The Morning Stream - TMS 2908: Sticky Scents

Episode Date: October 22, 2025

Iron Man in the Sheets, Old man in the streets. I Don't Like Being Stabbed By Figurineeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees! Potato Adjacent. Yokel Kryptonite! 20 Year Old Smell. Sounds Like A Skill Issue. Teslas Run on Fartgas. Sending Brian the Stiffy board. 1900-CRY-ABOUT-IT. Less Fred, Better Game. Traffic and weather on the ones: at 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19. I love a good Cuban. L2P Noob!! Cry harder for 3 bucks a minute. Y'ever Lose Your Pass Key with Tom and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Potato adjacent. Yokel kryptonite. 20-year-old smell. Sounds like a skill issue. Tesla's run on fart gas. Sending Brian the Stiffy Board. 1-900, cry about it. Less Fred, better game.

Traffic and weather on the ones at 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19. I love a good Cuban. L2P noob. Cry harder for three bucks a minute. You ever lose your Pasch key with Tom and more on this episode of the Morning Stream. I don't know anything. That wasn't me. I was sitting watching Dukes of Hazard.

My friend Paul that was wearing a green sweatpants. A male donkey is called a jack, and a female is called a Janet or Jenny. The morning stream. If you have a job, you wear the pants. Hello, everybody, and welcome to TMS. This is the morning stream. It is Wednesday, October 22nd. is the year 2025 i'm scott that it's brian hi brian hello what you got there what you got going

there these are um you have some of these two i believe these are aria scint sticks oh yeah they smell like they smell like aria stark and her list of uh people she wants to kill um no these are like you can get these at the ria hotel and if you still can and i wish they made these for all the hotels yeah well i wish they made them for specific hotels like the cosmopol yeah jim grand But Tina was down here earlier, and she knocked this tube off of the shelf I have over there. And the lid flew off somewhere. I don't know where the lid is. So these are all exposed now.

These scents are all escaping into the void. Oh, geez. I mean, these are easily, they still smell great. These are easily 20 years old. Are that? Really? 15 years old, 20 years old. Yeah, it's kind of crazy.

But it must be when you get them all at one side. that it probably is overwhelming right now like you got that smell right now it's pretty pretty stenchy yeah so well i'm going to have to get a little rubber band and a Ziploc bag just to cap them all off does appear you can go let's see aria shop dot com has uh an online way of buying them look at that fancy thing so 90 19 bucks for how many say huh i guess it's a little set of them oh look at that but they're um it's interesting how they're all the different sense though they have one of their robes who want their robe exactly that's so they can say well you can't just help yourself to our robe but I mean look at that there's like 11

different sense none of them are hotel lobby I assume that's signature but I don't know signature that's it probably signature probably probably but the rest of these like they have a ton they've gone they've gone places since they just gave the the basic sticks I think you've got a bigger pack than they send you now I do that's a that's a much bigger pack than what they like those if this is only three that's a jip what is that cookie little stand they've got them in I guess that's probably not

oh I guess all that's just really is a cup with a thing in there the rest of it's just decorative soaps and garbage like that but 60 so sorry 19 bucks per pack okay that sounds about right for getting yeah wonder how many sticks you get in a pack if it's three that's a rip off just something Probably is three. I'll bet it's three.

Ugh. Lame. I do love that smell, though. I'm with you. Yeah. Yeah. It's one of the good ones, too. I want a golden nugget one that's like a mix of B.O.

and beer and smoke. Sadness. Yeah. Yeah. Hipbox. Smok. Desperation. Yeah.

Now, and now, just to taste a weed now because it's, you know, there's a little bit of weed in there. Right. That'd be great. Brian, I got something to tell you about. I woke up this morning with a very weird pain in my hip. Oh. And I thought, more old guy shit what's this going on it wasn't it was like this weird pinching penetrating pain

for lack of a better way of saying it oh gosh okay and uh i look in the mirror and i'm like why he's making this red mark and why is it such a strange shape it looked like this long spread out thing and and i thought i don't know what i've done is this like i'm starting to get nervous like i had to get this looked at like what is this thing that suddenly happened is it like a weird flesh eating disease and i went back and uh putting the bed back together together the blankets and stuff and I shake the blanket out and out flies this little metal iron man one of your little die cast yeah iron man shaped hole on my back now from this guy so it begs the question Scott I don't know how I'm gonna play with those in bed I honestly I have no idea how

this got in there I really don't I'm gonna get you crossbones pee pee pee pee I am iron man it was inevitable come here my name is Groot or my name is Groot anyway Yeah, I don't know how I got in there Except that I was goofing around with these with Van the other day And it's possible he went in there And drop one in the bed I don't know Because his sister naps in there when they're here

So I don't know what happened But all I know is you sleep long enough On one of these Oh yeah I still it's still like I got like a little indentation mark Red Mark thing I'm sure I'm amazed that it didn't like wake you up from

From just the pain That's like stepping on a Lego feels like that would just Pull you right out of whatever slumber. Yeah, that princess and the pee thing, I would have been the worst that noticed there was a pee in there. I would have been like, where's the pee? I have no idea.

Where's the pee? Where's the pee? I don't like peas. All right, someone will make a title. Anyway, Iron Man. Don't sleep on Iron Man. Brian, how was trivia last night? You know, it was good.

We went back to a place we haven't gone a while called Freedom Street Social. It's a dining hall. And they've got like seven restaurants in there and they do trivia right in the middle. So you basically can go and get, oh, I'm going to get wings. I'm going to get pizza, and Tina and I ended up getting Cubano's from a brand new Cuban restaurant that they put in there. That's really good. I love a good cubanos and yaka fries with a delicious chimichuri dipping sauce for the yaka fries. What's yaka fries?

What is that? I don't know if that is. It's another root vegetable yaca, Y-U-C-A, I believe. Oh, okay, probably better for it. It's like sweet potato fries or whatever. Yeah, basically very potato inconsistent in its consistency. consistency, but I don't know, it's pretty tasty. Sounds really good, yeah.

