The Morning Stream - TMS 2884: Eating Pennies

Episode Date: September 10, 2025

I Don't Like Your Efficiencieeeeeeeeeees! The K Hoss. Hover Over the Sheets. A quick IN n Out with Kim. Pull off your pants and rub some dirt in it. Bladder Infection for You. Chic-Fil- Auctioneer. Can't stop thinking about Dick in a Box. West'em? Hardly even know 'em! Old men lacking self awareness. 50 Burger Terms in One Sentence. Get Free Shit. It's Just That Simple. An Insufficiency of CowBell. You Gotta Slow Down (slow down) Sweet Burger Server. The air is thin at Apple with Tom Merritt.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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A quick in and out with Kim. Gross. Pull off your pants and rub some dirt in it. Bladder infection for you. Chick-fil-Octioneer. Can't stop thinking about dick in a box. Westham. I hardly knew him.

Old man lacking self-awareness. Fifty burger terms in one sentence. Get free shit. It's just that simple. An insufficiency of cowbell. You gotta slow down, slow down sweet burger server. The air is thin at Apple with Tom and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Try one of these delicious candy bars, big time, butternuts, milkshake.

Instead, you ended up banging the reel ator. The morning stream. The T-M-S-S-S-S-D. means it's working. Hello everybody and welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for September 10th, 2025. I am Scott Johnson. That is Brian Ibetelieu.

Good day to you. Good day, my friend. Yes, yes. Fresh off our... We did a live watch of the Apple event yesterday. And the YouTube gave me a warning. Yeah, you didn't. Like, Leport apparently,

learn this lesson, you don't do a full screen of the deal. If we would have kept it as the two of us and a partial screen of the event, it would have been just fine. Yeah, I didn't. No, you learn it for next time. Yeah, we learned that for next time. Although now I'm so gunshot, I'm like nervous to do it. But you know what? Twitch didn't do shit. They just said, all right, here you go. Yeah. But then Tom got banned on Twitch for it. Not banned, but got a warning on Twitch. Oh, really? Got a warning. Yeah. And he wasn't, he was doing, he got, he did the whole thing on YouTube. He was doing partial. Yeah. He did to YouTube the whole time and had no. problem. Twitch gave him heat. In my case, total flip. Wow. Twitch was fine. So I don't freaking know, dude. I don't know. The DMCA robots. The robots are losing their effing minds. Anyway, it's good to see you all. That is a Wednesday.

We got Wednesday thing. Speaking of Tom, he'll be here later, talking tech. So stick around for that. Got chaos in this house. Let me just tell you. Just chaos. Oh, no. Okay. I don't tell me about to chaos. Carter's a chaos. The chaos. De chaos. Keahas. Keahas.

C. You up next time, chaos. Yeah, like yesterday's CPU, GPU. CPU, GPU. I love that. By the way, if you're looking for that, our entire archive of that, YouTube notwithstanding,

is up in full on the Patreon. So if you're a patron subscriber and you missed it, it was fun. Brian and I had a lot of funny banter during the stupid thing. And it's a great time to go check that out. So watch that. But anyway, Carter got a nasty bout of COVID,

like a kind of just a, gnarly one you know sometimes covid just sort of comes and it's like eh you get a little headache and a sore throat i'm fine this one's bad she's kind of been bedridden for two days it's really wrecking her sounds like yeah it's real bad so we got it the the packs lovid or she likes to call it the penny tongue she calls it because it tastes like make your tongue feel coppery and stuff yeah it tastes like pennies she says i haven't tried it i haven't done it so i don't know i've never done packs a little bit i you know i don't know why i don't because it it shortens it shortens the trajectory of the

of the symptoms and stuff but for whatever reason it's like eh I'll just wait it out the couple times that I've had two or three times three four times I feel like we've got like three times three times we have some generational like resistance and us you and I about whether we want to I think it really is it is like a you know there's also kind of

like a we've watched Star Trek the next generation we've seen what happens when the board get used to and develop shields for our particular phaser settings so we have to keep changing our phaser settings we just don't want to have those phaser settings get you know build up a tolerance to those phaser settings it's so funny you bring that up I just saw an episode last night

of TNG where this is happening where they had the where they were the they kept changing that and Worf couldn't oh really warf was so upset because he would shoot at it like oh this is changing their shield settings. This is working. Oh, shit, it isn't working anymore.

You have no honor. Set your phasers to RNG. Yeah, he thinks that the entirety of the Borg collective has no honor. That's what he thinks. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, it was she's, so she's super sick. She's doing that, eating pennies.

And my dog won't eat for some reason. I don't know what's going on. She just won't eat. She'll eat a little, but it's usually just a little. And then she'll not eat all day. and then she'll act super hungry at night and then she'll eat like a mouth full and then not eat anymore.

So now I'm worried about what I've got to do with her. She's old. She's in her dog ears. Why she's in her 80s, I guess, for her breed. Sometimes they can sense when somebody else isn't feeling well. There's like a little bit of empathy, like sympathy pains kind of thing. And it's like, oh, my person is sick.

I don't feel good either. I'm not going to eat. And then on top of that, it would be a little bit of that. Kim tonight, well, this afternoon, back to my mom's overnight for two nights. Wendy's coming in Thursday. So then she'll be swapping in and out with the sisters and stuff.

So there's all that going on. And the doctor told us yesterday that my mom's kidney, kidneys seem like they're starting to say, yeah, it's been a good run. We've had a good run here. We're going to go ahead and start, you know, whatever. So we don't know what that means. For in terms of timing, John's still in the hospital with his freaking brain bleed. and he thinks he's coming home tomorrow and everything's normal.

He absolutely is not. He can't even stand on his own. Here we go. And here's an example, Scott, of how we say this about John, right? Like, oh, my God. Dude, just, you know, do the thing you're supposed to do medically, rest. Get the thing, take the thing you're supposed to take, blah, blah, blah. Two minutes after, nope, I'm not going to take that Pax-Lovid because I don't want to develop a tolerance to it.

