The Morning Stream - TMS 2733: Cheesey Weezy

Episode Date: November 7, 2024

Brian checks his drawers. Is queso cheese cuz I like really wanted to know?????????? nipples on top of nipples. Mount me in the air. Jim Bro Mine. Astounding Moments of BAM! TMS Rave. No Nachos, No Oil, and No Lt. Yar! No Wires On Brian! Canavan caravan. It seems a little murdery. Deep fried wing beats. Special echo place. Even better becuase you can tuck it away. It just takes a little more of a rub down and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This month is all about turkeys and family. Don't be a turkey, be a family at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, Brian checks his drawers. Is casso cheese, because I, like, really wanted to know? Nipples on top of nipples. Mount me in the air. Jim, bro, mine. Astounding moments of, bam!

TMS rave. No nachos, no oil, and no lieutenant y'ar! And no wires on Brian. Canavan caravan. It seems like. little murdery. Deep fried wing beats. Special echo place. Even better because you can tuck it away.

It just takes a little more of a rub down and more on this episode of the morning stream. Mom, can I have a popsicle? No, honey, you'll spoil your... Hey parents. Tired of those out of control kids? Right now I'm thinking about holding another meeting in bed. The morning stream. Prepare the Virgin.

I don't like the sound of that. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Thursday, November 7, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson, and that is Brian Ibitt. Good morning, Brian. Good morning, Scott. Happy Thursday. Yeah.

Thursday. I got a message. I guess we talked about it pre-show and haven't really talked about it, but somebody sent me a message says, I think Brian's wearing a wireless headset. And I said, he is. So, and I said,

I'll probably ask him tomorrow about it. Look at him. Look at him. Look at that. Look at that. Oh, look at that. I could go over here. I could go over here.

Somebody please give me this video so I can make a gift, please. That's some great gift material. Holy shit. Good, good. But isn't that, that's great. Tell people what you ended up with because it looks like it fits and works and all that shit. Yeah, this is great.

Let me grab the box. This is... Oh, Fox is way over there. This is the Turtle Beach Stealth. What number is it? Oops. Is it written on there? Oh, we can't hear me now.

Brian can't hear us. Do, do, do, do, do, do. He can't hear us. I can say what I want. I can say mean things, nice things, whatever I want. I can't say mean things. Oh, dang it. I was going to say you've got it.

He's got four nipples and I won't tell you where the other two are. That's right. I have nipples. On top of others. It's the stealth. I can't remember what version it is, but is the Turtle Beach stealth. And it is, here's what's really cool about it.

I'll put up to the camera here. Here's what's cool, simultaneously cool, and also a thing you really have to get used to. All right. It connects up. So you've got little USB dongles, two of them. You can plug one into your computer, one into your PlayStation, Switch, Xbox, whatever. Sure. and hear both at the same time

which is really cool also Bluetooth to your phone and what's great and also again the thing you have to get used to is that there are so many there's a lot yeah there's more it's more over on this side

like this look at all these buttons and dials and jeez how do you not how do you not hit one of those by accident or something just I constantly do I accidentally do all the time and you can adjust three volumes like your phone your game your PC

all that stuff which is great as soon as you get used to where they are where each of those are so I like trying to adjust volumes but everything I'm really loving this

these guys are a new sponsor for Coverville so not this week but next week or the week after you'll start here and there ads on uncoverville or me doing their ads on coverville we used to I'll talk about how you know but there's too many buttons we had them we had them on the instance years ago and I still use one of their headsets for someone Carter does her part of the Monday show over here she's she's hooked into one of those and it's wireless but we we can also wire it or it has an input for that I'm sure yours does probably too

there's probably an input no no input I mean so they've changed over the years I guess that makes sense? Unless it comes through USBC, like if I can plug it directly USBC into my computer and not only is a charge, but it's also going to give me zero latency. I mean, right now, it's a millisecond of lag, just a millisecond. So, yeah, that's good. And we were talking the other day about how bad echo can be, but if you're only off by, there's like a real sweet spot. If it's just a little bit, It's almost like a comforting echo, not an echo, but more like a... It is. You're in a little special place.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can feel the walls around you and it's, smells nice and, you know, the mailman came and brought me something cool in this little room I'm in. And I got my comfort television shows in here, that kind of room. Exactly. Exactly.

And Disturb Angel, yeah, there will be, I'm sure there will be a discount with the, um, the Turtle Beach stuff. So, so keep an eye open for that. Let me take a look now and just see, because I can look ahead to the ads. Also has a removable mic stem, right? You've taken yours out, but there's a mic in there as well. Yeah, right. I mean, removable as far as like it comes out, like I can just extend it now.

Oh, there it is. Okay. Oh, that's even better because you can tuck it away. Yeah. That's an improvement. Yeah. My old one has, it's removable, but it doesn't have a place to put it. So if I keep it in, it's like sort of hanging out.

I had that with my Blizzard one. I had the Blizzard World of Warcraft. I think they were, I think they were Bluetooth as opposed to Wi-Fi. Yeah. And they had a microphone that you disconnected, that you actually pulled out. And I don't know where, I'm sure, I'm sure that's in a drawer called audio items. In an IKEA box called audio items, but I don't know where it is right now. But yeah, let's see.

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Future, we've gone into the past for one thing. Yeah, but probably a lot of things. Maybe a few things. maybe a few things, but you know, some of it is in the, we're in the future. It's the future. A quick thing I learned, I want to know if this will work

for other people. You know, we've made a real effort and we'll continue to make an effort. Unlike the turn of, unlike what happened in 2016, I kind of lost my mind. And I spent a lot of time venting about that on shows.

We've made a pretty concerted effort here, Brian and I. And I can tell you, across sort of all the frog pants stuff we're not it's not it's just not going to be a topic we're here to have fun we're here to entertain we're here you guys don't it's not like you're being informed about this you know what's up you live in the world we live in the important thing is that we're we do fun stuff and we got a community and we have a great time we laugh while we're doing it that's the main focus you need you need this escape as much as we do yeah and so that's why that's why we will

not talk about that thing that we hate yeah we're keeping it out of the discussion It's just not happening. Exactly. Yeah. Now, here's the thing, though. I did want to share one tiny piece of advice that just worked for me. This is just a personal thing. I put it up on threads and blue sky.

So you may have already seen this. And if you did, great, I even put a link there. But I did a thing yesterday that was surprisingly cathartic. And it will explain why I'm actually in a pretty good mood today. Because yesterday, I was in a shit mood yesterday. All of us were. Gummies. Awesome.

Yeah, gummies of the answer. No, that's not it. Like Tyson earcomings. Here's what I did. And I was on a weird fluke, but I just said to myself, you know, where everybody's fretting about it or maybe you're happy about it, whatever you are right now, it's easy to get blinded by just the immediacy of everything, right? It's just all happening.

And this is probably true of years ago, also when I used to do this years and years ago. But like around 9-11, I did this. I go back and I just find a good, reputable. by the numbers historical record of our country. And I start from the beginning. It's like, all right, well, Britain did this, 1500s, they started the colonies. It's a lot earlier than people think.

And that went on for a really long time, like 1,500s all the way up to 17, whatever it was, a long time, you know, before we declared our independence. So being reminded of that and knowing that there was like this whole, these other articles that were essentially a, a proposed constitution happened that were scrapped. Those are interesting to read about. Little bits and pieces.

And then you go forward into, all right, Washington, this and Jefferson, that. And then this, this is when this happened in the history of the country. And then, you know, all the way up to basically all the way up to current or all the way up to kind of COVID is the historical record that I was digging around through. The reason I'm telling you this is because there is a really weird catharsis that comes from taking a moment. to just look at the bigger picture, not just the immediacy of everything or the right now of everything. Look at it from a broader, more bird's eye view.

And it doesn't change anything about what you should feel or what action you feel like you should take or any of those things. This isn't like an excuse to ignore anything. It's just a perspective thing. It's easy to feel like, like depending on who you are, you might feel like you are living

in the worst possible timeline. But if you go read history and not just U.S. history, world history. There's some really dark stuff, some really good stuff, a lot of stuff in between, complicated, strange eras of time. You know, imagine what it must have been like. The indigenous folks here in this country got here coming down from the north around 1,500 years BC. And that's a long time to be here and be untouched. And then suddenly get so hard-core touched by all these explorers and like all that stuff just,

just pushed out of the side. Like what an, what an astounding moment of like, bam, hello, here's all these people coming to take your shit. And even that's not, even that's too simple. Like there's a lot more to, you know, there's a lot more to understand. The point of it is, I'm talking to the choir for a lot of people, but history, history is like a balm for me. it's great for me and the more boring it is and the less commentary around it the better like i just

want to have this like all right uh in six or 18 whatever the louisiana purchase insured this and that like there's something about it that really put calmed me down yesterday so i'm going to recommend it that's all that's all i'm going to say wherever you stand wherever you feel in history is an interesting part of this and if you're not paying attention to it i feel like your perspective becomes so tunneled that it's that it's just bad for you you know or it's bad for me i'm gonna speak for myself it's bad for me to do that so i needed the perspective i hope that helps somebody i will i'll even um add to that emphasize that with a a thing that wasn't sure i was going to be able to use as a recommendal because i've got so much stuff that i've been that i've kind of got stockpiled

to recommendal but this week teen and i watched instead of watching and we went and saw wild robot tuesday night but also instead of watching news reports on monday night Last night, we watched a historical dramatization called Manhunt, which was awesome. This thing is fantastic. I haven't heard of it. Seven episodes, it is Stanton chasing John Wilkes Booth after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Oh, that's this story? Fun.

