The Morning Stream - TMS 2950: Well Co-Axually

Episode Date: January 20, 2026

Tame at the Butt. Just because everything CAN be content doesn't mean everything SHOULD be content. I'm Afraid I can't do That, Dave. Prompt Artists, go eat a poo. Make Your Own Bad Luck. Billie AIlish. Just Typin' Shit into a Thing. Sia wouldn't want to Bia. Lounge It Up. That name is Gay! Chocolate Pyramid Poops. Celebrate a Dumb Number Thing. Bone transmission. Robbing a bank just for the tip. Claim Your Tacos with Amy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Robbing a bank just for the tip. Claim your tacos with Amy and more on this episode of the morning stream. Christ almighty. It's like I'm sitting here playing cards with my brother's kids or something. You nerve-wracking sons of bitches. You never seen you're looking so lovely as you did tonight. The morning stream smells like apple pie. Hello everybody and welcome to TMS.

This is the morning stream for Tuesday, January 20th, 2000, 26. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott right there. Hello. Hi. Hi. My brain got a little hung up on we got a 20 and then we got a 2026. A 2026. Yes, exactly. Yeah, which I kind of like, but it's not really that significance. boring. No. Yeah.

We need to have a 26-26, which we will have. Which we will in six days, but we won't be doing a show that day. No. Oh, no, we will. We will. That's Monday. Oh, is that a Monday? Yeah, it's Monday. Yeah, we'll be back to celebrate a dumb number thing, you guys. 126, 2026. Yeah. Get excited. Put it on your calendars, you know.

Yeah, be here for that. Get stoked. Get stoked. Get stoked. That's right. I had a, so we got a big show today. Lots of stuff. Amy later. All the fun things we do on a Tuesday. But here's the deal. And you might say, what kind of a deal? And I would say, here, this kind of a deal.

Yesterday I'd mention this and I wanted to kind of talk about a little bit more. But over the weekend, previous weekend, I had a weird experience where I was in the car and we were driving back and forth from the hospital and there was all this stuff going on with Kim's mom. And I was just in the mood for metal covers of pop songs. Sometimes that's just a thing I like. sure so you know go back a while and think like it's not alien is is great at this stuff yeah frog leap yeah absolutely there's a lot there's like a ton of that stuff on

YouTube now which is great because you get a lot of indie voices and stuff but like even that song that version of the Michael Jackson song Annie are you okay or whatever by alien at farm yeah I love that stuff so I was looking for more of that in my life and I was like I don't care who it is let's just do it so I do a search and it comes up with a playlist full of metal covers of like classic songs. And some are really old songs like some Doors songs. Okay.

Riders on the storm and then version of that. And then newer stuff like a Britney Spears song or whatever. And they metalify all these things. And I thought, man, these are great. Who are these bands? I'm loving this. I'm like five songs in going, this is so good.

I can't wait for more of this. Who's doing these arrangements? I look it up. And let's see if I can find the name, actually. I do have the history here. the name kind of threw me. It was some band or group called synthetic echoes. Okay.

And it made me nervous. I went, synthetic. And then my brain went. You know, I pride myself on being able to spot visual AI stuff, Gen AI. I see it in a like that and I just know it. I got completely fooled by a giant AI metal covers classic list that was, was in my head was so good and it was so like

polished and it didn't have any of that weird you know some of the early versions of this there's like a weird hiss to stuff auto tuning yeah and a weird hiss but a weird like a weird little auto tuning kind of thing yeah their voices just sounded like especially if they would hold a high note was a little too perfect

or maybe not perfect and it's hard to explain but those things were pretty recognizable this stuff sounded just legit And I just didn't know who these people were. These voices were nuanced and all this stuff. So it got me to thinking, should talk to Brian about this, because obviously Lord of all covers.

Yeah. How do you feel? Well, first of all, you get fooled ever with this stuff. And second of all, how do you feel about AI, not music like raw, like here's a new song and it took the top 40, but covers of existing stuff. Like where do you land on all that.

Like that country band that did 18 songs about dust? Yeah. Yeah. which a lot of people kind of liked and it got like it made it yeah actually broke into the billboard charts um uh i don't i don't get a lot of it across my desk here's where it comes up is um uh i occasionally do listen to music on youtube my my money goes into um apple uh apple music you know it's part of the whatever whatever apple one is it or whatever yeah yeah um because we i use everything else. I use the storage. I use the fitness. I use the Apple TV stuff, all that. So it's like,

well, this is a no-brainer. It's the cheaper thing. Sure. So, but occasionally I'll do, I'll look up a music video on YouTube and it'll go into like, oh, here's something else you like. And it'll be like a cool cover from Triple J's like a version out of Australia. Really cool series. Oh my God. If you, yeah, that's a, that's a playlist to all. always check out. Yeah, that one's really good. In studio bands, doing covers. And then if it gets to like a song that's a cover, you know, maybe three or four down

the line, it'll pull up, here's a cover of, Girl, You Know It's True by Millie Vanilli or something, but it's done as a ska song or something, right? This is just an example. All right. Probably doesn't exist. no, probably does exist. Or it will after this. Someone's going to hear it.

