The Morning Stream - TMS 2892: Hooked on a Pretzel

Episode Date: September 24, 2025

We got trolled by SEEEEEEB! Fred in Zaire has the Diaherear! Don't Chew, Just Suck. Dunaway can't handle the tooth. Heavenly Scouts. Brian's Hot Balls. As Subtle As An Apple Pie Without A Wiener In It. Chalamet Ratboy Face. Leo Vermicelli. Scott's little dent. Other Day-Lewis. I Hope My Duplicate Has The Drizzling Shits. Marked Safe from The Rapture. It dumps the snacks in its gullet or it gets the hose again. Stripping with Tom and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is it normal for the nurse to put your flu shot in your left testicle? Gonna guess? No. Is it normal for her to put a little money in your Patreon every month? Of course. And you can do it too at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, we got trolled by Sieb. Fred and Zaire has the dire ear. Don't chew. Just suck.

Dunaway can't handle the tooth. Heavenly scouts. Brian's hot balls. As subtle as an apple pie without a wiener in it. Calamee Rat Boy Face. Leo Vermiscelli. Scott's Little Dent. Other day, Lewis.

I hope my duplicate has the drizzling shits. Mark safe from the rapture. It dumps the snacks and it's goet or it gets the hose again. Stripping with Tom and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Listen, you old shit. I need to find this address. Now you're going to help me or not. Well, let's say not.

We'll just leave it at that. The morning stream. They're coming to get you, Barbara. There's one of them now. Hello, everybody, and welcome to TMS. This is the morning stream for Wednesday, the 24th of September, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. Hi, Brian. Howdy, Doody. In the middle of the week, hump day, my friends. Yeah. Did you have anybody? we were talking about just a second ago, but do you have anybody disappear in your life in the rapture that supposedly happened yesterday? No, you know, I didn't do the full wellness check on everybody,

but did some of it, you know, did the, just look on Facebook say, okay, yeah, they posted, guess they're still around. Oh, oh, they post, oh, that guy posted it. He's still around, darn it. Because I'm starting to think, here's what I think happens. I'm starting to think there's not going to be a rapture at all.

I'm starting to think this might be a bunch of Hocom. No, but even more than that, I'm starting to think what maybe happen is they send out scouts to, like, see how things are going, who's going to go or not. And so these heavenly scouts come and they look down and they go, oh, shit, modern day Christianity is kind of effed. These people lost the plot. You know what? Never mind. We're going back. And then the people down here are never going to even know that they were looked over.

We, everyone got left because everybody sucks, you know? Yeah, yeah. I kind of picture it, you know, they're looking down and figuring out, well, let's see. If we take, we got to figure out how to take people out that nobody's going to miss. So we need to only work with this person and their immediate circle of friends. But then we look at that circle of friends, does he reach out? Yeah. And that sort of thing.

So they actually have to look at kind of a jigsaw puzzle of humanity and say, wow, here's what we could do. We could take out this whole section of people and these people would have no idea. And it's like Leport looking at the map of podcasters saying, well, yeah, old Fred here in Zaire, he's got a big unit. Let's take him and his whole, every connection he's got. Fred and Zaire. I love that, how specific it is. It's a very good African name, Fred. Why not?

I like it. Yeah, I don't know, man. I don't know anybody who got taken anywhere. So my wife left this morning. Or do you? And they've been replaced with an exact duploid. Oh, is that part? I didn't realize that was part of the lore.

Yeah. See? A twist has revealed itself in the plot. Maybe you were taken and replaced with an exact duplicate, and this is something that the duplicate would say to throw us off the scent. Oh, well, I hope my duplicate has chronic diarrhea. That's what I owe. Well, you're the duplicates. Oh, shit, I don't want that, no.

Yeah, you don't want that. You don't want that. I want the original. Whoever left, you can have diarrhea. There you go. Anyway. Diarrere. We're here to do a show.

and why not do it, I say. I have an addiction. I cannot stop. I got a problem. I need your advice. I need your advice. Here we go. This happens when Kim disappears, isn't it?

Yeah, and she's not, she's only been gone. Let's see, she left this morning at about 5.30 to pick up her sister. And then, so I guess the last I saw her, because they swung back around here, was about 6.30. And then off to the airport. So I haven't had a lot of time to do a lot of damage yet. However, she bought me a bag of these things. and you'll note that they're gone. This is an empty bag.

These are the... Oh, look at those hot buffalo wing. Sniders of Hanover, pretzel pieces. These are hot buffalo wing flavored pretzel pieces. Now, I've always liked these. For years, this has been like a favorite of mine. Give me a little bowl of these. I even had a little bowl. It was about this big.

Did you? Okay. Just do a little at a time. That's the way to do it. Exactly. Keep the bag in the kitchen. and only bring a little bowl of it down to your desk. Yeah, I'm doing Brian's hotball method. Or what it's called? Firebreakers.

That's not what I do with the atomic fireballs. They sit in this Cleveland plain dealer great results jar right here. Oh, I love that. Yes. Yeah, okay. So similar thing, though. You are piecemealing it out. You're not going all at once ever.

When I bring down a thing of Trader Joe's Tom Yum snack mix, which is a new discovery that has changed my life. That stuff is the freaking best. I want to work there. I want to live there. I love that place. Everything there is good. It really is.

Yeah. Including my son. My son currently manages the back stock area for one of those places. Oh, I didn't know that. Maybe I did know that. Maybe he loves it there and he gets 20% off everything. Oh, see, he needs to hook you up with a lot of those. Tom Yum snacking. That stuff is

I agree. The bomb. Anyway, so I keep the bag upstairs and I just bring down a little bowl and that keeps me from just dumping the entire bag into my gullible. All right. See, these are good. What you're doing is good because I need to hear these ideas. I need to implement into my life these proper behaviors

because I'm so hooked on these that if another bag was here now, I don't know if I could control myself. I love these so much. And they're stupid like full of sodium and there's no sugars which is nice uh so i'm not getting a bunch of sugar crap but i'm getting 370 milligrams of sugar or of sodium sorry okay i was going to say wow that's a lot of sugar for uh for a savory snack uh seven seven grams a total fat we got some saturated fat like

none these it's not like these are not a healthy thing to go to town on but i cannot get enough of these i love these so much um i like the ones with mustard i never tried the buffaloing so you think i have this i have this uh thing with these where i don't chew them i suck on them for a while because the flavor is so addicting and so i just none of this will be taken out of context it'll all be fine jamie keep your pen to yourself or whatever right uh anyway they say on here big flavor i can confirm big flavor right good anyway so uh wish me luck because i have another bag upstairs i'm gonna my goal is to not finish that before Kim comes home.

That's how I'm treating it, you know? Yeah, yeah. I probably shouldn't try to even finish it a week by a week after she's home. But I can't guarantee that. Even that's too, even that's too quick, too quick to polish off a bag. Yeah, I, you know, we do these things. I went, like I said, we went to, or I went over to the, one of my clients in Old Town Arvada yesterday after the show or in the afternoon.

And as I'm driving back, I'm like, you know what? I just need a little snack or something. And there's this place called Power Cones that just opened up. Little Mom and Pop ice cream place that does soft serve. They've got vanilla, strawberry, chocolate, and then they can do swirls of most pairs of those. Well, some pairs of those because of the way their machines are set up. Do they call them twists like they do here? Twists, yeah.

