The Morning Stream - TMS 3014: Tree Blood on your Pancakes

Episode Date: May 26, 2026

Little Goose Poop. Burlington Coat Filing Cabinet. Cat & Hot Tub Sitting. A Cartoon Education. Brian the Bar Fly. Gross Cluster of Crap Galaxy. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Rusty Murder Farming. We Need To See The Frog In Question. Brian live from a time zone that doesn't matter. Maple Tree Circulatory System. Blown with the sickness. Anti Chumbawumba. Grey Water Swimming. I'd tap that tree and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Great Basin bristlecone pine named Methuselah, located in California, is over 4,800 years old. Don't wait as long as that tree to support your favorite morning podcast show thing unit at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, little goose poop. Burlington coat filing cabinet. Cat and hot tub sitting. A cartoon education. Brian the barfly. Gross cluster of crap galaxy.

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords. is no basis for a system of government. Rusty murder farming. We need to see the frog in question. Brian live from a time zone that doesn't matter. Maple tree circulatory system. Blown with the sickness. Anti-chumbumbah.

Gray water swimming. I'd tap that tree and more on this episode of the morning stream. Nice. To surf the web, there are two things which are essential. A web server and a browser. Surfing the web, dude. To get from one set of information to a night, another. You use hyperlinks.

Tubular, man. That's what you should have done in the beginning. The morning stream. Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see. Hello, everybody. Welcome to TMS. This is the morning stream for, what is it, May 26, 2026. Got a couple 26es in here. 26, 26.

We get at least one of those every month. So celebrate as you do accordingly. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. He is in Vermont. I'm in Vermont. In the future. Exactly.

Yes, exactly. I'm experiencing 11 o'clock a.m. Right now, which you won't see for another two hours, Scott. Weird. We're not used to that. We've been same time zone, only time zone that matters so long that whenever you're in a new one, it kind of freaks us out a little bit, you know. It is, yeah.

So at the parents' house in Jericho, Vermont, a little town outside of Burlington. And probably most recent claim to fame is that the Wednesday TV series takes place in a fictionalized version of Jericho. Oh, that's right. They filmed it in like Prague or something, but it's Jericho, Vermont. is the place. Didn't you say, I can't remember how we landed on it, but you said something about how they had some stuff around town that might, I don't know.

Yeah, I mean, it looks, when you see the show Wednesday, it definitely has the feel. It's a little more mountainous. Well, I say that, but you know what? No, it's very mountainous here. Yeah, I mean, it, there's things about Wednesday that feel European. And obviously, you don't get that here. This is, you know, this is, this is American as it gets. right here. Yeah. Weird to film that in Prague of all. I guess Prague is pretty Gothic and probably gothic and probably some, some good deals on. Some tax breaks, as they say. Tax breaks. Exactly. So. Or whatever it is they do these days. Everybody wants to be the new Atlanta. Yeah. Exactly. Sometimes it's Prague. Well, good. Well, you know, you're all settled in. You got a cat

to take care of. You got a hot tub all to yourself. I know. Good old Kirby. She's a adorable. She is a talker too, so if she comes in, you'll absolutely hear her yapping. This is her favorite little perch right here behind me on the window. She likes to sit there and watch the, well, today she was watching the landscapers and yelling at him because they weren't doing a good enough job. Is she taken to you in the way your cat takes to you, like kind of a... Oh, she has. Yeah. She, um, I toss and turn as far as sleeping too much for her liking. So she doesn't sleep. She doesn't stay on the bed. basically as soon as I turn the lights off to go to sleep after

watching, you know, two-thirds of a Crapopopolis or a Rick and Morty or whatever, she's off to greener, more calm pastures, calmer waters. But everything else, she follows me around and talks the whole time. And she's,

she's, you know, they've got a schedule. She really rules the roost in this place. She, They have to hand feed, I don't have to, but they hand feed treats. And she's used to treats like that way. So, you know, she eats out of a certain hole. A cat that gently takes a thing out of your hand? Like a- Yes.

Oh, yeah. I've never had a cat like that. She's very calmly like you put your hand out with the treats in it. And she very quite, you give nicely and gingerly eats treats out of your hand. And it looks up of you to put more in there. You're basically, you're basically just giving her cat food. She thinks it's a treat, but it's really the same stuff that's in her bowl. Yeah, when you hand it to him in a little individual handheld piece, it seems like something special.

Yeah, exactly. I'd feel that way too. It was a hunk of steak from a plate on my wife's hand, and she said, here you go, here's a treat. And you're like, yeah, I'd probably do that. I don't know how ginger I'd be about it, but I'd probably. Sure. Well, could you please use a little more A1 next time? But, you know, it's, I mean, it's a gorgeous.

house. This is like, it's a house that's been an architectural digest from its original owner. It does not look like any of the other houses in this area. All the other houses are more traditional kind of log cabiny and, and, um, uh, more rustic looking. This is like, this is, I was thinking about yesterday, like how to describe it. It is like a real world house, like a house they would have used for the real world. Interesting. With, um, A lot of rooms, hot tub, sunroom, big high-tech kitchen, gathering area, living room, that sort of thing. Big, huge area in the back as well as a maple tree grove. And yeah, they do tap their own trees and they make their own maple syrup.

And I had some of that on pancakes this morning and it's just the best. How do you, how does this is going to be the dumbest question? question. When you get trees, when you do your own tap into the tree, when you move in and you go, I'd tap that. Then you go tap that. Yeah. You tap that. And you get it. And you get your own syrup out of there. Yeah. Then what do you do then? You get sap. So the sap, you have to boil down into syrup. Okay. You don't just take it straight. It's not tree to table then. You got a no, no. But you can, there are there are folks here and my dad was telling me about that they take the sap and they use it as a sweetener in their tea or coffee and it's it's not sweet very sweet at all because you're

boiling you're basically boiling it down to 140th of its originally content so it's a 40 to one ratio right you boil 40 pints of sap down to one pint of syrup that would they call a reduction is that It is a massive reduction. Yeah. And they've got their, they've got a sugar shack over there on the Grove, which is where you do your, your boiling down because it's a very, I guess it's a very smelly process or not smelly, but it just makes everything sticky. It's not something you probably want to do in your kitchen. No. Do it outside.

Unless you don't want to use any sort of wall hanging nails or anything. You can just push a picture onto the wall and it'll stick. It's probably like all, not all trees, but many trees have a sap. And that's not necessarily the kind of you want to eat or whatever. Sure. Or different consistencies. But that stuff is always a nightmare. It's like Chevy Chase in bed with the magazine after.

Yeah. Right. After bringing the tree in for Christmas. Yeah. Because it's all a form of that crap, I think. It is. Yeah. It's sticky sap.

