(dramatic upbeat music)
- You know why we're here.
- This is it.
- Tommy Edison.
- So you have any doubts or reservations,
now's the time to say so.
- I'm sorry I didn't get the name.
- The Tommy Edison experience
- Hello Tommy Edison's been blind.
- I'm a blind man I have
been blind since birth.
- Since birth.
- "Tommy Edison Experience".
- How does it operate?
- Very simply,
he describes what being blind is like.
- That's right.
- If you've got a problem.
- What's you're name?
- You bring it to him.
- Tommy Edison.
- He'll solve.
- That's you want, the truth.
- You just might get.
- Oh, yeah.
- Okay?
- Is the only way to fly.
- Buckle yourself in
get ready.
- All right.
Now, you ready chief?
- Well, here it is.
- In Hollywood.
- Give me your hand.
- This is already fun,
isn't it?
- Yes.
- So repeat after me.
- Tommy Edison.
The "Tommy Edison Experience".
- I've been waiting so long to say this.
Hey, how the heck are you?
It's good to have you here
thanks for popping along here
and checking out episode
number seven of the podcast.
It's gonna be a good one today
we're gonna have a nice time
We got lots of fun stuff planned
the great Ben Churchill, is with me here.
- How you doing sir?
- I'm great thank you.
Just having fun living the dream, right?
Just having a good time
and trying to stay out
of trouble and all that stuff.
The regular, you're doing
okay, everything good?
Everything good at Ben Churchill world?
- Just fine, I think we have quite a show
ahead of us here.
- You think so?
- Got alotta stuff.
- All right.
Well, then, what are we waiting for?
Let's get started.
- You wanna go?
- Yeah, come on.
- Let's start right out.
- Right out.
- Hey, what happened?
(laughs)
- What's did happened?
- What did happen Tommy?
- What's going on?
What's happening?
Well, I'll tell you
what, one of the things
that's been interesting
that's been happening
since March 23rd I guess has been going on
is this eight o'clock thing.
- Yeah you sent me this audio file.
Is this what this is?
- Yeah.
This is what this is.
So what what I did was as I went outside
and just recorded, so at eight o'clock
what you do is this thing for
the frontline workers, right?
And everybody makes noise
and hoots and hollers
and bangs drums and all kinds of stuff.
And it goes on every single
night at eight o'clock
rain or shine whatever's
going on, this happens.
- This audio.
- And it's fascinating.
- Goes on for like,
this clip is like 90 seconds.
- Yeah.
(people drum and shouts)
Now look, you can hear it
sort of intensifying, right?
People get more into
it, jeering and things.
If we got drums--
- This is outside
your home?
- Yes, right yeah,
I just walk out the front door
and this is what I hear.
- So I was over there once and heard this
and had no idea, I was shocked
to hear all this noise.
- Ben was like, "Oh, excuse
me, get out of my way."
Sorry.
Yeah, but you were like, what is going on?
And I told you the story and you're like,
"No kidding you have every
second, listen to that."
Every night at eight
o'clock, ain't that cool?
- So this since end of March.
- Yep.
- I see.
- You feel that love man does that?
Right, you got that or
sometimes a police siren
but it's spectacular, it's wonderful.
It's a great thing that happens everyday.
Like it doesn't happen in
your neighborhood, right?
- No I never hear this
that's why I was shocked
when I was over there and it happens.
(laughs)
Yeah.
- Look, it's still goin.
- No it's great they're doing it
this doesn't annoy you though ever?
- No what am I gonna do?
Myself being a frontline worker as.
(laughs)
- You appreciate the love.
- I do.
I'll often say at the end
it, "Good night everybody."
and everybody goes good night.
It makes me smile.
(laughs)
- Well thank you for sharing that.
- Yeah, that's a little bit of the fun
that goes on around
the Edison's every day.
- At eight clock every
night you hear that.
- Every single night.
Yeah, rain or shine, no matter what.
Even with thunderstorms,
it doesn't matter.
They don't really have
thunderstorms too often here
but if there was or were,
you'd hear every single night.
- When I heard it I was in the bathroom
but it started from, so I heard
that the building next door
start, but they started
with happy birthday.
- Oh, no kidding.
- And it turned into this giant thing,
So for me that was---
- You thought that was everybody loving
this person for their birthday.
- Exactly.
(laughs)
Exactly, so strange.
- That'd be like, for one of our birthdays
that we elicit that kind of response.
- Right, you'd hope so.
- I wish, someday maybe,
someday, when I grow up.
- So hey, that intro we used.
- Yeah.
- That voice.
- Hey, what happened?
- Yeah.
- Fred Willard.
- The great Fred, who
we just lost recently.
- Right.
- He was a legend.
He was absolute, one of
my favorite funny people.
His timing, he had the
greatest comic timing.
I mean, one of the best of all time.
He could do a straight line like crazy
and just kill you, just make...
He's one of those people that
could read the phone book
and make you laugh.
- Yes.
- You know what I mean?
- What happened?
- That's him from what is that?
"Mighty Wind", right?
- It's "Mighty Wind".
- I don't think so.
(laughs)
- I mean, he's done so much.
- He's done so much.
And he's been in all
those films and stuff.
And the first place I ever saw
him was a million years ago
on the old "Fernwood 2 Night",
which is a Mary Hartman,
Mary Hartman spin off,
with Martin Mullen and him.
- Which?
- Doing a make believe talk show.
- Right.
- A pretend talk show with fake gas actors
who played these natty gas,
who did these weird things and stuff.
And a real audience and
real band and stuff,
Happy Kyne and the Mirth Makers.
It was a great Frank Duval, I
think, playing the accordion.
- What year is this?
