The Morning Stream - TMS 3031: Well-Drawn Old Men
Episode Date: July 6, 2026Eating Dirt with Scott. Vitamin Orange. Englan-duh. Cindy-Kate Cartoonsmith. Same Hole Zones. Ear cartilage, how does it work? All in All You're Just A... Lego Brick on the Floor. Hootin' Holler Hoosg...ow! Spreadless cracker. You play as people. Use the Flu, Luke! Desperately Holding on to the Jugs of Pee. Dark vicious blood. Making a space in your life for Gary Larsson. Real fake cells with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.VIDEO: https://youtu.be/bE4mW-R4K6c Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Coming up on the morning stream, well-drawn old men.
Eating dirt with Scott.
Vitamin Orange.
England.
Cindy Kate Cartoon Smith.
Same hole zones.
Ear cartilage.
How does it work?
All in all, you're just a Lego brick on the floor.
Hoot and holler, hooskow.
spreadless cracker. You play as people.
Use the flu, Luke.
Desperately holding on to the jugs of pee.
Dark, vicious blood.
Making a space in your life for Gary Larson.
Real fake cells with Bobby and more on this episode of the Morning Stream.
I don't give two f*** about the 4th July, man.
You're going to celebrate a fucking haul, Dave,
where we got independence from tyranny and taxes.
Living in a country, it's full of tyranny and fucking taxes.
You're going to pay taxes on everything.
You're going to celebrate with you, dumb.
You're stupid some bitch.
Not a trace of semen in the air.
The morning stream, where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.
Hello, everybody, I'm welcome to TMS.
This is the morning stream for Monday, July 6th, 2020.
We have many sixes today.
Many sixes.
There we go.
Yeah.
Me and Brian, both 56 years old.
That's correct, yes.
Soon to be not that.
Sooner for you.
Mm-hmm.
Old man.
And then a month later, Brian's like, oh.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Not even that.
Two weeks later.
Oh, yeah.
It's not even a full month, does it?
Yeah.
Well, we look forward to it.
Whatever.
We're like fine wine here.
Exactly.
Whatever.
Yeah.
You know, we've been at this life thing for a while.
we know a few things
we'll figure it out
so listen to us we we're wise in our years
we are very wise in both time and space
hey
you ever have anybody faint in front of you
you ever had that happen
geez
no but I've had somebody just like
start coughing like completely out of the blue
Instacost! Insta!
Yeah
yes I was at
Magic Mountain in California
waiting in line for a right
And it was a ride that we saw in Beverly Hills Cop 3, which was filmed in Magic Mountain.
That's right.
And I'm sitting there with my aunt and uncle.
And all of a sudden, a woman who is like sitting on a kind of sitting on the bars instead of standing walking in line, she was just sitting on the bars because there was a wait to get on.
And all of a sudden, she just passed out fainted.
don't know why, but she fainted in like...
Was it super hot out or anything like that?
It was probably, I mean, it was California,
Southern California in the middle of summer,
probably a big part of it.
And for whatever reason,
I couldn't even tell you the ride,
but I could tell you that that was the most memorable thing
that happened to me on that trip.
That must have been, yeah.
I'd never seen anybody faint for most of my life until,
I don't know, probably...
Oh, I saw a friend faint once in a soccer.
game. He wasn't drinking enough. Another dehydration. Oh, sure. Yep. Yep. But, um, and you're right,
though, that's the thing I remember most about that year of soccer. I don't remember much else.
Right. Exactly. It's funny. Like when you're a little kid, it's one of those, one of those memories
like, whoa, that's not supposed to happen to people just randomly fainting. And then you think,
when was that going to happen to me? Oh, no. Well, yesterday, we had a little fun experience
here at the house. Okay. Wendy's daughter, uh, Ali is visiting. And, uh, is here just for a few days,
spent some time with Misha and then over with us.
Yesterday. Super, super fun to see her.
And she just had a birthday, so we're like hanging out with her.
And if you don't know, Allie, she is the sweetest kid you'll ever meet.
I say kid, she's 24 now.
But she's, she is very, very much on the scale, the autism scale, and has a bunch of
developmental struggles and, you know, all that kind of stuff.
They do amazing work with her, though, but she's, you know, she's on the scale.
And you would know it from two seconds with her.
Sure.
Well, one of the things that defines kind of her.
her autism is she's very reserved about how she'll express things.
So if something hurts, she won't go, ah, like I would.
She just goes, that hurt.
So it's like a very flat sort of like,
doesn't really have a way of overexpressing.
Like the rest of us have like a scale of that.
She's kind of just got this flat expression.
Very, very matter of fact.
Yeah.
She's like, I'm very happy right now is the exact.
same as saying, I'm very tired right now. It's like
the exact same tone. And so
something we're used to with her, and it's fine,
whatever.
Well, yesterday, or one of the things she wanted to do on this
trip is she really wanted Carter to
pierce her ears. And she
had piercings at one point, but they had healed up
and she wanted to use the same
little hole zones, however you
do it. Okay. And then have...
Can you do that? Or like, can you
just... I think so. I would think that they'd
stir up and then it'd be tougher to get
through those. Well, good question.
I don't know. Maybe this is part of the story, and I didn't think of that tell just now.
Because now that you say that.
I mean, I don't know how ear cartilage works for that sort of thing.
Unless it was, you're probably right, it would be tougher. Would it be more painful? I don't know.
But definitely tougher, right? I think that's true because Carter is having a hard time getting through him.
So I think you're actually on to something here.
So they're in there and she's like, yeah, I really want to do this. And Carter's like, okay, let's do it.
And she sits her down. And remember, we got a flat line in terms of emotion.
expression. There's not a lot of anything.
So Carter's back there going, all right, now I'm going to
do this now. Are you ready? You know,
it's probably going to sting a little. And she's
like, yeah, I'm fine. I'm fine. Pushes it
through. Okay, are you good? She's like, yeah, I'm fine.
But we don't know
if she's actually, if it hurts or not
because she doesn't express it. There's no, right, there's no variance in
her voice. Yeah, she doesn't know how to express it.
So Carter
stup at your toe, it's the same, elicits
the same response as a broken arm.
Exactly. The things I would do and yell,
if I stepped on a Lego
piece.
Or I'm sorry, on Lego,
not on a Lego.
Oh, yeah, okay.
I guess, I mean, you can say a Lego block
because that's what they want you to say
for the plural is Lego blocks.
There you go.
So if I say I stepped on a Lego block,
that's okay, right?
That's okay.
All right.
But I would say,
I don't think you can say I stepped on a Lego?
No, I think you're supposed to say,
yes, I stepped on Lego or a Lego piece.
A Lego brick.
Oh, that's it.
Lego brick, not Lego block.
Yeah, like brick.
Oh, brick and but yeah,
the road block or not Roblox.
What's the other one?
It's not called blocks and mini figs.
It's called bricks and mini figs.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean,
come on, people.
So,
so she's doing all this and it looked painful to me,
and I went in the other room
because I don't like watching people get pierced.
Sure.
Been through this myself.
I didn't like.
Yeah.
