The Morning Stream - TMS 2958: Junior Warburton

Episode Date: February 4, 2026

Tugging on the Teats of my Routers. See-o-lay! Where's Old Belgium? Hello Luke and Bo. Brian's Food Porn. I know everything except the title. Battle of Bulging Creek. Squid Cock. Alcohol Salad. Ribbed Sauce for your pleasure. Big Baby's tippy top went flippity flop. More Hard Drive Than Man. Pirate apogee. Big Bopper and Buddy Holly will return in Avengers Doomsday. Spin storage with Tom and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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with Tom and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. How long to cook quarter pound burger slice. Okay, that dumb bullshit. The Morning Stream. Ironic, isn't it? An archangel needs a monkey to get a vision from God. Hey, everybody, welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for Wednesday, February 4th, 2026.

I be Scott Johnson, there be Brian Abbott. Yarr! It's not Pirate Day, I just thought I'd, I don't know. No, it's almost as far as you can get from Pirate Day, right? Because that's September, it's almost the apogee. Yeah. Talk like Pirate Day. I think that's right.

That's the right word. side of, yeah. I think so. Antisith... No, not antithesis. Although that kind of works too. That also works. It's like knowing that Jesus was born in June,

but we celebrate Christmas in December, like weirdos. Still don't know why we do that. We know why we do that? Does somebody want to write in and say, well, here's why, Scott. Do you want to do that? Because it just seemed like, you know,

snow. Jesus loves snow. I love skiing. Big snowboarder. He was a fan of, you know, water reclamation for the year. That's what I was. Yeah. That's why.

No, it's just always that weird thing where if you really, if you were like the hardest core Christian, it seems like you would want to move it to June because for accuracy, right? But we're so wound up in tradition and pagan rituals and trees that mean nothing and fat guy with a reindeer, it's great. You got to do what you got to do in Christmas? That's right. Brian, speaking of historic moments, I just thought we'd share this today because,

because I missed it yesterday and I just thought, actually, I can play this for it too. I have a little thing for this. It's been a while since I've played it. Hold on. Whereas here it is. Yesterday is history today. All right. We got a historic moment yesterday, February 3rd, 1959.

Was the day the music died. Now, I'll make an admission here. A long, long time again. Okay. I actually have two admissions because you just reminded me the second one. Sure. When people refer to this, the day the music died thing, I had no idea it referred to what it refers to.

Oh, really? Secondly, I didn't know that, and maybe you can clarify this, because I assume it is, I didn't know that song meant this day. Yes, absolutely. Yeah, the song was referring to this, the plane accident where Buddy Holly, Richie Vellons and the Big Bopper died in an Iowa cornfield or Iowa field. Yeah. Somewhere in something called Clear Lake, Iowa.

I don't know what that is. Noah and famously Waylon Jennings gave up his seat so that I think he give it up to Buddy Holly I'm trying to remember who he gave his seat to he was originally supposed to fly on that on that flight

but then he gave up a seat to one of these guys What's crazy is when I think of Big Bopper or even Buddy Holly I think of guys in their 30s, 40s. Yeah Yeah they were young dude Buddy Holly was 22 20s Yeah, exactly 22. Richie Valens was 17. Yeah.

And the Big Bopper is only 28. My daughter's age. 28. Yeah. That's effed up. You can't really name two Big Bopper songs. He can name one, but you can't name two. I don't even know if I could name one. Hold on. He does that, uh, it's when he goes, hello, baby.

That's him. Okay. Yeah, I like the way she walk and the she talk and pony tail hanging down. Wiggling a walk and a giggle in a talk. Lord makes the world go round, round, round they ain't nothing in this world like a big eyed girl to make me act so fun and make me

spam my man and make me feel real loose like a long neck goose oh baby that's what I like you are very familiar with Big Bopper's big turn. That was it's been I don't know how long it's been since I've thought of that song

or the lyrics but apparently that's taking that lyric is taking up space that could be better used for HTML code or CSS variable or... Sure. Your straw, you knocked a marble out the other side with that.

How to operate the back of the airbrush thing or something like that. Sure, sure. The thing about this I always remember, the Wayland Jennings part. I do remember this because Mike Judge has that series I told you about. The documentary music thing. Freaking love that every second of that. It goes deep into that one and how Jennings never quite got over the getting spooked by it. You know, like...

Right. Just the luck that he had. I'm sure. Like there's got to be a survivor. Like probably one of the ultimate examples of survivor guilt. Oh, yeah. Is Waylon Jennings feeling like crap. Yeah.

He missed that by a hair. And, hey, final destination. Uh, there goes your theory. If nothing ever happened to Waylon Jennings, then I think we're okay. I think you're, you know, your, your, your theory is bullshit. Yeah. Take that the entire film series that's really based on. Nothing. Is he still around? Waylon Jennings still with us?

That's a really good question. Don't tell me he was killed by a log falling off a truck or something. Well, that would be pretty interesting if that happened to him. No, died in 2002, but let's see how he died. Yeah, I want to see how death got revenge or whatever. Decades of smoking and drug use took a large toll on Jennings' health in addition to obesity and a poor diet. So unless final destination shoved cigarettes and ding-dongs in his mouth, This was purely, he did it himself. I always wondered how boring those movies would be if the, if people just died the way that normal people die.

You know what I mean? Like it's just an eventual death because you ate bad or you smoke too much and your lungs collater, you know, whatever. That'd be such a boring movie. Yeah, it would be so boring. But, yeah, died to Mesa Arizona. I'm sorry, Chandler Arizona at the age of 64. So young. But, yeah.

That sucks for Wayland. But also, he got an extra, what, 40 years out of the deal? Exactly, yeah. All his friends all passed. I don't know, man, 17's too young for Richie Valens. I feel like today if a 17-year-old died and a... Because everyone skews so much younger now when they're at a certain age. Like, 28, it seems like a child.

You know what I mean? Hold on. I'm trying to parse. Everyone skews so much younger when they're at a certain age. Yeah, there's no sense in that sentence. I'm trying to... Let me parse that. But I see what you're saying.

Like, like, everyone looks kind of skewed young... Yes. Yeah, 40-year-olds look like 20-year-olds used to. look. 60 year olds look like 40 year olds. It's like they, I don't know if it's just the less smoking. I don't know. Maybe it's just because that's our perception.

But all I know is if I go back and look at some civil war generals and people are like, oh, that guy was 22 when he led the south into the battle of the whatever bulging creek or whatever, you're like, I'm sorry, that disheveled, bearded, gray, ruddy old fart is 22 in that photo? Like, are you kidding me? So I don't know. I feel like there's something there. Everyone just looks younger today. I think so. Matuba brings up a good point.

Buddy Holly would not have been able to write the Dukes of Hazard song. So, you know, destiny needed way. Yeah, the way, you get some good old boys. Yeah. Although now, now, now I want someone to hop into SUNY or Suna or whatever that app is and create the Dukes of Hazard songs sung by Buddy.

Holly or Richie Valens or something like that. So, you know, create this alternate timeline version of what life would be like if Waylon hadn't given up a seat. I'm going to make a guess. Because I'm sure that the producers of Dukes of Hazard would have said, well, let's see. We need somebody who didn't die in the day the music died. How about Buddy Holly?

