The Morning Stream - TMS 2990: Incertception

Episode Date: April 9, 2026

Even in Milk it stays Hard. Brief Window of Sanity. Getting My Head Around Hard and Soft Enamel. Don't Change Your Hole. Nobody is bummed about the lack of finger checks. The great Kit KAT Caper. I see Poland, I see France, I've got Kit Kats in my pants. We Just Want To See You, Sweaty and Naked. All in All it's just another 8-Track in the Wall. It's So Crazy My Cars Are Electric. Saving The Lube. A Pity Peabo. Isn't there a tree called Chocatetry something. Dost thou Dust. Touching Emotions with Wendi and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sure, South Park is great, but nobody ever talks about North Park. Anyway, sign up to the morning stream Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS today. Coming up on the morning stream, even in milk, it stays hard. Brief window of sanity. Getting my head around hard and soft enamel. Don't change your hole. Nobody's bummed about the lack of finger checks. The great Kit Kat Kaper.

I see Poland, I see France. I've got Kit Katz in my pants. We just want to see you, sweaty and naked. All in all, it's just another eight track in the wall. It's so crazy, my cars are electric. Saving the lube. A pity peebo. Isn't there a tree called chocolate tree something?

Dust thou dust? Touching emotions with Wendy and more on this episode of the morning stream. Every single day stress comes in every way and got no time for nobody. Professor, you're a reasonable man. Let me... Kirk here. The morning stream. This little piggy's going to market.

Hello, and welcome to PMS. You're once a month's show where we're very angry. Yeah, we're going from daily to monthly. We're going to visit you like your aunt flow. Isn't that the whole joke? Exactly. Sorry, ladies. Hey, welcome to TMS is actually what it is, the morning stream.

For Thursday, April 9th, 2026, I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Ibbott. Hello. Hello. I'm back from a very uneventful physical yesterday. You know who we talked about it for a second about how the doctors don't do the finger thing for the prostate check anymore. Yeah. But.

And we talk about how that to us is a benefit. It's like, sweet, I don't have to be invaded every time I go in there to get checkup or whatever. But think about how great this must be for the doctor. doctors themselves. They don't want to be doing that. I think they're very happy about this change as well. Yeah. I think they can't be, they can't be bummed about that. Bumbed. See, it's hard not to keep finding puns and stuff in here. But they said, look at it this way. They don't have to do the actual act, which is don't

fun for nobody, even though they're professionals, and I understand that. Right. But also they save a pair of gloves, right? For another time. Sure. Less, less lube that they have to keep in stock at the office there. Yeah. Stick that in your day. desk, keep it for a rainy day, whatever they got to do with your loop. I'm sure you'll need it for other things. Use it then. Yeah, use it sparingly, but wisely.

Exactly. Exactly. Well, I'm glad it went well, and hopefully every time we go to the doctor, it goes well. Yes. That's all you can really hope for. That's all you can hope for. And it's like, yeah, you know, we talked about my apnea. And he's like, yeah, you know, how's that going? Like, well, I haven't trouble sleeping.

I don't know if it's the apnea. I don't know if it's this. I don't know if it's that. But we're going to try a couple things. work on some solutions there. Some solutions. Tired of waking up at 4 o'clock in the morning and not being able to get back to sleep. I do the wendy thing.

I leave the room because the bed's only for sleep and sex. That's right. You're in the other room, but I'm not reading books. I'm watching Mad Men, which is a problem. Probably a blue light problem, right? Or whatever, maybe possibly. Yeah. Yeah, most definitely.

I think sometimes they make too much of the whole blue light, oh no, you'll never sleep again. I think there's maybe a little hyperbole around that, but there is something to it. Because when I use my, I'll use my, my cobo, which is e-ink for reading a book, if I do that, I nod off to sleep real well. If I read out of a tablet or a phone, same book, but it's a device, even with like night glow on. It's a device. Yeah. It's way harder to go to sleep. I don't, I don't get drowsy reading it. Well, there you go. I mean, that's the, there's the litmus test right there. It's the same, same content, two different ways. And it's that second way that's, or first way that's doing better

for you with the e. Yeah. I'm going to keep that up. I like doing that. I just finished a great book, by the way, called, uh, oh,

shite. Oh, the fourth monkey. It's about the serial killer. It sounds dark, but it's actually kind of heroic. The whole thing's really good. Uh-huh.

By J.D. not Vance. J. Baker, something like that. Okay. Anyway, I should know that.

But, uh, and this isn't read this, so it's not really a great place to recommend books. It was a heck of a read. I really enjoyed it. So if you like fast-paced, thrillery, great characters,

great twists. And there's a sequel book. I'll probably start as well because it ends on a bit of a cliffhanger. I quite like it. The fourth monkey. Check it out. I have,

there's a penjellet book that I need to read that is next on my nightstand. I've decided to forego my current unfinished read-through of Dungeon Crawler Carl the book and move on to Dungeon Crawler Carl the audiobook

which I'm listening to. It's basically my motivation for cycling because I only allow myself to listen to the audio book while I'm on the bike. Great one to do it too. It's fantastic. I mean, no achievement. Just the, you know, the the dude who does the audiobook is just fantastic. Yeah, it's really good. Isn't it the author

Are my wrong on that? Amy probably yell at me for that. I don't think it's the author. Not the author? Okay. I thought it was for some reason. Yeah. Which I... Jeff Hayes. There we go. Oh, yeah, it's not him at all. That's not even close to the author's name.

But I mean, the different voices that he does for Princess Donut and, uh, um, the achievement voice and Mordeca, you know, Mordeca is this, this grizzled old dude. And then, yeah, he's great. He really does it well. It's really, really good, yeah. Yeah. Excited about the series treatment. they're giving it for, I don't know if Peacock's the place I'd like it, but whatever, that's where it's going.

And it's McFarland and somebody else are producing it. Seth McFarland's producing, but I don't think he's in it. He's producing it, I think. And do we know yet animated or live action? Live action. Live action, okay. Yeah, for now. I mean, I think they've been real small on details, but I'm pretty sure I've live action.

Cool. Anyway, that'll be good. Hey, guys. I hope you're all doing well. Just a reminder that the hotel room. and the tickets to Nerdtacular are still there for you if you're on the fence. All right. Now that we've

had a quote unquote ceasefire in Iran and some of that oil is moving better. Fuel prices seem to be dropping a little bit in the interim. So now might be the time to go hey Delta, I need tickets to get on the plane. Locking those

prices during this brief window of sanity. Exactly. Yeah, right. Because we want to see you there. So get in there. You can click on more info on the site. Go to frogpants.com. All your handy links are there.

A bunch of details about what's coming, including the event schedule. Although there's a couple of tweaks coming. We'll let you guys know what they are, but they're not major. They don't change it. Do they affect my stuff? No, no.

Okay. They're small. They're more about end of, or sorry, but more about beginning of show and end of show. Timing-wise. It's just, we're working with the venue on it, but it's a thing. Anyway.

