The Morning Stream - TMS 2946: Sony Owny

Episode Date: January 13, 2026

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SCTV was full of weird-looking people. Waymo dangerous. One hour photo bombing with Bill and more on this episode of the morning stream. Maybe I ought to tie that long hair on your head to the short hair on your ass and kick you down the street. This tastes like corn. The Morning Stream, Monkey Wannaby. Hello, everybody, and welcome to TMS, the morning stream for Tuesday, January 13th, 2026. I am Scott, that is Brian.

Good morning to you. Good morning, everybody. I hope your Tuesday is okay so far. Wait, it is Tuesday. It is Tuesday. Never could get the hang of Tuesdays. Yeah, we should be getting any time now. our tea life.

Here's the fat food that you can go get today for free or cheap or whatever. Yeah, two for ones and whatnot. Yep. You took advantage last week. I did not. I did. I didn't get the hook and ladder subs at a firehouse for me and Tina. And then I also use the $5 off Kudoba coupon, which I wonder, you guys don't have

kudobas out there, do you? Or did you eventually get them? I think we eventually got them, but they're kind of far-ish from me. Gotcha. Yeah. Okay. But we do have them. I would prefer that over the...

Chipotle. Or as our good friend Eric always said, Chapolte. Chapolte. Yep. I would like that if there was one closer to me. I'm going to my ready room. Mr. Chapolte.

With a delicious beef bowl. I'm having another one of those episodes where I'm focused on my spirit animal or wherever the hell he was up to all the time. Right. Anyway, yeah. Does A T&T and Brum? Horizon have an equivalent of this?

Do they do a thing like this? I know AT&T did the movie discount movie tickets every week. Like you could go get tickets at Regal or other theaters for five bucks on Tuesdays. Okay. We haven't talked about it yet.

Alamo Draft House made quite the announcement this weekend. Oh, please tell me it's we're building one in Salt Lake. No. No. No, this is this is a this is this is this is my opinion bad oh all right this is in many people's opinions bad so um for the longest time since their inception they had a deal where you had a a pen and a little um container of little pieces of paper that look like this oh the reporting system yes well not

reporting oh got you ordering okay i thought it was going to be about that like that complaint card you talked about a couple of weeks ago no no no no no, no. So, but this is also what you use for reporting an obnoxious person as well. But you write down your order, you put in a little slot, you push a red button, or you push a button and a little red light comes on facing forward that only the people looking, you know, only the, the, the, the way staff can see. The, the, the, the, the, over the late fall, early winter, they introduced a QR code system. as well. So on your table, in addition, right next to these pieces of papers and pens, or pen, you could also scan the QR code and order on your phone. And there was some really convenient things. Like everybody in your group could scan their QR code. And if you, as the first person

who attached their credit card to the setup, you say, oh yeah, these four seats are my seats. and then they can go in and say, oh, I want a popcorn or I want to add a drink or whatever, and then they would get them delivered to their seats. QR code system has been going pretty well, but there's always been this Aziz Ansari message that comes on during the trailers that says, all right, you've got 10 minutes left to place your orders using the QR codes.

After this, you are going back to paper and pen. And then at the very end of the trailers, he comes back on and says, all right put those phones away it's paper and pen only from here on out bye yeah and he freeze frames on his face going I kind of like that I like the whole like this is now analog for the enjoyment of the viewers exactly exactly yeah well the QR code system has been going pretty well that the new owners the Sony owners of Alamo draft house are like huh we could probably reduce the number of people we need to hire if we just have if we don't have people

coming around in the theater, taking care of your needs, but also, but just working in the kitchen, getting orders and then delivering it to you. So we're going to keep the QR code thing going throughout the movie, the duration of the movie. So, so leapfrogging AMC and AMC saying, nope, don't have your phones out, but we're not going to do anything about it. Now Alamo Draft House is like, um, you can take your phones out and use it, but just for ordering food. So make sure you don't you know get look at that notification for a text message from your babysitter and read it or or uh check that instagram post that your friend just left or whatever it's uh i don't like it i don't like it either and and um boy if the honor system if the honor system worked yeah fine if people had honor yeah fine then it would

be fine it's everybody could be trustworthy and then it wouldn't be a problem and they wouldn't be tempted to do the thing. But they're all carrying these devices that are like scientifically designed sites and apps and things to make you keep scrolling. Attention, exactly. They're like, oh, well, don't worry. You know, our ordering system, and it's true, their ordering system is dark screen. It's, you know, it's black and it's supposed to be black. But it's really dark so that the light from it doesn't distract other people as much as a full brightness, day mode kind of that. But there's still people's lock screens.

They have to pull out their phone, tap it to get the lock screen, unlock it with their little code or their face or whatever. Probably going to be the code because it's going to be dark. And all that's going to be full bright. And then the app comes up. They add their order, change their order.

I don't even know. There's two things I don't know how to do in the app. And I've looked. And it's not even really an app. It's a web page. It is the worst. Like, they've added this ordering system. and they have not even enabled Apple Pay or Google Pay on it.

Sony. Exactly. You have to type in your credit card number at the beginning. And it doesn't even work with Apple's like AutoFill. Like, you know how we love AutoFill. It doesn't automatically pull up your credit cards like AutoFill on Apple Pay does. And I assume on Android phones, you've got something similar. Google Wallet does the exact same thing.

Google Wallet. So you have to manually type in your credit card number, which means you have to pull your card number or card out unless you haven't memorized. And then it forgets it for the next time. It's like, I've already got my credit card in the app for when I buy tickets. Why can't you use that or at the very least enable Apple Pay?

So I can hit a button, scan my face, paid. Yeah, the web interface isn't the problem. They just need to integrate the services. They just, that's not, that should be, that should be day one, no problem. don't even talk about allowing phone use during the movie until you fix that thing because that is that is job one the other thing is again this is the the tack I was going on there's I don't see a way in the app I can say oh the person next to me is being unruly or has their phone out and is it is flipping through Facebook or is talking or blah blah blah whatever and I don't see a way to say

I need another Coke zero I finished my Coke zero zero. I want more Coke zero. Yeah. The whole thing feels underthought. But here's what we're seeing the pattern. Once again, the pattern is this. It's corporate buyout saves us from going away.

