Keep on Goin'

Hey Tex, we should start a fund to commission a Ugandan action film

Seth Smith

Is there anyway to get a recording of this? I have a friend who could really use this kind of encouragement from someone like you!

SirSnake

Tex, is there anyone you trust in the BPL who is either a train nerd or a math nerd who you could trust with your general location? You could probably work something out with the posted train schedule (perhaps some local railfan groups might be able to help with this) and/or the local radio channels to figure out your best options for 'quiet' periods. I know the railfan groups out here monitor the freight operations channels to schedule photoshoots and that sort of thing. Just an idea that might help make Mr. Train less of a surprise when you're recording.

Adam Stadnick

Second comment the questions: 1) What type of wheel gun would you suggest for someone with long skinny hands? Most guns I try my finger goes way past the trigger and they just feel off in my hand. 2) You've mentioned your Douche Flute before, what flavors do you tend to favor? I had a really good one that tasted like the old school yellow Hawaiian Punch, but it got discontinued so I'm in the market for new flavors.

Graves

Nods of respect for you and Mr. Digs on the poetry, I’ve been enjoying it. Also decided to pick up Dr. Brin’s book after listening to the podcast, it’s not my field but always interesting to see what other folk are working on.

Chris Stochaj

Tex, as a High School teacher, it deeply saddens me to learn about the profound impact that the negativity you experienced from your own teacher(s) had on you. Personally, I am very committed to ensuring that my students , as well as my own children, understand that my desire is for them to surpass my own achievements and find great success. Please know that there are still educators that care, although it’s not always easy. Sometimes it can feel like you’re a frontline soldier witnessing the decline of western civilization. Lmao.

Mr.Sir1984

Yes, the AUX is on Spotify!

Pistol6699

Regarding poetry, you should check out The House by the Side of the Road by Sam Walter Foss. It’s one of my favorites! Loving the uploads of poetry!

Magic Kebabs

AUX podcast? Is that a separate podcast that I wasn't aware of or is it something on the discord?

David Fellner

Your travails reminds me a bit of chronic fatigue syndrome. My dad had it for a while, he re-did the insulation in the attic when he wasn't stuck in bed during it, we don't know if that helped cure it but we're glad he recovered from that one. Medical problems have dogged my father pretty much for his whole life, on the positive side it's made him very sympathetic and caring towards others who are in similar medical horrors. I remember one lady, who due to genetic problems (iirc), had calcified joints and needed her eyes scraped periodically so she wouldn't go blind. She was also really smart and a programer. Best to you and the rest of the crew.

Captain1nsaneo

Dear Tex, I just listened to the AUX pod cast, good stuff! I have many things going on, and it's not all good. I listen to you here, and on the AUX pod cast, it is a uplifting. In a way that I am reminded that creation is a big help, but getting up off my back and stand up to get to it is harder more times than others. I will keep fighting the good fight. Many questions in my head to ask, but it's all trivial, and seemingly selfish. So I will just leave this here. We danced on our first night We danced with our hearts and souls You told me you danced ballet And you can't anymore We danced a few years before our son arrived We danced some more when he got here We danced with the tears We danced with the fears I told you always and forever And in sickness and in health We danced with struggles We danced with pain We will dance and dance some more Together as one like we always do Keep on dancing all the way through I will be there with you I wrote this to my wife. (This is not to a wife passed on) I do see how this could be taken the wrong way... Be well Pistol!

Pistol6699

Tex, I completely understand your dilemma with the everlasting illness of unknown origins (although Delta is likely to blame). My son has been dealing with similar issues: coughing, pain, lethargy, aching, restlessness, congestion. The doctors told us it was his adenoids, which were removed twice before and have since grown back. I'm truly in awe of how you power through and manage to be as productive and active as you are. There are times at work when I hear kids (I'm 51, so anyone under 30 ranks as a 'kid' to me) complain about how exhausted they are after a weekend of partying, drinking, and having all sorts of 'fun'. Well, as I tell them with a smile, eventually you have to pay the piper, so deal with it. In any case, I won't tell you what to do...everyone else already has...but know that I, like so many others, deeply appreciate the hard work and efforts that you and the rest of the team put into all that you do. I look forward to the Hunchback TTB episode, just as I have every other episode you've put out. Whenever I'm working on restoring model locomotives (everyone has a Mr. Train in their lives), I pull up one of the episodes and listen to your dulcet tones. It helps pass the time and I get to smile at all the fun references. So please, be well, take care of yourself, and know that we all appreciate what you do.

