The Morning Stream - TMS 2954: Spoctor Dock

Episode Date: January 28, 2026

I Don't Like Beanieeeeeeeeeeees. Love No Snow Tho'. I Can Defiantly See Why You Like It. John Luck Pick Hard. Well, Actually with Dunaway. Gordon is alive. You get NO Freeze, NO Snow, and NO Lt. Yar!! How Do We Know They Are Japanese? Take a Jance on Lance. Accent On The Pee. Tron was NOT the Dude! Get These... Half-Pipers Outta the City. Raspberry Spunk and Peach Glape. Filament Go Round in Circles. Cache me outside with Tom and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Do you have the disease but can't find the cure? Good news. The cure is right here at patreon.com slash TMS. Not the band, though. Coming up on the morning stream, I don't like being knees. Love no snow, though. I can defiantly see why you like it.

John Luck Pickard. Well, actually, with Dunaway. Gordon is alive. You get no freeze, no snow, and no lieutenant y'ar. How do we know they're Japanese? Take a chance on Lance. Accent on the P. Tron was not the dude.

Get these half-pipers out of the city. Raspberry, spunk and peach glape. Filament go round in circles. Cash me outside with Tom and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. I'm thankful for Michael Jordan's gambling addiction. I'm thankful for normal foreheads. I may look like a girl, but I'm not. I'm a cyborg.

The Morning Stream. I think that'll do. Good morning and welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for Wednesday, January 28th, 2026. I am Scott Johnson. That is Brian Ibbott. Good morning. Hello.

Good morning to you, sir. Hello to you. Yes, yes. Humpty. We sit here on the edges of whatever storm everyone had. No snow still. That's great. Chilling on the periphery.

It's not that great. I mean, we had a little bit of snow, but a lot of cold. We had 72 hours of the cold. coldest temperatures we've had this season. Yeah. But very, you know, like a dusting, enough snow that you could use a leaf blower as opposed to a snowblower or a shovel. Ooh, fun. I love that kind of snow dust everywhere.

Yeah. I like that. Yeah. It's not bad. Tina did that one morning before she left for work. She's like, I'm just going to go out and do the leaf blower. I'm like, oh, cool. All right, cool. Yeah, blow it off. Do what you got to do. It worked like a sham. Like a champ. It's only 32 degrees here. It's like, that's barely freezing. like what are we doing here in Salt Lake City?

We're supposed to have the great, we claim, quote, the greatest snow on earth, unquote. I know it's arguable. A lot of other people have really cool snow. But not this year. We got nothing. We got shit. We got you. Actually, I mean, the mountains got some, but it's still like the skier, the skier, the

fissionados around here are kind of like, yeah, it's all right. But we ain't getting what we usually get. I'm just saying, man, I don't want to become a tropical paradise up here. I want to be who we are. Yeah. We want some snow. I mean, you know, if nothing else, we want to know for the high country for, like you said, for tourism and just get these skiers out of the city. Yeah, send them up there.

Especially these snowboarders. Exactly. Get those kids up there. You railers. Get up the canyon. Half pipers. Yeah, you turds. Oh, wait.

I went too far. I called them a turd. Oh, now you've done it. Guys, good news. We, I went to the P.O. box yesterday. Would you not eat my pants? I got ourselves A box of exotic Oreos

The best way I can put this Brian showed it off the other way Or the other day Yeah look at that little Dainty little carry-all For your Japanese Oreos And how do we know they're Japanese? Look at the front of that, man

We don't even know what it says This could say don't eat Keep away from people For plastic for display only Yeah we don't know Matthew Bach sent it in, our board game wagon guy, Punk Gopher 76 when he's in the chat. He says, here are some interesting cookies I found in an Asian store here in Omaha.

Hope you like them. Look forward to seeing you guys this summer. Maybe I can set up a Scott v. Brian board game like Captain Sonar game of N17. I'll take that challenge. Let's do it. Totally. I'm up for that. So let's open this up and see.

Oh, this is great. This is kind of like those little perfect mini packs of order. where you get, you know, instead of a thousand calories, you just get like 200 calories of Oreos. Yeah, which is plenty. Yeah. Yeah. Do you have a preference here on, because we have, like we talked about the other day, we got, we got Spunk. We got, uh, raspberry berry, peach grape.

Yeah, peach grape. And what was that? What was the? Matcha, matcha is the fourth one. And then what did we decide? Peach cobbler or something. Yeah. So, peach tea.

It was peach comma tea. Since we talked a lot about the peach comity, let's try that. You want to do the peach comit tea? Yeah, we'll try this today. Okay, that looks like that. White peach and u-long is what that is. All right, there are like you said, two Oreos per. Oh, there we go.

There's the white peach and uh-o-long. The Japanese ones are... Ooh, long. Oh, they smell good. Take a whiff of that. Okay, wait. We clear the passageways. Oh, a bouquet like none other.

An amusing bouquet, not too presumptuous with hints of oak and desperation. Whenever I drink wine, dirt. Yeah, dirt. All right. No offense, Barry. All right, here we go. I'm going to try this. Oh.

Worked up. I could kill a sleeve of these, dude. Oh, my gosh. Just getting. Mm-hmm. And you know what? Like Japanese confectionery, less sweet, better for me. as a guy is supposed to avoid these sort of things.

I would be okay in two of these and I would not think, I would not feel that guilty about it. Yeah, no, this is, this is very nice. Very pleasant. Yeah, I like that. Mild. It's not like waxy or weird like ours. Mm-hmm. All right.

Congratulations to us for having our first pick be good. Tomorrow we'll try, I don't know. All right, we'll figure it out. Maybe we'll take a vote in the chat today. There we go. Which Oreo we should try tomorrow. The white one we're not doing as tasting because it's the same as what we have here. Yeah, these are just regular Oreos, right?

I assume they are. Yeah. Maybe we'll eat it and it'll be like it'll taste better or something. It'll probably be less sweet like everything else. So here's what I want. One of the mods in the chat who can create poles do. We got those are your flavors here. So make us a poll for those.