Yeah, twist or twirl. I think they might call it. No, I think they do call it a twist. I love a twist. I decided, you know what, I'll just do a kid's cone and I'll consume it on the way home. She's like, all right, she starts doing it. And I'm like, oh, man, you guys have really added a bunch of new flavors since I was here last. She's like, yeah, and today's actually the first day of apple pie flavor.

What? Apple pie. She's like, do you want a sample of that? I'm like, well, I can't say no to that. So I get my kids cone and then she gives me a little cup that's got, you know, another few teaspoons of the apple. pie stuff in there and I'm like yeah this is probably not uh it sounds so good though was it good that sounds great it's great yeah the apple pie was really good very subtle flavor but it was a nice like you basically get apple and um like like graham cracker kind of a kind of a crust flavor

probably gram cracker is what they're using even though you don't typically do a gram cracker crust with apple pie when I was a kid uh the thing you would do every day. Well, I would do a lot after school was, and I, I'd probably grade school through some of junior high. After that, I didn't do it anymore. But I'd come home and there'd be graham crackers in the, in the cupboard. And it was normally there because my mom would make like crusts out of it, like you're talking about. Yeah. Yeah. But we didn't really, gram crackers weren't a thing we just kind of ate. But I would take stacks of them and dip them in whole milk or D, vitamin D milk. Sure. And then just soak that stuff.

And just enough so that if you left it a little too long, it would go, Blah, it would fall apart in the milk. It was a skill. You had to get good at it. The timing is crucial on that. I thought that was the greatest after-school thing you could ever do. We used to, in college, we would get, or when I was living with Kim and then I had a second roommate, Jim and the, uh, Kim and Jim and Jim.

I like that. Uh, I was dating Kim. Jim was the helped, helped offset the costs and, uh, gave, gave me a place to sleep when Kim's brother would come to town since she didn't want her folks to know she was living with a boy. Yeah. But we would get

gram crackers and flavored cream cheese. I guess it was Philadelphia used to have like strawberry flavored cream cheese or maybe pineapple flavored cream cheese. I think they still do. And you do. I think they have some of that still. Do they still have it? And then you just take the graham cracker and you just kind of like dip it in there a little bit or just

grape a little bit off the top and the balance of the of this sort of semi-sour of the cream cheese and the sweetness. I would have never thought of that outside of just a bagel or whatever. That sounds really good. Yeah, it's really good. It's a good combo. Oh, giving me some bad ideas for what I want to go to the store for. Jim is the roommate that I had that looks almost spitting image of Kid Cavalier on.

Oh, really? By the way. Yes. Oh, man. That curly hair kind of like rat boyfriend kind of look to him. yeah do you want yeah that rat boy face man that's a big deal right now isn't it everybody's it really is yeah the shallow ney rat boy face yeah well done hollywood you did it uh all right good news everybody we're gonna play a game and we have a guest with us

Brian denoui had to go get a tooth fixed he had a crown fall off yesterday and as a result we have a stand in not really a stand and he's a perfectly good suitable replacement am I though are you though I think you might be yeah that's TV's Travis by the way everybody you're on the phone there hello yeah hello hey man how are you I'm good yeah I'm highly caffeinated this morning yeah man you sound good this new roadcaster's treating you well you sound fantastic I'm very very happy with it so much so in fact that I am selling my old mixer today oh very nice I hope you get a good deal you can sell it online yeah taking it to a place or you uh i found some somebody on facebook marketplace is buying it i have yet to use facebook

marketplace should i be doing that for more things is that easier than ebay and stuff well way easier than ebay because it's you know you just have people um either meet you somewhere or come to your house and get it and i'm i'm typically a yeah let's meet at this little coffee shop by my house yeah that's what i'm doing yeah um you'll have to let me know offline how much you were asking for it because that's that's kind of what I need to do with my old Mackey as well yeah I was thinking the same thing I'm like I don't quite know what to do with that part of me pack righty about it I'm like well you need a backup hang on to it just in case and yeah all that but I'm like no just sell the damn thing why take I take the space

the only problem with mine is that the it's got eight it's a Mackey 12 and it's got eight SLR, not SLR, XLR inputs. Yeah, and input number one doesn't work all of a sudden. So I just have to block that guy off and then or just, you know, I'll just let him know in the ad. It's like, yeah, you've got seven inputs instead of eight, but that's plenty.

It should be plenty for you. It should be plenty. What are you going to do? Have like a giant panel at Comic Con or something? Sorry, it's four inputs because they're stereo calls at eight. I got you. Yeah. Oh, I see.

Because I have six, but only two are XLR. are and the rest are the stupid quarter inch, whatever they're called. Yeah. Yeah, I'm ready to, I need to sell this. You guys have convinced me. I'm doing it. All right. Perfect.

Let's play this game. Brian, you want to explain these rules so that Travis and I know what the hell we're doing? I'll sure give it my best shot. It's time to play the tadpooly feud. I've surveyed the tadpull on some nerdy topics. And Scott and Brian are going to have to berbs scrotten and Travis, I just read whatever is put in front of me, are going to have to predict the answers they gave us. It is their job to see how many of those answers they can guess.

uh we're going to be uh pulling some folks in from the patreon and you're going to be playing for them and the person with the most points at the end of the game is going to win prizes for their proxy scott you're playing for friendly sleet 66 oh friendly sleet is there such a thing friendly sleet well it's better than an unfriendly sleet Travis you're playing for spike folds oh all right yes it's a place you go visit uh it sounds like a tv show about a creepy town and everyone's a little weird and off right it was the spinoff of gravity falls. Faults. Exactly. Spike Faults. Weird. All right, let's get to the game here, and it's, you know, typical tadpool. I'm just going to tell you that right off the top of the bat here. Put your hands on your buzzers and give me your best

answer to this. What is your favorite band or artist known for doing cover songs? Scott. My brain just went blank, so I'll say Aretha Franklin. That's wrong. Show me, Aretha Franklin.

Of course, did a great cover of respect and, and, you know, not a bad idea today to think about artists who maybe aren't known for doing cover songs, but maybe are known for doing one notable cover song. Yeah, and I wish I could even cop to that, but really, I just pulled the name out of my head. Queen of Soul was right there at the top of your tip of your tongue. Travis, time for steel. Oh, man. Known for covers. Pentatonics. Oh, Pentatonics.

Show me Pentatonics. Oh, really? We'll keep going back and forth until one of you chooses something that's on the board. By the way, pentatonics in the list, but not in the top. They're number 16, if that helps.

Back over to Scott, you get to give an answer? The people we like, the Mary Jack Connors, Or maybe they're not married. They're just together. Or maybe they're not anymore. I can't think of their name.

Poplamoose. Jeez. All right. Show me Pamplamuse. Number six. Oh, right. So, Scott, you get control of the board, but who knows what you're going to do with that. I don't know about this now.

Who's the, we always do those bluegrass. guys um just did the the the uh modest mouse album uh the other day i was listening to it here and that is something something horse something something something something something i think it's iron horse is that right or silver horse hold on silver horse i got my metallurgical uh mix up here let's go uh we'll do Iron Horse. I'll go with my gut. It is Iron Horse, by the way. So very good. Show me Iron Horse. Boom.

