can follow those instructions.

Yes. F that, dude. Ooh. Although I have a lot of email I don't really need, so maybe it would be good for me. I don't know. I know. You know, it's funny. Reading this makes me less like, oh, I better not use that.

more like, oh, there's a tool that helps you with it? Yeah. Yeah. It's funny. Like it's the, it's the worst possible scenario, yet, yet I want it now. Yeah. And it's really, oh, and censor and soursel, there's how you say his name in the chat, says, OpenClaw is scary. I can't believe people are putting their credentials in it. That's the thing about OpenClaw. If you're going to use it, it can't manage your email without your credentials. Yeah, you need to log into your email. You are giving somebody else. access to your email, which is like, you know, how you reset all your passwords. Yeah.

And everything else. Like giving, giving some. All of the agents that they, these agent type services that are meant to help automate stuff you do, they all require this level of access that you wouldn't give your freaking brother. No. And I, that much rather. Yeah.

You know, I've already, I've got that stuff logged into, uh, to Apple mail. That's where I get my mail. Um, I'll wait for, I'll wait for series, uh, function. AI functionality to help me parse through all my email and sort sort your shiz sort my shiz is like all right Can you delete all previous emails from such and such? I don't need those anymore or all UPS Notifications that I put into you know archives so that I could track whether they're coming in or not and I never delete them afterwards Yeah there's some of these features are I've been using Spark for years and uh spark. They have some function now where I'm supposedly I can go in here and go

go kill everything with the names oh, blah, blah, blah, or whatever, and it'll do it. But I've never, I'm scared to push that button. I ain't going near that. Yeah. Right now I'm avoiding it. I know. It is the whole thing is a little scary. Well, in the meantime.

Yeah. Oh, we got seconds to go. Let's see if she's in yet. If she's in, nope, she's not in yet, we can keep going. Okay. Anyway, good luck to that lady. Here's the next story. Falling antlers.

I always wondered why. this wasn't more common at like a TGI Fridays or something. Right, or Beniggins or whatever, yeah. Places that put shit all over the wall. Yeah. My stuff falls down all the time. Surprise shit doesn't fall off the walls more often. I mean, you look at that stuff, though, and usually it is screwed to the wall.

Like, there are big, thick screws holding stuff in. Almost always. Like, that's, probably there's some rules about that, I would think. I don't actually know. That you have to have that, yeah. But some falling antlers severely injured a couple of people during a dining trip. at a longhorn steakhouse. My God.

Yeah. They're not even longhorns or animals. I know. If they weren't severely injured, this would be funny. But it's like, you just visualize, those are spiky-ass things falling off the wall landing on somebody while they're eating their porterhouse. Yeah.

From an animal, you wouldn't want a corner out in the wild. Right, exactly. You're getting gourd after the fact. That sucks. Denise, sorry, Dennis. Sorry, Dennis. Dennis and Patricia Schwartz are seeking 150 grand. each over the freak occurrence, which took place earlier this month at a Longhorn Steakhouse in Nashville,

just in a suburb there outside of, or suburb of Madison, I guess, the suburb of Nashville. Anyway, on February 8th, 2020, 25, plaintiffs were dining at this Longhorn Steakhouse, reference above, when a decorative object made of wood and antlers referred to hereafter as decorative object. Okay. Love legal talk. So much fun. Detached from the wall and fell into the plaintiffs due to being improperly inadequately

inadequately secured to the wall of the premises the pair's complaint states both plaintiffs suffered severe personal injuries and damages

as a result of this incident they don't really get into what the they talk more about mental language and some other stuff but they don't get into what the injuries were

like how did it did it impal them yeah like how deep does an antler go you know yeah yeah I'm curious the people want to know

but they're all right they're living through it and, you know, they'll probably get their money. This stuff usually goes in favor of people. This feels like, I mean, it would be very bad. It's already very bad optics for the, for Longhorn Steakhouse. I mean, the, you know, the Red Robbins have a kayak hanging from the ceiling in all of their, in all their stores.

That's a massacre's right to happen, exactly. It is. Imagine one of those bastards falling on you. Oh, my gosh, dude. Kind of want to be there when it does, though. Ah, my bonsai burger. I have mental anguish. Pay me.