I'm going to look and see if this has been done because I'll bet it has. Because people do this stuff, right? They get weird. Okay, nothing for Buddy Holly. Let's see. Did they do... Hello, Luke and Bo. Big Popper. Let's try it.

Duke's a hazard opening, closing. Nope. Nope. You know what? You could corner this market, Brian, and do it. Driving through hazards with the General Lee, with Daisy Dukes coming down, a wickling or walking, a giggling or talking.

There you go. Just mix her. Driving her pink old Jeep. And then you could have him, because Wailen also did the whole, like, break thing where the car would, jump off a bridge over a river and then freeze and you go, how these duke bowers going to do it this time?

And then you go to a commercial, you could have Big Bopper going, hello, card, it's about to crash or whatever. Perfect. It's a great idea. Yes, let's do that. Let's go back in time and make this happen. If we have infinite timelines, in theory, this has happened already.

This has already happened, exactly. If the multiverse saga has taught us nothing. And it really has. It really has that don't bank all your, your movie villainhood for several movies on a dude who might be a sex offender. That's right. That's right. And oh my gosh, there's so many things.

Yeah, some many things. We could take that. Brian, real quick here, I got a friend named Matt who listens to the show. Okay. I'm Matt. Maddie, I'll call him. Hey, Maddie. He wanted me to ask or tell you this.

Okay, so I'm going to tell you this. Tell me. You sent me a text, and this was the content of the text, quote, can you do me a favor? And notice he spells favor. you are. Yeah, so he's maybe Canadian or European? You are correct. He's up north there. Canadian.

He's got an accent. Can I ever remember if he told me it's French Canadian or if he's, because I know he's got some I'm doxing his entire life, but I know he he's got Greek heritage or something. Anyway, he's got a really cool accent when you talk to this guy. Anyway, so give me a favor and can you tell Brian Ibit that every time he describes food,

he is eating, he is always making me hungry the way you pronounce certain words like rib sauce ribs sauce is the way you wrote it crispy onions it always makes me excited and i kind of want to eat whatever he ate right now great all right well i need to can can i get can i put this on my resume and go for some voiceover commercial jobs yeah i don't even think you have to get a sag card with something this good you know we take five lean juicy hamburger patties oh man smother them with mayonnaise and top them with sliced Frankfurter pieces. With a piece of the Denver.

Raw kale. Yeah. And two-thirds of a purple onion. There you go. You know what? Now I have to hear it. I got to hear it. I got to hear our old pal,

the putty do it. Here you go. Start your day with a mouthful of the Denver. Yeah. There's just something about the way he holds his mouth when he says that. Like, start your day. The words

The words don't come from the front of his mouth They're like start in the center Like they're like they're being fused in an atom chamber Star Chur Day I love that about him And nobody's quite like him Except I heard a video the other day Where his son, his oldest son I think

He has three kids They all do amazing impressions of him But the oldest son Dead on Like the minute Patrick Orbertan leaves this planet Yeah, yeah. His son is ready to pick up.

Yeah, he can do, he did it so, he did lines. He did lines from, um, the movie, uh, the Bimper's new groove. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Crunk character and he matched it up with the animation and you couldn't tell. It wasn't Patrick Orburton. It was like junior warburton. It was amazing. That's amazing.

That's awesome. Yeah. I can't impress, I personally my dad. I don't sound like anyone in my family. I don't know how you do this. Luke says, Luke says doing your trump voice. we started with four patties juicy lean meat we love meat

we love me we call us a cheeseburger I call it a cheeseburger it's atrocious what they're trying to do to the cheeseburger they're trying to make it beyond beyond sir did you did you invent the term cheeseburger is that what you're telling us

of course trying to do us like of course it's like uh uh I mean, we're workshopping it, guys. We're workshopping.

The conversational Trump is the toughest Trump because you, you know, people, you're terrible, you're terrible. Why don't you smile more? Why don't you smile more? Such an ass. You know why you don't smile? You're ashamed of the work you do. Oh, man, I'm, you know, excited for the, the, I always get a YouTube comment on days like

this, so bring it on. Bring it on. How dare you make fun of the greatest president ever? Yeah, how dare you? check this out y'all we're gonna do this right here hey look who it is it's our old pal brian dunaway joining us for a little tad poolie feud today hi brian oh hi scott and brian you know it's not confusing at all that we have two brian's not no no we've we figured out ways to differentiate yeah you know hamburgers came from hamburg germany we can rename them

they're americaners would you like a cheese americaner i'd take an americaner i'd try that patty cheese american yeah yeah i'll bring it on I'll eat that what you just described. Dunaway, how are you, man? What's going on with your life? Hey, man, where it's hump day. Yeah, it is hump day. Are you humping?

Yeah, what you don't? And it feels, and it feels just like I had to claw my way up to the top of this hump day. And yeah, it feels just like that. And I'm ready for the, I'm ready for the slope. You're ready for the back half? Yeah, the down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know where I'm at with it. I think today I'm happy just because I like doing playwrights. retro, we get to do that later. So that's fun. Yeah. Yeah. That's the downward part. Yeah, there you go. I've already, I've already done the work.

I've already done the work. Now what I've got to do is to show up and have fun. Yeah, we just show up, talk, have a good time. Yeah. We'll talk about that in a minute. But first, let's play this game, Brian Abe, will you explain what this is so people who are new, know what's going on? I can, but I'd rather have AI do it. Oh, I don't have AI to set up to do it.

Darn it's time to play the Tadpoolie feud. I've surveyed the Tadpool on some nerdy topics. and Scott and Brian and Gaffer brief the answers they gave us. It's Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. AI might be better at this, actually. At the end of the game, we're going to add up all the points. The winner will actually be winning prizes for their listener, contestant, and contestants have been pulled from our supporters on Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS.

Go sign up today, people. A buck. Just a buck. You find that much in the cushions of your couch. Right. And you can give it to us. Scott, you're playing for Jeremy O'Brien. Ooh, Jeremy O'Brien.

I'm happy to be playing for you. And Brian, you're playing for Sandy Cocky. I believe it might be how it's close. Oh, I'm glad to see Sandy. I don't know. Cocky. Cocky. Cocky.

Cooke. Coke. Might be Coke. Coke. Coke. It could even be cock. I don't know. Cloaca?

No. It could be that. That's where you're egg and your poo comes from. Why don't you just tell me how your name is pronounced? It's definitely not that. Last thing you said. All right. Let's get to it.

We asked 352 tadpoolers. Oh, that's a lot of tadpoolers. We did. Put your hands on your buzzers. Give me your best answer to this. Name a city where the Olympic Games have been played.

Salt Lake City, Utah, 2000. Yeah. Let's get that one out of the way. All right. Salt Lake City number one answer because it's nice. I actually really like that that they chose that as number one.

That's really sweet. Of course. All right. Well, maybe I'll choose it as number one. Just a lot of people Everybody chose it as their number one Yeah, yeah I like that it ended up there is all I'm saying

It ended up there, that's nice Exactly. All right, you've got control of the board No answers can beat that So name another city where the Olympics have been played All right, let's do Los Angeles, California Sure, Los Angeles, California Show me L.A.