Or will after this, exactly. But the photo of it won't be an album cover, but it'll be like a clearly an AI-generated picture of a music studio or an AI-generated landscape with a robot or something. And for me, it's seeing that thing that goes along with it that makes me fine-tune my ears a little bit more.

and say, yeah, this is definitely high. And then I look at the channel that recommend it. And then I go, cool, right click or click on the three dots. Don't recommend music from this channel ever again. Yeah. And so that's interesting because that kind of gets to my point where I was super enjoying this. In particular, there's a, what's the, or not Rick Astley. What's his name?

I never want to fall in love again with you. Oh, Chris Isaac. Chris Isaac, that song. Wicked Game. Which is, Wicked Game's an amazing song on its own. Well, they did this, I heard this really what I thought was a very cool metal version of that. And I was super into it and was like, put that on a playlist. And then when I found out it was Gen A.I., it soured me immediately. Sure, sure.

And it just made me go. So what this has done is made me question my own freaking brain. Because if I liked it before and I don't like it now, what biases are at play? like it just made me think you know sure yeah and it's and it's obviously it's the other it's all the other AI stuff that makes you feel this way right it's like um it's the fact that art has made you sour has made you jaded against AI if we hadn't you know let's say we didn't have the whole issue with it taking artist's work and repurposing it and and without permission or attribution all that stuff having having somebody be able to plug it and say hey i wonder what it would say

sound like if the Supremes will be together was was covered as a country song and then you plug that in it's like oh that's pretty cool I'm going to share that with people you know I'd be okay with it as a

as a what if it's great a great comparison to say it's like you've got the regular Marvel comics series that went on and for you know amazing Spider-Man uncanny X-Men went on for long periods of time yeah and then you had these one-off what-if

issues and it's always like oh thank God that was a what if because it ended poorly or it ended you know with this new weird super team of characters or whatever right but and it's like

but it's still kind of an interesting like all right well let's see what that would sound like if that were to happen yeah yeah um but of course the you know the music guy and me says well no you know somebody doing a metal cover of Wicked Game,

why not go listen to the the H-I-M version? Exactly, actual bands doing actual covers. Where there's people with stone-sour. Whatever you want to call a soul, you know, I'm not talking religious here. But like, there's something about, like, even if it's just a dude, a DJ,

mixing these tracks, or it's a rapper, rapper sampling. Yeah, any of that stuff. If they're doing, there's something about, the fact that there was a beating heart and human hands that made that happen with their ear and their, you know, what they want in a beat and a drop and a thing and where to put these samples on. Like there's something about the crash that. There were decisions being made. Yeah. Even though he's using tons of tools that he couldn't have used 50 years ago to do any of this, there's still the

human element that directs it all. Like the direction is still coming from the human. And don't come at me going, well, prompters, not you, but people, prompters are like that. They're like directors now. The prompters, they're prompt artists. Yeah. Eat a whole poo. Right. Exactly. The difference between prompters, typically and musicians, composers, artists, is that the artist knows what the end result, what kind of end result they're looking for. Prompting is like dropping your shirt in a tie-dye and then pulling it out and saying, oh, that's a cool. I like how it worked out.

Yeah, that, you know, I would not have predicted that this is how those colors would have arranged themselves. But great, that's really cool. Yeah. But I wouldn't call somebody who drops a t-shirt into tie-dye, like with an artist. Yeah. They kind of are. Even if they, even if people are really good at these prompts and there are some who are, they know exactly what buttons to push to get what they want. Right. Right.

It's still just typing shit into a thing. Exactly. And it's different than a guy going. All right, I like where this is going. We're going to move this track over here and go, okay, actually, that doesn't work. Okay, we're going to do different intro. Right, exactly. Something about all of that work.

Bring up the drums a little bit more, or the vocals are getting washed out. Let's lower the, let's take down the rhythm guitar a little bit, that sort of thing. Yeah. That's, you know, that's, uh, every, every human being involved in that process is an artist in some way or another. Yeah, in that, in that process of creating music, the different people who play the music, the producer, the, um, the arranger. the songwriter, if it's a different person, all that stuff. And you just don't get that with AI music. My biggest takeaway from the whole thing was like,

there's an entire, there's a whole bunch of people who are just fine with that. They're going to hear this, this playlist I played, went, dude, this is better anything any person's doing. And their mindset is, well, this is the future. This is how it's going to go. Yeah. And me complaining about it's not going to do a whole lot of good.

And I think the industry is not prepared for this. The music industry is rarely prepared for big disruptions. Like they weren't ready for Napster. They certainly weren't ready for Apple. They weren't ready for any of this shit. So you think they're ready for a whole generation of people being cool with artificially generated music where nobody owns the rights. No labels get money. Like they're going to scramble to try to be the places that make some of this stuff and try to sell it.

It ain't going to work. No, no. I think the MPAA and the whole, the entire thing, not MPAA, that's movies. the RIA. RIA. I think everybody involved, the studios all the way down to the artists are going to be affected by this and it's going to suck. It is going to suck. And I want, you know, just like we wanted with our photographs and our art, I want something that indicates right off the bat that this is AI.