Yes. And it's really, really good. It's it's fascinating. There's already so much stuff I didn't know about it. Didn't know how big of a dick Andrew Johnson was, but he's a huge dick. Yeah, he's a giant dick. One of the biggest dicks of our history, really. He really is.

But the cast in this thing is also pretty freaking amazing. Your dude from Midnight Mass, the priest. Oh, I love him. Hamish or Hamish, Hamish. Hamish. yeah yeah he's your he's your uh abraham lincoln and i did not recognize him until an episode in i could see that because he's tall can wear that beard and he's got the and he's really got the demeanor to kind of pull that off he got patten oswald in this thing you've got um the main guy

edwin stanton is uh tobias mensies bad name um he's always in sync uh he was your um uh prince philip in the crown? The crown. I'm trying to remember which era, though, of the crown. It was the the more recent era of the crown as opposed to the Clairfoy.

Well, we know Clairfoy was Matt Smith. I'm trying to remember who it was in the Olivia Coleman. I'm convinced that Apple TV Plus does not know how to make a shitty TV show. They're really good at this. I mean, you can say what you want about Apple. I understand it has a tainted.

but their strictness about not putting anything bad up like like like objectively bad it's really impressive you know mileage may vary on series to series but I've yet to run into anything that wasn't great this is this one this is so far up my alley oh my gosh I want to see this you're going to love this and Glenn Moore shower uh you're a real hoot is uh is Andrew Johnston no way dude yeah yeah I love him so much that's great um Matt Walsh Who you know from a billion things. That's great. Listen, you're a real hoot.

We love that guy. Yes. Love him. Matt Walsh, who you know from Veep, from, I mean, dude has been in so many things. You look at the guy and say, oh, yeah, I totally know that guy. He's Dr. Harry Mud in this, who's a guy who helped John Wilkes Booth escape. it's it's just so good it is so well done i love stuff like that i'm all in i didn't even see this is the only other this is the only real problem apple tv plus has they're very bad at getting

the word out they're not great at that yeah and i never even heard of it might the problem might be because they put out so much stuff all at the same time so this this came out earlier this year but it kind of got dwarfed by whatever else because i know there were a bunch of things was like oh this new palm springs deal and the myer rudolph loot thing and then oh man hunt yeah Yeah. No, you're right. There's been a lot in a row that is easy to just get lost, and they don't have the high-profileness that Netflix does. Exactly. So anyway, quick recommendal manhunt on Apple TV Plus. Brian, a friend of DeSoto 47, which also sounds historic somehow, because DeSoto was a famous explorer. Yeah, actually. Yeah. In our Discord, he compiled another remix of glitches.

Oh, I love this. You heard this in the Discord. None of you, many of you might have, but I think this is worth playing here. So we're going to play it, all right? So enjoy this. This is a combination of glitches. I think one's from the Monday show, but the rest is from TMS, and it's a good time. So once again, let your talent fly.

Here's another one. I hear. I hear. I hear. Okay. Sorry about that. I can tell you what I was going to say. Who did the...

It's a wonderful life. Can I get a point for identifying the movie with one strange noise? Just go raw. Great-chamabra. Isn't rolling. Thank you very. Think Capra. Thank you, Capra.

Thank you, Capra. Veen Capra. Big Capra. Make Capra. Pekhapper. Many capra. May capra. Okay.

Mesapper. Cana. Kaepra. FOr. Fashapr. Did you blow her? Did you blow were? It's your blow.

Did you blow? Do you blower? Did you blower? Did you blow her? I don't like that you blow her. I don't like these. Get me, get my rave lights out. Oh, yeah, you got me, that's amazing.

it's too bright in here yeah let's see Alexa turn off studio lights oh no I just turned off everybody's studio lights well they probably just said I don't recognize they come in still too bright let's let's hide you know what it is it's our show notes are such a big white

oh there you go now you can see this puppy glowing here hold it behind you oh there you go it's blue oh yeah there you go that's the special sauce right there is it's got to be back here I love it I love it so good thank you

friend of DeSoto, you killed it, and I just think you guys are funny. That's all I'll say about that. All right, Brian, I love how the common theme in these remixes is the did you blower, which is not what I said. Did you blower? Now I hear that all the time. It's forever, forever ingrained in my head. I don't even know. I think I was asking you, did you get the blower for the, that was it, right? The ego, the ego battery powered set of tools. Yeah. And then, oh, and we also, somebody, sorry, I'm all over the place with this, but somebody at home said, I think our phones are listening to us because that ego brand thing is showing up in this guy's TikTok ads all the time. Really? Okay. Great. And prior to hearing the episode, he says he never saw an ad for them suddenly after that episode all over his TikTok. I don't know what it means. I'm not saying there's a conspiracy of foot, but maybe there is. Maybe there is. Jeez. How do you, okay, quick question. Here, how about a quick technical question?

Scott, how do you turn? Do you do your Google notes in dark mode or light mode? I do, oh, you mean like our show notes? I do them in light mode. Yeah. You do them in light mode? Because dark mode's okay, but it really is so ugly to look at. It's just so. For a spreadsheet. Everything else, no problem. But spreadsheets for some reason? Just look bad. I want to put this in dark mode and just see because it washes. It's for my own looks. It's for my own vanity, Scott. washes me up. How do you, if you know. That's what I'm asking. How do I do it? I guess I only did it once and it was browser based or was it in the actual thing here? Settings. I don't know. Uh, well, did you find settings? I found something, but it's not helpful. It's only like three things and it's not that. Yeah. There's probably a, it may have been browser wide or something. I get my YouTube stuff in dark mode. Same, which I vastly prefer. over white mode i i prefer most of the time i'm like dark mode guy love it all across the board same here same here for everything else and and for spreadsheets i'm typically put them in white but i just want to see how how hard it would be to uh get used to if anyone out there knows how let us know to the top right i'm in the i click on my little face on the corner and i only get yeah you know which account do you

want to use oh you know what it was it may it i had to use a plugin for firefox and i didn't like it so I got rid of it. That's what it was. So there may not be, there may not be an intentional way to do it. If someone knows, uh, out there, yeah, tell us in the second half of the show when we have people, uh, call in. Yeah. Bumbing elephant says, is this the Windows tech support segment? No, it's the MacOS tech support segment, okay? Yeah. Yeah. All right, Brian, we got to catch up on some voicemails that have been piling up a little bit. I figured today was a great place to do it. And, um, I'm going to start with this one because we love a good flow. you know if you guys call in and screw up don't feel bad it's fine i'll still play it and

here it is hey scott this is for the morning stream uh sorry uh yeah that's it that's the call so it really was for core yeah uh it might have been for all i know um yeah uh anyway uh i love that uh i love it here's a here's a real one though this is a feud thing um um question about me and the way feud works so here we go hey scott and brian it's i'm okay uh listening to wednesday's episode of the morning stream and i often wonder to myself uh not that there's anything wrong with this but i don't wonder to myself whether like kiv and carter uh forget what day it is in the morning on wednesdays and then they just hear scott screaming at the top of his lungs uh while playing uh the tad pulling feud

and they just go Oh, yes, it's Wednesday. I love the show, though. Okay, bye. All right, so it's a good question. I asked him about it last night. She says that it isn't just Wednesday. Yeah, no, it's any time you play a video game.

It's any time you... And if I get something wrong on Brian's games, here's an example. I'll go... Oh, shit! Like that. And there's absolutely no way they don't hear that. Carter's down here now, so she absolutely heard it.

but I'm sure Kim heard it. They're used to it now. They don't care. It's fine. I just, whatever, I'm down here talking. Right, right. And I don't, I'll be honest with you. It's not that I'm even that competitive.

It's not a competitive thing for me. It's an intensity of the moment thing, which is why I get loud when we play any kind of games. So when I play a game with Brian, he gives me trivia and I don't get it right, I freak out because there's something primal about the experience. And I can't help it. I honestly cannot help it.