Yeah, that's some summer Olympics there. That's right. Now we go back to winter and I say, I always think of Calgary just jumps into my head. Oh, that's a really good one, yeah.

I was here at my head. Show me. Calgary. Oh, that's your bonus. I don't like how low that was. No points, but yeah, right? Caggery, apparently not on our minds.

Interesting. All right. Let's get something. It means I get another shot here. All of a sudden, the rubber just hit the road. We have a fair number of Atlanta folks in here and say Atlanta.

You're throwing out the window? What happened? Show me at Atlanta. Okay. Busiest airport in the world and also host of the Summer Olympics. 1996. What's his name? Richard Jule got accused to shooting somebody but didn't. That Paul Walter Houser movie's great.

You should watch it. I'm not shooting, planting a bomb. Oh, Planting a bomb. That's what it was. Yeah. Great movie though. Yeah, it was really good. Paul Walter Houser, kind of first thing we ever saw him in and he was really good.

Yeah, that was his big whoop. I loved it. All right. Let's go with. with, uh, oh, gosh. I mean, once in a while our friends over the pond there get it. So let's say the UK or I guess, they appreciate that.

Probably London is what they would say. That's the city is how they would, we'd call it London. Yeah. Show me London. That's right. That's right. He's done away. You're just going to, I'll just sit back and enjoy my free day.

I don't think I'm going to beat you because, or I'm not going to assume it, because last time this happened, you came back and whipped me. So I'm not feeling that confident. 13 points for Scott right now, by the way. Yeah, especially because mine's so front heavy, the points are lousy. Can we do another controversial one? Munich, Germany, Munich. Ah, Munich. There was even a movie about the Munich Olympics.

Show me, Munich. Oh, my lord. well you know hey ball number 19 19 no no no 19 how do you guys forget that one the average age you get to play around with the board some name a city

that has hosted the Olympic Games the average age was no no no no it's Paris Paris they just did it the most recently two years ago Summer Olympics show me I enjoyed that one I did too did you like Celine Dion singing from the Eiffel Tower that was awesome and then I saw the most

depressing video this morning on accident where it was like she had recorded herself having one of those muscle spasm things that she's got and I don't know the exact disease that she's got but I was like I didn't need to see that it's hard to watch I feel bad for her and that's a did you guys see the video

this morning of the two boxers one of them punching the toupee right off the other one's head no no I didn't see that who goes into a boxing ring with a freaking toupee on that's insane apparently this big baby somebody yeah let me big Let me tell you something.

Big baby somebody. If you want to get into the mind of your opponent and really mess with them, where to pay, they knock it off your head. You've got opportunity. You've got opportunity. You just messed with them. Oh, my God. I just knocked the top of their hell off.

You know what? I just found it. Can we look at this real quick? Please do. Yes. Okay. So this is Bill Miller. Yeah.

Hold on. They're fighting. They're fighting. Oh, there goes. the man is a genius it almost looked like he got oh geez it almost looks like he's got um pretty good looking like he got scalped or something kind of yeah yeah that's awful all right don't wear that in the ring that's dumb just be old geez whatever please be ball baby baby baby i think big baby pretty sure that that's a you know supposed to punch people on top of the head um right to pay um let's

see we got I already did Atlanta Paris right in London let's go to let's go let's go to uh Tokyo let's go Tokyo. Let's go Tokyo.

Sure. All right. Show me Tokyo. That was a big one. That was a big one. Number five, Tokyo, uh, was uh, 20-20. Oh, that's right.

Oh. Oh. Right there with the, uh, wait, was that pre-pandemic or during or what happened there? I don't remember. Something got, something got canceled, right? So, yeah, would have been, well, summer, it was summer.

How did they do? I can't remember how they did the Olympics, because they basically had everybody sequestered and tested and all that stuff. Oh, that's right. Right, that's the one that got pushed to 2021. It was supposed to be 2020. That's right. That's right. I'm trying to remember.

Yeah, they sequester people. They had all the South Park characters as cartoon audience members in that one. That's right. That's right. I forgot about that. That was a weird one, man. That wasn't weird. It was weird.

All right. All right. All right. All right. Let me see where the Olympic games have been hosted. So we're about to start the Winter Olympics. I know where that one's been kind of keeping an eye on that one. But this question early.

How about we go with who? I want to go. It's the last time we did it. When's last time we've done it in Russia? Was it in Moscow? It's been a while. Moscow's a good one. Yeah.

Yeah. Do that. All right. I was it 100% sure on the Moscow. Show me Moscow. No, it wasn't Moscow. It was Soshi, but I would have given it to you. Oh, really?

Okay. If Soshi was in the top list there. Sochi was number 15. I don't know how far Soshi is from Moscow, but. I'm going to go. Oh, Moscow 1980. I take that back. It was held in.

Moscow. Yeah, I knew they had at least one, but yeah. Nobody, nobody. Nobody said Moscow. Wasn't that the year when they, uh, the hockey team did their crazy comeback and beat him in Russia. I think was that year. Oh, really? Yeah. The one that movie's based on miracle. Great movie. Oh, really? Okay. I just, I didn't I use that one in that movie's great. Um, all right, let's do, uh, this is how it always is when you're not on the stage. Yeah. You just like, they just start tons of them. It's like, oh, oh, do. Of course. Let's do. Um, shit. I was, I was just going to say.

Oh, Athens, because that's where it started. Let's do the first one. The very first one. Show me Athens. That's got to start in Athens. Ooh, number eight. That takes Scott up to 21 points. I'm not worried.

I think we're going to clear the board. That's when they wrestled naked back then. That's right. Yes. And there were like two events. Yeah, two events. One of them was naked. Naked wrestling.

When do you think this took place? Did they do naked wrestling for real? Yeah, in Athens? Oh, hell yeah. Ancient Olympics were all naked. They were naked all the time. They were all naked. Yeah, what number, do they still number, they still number the Olympic games,

even though they've now split into summer and winter separate deals. Yeah, they'd be like the 28th Olympiad or whatever they say. Yeah. I forget. 1896, it looks like. It feels like we would have been over naked wrestling by 1896. You'd think. Athens hosted 1896.

96 in 2004, but that can be right. So not Athens, Georgia, then. No, not Athens, Georgia, although some of the Atlanta events might have, they might have had to do some in Athens to Athens. Athens, Georgia, they still wrestle naked as, uh, they do. It's usually, it's just the B-52's doing it, though. Yeah, sometimes Michael Stipe will come in, he'll do it. And it's right.

B-Fety-2 is an R-E-M. I mean, famously Michael Stipe did show his he-haw on a, on a, photo once, remember that? That was gross. Anyway, you think that, is that the Love Shack? is no no no well not that with michael stipe well b 52's his love shack yeah yeah yeah stepe showed up in some it was pre like social internet so it was just like a photo of him in a mirror with his ding dong hanging and it was like michael stipe what are you doing man i don't want to see that

take that away everybody her everybody a dick pick buddy sees my we're all right i'm gonna say let's go with uh we said it earlier i don't know why i didn't think of it before now but let's say Barcelona. Barthelona. Very good. Show me. Barcelona. I know even those just,

well, God, I thought it was more recent. Barcelona was 12, right? No. Two or no? Four? Might have been four. Yeah. Can't remember.