Hard to do with music. You can't watermark without putting like a noise at the beginning, generated by AI or something like that. you know, having some sort of thing that tells you right off the bat that what you're listening to is AI generated. But as far as my shows, you're never going to hear AI music on Coverville, on Soundography, on TMS as part of our closing song. Even if somebody says, oh, I heard this amazing AI cover. Sorry, I won't, you know, power to you, but allow me to find you a different cover. I've got 41 covers of Chris Isaac's Wicked Game in my library. You want to hear a cover Wicked Game?

I've got every possible genre represented here. Yeah, and I promise there's some really, really good ones in there. From Tangerine Dream to London Grammar to Kendra Morris to the hangovers to see ya. Yeah. Just none by Robot Bill 451 or whatever. Exactly. Yeah. Not my library,

damn it. Damn it. All right. Well, I just wanted to throw that. I wanted to throw that football around. We'd love to hear your comments, your thoughts, your emails, whatever.

For sure. Let us know. Yeah. All right. We have some news to cover. So we're going to cover that and we're going to do it right now. And we're going to do it with this right here. We're going to say today's news is brought to you by.

Brought you by the TMS Discord. Get in on all the tadpooly goodness founded frogbands. com slash disd scored. About halfway through that, decided to just lounge it up. I liked it. I liked it. Now we need some lounge lizard music to follow up.

How about a lounge lizard cover of Wicked Game? I probably have one of those two. Probably do. By a real band, like Flesh and Blood People, right? Totally, exactly. How about a surf rock version of it? How about a blues version of it? Why not?

Yeah, is everything. Everything. Why not indeed? And one of my favorite new bands, by the way, the last dinner party, they've even done a cover of it, which Oh yeah, you've talked about them before. I don't know that I've ever checked them out. I need to. Yeah, I'll send you a video. Are they mostly covers? Do they do their own stuff? Their own music.

No, no, very few covers. Covers they do like on radio shows and things like that, but their albums are all originals. And it's, uh, this is the killer speaking is probably the song I'll send you to listen to or the music video that I'll send you to watch. What's the band one more time? Something dinner party. The last dinner party.

The, writing this down. Yeah, it reminds me of if Susie and the band, she's joined Sparks. Oh, good Lord. All right. Yeah, yeah. Well, now I'm sold. Let's get to this story. Oh, I didn't mean to do this for this top story.

I know. It's really funny, but whatever. Yeah, why not? I was actually going to bring this up with Tom, but we had another question for Tom, so we didn't use it. but AI Soulmate and the AI Fridge took the gold in the annual Worst in Show Award at CES last week or two weeks ago. It's funny. I keep hearing about the EA Fridge. I don't know if I've heard about AI Soulmate, but I can't imagine it's good.

No, I don't want any of this. The artificial intelligence stuff dominated discussions at CES, of course. It's often unnecessary integration to everyday. Appliances also secured some products. The dubious distinction of, quote, worst in show, the annual anti-awards, which no tech company desires were announced on Thursday. It's like their version of the Razzies,

basically. Highlighted invasive, wasteful, and fragile innovations. Among the recipients of the notorious recognition was an eye-tracking AI soulmate companion designed to combat loneliness. Also a musical lollipop. Oh, yeah. The musical lollipop that, like,

as you're sucking on it, it does, like, bone, uh, uh, what is the bone transmission? like the air shocks. Bone conduction? Bone conduction, yes.

Conduction audio. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, bone conduction audio. It'll play music in your head while you're sucking out a lollipop. And you can't replace, you can't put a new lollipop in or something. It's really dumb. No, super dumb. I mean, I'm glad these exist because they're dumb to talk about, but what are they doing?

Also, new AI features in Amazon's widely used doorbell cameras. However, it was Samsung's bespoke AI family hub refrigerator that received the overall Worst in Show Award. This accolade from the judging panel of consumers and privacy advocates. The demonstration of the sprawling Las Vegas Technology Expo revealed the smart fridge's limitations. Despite

inviting users to command it to open and close the door, fridge open. Yeah. Yeah. I need macaroni and cheese. Left owners. Sorry, I don't have an Wi-Fi connection right now. I can't, I can't

open. The appliance frequently failed to detect voice commands amidst ambient noise. Well, of course, you're at the damn show. Gay Gordon Byrne. That's not someone named Gordon Byrne, who's also gay. That's the person's name is gay. Sure. Yeah. It's just to stave off any questions. Gay Gordon Byrne of the digital right to repair coalition, criticize the added complexity stating in a recorded video ceremony, quote, this was just part of the complications and reliability concerns Samsung added to the appliance. That's supposed to have one important job. keeping food cold unquote. Everything is an order of magnitude more difficult, she says, of the fridge that now tracks when food items are running low and can advertise replacements.

Freaking F that shit. Yeah, exactly. I know what I need and want. I don't need my fridge. Ah, I freaking hate it. It's so dumb. It is the most unnecessary AI addition to an item ever. Yeah.

I already don't like, I already don't like the overcomplicated, water things or drink ice maker things they have built in of these things. There's some that are fine that are really rudimentary and just do the job they're given. But when they overcomplicate even those functions, they piss me off because when they break and freak out, ours is currently doing that. Yeah. Blis-bid-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-dh. We do that all the time. And ice-maker, anytime I know somebody who's got a broken fridge, it's always the ice maker or the water dispenser on the front.