Yeah, we'll see how that goes for them, I guess. My clucks and fries. All of this has made me want to go to Longhorn and eat. I know. Like, I want to set up open claw on my mail and then go, while it's working on it, go out to Longhorn and get something to eat. I think that sounds so good right now. All right. We are going to do a little funsy, funsy here.

Let's see if I can set this up properly. I like the fonzy, fonzy. You like a little fonzy? I like a little fonzy, fonzy. Excellent. Let's do this. Something wrong, Batman. Has anybody seen Wendy?

Well, we have. She's in a car outside of the state capital or something, right? Where are you right now? I'm not there yet. Oh. A few things happened and I was like, I don't think this audio is going to work. So I'm going to go immediately afterwards. Oh, all right.

Oh, wow. Is there a protest or something going on? Yeah, it's just the, the, like, Legislators are in session again, you know, for the first time. Yeah. Last week or something. So every organization in the world has their day where they go and do their thing. And so this one is just, this one's a really cool organization that just works on like sustainable everything for everyone all the time.

Like, you know, it's a lot of green energy mixed with housing policy and some really cool stuff. So anyway, yeah, it's fun. So you go and you sing. It's a lot of singing apparently. And it's a lot of chit-chatting with legislators. Well, Wendy used to sing all the time. Well, you still, as far as I know, you still sing at people. Yeah, you're going to go sing at them.

I think music has the power to change. So I think you should do it. Yeah, I agree. Healing power of music. Well, we'll get to it so we don't make you late. It sounds like an important civic thing you're doing today. And I don't want to get in the way of that. So we're going to dive right into today's topic.

It's not an email. It's not a question. It's just kind of a general idea about trying to, to not be in control of everything on things you can't control. And feeling like you can't control sometimes will put you in a place where you don't do things you could do to make a difference because you feel like you can't control it. So it feels a little like a little, what's the word? There's some thin ice here because on the one hand, there are a lot of things going on. You have zero control about and just yelling on the internet's going to do nothing.

But then some of those same things that you feel like you can't do anything. there are actually paths to go do something about them. It feels like what Wendy's doing today might be an example of that. So let's talk about it. The whole like, what is it, the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, they got that one about, you know, help me understand the things I can control and the things I can't or whatever. How's it goes to go?

Yeah, give me the strength. That's the serenity prayer. There you go. Thank you. Yeah. Clearly I'm very familiar with it. Anyway, where do you want to go with this topic? Okay, well, all right, let's just pick.

You gave three examples of things we should potentially be able to let go of when we feel like, like let go of the need to control something or the need to, you know, I don't know what it is the feeling we have. So we'll get to it. But you mentioned politics and you mentioned other people and you mentioned technology. So I have a question for you to start that we can maybe riff off of. All right. What about technology is the creates this feeling of being out of control? Why would you write that? So the reason I wrote this, so Wendy's talking about is I sent this to her last night, if they're confused.

But the technology part of it is the, I've been doing a lot of research on, you know, because I can let me start over. Everybody is shouting things like AI is going to disrupt jobs in a really gnarly way and no one's prepared for it. And this will be like no other shift in human history. Certainly American history, definitely internationally. And we're not ready for it. And we don't, blah, blah, blah. There's different take on it and different people with some people crying, real wolf and then others saying, no, no, no, it's just, you know,

we'll adjust like we do any other big major disruption. The internet was a disruption. We adjusted, you know, lights and cars were huge disruptions to industries. and we adjusted. So there's a lot of kind of a range of feeling about where we're headed with all this stuff. But I don't think regular day-to-day people have been as slammed with anxiety before this in the way that they are with this specifically. Because really what they're saying, the most vulnerable of us are going to be things that forever were considered locked in. If you went and got a computer science degree, you were good, that you were going to go forever.

you were, you know, really important job. And this thing's about to swoop in and literally take it away. Like, that's a very vulnerable job. One I heard about yesterday, it's extremely vulnerable, our translators and, um, what's the other word for that? Well, anyway, just, I guess just translators. People that do a lot of language translation, those jobs are poof once this hits the road. Like, you're done. There's nothing you're ever going to do again.

