The Morning Stream - TMS 2869: GoKickMe

Episode Date: August 13, 2025

Major Groot. Remains of the Dog. Sanctity of the Moviegoing Experience. Name Something I've Spoiled You Can't. Lost me at the Screw. Licking the Spoiler Button. Where Is Aaron Heading? You Know He's Got Talent! Ya ever see E-Paper?? With Tom. Oh what's in the dumb box? Doctor Odyssey Crossword Noise. Your Minors are Too Major.Wherever You Keep Your Korg. Some Watery Bint rifting dimensions is no basIs for stable government. Madisynn. She's actually Clare Galaga and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Coming up on the morning stream, Major Groot. Remains of the dog. Sanctity of the movie-going experience. Name something that I've spoiled. You can't. You lost me at screw. Licking the spoiler button. Where is Aaron heading? You know he's got talent. You ever seen e-paper with Tom? Oh, what's in the dumb bar? Dr. Odyssey crossword noise. Your minors are two major. Wherever you keep your corg. Some watery bent riffing dimensions in no, sorry, is no basis for stable government.

Medicine. She's actually Claire Gallagher. And more on this episode of the morning stream. Dick Tracy, wethead. Dick Tracy, the dry look. Clark Kent, wethead. Clark Kent, the dry look. The dry look makes a good guy look even better.

and only Gillette has the adjustable valve to spray as light and dry as you like. So come on, Hero. It's time to embrace the dry look, leaving the wethead for those evening escapades. It's masturbation in the Catholic Bible. The morning stream, they wouldn't give us any more fish. Hello, everyone, and welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for Wednesday, August 13th, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson, and that's Brian Abbott.

That, this, correct. Yes, I believe it is correct. No, no fact-checking required. No, no. You can, you can, you can bank on this. You can put your money down on this business. That's right. That I am indeed the one and only brand.

A sure bet. The house, the house does not have an advantage on this one. All right. That's right. Exactly. Put your money where your mouth with. Well, this house does. Oh, that's true. Brian House always has advantage. He knows how to play those numbers. It's good to see you all. Hope you're all having a fantastic morning. We're here to bring you the morning stream like per yuge. Last night, my wife and daughter and Alicia Carter's friend all took the little ones to the zoo. and I couldn't go because I had a show with Dunaway blame Dunaway I did want to go though I like the zoo zoo's great but couldn't do it yeah love a zoo and they went more in the evening

nice and a little bit cooler to go yeah they left about four I think so by the time they got I think by the time they left the sun was starting the set and the kids you don't have to get to sleep and stuff they don't have school for another week or van doesn't but

it was kind of like their last big zoo trip before school kicks in again So they go. They have a great time. Everything's good. And the Salt Lake Real had a whole thing going. So there was like whoever their mascot is, it's like a lion or some shit. I don't know what it is.

He was there. So super fun on their end, right? And so I was at home going, when am I watching Alien Earth? When is that happening? When am I doing it? And I have to wait for them because we are all into it. Right, exactly. We're all into it.

We've got to continue the watch through. You've watched all the movies together. Yeah. Yeah. We can't be having me sneaking episodes in while they're not here. So I resisted and held off and then they got home. It wasn't until we didn't start until 9.45 last night, which means that, you know, two hours later, we're 11.45. And, you know, it's not that late. It's a late night for old people like us, though. Let's, let's be honest. Yeah. We're not spring chickens. You know, we got to get up early to do this show. And our alarms go off at like 5.30 in the morning in our heads, whether we want them to or not, in your case. like for something sometimes. It is. It was today. Yeah.

Yeah, we have early bird syndrome. It's hard. So, you know, but it was worth it because it was fun to, you know, have them here. So we got it all. I made sure the sound system thing was all working good. So we had real big, boomy, whatever. And I really had a good time.

I think that show is cool. Here's what I'm going to say, though. Did you have a chance to see it, though? No, not yet. No, because we did, basically, we came home from, puzzle pine at about 9 o'clock 915 we're like oh i don't feel like starting alien earth or even continuing band of brothers

let's watch a stupid doctor odyssey yeah might as well it is it is you know what if there's one redeeming quality of that show uh it's it's just noise while i do the new york times crossword while i complete the the new york times crossword

uh the thursday i'm sorry the wednesday new york times crossword and record time Nice. The Will Shorts would be proud, I think. Yes, he would. He would. So anyways, here's what I'll say about it. I'm not going to spoil anything. I'm not going to spoil anything, but I was super excited. Obviously, it's been a big deal all year for me anticipating this. I love Noah Hawley. I love his, all his treatment of the Fargo stuff has been incredible.

And I think that he, his work on Legion was amazing. I think that this is more like the. vibe of Legion. Oh, really? That's certainly more than it is of Fargo, for sure. Well, sure. But it's got a... Alien wouldn't work with a Fargo vibe.

No, no, no. But it's just a little bit weird. And it's weird in a way that I'm into, but I'll bet this is divisive. Now, it doesn't seem to be critically divisive. It seems to be universally everyone's loving it. But I'll bet there are people who are like long-term alien fans who are going to come into this and be not entirely sure.

It's not even about being purist. I think it's because they're not like making crazy leaps away from the lore or anything. They're not veering. Okay. I see what you're saying. It's just a little odd. It's weird. It's got a weirdness to it that I'm in for. I am all about it. I have no problem with it. But if you're going in there just going, well, this is just going to be scary like an alien movie or action pack like aliens or I don't know, something closer to Romulus or whatever, you're going to get bits and pieces of all of that. And it's all very true to those tones. there are the overall arc of the thing is is weird it's different story wise so i'm just saying some people are going to be like a little weirded out that's all and and as a reminder uh this takes place between alien and aliens no before nostromo before first alien yeah okay so after all

the prometheus and covenant stuff but before correct before okay uh well yeah that that that we know because the dates. So they give you a date at the beginning. Yeah. Yeah. And the whole opener is such a great homage to the original. There's just some really cool nods. But by the end of the two episodes, it feels like its own thing and it's going its own road.

Cool. And I think you're going to like it. I kind of have no doubt about you like it. I'm sure. I will. I mean, I love Legion. Noah Holly, like, you know, the same way you feel, I believe. Yeah.

