The Morning Stream - TMS 2621: Toilet Epiphany

Episode Date: March 26, 2024

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Nuts on bark. You'll get no punished props, no second half of the show, and no lieutenant y'ar. She's legs all the way down. and to the left. Indiana Jones and the frisbee of doom. The lotion on the skin guy.

I've seen a fat kid get shot with some bullets. It's time to watch Goonies. AI art is like porn. You know it when you see it. Let us snopes that for you. Sugar-free, sugary things. Ten easy payments of $175 million. Tomorrow's show will be normal.

Once you get into the box, you can suitcase that stuff up. It hit me whilst on the toilet. Bills, making farts, and less on this episode. episode of The Morning Stream. Okay, then. Nice visiting with you. See you at the party. No. I need the many.

everybody welcome to tms it's the morning stream for tuesday march 26 2024 i'm scott johnson with brian abid hi brian hey i got infected by the venom uh symbiote so i'm just going to dance like this the entire uh episode oh gosh look at you you are the toby mcguire my heart long for it today that's that's twice that's come up oh that was with you though again on that was with me yeah was the one who brought it up actually i was like wait where did i just see that this morning and it was a whole other and ever since i put that giff in our chat it was like oh and i can't get it out of my head that stupid sad spider man three uh so bad which you saw that sony's bringing every spider man movie back every week for a month and a half or whatever it is oh to theaters i didn't

know that to theaters yeah no i didn't know that are they going right up to the current tom home right up to to no way home yeah wow wow yeah i kind of there's a couple i wouldn't mind i actually probably not a controvert not a hot take but i really like the andrew garfield um Spider-Man movies. I think that there was, actually me rephrase that. I really liked Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker. Yeah, he was good. I think he was, um, he wasn't the problem. He wasn't the problem. Yeah, Paul G. Matty's rhino was the problem. Yeah, he got him for five seconds. It wasn't enough of rhino. It was either too much rhino or not enough rhino, and in that case, not enough, I think. Yeah, that's right. Oh, yeah, Electro was, yeah, the Electro, the

Electro. This movie isn't a bad casting on the villains. Although, uh, what's his face? Um, rise. Uh,

who is the lizard? Oh, um, um, uh, crap. I like him. I know he mean.

Yes. And he was good. He was a, that was a good, a good, um, villain, but why can't I think of who that is?

That's not the, raise iPhones. He phones. He's not the lotion on the skin guy. Who is he? Why am I thinking that? hold on wait wait wait

lotion on the skin guy yeah i'm thinking of the dude from um buffalo yeah buffalo what's his name that's not that actor is it no who was the the guy who played i can i don't know if i

can think of who played the oh ted levin was buffalo bill oh that's who that is i mix them up i mix him up every time amazing spider man too uh he was played by oh calm no that's not it hold on i can't find it this is going great which are you looking up now that guy the lizard

guy oh i thought we decided was uh rise iphons oh did we okay i thought still i don't see him but i don't know how to pronounce uh um i didn't hate jamie fox's electro i thought i was fine i just i thought the whole electro uh maybe it was the look that bothered me i i'm not saying I want a mask that looks like a giant yellow spark. I definitely don't want that. No. But, yeah. It's a problematic thing.

The way they did it, you're right. It is Rise at Ephens, and now I know who it is. It's the guy from... Knotting Hill. Notting Hill. And the Dragon thing, the new one, the House of the Dragon. He's the Hand of the King. Oh, right. Yeah, Otto Hightower, yes.

That's right. I kind of like that guy. He's great. he what a weird thing because watching that was like the nodding hill in that thing they're just not even in the same universe like they couldn't be more different characters I used to

I used to love watching that I can't wait for that new season bring it bring it yeah me too I am looking forward to that we got uh we got my so I have a cousin who lives in Denver there where you do

yeah when you're gonna come he's saying you really need to come visit and uh I probably should my aunt is not going to live forever I really ought to go visit her I hope he's not listening now. Also in her 80s. All of a sudden, your cousin's like, oh, geez.

Yeah, I really ought to get out there and see them. But anyway, he, I guess, listens to the show, which was news to me. And he asked me, he says, hey, where is that candy place that you and Brian talked about? Brian goes to or he's got friends there or something like that. And I could not remember the name. Go there and I have friends there, yes. Yeah, you have both things. So it's the Georgetown Valley Candy Company, correct?

That's right. Yep. Shop GVCC is the website, shopGVCC.com. They have a gorgeous, gorgeous website. Man, I don't know. I don't know who designed this website, but it is spectacular. It's next level. You guys won't believe it when you see it.

You won't believe how great this website looks. Actually, this was one of the first ones I ever did, so it's like really early on. But I designed their logo and took, I actually took, T and I took all the photos of their products, these really high close-up photos. Look at that Carmelcorn right there. I know. And look at that building, by the way. That's so awesome.

Yeah, that is their location. And it's like, that doesn't even show you all the cool stained glass that's in there. So if you guys want, you know, fudge, brittles, carmals, divinity, artisan chocolates, ice cream, Easter specials, what the F are you doing? If you live in the Denver area, get out there and get it done. That's right. Yeah, their caramel corn is. it's the best thing ever. I've never had caramel corn or caramel corn.

We've talked about whether it's caramel or caramel. And I obviously vacillate back and forth. But I've never had caramel corn as good as the caramel corn that they have there. And these are the guys you do the Oscar night party with, right? Yeah. Yeah, every year there are Oscar night buddies. And they ship, they can't ship in Colorado legally because of some local tax thing. Really? Yeah. It's less about Kent. It's more about not with the amount of stuff they have to pay for for the license to ship within Colorado. It doesn't work for them because they want to keep their prices low. So outside of Colorado, they'll ship, and it's totally worth it. Their stuff is great. I think they'll even ship their caramel corn, which is, oh, so good.