But, so T and I get there early. We get a table. We eat because since I'm the guy who writes down all the answers and takes the sheets up, I want to be done eating by the time trivia starts. Everybody else can be eating. That's fine. And they usually are. But I want to be done by the time trivia starts.

So we get there early. We eat. our friends Dave and Lori show up and Dave and Lori you know we've got a good mix of younger and older people on our team

and when I say younger 56 year old Brian Abbott is the youngest person on the team well Tina technically is yeah because she's a little younger than me but but so when I say older

you know 10 years older and then one guy's I think 15 20 years older so it gives us a good range of stuff like Broadway questions And sports questions are really good. But Lori is very particular about the seats that she sits in. She wants a high back chair.

And the table that we're at, even though it supports all six of us, doesn't have a high back chair that she can use. So she goes over to another part of the bar quite a distance away and gets a high back chair that nobody's using. But instead of asking for one of us to help her bring it over, she pushes it across the floor. And it goes, and everybody's looking up from their tables and looking over to see what the heck is making that noise. And it's her just slowly pushing this chair through the bar. And she gets it all set up.

She hangs her purse on the back of it. She hangs her jacket on the back of it. She goes to sit on it and realizes that it's too high a chair for the lower table that we're at. So basically there's no place to put her legs. so now she has to go back to the original chair that she had which didn't have us quite a high back but now she's going to push this

all the way back through the bar and Tina and I are doing everything we can not to look at each other because if we do we're done like as soon as as soon as we make eye contact we're both going to bust out laughing I'm already really close to doing it but it's like does she notice that she's doing it

Or is she unaware? She just doesn't care. Like, Lori, Lori has zero Fs, but, that's funny. Yeah. I love those kind of social situations,

you know? It's like an episode of, it's like a segment in like a curb your enthusiasm or something. That's what that reminds me of. For sure, for sure. Yeah.

Live in your own personal Larry David moment. Hey, guys, I may have, oh, oh, you won, I was going to ask, you always win.

You always win. It's a, it's a, yeah. Yeah. We have a good solid team. We're very, we have a good variety of knowledge on our team. Do any of the other regulars that come to these things, do they ever start going, okay, hold on. These guys went every time. You know what I mean? Well, so here's the place. So the place we went is, like I said, we haven't been there a while.

It's been since April. Basically, for the summer, they stopped having trivia. And we were going every two weeks, roughly, there's the, I won't go in. to how we kind of, because we wanted to break it up and go to some other places, but technically we'd go there every two weeks. And we'd always win, or very often we'd win, probably nine times out of ten. And they brought back trivia to this place earlier this month, and we're sitting there facing the entrance, and I see people come in and look over, and kind of look over at me, because being the bald guy, I think I'm the recognizable member of the team and I swear to God

an entire team of like eight all rolled their eyes as soon as they came in the door I like that I think that's cool yeah you know what be smarter if you want to don't you know yeah don't complain don't hate the playas hate the game

yeah it's like the gamer kids say get good yeah L2P noob Nube L2P Nube that's awesome I also got something yesterday from Liam O'Brien that I have to share

before we go to Brian Dunaway today. He found a Tesla in Los Angeles, California. Look at that. Oh, my God. With a... Now, for those just listening at home, this is the rear end of a Tesla and just a regular car, not the truck.

And it's a California plate that says fart gas. It's the entire custom plate says fart gas. It is like the whole seven letters, fart gas. This, if you, If you, if it weren't Liam O'Brien, I would say, this is AI. Yeah, I would have too.

And I said to him, I even asked. Or maybe I didn't. I thought I was going to, I meant to ask him, I didn't ask. I wanted to ask him, I was like, you're not pulling one over on me or whatever. But he says legitimate, got out of his car, couldn't believe it, took a picture. He's still regular listener at TMS. Took a picture, sent it in. And this is Liam O'Brien.

That guy's on stage in front of hundreds of thousands of people. He won't lie. You know? No, we believe him. No, no, no. Definitely not. Is neck wild, though? Look at that.

That is wild. Again, it's kind of another thing. The DMV in California allows it to get the word fart put on a license plate. That's fantastic. I wonder what the limits. There's probably some rule, right? Yeah. This guy probably goes in and says, well, my middle name is Vargas.

I guess they could look it up and know that your middle name is not Vargas, but it's spelled F-A-R-2-G-A-S. Can I have that on my list? Yeah, you could pretend like you have a weirdly spelled unfortunate last name or something. Right. Yeah. Yeah, I thought that was great. That's awesome. Big shout out to Liam for that.

That was really nice. And then one quick note, you don't even know about this yet. This is a surprise for Brian. Ooh, surprise for me. Got this at the PO box today or yesterday, picked it up yesterday. And I sort of knew these were coming, but I didn't know how awesome this was going to be.

So a guy in our listenership named Carver Tate. He's also a patron. Also, that's the coolest name ever, Carver Tate. Carver Tate is really cool. Yeah. He sends this to us. Let me just pull this up. Get me some full video.

here. I'll hold up yours first. These are signed by Mark Hamill says shut up. What does it say? Oh, best to Brian and then Mark Hamill at the bottom. Look at that. Oh, my God. Isn't that great?

An actual photo. So for those listening and not hearing and seeing this, this is Mark Hamill Return to the Jedi with a slave Leah on his arm about to jump off the barge. Here's another swing from the barge got a four scott galactically yours uh that is so freaking how rad is that i didn't that's red i didn't know this was going to be this cool and you know you was sending something but i was like oh you know we always love seeing things in the p o box from people or whatever but these are rad so i just

need to get yours to you yes oh my gosh i'll put it in one of these uh stiffy boards you know there you go yeah exactly yeah stiffy stiffy board that thing um does carver did he say how like how Do you get this at New York City Comic-Con? Did he, does he know someone who knows Mark Hamill? Because I hope he didn't spend a whole ton of money. I didn't, well, I didn't dig back through too much, like, emails and junk to see if I could find out the origin of this. But I'm not totally sure. He may have gone through real hoops.

