The Morning Stream - TMS 2888: Un-Robbing The Place

Episode Date: September 17, 2025

The Ham and Cheese of Cats. I got a Guy at Panera. Old People Need Fiber AND Internet! John Wants To Go On Home From Rehab, They Said No No No. I See Tomatoes and I Want to Paint Them Black. Controlling the pukage. Breaking bad with mom and Wendi. Tina On Retainer. Collecting Cats with Dunaway. I Don't Like Siameeeeeeeese. Cats are Dicks, If Their Name is Richard. Free Crap in the App. Coverville Can Conjugate. Grandpa said the quiet party out loud. Just A Little Bit Of Wonk w Tom and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I think the moon hit my eye like a big pizza pie, and that was pretty lame. So I will try and focus on the people like Mario, Brandon Bromley, and Lawrence Dove, as they are new supporters of our Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, the ham and cheese of cats. I've got a guy at Panera. Old people need fiber and internet. John wants to go on home from rehab. They said, no, no, no.

I see tomatoes and I want to paint them black. controlling the pukage Breaking Bad with Mom and Wendy Tina on retainer collecting cats with Dunaway I don't like Siamese There's a theme here Cats or Dicks

If their name is Richard Free crap in the app Coverville can conjugate Grandpa said the quiet party out loud Just a little bit of Walk with Tom and more On this episode of The Morning Stream Big women are beautiful too

Now there's a telephone date line Especially for big women and men who want to meet them Hey, bitches and bros and non-binary hos! The morning stream, the good guys will come and get you. Okay. Hello, everybody, and welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for Wednesday, September 17, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson.

That's Brian David. It is. I am. You are. We are. I have some, I have some green tea caffeine in me big time today. Oh, nice. Good. I've got, um, uh, this is the Panera, of course, Panera dark roast, uh, mixed with a little bit of Tarani, English toffee sugar-free syrup. Lovely. That sounds all right. I like that Tarani stuff. It's pretty damn good. I do too. Yeah, when we, when we went to the cost plus, I talked about getting that big bottle of pumpkin spice, uh, syrup. They also had a little sampler pack that I think, you know, they put out the beginning of August and said, oh, we have just a handful of them left. Let's mark them down to $4.99. And it's $4.99 for six bottles, smaller-sized bottles.

But each bottle is like four or five coffees you can put it into. Yeah, it's not bad. Yeah. Pretty good. Pretty good. Pretty good. And they taste great. They're a good variety.

Macadamia chocolate I had. um this is the english toffee there's a bourbon something it's like okay so when you go in there when you go in there and order this at panera you don't get the cup you just take your own yeah i don't even order it scott there is they have the the um you just walk up the iPad i walk up boop do poop do boop poop coffee walk over pour it myself i chat with hose jose the baker he's uh uh he works the um the line we always catch up he's got some cool like d and d and zelda tattoos and stuff he's a baker at home he basically he's you know works the line um at panera yeah but every once in a while he bakes stuff at home and he brings it in he's like oh brian i made these new uh banana nut muffins you

want to try one i'm like yeah sure oh you got a guy at panera i want a guy at panera i get a guy at panera who makes stuff outside of panera and brings it to me so tomorrow it's the birthday of one of the managers there and he's like Brian you coming in tomorrow I'm like yeah he's like I'm making a cake she asked for a dirtworm cake and I'm like oh that's the one with just like crumbled up Oreos and stuff on he's like yeah I'm not doing it like that so uh it's gonna have like a layer of the the regular chocolate cake and then a layer of fudge ganache to simulate mud oh and then the worms and then cover that with um on all sides with the Oreo cookie stuff I'm like see you do it right yeah

that's a that's a sugar bomb that cake so i'm looking forward to a slice of a free slice of cake at panera from uh from hose that's great i need a jose at my panera you need a hose at your panera yeah everybody should have a jose at their panera i'll see that's a great title get get something in their chat um i had a had a funny experience yesterday that was a little uh kind of shocking we went to so we moved my mom into a facility yesterday a long-term care facility there was a whole story about how hard it was to get that to happen but once it happened it was like all hands on deck my sister wendy's still in town my other sister misha myself kim everybody else who is here is all been like okay we're gonna rush around get all this stuff done so kim spent most of the day helping move stuff and being there when she got actually moved and then once i got off shows i ran out to oram and helped move her tv a couple other things that just sort of fill out the room some decorations and stuff stuff. And this place is nice. I was really impressed how nice this place is. It's kind of newish and this really nice. Even if you're just visiting, they have this whole room that looks like a 50s

diner and you're encouraged to get ice cream, soft serve, cookies baked every day, coffee. They have drinks. Kind of cool, right? They kind of have it. You know, like I've been to a few of these facilities when my grandmother was moving from a couple facilities and Tina's grandmother. It's like, all right you know you just you just got to deal with a few a few cranky people but they kind of have a really nice setup at a lot of these places yeah they're not bad and in this case there there's some couples living there that are just you know old needed assisted care there are a lot of single folks obviously like my mom or not my mom but singularly living in there maybe they're husbands or somewhere else yeah a little wishful thinking yeah there's been no divorce unfortunately

anyway all that stuff is in the rooms are really nice everybody has fiber in their room their own fiber point in their room which is crazy yeah so crazy good internet people need fiber but you're talking about different kind of fiber yeah talking about the internet i wish i had uh orum's got really good fiber but anyway so all this is going on and we're super happy with it but we're all running around like little ants trying to get this done before it's late and they have to lock doors so it's about nine a clock by the time we find everything we need to at that house and then we whip down there it's only about five minutes away and uh we're carrying the tv in kim and i she's on one end i'm on the other end so like a sort of largeish you know flat screen not heavy but awkward so we're carrying that through the hallway and wendy is talking to one of the nurse the night nurses who would be there to like someone pulled their thing and then go check on them and give them their pills and all that and she's they're having a conversation about my mom's meds and

she says yeah so you have the list or this and that and the lady's saying yeah we're not sure what she's supposed to take tonight so we're going to try to find that out i hope we've got here what we need if not um we maybe have some methods runners can go do things and you know all this stuff about pharmacies and go and fetch yeah fetch pills if she needs yeah so then kim goes and this is the most innocent thing in the world kim says oh as we're walking by with this tv she just like put their head over and goes uh just so everybody knows are, hey, Wendy, I forgot to tell you, mom's got all her, all her pain meds and everything in the room from before. The other nurses gave her. They stocked her up just in case it was going to be longer

than it was. So she's got all these pills in there. So we should be okay. The lady goes, oh, and I went, oh, she's about to say, thank you. I'm so happy to hear it. But no, that's not what she was going to say. She goes, oh, that is not what I want to hear like that. Exactly. She yelled it in the hallway. And Kim goes, have to be managed. Oh, shoot. And I go, yeah, absolutely they do. And they have really hard core policies there. Yeah. And she goes, you did not just tell me that. And I went, no, no, no. What she meant is we flushed it all down the shitter. Let's keep moving. Let's keep moving. Nothing to see here. Look at the nice shiny TV. TV folks, TV. And she eventually went, yeah,

and she, we talked to her after. And we're like, we're so sorry. We didn't, we don't know. And she goes, she goes, it's just, families always have right intentions. It's just sometimes you're not aware of the policies and it's fine. So it all worked out. But man, there was a minute there where I thought, oh, shit. We barely got in here. We're about to get kicked out. If this was a memory care facility to be a bigger deal, right?