Come on, Mod, come on. Now go make a clip of that and make a poll. because I'm not going to do it live on the show. All right. Yeah. Guys, a couple things. It's cold. We talked about the weather.

We did the weather here on the show here just now. Oh, my head gets so cold, Scott. I'll bet it does. Yeah. I have no hair. So it just, you know, it gets cold out there. I don't have any idea how to solve this problem. Well, and they say that the hair or the heat in your body escapes through the head, too.

So you got that double weighing going on. Well, I have I got a solution for you people at home? go now and get the I don't like bees ribbed knit beanie that's right ripped for your pleasure uh made made from uh let's see it was some kind of let's see if I find the info here it is 50% recycled polyester and 50% acrylic like a really nice sustainable material so made from lounge suits of the 70s that's right partially that's right it comes in yellow as well oh yeah let's see the yellow take a look here oh yeah oh that's a good Yeah, that's not bad. Look at it on this guy.

This handsome man. Yeah, he doesn't look too pleased about it. He doesn't look stoked, but you know what? She does. Look at her. She does. She's got a warm head. Yeah, she says to you, this look says, come here. I'm taking you somewhere. There's also a dark blue if you'd like that as well. Oh, dark blue, okay. Yeah, kind of a navy or what do they call it? Navy.

So they got black, navy, and mustard. Mustard. Yeah, mustard's in again. This is a big color this year. I was told by the Pantone people. Oh, really? Okay. But available now. Like an off white is the color of the year, some dumb thing. Yeah, they always have. That's always, you can never tell. Yeah, it's dumb.

And sometimes it's bad. Like straight up bad colors. There is also, for those who are like, man, I don't care about bees. We got the, I can definitely see why you like it, which I almost spelled as defiantly. I changed it. Thank you for not doing that. I think it was Sun Bun who caught it. So thanks Sunbone for that.

Okay. Good. But anyway, very similar. Got text on the front. There's the lady. There's the man. You know, we're all looking good. She also, wow, they were able to hold their exact same positions from the previous photo. Isn't that crazy how they're very exacting these people that we hire for our modeling?

Anyway, these are available now and up for sale. They are very, very nice. And I've, I ordered me one because I want to see it. You have to pay for your own is how it works. I know. I think I'm going to pay for my, I'm going to buy a mustard yellow. I can definitely see why. you like it. Yeah, that'll look good on you.

Yeah. These are, for whatever reason, I'm a fan of all the yellow variants in the world. Me too. So, don't know what that is about us. I like yellows and oranges. My favorite colors red. And you might say to yourself, well, Scott, how do I get this? You can just go to our website. Go to frogpants.com slash TMS. It's actually listed on our podcast page now because it does these collections. So you can go over here and you'll say, oh, there's all the info about the site,

quick TMS, L.I, all our, you know, request to songs, all that business, all the way, to listen. Oh, and then the latest merch here at the bottom, and you can even look at those color previews while you're there. Right there? Geez. I guess I'm describing how the web works here. Well, it's an improvement. It's a nice improvement

to the TMS page. Yeah, I agree. And this will be true of FilmSack and other stuff, too. So if you're interested, there's also a store link that'll just, whoops, where to go. There it is. It'll take it as kind of everything that's going on. I'm very excited about this film sack hoodie. Check this thing out. Brian, you're going to like this, I think.

Okay. Get this sweet audio tape. Oh, look at that. Yeah. And it's on the sleeve too, man. That's cool. Dang it. Isn't that cool? And you can get green, kind of a green. Oh, the green's nice. Pine green. And then there's a blue if you want that. I think these are the best colors. Anyway, yeah. There's some cool stuff up there right now. Go check it out. Frogpants.com will take you to everything. And we would love to see you in some TMS merch at some point, if you can. all right Brian it's time for the pool yes

to do that we got to bring in the pool man time for the few I don't think Donaway would care if we call them a pool guy would he what do you think you'd care I mean you know we're all pool we're all pull men here yeah let's find out tad pool oh oops that's quiet there we go

all right now I can say it hey Brian Donaway are you the pool man oh hi Scott and Brian I am the pool man I'm here to hang out with your wife. Oh, and clean the pool. I'm clean the pool. That is the stereotype. I'm here to clean the pool.

That's right. Yeah, fix the pipes, deliver a pizza or clean the pool. It's one of those three always. Yeah, I don't know what else. Anything else than that, it just feels like they're trying too hard. Just go for the easy three. Yeah, exactly. Try it and true.

Use the ones that work. Yeah. Well, I know one that works for sure, and that is Brian Dunnoy. He's working now, but he takes time out of his busy day. and spend some time with us. Some people call it a lunch. Yeah, you might call it a lunch break. We'd call it a done away break.

And today, we're going to put, I've been here for years. We're going to play a game called Tad Pooley Feud. We play it on Wednesdays. Brian Abbott here, we'll explain the whole damned thing. That's right. It's time to play the Tad Pooley feud. I've surveyed the Tadpool on some nerdy topics.

And Scott and Brian will have to predict the answers they gave us. It's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Now at the end of the game, we're going to add up all the points. We'll probably do it during the game, too. I don't know. And the winner will actually be winning prizes for their listener contestant. Contestants who've been pulled from our support is on Patreon at patreon. At patreon.com slash TMS.

Scott, you're playing for, uh, it says Jan. I think it's supposed to be Lance, right? I think I typed a J. Oh, uh, I like Jance. That's a great name. Chance. Uh, hold on. I have it written somewhere.

It is Lance Richardson. Ah, kind of like Jans. but we'll take a chance on chance. Yeah. Take a lance on me. Brian, you're playing for Paul Reedlinger. Readlinger. Or ridelinger.

Actually, it's probably ridelinger because it's the IED. Hall. Which means drive longer in France. Yes. Uh-huh. Very good. Ride linger. We got you, Paul.

Linger longer in my ride. Anyway. It's a terrible joke that I can make it. Linger. Yeah. All right. Did you have to? Did you have to?

