The Morning Stream - TMS 3016: Tinkle Target

Episode Date: May 28, 2026

Banana in the pee hole. You Get NO Ibbotty, NO Bibbotty, and NO LT YAR! Queen of the Discord. Hypothetical Vermonter. Whitest Mexican in Vermont. I like the gross monkey stuff. Lewd and noooood. Dear John, Eff Off! Turn It Up To Ginger! Passing an Energizer. Vex-Mex Cuisine. Jump Rope for me Baby Doll. You Little Chits! Bethonged. No one puts prince in a box and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Why don't you beat it while you still have a beat to beat? The morning stream. I'm bleeding to death. Humor me. Hello, everybody, and welcome to TMS. This is the morning stream for May 28th, 2026. I am Scott Johnson. That is Brian in a bit dippet.

Right. Ibidi-bibbidi from across the country. That's right. Way over there. Two hours from me. That's right. It is so. weird for me to start doing this show at 11 o'clock. Like it's, it just feels, uh, because we're well done normally by then. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. It's like, uh, uh, I now say, oh, well, I can actually get a bunch of stuff done before.

And usually it's like, all right, I'm going to get a couple things done and then just clean up my email for the first, you know, for the half hour that's left. And I was like, oh, I really should do some freelance work and do some nerdtacular work and do some this and that. and get stuff done. And you got this nice little time in the morning now to do it. I do. Yes. If you ended up moving to Vermont, that's how you'd have this. You'd have your workday done by the time.

I'd have my work day done. Yeah, I was thinking about that yesterday after that message that we did pre-show. Somebody asked if I'd ever consider moving at Vermont. And there are things I really like about Vermont. I mean, it's beautiful. It's so green. It's lush. I'm not sure

I'm not sure how I feel about all the people The locals, eh? The locals. There's, yeah, I don't know, it seems like there's, there's, I'm listening, I'm laid back, but it feels like this is, at least where I meant right here, is a lot of farmers

and a lot of, yep, this is pretty much how fast I'm going to go with things in life. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's not me. I need. There is something I find a little attractive about that. Sure.

But I prefer, I'd prefer a way to mix it, you know. Yes, exactly. I don't mind if there's a slow lane, but I'd like there to be the option of a fast lane around them. Yeah, there are days when you're going to want that fast lane, and then there are days you want to be nice and slow. But do you find that they're, like the stereotype is that up there in that area, everybody's a little like,

ah, I'm little superstitious of what's going on over there. No, you know, because I know exactly you're talking about it. It's very, it's very much the Stephen King character that warns the main character about what's going to happen. Yeah. Right? It's that, and I will say,

that the women of a certain age, the older women, older than us, are very, very much the stereotype of the really long gray hair, driving a Subaru carrying everywhere they go carrying cloth shopping bags. Oh, I know that stereotype. And it's not that I'm saying anything bad about that, but that just kind of is how it is. And it's fine. It's fine. It's fine. They grow their own weed. Yeah. Who knows what they're doing? I don't know what they're known.

Well, uh, uh, that's, you know, look, it takes all kinds, I guess. I think I would, I would enjoy. I think I would enjoy the quiet for a time. And then I would probably go a little nuts. Yeah. Um, and the betrists says, uh, isn't that what Colorado is a bit though? And I'm like, kind of. Yeah. I mean, it's like Boulder. Boulder has that. And Boulder, Boulder is probably the closest thing to Vermont. It's like Park City for us. Same thing. Yeah.

Yeah. But, right. But it's, but there's also this other level of Boulder. It's a college town. So it's like there's a big young vibe, a youth vibe of all the students living there. And then there's this older like granola Subaru, kind of, you know, Ben and Jerry's vanilla kind of stuff going on there. Sure.

I don't know. I love visiting. I'll visit all the time. If what I live here, I don't know. But I'm not given, I don't need to decide that. No, this is not a, this is all hypotheticals. That's all this is, everybody. Yeah.

So calm your role. Cool your jobs. That's right. I went to the doctor yesterday for a regular old visit. It was just a follow up. Nothing weird. And had a strange experience. I need to share it.

It's really weird. Normally it's a very professional place. Everyone's very nice. I really like my doctor. She's very nice. She's very smart. All this stuff's good. But as I was in the,

her wait, not the waiting room, but the room where she's going to come see me. What's that called? Yes. Like the exam room. Exam room. That's it.

Yeah. I knew there's a word. Where you got the butcher table and the whatnot and all that. The paper that, you know, it's like, uh, Yeah, like some smelly guy's been there.

Right. Like, we're going to, your, your, uh, sanitary protection is really the same thing they use at cheesecake factory to turn over a table. Yeah, that's how you make a nice sheet of brownies. So I'm in there and it's, I'm between the person that comes in before and it does kind of like, you know, your vitals and all that. And then she says, all right, I'm going to go get doctors so and so and I'll, I'll, she'll be here in a minute.

I said, great. So she leaves. And it's a little bit. longer she's taking a minute and i have to pee i'm like oh i should have peed before but i also wasn't sure if they wanted me to maybe they needed me to pee in a cup maybe a sample or something yeah so i was like i got to go so i get up and i go into the bathroom which is a bit down the hall and out out of this place it's kind of hard to explain but it's not it's not close to where this exam room is and i'm like i'm just going to be in and out of there so i left my my phone i left my i had a my bag there with my

notebook in it. I just left my stuff there and went to the bathroom. I go in there and the, there's, there's stalls and there's what's it's columns, urinals, urinals, as the British would say. Yeah. And one of the urinals has the weirdest things in it. So there is a banana unopened. I'm not going to, I don't know if it was a real banana or if it was a, it looked, real, but it could be a way, a fake one. You didn't pick it up to tell. But it wasn't part of like a fruit basket or something. No, just a banana laying in the urinal hole right next to, oh, in the urinal hole? Yeah, in the urinal. Yeah. Oh. Oh. Okay. I mean, I thought when you said it's in the journal, I thought, oh, okay, it's like in the area like, you know, in the area.

But no, it's actually straight up in the toilet. Like where the soap usually is that the soap cake that is a tinkle target. Yeah, that weird little. The little. The little. The little. little tinkle target exactly. Yeah. And then my first thought was, no one's ever going to miss that banana. That thing's a huge target. Yeah.

So there's this banana in there and I look a little closer and there's a either a C or a D-sized battery, like an alkaline size, you know, like the old school batteries. Yeah, the big fat. Mom and Jamas. Which I guess they still sell. I just haven't seen one in a long time. So it kind of threw me. You need them for flashlights.

Oh, yeah. Flashlights still use them. Yeah. Yeah. And there are probably some retro comeback for that stuff anyway. So they're selling again. But there was a big, it was a ever, not ever ready.

What's the copper towel? Duracel. That's it. Durrissol brand. And it's just sitting there next to this maybe real, maybe fake banana. Did, okay. So did it look like there was a battery port on the banana that the C battery may have fallen out?

I thought of that and I looked. Again, without moving stuff around, it's impossible to say for sure. Yeah. But I'm pretty sure they were. were separate items, but it's a, I thought the same thing. I was like, maybe these are, maybe it was a battery powered banana. And then I didn't want to know more than that.

And then this is a regular doctor. This isn't a proctologist or anything. No, nothing like that. Nothing where a banana and a battery should be needed. Whereas like, oh, shoot. Can I go to the bathroom really quick? Yeah. So while I'm in there, I'm like, well, that's weird and I'm kind of, it's, there's

other stuff in there. I don't need to get into, but it's like, you know, you could tell somebody had just had a problem. Sure. And oh, okay. So I slap my, I slap my pants looking for my phone. I'm like, I have to take a picture of this. This is too good.

