The Morning Stream - TMS 2943: MaxGPT

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

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i mean unce unce unts arena of time show me your Volvo all the tech you can pee on with tom merritt and more on this episode of the morning stream it is very urgent that we meet we will appear tomorrow at operation sky hook when you're The sun is exactly over your local. Ask about horses again, I'll slap you red. Well, hello, everybody, and welcome to TMS, the morning stream for Wednesday, January 7th, 2006. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian David.

Good morning, Brian. Good day to you. Hello. Yes, it's another day, another dollar here on the TMS program. Concern. I want to start calling it a concern again. The TMS concern. It is a good, it is a good...

I miss it. Yeah. Oh, for sure. And it wasn't even a thing of our day. This is like old people from a long time ago. said, oh, yeah, down with the textile concern or whatever. We don't do that in modern days, but I want to bring it back. Let's make it a thing again.

I like it. I like it. I always bring this up. Whenever you bring up concern, I talk about that Monty Python and the Meaning of Life pre-movie before the movie. I think it was before meaning of life or maybe it was before. They did a movie before the movie? I didn't know that?

Yeah, like a little short before the movie. and it was a it was a business office that was getting raided by another business office but it was done like pirates like the building

slides up to the side of the other one and they all swing in with their ties around yeah the crimson permanent insurance that's it TRPRA they did this I remember that scene by the end of it is like the whole half the building's torn open

or something torn open like exactly yeah but what but that's I thought it was just part of the thing I didn't know it was a pre-thing I think it was I think it was like a short before the movie or was it part of was it part of the movie I didn't think it was part of the movie hmm hold on a second been ages man I haven't seen that movie in so long oh I know so much of it is like in my head but I can't and I think it's the most booby-filled of all of the oh yeah of Monty Python movies there's that one scene where they're chasing Michael Palin through the city and it's all

Topless girls. It's topless girls on roller skates because he gets to choose how he's going to die. Yep. Shumps off that cliff. It is a comedy short. It plays as the prelude to the film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. Okay. So it's not just like a cold open of the movie.

It's a separate deal. It's like a Pixar short before up. I had no idea. And this is something, some cool trivia. The film includes actor Matt Fruer, Max Headroom's debut performance. Whoa. Yeah. So much of his shit comes out of Britain.

It's so weird to me. Yeah, I know. He basically found his audience over there. Yeah, that's how he got. How do you make it in America? You go somewhere else and then slowly your headroom, skit works over here. That's wild. Am I dreaming?

That's pretty good. Can't catch the wave, Coke. You guys don't even know how impactful culturally that shit was. All that stuff, like all those commercials, I. you know, this was early on VCR days and if I could capture a Max headroom coat commercial

to watch over and over again, I would have. Yeah, yeah. Like it was, I don't know, I don't know what the equivalent today is. I don't think we have one today. Not really. No, no. No, I don't know what commercials look like these days

because the only time I get them is when it's the same commercial over and over again in like to be. or something that I watch on the Apple TV as opposed to where I can turn it off and brave. Yeah, or I'll be in a hotel room. That's the only time I see commercials as hotels.

And they're all like, are you 65 and having trouble with your gout or whatever? It's all shit like that. And then, you know, some medical stuff or buying gold bonds or whatever. It isn't what it was when we were kids, man. When we were kids, it was like, dude, do you see the new G.I.GO toy on Saturday? during cartoons. Yeah, man. I'm going to go get it.

We had to talk to each other physically to pass along stuff like that. Yeah. Here's a link in our Discord chat of the Max Headroom Coca-Cola commercials. If you want to play. Oh, yeah. Look at that. Let's play one of these. We talked about these a little bit on play retro, but I don't think I've seen this one.

Just a little. We had like a... There we go. Hi, Max Headroom here with... This is my guest. I heard you were big time and the old pop is I'm going to take that as a no comment

so nitty gritty time what I'm talking about and you're not is that more people prefer the new refreshing taste of Coke over Pepsi sweating me it's true more people are as we Cokeologists say

catching the wave catch it if you can can catch the wave Coke now that was new coke right that was a new Coke that can with like the big octan bold font version of the logo yeah those are those are weird days because on the one hand i really like the commercial but i hated new coke it's so bad yeah right exactly the commercials are

far better than the drink can i also is there a way that i can make my chat gpt max headroom uh and that i don't want it via text i want i want matt fruer's voice okay i want that head i want a digitized AI version of that head. I mean, Max Headroom was freaking AI before AI, right? Yeah, it shouldn't be hard. It shouldn't be hard given all the tech we have now. Even your glasses, they should be able to replace

what's her name with Max Headroom. Why not? Oh, yes, with the replace Kristen Bell with Max Headroom. Yeah. Not that she's replaceable. You know what I mean. Not in real life. No, I mean, you know, it's a digitized voice. I wonder how she feels about that. I mean, I know she's signed up for it and she gets royalties from it, but all in all, like,

I get weirded out by all the things I hear people doing with our bodies in SORA. And I haven't even looked at a SOR. I'll tell you this. People keep using me in SORA videos and I keep getting notifications. Oh, you've been used in this SORA video. I have not looked at any of them in two months. It's easily been two months for me.

I think I just, I petered out on it. I think I did too. I think whatever the Flash in the Pan Fun was there, it's kind of dumb now. I mean, it's not that it's not, it's just the same stuff. It's, I feel like I'm just seeing it's, it's, it's, it's, the Taco Bell of video components. Yeah, yeah. It's like the same four things.

One of us looks wrong or our faces are mushed together or I'm huge and fat for some reason. Or you're 20 feet taller than I am for no good reason. Or I come in saying 31, 92, 61. Yeah. It's like, man, all right, we've seen this act. I've seen all the parts. Like it really has been kind of a look behind the scenes of what this stuff really is, which is a little smoke and mirrors.

like okay cool you can dupe things and make stuff move around but really you're not it's not that impressive it's just kind of yeah exactly blah blah blah blah blah anyway uh hey let's talk about those friendship based bracelets braclets bracier bracelets Brian got some friendship bracelets at the at the techno joint or whatever you want to call it this was a this was a weird thing too that I got it is a it's a clip that just has a flower a little fake flower on it and you basically put this in your hair or on your baseball cap or wherever and um it's like a rave thing like when you go to a rave thing and it's another thing it's kind of like this this i totally equate to the 60s it's like the the girls with all the flowers and they just come up and give you a flower and they've got like

flowers all around their head a little laurel yes i said yanni yeah you said yanni i heard yonnie i didn't hear laurel i mean wait i just heard yonnie again so let me grab this one here i have it on my um it's not like one of those things where if you got one of those in your hair it means you're down to go into the bathroom and have an hj with billy here or something like that right as far as i know i didn't get any offers for those all right good that's good i think you that's a good thing that you avoided whatever yeah but i imagine i did talk to somebody who said yeah there's a lot of a lot of stuff that goes on the bathrooms uh there at uh oh yeah music festivals like that all right so the first one i got is this one right here i love the colors on it's very

fruit loop. Oh, very nice. Fruit loopy kind of colors. I think I've stretched out with my wrist because they didn't put enough beads on it. There's a gap. But this one says, as you can see right here, it says acid. Oh, acid. Like the, I assume it's the kind you take.

