The Morning Stream - TMS 2940: @ AT AT Dot Com

Episode Date: December 30, 2025

Mocapped In The Nuts. Caravan Farts. Up your nose with a rubber cthulhu. What kind of a (nerdtacular ticket) deal? Hocus Pocus Let's Focus. Hookin up the poop chute. I don't see you at buc-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees. Luke's Lightsaber Is Ribbed... Wubbing Alcohol. National Lampoon's Nerdtacular Vacation. Rubber Advice. How to open a lightsaber? Use a bit of Force! Chevy Chased out of everything. (v - Chandler) Could Micheal BEEEEE anymore Jordan. Pack it Up Pack it In, Let Snow Begin w TV's Travis and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

2026 is coming out of so fast, our heads are spinning. Hoping yours spins in the direction of patreon.com slash TMS so you can help this show thrive in the coming year. Coming up on the morning stream, mocapped in the nuts. Caravan farts. Up your nose of the rubber Cthuloo. What kind of a nerdtacular ticket deal. Hocus, pocus, let's focus. Hooking up the poop shoot.

I don't see you at Buckees. Luke's lightsaber is ribbed. Wubbing alcohol. national lampoons nerdtacular vacation rubber advice how did how to open a lightsaber use a bit of force chevy chased out of everything could michael be anymore jordan pack it up pack it in let snow begin with tvs travis and more on this episode of the morning stream nice no that's some heavy heavy necktie you got i mean the cat on the loose could cop an awful lot of heavy heavy heavy trade with a tie like that this is not the time for womanly and mack

The morning stream looks like we missed the party. Hello everybody and welcome to TMS. This is the morning stream for Tuesday, December 30th, 2025. One day left. I'm Scott. That's Brian. Hi, Brian. Hello.

one more of these that's all we get one more and I don't even miss the show we're doing a weird play date tomorrow you get one more day of uh whatever you had to fulfill or goal in 2025 you got to do it if you said here's something I need to do before end of day 20 or end of year 2025 uh you've only got about 36 hours no you've got 39 hours left to do it so go do it I don't feel like I have time the one thing I wanted to do is like really clean out my studio and I don't think I have time I'm not going to make it In fact, I had a nightmare last night About not making

Not being able to clean something up on time And so yeah, it must be tied to You know usually I can't decipher my dream Brian's head on a chair Or yeah yeah You know whatever these things I don't know what they mean But in this case I think it's obvious

Is the dream was all about This intense need to It wasn't my office But it was somewhere we were at And we had to clean up before we left or something My father-in-law was there for some reason I don't know The people there and made no sense, but the whole dream was this pressure to clean it and have it organized before we left.

And stuff just kept happening, getting in the way. And by the time I woke up, I hadn't completed it. And it felt bad. This is one of these dreams that felt super real. Like stress, right. Like where you're the incompleteness of it. Oh, hate that. I hate that feeling so much.

Yeah. So maybe I just need to freaking like load up on the caffeine and list the help of, my wife and then go to town i don't know we'll see what i don't know you might still be able do it you still got time there's time maybe there's time maybe there's enough time i don't know i'll tell you what there is enough time for if you launch your brains forward into the year 2026 just six days from tomorrow seven days for tomorrow six days whatever it is next monday is what i'm trying to say okay all right uh nerdtacular 2026 tickets will go on sale and you'll be able to find those at frogpants.com.

Now, we'll talk about it, obviously, when it happens that day and everything else. But I just want you all to be prepared. We wrangled really killer room rates for the main venue. There are also some alternates around that we'll have in case we run out.

But they're really solid. And I want to just make sure that the early birds get what they want. Also, we'll have early bird pricing on tickets. Give me a little bit of a discount if you're early. So all those who are locked on the idea coming next June to have our, what could potentially be, I don't know, the last nerdtacular of all time. It may well be. When I was trying to do this in 2020 and then the thing hit,

I went, all right, well, I guess we're not doing that for a while. But in my head, I went, this might be like the big final bash. Well, I'm feeling that way again. Doesn't mean TMS Vegas goes away. Doesn't mean other opportunities go away. Of course not. I'm just saying, this may be, and it's not just a trick to get y'all in there. It could be the one time where we're like, here's the big one. You kind of always, you have to go into these saying, all right, I'm not going to think about, let me, let me plan for 10 of these. No, you got to just plan for the one you're doing.

You don't think about it as, nope, I'm not, I'm not thinking 2027, 2028. I'm thinking 2026, what do we need to do for this one right here and what do we need to arrange and you have to focus. Yeah. And that's what I'm doing. And so if y'all are interested, it's next Monday. It's going to be a big deal. It's going to be fun.

Yep. Brand new year. Am I still doing trivia? Am I still? Hell yeah. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Three days.

Well, three days. Yeah, three games. Three games. Two days of the return of Frog Pants All-Stars. Oh, my God. Mega-packed insane game thing that Brian did for so many years. Coming back this year, it's going to be incredible. A bunch of stuff's coming back, but we've got a few new things.

We'll talk more about that. that schedule a little bit Monday because we'll have some of that oh good laid out and also you I'm curious about what I might have to do I imagine there might be a live film sec maybe not maybe there is live film sack live TMS definitely all the all the usual's for sure

but here's the nice thing about this venue we now have so in years past especially at Snowbird we had limited access to the ballroom because it would open to a certain time and close at a certain time right right which is fine it's But this place, and I've confirmed this three times because I was so weirded out by it, they're giving us the entirety of that space for 24 hours a day, starting Thursday evening

all the way through Saturday at midnight. It's just open. We could do 2 a.m. karaoke. We absolutely could. Guitar hero, whatever. Yeah. Absolutely. All of those things are possible.

And it's going to make it easier to slot in. you know people don't want to do like a weird little side show that's not necessarily mainstream but maybe it's like a perfect 11 o'clock thing on the first night whatever like those kinds of things are now opportunities uh the board game room obviously that's so cool 24 hour board game room i love that i mean that's you know i'm already looking at no very little sleep tonight and tomorrow night but it's kind of going to prep me for next year for next June it's going to be great it's going to be great Brian's down there playing

Flip 7 and Dixet and whatever else Yep, you're bored Find a dark tower We're driving, we're driving so I could bring Return to Dark Tower Ooh, caravan style Like last that one time

Or you don't know yet, too early to say Too early to say Too early to say I mean there are going to be other tadpullers in Denver presumably who want to Who are also planning on driving out there do I want to do the caravan thing the problem with the caravan is much like the rest of my life I like to do things my own way yeah I like to I like to go at the speed I want to go

especially now it's right exactly I feel this exact same way by the way yeah it's not like listen the idea of a caravan with a whole bunch of people and you all stop at the same rest stops and you know you do the whole thing where we're all together in this right is an amazing idea I just I don't know what it is about as you get older you're just like now now I will say that when we did

the Southeast Tadpool meet up and us and the Duceys and the Robinson's and everyone else got into this van that the Robinson's had rented and we drove from Atlanta to

Savannah now that was a great time chatting having fun a blast the whole time And nobody had the farts, right? No farts. It was good. I can only speak for myself. You didn't have the farts.

