The Morning Stream - TMS 3045: Blood and Thunder

Episode Date: July 30, 2026

Sometimes things get phallic. This is about the Chair of Pee. We want Mahershala Alieeeeeeeeeeeeee! MCU drought. Shut Up, Nice Human! Spiderman-maxxing. Dinkin' with the Python. Be kind. Rewind. So bring us some Feige pudding. A Sinister Copier Salesman. Kentucky Fried Mars Bar. Pluggin' the square head hair hole. One in one out is how i get down. Tito To The Story. I'm "only child" weird... with Wendi and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.VIDEO: https://youtu.be/9kmohy1KbtM Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Spider-Man maxing. Drinking with the python. Be kind. Rewind. So bring us some faggy pudding. A sinister copier salesman. Kentucky fried Mars bar. Plug in the square head hair hole.

One in, one out is how we get down. Tito to the story. I'm only child weird with Wendy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hey, where's your warrant? This is private property. Put a zipper on your mouth and shut up. But without a warrant, you ain't got silts. There's nothing to do.

Nobody's around. You know how it is. The Morning Stream. F*** off, Hairball. Hello, everybody, and welcome to TMS. This is the morning stream for Thursday, July 30th, 20206. We're on the verge of August, man. That's right.

It's pounding at the door, two days away. Yeah. How are you going to celebrate? Other than your birthday is right about then, so. It is, yes. birthday's Sunday. How do I celebrate August by staying inside with as much air conditioning as humanly possible. Yeah.

Yeah. Although we had some nice rain last night. I hope that comes your way. I don't know if it will. I hope so. We've been getting, for the last few days, it's been almost like a schedule of stupid hot for the most of the day. Then in the afternoon, some rain rolls in and does a little bit. Like we get a little bit of rain.

And it's like a tease, like, oh, how about this little tiny bit of rain? Is there enough for you people? We're leaving. And then you're just humid for the next six hours. Exactly, exactly. Thanks. Thanks, heat. We appreciate it.

Yeah, exactly. But, yeah, they're saying more rain on tap and thanks for sending it all over the mountains for us. Well, I'll keep that up as long as I'm able to control the weather. I'll keep sending you that rain. Although this morning I got out I got it pretty early and thought I'd just spend some time

with the dogs out on the and the porch, check the tomatoes, see how things are going out there. And I sat on one of our chairs and I always forget the night after rain, this one particular chair tends to coagulate water

right where my butt goes. Yeah. So yeah, sat down on a fresh pad of water there and soaked in it for a while. It's nice. Just sat there. It's like, you know what?

It's already done. Not cooling, right? It's not cooling. And what are you going to do? Like, you get up, you're going to, if you get up, you got to go change your pants, then you got to dry off the chair. You might as well just sit. May as well just sit out there.

And it's going to be hot enough where those pants are going to dry. Yeah. I'm not that worried about it. Right. Right. Also, you can pee and no one will know. That's true. Just pee your pants.

It's like, nope. Kim, I sat in water. Yep. Let it rip. Hey, I got a thing I'm doing. I've been beta testing it for a couple of days. And I want to ask. I'm going to put it out here to the tad pool for suggestions.

And we don't have to do it. The suggestions live, I'm not looking for live chat room suggestions. However, if anyone in the chat wants to contribute to the suggestions, I'd be great. Either reach out to me individually or you can just say stuff in the Discord or email me, whatever you want to do. But I'm doing this thing called Frog Pants Rewind. And it's essentially, it was inspired by an idea that Nicole and Mark had with the Wood Whisper, which is showing old when when we're not on air showing older stuff or or even that week's recent shows and this is this gets to the feedback in a second but showing that stuff on kind of repeat on a

YouTube live stream that just kind of runs all the time when I'm not on air like when there's not a live show happening this this rewind is happening and so far it's been great lots of great feedback and stuff and I've got maybe 12 videos up there that are rotating some are old some are new just to kind of test it out, make sure the plug-ins work in the way I needed to, all this sort of thing. Because it is kind of I can set it and leave it sort of thing, and it's super easy to run. Here's the question, though, that I want to reach out to the community about. Tell me, reach out and tell me what kinds of things you want to see on there.

Do you want ancient stuff? Do you want like, sure, this week's core will be on repeat, but then after that, there's some old-ass episode of, I don't know. Classic TMS would be great. Something from way back in the day. Yeah. Yeah. Here's a 2012 episode, although we don't have any old video.

Exactly. The first couple years or something. Some of it I'd have to. Oh, yeah, that's right. I guess we didn't do video from the start. I mean, we did video, but we didn't record it. It was like. Oh, right, right, right. Livestream.com or some shit like that.

And it was like really crappy. And none of it got archived. Like all of it was just like, you know, did it day and date. But I want to say by about 13 or 14, at least, we started recording them. so video wise. So some of that stuff, I just reach back and find it. Put them on there. If people want to see that or not, I don't know.

That's why I'm asking. It seems like something would be cool and interesting is to have old stuff. And I'm working on a script that will automatically put up on screen what it was and when it was. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. So I kind of half have that working. It's still being a little fiddly. So I got to dink with it more.

little Python script that should work, but I just got to keep thinking with it. Anyway, the point is, would love your feedback, what kind of stuff you want to see there? Is it just the last week's shows? And then they just get one in, one out, like that sort of

thing, or do you prefer something that's a little bit more like, here's a throwback way back in the day? The only problem is it's not a thing that you'll be able to control as a user. It's not like you can skip around. It's like a TV station. Yeah, exactly. They're showing what they're showing, and you're either on the channel or you're not. That's how that'll work.

And don't get suckered in and try and chat with a show that is that was four or five days old or a couple years old or whatever. And people are already doing this. Like there's, here I'll show you this overlay. Because to me it's obvious. But there have been people who are like, Oh, people are still trying to chat with the show. All right.

So there's your overlay. Imagine this screen here is playing a full screen of an old TMS. On the right here, it's not showing up, but there's a scale. schedule that shows when actual live shows are coming. And then down here it says previously recorded. And then below that, repeats of recent shows on the Frog Pants Network. Up top, Frog Pants Rewind. Like, it all indicates it.

Almost all four sides showing stuff that says this is not live. But there are still people in there that are like, oh, yeah, well, I think I found or whatever is some random comment. Like, are you talking to ghosts? What are you talking about? Quantumania came out years ago. yeah so and then there are times I there's the biocast as I thought Scott was in there and I was commentating that can happen too so while I've been testing it I've been in there watching and I'm

seeing the chat and I'm fine people can chat whatever they want doesn't matter to me but just know that these are reruns it's not it's not like you can have a direct effect on the host while you're in there so anyway it's uh it's the frog pants YouTube channel they let you just do a 24 hour channel over there that will just run uh Twitch unfortunately has limits on that and they'll cut it out after a certain time. So it's kind of a pain. So I think it'll live over there. But frogvance.com slash Scott Johnson and I, or sorry, YouTube.com slash Scott Johnson. And it will be running in beta forum today as well prior to core and then after core.

But in the meantime, just reach out and tell me the kinds of things you think you'd want to see there. If you just had a little background thing going, you know, you're doing other stuff and you're here in an old episode of the instance. and then after that an ancient episode of TMS and my weird little animated thing I did years ago as an interstitial and then another episode of play retro, whatever it is. I'm very curious what people may or may not want to say.

I think it's a great idea for those people are like, oh man, there's this big chunk of the day where there's no content. I've already caught up with all my other YouTube subscriptions or whatever. Let's see what's shown on the always on the 24-hour frogpants channel. Yeah. And Biocast says all the first episodes like first appearance, if I don't like bees. Here's the problem with that.