They, they, they compared it like, um, back in the day, taxi driver. made a lot more money and were considered like these banks of information because they knew where to go and they had that knowledge intrinsically in their heads there weren't maps there weren't digital help there wasn't any of that nowadays and certainly more so in the future nobody needs a guy who knows where to go all the technology will take us where we want to go and so they went from really prized parts of this fabric of society to dime a dozen anybody can do it and then you know, it is where it is today. Very low, a taxi drivers

are very low, low paid, you know, bottom rung now. So it's like that kind of stuff. And I think that right now, that technology is just representing a big split for people where if you're in the middle, it's going to get divided with those who make money with AI. And when I say that, I mean like big companies, corporations, tech bros, people with tons and tons of money,

billionaires are going to be just fine. In fact, they're going to make money off this. Everyone else is going to pay. heel off the other way, an opportunity suddenly has a ceiling because to do anything past that ceiling means you need to be in that upper group. And so there's a lot of that anxiety. And some of this is obscure. Some of this is abstract. Some of it is like, we don't know until it happens. Some of it is overwrought. So, but I think that's the reason I put technology in there is it's been on my mind because it's a big topic right now across every industry you can think of, including yours, by the way.

Let's talk about your LLM is getting so good. You will not need a therapist. It will be your therapist. You know, that sort of thing. And you're going to pay 20 bucks a month instead of $400 a session. And, you know, these kinds of anxiety is about a thing that could literally drop in tomorrow in theory and go, yoink, everything you thought you knew and that mattered is obsolete. Go do something else. So there you go.

There's my, there's my short, long reason I put technology. Okay. So anyone listening, feel anxiety. well, he talked about it. Probably. Yeah. Yeah. I just like to speak on behalf of all therapists who are of a certain age.

They can't even get their emails to work. And so it's really scary for them because they don't know how to do adjust. Sure. So that's a good example of technology being, you know, if you're right in the thick of it. I mean, the time I got nervous was when one of the guys who developed it was on Trevor Noah's podcast. and he's like, you guys. I was like, oh, shoot, you're the one involved? Yeah. They all do that too.

They all say, we don't know how crazy this could get. We don't know. And I'm like, you don't know. You made it. You built it. You should know. And part of that I think is, part of that I think is coded language to investors so that they go, oh, yeah, freaking so disruptive.

Not even these guys can control. You know what I mean? Like, I think there's a lot of that Tom Fulery going on. They are selling a product. after all. That's true. And also, aren't they losing a ton of money on it? Oh, yeah.

And they eventually, I mean, they've, and everyone's banked on the same exact thing, which feels like the housing market. Okay, anyway, we always do this and we always get scared. And, you know, like, so one thing I like to tell people to do is like, I want you to think back to when Bush v. Gore. Do you guys remember when we had to count the dangling chats in Florida? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, remember that?

Can you conjure up? up how you felt back then. Oh, gosh. So we're talking 2000, I guess, right? Yeah, so a long time, 26 years ago, oldies. It was that whole, like, it felt like, what, two weeks, three weeks where we, we didn't know who our next president was going to be. Was it going to be the guy we voted for?

Was it going to be the other guy? We sat there. Yeah. And we based a lot of our happiness on that outcome at the time. And then it all gets solved. And now we have a freaking Bush again. And here we go. And there's like you settled into life and kept going.

That has happened over and over and over again, except for when we study history, you see all the times where that doesn't happen. And so your own experience is one thing, but we're easily gonna forget the 99% of the time, like something we move on and we have something new to be afraid of because this is the way we're built. You know, sometimes though, it's a little stickier

or it applies to us. I remember once asking in 2008, like an investment banker douche bag. I meant to say dude. A dude I was talking to. Right. You meant dude, we know. Just a slip of a little freudian slip there.

Sure. It really is. I'm not saying all of them are, but he was. Anyway, and I, we were talking about, I said, well, this lead to another depression. Like, is that where we're heading? And he goes, so the person who loses their job and gets laid off, it is a depression to them. For the neighbor who knows about it, it's a recession, right? Like, so some of this is your own where you're sitting.

And you're right. AI seems to be a thing that kind of covers everybody. And so everyone's nervous about it. Climate change, we're all worried about, you know, we're all worried about, I don't know, fascism and having concentration camps in our country, right? Like all of those things, you can be worried about all of those things and feel absolutely like you, little old you, can do nothing about it. Yeah.

So the problem is not that you can or can't do anything about something. That is not, it's actually the question our brain will keep sort of repeating, but that's not the real problem. The real problem is what we are actually doing that puts us and keeps us in fear. So, I mean, we've talked a lot on the show about, you know, you're overconsuming way past your bodies and your brain's ability to process horrible things, right? And we do it just so innately now. It's just you wake up and you fill your brain with the crazy and then you go live your life. And so we're desensitized on one hand, but we're also just absolutely nothing is sort of doing what it should do. Think about this historically.