Yeah, Barcelona. How many people did say 16? I'm sorry, five people said Barcelona, making it number 16 in the list. A bunch of Spain. 1892 was last Barcelona. Wow. It's been that long.

Gives some love to our Spain brethren. That's right. All right, Dunaway. Cheers, man. Three answers left on the board. How about some how about some Ciole?

Seoul and South Korea. Ciole. Wow. Wait, wait, what is he saying? Ciole. I'm not going to ask him what he means because I don't want to. Sure. Soul.

Uh, show me. Seeole. Seeole. yeah no no Ciola even though that was fairly recent as well shit that's funny um

soul came in number I remember that one really well for some reason what was going on that year I just I just remember all kinds of like merch and everything I can't remember why Sol was a big one

they had a big one I don't know why anyone wrote it but um all right I'm uh your final strikes this is uh this is it I'm gonna say Lake Placid, I believe. That's a good one.

That's a great movie. Done a couple of those, I think. Where the movie Miracle actually did take place. Show me Lake Placid. Oh, did I get that wrong? Is that right? Is that where the hockey game happened? That's where the hockey team, the American hockey team beat Russia.

Yeah. Number six, and officially making it a lock. No, I take that back. 19 plus 9 would put you at 28, which would be one more than stuff. Dude, you could beat me by a point if I get this wrong. Yeah. That'd be awesome. You'd have to clear now.

All right. Pull us roll out. I don't know why. I thought that was in Russia. Maybe because the Russians were so prominent in that. Exactly. Yeah. Big Classic actually held it, did it twice.

And only a couple hosted twice, I guess, I should say. And only a couple places in the U.S. have hosted twice. And we're about to be one of those, but not, well, like 10 years. years from now. Right. All right. We haven't hosted it once in Denver, even though we've got, we've got pretty good skiing right here. You guys would be perfect. Seems like it. I think I'm okay, not hosting the Olympics. I don't need, although, man, the Uber would be fantastic. The Uber would be great. It was really good. Here was great for the economy. We actually made money on it. It was actually all right. A lot of times you have problems, though. I didn't know. I

didn't like driving it. I can tell you that. Oh, yeah. All right. Let's go with, You mean you didn't like watching Kim drive in it? Oh, she didn't drive. I drove my own car then. Backwood Scott drove his own car. People, it's easy to guess why. Why she likes to drive? It's because she thinks I'm a bad driver and I'm going to say it one more time on the air.

I'm not a bad driver. She just thinks I am. Says you. You're not a bad driver. You're just a bad stay-awaker. Yeah, that's true. long like long drives i'm happy for i do it because i do have a problem where i fall asleep no doubt i think that is a bad driver well it is it is kind of a bad thing but like if i'm if she's in the car with me

she hates it yesterday i went to lunch drove just fine no no no no crashes wrecks i didn't even hit a curb i did great yeah when you fall asleep yeah everything was slowly fall asleep you just slowly come to a stop but when i sleep it's because we're driving more than 30 minutes and my parents' fault because they drove me around as a crying baby and tried to put me asleep in a car. I blame them. I blame them. They are to blame. All right.

Let's try this out here. Where are we at? Let's do the one that I can think of the TV show with Steve Van Zantan at the Lilyhammer deal. Sure, Lilyhammer. Spell it, but don't really. Show me Lilyhammer. Damn it. Yeah.

Number 14. Again, just out of the running. Brian, two answers on the board. If you get both of these answers, I mean, here's the deal. Scott's already, well, no, I guess I can't say Scott's already won this. Our contestants have already won this because they're going to get prizes regardless. But if you run the board, ooh, what happens if you run the board? I guess your contestant gets the prize.

Yeah, it gets the winning. Yeah, because he could win by one point. Right, right, right. Now that makes me feel bad from what you've got to do. I got two strikes and them behind. That means it's time for a desperation move. I'm calling the chat room. Let's see what they got over here.

I haven't even looked over there. I'm guessing we got completely, I'm guessing I got lambasted in there for the, for the hockey game. And if it weren't for them mentioning it, I wouldn't have remembered either that it was like Placid's. It looks like they're mostly thinking that it must have been held in your car

where you were sleeping. Let's see. That's the problem. You get a new topic and they all go, I'm seeing Vancouver, Montreal, I'm seeing Mexico City. I forgot about that. I know what?

I'm going to give it to Vancouver. I'm going to give it to Vancouver. That's a good one. I'm giving it to the van. Vancouver. Great one. All right. Show me Vancouver.

What? Come on, Vancouver. Come on. Vancouver just again just out of the running shocked Mexico City here's the yeah the the chat room was giving it to you but you looked at the wrong people number nine Sydney Australia oh yeah of course our Australian friends of course Australian friends we love we love our

Australian friends show me number 10 Montreal oh man a couple people were saying that you said Montreal no I said you said Vancouver and I said some town up there you said something canadian oh calgary nobody had it kind of surprising that the most recent winter olympics uh what it's about to happen beijing no not the not not last court tvtina but the last one 22 Beijing um Pyongchang which was uh four years ago until it's just so good delicious Pyongyang yeah yeah Torin

uh from 2006 yeah um What else we get? Let's see. Going down the list. Oh, let's going down the list. I mean, you've got Helsinki, Nagano, Berlin, Melbourne, Amsterdam. Are you actually looking at a list?

This is what the tadpoole said. Competitive eating. Somebody really didn't read the question. Like the hot dog stuff. Somebody else said, emergency, 1972. I think they might have been looking at another question as well. Kyoto, Mexico City, Rio, Rome. Steamboat Springs and Stockholm.

Steamboat Springs. Steamboat Springs, no. That's also Colorado and we definitely have not had. We've had Olympic finals there, but no. Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. Oh, interesting. Moved after a voter referendum rejected Denver's funds.

So you guys almost had it and you got it pulled away. We almost had it and we said we don't want it. Thanks. 1976 apparently. So we could have had it in 76. and apparently the city said, nah, we're good. No, we're good.

You already had Mork and Mindy. What else did you want? Right, exactly. Well, well done, everybody. We have a couple of winners. Brian, would they win? Yeah, congratulations going to Jeremy O'Brien because Scott did so well.

You're getting two prizes. You're getting Sid Meier's civilization Beyond Earth, the Collection. That's pretty good. And another crab's treasure. Oh, very good. Imagine a soul's like, but you're a crab. Oh, really?

Yeah, it's a weird game. It's really good, though. Highly regarded. Sandy, you are getting a copy of Sid Meyers' Ace Patrol. So that's a flight one, right? I actually'm not sure on that one. I've never played an Ace Patrol. It sounds like a flight one, like a plane.

It does. Sid Miles Ace Patrol. You're flying. Like a two. You're a real ace there, buddy. Like those flying ace's planes back in the day. Exactly. Yep, sure enough.

