The Morning Stream - TMS 2778: Great Gum Pockets!

Episode Date: February 11, 2025

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and you've come to the wrong town good morning everybody welcome to TMS it's the morning stream for Tuesday, February 11th, 2025. Scott Johnson here. Brian Abbott there. Oh, Scott. Comostas. Ah, yes. C. Mucho est a key. You are very much here. Yep. That's as good as you're going to get out of me with a Spanish. I remember nothing. It's funny you bring that up, though. I had a memory in the shower today about a Spanish teacher. This literally happened this morning. Spanish teacher who was up trying to teach us

words for shampoo and words for washing your hair. Okay. Like lad their rinse repeat? Yeah. Just kind of like how to, like all the washing terms, like washing your hands, washing your friends, like Peskin Las Nalgus or whatever the hell that is. I think that's right. Watch your face.

That one, I don't know. A very, very small memory of it, but it's mainly because of what happened after. So maybe this is a lesson on how to teach a lesson because I never forgot this. but she said she said all this stuff and then some kid or she basically was saying in Spanish use the shampoo to then

wash your face and the class lost their minds and they had a we had about a half an hour argument after that in class with the teacher about whether it was cool to use the shampoo

to wash anything but your hair right right and one kid's like yeah I use it like shower gel just everywhere man all the way down to my junk and some other kid would go that's terrible. It's really bad. It'll make your skin flare up. It's not good. You need the right kind of soap. It doesn't matter what soap. Clean is clean. Like I just remember this big, almost not a riot, but it felt really charged in that room. Just because this teacher had this suggestion that you could maybe use your shampoo to wash other parts of your body. I wonder. Yeah. I mean, I imagine it's still creating soap bubbles that kind of break up the oils and dirt on your skin that you can then wash off. Right. Right. I mean, I would see. I would see. assume for most cases, like say you're camping or and you have access to one of those outdoor showers or something, you'll use what you've got and you'll be fine or if some other scenario where you just don't have access to a million different kinds of soaps, I think it's probably fine. And there have been times where I've done that where I'm like, all right, where's the shower gel? Shit, it's not here. Kim's not home. I can't reach it. I'm going to get everything wet if I get out of here and find it. I'll just use the shampoo. Definitely have done that. But every time this happens to me in my life, no matter. what I do. Swap out the soap, swap out the shampoo.

You think about, yeah. Think about that every time. That argument, that Spanish class argument. If she'd have figured out a way did every day do something that memorable, I would know Spanish fluently because I'd remembered everything I was ever taught. Because that one day, that one day, it was just pounded into us. But anyway, funny you brought that up. Speaking of cleanliness, they sometimes call that hygiene.

Sure, hygiene. Good, good segue. Yeah. And if you're someone who's in someone who's in some, somebody's mouth trying to help with their mouth hygiene, you're called a hygienist. Or a hygienist. Or a hygienist. Yeah, hygienist, hygienist, if you're really good at what you do. I'm a hygienist.

A hygienist is someone who knows exactly the pot you need to get to sleep at night. That's a high genius. Yeah, a few of those in Vegas, I think. Your best bud tender is a hygienist. That's right. So I go to the dentist yesterday, as mentioned, as rumored, I went to the dentist. And a little bit of good, a little bit of bad. number one the checkup was great until the very end I'll get to that in a second

but the lady who's new new new hygienist I warned her I said you know I got this one tooth back there it's a little sensitive just so you know other than that you're you know go nuts and she was very good and did a great job and super talkative want to know all about podcast you know how this goes every time you go in there who wanted no know what do you do oh shit now I have to tell them what I do and now I got to talk for an hour about it but she was very nice a good listener and I said hey this co-host in my morning show and And she goes, oh, you do a morning show? How do I find the morning?

You know, is this whole thing? Uh-huh. And I said, I finally got through all that, told her where to get it and everything. I said, my co-host, Brian, just had this procedure done from the hygienist. And I said, I can't remember. I couldn't remember the name in the moment. But I said it was something like, it's like something with roots and scraping. I think I use the word scrape.

And she goes, oh, no, that's root scaling. And yes, that is something that we do. In fact, that's something I would do if it needed to be done. I said, yeah, that's what he said. It was a hygienist who did it, not the dentist. And I said, so how am I looking in that department? Because it sounded horrible the way he described it. And she goes, well, you have great gum pockets.

Oh, really? So she did the, she did the little probe? Did she actually do the little probe in each? Okay. She did. I hate that part because it is so, like, you figure out which of your, like, where you've got nerves with that whole process. I don't like that thing at all. I don't care if you've got good pockets or bad pockets.

it is like it is like a little pinprick yeah and it's like kind of not not swirly but like a little almost corkscrewy and so it's kind of but the one she used anyway it's kind of ribbed a little bit well yeah it's got little markers to tell you on the number like how deep they are so there are actual numbers on the on the oh i got you okay on hers it actually it had like bumps for each slot so you could actually feel it going in going interesting oh wow okay yeah i didn't like it it It was very invasive. It felt like I was being violated. But anyway, she says, no, your gum pockets, you're great.

Your bone growth's good. You got the- Happy for you. So happy for you. You got the jawbone of a teenager. I said, yeah, I also got the shitty teeth of a teenager who didn't take care of his teeth when he was a teenager. She's like, oh, she goes, you have great teeth.

And I said, no, I don't. My teeth suck. I'm always losing a crown or something cracking. I was you going to say, it's your crowns that suck. But your teeth are, you know, I've never, I've never, noticed you to not have really good teeth. I mean, when I, when you see me, it's fine. There they are.

A little yellow, but you know, whatever, that's age. Uh, in time, right? I could, I guess I could do the white drink. You don't even drink coffee in there. No, I don't know what I'm doing. That's usually the cause of like, uh, yeah, plus it's also the lighting in here. We're using warm lights as opposed to cold lights. Yeah, yeah.

That definitely doesn't help. But, you know, I got a little grind down from years of the way my teeth are. I should have had braces as a kid, so I have an overbite and all this kind of stuff. So I said, really, these aren't too bad. And she goes, you wouldn't believe what we get in here. And she said it so seriously to me. She looked at me, pulled her mask away from her face and said, you wouldn't believe what we get in here.

As if I was like supposed to be, I don't know. It was weird. And I said, oh, do tell. Like what's wrong? She goes, we had a guy come in yesterday who hasn't been to the dentist in 28 years. And he thought if he just had ever had a problem, that's when he'd go in because he hates paying for it. You can't stand needles, all this stuff.

It's like some dude in his late 60s. And he says, she says, he finally comes in because he's got a little bit of pain. We opened that guy's mouth open. And it was like the garage of hell opened. Oh, man, I'm sure. And just like abscessed teeth on bottom, on top, big bulgy, pussy nightmares. And sorry everybody for eating breakfast. Apologies.

We warned you. We warn you every day. Yeah, we warn you every day. So she told me this whole thing. And I went, at the end of it, I went, you know what? I have pretty good teeth. These aren't bad. I like my teeth.

Right compared to all that, yeah. Yeah. You go up regularly. Yep. Exactly. As long as you show up to the dentist regularly and most, as long as you've got a health plan that covers it, I've got somebody do we know in my life that has been, has not worked for a company or did not for a long time work for a company that had a health plan

and just flat out, couldn't afford to go, took great care of his teeth. Yeah. But couldn't go to the dentist. this regular. So it was really happy when finally he got a, um, a, a job working for a company that had a dental plan. But, uh, yeah, dental plans are great if you can get them. I have to pay for my own, which I hate. It's too expensive. It's about, well, it's not too bad. So basically we get two cleanings a year. Those are quote unquote free. But I think we pay 700 a year for that. Plus, that then gives us a discount on work they do. So if I have a,

cavity, I still pay out of pocket, but it's less by some percentage than if I didn't have their plan. So it's like with the dentist that we do this plan. It's not through an actual insurance company because those were all more. So it works out and we're doing okay here. Kim has perfect teeth. She never has problems. Of course. Of course. I don't understand. I don't know what happened there. Let me let me ask you this. Did our wives grow up? Were they born with fluoride suckers in their mouths? Were they just blessed by the great teeth gods? Because I don't understand

how she grew up in Missa Freakincipi. No, never had to have her, what are they called? Wisdom teeth out. Never had braces. Never had to worry about any of that. If she smiles at you, big, bright, white, perfect

sets of teeth. It's not freaking fair, dude. It's not fair. Tina, so Ghostbusters 2, you know, you got Vigo the Car You get a big painting, and then thanks to what's his face and drippings with goo, comes to life, comes out of the painting, right? Yeah. Same thing happened with teen, except it was a Norman Rockwell painting.