Yeah. I'm not one of those guys going to, just go, oh, okay, I got that wrong. I can't do it. I don't know how to do that in the moment. So, anyway, that's the deal there. I enjoy it when I can bring that out of you, but I do exactly the same thing. In my head, when I completely flubbed something like, Jamie Lee Curtis, of course, she was in trading places. Sure. You understand it, right? Yeah. I understand it completely. I think years of doing pub trivia has made me realize I shouldn't do that in a public setting. So I just kind of in this somewhat private setting of my house, even though it's a very public setting online, I still don't do it.

It's good. You have good public training on this. I do not. But even when we do like Frog Pants All-Stars at a Nerdtacular, I feel like I still got kind of loud if I got something. wrong. I am glad you do because it makes, it makes, listen, it makes your video game stream so much better. It makes these streams, the games in these streams. It would, it would suck if we both did that, I think. So I'm glad one of us does it, and I'm glad it's you. Yeah, yeah, I'm glad it's me. I'll be the one arrested for public disturbance if it ever comes down to it. So that'll

be fun. Exactly. And poor Mark and Paul, the poor guy. He never be the same. Poor guy. He's all right. He's got money for nothing and checks for free. He'll be fine. All right, I'm going to play this one. I I think this may even be the same dude. I can't remember, but it's about puppets and digital puppetry. Here we go. Hey, March, it's 106. This is, I'm okay. It is.

I'm calling about the morning stream. I recently had a discussion with some friends about puppets, and we came to a conclusion ourselves that modern V-Tubing is digital puppetry, and much like the Muppets, there seems to be something for everybody. I just wanted to know your guys' thoughts on that. Love the show, though. Bye. a little about or I at least brought up V-tubing we didn't really dig in with Amy but

I think V-tubing is basically it's basically head tracking some of it's more sophisticated and does like mouth movements and you know eyes and stuff like that in a way your phones will do it with the avatar live avatar stuff that's kind of V-tubing in a weird small way I think your remote or not we moimote well you're me on the Nintendo we would do that right like you could you could get it to imitate your movement if you were in one of those social. Oh, right. Yeah.

You would do mostly body stuff, but like, yeah, exactly, though. But it's the same idea, right? Same thing. And really the same thing as those videos that Amy was nice enough to send us that had that video, like that instant live thing they were demonstrating to Adam Savage of the whole movements to make live puppetry like that. So I think V-tubing qualifies. I think it can. Now, Brian Murphy says this.

He says, no way, puppeteering is an art and it takes years of practice. That's true. So the guy's doing the intricate real-time thing Brian just described, those are actual puppeteers using those years of experience to do the same thing they would normally do. It's just painted in a digital world, but it's still them doing all the movement, the hands, the heads, the reactions, the mouth to voice, all that stuff. So I just think there's grades of this. It's like, is a finger puppet with no moving parts? And you're going, hey, everybody, I'm a finger puppet. Is that a form of puppetry?

Yes, a very rudimentary on the ground kind of puppetry, real simple. But go from that to really articulated stuff. I mean, I feel like it's just a range. I can put a peeper's puppets on my hand right now and go, and it's puppetry, even though I don't have the years of talent and experience. Amy knows exactly what I was doing. I thought my peeper's puppet, I think it's somewhere in one of these drawers that I just couldn't find it. But, you know, I've got Spider-Man deck of cards.

I've got a Brian Brushwood lockpicking set. Yeah. Learned how to lock pick. Yeah. I've got mints from the, you know, from burlesque to 1930s some reason. Yeah, awesome. They taste like it. I'll bet.

And I can't find my damn Bucky balls. I have a little Diablo. Oh, a little figure from the, I forgot what they called those. I have that whole set somewhere. Deadly, I think. Yeah. It was one of the Blizzcons. They had those.

Yes. I think I bought a set that year. I don't know where mine are. Let's just play a game. Like, what does Brian have in his drawers? In his drawers. Wait a minute. How about a little stormtrooper?

Oh, yeah. Look at him. He's cool. What's he standing on? What is that back there? Is that a... Yeah, it's just a thing to help him from falling over. It's just like a little...

It's like a little tree stump or something. A little square stand. Yeah. That's cool. See, I would collect those because I love the Stormtroopers. Big fan. that's awesome yeah we should have a new segment

Brian checks his drawers oh look at that Scott Johnson poker chip yep poker chip what's on the other side of that one same thing or a different face hearts on both sides okay and then this side is the frog pants

I had a whole bunch that were misprinted and they had like one side was the heart the other side was like the club or whatever and I don't know what happened to those I might still have them actually they were misprints at the factory super fun look at that bowser

bowser and diablo in the same drawer that's troubled dude and they're getting along i think they're plotting really is what they're doing in there peach look out your time has come all right we got one more call this is from biff and biff has some thoughts about screen cleaning hey screen and backlight it's biff smith

currently of west virginia west by god virginia scott you were talking about cleaning a screen on tm s very simple take a soft washcloth like the softest washcloth cleaning cloth whatever just you know cotton or whatever whatever you normally use super super super soft get it wet get it real nice and wet and ring the living hell out

of it then wipe your screen let it dry don't turn it on until it's good and dry easy peasy lemon breezy love the show though I want a lemon breezy he had a new way of I think living breezy Easy peasy, living breezy, I think is what he said. That's awesome. That's a great new thing.

That is awesome. I want to live by that rule. That's way better than the Japanese and it's even better than the cheesy wheezy or whatever it is we do. Right. Yeah, so that spray stuff that you've got, don't use it on a plastic monitor screen. That's for glass. Right. And then the water trick.

I don't even put anything on it. It just takes a little bit more, you know, a little bit more of a of a rub-down. but I've got this super soft. Look how soft that was. That looks great. Yeah, I would put my... Yeah, I don't even put water on it. I just basically...

It's like a little chode rest. Hmm. So that's enough for you. That's enough for you. See, one of the problems I have, and I don't want to be gross or anything, but my widescreen production monitor here that I use for shows and stuff,

occasionally I get a little, you know, spitty over here because I got excited or... Oh, my blar's penis. When I go, shit, like that, you're going to get some, whatever. That will work for that, you think? You can really just... Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. I mean, you can still do the water stuff. Nothing at all wrong with that. Just turn stuff off. But that's what I used when I was doing those laptops, getting those laptops in and out of the studio here to re-locate. Oh, right, right. I would just basically put my hand behind the laptop screen and go... without putting anything on it,

and those things would be sparkling, reflective, beautiful. Nice. All right, well, I feel like I've had additional help. I still haven't wiped it down since we talked, so now it's time. I think I'll do it later today. There you go. Did you get nachos yesterday?

I did. I made them. I didn't. I went upstairs, and Tina was back on another call, and our mattress hadn't arrived yet. And so I needed to be, I couldn't leave the house and go to Qdoba.

get nachos. So today, I know it's not nachos day, but I'm also not going to get nachos. I have to go

to Grease Monkey and do the oil change thing. And right next to Grease Monkey is a Qdoba. So I'm going to pick up a burrito,

go sit in the waiting room at Grease Monkey, eat my burrito, play some Pokemon Pocket TCG, and then drive away happy. Nothing wrong

with that. Everything you said sounds good yeah i had nachos i made them myself we have we have just cans of the or sorry jars of the the what the casso that you buy all done i don't know the brand yeah tostinos makes or uh yeah tostitos i think that's it i think that's what i use where's the brand um took a bunch of that took a bunch of these really good restaurant style chips we we always get at the winco and then put some pork on there uh found some olives and what else i use i didn't do any cheese because i'm trying cut back on the cheese there so they're so they were kind of real basic but um you know you put

it even be called nachos if well that's a good question i don't know can can it can maybe not i mean they literally have a flavor of cheese called nacho cheese how do you not how do you separate nacho from cheese yeah i don't know that's uh maybe i didn't maybe i didn't have nachos that's a really good point i don't know what i had i had uh casso chips sir what is it called If you smother, if you smother your chips in green chili or salsa, or salsa like you did, I mean, doesn't that count as nachos? Ooh, that's a good question. I don't know.

It feels like it, it feels like it falls under the territory of, is a hot dog a sandwich? I hate that one, yeah, but it does. So everybody out there who thinks they know, right in, okay? We're bound to have some expert who's like, oh, I've made nachos for years. My recipes featured in Martha Stewart's diet. or whatever. Whoever you are, you let us know, is a nacho a nacho without the cheese? Does it have to be heated, for example? Is that something else that makes? Yeah, is that required? Because I heated the queso, but I didn't, well, I guess the chips

were kind of crispy, too, because I put them in the air fryer. Oh, but you did have some queso on there. Well, I guess the queso is cheese, right? Yes. Yes. So if you said you had queso on there, you had cheese. Yeah, 100% had queso, so I did have cheese. But what I didn't do is like, you know, sprinkly cheese that melts. Like, I didn't do any of that. You don't need that. You just, you just, cheese that goose is cheese.