And at first we're grateful. We're like, oh, sweet, influx of money. They're going to be around for a while. Keep us from, right. Keep us from going under. And then the weird shit starts to happen. Exactly. Trickling in. Trickling in. Sony, do I have to use a memory stick to make this work? How about, um,

beat them with a. memory stick. Every movie's a UMD now and we got it you gotta plug it in. Exactly. Oh man. Yeah. All right. That'll be fun. I'm a little, a little irritated with this whole thing. This, you know, as much as I raved about the, the Alamo draft house and the great experience they foster there and their, you know, there's no tolerance policy, it just feels like not even a step backwards, but a giant leap backwards. Yeah, I'll bet you they're going to have to respond to the backlash.

It's not just you, lots and lots of people. It's a ton of people. The Reddit is on fire. The posts, people have created this. Remember the Alamo with a picture of a cell phone artwork that's getting reposted and retweeted everywhere. A bunch of C-suite suits had no idea what they were messing with.

Yeah. The problem with it is, is you've got something that's very community-oriented and very, very, very, uh, oriented and people love it for what they love it for. Yeah. And when you build that, that's actually a real special thing and you should not dick with it. It shouldn't mess with it. And they're messing with it.

It's kind of like Southwest, right? How they said, oh, you know, what makes this different is, you know, you, but when you buy your ticket or you confirm your ticket, we put you in a line, you go and you pick whatever seat you want. You want an aisle, grab an aisle. You want a window? You want something good? Better get in on the early letters and numbers. Yeah. And we're never going to charge you for bags.

You want to bring your bags on. Totally fine. We understand. You travel. You bring bags. And now it's like, now you've got to pick your seat and pay for that. And you're going to have to pay for bags. Yeah.

Sorry. It's like all these companies are like, all right, what's the cool thing that makes us unique? Cool. How do we stop doing that and make more money? Yeah. That's it. You just described, I think, the modern corporate takeover culture.

That's it right there. And I hate it. Stay independent, everybody. In a world of Sony's, be a Valve software. Never go public. Exactly. Be, you know, be a, I don't know. I'm trying to think of a good music label.

D music label that I like. Be an A-24. Don't be Warner Brothers. Yes. Unless Warner Brothers or somebody ends up buying A-24. And then we're going to be like, ah, damn it. Again. Again.

Remember how we made all these quirky, films, we've decided to stop doing that. And A-24 is now going to be our Blockbuster division. Yay. I don't want that. Yeah. That's a premonition I don't want. Guys, I wanted to share something. As you know,

nerdtacular tickets are up. Frogpants.com. You can get yours now. And the hotel rates and all the stuff. And we're building schedule and working on all the details and the merch is happening and all this stuff's happening. Swag bags, everything else will be announced soon. But, um,

You know this because I've been talking about it and bringing it up and promoting it. I wanted to give you a taste of a sound of what it's like to be there. Now, this goes all the way back to 2011, and this is during Brian's inaugural. Inogural. inaugural. Something sounds weird. Inogreal. No, no.

Well, that's a word you don't want to dwell on too long because it starts to sound weird. No, no matter how you say it. Yeah. His original version of Frog Pants All-Stars. Oh, wow. Okay. And we're in this thing. It's a tight race.

We're toward the end of the day, of the second day. And we're in Noah's, I think, was the events, the place. Okay. And there is one point where I was asked a question. I was blindfolded. It was one of those blindfolded ones. Oh, yeah. Guess the movie poster thing.

The movie poster taboo, right. Yeah. My favorite. I love that one. Your team, yeah. Absolutely coming back. Your team, basically for those who are unfamiliar, your team, four people on a team, leader, captain is blindfolded, Captain Scott blindfolded, and your team sees a movie poster. They have to convey the movie using one word each, and these words are, the words they cannot use are all the words on the movie posters.

So the title of the movie, of course, the actors, the, any description, like in space, no one can hear you scream. So no using the word space if you're doing alien. things like that. So you can do any other word, but you only get one each. So your three teammates each have to give you one word each. So if it was Star Wars, you might say sword. You could say,

lightsaber is a word. And that's not on the movie poster. That's a good point. Yeah. But if it's visually represented or any other way you do it without getting the words, that's the fun part of that game. Really fun, super intense, lots of, silent moments of people thinking.

And nobody in the audience can give any hints or anything. And there's this moment. I've just never been able to flush it from my head. A quick thanks to Jamie for helping me scrub around the old files and find it. But I just want to play this. Now, this is back when we had limited space. I think we only could fit 100-something people in there. It wasn't, you know,

it wasn't what the show or the event would become in terms of audience size and stuff. But you can still fill this. And this is just on my microphone that you can feel this. So I'm going to play this little moment where I got an answer correct. Also happens to be one of my favorite movies of all time. And just the feeling of it so that you know what to look forward

to next June. Okay? So this is the feeling of it right here. 310 to Yuma? Listen to that. Like that is a, that is a vibe. Yes. I don't even remember what the three clues were, but

I think one was sand. One of them was oh gosh. Yeah, it was something, and I... Not bean fork? No, but there, I don't think so because I didn't really... Well, maybe I had, maybe it was. I'd have to go back and listen to the full thing, but...

There's just nothing like it, so... Yeah, yeah. No, that's great. I'm glad that's the clip and not a clip of, like, Veronica yelling at me because she doesn't like the rules. No, she hated the rules. She hated the rules. To this day.

She hated, like, you know, losing points if she buzzed in early and gave a wrong answer after, you know, warning her that that would... happen. I assume she wakes up in the middle of the night now and says, I think so. I mean, that's not that. That's not how it should work. And her husband's like, are you okay? She's like, no. Noise. That's the, that's what I wake up hearing is that, noise. Yeah. She had a, uh, she took issue. She was very competitive. I'll give her that. She was very competitive, yes. Yeah. Uh, I don't know the whole seat here this year. It was always a joy playing, like it was always a joy having her play the game. Oh, of course.

It was like a challenge to try and get her to get angry about something. Because she's so nice that having her get angry about that felt like, all right, achievement unlocked. Yeah, it's a wild time. And that's just part of, that's just one bit of the whole thing. So anyway, just an encouragement. Get over there, frogpants.com and get your tickets. They are moving pretty quick. And I want to make sure people get the low price before they bump up.

in March, I guess. Okay. Because these are early bird pricing. Yeah. All right. That's it for that. I got a quick question about my dogs and then we'll get to the news. Cool.

They have no, they can tell something's up around here. Oh, I'm sure. Well, yeah, they totally can. I mean, dogs have that sense that if you're sad, they will come over and put their head on your lap and look up at you like, anything I can do kind of thing. And even in moments of like just normalcy,

people are just bustling around doing stuff. all look nervous, like what's going on. They just know. Yeah. And in particular, Carter's dog, just very sensitive to human emotion. Rainer too, but she's a freaking spas. And, you know, Boomer, boomer's kind of the least alpha of the dogs, but she's even responding a little bit to this stuff.

