The Morning Stream - TMS 2969: Beardy Spice

Episode Date: February 25, 2026

The Library Blocked my Password. Knowing Your Computer Holes. I Do Like Beanieeeeeeees. Is that your Lips?!? Clandestine Clover Patch. And 15 years of Ibbott. HOA PITA. What Kind of a Big Deal. Putting My Hand in Their Package Hole. Miner Spice and Avon Spice. Un-thirsty Plants. Town Meeting Town Meeting. She Doesn't Like Facebook --- Well, I Can Understand That! Let's go SCSI. It Always Feels Like Ring Doorbell's Watching Me with Tom and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I can see things when I look at the clouds. And right now they all look like, well, clouds. Anyway, sign up to our Patreon and support your favorite morning show today at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, the library blocked my password. Knowing your computer holes. I do like beanies. Is that your lips? Clandestine clover patch.

And 15 years of Ibit. Hoa pita. What kind of a big deal? Putting my hand in their package hole. Minor spice and Avon Spice. Unthirsty plants. Town meeting, town meeting. She doesn't like Facebook.

Well, I can understand that. Let's go scuzzy. It always feels like ring doorbells watching me with Tom. And more on this episode of the morning stream. Tonight on Friday night videos, men at work, Hart, Donna Summer, Bonnie Tyler, Rick Springfield challenges Rod Stewart, classic videos from Pete Townsend and Steve Miller,

brand new videos from the Moody Blues, ELO, Genesis, a private reel on Mick Fleetwood, plus Kim Carnes, The Kinks, and Quiet Riot. Here's a look at their twizzles. The Morning Stream. Don't eat that. It's Pluto. Hello, everybody, and welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for February 25th. Oh, almost got a 26. We'll have that tomorrow. that'll be fun. There we go.

26, 26. Every month we get one this year. Yep. No month doesn't have it, which is nice. Right. So we'll just be annoying on the 26th of every month and it'll be great. 12 times this year, you're going to have to sit through that 26. Yeah, can't wait.

It's me and Brian once again. Hello, Brian, Abbott. What's going on this morning? What? I'm doing all right. I got some stuff from a listener. I think I should shout out. Oh, cool.

Yes. You know what I did too? And I should shout them. out too. Oh, good. So because of the... I'll bet we got some of the same stuff for some reason. Oh, entirely possible, yeah. So we got just some nice, like, hey, sorry

about your mom. You know, we got lots of cards. That was super nice. So thanks to everybody, I can't thank all of you because there's too many them. There's just so many. You know who you are. I did not get those. Yeah. Brian got no cards. If you do my mom, you'd send me condolences about my mom. For different reasons.

No, for different reasons. I'm just kidding. In case she's listening. I got one from, Amish Overlord, which was this nice card that came in an envelope, but then it popped open. Look. Oh, that's cool. I love stuff like that. Yeah, it's a little pop-op-op-opony guy that has like 3D qualities to it. Like, there's 2D.

3-D. Poof. Look at that. Who needs to wait two hours for a 3-D print when you could just pop it like that? Exactly. Bring back cardboard and paper, everybody. It's the hot newness. And then we got this.

Let's see. This is from... Natalie and Alan and the cats. And the cats. Yep. Love these guys. Not their first time to the rodeo. There's something in this card that's kind of,

it's like a little flower that's pasted in here, and I can't tell if they did that or if the card came that way. Anyway, we get this nice card from them. And then in there is this beautiful little crystal guy here. Oh, wow. Isn't that nice? Cool. Like a little prism.

Yeah, a little prism, something fun to kind of stare at. And it says, here you go. You've compressed your mother. There's ashes down to a crystal. I wish I... If I get them out of John's hands, I could probably do that. Pretty cool, actually. Has it been in our minds sending you a little glow and color to brighten your day.

Anyways, that nice. That's beautiful, too. Yeah, I like prisms. I'll either hang that in the car or maybe in here somewhere. I like just, you know, a little crystal over there. Totally. You know who loves prisms or cats? Oh, yeah.

You put them in front of the window, and it gives the cat something to do all day chasing a little rainbow across the floor. I think I had ideas for Deckerd then because he would love this. Oh, for sure. Get that cat some exercise. See what happens. You got some stuff as well, you were saying? I did. I don't have it downstairs, but I got a very cool Lego thing from Marine, Chaco Mama. Actually, Chaco Mama's spouse.

Oh, that's great. We love them. They're great. Yeah, they are the best. And they're so generous every year with the chocolates that they send us and stuff like that. So put that together and I'll take a picture of it and show it off. But then I also got, and I appreciate it, I love it, but it seems so weirdly out of nowhere, beanies from Mike Picholic, which, listen, I'm grateful for a good beanie, and they are good

beanie's. Interesting. But I think he's concerned about my bald head and the cold weather that maybe someday we'll have here in Colorado some cool weather. Oh, right. I was supposed to mention this, too. We got beanies from him too. Uh-huh. And we got one for everybody in the household.

So we're supposed to, but Kim was, there's a lot going to. going on. Kim stayed overnight at her mother's last night. It's the whole thing. We were supposed to wear these and then do a big group picture and send it to Mike to thank him. But I forgot, but I guess it's just because what, we live in, you know, you live in Denver. I live in Salt Lake. It's not exactly warm. And it's 70 degrees right now. Yeah, it is warm. It's not the first thing on our minds. Yeah. It's currently 50. No, I'm sorry, 45 here, not too, but it will be up to 60 today. Yeah, we're, we're supposed to get there as well. 63. Crazy. This is just silly for, for February But I don't get it.

The good news is the mountains are getting hammered. They are getting tons of snow on the mountains finally. So tourism's good. Skying is good. Snowboarding is good. And hopefully there's enough to start a good runoff for the spring for our water needs. Yeah, same. We have exactly the same thing.

And it is good news because without the runoff, you basically go through a year of everybody has to ration everything. And nobody can sprinkle too many lawns or that sort of thing, which is fine with me. I think lawns are stupid. I wish lawns. Do you know what I want? This is what I want. Sure. Tell me what you want. Let me tell you what I really, really want. Yeah.

Let's see what spice am I. I'm going to be. Your old spice. Okay, I'll be old spice. Yeah. Because that fits. Yeah. Although I hate the smell of old spice.

Not a fan. You know what? Really? Okay. I'll be the smell of whatever's inside the head of this. Okay. You'll be Lincoln. Oh, no, that's not Lincoln.

