The Morning Stream - TMS 2923: Beaver Charger

Episode Date: November 19, 2025

Don't put car batteries in your pants. I could lick a car for days. Pee Pickle Porcupine. I don't like greasy keeeeeeeeeeys! Depantsing Dracula. Still Can't Get the Hang of Wednesdays. Wandering Vegas looking for a Special Noodle. Coke Zero is Better Than Diet Coke: DISCUSS. Non-adhesive condiments. Driveolepsy. Greazy Keyboard. You'll have no alcohol, no guns and no Lt. Yar! Don't Dogorrito and Drive. Steve Harvey and Cockney Rebel. Giving Us Us with Tom and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last night I had a dream, and I was eaten by a polar bear in this dream, but only half of me. The other half was eaten by another polar bear, which means I was eaten by polar bears. Anyway, forget that stuff and just hop on patreon.com slash TMS today and support your favorite show. Coming up on the morning stream, don't put car batteries in your pants. I could lick a car for days. Pea pickle porcupine. I don't like greasy keys. De-pantsing Dracula.

Still can't get the hang Wednesdays. Wandering Vegas looking for a special noodle. Coke Zero is better than Diet Coke. Discuss. Non-adhesive condiments. Drive-Avepsy. Greasy keyboard. You'll have no alcohol, no guns, and no Lieutenant Yard! Don't doggarito and drive.

Steve Harvey and Cockney Rebel. Giving us us with Tom and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. In the nightmare world of superstition and fear, the familiar story of Dracula. is a case in point. You heard me take off your pants. The morning stream. Hello, everybody, and welcome to TMS.

This is the morning stream for November 19th, 2025. It's a Wednesday. I'm Scott. That's Brian. Hi, Brian. How you doing? It's a Wednesday. I never could get the hang of Wednesdays. No. You're probably wondering how I got here. No, it's not the same thing. A different thing. They always remind me of each other though for some or something. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, can I just tell you how much I like the Amy Polar podcast? I expected to tune into that. I'd listen to the first time and I went. Yeah. This is going to be like all these others where it's mostly ads. And some guy behind the scenes is like, hey, me and your agent think you should start podcasts. That's the hot new thing for. for aging comedians or whatever and it is the most

delightful genuine version of one of these and maybe I've ever heard part of it is because she keeps interviewing guests that she's got great relationships with like Kristen Wiggs was just on and lots of prominent women is the main

thing you're going to find. Very funny women Maya Rudolph was on recently. I just heard the one with Kate McKinnon and just we just did a show on daily music headlines about Ariana Grande being on her on her show. Oh yeah. I think she's the latest episode. I haven't heard it yet though.

Yeah. Yeah. She just got she just has a vibe on there that's just really affable and real. Did you ever watch the show making it with her and Nick Offerman? No, that was the woodworking deal. Reality show some woodworking, but more

like just makers. Like some people were woodworkers, some people were knitters or crocheters or things like that. But there was always some, I guess there was always some aspect where they had to assemble something with wood, maybe. Now that I'm thinking about it.

I can't remember. I remember some of the big things, they're not going to crochet something that huge. But that was another thing about that show is that it had such a positive vibe and didn't feel like any of the, other things like that. And just the interplay between her and Nick Offerman were fantastic.

Yeah, she talked a bunch about him on the episode with Cape McKinnon, because McKinnon is now living on a farm way out nowhere and makes her own furniture and builds like she's growing her on food. She's just in this like get away from the, like the opposite of the 20 years she spent in New York. Now she's like way out in the nowhere living in the nature. That's cool. Oh, I'm going to have to listen.

That sounds awesome. It's really good. And even the commercial she does do reads for her. They're really nice too. She does a great job. I think Amy Poehler is a freaking gem. She really is. Yeah.

And it's like legit funny. Like I laugh out loud. I have a hit and miss with that with some of these other comedian based podcasts. It's like, you're all trying a little too hard. It's a little too, right. Or there's a lot of inside baseball that's like,

all right, well, this would be funny to people in Hollywood or this would be funny to people in New York or whatever, but awesome. Yeah, I'll have to check it out. Yeah, you have to check it out. Quick note. I didn't tell the story yesterday because we didn't have time, so I'm going to tell

this story. While we were in Vegas, there was a hunt at one point for a Coke Zero, and it was my sister, Wendy. We don't talk about this on this year on Thursday. She has a legitimate attachment to Coke Zero. Sure. She needs it all the time. She wants it. If she doesn't have it, she'll ask for it. I can relate to that.

Yeah. Yeah. It's like coffee for her. She just needs her Coke, you know, and it needs to be... She's got a Coke zero addiction. Yeah, she has a Coke zero addiction. And she has this thing where she would prefer it out of a fountain and not a can. I can't am of the opposite.

I trust a can. You prefer it out of a can? Oh, is a trust issue? Well, after hearing about the cleanliness of some of those nozzles at convenience stores, I don't blame you. Yeah. We almost went to like a Maverick, for example. And I was like, oh, I heard they have terrible cleaning. And anyway, so here's what happened.

Because of all the F1 stuff in Vegas, there's all these like blocked off streets and stuff. I talked about that yesterday. Yeah. But she's like, oh, I need a, I need one of these. And we're like, okay, well, let's go to lunch. And we went to this Chinese place that wasn't all that great. And they had diet Coke. And it was only in a cans.

We're like, well, that didn't work. But we had lunch anyway. And then we're like, all right, well, where else can we go? And Kim's like, well, there aren't any convenience stores on this. part, and that road's cut off. So now we're going to have to go this way and this way. And Wendy goes, well, you know what? I'll use my phone.

