The Morning Stream - TMS 2810: Tasting Joey

Episode Date: April 16, 2025

Rue Patties Drag Race. Ass Pic. Meat Cake. Kangaroo's on the menu, boys! I Don't Like Head Cheeeeeeeeeese! Love Me Don't. A carapace full of goo. Jug Moisture. Mister Whompass. While my Feud gently weeps. My Boy Wink. Attack of the Gelatinized Tomatoes. Bloodsport with Crackers. Wednesdays keep on humping (humping, humping) into the future. Getting turned on with Tom. It's my son with Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A mischievous monkey and his clever rat friend built a flying coconut powered by banana peels to escape the jungle and see the stars. As they soared through the night sky, they laughed, realized the best adventures begin with a wild idea and a loyal friend. Sound fun? Well, not nearly as fun as supporting this show at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, Roo Paddy's Drag Race. Ass pick. Meat cake. Kangaroos on the menu, boys.

I don't like head cheese. Love me don't A carapace Full of goo Jug moisture Mr. Wompass While my few gently weeps My boy wink

Attack of the gelatinized Tomatoes Bloodsport with crackers We're singing Wednesdays Keep on humping Humping Humping Humping into the future I didn't mean to saddle you with all those today

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The Morning Stream. Maybe I can help you. I am Boba Fett. Hello, everybody, and welcome back to TMS. It's the morning stream for Wednesday, April 16th, 2025. I'm Scott. That's Brian. Good morning.

Happy Wednesday to you. It's a middle of the week here. We're humping again, you know? That's right. Big old hump. Humping in the middle of the week. Do you remember that show growing up? the uh that's incredible do you remember that oh i totally do is that what that was from yeah it's uh let's see

this monday on that's incredible that guy's voice john davidson oh yeah that's that like that that is the a bc voice announcer for like 20 years that guy who's the yep yep uh john davidson kethy lee crosby maybe not gifford for sure jo joe tarc no fran tarcinton oh man these names are these are taking me back Who was the third person? Because I always get to confuse with real people, which was a thing around the same time. It was basically like two different shows, yeah, that had the same kind of thing. Like, yeah, real people was your Gumbull, Skip Stevenson was on there, your brain, not Brian Gumble. Wasn't his brother Greg, was it?

Wasn't Greg Gumble? Definitely wasn't Greg Gumble. I don't know, man. Fran Tarkington, the football. Then it was Fran Tarkington. He was the football player with like a shitty bull cut, like this guy. All right, let's take a look. Let's see how close I was on both of these. So that's

incredible television series, Wikipedia. Hosted by John Davidson, Fran Tarkenton, Kathy Lee Crosby. Oh! Why would I ever question this? Of course you know who these damn people who hosted this show is.

getting skunked on a TV's Travis. What the hell? There's no balance in the forest. Here's what you need. You need Travis to, if he can bring some love boat. 70s TV. Yeah, exactly, yes. Yeah, love boat.

We need a fantasy island. We need a little bit of a, that's incredible, apparently. Exactly. All right. So real people was your Skip Stevenson, Sarah Purcell. Byron Allen is who I was thinking of. Peter Billingsley, your kid from Christmas story. Fred Willard.

was on there for a while. Yeah. What years did that run? That must have been mid-80s? That was 79 to 84. Oh, wow. Okay. That was actually,

was that kid on there before Christmas story? That was 81. That's crazy. Yeah. During, right? Like, right in the middle of his run. Must have been his big break. I thought his big break was Christmas story, apparently.

I thought so, too, yeah. There was some half. I think he, I want to say that kid was like doing bit parts of stuff or, you know, that, I mean, kid then, yeah, doing bit part stuff, like, all through his young life. Like, I know he wasn't Cousin Oliver on Brady Bunch, but he sure looked like Cousin Oliver on Brady Bunch. Oh, yeah, big time. But he's probably like, hey, eight is enough needs a best friend of what's his name. Right, right, to Adam Rich.

Yeah. Jeez, how am I able to pull this shit out, dude? This is the wrong day. You should have been here today, Travis. Adam Rich, holy shit. Adam Rich. Speaking of bad bull cuts, right? Oh, man, that kid.

they all had this like friar tuck thing just without the middle cut out back then it was like the hot the hot stylings they all look like that's who was the skater the ice skater that was a big deal in the olympics dorothy hamlet look at you at the names again i know see see it was like it was like no time i literally that not even lag normal lag on discord could stop brian from knowing that name immediately that was really funny. Right. Anyway. You know, don't ask me about directors,

but ask me about 70s TV stars, man. I'm all over it. Yeah, and somebody I think who mentioned wink, Martindale. Oh, he just died, right? Redfragel. Just died, yeah. Yesterday. I thought he died a while ago.

I know. I thought he winked out forever ago. Dude, we talked about that on, or I talked about that on Daily Music Headlines today because, because you're thinking, Brian, I mean, he was a game show host. Why would you care? Why would Wink Martindale's death beyond daily music headlines? Dude had singles.

Dude was a recording artist and a DJ. He was one of the first few people, maybe among the first batch of people to interview Elvis Presley. He had quite the musical life besides Tick-Tac Doe. Well, here's a fun. So funny you say that because this morning I was watching, I was catching up on a few things. and a video came across my feed that was an old 80s Letterman

segment where, do you remember when you do Dave's old record collection or whatever that segment was called? Yeah, it is a really funny album covers. Yeah, right? So he's got this one. I'll play a little of it. We want to spend a minute and take another look

at Dave's record collection. Thank you. I don't know about you, but when you think of truckers and their big 18 wheelers roaring down our nation's highways. The music of one man comes to mind. Wink

Martindale. Now, listen to some of this country classic Giddy Up Go, wink. Here we go. Highways that whine and wonder. Open mountains and valleys, deserts and plains. Yeah. I guess I've driven just about all of them.

Yeah, that's right, wink. How many? I'm driven just about all of it. Sure you have, wink. The, um, no, this is, uh, He did a cover of deck of cards. The song was deck of cards, which is kind of funny then that he'd go on to be a game show host. For a bunch of games that had nothing to do with cards.

Yeah, that would have been perfect. Put them in the card ones, but nope. Right, tic-tac-toe maybe would be good, or the high rollers was dice, but nothing with cards. But, yeah, that one went to number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 back in the day in the late 50s, 1959. See, I had no idea. I thought he was game show host, and that was it.

You know, sometimes you're... Yeah, this is real name, Winston Conrad, Martindale. So I guess you take the first three letters of Winston, the first letter of Conrad, and you get wink. Yeah. Even though it's not... Exactly, but it's still... Like, yeah, you've got to have a way to get to wink. I think you found it.

That's it. Right, right. Because nobody pooped him out and went, I'm calling him wink. No one's doing that. A great name for a kid. Wink. Yeah. Wink.

Yeah. I hate it. But anyway, rest in peace there, wink, Martindale. Winston, I should say. A quick note here about something that I came across yesterday. Lucky Phil reached out to me because we had said something on the show about eating kangaroo, some passing reference. Yeah. And I had said that I would eat it.

I would try that. And that would be okay. I would eat some, I would eat some kangaroo. I would eat some Joey, as they say, over there. Some baby kangaroo, you even say. Yeah. I would even eat a little bit of whatever. It's just, I don't, you know, culturally, just not in a place where there are kangaroos except at the zoo.

As far as I knew, it was kind of illegal here, I would assume. But Phil reached out, who lives in Ausseland and said, you can try the kangaroo burger. And you can do it in two different ways. They have them frozen at sprouts. You guys have sprouts, right? We do. Yeah, there's one, just a couple blocks from me. Same.

I got one just right down the road. So I could go in there and check out some frozen kangaroo burger. I'm not even looking at chat, so I don't want to know what Claire's saying right now. We can just ignore whatever Claire has to say about... She is not saying anything amazingly enough. Maybe she's not here. I was still scrolled back on Amy talking about Wink Martindale. No, it does not look like she's in here commenting.

I'll probably feel it when it happens, even though I'm not looking at. Yes, there would be a great disturbance in the forest, as if 100 people in Ireland slowly shouted at the top of their lungs and then we're suddenly silenced. That's right, because that's about her level. It's about 100. Oh, there's. She's in the child. Okay, cool. Well, anyway, so Frozen at Sprouts, I could make my own at home. Or if I really want to go try out somebody's version of this, there's this place called the burger bar in, or no, Farmer's Market or no, Farmer's Market or.

Maybe it means you just get it at a farmer's market. But the burger bar in Roy, Utah has them. No, the Sprout's full name is Sprout's Farmers Market. Oh, that's part of Sprouts. Yeah. Oh, I just called Sprouts. I didn't realize it had a whole name. I guess it makes sense.

Yeah. So I could go to Roy. Now, Roy's like an hour and a half north or something. I'm not sure it's worth that to get a prepared. Well, to not have it to cook it yourself. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, I guess it depends on. I'm going to have Kim cook it.

She could do it. There you go. You know what? I'm going to do it. I'm going to get me some of this meat. And we're going to talk about it. Okay. Are we going to do, do you want me to do it too?

is this a let's have one of our let's have one of our you know no one sends us food anymore so we'll do this like a little taste thing yeah i'm looking to see there's a place called barbed wire reef in uh Denver it's now an edgewater and um they specialized in their old location in the highlands they specialized in unusual meat um burgers and things like that but i'm looking to see like their burgers uh classic cheeseberg black and blue the alamo the deer of a state of so that one's definitely deer. I wonder if you can, let's see if you get your choice of meat. Angus, Buffalo, and Elk are your choices. Ooh, I do like elk meat. Yeah, or Angus for that matter. Or Buffalo for that matter. All those are good.

A beet sandwich. Chipotle. What's in the alley? What are your choices for Alamo? Again, Angus, buffalo, or elk. This would be the place because they, at their old location, you could have rattlesnake. You could have, and I could have sworn they had kangaroo on the menu. Almost guaranteed.

A bunch of different sausages. Do they even have the sausages here? I mean, it might be kind of controversial, so maybe some places had to stop doing it or something. Could be. Like I did a search for Utah restaurants, kangaroo burgers, and all I got were controversial headlines,

like Utah restaurant sells out of its ill-timed kangaroo burgers. Oh, my gosh. Like ill-timed. What's that even mean? Yeah, there's sausages. They've got alligator and elk. They don't have their rattlesnake or kangaroo. anymore so but I could I could just pop over to um uh sprouts and get some kangaroo patties as well

I think I'm gonna do that too we can help well let's plan you know what for if this is possible yeah yeah yeah how do you feel about that I think that work I'm good I can do it happens I'll do it too um this is great we haven't done this in a while so I'm excited we can do a little food review also write it on my to do list right now pick up kangaroo patties nice that's a weird one to put on there but I love it. I'm just going to type, or type, I'm going to write Rue Patties. Rue Patties. Yeah, Roo Patti.

Like the lady from the Bakeoff, the British Bake Off. Oh, Prue Patti, sorry, wrong one. No, come on. Roo Patties is that drag show. Oh, yeah. In the television, the drag race. Roo Petties drag race is the Rue Patties. Real quick about that, I was going to say, what was I going to say?