It's never like... It's the ice cream machine of McDonald's at home. Right. Exactly, yes. Yeah. Except they're always lying about it if it's broken because they don't want to clean it.

Anyway, don't buy any of those when they come out. Probably won't. Some of this is... That lollipop, that ain't coming to... No. No. No.

So, save your money. Don't buy that dumb thing. Exactly. I saw one the other day. Where was I? I was in Costco or Best Buy, but it was like a fridge that when you walked near it, the inside light would come on and show you everything in it.

Oh, because it had a transparent. Either that or it was a projection camera thing. I'm not sure. I didn't stick around very long to look. In that case, we're talking about a motion sensor and a ability to see stuff without opening it and wasting energy. I kind of like that. It's like, oh, what am I in the mood for?

You can just look at the front of the video screen on the front of the fridge and say, oh, that looks good. Open up and get that. And if you see nothing you want, you just, you never opened it. you didn't waste that energy. That was what they were pushing. That seems okay to me. That's not AI shit.

But don't give me things that are going to break real easy. This is a problem with cars right now. Our brand new, relatively new accord hybrid is now burping out this air message saying software update required. Software update required. And then we heard from Honda and there's like, yeah, there's a recall on some, it's a software thing. Bring it to the dealership. We'll just zap you in your. good. But the more they add this stuff, the more it's just like, can I just, you know,

you long for the days of just grabbing the window handle and going, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Had to use your arm. Anyway, it was, yeah, I mean, I can remember the, was it, um, uh, was it Michael Winslow on Police Academy who would do that like he'd sit in his desk and go, like, and he'd like have a sheet of plastic or something he'd lower it but he'd be making the movements he was more he was more than noises there was some other comedian or something who'd like sheet of glass and you just see he's like like doing this and lowering the sheet of glass is he uh was it to make other people not look at him or something or something like that like you want

something like that right exactly you like that yeah oh that's gonna bug me i know but you remember it too you remember the bit yeah there's something in there's something in my memory on that And he would even, I think even change his voice so that before, like when the window's closed, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Someone in the chat remind us what that was. SNL skit maybe, I don't know, maybe. Kids in the hall, something. I know there's the newer SNL skits that Mikey Day just kills with, which are the,

you cut me off. You cut me off. He's great. He is great, yeah. All right, here's the story. Yeah. This is a local story, Utah Connection. A man robbed a West Jordan Bank.

West Jordan's about, oh, I don't know, 10 to 15 minutes north of me. Okay. We're in South Jordan. Sure. Man robbed West Jordan Bank, then bought food and left stolen money as a tip. A big tip, it turns out. I'm sure. He could give as much as he wants.

it feels like a roofman a little bit yeah yeah he's facing federal charges but he left a big tip a man was arrested uh monday after police said he robbed the west jordan bank walked into a restaurant down the street uh purchased a meal and then left the remaining money he had stolen from the bank as a tip he didn't keep any of it he paid for the meal all the only money he technically stole then other than he stole no matter what he stole right yeah but the only the the amount that he kept for himself was just the cost of the meal everything else when he was he to the restaurant. Oh, funny. Okay. Yeah, all the rest went to the tip.

It says, let's see, 1 p.m. Monday, Michael Grant Robinson. Amy and Chuck, do you know this guy? 35 years old, walked into the Wells Fargo and handed over the teller a note, a handwritten note that said, I got a weapon. I need a thousand dollars. That's what it said. And it had the dollar sign at the end of the thousand. Yeah, exactly. Like, wait a minute, is this, is this some other form of currency? It makes it look so weird. when you do that? It totally does, yeah. Robinson then opened his jacket and showed the teller

a knife handle, but the teller believed it was a gun, according to the affidavit. Robinson was given 140 bucks and then left the bank, so he didn't get his full thousand. Walked to a nearby Mexican restaurant, ordered a meal that total 1953. That's too much. Anyway, I don't know. It depends on the food. It depends on where you're at, I guess. I don't know. Vihitas, Feed is usually up there in the $203 range. That's true. Then he just left the rest for the waiter and waiter took it. Let's see.

He was arrested a short time later, booked in solid county jail to be investigated for criminal solicitation of aggravated robbery. I assume the solicitation is the handwritten note. That's how that works. Oh, that's an interesting question, I guess. I've heard that before, but I don't know what it means. Criminal solicitation of aggravated robbery. Yeah, indicating, indicating threatening. with a weapon in writing?

I don't know. That's an interesting solicitation. I've never heard of criminal solicitation of aggravated robbery before, but that's interesting. We have a couple of cops in our community. If they could pipe in on this, that would be great. Because we don't know. I feel bad for the server that got the $120 tip and then said, and then had to give it back. I know, right?