Noah Holly has never done wrong for us. He's never steered us wrong. Oh, he's the whole reason I get excited about this stuff is... Yeah, exactly. If you had told me somebody else was working on this, I'd just go, oh, okay, well, that's fine. We'll see how they do. He's got a perfect track record as far as I'm concerned. Yeah.

And so, yeah, I mean, I'm in. I'm all in. This is a question that's going to be for Tina's like, all right, you know, she's into the alien movies. She'll want to watch this. Yeah, there's nothing in here that isn't... There's nothing in here that's like, oh, my gosh, I can't believe they've gone that hard. on something. It's not like that. Right. Right. Exactly. I will say this. I know we've all seen pictures of him and stuff. There might be nobody is unsettling to me as Timothy Oliphon

this. Really? Oh, really? Okay, good. And we really haven't even done much to explore him. It's just that there's something about his presence. And he's always got this, but it's either charming or weirding you out. And he's great at both of those things. So look forward to that, Brian. But you saw your own good time. I hope you liked it anyway. You went and saw weapons? I did indeed, yes. Because Rusty and Shelley Nunnalee,

a lot of you met them at various TMS Vegases. They always try to make it, and they are always a great time. One of the people that we look forward to sing every year, hopefully they'll be able to make an artacular. I can't imagine that they won't. But they, you know, texted me during TMS yesterday and said, hey, uh, uh, uh, we got nothing going on today. We were thinking about seeing

weapons. Either of you guys want to come with us. And it was a text to both Tina and I. And Tina was, you know, hesitant about seeing this anyway. But we already had plans for the evening, puzzle pint. And so I said, you know, I could play hooky at three o'clock and go see a movie. Sure. Uh, call it. My boss will let me off for the rest of the day. That's me. Um, and, uh, so went and saw with the two of them. Number one. I will give a review. Rusty and Shelley are very good movie watchers. They know the deal.

Oh, good. I'm glad to hear that. I love people who respect the deal, you know? They gasped when it was time to gasp. They laughed at the very few moments that there was something to laugh about, but they were very good about the sanctity of the movie experience. And then weapons, you calling it bad shit crazy is about the, most accurate review i've seen of this thing it's insane it's bad shit crazy it's great to see kathy griffin get in work too i was really happy to see that uh sort of thing you guys won't know

what we mean until you go that's amazing dude i i i'll admit i actually thought of her when i saw yeah i'm sure a lot of people did amy madigan though from uncle buck is who that was she's a she's a real catching this is my gosh she really is yeah freaking amy madigan oh my god yeah it's a name i haven't thought of in years but uh in a while anyway so really enjoyed it and uh you know your note about seven hot dogs uh listen when i'm on the phone walking through the grocery store i love it when my partner just holds up two products and has me pick one every few steps that whole bit just two random products uh that one i did i did some reading and apparently the the hot dogs have a have a special meaning to the director for a friend he lost recently somebody used

used to work with all the time so there's some kind of homage there but it also works as like this funky like what the why is this dinner you know hot dogs a big stack of chocolate chip cookies and i can't remember what was on the other side of that tray yeah it was chips and it looked honestly i kind of got hungry for oh i would i would eat that i would off that tray in a heartbeat no no question yeah there was nothing there i would not do but uh anyway well i'm glad to hear it big thumbs up hey big thumbs up enjoyed it tremendously and i think once you that comes to streaming, I'm going to have Tina watch it. We might do that before Barbarian because I feel like this is an easier,

easier movie to get into than Barbarian if you're squeamish. Yeah, I agree with that, actually. Yeah. Especially, I mean, there are moments of like, oh, my gosh, but it's a slower burn in that direction. Yeah. And sometime I want to, probably off air, maybe I'll talk to you, I want to talk to you about the kid who plays the addict kid.

oh oh oh the uh yeah yeah that guy he's in euphoria and he's amazing in it and it's completely different character though my gosh Oh, really? He's in Euphoria and he doesn't play that same tiny kid? That's amazing. He's kind of like this nerd. He's like a, there's nothing like this character. He's so good. I can't wait to see what he got, this guy does with his career. He's awesome. It's funny. All right. Dr. Calhoun points out that Krieger was part of a comedy troupe called The Whitest Kids You Know. Yeah. And they showed, because it's Alamo Draft House, they showed some of the Alex Krieger's best, widest kids you know skits. And my favorite one was Ford Theater. It's Lincoln up in the balcony. But he's, He's, like, being annoying and talking during a performance, the performance where he gets shot. Which is kind of like, what must lead to him getting killed is like, oh, my God, what's that? What are you doing there?

Oh, don't go back there. Yeah, he had, I guess he was the guy that created that with him as the one that passed away. So this was some reference to something, yeah. It was really cool to see or to read that. But anyway, all right, you guys, guess what? We got to get it done away in here. We do. He's in.

I'm just letting this one ride because, for whatever reason, YouTube thinks our other one is copyrighted, so I can't use it anymore. Hey, Brian Dunaway, what are you doing? Jerkface? I copyrighted in my own song. Oh, hi. Hi, Scott and Brian. Hi. Oh, hello.

We don't really think you're a jerk. We think you're great. You know, I think you're great, too, except whenever I tune in, I'm like, uh-oh, I hear Scott's talking about not spoilers. mean Scott's licking the spoiler. Everyone always says that, but I haven't named something I've spoiled in the last two years. You can't do it. You know why? I sure can't. In the last two years, you know why? Because every time you go, this is not a spoiler, I go click. I get it, but you're all muting for no reason. I don't spoil shit now. I make an effort out of it. So you'll notice if you listen. I don't do it. I can just see Scott. Now he's all, guy's face on the button, just licking the spoiler

button. Licking it. For every spoiler, you get a you get that every time. There you go. Dunaway, you're here to play a game. Let's say that it rhymes with there you go.

Brian Abbott, will you explain what this game is? Why Dunoway's here? Totally will. Yes, it's time to play the Tadpool. Lee Fute. I've surveyed the Tadpool on some nerdy topics and Scott and Brergan have to predict the answers that they gave us. It is their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. The player with the most points

after the game wins the prize for their contestant and contestants have been pulled from our supporters on Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS. Don't forget, if you want to be considered for this honor of getting prizes, getting free crap,

make sure to respond to Scott's post, his request for your name or your, you know, your approval. Yeah, your interest in winning prizes. Exactly. There you go. all right uh by the way scott you're playing for chris bennett brian you're playing for aaron heading

oh where's he heading yeah where is head uh chris heading he's always heading somewhere that's right erin erin heading uh let's get to it right now i'm going to give you a little bit of a hint on this one so you may want to listen to the full question okay uh because i think you might you might need it for this one all right uh we asked 477 77 tadpoolers 77. Yeah, 77. Who is your favorite minor character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe? And I'll give you a little bit of a hint.