I forgot. Don't remember. Oh, what's the one? weirdest meat you've ever eaten what's the strangest meat oh let's see well i have had so when they had those sausages that were rattlesnake i did have rattlesnake and alligator sausage i've had frog legs i've had snails um uh what is the weirdest thing i've had though yeah because those those used to be oh have you've had scorpions i've eaten the scorpions we oh yes you didn't eat yours right like i had the one in the in the lollipop i looked the lollipop but i couldn't

like break in there and eat the thing in the sign. Yeah. Couldn't do it. Yeah. So, but also is... Scorpion is meat because it's really, it's like eating, it's almost like eating a bug. Yeah. Yeah. Like this, when it's a carapace full of goo or whatever's inside of those things. I don't think

it counts. Uh, I don't think it counts as meat, I should say. It counts is weird, for sure. It counts is weird. Yeah. Um, for me, it's probably dog meat. Everything else you mentioned I've had, it's all more common now. Dog in China. Yeah, that sucked. I ain't like that. Also, because I was tricked into it.

I wouldn't have done it if I'd have known. Yeah, yeah. They tricked me, literally tricked me. For people who are like, no, you knew what you're doing. No, I said, you guys have beef strips because there's nothing on this menu that I want to eat. And the Chinese translator lady that was with me goes, well, yeah, you can have beef strips. Hold on a second. Talks to the guy in Chinese.

He comes out with this plate of perfectly exactly shaped strips of meat. Exactly. Looks just like beef strips. Yeah, and had a little bit of taste bud bumps on the bottom. I didn't know what that meant. And I ate one. and went, oh, okay, these are not as, not quite what I expect, but I guess they're okay. And then she goes, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

I'm like, you can't trick me. You're, I'm your customer. You're supposed to treat me better. That's weird. What's in head cheese? Because my grandmother, we gave us head cheese one time. Maybe I should rephrase that one. Head cheese.

I don't think I've had head cheese. So that's, that's a. Coke, not made from cooked press pigs. head meat. So it's, so I've eaten pigs head meat. Why do they call that cheese? They don't know. Because if they call it, if they call it pigs head meat, nobody would eat it. That's a good point. But head cheese sounds

worse somehow. There it is. That's head cheese right there. That processed blog of it. And that's a good, that's a better looking picture of it. Typically it looks like, it looks like you made jello with chunks of meat floating in it. Here you go. How about this one? that that's closer yeah let's see what you got yeah that's closer put something in there give you this one right here all right this is what this is what it looked like when we had

slices of it all my gosh yeah horrifying dude it's like it's gelatin with uh so what's the other stuff like little seeds looks like peppers maybe yeah pepper not peppercorns but some sort of um almost look like capers but i'm sure they're not yeah i don't know what that is they're so bright yellow they maybe they're uh hungarians man freaking hungarian it's a hungarian treat yeah yeah no can i have a slab of pighead meat oh yeah could be matubas says mustard seed probably probably mustard seed or celery seed yeah oh okay well look you know from certain parts of the world we get weird things like in the war spam was created for wartime stuff but now it's like this thing people love to cook with and make weird who am i to judge your weird looking fruit cake

based meat cake. That looks like meat cake, Brian, meat cake. Meat cake, that classic George Carlin thing. What's in the fridge? I don't know. It looks like some sort of could be meat, could be cake. It's meat cake. Meat cake. Todd Warcatcher says

it's a modern aspec, jello salad. And by the way, I've always heard the phrase aspic, like a tomato aspic. I have never realized it was spelled like auspice, A-U-S-P-I-C-E. I was if I were to hear the word, Oh, it was a typo.

Oh, it is Aspick. Okay. Oh, it is. I was stupid. It was spelled ASPIC, but, okay. And you were right. We're totally right. Aspick is like eating, what do we have?

What was in the Aspick? It looked like tomato jello. I'm not sure I know what that is either. Don't think I've had it. Yeah, let's see. Oh, my gosh. This one was, oh, ugh. Yeah.

Okay, here you go. Yeah. What the hell is this? Wow. No, no, man, the... Is it more like this? That does not look like the Aspick I've seen. I'm going to give you... Here's some 70s Aspick.

It looks like you forgot to defrost the green giant. Yeah, it's really bad. It looks like you can do a lot of weird stuff. This one's in one of those upside-down pineapple cake thing, molds. Yeah, here's... Eggs in there? This is the... Oh, dude.

The stuff I've had is more opaque with the red. Oh, look. it looks like it looks like you uh froze ketchup basically okay that actually looks like it's like something i would try though yeah compared to that uh this other shit i'll take that over that like yeah in a heartbeat i assume this is just like gelatinized tomato it is it's gelatinized tomato i mean literally it's like it's like ketchup gelatin with um olives and you serve it with horseradish i think oh my gosh dude it's so weird and we had this at Thanksgiving when

my grandmother Ellen was around. That was my step mom's mother. Gotcha. She would make the aspec that was her recipe. Yeah, it's thick and ketchup is what it is. Gross.

Nobody send us any of this. We don't want it. Oh, this one's interesting. This one's a little bit more like, oh, cancel that. What are we doing here? Hold on. Here, let me show you this one. This is like a loaf of it. And you cut it and... Still, I don't like clear gelatin foods.

Yeah, I don't want to see what's in there. It's like, these are like the, it's like a Game Boy in the 90s. I don't need to see what's in there. Like, at least give it some sort of color. Make me think I'm having Mandarin jello, but the clear, it feels so medical. Like, it feels like, you know, you're using this to dissect a body and you want to keep all the organs in the same place. Yeah. Look at this one.

This one looks like a hospital. Like, what are we doing? Yeah. Horrible. horrible none of this is good oh unless you go super clear how about this one all right i'll just let me gauge this one super clear that doesn't even look real wow i may not be for all i know the internet it looks like you just have a a piece of glass over some corn chicken and succotash yeah so i'm trying to decide if i prefer clear or a little opaque i don't know maybe i prefer

none of it maybe none of it is the answer yeah maybe don't make aspic It's not even got a good name. Aspick's a terrible name. Aspick, it's very bad. It's like what you send somebody when you're, you don't know how to sext. A lot of. A lot of. You heard it here first.

Aspick, everybody. That's fantastic. All right. Well, enough of that. Let's move on to, oh, I got a theory. A voicemail and a theory from a, from, from, this is the next cop. And I can't wait to hear. about this here we go hello boot and scoot um this is about the jugs of pee when i was younger

my mom was a cop a detective and she busted a meth lab and the gentleman that was running the said meth lab had everyone that came come there peeing jugs for him because he was wanting to filter out the meth from their pee love the show though oh my gosh i think that's actually a decent possible answer you know oh my god so that's so wait somebody does that like where it's like oh you've got you've had the meth but you still might have some in your body please pee in this jug so I can filter out the meth and enjoy it myself yeah or something like that maybe or use it in I don't know how it works I don't you meth experts write in you know let us know we don't know we've just seen the blue the blue sheet of stuff on TV that's all we know that's the same same person

who's going to be like no I'm not going to have any of your cat butt civet coffee you're talking about hey please let me let me finish off that meth in your pee Yeah, all of us worried about cap, poop, coffee, and we really should be worried about the meth pee. Oh, yeah, Hammond says, all right, Hammond, says dehydrate for the crystals. Oh. But then if you do that, then you don't end up with jugs, right?

It's dehydrated. So there's, you've lost all the jug moisture, the moisture you would put in a jug and put in somebody's, uh, oh, okay, but why not just, which makes sense, that's how you would do it. Like if you knew somebody had meth in their system. Yeah. And got them to pee, you would, you know, have it, you would dehydrate it.

And then what was left over, that residue would be, would be meth. And meth and all that stuff that Tanner told us about a few days ago. Well, here's the good news. By the way. Just in case many of you were wondering, if we could talk about something more disgusting than meat frozen in gelatin, clear gelatin. Yeah. We didn't plan this today, but it's coming. Yeah.

Um, this guy's name was faturb, something like that. I wanted to give him credit, first of all. Second of all, he has now made a permanent addition to the soundboard. I'd like to play it for you. Here you go. This is about the jugs of pee. That's staying forever. Never leaving, okay?

As it should, as it well should. This is about the goods of pee. Uh, all right, Brian, we got one more thing to take care of. It's, uh, let's talk about meat space versus virtual space. Sure. Yes. So, um, um, uh, Amy and Chuck. reached out to me this morning and they are doing all the badges for TMS Vegas.

On the ticket form, when you bought your ticket to TMS Vegas, there wasn't a place to put your screen name, right? Just your your meet space name. And if you don't want your meat space name on your badge, if you want your name on your badge, obviously, reach out to Chuck and Amy about it. But also let them know if you want something other than your meat space name if you want your screen name. Because some people, some people don't want the world to know their real names. And with this crowd, actually with Las Vegas, I could see why. So reach out to check in Amy and just basically just let them know what you want if you want your name on your badge and let them know what you want. I know Amy's in the chat.

If you, if they don't, you leave the badges blank if they don't request a name on there, right? Then they can go, write it on there. Yeah. Yeah. I sent them all the real names that I had, and then there are some in there that were screen names. These were all just taken from the orders. The problem is this forum didn't have any custom forms for like,

hey, tell us your screen name, which is something I guess we could have thought about ahead of time. Oh, that's right. They have the sheet of stickers, yeah. So they can apply the, they can give your sticker at the thing if you want your name stuck on your badge. But if you don't want your real name on the sticker, then reach out and

yeah reach out to Chuck and Amy so if somebody walks up with a wig and a fake mustache and glasses on and knows right we'll know that they also want to be they want their screen names right exactly get ready Shane Maddox

we're ready for you buddy perfect yes he also oh I love it Shane put up a video of him running in some mini marathon thing or something look like some kind of run that was cool by the way first of all second of all it's the usual thing

where he just kind of takes the camera around. I wonder, you know, it's almost like a, we know that he did that first and then you drew attention to it, but now I feel like he does it because that's now his thing. Maybe. That's what I know him for. So if you want to stay in the TMS meme anthology or whatever, you got to keep doing it.

All right. And you do it naturally anyway. So just keep being you. Do what you got to do. Keep being you. Keep doing the thing you do. That's right. Shaved Maddox.

Speaking of things we do. We're going to play a game. Brian Dunaway coming in hot? That's the only way he can come in that guy. He doesn't know how he'll do it. Exactly. So he's going to come in. Why isn't this working?

Oh, wrong group. Shit, hold on. How do I remove him from the group? I can't because I didn't start it. Oh, no, really? Was this the recommendal group? Yeah, remove Dunaway, wrong group. Hold on.

I put him in the wrong group. All right. Now let's add him to the real group. Here he is. Okay. Now we're creating the group. Now there's rings of ringage. Now there's a theme to play.

There we go. All right. After some considerable airs, we're back. And it's time for the head pulley feud. Yes, that's right. Brian Dunaway joins us to play this little game. Hi, Brian. Oh, hi.

Hi, Scott and Brian. How's your, um, middle of the week going. Oh, you know. You know, good. Yeah, yeah. Just as much before as going forward, except for Good Friday for those who celebrate, I do have a Friday off the wheat.

For me, every Friday is good because it's a Friday. No. Hey, Donaway, did you see all these, do you see this Aspect stuff that's in our chat here? Do you know what these are? Are you eating this? Well, it kept popping up in my, I kept getting alert, blonk, boink, and I'm like, what is they doing? What are they want?

