The Morning Stream - TMS 2973: Bonfire Of The Manatees

Episode Date: March 4, 2026

This Is About The Burger Pee. Using the crack to your advantage. Knee to the groin eye appointment. Darth Protovaper! I Don't Like Aiiiiiiii Greeeeeeeen! Weird Wednesday with Dunaway. Paying The Tesla Tax. Big Chunky Floater. Maybe Creed Gets Cranked. E.T. Found Polyp. Beau-acal Kissing? Buy the better tires. Old farts talk about pricing back in the day. Sugarloaf Lane. Every Phone Can Be Foldable with Tom Merritt! and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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I don't like AI green. Weird Wednesday with Dunaway. Pan that Tesla tax. Big chunky floater. Maybe Creed gets cranked. E.T. found polyp. Boakle kissing? Buy the better tires.

Old farts talk about pricing back in the day. Sugarloaf lane. Every phone can be foldable with Tom Merritt and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. The craft you are attempting to communicate with no longer exists. Your sister craft no longer exists. The signal you are following is a warning. And you've been able to decipher its meaning you would not have attempted. did the press pass on our world.

Prescription for some antibiotics. The morning stream. They're coming to get you, Barbara. There's one of them now. Hey, everybody. Welcome to TMS. This is the morning stream for Wednesday, March 4, 2026. I'm Scott Johnson.

That's Brian Abbott. Hello. Good morning. We're in the middle. It's the middle of the week. How do we feel about it? Do we feel like the second half is going to be better than the first or worse? I hope it's, that's a good question.

I think it's, I hope it's better than the first because that's always what you hope. Even if the first was good, you don't want to go back, right? You always want to. I'd like for the second half to be better than the first. I agree. That's how I feel about the Super Bowl as well, by the way. Pretty much right after the show, I ran out to, oh no, I recorded a soundography with and then I had to run up to the bike store to get some tires.

The ones I wanted were not available anymore, and those are the ones on sale. So I had to buy the next level up. $200 later, I now have new tires for my bike. Oh, shit. It just makes me feel like, yeah, back when I had my first corolla, my first green 1971 corolla, I started driving in 1986, I feel like I might have bought a full set of tires for that car that cost 200 bucks total. Yeah, that's about what we paid back then.

Yeah. It's a lot more now. It's a lot more now. It's 150 or 75 or 80 or something bucks the tire. The ones I think I have on my car right now, I think, are 120 bucks each, 130 bucks each. Yeah, you get one of them like all-wheel drive, Subaru's or whatever. You're freaking screwed. Oh, yeah, for sure.

Yeah. And windshields, when we were young, you could get a windshield replaced for like, Like a whole windshield, I think I could get, I think I had my, my Maverick windshield replaced for like 200 total dollars. Mm-hmm. And 85, 86, whenever it broke. Today, you will pay, if you don't do any insurance stuff.

I was going to say, insurance, I don't think I've, I don't think I've ever paid to have my windshield replaced, except for maybe a, um, a 10 or $15 windshield deductible from insurance, but my brother-in-law had to pay $3,000 for his, Whoa.

Oh my gosh. It's a Tesla one though, right? So it's all like this. It's not the, not the cyber. Oh, right, the full on. It's not even, it's like a wind and top of car shield. There's no stopping here where you normally have a car. Right.

Exactly. It goes all the way over. Yeah. And it's all one piece. So you get one ship and it's like, great. Yeah, it's half the car. Yeah. But five grand or whatever was, three grand, five grand, something like that.

Insane. Yeah. I wouldn't do it. I just. Yeah, we're driving with a crack in the windshield, folks. Yeah. This is, you know, start using it as a way to level the, the car. Like, use it as, all right, I know if there's a car on the upper part of the crack,

then I know that he's about to turn because he's in the turn lane. Yeah, you start using the crack to your advantage. Yeah, yeah. You become addicted to the crack. Basically, it's crosshairs. Crosshair, yeah, you got a reticule now. Or reticle, sorry, I always say reticule. Redicle.

retical. It's theoretical. Yeah. I've been corrected on that a lot. Yeah. Because I'll say, Something's on with my reticule. It's like, that's not it. Guys, we've got an email from Cindy. She's my eyeperson, doctor, assistant lady, friend, local.

And she's awesome. We love Cindy. Fan of the show. Yeah, she's great. She listens every day. And, of course, we were talking about the green-eyed lady yesterday. Yeah, green-eyed lady. That whole, like, was it? Yeah. Oh. It's by

Oh gosh I'm closing my eyes To not look at the chat room Green Eyed lady is by It's a one word Compound word But not like Steppenwolf But something like that

But something like that But not Steppenwolf It's I can feel it I'm never gonna remember Green Eyed lady Only got one in the chat so far That knows it

Yeah I can't remember And you're close Moosa's sugar loaf Yep Sugar loaf Love. I lived on Sugarloaf Lane for about 10 years.

Did you? I did. All through high school, we lived on a street called Sugarloaf Lane. That's funny. It was the least like elves are running a place. That sounds like a place that's full of candy and like chocolate. Yeah, totally like, uh,

it wasn't like that. I'm living on sugarloaf. Well, we had a guy up the road, we're pretty sure it was cooking. I'm not going to say meth. It wasn't a meth house, but he was up to something in that house.

But yeah. Meatballs maybe. Yeah. Maybe that's what I got the name. Got a little sugar loaf cooking in the thing. Well, anyways, so she sends this message in yesterday based on the conversation we had about the green-eyed lady. And for those who missed yesterday, she goes into a doctor, she's wearing contacts, they forget to ask, and they give her drops that turned her eyes fluorescent kind of mountain dew green. That's the story.

Here's what she says. Hey, friends, as your resident eye care professional, I can tell you about the lady whose eyes turned fluorescent with the eye drops. They likely put fluorosine drops in her eyes to check to see her eye pressure. It's the same yellow crap I put into your eyes when you come in for your eye exam, which I'll be doing tomorrow, by the way.

I've actually done that before when I had a new patient and didn't know they had contacts in. It's pretty funny. Love you all. Cindy. So it's a real thing. That wasn't just some fakery. It's a real deal. Yeah. I mean, if it's harmless, sign me up for that on October 31st. Sure.