I go in the other room.
Kim and I are talking.
We're like, okay, what's the, you know,
what's the plan?
When we need to get her back to Misha's by,
whatever.
And we're just kind of having this conversation.
And we hear, mom, dad, like that.
And it was Carter.
And I went, that is not a good.
That didn't sound good.
I know Carter's voice and when son's up.
So I fling the door open and I run out there.
And Carter's like, I need help.
And we go running over there.
And Allie had full on just like fainted from the ear piercing.
Wow.
And she didn't say a word or make a peep.
She just like eyes rolled back.
Carter caught her thing.
she was on the stool.
Caught her,
kind of laid her to the ground and was fine.
She didn't hit her head or anything.
Wow.
So she laid on the ground for a little while.
By the time we got to her,
she was starting to open her eyes,
and she opens them wide and lays on the floor flat.
She's just looking up at us.
Uh-huh.
And I go,
I go, hey, you okay?
I think we lost you there for a second.
And I'm like kind of just touching her shoulder.
And she looks at me.
She looks at Kim.
And she goes,
I'm fine.
And then just jerks up and stits up and stand up.
And acts like everything is 100%
that fine. No issues. And I went, now, you can take, go slow, you know, do you want to sit down or
lay down or anything? Yes, I will sit down. Get her some water. We kind of chill out. And at first
I was kind of freaking out. I was like, is this a, sure, did we screw up? Like, where it was something.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. We called Wendy and she goes, she goes, no, she did this last time.
The last time there was like, she had to get a blood test or something. She fainted. So she
faints with needles. I'm like, well, you could have told us, Wendy.
Could you have put that in the instruction manual
You sent along with her?
Yeah, listen, Mrs. Full-time therapist
You're supposed to talk about everything.
Well, one of them is that your daughter might faint
If we jam needles in her ears.
That might help.
It all worked out.
She was fine, happy as a pig and poo
As much as she can show us after.
She was glad to have them finally pierced.
But just, you know, just no going in, everybody.
Yeah, I don't, it's funny, when I get my blood drawn,
if I look and I made the mistake of this, you know, when I was really young,
and then recently made the mistake of looking,
if I look and see the needle going into my arm and the blood filling up the vial,
then stuff starts to get a little hazy.
I don't full on faint, but it's like, okay, let's get some controlled breathing here.
Let's get, you know, color returning back to the screen.
Yep.
I'm exactly like you, by the way.
there's there's no if i don't look it's fine if i look now if it's like an injit like a quick
inoculation style like a vaccine i don't have problem looking at those no problem at all yeah i
usually don't but it's not because i can't i just i'm sitting there and i'm like whatever go ahead and
do your thing exactly if i don't look like they've got the place i go they've got like um
old uh comic strips taped to the wall i mean this these are from newspapers they're starting
to yellow. It's like, I'm trying, you can't even remember the, um, the comic strip because it was one
that the guy retired. I'm sure there's a couple far sides on there, but it was like, there was one with
like, uh, really well-drawn old men that are like talking to each other.
And I can't remember, but it was one I used to read a lot when I was a kid in the newspaper.
But, uh, yeah, it's like they've had these things taped to the wall and just look over at those.
Totally fine. Yeah. Yeah. If I have just any other distraction,
But if I look at those vials and I see them filling up with my dark, vicious blood.
Yeah.
Viscous or vicious.
Yeah, vicious or viscous.
I go, and then I start to lose it.
Yeah, then you start to, okay.
This is like, this is what being high feels like.
All right, cool.
Yep, I don't like it.
It's not marmaduke, Adobe Geek, although there probably is a marmaduke on there.
A family circle where Billy's getting his blood drawn or something.
Definitely not Far Side.
have to be like yeah it was like it was wasn't gasoline alley was it was that it let me take a look
i don't think it was gasoline alley uh when you mentioned like the old timiness it kind of rings a bell there
but i don't know oh i get the movie gasoline so did i and the crappy one of these where they took
advantage of bruce willis movies yeah nope not gasoline alley um god not handicap it well this will help
It was like usually one panel, one wide panel.
Oh, okay.
Kind of like a far side.
All right. Single panel.
Single panel.
Sunday and regular day stuff?
Like all the time?
Yes. Yes.
All right.
Yeah, I've no.
I'm ringing a blank.
I used to read them.
I read comics religiously every day.
But I don't remember that one.
Here's gasoline alley for those wondering what that was.
But I had old people in it.
Had old people.
But these are.
are more like cartoonized old people
is the ones I'm thinking of had more
realistic looking old people.
Gotcha. Let's read this harder.
It's one and see if it's any fun.
Glad you're all,
sorry, both y'all are back.
So are we,
Gertie. Yes, ma'am, says this other guy.
Uh-huh. Did you have a good time?
And the old guy says, we spent two hours
in the Hoot and holler, Hoogs, Hooskow, sorry.
Says, what? In jail? You didn't.
we did.
Now, I don't think that's meant to be a gag.
I think it's like, see here it says 7 of 6 or whatever.
That's right, because they usually did, oh, there it is.
What is this?
It's this one right here.
Oh, you found it?
I found it. Ballard Street.
Delete this.
There we go.
Ballard Street? I don't know what that is.
I've never heard of it.
We're going to find it, man.
Here it is, Ballard Street on Go Comics.
Oh.
Let's see if this is.
Very reminiscent of Farside single panel.
business if that's what it is.
Yes.
The most recent, which looks like a reprint, obviously.
Oh, yeah, that's definitely...
Rex wonders whether this might affect the quality of Bob and his time at the dog park.
What?
What's happening?
I don't even know what's happening there.
I don't either.
He's got...
Because he's wearing a cat mask, I guess.
Yes, or what's this huge button thing?
What's he doing with his scissors?
Like, are those scissors?
Like, are those scissors?
He's cutting whiskers off or something?
Is it a mirror?
and he's looking at his whiskers and cutting him on the mirror that's in his pants.
I just can't tell what the hell's going on.
You know.
Here, let me give you this one.
I'll put it in our discord.
This is the one that I saw that's like, oh, yeah, this is the Ballard Street.
This is the one I remember.
Some of these are just depressing.
Look at this real quick.
Sure.
Tony needs to stop being so hard on himself.
What are we doing?
I mean, this is.
is, I used to get so frustrated around high school college because I wanted to syndicate,
I wanted a comic syndicated so bad. That was my dream. Yeah. And I was submitting them left and
right. I'm not saying I was great or anything, but I'd see stuff like this and go, they're syndicated.
Look at that. That's what, greater syndicate? Those bastards. Why do they get it? And I don't. I don't
know what this is. I mean, I like kind of like the art, but here's, so take a look at the second one I just
put in in our chat, in our Discord chat.
Okay, pulling it up here.
This is what I'm more familiar with.
The Habners are going to be a handful today
because they're,
because they got helicopter packs and they're having a good time.
Yeah, it's basically like,
here are the goofy neighbors.
Weird.
So this is that,
so this is that comic.
Okay.
This is that comic.