Yeah, it sounds good. Caramel corn. Nobody, I got, here's something I've learned with the no-sug rule. Nobody, nobody makes sugar-free caramel corn anywhere. No, but these guys do have other sugar-free things. They have sugar-free, like, not brittles, but what barks, like chocolate bark. I love a good bark. And bark with nuts in it, whatever they call that stuff. Maybe that's just called bark with nuts.

I don't know. I did their website. I don't know what the hell this stuff is called. Nuts on bark? Maybe that's it. Nuts on bark. Yeah, old Tim Conway videos you could buy. Nuts on bark.

It's fantastic. I would eat that. Hell yeah, I'd eat that bark. Yeah. I'd have to order some. Maybe we'll swing by. That website again is shit out luck.com.

No, that website again is shop, S-H-O-P-G-V-C-C-C.com. Shop GV-V-V-C-C-C-com or just search for, I think just searching for Georgetown Valley. I feel like I've got their SEO dialed in pretty well with, Just looking for Georgetown Valley. Sure. By the way, whenever I show, whenever I show a fictional photo of what Coverville looks like, it's always this photo of Georgetown Valley, which, like, you know, those shots I had done with a photographer where I'm in the blue tuxedo and I'm like, hold the microphone or sitting in a desk, that landscape behind me, that little valley is Georgetown Valley. Oh, I didn't know that.

That's beautiful there. Yeah. When you come visit your cousin and you take I-70 into Colorado, into Denver, you'll stop in Georgetown Valley and say, this is like my ideal kind of place. It's a little small town. It feels like the town in Resident Alien, honestly. It feels like that Alaskan town. I love towns like that. There's diner and a coffee shop and a candy store and a bunch of antique stores. It's like midway here. I love places like that. I would live in those places if I could. If I could figure out a way and I could get fiber to the door, I think I'd do it.

And you're 30 minutes from Denver, you know, it'd be perfect right there. Only 30 minutes? That's nothing. Well, residentally, oh, it is in color. That's right. Resonately it is shot in Colorado or not Alaska. Where does they shoot it? Probably Canada.

In Vancouver. I'm sure it's Canada. It's probably Vancouver, Georgia. I'll tell you, it's definitely not Georgia. It's not Georgia. okay cool for once we don't give georgia our money movie money you know right exactly can somebody find out where uh hey dod vickers dodd vickers probably knows he'll be he could tell us iocals says north of vancouver is where they film it of course but it looks like they might shoot

exterior shots in colorado for uh for the town they do that a lot yeah shows like this go out and they did that for um because they filmed it in washington but they would do secondary footage for Northern Exposure. They'd actually shoot in Alaska and then bring back and that was your B-roll you'd use to pat it out. All right. Got some good news.

Tell me some good news, everyone. The Johnson Kitchen is currently full of swag bagged bag assembly. And when I say bag, this year it's boxes. Oh, really? Swag boxes. That's why we're... How much room do people need to leave in their

suitcases to come home? Not much, because once you get into the box, Things that are in there, you can suitcase that stuff up. Okay, but the box itself is not, it's not a nice item. No, just a box. Nothing, nothing fancy there. But, yeah, we're in the thick of it. You might say, well, isn't this a little early or like 30 days away or something?

And we're just trying to be on top of it this year. We don't want me. You're doing better than I have. I haven't even printed the trophy yet. I haven't ordered all the things I need for Taskville. There's still stuff to do. I need to make reservations for one of our things. Yeah, I've got stuff I've got to do.

I need to do that. Well, anyway, they're all over the house now, and we're putting them together. We're waiting for some stuff to come in before we can put them back in their boxes. When those get here, then we do an assembly line. Shout out to Kim and Carter, who are doing a ton of that for me. But it's all coming together. It's all looking real nice. I'm very excited for people to get their swag this year.

So watch for that. And there are still a few tickets left, but not many. So if you still are coming to Vegas and you're on the fence and you don't know if you're going to come or not, VivaTMSVegas.com for details and the few remaining tickets. Okay? So hop in there and check it out.

We also got a note that we should not watch Goonies for a watch-along. For a couch party. For a couch party or anything else like that. This is what Michael from Edmonton says. Hey, Scott and Brian, a little while back you mentioned watching the Goonies on Friday watch party. Please don't. That movie deserves a film sack episode.

especially since you haven't seen it, Scott, it would be a, sorry, it would be a disservice to that movie. I can only imagine the song Brian would produce and the calculated chaos that is done away. We all need the three points of being a goony from Randy. Make it happen. Yeah, it's really, absolutely agree, 100% agree.

It should be a film sack movie because it's, it's funny because I run into so many people who avoided it or missed it or just didn't see it for whatever reason. And the Goonies is as much part of the fabric of the 80s for me as Kremlins and Back to the Future and stuff like that. I mean, it's a... I don't know how it is. I never saw it.

I really don't. I've seen bits and pieces. I've seen the fat kid get shot with bullets or not... That's the meme that was made around it. He doesn't actually get shot, but he's out front with his shirt up doing like this. Yeah, yeah, the truffle shuffle. Yeah, and I've seen a gift where they mix that with... Captain Picard on the holodeck as a gangster shooting him with a Tommy gun.

I've seen that. Okay. All right. I've seen the weird-faced looking, you know, sloth. Sloth guy. I know the mom is the throw mama from the train mama. And then. Right.

Joe Pantiliano is one of her sons. Yep. I know short rounds in it. I know Thanos is in it. And I know. Plimpton. Martha Plimpton's in it. Yeah.