That's your old minor spice. Old minor pipe guy. Let's see. Yeah. Ooh, yeah. Whatever that is old. Avon's spice. Anyway, so Avon spice.

on Spice says, where was I going? I forgot what I was in. You were talking about the snow and the weather and the runoff and spring and water. I forgot what I was going to say. I was going to say, oh, I tell you what I want, what I really, really want. That's right. Yep, we start with that. That's how we got

there. So it's a long been a story here on the show that you're not, where I live, the HOA forbids the use of clover as ground cover. I don't know why. It's beautiful. It's really good for. the local environs in terms of bugs and how, who, what, what, you know, how all that works.

And it looks really nice. It's way less water to, to, to, to, to, to keep up. To maintain it. Yeah, they look green without a whole lot of water. Yeah, you could almost just count on the rain and you got enough to deal with you got to deal with. Yeah. And I don't know why it's forbidden. It's so stupid.

So we have a little patch in the backyard that we plandestine whole, your own little cultivated clover patch. Yeah. And it's about the size. I mean, it's fairly large. but it's not the whole yard. It's like a, I don't know, probably like an 8 by 8 foot area by the gate. Do you send Van back there to find a four-leafer? Sometimes, yeah, actually.

That's funny. He mentioned that. Yeah, the kids love doing that. I remember as a kid loving to do that. Yeah, he goes out, he's found him before, so that's fun. I try not to let the dogs pee or poop there because it just looks really nice. Yeah. And if I had my way, everybody would get the choice of like zero escaping everything,

or some kind of clovery deal. Yeah. We don't need to be dumping this much water. You know, we all complained about AI water usage. What about the freaking lawns, man? What about HOA and lawns? Yeah, we took a whole section of our yard and did zero escaping. And Tina's been maintaining it and it looks, it looks fantastic.

We've got a nice little stone path that goes through it and a bunch of water resistant plants or water conserving plants. I don't know what the term is, but. Yeah, what you call that? water plants with lower water requirements. Let's just call them that. Nailed it. And it looks great. And now the other neighbors are like,

you know, they're like, all right, how did you do that? There's a little local Arvada subsidy kind of thing where you can say, I'm doing this with this section of the lawn and they will actually give you a tray of all the plants that are that are good for

that and you can just transfer them into your lawn. Yeah. See, I think that's great. That's how you do it. That's what I want everyone to have at least the option to do. But then these HOAs, a lot of them anyway, have these certain requirements. And then they have to stick to those for whatever reason. Yeah. Freaking let up a little.

Exactly. Exactly. What are you doing? I'm going to my next town meeting. I'm going to lay it down. There you go. Yeah. I'm going to go, I don't know why I'm here or what I'm doing.

Like that one lady. I don't know if you ever saw that. Did you ever see that video? I'm just going to play the audio from it. I have it here. Sure. Let's hear it. I can't remember what I called it is the problem. Let's see.

Is it in here? Let's see. It's so funny to me. All right, here it is. Now is this the one? Joe Biden. No, that's not it. I have a lot of crazy lady clips.

The question is, do I have the one? I can't find it. Someone in the chat will find it. She's a lady at like a town, hall meeting and she gets up and doesn't she goes i don't know why i'm here or what i'm doing but and then she goes on to kind of prove it it's pretty dumb oh no really yeah i wish i had it handy it's very funny anyway there are people behind her just coming their faces like why is she here uh the fun of growing up in a community yeah yeah uh guys brian you went and saw a thing

what you see we went and saw uh crunch 101 last night starring Thor, Hulk, Storm, and Thunderbolt Ross. Oh, sweet. Big MCU crowd there. This little collection of folks there. This is good. It's really good.

It's a crime thriller about a kind of an introverted but brilliant jewelry thief, played by Hemsworth. And then he's being chased by the police.

who's Ruffalo, an insurance lady, not really chased by, he's kind of chasing her. Hallie Berry is this insurance lady. And then he's got Keogun, what's in? Barry Keogun? I think that's right. Who is this really, like, extreme jewelry thief that's that that is so nervous and angry and and on the edge that he's like he's frequently shooting people that don't need to be shot or doing things excessively

he's a dangerous that he doesn't need to do yes well he's a he's a jewelry thief or jewelry thief yeah he's another thief but um you know what reminded me of and this is this is probably a really good barometer as to if somebody is going to like it or not is it reminds me of the cluny jalo film out of sight oh i love that movie it's great Yeah, which had like a really cool. I mean, it took place in Miami. This takes place in L.A. But had that very cool, like, I don't know,

60s throwback underlying jazzy kind of, kind of thing. This underscoring to it. Oh, yeah, Jennifer Jason Lee is in this as well. Oh, she's good. She's, what's her face? What's his face? Ruffalo's wife. Please tell me her name is

Damagu. Is it not Domagoo in the movie? I'm sorry. It is not Domago. Damn it. My apologies. She's so good in that as Domagu and the freaking hateful eight. I just wanted her to be that and everything now, but whatever. Yeah, yeah. But anyway, I would highly recommend this. And this was, so before I

talk about the Alamo, this is, I would give it I would give it four counterfeit diamonds out of five. Okay. Not bad. Yeah. Very good. Not bad at all. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, Fred 819 says Adesai was based on Elmore Leonard book, so the vibe mostly fits. Is this also based on an Elmore Leonard book? It might be. I can see it being, I could see it being very Elmore Leonard. It felt like one of his. Yeah, for sure. Anyway, so go see that or wait until it comes out on streaming or whatever, but go see it.

So we decided that this is probably going to be because everything changes over on the first and we're not seeing a movie this Thursday. This is probably going to be our last time at the Alamo before they switch to only phones and no pieces of paper. Oh, right. We're getting close. And I was thinking, all right, you know, there's so many

people, you go to the Alamo Draft House Reddit and it's scorched earth. It's people like, I've canceled my Alamo season pass. I'm so blah, blah, blah. Way from, you know, never going back there again. It's like, at least see what it's like before you do this.

That's obviously what we're going to be doing. We're going to go see a movie once they've done the switch over and say, all right, you know what? It's not so bad. Or, oh, no, this sucks. We're going to go figure out something else. Sure. But I was thinking about it.