So there's got to be studies about this where it's like how that works, how do they Intuit this sort of thing because I think that's wild. I want to get into a dog's brain just for a few minutes. That's the technology. Like, you know, you can have freaking Elon Musk gas bag get up and talk about all the, you know, we're all going to Mars and I'm going to say some really stupid shit in the meantime or whatever. He can do that all day. But why won't somebody like that get up and go, our new technology is not about ripping off

artists so we can generate AI images. Our new technology is to let you be a dog for five minutes. Okay. Oh, that's the way you'd want to do it. I want to tap into my dog. Yeah. My specific dog. I want to be in Ripley's brain for just five minutes.

And then you can pull me out. Sure. But let me be, let me see what that's like. I would, I think, I think what dogs think and do. I'm envisioning like a flatliners.

Like I'm seeing Oliver Platt hanging over you with a timer saying, he's been in the dog for four and a half minutes. We've got to pull him out. Yeah, that's the worries you'd have some limits that you don't know about yet. And it would, you could become permanent. only dog like. Right, exactly.

Start shit on the carpet. I want to go for five and a half minutes. I'll start peeing on the couch. That's what we've been done. I want to do it for five and a half minutes and you can't stop me. I get a taste for liver treats. What else? What I do as a dog? Can I sniff that crotch? I bet I can. Can I pee on your shoes? That'd be great. Anyway, if anyone knows of a way to do that, let us know. That'd be great. Here on the morning stream. Sure. Please do. Time for the news. Let's see. Let's do this. Today's news is brought to you by.

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There you go. We call that a double promotion. today already. We've talked about it in casual conversation and then an actual, you know, news thing. It'll come up a lot. Yeah. Now it'll start showing up in all your feeds. That's not true. I'm not true up there. We don't play that game. A nude Louisiana woman. Okay. All right. Already. Already good. Technically, we're all nude. We just have clothes on. You know what I mean? Sure. I mean, we're all naked under our clothes. Yeah, we're all naked under here. We can all, we can all admit that. Anyway, this naked lady attacked a cop

who told her to leave a private pond. She claimed she was trying to be a mermaid in there. Stephanie? Stephanie? Anybody can check on Stephanie in a box? Yeah, I haven't seen her in chat in a bit, so Stephanie, let us know. Uh-huh. Did the devil

go down to Louisiana? Looking for a pond to steal? Yeah. And also don't all those, like her and Amy and everybody who's super into mermaids, don't they all have, they all communicate. So they all they all know who probably know who this lady is. It sounds like, he,

he, he, he, from, splash. Splash. That's right. She'd squeal it,

scream at everybody. Like, what's your name? And, like, okay, I'll just call you. What was,

what was her name? Daryl Hannah's character name, Madison. I was hoping it was, like, he was named after the, like, he named her after the street,

didn't he? It was Madison? Uh, sounds right for some reason. Yeah. It wasn't Fifth Avenue. No. No. No. No, it's not that. I haven't seen that so long, but I remember that, I remember Eugene Levy was like 12. Yeah. It was not that young, but he looks so young in that.

No, it looks so young. I mean, he still had eyebrows out to hear, but. Oh, yeah. No, those things are, they do all the heavy lifting on his face. His face really does the heavy lifting of the eyebrows. There's a guy, though, that I would say, you see him in his younger years and you never once go. What a hell. handsome performer this guy is. Oh, Eugene Levy? Yeah, but you look at him now? I think he's aging real well. I think so, too. You know what?

His, yeah, the jawline, the I don't know what it is, but you're totally right. I think it was also the, you know, the weird Harry had back in the SCTV days. Yeah, big side. And let's be honest, I mean, everybody on SCTV was kind of

weird looking. Like a whole group of weird looking people. John Candy used to have hair that was like undescribable. Oh, yeah. Before he started cutting it, it was like this weird, waved over the front thing

and then a big, broken busy thing in the back. He did, yeah. It was weird. It's a strange time. Yeah. But yeah, he gives me hope because if he can,

I think if ugly people turn into better looking people as they get older. Yeah. Then we, you and I have hope. Oh, it's great news for us. Yes.

For people like us. Anyway, this late. The officials, said that she allegedly was allegedly attacked on Tuesday, January 6 by a naked woman who informed investigators she had aspirations of becoming a mermaid. I guess she figured

if she spent more time in the pond, that would come true, I suppose. The Union parish sheriff's office said Yeah, right? I haven't heard of a... When I was in the South for a chunk of time, everything's a parish, and I haven't heard that in a while. Oh, sure. Yeah. Yeah. I kind of missed that.

Anyway, they said in a statement to U.S. Weekly that Aaron Elizabeth Sutton, H-41, generated a call to 911 for allegedly trespassing on property in Linville. I mean, I'm already getting interrupted and say, by the way, it's Us Weekly, not U.S. Weekly, which immediately, Us Weekly is reporting on a naked woman, Louisiana, who's like fighting over a pond. Isn't their deal? You know, here's what celebrity was seen at Tavern on the Green and which celebrity wore that black dress. the best. I think they're like, they're like people now, People Magazine. They just kind of covered everything. Oh, that's true. People does that too, right? Just weird. Here's some unusual

news. Yeah. Here's Tom Cruise running. And then also, here's a page about a lady who you don't know. While you wait for the medical attendant to call your name so you can go in the back with the doctor. Yeah. It's funny you say that. I saw both Us Weekly, which I've always said U.S. Weekly. Yeah. Don't know why, but I always do. And I'll probably do it again because that's just my brain. Sure. Sure. But I saw those. I saw People Magazine. and I saw at the hospital in the waiting room a copy of what was it? Please tell me of highlights. Please tell me it was highlights.

No, it had been the kids center problem. I don't know if they still do those, but I used to love a good highlights, man. Yeah, yeah. You actually had shit to do in there. Yeah. It wasn't just reading stories. Let's see if I can find a paper clip in this picture of the Grand Canyon. Or what's currently happening what's going on with Goofus and Gallant?

Exactly. Those were, where else you get in that in your modern day? Were they brothers? Were they lovers? What were goofus and gallon? I don't know what they were. Were they just rival neighbors? Were they? I like to think they were lovers. I like that. Yeah, I like that too. Yeah.

What's this hockey thing that everyone's talking about? There's some hockey show where the... It's a movie that won on or that was up nominated... Fierce Competition or something like... No, what is it? It's a name that's like that. Yeah, it's something like that. Like two players. One cup.