It's all coming together. Please get over there and we want to see you so, you guys so bad. We just want to see you. We totally do. Yeah. We want to see you in person. I want to shake your hands. We want to bump shoulders.

Give you a big old sweaty hug if it's near the end of the day or a nice, clean, refreshing, right guard hug if it's the beginning of the day. That's right. That is definitely also hint to something. I was just kidding. You guys have always been a nice clean group. We're not worried about you so much. Exactly. Oh, no.

I was talking about me. Oh, no, no. Yeah. But we've been to some blizzcons. So we know. know how it can be at the end of the day. That's right. Yes. And we know that Brian and I will happily take showers in our hotels and come back the next day for day two.

For sure. For sure. But there are always people there. If you need be. Yeah. It's not Vegas. It's not like it's going to be hot as blazes there. But it'll be warm. It'll be comfortable and nice.

Yeah. It should be really nice. Yeah. Anyway, we want you to come. Check it out. FrogPants.com. And if you absolutely can't, you can still get a swag bag reserved for your very own self. All right.

All right. There you go. I also will tell you that, you know, I told you guys a couple weeks ago that Uncle George and Aunt Barb are coming out. They're going to join us for Nurtacular. Probably going to drive out with Tina and I. Nice. But I've got one more announcement. The real Chris Brown. That's right.

Chris Brown that I talk about all the time on the show here is also going to make it out to Nurtacular. Sweet. the guy that I always go to Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe concerts and all that, he'll probably bring his ukulele, probably can talk him into regaling you with a tune. Oh, man. And any given time. Walk around with it and just kind of have it with him and on the moments notice go. Exactly.

Play me, I don't know, what do we want him to play? Well, it's got to be something that uses the four chords that he knows very well. Gotcha. Okay. But there are a lot of songs that use those four chords. do some on-the-spot covers. I love it. That's right.

Exactly. That's great. Yeah. Excited to meet him again, even though it was very brief when I met him the first time. We think you did. Yeah, I think you did meet him for one of those, one of those Vegas trips. Yeah, it's when we all got the palms, whatever it was. Yeah.

Yeah. The happy hour of the palms. Yeah. They should bring that back. He's bastards. Yeah, they should. Let's get to some news, folks. We're here to entertain, but we're also here to inform.

And we can't do one without the other. So check it out. It's time for the news, and it's brought to you by. Brought to you by Coverville, celebrating or celebrating the music of Al Green today. You know, let's stay together, love and happiness. Here I am. Come and Take Me, the song that The Talking Heads covered, Take Me to the River, originally by Alla Green. Got a great cover of that one on today's show.

And just to round things out, a few other extras of people who probably wouldn't warrant their own episode. Janice Ian, Jan and Dean, Peebo Bryson. Whoa, I haven't heard that name in a long time. Exactly. Two big Disney songs that Peebo Bryson was part of A Whole New World and Beauty and the Beast. That's right. So it covers, punk covers of both of those on today's show as well. That's going to be coming up at Twitch.tv slash Coverville.

Very shortly after today's episode, probably about 1030 Mountain Time. Nice. Twitch.tv slash coverville. Nice. If we're right up against it, we'll do a little raid. Oh, yeah, do a little raid. Rady raid. Yeah, why not? You know what?

If I could do it, I'd name one of my kids Peebo. Peebo Johnson. Peebo? Peebo, yeah, Peebo. What could possibly go wrong with the name Peebo? There's nothing you could make fun of with a person with the name Peebo. No, it's so bad that it actually gets you around to not ever getting teased. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, exactly. So bad. Like, there's almost like a pity. All right. Yeah, we'll leave you. You're going to let that one slide. Yeah. Now, where's that Michael Hunt kid who I can now make fun of instead?

Yeah, I think Peebo probably got right. Exactly. He's easy pickings. Yeah. I knew a kid named Michael Hunt. Actual name. His parents didn't know what they'd done there. Right.

Yeah. And people called him Mike. So, you know. It's so unfortunate. It's such a man. Yeah, it wasn't his fault. It's one that even Bart wouldn't do calling Mo. No.

Amanda Huggin' Kiss is fine. you know, Mike Hunt. Even separating it is not enough. Yeah. It still comes off wrong. Anyway, let's get to this story about 12 tons of Kit Kat bars. Yes. It's actually a slightly older story, but one worth repeating for the show.

12 tons of them, 12 tons of Kit Kat bars, the good kind, by the way, the European ones. Oh, yeah, without the paraffin wax to make it shiny. Yeah, whatever garbage we put in ours. 12 tons of Kit Kat Bar stolen in a chocolate tree. Oh, a chocolate tree. I've never heard that used. It makes sense, but I've never heard that said before.

Wait, wait, wait. Where you seeing that? In the headline. Oh, chocolate. No, it's chocolate. Chocolatey. Chocolate. I thought it said a chocolate tree. Like an actual...

That feels like where you would go to get chocolate. Oh, I run the local chocolate tree. Yeah. It doesn't say. sound that off, right? It sounds like a thing. No, it really doesn't. It totally does it. It sounds real. Oh, my lord. I'm doing it because it's in Europe and I'm trying to apply some fanciness that isn't there. I don't know why I'm doing that. But anyway, uh, Nestle says a massive 12-ton shipment of the Nestle Crunch Kit-Cat bars was stolen in a chocolatey heist. Not a chocolatey heist. A chocolatery heist. Uh, that risks causing a shortage in stores before Easter.

So again, the story's a little old. Easter is coming. It's a kit cattery. A kit cattery. They took it from the kit cattory. From the nestletary. Kit cat owned by Swiss food giant Nestle told AFP on Saturday that a truck transporting 413,000 units of its new chocolate range has been stolen during a transit in Europe. The shipment disappeared last week while heading between production and distribution locations, according to the company. We've always encouraged people to have a break with Kit Kat.

Here we go. Oh, geez. Are you ready for the gamers we heard you moment here? All right. This is a spokesman told the AFP referring to its famous catchphrase, but it seems thieves have taken the message too literally and made a break with more than 12 tons of our chocolate. Oh, jeez.

You know, this would pay for the entirety of Nurtacular, all those candy bars. Oh, yeah, totally would. Exactly. But I don't think they got them back. I don't think, I don't think they did. No. Let's see. Company said Stolen truck

left a factory in central Italy was making its way to Poland when it was stolen. It's always so weird to be reminded how close Poland and Italy are.

Yeah. You just don't think of it. You think of them as... No, you think of, Ray. I mean, you think of Italy and Switzerland and France and all that stuff

being close together. You don't think of Poland feels like, for whatever reason, feels like, I know it's not, but feels like Eastern Europe

compared to the western side. Yeah, it's just a weird, I don't know if I just have this perception, but also distances strange out here for me to drive to California and take about 12 hours. For me, to drive from London to France, it'd take me what. Plus a ferry might take me, you know, a third of that or whatever. It's crazy. Those people used to be at war. Well, here's the thing.