Because you don't want to have severe meds with patients who don't remember whether they've taken them already or not. Right. Or somebody's got plans to end things and you don't, you know, you're. oh right geez yeah laws for that and all that yeah so the whole thing's a big fat sticky wicket and we were just like and i really did say no we flush them down the toilet i don't know what she's talking about and wendy goes yeah yeah yeah we don't have them anymore and like you know we're kind of playing this game and the girl's the girl was kind of playing along but it was for a minute there and she was loud about it she's like oh oh i don't want it

like uh shit anyway so we gave her the pills and then they got her the right ones and everything worked out i'll tell you what though moving a tv into a place like that in the in the in the in the dark you feel you feel a little weird because nobody's moving almost like you're you're unrobbing the place kind of thing kind of yeah reverse robbing it did feel like that i'll be honest everything we brought in there felt like if you put it in reverse we look like real skeezers you know it was crazy and my poor sister misha she's trying to carry things that are twice her size because You know, see Misha, she's little. She's short.

Petit. She's adorable, but she's short. Yes. And also she pisses me off. She's in her 50s, but my sister, Misha, looks 17. Oh, I know. Yeah. So she looks great.

Yeah. I've seen her. We came to the house the other day, and she was squatting because she can still do that. Because the Koreans are built for it, right? She's squatting on one corner of the room, looking at her phone while it charges, because she was trying to charge it before they left. And I walked in and I said, you look like a K-pop star over there, making sure her phone's okay. She's like, oh, whatever.

I'm like, yeah, man, I don't get it. I look like a rusty old pipe and you're looking great for your age. Yeah. Crazy. I mean, the thing that still blows in my mind is how she just randomly happened to be at the Mandalay Bay pool the day that I had the, we had the cabana rental for my 50th birthday that year. And it was like, oh, hey, it's Misha. How you doing, Misha? That was a wild happenstance.

Weird co-winkie-dinky. Yeah, that was crazy. But she obviously was doing great. The problem is everybody's got a billion things going on. Sarah's in town now. They're here all week. Oh, wow. Yeah, Misha's got multiple people in town.

Plus, she's watching her daughter's kids while her daughter's in Indonesia for a week for a business thing. So it's just like chaos. But we made it all work. And she's in there. Oh, and big thanks to Tina for reaching out. to me on Facebook and kind of giving me the rundown, like the stuff we've been talking about. Yeah, yeah. And just as she does that, that was the day later that day that we got the just finally got John to sign off.

Yeah. So I've got her on retainer over here in case anything comes up because John says he calls on the phone last night. This is great. We're in the room. He's on speaker. And he goes, he's real slow right now. And he goes to mom. He goes, who's there?

and she goes, Scott and Kimmer here. And he goes, okay, call me back when they're gone. And I said, not realizing he's on speaker. Yeah, and I said, John, we're right here. What's going on, man? What's the matter? You know, I don't like to dick around. And he goes, nope, he goes, oh, it's fine.

You guys do me, me, whatever. And then at some point he said, she's settling in good. Everything's good. It's very nice here. She's comfortable, this, that, and the other. And he goes, well, tell her out to get too comfortable. And I'm like, you just can't stop, can you? That means.

Yeah, exactly. Grandpa brain bleed over there. I was going to say with his situation, is there somebody who's looking in on, does he have the nurse service coming in, checking on him every couple days? Yeah, so he's in the hospital still. No, no, no, sorry, sorry. They just moved into rehab. He's out of the hospital. Okay.

But he is in a facility. He's in a whole separate facility and it takes three people to get him to stand up. He ain't going anywhere quick. He thinks he is. He keeps saying, I'll be home Thursday. No, you won't. Not if it takes three people to help him stand up. Yeah, he gives my mom a bunch of false hope.

He's just kind of the worst. And he even admitted to her and I overheard it. He said, I just don't like not having control over everything. I mean, he basically said the thing that's the problem. Exactly, yeah. So step one. Step one is identifying the problem. Exactly.

So it is what it is. We're all working through it. The important thing is that we all try our best to bring Brian Dunn away into this call. Hey, Brian Dunaway, welcome to the Tad Pooley feud. What are you doing? No, I's gotten, Brian, just enjoying a rather chill Wednesday. Oh, yes. Yeah.

Yesterday was all like, I'm coming at you. I'm coming at you. And I'm like, back off. Yeah. But today is kind of like, it's like, hey, we came at you yesterday. We're going to let you slide down the other side of hump day. Yeah, man. That's great.

And leave a streak. No servers on fire, no code to fix or any of that. You're good? No, man. I'm trying to jinx myself. Where's the wood at? I'm not going to pun it. Well, all of South Carolina and the rest of our great nation, thank you for your service.

All right. Oh, absolutely right now. In my shorts. We've been talking about the 3D printing. Yeah. Got to tell you, man, I was printing a display stand for, somebody overnight not a not a chiber crystal one but one for like a really cool periodic table that loose side thing i showed months ago scott we talked about oh yeah um with all the periodic

table element items in it yeah and um i just said oh you know what i've got this bottle of um pure black resin that i've never really had a use for because i don't want to use it for minis people's meanings that need to be gray or this other thing or this thing but oh you know what actually work perfect for this because i'm going to give this a i want it to be black black and then I'm going to be painting silver gun metal on top of it. Ooh, yes. Fancy. How about some rubbing buff?

Actually, rub and buff is pretty good on this, too. So I start the print, make sure everything's going okay. We go off to trivia last night. We're gone for a few hours. We come back and it's like, who the house has got a bad toxic smell in it. Oh, is it that strong? Oh, my gosh. Yeah, I'm basically, now that I've printed, I'm throwing out the rest of the bottle.