- 75, six, maybe somewhere in there?
Yeah, it's old school.
Tom Waits, used to be on that show a lot.
Well, not a lot, but he'd been on a couple
of times, for sure.
- Yeah.
I saw some clips.
- Oh, yeah, man, and they were wonderful
and they had great chemistry
and it was all written out pretty much
but, it was a crazy natty show.
If you ever get a chance to watch it,
It's very strange, but it's wonderful.
- Mark Hamill is a strange
hosts on that show.
- Yeah, he's the strange host on that.
He's a weird character but it works.
I mean and that's like the
first fake talk show, right?
It's way before like
the Larry Sanders Show
and things of that nature.
So this is, I don't
know whose idea it was,
who thought of it, but it was genius.
It was a very cool show.
And then they started
to do "America Tonight".
And they'd bring out one real guest
and then two fictional ones.
But yeah, the great Fred Willard, man.
I loved him.
He's an absolute legend.
- Hey, what happened?
- What happened?
- Another thing I saw
in pop culture lately,
this I wanted to ask you about.
- All right, sir.
- 'Cause it kind of ties
in with broadcasting
so I thought it'd be kinda,
this is a weird, this.
(laughs)
Let's play along for a
moment, bare with me on it.
- Play it.
- David Lynch, the great director,
film director, writer, producer.
- Yep.
- "Twin Peaks", right?
- "Twin Peaks", absolutely.
- Yeah, and
a bunch of films.
He's doing his weather reports
on his YouTube channel.
Have you heard about this at all?
- No.
He's doing the weather?
- Yeah, on his YouTube channel starting on
May, 11th.
- Okay.
- He's been doing one every day.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
I'm gonna stop talking and just play it.
- Good morning, it's May, 14th, 2020
and it's a Thursday.
Here in LA, beautiful blue skies.
One or two little clouds floating by.
- Is it great?
- Is wonderful.
- Around 61, 62 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Give me the Celsius.
- 16 degrees Celsius.
- Good boy, that's my man.
- Have wonderful day.
- Thank you.
- And that's all it is,
just one of those every day.
(laughs)
- Yeah, again.
- Good morning, it's May 19th, 2020.
And it's a Tuesday, here
in LA things are drying out
after the rain yesterday.
(laughs)
Thanks to evaporation, we got blue skies,
several white puffy clouds
and a lot of golden sunshine.
- He's all the right words.
- That's terrific.
He's really, he's all DJ isn't he?
He needs to talk up a record.
(laughs)
- He did this about over 10 years ago.
- Stop.
- Here's one from 2009.
- Okay.
- Good morning it's March 12th, 2009
and it's a Thursday.
Here in LA, mostly blue skies,
some white clouds floating by.
- And he's like turning
to look too, he's like
"And over here, we got."
I mean, you can hear him
too that's marvelous.
That's great.
You know what else I like the way he says
the of days the week, it's Thursday.
(laughs)
Makes me smile every time.
Casey Kasem, said 'em
like that, tons of people,
hosts and television presenters and things
in this country anyway,
it's Thursday, Tuesday.
- You're actually right.
He's turning up, looking out the window.
- Yeah, just making sure.
Yeah, I was gonna say that but
I'm just making sure for you,
(laughs)
Right?
You can hear him turn, right?
- Yeah, no, you can hear it.
- Yeah.
- Yes, interestingly enough,
this is a visual thing,
but he's in the exact
same office and setup.
It just there's a little
bit but like the same phone
is next to him.
- That's great.
- Drawers behind him.
- Ah, time stands still.
- No real reason for it as far as we know,
I mean, you have to assume
there is, same with Lynch.
- Yeah, that's great.
I like that, see I like him even more now.
I got to start subscribing to this.
I need this every morning.
- Have you seen any of his films?
Like, "Blue Velvet", the early stuff?
- I saw "Blue Velvet" a million years ago.
I couldn't tell you anything about it.
I'm sure it was I don't know.
But it was 1000 years ago.
I remember some of the great
lines and things like that.
But, I'd like to see
it from front to back.
"Twin Peaks", I tried
to watch on television
but it was way too visual for me.
And this is, years and years
before describe video and things.
So, no I really haven't
seen much of his work.
- Yeah is pretty cool, "Lost Highway"
you should try that.
- Yeah, okay.
- 1997.
- Okay, all right.
- Yeah, for something
that's a little easier
to follow than some of his other work.
- Yeah.
- Just for anybody.
- Yep.
Now could they teach him to
like to work the chroma key
and stuff and like do TV
I'd love to see him be a TV weatherman.
That'd be great out here.
- That'll be a great gig.
- Oh, just like for a week,
like, tonight on news for
David Lynch on the weather,
just for a goof and ratings in November
or whatever, you could do that.
You're welcome.
If you do this, then I want a piece, okay?
Thank you.
- No problem.
- Let me read something.
That someone said once.
(laughs) That sounds like some mail.
- Right.
- Where's this from?
- This is from Jason, looking for advice.
- All right.
- Off the email podcast at TommyEdison.com
- Nice, I like the way you
get that in there, doctor.
- How do you manage
yourself around unknown
public washrooms?
Reason I ask, is because I'm legally blind
and this is one of my biggest challenges.
- I'll tell you.
- Jason.
And it's a wonderful
question and I'll tell you
a little story and I'll
do this very briefly
but, I would always find
like, where I needed to go,
Like the stall or whatever
and use the back of my
hands to get around, right?
So I'm not touching anything
and I could sort of pull the
door with one finger and stuff
and then afterwards, I never figured out
until recently that I
should probably look first
before my hands are wet to find
where the soap is first,
where the paper towels are,
and those stupid verb washes hands first
and they go Geez, I wonder
where everything is.