That whole family life, all that stuff, the fireplace going, mom in the rocking chair and knitting a scarf, dad reading the paper with a pipe sticking out of his mouth, the kids working on a, you know, playing a game of sorry or trouble on the carpet in front of the roaring. firing fire dog curled up on a blanket like that is that is Tina's life yeah that was Tina's growing up lucky so lucky man yeah for sure for sure well in Mississippi like you know lighten a match in the kitchen at 10 years old when my mom ran out to to to grab a frozen pizza or something you know very different very different upbringing sure sure jay in the chat says he grew up mississippi and has great teeth as well so kim's theory is they did have um they had fluoride in the water down there. There's a lot of florida.

Well, I think we have fluoride in the water here too. We don't. We don't. We don't, really? I don't. I don't know about Colorado. I can't say. Let's see.

It depends on your state and all that. Interesting. Let me take a look here. We definitely didn't. It was like. Yeah, chloride. Colorado has Florida Florida in its water systems. Oh, good.

That's great. It's 1953. So, yeah. So we've got. Not us, man. Interesting. Yeah. It's annoying.

I think somebody, and there's a lot of push for states that already have it to drop it because everyone's a conspiracy theorist now and thinks everything's killing them. So we'll see how long Mississippi still has it. They may not even now, but... Interesting, yeah. Yeah.

I wish I would have. That would have been great. Yeah, only 50%. So according to the fluoride action network, which we all subscribe to, I mean, we all get the newsletters. We just sometimes don't read them. But the percent of people in Utah

served by public water systems that are fluoridated in 2018 is only 52% Right to number 43 among the states Yeah, that sounds right So at least there's something somewhere Some county's given it Half of the people in Utah are getting fluoridated It's not my half

You'd think it'd be here Oh my God, it was in 2000 it was 3%. Oh so this this has recently gone up This has recently gone up yeah All right Yeah there is there's a Dr. Cown's right There's currently a bill underway to try to get fluoride taken out of its water entirely.

Because we have a bunch of dickheads in our local legislature. That's why. The kids, the vaccines and the fluoride. Shut up. You all grew up with it. You're fine. In fact, you know what? How many of you died of mumps?

Oh, none of you? Because you had your vaccines? Oh, weird. Weird. They work. Weird. But it looks like currently, Washington, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota.

Arizona, New Mexico, New York, New Jersey, and D.C. are the ones that don't, flat out, don't have fluoridated water systems. That's wild. Yeah. I always thought it was a whole U.S. thing. I never realized it was state by state. That's crazy. Zoe, how is it in the U.K.?

Everyone makes fun of your teeth over there, not your teeth, but the country's teeth. No, Florida in the U.K. is from what I remember hearing. That makes sense. Maybe that's changed. And it shows. That's right. Just kidding. and we love you guys.

We love you guys. Well, anyway, so then, but things got gnarly at the end of the appointment because I've got this like zombie tooth and they were like, well, should we take it out? And I'm like, you guys have talked about this for the last 20 years, this tooth. And you always say it's fine. And then one of you will come in, a new guy will go, I don't know, I think we need to probably crown it or get rid of it or pull out her. And then I go, well, Wayne, let me talk to Matthews.

And Dr. Matthews always says, no, that one's fine. It's not doing anything. There's no cavities. It's just weird looking. It's a weird looking tooth. It looks like a zombie up in the corner of my face. And there's nothing you can do about it. And I'm like, well, then let's just leave it.

I'm not going to pay. I don't want to pay you a thousand bucks just to freaking do a thing that's just to do it. If it doesn't need to be done, don't do it is what I told them yesterday. Yeah, yeah. Is it going to, I mean, is there a danger of it cracking and infecting a root or something? No, none of that. None of that. It's just ugly and looks bad.

But when they x-ray it, it's fine. So I'm like, you're going to give me all those. x-rays and tell me it's fine and then one day say I'm going to pull it. No, I'm keeping this until it's dying day. And if it starts to hurt at all or I see you cracking it, fine. Then we'll deal with it. But right now, if it's ugly, so what if it's ugly? I don't care. No one can see this tooth up here. Nobody. Except you people are all going to be, we're going to be looking for it at TMS Vegas. I'll tell you that. You won't be able to see it. I could smile so hard and you still don't see it. You have to get in there, you know? We're going to have somebody,

look, we're going to get Tom to pull your mouth open and And I'll shine a light in there, flashlight from my phone, and we'll all take a look. Well, it is Vegas. What happens there stays there. That's right. Exactly. Anyway, by the end of all this, they're almost done. They're flossing after her cleaning.

And he goes, oh, he makes the sound. And I went, oh, I don't like that. And he goes, well, do you feel anything back here and he starts poking? I go, no. He goes, not the crown that's the problem crown, but the crown near it. lifted a little when I just flossed it. I said, lift it a little. What's that mean? And he goes, it looks like maybe that cement is a little loose on that side.

So it's staying, but you're going to want to come have that redone or else it'll, you know, something bad could happen underneath it. So I've got to go back next Tuesday and have that thing popped and resemented. Wee! That sucks. I was almost out of there with that. And I would have been blissfully unaware because had that thing not moved a little? They didn't know. The x-rays didn't show anything.

Fine. Yeah. I could still skip it. I could go another six months probably. But now I'm going to think about it all the time, so I got to do it. F and teeth, dude. Freaking F teeth. I know.

I know. Really, really does feel like that's the first thing that we could change with, you know, bionic, uh, bionic technology. Give us, just take all of our teeth out. As soon as our adult teeth come in, pull them all out, replace them with, uh, uh, AI teeth or something. Mm-hmm. You know? Whatever.

I'm happy to do that. RFID, whatever you need in there, sure. Yeah, I don't care. If I get more surveillance on me just because my teeth are awesome, great. Yeah, exactly. Don't care. That's great. Like yourself out.

Yeah, let the government know when I'm taking a dump. I don't care. Right, right. A quick email from Katie wrote in. Okay. She says, this is about episode 2771. She says, Scott, just listen to that episode and said, you said something about not wanting the FedEx guy to be offended by asking him not to leave packages in the back of. of the house. She says, I'm noticing a pattern. Do you think you might have

auto-caron phobia? The fear of being a Karen says, might be something to ask Wendy about, love the show, Katie. I mean, Karen would stomp over there and yell at him. I think I'm the opposite of a Karen. That's the point, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. Karen's demand to see the manager. That's what they're saying, though, being afraid of being a Karen. So you're, you are currently the anti-Caron by not asking him to do that. I see. Because you might have auto-carinophobia, which I love, I love, I want to, you know, say that to people, but say it so quickly, they don't realize what I've just said. Oh, yeah, you've got auto-carinophobia. What is that?

Sounds bad. Karen. Karen. Yeah. Yeah, I think, so now, yeah, I get it now. And I think that makes sense. I don't want to be that person. So she's right.

I don't think I have a phobia about it, but I really don't want to be that person. Right. Yeah. I will always try to find even with even with the worst like that guy told you about the stormed in the house past Kim with the cleaner stuff back in the 90s and I got all mad and marched him out that's about my line right there like if you're going to like really breach it then I'm going to take you the F out the front door but if you're going to let if we can have a conversation then I'll do that you know yeah so I have a limit I definitely

have that although yesterday I got pushed to my limits I I did some lubering We're going to call it that. Yeah. And the first ride was picking a woman. So get a little, you know, di-l-l-l-ling notification. All right, start driving to the place of the pickup. And I'm realizing, oh, this is that super nice, big, fancy house with the gate every Christmas. So they've got, it comes off of this main street that we use to go from our house to the highway.

