The Morning Stream - TMS 3021: Spice Assignments

Episode Date: June 9, 2026

Flick My Nipple On The Way Out. Kim's Chi. Gay Denny's. Hey uh...is it too early for a fish fight? Soaking Wet With Special Sauce. Why Did It Have To Be ANTS. My Daughter, Who's Not A Dog. Tac NO Bell. Ai can poop for you Wholesale. Smelling The Nerdtacular Sausage. Excited About The Kimchi In The House. Don Worry. Are you waiting to receive my Nerd-nerd-tac-tac-tac-tacular? Bulbous abdomen. Spice Assignments. My Vomit Vent is Full with Amy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.VIDEO: https://youtu.be/ghoiLMWOXT8 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How many Beatles does it take to not like Yoko Ono? Three. Anyway, support TMS today at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, flick my nipple on the way out. Kim's Chi. Gay Denny's. Hey, uh, is it too early to get a fish fight? Soaking wet with special sauce.

Why did it have to be ants? My daughter, who's not a dog. Talk no bell. AI can poop for you wholesale. Smelling the nerdtacular sausage. Excited about the Kim Chi in the house. Don worry. Are you waiting?

to receive my nerd, nerd, nerd, tech, tectacular. Bulbous abdomen. Spice assignments. My vomit vent is full with Amy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. This was a famous pleasure city of the ancients called Las Vegas. People came here to watch spectacles, to feast, and to play games of chance. But that was long, long ago. Nothing here now but a simple village.

I knew we couldn't trust that fish, man. The Morning Stream. Let's do the Time Warp again. Hello, everybody, and welcome to TMS, the morning stream to some of you for Tuesday, June 9th, 2026. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. Hi, Brian. Hello. The last distant TMS of the week. The last remote TMS of the week. That's right. It's my understanding as well. I just, for some reason, so I thought I had it totally fixed. But apparently,

yeah, once in a while, it's just an internet thing. And I thought it was because Backblaze was running, but I don't have that running anymore. I have it, like, gone. So I don't know what's causing that. I hope it doesn't happen again. We only had 12, or no, we had zero loss things yesterday. Drop frames?

Yeah. And I've got, you know, two gigabit fiber. So I don't know, you know, if you guys get a little drop out here and there, I promise I'm on it. working on it won't be a problem from Nurtacular we're paying an exorbitant fee for their online internet crap good good I mean good that we'll have it bad that we're paying a fee for it yeah it sucks because I mean it's one of those it's one of those little things that they get their money from it's like kind of where they make their money in some ways and uh if you think about it too hard it's really

it's really depressing because it costs for for those two and a half days that internet will cost us as much as months of Google fiber. Oh, wow. At the maximum level. Yeah. Which is a crazy thing to think about. And I don't think it's like fiber pipe, you know, thickness either. Yeah.

But it'll work and it'll stream out the content, the quality content we have prepared for you, find people at home who can't attend live. Very good. Now, if you're attending live, you're really going to get the taste. Oh, you're going to get, you get to not only see what's going on, but you get to smell and taste and feel what's going on. Yep. The fit that does smell in particular. The smell in particular. Yes.

We all smell real good, guys. Don't worry about that. We do. We're well-behaved bathers. Mm-hmm. And so are all of you, right? All of you are right, right, right? Yeah, right, right.

You're prepared? Are you prepared to receive a nerdtacular? Tactacular? He keeps coming up. He came up yesterday in a conversation with Carter. I saw that in the Monday show, yeah. I can't. I just, I miss him.

I miss everything about him. That episode of the Monday show really inspired me to eat some black licorice. So I ate some black licorice while we were... Oh, yeah. We talked about your fandom of the flavor and the whatnot. Yeah, it's great because usually, you know, I get all the black jelly beans. I get all the black licorice. I get all the nibs.

If I go and pick up from World Market a bag of Aussie black licorish, Tina doesn't try and dig into it on the way home. So it's perfect. This is why I get excited about the kimchi in the house because no one else likes it, but me. And I get the kimchi. And that's the way of it. So I understand where you're at.

I just wish I liked black licorice because it comes across my desk all the time. It's like, hey, there's this black grish. And I just don't like it. And what was Carter saying? She gets some from Iceland. Iceland, that's right. Yeah. And she claims it's really good.

Oh, I can't do the salt. I can't either, dude. And I forgot that that was Sweden. We did that here, right? We tested that here. Yeah, we did. That was a nightmare. Speaking of kimchi, by the way, while we were in Burlington,

Santina went to a very good Korean barbecue place that just does that fantastic fried chicken, that incredible breading that's got, you know, Goshenang sauce in it and stuff. Oh, so good. And they had a really good thing of kimchi, but yeah, it was giving me the kimchi burps all the rest of the time we were there. Yeah, some of it can be pretty potent. Yeah. I'm pretty used to it, but the fridge, you know, the fridge, even with it all sealed up nice and tight. got a little bit of a stink in there

you know yeah yeah makes my wife like question things but the place had a great name I'll put it in our I'll put it in our TMS Discord chat because you it's one you want to read as opposed to hear out loud oh all right I like that oh is it really just Don worry it is Don worry yeah

Is it kind of like don't worry but said in an accent that's Don't worry yeah that's great yeah i would eat at don worries oh it's so good it's so good yeah i wouldn't worry about that place at all it's in winuski winoski vermont yes oh what a fun little town name love it it's great yeah i don't know uh the last time i had that chicken but i'll say this fried chicken in general needs to learn a thing or two just this can we just do it all like that from now on yeah oh my god because it's amazing oh my gosh it's so good yeah my brother's makes really good version of that. Anyway, hey, speaking of food, I made this mistake yesterday.

I didn't really eat most of the day. And it was because I was busy working on stuff. And sometimes when you get busy, you forget to eat, but you're just like, yeah, I never forget to eat. I never have the problem of forgetting to eat. I wish I could. It was like, I was hungry and I knew it, but I was also like, I'm on a roll here. I'm going to bang out these panels. I'm going to get all this written. I'm going to get backups made in case the internet goes down or any kind. You know, I was all in that mind frame and was just cranking away. And then about 5.30, I realized, I have not eaten today. Like, I think maybe in the morning I had, I didn't even have it.

I don't think I had anything. So I was, like, really weak and, like, felt like crap. I was like, oh, man, I'm going to, I'm going to. You should go for a 20-mile bike ride, Scott. Yeah, that's what I should have done. Yeah. If I've learned anything from the last couple of weeks, always ride a bike when you haven't eaten. But I was really, really hungry.

And my wife shows up with a, of all things, a Whopper. They had a two-for-one deal. Oh, okay. At the Burger King for Whoppers. Yeah, it was on the app or something, right? Somewhere like that. I don't know where we saw it. And she goes, oh, we're doing this and got me one.