This is a great idea. McDonald's, she was like McDonald's near me, and I'll take diet because their fountain diet's pretty good. And I said, okay, let's do that. So she plugs one in. And then we started what I can only describe is one of the most painful wraparound, loop-de-loop, Vegas nightmare messes I've ever been in.

Yeah. And part of the problem was the one McDonald's that she found. It didn't occur to her to check and see where the McDonald's was in terms of what enclosed it because it took us to the T.I. The Treasure Island on the strip. It's one buried deep into a food court inside the Treasure Island. Right. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And because of the way the roads were and everything, we were just at a standstill. Nobody could go anywhere or do anything. In the end, we ended up just back at our hotel. And I bought her a tall boy version of a Coke. Zero. local thing and she sat on eight bucks or something probably yeah after all that was a freaking nightmare but here's the best part about it if we hadn't been searching for this coke

we would have never had this experience we're sitting at that Chinese restaurant Wendy's right in the middle of a pretty serious discussion around Luke's passing and some of this stuff and then her eye I see her eyes looking outside of this strip mall thing in Chinatown

and she kind of can't pull her eyes away from it and she pauses she stops talking And I go, you're all right? She goes, I just saw the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life. And she looked ghostly pale. And I said, what did you see? And she goes, that guy right there. And there's a dude walking past.

And he looked a little troublesome. Like maybe he's on stuff. I don't know. He just licked that car. And I said, I'm sorry? She goes, yeah, he just got down on that hood of that car, which had water on it from the car. rain. Okay. And just

licked the hood of the car to get all the water off the car with his tongue. Super, super thirsty. That's what ecstasy will do to it. Sure feels like. Is that what that is? Maybe it was a kind of drug that would make you just die for water no matter where it was. You need water. Yeah, just like

dying of thirst. It was bad. So, uh, she goes, and she just looks at me and goes, this town. I'm like, well, yeah, but you know, you'll see this weirdness in almost every downtown area. But anyway, yeah, licked a car. Was it candy apple red at least?

Oh, what was it? No, it was like a silver Hyundai. The only seem, I don't want to sound stereotypical, Brian. But this part of Chinatown seemed to only have Korean cars in it. Sure. So it had like lots of Hyundai's, lots of Kia's. And then our Honda felt like the odd one out. But it was just a weird thing to see.

And we've seen some weird things in Vegas, but watching a guy lick the hood of a car is pretty weird you know wow anyway good times all around yeah no kidding uh boucho and i know you're looking for a good restaurant chinatown there's the shang noodle which is fan freaking tastic we tried to go there was there a huge long wait yeah and the and got wrapped around a little bit so then we went we went to another place it was highly rated called this secret no no no sorry the magic noodle something like that okay some other something noodle and i plug that into my phone. I'm like, oh, look, it's clear we can go up to there. And we get there, and it's this place called, uh, the secret noodle. Or no. Okay. The special

noodle. Special noodle. Okay. There's a lot of noodle named restaurants and all of them have like something descriptor and a noodle. Blank noodle. Yeah. So this one was dragon noodle. So we kind of settled and it turns, it wasn't the right one. Uh, it was nothing special about that special noodle. Other than that guy licking that car. Not real. Yeah. But we then then we made up for it walk down a few slots and there's this awesome Korean bakery in there that makes like like Benier style Asian influenced like

puffy cakes and oh really? Oh wow. Really, really good. Wow. Highly recommended. Very cool stuff. All right you guys guess what time it is? I don't know if you've I don't know if you've been here on a Wednesday before. Yeah. Nobody's looking at the clock. Nobody's watching. So they don't know. They don't know what's going to happen right the second when I hit this button.

Yes, that music can mean only one thing. That is Mr. Brian Dunaway joins us all the way from South Carolina to play a little game today. Hello, Brian. Oh, we only played that music when I come on. Oh, there you are. Yeah, we only play. That's your theme music, dude. Sweet.

Yeah. How does that make you feel? Can I get a copy of that? Can I get that pressed on a CD? Can you put that on a mixtape for me? Could you, you know, put that on some lime wire so I can download it? Sure. Appreciate you.

Yeah, yeah. I'll get you. I'll get you a vinyl version of it. How's that? Sweet. Could you make me a bootable USB with a kiosk mode of Linux and just plays that when it boots up? Thanks, man. Yes. Yes. You know what? I can actually do that for you if you'd like. Raspberry pie with a blah. Yeah, why not? Well, it's good to have you here, man. Oh, I should log into this game. We're going to play a game. Brian Nibit here knows the rules. He's going to explain them. And then talk about the people we're playing for. Brian, take it away. Okay. It's time to play the Tad Pooley feud. I've surveyed the tad pulling some nerdy topics and Scott and Brang and have to predict the answer they gave us. It's Scott and Brand's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. We're going to add up all your points at the end of the game and you're going to win a prize for your contestant. Who are your contestants? Well, they're people that are supporters on Patreon.

At patreon.com slash TMS, I really need to rewrite this script because I just copied and pasted half of it from half asses and it does not apply. So you half ass did it. I did. I really did. Yeah, nice. Nailed it. Scott, you're playing for Taffy Guy. Oh, we love Taffy Guy. Oh, Taffy Guy. I love Taffy, even better, but I do love Taffy guy. That's great.

Brian, you are playing for a toe cutter. Oh, shit. Mad Max's first movie in 1979 or whatever it was. He's scary and became Immorten Joe later, that same actor. That's right. Yes. Oh, geez. I'm sure it's not really him. Somebody let the Mad Max out.

Oh, great. Yeah, right. He let the Mad Max out. It's probably why the guy named himself Toecutter in our Patreon, just so he gets. Smart. Probably, yeah, special treatment. Sure. Like, look at me.