I don't know. Wow. Like, Mark Hamill's a big draw at every con. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you know, if people aren't lined up to get his Star Wars signature, they're lined up to get his Joker signature or his, what was his, I'm not going to say the name of his character and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, but Sure, that one, yeah, possibly, sure.

Yeah, it's just a, it was a treat, so. That's super cool. Oh, that's getting hung up. Yeah, huge thanks to him for that. Right next to my Paul Sorvino photo. Nice. Everyone should have that right next to there. Oh, yeah, mine's right over there.

I could put it right next to it. That's a great idea. Yeah. Look at all these famous people. From Liam O'Brien to Mark Hamill to No kidding. The late great Paul Sorvino. So honored.

Thank you so much, Carver. That's fantastic. That's awesome. And never change your name. It's a rad name. That's right. You need to write books or some shit like that. That'd be cool.

You know, and hit me up, shoot me an email, Carver. Let me know your t-shirt size and I'll get you out a Coverville or America's Next Top Podcaster t-shirt. Yeah, I got a package of goodies to thank you. That's a great idea. I'll do the same on this side. Well, we'll flood them with thanks. I like that. Yeah, for sure.

Now, normally I'd pull down away in in the last five minutes, but as you can tell, I've been putting it off because he hasn't entered the chat yet and I don't know why so I'm just going to ask him oh maybe he said no he didn't you there okay he's in he's in the game now so that's good oh that is good he's just not in the VO thing he must have exited his deal so it's a sign not seeing you in the voice thing I don't know if he is going to see this right away hopefully he will anyway when oh I think he just joined there he by OCal he was so good as the lawyer in the House of Usher.

Oh, yeah, he was great. I'd do a rewatch of that for Halloween. That was so good. Really good in, or Midnight Mass, I might watch one of those two. Ooh, that's tempting, isn't it? Yeah. As a good thing to watch over a few days for Halloween. Halloween thing? Yeah, for sure.

Yeah, those are good rewatches. Brian Dunaway now joins us. I've got to play his thing, though. Here you go. Hey, Brian Dunaway. How you doing? Yeah, play my thing. Oh, yeah, I played your thing. I'm good. Oh, hi, Scott and Ray. Oh, hi. How are you? What are you doing? You're all right.

Hey, man, it's each day, it seems like fall wants to start here in South Carolina. And each day around this time, it reminds me that not so much. It's a little bit of like an inch forward, three inches back kind of thing in the weather down there. I get it. That's right. And can you believe it's only nine days till Halloween? I don't like it. I know. We say it all the time. It's like, can you believe, and can you believe the weather?

Yeah, we're humans. Can you believe it's the first of November? It's crazy. Anyway, hey, weather and nine or weather and traffic on the nines here on the morning. I should have started instead. I should have said, hey, do you call any good 900 numbers? Oh, yeah. That's what you should.

Yeah, Dunaway and I had a very fun pre-show discussion yesterday about 900 numbers of the 80s. Sure. The origin. Never called Miss Cleo? There were so many things. Like, call, you can call Freddie, Kruger you could call you know obviously there's a bunch of Chuckie yeah all the Halloween ones you could do he says we one this morning that was the line where you just

called in to cry I don't I don't understand that one did you play any of it because it's hilarious I'll play a teeny bit here let's see people call these 900 numbers and they don't say why but all you know is you call that number and you'll end up crying yeah here's here's the little bit let's see what happens here What makes people all over America break down and cry like this? Call 1,900, 9099 cry. All you do is you call it cry, dude. What are they telling?

What do you think they're telling these people to make them cry? I don't know, man. I want to know, though. And they're all like just tears running down their face. They're probably saying, hey, you know how much. you're spending on this call. Yeah, dude. You're spending three bucks a minute. What kind of idiot am I? That's amazing. Anyway, Dunaway out there doing the good work, so the rest of us can enjoy his labors. Dunaway, you're here to play a game. I'm here to play

that game. Brian's about to explain how the game works. Brian explained the game. It's time to play the Tadpool feud. I've surveyed the Tadpool on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Brian now to predict the answers that they gave us. It's the their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. We're going to figure out how who, who, you know, how, how, who has the most points at the end of the game. Give prizes, you know, to

a proxy player. You guys are playing for some supporters over on Patreon. Patreon.com slash TMS. Scott, you're playing for Frank Andrewzwitz. Yeah, that's a cool name. I like it. Brian, you're playing for James Draper.

Ooh, Mr. Draper. How are you, sir? Mr. Draper. Yeah, my sister. Sterling Cooper, Draper, Draper, Price. Yeah, it's where all the snotty. My sister lives there, so I don't, I'm not calling her snotty, but there's this area called Draper here near us that all the snotty people live in.

But you're not saying she's not. She's an unusual, you know, she's just a good egg. So I don't put on one 900. Cry, yeah. Cry about it. Yeah, cry about it. All right. Cool.

Cool. All right, well, let's get to it. Put your hands on your buzzers and get ready to answer this as it reconnects to the server. There we go. Relo. and we're happy and things are moving. Okay. We asked 472 tadpoolers.

Who's your favorite TV mom? Scott. Marge Simpson. Oh. She'll be Marge Simpson. Number one with a bullet. There you go. Did not expect that.

I thought it'd be lower. All right. She's a favorite, you know. She puts up with so much crap. Of course, the tadpullers lover. There you go. That means you've got control the board because there's no other answers that

can beat it. Okay. Let's go with Mrs. Brady. I think. Carol Brady. I feel like that's a really old one, but let's try it. Show me Carol Brady. Number two. It kind of does tell you where people are at.

I'm shocked by this. Boy, now I'm nervous to do the rest. a kitty from that 70 show maybe oh sure I'm sure kitty foreman yeah Red's wife good set that 70 show yeah red's wife yeah yeah show me kitty foreman look at you seven points number four answer on the board

I'm just gonna I'm just gonna go do something else I know right this is crazy all right got a book handy Brian how about how about a book handy what is that supposed to mean You know what a... Oh, oh, I'm sorry. Can you give a book a handy?