They're talking about acids and bases and pH values of your pool. It's just a science thing that they're doing. Right. There we go. Acid. You can see it. The girl gives you that, you're like, oh, she's so smart. She knows all their science stuff.

She knows. Exactly, yes. The second one said, do you like baseball? And I said, I do, even though I, I mean, I guess I kind of do. Yeah, baseball's cool. Baseball's cool. Like bracelets more, getting a bracelet from a cute girl. This one just says score. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, from baseball.

Yeah. From baseball, where there are a couple baseballs on it. See, there's like a little baseball. Oh, I see. That way they can. Or it's white Deadpool. I can't tell. They have plausible deniability when they put the baseball on there.

That's right. So for a while, I basically was wearing two bracelets. that said score acid. Nice. Which is, again, I think the, I think combining those is maybe the point, you know, sometimes for those. I don't know what the little subculture looks like, but I'm just going to assume a few things as we talk about these.

I would assume. I would assume. This next one I got says Nick Vap. Oh, I loved him in the 80s. Unless you flip it to the other side, Nick Vap was the greatest. Unless you flip it to the other side, it says weed vape. Oh, weed vape. Whichever way you wear it, weed vape, Nick Vap, and there's a little pot leaf.

What's the, what does Nick, does Nick mean something? Nicotine. Oh, nicotine. Yeah. Duh, that's how all the, um, it's short for Nicolette Larson, uh, singer from the 1980s.

There you go. These are all truths. We're just sharing them. And then kind of the best one right here, especially with the new, uh, Marvel trailer that's out for Avengers Doomsday. Uh, Cyclops Army.

Oh. I love that. Army. Now that one actually had questions about it. I don't, get it. And then it's got this dude on it right here. Whoa, shit.

Yeah. Yeah. So they're taking the hobbits to Eisengard. That's scary. Don't F with this dude, with the cyclops looking dude. This is all I know. She had a bunch of these and she had a hat that had a, this little cyclopsy dude on the, on the front of it. So that may have some meeting, but we don't know what that is.

We don't know. Yeah. Exactly. All right. I love it. Cyclops army. Yeah. I mean, it's all fun.

And Brian's initial delve into this culture, the subculture of rave culture. It's fantastic. Take that ERA's tour with your anti-hero and reputation bracelets and stuff. You know what we should do. We should get Jerry Tolbert. TMS bracelets for the Nurtacular. That's actually not a bad idea. But Jerry, here's what I want.

It's amazing. Who can do these? Who's getting on this? Yeah. Who can do this and can make a whole bunch of them? Because we need a lot. Jerry Tolbert, you need to send us one of your page, Dr. Jerry. clips and explain why Molly makes people do weird stuff in bathrooms, right?

What is it about that drug that drives, you know, a happy meter up so high that you're willing to engage in coitus with strangers? I'd like to know. Oh, gosh. Yeah. I'd like to know. All right. And where do those people hang out? Yeah, where do they go? And what do they do? Where are they right now? And do I have a list? Is there a list? Where will they be shortly after the show? Is there a mailing list? Do I join it? Or how do I do that? Oh, Cyclops Army is a Subtronics EDM Club. Okay. Oh, so that's just, hey, cool club, I'm referencing.

Yeah, or Dr. Callaghan says it's a song by Subtronics. Well, that makes sense. Well, there we go. Subtronics was easily, even though Elenium and Steve Ayoki were kind of the headliners, Subtronics was for all the T-shirts I saw, like people wearing band t-shirts, far and away the most popular artist there. I like the name too. I do too, Subtronics.

He's the person I went up and watched his show on day one. I'm like, okay, he's good. I like the style. He's got a whole link thing where it was music from Ocarina of Time set to Unz, Oonz, Outs, Outs.

Kind of need to go check that out. You bet it's on YouTube. It's got to be. Probably, right? Got me. Everything's up there. Oon-O-L-O-L-O-L-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-U-S. O'O-Rina of Time. Oon-Serina. That's it. Uncerina of time.

Oh, shit. That's perfect. Write that down. We have a quick grats to throw out before we had done away to this discussion. The Frog Pants Fantasy Football League concluded another year. All right. Well done, everybody. Congrats to them.

This was the Frog Pan's Fantasy Football League. If you want to join it, there's ways to do it for next year. Anyway, we got this from a whatnot who says, I wanted to know if you could give a shout out on TMS to our 2025 and repeat champion team, The Nightmares run by Matthew Johnson, not my brother, but the other Matt Johnson,

which is awesome. Congratulations. Oh, you know what, I have stuff for this. Yay, graphic. Oh, look at that. Perfect. And this is like you was made for you. There you go. It was made for you. We just barely ever use it.

Anyway, if you could also thank the other teams for playing. Thank you other teams for playing. playing. He was the commissioner or whatnot was. Good work on that. Anyway, he says, let me know if you have any questions anytime this week or next. It would be great. Well, there it is right now. Just did it now. Yeah, well done. Congratulations. I didn't participate in that one because I don't have the time to keep track of fantasy football changes and things like that. But I did play in the Frog Pants 2025 Pickham, which was a sister thing to the fantasy football one.

It's one where you just pick the winners of every game. Oh, right, right. uh out of 28 players i came in 14th right in the middle dead center wow that's fine with me you're okay with it i'm okay with it i'm okay with it i'm okay with an average position i'm on a way yeah i'm okay yeah because i'm an average i'm an average football keeper tracker guy so don't forget go team speaking of a techno version of a old favorite uh all right it is done away time how do i know that well because I pushed this button. Yes, that's right.

Time for us to play a little of the Tad Pooley feud here on a Wednesday. And Brian Dunaway joins us, as always. Hello, Brian. No, I scared. Really? Two days a few. Second time in a row, I'm going to have to, like, clear my throat. I usually do.