Okay, so queso on their accounts as a full cheese treatment. Koso is literally the Spanish word for cheese. Is it really? I think so, yes. I didn't know that. Three years of Spanish, I feel like I remember that. I don't remember that at all. That's funny.

Yeah, it's, then I did. I had nachos. They were great. I recommend it. Yeah. Oh, is Nan also? is that like a

Yeah, non is bread It's like you don't say non bread It's non I didn't know that It's like chai tea then The word for bread Yeah I ordered a chai the other day

And I said chai I didn't say chai tea And I think I was proud of myself For not screwing that up So that was all right Desiree is asking Coverville Have you tried the trash can nachos in Vegas

If those are the ones At Nacho Daddy Then yes I have And they are So good And it is, don't, Nacho Daddy at Planet Hollywood. Oh, I've never been. I'd like to try that.

That sounds all right. Really, really good. Oh my gosh. So good. And Planet Hollywood's still there. Right? Still there. Yeah.

Is it still, it's still Planet Hollywood too? It hasn't, yeah. I thought it converted to something. Oh, is there one off of Fremont? It converted from the Aladdin to Planet Hollywood. Oh, that's what it was. But am I thinking, you're not wrong in thinking that, that there's something that,

I thought it either went away or they redid it or they're building something new. Maybe they're, oh, no, that's hard rock that's going to be over where they're... Right, hard rock is taking over the mirage. That's right. That's right. And the space that's all blown up with the, what do you call it here recently, that's maybe a baseball stadium? Or do we know what that is yet? Yes, where the Tropicana, it's going to be the Oakland A's or the Las Vegas A's stadium. Got it. Okay.

And I saw a rendering of it, and it. looks like they might have a similar designer to the Sydney Opera House because it's got that like that kind of cool overlapping overlapping leaves kind of thing. Ah, gotcha. Oh, okay.

The pH. Sorry, Planet Hollywood. I know right where that is. I'm looking at their main site. They really have brooms for 29 bucks. Are you kidding? Wow. Come on. That can't be right. This sounds so fake. Dang. I think we have a new place we're going instead of Plaza who hasn't who hasn't emailed me back from my initial email to say hey anything going on these dates that i need to worry about still haven't said anything no no boy i missed bernadette

no bernadette was a was a flash-in-the-pan amazing rep man she was so good i said on your screen the black-eyed peas are coming to uh planet hollywood and they got taboo they were able to take taboo away from his his schedule yeah yeah can you believe it i might My gosh, they're also 50 cent. We'll be there in the club. It'll be in the club. Yeah. Body full of...

I've never stayed here, so I don't know if it's any good or not. It's probably a dump. I have no idea. I stayed there once when I had an emergency layover in Vegas. Like, basically, it was one of these days that I was going to fly and fly out. And it wasn't the time I did TMS Vegas. But for whatever reason, the nighttime flight. got canceled and so I had to spend the night in Vegas and I didn't bring anything with me because

it was going to be you know in and out no no extra clothes no nothing so I went and bought a toothbrush and uh toothpaste deodor and all that stuff and the voucher um I use the voucher and an app called hotel tonight to get a really good deal on a room at um planet Hollywood so I was in the room for maybe six hours because I had to get up and and go at four o'clock in the morning wow So maybe I was in the room for three hours, actually, now that I say that. It was a Titanic-themed room. So there was a coffee table, glass-top coffee table with a life jacket in it and a big picture of the movie poster on the wall. Like a box, shadow box that was filled with popcorn at the bottom.

Was there a DiCaprio corpse in the tub and it just laid in there? He was floating in the tub. Yeah, exactly. Wonderful. Just had to brush him off to take a shower. So this is the place where you go to see Chris Angel these days, looks like. Jeff Dunham. Oh, really?

He's not the Luxor anymore. According to this. Also, Larry the Cable guy, the Scorpions, and who else? Teddy Swims. They're all coming there. I don't know who. Teddy Swims. I don't know who that is.

Should I know who that is? He's really talented. Yeah, what I've been hearing. He looks like Post Malone's brother or something. Look at that. He's like skinny, he's like half a jelly roll. is what he is. Well, I like what's inside him, so, mm-mm, good.

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Who are we? Who are we? Who are we? What are we? Who are you? Paul Scott Canavan? Do you have a sister or a cousin or somebody by the name of Wendy who married a guy named Mike Lucas? She's no Wendy Lucas, but she used to be a Wendy Canavan. Might have a connection there. Might be a connection. Yeah, be interesting. That would be really cool.

I don't know how popular the Canavan name is. I don't either. It's a cool, I'll bet it's a cool name. I mean, I mean, I know it's a cool name. Yeah, a caravan of canavans. Oh, no. A canavan is, uh, it's what a group of them are called, by the way. Yeah.

A group of canavans is called a caravan. Yeah. And the new, uh, it sounds like something like Dodge would make. The Dodge Canaban. That's right. You know, the hot new family vehicle. Take it out. You peel the top.

Yeah, that's right. Like sardines. Exactly. Uh, I got a Walmart story for you where you might find something on the peel top. Yeah. Excellent. That's good stuff. Walmart employee offers sinister explanation as co-worker found baked to death in a walk-in oven. It's kind of dark what happened here.

God, I was thinking pot, but now, no, not that kind of baked. Different kind of baked to death, for sure. A Walmart employee is given a new chilling explanation after her 19-year-old coworker was baked to death in a walk-in oven. Last week, the remains of Gershimon Carr, I think it's how you say your name, resident of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was found deceased in one of the Super Bowl. for stores appliances in an effort to understand the nature of the gruesome murder it says here. I don't know if they know it's a murder yet. Maybe they're

just assuming that. I don't know. Well, I mean, you don't it seems murdery. You don't go into an oven. I mean, it could be a suicide, right? Yeah, you turn on the oven, you walk in and you, boy. It could be or it could have been somebody not knowing that it wouldn't open from the inside or

something. Yeah. Because it is in the bakery, I think, is where this happened. Anyway. Current and former staffers of Walmart have been weighing in about the appliance showing the inner workings of the superstores bakery. It was the bakery. In one video, TikTok user Chris Breezy explains that the oven she used while working at Walmart turned on from the outside and that the door handle was really hard to open. I don't even know if I would fit in there, he says. I'm 5'1, medium build.

I would have to crouch down to get in. Let's see. He also pointed out that there was an emergency latch located inside the oven. Or there was or wasn't? There was. I know. It was, but then they shouldn't have nor. Yeah, the nor is jacked. What are you doing?

Themere.com? Oh, that's our problem. Themere.com. See? Nor are there any tasks that required a person to enter the oven physically. I would never have been in there whether I'm cleaning or not, she said, according to the employee in stock and lock. Sorry, in order to lock, I said stock and lock. In order to lock the oven.

It's just smoking barrels. It's a fun thing to say, stock and lock, right? It's fun. Stock and lock, yeah. But why say it when you're reading a thing? I don't know. I can't explain it. I don't know either.

It says you have to push the latch with all your might. Test your might. And pull the handle to the side to lock it in place you out of. There is no way possible anyone could lock themselves in there. So I guess this is why they think it's a murder. Because you can't. Wow. Yeah.

Can you imagine that? That must have been horrifying. That's horrifying. My gosh. And Halifax? Yeah. What's going on, Canada? I thought you guys were all nice and everything up there.

Canada. What's going on? Is that? Yeah. Yeah, explain yourselves. All right. Here's one. Deaf mosquitoes stop having sex. That's good news.

It's almost an order. Yep, mosquitoes, stop having sex. Yeah. It's less of a statement of discovered fact and more of a command. Right. Listen, all you mosquitoes who can't hear. I don't even know if you can hear this, but stop having sex. Anyway, scientists believe they found a quirky way to fight mosquito spread diseases, such as dengue fever, yellow fever, and Zika, the Zika virus.

I've heard of all these. By turning male insects deaf so they struggle to mate and breed. Mosquitoes have sex while flying in mid-air, and the males rely on hearing to chase down a female based on her attractive wing beats. Yeah. That's how you doing. How you doing, baby? When I used to go bar hopping, I love your beats. Yeah, I would look for those wing beats.

Hmm. It sounds like... Hey, man. My beats are back here. It sounds like an extra at a restaurant they'll push you to buy. You want wing beats with that? Wing beats, yeah. Yeah.

They come in the combo. He may as well get them. I don't know. Yeah. Deep fried wing beats. Says the researchers did an experiment after a genetic pathway that they found that male mosquitoes used for this hearing. The result, they made no physical contact with females,

even after three days in the same cage. Oh, wow. I guess there are no women in here. I'm done. I'm just going to bite my own. ass and pull the blood out, it'll be fine. Mosquitoes, see, they're the ones, the male mosquitoes, or female mosquitoes, rather, the ones that spread diseases.

