The Morning Stream - TMS 2984: Big Pastrami

Episode Date: March 30, 2026

Paying in Dong. Big Meat Log. Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Pokemon. Plenty of Boob Tape. These Pescatarians Are Stabbing All The Fish. Then What Was Scott Feeding the Cat?!? Old Wilted Carrot And A Piece Of Gum. You Get NO Murders, NO Teslas & NO LT YAR! I Wanted Waffle House, So I Went to Waffle House For Waffle House. I don't like Greg with two geeeeeeeeeees! Newspaper underwear. The picture of the Cat on the tin means that it contains chunks of Real Cat. A Pointless Kerfuffle. Grunts and Pain. Judy Dench cool and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Then what was Scott feeding the cat? Old wilted carrot and a piece of gum. You get no murders. No, Tesla's and no Lieutenant Yard. I wanted Waffle House, so I went to a Waffle House for Waffle House. I don't like Greg with two G's. Newspaper underwear. The picture on the cat on the tin means that it must contain chunks of real cat.

A pointless kerfuffle. Grunts and pain. Judy Dench Cool. And more on this episode of The Morning Stream. In 1985, Brian Adams released Summer of 69. With that same time frame, if somebody wanted to release a song like that today, it would be called Sumruff 2010. Have a nice day.

I'm hemorrhaging Spondulix here. This is the morning stream with Scott Johnson and Brian Ibbett, big old freaking dirt blanket. Hello everybody and welcome to TMS. This is the morning stream from March 30th, 20th, 26th. 2000. I didn't sound right. I did it. Two thousand.

Welcome to the show, everybody. I'm Scott and that's Brian. Brian, what? Yes. What is up, man? What's up, man? You know, it's the start of another week. This is one of those weird weeks where it ends one month and begins another one, right?

So you've got like that transition period. And, you know, we've always talked about doing something really goofy for April Fool's Day, but we don't want to put anybody through it. No, I feel like the, I have PTSD from that instance episode I did all those years ago. It was so bad. Like it was, I'm not going to say it was all Randy's idea.

But I will say it was pretty much Randy's idea. And it was just a fake episode with a bunch of fake stuff, fake news, fake, you know, show notes, fake everything. And it, the whole time I was doing it, it was just hard for me. Because it felt like just, even though. you feel like you get a free pass, like telling your kids Santa exists, it was like this free pass on a certain day to do a certain thing. I just felt dirty the whole time. Yeah.

And then when it was over, I was like, oh, glad I never do that again. But, you know, people have a good time with it, whatever, see you next week. And then the backlash was brutal. Really? Brutal. People were so angry at us. Because they believed it. And yeah.

Or they were just like, what a waste of time. Exactly. Back in, back in like 2008 or nine, they were like, you know, bandwidth, business. isn't what it is today. So people are like, I downloaded your 67 megabyte file for that. I paid $2.14 to download it from my cell plan for that. Exactly.

They had like crappy, you know, pay per bit setups and all that. So that was a whole thing. One of these years, you know, it wouldn't be as much an April Fool's Day thing because we'd tell people about it. But actually having Kim and Tina, you know,

we'd be here to help them. set everything up and and do the soundboard or whatever, like get, make sure they get queued up and stuff. But it would be fun to, like, let Kim and Tina do an episode. Just have them do, like, an actual show, yeah. Yeah, have them do an actual real show. Yeah, I think that's a great idea. I think we do it on a year where I have less death and less stuff going on. Yes, exactly. Yeah, this is a little weird. Not to mention the fact that Kim's out of town. Oh, yeah, that's a good point.

Do she get back before Wednesday or she gets back? Oh, and actually, it's tomorrow. She gets back late tomorrow. Nice. Yeah. It's, uh, are you, uh,

are you, uh, cleaning X boxes for shoes yet or, uh, newspaper underwear? This close. Like, first day, I enjoy,

I always enjoy my solitude so much that first day. It's like, no one's here to tell me to stop playing World of Warcraft. Nobody's here to tell me to do this or that. Or I don't have any, I just feel less committed. Even though I got a million things going on. It's just like their way.

I have the night to myself. Here we go. And even Alicia was gone. She was with her sisters most of the weekend. So it was like, nobody here but me and the dogs. And that's great. Day one, man, what a good time. World Warcraft morning tonight, corn nuts.

Yeah, it was a good time. Yeah, watch that new Sisu movie or whatever the hell of how you say it. Oh, cool, yeah. Those revenge movies, the sequel. I've seen the first one. That sequel's awesome. Those movies, you got to park your brain pretty hard on them. Yeah.

But for what, they're so great for what they are. They're not sacable because there's. No, we wouldn't be able to pull audio clips for it, basically. The first one is very empty of audio because it's mostly German saying things. Our protagonist never talks. He's a silent protagonist. And he just grunts and is in pain a lot. But in the second one, Stephen Lang's in it.

He plays a Russian, but it's all English when they talk. So it's got English dialogue or kind of across the board, but it's still hardly any dialogue. The whole thing is like stringing action sequences one to another, being more extreme with one to the next and ridiculously gloriously gory for no good reason and things stunts that would never happen in real life if you go into there knowing that just park your brain just a little bit they're they are so much fun those movies okay yeah it reminds me of the uh that triple r movie the bollywood triple r movie that uh yeah like that's a little shorter but uh that's my beef with those yeah like that thing was so long holy crap that was a two night uh event it was a you know

Like they used to have on the network channels when we were kids, a two-night special event, the day after. Yeah, it was crazy. The burning bed. It is nuts, though, how Stephen Lang, I feel like, first time I ever saw him was in Tombstone. He's one of the bad guys. Well, don't work like that round here, la, dog.

That guy. And he always looked 65 even then, and I think he was in his 30s then. And now, and you see him now in, like, things like the Avatar movies. or don't breathe or whatever that was. And then this, he's still just the same. I don't know what happened. He's got, he's eating something weird. It's like the R. Lee-Urmy thing, right?

Where you get to, like you get to a certain age earlier than you should, but you stay at that age. I mean, maybe Dick Clark had this, right? Where, you know, when he was 18, he probably looked 29, and then he just stayed looking 29 until he didn't. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like some of it happens later. Judy Dench is later. Sure. But I just, I see her now and I go, man, that is the coolest lady in the world.

Yeah. And to me, she's always had to look. I didn't know her career when she was young and upcoming and all that, doing plays and being 20. I didn't know any of those times. But whatever this like this M level, the Philomena level, whatever that level of Judy Dench is. Clean. Yeah.

Amazing. Yeah. Actually, that was, what's her name? Well, Helen Marin played the queen also, but... Oh, was she the queen in something? I didn't know that. I want to say Judy Denge played the queen in something. Oh, I mean, I'd watch her eat paste, so...