Let's get to the Tadpooler feud. Yeah. I get a little fun twist on this one today, a requirement. We'll get to that now. Now, please. Put your hands on your buzzards. And we asked 200, no, we asked 472 tadpoolers. Push up your glasses and your best nerd voice.

Name a commonly misnamed or mispronounced character from Tadpoolers. TV, movies, or video games. Lord, that question. It's like a mile long. Ryu Ryu and Ryu from Street Fighter. Okay, don't focus too much on the mispronounced, by the way. Misnamed is probably the bigger one. Oh, misnamed.

Oh. Misnamed. Okay, I'm misunderstood. I'll let you have another. Sorry, Brian. I'm going to let him have another chance because he. No, please do because I didn't understand the question. Even still.

I've heard the whole thing. So a commonly misnamed character from TV's, movies, or video games. and you do need to deliver your answer in a nerd voice like you're correcting somebody. Holy shit. Like you're pedantically correcting somebody. I got you. Okay. Well, then I, um, uh, oh, that's harder.

I get, I get the vibe now. Yeah. Uh, actually it's Gene Luck Pickard. I can't think of anything else. Gene luck, I love it. Show me. Show me. It's Jean-Luck Pickard.

Brian, any answer on the board will get you control. So I'm thinking there's commonly mispronounced. I think of some of them of them. Oh, me misnamed. Okay, okay. I got you're doing like I did. It's hard to separate the two. Yeah.

As a matter of fact, if I actually, actually, that's Frankenstein's monster. Oh. Show me. Frankenstein's monster. That's a good one. Perfectly. That is exactly what I'm looking for here. Now I actually am getting that help.

The doctor was named Frankenstein. The monster is Frankenstein's monster. Monster. Good one, dude. Perfect. All right. Yes, you've got the, now you guys have the gist of this thing.

Brian, you've got control of the board. Nine answers to pick from what you got. Well, it's Scott. Will I've been to come to this one, so I better mention it now. Well, actually, Zelda is... Shit! Zelda is the princess. Yeah.

Nice job. These voices are killing me. Yes, very good. Link, not Zelda. Yes. Right, right. Gosh, dang it. Dude.

I'm going to get wrecked. Oh, geez. Actually, I may get some low-hanging fruit here. No, I'm thinking of some trying because those are the two quick, easy ones. Yes, those are... And I'm like... You can tell because, you know, 472 people responded, and that's 179 of them are those two right there. Oh, wow.

Yeah. Yeah, that's funny. So now I'm thinking about all the misquoted stuff and not misnamed. What do you think? Actually is Ms. Peckman. I love that one, dude. As opposed to Mrs. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Show me, Moose Pac-Man. Oh, that was a good one. That was a very good one. By the way, I should say that one person did put Jean-Luc Pickard or John Luck Pickard in the answer. Whoever that was, I see you, and I appreciate you. You are seeing. I'm going to stick of video games, and I'm going to say, actually, it's Metroid is not her name. Her name is Sammis.

So, Metroid or Samus or something like that. We're really getting into the game stuff. Perfect. Yep. All right. Number five. So five points for Scott to Brian's three. Okay. What's another one recently? Oh, man. I am like drawing blanks. Yeah. How about?

Would you see these? You're going to love them. If we, if once, you know, whether you guess the answers or after reveal them at the end, they're fantastic. I'm going to take a guess based on Tadpool participation. This may be a huge mistake or exactly what I should say. and it'll be like number three. So I'm going to say, well, actually, Pumba, was the pit, and it went. Yes, yes. Pumba was the board hug.

That's a good, that's good one because we get those confused, right? Yeah. Yes. Oh, that was a good one. It's a very good one, and it was number 12. So I want to make sure you know that it was just barely out of the, out of the top i mean it's such a strong meme for the show i just thought there's somebody well obviously it if it's a 12 that's pretty good well yeah exactly yes that's a spiritual win is what that is

it's a spiritual win yes exactly all right done away brian what's what you got jesus jesus um jesus yeah well actually is the the son of god it's uh let me see um oh my gosh i am drawing Pretty hard, yeah. It's pretty hard. Yeah, now it's getting kind of difficult. Well, actually, the comic book guy is, dude, I don't know.

What else is there? You know, you guys have got a lot harder. There's got to be some Harry Potter confusion. It's always Harry Potter. Well, sure. We just saying. Sure. Now, you guys, you know,

you're definitely thinking of like the, the, no, that character is actually called this. Think also of, like, oh, you know, I've been calling this character the wrong name or something like that. That's different. Okay. Yeah. Or can it be that we write?

I think I may know one that if we write it wrong. Well, it could be. It sounds the same. Okay. All right. I've been watching icons. And I'm going through like, like, little documentary things on Prime. I've been watching the Star Wars and the Star Trek and everything else.

And, man, I just wanted to say that I, it's misquoted. did the Luke I am your father thing but that's not a character. I will tell you there are no quotes. There are no quotes in this thing. All right. It was a nice sneaky way. Actually.

Yeah. A good way of not wasting a strike. I don't know. That timer button needs to be pressed. Yeah. There we need to turn that timer on. There we go. Timers on. Much you got.

Timer, no timer. Seven seconds. Six. Actually, his first. name is pee we in Herman oh shit

that was funny the exit is on the we not on the pee all right I'm going to do all right I'm going to go to chat room from my final strike because I

I got nothing yeah you certainly can yep I'm going to do now I'm nervous okay let's do Doctor Who versus Doctor Who with a period. So you know how they do doctor?

You're supposed to be the doctor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And then some people just say D-R period, who. Sure. Okay. All right. I'm going to go with that.

Show me what Scott just said. Oh, look at that. On the right track, it doesn't, basically he's the doctor. The character's name is the doctor. Oh, either way, it's not Dr. Who's last name isn't who. His last name is not who. Right.

Exactly. Right, right, right. It doesn't matter if you do it with a DR or spell out doctor. You're on the right. It's not about it. You're right. Okay. So I feel like I'm skeached by with that one.