Many of them don't have powers. Scott. Um, uh, uh, the duck, the duck, the duck, Howard the duck. Howard the duck. Yeah. Howard the duck. Yeah. Howard the duck. Show me. Howard the Duck, voiced by Seth Green.

Number 10. Good points, but nine answers will beat it. That is kind of scary. Okay, then I guess I'll go with, is it Blade? Do a little bit of the Blade? All right. All right. Show me, Blade.

I don't even think Blade made the list, just to give you kind of an idea of where the Tadpools. Miner has his own movie. Whatever. I take it back. Well, if you have your own movie, that makes you a major character. He hasn't had his own movie in a very long. No, that's true.

He's also not MCU yet. Oh, right. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. He's rolled in, but we don't have anything in the, in the continuity is what you mean. Well, we have a very, I guess you haven't seen Eternals yet.

Oh, we got a brief thingy thingy? I didn't know that. We get a little bit of, yeah. All right. Better watch that. Maybe Dunway and I should watch that as a joint thing. See what we think, yeah. Or if we want to film Sackett, I'd be fine with that.

Whatever. Or I guess it's not that we get, yeah, anyway, all right, I won't say anymore. Yes, okay. Let's, so Scott, you have control of the board. Let me push this little play button, and the 10 second timer will be in effect if I feel like you're taking too damn long to come up with an answer. All right. Nine answers left on the board. Name people's favorite, the Tadpool's favorite minor MCU character.

Mantis. She's my favorite. Mantis. Oh, she's great. Yeah. Show me Mantis. Oh, man. Yeah. Damn it. By the way, I think, I think the... Remember my clue? She is... Yeah, that's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Freaking Tadpool, though. The Tedpool did. A mantis was 15, so let's not, you know... Yeah. We're not ruling it totally as a dead answer. Didn't, uh, Wesley Snipes, because he was in the Wolverine Deadpool thing, doesn't that make it official that he's I guess he's technically in the MCU now yeah okay yeah I just got somebody texted me and said no he's in Wolverine I'm like well I know but it's all twisty time shit and all that now that's connected to the MCU proper that's for sure he's definitely part of the MCU there you go yep always been on black all right done away that's right oh no it's my turn still

oh no it's your turn sure you got a you got a buzz yeah yeah you're gonna get an X and then get to go again that's not how this goes sure right fine there's no crying in baseball Paul. Go ahead, Brian. What do you got? No powers, except for being an integral part to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. John Favreau is Happy Hogan. Oh, that's pretty good.

Show me. No power. That guy was just in Disney filming something. Disneyland. Mizzula sent me a picture of him walking around. Oh, weird. Yeah. Show me. Happy Hogan. Number three. Oh, wow.

Okay, so we're heading in that direction. Heading in that direction. People without power. And aliens, you know, a couple of these people might have powers. But for the most part, just to kind of give you a place to go. When I think of like those kind of guys, you know, I think of like Hawkeye. He's a minor character, no real powers. And he's only really ever had TV shows.

But he's made appearances in the movies. I've gone Hawkeye. Why not? All right. Go Hawke. Let's see if people like that to it. Show me, Hawkeye. Okay.

So not that way. Sorry, Beech. No, Huckkeye's not on the thing. All right. So we're definitely going minor, minor characters. Well, you know. Okay. Maybe it's just. I, by the way, number 27 in the list. So again, it's, you know, he made it, but not where it counts. Okay. Aunt May. Oh, that's just me, Anne May. I think he's like Aunt Man.

Ooh. Okay. Aunt May. Yeah. Is she in the United Universe now? Is that official? She totally is. Hell yeah. Okay. Okay. Yep. Uh, show me Aunt May, the hot ones. as people who made. Oh, man. Didn't make the top 10, but people did make sure to say, yes, Aunt May, parentheses, the hot one.

Right. All right. I mean, you know, Marissa Tomey is a lot of our favorites. She makes a lot of our lists, just not this one. Exactly. Okay. Dunaway. I feel like I'm handing this to Dunaway today.

I don't know why I can't think of it. No, not really. I'm not doing so great either. I mean, you're winning right now, right? You've got 10 points to Brian's three, so. I guess that's true. Has Scott already said pepper pots? Did he already say that?

I don't know, did he? Maybe he did. Maybe he didn't. Oh, crap. All right. Yeah, I'm going to go with pepper pots and you're going to say, that was the first thing Scott said. And I'm like, I wasn't listening to that guy.

Show me pepper pots. Nope, Scott didn't say it. And neither did many people in the tad pool. This is hard. I don't know where you people are at then. Pepper, pepper pots number 37. I mean, she even got to wear an Iron Man suit, right?

She did, yeah. Yeah, so I mean, come on. She definitely qualifies as a minor character. I think people like some of these other ones a lot more. Like, they're more beloved as characters. Okay, all right. Oh, okay. You've each got one more strike, so, you know, tread carefully, my friends.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The collector, the collector. He doesn't have any powers. He just collect shit. Collector. Yep, all right. Show me to Von to whatever his name is, the collector. Damn it.

Yeah, yeah. There goes my chance to get any more points, I think. Number 21 on the list. All right, at least he's on there. He's cool. He's on there. He's totally cool. All right.

Because he's really the representation of all the nerds that put stuff in acid-free mylar bags with cardboard backing. Yeah, right. He speaks for them. He's basically who we are. Yes. Right. One strike left for you, Brian. Scott's leading by seven points, ten points to your three. I just don't think I've got the understanding maybe.

So I mean, like, I think you do. You think so? I mean, think of characters that are supporting characters to the main character, really, I guess, is the way to think about it. hmm how's about I don't know I don't know I don't know nothing I'm getting I'm locking it

how long to have oh yeah here let me start that time oh yeah the timer right right right right I'm going to go Nick Fury never got any any powers right he is and your timer's up Nick Ferry

says I just so you're really going to Nick Peary. Okay. Do it. Show me. I don't say that one. I just, I'm just like shield. I don't.