If there was terrible news like the village is on fire, you are going to need all of your resources online to run and go help put that fire out because everything, you're going to lose everything. Yeah. Right? Yeah. When I'm reading about AI taking over my job, it should make me still scared and want to run and put out of fire. But because I don't know what to do, I'm sitting here alone reading about it. I, you know, I just have to take the fear and then do what? Metabolize it somehow, right?

Just have it. I don't know. Eat some candy. Well, they always say you should turn this stuff into action. and that's that's the trick right that's the how like in your case let's say where you're like I'm alone I can't there's the fire I need to put out is not visible it's in the ether it's a right it's a concept ritual fire yeah it's not even really a fire but it's enough of one that could really disrupt me so here I am feeling like I have no power to put out this fire that is definitely

a fire like that's hard man it's a hard feeling is what I'm saying so I'm not very good at this this is not like um so everyone just buckle up i usually am not very good at self like revealing because that's therapy right if your therapist talked about themselves the whole time yeah you would be like weird weird no and wouldn't come back okay uh but i'm going to use myself as an example because i was so overwhelmed by everything and that feeling of there's nothing you can do right just the powerlessness of there's just so much bad. And so I started with, I mean, I took my own advice, which is my advice today. And it might sound a little drastic for somebody who's just like, no, I would like to continue to doomscroll. But you have to stop. Like, you absolutely have to

stop doing it because what it does is it is you, quote unquote, doing something. It's just enough doing, I'm informed. It's so important that I'm informed. It's an illusion that you have done something. And so then you are paralyzed. I wonder if there's a good analogy of like just enough to be frozen, right? If you didn't know about it, then you're just oblivious, right? But if you know too much about it, you're frozen. So there's got to be something, you know, utilizing our brain. So I got off social media. I got off all news. I have not gone back. I've gone back a little to for like Olympics social media and that's about it. Sure. Sure.

And but you think I'm not aware of what's happening. I'm aware. Trust me. I'm aware. I'm aware. I'm aware. And people always are telling me to. So there's that. Anyway, so point being what happened and this is what I wanted to see. Now granted, I live in Minnesota where there's a lot of continuing organization happening and there's a lot still happening. I just talked to a client this morning who's the restaurant down the street was rated the other day. Every single person was taken with even papers looked at. Just if you're brown, that's it.

And so that is happening everywhere. It's just maybe not your neighborhoods yet, but it is happening in my neighborhoods, right? So it's like you can, I could sit on my phone or I could go to the capital because it's really easy to find something to do right now here, right? So, but what I found is that my energy to do so really shifted. And I, so, I mean, we've had a few things. on in our family.

Scott. Yes. You think? But on top of that, I have had, like, I made all the signs for our local caucus. And Adam was a delegate. And we're doing, like, the most grassroots, not sexy stuff in the world. But because somebody has to do it. And the people doing it right now are 80.

Everyone is 80 that does all of democracy. I don't know if you guys know this. But they are old and they don't use Google Docs. And it's killing me. And they write handwritten signs. And so we couldn't help ourselves. And so we just started and super basic, right? Really basic, but made a big difference.

And then with all the social workers that I'm connected to, they are all freaked out and their clients are freaked out. Everyone is not okay. So within that organization, a friend of mine and I are starting these in-person gatherings so we can just support each other. So what goes on of like, oh my gosh, we're all. all alone, I don't, I can't do anything. I'm doing the most boring, basic versions of connecting

and community building. And you know what I don't feel? I don't feel scared or out of control. And it's because I am biologically going to the village to pour water over the fire. Like, we know that traumatic sort of PTSD, any kinds of really sticky traumatic things often stick so much and are so traumatic for lifelong,

abilitating reasons because the person was unable to do anything. So they were trapped in the car. There was the car accident. They were, they didn't fight back when they were being attacked because they were frozen. They will do way worse than someone who was fighting the whole time and scratching people's eyes out, right? The trapped, we have major emergencies that we've researched. Like, who does well, who doesn't. And the people can do a little bit. They can do something, are going to fare way better psychologically and emotionally. So we are all traumatizing ourselves on purpose and then doing nothing. And then you wonder why we're all not okay, right? So it sounds like, oh, this is a simple formula. It kind of is. But I don't know if you can get to your

grassroots work and community building if you're paralyzed on your couch or you're constantly entertaining yourself or eating and drinking your feelings away, right? Like we get frozen. We have these techniques to do that. It's built into our very distracted society. But the very core ways we can feel the most human is to belong to something, to have meaning, to be around human beings more, and to not have the news like ringing in our ears all the time. I have a few friends who just get physical papers now. And you should see them. They're like zend out. And that's all they'll do. They'll read the paper in the morning with their coffee. And then they'll be like, like the olden days. As you say, these are also 80-year-olds, right?