Look at me. Yeah, I'm the captain now. I'm the toe cutter now. All right, let's get to this. We have a bunch of stuff here, 474 tadplers. We were asked, put your hands on your buzzers, and give me your best answer to this. What is something you should not hold while driving? Scott.

Telephone. Telephone. Yeah, your phone. Yes. Of course, your phone. Number one. a bullet kind of the with a bullet the person who submitted this question probably had this in mind is like just frustrated with uh they just passed they just passed the uh law in south carolina is being monitored but then enforced in january if you are caught with your phone in your hand while driving you've been busted good good they should do that here too because i can't tell you how many times there's somebody in front of me they're breaking erratically. They're slowly drifting lanes. And I get to the side of them and they're like playing

candy crush or some shit. I hate it. I see. We have some law now, but I don't know what it, I don't know how far it reaches, but there is some kind of, if you're caught with your phone and a pullover or something. Yeah. But it is the problem is the, um, the way it's enforced out here is you have to be pulled over for a different reason. Like you can't just be pulled over because you have your phone in your hand if you if you um are driving excessively fast or excessive or dangerously slow or making that's crap without signaling whatever then they can get you for the phone thing but that they need to do what you doing what they're doing out in south carolina they can just see it with the phone it is it is really just really the thing is not in your hand so it can't be above the line where people can see it so you can

hold it you can put it in your crotch oh yes right and i see that so many times again i'll be behind somebody and I'll be right I'll see their head going yeah I hate it yeah it makes me want to just slowly bump their car are you looking at your phone or are you looking at your junk yeah just go up and bump their car oh sorry oh you must have been on your phone I was looking down at your phone road rage with Brian Ibbitts this Sunday Sunday Sunday I'm gonna say for a number two yeah I was gonna say I guess back to the game Scott you've got control of the board I'm gonna say let's go with a hot drink

coffee I guess hot coffee going with the video game yeah hot coffee what are you going to pick hot coffee let's see if coffee coffee coffee is on there yes it is number five that does encompass

all hot drinks okay right so actually all drinks all drinks in total I think I oh really all cold drinks too wow well Oh, oh, he's not sure.

I don't want to say, I don't want to say too much. You already have. I really have to have said too much. Um, all right. Let's, uh, do a cigarette. A cigarette. Sure. Okay. Yeah. Show me your smoke. Oh, man. No, uh, surprising. Uh, cigarette. I think there are a lot of smokers on in, in the tadpool who are like, yeah, you're not going to pull that cigarette out of my hand. um cigarette was not even in the top uh really did you also include vapes is that like all encompassing can we kind of pull that off the board let's see nobody said vapes and one okay so it wasn't scott's oldness is just not up there well smoking this case the thing in this the reason i thought cigarettes is because if you dropped a hot lit cigarette between your legs you'd just be flipping out you see you've seen you've seen plane strains automobiles coming up that's right yeah that's how you end up going to wrong one

way on the on the highway yeah and john candy going i love that movie how do they know which way we're going yeah how do they know all right brian those are pillows you have the board so i'm going to go right i'm going to go with the thing that i hate probably as much is when i see somebody driving down the road

chomping down on a burger they got the wrapper in their hands and it's like they're just oh i'm just burger food time because it's fine as long as the burgers you know like well handled well assembled yeah but they never they never are tomato's going to fall out ketchup is going to drip and when you

when that happens your instinct is to like oh and you take your eyes off the road it's always a big mac or something with like thousand island dressing dripping off of it and I'm like I can't even do that sitting still yeah yeah yeah burger time all right show me the cheeseburger

No, I am surprised me actually. Totally wrong direction. Then drinks, vapes, and burgers. No, wow. Burger was number 13. Popular, but popular answer, but not popular enough to be up in the top. All right. That's why I like Burger King's chicken fries.

I always thought that was smart. Come in this little cup, you put in a little holder. Yeah. Not good for you, but better for not dropping on yourself. I'm going to go with a baby. Don't be holding no baby while you're driving. Wow, that's smart. yeah of course that's number two

show me the baby number four baby on baby on board but not in my hands yeah I got you that's right yep um

baby my mom used to ride with me in the front seat back in the day um yeah bu blah

um let's go with uh now we're in the weeds a bit you would think this would be so obvious yeah really I mean, it's like, everybody, everybody should have an opinion on this. This isn't like, name the cast of whatever.

This is an opinion. Everybody has one. All right. A book. Don't be having a book. Sure. Who's reading a book? I've seen it.

I've seen it. I have pulled up next to a coworker of mine. After the end of the day, we've worked, he left a little bit before me. Tina and I are in the car because she was meeting me for dinner or something. And she came up and we're in the car and we catch up. to Charlie and we look over and he's got a news week across his steering wheel and he's reading the news week as he's as he's driving wow do people admit people not heard of audio books they're great right I agree that's the beauty of an audio book you're not doing this dumb shit in the car

that's right show me your book oh bonus answer no points but it's murder me this week well these are you know I still feel like we haven't exhausted the food off You guys have barely scratched the surface of this, of this board. I'm going to say burrito. Just get a burrito in there. I'm sure. Brito. Yeah.

Show me your burrito. Show me your burrito. Oh my gosh. Have you ever eaten a burrito in the car? It's a nightmare. It is. You've just got to keep it wrapped. And then burrito all the way down.

It's another one tied for 29th place with, with, with, uh, with, uh, cigarette, surprisingly. Glad it, uh, glad it made it on the list. but you guys are crazy. Burritos are a nightmare. Unless you get the little tightly packed, you know, del taco or something. That's right.

