The Morning Stream - TMS 2983: Oliver Garden

Episode Date: March 25, 2026

Tom Nook and His Damn Kids. In space, no one can hear you gamble. The Pokemon Who Smealt It Dealt It. Schlonk Down to the Floor. Are you the Gerp? Left Kevin At The Table. SORA loser. A tiny gap in your bottom. You had me at everything you said. Rubbing, plugging in and Finding the right hole. That was some PreShow. Get out of the shit, Gerp! No Shores for Old Men. Let Me Tap for you, Grandad. The Adventures of Jacketcoat Cardigan. Sea of Flesh with Tom and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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It's probably not a promise I should make. But anyway. Coming up on the morning stream, Tom Nook and his damn kids. In space. No one can you hear you gamble. The Pokemon who smelt it, dealt it. Schlonk down to the floor. Are you the gurp?

Left Kevin at the table. Sora loser. A tiny gap in your bottom. You had me at everything you said. Rubbing, plugging in, and finding the right hole. That was some pre-show. Get out of the shit, Gurp. No shores for old men.

Let me tap for you, Grandad. The Adventures of Jacket Coat Codigan. See of Flesh with Tom and more on this episode of the Morning Stream. Around the butt and up over the grass. growing area. They got those tape bits already on there. It's self-contained and fairly explanatory. Unless round is funny.

Come and get it, idiot. Hello, MMS. This is the morning stream. For Wednesday, March 25th, 26. I am Scott. That is Brian. Howdy. Hello. Hello. I am due for another watching Raising Arizona.

That just reminded me how much I love that movie. And that especially the line you played, hey, these balloons blop in funny shapes. Nope. Less round is funny. What I love about the Cohen brothers, they have this way and they've done it many times of taking somebody who's not even an actor,

it's just some local dude. And putting him in a role, usually like a clerk somewhere. They love doing that. Yes. And then they just are like... Or bank teller. Yeah.

And they just are flat deliveries. Like, we don't care of that kind of palm made. We only care. And it's never like a real actor. You can tell. And there's something magical about the way they do it. You want us to be putting our hands up or you want us to be freezing? Because we can't ratly do both.

Can't do both. Did not tell you not to say that? Okay, then. I just watched it the other night And I was like, yeah, that's a good clip. Let's clip it out of there. It's that movie rules. And it's currently on.

It does. Absolutely rules. Tubey, I think, has it or somebody. All right. I just watched it randomly and had a great time. Amazingly holds up some of the best Nick Cage you're ever going to get. Yeah. I'll tell you that right now.

Yeah. Let us dive in, folks. We've got a lot to do. And we've got a game to play a little bit later. We got Dono way coming in. We got Tom later. He's going to answer a question. question I have to ask if you can believe it.

Cool. I saw the preview for it and I'm wondering if I know your question from seeing it maybe somewhere else. Yeah, originally. I can't wait to. I was originally put out as a quick little video and then he piped in on that on a comment and said, you should ask this Wednesday and I went, you know, I'm going to. Plus, we don't have a new one this week, so why not? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Showing you guys how the chickens made here. How's that work? Not the chicken. By a couple of other chickens. How the sausage is. The sausage. It could be chicken, but it could be a chicken sausage or turkey sausage, which is far.

I'll see. I feel better about it now. Yeah. Thank you for that. There's a reason for your, there's method to your madness. Hey, I, uh,

um, I finished, well, I got to the, the game credits in Pocopia, which is, oh, look at you.

It still feels like, still feels like only half the game. I still feel like there's so much more I want to do in there, but, um, so there's a story mode that you can finish. There's a story mode. Yeah,

that you can finish. It's kind of like, I think, I think, um, what's it called? Animal Crossing kind of had that right where Kind of yeah

I guess you have a progression And once it's done You're trying to remember what the The ultimate thing you were trying to get done in Animal Crossing Was it Getting KK Slider to finally play in the The town square or I don't know or it said something to do it

Not owing what's his name And his stupid sons Tom Nook and his damn kids Yeah But yeah no there is a story mode in Pocopia and completed it and got the, you know, got the, the quote-unquote ending, question mark. And now I have, I still have like a ton of Pokemon I need to collect.

And my happiness levels in my, all my islands need to be upgraded. I mean, there's still plenty for me to do. But now I feel like, all right, I can kind of have that on the back, you know, let that go, work on dispatch finally and then uh yeah yeah i can't wait to hear a way to uh to stream it stream my dispatch playing but then you know then i'm then i'm committed to only ever playing dispatch when i'm streaming that's true sometimes that's not fun you know yeah less likely less fun um i'm looking at how long to beat dot com and they have uh let's see so 39 point uh 2.5 hours to beat the core game like you've beaten yeah uh main stories about

33 main story plus sides about 43 and then if you're a completionist it says 64 and a half hours you're about double it's where you're headed if you want to if you want to like a hundred percent the whole thing exactly which part of me is like i would i would love to collect every single freaking Pokemon in this game but um there's i kind of want to just build a a nice town and have um a couple little self-contained areas where the there's some Pokemon that poop uh items that you want to like, you know, lumber, pooping logs or pooping squishy clay or pooping glass. They really do, folks. Really, pooping glass.

That seems dangerous. Yeah. And then some that automatically smelt it. So I want to create these little enclosures that have those groups of Pokemon that automatically do things in kind of a symbiotic relationship. Oh, you like a little automation in your town. Exactly. You know, Factoria, or no, what's, well, something. Satisfactory.

Those are all like that, yeah. Yeah, exactly. It's like creating your little self-contained system. You know what you would love. You would love shapes too. This game's coming out this year. I do love shapes too. You already have it?

Okay. Yeah, I have the data. So good. It is really good. And it's that sort of thing, except I, it, it, it stresses me out when I don't have a very nicely finessed laid out area. There's too much where it's like, um, no, I'll just create a, I'll just create a conveyor belt. It goes all the way out here and comes back.

Yeah, the game is very, very, um, thankful, it's very forgiving because when you tear stuff down, it doesn't cost you anything. Uh, and it doesn't cost you to set anything up so you can really experiment. Right. But there's still that thing where you're like, I can't, this looks like spaghetti. What have I done? Yes, exactly. And then you realize how tricky like, urban planning is or, or, or freeway planning, like, oh man, they got to, they got to add a new lane. How the hell does that even go? You know? I don't know. I love those games.

I'm super real. I do too. I'm big on it. Yeah. Big fan. I was playing World of Warcraft last night because I really hooked on this new expansion. It's got me by the testies. Perfect.

And I met a TMS listener in Silver Moon, the new main hub city. New main old hub city. Well, it was never a hub city, but it is now. Used to be just a city. Now it's a hub city. Yeah. It used to be a starting zone for hoard only. Night elves and that's all it ever did.