So in trying to prevent them from having babies would reduce overall numbers. Is that 100% true? The males don't spread anything? I don't know. I mean, it sounds like it from the BBC. They're a reputable news source, unlike the mirror. Yeah, I do trust them. Of the two UK sources, both of which are UK-based, I think I'll take the best.

I think I'll take the BBC's word over the other one. Yeah, because I guess the female mosquitoes are the only ones that bite you. Male mosquitoes don't, right? Because they're not trying to, what's the deal? They're trying to, they thin your blood so that they can take some of it in and then use that. Does that help them reproduce? Warm their eggs or something? I don't know.

Oh, that's interesting. Claire says they want to lay eggs under your skin. And Claire, are you an expert in insectoidology? At least that's what the Irish mosquitoes do. The Irish mosquitoes do so much more than anyone else's. I know the thing that causes the bump is them putting like a little toxin into your skin that thins your blood so that they can extract some of it. Right. Wait, Carter piped up.

What? Entomology. No, I know that. What I say? Insectoidology? I was screwing around with Claire. I appreciate it though Yeah I knew it was entomology

I almost became I almost I had interest in being an entomologist for a hot minute Yeah I thought it would be fun to study bugs and insects I don't know I don't know I mean I don't know I was also trying to do art and other things at the time And it just seemed like you know some people are always like Well I'm thinking about going to theater But also I wouldn't mind being a veterinarian

It was like that level of this other thing I might like Right right right insects are fascinating Yeah It's too bad. I missed a whole chance to, I don't know, find out how to make deaf bugs, I guess. Anyway, so this is the new way. Let's see. How did they do it, though?

Targeted protein. Oh, I see. Made the mosquitoes deaf, the male's deaf. Yeah. Which seems a little, I mean, we interfere with nature a lot because we're the dominant species here on the planet. Sure. This feels a little rough. I mean, I'm not, I don't like mosquitoes.

They're just doing enough of it to do the test to say, you know, if we make these mosquitoes death, this handful of them, or however many they have, then we can find out that they don't mate and they don't, you know, diseases don't get spread. But this is like, you know, this is something that could be very useful, not spreading things like the Zika virus or dengue fever or whatever. Good point. It means you're going to have far less mosquitoes, which whatever creature it is that eats those, that relies on those. for the circle of life, the circle of life, then you need to, they need to find something else.

You find something else to eat. Yeah, yeah, go find something else to eat. It's like a knock-on effect that I were always worried about, but we never know until you do it, I suppose. Exactly. Maybe they'll learn sign language.

That'll be the trick. They'll evolve and a little mosquito in the corner of the cage going, and the other mosquito was like, yeah, let's get it on. I know, there you are. come mount me in the air anyway check my beats yeah look at my beats

pretty sweet my attractive beats that's going to do it for the news for now we're going to take a break when we come back we're doing some of this right here where is it I put it in here call now we're doing call now that means that we're going to take your calls

we'll do it via the Discord if you are not currently in the live Discord TMS Live Stage that's where we'll do it you'll be able to raise a hand we'll pull you in and you can ask any question you want all right so that's coming up after this break. Brian, play that song. Yeah, I've been to some of those mosquito singles bars.

They're a real beat market. Hey, let's go to a singer named Emmy, E-M-E-I. I think that's how you pronounce it. She has a brand new EP called Rabbit Hole. Comes out November 15th. That's a week from tomorrow. So make sure you check that out. And then she's going to have a tour in 2025 following a year of completely sold-out shows.

She is Spotify calls her an artist to watch in 2024. and I can I can see why she's really really good um let's get to this song this is the first single from her new EP the single is called nine no it's called rabbit hole oh nice nine rabbit holes all right cool I like a good rabbit hole here it is we'll be right back I can see them now I can hear them saying look at her wow there she goes wow lost a mind for your entertainment falling down the rabbit hole breathe in breathe out no stress no doubt don't cry don't shout breathe out shut up right down I'm good for now oops yeah I just did a 4-180 oops been taking out tonight go lately oops we're almost to the encore baby

So if you stick around, we'll be gone. I'm looking down, don't, don't, don't. I'm looking down a rabbit. I'm looking down, don't, don't, don't. I'm going to down, down. Oh, my dad are looking retirement ready. Oh my God, I'm getting old. Superstars, I make the fight at 20.

Falling down a rabbit hole. No stress, no doubt. I'm good for now. Oops, yeah, I just did a 4-180. Oops, been taking lots of night more lately. Oops, we're almost to the encore, baby. So if you stick around, we'll be gone. Down to down, down, down, don't know, down.

Down with the down, down, go to the best, right. Down, down, down, down, go, go and gone, go, down. Want to play house, but I play charades. Blown me out like a super eight. Tell me, tell me, are you with it, with it? Be right there in a minute, minute. Fidbitick, no I'm seeing stars. Down eight plus to the hotel bar.

Every hour feels different, different. Rabbit hole, no minute, in it. Now wherever there's carpet Blast off with fun slides The amazing carpet skates that glide, slide, or ride You decide Race with them, play games with them Or just cruise with them

Fun slides from the good times inside You don't have to be a pro, just strap them on and go, go, go Adult programming all day, every day Except in Florida and Utah We've returned. Tell me again who that was so I can seek them out. You bet. This is Emmy, E-M-E-I, I'm not sure how you pronounce her name, but E-M-E-I.

That is the new ballad Nine Lives. I was right. Here's the problem is that the label that sent it to me put the song title in the album spot and the EP title in the song title spot. Oh, pep-de-flop. Oops. So my notes say, hey, it's Nine Lives from the EP Rabbit Hole,

but my iTunes says something completely different. But anyway, the song's called Nine Lives. That's EMI or EMI. Nice, Emmy. If it's Emmy, then she should win an Emmy so that we can say Emmy won an Emmy. Or EMI. EMI won an Emmy

even works pretty well. I kind of like that. Perfect. All right, guys. It's time for a little bit call now. We haven't done this in a while, mainly because it's kind of hard, but if you're in our Discord right now and you're watching us live in there, again, it's the TMS Live stage and you have something to ask. Just do the little request to speak thing. Basically, let you raise a little tiny hand in there. And then I get to say if you come in or not, and now we're going to do it. If you have a question, you have a thought, whatever it is, keep in mind trying to avoid political discussions because you can get those anywhere. All right. right you didn't come to TMS for that you came here for something else uh all right so we're just waiting for somebody suddenly they're all chicken there was like a hundred hands earlier and now nobody's raising their hand i don't know what that's about i may just pull one of you in on purpose let's see that'll teach them yeah right teach them like we could see you know what let's check in with the uk let's see what they're doing over there i'm gonna i'm gonna

pull zoe in uh see if she even has a mic i don't know if she's set up or not but uh zoe if you can hear us join the fun uh and answer that call and if you can't well that's fine too but i want to i want it to oh she has no mic well all right how about uh how about uh how about you know who wants to talk let's see who the yeah i know who wants to talk i see a hand raise hey claire is that you claire she's not on mic unmute yourself there you are working hi i've had accept there you are i've had except yeah we can hear you can you hear us okay okay yes Yes. So my thoughts on the stuff from the past couple of days, no. Hang up, hang up. Just kidding. We know you're not going to ask us that.

So what's going on? You can't buy Mountain Dew anymore. How's that feel? Well, actually, yeah. So I have an opinion on that where I, when I was in America, like, last year, I nearly, like, went into, like, a full-on, like, cardiac arrest when, like, I grabbed a drink at a petrol thing. and was like, oh, it's like some fruity stuff. Yeah, Cheryl, grab something like this. Something we don't get over here. And proceeded to have the shakes for like five hours. Oh, my God. I just thought I was going to, like, shit myself and, like, have a heart attack.