Yeah. He did rivalry. that's it. He did rivalry. You know. Okay. Sin in him. Yeah.

Yeah, but apparently it's like the, like the let's get people all hot and bothered over some very graphic gay, gay sex simulated on the screen. Yeah, I've heard it's like 2% hockey, 98% doing it. So basically passengers, but replace the tennis with hockey. Yeah. I think that's it. I think that's it. I never did see passengers.

I didn't either. I have no idea. I'm sorry, said passengers. What's the call? I know what you mean. I know what you mean. It's the tennis one.

Exactly what I meant the one with Zendaya. Yeah. What was that thing called? The tennis one, the only thing I knew is there were two dudes on the bed looking at her. That's all I know. Right. Exactly.

And she was good at it. I know I core. I got the name wrong. Okay. Challengers. Challengers. There it is. Ended with jurors.

Okay. Ended with jurors. Well, he had like a nine second. He had like a nine second delay. he can be forgiven. Anyway, good luck to this lady. She probably will never become her goal of being a mermaid. No, not if she can't get to that magical pond.

I mean, clearly that's the issue is that there's magic in that there pond. And if she can't get into it, it won't turn her into a mermaid. She'll never get to get back to her people. And she was in there fighting him, too. Like, I'm not getting out. I'm here to be a mermaid. And they had to right before they tried or no, did they have to forcibly do it? Let's see.

Oh, here we go. Deputies alleged trying reasoning with Sutton who allegedly refused at first to get out as she was trying to be a mermaid. Beyond the obvious reason, she apparently didn't explain why she wanted to be a mermaid. Beyond the obvious reasons,

what are those? Beyond the obvious reasons, Sutton apparently did not explain why she wants to be a mermaid. I don't know what the obvious reasons are. I don't know what the obvious reasons are either. Like, I want to poop like a fish. I don't want to...

We really need Stephanie. right now. What are the obvious reasons? You all want to be Bermermedars? Is it just... You want to be a better swimmer, I guess. Breathe underwater. Yeah. Have father issues. Yeah, an evil octopus lady chasing you. That's right. Oh, unfortunate show. Yeah, that's Ursula, right?

It is Ursula, yeah. One of the great villains, Disney Armourade. She is. Yeah, she, this woman, she's not giving mermaid to me. I look at her photo on that link and I mean, as they say these days, she's not giving mermaid. Yeah. I feel like there's maybe

a kind of waify water person vibe. Maybe. Like maybe she's been under there too long. Maybe. Yeah, I don't know. Like a siren, maybe. Yeah, maybe a siren, but one you

probably ignore. Don't go over there. Right. Let them say. and walk right by. And this story, a Waymo passenger jumps out of a self-driving Waymo car after it stops on rail tracks

near an oncoming train. Geez. The person's okay, but a good thing they thought to get out. Did the car actually get hit by the train or did the car eventually move off once they got out? I think this thing slowed down

and didn't hit it, but let's see. Waymo driver car was seen driving down a Phoenix Light Rail track and there's video of this. Okay. forcing a passenger to flee the vehicle before it continued over the tracks near the oncoming train. Video taken by a bystander Wednesday shows the moment the self-driving car stops on the tracks just before an oncoming light rail approaches. Passenger runs out of the vehicle before the car continues to drive down the tracks near another train.

Wow. So it says... This is just a matter of stopping on the tracks. It rode the tracks for quite a while towards the light rail train. Yeah. I'll play a little of this video for the folks here. that's the Waymo car and it just kind of sat there and inched a little bit

I like I like this person also like there's the train down the way and like zoom in zoom in now zoom in zoom out zoom zoom a real JJ Abrams right here on the on the phone I wondered how they would struggle with light rail because light rail is just kind of roads you know with a track in the middle

they're just not good at seeing that we don't have that on Like our light rail, they're all fenced off except the stations. And there's no, well, I take that back. There's a couple places where they do move along with the street. Most of them, there's a huge curb. But there's one place over by 20th and Broadway where you actually kind of drive across the tracks. And I don't think there's anything owned by the convention center that, yeah, that keeps you from doing,

like a Waymo from doing something like this. Yeah, they're just, they're so flat usually. Yeah. Well, on purpose, right? You're trying to minimize bumps and because traffic crosses them and all that stuff. So maybe, you know, cars just aren't. Just goes to show you, you know, the difference between Waymo and Uber. Because when I do this, I get yelled at.

That's right. And I lose money. That's right. And my passenger yells at me and gets out of the car and doesn't tip me. Yeah. When Brian. But when Waymo does it. Oh, we get a whole article in a video.

When Brian does it, they just ding him with a fine. That's right, exactly. Not cool. Yeah, Warforge, for the most part, though, because it goes along California Street, Warforge. But that part where it crosses that curves in front of the convention center, there's no curb or anything. Everywhere else, there's a pretty big curb that you could still drive up onto, but you're not going to accidentally drift over it. But, who's where Brian curbs his enthusiasm. That's true, yes.

Well done. It's now time for a little bit of this right here. There's still something wrong, isn't there, Bill? Yep, it's time for Bill to run. Join us, one of our favorite people in the world. He is a master cosplayer, a master craftsman. He is. And a guy who's always making cool stuff at punish props.com.

Bill, welcome to the show. Good morning. Hey, man. Good morning. Before all the prop and costume making, I was a bit of a photographer. Yeah, you were. You are. I still have a Bill photo right over there, as a matter of fact.

I've got a whole hard drive full of stuff that you used to take. And Bill is not, and you guys are thinking to yourselves, oh, you know, that's cool, but it's real calling. I'm telling you he could have been like pro photographer if you want it. I may even have to snap a few photos at Nurtacular this summer. Yeah. I will be there. Hell yeah, you will. running the best damn

cosplay event we've ever held is last I hope. That's right. Me and Bert will be there. We'll have costumes and we'll be encouraging everyone else to have costumes. I'm excited about that. But today I want to talk about photography. Do it.

Because I've been up, I'm still doing it. I just don't talk about it very much or share it very much. For Christmas, Santa Claus brought me a neat little printer. A little little four by six inch photo printer. Oh perfect. Those little ones

that do like yeah like on the fly. Right. Polaroid makes them or I guess Polaro makes one but sure there's a bunch of different brands that make them but they're small they're designed just to do four by sixes and they have their own system for the paper and the ink

that I think is pretty reasonable compared to some other companies in their ink practices. Sometimes I'll print stuff for like events and whatnot, but I don't have like photos of my friends up in my house. I have some cosplay photos that we printed. I have some posters and stuff.