Yeah. All right, Donaway, you're bored. Well, what is that, what is that movie? Garp,

the world according to Garp? World According to Garp. Yeah, yeah. Never saw it. Don't, don't hold somebody's junk. Oh,

that's a good idea. Don't be, you know, don't be working the, working the deal there. That's right. There's only, this, this car only has one gear shift. Oh, I'm in part.

All right. Let's see. Yeah, it was, it wasn't that it was being held. And they weren't driving. They were just parked in the driveway, Brian. Yeah, yeah. Okay. But still, man, still.

Right. Show me junk. Number two answer on the board, genitals. Genitals. That, that is a combination of, of the 300, are different words for penis that people decided to use great did you get to go through each one of those did you know all of them uh yeah i learned i learned a couple new ones actually and uh that is also a combination of yours and your your your passengers penis so yeah uh no penis touching while you're driving that's right that's rule yeah that only works in the movie crash has been my experience that's right well i'm gonna go if if you don't want you if you don't hold your babies i'll tell you what's dangerous is uh see the the small dogs, not necessarily the big dogs, those little dogs. Sure.

Don't be holding your dogs. I like pets, yeah, that's good. I see so many dogs in driver's seats on people's laps and it's like, all right, yeah, that does not, you know, you're going to, you're going to protect the dog before you protect other people on the road. Show me, show me your dog. Show me your dog.

We'll pet that dog. We have a tie game, 10 points for each of you. And no one holds your cat while driving because that's not possible. That's a good point. My cats are always like, nope,

going to the floorboard. I can't be up here. This is too terrifying for me. Dogs are like, what's going on outside? Yeah, the one time I did is a cat leaped out of my lap and went through the window and we never saw him again.

So don't ever do it. Yeah. Scratch me on the way out. Until Scott said phone, the first thing that hit my head when you said, what is something you should not hold while driving is mattress. Everybody's always trying to hold a mattress on the top. got on the roof that they're holding

down. I'm just not sure we haven't been that way, but I am going to go ahead and use it now. I think I will phone my brain and ask for mattress. All right. Show me mattress. Damn. Not even on the list. I'm surprised

because that is a frustrating. That's another one that's like you're stuck behind somebody they're doing that bullshit. Okay. All right. You guys are down to your last strikes, each of you. They're still five answers left on the board including a number three, a popular number three.

Yeah, that's why I can't believe we haven't gotten three out of this. Yeah. Can't believe we're tied either. Okay. Jeez. I'll go for another, I can't think of anything.

I just go for a device. I'll say like a tabler or an iPad. All right. That's a good way to go. Smart. All right. Show me a tablet. Damn it.

Well, we're either going to tie or I'm going to win with this. I know this is interesting, yeah. So like you've got you've got a guess that's either going to give you the win or the tie. Yeah. I'm going to go. I don't know why I can't think of anything else. Don't be holding your gun while you're traveling out of South Carolina. That's a good one of the South Carolina.

Yeah. We use that in the picture nose. Put that in the cup holder like a decent person. All right. Let's do it. Show me the most South Carolina answer ever. Show me your gun. Oh, shit.

Well done. Dunaway pulls ahead and I have no strikes left. Oh, that hurts. Oh, all right. Truth is painful. I'm going to go, you said no drinks, but is. I said no. Yeah, but then you kind of backtracked it too.

So I'm like, yeah. I'm like, are you talking about, like, alcoholic beverages, like a beer or something, like, eh, okay, I'm going to go, I'm going to go with, like, a beer or alcohol and beverage. Show me, show me a beer. Oh, alcohol, duh. There's the South Carolina. That's right. Alcohol and guns. A little tiny dog.

Yeah, alcohol in one hand, the gun, the other. That's right. That's great. All right. All right. Now you figured out how to play this game. there's three answers left clear the board buddy i don't know i don't know we've already did we kind of we said food and that didn't work but i'm assuming you weren't talking about specific

food you know nobody ever said general food and if you did i would say i need you to be more specific yeah i thought we said hamburger i said hamburger yeah i said burrito you're gonna save food and see what you say i just figured i told you that if you say food i'm gonna say you need to be more specific We got it. We got to go through the process. Specificity. Please be more specific. Okay. How about a hot dog?

I didn't get the hamburger. Let's get a hot dog. That sounds so good right now. Oh, my gosh. Show me a hot dog. No. That's included number two. It was on the list.

It was on the list who picked hot dog. I want to congratulate them. Hot dog slash chili dog number 24. Oh, a chili dog is. It's really the toppings. The hot dog on its own, if you just have a hot dog in a bun, you're totally fine. Even a little mustard and a little that is fine. But if you start adding big chunky stuff, you're screwed.

Your adhesive condiments, fine. But if you have, yeah, relish is a non-adhesive condiment. Yeah. It's going to fall in the lab. Somebody make a title out of that. I like that name. All right. Let's see what else is on the board here.

Number six. Bowl of anything. Bowl of anything. Because we had people who said soup, we had people who said cereal, and then a couple of people who just said bowl of anything. And I said, you know what? I'm going to put all the bowl of anythings together. I love it. It's the tadpool.

So number seven, breath. Don't hold your breath while driving. Jesus, I would have never got that in a million years. I do that in traffic. I hold my breath a little. I notice that I do it. I have to do breathing reminders because I get tense and like hold my breath. So it's actually a fair answer.

I like it. uh and then uh brian you talked yourself out of a right answer cat some people do uh apparently drive with the cat holding a cat and it is it is the most impossible thing it's like skiing and doing the taxes right i've never seen actually anyone do it i know you could try well most people have a little cat carrier right the little uh little cage thing right right yeah those are fine exactly yeah some of the other great answers, uh, knives, chainsaw, uh, newspaper, grudge. Grudge. Don't hold a grudge.