And sure enough, I looked at the can and went and Googled it. And the can't remember what it was, it was some pink thing. But it had more caffeine in the can than is legally allowed for your daily allowance. over here like your own daily alliance um of caffeine I don't know loads of sugar on it as well but we're talking about caffeine what is your daily allowance of caffeine do you know what the number is I'm just curious I want to compare them off the top of my head no let's ask my little friend here hi much caffeine can see I don't I don't know everything off the top of my head Brian

I use chat cheap you take you're like how does Claire know how to debug dark mode and so she doesn't she doesn't because she's nothing you've told me it works i'm still in still in light mode even though my i go to google drive and i choose you know settings there i it says everything's in dark mode but for whatever reason sheets does not yeah i think sheets like forces it or something it's weird you have to use them 400 milligrams apparently yeah that's what the mayo clinic says too and that's about four that's no more than four cups of coffee so i'm trying to see what that equilates to if you took like a

And also your drinks are like bigger anyway like your cans are like a whole freaking liter whereas over here a can of something's like 330 milliliters Our cans are We just have some big cans of things Like Arizona comes in a way bigger can I do like the Arizona iced teas

That we can get over here They're like fruity But they're not capping ones They're just like the ice teas So the watermelon stuff is nice Let's see it says here too If you're taking any ephedrine or thylamine or and

I don't know what the heck that is I know but if you're like supplements so if you're taking those and drinking a lot of caffeine you'll like amplify the effects it says according to the Mayo Clinic I mean yeah maybe it's like how I'm not supposed to have alcohol now that I'm on surgery which is like a happy brain drug

maybe it kind of has a similar effect to like back when I used to drink and also took that where it was like oh shit who gave the crazy bitch extra crazy hey speaking of which what's your new job we hear you got a new job what are you doing yeah I got a new job um I'm doing like IT support stuff um so yeah starting Monday that's great and

unfortunately I'll be missing like the first hour of the show unless I get to like you know sneak my earbuds in at 4 sure but yeah no that's great though i'm excited for you what uh you don't have to say with who but i assume it's some big international technical conglomerate of some sort no they're they're actually like a small enough company um that's irish um so yeah and they do like buildingy stuff but i'm like doing their IT side of things well know this know this while you're working there if you experience headache insomnia nervousness irritability frequent urination or inability control urination, fast heartbeat or muscle tremors, you may have too much caffeine in

your system. Oh, well, that's a shame because I piss myself all the time. Oh, no! That's not good. Well, Claire, I wish you the best. That's awesome. I didn't know you had a job change. That's really exciting.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, thanks, guys. When do you start? When is your first day? Monday. Literally Monday. And I'm having to get up at seven. No, I have to leave the house at seven.

I have to get up at six. Whereas, like, before my last job, I was struggling to even make it to my meeting at Tanna. Oh, jeez. On my laptop right next to me, but, like, I have to go into the office. So, yeah. And it'll be gone. It'll be grand. It'll be great.

You'll get used to it. And then you'll be like, Brian and I, where we can't sleep past six anyway. It'll just work out. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. I'd love to sleep in. A sleep in would be so nice. Oh, let's be so nice.

I can't do it anymore. You guys have the worst bosses, though. You know, you should really have words with your bosses and be like, it's just not work. can I, you know, I need a raise, I need some time off, you know. Yeah, our bosses, our dicks. I'll say that. I have a lifetime contract with mine, so I can't. It's an escapable.

Yeah. There's no, there's no fee clause in my contract. Listen, Brian, I don't know if this is true of you, but my boss insists on holding my weiner when I have to pee. I don't know about yours. Like all kinds of stuff like that. Always watching when I'm on break. Yeah, always watching.

He wipes me when I need him for the other business. he's the worst dude I don't recommend it Claire have a fantastic time enjoy Monday and we'll talk to you later okay there she goes into the audience oh Talley wants in should we let her in

let her in let she has to say always always let Talley in the door Talley welcome all the way from Canada how the heck are you yeah okay 500 milligrams is generally the threshold

for starting to see negative side effects of caffeine intake but that varies wild between person to person. Around 1,000 milligrams, you start to undergo what people call caffeine psychosis. And then above 1,500 milligrams is about where you start to see toxicity. Oh, my Lord. Oh, really?

1,500. Okay. This is very general guidelines because caffeine, well, what was called like the caffeine processing, basically, but like bioavailability is the actual available amount in your system. It varies heavily, heavily between people. And the half-life also varies heavily. between people. So half-life can be two hours to nine hours. So tell me more about the psychosis bit. What are the signs? What do you notice about it?

Tell me some good. We look forward to. Yeah. I don't know. It's actually, you'd have to probably try to hit that limit considering most half-lives. And so like the people like me who sometimes pound like 24 ounces of coffee and then go into two monsters maybe are bumping up on that. Oh my gosh. That's a lot. Jeez, Louises. Rare condition that can cause psychotic symptoms like delusion, paranoia, and hallucinations. Wow. What if I have just... What if it's just hallucinations?

What if it's just that? If it's just hallucinations, then you're probably just an artist. Okay, cool. I think that explains a lot. I appreciate that. Any, I mean, you're here to educate us, obviously, but once in a while you have a question. Do you have any questions for you? Oh, no, that was my Horshack response to you guys talking about caffeine.

I'm just like, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, my. my gosh, ask your uncles, everybody, that reference. That's amazing. I love that. That's great. Bringing in some Welcome Back Cotter vibes. I don't know how to thank you for that. That's amazing. Well, yeah. I will just say that there's like a small pocket of generational bridging because at least my time, I grew up on Nick at Night. And the brief period where Cartoon Network was only showing Hannah Barbera rerun. So that's why I think Scooby-Doo and things like, you know, Nick at night level things maybe have longer staying power because of like the weird influence they've had on kids' childhood. Yeah, I think that's true.

I mean, like in Nick's case, my kid's case, they watch things like even older things like the Andy Griffith Show and the Dick Van Dyke show and these kind of things. And it's stuff I didn't even watch as a kid. I might see a rerun here or there. But because they have that stuff now, I feel like they have even a weirder mix of old and new. Yeah, I mean, with the internet, it gets weirder. But, like, my whole point is that, like, I was passively, like, I had nothing on at night. It was either infomercials or reruns of I Love Lucy. So that's what I know about my vitamin and Medjaman is because I was watching, you know, at seven years old, I love Lucy because there was either that or nothing.

Yeah. Well, you know, there are worse things in life than that. Yeah. You can be watching Breaking Bad at that age and just imagine how much worse that would be. You can have a kid just going like, Heisenberg. Yeah, Heisenberg. I like that. Heisenberg.

Well, it's always good to talk to you and, yeah. I do have one more thing. Please. So, you know, the bot's getting more and more streamlined and everything. So I will put the call out for people to suggest the snarky responses. Oh, yeah. I love them so far. So there's a lot of like Mimi, TMS stuff and these responses.

For those at home, I don't know what we're talking about. When you're here live, you can submit titles live on the show. And thankfully, with a combination of the amazing work of BioCow and now tally on top of that, We have this really good system of doing it in YouTube and through Discord and this sort of stuff. What's fun about it is when you put in a submission, the bot will reply to you in some goofy way. And right now it's full of these like TMS memes memes memes, and they're wonderful. But if you have any suggestions, even if you're not here live and you just want to suggest something, send them in. And I'll pass in Italia and then she'll, you know, integrate them, as it were.

Yeah, just, you know, explosive tip, fart gas. Oh, I should do a poo bag lady one. Yeah, that one's a great. That's a classic. Doesn't get much bad. I think we peaked with that story, to be honest. Oh, God, that was a hallmark. That was pretty good.

Talley, have a fantastic time. May Canada bring you weed. Talk to you later, bye. All right. I think they do automatically, don't they? It's like a state thing where you just request it. Just included, yeah, for sure. Pretty sure that's how it works.

If you would like to call us, just be in that room. And we have, looks like Ian, our old pal I am. sci-fi. Ian, are you there? I am here. Can you actually hear me for once? We can absolutely hear you. For whatever reason, this is the prime way to get you, so I'm glad you're here, man.

Excellent, excellent. I love that Talley started talking caffeine like the minute that I arrow-pressed my cup of coffee, so that was good timing. I love an aeropress. Explain to me, explain to an arrow press and remind you what that is. I'm not sure what that is.

Yeah. So an arrow press is like a single serve French press. So if you just want one cup of coffee, you set it up the same way you would set up a French press, only it's, you know, just the one. You don't have to worry about having eight cups of hypercapenated coffee. It's just one of the time. And it uses less grounds and it just makes a nice smooth cup. Okay. And it's super, it's super fast as opposed to like a pour over, which is also a single cup thing where you just sit there and pour and wait for the hot water to make its way through. It's like you're. forcing the coffee through, there's some kind of handle on it and you mush it down? Yeah, it's like a cocking gun for coffee and it forces the hot water through the grounds and you get your coffee. And the best part is is that it basically creates like this like puck of coffee afterwards. You can literally just press the arrow, press down further and you get rid of all your grounds. Oh, you know, that sounds all right. We probably have one and I just don't know it because Kim, Kim likes a good, fancy Frenchie.

hoo-ha, you know? I'm just like, is that a chai? I'll drink it. Whatever. It'll warm me on these cold days. Ian, any other thought? How's it? What's the weather like in New York right now, by the way? The weather is ridiculously hot in New York. It's going to get colder, but we've had record highs the past couple of days. Like, it's been like 78. Today, it's 72, and I wanted to stop and be fall already. Well, as someone who is in the thick of fall, we're at 35. Brian, you were as low as 18 you were saying pretty low 18 yeah what is it right now it's 30 up to 30 right now that's crazy um Las Vegas is only 53 that tells you and that place is so hot I got I wouldn't be all right I mean their high is uh no their high is 61 is all that's crazy

well St. George is 44 holy shit oh my God everybody anyway hey Ian have a fan no what I want to ask you guys is uh I don't know if you've gotten the latest Mario party Mario Party Jamboree. Not yet. Not yet. It is a lot of fun. I think it's the most fun I've had with a Mario Party game in years. Like, it's, they stepped up their game.

