The Morning Stream - TMS 3031: Well-Drawn Old Men

Episode Date: July 6, 2026

Eating 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 Next time you can't sleep, remember that the sheep you are counting are also counting you. Freaky, I know, but just make sure to support TMS today at patreon.com slash TMS. And it will all work out. Coming up on the morning stream, well-drawn old men. Eating dirt with Scott. Vitamin Orange. England. Cindy Kate Cartoon Smith.
Starting point is 00:00:21 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.
Starting point is 00:00:36 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.
Starting point is 00:00:57 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.
Starting point is 00:01:37 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.
Starting point is 00:01:49 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.
Starting point is 00:01:56 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
Starting point is 00:02:06 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
Starting point is 00:02:21 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.
Starting point is 00:02:43 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.
Starting point is 00:03:14 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.
Starting point is 00:03:33 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.
Starting point is 00:04:05 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.
Starting point is 00:04:30 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.
Starting point is 00:04:58 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
Starting point is 00:05:13 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
Starting point is 00:05:29 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.
Starting point is 00:05:54 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.
Starting point is 00:06:15 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,
Starting point is 00:06:33 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.
Starting point is 00:06:48 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,
Starting point is 00:06:58 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?
Starting point is 00:07:09 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,
Starting point is 00:07:20 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.
Starting point is 00:07:28 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.
Starting point is 00:07:40 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.
Starting point is 00:07:59 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.
Starting point is 00:08:10 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.
Starting point is 00:08:21 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
Starting point is 00:08:38 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
Starting point is 00:09:09 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.
Starting point is 00:09:24 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.
Starting point is 00:09:57 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
Starting point is 00:10:34 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.
Starting point is 00:11:06 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.
Starting point is 00:11:26 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.
Starting point is 00:12:02 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.
Starting point is 00:12:14 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
Starting point is 00:12:28 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.
Starting point is 00:12:44 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.
Starting point is 00:13:04 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.
Starting point is 00:13:16 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.
Starting point is 00:13:31 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.
Starting point is 00:13:48 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.
Starting point is 00:14:02 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.
Starting point is 00:14:18 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
Starting point is 00:14:53 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.
Starting point is 00:15:15 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
Starting point is 00:15:24 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.
Starting point is 00:15:38 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
Starting point is 00:15:49 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?
Starting point is 00:16:04 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.
Starting point is 00:16:26 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,
Starting point is 00:16:39 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
Starting point is 00:17:00 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.
Starting point is 00:17:18 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?
Starting point is 00:17:34 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?
Starting point is 00:17:53 because we're He's retired since then, so Oh, I'm sure. It feels like he was retired back then too.
Starting point is 00:18:02 Who, let's see. I remember him being a very nice guy. Remember him being super chill, very humble and loved it.
Starting point is 00:18:09 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,
Starting point is 00:18:17 still can't see. Ammergen. Vanderflop. Vanderflop. He ran the strip from until to 2019, so not that long ago. Oh, wow.
Starting point is 00:18:27 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.
Starting point is 00:18:52 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.
Starting point is 00:19:10 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,
Starting point is 00:19:24 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
Starting point is 00:19:40 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.
Starting point is 00:20:02 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.
Starting point is 00:20:27 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.
Starting point is 00:20:45 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.
Starting point is 00:21:00 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.
Starting point is 00:21:25 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
Starting point is 00:21:55 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.
Starting point is 00:22:09 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.
Starting point is 00:22:21 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.
Starting point is 00:22:46 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?
Starting point is 00:23:07 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
Starting point is 00:23:30 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
Starting point is 00:23:45 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.
Starting point is 00:23:58 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.
Starting point is 00:24:16 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.
Starting point is 00:24:32 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,
Starting point is 00:24:44 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.
Starting point is 00:25:02 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?
Starting point is 00:25:15 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.
Starting point is 00:25:28 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.
Starting point is 00:25:54 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?
Starting point is 00:26:23 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.
Starting point is 00:26:38 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
Starting point is 00:26:54 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
Starting point is 00:27:09 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
Starting point is 00:27:21 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.
Starting point is 00:27:32 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
Starting point is 00:27:40 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.
Starting point is 00:27:54 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.
Starting point is 00:28:05 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,
Starting point is 00:28:16 duh. It happens to Sandy. No, I'm just very glad you won because the Brian's, that means the Brian's.
Starting point is 00:28:25 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
Starting point is 00:28:31 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.
Starting point is 00:28:40 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.
Starting point is 00:28:49 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.
Starting point is 00:29:07 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.
Starting point is 00:29:25 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.
Starting point is 00:29:38 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.
Starting point is 00:30:14 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.
Starting point is 00:30:36 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.
Starting point is 00:30:49 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.