Don't hold a grudge while driving. Uh, sword, bees, bum, fart. Don't hold a fart while driving. Let it out. No, please do hold your farts if I'm in the car with you. Please. Uh, two people said onto your butts. Hold on to your butts.

Hold on to your butts. Uh, seance. Okay. Sayance. Wait, hold on. Oh, don't hold a. A whole of the seance. You dorks.

A poo, a shark, a snapping turtle, acid, and angry chicken, balloons, banjo, battle X, bazooka, barbecue ribs, boobs, break, pedal, burrito. I love how you're just saying those words. They were all bees. Did you sort these alphabetically? Yeah, they're alphabetically sorted now. Because these are all the single answer ones, right?

Flame thrower, French fries, ice cream cone, jellyfish, makeup, middle finger, Molotov, cocktail, Nintendo Switch, Panini Press. Pea pickle, porcupine, raccoon, rattlesnake. Pea pickle. Salami. I like the term pea pickle a lot. And my favorite answer.

It's right. At my favorite answer, press conference. There we go. That's really good. You guys had some great ones in there this time. That was awesome. Some guy wrote in and says, you guys never read the other ones that we submitted.

We just did. We always do. Didn't read all of them. I mean, there are 474 answers. Well, yeah. We're not reading every one of those, you guys. guys. Do they do that on Family Feud? No. I watched two full episodes of Family Feud while I was in Vegas. I have to tell you something. I think

is interesting. It's the new one with the dude with the... With the big mustache, white teeth, funny comedian. Can they give his name. Ron White. No, not Ron White. Oh my gosh. Ron. Can you imagine? The one who just gives him. Harvey. Harvey, Steve Harvey. I'm watching that. I'm watching an episode of that Two of them. And so I think I'm ready to say this. We have way more intelligent audience answers, way more intelligent questions, and after watching some of these dumb people make these impromptu answers on stage, Dunaway and I are way better at doing that too. We run a tighter ship than they do. Yes, you do. Yes. It's bad over

there. Holy shit. People are like, what's the number one thing you need to drink to survive? beer it's like stop it they suck they suck anyway there was a uh because of the game show aspect of it when we saw um running man uh you never even talked about that right because we didn't do a friday show so i would have talked about on friday but um uh they showed a steve they showed a set of not even not really a set it was a steve harvey youtube video showing different reactions to crass like my husband's junk and but then it cuts to Steve Harvey just looking sad and it's like the greatest compilation video anybody get the Richard Dawson connection from the first one to Steve Harvey doing the new family feud is that was that the joke

am I am I spoiling it away you mean from you mean the why they why they showed family feud before running man because of the Richard Dawson connection oh I see probably yeah he was so great in that original movie. He really was. What a perfect fit. Even the even the kissing everybody. Yeah. You know, it's fine. Whatever. Yeah, I'm down. I'm down to Klan. Whatever. Whatever. He ever kissed me.

It's fine. Whatever. Yeah, it's all good. I can't find the video. I was looking to see if I could find a video of it. It is just so damn funny because it's it's, you know, name something that in the house that stinks. My husband's junk.

And then it's just Steve Hart. Harvey going, you think it's kind of like having a sad face. It's kind of like Jerry. It's kind of like Jerry Springer where you get like a little extra bonus here or there for, you know, saying something stupid. If you say, if you say enough stupid things, we'll give you an extra $50 bonus under the table or something. Probably. They want that kind of and they want the cheesy family clapping and all high five and all that. It's all just so stagey.

I think what we do here is a superior product. That's all I'm saying. I don't get paid nothing. Brian, what did our winner get? What did our runner up get? My gosh. Let's get back to our winners here. Scott, let's see, Brian, you played for Toe Cutter.

Toe Cutter is going to get two games, courtesy of someone that was in the game codes that I did not write down here. Toecutter, you're getting Fall of Porcupine and Cook Serve Delicious 2. The best of the series. One is okay. Three is a wrong step in the wrong direction. And two is Magnific. Right there. Really?

Taffy guy, you're getting Cooks Serve Delicious three. I hear it's great. it's a wonderful game that was great I'll just say it wasn't for me I'll say that that's really funny timing on that you know which one really sucks three terrible

yeah I didn't I didn't read ahead I should have I know that's really funny well done away today 4 p.m. Mountain Time you and I are going to do a play retro can't wait it's going to be awesome tell folks what we're covering and all that absolutely we're covering a harvest moon but we since Scott was on the road last week

we went with the road worthy version of Harvest Moon. So Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Scott did a lot of the Game Boy Advanced version. So we talked about all Harvest Moon things and how cozy got Scott, how cozy Scott got in the pasture side seat. It was very cozy. The coziness was unbelievable when I was, when I wasn't driving. And yes, I did drive a small stretch of the road or the thing until I got tired. And then Kim drove because I'm lame that way. And I have narcolepsy. I'm not lame. I don't really have narcolepsy. I kind of made that. No, but just driving, driving. sleeping list. There's like a drive elapsie

or something like that. There's probably some time for it. I have drive epilepsy and I blame my parents. Brian Dunnoy, kiss our butts. All right, he's out of here. Hey, you know what I could go for? What could you go for? Some of this. Isn't technology wonderful? I could go for that because, oh, I hear myself. I hear myself. Oh, hello. Tom is giving us us.