It's so infrequent that the person next to me or two rows down or right in front of me have, get out there or do another order. Like I'm, you know, I'm engrossed in the, film but I can still see when the person next to me is like filling out a card and putting the slot and then um hitting the button to call a server it's so rare that it's probably not going to be a big deal with their dumb phones yeah probably not probably not yeah i hope that that's the trick right it's just how they had to have calculated that like how rare is it if it was constant then you got a problem and you're not gonna problem because you've got everybody's bright login screen

um before they get to the dark mode app But yeah, I don't know. We'll see. Yep. We'll see. When is the turnover? Sorry. They're the server last night,

told us they're starting the switchover on March 1st and it's going to take about a week and a half for them to, basically they have to take every table and take the whole thing, the card slot, the pens, the button. They have to take all that stuff off and then put QR codes on each of the tabletops and things like that. So, a little transition there. Nine, nine theaters and who knows how many seats per theater,

but it's going to take a while. Well, they've got the big Sony money now, so they can do that. Yeah. We found that lady. A few of you put it in the chat. I'm going to play it real quick just so you can hear it, and then we'll pull Dunoway in here. Let's see.

This is the lady who's not sure what she's doing. Not quite sure why I'm here or what I'm doing, but there's a reason. Ma'am, we're discussing the rezoning for the portello's. Do you have any comments on that? For what? We're discussing the rezoning on 53rd for... Well, I live on 63rd.

Again, we're here to hear comments about the rezoning. Well, I don't like Facebook, and I don't like the Internet, because I can't find a job. The library blocked my password. Now, tell me, does that make any sense to you? I see she's great, dude. Oh, she's great. Oh, I love it.

And she gets to vote in the elections just like we do. Yep. Never forget. You think you're all a bunch of normies, but... That's right. Exactly. Months and a while, those people show up. All right.

I don't like Facebook, and I can't find a job. I don't like the internet. And I don't like the internet. She rules. All right, guys. And these shoes hurt my feet. She did sound like somebody whose feet hurt. The cold child came off my pudding can.

Yeah. If her feet don't hurt, I'd be shocked. Guys, there's this now. Well, what do you know? It's our old pal Brian Dunaway joining us for a little game. What's going on, man? Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Hey, man.

Just waiting on your call. Just, you know, doing a Wednesday. Yeah. That's what I call it. That's right. Doing a Wednesday. Burning your lunch period to hang out with us. It's pretty nice.

you do that. Much is not food. Not for you today. No food for you. No food for you. No food for you. I subsist off feuds.

Say that again. I subsist off feuds. There you go. Subsist of feuds. Subsist off feuds. Well, Brian will explain the feud then. How does it work?

And how do we do this? Well, okay. It's time to play the Todd Pooley feud. I'm sorry. Do you want to share something with the class? Yeah. You got something done away? No, no, you're good.

I do. Am I interruptus? Am I, Brian interruptus? Hold on. Hold on. Do that again while I'm talking. It's time to play the tab. My name is Brian Jammer.

It's a little record stretch. Oh, that hurts. It hurts my ears. It sounds so real, though. Do that again? It does. Is that your lips? No.

Oh, I was about to be so impressed, dude. That's my roadcastle button. I don't like this lips. Oh, my gosh. I thought you're doing that. I thought you're doing it with your mouth. Is that your lips? Because the way you did it, you got close to the mic, and then it happened.

And I went, here we go. Ready? That looks like you did it. That looks like you freaking did it. That's amazing. All right. That was great. Okay. I'm glad you had tadpull on some nerdy topics.

It's gotten brain after predict the answers that they gave us. It is their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. At the end of the game, we're going to add up all the points. said the winner will actually be winning prizes for their listener contestant. Contestants have been pulled from our supporters on Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS. Scott, you're going to be playing for Andrew Meneer. Yeah, Andrew Meneer, baby. No, Andrew Meneer.

And Brian, you're playing for Dak Janiels. I think he's playing a joke on us with that name. I don't think that's real. I don't think that's his real name. No. No. I like it, though. All right.

You can pick your own name. why don't you just tell me the name that you'd like to have all right this is a here's going to be an interesting one because um it's what the tadpool said and i'm going to need you to be fairly specific with your answers although i'll i'll um i'll clarify when when clarification is required all right all right fair fair put your hands on your buzzers and answer this question we asked 354 tadpoolers to name a computer hardware port

Scott USB You show me USB Number one answer on the board That does combine USB and USBC Because when people put Just plain USB

I don't know which USB they meant Yeah it could be USB 1.0 2.03 Right exactly It could be that very D shaped Yeah the little micro one And the mini is the D shape that thing. What a weird blip in time.

That dumb thing was. Keep naming plugs. I mean, they're all included in there, right? They're all USB. So yeah, it doesn't. And what's great about this is it's less about what you know. You know computer hardware ports. It's what,

which ones do you think the Tadpool is going to consider to be the most popular ones? Yeah. This is going to be a little tricky. Okay. So I'm going to say, let's, let's go. Let's see how retro people get. Okay. Because USB is so everything now.

Yeah, it's turning everything. Kind of hard. Everything is USB. Let's say, let's say H-D-M-I. Okay. Show me H-D-M-I. Okay. I only accept H-D-M-H-D-M-H-N-H-D-M-I.

And H-D-M-I. How about a, let's go with a network. Ethernet port. Sure. Show me Ethernet. Oh, points. Points, points. Big points.

Seven points. Ten points currently for Scott. Zero for Brian, who hasn't even gotten a chance to answer yet. Okay. Now we're getting into... Anytime, Brian. You got a lot of gamer nerds in our crowd.

I'm going to say... We're going to say video... What's it called? Hold on. Is this called video port? No, no, no. what's that called video oh I'm going to get that wrong hmm all right

shit what is that called I have one right here there's no shit port it's display port display port oh yeah yeah tells tells look at my display port yeah similar to your

uh... HTMLI but sends more data and has a squared edge which is really weird show me display port number eight some more good points 18 for Scott. Oof, Oof, okay. Let's say a 3.5

millimeter audio jack. Okay. Auxiliary port. Audio port. Show me your 3.5 millimeter headphone jack. Very nice. That's the tenor.

That's the big points right there. 28 points currently for Scott. Okay. I'm just going to go see you guys. I'm going to go, I'm going to go toast me some pop darts. All right. I think this is,

We got to be in the territory of now people are going to get funny and the fill in the middle. And so I'm going to say parallel port, like the old school parallel port. That was funny about that. That's great. Well, you love them. You would go buy one. You'd go pick one off the street right now and put it in your house. I bet Brian Dunaway himself has a parallel port.

Oh, yeah. Goes both ways, baby. It goes both ways. Show me parallel port. Parallel port. There we go. Number nine, which I think locks Brian out. I can't even think of how it would even come back from this.

Yeah. 37 points. There are four answers left on the board. Damn. I can't wait for my turn to say stupid shit. Oh, sorry. It's going to be stupid. How about a serial port?