You kind of skeached. I granted you a little bit of generosity with that one. I like that. It's by the way for Scott now. Well, now I'm really confused. Now I can't stop thinking about, well, if he's not Doctor Who, then why is it called Doctor Who? Whatever.

Exactly. Move along. Let's do the DC Shazam slash Captain Marvel business. Very good. Yeah, okay. Show me. Actually, his name. Do you want to do it in the voice?

Come on. Oh, actually, his name is not Shazam. It's Billy the kid or whatever. It's Captain Marvel is what I would say. Oh, are you kidding me? I just wanted you to do the voice. The, let's see, Tadpool. I want to say that did come up with one person.

That just seems like it should be a number, top five. Oh, would you see the top 10? You'll you'll understand why it's not in there. You'll crap blood. Wild to me. You'll crap blood, exactly. I look forward to that. All right. Last strikes for you guys. There's

six answers still on the board. And I have went to the chat room for my last strike because I'm a chicken shit. And so I do remember getting a lot of crap from people when we started seeing a baby Yoda.

It's not baby Yoda. He's not Yoda is Grogoo. Yeah, we didn't know until they gave him the name, but I think that's pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Show me that. Number four answer you.

Yeah. Okay, I'm leading by one point. Woo. All right. Oh, my gosh, dude. This is coming down to it. Oh, even the chat room has kind of given me. Well, shit, I'm looking there too now.

I'm looking in. Yeah, yeah. On my last strike, I don't, I don't care. I'll go my last strike. Yeah, there's some great. there's some great wrong answers in the yeah i was about to say i'm seeing all kinds of stuff

um oh my god captain but you just said captain marvel versus chuzam didn't you or did you i did yeah yeah ooh ooh oh i like matuba i like matuba oh and other people are saying now too uh t r p w is also saying uh actually

mr spock is not a doctor it is mr spock yeah no doctor smock Dr. Spock was a real guy. You're thinking of the guy who told you about your babies. Yeah. Right. All right. Show me all that.

Number six. Damn it. Damn it. It's Mr. That doctor spec. Is doctor? All right. Shit, I don't know.

These other things are. Yeah. A lot of these are horseshit. No, that I'm looking at the chat. You know, even though the thing is crap. Yeah. I'm going to go with something, something. Knight Rider like BioCal Sid.

Well, actually, the car's name is Ryder. Yeah, I was wondering how you were going to work that. Okay, all right. Yeah, do that one. Show me anything related to Knight Rider. Anything.

I love, I just want to call out MaxTrollbot for one of these. He says John McLean is actually not named Die Hard. That's funny. Okay. Boy, the problem is everybody's kind of using the same ones or they're ridiculous. I do like this one, though. That's an actor, though. Okay, I'll say it this way.

Clue is not Tron. Okay. That's a good point. That's a good point. Yeah, people do that. Shout out to Syrinx for this one. I feel pretty good about that. I don't know where the Tron fandom is in our

tadpole. Right, right. But that is a discussion I've heard. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, show me. Oh, you didn't do it in the voice, Scott. Oh, so actually, the dude who is the guy, I can't think of anyone's name.

What's wrong with me? Bridges, Jeff Bridges. Jeff Bridges does not play the titular character, Tron. It's not about him. He's not the main character. Kevin Flynn is who you're looking for. Kevin Flynn. Well, Clue, technically, it's because he's in the game is clue. The game is clue.

Yep. All right. Show me any variation of that. All that work for nothing. Again, I just really wanted you to work for it. Damn it. Yeah, no. But that's, there we go.

That's game. Brian with 13. Scott with eight. Let's look at the rest of these answers. One of my favorites, by the way. I've loved this one. This is great. Yeah, this is fun.

All right. It is, it's actually Darth, not Darth. Vader. Oh, shit. Yeah, that's the one for the kids. Kids always get that right. For the kids,

yeah, his name is Dark Vader. This one is, is commonly misnamed within the show, within the TV show that he's on. And I just love the fact that this came up as high as it did. Jerry, Gary, Gary, Larry,

Gingrich, Gergich on Parks and Recreation. Oh, yeah. That's a good one. Even though it's, the fans don't get it wrong, but in the show, they get it. I like that.

Yes, the fact that the characters constantly. And then finally, the very last episode, he tells you that it is actually Larry, not Jared. Not even. Yeah. Number nine, this is one of those mispronounced ones. Hermione from Harry Potter. Oh. From Mary Potter?

I want to see Mary Potter. I love it. Well, what do they say? Hermione. How do people say it? Do people say it wrong? That's how I said it when I was. my head when I was reading the books before the movies

because I'd never even seen that as a name before. That's a good point. Now you say that. What did I have? Did I read it before I heard it? Hermie one. I saw the first movie before I read any of the books. Okay. So you already knew. You knew Hermione from the beginning.

And finally, in the top ten anyway, the character's name is Jigsah, the puppet's name is Billy. Billy. Okay. Oh, actually didn't know that. Yeah, three people in the chat room are bothered enough by it to use it as an answer. And then our bonus question or bonus answer was it's pronounced Mario, not Mario.

Listen, a shout out to our Canadian friends. They all say Mario. There's no getting around it. They just all do. An entire nation of people say Mario. Just to round out a few more Chester Cheetah, of course, was number 14. Her name is Generes-Tarion. Her name is not Calisi.

That's your title. It's Lara, not Laura Croft. Oh, man. Oh, that's a good one. Randy, get out of there. Randy. The Rack's name is Remy, not Rattatooey. Yeah.

Yeah, that's right. That's a good one. Onion Egg from Arrested Development. Anybody do Jump Man and Mario at all? One person said Jump Man. Yep. Anyone Nicole references, somebody said. Seriously.

Baron Stain Bears, so like a little... Oh, Mandela-FX stuff, yeah. Chinnambler Bong got one. Chenandler Bong. Yes. Well done. Leonard Bones McCoy. They didn't say what...

Oh, gonged droid. It's actually the G&K series Power Droid. Oh, that's great. Did anybody do Mulva? Please tell me someone did Mulva. Nobody did Mulva. No, I'm really surprised. I'm disappointed.