Italy and Poland don't share a border. So they're going to have to go through Austria and the Czech Republic to get from Italy to Poland. or Germany, Italy through Austria, through Germany. So what's the... Potentially Italy, Switzerland, Germany. There's no, there's no path that doesn't take you through at least two other countries. Yeah, that makes sense. Let me see if I can find this.

Driving from Italy to Poland. Yeah, Poland is Eastern Europe. Thank you, Dr. Kellon. Okay. So I wasn't, I'm right in thinking that Poland is Eastern Europe. Yeah, but it's not the kind of Eastern Europe we think of when we think of that. Because we think of that. Yeah, we used to be part of Soviet Union.

Yeah, but now we are our own country or whatever. You know, that's the kind of thing I think of. Let's see, driving from Italy to Poland takes roughly 18 to 22 hours of actual drive time. And you were right, you go from Milan or Rome, either one. You go through Austria a little bit. Czech Republic or Slovakia. Then Poland. You go to Krakow or Warsaw.

12 to 13 hours from Milan to Krak out 20 to 22 from Rome to Warsaw. But still, that's not much more than me going to Arizona. But everything was stolen. It was in Italy. And it was just going to be, it's on its way of making that 13. I know 13 hour drive just to get 13 hour drive takes you through three or into three other countries. Yeah, no wonder. No wonder Hitler was getting tanks everywhere, no problem.

That's right. Exactly. You know, I always think of it as way bigger deal. Yeah. Of a logistics deal. But really, it was just them going, you're all right here. I'm trying to take it over. Yeah.

Anyway. Oh, I'd love to do. Zohry brings up the chunnel. London, Paris, 284 miles. And I don't know how much of that is underwater in the actual channel. But that's a bucket list. I want to do the, I want to, T and I want to go to France. We've been to London.

I've been a couple times. I want to do the drive from London or France sometime. Yeah. Can't shave your armpits for a while, though, while you're there. That's a rule. Oh, is it? Is that the rule in France? In France. I mean, that's not a problem for me.

Yeah. Yeah, you'll be okay. You'll be all right. That's okay. I'm all right with that. Yeah, I'm worried about our ladies, you know. Like, if I go over there, Kim's fond of shaving her armpits. It's one of the checkboxes you sign on the visa.

That's right. That's right. You're not going to shave your armpits. Freaking Macron and his draconian ideas. None of this is true, of course. It's what gross got out the most. European country edition. Yeah, there you go.

Let's see. And hey, can I make it the one, I'll make one thing clear. Sure. Everybody should do whatever they want. You want to shave them pits? Do it.

You want to leave them out? Let it fly. Go for it. You want to put a big old ring or rod through your junk. Freaking. It's all, it's up to you, man.

Not me. I don't get to choose. You get to choose. choose. Yes, there you go. Exactly. Anyway, we don't know what's going to have this candy. It's probably gone. Probably. Probably. Like, I don't know what you do. Where you sell this on the black market? It's probably a refrigerated.

I would assume it would have to be refrigerated truck. Otherwise, those would, they would melt just in the regular drive, right? So, it's funny, they don't have any sort of low jack or anything on there that tells them where the truck is. Yeah. I don't, I'm a little surprised because that's a lot of product. They don't get into how much it's worth here. at least this part of the story, but

I don't know. 13,793 units of Kit Kat. Good Lord. I mean, the black market for Kit Kat must be on fire. So does what I know. And they say the range.

It's new chocolate range. So I'm guessing it's like, you know, dark chocolate Kit Kat and peanut butter Kit Kat. And it's got to be, right? Like all different. Yeah, I would assume when they say range, I assume it means their whole lineup.

Yeah. Yeah. So they focus in on the Kit Katz, I think, because CBS News knows that Americans just love their KitKats. Yeah. We've loved to put them down. Wow, it's funny. I was going to say, what's the current, like, give me a current slate of Kit Kat products. But you do a search for KitKat.

The first thing is Kit Kat Heist, Kitt Kat Stolen, and then it goes to Kit Kat Club Berlin. Maybe that's where they should check. Because Berlin is on the way, you know, if you go that route. Holy shit. It's on the way from the elite of Poland. Once again, it's the Germans, dude. every time. Yeah, yeah. But let's you know, let's check the

let's check the Kikat Club. It feels like if there's anybody who's got a stake in this getting stolen. I mean, those guys started two World Wars. I wouldn't put it past them. That's all I'm saying. That's right. No, I don't think you're right. There's a quick Hershey story.

I didn't do this on purpose, by the way. These two chocolate stories did not, they were not intentionally back to back. Sure. But we talked about this prior, so this is a follow-up. Hershey, the creator of the Reese's recipe was all pissed and he wanted to change it back and they, you know,

he did a formal request, letter or whatever to the company to change it back and they're doing it. They're changing it back. They really are. Good. They're going to use the classic recipes for all Reese's products starting next year. A change that comes after the grandson of Reese's founder criticized the company

for shifting to cheaper ingredients. Reese's peanut butter cups have always been made with real milk chocolate or dark chocolate. and peanut butter, but a small portion of Hershey's and Reese's products like many eggs are now made with a coating that contains less chocolate. Hershey said in that 2027, it would shift those products to their classic milk chocolate and dark chocolate recipes. So sometimes when you're a complaining old heir to the throne, you get shit done, you know?

Could we get, you know, the same guy to just also make the chocolate better? all across the board. Not just on the Reese's stuff, but light on everything. There's something in it that makes it taste kind of barfy. What is it? I think it's the Carnubin or paraffin wax or something. Something in there. Some waxy thing that makes it shinier, makes it quote unquote, more appealing.

I know Philly Coatown. I'm trying to fix my flying saucer lab here. Oh, it keeps swinging into view? Well, I hit it earlier with something with my headphones when I was taking them off. and it adjusted the thing plus it's also kind of coming apart over here. Because it looks like you're about to ask me to open my mouth wide and ask if I've been brushing and flossing or not. Well, I can do that too. Yes, exactly. Virtual dentist, Brian Abbott.

That's right. Yeah, I work over Zoom. I don't know. That's a kind of a cool light. Use that for what? Like making stuff? Yeah, and it's cool. It's got like a nice little hinge on it.

I got full adjustment of like how warm it is, how bright it. it is and it's candelievered so it moves up and down beautifully so i can have it really down close when i'm writing or designing a puzzle or something with pen and paper it's like i can get right close to it oh that's great yeah cool i like also little dusty yeah i know if people can tell that on the uh the stream but yeah every once i want to i reach up and i do this to my monitor and i come away and i go oh shit i need to dust exactly exactly let's do the microphone arm People have yelled at me in the past before, rightly so. I need a lady.

I need like a... Oh, no, Mr. Superman. Lemon. You're out of lemon pledge. We are all out of lemon pledge. You're supposed to bring your own lemon pledge. No. No, no.