Let's put that in there. Yeah, yeah, it's parallel. You've got to mention the serial. That's right. Parallel. Number four. No. I wonder how many people.

I only would. I should have only accepted the RS 232, though. I should have demanded. I mean, it was. It is in there. Yeah. I worked for a computer cable company for like 10 years. So some of this stuff's built through me.

All right. We are going to say PS2. PS2. All of them and I never even get a chance to even say a word. I'd love to clear the board. I've never done that before. Let's see if it happens here. Show me PS2.

Yep. Number five. Two answers left on the board. Your PlayStation 2? I mean, you hook up. Yeah, your PlayStation 2 hooked right up. Yeah. Let's go scuzzy.

See how that goes. Oh, wow. Scuzzy. Oh, people want you to show the board. There we go. Show me scuzzy. Okay, Scott. Look at this.

You've got all the answers except for one. You've got 49 points. This hasn't been the first time. You're going to disappoint me so much. If you don't run the board and only lock me out. Then I'll say the only one really left here. is a 15 pin just VGA port.

Like a VGA port? Yeah, DB 15, we used to call them in the business. Show me VGA! Yeah. There it is. Born, complete. First time we've ever

had this happen. I've never done that before. Scott knows his computer holes. All my computer holes. That's right. Yeah, no, it's probably a cheat because I really did work for a computer cable company for a long time. That's not a cheat.

I, will say this though i will say i was hesitant to click on the button too fast which could have got me the win because i could have got in my head and said i'm going to need you to be actual so it's my fault he didn't win uh-huh he got in my head i let ibit get in my head hey brian this is what i feel like every month when tvs trammis comes on okay it's all right it's a little pass you'll be fine just drink uh that's what i do i just start drinking at 10 a m and uh yeah take heart you guys have a similar two-day run here going exactly exactly totally fine uh very good do you know do you want to take a guess at what number 11 is i almost i almost got to get number 11 no i want i really

you don't want to see if you can get it all right i'll try uh i mean i'm out of ports uh he's won the game but i want to slam dunk on me now i want to break the back i will be i will be amazed if he gets this one because this is not... Yeah, that might be a hint. Less than... Less than... Less than one that I think of initially.

Less than six people would have said it, right? Well, very... Correct. Very uncommon one. I can tell you five people said it. Which is less than six. Uh, the... Um, I'm gonna say the...

I don't know if this was even on a computer. Scart. The SCART format. Oh, the SCART. Yeah. Yeah. Some of our other, yeah. on the other side of the... upon they would have used the the scarred connector

yeah the scarc right damn it done away try try one what do you got oh i was just gonna um i was gonna go with um uh uh uh the uh yeah the uh yeah i don't know yeah here's so i stopped thinking like 10 minutes ago when scott like one i just like stop thinking about it was no point in thinking after that exactly um yeah scart did somebody say skirt. I feel like somebody might have said scar. Oh, you got to get scarred in there. Maybe firewire? That might be like I just

Firewire was A light in for maybe. Number 17 is Firewire. Oh, oh, oh. Yeah. The S video. S video. It is not S video. I can give you another Z app if you'd like one.

Which you always thought was the PS2. It's like, is this the PS2? It's like, is this the PS2 port? That's a point. I know. People would try to jam it in there. We get tech support calls about that all the time. So here's, here's what's interesting about number 11. It's not, it's, it's not in the external. It's inside the computer, but it's a port. IDI port. Yes. It is not. It is. I'll just give it to you. Oh, PCI.E. Ah, yeah, the I Express. That's fine. Yes. That's a cheat, you guys. Well, not a cheat. It's a port. It's a port in your, it's a hardware port. Yeah, that's true.

Can you port me? Let's give you some of these other ones just because Print report, SATA, DVI, Apple desktop bus, MIDI in and out. In and out. Apple Display Connector ADC, which is different. Apple Talk, going way back with Apple Talk.

H-Pib and G-Bib. No idea. Joystick, Kensington Security slot. My favorite. My favorite port on a... Yeah, I forgot about those Stupid King's thing. That was like a key, like a fob, right?

Yeah, it was a little oval and you'd have, like you could, I've got one right here, as a matter of fact, you put a lock in it and then put a little combination code and people can't, can't take your hardware. Interesting. Power processor, RAM, S Video, did make, there it is. SPDIF, or SPIF, Spiff, Spidiff. Yep, Spidif. And then somebody said, Ralph, because they want their computer hardware port to be named. Ralph. I'm into that. And then the the triple shot of what is that? What? Like USB and what the F is that?

You don't know who wrote those, right? You don't get names. I can actually look back and see because I required, um, uh, uh, you know, so you're like, you're like the government. You're like making me show my ID. I guess we're right. We're not going to make fun of these people. I just, I just think it's just know that we get your names everybody. So we're not going to just know we could make fun of you. Just know that we could make fun of you. Just know that we could. Just know that we could. could if we wanted to. I could take a look. Let's see if I can find out. Like if any of you ever type, you know, Epstein did nothing wrong. We'll know who you are. You know what I'm saying? That's right. Exactly. Let me see. Which one do you want to know about? The one that's what the F is that?

Yes. That is somebody named Twinkerbell. Nice. We did dox you and shame you. You're welcome. Yeah, you're welcome. Well, you didn't really dox them. They didn't really dox them. But still. They can't find it. Maybe. It might be enough. What, like USB was age of troll by?

Oh, nice. Nice. Nice. We know age of trollbot. Yeah. Well, well done, everybody. Look at the, look at the garage. I just killed it today.

Yeah, honestly done. That means... Both believed and slightly embarrassed. Yeah, should be. You ought to be. I think that means that Andrew Maneer just gets all the prizes today. Nothing going to Dak Janiels.

Rood. No, I can't do that. Andrew Meneer, you're getting a copy of the Blind Prophet and Scarlet Hood and the World. Wicked Wood on Steam. Sounds like fun. And Dak Janiels, you're going to copy of Vampire the Masquerade, Cotteries of New York. Coteries.

Coteries. I like that. Well, congratulations, everybody. Get one of these. Congratulations. And here's another nice little bit of something you can get. Tonight at 4 p.m. Mountain time. That's 6 p.m. Eastern time.

Right? That's 3 p.m. Sorry, 3 p.m. Pacific time. Central, just eat a turd. So figure it out. Yeah, you can figure, do the math. Yeah, figure it out. You're the one in between. Figure it out. Today, that is to say, we will be recording an episode of Play Retro. We're going to be playing Star Trek Borg, not playing it, talking about it.