I guess it's not,
they're not super realistic,
but it's a very
my
Mr. Starkey
starts the dreary process
of trying to find a place to start
well just slice of life
is what we're getting there.
It is slice of life, yeah.
That was on 9-11.
Oh, wow.
Some September 11th.
Yeah, it may not have been
the 9-11.
Yeah, it might have been just a different one.
Harold and Sandy have reached
a sublime
a sublime level
of relational acceptance.
Okay, and let's see.
He's shooting.
Rockets. She's doing karaoke.
Yeah.
Okay. All right.
Was an 85 year old band doing these?
Because that's what it feels like. It does feel like it, right?
All right. Here we go. One last one.
Sure.
This is this. Let's end with a really, really good ones.
Got a bangor. Right here. Got a banger here. Get it up. All right.
Carson gives up on the party. Oh, look at Carson.
You know, he's just like I'm done.
Yeah, he's a cup and a
spoon. Put a cup on my face, spoon in my mouth.
Yeah, plates tipped over on his laugh.
Yeah, exactly.
And his wife's not even, she doesn't even care.
Doesn't even care.
She's all into it.
Eating a Ritz Cracker.
Comics, everybody.
On a plate where there's three Ritz crackers,
no cheese on that cracker, any sort of spread, just a Ritz Cracker.
That felt like, they were trying to invoke Gary Larson and they couldn't quite pull it off.
A little bit.
But it was like, I think it was just like in every, every, every,
panel was just
some weird people in the neighborhood
and what makes them weird
or what existential
crisis they're going through.
Yep, yeah. I kind of like the art,
though. I'll say that. It's cool.
Yeah, the art I liked.
Guys, check it out.
Yeah, that's right.
That music signifies something.
Let me tell you what it signifies if you didn't already know.
It signifies the arrival of one Brian done away.
Hello, Brian.
Oh, hi, Scott and Brian.
Hey, man.
Oh, hello.
Perhaps y'all should wait until I get here before you talk about Ballard Street.
I talked to Jerry back in 2007.
You really?
Can you give some insight on the kind of, like, is it just always been an attempt to be sort of slice of life?
Like, look at Jerry with the saucer on his head.
You know what I mean?
Did I mention it was 2007 when I interviewed him last?
It's been a while.
Don't remember.
All right.
How old was he in 2007?
because we're
He's retired
since then,
so
Oh, I'm sure.
It feels like
he was retired
back then too.
Who,
let's see.
I remember him being a very
nice guy.
Remember him being
super chill,
very humble
and loved it.
I like my guy's
nice and humble.
That's what I like.
It's nice and grumble.
Let's see.
Jerry Van or
Murr-Gorgan.
Yeah,
still can't see.
Ammergen.
Vanderflop.
Vanderflop.
He ran the strip
from
until to 2019, so not that long ago.
Oh, wow.
And he now lives somewhere and doing stuff.
All right, well, we did it.
It says here the comic was similar in format and content to Gary Larson's The Far Side,
enjoying a single-panel gag cartoon.
There he go, yeah.
You know, it was smart making a single-panel gag cartoon when Gary Larson took his retirement.
That's a good point.
They got to put that.
They got to put something in that space.
They got to put something in that square.
Exactly.
Yeah, back then, you would physically have to fill that space.
Right.
And if you had made a space for Gary Larson, you may as well use it.
Let me tell you something about the editors of old who used to, you know, place all those comics in there.
They were like, no, I'm not changing the, I'm not changing the layout.
We're not, we're not playing slide things around.
No.
Give me the same size comic.
That's right, damn it.
Well, let's have the same size Brian Dunaway here.
Let's play a game.
This is a new thing on Mondays.
we've been doing. This is our third attempt,
our third stab at it, Brian.
We're constantly adjusting and
fixing things. Welcome to
Do Frogs Have Brains, a countdown
style trivia game. I've got 20
questions across various subjects,
including science, art, entertainment, history,
and more. Wait till you get to those
questions about more. Those are tough.
Scott and Brian will each get 60 seconds
to answer as many of these questions as they can.
Timeflation has increased this from
30 to 45 now to 60.
While Scott's answering his questions, we're going to put Brian into a soundproof isolation.
Isolation booth.
Isolation booth.
To skip to the next question, you can say pass, and I'll jump to the next one.
The player with the most correct answers after 45 seconds wins the prize for their contestant.
Contestants have been pulled from our Patreon supporters of patreon.com slash TMS.
Got cat hair in my mouth.
Quit kissing the cat.
Scott is going to be playing for Sean W.
It's like I've never done this before.
And Brian is going to be playing for Brian Clemens.
How appropriate.
Oh, very nice.
I like when we have some same-named.
It's the same name game.
Brian Ibit reading questions for Brian Dunway to win prizes for Brian Clemens.
How can we possibly go wrong?
On six, oh, sorry, 7-6-26.
That's right.
Wow.
I know.
It's amazing.
All right.
So last week,
I was supposed to wait a little bit longer.
How many Mississippi's?
I now have a button to bring you back to say to get you back in the game.
So we're going to find out how that all works.
Please tell me as something nice and gentle, unlike the,
I don't know.
Because I'm sitting in complete silence over here.
And all I hear is, you know, it's waiting for it, waiting for it to come stab me in the eye.
I had a piece of audio I gave to Alcabob.
I don't know if he's had a chance to get into the game.
game yet. So we'll see if it's, if it's, um, I'll call this, I'm going to call this my anxiety booth.
I'm going to go sit in anxiety booth. You're ready? It's probably a good idea. Yes, please do. Okay.
Here I go. Here we go. Okay. So Scott, I'm going to start the timer after I ask the first question.
So we've also changed that. So I get the first question out and then start the timer when you give your
first answer. All right. So cool. All right. If you're ready, then we're going to get going. Let's see. Do I,
I hope this works.
Let's see.
I also hope it works.
Yeah, I'm going to assume that now
if I press the space button, it will start.
We're going to find out.
Okay.
On which island does Mount Etna stand?
Nope, it did not start the time.
Hold on.
So I'll physically press the start timer button.
Okay, here we go.
Oh, set up to start?
Is that it?
Let's try that.
I'll just click the button that says start timer.
Okay.
On which island does Mount Etna stand?
The one with Happy Island Jr.
I've no idea.
What did U.S. astronaut Leroy Chow do for the first time from the International Space Station in November of 2004?
Eat a banana.
Robert Fulton invented the steamboat and what other destructive maritime device?
A submarine.
Which country did Sigmund Freud come from?
Austria.
Ricketts is caused by deficiency of what vitamin in the diet.
B.
What was the name of the wise, cracking?
waitress played by Rea Pearlman on Cheers.
Oh, uh,
oh my gosh.
Pass.
What is the most distinctive exterior feature on a Russian Orthodox church?
Steeple.
What kind of calendar is also an Arabic term for a New Year's gift?
Oh my gosh.
Azanzibar.
What nationality was the world famous opera soprano Maria Callas?