Nobody's good at Mova. Yeah. Yeah. It's not Lilo Delt multipass. Her name is Lerlis. Yeah. It's not Lieutenant Reg. Broccoli.

It's Barclay. It's another one where it's like in the in the shell. Sure. Midge Simpson. Oh, I love that one. Mo does that. Hey, Hey,

Hey, Homa, tell Midge. Tell Midge I said hello. I love that. Super Nintendo Chalmers. Oh, here's one. The Mandalorian's name is Dindig. Jaron, not the Mandalorian.

Oh, I see. Okay. That one's a picky one. That's a deep, that's a deep cut. Was there any, I see the chat room talking about Alpha a lot, and I just wasn't sure. Alf never know, like, so many people. Well, he's called Alf, right? Plenty of people on the, he's called out.

They call him Alf on the show, even though, yeah, his, I think it has to do with the Sherman or something, like his. Gordon Shumway is his actual, is the character's name. And Elf is short for alien life for him. but they call him, Oh, Alf, where's the cat?

Did you eat the cat again? Oh, wow. Gordon Shumway, I always mix up with what Sting's real name is. He's Gordon Sumner. Yeah, and I always mix those two up. So when you guys keep putting Shumway in there,

I'm like, I'm not doing the Sting thing. Anyway. Actually, his name is Gordon Sumner, not Sting. So we got to... Sex for four hours because of tantric meditation.

That's right. That guy's still doing it in style. Congratulations. That goes out to our, A couple of winners. Our first big winner, though, Brian. What did they win today? Yeah.

Well, Paul Rydlinger is getting some great games today. Sid Meyers' Civilization 3 Complete and Sid Meyers' Ace Patrol Pacific Skies, courtesy of Thorin. Nice. And just the civilization keeps on coming. Lance Richardson, you're or Jans, if you'd like to be called that. You're getting a copy of Sid Meyers' Civilization 4, the Complete Edition. Oh, that's pretty good.

Not bad at all. Games for both of you. I think everybody wins, yeah. Yeah. I don't feel so bad because I would have lost if it and been for the chat room for sure. Yeah. Oh, for sure. We need these people.

I was out. We do. Keep it coming, everybody. When we put up these surveys, just make sure you get your voice in there because you're the reason we get to do these. Brian Dunaway, well done. You've won for the guy. And that means in your private messages on your Patreon, you guys will get your codes today. Watch for those.

Okay. Look for them. Look for them wherever you get your messages. Today at 4 p.m. Brian Don't know why. Why? Brian Don't know why. And I. We get together and we talk about Gorf.

Gorf. Oh, Gorf. Brian, Gorf and I go way back. I know you do as well. It was like this weird ass game that was like, hey, what if we ripped off space invaders? A little space invaders. Yeah, exactly. Even a little tempest.

It's weird the way that thing worked. but it was kind of tempest. And then it would kind of repeat and it had the weird voiceover stuff. It was supposed to originally be a Star Trek game. We're going to get all into that stuff. Tonight. We're going to get all up with this gulf.

Yeah, it's going to be great. I look forward to it. Don't know anything else you want to add or say? No, I just had a gorph in good time. Appreciate you guys. Did you? Well, kiss our butts then. All right, he's out.

He's out. Cool. But someone else is in. Who's in? Who? Well, I'm going to let you, you could probably guess. Okay.

I'm not going to tell you. though. We're going to just instead show the people who's here and we're going to do it by playing this. Isn't technology wonderful? It sure can be. But only when my friend and pal and friend of the program Tom Marrott is involved. Hello Tom Merritt. Welcome. Hey, you gave it away.

Oh, shoot. Oh, that's the second person I would have guessed though. Who is the first? Gordon Schumway. Yeah. Only because we said his name so many times he had to appear. Yeah. It's burned into our heads now.

If he didn't, I'd call the police. Yeah. Oh, I see what you did. Nope. Nope. Nope. You're thinking of a Gordon Sumner. Come on now. That's some synchronicity. Well done. Hey, Tom Merritt, you're here. We're going to talk about some tech.

The Daily Tech News show is confused all the time. That's right. These Gordons. Too many Gorin's. I'll tell you what. Gordon Lightfoot. That don't even get started on that guy. Yeah. I love his fish sticks. Yeah, they're amazing.

This stupid raincoat. Anyway, hey, let's get to it. We like to have Tom on for lots of reasons, but one of them is you guys have been asking us some amazing questions. Yeah. About tech. And then Tom comes in here and tackles those questions. And he does it with that. Rob Dunwood actually was a defensive tackle.

So I've tried to imagine what it would be like. Is that true? I didn't know this. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's awesome. I love Rob. He's now I know he can take me down. That's the important thing.

Let's get to this question this week. Aaron W. uh, writes in with this one. and it goes like this. And this is a really interesting question. One I probably have known. I don't think I've ever thought about this before, but it's a great question. These things tend to be kind of transparent, and so we don't really think about it.

But he says, if I stream a song or video, does it use the same amount of data as if I were simply to download it? Also, if I stream a song or movie on my phone and then immediately watch it again or listen again, does it count as though I've used that amount of data twice? And then he says in parentheses, I imagine a phone. or streaming device would have some sort of cash question mark on parentheses. I think he knows a little more about this topic than maybe he wants to let him. Where do you, I guess I, I feel like if someone asked me this point blank, I might have a decent guess, but I really don't know. So what did you? Yeah, yeah. What do you know? No, I had a decent guess and it turned out to be pretty close to right. But I know there is

one of you out there going like, well, why do you care? And there could be lots of reasons. Maybe you're on a bandwidth metered mobile account. Maybe you're worried about data centers. Maybe you just want to know, okay? Sometimes it can be curious questions. Maybe you're just like, huh, I've always wondered. Turns out, generally speaking, it depends on the surface. It depends on the instance.