And now we have like this beautiful, it's a really amazing place now. And everybody can go there. I'm sure the Alliance freaking hate that it's there, but whatever. I'm in there and just some dude named, oh, I forgot the name was character. I found out his real name is Ron, though. But I can't remember the guy's character name. But Ron, the Undead Rogue came running up and he said, are you, I was playing my character, whose name is deadly as a warlock.

Used to be undead. He's not anymore. But anyway, he came running up because you get the same one that, like, from the instance and TMS and film sack and all this stuff. I said, yeah, it's totally me. How's it going? He says, oh, no, no way. I'm a huge fan.

I listen to TMS every day. This and that and the other. And it reminded me of like old school, like 2008, wow, where you'd run into these people all the time. Oh, dude, I listen to the show. It's so great. Are you the gurp from the instance or whatever? And I said, and I said, hey, so you're a rogue?

And Ron says, yeah. And I go, do you lay up? on the ground a lot as well during the is just a joke and he got the joke he's like oh yeah it's a Brian joke I'm like yeah it's a Brian joke anyway we had a real great time so shout out I'm sure

he's listening today shout out to Ron the Undead Rogue I hope I hope your travels in Azaroth are fruitful and enjoyable Brian floor tanker extraordinaire is what I am someone's got to keep an eye in it yeah exactly it's never gone anywhere under my watch

yeah floor also I had a dime for every time I accidentally pulled a bunch of shit I wasn't supposed to. I mean, I have zero room to talk about my raid performance. But the get out of the shit, gurp. It was literally a quote people would say to me. Get out of the shit, gurp, get out of shit, gurp. Right. There I would be in the shit.

You also saw a movie last night? I did. We decided, you know what? We didn't have trivia last night. We've got a game Thursday, part of the Jeopardy League. starting the Jeopardy League. I can't wait to start talking about that because it's like an eight-week

actual competition league with winners getting to go to Los Angeles and hang out with Ken Jennings. Wonder if he'll remember me. Anyway, so we decided, hey, we got a free night. Let's go see. Good luck, have fun.

Don't die. Oh, yeah. And so freaking good. Oh, I can't wait. It's great. This is, and here's what's funny about it. Tina loved it. And my biggest comparison for this thing is everything everywhere all at once, which she absolutely hated because she felt like it was too long.

This one, this is like a cross between Groundhog Day, a little bit of dog day afternoon, a little bit of mystery men. and this just has such a cool vibe to it and I love the the message of the film the crux of what he's trying to stop which is it's just great I can't wait to see it

I saw that it's rentable now if I wanted it is it really oh cool somewhere I can't remember who has it maybe Apple and Prime or something but yeah rent it I mean I'd say you'll see it in the theater because there's a lot of big visuals

that are worth seeing but if you don't I mean you know I was worried it wasn't going to be in theaters anymore. Like we couldn't do it. I was too. Yeah, because it's been in for over a month. It came on February 13th was the release date. And it's, you know, usually movies are in theaters for two weeks.

And then they start making their way to the services. So I'm really, really glad that it was still around. It's in the, it's in Theater 9, which is the last theater in the Alamo draft house. And I don't know, like there's the big theater, the mex, which is number one. and then, you know, the two through nine. And I don't know if it really does like go, start there and then just do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do,

slowly making its way to the end. But this is probably its last week in theaters, I'm guessing. That sounds close, especially if they're renting it online already. Yeah. Yeah. We really wanted to try to see it, so we may still, if we can find a place, we will, or that or we'll rent it and just do a night in or whatever.

There you go. And I got a, Sam Rockwell obviously elevates everything he's in. he's he's fantastic in this but um then you get your zazzy beats you're michael penya your juno temple uh who i didn't realize was in this thing and uh as soon as you see her you're like oh it's juno temple um but haley lou richardson was a big surprise at how great she is she um she was in the second season of white lotus as jennifer coolidge's assistant hi i'm gonna need you to go and check out the beach but um

uh but she was also she was in a bunch of things that i hadn't seen unprignant after yang love at first sight uh ravens wood the edge of 17 these are all things that i've never i've never seen ravens wood sounds familiar oh she wasn't split the uh shaman movie oh the other the other good one in the right the one with uh macdivoy yeah the one with the the the four to four total movies in this in the younger breakable saga and it's like there's unbreakable's good yeah split I would put it

split is pretty good yeah glass I thought was kind of bad I think it's just three isn't it is that it yeah it was like I was waiting for you to see what I was gonna see see what your fourth one was I don't know why I thought there was a fourth there's a fourth of my head maybe it's just because split was

was a trick it was like a it's such a yeah right it was such a surprise at the end there they didn't tell us until very last second yeah um but glass, glass I would have liked a lot better if it would have ended a little bit earlier. Yeah. It's a little long.

It's, well, it's not, it's not that it's long. It's that they put an extra ending on there that didn't need to be there to explain. Oh, yeah, that's true.

To explain the connections. And it's like, oh, no, you don't need this. It's okay. We don't need this. Yeah. I think Unbreakable is just about a perfect film.

I love that movie. It is so good. It's so well done. It's going to be a real tall order to try to equal that. Yeah. But he tried and what are you going to do? He tried. But anyway, Haley Lou Richardson, a delight. She's absolutely great.

Awesome. Yeah. Worth seeing the whole damn good luck, have fun, don't die movie with her and everybody else I mentioned. Govibinsky, man. Oh, yeah. I hear he's back. He's back, baby. He's back. Let's forget about a couple, maybe one of those Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Maybe more like three of them. but uh well he only did the first three he only did uh oh someone else do the no shores for old men or whatever

that was called yes he did black pearl dead man's chest and uh whatever the third one was it at world's end or something like that or i don't remember what it was i the first movie is a perfect film the second movie is okay then it gets real bad after that rango's amazing i love rango's fantastic i love rango uh that that um Tonto and Lone Ranger deals sucked. Oh, that was him. I forgot about that. Yeah. Terrible.

Did you know, and if I knew this, I'd forgotten, but he was actually going to be the one to direct the Gambit movie. Oh, I didn't know that. And then he dropped out, like, in 2018. He was going to be, that was probably going to be the Taylor Kitch Gambit movie, right? I think so, probably. If I had to guess, well, that probably fell apart because his origins did so bad. That was Channing Tatum was

Oh, that would have been him by then? Yeah, that would have been him. Oh, that's right, because the whole point of him being in the Wolverine Deadpool deal was the, he almost made it. So now here he is. He almost made it because Taylor Kittch was the one in the X-Men Origins.

Yeah, Wolverine origins. Just plain X-Men origins, Wolverine, yes. Terrible, terrible movie. I know. It was a, it's pretty bad. I wish, whatever. I know there's some people that like it. Brian Dunaway likes it.