Yes, I've seen, I've seen, yes. I've seen the thing. It's delicious. Have you had it before? Like, I assume it's a, it's also a southern thing because Ellen... Well, I mean, you would think so. And you see that when you start throwing pimentoes and things, you definitely know you're in the South. That's a, that's a southern thing.

I'm not personally familiar with this, but I do recognize that bun cake form. Absolutely. Oh. I've had other things in that shape. Yeah. I mean, you, look, we are all children of our parents of a certain age, and they watched, I don't know, daytime TV. learned how to make meat into a bread loaf. We need to form this food.

It will be more appetizing if it is formed. Exactly. That's how you live. That's how you rule. It's how you go about your life. So now we're going to play this game for real. We have a listener. Our fourth caller happens to be Hammond Chamberlain.

Hello, Hamill. Look at this. Look at this guy. Yeah, look at this guy. If that's the case, then forget about telling us how to play Tad Pooley Few. Just tell us how to play card sharks. Yeah. Teach us how to win and gambling.

scenarios. Oh, man, Hammond, you're, I'm getting weird echo off of you. What is that? Let's see. Is that me? His Discord gets a little scurly. He's got to take a second to fix it. Mike Bluff. You can kill, if it helps to kill video, you can, because we'll never show you. You'll never be seen. There you go. Is that any better? Not same. B.

Love it. My favorite thing. I love the curses. The Discord calls curse is the best. Son of up. Exactly, like, you know, only the right words come through the gaps. It's all good. This is unfortunately why we aren't able to do soundography, record soundography on Discord.

There's a, the mixer he has is a great mixer, but boy, it is, it is, does not like, yeah, does it not like Discord at all. So we have to use Stream Yard or Zoom or whatever. All right. We are now going to pick the net. wants to he said no worry about it i'll pick someone else he'll figure it out it was good seeing you it was good seeing you ham and let's try take number five or should we do three let's see no i'll do number five looks like it's uh okay and why won't it show me uh hold on you guys i swear this is going to work so back to my card shark's ideas looking a little better isn't it yeah looking

pretty good every second that passes by i think you got an idea on your hands there uh kizumi is joining us i hope hopefully We're ringing, we're ringing. It says they're playing World of Warcraft, so, you know, we don't want to interrupt anything, but... No, no, please stop fishing in Orgermar and come answer your phone. That's right. Let's see, if they do say they're good, they may have heard that Hammond was here and bailed. That sometimes happens.

So if that happens... I'm out. All right, we've tried Kazumi, no go. All right, now we're going to try the sixth person. Oh, you just take any call. At this point I'll take anybody TRPW looks like is number six

CRPW I've had him on before I think this will come through WKRP and what Cincinnati Cincinnati I was in Ohio last week and every time

I saw the sign I had to sing I may have a problem You do have a problem Do you sing the ending song that Brian learned us all That it was all nonsense? Do you know that was nonsense? There's no words?

That's rock and roll, baby. Yeah, but there's no words. There's literally no words to it. They made all that up. They scat, right? It's definitely not scat. I don't think I would put it in the scat category. All right, hey, TRPW, who is definitely in the scat category.

Hello, is with us right now. Hey, man, what's going on? I'm okay. I'm Rob Sprite. Can you hear me? Yeah, I'm near you. You can. You sound great.

It turns out, as Hammond says, Discord sucks. Hammond, it's working for everybody else, man. Oh, Scott's not going to let you get away with that. No, he's got a complicated setup. He makes a lot of contact. Why do you think? Why do you get enough like for me about that? I'm still on, I'm still analog because of Scott.

That's the whole reason. Never went to US. Try it for a minute. Said nope. Good. USB sucks. Don't use it if you can help it. Yeah.

All right. Hey, let's get to it. Brian Nibbitt, you want to explain to TRPW and the rest of us how this game works and what's on. It's steak today? Well, sure. It's time to play the tadpool a feud. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics.

And Scott and Brian will have to predict the answers that they gave us. It is their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. T-R-P-W. Your job is more important than ever because you are going to be working W-I-T-H, either Scott or Brian. And if your team W-I-N-S, you will get a prize package. That includes Homeworld 3 and Sir Whop-Ass Immortal Death. Oh, both excellent. picks. Homeworld 3, I would argue, is maybe, we all think very fondly of Homeworld 1 and 2,

especially 1. It was a major deal back in the day, 0302, whatever it was. But this is actually a very cool sequel. I own it. It's great. It's really fun. You're going to like it. Sir Wapass, I am told, is very good, but I haven't played it. So there you go. Cool. It's a fun name, Sir Wapass. Fun to say, right? Yeah. Yeah. All right. Did he get knighted? Is that how that works? Yes, exactly. He was just Mr. Wuppath until he got night and game. Night my Whipass I got you

You gotta take it a sword And lay it on his I can tell you a story About somebody Getting knight Please Oh really As he

As Prince Charles as he was Got knighted somebody How what He goes He goes through with a big list Yeah And he's going to He's going to knight the guy

Yeah And his equery His sort of servant Has stopped Has forgotten to give him The sword So Prince Charles Is just basically

Leaning backwards And sort of waving His hand around So he'll put the sword in his head. Yeah. Wow. Wait, and they cut it?

Not knighted at all. That's not knighted, is it? What is he thinking? He knows things. He should know. Man, when you're on the stage like that and people, I'll do anything. Just keep moving. All of a sudden, he's Star Wars kid in that you two.

Oh, the poor guy. He's really in for some trouble. All right. Well, excellent. Let's play this game and see who's better. We even know who's better, but let's try to see if it's in either. I was glad when, uh, Hammond was going to be a potential contestant.

I'm glad as well for TRPW for this question. So let's see how it goes. All right. We asked 435 tadpullers to give their best answer to this. What's your favorite Beatles song? Or if you, Scott, go ahead. Oh, good. I'm going to make an assumption.

I'm glad you got it. I'm going to make an assumption that you were. Oh, shit. This might be bad assumption. Maybe I should stick closer to it yesterday. I'll do that yesterday. Okay, show me yesterday. Okay.

Only one answer will be to it. I will repeat the whole answer for Brian Dundler. Right, right, right. All question. What's your favorite Beatles song? And if you don't, if you hate the Beatles, just write, I hate the Beatles. Oh, jebis.

Oh, my God. That actually complicates things. What you're assuming, Scott? No, not even close. I thought it would be some of their solo, like Imagine or simply having a wonderful, Christmas time or some other bullshit. But here's what's great about what you decided to do.

You have preempted the chat room. I have. Because you knew they were going to do that. That's great. This is how. I knew they were going to do it. And I'll tally it like any other, like any of the phrase. Did it make the top 10 is the question.

Well, I mean, we'll look at it like this. Yesterday it was only 35 at a 400 some odd people. Do we have that many smart asses or is there that? There's a pretty big library of Beatles songs. Ooh, I don't know. All right. So I'm going to go, hey, Jude, how about that? Can I do that one?

Is that okay? Absolutely, yeah. Show me, nah, nah, nah, na, na, na, na, na, na, no, no, no. No, no, no, number five. Hi, it doesn't get you, gets you some points, but it doesn't get you control, which goes to Scott. Scott, it is you and TRPW as a team. Sweet. About the Beatles.

And he's British, which I don't know if it gives him an advantage or not, but let's try this. P-W, what would you put it? Any of these numbers? Well, I'd go for Love Me-Due just in case. Yeah, I was a big deal. I was early, right? Early Beatles. Yeah. Well, you want something, don't you want something? Well, I suppose you want something low scored. So, yeah, 10. That might get to 10.

Oh, that's a good point. Yeah, I don't, this is going to be interesting because I wonder, like, in my, in my own musical taste, most of my Beatles songs that I like the most are definitely not that kind of doo-wop 50s crossover. Later career, right? Like the mid and late Beatles career, not the early, yep. Yeah, like the one where they showed up on stage and made all the girls scream. That was more of an Elvis's almost over kind of era kind of vibe. And it's not my favorite, but I don't know if I reflect the rest of the tadpool.

Sure. Okay. But yeah, let's do, let's get love me do out of the way. Sure. All right. Okay, let's get it out of the way right now. Did I get love me do? Love me do.

Love me don't. Tied for 49. 49. Yeah, only one person said love me do. Yeah. Love me do. Love me don't. Perfectly done.

All right. I'm going to go with everybody hates the Beatles. All right. Show me. Show me just the answer. I hate the Beatles. Number one. That's what I was feeling.

That's what I was feeling. Why? 63 people said, I hate just that verbatim, I hate the Beatles, because I told him, just put that exact phrase in there if you hate the Beatles. I need to understand why they would do that. Do you think they did it as a meme pick, or do you think people really dislike them so much? I think people, I think a good portion of these are probably, I want to be a smart ass, but I think a good portion of the people are people who don't have the nostalgia for the Beatles like the rest of us do.

Some people, well, I want to say. one person said, I don't really hate the Beatles. I respect them for their musical choice, but I don't like them enough to have a song that I like, a favorite song. Okay. I mean, to each their own, I'm just surprised at the number one position.

That's crazy to me. Yeah, exactly. I guess it just makes sense. It, you know, sure. It's all the rest of it, because it looks like, if you look down the left-hand side here,

we got 35 for number two and the 24 for what number five. So, I mean, obviously spread out pretty well. So just, you know, just the possibilities of, I hate the Beatles came up pretty good percentage wise

Exactly Plus you know If they don't want to think It's something You just give them an answer They're like Oh I'll just do the answer Then I have to think

Oh yeah I almost I almost hate the Beatles Because I think that my first Run in with the Beatles Was actually on TV And yeah They were

They were getting in that Yellow submarine And I just feel like Yeah Is it yellow submarine up there? Do it All right Show me

Show me that, oh, that ringo, that classic ringo. Show me your yellow submarine. Yeah. In the top where I was born with peace and love. Yeah. Yeah, see, hate the beetle's starting to make sense now, isn't it? Yeah.

Number 10. Oh, shit. Look at those points. Shit, shit, shit. Yeah, but this confirms my theory that they're going to go for the later stuff. Sergeant Pepper, more of their drug experimentally business, all that. and not the early business. Sure.

All right, Donaway, you're on a roll. Oh, am I? Well, I mean, it's the Beatles. Six answers still on the board. You've got 16 points to Scott and TRPW's two points right now. Only one strike on the board right now. Plenty of game to be played. Right.

So I kind of went like this. I remember the first time I ever saw the Beatles was like a sale on TV. I was like, are these the monkeys? I don't know. I'd seen the monkeys before the Beatles because of my age. but then I remember that I changed my mind about the Beatles when they did that Nike commercial revolution and that that was just like I'm like oh I thought these were all just some boppy songs when they did that Nike commercial yeah when they did

20 years after they broke up when Nike paid paid the Beatles to uh to to write that song I mean they definitely uh licensed it and got money they revitalized the Beatles for me because I I, you know, me. Fair enough. Well, one person's sellout song is another person's revitalization. I get it. That's right. So, uh, what's the song?

Did you already sing it? All right. Show me. Revolution. Great, great song. Number 19 in the list of, uh, ones that people chose. Not bad. All right.