And let me, let me, you know, force control the kids who come trick-or-treating or whatever. Sure, freak them out. How long is it last? Probably as long as the dilation lasts, right? Yeah, so probably just a couple hours, max. But you can freak out some kids pretty good. Yeah, for sure. If that's your goal.

If that's your goal, and it should be your goal. I agree. It should absolutely be your goal. I agree with that. Well, Cindy, I'll see you tomorrow. Well, that reminds me if she's going to dial it. Hopefully that dilation doesn't last hours because I don't want to. sit here looking like catarack old woman on the show

wearing those those little plastic blockers yes oh man I'll do it if I have to but I don't want to I can tell you that yeah I'm just going in for a regular old just our yearly I think so they'll tell me if anything's weird

I know I got a floater right now that is like the floater most floatery of all floaters just big big chunky floater like having a blanket in in there just floating around once or a mile, I'll go, oh, hello, let me block everything you're doing. Hate it. Oh, geez.

What are you going to do? By the way, I had my Zoom thing with the, speaking of older ladies, had my Zoom thing with the, the trailer park that I did the website for to train them on how to make, you know, text updates and update their calendar and things like that. And there were three people. that they've earmarked they're going to be their kind of administrators. And so they're all in the same room on Zoom, and they can't, we had a hard time figuring out how to mute one of their, mute both of their audio. So they were only listening to one.

They never were able to do it. So basically I was in echo mode the entire time. I was like, all right, what we're going to do, dude, do is good, do this. Click over here, here, here. Terrible. That's awful. Yeah. So how long was the meeting?

How long did you? It was two hours. It was a full two hours of training. It's a long time. Maybe by then you hear you get used to it, right? I didn't notice it after half an hour of talking with them. Okay, that's not bad. Yeah, they're supposed to be built into Zoom by default.

They're supposed to be a thing that cancels it. Yeah, echo recognition and elimination kind of thing. But nope, nope, they're too busy focused on AI. I guess so. I was trying to cram that shit down my throat. Exactly. Also, the service I pay for. for Zoom, which I don't even use audio

for, we just use it for video. Yeah. Started at 10 bucks. It is now at 1890 something. Jeez. And it's still worth it to me, but gosh, dang it, what are you doing over there with your incremental increases? Slow your roll,

you bastards? Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. Insane. Cindy, I will keep this in mind tomorrow and not wear contacts. I don't have them anyway, so you won't have a problem with me. So feel free to put all the fluorescence goo in my eyes that you want. Yeah, they'll let you, the yellow stuff she does, because she'll give me a little Kleenex to, like, dab it when she's done.

Yeah, yeah. And it always just looks like I've got, like, saturated baby diarrhea in my napkin. Or I'm eating curry, like a yellow curry or something. It's gross. It's freaking gross. So looking forward to that. Always fun. I do like our doctor, though.

His name is Dr. Tyler, highly regarded. younger guy, you'd see him and go, what would you, what would you think? You would go, now that is the most Utah-looking white person

I've ever seen in my entire life. Yeah, not a bad way. Just it would be very stereotypic, like I'll bet he graduated at BYU. I don't know if he did. But you'd think that. You know he's rooting for, I don't know,

he's definitely a jazz fan, you know, these kinds of things. Yep, yep. But he's very good at his job, and that's all. that's all it takes. No music louder than seven on the volume knob.

Yeah, possibly. Unless it's like, oh, I don't know, Creed. Maybe Creed gets cranked a little bit. Maybe not to 11. I hope Cindy doesn't relay all this back to him. Otherwise, you're going to have a very uncomfortable eye appointment tomorrow. That knee in my groin. That's right. Exactly.

Creed. Let's check the pressure in your eye. Oh, I've popped it. we're losing pressure in your eye. Oh, no. What a shame. All right. We're going to get Brian Dunaway involved in our lives.

Okay. And when we do that, you'll know, because you'll hear his weird voice. You'll be, you'll know when he's here. You'll recognize it. Yeah. It isn't yet that it will be. God, I've got a weird. Oh, go ahead.

I'm sorry. No, you go ahead. I've got a weird feud for you guys today. Oh, a weird one. I like a weird one. Yeah. I'm down for this. Hey, Brian Dunaway.

You ready for a weird one? Oh, hi Scott and Brian. Yeah. Obviously, it's Wednesday. Yeah. Everything's weird on Wednesday. Weird Wednesday. That's right.

Just another weird Wednesday. We could call, we could have a, you want a new, we could have a new segment called weird Wednesdays. Weird Wednesdays. Kind of like, you know, in the Mickey Mouse Club, there was anything can happen day on Wednesdays. Oh, I didn't know that. Oh. Yeah. What would they usually, what would usually happen?

You know. Did it explode? A cubby got to drink, like straight up alcohol on the show. Nice. can happen. You know, say no, it's anything can happen day. Who's Cubby?

I don't even know who that is. I don't know. You know what? I just realized I really never watched that as a kid. Oh. And that might make me weird because everybody else did. I've never watched it either, but I know that Cubby and Annette were the two,

like Cubby and Annette Finochello were the two young ones, the two youngest members of the Mickey Mouse Club. Oh, wow. All right. So this was that movie during the 80s that was basically about her. Oh, what was that? Something on the beach, right? Oh, oh, no, it's a different thing.

or was it? It is like a beach-related thing. You said it was about her growing up. I remember there being a... Well, I meant growing up is in she's older now. Oh, yes, okay. Right. It was like some full-color movie about, you know, like what it's...

Yes. Right. Yeah, yeah. Her kid was all like rebellious against him, everything. Yeah. What the crap was that? I'm going to find it. Please do.

It's, uh... No, much newer than Beach Blanket Bingo Stigma. It was something like it had Frankie Avalon and Anette Funicello as old people which was really like 30. They didn't they didn't like dress up as that. They just were. No, no, they just were.

Was it? Back to the beach? I think that might be it. Back to the beach, 1987. She played her own name. She was Annette. Yeah.

Yeah, they were playing themselves. Okay. Oh, Monica says she adores this movie. Really? Yeah, it's a fun, it's a fun stupid little movie. I kind of like it. So respectable. Oh, absolutely.