This stuff is so bad. That's like one of the things I read whenever I'm buying resinous, like, you'll look at the reviews. It'll say like, this thing stank. Going back to the elegoo, but my God, this. I got turned on a long time to the elegoo translucent purple. It's kind of like a dark purple. And it's good because it you can keep exposed. it it cures faster because it's

transparent essentially so yeah no that's one that that um bill duran recommended well back the the um the transparent the smoky gray is the one that he recommended smoke gray is it looks like it almost got dark purple but it does it's that is a great clear absolutely yeah ABS like yes yes I love that stuff and that's the stuff I'm going back to as soon as I'm done with this print

sure. Nice. Not too smelly. No. No. Not too smell. Just the right smell is what you want. So every window in the house is open. We've got fans in front of them. Every window in the house is open. Don't forget. The country song, Brian? The New Borgon Wallen hit.

You never know what that guy's going to do. Check it out. Here's advice we've had for years about your black resin. Here you go. Tomatoes are like black and tomatoes aren't supposed to be black. There you go. Nope, I'm going to 3D print them in purple and then my tomatoes. I'm going to paint my tomatoes black.

Nice. Yes. I love that Rolling Stone song. All right. Hey, Brian, let's get into this game. Let's talk about who's going to win what and play the deal. Well, okay. It's time to play the tadpool.

I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics. Maybe today not so much. And Scott and Brian will have to predict the answers that they gave us. It is their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. the player with the most points at the end of the game wins a prize for their contestant and we've pulled contestants from supporters on patreon you can be won as well patreon.com slash tms automatically in the running for prizes which is pretty darn good um scott you're playing for racer a 951 why oh yeah racer very very active member of our community he is and loves

the races them bikes uh brian you're playing for kevin anderson who i think rode mr andy the early Star Wars novels. Isn't that the name of an author who wrote early Star Wars novels? I don't know. I don't know that name. Kevin Anderson,

for some reason, that's the name that Anderson I don't know. Yeah, he sounds really familiar. Yeah, Kevin J. Anderson. Oh,

Kevin J. Anderson. He wrote spin-off novels for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E, and more. Nice. And more. Holy shit. And more, but.

I bet it was science. fiction based what do you want to what do you want to bet yeah probably probably not that kevin anderson uh let's get to the game right now here and it's uh ironic that uh scott was talking about this subject with carter last week or i'm sorry last monday and we talked a little bit about it today but is it's a lons morissette question what is it's it's a it's ironic it's a name ironic things that uh alanus morissette talks about your song um all right get your hands on your buzzers we asked 472 tadpoolers name a cat breed.

Gummett. Scott. Main Coon. Show me Maine Coon. It is the number one answer. 82 of our tadpoolers chose Maine Coon. It's popular. It doesn't get you a lot of points, but does get you control of the board to begin the game.

Nice. And now is when things really matter. I feel like the targets on me a bit because, uh, yeah, I'm, I'm, Brian's a giant cat guy. He's got like 15 cats at home. You're always rescuing cats. But they're all the same cat. Yeah, so I mean,

that's true. I'm a giant cat guy. I only have one giant cat and one smaller cat. Yeah. But the other Brian, Brian collects cats. He'd like find strays and shit. You've got a bunch of cats.

I see what you're saying. It's just the six. Don't let him all like. Six cats. Six cats. You could probably, you know, go down the list of those and get half of the board here.

Like I said, they're all the same cat. All the same cat. Two of them are man Coons and then the other four are the same cat. I don't want to say that. What kind are they? Well, I can't say that loud, you goober. But that's six equals a bunch.

I'm telling you, you got a bunch of cats. That's half. That's half dozen. You guys don't know your measurements. I think you think how many scoops goes into some raisin brand. That's a metric dozen, though. That may be a half dozen imperial, but in metric terms, that's a dozen. That's right.

That's three feet to the beaver's tail or whatever we would do here in America. In cats, in cats, that's 42. Yeah. Fantastic. All right. Well, I guess I have control of the board here for a minute. Yeah. Let's go with Siamese.

I just, Siamese. I mean, I don't know. If you please. All right. Show me Siamese. If you please.

Oh, boy. Number two answered. Not a lot of points. I was really hoping this was lower down there. Sure. All right. Tabby. Cats.

Tabbies. All right. Hey, Tabby. Hey, Abby. Show me. All, all the orange. Tabby's have one brain cell between them. Show me a tabby.

They are kind of dopey. They're pretty dopey. Number four answer on the list, they're taking up to seven points. We have a tabby next door named Carl, and Carl is singularly focused. Hey, Carl. Can't really think about two things at once. You probably can't tell me if these include any, like, big cats, like, zoo style. I will not tell you any of that.

Okay. Because the Tadpool would probably do that, but I don't know if they'd top ten do that. You know, top ten do that? I'm going to wing it and say that somebody said Tiger. Let's try it. Okay. All right. Show me Tiger.

Damn it. People did say Tiger, but it was lower on the list. All right. That's a good test. Brian, you're lucky I did that test for you because now you have to. answer, knowing that nobody did that. Tiger number 19 on the list.

Okay. 19, 19. No, no, no, no, no, no, 19. 19. All right, done away, it's yours. All right. Well, how about, how about a, how about a sexy Persian?

Oh, shit. A Persian. Damn it. Long hair. It's in his name. It's like Persian. Yeah. Persian.

Sure. Yeah. Uh, show me Persian cat. yeah there we go number three you're in striking ourselves a game yeah right how about one of those sphinx cats how about one of those oh the stinky ah shit that's a good one a sphincter cat sphincter cat yeah yeah sphincter cat with a big ass ears show me sphinx there you're number six taking up to nine yeah took me near two points ahead now buddy picking the lead we're here

we are is it Himalasian or is it Himalayan I can never remember One of my friends had one of those It was terrifying Well Himalasian is not a I don't think that's no Why am I helping you?

Why am I helping you? Well I'm seeing Siamese and it's messing with my brain I'm looking at Ziamesean No Himalayan I'm going Himalayan All right All right show me Himalayan Himalayan those points somewhere else.

Himalayan was number 15 in the list. Allie Allie Cat. I don't think that's a good one. I don't think Alley Cats is a real breed, but it might be a thing you'd pick for a list. So I'll go Allie Cat. Show me Alley Cat.

Oh my gosh. Not even on the list. Yeah. Really? Yeah. All right. All right. I'm going to say, it's got to be on here.