Uh, she's from England.
now you did get Austria
I think that's the only thing I got
that is the only thing you got
but it didn't give points
what did I do wrong here
let me really quickly
let me just really quickly
look at al-Kabob's instructions
okay so
in this mode
once you've the setup to start
button will enable
all this button does is set focus to the
start timer button, which you'll know is ready when the button is green.
Okay.
So, all right, I haven't figured out for next time.
But you actually have one point.
Okay.
All right.
Nice.
Let's see if this signal for Brian works.
Okay, Brian.
Is that Alcabab?
That is Alcab.
He has not yet gotten the audio that I gave him.
Oh, my gosh.
I'm tempted to say, never change it, because that's great.
All right.
Donaway, did you hear us?
he may not have
hit it one more time, do it again.
Okay.
Okay, Brian.
Hello.
Hello.
Okay, that was even weirder.
I do love the,
did you guys hear the announcement?
Yeah, okay, right.
Okay, okay.
Yeah, yeah, we hear it.
Yep.
Yeah, we can probably, we get a warrant.
Did he also fix it so that I didn't hear the bings and the,
thing?
No, that wasn't working for us either.
Oh, good, because I was just sitting here going, they must be having some technical issues.
So I actually started doing something else.
And when that came on, I really did freak out.
Because it was the only thing you heard.
Oh, I love it.
Okay.
All right.
Oh, well, maybe we'll keep it.
The audio I gave him was from Monty Python, and it feels appropriate.
But we can hear that one, and we might go back to this one if you want.
All right.
What?
What?
Did I miss it?
What?
That's the chat.
He's talking about the chat.
The people in the chat are like, don't change it.
Leave it as the, okay, Brian.
But I have audio that I gave him from Monty Python that I thought I was going to use.
No, it won't help you at all.
All right.
So if you're ready, hopefully this one works.
And I'm going to start the timer after I ask you your first question.
All right.
On which island does Mount Etna stand?
Island, your mama.
What did U.S. astronaut Leroy Chow do for the first time from the Interested?
International Space Station in November 2004.
He took a poop in space.
Robert Fulton invented the steamboat and what other destructive maritime device?
Rocket ships.
Which country did Sigmund Freud come from?
He's Austrian, right?
Ricketts is caused by a deficiency of what vitamin in the diet.
Oh, shoot.
Orange.
What was the name of the wise cracking waitress played by Rea Perlman on Cheers?
Cala.
Damn it.
What is the most distinctive exterior feature on a Russian Orthodox church?
Scary people.
Gargoyle.
What kind of calendar is also an Arabic term for a New Year's gift?
Oh, Jesus.
I don't pass.
What is that?
What nationality was the world famous...
Okay.
I'll finish it out.
What nationality was the world famous opera soprano Maria Callis?
Pie
Pie
She was definitely pie
Well very good
You got two
You got Carla and Austria
Mount Edna sits on Sicily
The US astronaut
For the first time
From the International Space Station
November 2004
Vote in a presidential election from space
Oh that of course
If I had had time to think
I would realize that.
Robert Fulton
invented the steamboat
and the torpedo.
You guys both got
Sigmund Freud from Austria.
Ricketts is caused by deficiency
of vitamin D.
D. Really?
So why don't they drink milk?
I don't know.
That's a really good question.
That's scurvy.
I'm thinking a scurvy.
Oh, sure.
Skis is C isn't it?
C is C.
Right. Scurvy is C.
Yep.
Most distinctive exterior feature
on a Russian Orthodox
Church is the Onion Dome.
What kind of calendar is also
an Arabic term
for New Year's gift, the almanac.
Oh, really?
Yeah, it's an Arabic term for New Year's gift,
which I didn't know either.
And Maria Callis is Greek.
Oh.
She's all Greek to us.
You know, the name Callis sounds kind of
Greek, now that you say.
Kind of, yeah.
Here's an annoying thing.
What's that?
Carlos should have come to me immediately.
I was, in fact, watching a Cheers episode
last night, and it was a
Carlos-centric episode.
And had Nick Tortelli in it.
It was like a big deal.
And what did my brain do it?
went,
duh,
duh.
It happens to
Sandy.
No,
I'm just very glad
you won because the
Brian's,
that means the Brian's.
That's true,
the Brian's won.
Yes,
so congratulations
to Brian Dunaway
and Brian Clemens,
who's going to be
getting a copy of
Pester Quest and framed.
I don't know anything
about any of these games,
but maybe you guys do.
Framed,
I know.
But I don't,
Sunbun.
I don't know what Pester Quest is.
Pester Quest.
It sounds fun.
Pester Quest.
I love being a pester quest.
I love being a pest and questing, so let's do it.
Sure.
And guts and glory is going to be going to Sean W.
Our runner-up.
Nice.
Congratulations.
Congratulations to all of you, both of you.
Brian Dunaway, I play this for my, for me.
I lose today.
But we all win this Wednesday when you come back and do this with us again with a different game,
but also play retro and watch retro that night.
We'll get into those details next Wednesday.
Yeah, yeah, Jaws.
We're doing retro, retro summer.
Yep. We're doing it.
We're doing Jaws the game, the N-E-S game, but others, too.
Do you play as Jaws or do you play as people?
You play as people.
It's based on the Jaws 4, the Revenge one.
So, you know, it's going to be good.
You know it's going to be good.
I just got the ROM, so I wasn't sure.
So that's good to hear.
I was afraid to be like, I don't know what I was afraid of.
I've never played this Jaws game.
I was thinking it was I killed the dolphin with teeth.
Yeah.
You wish.
That sounds all right.
I do it.
Yeah, that sounds all right.
Well, then away, we'll,
get to that later in the week. In the meantime, kiss our butts. All righty. That's him. He's gone.
Brian? Yes. Listen to this, man. Life is interesting. And when it's most interesting, it's when we have a little bit of science. Sorry, I'm killing time when I push these buttons. All right, here we go. Check this out. Science.
Bob is hungry and the soup looks good. Surely the soup looks good because Bobby looks good or something. Something.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the program, one Bobby Frankenberger, who joins us as he does about once a month to talk about the world of science. Bobby, welcome to the show.
Thank you for welcoming me.
You bet.
Hey, you were, uh, you were, uh, you were, uh, you were a fine sit in as well last week, enjoyed that.
Yes.
Thank you for that.
And, uh, you did a great job.
Yes, always.
He sure did.
Thanks.
Anything you want to say about your performance that day?
Anything you want to add?
Um, any corrections you want to issue.
I want to thank the coach.
I want to thank the fans.
Most of all, Jesus.
That's right.
We did this. Jesus apparently was with us on the field.
He was not with the other team.
By the way, I found a picture of Bobby from,
because it's hot in South Carolina.
I know it's been raining and you guys are, you know,
dealing with it, but this is what you usually dressed like in the summer right here.
This is Bobby.
Everybody is like to have a look there.
Where does he keep his three ring binder, though?
That's what I want to know.
Oh, you don't.
You do not want to know.
Yeah. I think there's a fourth ring
if you know what I'm saying.
I did not
cough at all today until we started doing the show.
I got coughing like crazy. That's what laughter
will do. That's right.
Well, Bobby, it's good to have you here. You've got
a very interesting topic. I had not heard
this. So let's lay it out.