Yeah. How the hell am I going to go find all those needles in a haystack? Exactly. Exactly. There might be some way that I'm unaware of, some way to comb all that, and some AI bot that'll go, all right, we found it or whatever. I don't know. But I suppose anything's possible, but I haven't looked into that.

But that's possible. That's a you problem. It's a biocat. Yeah. He's right. It's a good to figure out how to do that. Good job. Good luck.

We will figure it out. but in the meantime you all should be listened to an audio book and Brian can tell you about it now you should like I picked up you know this book right here randomly this book called Local Boy Dun Gone and I held it up to my ear and I'm like I can't hear it

I just can't hear the words in this book and I don't know if I'm doing something wrong but then I learned that oh you actually have to get a separate audiobook you get an audiobook and that's actually the one that's got the words and the audio in it yeah and sure enough right there like it is on screen local boy done gone now available

we had it approved last week or two weeks ago no last week actually one week ago was the release on Spotify and Apple Books now it's on Amazon and Audible so it's on everything I think there's even more that it's on let's see here it's on pay hip I mean like basically there's a there's a whole ton of places that's available Whatever, whatever audiobook platform you use, chances are it's there.

And if you've already got an audible subscription, guess what? This is included. It's five and a half hours. So if you've got one of those subscriptions that's like, well, I get 15 hours of audio book, which I think is Spotify, you get 15 hours a month. And you want something short to like fill that, you know, fill that gap. Great. Local boy done gone. Five and a half hours of me.

Yip yapping in your ear. I can play it. Can I play the preview here? Are you okay with me? Oh, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's see what this says here. Oh, popped out. Wait a minute.

Oh, a separate player. Okay. Come on in. You might as well hear this too. One day your mind took flight and it flew. Round the trees you thought were waving at you. Oh, things just don't seem like they used to. Lyrics from 1-1, a traditional folk song, composer unknown.

Oh, they just gave you just the little, like you do it to be. teasing. Yeah, that's like, that is the, like the first page of the, like a, before you even get to story after the, um, the book played and all that stuff. It's like its own little, uh, yeah, right here. It's this little blank page right. Or mostly blank page. Okay. Well, cool. Yeah, whatever. I don't know how they choose stuff like that. It's weird, right? Yeah, that's an interesting choice for, uh, for what it is. Um, I'm waiting to hear back from the author, but, uh, Amy, uh, reached out and said, hey, you guys want to. and do an interview, like I'll interview you and the author to talk about the new book, talk about the audio book, talk about, you know, what's coming, the process, all that sort of thing. I'm waiting to hear back from the author, but I'm like 95% sure he's going to want to do this.

So once that's available, I'll put it on the Coverville feed. We'll get it on a couple other places and get some more promotion for this book. I'm super proud of it. That's awesome. You should be. chat says i like when amazon defaults the visual preview to just the copyright and title pages yeah i hate i've seen them do with audio too i've seen them do it with like random house publishing something something and you're like that is the worst audio preview i've ever heard it's like there's nothing in the story

it doesn't really give me anything at least mine has the song lyrics for the uh the song that is that is that is uh oh what's the word gerr jermand ger what is it what's the word i'm looking for germain germane Germain, thank you, Germain to the story, right? One of the Jackson's, I knew that. I almost said Tito, I got that wrong. It's Tito to the story. It's Tito to the story. It's absolutely Tito to the story.

How does this work? Okay, on the website, it says, audio book 99 cents with membership. Does that just mean you have to have an audible membership and then it's 99 cents? Or how I don't get how audible works anymore. Oh, I don't either. Yeah, I think if you have an audible membership,

then you get it for 99 cents. I thought it was included with your Audible membership, but I guess it is if you do, if you're not currently a member and you do the free, like they've got their three months thing. 99 cents a month for three months. Yeah. So, so really it's like 99 cents, but you get this book and a bunch of other books. Yeah, and then it says free with 30-day audible standard trial. So then, so that could be your first book. So I guess what I'm saying is we've all been on the fence with Audible. Stop being on the fence. Just go do it. Exactly. Exactly. Um, I do. Um, I do.

have some giveaway Spotify credits for the book. I have 10. I just got to figure out how many give them away. So keep an eye on that early next week. I'll figure out like a little contest thing. Love it. Probably have a Google form or something and trivia questions or something and see who gets it. Yeah. And if you have, if you're doing the Apple Books thing, which by the way, underrated in terms of how it works. I agree. I really like the Apple Books interface. It works great. Yeah. The only beef I have with it is they don't have an e-reader.

Like, if using an iPad or a phone to read is fine. It's just you're still just getting all that blue light. And if you're reading late at night, it's like, it's not great. It's not going to help you sleep. Yeah. I really like e-paper style displays and stuff. So I tend to lean that way. But the nice thing about their reader is they'll read by default.

They'll just read PDFs, ePUB format, all these other formats. is Kindle shut all that shit down. They're not even doing Epub anymore. Yeah, no, you've got to, it's got to be their own little deal. Yeah. F that noise. Yeah. They piss me off.

So I don't, you really use them for written stuff anymore. You know, actual red words, non-audible, I should say. Right. But then if you want the audio version, the iBooks thing's cool because they just, you just get it. You don't have to worry about some membership. You just say, well, I'll just buy it. And sometimes it's more for the book than you'd get for the discount by having the

membership, but it all equals out in the end. And you only have to do the one-off. So it's going to take you six months to read a book, not Brian's, but some book, you don't have to pay monthly for a thing that you're still trying to get through the same book. It's just way, I find it fits my whole time and lifestyle way better over there. Without a doubt. Yeah. Wherever you get your poison, though, go get it, pick it up. Local boy done gone. Available now. That's it. Thanks. Let's talk about, um, we talk a little about the drought. It's hot.

Well, yeah, but it's less about that kind of drought and more about the coming drought of, all right, today, the 30th and this weekend, Spider-Man, brand new day coming out. Oh, that drought, very different drought. Yeah, very different drought, yeah. That's why I was vague about it, because I wanted to go into it. And then a couple months, you know, December, we get Doomsday, Avengers Doomsday. And then, as far as the movie releases, nothing. Yeah, long periods of nothing. Until December 17th.

Now, we are, you know, for me, this is like a, all right, how do I prepare for this? Because it's like, you know, I want to watch some stuff. I'm currently watching Loki, both seasons. And I got to say, I really like Jonathan Majors as he who remains in season one, right? When he's, you know, king, sort of unnamed Kang in that thing. Yeah. Um, as Victor timely though, I mean, I feel like, maybe they just got rid of him because he wasn't very good in season two.

Oh. And had nothing to do. Obviously, no. It was nothing to do. It was probably, but maybe it maybe didn't hurt like the behavior is one thing. But then you're like, man, he was also not great in season two. And he was also not good in season two. Yeah.

But, uh, and I love Jonathan Majors. I thought he was amazing in, uh, Lovecraft Country and, and, um, he's a great actor, dude. Creed. He's just a really, really good actor. He's really good. But just maybe wasn't very good as Victor timely. But so I'm watching that. And I'm kind of looking at, all right, what things do I need to make sure I see before Doomsday? Obviously, I'm going to do a rewatch of Thunderbolts, Fantastic Four. Avengers Endgame is going to be coming out in theaters with some extra bonus stuff to tie it to Doom's Day. That's, I think, in September, if I remember correctly.