But I have like 200,000 photos from the past decade and a half. Wow. Wow. You've taken some amazing ones. I've seen the ones you've done with like a hummingbird, you know, with their wings. Just absolutely gorgeous photos. And of course, the ones you did with the non-digital SLR camera. at TMS Vegas last year. Oh, right.

Yeah, you were going, you were full analog last time I saw it. I was so good. They were really fun. And so now it's a fun process. Take the photo with a film camera, mail the film to get processed. They scan the film.

And then I take the scans of my film when I print them here. It's great, though. I printed some of those photos. It's like you're the photo, you're like the photo mat, basically. Yeah, yeah, yeah. One hour photo right here.

So I've been printing stuff. like crazy. Just go and like I said, there's a bunch of different brands that have these little printers. I can print from my phone, like I can snap a photo of my cat and I can print it immediately, which I've been doing.

And the plan is to print out a bunch of memories. I've made so many amazing memories over the last like I said, decade and a half of shooting photos. And I want to print out a ton of stuff and put them up around my house. I'm going to have to get frames. I've been just for the last couple of weeks printing random fun photos and I've got a whiteboard for planning DragonCon.

So I've been sticking DragonCon photos up there. I've been putting photos up on the mirror in the bathroom. I've been putting photos up in the workshop. I just like I have all these memories and I just want to run into them every day. Yeah. It's a great way to, I don't know, just remind you of something rad and maybe on a day we are like, I want to do something rad, but I'm not. the mood. Oh, look at that photo, that thing I did in DragonCon. That day I made an entire floor of people watch my, you know, my bender drive around, whatever it is. Yeah. I'll probably try and find

some frames where I can like put together a group of photos. So I'll have one frame that could be like the nerdtacular photos and just have a bunch of photos from nerdaculars past or Dragon Conns. I mean, I have a lot of Dragon Con photos. I'm going to need a whole wall for those. Yeah, I was going to say, how do you even choose your favorites? That's, going to be nuts. Yeah. Well, that's the fun part. I have, I currently purchased 200, uh, blank photo pages and who probably buy a lot more. It's about 35 bucks for the ink and paper combo to print a hundred of them, which I think is kind of reasonable. It's not bad, really. Yeah. For, for a medium that's not, you know, like you think that these things when they're,

everybody switches to digital. It's like, all right, well, we have to jack up the prices on all the analog stuff to make that so that the companies don't go to business. But that's not bad at all. No, that's not bad. I could probably print my own like holiday cards. So maybe I'll actually do that next year. I usually remember to do holiday cards on like December, you know, 15th. It's usually a little late to do it then.

But if I could print it myself, I could do that all in a night. Yeah. It's pretty dope. Man, this is just a, this is a weird reminder that if my dad were still around, he would freaking love you because this is this is what he did he spent it was all kind of on the side and kind on the hush but he was also a photographer and he had he built his own um dark room in two different houses we lived in oh cool and like was way into the chemicals and the process and all that that'll be me soon yeah it'll be you like one day you'll be like just loving that analog thing and

i mean i think he would have also really enjoyed enjoyed enjoyed the uh the digital explosion that happened but oh you guys would sit and talk if he was around so here's the thing here's the other experiment I want to do with this little printer it runs on 24 volts and I could get a 24 volt battery and probably run this thing on the floor of a convention oh that's cool right take a photo print it right it takes about a minute to print the photo it like feeds the page through it does the yellow and the magenta and the cyan and the black it's really fun to watch it. Like all four different passes, like it spits it out with one color and then sucks it back in. That's cool.

It's neat. And the photos look really good. I have normal film photos from the 1900s that I compare them to. And it looks like a normal film photo. They look incredible. That's cool. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

It'd be fun to put that under loop and just see. Like, do you see how close can you look before you finally see dots? Yeah. I can't see pixels or anything with the naked eye. I'll tell you what. Oh, that's cool. So yeah, this is going to be my, like, I take photos of everyone and everything. I'm going to start giving out photos.

I feel like as a gift right now, a nice photo of like a fun moment from your friendship is such a cool, timeless and thoughtful thing. So that's going to be my go-to for gifts in the future because no one does it anymore. No, for sure. So here's what you do. Bring it to Nerdtacular. And then make your cosplay a fun. photo booth. So you'll be like a walking photo booth, but you'll be

instead of you being the part of the photo booth that takes the picture, you'll be the part that's behind the person taking the picture, so you're automatically in every single photo booth. I love that. That's not creepy at all, by the way. Not even a little bit. No, not at all. Yeah. People

will be into it. Kind of like Daniel's son and karate kid where he's like a shower, you're going to basically be the photo booth. I can picture and walking around a big freaking blanket. You can a little fake slot that shoots out the side and all that. Here's the, it will bring it full circle. This is the Dragon Khan costume.

Remember the movie, one hour photo, Rob Williams? Yes. Cosplay that movie, but also operate as a functional one hour photo. I like it. Oh, I love it. Yeah, exactly. So you'd have the like the creepy glasses and like the staring. Yeah.

Right. And people could air drop me their photos and I'll print it for them. Yeah. I also heard a rumor that you might. bring Bender with you? Is that true? Are you thinking about that? Yeah. I want to bring Bender everywhere I go and I will probably drive. We'll probably drive down to Utah. So I can bring all kinds of stuff. Cool. It's not too horrible of a drive actually. It's not about 14 hours. I've done it a couple times.

Done it a couple times that direction. Usually it's up to Northern Idaho, but it's roughly a similar thing. And it's a beast in the winter, but we ain't doing it in the winter. We didn't know the winter. Yeah. Anyway, nope, it'll be a nice little either. drive through the mountains for us or we'll go up to Wyoming and go across like we've done in the past or do one do one on the way there do a different one on the way back yeah stop and laramie they have cool stuff in laramie i'm going to goledos new york pizzeria i'm getting the slice because that that place is amazing boise is like when people say jersey they're wrong what they think in their head they hear jersey and they go uh jersey that ain't new york or whatever easy yeah but boise kind of has the same

problem. You think it sounds like podunk nothing. Boise is rad. It is artistic and full of like amazing art and food and they're like Portland Jr. It's awesome. Guido's has two locations. Oh my gosh. Where's the other location? Yeah. Where's the other locations in Boise? Two different parts of Boise. Oh, well, there you go. As far as I know, it's been a few years since I've been there. So you're covering to our North Boise or South Boise location for excellent pizza. That's right. You can go lunch and then dinner. You're all. good. Well, Bill, this is great. Can people, is there some of your photo stuff up somewhere that people can go, like, check this stuff out? I post that. Whenever I post that stuff, it's Instagram, Chin beard on Instagram. You don't have to go back through my feed there, but I post some of my photo.