So, (laughing) 'cause you
might do the important stuff
and then like oh, shoot, I forgot,
yeah, I'm gonna need this.
So, that's the way to (laughs)
- Check it all out.
- Yeah, just check it all out first
and then wash your hands then so you know
where the garbage is and stuff
and it got all squared away
and made that, you're all ready to go.
Because, man doing it
with my hands is awful
because then you gotta wash it again.
- How does it work when
you walk into a large one
with many stalls or just
there'll be other people
in the room with you.
- That's great too.
That's, it's always fantastic.
People are generally pretty
like an airport and stuff
people are pretty helpful.
A lot of times you can
sort of tell if one's open
or closed.
If you're walking down
the whole thing is stalls
I can feel if the doors slightly ajar
then it's probably empty and now I just
stick my cane in first and just make sure
and then walk on in,
close the thing behind me
and off we go and then find the sinks
and usually people help you with that too.
Or you can just listen for
the sound of people washing
their hands with blow dryers and stuff
and that'll take you right
where you need to go as well.
You do all the mapping, wash your hands,
back the on and off you go.
- If somebody saw a
blind guy in the bathroom
- Uh huh.
- Male or Female
- Way to go.
(laughing)
- Now what?
- Just being funny, come on.
- What do I say, how do I offer help?
You all right?
You need a hand?
You good?
- Is there a way to like to word it.
I felt like I've heard you
shouldn't say, "Do you need."
It's more like
would you like assistance?
- Can I give you--
Yes, yep, was that a little ham!
- Did does that make a difference?
- Now I don't think so at that time,
I'm sort of going boy a
little help might be great,
and if somebody is around
and they're just, other,
and again, people, some
people know exactly
what to do when others don't, right?
And it's not that people don't,
they just don't know what to do here
and they push me and I'm like,
no, no, I'll just hold on to you.
I'd rather have you in front.
It's just the little things.
- Any nightmares in public restrooms
that you can share?
- No.
- Nothing graphic
obviously, I just finding like,
just not going too well.
- No.
- Concerts must be awful.
- Concerts are horrible
but that's saying I don't
go to by myself.
Like, I'd go with somebody.
I'd have to or like at a sporting event
or some large thing like that.
Yeah, I would need help
with that 'cause that would
just be intimidating.
And then plus I'd have to
find my way back to my seat.
You know what I mean?
Unless we were like row six
and the bathroom was
right behind the thing
and I could just go, like
it wasn't easy path, right?
And sometimes things, they
work out just that way.
You're at a restaurant and literally
the bathrooms like right
across the way, it's perfect.
Things like that.
So, sometimes life works out.
But the back of your
hands is a great trick.
It really is for banisters as well.
Any of that kind of
stuff, just try and use
the back of your hands.
It's great and it keeps
the front end hands good
for, if you need anything else.
- Beautiful, thank you.
- No, thank you, it's a
great question, Jason.
I appreciate it, thank you so much.
I'm gonna guess and say this is Twitter.
- Exactly.
- I love that.
That it's got little bird and everything.
- Little Twitter sounder.
- @shooting Bambi.
- Okay.
- Yeah, that wasn't planned.
Hannah, Hannah wants to know,
what are table manners to you?
She says table manners are mostly visual.
Elbows off table, use correct cutlery.
Don't eat with your mouth
open, because it looks awful.
And so on.
- And it sounds awful, too.
- So what are table manners to you?
Is it important?
And where where did you learn it?
So I'm from a family of
four, there's four of us.
I have three sisters and me.
And so, when you're in a family like that
and you know the difference,
my older sister is two years older than me
and my little sister is two
years younger than me, right?
So it's all nice and tight and 1-2-3.
If people sort of teach you things
by kind of busting their
chops and stuff like that,
in order to make "Get
you elbows off the table,
"what's the matter with you,
that kind of thing, "Close
your mouth when you eat."
That's sort of just the
way you tease each other.
But then when I went to high school,
so I went to boarding school and I was 15.
And that's where I learned
about cutlery in the right
order things you eat, the
smallest, from outside in.
That's how you use cutlery
right from the spoons,
are from outside in and the
forks are outside in, always.
At least I'm pretty, that's
what I was always taught
that somebody's gonna
be like, "You're wrong."
But yeah, it was always outside in.
And I learned because we had
like soup spoons and stuff.
And like it was fancy meals at this school
I went to for like one year.
But that was where I
learned a lot of that stuff.
That was it.
So my family and then it
sort of got refined at school
with strangers and stuff
and then, people tell you
what you're not doing right.
But you learn that way too.
- So, is it important to you
that other people maintain?
- Yes.
- Like which ones stand out to you
when they are not followed?
- Talking with their mouth
full, you know what I mean?
With so much of it that you
can't even understand them.
- It actually does sound gross.
- Yeah, it does, it's nasty.
Or when people swallow
really loudly and stuff
but that's not really a manners thing
that's just a sort of a people thing.
I guess talking with your mouthful,
to speak, your mouth open
while you're eating and stuff
is not terribly nice to listen to.
That kind of stuff.
Elbows on the table, I don't really mind.
(laughing)
- Yeah, right I mean, let's see what else.
What other manners at the table?
- Put your napkin on your
lap and all that kind
of stuff and just
- You do that.
- Go all the time.
That's the first thing I do.
- Do you ever stick it,
up on, between, your collar?
- In the front of my shirt?
Yo, I never do that.
No, wear like a bib, no I will
just put it on my lap though.
- Get ready to have a
big Cape Cod lobster.
- Ah, see, but I don't eat
that 'cause it's too messy
and all the butter and stuff
I'm not gonna eat that.