I love her. She's so freaking great. Queen Elizabeth in... Where is it? It's probably required, right? I think so, yes. If you're like an amazing actress in Britain, you will... Shakespeare in love.

Yeah. A supporting actress. Yeah. Queen, something, not the queen we think of. Queen Elizabeth I first. Right. One with all the powder makeup. Right.

Right. Yes. And yes. And boob tape. Plenty of boob tape. They had a lot of that back then. They had to like tape, you know, women's boots down so they could play men and Shakespeare plays. Sure.

At least Guineathleto. If Guineathleto has to be a living. Oh, she also played Victoria. Okay. Oh, Queen Victoria as well. I mean, look, she honestly, play anything. Even now, she's like almost blind. She does it.

Yeah, she does. She's got macular degeneration, which is a, that's a fairly common thing. As you get older, but they, in her interviews, she's still just as sharp and funny and sweet. She's awesome. Freaking love her. Oh, my gosh. I don't know how I got to her from there, but he's great. Oh, I know.

You know who I saw in something recently was, uh, uh, we're in the process of watching. it might be my recommendal next time but Alan Alda and yeah he's go Parkinson's man it's a bummer it is a bummer he's out living them all though well Jamie Farr is still around

it's all that Gary Berghoff yeah that's all that women dressing what I was gonna say no it was all the what was the food he always wanted to have delivered from Chicago oh clinger he had so they wanted for pastrami or something that's it he always wanted

up at big pastrami log and they all thought he stunk for like two episodes. Yes. That was it. Or salami. Big Perrick says. Yeah. They had a horrible stomach ache and they had to. That's right.

Yes. Yeah. Right. I remember that. It was Toledo. Yeah. It was Toledo Ohio's. Toledo Ohio.

That's right. Yeah. The Chicago one was the ribs for Hawkeye wanted those ribs. Okay. Right. Probably. It's all mixed up. I don't know.

Or was it, yeah, it had to be. It was the river of liver, ocean of fish. Oh. That was it. Yeah. I've had a river, a liver, and an ocean of fish. Cue the audience laugh. That one laugh. That one laugh in there that sounds like Scooby-Doo. Yeah. The one Daryl always complained about. Yeah. We forgot our biannual tradition of playing Daryl's angry at the time change.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I forgot all about it. That's all right. Next time around? We'll catch up with it. We'll get it. But anyway, back to my point, which was what, oh, Carter's up to just nothing but fun. Let me share this. Okay. She says, well, I'll talk to you later. It's just something I was talking to the night. She goes, I'll talk to you later. We're going to go midnight floundering. I'm like, what the hell is this? Look at this. This is her on a freaking boat on the bayou. They're out there just stabbing at fish with these four. Wow, they're like,

okay, that's a spear, huh? Yeah, like a three-pronged. Actually, the other one, you can see a little, no, you can't actually. It's like a three-pronged little spear in front. I can see a tiny little I can see the spire the prongs in front of that one. Apparently that's a way to... There it is. Wow. Yeah, look at that. So they floodlight the, they floodlight the swamp.

They float around on this, this pontoon thing. Yeah. Or it's one of those hovering with the big, the big, the airfoils, yeah. Yeah. And she just is heaven. She's catching frogs. Like, look at some frogs she found. He's cute.

Oh, cute. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, she's, it's like a, she's like a... He's peeing on her right there in the picture, I'm sure. They're always peeing on you. Always peeing. Always be peeing this, what the frog say to each other.

Anyway, they're having a blast and I'm here eating. I'm getting by. Oh, I know what I was going to say. Yeah. The dog, my dog, Rainer, needs a new kind of soft food because she's struggling with the regular food. So what we've been doing is there been this little crate of small soft food cans, pop the top, cut it in half, put it in her thing, mix it with some water, there's her food. The other two just eat their dry food.

No problem, everything's good. Except no one told me that this had changed when they left town and I was no longer to use these canned foods. And so I go outside to get the canned food and I'm like, well, this must be it. And for two days, three days I've been cutting it in half, putting the thing, she eats it all. Yesterday Carter and Alicia talked. Alicia didn't know this either. Nobody told us. In the fridge, there's this big, what looks like a big meat.

eat log and it's full of like bits of it's like the farmers the farmer's dog or something like yeah you've seen this before like the good i've seen the ads for it yeah it's like yeah it's like a it's like a tube like you get um cookies out of like the pillsberry yes just like that fatter bigger yeah and it stinks just stinks really okay like a speaking a clinger and his freaking log of beef really stinks anyway i didn't know this was in there and that that was her new food I've been feeding her cat food from the garage. That was the cat soft food. Really?

And the label? I didn't really look. I just went, well, I'd open it up and say, you know, soft, pure pet food, something, something. Yeah. And my brain just said, that's enough. And I left. And I never looked at. The picture of the cat above the words chicken flavor or real chicken or whatever.

To my very little credit, there is no cat on there. There's no pet image on these things. I'm going to guess that there's very little difference between dog soft food and cat soft food. I think you're probably fine. Unless she needs that special tube stuff for like a diet issue or something. It's mostly that she's kind of allergic. For whatever reason, dry food and her just don't get along. Her hair falls out.

I guess she gets weird. But she hasn't had any adverse reactions. There's been no barfing. There's been no. Mowing. Mowing. She hasn't gone full cat. everything seems to be okay.

Not scratching her claws on the furniture. The cat's looking at me like I did something wrong. Like, what are you doing? That's mine. Yeah, I'm sure. He kind of just keeps to himself. Also, one final thing, I'm very mad at Netflix right now. Yeah, yeah.

Because they raise their prices like two major increases in like six months. Yeah, and I would, when you posted this, when you talked about this, I went and looked at mine. and since April 23rd, 2025, I'm paying $18.61. I'm looking at the last 12 payments I've made. So are you on a different, you're doing a thing where you're doing a second screen or a third screen or something. Yeah. So my daughter is on, we pay the extra 10 or whatever it is, or 8, 799, whatever it is. Yeah.