Uh-huh. I forgot. I left my phone and my bag in the thing. So I thought, well, no one's touching this in the next, I'm only going to be here like another 15 minutes. No one's going to touch it. I'll come back and get the shot. Sure.

I go back in. She still wasn't there. Maybe 30 seconds after I got back, she arrives. we do our whole thing, we have our discussion. She's all done. She sends my way and I'm like, all right, gotta beeline it to that bathroom. Another, they'd make a quick stop at the bathroom.

Yeah, and for them, they just think I'm going in there to use it. You know, they don't know. Of course. Yeah. So I go in there, I got my, I got my phone in my hand already. It's gone.

It's totally clean. Somebody had cleaned it, removed it. Just in the few minutes that you were doing your exam. Yeah, it was probably 10 or 12 minutes is all. And somebody, all I can think of is the timing was just funny because I probably saw it after someone else was off to report it. Right, right, exactly.

They're like, you know, your bathroom has a urinal has a bunch of weird stuff in it. Oh, okay. And then Scott comes in, whoa, look at all this, leaves, they clean it. Yeah, I think that's what happened. Because it was super clean, like they did a regular, like all of the urinals were just like shiny and new suddenly. Gotcha, gotcha, and the, and whatever the thing is that somebody clearly had a problem. problem was all cleared up too. That was all cleared up as well.

Notice I'm not asking for any further details. And it's not because I know what you're talking about. It's because I don't want to know what you're talking about. I kind of don't want to tell anyone what I think I saw there. And it was a couple of, well, anyway. And one of the urinals had like a kind of a bright orange problem. Like somebody needs to check their. Oh, really? I don't think they're very hydrated or something. So there's a lot of that. But then that was just all like, like freaking what's his name from Pulp. fiction the cleaner came and just took care of it all it's gone kaitel came in there and said uh you got a banana and a battery in a urinal and yeah and i'm the only guy that can fix it and he did or whoever did

and uh i was a little i'm as a little disappointed i walked out of there going dang it this would have been the best thing to show with this story because then we could have really picked it apart and gone all right now is there a little hatch on that banana are we sure it's not plastic maybe it's a real banana like we could have had this whole thing today and nope gone Anyway, it was fun. Sometimes actually the mind story is better than the visual. Sometimes we don't need the thousand words that a picture gives us, and just the words that you give me gives us is enough.

Yeah, like 20 words versus a thousand is a fair tradeoff in this case. Sure, sure. Because we don't need to know more people. No, we really don't. But I do like coming up with the scenarios on my head. I like doing that. So what I think happened here is probably, I don't know if it's safe. podcasting to even say, but I think somebody

somebody may have had a maybe it's just a joke banana. And you put the thing and then it dances around and sings like those fish on the wall. Maybe it was like that. Sure. Probably not. No. Also, why would you put it in a urinal and not put it in the trash can which is like four feet away?

Right. Right. Exactly. Yeah. I feel like it was almost like somebody wanted people to question. Like they were like they're, what's the next person who comes in here going to think if they find a battery and a banana in the urinal. Yeah. Maybe.

I don't know. So whoever that was, hats off to that guy. I have no idea what he was up to. But hopefully you get your banana back. No idea. How to go yesterday for you after we were done. So we'd finished up the show and I was going to go get a lobster roll. I was really excited about it.

And I drove over to the lobster roll place. It's Katie's food truck is the name of it. Not snack bar. I think I misspoke. There is a place over here called like Ed. snack bar. And it's like right in the middle of like it's it's it's a, oh, what's a good comparison? You know, there's those like tasty freeze kind of places that, you know, you drive by. And it's like, all right, it's just kind of a, a standalone place on the side of the road. Looks like if they needed to,

they could up and go and get this thing out in a couple hours if they had to. Okay, I see what you mean. But a little more permanent looking than that, but you know, like a window. You go up to the window you order. Right. A card wouldn't picnic tables in front and an awning on on poles and stuff like that. Yeah. So I go to Katie's food truck, which is the place that has the lobster rolls and apparently milkshakes as well.

Their marquee really touts their lobster rolls and their milkshakes. That weird combo. It is a weird combo. And so I go up there, there's like nobody there. It's after noon, right? Because we finish up the show at noon here. So I go up there and go up to the window. The guy opens the window and says, oh, yeah, sorry, we're closed.

Like, oh, okay. He's like, we're open on the weekends. I'm getting some staffing. We haven't got enough people to be open on the weekdays. So, yeah, come back Friday or Saturday or Sunday, and we get you set up. I'm like, oh, okay, cool. Wow. All right.

No, nothing on the marquee saying only open Friday through Sunday, whatever. But that's fine. A recent turn of events where they shed a bunch of people or something. I think so. So, yeah, a bunch of people went off for summer vacation or something. So I'm like, well, the other reason, you know, I wanted to do this is like I wanted to get some food and then take it to an EV charging station and then, you know, eat it while my car charges. Sure. Because I'm below, I'm well below half, a little bit above a quarter.

And I see people do this all the time. I see them eating in the parked charging things. It's not unusual at all. No, exactly. So I pull up the app. Big thanks again to a bunch of people actually sent me a link to the app. It's like not via link. It's like ever something.

Let me pull up the app here. Oh, the one that tells you where all the stations are or where the? Yeah. I used to have that and I don't even know why I had it. Oh, really? Yeah, why would you have that? I don't know. Oh, I know why.

It feels like a lot of work to plug share. Yeah, that's it. And I did it. I remember why I did it. before we got the hybrid, we were seriously considering an electric and I was like digging around for like, all right, well, one of the big problems is big distances, you don't know where the things are. Oh, there's this app. And then I never.

In fact, it's probably still at my phone. I don't need it. That's funny. Because I don't charge anymore or I don't need to. But anyway. So, yeah, big things. Friendly Slead, Mac addict, all I think let me know about PlugShare. Grabbed it and said, okay, where's the nearest plug?

Oh, it's over here. It's actually really close to the black flannel distillery where I played trivia the other night. But I don't want to go back there for lunch. I'll find something else. And so I drive over there. There's a grocery chain out here called Hannafords. That's really good. It's a very clean king supers, crogree kind of like.

It's like a chain or a single little joint. It's certainly a chain here in Vermont. I don't know how far they extend. Gotcha. But all of them have plugs in front in their parking lot. So I pull up, I scan the thing. I do like, you know, here's my email address and go ahead and start charging, plug it in. And I'm like, all right, let me go find something to eat.

So I pull up the app and say, oh, there's like a little pizza place, a little Italian place nearby. Eight minute walk. So I start walking, get there, have a meatball sub, the other half of which I'm going to have for lunch today because I can't wait. They're delicious and throw it back in the oven. for a little warm-up. Sure. And come back to the car, and it has barely moved. Oh, no.

And I look in the car and it says, 100% charge Friday at 9 p.m. Oh. So it's Wednesday. It is a real trickle-down system going on there. It really is. So I'm like, okay, this is going to take a long time. I guess this is not the one I want to use.

And so I pull up the app, and I see that there's a button there for a, filter for fast charge. And I click that and it's like, oh, okay, there's a few, a far fewer set of fast charging stations that, that you can go to, but it's not nearly as many as the regular charging stations. And I plugged in Mac Attic says you got to check the charger type. Yeah, first thing I did is I plugged in the kind of car I have and it showed me, you can use one of these two types.

and basically it's like a circle, and then the other type is a circle with an oblong thing below it that's got a few more ports on it. That sounds like the, well, there's adapters too, right, that you can use to adapt to one or another or something like that? There are, yes, but... You don't have those in there. I don't have those.