Came down here, surprised me with it. Let me tell you something. When you are really hungry, there is nothing better than a freaking Wopper, man. Yeah. They do a really good job with like the, the, keeping the cold stuff cold on there, the lettuce and tomato pickle and all that stuff and still having the meat.

Yeah. Of all the fast, like the truly fast food places, I think it's my favorite burger of all those. Like a Big Mac occasionally, you know, always leaves you wanting. I've been disappointed in,

I haven't had a big Mac in a while, but the last one I had, I remember being very disappointing. It's also a slighty sandwich, which is the problem. Oh, yeah. That middle piece of bread just gets soaked. getting wet with the special sauce and things start sliding around and coming out the back and

I don't want that. No, I don't want that at all. That is not a thing I enjoy in my food. And so McDonald's, get your shit together. For whatever reason, the Whopper holds together. I enjoyed every bite of it. It renewed my strength. Nice.

Oh, good. I was able to watch Film Sack, cut video clips and do all that stuff with a fresh mind. Oh. And then I slept like crap. So that was great. It all worked out. All right. So over the last couple of days, you've been holding this story, the hummingbird feeder story.

Happened Thursday after Tina arrived. So I'll back up a little bit. My folks have on this house that I stayed after the last two weeks, they've got hummingbird feeders. And they worry about raccoons. They had a problem with a bear a while back where they had a planter, no, a bird feeder was on a shepherd's hook in the backyard and they took a picture of the bear like bending the crap

out of the shepherd's hook and taking the bird feeder off of it. He could have taken the bird feeder off gently. Didn't care. He didn't need to destroy the shepherd's hook. Um, and the shepherd's hook, if you're not familiar, is one of those. It's like half of an arch with a hook at the end that you put

stuff on. Yeah. And this is made for bird feeders or is it? Made for bird feeders. Humming bird feeders. Things like that that that you want to keep. scrolls away from small animals away from that sort of thing sure so they keep their hummingbird feeders on there but still um even with them on there um and knowing that you know that's no problem for a raccoon to climb up one of those they still want me to bring them in every night so i've been you know i did it every night brought in the hummingbird feeders put them on this this um

this area in the kitchen uh right by the back door and um over the course even while they were still there Every once in a while, somewhere in the house, you'd see a black ant running around. It's like this little black ant. And they have fairly big black ants. I mean, probably about a quarter of an inch to a half an inch. Maybe not half an inch. I don't like the big ones. They freak me out.

No, they freak me out too because they crunch when you push them up. And you can see details on them and stuff. Yeah, I don't like that. Better than red ants, but still. Yeah. So, you know, you deal with those black ants. And then one morning, I'm getting ready to take the hummingbird feeders back out there. and I'm realizing, oh, this is where the black ants, or they're hanging out on the hummingbird feeder,

and then they just ride that into the house, and then they meander around the house looking for anything else. Oh, because they love that sugar water, right? The sugar water is the draw, yeah. So I, before I picked up the, like I took the hummingbird feeders, put them out there, dealt with the ends or a couple of the ants in the kitchen, and then looked at the hummingbird feeder in that shepherd's hook, And sure enough, it's just like this little line of ants, not a line, not like a waiting for a Zeppelin concert. But the occasional black ant going up, the shepherd took down onto the bird feeder,

and probably going back to tell his buddies, hey, found a sugar water source. Yep. So I went and bought a thing that my parents would never, ever buy, which is a squirt gun. Picked up Tina from the airport. She needed to get some makeup on the way home. and I said, you know, we're going to Target. I'm going to look for a squirk bottle. One of those that you can do really fine.

You can turn the knob and get a really fine spray or a stream. Everybody should have one of those in their house. Everybody should. Exactly. I looked all over the place at my parents' house. I could not find one. I found plenty of stuff that had cleansers in them, but nothing that was empty. It's why they have ants.

So picked one of those that couldn't find an actual bottle. So it was summertime. They have their big spring display. So I grabbed a squirt, the smallest, cheapest squirt gun I could find. Brought it home, filled up with water, decided I was going to try it out immediately, and just sat there by the hummingbird feeders and the Adirondack chairs going, Pugh, and taking, you know, shooting ants off of the, the shepherd's hook and off the bird feeder itself. Because I didn't want to do something that would, you know, put any sort of cleanse or anything on there that would deter the hummingbirds.

Right. Yeah. This sounds like a great time. I would do this. This actually was a lot of fun. And the hummingbirds would still fly in. They didn't care. They don't care about ants. They want that sugar water as well.

Yeah. So Tina, you know, Tina and I are kind of doing some last cleaning on Friday. And she says, well, I'm going to, you know, we're almost out of sugar water in one of the feeders. So let's bring them in. We'll wash them out. We'll make up some new, boil up some new water, put them in there, and then hang them back up. I'm like, great, great idea. So we do that.

She washes them out, puts the things over near the sink to dry while I make the sugar water. And then she goes off into another room. And I come over to grab one of them to start pouring. And as I pick one of them up, another black ant kind of crawls out of, like, these are disconnected. The bottles are separate now from the bases. And a little black ant comes crawling out of the opening where the, the hummingbird puts its beak in there to get, to get sugar water. And it makes me jump a little bit.

And I go, ah, and in doing so, I drop the, the base into the sink. And we didn't realize the two parts of the base actually snapped together. So it snapped apart. And about 50 black ants come streaming out of there into the sink. Just like, like, apparently there was a little spot on the sink. there where they could be up in the in the uh the air space above the liquid that the hummingbirds were drinking and uh like bats in a cave that has a lake in it like that exactly yes exactly they're the little stalactites at the top of the uh the top of the why is that gross me out so much

oh crap did i lose brian i did why did i lose brian maybe he kept not not in the water but just kind of. Oh, did I disappear? You did, but you're back. You're back now. What happened? You're back? Are you here me now?

There's some lag because I can hear you now, but man, there must be some real lag. Yeah, it's catching up now. Okay. You hear me now? I can hear you, but I'm probably hearing you for like four seconds again. Well, that's fine. Okay, so I'm going to say, um, okay, might be, might be better now. Are we back now?

Okay. Maybe. Yeah. I think our video synced again. That was weird. It sure looks like you. That was really weird. Yeah.

I didn't lose any frames there, so I don't know if that, I don't know what that was. Anyway, so continue, you got all the black ants. They're streaming out of there like a nightmare. They're streaming out of there. I turn on the faucet, hottest water I can, spray nozzle. And I'm like, you know, they're setting them all flattened down the drain. Just brr... As it should be.

And we decided we were not bringing in those hummingbird feeders anymore. They are staying there. Instead of going, instead of staying on the hooks overnight, there was like a, they have a little covered patio that we put them in it's like all right this will this will work and that explains why you know one two three ants wandering around the house yeah where they're coming from exactly it's like you have one that just ventures out and there's apparently 49 still left in that thing do you tell your doubt about it instead oh absolutely yes first one of the first things is like uh by the way you might be wondering why there's a a squirt gun on the table out in the in the patio and uh why we're not

bringing in their hummingbird feeders here's why and they're like oh gosh okay Okay. Yeah. I mean, who'd know and to tell you broke that thing open? You did them a favor, I think. I did him a favor by popping that thing open. Yeah, exactly. The only thing worse than that, that's pretty gnarly to me.