You held it in. I didn't have the farts. All right. I did not have the red chimmy-churie sauce at Chipotle right before I got in that vehicle. Sure. So, I mean, that's, you know, there's a possibility we could talk to the Denver crew and just say, instead of a caravan, what about a van van or a minivan or a maxi van or a bus? What's the opposite of a caravan group of cars?

cars, you just want a van. A van. You know, we rent a school bus or something. Oh, shit. It's June. The school bus is a... That's a cool idea, dude. That is a cool idea, right?

There's no way that those things are... It's not super comfortable as the problem. A school bus would be. Yeah, it's like a lot of this. Exactly. I mean, they were barely comfortable for getting to school or getting to field trips and crap. I don't think ours had even seat belts when I was going to junior high. No, ours definitely did not.

Um, so what we need, we need a Winnebago. We need a meth-making Winnebago. Yeah. Or a big church van. Anybody got one of them big church fans where you can fit like 30 people in them or whatever it is? Yeah. Yeah.

All right. All right. We're going to work on that. Too bad, too bad Tina's folks don't still have, or Tina's mom doesn't still have there. They bought this motorhome thing that was great for these, uh, for, for trips like this. Oh, that'd have been perfect. But, uh, kind of always thought I would end up that way.

My grandpa did. My dad had one toward the end. I totally see that for you, like a little podcasting studio in a motorhome and you just kind of like tool around the country, all right, we're in, we're back in Canton, Ohio. That's right. And you're just going from those parks to, you know, those places where you camp. You know, parks where you hook up your poop shoots and stuff. Yeah. My grandparents did this.

And today, you can do it with some pretty damn good at satellite internet and, you know. Oh, it would be fine. I mean, you wouldn't need any of that stuff up. Sounds kind of great. I got to clean my office first. All right, Wes. You and I, we're going to, Wes is on it, he says. Fantastic.

Wes is the man. All right, Wes. Keep Brian informed. I can't wait to hear what Denver ends up doing. Wes got me one of my favorite Roosevelt shirts. It's the Empire Strikes Back. Empire Strikes back all over the, like the movie poster all over a shirt. Oh, that's the best poster in the series.

It really is. It totally is. Oh, did I tell you, I was at, I took somebody up to Fort Collins. No, I'd take that back. I took somebody to frickin' buckies in the Uber a few weeks ago before Christmas. Did you go in? Hell yeah. I mean, am I going to go, am I going to stop in the parking lot?

No. How did that work, though? I'm just trying to understand. So you pull in there, you got a passenger. Yeah, I know. You just both get out or how's that work? No, here's, I specifically dropped him off at the front. And I even said, oh, I'm going probably have to pop.

up in there and get some stuff myself. Got to get a frozen Dr. Pepper and a brisket sandwich. And I pulled in the front, dropped them off, and then I went around the back and parked and went in the other door. Because I didn't want it to be weird of like both of us going in the same door. I agree. That's the way I would have done it for sure or just delayed it or something. Exactly.

He had a buddy who lives in Greeley who wasn't going to, he basically bought him the Uber and said, I'm not going to pay for the full. for the Uber to bring you all the way to Greeley, I'm going to meet you in at Buckees. But he also said, I'm also not going to come down to Denver and pick you up. So we, you know, he went in one side. I went in the other.

I honestly probably walked right by him and I don't know because when they get in, I glance just to make sure they're not carrying a gun or a knife or anything weird like that. It's good. But my eyes are, you know, on the road. But I'm not constantly looking back at him, talking to him and stuff. I probably, you know, probably wouldn't recognize him in that store. But anyway, they had Roosevelt's shirt. Let me finally get to this.

That was Darth Vader in a sleigh being pulled by four ADATs. Oh, nice. Like, you know, basically little Santa Claus with Darth Vader being pulled in a sleigh. Like full size version? No, like ADAT's the size of Rainier. Okay, okay. I was wondering if they maybe made a gigantic sleigh and Vader's just in there somewhere little or whatever, but... Yeah, no, no, that would be great.

That'd be cool, too, but, uh, yeah. That's awesome. Is that at the correct, like, you know, we've talked about this before. You don't call them ATATs or... No, I did as a kid because that's just what I saw in my head, but I think I've been corrected a bunch of times and told it was at-at officially. Cool. It's funny you bring that up today. I just did a Star Wars video this morning.

Star Wars is in the air, yeah. Oh, I got a question for you. This is quick. Ask away. If you got email in a walker, would you have to be sent to Scott at, at, at, at, at, dot com. At, at, at.com.

At, at.com. I love that. At. At, at.com. All right, check this out. So I've had this forever. I've had this lightsaber forever. It's the, in the form of Luke's.

Sure. Oh, it's so cute, yes. Yeah, and it's a nice. It's one of those nice ones. It's the Force FX ones from, yeah. Yeah, from forever ago. It's not the new Disney one, but it's the Force FX one. Now, what's crazy about this thing is twofold.

One, the blue isn't really showing up well on camera. Well, it's showing up all right. Showing up better than the blue in my beard, I'll say that. This is still, and it goes, you know, it shoots up and it comes down and all that. It actually LEDs go up the blade. Up the shaft, if you know what I'm saying. Yeah, it's almost said that. Anyway, it's the Luke style.

I've always loved it. I've been very happy. with it and here's the wild two wild facts about it one the batteries that are in here are still the original ones from like 2006 get out really yeah i'm actually afraid to open it i'll be honest yeah because well but i mean if they're crusty they wouldn't be working if they're all crusty wouldn't wouldn't they because i'm worried that this is what happens i guess when the battery is not holy shit i guess the batteries are not so good on this one that is awesome keep that going as long as it'll go okay listen to that oh my gosh we're now we're in we're in hell now

we've uh yeah does it normally does a reactive movement there's no no light though just the sound freaking out oh oh that was yours yeah yeah nope oh did mine just die no i just turned i just turn i just turn mine off okay i'm hearing things uh well i guess i need to do the batteries on So I don't, I'm going to, I guess I'm going to use it until the batteries die. However, here's what I've noticed. And this is because Luke has these rubberized grips on the base. Oh, yeah, right. The little veins, like, uh, I don't know what to call those.

Yeah, like little rubber ridges. They're starting to disintegrate and be sticky. Oh, right, right. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is there any way to stop that, like some, chemical thing you can, You get some 3D printer idea where I can just like... Something you can spray on there that will keep it. Because it feels, it honestly feels like, you know,

when you have the resin stuff that didn't quite cure or whatever? It reminds me of that, like a weird... It's obviously not resin, but it's just like sticky. I've got, I've got, you know, old plastic things that have that same problem. It's like, okay, well, that's just getting thrown out. It's just bad rubber, I guess. Right, exactly. That's how we got pregnant the first time.