- Would eat lobster, if
it was without all the--
- I'd have to try it.
I honestly, I haven't
tried it in 100 years
but, people say it's
delicious and everything
but I don't know, man, all that butter.
I haven't had a lot of
butter in a very long time.
So, I don't even know if
I can handle it anymore.
Yeah, maybe a nice lobster roll.
- Yeah, we got to try some time.
- All right.
- Find out.
- Listen, next time, back east,
all right?
- Beautiful.
- 'Cause you can't get them here, can you?
- Yeah, I know there is a place.
Oh yeah, there's a great place in town.
- Stop, all right.
- All right.
- Look at you.
- Give it a shot.
- Learning things while
we go here everybody.
- Sound.
- Sound.
- Guess what that means?
I'm gonna guess that we're
gonna hear something.
- Let me try this one.
- Okay.
- Do you hear it?
- Sound.
- (laughs) I like that, that's good.
See that's got the impact, right?
It got the big hit on the end and stuff.
Trails away and now we talk.
So we're going to hear
something what do you have?
- Well because the question
came up from Mavis LaRue.
- Okay, I love that name by the way.
- Has a serious question, on YouTube.
Do blind people have descriptive
movies for adults only?
- For adults only?
- You know, adult films?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
♪ Brown chicken brown cow ♪
like that?
That's what you mean, right?
- That's right.
Are there, cause like, for regular films,
the big blockbusters
and stuff, a lot of them
have descriptive video
describing that right?
- Exactly right, different
scenes and stuff.
Scenes that aren't talked
about or mood changes
or scenery changes or
different kinds of things.
Whether or not it's a dream
or somebody's waking up
or asleep, they describe
many different things for you
to kind of fill in the holes.
But adult film?
I've heard about this, I've
never actually checked it out.
- Well, I saw this question ahead of time.
- Yes.
- And I did some research.
- Oh, stop.
Oh, come on, you got some?
- You have not heard these clips.
No, I've never no, no, no, no.
- Here we go, let's see how this goes.
- Oh stop, all right.
- We're going, we're pushing.
- Okay, so this is gonna be a movie
for adults, audio described.
- Audio described, yep,
this is audio description
from a film for adults.
- Okey doke.
- And, there you go.
- Okay.
- So get an idea.
- Mom and dad out of the room.
- This does exist.
- What a crazy thing,
all right.
- This is what
it sounds like.
- All right.
- The film opens with the silhouette
of a notably tiny woman seen
through a white screen doorway.
You can also see the
silhouette of a coniferous tree
beside her.
- A what?
- So it looks like she
is perhaps just outside
of an apartment, doing a dance for us.
She moves very slowly and
sensually, twirling around.
And sometimes just striking
a pose against the post
of the.
- Yeah.
- Wow, okay, we got the idea.
- Door.
- Door.
- Oh,(laughs) see, she
had a mouth full of food.
It's a call back, everybody.
- So there you go,
innocent.
- That's very innocent.
Yeah, it's interesting,
it gives you some detail.
Because in that part of the film,
there's nothing going on, right?
It's just music.
So as a blind person, you have
no idea sitting there going.
♪ Lalalalala, ♪
Oh, pretty music, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And so this is great.
- Okay, here's, here's another clip.
- Okay.
- Further into
the story.
- And now we see she's stepping onto a bed
where a young man lies on his
stomach sleeping peacefully.
He's put his head back
down and is resting again.
The camera pans up her body again.
- Okay.
- Listen to the music.
- Get ready.
- Something's gonna happen.
She's not for everybody.
- Okay.
- When the camera pans back down,
we see her pull the crotch
of her body suit to one side,
revealing a perfectly
hairless waxed (beeps)
that she lowered.
- Holy mackerely
- Yeah.
- Wow.
- Should I have censored
more of that I'm not sure.
- Nah I dunno,
I think we're all right.
- Thinking radio.
- Yeah, I think we're good.
- His face, we get really
clear frontal shots
of his (beeps)
- Wow.
- Digging in and out
of her (beeps)
- Holy moly,
- And around
her (beeps)
- Oh, Jesus.
- She gently strokes his chin,
while he (beeps) her out.
- (laughing) Oh boy.
- Yeah.
- See.
That takes me out of it I think, 'cause,
the way she's describing
it, she sounds so formal.
And so, sort of proper,
you know what I mean?
And then she's talking about this stuff.
Doesn't she sound fancy to you?
- Yeah, well, trynna be professional.
- Oh yeah, being a real pro, absolutely.
But she's, you know, I
feel like she's fancy.
- Should I do the third clip?
- That was, holy mackerel,
stop it, there's more?
- I hope this isn't gonna get.
- Oh well.
- There we go.
- It's been fun.
- With her
right hand on his (beeps)
and her left hand gripping his (beeps).
She massages his---
- So just, starts out nice.
- (beeps) up and down as she (beeps)
on the (beeps).
- So it does, I did that
just so you could see
how far it goes because
it doesn't stay innocent.
- And she's a pro, she's
a champion, I love her,
She's great.
Wow.
- Professional actors.
- That's naughty, man.
- It really exist.
So I think the idea though is basically,
it's like talking dirty.
- Well, yeah.
- take the beeps out,
take the censorship out.
It's a little more interesting.
- It's a little more
interesting indeed, holy, wow.
And it's funny all beeped up like that.
- So there you go.
- Great pod.
- Just lost 1000 subscribers.
- Super, Chat.
- The Super Chat, all right.
So, what's this from the
the last episode right?
From episode 6?
- Oh yeah, right 'cause we've premiered
the last episode and there
are a handful of Super Chats.