Myer characters, he's major kind of. Your time's up. Your time's up. You said Nick Fury. Fine. Yeah, do it. Fine. Nick Fury.

No. I mean, he's not a minor character is the problem, right? Well, he's, he's definitely not. Yeah. I mean, no, I think you're still thinking too, your major, your minor characters that you're thinking of are way too major. yeah uh let's take a look minors are major yeah your minus are two major

i'm also trying to decry what the tadpool would say because they don't always go the way no we get it we get it all right i'm doing the same i did the same today i can't believe the tadpool is so ripping on you guys oh well puppy kitty says i kind of feel like they're punking us this is how bad we are today all right all right let's look at uh what you could have said Number one, Scott Lang's friend, Ant Man's friend, Louis, who always recaps everything, Michael Peña. Oh, my gosh.

That feels like a... I know, and that was the most popular one at 2026. That was the most popular one, yes. That's crazy. Number two, a favorite of Scots that I'm surprised he didn't mention, but Darcy Lewis, Cat Denning's character from the film movies. I love her. She's great. Why didn't I think of that? The problem with these minor characters are there minor characters, and I don't often think of them until I sit

down well that's the idea right we're on the we're on the clock we got to come up with something fast it's just the way it is the tadpool had the luxury of getting to sit back with a travasier and answer these questions slowly and carefully uh number four piss off ghost it's corg oh shit corg from your gardens of the galaxy i mean i guess he doesn't have powers in the turn and outside of just he's an alien so he's an alien yeah yeah yeah what the crap i'm going to pull that from out of my butt well keep wherever you keep your corg at dude Dude, I don't know. That's like number four.

Yeah. Number five. Wait, wait, wait, wait before you're building more. Sure. How's the chat room who's smock talking all that trash, how they doing if they were playing right now? Would they have got any of those? Yes.

See, this is the trick with the chat room. Ignore them is what you should do is ignore them. That's what you should do. Because they all have ideas. And if the more you give them attraction, the more they'll make funny it. That's what I've learned. So true. Yep, exactly.

Yeah. All right. Let's look at number five. Agent Phil Colson. Oh, Colson. Yeah, now that I can see that. People love him. Sadly died.

Brought back from Tahiti. It's a wonderful place. I always forget his name is Phil. Always. Yeah. It's just Colson. Agent Colson is Agent Colson. It's Tahit, right?

Tahita was the wonderful place that, yeah. Don't remember. Number six does have powers. And I would argue that he is becoming more and more a major character, we just saw him in weapons. That's Wong, Benedict Wong's character.

Oh, man. Yeah, but he's got powers, right? He does have powers. Yeah, I didn't say that none of them have had powers, but I tried to steer you towards the eight of them that don't have powers. That wasn't in the quay. Okay, the majority of these are like what you described.

I got you. Number seven is the character who created all of these characters, but the various characters he plays in many. in almost all of the cameos he does for the MCU, Stan Lee. Nice. I like that one. He's not minor. He's the most major of all.

He's not really a character, though, right? He's just a cameo. You could argue exactly. How many times do you fear? He's a bunch of minor characters. He's in everything, including the new Fantastic Four. He shows up in sort of a retro way, right? Yeah, like an homage with Jack Kirby.

Number four, I'm sorry, number eight. budding musician agent jimmy woo Randle Park Colson and Jimmy Wu I should have got both of those and Darcy Darcy you guys should have got too Lewis is a poll but number four he's got powers he's actually a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy I think he doesn't belong in this list

but Groot he has been easel he is both he is neither minor nor powerless but I get it's a chat room or the tab poll they're going to choose what they're going to choose Well, I don't think, I don't think if it actually said no powers in this question. I didn't. No, and the question I didn't.

I just said, who's your favorite minor character? And I feel like Groot is definitely not a minor character. Unless they're talking about when Groot was in his adolescent form when he was a minor. I am shocked at Howard the Duck made it to the top 10. I mean, I loved Howard the Duck, but I'm just surprised enough people remembered Howard the Duck. Well, he just barely made it. Just barely got in there. I mean, when you think Marvel D-list, do you think Howard the Duck?

and then number 11 she's got a Y and two ends but it's not where you think it's Madison from from She Hulk Oh she Hulk Yeah

She was good I forgot about her She was good Yeah And she sits there and watches The Sopranos with Wong And spoils it for him That's right

Me we're calling these names It's almost it's impossible in the moment It's so hard Yeah Exactly That's all right You know what Even the tough questions provide a lot of comedy.

And they provide prizes to our players, Scott, by getting one right, but getting such a good one right. Chris Bennett is going to get a copy of American Fugitive and Speedrunners, courtesy of Sunbun. And Aaron Heading, you're going to be getting a copy of Quake 2. Congratulations to both of you guys for your participation in absentia. watch for your DMs on the Patreon. I'll be sending those to you soon. I'll tell you this. American Fugitive is amazing. Chris, you're going to love

that game. If you like the GTAs of old, it's fantastic game. Oh, really? Oh, that's cool. Yeah, it's awesome. Also, because you ever heard of Quake 2? You ever heard of Quake 2? Pretty good game. Dunaway, you and I did an episode of Play Retro last night. I recommend people check it out. If you like Shadow Run or have any fond feelings

for the cyberpunk dystopic future of that particular RPG, we go deep. And if you miss console wars, we had a little bit of that last night too, sweet. We did have some console wars. And we also had, guess my butt. I got him. Take that jerk. Listen, if you're

wanted to see, like people are, people love Madison. If you want to see more of Madison, Patty Guggenheim is the actress. She apparently is in that twisted metal series with Sam Wilson. Oh, that's cool. Mackie, Anthony Mackie, which I hear

mixed reviews on. Some people say it's really good. I have heard very, very good things about that. Yeah. So I think I may need to check that out. Yeah. This season in particular is where they start really fighting, like they actually go hard and have... Oh, really? Okay.

Car stuff and all that, so that should be fun. All right, y'all, check this out. Isn't technology wonderful? It can be. I'm just going to say it can be. It isn't always, but it can be. And when it is... Moderating your tone.

I just mean, you know, when you're here, that's when I trust it. How's that? Does that work better? Okay. Yeah. No, everybody, it's weird. You know, when I started at Tech TV in 1999, technology was that weird thing that those folks used. But it's really interesting.