This is our last full motion video of Full Motion February. We've been covering full motion video games for the entire month of February, and this is our last one. And I think it actually ends on a real high note. There's some really, there's some things to admire here. Some people consider this the lost Star Trek movie. Yeah. Delancey reprises his role as Q and it's kind of played like a first person interactive movie and it is

hilarious. Yeah, there's some real mixed there's some mixed bag stuff in there but I think people enjoy it and I can't wait to talk to Brian about us. That'll be 4 p.m. tonight frogpants. TV. Check that out if you can. Donaway kiss our butts. And wah, wah, wah, he's out of here. Yeah.

So I just heard from Tom. Looks like he He said I sat around to get ready and my computer decided it was a perfect time to reboot and apply an update. Oh, no. So he's in the middle of that, but that shouldn't take too long, I wouldn't think. Can we do an email? Yeah, I figure we'd just jump around here a little bit. Yeah.

Jump around. We're going to jump around. Oh, let's see. He answered me. Let's see what he says. He says, okay. So he'll let me know. All right.

Let's get to an email. these This is about the jugs of pee This is what we do We gather your feedback And then we play it or read it Or do whatever it is we do And we'll start with this one

Oh he says he's ready now Okay Hold on So that was just a fun hint Skip the jugs of P Yeah that was just a hint Of what was to come It's a taste of what's coming

It's a taste of the jugs of P But don't worry You'll get more of that later But now time for this Isn't technology wonderful? Oh man It sure can be but only when Tom Merritt joins us after an important computer update is completed.

Sorry, sorry you had to do that. That was a weird thing. The freshest Mac install in the land right now. That's right. I've got one of those waiting for me too. You must be, you probably are actually the most recent, right? Like nobody else has got as fresh a connector or fresh a load as you did. Not as freshly installed as me probably.

No, no, no, no. But anyway, look at that right on time, Tom. Right when he precisely mentioned. to or whatever the wizard. That's right. Like a wizard. My Mac update arrives precisely when it meant to. No, I sat down. Yesterday I sat down and it was like, couldn't install the Mac update because Word wanted to know if you wanted to save something. And I was like, all right, save the word, close the word, it'll do it tonight. And I said, do it later. Today I sat down and there was a dialogue box saying, are you sure that you want McWhispur to, to, you know, be a program?

And I said, well, yeah, I installed it yesterday to do a transcript. I said, okay. And it was like, great, we'll finish rebooting now. I'm like, hold on. Oh, not now. No, I understand. I've been there. Been there done now.

Yeah. Well, it's still good to have you here because we got a tech question that requires an answer. Oh, yeah. Rips right from today's headlines, folks. what happens as you guys send us a lot of emails now, and they often include these questions for Tom. Really enjoying these, keep them coming.

Wendell Peel wrote in. I think it's probably a full real name there. I don't know. I think so too. Possibly related to Emma Peel. Could be? Oh, could be an Avenger. Oh. Not the one you think.

No, I like that. Inside joke, if you're not much of a Marvel guy. Anyway, hey, let me read this. It says, got one for Tom. Might be a little controversial, but I think a lot of people might like to hear his take. Well, I think they might as well. Ring cameras and door cams have created this unofficial neighborhood surveillance network

where your footage might capture crimes blocks away and companies are shifting or, excuse me, sharing that data with law enforcement, sometimes without a warrant. At what point does keeping my port safe become participating in a surveillance infrastructure you never actually agreed to? And is there a version of this technology that could give us the safety benefits without the privacy tradeoff asks Wendell. It's an interesting question.

I have seen a bunch of stuff lately about this because there was the... Because the Guthrie... Guthrie deal, right? Yeah. Yeah, there's so much going on with Ring. There was the Guthrie deal, and then there was the Super Bowl commercial

about the finding the local pet that everybody's like, oh, but what if you want to find a person? You could do that too, couldn't you? And Ring said, no, we would never do that. And then an internal email came out where one of the CEOs was like, We would totally do that.

Yeah. That's funny. Going well over there. They're still an Amazon company. They're still owned by them? They are. They are an Amazon company. And I think, well, I own a, just so you know my priors, I own a ring doorbell.

I do not pay for the subscription. And I keep it in live only mode, which means it is never storing anything or ever sending it to the cloud except in the moment. And that's a good, that's a good moment to point out what happened with the Savannah Guthrie case, because what they found there was remnants of data that had been sent to the cloud. And so it's really easy to misunderstand that if you don't understand how data storage works. So let's assume, I actually don't know, it turns out she wasn't paying for the cloud service, same as me. Correct.

So when you do that, you can see current video, and it will occasionally show you a snapshot of motion capture, if you have that setting on. And so those get sent to Amazon's cloud. I think in Savannah Guthrie's case, it was a Google doorbell, but same kind of deal. And then get deleted. Now, what a lot of people are suggesting with the Savannah Guthrie thing is, Oh, so they lied about deleting it. And the fact of the matter is, maybe they did, but I don't think they did because it took them a while to find it. And what you have to realize, if you didn't hear me explain this already on DTNS Live, when you delete a file, you don't delete the file.

The way most operating systems work, they delete the file allocation table record of it or an analog of that in other file systems. but basically they delete the thing that says, here's where the file is. Right, they delete the table of contents, but they keep the rest of the book. The data stays on your hard drive until it's overwritten. The table of contents is saying, oh, don't write any data here.

There's an important file. And when you delete a file, it takes that away so you can write wherever you want. There may or may not be data overwritten of a file or not, which is a great thing to know if you're like, oh my gosh, I deleted this photo and I want to keep it. You can get open source software that will go through your hard drive and look for those files that have been deleted to see if they've been overwritten or not. If they haven't been overwritten, they can recover them.

And so what I'm guessing with Savannah Guthrie is they went to the server. They had to find the server that had stored whatever transitory data had been sent from her doorbell camera. and then they had to run that kind of recovery on that server and then see if they came up with something and they came up with something. So it's pretty likely that they weren't lying, that they just went and recovered stuff. And that takes some doing to identify which of the many hard drives in a data center had it and then take that one out of service and then run file recovery on it. It takes some doing. So it's not like, oh, so they could get my data anytime they want. It would take some doing it. It would have to be important enough for them to spend the resources to do it like in this particular case.