Let's inform the people.
Yeah, I want to talk a little bit about some
synthetic cells that were made. But real
quick, first, did you guys hear about
Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, declaring that flu vaccines were optional,
they didn't have to get...
You mean the Secretary of War?
Yeah, that one?
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
Yeah, the War Secretary?
Saying that flu vaccines were optional?
Yeah, well, he went back on a mandate that it's been since like 1940...
Since like World War II, it's been mandated that all military personnel get vaccinated.
I have to get it.
Now he's saying you can get it, but you don't have to get it is what he's saying.
Yeah, well, he did for a short...
time back in April he was like nope it's optional because freedom like literally he cited freedom as the
reason um he said uh he said that they like we're we're you know they're changing the policy because
we're keeping up with what's rational i don't know what that means but uh and that in the medical
freedom or something like that and guess what happened you want to outbreak of the flu
big flu outbreak yeah yeah it was not and it was not two months later
There was at Lockland Air Force Base in Texas.
They had a massive flu outbreak.
Almost 300 recruits got the flu for hospitalizations.
And we're laughing a little bit because of how immediate it was, but one person died from it.
Oh, geez.
Yeah.
Geez, louises.
So I just wanted to bring that up to remind everybody that there are certain decisions that are being made sometimes.
I know, you know, I try not to get political, but I think that sometimes science is political.
and when these decisions are made,
not because of science,
but because of ideology,
there are consequences.
Look at it from this.
There's one little point of view.
Forget about, if you've got issues
with anything we've said here,
whoever you are out there,
who's about to leave a YouTube comment
and go for it, whatever you want to do.
But just know this.
That makes our military less battle ready.
It makes us less capable
of being a strong, defensive,
or in this case, offensive unit because it's war now, not defense.
Like, that makes us a lesser military.
It makes us weak.
You dipships.
And it also gives, you know, our enemies a new death star porthole to think about.
Like, well, we could bomb this base.
We could bomb this.
Or we could just send a guy in there with the flu.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Bring some more blankets.
Go to the old school methods, man.
My gosh.
I hate it.
That is the most annoying thing you've told me today, Bobby, so thanks for that.
Yeah, I just wanted to get everybody's hackles up about things going on.
But science should inform politics.
Right.
And not vice versa.
Yeah, not vice versa.
All right.
But I wanted to talk about synthetic cells, something more cool having to do with biology.
So the University of Minnesota, they have scientists there that have created synthetic cells for the first time,
not synthetic cells for the first time,
but for the first time,
they made these entirely from scratch
with completely non-living chemical components,
all from scratch,
and they have successfully replicated themselves
in a complete full cell cycle across multiple generations.
So...
Jeez.
That's really fascinating.
That's never been done before.
No kidding.
We've taken parts of cells and replaced parts or modified cells.
The whole idea here is to try to understand
not just how cells work, but that's part that there's like kind of two really cool things
happening here. First, you want to understand how cells work, so you want to strip them down
to their basics to really know what do we need to do to have these basic functions like,
like cell replication or cell division or collecting energy or something like that. Very basic
things. So you strip down cells to their to their fundamentals and take things away and see what
the minimum required. And this has been done before with existing cells. We modify those, right?
Right. That makes sense because all the work's done for you or whatever. Yeah, yeah. And so this is
the first time it's been done with sort of a bottom up approach where they decided to sort of engineer
these cells. Now, they use things from like they're inspired by and they're using things from
existing cells, but they're all
pieces and parts that
they know about. Even the
medium, the liquid that
the cells are floating around in is completely
an engineered solution
that is not just
so that they can control everything
that's in the environment of these cells.
Why do they call it Spud cell, by the way?
Is that a potato reference? Please tell me that
there's somebody who invented it with the last name Spud.
Yeah, that'd be actually
pretty great. Yeah, I want Dr. Spud.
please come to you.
There is two reasons.
First was that it looks kind of like a potato.
The cell does.
It's very basic.
But also it's kind of just like a funny sort of thing.
One of the lead scientist who is on it, she's, oh, I don't know.
I can't remember.
I always get all those like northern and eastern European countries all mixed up.
But she's from over there somewhere.
And she joked that because, oh, it was because she said she's Polish.
And so she said, because I'm Polish, I'm mostly potato anyway.
People from Idaho say that about themselves as well.
Yeah.
So it's sort of a joke because it looks like a potato and she's like, I'm Polish, ha ha.
This thing goes out of its way.
It's people in Ireland going, hey, wait a minute.
Yeah, hold on. Hold my Guinness.
They go out of their way in this article to say, this is still far from a lie.
So when they say stuff like that,
they just mean, like you said,
they've mechanically,
they're replicating a part of what a cell does.
Yeah.
But this thing isn't going to combine or evolve into like, you know,
a dude named Larry, right?
Well, evolution is a funny word.
So they have tested its capability or its capacity for evolution in certain ways.
And there are certain things you can talk about in terms of that.
But I think one of the reasons they're saying that is because if this cell were left alone,
it would die.
It needs to be fed.
all the things it needs to grow.
And the way they do that is really, really neat.
So the first thing they did is picked what the essential genes they were going to start with
were in their 36 genes.
They didn't make one giant 36 gene genome.
They split it between seven circular DNA strands.
They call them plasmids.
Okay.
And there are lots of cells that have separated their DNA is not one strand.
it's in separate chunks.
It's a simpler design for biology, so that's what they went with.
Okay.
And on those genes, they chose them specifically because they were genes responsible for specific
life cycle tasks like replication, resource gathering, and division.
So they wanted to break it down to that, right?
Just very essential genome.
So then what they did, they needed encased in something.
A cell is a cell because it's got a membrane, something that's holding all those pieces
together. So they created
using fat molecules, lipid molecules,
they created a membrane like we
have in nature. It's called a
lipid bilayer. It's
basically just a, it's what our cells
are made out of. Sure.
And that wasn't hard.
People have been doing that. Scientists have been doing
that for a long time. It's one of the delivery mechanisms
for certain drugs nowadays
is a lipid
bilayer, like a lipid capsule
that they put around the drugs.
They just made those and put these genes inside of it.
It traps the DNA strands.
And then what they did was they, that by itself isn't going to do what it needs to do.
The cell still needs to be able to grow.
It needs to be able to capture and use energy like ATP from the environment.
And it can't do that.
So what they did was they added another piece to it, a sort of protein Velcro
system that they they created. So some of the DNA that they put inside this little sphere is able to
produce these proteins that then migrate to the to the outer membrane of the cell and sort of
stick out. So they're like little spikes right. That stick out of the cell. These proteins that
stick out of the ends. And those proteins allow the cell to stick to other things that also have
that protein. And so it's sort of like a Velcro system, right? So then what they can do and what
they did was they would engineer other what they called feeder liposomes. A liposome is what this
spherical fatty sphere is. So they created feeder liposomes that looked the same with the proteins
on the outside and they put the stuff in it that they wanted to get into the cell. And so it
would float around, it would stick to one and then like normal cells do in the world, and this
was one of the tests, would it do this? When it encountered one of these,
other blobs, it would incorporate it into itself and allow it to absorb what was inside that sphere.