So we use it all the time. And Christmas time, there's a house that has this little long driveway to their house with a loop at the end. And they put these beautiful Christmas, white Christmas lights on the trees. So you look down as you pass that house, you look down this well-lit driveway with crisp, lit up, beautifully lit up Christmas trees on either side. And they've gone on next door and said, hey, feel free. When those lights are on, feel free to drive down, do the loop and go back. you'll see our other Christmas lights we have on the front of the house, but we welcome you to come down our driveway.

Like, oh, that's super nice. And we've done that a couple times. It's really pretty. And every time we do it, if there are the both times we've done it, there was somebody in the window who saw us doing it, waved at us to say Merry Christmas. It's like, oh, super nice. Sure.

So I'm like, oh, that's the house. I recognize the mailbox says 5905 McIntyre. I just doxxed them, but whatever. and so I pull in the driveway but the gates closed so I pull up to the little they've got a little talky thing on a stand a little walkie-talkie intercom system

but there's no buzz it's just the numbers one through nine or one through zero and then an asterisk and a pound sign no no call button or anything like that so like er well I'll press I'll press pound See if maybe that triggers them to say

Oh yeah, the lift is here No answer Okay So I I decide All right, let's just call So I call A little call button in the lift app

And I say Hey this is Brian your lift driver Yeah yeah I'm trying to get out the door Like no no I know But the gates closed Are you're in the house at 5905 McIntyre right And she's like, no, I'm at the, I'm at the such a fair amount school, the elementary school. I'm standing in front.

Ooh, F this shit, dude. F this. I'd be so blessed. Okay. Yeah. Already like, oh, okay. So, but the address is clearly that. So I do the three point turn because the gates are not open.

And there's, there's not enough room for me to do the, you know, the full U-turn in there. So loop back out, go back out to McIntyre. Go around the corner. basically on the back side of this house is the backside of the elementary school. Of course, big fence and everything dividing it. Sure. So I pull up to the front and she gets in. I say, hey, you know, just confirming your first of it said, yeah, somehow it put in that other address,

which is why I called you instead of, and I told her the address of the school. And she's like, yeah, I don't know why I did that. So I said, okay, just confirm me. I'm taking you to this address. I should dox that address is what I should do. Roll around. Yeah. And she says, yeah.

Like, okay. But she also has not fully closed her door. I have the little sign on the thing on my dashboard saying that the back right door is not closed. So I said, oh, could you reclose your door? Because it looks like it's still open. She does it. Still doesn't close it right. Like she's leaning against it or she's got her purse or something blocking it.

And she tries it again. I say, nope, nope, it's still doing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, oh, I think she finally does it and slams it closed. This just, I'm steaming over here, dude. I hate this. So I get her home and I say, all right, have a good rest of your day. And I'm still going to be nice.

But basically, as she's getting out, I'm clicking the button that says, never match me up with this passenger again. Damn straight. And the highest I can give somebody if I say that is three stars. And I'm like, you know what? I'm not going to kill her rating and do a one. one star because again like Amy says maybe she's having a rough day I just don't ever want to be paired up with her again yeah there's nothing wrong with that you can let people the highest rating

I could yeah but still saying never pair me up with this person yeah look toxic people like that whether she's having a bad day or not fine you do exactly what you did and you did exactly the professional thing 100% what you should do yeah but to then remove them from your possible life interaction is also perfectly normal to do that and I would do that in a heartbeat didn't you know didn't want to say, hey, you know, you should really think about the way you talk to people or something. I didn't feel, you know, I'm not going to do that. For the same reason, I'm not going to correct the guy who thinks there might be two moons. I'm just going to let it go.

That guy's best. But yeah, but I'm thinking, same kind of thing, Amy, is like, she might be just having a really crap day. She's leaving the school a little bit later than the students. So maybe if she's a parent, she just had a talk with the teacher about her child, her student, or maybe she's a teacher who's leaving late or something like that. I mean, we can come up with a thousand stories about this woman's life and we could be right or we could be wrong about it. The point is she doesn't have to be that way.

She doesn't have to be that way. She doesn't have to be how you're going to be and you were. She gets to be how she's going to be and she chose to be that way. That's still on her to choose it. So now you're never her driver again. It's just simple math. This is how that works out. And if she does it to too many people,

she's going to have a really hard time to drivers. people just need to not be a dick that's it just don't be dicks what's the point you know I had the exact a little balance here I wasn't going to talk about this either but I did have a nice balance today

this morning at Orange Theory I'm in the in the entryway changing I'm changing from my street shoes to my tennis shoes and this woman says hey just wanted to let you know we were talking about you the other day

because there are the two different brines I've talked about the other Brian right who gets to just be Brian without an initial, but I have to be Brian I because I came in after him. Sure. And we were talking about you and they said, oh, wait, which Brian?

And I said, the Brian with the nice face. He's like, I said, well, the other Brian has a nice face. And she says, not as nice as yours. I'm like, okay. That bright in my day have a nice face compared to the other Brian. You're lucky. You can relax and you don't have resting bitch face.

The other Brian has resting bitch face. Totally does. I feel for him. I know that's all. He's on the treadmill. it's how it works man yeah people don't know they don't know why we look so grumpy we're not grumpy i got this at a i got this at a grocery store i had somebody looking over at me and i overheard the husband say i hope he's okay and i'm like i'm fine yeah like what do i got to do walk in here

and go ee the whole time i just can't help it my face slacks into a position that looks like i'm pissed and i get right right well i hope the other brian uh uh understands as well i hope he does too and I know I want to know why I came up in conversation. You know, they were having to clarify. I should have asked that. I said, oh, what was the context of me coming up that you were talking about, Brian with the nice face? But, you know, not going to go in.

Let it be what it's going to be, I guess. Let it be, exactly. Okay, one quick thing from I-Corps. Or old pal. I don't know if he's in the chat today. I don't know if I've seen him. Probably listening. I don't know if I've seen him either.

Yeah. Usually in here in one form or another. Anyway, Kevin A.k. A.A.I.C.A.I.C.A.I.C.A.I.C. about our conversation about basements and how they work in California. He discussed why there aren't many basements in California. He says there are several reasons. Number one, earthquake fears. While not true, many people considered basements as additional risk to have in earthquake country. The result was that many people, to this day, think having a basement is bad. So it sounds like that's based on nothing. I'm wondering, yeah, while not true, I mean, I feel like if there's an earthquake, you're safer on an upper floor than you would be in a basement if things got... Yeah, because it all cave in on you, right? Rumble down on you, yeah. Yeah, you'd be covered in rubble as opposed to being up top where you might have a better chance. I agree with that.

So that's probably the reason. It's not that it's structurally unsound. It's that you're now buried if it's strong enough, right? You just get... Exactly, yeah. Yeah, I wouldn't want to be in the basement. It says number two, they are expensive. That's true.

Many homes in California are built with speed in mind and not having a basement means cheaper and less time to build. When you combine that with number one, builders don't want to spend more time making a house with less demand. That makes sense unless you're somebody's custom making one. And then you do see basements because they are deciding if they want one or not. Three says not required due to shallow frost lines. Locations where it is very cold have frost lines that go deep into the ground. in those places, basements are practically required because things like water pipes and other structures

must be placed below the frostline due to building codes. California has shallow frostlines, so there is not a requirement to have those things very deep, thus no requirement for a basement. Most California homes have a small crawl space under the house maybe two or three feet tall. It's where you put the bodies. That's where you put the victims going there.

It says glove the bonobo, Kevin, aka I-Corp. That's good, that's good info. He would know he's right there in the thick of it. So, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense. I didn't even think about the frost lines, but yeah, absolutely. That's one of the things that we definitely need to have here just so that pipes don't freeze. And even if temperatures are low, we still let our faucets, you know, drip out a little bit so that it keeps water flowing through them and stuff like that. Pretty cold there today, I assume.