Yeah, we have a little bit of what their whole generation has. In their case, they're a little extreme. my dad did this John does this others I've talked to of their generation do this when they go to the dentist they don't do any kind of painkiller I don't know why that seems insane to me no novocaine no nothing

I'm not that crazy but I feel like we just got a little piece of it we're like brush it off tiny sliver of just pull up your pants and you know rub some dirt in it kind of thing yeah I think we're I think we're just we're on the tail end of some bad ideas is all I'm saying yeah exactly anyway so that's all going on

and then I had this weird thing and we're at the in and out. Kim and Iber's like, we need something quick. Let's go to in and out. Oh, that sounds good. Okay, cool. We go to in and out. We're like, oh, that line is long. Let's go in. So we went in. Okay. Okay. Sat down or ordered our food. Here's the weird thing about that place. They're really, really efficient. As you've noticed, probably in and in and out. Just insane. It's amazing how, yeah. The one in our Vata here, it's funny to say this because I haven't gone to, maybe since we've gotten them in Denver, I've maybe gone to an in and out. twice um but um but i just went two three days ago so it's funny that you just went and i just went oh yeah weird yeah i don't go that often either but um we go i don't know a handful of times a year i mean come on yeah when there's a freddies what do you need in and out for i don't even care if they're inefficient at freddies i want freddies i want freddies yeah but anyway we're there and i noticed like some of these kids are like 18 or pushing you know getting out of high school but they're so efficient i swear they're all going to go off to harvard they're all

to be like, yeah, just brainiacs. They're telling restaurant managers and, uh, yeah, efficiency experts and, uh,

because they're so on it. Like just, I know that's part of their training, the culture at the company, all that stuff. It's all true. But I've noticed something. They're starting to be too efficient.

And by that, I mean, they talk too fast. And it's not that I can't understand them, but it's annoying because you pull up to the guy and go, yes, we're going to be ready. Oh,

uh, well, I guess I'll, now I feel like I'm in a hurry. So I'm like, I'll have this, this and this and this and go, all right we got a baby baby but he sounds like a freaking uh auctioneer yeah and he's like

is that all you need and i'm like you're going too fast and i hear what you're saying it's not that i can't hear it i just feel like i'm in i'm in our different warp zone it's like are you okay are you on the meth am i okay am i on the the downers like what's wrong with me why can i keep up with you so anyway i've just noticed lately the last couple times i've been there they're so efficient that it's memorized and it's robotic they're just pumping it out now that's funny and you don't think it's a situation of well i'm not going to uh take your medicine i'm not going to leave i'm not going to stay in the hospital overnight and by golly the people at the fast food restaurant talk too fast yeah yeah i mean it may well be a little bit of that it may well be that like it did

just feel like i was being lapped by somebody right and i was so just like flummoxed by it as like i'm sorry You're on a different frequency than me. Yeah. I'm starting to, there's, dude, there's times lately. I turn the television down because it's too loud. I've never done that before. It's like surround me with sound, but. Same.

Yeah. I've had to turn it down. I do. Yeah, in the car I did that the other day and it was like so unlike me. I had like green cake going and I was like, oh, I need to turn that down. I'm like, why am I doing this? lung view, it's too loud. Am I a thousand years old?

Like, what am I doing? I don't know. Anyway, everybody takes, everyone's slowed. I'm not even saying this is good for this kid. One day he's going to have to screech to a halt at some point. So just start taking a breath. You don't have to, one sentence doesn't have to include 50 burger terms. Slow down.

You'll still be able to get the same number of orders out and you won't have to repeat yourself to the old's. That's the theory. the running theory. All right, everybody, it is time for us to have some fun with an old pal of ours. You may know him

as Brian Dunaway. We know him as Brian Dunaway. MAMP, MAMP, MAMP, MAP, MAP, MAP, MAP, MAPS MAPS MAP. Brian Brian Dundee joining us for a little bit of the old Tad Pooley Feud on a Wednesday. What's going on, Brian? Oh, very quiet. Let me turn you up.

Hold on. Are you stepping away from your mic to breathe? Are you home or you're at work, right? So I can turn you up here. Here we go. Okay. Hi. Hello. What did you change?

I changed some things. I'll change you even higher. What you do? Are you there now? Did you do? There you are. Oh, hi. This is Brian.

Oh, hi. Can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you now. Hmm. Good. Yeah. Doesn't matter if you can hear you, Brian. As long as we can hear you.

That's all we care about. Yeah, we don't care about nothing except, well, we care about you, dude. We care about you. We do. We do. Talk faster. Is that better? Oh, there you go.

That's good. Much better. Now you turn your microphone. Yeah. Hey, man. It's good to have you here. We're going to do play retro later. We'll get back to that as to why it's today.

It's a weird day, right? Wednesday, what's that about? That's weird. It's anything can happen day, according to the Mousketeers. So really, whatever changes we make are fully fit within that parameter of anything can happen day. I don't remember that. They used to sing that. That was a thing?

Yeah. It was their Wednesdays on the Mickey Mouse Club was anything can happen day. I am so. Anything? For me, the Mickey. thing. The Disney Mickey Mouse stuff back in the day was like Brian and Night Rider. It was like just not in my, I don't know why. I honestly, I don't think I ever watched a single episode, but I know that Wednesdays anything can happen to it. Probably from a, just probably from some sort of comedian reference to it or sitcom or something. Yeah, yeah. Well, there you go. I didn't know. I don't know a thing about Disney, but I do know this. It's time for us to play this game. Brian, explain the rules. So we know what we're doing. Okay. It's time to play the Tad. pooly feud. I've surveyed, that's what I've done, surveyed

the tadpole on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Brian are going to have to predict the answers that they gave us. It is their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. We're going to add up all the points after the end of the game and see who, which of these two guys wins a prize for their contestant. contestants that we've pulled

from supporters of our Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS. Join today. Get free shit. It's just that simple. Scott, you're playing for King Kimizabi. Oh, that's fun because we got to

Hopefully he won't get a code he gave us. No, I made sure to pick games that he did not give us. It would be really funny if we're giving you back your own codes. Brian, you're playing for Aaron Wilson. Oh, nice. Brother to Luke and to Owen, apparently. I like how he spells it. A-R-O-N is cool.