Looks like you are, take control of the dozens of the most famous fighter planes of World War I and head into the dog fight. Nice. Oh yeah, World One. Enemy Aces. Nice.

Look for Snoopy. Congratulations. You both won. Don away, you've kind of won because later today, you and I get the pleasure of each other's company as we cover a video game, an old video game. One of my favorites,

Kirby's, oh shit, the name just looked at. Yeah, Kirby's Dream chorus. It's hard to remember. It's hard to remember a Kirby Dream game. It was a golf game, but it was with Kirby.

Now that should be enough to drive everybody to listen to us today at 4 p.m. Mountain Time as we record that episode live on the Twitch channel and elsewhere. Or just get the podcast wherever you get it. Frogpants.com slash play retro. Brian Dunaway. Kiss our butts. No.

I actually gave him a little chance to make us sound. Yeah, nice. It was fun. Yeah, good times, everybody. All right. It's time for something we like to do every Wednesday. and we'll do it now. Isn't technology wonderful?

Oh man, it sure can be. Totally is. It can be. I'm not going to say it is every time, but I will say it is when your old pal, Tom Merritt joins us. And he's joining us now from his beautiful studio in downtown Los Angeles, California. It's not downtown.

From Skid Row. I'm going to say, paid that up. From an alley somewhere near Temecula. Here's your guy. Tom Merritt, everybody. Hey, Tom, welcome to the show. How the heck are you? I am good. Sitting at the kids table. Oh, I. Oh, he's a little low. Yeah.

There you go. I do that sometimes. Sit up straight, Tom. My longer shows, I kind of get down like this eventually. Much better. You look good. Manly. It's good to see you, man. How old the heck are you? I have a couple of comments on the previous segment. Do.

Okay. First of all, it's a question. will you be showing a lot of Kirby gameplay footage later today? Yes, we will be. Well, Kirby's Dream Course footage, yes. We will be doing that. Okay, good.

Then my niece, Nora, will definitely be tuning in because she's huge Kirby fan, biggest Kirby fan on the place. Really? You know what? I've got some Kirby art I would like to send to your niece.

You'll talk off air. I would love to do that. Yeah, that would make her day. She's the biggest Kirby fan. I need to do something like that this week. It would make me feel good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's do it.

I like it. And then to Brian Dunaway, I would like to say, Pyongcheng Madopsoy. Oh my gosh. You're better than my brother, and he came from there. No, I'm not. Definitely not. Well, I was already expecting any text message from you or Eileen

because of the BTS pronunciation of their new album. We weren't going to say anything. Why are you bringing it up? Did someone else tell you? No, no, because when Hammond and I recorded, or when I recorded, I said, I bet I pronounced that wrong. And then I looked it up after we finished recording.

And I said, you know, I'm going to leave it. But I know I'm going to get a text message from Tom or I leave. I actually told I lead as like, you should tell him. It'll be nicer coming from you. Yeah. Tell her that it's already wrong. Artie wrong. Perfect.

Arirang, yes. All right. It's already wrong is how I heard it. I didn't say it already right. I said it already. I mean wrong. Oh my gosh. I was.

I was. excited that you chose that as the top story though. Oh, absolutely. I'm glad that... Face the wrath of Eileen if I didn't. You can't have that in your life. I'm glad you guys, we're not going to talk about Chapel Rhone's weird outfit. We're going to talk about tech today. That's what we're going to do.

Lack of a outfit. Yes. Exactly. Defined by its negative space. And gravity also. Right. We're going to get to a tech question. We do these for Tom. Of course, the host and purveyor of all great things, DTNS. And you guys send us in your questions.

and we approve them and then we read them and then we talk about them. We got one from Gunna 76, Gona, I think is how I would say this. I'm not sure I know this person. I think they're a patron though. Anyway, he says, I need to buy a bunch of external hard drives for a work project. And while I would normally nab SSDs for this, the price has skyrocketed. I'm now forced to consider spinning drives instead. What are the downsides at this stage?

Should I mix and match? SSDs make spinners seem so old and spent. I don't want to get something that I will regret later. I know this feeling because just recently I had this problem where I was like, do I get this SSD after it's $150 price? I because I just feel like it's the technology now and the spinning drives are 100 years old. It just feels that way.

But I think I've probably got the wrong attitude about it. Maybe going to 76 does too. I don't know. So Tom Merritt, the state of drives today. Is it okay to have external, maybe less use intensive drives? Just be your good old fashioned 7,800 RPM business or what? Yeah, no, that's the key right there, the less use intensive part of it. The short answer is mix and match.

It depends on what you're going to use those external drives for, how much you want to mix and match. The general advice out there is, yes, they are more expensive, but for main tasks that need fast drive speed rights. Like if you're doing video editing or something like that, or even some coding situations where you need to call to the drive a lot, you want to have an SSD. It's going to be worth the extra cost, especially because SSDs are rising in price, but they are not rising in price as fast as RAM. So you'll probably still, it's probably still worth the extra money if it's something you're going to be using a lot for time sensitive operations on your computer to get the SSD. However, if it's something you're just archiving, you're just like, I need it, I need storage. I don't need to call on this all the time. I just need to make sure that the stuff is over there and that I can get to it when I need it, but I'm not going to need it all the time. I'm not going to

need it in an active program. Then a spinning drive is fine because they are slower, but also they don't last as long. I think there's a myth about, oh, solid state drives don't last long either. Solid state drives do have an end of life. And I think that, myth got out there because people were saying, well, solid-state drives don't last forever. They can eventually fail as well. But they fail much farther down the road than hard drives. However, with spinning drives, the less you use them, the longer they're going to last. So if you're using them for intermittent things or storage especially or archiving, that's probably the better way to go anyway.

Just because you don't need to spend money on something where you're not going to use it all the time. So that's kind of my overall advice. Would you say that you go a NAS or something so that you could stack a bunch of these spinners and then you've got your redundancy in case of failures or, you know what I mean? Like the whole point of those. Like raids used to be or I guess it's still sort of a raid, I suppose. Yeah. Not really.

Let's not go down that rabbit. We don't have to, yeah, go back. You know what? Everybody look up Wikipedia. Search for hard drive raids. Go figure it out on your own. Your honor, the jury will strike raid discussion from the race. No.

But yeah, having a NASS and putting those in there, again, if you're not calling on them all the time, is perfectly acceptable, perfectly fine. They also take up a little more space, you know, so keep that in mind if space is a consideration. But generally speaking, yeah, having them in any situation where it's going to be your local backup or local archive or something where you just need to go to it infrequently, then your spinning drives are probably the better option. option if you're using it all the time though even if it's an external drive it's like no but i'm going to be i'm going to be storing projects on there and accessing them you're still probably worth the money to pay for the s-d all right so i think i did this so what i ended up doing gone into 76 i'm in a similar boat as you although i'm not sure what his work project entails yeah yeah a lot of details um or if this is being it's a budget thing at the company or maybe it's his own

business we don't know but in my case uh what i ended up deciding to do is for long-term but local storage. I have some online storage as well that I think is smart. Do both if you've got really intensive stuff. Yeah, yeah. You want to have as many. Yeah, they say three,

but there's even some people who argue for more backups. But at least one that's local, that's separate from your main computer and one that's off-site. Exactly. So I've got basically two backups here, one to some big spinning drives.