Very, yeah, we had seven. It was seven degrees when I went to Orange Theory. And I go in shorts and going in, it's like, okay, that's cold. Coming out, when I'm, you know, a little sweaty coming out. It's like I don't want to put on my tuk. Yeah. It's like, oh, yeah, very cold. Very cold feeling.

Hit you like a freezer, walk in freezer as soon as you walk out. Yeah, it does. But refreshing. Very, very brisk and refreshing. I like to think that way. Kim and I did a two point something mile kind of hard walk out in the cold, and it was great. I freaking loved it, except she still has her cough, so the cold air can make your cough a little bit worse. Yeah, you can definitely trigger, yeah, it seizes your throat.

Like if you take a deep breath with really, really cold air, it, and it ceases, what's the word? Constricts. There you go, constriction. So that was, she had a bit of that, but it was nice until I saw a dog being walked by its owner, taking a poop and this was a poodle or one of those one of the combo poodle with some other anyway they're really popular right now they go for a lot of money i think my sister-in-law still sells or breeds them down even though they moved anyway whatever those are called i see one there and for some reason its head

from the neck up is all pink dyed dyed pink and then its feet just from the neck up Yeah, and its feet are also pink and its tail, the tail end of its tail, just the last part of it is also pink. The rest of them is the natural kind of white, sort of off white kind of cream color. And I thought, okay, so what happened here? Either this is left over because they just got shaved and all the pink from the middle got taken off or this person thinks it's cool to dye the head, the feet, and the tail. And I can't, I'm not sure. I didn't ask. Yeah.

What was I going to do? Go, excuse me, I have a question about your dog. this seems cruel and unusual. Why are you doing this? Yeah, yeah. It's funny that we dyed dogs at all, like, when you think about it. Like, what's wrong with the regular dog color? Why do we, why do we feel like we need to, and why only poodles?

You never see other dogs that get their, their hair dyed. It's really just poodles. I mean, I know some of those dogs, like the ones she raises are hypoallergenic, or what do you call that, with the hair doesn't give you the, the hair doesn't, they don't lose their hair, and they also don't, it's not allergy, based hair. Right. No, dander and stuff. Yeah, whatever that's called. Those are that kind of dog, so maybe there's something about that

hair that is good for dying or something? I don't freaking know. Maybe, yeah. I will never do this. If I ever own one, I'm not dying that dog. Forget it. No, no. What are you doing? Diducy says she's seen Pomeranians with dyed fur. Oh my gosh, dude. What, you just dip it? Just dip it in a

bucket? Right, exactly. Just dunk it, bloon? I just picture this dog covered with little strips of tin foil. Like, It gets roots. Terrible. Routes done. I can't imagine.

Anyway. Do you, do you, if it gets super cold, do you have little booties? Or do you need to do little booties for your dogs? We do it. We do for Boomer. She has really sensitive feet that crack real easy in the cold. So she does, but the other two don't need them. Well, it depends on how cold.

Like if it's super, super cold, like below zero, we won't even take them out. Although Boomer seems to thrive no matter what we do. She just, she loves it. loves the cold, but she's got a really thick fur type and she's a mutt. I mean, she's so muddy. She's just a perfect mutt dog that has like 50 dog breeds in her or something like that. She'll probably live longer than all of us because of it. But Rainer gets a little tiptoe if it's cold, but her feet are okay. Ripley, though, total mess in the cold. You got to, she's supposed to be the big, like, hunting dog. The Weimariner's were made in a Germany to fight off Russian bears or something. It's like,

You're supposed to be stronger than this, you little weasel. She's such a puss outside. Oh, that's funny. Anyway, if you guys want to call in, leave a message, send us a text or an email, you can do it. Go find all those links at frogpants.com slash TMS and be like these fine people. All right. We're going to do some news. It's time for the news brought to you by.

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I probably saw it and just like didn't care. It was basically just people using AI and their lives are better somehow. Oh yes, yes, I did see that one. Nothing crazy, just kind of boring to be honest. But it turns out they faked the Gemini AI output for the Super Bowl ad.

They're under some scrutiny now. Google appears to have faked AI output in a commercial set to run during the Super Bowl. It did run through Super Bowl. The ad shows a business owner using Gemini to write a website description, but the text portrayed as generated by AI has been available on the business's website since at least August of 2020, as shown in the archive webpage. Oops. Google did not launch Gemini until late 2023, meaning Gemini couldn't have generated the website

description as depicted in the ad. No, it generated. It just used that as the only source of information to generate it, which made it look exactly like the stuff here already. he had on his next side. Problem solved. Go buy this phone. Or, you know, Jim and I, look, I, I, I, there's a lot of Google services I use and love. I'm looking at one now as we talk.

We're using Google sheets. Yeah, we use sheets for our notes. People always ask, why don't you use docs? I'm telling you, you want to spreadsheets. Awesome, the way to move stuff around. And, you know, I like Google. It's not a problem. But if I'm to rate the current LLM-based AI assistants that are out there,

Gemini is the worst. Is it? I'm not used Gemini. It's so bad. Oh, I guess I have. When you get Google results, you're getting Gemini, right? Like, view that little top section above your search results that sometimes answers your question. That is Gemini power. Yeah, and they're bad.

Sometimes they'll tell you things like Elvis is alive for no reason or just. In one case, somebody said, who won Super Bowl? asked days before who won Super Bowl 59 and it said the Kansas City Chiefs were the winners of Super Bowl 59

Jeez See I just asked it Who won the 2020 You know what it won't do it Because it knows we're on to him No really Did you just have like the World Series or something? I asked it like who won the 2026 Super Bowl

And it's let's see Yeah it's It's not giving it to me I could go straight to Gemini do it that way, but the Google, just regular results are not trying to give me stuff.

It's been real hit and miss, though. It's like kind of garbage. And I don't know why. I don't understand why they're so behind the eight ball on that because I get way better results from GPT or Deepseek or freaking Google's thing, which is opening eye, so it's all kind of the same.

I don't know. I don't know what's going on. Anyway. Yeah. So they faked it. Good job, guys. Well done. we didn't even talk to you know one of the commercials i liked the visuals of i don't know why it needs to advertise or maybe it does but was the chat gpt with the dots with all the uh the black screen with all the little white dots all over oh that was pretty cool i like that a lot actually artistically speaking it was very cool artistically speaking but does chat gpte need commercials i well maybe it does maybe people i guess you're competing now against stuff like copilot and uh and gemini etc i mean they're dominant

It's just that they, it's like anybody, they still need to get the word out. It still needs to advertise, I guess, for the same reasons. Oh, I hated their ad. That Coke ad can burn it in a fire. I hate it. Remind me the Coke ad. The Coke ad was just another one of these things. We're like, is AI going to take over everything?

It's going to be okay. Let's flash back to the 70s when we thought computers were going to take over everything. It's like, shut up. Don't pander to us. Just because your last ad was AI generated and you took tons of shit for it. That's their defense on it. Exactly. It was that whole weird, the trucks and the polar bears, oh, those were so bad. Look, I'm still going to drink Coke Zero, but that annoyed me. I hated it.

Yeah. I didn't like. That seal as a seal, hilarious in concept, but that is nightmare fuel. It's also, I don't even know if it's hilarious. It's such a baseline joke. It's like, seal's a seal. Get it? Because it's name's seal? Yeah, yeah. It's like, not enough for me anymore, these kind of jokes.

And I love a good dad joke. I love bad dad jokes. Love them. But I like him better when they come out of a dad and not a $16 million spot with celebrities in it. You know what I mean? Not commercial, sure, I get it. I hate it. Yeah.