And then it became like technology. It's the best thing ever. And now everybody hates it. Yeah. I mean, look, tech is, you know, everybody sees it as big monolithic tech pros and AI bull crap now. And I don't know how we get past it. Tom, you know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of when the Internet happened.

And the three of us are like 23, 24. And by the internet, I mean like the web. It happened in 1969, but I know what you mean. You know what I mean? Like the worldwide web, the bit where the world can access it. I remember being. And I remember everybody losing their freaking mind. Not everybody.

A lot of people really didn't like the idea. They were like, nope, not for me. This is bad for society, whatever, this and that. I just feel like we're going through that again. and some of it I agree with, I get it, but for the most part, it just feels like we're repeating that little bit of history. Everybody hates the big company, right? And whether it was telcos or IBMs or oil companies or whatever, whatever the biggest company is, everybody hates it, and the biggest companies right now are tech.

Yeah, and that's the way of it. And you're here to cover it, which is great. We have at least a good steward to look to when we have questions. I fail at covering technology by not providing outrage. Which is what I see more and more successful outlets doing is just telling you how right you are for hating big tech. Here's another example of how you're right. So I haven't grown as fast or as much as I would have had I done that, but it's just not who I am. So I just tell you what's actually going on and where you could be like, you know what, that might not be right.

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just yeah it's it feels dirty feels gross yeah feels gross because i i get people like complimenting me for it and i feel a little uncomfortable with that because i'm like i'm actually just doing it because that's who i am not i mean yes i i i want you to think like tom you're above it all and you're so noble and that that feels good but but i don't think that's really why i'm doing yeah no it's just as who you are and and who you are is just happens to be wrong with me yeah we're all leaving we're leaving big wads of money on the table, apparently. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But either way, I like the way you do it. So the way you do it today is what? What are you covering? What are you looking at?

Well, you know, we're going to, when Jen Cutter and I do the Daily Tech News show here in a little bit, we're going to be talking about OpenAI backtracking on limiting what models you can choose in chat GPT. But I thought it'd be more fun to talk to y'all about Pebble Time 2 getting another look at the redesign because Pebble's back. Not only is Eric Michigovsky remaking the pebble, but he got the rights to use the name. I thought, Brian, didn't you have, I thought you had one of these. I did have a pebble. I, I kickstarted or whatever it was, fund pledge, go kick me. What is it?

I don't know what it was, but, uh, go kick me. Uh, yeah. I love that. I supported, uh, whatever. It was called indie go kick. Yeah, Indie go kick. There you go. I like that a lot.

Wait, so I knew I had heard the rumors of, someone bought, well, because Google had it for a while and then they sold it again or something? Google bought Pebble and Stone's Pebble, but Michigovsky decided to go back and make a pebble again and it was called

oh, I lost the thing it was called and now I can't remember it was called something else core devices, right? Is that it? Core, that's right, thank you. Yeah, it was called the Core Time 2 but he was able to go get the rights to use the pebble name again from Google. So it is now called the

Pebble Time 2. And if you remember there was going to be a Pebble Time 2 before Pebble was sold that didn't end up coming out, this is kind of picking up where that one left off. It's got a few differences. It's, you know, it's got obviously more modern specs inside. There's an LED backlight that can change colors so that you can customize it. It doesn't always have to be a blue backlight, but it could also change throughout the day. this is a color e-ink screen so still very battery preserving but you can have colors on the screen

and it's still that same you know pebble easy on the eyes easy on the battery but gives you notifications and all those things you want that life battery life on these things were if I remember right were pretty incredible like stellar yeah yeah yeah weeks yeah you know and it feels like this one is supposed to be the same yeah it's like yeah like you're saying the easy on the eyes display They felt like E-E-ink or LCD or whatever. It is E-E-ink, right? It's the actual technology. Yeah, I think so.

So it's like your Kindle. Yeah. E-paper is what the screen is described as. You ever seen E-paper? So, let's see, 225 for the new one. That's not bad. Yeah, there'll be a Pell 2 Duo for 149, which has fewer features, and it's just black and white, not the color screen. But the Pubble Time, too, you can pre-order now for 225 now.

There is a caveat, if you pre-order it, they say, we might have to change that price before shipping. And the date it's supposed to start shipping is December 2025 for the Pebble Time 2 and July for the two duo. Oh, which I don't know that it's shipping yet. So I think they may have missed that. But they also say that, like these shipping dates might give. Is that a like a manufacturing slash tariff thing or something? Do they get into the details? Yeah, it's all of that.

The price is because they don't know what they're going to pay for the parts at the time. They finally start putting these together. And the shipping time is probably having to do with, do we have enough orders to actually do the parts run? And then how fast does it get made by the people we're ordering it to make it? I'm very curious about it. I'm not saying that I would convert completely, but I have always liked the idea of a less. demanding device on your wrist that it would last a lot longer

yeah yeah and you know yeah the problem with with any independent watch is it's never going to be as fully featured as the one that's in your ecosystem yeah so if you get a Google wear OS watch it's going to work better

with your Android phone if you get an Apple watch it's going to work better with your iOS phone but but these can do a lot on their own and they can still connect to your phone it's just they're limited on what they can pull in but you can get notified and stuff like that. All right, well, cool.

Yeah, this is interesting. We'll talk more about this on the live show today at 230 Mountain Time. If you are, no, wait, yeah, no, 2 p.m. I'm still doing it all these years later, man. That's the stuff. I don't know why I can't keep that a half hour right. But anyway, that'll be today. And I'll be on there.