Just kidding. well i guess yeah i don't know what you yeah maybe somebody listening knows because i don't know what you could spray on there everything else that's happened with with mine that's like that it's like okay just tossing it yeah i might have to yeah rath says you could try isopropal alcohol ipa oh so okay rubbing rubbing rubbing alcohol yeah probably what's probably going on if i had to guess is just exposure to air for now 20 it'll be 20 years i've had this sure maybe it's amazing the batteries are still good those are uh i don't know how that thing if i remember yeah i don't know how it's even possible i'll be honest that seems crazy that these batteries are still in here i don't even know

how you open it uh unscrew the bottom is that all it is yeah well see that's why i'm worried is there's like a bunch of acid in there holding it together that's true well the the yota's one that i have the bottom unscrews but it doesn't have those flaps so yeah we leave that for another day if anyone out there has rubber advice. I will try the alcohol today, but see, it's even like I can feel it residue on my hands. Yeah, it's still on your hands. Yeah. I don't like it. All right. Let's get to some news stories today. We've got a few of these burning a hole in our butts and sure. See how it goes here. Here we go right here. Whoops. Okay. There we go. It's time for

the news and it's brought to you by. Brought to you by Daily Music Headlines coming back on Friday. Friday, January 2nd will be the great return of daily music headlines. We've been taking a little bit of a break since, well, since Christmas, which is fine because the only news is stuff like Mariah Carey

number one with her shitty song and Taylor Swift's new album, 11th week on top of the charts, blah, blah, blah. So there's not a lot of new news to report during this time because, you know, musicians are taking this time off too. But we'll be back on January 2nd,

with a brand new episode and Hammond will still be on vacation so it'll be me sending it over to Amos for him to edit. Oh, there we go. There you go. And no coverville this week because of New Year's Day. However, take Chuck's advice. Go listen

to Chuck Robinson who says, Brian, that end of your countdown just better and better with every song, which means I counted them down correctly. Nice job. They're supposed to get better every song. You can find both episodes, both at coverville.com or I think they're actually still on Spotify.

Oh shit. Spotify. I know. Ever since I called them and or I texted with somebody there and said, I've got licenses. Can I send you the, you know, I've been talking to different departments, finally got a hold of the podcasting department. I said, here's my license information. Does this work?

And they said, no, I'm sorry. Our thing just doesn't work for that. however the shows are staying up i think yeah i think what's going on is they just have to show that they're active like the mpaa has to see them actively pursuing or enforcing yeah and and as long as they look like they're busy at it i think they get away with a lot i mean i've showed we have stuff that shows up on spotify all the time that i'll get a notice about but it's rare it's like it's like here and there and i'll go to the site and dispute it and just say no i have rights to play this. They don't ask me for anything. They just say, okay, now it's under review. And then it

never goes away. So I think it's just, it's all theater, man. So dumb. It really is. So there you go. So those episodes up there, Apple Music or Apple Podcasts, of course, whatever your pod catcher of choice is. But Spotify also. Oh, I heard talk, chat, maybe someone in there can help me. I've been trying to figure it out. And so far, I've run into no luck on this because it's not a problem for me, but I tested it and I just can't get it to reproduce. But some of you are saying the Patreon version of the show was not popping

on pocket casts specifically yesterday. Oh, interesting. Okay. Is that still the case for some of you? If any of you were affected by that you let me know, I need to still see you. Because I've tried multiple times and I have the exact same setup and I'm not having any trouble getting it so I don't

know what's going on. So it might be regional, maybe it was an outage somewhere. I don't know. But let me know. We're always interested in making sure you guys get what you pay for all right oh for sure yes uh let's get to this drunk raccoon a drunk raccoon found passed out in a virginia liquor liquor store oh man passed out next to the toilet i mean that there is so much fun in this story like the the headline just doesn't do it justice no no it's good bait but they needed to add the toilet i think to the deadline passed out next to the toilet after drinking peanut butter

Whiskey. Yeah. Mm. That's a thing, eh? You can get the peanut butter whiskey? You ever had that before? Never had it.

I had no idea that was the thing. And I don't know. I don't know what you do with peanut butter whiskey. Do you couple it with like a, like a grape soda and have like a P.B. And J kind of thing. Chad says I did this story a couple of weeks ago. I don't think so.

Did I? We may have talked about it. Did we do this story? Everybody's saying we did this story. Really? Did we already cover it? Maybe we did. All right.

All right. Oh, we did because we, I remember talking about looking back further, you know, in that photo and seeing the devastation on the other side of the liquor store, not just like the trail of debris that he left. Yeah, now you're saying it. Okay. No, you're right. We did. We did cover it.

You know what? It might be my favorite story of 2025 that you've done on the show because just the shot of, like, I can't not hear it. in Bradley Cooper's voice My hands don't scan I couldn't get out of the liquor store My hands don't drink the whiskey Hey do you know have you seen the video The Chinese robot that's like mocapped

And it accidentally kicks the mocapper in the nuts Have you seen this? This is worth swapping it in for Okay Yeah yeah yeah let me find this here You can find that video Yeah here it is So

It's on the daily note Robot regret Yeah So check this out This is amazing So this dude is the mocap body, right? So what he's doing, the robot is mimicking. Okay.

And so they kind of try to block his head out. I don't know why. Sure. But anyway, here we go. So the robot responds. Wow, that's pretty impressive, though. Like, it's pretty quick. Yeah, a little bit of lag, but nothing too bad.

But then he kind of gets in the wrong. And then the best part. The robot squats as well. Oh, my gosh. This video turned to something. it's too fast, but yeah, the whole, like, because he's still mocapping, so he mocaps the pain and the grab your gut and fall to your knees. We'll watch it again for the folks at home here. Jim John says this is fake AI. No, I heard this. I think this is real. This was verified.

Is he just saying that because that's his impression or? I don't know. This video is everywhere and everything I've seen says it's real, but maybe. Yeah. And that, I mean, there's some, there's some things in there that make me think it's not AI. Oh, it's 100% not AI. The question is, is it staged or something? Oh, gotcha. Yeah. But here's the... He says robot doesn't cast a shadow.

Yeah, but here's the problem with this. We now live in an era where if you don't like a thing, you can say it's AI. If you like a thing, you can say it's not AI. If something makes you look bad, you can say that's AI and that's someone out to get me.

Fake news. Right, exactly. I hate this stage, by the way. Yeah. It is the worst part about it. And I said this months and months ago, and now I couldn't believe it even any more than I do. The idea, and I'm not saying Jim's doing this. This just reminding you of this.