Yeah, I like that though. Hello, hello. Oh, there we go. Hey, look who it is. It's Tom Merritt, the Lord of Tech. That's what we call him here on the show. And I'm going to bring his video up so I can prove that he's here. There he is. Hey, Tom Mer, what's up, buddy? Oh, the sky. Oh, you got me there. Look at you in a jacket. What's L.A. doing today? Is it cold? What's going on there? Let's see. Right now it is 49 degrees Fahrenheit. You are only four degrees warmer than us right now. So welcome to our world, Tom. This is what we call. Have you gotten this? Racing cold day. Have you gotten snow yet, Scott? Yes, but only in the higher elevations. It hadn't hit the, hit the street. reach up you guys. Yeah, we haven't gotten any and, uh, but Honolulu or, or not

Honolulu, but Hawaii got snow, uh, yesterday. On the big island? Yeah. Yeah. It's always up by the observatory. They were showing the footage of it. Yeah. Which is the only place you're going to get snow on Hawaii. It's cold up there. I was there in August and had to wear a big old winter coat. Oh my gosh. Hold up there on the Kek Observatory Mountain. Well, I want to picture you in one of those big, like a George Costanza style. I got pictures. Oh, I want to see. I want to see a puffy coat tall guy in a puffy coat that's how the old phrase went

Tom's good to have you here we are going to talk tech and how we're going to do it is we've been doing the last few times you've been here we've been taking questions from the audience and I think this is going swimmingly I really like these and also I feel like personally I walk away from my Wednesdays having learned

something and I bet you today'll be no different because I didn't even know this is the thing people are working on so I'm going to read this question and we're going to see where we land this is from some name yent 3Z or yenties if the three is meant to be like an e i don't know uh thanks for this message he says here's one for the most technical tom we know i don't want to ask yet another ai related question this week i want to ask about the the mass commercialization of solid state batteries or ss for electric vehicles and the race that is on for manufacturers to tap into this new battery tech

but i don't really understand what the big deal is over what we have now um which i assume is still lithium. We'll talk about that. Lithium ion. Can you give any ideas on what this is about and why it is the next big holy grail for EV makers? Thanks and keep it up, says Yentis. Yeah. I am not a battery expert, but I can talk about this at a high level and certainly answer the main question, which is what's the big deal? Why people so excited? These are the same kind of batteries. This is not a change from lithium ion, to be honest. It's just changing from a liquid Electrolite, which is what's in the batteries now, to a solid electrolyte. Okay.

And this is where I'm like, my understanding of batteries is very surface. So battery experts don't get too mad at me when I oversimplify or maybe get things technically wrong. But the electrolyte is the part of the battery that allows the ions to move back and forth between the anode and the cathode. And you want that because that's how you get electricity out of the battery. Right. When you have a liquid electrolyte, they can form things called dendrites, which can cause flaws in the battery, and those kinds of flaws can lead to fires. And that's one of the reasons that you don't get to, you know, do a lot of things with batteries on planes like put them in the cargo hold and stuff like that, because there is that risk of fire. It's a small risk.

It's not dangerous to carry these around on you, but it's something that can happen. with a solid state, you don't have those dendrites forming and you reduce the risk of fire quite a bit. So there's a safety advantage there. There is also a weight advantage. Solid state batteries are lighter than the liquid. You know, it's like a glass of water and a glass of ice. You know, the same sort of principle at play here. The solid is lighter than the liquid. And you get a higher energy density to boot. So they're safer. They're a lot. lighter and you get more power out of them. And in fact, depending on how you create them,

they can recharge faster as well. So this is all the kind of things that at the level of a phone battery may or may not make too much of a difference, but at the level of a car battery makes a huge difference. So it allows you to, you know, if you have a lighter vehicle to move around, you don't need as much energy, which makes the battery last longer. And the battery already lasts longer,

so now it lasts even longer. and it's less likely to catch on fire, which everybody likes. That's cool. So the density thing means potentially, in the EV case, longer ranges, right? We extend the range from the current 300, 400 to maybe 500, 600. Yeah. Or you can put the same amount of energy you have now in a liquid state battery in a smaller form factor because you don't need as much battery to do the same range.

So if 300 miles is the range you've got right now and you're like, that's fine for this car, You can make the battery smaller, which means you could put other things there, make the car smaller. You get a little more design flexibility. So it's one or the other, though. Yeah. And then weight doesn't become an issue because if it's smaller than, even though it's more dense, there's less of it. Is it a lot more expensive to produce? Is that the, what's the drawback?

That's the part that I don't really understand exactly if that's what's holding things up or if it's just figuring out the logistics of manufacturing them. I think they're at that situation where they know they can get to a place where it's cost-efficient to manufacture, but they have to make enough of them to get to that place. That's my guess. So I can see the value in phones if the tech is adopted by phone manufacturing. As I was saying, maybe I didn't say this well. It's not that big of an advance for phones. So you may or may not see these in phones.

It's at the size of a car battery where you really start to see the advantage. But the idea of, like, lighter and I'm trying to think some of the stuff was scale well. So lighter, if they're cheaper to make, maybe that's the case. I don't know, maybe not initially. But if they're lighter and therefore, and also less prone to, like, exploding in your pants, it seems like those two things might be an advantage. Don't think about these for phones. These are car batteries.

Right. Yeah, I know you keep wanting to put it in your pants. So nobody, so nobody's working on that as far as we know. Nobody's doing the phone thing. That's just a cars only. never say nobody because immediately somebody will find somebody that's working on it but when i see people talking about solid state batteries it's always in the evy space so i feel like the the gains you get at the size of a phone battery are not enough to warrant the research now now now i'm not saying

you won't see these trickle down into your phones at some point they probably will sure uh but the big gains are to be found at the car batteries you know do you know if uh fundamentally this changes how i know there's like the big gigafactory that Tesla does all their battery manufacturing with. There are other EV makers. I don't know who they're using or how they're sourcing it, but these big facilities designed to crank out these

big EV batteries. Can they pivot? If this takes off and becomes huge. That's a really good question. Actually, Tesla is researching solid state batteries. Can existing battery factories make solid

state? You know, because that that's another impedance to adoption. They cannot. They have to be adapted with new machinery and new processes. Okay, so your existing car, you just bought a brand new, I don't know, Model 3, and you're loving it.