I think that's right. So prior to that, obviously. obviously I got to watch Infinity War. But then it's like, all right, how do I pace some stuff out? We get, we've got what? We've, X-Men 97 currently going on. I think October, we've got Vision Quest. And then next year, TV-wise, I think the only thing on the slate is another season of Daredevil Born Again.

Oh, yeah, that's right. There's not a lot of animation shit coming, but. Yeah, maybe another season of the Spider-Man animated, which is actually. Excellent. I think so. It was also really good. What I saw, but it was really good. It was right before I canceled Disney, but.

Oh, right. Yeah, but, uh, yeah, it's like, you know, we're getting some, we're getting close to a little bit of a, a little bit of a drought. Yeah. On the video game side, even, there's, we got Wolverine coming out. Wolverine, yep. And that's about it on the Marvel side. Tokoi fighters or whatever it's called, Tokon fighters. Yeah, and there's ongoing stuff like, you know, rivals and all that, but.

But it's not like it's part of a. I mean, not like those are part of the lore, but yeah. And the one, the game they announced back at one of the events, I don't remember if it was Microsoft or the main summer event or something else, but they announced a game that was set in the 40s with Captain America and Black Panther, and we have heard crickets on that. Has it, okay, is that all but disappeared basically? I mean, no official word on anything.

So all anyone can assume is it's still happening, maybe. But the feeling is that this kind of drought of information, on a thing like that is a bad sign. We're not, I don't know that we're ever going to see that game. The preview looked rad. But they've kind of gutted the studios associated with it. So I don't freaking know what they're going to do there. Shoot, may not happen.

But here's the deal. Like, Figi, Figi, he got up with a hat on, you know, like he does. Yeah, yeah. And he made it, he said the words, I can't remember verbatim. But I'll paraphrase. He basically said, we are, cutting way, essentially came down to, we're cutting way back on quantity and aiming way, way more for quality. And I think that's actually a really good thing. I'm glad they did because, yeah,

I mean, secret invasion really, the most recent thing for me that really pooped the bed. I'll defend Eternals. I feel like the vision that Chloe Zao, Chloe Zau, right, director on that? Zao, Zhao, how it goes. I feel like this, this captured her vision. And I feel like it is the Jack Kirby style like if you translate Jack Kirby's stuff to a movie, I feel like it does really well. I think Thor, Blood and Thunder was a little bit of a misstep. The Marvels had moments, but also was a little bit of a misstep.

Thunderbolts was great. Love it. Thunderbolt was fantastic. Fantastic Four was excellent. Oh, did I say Blood and Thunder? Love and Thunder. Yeah, because the kid's name is love, duh. Plus, that's a World Warcraft thing here all the time.

Blood and Thunder. That's apparently where I'm thinking of it. Yeah. So, you know, I mean, there have been some missteps recently. If it means that we're going to get fewer movies but better movies, great. I'm fine with that. But it's just like, oh, dang. You know, could you just, what else could you do that maybe would improve quality that doesn't decrease quality?

Yeah, I'd love a little something in the middle, you know. Yeah. Yeah, because it's going to be a tough year next year with just Daredevil Born Again season two. Apparently the Spider-Man thing comes out later this year, too, season two of amazing Spider-Man. Oh, that is this year. Spider-Man animated, yeah. Okay. Well, hopefully they keep it.

Maybe we'll get another, there's nothing been announced, but I wonder if we're going to get another holiday, either Halloween thing like we did with Werewolf by Night or... Oh, I really like those one-offs. Yeah, I do too. The Christmas, the Guardians of Galaxy Christmas special was really good. It would be nice to get something. Are we done with the what-ifs and the watcher?

Yeah, I think so. I think the end of the last what-if with the watcher kind of getting reprimanded for getting involved where he shouldn't have. Think means that we're done with what if. Who watches the watchers, the question. Yeah, Punisher, one last kill was really, was pretty good. It was damn violent, but it was pretty good. Yeah.

Yeah, he, I just saw the weirdest red carpet moment with Bernthal, where up till this week, all I ever see him in is that new beard of his. Yeah. Including in The Odyssey, he's got it. They shaved head, but he's got the beard. He's got the big beard, yeah. I don't even know if he shaved. Maybe they put a ball cap on.

But whatever they did, he just, he still looked like, you know, a very burnthal-ass-looking burnthaw. And in this thing, this interview I saw him in a red carpet for Spider-Man. So it's very recent. He looks, he's fully shaven and has a lot of hair. And he looked like, he looked like some lesbian lady that owns a flower shop in Portland. I got to find this so that I'm not, you know, I'm not going crazy. Like a friend Arvison character kind of thing.

Yeah, like he's about to go, oh, you know what we're going to do? We're going to turn this place into it. There was something about it. That's really, really funny. Let me see if I can find it. Burnfall, red carpet, Spider-Man. Okay, so I make it lucky here. It was a real, it really threw me.

Oh, yeah. I think maybe I found it. Okay. So, let's see, is it in the, you? Yeah, I can find it in the news stuff. Is that image going to do it? Oh, come on. Freaking Hollywood bullshit.

Oh, here we go. People are talking about Moon Night, wishing that they're looking for another season of Moon Night. I love that too. How did that do? Did it? I thought it did pretty well. And as far as, like, quality was up there.

I would bet that we get Moon Night. Here's my prediction. We're going to get Moon Night and the Ghost Rider movie. Oh, yeah. Yeah, dude. Because they're all part of the midnight son's deal. Why couldn't they get the... What is the curse on the freaking blade business?

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. For shit sakes. Faggy said something recently like, yeah, I wish we wouldn't have dropped the ball on the whole Merchal Ali thing. But maybe that's the way to do it too. Instead of focusing on a blade movie or TV show, get Blade in to the ghostwriter movie as well.

Yeah. Yeah, that's a great. That's a great combo of those two. Blade, Moon Knight, and Ghost Rider. What a freaking amazing combination. We work it in, get Mahershala back on board. Yep. I just watched him in Hidden Figures.

I loved that movie. I finally saw it. Really good. He's a small role for him, but he's just amazing. He commands my eyeballs when he's on screen. This needs to happen, or we're all stupid. Exactly. Humans are stupid if we can't find a way.

There has to be a way. way to make that work. I don't get it. He's such a great blade. I mean, who knows? Maybe we get we got Wesley Snipes and the Deadpool Wolverian thing making his return. Who knows? Maybe, uh, I don't know. Maybe you can cross those two over somehow. I don't know, man. There's been no mention with all the mention of, yeah, we're bringing the X-Man from Fox and we're bringing this in and this and get all these characters. No mention of Wesley Snipes. No. Even get Channing Tatum. No mention of Wesley Snipes. No. I don't think it's happening. I think he's got too many taxes to pay his till or something.

I don't know what he's done. Here he is. Maybe this doesn't quite do it justice of what I saw. So there's what's her name who's playing the mystery character. There is. There's something here. Yeah. It is weird seeing without the beard.

Even in the Punisher movie, he had a beard because he'd been, you know, he'd been down so long. I think that's what's throwing me is just he never doesn't have a beard. Right. It's like he's about to tell Rick that he's not sleeping with his wife. Yeah. Rick's about to yell for Corl. Carl, you're back in the house, Carl. Coral.

Anyway. Yeah. Yeah. There's a drought coming. Everyone prepared? Yeah. Prepare for the drought. I guess it's going to be, you know, D.C.

Getting my D.C. on the lanterns coming this next month. Woo-hoo. Oh, my gosh. Dude, I'm so excited. Yeah. Did you see the Sinestro clip? No. No.