No. Speaking of Dusty. Can I show you something? Yeah. So Anthony Renbarger was visiting from Kansas City. He was here in Colorado. He's been going through his dad's old stuff. which has been sitting in the house for like seven years in Kansas City.

Now that he've moved back there from Denver, he's able to kind of go through and go through all this stuff and figure out what he needs to do with it. He saw this and immediately said, this needs to go to Brian. He also gave me a Beatles single, like original Tully, Tully Records Beatles single. Nice.

Yeah, yeah. He's sad about that. Buried the headline. This one he saw and said, this has got to go to Brian. it is a Pink Floyd the Wall, a track tape. Holy shit.

Look at that thing. Isn't that glorious? That is amazing. This is, you know, the back has got your track list of like where it breaks the songs up. I think they did a good job with this one.

Full wall, not two. It's not one part or the full wall. Yeah. Wow. I didn't realize we could fit the whole thing on one A track. That's crazy. Yeah.

You could hold more on an A track tape. because I think both CDs and sorry cassettes and CDs both had double they were always double right I think so yeah the CD I have is double I had the cassettes I know my CDs

no I had the the CD was obviously the vinyl was I think the cassette fit it fit on one you know the official pre-recorded cassette was one single tape oh it's true and it's all both sides you got side two is part two yeah yeah i could see right right yeah but um yeah that's a that's awesome

that's a classic right here damn like what a great what a great album to have on a track yeah yeah no kidding dude yeah that just i mean even if it doesn't ever work again if we can hang that somewhere exactly this is the guy that does all the lego stuff for uh for you and brian the the lego retro stuff oh that guy's great he is great that's why that name is familiar he is amazing Yes. That's how we built this from. That the, this guy.

Yes, the Game Boy, yes. So cool. I love it. Even the carts are freaking, they're going to build. Even Lego,

that's so wild. It's so cool. There's a couple of mods online where people have made these work. And actually put a screen in that and stuff? Yeah. And it's an actual function. And it uses,

I think so. I'd have to, I can't confirm this for sure because I can't remember. But I'm pretty sure it uses, whoops, just pop one off. But the buttons in the D-Pet actually function in there.

Oh, really? Oh, wow. I don't know what I just did, though. I launched a button. You lost a one pip? Yep. I lost a pip. I'll find it later.

Hopefully the dog doesn't come in here and eat a pip. Right. Anyway, hey, guys, guess what? We've heard you. Oh, no, she's not here yet. I thought she was here early. Never mind. I'm going to read one more story.

We've heard you and we wish Wendy were here also. That's right. But she's not. Yeah. Here's another follow-up. We talked about the guy, the FEMA dude official that said he was teleported to a Waffle House. Oh, yes, yes. Well, we have a follow-up on this.

We've got a couple. This is great. We're doing two follow-ups today. I love it. Yeah, keeping you on the news that you care about here at TMS. That's right. We have a very serious news program here. And here's what we know.

No one at the Waffle House, the location in question. None of them remembers FEMA official being there at all. So I think he may be either weird. stoned, trunk, or stupid. Uh-huh. Or all of those. They're not all mutually exclusive. Yeah.

Could be all of that. Uh, because it seems like nobody else can confirm that he was there. Shastony Burge, who's worked for a decade at the Waffle House server as a server in Rome, Georgia. Much of it on the night shift says that she was once punched in the face by a customer. She's not someone over a ghost in the bathroom. Are we going to gloss right over the name Shastony Burge? I know.

It was pretty good. Shastonie Burge. It's like, did George, did George Lucas name you? Yeah. Yeah, right? She claimed somebody, she's seen somebody. Now, a new leader of the Jedi Council, Shastoni Burge. It just sounds like somebody would be like all blustery, like, I thank you very much.

Totally, yes. My portion. Gungan general, Shastonny Burge. It's pretty good. She claims she's seen all these other horrible things like stabbing, someone overdosed in the bathroom, steak knife threats, stuff like that. But she says that she's never seen this,

which is this guy teleporting to the thing. He didn't do it. This is her waffle house. This is the location. And she's been there 10 years. She would know if there was any co-operation of this stupid story, she would know. So did he teleport?

to the inside of Waffle House? For whatever reason, I thought he teleported outside of the Waffle House. Wasn't that his story? He has two claims, one that was in a ditch and one that was in the Waffle House. That's right, the ditch. Okay, okay. So he didn't say that he teleported into Waffle House. And nobody can confirm or deny the ditch thing because the ditch thing is, you know,

impossible to come up with a way of explaining it. No, the ditch has no, the ditch has no autonomy to speak. That's right, exactly. But I think the end result is what we can all. assume safely is that there's no way this guy, his claims that are real and that if anyone in government claims that they've been teleported

to a Waffle House, they should probably be stripped of their governmental job. Exactly. Yes, that feels like an automatic, you know what, maybe this job isn't the right one for you. Maybe you should work at a Waffle House or any fast food location or

you know, something where claims like that won't be I don't know, perceived as a threat to national security. Yeah. Something where you don't need government clearance, perhaps. And I don't need a guy who's in charge of, you know, reacting to major catastrophes in the world. Yeah. Yeah.

Who thinks he's a teleporting man. Yeah. He should be teleported out of that job. Damn straight. Yeah. You're damned, damned right. Right. Kit Kat spokesman?

Good one. See? They're all doing it. Fantastic. All right, you guys. Bear, get ready. Strap in. It's this.

Something wrong, Batman. Has anybody seen Wendy? We have seen Wendy. She's right here. She's my sister. Hello, Wendy. Well, there's a dog with Wendy. Hello, dog, Wendy.

Call her. Oh, you heard him shake. Yeah. This is no Zoom. Zoom blocks everything. I know. Zoom has a pretty good, it's only one thing I like about Zoom audios.

It has a pretty good coverage thing for when people make background noises. Yeah. But it also doesn't work. I remember we were trying to do calls with you with mom toward the end there, and mom was speaking so quietly that we had to turn her version of it off because you guys couldn't hear or something like that. I had to go in the settings and put it on hyper sensitivity. But yeah, this one does a pretty good job.

I have you on this setting that's called full repair and it sounds mean or evil. But it's actually really good at blocking all that out. But dogs, whatever. They've got their own thing. Like I said before, Wendy's my sister, but that's not what's important here. What's important here is that Wendy is also a mental health professional. She comes here on Thursdays helps you guys with your problems and we talk about all that fun stuff. We're going to do some of that today with an email from somebody called Treenees.

Tree Knees. Which at the end of this, it says, you can call me Tree Nees, long story. We don't get the story, but it's not really appropriate to the email anyway. It's not important. Okay. All right, fair enough. So here goes. Wendy,

or Wendy, anything you wanted to say before I read this thing? No, okay. Here we go. Dear Wendy and the boys. Sounds like a real band.