Even though these aren't biting ants, even though they're just regular black ants, that freaks me the F out. But the only thing that gets me worse is when that happens with like a spider egg or a mother spider explodes and all the eggs. Oh, dude. Or it's on the, right, you realize that the spider is carrying all of her young on her back and that, you know, that moving bulbous abdomen is actually just a ton of little spiders on the... It's so gross, man.

I mean, I realize it's nature and nature is whatever it is, but geez, Louises, that's some gnarly business. Don't like it. No. Well, there you go. Hummingbird feeders. Never know what's in there. Be careful, folks. Never know.

Be careful if you open one of those up, just to let you know. Yeah, watch yourselves. All right, here's this. We're going to do some new. news and it's brought to you by Brought to you by the nerd tacular 2026 live stream Scott what's the skinny? Well

the skinny is this YouTube.com slash Scott Johnson there will be a live stream also if you prefer the Twitch method which will be the mainstream as well that'll also have the chat room we'll probably open chats on both I think I don't know we haven't decided but that's all going to happen live at frogpants

or sorry Twitch.tv slash frogpants is the Twitch channel so if you're at home and you're like man I'm getting FOMO or I wish I was going or I couldn't go last minute or whatever the thing is, you'll get to share it with us anyway online for a live stream the entire time we're there. Well, the entire time we're streaming, which I think will be parts of Thursday night, all of Friday. Oh, even Thursday. Wow. I think so, some of that stuff.

Like we're going to do. Oh, T. Data says Thursday is Twitch only. Yeah. Oh, that's right, because we're doing watch retro and we don't want YouTube to get weird. Yeah, yeah. But that'll be up on Thursday. and then Friday and Saturday, it'll be both channels. The only exception will be the big karaoke finisher

because music is weird and everybody gets weird about music so we can't stream that. But everything else will be there. So you're not going to miss a thing. We, it feels, I'm going to get a little doctor, is it Dr. Hammond? We spared no expense. Uh-huh.

Went kind of all out on AV this year. Like close-ups and camera switching and like really good audio and all this kind of stuff. So it's not going to be just like a camera 40 miles back and a table way off in the distance that sort of looks like there's five people up there. This is going to be the real deal. I hope, you know, as always in the Frog Pants All-Stars,

there's a video round with some, you know, stuff that came from a movie or a TV show or something. Hopefully those are short enough clips and the audio won't be, clear enough that it'll cause an issue. Yeah, the audio will definitely be clear enough, but usually you can get away with the short clips because you can then, even if they come after you,

you can go, this was all, you know, you can explain your fair use case. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And events are usually a little safer. So I'm not worried about those. Those will be okay. Cool, cool, cool. But for like full long songs, we're effed.

Yeah. We ain't doing that. No karaoke, no listening to Brian's singing, what's so funny about peace, love, and understanding. No, but I do want to hear that. And I'll be there to hear it. Yeah. No? I'm doing it. You don't think if I do. I don't know if I'll do that one. I don't know. It's what the, it's what the mood hits me to sing. Are you, um, I know you'll, what are you partial to though? If you had to, if you had to like, yeah, like you narrow it down.

Yeah. Like your, um, your go to someone said, Brian, get up here on stage. What would you do? What's so funny about peace love and understanding probably would be my go to or or something else, Elvis Costello. He and I have a. a similar vocal range. So, you know, when he struggles with Allison, I struggle with it too. So I'm fine with that. Oh, that's right.

Leslie wants me to do two become one by the spice scrolls with her. Oh, all right. Yeah. What about the other three? Who's going to be, you know, if I'm the scary spice in this equation. Yeah, you've got to have spice assignments.

Who else is going to be up there? We need some more spices. We need a whole spice rack up there. Yeah, get it going. I'll be your, I'll be your whatever Schneider guy. What was his first thing? Fred. I'll be Fred Schneider for anyone else's B-52.

Spice girls, baby. Any of that, any of that loud rapping you need, I'll, I'm there. Add it to any song. All right, cool. Yeah, I'm good to go. Well, that's great. Watch for that. That'll all, we'll have some written details up on the site soon.

That'll just let you link to everything. So this will be super easy, but just want to let people know what's going on. Yeah. All right, here's the story that we just must talk about. A dog shot a woman with a shotgun at a Nebraska convenience store. Wow, usually you don't hear about the dogs with shotguns. They're more of your derringer or your Glock. Oh, I love a derringer.

Shoot that out of your fur, concealing the dog fur. One of the ones that like, yeah, it comes up the paw. That thing we said yesterday, we said something in the show. and I cannot remember it, but it was really funny. It was during half-asses. Fletcher piped in on it, made it funnier. And I've gotten like five people telling me, that's the funniest thing I've ever heard,

but no one will remind me what we said. Like people are claiming they're in tears from the show yesterday laughing so hard. Really? It was something during half-asses. Yeah, and it was like this weird someone in the chat. Yeah, please help us out, Dadpool. Because I need to know what they're talking about.

I want to go clip it. I did hear from Chris Brown that the whole segment about pepper jack cheese had him laughing his head off. Oh, really? Yeah. The guy at mics. Yeah. Just like how great the rest of this guy's day must have been to just get shattered by the lack of. Oh, yeah.

Man, that guy. I thought I'll think of him every time I go to mics from now on. Yeah. Oh, sure. That's part of Mike's way now. I just want it that way. All right. So police respond to this report of a shock.

gun blast at a convenience store, which is a scary thing, no matter what the source is. Sounds like the opening of countless American crime movies. But when the cops in Nebraska responded to a recent such call, they found an unusual culprit. A dog. Local TV station, Knapp. Knaop. Knaop. News 2 reported that police in the town of Scott's Bluff.

That's when I lied. It looks like, it also could be K, no, P. Yeah, it's like, oh no, P. Sorry, we think it's K. No. P? Scott's Bluff is a town where I'd lie. I go in there and I lie.

That's what I do in Scott's Bluff. You just, you say things to influence the other people to show their hands. Yeah, that's actually what it is. It's a poker deal. Yeah.

We call, see, we're called out to a local store after reports of the sound. It's interesting because he keeps saying a blast involving a shotgun. It's just a strange thing to know ahead of time,

but whatever. Upon arrival, they found a truck with blast damage in one of the, its doors and a woman who had been struck in the arm by a pellet from the shotgun, however, investigation showed the canine cause, cause behind the shooting when it was revealed that the, the blast happened as the vehicle had pulled up to the store, as a dog had been moving from one side of its back seat to another, just triggered the gun.