And this just happens to be good on your pancakes. They tasted all of them. and elm syrup didn't taste very good and birch syrup probably well you know what birch beer i wonder if birch beer it's got to come from birch sap right so i would think so yeah yeah or some other part of the so maybe birch is pretty good but maple's the best and they do maple everything here um you get an old-fashioned which i have and uh instead of using simple syrup they use maple syrup so it's um bourbon maple syrup a muddle cherry bitters and an orange zest. It sounds nummy.

And I don't even like those things. I lost audio. Oh, you lost me, did you? Hello? Are you there? Did you close the tab? Oh, there we go. Oh, there you are. Hello. Hello, Brian. Hello. Dr. Calhoun in the chat says, Scott thinks syrup runs through trees. No. I don't, I don't think of, it's like circulatory system. I'm not saying that. I'm saying it's in the tree, right? The sap is in there. I don't know, I don't know where, like, I don't know the anatomy. of how the, you know, I don't know, but I'm just saying

I don't, I wasn't, I didn't think there was a tree heart pumping sap through it. No, I think, but I think he thought you didn't know that you boil down the sap to make syrup. Oh, that's true. I didn't know that. That it probably just needs to be filtered or something, but yeah, I know you boil it down. Everything I ever learned about stuff I don't know, I learned in cartoons and it looked like it just came out of a faucet in the side of a tree shunk and foghorn, leghorn, made a little, you know, bowl of it, took it in the house,

gave it to that weird chicken he was in love with. and everything was done. Or it was in love with him. I don't know. It was in love with him. Yeah. Let's get it straight. You know, it's very, I haven't had a risky business moment where I, you know,

lip sync, Bob Seeger while I run around the house and just socks and underwear. But I will say that everything in this house feels like the crystal football from rescue business. Really? There's a lot of, a lot of art and a lot of sculptures and a lot of things in the house. It's like, okay, this is not a house for coursing around. Like, there is, you know, no, no Nerf gun of any sort of whatever, ever set plastic in this house. Like, it is never going to happen.

This giant pizza slice behind me would not be welcome in that house. It would not be welcome in this house. I blew it up. I haven't hung it up yet, but I'm going to put that thing up there. So it's like big and then behind me. I don't know why. Yeah, did you blow it up by hand or by mouth or did you use a. So here's what's funny.

I went upstairs to do something and I see it's all blown up and the kids are sitting on watching a cartoon and I went, did the kids blow it up? Did they? What happened? And Kim goes,

I blew it up and I'm like, you have like the worst cough and cold right now. What do you mean you blew it up? And she goes, and I use the, we have a mattress plug-in thing. And I'm like, oh yeah, duh, do that. Do that.

Save your lungs, man. Good. That's the way to do it. Don't be blowing up your own pizza. It makes no sense unless you see the thing. but it's a huge slice. The other thing

is that I've been doing some trivia since I've been here. Found, thanks to my stepmom, found two trivia nights locally. What a nice thing she did. It's very nice. And my MO,

if I'm playing solo, I sit up at the bar, I chat with a bartender, I chat with people around the bar, and that way I don't feel, I don't feel so lonely. I picked that up when I was doing all the traveling for the software company, the newspaper software company,

because you'd go out to dinner. If you find a place, excuse me, it's got a bar. Yeah. Then, you know, I don't want to sit at a table all by myself. I'll go up and sit at the bar. Even if I'm not drinking, I'll sit up there just so that I'm in a more social, social kind of setting. But in this case, played trivia. And the first night, really well organized.

We got individual sheets. 10 questions on each sheet and you fill out your questions and then you turn it in. And then while he's doing the next round, he's also scoring everybody. Came in second. No prize for second place, unfortunately. And the team, the team that won, what was it? Let's see, seven rounds, 10 questions, 70 questions, right? No, no, I'm sorry, eight rounds.

And they missed one question. Wow. So I'm all right. Get in the second place against that jugger. you're not of a team. It must be what it's like playing against our team when we have a team. It's probably scary. Yeah.

Yeah. And then last night went to a place called Black Flannel Distillery. Oh, my God. They had a really good. They used stout syrup for their old fashions there instead of maple syrup or anything like that. What is that? How do you get that? Stout is, so it's a kind of beer.

And I guess this is made from, it's one of the darker beers like Guinness. is a stout. And so I think they sweeten it somehow and use that in the old-fashioned. Yeah, to make a syrup, they must boil the beer down. So it's Tom Norm, yeah. Yeah, that sounds like what you'd have to do. That's interesting. I just picture a large man with a, with a, with a stout man, sure.

Yeah, and they put one of those, they just jam that into him, turn it on. Outcome syrup, magically. Exactly. Yeah. So last night, again, second place. Always the brides made, never the bride. When I'm on my own there. But this was one where it's a goofy one where they again ask you 10 questions per round,

but your sheet has all eight rounds on it. And you score yourself. And then he goes around. He sits up at the front and says, all right, is that your flannel answer? and they say, we got eight, and then they, you know, come around to this guy, and he says, we got four, and then he comes around to me, I play as reptile dysfunction when I'm on my own. That's fantastic. Yeah.

I'm not Mothra when I play on my own. I'm reptile dysfunction. I like that. And he says, reptile dysfunction, how many did you get? And I said, 10, and people all look at me like, you know, it's these teams of like five and six people, and they're looking to me like, what's this jerk doing here? We've never seen this guy before. You really want to piss him off.

Tell him you're from Colorado and you don't even live there. And then they're really mad. I told the person behind me because I actually got a basketball question because it was about Nicole Yokic, who's our star basketball player. Oh, crap. He's like, how'd you know about Nicole Yokic? And I was like, he's from Denver. I'm from Denver. I like it, though.

Any other NBA question I would not have gotten. This was like so perfectly in my wheelhouse. So this guy was really saying, though, Is that your flannel answer to match the name of the place? Yeah, the team, the team. Oh, no, no, it was the name of the team. Oh, that's the team. What was the place called again?

What was the name of the place? The black flannel distillery. Oh, that's why I was confusing it. Yeah. Okay. All right. So they're regulars. This punk from back west comes in.

Knocks him on their ass, comes real close to winning, and they're all just like, F this shit. Take him out back and show them what for. The last question last night. was a, um, uh, was a wager question, right? So you could wager, um, up to 12 of your points. And, um, and, um, uh, and then like, you know, either increase your lead or fall back. And I was half a point from the lead or, yeah, half a point from the lead because, um, the music round was, was half a point and the team that was doing better than me,

missed one of their questions or missed one either title or artist. I got 10 out of 10 on that one. Of course. Yeah, of course. It was all old stuff. The newest song on there was Rocky Like a Hurricane by Scorpions. Jeez. The newest one?