Yeah. You go to the library nice and late and you get a book handy. And a paper cut. Yeah. Oh, shit. I didn't expect that. All right. Mom, the character, Mom from Futurama.

She's a mother. Oh, that's good. Yeah, that's a great one. Yeah. All right. Show me. Mom. Ah, boom.

There we go. With her, uh, Dracula. Gary Oldman Dracula haircut No, she was not in the top 10 She was up there though She is number 19 is mom from I love her

Yeah She's great Got so many good ones I'm afraid though That I know She's all right So it looks like we're going We're going with classic moms

I'm assuming people still Remember Mrs. C from the Yeah Mrs. Cunningham That's right Do you remember her first name by the way? Marian

please because you would always say it marian you know and i was thinking no it can't be marian because that was the actress was marian ross they're confusing it's like yeah that's her name show me tom busley hey mrs c oh come all i'm coming him number 18 right above mom

from future i knew i should have went with rosan you know what that's not bad though oh you're going to give me one by saying rosan interesting go ahead if you think if you think the tadpool put rosal on there go ahead Because she's a favorite for people these days. Do you not know your group? Do you not know your community?

Well, let's go with Mags Bennett. Just kidding. I'm not doing that. That's a joke. She's a terrible mother. Chit. Morticia Adams. Oh, that's a good one.

Mortisha Adams. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do. That timed really well. it did uh number 13 just out of the top 10 and not even not even enough to get you a bonus guess all right fine nice nice well i'm afraid i don't understand now because we got marg simpson we got carol brady we got these are all classics and if they didn't like mrs c ha i know maybe they did say rosan i didn't want scott to have that one i wouldn't go rosanne because i am going to um what's the word troll the group okay

Yeah, yeah, Roseanne, please. Roseanne Barr. All right. Show me. And the rocket's red glare. Oh, man. Roseanne was, again, right after Mom from Futurama. Like all three of those, like in a little cluster.

Number 20 is Roseanne. Okay. All right. You guys, come on. I don't have one strike left. I don't know you people. There's so many points on the board still. I don't know you people at all then.

Well, there's just so many great TV moms. There are some great TV. Every sitcom has a great TV mom. I mean, I'm leaning cartoons. We just because I don't know, I don't know why, but two of mine worked. So I'm going to go with, or no, I guess one is all I've done. Let's try Linda Belcher. Let's give it a shot.

Oh, that's good. Bob's burgers. That is awesome. Yeah, that's great one. Show me Linda Belcher and her giant glasses. Number three, taking Scott up to 10 points. We're back on track, folks. We're finally back on to the thing.

Okay. Am I not going to even get one today? That's just stupid. Well, I wouldn't call it stupid. They'll be better. Get good. I'm going to go with, what's her name? The Bundy wife plays.

That was. That's the only one I was going to do. Peg Bundy. Peg Bundy. Thank you. Peg Bundy. All right. He gave me the first name. Go ahead. Show me Peg Bundy.

He was going to give it to you anyway. You already got the last part. He was going to give it to you. Yeah, I would have probably given it to you. Yeah. Peg Bundy, number nine, taking the scout up to 19 points. Brian, yet to put points on the board. Stupid crap.

Let's go back to, um, it's not my favorite. favorite cartoon mom, but someone's probably done Lois, Lois Griffin. Well, you've had pretty good luck so far with the cartoon moms. I mentioned, I was going to say Griffith, that ain't it. Griffin. Griffin, yeah, that's it. Yeah. Okay.

Lois Griffin. All right. Show me Lois Griffin as one Tadpooler put as a side note in his it is vote. She's a freak. Show me Lois Griffin. Oh, shit. Okay.

Number six, six more points for Scott. 25, still not enough to lock it down permanently. Might as well say Wilma Flintstone, why you're ready? Pretty damn close. Cartoon ones. Ooh, Wilma Flintstone's not bad. Stupid cartoon. Uh, I'm all out, so I may actually try that.

Let's try Wilma Flintstone. All right. I don't know. Show me. She was always down the clown too. Show me Wilma Flintstone. Ah, damn it. good the tadpool does like uh you know the male members of the tadpool do like the wives that seem

to uh be okay with no matter how the husband looks like yes love or uh fred oh in that case yeah yeah peter griffin or uh interesting i think we've tapped into a little psychology there about these guys might be homer i mean any you know look at all these like uh long suffering wives of that's great dufous husbands all right I can't decide between Claire Huxstable and Goldberg's mom. Wait, what's her name? Hold on a second. Let me think about it for a second.

Reno 911 lady. No, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's her name. What's their stupid name? What was their stupid name? Beverly, Beverly. That's it. Beverly Goldberg. Very good. Are we going with?

Who are you going with? We're going with Claire or Beverly? This is my last strike. Oh, I just thought of one. Damn it. I'm going to go with Beverly. Goldberg. Okay.

All right. Do it. Show me Beverly Goldberg. Bear Huxstable, sorry. I'm going to guess. Okay, can I say one that just popped in? Yeah, but I will tell you, by the way, Brian, Claire Huxble, number five.

Hang it! Oh. A butthole. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, damn it. Well, sorry about that, done away.

Was one of these Peggy Hill, Peggy Hill. Oh, Peggy Hill. Oh, Peggy Hill. Oh, why didn't think of Peggy. yeah Peggy Hill number 23 Beverly Goldberg number 22 Oh my gosh

Didn't make the top 10 Let's see who the rest of your top 10 is Speaking of hot wives With Dufus Husbands The one of the best examples of this Claire Dunphy Fair Dumfee God that's great too

Yeah Claire Dunfee was also You know she was she was in for like The role play Valentine's Day stuff I mean she was up for it all Yeah Halloween that was her holiday Another great mom from a TV show

I never watched, but I think Kim watches annually. Get more girls, kill more girls. We've been watching that around the house, too. I should have got that one. That one's huge everywhere. I don't know why I didn't think of that. Damn it.

It's probably on right now as far as I know. It's up there just running for all I know. Probably not. Just kidding. Oh, so by the way, Scott, before it scrolls out of view, Carver says, Carver is in our chat, by the way, Carver Tate, who sent us the Mark Hamel stuff.