And that's all I know. So we're going to fill that. that goony-sized hole on film sack that's where we're going to do it cool it's currently not streaming but uh we've got we've got our feelers out to let us know as soon as it is streaming yeah and we have it on disk if we if we had to we could do it but yeah we'd like it to be available to as many people as possible that's why we do that everybody yeah we know we've we've had discussions about like yeah but what about i mean you know people have their ways of getting things with prices going up maybe people don't want to subscribe to services and they just want to get their things via

complex or whatever. Yeah. Plus, back in the day when we were doing just Netflix, and that's all that really was in the game, that made sense. These days, it's, I don't know, what, 10 services that we vacillate between? Yeah.

So it's very different now. It is very different. I have a theory that I'd like to share, and this has to do with this show, because you bring this up a lot. I do. When you send me a photo of anything, let's say you and Tina are out on the town.

Yes. It doesn't even matter what it is. You're at a concert. There's a stage. Yeah. It's like, oh, check out this thing that I just 3D printed. And I have to zoom in and look at other details. You have to, exactly.

This has been a thing since I was a little kid. I did it with magazines. I did it with, you know, posters and paintings. And I get it because Mad Magazine teaches you to do this, right? It's not always about the really cool Al Jaffe comic panels. It's the Sergio Arragone's stuff in the back corners that it's like, oh, look at that. Oh, my God, that's awesome. Yeah, I love that.

I love that kind of stuff, and I've always been kind of a visual thinker anyway. So for me, a photo isn't just a photo. It's like a puzzle almost. Yeah. And I realized, so it can be, sometimes it's annoying because I'm not actually paying attention to what matters in the photo. I know. I know. I'm just like, oh, look at that weird little guy down there with a hat that shouldn't be on his head or whatever.

It's like, I just can't help it. Right. So I do this all the time. And I love things like, you know, Where's Waldo is kind of the big example of it. but I like those kinds of things where I have to find little details. Like, that's the goal of the picture. I like to draw those sorts of things. I have multiple versions of that that I've done.

So it hit me today, this morning, whilst on the toilet. Okay. Somebody sent me a link to a photo and said, man, look what happened to this, this cyber truck, this accident. Okay. And this picture, here, I'll share it so you can see kind of what I'm talking about. And then I sent you a photo. But now when I send you photos like this Cad Bain that I just printed for one of our listeners that's in our Discord here, I use the photo setting or the portrait setting so it blurs out the background.

So you can't focus on the little details in the back and you actually look at the thing that I want you to look at, which is the... No, that's great. That'll keep me on task because otherwise I get distracted. Okay, so I'm going to share these with you and the chat. The original photo is... Oh, shoot, where's Discord? Hold on. Okay. You're in the background. There you are. All right. So I'll drag this over. The original photo, by all accounts, if you just glance at this, you go, oh, man, look what has happened. This is a terrible accident. It crashed into something. Wow. Yeah, really gnarly, right? But then my brain went, hold on a minute. Something's not right. My first thing I looked at was that traffic light. That does not look. No, it's wrong. Look at that traffic light. Let's zoom in. totally wrong it's like uh four there are four lights yep yep and it's borked and the way the

things connected is wrong like that's just wrong um also what part of traffic is it actually running then i also glanced down at the tire in the rear look at that rear tire uh hold on let me blow this up oh yeah like it's it's treads are uneat like mismatched and not uh yeah and the bars not bars, whatever you want to call that the what do you call that? The,

the spokes, I guess. Oh, on the, the outer shell thing. Right. That's all left up. That doesn't look right at all. And the treads,

like you said, the treads don't mind up. And so my, they're like unevenly spaced. So this is what happens now that I think about these things. I think that this is actually a valuable, valuable tool for me

moving forward in my life. because as the world becomes more and more inundated with fake imagery that people just fall for as soon as they see it, they're like, look at this, and they can't believe it. I don't do that. I've yet to do that. Actually, any kind of, I don't know what it is, but AI stuff in particular, I can, I just know. I see it and I go, well, that's, that's F. And other people are going, look at this. I can't believe the cyber truck is such a weak truck for hitting the thing.

And they go off on these big tirades. I'm like, slow down. Look at that tire. Look at that light. Like, to me, these details pop. They come out of the thing while other people just aren't seeing it. So I'm going to say that from now on, my stupid, weird tendency to notice these dinky little things is actually good for, it's good. Because I will not get fooled, you know?

No, it will keep you from getting fooled. Like, you'll look at this woman with 18 legs and say, hold on a second. I don't know if this is a real. photograph there's something about this let me look at the background details yeah this tree back here there's a branch that's coming out of nowhere so i think this is fake yeah these ones that are where where they're now the ones that are obvious we've talked about this pre-show but this girl you sent me i'm putting it up again yes um i love shit like this like this like give me more of more of this right where it's just stupid and useless and also just kind of funny and strange

and discordant and all that i like that i'm fine with it but when you're trying to fake me out which is, I don't know, something like every time I go to Facebook to check on things, my timeline has old people posting what they believe to be real images that are not real. And it'll be like a guy saving a baby from a lava pit. I saw one of these. It looked like a dude reaching down and saving this child by holding its leg and pulling him out of the lava pit. And they're all going off. Bless him. Bless him for his sacrifice. Blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, you guys, somebody prompted that into Mid Journey and made it. And you guys are all stupid. That baby has 18 fingers on one hand. I just think there's a real literacy thing going forward, but people just aren't prepared for this. They're just not ready to see it.

It's basically what we had to do with our parents when, you know, 10 years ago, when we started sending them snopes.com links for everything that they sent us. Like, did you hear about this problem where they're putting battery acid and night? NyQuil? I'm like, no, snopes.com, battery acid NyQuil. Here you go. Let me Snopes that for you. It should be really the website. So let me Google that for you. It should have been let me Snopes that for you. And there's some good sites now that'll do, if you feed an image into it, it will give you a percentage chance of it being AI or altered. And it's super accurate. So it does things like mathematically check light sources, whether or not they would create reflections in the way that they're doing it. Now, some people, there's always this cynical thing of like, well, you can detect it for now, you know, because there's this idea that ominously, well, for sure, there'll be a time where that changes.