All right. Go check that out. Chin beard on Instagram, and you usually bring us some sort of bonus link today. What do you got? Let's see here. I got a link. This is a YouTube channel called Fireball Tool. He usually does welding tools, but he is turning his office into a space. spaceship. And it's really, and he is going, he's spending serious money on this. It looks so freaking cool. He, this was his pandemic project. So it's years of work. He's doing a whole series of videos on turning his office into a spaceship. And it's, oh my gosh, him, everything I want. Chasing the, the, uh, rebel freaking ship there. That's amazing. Yeah. Look, he's got so he's doing, is this like the video that's just finally like, hey, here's what I've been doing for six years or whatever. Right. Yeah, they moved in

in the middle of the pandemic and started building this crazy mezzanine for their office. And it's like steel eye beams and Wow. Oh, he's doing the metal cut freaking imperial stuff. Death Star. Yeah. Yeah. He's got all the neat tools. He's got like a

four by eight foot water jet cutter. The dream. The dream. I'm going to fart smoke. This is amazing. Look at that. What if that was your podcast studio? Wouldn't that be so cool? Oh, that'd be amazing.

Don't even look at that. Oh, wow. Just like a little command center bay up there. Like you can look down on his warehouse. That's incredible. I want, I desire this in my life. Yeah. Well, Bill, it's always good to see you, man.

I look forward to the next time we see it and really look forward to him looting over our cosplay contest in June. Punishpropes.com is the website, and of course Punish Prop's YouTube channel for all the latest. Bill, have a great week. See you, friends. See you next time. Bye now.

All right. Very, very cool. Yeah, that's cool. Like a lot of inspiration from the Millennium Falcon, the Death Star. Oh, this is rad. Because you just want to get my office and do something cool like that. I know, right, yeah. I could probably do it.

It's just time and money, you know. Yeah. Neither of which I have a lot of right now. No, no. Oh, well, hey, let's move on to a couple of quick text emails and such. We got one from, I just realized I don't really have a good, I've never had a good email bumper. Let's see. Oh, we need a good email bumper.

All my other shows do. Yeah. This one has never has. So we're going to play, you know what? Here you go. This is about the jugs of pee. That's where we will establish that now as our email bumper. Yeah, because that is a thing where a guy calls him about a thing.

It's a feedback. moment. This is about the jugs of pee. All right, that's it. We've decided. I like it. He's calling Craigslist or something. Y'all still have them jugs of pee?

Are they? What kind of jugs are they? And how old is the pee? Precisely. I need fresh pee. All right. All right, here's the, this one from,

let's see, who's this from? Did we not get a name? Darn it, I don't. It does not say. Thriller, versus horror is the subject line. I think we talked about this on maybe a recommendals or something,

the difference between the two genres and how, I think we talked a little bit of how, like, Tina would prefer a thriller. She prefers a thriller over horror any day of the week. Right. But she liked weapons, which is kind of a, I don't know, weapons is so hard to define,

isn't it? It's hard to define. The whole stuff with the fork and the kids at the very end, yeah. There's some, and even just the kids in the basement. Like Barbarian, I would classify as an actual horror movie, and then I would say

him falling up with weapons was horror elements, but definitely doing something else. I don't know. I can love that movie. Anyway, is what he says. The detriment, sorry, the determinant is what is at stake for the protagonist.

He says, that's what makes the difference here. In a thriller, the stakes are death slash destruction of something or someone they hold deer. All right, so that's for thrillers. Okay. In horror, the stakes are the damnation

of the protagonist's eternal soul, says our writer. Wow. He says, well, I'll read the rest of this anymore. Because I actually have a little, not beef,

but I think I have a, like you, my reaction's a little bit like, anyway, storylines for each genre can easily co-mingle with a single story, for example,

in Lord of the Rings, Frodo's quest to destroy the one ring is a thriller because failure means the death and destruction of Frodo's world, whereas Frodo's struggle against the temptation of the one ring is horror

because he succumbs, if he succumbs rather, Frodo will become an immortal slave to Sauron's will. Hope this helps, my fondness for the show, endures nonetheless. I think you started out with a great point and then you ruined it. I mean, I think, I understand his point, right? Yes, for sure. Nobody goes into Lord of the Rings or comes out of Lord of Rings and goes, that was an amazing horror movie.

But if you really do think about it, from Frodo's perspective, it is kind of a horror story. From his perspective, the character's perspective. Now, we as the audience are not being presented with it as a horror story. Right. But if somebody really wanted to, they could go make a Frodo story about fighting that ring. And you could make it horror as hell if you wanted. So it's all about presentation and intent.

And I don't think the story's intent was ever to give us a horror story. No, no. And I think you can say in most movies, you can say, well, this is a three. thriller element or this is a horror element or whatever right like you can you can you can

you can say that this overarching fantasy film has this element which is horrifying or this element which is thrilling but doesn't make it anything but a fantasy film yeah yeah I think that's it but I do like

the differentiation of you know the stakes between a thriller and a horror film although I'd still say you know the damnation of the protagonist Eternal Soul might still also be a little bit of a putting too final point on it right

Right Death you know getting slashed slasher film getting killed by a Slasher sort of thing That's enough of a horror You don't need to necessarily have Eternal damnation of your soul Yeah

No I agree with you. I think that sometimes a movie like weapons definitely makes you feel like you're not sure and I think that's interesting in itself. Yeah. To go in there, especially with the guys,

the director's history and go in there and expect Barbarian or some of his other work and then come out going, oh, that was not quite a horror movie. But then there are parts of it. You're like, well, that was definitely horror, but not really, because, you're not really

because this other stuff made it more of a mystery or almost a fantasy film in a weird way. And then there's some stuff you laugh at. Like, that's a weird movie. Yeah, it's hard to define. It's a tough one to use as an example in this case. Like Silence of the Lambs, was it the destruction of, because I'd call that a thriller over a horror film. I would too.

It never really worked as a horror movie for me. Right. So what is the death slash destruction of someone or something that they hold dear? I guess you're saying Clarice would be your your protagonist, of course. She's really, it's really not, I mean, her, her impetus for stopping Hannibal Lecter is because it's her job as opposed to, until the very end when she's, she's, you know, chasing, or not Hannibal Lecter, but when she's chasing Buffalo Bob. And when she's in the dark and he's behind her and the, with the night vision glasses and stuff like that, that is, you know, You know, it is life or death tennis situation for her. But I don't know.