No, these are 30 and 40-year-olds who are like, I can't live like this. Yeah, there are people going. There's a real switchback happening. Is it the Star Tribune or the Pioneer Press that they're reading? Nice, dude. Yeah. Brian used to go out there and work those papers back in the day. That's right.

I used to walk the skyways between the Minneapolis Star Tribune and. And the Pioneer Press. Isn't that weird that they're all connected? Like here, this Tribune and the Desiremen. are at news are also like they use half of each other's stuff every city's got like two papers it's a joe it's a joint operating agreement is that what they call that yeah they can maintain one set of presses and one is your morning one is your evening used to be that that's the way it always used to be in cities you'd have a morning paper and an evening paper and they'd use the same presses but they were

still independent editorial um editorial bodies so they could have completely different opinions but uh yeah right which is valuable Yeah, for sure. Like valuable. A friend of mine was in Miami at this conference with all these journalists from like all over the country and just talking about what is happening. Her organization just supports local, local journalism. Because if you don't know what is happening right where you live and you're only focusing on horrible things elsewhere, you're even worse off in this regard, right? And so she said they had just those most inspiring talks and it was incredible.

And then the final speaker, this is so funny, was the CEO of The Onion. Oh, no way. Yeah. And he is brilliant, apparently, and it has a sailor's mouth. And she's like, it was so funny. We went from this very professional meeting to every other word was the F word. But then he was talking about just the power of satire. Like that the jester can say all the things in the King's Court, right?

And how close sometimes it really is to the truth. so funny. Yeah, no. That's why they always say, you know, without people like, I don't know, John Stewart's probably the best example, without that satire, you're screwed. And when they start, if you live in a society, it starts clamping down on that. Yeah. Oh, boy.

Yeah. Which I've never heard that happening here. No, never. What are you talking about? Anyway, okay, so here's my final advice to people is if you are feeling this, like you are helpless. Because you wrote the word control, Scott. And I don't think that people that is actually control seeking.

You might feel that way a little bit, right? I think it's more the helpless feeling. Yeah, that's really well. Yeah, that's more what I mean. Because control, there's a difference between people need to control everything and people who just feel out of control. Yeah. Yeah. They're calling control freaks.

They can't decide on their own life or what, you know. That's right. Yeah. I think I've learned one thing in the last six months is that the people have always claimed they want freedom. only just want freedom for themselves. Yes, exactly. And everything else is fine. And the scary part about that is just like, you know, when you put yourself in someone

else's shoes or you're in a more diversified scenario, you just realized like, no, we're all the same. And we all thrive better when we have some security and some freedom. Like those are pretty basic human needs. And the fact that we've come from how far we've come as a. species to a place where laws work or, you know, the fact that it's threatened is really scary because we've really evolved to get to a place where equal protection under the law is, is, was hard fought.

This was not just like, yeah, that makes sense. But for those of us who have always benefited from equal protection under the law, we don't think about it until it's literally next to you being ripped away from somebody. Right. Because of all of the things. Anyway, and so, yeah, my advice would be to just even like a small experiment of just stop for one day. Just like one day, don't look at any of it. You can play your games and you can hang out with your people and you can whatever, watch an old movie that you have to put on a cassette or a...

A cassette. A cassette tape. Or something. Get old school for one day. And then just, I mean, it takes a little more to detox. I promise it does. But, you know, and then don't do that and do something else. Like literally anything else.

Go to the local bar and say hi to somebody. Like literally hold a door for a person. Just do anything else that is like the kids say touch grass, right? Find a way to not have your brain, you know, sort of taken over. Because the people who are out there doing the real work. of democracy, we cannot just have 80-year-olds, you guys. You're going to die. We need the younger folks.