That was the newest song in the list. It was all like, all right now by free and Born to Be Wild by Steppenwolf and Wow. John would be good by Chubby, or Barry, Chuck Berry. So they say, all right, the category. for the final question before you wager is galaxy quest and I'm like huh a multiple part answer and the category is galaxy quest it's got to be something like name the top four build actors in the in the movie right and I'm thinking you get your tim allen sigourney weaver

uh Tony shalube Alan Rickman it's got to be a question like that yeah so it seems like a safe bet yeah safe bet so I bet all 12 points and it turns out to be name the three most common types of galaxies. Oh. And I'm like spiral. And then there's that one that's got kind of the round bump in the middle, but kind of a flat sombrero around the outside.

And then there's the one that's like a big gross cluster of crap. And did they take big gross cluster of crap as an answer? They did not take that. I'm shocked by that. Everybody in the place, bet 12. and everybody lost. I bet they did. That's misdirection 101, man.

That's right. Everybody knows that's supposed to be about the movie and not about actual galaxy shit. Exactly. But that's the pun, right? It was like a little bait-in-switch. But for the future, for future reference, folks, it's spiral, which is one we live in.

The Milky Way galaxy is a spiral galaxy. elliptical is the that little bulb in the middle with a flat strombora on the outside. Yeah. And I described it as disc. I thought, I thought that's disc. That sounded. That sounds good to me. Doesn't it sound good?

Yeah. And then I said cluster for the cluster type. That's called irregular. Oh. I actually that shocks me. I would have, Cluster makes sense. I thought I've heard cluster before.

Yeah, right? Cluster. Maybe that's another one. Maybe people say that for short hand or something. Maybe. I think some people just say this galaxy is a real cluster. Our little corner of it sure seems like it. Right.

Sure does. Yeah. So. Damn it. Well, that's great. Look at you out there shaking the tree, you know? Yeah. So I'm going again to the third place on Thursday night.

But until then, it's time for me to eat some of the frozen butcher meat that they went and got for me. So tonight it'll be a lovely pork chop on the grill with a salad and maybe some mashed potatoes or something. Hot damn, dude. Yeah. Eating good, living in that hot tub for a minute. Freaking cats pretty good. Exactly.

Oh, I did, I brought the Genki Shadowcast or whatever it's called, Ginky something. But it basically allows me to plug my Nintendo Switch into the, their TV. So I'm like disconnecting their infinity or Xfinity. Oh, okay. Cable box and then plugging in my Nintendo Switch. And then I'm wondering why in this other room, Xfinity isn't working. I was like, oh, I guess that one probably serves all the other TV's Xfinity.

Probably. Yeah. Find a guess. Oh, yeah. Adobe Geek, fully stocked bar. My dad is a, is a quite the mixologist and, um, owner file like Barry would have a field day here because he's got a big old oh wine as well like a wine closet as well wine closet or wine

yeah it's like a refrigerated it's where it's a not refrigerated but like a temperature controlled um about the size of a tall refrigerator not a he doesn't have a wine cellar but he has a wine yeah what do you call that wine a wine appliance Yeah, the place I went to in Vegas for, when I went there for that funeral, we went afterwards to his friend's place. They had that exact thing. It felt like it was almost built into the place. But it was that. It was a temperature controlled fridge, basically.

But not cold. It was like a, I don't know, it was weird. I didn't understand it. People are way into wine like Barry. They know what they're doing. Yeah. But they know what they're getting up to. No.

So if I, you know, when I make myself an old fashioned here later tonight, I'll probably have like four or five different bourbons and whiskeys to choose from and different bitters and all this sort of things. Do you take a smoking jacket or any kind of, you know? I did not. I basically said, I've got room for tech and four days worth of clothes. I'm going to be doing laundry every three or four days in today's laundry day. So after I come back from. cycling. It's going to be throwing a bunch of stuff into the laundry, putting all my swimsuit,

going out into the hot tub for a couple hours waiting for laundry to be done. Man, what a rough day. You're going to have. Yeah, I know. Oh, shucks. Throw real, uh, real, uh, real, it's going to stretch you. It's going to make you actually, if you're going to be out riding, that's, you're going to be, you're going to be, it's going to be a good day for, um, yeah, for laundry. So, or actually going to be a good day for the hot tub, too. Let's go ahead and just jump straight to. MS-150 fundraising week. That's where we're at, folks.

So speaking of riding bikes, Brian, remind people we're in the thick of it now. Yeah, if you go to tiny.cc. C.C. slash bike coverville. I'm about a month away from, actually, it is a month away from the ride in Logan, Utah. You're going to be donating to raise money for the Colorado ride, just letting you know right there, because I'm still raising money for my team, my local. Ain't too proud to beg team. As a matter of fact, I'm going to give you a link because it's kind of cool.

I like links. If I can find it really quick. The very basis for the World Wide Web, links. I like them. These links, who knew that these links would become so popular? They've really taken off. It's really. The current, here it is right here, the current MS-150 promotional link.

if you click on that link actually has my team at the starting line. Oh, yeah, look at that. Look at this. Whoops. Look at this. And zoomy fingers. How quickly can Scott find Brian? How can I?

I'll pull the image out. It'll be easier. Oh, yeah. Oh, you can you can't. I don't know if it'll even let me. On an image and new tab. There it is. Oh, there you go.

Good. Now on the far left, by the way, that's Uncle George right there. So there's George. Uh-huh. Wait, is that? Where are you? Keep looking.

I'm pretty obvious once you find me. Oh, there he is. There he is. Right back here in the red hat. That's right. The only red helmeted, uh, dude. Yeah. I like it.

You stood out in a crowd. There he is. Look at him. That's right. Hey, I'm riding here. Look at that, yeah. That's great, dude. That's from last year's

Boulder ride so you can see some of the campus there behind you. That's awesome. Do you all have the same exact shirt thing? Like, is that a... Pretty much, yeah, it's a team jersey. It's the Ain't Too Proud to Sag

Team Jersey. The green, the guy in the green is one of the older versions of that, but on day one, we all wear the the newer jersey and then day two we have a choice of wearing um either an older team jersey or the one of the official MS-150 team jerseys or who knows i might wear my spider-man one but um but utah is just one day or so

uh who could both it'll just be uh yeah exactly that would be awesome come on uh well awesome go check it out that is tiny dot c yeah tiny dot c slash bike coverville make you donation five bucks 10 bucks, whatever you can afford it. It goes to a great cost. Doesn't go to me. It goes to researching MS and we'll get a cure. Yeah. Let's all work in our lifetime.