He says, don't throw away, don't throw away the cardboard envelopes because there's a two-page letter explaining how I know Mark and his son Nathan. Oh, shit! Did I see that? There's a... Is there email, you said? There's letters in the...

Sorry to interrupt, Brian, yeah. I'm looking just blank sheets. I'll dig through the rest and make sure I don't lose that. I don't know where that is. Do we need to put lemon juice on them or hold them over an open flame or something to reveal the... I don't know. They're not... You're killing me.

What's my 10th number mom? All right. All right. Make sure you find it. There's, there's, he says more in the chat. I won't go into all of it. Number 10 is,

you guys are looking at chat again. The oldest, uh, mom in the list here is, uh, number 10. June Cleaver. I was,

yeah, June was in my list, but I was like, if they didn't say Mrs. C, how are they going to say June Cleaver? This most stereotypic. Wait,

wait, can I. Yeah. So, okay, is it is the bonus, go ahead. I'm sorry.

So is it muscle man. Muscle man. muscle man. mom my mom my mom from regular show oh no it's not it's a jill taylor from home improvement no one's watched that home improvement i don't know what you're talking about decades uh number 12 was lois wilkerson from malcolm in the middle uh elise keaton from family ties joyce summers from buffy chilly healer who's Bluey's mom. Lucille Bluth Sophia Petrillo from Golden Girls

Donna Reed. Hello. Welcome to 2000s. Lucky of old. Yeah. Mallory Archer, speaking of Jessica Walter. Estelle Costanza. Tammy Taylor, some love for Connie Britton and Friday Night Lights.

Amy Matthews from Boy Meets World, Beverly Crusher, Searcy Lannister. Really? Dexter's. Nexter's mom, Moira Rose from Schitts Creek. I know, Circey Lannister is the worst mom. Caitlin Stark, Daeneres Targaryen, Mother of Dragons. Wow. Let's see, Reba.

McIntyre. I love Reba. That's a great. I love her show. I don't think I ever saw that episode. You never saw Reba. Can I give you two words as to why I'm not watching that show? Reba McIntyre.

Yokel humor. Every preview for that. show is is reba saying something that wouldn't be funny if a person without an accent said it and that's like i can't i can't watch something for the joke is the is the the accent i just can't uh by the way just a real quick update i have the two images okay the two pictures rather or the signatures two blank sheets uh or sorry three blank sheets of paper in between it all but there's nothing on them and a blank backing cardboard okay nothing else in here So he says, I packed the autographs in about three different envelopes and then put the mail all in a bubble wrapped envelope.

I folded up the handwritten note and put it in one of them. So Scott may have missed it. I'm looking. This is the envelope and there's nothing in there. Huh. And you open them right before the show. So they're not like, there's this also the hard cardboard thing. Nothing.

Oh, look in there maybe. Nothing? Nothing. Nothing here. Nothing. I mean, this is all I have. So if you have, here's what we need, Carver. send me like a digital version of what you

or did you handwrite it? It was a handwritten note, yeah. Shit, okay, I'll keep looking though. Okay. I don't know where it would have fallen out. Email us your mailing address because Scott and I are both going to send out something to you to thank you for these, by the way. Hell yeah.

Thank you. Anyway, congratulations, Scott. Our winner here for TMS feud, tadpooly feud. Congratulations. Then going to Frank Andrewzwitz. You're going to be getting some games on Steam. You're going to be getting Kroll. Walt, Traces of the Lost Colony, and Aon Drive.

Both great games. Excellent Indies. But James Draper, you're getting a game, too. How about that? You're getting Legacy of Sin, the Father's Sacrifice. Also excellent. Both of you look in your DMs on Patreon, because that is where those game codes are going to be sent to you.

They'll be sent just after the show today, after everything gets posted up. So watch for those. Brian Dunaway, yesterday, you and I did some real Scooby-Doo-Doo-in. Oh, yeah, we did. We solved a mystery, the mystery of which 16-bit game was better for Scooby-Doo mystery. Well, we solved it, which will have to listen to find out. Yeah, and guess which one had less Fred in it? You'll have to tune in and find out which one had less Fred.

Oh, and we totally deconstructed. Is there a formula? Less Fred, better game? And we totally deconstructed each of the members of the mystery. The mystery crew. Yeah, it's also, and then we watch for our patrons, we watch an episode where, Scrappy Doe first. The first Scooby-Doo and scrappy. It was shit. It was shit. Was the the monster that they had to unmask? Was he a shark that

jumped? You know what? In essence, yes. The entire episode was dressed like a shark in a jump. It was really bad. Anyway, Dunaway, that was so much fun that now I just have to say a kiss our butts. Okay. There we go. Oh. Guys, that was fun and all. Always haven't done away on as fun. But it was it informative. Maybe, maybe it wasn't. Let's find out what else we can do on that regard. Isn't technology wonderful? Well, it sure can be when Tom Merritt joins us. Tom Merr, welcome to the program. How are you, sir? Oh, I'm wonderful. How are you? You are wonderful. I think you're pretty wonderful. You know you. It's good to have you, man. Oh, I was going to get you on video. Let me do that

real fast. You are here. I'm sorry, you can't hear it, but the new Halloween ringtale. I forgot to turn off. I kind of... Oh, yeah, I don't get those anymore because we do our audio and not in Discord, but we do it over in stream yards. Clean feed.

Yeah, so we don't get to hear any kooky yearly thing. I don't get to hear the ringy dinghies anymore. That's a shame. Yeah, but they've got new special Halloween ones, and I saw the notification that said, we've changed all your sounds to Halloween sounds. If you want to turn it off, do this.