But you just need people to see a problem. I always say to my kids is my favorite phrase, they love it, which is, see, you need, me to need. See, you need me to need. And the key is, I mean, I'm raising boys. So I'm like, you need to look around. You need to see that your sock right there is ruining everyone's life. So pick up your nasty sock.

Leaving that in the living room in front of the couch. is murdering me. I act that way. It's pretty gross. You have not smelled those feet in a while, guys. Oh, I'm sure. No, it's like a bag of Doritos on fire. It's the worst.

Oh, that would be better. Toritos on fire is better. Yeah. No, but it's that idea of like, look around, right? And see a need and meet a need. And I work with people all the time who have their hearts 100% in the right place and they're just frozen. Because they've never, like when I went to this caucus meetings,

they had us raise her hands if this was. was our first time doing anything with politics. And it was 85% of us just going, yeah, we are brand new. Or they'd say, what was your first foray? I was like, well, in seventh grade. I did a thing or, you know, I was at the mock elections. Yeah, right.

Exactly. Right. And so most of us have just breezed by without having to do squat in life. If we're honest about the situations that we live in. So it can be really small guys. It could be just the thing you care about. Who cares? As long as it's not, well, it's involving others and it matters to you.

And there's meaning for you. So your Discord channel group chat is probably one of the most important things you have going. That's awesome. So take that and do a little good with it as opposed to maybe feeling a load. I mean, that's the thing. It's super, what we're talking about is a lonely behavior that keeps us scared, disconnected, hating others. I mean, that's why the comment sections look the way they do, right? Is it's not someone in a group going, what should we say? Let's debate that first.

Before we write that down, it's usually us in our amygdala's firing, fear, anger, hate, whatever. My own life sucks. So I'm going to take it out here. And we're just sloshing around in that muck. And it makes our lives feel a certain way. It's a good time to re-up this. We have a group in our Discord called the do-gooters. It's basically just a channel all about people organizing ideas. Like, what can I do locally? Or, hey, we did this. You might find this is an option where you live and it made a huge difference to a few families or whatever it is. We created this to do that very thing. And we don't promote it enough. So today is the day. Go to the Frogpants Discord. FrogPants.com slash Discord. If you're not already in there. If you are in there, it's in the FrogPants General

group. Just look for do-gooders and get in there. It's inspiring stuff too because everybody's running, you know, they're doing like charity streams and raising money. And it's just, it's just great to see. So we have our methods within this very community to do more of this stuff. So check that out. I have one more request. If you are a Republican, Republican leaning middle of the road, also please get involved. We need you to take back that freaking party.

It's barely a party. I told somebody asked me today, said, what's wrong with your two party system? I said we don't have a two-party system. I feel like we have a two-personality system now. Yeah, that is a way better way to talk about it. Yeah. It really feels like it. So, yeah, come here.

Come on, centrist and moderates. Hell, I voted for Bob Dole. I like Bob Dole. Bob Dole says, you know, like, look at me. Is that why he voted for him? Because he talked in the first person. Kind of. Because he carried a pen.

Yeah, I liked that he always had a pen exactly. And he also was a big. He doesn't like somebody that's always got a pen handy. He was a war hero. It was like one of the last. Last World War II hero dudes who like got hurt in the war and was still like, and you know what? Take it, take a snapshot at Bob Dole in his prime. Place it in today's political spectrum.

The Overton window has shifted so hard. He looks like a lefty freak. He totally does. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. So, okay. When you feel overwhelmed and out of control, take a couple deep breaths.

And then get some help from your friends. Right. Find people. Like the antidote is people. And I know, I know, I know so many, especially COVID kids and how we've all changed. Like we're, we're so much more isolated than we have been. And it is a problem. And so find a way, even if it's one person or a stranger, to just like build on that. There is nothing more, nothing that creates more safety than actual human connection for us psychologically. And, all the time we're going to face, I mean, you think about any, okay, let's do the Lord of the Rings, the final battle. Like any of it, right? You've got to rouse the troops, but it's because someone's standing next to you. And I look at me. I'm ready for a rally.

Can you hear it? Yeah, I can tell you're stoked. I got to go. Yeah. Well, get out there and get it done. No Better You. com for more information about other stuff Wendy's got going on. We'll talk more about it next time.

But good luck out there today and don't let anyone garrison your keeler. All right. You're in Minnesota for heaven's sakes. All right. I don't know what that meant. Okay. Let your woe be gone. There you go.