Of course, of course. The, especially in political circles, false negatives. Yeah. On, or false positives, rather, on AI is the bigger problem than the AI itself. I mean, you can't extricate it. But I'm saying, like, people being able to plausibly deny a thing because AI generated, you know, Gen AI can make something look good is almost worse than

you making a fake thing. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. I'm freaking freaking hate it. Hate it. All right. I'm going to find the YouTube version of this and we'll see if we can, we can get to the deal. Maybe Snopes has a, because this is circulating like crazy. It is like you do a search for robot mocap and it is like the first 35 results. All right. right here we go man so maybe the dude is real the robot is AI or something I don't know let's see I'm trying to find he casts as much shadow as the guy does yeah here's a bigger version of it all right here's that screen yeah I see shadow under the robot's feet yeah he's this is one of those this is a certain brand of Chinese robot oof pretty sure this is real

oh not into the beam of light what beam of light there's there's two beams of light like they've got blinds closed but there's a crack in the blinds that's letting light through see those two vertical oh yeah

every time the dude steps no because look at the direction it goes because it's not directly against him watch this so it's behind it's being it's to the left like the light is coming and you can see it briefly as the robot crosses watch right there do you see it blip No, I did not.

Watch that little light next to the robot. The close-up light, right? Yeah, the short strip. Watch. Here we go. See that? Barely, yeah. Yeah, it's short, but, I mean, whatever.

Go look at the, find Snopes. Go look it up. I don't know. Everything's real, nothing's real. Right, right, exactly. That's the time we live in, enjoy. Can something just be real because we really want it to be real? because I think that might be part of me wanting this thing.

I don't care if it's AI. I want this to be real. Exactly. Let's see, maybe there's even already a Snopes's article, is there? Let's see. Snopes, Snopes, Snopes, Robots. Robot crotch. Will that get me what I want?

Robot crotch on Snopes? No, but it did give me an article that says breaking down rumors that Musk has a penis implant. So that's interesting. I didn't know there were rumors about that. Interesting. Okay. see if they've ruled it. They say

they can't confirm it because he ain't showing it. But some people think he's gotten an enlargement or something. I mean, I don't know. He's a weirdo. He might try that. It's real and he's called it A57 dash colon

left bracket symbol for boron, mercury icon. Yep. Zed. Dot Zed. Yes. Perfect. It's just like he does his kids it's perfect yep exactly guys we're gonna go right to this article then did we talk about oh you know what we're done that's the news we did the news this is why we can't have nice news no we can't have nice news when we've already read news um did we do the faberge egg two weeks

ago too yeah i think we did i remember faberge egg talk but this couple scoop secondary lottery win beating 20 trillion to one odds we didn't do that one yet right no i don't remember that okay So I think I know where the break is on what's old, what's new. It's just been a while since we've had news. Well, that's all right, because now no news is good news. No, wait, I don't know what that means. But I can tell you this, though. We're about to bring in everyone's friend, everyone's pal, the guy with a smile.

I'm trying to find his intro. Sorry, hold on here you go. This is Travis, and you'll do well to listen carefully to what he has to say. It is Travis. TV's Travis, they call him. Travis, what's going on? Ladies and gentlemen. I'm doing well.

If you look out your right window, you'll see the Grand Canyon. That's right. I'm doing great. It's in that weird in between time of Christmas and New Year's. And I'm still working, but also there's like a lot to do and nothing to do at the same time. Sure. And I was snowed in by the wonderful snowstorm. So that was why I missed your message, Scott.

I was out shoveling. And I don't take my phone with me anymore because last winter I dropped my phone once. And it took me 45, minutes to find it in the snowing. In the snow? I'm sure. Did you have to call it? I had to find my phone. But I had to have my iPad and I'm out with my iPad looking for my Android phone.

It was awful. Wait a minute. Did you do like a, it says like Jurassic Park 3 where you can hear it in the poo or whatever? Right. Yeah, basically. Wow. That's awesome. I'm glad your phone survived.

That's fantastic. Yeah. That IP 68 waterproofing or whatever level it is actually works. Yeah. That's good. Well, that's good And no worries You were my backup plan

Which I think would have worked either way Once you were done We don't get the kind of snow now Here we are in the snow town Of Salt Lake City in Denver What are we getting? Zip! Nothing. I mean, yeah, over the weekend

It was all freezing rain And most of the snow was gone And then it just dumped overnight And so Weird It was frigid cold and like a foot of snow Well, we've had the cold Just not the snow

And I don't know why Mountains are looking good though We're happy with the mountains And that means means water will all no one's going thirsty next year all right that's good yeah that's important we do not have good snowpack they've been talking about that on the news so we better have a good snowy January February March all that stuff yeah I only got three months to pack it in which seems right insane that's how long it is because when I was a kid winter lasted 400 years

like it yeah but now winter's gone in like a blink yeah yeah anyway there's your weather let's uh let's get straight to uh traffic traffic with Travis. No, not really. Travis is going to do a little contest. Now, it's been quite a year of Travis contests. It has. At least 12 of them, maybe a couple extra. It's been 12. Scott,

you handily won this year, 8 to 4 over Brian. He won the year before, though, right? He did. Okay, so I feel like this is now like third, this next year, the 2026 run is going to be the one that determines the true winner, because we're tied right now. Exactly.

Sure, exactly. I think you'll just determine the true winner of 2026. Yes. Well, and in 2026, we're going to have some new, I'm working on some new mechanics and new rounds to add in as well to try and spice it up.

Nice. Nice. That'll be 2026. We're still in 2025, which means we have one left. I've got five rounds, as always. I have, and we're going for bragging rights here. We're going to see who can end on the high note of 2025. Okay. Cool. I like it.

First round is an actor. Okay. Brian, you will begin our bidding. Okay. We're going by movie titles that they were in. It's all titles today.

Titles. All right. Okay. I will, and if actor by titles, I will do three. I'll take three. All right.

I'll try it in two. Okay. And what was the deal with the ones? You made. some change or somebody suggested change you haven't made that change right i haven't made that change yet no um okay no if you decide to go with one then scott will get two and that's that's where it will end oh really okay then i will i will not take one okay i'll try it in too so scott you get here's your two titles this actor has been okay the green knight nos ferratu uh ralph anison

Yeah. Very good. I have not even seen Green Knight. I would have gone with... Dev Patel? No. God, his name was in my head of second ago. Oh, sorry.

Goblin. Oh, Willem Defile. Oh, Willem to file. Green Night is so weird and great. I love that movie. It's on my list to watch. I loved Nospheratu. Wait, you say you haven't seen that movie?

I've not seen the Green Knight. Oh, wait, you haven't seen? Yeah. Now, that movie rules, dude. Dude, that's, you, when you do that, you should, then we should have a good discussion about it. Oh, yeah, for sure. I'm looking forward to it. A couple others that Ralph Inneson was in, by the way, who just, I mean, a voice of all voices.

The first omen. Fantastic Four First Steps. Galactus and the Witch. And the Witch, the Vivitch. Which I just recently saw for the first time and loved it. Who wasn't he in Fantastic Four First Steps? Galactus. Oh, gotcha.

Okay. He's the voice of Galactus. and did all the mocap for it, too. Yeah, face and everything. He's also in tons of video games these days. He's in Diablo 4. He's in recent Final Fantasy 16. Guys, guy can do no wrong.