They did not give me those. They gave me a, you know, 110-volt plug-in thing that I could use for an outdoor charger that basically, I think it might get 100% by the time I have to rest. return it if I didn't drive it at all and I just left it plugged in. Yeah, that stuff's weird. So I decided, all right, well, I head back, get some stuff done at the house. And then for dinner, I'll just go back out and I'll find another place.

I was going to have my leftover meatball sub for dinner, but I'll just save that for lunch today and I'll go out and get some dinner somewhere else. Sure. So I go over to the other Hannafords, the one that's got the deluxe charging station, and pull into the spot. Perfect. See it. All right. You must be a member. Go on to the website. Join, you know, punch in the code for the

charger that I'm at. And it says, terrific. Start charging. And I grab it and it's like, oh, this cable is not going to reach. So, gosh, dang. Because where I parked, the chargers on the other side of the port in the car. And it's like, well, let's see. If I turn, if I face the other way, I'm going to block one other person charging. So the only way I can really do this is to pull completely out and then back in really close to this thing and it'll

at least be on the same side of the car and it may reach to the far the far front of the car like all right this will work all right so i do that i plug it in i look at the screen that says uh full charge in 50 minutes like oh perfect this is great yeah that's good all right and i can go get something and eat nearby. I look at my little map thing. It says, Chili's, Texas Roadhouse. And then it's like Casa Grande Mexican food. Oh, well, this is Vermont. Mexican food in Vermont. How good is it going to be? But at least it's a family-owned place or privately owned place. Sure. Sometimes it's going to surprise it. It's like, wow.

Exactly. So I walk in and first thing, you know, they follow. following me over with a thing of chips and salsa. The salsa comes in a little carafe. Then they give you the carafe in a little bowl so you can keep refilling your own salsa, which is really nice. I like that. I get margarita. I order a, oh yeah, I say like a, I see their combos, like two items.

And I say, okay, can I get a toastata, just a guacamole toastata? And I even describe to the guy, toastata, guacamole, lettuce, cheese. That's it. and then a carnitas burrito. And he's like, yep, no problem. And of course, I get it back and it's a carnitas burrito and a carnitas toastata that's got a little bit of guacamole on top. I'm like, you know what, that's fine.

Yeah, it's like whatever, push through. Yeah. So, but I'll say this. It's like they cooked the carnitas. It's like they washed the carnitas before they cooked it. Oh, no. And then washed it again afterwards just to make sure if there was any remaining flavor on there, they make sure to get all of it off because the carnitas itself was completely flavorless.

The rest of the burrito was good. It was veggies and stuff like that in there. So it kind of offset and a few peppers. I'd say spice level was maybe a one. Oh, wow. But I had my carafe of salsa. So I liberally, you know, dumbed some of that on there. Yeah.

Yeah, I can see, you know, it's like why people wouldn't go to Colorado for seafood. It's like it's not what it's. known for you go to colorado you get your texnex you get your regular mexican food you go to vermont that's where you get your your your lobster roll your fish and chips your whatever yeah it's always once in a while you'll get surprised somebody'll say oh there's this hole in the wall it's owned by two guys that moved there from somewhere and it's amazing but it's like those are hard to find man you got to wait for guy fietta show up and point it out with a stupid hat on backwards exactly well so did was that enough time to charge the thing and you got a full uh yeah i get out there and for 12

dollars my car fully charged it's like wow that's uh let me tell you what that's a lot cheaper than a that's a lot cheaper cheaper than a tank of guess it's less than three gallons right now yeah crazy mech addict is like uh oh he says casso grande is pretty good for vermont mexican it's like all right yeah pretty good yeah i mean it's relative to where it is and what they're known for and Exactly. And wicked kitten says, no, that's not why. It's because Colorado was landlocked, which I guess she's responding to why I said you don't go there for seafood, which is... This is what you meant. What I meant. Yeah. Same reason you don't come here for seafood. I mean, look, there are places that will flash freeze and send it the same day, freshly caught that morning, but you're going to pay through your butthole for it. You're going to pay through the nose. There's a place called water grill downtown that is, if somebody comes and says, well, I'm really looking for seafood, although I don't know who says that comes to Colorado and says, you know, there will be. looking for seafood.

But, man, that is where I direct people if they want good seafood in Colorado because it's amazing. Yeah. We have decent crawfish that grow out at this reservoir called strawberry reservoir. Yeah. I grow. They live there. And people will harvest those and do those fresh.

But that's more of a southern dish anyway. I would call seafood. It's more like mud bugs. Oh, sure. But we have those. Those are good. Yeah. I like them.

I like those. Yeah. Suck the head. You know, those don't require the sea. You can get those. and lakes and streams and rivers. Yeah, and get them anywhere. They look like lobsters, but they ain't.

Yeah. And I know that Vermont is landlocked as well. There's no coastline in Vermont. Yeah, but there's an ease of access. I can get to the coast in an hour and a half or two hours or something from here. Yeah. I mean, honestly, you can go to, so let's just take the ultra example. If you go to Las Vegas, Nevada, which is literally an island.

oasis in the middle of the desert. You can't be more landlocked than Nevada. All right. Any town in Nevada. Yeah. There you are. But there are restaurants in Vegas proper with some of the best seafood you'll ever eat in your life. It really is true. Life finds a way. It gets a way of shipping it out there or having it contained live on strip and then they, you know, kill it and eat at that day. Like there's lots of options, lots of places. It's just all about priorities. If your local places super into the eye, idea of bringing something from the outside, you'll find a way.

But most of the time, it's kind of average. That's how it works. Yeah. Landlock. That's about right. Exactly. Brian, oh, Lost Luggage Discord. There's a whole Discord for Lost Luggage.

So one of the comments that we've gotten on the show is that people want to discuss lost, right, in the comments of the website, but they don't want to do, they don't want to be spoilery. Like we, you know, there's somebody who said, yeah, I want to talk about the show and these things that happen in season one, but it would be some spoilery talk. And I'm trying to decide, what's the best way to handle this? And I said,

let's just create a lost Discord server with a separate place for people who want to talk about just what we've watched on the show where TV's Travis and Phil can go and look and not be spoiled by anything. And then another channel where people can talk all about

the island's mysteries and theories and stuff like that. So what Discord's made for, man. It's perfect. If it's perfect, yeah. So tiny. Decee. Cisley.

Cisley. Cisley. Cisley. Tyson. If you go to Tiny, good luck with remembering this. I'm just kidding. If you're a lost fan,

you'll totally remember this. Go to tiny. dot CC slash 4815, 16, 23, 42. Oh, my Lord. No spaces, no hyphens, no commas. Just, uh... You had to do it. You just had to.

I had to do it. Absolutely. So type that into your computer. Tiny. C.C. slash 4, 8.5. 15, 16, 2342. Fantastic.

That's the only way to do that properly. It really is. I was thinking about other things like live together, die alone, or don't tell me what I can't do. But this felt like the right thing. Well, I put it in the chat as well so you guys can launch right off to it. And very cool. Very cool. If you like Lost, get in there.

And huge, huge thanks to Monica, who is. just discord. She's the queen of discord. Oh, she's a discord freak dude. And she knows exactly how to set things up and rolls and, and, um, and, permissions and groups and stuff like that. And seriously, if you're thinking about setting up a discord,

hire her to set it up for you. Uh, she's, she's great at this. Yeah, she's really good. Between her and Tanner, we have all the knowledge. We do. Yes, exactly. Yeah, I was going to do Tanner.

I was going to reach out to Tanner as well, but I don't know what time he sleeps. I don't want to wake the guy up. He's got that crazy swing shift. He's got tests coming up. He's trying to pass. Exactly. Yeah, certifications that he's working on. Plus, he's got to work in our dungeon.