Not bad. T-R-P-W. Um, I get by with a little help for my friend. Oh, that's a good one. I like that. a lot. Yeah. I like it. I don't think they were talking about each other. I mean, the first few tracks on Sergeant Pepper, I think. Actually, Dunaway may, or Ebbett may know this. Are they, when they sing, I get by the little help for my friends,

they're not talking about each other. Because at this point, they're kind of annoyed with each other, right? They're talking about other. No, this was during, this was 167. This was Sergeant Peppers. They still liked each other. Okay. They were still into each other's vibe. They were still into each other. They were. I love getting the Sargent Peppers down at the Chipotle. It's good stuff. All right, let's speak you. Let's do Sergeant Pepper's track number two with a little help for my friends.

Oh! I know, I know. That one, number 33. And that one is shocking, especially for fans of the Wonder Years, because, you know, that Joe Cocker cover is so popular that other artists cover the Joe Cocker version as much as they cover the Beatles version of that song. Dang, man. I don't know why I'm so surprised.

I shouldn't be that surprised. give you more money apparently yeah you uh you have you've played i think you've played my my uh god what's the band name um hold in a second i got to get the right band name it is called the evolution control committee i think you've played this on the show before i'm going to give it to you okay i'm going to give it i'm going to give it to you Brian going give it to me all right see what we got let me i'm going to hit play Cheese What would you think

If I sang out of tune Would you stand up and walk out on me? Oh my gosh That is great Was that with peace and love And all that? That was with peace and love. Chuck it in the bin

I will not sign copies of that version of the song Put it in the bin that's amazing that is a that is a song called what would you think if i sang auto tune by the evolution control where they take the entire entire uh with little help for my friends and retuned wringo so he's out of tune throughout the whole song really great man i love that i have some memory of this but i don't know if it was here or somewhere else but that's yeah so they have a whole it's a whole bunch of songs or just this one they do a whole bunch of songs but this is the only one they do that too.

Ah, okay. Their other stuff got, their stuff is so great. I'll have to, I'll send some stuff to you separately that I think you're really gonna like. But check it out. Like,

the best album is all rights reserved. Evolution Control Committee. And it's all like repurposed audio, like songs where they take and a caveman kind of stuff. Oh, I like that kind of stuff. Yeah. Big fan, like 19, 19.

That was those kind of songs. Right, right. All right. Exactly. That boy needs therapy. Anyway. very much very much like that huge fan of that kind of stuff uh all right well who where are we brian and think it's you again we are back to brian yeah because uh uh with a little help for my

friends got you your second strike brian boo help us out here seven uh six songs don't you why don't you help me out help get some oh no um maybe that one no i'm think i'm gonna go yeah do help out about help i need somebody help you do you do you do you do Help? You're doing help? Help. Okay. All right. Sound like a little kid that just ate some wasabi.

All right. Show me help. Oh, man. All right. You're getting better. Help was number 12. You're working your way towards the top 10, and that was just out of the realm of getting you a bonus guess. You think maybe they had,

you think maybe they had some of issues? Is that why? Help. Help. Maybe they need help. Yeah. Yeah. Get it out of here.

Yes. So, all right. All right. Yeah. I'm struggling here a little bit because the things I mean. Yeah. Go ahead. Sorry.

Yeah. Just, no, it's just watching. Oh. The chat room's got it got one. That's how timely. What? Yeah. Oh, one in the chat room.

That's, that's, that's, oh, and they actually mentioned the one that I was holding in my, don't look. That was the next one I was going to. say. We do Hard Day's Night, I suppose. Hard day's night. That's a movie, too, right? Is it a movie?

It was. It was a movie, yeah. Yeah. How about paperback, right? That one's a weird one. I can't think of anything else. So maybe we do one of those.

How about let it be? Have you done let it be? Oh, let it be. That's a huge one. Yeah, we're doing let it be. Why don't you just make it number three? All right, show me, let it be. Let it be.

Yeah, good points. Let it be. Yeah, very good. Number eight, taking you guys up to 10 points. Now we've got to making a little bit of a run of this thing. Yeah. Okay. How do you feel about strawberry fields forever?

Ooh, that's a good one. Yeah. I like that one. It's both key change. Yeah. All right. Let's do it. Strawberry fields, Brian.

we're going. All right. Show me Strawberry Fields Forever. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Yeah.

Number 25 in the list. Top five song, man. All right. No problem. I'm just going to run the board. No problem. All right. I got you.

I got you. We're going to get you those games in your hands right now because I'm going to say Eleanor Rigby, which I didn't really know as a Beatles song. I heard a cover song.

I'm trying to recall. I think I actually might even heard it on Coverville. You might have, yeah. But I love that, I can't remember what it was, though. But yeah, Eleanor Rigby. All the Lonely People. Yep, all right, show me, Eleanor Rigby.

Nice. Yeah, number three. All right. Okay, you're going to run the board. You're going to do them in order, aren't you? Oh, yes, right. Do they have any of the Beatles did in the list? Oh.

Give us a clue. Good question. I will tell, I'll give you, I'll help you out here. in the top 10 no so the covers none of the covers that the Beatles did made the top 10 but you know things like twist and shout and money right yep some of those made it into the lower parts of the list but not in the top 10 I'll help you out yeah I can help you out here I can help you out right here nice help you know I feel pretty confident about my own answers but I'm going to go to the chat room just to help me run the board okay let's see if you know because I'll chat three weeks or something. Yeah. Here comes the sun, you know.

You should say either of those. Those are both really good. What should I say? Here comes the sun. Here comes us. Is that what I'm going to say? Oh, yeah. That one. Sure. All right. Show me. Here comes the sun.

Yeah. To put that da, da, da, dot, dot in there. And I say, it's all right. Brian, actually feeling pretty, I'm feeling more confident. You might clear this thing. This is good. You only have three. What was the other one?

There was another one that TRPW suggested. Keep talking to you. What did you say? What did you say a day in the life? Walk up, got out of bed. A drug or home across my head. That whole thing. And now you're Elvis.

Love it. Do it. Crank it up. You should say, you could say that one. That's a good one to say, I think. Yeah. We're saying that one. I think.

Okay. All right. Yeah. All right. Show me a day in the life. Oh, yeah. So close. I don't like, I don't like a low.

I don't like how low that is. That's freaky. Yeah. Now, I saw somebody say something about a tax man earlier, and it's really relevant to us today, because tax day in the U.S. was yesterday. But when this question was asked. Right. These questions were asked long, long, far away.

Long ago when taxes were far away and you said, oh, I have time. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. So maybe that's a good one that George Harrison song, that, the T.R.D.W. mentioned that was really good. Oh, you know, man, I certainly said something or other. I certainly said something or other.

But, you know. You can say it now, if you want. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally say it now. Yeah. Something or another. I'm actually right in saying something or other and then not getting it. No, exactly.

I love this. But don't say that one. There was another one that TRPW. Don't do that one. No. Weeping guitars, yeah. Oh, my guitar. Gently weep?

Yeah, yeah. Is it called, is it called Weeping guitars? I'll call Guitar Weeper. What is it called? Get your guitar, get your guitars out and weeper. Gentle weeping?

What if I just get part of the song? Whatever it is, how some of the lyrics. Let's give you that one. All right. Why my guitar gently weeps, I think, is your guess. And there you go. Holy shit. I want to say one of several songs that were written for,

Paddy Boyd was Patty married to George Harrison for a while and then was married to Eric Clapton and Oh interesting. You really should get your guitar checked out though if it's Yeah, the rumor was that they had a guitar battle to decide.

That's right. Well, they did on this song like this one does have While My Guitar Gently Weeps has Eric Clapton playing guitar in there as well. You think Norwegian Woods on here you guys? Do you think that's on there? I'm not sure. I just want to know if we need to get...

You wouldn't suggest it? We need an exorcism for that. We can get to our... Maybe. I would think more avian. You know, think more avian. Oh, more avian? More avian.

Hey, bird. Win by... Oh, Blackbird! Blackbird! Somebody say Blackbird. Blackbird's awesome. I love that song. Yeah.

That's a great song. I think it's number seven. You think so? Let's see if it is. Show me Blackbird. Yeah, what? Thank you for not choosing and your bird can sing.

Great song, but not the content. Yeah, Blackbird. Number seven means you guys closed out the board with a little help from your friends. And well done. Number 11, by the way, was come together. Come together. Right now.

I feel like we kind of did during this. Lucy in the sky with Don. Simon's number 13. Maxwell's Silver Hammer, 14. Paperback writer was on there, but number 15. Norwegian Wood. I am the walrus. Obla D. Oblada. Rocky Raccoon. Twist and shout was number 21. I want to hold your hand. Imagine, not a Beatles song. Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band. Across the universe, Get Back, Golden Slumbers. Helter, Skelter, Nowhere Man, Penny Lane, the long and winding road. All you need is love. Back in the USSR, dig a pony, eight days a week. Happiness is a warm gun. So far, you guys are all doing pretty well as far as actually using, actually putting Beatles songs in the... My favorite songs are, I feel fine and all my loving. Yeah, those are good. And both of those in the single vote deal.

You guys just see the face, which should have had way more votes than just two. That's a great song. Here, there, and everywhere. Octopus's Garden, something, all the way down to number 45, something. Two of us, why don't we do it in the road? You've got to hide your love away. Admiral Halsey, which is a Paul and Lyndon McCartney song, so not that one. Yeah, you're about to say something, Brian?

Well, while you didn't explain to me how to play card charts, I still don't know how. But I do am curious if you know the number of Beatles songs in total. There were 108 studio song releases, I think. Oh, I might be, no, I'm way low on that. It's way more than that. They definitely are over 100 I know that I don't know how much

Yeah it's over 100 There are over 50 singles I think Because the red and the blue albums Are about 50 between them Nobody did revolution by the way Revolution yeah we did revolution Yeah we did it 213 in half basically

No I know you said revolution But did anyone vote Did anyone in the tab mean say revolution Oh revolution was on the list It was number 14 No, it was number 19. Oh, okay. 19.

I do have a problem. I do have a problem yet. I love that song. It's such a good song. So they released, officially released, 188 original songs, 25 covers, and then after their breakup,

they released another hundred songs. Jeez. Like demos and masters and things like that. That's crazy. I didn't know they had that much in them still when they broke up. Yeah. That's wild.

Yeah. I have a great chart that I've hung up here called, it's by the pop chart folks come together. And it lists every studio release song and breaks out who played what instrument by little colored strips. So for yesterday, for example, it's all Paul because no drums on that track, no bass, no, nothing else except for string orchestra and Paul's guitar and vocals. That's awesome.

now I'm in the mood for the Beatles well done everybody we did it yeah yeah revolution baby well that means TRPW has won these prizes Brian tell us what they were again and who gave them to us yeah you are getting Homeworld 3 and Sir Wuppass immortal death big thanks to Wesley for providing them and I'm going to send them to you right now excellent Wesley one of the great fountains of free codes he's the best

TRPW how do you feel about your win I feel good do you Good. Scott Fletcher says this about you. Congratulations. Go watch Caveman and see a real performance from a drummer. Actually, you want to watch Magic Christian. Oh.

That's got Peter Sellers and... Oh, much better. I've never heard of this. Really? Magic Christian? Yeah, the theme song is a song that the Beatles wrote called If You're Ready. Oh. If you're ready, come and get it.