Let me clear my throat. Let me clear my throat. So, anywho, oh, hi. What am I doing today? I'm just walking peacefully because the family got to go last night to see the monks who were walking for peace from Texas to D.C. They were about 15 minutes south of us. So they drove down there and got some bracelets. Oh, that's cool.

Like the kind Brian's got there, the little bracelet. What are their bracelets say? They say, you're capitalist. No, they say that, so I posted some pictures and stuff in our Discord. with Scott. I couldn't find our overall chat, but I posted some pictures of the monks that Audra took. Oh, here we go. Oh, look at these guys. They're very fashionable

people. Yes, very beautiful people. Very smiley. Audrey was there. So there was a very good sense of peace and happiness and just, it was just a wonderful experience. People were just inspired to be beautiful around

these beautiful people. Man, they got the... This is like... Yeah, Audra's. Yeah, Audra's a photographer she's uh oh these are her shots these are awesome yeah yeah that's they're even signed signed by the photographer right yeah no wonder you felt like you had to make your lighting better in your studio your yeah there's a lot of pressure like man there's a lot of pressure done away she'd say she calls you done away of course like we do of course she does what she does

actually sometimes they don't really those are really nice shots and also um they all what do they subscribe to the the peterman catalog or what because they're really coordinated color wise yeah yeah i want to be a monk these guys are awesome Do you, though, could you survive walking across the, you know, from Texas to D.C.? Sounds hard. I think I could probably not do that. Right. Yeah.

Yeah. But they didn't get to see the, they did not get to see the dog, though. Everybody was super excited. It just goes to show you. You can't bring kids or dogs with you. They'll always upstage you no matter what you're doing. But the dog was not there last night, so I don't know where he was at. Oh, hopefully he's okay.

He was meditating. I'm sure it's fine. Yeah, there was actually an accident along the way, and one of the monks had a bad accident. but I told her as Audra left, I was like, please do not hit any of the monks with the car. And if you do, keep driving. Don't come back. That's the monk way.

That's how they want you to do it. I have to think that if you're a monk and you're all about the happy chill, right? And you get hit by a car. You just lay there kind of just grinning going. It's all good, man. This is my first accident. Love peace and whatever. Oh, I'm bleeding out of my anus.

Anyway, talk to you next time. not that is funny but yes I do get it yes you do get it the tragedy you do get it the tragedy I get hit by a car done away let's get to the game we're going to play this thing

we're going to do it under the the tutelage and MCNus of Brian Ibitt here who has all the rules let's do it my emceiness hopefully you know it just doesn't work

like you used to it's time to play the tadpooly feud I've surveyed the tad pool on some nerdy topics and Scott and Brian are going to have to predict the answers that they gave us it's Scott and Brian's job

to see how many of those answers they can guess at the end of the game We're going to add up all the points, and the winner will actually be winning prizes for their listener contestant. And contestants have been pulled from our supporters on Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS. Nice. Okay. Scott, you're playing for Trickster. Oh, nice.

Love Trickster. Good man, Trickster. And, Brian, you're playing for Ian Mild. Ian Mild, yeah, good man, Ian Mild, I suppose. Yeah, Ian Mild. He used to be Ian Spicey, but... Yes, the days of Mellow. him.

Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Just kidding. Scott, have you joined the thing? It's still showing waiting for a change the goal for a while. I see.

I need to reload. That's why. There it is. There we go. Yep. I see Scorpe Jorbson. All right, here we go.

Short and sweet. This is officially the last question from the previous Ted Pooley Feud survey. So next week we start with the new survey. Let's get this one out of the way, though. We asked 472 Tadpoolers to name a European car company. Scott. Volvo.

Volvo. That was the one I was going to say. I think even Ford or somebody owns most of it now, but I still think that people would say this. All right. Show me your Volvo. I don't like how you said, show me your Volvo. I don't care for it. four answers, we'll beat it.

What do you got, Brian? What, what do you got, Brian is what I said? I'm going to go, I'm going to go, I'm going to go with the other V word. Oh, Volkswagen. Volkswagen. Volkswagen. That was the hit, that was Hitler's choice of car manufacturers. Totally was.

Yeah, exactly. Super. All right, let's get to it. Show me Volkswagen. Number one answer on the board. That means Brian gets control and gets to, uh, keep naming European car companies, or at least what the tadpool things are European car companies.

Uh-oh. Oh, shit. No, no, that feels like a tip. I know. I'm not. It's not a tip. I'm just, I'm just,

uh, it's a good reiteration of who, who the, the state and the fact. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly.

This is not, this is not, you know, what companies make the most cars or earn the most of money. No, this is what the tadpool things are. That's right. That's right.

I can't help but to think, I can't help but to think that James Bond wouldn't drive anything but a European car. And he had that BMW in that one movie when he was rummaging still as James Bond. That was a nice car in that one. That was a nice car driving through the ice castle in Finland or wherever it was. Didn't that one have, it had cloaking ability or some shit like that? Something. Yeah.

So stupid. He also had a remote wheel and windshield that he could operate from the backseat. That was so hilarious. He could lie down in the back seat and drive the car. That movie got dumb, dude. That movie was dumb. It did. Even Halliberry couldn't save that one.

All right. Show me BMW. Might have been a different one with Jinks, but I can't remember. The Bavarian Motor Company. Works. Bavarian Motorvox. Yeah, BNC. Yo, yo, yo.

Yep, TV's Travis confirms. The one he drove from the backseat was a different movie. But he did do that. wasn't that in the ice castle or no that was a different one the ice castle that's right he was in a he was in a parking garage when he drove it around from the backseat i just remember that had the bad guy with the diamonds in his face that's the only one i remember yeah it sounds painful it didn't he was great that korean actor's awesome and i loved it but it's it was kind of harkening back to the old old bond villains right i think that's why i liked it it kind of made me like the movie more than

i probably did instead of it just being some generic dude it was like a guy with a noticeable problem like a bad leg or a scar down his face or you know yeah i love that kind of stuff in bond movies do that more often or golden gun anyway brian keep going uh oh oh still seven answers left on this board what do you wait what are you waiting for what do you i was just waiting for you guys to finish chatting it up uh-huh i'm just trying to be more peaceful today good all right let's learn from the monks the monks really rubbed off on you yeah i got charged up a little bit so you know right when they were walking did you guys go here they come walking down the street

Hey, hey, it's the monks. They're handsome and they got good color choices for the clothes. Look at those guys. Yeah, I was going to be that guy. No, Alpha Romeo. Romero, that's another bond car. I'm just going to stick with the Bon Carst for now.