Didn't make the list. People put Pickin'on series instead of putting either of the two bands, the other one being Cornbread Red. People put Picking on series instead of typing either of those names. And that was number 44. Oh, it's way down there. Okay.

Yeah. Fair enough. But yeah, the Pickinon series is one of those two, Iron Horse or Cornbread Red, and both very good. If your cornbread is red, though, I would be concerned. Well, if it's red for more than four hours, consult a position. Yeah, for sure. Travis, back over to you. Scott's got six points on the board.

Time for you to put some points on the board, too. So one that popped into mine after, you know, my last bad guess, was postmodern jukebox. Sure, sure. There you go. Scott Bradley's band, did all the music for BioShod. Infinite. Show me post-modern jukebox. Number one answer. Oh my gosh. Okay. All right. They are one of the current preeminent cover, regular cover producers out there. Yeah. Um, oh boy. Okay. Uh, well, a band that I know does a lot

of covers that, uh, that are thought of, um, would be Weezer. Oh, sure. Put out a whole album of them, as a matter of fact. Yeah. And it's a good one. With mixed results. Exactly. I'll say this about them. They were covers. All right.

Show me. Show me Weezer. Number eight, apparently made impressed a lot more people than me. Taking up to nine points, taking you just slightly in front of sky. I remember you talking about that the week that came out and you were not thrilled. I was so excited when I heard that they were doing an album.

And, you know, you listen to songs like the sweater song and, Buddy Holly and Beverly Hills and you're thinking, all right, these guys have a definitive sound. I can't wait until they paint these other musical paintings with their brushes and their colors. And what they did

is just come out with a sound alike with Rivers Cuomo vocals, basically. Yeah, I didn't love that. Yep. Hmm. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Because everybody loves a good clown. Puddles. Puddle's Pity Party.

Oh, shit. party. Show me Puddles Pity Party. I'm, bummed that he's not higher, but he was in the list as well. He is number 22.

So Puddles made the list, but he should have been, he should have been higher. He should have been higher. Definitely than a couple. I think he should have been higher than Weezer,

if you ask me. So they're not known, they barely ever do covers, but they're known for these covers. And they are, they take over a little bit of the zeit guys. So I'm going to say disturbed.

is on here oh sure sure that's a good um you know they for a while there they were including covers at least one cover on every album and they were always spectacular their uh land of confusion their sounds of silence or sound of silence uh show me disturbed number four taking up to 10 points one point ahead of tvs travis we got yourselves a game here their cover of land of confusion by the way is i think much better than their sound of silence cover. Yeah, the sound of silence cover took off and went crazy, but it's also because it was it was a certain voice. Yeah, and it was a vibe or whatever, but you're right. It was also, right. It came out at the right time when we needed something like that. Like again, if you were to

come out now, we'd love it again because of just the world right now. Yeah. That guy's great, by the way. It's super fun to follow and hear him say stuff. He is. Really smart. But I hope he takes all that stuff out before he goes into an MRI machine. Yeah. Well, he took out his nose thing and then he said, somebody said, oh man, we took out your nose thing. And he goes, dude, I'm 45 years old. I'm not wearing the nose thing. Really? Okay. I really respect that guy.

He reminds me of, he's like, I put these guys all in the same category. Him, D. Snyder, a smashing pumpkins guy. Billy Corgan. And then one other guy I can't think of right now. But there's these like really thoughtful, smart, leading singer people. I really love those guys. For sure. Fun to listen to.

All right. Ooh, do I go that? All right. There's a really popular one online, but I don't know if tadpullers know about this. So I'm going to say first to 11 because I see them all the time. It's her mostly. We play them on the show quite a bit too. Yeah.

Let's do her. Let's see if they made it. Show me first to 11. Wouldn't be great if they were number 11. They're number seven, giving you seven more points. Yeah, 711. I like that, though. Yeah.

That works. Okay. five finger death punch oh great choice yeah they're like disturbed in that way they do like won an album or something right exactly very piecemeal don't want them out yeah their bad company cover still one of the best covers of bad company it's so good oh my gosh all right all right let's let's see if they're on there show me five finger a death punch boom amazingly enough not even in the list like I'm that surprised yeah you guys are are all wrong out there.

I wouldn't rate them very high, but I would still put them on the list. I'd put them in the top 10, what I would do, because I like them. Take that. I like some loud, obnoxious metal

things sometimes. Oh, I do too. Sure. The Las Vegas based death metal punch five finger. They're pretty good. Got there eventually. Yeah.

Well, you know, this is one that I think of, so hopefully maybe the Tadpool will. Frog Leap Studios or Leo. Sure. Oh, shit, slash, whatever his last

name is that I can never pronounce right. I always want to say Masticholi, and I know that's not it. Vermichelli, Leo Vermichelli. That's a possible. Leo Pastafezul. All right, show me, show me Frog Leap Studios, Leo. Number nine, yeah,

Leo Moricioli. Wow. Fantastic, dude. oh yeah and seems like a really really cool guy too and and no god knows his way around a electric guitar like nobody's business just every like what what instrument do you play yes yeah right yeah that's true yeah good point uh taking up to 18 points one point ahead of scott like this is a nice back to the fourth little game yeah i was worried at first covers our double our double initial our double initial buzz had me concerned we were never gonna get anything done but yeah

So here's one that's only known for really one, like really well known for one cover, but that one cover is really good. Johnny Cash. Oh, I like that. I mean, that whole album that the, that Hurt comes from is also really good personal Jesus. Yeah. He's done a lot of covers. He's just known for that one.

Even Ring of Fire was recorded by Anita Carter before he recorded his version. So one of his most popular songs. Yeah, and that was about her butthole, I think. It was about, yeah, after eating some flaming hot Snyder pretzel pieces. Show me Johnny Cash. Oh, that should be on there. I feel bad about that one. Not in the top 10, but Johnny Cash was number 28 in the list.

Okay. Should be higher than five-finger death punch. I'm sorry. I agree. Yeah. Man, I'm running out now. I know. This is hard.

Okay, let's Four answers left on the board Scott leading No, I'm sorry, TV's Travis leading by one point Um Can we Oh It's only really the one song

But everyone loves his version of Of this Of the Dreams are made on the year That logic worked out so well for me So yeah See if it works I'll do Marilyn Manson

Just because I can't think of anything I can really I hate him kind of But let's do it but let's uh let's take a look to see if brian warner is on the list show me marilyn manson no um also also in the list but lower maryland manson is i think tied for 50 third place he's he's low uh surprisingly um that means Travis you've automatically won but there's still four answers on the board if you want to rack up a few more points oh man can i come up with

any more um known for covers all right It's the Tadpool, and while they're parodies, I'm still going to go with Weird Al. Sure, sure. You know, he's... Shit. Because he also does covers in his polkas. Yeah. Like every polka or every album includes one of those polka medleys, which are really covers.

And absolutely. Let's see if he's on here. Show me Weird Al Yankovic. Yeah, number three. Good. Good. Yeah. But yes, exactly.