Is it, uh, Is it got a musical or is it just no no just straight up it's what happens when Gen X has to deal with that generation I suppose I guess it's our generation girl up freaking Amazon's all busted up see you're gonna also have an AWS issues today like anything like oh yeah that's been going on right yeah something was slower I didn't know that that's what it was related to okay that makes sense data centers in the path of good times you know what saying yeah yeah oh here it is the March 2026 AW Outage.

Oh. Oh, it's a data center that got blown up in the Middle East. Oh, gosh, really. That's right. Oopsie. They've really hit us where it hurts now. We can't order things from Amazon as quickly. Oh, shit.

Well, that'll end up. Nothing ends a war quicker than that business. How am I going to buy my 24 pack of Monster Zero Sugar? Wait to you hear about supply disruption going through this. Can't wait. the straight stairs. It's going to be great. Yeah, as if we don't already have a bunch of that. Let's have some more. Let's have some more.

Hey, well, let's change subjects and do a game. Weird Wednesday. Brian, why don't you explain this damn game and tell us how to play it? It's time to play the tadpooly feud on anything can happen day. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics. And Scott and Brian, you're going to have to predict the answers that they gave us. It is their job. Is their vocation?

Here's it listed on their CD to see how many of those answers they can guess. At the end of the game, we'll add up all the points, and the winner will actually be winning prizes for their listener, contestant. I've pulled these contestants, Scott really has. For members of our supporters on Patreon at patreon. At patreon.com slash TMS, Scott, you are playing for Gasparre. Yeah.

Gospacho. It sounds like I'm playing for something I'm going to get. Like, I'm going to get a fresh bowl of Gaspati. You're going to get a fresh bowl of Gaspari. I'm excited. Brian, you're playing for Troy Press. You're getting a fresh bowl of Troy Press. That's the easiest way to keep.

keep your Troy nice and smooth. Oh, yeah. And wrinkle-free. Yeah. This is by using a Troy press. I agree. You know, it's a great way to keep Brad Pitt and that's a terrible word. I've never seen the movie Troy, so I don't even know what I'm talking about.

Oh, yeah, yeah. He's Achilles. Is he a killing? The horse deal. That one scene where he stabs him with the knife and like the, in the artery. I don't remember. I haven't seen it. Yeah.

He has. But we could guess that there would be a scene like that just by knowing. He's Achilles, though, right? His name is Achilles, so spoiler if you're watching. Yeah, someone hits him in the heel and we're all dead. And he's like, oh, it's the one place. It's my place that I can't tell me. It's my Death Star Port-Hole.

All right, let's get to the question here. Put your hands on your buzzers and give me your best answer to this. We asked 400-something. Tadpoolers, how many pairs of shoes are in your closet? Brian. 12. 12 pairs of shoes. Show me 12 pairs of shoes.

show me 12 pairs of shoes number seven answer on the board freaking a milda marcos over here I refused I refused to go with the what happened last week so because you ran the border remember no I did yeah it was a hard core deal

I'm going to jump in early and say something stupid so maybe I can at least get on the board it was a milda Marcos had all the shoes right it was okay I'll make sure I made the right reference couldn't remember uh all right well there's got to be lower got to be lower numbers here. Nobody's going higher. So I'm going to say six. Six pairs. Show me six. Number three answer on the board. A fewer points, but it does give you control.

Yeah, it's going to be pretty easy because all he's got to do is, how about one? How about two? Exactly. How about three? Sure. I'm going to choose next for my answer, two. Two. All right. Show me, I've got two pairs of shoes in my closet. Number 10 answer on the board, big points. Like one for work and one for play. It's kind of what I wear. I have more than that and a lot in there, but I really only wear two pairs of shoes most of the time.

I wear this one pair for like outdoor, either jogging, running, walking, long distance, whatever. And then you have a pair of loafers. Yeah, basically. Oh, and then I have a third pair of like nice ones of something nice has to happen, but that's rare. Yeah, yeah. I've got two different dress shoes,

depending on if I'm wearing brown or black. Yes, right, exactly. Sandals, slippers. Dress sandals? No dress sandals. I mean,

there are sandals I could wear, like to a nice barbecue or something. A beach wedding easily. Yeah, I like that. I'd like to go to a beach wedding right now. All right, let's go. It'd be funny. if I ran this board, wouldn't it?

It'd be fine because I at least have one on it. So you can't repeat it. You can't run the board exactly because he's got. Yeah, that was my intent. What if I got my nine out of your 10? What if I? All right, I'm going to go with, let's go with us. Let's go with us.

Wrong. Eight. Eight, sure. Show me eight. Okay. Happens to be number eight. I'm about to say, is that enough? I don't know.

Is eight enough? It's a good question. Oh, 21. No, it's not enough to win. No. No, I just mean, eight is enough. Oh, I gotcha. That was an old joke there, doesn't it? It was an old man joke.

Here's a piece of trivia for you. Do you know what the eighth song on Taylor Swift's eight, eighth album is called? Eight is enough. 64. A is enough. It's called August. Oh, August, nice. That makes sense. That's a good one. That's actually pretty good. A piece of trivia. I'm glad it's not eight is enough. No idea.

Yeah, that would be silly. Aid is enough to fill our lives. Oh, my gosh, dude. Dick Van, the other famous dick of the era, Dick Van. Exactly, yes. The other dick van. And I think everybody in that family at some point or another ended up on the love boat.

They all did it. Oh, easily, yes. Everyone from Grant Good Eve to Adam Rich. Yep, yeah. Oh, my gosh, Adam. Don't ask me to name any other cast members. Well, who's the dude? from, he was on,

he hung out with, yeah, the curly-haired dude. He was Charles in charge's, uh, yeah, the buddy, what was his name? Buddy,

that's good enough. That's, that's, we'll never know with anything other than Buddy. He was kind of buddy. Right. I can't remember.

Betty Buckley is not a guy's name. Betty Buckley was the wife. Oh, Williams. Williams. Williams. Good one, good one,

Frostbitten Gnome. Um, all right, I'm gonna go with, uh, other eight, he is enough fan of the audience. Yeah.

I'll go with a 10. Let's do 10 shoes. 10 shoes. 10 shoes. 10 shoes and brown speed. Show me 10. 10 4, good buddy. Number four.