I love his voice so much. He was in Game of Thrones. Oh, my gosh. He's everywhere. His voice is great. His acting is amazing. The behind-the-scenes stuff on the witch with him and the kids was phenomenal because he did so much work with those kids that Eggers wasn't really able to connect with them to direct them.

So he did a lot of the directing of the children in that movie. And the kids are amazing in that movie, which tells me a lot about his help. Real quick, if you ever want to see, and this is a very early role for him, but if you ever want to see him be the most sexist pig in the room, and I mean as a character, not the actor, the episode or two, I can't remember if it was more than one, but there's at least one episode of the old British office where he's like this sales guy that is the biggest freaking douchebag.

Really? Oh, my gosh. That's maybe the first time I saw him or remember seeing him. but anyway guys awesome so Scott you win round one we'll go on to round two

now we have a director and once again we're going with titles Scott you will start our bidding titles from this director all right did I learn anything from that that would make me confident

yeah uh wouldn't that be interesting it would be I'm gonna go let's start a little brave and I'll start with two today. Okay.

I'll take, I'll take the one. I'll take the oneer. Do it, Brian. All right. Here's your one title, Brian. Let's do it in one. The creator. The creator. Oh, yeah, okay. That's, I know that. I was trying to think of what movie was the creator, but it's a weird metal thing on the head deal.

And, uh... I still haven't seen that movie. Me meant to. And I don't know who directed that. Uh, I'm going to say, uh, uh, oh, I know his first name. Christopher Nolan. No, I know it's not Christopher Nolan, but I'll throw that out because I just move things on. I don't know. I don't know who directed that. I saw it, but I don't know who directed it. That is incorrect. Scott, your second movie, because you get a second one, is monsters.

Monsters. Mm-hmm. Okay. That movie I don't recognize by title. Is it Gareth? It's director we're looking for it, right? Yes. Is it Gareth?

He also did the first kind of return to form Godzilla business, I thought. Or maybe I'm thinking of the Rogue One guy. Shoot. Well, I do need a last name. Don't we all. If it's Gareth, is it Gareth Edwards? It is Gareth. Very good.

Correct. Well done. What is, what is? It's monsters. I don't recognize that. Monsters was, I think, his first feature. And it's, I've seen a bunch of, like the VFX in it are crazy, because that's how he got started was a VFX

guy and moved into directing. So he did Monsters. Sky, you mentioned Godzilla 2014. That was him. He also did Rogue One. It was Rogue One. Okay. Yep, same guy. And Jurassic Park Rebirth. That's right. I like his work. I didn't know until I got done watching that

movie that it was a Gareth Edwards. So would you guys recommend that thing? The other one, the creator? The creator? I liked the creator quite a bit. Okay. I think it's, it's one of those movies that I think gets a 10 for visuals, maybe a seven or an eight for story. Okay. I'd heard that. I heard it was like all tone and a little bit weak on story, but still worth it. God, visually, I mean, it feels like, some of the stuff feels like Soryama designed it. The fact that they didn't do any motion capture like dot tracking for anyone in that movie. Really?

To do all of the VFX work. There's a great video from the corridor crew where they talked to, I think they talked to Gareth actually, about it. I cannot imagine working on that movie. Well, because the kid, there's a kid, right? And they got like a big circle hole in their head or something. Yeah. How do you do that? Not just

the kid. Like, all of the robot replacement stuff in that was all just, they would shoot it and then decide who they were going to make into robots later. How the heck didn't they do that? I don't know. Magic is what it is. Because you're supposed to, I've never heard of that without tracking. That's nuts.

Yeah. That's amazing. All right. Scott, you're up to nothing as we go into round three, which is our music round. Our song. Brian, you get to start our bidding on the song. Well, all right. What are the options? So I've got a couple of short clips and then I do have one longer one that has

lyrics in it. Okay. Um, I will do the, just because I want to get a point on the board, and I feel like this is, this is my, my best chance. I will do the, uh, the shorty short of the clips, the shortest clips. Yeah. So Scott, you're frozen out of this one. I am. And, uh, Brian, you get, uh, this clip. Yep. Ooh, can I get that one more time? Yeah. Okay. Why is that so familiar, geez? That is super familiar.

Is that, um, son of a preacher man by Dusty Springs? Oh, that's what, that's thinking. Ooh, I like that guess. It's not. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, that's my, that's my guess. Damn.

Um, here, I'll just give, I'll give the longer one now. We'll give away the farm. All right. I'm a pool. Oh, dirty work by Steely Dan. Oh, yeah. But I can see where son of a preacher man, that, that organ beginning. Yeah, it's a very similar.

That's a bummer, because I love Steely Dan. And that's one of the ones that doesn't have Donald Fagan doing vocals. It was the Baxter. It was the third guy that they brought in that was neither Walter or Don. Yeah. It was shortly after Chevy Chase left the band. Is that right? Yeah.

Wait, Chevy Chase was involved. Chevy Chase was in the early Steely Day. I did not know that. Chevy Chase, am I, my memory? Am I, my, Swiss cheese in my memory? Were they like everyone else and kicked him out because he's a dick? Probably, yes, probably. I can't.

That new documentary, I'm Chevy Chase and you're not. I cannot wait to watch this because apparently he goes off even in the interviews. Really? He's apparently just the worst person to be with. That's such a bummer. And not like our typical, like, oh, he's a, you know, assaults women or all that. He's just a dick. Just a jerk.

Yeah, and it bums me out because he's so good on screen. I know. He's clearly talented. I mean, I can't tell you the number of times I will just be like, hey, what do you know? I've got a thing and just look at my wrist with no watch on it and walk away. That's insane to me. Because of him. Yeah.

So. All right. All right. Two nothing still going into round four. Great big whiff on the music. Yeah. And I wasn't supposed to, I wasn't supposed to get a hint or I wasn't supposed to do a thing. No.

No. No. the, he went for the one. I took the, oh, right, right, right. Right, right. Scott, you'll start our bidding now on, it's another actor. We're going for titles that this actor was in. Okay.

I'll do it in, I'm feeling, I'm feeling pretty good. Let's say two again. All right. I'll try it in one. Try it in one. Brian, here's your one title. I can do it in zero. Just kidding.

Sinners. Sinners. Okay. Well, would you go for the obvious? I'm going to say let's go for the obvious. Michael B. Jordan. No, I did not go for the obvious. Yeah, it wouldn't think so. Yeah. No. No. Thought about it, but didn't. Sure. Scott, your second movie that this actor was in. So we have sinners. We also have Enders game. Oh, geez. Enders game. Got to pull some deep cuts every once. Yeah, you do. That's a deep game. For sure.

Cut. Let me think of the other stuff we did. I don't know what our theme is. It really threw the thing to the spin. Sorry, we're looking for actors, not directors, right? Actor, yes. Obviously, Michael B. Jordan was director there. Or no, he wasn't.