If you're ready, come and get it. And they got bad finger to record it. Yes, it's a... If you want it, here it is coming to get it. But you better hurry because it's going fat, right? Bad Finger wrote the song that was recovered by Nielsen and Mara Carey, which I can't remember right now. Good Lord. I want to kill Maraer Carrey every time I hear it.

Without you, that's the one. No, no, no. I think that just put you on a list. I just put them on a list. Mariah Carey's people are now aware of your stance. Have a good one. Yeah, you had me at Christopher Lee as ship's vampire. Yeah, dude.

That without you is the song about Ken Lee, right? You've seen that video where it's Ken Lee, if living is without you. Ken Lee. That's a great misheard. I've never heard that one, but I like that one. Now I'm going to hear it every time I hear the song. That's great. Now you're going to hear it.

Yep. As often as I hear that song. Anyway, hey, Dunaway, that was great. You did great. You won. Will, you won it for everybody, so you deserve all the credit today. Well, we did it together. We sure did.

Good pals always do things together. Hey, here's the other thing we're doing together. Film Sack this weekend. We're watching The Sword and the Sorcerer. So that'll be fun. Some old 80s ass shit that I do not remember saying. I think this might be my first time. I'm not sure.

A hundredth. Yeah. Let's get in it. Let's get in there. Also play retro's now on Mondays, which we're swinging around to that one next week. So watch for more information on Monday when we see Brian again. In the meantime, I'd sure like you to kiss our butts. All right.

There he goes. All right. We're going to take a break. When we come back, Tom Merritt, we'll be here. Talk and tech. After that, we got recommendals with Nicole. Randy is out, but we'll have at least three recommendations for you today. Brian, let's play a song and get us there. What do you got? Yeah. So the new TV show called The Joneses just came out. This is one that stars John Hamm as like a not so good, not so good guy, I think. This is me stalling while I pull up the news or the information about this. It seems like he's breaking bad a little bit. in that show like he's uh yeah exactly yeah curious looks really good and i you know john ham is another one of those people who can do no wrong um this is actually the theme song it's released as an

independent song and uh it features hamilton lighthouser you're like who the heck is that guy well he's the lead singer of van called the walkman which you've definitely heard of the title theme to your friends and neighbors that's actually the name of the show um starring an executive produced by john ham and starring uh him and amanda pete and Olivia Munn, Pete Munn-Ham, the law firm of Pete Munn-Nan-Ham, all with double letters in their name. If you have a proper ASPEC, gelatin thing that has all of those ingredients in each one of us. Pete Munn-Ham, exactly. Anyway, this is the theme song.

It's great. I haven't seen the show at all, but I love the theme song. It is called The Joneses. Here is Hamilton Lighthouser. A paper shadow in a house of stone The wooden flag of a drifting dream ball I never knew how far the ride was gonna go Till I look back at the smoke

You can't keep up with the jumps in Don't want to run for the rosey I got my pocket of posing You can't keep up with the Joneses Another diamond in the swimming pool Another diamond in the swimming pool The soft dance like a ghost of some more full I never knew how much I never really knew

Until I look back at you You can't keep up with a job Joneses Don't want to run for the roses Don't count the micro doses You can't keep up with the joys Before the dance There was a song

Before that song There was a spark I never knew we'd come so far Sometimes I wonder what Sometimes I wonder why I just don't have the chosen Don't want to smell of dying roses I got my pocket to the pulses I don't keep up when

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Sure, that was the song called The Joneses featuring Hamilton Lighthouser, the title theme to your friends and neighbors. That dude's from The Walkman. Go check it out on Apple TV Plus. Nice. Thanks to Clarion Call for sending that one over to me. Indeed. Isn't technology wonderful? It sure can be, but only when Tom Merritt's here to share us information about it, you know, because we don't know until he shows up.

So Tom Merritt, welcome back to the program. How the heck are you, sir? Oh, I'm trying to turn on my camera. Oh, well, you know, we're all trying to do that. I understand it. We're all just out here trying to turn on our cameras. That's right. For some reason, I don't see yours.

That's weird. Why don't I see Tom? I don't see you. Oh, I just turned mine on. Yes, you did. I think Discord's being funky. I don't think it's you. Now I don't see you in Discord.

Yeah. Well, you know what? This might end up being, I'll bet you see me now. Do you see me now? I do. Yeah. Why don't I see you? You know what? Today's tech news is about why Discord won't let me see Tom.

That's really weird. I don't know why I can't see you. Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again? No, but that would end the call and the show, so probably can't do that. I don't do that. No. But would it work? Well, it might.

You never know. Well, instead, I guess we'll just dive in and I'll try to fiddle with this as you're talking. But Tom Merritt is here as he does every Wednesday, talks about the tech news of the day, all before the tech news show live, which happens a little later. I'm on the Wednesday edition, which is super fun. And I can't wait to hear what we're doing. So, Tom, what's tickling your tech testicle? That didn't work. That's not what I meant.

It's not what I meant. It's not what I meant at all. Wow, there is a portmante. Is that a portmonto? Is that what that is? Portmento. Mento. Tech sticle.

Yeah. Yeah. I like it. Tom's about to give us a texticle, which it goes in. This is just me wanting to avoid this topic. So over the past 24 hours, I have received many panicked emails from very reasonable people. I have received panicked emails all the time. But these are from reasonable people saying, this seems bad.

And it was because of a note sent out by the MITR Corporation vice president, Yasseri Barsoom, that the contract for funding the CVE had expired or was expiring. and no funding would be coming in to maintain it. And you may say, okay, how does that affect me, Mr. Fancy Algorithm, acronym guy? CVE, if you don't know it, is a database of vulnerabilities. So whenever there's a new vulnerability, you hear about a virus, you usually hear the fancy name, like the Bloodsport Virus or the, you know, the vasecracker virus. but behind that is an actual number

that security professionals use to make sure they're all talking about the same thing because sometimes different people are calling things different names like oh, I call it the blood sport but I call it the blood cracker and the CVE makes sure like okay we're talking about this one right

and especially because sometimes vulnerabilities have multiple aspects and you can solve one without solving the other so the CVE keeps those straight like this one's been patched but this part of it has not and it's just a good way for people around the world to be able to understand and be able to fix security.

It's not fancy, it's not sexy, but it's important. And the U.S. has pretty much funded the maintenance of that database until Tuesday. So everybody in the security world was panicking, like, well, if we don't figure out how to maintain this, that's going to be really good for the cyber attackers of the world because there will be more confusion and slower fixes. And it's already a pitched battle with people exploiting vulnerabilities. However, Tuesday evening, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CESA, part of the Department of Homeland Security in the U.S., decided to execute or announced an execution of an option period on Miders contract to operate the CVE by 11 months.

So we kicked that can down the road. until next March, and the CVE will continue to be maintained crisis over. Or is it? Or is it? So it's a for now kind of thing. But if they, I, okay, correct me if you think I'm wrong on this, but it just, it feels like the idea here, as much as I may disagree, I like the idea that a government would be interested in its own cybersecurity. I think that's good. And it's a thing we should fund. And does it be more efficient? Fine, tell us how. And then maybe we can do that. But I think dumping it all together is a huge mistake. That being said, is the idea to drive industry to pick it up and run with the ball? And does that mean one entity is more ready to do it? Like Google could do this, but nobody else could, or they'll all have to fight over or come up with a conglomeration of corporate interests to say, well, we're all going to maintain this together as a group. Like, what do you think happens in 11 months, if anything? So, yeah, between the time that the note went out and CISA extended the option on the contract, the CESA.

the CVE board, so MITR Corporation is a non-profit foundation that does a lot of federally funded research. They don't just maintain the CVE. It's a big, big nonprofit company. And the CVE has its own board that oversees the maintenance of the database. That board set up something they have planned over the past year. So this was already in the works, the CVE Foundation, an independent nonprofit agency, to make sure the CVE continued. So they were scrambling to go ahead and launch that and gather funding. So that could have been a way forward. There was also a couple other efforts.

Europe has their own database that they were pushing forward as like maybe Europe could take this over. There's a decentralized one called the global CVE allocation system that's out there. So as the old school internet spirit shows, there were plenty of people willing to jump in and try to figure this out, I think what happened is this fell through the cracks. The fact that CESA scrambled in and just executed an option on the contract rather than giving a new contract sort of indicates to me that somebody was like, oh, crap, we're not ready to renew that contract yet. We need to get to that. But is there anything we can do in the

meantime? So it buy us more time. Ah, we can exercise the option and that gives us 11 more months to think about it. Great. It doesn't seem like it was a policy issue. It doesn't seem like this was a decision so much as it was something that fell through the cracks. But I don't know. If it had been a decision, it could have been a decision meant to say like, hey, why is the U.S. the only one paying for this? Let's see who else would be willing to fork over. And it worked, whether it was intentional or not in that case, to see like, okay, there could be some other ways to maintain this going for me. Yeah, that could be the method of let's let it all freak everybody out. So then action is taken and then let's see what that action is in the worst case. I don't get the sense that

that was the case because of the way they exercised the option Tuesday evening. But I don't know. It's hard to tell in this current administration what's going on. Yeah, nobody's really telling anybody anything. Well, I'm glad for the reprieve, but also it's just really important. This sort of thing is very important. So whatever happens with it, um, If we don't want to be in charge because we think it's money not well spent, okay, but I just want the backup plan to be a strong one, whatever that is. If it's the Europeans taking it over and we benefit from that, great. That seems weird that we would just dump it on somebody.

I don't know. I don't know how, I guess I didn't even know it existed. It reminds me, there have been other parts of the internet that were being funded by the government out of inertia, you know, because the internet was created by the Defense Advanced Research Project agency. And so some stuff continued to be funded because of that long into, you know, the decades after the Internet became a global phenomenon. And there have been other situations where folks are like, well, should the U.S. fund this? Usually they play out with external pressures saying we don't want the U.S. to be the only one funding this because that's too much control over an important resource. That's not what happened in this case, although there are still people saying that.

are still people saying like, yeah, maybe it shouldn't be, which is why the CVE Foundation was being planned in the beginning was we should probably have an independent way of managing this. There was a similar thing happened years ago with domain name registrations at domain name tables where it was being run out of the U.S. and a more international way of administering it was being pushed for. So that might happen anyway. I'll be curious to see if the CVEE Foundation continues to be developed and actually pushes to take over in 11 months. They've got 11 months now to gather their funding, gather their organization, and be able to develop this plan a little more rather than being rushed to launch it.

Well, it's going to be interesting to watch. I just hope it comes, I hope it all makes sense. And I remember we talked on this show about the whole domain registration thing and that they felt it was too, in too much control of one country. So in some ways, this may be actually, some. international organizations may go okay all right now we have a chance to equalize this or make it more independent or get it out from the control under the thumb of anybody any one country or nation so maybe it'll all turn out good for this particular one little thing i just don't it's not what i

would call a competent way of doing it no but but maybe we end up in the right place yeah maybe we'll get lucky um for once hey tom that's great i can't wait to talk about this and so much more later today on the daily tech news show live at 2 p.m. Mountain Time. Is there anything else you'd like to mention before we get to that great moment in time? Well, yeah, Daily Music Headlines. It's a bus listen for me. I kind of want to keep it to myself, frankly. Yeah, I don't blame it. When I do the show, I actually do think of just doing it for you and just sending you the audio. Like mailing a cassette to me. Yeah, exactly, yeah. Overnight. type of just deadlines yeah so ibbett's doing it uh eileen's doing it on thursdays uh and the reason

i i made that remark about keeping it to myself is i feel like i'm way smarter about music and i want to impress people by like oh yeah no i heard about that oh yeah i know what the number one billboard song is like oh no i know what i know what somebody wrote on their butt at cochella yeah did you know wink martindale was also a musician oh you probably didn't know that because you don't If you listen to the Daily Tech News or Music Headlines, you would know this shit. So go sub to it. It's everywhere podcasts are available, right? Yeah, yeah, exactly.