Okay, you should do that. Show me Alpha Romeo. Oh, man. Alpha Romeo was on the list at number Oh, 20. I should have went with the big one instead. You should have went with the big one. They're bigger ones than that.

All right. Yeah. I was going, I was going, I was going, I was going to the oldest. Yeah, I was going with the oldest moving forward. I should have went further. You're all right. I'm going to get, let's get some more German here. Let's go Mercedes-Benz.

Sure. Yeah. John Hamm would sure like you to buy a Mercedes-Benz, wouldn't he? Yeah, I would. Show me your Mercedes-Benz, oh, Lord. Be sure to pin at the Mercedes-Benz. Number eight. That's only eight.

Geez. I must make a comments. I'm a surprised by where that is. That threw me that that's that low. That it's that low, yeah. Yeah. All right. I know people like their supercars.

Let's go. Let's try Ferrari. I hope that's on here. Okay. All right. Show me Ferrari. Oh, number nine. The points are, point are rolling in.

That was, wow. You're killing it. Yeah. Yeah, well, you know, whatever I'm doing, I'm doing it. Let's see. You're doing it good. You're doing it good. I like them.

Monday and looking good for Wednesday. I like, I like, I know Volkswagen owns them, but I'm guessing people separated it. I'm going to say Porsche. Okay. Porsche. Porsche. Porsche. Whatever it is.

You got to pronounce it like Porsche Dorasi. Yeah. Show me your Porsche. Dude. Number 11 on the list. Free, free guess, but no points. Okay. the four olympics

looking circles unit let's do the outies yeah sure i want an outy you don't though they break down they have shitty oh of course they do i said i want i don't need i don't need i have the car that i have the car i need right right i get you i get you uh all right show me an

show me your Audi Audi's higher up any they break a lot show me your Audi um at least my car people tell me don't never buy an Audi anyway um let's have car people. Yeah, I have car friends. Friends are way into cars. So I always

talked to them before I buy something or, you know, are looking at some. All right. Let's, uh, oh, geez. People like, uh, around here, there's a ton of these. Around here. Here in White County, Salt Lake City. Always stand up straight. Can I see if Land Rover

is here by chance? I didn't think about Land Rover. That's a good one. Yeah. Let's see. Let's show me Land Rover. Damn it. Also another one I've always wanted. 21, right after Alpha Ramail.

Also supposed to be terrible breakdowner car. They're not great unless you have a lot of money. Because then you can just get them fixed and pay through the nose for it. But sure. Anyway. All right. Well, there's still four answers left on here, Brian. You got an idea of any of them?

I want to. I'm afraid. I want to. I'm so tempted to go back to Bond though even though the last one it burnt me fine. Going to Aston Martin fine. I can't help it because I regretted I didn't say it before like the previous

turn so. Oh gotcha. Okay. All right. Well you said it now. Probably the most well-known bond car right? Yeah. Easily easily the most well-known bond car. Show me Aston Martin. Mr. Martin come all. I'm a little surprised. That's a little surprised. 16 for

Aston Martin. I find myself surprised um all right another car supposedly breaks down a lot but people think they want them let's go with a jaguar jaguar my daddy has a green one thank you for thank you for pronouncing jaguar jaguar jaguar uh show me jaguar oh shit

I'm shocked by that a little bit surprised again jaguar um or jaguar um or jaguar as some people like to pronounce it number 13 yeah my my sister calls it a jaguar jaguar jaguar oh that's a jaguar like yeah that's a jaguar anyway I'm feeling for some reason I can't get out of action

movie central for some reason and all I can see is that stupid mini Cooper with the union jack on top of it oh sure yeah I'll bet it's on here dang it I bet it's on here I bet you're going to get it I'd give me that minis show me if this is your last strike if you get I know show me the mini Oh

I'm shocked by that You should be Yeah midi Mini Coopers down at 17 I'm really surprised Because Damn dude I could not crack

I could not crack the code This week Well let's see if I can crack a further one Okay I'm gonna I'm gonna go with Oh What's that called The Lecar

Yeah That's a good one the lecar it does have leh in it it's a french car i don't know if they still make them but yeah let's try it we'll just take a look and see hold on one second i'm going to see who makes lecar just in case

i'm going to say yeah is it not lecar do they not make i'm sure remember if it was um i'm going to uh all right yeah because lecar was made by i'm going to give this to you renalt renault renault made the lecar it was renal It was the Renault 5 also called the Lecar and...

So dumb. It was so dumb. No, that's a great name. Are you kidding? That is an amazing name. Freaking terrible. Well, Renault is better than Lecar. Eh, I'll do one that's gone, but I still think it's on people's minds.

Yeah, nobody forgets about the sob with the two A's. Saab. Sa'ab. Yeah. Show me. Sa'a. So Brian's going to be doing Now that the game is over

And he lost Sob was number 14 Still still popular Did I tell you that Jaguar is number 13? Yes I think you did I think I did So congratulations to Scott

Let's go ahead and take a look at what these Remaining the three answers are 4 to 31 Number four Fiat Oh Fiat We have a lot of those around here We see him all the time

It's still still Isn't that the only thing that Jennifer Lopez drives a little? Is that my thing that right? And me crazy. No, I'm just kidding. She's fine. Whatever. Number six, another French one.

The Pujo. Another French one. Yeah, the Pujo. The Pugat. Pugati. And finally, this one I was unfamiliar with, but it was number 10. And 13 people said it. Scoda.

I have never heard of it. the SCOT? What is SCOTA? What is that? SCOTA. I don't know. Didn't that win best pictures at Apple TV movie? SCOTA. It was so good. About the, uh, the, uh, the, you're thinking of a fear. The Sands kids of, uh, deaf, uh, adults. There you go. Yeah, Skoda. Uh, check. It's a check automobile manufacturer from 1925. You know what they say in the upper east side, though? They say SCOP. They don't say SCOT. So it depends on the part of the

country you live in. Oh, that's a terrible joke. I get it. Popsoda. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got it. I got it. It's a thinker. Who did we miss on here? I know there's got to be a bunch of names outside the top ten. Down below the top ten, you've got Citron, Ugo. Yeah, you go, of course. Box Hall, Lotus.

Oh, Lotus is one. Seat. Somebody drove, four people picked seat, S-E-A-T or Siott. I don't know if it's pronounced. I don't know what that is. Two syllables. Lamborghini, Bentley, Bugatti, Dachia, Lada, Polestar. It's Swedish, but it's owned by China.