You're getting 400 mile range. It's just, you know, zipping around, making a weird noise, you're just in love with your car. And then tomorrow they go, oh, these new batteries, that's great. You can't just go into the dealership and go, hey, swap me out. Oh, well, you were asking about the

manufacturing. Well, so the gigafactory, separate question, I guess. Without a big changeover, can't do this. Can you put a solid state battery into an existing EV? That may be more possible. No. Sounds like not. No, it's not the kind of thing that, and I, you know what, I bet this is a no,

but you could probably do it if you really tried sort of thing. words, it's not as easy as going into the dealer and go and get me the new battery. But also, they aren't commercially available for mass market vehicles yet. So never say never. Maybe they will be able to make a form factor and an adaptation kit that could do this. You're probably more likely to just buy a new car and get the solid state battery. I should have gotten a picture of this and I didn't. But when I was in Las Vegas for the weekend, there's a massive charging bank station.

in Beaver, Utah. It's kind of midway between Vegas and me, which is perfect kind of midpoint to park, go get a coffee, do whatever, and charge your car. Lunch, charge, yeah. So they've really invested a bunch in that, and there are a lot of Tesla ones, but there's also some other branded ones.

I don't know what they were, but anyway. EV go. Yeah, something like that. And I noticed, I should have gotten a picture of this, but there was a big cyber truck, tinted window cyber truck parked in one of them. And then on each side of them were two of those new VW bus EVs. Oh, yeah.

Were they called the buzz? Uh-huh. There were two of them, and they were both green and white two-tone, but that kind of lime green on them. And it was just the juxtaposition of this big, gnarly, silver, black, ugly truck thing in the middle. And then these two cutesy-looking space vehicles. It was a wild thing to see. That's funny juxtaposition. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Those are contrasting styles, you might say. Yeah, I kind of want, if I, if I'm honest, I think those buses are cool. I wouldn't mind one of those. Anyway, well, there you go. A little. That's your retirement plan? Yeah. I'm just going to jump in one of those. I'm just going to hop in one of those, go across the country, learn to play the guitar, smoke a lot of weed. Yeah. Sounds like a good plan. Can I swing by your place in the 40-degree weather? Okay. Yeah, you can park in the driveway. I'll bring the party to you, man. Tom Merritt, it's always good to having you on. This may or may not be a Johnson poll, but Tom and I are

brewing a little something that if you like what we're doing with this right here specifically, there's a little something burning in the background, okay? We're just letting you know, all right? Yeah. But you have other stuff going on. Tell us what's up. Anything else you want to talk about? Indeed, I do.

No, pull that Johnson all you want. Let's just say, let's just say, if you would like to keep sending questions, please do. Send even more. Send more of your questions. Yeah. All right. That's all we need to say about that. finished by mentioning my book synced know a little more about tech no the print version is not

yet distributed still waiting on that to get approved but you can buy the ebook right now if you go to tom's newbook.com takes you straight to the amazon store you can buy it on kindle or if you want ePUB or pdf go to daily tech news show.com slash store and you can get it directly from me it's all the same price no matter where you get it's go check it out this is a book based on the know a little more series. So if you want to know about some of the history of computing, how we got graphic user interfaces, why AI works the way it does what a large language model is, it's all in there, synced, know a little more about tech available now.

Nice. Why is it that rubberized keyboard thing in the background of the photo mix? I just want to reach out and play with that. Something about rubberized keys. That's actually the keyboard that I use. Oh, really? Look at that. Yeah, yeah.

What is that? Logitech, what model is that? I can't remember the model off the top of my head. K780. K780. I'm going to remember that because I'm actually a little greasy on my keyboard. I might do some switching around. It's really, I got it because it's quiet, but it's also wireless,

and you can pair it with up to three devices at once. Oh, so if you're on a, you got a PC over there you need to be filling with. That's cool. I paired it with my phone as a matter. No, no way. That's great. I can tell your messages are much more clear lately. Just kidding.

You can tell what I'm sitting at my desk because they make a little. sense exactly um tom merritt everybody he is ace detect on all the socials go find him there we'll talk to you next time thanks y'all bye now see you all right brian we have come to the point of the show where we are going to play some calls yay okay oh yeah oh yeah we have this uh text line that we use all the time voicecast dot app slash tms or if you're feeling lazy just go to the tms website and it's all linked there and we got this one about tms and shirts and stuff and uh we'll play this is uh darren i believe is his name here it is hey shake and bake darren olson calling long time listener first time caller just wanted to say i really love the show keep on keeping on and also my

orange morning stream t-shirt is in threads now i need a new one thanks scott love the show though i picture him standing there in like a like a david or bill bigsby like post hulk out right right like exactly with the actual like even strips that somehow uh which we're never this was funny is when he's in Hulk mode i guess not every time but most of the time he takes that thing off and throws it on the ground yeah after he's all split out of it he rips it off bill bixby goes back when he changes back to he goes it up david banner and puts it back on yeah when he becomes the less gay sounding David banner that's right exactly wasn't that the deal I didn't do Bruce because of that.

You're the person I heard that from, so I I think I'm right. I never went further to do any research on it beyond that. Could be one of those urban legends, I don't know. Someone out there, get us some confirmation. I do love the, I do love the thought that that is the whole thing.

Yeah, that's the 70s. Everybody was weirded out by gay people. It's like, I get it. Here's another one. This is from Jason, and it's about man meat. I'm not I'm not totally sure what this is, so I'll just play it.