I'm not convinced because I was told that with Photoshop and you can still detect those. I was told that with movie effects and I can still detect those. I mean, sure, they've gotten great and they do. They've gotten better, but it, you know, you scrutiny has something to some point you can always figure it out. Yeah, I mean, it's going to be the constant, well, we've got this tool that can identify AI. Well, now AI uses that tool to figure out a way to make it so you can't figure out and say it. Well, but it's doing this new thing that now we can figure out. Well, now AI has figured out how to use that thing.

So it's going to be a constant like neck and neck battle to, not really neck and neck battle. It's going to be constant evolution of the tools and the AI that fortunately the tools can always be one step ahead as AI catches up. Yeah, and the good thing to remember is this really is as old as time, like those old photos where Hitler would have someone removed from a photo, and then used very old techniques to do it, or to add someone to a photo, but he would do, he would go through hoops to do that. And no, Princess Kate is doing it. Yeah, yeah, everyone's doing it. And so you just have to, you got to, I think there's a literacy to this, and it's important. I'm not saying that everything you ever see, you should immediately go into skeptic mode.

but maybe you should like there's so much bullshit right now like it's such it really is such crap that you just have to be able to look at it and don't just assume it now when brian sends me a photo of his date that's not what i'm doing i'm going wait what's going on that is my prompt picture that blonde i showed you with the 14 legs and dancing with her she's real quite a quite an event yeah i don't know how you pleasurable i must say how many cars did you have to i mean how big was your limo we had one limo but it was but she wrote him that And then I wrote in a Subaru right behind that makes sense one of her five legs was sticking out the window the whole time Anyway, we'll see how that all folds as it goes on It's an interesting thing. Yeah, it fascinates me Why choose a sleep number smart bed? Can I make my site softer? Can I make my site firmer? Can we sleep cooler? Sleep number does that cools up to eight times faster and lets you choose your ideal comfort on either side your sleep number setting

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News coverage. It's time for the news and it's brought to you by. The age old story of a man who gets steroids and a frisbee to fight off Nazis. All right. What movie is it? That's Captain America Wintersol. Nicely done. Frisbee.

I wonder if it's more. The Winter Soldier was also still Hydra, right? They're Nazis. It was still hydra, but it turned out the man who got steroids and that was a Nazi and a secret Nazi. Oh, that's right. That's totally correct. Well, anyway, I like doing these, so occasionally I know, that's fun. I like these, yeah, keep them up.

It's like a little bonus trivia game for me. Yeah. All right, here's one. And I didn't figure it out until like five seconds before we, because I looked at that earlier and I did not figure it out. I was like, well, Tron, they have discs, but there's no Nazis in Tron. See, I would have gone Tron, too. That's exactly where my head would go.

That Frisbee thing threw me. Yeah, that was the thing. Because this shield is a big old heavy, freaking monster. It's not a, you know, so Frisbee makes it seem flimsy and lame. But that's the trick of the question, you guys. That's the trick of the question. And the Nazis of the Indiana Jones? No, no Frisbee's in Indiana Jones.

Not that I know of. Just bad dates. Bad dates. School criticized for caged doors to stop pupils using toilets in lessons. So this is a UK story, by the way. Doors to stop pupils using toilets and lessons. Yeah. And that's a very U.K. way of saying the bathroom.

Use toilets, yes. Controversial metal barriers have been installed inside a secondary school to stop students from using toilets outside of designated times. A concerned grandparent has criticized the new partitions. At Foxford Community College in Longford Coventry. Not in Foxford. Oh, no. Longford Coventry.

What? they describe them as cage doors saying the officials have gone too far I think I agree you can't block a kid Yeah I mean isn't that why you get a whole pass so you go to the bathroom we needed to go to the bathroom Yeah do you guys not do hall passes in the UK how do you guys handle that because we did and we had hall monitors Are they so are they afraid that kids are like taking a test and then I need to go to the loo And then they go to the bathroom look it up on their phone come back Do you can't turn the answer?

Is that what they're afraid of? I don't know what they're going to. I guess if a kid had to pee 14 times during his test, you might have some questions, but if a kid just had to pee in the middle of the test, just let them pee. Just have them go. They have not developed their regular pee schedule at that age yet. It says here they're unlocked. Okay, so the school refutes the claim stating the barriers are not, quote, unquote, cages

that they are unlocked outside of class hours. Well, no, that's the problem is you have them locked at all. Anyway, it's been alleged that students only permitted to use the bathrooms while under supervision during lessons. Ian Ward from Coventry said the grandchildren had been left upset over the change and described the move as totally wrong as his, sorry, and said the new rules have been enforced for every year group from year 7 to year 11 because teachers were having issues with students in the toilets. They didn't get into what the issues were. I mean, maybe off to smoke a cigarette or something. Or as they would say, the F-A-G word. That's what they would say.

That's right. These metal barriers, these are freaking, I mean, to call them cages, to call it look like a prison is not an exaggeration. These are friggin' prison cage doors. And you come out of class and you see that. It's really not going to say, oh, I'm in a friendly, welcoming place of learning. I can't wait to absorb all the knowledge you're presenting to me.