I do like the, I like when, I know it's not what he would talk like normally, but he's from Boston. So when I hear Ben Affleck use that really thick Boston accent, I really like that. I think that's fun. I do too. Yeah. He should do that more. He's a wicked good. Yeah.

do that more often. Casey Affleck, who I initially thought was Scoot McNary because of the facial hair. It's like, is that Scoot Mc? No, that's, that's Casey Affleck. But man, he's really giving off some Scoot vibes. Yeah, he had a real McNary vibe going. He did. I wasn't sure it was him at all. Like, I don't know who that was for a long time because of the facial hair. And he had like a hoodie thing on or something. You just couldn't tell it was Casey Affleck. It's like he was hiding. I didn't, I'll be the first to admit, I did not recognize the dudes sitting there with Drew Barrymore on that cruise ship commercial until the next day when I heard it was Orlando Bloom and I'm like oh wow yeah man he's he still looks great but he's looking older it's not the not the uh Orlando Bloom of

of the 90s which is apparently or the early 2000s which apparently is the last time I saw Orlando Bloom yeah it's funny the opposite happened in here in the basement that same commercial nobody could figure out who she was yeah and by nobody I mean like I mean just like the young people They all knew who Orlando Bloom was. I think Nick yelled out, they're taking the Hobbit's Dyson Guard or something. Something like that happened. And then she's there. And I can't remember it was B or somebody goes, who the heck is that?

I said, that's Drew Barrymore. Come on now. Yeah, that chin. Come on. It's the chin that. She's famous. She got the crooked mouth. She got the Charlie's Angels business.

She did, you know, she's a little kid on E. She's the kid on E. They couldn't believe she was the E. kid. I'm like, this is where our generations break, man. This is where we go our separate ways, you Z's. You don't know what's up. Right. Anyway, here's one.

Yep. Over a million dollars in olive oil. Stolen from Montreal Trucking Company. That's a lot of olive oil. That's a lot of olive oil. That's a lot of Evo. It is 100 pallets, so that's about a million dollars worth, so I don't know how much is per

palette. How many bottles on a pallet, yeah, or if it's in plastic tubs before it gets turned into, or put into bottles. It says it's worth over a million dollars stolen Montreal, according to police. They said the transport company was sending product to a client in Montreal and did not arrive on the third or fourth when it was supposed to. The theft was reported on the fifth. The SPVM says that the company, Transport Q, Trans, Inc. Well, I have trans and transport in your same thing.

Just... The Transport Q Trans, Trans, Inc. I don't know. Just have transport or Q-Trans. Or Q-Trans. Yeah. I don't like that. Anyway, in Lanchin, Lanchine, Lansine, Lancheon, Lachine, Lachine.

Lachine. Lachine. Another than that. Lachine. I was so far off. Anyway. You tried to waint and add an ed where there wasn't an end. I did.

I absolutely did. Anyway, they had olive oil that needed to be transferred to properly heated trailers for storing and transporting the product. That's true. That stuff will go bad if you don't have the right. temperatures. Anyway, they don't know where it went. They have some footage, but it's inconclusive. So if anyone out there knows, if suddenly you've been inundated with a ton of olive oil.

You all of a sudden have a ton of unexpected olive oil in your garage. Maybe report yourself to the... Just look for some viscous liquid that wasn't there before. My wife is very insistent. She keeps asking me, where's the olive oil? Where's the money? Homer, where's the monies? People that call it monies, even in, like, serious conversation, like financial people,

I just look at them blankly and think, stop it. You don't have to do it. Like, stop. You don't have to do it. The unnecessary pluralizations do. They drive me nuts, too. As a grammar Nazi, it bothers the hell of the hell. It's like, oh, yes, the transfer of the monies occurred at such.

I'm like, say the money transferred. You can do it. Right. Right. I don't like it. I like it when a big ton when Fat Tony says it. That's funny because I love it when Fat Tony says it, yeah. Yeah, let my wife is very insistent.

She keeps asking me, where's the monies? Where's the monies, Homer? Where the monies from the, what was the product? The monies from the. I can't remember what they were doing. And then I always mix it up with mob bots from Futurama and you got clamped. Yes, right. Very same, very same vibe.

Can't help it do that. No, can't help it. Who's that who plays, not Ray Leota. What's the name of? Montenia. Montenia. Joe. Montenia.

Joe Montenia. Joe? Joe Montenia. Yeah. He's great. I know because you don't want to say Joe Montana, but Joe Montaena. Yeah. One of them's a great football player.

The other one is a fine actor. Yeah. We're going to take a break. When we come back from said break, it'll be time for some trivia time with Travis. All right. So tip off your travels with Travis. Time. Terry. Trying to do all the tease.

Travis Trivue Time. Look, I'm no Kendrick Lamar, but I know a good rhyme when I hear it. Anyway, that's all coming up after this break with a song from Brian Ibitt. Might be a T minor. Yeah, this is a band called Heaven. We've played them on the show before. As a matter of fact, we've even played another one of the singles from this upcoming album. The band is called Heaven.

They are, man. They're so good. Super Lemonheads vibe. from this 80s 90s lemon heads really really good stuff i like the lemon heads um if you like swerve driver if you like katherine wheel if you like um majesty crush teenage fan club um the swirlies you're going to like this this is the band heaven from their upcoming album comes out april fourth that's uh uh the day that martin luther king got shot it's also my mother-in-law's birthday and it's the day that their album dream aloud comes out um this is the second single from the album it's

called The Fire You Know, here is Heaven. When you believe Inside it grows The fire you'll know All of the secrets Between The forgotten I'll see

All the hidden things you'll be All of the flowers are feel, all the victims are sheafed, all the lovers entwine, if you're born there in mind. Out of the world You've been taken Clear out of your mind All of the lonely that try All the mountains They hide

All the love that you steal Or bar All the nightbeats you dream A time based on sea All the hidden things you're When you believe Inside it grows A fire you'll grow

When you believe Inside it grows Out of the world You've been taken Clear out of your mind You know, I'm going to be able to be. You know,

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The moon does what it wants, man. Who is the singer-band unit deal? Sure, that singer-band unit is a band unit called Heaven from their upcoming album, Dream Aloud. which comes on early April from Little Cloud Records. That is their second single. It's called The Fire You Know. Nice.

Nice. Yes. They're very, very good. Well, I like the Lemonhead, so you had me at that. You'll like this. When you eventually hear it, when you're putting it in the show, you're going to like it, Scott. I'm telling you that right now. I'm very excited.

All right. Travis is incoming. I think. Here he is. Okay. Hit an ad. We should see him shortly. I'm not in the group. Why?

Oh, I added him to the wrong group. Shit. You add him to the Patreon. Patreon thing. Now you can see all our old codes. Oh, no. Yeah, we can't have that. All right, removed from group. Let's go try this again. You can join all of those

Frog or Jackbox TV things. Yep. Get in there and try to beat us the hard way. All right, here we go. This is Travis, and you'll do well to listen carefully to what he has to say. That's true. It's Travis. He's here. He's TV's Travis. Travis Crawford, welcome back to the program. How are you?

I'm well. I was confused there for a second. I was added to a group. I was removed from a group. I didn't know what was happening. And then you do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around and that's really what's all about. Yeah. I'm glad that you made it though because I was worried.

I was sending you on a bit of a trip there. Worked out good though. And it's always fun having you on, man. We get a monthly chance to hang out with Travis. He gives us a little bit of trivia. We can talk about cool stuff he's up to. Always good to have you here. I see her TikTok's a lot.

I know she's been putting a lot of those up. So nice job on those. It's good. It's good stuff. Oh, thanks. Trying. Short form stuff. It makes me go, ooh, I want more. And then go check the podcast out, everybody. It's good stuff. That is the hope. That is the hope. That is the dream. Well, let's get started. This is a chance for you to trivialize our lives, you know?

