The Morning Stream - TMS 2659: Two Wasps, One Stone

Episode Date: June 12, 2024

Pee Scrapings. Uncle Tubby. Yaaard Situation. We Hear Kim Eyerolling. Asymmetrical nipples. Don't Come To TMS To Learn Stuff. If the 1940's were a person. Hard of Verbal. READ MY LIPS. It's Pronounced JIF. It puts the lotion on the feathers or it gets the rake again. Lyft School. Mouthing the Passenger. it burns on the way out. Never a Thomas, always a Tom, with Tom. Recommentals With NO Randy, NO Nicole & NO Lt YAR, and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ever pick up a newspaper and wonder where all the good news is? Wonder no more. It happens here at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, pea scrapings. Uncle Tubby. Yard situation. We hear Kim, eye rolling. Asymmetrical nipples.

Don't come to TMS to learn stuff. If the 1940s were a person. Hard of verbal. Read my lips. It's pronounced jiff. It puts the lotion on the feathers or else it gets the rake again. Lift school. Mouthing the pass.

It burns on the way out. Never a Tom is always a Tom with Tom. Recommentals with no Randy, no Nicole, and no Lieutenant Yarr. On this episode of The Morning Stream. Kevin, flight attendants then and now aren't there just to wait on you? They play an important safety role on the flight crew. But despite that, for decades, they had to endure profoundly sexist and disrespectful treatment. Like what you see, gentlemen?

Beat it, you 50-year-old mattress. The morning stream. They wouldn't give us any more fish. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for, let's see, we got June 12th right now, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson. Brian Abbott over there. Hello. Hello. Hello. Howdy. Hello. We hope you're all well at home and here. Those who are in the chat, you know, you know who you are. We don't have to call you out.

But everybody at home listening, you know, we don't, we don't thank you enough for your listening ship, your listenership. So true. So true. So thank you for being there as you always are. We got a big show today. We got stuff lined up, things to talk about. You know, sometimes we get. get corrected here. Oh, I have a thing to tell you first. Right behind me, you can't tell, but there's a window behind all these posters. Okay. Right? It's a, what do you call it, a window well? Because I'm in a basement, and that's a window well, which means, for those not initiated with how basements work, because a lot of places don't have basements, it's like there's a grate out there that covers it, so nobody's going to fall in there. But then it's like a drop-down thing. And once in a

while I've had a mouse get in there, you know, or something like that. It's not a big deal. We've had rabbits fall in ours and... Sure. Normal to get some sort of rodent or, you know, otherwise thing in there. Well, the other day, I guess it was two days ago, and I forgot to mention this, I hear this sound that was like... MAM!

And then occasionally it would like bang on, they would hear like a bang sound. Oh, geez. And at first, I thought it was my power UPS thing. I thought that was being weird. Oh, yeah, like it was failing. Yeah. So I kept going like, is that the sound it makes? Brit, bramp like that?

No, it's supposed to go. So I didn't know what to make of it. And I don't want to take all these posters down to see. So I can only do it from the outside. So after shows were done and I got more curious about it, Carter and I went out there to check on what was going on. And we thought we'd find a mouse or a vole or something. Sure.

Full on, big old ass bird had somehow. oh no flown in there gotten through the grate it's basically like a grill you know just just enough space for for a bird to sort of slip in i guess uh and the birds fully seems to be fully mobile in there meaning it's it's not like flightless now it doesn't it hasn't hurt its wing or anything it's still going and then landing and going and i don't know what kind of bird it was uh so we got a rake and uh we took the grill off and it and then as soon as we did the grill off by the way, I thought it might fly because it had been trying to fly. As soon as we took the grate off, it just stared at us.

It just went, like it didn't move. Yeah, like, oh, shit, I'm about to die. If I stand really still, maybe they won't see me. Yeah, he looked all chicken and stuff. So I got the rake. We scoop way down there, and it very gently steps onto the rake. We pull the rake up. I got a little video of the last part of this, but I haven't posted it yet.

Anyway, lift it up and put the rake on the ground, and it's still staring at it. I was just looking at us. And I went, you're free or something to that effect. And it went, and took off. He was all good.

All good. Very cool. Yeah. Nice. Saved a bird, you guys. Take that nature. I'm not here to hurt you, except if you're a hornet.

If you're a hornet, then F off. And I still haven't done that, Brian. A little follow up on that. I was going to ask you about that if you'd done that. Yeah, so. No, I need to, though.

I'm going to do what you. I'm doing what you suggested, though. I'm going to go the, the raid. squirt. That's how we're doing it. Yeah. That's just how it's going to be. That's what you've got to do. One of the things we get here on the show are corrections from our listeners, and we have

a correction about a historical thing that I played the other day when I do, you know, sometimes we talk about today and history. Tomorrow is history yesterday. Yesterday is history today. That's what it is. Some dumb anime line. Here's a correction about how slavery worked, because one of them was that that was the day the first slaves arrived in Louisiana and that's where it started. I was apparently wrong

about that. So let's let the good Dr. Dalhoun, Calhoun explain. Dr. Calhoun. Here you go. Hey, Scott and Brian. This is Dr. Calhoun. Wasn't to call in some couple corrections about Thursday's TMS. You mentioned in the 1710s or something was the first time. French introduced African slaves to Louisiana. And I think, sadly, that was just Louisiana. History of slavery in the Americas goes back to a couple centuries earlier in the 1500s. And then you mentioned weddings and why you can marry somebody, but it takes so much more. But, you know, we have to remember there's a difference between the ceremony and then the legal marriage, you know, the merit certificate.

And you can only get that, you know, from the government. so anybody can marry anybody because it's just a religious ceremony so love the show though I knew that last part but I did not know the slavery thing yeah it makes sense right because you have to have the witness sign the thing the two witnesses and and all that sort of thing and that you've got even marriage license from the government so so I guess really me saying I'm ordained and you're now married isn't doesn't marry two people it's it's the piece of paper that everybody signs yeah yeah and on the slavery thing here's the thing I know for sure Slavery is bad.

I know that. Oh, yeah. Do I know every single little historical thing about it? Sadly, I do not. I probably could learn more. I could understand it more. I didn't know we had slavery going back as far as the 1500s. Like, wait a minute.

So if it's 1500s, like what's even here then? What's going on here in the 1500s? And the Americas, that is. I don't know. I don't know what's going on here. So slavery is bad. Just know that. And then if you want to learn more,

it's in a book Bringing Rainbow This is not the place You should come to learn about your slavery facts No don't come here for that No there's probably podcasts about this Go find those seek those out And learn but don't come here

Anyway thank you so much Yeah they do vary That's an interesting point they're making in the chat The rules about who can marry who And how it's legal and all that They do vary state to state here in the states I don't know how it is around the world but here you may find a lot of similarities like Arizona, Utah, the places I've done it,

they're all kind of the same. But if I want to do it in Nevada, it's a whole different bag. If I want to do it in other parts of the eastern part of the country, they're very different. So there's all this different shit you've got to do to get married in different places. But here it's just like, I don't know, I guess I was just surprised because when you grow up, you think, oh, marriage, the freaking institution of marriage. And then you get up and go, wait, I can do this for, I can just say these things and now they're married. Like, it didn't, it felt weird to me. Yeah. So, whatever, it is what it is.

I gotta get off my butt there. I mean, I do plenty of time. They're getting married in October, but, you know, just in case I need to do any, jump through any hoops. Better get, better get off my butt and get ordained. Who is it again? Remind me that you're getting. It is my niece, Maddie. Nice.

And I say niece, in quotes, because she's really my cousin. the, um, but George and I, my uncle George and I grew up kind of in the same house as brothers. It's not like one of those where I didn't know he wasn't really my brother until I was older. I mean, I knew he was my uncle. But, um, but we were so close in age, we kind of grew up as brothers. And then when you had kids and, and, uh, married into a really nice family, and, uh, they started calling me Uncle Brian. That's cool. That's cool. That's awesome. I think that's cool. You're going to get to do that. And it's funny because one of the, one of my quote unquote nieces,

has two daughters that also call me Uncle Brian. So I'm just officially just Uncle Brian on that side. Yeah. I had a guy named Uncle Tubby in our family that was not even, I don't even think he was like blood related to us. We are not relations. Yeah, but we still called him Uncle Tubby. Uncle Tubby.

And he wasn't even that Tubby, whatever that means. Maybe he was at one point and people calling him Uncle Tubby forced him into like, I'm going to eat better. I don't want to keep being Uncle Tubby. And people kept calling him Uncle Tubby and he's a damn it. You know, it's funny. I can't remember, I can't remember his name. I cannot remember my aunt's name or the person married to him.

I guess she was actually my aunt. Yeah, that actually was blood relations. Yeah, and her name is Aunt. Bubby, Bubby and tubby. I can't remember. But this was a guy. Like, if you saw a picture of tubby, you'd go, the 50s, the 1940s, the 1940s, let's call late 40s personified.

That was that guy. Pants up to here, freaking, uh, I don't even know how to explain this. Pocket protector with pins in it all the time. He looked like he worked at like a power plant in the 40s, this guy. And he had like really dark rim glasses and the black sideburns and the receding haircut. He just looked like a guy that would come out in an educational video in the 40s or 50s and go, Power in America.