So basically they had the shotgun and the dog both sitting on the passenger, or on the back seat. Yeah. Yeah. And the dog moved around and stepped on the trigger. which she's yeah or it was on the she was in the front passenger he's sliding back and forth on that bench because it's a truck right and then snagged the trigger which was somehow that thing was pointed up and then she caught some of the brunt of it in her bum geez uh somehow the dog had triggered the shotgun which had a live round chamber to fire damaging the vehicle and striking the female

passer by oh it was somebody outside the oh it wasn't even the driver it was the passer by oh that's a weird man that must have been weird sorry there's my dog uh She always does that. Victim was taking to a hospital, not seriously injured. It is illegal in Nebraska to drive with a load of gun in your vehicle, so that guy's in trouble. Yeah, good. Don't be doing that. Even if you're like, you know, I don't know.

You know, have your gun in there if you need it. I mean, what are you going to a convenience store? Why do you need to take the gun? Leave it at home. Unless you're going to rob the place. That's also illegal. I don't know if that's also illegal. It turns out.

Yeah. Well, let's talk about other. illegal things. An officer has been arrested after allegedly pointing a firearm at a fellow cop over microwaved fish. Oh, how many, how many office fights starting in with microwave fish? Not enough, in my opinion. They all should. Really need some microwave fish sandwich? Yeah, and quit getting on flights with that stuff. Yes, exactly. What are you doing? I don't care if it's tilapia. I don't care if it's the best fish ever.

Gross. Is tilapia, you're like, your go-to. Yeah. It's good for fish tacos. Like a good flaky fish. That is true. Yeah. Very good for fish tacos.

Very good for like, even just basic filets. Put them on like a fish sandwich kind of thing, even if it's too early for one. I'm a big fan of the tilapia. Plus it's just not that fishy. It's kind of. Yeah.

Right. Middling fishy. But here's how this went. A now former South Carolina police officer. Excuse me. Facing a felony charge after alleged pointing his department issued firearm at a fellow officer during a confrontation about a microwave fish. Michael DeBacy.

Do I have that right? Tobias. There's an eye in there. Yeah. DeBias. DeBiasi. Debiasi. Debiasi.

It could be debiase. Age 46 was arrested on Tuesday in charge of the pointing and presenting a firearm at a person, according to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, which investigated the incident. the confrontation allegedly occurred on Saturday in a briefing room at the Myrtle Beach Police Department sorry, that's what the authority said. DiBiasey, or however you say his name,

allegedly confronted a fellow officer who was, quote, warming up fish in the microwave, causing an odor in the office, unquote. That's according to the arrest warrant. During the confrontation, the detective allegedly pointed or drew and pointed his department-issued handgun at the other officer, which immediately meant, hey, you're getting arrested and you're out of here.

Oh, my God. How'd you give him that guy the job? in the first place. What the hell, man? I mean, I agree that it just stinks up the place. I just want to know what the conversation was leading up to the gun. Don't you put that in the microwave? If you put that, don't you put that fish in the, don't you push that fish

in the microwave? Or it has to be more, right? It has to be. That doesn't go from zero to 60. There had to be. No, it just feels like they're, right, exactly. They didn't start with the gun drawn. There had to be like it had to get to that point. Some kind of build up, maybe

even could have been in days or weeks in the making of like this guy's driving me nuts with his fish. No doubt this is not the first fish in the microwave for this. Yeah. Yeah. I would just, I mean, this has happened to me in real life at a company I worked for.

And I would just say, I remember what I would say. I had a thing I would say. Like, I had a phrase. And I liked saying it. So when somebody would cook anything gross, I'd go,

well, what was it? Hmm. This, well that's I don't remember it was something obnoxious that I was trying to piss off the person that would do it

but I never pointed a gun to anybody I can tell you that Jerry says it's DiBiase it is DiBiase All right DiBiassi All right Michael DiBiase Yeah

Jerry where are you today Are you in Are you in lovely town of Springville Or Springville? Was that where you are today? I wonder Because he was going to go see Hootie's store today I believe

Oh, really cool. Yeah, he's been traveling. Wait, is Jerry, we're talking about Jerry Tolbert or something? Yeah, it is Jerry Tolbert. Yeah. Yeah, I wonder what, yesterday he sent me a picture from Spanish Fork and said, this is pretty. And I'm like, it really is. Spanish Fork's a tiny, not a tiny town.

It's a smallish town. But it's, man, it's gorgeous. I don't think anyone that lives there knows just how pretty that's. Really? Oh, nice. Yeah. I wish they'd all leave and I'll just move there. Oh, so you're in Springville today.

All right. You're in, uh, cool. you're in the land of, um, what was the, who was the lady, the YouTube influencer, Frankie,

something Frankie. I can't think of her name. Oh, was she also a real housewife or no? No, not a real housewife. She was, uh,

she was the one that, um, was like a mommy blogger, vlogger, vlogger thing. Okay. And then went completely wackadoo and started locking her kids up in rooms and not feeding them and stuff.

Ruby Frank. Ruby Frank. Oh, Mormon wives. Right. Not desperate housewives, but, she's not on that.

either. Oh, really? No, no, totally unrelated. Yeah. I just want to have heard that name. Yeah, we probably have. She was notorious. She's currently serving a 30-year jail sentence right now. And she should be. She sucks. Gotcha. Okay. Anyway, you're in there. You're in her hometown, so enjoy.

Nice. Oh, eight passengers was the Yes, that was her YouTube channel. Yep. And her kids are just, I mean, they're lucky to, it's a, it's so. So did you watch that the devil in the family documentary? I did. That came from a recumental.

Yeah, I knew it. Okay, that's probably where I heard the name. Yeah, it was actually quite good. Bethany Frankl is exactly who I'm thinking of. The pageant, the pagan agent. Oh, there's another, oh, I didn't, I don't even do that. There's a Frankl as opposed to a Frankie, yeah. Oh.

And I've, in walking by when Tina's watching a desperate or a real housewife show, a desperately real housewife show, then that's, yeah, I'll hear that name. Yeah, that's pretty common. The other one, he just asked, isn't this the ground zero for the big Lego heist? You're about two and a half hours away from that. Ogden, right?

Yeah, Ogden. That's north of me, so. Yeah. And that's just where they own it. Yeah. The heist happened in Oregon. So it's a weird thing. It's like franchises.

The secondary brick market's weird. anyway. The whole thing is weird. The whole thing is weird. And we've got those stores here. I kind of love them, although I, you know, it's like they have it backwards. I'd like to buy the Lego set from them, put it together, and then sell it, sell the completed Lego back to them for three-fourths of what I paid for the set. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a little weird. I wouldn't call it a scam, but the whole thing just is a little funky. Yeah. And these guys that own it now here in Utah, it's hard to say what their role is in this at all actually but they're still that's i mean and they got the youtubeer guy uh arrested utah's where the like ogden is where the

company is based right the bricks and minifigs companies it is now so they bought them out and they used to be different owners so they oh so this is so this is the franchise yeah this is it okay well the franchise that had the problem was in oregon okay but the overarching company that owns all the bricks and minifig stores, they're here. Gotcha. Okay. But they didn't used to be here,

I think. I think someone else owned these stores before is the whole thing. Okay. Which is why these owners are claiming innocence because they're like, we don't know anything about the consignment agreement and all that sort of thing. Yeah. And the YouTuber getting arrested is kind of separate. Yeah.