It does. Yeah. Wendy and the boys. I'm not entirely sure how to explain what I'm experiencing, which I suppose is part of why I'm writing. For as long as I can remember, I've had this persistent sense

that the way I perceive things, colors, smells, taste, and touch is fundamentally different from how other people experience them. Not in a way I can easily describe or prove, but in a way that feels deeply true to me and honestly a little isolating.

For example, colors feel almost emotionally weighted to me. Certain shades are nearly overwhelming, not unpleasant necessarily, but intense in a way that I don't think other people seem to notice or react to. When I try to describe it to my friends or family, I get polite smiles, but I can tell they don't really understand what I mean. Smells are similar. I walk into a room and become completely overtaken by a scent that no one else in the group seems to register at all, and it's not just the intensity.

It's that smells seem to carry whole moods and memories with them in a way that can stop me mid-sentence. With taste and touch, it's more about textures. Certain foods are genuinely difficult for me to eat, not because of the flavor, because of how they feel. And some fabrics or surfaces produce a kind of reaction to me that is hard to separate from emotion. I've never been diagnosed with anything, and I'm not sure whether I'm just, what I'm describing is a clinical matter or simply the way I am wired. But it's been on my mind more and more lately, and I find myself wondering whether it's worth exploring in therapy. I guess I'd like to understand myself better

and maybe feel a little less like I'm living a slightly separate version of the world than anyone else around me. Can you help me? It says tree knees. P.S. I am, and it's literally spelled tree and the knees like your legs. Trees, yeah. P.S. I am a white, married, 34-year-old woman with two kids, ages five and eight.

Not sure if any of that helps. Well, all the background always helps, but. It never hurts to throw that in. The one thing that jumped out is like fairly common here, I thought, was I hear, most people I know have some food texture issues of some kind and maybe they vary or whatever, but I've heard that before. But the rest of these are hard to, you know, hard to relate to a little bit. The color one I kind of get, because I get that way a bit. But maybe that'll leave. Maybe that's the point here is that we've got another spectrum and this person just happens to be super five senses.

on the spectrum or something, but anyway. Yeah, yeah. So I think Brian whispered synesthesia, and that is actually what we're going to talk about. Yes. Symmasiasia. I liked it. Okay, so that is the very fun experience where things are crossed in basically the thalamus in the brain. Like you're going to get a motor signal or it's our relay station where we get our sensory

and motor signals. The only thing that doesn't live there is smell. which is interesting. But this is where like, okay, someone sees a number and has a color in mind or they see a color and there's a feeling or, you know, it's where. So a brain that's not doing this sees a color and there's a color and sees a number and there's a number, right? There's like one thing going on. And in a synesthesia brain, think of it as like the senses have sort of switched places a little bit, not completely, but they're for whatever reason. and we don't quite fully, fully know,

but there is like a crossover that happens. And there's some really famous people that have had synesthesia. You could find them online. Vincent Van Gogh. It's one I can think of. Oh, Billy Elish has it. Oh, really?

She has chromesthesia, yeah. So songs are related, are connecting with shapes and colors and textures for her, I forgot. Duke Ellington. Oh, I found a good list here. Oh, wow. Ladder and Navakoff.

It's a lot of, I like those. a lot of musicians there at the beginning. Yeah. Farrell Williams is another one, has chromesthesia. He also has hat blindness, by the way. Yeah, that's right. Exactly.

Yeah. Anyway. Exactly. Okay. So you have... What sound does that hat make, Farrell? He's like, it's a color. So it's going to be different for sort of a variety

of people, but obviously, like, a lot of folks, some of their genius comes from some of this, right? They are having a different experience. And it can feel pretty isolating. I remember when the first time I heard about this was a couple decades ago where I was like, what and the world is happening? And I think it was Oliver Sacks was kind of the main person writing and talking about it. And he had a bunch of forms of this and some different things.

And it was just a really lovely thing to have spoken and known for a lot of folks who just thought, you don't do this? You know, like just feeling a little bit odd, right? So I'm hearing that from the emailer like, is something weird and should I figure this out? But she is describing something slightly different and it's called emotional synesthesia. And that is where a specific sensory stimuli is associated with an emotion. So it could be, I think there's another term of like, I think where you touch it. I forgot what it's called.

Yeah, where you are, it's like, oh, touch emotion synesthesia. That's it. Where it's like you touch at certain texture. So you could touch denim and then feel sad. Oh, interesting. And you might think, oh, well, I was I was broken up with while I was holding denim. You know, like there's a combination. And that is actually where it might be interesting to talk to somebody about, like to see if there are specific connections.

But you might also just have this where it is not necessarily related. You were folding your. But all of us feel it a little bit. You were folding your button fly 505s and your girlfriend called you right then and said, I'm leaving. And then. Now, I'm always going to associate.

You've ruined jeans for me. So like when I, when I, so here's a quick question for you on the smell side of it. Because it's, because this happened to me just the other day. And I didn't even think about this until right now. But I was taking apart. I'm starting to do,

I'm getting the early parts done of what I want to do with that dad's old, um, sit down, uh, cabinet he designed for when he was doing the games business. Oh, and in that thing, was like an old Gallagah, something.

I don't know what was in there, but that's been dead for a long time. But I really want to salvage the case of it, maybe replace it with some stuff that actually plays and put it in the house. And so it's this little project you wanted to do forever. I opened the back of that thing up just to kind of get a lay of the land again because I keep kind of stopping and starting this project. And I open it up and it hits me with this dust, musty smell that immediately took me back to wherever dad works. It was in the garage. It was when we had the warehouse where he had all this stuff going on. His cars, his truck and van and stuff, all of it smells like the inside of this case, this thing. And it was overwhelmingly positive feeling of, wow, I'm 12 again and this is amazing. And it came rushing so fast and so hard that I was almost kind of overwhelmed by it. It was like, wow, what is this about? It's just a smell. Yeah. And, you know, I didn't expect it.

So I guess what I'm saying is like if people have had an experience like that with a sense, you probably have some. They usually have it with smell. Right. Because smell is really close to the hypothalamus, which is like memory, right? And so it's really closely associated with, right? Like a way to ruin any food is to get food poisoning right after it, right? associating, you know, color, food, smell, taste, whatever, with something bad is a great way to sort of have a connection.

Smell is a really interesting one because it's positive. It can be negative, all sorts of things. But no one's planning it. It just happens like that. You would not have known to have that created, right? Like, it just does it because it's like if someone made a candle of your childhood smell, that would be the smell. Yeah, right? And so it that is the most common. So most people are going to relate to that, the smell bringing you back and a memory and an emotion connected to it. It sounds like our emailer,

though, has this very, it's pretty rare. Like we don't have a lot of studies on this or work with this. But it's interesting because it's like, okay, well, Billy Eilish sees a color when she plays music. That sounds pleasant, but you could, you know, sort of touch wallpaper and suddenly you're anxious or you're going to, you know, like it might make you feel like you're all over the place. It doesn't even have to be touched. Sorry, because she also has other things, right? I'm trying to remember what she said. She said, let's see.