But generally speaking, when you stream a song, you are using a little bit more data than if you have it downloaded and are listening to it locally. And that's because of a lot of different things going on. When you download a song, it's more straightforward. You download the file, you have it on your device, and then every time you listen to it after that, you're listening to it from the device,

so you're not using a lot of data. You might be using a little data if it's reporting the play, depending on what service you're using. You might be using a little data if there's DRM that has to phone a server or something like that. But generally speaking, when you've downloaded it, you're using very little data.

When you're streaming it, there's a lot more communication has to go on about like, how far ahead are you? Do you have all the bits? You know, if you stop playing it, you've downloaded a bunch of the song

that you didn't need. That you never listened to? Because it's always trying to download ahead of where you are. There's also just, generally speaking, a lot of, a lot of stuff going on with streaming that's doing things like variable bit rate.

So if you're on a mobile connection and your connection's low, it's going to be sending a lower version. But as soon as you get on a fast connection, it'll adapt and start sending you a higher version, right? So, you know, theoretically, if you download like an uncompressed augurbus version of a song versus streaming on a really bad connection at a high compression rate, then maybe the streaming would be lower.

That's why you can't just blanket, say, in every case, it's different. But generally speaking, when you're streaming, you're using a little bit more data, not a lot more data. And Aaron pointed out the cash thing. If you are listening to a song immediately after you played it, you probably aren't downloading a lot more. There's probably a little bit of communication to say you've played it and stuff, but

it's probably cached. With video, there's a lot less caching going on. With video, because video is so much bigger, they are cashing a couple of minutes. So if you replay the video, you're probably downloading a big part of the video again. And so with video, I would say, yeah, your caching doesn't have much of an effect. With audio, it does, unless you're in a browser. If you're in a browser, they're probably not caching a whole lot of that thing. They're probably going and streaming it all over again.

Okay. That is actually roughly what I expected. And I also think it's a timing thing. So if you, well, let's talk about this. So let's say I just listened to, did this yesterday, a remix of the Blade Club sound. or music from the Blade movie. Love that song. It's a really great cover I found.

So I played that. And then I got to the end of it. And another song started playing and I went, well, I'd really like to hear that again. I didn't download it. I just liked it. And then it's in my history, but I didn't download it.

It's still like a thing, you know, that I have to click on to say play again. And I immediately went and played it again. Yeah. Is it possible that that interaction with that song, as opposed to a day later or a week later, that little right after interaction means that I had some kind of catching going on? Oh, yeah, no, absolutely.

A week later, you might be streaming it all over again. In fact, you probably will, depending on the service, because some services do notice, like, oh, you play this song a lot. I'm just going to download it and keep it local for you. So there's some smarts going on in some of these services, so it depends. But if you play it immediately, yes, especially with songs in apps, you are definitely likely to be getting that song from your local cash. Again, except for browsers, because browsers just, they cache things differently. And so there's less likelihood that it could cache it. Okay.

That's interesting. I'm, I guess I thought that there was, I don't know, I guess I thought there was more you're redoing it every time. And so maybe if you're concerned about this or like, I'm not saying this as errands, but if somebody wrote in and said, you know, what I want to do is just I'm trying to have less of a carbon footprint personally. What can I do? What are things I can trim or do? So if I download them the song once, the first time I hear it, well, now it's on my device, like you said, and I'm not pulling data other than DRM checks or something. So for those people, you still probably want to tell them that. But it's good to know how these things work.

And there's probably some cloudy stuff going on that we don't even know about that just helps load and distribution. Yeah. Play caching. Right. And, yeah, there are some services who will try to guess what you're going to play and then cash that stuff so that it plays faster, you know, and they don't have to go fetch it for you. That'll happen in video sometimes. YouTube does some smart downloading.

Debate how smart it is, depending on who you are. But they try. I would say if you are concerned about this, for whatever reason, you should probably mark those for offline play. That's usually how it is phrased versus downloading. I think with downloading, people think, oh, I'm buying it and keeping it. But if you market for offline play, sometimes it's directly called downloading, whether you use an Apple music or Spotify or title or whatever, market for offline play, that'll make sure that it's local. And then every time you're playing it, you're playing it off of your local. That will use storage on your device. So if you don't have a lot of storage on your device, keep that at mind too.

Right. It's interesting because if anything, this helps me illustrate or helps in my head illustrate why cloud services like Azure and AWS from Amazon and CloudFlare and all these people. Fair? Flair. Flair. Cloud Flair is doing a different thing than AWS, but generally speaking, they're all. Sure. They've all got kind of these cloud services, and they, no wonder that's their prime business in a lot of way. Well, certainly, Microsoft's entire push is all around Azure and stuff. Because at some point, everything we consume that is internet connected will need this infrastructure. So no wonder they're super stoked about it. You know? Yeah. And that's why Google is trying to increase its cloud business as well. That is the fuel for corporate business, right? Being able to provide cloud service. AWS makes most of the money for Amazon. Azure makes most of the money for Microsoft. Advertising makes most of the money for Alphabet. So Google would love to increase the cloud business and make more money off of that. And it has been succeeding at that. Yeah. You know, I would argue that Apple, Apple probably regrets that they didn't think of the cloud thing earlier.

Like they use everybody else's. Sure, yeah. I mean, Apple has their own servers. It has their own cloud system. But they tend to use more than they have set up for themselves. So they use a lot of other people's systems. In fact, that is kind of the major part of the Gemini announcement. Everybody focused on like, oh, Apple's going to use Google stuff for serious. It's that moment when Bill Gates showed up at Macworld on the screen. And it's sort of like that. But honestly, the bigger part of that contract is Apple agreeing to use Google Cloud.

I mean, that's what Google wanted. They wanted that cloud contract from Apple and they got it. And Apple doesn't seem interested in being a cloud business. That is a whole other business and it's very consumer-oriented. Apple is very consumer-oriented and Cloud is not. No. And Cloud is increasingly tied to consumer business. but they already, fine, they'll connect, you know, the devices people have in their hands or on their desktops or wherever they take them, that's what they want, because someone's got to make that.