Let's help knock that thing on its ass and have it never get up again. Exactly. It won't, unlike Chumbawamba, it will get knocked down and not get up again. That would be great. Eradication is what we're aiming for here. Yeah. I just saw the boys episode with that song and it's stuck in my head. I am so behind on that show.

I'm trying to avoid all these spoilers. This is the finale came out, right? It's done. Yeah, yeah. So far, no spoilers. I have no idea what's going on. I won't say anything. I got to hurry up.

I mean, I haven't gotten to the end yet myself, so definitely. I can't spoil anything, but. Yeah. You may be able to predict it, though, I wonder. I mean, we won't try because maybe you'll get it right. I don't know. Yeah, that's true. No, I don't know.

Yeah. So I know, it seemed like there's some, when is anyone happy with an ending of a show that everybody was obsessed with? But it seems like there's a lot of consternation out there right now. There's a second spinoff besides... Yeah, the Vot one. Vot Rising, I think. Vot Rising, yeah. So...

How you spelled VOT? There it is. V-O-G-H-T? V-O-G-H-T. Yep, found it. Vot Rising coming soon. It is a prequel set in the 50s. Oh, interesting. Okay. And you got your Jensen Eccles playing Soldier Boy, because he's the one that doesn't age.

He's your Captain America, basically. Yep. I think I think that sounds interesting like taking this way out of the era that's kind of cool yeah I like 50s sci-fi stuff I do too and you're gonna love

like they've got some promotional shots of the outfits and stuff yeah very like silver age comics like perfect yeah good I think that could be good yeah excited for that and Jensen Eccles is a very handsome man and if I leaned that way I would I would think of him often. Think of him all the time. That may say something about me. All right. Anyway. Guys, quick note, the nerdtacular shirts that are for pickup, that ended last night at

midnight. And if you ordered one, great, a bunch of you did. And you're all set. When you get there, they'll be there waiting for you with your name. For those who missed an opportunity on that, we will have some on hand to sell there as well. So I just want to let you know that was all happening and also the TMS 3,000 plus mugs, that order taking has also ended. And we have the order is being placed this week. So shipping on those soon as well. So all kinds of stuff happening there. I don't know why we decided to make our lives more complicated before, you know, literally a week and a half, two weeks before the event, but here we are doing it. But anyway, updates on both of those are looking good. All right. So looking forward to that. And then a quick shout out, a

birthday shout out to regular listener and good overall guy, a local and a gent and a heart of gold. Yeah. Jim Jensen is having a birthday today. Yay. He's the nicest guy you would ever meet. Yep. He looks just like. Great cosplayer is George R. Martin.

He still looks just like George R. Martin. You almost, when I see him, he'll occasionally come by him. When I see him, I want to go, finish the book. And then I realize that's not him. Exactly. Yeah. Anyway, super nice guy. And you guys are, we're lucky to have him in the audience.

So Jim, happy birthday. I want to take him to the meow wolf in New Mexico and just see if people think like, oh, George R. Martin's here. Oh. You can have him dress up in the clothes George is always wearing. And then that's a great idea. Yeah. And just get like preferential treatment.

And like, oh, right this way. Would you like to see our VIP area? What's the worst that could happen? You know? They realize it's not him and just go about their day. Yeah, they leave. They had a good time and they were briefly confused by a person. Yeah.

That's it. Anyway, happy birthday to him. And a shout out to his lovely wife, Robin, who is also awesome. And so creative, so talented. Oh, she's so great. She makes these greeting cards and sends them to all sorts of people and they're just like animated and you open them up and they're like pop up books. Yeah.

Yeah, it's crazy. I still, I'm not getting rid. They made, well, I haven't gotten rid of any of them, but the one that I keep handy is the one that looks like a little record crate with like individual little albums in there. Yeah, super cool. And that's the other thing, just such a thoughtful, like, it's always like geared to the person she's making it for.

Exactly. Yeah. Yeah, super nice. All right. Let us get to some news. There's news today. Sure. And it's important stuff.

I'm not saying some of it is carried over from last week. I'm not saying that at all. Maybe it is. Today's news is brought to you by. Scott, tell us about the dungeon crawler Carl's sticker and print that's now up on the store. Well, good news, everybody. If you missed it the other day or even yesterday on the Monday show, we showed off this version of dungeon crawler Carl rebind that my daughter Taylor did. And we showed it off to everybody.

I don't have pictures handy here. Let's see if I can pull those up. let's see I think I sent them to her anyway they are it turned out oh here it is it's gorgeous I'll put it up for people to see

really quick but it it is so nice this is this is her before she actually put the binding on um here we go that's her hand uh that's uh

she basically I did the art for it and then she did the layout and the rebinding and it turned out even better than I thought when she brought it here it's they used this she says it's expensive but they use this like covering oh the laminate yeah the laminate it's really awesome and you can hand apply it feels like the the texture you were describing it on the show yesterday on monday show and it's like oh man it sounds really cool it's so good and it just turned

out perfect so that's something we're giving away at the event um some one lucky listener is going to win the big uh the big fandom of dungeon crawler carl it first book by the way i should mention this is the first book in the series and uh read rebound with this new thing. So that's happening. But in the meantime, I thought, well, for people who want just like the sticker or a print version of this, those are available now. So head on over to the store and grab one. I think the print is up to 16 by 16 down to as small as 10 by 10.

So you have some choices there in terms of how big you want it to be. And of course, the stickers are great for notebooks, laptops, and there are also various sizes of those. So if you're interested in such things, that is available at frogpans. slash, well, just frogpants.com. Just click the store button. I can tell you slash store, but you know that. You know that. I will say that that looks more like what I visualize Carl and not that twink that he was in the comic books. Yeah, I don't I don't like that one much. I like him a little more sassy and beefy. He sounds like Warburton. He should look like Warburton. Yeah. I want him to be kind of like, I don't know. That's that was the that was the aim. That's interesting you say that because it was exactly where my

happens that. Yeah. I'm very happy with it and I want you guys to have a little piece of it. So go check that out. And also, I hope one of you are the lucky winner come June for that. Let's get to this story. A six-year-old boy finds a 1,300-year-old sword during a school trip. Like you do. You just find those, you know, while you know. Let's see, a normal school outing in Norway turned into an archaeological discovery when a six-year-old boy noticed a rusty object sticking out of a plowed field. Wow, the plot thickens here. I know. Was he the one child who's been able to pull that sword out of the plowed field?

He is the true king and heir. What he found was not scrap metal, but a 1,300-year-old sword from the shadowy centuries before the Viking age. Wow. The shadowy centuries? The shadowy centuries, yeah. They don't really call it that, right? That's just this author being fun.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, I like it, though. I don't know what, uh, what the age was before the Viking age, but it wasn't called the shadowy age. Well, the kids got a shadowy name. The discovery was made by this kid, and his name is Henrik Renfin's Mortveld.