Oh, wow.
So, and that's how things work in the natural world.
So that's like test number one, this is working, right?
Yeah, it's self-replicating.
I mean, they did say, let's see, I read it down here a ways.
Oh, like questions about it being alive or whatever.
The scientist says it defeated, it needs these feeder bubbles filled with important.
and stuff like the proteins and energy you mentioned.
If it doesn't get that help, it will stop
working, but only after a few generations.
So it will still
continue to divide and conquer
until it's no longer... I mean, like life,
it needs its sustenance or it's not
going to die. Exactly, exactly.
It will replicate itself. That's another
thing they engineered it to do. At first
it wasn't replicating itself.
The first versions
of these would do what I just described,
but they had to actually manually
and mechanically go in
and pinch them in half to get them to divide.
And it worked.
It was, so that's pretty cool.
But, but they needed it to be able to do it on itself.
So they, they added some, some genes in there that, that instructed these proteins that were moving to the surface to, to slowly over time gather at certain sites on the surface of this sphere.
Yeah.
And by, by virtue of them gathering in those locations, they, these proteins would interact with each.
other in such a way that it it caused them to to like warp inward and pinch the two
cells down the middle and then eventually caused it to cleave itself and turn into two
cells and that combined with the fact that they were feeding it new new stuff to
make the you know these feeder liposomes which made the the sphere bigger and
bigger and bigger then after it got bigger and bigger and bigger
it would eventually cleave itself into two, and there you go.
You have a cell that grew and a cell that split in half.
Wow.
Very, very cool.
That is cool, man.
So do you think we're at the stage yet where a bunch of weirdos come out of the woodwork and start saying, we're playing God here?
Or do you think this is too early?
Oh, I'm sure they already have.
I'm sure it's already happening.
So can they use this for, like, you know, repairing damaged cells in somebody who's,
had like a burn
a burn issue or
it's not something where you can
like use it to kind of grow a missing limb
or anything but but like you know
pasting on their skin or something
probably not quite like that but like using it
to to heal damaged organs
or damaged tissue or something like that
I don't see why it couldn't eventually
do something like that obviously
maybe not obviously I shouldn't say that
but one of the obviously but yeah but
But one of the things that they definitely want to do with this, and that is on the outline for why this would be useful, is for medical purposes, for drug delivery and stuff like that.
Because imagine that you put drugs inside these or you add DNA in there that can cause these little blobs to produce the chemicals that your body needs.
And then imagine we're able to combine this with, let's say, genetic engineering or something like that.
And say, like you said, say there's cells in your body, specific cells where you need these medications delivered.
And maybe you give someone some sort of genetic engineering that says, okay, those cells where we want this to go, let's get them to go ahead and make some of these protein, these Velcro protein.
micro level oh that's so cool yeah so now we give them all these blobs with stuff in it that we want to go there and now it sticks to the cells that we want it to stick to because that's that's the big challenge with drugs and delivery in general and and and uh things like chemotherapy right brain that that that one of the dangers it whenever you give someone medication it goes everywhere in the body right it like you get to go like treating the cancer cells
but then says, yeah, I'm going to do some damage all these other places, too, if that's cool.
Right.
Yeah, right.
While I'm here, do you mind if I wreck the place a little bit?
Cool, thanks.
Right, exactly.
And so the idea being like, what if we could, yeah, we give it to the person,
but what if it goes only to the places where we want it to go?
Wow.
See, after we had a doctor come and during the MS-150 ride,
the evening before we had this doctor come and explain an incredibly, incredibly,
relatable terms. I mean, this guy was a nerd. He used several comic book references, like, you know,
Deadpool shooting the same whole twice with his gun kind of thing. But he explained, you know,
the B and the T lymphocides with MS and how they basically are confused and they tell the body
to start attacking its own cells. Right. Yeah. And God, this feels like, all right, perfect,
this is going to be a perfect application to deliver those.
now two dozen medications for MS, the right kind of medication to those cells and then have
those cells just go and treat the affected B cells or T cells.
Yeah.
Wow.
And in order to make those delivery systems and control them in the way that we want to control
them, we have to understand the very fundamentals of how cells do what they do so that we can
engineer those controls, you know.
It seems like a big step in that direction.
really cool.
Super cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Love it.
The spud cell.
Ask for it by name.
Available.
Available wherever you get your cells.
Yeah.
And you mentioned the Velcro-like adherence and when they split and all that.
I found they actually recorded this sound from the two cell splitting.
This is from the scientists themselves.
Check it out.
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah.
That's really something.
Imagine their surprise.
There's a little tiny cell with a microphone in it.
it just went up and...
A little cell with like a little shotgun mic and his headphones.
I have the box on the shotgun mic with the other that says what network he's from too.
Feels like Letterman peeling himself off a wall.
Oh, it does. Yeah. Right.
That was really interesting. We love getting interesting stuff from Bobby.
And if you're like, man, I sure could use more of that on the weekly.
I got good news for you. There's a whole show about this. It's called All Around Science.
Bobby hosts it. Bobby, tell me more about what.
what you're covering this week.
Mora and I have been doing more news coverage on our show now.
We really have been digging into that.
And this episode that just came out today is about how two really cool stories.
One, that scientists discovered that orangutans' mothers organize playdates for their kids,
just like humans do.
Really?
Oh, funny.
Because they raise their offspring.
They're solitary primates.
So they apparently organized play dates.
That was really interesting.
Do the mother orangutans go off to the side and smoke cigarettes and talk about their husbands?
Yeah, and look at their phones the whole time.
Yeah, exactly.
The other story that was really cool, this one will really get you,
is that Mora talked about cyborg cockroaches that we invented diving suits for.
Oh, my gosh, dude.
Oh, wow, really?
Yeah, yeah.
It's really cool.
sign me up to your weird newsletter.
That sounds great.
I'm kidding.
Love it.
Well, awesome.
Yeah, you want more cool stuff like that?
All AroundScience.com.
I'll get you there.
I don't know how you got that domain.
That's a really good domain.
Yeah.
How'd you do that?
How'd you manage that?
You just got to be fast.
You got to be fast.
All the dot com that are good are taken that have like logical words in them.
They're just gone.
Yeah.
So the fact that you got that at all, I don't know,
it makes you some kind of demon lord.
There's a science to it.
There is a science to it, everybody.
Get it?
Do you get it?
Bobby always having you here is fun.
I don't know why I said it that way.
Glad to have had you here is what I meant to say.
And I can't wait to do it again.
Watch him as he goes.
Bobby stay out of trouble.
See you next time.
Thanks, Bobby.
Bye bye now.
Okay.
Super cool.
Wow.
Yeah, pretty red.
Guys, got a quick thing to tell you.
Cool.
The, I wasn't going to say.
Shut.
Is this about the jugs of pee?
No, I've been holding it.
I've been holding it for a while to tell you.
Okay.
And I can't remember what it was.
So now we'll do the jugs of pee.
This is about the jugs of pee.