Here's how it works. He was that kind of guy. And that's all I have any memory of that, dude. That's it. Just a living stereotype, that guy. Oh, yeah, love it. Anyway, we also got this note from Ryan and Michigan, and he has this to say, about fences and VR headsets in public.

Oh, good. He's addressing two of our topics. Yeah, one for each. Says, for TMS, Scott, without knowing your yard situation, yard situation. Yard situation. Yard situation. Y'all need to put that in a title. That's pretty good. Yeah. Anyway, without knowing your situation, try pull. putting up a small fence 5 to 6 inches around all the areas the kid keeps riding the bike through.

If possible, make that area a flower bed to justify the fence. Just a random, like, lawn with a point square right on the side that's a little garden with the vents around it. I mean, I have a neighbor who did that with a big rock so that people wouldn't back up on his little yard thing. So I guess I could do that. I found something like that. Let me pull it up. Okay. It is.

Let's see, Brian. See if you can give this to you as well. You reminded me of a story that I might need to tell after this topic here. Oh, you put it in our record. I put it in the wrong group, yeah. All right. So look at this, everybody. This is easy flex.

Easy flex. No landscape edging with anchoring spikes, they call it. It's basically a little decorative fence. It's a fence that you just put in with spikes. That is a little fence. You might actually be giving him a fun obstacle to try to jump over. Yeah, that's my problem is I don't know how, I mean, what do they say here? 4.5 inches is all.

It's not very tall, you know. It says tall, it says tall decorative anorondack wood look, but that's tall, no, no, it just says 4.5 inches tall decorative. Oh, you know why? Because they made the T of capital and I thought it was in a sense. Yeah, yeah, instead of having it be, yep, exactly. How much do I get here? It's all headlines. So I get a 15-foot kit.

That would be enough for 28 bucks. actually yeah what does kim say about all of this um i sent this to her and she said interesting and then we haven't we haven't talked about it since so i don't know but she's she's also against the oh she wants yeah she needs this to stop she's more mad than me it sounds like it sounds like she might even be more mad about it than you oh hell yeah she is not happy um more more so than i'm usually like you're kids i think i did this when i was his age like you know i'm not that big a deal to me but she's like i take care of that lawn i don't want that kid back there so can we uh Maybe we, two birds, one stone this.

Can you attach a string to the grass with like a little tiny grappling hook? And then attach the other end of the string to the wasp nest. And as the kid rides through the lawn, his bike hooks the wasp nest, pulls it off the eaves there, and he rides it down the street. Like getting rid of a tooth, you know? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, right. I like that.

We've learned nothing from Venn's tooth removal. process, then this is a great way to. Yeah, and one time would teach the kid the lesson with a wasp nest. Well, it would have to because you don't have any backup nests. Yeah. But those wass to be picked. The problem is they are back and around the other side of the house,

so it's not close enough. That's the problem. Okay. Yeah, that's the whole problem. This will work. Yeah. There's no issues with doing this to a kid. It's all fine. It's really just location. Yeah, so I also had another B running yesterday, but I put it in

the diary this morning. You guys will have to go listen to it. It was a freaking nightmare. I thought I was going to die. It all worked out in the end. Yeah, I went to a baseball game. Let's just say I had to run him with a bee or a wasp. I'm not even sure what it was. But it was not, it was not great. Brian, here's what he says about your Quest 2 issue, whether you should wear this in a workout or not.

Yeah. Brian, I have a Quest 2 and I use it every morning to work out on my sorry, and my battery only lasts about batterily? What am I trying to say? Betterly. Literally batterly. My battery only lasts about an hour and a half. If you plan on wearing it longer, then you may want to pick up a backup. It increases the weight, but I can barely notice on mine, says Ryan from Michigan. That is a good point.

But that's a cool way to do it. That's a cool way to time your workout, though, right? That's true, actually. Once I run out of battery, I run out a bike. Yeah. That'd be perfect. Yeah, I need to, I'm still considering this picking up a, picking up, because right now it's just the stock foam face insert.

And if I'm doing this, I'm getting it. the faux leather padding cover because gross. I want something I could just wipe off with a towel if it gets all swampy inside that thing when no air getting in and out of it. I think it's

cheap too. I got one for my Quest 2 for like 30 bucks. They're not bad. Those things are great. Some that are like battery powered fans on them or something if you need it. Yeah and I think that one actually included the lock-in counterweight thing. I'll see what I got and send you a

link because it that thing is freaking awesome and it doesn't get sweaty and you can wipe it all down and all that and the one that comes with it i mean listen meta you're working hard on the vr world i get it your spongy ass freaking default face sponge thing is disgusting on anyone even if all they're doing is getting sweaty playing uh this beat saver or something yeah exactly eff that noise don't many people get all gross with your sponge no i don't want to I don't want to let somebody borrow my Quest 2 now. That's why I've got my Quest 1 for, or whatever it was when I bought it, not meta.

That's right. You're still an Oculus Quest, but it's just, it wasn't meta at the time. Yeah, that's true. Here it is. It's called, oh, come on now. Search orders, here we go. Oh, come on, Quest.

It's called, here it is, the Oculus Quest 2, elite strap for enhanced support. Okay. I'll send you a link, and it worked great, and it was so, it's so, like, perfectly balanced that it made the thing feel less front-heavy. You know how they feel a little front-heavy? Yeah. This helped with that.

So, it's only 24 bucks right now. Oh, that's great. All right. I'm in. Check it out. So I mentioned, you know, when you mentioned the thing was that anime, yesterday is news today or history today. It reminded me that on Monday, I did a little bit of rideshare driving and picked. up somebody who was

who had shoot I'm completely blanking on the term they're deaf but what do you say they have hearing um issues hearing loss or I mean I think they were I think they were completely deaf

okay they can't they can't hear at all they're deaf exactly hearing impaired my God the word impaired I could not remember there it is got it impaired And pick them up at the Coors plant in Golden and then drove them all like a 35-minute ride up to North Glen, which is a long way, 35 minutes for a ride like that. And, you know, he gestures and speaks a little bit to let me know that he can't hear. And so I show him the phone and say, is this the address I'm taking you to?

And he's like, gives me the thumbs up. So he gets in the car, we go. And he immediately starts listening to, like, watching a YouTube thing of an anime cartoon, I can tell, because of the vocals. And he's got it super loud cranked up. Oh, and I guess he doesn't know it's turned up then. And he doesn't know it's turned up, or he's not fully impaired. Like, you might be able to hear a little bit. Sure.

Sure, it could be. But then I notice about 20 minutes into the ride. I hear this breathing, and it's like, oh, he is falling asleep. He is asleep in the back. Like, his anime is still loud, and he is zonked out. And I'm like, wow, all right, so do I do what I get to his destination if he's still asleep? I mean, I have to, the only thing I can reach from turning around from the front seat is his leg. And that feels a little weird to, like, tap him on the leg, but.

I mean, if you can't reach any other part of him, what else are you going to do? You've got to do something. I can't tap him on the shoulder or anything like that. do I find a speed bump or do I stop short really quick or something to like jolt him away oh man this is the thing they don't prepare they don't prepare you for you don't train you for this they don't tell you what to do in in lift school for her for that sort of thing but um fortunately just as we were getting like turning onto his block I hear that noisy of people they're just waking up and uh and he gets out of the car and I do the because I learned this

says, thank you. It is. And I do that and send him on his way. Here's my impression of what you did to wake him up. Yeah. That would work for me, but I also don't want to alert the neighbors. Hey, everybody. Bradley, I'm coming home right now.

Wow. That's cool. Could he read lips, do you know? Oh, I don't know. Because I never mouthed anything to him. I just, once I knew he was hearing impaired, I basically just showed him the phone. And like, did raise the eyebrows like, this is where I'm taking you and he's like yeah I think he gave me a thumbs up and all of a sudden

fireworks appeared oh wow that's crazy how that works yeah I think lip reading is cool I've always admired it like yes I don't love that people who are hearing impaired have to use it like I I wish there was a you know I don't I wish they didn't have to but I but when they do it's like how are you doing that yeah like with all the different ways people talk and the way their mouths move and you know what they're saying? That's crazy. It's so cool. Somebody had told me yes. Monica saying hearing impaired is not the correct term. What is it then? Well, tell me what the correct term is, Monica.

I mean, everyone knows what we mean. So unless it's not, it's not like rude to say hearing impaired, is it? You never know anymore. You got to, you know, these words. Words mean stuff and you got to be careful. Hard of hearing? Hard of hearing, really? No, because my grandpa was hard of hearing, but he could still hear stuff. Right? That's old term. That's old people going, I'm a little hard of hearing speak up. It's like that, right? See, I thought, and I said deaf at the beginning, and I thought deaf is probably less preferred these days than hearing impaired.

Well, my daughter's friend goes, my daughter's... My daughter has a friend who's fully deaf, and they say deaf, so I don't know if that they speak for everybody or not, but I don't think it's a, I don't think it's one of those terms that's been. demonized or anything as far as I know I think mute isn't cool probably no but what do you say so if somebody isn't um because of their heart of hearingness what do you say if they if they don't speak you don't say mute but what do you say say verbally nonverbal hard of hard of verbal probably nonverbal like when you got a like an autistic kid who can't speak. Nonverbal.