I think you should have added to the end of that that you have to have all your answers in the form of the count from Sesame Street. Oh, darn it. Oh, I should have. Because I made you, I made you do the well actually is a couple weeks ago for your corrections. Yes. 10, 10 shoes. I don't think he said, mah. But he did laugh.

I love the idea that you go Meh, meh, ma'am. All right. I'll go with, let's see. What have I missed here? Six shoes. 8, 12, 6, 10, 2. Gotta be a 4 on here.

Let's do a 4. Sure. 4. Show me a 4. Okay. Yeah. Number 2 answer on the board. Can we try a 3?

Let's try a 3. Show me 3. Number 1. One answer. Most tadpoolers have three pairs of shoes in their closet. Three, four, six, ten. And how many stink? Right. All, every.

All of them. Ooh. It feels like a weird thing to be in the weeds on, but now we're kind of in the weeds. Because it's a strange number to say like seven, but I'll say it's seven. All right. Show me seven. It's an odd number. It's your bonus answer.

Gotta be kidding me, man. Yeah. It's funny. It comes up number 11, 7, 12. Yes. It's answer number 11. The answer is 7 and 12 people said it. Okay. Did we put a 5 on here yet? No, let's do a 5. Sure. Why not a 5? Show me 5. There you go. I'm going to clear this. I feel like I might get it. All right. We have a, let's see, 11 with 7. No. Yeah, 7. 7. 7. 11.

I'll have no seven. Nine. All right. Show me nine. Ah! Oh. Damn it. Oh, now we're getting into the nitty gritty.

Mm-hmm. I think the highest probability is smart assery saying one. That's probably higher than the other numbers I could be just floundering on. I think the percentage is higher, yes. Nine willest answer. Nine was answer. are 18, by the way. 18, very good.

All the way down at 18, if that helps you. It doesn't. All right, your answer is one. It's either going to be one or zero is binary, but it's just one is one. All right. Show me one. Oh, come on. I thought it would be, too, for the record. Yep.

Number 15 answer on the board would be, well, not on the board, is one. All right, well, we've done everything 10 and under it. think. So now 12's on there. 20. Let's do a 20. Sure.

All right. Show me 20 pairs of shoes. Number nine. What the frick, dude. Gotta be kidding me. Those people don't know how many shoes. They're rounding. Those people don't know. They have 19. They have 19.

It is a nice clean number, isn't it? It is. It is. You know, and if you're married, you might each. say 20 I'm going to say um anything more than 20 seems insane to me I'll say I'll say 15 let's do 15 15 fitting fitting show me fitting who no Brian you get to give an answer yeah yeah I'm gonna go with the No chance of winning, but you did you get to give it. I already said one, so I'm going zero. Some smart answers.

At least half of them have said zero. Sure, the binary answer right here. Show me zero. Yeah. I don't wear a shoe. Some people say, I don't keep them in the closet. I keep them in the garage or they're all under my bed or past because I've no idea and I'm not

going to get up and count. They're like the the Xalatath lady in World of Warcraft, the current villain. She has no, she never wear shoes. She always floating around with her feet.

Oh, there you go. I think Tarantino's a wow fan now, is what I'm thinking. You heard about Benny Blanco. Is it Benny Blanco, producer, music producer, just started his new podcast.

Apparently, social media was in an uproar because not only does he do his shows in bare feet, but apparently they're the grossest, dirtiest bare feet you've ever seen. Really? Yes.

I might have to find photos of this. Had to get bare feet. I mean, I think if you do a search for Benny Blanco, it's probably going to be the top search result. I don't even know if I've heard the name before. Beny Blanco. He produced, there you go. The dirty feet is, comes up as the third. Oh, look at this guy.

I haven't seen his feet yet, but he looks like he might have nasty feet. Yeah. Oh, yeah, look at him, just winging it with the feet. Oh, just winging it with the feet. Look at you. All right. Well, you can't keep me down. I'm not a slave to your leathers.

So his real name is if it's in Spanish, he's Benny Black, isn't he? Nope, Blanco's White. Oh, that's right. He's Benny White in Spanish. Benny White. Oh, weird. Okay. And Benny White, there's Salini Gomez kissing his foot.

Gross. Why would you don't? I don't want to see that. You not put that in any of the discord or nothing else. It's going up on the stream. It's happening. Here it is. Help.

Help. It's happening. She's kissing his nasty foot. There you go. I don't know why. Oh, they are married? No, it's not. No, it's not okay.

It's still not okay. It's still not okay with Brian. That is amazing. Holy shit. All right. Well, well, well done to who. Who won this? Congratulations going to Gasparre.

You're getting a copy of Northmark, hour of the wolf and skies above the Great War. Nice. Courtesy of King Kim Azabi. But don't worry, Troy Press. You are going to get tech support. Unknown. Yeah.

Which sounds like work, but I'll bet it's fun. Yeah, it is actually. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, if you, if you, if you like, if you like, if you want to play a game that feels like it was made by a dude who, who, who spends all his time on 4chan. and it's a very, it's not a bad game. Don't get me wrong. It's a game with a ton of depth, a bunch of systems and all this stuff,

but there's just like, there's an aesthetic to it and a vibe that you can't, you just can't avoid the feeling. I can't, I don't know, I can't explain it. No, I saw graphics and I was like, this might not be the game for me

because those kind of graphics bother me. But it's got the number five. It worse than feet kissing. The soundtrack is the, notice that Selena Gomez is kissing the top of his feet. She's not even going near the bottom, which is the gross part. Like that, yeah, she's working on the wrong half if she wants to prove her love to Benny.

Yeah. But, um, no, the soundtrack for that game is the number five top comedy album on the charts right now. Yeah, it has, uh, it's got a bunch of, um, really interesting, yeah, really interesting cover artists or, um, little indie artists. Got a bunch of cameos and the voices as well in that game. Interesting. Oh, I love cameo. It's an interesting deal.

The guy made Super Meat Boy back in the day. That's where this all comes from. You know what else is in the top five? Afro-man's album. What? Really? The one that had, because I got high.

And Beau Burnham's Inside, which has been on the charts for 250 weeks or something. Oh, my gosh, really? Yeah, yeah. That guy will never get out of the charts. My gosh. I knew he was in there early. I didn't know it was still going.