That's like a sci-fi Aaron. It's like that a lot. It is. Very cool. Well, I hope you both win. Well, you both will, but I hope one of you wins more. You both will. Yeah. All right.

Let's get to the question here. We asked 472 tadpoolers. A whopping 22 of them said, no, I don't know. Pass, whatever. Pass whatever. And you'll see why here in a second. All right. We asked 472 tadpoolers, what's your favorite sketch from Saturday Night Live?

Massive head wounded Harry. Oh, that's my favorite. favorite, an underrated sketch starring Dana Carvey. Show me massive head wound hairy and a dog chewing his brains out. Oh, my lord. Yep, yep. You uncultured

swine out there. Brian, fully open board, do you have a guess? How about Candygram? Candy gram. Show me Candy gram. God damn it. That's good point.

Plan shark, number seven. That is some good points number seven right there freak um yeah all right this is going to be fun brian you've got control of the board he'll let me tell you something about this um 472 answers and people could not refer to sketches using the same terminology as anybody else so i had to read through these and say all right candy graham uh candy shark oh that's true oh yeah it's not like they have official name. Give me some more. Give me some more. They kind of do. There actually is a I'm not going to do it. I just gave you a civil for

Landshark. There actually is a starting at live sketch wiki where you actually get the official names of all of those. Don't look at it right now. Johnson are done away. So where's that at? You say us at www.com. Just send you the link. I just DM'd you the link, Brian.

All right. Brian, you've got control of the board. Nine answers still out there. What have you got? What do you got? what's in your wallet? I'm asking you. Why don't you just tell me? I'm thinking single sketches, right. I mean, oh my gosh, so many comes to mind.

I'm going to go. Shut up. You have to find. Give me some cowbell. Give me some cowbell. All right. More cowbell. Show me more.

I got a fever. And the only prescription is more cowbell. Cowbell number one. Number one answer on the board. Damn it. I think you can now have a pretty good idea of where he's going to lay. I think you do, yes. It's less about what are our favorite sketches,

Massive Headwood, Harry, and more about what are everybody else's favorite sketches. Yeah. All right, so I'm trying to think how old these people are. So number one answer was, oh, my God. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'd like to watch you stress out.

Would you stop it? All right. How about, oh, geez, I want to, oh, geez, baby, don't hurt me. No more. The Batabi brothers or Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Night at the Roxbury guys. All right, show me.

Night of the Roxbury. Why I couldn't pull that out of my head for the reason? Show me the Night at the Roxbury guys. Just outside the top 10, where were they? I know they were up here. I'm not going to see them quickly enough to make it worth it to tell you where they were. But they were up there. They were up there.

Oh, number 41. Actually, lower than I have. thought. Oh, yeah, that's weird. Yeah. That one was a big one for a while. All right. It was a big one for a while. I'm going to go with the Matt Foley, down by the river.

That was the other one I'd written. I'm Matt Foley, motivational speaker. Show me Matt Foley. Number two, of course. Yes. Poopy points. It is poopie points. Wayne and Garth, that whole thing.

Wayne and Garth. earth otherwise what channel was it Wayne's world yeah it was from Aurora what channel was it Aurora's uh channel it was closed public access public access 12 that sounds right

like that show me Wayne's world party time excellent number five okay oh man uh the

the will Ferrell Jeopardy stuff Oh, that is so good. Just Jeopardy. I know they do other Jeopardy things now, though. But I'm thinking of specifically that era. Sean Connery and Sean Connery. I think the word you're looking for is Celebrity Jeopardy. Celebrity Jeopardy is the word I am looking for.

That's good. Show me, I slept with your mother, Alex. Number three. Now, I'm going to tell you something about these first three answers. You can see right there, 38, 39, 40. Yeah, very close. 172 answers A responses from the tadpool

I made some adjustments All three of those were 39 I made the judgment and moved one up to 40 and moved one down to 38 Because all three of them were 39 Geez Louise that's a sign of a show That's been around forever

It is but it's also really weird That these three just these three Yeses would get exactly the same number Yeah that's crazy I'll go with a church lady next church. Dang it. I didn't think you would think of that. That's one that was one of the ones that it's from the golden era. Maybe. Maybe say, hmm. Yeah. Show me the church lady. Well, isn't that number six? Dang it. I should went with church lady.

He should have. Instead of Roxbury. This is turning into a little bit of a route. 16 to 8. It was just whoever got there. Yeah, it is. It's also, I feel like, I feel, I was trying too much in the early parts of this to think of stuff from for more modern ones but right exactly yeah don't need to really don't need to a lot of people love the classics not saying you know not saying there aren't some see I want to say one of my favorites but I bet it's not on here

but gosh dang and I feel like I need to so I'm going to say it the sister Mary Gallagher stuff I used to that cracked me up so hard dude I love her Shannon classic classic Molly Shannon bit there show me sister Mary Catherine Gallagher poop I guess she's not a sister She's just married

Catherine Gallagher She's just Mary Catherine Gallagher Um Superstar She was number She makes me She makes me laugh So hard

Yeah Smith and her pit Putting her hands in her pits Yeah Yeah Yeah So gross Didn't she have

For me to make a movie Really that's unfortunate They did They did make a Star movie Yeah Yeah she's She deserves more credit

Than she gets She's fantastic She does She totally does Yes All right Dena wap back in your court.

I'm gonna go I'm gonna go I'm gonna go oh dang it there's too many to choose my life so many of them

um scumby damn it I'm not sure or Mr. Robinson I can't do it can be damn it yes give me the gumby

all right Eddie Murphy show me I'm gumby damn it second strike I love that stuff too dude there's just so many

sketches there really are Once you start thinking about it gets tough. Gumby number tied for basically, oh, 39th place right there. All right. Let's go with, we're going classic. Let's go cone heads. I feel like that transcends the generation.

Yeah, the movie was great. It was great. The movie was fantastic. No, it's one of my favorite SNL spin-off movies, and I don't know why it's as good as it is. It's weird. It is weird. All right. Show me.