To get another screen in a different household. Gotcha. It's how they handle that now. it used to be just share your passwords and then they cracked down on it. They used to, they had a post on Twitter forever ago that said sharing, love is sharing one's password or something like that. I remember that, yeah. And then they really backtracked on that. Oh, yeah. Tweet's still up there, but they don't do that anymore. But it's kind of like Google used to have that do no evil motto, but they don't have that motto anymore. Anyway, so,

uh, my, so my bill was like 28 bucks. Jeez. And I went, what am I doing? This is dumb. First of all, it's not that I don't like things that are on Netflix. I certainly do. But not at this rate. Like, it doesn't come out quick enough for me or there are things I don't care enough about for me to, like, be paying 28 bucks and then skipping two weeks of no Netflix use at all just to once in a while get a documentary out of there or, you know, one of our film sack movies shows up there or something like that. And so it just pissed me off. I was like, you guys are just, this is a.

is like greedy and weird because your profits are at all time high. I know you don't need it. Right. So it's not like, oh, we're really struggling. I mean, they're making plenty from stranger things and squid game and stuff like that. They feel like they're doing just fine. Yeah, their earnings reports are through the roof. They're fine. The new BTS thing. Oh, my God. That's going to make them so much money. It comes out this week, documentary about the album. Yeah. So I said, I'm done. And I canceled it. So I canceled Netflix for the month. And you know what? When something good comes on, I'll go, all right,

re-up for a day. I was going to ask you, so they didn't come back with like a, oh, come back to Netflix. How about $6.99 for a month or January? They don't do that. It's best I can tell Netflix, who is the leader in the streaming market? Probably this is why they don't feel the need to do any of that. Basically, they say, now, you've been, you've had an active account with us since 2005, which was also a little bit of a sticker shock. I was like, holy shit. I've been there for a long, I was there before, you know, that's obviously a membership before the disc stopped and the streaming started. Yeah, yeah. And then I'm like 20, you know, 21 years of, of faithful service, whatever. I'd probably be really freaked out if I looked at, all right, do you add up? Because we do

Hulu with, we get a lot of our services through Hulu because we get a discount. HBO, we get through Hulu, Disney, obviously, we don't care about ESPN, but it comes with it. I think Paramount and AMC, we can get through Hulu. I've got Paramount, but I think we just, we just cancel AMC a little bit ago. But waiting for, you know, waiting for the next season of, what you can call it, from, to come back, the horrible name.

Horrible, now, horrible. Now, here's the thing. You've got T-Mobile. I do have T-Mobile. Do they have a Netflix deal? Yes, it's called Netflix on us. And it's as long as you're on the plus or the next, which I know you are because you get the new phones all the time, you get the Netflix standard with ads plan for free,

included in your deal. Oh, the ads one, hey? Well, no, no, I'll let me pay. Well, no, no, I'll tell you, I'll take free. Oh, see if it'll let you pay a little surcharge and get the no ads. Yeah, that way I'll be paying 2009 prices for Netflix, but really getting 2026 levels of no ad service. I doubt it, though.

I bet they don't. Probably not. It probably says, you know, only, only Netflix with that. Like, you can't. I'll do that. I've got no. But I'm getting to the point where I have no particular loyalty or FOMO for any of this shit. Honestly, if they're just all going to keep jacking prices up and make it worse than the cable selection we used to have, well, then, hello, Plex.

How you doing? Right. Priced yourselves right out of legality. Yeah. That annoys me. the um yeah and so we have so many movies on film sack that we can say all right well you know this is a Netflix one we'll wait until until we're all back on Netflix and then uh yeah and even if it's on there and it's new i'll find life finds a way it'll be all right yeah not stressed about it just piss me off

so it's not even about so much the money as it is just like why are you doing this to us yeah like why there is no point to it there's no inflation that affected you directly you're your your Your public profits are public. You're publicly traded. We can see what you did. And you're killing it right now. So why is this why you're killing it? Is that you raise prices every four months?

You, exactly. Get back down under 10 and no ads. How about that? That'll never happen. All right. Guys, it's time for us to have some fun. And if you came here expecting no fun, I got bad news for you.

Sorry. Yep. And with us right now is one, Brian Dunaway. Hello, Brian. No, hi, Scott and Brian. How'd your meeting go? A meeting go okay, everything fine. Have you ever been in a meeting?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's about as good as it can be. Yeah, fine. What was last time you were in a fun meeting? I can't remember, actually. Maybe once in my life there's been a meeting that was maybe fun. Yeah, but then it's called something else.

Then it's called a Friday afternoon club or a... Yeah, or a donut party or... Right, it's a birthday. Exactly. It's Linda's birthday. day in accounting and got her up she take for a lot. I remember we had a guy who we hired to do regular pep meetings at this company. I didn't hire him.

Oh my gosh. Yeah. And so this guy from, he used to work at Covey, the Covey people, the whole seven steps to a better life or whatever hell was. Jason Covey or whatever his name was. I remember his name. Anyway, the famous book guy. He worked for that company.

He would come in and he would do these really fancy talks to us that really none of it stuck. It was all just sort of like we were all just annoyed. And for this, he got a few hundred thousand dollars and a brand new BMW on the company. Lord. I was about to say, I bet he's the worst at home. Can you imagine

pepping all day and then have to go home to people? Oh, yeah, you're just like, it's an easy way to piss off your family. Oh, there's a better way to organize these things. You didn't put you didn't put that we were having pizza on the calendar. Yeah, divorce.

Divorce is what He was a very good basketball player, though. We used to play in the, we had a little makeshift gym in the warehouse, and he was extremely good. Other than that, drove me up a tree. Anyway, Dunaway, you're here. Brian's here. We're all here. Let's play this game.

Brian, but we'll explain how it works. Sure. It's welcome to the morning half asses, a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct. And three, like frequent streaming service hikes, are incorrect. are just flat out wrong. Depending on how confident you feel with the category, you can provide one, two, or three guesses.

But if you get any of those guesses wrong, you get zero points for that round. Zero, nothing. That's it. Just limit. If you get one 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 at the end. And you guys are going to win some prizes for some contestants by proxy. We've pulled contestants from members of the tadpool that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you're playing for Jason Hawthorne. Do I know Jason Hawthorne? I think I know Jason. I think I had beer with Jason Hawthorne. I think he came to a beer fest here in Colorado.

That probably... That aligns with your story. It does. Having a beer with him. Yeah. I had many beers with him, really. Brian, you're playing for Richard Jabikowski. Yeah.

Jacobowski. He sounds like a forward for the Red Wings or something. He does. Totally does. Yeah. Love it. Very good. cool. All right, let's get to the game here. Hopefully I don't have to reload. I do

have to reload. Sometimes the server on this thing. Oh, there we go. Okay. Ready for question number one. This is, we'll start with the proverbial easy one, right? It is proverbed. It is proverbed. Jobs briefly held by

Homer Simpson. Which of these are jobs briefly held by Homer Simpson? Your choices are. Snowplow driver, perfume tester, professional arm wrestler, personal shopper, emu farmer, and fortune cookie rider. Hey. Hey, you've been watching the later seasons.

Hey. Oh, even, I think most of these are. There's a couple obvious ones in, for sure. I'm feeling bold. Let's go. Oh, you're going to feel emboldened? I feel a little boldened. Are you, you feel embigoned?