The new, uh, the new courses are super fun. There's a, there's a mall level where you're basically like going through the mall and, uh, it has multiple levels to it. And there's like a turn where everything is half price and you're collecting stamps and stuff. Like it's, they, they really up their game for the first. first time in what I feel like is years. My biggest complaint with those games, the Mario Party games I've played in the past anyway, were so luck-based on the board side of it, and it was so much R&G, it was just rolling

dice. Now, that's not a bad thing for a board game. That's kind of the idea of a board game. But I always wish that they would narrow some of that down to be a little less luck and a little more choices, you know, that your choices mattered. Certainly in the mini-games, they do because you've got to be good to beat the mini-games. Right, and that's fun. And those are a riot, no matter what, if you've got two or more people, it's super fun.

But that's a good review. I'll have to think about it. Is that, like, remote play playable? I know you can put it up on the TV and everybody's got a JoyCon and do their little things with a JoyCon. But can you play remotely with a bunch of people online? Like online? Yes, yes, you can. Yeah.

I think as long as they have jamboree as well, you can, yeah, then you're able to go online and play boards and stuff like that. uh that's been built in since like two mario parties ago and it's still able to be with this one yeah there it is multiplayer online you do have to have the you do have to subscribe to their online service to do it though so there's that yeah up to 20 players online 20 people yeah oh 20 people yeah that that's that's one that's one of the like uh mini game only ones though so like not like a full board of mario party but like you can get together and play like this like Bowser run where you have up the 20 play out 20 different people involved you know what they need to do this is something nintendo will never do but here's what

i want them to do put a pc compilation out of all your favorite mini games hell even sell me dLC with extras i don't care i'll pay it they have this 20 player mode let us play it the way we do on our playdates we would play the we would play the shit out of this yeah for sure yep oh my gosh dude all right they're never going to do it so i don't know why i'm getting excited Nintendo doesn't do this you never know you never know maybe switch to baby that said like i'd pick this up if if we knew that we would have enough people to play a game for play date and you know it'd be fairly exclusive because you have to

have the game and subscribe to the service yeah online service i would totally be down for doing a play date of uh Mario party jambore yeah if we got I'd say if we had 10 or more people that had it I would do it yeah I mean I have a switch and I have the online thing so I would do it I don't know. I'm ducked my sweats for that. Your swatch. All right. Ian, it's always good to talk to you, man.

I hope you stay warm and then cold. And, uh, yeah, if you need anything from us, well, you know where to find us. I'll see you next time. I'm here. I really like this method of pulling people in when they want in, you know, you never know. Yes, yes. All right, we got one here from, uh, let's see. Let's pull in Raven.

Yeah, I think Raven was first. Raven, C-G, sorry, CTG. Welcome to the show. hi guys can you hear me we sure can how are you hello i'm surprisingly good today oh that's good you know what i'm grateful that you called in and brought a female voice to this sausage party we're having today okay oh i guess claire was here oh claire and talia yeah talia and claire sorry sorry they're just i think of them i think of them as i call them i call them both dude all the time i don't think of them as, you know, bringing in the feminine card.

But you're here now and we love having you here. So what's going on, Raven? Oh, thanks. First off, it was what a wonderful week for me to pick to make my comeback to the show, you know, doing my life. We're so glad to have you back here. And the support that the tadpole gets is amazing. So thank you guys for that.

I'm trying to be quiet because my voice is echoing in the hall here at work. Your work. And that cool? Oh, my God. the coolest workspace ever. I'm telling you, I have the dream job. I work for the dream team. Y'all come visit me.

I'm not joking. I want to. I want to. I'm not going to do it during November, but I might come in like spring or fall or summer. So they joked with me that I brought the Ohio with me, Ohio weather with me to Minnesota because it is still like we got that freak snowstorm on Halloween, but it's all gone again.

and it's like, I think it's like 40 out right now. Yeah. Wendy was just talking to you yesterday about this. They don't understand why the weather is not normal there. Yeah. They just keep blaming on me. So Wendy can blame it on me because we moved in July and just brought it with us. Sure.

And I think we're in the same area too. We're planning a trip out there sometime next year. And I will make sure to make that part of our trip. Because we're going out, we're just going to see Wendy and them. But, you know, little meetups here and there. That'd be great. We're right here in the Twin Cities, so. Nice. But, so I am

approaching the end of my 10th play-through of Boulder Skate 3, and I think I'm finally going to play it, put it to bed. I say this every time. Wow. Wow. I have been looking at dragging age, and I just wondered if either of you had played it or had any feelings about it. So I'm about

seven or eight, seven or eight hours in, something like that and it is very good in some ways and a couple of ways it leaves me a little wanting and like on core today we're going to get deep into what i where my beefs are but i'll give you the short of it the the the the gameplay the visuals the um moment to moment mechanics of the game really good like they kind of nailed what i liked about the previous game real strong in those areas where it struggles mostly is dialogue delivery and some would say well i don't think the story if the story was better that would feel like less of a problem i'm not convinced I think the overall story is okay, but there are a bunch of characters in here that are

quippy and annoying as all get out. Like I cannot stand being around some of them. They drive me crazy. Other than that, though, I think it's good. It's a good fun thing. The hard part is comparing it anything, really, not just this game, but any RPG that comes out since Baldersgate 3 has so much to live up to. And they don't, and they can't.

It's just not possible for them to do it. So don't know that. going in, but I'm having a great time with it. It's fun. I went into Waltersgate with big hesitation because I am D&D through and through. So I had my reservations, and I'd never played anything that they had put out before the, that, Larian. Oh, God, Larian had put out before. So like I said, I had my reservations. I'm very picky about how you do your D&D rules. And they just hit everything all the way down to like the voice actors still to this day um they they love those characters so much yeah that it just i can watch austerion's scene over and over and over

i'm not going to do any spoilers in case nobody's ever seen it but the way that neal did that scene and it just brings chills and tears to me every time yeah it's so good it's like you're gonna miss some of that with with this one but if you know that going in you're going to be fine Like if you're looking for a good time, a good romp. If you like the color purple, that'll help too. And I don't mean the movie. I mean the actual color purple. I heard it's very dark.

Yeah, it can be. It's both dark and brighter than their previous games at the same time. It's kind of hard to explain. It's a weird motif. It's a lot more of a positive take. Your party members, I wish they did infight like they did in Inquisition, but they're a little more friendly. And it's annoying sometimes. It's hard to explain.

I like friendly, but the way they're doing this is a little weird. but if you go in at least knowing that you're not going to get Baldur's Gate-style level of storytelling and acting that you're just going to get something that's you know serviceable and works for the story then you'll be fine you'll have a good time with it I'm enjoying well thank you that that helps me justify the 70 bucks I have to drop on yeah that's the other thing is freaking expensive wow it's a big commitment welcome to the the AAA price hike everybody good stuff yeah being an Xbox person too so sure but yeah well thanks guys and you've bring a smile to my face every time I get to hear you guys. Oh, thanks, Raven. Always happy to do that for us. Yeah, well, thank you for being there also. We'll talk to you soon. Oh, I should have mentioned to her, and if she's still listening,

anyone else is listening, there's a contest happening on the Discord right now in giveaways for two copies of Dragon Age of Veilgard, the new game. One is for Steam, the other is for Xbox. So Raven, make sure you get in on that, at least sign up for it. I don't know how many people have done it so far, but probably a fair amount.

Let me just take a quick look. We have 153 entries so far for the Steam version, 73 for the Xbox version, and Encore we'll be making a larger announcement about that, and that'll run through Sunday. So if you're all looking to get a free copy of that, it might be the way to go. That's going to do it for today's show before we get out of here. A couple of things.

Brian, we haven't talked yet, but what's your big plan for Coverville today? As mentioned earlier this week, is going to be a tribute to Q, Quincy Jones. incredible producer, produced Michael Jackson's thriller album, as well as off the wall and bad, like he worked with Michael for quite a while. But there's only one song that he actually has a writing credit on that's on Thriller, and we're going to hear a cover of that one. Of course, a cover of the Austin Powers theme, a cover of superstition by Quincy Jones. There's a lot of great stuff in today's show.

course a cover of the Sanford and Son theme called the Street Beater, which was written by Quillian. I forgot that was him. I love that theme. It's one of my favorites. It goes all the way back to Leslie Gore. It's My Party. And like produced all the way, stuff as old as that. He's around in the production space behind the boards for such a long time. So a lot of great covers of and by Quincy Jones today. Nice. Go check that out. Also, Corr will happen today. We have moved to a new time, ladies and gentlemen. It is no longer in the evening. So to work around a very busy father schedule on

John's side, we have moved it up every Thursday from the previous time of 4 p.m. No, 5 p.m. Mountain Time. It is now at noon mountain time every Thursday from here until perpetuity. The only downside of that is that kind of bumps into when Brian is used to recording. I hate that part of this, but it's the only time we could find. You know what? I still had a full packed house last week when I did the Daryl Hall Lowe and Wean show. Good. There's enough audience for both of us out there, of course. Of course.