The Lissy Sphinx, Mancun, Siamese, Persian, orange tabby. No one's mentioned the short-haired cats, which is mostly what we have. Yeah. Short-hares. Can I say short-haired? Do you have to be more specific than that? Nope. That'll qualify.

Show me a short-haired. Oh, my Lord. Number seven, the American domestic short-haired, A.k.a. practically what I would call a mutt around here. The ham and cheese of cats. We got a few. All right. America domestic short hair sitting on a fence.

Kicking my ass, man. Not really. Because I'm kind of running out of stuff here. Let's see. Wow. Name a cat breed. Black, no. Black cat.

Six minutes till Tom eat your lunch. Sorry. What did you say? Oh, geez, I'm getting, what am I getting an hurry for? Oh. We only got two strikes. You think, you think any, any morons put Garfield? I just feel like, I feel like that's what people would put on there.

That's funny. Yeah, I mean, I can't think of too many more. Let me think, that's about all the ones I know. The ugly one with no hair. the and then the siamese which is always oh they're so mean um short hair which all i have uh just gonna go with a black cat let's put black cat on there all right all right show me uh black oh my bomb bay or black holy shit which is one of our cats is bomb bay um yeah a few people just put blacks and people put bomb bay black uh and then a lot of people put bombay but um bay

slash black cat. Okay. Damn it. All right. What are those? What are those? I just got through listening to, I've been listening to, uh, uh, uh, dungeon crawler Carl and he says to what kind of cat it is.

One of those flat-nosed cats. The donut is a princess donut? Yeah. Is it Princess donut? I think it might be right. I think he might be right. I'm forgotten already. I'm behind.

I think it is. I think it is. Princess donut is a Persian. Yeah. She's like, get that flat nose. Amy confirms. And if there's one. one person I consider to be the authority on DCC, it's, uh, it's Amy.

Oh, yeah. Between her and, uh, hooty, I, they got it all cornered. Yep. I'm going to, I'm going to say Scott is smarter than any. Did you, you didn't actually say Alley Cat, right? I did say, oh, wait. No, you know what? No, I didn't.

Go ahead. No, I don't know what to trust you or not. I don't know if I can trust you. I did say, Allie. You don't, I'm not going to screw you. All right. you demand you're a man I'm out of cats I'm out of cats um really stray stray stray stray okay oh I like it we can get a little the stray cat's in time that game that game is pretty good stray that's a really fun game yeah it is good

uh all right show me the stray cat struts nope damn um case you thought I was giving you a hint earlier when I was singing about the uh black and orange stray cat sitting on a fence well Back to Scott. 24 to 7, Scott. You need, you need some points. Is Burmese a real cat? Oh, Burmese cat. Yeah, those are great.

Burmese is real, right? Burma. Sure, it is. Yeah, but I still call it Burma. All right. Let's try Burma. Show me Burmese. Oh, my gosh.

You know, it's, it was a very good guess because Burmese, um, oh, 24. I actually thought Burmese was higher when I, when I was totally. That's amazing to me. All right. I'm out. Brian, you've technically won, but you've still got... We talked about the short hair.

Let's just see if anybody put long hair. Okay. All right. Show me long hair. Oh, wow. No, long hair. What's the first? Because we've got a couple.

There's the British short hair. Some of these are already long hair, but I wasn't sure if those need classified. Yeah, American long hair tied for 32nd place. let's see What's left on the list here You know, breeds versus colors Tedpool don't know Show me number five

Oh, Calico Yeah, not a breed Not a breed but a color But then again they also said black The kind of cat my mom has actually Is a rag doll cat Oh right We're super fine hair

And shorter legs I think slightly shorter legs? Yeah, they're really sweet those cats. They are. Yeah, kind of if I get a cat, I'm getting one of those. Those are nice. Number 10, got those with those funny little flips on their ears.

The Scottish fold. Oh, yeah. I don't know what that is. You've never seen one? They've got the well, it's literally because their ears fold weird. Their ears fold, yeah. I call that a sick cat. They look a little like dogs. It's weird. they kind of do uh number your your bonus uh one

gotten you an extra guess would have been tuxedo cat that's a real thing which is a color like white yeah because he's black and white yeah because he's black a little bit of white on the chest usually i had one it's like an american short hair that's black and white it's not a not a i don't think it's a breed it's just a color gotcha um some other ones let's see manx russian blue uh tortoise shell bengal abyssinian uh cornish rex Egyptian now three people said house cat

cow it almost said house cat that's a good one two people said cheetah uh Norwegian forest cat okay Tom cat and then a bunch of people

just put dicks because cats are dicks that's fantastic well there you go well done to the winner Brian what they win oh yeah let's talk about

what these guys won. So, Brian, because you won, Kevin Anderson is getting a copy of DMC reboot. You get to reboot the DMC, I guess. Oh, yeah. As well as... It'll make cry, right? No, you actually get to run. Yeah, DMC's Dylan May Cry, but if you

have to run it. So you are running DMC, run DMC, see. There we go. Also getting a copy of Batman Arkham City Game of the Year edition. How cool is that? It's a good PC version of the game. It's really good. racer 951 why you're getting a little to that Batman love as well you're getting a copy of

batman Arkham asylum game of the year edition so a lot of Batman going out to people today big thanks by the way to grievous oh thanks you cleaned up the list a bit there scott a little bit I added grievous and got rid of some crossed outs and the grievous ones he told me I have they expire next October oh so they've got a year to use they have a year so just yeah so anytime we do the grievous ones just so you guys at home know, those need, you just need to hurry up

and pop them in. I'm sure we'll get through them. Just redeem them quick. Yeah. Super nice of him to offer that, of course, and everybody else. Congratulations.

And this is for me. Oh, well, I'll survive. Done away, we did a play retro yesterday. It was a fantastic time. If you guys liked the DSX game

from 2000, you are going to want to pick this one up and give it a listen. We had a great time with that episode. So, yeah, go check that out. Is there anything else?

For a bit myself. Anything else you'd like to say, before I kick you unceremoniously out of this call. I'm augmented. Eat my butt. All right. Eat my butt. Jeez.

I probably could. Yeah, I tuned in, tuned in just to see you guys talking about the Palm Pilot and that extendable foldable keyboard that we all have for our Palm Pilots. Did you have one of those two? I did too. Yeah. That thing, dude. Oh, my gosh.

The stuff, the accessories we used to get for our crappy devices, fantastic times. I know. I know. All right. Let us dive, hence, forth and forever into this little fun bit right here. Isn't technology wonderful? You know, it can be.