It's kind of like saying, should Apple have been an ISP? Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a good point. Because you can't use Apple devices without the internet. And there was a lot of talk, you know, 20 years ago about, oh, Apple might start an ISP. And then, you know, ISPs became commoditized and not high value. And Apple really, Apple never got into it and probably wisely so. Yeah. I'm not saying that the same thing will happen to Cloud necessarily,

but it is a service that is provided versus a consumer-facing product. Right. I agree. Well, a good thing there's not a lot of strife in Cloud. Get it Cloud Stripe, the character from Final Fantasy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been holding that for a while, been trying to find a place to play. And I just set it out there and I just said, go ahead, shoot that apart, let that joke die. Now you are the master. Well, this is all good.

I love these, I love these Q&As that we've been doing and we'll do more in the future. Tom, what sort of digital content will you have to download for people soon? Yes, this book synced. Yeah. Oh, look at it. Physical. You can buy it as paper. But you know what weighs less?

Buying it digitally. And you can do that as well at DailyTechnewshow.com slash store. You can also get it on Kindle. If you're a Kindle person, I'm not against that. Please go do that. but if you if you like the ePUB PDF stuff if you go to daily technewshow.com slash story, you can get my book synced. Alison Sheridan has been sending me updates as she reads synced with like little Easter eggs

that she's found that I forgot I put in there and questions about things. And so it's really restored my faith in my own book. I'm like, oh, maybe it is really interesting for people. So if you want to get up to speed on technology, there's chapters in there about all phases of technology from chips to cars to phones, check out synced by Tom Merritt, wherever fine books are vended. So funny, that's the most Allison shared

and thing I've heard ever, because she would totally do that. She's so detail-oriented. I love that. And we might see her at Nerdtacular. I heard her rumor. Really? Yeah.

Okay. That would be awesome. It's a rumor, I think of rumor only, but I want it to happen because I love her and her. Ming Chi Kuo says that Mark German. Yeah, Mark German.

You know, he's pretty reliable on these rumors. So we'll see how it goes. Tom Merritt, everybody, watch him as... Before you go, we also have one other thing to plug. Daily Music Headlines. Thank you. I almost forgot. Yeah, yeah. Once again, doing a live stream watchalong of the Grammys.

This time, we've decided, let's do it in audio. We'll just do it in Discord, make it really easy for folks. They don't have to worry about having two separate videos up. And really, what are they looking at with us, right? So Tom, Eileen, Amos, Hammond, and me all watching the Grammys with you. and basically just ripping on whatever everybody's wearing, basically. Yeah. And when we say ripping on what everyone's wearing, we mean each other.

Yeah, exactly. As it should be. When is this? You guys give it time? When's the... Sunday night is the Grammys live stream, Paramount Plus, CBS, wherever you're going to watch it. Check your local listings for what time it starts. But it's like 6 or 7 p.m. wherever you're at.

Nice. I love this. Yeah. It's on a CBS Paramount Plus. That's it. Yeah, right. Okay. You said them all.

I said them all, both of them. Sweet. You said all both of them. I was thinking there was the third thing that CBS had, but they don't. Main telecast starts at 8 p.m. Eastern. Nice. 8 p.m. Eastern. There you go.

Catch it or be dumb. Tom, we'll see you next time. Not you won't be dumb. You'll all be fine. Yeah. Oh, gosh. Yeah, I didn't mean to disparage. Oh, why would you say such a thing about these people?

Oh, Mary. Every time I'm married. I hate that movie. Mary, you want the moon? I'll throw a lash all around. I'm telling you on the moon. I like everything about that movie, but that kid. That little kid.

Who's still with us. Zuzu's pedal. Zuzu. Still around, does cons and stuff. She's a wonderful life con. Yeah. Every year they get a little of that going on. I don't actually know.

I saw some picture of her sign and stuff and it looked like a convention, but that whole angel gets its wings line. It's not her fault. That's I blame time and era. By the way, thanks to whoever put together the poll. We've got a poll in our

in our chat, stream chat. Which Oreos do we try next? Currently leading is the berry combo, the blueberry raspberry combo. So there you'll be tomorrow. Yeah, and that was actually me because

Oh, you did, okay. Because apparently I thought everyone had access to it and they don't. Oh. So I did it while Tom was pontificating. Tom,

Tomcifitating. Tompificating. Oh, tompification is a podcast name. There you go. Just grab it. Quick, somebody grab it. It looks like it's going to run for the total of 10 minutes. So when that pulls over, we'll tell you the results.

And we'll see how it goes. All right, guys, time for a quick email. Let's see, I've got a clip for that now. This is about the jugs of pee. This is from, let's see, Sean, who says, you are in the car. The radio is off. you turn it on. What channel do you surf to for the mood you are in right now?

Right this second. Right, and we're going back in time a bit with the radio idea. We are. Can I use SiriusXM as an example? Because I'm obviously, I don't know what the radio landscape is in Denver right now, but KBCO is usually my terrestrial radio go-to in their alternative station. I think if you can do it in your car, it counts. Okay.

Unless it's your phone. We're not counting your phone. By default, when I turn on SiriusXM in my car, it's playing the Howard Stern channel. And if he's not interviewing somebody, there's a fairly good chance I'm going to switch it to to Alt Nation or the Spectrum. Spectrum is like a good variety of stuff.

You'll hear Strawberry Fields Forever by the Beatles and then you'll hear a new Mumford & Sons or Lumineers song. It like bounces around and it's really, really good. Wow. All right. I like your answer. So you can find your mood, sorry, you can find a match for your mood pretty easy.

Pretty easily. And if it's not one of those, like, when I'm just, when I'm doing Uber, it's a lot of the times it's either my own personal, you know, Apple Music Radio Station, just based on what I listen to a lot of, and that seems to fit the mood. Or I put it on chill,

which is kind of the down-tempo house electronic music. But, well, not quite that fast. oomts, oomts, right. Exactly, yeah. For me, it's an alternative station we have here locally called X96. They've been around since, when before that, they were called KJQ. When I was in high school, they've started when I was in high school, and they've carried on through today with most of the hosts intact.