First grade pupil at the Fredheim School. Fredheim. Yeah. The Mortvet. I mean, there's like death in that name, right? Because Mort is Latin. Oh, yeah, that's for death, right. The root of mortuary, mortality, yeah.

Mortality, right. Oh, my gosh, this kid's dangerous. I don't know what vet is like, but. Now he's got an old sword that, who knows what that thing does. Maybe he really is the chosen one, you know, he's going to. Might be. Has he tried raising it above his head and saying that he has the power or, or don't get many ideas, man.

That means, oh, then all the, then skeletor happens. Sure. Yeah. Give it to a museum kid. It belongs in a museum kid. First grade people at that school during a class trip in the Brandboo area of Gran. I love Norway. Norway's awesome. It's great. It's in there in Lodet County. Inlandette.

I guess that's a thing. Inland, I guess. Is that inland? I mean, it's capitalized. It's a county, but it's probably the, it's the inlanda county. or something. According to the NRK, Henrik spotted the object protruding from the soil while walking across the field as classmates. At first, the object looked ordinary, like rust, earth, and metal.

But the shape quickly raised questions. The teachers and children did the right thing. Instead of treating it as a souvenir, they contacted local archaeologists. You know, you just call 1-800 archaeologists. Yeah, and they, exactly. They come out there and, you know, say, best I can do is 40 bucks. that's what they say. Let's see.

It says, they contact the local area. The decision may have saved an important piece of Norway's early medieval past. They don't actually know this yet because they haven't done the testing. It's entirely possible

that this is not as cool as they think it is. It could just be, you know, somebody put it there 50 years ago or something. Oh, sure. They don't know for sure. They're going to test it.

Hidden in this field this whole time. Yeah, they think they're estimating until they get their hands on it. it, which sounds like this story doesn't quite get into. But they identified the object as a single-edged sword, meaning it was sharpened on only one side. This type of blade is often associated with the Mavoringian period of Scandinavia, roughly between 80, 550 and 800,

a time that immediately preceded the better-known Viking age. So pre-viking, man. Pre-viking, that's cool. That's, I mean, think of all that. That's so cool. Yeah. I think this kid should get a piece of this. You should, right, exactly.

like, all right, if this thing ends up in a museum, then it, you know, put his name on there. Right, exactly. Donated from the, the Henrik Foundation or something. Yeah, Henrik Finz ImmortVit. Exactly. Yeah, Bobby says, but he's Norwegian, right? That isn't a Latin language. I'm like, yeah, it's true.

But, I mean, that's, those words tend to kind of make their way around the world, Europe and whatnot. A web search says Mord itself is not a native Norwegian word, but rather a direct French or English word meaning death. Oh, interesting. So, um... Plus it's the O with a strike through it. I forget what that does to it. Yeah.

Yeah. Is that doing it? In Old Norse, Mord is murder. Oh, shit. So... Don't give that kid a sword. A rusty sword? Exactly, yes.

I've never understood what the O, but what is the slash through the O? Does it say it different? Or is it just? Oh, I don't know. I don't know. If it's like a e-sound or something, I know that there's like... I think it's cool, but I don't know what I think about it. It is cool.

Yeah, we need somebody who... My knowledge starts and ends with umlouts. I don't know anything about the cross-outs. My Norwegian starts and ends with aha. Yeah. And that's about it right there. Yeah. Unless that's a...

Oh, you wouldn't be a zero, obviously. Pops and Reklant says, pronounced like you're saying, oh, with your lips in the shape of the letter under the circle. So O. Oh. Oh. Oh.

Oh. Oh. Mold. Mort. Mort. V. What is V-E-D-T? Let's see.

Yeah, look up that. Vente. It's large version of the coffee you're buying. Yeah, that's right. Exactly. He's bigger than a grande. Uh, uh, vet. VEDT.

No, I want, don't, don't. We're learning some today. We're learning. We are. Historical roots, geography, the old Norse word vet, which translates to a clearing of a piece of land that has been cleared for cultivation. So murder farming is what his name means. Oh, boy, it's getting better and better.

Rusty murder farming. Yeah. If there's a more appropriate kid to find a sword in a field in a plowed, freshly plowed field, It's murder farmer. Heinrich Murder Farmer. We need to keep an eye on him. Don't be letting him write any books while he's in prison or anything. I don't trust this guy.

Exactly. Great. Perfect. Holy shit. Yeah. All right. Here's a good one. I hate the headline, though. Yeah, I do too. Let us introduce you to the live frog found in this grocery store salad bag. I don't like the headline for two reasons.

one, the stupid pun, but two, ain't nobody want to find no frog in their salad bag. Here's a funny thing. I'm happier that it's a live frog. I think I would wash the lettuce and still eat the salad. But if it's a dead frog, there's no way I'm in that salad. Yeah, good point. Yeah, no, because you're talking about...

I don't know if... I mean, I don't even know if I'd wash the lettuce and eat it still. I think I'd be... But I'd be less grossed out if it was a live frog over a dead frog. Yeah, I think I'd need to see the frog in question. Did they have a picture of the frog? I don't know if they do. Let's see.

I didn't look. If they do, and it's not as gnarly as my imagination wants to make. Oh, there he is. See, a little green frog guy. That isn't bad. I'd probably clean it. Oops, these people just covered the screen. Hold on.

There he is. Look at that, everybody. See the little froggy? And when they pulled him out, he was reported to have said, he was reported to have said, dang it. He's a robot. Robot frog.

Yeah. Where's the little one? I don't know. Oh, yeah, I have that. Hold on. Hello. No. Hello.

Hello. Hello? This one? That's what. Yeah, I think I'd be okay. Frogs just pee constantly. There's a thing with that. Yeah.

Which is why I've decided I wouldn't just eat the lettuce. Yeah, you know what? I've come around on it, too. There's no need. Go back to the store. $2 bag of salad. And I would show them at the store. I'd say,

I'm about to let this frog out and save him. But I need you guys to see it sealed and see what you've, look at what you've done. And they'll say. It's like, I mean, I get why they're like the video here. They haven't opened the bag yet, right?

And it's like, he's a decent sized frog in there. Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's a deep, it's not that small. It's probably a, I don't know, I don't what you call that brand of frog.