Now, getting to the actual question here, Ring says it shares videos without your consent only in cases where there is a warrant, right, where someone comes from the court and says, hey, the judge has said you need to hand over this data. If Ring has that data, then they will hand it over. I think that's pretty non-controversial. seal. If you go get a warrant, then you got to hand over the data. That's the law. It's kind of the same in the physical realm. If somebody comes to your house, with a warrant to collect a manila folder you keep in your desk, you have to give them that. The judge has said it is worth violating your privacy for this case in order to hand over that information. Right. The second case is you voluntarily give it, right? The police come and say, hey, can we look at all your ring doorbell footage and you're like, sure, go ahead.

You know, if you give consent, that can happen. Or imminent danger of death or serious physical injury. Now, this is where if you don't trust Ring, it gets wonky because they decide what counts as imminent danger of death or serious physical injury. Right. But it's a reasonable thing to say, hey, if someone's been abducted and they, and we know, you know, the police are like, listen, the family says they were abducted by a spouse and has made threats. And we need to see from the ring doorbell what car they're in because we don't know what car they're in.

You might say, oh, yeah, no, you don't need a warrant for that. Please take it. But they may not have the time to get permission from the owner of that doorbell. And so Ring says in those cases, in those very rare cases, we will give access even without a warrant. And again, if you trust Ring, you're like, oh, yeah, no, that makes sense. You know, sometimes time is of the essence. And as long as it's rare cases, that's okay. So far, it's been rare cases.

There have not been any cases uncovered where Ring handed over data. And we would know. People would figure this out real quickly where someone says, I don't know that that was really imminent danger or death or serious physical injury. As of early 2024, Ring discontinued a tool that let the police ask publicly for footage. It was called the request for assistance tool. So now if the police want to ask for your consent, they have to go to you directly. They can't just use this tool. So they made it harder for police to request that assistance. Ring also rejects requests that do not provide

sufficient information to locate responsive records. So they can't do any fishing expeditions. Like, just give me everything on the hard drive. They're like, no, you have to tell us exactly what you want. Then we'll get it. And you can opt out of law enforcement requests. the control center, you can say, I don't care if it's imminent danger or death. Please don't ever touch my data. You can do that. You can also shorten your video storage time so that it's likely that your video is gone. You could only keep it for an hour or so, something like that. And here's the big one. You can enable end-to-end encryption in the ring app. That's something they added, I don't know, within the last year or two, which means only you can ever access your

video. It's encrypted end to end. The key to unencrypting it is on your device. And so if you choose end-to-end encryption and the police say, please hand over this, they're like, it won't do you any good. It's encrypted. Right. We can't decrypt it because it's end-to-end encrypted and only the person who owns the device has it. That's only opt-in. That's not a, that's not a... That is an opt-in. That is something you have to do. But if you are concerned, you can go do that. The other thing you could do is not use a ring doorbell, right? Which, granted, you only have control of that. If everybody else in your neighborhood has a ring doorbell,

then there's nothing and goings are probably getting recorded somewhere else. Then there's nothing you can do about that. I don't know about you, but my neighborhood, all my neighbors have a ring doorbell. Yes, same here. So I don't know if they pay for storage or if they're like me and they just have it on to see who's there live. And so that's where it does start to get concerning of like, well, what are my neighbors? doing. And depending on your neighborhood, uh, maybe it's a good thing to bring up and just be like,

hey, do you all actually store that? Do you, do you have ended in encryption on? Uh, stuff like that. So I think there's a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt around this, which makes it seem like ring has all the power and they can just spy on everyone all the time, uh, which is not true. But it's also true that there, there could be concerns here. If you're like, hmm, I, I, I don't want this to get misused and I don't trust Amazon. So, uh, so, uh, so, you know, I, I, I want to know. I, I, I want to know, where it stands, what actions I can take and what things I might want to talk to my neighbors about. Sure. That makes sense to me. So a couple of things. One, a quick personal story. I got a package that was delivered to my, I think I told Brian about this, got delivered to my neighbor by accident.

Happens. No big deal. I went over there. My neighbors just happens to be kind of a big deal around town. Some of you know about this anyway. So are you, Scott. Right. Yes. Like he's, if I said who it was, I don't want to get in trouble. But basically, I go over there. an NDA when they moved in. I mean, he's no Scott Johnson, but he's kind of a thing. But this particular person and his wife aren't always there. In fact, they have a lot of parts of the year where they are just not in the country. And so we're never sure when they're home.

And I realized it was theirs because I recognized the weird little fake grass covered box they built to put packages in. And it wasn't ours. It's really cool, actually. Yeah, it's kind of cool. So I go over there and I realize they've got a ring door. like everybody else does or some brand. I didn't actually check to see if it was ring. They all look the same.

And I realized I'm now on camera, putting my hand in their package hole, pulling it out. Uh-huh. And so what I did. In front of the camera and like gesture, point to the address, point to yourself. I did.

I actually did. I picked it up. I would do. I pointed at the address, pointed at me, thumbs up, smiles all the way, took it home.

And I figured if they had an issue, I could easily explain what I was doing. but it was this feeling of like oh this looks bad you know right and you your neighbor knows you they'll recognize you it's not like you're trying to sneak you know you didn't put on a balic lava

or something you can go over there right you're very clearly like hey it's Scott I'm taking this package if you have any questions you know where to find me I could have really gone I could have really gone hard on that I guess but the other thing is something BioCow said in the chat and you tell me if this summation is correct

and it just feels feels like what he's saying feels right. He says, basically they tried to be a good neighbor and went to the garbage dump and found the data they promised they would throw away and now people are mad they wanted to help. Is that a fair way of describing it? It's a little simplification. Regarding Google, recovering that. Yeah, I mean, that's pretty close. I don't know how many people are really mad. It only takes three on the internet to make it seem like a lot of people are mad. But yeah, that is what Google did. Somebody said, hey, you've, you threw this away, and it could be important in finding Savannah Guthrie's mother,

and Google said, oh, okay, we'll go dig through the trash and see if we can find it, and they did. Well, there you go. Just know these things about the, know the technology you're buying, you know? It was all the rave to go, oh, man, I can see people before I have to open the door. This is an amazing tech. So nice. And now they all have it. And yes, these things have like facial recognition or it can tell that it was a car that went by and not a person or packages on the thing.

like these are all really quote unquote cool ideas for the consumer it's just important to know what that actually means where the data goes if anywhere and know how it's used yeah and what your switches are what you have a switch to encrypt it go encrypt it you know and we need to get used to and create standards around that sort of thing because like you Scott like even though you knew

what you were doing wasn't wrong right you felt creepy because there was a camera you're like ooh yeah right and and that's natural to feel that way it doesn't mean that the cameras are even ever going to be used for something nefarious. But we have to get used to the idea of them being there, if they're there. And we all have to come up with community standards of like, hey, responsible ring door bell owner does X. Yeah. And also now they have this video of me being a weirdo.