Starting point is 00:31:05 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
Starting point is 00:31:20 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
Starting point is 00:31:36 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?
Starting point is 00:31:53 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
Starting point is 00:32:23 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.
Starting point is 00:32:57 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.
Starting point is 00:33:17 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.
Starting point is 00:33:31 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.
Starting point is 00:33:54 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.
Starting point is 00:34:07 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.
Starting point is 00:34:24 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,
Starting point is 00:34:46 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.
Starting point is 00:35:03 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
Starting point is 00:35:45 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
Starting point is 00:36:13 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.
Starting point is 00:36:31 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.
Starting point is 00:36:49 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.
Starting point is 00:37:19 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.
Starting point is 00:37:39 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.
Starting point is 00:38:01 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.
Starting point is 00:38:22 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.
Starting point is 00:38:50 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
Starting point is 00:39:12 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.
Starting point is 00:39:28 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
Starting point is 00:40:05 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
Starting point is 00:40:54 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.
Starting point is 00:41:23 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
Starting point is 00:41:42 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
Starting point is 00:41:57 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
Starting point is 00:42:36 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.
Starting point is 00:43:05 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
Starting point is 00:43:30 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
Starting point is 00:43:49 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.
Starting point is 00:44:50 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,
Starting point is 00:45:33 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,
Starting point is 00:46:16 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.
Starting point is 00:46:48 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.
Starting point is 00:46:57 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.
Starting point is 00:47:15 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.
Starting point is 00:47:35 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.
Starting point is 00:47:58 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.
Starting point is 00:48:22 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?
Starting point is 00:48:46 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?
Starting point is 00:48:54 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.
Starting point is 00:49:03 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.
Starting point is 00:49:17 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.
Starting point is 00:49:29 See you next time. Thanks, Bobby. Bye bye now. Okay. Super cool. Wow. Yeah, pretty red. Guys, got a quick thing to tell you.
Starting point is 00:49:36 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.
Starting point is 00:49:49 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.
Starting point is 00:50:02 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.
Starting point is 00:50:22 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.
Starting point is 00:50:42 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.
Starting point is 00:50:50 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.
Starting point is 00:51:01 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,
Starting point is 00:51:30 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.
Starting point is 00:51:52 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.
Starting point is 00:52:04 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
Starting point is 00:52:20 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
Starting point is 00:52:37 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
Starting point is 00:52:52 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
Starting point is 00:53:05 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.
Starting point is 00:53:20 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.
Starting point is 00:53:30 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,
Starting point is 00:53:46 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,
Starting point is 00:54:02 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,
Starting point is 00:54:16 do pop, uh, no, I agree. You know, at least have, have, have,
Starting point is 00:54:25 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,
Starting point is 00:54:36 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
Starting point is 00:54:48 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...
Starting point is 00:55:03 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.
Starting point is 00:55:32 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.
Starting point is 00:55:44 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
Starting point is 00:55:56 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.
Starting point is 00:56:08 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.
Starting point is 00:56:28 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.
Starting point is 00:56:39 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,
Starting point is 00:56:54 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.
Starting point is 00:57:06 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.
Starting point is 00:57:21 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.
Starting point is 00:57:41 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.
Starting point is 00:58:06 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.
Starting point is 00:58:23 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?
Starting point is 00:58:42 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.
Starting point is 00:58:55 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.
Starting point is 00:59:12 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.
Starting point is 00:59:26 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.
Starting point is 00:59:41 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.
Starting point is 00:59:58 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.
Starting point is 01:00:08 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.
Starting point is 01:00:21 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
Starting point is 01:00:45 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.
Starting point is 01:01:19 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.
Starting point is 01:01:26 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
Starting point is 01:01:43 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
Starting point is 01:01:59 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
Starting point is 01:02:16 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
Starting point is 01:02:34 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.
Starting point is 01:07:43 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.
Starting point is 01:07:55 Newigan van Nart. Win. Okay. Win van Nout. Never Nuggen. Yelita Apricado. Yeah, that's right. Apricasio.
Starting point is 01:08:06 Elitza aparicio. A parisio. Oleg Belosnikas gaukof, cough, belagufs, gogoth. Copia, or copoo, coipoo. Okay. Whatever, how you spell it? Macavenile. Millie Vanilli syndrome.
Starting point is 01:08:19 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.
Starting point is 01:08:29 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.
Starting point is 01:08:41 Barajas. Barajas. Barajas. Mario de bruscuscuscu. Certainly, I nailed that one. Debrinescu. Dobrenescu. Jose Salvador Alvagarega.
Starting point is 01:08:55 Gagga. Think I got that last name right? Yeah, that's it. I think it's Squeary. Is it squirini? Squireini. Squiree. Squiree.
Starting point is 01:09:02 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.
Starting point is 01:09:25 Potocin or Maxi-Role or Maxi-Tosin or Pettocin or Pectarocca Tocetocin. Some name. Thanks for listening. The Frogpants Network lives at frogpans.com. We will not discuss the affairs of the clinic.

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