And those are things I just touch. Maybe it's weekly that I'll do like one of these clone runs where I'll just clone it all. It's not a daily or a, every few minutes it's backing backing up or anything. Yeah, yeah. The SSD, however, the external SSD I got for like work a day stuff has been saving me because this is a thing I'm recording 4K video to at the same time that I'm recording

some audio to it. And it's the same place I'm pulling from to do edits and then exporting to it. So the drive is almost like a RAM drive, if anything. It's, you know, it's still a hard drive. But I'm using it like RAM, pulling stuff in and out of it all day. And that works great. and I feel like that's the right approach. So I guess I would sign on to Tom's petition here.

External for like storage that's just sort of off doing its thing. And it is a lot cheaper, by the way. There's some big 8 terabyte, 10 terabyte, 12 terabyte drives that you can get on their own, even without the NAS setup that are significantly cheaper than just like a four or a two terabyte SSD right now. And you do have to consider when you're looking at those cheaper ones, what kind of storage protocol they're using because there's some newer protocols that were made to be slower. Because people understood like, oh, people aren't buying spending drives for active duty anymore.

So we can save a little money by creating them in a way that doesn't have to optimize speed. And it makes them cheaper. So keep that in mind, too, if that's a consideration. Yeah. And if you're a gamer and we don't know about this project, but if you're somebody out there is like, well, I want to, I'm playing games on mine. you're still going to want that mvm e m m v m m m m m m m m m m m e m e m i i hate that acronym it's the worst initialism i guess right no you have envy for me i have envy for me initialism because it doesn't

say anything when you say it that's right yeah yeah i just think it's hard to remember but anyway that thing which is all about quick access quick loads all that stuff they use them in the the latest consoles like if you're if you're aiming for performance in a gaming environment you're probably want to shell out what you have to shell out for that. Even if it's a smaller drive, like do a 512 there or something. Yeah, sure. And then a bigger, maybe secondary drive to throw all your

extras in or your smaller indie games that don't need as much access or stuff like that. And you'll be golden. So I hope this was good advice. Yeah. I mean, this is a thing, right? People always not everybody is Joey Image, friend of the show buys like 4,000 hard drives at a time.

I'm kidding. Yeah. He's more hard drive than mad. He really is. Like he's got, I'm not kidding, when I say this, if you guys ever talk to him in public, that guy's got more hard drives than anyone I know. I don't even know what he's doing. Like, what's he storing? I don't want to know what's on those drives.

Server raid or raid server or something like that. Yeah. And I don't want to, I'm not buying anything. One of these days after the apocalypse when you need some storage, though, who's going to be laughing. Yeah. Joey image, that's who. He can also, what, the pile drive you while you come by his house or whatever.

But anyway, Yeah, we hope this helps. Let us know. And if anyone else out there's got any related questions of this sort of thing. It's what this segment's about, answering your questions, but also maybe educating the people at home a little bit on stuff like this. So we hope you enjoyed it. And I don't know if anyone noticed two weeks in a row, no AI conversation.

Yeah. Woo! Hey, I didn't notice that. Woo! I see what you did. Damn it. That was powerful. Tom Merritt, of course, is not just Tom Merritt.

He's the host of all things DTNS and will be the host at Nerdtacular 2026 of the DTNS tech stravaganza that we're going to have. We have a big huge panel design. But not only that, he's moderating the fiction writing panel that happens the next day. And he's part of this big karaoke thing. It's all up in the schedule right now. That's right. Yeah. It's super exciting what Tom Merritt.

Tom Merritt's role at N26 is a big deal. Yeah, it's not just a dinner roll. It's all day long. No, it's a huge role. Breakfast, lunch. and dinner. Oh, you're making me. I love rules. Bread. King's Hawaiian. Bread is my, it's my kryptonite.

Yeah. You're like Oprah. You love bread. I love bread. I love bread. I love bread. There's you get some bread and you get some bread. Tom Merritt, anything else going? Am I on the Frog Pants All Stars? Oh yes. Hell yes. Okay. I figured. Right. Brian? Brian. I didn't want to assume, but I mean, I want to, Brian's the final word on that, but of course he is, right? I'm not inviting myself. I just wanted to know. No, you're absolutely playing Frog Pants. Yeah, we need your competitive attitude. I'm absolutely going to lose it from.

I don't know about that. And if I'm on your team, I'll try to forget you said that. I'm really horrible at thinking of an answer to a question on the spot. That's my, I need to brush up. I need to work on that. Yeah, you're getting into training. It's, you're not wrong because that is a tough thing to do. You just practice.

Like, once you've got a couple questions, your mind will relax and you'll pull up and recall stuff. so. Yeah. I think you've done get in the zone. Yeah. And you're not like you know, if Veronica was there, she would she would defy every every ruling. She would scare everybody from answering anything ever. Hey, did I hear?

Yeah, she won the thing, right? Yeah, she got inducted into the podcast Hall of Fame. That's great. And I'm so so pleased that she asked me to introduce her because Molly also asked me to introduce her when she got into the podcast All of Fame. So it was just such a nice feeling to be like, oh yeah, I'm

I got to introduce both of them on the way. And the funny thing is she refused to watch my introduction video until the induction ceremony. And then when it was done, the one thing she said was, so you really think I'm funny? Like, yes. That wasn't the only thing I said, but yes. Plus her saying that is funny. So yes, you're funny. Yes, exactly.

Yeah, no, that's great. I saw her video on Instagram or something and I went, oh, good. She finally got it. That's great. She deserves it. Well, look at us, all winners of previous years of the podcast Hall of Fame. One day we'll die and you'll all remember what we did here. Tom, you got other stuff going on.

Tell people about anything you want to promote or talk about. Well, I want to promote this Friday's DTNS Hangout. On the Friday hangout, Scott Johnson is going to join us. And we're just going to chat about all the nerdtacular stuff. Like, basically, it's therapy for Scott is why I wanted to do this. Yeah, a little bit. There's a lot of stress around it. Of course, there always is. This year's got a little extra just due to reasons. I'll just stick to wildly. But it's all happening. It'll be fun, though, to kind of dissect some of that because I don't think a lot of people think about what it takes. Yeah, like what goes into it, who does what? All of that.

Yeah, it'll be fun. It'll be a fun looking behind the scenes. We'll have a good time doing it. I'm really looking forward to that. Is that live or what do we do? Yeah, it's live. It's a live hangout, very casual. The DTNS Friday hangout. are always on YouTube and Twitch and LinkedIn and Patreon and Substack at 4 p.m. Eastern. That's 2 p.m. Mountain 1 p.m. Pacific. Excellent. Yeah, and then they go into the DT&S Live feed afterwards. Excellent. So catch it, however you catch it. I'm looking forward to that very much. And Tom Merr, we'd just like to say, have a great freaking day. Thanks. Bye now. I was going to do something Korean, but I forgot it. I only know the swears.