That's wonderful to hear because I hate that it landed there. And you can listen to both at the same time. Listen to music in the back of Scott, John, and Bow. Yeah. That's one of the signs of caffeine overdose. So careful out there, everybody. If you can listen to two things that one. Exactly. Core, so at noon today right here at frogpance.tv, the skim episode is also coming this weekend.

And it will either be Friday or Saturday. Kim and I are just locking down a time. But we're going to be live for that one. So keep your eye on the schedule. TMS Friday tomorrow. Me and Brian back here doing it in the Discord room for all the Patreon folks. If you are not a patron, you can sign up even today and be here live tomorrow if you want. It's an immediate thing.

And you'll also get the back episodes of TMS Fridays. So please be here for that. We're going to have a contest. We're going to have some fun. It's going to be great. So far, I'm loving how Fridays are feeling. So you guys send in there. too. And I will have a movie review. I've not talked about it, but I'm seeing a movie tonight at the draft house.

For those who are keeping track, that's two in one week. But I'll have a review of a movie, and I won't say what it is until tomorrow. All right. No hints. You guys got to come to see and find out for yourselves. Yep. That's tomorrow. Oh, and time-wise, to be in the Discord is 9 a.m., same as our normal start for Mountain Time showtime. Right. Play Retro tomorrow at 1.30. Of course, Dunaway and I get together for that. And then me, Dunaway, Ibit, and of course, Randy Jordan, the recently birthdayed Randy Jordan, getting together this weekend for Ridley Scott's 2010 Robin Hood take, which I have yet to see. So this is going to be interesting. I do already have an idea for my song this week, but I'm also not going to say what it is. Brian Adams, just kidding.

It'll be good. Yeah. It won't be this. Remember that thing? We still haven't done that one, that movie. We've got to get that done at some point. Get all the Robin Hood. We got to do, we did get, we did veto that Robin and Marion thing with the dude from sleeping with the enemy.

I know that was the first veto we ever had. Brian watched it and said, guys, we're not doing this for a film sack. Yeah, wasn't that, that wasn't Sean Connery? Who am I, what am I thinking of? Was that Sean Connery? No, was it Sean Connery in there as well? It's the, I know that the dude from sleeping with the enemy is, um, I can't think of who that is. That was Robin Hood in that one.

1976. Let's see if Sean Connery is in it as well. Yeah, okay, he was, maybe it wasn't Robin and Marion then. Let's see, Robin and Marion. Because that is the Sean Connery one. There was one that had the dude from, let's see here, hold on a second. So, Sean Connery is Robin Hood, Audrey Hepburn is Marion, Nicole Williamson, Little Dun, Robert Shaw. Patrick Bergen.

So Patrick Bergen is your dude from sleeping with the enemy, and he played Robin Hood in. Oh, you're right. You're 100% right. It's just not called this. It's just called Robin Hood. 1991 Robin Hood. Yeah, that one did get... I think maybe both these got bumped.

Maybe we were going to do Robin and Marion. I have some memory of that. And then somebody said, no, it's not good. Don't do it. How many freaking Robin Hoods do we need, man? I know, right? It's got a cool Drew Strews and the cover, which is always fun. Uma Thurman has made Marion in this one.

Oh, my gosh. What was she, 10? Holy hell. Well, it was 1991. Yeah, I mean, she was, yeah. Oh, that was 91. This looks so much older than 91. Weird.

It looks so much older than 91. Yeah, we may have to get around to it at some point. Sorry, Denny way, it's coming back. Anyway, film sack this weekend, Robin Hood, 2010's Robin Hood. Let's see if it's as bad as everyone said at the time, or if we find some retribution for Mr. Ridley Scott. Hard to complain about a Ridley Scott thing. I think I'm going to enjoy it.

I think I'm going to have a lot of fun with it. I think I am, too, because I'm less picky to. these days. I'm just sort of a lot more open about stuff. So let's do it. Let's watch it. And Jeannie says, how many Spider-Men do we need? And the answer to that is, all of them. All, all the Spider-Man you have. All the Spider-Man. Like your eggs and bacon. All right, that's it for the show. Frogpants.com.

TMS is the place to go for everything else. Don't forget to get your song requests in and all that fun stuff. We're getting ready for a new year. All these things are fun. Holidays coming. We're trying to be a place for you to go as a refuge. huge and a place to hang out and laugh and have a good time. We hope we've done that today and in perpetuity. Brian, let's play a song to keep them most happy at the end here. For sure. Oh, this is going to make everybody happy, but especially at least three people that I know.

Two of them, listeners that I got to hang out with in Savannah a month ago. Amy Robinson writes in and says, hey, Scott and Brian, this Thursday, November 7th, my youngest child, Julia, turns 18 years old. Oh shit, that means this. Let's party. We haven't used that so long. I had to find it. I know.

I know. In honor of this incredibly kind, smart, and talented young lady that she has grown into, I would love it if you would play any pink cover, either buy or pink that you feel would be appropriate. Julie, I love you, and I'm always proud of you. Love Mom. Thanks, guys. You help me through my work days with sanity, still bouncing around in there somewhere.

Scott, please play the You Can Eat Rice Clip. I can do that. And so much more. Hold on. That's not it. I thought that was it. Here it is. Dump.

No. Here it is. Then you can eat rice. I knew it was in there. Just had to find it. Love the show, though. Amy Redfraggle Robinson. Nice.

Amy, happy to oblige. And Julia is one of those TikTok accounts that I get emails for all the time saying, you should probably, a lot of people in your group follow Julia Elk as well. You should follow her to. do, but I haven't. I don't do TikTok. I probably should. I get it. No, you don't, I don't think you need to do it. It's fine. Plus, I think it's, isn't it going to get banned? Everyone's going to ban it. Isn't that still happening or is it not happening now? I don't know. See, that's another thing. Do I want to even make the commitment and say, okay, all right, I'm going to

start working on my algorithm. By the way, it's leaving the app store in two weeks. I mean, I don't know. Now there's some, somebody's just sent me a message saying, I don't know who this is. Oh, it's a number I should recognize. I was saying that it may not get banned now because that was some promise that the now elected new person trying not to say his name. You promised that to Elon?

Yeah, something like that. I don't mean not to Elon, but maybe it was just like a thing to get the kids to vote or something. I don't know. Anyway, whatever. Well, regardless, let's get to a great pink song. This is one of her very uplifting anthems about never

doubting yourself, never pushing yourself to the back burner, never basically never letting yourself think that you're less than perfect. And the song's called Less Than Perfect if you haven't figured out by now. Here is the band Carmen who do amazing, strip down acoustic covers and their take on pinks less than perfect. Made a wrong turn once or twice, dug my way out, blood and fire, bad decisions, that's all right, welcome to my silly life, mistreated, misplaced, misunderstood, miss no way, It's all good, it didn't slow me down.

Mistaken, always second guessing, underestimated, look I'm still around. Pretty, pretty please, don't you ever, ever feel like you're less than, less than perfect. Pretty, pretty, please, if you ever, ever feel like you're nothing, you are perfect to me. You're so mean when you talk about yourself, you wrong, change the voices in your head. Make them like you instead So complicated

Look how big you'll make it Filled with so much hatred Such a tired game It's enough I've done all I can think of Chase down all my demons See you do the same Pretty pretty bleeple Don't you ever ever feel like you're less than, less than perfect?

Pretty, pretty please, if you ever ever feel like you're nothing, you are perfect. The whole world stares while I swallow the fear. The only thing I should be drinking is an ice cold beer. So cool in line and we try, try, try, but we try too hard. It's a waste of my time. I'm done looking for the critics because they're everywhere. They don't like my jeans. They don't get my hair.

Exchange ourselves and we do it all the time. Why do we do that? Why do we do that? Yeah. Oh, pretty, pretty, please. Pretty, pretty please. Don't you ever ever feel? feel like you're less than, less than perfect.

Pretty, pretty, please. If you ever, ever feel like you're nothing, you are perfect to me, to me, to me, to me, To me Those pants are made for froggin. If you know what I mean, I actually don't. I don't even know what I mean.

Frogpants.com. Where to now, Romeo? Hmm.