I'm not going to say it is every time, but it can be, and that's usually dependent on whether Tom Merritt is involved. And when he's involved, well, it's just off the charts. Tom Merritt, welcome to the show. How are you? Well, thank you. It's good to be here. Oh, it's good to have you, man.

Damn those charts. I'm off them. Right? Get off the charts. That's not good for you. Get off of my charts. It's good to have you here, man. We're deep into a week, which means there's probably a bunch of tech stuff going on this week.

I don't know. The Apple thing happened, and that's all like in the past now. So what's new? Well, it's not all in the past. The phones haven't shipped yet. None of the products have shipped yet. Everything ships on Friday, right? All the orders have taken place, but the deliveries have not.

Didn't they get delayed, too? There was delays in some orders, pre-orders or something? No. No, there's no delays. Where did you hear that? My buddy on, what's his name? A guy that wrote, he must really be my good friend since he wrote him. Anyway, he was saying he had ordered two different phones.

He ordered the pro and the air, and he was going to decide between them and return one. I don't know why he's doing this. But his dates, when he first ordered him, he was up in the middle of the night doing it, and he got certain dates. And then he two days later got notified that it got pushed like a couple of days. So that, that happens every time to somebody. And I can never, I don't think anybody can tell how many people that happens to. But that, that often happens and it's incredibly frustrating.

So I get why if it happens to you, you want to shout it from the rooftops. But yeah, pretty much every time there's somebody, there's a few people out there saying like, hey, I ordered this and it told me I was going to get it on the day. And then, then my date slipped. but there are plenty of all the models shipping on the date they said. And of course, as always, you know, after enough people order, the shipping dates do start to push out. I don't know if it's a glitch in Apple's system where it doesn't recognize immediately how many have been ordered

and tell somebody the original date and then it slips or what. But that's not uncommon to happen. I haven't seen any reporting that there is an unusual incidence of those at this point. Well, that's good to hear. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know they pride themselves sometimes on exceeding your dates, like coming in early. At least this has happened to me a bunch of times. Pride goeth before a fall.

I know, right? You got to be careful with that stuff. But I've always liked that. It's like, oh, we'll get it on the 25th and then I get it on the 18th. And it's like, oh, what the heck? I love that feeling. Yeah, I wouldn't expect that to happen this time. But maybe, you know, if it's, what is it, the 19th, maybe some people get them on the 18th.

That might happen. I'm no expert in tariffs and stuff, but weren't we expecting these units to be more expensive, but they're actually priced pretty much like they were last time. This is why I don't talk about tariffs a lot because there's a whole lot of people pretending to know about tariffs out there. I'm not saying it's you, Scott. I definitely don't get them. I don't understand. There's just a cloud of tariff expertise. I get my tariff information from a few sources, including Big Jim, the trade nerd. And as far as I know, tariffs don't immediately mean price rises. Sometimes the companies have enough margin that they can eat them and say, like, you know what, we'll sell fewer if we raise the price. So we'll just make less per item. I think in Apple's case, I am 72% certain that they were exempt from the tariffs, that they got an exemption so that the tariffs don't apply. It's because Tim Apple gave him that really shiny little resin plaque with a gold apple on it.

Could be. Perhaps. Perhaps that's why. Well, okay, interesting. So yeah, they're shipping. We got iOS 26. Last night's when I got it. I know it's been out for two days. It's been a wacky two days here. But yeah. And I was on the beta. So I got it Monday. But it was the beta. But now it's not. Like, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, yeah. I usually don't put the beta on my phone because I want to experience it with everybody else. But I did it this year to test out some I message stuff that was changing. because I was talking about it on Justin's podcast. And so this is the first year where I'm like, wait, I got it on Monday ahead of everybody else, but it's not the beta anymore. It just says it's the regular thing. So that's something people might, you know, if you're like, I want to get it early, you can install the beta just a couple of days before and you'll get it early. Sure, sure.

There you go. I've put it on the phone and the tablet, you know, the iOS, iPad OS, and iOS. I have not yet done it on my computer. I was going to do it yesterday. And then things just got super busy and I had no time. So maybe doing Tahoe today and see how things go. Welcome to your new podcast, Tahoe Today with Brian. Have there been reports of incompatibilities with major things that you've heard of?

Not yet. Okay. Great. Maybe I'll be the first experience. There always are. There always something. Again, with every new operating system, no company can test at actual scale without actually releasing it to everyone. And so once it gets out there to everybody, little things usually show up.

If we're lucky, they're minor and they get fixed really fast. That's usually the way it goes. And yeah, it's been out there now for a day. And I haven't seen the like people with Tahoe are saying a strange glowing demon appears above their screen or anything. Well, they're just not just not doing it right. By the way, the so Mac rumors, as often they do, they have a really great forum thread. that is essentially that it's like a compatibility list and people are reporting anything that they see that's weird and posting it there and it's pretty good pretty comprehensive and that's great that's good place to yeah there we go it's a good place for me to just just peruse and make sure there's nothing in that list that's what I use yeah that being said I'm like usually I wait for a weekend that way if you know everything goes afoul it doesn't run into my shows but I'm going to

be traveling this weekend so I'm like maybe I'll wait till next weekend yeah I'm gonna I think I'm going to give this one a week maybe two just to you know there's always patches and stuff and yeah yeah exactly sometimes that's the safest thing is wait for the first patch and then you're pretty good and if you have if you're running a notebook separately and this is true for Windows users by the way if you're getting

a major update and if you got a portable thing that's running the same OS give it a shot over there it's maybe less mission critical or whatever and you can test it out and see my secondary laptop I can do that on yeah yeah I like that a lot well that's cool I can say this though

The only issues I've had with iOS 26 now, they call it. That's the new thing. It's the year they do, or the next year, I guess, that they treat it like. Right from 18 to 26, just a huge jump. It's eight better. It's like the Madden series every year now. Yeah, yeah, or car models, you know. You buy the 26 model car now in the end of 2020.

I'm glad you brought that up because the Honda Accord Hybrid that we now have, We sold her other car, got a Honda, a cord high. I haven't talked about it on the show, I don't think. Anyway, it has either Android Auto or CarPlay, right? Like all most cars, new cars do. And CarPlay was perfect leading up to this update. Oh. Since the update, just a little bit of wonk.