MarauderTDL

The poetry has been great and I'm looking forward to more of it. Keep up the great work, and I would say get some rest, but that's like asking Mr Train to not announce his presence at all times. My favorite poem is probably the Bene Gesserit Litany against fear. Also I finally got around to listening to The Postman audiobook and I'm very upset at the movie....very very upset...the book wasn't a 10/10, but very worth the read, thanks for the recommendation

The Mailman

Having played a little Battletech tabletop now, I like Classic for a Solaris 7 style match, but it doesn’t tops the speed and ease I can do combined arms in Alpha strike. It’s all fun and games until the enemy Hellstar walks into a city full of my SRM infantry. That’s called making a tatical boo-boo. Speaking of, your talk with Dr. Brin had me staring at a wall for a bit trying to square how my dealings with Just In Time inventory while working in various factories, owned by the same company, would work with the supply system in the USAF. My mind keep going back to about two deployments ago when we had a bird stranded in Iraq and the part needed was in a depot facility in CONUS. TMO decided this critically need part would go not by air, because this would make to much sense being air force and all, but by boat, because it was more cost effective. So I track for the better part of a week it takes to get into a port in Europe and there it sits for a few days. I make some calls and I am told it’s being held up in customs. Fine, whatever, so long as I have something to brief at turnover. Fast forward a few more days and it still stuck, so I start calling again and come to find out the system hadn’t updated yet and actually it was on a boat headed to VIRGINIA, for reasons that were never explained to me. So we try again, except our Chief (E9) is directly involved and the part slowly makes its way back to Europe, gets to a different port than the first and we are told it is getting put on a boat that will take it to a port not far from us and we’ll have it in a week or so. Except, it got put on the wrong boat and was headed back to the US again. Our Chief got a hold of theatre level leadership and AMC and the boat was somehow made to divert to the Azores, where a C-17 was waiting and flown directly to us, nearly a month and a half later after the damn thing was ordered. The bird was sitting in Iraq the while time. This incident alone makes me bristle at the idea of JIT supply in the military. It would end poorly and give me a giant headache trying to deal with that shit.

swiftdraw

I shall write down the sins of Mr train in the book of grudges. I may not have access to it, but I know a few people. Excited to see the hunchback when it comes out. I'm also very excited to see what the next year brings, since I'm listening to this on the auxiversery. I'm looking forward to see what other kinds of shitposting we get up to, and what things we create as a community as a whole. Oh, and tell Tom I said hi earliest chance u get.

MaezHughes

Listening to this I was just reminded of the one episode of Firefly. 'When you can't run, you crawl, and when you can't crawl, you find someone to carry you.' Been away visiting family so I am getting caught up on the last couple weeks, but keep it up Tex, and just to leave you with another movie quote (from Buster Scruggs this time) 'Looks like when they made this fella, they forgot to put in the quit.'

Graves

Thinking about Star Trek if the security team had automatic weapons. I imagine Worf would want one of those shark-sticks with the shotgun shell on the end.

Daniel S

I don't claim to fully understand your troubles, but sympathize with what I do and empathize with what I don't- this I can do. Well, that and throw the price of a Federated Fast Food Adequacy Meal at you. As ever, I very much appreciate what you do, be it the videos, the poetry (which I suckered my English degree holding sister into watching- she enjoyed it), or just watching you and Dep promote Stovall to the Thieftaker General, Chief Justice, and Witchsmeller Pursuivant of the Inner Sphere on a Monday afternoon. Thank you.

Bolo Unit BRL of the Line

Re: people inherently good. Sir, I wish I had your faith in humanity. I don't know how you keep it. Your resilience is admirable. I'd be pretty surprised if the Reddit API changes have any significant impact on it, honestly. The protests are/were pretty toothless imho. I've been playing D2 almost nonstop since high school, and I'm still terrible at it. Necro FTW, tho. What's your go-to when you start a new run? God's Love, Tex, listening to you talk about guns is almost sexual. Gonna make me blush. Heh. Faux Pho.

Korehammer

Flowers for Algernon. Oh God. Covid certainly wasn't the end of everything, but certainly some people wanted it to be, and tried to make it so. I don't claim to be anywhere near as depressed as you, but my occasional writing and my gaming certainly keeps me going. Earl Grey tea, tepid. Tex founds the Magistracy of Canopus website. Yes I know, I know. Just saying. I get what you mean about treating customers like people, but that cuts both ways. Nothing like listening to someone insist for a half hour that they didn't use paypal to pay for that item cuz they don't have paypal...yet they did, it's right there on the transaction. Tex Talks Future: Tex vs The Moon Kaiser Star Trek with Thompsons would be Mirror Universe. What you and Molly McCalister were talking about Pho, for me that was a Chinese place that made this glorious, messy Beef, Tomato and Eggs over rice. They were one of the many casualties of Covid, sadly. ENDURANCE CODE Give me one more push Before thy hands, swing into despair Give it One more chance A seed to grow A love to ferment We haste to want We slip from the top; Loaded with immaturity. Sharpening your edge takes time. Be patient with me; I will improve. Don’t give up on me; The luggage on my soul, heavy. Hold my hand for a little while and Be my eyes, before I go missing, In this dark jungle. You promised, you were in for a long haul; The fear in your eyes, sounds like A racing horse, without a rider. My code is red hot endurance, to the end of the rope. I am in, and there is no turning back, from what is rightly mine. - McDaniels Gyamfi

Jay McIntyre

What do you think of the statement: "Revolvers are the katanas of guns"?