So don't sub to it so that I can appear smarter. Please, Daily Music Headlines. That's right. Tom Merritt, everybody. You will see him in Las Vegas. You'll also see him next week. We'll have another episode before Vegas happens. But Tom, it's always, yeah, I know, right.

It feels weird. It's like two weeks. Our faces should start splitting a half and have Arnold Schwarzenegger under there. Two weeks. I thought you were going to say fates. Our fates will intertwine. Well, that's true, too. That's true as well, as it turns out.

Tom Merritt, Ace Detect, everywhere you find him on the socials. We'll see you next time. All right. Let's get Nicole in here. Let's have some recommendal time. Yeah. Why not indeed, I say? Oh, she's showing us online.

I don't know if that means she's in a car or she's in a... Which parking lot? Which major chain store is she in a parking lot in front of T.J. Max, maybe. Well, what do you recommend? Never know. The music means it is time for us to make some recommendations based on streaming stuff we've seen and think you might like as well. On the line with this is Nicole's bag.

Hi, Nicole. Hey, what is going? You sound good. Too much audio. I paused you, but it didn't stop. Oh, you were hearing the stream. I'd like to watch Tom's segment. Yeah, no.

It's probably still going on the. on the delay. He's not, he hasn't left yet. Well, no worries. We're happy to have you here. How's it going over there? Yeah. Yeah. You doing all right? You're hanging in there? I'm all right. I'm hanging in there. I, why is that? Is that you? What? What are you hearing? Oh, this is my son. Okay. So, what's your son? Hello? Oh, Patio, what are you doing? She might have just muted to answer something from her son, maybe. Yeah, maybe he was asking, you know, look, the kids got questions.

Nicole's got answers. She's a good parent. She's always looking out for his best interest. If it takes a minute out of a radio show, it's okay. You know, we're here to support it, and we're here to talk until she says something. She's just sort of there now, no rings of ringage or speakage, just kind of hanging out. It says she's playing repo. Real quick, that game is a riot.

So if you haven't seen repo, it's cheap, and it's on Steam, and it's this weird four-player thing, and it's kind of scary, but also not. So that was a fun, that was a fun little mention that I'd give you while we wait for Nicole, because we're just killing time. That's cool. No, I've never, is it a, is it a chore core? Like, are you basically your repoing cars that people aren't paying for? It is, no.

It is more like, see, oh, she's sending us video. Oh, my God. Maybe that'll help. Hello? Hi. Oh, my God. I don't know. Do you hear me?

We do now. Yeah, we hear you. And we see you. Did you hear me yelling at my kids? No, we missed that entirely. Oh, my God. No, you could have gotten away with nobody knowing that you yelled at your kids if you. Oh, no.

Share her up. Do we lose her? Oh, shit. All right. Let's try it again. Should they still using dial-up over there so people keep picking up the phone or something? Who knows? Oh.

All right. Ring. Here we go. We're trying it again. Okay. You know, Wednesdays are always a bag of who knows what. Yeah, yeah. Brian and I don't know.

We don't know how this day is going to go. We never do. We never know. No, this is true. It's always a... Always a fun surprise. Yeah, we know it's a hump day. We know we have to get over that hump and that's it.

Yeah, there we go. Oh, I guess I don't see the circles when we're in video like this, right? Oh, right. They just... If she's... Her black and whiteness, though, I think, is showing... Oh, you're right. That'd be nice if we could see that.

Well, that's weird. Nothing. There's just... I'm gonna, you know what I'm going to do. Oh. Okay. Hello? I'm about right.

I just, I just yelled more than I probably have ever yelled in my life. I'm like, day off of my Discord, I'm doing it. Oh, they're trying to log in and it's kicking you out. They're playing a game together. They're playing repo. They're playing repo. I need to give, I guess, her own Discord because this is, working for me. And

Mateo kept kicking me out. And I'm just like, don't touch it. Yes, that's what they're playing. We're used to, we're used to you yelling, Mark! But we're not used to you yelling, Mateo! Mateo! Oh my God! So this game, this game

they're playing, by the way, real quick. It's pretty fun. It's like a survival horror thing. But it's goofy, too. Look how goofy these characters are. They're super, look at this. Honestly, I thought I was going to freak me out. Yeah. But she said, well, I don't mind it at all. I'm like, are you sure?

It's pretty, it's pretty, like, meamy, like, ridiculous things happen. It's not very violent. It's kind of just like, what the crap was that kind of? Yeah. It's not that scary. If you want to stay on trend of what Gen Alpha is playing, just follow Mateo on Steam. That's when all the kids are playing these days. That's right.

This thing is only 10 bucks. Yeah, they always buy the cheap games. Nothing wrong. with that. I'm a big fan. And then he plays it. And then he asks for a refund. He goes, but I can do that. I'm like, oh my God. We all go through a stage of returning our video games. We all do. For me, it was back when software, et cetera, was around and they had a seven-day return policy. So me and my buddy Andrew would go home and we would play that game as hard as we could and as fast as we could to try to beat it before the seven days. And they'd take it back. But now I'm past that. I understand it was folly. But it's against kids. It's

okay. Oh, my God. That was just, I'm so sorry. I just. You're all good. We're just glad to have you. That's all. It's all, man.

I'm happy to be here. I'm in a good week. We went to see, so yesterday was Mark's birthday. I took him to a concert. I wanted to go to. Who'd you see? Boy with yuk. Boy with yuk.

Oh, okay. Boy with you. I don't know who that is. So apparently, he, he, So he came out about, I don't know, I found him on my drive to Denver when I was trying to figure out, like, what the hell was going on with me. And I've had such a, so he has a few songs, one called Toxic. Is this the guy? Orde Roy.

Can you see our video? Is that the guy? Yeah, I can see, I can see your video. Is that the dude? Does he have his, okay. So here's the thing. He started out wearing that mask. Yeah.

but it caused him severe anxiety and depression and so this is called he's doing his that's him there he is and he's he's such he's a fun musician and um i like musicians that are transparent about mental health and he was one of those that kind of helped me through a rough time and i was like i really want to see it and it's called uh burr His tour, his latest album's called Burnout. And so he's actually dropping. He's kind of doing a YouTube thing. I mean, he's, he's Gen Alpha, so.

Sure. No, he's Gen Z. So, because he's 22. I guess his real kickoff hack, TikTok's where things really took off for him, it looks like. TikTok is where it was, so we went to Columbia, which is about an hour from us to a place called the Rose Music Hall. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I've never been there.

It is owned by my favorite venue, the Blue Note. And we get there, I'm like, oh, this is outside. What's the temperature currently right now in Missouri? It was cold. So I ended up buying his sweatshirt just because it was a great way to sell swag. Say, yeah, it's April. I'm going to have my concert outside. There were so many of us.

There were so many of us. but there were so many kids and it was open and it was like a field and it was just it was actually one of the cooler concert experiences I have ever been to and he did play um I don't give a F which is another one of mine another favorite of mine and then migraine is another favorite of mine so he once he played my favorite songs I was like okay mark we can go we can get out of here yeah he said he's one of these i was just reading up on it he started in 2020 which still feels like five minutes ago but he's one of these uh gen z uh under the blanket of the pandemic came out of you know yeah made music and blew up 100% it's it's it's it's it's kind of wild because we walk in and the woman asked me she goes are you over her under 21 and i said oh thank you I know, oh, aren't you sweet? Yeah, that's adorable.

You're so nice. And she's like, no, I have to ask if you, you know, look under a certain age. And I said, honey, I'm turning 49 in a week. And she's like, what? Yeah. I was like, you just made my day. The sweet comments just keep cooking. I know.

Yeah, that's great. Well, Mark tolerated his birthday for a thing for me. and I appreciate him and I took him to a Cajun seafood place. There's a bunch of them in Columbia and I stank, we both still stink. Did you both stink from it?

I didn't get diarrhea from it. Did he? It's just so much water. Yeah, it's all deep fried. Did you get some of the Gator? No, it's not deep fried. No, it's where they bring it in the bag.

Oh, the boil. Boil. So you've got the corn and the potato. but there's just so much butter and oh god it was so good oh so yeah we've got places like that here but then we've also got like the you know by you bobs which is uh the fried stuff et tufe and yeah fried gator and all that stuff yeah yeah yeah yeah that's not yeah definitely it's there's a bunch of seafood boil places in columbia there's one downtown that i went to and that's the one i was going to take them to and then i go i should probably look it up to see if it's

open. And of course, they're close Mondays and Tuesdays. Of course. There's a place here in Arvada called Pier 8, and they made the mistake of having all you can eat for 60 bucks, Boyle. And they do limit the number of dungeness crab clusters you can get, but we always skirt past that and just say, bring me a pound and a half of dungeness crab. Are they still in business? Are they still in business? Yeah. But when they see us coming, they automatically have to let some of their people go. They just can't afford to keep them.

They look in the kitchen to go, sorry. Pedro, you, that other guy, you're out of here. You're out. You guys are out. I don't know why I said Pedro. Are you showing my video? I don't even know if you're just. Oh, yeah.

We're seeing it. Okay, okay. Yeah, we can see it. You can see me. They don't see me. Yeah. They can if you want. You're holding a microphone like a millennium. You don't have to show me.

You don't have to show me because I, it's okay. That's the only way I could get the audio. going was the video. Well, I'm going to show that just a shot of you holding your microphone. Here you go. This is very Gen Z of you, by the way, talking into your wire. I got my tiny mic. I like it. Well, you sound great. We're going to do

recommendals, everybody. Stuff we've seen. Brian, we're going to start with you. You are clip ready. Tell me what we got here. You're going to hear a clip of Bob Mortimer, UK comedians Bob Mortimer and Richard Iowadi getting to know one another on a speed date. Oh my gosh.

All right, here we go. What I am doing is looking for a night out. Do you know what I mean? Nice night out. I do know what you mean. Do you like to swim? Not incredible distances. Do you want to go for a swim?

No, I don't want to go. You won't come for a swim? Please don't. So you don't like adventure? I do like adventure. Would you come with me now for a swim? Would you come with me? I would like a swim.

to do some drawing under a horse. We could get under that horse. We could even sketch on the horse's belly. I would like to do that. Yeah. You're my type of guy. There are times when you're under a horse where it can get real.

Yeah. And it can get real fast. Good grief. Anyway, do you have anywhere in your house that you can hide away? You know, just be by yourself. Let's talk about intercourse. Okay.

Is it on the table? No. Okay. Is that okay? This? No. I assumed you were just looking for a fingering. At Lou, go and sit down and watch Richard and Bob get to know each other.