Does he? I think so. Speaking of which, real quick, not done away, but speaking of Sam Rockwell. Oh, Sam Rockwell, yep. His next movie coming out is the new Martin McDonough film in a Shear and Three Billboards, that guy. Oh, oh, yeah, okay, cool. It is Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Parker Posey. I don't know why he's not in the top list, but John Malkovich, who appears to be very important in this.

this thing set in the 70s these two aging CIA operatives are sent to Chile on some mission dude all you had to do is say all you had to do really is say Sam Rockwell's in it but this cast dude

I'm so Tom waits he always drags him around he does yeah I love McDonough movies love them seven psychopaths one of my favorites oh my gosh yeah it's like does you say less I mean you had me at

you had me at every single thing you said as you said it. Yeah. Yeah. And seeing a photo of of Malkovich and Rockwell just sitting there in the 70s outfits holding guns on the movie poster. Where do I buy? Where do I buy my tickets? If you get a chance, watch the trailer on YouTube. It's very, very, very, the vibe is exactly what you're hoping for. Oh, fantastic. I can't wait. November.

Okay, that was, you know the answer to my question before I even asked it. That was weird. I don't know how I knew you were going to ask that. November 6, 2026. So a lot of six is in there. Plus a 1011. So there you go. Okay. Let's get Dunaway all up in it.

Let's make him the cornerstone of our life. Yeah. Let's see if we can get this here. Oh, look who it is. It's our pal, Brian Donaway. He's at work, but really he loves us so much. He's willing to pause that effort and come on here. Amen.

Oh, hi. He's gotten, Brian. Absolutely. I said, hey, hey, look at me. Look at me. I'm going to lunch. That's what I said. Hey, look at me.

I'm talking to you right now. That's right. I'm going to lunch. Hey, how's your mom? Is she okay this morning? Is things going okay? She's getting there for those who don't know. A mom suffered a head trauma years ago in a car accident.

And they always told her she probably to pay for it one day. And the bill has come due in this form of a little bit of dementia and some Parkinson's. So she's been having a lot of spasms yesterday. And they were trying to figure it out. And took her to the doctor and the doctor. doctor said, no more, they said, they said, well, I'm no specialist at this. Let's try everything else that people usually come in for muscle spasms. And we're like, that's probably not going to work.

But okay. Yeah, ER visits are always a little bit of a gunshot and of a dark, you know, as far as that goes. Mostly she would just wait, but she was in a lot of pain because of the spasms, I guess, kind of fatigue the muscles and they were still spasming. And it was like, it was just painful. So she was just like, about some pain management. and they said, we can do that. Yeah, we can definitely do that.

They got a whole closet of that somewhere. I'm glad to hear that, first of all. Second of all, fate could be a little easier on our moms. That would be great. I'm going to go wrap my mom and bubble wrap the show today. Oh, you haven't already done that? Put a little straw in there and feed her a banana smoothie. Exactly.

Just lead-lined room with a TV. What is she, Superman? Wait, that is that, that is the thing? right? Superman couldn't see through lead. Is that a thing? Why do I always think that's... I signed that to... Because you can shoot a lead bullet at him

and he's all like, you can't hit me. Yeah, but he can't see what's directly behind that bullet. So the trick would be shoot a lead bullet at him in his toward his face. It's just going to bounce off, but on the back of the bullet is a little kryptonite sticker. Oh, yeah, a little kryptonite on the backside.

Yeah, and he can't see it because it's on the back. Did you get those that sticker genius? Yeah. Is your name... Is your name Lex Luther? Yes, Luthor. Okay, Luthor. Luthor.

Let's get into it. We're going to play this game. We do it on the Wednesdays, and we're... Why not just shoot a kryptonite bullet out of it? It's a fair point. I can't think of that. Jeez, what are you like... I don't know if it holds, though.

Is it strong enough? Is it strong enough to fire out the gun? I don't know how kryptonite is with force and pressure. That's a good point. Like, can you compress it small, like, dense enough to make a bullet? Yeah. Is it too crystalline and shatters or...

I don't know. It's like a Pokemon poop and glass. Hey, Brian, explain. these rules and we'll play. You think he can listen to three days, Grace? I'm sorry, go ahead. Sure. Absolutely. I don't know what that has to do with anything, but I like it.

I like where you want. You mean three doors down. It's time to play the tadpooly feud. I've surveyed the tadpull on some dirty topics. Pardon me for saying music stuff in front of the music guy. Just don't get it wrong in front of the music guy. And Scott and Brian, I have to predict the answer they gave us. It's Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those prizes or answers.

The more prizes they can guess. At the end of the game, we're going to have to have. up the points. When it will actually be winning prizes. There's the word for the listener contestant. And contestants will be pulled from our supporters on Patreon.com slash TMS. Scott, you are playing for Ray Zink. Oh, Ray Zink.

I'm into the... I was just going to say that fits our conversation nicely. It does. Brian, you're playing for Kurt Rakin. Rikin. Let's see. I before you so. Rikin. Rikin, I'll bet. Yeah, if it's German, then it would be Rikin. If it's Rikin, get down.

down to the courthouse, buddy. That's right. That's all I'm saying. They'll change it for what, $100? $100.00. Yeah, it's drawn up. Used to be 50. Yeah, well, the price of oil, you know, it's really driving up the...

Driving up the fees of the local courthouse. AI data centers. It's all comes down to that. All right. Let's get to it here. Put your hands on your buzzers. We has 385 tadpoolers to give their best answer to this. Name something.

you might leave accidentally at a restaurant. Oh, damn it. Cell phone. Scott. Cell phone. Cell phone. Show me cell phone. Number one.

Answer on the board. It's going to say that had to be it, right? Yeah. Everybody leaves their phone at a restaurant. Well, in this day and age it is. Yeah. That's true. Then that's where we go down the list.

I'm going to say, next step, I'm going to choose the keys, your keys. You ever lose your keys in restaurants? How are you going to leave your keys? at the restaurant. You always sit back in and make the stupid chicken. It's still leaving them. I can't go anywhere without these. They fall out in the bathroom or something.

Exactly. But it doesn't, you know, this doesn't say leave your keys and drive. Leave your, what might you leave at a restaurant and drive home? I got to address Scott's, I got to, I got to address Scott's dropping in the bathroom. Are you dropping other things in the bathroom? Or are you just put your pants down and you pee? Like, you just drop them to your ankles. I do like a little kid.

When you're a little kid, you do not know. It actually is the worst thing Because when Van was little little, he's learned now But when he was little little and I would take him into the men's room He's just slunk down to the floor And my brain just goes Well, we're going to need to throw those in the incinerator As soon as we get home

So gross Anyway Show me your keys Show me your keys, please Number 10 big points What a gap Well, I think that supports Deneways' hypothesis

so that you don't usually leave your keys. That's probably first and ten is what Scott has. Well, I've done this many times. I've left a pair of glasses, so glasses. Sure. All right. Show me glasses. Nice.