Only here and there, not a giant deal, able to make it work, or, you know, skip past a strange little flub it did on a moment, moment. Yeah, like it feels like everything's just kind of. like a little bit like oh shoot well that'll take a patch or we'll need a little update I try to launch music is like hey go ahead and agree to the new terms of music before like when you're not driving I'm like well I'm driving now I want to hear music yeah timing couldn't be worse should have told me this beforehand thank you yeah but so far other than that no big issues the way I use it okay is it is it possible to upgrade car play on the car like does that is that a thing

I don't know I assume there's you can do that right what do you mean update car play on the car like car like do a firmware update in the car right because the car it's not just your phone behaving yeah the car has to receive it in whatever way it does so there may be like a Honda patch

oh I see what you're just saying yeah maybe there is okay yeah I didn't think there was anything Kia because I don't think it just but you're right there probably is like yeah we've got to make some Evo stuff that works with yeah there are some updates that happens sometimes they can happen without you needing to do anything just by connecting your phone. But if there's a way to force it to update, maybe that would help.

Yeah. Well, we'll see what happens. All I know is I've been watching Justified again because it's one of the greatest shows ever made. Really? That's funny. So I've been playing a lot of Southern Rock in the car. And it worked out in the end. It was in the glass.

That was the glass. The whole, I just watched that finale, man. Margo Martindale, man. I'm going to go on the record and say that, I will go on the record and say that, The finale of season two is among, if not, it's in the top three finalies of any show I've ever seen of a season finale. I've never, it's still so good. Masterwork. I love that show. Well, Tom, is there, is there anything else brewing or going on? Just since we're talking about all the Apple stuff, all the reviews of everything are out today. We talked a lot about iOS, which is probably what most people are getting since the phones haven't shipped yet. But the reviews for the iPhones themselves are out. And the consensus across all the various tech reporters seems to be that the iPhone 17, the base model, is the best one to get because they upgraded the specs so much that it's pretty close to the pro.

And the pro is like if you absolutely have to have the telephoto lens, if you absolutely have to have bigger battery or that faster processor because you do a lot of like high performance video editing and stuff on your phone, get the pro. but for most people this year they're like the iPhone 17's pretty great they they brought those specs up super close to the pro and unless you need a couple of those big features you're probably good with the 17 how are the how are the air is reviewing so far the air is being reviewed as surprisingly better at battery life than people suspected at first but still you not only lose the telephoto but the ultra wide lens so it's a downgrade in the camera from the 17 and the pro yeah uh And, you know, there's some other compromises in there that people are like, you're paying more and getting less. So it really doesn't make sense on paper to get the air. However, if you're just like, I love that form factor. I want to be able to slip it in my handbag with no problem. Then it's fine. It's a good phone.

You won't be disappointed in it. It's just not the best buy or the most power you can get. Okay. Interesting. Yeah. The verge says the only things they don't like about the base 17, Zub capabilities, as you mentioned, weaker compared to the point. It gets a little hot during heavy gaming sessions. Right.

It doesn't have the thermals that the pro does now. Yeah, which is kind of nice. Oh, that's the other thing I noticed with iOS 26 is, this is always true. Every time a new phone comes out, or a soon as a new OS comes out, there's a lot of re-indexing happening. So your CPU goes a little nuts at first, and they get hot, and you're like, why's my phone getting hot? But it'll, why is it smoking? What's happening here? Is this egg I poured on it fried?

The one little harsh part about their bad on this is, Apple intelligence is still somewhere between useless and MIA, which I think is just a real indictment of how slow they've been about getting all that stuff working. Yeah. Yeah. But according to Ming Chi Quo, the orders for the 17 were ahead of the 16. And if you remember, when they announced the 16, it was all about built for Apple intelligence, built for Apple intelligence.

This year, they just talked about specs. They just talked about, you know, fundamentals and engineering. And it appears that maybe what people care about is the phone. working right now. And the fact that Gemini is better than Apple intelligence doesn't really matter to most people, at least at the moment. Yeah. Just want a good phone that does the stuff they like, so there you have it.

You may have helped turn me toward the base phone. I might do that. Yeah, take a look at it. Yeah. Because again, there are some good reasons that you might need the pro if you're like, oh, I do a lot of gaming, or I do a lot of video editing, or I need super long battery life.

But for most people, if you look at the 17, you're probably going to be like yeah that'll be fine that'll get me everything i need yeah um tom norman uh asks in the chat do you think we'll ever get camera phones that lay flat again instead of having a a lens bubble a lens uh protrusion i mean that never say never yeah never never say never but not anytime soon no no i mean that is a bit of a you if you want these if you want these pro sLR style features you you kind of, right, at least for now, until they really get micro with that stuff. I don't know how you avoid it.

Yeah, I mean, I'm sure everybody's working on it. And that's why we've seen the telescopic lens, you know, where that can flatten down a little bit more. And one of these days, somebody will crack it and be like, we can give, we can deliver you all the camera performance with a, you know, a flush lens at the end. It's going to take, honestly, if just off the top of my head, I would wonder if you need a battery technology.

improvement, because when you're buying, especially when you're buying an iPhone Pro, you're mostly buying a battery that has a tiny little phone attached to it. And if we can get battery tech that doesn't need to take up that much space, then suddenly you can be more flexible with what you do with the cameras, and maybe that'll help. Yeah. And it's also important to look historically at this stuff. If you want to look at the last time, you could do an 8X optical zoom, not digital, but optical zoom. Forget about all the other features. That was the thing my dad had that was about this long

attached to a huge bodied camera and film had to wait. That's a good point. Yeah. So, you know, we're getting there. We'll get there eventually. Something will happen. But then also the expectations always rise. So it's like, well, we want 20 optical zoom.

Well, it's still going to have a bump for that, you know, until we don't. Yeah, right. Yeah, that makes sense. Probably something like the iPhone Air would be the first, if they ever get there, to have the flush camera mount. But your pro is still going to have the bump because they want to have all the right right yeah and if the air if the air is a continuous product from here if it succeeds but not every phone does and sometimes they drop them you know we've had various versions of

the phone when they've done that the small ones no longer a thing what was that called the whatever was the little bitty one yeah micro what did they call it a mini what did they call it a mini I don't remember what they called it it was it was not even that long ago maybe two generations ago they had a like I remember is the SC now I'm right yeah I forgot the name of But anyway, that thing went away. I'm not saying the air is going to, but if it doesn't succeed wildly, maybe it won't stick around. It was the mini.

I was right. It was mini? Okay. I think it says something about none of us remembering it. Completely forgot about that one. Wow. I think they thought a lot of people, it was one of those like things where a lot of people said, I missed a small phones, but none of them really wanted it.