Yeah. Yeah, he's swamped. He's got things. Yeah, it's got things going on. Well, let's also have a thing go on. And that thing right now is the news. Let's do the news. Hey, look, everybody, it's the news.

is brought to you by. Brought to you by. Well, no coverville for the next couple weeks until after Nerdtacular, a little bit of a short hiatus vacationy kind of thing. But let me direct you over to daily music headlines where today you can find out what thing Paul McCartney wants to do that Prince, the late great Prince says, that is demonic and no, thank you very much.

Prince said it was demonic? Yes, Prince describes something is demonic that, that Paul McCartney announced a couple days ago that he'd like to do. Wow. So something he said prior, because he's obviously not with us anymore. Right. Right. At the time during his life.

Yeah, I'll give a little bit more. Paul found or heard from somebody who gave him a copy of it, a recording of the Long and Winding Road that Prince recorded in his studio. He's done it a few times live. But he recorded a cover of the Beatles' Long and Winding Road. Paul heard it and said, oh, you know, I could do something really good with that. And then they went back to a guitar set or a guitar, what's the magazine? It's some guitar magazine.

Interview with Prince, where Prince was talking specifically about what they did with John Lennon, what the Beatles did with John Lennon and recording Free as a Bird with his lost vocals. Oh. And said, yeah, you know, that thing is really demonic. I would have loved to have played with Duke Ellington, but we weren't born in the same time. So everything is as it should be. Wow.

I didn't know Prince was a little superstitious like that, you know? Like, does he think he really means it? Like, truly it's a demonic thing to bring a voice. I think demonic in the way of what kind of demon would use somebody's vocals without their permission you know whatever like yeah I don't think I don't think demonic like

it's the recording studio of the beast kind of thing Dr. Calhoun says Prince died because he was a religious Prince died because he had an overdose of opioids he's not a he wasn't if he was truly a practicing Jehovah's Witness

he wouldn't have taken the opioids right I think Prince was Prince's religion was his own Yeah. I refuse to get, that's not, Dr. Calhoun, I feel like him being gaslit. I swear it was drugs. It was drugs. He says he died because he refused to get surgery. I don't think that's true. Yeah, you died the same, kind of the same way that Matthew Perry did, whereas doctor over-prescribes stuff to him. Yeah. And now I got to, no, later I'm going to go dig it up. We're not looking it up now. Not now. No.

He took drugs because he refused to get surgery. Interesting. all right well i don't know opioids well that might be i mean that might be true but uh yeah but also the whole he was a hard jova's witness and religious and hardcore yeah my understanding is they will it's also an anti-medicine stance so he would have that would have been robin peter to pay paul so that's weird right right uh here's our first story joey chestnut in the news yeah uh food eating weirdo joey ches Somehow the guy whose stomach is a bag of holding. Yeah, that guy's got no end to it. Him and that Kobayashi, whatever the dude's name is.

Oh, yeah, Kobayashi, yeah. That guy's a freak of nature because he's like, what, 5'8 and no pounds, weighs nothing. I mean, both of these guys are really tiny. It's like they've jumped started their metabolism into this machine that, you know, if this is the way to do it, just here's how you reset your metabolism. just join hot dog eating contest and you'll never gain weight. Apparently that's the trick. I need to try that. Competitive eater Joey Chestnut, he's going to defend his hot dog eating title,

which he currently holds the title for most hot dogs eating with him, whatever the time frame is. While he's on probation, because he pled guilty to battery. There's a whole thing where he beat somebody up. I don't know the history of that, but we're going to find out. Maybe he ate a battery. Maybe he ate a battery. Maybe he put it in the bathroom.

He put it in the urinal. It says competitive eater, Joey Jaws, chestnuts. Is that the nickname? I've never heard that nickname for him, but I believe it. It makes sense. Yeah, I'll take it. Raining champion, 17-time winner of Nathan's famous international hot dog eating contest will compete in the July 4th spectacle while on probation

because he pled guilty of this battery charge. He was accused of slapping a man on the face during a night out at an Indiana bar, his attorney Mario, this guy's name, Mario Masa La Mami, Massa Mammy. Wow. Yeah. Go to Olive Garden with him. He entered a guilty plea on April 20th and has been sentenced to 180 days probation in Hamilton County. They granted him permission to travel outside the state, which allows him to defend his title.

When they do this at the signature mustard belt on Coney Island. Yeah, the Nathan's Coney Island competition, yeah. This makes me want a hot dog real bad. Yeah. But does it. Not just one though. I was going to say, how does it, how much does it gross you out when they have to soak the hot dog in water? Like they have a little cup of water next to them and they soak the hot dog in water.

It's horrendous. Yeah. It's horrendous. Like there's nothing about this that I want except for a proper hot dog on the bun. A real, an actual proper hot dog. Yes. Grill it, put on the things, float it up. Mustard, relish.

onions. This plain dog and bread and water. F that noise. Yeah. Nope. Although I guess he's built a career around it and that's all right. Sure. But I mean, it's just like here's, at least when you're like a, a, you know, world record golf ball hitter, right?

Like you can hit the ball further than any other guy. Yeah. You're still enjoying playing golf. You're getting the joy of that game, of at least that part of the game, the swing and the hit of the ball and all. that stuff. If you enjoy hot dogs, the last thing you want to do is soak them in water and shove as many in your gullet as you can. It's basically like, here's the thing you enjoy. Let's make it the worst version of that thing for a competition. Yeah. And it's also strange that the Coney people get so much out of this. Yeah. Because you'd think this would be bad publicity for the nasty ass.

For Nathan's. Yeah. Or for Nathan's what I meant to say. Not Coney. Yeah. Coney. But yeah. you'd think so, but apparently this is a big deal and everyone loves it and I don't, I don't understand the culture around it. Maybe I just don't, you know. Everybody knows enough about what a good hot dog tastes like so they know that if you go to Nathan's, you're not going to get served a plain hot dog with a cup of water. It's so cute. Gross. Wicked kitten says she's seen it and met him. Is that true? Monica? Wow. Okay. What was he like? Was he nice? Did he slap you in the face like this? right in the face. Right in the face. People are crazy about it. I mean, obviously, it's an institution for a reason. I'm not, I'm not, you know, poo-pooing that. Oh, he said, hi, that's nice.

What did you say back to him? Did you say, what would Monica say? She'd mumble something weird and then walk away. Trying to think of what her, what her, we have a catchphrase for Monica. We don't really have a catchphrase for Monica yet, do we? We need one. Yeah, what do we?

We need like her version of, jokes on you, I'm into this shit. Yeah, we don't have one. Yeah, we need one. Yeah. Don't we have, don't, you have audio of something that she had to say for Taskmaster or Taskville last year, right?

Oh, yeah, I still have that somewhere. Let's see. That'd be a fun little visit. Hold on. Ma, Nick, let's just make sure I didn't put Nicole by accident. It's possible that I did. Let's see.

Oh, yeah, she yelled a you can eat right. or gross monkey stuff. I like this one. Here you go. I like the brutal, gross murdery stuff. Oh, I wrote monkey stuff. You wrote monkey stuff.

She says murdery, I said monkey. All right. But I did name it Monica and not Nicole. So I'll be happy about that. Yes, good. At least it was the right name.

Anyway, he's going to go do that. We'll see how it goes and he doesn't have to wear an ankle bracelet or anything weird like that. So apparently he's taken full responsibility for the slap. It was, he says it was all out of context.

It was like a big misunderstanding. He's taking responsibility for it. I mean a slap too. Jeez, it feels like, uh, yeah, calling that a battery in a, in a bar fight. Yeah.