If it comes to me, I'll say it.
I can't remember.
Brian, I've been holding on to this thing forever because you were out a few days.
Yes, I was.
And I don't understand it.
This came from Scuba Geek.
Now, I think this might be a little older.
And so maybe time, I haven't played this file yet.
So it's a little older.
Like maybe it could have, he may have sent it to us in like early June.
It could have been pre-nerdacular for all I know.
Okay.
If that helps inform you what this call means.
So I'm going to play it.
This is from Scuba Geek, and this is all I have.
Hey, I'm it.
Seven days.
What's he talking about?
He said that a week before Nerdtacular,
and he's breaking the moratorium about telling us how much time is left before
a nerdtacular.
Oh, okay.
I get it now.
I'm sure that's it.
Yeah.
All right.
That's funny to hear it in retrospect, because we're,
done.
Exactly.
Wow.
All right.
Thank you.
Should have played it seven days after Nurtacular.
And then, yeah.
He sounds like he's scuba diving when he did it.
Listen to that.
Hey, I'm under the water.
Anyway.
By the way, here's a, you know, good time just to put the feelers out there.
If, is there any interest out there from folks who live in the extreme northeast,
the extreme northeast?
That's the new mountain do flavor, by the way.
in a possible potential TMS meetup in February 2027,
like a little mini,
I wouldn't even call it a TMS Vegas style thing,
but maybe like,
hey, we go find a video game bar
that's got lots of arcade machines or something like that.
Yeah, nice big nerd meetup, TMS meetup.
Yes, there's the thought of a thing happening out there
that I'd be going to,
and we could arrange a TMS meetup around that.
Yeah, we turn it into something.
Yeah, I don't know what part of Maine.
I need to find out what part of Maine,
but it would be, you know, we'd figure out something.
Maybe.
I hope it's crabapple Cove.
I do too.
Yes.
We get the lobster.
We can talk to Alan Alda's Dad, you know.
Absolutely.
Get a lobster roll.
Labster.
Let's do it.
There is, by the way, that Widows Bay,
you will find a guy in there.
I didn't notice them until like the third to last episode
He's kind of like I wouldn't go there
I would you
Oh I love that trope I'm in much slower yeah
The thing I've only seen a single episode
So I'm on my way but
The thing I hear about the show a lot
It's already evident in the first episode
Is this thing takes all the tropes
And makes them work together
Yes
And by all the tropes I mean things like
The suspicious fisherman local
like where that is
Stephen Root is 100% that guy
who's already you know talking
potential nonsense
again I'm only one episode in what's going on
tinfoil hats and stuff
Stephen Root is you are going to
I mean you're already going to love Stephen Root's character
you know you are because he's Stephen Root
Yeah I'd watch him eat
dirt you know
That's how much I like him
He's great
And what's funny is that was going to be my next
Recommmental but I found some
I watched something last night
That actually took its place as what I want to recommend
Mennex.
Whoa.
So if you finish Widows Bay by the time we do, what, two weeks, we do another recommendals?
That's my goal.
I was going to finish it this week.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, let's see how it goes.
That was one call.
But then there's this email, this text actually.
From Thomas from Mozilla.
Sure.
He says, hey, Spiel and Berg.
It's perfectly suitable for what the message is.
And it works perfectly.
Yeah.
I want, or he says, I just watched Disclosure Day and thought it was excellent.
Emily Blunt deserves Oscars.
deserves an Oscar nomination.
As a Kansas City resident, however,
I was disappointed by the portrayal of our city.
Unlike Fargo, season four,
there were no recognizable landmarks,
streets or local nods,
and the setting just didn't feel like KC.
While it didn't ruin the movie for me,
it was a letdown. Still,
I highly recommend it to the rest of the tadpole,
keep up the great work. Brian did the recommendal already, right?
You liked it? I did. I guess you just talked about TMS Friday or something.
Yeah, because it's not on streaming yet, so I didn't use it for
recommend it. But I did
recommend it. And, you know, if you've seen
the film, I can tell you
you,
uh,
do pop,
uh,
no,
I agree.
You know,
at least have,
have,
have,
uh,
have a scene that goes by the,
is it a library that's got,
that looks like the outside is made by giant books.
Like,
that's such a cool,
Kansas City thing.
For a cool idea,
yeah.
Yeah.
And it would be,
it would have been a cool thing just to have in there to say,
hey, here's, here's Kansas City
instead of random train
intersection and stuff like that.
Well, and another reason to trust and love
and watch Fargo, they're very
accurate with their portrayals of the locals.
Although Kansas City
season four was
old-timey Kansas City,
right? Like it was the...
Season four would have been, yeah.
Or wait, was that even in...
So the Kansas City Mafia shows up
all the time, but the actual location
only showed up at the end of two.
Oh, right, because it wasn't, right, that one didn't take place in Kansas City, did it?
No, there were parts of two in Kansas City and parts of four, I think maybe referenced it, but it wasn't in Kansas City proper.
Yeah. Season three, they spent some time in Kansas City, but they also spent time, what's the Minnesota town they were in?
Brainerd or?
Shit.
Brainer was the first movie. It was the movie.
Yeah, it was the movie.
Anyway.
Yeah, I just watched all these.
Kansas City mob.
is the best.
It really is.
Freaking the best.
All right.
Thank you, Thomas, from Missouri.
I do plan on seeing it.
I'm not in any hurry,
but I do want to see it.
Yeah, it's borderline, you know,
see it in theaters or don't.
It feels like the Odyssey is something
you're going to want to see in theaters.
It feels like Spider-Man is obviously
something you're going to want to see in theaters.
But I don't know if Disclosure Day is one of those.
Oh, yeah, no, make sure you see it on the biggest screen possible.
Oh, I should mention.
You just reminded me of it.
Okay.
The Utah meetup, local meetup at the Spider-Man viewing.
We're going to do it at the...
Oh, Kevin will kill me.
What's the name of the damn theater by him?
There's only one in Utah.
I forgot the name of it.
Anyway, we're going to...
It's really great information I'm giving you guys today.
Nice. Yeah, it's helpful.
But at least you can tell them the date, right?
Is it going to be that Thursday or Friday?
31st, Friday, that night.
So 730 that night is the showtime.
Regal.
It's the regal.
Regal.
Just came to me.
So we're going to do it to the Regal.
We're going to do it at 7.30 that night.
It's anybody who is around wants to go.
Just go check out the events page on our Discord.
And in there, you'll find all the details,
location.
You can buy tickets online if you want ahead of time,
whatever you want to do.
In fact, I would probably do that
because it's a big nice theater
and it seemed like seats were going.
So get in there if you are local and want to meet up.
Wow.
Ozzy Mandias has all the information.
Friday, July 31st, 7.30 p.m.
location, Regal Crossroads, Taylor'sville,
at 5516 South Redwood Road in Taylor'sville, Utah.
Yep, yeah.
That's right over by where Kevin, Katie Davis.
We're all going to meet up and have a great time.
If you can, great, if you can't.
That's cool, too.
It's just a movie, no big deal, no big boop.