I haven't looked at, I saw the trailer, not the current trailer. I saw that there was a new trailer, but I saw the previous trailer. I mean, I'm already in. There's no reason for me to look at any more trailers. Yeah, there's probably not. And I kind of saw it by accident, and it was very short, but it is played by, can I just see this somewhere? Oh, this isn't going to show me that.

That's the Mark Strong one. Anyway. Oh, yeah. Look good. not sure how that actor is Eurik Ulrich Olrick Thompson Yeah I've never

The name didn't ring But the face was familiar Kind of Let's see What have we seen him in The world is not enough This guy right here It was Sasha Davidov

And he had in the clip He had the skin was kind of purpley And he had the glowy eyes And the mustache Nice Nice All right cool Sinestro man

I'm a kingdom of heaven Oh I love that movie Yep, I know you do. You made me buy it. I've been watching yet, but you made me buy it. He was a Templar Master in Kingdom of Heaven. Oh, okay.

I kind of vaguely remember. He was a hitman movie. I'm scrolling. Lots of the newer stuff now. Lots of villainous stuff, I'm guessing. The new, the prequel to the thing called The Thing in 2011. I liked the Thing prequel. No one else did, but I did too.

No, I did too. We just saw him in Season of the Witch. Not Judge. But for film sec, we saw him in the season of the witch. Here it is. Years ago. This is the shot. Okay, let's see.

Oh, that's great. It's pretty great. It's a little hard lighting to tell that in the video, I can see it more, but his eyes are kind of the green, not green, the yellow eyes, or the, whatever they are. And that his face is a little purpley. Yeah. I'm a big sedestro fan because I always felt like a copier salesman got stuck in a villain role. You know what I mean? Right.

Did we, do what? Am I imagining that I know Mark Strong was in the, was he in the Ryan Reynolds movie? He was in the Ryan Reynolds movie, yeah. And he was great to Sinestro. He's very good in it. Why am I visualizing a, oh, God, who's the guy? Married to Maggie Gillen Hall.

Who's that guy? Oh, SARS guard. Oh, Alexander Sarzgard. Right? Not Alexander. No, yeah. That's a Scarsguard. That's a Scarsguard.

Who's the SARS guard? guy. Why am I visualizing a SARS guard playing? I don't know. Not Stellan. Peter Sarzgard. Peter? Sirsgard? Yeah, Peter Sarzgard. Peter, that's it. Why am I visualizing

a Peter Sarzgard playing Sinestro? Was there a... I don't know. Did he make an appearance in like a Doom Patrol or something? Might have? Not sure, though. This one's Mark Strong, so definitely not him. Definitely not him. Let's see. Yeah, Green Lantern. in green, oh, so he was in Green Lantern.

Wait a minute. Who did he play? I was going to say, who did he play in? Hector Hammond. Okay. Oh, he's exposed to the yellow energy of fear from parallax, which causes his brain to grow to enormous size and grant some scientific powers. That's what I was

visualizing. So he was in, so he was in the Green Lantern movie. He just wasn't Cinescro. Oh, and again, his head was all deformed and hypox and all, okay, I remember that. So that's what I was visualizing. Like, wait a minute. Why do I remember him in a Green Lantern thing. They're lucky we remember anything about that movie.

Really? I mean, it's unfortunately we remember anything for that movie. Yeah. It's rough, dude. Yeah. Jay's Louise. Anyway, I'm going to do a quick Wendy check. Looks like she is.

Oh, yeah. Oh, I forgot. Yeah, we have Wendy. Shoot. She just arrived. Oh, good. Let's check it out. Something wrong, Batman.

Has anybody seen Wendy? We have. She's right here waiting online. Hi, Wendy. How are you? Hi. How dare you forget me, Brian? No.

I'm sorry. I know. Derry. You know what day it is. I forgot what day it was. I swear. Hey, Wendy, have you seen hidden figures, the movie Hidden Figures? Oh, yeah.

Man, I took forever to see it. I finally watched it last night. I love that movie. So good. I was like, look, am I already a big Costner fan? I like him and everything. And he's not the main character in this, obviously. But I think he puts in one of his best performances in this.

I came away going, that's not just normal Costner, like, broody should be in a cowboy movie Kevin Costner he's like nuanced and interesting and the head of this department and all that and those women were incredible and the fact that you know these people existed and that was a real

thing is really really freaking good anyway underappreciated part of the space program yeah I love that also the deaf community is an underappreciated part of the program they could not figure out how to get anyone in space without just

vomiting their brains out over and over. They couldn't figure it out. Really? Yeah. There was something like 10 or 12 folks who had inner ear stuff that just caused their deafness who were born deaf. And so they could put them in all sorts of simulations and they would never get ill because they had to figure out what they had to do to compensate.

So it's like an inner ear deal. Yeah, because that's what makes you sick, right? Is that your brain isn't matching the stuff in your ear. So they utilize them for all sorts of things. Like they had them just spin like crazy. And then they could all just sit down and play poker. And none of them had even phased them or whatever. And it's just a really interesting history that isn't told as well.

Yeah. I just found the dedicated page on the NASA site. They have a whole thing about them and their names and everything. I guess 11 deaf men help shape NASA's human space flight program. That guy looks like he's got a cut out hole for his crotch to. Yeah, I don't like that's a bad look. That's a bad look. Look at that.

I don't like that at all. It looks like he's a Ken doll in anything. Yeah, I don't like it. We don't know. We don't know. But also those women having to freaking use another bathroom and run around and freaking save everything. Oh, God, I know.

That's, yeah. Yeah, that was crazy. But watching Costner tear down that bathroom and say, we all pee the same color at NASA. That was great. That was great. All right. Well, Wendy, we're going to get into it. Wendy, of course, a mental health specialist.

She helps people with their real problems all the time. She's here to help somebody with theirs today because we do this on therapy Thursday. And I'm going to read an email that we receive. I've got to scroll down to it from someone who said it was okay to use their name. Their name is Nick. And they say this. Hello, this is a question for Therapy Thursday on TMS. My wife and I have a son who just turned two in March.

He's a great kid in our absolute whole world. But we learned just how fast, sorry, just how exhausting parenting can be. My wife also had a very challenging pregnancy. She's a type 1 diabetic on an insulin pump. So she was categorized as high risk from the beginning. We knew this was going on, but we didn't anticipate this intense stress that it would put on her. And by proxy, me.

Between endless specialist appointments and doctors warning us of every potential danger, my wife worked tirelessly to keep her blood sugar in a healthy range. Though strict dieting and constant, or through strict dieting and constant exercise, it all paid off. Our son was born healthy outside of a few days in the NICU for blood sugar, Now the debate has come up. Do we want to have another child? For us, this is a heavy decision. Both of us grew up with siblings and are very close to them as adults. But the thought of us going through another high risk pregnancy this time with a toddler running around feels almost

impossible. My wife is worried she won't be able to dedicate the time needed to monitor her own health and I find a toddler hard enough to handle on my own. I can't imagine adding a newborn to the mix when we're already so sleep deprived. Our anxiety, stress and fear responses are telling us to stick with one kid, but we feel immense guilt that it might be the wrong decision for our son. He plays with other kids, or sorry, he loves playing with other kids. He'd make an amazing big brother and having another child just isn't a simple answer for us like it seems to be for others. To make matters harder, my parents keep warning me that he'll turn out weird, unsocialized, selfish, or lonely later in life without siblings. We'd actually be the first family in our entire

extended relative network to only have one child. So the pressure for from them is real. The only children, sorry, are only children actually that much different from kids with siblings? I'd love to hear your thoughts

on navigating this guilt and pressure thanks, says Nick. So Wendy, this is a thing people go through and for lots of reasons, but, you know,

I think the primary thing that would freak me out is the thing that he talked about first, which is the risks involved and, you know, just all that. because you got you did great the first time. It doesn't guarantee you're going to do great the second time.