I feel enlarged. You feel ambigened. I feel engorged. Wait, I shouldn't say that. it's okay but I know what you're talking about yeah yeah even it begins the smallest man that's right there you go that's right

oh is I supposed to lock in yeah you have to lock in oh but just this last one I'm just not sure about it just I want to do this one but then I'm like did I watch one recently that did this one and I'm like I don't know okay

I'm going in okay all right you both obviously settled first on snow plow driver that's the easiest one exactly they even have a lovely theme by linda rodstadt mr plow that's the name that name again that's mr plow mr plow uh fortune cookie writer oh yes in uh in the episode a hunkah hunkah burns in love i knew i should have went with that homer was a fortune cookie writer so absolutely got that one right there uh then you guys split off and you chose two individual ones scott you chose personal shopper brian you were hovering on that one

thought about it thought about uh but then you chose perfume tester mm-hmm i have a vague memory of both of these so i don't know why it feels like i do too but it obviously all of these all of these feel like real ones well happy to say that neither we're correct in those professional arm wrestler in the episode marges sun poisoning is where Homer was meeting us halfway across the sky. And he got really big arms, right? He got like... I think so.

I think that's right, yes. Can we all just take a moment and be grateful that Brian brought in that song and decided to remind us that Sammy Hagar once ruled the airwaves with the one of the worst... That song sucks. Was that Sammy Hagar or was it... Oh, am I thinking of something else? Jim Pateric is who I was thinking it was. but I think I might be wrong.

Oh, you know what? Okay, so Sammy Hagar's in that movie, or has a song in that movie, but it's not that song. You're right. I think that's right. I might be misremembering. I know, oh, Kenny Loggins.

Of course that was Kenny Loggins. Okay. Okay, so I'm not going crazy. I was keeping my mouth shut because I was like, I thought that was Kenny Loggins, but I'm like, who am I to argue with Brian Ibitt? I don't know. Who is Jim Petteric?

Jim Peterick is the, is the dude who wrote all of those pump-up anthems for 80s action films. He was a member of Survivor. He's Leecherner Survivor. So I have the Tiger, but then he also wrote, let's see if I can find a list of songs he wrote. Oh, there's the Hagar song.

Winner takes it all. Sorry, I got it mixed up. Heard takes it all. Not the Ava-Winer takes it all. Weeners take it. Rocking into the night for 38 special hold on loosely caught up in you oh my gosh so does not hold on lucy all right i learned something yeah yes exactly i like that one high on you the search is over oh burning

heart uh for rocky for the burning heart that's yeah he doing the other rockies like the um oh what's what's the i don't know i'm thinking of the the one from one of the karate kids there's well they're they're the same they're like the peterre satire heroin, like the... Oh, no, it's like a... I'm a man who will fight. No, it's more of it. It's more of it.

It's more of it. It's more of it. Yeah, you're the best around. Oh, you're the best around. I sing that all the time. I want to keep you down here. That's not him, is it? I want to say that he wrote it, but I'm looking for it and I'm not finding it.

What an awesome thing to be known for. Yeah. Pump up, like, get ready to beat the bad guy songs. Yeah. That's great. They didn't get paid $100,000 in drive, but what do you say, Lamborghini? What would you? Oh, it was a BMW. Beheamer. Oh, no. There we go. Okay. Let's get question number two before this thing crashes again. We play in games.

We're playing games. Number two is your anise flavored lique. Get your giggling out of the way. Your anise flavored lique, black licorish flavored. No. Okay. You know, the worst flavor on the planet, that flavor. No, it's the best. It is the best. Those are the black jelly beans that I always go for. Hibbid loves that stuff. And I don't know. why I'm so opposed to it. Please do. Have it all. You can have all mine.

You know what? And it's not even because I had that weird stuff from Ireland or from, wherever we got it, Iceland or something. It wasn't that salted stuff that did it. Just as a kid even. I just couldn't. So I did not like the salted stuff at all. That was really bad.

Oh, I, you ever had the fire trucks? The soft Australian fire trucks? No, I don't think I have. They're like super hot. But they're black liquorish flavor. There are. There are black licorice that I've, yeah, they found.

Oof. They were kind of, they were salty and hot, the ones I found anyway. Like, I wonder if the, if, like, I'm guessing that cilantro is almost probably a 50-50 thing, right? Like half people like it. I'll bet you black licorish is probably more like a 20, 80%, 20% like it, 80% hate it. Oh, you think a greater number hate it. Yeah. I think probably, I mean, most people I ever talk to don't like it.

but I have plenty of friends like you too who like it. So I don't know what's going on with that. Just not a taste I can do. Well, let's go to the course because I know Scott drinks so many of these that we'll see how he does with them. I'm very drinking.

Your choices are Laca, crucival, pastis, herb saint, rumplemins, and passionera. Pachione-0 idea of any of this. Me too. I'm doing two. They sound like they might take. taste bad, so I'll do those.

Brian is, I like watching, I like watching Brian's process. There's a lot of clicking and dots that appear and then disappear and then appear. I like that. That's a dangerous thing in case he hits that enter button too soon or something. That's right. Oh, I've done it before too.

Yeah. Let's see. I probably pronouncing it wrong, so it's probably Pastee. Let's start with Pastee, bottom left there. That is a French liqueur. that tastes like anus. I mean anus. Anus.

I picked it because I know Stephen Pastus and so I thought, all right. Good enough reason for me. You know, I wait until you hear the reason why I picked the other one. What's this? Who's Stephen past us? I don't know who that is. I know Stephen Pastus? Come on.

You know who that is? Do you know who it is, Brian? I don't. The name sounds familiar, but I don't know who it is. No idea. Past this. I'm going to put you, I'll send you a link. Okay. He's an American cartoonist, former lawyer,

creator of the comic strip, Pearls Before Swine. Oh, Pearls Before Swine, of course. I love that one. He's always when I read the newspaper. That guy's a baseball. He never doesn't wear a baseball hat, always on. Really? Yeah, that's cool.

He up to kick off Comis Coast to Coast years ago. He was working, I think, is a lawyer for a while for the Shells Museum, and then Charles, and then, yeah, nice guy. Yeah, Sholes? Cool. Sholes Museum. Yeah, that's fine. It's all good.

There's no tea in there. The well actually on the pronunciation, TRPW, pastis is how it's pronounced. I thought since it's French, you just don't pronounce the last syllable and just trail off like you've lost interest in the word halfway.

It's like pasties, like the food. Like the thing you get at the Cornish pasty. Oh, that stuff is so good. So good. Ain't going to find that in so well. You probably will. I probably would if I looked.

Instead, I'm digging through the fridge for like, An old wilted carrot and a piece of gum. Anyway. Yeah. All right. Did I pick Rumpelmins? You did pick Rumpelmins.

Shall we get to that, Brian? Yeah. I guess so since I, I guess I must have. Rumpel Mins. Yeah. Do you want to guess it where flavor Rumpelmins is? I didn't mean to click that one.

It's Mends flavored. It's a, it's German peppermint flavored. So, uh, your, your pasties is, uh,

revoked. You got one right, one wrong, Brian. Oh, Scott had two more, different ones. He had Laca and Khrushkaval. Yeah.