Thought about that, too. It's just like, oh, shit. Right. Oops. Well, anyway, we wish that. them luck and well the entire Salt Lake City Police Department well done

you caught the guy good job yeah well done yeah we'll get a we'll get a good Denver story soon sure we like we like to cover local news as well as the international going on. Always the best here on the podcast all right well as soon as Amy gets here we're going to

go for it I'll start telling this story until she gets here yeah sounds good a fortune teller I love this one A fortune teller accused of stealing a client's phone to make bad luck prophecy come true. Okay. You know, if you can't get the bad luck, you force it. Yeah, you make your own luck, I think is the phrase.

Yeah, make your own luck. And it'll work every time. A Thai fortune teller has been arrested for allegedly stealing a teen's phone after telling her she should face, or she would face bad luck and lose a valuable possession on New Year's Day. The suspect identified as a 30-year-old man was outside a temple in, or a temple, I assume that's a Jewish temple. And, oh, I actually don't know that. This is in Asia, so I'm not sure where this is.

Anyway, Pitea. Thailand. Yeah, oh, there we go. Yeah. When the teens sought his fortune telling services on the 1st of January, the man or warned that she was on the brink of misfortune and would lose something valuable, urging her to give some money to avert bad luck.

That's always a red flag right there. Yeah, that'll prevent your bad luck is, you know, pay this money. However, the 19-year-old identified. as Pym, who also had some particles with him, I guess. I don't know. Refused to give the money shortly after leaving the session. Miss Pim realized her phone. Oh, it's her, sorry.

The 13 pro, they had, she went missing. She recalled that she placed the phone beside her during the fortune telling session and returned to the spot. When confronted, the teller insisted that the loss proved the accuracy of his prediction. What a prick, dude. Totally. I love it. It's great. And the end, by the way, even going so far as to describe what the thief supposedly looks like, looked like. So did the Fortune Teller go, had, you know, my facial features, my hair.

Looked a lot like me. Yeah. That's great. Well, anyway. About my height. That's all the news the newsroom has given us for today. Let's go do this for fun. One of the things that I enjoy also is reading.

Well, it's time for us to read some books and do it with our old pal, Amy Robinson, who joins us now? Hello, Amy. Oh, hello, friends. How are you? Oh, I'm going to get some video of you as well. Sorry about that. I meant to do that already. Good idea.

Yeah, why not? Why not look? Why not gaze upon your visage while we talk? Yes. Here it is. There is my visage. Yep. Did you already go and get your hair done, did?

Or is that later? No, that's later. Oh, you're echoing for some. reason why is that. Oh, me, just mute Discord and you'll be fine. Oh, right. That's right. There we go. It's nice to see you. Well, uh, well, uh, well met, I guess is what they say. Yes. Yes. As they say. Yeah. In certain circles anyway. Um, Amy, of course, comes on the show about once a month and we talk about books you all should maybe be reading or adding to your to your reading list, depending on where you are in the book you're reading. Uh, and this is no

different. So I'm really looking forward to it. Um, you want to get right into it? We got your Clips and everything? It's true. Yeah, yeah, we can just get right into it. So this is a book that I found from someone I originally started following on TikTok, and she was just charming and genuine, I would say, and kind of charmed all of us with her story about her date with 100 tacos, and that should give some people a clue as to who this is. But then she has written a memoir, and so this is, This is this month's book. So there we go. Here you go.

The sun has finally gone down in my coldestack. My mom is deciding which bed sheet she's willing to sacrifice for my last minute Halloween costume, a ghost, complete with eye holes and a mouth drawn on with black marker. I'm not sure why I've agreed to this. It's like wearing a light blanket all night. Fabric lying on top of my whole body, trapping all my heat and warm breath. So much more sweat than a face mask. way more sweat than I'm comfortable with. I throw the sheet over my head

and my mom quickly marks where she needs to cut so I'm able to see where I'm walking tonight. It's funny how much time I spend thinking about how to avoid overheating underneath this sheet when I probably won't spend more than 10 minutes outside tonight. I don't like trick-or-treating and my mom doesn't like Halloween. Something about it being demonic?

I'm not sure. I don't like Halloween but for different reasons. All the decorations scare me, And ringing people's doorbells scares me more. This is why I never sell all my candy bars and wrapping paper when I take part in fundraisers at school. My parents are my best customers because they have to be. I sense some nostalgia here.

Right. Yeah. Yeah. So this is, wait, I got to get the name of the book, right, because it's one of those long titles. That's a great question. I'd love to tell you by Elise Myers. Oh.

That's a long one. Yes. So, and that's because, so Elise Myers sort of rose to social media fame on TikTok. And, I mean, she was even on, like, the Today Show at some point because she did this video where she was talking about what's the worst date I've ever been on? That's a great question. I'd love to tell you. And so, like, that's like her little hook at the beginning. Like, whenever she does like a, like, a story time kind of video, you know, she'll say, like, you know, what's, you know, what's the most.

you know, what's the most ridiculous thing, the most embarrassing thing I've ever done? That's a great question I'd love to tell you. So, thus, that's the name of her book that she's written. And it goes, you know, she goes through some childhood anecdotes, you know, some of, like, as you heard there, where she's, you know, dressed as a ghost for Halloween. And then there's one where she gets caught with, like, the whole seven minutes in heaven thing and all that awkwardness all the way up through, you know, she, at one point in her young adult life, she's, uh, she goes and she's living in France, I think, and has a, uh, very unfortunate

misunderstanding where she thinks that she's kind of on a date with this guy and turns out he's actually a male escort. And all of her friends are like trying to give her the look like, are you okay? Like, what's going on? She's like, no, it's going great. You know, Like, I think he really likes me. You know, and so, yeah, and then all the way up through, you know, meeting her now husband, which is, it's not at all a spoiler because in the beginning of the book, she thanks him and, you know, says him by name. And then later she meets this guy named Jonas. And you're like, oh, I know how this story ends.