She's just always feeling anything. Colors taste touch. Yeah, it's all starting some emotion. And it doesn't sound like it's not all bad emotions, but just intense and kind of across the board, you know. And it takes her out of the moment, right? Like you, if you were in the middle of a speech and suddenly somebody wafted that smell, you'd be like, wait, what?

Well, where am I? You know? And so that's happening to her, which can feel, you know, a little bit tricky. But something that we've sort of found in the last couple decades is that emotional synesthesia, you know, it's not something we can scan and look at and go, oh, there it is. But what we find is that there is, if someone had like a problem in their thalamus, right, a thalamus infarction is the word. But then you can acquire emotional synesthesia. A thalmus infarction. I got to write that down.

Anyway. Name your cat that. But it's like a lesion on that part of the brain. They found that someone developed this, right? So we know it has something to do with that area. They just haven't studied it very much because I don't think there's huge groups running into the doctor. Yeah, it seems rare. And also it seems like she's super high functioning.

And it's not really, you know, deterring too much. It's more like a, why am I different than her? everybody else or whatever. Yeah. And so this is where therapy would be maybe helpful is just sort of the, you know, if it's really bothering you, you are struggling. I mean, that's typically why we diagnose literally anything. It has to have a component of this makes your life difficult to live.

And if it's in any way doing that, then talking through it with somebody, knowing that it is a biologically based situation happening in your thalamus, not something you're going to plop out and fix. What superpowers actually reside there that maybe you haven't figured out yet? Or what, you know, we have famous painters and musicians. You know, they literally did something with that as their brain, maybe because their brain was doing that. So that's, again, kind of what are the superpowers there?

And then also, where does this sort of make life hard? Do you need to find other people who have it? I'm sure there's a Reddit thread for sure out there with emotional synesthesia who are like, yeah, let's talk about it. And just to feel like you're not alone, because that can feel pretty lonely when you are having such an intense reaction to something and someone next to you is just never. They're like, that's a number or that is a pair of genes. Like it just does not do that for them. It can feel pretty isolating.

So, you know, to find some support or work through it. The only other thing I would say that might be a therapeutic issue is just if there's any sort of traumatic responses to anything, if there's any trauma. associated. You might be having, you know, just such more intense connections the way the brain is wired for her, that it's going to feel stronger than it should or something. And that is bothersome. So to work on, you know, I don't know, exploring to see if you were dumped while wearing blue jeans or something. Yeah. I'd be helpful. Right. Like I associate numbers with colors, but it's because I played a lot of pool when I was young. Eight is always black. Nine is always yellow, yellowish orange. Was it, was it Tanner who? Oh, it was Tanner. Tanner has this thing where he can associate sound of any kind,

voices in particular with colors. So he reached out to Brian and I told us what our colors were. That's right. I forgot what he told me. What's my color, Tanner? He actually sent us like images because it's not just a color. It's almost like a little gradation. Yeah.

It's like a little like a lava lamp style Gradiation of colors But they're all kind of a you know A theme and I can't remember I know I'm looking to see if I can find it I can't find it mine was kind of low and kind of in the purple area Yours I think was higher and warmer I think that's right or something

By that I mean like oranges and maybe some crimson's or something I can't remember something like that I know Remember the have you guys heard of the game hues and cues I have heard of it. Yes. Yeah, yes. That would be a really interesting game to play with someone with... I would love to play that intertache.

That's a fun one. Yeah, we had this in Vegas once, this thing. It's really fun because you realize that people think of bananas a little differently or whatever they're saying it's the color of a blueberry. And you're like, no, it isn't. Or whatever. And it'd be interesting with someone with Cinesia who is like, it's the feeling of spring. And you're like, mm.

Yeah. I give Scott a link. to a game a couple weeks ago that it was almost like a wordle style game where you're you're shown a color for five seconds and then you're given a big you know the full on color wheel of like every you know the every color um and you have to find that color by memory where it is in that in that oh wow

whole thing so if you can it gave you you gave you an error the first time you tried it but then you were able to oh yeah i got it later you were able to get in the second time she'd send that to Wendy she'd probably get a kick out of that. I totally, yeah, I'll find that. Yeah, stick that in our Discord and I'll pass it on. But, yeah, it would be fun to, now that we know this, I kind of want to, I'm sitting down with Tanner in June and play this game and see kind of what differences. Because I don't know if, isn't it an advantage or is, are you overwhelmed by things like this? Like, just looking at this board, it's like, oh, look at that. Holy crap, all those colors.

Like, I don't know. Right. And it sounds like for him, he has to hear a choir. And that would be overwhelming, right? It's voices that have color. Yeah, that's true. So he might look at the board and be like, oh, finally silence. Yeah.

I don't know. And that's a real question, you know, is this overwhelming? Is this bothering you? You know, and I mean, I'm always trying to experiment with human beings, but like, do your kids have this at all? You know, so she might look around at her family and just see, is there anyone else with this tendency? And you might have a grandparent or somebody who's like, yeah, I kind of remember my. uncle talking about it, but we thought he was a weirdo. You know, and people kept it to themselves because they were like, you're the color pink when you speak.

Isn't like maybe a normal conversation starter, right? But our brains are doing it. And there's a number of people who have this in sort of different forms. In a way, it feels like a superpower that you can't express. Do you know what I mean? Like that sensitivity to this stuff isn't necessarily a negative thing. It's like a you see the world. in ways that are special and different and unique,

unique in that way. Maybe there's only a few like you, which sounds like superhero powers. The problem is you can't really act on any of it or really explain to people what you're seeing or feeling or however. Think about the history of like somebody who reads oras or is doing, you know, like a medium or some other place where you can take whatever these extra senses you

have and you can actually, you know, make a lot of, yeah, you can build a nice little grifty, grifty little life there on that. I mean, I remember meeting someone once who was just like your aura and described my aura and then said, are you having stomach problems? Because it goes in at your stomach.

And I was like, yeah, actually, I have been really stressed out. And I have stomach pains. I was like, wait a minute. And he didn't want any money. So that was good. But it was very like, what did you really see that? Yeah. You know?

And who knows, right? I might have a color. You have a color. I mean, we obviously have, you know, fields of radiation coming off us or whatever. But everyone's having sort of a different, a little different experience of different things, right? And then the spectrum, we can all do the smell one. I don't, unless you have some damage in your old factory system or you had COVID and your smell never came back or your hypothalamus isn't working, you are going to be able to relate

to the smell one because that one is, it's like it's in its own space connected to memory. And that is a survival design, right? having a smell of fire, having the smell of smoke, having the smell of poison, you know, that's why natural gas, didn't they have to like add a smell so we'd be afraid of it? Because we have that as the clue and it's really close to all the get ready and run stuff too, right? So we need memory. We need all of that consolidated in a place that's going to keep us alive.