It's like a tree frog. It looks like a tree frog. frog. It's the stereotypic frog, not like a toad. It's not like a poison dart frog or anything like that, but it's like you're, I mean, it's like the frog bands frog. Yeah, it's like a regular ass frog. Not a lot of coloration in this case, just kind of green. And I understand that they, for proof purposes, they've left the bag sealed, but it feels like, okay, let that, let that frog have some more fresh air, please. Hurry. Let them out of there, dude. Take your video, do your little news deal, and now let that frog out. Yeah, get him out.

Poor thing. I got to tell you a story real quick. So, because you just reminded me of it. We were playing one of these games from Chip Theory. They sent us some kids games for the, for Van and Phoebe. And they loved them. Had a ball. And one of these games was like this kind of, you had to tell a story based on what you're looking at.

And not to get too detail because it's not that important. But the idea is like, oh, if there's like this image here, I just drew it because I don't have it handy. But this little image here of a, of a, of a. bug on a leaf, right? Oh, okay. Yep. And that's exactly what it was. It was a lady bug on a leaf. And Vann's getting all these answers correct. He's describing everything nailed because he's seven. He can do this. Phoebe, she goes, she's three. She looks at it. She very confidently, I said, what's this, Phoebe? She goes, that is a bug in the salad. Wow. And she said it so seriously. It feels like that is the most Scott Johnson answer. I know. It felt really good to see that we've got

real future with these kids. That's a dirt clod in a Wendy salad. And the leaf was not even green. It was like a maple leaf speaking of maple trees. It's like just a brown maple leaf with a ladybug on it. And she goes, that's a bug on a salad. I said, or that's a ladybug on a leaf. She goes, a ladybug on a leaf. She's a freaking hoot. So cute. Anyway, those games are great. So shout out to those guys again at Chip Theory for that. I should have brought 20 strong out

here because it's a solo. Oh yeah, you can play that on your own. Not that, not that I'm running out of things to do here. So much to freaking do. Plus you got a hot tub. You got the switch.

I got chores. I have to drag the, the garbage and the recycling down a big hill to get to the road. Oh, man. How big of a hill? I mean, it's about,

it's what may be a tenth of a mile down to the hill. It's, you know, it's good cardio for working on the, it's good cardio. Yeah. A lot easier to drag. get downhill than uphill, but I'm glad

they'll be empty when I drag him back uphill. Oh, I did get a, I did get an EV. I didn't get any of the EV cars I wanted. I wanted an Ionic 5 or a Kia Nero or a VWID4, right? Because these are the, these are the cars I'm considering getting for our next car. Those are all the ones I like that.

They gave me a Chevy, Chevy Bolt. Oh, the bolt. I hear the bolts damn deficient for the local deans. Like if you're just like around town stuff, but if you want long distance, the vault is the wrong pick, right? Yeah. Yeah. I don't think they got a great like, whatever.

What do you call that? Battery life. Battery life. But whatever it is. Yeah. Miles. Discipation. Yeah.

I don't know what it is. Miles per volt. Yeah. Yeah. Something like that. Oh, no. It does have car play Redlings, which is good. I need that because I want, you know, I want my own music and my own maps.

But yeah, I mean, I got it on Friday. I haven't driven it a lot until starting yesterday, but it's already at half a battery tank. Oh, wow. Yeah. Is it, I mean, do you like just the feel of the thing? Like, how does it feel? Yeah, I do.

Oh, man. So this is my first time, long time drive. First time, like, driving an EV for a long time. I've done some, like, you know, my friends got one, so I get to drive his, but very, very briefly. So I didn't know about this feature where when you release your foot off the gas, it is an instant like, almost like a break, right?

Almost like a break. Yeah. Because it's recharging. It's actually helping recharge the battery. If you're going down a hill and you pull your foot off there, it'll go down the hill and charge the battery. Regenerative braking. Thank you, I-Corps. and at first I'm like this is driving me crazy I've got to turn it off because I look like somebody driving a stick shift for the first time where it's like gung gung gung and now that I've gotten used to it I've had it on the whole time and it's like I can drive from here to burlington and never ever touch the brake pedal like 40 minutes of driving and it's just a matter of like much more um um

minuscule motions, movements on the, on the gas pedal, like way more. Yeah, you have to kind of tune your reaction. And then when you get home to your normal car, it would be like, what the, oh, I can't, yeah, I can't imagine when that's going to be like, that's going to suck. Your muscle memory, kicking back in. But, yeah, I felt the same way driving my brother-in-law's Tesla for a hot minute,

and it just felt, it just felt strange. Yeah. I'm not sure I really ever quite used to. I'd have to have the car, you know, own it and drive it all the time, I guess, to really do it. But that's too bad they didn't have the ones you wanted, though. Yeah. Then the car, like when I picked up the bolt, right next to me in the other of their

EV spaces was a Kia Nero, was the one that I thought I was getting. But I didn't want to, I had two big suitcases in my backpack. I didn't want to go back in and say, hey, can we switch me over to the Kia Nero? Sounds like, yeah, whatever. Yeah, you don't want to Steve Martin, E. E.D. McClure of that business. Right, exactly. You're aft.

You're aft. The other thing I was going to say about that, what was it? Was it, was it, oh, my brother-in-law, we went over there yesterday for hanging out and stuff. They have a pool and, you know, made food and everything for Memorial Day is what I'm trying to say out loud. And between the last time I've been out there, I didn't know about this, but they put in solar. And they, my sister says, she goes, you won't believe this. I said what? She goes, we were paying 900 to 12.

$1,200 a month in our power bill before. And I'm like, and it's a big house, but I was like, geez, Misha, that is a freaking lot of money. That is a lot of, and she says now we're paying about $18. That's cool. Yeah. And so they bought the panels outright or they're leasing them? They bought them outright and put them on.

They have like a separate garage thing that you could park boats or something in and it's tall or whatever. And they're going to turn it eventually into an arcade and very excited about it. But anyway, they covered that in the. panels and then they ran cable under ground to the charge to the storage battery area and then to the rest of the main house and now but you it's just seamless and it's not hanging all over their house because it's kind of ugly yeah but it's hanging on this other thing which looks like it's appropriate to hang a bunch of shit on it so it kind of worked out really well but man imagine going from that

much a month to freaking 18 bucks oh my god they got to feel like uh they hit the lottery a little bit yeah except yeah i guess the initial investment you got to pay all that all that well yeah buying the panels, that first, you know, that first initial outlay is, is, they're doing okay. Pretty beefy. They'll be fine. They'll be fine. Yeah, I'm not worried about that. Although we did find out that the water in their pool may or may not be irrigation water

because there was some confusion with the city. The city has two sources of water. And in a drought year, they're like, all right, well, we're only going to use irrigation on people's lawns and it's like secondary water, basically. But not super dirty. It's not like lake water or something. something like that, but it's not the kind you want to drink. And she thinks that that's what they put in the pool by accident.