Nabbs. no second strike all the way down at number 20 where is it uh 27 cone heads oh i just thought it went okay you're a bunch of you're a bunch of cone heads um yeah a bunch of they do new stuff I've got too many it's a problem and I'm trying to figure out

the tad pool um I can't stop thinking about I can't stop thinking about dick in a box. I just can't. I don't know why. Modern-ish favorite. Sure. It's modern, yeah. Absolutely.

Lazy Sunday. I don't, God. Yeah, dick in a box. Yeah. Dicking a box. Step one. All right. Show me.

Dick in a box. It is kind of, again, surprising on that one. Dick in a box was 17. You're getting closer with your guesses to the top ten. Too late now, though, is my last drink. that. That was your last strike. Scott has won, but of course, he has one more guest to see if he can get some more. All right. I'm going to go with, uh,

Hey, you think the moon's made a cheat. The Harry Carrey, uh, the Harry Carrey, uh, the Harry Carrey, uh, Barry Carrey. There's a three more will perils. How many hot dogs. I love him, dude. All right. Show me Harry Carey. Uh, damn it. Um, again, got some votes, but, uh, was not up there. So many sketches. Oh, the freaking, I just looked at the chat. I just looked at the chat. that Chris Farley dance thing that's probably there isn't it shoot the chippendales thing it's not the top 10

really yeah do you think it would be let's look at the the remaining answers and I'll run through a couple of the other answers is it too wild and crazy guys come on that's that's up there

but also not in the top 10 number four weekend update the probably the only part of the show that's consistently funny it's not really a sketch though no but it's a tad pool so 31 tad poolers think it's a sketch so we'll give it to them

Um, number 11, your delicious dish with, uh, um, oh, sweaty balls. What's her name? I loved it. Is it Anna Gastier? No, no, no. Yeah. Is it her? And Molly Shannon.

Yeah. That one comes up a lot on the, uh, I watch, I watch the SNL 24 hour feed thing all the time when it come home. That's like when I want a little chill out things and they play that sweaty balls constantly. Yeah. Why not think of that? Anna Gastier underrated overall, though, like all the seasons, she's so great. Yeah.

And she's usually turned into a career. Yeah. No, believe it or not. No. Number nine, blues brothers so good, they turned it into a movie. Another classic. You know, I kind of forget the movie overshadows the sketch so much that I kind of forgot. Yeah, that you forget.

It started out there. I mean, office space started out as an animated short on S&L. Which is great to watch. If you can go find it on YouTube, it's great. Didn't make the list. But number 10, you danced around. it, Brian. You thought about choosing this one you didn't. Mr. Robbins

I couldn't decide. I couldn't decide. Wait, what's 11? What's 11 on this list? Eleven is pumping up with Hans and Friends. I was did that one too. I was worried it'd be too. Just to go through a bunch of these other ones that were close. Stefan from Weekend Update. Tunes is the

cat who could drive a car. Kate McKinnon's Alien Adduction reports. David Pumpkins. Laser is not up there. Nate Barguzzi's George Washington Oh, the George Washington Carver one, that one? Yes. No, no, no, no.

George Washington. The one where he's metric system and everything. No, mixing it up. That's very modern. I'm thinking of Eddie Murphy's George Washington Carver thing. The peanut butter one. Cheeburger, Cheeburger, James Austin's Trump impersonations, however they get used. The Dan Aykroyd's Bassomatic, Shopping Broccoli.

one one skit that apparently made enough of an impact that people put uh no real life bevis and butthead oh a couple years ago it was like a one-off yeah it was a one-off but it was so good that everybody in the studio cracked up yeah i think it was last year never saw the californians yeah uh un frozen caveman lawyer the wild and crazy guys cone heads mr bill samurai delicatessen shprockets uh the target it lady what up with that black jewell with that is the favorite which is the one where what's her name had the tiny had the little tiny

doll hands what was that yeah that's the Lauren book show yeah the character is Dunez Kristen Wiggs uh do oh and I'm Dunez that one exactly she's constantly like you know grabbing people's faces and stuff that didn't even make the list

really I love her colon blow corks sokers coffee talk with Linda Richmond the Chippinil's auditions the making copies guy making copies randy's making copies did anybody say the chris farley show where he would ask he was just awkward the whole time no no it's amazing too yeah because that's another classic one um stewart look what i can do that's from mad tv guys that's a different no that's oh no you're

right you're right you're right no brian's right we're thinking as stewart like everyone i'd like me you like you're the yeah you're you're you're great you're wonderful two different stewards but you're right mad tv is the little kid who goes look what i can do yeah yeah uh the continent another classic uh cross Christopher walking um ambiguously gay duo the Barry Gibbs talk show that was good actually

buckwhee uh the cheerleaders Farrell and uh Sherry O'Terry those were great yeah a whole list of these you look at these and it's like oh yeah these this is great that one's great what's the school assembly one with Farrell and um yeah the gas tire where they're the uh they're the

out-of-touch cover musicians. I love that so much. I can't remember their names, but because that's, whatever that is is the name of the skin. They just did that on the, yeah, they just did that one on the 50th version. Yeah. Deserved because it's always,

always funny. Oh my gosh, I love it. Uh, well, there you go. That's a lot of good stuff. Go watch SNL reruns everybody if none of this makes sense to you. Uh, but I'm very happy we have a winner. Yeah, what do we got? Yeah. King Kimizabi, you're getting some games that you didn't give us. you're getting a copy of Blood Omen, Legacy of Cain, and Sticks, Master of Shadows.

Oh, that's nothing to do with Mr. Roboto. But Aaron Wilson, you're getting a copy of Lego Star Wars, The Complete Saga. Like all of these, fantastic games, courtesy of Grievous. Ooh. Thank you very much, Grievous for getting us these. Is still a general grievous, or is he ranked? He's been demoted. Admiral Grievous.