Laka sounds like one. Laca comes from Finland. Khrushkaval comes from Bosnia. And they taste like cloudberry and pear. Shit. Thank it. I thought I clicked on Herb Saint. Herb Saint.

Herb Saint. Herb Saint would have given it to USA. It's the USA's anise-flavored liqueur. Pessonera is from Italy. And it tastes like passionera. So answer your question, Scott. Yes, sometimes I do mess up like clicking on too many of them. Yeah, I do that.

I get it. That's why I got to try not to. But sometimes I'll pre-click. So, oh, so Brian, you think you might have clicked like you clicked on that one? I thought I clicked on herb saint. Yeah, yeah, because I didn't know. I never saw that one light up. Yeah.

You say herb saint was a U.S. deal? Yeah, it's the U.S. flavored lique liqueur. Okay. So if I went to a bar and I just said I'd like an herb saint, they'd know what I meant, right? Yeah, sure.

And I wonder, boy, would you want it, though? No. No, I would not. I think you'd probably more like some Laca from Finland because it tastes like cloudberries or Khrushkovol, Bosnian pear. Yeah, either of those sound good, although I don't know what a cloudberry is, but.

I has been to say, I don't like the sound is cloudberry. It sounds like something that would. It's what that dude with the fishing pole hucks down at Mario when he goes back and forth. And I think, by the way, I think his name is close to Lodbyry is. Laca is the name. Oh, I think it is. It's probably, yeah.

What is that guy's name? That's funny. Yeah. Eric, what is it? Lika. Lika? Lika.

It's like, Lika. No, that's the animation studio. Hold on. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, Yanna,

I would love to try some Laka. You can find someone to smuggle it. Luck to, says Kelly. Luck to. Luckettu. Or Luckettu. L-U-K-I-T-U.

There he is. Yep. And Super Mario Kart, he starts the race. That's funny. So he's throwing down your cloudberries is what he's doing. Weird. I don't like it. Sounds like he's shitting on me.

I'll take it. All right. Well, going into round three with zero points. So let that sink in. Let's go to number three. Number three is currency. Which countries use the dollar as their official currency? Six answers three of them use the dollars.

Their official currency. Your choices are. Not U.S. dollars necessarily. They just call it a dollar. Just the dollar. Canada, Zimbabwe, Cyprus, Afghanistan, Singapore, and Hungary. Three of those use a currency called a dollar. Man, we're dumb today.

I've already locked in. Okay. I mean, you take whatever time you need. There you go. All right. You guys each locked in. Let's start with Scott and one that I'm a. as Brian didn't choose.

Canada. Yep. Canada. Canadian dollars. Canadian dollar. You've heard of it, Brian, I think. Yeah. Yeah, they do Canadian dollars up there, Brian.

He's lost Brian. He's not talking now. Yeah. He's there. He doesn't want to talk to anybody. Brian shows Singapore. Singapore also uses the dollar. You guys each get a point.

Holy shit. The other one was Zimbabwe. Cyprus. is of course the euro afghanistan uses the afghani and hungarians use the forint the forint the who is it that has the dong is that vietnam think vietnam i think is the don't oh i want to go there and pay a bunch of dong for stuff you know oh my god how much is this that's 14 dong 14 dong yeah i like a dong dong dong all right uh let's so we got to go to a tiebreaker let's go to a tiebreaker What poor performance today, but I know.

So bad. Exactly. Scott, you punched in Canada before Brian punched in Singapore. So I'm going to give you the option to choose whether you want to answer the question or go higher or low. I'll do higher low. All right. Brian, your question is, on average, how many spots does an adult cheetah have? Oh, wow.

How many spots on average does an adult cheetah have? over its body. All over his body. Yes. What did you call them again? What was the word you used? Cheetah, no, no, no. Spots.

Spots. Are they spots? Which work did you have problems with? Aren't they more like circles? They're like blotches. They got like open, aren't they open in some spots? Like rings, toruses, rings, donuts. Oh, that's not a dot.

Don't use torus enough. I like that term. Taurus. It's more of pretty. Okay. Average, on average. on average how many of those circular spots thank you when cheetahs are not cheating and i'm watching and i'm trying to go through the lion king movie right now i'm counting was there a cheetah in the lion king i don't remember early on early on it's on the it's on the it's on the plane

there's a plane i'm going to say on average yeah grassy plane oh i thought you went in an airplane shit Sorry. How am I losing to you? You said on the plane. On the plane, it just said airplane to me. Like, there was an airplane. Did they do something in the remake? I don't remember.

Anyway. Right. The average is 36 because they have so many of those on their back legs. Okay. They get almost indistinguishable. 36? 36. Higher.

36 is incorrect. Scott's going to go higher. Yeah, 2000 on average. Good. Now, you're thinking of leopards that have the rings. Let's put a little handy. Why would that have changed your answer? I would have realized that was an idiot, and I would have tried harder.

Is that how that would have worked? Here's a diagram showing the spots between Cheetah's leopards and Jaguars. Let me pull this up here. Juggie Wall. Oh, it's very small, but I think it is very small. I know. There you go. Gets the idea done.

Oh, okay, interesting. Cheetahs is really our spot. In my head, the jaguar and leopard were closer to what I thought. That's what I was thinking too. I'm an idiot. Yeah, cheetahs have solid black spots while a leopards are ringed is my bonus bit of information on the card. Nice. The card says moops.

Why is the leopard showing us this butt? They always do, you kidding? It's their favorite part. It's the anus flavor or anus. That's right. That's where the rumplements comes in. Well, that's That's awesome. That means I won barely by a hair.

One barely, which means Jason Hawthorne. You are less stupid today. Get surprises. That's right. You're going to get a copy of Grappin and Arrow. Courtesy, oh, who's our benefactor right now? It is Stephen Costner. Is it Grappin or Grapplin?

Do you know? I don't see an L in there, so I think it's Grappin. Grapin's name. Unless he copied and pasted it in and correctly. Oh, it is actually Grappin. You're right. There's a game called grappling, which is a whole different game. I don't know what this is, but it looks good. Okay. There you go. And Arrow, A-A-E-R-O.