That makes sense. Yeah. That's good. That sort of thing. I just think of that dude and Superman too. What was his name? Oh, non. Non.

Yeah. Here, take the cellophane S off my chest non, and you'll fall back into the negative zone that I keep here in the side of my fortress of solitude. Yep. Those guys. By the way, I think we're all kind of getting trained on how to read lips better, things to gifts. Oh, yeah. Because you'll see the words underneath the gifts.

like you'll see Liz Lemon say I want to go to there and you'll read her lips and say oh that is exactly what she's saying and you're getting we're all being trained by by social media yeah but when you when you go to that YouTube channel that does bad lip reading how do you how do you how do you how do this I would there's another sign of field episode where Kramer thinks he can read lips. Oh, yeah. And he's got Marley Matlin. He's looking at through binocular. Oh, no, that's right. It's, uh, yeah.

Yeah, he's at a party. Marley Matlin and other people are on the other side of the room and he's interpreting. And it's nothing like what they're saying. That would be me. I'd be like, I think he just said he wants to eat a car or something like that. Right. And I would be wrong, dude. Oh, God.

Uh, well, anyway, it's a power I respect. There we go. Let's move on. Thank you, Ryan, for Michigan, by the way. He sent that as an email that went to the morning stream at gmail.com and Dr. Calhoun called us on our voicemail line, 8014710462. You're encouraged to use that any time

for either voicemails or texts. It's now time to play a game. We're going to bring Dunaway in to play it, plus a listener. If I can find his name, oh, shit. it's there somewhere i'll find it you guys don't you worry brian seems distracted so he's good all right here we go i'm answering a question about dj stengel asked if we have the same

exact same glasses and i guess instead of typing my response i can say nonless scott bought his off a rotating rack of wallgreens nope got mine on it on amazon they're cheap though it's like six bucks for his are like gunners for uh light blockage mine are for these are fake reading up close no prescription on these I did not have the LASIC surgery So I need these for a little bit of close Well I didn't either I had

I had cataract surgery You don't want that That's it I don't want that either No that's for 80 year olds I would still rather not have that And rather have correction to be honest But you know Life gives you lemons when you take the limes

Or however the phrase goes Look how it is. It's Brian Dunaway joining us. Hi, Brian. Welcome. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. How is your Wednesday? Oh, you know, it's just full of joy.

And now that you're here, it's complete. Super. Dooper. Feels good to having you here. Super to the dopers. We're going to play a game with you. You know that. But does our listener know that?

Well, they do too. I'm pulling them in now. I hope so, too. It's a free monster. Free monster! And they haven't answered yet, but they supposedly are at the ready. We'll see how this goes here. Hopefully we get them right away.

I prefer to pay for my monsters if you don't. Then you are the product. That's right. Hi, is this free monster? Yes, it is. Hello, welcome to the show. How are you? Good, guys.

Good to see you guys live finally. Yeah, heck yeah. Yeah. Good to have you here. You saw us live in Vegas, so what do you complainant about? Yeah. Yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point.

I'm halfway through that bottle of gin. Wow. And it is delicious. I bet. We can't call a problem. Do you keep it handy, like at your desk in case you need a swing? No, no. What am I, Don Draper?

Like, roll open half a globe and, like, have glasses and an ice bucket that Christina Hendrix lovingly filled for me? No, I have to go. upstairs and I figured it was like a I don't know like your bowl of redhots or whatever it is you do you're not right let me clarify it is a Cleveland Plain dealer great results jar of cinnamon atomic fireballs that's awesome those are always there those lovingly provided by Mike Pacholich yeah everybody's sending us cool stuff what can you do how many of those fireballs do you have to eat before you can no longer fill your face

12 simultaneously. Yeah, challenge accepted. And whatever you do, don't make me laugh while I have all 12 in my mouth because I will swallow some, and boy, they burn on the way out. I'll just say that. I've got a real bad visual from that. Well, anyway, it's a good daddy both here. When you eat some spicy, you put toilet paper in the freezer. Really?

Really? Oh, I like that idea. Okay, grandma. Oh, my daughter had me do a thing the other day where I wrapped a Coke Zero in wet paper towel. and then you put it in the freezer for 25 minutes, you set a timer. And the reason you have to set a timer. So it's a warm from the garage can. Yeah.

Wrap it in water, water soak thing. And if you don't, if you go longer than 25 minutes, you risk it exploding. And not only that, it will explode. You won't know about it. And then that liquid will then freeze on top of everything. It's a real nightmare.

So don't forget about it. But if you do that, it works great. I just don't do it at all. It works great. Drink it like a normal person. You need. 25 minutes wrapped in a. a wet paper towel. Yes. And it's cold as ice when you pull it out. It's so good.

With it? It's cold as ice. Yeah. You don't want it. The freezer. Yeah. The other thing you can do is just get a bowl, put ice and water in it. Yeah. And then put the drink in there and just roll it back. Like while you're working on something else, just with your other hand, roll it back and forth in that bowl of ice water and about and salt, right. And in about five minutes, that thing will be refrigerator cold. What's the salt part do? the salt helps melt the ice Which keeps it smooth Makes it colder Yeah

They're just straight ice and water Keeps it smooth What are you talking about Brian? Keeps it smooth, Scott Well anyway Let's be smooth and smoothly Play a game Brian a bit here

We'll explain the rules And what free monster might win today Go ahead Brian take it away It's time to play the tadpooly feud I've surveyed the tadpull on some nerdy topics And Scott and Brian have to predict the answers That they gave us It's their job

to see how many of those answers they can guess. Michael, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. If your team wins, you'll get a prize package that includes Victoria 3 and Fashion Police Squad. Curse of Nighttime Vision. Fashion Police Squad is an awesome first-person kind of retro shooter. It is so good.

Oh, really? I would not have expected based on that name that it's a first-person shooter. Yeah, it's totally... Yeah, it's very unexpected and very great. love that game yeah when you're an indie game developer you can name it wherever the hell you want that's right you don't have a you don't have a uh focusing marketing group don't call it that yeah yeah but it's cool in the game itself you actually shoot fashionable things at these horrible people that now are fashionable when you're

done so they become yeah yeah yeah so really is the fashion police yeah instead of killing people instead of killing anyone you actually just make them you glow the you glow them up as the kids are fond of saying it's really good you're not joan rivers like pointing a microphone at them on the red carpet saying what are you wearing no thankfully that part not in the game dLC you got to you got to pay separate for that delc great and her horrible don't more wardrobe options yeah that's right let's give you guys your topic uh this is a fun one boy did we have some answers for this uh we asked 511 tadpoolers to give their best answer to this put your hands on your buzzers and tell me what is

Your least favorite household chore. No. Scott. Uh, toilet cleaning, cleaning the toilet. Cleaning the toilet. I like clingy. Clinging the toilet. Number one answer on the board.

Yeah, nobody likes cleaning the toilet. No. Cleaning the bathroom. I lumped a couple extra things in there. I like cleaning the toilet. It's like getting in the pool. Ew. What?

Why? How? How so? You got to get in there, buddy. You got to get a scrubber in the underside. Yeah, but what's that like the pool? I'll just get in the pool. You got to get your head down.

You got to get your head down in there and then accidentally flush it. So, wait a minute. You're in there scrubbing away and you're going, ah, you know what this is like? This is like a nice dip in the pool on a hot day. I'm starting to think Scott's never even cleaned the toilet. I've cleaned plenty of toilets. And I do like them when they're clean, but I don't like doing it.

You know, I don't want to do it. Well, anyway, This is great because that means I get to work with that free monster hair. That'll be fun. There you go. You get free monster as a teammate. All right. Well, that means you get to keep going.

There are nine answers left on the board. You've got a point. What do you think, Free Monster? What do you like? You like something you hate doing that home? Well, like, again, it's what the tadpool says. I'm going to say a suggestion, doing the dishes. Oh, yeah.

I like that. I also hate doing dishes. So I think that's a good answer. Let's say doing the dishes, Brian. All right. Show me. Dishes are done, man. Number two.

Household chore. People got that reference. Household chores. Household. Household. How do we feel about, yeah, go ahead. What do you got? Taking out the trash.

Trashes, yep, I was just going to say, perfect. I just did that today and it annoyed me, so I think taking out the trash. Taking out the trash. the trash. Show me. Taking out the trash. Number 10 answer on the point.

It's always good to get big points, but it's also scary when it's 10 because that's so close to 11. I don't like it. How about

how about vacuuming? There are people that just hate vacuuming. So how about that? Sounds good to me. Yeah, I hate anything that's got that weird double letter U in the middle

of it. Show me vacuuming. vacuum uming yeah number seven seven more points 20 points for scott and free we're tearing through this man um

got any others you know what I know what's missing from this particular episode that we're doing right now what's that Brian I need I need I need Kim to be here so she can

scoff at everything that Scott says oh I hate vacuuming yeah you haven't touched the vacuuming vacuum. You've got a Roomba down here, Scott. Not true. Although I would love a roomba in here. That's a good idea. But I don't have. I just vacuum yesterday. I think this is a good. I was going to say this is a good time to ask Scott because Kim was gone for two weeks. He actually probably had to do a lot of this stuff. Yeah. But only in the last hour before she rides home. Let me tell you. I do dishes. I do dishes a ton. I take out garbage almost exclusively. I do that I do that every time. I can almost get Kim's eye roll from here. I'll admit she does the bathroom most of the time. She usually is a bathroom cleaner. I'm kind of let it go too long kind of guy. And here's another one that we should mention.