That actually works because you're trying to get rid of your woe. Yeah. I like that. All right, you guys. This is the end. This is the end, my friends. Exactly now. A little bit of shift in schedule.

I have a doctor's appointment today at one. And so we had to push core. And instead of pushing it later today, John had something else that he had to do. So we were like, let's just shift it all to Friday. So Friday, later, later, than usual. 4 p.m. So when we start it, because that's when Bo gets back from what he's doing,

we're going to have a live core on Friday. It's because you guys are going to go play the marathon open beta, isn't it? That's the whole reason. I don't think so. I am interested in that game, but I'm going to wait until that thing's out, I think. Yeah, I was such a marathon fan in the

90s, when it first, or 90s, early 2000s, when it first came out. That was my big first person shooter. And And so it's the new ones Battle Royale, right? It's basically. No, it's an extraction shooter. So it's like, oh, good.

More like, I don't know what to compare it to that you might have played. You haven't played Arc Raiders or, uh, Tarkoff or any of that. They're basically, how do I explain them? They're going, shoot up a bunch of stuff, get as much loot as you can and get out. That's like what it sounds like, extraction shoot. You're trying to extract stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So not, okay, so I'm, I'm still competing against stuff.

other players live or no. Yes, you are. Okay. And some MPC, like, non-player character stuff is also involved in the world. Okay. It's not very different than a traditional battle royale, which is all, you know, map shrinks and gets small. It's not like that.

Okay. But Marathon, Marathon and more recently, Ark Raiders has been, our graders is a huge success, and it made it a lot more accessible to regular players who have lives. Tarkoff is a freaking nightmare, I think. But, you know, and it's funny for me to say this after already, saying, I don't have time to play the games I have. Let me play some marathon. Yeah, let me get marathon.

Exactly. But it is, you know, Bungi made the original marathon. They're making this one. There's a good heritage there. A lot of people are poop-poo in this. I just remember those aliens that, you know, it's like such a great memory of marathon. It was great.

It was back when they were making Mac games and stuff. Yes. Anyway. And what was their other one that was like Castle Wolfenstein? and hell yeah Well that was it But yeah That was it

Okay What was the other There was another Bungy Bungy did Not day It was right around that time Dave

Not day of defeat What's DOD That's Dave of defeat What am I thinking of? Um They had another one Of course Halo Yeah

Yeah they did myth Myth was awesome But myth was this top down Like Myth was Strategy deal That was I loved myth too

Pathways into darkness Thank you Billsia P-O-D or P-I-D. Pathways into darkness. My God, that thing hooked me. Yeah. That was good, wasn't it? It was good.

Oh, my God. Just looking at the... Luke. Luke, Luke says... Okay, Luke. Castle Wolf and Steam was like Half-Life. No, it wasn't. It was nothing like Half-Life.

Yeah. In the fact that it was a game that was two-words, had a two-word title, yes, it was like... Oh, yeah, you're right. If they had two words. Yeah. And Half-Lie, it didn't even have a... dash like HalfLife does. Anyway,

let's get out of here. So there's that. 4 p.m. tomorrow, that'll be a thing. And then today, right after the show, we're going to do a raid

and everything out of the live chat. Yeah. Coverville. So be ready. TLC and the J. Giles band. That's right. Don't go chasing waterfalls.

And what's the other one? Centerfold, freeze frame. Oh, what's the other TLC song? What's? Scrubs. No scrubs. I ain't got no, want no scrubs.

A scrub is a guy. I can't get the car to go or whatever. That's it. That's exactly right. You've absolutely 100% nailed all the lyrics. All right. Well, speaking of music, let's play one on the out here. What are we got?

Sure. Leslie, Logan's mom, wrote in, and she, like me, watched a ton of the Olympics, including the figure skating. She says, an Olympics figure skater from Austria just skated to this cover, and I had to pause watching her routine just to request it. Please play this as soon as you can because it is just excellent. Oh, very nice. I'm gonna. This is by a group called the Rock Orchestra.

Hadn't heard of these guys before, but they've got an entire album of covers like this. And this one, the album is called Classics Volume 1, came out last year. And this one actually happens to feature Hallesine as well. So what a great combo. Nothing else matters. Metallica's song covered by the Rock Orchestra with Hallesine. Couldn't be much more from me. I just knew

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