Sit down and look at them. You've got lovely thighs, by the way. Thank you. Yeah, I work on. Your eyes not so good, but lovely thighs. No, this one's weeping. And this one's a write-off. That one's bugger, in it? I don't even, I don't know what this is, but I want to see it real bad.

This is fantastic. I couldn't, like, I had to play that clip, even though it doesn't give anything away, but it is so freaking hilarious. And that's the whole point. It is a show called Last One Laughing. And this started out. I saw this. Yeah, you need to watch this. Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. It started out in Japan. is a show called Documental in 2016. And since then, there have been, I can't even count, like 30 or 40 different versions in different countries, Mexico, Italy, Ireland, Iran, Indonesia. And the premise is simple. You put 10 comedians in a room, lock them in a, in a room together for six hours. And whenever somebody laughs, you pull them out. You're out. Exactly. They technically get one warning. They get a yellow card, the first time they do it,

and the second time they do it, red card, and they're out. And the last one in the room. It's improv, too, right? It's like, yes, yes, and. It's 100%. I mean, it's not so much improv as it's them just trying to do everything they can to to crack each other up. It's all improvisational, but it's not like we're up on a stage,

give me a topic, you know, that sort of thing. And they're actual, I mean, these are working comedians, too. These are working comedians, yeah. I mean, in the UK version, you've got Lou Sanders, Daisy May Cooper, Richard Ioti, Yowadi, Bob Mortimer, who I mentioned, Rob Beckett, a bunch of former taskmaster people. Can I tell you that I'm a little, what makes me nervous about this and you can just get it out of the way early? Sure, sure. I don't like Jimmy Carr. He annoys the hell out of me.

Is he the host? you don't like I don't like him at all I can't stand him he's the host he's the host and so you do get a fair amount of him but not but not Jimmy Carr like you get you get basically like five minutes in the beginning

while he explains the game and then he's really just the host and comes in and gives the yellow cards and the red card that would probably work he actually I'll bet he's actually a pretty good host like he I could see him doing the host stuff and not being too overwhelming but like his stand-up and stuff freaking can't stand listening to that guy.

It's, yeah, I'm not, yeah, I'm not a huge fan either, but, uh, I really know zero of these comics. Okay, let me, let me tell you about the other one I watched because before I watched the UK one, which had me, had me laughing constantly the entire time. I also watched the Canadian one, um, as the, as the first one I saw, because I really like the lineup. You had, um, Andrew Fung from Kim's Convenience, Tom Green, Colin Moll. from Whose Line Is It Anyway? Dave Foley from Kids in the Hall.

May Martin, Caroline Ray from Sabrina the Teenage Witch, all doing the same thing. And Tom Green is just, he is such a monster. He is so able to do stuff and say stuff and hold it together exactly and not, and not crack up himself. That's the other thing. As you're trying to crack other people up, you've got to worry about cracking yourself up. So when you, a big, there's a lot of visual comedy where somebody will like put on a dumb pair of glasses or a big extended nose or something like that and walk into the room just to see if the shock of that gets somebody finally breaking up. But then there's also the, oh, we're having a conversation here.

And yep, I think I might have just shipped my pins and just see, you know, if that's enough. For the last two seconds, I would not. I wouldn't. I'd be like, I'm just going to go now. Exactly. And some of these people look at the group and say, okay, yeah, I'm probably out of this thing. I don't think I could sit and look at AOT for five seconds without laughing. Like, he doesn't have to say anything.

He's just funny. And he is, I'm not going to give anything away as far as, like, who wins in the UK version. It just came out, actually, at the end of March. I had no idea was that recent. But he is. stone face he's a stone faced comedy killer is what he is oh yeah um i wadi uh he's he's he's fantastic um uh i also started watching the irish one because um it's got uh oh i'm preparing for the slings and arrows from from claire ishling b i i i shling b i think it's i think it's

i'm i know i'm i know i'm screwing it up claire lots of lots of great irish comedians though a lot of great ones in there um ashling it's just ashling okay ashlin b i don't know why i don't know why i want to make it uh isling anyway you remember her from that paul rudd comedy where he's a clone where he has a bunch of clones oh yeah yeah yeah he's married yeah he's married to ashlin b um good good she is again she's another one that is hard to crack she's really really good um uh Tommy Tiernan in there by chance in the Irish one? I love Tommy Tierney. In the Irish one, let me tell you who's in the Irish one, because I just

started it so I can't remember everybody who's in there. Oh, and it doesn't tell me on the Wikipedia page. It's 1139 my time. I have to get my daughter to therapy at 12. Oh, sure. You know what? I'll just say right now, and we'll cut to you.

All of this is available on Amazon Prime, the Canadian one, the UK one, the Irish one. of the three of them the UK one is hands down for me the one that's had me laughing the most but they're all really really good Hammond recommended these to me

and he even said the South African one that Trevor Noah is the host for is also really good so that might be the one I check out after this one but there are tons of these and almost all overrun Amazon Prime is a no-brainer and I'm all in on this looks great. Yeah last one laughing

it will have you laughing your freaking ass off. And we all could kind of use that right now. That's right. And now I'm going to give you something that will piss you off. Sweet. Excellent. Please do. I can't wait. Let's play your, let's play your trailer and see how pissed everyone gets. Here we go. It's Piper. Go! Piper Raquel is an incredibly popular child influencer. This young lady's amassed more than 10 million followers on YouTube. Piper's mother, Tiffany Smith, is the momager. She took these kids to massive viral fame. It seemed so innocent, but it wasn't innocent at all. Okay, I'm terrified about this one.

It is, so I am so thankful. I've never heard of this girl. This girl, Piper, her mom, Tiffany, I don't know how she's not in jail. So if you're wondering, like, is bad stuff happening to these kids? Yes, really, really bad stuff's happening. It's happening right now. And if you're not familiar with what your kids are watching and I almost feel like we as parents have to research like what, you know, like even the kid Ryan, like he's in a situation like he has to do those videos. Oh, it's a kid who unboxes and plays with toys, right?

Yes, the toys. And then he has two younger siblings and his mom. And they get into talking about bots and analytics. It is fascinating because this, what happens is this girl creates this squad during COVID. And so there's like 10 kids in her squad that have their own channels. And their channel numbers go through the roof. then sexual things by this woman happened to these kids. I mean, they did a lawsuit and everything, and they settled for $1.7 million split between 11 people.

And, like, and unfortunately, these kids were like, I want to tell my story, like, but they just took the money. And I'm just like, but this woman should be in jail. and she is pimping her child out. It's just, it's really, it pisses me off to watch. And I know people are like, well, Netflix has taken advantage of it. Guess what? If Netflix didn't do this, you wouldn't know. No, I wouldn't say Netflix is taking advantage of it.

Netflix is doing a documentary on a thing that happened. This is like anywhere. I don't think that. Nobody should have that point of view. Like the Ruby Frank thing. Like, it's going to, like, stories are going to start kind of, like, this poor girl. Piper, she's still with her mom. And the kids that they had come in were actually cousins of hers.

And like, it gets, it's just. So what happens that really made me kind of go, man, there's just no oversight to any of this, is that when these kids left the squad, their numbers would tank almost immediately. like losing hundreds of thousands of subscribers and a video hasn't even gone out that they have left the squad and so they had a YouTube person on there going yeah that's weird and it's all bots

it's all bots and it's all the Ruby Frank documentary sounds like a great companion piece to this if you want to really really make your weekend a nice dark one watch both these back to back and realize that man there's some dark shit happening in the influencer world, especially in the kid. We should say the name, by the way. We haven't done it yet.

Bad influence, the dark side of kid fluencing. I hate that word so much. I hate it. I know, I know. It's kids. I mean, it's on, so it's on Netflix. It came out just a few, it was like recommended to me. And I'm, I'm interested in it because this is the kind of content that gets

be fed to my kids. Right. And I'm very, I try very, very hard to limit it to, specific channels that I have researched and I have watched myself and it's it's it's just the whole thing is just icky because YouTube's making money from the ads and the bot people are making money and it's just oh god I hated so much I also hate the momager instead of manager oh yeah well and then they talk about pedophiles hate that so much. And they pedophiles will say, you know, this is the best thing to happen to us. Thank God for the Instamoms.

Yeah. They're called Instamomoms. F those shitheads. F those guys. But if you look at the statistics, I think they think in that clip that I, in the, in the, in the trailer, 90% of the audience of these kids channels are adults. yeah not kids that's gross it's freaking gross yes yes it's freaking gross yeah it's freaking gross I don't like it I don't mean to like bring you down but um but you're gonna I hope I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you how I mean yeah

no it's good stuff to know that's the reason I watched the Ruby Frank one and I would highly recommend that one for the same reasons it's it's good to put sunlight on this stuff you think so when we first started in 2006 we thought, oh, if we do good content, we'll find our audience and that'll be good. It doesn't work like that anymore. It just doesn't. You could make the best content.

And you still will not find the audience. The platforms are algorithmically, they are chiefly responsible for the entire problem that we're talking about. And it's because they built ways to gain those ways and then get in, then nefarious people would do that. to get the hits, to get the likes, to get the stuff so that they're the biggest names. And it has so little to do with what they make. Quality. Right. And that sucks.

You have an endless, you have an endless pool of kids that when you ask them in school, what do you want to be? They're going to say a YouTuber. Yeah. You have an endless pool of kids that want this. And you have these poor 11 kids in this documentary. they're like this is messed me up for a long time yeah and they're clearly in therapy and you know I'm not giving excuses to their parents but the way that they were manipulated and you want to do

what's best for your kid you also want to help your kid like achieve their goals and do their thing and yeah there's some real lessons being learned right now about all the stuff. I hate that we're in it and I know we're in it and it's going to get worse until you know what it reminds me of it is basically this. Old white guys in Congress either get replaced or they die off because they don't understand what. No, they don't get it. They don't understand. Check Grassley. Maybe he's on there for all I know. Maybe he's in there looking at these girls. I don't know what he does. I'm not trying to say. Yeah, I don't know. Here's what I'm going to say though. It's good. It gets sunlight. We learn from it. It's the same thing that happened with that

recent documentary about the 90s Nickelodeon crap and that guy that was abusing everybody. That's a great example of a thing where at the time, it seemed like this was great. Everyone's great. These kids are great. Everyone's succeeding on their own merits. And then it turns out there's all this dark shit underneath. It's almost there's almost always this stuff. So keep your eyes open. Don't believe what you see, watch these documentaries, learn, be a better parent. This is all good. It's all good stuff for us. Where's this playing, Nicole? I know you need to go. Netflix. Okay. Somebody's telling me I need to be a better mom and take my daughter to therapy. I got two minutes. Yeah. F these guys. I'm good. No worries. You're good. And also have fun doing that. We'll see you next week for

more. And we'll see in Vegas even sooner. Maybe I'll have a more positive one for you. No, I will make it a point to make it a positive one. It'll be a documentary on how to make cookies. Bye. That's right. Can't wait to see you. Bye. Can't wait.

All right. Brian, my recommendation this week is... Hour two. Here in hour two of our long marathon episode. I share with you this clip and I'll explain. I was just 14 years of age when a coward by the name of Tom Chaney shot my father down and robbed him of his life and his horse and two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.