Laundry. Because she'll do laundry. She doesn't like the way I do laundry. So she'll do laundry. Unless she's gone and I'll do it. That's good. Yeah. Let's do laundry, Brian.

All right. Let's do laundry. Oh, good. Go me laundry. Sounds good to me. Hold on that one and a number three, taking up to 23. points. Doing pretty good here.

Do we, is there even a chance for it, Donald? Like ironing was part of that folding. It's like, well, because you had people who just said laundry, then people who said ironing folding. So it's like, all right, we'll put them all together. Okay. So I got, I'm curious, like, would you, like, I don't want to give one to Dunaway here.

Yeah. Is it only in, like Scott, do you think it's only inside the house as a chore? Well, like you say, the tadpole may have ventured outside and I'll bet you Brian won't tell us. And if you won't tell us, that tells me that one of these at least is probably like, I won't tell you. But I consider, I consider household anything in and around the household.

Okay. So you want to say do the yard work, lawn, cutting the lawn? Yeah. Another thing, my wife hates how I do it, but I do it. She hates how I do it. I find it therapeutic. I like it too. I don't mind doing it.

It's fun. And I put headphones on. I sort of escape for a while. The problem is she doesn't like the, she likes to do pretty lines. like yeah you know what do you do you just randomly go around or something i just do like a circle and work my way in and you know a spiral circle sure yeah you start on the outside start on the outside you work your way in you get to the center you mean the most efficient way to cut grass like a psychotic you do a spiral around the line i know she hates it she you and i would you and her would have a lot

to talk about it this dinner we're gonna do the 45 degree angle and then do the other 45 degree angle so looks like a baseball field. Oh, my gosh. She would agree with you. She would agree with you. She would totally agree with you. That's why she doesn't like it when I do it. But yeah, let's say, let's say that. Let's say mowing and mowing accessories.

If you live in an HOA, there's the difference between how you want to mow the lawn and how you're supposed to mow the lawn. Show me mow in the lawn. Yeah, good one. The lawn, I think, with 31 points that kind of makes you mathematically impossible to beat, but it's all right. Obviously, we're going to keep going. We've got four answers left on the board.

Hey, Free Monster, how do you feel about emptying cat litter or, you know... You know what? I was thinking that, too. We have a bunch of cat to cat, cat, cagulligans here, so I think that sounds like fun. Cat litter, dog, dog, pet, maybe. Not changing. It might all be lumped together, but I'm going to, you know, we'll just say pet maintenance

or, you know, cat litter or something like that. Sure. All right. Show me cleaning the little turds out of the litter box. Yeah, number six. 37 points for Scott. That one is really my least favorite. Why even bother saying the score anymore? A listener who complains that I don't say the score.

The one listener. Yeah, that one guy. That's whatever. I've been appeasing the one guy says I hang up on Dunaway too fast. So we do that sometimes. We play on the guy who feels embarrassed for me doing my songs. Sure. I've been a beneficiary of a couple of those.

Yeah, that's true. You have. what about oh sorry i was going to say like uh like washing the floors or something like that oh yeah like uh mopping floor mopping yeah that it's it's the sister to the vacuuming we'll say floor mopping brian show me get up wow we are five will this be if we do this will this be our first this would if you guys get these last two i think it'll be the first time anyone's ever single swept the board and no strikes no strike no strike Yeah, made Brian wonder why even comes here in the morning with us and does this.

Oh, I have fun. I have fun because the whole time you're doing this, I'm serious trying to think, what do they call it household? That's two separate words is one. What does household mean? English. Right. It's weird.

Why not just a house chore? What's your least favorite house chore? Household. What's another? See, now I've put pressure on us. Is it housekeep? Maybe dusting or? Oh, dusting's good.

I love it. Dusting. No, no, no. Let's do dusting first because dusting freaking. sucks, especially in the West. I hate it. Oh, yeah. It seems to never set. It always settled back to where it was. Yeah, it sucks.

Especially when you've got as many little collectibles and little things all over the places. I'm just saying, I'm just saying out here in Colorado, Utah, we live in kind of the desert, the high desert. You guys down there, it's moist and you get dust, but you don't get it like this. Yeah, yeah, but you got to remember that a lot of

the structures built around here included carpet. So everything's carpet dust. Yeah, that's true. I didn't think about that. Yeah, we like floors here. Well, we used to like carpet, whatever. Carpet, let me just say something about carpet. Yeah.

Carpet was a mistake by human beings. It's one of human, humanity. We don't wear shoes in our houses, so that's not normal. Yeah. It's just, I hate it. I hate carpets. I like rugs. I like rugs.

I don't like carpets, and I want to murder anyone who puts carpet in their bathroom or the kitchen. Yeah. Bathroom carpet. The people that put bathroom carpet up to the edge of their toilet, but then buy another rug so that any kind of pee scrapings will go there. What are you? What are we even doing? How do you pee? Driplings, I should say. Driplings. Just all of two feet back from the urinal. Yeah. And I, and I whittle it like a piece of wood. Anyway, go ahead. What did we say? What was our, oh, dusting. Dusting. Dusting. Absolutely locked in. Dusting. Show me. Dusting. thing. Yeah. Oh my God. You made us wait for that one. Thank you, Wibbitt. 46 points to zero.

One answer left on the board, but it's a biggie. It's number nine. Free Monster, you got any any hot. Dog puke. Everybody hates doing the dog puke. I was going to say, like, you know, we picking up dog poop. Oh, man. It sounds like a

90s grunge band dance. Picking up dog poop. Got to pick it up. shake it off a little bit. That's right. Or like washing the walls or baseboards or something like that. Oh, cleaning the mirrors and the windows.

Ooh, that's a good one. Oh, cleaning windows is a sucky one. Oh, I'm torn. I feel privileged to do this one because it doesn't matter. We want the winner to win. Yeah. Get it right or not. So what do we like at all that?

You guys, pet clean. So you said dog poop. What was the other one? You have windows. Windows. Cleaves or baseboards? Uh.

Mm-hmm. I'll go, I mean, I'm down with whatever. Let's go with three monsters. Let's say baseboards and walls, or, you know, whatever that is. Show me cleaning the baseboards. Damn it. You fools. That's all right.

You fools. It depends on what Brian Dennelly gets here, but. I was hoping to go a non-X sweep. That would have been a great thing. That would have been cool. I think I should get the opportunity to make all. three strikes at this point. I think that should be the rule. If you get down to the last

one. One right after. Oh, I can see what you're saying. Yeah. Yeah. Since I didn't get to play the whole game. Yeah, right. You should get three guesses right here. I should get three. I get a chance to get all three strikes. I love it. I'm going to say washing the windows. Because apparently everybody hates it so much, they never do it. Good answer. Good answer. Yeah. All those things that say, I don't do windows. Yeah. Right. Commercials in the 80s. All right. Show me.

I only do Mac OS. I don't do Windows. Oh. Windows, what number was Windows? The windows to the DOWs. Let's see. That was number 18, looks like. How do we feel about gutter cleaning?

Or not gutter cleaning. That's a good one. That's a really good option. Yeah, I'm torn between that and bedmaking, which we could go back to if we buzz on this. Like my Kim My Kim Kim was out of town

For two weeks And during that two weeks I made the bed once And the day I made it Was the day she came home So that she was You know She could come home to a nice clean room

But yeah I don't know I'm torn on that Okay I'll let you know what Gutters or Don poop Let's do gutters then Gutters

Okay I do hate doing gutters I hate it Show me gutters I'm kind of amazed that gutters Oh there we go One person said gutters So tied for 21st place

I think that's one of the problem with gutters Is no one thinks to do them until it's too late And then it's a problem Until water is spilling over the side All over the place I put up gutter guards What about five or six years ago So I got tired of that crap

Is it the mesh on top Or is it the fancy like metal water slide That you know The water goes in and everything all slides out of the side. No, just a little mesh. It works pretty good. I haven't had to do it in a couple of years.

I get up there once in a while and go. Are you sure? It's like, yeah, I'm good. I'm like, all right. Let's keep moving. All right. Hey, Scott. Oh, never got.

It's Brian. You can tell them anyway. Tell them. What do you want? Somebody mentioned, I wonder if they would fall under it. Washing the dishes is the same as emptying the dishwasher. Oh, right. I'll believe that I did.

I did any dishwasher stuff I did combine. Like washing dishes, emptying the dishwasher. Same as how laundry folding and ironing were a part of that as well. Oh, someone in the chat's got a good one about snow removal. Done away, you don't have that down there, but that's a big one. I hate it. We get multiple feet of that out of year. Yeah.

We get a lot of snow here. It sucks ass. I'm going to go with my least favorite household chore is taking out the clothes hanger and digging out all the hair out of the sink. Wait a minute. it you mean like you all right that's fine i don't care i think we should go for that one that sounds awful yeah even if you do it you often always have to take what you find around the house and go look at this i'm going to get you one of those little plastic things that looks like a zip tie oh yeah you can use those zip pole because that actually those are actually they really are they're

great however it's never where you let last left it's always gone oh you don't just keep it in the closest cabinet, the bathroom. Where do I keep it? Yes. Yeah. Where does it get put to it? I don't know.