We're going to talk a little bit about the rumored, somewhat confirmed specs that the next Microsoft console will be modular. So more like a PC. By Microsoft per se. No, no, no, no. Just a lot of supporting rumors that seem legit. We'll see if it ended up being this way. But it also makes sense with their current vibe

and what they're aiming for and their kind of strategy. So it wouldn't surprise me if you start using an X... If indeed this is their plan, use an Xbox console like you do a PC, swap this part out for that part, improve this one later. I actually think it's a decent idea and that we're probably closer to being ready for this sort of thing in the console world than we ever have been. But there's still a lot of questions. framework is it going to end up being like the framework where you you know you it's just making it easier to change parts because you can you you make it like so that you plug things in instead of having to the yeah better of that glue and all that the the idea is a little bit more like um oh we're two years into the cycle i think that game would run it 120 frames if i up to the GPU module video card yeah right interesting so add more memory yeah hard drive which is a dangerous thing in

consoles because a lot of people, the reason console sell well is they go to a store and they just go, I will buy the dumb box that for eight years will be the dumb box I have. And my kids play their dumb games on the dumb box. And I don't have to think about it again. But they can. Oh, they still can. The question is, well, Microsoft, you know, the modders more of a chance to to improve it and upgrade it and things like that. Well, and if they make it simple enough, it would be it would be an easy upsell to somebody to say, hey, we know you have your dumb box. that you haven't paid attention to, but if you buy this thing and, you know, all you do is pull that out like a cartridge and put the other one in, your game will work faster. You might be able to get more people to do it. Yeah. We did it with the, we did it with the N64 with that little black chip that we put in. Do you remember that? What was that thing called?

It was called the beefed up. I just remember it beefed up banjo kazooey or something. I mean, there was the rumble pack for the controller, but if you bought like Turok 2, you would put. put this thing in the top, it was like a chip. Yeah. And then the cartridge to go on top of it or something. Oh, no, there was a different thing. There was a thing where you'd unscrew on the bottom and you

probably still even have... As soon as I have to unscrew something, you're going to lose a bunch of people though. Yeah. You've got to be like push a button, pull it out. And this is my kind of point with this thing. They need to make it really easy in that regard, but also just keep in mind, like if

if they, if Microsoft wants to bank on this, They kind of have to bank on the idea that people will do this. Otherwise, why do this business model? Right. Do you understand what I mean? And also, I'll tell you what gamers don't like. Six months into a console's device, they see a new game being announced and they say,

it has all these features, but you've got to upgrade these two modules to get the benefits of it. People freaking hate that. Yeah. That's why the midstream stuff like PlayStation Pros and the Xbox 1X at the time, why those didn't sell well. Yeah, they didn't string that well anyway. Plus, yeah, you're right about the streaming bit. So I don't know.

It's a really weird, new, brave new world. We're going to talk about it today. Discuss what we think will come of it. As you can tell, kind of a hot topic. So we'll do that a little bit later. Tom, anything else going on in your world you'd like to mention? Yeah. I know some of you have enjoyed my novels in the past,

and I just want to let people know that I am serializing a new one called The Girl at the Bottom of the Lake on my Free Tom newsletter. if you pay for the free time newsletter, which I know. But you said it's free. There is a free newsletter there that comes out every week. But if you want the story, you just got to upgrade to a paid version. And you can pay for the whole year at once. That'll make sure that you get all the previous chapters that have put out so far.

We're just getting started. So it's not too late to catch up. And I put easy links so you can go from chapter to chapter and get caught up. And then every week I put out a new chapter. It's about dimensional rifts. and the Dimension Rangers that solve them and two young kids that want to be part of it, but one of them is a person that would not

historically have been admitted to be trained as a dimension ranger. So what's going to happen to him? Go check it out. The girl at the bottom of the lake available on the paid subscription of free tomnewsletter.com. Well, I hope she can eventually get out of that lake, you know? Yeah.

Tom Merritt, everybody. He is a face detect on all the places. Go find him. We'll see you soon. All right. Yeah, it was the Nintendo 64 expansion pack. Like, you installed that thing in the front of your N64. It was like the little door on top, right?

Like a little trapdoor. Yeah, I think you still unscrewed a little panel? Maybe not. Maybe it just popped off like a battery. Oh, yeah. I had this. So I had this for Turok here, chat. You guys, Brian found an image.

It's this. That deal right there. This thing right here. Tunnelay was the one who finally say, it's the expansion pack. Yeah. I guess Dr. Calhoun said it first. Yeah. That guy right there.

Yeah. Yeah, the N64 had this little hole, not hole, but a little trap door in the front that nobody knew what it was for for for the longest time. And then that ended up being what it was for. Here it is. I found a... Yeah, here's that picture right there. See that little trap door right there? Yep.

And you can see, the one I just sent you has it like popped off with the expansion pack popped out. Oh, yeah, there it is. Well, that, why won't that go on there? It's PNG for some dumb reason, but... Usually okay. See, here we go. Yeah, that's where it went. And that's how I got less distance problems in Turok.

Three or two or whatever. You can see those dinosaurs from even further away. Yeah, which, you know, if you're trying to avoid dinosaurs, pretty good. Yeah, yeah, for sure. All right, let's get to some news here. Ron, we got a little bit of news, and it's brought to you by. Burger Bowls. My wife made Burger Bowls.

We chronicled it in a video. So if you want to go see how to make it. Oh, cool. No, the Kim's Kitchen. I love those. Yeah, we went to did another one. And burger bowls are a great low-carb way to have everything you love about a burger minus the bread, which is the fatty bit. Yeah, the bread is the killer. Yeah.

It was super fun to make. So we made that video. Go check it out. It's up at the YouTube channel, frogpans.com or frogpans. It's how you can get there. Cool. And it was really good. Oh, my gosh.

It's fantastic. Sounds great. Yeah. Let's get to this story about dog remains. Oh, okay We're not talking about the dog remains You have to pick up with a plastic bag As you walk around

No, in fact, this is even better Well, it's not good for the people Whose remains these belong to But a dog found human remains In Birmingham, Alabama For the fourth time in a year, he's done this. Four different times, this dog found bodies. This dog is great.

He's like, should be working for the police. I agree. It says Paulina Menzja. Says she and her husband Nahia. Nahia is how he said? Yeah. Out of these names. Says her and her husband, Orlin. Oh, that's a great name for a guy.

I feel good about that one. Yeah. Orlin. I want him on a porch. I'm like whittling a stick. Totally. Oh, she yells at him to. Orlin. You can just hear it. Yeah. Damn it, honey. Orlin was doing everything he could follow the rules, even helping law enforcement after their dog. Chikarin? Sure.