Cheney was a hired man, and Papa had taken him up to Fort Smith to help lead back a string of Mustang ponies he had bought. In town, Cheney had fallen to drink and cards and lost all his money. He got it into his head he was being cheated and went back to the boarding house for his Henry rifle. When Papa tried to intervene, Chaney shot him. Chaney fled. okay might be familiar to some it is the 2010 remake of true grit which was originally based on a novel this one's actually closer to the novel than the uh than the original one the john wayne one this is uh the cohen brothers in 2010 making i think this was the movie they made

i can't think of i can't remember if there's anything in between no country for old men and this this might have been the next thing i can't remember but they were on a bit of a role in my opinion and um this is one of my favorite movies ever made uh it is both um cohen brothers quirky it's it's one of their movies where it's the most mixing of the two things they do best which is really quirky character stuff often very comedic maybe on the far end of that scale you have raising arizona or something like that and then way on this side you have blood simple and no country and fargo to some degree um they're further on this more like like shocking, not so much violent, but like crime story, what do they call Southern Gothic

kind of stuff, all that stuff over there. In the middle, they sometimes meet in the middle. And they've done that here with True Grit, where it is both of those things. We've got the quirk and the and the characterizations are wonderful and there are moments of laugh out loud and then there are moments of seriousness, but it all works. None of it feels out of place. Everybody puts in killer performances. Jeff Bridges is amazing. Matt Damon's amazing. amazing. Haley Steinfeld nominated for best actress or best supporting actress role for this. You just knew looking at her that she was going to go on to big stuff. She was only 14 in this. She's, you know, a big star now. Yeah. Some of my favorite people in it that don't get talked about

a lot are Barry Pepper is Lucky Ned Pepper. I think it's great that Pepper had a Pepper name. That is great. Wow. Dakin Matthews, you know him, but you probably never heard his name, but he played Colonel Stonehill. He's the guy that she negotiates the horse sale with. And it's an amazing scene. It's most Cohen brother's ass thing. This is this guy right here. Man, he gets screwed over by her without knowing it. He's so good. He's a fantastic character actor.

Anyway, it's just full of these kind of characters, these kinds of actors. It's a Western, of course. If you hate Westerns, I don't know what to tell you. Very small role, by the way, from Dom Hall Gleason. Sorry, Claire. Donald. Donald.

She's told us 100 times. I always forget. That one I remember. I may not remember Ashland. but I remember Donald. Yeah, and he's in it very, very briefly as the kid played this character named Moon, and it's not in there very long, but you can see even sparks of like, yeah, that guy's going far. Didn't know it was even Brendan Gleason's kid at the time.

But anyway, I think it's an incredible film, and I don't want to not mention Matt Damon who puts in LeBeef is a dick, and that character is complex and hard to do to both make you kind of hate him and also feel the redemption of where that character ends up. And I think Matt Damon was perfect in that role. He's so good. So anyway, I don't know why I watched this. I just got in the mood. And I thought, there it is on my list.

I'm in the mood right now. I've seen it 100 times. I'm going to recommend it again. I didn't mention more at streaming. It is on Hulu currently. Yeah, I was going to say Hulu. You said Max in our chat. I'm like, oh, I couldn't find it on Max.

I hope he's cool with me putting on Hulu. Oh, you know what? It was on Max and it moved. Weird. It probably got pulled at the beginning of April. Yeah, it looks like it did. Or mid-April or whatever. It's also on, let's see,

Pluto has it. So anyway, Hulu is probably your best bet right now in terms of quality, and it is very, very good. Yeah, the J.K. Simmons role, Sean Blumen in the chat brought up. It's an uncredited role. He doesn't actually, you don't see him. It's just a voiceover.

He reads a letter that was sent to, from a lawyer to the character, Maddie. And immediately, you know it's J.K. Simmons, but it's weird. He's not credited in the film at all. That's weird. Oh, wow. Yeah. Interesting.

By the way, small correction from there on that one. Donal. Donal. Donal. Okay. I'm just going to call him Domain Hall glock. Dominion hauling. Dominion hauling greaser.

There you go. Done. Perfect. Excellent. Anyway, I love that movie. True grit. Available now. Hulu and not max because that's where I saw it.

Okay. That's it for the show. We did it, Brian. We did it. We came out clean on the other side after 500 miles of this. We still wrapped before 11. That's amazing, actually. The way we were going, I was thinking, uh, oh, we're, uh, I know.

The minutes were ticking away like, uh, flowers in the wind or something. Uh, anyway, a couple of quick follow-ups, uh, tickets and swag still available and, uh, a reminder to do those. If you're going to Vegas, you need your ticket, go to frogpants. If you want just the swag at a reduced price and all it is is the swag being sent to you via mail, you can get those as well. can't come this year. We'd love to have it, but if you can't, you can get those at frogpants dot shop. That's all up there now. And a big, big thanks to everybody who's coming and those

who have already gotten the swag. The swag is going quicker than I expected, which makes sense because some people couldn't come this year. Yeah, exactly. There's a lot of people like seeing this as their consolation prize for not wanting to, and I don't blame them, not wanting to travel across borders with what's going on here. We'd like to travel outside. We'd like to leave. Yeah, there's some weird shit going on, and we don't like it. But, um, we're not going to see I-Corps this year? Oh, no way. Swag only, Air Corps? Come on now.

Oh, how are we not seeing Kevin at this event? That makes me sad. I'm excited to see the rest of y'all. Don't get me wrong. But not seeing Kevin, aka I-Core. Oh, I'm so sad. I mean, not to put any pressure on you there, I-Corps, but the disappointment runs. I'm just kidding.

It's all fine. We understand. But we're going to miss you. We're going to miss you there. I always think I don't talk enough to Kevin while he's there. And now I can't even make up for it this year. Yeah. So Kevin Con is really going to be light this year.

The other one is there's going to be SteffCon. Isn't there a SteffCon? Because there's a lot of Steffs and Stephanie's going. Oh, yeah, we have a lot of Stephanie's. Yeah, KT. Data may have to run his own Kevin Con this year. I don't know how many other Kevins there aren't, but we know there's only one Hammond. So he'll have Hammond and Hammond. Yep. Ammon Khan is a party one.

Yep. Well, the wrath of con. Check it out. Anyway, so there's that. Also, I want you guys to get out there and sub to our new morning stream YouTube channel. It is very early because I'm doing transfers and getting the stuff set out. It's like pardon our dust 101 going on over there. But in order to get all the features enacted, we have to have a thousand minimum sign up, but people signed up or subbed.

It's all free. You know how YouTube works. So we need at least a thousand of you. and I know there are plenty of you could go do this in just five seconds. Even if you don't use YouTube at all, just go to YouTube.com slash at the Monday stream show. This is as good as I could get because there's so many names taken on YouTube. That's not bad.

That's pretty good. It's okay. It's a little long, but it is what it is. So anyway, YouTube.com slash at the Monday stream show. Sub to it. I know nothing. Morning stream show or the Monday stream show. Sorry.

More. Did I say Monday? I didn't mean to. Did I? Yeah, yeah. You did. The Monday show is not getting its own channel, so that's just me being dumb. The morning stream show.

The morning stream show. Thank you for the correction. If you can get in there, we need a thousand of you to get it going, and then we're all set. And again, pardon the dust, there's work happening, headers and stuff are coming. All this stuff's happening. Memberships won't change. And we're only still streaming live here. This isn't, so a couple of notes about that.

Rufus just asked, we'll still stream all TMS from this channel. from Twitch, although Twitch is a emoticon only, but that's happening every day. No changes to that. We will not be streaming from those sites, partly because without the thousand people, you can't stream anyway. They have rules over there about that stuff. But also, I want that to stay kind of standard and regular. You'll also be able to get all the shows that if you, let's see you watch them after the fact. All the TMS episodes will still show up in the playlist over here. So on the channel that we're live on right now, the Frog Pants channel, that playlist continues in

perpetuity. We're just going to be adding them to that playlist from over there. So I know this all sounds confusing and you might ask why. There's lots of reasons I won't get into them now. But the main reason, the chief among these is just we're trying to grow our video audience and the way to do that is to focus. So we're focusing.

Anyway, long and the short of it, oh, and then also Brian has access to it so he can post shit. We're going to put extra stuff up there all the time. It'll be great. It doesn't chase. It doesn't change anything. with Discord. It doesn't mean any other changes. You don't have to do anything, really.

Oh, except if you listen to TMS and you get the show via YouTube music, there are a few of you, not very many. YouTube music's weird with their podcast stuff. It's not really podcasting. It's some other funky thing, but they call it podcast. If you're doing it over there or doing it there, then at some point soon, you will want to switch to the newer channels feed, quote unquote, feed. It's not really a feed.

again it's like they call it podcast it is not podcast but if that's a thing you do i want it to remain easy for you and i want to you know i'm not trying to screw you up so the goal will be we'll move over there uh jeanie's right there's big announcement in the discord i put it up yesterday it explains it all so uh go check it out on the announcements page on discord frogpans dot com side just discord blah la la all right brian i think that's it we're done we're out you want to play a song so that we can feel good about all this yes uh let's get to a request Matthew, Matthew says, greetings from Bonnie Scotland, sausage and beans.

This is becoming dangerously like an annual tradition where I celebrate my third year and my job. In the last 12 months, I've seen too many bands to mention, and every time I come to work the next day, there is 80 to ask me how it was and look in abstract wonder and horror as, I think it means abject, but

we'll take abstract wonder and heart, as I tell her my stories from the pit. Cattle decapitation was wild. The one band I've convinced her to listen to is ghost. on the 16th of April. She's coming to see them live in Glasgow with me. If Brian can play my cover to help celebrate me taking my work wife to this,

sure to be amazing gig, I would appreciate it. Signed, Matthew. Nice. Gratz on another year at the company. Fantastic. For sure. So this is a cover of 82nd All the Way by Amaranth. This is great. It came out in 2020 and you're going to love it.

Here's Amaranth and 82nd all the way. Ready? Aim? Okay, York. You're on, you're all. In the draft of 1917, a man from Tennessee. Overseas to the trenches he went from the land of Duffrey. Into war he brought two things along, a rival and his face.

China ranks as a private is signed to 338th. The, on the day, Albin York, entered the brain, saving the day, 80 seconds of the way. Into the fires of hell, they are gonna hear on to flee. Enter the war we're going to fall over the sea. Into B, 1918, all the way from Tennessee. In 223 When his feet

When his feet They're being put to the test The call to arms he heats On the end of October he went Made his sergeant for headaches There was leading their weight of the wall We shing us on the head. Strike the enemy tight and the prisoners

The power of his will There on that day Sergeant York Enter the fray Saving the day Eighty-second on the way Into the fires of hell They are gone a hero to be

Enter the war from over the sea Into the V-1918 All the way from Tennessee Into 123 What's hard in York Can see that day? Will I go to the USA It's 82nd all the way

They're from above what they now see What's Sergeant George did I see that day It goes from Pennsylvania It's safe a second of the way They're from above what they now see Into the fires of hell they are gone out hereon to be. Enter the fires of hell they are gone out here on to flee. Enter the war full over the sea.

Into three, 18, all the way from Tennessee. Way from Tennessee Into 120 Failing a call up here on to be Enter the world from all over the sea To be 1918

All the way from Tennessee Into 123 Wear them loud and proud friend Wear them loud and proud friend Be large and in charge You're always welcome at frogpants.com Look at this!