He was the male escort. That's right. The whole time. So, yeah, it's, I mean, it's really, like I said, it's really adorable. I picked that clip because, Scott, I knew you would get a chuckle out of the,

the mom thinking Halloween was demonic and, and then also, like, her anxiety. Like, Elise deals a lot with, like, social anxiety type of,

type of things. And so she talks about that a lot. And it's really, it's really funny and charm. She is, this lady, her, what is it,

Elise? Yeah, Elise Myers. I've seen her on TikTok a hundred times. She's got some, really popular channel where it's like everyday stuff with Elise Myers and she's super chill one of one of her yeah like I say one of her her biggest videos that sort of launched her to TikTok fame was where she talked about uh this date with this guy where it was like you know it was like a like a like an app date right

like a match on you know bumble or Tinder or whatever yeah yeah and so she goes like they she she agrees to meet up with this guy and he says, well, can you, can you come to my house and pick me up? Because, like, I don't have a car or something like that. And so she goes and picks him up and then he's like, well, how about we go to Taco Bell? Like, you know, and she's like, okay. And so they just go to the drive-thru. He leans over her and, like, orders a hundred hard-shell tacos. Oh, my gosh, dude. And then they get to the window. And of course, he's like, oh, I don't have my wallet, can you pay for it? And then they take these tacos back to his house where his dad is there and is also

like quite creepy. Like he says something to her like, you know, do you want to come back and see my studio? And she's like, I want nothing any less than that. You know, like, and then finally she decides, you know what? I paid for these tacos and they're mine. And so I like, she just like grabs up her, you know, whatever. like 90 plus tacos are left and like just scoops them up and says thank you very much and then she leaves and it's you know but anyway she is hilarious and that one went like super mega

viral and she's like now she's like all of a sudden oh by god like I'm famous now I was just telling this embarrassing like mortifying story that I thought like 400 people were going to see and now I'm like super internet famous. It exploded. She's got 7.1 million followers on TikTok alone. That's just one platform. People want to hear bad dating stories. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Clearly. I mean, her stories are great because like I say, you know, it's all it's, it's relatable.

Like, you know, she doesn't shy away from, you know, the mortifying stuff and whatnot. But she's also, she's also just really secure in who she actually is now, which is why I think she's able to own a lot of this stuff and really sit in that anxiety. and and share it with people, you know, in a confident way. So she's got a lot of really healthy outlooks, I think. Like one of one of her favorite things that she's ever said that I really, really latch on to and I love it is if you feel like that I'm too much, you are welcome to go find less. Nah.

I like that. I love it because I have been told by, you know, a non-zero number. of people that I am a bit much or that I am too much. And so to them, I say, go find less. Go find less, Chuck. Man, that's why. He would never, he would never say, never, ever. No, not Chuck, not our Charles.

He wouldn't do it. No, certainly not Charles. It always sounds so like, so regal and the opposite of what Chuck is. Charles. Yes. Charles Baird Robinson. That's right. Sounds perfect.

Well, this is great. That's a great question. I'd love to tell you. It is available on Amazon and all places where good books are sold. And also, is this one that we can get through? You can. Yeah.

Okay. Do we get a link to that? I think we did. Houdy should have already sent the link over to Brian. It is already on quicktms. Dot L.I. Oh, good. I will give it to live chatters real quick

just so they have it. Oh, cool. I am ordinarily, like, really slack about that and, like, not good about getting Hootie the book information ahead of time and thus like it's like scramble last minute but because my calendar was screwed up and I thought I was on last week he I got it to him a week ahead of time wow very nice well look at me look at you you get a you got an extra I don't know Muppet sticker on your forehead or something right I get a gold star yes sweet well Amy that's awesome

any anything else you want to mention or mention yes there very much is so So I think I've kind of shared, I've definitely shared a lot about, you know, my sister's story and all of that. And I believe that I mentioned on the show that my youngest niece was in a really bad, like, abusive situation and that we sort of all banded together and drove up to Virginia to go and rescue her from that situation. And so she is now, it's, she's now doing great. Like she's, she's living with her older sister and everything, but it's all a huge adjustment. And, you know, this is now somebody, and this is one of the challenges I think that people don't think about when they think about women who are in these types of relationships and abusive situations. And people say, well, why doesn't she just leave? And because just is not in the equation anywhere, because nothing is.

simple. I mean, she literally has to rebuild a life now, you know, because in her particular situation, I mean, this guy basically prevented her from going to college. And so, you know, she's literally having to build her life from scratch. I say all of that because her constant companion for the last seven years has been her dog, Coco, which, uh, hang on, I have a, have a, I have a URL that I want to share. I used to have a dog named Coco. That brings back feelings. I have feelings now from what you just said.