Yeah. Because he's like showing up in their lawns and screaming and filming. Yeah. He's, uh, from what I read, going too far. So, although it looks like the last I heard about, they were talking about making good.

And if not, if not figuring out how much money he should have gotten and reimbursing that, giving him the opportunity for everything they've sold. And he can also help himself to any Star Wars set in the store. Yep. Yep. We'll see how that plant goes. But I can't wait for this documentary. It's going to be amazing.

I know. It's going to be funny. It's going to be so good. All right. Well, let's do another documentary. Let's document a book to read. And let's do it like this. One of the things that I enjoy also is reading.

Hey, everybody. Guess what time it is. It's time for us to talk to Amy. She'll be here this week. You guys get to meet her in person if you're coming. Amy, welcome to the show. How are you? Oh, hello, friends.

Hello. How are you? Oh, I have video of you too. Let's do this. I'm very excited. Yay. Chuck said he was packing earlier today. You guys still pack and getting ready?

Yeah. Yeah, we're trying to. We got lots of stuff going on, trying to prepare. And on top of things, like, my dog decided, decided. We she didn't decide anything. Bless her a real heart. But Chuck noticed last week, like late last week, that she had a little growth on the back of her leg. Oh, no. And I immediately freaked out because I have a previous traumatic experience with a dog, with a thing. on her leg. And so we took her to the vet. And it turns out, yeah, it was a mass cell tumor.

So it was good that he noticed it. Wow. Good. Yeah. So my little puppy, everybody, everybody give me some tad vibes for my little puppy. Yeah. We don't want it. Because she's, uh, she's recovering from surgery as we speak.

Oh, I was going to ask you if they've already had the surgery. So they got, they dealt with it right away. Good. Yes. Yes. Indeed. Like they did the blood work on Friday. And we got up early.

this morning and took her in for surgery this morning. And so we pick her up at three. Oh, well, there you go. This is what my dog had, the exact same thing. And they got it out. And they were quick about it. And I'm pretty sure she's good. Although she did get this other giant growth on their side of her.

And we took her in and they said, no, that's just a, that's one of them fatty deposits. Yeah. Those are so weird. And I'm like, you fatty dog made me pay money to find out. But, no, I hope it all goes as swimmingly as possible for, uh, Me too. Yeah. Me too.

Yeah. That's no fun to have to deal with right now. I know, right? And I felt so guilty. I was like, oh my gosh, really. Like, we're gonna make her going for surgery and then we're leaving town the next day. But you can't be helped. You know, I mean, so we're not boarding her.

Like my daughter's staying here. And so it's just, yeah, like, and she's off school, you know, right now and everything. So she'll be able to have plenty of counseling. have plenty of couch time with one of her favorite humans and get plenty of, of, uh, of spoiling. And we're only gone for, you know, five days. So it'll be fine. Yeah. And we're, you know, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, because, uh, yeah, I know, that's hard. My daughter has to have oral surgery today. She's not a dog, but you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Carter? No, Taylor.

The timing is, uh, her's a, yeah. She had a root canal go weird and they, and they, and she's got, otherwise, she's got, like, perfect teeth. It's just like this one tooth up top way in the back. And they got to go in there on the through the side. Do a bunch of stuff in there. Seal it up. And then I know it sounds like a freak. In fact, she's probably in there right this second is probably.

Are they going to put her under general or? No, they can't because some reason there's some reason you can't with this one. I can't remember what it is. So they've got her on some kind of muscle relaxer and a whatever you call it. What do you call it when you sedate somebody, sedation thing? Like Valium or like a Violin or something. Yeah. Yeah.

Or Xanax or something. She'll take one of those. But it's as good as, and they'll numb it up, of course. But she already hates dentistry and stuff. So I'm just feeling for her right now. That is my nightmare. Like when I,

when I was in college and I had my wisdom teeth out, we went to a dentist who, for whatever reason, they just didn't put you under general for removing your wisdom teeth. Mine didn't either. I'm on your team. I felt. The top two were no problem.

Like they just numbed them up, cut them out. Super easy. It's not a problem. Top teeth are the best teeth. The bottom two were super impacted. And to the point where one of them, they had to like drill it in half and then like cry out the halves.

Oh, pull out all the chunks. Oh. Are you just, you lived my life. I had the same thing and they had to leave some of it in and let the bone absorb it because they couldn't get it all out of the bottom. Yeah.

The hell, man. It was awful. And I was awake for all of that. And so it was just like. the biggest that like like being awake for dental surgery is like I know they really shouldn't do that they should put you out I don't care how dumb I look or how how much you're up on my chest I don't care about any of that I don't even you know what flick my nipple on the way out I don't even care I'm not I'm not I'm not describing that part of the waiver is that like

I give consent to flick my nipple and I'm not you know this don't want to prescribe it for anyone else, but for me, they could just about do anything to me rather than have me be awake for that again. It was a nightmare. Yeah. It's awful. So, oh, my, well, my heart goes out to Taylor for that because that sounds terrible. And I hope that she has a freezer full of ice cream and a fridge full of pudding and whatever,

whatever soft food she wants and she gets. Yeah, we took the kids today. Kim's going to watch them and Dylan went with her and she's going to do, she'll do fine. But we'll all see her on Thursday. and we'll see how smiley she is. I don't know. I know. She's going to look like a chipmuck.

Yeah, the puffed out. Yeah, the puffed out cheeks. Oh, shame. Anyway, teeth. Hey, let's get to, they're the luxury bones. They are the luxury bones. I hate them.

If I ever am in charge of the teeth, right? You're doing a new universe is being planned and they're like, Scott, come in here. We need an idea for the teeth. It's going to be pure bone, not porous at all. it's going to be in fact we can just do the rings of of of bone one on top no no no extra no separate teeth it's just part of our skull that came through a big chomper bam bam bam your food's good you're done that's what we're doing okay and we're going to

vomit through our wrists we're going to have a little flap right here okay you just open it it just like a vent like oh look my vomit vent is full yeah and it won't be because I'm 100% with you on the the the ametophobia, ametophobia? Am I pronouncing it right? Yeah. I'm 100% with you on that too because I would rather

I'd rather have the flu for a week than like to throw up. I know. I don't know what it is. I'm telling you this emetaphobia thing. It's like any, think about any real like a hardcore phobia you either have or you know someone that has.