Yeah, the guy must be a real puss is what I'm saying. You know what I mean? Right. That guy's like a weenie. Yeah. I'm going to sue you for battery. All right.

You battered me. You bothered me. Here's another one. A lipstick thong wearing Hollywood senior. Okay. Says he has the right to flash exasperated neighbors.

He told an officer to jump rope for me, baby doll. Wow. There is so much to unpacking this headline. I know. This headline's got it's a three for man. It's so many levels. It's like, all right.

I need to diagram this sentence. Says he's a, stick thong wearing Hollywood senior. Yep. Says he has the right to flash exasperated neighbors. He told an officer to jump rope for me. Okay. All right.

Jump rope for me, baby, I'm ready for more. All right, well, let me give me more. Hollywood senior was arrested on five charges on Wednesday. The police said he consistently exposed himself to multiple neighbors at his apartment complex. Police said neighbors of Tyrone James Cossi, age 79. That's the senior part. Sure.

Became increasingly concerned and frustrated with his continued behavior, which included a call to authorities the day before the same problem. Investigators said, Kazi, who court records show, that's a weird way to do that sentence, who court records show lives at 20, who cares about the editors, regularly walked around the common areas of his apartment complex and made lewd gestures and, quote,

thrusting his penis at a woman's doorbell camera. Right, so basically trying to turn her ring into a wang. Yeah, it's the new Wang Doorbell. Wang Doorbell. Amazon branching out. It says here, Hollywood Police Department officer Savannah Hutchinson wrote that she went to Kazi's door to speak to him when he answered wearing a G-string thong. Well, that's a step up from the Wang doorbell thing, right?

Yeah. I mean, he's wearing something at least. At least he's got something, right. He wrote that the background, or sorry, the be thonged senior. Is that how we're going to say that? The bethonged singer. Defonged. Sure.

Told her that he has the right to walk around naked under Florida statute 800.001. Okay. I was thinking this was Hollywood, California. This is Hollywood, Florida. Now it all makes sense. Yeah. Now we get it. It's a Florida man.

A Florida senior is what it is. All of a sudden, the tumblers align and this lock opens. He says the guy claimed it was only illegal in parks, in public. The officer wrote that she explained to him that is in fact illegal to walk around public exposing himself to matter where he is. Police said he explained that he walks around naked because

he is allowed to and that he did not know he was being filmed. He wrote the Cosby later put on lipstick in front of her, began touching his penis and told her, quote, jump rope for me, baby doll. I love that. That's terrible. That's terrible, man. Jump rope for me,

baby doll. I think he might need some help, you know. Yeah, I think so. Maybe get him in. So Dr. Calhoun found an article, the Guardian article, about Prince, and yep, Prince refuses hip surgery because of his faith. His Jehovah's witness beliefs prevent him from accepting blood transfusions, making an alleged double hip replacement operation impossible. Okay. So what he dealt with it with? Yeah.

Apparently that was. But isn't it also against their thing to do any narcotics of any prescribed? of any kind. Yeah. It feels like you're, you got thick beliefs. I mean, but I'm not,

look, I'm not, I'm not bemoaning the dead here. No, of course, but it's picking and choosing where you're, where you're going to take a stand.

Well, no, I'm not going to have surgery. How about all these drugs? Yeah, okay. I'll take the drugs. That's fine.

Oh, all right, sure. And then he used, uh, uh, because it was fentanyl as well, right?

It was something like that. It was like a really big dose of something. It was, it was kind of like, um, Michael Jackson, except it wasn't, it wasn't administered. Yeah. It was him doing it, had taken it himself, I think was the deal.

It all makes me so sad. What happened to his hips? What was wrong with his hip? What happened there? All that, all that, you know, gyratin when he's dancing. Compile cow thinks Mormons don't drink caffeine. Oh, they drink caffeine. There's no.

Have you seen the Mountain Dew that gets consumed in Utah? Yeah. We got a lot of coffee shops, a lot of Mountain Dew. Have you seen the soda shops in general? My Lord. The dirty soda places. Yeah. That is a, that is a stereotype. That's what they replaced alcohol with is caffeine, basically. Yeah, you'd be correct on the whole like you shouldn't drink alcohol, smoke, do drugs. That's a tenant. But that's how people fill in their vices. They go to the soda, the dirty soda shops and load up on caffeine. Exactly. Yeah. Wow. So it's funny. This article was June 2009, June 11th, 2009. And didn't he pass away like... It was like 2015 or something. Yeah. Yeah.

So he lived with this for a long time. And boy, do you think, if he thought it would be demonic to take a dead person's voice and use it, imagine what he'd think of generative voice AI now. Oh, he would hate it. He would hate it. He would also hate like there's no way he'd allow holographic. like the thing they're doing with Ozzy that we talked about there's no way that allow oh no we didn't talk about that here we talked about it on

I talked about on daily music headlines so you know those have you seen those holographic slabs that you can it looks like there's a person in the slab yeah I can't remember the company that makes those but you can now get one of those with with Ozzy Osbourne inside and he'll he'll react to you and Wait, this is now. I can do this now. This is the thing I can do.

I heard there was something coming up like at some kind of tour or something where they were going to let him talk or take questions. And Jack was doing the press junkets telling people how tasteful it's going to be. Yeah. I have a feeling. I'm just to say something. Maybe this is controversial. Please do. One gets the feeling that the Osborne family might be, they might be kind of shitty.

You know what I? like opportunistic and kind of shitty. Exactly. Yeah. I don't want to think that, right? I'm not talking about Ozzy. I don't know. I mean, Ozzy had his own problems. But Sharon and Kelly and Jack, maybe you're taking...

Yeah, I think it's a little weird. I'm going to like it. Plus, they've all gone like full scarecrow over there. I don't know what's going on. Yeah, and then this thing with the Stanley, I saw that this morning, that there's a similar deal with Stanley that they're going to create an AI, Stanley, that... that I don't know how they're going to use it, but it's, it bothers the hell out of me.

Yeah, I don't like that stuff. Yeah. Not a fan. We reacted poorly to this when Fred Astaire was dancing with a vacuum. Remember that? We did, yes. And that was, we were right to be mad about that. That was dumb.

Yeah, there it is right there. Interactive hologram. So this, this might be a thing too. Would you, all right. So let's say, you've got one of these boxes. I guess that's how it's going to be for the, this thing as well. It's going to be another one of these things for these boxes. Proto, the proto box.

Would you, let's say you were gifted by the company, big fan of Frogpants, and they said, we'd like to give you one of these proto boxes and you can decide what celebrity, living or dead you want to have in there that will interact with you as you walk by and you can talk to them and it uses what we know about that celebrity, that famous person to be in there. It doesn't even have to be famous. You can, you know, whoever you want in there. Who would you have in your proto box? I think one of my great life's regrets is not meeting in person, the artist and illustrator,

Mort Drucker, before he passed. Oh, interesting. So if I could have Mort Drucker around just to, here's the problem is I know it wouldn't actually be like this. would be a big, it's basically a trick. The whole thing's a trick. Right. It's not, you're exactly, you're not communicating with him beyond the grave and it uses, it's only

using what it knows about more Drucker to generate this thing. Yeah, and it doesn't know what his real response to me in real life, his flesh and blood response to me saying, hey, this one aspect of your art I absolutely loved and I could never duplicate. What's this thing behind that? That thing's not going to be able to really say anything.

No, no. Oh, no. It's, it's, yeah, exactly. It doesn't know his feelings and process and that sort of thing. But if it did, like, was truly head in the jar of Futurama style, I think I'd go for Mort Drucker. I know that sounds boring to people, but I would do that. No, I think that's a great. What an interesting,

interesting thought. I'd want, I don't know who it is. I mean, I want somebody who's going to act like they're really angry that they're in this box. I mean, Prince would be a good one for that, like, just yelling at me every time I go by. You know, like...