It was the other guy, the guy he works with all the time. And now I'm going to screw myself up by saying that. Now you're not going to be able to get that out of your head. it's not delroy lindo because he's there's no other connection to him to this other stuff I don't think I love him I hope it gets best supporting this year he deserves it he really does and it's been a long career he deserves something yeah um I don't know I'm gonna say uh oh what's her name Kate Bishop

Oh Sure I just saw I just saw her again True Grit remake Sure Oh Scott Think of her name

Her name is Oh my gosh dude Please come to me I might have to start Oh Hayley Steinfeld Haley Steinfeld that is correct very good

last second no way that was correct I was just like Ender's game I was just like who else do I know in there and she's the only one

yeah she was also in Spider Man into the Spiderverse True grit What'd she do in Ender's game I don't remember She was the I think she was like Enders

She was a friend of Enders If I remember It's been a while She was pretty young I guess in that. Yeah, she was very young. Okay. Another kid. It was only a couple of years after true grit.

I feel like she's also underrated as a singer. She put an album out and it was great. Oh, yeah. But her voice is beautiful. Holy crap. I hope she does more of that. Yeah. All right. So, round five, we're looking for another director. And this is going to be, again, titles.

So, let's see. Brian, you will start our bidding. Sure. I will go two, not like it will help me very much. I suck at the director's thing. And not batten a good game today anyway, but I'll go two. I'll try one. If I get that wrong, Brian gets a two, right?

Yeah, okay. Correct. All right, Scott, your one movie that this director made. Thelma, the unicorn. Are you kidding me? now I may have hit the hit the wall here may have phoned your limit

yeah what's the name of that title again what is phelma the unicorn I don't know what that is rector okay well I'll say Ryan Coogler but I don't know I have no idea no it is not Ryan Coogler damn it

Brian the second Good guess based on everything else. I think it was a solid guess. Yeah. No, not a bad guess. The other movie that I have, number two, is Nacho Libre. Oh, God. Dang it.

Do you need, was it both of them? Was it Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess? Or just Jared Hess? You've given me the name. It was Jared Hess. Yeah, you got it. Damn it. Now, that was an easy second name.

Usually, when I get something like Thelma the unicorn, that's like an early, early movie. No, that was the movie he made, just before his most recent movie, which was a Minecraft movie. Yeah. Oh, really? He did that. He realized he did the Minecraft movie. Gentlemen Broncos and Napoleon Dynamite as well.

Yeah, of course. Yeah. Dude, I could watch most of his work again. Yeah, I was going to say, yeah. I haven't seen the Minecraft movie, but maybe is his level of humor in there, the Napoleon dynamite style? I have not seen it. Okay. So I couldn't tell you.

Wait, you haven't seen that movie either? I don't know. I've been either. None of us have seen it. So there's been a couple of guesses in the chat as to what the theme was. Mostly sinners, people were guessing. Any idea what the theme is? Oh, man.

Our actors were Ralph Inneson. Gareth Edwards is a director. Jared Hess is a director. Haley Steinfeld. Dirty work. Dirty work. Dirty work is tangentially part of the theme. The other four rounds are solidly in the theme.

Really? It is year end, I will say that. And this song was that Stealing Dan song? Oh, what movie did I just see that had that song in it? Was it one battle after another? No. What did I just see that had dirty work in it? Well, Dirty Work had...

Your own Dirty Work. What movie is that? I just saw a movie with that in it. You may have. James Gunn. It wasn't one of those, wasn't it? Was it one of the Guardians movies? Um, it might have been...

one of those. Oh, yeah. Let's say one battle after another, but I don't think... So, Dirty Work was used in one battle after another. You are correct. Okay, okay. The theme is top grossing films of 2025. Oh, okay.

Oh, nice one, dude. So, a Minecraft movie, domestic box office. A Minecraft movie was number one this year in domestic box office, directed by Jared Hess. Sinners was, I believe, seven. and uh you had Jurassic World Rebirth was in the top 10 first steps and fantastic four first steps one battle after another wasn't but the there wasn't a good song to use from any of the top tens because so many of them are um score Disney and you know sequels and stuff and they weren't using like there wasn't a I tried to find something from Superman but yeah the only songs were the mighty crab joys or um it's a great song it's a great song and also the Iggy Pop one

but I couldn't I couldn't get clips of the Iggy Pop one because it wasn't showing up on YouTube music for me. I had some real stark relief realization about myself and music and what it's tied to having such a big effect

and I know this is going to seem obvious to people but for most of my life I never really made these connections but I watched some when I finally I'd heard a bunch of the K-pop Demon Hunter's music prior to seeing the movie finally and they did nothing

Yeah and they did nothing for it. me. It's just like nothing. When you heard them before the movie. Yeah, it's just like pop song garbage to me. It didn't do Jack for me. I see the movie. Now those songs are amazing to me. And the same thing happened with like most of the Guardian song choices. I never cared much for those songs. Like Mr. Blue Sky and all that. It's not really on my, I mean, they're fine. They're good. It's just that I don't go, I got to hear that. But then once I heard it, I had to hear it. And that, it pop song in Superman is the wildest version of this because zero connection to it. I've heard it before and just thought, throw that away. That isn't great. Really repetitive and dumb. You tie it to

the visual and the point of that story and everything. And now it's like this all time. And it's just like this realization that my brain really likes tying a visual or an emotional story arc to music. Well, and you can also, you create those neural pathways for like memory. too. So it takes you to the moment of hearing it after watching Superman or, you know, whatever that is. That's why I love John Williams' score so much because they're so evocative of the film. And immediately I can feel like I'm watching Indiana Jones for the first time just hearing his theme play. Yeah. I think that's why I think so fondly of the Jurassic Park one or when I hear Hewley Lewis's back in time or, you know, any of that stuff. And I just really had never put, I don't know, I just never really put it together that that was such a I mean, the, the, the, um, come and get your love by, um, not sugar love. Come and get your love. Exactly. During that, now I can never disconnect that from Star Lord, kicking aliens and walking

across the surface of the planet. Yeah, it's really good. Now, the thing that they're using it, that's using it should, hopefully it's a good thing that all, you know, I've seen plenty of crappy movies with music and it doesn't do anything for me. But when they're good and they're meaningful or iconic or moments or whatever, just, man, it's really good. Anyway, well, there you go. Sorry, the theme was, what?

Top grossing film of 2025. Nice. Which, um, thank you a stigma, redbone. Here's a, here's a fun one. My tiebreaker was what studio had the most of the top 20 grossing films of 2025. Care to guess? Top grossing films of 2025? I would guess Disney would be my...

I'm going to guess. Ooh. Okay. Zootopia 2. Fantastic for... Zootopia feels very safe. What should we call it? Captain America with Thunderbolts. Scott, do you think it was Disney too

or do you think it was a different studio? Damn, dude. Could be... Warner Brothers, but I'm going to say... I'm going to agree it's Disney. I-Corps in the chat saying A-24. I wish. I'd love a year where 824 is the best. That wins with our hearts, but not necessarily.