I don't, I think that, again, I think it's too, it pigeonholes it just a little bit too much. And I think there's probably a form of their description that, that describes the, was it Buffalo Bill? I thought it was Buffalo Bob. Because I was saying, I think it's Bill. Okay. Is it Bill?

All right. I think so. I was that, well, the, the dude from history is Buffalo Bill. Yeah. So it must be Buffalo Bob. but I guess now it's all Buffalo Bill. Yeah, I think it is Bill. Clearly, now you're making me one, right.

Since I've seen the movie, but... We just lost that guy. Just died. Silent Bill. Jay and Silent Bill strike back. Didn't he just pass away? I think he did. The actor who played Buffalo Bill or Buffalo Bob?

Buffalo Bill. See, I'm doing it. I'm sick and guessing myself now. Yeah, I think he just passed. He was also, he was the terrible guy in Pulp Fiction who put the ball and what's his name's mouth and then didn't work terrible things. Okay. I think it's that guy.

Bring up the gimp. Maybe I'm mixing up two actors. You might be. I might be. I know he died, but maybe he's not Buffalo Bill. Yeah. Anyway, okay. So, yeah, the, I think that there's nuggets of a good way to define Thriller versus Har in the emailer's message.

But they haven't quite gotten it right. Yeah, I found a chart. Norve we, for that matter. Yeah, we have an email. either. That's the other thing I should mention. I don't think we're very good to define it. I don't think we've got it. I think it's actually kind of hard to define, but I found a chart that says these are the key differences. Let's see if we agree with these. Primary goal of horror to scare shock or disgust. Primary goal of thriller to excite, build suspense or keep guessing, keep you guessing. Yeah, yeah, okay, I like that. That one's not bad. Then they've got central emotion. Dread. You feel like something awful is inevitable in horror. In three. Thriller, tension, you feel like the hero might just make it if they hurry. Protagonist role, often a victim trying to survive in horror and in thrillers, often a professional detective spy, etc., or an ordinary person fighting back. And then, oh, no, there's two more.

The antagonist, often otherworldly ghost monsters, etc., or an unstoppable force of nature in a horror film, in a thriller, often a human threat, serial killer, corrupt government. spy, etc. And then finally, pacing is the final category. It says in a horror movie can be slow burns focused on atmosphere and in thriller, usually fast pace with a ticking clock element. I like these descriptions make a lot more sense to me. They do to me. And so looking through the lens, looking through this lens back at something like weapons,

I see parts of weapons that pull from each column. Yeah. So I think it's fair to call that a horror slash thriller. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. For sure. It's also kind of a power dynamic thing where, you know, in a horror movie, the power is overwhelming that you're up against. Whereas the thing in the thriller is there's a chance.

I think, and also the ticking clock aspect is great. Like, ticking clock is a thriller motif, not necessarily as much in horror. Yeah. And they just realize they have a list of gray area and they brought up Silence of the Lamb. So you were on it with this. Some of the most famous stories sit right on the line. These are often called psychological thrillers or action horror. An example, Silence of the Lambs, thriller because it follows an FBI agent solving a case.

It's horror because of the visceral gore and psychological terror of Buffalo Bill and Hannibal Lecter. Oh, it is Bill. There's our confirmation. Well, I mean, the chat room already confirmed it. Buffalo Bob apparently was from Joe Dirt. And me confusing Silence of the Lambs and Joe Dirt, I think, is, uh, Just take away my blockbuster video card right now. Joe Dirt's the ultimate horror film as far as I'm concerned.

It is. You know what? It's that yokel humor. I found that scarier. It's way scarier to me than Silence of the Last. I was going to say, this is Brian's horror movie. Yeah. They also list seven and says it has the pacing and structure of a police thriller,

but the gruesome crime scenes and the crushing sense of dread or pure horror. So you definitely have line sitters. And I would say you could add weapons to the line sitting. Yeah. I think that's what this is. Here you go. Take my blockbuster card. You can have it.

Man, that's awesome. You know what they have to take for me? Because I don't have my blockbuster card is I have an original address on it. What do you call it? My original Netflix copy of, is it Bagman? Oh, really? That never got returned. That's the camera right here.

Never got returned. I don't know what happened. I don't think they care anymore. So I'm held on to it. That Tyvex sleeve that he came in? Yes. Yeah, got the sleeve and it says... In case that in resin.

Let's see. What does it say? Oh, it's Safe Men. When Lounge Singer Sam Rockwall and Eddie Steve Zahn are mistaken for Ace Safecrackers, they reluctantly enter the criminal underworld in this miscap, or sorry, madcap farce. Jewish gangster Big Fat Bernie, played by Michael Lerner. Sends Veal Chop, played by Paul Giumati. This has got a big cast.

Mark Ruffalo, Josh Perez. It's a pretty good cast. Have you ever watched it? I've never seen this. Like you, they sent it to you? Did they send it to you and then like said, we're done with movies about like a week later? I feel like this coincided roughly with that. I couldn't tell you exactly.

I do know that the disc itself is super scratchy. Sure. And I never watched it. So I don't know what this movie even is. I've heard the name, but I've never, I've never even thought. of the movie Safe Men. That's amazing. I mean, that cast is great. Yeah. So you and I, okay, well, we've got our, we've got our photo for today, our thumbnail

photo. It's like, you'll, me with my blockbuster card, you with your Netflix DVD. Yeah. Oh my gosh, the directions on this. This is back when they were in San Jose. Problem playing your DVD? Try gently washing with liquid soap or window cleaner. Still can't play this DVD? Get an immediate replacement at Netflix.com slash replacement. We're sorry for the inconvenience. Oh, that's great. Kind of cool.

I like that also when they started doing for a very short time, video games. Yeah, Hot Minute. It was called, oh, it had a name. Gamefly, no. Nope, that was a competitor. That was competitor. Netflix game service name. Let's see what was that.

That was called something. Oh, was it just called Netflix games? There were something, no, there was some other thing. I thought there was some, because it branched off into its own thing after a while, too. Flickster. No, not Flickster. That was a competitor to Netflix. Or something. Flickster, I remember what Flickster is. A different deal. Okay, here we go. Quicksster.

Quickster. Yeah, in 2011, Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings announced a plan to split the company in two. Netflix had focused strictly on the newer streaming service. Quickster would be a new brand for the DVD mail service and games. Oh, and the videos. Okay. Yeah. And they were going to basically be a direct competitor for Gamefly. Gamefly still exists. This was a big PR nightmare.