Chikarin. Chikareen. I think so. I don't know. I don't know. I like that, but with less tomato. Uncovered what turned out to be human remains in their neighborhood, but two weeks ago, immigration and customs enforcement detained Orland,

taking him hundreds of miles away to a facility in Louisiana. We didn't expect this to happen again, says Paulina. For her, those words carry two meanings. The first is about her husband's detention. The second is about the dog's uncanny pattern of making gruesome discoveries. At home, Pauline is left caring for their young daughter. Anyway, she says it is hard for her not seeing her father around. she says she notices her daughter searching for her dad whenever her voice comes on on the telephone

I think the idea is they think that because this dog keeps finding remains yeah that he's that he's somehow involved yeah this took a turn from the headline I was thinking oh my gosh their dog just can't keep finding dead people yeah and it's like by the way ice yeah I was like oh yeah I guess this is a different story because this thing got yeah because of its notoriety the ice swoops in and now they got him into tension that's not No, that's not cool at all. Anyway, she says, the dog has found human remains the neighborhood four times. They've been working with police to add trackers to their dog in case it happens again.

Normally, Orlin handles these situations, but this time, he got carted away. Let's see. If nothing else, ICE has helped us identify the worst Superman. We thought it was Superman 3. Turns out it was Dean Kane the whole time. It was always him. I heard he was trying to, he's joining ICE or something. Is that the deal?

Yeah, he made a video of. of he's he's absolutely joining ice and he made a video bragging about uh how much he can't wait to to join ice well he's getting no work in hollywood so exactly may as well get it where you can get it you know at least he's not going to get recognized yeah no one'll know who it is just another schlubby guy in a uniform he doesn't deserve with a mask and a hoodie and a dark sunglasses geez lame all right well there's news for today. Put that in your pocket and swish it around.

Let's do some emails. Got an email or it's actually a call. Let's play this. This is about the bags of pee apparently and I don't know much about this call. I'm just going to play it. About the bags of pee. When you're chatting about the story of the

unsolicited urine samples being sent to Aberdeenshire, not Aberdeenshire. And I've got it in the name of the place, but yes, you pronounce the first part right that's all love to show though oh okay this was just about us pronouncing aberdeenshire it was just basically eight minutes of this uh to say aberdeen sure okay thanks uh claire it sounds like she was out walking and not drinking and that's good i like yeah yeah absolutely i got i got one uh from her direct uh message talking about

pronunciation of uh it's it's the confusion of gaelic versus Galliga. There's a Gallagia. I think it's just Gallagas. Oh, sweet. How to pronounce it. But there's a new song I really like called Euro Country by this singer named Seymat who is Irish.

Really cool song. Just really, really cool. But it begins with about 40 seconds of Gallagher, the language in Gallic. Oh, that's cool. I keep wanting to Oh, Gallag. It's not Gallagher. It really is Gallagher? It's, no, that's kind of the way that the, the way we've, at least I have turned it into Gallagher because it's, let me see if I can, she, there's a one minute, 19 second clip of her explaining how to pronounce it. I don't know where in here she says it. So it's, it's almost, let's see if I can, she explains the difference between Gallic, Gaelic,

Gaelic and Gala, Gala. So she says Gala. Gaeliga. That's how she pronounced. Gaeliga. That sounds like how Claire would say Gala wrong. Like she'd say, let's play a game of Gailaga. Gaeliga. But it's G-A-E-L-I, I'm sorry, G-A-E-I-L-G-E, and it's pronounced Gaeliga. Oh, all right.

And it's the, it's the way that, what Irish called their language. you know, that's not English. Oh, all right. Irish, you know, when you speak Irish, you're speaking Gaeliga. Sure. Is it where you can, you cat, one of, they capture one of your leprechauns. Yeah, one of your, exactly.

You have to be careful so you don't shoot your own leprecha. Yeah. If you get it back, then you're a double leprecha. You have double leprecha. But you also have one less life down here of leprechauns. See, all this is going to do. I hate that game, though, because of that. I'm going to get, I'm going to get a four-minute

message from Claire now that has 20 seconds of content and three minutes and 40 seconds of yeah so you know you just really pronounced it wrong a bunch of times and um and uh the pronounced leapercons or whatever it's going to be it's going to be a whole thing now yeah enjoy that that'll be fun if there's anything good in there we'll put it on the show for sure we'll let you know uh i got a text about hollyland from ross in new zealand um do i have them down here i might yeah let me grab me oh right because that's right you had the the those new little mics yeah so these are i've been using these for stuff outdoor stuff or kim's kitchen stuff i was gonna ask you if you did use them for kim's kitchen we did yeah they're um not here though damn it oh there they are

okay so this is what they look like they're real basic this is mostly for live folks sorry everyone listening at home you can't see these but they're what you think they are they're like little appell mics it's got a little receiver thing in the middle the middle one plugs into the bottom of your other device your phone your computer you're whatever uh USB see it in there and then these very small lapel pieces just magnet to your shirt um they come with fuzzy heads too but i haven't had to use those yet because we haven't been outside or whatever um anyway they the reason this is significant is usually you're paying like in the two 300 400 sometimes dollar range for a good set of these right the DJIs or road roads are good all that there's a bunch of

brands that you can get newer makes some nice brand that's the ones I used to have or still have but they're just larger they're about the size of this uh uh uh exacto knife dispenser yes yeah I mean I've got one right here actually I can show this guy right here's the size of the road oh there you go yeah exactly so a big you know you know exactly so a big you know know they're little larger normally but also they usually are known for having better sound the bigger they are the better seat features you have and all that kind of stuff anyway Kevin points out that these things the other day goes hey dude look at these they're like 49 bucks I wonder if they're any good and he found a review that seemed to be pretty crazy about it and I went oh well for that price

let's try it I like how small they are so I grabbed it and I have to say these are pretty damn good they're not like there's it's no frills like you're not plugging this in and having a bunch a little meters to watch or any of that stuff. It just does what you think it does, which is this receives it. These two things activate. They have a good distance on them and they sound good. I don't know what else you need.

Yeah. So I would recommend these. They're pretty great. I wonder if you could plug, you might need to use an extender, but could you plug one of those into the USB 2 in the back of your roadcaster? I don't see why not.

We'd just treat it like a mic, right? would. Yeah, I don't think it would. I have to try that today. It's a great idea. Actually, any of those things should work, even if they're not road brand, I think. Yeah, I would think so.

Or if they're... I don't think you'll be able to Bluetooth into it without it being a road, because I don't know. Yeah, I don't think so. If it'll recognize the spec on that, but with the USB, it absolutely should. Yeah, it should be fine.