More known for parodies. And that's all right. And as much as I love his parodies, his pastiche songs, where he takes a style. Yes. and does them are so good. Like DIR to be stupid, his Deboast, uh, pastiche, uh, yeah, like, just so many of those that are great, uh, trigger happy, um, from the off the deep end album is a great one, right, very beach boys.

All right. Uh, covers, covers. So, all right, I'm running out of ideas of, of people known for covers. That's the hard part. It's the known for covers. And known for covers. Yeah. And I would, you know, I'm not going to say anything else.

I don't want to, tip, tip one way or the other, even though you've already won. So, Leo, and I have no X's, but I'd still want to see you struggle some. Because you whoops my ass to me. I mean, in fairness, normally I come in and just kind of, you know, mop the floor with you. Yeah, of course. I get it. I get it. Yeah, no, I, you know, I got to get it where I can get it.

I mean, I have to represent if Brian's not here. Yeah. That's right. Yep. Oh, shoot. I am, I've drawn blank. Known for a cover. Should I start the timer?

Yeah, did the timer. Maybe. All right, the timer is going. One of the pressure. Seven. Six. All right, fine. I will go with, it's one cover, but Sugar Ray.

Okay, sure. Steve Miller, right? The fly like an eagle. They did that. They also did Adam and the Ants. Oh, right. Yeah. Okay, so they've done a couple.

Sure. I bet they're not on here. A little Mark McGrath and his future career on what was that, entertainment tonight or X-4 or whatever it was. All right, show me Sugar Ray. Nope, those 15 minutes were up a long time ago. I love that their third album was titled 14 Minutes, 59 seconds. That's what it was, 14 minutes, 59, yeah, yeah.

Just tell me that, tell me Richard Cheese isn't on here, so I don't feel that. Well, I'll show you Richard Cheese. He was your bonus. He was your number 11. and he would have just gotten you an extra guest. But no points because it's Richard cheese. Yeah, no points or no camera over there. He's got no camera.

That's right. No social media, please. I'd like to not have people hear about me and my band. Yeah. All right, let's talk about number two. I'm amazed that I didn't see this come up a lot in the chat room, even though 35 of the 472 people said this band, me first in the Gimmie Gimmies.

How did I not think of that? Oh, man. Huge, huge cover band. Actually, in the, and me first. is no longer with the band. It is fat Mike in the Gimmy Gimmies now, I believe. Michael, it's a way. They changed the Well, who is me? They changed lead singers.

I love that. It's even better. I want to see Fat Mike now. Anyway, I continue. Fat Mike and the Gimmie Gimmies. Did somebody mention though? Okay, I missed it. This is a band that is was originally known for a ton of

covers. And if you watch the documentary that came out a couple years ago, showing them in the studio, you'd see in between recording their originals. They recorded a lot, or they practiced with a lot of covers. That's a little band called The Beatles. Oh, shit. Yeah, those early albums contained at least one or two covers on each album.

And if you watch Get Back, in between recording stuff for Abbey Road, they're like, all right, let's do a long-toll sally. Yeah, anyway. That makes sense. That's a good one I also should have thought of. Yep. Number 10, known for their garage ink album. of covers. Oh, man.

Metallica. That would have been some big points if I'd have just remembered it. Oh, it's spike in the Gimmy Gimmie Gimmies, not Fat Mike. Okay, thank you Dr. Calhoun. Fat Mike, though, I mean, Me First and the Gimmigies has ties to Fat Mike with some connection there. I can't remember what it is.

But let's look at the rest of the list Foo Fighters. For a while, we're doing a lot of B-side covers, and then they put out that Medium Rare, which was a collection of all their covers. And then, of course, the DG's, the Dave Grohl BG's cover band. Newfound Glory,

cake. Dred Zeppelin with a... I thought about cake. Tor Telvis leading a reggae group. Pentatonics, we mentioned. Bowling for Soup. Ghost always includes a cover song or two on their albums. Guns and Roses, I guess known for Live and Let Die.

Oh, no, they did an album of covers, didn't they? Or at least... I don't remember that. I'd seek that out if that exists. Because there's live and let die. There was knocking on his door. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, they had a few.

Ninja sex party. I'm surprised they weren't higher because they're popular with the tadpull. Real big fish. Walk off the Earth, alien ant farm. Are you okay, Annie? A band called Bohemian Queen, which I have to assume is a queen cover band. I've never heard of, but now I need to seek them out. Three people chose them.

Hasey, Dixie, Jukebox, the Ghost. Led Zeppelin, another band that people don't really. realize, do a lot of covers. A lot of their big hits are really covers. And if you do a little deep dive, you can find some of their stuff. Rolling Stones, similar kind of thing. Straight No Chaser, Bear Naked Ladies, Boyce Avenue, Britt Floyd, Grateful Dead, Great Big Sea, Green Day, Home Free, Jeff Buckley, Jonathan Colt, and Paramore, Fish.

Fish does for their concerts on Halloween, they do an entire cover album, which is really cool. queen reliant k another one that comes up here a lot rock sugar rubics groove which i need to seek out people are telling me about them scary pockets stephen seagulls the molly ringwolds um the molly ringwolds the molly ringwolds yeah van hayland perfect circle uh there was some in here that surprised me four of you said brian a bit and that's very nice of you but i do parodies thank you very much uh the cardigans started out as a black sabbath cover band um there was one cybertronic spree there was one that like um i wanted to make sure to draw attention to shoot uh hailstorm um information society um lucky yuk we've played on the show oh there's

maryland manson one person said maryland manson oh all right feel better the middle age dad jam band if you haven't seen them on youtube it's uh i don't think i have uh what's the guy you Ken Marino from Party Down and not Laura Kightlinger, but another, another daily show, or I'm sorry, another Reno 911, a lady, not Wendy McLevin. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't think of.

Yeah, she's done stuff with them. Anyway, middle-aged dad jazz band, or a jam band is really, really good. Nice. I was looking for, there was another one that was like, oh, Les Zeppelin, which is an all-female, Led Zeppelin cover band. Are they lesbians?

I don't know, but they're all women. So they play off the name there. Kind of like the Aces. Sure. Yeah, yeah. Boy, that new Aces album really leans into the, hey, we're all ladies and we're all dating each other. Yeah, they really go far on that one. I'm really glad Hacy Dixie made the list.

I was going to mention them until the other bluegrass one failed. And then I was like, nope, if that one didn't make it, there's going to be no Hacy Dixie. Good, good point. Anyway, so there's your list. Big long list of folks, bands and artists. And congratulations going to Travis for pulling out that win. And by proxy, you won some prizes for Spike Falls. Spike, you're getting a copy of Batman Arkham Night Premium Edition and Batman Arkham Origins on Steam.

But don't worry, friendly sleet 66. You're getting a copy of Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor, Game of the Year edition. like these are all a list titles yeah these are all big deals you should be very happy about these games uh everybody everybody kind of won today and uh we win again next tuesday because travis will be here to do tvs travis's travis's trivia uh here on the show once again yes that's right travis uh having you here is as my dad would say a pleasure we'll see you next time all right harry kenny that's it thank you ironic name by the way big it's friendly sleet um one of the one of the nicest most generous people in our tadpole i just

say that he helped hook me up with a game that I really want and he's he's the best so oh very nice glad I could hook him up with a with a cool uh steam game hell yeah that's that makes me happy too to hear that yeah all right y'all it's time for this isn't technology wonderful it can be as I always say but it only is if it's in the hands of Tom merritt who today is going by Tommy two hands in our in our chat which I love I love that I'm not really oh that's great yeah they call me that because I have two hands yeah I That's what I've heard about you. Tom is here as he is each Wednesday.