Whereas, you know, the thalamus has kind of a different role and it's interesting. That's kind of where they're thinking this is taking place this. crossover because that's where all these motor, you know, all the signals and information is coming from. So if you have a tumor on your thalamus, you might be having some weird stuff happening. So, but yeah, synesthesia's been around. It's just, we got a little more research on it. It's just not a ton.

I think it's the kind of thing, like, if it was causing more chaos in life, we'd probably study it more. Yeah. Squeaky wheel against the grease or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty fascinating.

and yeah, you're in good company. A lot of people have cool brains like this. Yeah. I kind of, I don't want it all day, every day, all my senses, but I'm kind of jealous of people

who can tie into things like that. Like, it's just to give you, it's a different way of thinking about sound and color and texture. And I don't know. I like that stuff. Yeah. And can you imagine, I would love this.

I keep, I have these fans say all the time, that we all could just sort of switch and be someone for a couple hours. Yeah. And just. So imagine. Yeah. Like suddenly you pop in a brain that feels all of these things and is having these emotional reactions to different.

Like you'd be like, what? Yeah. But then you come out of there and you go, dude, how come your nipples are on fire all the time? What's going on? Is that really what it's like to be with your nipples on fire? Yeah. There. You don't even ever complain, but they hurt really bad while I was in you for two hours.

Yeah. I don't really. I don't. I guess it depends on who, but it's like I always want to do this with a dog. I want to get into a dog's brain for just a few minutes. Give me three minutes. It's so relaxing. Three minutes in a dog's brain.

And I wanted to see, like, real, is it just, you know, distraction and food, distraction, food, food, distraction. Like, I don't know what to expect, but I want to experience it. And at some point, the dog's like, there's that guy again. Oh, there's that guy again. Yeah, there's that face. I know that face. Last time he was here, he gave me a treat.

That must be a good face. I'll remember that face. Speaking of dogs. And speaking of smells, right? You know, that's like they're obviously, there are two, two cabillion neurons on the end of a nose so they can smell, especially my dog juice. And why they get so excited when you come home is not because they actually like you.

It's because your scent has faded. And they don't, they just recognize it again when you come back. So when you are gone for longer periods of time, they just know it. And suddenly they smell you again. That's part of the. are projecting that they love us on them. Can we just have something? Sorry.

I didn't need to ruin that. I'm so sorry. Why can't we just have something nice? Well, that's that whole thing, whether we think that if we died in the corner of the house and the dogs were left to their own devices,

would they eventually eat us? And the answer is yes, they would. Yes, of course they would. My dog would eat 10 seconds. You'd be like, oh, I thought you were dead. Sorry. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry.

You're still with me? Oh, shoot. Freaking dogs, dude. Well, there you go. I'd love a follow up on this one. I don't know why I said follow up, but I would love a follow up just to kind of hear where things go. This is super interesting to me. It is.

It's really cool. I love them to. I love her to ask around, like, who else is experiencing it in the family? I'd love to know if there's a genetic thing. I didn't actually look that up if there was a genetic link. Could be. Yeah. And go down some rabbit holes.

Like the Reddit thread on this emotional synesthesia, I think it's like 10 years old. Check it out. And, you know, you're, you know, you're. you can sort of see like, oh, it's similar or not similar. And then, of course, if it's bothering you, right? Like if you're like, I feel like a weirdo and I don't like it or, you know, someone helping you sort of reframe it and realize how cool it is and then maybe how you can use it. Yeah.

And hopefully it's not in the famous words of Arnold Schwarzenegger in a kindergarten cop, not a tumor. You know, we don't want a tumor. Yeah. Yeah, maybe get that check. Get that check. Probably not. That's a lesion. That's a little different.

Here's what I need her and everybody with this color synthesis thing to do. Go to the website, Know Better You.com and check out what's going on over there. You're in the midst of the health and PE course, right? That's going on right now. I already started that. But yeah, give me your email. Other fun things you're coming up. We did a Zoom-based seminar because I can't say webinar about being neurospicy.

That was really fun. I've had a few people requests some more. So maybe I'll have one coming up again. Neurosy Yeah Probably not on synesthesia Yeah Again the rarity

It's a rarity It's a rarity thing Just you like Fear through people And maybe Billy I wish would be there That'd be there That'd be there

By the way That color game That wordal style Color game is Dialed dot GG So D-I-A-L-E-D dot GG

Yep I sent a copy Or I sent you The link You should check it out Anyone out there Who didn't get it It's a dialed GG

Yeah It's a really cool It's a really cool thing Yeah It was down for me the day. I tried it, but then it was fine. I think it was me. It was a me thing.

I don't know what happened there. Listen that weird sound. Oh, is that the sound the game makes? Yeah. Oh, wow. Is that me doing that? No, that's me. I'm doing that.

I played this silently on a phone or did it. It's not really play it. You just take, it's kind of like taking a test or whatever. It's still kind of a game. But anyway, the vibe of it is really cool on its own. I didn't have sound on, though. So this is cool. Yeah, I did either.

I had no idea that there were sounds involved. This is cool. Because this feels like Michael Bay's making a movie. It feels, yeah, totally does. But it's, that's kind of an ASMR-e kind of sound for me. I kind of like that sounds. Oh, I love a deep rumbly. Yeah.

Way better than this. Also, that feels like it's just going higher and higher. I don't like it. It's stressful. Well, anyway, good luck with that, Wendy. More to come later on. Everyone get your tickets to NerdTaggart because Wendy's going to be there. It's going to be amazing.

It's going to be so fun. I have a fun idea if I can get people who come with me on an activity. So I will talk more about that later. Does it involve Dunford donuts? Because if it does, I'm in. Always. Always, always, always. That's the main reason I'm coming.

All right. Good. Good. Excellent. All right. Stay out of trouble. We'll talk to you later. Tell your dog, quit sniffing you.

All right, bye. Hey, so go play this. Oh, yeah. It does. It does feel good. I do like, you know, when I'm looking for one of those 10-hour, like, put it on things. It's got to have an aspect of that to it. If it's got a bunch of plinky high stuff, I'm not going to sleep. The Star Trek, bing, bing, yeah, I can't have that.

I can have the engine underneath. Just the rumble, yes. And I know some people are different and whatever, but like, I need the thunder, not the rain. Sounds like a song. I need the thunder, not the rain. It's like, what did you have the time? tacos? I listen to that song and it makes me sleep in my brain. All right. It's to me, it's almost as distracting as lyrics to have high pitch sounds in your sleep video. It totally does.

Give me some bass, man. That's what I want. It's all about the base. It is. No trouble. Hey, that's going to do it. Oh, we'd have a phone call from Dr. Calhoun. Oh, we'll play it. It's a petticoat Junction deal, which I think, you know, it basically it's him admitting he's a man of a certain age like we are. Sure. Maybe a little older. Anyway, here is what Dr. Calhoun has to say. Scott and Brian, this is Dr. Calhoun. Regarding Pettico Junction, I just watched the pilot episode, the beginning of it. And in the song, they are in the Water Tower, and the train comes up and they get out.