But Kim and I are going to go, and we're looking forward to it.
So come watch Spider-Man with us.
If I hadn't just made two trips, two drives into Utah, I'd really consider it.
But it's a lot of Utah in one month, man.
It's a lot of Utah driving, my friend.
Yeah.
And now you'd have to drive through thick wafts of smoke.
I know, no matter which way I go.
All the directions have it now.
Yeah.
Although I think we finally got the Eureka one down to some control.
I think that's potentially while I'm still coughing.
I mean, we've got their local, I mean, I say local, not close to me, but there are fires in Colorado too on the down by Grand Junction and stuff in Fruta that are sending smoke into the metro area.
And I think that's probably why I'm still coughing.
Fruta.
I like that.
Fruda, yeah.
Is that fruita?
Does that mean fruit in some language?
Is that Spanish for fruit?
Oh, that's fruitas.
Frutas, I think so, yeah.
I don't know what Fruta, the origination of the name for Fruta is.
So many great, everybody in every state in the U.S. should do this.
Go look at your weirdest named towns.
Like, I have Scipio and Fillmore Beaver and these like dinkwater, dumb little town names.
I love that stuff.
Huge fan.
Well, today, Jason Hothorn, or Hothorn, let me know about
the existence of
Tywapity, Kentucky.
Yeah, see?
Tywopity.
Tywopity.
Who lives in Tywopity?
Not very many, is my guess.
No services.
This is a sign they have for their town.
That's right.
That's going to do it for today's show.
Big thanks, everybody for listening.
If you'd like to send your own messages in,
go to the website, frogpans.com,
slash TMS, and you'll see it right there.
It's also an email address there.
Other ways to contact us, do check it out.
And there is a...
another show today on my end, the Monday show at 1 p.m. Carter and I will be getting together.
Probably talk a little more at length about the fainting.
Probably, I'm sure, yeah.
Yeah, she got some things to say.
She looked a little freaked out when it was over, but...
Oh, poor Carter.
Yeah.
She was like, I didn't know.
I'm like, you're good. It wasn't your fault.
It's the needle's fault.
And my sister's not telling me about how her daughter reacts to needles.
That would have been helpful.
Right.
Anyway, there's all that.
If you want more information, check out the schedule.
It's always up to date.
Pants.com slash schedule.
And a quick note,
many of you on the show are familiar with Shane Maddox,
shaved Maddox he sometimes calls himself.
And not only does he spin slowly with a camera
wherever he goes,
sometimes shaves all his hair off in the middle of an event,
but he also made a video game,
and it's coming out on Steam or is out.
I'll have to check the date.
It might be this week.
But he and I are going to sit down
for a quick interview for Quarterm,
a little bonus.
Oh, nice.
Talk about what it's like to solo dev your game in 2020.
core.
Yeah.
A little extra something, something.
So I'm very excited about that.
Check that out.
That is going to do it.
Brian, anything from your end before we play a song and get out of here?
No, I don't think so.
Okay, great.
Let's play a song.
Let's get to the song.
Greetings, Said and Ben.
Excellent from Hanley Man and Discord.
Longtime listener, bag of poop on the face was the first Scott story I remember.
First time requester.
By the way, while I'm on the subject of requests, I have exactly not.
counting this one to requests for the month of July. Oh my gosh, what's going on? It is a wide open
playing field folks. If you have a request you want to make for for July, get it in. I know some of
you have birthdays this month, anniversaries, things that are of import to you get a request in to
celebrate those events. If you go to our website, you'd literally see a button too that says
request a song. Look at that day. It is right there. And you don't have to request a specific song.
you can say, oh, here's what kind of thing I'm celebrating.
Here's what bands I like.
Or, Brian, see if you can find your best cover of Angel Flang Too Close to the Ground by Willie
Nelson or something.
I mean, whatever.
Do you have that?
That's not a thing you have, is it?
That's a real thing.
Oh, my gosh, dude.
Wow.
Yeah.
All right.
Absolutely.
It's a great song, actually.
Willie Nelson, the incredible songwriter.
Anyway, first time request where he says, all right, this year marks my 59th trip around
our son and I figured it was finally time
to make a song request. I'll give you
two wildly different genres and
leave it in the cover master's hands to
choose. First choice was
doomed, a cover by Moffra.
And two, I will survive covered by
Christopher Bill. Thanks for the many years of
entertainment and congrats on
3,000 plus. Can I get a random jury
clip? Yes. He
has given me full license to
play his sound clips anytime we want.
Oh, good. Yeah. So you never have to worry about it.
All right. Let's do
let's just pull something at random here like he asked
let's see we got
okay
all right and here we go
is this it
all right hopefully this is this is random and good
nailed it all right there you go nailed it
perfect perfect so
doomed by mafra
listen this thing it is a
it's a little bit borderline
screamy song
the other choice was I will survive
but come on let's Monday let's live a little let's listen to the screamy-ish song um this is mafra what an incredible
voice um on this artist uh super super cool it's a song it's a cover of a bring me the bring me the horizon
song so i don't know it but my son would uh the song is called doomed here is mafra
do you like mashups of course you do you silly person excelsior visit patreon dot com slash mashup
Guild for more.
Theanderleiser ormerberst stick stick sling thing.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
Thank you.
They want to go to Machi, Manchu Picchu.
Machu Picchu.
Machu Picchu.
There's no end.
No end.
Machu Picchu.
Machu Picchu.
Met with Zahar Alst Salum.
Newigan van Nart.
Win.
Okay.
Win van Nout.
Never Nuggen.
Yelita Apricado.
Yeah, that's right.
Apricasio.
Elitza aparicio.
A parisio.
Oleg Belosnikas gaukof, cough, belagufs, gogoth.
Copia, or copoo, coipoo.
Okay.
Whatever, how you spell it?
Macavenile.
Millie Vanilli syndrome.
The flavor of coffee made is macavinillian.
Macavent.
I can't say that word.
Help me.
Mecavelian.
Is it just Macavelian?
Macavelian, yeah.
Mapa-puananana.
Oh, that's Mapuna-puna.
That's a funa.
Mapuna puna.
Mapuna puna.
Decamina.
Decam.
Officials from the Adolf.
Officials from the Adolf Swarez, Madrid, Barraraas, Airport, Berra, Berahas.
Barajas.
Barajas.
Barajas.
Mario de bruscuscuscu.
Certainly, I nailed that one.
Debrinescu.
Dobrenescu.
Jose Salvador Alvagarega.
Gagga.
Think I got that last name right?
Yeah, that's it.
I think it's Squeary.
Is it squirini?
Squireini.
Squiree.
Squiree.
Something like that squareini, n.
Ne.
The Tahoe do you dene basin of Moro-D-D-D-B-West Africa.
That sounds exactly right. Nailed it.
Fragola and wafer al-Bagalaganina.
Charpac Choclo, whatever's name is in District 9.
Always looking down on us.
And trying to leave our home after everything we've done for you.
Potocin or Maxi-Role or Maxi-Tosin or Pettocin or Pectarocca Tocetocin.
Some name.
Thanks for listening.
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