Nice. A little lower than I'd hoped. Wallet. Weren't you hoping for nine? No, it's good. I'll take the points. I just don't like how close to being out. Yeah.

The wallet was like my go-to when you first asked. I was like, wallet. You said the phone. I was like, oh. Got to be wallet. number two. Show me wallet. Oh,

interesting. My wallet purse. Your wallet slash purse. Exactly. All right. Now we're. Your prison purse. Right.

Now we're getting in the weeds, man. This is a hard one. Okay. Let's say sometimes, I know it's usually in your purse or wallet, but sometimes they take your card and you just forget to take it back and it's on that little thing still. That's a good one. A little plastic tray. Right.

Yeah. Yeah. So many places, by the way, which I love, have just the little, the machine now they bring to your table and you just tap it on the machine. Your, your card is never out of your hands, whichever I like. But I always, it is. But I always get a little confused at first, and I still try to handle my card. And I'm like, oh. And then they take it from me and embarrassingly.

And don't they take it from me and then tap it like my hand should be right there. Yeah. Idiot. Wait, like awkwardly tap it on the back. Like, let me demonstrate what to do, Grandpa. Let me show you what it should look like. Exactly. Show me credit card.

Number two. Number two answer. Jacket and or, well, maybe I can't do that, but like a jacket, a coat, you know, clothes. Close. Sure. Show me your long skirt, or no, short skirt, lung jacket. Yeah.

Number five. Oh, jacket coat cardigan. Are we going to have it? That's a great name for like a writer, like a ghostwriter. Unjacket coat cardigan. Are we going to have another complete run? We've had it happen one time before. Four answers left on the board.

Scott's already at 31. He's already won this thing. There's no coming back. No recovering coming back. How about the thing I left the other day at a restaurant with Kim? I left my, or we left our box of leftovers. So whatever that is, your doggie bag, your leftovers. Yeah.

Every single. time. And you know it's got to piss them off too. It's like, can you make all the effort to put this in a bag? And I'm just going to leave it right. Right. Exactly. Show me leftovers. Yep, number three answer. There you go. All right.

Six, seven, and eight. Some big high ones up here that are still left on the board. Oh, gosh, dude. Three left, but these are real mysteries. Say teeth. What else could you leave? I leave sometimes leave a beanie or a hat.

Beanie hat. I'll say hat, headware. Is that clothes? Jacket coat cardigan. I don't know. Jacket coat cardin is really like the overclothes. The overclothing, unlike a hat, which is not, right? Exactly.

It's an upper clothing. Except it is. It's top clothing. Show me hat. Oh shit. Am I going to do this again? All right. I don't know. We got two left. I would argue these are the toughest two on the board. So even though nine and ten or higher. Did you combine cap in there?

Yeah. Yeah. Hat and capper are all together. Yeah. Always feel free to ask if something includes something else if you're unsure. Like phone includes iPhone, pixel, Android. iPod, weirdo. pooed. Okay. I'm going to say sometimes you forget

this is a cheeky one, but maybe that's what they put. Sometimes you forget to leave a tip. I'm scared. A tip. Okay. All right. Show me just the tip. I guess you leave a tip. You accidentally. You misunderstood it just the way they did. Exactly. Sometimes, actually, some people

clarified on tip and said too large a tip. Like, oh, I accidentally left too large a tip. or I instantly forgot to tip. I combined. I combined people put tip, no tip, or too large a tip. I combine them all into one. Just the tip. Who are you people that are worried you live too large of a tip?

My dad was very cheap with tips for some reason. He was almost generous humans I've ever known in my life except for tips. He thought the concept of tips was broken because they should pay people more and not have to beg for tips. I had a boss at one time. He would get that way. I had a boss one time who brought ones to tip people, and he would put the money on the table and slowly remove as service did not meet his standards. Oh, no way, dude. He would deduct from the pile.

That's a special kind of mean. I've gone back into a restaurant with the excuse that I left something behind to add a tip for to compensate, no, to compensate. for somebody we were with. Oh, yes. Too little a tip. I've done that too. I've done that too. I'm kidding.

Dave's a good tipper. Actually, Dave is a good tipper. He's the one usually that I ask how much you leaving? And I'm like, oh, okay, all right. And I add two or three dollars to mine. Even though I'm usually doing over 20%, he makes me feel bad if we split the bill down the middle. And he does like a couple bucks more than that.

He's like, well, you know, my wife. And this is always, this is always a very. My wife asks a lot of like questions. It has a lot of, a lot of changes that she makes to the food. I know this is a very, is he, is he, is he, um, is, is, is, is, uh, is, uh, because I know a lot of times from other countries is like, we pay our people a fair wage. And we're like, here in America, it's like, no, we, if we don't do it. Not unless, Wisconsin is a boss is going to do it.

Yeah, Wisconsin is, uh, sometimes. I remember, Patrick's main. Patrick's main two beefs when he come to America was tipping. He hated it. He didn't understand it. And his other beef was take-home boxes or doggy bags or any kind of like you didn't finish, take the rest with you. In France, that is like faux-paude. You are poohed if you do that.

Literally faux-paugh. Yeah. But he loved, he loved nachos. That was the other thing about Patrick. He never could get those in France. He'd get them here and he pig out on nachos when he comes to States. I love nachos too. I can't argue with that.

All right, I'm going to see if we can nail number seven and put Tom out of his misery sooner than later. I'm going to go ahead and say, I did this once. I left a brand new pair of expensive winter gloves at a where you hear your family. What's that called? Olive Garden. Olive Garden. Brand new. We just got them.

We were supposed to use them for a trip. I left him at All Garden. They never found them. I think an employee stole them. When you're here, you're at large. You perform larceny. You know who I laugh at in South Carolina? People with winter gloves.

Well, it used to snow here a lot, so, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, back in the old days of 2024. Yeah. All right, show me when you hear your family, gloves. Oh, man. I was rooting for you. I was in Uber ride that it put the pushpin in the middle of a parking lot.

And the person who English was not their first language sent a message to me that said, It was supposed to say, I'm at Olive Garden, but they typed, I'm Oliver Garden. That's hilarious. I like that name, too. There are two names I like now, jacket coat cardigan, and I am, what is it? Oliver Garden. Oliver Garden. That is amazing.

All right, Dono way, you have a chance here to seal the deal before I take it home. Put a, put a kink in his hose. the smart ass in me wants to say the baby but the um we got a lot of smart asses in the community but the chat room is screaming umbrella

oh you're gonna go on oh umbrella yeah yeah oh that's a good one shit should have thought of that is that what you're saying I'm gonna say give me the the umbrella I forgot it just raining out here okay show me umbrella

Ella Ella Ella 11 so I get to keep my baby. You get to keep your baby. You get another game. I'm going to say baby. I'm going with the baby. All right. Show me

the baby. We do have a lot of smart asses. Baby was number tied for 17th. All right. Well, often things that are the babies get left. How about like a toy?