Thank you, everybody.
- Yeah, those are really nice
because those help us to just
to keep the channel going.
Except, it also helps us
with the closed captioning
and we appreciate that.
So, if you can, when you
wanna help support the show,
that would be a nice way to do
so, if that's within your
purview or whatever it is,
we would love it and thank
you so much for that.
- [Electronic Voice] Thank you very much.
- There you go, see?
Thank you.
- Benjamin B,
he asks, have you ever watched
those videos where colorblind
people get the glasses
to allow them to see more colors?
I'd be interested to hear your reaction.
Have you ever checked out those videos?
- Yeah, I've seen, it was years ago
when those things first
started to pop right.
When we first started
to mess with YouTube,
I think is when like one of the first ones
of those I'd ever heard of anyway,
- I think H3 did a parody of one.
- Yeah.
- That's how I heard about it.
- Yeah, they're they're sweet.
They're sweet, but I'm
like, good for you (laughs).
Is that awful?
- No, I watched one
when I saw this question
and I was like, this
kind of rubs in the idea
that you just can't see.
- Yeah, it's I don't know,
it's sort of I'm not inspired.
- Okay, next question, snow and ice,
- Snow and ice
- Often does Super Chats
thank you very much.
- Yeah, I appreciate,
you're a big supporter.
I appreciate you.
- I love your
pizza making video.
That was with Franco's pizza.
What's your favorite kind of pizza, Tommy?
- I am so boring when it comes to pizza,
it's not even funny.
I just like playing, I really do.
But I like see, I have to have, forgive me
but, move to California here,
the pizza is horrible here.
It's not good.
I mean, they can't seem
to make it crispy here.
Sorry, and I don't mean to be disparaging,
but I'm an East Coast
guy, you know what I mean?
And I'm used to that sort of Brooklyn,
that Connecticut, Long
Island, Jersey pizza.
And I love it.
So I'd like a real thin crust
and just apply a nice sauce.
Franco makes great pizza.
I can't wait to have one of
those, next time I go back.
He's in a new location too.
But I'll take an, whatever I gotta do,
I gotta have some Franco's, a square.
A big Sicilian.
Oh, yes, please.
Yeah, and funny enough, I
didn't start eating pizza
till I was like 24 years old.
23, 24 years old, I did
not eat it as a child.
Yeah, and I don't like
cheese, but I find that
I can eat it on pizza.
And that's the only place
I can sort of tolerate it.
So there you go.
- Making me hungry.
- I know me too.
We need to--
- [Electronic Voice] Super, Super Chat.
- More Super Chat from Episode Six.
- This is from Tyson.
- Okay.
Binge watching your old channel helped me
to beat depression.
Your upbeat attitude,
friendly nature and positivity
is infectious and helped me
to get a better perspective
on life.
I can never thank you enough, much love.
There you go.
- Ah, that's lovely.
Thank you for that.
That always brightens my day.
That's like sunshine.
♪ Thanks, thanks, so much ♪
A thank you, jingle everybody.
See, we went big, we went big.
- Somebody got a production budget.
- Somebody's got a production budget,
Somebody's getting fancy.
- What else do we have?
What do you got there, doc,
- Let's see what else.
- What else?
- What's your favorite animal based on
the sound it makes?
- Probably,
well, birds, I mean,
because birds are, they fly.
So they're way up in the sky and things.
A whole bunch of them
together sounds cool.
And there are birds that just one of them
it's like, wow, and they
make these cool sounds,
They make all different kinds of noises.
It's different birds make difference.
I'm fascinated by them.
I'm scared of them.
Like if one flew into my
house, I'd be freaking out.
But, I like to listen to 'em.
- We had some birds outside here today.
- Yeah, we did a couple little birds.
I think they're finally going to sleep.
They're staying up to try make the podcast
it's birds eat free night too.
So too bad you missed.
- Is there a specific
kind of bird you like?
- I like all those big exotic birds.
Like the parrots and stuff and the.
I'm tryna think of some of the Australian
like kookaburra, right?
- I remember you told me about,
when you went to Australia.
- Yes, that blew my mind honestly.
So walking out of the airport
in Melbourne, Australia,
I could not believe my ears and my nose.
The smell was breathtaking.
It was just, I didn't know
what it was for the whole time
I was there and I found out the last day
that it was Eucalyptus and
you could smell it everywhere
and it was wonderful.
And the birds sounded like stuff
you've only ever heard in
television or movies, honestly.
And to hear those sounds in real life,
were just incredible.
- I remember you mentioned that
so I grabbed some clips.
- Okay cool.
- Called the lear or a liar.
- The lyebird is the greatest,
listen to this thing.
- Here we go, so it
actually hears and mimics.
- It mimics all kinds of sounds
(chirping)
- That's a bird.
- Yep.
(chirping)
- Playing the video game.
- The video game.
- So there you go.
- How'd they do that?
- I just turned it up around.
(chirping)
- Camera.
(chirping)
Look at all the noises, how cool is that?
- One more.
(machine whining)
- Construction
- Couple of worker.
- He is a great worker.
- Get some stuff done.
- Oh my god, that is really cool.
- I remember you mentioning that.
- Birds are so interesting to me.
We had a parrot once as a kid
my mom always wanted one too.
We had a parrot for a little while.
He's just used to make
noise on the vacuum was on
that was practically the time he talked.
He liked it noisy.
- So I saw this question come up
and it made me think
about playing some sounds.
Would you be up for trying to identify--
- Sure.
- Some random animals
if I played a sound for you.
- Animal noises?
Yeah, yeah, okay.
Yeah, lets go.
- Animal noises,
let's see if you can do it.
- Okay.