Yeah. Yeah. Once they saw, they're like, yeah, I'm still going to buy the regular. Yeah. That thing's too small. Oh, that's the size. Yeah. It's a principle of the internet is don't pay attention.

to even yourself what you say you want because when the rubber hits the road you may not. You know how many times I put up a new print? Everybody was going to cancel Netflix. It turns out they increased their subscribers. They actually went higher. Somebody was lying.

Yeah. I mean, I've got, I can tell you, I can count on, I've run out of fingers to count how many times I put up like a print or a sticker or something and said, put these in the store soon. Take my money. Gifts of everybody throwing money at me. It's like all this stuff. Those people didn't buy it. They didn't buy anything.

They just said it. And you have AI hands. There's more fingers there. That's right. That's right. Tom Merritt, tell us more about anything you got going on right now that people would want to check out before you go. Oh, yeah. I'm really having fun on free time newsletter these days.

I actually did a whole tech write up on the Microsoft stuff. If you were curious about what's going on with Microsoft, I have a whole column on that in Friday's free time newsletter. and get more people interested in the novel I've been serializing on the paid tier there. It's called The Girl at the Bottom of the Lake. It is a story about two young folks who are trying to become dimension rangers and discover a mystery. So if that sounds fun, you can get an excerpt in the most recent version of FreeTom Newsletter and see if you like it. Go check it out, Freetomnewletter.com. That sounds great. He is Tom Merritt. He is Ace Detect on all the socials.

And if you can't find him there, then I don't know what to do for you. All right. Bye, Tom. All righty. Always good to talk to Mr. Merritt. Yeah. Let us now dive directly into emails. Okay.

Ryan, I got an email here. All right. Okay. Good. Text, actually. Polly from Wisconsin wrote in. He says, hey, scoob and boob. I think you're boob.

Yeah, that's fine. That's fine. I come in pairs. There's no way to. There's no way to Scooby-Doo And then who else has a bee Yeah

Because you got Fred, Velma Daphne Scrappy There were no other Like I'm sure there was one of the One of the big monster villains Began with a bee Right

Or old man Ben Who ran the amusement park Yeah But there's no Bob or barrier Yeah All right well We'll go with boob

It's fine Baggie I mean Even She's real name with something like Norville, so that doesn't even begin with a B. No, we can't do much with it. Anyway, he says, this is the response to that Sieb email yesterday. And just in case, in case people missed it, it short, I'll read that again.

Seab yesterday, whoever this person is, says, when did you guys have that tree when he, when did hay, says Sieb. When did hay? Yeah. When did hay? And so this guy wrote in today and says, I have no idea who this Sieb is, but I think he has a point. what's uh say what that point is only he can tell you now drive safely says paul in wisconsin well thanks paul you really help clarify things there yeah you know is there is there a little bit

of wonder if polly is really seab like is there you know like uh soon as i got i go we're getting trolled by paul that's right he's sieb he's seab he's see yeah in fact up that his name is paul seab paulie seab yeah dj polly seab We've got a call also from Mongo. And Mongo, who calls himself Mongo, says this. Hey, guys, it's Mongo here, real name Brent, from Boundless Wander. Real quick, I'd like to give you guys a thank you for giving us a shout out a little while back before we started our hike that was unexpected. I'm not surprised because you guys are so awesome.

but besides that we just wanted to give you guys an update we've made it close to 300 miles on the appalachian trail yesterday we left pennsylvania we're in new jersey now and we're having a great time thank you to all the tadpoolers who are following along on our youtube channel boundless wander on youtube thank you guys for all the support we love this show i'm listening as much as i can but you can imagine that's not very often. All right. Thank you, y'all. Everyone, we'll see you soon. Mel, you want to give them a happy trails, y'all? Happy trails, y'all. Happy trails, y'all. Oh, man. I love... That is so

cool. I love it. I love it. I did recognize the name initially, but yeah, no, these guys, they're cruising the Appalachian Trail. They're there right there. It's so cool. Isn't that cool? It's freaking awesome. They're out there doing it. They got and look at them, but just southern...

I like their little animated animated video. Yeah, isn't that cool? I don't know who did this for them. It's really neat. Yeah, but they're chronicling the whole thing. They just seem like people I want to have a barbecue with. Totally, yeah.

That's awesome. I want to eat some gorp with them. Hold on. He plays music. Hold on. It's like he does. We're about to expose him a little bit. Let's see what we got here.

Let's give this a little bit of a listen. This is him right here. Yeah. Watch it be a third eagle cover. out in the woods and stuff for those listening I love to sit here he's good yeah he's really good yeah

watching all the passers by you know what give us send us uh we'll play an indie at the end with something from you man yeah no kidding yeah give us uh give us your pick your best song your favorite of your bunch and shoot me a link and uh guys are living the dream yeah out there hiking uh it probably listens to the show sporadically because i'm guessing where they go they get really spotty connections to download anything so yeah exactly i would have to think well anyway you know you want to experience nature and not have like us at his ears like rambling on about bad

resin smells and assisted living facilities and stuff he's like ah look at these cool trees oh the damn resin smell

and stunk up the whole house right yeah man I want to this makes me want to go up I'm sure this is true

of you too but up in the mountains all our canyons and stuff all the leaves are turning so everything is starting to look like New England

up there awesome yes it's gorgeous right now but go to New England folks don't come here to Colorado

over to Utah Go to New England, go check them out there. Go to your leaf peeping elsewhere. Yeah, go where the house prices are too low. Go there. Exactly, yes. Yeah. Go where McDonald's isn't $16 for a combo meal, all right?

Jeez. I was there last night. I had to get a, I just need something. Seriously, is that much? No, well, the combo was about 15. Good Lord. Yeah. I thought they were lowering their prices.

I thought that was a big thing they just announced. They did just announce it, but I don't think it's, I don't think it's permeated yet. Okay, the extra value meal. so I just got one of their I think it's like $2.50 for a double cheeseburger and nothing else. I just got that. That's not bad. It's fine. It's not bad.

But a Big Mac combo meal should never be $15 or pushing that. I mean, Tina and I, you know, we did trivia last night. They hold it in the bar at the Alamo draft house. And she had a wrap. I had wings and fries. Coke Zero.

I think she just stuck with water and then oh my god we had their this this you know sometimes you just got to do it um their banana pudding it comes in like a little mason jar it's really small it's not not big with four little nilla wafers jammed in top and you've got real real banana in there yeah so freaking good might be the best might be the best thing on their menu and they have a good menu but all of that um with tip came out to about 75 bucks oh not bad that's a i don't know i don't I don't know. That feels like a lot for wings and a wrap and fries. But was it if they're good? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's too much.