Sure. Like, you know, a little something that they keep occupied with and they accidentally put on the drop it on the floor or chair or their favorite blanket or you know i guess blanket's different but well blanket's different i'm gonna say blanket i'd be like hey you better go back for that but like toy good one less toy in the house see you suck good thing's been in their mouth and i certainly don't want to pick it up off the floor show me toy damn it seven uh toy um also uh tied for 17th then what if anybody put kevin has their answer right left kevin at the table

so he could finish up all of the yeah and then smack you guys and then smack his face and go, oh, then become popular. All right, Donaway. You got to take it home, man. Seven, it's look at it. I know. I mean, there's so many. There's all the, you said all the things.

I can't think of nothing else. I might say some smart things once again, like, my boyfriend or my girlfriend or your shoes. Oh, no, my shoes. I left my shoes at the restaurant. Ew. Unless it's some Japanese squat down. fancy place.

But still, that means you're, you're forgetting to put them on and you're walking out to the car. Yeah. You step on a rock and you're like, oh, no.

I don't like that one. You don't like that one? Chat room's giving you a lot of Game Boy portable game systems. There you go. Yeah. My, my,

that's a good one for, that's on brand. I'm going to go with that. Yeah. My game, my game system. All right. Show me your game system.

Shit. Thanks a lot, chat room. If shoes are on there, I'd be mad. Oh. It can't be shoes. If it wasn't gloves, there's no way it's shoes.

All right. This is hard now. Do I need to give you a little bit of a nudge? It might be something, you know how I like? All right, I combined wallet purse, combined jacket, coat cardigan, hat includes cap. You know, maybe something else that had a lot of answers got split from something like something else.

Oh, interesting. I almost said that one. I thought that would have been included with the other one. And okay. Okay. So since we're on the last strike and I really want to see this board get cleared. Yeah. Chopsics.

Your headphones. Like your earbuds type thing. I'll say that. Show me earbuds, headphones. Beets. by Dre. Ah, son of a goat. No, Brian, last

last chance here. I'd probably, I always get it to go cup. That's, you guys get that? I do at some restaurants, yeah. Yeah. We went to old Chicago last night, one of the last old Chicago's in, in Denver, because

they're all closing down. And she's like, do you want to take it to go cup? And I normally would have said, oh, yeah, I'll take a, you know, Coke Zero to go. But, um, everybody in the chat room is saying stupid crap like sunglasses. Yeah, but I already, we already did glasses and I'm guessing that included those. He says split things. Oh, yeah, no, no, no, that's smart.

Oh, I'm going to go sunglasses with the chat. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Yes. That was painful, dude. Sunglasses, yeah. Higher than glasses and enough people said each of those that I'm like, there's no reason for me to split those because they're really two different

things. You take your glasses, you put your glasses on to read the menu, you set them down. Some glasses like, oh, it's bright outside. Take him off, put them on the table. What are you? A vampire? Someone in the chat said, uh, someone in the chat said, dignity. I made me laugh. Dignity was our number 12 answer. Nice, nice. Not kidding. Got to be kidding. Gloves was number 13, by the way. My date was number 14. Receit number 15. I thought about that one.

AirPods The number 17 An entire afternoon Barf Birthday gift that somebody brought So like you get together For a birthday And you forget

You leave one of the gifts there Your retainer Dental braces retainer Tordia Your teeth You might forget to put your ID One person said my life savings I didn't only left my life savings

At a restaurant So easy to do these days Phone charger You know you sometimes Plug it in and then forget to Grab it and bring it back with you And finally, my gun says Robert Blake. Yeah, I was going to say, is this an open carry state?

He says, he actually did say, I am Robert Blake. Oh, he did? That's great. I was going to say, well, how do you do that? I mean, you either have it on your person. What do you do? Like, stick it on the table? Boy, talk about now my boss that slowly takes away a tip seem like a nice guy compared to the guy.

But you can do that. You can do that in Texas. Yeah, but only there. You could do a lot of things in Texas, but maybe it shouldn't. Everything's bigger there, as you know. That's right. Well, well done. This is great. Who's our winner then? And what did they get? Our winner is Ray Zink. He's raising prizes.

He's going to get a tone, heart of the elder tree, and butcher. Oh, but don't worry, Kurt Rikin. Reichen, you're going to get how to say goodbye, which is what we have to do with Dunway. I don't even know what that game is, but I know it'll be good. And I know this. You'll all see those in your inboxes on your Patreon a little bit later this morning. Brian Dunaway, I'm going to see you at 4 p.m. Yeah. Because we're doing play retro. And or Max.

That's right. Sam and Max, baby, the point and click the monster hit that it was back in the day. I loved that. I never played the game, but I love the comic. Oh, so good. Oh, yeah. We'll talk about that some as well because it is a lot of people aren't even aware that it had its origins in the comic. So that'll be later today, 4 p.m. Mountain time.

Brian Dunaway, kiss our butts. No, nothing. That's all you got. All right. If he doesn't want to answer, it's fine. Oh, you. Oh, you. Oh, you.

All right, guys. It's time for us to hop right over to a little bit of this business right here if I can find it. No, it's the wrong one. All right. Where is it? Isn't technology wonderful? It sure can be when Tom Merritt's involved and he is involved. He's on the line right now.

Hello, Tom Merritt. Hello, Scott Johnson and Brian Abbott. Thank you for being so patient. Thank you for being a friend. Well, I'll do what I can. Oh, I'm getting a no elgado signal from you. but that's okay if your camera's down. It's fine if it is.

Who knows? You sure it's on. It says, says, says no signal. Oh, wait. No, yeah, that would be you, not me. It's me. Oh, sending us no signal, which is kind of funny based on today's topic. Oh, there's me.

Hold on. Let me pull. Oh, wow. It's, uh, oh, now he's a, now he's a flesh-toned. He's an avatar. Avatar. tiny a sea of flesh a sea of flesh

a sea of drowning his head is leaking his forehead is leaking his forehead is leaking flesh yeah yeah that forehead color is the exact same color as your background where everyone wow to flesh

Tom while you're whilst you're fiddling there have you seen the Project Hill Mary did you go see that? I have what'd you think of that their business did you like it? I thought that their business was pretty darn fun

I agree The most Gen X movie I've seen. It sure felt like it was aimed at us, didn't it? Yeah. I don't know why that is other than Andy Weir's a Gen Xer and, you know, we all kind of came up. Yeah, and Ryan Gosling's 1980, so, you know, he's on the cost. He's there. Sure.

How's that? Yeah. But also there's like this little E.T in there. I mean, how's the video? Oh. Still flesh tone Tom. Yeah, still getting your avatar. FTT, we call it.