- Here, I'll give you an intro too.
- [Electronic Voice] What's that sound?
- Here's your first one, Tommy.
- Okay.
- What is that?
- What?
- I've hit clues here too.
Is this one thing making all those sounds?
- Yep.
- That's got to be.
What a crazy thing.
That's got to be some
kind of, I feel like it's
a water animal.
- Yeah, well, close.
- Is that a bird?
- Native to only the
United States and China,
no, not a bird.
- Not a bird, okay.
Native to the US and China only.
- They have them in Florida.
- Pelican?
- No.
That's an alligator.
- That's oh, wow.
(alligator hissing)
So, what's that noise?
- We started with, its just hissing,
We started with a really hard one.
Let's try another one.
- Okay.
(bird chirping)
- That's a bird but I dunno what kind.
- Its a robin.
- That's a robin, great.
- Yeah, let's try one
of these crazier ones.
- Okay.
(growling)
- What is that?
It doesn't sound happy.
Is that like a sea lion?
- No.
It sounds so big, wow.
- Hippo?
- Nope.
- I feel like it's a big thing though.
- That's a camel.
- That's a camel.
(camel growls)
- Wow, right?
Boy, if that thing could talk,
I think it's really
human sounding isn't it?
- Yeah.
- It sounds very human.
- There we go.
(chirping)
all up in that microphone
that guy's going, wow.
- What is that?
- What is that?
I feel like it's some kind of a bird.
- No, that's incorrect.
- No incorrect.
- That's a little squawky thing.
- It loves garbage and rabies.
- A raccoon?
- There you go.
Wow, that's a noisy raccoon mix.
I've only ever heard of it fights,
like in Toronto, you hear the
raccoon fights on the street,
but they don't make noise like that.
- Here you go.
(animal trilling)
- I've heard that but I
don't know what that one is.
- Exactly, that's what
you hear that movie.
- Yeah, you hear it in
movies all the time.
I've heard that a million times.
And that exact sound
effect too, by the way.
That's a water animal, like not a dolphin,
but like maybe a porpoise
or some weird thing.
- Its a meadowlark.
That's a meadowlark,
so that's a bird then.
- It's a bird.
- Yeah, okay?
- That's right Tommy.
- I'm too good with these.
These are fun.
- Are they really now?
- Well they're just weird.
Some of these noise
I've never heard before.
Like (buzzing).
It sounds like a balloon
that is loosing air.
- That's good.
- Thank you
That's a balloon, losing
air, oh what is that?
Oh, I wouldn't want one is a pet.
- For $10,000, what is that?
- Is that my career?
(bell chiming)
Two in a row.
(whining)
- Is that your
impression of it
- That's my impression of it.
- And I feel like this
thing is moving around too.
I am losing the 10 grand
amount, I got nothing.
- No guess?
- It's not.
(buzzing)
That's not a humming bird, is it?
- No.
- Humming bird is more (blows)
because it's just so quick.
I don't know.
- That's a mosquito.
- That's a terrible mosquito,
I don't like that one.
- Wow.
- I don't like that
mosquito, that one stinks.
That's recorded very well,
but its recorded too well
You have to have the ambient
noise around it, right?
So you can hear the real buzz sound of it.
This mic's too old, don't you think?
Come on one more time, listen to me.
(buzzing)
Am I wrong in the comments?
- Is it one of those fake ones
from the 50?
- Yes, that's a garbage mosquito.
That's a terrible mosquito.
- Hanna Barbera?
- I don't know.
Even that it'd be like
Mel Blanc, just go bzzzt.
Go buy (mumbles)
- I get it.
- Hey, how about this?
- Oh, my friend, Gary Quest.
You hear that?
A bunch of cans you see,
because it's a can of questions.
The questions don't really
make noise, but the can does.
But I hold it up and
shake it for you like so,
so you can see that it's an
actual can, with an actual lid?
And oh my gosh, there are
actual questions in here loads
and loads and loads of them.
Ben is taking the liberty to
or taking the time rather to,
put these on little bits of
paper that are all folded up
just like this here.
Now open it up and hand it
to the great, Ben Churchill.
- Yeah, random questions
are fine.
- These are ones
that you guys have sent
in YouTube comments
and just all over the place
on social and everything.
So we just sort of put them together
now all sorts of questions.
You never know what you're
going to get in here.
- Even from the live chats.
- Yeah, I know.
- (mumbles) grandma, here we go.
Mick, Mickey Mick asks how
do blind people make lists?
If you don't, how do you remember things?
- That's great, I'm somebody
who's remembered things
my entire life because, I
couldn't write things out.
It would be too hard to make,
to a big piece of brown paper
and stuff and write it all down
and go through all the steps.
So I worked my memory,
like when I was a kid,
I knew everybody's phone number.
I still know tons of phone
numbers for people's kids.
All the old phone numbers
I ever had in every house I ever lived in
and I'd know the phone number for it.
But making a list for the market
and stuff I just have to remember.
But now it's so much easier
because you do everything
on the web.
So, I could just throw
things in my shopping cart.
Come back in the morning
and look at it and go
"Oh, I forgot this punk punk punk."
And throw a couple more things in.
So, it's much easier now
than it was back in the day.
I'm somebody who just uses memory,
good to just use my
brain, just working it.
- Yeah, no, no tricks, though.
- No, no, no tricks at all.
- Putting things in
certain orders (mumbles),
- That's the only trick I
do is with phone numbers.
I'll say it to myself several times over
and over and over again,
so that I remember.
- You are good at remembering things
because I forget all the time.
- Yeah, so, that's kind of how I do it.
It's just necessity is the
mother of invention, right?