Kupra. And of course, we had Ford Hertz, Hyundai, Kia. Ford Hertz. Smart and Subaru. Ah, yes. The Hertz brand European car and the famously European Subaru. Fantastic work, everybody. That's right. Because Hertz, you know, it's got to see.

It's got to be European. Yeah, that must be right. Well, that means we have a winner. Who got the big money here? Yeah. Congratulations going out to Trickster. You're going to be getting a copy. of Injustice

God's Among Us Ultimate Edition and Talis Noir. Oh, also, I think it's just Tails Noir. Noir. Tails, is that a... Oh, yep, I flipped the eye and the L. French it up again. Talis.

Tali Noir. That's a cool point and click game, pixelated thing, but super amazing art style. It's awesome. I played this with Carter. Very cool game. Tails Noir. Enjoy your Tales Noir game. But, Ian, don't worry, you're getting something pretty damn cool yourself.

You're getting Batman Arkham Asylum Game of the Year edition, which is, you know, nothing to sneeze at right there. No, those are all good games. And you'll be getting these directly in your PMs, your DMs, your private messages over there. Your BMs, if you're really adventurous. Depends on where you're reading it, I suppose. Anyway, that'll be up over on your Patreon accounts on TMS's Patreon. Big thanks for being patrons and watch for those coming soon. Brian Dunaway and I, later today, 4 p.m. to be exact,

we'll be spending some time talking about the great pinball games that came out for the Sega Saturn. There was a whole series of these things. And they were famously quite good and not enough people played them. And we're going to talk about them. And you loved them. I met many people this week who were like, I love this, I haven't seen it in forever. And this is also our big episode 200 for the Play Retro show. Look at us.

How many years is that for? I don't know, but the idea that we hit 200 on our first episode of 2026 is pretty rad. So pretty proud of ourselves for that. that little bugger that we did there. Yeah, we planned it. Yep, we did. Brian Dunaway, kiss our butts. All right, he's out.

He's out. And now, ladies and gentlemen, join me in doing this. Isn't technology wonderful? Oh, it sure can be, but only when Tom Merritt joins the mix, and he is live from CES in Las Vegas, Nevada right now. Hello, Tom Barrett.

Yeah, you can probably tell. I can tell. We can, yes. Yeah, how the heck are you? Where are you at a booth or where are you now? You sound like Sylvia Pajoleon. out in Afghanistan. I am embedded it deep inside the Central Hall. Oh, good. Someone needs to be. That's right. Now, that's great. You've been there since, I guess, got over there on Monday or Sunday or something?

I live here now, Scott. Oh, that's great. Excellent. Hey, you're only five hours away. We should hook up. I dimly remember a time before CES, but it was long ago. Yeah. No, we got here on Sunday, hit the ground running with CES unveiled, and then all the press events on Monday. Sunday and the show floor opened yesterday. So yeah, this is day four for us. So by day four, it is really, it's all floor show stuff at that point, right? This is kind of what's up. You're seeing all the, all the, yeah, yeah, mostly you're right. There's a lot of companies that are doing things in their various own suites and things around Las Vegas. But yeah, this is, this is now the show is in full swing. Have you been invited to any of these sweets to, you know, Look at the...

No, I have not, Scott. Come try our VR headset up in my... No, it's not a sore point. Thanks for asking. Oh, shit. Rob Dunwood did, though. And hopefully he'll have something to talk about on the show today. But we were at the showstoppers event yesterday,

and he found a guy who's a CEO of a really interesting company that does some accessibility glasses. Oh, cool. So trying to help low-vision people directly, in the glasses, you know, rather than doing things in the software, which is also being done. Actually, there was a woman named Rebecca who has a company named Roboka. Oh. Because it uses Boca to help low vision as well.

But that's an app that'll overlay things and help that way. But there's a lot of accessibility stuff this year. I don't know if I'm just paying attention to it more. But first day I was here, there was the wheel move. which is a attachment for a manual wheelchair that has a long-lasting battery, you know, can go all day long, and we'll turn it into an electric wheelchair.

So you have a remote, just like an electric wheelchair, but it's much cheaper than buying an electric wheelchair from scratch, and it's just this little robotic, it uses robotics, so it's this robotic wheel that attaches to the front and can, you know, provide the torque and lift and all the things you need to do to move the chair around. Interesting. So the increase in robotic products seems expected this year.

A lot of people talking about their robots and stuff. We happen to get a question for you that is specifically in that regard. And maybe based on what you've seen, maybe you can answer this question. So I'm going to go ahead and read it. Sure, I'd love to. This is from fully lit 50. I worry about fully lit 50 just a little bit. You know, it's better to be a half lit, 25.

That's a good point. That's true. We've all been there. He says, is physical AI slash robots slash cars, etc., living up to the hype, or is it mostly glitchy demos? Has anyone shown off anything that has exceeded your expectation in that regard? He's specifically talking about CES and what's on display there. I think there's probably three classes of robotics, and it's very similar to the sort of huge tent that we lump so many different models in the word AI. robotics encompasses so many different meanings and so many different things.

And you have the, you know, LGs and the switchbots that have, you know, humanoid robots that can roll around and manipulate laundry and stuff that definitely feel like great demos, but probably not quite ready for prime time. You're like, yes, they can fold laundry. That is, that is not glitchy, that is not overpromising. Would it be helpful for you to have them fold laundry in your daily life? you might be able to do it faster. You might be able to do it better. So those aren't there yet. But the fact that we're even getting those demonstrations is pretty amazing, right?

Like the manual dexterity that they show off and the promise for getting this kind of technology to scale and everything is really interesting. There's a lot of cute robots that I've noticed. A lot of companies are taking the tactic of using the robot and covering it in, you know, fuzz so that it's a cute toy for your kids. or it's a companion. There's one that I really liked. I did a video on our YouTube channel called Tombot. That is really, it's a cute. Yeah.