Yeah. Discord says it's sending you the right video And I see it when I test the video Do you see Let me ask you this Do you see me and your half right now That I'm sending to you? Yeah, that you're sending back to me, yeah

Yeah, so all I get from you is that half, that weird Here I'll give you the full half I just get the sea of flesh Huh Really weird, I don't know why Sky of blue and sea of flesh What if I turn on the camera? Hey, there he is.

Does that help? Yeah. Try that. You know what? That worked. That worked. It's always the weirdest thing to try. Honestly, today's question was, how do I get my camera to work?

When I switched cameras, it turned it off, sending it to you. And I didn't realize it. Oh, okay. Oh, sure. It's all good. I mean, and sadly, our question isn't about cameras, but it is about visual things today. All right. So that helps.

Who's our question from this time? This loser from Salt. Lake City. This Dufus who wrote in and said, no, so here's the deal. Was it Scott an SLC? Because I used to get questions from him way back in the day on Buzz Outlaw. Oh yeah, Buzz Out Loud every week you'd expect to have to deal with my stupid call.

That's actually true. We did that a lot. But yeah, I had this thought earlier, did a little video up on various socials, just a short video asking why on my trip to both Costco and Walmart it at least appears to me that TVs have plummeted

in cost. While everything else seems to be going up in electronics, not just RAM and GPUs and all that, but just in general, things are seeing a little bit of a hike in that regard, as well as services tied into tech. The one space that seems to be doing the exact opposite is big 4K plus OLED TVs with tons of features, quote-unquote smart TVs with all the bells and whistles at 80 inches, you know, 55 to 80 inches, is kind of your your zone now for a 4K television with all the with all the bells and whistles and they're

freaking cheap like five years ago one of these TVs was four grand five grand depending on the the make and now I'm seeing some of those same TVs ranging from as low as like 300 bucks up to 999 for this really good Sony one which you always

pay a premium for the Sony ones but significantly cheaper than they've ever been and a whole bunch of people had thoughts of course in the comments. One of them was Tom, the one I trust. So he said, you should ask this on Wednesday. And then you gave a hint as to what the answer might be, but I've saved that for now. So Tom, for this question from Scott from SLC, where do we, what do you say? Yeah, no, it's a great point. And I have wondered the same thing and dug into it. The main reason,

there's actually several different factors, but the main reason is they can sell ads into their smart TV interface. And if you turn on the smart TV interface and connect it to the internet, they can collect data and sell that data. I know the collecting data on you always gets a lot of people's backup. And if your back is up, I'm not criticizing you. My back doesn't get up. My hackles do not rise at that. Because generally speaking, they're not collecting data on me. There's a little file at Samsung that says, Tom Merritt watched this stuff. They're basically doing aggregation of like, oh, this many people watched this stuff and this many people watch that stuff. And that's valuable data for programmers and advertisers to have to understand what's popular. And they can also target

that stuff. So, you know, Dawn dishwashing soap doesn't need to know that I watch the pit. But if Samsung says, hey, Dawn dishwashing liquid, do you want to advertise to people watching? the pit, we can put that up on our smart TV interface. They can do that because they can just say, hey, target all the set numbers that have high index on watching the pit. So there's that kind of stuff. And then there's the, you know, money they get from Dawn for just putting that up there. So there's all kinds of things in the smart TV interface that are subsidizing the cost of your television. That was the word I was looking for. So it is, this is a subsidy in their case where Sort of. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe not literally a subset. But yeah, it is, they, they are able to charge you less for that television because on average, they make a certain amount over the life of you owning that television.

Okay. So for people who like, let's say they're super opposed to data collection and they're like, whatever, this is a great time for them because they can go buy this $300 TV. It might have normally been $8.99. and they never have to use the smart features. Just don't connect it to the internet. Yeah. And then you're good. You don't use any of their built in. And then you have a less useful television. But don't worry, you can attach a Roku,

which will then collect a data from you there and advertise to you there. Which I kind of do. Like I do, you know, we do the Apple TV. I'm perfectly fine with the dumbest TV they sell. I don't need any smart features, anything like that. ours is a Amazon you know whatever so like a fire TV

fire TV so yeah so if we say the wrong thing then it like flips to another another input but yeah but no I'm perfectly fine with the dumbest TV they make and let me just let me just use my Apple TV with it so there's a I assume this is like

a hot time for restaurants or bars because they're like we need to cover these walls of TVs to show the game on Saturday You know what I'm saying? Like this seems like the cheapest time ever to fill your, fill your workspace with a bunch of monitors. Because of those subsidies then,

does it mean the dumb TVs that don't have the commercial applications of selling to the viewers are more expensive than the smart TVs that can subsidy the... I don't even think they exist, do they? Do we have dumb TVs, Tom? Can you buy them? Yes, there are a few out there. You have to look hard. No.

Yeah. So that's probably pretty much every TV wants to say, like, we want to give you the ability to upscale. And, you know, there's all kinds of smart things that aren't related to the apps. And while they're doing that, they're going to also provide you with apps. Especially because, you know,

most TVs these days are using either Roku or Google TV or Fire OS. I think it's really only LG and sometimes Samsung that use their own operating systems. Oh, interesting. Okay, because my LG has, it's constantly asking me to update its firmware slash OS business. And I must, I'm bad, I'm bad for this because I can't just let that go. I have to update things. I hate when I'm out of date on any kind of software. Even when someone's warned me, it's like, I wouldn't, like years ago, it's like, I wouldn't,

if you upgraded to Snow Leopard, I wouldn't update Photoshop just yet. There's this one thing. But I'd still be like, oh, I'm Jones and over here. I got to update this stuff. I hate the feeling of not being able to update things. Yeah. And so I'm a sucker for their stupid method, and I am connected to the internet,

and it is tracking whatever the kids are watching on the Xbox, I suppose. I mean, if you're not using WebOS on the LG, it's getting less data from you. I have an LG, and that's the same thing. I generally am just using the HTMLI input with Apple TV. And so there's a limit to what they can detect from that. but they're still getting some usage data out of you. And to your point about the restaurants,

a lot of the warranties, in fact, I did a quick search, Samsung and Sharp particularly have this in their warranty that you are not allowed to use the ones you buy at Best Buy in a commercial setting. You have to buy a hospitality model that have certain things on them to make sure that they are getting some data from you in the hospitality setting.

You can still get a discount. as a restaurateur, but they don't want you just buying these things cheap turning off the internet and sticking them up all over the walls. They might not catch you, so I'm sure a lot of restaurants do it, but you would technically be out of warranty if they break. Interesting. It might still be worth it. Some of these cheap TVs are so cheap.