Geez. Still going. Was he gunning for the dark side of the moon or some shit? My gosh. Well, anyway, Dunaway, we did it. We pulled it off, and I won, and you lost. This is for our winner. Congratulations.

Yep, and you lose. Don't worry. Toro got routed. Tonight you're going to win, because we're going to sit around talking about Echo the Dolphin for the Sega Genesis, Sega CD and stuff. Oh, I love that game. Yeah, great game. Fantastic. Stupid octopus.

Oh, did he ruin your game? He always ruined my game. Like, he always was there to, like, entangle me in his tentacles. It was a game boomer. What did you think about the vortex mom? What did you think about her? And if I had to fight her at the end. You don't remember the vortex mom.

I wonder if I didn't make it to the end. You need to go back. You missed the whole alien contingency. Apparently I did. Yes. I guess so. There's more to it. Well, anyway, that'll be tonight.

Pink Floyd inspired the music. Oh, really? Oh, funny enough. We're just talking about Dark Side of the Moon. So it's nicely. Well, I'll see you then. Kiss our butts. Okay, I got him before he could say anything.

that's fantastic. Hey guys, it's time for us to do a little bit of the old. Oh, this is weird. Well, anyway, let's play the intro and we'll figure it out. Isn't technology wonderful? All right, I'm a hit. Okay, okay. Oh, oh, I do hear myself.

Hello, Tom Merritt. I hear myself. Hello? Oh, I don't now. Okay. Do I hear Tom, though, is the question? Yes, you do. Oh, there he is.

Oh, there he is. I had to un-push the Scott button and push the Tom button. Oh, unpush it. Did you have to pull it? Did that mean you have to pull it? No, no, totally different thing. It's entirely different. It wasn't like a bop it?

Push pull, pop it, bop it. Did you know that Benny Blanco did a song with BTS called Bad Decisions? No. Did it? Did it? Did it? Did it? Did it? Well, I don't know.

I just thought of it because of the decision to put his feet on the other. You know, that dude is produced I mean, I don't have a list in front of me, but I know he's produced like a dozen of the top 50 pop songs of, you know, the last 10 years. He's an unsung producer in so much as people don't know who producers are. I think in the producer realm, he's well sung. In fact, people sing a song all the time.

But yeah, he actually performed on the track he did with BTS. Oh, that's cool. I mean, he kind of has that Rick Rubin energy. like just kind of a ratty, ratty old dude with his shoes off all the time, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you, uh, Tom,

did you see that they released the Adirang, uh, track list for the new BTS album coming out? I did. I did. In fact, Eileen and I spent a good amount of time yesterday, combing through all the writing credits and producers and,

and all of that. Diplo's all over that thing. Oh, is he? Yeah. Yes. Diplo. Yeah. Really?

I like Diplo, except he, he, based on that one song, Diplo hates me. It just keeps going over and over. Diplo hates me. That's how he lets be people. Uh,

And the guy who did DTMF for Bad Bunny, Tyler Spray, I think. He produced a couple of tracks, including the title track. Oh, wow. Cool. All right. Did I pronounce it right by the way, Arirang? You did. Yeah, you're nailing it.

Well done. Cool. Yeah. You were Adi right. I was Adirite. Yes, I believe me. Hammond and I spent a lot of time this morning. Previously, he was Erie Rang.

Now he's Ari Rite. There you go. Very nice. I think that is how I pronounced it the first time I brought it up on DMA. Well, these are hard, man. I get it. The scathing email I got from Tom and I lean. Oh, my gosh.

That's not true. That's not true at all. Threatening my job on DMH. First thing he did, send a letter. We just sent him a coupon for Korean classes. It's very passive aggressive. That's a very proactive, passive aggressive way to handle it. I like it. Well, Tom Merrick comes here on Thursday.

Today's Wednesday. He comes here on Wednesdays to talk about technology, and even better, we take questions from you guys. Now, here's the deal. everybody wants a foldable at least that's what the companies tell us yeah right maybe we do maybe we don't this week was rumored to have some big drop

from apple about foldables it didn't happen but this question that we got is about foldables and whether or not they are for this guy named Darth Vapor oh love it love it yeah it's a pretty good name he says got one for Tom if he'll have me turns out he'll have you

foldable phones have been around for a few years now and Apple reportedly jumping in later this year it feels like a good time to ask. Has anything emerged as the obvious killer app for foldables? The thing that makes you go, oh, that's just what I'd want it for. And they basically are, sorry, or are they still basically just a cool flex that doesn't change how you actually use your phone? asked Darth Baper. Tom Merritt's got his right there. I do. I have my pixel fold right here. And I think the answer is neither. There's no

killer app, but also I think it's more than a cool flex. I think what you have to remember is it's a form factor. It's like saying what's the killer app for the 6.5 inch phone versus the 4.2 inch phone. The killer app is you got more screen. So whatever you can use

more screen for, you can do. And what I like about foldable phones is that I can be on the browser in the front thing and say oh, I want to see that bigger. And then boom, immediately, I'm looking at it bigger, right? It's good for video.

It's kind of like having a smaller tablet with you at all times. So if you're like on a plane or something, you can watch your video bigger. People worry about the crease. First of all, the crease kind of goes away when you use it regularly. You just, your brain filters it out. But the newer models, too, are almost creaseless. A rumor is that when Apple comes out, nobody thought that Apple was going to put out a foldable this week, by the way. Whoever was pushing that rumor was clickbait.

Let me tell you who pushed it. I'll tell you who pushed it. My rep at the T-Mobile store, that's who. Oh, right. He was trying to sell you a phone. Yeah. I actually don't know how that helps him sell you a phone. I don't either.

That's why it's confusing you. I'm going to go to him. I'm going to him later this weekend. I'm going to say, dude, what were you talking about? Were you trying to get me to click on something because it didn't work? Yeah. Your click made failed. No, the good money from the Mark Germens and Ming Chi Quo's of the world is that we would hear about it by the end of this year.

later in the autumn. But yeah, they might get rid of the crease. I do, myself and others who like using their foldables generally say it's just great to be able to immediately unfold it and get more screen real estate, but not always have to have it taking up that size, a bit like a tablet would where you have to have a bag for it or something like that. And I think the more popular foldables are the flip foldables. and those are, I wouldn't say purely cosmetic, but it is more about the idea of like, oh, I've got a tiny little phone.