It's a dog, Brian, don't worry. It's not going to replace me. It's a cute little dog robot that uses image sensors to respond to people. And they're pitching it as a care device for seniors, someone with Alzheimer's, who can't take care. of a dog themselves anymore, but like the idea of having a dog that's emotionally responsive. And it's cute. It's a cute toy. There's a lot of that kind of thing. A lot of companies taking that tactic there. But I think where robotics gets really interesting is when it's not

actually pitched as robotics. It's just, you're seeing the video. Yeah, it's super cute. They're actually look like dogs. No, and they, it wakes up when you, when you scratch it under the chin and you can pick it up, and it knows you're picking it up, and all this stuff. It stands on your chest and, uh, stares deep into your eyes as you wake up in the morning. By design, it doesn't stand up because it's meant from people who are, you know, maybe immobile. Yeah, it's just meant to be a, like a lap dog. The companion. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

Wow. Um, but I, I, so, so you have the, you have the flashy demos. You have the, you know, cute attempts to, to do things. And the Tombot's kind of in two categories. It's the cute, but it's also the, like, you have the, like, Like, it doesn't really matter that it's robotics. It's just something that's trying to solve a problem. And the wheel move that I mentioned earlier is an example of that.

That's awesome. So are you seeing, though, like the big, full-sized, clumsy goofball ones we've seen a lot of in 2025? Yeah, the tip over easily. Yeah. And not necessarily you're seeing the ones, you know, you're seeing them wipe out, but are you seeing attempts at those, you know, the broader. Those have left the stage. they are now wandering the floor.

I presume under supervision. I hope so. Sure. Yeah, it is not uncommon at CES to be walking down a hallway and get passed by a robot or see a bunch of people. In fact, they don't even draw as big of a crowd. They draw a crowd, but they don't draw as big of a crowd because they're becoming more common. Yeah, sure.

Digital experience was Tuesday, or no, it was Monday evening. And there were two that were, quote, unquote, fighting, walking around the show floor and, you know, getting into shadow, boxing matches and then letting people take pictures with them and stuff like that. Well, definitely what you need in the future is some of fighting robots. That's definitely a thing. It's on my list.

It's coming. I'm waiting for the Rockham Sockham variety. I mean, why hasn't anybody made a full-size Rockam-Soccom robot? Yeah. Rob Dunwood keeps looking at me. He's like, why are we doing this? We're going to regret it. Don't teach him to fight.

No, it does. It seems like a bad idea, but what do I know? Yeah, maybe so. So as far as like AI stuff goes and robotics, as a pairing. It feels like it's inexorably tied, right? To me it does. It's all anyone ever talks about.

It's like, yeah, we've got these new robots, but also they're integrated with these incredible learning models and they're training to do this and that, and they'll watch you do things and learn. Do you, does your far off, like, forecast brain go, oh, I could see in 10 years those things are, they, you know, maids are out of work. We're just doing robots for cleaning everything.

Like any of that epiphany stuff happening while you're seeing this stuff? Mades are out of? Do you have a maid? I don't have a maid, but you know what I mean? Like suddenly everybody can just have their house cleaned by an autonomous thing. Yeah, you don't have to do it yourself or hire someone to do. No, I get what you're saying. Yeah, we're in the enterprise platform version of that scenario.

So you heard Nvidia talking a lot about launching a platform for people to use in both autonomous vehicles, which are a type of robot when you think about it, and in robotics. So, NVIDIA is like, yes, we are the data center platform for AI, but we also want to be the Android of robotics. So you're seeing that. You're seeing Qualcomm pitching its chips as like, we have specialized chips that are perfect for robotics. They've got, I've got a line for that.

So the companies really are saying, we are maneuvering to be the platform for it. You're starting to see the cool demonstrations. If I had to put a parallel to past CESs, I can't remember exactly the. year, but I think around 2009, I saw somebody with a giant quadcopter, you know, in the North Hall, and everyone was stunned that he could make it work. And, you know, five years later, we had drones everywhere. So I feel like we may be five years away from like, yeah, these robots are useful. I don't know if we are that close to clean the whole house any more than we are close to. An LLM can just do everything for you without supervision. But yeah, useful robots

that can do a lot of things and save you a lot of time or getting quite a bit closer. Do you feel a little bit of nostalgia for the days when the big deal at CES was they make 80-inch TVs now? Do you remember those days? Yeah. We're not there anymore. It was funny.

I remember the year Samsung held up or hung up a 101-inch TV and everybody's like, that's ridiculous. And honestly, we never got much bigger than that, not because they can't, but they realized, like, nobody needs a TV that's bigger than that. Yeah, what's the practicality after 100? Sure. You'd rather sell them like the power wall where you have modular stuff.

If you need a bigger space than 101 inches that you can go. And is there, I mean, but just from a like, I don't know, a broadness of the show standpoint, are there still big displays, LG, Samsung people doing TV stuff? LG's big thing was a wallpaper TV that was nine millimeters thin. So that, you know, it could be in multiple sizes, but you could just kind of paste. it on, not really pasted, but put it on the wall and it would be as if it was part of the wall. I like

that. That's all right. TVs are back, everybody. You heard it here first. Tees are back. Yeah. Forget about robotics. The big TV tech is micro-R-GB. If you want to know the buzzword, it's micro-R-GB. Those are the new TV technology that everybody's trying to make happen. And

the pitch there is that it's got better color dynamics. Then even the best OLEDs and things like that. Yeah, yeah. It's not got the black levels of OLED, but it's got a wider color. Oh, that tells me it has less burning than the... And it does. That is right. It has less burning, too. Well, this is

great. I love every year when you go. That means next week we're probably going to get more cool stuff that you just like have notes about. The coverage has been awesome on the YouTube channel. You guys should go check this out. Our own KT data there, doing some camera stuff and audio stuff. Yeah, that's right. Rose Kitty, KT, Data

and Dito helping us out this year. It's been great. What's the craziest thing you've seen there? The goofiest thing. Well, I would be remiss if I didn't talk to Scott about all the tech you can pee on. Oh. I mean, you can pee on anything. No, but this you're meant to.

Oh. Wait, is it like drug testing stuff? Or what are we talking about? Not drug testing, but health testing. Okay. So there are several different products where they collect a sample and then can do analysis right on the device, give you results in the app. And I think the one you would like the best is an attachment to the toilet.

Oh, very nice. So you just, you know, every time you go, it just takes a sample. The battery thoughtfully is on the outside, so you don't have to, you know, reach in to pull out the battery to recharge it. That's good. I don't want to be reaching in there for nothing, you know? No. Will it go, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. No, it takes a little longer than that.

But eventually, yes. Okay. Nice. No, that's cool. That actually probably really good for like type 1 and type 2 diabetes with their, because blood sugar is often a huge indicator in your urine. Yeah. That would be, that's actually kind of a big deal. Although I assume, obviously, probably none of this has FDA, you know, approval or. No, well, they do, but the FDA is a complicated beast. So some of them are FDA listed, which means they can't make health claims, but, you know, the FDA says it's safe to use.