They're so cheap, right? Yeah, you just replace it if it breaks. I was walking through that Costco zone. I love the Costco zone where all the TVs are we like to go there, but I'm just looking at these prices going. And they're not even on sale. It's just... Yeah, that's what Costco, right? Yeah, it's always a little cheaper anyway. Yeah. It's crazy in there. And it made me lament how much I paid for this LG back in 2020. It was so much compared to what it is now. And it just irritates me. No, I wonder, we're pretty much in the same situation. I think I got my LG in like 2016 or something. It's getting long in the tooth. But yeah, it was a few thousand dollars. Whereas today, the same model, a better model is less than a thousand. Yeah, a lot less in some cases. So, all right. So this is the, the bigger question I wanted to answer before we finish, and that's this.

Are we now at the end of the innovation cycle for televisions? I've heard a lot about 8K being scaled way back in terms of production as well as content-wise. Nobody's like, yeah, can't wait for 8K. Like they're all kind of pulling back a bit on it. Yeah, yeah. Because of the diminishing returns. Are we at a place with that combined with what we've said about these being almost commodified, where TVs are just no longer

CES' 's darling child or here's where the innovation happens. I mean, I know you're still going to go to CES and someone's going to say, we've got this one that rolls up into a tight little tube and then stacks on itself

and fits in your glove box. Take it anywhere and you've got a 110-inch TV. I realize those will still probably be like concept cars. They'll be like these leaders of thought, you know, they want people to notice. But then they're just going to go to Costco

and buy another regular, you know, TV. So are we? are we seeing the, are we at the end of that period of like TVs are the cutting edge of? I think we're at the end of the resolution is your big selling factor or something regarding resolution like 3D TVs, which didn't really pan out. Yeah. I do think you're going to continue to see competitors try to differentiate on color accuracy and picture quality versus just plain old resolution.

8K is still very good for monitors. and for specialty uses. The reason monitors are more expensive is you have to do more with a monitor because it's closer to you and you want to have more pixels in a smaller place. TVs are a little cheaper to make in the beginning.

So I think you'll still see some 8K monitor stuff get pushed out there. Probably not in the TV space though. In the TV space you're going to be looking at here's our new QD LED, right? This has deeper black levels, better color accuracy. But fewer people,

people really get persuaded by that, which is why you're seeing Sony do a joint partnership with TCL to say, you're good at making cheap TVs. Let's partner. We'll be the tech provider so we ensure the quality, but you can make it on the cheap so we can still sell it for cheap and make more money off of it. You are seeing signs that TVs are hitting a bit of a commodification stretch, which they have been in before. Sure. It's one of the reasons Sony got into Tijuana, is because the big TV makers like RCA were getting out of it because it was commodified. And then HD came along and suddenly it took off for a while. So yeah, I think we are hitting a leveling out. But at the CES, you're going to see, you know, the high-end TV makers really pushing towards like,

this is the best quality picture technology out there and the form factors that you talked about. I think you're going to see cheaper versions of them and more adventurous versions of them. and I'm curious what that looks like. Samsung and LG have been doing that for years with the TV that turns vertical or a TV that looks like a piece of art on your wall. I think we're going to see a lot more of that. Yeah, I really like those that have like the burn-in screen looks like a piece of art that you can change. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It looks like the screen coating and stuff makes it look like canvas.

Yeah, no, Samsung Frame TV is very well reviewed, too. People generally say it is a very good TV and it's not crazy expensive. It's less than $1,000 itself. Yeah. Also, still, they still put that, they're putting that default smoothing on, though. You got to get in there, man. Turn that option off, everybody.

First thing. Unless all you watch is sports. If all you watch is sports, if you're, okay, you got a father-in-law, he's a curmudgeon. All he cares about is NFL Mondays. You get him that TV and you let it run by default. No problem.

Commercials and football. That's all he's ever going to see. But if your grandmother's, grandmother's into her stories, you need to go in there, sneak that thing. I don't know. I think the soap operas

look pretty good with motion smoothing. Those are the one thing that actually are like it feels like motion smoothing is made for something. It just enhances the cheesiness.

Yeah. Or go watch some old Baker era Doctor Who. Yes. Right. Some of these TVs can actually

auto detect content type and say, oh, we'll put motion smoothing on if we think you're watching sports. Your mileage may vary how well they work. Sure.

Sure. Well, it's funny you brought T-C-L up because that is the brand I saw that had these insane prices. Yeah. They make really good TVs at really cheap prices, and that's why Sony's partnering up with them.

Yeah. Well, good luck out there, everybody, who might be in the market for whatever the hell you're in the market for. Turns out TVs, if you're in the market for TV, never been a better time to be a fan of a big flat panel TV. Never been a better time to buy. Right. As best I can tell.

It could even go lower. I don't know. Honestly, you might see some price pressure on TVs because of the component shortages that are happening. So I would say now is the time to buy. if you're thinking about buying. Because as cheap as they can keep these TVs, the price pressure is just on the parts alone

is going to start pushing at it. And you'll probably see a rise in these happening over the next couple of years. Well, there you go. Tom Merritt, always figuring it out for us on the tech front. If you guys want to have one of your questions talked about here on the show,

please keep those coming. The morning stream at gmail.com or you can just get us through the website. We would be happy to convey those. Tom Merritt, is there anything happening in your world you'd like to mention? No.

No. Nothing. No, I'm very excited about Daily Tech News show these days. I know I keep saying that every Wednesday, but we got Andy Beach coming on the show. Sarah Lane and I are going to talk to him today about what the heck is going on with OpenAI, just canceling generative video. They are canceling SORA. They ended their deal with Disney.

Disney is canceling its investment as a result. It's a little wild over there. And Andy Beach has some ideas of what might be going. on. So we're going to talk to him on Daily Tech News Show today. That's awesome. Andy's awesome. That guy, underrated guy. I'm just saying. Like, I don't know if you guys know who Andy Beach is. If you don't, look him up.

I illustrated a book for him once, years ago, forever ago. Just the smartest guy on video. Like, if you want to talk digital video, compression, different technologies, codex. He literally wrote the book on it more than once. Literally. Yeah. And he's a really sweet guy. Anyway, check that out. Tom Merritt,

have a fantastic rest of your week. We'll talk to you next time. Thanks, y'all. Bye now. Oh, whoops, that didn't hang up on them at all. Now I did. He went, all right. We're about done, but I did want to play a call. This is about Hollywood height.

I'm always talking about how short they all are or whatever. So I'm being called to task a little bit here. Oh, we've got to do this first. This is about the jugs of pee. Here's Michael about that question. Hello, short. And what's a B word that has something to do with tall or short? Anyways, 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. So, all right, fair point. And I did a little poking, and he's absolutely right. That is the average. Interesting.

It's not, that's not short. That's average. That's like average human height even. Yeah. So I don't know why I have it in my head. I know what it is. That just aren't a lot of really tall people in Hollywood. So when they do show up by comparison,

and you got Jacob Bayority or L or D.ODI, sitting next, standing next to somebody. Yeah. Yeah. You're like, holy. Bloom is another tall. Yeah, you're like, holy shit. What is going on in Hollywood?