Then after the theme is over, they are coming up to her mom, the aunt, I don't know. And she's like, you girls are down at Water Tower again. One of these days, the train is going to sneak up on you and all the water is going to empty up into the train and you're going to get sucked up with it. So the water in the water tower is not for drinking. It's for the steam engine. Love the show though. There you go. Oh.

That's wild to me. That is wild. It's funny that they actually address that in the pilot episode. Yeah. Like they knew it was going to be a problem. Like, people are going to complain that there are three women bathing in the townspeople. water supply. Yeah.

But also a train, a steam train. I guess this makes sense. Steam train, steam train. You got to have water. You need steam. Yeah.

Yep. I don't know why I thought it was, I think this is where my head's up. So big pile of coal. There's a guy putting the coal in there to heat it up. Mm-hmm. And in my head, that ends the deal.

That's the deal. He's heated up some sort of engine and the train's like, whoa, here we go. But really, what's happening? The fuel is hot coal, basically. Yeah. I mean, that is actually kind of where my little cartoon brain goes. I get it.

I totally get it. Yeah. Because, you know, we've seen, we don't see Doc Brown saying, we need to put all this coal in to get the train up to 88 miles an hour. Oh, we also need water. Yeah. Where can't even think of a single Western. Where they stop at a train station and go load up the water again.

We're almost out. Right. They just don't think about it. We've oversimplified the steam engine. We have. Well, anyway, that was great, Dr. Calhoun. If you want to be like him and send us your own messages, you can do it straight on the website over at frogpants.com slash TMS.

There's a form right there. Just fill it out and you're in. Or you can do a text or an email. Whatever you feel like doing, we're happy to read them here on the show. A quick note about... Cyborg dude says, have you never rode the Disneyland train? They have water towers to fill up the steam trains. I believe it.

Never seen them. I believe that I've probably looked right at them and just not realized I was looking at the water towers that fill the steam train. I probably looked at them and said, oh, it's the town. This is a cute little town water supply for their little fake town. That's part of what I did. I go up there and it's all I hear is, all aboard next up to Marlland.

Yeah, because that's where we're going. That's where we're going. Getting the hell out of here. On a steam train. Quick note about shows today, Core 1 p.m. Sweet. You want to learn why Crimson Desert might be my game of the year already. Oh, wow.

pretty early to kind of lay that on it. Especially for a game that a week and a half ago was just not hitting for me. And then something happened. Something clicked. And it went from I'm not sure this is my game. Glad everyone's enjoying it to

I may never be able to stop playing this game. It's really good. Anyway. Pick one right now would probably be Picopia because the game of the year, kind of the only one I've really played. That in Expedition 33, but that game of the year last year.

Can't really use it for 2026. That's true. I think you'll probably see Pocopia on the everybody's final top 10. It'll be there. Yeah, I'm sure it will be. It's a big deal. When I'm playing every once in a while, I'll see squishy twitchy or I'll see somebody's name as it tells me friends that are playing Pocopia. It's like, all right.

Yep. I need to share my island code so people can come check out my island. Yeah, there's like a Animal Crossing style visit your island thing, right? Yeah, I think so. There's some kind of deal with the Dragon Quest one that I got that the same people made. There's something like that in there. I haven't turned it on, though, because I figured it came out in 2019. Nobody's doing that anymore.

You might be the only one playing it. Yeah. So, there you go. Let's get to this. Oh, core one. That's the point. 1 p.m. frogpants.com slash schedule for all our schedule and what's happening and what's going on. That's right.

Always up to date. There'll be a TMS Friday tomorrow with Brian and I. And is it a teenth? No, it is not. It's not a teen. So no Monica, but you probably do have a quiz from Jamie for me. I do. It's, uh, let's see.

Have the name. Don't tell me. Yeah, don't tell me anything about it because he was like, I don't want you to know the theme until it's time to do it. So, um, oh, I won't tell you then. Let me see if I can remind myself, though. Oh, you're going to like this. You know what? I think you're going to do really good.

You're going to kick ass. Yeah. Oh, good. Oh, I can't wait. This is so up your butt. That's not a nice way of saying. This is so up your alley, as some people would say. I'm sure it is.

He's good at figuring stuff like that out. Yeah, well done, Jamie, as always. That's it. We got to play song, and Brian has one. You got one there? I do. This one's going out to Leslie. Yes, that time of the year again, she says.

That's right. The baby Kim almost took home from Blisscon, 2013. She begins every year to say the request with that same sentence. Is turning deep breath 13? on April 9th. The site from Minecraft and FNAF. He's obsessed with,

is that how to pronounce it? FNAF. FNAF? FNAF. FNAF? What is it? Was it short for? It's short for a game. It's,

uh, uh, FNAF. It's not, I know we've talked about that. It's not Fortnite, right? I don't think so.

Unless there's a FNAF. Five nights at Freddy's. Oh, thank you, Tonda Gassel. Yeah. Look at all the, look at all the people correcting us on the five nights at

Yeah. Thank you. He's obsessed with K-pop demon hunters. Do you pronounce it Kapop? Is it Capop? Do you know, it's like McDonald's, you know, it's like that. You do it like that. That's right. Exactly. Speaking of which, I did have my K-pop demon hunters, a happy meal. And, um, oh, yeah, we didn't follow it up. We never even talked about that because I think you were, you were sick the next day. But I got my, my cards. If someone wants my, which one is this one? Is this new me? I can't remember their names. Roomy. Roomy?

I forget. The tall sarcastic one. The tall sarcastic one. She's my favorite, by the way. What's the K-pop? Is she my... No, she's not my breaker. She's my bias.

Oh, my Lord. There's a term for this. Yes. Well, in that case... Your favorite one is your bias. The one that can upset your bias is your breaker. My... Oh, Mira.

Mirah. My bias is the... is the squirly one, the goofy one. The goofy one, sure, yeah. She reminds me of my daughter. I like her. But what's the other one?

So Molly Fenton wants it. So she's taking it. Molly Fent cannot have my derpy cat. Oh, that cat is awesome. It's awesome. And I like it out the top and says, hello friend. Yeah.

That weird thing made that movie for me. I love that thing. I did too. That was my favorite character in the whole thing. That's great. Molly, shoot me your mailing address and I'll get this out to you. Nice. throw in a weird 3D printed thing in there for you or something.

Anyway, let's get back to Leslie's email. Could you play him either Your Idol by Emily or Takedown by Rain Paris? Both are excellent and I'm sure you'd love either one. Love you, Molo, fellow demon hunter Leslie. Nice. And she's even in the chat. Yeah, no, this is, these are both great. The only reason I picked Takedown by Rain Paris is because

I could get the download easier to play on the show and it's really good so here is Rain Paris in a single day release this year of Takedown production Find all our shows at frogpats

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