It's like that. Like it's just that intense of a, I can't do this. Like people that curl up in a ball in a plane and can't move because they're, you know, they have a phobia flying or something. It's that level, but I, but for puking.

100%. Yeah. And I mean, with me, like my, so both of my pregnancies I had morning sickness, but with my son, it was easy, peasy, like 14 weeks. I was throwing up until 14 weeks and then it was like a light switch went off. And I didn't, I wasn't sick anymore. With my daughter, I was sick the whole freaking time to the point where I had to go to the hospital and they had to give me IV fluids because I was so dehydrated because I couldn't digest food.

Yeah. And, you know, they had to give me Zopran, which is what they give chemo patients for nausea. Is that true? Wow. Yeah. Yeah. It's absolutely true. You got to get me some of that Zofran.

Yeah. I mean, it works. Yeah. It works. But, you know, use with caution because it will stop you up on the other end. Yep. Yep. Oh, really?

Okay. Good to know. The rear, they call it. Yep. Yep. That's that what they call? Is that the term they use for that? The doctors do, yeah.

Interesting. They say the rear. Well, let's get into a book that's about none of these previous topics are covered in this book, right? This is a whole different thing. Yes. Nothing about this book. So I started reading this book as my, sort of my rebounder from the latest dungeon crawler Carl, of course, right? Because that's out now and I haven't talked about it yet.

So, yeah. I've read the latest dungeon crawler Carl. I liked it. it was it's getting mixed reviews from people I think but um I liked it I think it's a it's a lot of like lore building and world building you know it's kind of like that it's kind of like that ramp up you know to the big fight kind of situation sure what I mean like and so I think not to say that big stuff didn't happen it does but does uh does that doesn't have like uh has he set a number of books that this is going to be like is it going to 10 books okay 10.

And he has straight up said that books 9 and 10 are really just like one book cut in half. And that's just so he can dick with us and put it. Hold on. He literally, literally said that like on a panel. Is the one that just come out that was 8 then? Yes. Okay.

I always think for whatever reason in my head, it's 9th. I don't know why. No, no. We still have two more to go. All right. So, yeah. Very nice. Well, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

What did you use as your come-off drug book? So, yeah. So my rebounder here, I picked this one because it's got a road trip in it. And, you know, we're about to get in our cars or, you know, in my case, plane. And go on a trip. So sounded like a fun one for that. All right. Let's play your clip and see what we got.

Abbott Coburn had spent much of his 26 years dreading the wrong things in the wrong amounts for the wrong reasons. So it was appropriate that in his final hours before achieving international infamy, he was dreading a routine trip he'd accepted as a driver for the ride-share service lift. The passenger had ordered an early morning ride from Victorville, California, to Los Angeles International Airport. A facility Abbott believed had been designed to make every traveler feel like they were doing it wrong. He rolled up to the pickup spot, the parking lot of a Circle K convenience store. to find a woman sitting on a black box,

one large enough that she probably could have mailed herself to her destination with the addition of some breathing holes in a pistrain. It had wheels, and she was rolling herself back and forth a few inches in each direction with her feet, working out nervous energy. The millions of strangers who would become obsessed with that box in the coming days would usually describe it incorrectly, calling it everything from a foot locker to an armored munition

crate. What the woman was actually sitting on was a road case, a type musicians used to transport concert gear. This one was covered in band stickers, a detail that would have been inconsequential and irrational society, but would turn out to be extremely consequential in ours. Oh, wow. There you go. Why is that guy's voice familiar? Should I know who that is? I don't know. So the guy's voice said, Ari Fliakos. Not familiar at all. I guess something about it. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right or not. But yeah.

That sounds like a, that's a Greek name, I think. That name. Yeah, sounds like it. Yeah. I like that. Like, Kyriacus. Yeah. Victor Kiroikas. Yeah. Her first, the first Greek, a lot of us ever knew about. Yeah. You're not wrong, dude. I don't feel like I knew any before then. I mean, same. I'm with you on that. Like, yeah, that was the first one I ever. Yeah. Peace out, days of our lives. So, yeah, this book is called I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin. And it's a lot of fun, honestly. So it is equal parts fun, hilarious misadventure combined with social commentary. And it's really, really interesting. And now I will give a little bit of a warning, the protagonist, Abbott, that we just met, the guy who dreads the wrong things.

About a third of the way into the book, he becomes hard to sympathize with in certain ways. So I will just, and there is, there is no, there's no sort of, it's hard to describe like what happens in a book. You know, like, because like in a movie, you'd say on screen, right? But like, there's no equivalent term for in the book. But so I'll just say there's no on screen kind of assault or anything like that, but there is discussion of sexual assault in, in a, in the abstract. There's no, there's no discussion of a recounting or a flashback or something. Right. None of that.

It's all, it's all, it's being discussed in, you know, as an abstract concept or, you know, and. etc. You know, the way a YouTuber would pontificate about stuff, you know, just in general, general, very general terms. So put it that way. But anyway, it, there are times when it does a little bit hit you over the head with the social commentary, but it's done in such a way that is really interesting, I think, because you've got, you know, so at this point, and that, that happens, like, there is nothing in that clip that was in any way a spoiler. Like, that was part one, chapter one, first couple of minutes. I didn't even edit that. I, like, that was just pook, just plonked directly from the beginning of the book. So, yeah, that's exactly what happens in the beginning of the book.

And ultimately, she, you know, he's her lift driver. And he shows up and she says, yeah, I'm not going to the airport. I'm going to Washington, D.C. And I'll give you $200,000 to drive me to Washington, D.C. But we have to leave right now. You can't ask questions. You can't tell anybody. You can't bring your phone.

And you can't look inside the box. So that in a yellow. Brian, if you had this lift. If you got this lift, would you take it? It turns it, it's exactly what it does. Turns it into a, what would you do in a situation like that? 200,000 bucks, yes. When do we leave?

Right. Even though it's like, as you say, this could be something more dire, sinister, since we're going to Washington, D.C. Where does this fit around, let's say, a date, arbitrary date that I might pull out of my head, like, I don't know, January 6th? Yeah. Well, I will say it was released in 2025. So, you know,

Some possible influence, maybe. You're not influenced. Yeah, no, the target date is actually July 4th of the year that it's set in. So, you know, it does feel significant in that, in that regard. Is there going to be a wrestling match in the book? A kind of ultimate fighting is happening. I can neither confirm nor did I. Good.

Wouldn't that be interesting? Yeah, wouldn't that be interesting? The John dies at the end guy, isn't it? The author? I looked up his bio and I was like, wait a minute, I know that thing. I've seen the movie. I've never read the book. I have never consumed any of that. And I, after reading this, I thought about going and looking those up. So I might, I might hit those next. But, yeah, there. A comedy writer. A guy wrote for crack.com and. Oh, really? Pointless waste. Yeah. He's, he's an interesting dude. Now I'm more interested than ever because I really like his, well, I think I like his work. I liked John dies at the end of the movie. I don't know. And the book is regarded highly. So yeah, it's a whole series. Like the John dies at the end. There's a whole series. Oh, I didn't know that. Okay. Yeah. I figured you just died at the end. They're like they're co-written. They have two authors. But yeah. I mean, I haven't read any of them yet. So, you know, but, but I can recommend I'm starting to worry about this black box of doom. If you guys remember, you know, I don't know exactly when. But at some point in the past, I recommended a book. I recommended a book. called Now is Not the Time to Panic. And it was, you know, it was these two kids who like, their mom had a copy machine or whatever.