All right. I just pour an air down the drain and that seems to get rid of any hair. Yeah. Yeah, just a big bottle of there. I have to call you out. You really have hair issues with your drain. I mean, it comes off my back and clumps. Well, let's do it.

Let's do it. Let's do the hair in the drain. All right. Cleaning the hair out of the drains, wherever they are. Hopefully, the bathroom and not the kitchen. It's not on this list, but I guarantee you it's your least favorite household chore. You know what? You're not wrong.

I'm trying to see if there's anything even close. I mean, I hate plumbing stuff in general, and that's one of them. There's one person said fixing plumbing, and I think, oh, an unplugging toilet is in here, too, but way, way, way, low on the list. I don't want to use a plungeer on ever. Keep in mind that I do share a house with a woman who has a lovely head of hair. Absolutely, you're absolutely right. Good answer, good answer. What do you think about the snow removal?

It's snow removal or dog poop? That's where I'm going. How about both? How about the yellow snow? Shoveling the snow and or dog poop. Let's find out. Let's do, let's get dog poop. poop out of the way because that is a shitty one

no pun intended I do hate it though show me dog poop judges all right oh my god yard work slash weeding you know

it's a little bit of a reach but it's like all right oh you know there is a separate one person it was going to be a win here anyway one person said picking up dog shit right Brian yeah yeah exactly and here's the thing you cannot go do yard work until you get the poop up so it all works together it's fine sure sure yeah all right that's a boy look at all the look at all my color on this no purple to be seen that's fantastic i know i know let's uh some of the

rest of these answers um number 11 was cleaning the kitchen or oven like cleaning the oven cleaning baseboards was on there that was number 13 uh shoveling snow number 15 uh cooking some people are clicking I have to love it Let's see brushing my teeth Cleaning growth That's not a household chore

It's not a household chore Cleaning the pool Oh poor you having to clean your pool Cleaning vomit off the toilet Geez Dealing Almost made it Almost

Getting my kids to do the chores Is the most difficult household chore Pulling my wife's hair out of the shower drain. There's that one for you, Brian. Putting sheets on the bed. That's, you know, that's a good point. Like, the fitted sheets can be difficult. Shaving my wife's back, really nice.

Oh, my God. Washing walls and your mother. I don't know why somebody just answered your mother. My God. I want to know who that was. That's awesome. You know what this means? It means this.

Congratulations. You're a winner. And we swept it, effectively. We swept it. But you don't like sweeping, so it wasn't your favorite. No, I swiffered it as what I did. I swiffered this entire list. But that's awesome.

You win, man, and Brian, remind him what he's won. Yeah, oh yeah. Let's talk about those games a more time. Courtesy of nighttime visions, you're getting Victoria 3 and Fashion Police Squad. Nice. I'm messaging them to you right as I say this, so you'll see them in just a second. Yep. Well done. Free Monster. You've done it. We hope to have you on here one time again in the future. In the meantime, have a fantastic day. We'll see you next time.

Hey, Don't forget, man, this Friday, you and I, boy, howdy, are we going to get together for Play Retro? Why don't you remind the folks what we're doing? Well, we're going to beat up some people on the streets and some streets of rage. Specifically, I think me and Scott prefer streets of rage too, but we'll have to have that conversation on the show. I think the world prefers two. Two is just the best of the series, although I think four makes a strong case. I've been kind of surprised at some of the things I liked about one that they really didn't carry four to believe it or not.

I could see that. Look, I'm not saying that, you know, I'm not saying anything. I'm saying that this music right here. Oh. Listen to this. Do you remember this? All right, give it a second.

Wait for it to drop. Oh, baby. I mean, you can just fill the 92 in that, can't you? That is really. Yeah. That is so complex. What a complex composition for a video game.

For a Genesis game with that shitty sound chip. It's amazing. Anyway, we'll talk about Streets of Rage and it's Legacy. And also they've got a new one coming that we don't even know much about right now. But there's also a live action. No, no, animated thing coming. Some story based on Streets of Rage is coming out. I forgot what that was.

Did you read the Sonic comic Streets of Rage strips this week? No, but you're a nerd, and so I'm sure you did. Yeah, well, you know, I like to do my research. We'll give you some early impressions on the Ambernik SP as well, which I got one from Brian Dunaway actually forwarded it to me, and there's a whole story behind that. So tune in Friday, 1.30 Mountain Time to find out more. Dunaway, thanks for being with us today. Oh, thank you guys. Enjoyed it.

See you soon. Thank you. Oh, bye. Bye. See? See? Didn't cut them off at all. All right. Brian, time to do a song. And then when we come back, Tom Merritt, we'll do some tech stuff.

We got some recommendals after that. And it's going to be a very personal private recommendals with you and I today. Yes, just the two of us. We can make it if we try. So we're going to do that. Real quick, just a note. I found out that Roosevelt makes a pair of these, Brian. Would you wear these?

I'm going to put them in our Discord. Put them in our Discord. Would you rocky these? No, I wouldn't wear those. I don't see why I would wear. Yeah. I mean, you know what? I have no problem wearing those.

I'd wear those when I do my VR stationary bike riding at the Harris Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas Strip. Get some video and that's all I ask. All right. Brian, a song. Tell us about this song. Yeah. So this is exciting because a lot of people in the listening audience. audience like the band Authority Zero.

I'm included in that. There's a lead singer by the name of Jason DeVore. He's actually releasing his fourth solo LP. It's called Till the Voice Goes Out. This is great. Big thanks to double Helix Records for sending this one. He's got his brand new album. The whole thing is out now, so you can listen to the whole thing.

This is the first single from the album. It's called Turn It Off. It also features the Atari's. Who else is it feature in this thing? deer in the headlights and the format. No, I take that back. That's who he's worked with before. It's the Atari's and Mercy Music are featured on this time.

I was hoping it was the Calicovisions and the Intellivisions and the... The Atari's. Yeah. All the old consoles, I was really hoping. Right. It was the 3D, the Jaguars. Oh, the Jaguar. The Jaguars.

All right, here is Jason DeVore and turn it off. The devastation slithers in my skin, the broken glass and bottles hit my chin. A conversation whispers through these walls, call a medicase flatline the duty calls. I realize it's taking all I give. Survival instincts and frequencies tune in. In my mind, my mind, oh what a place, it's laughable at best for taste of space. I don't know what's going on. days, only that it's all a blurry way.

Turn it off, it's ringing in my head, the sound of my patience wearing then. I turn it off not coming through so clear, only here ecstatic in these ears. Turn it off, I'm just thinking out loud, I swear I didn't make a sound. Turn it off not making myself clear, only hear ecstatic in these ears. I thought if nothing goes wrong, I'll take the chance to leave this proximity vacated mess. Polific thoughts brought through this shapelessness, casting its shadow, how unfortunate I'll re-evaluate a streak out loud, this putrid, unforgiving cloud, unhinged, exposing all within, and eyewitness crack the case again.

I don't know what's going all these days, only that it's all a blur, and it's all a blur and turn it off it's ringing in my head the sound of auditions wearing this turn it off not coming through so clear only hearing static in these ears turn it off i'm just thinking about us where i swear what didn't make a sound turn it off not making myself clear only hearing static in these years Breathe and forget it, breathe and forget it, breathe and forget it, breathe and forget it, relax instead it, relax you're dead it, relax you're dead it, relax, I'm your martyr. I'm your story within It's no wonder I'm going crazy again Yeah, just sit there And just take it all in

May seem crazy Now I'm just at my wit's end I don't know what's going all the days Only that it's all the blur anyway Turn it off, It's ringing in my head, the sound of my patience wearing thin. Turn it off, not coming through so clear, only hearing static in these years. Turn it off I'm just thinking about, I swear I didn't make a sound.

Turn it up, not making myself clear, only hearing static in these ears. It's ringing in my head. It's got me crazy. again It's ringing in my head It's going to be crazy again We'll only air We'll only air episodes involving whales and really big sea creatures

Isn't that every episode? I could host on location from the Caribbean with a few humpbacks, maybe a giant sea horse. That's ridiculous. Thanks, Mark Alexey. And we're back. Who is that again? Sure, that's Jason DeVore with a cover, no, no, no cover, original called Turn It Off. from his brand new album called Till the Voice Goes Out.

Thanks, Mark Alexi. You're welcome. You're welcome. You know what? When Tim Cook resigns or whatever he does, retires. Can we please put Federigi in charge? Just let him do it all. He can get around really fast because of that parkour.

Oh, of course. From one department to the other, he can skydive. He can get all over the place. He can do whatever he needs to do. That guy's a goofball, and I am here for it. I think it's fantastic. All right. All right. Let's get Tom Merritt in. He is going to talk some tech. We love doing that. That's what Wednesdays are for. So we're going to do that now once I find his thing to push buttons on. Here we go. We want Tom. Thomas Merritt joining us. His mom called him Thomas. I don't know why I'm doing that. He is joining us as he does each Wednesday.