This is demonic. Why'd you put me in this box? Like, Lewis Black. I know Lewis Black is still with us. He actually was hilarious on the Daily Show last week. Yeah, it was really good on there. But it'd be really funny to have a Lewis Black in there. Why do you need to have me in this stupid box in your house?

With this little finger just... Somebody who's not happy about it would be amazing. Oh, George Carlin is the perfect answer for us. Yeah, that's pretty good. Norm MacDonald would be good, too. Norm MacDonald would be really good. These are all good answers. Don Rickles would be amazing.

Yeah. Vincent Price would be good. Sam Kinnison, oh, man. I think the buttress nailed it. For me, George Carlin would be the perfect one because I would love to know, again, we'd only know what the AI version of George Carlin thinks about what the world is, what's happening in the world today. But I'd love to hear, I'd love to hear what George Carlin would think about the pandemic and what George Carlin would think about Donald Trump and what George Carlin. Like there's so many things that I'd love to, love to get his perspective on. I agree.

Unfortunately. He would probably be so mad, though, that he was a part of this system. Like, he would hate that. He would hate being part of this, which would be the funniest bit of it. Yeah. He just had me in there going, he'd be mumbling all the time, just always grumpy. Right. Yeah.

Is this, you know, is this a thing that we're going to have to put on our, you know, we have a driver's licensing for, you know, donate my organs. will we have one of these checkboxes for Donate My Likeness? I think you can already do that, but there's no universal societal way like you're describing. So maybe. Maybe there's a future where I think it should be things like, like right now, it's not possible for me to give an inheritance of, say, my Steam library. I can't give that to somebody. Oh, really? Interesting. Okay. I mean, I can give them my login and they can fake like they're me until the end of time.

Sure. But you, but it's not like you'd say, oh, I want these games to go to Dunnaway or these games or whatever. Yeah. It's not possible right now. Yeah. I think that digital ownerships of even if they're just account ownerships, I think that will one day become important enough that we legislate such things, but we're just not there yet. Yeah. But yeah, like the idea of, like, using your likeness is a thing that the, the, the Kilmer family are letting them do with Val Kilmer for that weird priest movie. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And that was that kind of deal. What kind of a deal? It was that kind of deal where they had to sign off on it for him to do it. I mean, it's not really him signing off.

So maybe he, maybe before he died, he let them. He gave the okay. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how that stuff works. Yeah, I don't know. It's weird. Anyway. Like, would we, if Bruce Willis, you know, when he was fully sound mind and body said,

yeah, go ahead and use my likeness for future movies. I still feel like I'd watch those movies and it would just leave a bad taste in my mouth. You just feel weird. Yeah. Because you know better. If you didn't know better, if you were a kid and you're just like, oh, another Bruce Willis movie and you didn't know about all the history or any of this, you might not even notice or whatever. But once you know, that's the problem with most of this. Most of these examples of this, you see it just something pop out on social media and you're like, that's clearly AI.

and then you see a bunch of people who can't tell and you're just like, it just all feels bad. Yeah. So like I was saying, what, two, three weeks ago when I was listening to that awesome bluegrass mixed with like kind of trap metal, heavy beat, awesome. This group was so cool.

I was just like, I have discovered my favorite new music of the year. This is so good. Really? Wow. And it was like millions of people. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I went. Yeah.

And then I went a little deeper. And I found out, Zaii. as hell all the way. It's like those cover albums I actually paid for and downloaded before I realized that... Yeah, it just doesn't feel... It feels bad. And if they are more upfront about it,

it feels less bad, but most of them kind of try to hide it somehow, which is really annoying to me. And then here's the other thing that's not... There's some nuance to this, because some of those tools in artists' hands are helping those artists make more of their art. And it isn't just generating shit for

them. It's combining tracks that they made themselves. It's doing other arrangements. Like, it's not just as simple as, make me a thing. And there it is. And so they get thrown out with the baby, or they're the baby with the bathwater. They're getting thrown out with it. The whole thing's just stupid. And I agree with Lassarge. Hiding AI should be considered fraud. If you're using it, if you're using it needs to be front and the center that, that, you know, you're using. And these platforms need to be better at, because they can do it. They can tell algorithmically what is AI and what isn't. They need to tag this shit.

The reason they don't is because dumb people generate tons of clicks for stuff that isn't real that generates business for them. So they have no motivation at X or threads or anywhere else. They have no motivation to slow that. And it pisses me off so bad. Yeah. I hate it. I hear too. Dirty bastards.

All right. I'll tell you who's not a dirty bastard. Every one of our listeners who writes in and sends us messages. That's who are not. They're the best people. They're the opposite of dirty or bastards. Or both. And today we have some of that from them.

This is about the jugs of pee. Dave and Canada. Well, I haven't played that in a while. Let's do that. Canada! Dave wrote in, or he actually called in. He has a fix for the whole 6-7 thing. Oh, good.

To get to eliminate it and make people not, make kids not do it anymore? Yeah, to finally get rid of it. I thought all we had to do is just, you know, us Gen Xers start doing it. And that's all of a sudden going to drain all the potential funny and cool out. I would have thought so.

Boy, if you'd have you. your van and your seven, you sure don't, you sure think it's great no matter what anyone says. He's really into it. Oh, funny story. We went to in and out with the kids last week sometime. I don't remember what it was. And while we're at in and out, we got number 66 was our number. And I got, I went, oh, I get to chance, I get a chance to test whether they really stripped it out of all the locations or not. Because the word was they took out 67. We saw the video, right, of like the place being completely filled with kids who are waiting and cheering and going nuts when the when they finally said 67 just rip just just disrupting everybody's time at the at the place and so the news follow up was well they're

going to strip that and not do that anymore so i thought well we're going to see that yeah you're going to see it first hand yeah and sure enough 68 was the next number they skipped it really so they skipped it and there wasn't that many people in there wouldn't have been a big deal but i think it's just some policy thing and they just they skipped the number entirely it was going to say there probably would than people in there still had their, had they still been doing it, right? Yeah. Yeah. Wow.

It was weird. It was weird to, I thought it was kind of just an internet meme thing, but no, they took it out. It's crazy. Anyway, here's what Dave says about how we get rid of it. Hey, guys. It's Dave from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. And like a light bulb that suddenly appeared over my head yesterday, a solution came to me for this whole six, seven thing. make a 6-7 day one day year people can yell 6-7 as much as they want we'll make a big deal out of it

there'll be parades there'll be fireworks sorry scott another fireworks day for you um but yeah just make a big deal out of 6-7 on june 7th every year and then any other day of any other day it's not allowed you can't yell 6-7 only on that day national world or global six seven day that's my solution with the whole six seven issue uh love the show though thanks all right i have a feeling it'd be hard to enforce as would be my right take unless we're gonna get real fascist about it and just literally outlawed no i think just the fact that they're it would be the same thing as the as the gen xers adopting it it would it would instantly lose it's it's cool oh i see because then it's mainstream you don't want right then it's mainstream

It's like, oh, everybody is doing six, seven. It's not fun anymore. Yeah. Also, a couple notices in the chat about how this dude's from Ottawa, so is a stigma, so is Bo. We got a bunch of Ottawa representation. Got a lot of Ottawaans. Cool.

Man, we love the Canadians, man. We do love the Canadians. I don't have a single bad thing to say about our neighbors to the north. Yeah. And I know that we have an administration that likes to pretend like somehow there's antagonistic, whatever there. Yes. F that guy.