And so they made all these posters that were just kind of artistic and had this vague kind of slogan on them or whatever. And they started putting them up all over town just because they were bored. And the entire town started freaking out about what they, what the posters meant and what was, you know, there was more sinister things afloat there. So I would say there's probably an element of that going on because every once in a while we get an interstitial of, you know, what people on the internet are saying about the goings-on.

And it's really, some of them are so hilariously out of left field. They're just like, but the way it's written, the person, you know, the person talking, the point of view of that person, they 100% believe. And they have all this evidence that they've managed to uncover, you know, to support their particular claim of what's in the box. Wild. I love a good what's in the box mystery. It's fun. It's really fun.

And it's really fun and interesting. And it's also, it's got kind of a, you know, a. a good little, you know, maybe coming of age type moment. Although, you know, the guy Abbott, he's a little old. He's a little bit of a late bloomer, I'd say, because he's in his 20s. So maybe less coming of age and maybe like, you know, hey, come of age already, dummy. But aside from that, you know, there's, you know, it's, there's a little sweet side story. with some of the characters and how they how they are interconnected, even though they are seemingly brought together completely randomly.

Very cool. It's up on pumpkin, Pumpkin, The Pumpkin Cottage.com. Pumpion. Sorry, Pumpkin. The pumpkin cottage has the link and it's ready. And it's going up on today's quicktmS.

dot L.I so you can track it. Hopefully will. I send it to Iceworm. He is traveling, but he should be, I think he's back today. Oh, okay. Cool. At some point, you'll get it.

But yeah, go look for the book. It sounds great. I'm sold. I'm going to read this. Yeah. This might be one of my. And it's a very short read. Honestly, like I listened to most of it.

I was driving my son back to Tennessee after he got home from Australia. He was doing like a study abroad in Australia for six months. He got home. He was home for like 10 days. And then he's got a summer internship up in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. So I had to drive him up. there and get him all settled in his apartment, which is about a three and a half hour drive. So I got most of the audiobook listened to, you know, on that drive.

Yeah. So quick read. Yeah, it's quick. I like quick reads. Nothing wrong with that. Excellent. Go check it out. That again is I'm starting to worry about this black box of doom, a novel by Jason Pargan.

And you can find it on the pumpkin cottage and anywhere that you get your books, although we'd prefer you get it at the pumpkin cottage, which I'm pretty sure Dr. Tolbert is visiting today. So, yeah. I would love, I don't know if I'm going to have time, but I would love to go see the, the new digs out there. Yeah, the only, the only problem with it is just time. It's an hour plus to get there, you know, south, which isn't a, it's not a giant deal. I guess if you're driving, if you're driving there from, like you said, the south, I mean, we're coming from the north, unfortunately. So it's not like we're going to be, passing through it would be nice to stop by themselves but yeah coming up south no problem like I've pretty much what Tolbert's doing is uh he came that direction he went through all my favorite country all the red rock uh desert stuff oh man I just

want to live there so bad one day not me too dry I need I need some I need some water need some ocean or need something as opposed to over here where it's like there's so so do you know why the the smoky mountains are called such there's a haze that, not a haze, but like a, yeah, it literally looks like there's smoke coming off of them. Yeah. And it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, the condensation and the, you know, like the vapor and the air and stuff like that. Like there's so much humidity that, you know, as it evaporates off of the, the mountains that it just looks like. I did not know that.

And there are places where it looks blue. Oh, no, you know what? Yeah. That was the, that was the, yeah. Okay. It was, it was the smoking mountains where it looks blue. Yeah. Yeah.

There's also in Australia, one of the, the blue mountains had a blue. mist around because of the type of trees or something. Yeah, like North Georgia, we have like the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are blue. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of cool. Ours are currently green and it's going to look great while you're here. Nice.

I'm excited. I'm so excited to come back because I was in Utah last year. Yeah, you were. I loved it out there too. And so I still am not convinced that any of that is real. I think it's all greets. It feels like it. It's a backdrop of very, very elaborately painted.

and back drunk. There are times I wonder myself, but I'm very excited to see you and the Chuck, of course. Chuck also. All right. Let's not leave Chuck off this list. We love our Chuck. We do. No, definitely. We definitely love our Chuck. And we're doing, oh my gosh, shout out to Chuck because I have a huge pain in the ass. You guys don't know this about me, but I am. And I always, when we're doing an event like this or DragonCon or whatever, I don't know why you. I don't know why my brain does this, but every time I come up with some hairbrained creative project for that event. Last minute.

In a very short period of time before that event. And bless him, he has been kicking ass helping me make this into a reality. And I'm very excited about it. And I'm not going to say what it is because it's a surprise. Well done, Charles. Are we sporting the beard now? Or did that all get shaved? No, he's got like a, he's got a goatee right now, I think.

Okay. Like a villain, like an evil villain. I mean, that's kind of his default state that I think of him as, because that's when I met him, that's what he had was the goatee. You're attracted to the villains is what you're telling me. I like the bad boys. I like it. We're watching a series right now with Corey Stoll, and he's, he looks very Chuck-like right now in this, in the show.

with the... Oh, I could see that. Yeah. I could totally see that. Talking of things we're watching, I want to thank whoever... I think it was Nicole, but whoever recommended the Margo's having money troubles, I am digging the crap out of that show. It's so good.

And, I mean, mostly Nick Offerman is just... He can't do anything wrong. He's just amazing. He is performing the hell out of that role and it is a treasure. Unbelievable. So good. I can totally see Chuck in this. Can you see it?

Yeah. is right there. Yeah. Yeah. Corey stole, Chuck. I've never seen you in the same place. And the, uh, the, the beard is a little bit more full right now, which is the last time I saw Chuck, he had the, the fuller, uh, the full of, yeah. Well, he was coming, yeah, he was coming off of, like the winter beard. And so he does like the mountain man scruff. He should go for one of these. He should go for the mustache. Go for the big old stasher, man. Wow. He's going to go get Wyatt Earp or something. Yeah. Got to stop her, no matter what. what occurs. Amy, have a face, safe, face and safe trip. And we will see you just in a couple of days.