You know what I mean? Like, I don't know the... I know how to say, hey, you got big barrachas, which you probably can guess is boobs. Oh, no, I would have, I would have guessed testicles. Oh, those are like you're basically saying, oh, yeah, you've got big barrachas. If you did, if you did, let's see, what is it? So posy, that's vagina. Hold on. My brother taught me all the dirty words, not dirty words, but like the stuff that's uncomfortable.

And I know nothing else. So if they drop me into Seoul today, I'd go, Baratja, Posey. Your boobs, test your vagina. I can't remember the other ones, but there's a bunch. You locked up immediately. Bongu, bongu, which is just fart, fart. So, anyway.

Gochu is a shriveled up weaner. I know that one. Okay. Or also a pepper, but that's the slang over there. So you'd say, gochu. You have a go-choo. Oh, really? Yeah, I've heard of Gosu-Jong sauce.

So that's referencing the pepper, I'm sure, rather than the shriveled-up penis. Yeah, yeah, the shriveled-up penis, doesn't it? doesn't enter into the food part, I hope. Sure. Let's hope. You know what? I really do hope. Anyway, hey guys, guess what? We got a couple of emails to rip through. First, I want to just send out a quick note to somebody named Hugh. I'm not going to read it here because it was a very personal to me email that doesn't really make sense to read here. But I just want Hugh to know here on the air how much I appreciated him reaching out and what he said. So, thank you, Hugh, you know who you are. And I want Hugh to know who you are. Yeah. And you, Hugh know who you are.

it's a huge honor to have gotten your email I'm all out that's all I got we got a call from Ben and Virginia this is about their flag this is about the flags of P oh I gotta play that anyway this is about the jugs of P thanks for the reminder here it is this is Ben from VA

Ben from VA again I was thinking some more about my state Virginia our flag has the state seal on it it's an interesting one it has the symbol of virtue a woman standing on the symbol of tyranny, a man with a crown on the floor, as the phrase sick semper tyrannus, thus unto tyrants.

It is a phrase I can really get behind in today's climate. Makes me want to feel active, fired up. But it contrasts a little bit with our state motto. Virginia is for lovers. Don't really know how that happened. Anyway, love the showroom. Yeah, why the diversity there? That's weird.

You think if you're going to go so hard on like putting your foot on neck of a king and right yeah exactly and there's obviously Virginia's got big history with our secession from the Brits Virginia's for lovers and tyrants and tyrannical lovers

That's amazing I don't know what our I forgot what our slogan is I know where the worker Be stayed or some shit like What are we? You know what KT Dayday are you in here You can fill us in I don't remember

He's in here Let's move on to this one Anonymous person says seriously Ibitt does a coverville about Phil Collins and doesn't include EJAE's cover of Against All Odds. Really? It's pronounced EJ. Oh, is that actually a pronounceable thing?

I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah. She's one of the three musicians behind the K-pop demon hunters. She was so very little I know about K-pop. I know nothing. That's all right. And she recorded a cover of Against All Odds by Phil Collins that I just don't want to get sued. It's about to be used for an ad in the Super Bowl.

Bowl and is recorded for an ad for the Super Bowl. And so, no, I'm not going to play it. It has not been released officially yet. There are some kind of bootleggy recordings on YouTube and stuff like that. So you can go listen to it, but I'm not about to download a song from YouTube that is for the Super Bowl. I can't even. I shouldn't even be saying Super Bowl, right? It should be calling it Big Game.

The big game. Yeah, the big game. So after it's been officially released. least yes, you'll hear it on cover. Maybe you'll even hear it here on TMS is an ending cover, but I'm certainly not going to anger the NFL gods by playing it early. Also, I got a question for you about the Super Bowl.

It's the opening, sorry, the halftime show is both Green Day and Bad Bunny, right? No, Green Day is doing the National Anthem or doing Oh. Is it, is it the two of them? I thought they were opening or something. That seemed weird. You don't usually have an opening band or like a... No. Green Day is performing...

Let's see. It's like an opener? Green Day is to open the Super Bowl. So they're going to be kicking off the Super Bowl with their performance. I guess it's not really like a... We're doing the National Anthem. We're doing this America is Beautiful or anything like that. They're doing a pre-Super Bowl show.

All right. Do American Idiot. and really lay into it. That's right. Brandy Carlisle. Oh, that's awesome, is singing America the beautiful. Charlie Puth is going to be doing the national anthem. Okay.

And Coco Jones is going to be singing, lift every voice and sing. And then Bad Bunny will come out in a bunny suit and entertain the masses. Or, you know, or if you want, you can watch the America if yeah concert. Is that what it's called with Kid Rock? Jason Aldeen and fill in the blank name of somebody you've never heard of here and fill in the blank name of somebody you've never heard of there.

I'd rather shit lava and cut my toes off with a knife. Exactly. Just so you know, those are the two preferences I would have over a kid rock concert. Oh my gosh. Kid Rock. Yeah, exactly. More emails. I love it. Whatever. Bring them on. I'll take your Kid Rock defense emails.

Yeah, all defense of Key Rock emails, forwarding to Brian. Send him to me. And then we'll do, he will summarily dismantle here. I'll reply with bah with deba, deba, da bong, diggy diggy, up dump the buggy. Yeah, exactly. Where's the tiny guy? Oh, he died.

Never mind. That was my only thing I really liked about his deal. Kid Joe. Kid Joe? No, it wouldn't be kid rocking kid Joe. That'd be silly. Was it just Joe? Was he just named Joe?

Little Joe? Or my, I'm thinking of a bonanza. That had a little Joe. All right. We got one more. Anonymous, Anonymous says this. Hey,

Sig and Beretta. This is a gun thing. Yes. It was whenever we talk about anything, we don't know what we're talking about. Joe C. Thank you, Josh 3.0. That's right.

Joe C. What the C stand for? Do you have a last name probably? Probably. I'm pretty sure you had a last name. I remember from the, there was a Simpsons episode. It was like Lava Palluzer or something.

Yes. And they were actually in it. Yeah. Him and Kid Rock briefly. I know, it was Futurama maybe. I can't remember. one of those groaning.

I can honestly say I have disliked Kid Rock from the first moment I saw him on an MTV summer, like where they kind of introduced him, and he was swinging on a swing set in, um, wherever it was Corpus Christi or, or wherever they were holding the MTV. Oh, no, not summer, MTV spring break. Oh.

The first time I'd ever seen him was like, all right, who's, this guy really is full of himself, I don't like him already. Yeah, he sucked. Never liked him. How can he, what's her name fell for him? I really liked her. Cheryl Crow. Cheryl Crow.

Like, I really like Cheryl Crow. Not just her music. I like her. She's like, let's see. Who is the furthest person I can date from Eric Clapton? Yeah. Who she also dated. Yeah, exactly.

Because Eric Clapton's super talented. And he's also kind of got some bad opinions. Yeah. But, she just has bad luck with these guys. Who's the opposite of super talented? I know, Kid Rock.

I mean, Rubelax is right. We're debating personal taste. But let me just say, let me just say this about Kid Rock's music. Yeah. Take all the politics out of it. Take all the grifting out of it.