Talk about the goings-on in the tech world. Sometimes tech-adjacent type stories, that sort of thing. Oh, and it's... This is the camera view where somebody's going to come busting into that door as part of the narrative of our one-act play. Yeah. Oh, I would pay money for Eileen to come through there and yell, oh, yeah. That would be amazing.

Not going to ever happen. Where is the video setting these days in Discord? Well, they bury it pretty deep. You know, it's the user settings. It's way down in the... They change button locations and colors and... Oh, now that's what we're used to. Look at that.

There's the... Look how much more handsome he is from that view. I don't think it's fair. Let's not go overboard. Did you guys go to the IHurt radio thing over the weekend? No. You went to Las Vegas, though, right? No, yeah, we went to see Lacerra.

from him at the Mickelope Ultra Arena. Okay. How'd that go? Good time. It was great. Yeah, yeah. We had a wonderful time. In fact, it's the least amount of real estate I've ever traversed in Las Vegas in my life because we flew JSX, which is an airline that flies out of private hangers. Yeah, there's little tiny planes. And it's about the same price as Southwest. It's a little more expensive. Like my fare was like 50 bucks more than an equivalent Southwest flight would have been, but you, they say, get there 20 minutes before your

flight leaves. Jeez. And they land, they land across the street from Mandalay Bay. So you don't have to go through McCarran Airport. You just, oh, really? Grab an Uber and you're, you're basically on the strip. Yeah. Because it's got a separate, separate entrance for the, yep, for the private.

I would think that, oh, well, you still have to get all the way over to the tunnel and then back out. Oh, that's great. That is great. We could have walked to Mandalay Bay. if we if it wasn't so hot and we didn't have bags right it would have been like 15 minutes uh to walk over there uh and and the uber ride was like five minutes so we never left mandalay bay so but we were in that little area the whole time you flew right where you wanted to go but it's so you don't have to that's an air strip that's just a separate air strip that close no it's the same air strip

it's just the macarren airport air strip yeah is right there by the strip yeah but then the airport terminal is on the other side for all the commercial flights. The private terminals are right there on the side by the hotels. Oh, that's wild man. Right by the little chapel. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. You should need a little remarriage while you're there, why not?

Yeah, right. It was our anniversary. I wish I would have thought of it. If you would have walked, like, if you would have walked to Mandalay Bay, you could have just stopped at that chapel and... Yeah, yeah. Let's renew. Got a shamrock shake at the McDonald's on the way. Yep, exactly. Perfect anniversary type fair. Yeah.

Yes, exactly. Why didn't we think of this? Well, Tom, of course, the purveyor of all things Daily Tech News show and the entire DTNS Empire, I might call it.

Okay, I might call it. You might. I don't, but you could. He comes here and talks about the tech stories, although today we're going to veer from that just a little bit. This is adjacent, though, right? Let's talk about it.

Tell me what you wanted to talk about. Yeah, this is, I guess, more of a cord killer's topic than a Daily Tech News show topic. Although I did talk about it with Justin Robert Young during my office hours on the DTNS YouTube channel earlier this week. But had you all heard that Jimmy Kimmel got preempted?

What? Yeah. Well, that explains why I haven't seen any of his YouTube videos lately. There you go. That's what happened. Our very own cheesy G was in the audience last night, and I watched the broadcast here and saw her, like, there was a camera on her left shoulder. So every time they'd go to.

commercial it would be you know cheesy g standing up and applauding and then you'd see you're sitting down and like how did kathy get tickets to that that seems like it would be really hard to get a ticket i don't know if she won a lottery or or uh just stood in line or whatever but she had to be in demand i would she got to go yeah wild yeah i i lean and and uh my nephew went to kimmel once and were on screen during one of the tosses to break next like he sat next to them basically oh really Oh, that's awesome. Is it just in the, it's just in Burbank there? Or where do they?

No, it's on, on, uh, Hollywood at the, um, right by the man's Chinese or whatever it's yeah, the Chinese theater. It's not, it's, um, or across from it. Um, I saw Star Wars at the same theater that he did did it in. Oh. And I'm totally blanking it. It's across the street from the Pantages. I would just driving past it when I went to a book signing on Monday.

Denny's. Nope, not Denny's. Yes. Steady. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Okay. You get the Grand Slam and watch.

Why can't I think of that? Yeah, it used to be, originally was Gromond's ironic name. And when I was a kid, I'd go there and see all the Star Wars. Well, it's the TCL Chinese Theater is what you're thinking of. But that's what it's called now. That's what Kimmel's near. He's in a different theater. Right.

That I can't remember. Yeah, exactly. The Chinese theater would be way too small for his, for his crowd. So I saw the Mama Awards at the, uh, at the, uh, TCL What are those? What is that? They are the

Do you have to do something for Mama to win one of those? They're the Asian They're Asian music awards basically. Oh, okay. So this was recent. I thought you meant like a long time ago or something, but you saw El Capitan.

El Capitan, that's it. Oh, no, he does, he does, it is situated right next to the El Capitan theater across the street from the TCL Chinese Theater. So it's not, he's in a studio right next. The El Capitan is. what I was trying. Okay. Yeah, we just had to think of an old Mac OS version and we'd have had it.

That's where he puts the bands though, right? Is in the El Capitan? That's probably right. When he cuts to the band at the end of the show. That could be it. Yeah. I don't really know how it works. I'm just a local. Yeah. I never get to go. But yeah, anyway, he

went back on the air last night after being down for well, six days, but four broadcast days, because he wouldn't normally do a show on Saturday and Sunday. And he was preempted in 26, no, 66 markets. So depending on you have to, how you count it, it's like 25% of ABC's markets,

but 22% of the households based on where those markets are. So not everybody got to watch the broadcast, but nobody does anyway. Everybody watches. You're not going to say, yeah. Could you watch it on either, you couldn't stream it on Hulu because Hulu looks at what your local provider is though, right?

If you were in a market where, like Salt Lake didn't have it. Yeah, yeah. So if you were, then you can watch it on Hulu then either. But you can watch it on Hulu the next day. Yes. And you can watch it on YouTube once they post it. Yeah, you get the delayed streaming schedule. You just can't do the live Hulu TV thing.

Yeah. But in L.A., you could, I could have watched it live on direct TV stream, which is what we use. I didn't. I watched it on YouTube the next morning. So these are all, these are all Sinclair stations, right? That's the deal is. Yeah, Sinclair and Next Star were the stations. that preempted it.

And, you know, I've talked on cord killers about it. I talked, like I said, on the DT&S office hours earlier this week about it. But while there is a lot involved with the government's attitude and what Kimmel said, I personally believe that the majority of this was NextArren Sinclair feeling public pressure from people in their viewing markets, specifically the ones that are in red areas, in Republican voting areas. And you can point and say like, well, hold on, Seattle's not that. And they took it off in Seattle.