So, I needed to have a good memory
so I sort of trained myself
to have a good memory.
- Good question.
- Nice question, that's great.
Brilliant, thank you very much.
(police siren)
- That doesn't sound happy.
- You know what that means.
- What is that?
What is that?
Well, it's like an angry mob, right?
Getting broken up by the cops.
Here's a question coming from Twitter.
- Oh (laughs).
- This is from Brandon.
That church will be funny.
- @blinkmusicseven.
- Oh, okay.
How do you know you
don't, quote/unquote, see,
complete darkness, if you
don't understand fully
what darkness is.
If you shine a flashlight
directly into your eye,
can you tell?
Is there any difference?
It's so hard to comprehend, lol.
- Wow, yeah, it is.
It's a tough thing to
get your head around.
So I have light perception, right?
Where I can see light now
I've as I've gotten older
I've cataracts.
So it's taken a bit of that away, but,
I think I could see light
if you were to shine light
directly into my face.
Like if I took my
sunglasses off and stuff.
- Tommy, have you ever tried this?
When I was a kid in high
school, we did it once, I think.
Because the room that we used to (laughs)
when I was a sophomore in high school,
we're actually in the dead of winter
we're allowed to smoke indoors.
And then there's one little room
and so we're smoking cigarettes in there.
And kids were like, "If I flick
a lighter in front of you."
So we used to play that game and stuff
so, I could do it then so let's
see if I could still do it.
- Do doctors do this?
- Yes, doctors shine lights
in your eyes all the time.
But because they have to see right
or they wanna see the reaction
or I guess are natural
things that your eyes do.
The way they blink or move
or whatever, I don't know.
I haven't been to an
eye doctor in forever.
I know, I've (laughs)
- What happened?
That's probably it I was neglectful.
- Its great, so I'm curious.
So he says," So we, shine
a flashlight directly
into your eye?
Well, I do have a flashlight here.
- You do?
I saw this question, this is what's nice
about having these
questions ahead of time.
- All right, so wait, hold
on, let me take these off
because these are gonna
make it tough to play
with sunglasses on, right?
'Cause they take the light away.
Okay, let me just put these down here
and knock over my drink
and we'll be all right.
Okay.
All right, Ben's gonna
make it dark in here
so that I can play this game.
So again, he's gonna
shine light into my face
and we're going to actually see
if I can find it and get it.
- I just turned off the main light on you.
- Okay.
- So my flashlights
in your eye.
- Yeah.
- So, here we go.
I'm not gonna tell you
when it's on, you tell me
if its on.
- Let's see if
I can get it, let's see.
If I can, because I
sort of forget that one.
I have to pay real close attention here.
Make sure my mind isn't
playing tricks on me.
Go ahead.
- So right now is it on?
- Yes it is.
- Right now, is it on?
- No, no yes it is.
It's still on.
It's still there.
- How about now?
- No, this isn't working, I
don't think this is working.
- Okay.
- I think my mind is playing tricks on me.
I don't know.
- Let's try it.
- Okay, so it wasn't on.
- Okay.
- It was on the first time
and then I kept--
- And then you
kept off to the next couple, okay.
- Maybe I don't have this.
- Maybe this isn't powerful enough.
- Why, do you have brighter?
Oh, geez, he's got the
sun, ladies and gentlemen.
This show is awesome, thank
you so much, you're so good.
- Lets try.
Okay, there we go.
- I just put a lamp up in front of you,
- Okay.
- Without a shade.
- Without shade, to block it.
A lampshade on it, so, just
the bulb and LED, here we go.
- It's a white bulb.
- No, I don't think so.
So far no, do it again.
Give me another one?
No, I can't, I try, like
I'm trying too hard.
- What do you think you would see?
- What I expect to see
is just a steady stream
of actual light, right?
That are coming out but
somehow my like my head
and my eyes are playing tricks on me now.
And all I can see are like
these little kind of flashes
all the time.
I just get these little
bits of sort of brightness
I keep kinda happening.
It's like trying to hear something
and there's noise in the background.
That's exactly what I feel
like my eyes are doing,
right this very second.
Right now yes?
- If I were to know
if I were to turn if I
were to flashlight my eyes,
I'd have these impressions
left of little white dots.
- Yeah.
- So we did start with the flashlight
so you would have that I mean
so I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't
only your mind playing games.
- Oh, interesting, okay.
How about we try a different color?
- Oh, stop, really?
- While we're at it.
- You are something else.
Wow.
Churchill, podcasting
everybody, ask for it by name.
- Incorporated.
- Incorporated. (laughs)
Plug mail.
- Do you see anything?
- Yes.
- Do you see the difference?
- Now it is, yes.
- How is it different?
It's I don't know I can
just I can, I felt it there,
I just saw this light
come on for a second.
- It's a different kind of bulb.
It's got the little bright
little filament thing
and then whatever you call it,
- I would say the old
actual incandescent bulb.
- There you go.
So it's a very hot spot
right in the middle.
- Yeah.
- As opposed to the LED.
- Oh, yeah, sure, that makes
a difference too, doesn't it?
Because all the light that we used to play
with back in the old days was
only, there was no LED or LCD.
- Well we just didn't have it yet .
- Yeah.
- Nothing?
Yes, oh yes you did say yes, let's try.
- Yeah, I got that one.
- One more color.
One more, geez, how do you do this
- I have party bulbs.
- Is that what these are?
- I've had these for so many years.
- Stop that, and you use these at parties?
- Yeah, if you want a good trick at home.
- Yeah.
- I used to do this as a kid.
Change all the light bulbs in your house
to colored light bulbs,
- Really?
- Yeah, I might say a visual thing
but it completely changed.
You don't have to do anything else.