You're going to say, you screws, why do you give it me lunch? yeah this does look like this looks authoritarian author authoritarian the word isn't coming out but that's the word i mean i'll sell you some cigarettes for a little bit of daylight a little bit of uh time on the basketball courts and the way it's outside uh it actually looks expensive these look like high-end like prisony stuff that's the other thing you're spending all your counsel's money is that what they do over there their council the council's money yes you guys and your councils well anyway it's a big deal going on over there

now we have this story about a police officer warned and salary getting deducted for playing his switch while on duty oh dude doc your sweats yeah doc your sweats what are you doing police officer in his 40s

at Japan Tenry police station this is in Japan have been reprimanded after playing switch while on duty aside from receiving a warning from the director of the Nara prefecture police department his pay will be deducted as well

was not state of time how much yen he would lose. According to the report in the Japan news, the officer used a switch 10 times for a total of 17 hours between November 20, 2023, and February 2024. It's not really that much, but I don't know, whatever. Again, this is while he was on duty. Police say that his work was neglected

when he connected the system to a TV in the break room. I mean, break room. Is he on a break? If he was on a break, well, I used to say, while he's on duty, don't these guys get breaks can they go play plus Nintendo everything.com what's the game? What is he playing?

Yeah, what game? I would like to know. This matters actually. The Wild? Tears of the kingdom, I believe it. It makes sense and I totally stand behind it. Sure. If he was playing some crappy $1.99, you know, in a poopoo game that he got on the store on sale, well then I'd have issues maybe.

If he's working on his island and you know, for Tom Nook, then I'm a little, then I'm less forgiving. Yeah. Nobody should be doing anything for that little bastard um tom duck it says here are we do for a new one of those by the way we should be due for a new one i mean it feels like that like 2020 so i mean four years i don't know probably close i'm guessing they'd save that for switch two whatever that ends up

being oh yeah that'll be there that'll be their killer app because the switch two is overdue like right now 17 2017 switch came out so we're now looking at uh was that february seven years yeah February of that year, so just almost exactly, just a little more than seven years. That's not like long by some standards, but we're not, we don't do the 10-year cycle anymore. It's closer to 5 to 6 or something. So, hey, Nintendo, next time, here's what you need to do, all right? Next time you do this, let's see, will this play this for you and me? Let me find out.

Okay. Discord does this better than anybody right now. if I can find it. Here we go. Okay. Scroll down, we click on this. I hope that this doesn't kick you off. If it does, I apologize. That's right. If it does. No, it will. I'm not going to let it. Never mind.

Okay. Anyway, okay, you know what? I'll use some of their own stuff here. But if they launch a console and it doesn't have something like this going on, not that, this. They need to have shops music again. Yeah, that's right. It's true. The Nintendo E. Shop on Switch doesn't have this. they all did all up till this almost everything you got from the we forward and i'm including ds i'll be honest nintendo that music my wallet actually just hearing that music

my wallet jumped out of my pants and landed on my desk like buy something like it was my hands are up here my wallet leapt out of my pocket right said it opened up and my card came out and uh exactly and that's that store also that store better not be slow either my gosh that store is slow. It's so bad. Make it easier to navigate. It's terrible. It's horrible.

Oh, my gosh. Absolutely worst store experience in video games today. Without a question. I'll look at PlayStation Marketplace or PlayStation Store I think is so much better. That's a lot better. They're actually about to do a big overhaul, though. I wonder what that's going to be. The PlayStation Store is getting like a interface change.

But that, yeah, I'd take the Xbox one over that. Steams is better. Everybody's storefront is better than, you should have a little Mario running around with coins when I buy something. When it installs, it should be a little Goomba

jumping into a pipe. Yes. You're Nintendo. And when I buy something, immediately say, you've got a game open. I can't download this while your game's open.

You want to close that game? Because otherwise I sit there and say, why hasn't it downloaded? Yeah. See, it's just a bad experience. It's bad design. There's no excuse. They shouldn't have done that.

I know they were coming off to Wii U and that was an ugly time for them and maybe they just were like oh we're we just better do the basics here well don't pull that off again okay we'll probably hear this year what's coming and when we do we better hear about

storm music all right moving on to this story uh by the way people don't play don't play if you're a police officer don't go hunting for Pokemon uh during emergency calls and don't play your swatch while you're on duty especially in Japan I guess I don't know what's going on over there especially in Japan

what's it like here please tell when they come to interview, please tell the interviewer, the reporter, what game you were playing and not just say switch. Okay. Thanks. Yeah. Thank you very much. Also, dude, what listens to the show, police officer, H is his, is his online name. Can you write in and tell me, do they, what do you guys held? What standard are you held to? I won't say even what state he's in. I don't want to dox this police officer. Clearly he's in the U.S. or else you would have said his name was H. Yeah, it's definitely, it's definitely a U.S.-based cop, but I want to know what. What?

Like, are you, um, I had a lovely lunch with this guy once, super nice guy, but I'm, and I know he likes video games, so I'm just curious, can you, are you guys allowed? Like, let's say you're at a stakeout or you're just patrolling. Can one of you just pull out your, even your phone and, you know, do a little something? Candy crush or something while you're. Yeah. Or are you held to these same, you know, stringent standards of do not play games while on duty? I don't know.

You know, I'm back on, by the way. Like, because I stopped playing Monopoly Go months ago, right? and I've been trying to find something that I like, and for a while I was playing this rummy thing that's like a live PVP rummy, which is kind of fun. But I'm freaking back on Card Crawl. I love that game. Oh, Card Crawl so good.

It welcomes you back with open arms and awesome graphics. It is not only that, it is, it, how do I put this? It's one of those, you know, remember that game you and I, he's talking about we can never find an equivalent of it where you have the dice and you roll them and then you lock them into spaces the uh right the uh egyptian dice roller thing whatever it was hyper x but it was something like that it was some some word that had the word motion x motion x guys something like that and every once in a while something will come along like that and it just feels special it doesn't matter the platform these happen to be phones but it just feels special

and then no one makes anything quite like it again that's car crawl it's so good it is it's a good comparison yeah card crawl card or what's the thief one i have all those card card card thief and card crawl adventures yeah they're all they're all excellent right here in a little list yeah the one they do where it's that's the same company let's see do i have it here step Stephanie if you're listening to this you can ignore all this part Stephanie stop listening as soon as we start doing this by oh it's called let's see what is the two ms uh this app has two ms in it but I don't remember the name of the damn thing. Well, that seems like bad marketing.