It was really good. It's not bad if it's really good. I guess I'm, you make concessions. Yeah, if it's tasty and it's not garbage, I feel a little better about it. Yeah. And we won trivia. We won a bunch of prizes. So really, it offsets. Like, I won, I won about 15 bucks in just personally house cash. So I guess you got to take that into consideration. Well done. I kept choosing the daily doubles and you automatically get a $5 gift card when you choose a daily double even if you get it wrong. So fine with that. Totally fine.

I found, by the way, I found the real numbers here. So an average Big Mac costs with Big Mac fries and drink in the U.S. The average is around 9 to 10.50. But here's how it breaks down. The cheapest you can find it in the country

is somewhere around eight. Okay. I think that's reasonable. Eight would be reasonable. It doesn't see where the country that is. It doesn't. See, Greater Long Island. something, something.

Okay. Like rural America, the McDonald's are going to be, you're going to see them lower around eight. Near cities and things like that, high cost areas, California, New York, that sort of thing. You are going to be paying up to 18 or more for that combo meal.

That's F. Yeah, Vail. If you go, if you're driving down I-70 towards Utah and you, you know, you're like getting into Aspen or Vail and you're like, you know what? I think I'll stop off and get some McDonald's. You are going to be paying.

yearly 20 bucks like you said for a for a extra value meal or for a combo it's jacked up man yeah don't like it that stuff supposed to be cheap it's the whole point yeah they've even said it they've even said it right they came out and go and said hey we're stuff's too high we're gonna lower it or whatever we're gonna lower it they haven't done it yet yeah they need that money to fix their ice cream machine that's the whole yeah the other but the pan their own personal pandemic is broken ice cream machines exactly yes uh all right well that's it for messages if you guys want to send us some. We got email, we got text, we got voicemails, all of which can be accessed

and easily used over at frogpants.com slash TMS along with everything else we got going on. And if you're looking for other shows and when they will air, check out frogpants.com slash schedule today at 11am. I believe 11? Or is it noon my time?

Crap. I should look that up because I should tell people correct things. Plus you have, it's Greg word on the street, right? It is word on the street. Okay, noon in my time, mountain time, noon, 11th, their time, Pacific. But anyway, we're going to have

Greg on, or are going to have Brian Holinka, famous for his time at Blizzard. One of my favorite people in the world. He's working. I never heard that name in a long time. Wow. That guy's awesome. So he'll be there talking about new classes and some combat and some other fun stuff they're working on, on their new big MMO. So check that

out. It's going to do it for today. Brian, anything else you got before we go? You know, I will echo something that people have been talking about, Ambassador Domo, chat room. If you are going to McDonald's, Wendy's is also like this. Use their app because I get offered free crap in the apps of these things all the time. It's like, hey, if you come in today, we'll just give you large fries, no, no questions asked, or get this for a buck if you come to Wendy's today. And it's all through the app. So Wendy's, McDonald's both have killer

deals in their app. There's probably more of them. I know Jersey Mike's gives me one and two dollar off coupons all the time. Sure. So there's something, there's something a little of your, your, your, uh, money saving public service announcement coming at you. We're all about saving you guys some pennies. We do a lot of that just by being so damn cheap on our Patreon. So don't forget to go there to Patreon.

Exactly. Get your ass over there. All right. Help us afford to supersize our fries. Okay. Go to patreon.com slash TMS. All right. Let's play a song.

Get out of here. Yeah. Oh, everybody's saying like, yeah, Burger King app, Arbys. Okay. So we'll just get them all. Just create a little folder on your phone that's called fast food open in case of emergency and put all your fast food apps in there. Nice. All right.

Let's go to this one. This one comes to us from Annie. Annie says, my daughter, Lizzie, is turning 12. So I wanted to ask you all to wish her happy birthday. Well, let's start with that. Okay. Here you go. Every time I would say to you.

The only thing I would say to her is 12 is a minefield. It means kind of the worst part of you. junior high all that stuff but it can also be one of the best years man so i'm so excited for him to hit that big number just ignore the trolls that's all i'm saying exactly yes don't don't pay attention to the mean girls um unless you are one of them i'm sure she's not she's my only baby and such a fun enthusiastic girl see there and even confirms that she's not a mean girl she loves music and sings along to everything and you know what i do too lizzie including this one right here. I definitely sing along to because

it's from one of my favorite recent Disney films. It came from Enkanto. Did I tell, did I say that she, a newer Disney song or something from the descendants? Well, you're getting a newer Disney song. And this is one, like I said, that I do sing along to.

Enkanto, one of my favorite more recent Disney films. Just really, really like that one. And surface pressure, one of the best songs from that thing. Here are the plain white tease with a cover of surface pressure from a whole new sound. Diamonds and platinum

I find them I flat And I take what I'm handed I break what's demanded But under the surface I feel berserk as a tight rope Walker in a three ring circus Under the surface Was Hercules ever like

Yo, I don't want to fight Cerberus Under the surface I'm pretty sure I'm worth this If I can be of service A flaw in crap A straw in the stack That breaks the camel's back What breaks the camel's back is

Cracks you like a drip, drip drip That'll never stop Whoa Brasher that'll tip, tip, tip, tip till you just go pop Whoa Give it to your sister, your sister's older Give her all the happy things that we can't shoulder Who am I if I can't run with the ball

And if I fall to Brush it like a grip, whip, grip and it won't let go Whoa Crash her like a tick, tick till it's ready to blow Whoa, oh oh Give it to your sister's stronger See as she can hang on a little thunder Who am I if I can carry it all the fast water?

Wait, if I could shake the crushing weight Of expectations were that free so up for joy Of relaxation or simple pleasure Instead we measure This growing pressure It's growing Keep going Because all we know is

Match you like a drip, drip, drip that'll never stop Whoa Pressure that'll tip tip tip tip till you just go pop Whoa Give it to your sister, it doesn't hurt I see if she can handle every family burden Watch as she buckles and bends but never breaks No mistakes

Just pressure like a grip, grip, grip, and it won't I go. Whoa. Pressure like a tick, tick till it's ready to flow. Whoa. Give it to your sister and never wonder if the same pressure would have put you under. Who am I if I can have what it takes? No cracks, no breaks, no breaks, no mistakes, no mistakes, no pressure. This show is part of the fraud.

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