Give us some trivia. And then Brian and I try to answer stuff and, you know, see who wins. I don't know who's ahead this year. Have we been keeping track this year? Yeah, you won the last game. There's only been one this year. Okay. So I'm ahead. We are one month in, and Scott is up one. to nothing. Oh man, I'm right. Thanks to me just jumping the gun and not going with the answer I knew and just shouting out an answer. Oh, that was the last time. That's right. I forgot that. That was a fun. I do it on that. I do it on our Wednesday thing all, or Monday thing,

all the time though. It's like, so easy to do. Yeah. All right, Travis, lay it on us, man. What do we got? All right. We're going to start off. Round one is a film director. You're going to bid on the number the film titles um starting with five and since scott one last time brian you get to start okay um i will go said directors right director yeah you're gonna give us film titles we need to name the director i'm gonna go three three okay hmm oh i know that's a tough one because two two can be tricky two can be tricky i mean the director you could do it on one but um right but it depends on the movie you get yeah that's the problem is i know these aren't going to be easy but also this is too early to just go for it um i'm gonna

i'm gonna try it in two all right brian do you want to try it in one even though i said if you know the director you could do it in one but i don't think i'm even going to know the movie you give as a one as a one clue let alone be able to identify the director yeah i'm not that confident on this one but let's try it all right scott here are your two film titles okay south paw the equalizer oh uh um okay scott calm down let the name come to you he also did the replacement killers antoine fuqua that is correct yeah yeah good south paw i didn't know um i wouldn't have gotten it with south ball no yeah i didn't realize he had done Southpah either. A couple

others I had were the Magnificent Seven I knew he did the remake. Yeah. Which I liked. It's underrated, by the way. Trading Day would have been the one I needed to be able to get that. I've seen Equalizer films and once you say Foucaulte was like, oh yeah, of course he did those, but. Yeah.

And he also did, and I didn't know this, he did Shooter, the movie. Oh, the sniper movie. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't realize that was him either. No, I wouldn't have got it with that one either. I would have thought, I don't know who I would have with that one but yeah yeah I think you what you got me with the second one all the others would have well when it was on your list when would you have gotten to replacement killers

was it next uh replacement killers wasn't on my list oh okay well I think seven was uh was that number three um actually shooter was number three shoot was number three oh I wouldn't see if it hadn't have been for that second one I'd have been screwed today so I got lucky I got lucky I got lucky all right so Scott you're going to start the bidding for round two This is an actor, and we're going to go with characters that this actor has played. Okay. Character names. All right.

I think I can do that, and I don't think it will just repeat like we did the first one. I'll say three. Three? Okay. Brian? I will try it in two because nothing to lose. Yep, try it in two. All right.

Brian, here's your two characters that this actor has played. We've got the chance to do one. Yeah, yeah. No, I already said you're good. Yeah, you're good. I didn't see it. I didn't, okay. I didn't know that was an official defer.

It was a shrug and the shrug is. An implied shrug defer. Gotcha. Exactly. Of course. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

So here are your two characters. Max Dillon. President Sawyer. Oh, shit. Oh, okay. Crap. I've seen both of these movies. I know I have.

Max Dillon is the one that's super Is that Jeff Bridges Incorrect All right so Scott You know Max Dillon and President Sawyer Here's one more character that he played Bats

Bats Bats? Bats President Sawyer Bats Oh no no I'm thinking of something different Never mind Oh I thought maybe Brian had it there first I thought I did too

And then I was like oh no Now I'm thinking of the character I'm confusing with bats I won't say what it is Oh uh uh um bats Bats Bats We saw something with bats in it

On film set Yes you did Not that long ago Mm-hmm What were the first Possibly possibly Possibly not that long. Give me the first two one more time.

Just the first two you mentioned. What were they again? Max Dillon and President Sawyer. Yeah. Okay. Now I got it. Sawyer. Oh.

From the other one that isn't the one with the president one where they take the White House, but it's not White House down. Or maybe it is. That's the one without. I need the actors. That's our guy. That's, uh, that's, uh, that's, uh, that's, uh, that's, uh, shit. Jamie Fox, please, please let that be it. Yes, so is Jamie Fox.

Freaking Max Dillon, freaking Electro, duh. Oh, my God. Like, how did I not make that? That's why that name sounds so familiar. Like, oh, yeah, Max Dillon, Max Dillon. What I like is on IMDB, his credit is Max Dillon slash Electro. And so I'm like, all right, well, I can use Max Dillon. And that might be enough.

Like, that might be a softball. That was enough to flummo. me. So it was seriously flummoxed. So was that White House down or Olympus has fallen? Which one was it? I think it was Olympus has fallen. Because I thought that was the one with Gerard Butler. No? Because then he did London is fallen and Gerard Butler. So it must have been White House down. Okay. Those two are like there. They're Armageddon and Deep Impact. Those movies. Yeah, they really are. Django, by the way, was going to be the giveaway answer for that one. Also, Ricardo Tubbs. Oh, oh, from, hold on. Miami Vice. Oh, Miami Vice.

Yep. Tubbs. Yeah. I really like him. By the way, it gives me a moment to just quickly re-recommend that Quentin Tarantino

documentary. Freaking Jamie Fox is so funny in that doc. You have to see it. Even if you don't care about Tarantino movies, he's worth watching it when he talks about Django.

He's so good. It's freaking great. I mean, he is hilarious. You know, when you realize or you remember, you got to start in sketch comedy, right? It was in Living Color is where

his big break was. Oh, yeah. He was great on that. He is so funny. Yeah. Great in that day. All right. Brian, you get to start the bidding on our music round.

Okay. Oh, shit. You can make up some ground possibly. All right. So I've got some clips from this song, and you get to bid on how many seconds you think you need. They are not consecutive clips because it was a very repetitive intro to this song. So I did kind of jump a little bit. But I've got anywhere from 2 to 10 seconds, 2, 4, I think it was 24, 6, 8,

in 10 second clips I know that a lot of times after hearing it Scott says dang it I could have gotten in two or one even so I'm not even going to give him that opportunity I'm going to I'm going to go for the two yeah I don't think I can do one at all so let's do two let's have Brian right Brian here's your here's a couple of seconds of this song

okay that's what I say by Ray Charles Correct Coming at you on KWPI It's familiar but I would have never gotten it There's no way Zero chance I would have had that Even if you'd give me five seconds I don't know the name of that song

And you can kind of see why Like I had to jump around in the timeline of the song It does that same keyboard riff Eight or ten times so Yeah Such a good intro though Such a good start to that song And the song itself is just great

Yeah All right So it puts us at two to one in favor of Scott going into round four. Scott, you're going to start the bidding on round four of cast members from this TV series or streaming series. Okay. And it's a if you want to call it that. Cast members, like these will be actor names, not characters, right? Yes, actor names.

Correct. I feel compelled to keep the lead as best I can, but I don't want to. overthink this. So I'm just going to say I'll try it in two. Ooh. Ooh, all right. Dang. Well, I got to try one. Again, nothing to lose.

Yeah, that's true. So name an actor and I'll tell you, hopefully be able to tell you a show that they were in. All right, Brian, here's your actor. Journey Smollett. Okay, well, um yeah i know the actor

is that the one got in trouble a couple of years back um not asking really um um um um um it's streaming right

yeah I don't know if I'm going to be able to come up with this I'm going to say um oh stranger things now not coming up with it I know the actor but I can't think of anything they've done.

Stranger than a network series. Sure. Is incorrect. All right. I get another name. You do. You do get one more name. So Journey Smollett and Michael Kenneth Williams.

Oh, I love him. Mm-hmm. Oh, it's a streaming show? I thought this, the one I'm thinking of was also just network, straight-up network show. so it's probably not what I thought it was I like him a lot he's the guy in nope

or not nope is nope yeah nope he's the one that says get out no get out I'm thinking to get out where he says

he's the one that says get out it's that guy no that's um what the house of the name yeah that's Lakeith Stanfield yeah I'm thinking the wrong guy then

okay journey smell and who's the other one again? Michael Kenneth Williams. All right. Well, I think I got our theme. It's Black History Month. Got a lot of black actors today.

What is something? Oh, my gosh, dude. I'm struggling. I'll just guess. What's a show with a bunch of black people in it? I'm not going to say blackish because I feel like it's too on the nose. Yeah. Oh, and that is network, isn't it?

Oh, the one that they didn't do another season of. It's the Max thing. It's got the disgrace to what's his name in it. Who would play Kane. Kang. Kang. I would say Kane. What is that called?

Lovecraft Country. Lovecraft Country. You love craft, craft country. Calf, craft. Is that it? That is correct. Nice job. Jeez.