So that would be a big worry. But then all this external stuff from other people in your life, like it's, it's not easy. So where do you want to go with it? All right. Number one, Nick, don't play this for your wife right away. Listen first, then play it. You got to let me get through this first part. Then you can push play after I've said what I'm about to say.

No, well, okay, a couple things is it is really hard to have a kid. it's really hard to have a medical condition that requires extra for sure. And when you do the first one, and you guys, you know, you've had a kid, you know, it's like you don't go back. There's no going back to that other world you used to live in. No, yeah, no. And the life you know is over. Exactly.

You were doing all of that from a different planet. This second round is coming from parenting planet. And so I want to say this because I don't want to demean that it's terrifying and it's going to be hard, but it is also so much easier the second time. And you'll be surprised. Now, what makes it hard and also more tiring for real is that there's a other kid you're chasing around. So my first thought when I read this is like, well, wait until he's not a toddler. You can go, I don't know, maybe they're in their 60s and they got to hurry, right? but I'm assuming they're young enough that they could wait until this kid is four or this kid is

three and a half or four and it goes to preschool and you could do maybe you need to do some sleep training. So that kid is sleeping. I'm getting the sense they're so sleep deprived with a two-year-old, meaning he's still not a great sleeping situation. So that could be the emphasis. Also, I'm having, I'm living out a little fantasy because there's going to come a day where my kids will have kids and I will not get to say any of this. So I'm only going to say it to Nick, which is, dude, you can do it. It's fine.

Also, here's the thing. If this does not feel right, and you guys are, if it's fear, and it sounds like we've got fear and pressure, right? Yeah, a little both. And fear alone, like I would talk to doctors about what are the risks again, making sure we're keeping this in the right space of risk. There is risk with labor and delivery that will kill them,

mom and that will kill a baby. And you are really, really taking huge risks, right? I don't think this is in that category, but that's for a doctor to tell you. And so that would be like, number one, having reassurance from a doctor that it's a good idea and that you have a great plan and a great system. This number two is making sure this two-year-old is getting sleep in the next whatever. And then waiting until that, because you don't know that two-year-olds end. I mean, you do theoretically, right?

but they really do. They go away. Yeah, the two year, the freaky, the terrible. People call it terrible twos. It does eventually end. And in some cases, kids don't even have it. Some kids have the terrible 16s and those are the ones you got to do that. Right.

And this kid's their world, which is adorable. But also, guess what? That has to change because that's not good for a kid. It needs, your world needs to get bigger. And it will because two-year-olds change into, you know, three and four and four and five-year-olds that go to school and like they they can talk and all sorts of things happen, right? And it doesn't feel this way when you're in it, right? And so this is what my ultimate advice is. Like, look at me going, come on. I got a kid with his guts out of his body. Go do it. It's

bad. Exactly. Right. And and I mean, the worst, if the worst thing is to eat really healthy and exercise a lot, like that sounds awesome. But it sounds like the fear really is we, that took so much out of us to keep safe that how in the world will we do with this a toddler? And what I'm also reading in here is there are a ton of people who have dedicated and promised that they will help you because they want you to have more than one kid. So that would be the other step is check with your doctor, find out what's really going to be required here and what they advise. And then your guts, right? Like this is what we want and we're going to do it. Well, we're going to do it right. We're going to get a kid to sleep better and we are going to maybe make him slightly older so this makes this

easier and then we are going to take our extended family who all has more than one kid and all get it to be our support system and like not just wave at us as we're doing this on our own right to have care with you know take care of the kid with you make sure that you have the support maybe they're helping with meals you give them the recipes so they don't bring you crappy food while you're trying to eat well whatever like but you add the this, you're not doing this alone. And if that's what you want, if you only want one child, then this is a different story. So that's another thing to decide. If you really just want one and there's all this pressure, okay. That really exactly, because it sounds like they're not taking

their own, they're listening to everybody else. Yeah. And not really listening to themselves. Tina had a really rough pregnancy with Tristan and was, you know, morning sickness lasted eight and a half months for her. She was puking left and right and up and down in every direction. And it was literally everywhere. You know, it was just took so much out of her. That was one of our big reasons for saying, you know what, I came out fine as an only child. I'm an only child. We, you know, haven't mentioned that, but people probably know that. And we decided he's going to be fine as an only child. I'm kind of weird. Are you weird? I am weird. Yes. I mean, let's, you know, let's face it. But I think I'm honestly weird because I have.

have siblings. Yeah, I think so too. Just a different kind of weird, right? I think that weirdness is independent of being having siblings or being an only child. It's just as your upbringing makes you weird, not your, whether you have a, you know, brother or sister. So, and the only way to survive in this world is being weird. Let's face it. But you had nobody to chase you around the house with a cold soldering iron and pretend it was hot.

No, I did not. And I'm fine with that. I think it maybe was to your advantage that you didn't have that. Exactly. Well, maybe. I mean, I had George. George was kind of like a brother to me. He was closer in age. He's only 10 years older than me. So he was closer in age than an uncle usually is older than maybe a brother normally would be. But I got some of that chasing me around with a cold. That's what happens. I assume when you can you can tell me if I'm crazy or not by assuming this.

I assume that the kinds of things that you get from sibling relationships, let's say growing up with a brother or a sister versus not, a lot of times that stuff gets filled in by other people in your life, whether it be someone who's wholly completely not related to you or sometimes it's a, I don't know, it's a cousin or a cousin removed or it's an uncle like Brian's case or someone else who just fits the role of he's the guy paled around with or they're the ones that we got in the most trouble with with our BMX bike. and the, you know, snakes we caught or whatever it is you're doing, it feels like life tends to find a way to give you those experiences, whether they're, you know, whether you're the house is full or not. Yeah. And I think that's, it's maybe more intentional because I, I, I, I read this and I just picture two really conscientious parents who are like, I'm going to do a good job and I care deeply and this, this kid is our world and we don't want to, we don't want to mess anything up. We want to do it right. Maybe we struggle a little with just some anxiety in general because life is awful and scary or whatever, right? And so you want to do it all right. You want all the answers. You want to be

careful. You want to do all the, you know. And so your future forecasting without any ability to know, right? And that's what's so hard. It's like our brains have this ability to do a future forecast. And then, I mean, we have some really fun studies. We're never right about our future emotional state. or some idea that it's going to be. And usually we're thinking worse than it ever is, right? Like that's the fear part of like, okay, there's no way we can do it. There's no way I can handle this kid and a new baby. The crazy part is you can and you will, just like everyone else has.

Now, I'm not saying people don't struggle. A hundred percent they can and they do. But you have given in your description email here, Nick, the antidote, you have a couple of them. But the main one is that you have this entire large family and a support structure that you then have to utilize. That's the difference. You give someone with five kids and all the structure or all the social supports in the world, they're going to thrive. A family of five on their own, they're going to drown, right?

Depending on kids and personalities and issues, right? But for the most part, when we do this parenting and isolation, which is a very modern thing to be doing, by the way, and we're not okay. We don't do well. And we live in, I don't know if this is an American, but you. You live in a country where you get barely any time together with this child without having financial concerns, right? Like it's not done well in modern days. And so you have to find a way to make sure you are incorporating what does make it go well.