You know, it's like a square. So it's much easier to fit in a purse or something, pull it out like a compact, and then unfold it into a phone. And there's also some other cool stuff you can do with it. Like, you know, if you want to take a selfie, you can sit it down and have the camera looking at you so you can see while you're making the selfie. You can have it do timed photos that way. I've done that before. There's lots of interesting things you can do with that form factor. Are those taller, by the way?

They're like, I don't have a good example. The SP device here, but is it like that where you lift it up and you've got more of a vertical? Yeah, yeah. And it turns, the flip ones turn into a pretty normal phone form factor when they're unfolded. They just kind of fold in half into a little square. And when they're folded, you're carrying around something like that. Yeah, pretty much like that. like a right. All right. Interesting. Yes. And so I think it's more than just a flex, although there's a little of that to it. It's, there is a practicality to it that I think is useful. My concern or caution for people interested in foldables is they're still probably too expensive, uh, for what you get out of them. If you're really concerned about the price, uh, it might not be worth the extra money unless you have a very specific use case. A lot of people say like,

Quintuido, who hosts Android Faithful and DTNS with me, she's like, yeah, I do work on my foldable because I'm able to get that extra screen real estate and be in Slack and do coding and things that I wouldn't be able to do. It wouldn't feel comfortable to do on just the smaller screen, which is kind of saying, like, I could do something on a tablet, and now I've got a tablet with me. So, yeah, I think foldables are here to stay as an option. And I think with the tri-fold coming out from Samsung, you're seeing

companies start to experiment with like, okay, well, we got foldables to work and we're bringing the price down. So let's see what else we can do with them. Now that we've made foldable screens work, where else could we fit them in and expand the form factor? And frankly, that's where form factors get interesting again with phones. We pretty much exhausted all the variations on the, you know, sort of candy bar style phone. Right. And the little black slab, you can get it small or you can get it big. Foldables are a new way to say like,

oh, here's some other things you can do with them. So if they, how do I put this? Okay, so the one you have in your hand right now, the Google one. Yeah, this is the original pixel fold. The newer ones are a different aspect ratio. They're a little more like the Samsung's now. Okay. But yeah, this is generally what they look.

Does it feel like two phones stacked together when it's not unfolded? Or how does it feel to you? No, it does not. And the new ones are even thinner. So I don't feel like it's a thick phone. I do feel like it's a tiny bit heavier than a regular phone. Like it's got a little more weight to it than I would expect. And I think the newer ones don't have that either.

I think the newer ones have gotten lighter as well. But yeah, I think the original Samsung Galaxy Fold that came out several years ago did feel thick. It felt like it is a little chunkier than I would want. but since the pixel fold and the ones after that, the Samsung Galaxy fold, the Honor fold, the Huawei fold, Opo has a good foldable as well, those feel like the thickness of a normal phone. Not the thinnest phone you can buy, certainly not an edge or anything like that, but they are like, they do, they don't feel abnormal in my hand. There's an old Warner Brothers cartoon that I used to love as a kid where everything was foldable. So like your car, you go out, like it was one of those like in the near future. kind of folding it, yeah. Yeah, and you go outside and the car would be there and he's like, all right, now this guy's got to go to work. And his car would go, shlip, slap, sloop, sloop, sloop, and it would be the size of a little briefcase.

And I swear it, so there's times on my brain that I think some people in tech grew up on that stuff like we all did. Yeah. And now they're, they just want to see that stuff. They just want to fold the world. Yeah, they want to fold stuff. They want to make it small and then big and then small again and have nobody question how cool that. This just seems cool that you would do this. So I'm all for this future.

I just kind of, I'm just, I guess I didn't want to get on on the iteration train where we're at right now until things kind of settled. And I guess that never happens, right? I mean, I don't know. Well, I think we're getting there, especially with the flip. If you're attracted to that flip form factor, go for it. The prices on those have come down to be reasonable. You're paying a slight premium for the foldable, but they're not crazy. They're usually $700 or sometimes even less.

But the book style foldables are still above $1,000. Although, frankly, when you're talking about flagship phones from Apple and Samsung, those are above $1,000 too. But you're talking $1,300, so it gets a little pricey. The trifold, obviously, is ridiculously expensive from Samsung and Huawei. But I do think that we are getting to the point where you could start looking at them. And I think the trifold would be the one you might be interested in, Scott, because it can, because it's triple,

it can unfold to a larger screen in its fully realized form factor. And then you've got an actual tablet that you can do stuff with. Is it feel like, are the trifolds like 16 by 9? Or are they a different aspect ratio when they're all folded out?

You know what? That's a great question. They're not 16 by 9. Okay. I think it's like eight or nine inches. I mean, even the iPads are something weird. They're not, they're not, 4 by 3, but there's something closer to that than they are wide.

Yeah, the inner screen ratio is 4.3. The cover screen is 219. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. And it's a 10-inch. I was undershooting when fully unfolded. That's pretty neat. I just, I don't know.

Yeah. There's a future in this. What the, you know, what the killer app for me might be, hey, I can draw anywhere and not have to write around a tablet or whatever. Yeah. But. And when you do, when you get to 10 inches, that starts to be something that's like, okay, that would be doable.

Maybe not as your main driver, but something you could use. Sure. Well, uh, I hope this helps answer that question for Darth Vapor. Yes. Darth Vapor and all his great questions. Be like Darth Vapor. You don't know the power of the fumes. That's right.

That was, that was the original, uh, it wasn't, uh, grievous. It was Darth Vapor was. Oh, right. The prototype for Darth Vapor. Proto Vapor. Proto Vader. I can't talk. Words aren't coming out.