Yeah, which I would keep in treasure forever, honestly. I would like download that one to my phone. I kind of hope they, like they're still out of the country. When they come back, I kind of, I feel like texting him and going, hey, just toss me that ABI or whatever. Oh, yeah. Is that still there? They're like, oh, no, I set my video storage to an hour and it's end to encrypted. Sorry.

Tom, Snapchat it away. Yeah, that's the way it is. Well, Tom, a great, great answer to a very good question. You guys just keep these coming. Please keep them coming. Yeah, we're loving this stuff. So do not stop. Send them to the morning stream at gmail.com.

And Tom, tell us about anything else you might have going on right now. I mean, honestly, I probably don't remind people often enough that if you you like this sort of technology information. You can get it every day right there in your old podcatcher or YouTube or wherever you consume podcasts. Daily Tech News Show, Daily Tech News Show. We tell you about the big story. We put things in context. We have a whole section of little tidbits that are just meant to make you sound smart when people ask about technology.

Let us do all the hard work of reading through all the tech news and then tell you the most important stuff, Daily Tech News Show.com. Nice. Go check it out. It's Tom Merritt, everybody. Watch him as he goes. All right. See you, Tom. See you later. Checking my doorbell now.

Actually, I have a wise doorbell, and I don't do the online thing at all. So it's just live to my phone is the only real. I've got one wise cloud account, which points directly at the bird feeder outside. So I can see when those big fat raccoons are climbing up the pole and taking all the bird seed. There you go. So then the next day I can cover the pole with Pam. Nice. You need fresh Pam, fresh coat of Pam out there. Yeah, because I'm not going to go out and put Pam on there nightly, but it tells me, when they get up there, it tells me, okay,

they're able to get up there. It's dried off. Now I've got to put new Pam on there. So this notifies you too, so you can see it. You can go, oh, yeah. It doesn't. I probably could set it to do it, but they come overnight. And so I don't want to get notified at 2 o'clock in the morning that there be Darby raccoons. Yeah. There'd be raccoons in your yard. That's right.

Yarr. All right. Now we can do the calls. Now it's time for the jugs of pee. This is about the jugs of pee. That's right. I played it twice today. These are calls.

Here's one from Hayes Skunk about driving sleepy. Hey, swerve and break. This is Hayes Skunk. And I was just listening to Wednesday's TMS, where Scott was talking about how he has narcolepsy, but only when he's driving. You guys mentioned drive epilepsy, but I'm really sadden to hear the you didn't come up with the term car colipsy. Have a great day.

Love the show, though. Yeah, it's all right there. Carcolpsy. Perfect. Yeah. How did we miss that? I know. That's great.

Well, well done. Skunk. Yeah, good jog, Hayes, Skunk. Which I don't know. I'd love to know the origin of your name. Unless it's something embarrassing like you have real bad farts or something like that. I don't know about that. Here's one from Michael about short people in Hollywood.

I keep making the claim that everybody in Hollywood. but is shorter than the rest of us. And I still stand a little bit by that. But let's hear what he has to say. Good morning. This is for the morning stream. I guess that's obvious because this is the voice cast TMS thing.

Hello, short. And what's a B word that has something to do with tall or short? Anyways. Big. There you go. Scott, you continue to say how short people are in Hollywood. And I was like, all right. What's the validity to this un-researched claim that he's made?

So I asked chat, GPT, so you can yell at? I was going to say her just because mine had the lady voice. You can yell at her. But the research that came back says that the average height is 510 to 511. So I know we're not all six three, but hey, I don't know. Okay, so basically there, the average Hollywood height is actually, average height of humans. Yeah.

I've just, I've got it in my head, though. You know what it is? It's just that whenever Jeff Goldblum or someone like, or Jacob Aiority or somebody shows up, it then becomes so ridiculously different than their co-stars that I immediately just assume that the co-stars are all shorties. But they're really not. They're really not. But here's the bigger problem, Brad Garrett, because he throws everything off.

Every measurement, every average. it's really Brad Garrett and Richard Keel. Yeah, it's their fault. Yeah. Otherwise, yeah, the average would be down like four foot nine. We call it the Garrett Keel effect. That's right. Not to be confused with the Garrison Keeler effect.

No, no, no. That's a very, that's when you're very sleepy telling dumb stories. That's what that is. That's right. So I would say that I still have this thing, though, where I think their heads are bigger than they're disproportionately large heads for their bodies. Now, I get away with a large head because I'm on. also tall and no one notices. Sure, sure. But if you were, if you were a smaller guy and you

had that size head, people would look at you like, oh my God, are you Fisher Stevens? Yeah. Oh, I didn't expect a Fisher Stevens reference, but it's perfect. But yeah, like, they just kind of get bobbleheads and the older they get, the worse it gets. I'm not saying it's their weird diets of like, I'll only eat 400 calories a day or I don't know what, you know, you know, you hear all these rumors about Hollywood, how Hollywood people keep their form. Yeah. Or whatever. But their heads are getting larger.

And I'm telling you, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, freaking, Dr. Frankenstein and the latest Frankenstein. He name was his name. Oh, is your Oscar. Oscar Isaac. Oscar Isaac. I'm telling you that guy's got a bigger head than you all will admit to. Yeah.

Okay. That's all I'm saying. Yep. By the way, I just put an unductored photo of Fisher Stevens in our discussion. Oh, let's take a look here. Oh, I'm so excited to see this. Oh, yeah, dude. No way.

Like there's no way that that Whoops, I want to pull over. Here we go. Here's an even better one because you can argue. Well, you're just not single of his neck because of the collar. Oh, that's see. Perfect. Look at that one right there. Perfect.

And again, no shame to Fisher Stevens. He even feels bad about his five-as-a-life thing. He was with Michelle Pfeiffer for a long time. Good, good on him. And she bumped him by accident. His neck almost fell off. He bo-flop head. Yeah.

Yeah, that's a big. Or it's just a tiny neck. I think it's a tiny neck. I think it's a regular-sized head and body, but a little tiny neck. I wonder if it swings around, cool. I bet he can't eat more than a kernel of corn at a time. Because of the narrow downhole that he's got. He can't eat a whole piece of sushi at once.