Did not happen. Went away. It's over. Oh, yeah. Done. Yeah. I think they did okay for themselves, though. Because people want games for a lot longer than they want movies.

So it was like, cool. Put me on the list to get such and such when it arrives. And you're just waiting forever for somebody to finally send it back. It'd just be frustrating. You're paying a monthly service and not getting games you want because they're checked out. And to build up inventory to have more access to those games is much more expensive than having a bunch of DVDs around. Yeah. Just a weird transition, that whole era.

It was. It was the year we started the show. Oh, wow. When they announced that. Think of that. Very cool. That's when I said the famous words. 310 to Yuma.

That's when that got said. Thanks, Reedy Hastings. Thanks. One quick note. This is a question for you, Brian. Oh, cool. Rock Puzzles monthly question from Ian who says, Hey, Scoob and Boob.

I don't know how you feel about boob. I'm fine with it. You know what? Hey, that's... You like a boob? Name me after something that I love. Aw. Just to...

And that clearly I'm trying to grow my own. That's right. If you turn around slowly, you'll notice his nipple is on the back of his head. Just kidding. All right, he says, this is Brian question specifically about Rock Puzzles Monthly. I know at some point you had come try it type thing. Yeah, this is what you can expect from the puzzles. Yeah, what you can expect from the thing.

I think maybe this was back in November. Is the still available somewhere? Hug the Hobo. It is, and I need to word it better because right now, I mean, this is all on rock puzzles monthly. com. There was a, and this still is a sign up to get notified when things go live deal because I was waiting on getting the Patreon set up. You know what? I take that back.

because I switched it to an immediate like go to the Patreon, I don't have that download sample anymore. I need to put the download sample back up. Oh, you used to be on here. Yeah. Okay. Like you'd go there and where it now says to the Patreon, I need to add a lot of stuff to this.

Like, here's download a sample puzzle, see what it's like. Get, I want to put some, like, people have been posting some great things about it in the Discord and the Rock Puzzles Monthly Discord and this was a great set or oh my god I feel so good after completing this one or whatever I need to be putting those testimonials on this page because it's so unless you know you come here and it's like puzzles for people like puzzles okay it's vague so I need to yeah I need to devote some time to they might think they're going to get a thousand piece you know right exactly jigsaw deal and

that's not I don't want them to think that because they're not they're going to get something way cooler. Do you think there's a thousand piece jigsaw puzzle of jigsaw from saw? You know, I would do that. That's interesting. I imagine there's... There's got to be, right? That's too easy of an idea. It doesn't have to be a thousand pieces, though, right? Just a jigsaw puzzle of jigsaw from saw. Yeah, just his head, just his face. Yeah, there has to be. 500. Don't care how many pieces. I kind of want that. I kind of want that.

Yeah. I don't know where I'll find that. I'm going to look that up later. How about that? How about them? All right. Look it up. Well, in the meantime, we leave people with a song. Before I do that, though, I should mention that frogpants.com slash TMS will have links to all the things you need. There's even a link to Rock Puzzles Monthly there. So if you're just like, I don't know where to find all the shit you guys work on, how about just go to frogpants.com slash TMS.

All the links are there. You will not get lost. And if there's something missing, let us know, and we'll add it. All right? That's how easy we are. Yes. It's insane what we do. Oh, apologies to the YouTube users.

So Randy recorded the files for the film set stuff you guys did while I was gone and did a fine job. But they were all mono and I didn't know that. Oh, okay. Because when I tested him, I played him over some speakers and I couldn't tell they were mono. He recorded him in mono. I have no idea. Gotcha. Okay.

So in the audio versions of the show worked out fine because I, the way I processed those, it automatically would convert them if they were mono. And so those were fine. But the video, which I didn't check it with headphones or, you know, I didn't check for stereo. Yeah. I just pooped it out straight. Yeah.

And it all was just like left ear and all these people are like, the left ear thing happened. Anyway, that's been fixed. It's been re-uploaded. Y'all should be good. If you have any questions, let me know. Well, for some people there are wonder years, we're just listening to a mono transistor radio in one ear.

That's right. That matches right up. I actually liked that. I should have left a mono. What would you do with a saying of tune? Who is that? Would you stand up and walk out on me?

Joe Cocker. Oh, Joe Cocker. Joe Cocker. Brick. Would have helped if I would have sang it. What would you do if I sang out of tool? I think that was his trick. That's how he got.

That's why he sang is he was able to just. I think so too. Like he channeled that guttural sound out of the base of his diaphragm. And the only way he could do it was by doing that. My favorite, one of my favorite SNL clip. is Joe Cocker singing, you know, I think feeling all right or something as the musical guest. And John Belushi behind him imitating every move he's making. I would love to see that.

That's probably a YouTube clip somewhere. Definitely YouTube clips somewhere, yeah. Check that out. All right, that's going to do it for the show. Brian, let's play some music. Oh, okay. Well, we know and love the grammars. Kelsey and London.

No. Her husband, Just Kidding, right? His name's Just Kidding. Just Kidding Grammar. Yes, that's exactly right. No, JK and Sarah, of course. And Mrs. J.K. Grammar. Sarah had a birthday yesterday.

And, of course, we want to celebrate that. She wrote in and said, hey, boys. Hey, boys. I'll be turning 39 on Monday, January 12th. I love Shrek the musical. But James, JK, refuses to let me make him watch it. I love the phrase. refuses to let me make him watch it.

Wow. My head's spinning a little from that. Wow. Yeah. The film stage plays on YouTube for free. Please play this song so he is forced to hear at least one song from it. Thanks, Besties, signed Sarah. So this is, it's not a cover, technically.

It's a song from a play that is a cover of a movie. How's that? Is that close enough? Does that qualify? Sure. Let's say it qualifies. This is a song that Donkey sings to Shrek and it's actually a lot of fun.

Daniel Breaker and Brian Darcy James from Shrek the musical from 2009. Here is Don't Let Me Go. Hey, hey, hey, you gotta let me go with you. You don't know what it's like to be considered a freak. Well, maybe you do. But that's why we got to stick together. Donkey.

No, no, no, no. Don't speak. Don't speak. Don't speak. Just hear me. Out. I might surprise you. I'll be a friend when others despise you. Don't roll your eyes.

Stop with them open. You need a pal. My calendar's open. When you feel congested. And I'll shave it. When it gets hairy. Get on cake. The spiky.

Ooh, like little kids in pajamas with those funny things at the bottom. You know, feed. Diabetes. Out of the Frog Band's Network. Yes. Get more at frogpants.com.