Rick Jenkins

Hey, I need to ask, what brand of teddy bear is Mr. Snuffles?

Levi Whitney

Hey Tex, I feel you on the find what doesn't hurt and keep working it. My dad worked 14-18 hour days 6/days a week most of my life and I can't seem to stop trying to catch up to him. How about a TexTalks BattleTech about the BattleTech Animated Series from an in universe perspective? The how why it was made, the propaganda angles, why they chose the mechs/gear that appeared in the show, the fictional characters they created and the cannon characters they inserted in the series?

We live in a world where there are helicopters flying around Mars and Tim Curry released a well received reggae album. Anything is possible.

Jellicoe Cats

Aside from the joy I feel every time I look at my family of me, my spouse and our two adopted cats, my most profound experience of bliss was when, three weeks into the final exercise of my ten month conscript service, when looking for a place in a wood in the middle of nowhere to dig a personal latrine at 22:30, having subsisted on barely tepid canned ravioli in tomato sauce for three days, and in that state, stumbling across a free standing, fresh smelling, clean, pressed plastic 80'ies era outhouse with a stack of clean, spiderwebbed TP rolls and a functional incandescent light bulb... It was a true Holy Grail experience of Monty Python dignity! 😇

Sons of Lorgar

Dropping in to say thank you Tex for all the work you and your team put into your content. It may sound crazy but listening to Tex talks Battletech helped me get through many a 12+ hour shift. All while operating a trash truck with no AC in the texas summer. I'm definitely looking forward to the hunchback. Also: voice on a t-shirt, hit the collar, "thin your paints!" Edit: Fuck that, "I am Urbie!"

Glad to hear everything is going well.

Mathieu Martineau

Poetry is always applicable, and I hope to you the best. Your words as always, are inspiring. Thank you Mr.Tex, thank you and your team for your continued work.

Grimos

Good luck out there Sir! Hope you and your folks are doing well. Your comments about learning more from hard times brought to mind the ancient times when I was learning martial arts... Learning Aikido back in the late 70's/early 80's and being the "big guy" in the class I got volunteered to "work with the black belt candidates". I learned the break-falls REALLY well and really quickly. Let me advance much quicker and find a lot of the counter moves. Also, helped keep me humble :-) Getting thrown around and used to demonstrate joint holds/pressure points does do that... And loved your analysis of the 73 Easting... That was most certainly NOT a peer conflict. Mind, I was commanding an ancient M-113, so the modern (at that time) Abrams and Bradley's vs. the Soviet stuff we were up against? Not even close. The Abrams was hitting targets on the move in the dark beyond where the Iraqis could even detect us... Felt bad for the guys on the other side as they never really had a chance... Looking forward to the next release!

Paul Chappell

I recently moved to a new house with my best friends, they were kind enough to let me rent the apartment downstairs. The house comes with a rather grand back yard and the previous owner made their own Tiki Bar. I've taken over custodianship of this bar and been having a grand time decorating, learning how to mix drinks, and tending bar. It is energizing and refreshing in ways that other hobbies haven't hit in a long while. It is nice to be creative again and explore recipes. Its also good to be back into a position where my trauma doesn't make me want to drink, and I can choose to drink and be in control. I am also going to start writing again for fun and not for my job as an instructional designer. I have a rather goofy book idea I should finally get around to. Thanks for the update and hope the BPL team members are all doing well.

Sean O'Donnell

Always enjoy these updates. Thank ou again Tex, to you and your team.

Nerd_Power

Always love and appreciate your words. Regarding pho, I have a tendency to exclusively enjoying pho that is so spicy it could embarrass an Aztec sun god. I then consume approximately half the bowl before I fall over in both pain and gastrointestinal distress. Unrelated, I’d love to put a MASC on an urban mech, wind it up and proceed to watch it go. PS: Did you ever play FTL? One of my all time favorites from back in the day. Definitely recommend checking it out if you some how missed it! PPS: The US foreign policy joke had me rolling

Haligaz

Just sending some good vibes to the BPL. The good vibes similar to a smooth, 800rpm open bolt reciprocating without a jam or hiccup. As a fellow dude mitigating lifelong depression I'll say keep doing what you feel is right and you'll be fine and you're not alone.

Road-Kill21

Hi Tex, I loved the interview you guys did with the BPL member in Ukraine. How is he holding up? Would a follow-up interview possible?

PowerTulip