Feelings. Well, yeah, prepare for some more feelings there. Would Coco leave some little Coco crispies all over the carpet? Oh, no. Coco is a giant, Coco is a giant chocolate lab. So, and he has no spatial awareness at all. Toblerone size treats. Yeah.

But, uh, but, uh, You know, he's about, he's about seven years old, and he has cancer. And, you know, cancer treatment for a dog is, I mean, cancer treatment, period, is extremely expensive. But certainly cancer treatment for a dog is a lot of money out of pocket. And so we have put together a little go fund me to kind of help keep Coco around. and healthy so that Rebecca can still have her. Oh, my gosh. You have no idea.

He is the most amazing. I think if you hit the arrow, I put more pictures in there. Yeah. I mean, he is gorgeous, just gorgeous. Beautiful. Right? I mean, look at that face. Ripley is half this breed, so it's like looking right at Ripley's face.

Yeah. That's cute. Some of the pictures get kind of cut off because they're like vertical pictures instead of horizontal pictures. So you know, and so like I'll need to like edit some of that and and fix some of that now. Like it doesn't do a good job. GoFundMe doesn't do a great job with like the preview on that. No, it's weird. You have to launch it before you see what it actually looks like.

So anyway. But I just wanted to to put that out there. So the link for those who are not in the chat right now, I have just dumped the link. into the chat but for everyone listening the link is tiny URL.com slash cocoa becca so c o c oa b e cca b c c a b c c a yeah just two c's right yeah just c's awesome i've also added the link to your read this with amy post on quicktm s dot l nice wonderful it's underneath the pumpkin cottage oh yeah super easy to go just go straight there and click all those links that's great yeah Yeah, and I really appreciate it.

And I know that, like, you know, we've had some community members that wished to remain anonymous, but have already been extremely generous. And, you know, like, and so we put, we put that money directly towards, you know, some counseling and therapy for Becca. But we really, you know, I mean, Coco is her emotional support, right? I mean, and has been for seven years. And so there's no reason why he needs to leave early, right? Like we don't we don't want that. We want him to be around for as long as possible. The two of them need each other for as long as possible.

Correct, correct. So I, and I appreciate, you know, the, I appreciate you letting me platform this. And, you know, we have such a wonderful supportive community. And so I wanted to just give everyone the opportunity. I know everyone is completely strapped for cash right now because everything kind of sucks and is on fire. But, you know, I mean, look at his face. I know, right? His little face.

How can you not look at that face and look at the face. He's so sweet. He's like, and I can tell you, like, this dog, when we drove back from Virginia, like, originally, so it was me and Becca and her two dogs. She has another dog, but Lily's fine. So it's Coco is the one who's sick. So, uh, and, and her cat also in a carrier, all in this car, right? And so I'm sitting there and I'm driving, you know, and it's got, you know, it's an SUV,

so I've got the little center console, right? And so I just, just kind of leaning every once in a while. And I'd be sitting there just driving along and every once in a while on my, the back of my elbow, I would feel like this, of hot air, you know, because like there's this dog head, just like, and like huge, huge head. His head is like this big, you know? And he's just the sweetest. and has no concept of the fact that he is huge because he thinks he's a lap dog.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Typical chocolate lab behavior. Yeah, they don't know. They don't know. He's just the lovinous dog. It's so sweet.

He's absolutely just the sweetest. Well, go check it out again that URL is. It's right here. I just wrote it down. There it is. It is tiny URL.com slash Cocoa. And again, it's up on quicktm.S. I as well, which we always have running for all the stuff we do with Amy and everybody else on Tuesday.

Absolutely. It looks like she's in the chat right now. So hi, Becca. Oh, hi, Becca. Very nice. Amy, it's good having you on. I hope you have a fantastic time for we see you next and tell Chuck to, I don't know. I did rub his head by the way.

Oh, you did. Oh, good. That is what we would tell you to do. Yeah, always rubbed his head. It's for luck, really. This is for you. It's not just for us. Right.

Oh, no. That's a PSA. You know, you should always rub Chuck's head. Yeah, rub Chuck's head, especially when you see him in a nerdtacular this year. All right, everybody. We'll see you soon, Amy. That is going to do it for today's show except for one thing. And that is, we must play email.

This is about the jugs of pee. Now, when I say that, here's the thing, dude. I got a phone call that I had to translate. And there's some irony here. Okay. All right. I had to translate it or transcribe it so that I can read it. And then I'll play the version for the phone call.

Not the whole thing, but you'll see why I had to transcribe it. Okay. But what it's about will crack you up, given the quality of his call. I see like already calling me out like the first sentence. Okay. This is really one of my favorite things. Now, we heard from Hayes Skunk, who is a regular calling guy, awesome dude. Yeah.

He's great. This is not a poke at you, dude. I'm just, I just think this is funny. He says, hey, Scott and boo. This is Hayes. And I was just listening to episode TMS 2948. And he says he was talking about fiber and everything. And Brian, some of this may not be perfect transcription.