So Disney had six of the top 20 grossing films this year, which was second. Oh, really? Okay. Warner Brothers had seven. Damn it. Wow. Okay. Universal and Universal International had four, and then there was one each from Paramount, Sony, and 20th century studios, which I guess technically Disney owns, but it was under 20th century studios, and that was Avatar. Oh, right. Oh, interesting.

That's still, okay. That's funny that that's still under a different moniker, even though it's, I mean, you know, essentially Disney. Yeah. They all go to Disney Plus now, I think. But going through, like, box office mojo, they had it as its own 20th century studios.

So, weird. I didn't, yeah, I don't know why I didn't expect that. Some of that James Cameron legal contract BS. Right. I wonder if that improved Warner Brothers price for this. Netflix acquisition. Oh, maybe. By them having seven of the top grocers.

That's pretty wild. Because that leaves how many after six and seven, that's, oh, my gosh, we just said six, seven. I hate that we did that. Way to go. But we had number six, number seven. That takes out 13. So, yeah. So there's only like seven more.

Seven more. And they're probably all spread out, I would have to guess. Well, yeah, you were saying that. Four of them were universal. Oh, you did say it. Yeah. And then a bunch of like little ones like so. and right right right that's a weird that's a strange little guys strange slate right yes the little guys

like Sony yeah yeah like Sony like Sony pictures they're only worth a bunch of billions um hey begonia speak of 824 begonia is now on uh oh uh HBO max I think that's where I saw it or maybe it was prime I can't remember prime you've already watched it no I want to it's cute up oh where you saw it listed saw it listed yeah that I've got two movies I need to watch ASAP it's that and one battle after another I still haven't seen. First Landrumos's movie

in a long time that Tina liked. Oh, that's right. You went to theaters. Don't sleep on begonia. Yeah. Don't sleep on begonias either, even the flowers. Yeah, I know, right? I can't wait to see it.

I don't know what the hold-up's been. It's time. I'm ready. Yeah. Let's go. It is. Speaking of time. Travis, thank you for hanging with this man.

Great year of these. I feel good accepting the gold medal this year. However, you earned it. I don't think next year is a lock at all. Well, we're going to find out. I am going to be mixing up categories, though, and trying to broaden out from just, I do a lot of actors and directors, and I want to broaden that out, too. I'm just not going to get, I'm not going to get overconfidence is what I'm saying. I feel like I got a little lucky this year. We'll see how it goes next year. I do enjoy this segment

a whole lot, so thank you for being a part of it this year. It was fantastic. Thank you for having me. Always a blast. It's always fun. Yeah, hell yeah. The work putting these together and everything, thank you for that. Yeah, totally appreciate it. Tell people where it. They can find you in the meantime before we talk to you again. So you can find me at TVStravis.com. I'm on Twitch as TVs Travis and if you're listening to this and it's not New Year's Eve

yet or New Year's Eve is not over I will be part of the 11th annual Diamond Club streamathon on New Year's Eve. If you're on the East Coast, we'll be ringing in the new year on my stream. I'm going to be playing Peak with SyrinX and Phil Keating and possibly one other person

and raising money for the Extra Life and Children's Miracle Network. Nice. Very cool. Give those kids a chance. Yeah, last year... Give kids a chance. Last year for my hour, I raised $250. I'm looking to try and at least match that this year. So we'll see.

We did well over $3,000 last year total. So definitely come out for that. And then anything else I'm doing is all at TVsTravis.com. I got fun episodes of... I watched Serendipity for the first time this past week. Did it make you want a frozen hot chocolate? It did. Yeah.

Absolutely. And I will say, that movie was interesting to me because I don't think I call it a good movie, but man, did I like it? Yeah, you know what? I will go along with that. Tina and I saw that in theaters back in the day. And I think we liked it, but I think we felt the same way. It's like, all right, it feels formulaic, but you can't. Like Kate Beckinsale and John Cusack, great pairing, great chemistry with those two.

Yeah. but you know but does it go does it do anything that a thousand other movies haven't done before no no right every every like half my notes were like I shouldn't like this this is right you know on its face is really dumb but those two and then Jeremy Piven

and Molly Shannon just drove it plus Eugene Levy stole his scene oh I forgot he was in that that's cool he stole he I don't think there was any dialogue in the he was a store owner or no a shop shop work he worked at Bloomingdale's Bloomingdale's right yes so good He's so good.

Yeah, what's now Hell's Kitchen at Caesar's Palace in Vegas used to be a serendipity. Yeah, loved it there. Scott and the kids and Kim all met Tina and I there. Like, we had lunch there at some point. It was good. That burger was awesome. And I remember at the time, the burger was like $12. And I remember going, holy shit, that's expensive.

And now it's like nothing. Now McDonald's, you know, kind of has a $12 burger. Yeah, it's just that was so weird to me. But I miss serendipity. I haven't been in the Hell's Kitchen replacement. I'm sure it's fine. I haven't either. I've been in his other restaurants, but not the Hill's Kitchen.

His burger place was real good that we went to. It was great. And that was a $28 burger. Anyway, well, fantastic stuff. Travis, have a good one. Thanks for hanging on this, man. Thank you. Everybody have a great New Year.

Yeah, you too. Happy 2022, man. Happy 2026 to you. Bye now. All right. we did it. We pulled it off once again. I have a quick email.

Congratulations. Well done, sir. Thank you very much. Next year, a whole new slate. It'll be fun to see what Travis tries to stump us with. Yeah, absolutely.

I'm looking forward to new additions to the game, the categories and stuff like that. Well, I'm glad 6'7 came up because just Fubar had this to say about the number. Okay. Oh, wait, I skipped one. Let me go back.

Yeah, please get this. So we don't have to carry it over to another page. You know how the sell. If you scroll, they'll like shoot to the stop. I had done that and I'd forgotten this was there. And now I'm scared. Anyway, this is from Melbourne, from Mark and Melbourne. Melbourne.

However you say it over there, whatever it is. He says, hey, he says, hi, mate. Budgie smugglers is Australian origin and referred to Speedos, which are also from Australia. Regards, Mark. So here is what he sent. Yeah, because budgie's the little birds and looks like that guy is smuggling the little bird in his pants. A little bird. A little bird.

Aw. Tweet, tweet. Anyway, that clears things up a little bit. Thank you for that. Sure. Then Justvobar said this about the number 6-7. I've been a hockey, sorry, Utah hockey club slash mammoth fan since the whole thing started last year.