What kind of game is it? Let's see if you recognize this icon. It's not an icon look familiar right there. You see the little guy at the bottom that did double M one. Oh, yes. What is that? It's the same devs, different artists, but it's another wonderful game and it's cards. But I don't know the name.

Something like... Well, if you open it, doesn't it say? Yeah, it says it's a tiny, tiny. Touch Tales, and the name, it's scrolling. Thomas Wellman, oh, my God, I've got all the video, like, before he actually gets to the anime game. I even hit the about button. It doesn't say the name. Really?

Yeah, what's going on? M.M. Potions. Those mystical monkey men. Miracle merchant? Miracle merchant, that's it. There it is. I guess it just popped up on screen. Miracle merchant.

Oh, thank you. Mine didn't do that. That's weird. Yeah, that game's great, too. Whatever they do, it's all magic sauce. They know how to create games. All right, all that aside, I found something you'd like, and I'm just going to be a quick recommendation.

Yeah, sure. We got time. We got time for this. This is a game called... We haven't even told people that we're... Oh, we're a little short today, by the way. We're heading this show early. Yeah, we're like five minutes away from this show being over.

You know, we could have done as we could have just like your age quit. Yeah. Like, we should have made this since we forgot to tell, like, you know what? Screw it. I'm out. Yeah, I'm out of here. Say, F off, everybody. We're out of here early.

This game is called... definitely a lot not liking apps we're done for the day you need to download slice and dice it's free to download slice and dice and dice is the operative word here this is as close as i've come to that thing we'd liked about that old game oh really okay yeah so it's like roll dice put them in slots you think they fit in uh it's set and you know it's fantasy kind of rogue like kind of stuff um skull it's got a skull for an icon yes correct that's the one and it's free uh uh I think it might just be straight free. Boy, I've never actually heard ellipsis before until just now when you said, it's free.

Period, period, period, period. I was trying to make sure, well, I don't know if it ever costs anything. I know this is $10 on Steam, but on phones, I think it's just straight free and there's no, there's no buy anything, I think. Yeah, I'm looking. Oh, here it is. I found it. Single purchase, no ads offline, although I haven't had any ad yet. Oh, yeah, $8.99 for full game.

Yeah, you need to try this. I think you would dig it. It's very good. Single developer, I don't mean he's not married. I mean, it's just one guy. And it's very, very good, and it scratches that itch. So there's your app sloppy for the month. Luke Skywalker.

One of the games that me and Melania love to play. We love to play. We love to play. Truth social. We call it social media. Yeah. We've called it social media. Since the beginning, we actually invented the term.

You'll find all the best people over there. Choose social. He didn't have to spend all his money yesterday. I found a way out. Yeah, although they're still thinking he's going to have a hard time coming up with 175,000. Or I mean, 100, what was it, 1.75 million? The total is 400 and something million, so I think it was 175 million. It's like half.

And then they reduced it down. Yeah, right. Okay. $75 million. Yeah. They're basically letting them do it in payments. Really? Yeah, kind of.

I guess. I don't know. It'd be like if you and I owed $50, they'd let us do it in 10 easy payments of $10. You know, but, you know, on that level, $10 makes sense. But $400,000 million. Jeez, Louises, that's a lot of money. Yeah, that's a lot of money. So they let them put it on one of those, what's that?

Like, whatever you order something online, you always get that offer, like, or make four easy payments of $35. each with whatever It's tempting when I buy new Apple stuff and I'll have to admit Because I'll see it go Or make 643 easy payments of $35 a month That's right

Become an indentured servant for the rest of your life By the time you've finally paid this off The Vision Pro 6 will be out And it'll be a quarter of the press Enjoy All right so to the point Brian made earlier About the show being a little short today we are not having...

Well, Bill's on a plane anyway, so he wouldn't have been here anyway. So we have no Bill today. Can't wait to find out what he's making on that plane, by the way. I bet it's cool. Bread. Probably making bread. I don't know what you do on a plane.

He's making farts is what he's making on that plane. For sure. There's no doubt in my mind. Bill's making farts. Sharing his creations with the rest of the plane. But anyway, he's gone. He's on his way to Florida. So he's not here.

anyway. But I have a, so I've got this whole side art project that I can't even talk about because it's NDAID. So I'm just working on it trying to get stuff done. Today's kind of go day according to a meeting I had yesterday. So I have to do that because I got to meet with them about it and do a whole thing. But also, that means no core games today. I apologize. At least for me, John and Bo may still play something. I don't know, but I may not be involved. So watch for that. But that's why. Okay. Everybody, sometimes things come up. We wanted to make sure still to have a semblance of a show here today. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. You know, look, if Brian was kind enough last night to say, yes, that sounds fine, then you all should be fine, too. That's right. You

want to see my text reply to Scott? You can see my text reply to Scott. I said, yes, that's fine. He says, yes, that's fine, he says. That's please, you're right. We should give the people a show today. Yeah. No matter if it's short or not, we should. Yes. We really should. And now we are. And then we did. And now we're done or we're close to it. So we're just going to go ahead and wind it down and say, Thanks for being here, everybody. There will be a song here at the end. We'll do that in a second.

Quick note, tomorrow's should be normal, just a normal ass Wednesday. Yeah, recommendals, time with Tom. Yep, all that stuff. I'm excited to hear about, was it you or Nicole doing the one about Nickelodeon? Nicole, I think. Oh, Nicole. Nicole Odian. Yeah, Nicole Odian tomorrow.