Here we go. This message is for Kim and Tina. You are so lucky to have two such delicious tubs of man meat that you're sad. Oh, my gosh. Wow. You guys got to call in Stone more often. No kidding. Can I have that for Tina's ringtone while she's sleeping?

I'll just set that to be her new ringtone. Yeah. I'm going to give a card to Kim tonight that says, I'll be your man meat. Or no, I'll be your bowl. You're delicious tubs of man meat. I'll be your delicious tub of man meat. yeah um yeah some of us more tub than others

i feel like kim and tina got the raw end of the our deal uh we are the ones the one we married up exactly yes and we don't just say that like it seems like one of those platitudes people just say about their wives no you're the best no you're the best

yeah we married up this is the truth this is raw truth there's a reason we give hope to nerds and geeks everywhere that uh yeah in a world with 68% divorce, Brian and I holding down the fort. That's right. Because our wives mostly are the reasons.

Because they put up with 3D printers and resin and Yeah, and me playing stuff like this. This is about the jugs of pee. Who wants to be married to that? That's right. Exactly. All right. Send in more. We love your stuff. We love your feedback

and we love all your thoughts. If you could do that, that'd be great. Again, it's voicecast. Dot app slash TMS. If you have a preference to send us emails, you can do the morning stream at gmail.com. like questions for Tom are a great place to send those and if you're just looking for general access to communicating with us go to the website frogpants.com slash TMS as mentioned earlier play retro tonight a big episode of core tomorrow the the game award and a game awards

nominees were announced and there's some controversy this year oh really a little bit of the old he said she said no I don't know it's not been that weird but but we're gonna we're gonna go deep on all that stuff. I don't normally talk about it here, but we launched kind of an extension of what we do on core over at core. show. So if you're looking for more coverage, reviews, video, content, you can't get anywhere else. We're kind of going nuts over there. So go check it out, core.com. Brian, you got anything going on today you want to mention before we get out of here with the song? Let's see. No, in the process of recording another episode for soundography, but that won't get posted for a couple weeks.

Recorded a thing with TV's Travis, Phil Keating, and Amy yesterday that will go up in a few weeks. Wow, it's right now it's like making stuff. Oh, you know what, playtesters for puzzles monthly. Got a new month swinging by here. Got a new month, yep. So playtesters, you're getting all your puzzles. There's going to be another one probably coming today. And then at the beginning of next week, just in time for you to,

to have fun with everybody at thanksgiving um uh doing puzzles and keeping grandpa away from getting angry at the cowboys for losing uh it'll be uh available it'll be going out to people on the 24th rock puzzles monthly dot com rock puzzles monthly dot com and you know brush up on your geology i understand the rock part is just about knowing your stones it's it's only about yeah exactly it's you know can you tell igneous versus metamorphic yeah yeah can you do you know stalacti versus the other one still like might might sure yeah I couldn't remember the other one tight sticks tight to the top of the cave stalag might comes up from the bottom that's right I remember might trip on it as the first thing I learned when we went to when we did this big cave trip that's what that's the first

thing that tour guy told us I promptly forgot for like 20 years yeah of course yeah right it's like learning dromedary versus bacterian on camels and how if you put the d on its side it's one hump if you put a bee on its side it's two humps yeah yep i want to have a camel that's a whole other issue we'll talk about it in a future show i think about this a lot i think a camel they do spit they're terrible they stink they make horrible noises but for some reason i can't wait to find out why you want a camel something about it must be my desert thing or something i want a gay black midget camel is what i want to do that old thing I still want that too. I still want that. I don't have it in my life. I want it. Anyway, that's going to do it for us. Thank you all for listening. Let's play a song and make these people probably happy. I don't know what the song's about today.

Well, it's going to make one person happy. Maybe two. Oh. Dear saxophone and bassoon, on November 19th, 2018, I married my best friend and soulmate. I've shared our story before through song requests. But just two and a half short years later, she passed away. Oh, my gosh. geez. We were a bit of an odd couple. Our interests were complete opposites. She loved country and hip-hop. I've always been into rock and metal. Her favorite country artist was Carrie Underwood and my favorite is the legendary late Ozzy Osbourne. In 2022, Carrie recorded a cover of Ozzie's mama. I'm coming home for the Apple Music Nashville sessions. I can't think of a better tribute to the love of my life than this beautiful collision of our favorite genres and artists. Love the show though, Casey. that's great that's a cool song in general so i'm excited to hear this and it's cool that it kind of fits both of you and of course sorry for your loss that's horrendous i can't uh that's too that's too short of time to to uh have her in your life yeah uh casey this one's going out to you from the apple music nashville sessions here is carrie underwood covering oz a ziazborn mama i'm coming home Times have changed, and times are changed, and times are strange.

Here I come, but I ain't the same. Mama, I'm coming home. Time's gone by, it seems to be. to me, Mama, I'm coming home. You took me in and you drove me out, yeah, you had me hypnotized, yeah, lost and found and turned around by the fire in your eyes. You made me cry, you told me lies, but I can't stand to say goodbye. Goodbye

Mama I'm coming home I could be right I could be wrong It hurts so bad it's been so long Mama I'm coming home Selfish luck yeah we're both alone The ride before the fall Yeah, but I'm gonna take this heart of stone. I just got to have it all I've seen your face a hundred times

Every day we've been apart And I don't care about the sunshine yet Because Mama, I'm... Mama, I'm coming home. I'm coming home. I don't know. You took me in You took me in and you took me in and you took me in and you tried.

Rove me out, yeah, you had me hypnotized, yeah. Lost and found and turned around by the fire in your eyes. I've seen your face a thousand times. Every day we've been apart. up height and I don't care about the sunshine yeah because mama I'm coming home I'm coming home I'm coming home I'm coming home. I'm coming home. This show is part of the Frog Band Network.

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