So I feel like there, sorry, I feel like the I have in, I think he means that. I feel like that, that I might have insider knowledge on the 6-7 phenomenon. Clearly the Gen Z internet populace has gone war. wild over veteran forward loss in Kraus number 67 just thought i would let you know by the way brian f the abs oh oh how you feel about that a little offended uh the abs are great they are one of the teams one of the teams here in denver that i like right now so the avalanche was my hockey team yeah before we got your own yeah sure and now i have to you know i have to be local but of course if what if the abs go far then i'm back you know whoever is getting closer to the cup and

gets eliminated, I'll back that next one. But when the two are playing against each other, then it makes it easy. It's like, okay, well, I can root for, you know, I can root for the Utah Hockey Club to beat the Aves, but then if the Aves do it, I can say, all right, the Aves, I like those guys, too. I'd get excited about the Nuggets when they win, and then the Jazz when they're winning. Like, I got a thing with Denver and their teams. Vegas made it complicated, though. Yeah, right.

Because now they got both. They got a hockey and a football team, and it's hard for me not to, you know. Speaking of Vegas, did you see, and speaking of TMS Vegas, The sand dollar is no more. Whoa. What happened? Yeah. I guess just couldn't afford to stay there, whatever.

Like, didn't bring in, we were probably, us in concerts were the only thing that brought people into the sand dollar. We were the biggest event in the place. That's probably true. Probably true. It's kind of a bummer. The space is still there, so somebody could do something with it. So who knows if they'll, if some other place will just buy it and turn it into something else. But, man, the photos that they put in the, um,

in the Meetups, TMS Vegas Meetups channel. There it is right here. Just looks sad. So sad and so empty. Wow, that's a bummer, man. There it is right there. Here, want to link? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Send me a link. Giving you a link right there. Copy. Sad and empty. Yeah, I'll put it in our Discord. Yeah. Where is that thing? He'll put it in the direct to Scott,

because that's one I use most recently. for the... There we go. Film sex. Oh, what? I know. Doesn't it look sad? Like...

You know what? I actually really hate this. I thought it was going to be just like the place, but... Right. Oh, look at that. I know. That is, uh... I'm trying to figure out, yeah, that's that back wall.

I mean, basically, the whole bar is gone. That... Yeah. Where... I'm trying to see what angle... I think, like, we're looking at it from... From where we would sit. Because that back wall is the one that has the champagne deal on it.

Yeah, I think I found the point of reference. Oh, there we go. There's a good, yeah. Pull this out and make it fire. That's just sad. I don't like that. Yeah, we were just up there and January and May or April. And, you know, we're kicking butt in that place.

Oh, I got a pinch and zoom. What does this sign say? Hold on. Can't read it. Let's me pull out of here. See, this says... Please do not sit on the sound... Oh, lean on the sound booth, yeah.

Do not lean on sound booth. Okay. Well, I won't, I guess. Nope, don't lean on the sound booth. I guess I won't be leaning there anymore. You've been told if you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean. So that guy that owned that hotel that we saw that one time, the billionaire son or whatever. Yeah, the, right, the owner of the plaza, yes.

He wasn't, he can't, well, I guess he could, but he didn't own Sand Dollar. this was just like a contractual because there's multiple sand dollars kind of like yeah exactly there's the sand dollar um east which i think is uh um off of tropicanor or something it's it's not in a convenient place where we'd want to go there so let's we'll wait we'll see what they put in there for future tms vases if we you know yeah or i still want to get that ding i want to get the actual ballroom with the the scalloped seating and the full on stage it was perfect in there for what we want to do. Yeah, we want that.

Yeah. Apparently, that's getting more use. Maybe with no, with no TMS Vegas, 2026, we'll have a little bit of leverage to say, I don't know if we're going to come back. Can we get that ball room? Yeah. Okay, we'll come back. Sadly, it'll probably do two other girls or dudes.

It'll be a whole new group that I have to explain our whole deal to. That's the, that's the other worst part. It's like every single time I have to start over with, what is TMS? Okay. Now, what is TMS Vegas? okay and what do you do again? Yeah, it's too bad because what was her name, the good, the one we loved? Bernadette, dude.

She also lasted the longest. She did. Like three years of Bernadette. Three TMS Vegas is with Bernadette. It made so much easier. Yeah. All right. Well, that's going to do it for today's show, everybody.

Thanks for your messages. You can send us emails, text, and voicemails. All of the links to do so are found at frogpants.com slash TMS. And what else is going on? today there will be a play retro with me and Dunaway at 4 p.m. D&D. Talking D&D games. Yep, old ass ones.

Real old. Not the new D&D. Demio or anything. No, although I did get that and I would like to register a complaint. Oh no, really? Tell me. Well, they touted how you could play the campaign's single player and that you would have you would have

the other people that filled out your team. You would control them and have them be their class. Yeah. Right. Which is great, but guess what? When you go and you finish and there's like XP for the encounter, your character levels up and you can, like in D&D,

choose your new abilities or spells or whatever. You can't do that for the leveling up of your friends unless they're human and they're playing with you. Okay. So they're fixing that though. They're going to fix it.

Okay, good. So like, because it's multiple stages in the campaign. So what happens in stage two? Those guys are all still at one. They just have their basics. They just have their basic. which makes them weaker and it actually causes difficulty spikes that are really hard to deal with.

I'm glad they're fixing it. Yeah, they've been really good about responding to it and stuff, but I like the core of that game is great. So I hope they, I hope they're going to do it for us. Brian, let's get out of here with a song. Do you have a little something we can play? I would love to go out of here with a song. How about something for Dodo Fet C-64 for the official last request of the year? geez um he says uh you've played them before i'll send the track of the email they are formally from

sacramento uh this is a band called autumn autumn sky and the song is called big time lover did i put it in our i think so okay good i wasn't sure if the issues internet issues earlier caused a problem with that uh once again autumn sky the song is big time lover nice we'll see you guys tomorrow for a play date uh we're going to play video games some jackbox and whatever here on the show uh this normal time nine a m it's for everyone that's right so wish me luck i will be exhausted yeah brian's going to be real tired great time to take advantage of his uh yes relaxed mental faculties exactly trivia murder party will be uh you guys can walk all over me out in train trivia murder party yeah it's going to be awesome so uh come see us then uh and then we'll tell you from there what we're

doing we have no idea that's going to do it for us thanks for watching thanks for listening we'll see in the next year, everybody. Bye now. I'm wise enough to know the difference I think I'd go this far just to turn back now Oh honey, don't just ain't what I'm about I grew up strong, working back from the darker days In the mirror this morning was a face like mine I looked like somebody I could recognize

You go on I have to stop and say I'm a big time lover Big time lover I'm a big time lover now I'm a big time lover now I'm a big time lover No, it doesn't matter how many hails will turn your way Or on whether you choose to believe their compliments

Just fuck the attention it was winning us the next day We're wise enough to know Think that's life is high just to fall back down now Oh honey, that just ain't what I'm about Grew up strong looking back from my mistakes In the mirror this morning in the bright sunshine I looked like somebody I would love this morning. I would love this time

And you go on I have to stop and say I'm a big time lover Big time lover I'm a big time lover now Big time lover

Big time lover I'm a big time lover Now I'm a big time lover I'm a big time lover So it doesn't matter Many heads turn your way or whether you choose to believe a compliment.

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