They weren't going to take it off in only some. They're basically. It would be too obvious of play if they did that. So they're just going to take it off everywhere, which they wouldn't have had to do. But I guess that was just easier for them. And it allows them to put more pressure on Disney to get what they want out of what Kimmel said. But I just watched what he said on YouTube. And I thought it was mostly unsurprising.

You know, he was empathetic. He did not explicitly apologize, except to say he was sorry, you know, if he came across as uncompassionate. But he also laid into the FCC chairman and made jokes about the president like he always does. Made jokes about Disney, too. They said, Disney would like me to read this statement. Yes. Yeah. We used to go resubbed for Disney Plus or whatever.

Here's how you restart your... Yeah, he was later on to the monologue. He played it up as if, like, Disney was going to make him apologize or something, and then he pulled it out. Here's how to reactivate your Disney Plus account. Yeah. Overall, I've never... So here's a bit of an admission.

And since Letterman left the air, I haven't really watched late-night comedy at all. Like, I just don't get into it. John Stewart here and there. But for the most part, Letterman was my bellwether. When he left, I kind of got... I lost interest. And I've never seen... a Jimmy Kimmel episode

other than clips here and there on YouTube or TikTok or something but never seen an entire episode my my entire intake of Jimmy Kimmel is like Man Show era Jimmy Kimmel I just don't have

Isn't that funny to think he's the whole different person now yeah yeah he's the man show era guy yeah and it's weird but also so this whole thing happening the way it happened people are like it's because I canceled

I canceled my service. I was pissed. It seemed like an attack on the First Amendment. And I don't like that. So I said, you know what? That's the only control I have. I'm going to do it. So I canceled my thing pretty much immediately. And I had people come at Disney Plus. Disney Plus and Hulu. Yeah. So people came at me and said, well, you're such a Kimmel fan.

You can't, you know, something like that. And I said, I've never seen the show. I don't care about that. That part is not the key part. This could be any show. That wasn't the lynch bin. It was the, right. First Amendment rights.

This could be the view. This could be a conservative show shut down by liberals. I don't care. It's that part of it that bothered me. Well, let me ask you this. Are you going to resubscribe now that they put him back on you? No. I think once you bend the knee like that, you're always a knee bender.

So I need some time. I'm okay for now to not have all that stuff in my life. I'm caught up on alien Earth. You'll change your mind. I mean, it depends. Marvel zombies. Soon is the new Marvel thing. I've got, that means I've got,

four days to consume Marvel zombies because I'm... Are they dropping the whole series? They might be dropping the whole series at once, kind of like they did with... Oh, I hope so. I guess Ironheart, they did two halves. I hope they do. If they don't, well, then I may be screwed

and I'll have to come up with a complex way to see it. I don't know. I went so far as to, as far as I got was a spreadsheet of, all right, so I've got everything bundled with the Hulu Live. Okay, so what's how much to sling? How much is it going to be now to do this one? What do I need to cancel? What is this one?

And like, okay, I guess we're doing this. And then, hey, Kimmel's coming back on Tuesday. Cool. I guess I could delete that spreadsheet. For the official record and the written record, I tell everybody this, not to say anybody should do anything. Nobody has to do what I'm saying. This is not me taking some weird soapbox and saying, here's how you should behave.

It just really rubbed me wrong. And I was like, that's it, you bastards. I'm not doing this. So who knows? Can that wound heal? Maybe. I don't know. To be honest, I'm not that chuffed.

It's like I got a lot of content from a lot of providers. And I don't know that I'm really... It's not like you're short of stuff to watch these days. No, if anything, the biggest loss in this house will be when the littles are at the house and they can't see Bluey on Disney. Because Bluey's a big deal around here. Yeah. So, you know, I don't know, maybe a Blu-ray collection.

It might be a complex way of watching Bluey, too. You know how they do bags of apples at the grocery store? Yeah. Our local Ralphs has bluey bags. Really? Like just honey crisp apples. I love it. They have bluey on the outside.

Blue is taken over everything. It's the greatest thing in the world. I don't know if this makes you feel any better. It doesn't have to. But my take on this, the whole way, has been this is about people in the markets, Sinclair and NextArr markets being angry, calling and being angry, advertisers being worried about having their ads show up on a station for people that are angry. And those ownership groups wanting to say to Disney, our contracts are up in 2026 and we would like those retrans fees, we'd like to keep more of those retrans fees because the affiliates pay Disney to carry ABC programming.

And they're saying, well, you know, they're using this as leverage for that. There is definitely, Nexstar wants to merge with another group that would put them over the limit and they would like the FCC to change that limit. I don't think that's the majority reason, but it's certainly a nice side effect. If like, hey, and if the FCC's nicer to us as well, then that's a bonus. But when you have Senator Ted Cruz coming out and saying, you know, I don't think Brendan Carr should be saying that. This is not a clear-cut partisan issue. And I don't think these ownership groups would have done it if that was the only reason.

They've got public pressure. And I think it's easy for people to forget when we're all in our own bubbles that not everybody thinks the same way. And in some of these markets, you know, the audience revolt is real and the local stations have to respond to that. It will be interesting to see when Sinclair and Nexstar put the shows back on. What is the condition for that? If it drags out too long, Disney has the option to air Kimmel on competing stations. Right. They, you know, they're, I don't know how all the contracts work, but they did that with NYPD Blue back in the 90s when nobody wanted to show what's his face's butt on the pilot episode. And so they win.

to Fox and Indy stations in 57 markets that refused to carry NYPD Blue and aired it there and when the ratings were good over there all the ABC stations said okay fine we'll air NYPD Blue as long as there's no more buts. Yeah and we get good ratings

bring it over here. If San'am's fine yeah my beef was mostly about Brendan Carr's comments if he hadn't a if and how contrasted they are things he said previously to his position is the FCC.

He's just so contradicted. You know, we need political satire. It's important for us to preserve that. Wow. It's almost as if a politician contradicted themselves. Yeah, weird, right? Weird. It's so weird.

So when I hear shit like that, I just go, all right, that's where my beef is. But you're right. There are market conditions on the ground that also have an effect. Certainly markets, I don't know how it works where people go. I assume they just swamp somebody's phone banks and go. we don't like what Jimmy Kimmel said you should take off that thing having worked at a radio station

I know the TV stations get the same way people are not shy to call up and yell at you now if those individual people who called them were weaners about it if they had a streaming service I would also cancel their streaming service that's my point

is I'm just whoever wherever I can make my little dent is all I can do and it just was a personal thing for me I know a lot of people felt the same they lost a lot of people a lot of subscribers overnight how many come back i don't know certainly some will many will um i assume disney's four million dollar market loss or whatever it was will creep back up because you know they're disney but uh by the way the stock market was

was the reason they lost it wasn't not because of the Kimmel thing like that happens a lot where stock market fluctuations are always happening and uh and if if the stock market goes down then everyone says see uh they lost a bunch of money but uh That's not exactly my take on it anyway. I like that they lost the exact amount, but based on what I saw on MSNB, Erno, what's the CNBC? They had the money one, right? That's the money one.