And then there's FDA registered and then there's FDA approved. So pay attention to those distinctions. All right. Well, I like this a lot. Go check it out. The DTNS channel up on YouTube is Daily Tech News show. YouTube.com slash at Daily Tech News show. And you will get all of this amazing coverage and more.

I'll just keep making promises for you so you feel. Yeah, yeah. No, that's why we're here. And free sandwiches. To the first 500 people. That's right. Oh, there are gone. We actually, Katie Data and Rose Kitty brought us free sandwiches.

So that is been cheap There are free sandwiches That's very nice They're the best Well thanks so much For checking in with us And taking some time And my best of the team

And can't wait to hear all about it When you get home Yeah fantastic Thanks Scott Thanks Brian See you next time Bye Bye

So cool Hear that You could hear some of the music in the background I go gong I know yeah You know it's like the people Who've got the big old booths With uh

Check out these new Bluetooth speakers Revolutionizing the Bluetooth speaker Industry Yeah Here it is in your freaking face. Yeah. It's a robot with Bluetooth speaker buttocks.

I haven't been to CES for a long time, but I used to, when I used to go, it's just so different now. It's not even like. Oh, I'm sure. I've never been. I'd love to go just, you know, see it once, but. A whole town gets taken over. I'm sure it does. I'm sure it does.

Probably a nice time of year, though, because it's not, you know. Yeah, you know, it's a good time of year to be in Vegas. There's, there are rumors of a spice girl's. residency. Oh shit. And I told him and I said this could be the thing that makes me spend

$400 on a concert ticket. $300 on a concert ticket. You'd have to, right? I'd have to. I couldn't call myself a Spice Girls fan and not go see the Spice Girls fan. Not the level you're at. You'd have to do it. You're the kind of Spice Girls fan and Vegas fan that if you missed a residency in the sphere of all things in Las Vegas. Exactly, yeah.

How could I live with myself? How do you know? Do we know for sure it's happening? No, no, no. Super rumor stage, but even Beck's is starting to say, yeah, you know, might be able to do it. I could possibly do it. Dude. Imagine that. I know. And they probably, you know, they've done reunions without

Victoria Beckham or just least performances, but this would have to be, this would have to be all five. I don't think you could... Oh, for a thing like that where tickets are 800 plus bucks and... Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Forget it. Got to have them all. Got to catch them all.

I mean, I'd still see them if Victoria Beckham wasn't part of the group. Yeah. Well, you have the one with RBF not be there. It's fine. Right, right. Exactly, yes. And I feel for her. I got that RBAF too.

I watched that, or part of that documentary about her. And I got to say, you know what? She is a legit smart entrepreneur. businesswoman. She kind of just got pigeonholed as the non-smiling spice girl, and it was an unfair, unfair assessment from people early on, probably including me. I think I did it as well. I said, geez, you know.

Oh, I think it's easy to, because it looks like she's the haughty one with the attitude. Like she's got, like, mean girl, like the mean spice girl. And we don't know that, and we don't know her, but it's so easy is like the whole celebrity fan thing, it makes it so easy to just cartoon. nice people and go, well, that's what they're like. And then we just live with it. No, that's cool. What's the documentary?

What's it called? The documentary is Victoria Beckham, colon, I don't know what it's called. Let's see. Just about her, though, right? It's not about. Yeah, no, it's not about. Her ding is, I mean, he's fine, whatever. I'm not.

It's on Netflix. It is called, oh, it's just called Victoria Beckham. That's it. That's how easy it is. It is good. Tina watched the whole thing and really enjoyed it. watched the first episode because I want to see all the Spice Girl stuff. No, yeah. I mean, that's, you know, I know what you're there for.

I think it's only, I want to say it's only two or three episodes anyway, so, but, um, yeah, she's. I like documentaries. Three episodes, 40 minutes each. And, uh, it definitely changed my, you know, it gave me a full on, a full on respect for her and, uh, uh, appreciation for the, what I used to call the lesser spice girl yeah look at us enlightened individuals we are growing as people growing changing evolving whatever you want to call it that's what they said that's what they say

that's what they say um guys we have one we have time for one email this is from uh let's see who's this from ucaca oh that's how he ends it sorry nick from new england he also goes as mix master festus in the tadpole oh good excellent yeah great name he says dear slayer and those are two bands I like that. There are two bands

and bands that that are like a band that you like I assume you like I did I like Slayer okay for a while I don't know that I'm it's weird

some metal lasts forever some of it doesn't not that it doesn't hold up but just doesn't age well for me and my personality I think like I can still listen to like

the oldest to the newest Metallica and find something I love that's they're kind of singular in that way whereas You know, I can't go listen to it. I'm not comparing Slayer to Cinderella, everybody,

but I'm just saying, like, if I went back and listened to Cinderella, I would be like, eh, this doesn't really hold up. And I don't think Slayer really does. But, like, Tool holds up. You know, there are plenty of bands that hold up. What's the one, who's the body hits the floor people? Drowning pool. The drowning pool?

I think that's it. Yeah. Is it drowning pool? That's where I'm, this is, this is my kryptonite area. they hold up for me even though that song was overplayed and it's not my favorite but the rest of their the rest of their catalog is pretty good

yeah bodies drowning pool I'm amazed that listen people I pulled that out of freaking thin air so look at Brian's new metal era knowledge coming out exactly this is like this is a I actively change the channel when something like that comes on series I'm so

Max trollbot says it was drowning pool and their singer died oh didn't all their singers die All the good band singers died. Are they all died? All of them. Yeah, they'll die. All of them.

Lane Staley, Bennington, who else? Cornell. Nirvana. We get so many, too many. It's too many, and they're all in that 27 club or whatever. Oh, the captain and captain and Toneal? He wasn't lead singer. He was like Paul Schaefer in that band.

He was, yeah, exactly. Oh, that's funny. We were just talking about that with my mom the other day, saying, as everyone knows, my mom's kind of on the decline, but she has this crazy ability to pull really specific memories out of nothing. Sure, sure. And she's suddenly out of nowhere the other day goes, do you guys remember muskrat love in the eight-track tape and the motorhome?

And I'm like, mom, yes, A, yes, B, why is that coming out of your face right now? she does this a lot with like weird muskrat susy muskrat sam she did she remembered something from college where she went does anyone remember that weird girl with the black glasses that tried to sing in class that one day and i'm like mom none of us were there let alone alive that's wild see i mean i think that is a you know not not not necessarily a dementia or Alzheimer's thing but it is a thing that like there's a there you're you tap in memories and and resources that you haven't made connections with them a long time. Yeah, and she has also, like, pitch-perfect hearing in sight. Okay.