Tom Merritt, is there anything else going on in your life and world you'd like people to know about? I would like people to subscribe to Daily Tech News Show if they don't already. Go check it out. We are firing on all cylinders these days. If you used to listen to it, maybe straight away, now's a great time to come back. 30 minutes a day. Just the technology, news, and context that's going to make you feel smarter about technology. Even when we get people disagreeing with us, I've been getting emails lately like,

I don't know about this aspect, but I also really like that you brought this up because, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah. So it's the kind of technology news that I just don't see anybody doing anymore, which is like, here's our point to is to help you understand it, not to drive a particular point of view. So check it out, Dailytechnewshow.com. Yeah, it does feel like a dying art. And thankfully, you're keeping it alive. we thank you for that Tom Merritt it is always a pleasure I can't for some reason

this won't close there we go hey have fun we'll see you soon yes every phone's a foldable if you're determined enough that's true that's true oh shit what happened to Discord something's janked oh no we're good we're good we're good it closed I think it may have crashed

it did thanks Discord do I want to reopen yes do I want to report it no I don't I don't want to help you people fix your own shit. All right. Let's get to some emails. These are sent to us by listeners like you,

and we do this when we do that. This is about the jugs of pee. We got this one from an anonymous listener who says, so I just had some weird thoughts. I would call them high thoughts, but I don't get high. Like peppers come in green, yellow and red, and like traffic signals.

What's that about? Just like traffic signals. Yeah. So that's the first one. I don't know what to make of that other than there's just, there's a lot of things that are those colors. So yeah, there's also orange. You know, Haboneros are orange peppers.

That blows your, that blows your, it's just like traffic signals. Yeah. Anonymous. There's also some black peppers. There's some. That's right. I think there's some purple ones. Sure.

I don't think it works with your traffic lights. He then says, if you drop a bar of soap, does the soap get dirty or does the floor get clean? What do you think of that? Soap gets dirty, probably. I think the predominant, the smaller item is affected the most. by the larger prominent item. It depends on if you're in Benny Blanco's shower, in which case

the soap gets dirty. Very dirty, very quickly. Yes, unless his wife kisses it off or whatever she does. Okay, here's another one. E.T. would have made a great proctologist with that finger if he could light up the insides and use his weird alien powers to heal whatever's wrong.

Just some thoughts, he says. Are you sure you're not high, anonymous? Yeah. Here's, you know, I had some weird thoughts on the car the other day. So, um, uh, professor,

you know, the, the leader of the X-Men. How do you pronounce his name? Xavier is how I say it. Right. Yes. Now, um, how do you pronounce?

Let me just type it in our thing. Okay. Um, how do you pronounce that? Xylophone. Right. You don't call it an exylofo. I don't say exylophone.

You're right. No. How about, uh, this thing that we've done to our lawns? Zer Escaping. Right. We don't say exer escaping.

You're right. Yeah. Yeah. Why do we do that with that name? Yeah. Why do we feel like with Xavier, with the name Xavier, we have to, I mean, I know he's Professor X, so it would be silly for us to call him Professor Xavier. But even other people whose name is, whose name begin, you know, X, A, V, I-E-R, I've heard

them called Xavier, and I don't know why we do that. I don't either. And I have, I know some parents who have a kid name Xavier. Yeah. I think they even named him. after Professor X's version of Xavier. And they call him that when they're saying it in the long form, but they also call him Zavy.

Oh, really? Okay. For sure. Zavy. Get in here. Where's Zavy? That kind of thing. I like that. But it just goes to show that that's a weirdly flexible thing that doesn't make sense. Like, why do we do that? People freak out. They see that X there and they're like, wait a minute.

It should have been. It should be Xavier then, right? It should be. But, you know, in the case of Charles Xavier, it makes sense because, you know, he's Professor X. You're not going to call them Professor Z. That's true. But if it was still pronounced with an X.

Sorry, if it still had an X in the name, you could still call him that. You could say, yeah, right. But I don't know anyone who calls their, anyone they know named Xavier, no one calls him Xavier. I've never heard somebody called Xavier. There was a guy on Big Brother a few years ago.

I think he won, as a matter of fact, who was X-A-V-I-E-R and everybody called him Xavier. Weird. Yeah, now I bet. there's some history that we don't know, but that's weird. Yeah. The, uh, uh, yeah, the, even like when you hear him introduce himself in the, in the cartoon, in the X-Men 90s, Tondagosa, he says, my name is Charles Xavier.

I'm here to help you, Jubilee. He says, yeah, he says it. It's not just us reading it wrong in the comments. Yeah, no, it's exactly. Yeah. And I'm pretty sure in all the movies, whenever it's said, it gets said that way. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, there you go.

Anyway, um, this one we, again, I mentioned yesterday that, We covered this one on episode 2162 or whatever. Oh, so we already talked about this. We did. 2962. Sharing respect you wanted to add. You're right. Now it's familiar.

Yeah. Because I addressed it and said he's absolutely right. Yeah. I'm not going to do it twice, though. No, go back and listen. I'm not going to be given that satisfaction twice. Yeah, go back and listen, guys. That's on you.

We got a final one here from Revlon Evergreen Massage. Dear Coverville. I just heard on the radio. I'll do it the way they wrote it. I just heard on the radio. An Al Green cover of REM's Everybody Hurtz. It's the classic Al Green style, so it's fantastic. That's cool.

That sounds like an AI cover, though. Because Al Green. It worries me, right? He's not around. How would you do everybody hurts unless he did it before he does? Hold on. We're looking this up. We're looking this up.

Yeah. Yeah, that's a good question. Everybody hurts. Okay. Reverend Al Green. Nope, I've got it. it came out in 2024 and I played it on episode 1,518 of Coverville. Is he alive?

He apparently was in 2024. Jeez. Okay. Well, if that's the case. Did I talk about, yeah, he's still alive. He's 79 years old. Why did I want him in the death? You wanted somebody to take him to the river and throw him in the water.

I guess so. Take me to the river. I don't think I talked about. about it here, but I over the weekend heard music by this guy named Nick Harrison, who goes by the professor.

And like, should I give you one of his songs just to play a little bit of... I can play a little taste. Yeah, I'm going to put it in our Discord. This is the one that I heard that made me say, oh my God, this is great. Let's see, Shone Finder, because I can't

just drag it for some reason right into Discord. I don't know why. Weird. There you go. Okay. All right. We're waiting. Here it is.

And if you jump, jump a little bit into the song so we get a little bit of the chorus so people recognize what this song is. That's got to be an AI cover. No? Well, I didn't think it was when I originally heard it. I thought, no, this sounds great. And I looked up a photo of the guy and he's like, all right, no, it's this soul dude. Very cool. So I pick up to the entire album.