I don't think he even called me Thomas. Oh, really? Really? Never a Thomas, always a Tom. Unless I was in trouble, yeah. Well, I'm trying to think I guess my Thomas Andrew Merritt I was going to ask you what your middle name was It's Andrew, huh? Yep, I didn't know that One of the Andrews

One of the Andrews sisters Well, it's good to have you here, Mr. Andrews Oh, there's your camera angle that we're used to Good to have you here. Tom Merritt talks about tech here on the show And Toast That's right, I don't know

That did look like toast Putting his pop tart down Anyway, Tom's here, talk tech. I wish my display would just pop up something. That'd be amazing. Tom is, you know, it's kind of a big week for tech, I think, for at least for Apple people. Yeah, yeah, yes and exactly, right? Like, it's a big week for tech because WWDC is always chock full of news.

This year's no exception. And it's Wednesday. There's still lots of stories coming out of WWDC. There's a few other things, too. But it's probably not as big of a non-apples. tech news week because a lot of companies don't want to put out their press release in a week where it's just going to get swamped by all the apples. Yeah, they may move out of the way so they can have a nice wide berth for it. Anything in particular that's just like just burning a hole in

your soul today? You know, we talked yesterday about some of the follow-ups from WWDC. And I think the one that resonated most with folks who watched DTNS yesterday is how Apple intelligence Apple's version of large language models works. I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about that. So if you don't mind, I know a lot of folks already heard this on DTS, but I'll just repeat it. There are three ways that Apple's large language models. It's got a lot of machine learning stuff that it does on your devices too.

And that's the stuff you heard it talk about just inside the OS, you know, stuff where photos can find people that you tag, like, oh, that's Eileen, and then it can find all the pictures. That's all machine learning. Large language model stuff is the generative stuff. That's the chat GPT-like stuff. So the way Apple is doing us, they have three ways of processing it. The first way will be on your device. So it learns from you. It keeps it on the device. Apple never even, it never even touches anything else from Apple. so it's all located within the iPad, the Mac, the iPhone that you're using, right? So if it's doing some writing assistance or anything like that, that's all taking place.

Now, occasionally, depending on what machine you're using, and again, not every machine's going to be able to take advantage of this stuff, but if you're using machine capable of it, occasionally it'll hit a request where it's like, I can't really process that effectively on device, even with, you know, the M-Series processors. So that's where it will send it to the private cloud compute. And that's what I think is causing the most confusion. That's not going to open AI. That's not going anywhere on an open cloud server. It's actually going to an Apple data center to an Apple server running Apple Silicon. So it's not Invidia or anything like that. And it is using Swift security to only send the portion of the data.

and necessary to process the request. It is encrypted end-to-end, and then it processes and sends back an answer to your machine over the internet. That is the one that Apple made a big deal out of. The code is transparent to third-party security experts for validation. I still have some questions about who, and when do we get to see that report. But that's the right thing to do, short of open-sourcing, that's the right thing to do to say like we are not going to expect you to trust us we're going to let others come in and

vet this uh but that's the one i think people are like oh so you're sending it to the cloud if if this all works the way apple described it and i don't expect it not to apple will never see those requests it will be as if they were on your device it's just they're using an end-to-end encrypted connection for some processes okay so apple is in control of when that happens and the other one that's getting a lot of uh a lot of misunderstanding because people just hear the headline is that in some cases you'll be able to use chat gpt for free to send a request apple is in full control of when that happens you don't get to decide apple gets to decide when it goes hey in this particular case while you're reading right in that email you want chat gpt to

take a crack at it and then you decide yes or no and only that request goes to chat gpt it doesn't come with any identifying information. It doesn't get logged over there, which, you know, could be good or bad. Unless you have an OpenAI account, you want to link to your iOS, then it might, but it doesn't have to. So it's not like OpenAI is getting a bunch of your data from Apple. It's only getting limited data when Apple chooses to send it, and you can choose not to. You can say, no, I don't want ChatGPT to see that particular request. So, So it's very limited in how your data is exposed. And I think it's a pretty decent way of going around it.

It's also, if it works as advertised, which again, you know, we need to get it in more hands before that stuff can be tested. But if it works at advertised, it shows that Apple's large language models are competitive. They're probably not up to par with GPT40, but they're at least up to par with meta, probably close to Google. and so they are not as far back in the race as a lot of people thought. Yeah, it's interesting because I think last week, even right here, we talked about what we had hoped we would get out of the AI stuff, and it may have been stuff I said on DTNS, and I can't remember where I said it. But my comments were basically, I want rubber meets the road practicality,

maybe even a little boring. Like, I don't need all the flash in the pan. We're shoving AI down every throat possible. I don't need any more of that. I just want to know how's this going to be, you know, usable in a real world way. And they actually gave me exactly what I asked for. Exactly. I've seen boring in like a third of the headlines about Apple intelligence.

Yeah. And it's easy. I realize people are cynical and they're going to get weird and whatever. I'm used to that. But I actually got exactly out of it what I would hope I was going to get out of it. And one thing that does seem to be, some people seem to be confused about, the cheap GPT thing, let's say you're already a GPT user and you never want to use Apple's A, stuff ever you're still you can still do that in fact you can do them both like if you're if you're

if you're let's say you're signed up to gpt four and you're using the gpt app you're already doing that that's a that's a cloud based a i thing anyway you just keep doing that like that's not none of this changes for you so there's some confusion about well if gpt's on there now can i even use it outside it's like what do you where i don't know where you guys are getting these ideas yeah because it was really it's like they want more out of it and it was more boring than people think. It's just kind of like, here's the practical stuff. Go ahead and use it or not. Right. And GPT, that is the important part. And I get why people are like, well, if GPT is on there,

it's going to be looking at things. Like, I get why you might think that. GPT for is not on there. And Apple is in control of when you can even be asked if you want to send data to chat GPT. And you can say no every time. You know, we do start to to float into the waters of, well, I don't trust Apple's going to be, you know, telling me the truth about that, in which case, don't use Apple devices. If you, if you're at that level of mistrust of any platform, you shouldn't use it. Because all platforms could be lying to you about everything they do. We have a lot of eyes on these platforms that keep an eye out and jump on things. Bleepingcom is an excellent source for being sure who's not doing things the right way

because they report on all the security researchers that are all looking at all this stuff all the time. But yeah, I tend to think we won't find that Apple has been lying about it. Yeah, probably not. I mean, Brian, don't you feel like, I can't speak for everybody. I just feel like we've been so inundated with,

it's going to change your life and it's going to do this and that. And even Apple, who usually talks in those hyperboleys, right? That's how they talk about their stuff. And they still do some of that. We're about to change AI forever. with our new products. Right. It was AI for the rest of us.

Right. It's how they positioned it. Very anti-elite. Very like, hey, you know, we know all those tech bros are promising you the sky. We, down-to-earth folks here at Apple, your local friendly, down-to-earth billionaires are promising that, you know, it's just going to be boring old email revisions. That's all you're going to get. Yeah, it is.

I mean, there's, if you want to know the extent of how kind of boring, compared to the other stuff it was, the biggest deal to me was the math, the handwritten math thing on iPads. It was pretty cool, right? Yeah, it's pretty cool. Not just that Apple is providing its own calculator for the iPad, but that it can do the cool pencil.

Can I write out, though, if a train leaves Chicago heading east, going 45 miles an hour, I wonder how much of it. You should be able to do that. The model is capable of it, whether it's actually set up to recognize and process it, It would be interesting. Yeah. Yeah.

Also, all the fear about the password app being poised to just destroy all other password apps or at least disrupt that market or whether I didn't feel that at all. That just felt like basic stuff to me. There's a whole fandom of catching Apple Sherlocking things. If you haven't heard that term before, folks, that's when Apple adds a feature to the operating system that eliminates the need for a third-party app. Sherlock Search being one of the early examples. of that. So I think people were jumping on the password thing, which I found amusing because

as far as I can tell, maybe I'm wrong about this. The password app thing just makes it easier to access to Apple's existing password management functions. Now it has a front end. That's it. Yeah, exactly. It's all the same stuff that was there in Apple password management. You may not have known it was there, but it's not any different because it's still only available on Apple devices and in the iCloud app on windows yeah so if you truly want cross-platform well it's not on android uh and it's not on linux so it's it's why i have not used apple's password management much in the in the past i'm like there are times when i need my password on an android device or even a linux machine yeah and so i need a platform that's going to be everywhere right if i'm logging in my

quest i need i need that password that big long messy password to be available yeah exactly Exactly. So my, my, password doesn't work for me there. There is no divorce for me and one password yet. Okay, everybody, I'm going to stick with her. Well, you're a loyal, you're, you know, you're a loyal user for life. Yeah, I'm a tender lover as well, Brian. You're an easy lover. That's right.

Today's going to be probably a few more little tidbits coming out of WWC, plus a bunch of other stuff. I'm going to spend a little time talking about my earliest impressions of the iPad for, or excuse me, iPad Pro M4, which I've had enough time with now that I think I can speak to some of the features, especially to those out there who are creatives and want to know how this is going to improve that side of your lives. I'm not running any betas, so I don't have the AI stuff on there yet. So I can't really speak to that, but I can speak to things like Form Factor, the micro texture screen, all that kind of stuff, how that will affect artists, that sort of thing. So I'm looking forward to that. Tom, anything else happening today or otherwise he'd like to mention.