All right. Yeah, he's the, they took his arms. They took his right arms So now he's left tenant Grievous He's a left tenant Take that the British Thank you for your patience

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That sound was for you but don't worry, you're still a winner in my heart. And tonight, we had to bump the Bubsy thing because I had some stuff for my mom yesterday. So tonight, tonight we're doing it. We're bumping uglies with Bubsy tonight. I was going to say, bumping bubsies. Bumpin' bobbies.

We'll see how that thing holds up, in my opinion, not as well as we'd hope. Certainly 3D, the 3D game is so bad. It's freaking terrible. But the 2D games, there's something there, and there's new stuff. You might be surprised. You might be surprised what you have to say, exactly.

I just picked up a game. I'll let you know about this, because this is very retro. Currently on sale for the next couple days on Switch is the Nintendo Shop, e-shop, is Into the Breach, which is like old-school advance wars.

Yeah, and it's on sale for four bucks. What's cool about that game is, so it's made by the FTL guys. Yeah. And it is this thing where you're predicting, you're shown the future of what your moves should be. And then you have to think, Yeah, it's almost like time-travely.

When you get in there and play that a bit, you'll see what I'm saying. It's one of the coolest games ever made. It's so rad. Very cool. Yeah, I saw that, I saw a video today of like, here's, here's the current sale. Here are the ones you want to check out. I'm like, oh, this one's a no-brainer. I love Advance Wars.

This feels like Advance Wars, but I love that aspect of it. And then what was the one, Crypt, Incription, the one that... Oh, Inscription. Yeah, the inscription. The one that Bill made the really cool little squirrel piece. Yeah, the card thing. where it's a kind of low low poly scary weird thing that one's on sale for seven bucks for the next 15 hours

worth getting by the end of the day pick it up pick it up by the end of the day inscriptions fantastic both are great games yeah yeah good uh well there you go everybody tarzan frankenstein and christmas one that's other oh yeah tonto tonto tonto is uh uh um the liar dude uh love it john love it's oh speaking of which the liar thing was also great. Yeah, there's another one. Tommy Flynn-Agan. That's the ticket. All right. Done away. Kiss our butts.

Bye. All right. He's out. That'll be the end to him. But here's, there's never, there's no end to this right here that I'm about to play. Isn't technology wonderful? That's not true. There's probably an end to it. But who would want an end to talking to Tom Merritt, who comes to us via DTNS, the Daily Tech News show, which is now just so much stuff. You know, it used to be like this one show. But now it's like 400 things. Like, and if you're into tech, why wouldn't you want that in your life? Tom Merritt. You wouldn't have to go anywhere else for anything.

That's right. Tom Merritt, how are you? What are you doing? What are you up to? You know, it's easy to listen to hard to master. That's what we say in Daily Tech News show. All right. You're like some of the best Nintendo games.

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You're going to get Daily Tech News show. Daily Tech News show, as promised. You're also going to get a bunch of live streams. I do office hours. We do DTNS live video. We've got Live With It, which you're going to be doing some stuff for, you know, down the road. So, you know, go check it out if you haven't checked it out. Also, Patreon.com slash DTNS gets all of it, too.

Yeah, live with it's great unless it's internal surgical tools. That one's not as fun to live with. But everything else, technologically speaking, is pretty good. I hope you live with it. Yeah. Yeah, live after it is what that shows called. That's like, gosh, I can't believe I lived with it is what that one is. I survived with it.

Anyway, Tom Merritt is here. We're going to talk about the latest and the greatest. Of course, you know, big shadow of Apple News yesterday. What did you have in mind today? What do you want to talk about? Yeah, yeah. So there's always the Apple news looms large whenever it comes out. And I know probably everybody in the audience has looked at the fact that there's the

thinnest iPhone yet it's 0.2 millimeters thinner than the Samsung Galaxy Edge oh take that Samsung and we got new iPhone 17s and we got new Apple watches and we got AirPods Pro 3 but there's always the people with the current devices who say well what about me well guess what about you you all get new operating systems September 15th four days before all the new stuff ships oh my gosh I was wondering about that okay so that's when the new um the new software drops for everything, right? iPad OS 26, iPadOS 26, WatchOS 26, MacOS 26, and VisionOS 26. Presumably TVOS 26, though that was not listed. So I'm not sure if they just forgot or if it's not getting an update. But that all arrives on Monday, September 15th.

And this is that liquid glass looking thing. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's interesting. I've been playing with the beta on my phone and I'm used to it now, but the roundedness of the buttons kind of took some getting used to, right? Square buttons, I, this maybe this is just me, but I have no problem hitting a square button because I got a lot of room for error. But the round buttons just made my brain think I had to be more precise, made me think more. It's a swing. Interesting. It's a swing. It's a swing back towards skemorphism, which they used to be big champions of. Sort of. Like, The icons themselves aren't skeuomorphic, but yeah, the visual language is. Is that the right way to put it?

Yeah, so if you're moving, you know, they want you to feel like you're moving a little liquid ball around or a button or a thing or a, you know, a lens or whatever. And I'm all for these kind of flourishes. I have no problem with them, but it's pretty. Yeah. Yeah, it sounds like it's probably from a practical standpoint, though, probably not going to add much in terms of usability. And now that I've been using it for a while, I barely notice it.

The one thing I noticed is when I go back to the home screen, uh the uh the icons kind of trail in in a little dance oh really okay yeah yeah yeah it's nifty that one still catches my eye i'm like this is one of the first um betas that i haven't tried on other non-production devices like i've got my main thing here but i've got a second laptop i've got a couple other things it's like oh i'll try the beta on there this is one time i never actually did never never never that's funny uh it's the conservation of trying out betas because i never put the beta on my production phone, but I did this time because I needed to talk about the SMS stuff with Justin Robert Young. So I was like, all right, I got to do it. And it's been fine. I haven't

had any issues with it. Well, it's, so when's that? What's the date? We all get that? September 15th. And do we know, did they say if the watch, the new watch OS update will feature that interface or that kind of, because there isn't really show it. Yes. There, no, there is a liquid glass element to the watch. It's just harder to see. You don't have a lot of the the big canvas for it to play out on. But yes, watchOS 26 gets the liquid glass as well. Also, if you have an older watch, like not the original Apple Watch Ultra, but any of the last couple, if you know that it has the S9 chip in it, then you will also get the hypertension detection and sleep score that they announced are coming to the new Apple Watches. So that's not a Series 11 exclusive feature.