And then I realized, oh, there's a second volume. Cool, I picked that one up. And then I looked and said, wait a minute, there's a third volume, and they all came out last year. So somehow this guy produced, you know, three full albums of excellent soul covers from the get-go. And, no, sure enough, looked it up. And, dudes, it's AI. And it's a bummer because they are so freaking good. Yeah, no, AI's getting real good at the music, man.

It's getting real good. all you got to do, like some, I don't know if it's the Sono one or whatever the other ones are, but you can go in there and you can say, look, in the style of Van Halen, I need to hear this Taylor Swift song. Yeah. And it'll freaking do it, and it'll sound like you got it

legitimately off something. Like, it's crazy. Yep. It is the best. Like, I've had people send me stuff and say, no, this AI is really, really good. You got to hear it. And I listen to them like, as soon as I know it's AI,

it kind of ruins it for me. It's like, well, where's the talent? They just typed some words into a box and said, you know, generate a cover. And even though it might be high quality, it ruined it for me. And then as soon as I realized it's like, as much as I liked these, as soon as I found out it was AI, completely soured it for me. It's a little bit like going, hey, that was a good burger. And then finding out in the kitchen, they peed all over it. Right, exactly.

This made from rat. Yeah. And you're like, well, that was a really good rat burger. I don't want rap burgers. Exactly, yes. Yeah, Tom DeGos is right. Somebody should do a sole cover Interstate Love Song properly.

And I would have no problem. Here's where this goes for me. If a band used AI and said, all right, help me figure out a really cool way to do Interstate Love Song as a soul song. Some band did that. And they heard this and said, cool, let's do that.

Let's actually record this with real instruments, real vocals, and make it real. I'm fine with that. Yeah. I agree. It's kind of along the same lines of like when I do a website for somebody that I'm, you know, just working with for the first time, I'm saying, all right, I'm going to plug in some AI copy. But here's, I'm only using the AI copy to demonstrate what I want you to write in your own,

with your own products and services. But this is kind of the format that I want. And it's like, great. AI should always be followed by then, and then it was done by a human. Yeah. The problem is, the problem is the honor system doesn't work and nobody uses it. It really doesn't. Because that's really what you described is the honor system, right?

Prior to now, it's like, well, the tools are the tools. I suppose you could say, back in the day, you could go, was that a real photograph? Or did you take it to Photoshop and edit a bunch of stuff? And like, well, okay, yeah, I edited a bunch in Photoshop. And people had some attitude about that back then as well. Same thing now. It's just that now it's like the creator has to stop at whatever edge they think is appropriate.

And how do you, it's just no way for to know who's done that work. or who hasn't done that work. But I feel like this, you know, Nick Harrison should put in his, in the name, in the artist name, AI and Professor Nick Harrison. There you go. Yeah.

So that when you look at this album, you're like, oh, okay, it's done by AI and Nick Harrison. Yeah. And if Nick Harrison did more stuff on top of it or with it or in conjunction with it, go ahead and tell us. Like the transparency is a huge part of this, right? You give me the transparency.

That makes a giant difference for me. Then I can have a better judgment call about the stuff you're working on or what you made. Yeah. Agreed. Yeah. It's unfortunate because that is. I've heard a couple of those on TikToks and I wasn't sure where they were coming from and I'm pretty sure that's one I've heard. Yeah.

Oh, what I read between the... It's crazy. It's so freaking good, but it just pisses me off. It makes me angry now. Yeah. It actually fires you up. I actually went to, I, like, reported a problem with my purchase with Apple and said, I want my money back. There was no indication that I was buying AI generated music.

Yeah. And so I'm hopefully getting get a refund on my purchase. Okay, I got one more message to just have to get out of the way here. This is from Tommy. He says, hello, Scott and Brian. I just finished the episode where Dr. Nicky talked about cloacal kissing. And I just can't stop thinking about it. Was this what Bo was actually doing in the lake?

Love the show. Greeted Tommy. So what he's referring to is Bo Schwartz did something we've referred to as a lake run. And what the lake run is. Oh, yes. He had to take a shit so bad once camping

that he went out in the middle of the lake, pooped in the water, and then got out. I thought I had a sticker here. I don't. Anyway. Oh, yeah, I love that sticker. Anyway, as a result, he's always justifying it every time it comes up

and John and I are both horrified that you'd ever poop in a lake. And this guy's suggesting, well, maybe that's a form of cloacal kissing. I don't think so. I don't think so. No, not unless there was another boat in the water.

Yeah. They touched cloacas. Cloacal kissing requires two participants. It does, yes. The cloacas need to touch. Cloaca A and cloaca B. Right, exactly. You want to be neither of those cloacas.

Cloaca and clobica. That's right. Need to merge. They're going to get together finally and make it happen. Have baby cloacas. are on their way. All right. That's it for emails and stuff. You guys want to send more in. Go to frogpants.com slash TMS. And here's another cool thing. So you know, so in these case, these particular cases, these were all texts that were sent to us through the voice cast server.

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Voicecast for making that. That's really awesome. That's really cool. We'll have that up on all the sites soon. So watch for that. Frogpants.com slash TMS once again for all your needs. Play retro tonight at 4 p.m. Mountain. Brian, you got anything coming out today?

You want to mention? No, we had a brand new episode of Soundography that dropped yesterday about the band Venus Hum. They're awesome. You should listen to them. And that's it. I was going to look them up. Why didn't I do that? Yeah.

Yeah, look them up. Sounds dirty. The Venus hum. It does, right? Yeah, a little worried about that. I mean, the Monza Venus Hum is probably a whole different thing. Yeah. It's not just a moon around Jupiter or something.

That's right. Exactly. All right. Well, cool. Let's play whatever we got here today then for these fine folks. Yeah, sounds good. This is another indie at the end. a guy named

Janus Rasmussen just released a brand new album I'm sorry, he announced a brand new album and released the first single from it. The album is called Inert and it comes out on March, I'm sorry, June 19th via Embassy One Records. This is the first single from it. It's called Drain. He's Icelandic, part of,

he's half of the band Kiosmos alongside Ootour Alnods. Really, really, really, cool, uh, uh, sound of this thing. Anyway,

Janice Resmussen and Inert. Thanks for listening. The Frogpants Network lives at Frogpants. com. Well, the turkey's done.