You guys are awesome. Freaking love. Love Canada. We have a ton of listeners in Canada, too. All over that awesome country. You're from Jeff all the time about he's been emailing me a lot about the EV stuff. Oh. A couple things about the EV stuff.

I don't know. He was, does he have one or something or what's his stuff? Yeah, apparently does. Well, he's got a Tesla apparently. Oh, look at that. I know he both hates Yilan and loves his Tesla. Exactly.

That's the thing. Yeah. It's tricky. My folks have a Tesla. It's in the garage. I don't know if they didn't want me to borrow the car because they, like, we're not going to make Brian drive a Tesla around, but they do have a big sticker on it with a circle and a slash over the word Elon. Oh, they do. Yeah.

The people that did that with their trucks pissed me off because they bought those when they knew better. Oh, the cyber trucks. Yes, right. So. Do you see those on cyber trucks? Like the no Elon and I bought this before. I mean, they can't get the stick of it as I bought this before we knew Elon was crazy. because I've seen that one.

That one has been on it. That's the one I've seen on that truck and they're lying. They're just lying. They don't want to get keyed. They don't want to get, you know, snowball or whatever. Bastards. Got another call here.

This is from Luke in Boulder, I believe. Yeah. Cool. This is about the stories about John that will be no more. So here you go. Hey guys, Lou from Boulder here. Out for a walk with my dog, Jerry. And I don't know how to ask this without sounding weird.

So I'm just going to ask. We need a final. father-in-law, John, send-off recap. I think us and you and the listeners have learned a lot about this guy, and I totally understand why when the time comes, that's going to be that. And you probably won't ever talk to this guy again. But I wonder what do you think he thinks about that? What does your other family, you know, Wendy and everybody think about that? I just need some final thoughts as John departs from the Johnson life and from the occasional TMS story.

On the show, though. All right, here's the deal. So it's really simple. John made it impossible for us to continue to be in his life. Because that's right. He was like there was the whole invoice. Yeah. John said she'd be invoice.

The day after my mom died, he sent us an invoice for stuff that he prior to her funeral. we had come to him and said, John, we want to help. So can we help with the casket or the anything? Like we want to throw in on this. No, I got it. I'm doing it. I got it all.

Don't worry. I don't need anybody's help. That's what he said back then. Yeah. So he said, okay. Like in his usual gruff way, trying to be the mister in charge or everything, we just kind of like said, okay, backed off. You please do whatever you want to do.

And he did whatever he was going to do. and that included paying too much for a coffin because for some reason he got it in his head that if he got the big purple one everybody would think it was cooler I don't know this whole thing she's gonna be and she's not even being buried she's being cremated after all this

so just a big waste of money he spent like 10 grand on that thing and then the day after the funeral he billed us for everything and no explanation no anything like we had all had these conversations with him separately and together we all were witnesses to it

and yet he was still doing that. And we were like, okay, no. And then second of all, then he started to say, well, I'm just going to take it out of the whatever IRA thing your mother had that she, in the will it goes to you guys. But I'm going to take it out of there. And I'm like, well, I think legally you can't do that. You can't.

Yeah, there won't be a way for you to do that. And I said to them, and I literally said these words, I said, here's the funny twist to your little story. I don't care about that money at all. In fact, if you have anything to do with the process, to me, it's dirty and I don't want it. And we're not talking, I think it's like it may equal out to be maybe two or three grand per family or something. It's not a lot. It's just like her long-term IRA thing.

And to break it out means taxes and all that other stuff. Of course. And it actually does introduce a whole bunch of other problems to go along with it. to. Yeah. And so he, he just got real weird about that and hardcore about it and was like, oh, my lawyer and this and that. And I can't believe you guys would do that. I'm like, we're not doing anything. We're literally not doing anything. Yeah. Yeah. So legally we're in the clear. He's just a bunch of bluster. And I'll probably never talk to him again. That'll be the end of it. So it may sound harsh or cold, but we're done with John. Yeah. No, I was wondering if you,

if his family would reach out to you guys when he, he passes to say, do you want to come to the funeral? He'll probably do that to Misha. The one son that we sort of got along with, their whole family's a mess. But the one son who we sort of get along with will probably call Misha because Misha's the easiest. Honesthesee's an easy mark because she's so sweet and kind to everybody.

He'll probably call her and let her know. Misha will probably let all of us know. And then most of us, if not all of us, will go. Oh, that's a shame anyway. And we won't go. because there really is literally nothing. It's the most toxic relationship of my lifetime. I don't know anyone else this bad,

this narcissistic, this destructive, this controlling, all these things. It's just I've never known anything like it. Yeah. And you've been given, I mean, you've been forced into it, but not like you don't want it, the easiest way to just excise that from your life. It excised itself from your life.

Yeah. part that kept us there has left this mortal coil. My mother was the reason that we respected her needs and wishes and didn't constantly fight to get John out of our lives. Like the, I don't, did I tell you that there was a marriage before my mom's with John that none of us knew about? He didn't tell anybody. No, I don't think, I don't think you mentioned it here. He got, he got, so after his wife passed, his original wife, wife number one, he, he, he got remarried to somebody he met online. And that family smelled the stink and went,

oh, no, no, no, no. And they pushed, push, pushed. And they made them, they made them a null. They made them, made them leave, basically. And we didn't do that, but we also didn't know all this history. Right. And he never told us until, I think we all learned it maybe seven, eight months ago. It's the first we'd heard of it. So the guy's a freaking psychopath. And I never, I never need to see, speak to, or talk to him again.

And nobody's stupid about it. Like, he's at the point where it just sounds like madness when he talks. And so all my mom's old friends that he calls all the time and gives him some story about all her kids have abandoned me and this whole story he tells. All of them are rolling their eyes. They're just like, whatever, John. They know. Everyone knows.

It's not a thing. So we just are like, we're done. We saw it through to the very bitter end. And now we're done. Goodbye, John. Yeah. You've got your family. They'll take...

Exactly. You've completed that achievement and nothing ever needs to be... Yeah. And he's got loads of money and savings. He's got a house that's completely paid for. He had two other houses. He sold. He used to rent to people.

He sold those and has all that. He has all the money in the world. This was purely a weird spite thing. And none of us had the money anyway. We're all trying to just live our lives. So F off John. There we go. That's it.

That's that's the final send-off. And I know it's a little, you know, dower. And it'd be nice if the end of this was like him somehow showing a little bit of regret or even just something, consolidate or consolation. And the unfortunate thing is if he does that, you know, if he like all of a sudden on his deathbeds, like, you know what, I was a real crap to my wife's family and that sort of thing. Nobody will ever know because none of you want to. None of you care.

Like it's like, you know, whatever. If you have your epiphany, terrific goodbye. His kids hate him. Yeah. His grandkids' kids don't like him at all. All of the kids in our side of family that were grandkids technically to him or would have been. All of them thought he was just weird and didn't like him ever. Like there's never been closeness of any kind.

And it's not because all of us aren't capable of that. We have a very close-knit awesome family. Everybody gets along. Everybody hangs out. We're all good. Except the John part. And it's not just simply a guy came in and married my mom. That's not my dad.

It's not that. People remarry all the time. Exactly. Be a decent human being and we'd all be fine. Exactly. Yeah. Garbage monkey. Ugh.

All right. So there's the end of that. Now one final note from Dr. Jerry Tolbert, family practitioner and always on the spot with some information. I do have to admit this call got lost in the shuffle. So it's a little older. I want to say this was probably February or something. Oh, wow. Okay.

But I hate missing. Then now I remember the context. Yeah, I was like, God, we haven't talked about redheads in a while. Yeah, it's been a while. Oh, yeah, exactly. Yeah, the whole redhead thing. So anyway, here it is from the doctor's mouth. Good morning, gentlemen.