But didn't tell anyone this until we were out of the pool. Oh, geez. Yeah. Great. I actually think they got it right because it seemed fine to me, plus it's treated. But it was pretty funny to think that this is, you know, for all I know, this is goose poop water. We don't know. Right.

Yeah, swimming in the goose poop. Okay. guys it's time for some emails we have some emails to read cool and here it is this is about the jugs of pee and when I say emails I mean text in this case

these are all texts texts there you go it's a weird word isn't it if you say yeah it loves because you want it you can't pronounce that second T in texts text text

you really can't no no English what are you doing because you cut off the X Chuck The buyers of Chuck wrote in Oh yeah He said Not about the jugs of P

No We attributed it to him for such a long time But it's not him I still think of him every time Even though I now know it's not him So it's kind of weird Says hey Brian This is for you Brian

Yeah Since you're going to Burlington, Vermont Check out the world's tallest filing cabinet It's in a nondescript parking lot Downtown We probably need more info than that But you can go see It's pretty easy to find

Oh is it Do you know about this? I have not I heard about it. I've not seen it yet. It's off of Champlain Parkway and Flynn Avenue. Where is that in relation to where I'm going? Oh, it's on the south side of Burlington.

darn, I was really close when I went to the Target and... Holy Moses. I just saw a picture of it. Okay. Yeah. You all share this image. Pretty crazy. Yeah.

Look at this, everybody. It is a... It's really not a tall filing cabinet. It's a... bunch of family cabinets stacked on top of one another. Yeah. And they're all, boy, it's really written on a lot. A lot of graffiti.

And kudos to the brave taggers who, you know, climb really far up there. I guess putting their feet on drawers and stuff as they go up there. That's absolutely wild. What a weird monument. Also, my favorite graffiti in a long time is this one. Guy just says, Hi.

Hi. Hi. Hey, how's it going? And, you know, that's it, that's at arm height. So, sure. Just a nice guy. I didn't want to go all the way up. I don't know if I'm going to go see this thing.

It's not close to where I'm going, but if I end up in that area, I'll look for it, for sure. Oh, here's even a better shot because this shows a close-up. I thought it was all just writing, but it's also stickers. Oh, it's also stickers. Yeah, so however high you can get up there. I mean, this feels like, oh, oh, man, our company just went. bankrupt. What do we get to do with all these phallic cabinets? Let's stack

them in the parking lot and like weld them together and put our stickers all over them. Yeah, I'm actually, it's kind of nice. A lot of piece stickers. You are beautiful. Yeah. There's some beer ones, but you know. Yety. I like the drawers that are sticking in. Yeah, that's freaky

actually. I couldn't go up there. It kind of is. Yeah. Forget it. Well, anyway, there you go. Well done, Vermont. If I do end up in that area, I'll go check out the world's tallest filing cabinet, misnamed because it's the world's tallest stack of multiple filing drivers. I don't know why they don't call it that.

I mean, I guess, you know, it's when you put one filing cabinet on top of another filing cabinet, you're creating a new filing cabinet with more drawers, I guess. So, okay. You know what? That's true. They can stack, right? Or are they, in theory, they could. I mean, a little welding probably, a lot of welding, I'm sure.

is the Kim did that thing where she went to one of those estate sales bought some filing cabinets and then

put them in the backyard, lay them on their side, take the drawers out you lay them on their, well,

their backs, I should say. So now the drawer holes are facing up. You fill that with soil and you can grow

tomatoes. Oh, wow. They look like planters, like little, little cubical plant, it's a plant cubes.

Yeah, and they work really, they're extremely good at being that. And when you see them, you don't immediately go, oh,

is that a filing cabinet? you don't even know. It just looks like a planet. It'd be cool if you get like ivy and stuff growing on the side to completely mask there. Yeah, I worry about rust a little, but. Sure. Yeah.

Don't eat those tomatoes. No. Yeah. Stick to your frog. Those tomatoes are darker red than I'm used to. What is that? That's right. Yeah.

Why are they a rust color tomatoes? The rust is good for you. Shiny scent pocket wrote in. Okay. Dear belly button and short shorts. Oh my. Uh-huh. I hate to mention it, but you started it.

Back in my day, back in my day, when our jeans started wearing out, my mom or our moms bought out the pinking shears. What's a pinking shear? Sewing scissors. Okay. The one my mom would kill us if we used. Exactly if you used for other things. That is the most, I swear, it's a universal Gen X experience. It really is.

Those scissors. They must be because everyone I ever talked to is anywhere in my age range. Yep. They all go, oh, yeah, mom and her scissors. You would get, oh, my gosh. Yeah, you, they were expensive enough for mom to have to replace that if you dulled them by cutting paper or something, then, yeah, you were yelled at. Oh, yeah, then do they do the crinkle cut? They've got that zigzagety.

Oh, yeah. Shape to them, yeah. Yeah, and she, I honestly, it's the most mad I've ever seen my mom. I don't think I've ever pissed her off more. Anyway, they take out these, these, you should. They take out these scissors, these shears, and made cutoffs, which were never quite the right length. Either a little too long or a little too short. That's how it wasn't our house to.

Most often too short. Yeah. And sometimes left leg a little too long, right leg a little higher. Oh, right. Sure. Yeah. Otherwise, you end up with sneaky nut punch is what happened there. This person says, I can still see the bottoms of my pockets hanging out of the leg.

Sorry for the unpleasant image. Grow the Robo, Sunglow Steve. Oh, Sunglow Steve. Wait a minute. Sin Pocket. He's doing the three-word closing. Oh, yeah. He's doing it right. Well done. My bad. I knew he, I know that name, but for whatever reason, I made the last thing his name.

Okay, but he got the memo. Good job, dude. You nailed it. Yes, good job. Well done. Understood the assignment. And then finally, Adrian. Adrian. Ask your parents. Maybe your uncle. Ask yourself because you shouldn't see Rocky. Oh, yeah. It should be on your watch list. Yeah, that should have been.

You should have taken care of that. Maybe not necessarily any of the Rockies that have a number after them, but certainly the first one. There you go. This is also a question mostly for Brian, as I've already played this, but Adrian says, hey guys, just wondering if Brian had a chance to get into dispatch yet, dying to hear what you guys, or dying to hear you guys talk about that game. Well, Brian. Yes.

You hooked the switch up. Did that mean you played a little, the old, ye old dispatch? No, because I have it on the steam deck. Oh, shit. I bought it on Steam. Or I got it gifted to me. me from Tanner on Steam. And I thought about bringing the Steam deck specifically just to play dispatch.