And so I'm assuming they really do want a second kid. But if they really don't, then this is what I would suggest. If they're like really sitting with this, like this is all we can handle, which is great. By the way, Adam, my husband has a theory. Everyone has one more kid than they can handle. And so whenever the last kid, you're always just like, oh, yeah, that's the one that tipped him over the edge. Doesn't matter the number. It could be zero.

Zero kids is too much to handle. My childless neighbors next door, this tracks. They have one more kid than they can handle. One more than they can handle. Exactly. Exactly. And here's the thing. There's a whole, like, so much space for having no kids, so much space for having one kid.

I think we all get a little judge you when there's 12. But you know what I mean? Like there's a lot of options for someone to choose what they really want to do and to look at their capacity. So that's the thing I hear them worrying about. But I wonder if we all sat in their living room and hung out with them, we'd be like, you guys have the capacity. You just are worried you don't.

Because of course, of course you're like, this took a lot. But you went from freedom, human being status, to enslave to a two-year-old. That is a huge jump, right? And I promise you add another little human in there and you'll be like, okay, also adorable. Also, this is a little bit hard and you will get out of it. This is one-on-one basketball. This isn't, you know, you can do it. I promise, I promise. Now you get more numbers than that. I can't make any guarantees. But that is why your family is important. That is why you really wanting it for yourself is important. And then if you're like, nope, we want one kid. And Brian, you can speak to this. There is a goal.

Look at the research. There's plenty of research. They're not weird. They do fine. Maybe it's slightly harder when they first get married to someone and have to share a bathroom. I don't know, but it's pretty minor. That sounds like that came from some sort of experience. That's from a client story. But the other thing, there's a few little nuances that are kind of interesting. Like, for example, if there's any kind of teenage rebellion, it tends to be a little later if it happens at all with an only child. Younger children with siblings, it's usually in the the tweeny to 14, 15, 16 year old range and then an only child, they don't need to rebel. They're getting all their needs met usually.

And then they're not competing for resources in the same way. There tends to be a little older. Like they tend to be 17 and up, maybe kind of like having their like, I want to figure out my identity because I've just talked to adults my whole life. So they are very small things that at least I've anecdotally looked at and the research I've seen. Maybe there's new research other. But for the most part, it is a very viable way to live life. Now, if your family makes fun of them forever, I don't.

I mean, that's, that's a whole other thing. Are they going to be problematic and be like, oh, you poor thing. If only had, I mean, you might need to, if you decide you want one kid, have a little chat with everyone. I think you have to have a chat with everyone anyway. Yeah. And just get them on board with whatever you're deciding. And the two of you being the most important because no one is actually in charge of this, but you guys. And if you get the confidence from a doctor sharing, you know, what is likely

going to happen, support from your system, you can do a second kid. And every, and here's the thing that is so real is every pregnancy is totally different. It just is. And every kid is totally different. So anything you think you've learned, you know, you got to relearn in some ways, except the big plunge you've taken, right? You're in, you're in a whole other world. now, you're just adding another little cute face. Yeah. Do I seem biased? I seem a little biased.

I don't know that you seem biased. But look, I mean, I don't know. We don't have to get into this or anything. But there are some challenge, Wendy's had specific challenges with her first born that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that are not the same challenges with the rest of your, your kids. And I'm sure every family's got a version of this. Sometimes it's extreme. Sometimes it's not extreme. But I've always, this is something we've never.

talked about, but I always wanted to ask you, like, did, did you guys ever feel like, oh, man, we have been handed a much harder first stab. So we know what this means, the kind of time and differences is going to make and all this. But you guys still said, but no, we're going to, we're going to build this larger family. And that must have been a decision. It had to have been, right? Like you guys, I'm not trying to turn this around and make it about Wendy today, but I've always, I've always been, I've always admired that because I just think, I can see the challenge. And as an uncle, I'm super glad that we have everybody that you have.

But I could also see how if the- It could have easily, the decision could have easily gone the other way. Yeah, if it had been me, it would have been a hard one, I think. I think it would have been hard. I don't know. I mean, it's hard to look at it unless you're right there, I guess. Yeah. Okay.

Well, this is just, I'll just tell the whole thing real quick. So Allie was born with, she was just really delayed. But so sweet. never cried. We didn't know if she had, you know, the ear, you needed your ear tubes in the air, until we went to a fireworks display that felt like being shot with a machine gun. It was so incredibly loud and she didn't even make a sound. It's like a fairly youngish. And knowing when you were little, how fireworks affected you, that's crazy. Oh, yeah. I still hate him so much. Anyway, so, so she just was so easy. And I think sometimes when people are thinking, oh, you've got this

child with special needs. It's like, I've got the sweetest version of that. And that made it so much easier to have other kids because I wasn't, she slept great. She spoke on time and could read really early and like she's incredible with languages. So there's this part that was made that pretty easy. But if you take a child that's delayed in those areas, the areas that help you feel good about your parenting, right? It feels good about your parenting when your kid likes books and is happy and when she sees you and just can't walk, you know, you're like, oh, well, babies are really slow to do stuff, you know, anyway, but we never knew what it was. We'd had her tested a million times. We'd seen four geneticists all over the world. In Sweden, they were going to map her genome.

We were getting, like, we had let go of a long time ago that we were going to get an answer. We just knew she was slow. She had a cleft palate. Her eyes crossed quite a bit. She had a surgery in both eyes. She didn't walk so she was almost three. Like, but. you know, we moved to Sweden and she learns fluent Swedish in three months. So that was weird. Yeah. And none of it made sense to anyone. So then we moved to Minnesota and we're here, I don't know, her optic nerve looks really funky and some other internal things are weird. And so they referred us again to neurology and to genetics. And they did the CRISPR technology, if you're familiar with that, had come far enough for this sort of genetic look. And they, they just, described it to us like this. It's like walking into the New York City Library and finding one book on one shelf where one word is misspelled. That's how hard this is to find. And this is why no one could ever find it. And then this technology when we were here for, you know, we were here

a couple years. It was about six months old when the technology was for her to do it. And they found it. And she just has one allele switched. So it's like two letters. That's it. And it's just, a fluke. It's not genetic. It's just like having a, you know, a photocopy error. Just a just very rare. Just random. Yeah. And it doesn't even have a name. Yeah. So it's not like we can join a support group. She is the oldest person on earth that they know of that has it. And it's because the technology is so new. The only kids that they know have it, they're five and under. Right. And they are, there's a few in the world. Like, we found a couple in France. it's just super rare.

And one of the things with it that they are realizing, and of course they're following her, because they don't know how this will affect her heart. She has some tissue in her brain that's not supposed to be there, some other things, right? So she's kind of like the poster child, but part of the diagnosis is this, like, sweetness. And I'm like, yeah, she is like really nice.

She is the sweetest person you've ever known. Truly. Has zero guile, just like you could not. She's just... We could use more of that in the world. Yeah. I know. And my favorite is she's super blunt.

Like she was with her grandparents when she was out there visiting Adam's family. Yeah. And they call his parents Nana and Bapa. And she sends Nana text after like, thank you so much for everything. I had so much fun. When is Bapa going to die? So she's just so like there is no hurt in her ever. Like just cares.

I'm never allowed to say a bad thing about anyone. She's always like, no, they are so nice mom. They're trying. I'm like, shut up, nice human. Get out of my house. So she's good for us. And so that was easy to have another kid after that because she was not hard. And I didn't have a normal two-year-old who she just sat on the floor and like ate blueberries and smiled at us and collapsed.

Like that's what my two-year-old, my first two-year-old was. So I have a second one who my description was she was sweet and slow. And he was just hard and fast. And I was like, oh, you don't actually have to teach your kid how to walk, but you do have to chase them into the street a lot. So it was a wild ride. And then Elliot's, you know, the easiest child ever to be born and live. And then my last one's the devil.