Anyway, oh, I guess I didn't realize this before. This part is not charged. The middle bit doesn't charge. It's not battery powered. It's just... It gets power from your phone. Or whatever, yeah, whatever device should plug it into. So that's the question is whether the road will give me power on that or not. I don't know. It should.

I would assume so. Yeah. It's got to be. I'm sure it's a power at USBC. Anyway, for 49 bucks, big recommendation. These are great. Super cool. So this, so to the text, Ross wrote in says, hey, you guys are talking or talking about and making fun of Hollyland, which is the name of this brand. Yep. Which is a dumb name. I'm just going to say it. He says the brand of Scott's new wireless headphones or microphones. I also laughed at the time or sorry, at the name when I first came across it however you will find they also make radio headsets using on uh used on many if not most of the largest blockbuster movie and tv productions love the show though i still think it's a dumb name but it's a dumb name but now it makes sense like uh you know when you're seeing somebody

filming the next episode of law and order SVU and they're wearing hollyland headsets like okay that kind of makes sense they're making something that's that's used by hollywood so it's hollyland yeah And I guess that does make me feel better about, I mean, the fact that they're so inexpensive can lead one to think, oh, does that mean they're crappy? They're garbage, yeah. But these have been great. I've been very happy. They have some nicer runs, too.

They have a whole line of these things. But anyway, yeah, I love the size. The fact that they don't, you know, the problem I have with the road is that it's so heavy. It pulls down your shirt. or your collar or whatever um uh you know i kind of want to get like a little neck thing i wish i wish these had the the little microphone or the magnetic back to them oh right um right don't the new i think the third gen does maybe the new ones do yeah this is and they had some new or better way of charging or something kevin was telling me i don't know what it was something about the

the third gen roads are supposed to have some really nice new features but anyway oh Brian locked up we have we have a locked up Brian he's back now I don't have the road threes are you back hello are you there there we go I'm here now I was just about to text you and say I think internet went down here but it did it did hiccup because everything everything froze up you know live chat froze on the video on the Zoom audio froze yeah yeah weird you're back now though I hear you yeah Yeah, it's, I'm sure, some deal with TDS.

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Check it out today. I think I'm going to have to bring my bike with me when I come out there because it'll be the week before the MS 150 and I better get some Salt Lake City cycling in for sure. Yeah. You'll be good because you're used to the altitude and all that stuff. I'm used to the altitude, yeah. But I mean, that's time I'm giving up to, you know, not to spend with people. I guess if Chuck brings his bike out there or rents a bike, then Chuck will go with me.

but uh yeah chuck and brian on the road man that's right i like it a little do a little road biking i like it uh that's it for us brian uh you got anything else uh check out today's episode of daily music headlines if you want to find out which country star had to go to the hospital for their harrowing experience of cutting her thumb on a ranch bottle damn of ranch dressing Wait, like a glass Rant? It must have been glass. A glass bottle of ranch. Yeah, she cut her thumb. She had to go to a hospital for that?

Yeah. All right. I mean, I'm going to go ahead and guess that it was Can I guess who it was and I'm sure I'm going to get this wrong? I'll tell you if you're right, but I don't think this is a performer. I'm going to guess that you don't know. Okay. Oh, really? All right.

Chapel Rhone. No. This is a country singer. Carly Pierce, who's huge, who's really rocketing up the charts, but, uh, uh, oh shit, you said country. Yeah, I did say country. Damn it. Carly, Carly Pierce, cut her thumb on a bottle of ranch dressing and, uh, had to go to the hospital.

And we just, we want to say, uh, the following moment of silence goes out to Carly Pierce and her tremendous amount of courage for, uh, for moving forward, for continuing. Must have been a gnarly cut, if I had to guess. I'm guessing. Yeah, she said, it looked like there was ketchup going down my arm, but then I realized that was blue. Oh, my Lord, and then I wrote a song about it.

I'm all out of condiments, dear, dear, dear, dear, who knows. Exactly, yes. All right, cool. Check that out, Daily Music Headlines.com for more. Let's play a song now, speaking of music. I mean, if it weren't for that story, Scott, the story of Zoe Kravitz and Lisa Bonay, tearing apart

Brittany I'm sorry Taylor Swift's bathroom to retrieve a snake that would have been the you know the most memorable

story of the day that is pretty memorable wow yeah but apparently no it's going to be Carly Pearson wait that is well recent

that happened recently those three were recently yeah Zoe Zoe Zoe Cravitz and Lisa Bonnet her mom

were staying during the wildfires Taylor Swift I'm guessing who was in Kansas City at the time said yeah you can stay at my house

while the California wildfires are going on. This is the recent California wildfires from last week. And, you know, Zoe brought her snake, as you do. The snake got loose in the bathroom and apparently got itself so deeply entrenched in the bathroom that they had to rip apart the bathroom to get the snake. My gosh, dude. But Zoe's going to pay for everything. She told, she told Tatea that she's got it covered.

She's going to pay for everything. Well, she's the, she was one of them in Morton. Joe's awesome wives. She could do just about anything you need to get done. And also, why am I not even a little surprise she has a snake? She takes places. I know. Totally. Yeah, exactly. That's great. Surprise she only has one. Love it. Hey, let's go to a band. We're going to do an indie at the end today. A Canadian skate punk band. Yes, a Canadian skate punk band called Curbside. They have a brand new album called A Lifetime to Outgrow. This is a big one for him because they're also releasing their first album on Vympie. for the first time. The album, brand new album again, is called Life Tempt to Outgrow. The song's called We Were the Thieves. Here is Curbside. our way inside. We were too busy behind.

We watched ourselves to even get ahead. We used to tell our friends we were the peace. We were so cool in our eyes. Never took the time to see everything I had in front of me. And I'll never be back to Back to this town, to this home. Back to the place that we've had. place that we all gave up but I'm standing out your front door

hoping to God you're still in there sleeping on the floor We had everything we could need Trifting through nights like we own the streets We felt like a call on the We had a record there to keep us safe Singing all the life we could escape Thinking nothing would change Then I never thought we lose our way

Chasing our life that we swore would stay We'll never bring it back to Back to this town to this home Back to the place that we all gave up on I'm standing here all alone Thinking of the night we all give I gave up on you Let's put our feet

I gave up on you Let's put our feet back on the rose we left The skies with now We're older now But we still see it through the scratch of lens We're thieves until the end Hello, I'm a tailor And your pants size is frog

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