But I've had so many people email me and say, when you play dispatch, stream it because we want to watch you go through it. People who've played the game, I guess they want to see it happen. So I, because I don't want to do any, have to figure out any streaming stuff out here, I decided I would wait until I get back and probably after Nurtacular and the end. MS-150. So July dispatch. I've barely played any,

even though I've hooked up the switch to the TV here, I've barely played any Pokemon just because I've been busy, but soon. That sounds great. I think that's the right way to do it. I don't know if you're like me, but I'm looking at July like it might be my happiest month of all time. Because things are going to be chilling.

Yeah. I'm going to just do a lot of pool time with kids and hanging out and food and just having a good July, man. Exactly. Once I leave Logan, Utah after the bike ride, it feels like my summer opens up. So yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I'm doing a Moab thing in August for our anniversary.

Oh, nice. Just all that sounds wonderful right now. Because all the stress will be off, all right? No more stress. Right. No. Hopefully. All right.

That's it for emails. Thanks for those. And when I say emails, I mean text. Go to frogpants.com slash TMS and you'll find the text tool right there. you can send us a voicemail, a text, a whatever you want. The email is always there as well. So you can use that. We do check those.

So big thanks to Sunglow, Steve, Adrian, and of course, Chuck Byers for your messages today. That is going to do it for today. Frogpants.com slash TMS is our website. Tune in tomorrow. Tom Merritt will be here. We'll be doing our usual Wednesday business. Wow. Memorial Day, that messed me up.

It did. Yeah, you got to figure out, I mean, it won't be any problem for me to do a few from out here. I did forget to bring cards for half-asses, but Tina can pull the next three out and take a photo of them for me, so that's easy enough. Oh yeah, you got people on the ground. You'll be all right.

I have people on the ground. Boots on the ground. Yeah, those boots were made for walking. That's going to do it for that. Let's see what else. So we're going to have to push to, I just heard from John Jagger. We were supposed to play 1 p.m. today, part seven of our play of Resident Evil Nine.

John had something come up. He had an appointment. So I'm not sure what that means yet, but that got postponed. I'll make sure you guys are aware when that changes. I know people are looking forward to us finishing that out. So soon on that. Brian,

you got anything else going on today? Anything going up? No, a new episode of Lost Luggage will go up tomorrow. So look for that. Nice. Episode four of the show. And then, yeah, we're recording. we're recording the episode today of the three-part finale,

season one finale, when everything, it feels like everything changes. It's such a great set of episodes. One of the greatest, I feel like it. Season finale is, yes. I think it defined it.

Yeah. It defined a new way of doing it. And some have done it swimmingly since, but many have failed. I don't know if anyone's done it as well as lost at it. Yeah. Unbelievable cliffhanger that year. Oh, my gosh.

That's when I knew. I was like, this is a thing we're never not seeing. Yeah. All the way through. I don't care if people hate the ending or not. We're never stopping until this is over. Right. Exactly.

Hard to do. Let's do a song. You have a song all lined up. I have a song. I have a song. Man, Brian was so damn prepared for this trip, I swear. It's actually impressive. Like, there was music in the thing.

Two weeks of songs. Yeah. What do you got for us today? This is going out to B4 Tank Girl. She says, Dear Sholely, and Bodran, Badron, with an articular on the horizon. I feel like we need a song to encapsulate the nature

of the frog pants community. Please play We Are Family by Germa Tech. Can't wait to see everyone in person. Please play three of the oldest Scott Fletcher clips you can find. Your sincerely, sincerely, I'm trying to get ahead of things and say the next thing she says. Your sincerely, before Tink Girl, the strategic cow usurper. Oh, I love that.

That's really good. All right, the oldest I have? Yeah, maybe if their lung, maybe just one. Okay, I'll find, I'll find an old one here. This one's four seconds. If I wasn't about to shit my pants, I'd be fucking fascinated. All right, that's a 2011. I know I've got older than that.

Yeah. Okay, here's a 2010. Here you go. The short one also. The spice must flow. Ah, this is a really old one. And then finally, here's a 2009. Is that right?

Jeez. Stand back. Boom. There you go. He has been doing that shit for me for a long time. Yeah, he has. And I may or may not have a little surprise from Scott Fletcher coming up in a week or so. Really?

Time will tell. Yes. Anyway, so before tank rolls request is We Are Family by Germitech. On their album, they actually call it We're Family, as opposed to We Are Family. family. But it is a cover of the song by the Pointer Sisters. Here is Germattack. Listen to this mashup and many more after the show by visiting 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? On Monday, I am in a men's room in an office building where often hilarious things happen to me for some reason.

But I'm in this office and I have in my ears tweaked audio earbuds and I'm standing at the urinal. A big bank of them. We got about 12 of them and they got shorty ones and tall ones. It's a very full service sort of bathroom. And I'm standing next to this guy who is wearing business casual. Now that's not the important bit. I want you to have a visual of what I'm dealing with. Okay.

And this bathroom was hopping. There were a number of people in there when I walked in. You know, you always look for the one furthest from where somebody else is. I think that's the social contract. So I get in there and I squeeze up next to this guy because there's no one. other room. It's the only one available at the time. And I'm having a little bit of the stage fright that you get sometimes when you've got a whole bunch of people

there. So I can't go right away. And I've got my earbuds in, in my ear, and I'm doing my thing, and I'm finally kind of done, all right? And I go to kind of zip up and stuff, and I, by complete accident, I got, like, my hand up here to my chest or whatever, and I'm just kind of, I don't know, I don't know what I'm doing. I'm brushing

myself off or something. I don't know how it happened exactly. This is the part that's a little bit foggy, but I somehow snagged the joint part of the earbuds, yanked them out of my ears in rapid fire succession, like it hurt. You know, and you do that and it just pisses you off and you're full of rage. I do that, but they don't just come out and hurt my ears. They whip out, and I'm fumbling for them, and they do this kind of pendulum action, swing around, and I've grabbed it by the midway parts, so now it's a shorter swing.

They swing around, and they smack this guy in the weener. Like, I see it happen. I see them swing around. Both earbuds go, point, and whack him right in the weaner. Like, in the wiener. And he looks at me. He just kind of looks at me deadpan. And now I'm standing there.

I feel like I'm frozen. I know this all happened within a second. But I feel like I'm frozen in time, holding my earbuds by the joint, kind of up a little bit and looking at him, not sure what to do. Just silently looking at each other. Yeah. And you know what, Brian? I'm not putting these back in my ears.

I just hit a person's weener with them. Yeah. So they're done. Those earbuds are tweaked. They are tweaked. So I roll up what I didn't have to touch because it was just the buds hit him in the man penis. That's what happened. I wotted them up and I threw them out as I walked out of the building.

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