Anyway, I saw a clip on there. Yeah, that's the financial coverage. It was something like $4 billion in market value, and my brain went, that's what they paid George Lucas for Star Wars. That's a wild number. I mean, obviously, they've made way more than that. Star Wars, but it's stuck in my head and it didn't leave for some reason. Well, anyway.

NSNBC, yeah. Tom has all kinds of shows that talk about the tech angles on this stuff. Certainly the cord cutters angle on this is interesting because it is, it is kind of that story, right? Because this is, we're talking about broadcast, traditional market broadcast channels, CBS affiliates. That's very different. Yeah, that's a thing that is overseen by organizations and has regulatory this and that, whereas the Internet and, you know, your plus subscribers stuff, that's a whole different bag of chips. And how those two interact, you're going to hear more of that on your show.

Yeah, we talked about it on cord killers this week. So if you go listen to the latest cord killers, Brian and I dug into, you know, the details of how these deals work, what the leverage is and all of that. If you want to understand that side of it. And Brian and I aren't trying to change your mind one way or other. If you've got opinions like Scott, we're just trying to give you extra information to consider like there's more going on here than what the general outrage on social media would lead you to believe. And it's good to know that. Yeah, get all the info. Get it all from Tom Merritt. That's what he

gives you. He's also ACE detect on all the social medias, which is another great place to find out about this stuff. Tom Merritt, is there anything else you'd like to mention before you go? I've been doing more content on my free Tom newsletter, freetumnewletter.com. A little excerpt from fiction, a little article about what I've been thinking these days and a picture of 7 the dog so if that sounds fun to you you can get it for free yeah a free tom newsletter dot com that's fantastic it is tom merritt everybody wish him well as he now disconnects from this and connects to something else on the internet tom merit of a fantastic week we'll see you next time you too sorry Tommy two hands I should call him Tommy two hands yes very very nice sounds like a

artist from the 80s doesn't it totally think of Tommy two tone but yeah to get us out of here I got a couple of quick things we got another email from Sieb Text this time Yeah He says this Seab here again He spelled here

H-E-A-R Okay I'm starting to think He's just Dick him with us Trolling I don't know I mean

Yeah Could be Anyway he says Seab here again With the wrong here I bet you Meaning the letter you No

meaning N-O Not K-N-O So I'll just read it But he's spelling it All wrong Just know that at home I bet you know me, but we'll never

admit it. Admit with an extra T. Yeah. So I'm no closer to knowing who this is. So I know. Yeah. I don't think this mystery. Who would like Sieb? Sieb. Yeah. I was trying to think. Is there anybody whose initials

are CB maybe? Like that would be short, you know, oh, call them the Sieb. She's Sieb. Sean. Seeb. I bet they call it, you know, if you're Sean Bean's friend, you probably call Sieb, but this isn't him.

He's in that new... If you're Sean Bean's friend, you probably go to a lot of funerals. Yeah. He's in that new Daniel Day Lewis thing. Yeah. I saw that dumbest... I saw that dumbest freaking thing about that. This website who talks about movies all the time, it says,

what brought Daniel Day Lewis out of hiding to be in this other day Lewis's movie? And I went, because it's his son, you dipshit? What do you think it was? This other Day Lewis's movie. Yeah.

Like it was anything but like this thing. It won't help it? Oh yeah, I'll come back for your movie, son. You're doing your kicking ass as a director. I would love to be in your, of course that's what it was. Oh my gosh. Why did people get away with that stuff? Yeah.

Yeah. So annoying. Yeah, I cannot gather from the trailer if this is something that I want to see. But the fact that it's got Daniel Day Lewis probably means it's going to be Oscar. Yeah. It's going to get some Oscar attention. And Sean Bean's always good. I don't know what to. Oh, yeah, anemone. That's what it's called.

I can't figure out what, and I just can't make heads or tails from the trailer as to what the movie is. No idea. It's not doing itself any favors. Maybe you don't need him when Daniel Day Lewis comes out of hiding. Right. Or maybe it's the curiosity of the like, all right, here's some weird vague images. Come see our movie and figure out what the hell we're doing here. But because it's DDL, DDL, that's what, you know, his friends call him that. DL. I mean, I'm going to see it. It just sounds like a Craigslist misconnections or dating profile. Well, I'm into DDL and A2M and. Don't, don't.

Urban Dictionary, D.D.L. It's probably not good. Yeah, I'm sure it's not good. Now I'm curious. Hold on. Urban dictionary. I want to know. I have to know.

You have to know. Tell me. Dictionary. Here we go. I'm going to look it up. What was it? D.D.L. D-D-L, yes.

D-D-L is the acronym for Dominic Dicklift. Dominic? Yeah. Like what is just one dude he does this on the side? I'm sorry. The way it's bolded, it's all blurried out to me. Dominican Dicklift. It's a surgery to Lincoln.

Like a Brazilian butt lift, but this is the Dominican dicklift. Yeah, yeah, that's it. Oh, second one is actually Daniel Day-Lewis, actor from Gaines of New York and Last of the Mohicans. Really? So he's in the urban dictionary as DDL. There's also, okay, but here's your dating one. Number three is DDL, drugs, dick, and love. And then the use case, he literally gives me that DDL.

Jeez. I hate everything about it. I do too, yeah. Oh, doctor, dentist and lawyers also in here. Okay. Dr. Doolittle probably would be there too as DDL. Oh, that's good. That's good.

But in usual form, the first one sucks, and we should have not. Of course, yes. We also got this call from Brian For Brian, but this is a Brian with a Y Gotcha, this is for me though So it's it's mostly about you It's a little bit about both It's for both of us

It's a music thing but also you have a question about something That I think is more for me But anyway, here's what he says Hey Silver Chair and Bernard Fanning Over the weekend I should mention this is an AI thing Of the top 100 Australian songs of all time As voted by the public

I was curious to hear what you both think of the list Having moved to Australia later in life I had a few fun discoveries from this list, like learning that Wendy's segment intro, Frontier Psychiatrist by the Avalanches, is actually Australian. A possible contender for the list was Knife Party, which I found pretty amusing that Scott could have ended up on the list if destroy them with lasers had received enough votes. Speaking of, I remember you told the story of how you ended up on that track,

but I've forgotten the details. How did that come about again? Love the show, though. Okay, no name on this one, by the way. We don't know this most. It felt like an audio book. Yeah, it's definitely, it's definitely AI. I don't know which voice he chose, but...

Fred wandered in from his home in Zaire and said, how did you end up on that? Those are really getting good. Yeah, I know. It's kind of impossible to tell that that wasn't a real person. He still sounds like he's reading, but it's, you know, I don't know. It's really good. So I have not yet looked at the list,

the 100 best Australian songs, but if Need You Tonight Slash Mediate is not number one or in the top five, then I feel like something's wrong. I mean, you've got to have Olivia Newton-John Magic in there. You've got to have

Paul Kelly and the Messengers. Oh, what would be the Paul Kelly song? It would be a couple in there. According to Seenster. I don't know if this is the same list, though. They give Eagle Rock by Daddy Cool. Friday on my mind, the easy beats. Berlin chair, UMI,

never tear us apart in excess, number four. Okay. It's a long way to the top ACDC. Oh, that's right. There's a lot of Australia in that band. Is it the triple? Maybe it's the triple J. Can you play the beginning of that?