Yeah. It's free preview week for my tech newsletter. So I have a tech newsletter that comes out every Thursday for free. But if you upgrade to the paid subscription, which I think is like less than 25 cents an issue or something, 30 cents an issue, something like that, you can get it Monday through Friday. So this is a newsletter that shows up with often different stories and slightly different takes than what you hear on DT&S because it's just me writing the newsletter. And it's free all week. So if you want to see what I was writing about WWDC earlier this week, uh, we have some stuff about a 3D printer, uh, that is less than the size of a quarter. Oh my. Crazy. Yeah. Uh, that's all in the free newsletter, free preview all week long to give you a sense of like, hey, is it worth paying to get it every day or is Thursday good enough? Uh, so you go,

go check that out at free tech newsletter.com. Not Tom, free tech newsletters. newsletter. Write it down, guys. Free Tom from tech. Okay, got it. Got it. Nailed it. Now you've confused them. We'll see you a little later, Tom. Thanks so much for being here. Thanks, y'all. Bye now. Bye. Bye. Bye. Hey, bye. That was great. Yeah, there, I, you know, well, whatever. I really enjoyed that. I enjoyed that event because it was so damn boring.

I really did. I was fine with that. You know, I'm totally fine with that. I don't need, listen, anything that. doesn't involve me saying, well, crap, looks like I need to buy a new blank. Yeah. Yeah. It's fine with me. Yeah, we didn't have to do anything. In fact, even the... We're going to get all these OS updates ourselves in a couple months. Great, awesome. I have some minutia questions that probably won't get answered. Like, for example, you need a certain kind of chip to do the on-device stuff and the 14 is what I have on the phone. We'll not do it. Only the 15 Pro Max, which I think you just got. That and forward will do it on phones anyway, on Anything with an M1 or greater processor on desktop will do it.

Basically, it just needs to be a silicon thing. And I guess the 14s are just a little shy of that. But people are like, oh, great, planned obsolescence. Well, just don't use it yet or whatever. You'll get a new phone a couple years. That's what I also liked about it. None of it made me feel like I got a hurry to do anything. Right, right.

It's like, okay, cool. When I upgrade, that'll be there for me. Terrific. Yeah. But I don't, I'm not losing productivity because I don't. have that right now. Yeah. But you probably will be able to arrange your icons into columns.

Yeah. When this comes out. That's right. And tint them all to be a weird color. Tint them all. Just the Apple apps, though. Everything else. I think it's all.

Everything gets changed, doesn't it? Oh, really? Yeah. I thought the, the example they showed was just the, um, the Apple apps. I don't know, man. As a developer, I kind of be ticked off if, uh, I wouldn't be because it's not everybody. Like here's, I had somebody do this online. They said, they said, oh, how are brands going to, they're not.

going to like this and he showed an example with his screen he's running the beta and it had youtube twitch and everybody else was all this like dark purple tint oh really okay so the youtube and twitch ones were as well oh yeah it's it's everybody but he was like how they're going to feel about this i'm like why would they care it's your individual phone this isn't everybody's phone all at once turning purple this is you deciding to do it right yeah so because of that it's like who cares it's like and plus android's been doing this for years another another example of a thing they've been doing for years. So, not a big deal.

Okay. You know what? I'm kind of liking that. I'm excited about it. I like the tent. I think it's cool. Yeah. All right.

Let's now dive into these here. Well, what do you recommend? Yes, that's right. Time for recommendals. What are recommendals you ask? Well, it's a chance for us to talk about things we've seen on streaming services and that we're going to share here. Now, I have a confession to make before we dive into Brian's.

clip. I think I know your confession, but go ahead and say that. My confession is I don't have a good recommendal today, mostly because of time. I have not had time to watch anything in its completeness. I did have time to watch Godzilla minus one. Randy recommended it. You'd seen it in theaters. It's an amazing film and people should watch it. But we've already done it. So I couldn't do that. I started The Gentleman on Netflix. That will probably get it recommendal when I'm done, but I'm only two episodes in. It's fantastic so far. If you like British gangster stuff or the movie that it's based on, Guy Ritchie's all up in this, directed the first two episodes or something. It's really good, but I haven't seen the whole thing.

Can't really recommend it yet. I started a thing I thought I could recommend Renfair on HBO. It sucks. Avoid it. It's terrible. I hated it. That's a good, you know, like a blechamental, right? Because we've done those before where it's like a warning. Like, you know, I only had time to watch one thing, and I ended up thinking it's bad, we'll just call it a blechamental. Yeah, and for those who are wondering why it's bad, here's why. If you're going to give me a series, you call a documentary, then you need to be a documentary, not fake me out, because the first, two-thirds of the first episode are good, and they're documentary-like, and it's fine, and then you get to, and it's all about renfares, and America's

largest rent-fair in Texas, and all the weirdos involved in it. It's all good stuff I want to see. the final third of that first episode they start to do internal dialogue and a guy walking around yeah some sort of like not even real reenactments more like

it's just such horseshit I hated it so bad so that's my bleckomental and now we do a real one with Brian he brought a clip yes oh my gosh I'm gonna make up for all that you know that that dark stuff that I've been recommending lately

like Ripley, which is still so good. You've got to watch Ripley. But it's, you know, it's dark, and it's going to upset you maybe, or at least kind of make you feel like you need to watch something fun before bed or that sort of thing. Boy, have I got the antidote, the antidote to the poison you just drank, Indiana. This is, my gosh, this is why I'm bummed that we don't have Randy and Nicole today. By the way, neither of me can make it.

Randy's on vacation. Nicole is helping her brother move. But I'm going to tell you right now, don't worry about it. Because what I'm going to give you is enough of a recommendal that you should just drop everything and watch this. And it'll make you feel so good that you won't need any of the stuff that. Oh, Randy, watch the stand-up special. Great, okay, fine.

Nicole watched some cartoon animated thing. Oh, great. All right, cool. No, no, no, you don't need it. You don't need that. Here's what I'm giving you right now. All right. Something that's going to make you feel really good about all that stuff. All right. Let's listen to the clip.

Let's go to the clip. Let me tell you a story about a man. My man, Billy. We moved here for a better life. But he was lost for a while. Until beauty. found him. Can I go there?

What are you doing here? She was just a bag of bones. She was vulnerable and she was alone. Otters are normally so shy here. She must have been desperate. and it took me back to a moment in my own life when I was alone perhaps because Molly had lost her own family

she quickly became part of ours Molly I don't know if I'm doing the right thing but I'm all she's got I have no idea I love these accents though these Scottish people so this is a story about

a man named Billy and his wife Susan who live in Shetland the Scottish Islands of Shetland as they describe the last outpost before you get to the Arctic and a little creature named Molly Molly is a sea otter that a wild otter that

washed up on shore and needed his help desperate need of what Billy was able to provide and Billy takes this otter in and not only nurses it back to health, but takes care of it, but also kind of prepares it for the wild.

And, oh, my God. You know, like, you remember how you felt through most of my octopus teacher? Was it my octopus teacher? No, what was it? Oh, I'm embarrassed to say I still haven't seen that. I need to. I've been wanting to.

It's on Netflix still. It's like a Netflix original. I still haven't watched it. Yeah. So that's good. And that's, you know, that's, but there's a little bit of a sad part. to that. I'm telling you right now this, no, no sadness.

What's this? We should shit out of luck.com this. What's it called? The movie is called Billy and Molly and Otter Love Story. And it is streaming on Hulu and on Disney Plus. I think it's even, you can even stream it on YouTube, but it's, it's national geographic. So if you don't have any of that stuff, you can, you can sign up for a free National Geographic streaming subscription and get it there as well. This is heartwarming and sweet, and you'll never get sick of listening to these people's accents, and you watch this guy, and Tina says, you know, Brian, he's a lot like you and those damn birds and the damn squirrels because I keep, have I told you the latest of those damn birds of those damn squirrels? No, what's going on now? So I got a bird feeder going, and I got tired of the scrolls going up and just gobbling down all the bird seed because, you know, it's like, oh, man, I have to fill that every day and it's expensive and that sort of thing. So I bought a really cheap, huge bag of peanuts in the shell. And I have a little bowl outside.

And so when I fill up the bird feeder, I fill up the bowl full of peanuts for the scrolls. And the squirrels love it. Like they would run out, grab a peanut, run back to the tree, eat it, then, you know, rinse repeat. Well, now magpies have discovered the peanuts. And they fly in. They pick through all the peanuts and find a cracked one. And then they fly off with that. And then they come back and take a non-cracked one.

one until all the peanuts are gone. And so the squirrels are back to eating off the bird feeder. And it's like, whatever. I'm fine with it. Just eat. As long as you're eating, I'm fine with that. Freaking mag pies, man. They will do what you want them not to do.

That's what they do. Exactly. Yes. And you're supposed to, I think two is lucky or three. I can't remember the mag pies had some sort of like number system of what's good and bad with mag pies. Regardless, Billy and Molly an otter love story. I'm just going to tell you right now.

This is a movie to make you feel good about the world and good about nature and about life and what it is to what family, how family can extend beyond just the people that you are related to. That's amazing. I cannot wait. I'm not going to have time to watch anything new. I want to watch this like right away. Right. Grab your family. Watch it with your family.

Randy, Sam, watch it with Will. Nicole, watch it with Mateo and Eva. I mean, you know, just watch this thing. Carter's going to bring home an otter, by the way. Is she going to, is she going to, is she going to, I love making her watch stuff that makes her get all upset and tired. This will make her weepy. Even though there's no sad parts, there's happy cry spots.