Oh, it's like a desperation move. I had no idea. I was just thinking of what's a big show with a much of black actors where it's predominantly like a story about black people are overcoming stuff, you know? Yeah. If I would have had one more, yes,

I would have maybe said Atlanta, but that was a good one. That's the one I was going to say at first, but then I think. thought that was also, but that was on FX or something. Oh, there's on FX on FX cable. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. And that's why I pulled away from that.

Yep, Jonathan Majors. Wunmi Musaka, Mosaku, I think, I cannot pronounce her last name, but she was amazing in it. And Courtney B. Vance, who I always think of from the Hunt for Red October. Like, it's the one thing I think of with him.

Oh, wow. When I saw, when I watched Lovecraft Country and him in that, he was just, like, I love old man Courtney B. Vance. Yeah. Lovecraft Country deserves the second season. It really does. That was so good, but probably thanks to Jonathan Majors won't happen.

Yeah. Well, I think they had already big canned it before any of that happened, but I said, they did. Yeah, it was before any of that. That sucks. All right. Well, that means that, Brian, you are mathematically eliminated from winning. Oh, I think, yeah. All right. Scott is up. Yeah, I don't want to get too comfortable.

But we do have a round five. Remember who's going to be setting the tasks in Vegas as you put the together. So you know an all Spice Girls trivia thing might be a thought maybe or a... That would be not... That would be a thing I would lose immediately.

Just think about Vegas, TVs, Travis. It could be like, it had to be something easy like, who married Beckham? Oh, that's Victoria. Yeah. I could do that, but that's all. I do have a round five if you'd like it. Let's do it. Just for fun. Of course, absolutely, yeah.

So, Brian, you will start our bidding on round five. It is another director and it's another set of films this director created. Okay. Let's do, I suck at directors and that's a, this is a Scott wheelhouse. Years and directors are like wheelhouse for Scott. So I'm going to go, knowing that he probably will still go two, I'm going to go three just because I need, I couldn't do it in two probably if I tried. So I'm going to do, I'll do three. I will try, I will attempt it in two. Let's see how this goes. I think my luck's going to run out, but...

Brian, do you want to try in one, or do you just want to let... Why not? Yeah, I get nothing to lose. Again, there's no penalty for not getting in one. Yeah, of course. Yep. Especially now, right. Your one film from this director, straight out of Compton.

Oh, that's... Damn it. Why am I? I know this one. this was another one who had some titles I didn't realize he had done yeah that's not I'm gonna guess it even though I'm pretty sure it's wrong but I'm gonna guess it anyway this not a Spike Lee joint is it Spike Lee incorrect yeah no I think that's Ryan Coogler right it is right yes that's exactly what it's okay but give give that's your guess that's

my guess is that right or wrong that is that is incorrect Oh, really? Shit. Okay, give me that. Here's some others that this director has done. Law-abiding citizen. Be cool. The Italian job.

And Friday. Be cool. The chili palmer, the sequel to get shorty? Yep. Oh, wow. It's not, I mean, as soon as such a black director, is it John Singleton? It is not John Singleton. Is it?

Oh, the one that's got the same name as the action guy in the 60s. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you know what I mean? The friendly getaway, the original getaway. Steve McQueen, right? Steve McQueen, yeah. Is that him? He's not Steve McQueen either.

Nope. Oh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, I got a good one here. You do have a good one. I could have sworn straight out of Compton was good. I have seen the name pop up in the chat. Here, I'll pull it up.

I'll see what we got. The chat said, well, they said Singleton. Spike Jones is not Spike Jones is not black. Right. I mean, I assume that's where our theme is because everybody's been black so far. Yeah, so our theme this month was for Black History Month. I'm scrolling through this. I can't find anybody's.

answers. I have no idea. Is it F. Gary Gray? It is F. Gary Gray. Oh. Okay. Like F. Murray Abraham, but F. Murray, or F. Gary. F. Gary. And his movies that we can't remember he directed. So I knew, like, I always, I remember him directing the Italian Job remake.

Yeah. And I had forgotten that he had done Friday. Like, that just completely skipped my mind for whatever reason. and what brought him up for me was I was looking through some movies and he did one of the Fast and Furious movies I think it was eight was him Oh my gosh

He and I share an exact birthday I just looked him out Oh really? Same day, same year, same year, same year, same day Felix Gary Gray July 17th, 1969 Wow Damn, look at that We got a little something in common there

Same year as both of us, that's great Yeah, I didn't know Friday was like his Was that an early one? Oh, it is, I'm looking to describe It's like his first movie, I think, or something. I've still never seen Friday. I feel bad.

I've never seen it. I cannot remember. Straight out of Compton, it's awesome. That movie's great. It's really good. Oh, I love it. Yeah, so good. I wanted to, uh, I was going to use Nia da Costa because I loved the last couple

movies. Like, I really liked her, uh, Candy Man. Yeah. For the most part, up until like the last five minutes, I was like, okay, that, that maybe didn't need to happen, but overall, I really liked that. Yeah. But she's basically got three movies. So it wasn't enough to put a list.

One of them was a, um, did she do Black Clansman? No, was a Black Klansman or the other one about, um. Well, Black Klansman was Spike Lee. Yeah. That was Spikely. Okay. What was the other one about the, um, the Black Panthers? Oh, with, um, speaking of the Get Out guy.

Yeah. Oh, no. Oh, no. I think of Steve Stanfield. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or with the other dude, the main dude. The main dude. Her movies

Her movies are basically Little Woods in 2018 Candyman and the Marvels. Oh, really? Okay, so not who I was thinking of. I didn't know she did the Marbles. That's great. I didn't know she did it either.

I think she got the Marvels because of Candyman. Okay. And Candyman was produced by what's-as-beek who did get out. He did production. He was executive producer, yeah. He was producer. Yeah, he co-wrote it, too. Oh, I didn't know that.

Did I see the right one? I don't remember the ending being terrible. Maybe I need to... There was just a thing that happened right at the end that I didn't think they needed to do, but it was a nice bit of fan service. Can I throw out a quick recommendation for an amazing horror movie that nails the ending? I may recommend it this week. I haven't decided yet because I know people are sick of all the horror movies,

but I saw Talk to Me finally. It's Australian film. Talk to me. A-24 Australian films fan-freakantastic and it's the best ending I've seen in a horror movie in years. Really? Wow. I really, really liked that movie. Did not see a coming. That was one of those hidden gems that I just like, I took a flyer on to go see in a theater in whatever it was, 22, I think.

Three. And I absolutely loved it. Yeah. I think Brian and your, you say what gets you are possession movies. You've said that before. You're in for one with this one. Holy shit. Really?

Oh, yeah. It's real good. it's so good also companion that just came out is a lot of fun i really really that was really good yeah i enjoyed that a lot more than i was expecting to and uh man what's her face lead role is just fantastic so good yeah and i just seen her inheritic um yeah that's what uh yeah scott you were talking about that which i haven't seen still haven't seen it kim and i want that's another good one yeah i i i'm we're having a bit of a moment with the good horror movies there's a lot of stuff coming out. You really are. Yeah. I love it. I've got a list and I've been going through

them. I started Infinity Pool last night. Oh my gosh. Turns out if you're a if you're a Cronenberg offspring, if you're a son or a daughter of David Cronenberg, that apple doesn't fall too far from the trees. People are weirdos, man. It's a son making this one. And I'm not quite done with it because I was super late when I was watching it. But it is freaking weird. Really weird. I believe it. Yeah. Mia Gothen this one. one too she's very good oh she's great uh well anyway fantastic work everybody we've done it and uh your so how would you describe your how would you describe your theme in in its fullness uh celebrating you know black creators basically it's black history month and i mean i try to celebrate all

creators anyway but if i can find a theme around it um you know i will so nice because like i love uh I mean, I talk about F. Gary Gray and like all the movies that I mentioned, I've seen except, I have not actually seen Be Cool is the one. But like everything else he's done. I've enjoyed it. It's really good. Antoine Fuqua, he's just got a great for films. And I really like his stuff. I like his movies a lot. He's great. I haven't seen either the two follow-ups to the first equalizer. That movie was frustrating for me, the first one. And so I was nervous about the following too. But I know a lot of people like those, the last two. So maybe I need to catch up on those. But I I've seen most of what he's made. He's great. Good closure on the third one. I mean, they're, you know, they are a, you really have to suspend disbelief with the whole, like, how quickly Denzel can move and take out a whole roomful of people.