And I was like, I'll do that later, but now I get... Well, I can tell you're super stoked about it. Hey, did you like just a quick note? And I know everyone yesterday got their earful of the stupid SORA app, but I did this one where I remixed one Tom did, where he's just walking down the street. And I said, put me in there, but in a hazmat suit,

just kind of standing around looking at you. Yeah, yeah. That ended up being, if you put the right music to that, that is a creepy-ass little video right there. Really? Yeah, it's weird. Somebody made one of the two of us, you and me, Scott, doing, like, going up to people's doors to tell him about the morning

stream, I'm holding a 3D printer, you're holding a thing of rice, and he's remixed it three times, and each time it gets more bat-shit crazy with a car driving by and honking, and one of them looks like somebody has pulled an invisible rope that is tied to your waist and yanks you back. Awesome. I like when it goes off the rails. The harder it goes off the rails, the more fun we're having, you know? For sure.

Yeah. For sure. That's great. Well, Tom, it's always good to have you here, man. We did a little thing last week that people really ended up liking, and that was asking the audience to put forth questions. I got one for you this week. Hey, I'll bet you know the answer to this because you're a smart guy.

So here's what it is. 42. Ah, shoot. Good night, everybody. 6-7. Check out DT&S in his newsletter and everything. 6-7. It was 42.

Oh, my gosh. My daughter's 6-year-old came over from school saying 6-7. in the other day. She about lost it. Oh, geez. Yeah. I said, you know what? You're going to have to, I don't know, punish that boy. Something. June 7's going to become a national holiday, isn't it? I hope not. Oh, I didn't even think of that, man. Or July 6th in the UK. I hope it doesn't. I hope it stops here. Everywhere else will celebrate it on a different day. So we got an email from Cravitz. Probably not Lenny Kravitz or Zoe Kravitz. I think it's Zoe. I'll, I choose to believe. Okay. One of a Morton Joe's

wives. Hmm. All right, then. She says, or he says, hi, guys, love the text segment each week. Had a question for Tom. Pass keys. Is it safe to ditch passwords now?

And what's the failure mode if you lose your primary device? Good. That is a great question. It is safe to ditch a password if the pass key provider allows you to do it. Most places are still required. wiring you to have a password as a backup. So I would say that's really not under your control. Microsoft is the only major provider I know that lets you just delete your password.

And I did it live on DTNS one day. And so far, I haven't had any issues. I've been able to log in to Microsoft just fine. Pasquies are confusing to people because of the way they are being implemented. And that confusing implementation is because companies are trying to easily move you from passwords to pass key. The promise land someday is that you don't think about it. Passkeys are just stored on your device and it says,

would you like to log in and then you use your fingerprint or your face scan or whatever it is to authenticate yourself and then you're done. But it's going to be rocky getting there. So to the question in particular, if anybody wants to know what a pass key is, real short version is it's a very secure token that's stored on your machine that authenticates you. The big advantage to that is unlike a password, it's really difficult to guess what it is and someone can't just break into a network server and get all the passwords. There's also a lot

of cryptographic stuff that keeps people from being able to take them from you and use them outside of you because they need to be authenticated by your biometric log-in. So you can go find my Noah little more episode on pass keys if you're like, wait, but how is that work? And how can that be secure? But let's take it as assume that these are very secure. If you lose a pass key, you have a couple of recourses. One is you can use something like one password to store your pass keys. That way, it's in the cloud. Now, you have now made them slightly less secure because you put them in the cloud, but if you're using one password to put your passwords, that's even less secure. So you're still more secure than that. And that way,

if you lost your device, your pass key is still in the cloud on one password. That's probably the best way to do it. If you don't do that, if you're someone who like, I don't use password managers because I don't want a single point of failure with all my authentication in one place, then you'll have to rely on whatever the recovery method of the service is. A lot of times that's email. Right. It'll be like, hey, I can't, I can't log in. I don't have my pass key. It'll say, we'll email you a link. And then you go to your email address and you log. There's no password involved there, right? That is a fairly secure. Of course, that means you have to keep your email logged in. You have to keep your email secure. But most people are, if they're trying

to keep anything secure, it's email. And if you don't have that as a fallback, then you're going to have to do account recovery, and that anybody who's had their Instagram or Facebook hacked has had to go through an account recovery process. It's annoying, it's long, but it can be done. All of those are problems with passwords as well. You are much less likely to lose your pass key than you are to have your password guessed or cracked or leaked or something like that. It also means you don't have to use a multi-factor authentication code. So if you have multi-factor authentication, And you lose your device, you may have lost your multi-factor authentication, in which case you have to go through some kind of account recovery situation or emailing a link. But, yeah, all the ways you can get in when you forget your password are usually still available with pass key.

It's just that you have this more secure way of logging in that's easier, it's faster, and it's not liable to phishing or data breaches the way password. And the good news is one password and other password managers. There's a ton of them. Yeah, they've integrated pass key as part of their stuff now. So I was just showing on screen. Let me show it again here. All your passwords you were showing on screen on. Well, I hid the email that I showed.

All your passwords are belong to us. So I'm showing this here real quick. So this is my wall. This is the first one I ever did is the reason I'm showing it. I use one password. It's a Walmart log in. And they had just one point said, hey, do you want to start using pass key? And my brain went, oh, I haven't done one yet.

I should probably try this. And I trust this is big enough. Walmart's big. I'll do that. So I did it. And now what happens is when I go to do logins via browser or phone or whatever and I'm using one password as my password manager, it knows this and it knows what device I'm on. And the past key stuff just works.

If I don't, then this will, like you said, default back to my two factor password slash email to log in the other way. so it feels that this is like almost third factor authentication or in effect it's just giving you a new layer of security but I only have as I was looking here I've only done this three times once with them once with Amazon and once with Microsoft and I'm not sure why the others I've had others offer it to me and I just kind of like maybe not today you know and I don't know why I do that maybe it's because like you said the ease of which to explain to people who are just coming on the website and being told about this that hey You want to do this?

It's secure and it's cool, but it's nothing like what you're used to. It throws people and makes them go, hey, what am I doing? People are like, I don't know. I have to think about this. And I'm unfamiliar with it. So I don't trust it as automatically, even though logically, if you do find out about it, you'll trust it way more than you'll trust a password of any kind. I totally understand that.