Really interested in that take. And Carter watched a bunch and had some thoughts as well. And it sounds like something I'm going to have to watch just so I'm a, I don't know. I kind of don't want to see it. I don't want to hear about debauching and terrible people. I'm hearing, I'm hearing some rough stuff, yeah. Yeah, but I'm also hearing it's like a really good thing that is, you know, it's good to be aware of shit.

So you can alter your life view to allow less shit to happen under your watch. I don't know. Look, we don't have, Brian and I don't have 30 people working for us that are all up to no good. We don't know what this is like. But if we did, we'd want to know. all right that's it And we would treat them far better than Nickelodeon treated their people

Sure sounds like it All right We're done then I want to thank everybody for listening Please go to our website Frogvance.com slash TMS And again a reminder about those tickets We are in the waning

A few TMS tickets for Vegas So if you want them And you want to be there And hang out with us Please do go over to VivaTMSVagas.com There is a link to the store link for it And all the other stuff

You're going to need to know about the event are there. One thing just to say as a side note, I was on the site this morning. If some of you were new this year, you're like, oh, I think I might come, I might not. And you go to there, you might be a little overwhelmed going, look at all this stuff. I don't know what I'm, should I do that?

Should I do? Oh, on the Viva TMS Vegas site. Yeah, don't stress about it. No, no, no, no. It's all, much of it is optional. And it's some stuff that may not be your jam. Like, I'm not getting up in the high roller. I mean, technically everything's optional.

You don't have to come to play playground on Tuesday night. You'll be missing out. You don't have to come to the video game tournament on Monday. Even our live show on Wednesday, but you'd be missing out. The point is, like, you kind of come pick and choose. If you're like me, I don't drink and I don't like high spaces, so I don't go on the high roller. You can sit down there at the base with me and hang out.

We can talk. Exactly. I sat with Mizzula last year, and every year, Mizzula and I are at the base of that thing. We have a great discussion about life. You know, and you can be a part of that. Exactly. So anyway, go check it.

out, VivaTMSVegas.com. All right, Brian, let's get out of here. Do you have a song that we can play? I have a song, and this is going out to a friend of the show, Chuck, Chuck Robinson, aka Nautomaton, 40-something years ago when I got my first pair of glasses, I got home, turned on the radio, and Foreigner's Double Vision was the first song I heard. Today, yesterday, Monday, the 25th. I'm having retinal surgery, trust me, you don't want the details.

So I'd love it if you would play a cover of Double Vision, if there's a good one available, and if not, I'll leave it in your capable hands to select an appropriate song. Thanks, Chuck. Now, we have heard from Chuck. He is recovering nicely. Things went well. He's got a little bit of symbiote fluid

in the bottom of his eyeball that hopefully won't turn him into venom at Viva TMS, Vegas, but no promises. So, we'll just keep an eye on that aspect. But... So to speak. Heck, yeah, I've got a... What's that?

So to speak. We'll keep an eye on it. We'll keep an eye on it. think about that. It was kind of funny. I didn't even know. There wasn't even trying. No,

that happened. That's good. So we've got a cover of double vision. This is one, I don't think I've played before on the show, and I don't know why, because I love it. This is from an album called Come on Feel the Metal from 1997.

You might be thinking, oh, a metal version of double vision? No, no. Get ready. This is a band called Brave Combo. It is definitely not a metal version of Double Vision. Here is Brave Combo. All right. We'll see you guys tomorrow.

Feeling kind of dirty, feeling kind of mean. I've been from one to another extreme. It's time I had a good time, ain't got time to wait. I want to stick around till I can't. see straight fill my eyes with that double vision no disguise

from that double vision ooh when you get through to me My double vision gets the best of me The best of me Never do more than I really need My mind is racing But my body's in the lead

Tonight's tonight to the limit I live all my years in a single minute I fill my eyes with that double vision and no disguise

for that double vision When you get through to me, it's always new to me. My double vision always seems to get the best of me. Fill my eyes with that double vision. No disguise for that double-fission. When you get through to me, it's always new to me, my double vision. when it gets through to me it's always new to me my double vision always always seems to get the best of me yeah the best of me

Hey, so I was going to be able to be. Last week on TMS, you said that you plan to re-watch the David Lynch Dune. After you do, I urgently suggest that you watch sci-fi's Children of Dune. It's a four-and-a-half-hour adaptation of Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. It's $20 million budget pales from comparison to lynches and the Viedas, so the special effects suffer by comparison. However, it goes much deeper into the personal relationships of the main characters and into the complicated plans that the movies do.

I can't recommend it enough. Oh, and the soundtrack. Did I mention the soundtrack? I can't get enough of it. So much so that I bought the soundtrack CD back in the day. It's free to watch on YouTube. Sci-Fi's Dune is also on YouTube if you're interested. Sadly, Sci-Fi was bought by NBC Media,

right after Children of Dune, and the channel went the direction of reality shows, etc. Otherwise, with their success of Dune and Children's of Dune, who might have gotten God Emperor of Dune and who knows how much more. Love the show, though. Terry V in Chicago. Hi, guys. It's Nat, the Boxing is in the chat here.

She's just calling, as I was listening to episode 2613, TMS, and you guys are talking about stadium names in the US and how they sell their naming rights to different companies, and the company name is quite uninspiring. in England we don't do that as much there are a couple of examples but most of our stadiums they'll have the same name for like a hundred years

so like my team play at Ellen Road there's been that way for a hundred years Liverpool play at Amfield Manchester United Player Old Trafford so on so forth but we do have a team called Bolton in Greater Manchester Bolton Wanderers

and since 1997 they've sold their name and rights and they have the Reebok Stadium and everyone calls it the Reebok still But this season, they changed the naming rights again. And they're called, it's called the Tough Sheet Stadium, which is brilliant for radio, TV, things like that. But yeah, I just thought you might enjoy that. But yeah, we don't really do any of that sort of ultra-capitalist nonsense here.