But once you do that, it's like, yeah, these are good. Yeah. First one just, I don't know. There's something about it to bug me. Can't put my finger on it. Interesting. All right then. Didn't we do Inside Man for Film Sack?

I thought we did. Inside. Oh, no, we didn't. I just watched it recently. Probably for recommendals or something. Yeah, I love that. Freaking love that movie, too. I mean, I know it's like,

it's not the most, like, socially commentary, Spike Lee movie that he's mostly known for, but it's one of my favorite movies. Your entertainment kind of thing, yeah. I love that movie. I mean, I had no idea it was a Spikely movie when I went to see it, usually, until, like, the end, and I saw directed by Spike Lee movie.

Right, yeah, exactly. They don't all have to be social commentary either. No, not at all, clearly in that case. But I just, I just, like the end. I like it. And I like seeing movies where the voice is not mine. You know, it's not the voice that I'm familiar with. Yeah. Because I get to see some different perspectives. And that's why I like, you know, going after and finding and seeking out some of these alternate. And alternate isn't even the right word, but like just different creators. Yeah. People that all sound like a dyed purple beard guy like yourself. You know what I mean? Exactly. Well, anyway, it's great. Speaking of which, well, I mean, it's your choice.

It's your beard, your hair, you do what you want to do. You're going to, you got a lot of stuff going on, though, on the podcast and stuff. Tell people where they can get your content these days. I do. Easiest way is to go to tvistravis.com. I got links to everything there. There will be links coming for a new project that is going to debut in when we're in Vegas. I have a new project that will be getting its long.

launch then. Sweet. It's called Handies Behind the Dumpster with TV's Travis. Oh, I'm sorry. I've let the cat

out of the bag there. I didn't mean to blow your announcement. Sorry about that. I hadn't registered the domain yet. You better hurry up. It's out in the public now.

They're going to get it. Don't wait on that one. No. Well, it's good to have you, man. Take it easy. Look forward to next time. And we'll see you soon.

Bye now. I guess we'll see him Wednesday for our judging thing we're doing. Oh, that's right. Yeah, exactly. Okay, that is going to do it for the day. Although we do have this quick note,

it was a text from a person with no name. It says Jeff and the Horrors Bath. Oh, no, his name is Jeff. Is it Jeff? Well, anyway, says S&B. Yeah, I think Jeff is the one who wrote in. It must be. I can't remember what I wrote there.

But anyone says, S&B, I grew up knowing it was a horse bath. After having kids, we started using G-rated language and began calling it a horse bath. that's awesome that's great go take a quick horse bath yeah yep and your kids growing up thinking a horse bath is just like wiping down your pits and get out of here yeah exactly that's amazing they're gonna have a whole different experience when they start watching the sopranos yeah they're gonna be like wait a minute it's

why do they keep talking about horses I want to be a fly on the wall when they discover it uh all right that's great hey frogpants dot com slash t MS for all your needs, whatever they may be. There's only one need left, and that is a song to get us out of here. Brian, let's play it. That's right. This is going out to two people. We never really did tell Zoe, I mean, I wished her happy birthday because her birthday

fell on the same day as Tina's and everybody else. But she actually wrote in to say, Hi, Sausage and Bacon. Thursday last week saw a landmark birthday for the springer of bacon, also the birthday of several other very special people, including Tina, Peter Fisher, and Big Jim. I'd like to dedicate a suitable song of your choosing. for all these other great people and all the wonderful Aquarius people. And the tadpole, there are many of us. Keep up the great work.

Distracting us from real life and keep trying to be the best bunch of distracting freaks. You'll ever likely know. Love the show, though. Nice. Yeah, there's no, there are no challengers. You guys are the most distracting friends. You are the most distracting group of freaks. So happy belated birthday to you, Zoe.

Now, another belated birthday for Friday goes out to Zerick Envy. There's a little bit of a longer one. I'm going to try and read it as quickly as I can. Ahoy, Buff, and Scrub. I've been listening to Frog Pan since I found the instance on my mom's Zoom back somewhere in the Litch King era and TMS since around 2014. After letting 11 chances of TMS birthday request pass me by, I think it's finally time I cash one in. Today, last Thursday, I turned 27, truly feeling the weight of adulthood as I anticipate this year to be the biggest challenge of my adult life thus far. Just a couple of weeks ago, I bought the LLC from my very very very very.

very own mobile auto detailing business. While I've gotten by over the years, I've struggled with maintaining an income that pays all my bills and leaves me with enough for any big purchases, let alone a vacation, to a place like, I don't know, Vegas. Yeah. I started my hand at car washing about two years ago at an auto body collision shop,

which sparked my interest in the detailing world, and I'm eager to drum up enough business to leave this place within the year. The best part of this, IRL, chore core profession, other than the idea of being financially stable gen Zer is that it allows me to keep up with all the frogpins shows. It's difficult for me to put into words how much you and Scott in the tadpole community mean to me. Through the good times and bad, you guys have been the constant of my life and in my ears, day in and day out, for 11 years, not counting the three years of the instance and film psych prior. Even though it's all parasocial, I feel as though you and Scott are among my highest tier of longtime best friends. I have all the love in the world for you guys and the rest of the community.

It's made me feel guilty about being on the shy side when it comes to writing into shows as well as engaging in the community at large. The past year or so I've been trying to come out of my shell and be more vocal so you all know that I'm not only here, but I've been lurking here for a while, L.O.L. Shout out to Team Fusion, the Corps Guild for helping with this push by being the best damn bunch of rabble this Ohio-ass warlock could raid with and accepting me despite my dominance of the bottom of the DPS meter. for my request i just want something that sounds weird unique trippy with optimistic subject matter i gave the genre examples of psychedelic symphonic and folk punk with the bands spongle epica and days and days to give you an idea of my tastes other than what i've already said the weirder and more unique the better spongle is that real spongle that's a real band yeah no covers by spongle unfortunately finally i ask for all the positive tadpole energy as i go into the rest of 2025 forging a business

and financial backbone you've got it from all of us so that I can come celebrate making it to the other side of this crucible with you all at TMS Vegas, 2026. Oh, nice. Instead of Scott playing... Oh, sorry. Sorry, no, I was just excited to hear he's coming to see us.

That's great. Well, in 2026. Yeah, no, I heard the year, but yeah, that's great. Anytime we get to meet you, man. Hopefully, it's a hopeful. But I'm sure he can do it. P.S. Instead of Scott playing a clip, could I have Brian's impression of the Orange Theory trainer

saying, all out, while Scott takes the hint to finally cap the audio out as a clip. Rub my toes, Joe, Zerick. Yeah, I'm bummed. Kaylee is no longer at my orange theory. She moved over to a different one that's closer to her. But she's the one who said that I give off daddy vibes. She's still with Orange Theory, just not your location.

That's a bummer. She's still with Orange Theory. And I thought about, you know, going the extra a couple miles to go to her place, but decided against it. Anyway, she went, all out. A vocal fry at the end there. Yeah, got to have it. All right. So, Zerick, happy belated birthday, and thanks for the email.

Thanks for the kind words from both of us. Let's go to Epica. Nothing from Spongle, but Epica does a great cover of the Star Wars Imperial March on their album, The Classical Conspiracy Live in Muscoly. This is, of course, it covered the John Williams song. It's fantastic. Here is Epica and the Imperial March. I'm gonna be

I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm I'm I'm and

I'm I'm going to be I'm going to be. I'm a lot of the I'm gonnae'n't I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna

I'm gonna I'm I'm gonna I'm We're going to be able to be. We're going to be. We need to be able to be. I'm going to be.

We're going to be. Thank you. You're going to be able to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to be. I'm gonna' and so on the manned

I'm gonna'n't I'm gonna'n't I'm gonna'n't I'm gonna'n't I'm gonna'n't I'm gonna'n't Thank you. Thank you.

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