Let's see, does it give it to me? Let's see if he says what the, I'm trying to see. Oh, maybe it's look at news, top Australian songs. Here we go. Triple J's, um, let me play that again. Hey, Silverchair and Bernard Fanning. Over the weekend, Triple J aired its countdown. Triple J.

What is Triple J? Yeah, which is radio station. Okay. So I've got the Rolling Stone. Does this one have the list? Number 11 is somebody that I used to know by Gaudier, by the way. Oh, I've got the whole list here. All right, let's take a look.

Number one, never tear us apart by in excess. All right, you know what? I will give you that. You let them have that one? Okay. I'll let you have that. I mean, need you tonight slash mediate, I think is a slightly better song, but never tears apart is damn powerful. Yeah, that's real good.

Number two, hilltop hoods, the nosebleed section. Number three, the Veronica's untouched. Number four, Missy Higgins scar. I know that one. Number five, Crowded House Don't Dream It's Over. Now, they're a New Zealand band, so I'm surprised that they made the list this high, but I'll, you know, I love crowded house, so I'm not going to argue with that either. Does the band have any extra members in it that are Austrians? I'm wondering, yeah, let's see, is Mark Hart Australian?

I know Neil and Tim Finn and Nick Offerman. Oh, geez. Yeah, Nick Offerman. Bring me all the sister Madly you have right now. Cold Chisel, 7 and 8. Paul Kelly did make the top 10, how to make gravy. That's a good one too. Gotea, Kimbra, somebody they asked you know.

By the way, I've talked about this, I think, maybe I talked about with Hammond, but you know how I used to rail, still do, rail on that kid rock all summer long because he took Sweet Home Alabama and Werewolves of London, overlaid the two and then just put new lyrics on

and I just think, like, you know, pissed me off. I don't like it either. Pissed me off too. Yeah, and I was, you know, originally I thought, well, you shouldn't do that. You shouldn't just take a song and put just a mashup at that point. Right. Exactly. then I heard Dochi's song Anxiety

which I'm going to send you a link to so you can watch the video right after we're done here she is fantastic and that song is so freaking good anxiety yeah you've heard it I've heard that this is really popular

on TikTok people use it for their video oh is it really okay yeah the video is great and she basically took I mean she literally took somebody I used to know and just put new vocals on it and now I'm realizing huh I guess it's less about what kid rock did with those songs and just more about the fact that kid rock is a chode and that's why i hate that song so but um yeah what i love what i love about the dochi video is is she's she's running around a house and like having all of these um these anxiety moments and she passes

by a wall that is the and it's got a goate and kimbra look alike from the music video where they're all painted with the triangles and stuff. Yeah. She walks right by and it's like, okay, so she, she's acknowledging that she just grabbed that. It's this thing right here. If I can find it, this, basically this image here, right? That image right there. And she walks by two people that are doing that in the video.

The video is great. And she's delightful. Just seeing ACDC Thunderstruck. I would have thought ACDC would be higher in the list. Midnight Oil still have not gotten to a men at work song. Down under, there it is. How can you not put them higher, though? Yeah, or overkill by solo.

Oh, my God. How am I forgetting lead singer of Men at Works name all of a sudden? Oh, oh, oh! I know, exactly. It's complete and total brain fart. See, hey, hey, Paul Gaguerre, this is what happens, okay? You put out thousands of hours of stuff on the internet. Yeah.

You're going to have a brain fart. every once in a while and not remember that Neil Young is from Canada. That's right. That's right. All right. Colin Hey, thank you, Molly. Oh, I was going to say, did it work where your brain went, you talked about another guy and then came out of a good. Yeah, yeah, no.

Kylie Benogue, low on the list, but can't get you out of my head does belong up there. Oh, the church under the Milky Way. That should be higher too. That's, that's wild. You know what? I like this list, actually. This is a good list. I still have not gotten to, um,

need you tonight. There it is. Number 59 is Need you tonight. Need you tonight. And Frontier Psychiatrist is right above it at 58. I think Just Keep Walking by Inexcess is on there too somewhere. Oh, that's another good one. Just keep walking. That's an early one from them. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, to answer his question about the thing I did with Night Party. So how that worked was in 2010 or 11, they were on Twitter.

I like the band. I like their music. really cool electronica hardcore stuff and uh they put out a tweet that just said hey we need somebody doing like a 1950s era voice saying destroy them with lasers we just need a sound file who can get it to us and a whole bunch of people flooded them with these sound files and i thought well i'll do that that sounds easy so i went to my mic did it and sent them this destroy them with lasers now they that that's from the song so they've added you know yeah the distortion modulation distortion and stuff but they picked mine for some reason I get nothing for this by the way

no money no residuals no royalties oh no and you have you need a new agent I need a new lawyer really is what I need but uh you need BB darling you need BB to come in and earn you some money for your work darling that's right but if you ever want a way to impress your nieces nephews kids grandkids any of that

play a song that you have voice in and they lose their minds they just think it's the greatest thing they've ever heard sure yeah and it's just a great way to quickly influence people and make friends. It's Pop Pop. It's Destroy Them with Lasers by Knife Party, who seem to have gone quiet. I haven't heard a thing, a new thing from Knife Party in years. So I don't know what they're doing now, but anyway, destroy them with lasers.

And then eventually, I just sort of say lasers in there. But you'll have to go listen to it for yourself. Thank you for your feedback and your commentary. You can go to Frogpants.com slash TMS and find all the myriad of ways to contact us. It includes voicemails. It includes text, emails, all of it. So go please use that at your leisure. And in the meantime, use that website for anything else you need.

Froggance.com slash TMS. Ryan, let's play a song and get out. Yes, sir. Let's do that. A brand new album from Girlfriends. I'm sorry, brand new single from Girlfriends. We played Garbage earlier in the week where we played a cover of Only Happy When It Rains by Garbage.

Now let's play a song called Garbage. It's just a garbage week in the world today. Sure. This is a band called Girlfriends. This kind of starts their pop-punk era. Everything's an era now. Thank you, Taylor. Their upcoming album is called There Goes the Neighborhood.

It comes out October 24th. One month exactly from today. These guys started out the Vans Warp Tour, and now they're on the road. They're going to have some fall tour dates that they're announcing as well. Here's Girlfriends and the song, Garbage. They must have made you at the psych ward. Why are you the one I die for? It's like I'm walking on a tight rope

And every night you're at my throat Because you turn my dreams into nightmares Throw my heart in the garbage Look at what you started Is every little thing you do It keeps me coming back to you It's a pity party And you can't say sorry

For everything you put me through Throw my heart in the garbage I'm just your dirty little secret Why do I love the things I regret You're all the ugly on the inside And that's something that you can't hide Because you turn my dreams into nightmares And it's not fair

Throw my heart in the garbage Look at what you started Every little thing you do It keeps me coming back to you It's a pity party And you can't say sorry In everything you put me through Throw my heart in the garbage

Throw my heart in the garbage Look at what you started Because every little thing you do Keeps me coming back to you Throw my heart in the garbage Look at what you started Every little thing you do Keeps me coming back

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