Yeah, I'm coming out tomorrow. So, you might see tomorrow. Maybe even sooner. You're going to smoke monster, I assume? I might pop by. I like Carter. I am very sensitive to smoke and stuff. But I don't think I'll be able to resist coming by. I was going to say the indoor part, there's going to be smoke-free. So it's really just the patio that's going to be smoking. Yeah. It depends on what time we, because like our flight gets in at like six something. So it depends on what time we make it in and get checked in and settled and all that. But, you know, I might not be able to resist like at least pop and buy to say hi. I think Brian and I will be a little late for that anyway. We'll be late. Yeah. Not terribly late, but a little. Yeah. We have, you know, another podcast convention that we're going to be coming from. That's right. We're fresh off. We know about that one. We're fresh off a panel.

It's part of Leoport's big unit is what it's called. Yeah, we're all units on the larger set of units. Amy, have a fantastic time. Can't wait to see you. Stay safe. Thanks, bye. I know.

See ya. I hope her dogs. Okay. That sucks. Yeah. Guys, we're done. That's the show.

We did it. We went a little long with the segment, which is fine. We don't mind that. We like that. We'll allow that. And here's the deal. So here's what you need to know about TMS, moving forward for the week. There will not be another TMS until Friday, Friday morning. There will

be a TMS live at Nurtacular. We'll film the whole thing and stream the whole thing. If you're going to be here, you'll get to see the whole thing. And just about all of our Monday through Thursday and Friday guests are there. Yeah. I think the only, Dan Patrice is the, oh, and Stephen Schleiker. Yeah, Schleiker and Patrice are gone. That's it. Yeah. But we've got everybody, including Monica, at the tail in there. Do we, are we going to like stack people on top of each other, like on their shoulders. So like it'll be TV's Travis with Amy on his shoulders and then for each day like the Tuesdays. Yeah, exactly. Because we only have enough seats for. Yeah. For each day of the week. So people are going to be. Yeah. Do we have seven or eight? I can't remember. I think we have eight.

Let's see. We have two Monday people. One of them won't be there. Oh, no. We have three Monday people, Nicole. Nicole. Oh, Nicole. Yeah, right. Nicole's there. So we got Nicole. Tuesday is your Bill, Amy, and TV's Travis, and Dan Patrice. That's five. Tom and Wendy. Wendy, Brian Dunaway. Oh, and Dunaway.

I have on the list as well. So that is actually nine people, right? I was counting, I counted eight, but then the two of us, ten of us. Oh, two of us, that makes ten. KT. Data says two hosts and six guests at a time. So it's going to be like the Johnny Carson couch. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, you'll move down a slot. Yep. And then you'll eventually get kicked right out of there. That's right. And if you're setting out funny, you're not even getting invited to the seat. Yep. You can't even sit next to Ed McMahon. That's right.

Exactly. Anyway, that'll be live on Friday. We look forward to that. It's always a good time. Always a little bit chaotic that episode or that show when we do it live. But got it all prepped and ready to rock. Cool. I can't wait.

It's going to be fun. A whole day of stuff. So make sure you tune in for the live streams. I hope I have. I hope I have a story from the drive that's not a story that's going to like be, oh, but like something funny that happens along the drive that I'll be able to tell at TMS Friday. Yeah, always fun. And then our tires blew. And the engine ceased to operate properly.

Exactly, yes. I guess if that was true, you may not do it. Oh, God, I don't even want to manifest if I talking about it. Yeah, we don't even want to think this is a thing. It's not even a possibility. Exactly. Oh, geez. Probability and possibility today are in the same boat.

possible, improbable. Boom. Very good. I solved it. I solved it. Nicely done. Anyway, watch for all that coming up soon. There is no RE9 play through today. There's instead a meeting I have with the venue people. So that's, you're not invited to watch that live stream. So don't worry about that.

And all other things are on the schedule. So just check out the schedule. If you're concerned or wondering what's going on, Wednesday is pretty clear because we got all, that's where a lot of people are getting into town. A lot of stuff starts happening. So I wouldn't get too excited about Wednesday and content. But Thursday, all bets are off.

We got live film sack. We got live core, which includes a bunch of guests. We got Liam O'Brien coming for that. We got all kinds of fun stuff lined up. So check it out. Oh, I can't wait to see Liam. Man, it's awesome.

It's going to be great. Been a while. He used to come to the Bliscon room that we would do, and it was before Critical Role, so things hadn't blown up for him yet. And he would show up just normal. Just like, hey, it's my friend. And most people didn't know him.

They were just like, who is that? That's my pal Liam. He's just a voice actor. Oh yeah, he does el it in. Okay, I know that. You know, there was some of that. But then 2015 happens. Critical Role explodes.

Yeah. And the next year, he had to show up in a hat. He had to show up in a hat and a pair of fake glasses that made him look different. He still came, but it was like a whole different animal. Oh, that's funny. So I guess what I'm saying is anybody who's hearing this ahead of the thing. And I'll say it again on the stage. He's like one of us.

Everybody treat him as such. Don't go. Don't be freaks. okay. It's just Liam. It's normal Liam. Quietly internalize your fan girling and fanboying over Liam. Yeah, pretend it's 2013. Express a little bit because I mean, give him something.

Oh yeah, you want son. If you'll ignore him, that'd be weird. Yeah, yeah. I'll be doing that. But he had like, Tanner sent me a picture of the line for that. And the people there for Liam was out of control. It was crazy. And you're well deserved. You guys are just getting him. You get them for a day. Yeah, for a day. He has to leave after that. Yeah. It's going to be great.

So anyway. Too bad. I really would have liked to put them on a, on a tribute team. Oh, that would have been, that would have been great. Anyway,

it is all going to be at Nerdtaculars website stuff. You'll find all the details later today. That's Frogpants.com slash nerdtacular. Brian, let's play a song and get out. Okay. Matthew, LC Knight, when he's able to be in chat. Send in this request.

I am playing so much catch up with requests, folks. You guys were great about getting in a lot of requests for the end of May and the beginning of June. So I'm trying to get through. all these and and the rest of June will be a lot of playing catch up with these requests. Brian, I'm finally addressing my hearing loss. On June 2nd, I got hearing aids to allow me to clearly hear for the first time in more years than TMS has been on the air.

I would love to hear something that has subtle or complex as you can make it. That's how we wrote it. All right. Covermeister may choose is what he said. Well, Matthew, first of all, congratulations. And that's awesome. We want to give you something fun to listen to. And I'm, of course, playing off of the whole hearing things.

So let's go to a song that was originally done by Smiley Lewis, but you're probably most familiar with the version by Dave Edmonds or even Fats Domino. It is, I hear you knocking. Here is Eugene Edwards from FMU Super Hits of the 70s from 2012. I feel like I feel like I should say that as, oh my god the comedians the comedian's name

oh no reservoir dog radio station shit yeah I know why am I forgetting that guy's name

I don't know I just saw this again too oh yeah from WF Stephen Wright Stephen Wright Steve right Farrick

from WFMU's super hits of the 70s here's Eugene Edwards and I hear you knocking This has been a door I hear But you can't come in Not to go

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