So you don't know what you're going to get. You're going to get what you're going to get. And so I think everyone has a different story, right? And in our case, we just didn't have answers. And we even sent our blood, her blood, our blood to Italy in like the mid-2000s because they were suspecting it was something. It just, we just needed technology to catch up. So I would say, you know, we have our own version of this. But we also felt the, in some ways it was easier.

We also felt the similar everyone had a bunch of kids around us. And we both come from big families. So I can really relate to that. I didn't think I just wanted one. But suddenly it was like, oh, if. What if every kid I have has, and she's, she's a mild case. What if we're, you know. And then Pete's guts are on the outside of his body.

And I was like, we need to hang it off. Yeah, I know. You got this like sandwich moment of Peter with his guts on the outside. And you're like, oh, my gosh, guts can be on the outside. What the hell? Did realize you could do that. And I had a ton of miscarriages in there. It was, what was I doing?

And this whole time, we were just chatting on therapy Thursday. Hey, guys. Yeah. I'm going to go hemorrhage again. Yeah. No, that's true. I always, I was always blown away by that. But a lot like mom, right?

She had similar stuff and had like nine miscarriages between Mark and me. And then another handful between me and you. And then you were a fluke. You were like, wow. I was a freak show at the end. So, yeah. I just show up and screamed. And she's like, oh, I guess I have a kid because she was in denial for a long time.

Yeah. I don't think I have enough appreciation for what the women in my family have gone through. You don't? I know you don't. I'll tell you right now. We do all of this and bleed, Scott. Everything we're doing plus bleeding. Yeah, no, it sounds awful.

Trying to be more more tuned into it, I guess. I did love. There was somebody on Twitter at some point talked about being freaked out because he's like, you don't know what it's like to look down in the shower and there's blood dripping out of your. And the women just took over. They're like, really? You don't know what it's like? Yeah, you guys should try it for like a week.

You die. But it really is a, and that's why, and this is really a good way to swing back to Nick, is that this is really her choice and you're in the support role. And that is tricky, right? Because that is a hard role to play when, A, you can't do so many of the things. You can't be the sick one. You can't take over the nursing for the night. You can't do some of this stuff that.

you know, if you could really share it, you probably would, right? And so you're worried and you, but you're also like, oh my gosh, I'm so tired. So I would highly recommend if this little two-year-old is not sleeping, two is well past the time to be getting our sleep together. We got to get that together. And I don't even know if that's true. But if it's, if it is not true, find a way. Yeah. There are plenty of people who've done it and figured it out. There's all sorts of methods. I mean, I'm not going to, I had also, I should tell you this. when people were like, how did you do it? I followed a certain formula very early with my kids,

and Adam was very good at it, keeping that schedule. And so they all were sleeping through the night by like nine weeks, which is very early, I realize. But it also meant I could handle a lot more because I was sleeping, right? And then I had a, my kid was sweet. So I know it's not everyone's story and everyone has their own opinions. It's such a hot, like, the fact that we can just tell each other like you should have a child or two or more or none is

crazy pants so um you can ignore all of this and do whatever you want is what my final answer that's your final answer is ignore everything I've said and do what you want whatever you want I like it you got to raise that kid not me I got to get you a t-shirt that says ignore everything I said and do it you want that's amazing we could make that happen well uh there you go actually I got write it down that's too funny hold on uh ignore hold on ignore everything i just said and do what you want okay and then put my credentials after it right yeah exactly yes that's amazing don't listen to her um speaking to credentials let's yeah pull people's attention to know better you dot com for a moment yes please what's going on okay so a couple things happening um there go sign up for the class it's starting in

August. There's an early bird discount. There's awesome scholarship. So if you are like, money is tight and I need to be happy, please reach out to me. Please, please, please. I have, I've told you this. I have people from the past who are like, you let me in when I was falling apart and I want to pay it forward. So please don't hesitate. That being said, we have started an ongoing, Brian, you might have gotten my email, maybe. I don't know. I did. Yeah. So two ongoing group coaching classes on Wednesday nights where you can just meet with the people that did Time Mastery or people who did Health and P. And if you haven't, I might just let you in anyway. So just reach out to me if you haven't.

And it's just ongoing. We're not like redoing the class. We're just going deeper in the stuff we've worked on. So last night we met with a couple of people from Time Mastery. And it was so fun. And anyway, so that's an ongoing thing. If you are interested, email me. just at hey at No Better You.

Or if you're looking for a scholarship, also just hit me up there. And we'll get you started. You get you going. That's awesome. Wendy, fantastic. Always talking to you. Hope things are well over there. Is ICE still doing stuff there?

Is there still? Whatever. Are they a little more quiet now about it? They're doing all sort of stuff in Houston and Maine. and there's freaking everywhere. Yeah. So I don't know. Let me tell you this, though.

Yeah. That. Oh, okay. I was going to ask this. And I mean, people who've listened to the show for a long time could maybe say, I feel like this is the most I've ever talked about Allie, for sure, but like anything real. And I just, it's funny because, A, I don't feel weird about it. But partly because Allie's story is really cool.

And we're at. the end of it, if that makes sense. Like, we're not in the thick of it. But it does, it's kind of funny because I'm like, we always talk about you, Scott. It's weird to actually. Really? Wonderful. So I hope I didn't hurt anyone's sensibilities by making it about the therapist, because that does feel very weird to me. Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure it does. She never be about me. They can blame me anyway for bringing it up. But, you know, it just, yeah, blame Scott for running. Yeah, blame me, dude. I had, I had like the, you know, I had the opposite problem. Taylor was such a perfect baby in every way that I thought, well, this isn't so bad.

Let's go. Let's do some more of these. And then she hits around 11, 12, starts having seizures, all these other issues or kidneys doing weird things, like medical stuff and all that. And all that's done now. And she's great. And has two kids of her own. It's one of my favorite humans on the planet.

But it's just another reminder that everybody's got their time and their place. You don't ever get to pick. Yeah, you don't pick any of this. It just happens. And you're either there for it or you're not. And so the trick is just to be there for it. And you're good. Yeah.

And there are people with things that none of us could handle for one day, not even one day. But somehow they do. And especially with kids, it's so hard. And so I think, I mean, I probably hound on this a lot,

but just building community, building support, getting people in your lives that will love your kids to is crucial to surviving this. Yeah. And the schools, whatever. whatever you can do to get you're not alone doing this is huge.

Yeah. Because it's hard. Yeah. We should walk around. Okay, here's my new idea of that I want to run the world. This new homework? I like it. All right.

No, it's just how I want to run the world. And that is we should announce, you know how when they say veterans can get on the planes first? They need to just also add teachers. Can we just add teachers? Sure. Do you even know what they go through? Geez.

Okay. So get teachers on there. Or anyone who's walking around with a child, I don't care what age they are. get like, I don't know, it's like a gold, gold ticket and a candy bar or something of just like, thank you for raising the next generation and how hard this is. And I don't know. It's just hard to, that there's so little acknowledgement and culturally, I think, you know, you take a baby on a plane and everyone's annoyed that you're there. It just sucks. We need to be like, there's a baby. And how do we all help? Yeah. You might, you might get lucky and my wife will be on that plane.

but there's a big chance you won't be and you're screwed. No, that's not true. Actually, the confirmation bias is so real here. Think about all the terrible stories you've heard. Those are like fractions of all the amazing stories. Oh, yeah, that's true. That's true. There are more Kim's out there than just.