That's cool. It's crazy. And not bought out by, by Heart Radio or anybody? No, they were bought by, is it clear, they were bought by Clear Channel, but they had a special arrangement where Clear Channel could not change Yep Anything of it was some deal they made because they were all threatening to leave or something Yeah, it was a whole thing

KBCO had that same deal which is great yeah Yeah so I I I really like that channel and it's almost always they're going to be playing some alternative 90s 80s You know they'll do entire block parties of Depeche mode or something They like to go way back and dip into the the stuff that I think of from high school so it's all alternative, new wave. Some modern stuff, but most of the modern stuff fits into that kind of alternative

category, whatever that is today. Yeah, yeah. But sometimes that includes a Billy Elish song because she's kind of alternative in a weird way. She easily crosses that line. Yeah, pop alternative, yeah. So that's where I go to answer your question there. I forgot his name. It's, uh, his name is Sean. Thank you, Sean. I don't think it's Saronick, Sean, but it could be. It could be one of our Shons from the, uh,

from the great Seananing on A&P when we got rid of three shans all at once. Yeah, one of the W. Sean's according to the email. So which one of you is not a scene or, O-O-O-O-S-H-A-W-N, I search. Yeah. My niece goes by Sean with a you. Yeah.

We call her Shawnee. She's awesome, by the way. She has this laugh that if you could bottle it and sell it. I have a very popular Etsy store. That's what I'm saying. Really? That's sweet. Oh, she has the best laugh. She's so great.

I love that. I love her. All right, that is it for that. Now, oh, if you'd like to send us your own content, this email, that's what this was, came to us at the morning stream at gmail.com. But if you go to the website, frogpans.com slash TMS, you'll find all the ways to contact us. There's voicemails. There's text.

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Brian, let's get out of here with a song. Do you have something to play? Sure. And responding to a stigma who said did Frogpants or Coverville watch any of Wonder Man yet? I watched the first three episodes last night and I am loving the slow vibe. It reminds me a lot of

like the earlier Disney Plus Marvel shows like Wanda Vision and Winter Soldier, Falcon Winter Soldier. It's it's Instead of just going headlong right into, here's the hero's powers. Love that.

It's nice. It's a nice slow build, and it really develops the characters. I meant to ask you, because I didn't get a chance to see yet, and I knew they dropped it all, but probably not enough time to binge the whole thing. Yeah,

we watched, last night we watched Elio, the Disney movie, because it's one of the nominated animated films that's going to lose to K-pop demon hunters. You're not wrong. And it's very good. Oh my God.

It's so sweet and cute. And the animation is fantastic. Some of the best Disney 3D animation I think I've ever seen. Yeah. I've heard really special stuff. So that's not Pixar. That's straight Disney. That's straight Disney.

Luca is the Disney Pixar one. Oh, that's right. Wait, Luca was this year? Luke was old. Luke is 2025, yeah. Luca is the other one that's that is up for best animated feature.

I could have sworn that was years old. I know. 2021, isn't it? Yeah, this is old. 2021? What's the other one then that's nominated? It's Disney.

Let's see. Am I thinking of the right one? Yeah, Luca 2021 with Jacob Trembly and Arco. Sorry, Arco is the other one. Polo. Just kidding. Or no, or is it Arco I'm thinking of?

No, it's Zootopia. maybe that's it. Zootopia is definitely the Disney deal. Oh, Disney up against their own. They got two in there? Yeah, they got two in there. Oh, it's like the Benincio del Toro slash Sean Penn fight. Right, right.

Yeah, Ilio's the right, exactly. And then Little Amelie or the character of rain. Arco, yeah, Arco's not. That's totally a different thing, but I was probably, I must have been thinking of Arco in the name. Arco, Lucco, Elio, Uma, Oprah, whatever. Call the whole thing. exactly. Still haven't seen Lucas, so I don't know. This is my new face for the rest of the show. I'm just going to be.

Jeez. Yeah, I'm just going to be Sean Penn at the end. One of the great moments of that movie. Yeah. I think about that movie a lot. I think that means it probably... I feel like it's got a very strong chance of winning. I know Sinners is just the favorite because of how many nominations it has, but I think for

best picture, I see Paul. Paul Thomas Anderson getting that one. Yeah, I think so too. Yeah. All right. Well, let's get out of here with it. Oh, oh, one last thing I forgot to say. If you go to the website and you click it anywhere on the site, so frogpants.com, including the TMS site, but really anywhere, I put that Frogpants Oscar pool right up top.

Oh, cool. So you go just click that and join the Oscar pool. It'll take you straight to this little form and you just fill out who you think's going to win. And at the end of that, like five of you are going to get some cool prizes in the mail. that's awesome for being the closest pick so um go be a part of it over at frogpants.com all right let's play a song and go all right uh let's see i am sci-fi says hey there scorch and bonnet it's ian and it's time once again for me to get older i'm trying to look into why but i feel like it's happening every 365 days or so barring every four where there's an extra day for some reason as it is my 42nd year i'd like to represent

my baseball loving self with this request and have mario or i'm sorry mariano rivera come out to close this one with Enders Sandman. Any cover will do, and may the Yankees not suck this year. Love the answer to life, the universe, and everything, though. I am sci-fi Ian. Nice. Love hearing from Ian. Happy birthday, dude. Yeah. All right. This is, he basically just said, any cover of Enter Sandman?

Well, you asked for it. No, this is one that I think a lot of people are going to love. So Ghost came out with a recent cover album. They always slip in a cover here and there on their albums. But they also contributed to a try. tribute to Metallica, called the Metallica Blacklist that, like Luca, came out in 2021 for some reason. It's a ghost and their cover of Enter Sandman. Say your prayers, little one, don't forget my son to include everyone.

I'll tuck you in, warm within, keep you free from sin till the sand an he comes. Sleep with one eye open Gripping your pillow tight Exit light End a night Never never land Was part of the Frog Pants Network Yes

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