And maybe there's a little tiny, there's a little tiny like, oh, spot. But, yeah, no, this is, this is great. All right. I'm in. That sounds fantastic. Again, it is up there on the quickt ms. at L.I., Billy and Molly, and our love story. You can find that as long as well as all of our

past recommendations. And I'm not saying people shouldn't check out Renfair and tell me I'm wrong. Please try. I would love to hear your argument. But know what you're getting into. No, no, what it is. If you like. Because I was looking at that and thinking, oh, my God,

I want to watch that. Because the Renfair just came to Denver. It's here for the next eight weeks. We're going to go in July. And it's like, oh, I'm going to watch that to prepare for going to Renfair. Yeah, it's up our alley. in lots of ways it should be just bugs me

it's a perfect subject for this long form documentary series and they just jump that shark as quick as they can piss me off so bad anyway but also we found out yesterday that J.K. Grammer's wife is going to try to get a job there and we wish her the best. I know the funniest

damn timing, yeah. Yeah, good luck down there. All right, that is going to do it for today's recommendals. Again, quicktms.l.I for all of those. That's going to do it for today. show. Quick note, programming note. I'll be on DT&S, but otherwise there's not a lot going on today. If you want to hear that B story that I told on the diary, you can go find that at frogpance.com slash diary. And tomorrow we'll be here. Wendy will be back. I think we're going to tackle a Jeff

Sire email. Oh, gosh. Yeah. I think that'll be interesting, right? Oh, I'll bring the popcorn. I'll bring the popcorn. I'll bring the bulletproof vest. And together, We will enjoy Jeff's. Oh, what's he going to do? Throw his little holy money, holy coins at us. With the holes in it. Oh, no. Don't throw all your tunies at us.

All right. Loonies and your tunis. We love Jeff, so it'll be fun to do that. I think that's what's happening. I'll check with Wendy. But anyway, that'll be tomorrow and your usual Thursday stuff. Brian, let's get a song on the rack here. What are we doing?

I just love this lonely little sad solo recommendal on the quicktm. dot l i page but you know what it's fine it's fine it's almost you know what's almost perfect is the kind of thing it is look at it kind of is yeah actually it does it kind of fits yeah and we're just ending on time today instead of long yeah yeah i like it yeah i did i did pad my my talk about that sweet little otter molly um oh my god so cute and watching molly devour a um uh some haddock uh just is uh is the happiest thing you'll ever hear um all right sippy wrote in And said, December of this last year, my mom suffered a stroke. And with heart complications, it led to her losing her this last February.

It was pretty sudden and unexpected. During her services, my dad covered this song on his ukulele, I'm sorry, on his ukulele. He, in parentheses, says, you must pronounce it correctly. And invited all those in attendance to join us singing one of her most favorite songs. This version of the song now has special extra meeting for me, and I would love for the tadpole listeners to join me in hearing and singing a member of my mother who would have turned 70 years old on June 12th. That's today.

I look forward to the tears that inevitably will come with hearing it and wish I could hear everyone sing along. Aw. Oh, sweet. Very sweet, sippy. And he thinks I'm going to have a hard time pronouncing the performer of this version of Over the Rainbow. The guy's name is Israel Kamika Vivaulae.

And because he's in the Coverville Hall of Fame, I've had to learn how to pronounce Israel Kamika Vivaolaola without screwing it up. Nicely done, yeah, I still can't do it. So, well done. Yeah, Izzy, Israel. All right, let's get to his version. This version is the shorter one.

It's not the one with Wonderful World Tech done to the end. This is from his 2001 album alone in his world. Here, once again, the name Israel, Kamikaviva Ola, and his cover of Judy Garlands over the rainbow. Oh, who Oh, who ooh, who, who, who, who, who, Oh.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Somewhere over the rainbow way of high Way of hide And the dreams that you dream of Once in a love abide Hi, oh, somewhere over the rainbow, blue birds fly.

And the dreams that you dream of, dreams really do come true. Wake up where the clouds are far behind Me where trouble melts like lemon drops High above the chimney top that's where You find me oh somewhere over the rainbow over the rainbow And the dream that you did too Oh, why can't I Oh, some day

A wish upon a star Wake up where the clouds are far behind Me With trouble melts like a lemon drops above the chimney top that's where you find me somewhere somewhere over the rainbow way up high and the dream that you dare to why oh why can't I Hello, Uh-huh, eh, uh-huh.

Uh-uh, eh, uh-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-a-ah-ah. Hello, Silverado. Bronco, Dirty Jesse, or calling about your pickup trucks backing into parking spots. I do this all the time. It doesn't take me four minutes, but I just wanted to call and let you know why I do it. I do it because I want to. Go to show. It's awesome.

Hello, Subaru and Baja. That kind of makes sense. This is for the morning stream. I am calling you from my truck. It's not a big dodge. It is a smaller Nissan frontier. But, yeah, I just calling in to say, hey, yeah, I do a back-in or a pull-through for the reasons that Brian said, like, I don't like backing out of

parking spots because other cars are other drivers are crazy and pedestrians don't pay attention so I usually park further back from the door of any establishment I'm going into and

do the pull through and the empty spots but only when it's not like a super busy place if it is a super busy place I do not do a pull through because that is rude okay thank you Have a wonderful day. Oh, I'll share the love for the show. Yeah.

This is for the morning stream, episode 2650 regarding reverse backing operations, backing your vehicle into a spot. It's all about safety. The backing operation is one of the most dangerous operations you can make in a motor vehicle. So backing into any kind of spot, your driveway, grocery store parking lot, things of that nature. It's just safer to back in It has nothing to do with speed It's all about safety So next time we see people backing in

It's generally a safety mechanism Love the show Hello boys This is Stephen Ratkey I'm from Cedar Park, Texas Y'all were talking I believe this morning pre-show About Sick New World

I did go to that show I went to go see Knights of Red And I can tell you It was hottest F the whole day, and I forgot my sunglasses and hat. Nevertheless, my favorite band there was 242, but I watched Power Man 5,000. They were great. Cap Rute was awesome. Seven dust, they're good, and Lords of Acid, hell yeah.

But nevertheless, there was a lot of them playing on different stages of the same time. time, so you had to miss a lot of them. But I went to go see Knights of Redd, who played right after 242. And the only person that showed up was Bonn Harris. So Douglas McCarthy didn't show up, and those other two knuckleheads, they stayed back in England, I guess. And it wasn't that great. So I left. Nevertheless, love the show, though.

Oh, I wanted to make this a double call. Buckees can bite my ass. I can't go through New Brunfels, Texas, without having to stop with the family. I stay out in the vehicle now, but I used to go in, and you shouldn't have a convenience store that requires a cell phone to find everybody. Love the show. Goodbye. Hey, Scott, Brian, and Wendy. This is Blake in New York City calling for Therapy Thursday.

This is just in response to the guy who's the lawyer who wants to start writing. And I thought there were two things that came to mind that I thought could be applicable. The first was something that I heard recently is that a tree has to grow down before it grows up. When a seed starts to germinate, it starts building its fruit system first and kind of builds a little foundation before it ever sprouts up through the ground and becomes a tree that, we see. So, you know, when you're looking at someone who is maybe a writer who you admire or something like that, and you're like, man, how did they get there? Well, you're just seeing the tree above ground, but you really don't know that there's probably a lot of work that they did in the dark underground, building the roots for their success before you ever saw what

became their tree. So right now, maybe this guy is just underground, building the strong roots for what will become a really beautiful tree someday. The second thing is in my world, in the theater and also I do composition as well, it's really good to have moments in the day when you are blocked off to write, just like Wendy said. And even when you don't have inspiration or you don't feel motivated to do so, It's good to try to still create in those moments because then when you are struck with inspiration, the muscles that you use to put all of that creativity to use and put the story on the page, those muscles would prime to do so. If you only work when you're inspired, you're going to waste a lot of time figuring out how do I format this sentence and stuff like that. So this is just a couple of things that help me.

So love the show. Hey Scott, this is Brandon And I just wanted to call and talk to you a little bit You were talking about Furiosa on your therapy show the other day And I've got to say I got to go take my wife We went to like the cheap dollar Cheap movie night

I think if any more takes like Ety bucks to go see a movie But we went and saw Periosa on the cheap night And she actually really She just enjoyed herself You know lots of these movies that I'd think are to go see like superhero movies and everything else. She could take it or leave it,

but she really enjoyed Furiosa. And so, you know, over the next week, I finally sat her down and we got to watch Fury Road. And, man, I got to tell you, she really liked Fury Road. And it was almost sad to me that we were sitting on the couch watching Fury Road because when you're in the storm scene

and he's, like, at the wheel going, what a day, what a crazy, whatever the saying is. I just remember being in the theater and all the darkness around you and it felt like you were in the storm with him. And in 2015, and I really wish that Fury Road was in theaters right now

so I could go and take her and watch the sixth part of this awesome Furiosa movie, you know, in theaters with her. Anyways, I just wanted to tell you, I really appreciate all your years of memes and enjoyment of Fury Road. I think it's a fantastic movie and deserves more credit than it gets. Thanks, Scott. See ya. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Yes, get more at FrogPants.com.

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