I've even not done pass keys at times because I was too busy. And I'm like, I want to remember where. this pass key is, which you don't really have to do, you know, like it's just a weird quirk of the human brain. A little chicken and egg thing going on to where it's like, well, if I already have my, if I'm not getting rid of my password, why should I do pass key? Right? And, and yet, companies don't want to get rid of the password because they want to get people onto pass key before they force everybody. Even Microsoft still lets you log in with the password. It's just one of the few that lets you not have a password so that it can't be taken out of a breach or something.

Brian, do you, how many logins have you converted to this at all? I slowly convert them over as they come up because for a while I was using a pattern that would do that was based on a song title and I would just kind of reformat the based on who the vendor was so that each one was different but it was still, you know, all based on a formula. Now I'm just using the built-in, yeah, the use stronger password and if I love it. how easy it is. I love how it, you know, syncs to all my devices, makes it so much easier, so I'm all for it. Yeah. So the past key part, though, have you used that yet, though? Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like, use that with, um, I'm sorry, that's what I thought you meant. Yeah, I've been using that with things like, uh, PayPal. Um, so I've got the keyboard, the Mac keyboard that's got the little, um, Oh, I need that. The metal ring on it. Yeah. I need that. I have a notebook that does that, but not my main. That, oh, that's the question. So if you're using that, that means Brian's authenticating with his biometrics.

If you don't... If you don't have a... If you don't have a finger, it's not what I meant. You don't have a finger. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. But Tom, what if you have a device that doesn't have biometric input? You're kind of out of it for a pass key?

No, you can still use pass keys. It will then use whatever log-in authentication you have on your device, which makes the pass-key more vulnerable because someone could get into your device easier, right? It's still tied to your device. So as soon as you take it off your device, it's, you know, it's not as usable anymore. Okay. But it is still more secure on your Chromebook that doesn't have any biometric authentication,

then it would be on a server somewhere where someone could just get all the passwords or even to a dictionary attack where someone can just try to guess your password and you know, guess that algorithm you use to create different passwords or something like that. So it is, it is infinitely more secure. We're always talking about trying to get as close to zero percent chance of breach as possible, but you have to be comfortable with the fact in security that you're never at zero percent. The locks on your door are less secure than a pasty. You know, but you still, you don't like say, well, forget locks on doors. They're not, you know, they're totally crackable. It's like, no, they're enough of a speed bump that, that, that,

we tend to think, oh, you know what, I'm going to keep a lock on the door. Paskey is quite secure because of that. Yeah. So, yeah, even if you don't have the biometric stuff, you can still use Paskey. You just have to be aware like, oh, I need to make sure nobody gets a hold of my device because it would be easier for them to get in and get my pass keys. Most people just aren't targets for that kind of violation. And most hackers are going after your login in different ways.

So to try to get around pass keys, hackers are coming up with new ways of trying to trick you into letting them log into your account. Then they can create their own pass key for your account. But it's a different kind of fishing. They can't just get you to accidentally give them your password. We are kind of at that stage, though, that we were with two-factor where not every site offers it. That's a slow rollout kind of. And the smaller sites go last, kind of. But I remember going through that with two-factor and just being annoyed at the final.

you know, a handful of sites that I used that weren't offering two-factor drove me crazy. But now it's pretty much universal. So we'll get there

with this probably and then some other thing we'll push the boundary again to be even more secure and then we'll all have to glom onto that. But recommend it. Thumbs up.

Yeah. Yeah. Love it. The brilliance of this will come when people stop thinking about the word paskey and it just becomes the way you,

like would you like to save your login for this account? You say yes, and then you don't have to ever think about it again. It just says, like, you know, use your thumb or scan your face. Okay, you're into your account, and no one ever has to think about what's going on behind the scenes. Well, there you have it. Now, these questions have been answered very thoroughly, so today. And you're thinking to yourselves at home, man, I'd sure like that to happen to the future.

Tom, we'd like more questions that come in, wouldn't we? We'd like that. Yeah, I've been really enjoying this. I love the idea of like, oh, something. already know about you would like me to explain, you know, that's kind of my jam. So keep them coming. Yeah, we'll keep them coming for sure. If you want to check out the, or if you want to email us, you can do it. You want to contact through Tom and he gets one, a stray one and says, hey, this is perfect. He'll send it to me. Like, we don't care how you send them. Just get them

to us. Just get them to. Yeah. And we'll answer these questions. Yes, Brian. And speaking of Questions. Tom and me and Eileen and Anthony Lemis and him and Chamberlain are all going to be doing a live stream today at 3.30 p.m. Mountain for Daily Music Headlines. And if you've got music questions for us, anything related to music or how we do the show, any of that stuff, then feedback at daily music headlines.com is the email address. Nice. We want those questions, too. 3.30, what channels are going on? Probably everybody's or? the uh the uh good day internet or good day internet has been called that the daily tech news show twitch uh and youtube channel very nice very very nice tom merritt anything else you'd like to mention before we go today that's it that was the thing i was going to mention oh good questions then tune in for the live

stream that's perfect we've got one good question that that i can't wait to uh we've got one question so far oh okay so we could double our questions yeah yes right it's one person sending a question double the number of questions that we have for today's show also i'll say this i'm impressed that today's question tech question wasn't just default some ai question it's nice to it's nice to have something that isn't necessarily related to that once in a while not to say we don't want more of those because they're they are of the of the time topic is off off limits no except maybe the one about me and tiawan of that one year that's the only question but um or poop uh tom merit yeah or that the tech of poop or poop i love the way you said there might be something there we might actually be

some good take of proof. There could be something there. Let's talk about Toto Toilets next week. Yeah, right, exactly. Tom Merritt, everybody. Watch him as he goes. Ace Detect on all the things. We'll see you soon. Bye now. That was great. That'll be a fun stream today. It'll be a blast. Yeah, it's the third one we've done. And we always come with our own topics to discuss.