So you can't say or whisper anything in front of my mom without her hearing it. She's able to pick it up. Wow. So you could be across the room and go, do you remember that time mom was mad because dad didn't get her a Mother's Day gift until the very end of the night because he was trying to trick her? And she'll go, I remember and I hated it. It was one of the worst things that ever happened.

She has, like, crazy hearing inside. I wish I had her senses because I ruined them with concerts. My ears suck. I have buzzing now. I'm not ruined, but, you know, I have tinnitus, and it's all from a forementioned metal band. I did it with my friggin' walkman on my ears for the entirety of high school. Three years of high school, 24-7 headphones on my ears.

Same. I never took them out. Yeah. That sports walkman, they're disgusting. Those ear things, because they were also the ear. I didn't have the puff out ones. They had the stick-in-in-one. Oh, you had the in-ear ones.

Oh, I never had those. I had the spongy orange sitting on your kind of thing. They're like AirPods, but connected to a ring and, of course, with a cable. But it was like, I think that's where I gained my taste for liking that versus regular over-ear stuff. Yeah. As I wear them right now, it's pretty funny. Well, these cans are better for what we're doing now. Yeah, we need these.

Look at a nice set of cans. He hates these cans. Well, anyway, did we answer his question? No, we didn't even got past Slayer and Blur. Shit. All right, here's what he says. Dear Slayer and Blur, I love Brian shoutouts for XTC and the Sparks or Sparks, rather. I'd add the Jam and Motorhead to that list.

Oh, yeah, Motorhead's awesome. I'd add the Jam. Not a big motorhead guy? Not a big motorhead fan. No, Hammond made me listen to Motorhead for soundography. I'm still not speaking to him about that. It really drifted the relationship. But the jam?

Hell yes. anything Paul Weller did. Style counsel, his solo stuff, the jam is fantastic. And Sparks in XTC, let's hear it for all the awesome 80s bands. And shout out to Lemmy. He was awesome. Lemmy was awesome. You know what? I'll give you that. Lemmy was an Ace of Spades.

Ace of Spades is still in my permanent playlist. It's very good. And Motorhead, you know, they had their thing. Right. Well, anyway, the yearly gatekeeping over inductees has become exhausting, he says. Oh, sure. While I'm not a, hey, that's not rock snob, it's clear that the rock hall has evolved into a popular music hall of fame. Honestly, they're probably all just getting too hung up on genres.

But do you think, Uga Chaka, Nick, from New England? What do you think of that, Brian? I agree. I mean, I think that the rock spectrum is large enough that, that, you know, maybe an artist put out a rock album or they put out, you know, songs that would be classified as rock. but their general style is more country or blues or this or that. I mean, you know, the Rock, the Blue Rolling Stones start out as a blues band. Led Zeppelin started out as a blues band. Are you going to say, well, they're not really rock because they're really originated as a blues band.

No, it's, people are getting too hung up on genres for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I think Dolly belongs in there. I think soul, I think Ritha Franklin belongs in there like,

and they're all in there already. I think there are a lot of bands that, that need to be inducted in there and I can't think of any of them

at the moment. If you called it just straight the music Hall of Fame, it wouldn't, maybe that's too generic sounding.

I think it's too generic. I still like it as the rock and roll Hall of Fame. Yeah. I think you keep it

as that. Yeah. And you just relax on the whole like, Well, Dolly Parton isn't rack and roll. It's like, well, neither was. If she's not, you know what, then you've got to take Elvis out almost immediately because he had a lot of, he had a lot of country influence.

Plus, his sound was like a thing you don't think of as rock now. For sure. Yeah. Johnny Cash, country, right? It's a problem with awards, man. It's just hard. It is hard. The only good awards are when we tell you people that you've won something on one of our versions.

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If you've got a request for January, shoot it over to me. Frogpants.com slash TMS. Nice. I'm actually going to be playing my own request. This was going to be the song I played on Friday, but I moved it to today. it's still appropriate and it's and it's appropriate in a time when we've got you know an idiot running the country and his and his dumb family and his dumb friends that he's hired to also run the run the country but this is kind of like a little spark of hope a fresh

start of sunrise on the darkest days of of the year this is by a guy named dan wilson and dan wilson you probably know by his either his band's Semi-Sonic or Tripp Shakespeare. Let me see. He's also written a ton of songs for other people, Adele, for example. I want to get the list here if I can. Sure. I want to say, he might have even written a

The Dixie Chick's Not Ready to Make Nice. Chris Stapleton's White Horse, Taylor Swift, John Legend, Van's Joy. He's gotten a ton of Grammys for songwriting. and the dude by all accounts and interviews that I've heard with him is the nicest freaking guy you'd ever hear. And this song is a great example of that. This song really does like shine a light on his, you know, this whole mellow vibe that he gives off. It's so great. The song is called What a Year for a New Year. And it got included on a, what should we call it? album. I'm trying to figure out which one it was. I'm not seeing it in my list here,

but it's such a sweet song, perfect for this. This is, What Year for New Year by Dan Wilson. Nice. Go do it and also, or enjoy it, and then also don't forget to sign up for your tickets at nerdtacular frogpants.com, click on the link, get them reserved. I'm told that the hotel days before and days after thing was a little weird before. Sometimes we're filling out quicker than they should have like on a Wednesday. But that's all been cleared out is my understanding. So you can go, uh, Double check that if you had some weird hotel stuff, but everything should be good. So far, things have gone pretty smooth.

So get your tickets while they're hot, nerd, attacular at frogvance.com. We want to see you in June. Here comes your song. Enjoy it. We'll see you tomorrow. What a year for a new year We needed like we needed life, I guess Last one left us lying in a mess

What a year for a new year What a night for a sunrise And we thought the dark would never end reaching out to try to find a friend What a night for a sunrise Sunrise What a day for a new day And our star shines like a miracle

And our world is on my world is almost beautiful again What a day For a new day New day New day New day

New year What a year for a new year For a new year What a year What a year For a new year for a year for a new year. What a year for a new year.

What a night for a sunrise And we thought the dark would never end Reaching out to try to find a friend What a night for a sunrise Sunrise Soon we'll be lying in our beds And new dreams will fill our eyes hands and the old ones will be ended home we'll forget about this place let it go without a trace

wipe the tear drops from our faces oh What a year for a new year? What a year? What a year? What a year? What a year for a new year? What a year for a new year? New Year. What a year for a new year. New Year. New Year. New Year.

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