Yeah. A whole bite of pizza, and he's in the yard. He was in that sun, sung blue. And he was very good. Oh, still out there doing stuff, is he? I guess I haven't seen him in a long time. Last time I think I saw him was in a film sack movie we did that wasn't short circuit. It was something else.

Right, right. Oh, yeah, poor guy got in trouble for getting that role. It wasn't even his fault that he got the role. No. I couldn't be standing beside myself. He's very apologetic about it too. He regrets it. But I can't remember what the deal was.

It was something we saw. Tom, FilmSec, yeah. I can't remember what it was. Oh, hackers? Maybe it was hackers. It might have been. Yeah. I have fond feelings for hackers.

Yeah. It's not very good, but I like it. All right. That's your feedback for the day. Thank you for those. Keep those coming. Film sack. Or sorry,

film sack. Frogpants.com slash TMS has links to all the ways to get a hold of us. That's the one I meant to say. Film sac's a whole different thing. I will say that if you want to go to frogpans. com slash TMS, you'll also find a link to our Patreon. We always talk about it at the top of the show. May as well mention it again here.

We need to see a little growth there. Get in there. Up your rates or get some of your friends in. We haven't raised prices. We're like... We will if you don't get your friends in here. We could easily go in there and change that dollar to two. That's right.

They don't even let you do that anymore on new accounts. We're grandfathered in on the one. That's right. Yeah, we can't even do it. Yeah. If you sign up today for Patreon, if you're not already a patron, then tomorrow you'll get our pre-show and you'll see the ginormous corner box I'm working on for Spider-Man.

Yeah. You'll finally see it. Where else are you going to do that? Well, I guess you can come early for the stream, but, you know. Well, there's that, but come on now. Yeah, forget I said anything. Get the Patreon guys. Do that.

Stigma-D2 says he was also in the live-action Mario Brothers movie. Yep, we did sack that one. We did. That might also be what I'm thinking, oh. He's probably been in a few, and I've just forgotten everything but short circuit. So as problematic as it is to put a white man in an Indian man's role, it is a very memorable role. It is. Yeah.

You know, it's hard. Hard to forget it. All right. That is it for today's show. Again, play retro tonight at 4 p.m. Trek fans are going to want to tune into this. It's a very interesting thing that exists. And the enhanced edition looks as good as a TNG episode.

It's really weird. Wow. Yeah. I'm kind of a similar but unrelated note. I was reminded today that, you know, that I have not started watching Starfleet Academy. I told T and I said, we've got to put that on the list. Yeah. We're currently finishing the,

most recent season of Platonic, which, listen, it is, the studio is great, but I think Platonic might be my favorite Seth Rogen thing ever, and it's doing no small part to how amazing freaking Roseburn is at playing off of them and being the perfect counterbalance to, um, to Seth Rogen. I love Roseburn, so I'll watch her do anything.

Yeah, you should watch Platonic. You and Kim would love Platonic. We have had that on the list for a while, so we definitely will. Okay. The other one we want to see, the other one I want to see is that movie she's in that she's up for an Academy Award or something, right? Yeah, if I had legs, I'd kick you. Yeah, you saw that. Right?

I saw it and it stressed me the hell out. That's what I heard. I heard it's really stressful. It's stressful. It's so good, but it is so freaking stressful because you're tight in on her face for most of the movie. and even though there's some comedy bits in there, it is the stress of a married, but husband is traveling far away. So basically single parenting a daughter that needs a feeding tube and all the trials and troubles that come with that and judgmental other parents and not having enough time in the day, but also kind of self-sabotaging with some drinking and drugs and stuff.

Wow. It's... What's more stressful? That or uncut gems? Uncut gems is more stressful. Uncut gems, I think, is the most stressful movie I've ever seen. I would agree. So now that makes me feel okay about seeing this. Because if it's not as stressful as that, I'll be all right.

This is only an eight on the uncut gems scale of 10. Yeah. Yeah, I did watch Begonia, Claire, and loved it. It was... Yeah, we talked about it here, I think. We did talk about it here. I can't remember if it was, it had to be a Friday. Oh, it might have been Friday.

Review. But it was, it's very good. And it's the first Lantromos movie in a long time that Tina likes. I was going to say, that's what I remember you talking the most about is that it didn't, it didn't out Lantromos itself into something. Yes, exactly. Too weird for anyone to like. There wasn't right. Exactly.

You can actually enjoy it on its own. Or it's 100% yeah I want to see it That's streaming now right somewhere It's streaming now on HBO Max I think Maybe let me slip that one in maybe The one I'm surprised isn't streaming yet And come on I know

It's not a great movie It's not a great series of movies But it's a fun series of movies Is the latest now you see me I think the latest one is now you see me now you don't Oh the magician heist thing The magician one with Franco and Jesse Eisenberg And Ila Fisher

It's in Morgan Freeman in that? Secret crush Isla Fisher. No, that's so secret. No, it's out in the open, man. Yeah, it's out there. So hold on. That's, that's, that is Morgan Freeman. Does he show his weird plastic hand or any of that in this or no? Oh, I don't know. He's got, like a plastic hand every time he's in public. There's some injury or something. Really? Interesting. Yeah. I know I wasn't aware of that. I was to track that down. Anyway. Prime video is where a stigma 82 says Begonia is streaming. Oh, all right. It's a prime deal, is it? Prime deal. Go watch it for me. your neighbor's porch that's right right from the ring doorbell uh brian let's play a song you've got one all cute sure i do i have one here and it's uh from jonathan and it came early in the month and i'm finally just getting to it so my apologies jonathan uh howdy guys on february 6th i'll be turning the ripe young age of 36 more importantly i'll be celebrating 20 years of listening to

scout ramble about nerdy stuff and 15 years of ibit that's just where he ends it right there a bit doing what but okay okay uh discover the instance and ELR in 2006 and have been going along for the ride ever since i'd love to hear primus's cover of hello skinny constantinople by the residents or something equally weird if that's not possible thanks for everything you guys do and have done here's to another 20 plus years well thank you jonathan yeah and um yeah and and uh yeah you share birthday with my wife so very cool uh the residents i i love these guys They're the guys who perform in three-piece or like tuxedos, but they have eyeballs for heads. And it's some of the weirdest music you're ever going to hear.

But Primus covering the residence is just, it feels so perfect. This is their cover of Hello Skinny, Constantinople. And it's Primus. What more can I say? Yeah, I love it. Jerry was a race car driver. It's my understanding. That's right.

This came from the remastered version of Frizzle Fry from 2002. Nice. Here it is. Fans Network I can't even wear his shoes