But don't worry, Richard Jacobowski. You're going to get a copy of The Darkest Tales, also courtesy of Stephen Costner. Very, very cool. Like that cheetah. Yeah, like the cheetah. That's right. Never cheetah at your testa. All right. Hey, Brian done away. You are going to go away right now. But don't worry. Tomorrow night, he and I'll do a watch retro episode. going to be very packed and we're going to we're going to decompress with an evening watch of some old cartoon shit that's going to be great yeah I can't wait that's watch retro what you think about that one I sent you do you remember that remember that I don't remember that one at all I'm all in though what did you call see it was called um here it is called 8th man for

1965 8th man yeah the 8th man I don't have any reference to this so I'm excited to see it I love the weird stuff and we get into you know what's old on the the retro shows so check out watch retro tomorrow night at 4 p.m. Mountain right here at frogpants.tv. Tudin. Brian Dunaway. No you. Kiss our butts. We haven't had a know you in a while, so it was nice. No you. No you. It's true. Also, I wanted to just give a quick shout out to everybody who sends us game codes. We don't do it often enough. We give you credit when we give them away. But just added a bunch from Keith Hicks. Just wanted to thank Keith Hicks for this big list of brand new codes and a whole bunch of

of you. I don't know if we've given anyone else enough like Stephen Costner we just gave away to from him. Right. Wesley is always very generous. Sun Bun. Yeah. We got who else we got on here? Eric Von Owey. Anyway, you guys are awesome. And if you are somebody out there that subscribes to either, you know, some service that gives you a bunch of codes because you do a humble bundle or something like that. And you're just like, I'm never going to play these 20 codes. We will find homes for them. And I'm hearing more often than not that these codes are starting. to be have expiration dates and we already see some of them we've seen where they're really they have expiration dates and so well we're going to redeem them right away you don't have to download them right away right away right redeem them right away oh but we got to be careful about the ones we give away that yeah exactly my assumption is the ones we have are all fine but in case they're

we have enough that if one of those happens we always has send you a new code like we'll we figure out a way to do it but but if you've got codes that you need to redeem from the the links first and then you have your codes that don't expire, just do that before he send them to us. Because A, we don't have your account. B, it'll help with the expiration dates. Anyway, just a giant thanks to everybody out there for that. It's super nice when you send us those things. Guys, no, Stephen today. He's got something at school, some kind of deal. He's a professor, remember? That's right. Professor Stephen. Yeah. So he's got things he's got to do, but instead we're going to do a little bit of the news. And it's brought to you by

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That's amazing. It's great. Extra lettuce. Extra lettuce.com is fan freakingtastic. Well done. Let's get to this story. There's an amputee cornhole player. Wow.

Okay. Yeah, he was made famous for the cornhole competition because as an amputee, it's like, wow, well done. You're doing this. I want to know how he flings the bags. Yeah, it's fun to watch, actually. Well, now he's accused of murder. Oh, well, murder.

I guess we're not going to find out how he flings the bags because he's a madder. He's a murderer. Perhaps it's all, you know, we're in the accusatory phase. But professional cornhole player with no arms and legs has been accused of murder in La Plata. La Plata? I'm sure that says. Yeah. Is that Florida?

I'm taking a look. D.C. maybe. Oh, Virginia. Yeah, there we go. I think. Charlottesville, Virginia, I believe. There we go. Charlottesville.

Dayton, James Weber, 27 of La Plata. Maryland. Oh, it's Maryland. Okay. They're all neighbors up there, you know. Just all bumping into each other. You can see the airport from every window. It's a small part of it.

Pretty much. Yeah, exactly. I love that in Columbus. It was just so everything was just right there. Yeah. No mountains, though. I didn't like that. Yeah, I'd miss mountains.

Yeah, I don't think I can do it. Anyway, let's see. of wall sorry he is now being accused of shooting this person named bradrick michael wells of waldorf uh during a argument uh police say weber was in his tesla SUV when he shot wells in the passenger seat uh he then pulled over and asked two back uh backseat passengers to help pull wells out of the car they refused and got out of the car before calling the police so some people are going wait a minute how does a guy with no arms and no legs shoot a guy let me tell you something yeah how does a guy with no arms and no legs.

Play effectively, professionally at Cornhole. And drive around their Tesla. Exactly. Yeah. I think he sounds capable to me. Yeah. I mean, you know, special equipment and stuff. The driving thing is impressive.

Because I didn't know they had things that could let amputees control a car. Gas and brake and all that stuff, right? Yeah. As far as I know, you'd have to do a custom kit on that. maybe, I don't know, maybe. Because he is a quadruple amputee in case people are wondering if he's, yeah, if he's just a single amputee or something like that. He, uh, he's in big trouble though, so.

He is. Uh, good luck to him. I wonder if this video shows him playing cornhole. I think I saw a video on this page when I first pulled this up. Oh, they show, well, they show him holding how he shoots. How he holds a gun. Oh, geez, really. Yeah.

Let's see. Oh, here we go. There's how he throw. Okay, so. Now, to a bizarre story. Out of Charles. Mute. All right.

Yeah, there he is doing the corn. Just high five somebody. I mean, this is like a rad thing. Yeah. Why'd you go blow it by doing the murder? Exactly. He blew a good thing. You had the cornhole.

Oh, there he is, cornholing. Oh, that's the same videos before. Yeah. Cornhole. Cornhole. There you go. That's how he does it. Still a threat.

Uh. A great national threat, cornhole. Cornhole. I like a good game of cornhole, but it kind of needs to be after I eat something, and it has to be a nice, lightly warm day. For sure. It needs to be somebody's backyard.

It needs to be a friendly, friendly game. Yeah. No shooting. No murder. No murder shooting. No Tesla's. No of that. All right, check this out.

I love this story. This isn't political. So everybody calm down. It just happens to deal with somebody who works for the government. Yes, it does. So the chief of FEMA, the America's chief disaster relief agency, claims he teleported to a waffle house. I'm really, that's great to know the guy in charge of taking care of your earthquake.

He's teleporting like brundle fly. Fantastic. His quote is here in the headline is, You just go with the ride. So he's also Matt Jimmy Tone. Awesome. Yeah. FEMA lead Greg Phillips,

whose claims about voter fraud caught the current president's attention on Twitter in 2017, which probably is what got him hired. Anyway, Diethel has experienced teleporting to a Waffle House in a recent podcast conversation.

Teleporting is no fun, he says, in an appearance. In one appearance, he says, you know what's happening, but you can't do anything about it. So you just go, you go with the ride, and wow. what just an incredible adventure it all was.

I think you're doing drugs is what you're doing. I think so too. I think you took some LSD and gotten an Uber is probably the deal. And they dropped you off at a Waffle House. Former Montgomery, Alabama resident who has worked in conservative politics. Phillips in December was appointed to lead FEMA's office for response and recovery. He claimed his car was lifted up. Oh, so interesting.

Okay. So his whole vehicle was teleported. It was right up. He says while he was driving and transported 40 miles away into a ditch near a church there at the Waffle House in a 20, in a 20th episode of a podcast. Phillips later said in the episode. They also teleported five empty bottles of Jack Daniels in there too. I was going to say, teleboarded a lot of weed. Yeah, right. He later said in the episode he was teleported 50 miles away to the Waffle House in Rome, Georgia.