And we've all got such different perspectives on music and how we grew up with music, how we enjoy music. days um kind of ranging from very analog for me and hammond to very digital for like eileen and and um uh anthony lemus and stuff like that it's very interesting so 3.30 p.m mountain time uh at uh like tom said the d tns uh live stream nice stuff watch for uh anthony's massive beard look for that right i know yeah you won't be able to miss it it's hard to miss no quick email from uh Canadian traffic and weather. This is from Jamie. He is Canadian. Jamie does our mashups and stuff. Jamie says, interesting to learn about how other radio stations brand their traffic reports. For me in Vancouver, it is News 1130, traffic and weather together on the ones.

On the ones. That's interesting. Yeah. Says, I always thought all radio stations did the same thing. I learned something, he says. So the ones, it'd be 10, 15, anything with a one in front. No, I'm thinking like 21, 31, 31, 41, 51, 51. Oh. Like the nines, yeah. Okay, that makes more sense. Because the nines are on, yeah.

Otherwise, you'd top load it and you'd have too many in the... Yeah. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 60s. Oh, yeah, I didn't even think of that. I didn't even think of that. I'm jumping ahead by 15 minutes, but everything in between would have its own weather report. Oh, shit. And the entire hour during 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, and 12 o'clock and 1 o'clock.

We do weather everywhere the thing points, as how it should be. That's right, exactly. That's interesting. Yeah, I don't know why it's the nines here. I'm sure it's just everybody just has their thing. Yeah, I don't know. It's funny. I don't even remember what we had here when I listened to terrestrial radio, what number it was.

But that's really interesting. Thank you, Jamie, and the Vancouver update. We also got this about minis and painting them. Hey, Scott and Brian, I'll listen to a lot of your shows. And occasionally, I hear Brian talk about painting minis. I started painting minis two, three years ago. And last weekend entered a competition for the first time, and I won. I'm very proud of it, especially the,

display, as it was my very first attempt at making a diorama. Let me know what you guys think. P.S. Does Brian ever record his mini paintings? I would love to see the results of the things he discusses on podcasts. Here's the problem. The only issue I have with this email is there was no attachment, so I can't see his thing. I think you forgot to put the attachment. I know.

I want to see the photo of the display that he won for. We send that. We're happy to put the word. He or she. We are happy to show it because we didn't get your name or your, there's no attachment on these texts. so I can't do it that way, but email it or DMS, like put it in the Discord. We've got a, you know, painting minis channel, like the sub-channel and the TMS thing.

So, yeah, I want to see it. I have not recorded or live streamed any of my painting streams for a while. I need to. The thing is, this very first month of Rock Puzzles Monthly, I have been so focused on making sure that we come out of the gate with some really good puzzles. And the playtesters have all been really, really positive feedback, loving the puzzles. So everybody else is going to get theirs at the beginning of next week, the 27th. But the playtesters are loving this batch. But it means I've been super busy, so I haven't had time to paint anything.

Plus your first month, you've got to nail down all your systems and process and get your workflow. Exactly. Figure out like, all right, to be able to get these puzzles to the playtesters by this date, I need to have them done by this day. I need to have them designed by this state. So I'm figuring it all out. When Brian and I do things, we don't have a committee in some room

making up all the rules for us. We're making them up on our own. Okay. Exactly. But I got a really cool, like, neck camera thing that I'm excited to use. Like, it hangs around my neck so that as I'm painting, I don't have a camera in my way or I'm not blocking with my big head.

Like, I can actually paint normally like I normally would. And this camera thing just hangs off and, and points the camera at the right place. Yeah, that's super cool. Well, there you go. Thanks for that message and send us your photo. We'd really like it. Thank you, Jamie also.

And thank you, everybody who sends us voicemails, emails, and text. You can find the links to do all of that stuff at frogpants.com slash TMS. And big shout out to Matt on the voice cast app. He put, he got our feedback and immediately implemented all the fixes. So it was awesome. So quick. Like, what a great company to respond and handle things. quickly. Yeah, he's awesome.

I love that guy. All right. Yeah. It's going to do it for us. A quick mention of, I already did, the website, frogpans.com slash TMS. And if you're looking for new shows coming up today, today is a day where I'll be intermittently streaming. I've got a game I need to finish on stream. So tune in for that. Every once in a well, I'll see. It's just Scott working with music or a TV show, an old-timey TV show playing in the background. Yeah, mostly it's, I have to go real far back so that YouTube doesn't care. Yeah, so it's like old radio detective shows or whatever. Today, I thought, I think I'm going to carve out a try to beat this sub or superliminal game I started,

which is the weirdest-ass puzzle thing you've ever seen. It's absolutely wild. I'm like, think portal, but then break your brain in 20 other ways. It's wild. Anyway, I'll be doing that later. Not sure what time yet, but keep your eye open for that. Ryan, let's play a song and take these people home. We're going to Los Angeles for this one.

singer-songwriter Tony D.V. It's Tony, and then the two letters, DV, without any periods or anything like that. The debut album is called I Know Trash People Who Keep the Oceans Clean. Wow. The debut album comes out all the way into 2026, January 28th of next year, but you can hear this song right now, and it's really, really good. This guy's got a really cool, like, more mellow vibe like Toad the Wet Sprocket or, um kind of that that lighter not light alternative but the the just the basic alternative no

crazy fancy bells and whistles but just like solid music really really good um anyway this is great stuff the song is called buff boy here's tony dv burn me at the steak he was a fake this time I know how I should do it You smile Give me like a taste Okay, but tell me straight I know that when you lie You

Just smile I don't know where I'm going And I don't care Because I am immissible Yeah I don't care Where you've been Because I've been there too

I have felt All the feelings Every one of them You pointed your lizard focus, focus on the demo tape, you child, can I be the one now? I'm a bus boy, I don't got any problem. Yeah No problems Because I don't know where I'm going

And I don't care Because I am invincible Yeah I don't care Where you've been Because I've been there too I have felt all the feeling Everyone around

Everyone Everyone I take it all I am 10 feet tall I call you small I intend to be tall I take it all I am 10 feet tall

I call you small I'm 10 feet tall I don't know I'm 10 feet tall I'm 10 feet tall I don't care I don't care This is one.

Because I take it all I'm ill to be cross Oh yeah This is part of the Frog Band Network Get more at frogpans.com. I'm the quicker blower up, baby.