So, yeah, another point for us, Brits, in a bit. Hey, Scott and Brian, this is Doug from Philly, calling into the morning stream. Hey, I need to fill you on on a live update. this is live happening, breaking news. But I feel like this would be something that Scott would come across and you guys would discuss it and figure out what the hell is going on right now. So, anyways, I am driving home from work and the car in front of me, the guy, you can see in the back of the windows of, you know, vehicles in front of you.

We're just going on a, you know, a two-lane road here. But he is eating out of a chips bag, full-sized chip bag, tilting it up to his base, you know, getting the last little bit of crumbs out as you do. However, I've noticed, and it still goes, oh, my God, it happened again. All right, so he's tilted up at 13 times. 13 times he's tilted it up to his face to get the crumbs out. Meanwhile, every time it happens, he swears off to the side a little bit, and it corrects himself. But 13.

How many crumbs do you have in the bottom of this bag that you have? Oh, my goodness. This is weird. Anyways, guys, it's happening as I'm driving home, listening to show. I felt like I had to call in and let you know about it. Love the show, though. Have a great day, guys. Take care. Scooter and Boot. It is your favorite Kermit the Frog.

I did Kermit for a couple of, or for a film second show the other, a few weeks, a few months ago. Just had a call. You guys brought up Steve Miller's abracadabra the other day on TMS, and it triggered this crazy memory that I had of I was probably 18 or 19. I was hanging out with a friend of mine. His dad was a, and I don't say this lightly, raging alcoholic who had these giant, old 70s wooden cabinet speakers just blaring. And he, Abercadabra was one of his favorites. So I'm coming over there. We're probably playing Halo 2, something like that.

You know, a couple of teenagers playing Halo 2 doing that. And this dude comes into my friend's room just absolutely bonged, just a whole other planet. He goes, hey, you guys want to go to a titty bar? And for whatever reason, you talking about abracadabra just brought that whole memory back for me. And I've never heard of a strip club being called a titty bar. But I figured you'd appreciate that story. All right, love the show, though. Thanks, guys.

Once upon a time in the quirky town of Clip-Clob, Scott and Brian embarked on an extraordinary adventure involving too much hassle and unexpected surprises. As they strolled through the town square, they overheard a conversation about testing the ship's phasers for an upcoming space mission. I can definitely see why you like it, Brian exclaimed, pointing at the futuristic spaceship on display. Very intrigued, Scott pondered if it was too early to get a fish sandwich from the intergalactic food truck. parks nearby. Amidst the cosmic chatter, a peculiar figure resembling a cheetah approached, offering a bag of mysterious snacks, which looked oddly like fried bees covered in bacon cheddar ranch flavory. Neither take plums nor leave plums, he cryptically advised, leaving Scott and Brian very puzzled. Suddenly, a burst of fart gas enveloped the area, catching the attention of the locals.

explosive tip someone shouted referring to a peculiar gadget being showcased at the nearby invention fair by a dog scientist curious about the commotion scott checked twitter on his high-tech device only to discover that the guy on twitter who claimed dogs don't have brains had clearly lied do dogs have brains of course they do scott thought amused by the absurdity of it all feeling a little overwhelmed at this point brian decided to set his headphones down and go throw up behind a bizarre statue of what looks like a booth. I don't like bees, he muttered, regretting the decision to indulge in the strange fried snacks. In the end, as the day unfolded with bizarre encounters and unexpected turns, Scott and Brian realized that sometimes embracing the oddities of life could lead to an unforgettable experience.

You know, they've all got talent, Scott remarked, reflecting on the eccentric character they encountered through their peculiar journey in clip clock. Hello, Scott, and hello, Brian, and anyone else on the show. I just wanted to say, first of all, how much I really, really love all the frog pants that were shows. I just, I listen to them pretty much all the time, so thank you for that. I was calling in reference to Freehand Freebirds episode where a book series was being discussed by Scott called Edge of Collapsed, which I have not heard of before, so I now have downloaded that audio book, and I can't wait to start it.

I wanted to mention that, Scott, if you like that kind of storyline, there is another one. It's written like late 90s, I think, early 2000s, called Dies the Fire by S.M. Sterling. And that particular book series covers a sort of a mystic event in which all electricity and other physical properties like things like gunpowder and stuff no longer works. In fact, steam even doesn't work with enough power to say move an engine, that sort of thing. It's a little mystical and how that happens and that's part of the mystery, of course, the whole thing. And the whole series really starts off up in kind of the rural part of Oregon and Washington. And, of course, it's all very, everything collapsing and falling apart and getting into the transitions of one world to another when it comes to kind of people recreating themselves into a new sort of society or series of societies. And many books in the series, which is where it gets kind of fun because you really get to follow a lot of different things.

I wanted to mention, too, you mentioned Jericho. Jericho, that was sort of a nuclear war kind of series that never really got a chance to end. It sort of has continued on in comic books. The real, I think, a TV show you were thinking of that has to do with the power going out is J.J. Abrams created some years ago a TV show called Revolution. And there was obviously, it never got to finish. So we have no idea really what was going to happen in that. And frankly, I feel like JJ Abrams focused on the, okay, all the power went out,

and there's a couple scenes of, there's always planes falling out of the air in these stories. And then it cuts four to five years in the future to essentially like going into a Jericho-style story, which kind of bummed me out because to me the whole fun is how humans handle the instant everything happens. How do they transition? How do they survive? I love those stories. But anyway, if that's just me, thanks a lot. And love the show, though, and take care.

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