Take it all out of it. And just put him up on a stage. Yeah. And have him perform. It's really kind of bad. Yeah. I don't care who we are. If you'd think it's good.

That's fine. continue to think Kid Rock is really kicking ass. And as somebody who really likes Sweet Home Alabama and Werewolves of London, I love a good mashup, but when you mash it up and then just get rid of all their lyrics and put your own lyrics on top of it, it just kind of rubs me the wrong way. I don't know why that bothers me.

Doche's somebody that I used to know, I love it, or her anxiety, which uses somebody they used to know. I love it, but I don't know why I just dislike. his all summer long pandering. It's like, here's things you like, and I'm going to talk about more things you like, and I'm going to rhyme the same word a couple of times. I see you says he rhymed,

never forget he rhymed things with things. With things with things. Yes, exactly. That's great. That's so dumb. All right. Anyway, our gun guy. Kid Rock rant.

Send your emails. I'll take him and we'll see what we can do with them. Cross-thess them. There you go. He says, SIG and Beretta, again, guns, I guess. Yes. When you were talking about the potato silencer,

it was that news story. The statement you read about the surge and e-form submissions. You might have missed or glossed over the reason. Prior to January 1st of this year, it cost $200 to attempt to register an NFA item. On the first of the year, they dropped that down to $0. Oh.

The protest is because the reason the registry existed was to keep track of the tax stamp payment. Now the tax is zero, and the argument is that the registry is unconstitutional. I didn't realize that. So it's kind of a protest move even. Okay. Right.

Kind of like the church of Satan. They don't actually give shit about worshipping Satan. They just do it to show the hypocrisy of giving churches tax freedom and all that. Exactly. Okay. I get it now. Thank you for that. Did not understand that.

You know, we've got some very, very smart and responsible, licensed, trained gun owner listeners who use them for sport or. hunting or whatever they do. And I like it when you guys pipe in, because I'm going to just admit right here a gun question comes up. I don't know, Jack. I don't know anything except how they behave in video games. That's all I know.

So I appreciate it. Oh, Joey's in the chat. Joey, do you hear us talking about you earlier? Did you feel the force? Did you feel a disturbance in the force when Tom brought you up? I think we said his name. We must have said his name three times. By the way, Zytam says, Coverville.

Do you have a problem with Iridale, Wyrdell, Yank. matchups? Absolutely not. His polka's on 45 and every album different something polka. No problem whatsoever. A because it's word of Yankevick. I mean, he's, you know, we love him. Number two,

it's, you know, it's a mashup on accordion that is done for humor and it succeeds terrifically at being humorous. Yeah. So yeah, never, by the way, I realize I said A and two. I do that all the time. Instead of A and B or one and two. I do it all.

the time. Yeah. Something with our brains. I can't figure out why you do that. Wittell Yankevick. Also, super talented. Who's on the opposite? What's the opposite of super super talented? Rhymes with squid cock. Oh my gosh. Right? I think we have a new name for that performer. Squid cock on the middle of center stage. Put your hands together for squid cock. All right. That's it for your emails. Thank you so much for text, emails, calls, all that stuff. If you're looking to contact us, you will find a myriad of ways to do it at frogpants.com slash TMS. You'll also find ways to request songs. All the fun stuff is there. There is also some pretty

rad swag there as well. So grab yourself some of that while it lasts. A quick note today, 4 p.m. Mountain Time. As mentioned earlier, there will be a play retro with me and Byron Donaway. We are talking about Kirby's dream course. There we go. I got it right. Fantastic game on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Plus, we just have a great time on there. So come by. Check it out. We'll be here live at 4 p.m. Mountain at twitch.tv.tv. Brian, you got anything coming up today, tomorrow? No. The aforementioned and afore-promised Depeche Mode episode of Soundography will be going up today. So apologies that it hasn't gone up yet.

Well, you know, busy people. Doing busy things. Busy people. I have eight items on my air traffic controller to-do list thing here that... And none of them are landing at 747. No, exactly. Thank goodness they don't put us in charge of any of that. That's right. Real quick here, just to note about that. I had lunch with Hammond yesterday, and let me just say something about Hammond.

We split a pizza, first of all, smart of us to do that. Very good. A 12-inch, so it wasn't huge. Then we got the garlic bread. Oh, yum. Salads? No salads. Okay.

We could have. We could have. Sure. We didn't. Now that you say it, we really should have. That's all right. It's okay. I got the sausage farts later in the day, so I kind of regret it.

Of course you did. Yes. Anyway, I just wanted to say it's such a great time. Really had fun with him. It's always fun seeing him going to lunch, and he's going to help be some good muscle here on the ground for Nurtacular. He told me that he's kind of like a little, not gatekeeper, but kind of going to help with the FAQs,

the questions that come to you constantly via email. Yeah, they're starting to be a little overwhelming. So some of them I'm just going to be like, well, let's have somebody, let's filter this. Yeah. And then if they get starras to come to me, that's fine. but yeah he's he's a good dude so just wanted to shout him out good it was good pizza good time except i parked by parked where i parked i ended up leaving and when i went to leave a giant fedex truck

was in my way oh and trying to get past that fedex truck was like trying to pull teeth it was freaking a nightmare other than that great time uh brian let's play a song do you have anything lined up in particular today i do how about something going out to cage one of my favorite songs he says, dear Brian Durlin and Scott Free. I understand the Scott Free. I don't understand the Brian Durlin. What is that? Is that someone we should know or a thing we should know?

Brian Durlin is, oh, he's the character savant in DC Comics. Oh. Well, if this is Marvel, you would have known. I would have known for sure, yeah. Marvel knows weird Marvel shit or Brian knows weird Marvel shit that I will never know. Weird Marvel shit.

Mr. Miracle, by the way, is Scott Free, by the way. So not just, not just, you know, oh, he got away Scott Free. Apparently, the character also, there's Scott Free. That is the most DC naming shit. They do this all the time. It's like, yeah, what's his name? It was real name is Scott Free.

Yeah, lame. Totally. It's my birthday again, and I could really go for a song and a glape. Oh, I can, I can arrange the glape. If you can handle the glape, I'll take care of the song. You'll do the song if I do the glape. Sure. Look at us delaying for each other, because we know how.

how this works. All right, here we go. Here it is. Gleap. Gleap. You're very good. All right. He says the song you wants to hear is, this must be the place by the Talking Heads. Again, one of my favorite songs of all time. This is one that that, you know,

if I ever eventually do a music stream where I'm playing my Lava Jeannie guitar and my singing plastic Japanese freaky note thing, my automaton, all the different weird instruments I have in this room, I do have a lot of weird instruments.

This must be the place. Might be the song I cover. Anyway, how about a version? They came out a couple years ago on a tribute to the talking heads. I'm sorry, a tribute to talking heads called Everyone's Getting Involved. They're another one of those bands that don't begin with the word the. Tucking Heads, tribute from 2024. This is a band called Bad Bad, Not Good.

Here is, This Must Be the Place, Naive Melody. Come on back tomorrow for yet another TMS. Say it. Oh, is part of the Frog Pants Network. Yes. Get more at frogpans.com. Give your sweetheart gorgeous edible flowers made out of fruit.