Oh, good. I was going to ask, too, if the AirPods Pro updates will include, for the previous generation, those language translation. I'm glad you asked. The answer is yes, and I'm trying to find the details on it. But, yeah, I think it's AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 2. Cool. We'll also get that function. Great.

Are also getting that because they have the chip. I have four, so I'll be able to walk up to it, French. lady and go, hey there, baby, and it'll I mean, you could always do that, whether you're wearing the AirPods or not. It won't translate what you say to her. If you have these AirPods, it'll translate the names that she calls you into English.

Yeah, I was going to say. She'll translate it. She'll give me the direct translation, which is a punch to my face. Sacred blue, my friend. Yeah, knee to my groin. Well, anyway, that's interesting. That's what, that's all you'll hear today. I was going to ask you a question about, oh, I kind of like

this idea that Apple finally made a foldable, it's just in the form of the air, because it looks like it'll snap in half if you really want to fold that thing in half. Are you excited to your hands on one of those and see how sturdy it is? I am. I can't wait to go to an Apple store and pick it up and just

see. By all accounts, it's very sturdy. I know everybody looks at it and thinks, oh, it's going to snap. The Samsung Galaxy S-25 Edge did not snap. This one's not going to snap. They're better than that, I would hope. But yeah, it's, It's bigger, 6.5 inches that, you know, so it's thin, but it's large.

It's not quite as large as the iPhone Max, which is 6.7 inches. It also has a big camera bump. Now, so far, everybody who's picked it up who's been writing about it, like at the verge and other places, has said, you know, the camera bump isn't as weird as it looks. Like when you're holding it, you don't really notice it. It blends in well. So that's, you know, Apple doing some good design, as they are known to do. but there's some tradeoffs on battery life there is definitely a tradeoff on the camera

because you only got one camera sensor in there it's a fusion sensor so it can do telephoto and ultra wide and all that in one camera but it's a tradeoff from even the iPhone 17 not the pro which has two and of course the pro has three so a couple of tradeoffs with the thinness of it there but everybody seems to be raving about its design I mean when we were doing our live coverage yesterday during the announcement Sarah Lane as soon as they showed it. She's like, I want that. Like, it's just pretty, right? It just looks cool. Yeah. I like it. I think it looks nice. I just remember, I have some PTSD from the six. I don't know if you guys remember this, but if you put that thing in your pocket and you bent,

you bent in a certain way, you might have a, you might have a curved phone. It was a little bit weird. Yeah, no, I think they've moved beyond that. I've changed houses since then. So we've all grown. We've all grown a little since the iPhone six days. Well, that's great. More on that, obviously, lots of minutia to go over and talk about on all your various outlets. Yeah, real quickly. I was going to say the iPhone air being thin, I think, is them showing what the foldable is going to be. They want to make a thin phone so then they can put two of them together that will be as thick as a regular phone when it's folded. Oh, interesting. So do you think, like what a year, do you think we'll finally hear something a year on foldables from Apple? I think we'll hear something next year, whether it ships next year or whether it ships 27, I don't know.

You could watch Ming Chi Kuo and Mark German play ping pong on those dates. But that seems to be the plan at this point. I wish they were playing actual ping pong. I would watch that. What if they were? Let's make that happen. Let's challenge them. My money's on German.

I think he can't. Nurtacular 2026, German versus Quo. You could moderate or be the ref or whatever they do. Yeah, yeah. I'll brush up on my table tennis rules. Wait, do pink, does ping pong have refs? They probably do, right? they do yeah they have a judge okay yeah is it like tennis where he's in the center there

kind of looking at everything he's just standing i don't think he's as far up okay yeah yeah yeah he's just standing by the table all right yeah i don't know these things i never think about them until i do you know yeah yeah yeah i'm just thinking about olympics that's the only time i ever watched table tennis well fair enough uh tom merritt anything else going on today or any day this week you'd like to recommend people check out yeah we got new live with it coming out today uh mentioned that earlier so live with it the premise is rather than just give you a review of a new device, because everybody does that, we're talking to people who actually have spent time with a device and used it and road tested it

and literally lived with it. So we're talking to Dr. Nicky on today's episode about a cat tracker. So all you pet fans, want to find out how Dr. Nicky's cat tracker work. Does she think she really needs it? Did she learn a lot about her cat? Do she and her cat now have a new rapport that they never would have had before? find out on Live With It, Patreon.com slash DTNS or YouTube.com slash Daily Tech News Show or just search live with it in your pod catcher of choice. Man, I do that. If you never, if you hadn't heard it, it's been a couple years now or maybe a year. But I did one with the new, I guess it had been a year. It's the iPad Pro M4 for artists. Like that was the perspective is like what is this tablet for people who are doing digital art. And it is so much fun to look at your devices through that lens of how am I actually using this every?

day. Is it living up to what it promised? Is it living up to what it cost? Like all those kind of questions? This is a great show for that to kind of break that stuff down if you're interested. So do check it out. Tom Merritt, he is A's Detect on all the social media. So if you're trying to find him, I mean,

come on. That's where to look. Don't even have to look that hard. Tom Merritt, take it easy. We'll see you next time. Bye. Bye. Bye. All right. Yeah, should talk about that with Tom just here. today at 330 Mountain 530 Eastern 430 Central all those you can probably figure out Pacific we're going to be doing a live stream with the full Daily Music Headlines crew so