I was with my boys one time and I was telling them to go to a Waffle House and get Waffle House. says and I ended up at the Waffle House. Dude. Why is he in any position of anything? I know exactly. How does someone maintain their job when something like this gets out

to teleported? With his car into a ditch by church near a Waffle House. I hate it. I just hate stuff like this. That's right. He says these things out loud. Yeah. That should be tantamount as to reasons to go,

maybe maybe not up for this. If this is the alternative, sir, I'll take the swab. This just tells me that those jobs, like the FBI leadership job and all that from what we've seen lately, it doesn't seem like they actually do shit. They just have a bunch of really smart agents out in the field doing smart agent stuff. And then they just have to be the tip of the spear talking guy. And that's it. That's it.

That's all of it. Yeah. Right. That's been a fun revelation about how those particular jobs work. And this teleporter guy is no different. I would have before this said, oh, the guy in charge of, of emergency response? Yeah, that's a big deal.

Make sure people have water when there's disasters, natural disasters and things. Make sure they're safe. Yeah. Now he's telling them, just teleport, just teleport to nearest Waffle House. We'll pick you up there. Yeah, carve up, and we'll meet you after. Yeah. I don't trust Greg's with two Gs.

That's the problem here. Just kidding. I know we have a few. What about Clark Greg? Come on. I do like him. Everybody loves Agent Colson. I do like him. And there's a couple of Gregs in our community that have two G's. They're nice.

Yeah. But this Greg Phillips? No, I don't trust this one. Nope. I hope no one needs FEMA in the next however long. Is he a two, is he a three P's in Phillips too?

No, he's a two Pee in Phillips, but he's got what looks like many eyes, even though there's just the two. It's just a couple of L's. Yeah, if you do it in all caps, he looks like, feeps.

Just multiple elongated eyes. Right. English. What are you going to do? Let's go to this story about a jury. It awarded a $14 million sum of money to a woman who ate ice cream with nails and metal fragments. Oh, God. Yeah.

I mean, I don't want to go through whatever she went through. No. But that $14 million is going to be nice for a while. Sure. It says she consumed ice cream with a nail and metal fragment in it, according to her attorney. Court documents allege Brandy Buckley purchased the ice cream from a brusters or Brewsters, I guess. Maybe, yeah. Yeah, I'd say Brewster's probably.

That you's got to be. Ooh. Yeah, yeah. Ice cream in Palm Bay in 2018. Buckley told her sister, sorry, told Sister Station Wesh, which is WESH. I thought it was a person's name for a minute. Hey, Wish.

She left the ice cream shop with her son. She wanted some of the butter pecan. I got the light scoop. Some of the ice cream out. I noticed there was a metal nail in there in the cone, almost embedded in the cone. It looked like the cone. cone and she took a big bite.

When I did swallow, I did fill my throat that kind of, something got stuck in my throat. I thought it was a pecan. Oh, my lord, dude. She went to the hospital, did an x-ray, just to be clear. She ended up passing it, I guess. Oh, God, that's even, that's just as bad. Like, imagining a nail going through your system.

Yeah, it says, you know. Significant internal bleeding. It says something called portal vein thrombosis. Dr. Tolbert, wouldn't know what that is. Portal vein. that's the one is that the blue portal it's the orange portal oh all right

is it we got with it is it two or one anyway and then it resulted another thing I like butter pecan it bums me out yeah it buns me out too inspect your things also you're 14 million dollars out like if this is a small chain I don't know how big brusters is or brewsters

it's probably this is probably it for brusters yeah they may never even see this money because this will just wipe you out Yeah. Just, you know, I don't know. Don't let teenagers run the cone thing or whatever. Right. Right.

That's it for the news. And we got one more thing I wanted to do, which is to read this text slash email. This is about the jugs of pee. Wrong thing. Dear Scar and Bandolier, I think it might be a huge problem at this morning show is my one and only solace from the rest of the world. Thoughts, says Spangler. Thoughts? I like the, just the end of that.

Spangler, I really, I'd love, very nice of him to say, but. Absolutely, yes. Yeah, I don't know how to answer this. Whatever, as long as you've got solace, that's all we can ask for, whether you get it from us or whether you get it from, you know, healthy use of THC or touch and grass. However you get your solace, we're just glad that you're getting it. And if we're the source of it, that's great.

I'm sad that we're the only source of it. Yeah. I wish you had more. That's the answer. I wish he had more sources. Yes. I wish we all had more sources of solace. Exactly. I've got two or three. It's mostly family and shows. Yeah. And then it's hard.

And then it's my entire world of Pokemon living together in perfect harmony, pooping out logs and turning it into lumber. Oh, man. I won't tell you today, but I have a whole story that that Pokedopia thing took me on. Pocopia. Oh, did you, I knew you're talking about getting it after. So, all right, I'll tell you, I'll tell you what I did. It's so dumb. Yeah. So you've been tempting me. Other people are like, you should get it, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, I'm kind of, this feels like a scratch is itch right now, too. Plus, you're all in the World of Warcraft stuff.

Yeah, but I've been busy, but it's also a specific kind of itch, and it's a thing I can take to the couch or the bed with me or whatever. So it seemed like a good idea. But I've also just been balking at the 70 bucks. It's just like, my gosh, that's expensive game. So what I did is the developers, Coe-Techmo, who made that game, along with Nintendo and GameFreek, but it's mostly Coe-Techmo to develop Pokedopia, or Pocopia.

Pocopia. They, prior to this, made Dragon Quest Builders 1 and 2, and they're very similar games. They're set in the Dragon Quest universe, but it's like lots of building and reconstructing and farming. And basically the same kind of thing. You get the dragons to help you build stuff and farm for you and things like that. Very similar.

Little town people come and do things. It's all kind of in universe, but similar scratch is being itched. And then I noticed that day on the Steam sale, which I could easily, these games work great on Steam Deck. This thing was like the whole bundle of the two games. It was like $24. And I already owned the first one. So it was even less. normally it's a $60 product that was down to like I don't know I think in the end I paid like 14

or something total after the bundle split and I went well how can I justify not doing it's a game I'm always meant to play I haven't played thing yeah it's made by the same people yeah and if I've got an itch and I need some scratching sure that'll work for me and then I'll come back around and get this eventually but and not that it'll ever go on sale because what does with Nintendo yeah exactly But that's how I dealt with that scratch. That's a good, you know what? You found a good alternative. Yeah, I found the cream at Walmart that does the same thing that the expensive cream

wherever else does. You know what I mean? At least that's what I'm telling myself. But I think I will eventually get it just right now seems crazy. So I just think of it. Yeah. No, you've got, again, you've got that, you've got your Stardue Valley-like covered. Yeah.

And I'm having a blast with it. It's very good. In fact, when people are done with Pokopia, I would actually recommend going and finding this on sale and playing it. Same makers, same developers. Coe Tecmo is such interesting thing because I always think of them as like Tecmo Bowl. Technmo Bull is, yeah.