It just changes the whole vibe of them.
(Tommy laughing)
Just imagine what else you're (mumbles).
- You're great.
There you go how's this?
- Right there right?
- A little more to your right though.
- Yeah.
- Do get closer to it.
Is that do it?
- No, I don't know.
- What if right I versus left eye?
- I think that was
better, I think the rights
a little bit better at getting this.
The cataracts might not be as bad.
- So, if you move in closer,
do you notice any difference?
- No, I could just feel the heat.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- Sorry to push you.
- No.
- It feels weird asking these questions.
- Dude, stop it, this is fascinating.
Like, I'm good with it,
because I always thought
that I could, you know what I mean?
And I guess that's gone.
- I like this lighting, we should do this
for the whole show.
- It's a sad day in Edisonville, though.
My light perception stinks.
- Well that was great.
- That was cool though, that was fun,
see now I know for sure.
- Alright, turn the light back on.
- Okay.
- Put your glasses back on.
- I'm gonna put
my glasses back on
- Wow.
- I need my new look.
You like these?
- Are those new glasses?
- No, these are different.
I bought these in Florida
at the end of, 20.
- Oh, it was the same one.
- Yeah, it is the same ones.
These are my pro-auto glasses
if you're just listening.
(laughing) I can't help it.
I don't have very many fancy
things, you know what I mean?
So, I'll boast about one.
- All right, Tommy, it's time.
- What time?
- The game is on.
- Is everybody ready?
- Either you play.
- Let's play, let's go.
- Or you're toast.
- Oh my God, it's so tense, what?
What are the questions?
So what we have here, are
we solicited for questions
on episode number six.
Ben Churchill, has another can
which he's put before me now.
And that's the sound of all the questions
that have been asked.
- All the questions that
came in through email,
podcast.
- Email, podcast
at TommyEdison.com.
- Are in there and fold them up,
put them in there and
Tommy's going to pick one.
- I'm going to pick one now
and this person is going
to win, an exclusive,
Tommy Edison, prize pack.
I'm gonna dig in here with
my left hand this time.
You got a big ball,
they're all just so chunky.
Is that just one?
I'll just show this to you first.
- That's one.
- That's one and
its very chunky, I love it.
- Okay.
- Let's see what we have here
so there's a question again.
from Episode Six.
What's your name?
(laughing)
Something easy.
- Can the music stop please?
- I'm so tense though
I've just not feeling it.
- Okay, all right.
- Okay.
- Here we go, this is a
long one, but we will do
what we can.
- Okay.
- Huge fan of your show, been listening
and watching since your
early YouTube videos.
- Thank you, appreciate that.
- Was glad to see you back
with this podcast, right?
So what are they asking?
We use the word, I'll read
the whole email to you off air
because it's a long one but
I'll get this a question.
We use the word blinding,
so this is in response
to blind idioms.
- Oh, okay, perfect, wow.
- I'm from Cardiff in Wales.
- Oh, Cardiff, (speaks foreign
language) how's it going?
(speaks foreign language),
that's hello in Welsh.
- This is James Williams,
by the way.
- Hello James.
- So they're in the UK
and think they say think
Tom Jones surely passes.
- That's right, yeah.
There was a band called
The Automatic, from Wales.
Stereophonics are from Wales, yep.
- Anthony Hopkins.
- Anthony Hopkins, right,
yep. yep, yep, yep.
Love Wales.
- Well, I do have
a few positive ones.
They said do we use the word blinding
as a positive term meaning
great, fantastic or excellent.
- They do, the Brits will
say, "It's a blind race."
Right, they will, they'll
say, that's it's very cool.
And they do use it for a
positive thing, that's great.
Yeah, I've heard him say that.
- Yeah, it says so the question will be
how is your night out?
- It was a blinder, we
had a great time, really.
We got into all sorts of thing.
Even a song about blowing it out
when it's a great record it is, so yeah.
- Or in sports, you played a blinder
on the pitch yesterday.
- Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
- I mean, you played a really good game.
- A good game, a football footie.
- What do you think about that?
Is there anything to do with sight?
- No, it doesn't.
I mean, that's the thing,
sights are removed from it,
isn't it?
This just a turn of phrase.
- So there you go.
- I think.
But congratulations.
- Congratulations?
- All the way from Wales everybody.
The first cut on your block.
- You got your brand new,
Tommy Edison prize pack.
- That's right.
And you'll write us back
and tell us what was inside
because I stuffed the
envelop, no, (laughing).
Don't stop, is this
the end already?
- That's it,
yeah that's it.
- Good gracious, Wow.
Well, this has been great fun.
You know what?
That's a nice thing about
this, you know what I mean?
It goes very quickly.
And we just have a wonderful time.
And so thank you so much
for everything that you do.
All the great questions and stuff.
I'd love to hear some more.
So, if you're thinking about anything
that we talked about tonight
or if there's just anything
you're curious about,
podcasts@TommyEdison.com
or you can always hit
up the Twitter as well.
What is that Twitter account?
- Oh yeah, @TommyEdidonXP
- That's right @TommyEdisonXP.
There you go for the
Twitter, also we are planning
to do another guest what's in the mail
so if you'd like to send something in
or my birthday is coming up as well.
Hint hint, nudge nudge,
but if you're interested
in doing some guests
What's in the mail, stuff
that address is going to be in
the description down below.
And of course, this podcast
is available right here
on the YouTubes.
And also wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you so much, it's been great fun,
and we'll see you again soon.
Bed Churchill, you are the
greatest thank you, brother.
- Thank you sir.
All right, baby drive carefully.
Good night, everybody.
(calm music)
- Log off, that cookies makes me nervous.