Eileen Tom Hammond Anthony and me answering your questions about music about how the show is produced all that stuff it'll be on the Daily Tech News YouTube channel so so look for it there but if you have questions email us at feedback at daily music headlines dot com get us some questions early because we like having those in the in the hopper to answer ahead of time feedback at daily music headlines dot com you guys do this on the monthly or is it we we have been this is the second month we've done it but we've been thinking about doing these monthly we actually did a live watch along the vMA is on sunday so this will be the second time in the week that we've gotten together yeah for me it's really the only way to

watch the V-Names. Otherwise, I wouldn't touch those things with a 10-foot pole. Who's this guy jumping around with no shirt on that everybody's all into right now? He did an Aussie tribute or something. I didn't watch it. Oh, it's Youngblood. Oh, I don't know him at all. That's his deal. He's really good. Like, he did crazy train. And then he also performed at the Big Ozzy birthday bash. And I can't remember what song he did there. I think he did changes. The guy has a massive Buster Poindexter. mouth. This guy has a massive freaking mouth. But he's really

good. And then they had Joe Perry and Steve Tyler, Stephen Tyler get up and do, do they do Mama I'm coming home, I think. Yeah. Oh, that's perfect for him. That was really good. That's a good vocal thing for Stephen Tyler. But there were, you know,

there was a ton of Sabrina Carpenter, which is fine with me. There was a lot of Ariana Grande. I understand her appeal like her sex appeal. I don't understand her music appeal it doesn't give me at all really i love it's funny you and i differ on that i think her album short and sweet is brilliant and i'm loving the new stuff from uh man's best friend i don't know i don't know why it doesn't ring with me it just doesn't what go watch the man's best or the

man child uh video and you'll see the sense of humor that she seems to inject in all this stuff all right that may that may turn me i'll check it out she's hilarious actually and her stuff on s and l's been really funny at least i don't feel like she's going to stab me in the face like Chapel Roan looks like she's going to do, right? And I like Chapel Roan's music. We've gone from Chapel Roan just, you know, disregarding you to now she wants to actively hurt you. Yeah, when I see her, just if she looks at a camera,

I go, ah, what did I do? And I have to do something else. I don't know why. It's more about me than her. I know, but it's something weird. Anyway, yeah, so check that out. Today, right? Check it out.

That's today at 530 Eastern 330 Mountain. The whole DMH crew at Daily Music, Daily Tech Music, I'm sorry, Daily Tech News, the YouTube page for those guys. Excellent. Go look for it and check it out. All right, we got a couple of bits of feedback here from listeners.

This email today from Dan, not our Dan, different Dan. Dan from Prescott Valley, Arizona. I have been there, beautiful part of Arizona, Prescott Valley. Yeah, that's where my niece and her husband just moved to. Oh, nice. Yeah. I wouldn't mind living there.

It's nice. It's like a middle. It's only five degrees, warmer than Denver on average as opposed to like Phoenix where it's 15 degrees warmer than Denver on average. People think of Arizona as just one giant hot nightmare desert, but there's so many, so many nice places. Elevation varies quite a bit with that state. Anyway, Dan says, just to give some more info about the I.M. Groot recording, something we talked about yesterday. Oh, good. Yeah. Says, I remember either reading it in the IMDB trivia or somewhere else that James Gunn gave

Vin Diesel the translations of what Groot was actually saying so that he could add appropriate and So I would assume that they didn't reuse any of the I Am Groot since he was metaphorically saying something different every time. Makes sense. That's interesting. And I love that. That sounds like a great way to do that because if you're trying to get a certain emotion out of Groot during a particular scene where it just, even though he's saying the same words, you need him to inflect in a certain way, that's a great way to do it. But that also means that Gunn as the writer had to come up with all these, all this dialogue that is. isn't, you know what I'm trying to say?

Right, totally. Yeah, like he had to know ahead of time like, all right, now you're responding to Peter Quill saying this, do an I am Groot in that sort of tone. Now do one where you're angry at Rocket for something. Yeah, like what you want to say to Rocket is... You're asking which button to push. Like, get the F out of my room when you're in teenage group mode,

but really all you can say is I'm Groot, so how would you do that? Like, this makes me respect Ben Diesel's performance a little bit more to hear this. Yeah, for sure. Not that I didn't like it before, but, you know. Martin Martin wrote in from Australia All Australia

I assume because he says something at the end But anyway I'll read it Says hey Scott and Brian With peace and love And a little tongue and cheek Well actually Says I need to pull Brian up

On something from TMS 2877 I love the idea of pull Brian up Is a way of saying that I know exactly I need to pull Brian up on something I like that I want to start using that regular conversation

Anyway says Brian Who claims to be a West Ham supporter suggested that the nickname the hammers comes from the ham and West Ham in truth West Ham are called the hammers and the irons because of their origins as the works sorry the works team for the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company symbolized by the crossed hammers of their badge so nothing to do with the ham in the name just doing my part to help Brian become a real West Ham supporter cheers Martin even an Ozzy knows this he says

he's obviously kidding around he is but you know what thank you I did not know that I just I went right from okay it's West Ham the Hammers has to have come from the name so thank you for thanks for clearing that up I didn't know also who would not who would know this

if you didn't live there like that if you said to me he's an Australian he doesn't live there and he knows it if you said hey string Strings Town has a team called the Stringers I'd go oh it's from the name Stringtown and they'd say no it's from the Because they make strings there.

So I don't think this is that hard of a thing to mix up. But now you're even a bigger fan of West Ham. Now I am, exactly. Listen, I picked it during the pandemic because I wanted to start watching. Well, I did start watching Premier League when I was in Boston for a trivia competition the year before. And the year before the pandemic. And my friend Don is like, yeah, you watch some. Premier League with me. He's a big fan.

And I said, oh, I'm liking this. What team do I want to support? I don't want to just go right in and say Manchester, Liverpool, because it feels like, you know, it's like rooting for the New England Patriots at the time. It's like going, you know, when I'm a brand new to baseball, I think I'll go with the Yankees. Exactly. Exactly. So I asked my dad

which I showed him a map of all the teams and said, which one is closest to where you were born, you know, and just said, oh, he said, well, Westham, is the, is the closest one. So then I just became a Westam fan. So that works.

Yeah. Got a personal connection to it. Yeah. Right. Now, he did not make hammers or irons or build ships. No. So that partially explains why I don't know the rich history of the Westam hammers. But anyway, no, I appreciate that, Martin.