Okay, so that is the same. It's the same techmo. From all those years earlier and Coe were that half, they used to do like, oh gosh, I can't even think of the games. All kinds of old, like a really old arcade, Genesis, like really old stuff. and to see that they're still like making modern games. It's crazy. All right.

Oh, and then finally, this is just a nice email. An anonymous texter, actually, this is a text. Says, Hey, Scooter and Braun, about 11 years ago. I was a law student or law school intern and I discovered current geek. I would walk the San Antonio Riverwalk on my lunch breaks at the library, local district, sorry, I almost said library. At the local district attorney's office and listened to the show. That was my first time discovering people that had similar. interest as I or similar interests as me now I listen to the TMS every day walking around San Antonio

Antonio River at lunch still uh anyway all this to say thank you for the decades of entertainment well thanks oh very cool happy to do it yeah glad to have you out there man and also inch ever closer to that amazing 3 000 number when we're 16 episodes away 15 episodes away insane i know it's insane that we're there and that's going to go quick because we do the show every day yeah yeah um i'm going to guess by the by the end of april we hit 3,000. Yeah, sounds about right, about a month or maybe a little more. I want to say this to this anonymous person.

Are you now practicing law, lawyer? Oh, yeah, yeah. And if so, email me because I have a question. I have a law question. How do I find an ice cream shop with nails? Yeah. What's my quickest weight of 14 million? 14 million sounds pretty good for eating a nail.

It doesn't actually. No, it sounds awful. but I do have a question for him that's completely boring and won't waste airtime on it. There is a post-show matchup today right after the song. It's a classic called, it's one of the Firesire stories called Parking Lot Tacos. If you've never heard the original parking lot five taco ordeal, now's your chance. Is it five or six? I thought it was six.

No, it's five? Five, I believe. I mean, you experienced it. You did it, so you know, you'd know the number. There may have been five soft tacos and one hard taco. So there may have been six tacos total. Nice. And by the way, I know I had Taco Bell yesterday.

Did you? Let me just say something about Taco Bell. Yeah. Their standards were wrapping shit up and having it look even in the same planet that was what the photo showed. They're so far off the mark now. Not even, yeah. I don't know what to say to these people.

I don't know how to, how do you fix that? Like every franchise I go to is that bad. Yeah. And it's just thrown together. And the wrapping's barely on it. And it doesn't instill any kind of confidence. Unless I'm in St. George at that one location, they do amazing there. But every other Taco Bell I go to, just shit these days.

And it bums me out because I like that food. Yeah. Once in a while, you got to have it. We have a good one here by us. They're, you know, when you order a soft taco, they wrap it up. And all of the filling is in the soft taco. The burrito. usually, you know, sometimes you get that occasional bean burrito that's got a little

coming out on one side of it. But no, they're pretty good about rolling on the opposite. Oh, man, you're lucky. I wish I'd love to do it better. Yeah. And also they used to have really cheaper, they had way cheaper delivery value options. Like you could get tacos for a buck 80, not recently, I mean, like just stack them up and do a big pile of stuff for less than a normal meal and have plenty of food, share it with

others, whatever. They took all that down now. Now it's like, like they used to have nachos. now they have a little bowl of goo and a little tiny bag of nachos. Oh, right. It's the little plastic ramekin teeny tiny, yeah. And they charge

more for it. Like, I don't know what they're doing. I mean, obviously everybody's got to do it. Shrinkflation, Scott, it's shrinkflation. Tariffs. They're paying tariffs. I don't like any of it. Tariffs on all that fake meat they put in there. Yeah, exactly. Yes, all that imported fake meat. Gross. But anyway, parking lot tacos, the big story

coming after the song today. dot com for all your other needs including quicktms.l.l. Which tracks all the music we play, which we're about to do again right now. Brian, what is it? Yeah, it's a birthday request going out to Warped Forge, aka Jeffrey Milton, aka a dude what I hung out with

at Decadence over New Year's Eve this last year. Cool guy, he also didn't tell me how old he's turning. He didn't say what is his birthday ages. But that's all right. He just wanted to hear something spacey.

He wanted to hear this cover of Walking on the Moon. It is by Ruel. It is fantastic. It's a single that they released in 2022. Covering the police, here is Ruel. For more great mashups, visit patreon.com slash mashup guild. Once again, pull up a chair as Scott and Brian share a story by the fire. What will they talk about today?

All right, an update on my shame. I have some shame. I ate six tacos in a parking lot yesterday. The visual, like, oh, no, I can't take these home. I don't want to be seen inside the restaurant eating these six tacos. Right. I'm just going to eat them in my car in the parking lot. Right, and it was Taco Bell tacos. So I went to Taco Bell and I thought I was going to go light. I'm like, I'll get like a steak taco, soft taco or something, and like a water bottle and their little thing of fruit, you know. Instead, I pulled up and I literally said, Can I have a steak, soft taco, and five regular soft tacos? Do you want to drink with that?

Large Mountain Dew. She says, okay, I go up to the thing. I pay her ten unholy American dollars. And then I go park in front of a relatively, not abandoned, but nobody goes there, office mix. Okay. And I parked in that parking lot, and I proceeded to violently wolf down five tacos and a steak taco while I sat there in my car.

It was like a guilt binge. Yeah, while I listened to bluegrass on my stereo. That's how pathetic this was. It's like a Joel and Ethan Cohen scene. Yeah, like a Wes Anderson trailer or something. Right, right. I don't know what, and as I sat

there, I'm like just loathing my time on earth. I'm just going, what am I doing here? I'm in a parking lot because I don't want to drive and eat the taco. Somehow that seems unsafe. Because it is. And, you know, I'm getting stuff all over me and I got, oh, this is the best part. I open up a packet, like, the

hot sauce packet. Oh, yeah, yeah. And I thought I'd give it, you know, an appreciable opening. Grab it, and I lean it over my talk, and I squeeze, and nothing's coming out. I squeeze a little harder, and it sort of just oozes a little bit. Like, well, this sucks, and I don't want to, for some reason in my head, I'm thinking, it's too much work to open

it anymore. So I'm going to squeeze it harder. Oh, yeah. Really squeeze it. It's out a different angle, does. Yeah, does that, and just spatters all over the window next to me. And I'm like, I'm like, oh, well. Then I squeeze what's left of it in the taco and just eat it. Oh, my God, I'm just visualizing William Macy.

I'm just visualizing, you know, a Joel and Ethan Cohen movie with... I was just so disappointed. I was so disappointed, Brian. So I'm just embarrassed by all this, and I wanted the folks to know. Thus ends my confessional. You know, now you're supposed to say I'm forgiven of all my sins. Seven Hail Mary's, 11 rosaries, 10 lords of leaping, and... and uh...

I think that's not one of them I could be wrong but I don't think that's one right thanks for listening the Frogpants Network lives at Frogpants.com I did see the Picard