There are way more. But she's weird because she's stoked about it. Like, we'll get on. She has like a bag full of. She does. She takes shit with her. She takes extra crap with her just in case this happens. But if she hears a baby, she's like,

Oh, it's a baby. She's like, let me see what I can do. She could be paid to just be on flights, honestly, whereas like a lot of baby travel and she just walks those aisles. Yeah, I love that about her. Well, there you go then. Have a fantastic time. And everybody get on that course.

Get in there while you can. It's no better you. com. Just click on the courses and you'll find your way. Wendy, stay out of trouble. We'll see you next time. Bye. All right.

She's gone. but not lost or whatever. I don't know what I'm saying. Hey, guys, we're running late, but I'm going to read this email anyway. Okay, that's how it's going to go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is about the jugs of pee.

This comes from Craig. Craig has a point. He says this. You were talking about golf on Wednesday's pre-show. I also dislike golf. But did you know that the whole point of golfing or playing golf is to play the least amount of golf? It's true. I find that interesting, says Craig.

Yeah, you're aiming for the least amount of strokes. That's right. Yeah. Get in there and get out as soon as you can. Exactly. It totally is. What's the quickest way we can get around? How about if we have a little car that we could drive around?

That'll help hurry it up. Yeah, yeah. Oh, man, that walk to the next ball. I know it's exercise, but can we do that any faster? Well, it's a good little car. Maybe that's why I like video games because they just jump to it. They don't, there's not even the car. You're just on the next hole.

Should we break for something to drink or lunch in between? I know. Let's just have a car that break. brings you food while you're playing the game. Oh, okay, let's do that too. Yeah. That's so true, Craig. It's warp zone.

Right. It's a warp pipe. When I play, like in Mario Golf, the latest one, instead of, so when you, like, you know, you drive the ball and you're maybe halfway to the hole, the characters run at, like, flash speed to the ball. Like over the hills and stuff. So Mario's just, like, hauling ass to get to the thing. And it takes no time at all.

And it makes me go, man, if that was real life, I'd realize. golf all the time. Too damn funny. Yeah, for sure. Thank you, Craig. Keep those emails and text coming. Go to frogpants.com slash TMS for all the info. We got to Coverville today right after TMS.

We do. Yes. Celebrating a concert that took place about 40 years ago, beginning of August, 1986. Scott, do you have any guesses this was the last concert by this band? I'm going to guess it was 86, you say? 86. this isn't something like this one wasn't like we are the world or something like that it's not but it was um 86

it wasn't too far after live give me a give me a hand about the rock and roll like classic rock band that um uh you know new york dolls uh is not this is band called queen oh their last show really uh yeah august uh 1986 at nebworth um and it's funny there were all these things that the band said like you know there's no way you can predict that that Freddie Mercury is going to die a couple years later that the band is, you know, just not going to be able to tour anymore. But there was some statements during the show that the band made. Like, who'd want to end something like this? Freddie Mercury said.

Look at all these people, 120,000 people in this audience. One person died. And it's a story, like, I'll paraphrase it down. But basically, somebody climbed up one of the light towers. Oh. And then they fell. Oh, geez. But they landed on somebody else.

And that person didn't die, but they got mad, and they stabbed the person that landed on them. Oh, shit. Like, every part of that story thinking, oh, that's how we die. Oh, that's how somebody died. Somebody landed on them. No, there was a third way. How did he get in there with a knife? How'd that happen?

I don't know. Yeah. Fan climbed a lighting tower to get a barrier. You fell onto someone who was none too pleased and subsequently stabbed them. And then the ambulance was called, but the crowd was so big. The EMTs couldn't get to. the person quick enough. But also, a baby was born in the audience at some point during the evening, too. So it was, you know, a net zero game. Sure. Humanity, it neutralized itself. Sure. He finds a way.

Right. But, uh, that's crazy. So, uh, the band did 22 songs. I'm going to play 17 covers of those songs on Coverville today. Right after TMS, just basically starting up as soon as we wrap up here. So all your favorites, everything you'd want to hear, Radio Gaga. I want to break. free bohemian rhapsody uh all that stuff great covers and uh folks like young blood and um uh hell hell a scene first two eleven uh willie nelson karen o um really nelson wow yeah yeah what's he do just curious what's his he uh brian setz orchestra uh he uh does a duet with karen o from the yay yay yeas they do a cover of under pressure What? Yeah.

All right. You know what? Coverville is going to be a banger today. And if you're in the chat, we're going to live rate it. So you guys will just go right over there and watch it happen in real time. Right. Damn right. Awesome. Check that out.

Also today at 1 p.m. core right here on the channel, frogpants.com slash TV. Or no. Frogpants. That's what I meant to say. Yeah. Isn't that what you said? I thought that's what you said. I don't know what I did.

Did you not say Popeye? Popeye? Did you say Popeye? I think I said Frogpants.com slash TV. Oh, you might have. Very wrong. Don't say that. Don't be doing that.

But we'd love to have you for that as well. Come join Bo and John and I. Big day full of content, so check it out. That's going to do it. We should play a song. Get out here. Yeah. Oh, real quick. Sorry, TMS Friday tomorrow. Oh, play date.

Play date, exactly. 9 to 11. We're playing jackbox. Get in here and have your brain tested. We're all going to keep ourselves from being dementia patients one day. This is Alzheimery. Yeah, start charging.

your Apple pencils now. Yeah, get in here. It's going to be fun. And play, draw it plus now on Apple Arcade, which is a really good primer, really good practice for Drawful. I downloaded that yesterday. I'm excited to give that a... Oh, it's so much fun.

That swing. I remember the Freemium one, but I don't know if I ever played it. I just remember it existing. I remember it existing, too, and I never played the Freemium one because it was like, I don't want ads between everything that I draw. No, this one flies quickly, so... Nice. I'd be checking that out.

It's very, very good. All right. This request comes from Boris the cat. Might be the first cat request we've ever gotten. I don't know. Some of them might not self-declare. But Boris the cat says, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, per, per. Oh, it needs to be in human. Dear cover human, I'd like to request a song for my human's birthday. They've done an acceptable job of keeping my food bowl full, cleaning my litter box,

and providing premium sunbeam locations. As a reward, I suppose they deserve a birthday song. please play it immediately, then remind them it's almost cuddle time. Signed, Boris, is it too early for a fish sandwich? I mean, no, I'll go ahead and play you one, in fact, right here. How about this one, right here? I can definitely see. No, this one.

Hey, too are I getting a fish sandwich. There you go. There you go. Very good. Boris says, Boris says, Human likes electronic music, but I like songs about cats. Well, I think I can appease both sides of the equation. at least maybe not full electronica but how about folk tronica this is a band that's actually refers to themselves as folk tronica they're called sap but it's spelled p sappp there's a whole

extra p on both ends than you might need to say sap you've heard them on gray's anatomy you've heard them on the oc this is their cover of the classic uh song from uh is it the aristocats i think or is it from or a lady in the tramp I can't remember which one this is. It's called Everybody Wants to be a cat. Aristocats, I think. Yeah, aristocrats.

Oh, awesome. The aristocrats. No, different thing. Here is Sapp from Rewind 5 and everybody wants to be a cat. Everybody wants to be a cat. Because the cat's the only cat who knows where it's

side everybody's picking up on that feline beat because everything else is obsolete now a square with a home makes you wish you weren't born every time it's with a square in the act he can set music back to the caveman days the birds who try to sing but a cat's the only cat who knows how to swing who wants to To dig your longer You got stuff like that When everybody wants to be This has been a Frogpants production Find all our shows at Frogpants.com

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