Your friendly neighborhood family doc swinging by to clarify the discussion on redheads and anesthesia from the 12 February episode of the morning stream. As a ginger myself, I do have a vested interest in understanding what happens with redheads and anesthesia. So let's dive in. Back in 2004, there was a study that showed a correlation between the gene, called MC1R having a mutation that caused patients to rapidly process inhaled anesthetics, the kind that we would use for like a surgery, and having red hair. So there were several redheads that had a gene mutation in MC1R that allowed them to process those inhaled anesthetics more quickly. Basically, we can break it down more easily and it goes away, so we need

more anesthetic to keep us asleep. Not every person that has red hair is going to have that MC1R gene, and not everybody with the MC1R gene has red hair. So it's not a perfect circle. It's more like a Venn diagram with a pretty big slice in the middle. Hope that clarifies the issue. And if you have other questions, don't hesitate to page me. Ah, you see? It's always, it's always an answer like this. It's always like.

It's so well delivered too. Yeah, Tina has this issue because she was born a redhead. And her color just kind of changed to more of an Arburn or reddish brown. And she does need a little extra anesthesia. So there's the thing. Is it the thing with the dental stuff too? Like does she need more? Oh, I think so.

I think that's where it might have come up. I'm trying to remember what came up recently. I can't remember it was for her. The bronchectomy, or not bronchectomy, bronch. The scope. It was a brunk. Oh.

Not endoscopy, right? No. Brunkoscopy. Broncoscopy. Broncoscopy. I put the emphasis on the wrong. Label. But yeah, no, she had a thing recently where she had to have some extra anesthesia. And it was like, she had to tell them, oh, I used to be, I was born a redhead. And they're like,

oh, okay, well, probably have a little, a little sharpy mark on the dial. Here's where you turn it for redheads. Yeah. I have a hard time with some of that stuff too. In particular, oh, maybe that's why the colon guy got started so early. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe were you born a redhead? No, but when I was a little kid, there was a phase. So I was born blonde. Okay. Then it kind of phased red for a while and then went brown. But even today, even as it's great, if I go outside and the right sun hits it, you can kind of see a hint of red.

So I may have that gene. You might have that too. And the dentist always has to give me like double shots. So I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe we need a follow up, Jerry. Do I have the gene?

And how do you know if you have the gene? Well, we'll play that in September. Yeah. If he calls and follows, give us a follow up tomorrow, then we'll play in September. I'll miss your call and somehow we'll find it about a year from now. That's right. Actually, I guess we could ask him an artacular in two weeks, which, by the way, reminder today, Thursday marks the two week mark. We are exactly two weeks.

Jeez, okay. From day one, the hangout that night anyway. I know, dude. Yeah. I'm all kinds of, the funny thing is in some ways I've never been more ready. and prepared and in some ways I'm just not. Most of it has to do with things out of my, out of my own hands like waiting for something to show up or whatever.

But usually, usually I'm a little more behind. So it's like I'm, I'm this mixed thing of, you're doing good, but you're behind, but you're doing good, but you're fine. And we'll see, two weeks to find out. Cool.

Well, I will say that one, one of my fears every time I do one of these is the celebrity rule. thing for Freud Pants All-Stars. And I just got the Celebrity Rule video today. So at least one thing that is out of my control is here. Nice. That's good.

And is it, is it, it's how close is it to the Tasha Yarr treatment of? It's so far from the Tasha Yard treatment. Yes. Good. Yes. This person did not use action figures to give the rules. And this person actually appears fully on camera. talking about it.

So, yes. All right. Like the couple from Archer, like Andy Milder from Weeds, like all the people before, who did it right. They got the memo. They got the memo. Yes, they understood the assignment. I think Yarr may have been thinking that that was really a creative plan.

I think so. But, I mean, Denise Crosby had to know that people would want to see her on screen. I would think so. Yeah. You know? I don't know. Anyway, I'm excited. I have no idea who this is, by the way, Brian.

Brian shares us with none of us until day one. So watch for that. All right, that's it for today's show. If you want to send us one of those voicemails, we did all voicemails today, and you can do those really easy over at frogpants.com slash TMS. The forum is right there. Just fill it out.

Bambam, boom, you're done. A couple of things to mention. Our website is frogpans.com slash TMS, like I already told you. And today, Cor will be on at 1 p.m. mountain time. So if you would like to hear about that new Lego Batman game, Or you want to know if that new James Bond, 007 First Light game is any good? We played it, and we have thoughts.

So come check that out today at 1 p.m. here on the channels. Brian, no coverville. Oh, yeah, play date. Oh, yeah, play date tomorrow. A little reminder that tomorrow's a play date. Bring your Apple, charge up your Apple pencils and be ready to answer murder mystery questions. Do we have the new one that still is now, right?

Okay. I wish. I want, I mean, I think there's some kind of beta going on, I'm not in it. I applied to be in it, but I never got a thing. Yeah. Okay. So for now, we do the good old stuff. We'll start with some drawful and move from there. There we go. So check it out. I forgot tomorrow's play date. That's exciting. Yeah. That's why there's no song for tomorrow. I'm in the mood. Yeah, me too. You know? I need a little, I need to blow some steam off. I'm going to put it in a request now for that wheel of awesome proportions or whatever it's called the

thing with all the ink and my and. Oh, the little chit's. We're a little chit dudes. shits. Yeah, I'm into it. That's a good one. Let's lock it in now. We'll say that's one of them. That's fine. We make the rules. We're the hosts. We make the rules. Take that. Anyone else? All right, Brian, let's play a song and get these people out of here. What have we got? Casey rode in and said, dear Snickers and Butterfinger, on May 29th, I'll be wrapping up my 48th trip around the sun. Hard to believe I'm creeping up on a half century on this rock.

Where did the time go? Honestly, I'm surprised I've made it this far, especially considering how rough the last five years have been. I've basically been the poster child for what not to do if you want to avoid falling into the dark side of the force. Depression and alcohol abuse hit me hard after some heavy grief and it took a long time to climb out. But I'm proud to say I broke the cycle. The depression is behind me and I haven't had a drink since July.

Good on you, man. That's awesome. To mark the occasion, I'd love to request a cover of I'm Still Standing by Elton John. It feels fitting considering I made it through all that adversity to see this birthday. and here's to many more. As much as I want Scott to play his recent F-bum, I'll behave. Instead, can I get shit potatoes? And if that's not handy, any random sound bite will do.

Love the show, Casey. Oh, I love it. All right, I'm going to give you, let's see, I got a lot of potato references. Let's see if I've got a shit potatoes. Do I have one? I may not have capped that. But you know what? I'll play this and just see what it is.

Pick a raw potato. That's not it, but I don't think I ever captured me doing that. Really? Any shit potatoes? No, I don't think I did. Let me just double check. Yeah, I don't. I think I just never bothered to, you know what, Jamie, if you're listening, pull one of those out for me and send it to me.

Yeah, for sure. He's really good at finding it. For sure. Anyway. Well, the one I'm going to play is, comes from first to 11 on their 2024 covers volume 18 album, the included a cover of Elton's I'm still staying. This one's going out to you, Casey.

Good job. Keep up the great work. And you've always got us here supporting you. So keep it up, man. Yep. Keep listening. We'll keep dishing up cool stuff as long as you need us. All right?

Absolutely. Thanks everybody for being here. Be here for Playdate tomorrow. That's for everybody to come join us. So come watch that. And we'll see what happens after that. FilmTack, other stuff. Many other things.

All the things. It's been a Frog Pants production. all our shows at frogpants.com. Either north or south.