Thank you very much. And now I know. I wish they made baked hams. That would be better. That's why they should be called. Yes, I'm sorry. Westem. Westem. Westem, is that how I pronounce it, Rufus? Westham, Westham? He's correcting West, yeah, not Westum, apparently.

Because then Zoe chimed in, Westum, hmm, Westem, Westem. Hmm. You just, or are you doing like we? Can I just call him West Ham? Come on, please. I think you can call him West Ham, dude. That's what I'm a dude. Thank you.

Let me do that. Yeah, take that. We'll pick out the grizzle from my teeth later. Let's see. How was pedantic pronounced? Am I pronouncing that word wrong? pedantic pedantic pedantic pedantic podontic

podontork nope you know I love you all yeah of course all of you we like these kind of corrections the ones on Discord are great too so if you want to send those in

we have the show on Friday where we talk about your well actually so keep those coming as predicted there will be no windy tomorrow because she'll be traveling here she's coming to help with the mom stuff so that's a thing

that means no windy tomorrow which means we're going to have a call now tomorrow and you guys are going to be able to call in have your voices heard and ask questions where's my thing I usually play for that I had it here now I don't there I do call now you'll do that tomorrow and it'll be fun because we get to hear what's going on with you in your personal life you know we'll get to docks you in various ways yes we love that yeah we'll answer anything just uh just uh you know be here to ask us whatever yeah that's all you have to do we'll be here you be here you be here to ask it. And then the result is answers to your questions. So that's tomorrow right here on TMS. A couple of things to mention. Frogpants.com slash TMS is our website continually. And if you go there, you'll find all the things you're looking for. Ways to contact us, just like these fine people did, all that fun stuff. Did I tell everybody the dates for Nerdtacular? I think I did. I think you did. Yes. If I didn't make it official. As the MS-150 in 2026. We thought we were avoiding it? We weren't. Turns out we just planted

right on the same weekend. And so more details later about the MS-150, but plan on me still fundraising just like normal and training just like normal. I just won't do the big ride. But I need

to train for it just to kind of for my own health. So plan on me acting like I'm still going to do the ride. I'm just not going to do that ride that day. Now, I know we were talking about Dertacular. I totally derailed in MS-150. Totally good. Uncle George and Aunt Barb are talking about coming to Nurtacular.

Let's hope they do. That'd be cool. Please cheer them on to come. That means they would also miss the MS-150 ride because the same thing. But the three of us are talking about going to a different state and doing the ride there. Oh, yeah, because the dates don't have to, they're not like the same everywhere for MS rides. It's not the same everywhere. So we could, you know, the next weekend, go up to Chicago.

go and do the ride there or I'm currently looking to see if there's one close to Steven's point oh that'd be cool yeah or not Stevens point uh Cedar point Cedar point oh because of the rides and stuff yeah the amusement park yeah I want to go to the amusement park while uh while we're there wants to get stuck on that one that keeps getting stuck you know I may not ride that one yeah that's that's freaking great dude uh yeah we so if you haven't gone to the site and check it out lately if you go to nerdtacular sorry frogpence.com slash nerdtacular you will see all the latest updates. The last time I put anything on there was on the third, but we do have confirmed dates June 11th through 13th. The big contract signing lunches in like a week. So that'll be

fun. Anyway, go check it out all the info. Oh, I hate the feeling of it because. Yeah, it's like, what did I forget? And you and I both know that I've signed those things and forgotten or missed something that they said in there, them like, oh, you didn't have a room in there for Scott? What the Yeah. And I did this like, I don't know, 10 years in a row, and I'll tell you, it never got easier to sign that thing. And this year's a little, even more nerve-wracking because we're doing it differently. It's not Snowbird, although we're getting, we got, we, I love this lady we got. It's all going to be great. I'm just having those like butterflies about it. So anyway, wish me luck. But go check it out. If you haven't checked it out, it's available on the website. That's frogpants.com. You just see the little intertacular link up top. Also, brand new Fred and Can was posted. not that that matters but wow that's cool if you're into you know that matters of course it matters comic strips uh there's one up there now about people getting suckered into AI stuff except this time it's fred and uh it's a funny one i think so go check it out it's called falling for it anyway the whole

archive's up there so go enjoy that today if you want all right that's it for us uh brian let's play a song and get out sounds good Alex from toronto wrote in and said hey scott and brian I'm requesting a song for this bittersweet moment in my life. We recently lost our beloved family dog, Kara, after a sudden decline in her health. We brought her home just 10 days before the very first episode of TMS aired. Both her and you guys have been with me through so much of the good and the bad since then. Thank you both for everything that you do.

It really does make the world a more enjoyable place, signed Alex from Toronto. Nice. I'm so sorry about your dog, though. That sucks. Totally. Yeah. For sure. um this is uh this is his choice of song and and god love you i love i love the uh the suggestion uh this

is a cover of florence on the machines dog days are over what i don't know what i expected but it wasn't that all right wasn't that yeah this is a cover uh by dan sultan a very slow and fun and moving cover, not fun, but a slow one and acoustic tribute cover that I felt like was of your song choice, the right way to do the rest of it. Sure, sure. And this is from his album, Aviary Takes from 2019. It is Dan Sultan and Doug Days are Over. Happiness

Hit her like a train On a track Come into water Stuck still She hid around corners and hid under beds Killed her with kisses and from it she flayed With every bubble she sank with a drink And wash it away down the kitchen and sink

The dark days are over The dark days are done The horses are coming, so you better run. Run fast for your mother and fast for your father. Run for your children, your sisters and your brothers. Leave all your loving and your longing behind. You can't take it with you if you want to survive. The dark days are over.

The dark days are done Can't you hear the horses Because here they come And I And I And I never wanted anything from you. Except everything you had. And what was left after that, after that too.

Happiness Hit her Like a bullet in the bed Struck from a great hind By somebody who shouldn't know better No better No better than land Ooh

Now the dark days are over The dark days are dead Can you hear the horses Because here they come Now the dark days are over The dark days are dead The horses are coming So you better run

Run for your mother And fights for your father Run for your children Your sisters and your brothers Leave all your loving and you're longing behind You can't take it with you If you want to survive The dark days are old

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