You'll learn. You'll hear why in a minute. But then Brian had the temetry. Tamarity. Tamarity, sorry. To say coax or some other garbage cable. Well, I have to be a cable guy up here in Minnesota for sure. And let me tell you, coax is anything but garbage cable.

Yeah. It's probably should be happened to be translated weird. Yeah, these are all translated words. He says it's all about how your cable company uses it. In fact, my cable company is in the process of rebooting our entire spectrum to provide speed faster than one gigabit. per second, which is what our top speed is currently. Fiber, on the other hand, is incredibly fragile, and unless you're good at

everything that you can in this life, not sure what that means, it will tame at the butt and break a lot. Probably terror, but I like tame at the butt. Tame at the butt. It's going to be the first person to get the title, tame at the butt. Title runoff. Somebody's

got to be quick. So think about what you say before you say it. Don't you dare call my coax a garbage cable. at a time of emergency. Anyway, love this show. Bye. All right.

I want you to hear just a little of how the call came in. All right. Sounds good. Which is funny given that we're talking about technical issues. Here you go. The son has fine. That's wrong one. That was the book.

Here we go. Now, I'll skip a heads in here. It never gets better. I think he called me booed by the way. I mean, it is horrendously bad. Did you call us from a co-ax cable? I can't tell. or afraid butt.

Did you call us from afraid butt? Did you tame at the butt and call us with that? Too funny. Anyway. Yeah, no, I get it. It's all how you use it. Yeah, that's true. Exactly.

I mean, I don't know. Here's the one thing that probably would settle this easily for us is between fiber, twisted pair, coax. What can get the most amount of data through it in the fastest amount of time? Yeah, and I'm guessing it's, I'm guessing it's, uh, fiber optic. That's what I would assume as well just because everything's switching to fiber from coax. So I'm guessing that's why. Yeah.

Because it really is about your last mile speed of what is. Right. Exactly. What is taking it from that point or from that backbone point to you at your house or you at your office. And if that's fiber, is that faster than, well, certainly it's faster than copper. Sure. Wes answers the perfectly, light is fast. Yeah.

Turns out there's not a lot of things fast as light. Yeah, yeah. FTL. FTL drives for the win. Listen, I know how to fix a twisted pair cable. I don't know how to fix coax. So that's why I'll put twisted pair above coax any day of the week. My whole, the wiring in my house I did myself.

And it's all, I was trying to figure out a way to like disconnect right at the moment. I said that, but I didn't get it fast enough. Anyway, I did all the wiring in the house myself, and it's all a twisted pair, all through the walls and the routers and stuff. Nice job. A little cap five in there. Yep. Exactly. We asked for a while there when I worked at this cable company, I was in sales, but there was a job where we had to get so much of the stuff done overnight and shipped to Idaho or somewhere.

And it had to happen. So we had kind of an all hands thing. And we worked like 16 hours straight all through the. the night and it was just me and 10 other people sitting around crimping cables making twisted pair cables it was a nightmare yeah and i never want i never want to do that again oh my god if it's fully ingrained in your head the orange orange and white blue blue and white or oh it's burned in yeah blue and white worse part is half of them were specialized and had to have a different pairing oh right so we had to keep switching back and forth and after a while they were like all right no

just you guys stay on these you guys stay on these. We have too many that aren't testing right. It was, oh, it sucked. I feel like my finger still hurt from that. Yeah. And that was forever ago. It's like, I don't know, 15 years ago. 20 years ago. Well, anyway, there you go. Thanks for your message.

You can send your messages in just like that. Hopefully on a better connection to voicecast. dot app slash TMS or you can email us the morning stream at gmail.com. Frogpants.com for everything else, it's time for us to play a song and leave you. people. So let's do it. What do we got? It is. Well, it's a crappy anniversary

according to, well, and according to me too and you two. Kipsinger, Greg says, Society, Dear Society and Benevolence, I added the deer. He just said, society and benevolence. January 20th marks the one year anniversary of the Orange A-Holes inauguration.

I stand by remarks from last year, F that dude and the shitty horse he rode in on. In honor of the shit stain's big day and the shit stain he's leaving on our You should I humbly request the following song. Bare naked ladies fight the power cover song originally by public enemy. Oh, and it's my wife's birthday. Love you.

Blah, blah, blah. Blah. Blah. I love it. I love it. It's like, damn with the power. And also my wife's having a birthday. Exactly.

This is just so, so great. Let's all fight the power in our own way. Thank you for all you do. Kipsinger, Greg. Just signed Kip Singer. Greg. Great. great request, great suggestion.

This actually came from the soundtrack to the film Coneheads, which, you know, it's not a bad. Underrated. Underrated. It's not a bad S&L adaptation, which comes from a long string of bad S&L. It's weird that it's one of my favorites because it's, it's not anything special, but I think that I'm impressed that they took something as basic as the

conehead sketch and made it, fleshed it out to be an entertaining full film is kind of a miracle. For sure. And a great soundtrack, too. Including this one right here, it's bare naked ladies from 1993 covering public enemies, Fight the Power. Sweet. Here it is. We'll be back tomorrow. We'll see you then. The Frog Pants Network. Yes. Get more at frogpans.com. Scrotum Sacks.