And I think I've made a, I've myth made a myth in my head. You've myth. You've myth made a myth. Also, Brian was right. The good B word there would have been brief. That's as close you're going to get. Yeah, I think that's all I could come up with. Yeah.

What would else would there be? Bulbis for tall? No. Nobody wants to be called bulbous. Barbaric. No, that's a, let's see. Barbarians are tall. It's not bad.

They can be. I imagine there was some short barbarians. Gru, grew seemed like he was short. Yeah, he did. Actually, on average.

He was more of a wanderer, less of a barbarian. That's true. I love the cartoon so much. Behemoth-like? Behavith. Nailed it. That's it.

There's your B word next time, Michael. Yeah. Another quick thing, but Tom mentioned it, I just wanted to throw it out. Sora going away. How sad are you that no one will be able to make us look fatter than we are? Sora went away longer for me than that.

I don't know what. I'm more worried about Ambassador Domo. What's Ambassador Domo going to do without... Can we get a wellness check? Yeah, get a wellness check on him. He said the chat. Are you okay? Have you heard the news, Domo?

Sorry. Since it's leaving, I'm trying to think, is there anything on there I want to save? Oh. God, I mean, you know, the videos, seriously, the videos that were made on there were absolutely hilarious. A lot of them were, and it's... It just started to be kind of like, oh, we, we got, it has like five tricks.

We, people made enough stuff around us to exploit those five tricks to be funny. But then there aren't any tricks left. It's just sort of the same stuff remixed again, which is a, if you ask me, I think what this experiment for them has done has made them go, well, first of all, it's costing them about 100 million a day or something like that. Jeez. And what's the return? There's no advertising. Right. I don't know how they, right.

Exactly. I mean to make money on data, but that's it. But also, I think, like, my videos won't even load right now, which tells me that something's... Oh, really? But the server is already... Okay. So I might pull a couple of dumb ones down. Yeah. Just because...

I had a weird one go viral. That was kind of fun. I have one word... My own... I suggest that we have, before it goes away, a Sora contest. Oh, it's like... Submit a Scott and Brian video, like, do a... You know, one week or something.

Do we know when it's going away? That's what I was just going to find out. SORA end dates. Let's see if anyone's got any news about the date. Because we could make it like March 31st, but we have to be able to watch it before, like giving them the deadline of when Sora goes away is great, but we have to watch it before. Oh, it's crazy. It was only ever by invite.

It was never fully public. Oh, it never made it public. Wow. Yeah. What's crazy is they're taking a generative video off of everything. I wonder if the copyright stuff was just too much or this new C.D. dance stuff is too good and they're just like we don't need to be fighting that fight let's just focus on drones that kill people or whatever they're.

I'm trying to find. Ambassador Romas says you can download videos really. It'd be nice to, I'd love to just have a button that I can press and have it download. Yeah, you have to do them manually. It kind of sucks. And one by one probably. Yeah, unless somebody's written some kind of script that'll go do it for you. Maybe we could look into that, but yeah, if we knew what the end date was and I don't see

it in any of these articles. They're just saying they're winding it down and they gave no date. If anyone knows when that is, let us know. Maybe we'll do one of the little less stupid hurrah and give some prizes away. Yeah, keep us, like if somebody can find out, let's do it. I'm all in. Yeah. And Ambassador Domo.

He's going to have a big advantage because he's been practicing this whole time. This is his competition to lose is what it is. Yeah, he's probably submitted four since we've been talking about it as far as that. Or you can only do three at a time anyway, so he's waiting for them to process. Exactly. All right, that's going to do it for today. Thank everybody for being here. Frogpants.com slash TMS is our website.

Everything you might need or are looking for, you will find there. So go there and check it out. There's also some cool swag in there. The Nurtacular bags are up. All these fun things are happening. Are you? So get over there. Are you in good hands?

Brian, let's do a song where we know we're in good hands. Let me real quickly. One more promotion here. The MS-150 is coming up at the end of June. Well, for me, it will be the end of June. for the people in Colorado, it's going to be the same damn weekend as Nurtacular. But that didn't stop me. I'm going to do my ride over in Logan, Utah.

I'm going to collect money for my team in Colorado. And then I'm going to go over to Logan, Utah and do the ride out there at the end of June, which means I get to drive to Salt Lake City, not once but twice in June. Man, that's terrific. It's a beautiful drive. Well, there's a stretch there. Yeah. It's mostly very pretty. It's mostly very pretty.

And do I go through Salt Lake City, go to Logan? Or do I... You would, I think. Unless there may be a quicker wrap-around. I'm not sure. But normally, if I was doing it, I would like go literally up the city, up the city, up to 15, right-fifteen, straight past Ogden and all that and on my way to Logan. But coming from where you are, there may be a whole other thing. Maybe there's a different way.

And KT Data is going to come and watch. and then afterwards we're going to go eat a giant ice cream out of a kitchen sink is what the video that he sent me was. Oh my lord, I don't know what that even is. Looks absolutely amazing. Is this a thing people can come see? Can we see it?

You can come see me do the MS-150? Oh, hell yeah, I'm coming to watch that then. You can drive alongside me, but you can go hang out at one of the stops or you can even not hang out at a stop and hang out between stops. And it's not a race. So it's not like I'm going to lose time if I pull over and hang out and chat with you for a while. I'm doing this.

I'm going. I didn't realize. I thought it was just people you rode and then there was a beginning and end. And I didn't realize it could be spectator-y in any way. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We have spectators all the time. And there's in Colorado,

there's a woman we affectionately called tutu lady. Then she wears a, you know, she wears an orange and blue tutu, the colors of the MS-150. and she's there at the start. Yeah, that's all we could come up with. We're clever people. She's there at the start, like a block past the starting line. And she's got noise makers and ribbons and things like that.

And she screams in the top of her lungs. And then as soon as the Peloton passes, she hops in her car, drives up the road about, you know, 15 miles, pulls over, gets out, waits at that stretch of road. and then cheers us on again. And she's there like, you know, five times during the race. We'll see Two, Two, Two, Lady. She's, she has as much fun with the MS-150 as the people riding it do.

Actually, probably has more fun than the people riding a do. She probably get more donations. But if you wanted, you'd go out there and really. Probably, yeah. 2-2-Lady it up. That's awesome. So don't forget, tiny.cc-slash bike coverville. That's correct, yes.

Go donate five, ten bucks, whatever, whatever you can, whatever you can. everybody knows somebody who is afflicted with MS or knows somebody who knows somebody who's afflicted with MS. It's, but as far as like our debilitating

maladies, it's probably the one that we will see a cure for in our lifetime if people can contribute. Yeah, big innovations happening in that direction. That's good. It really is, yeah.

Lots of movements. So please do. Please vote. Not vote. Please contribute. Vote for MS research by contributing your money. Let's rid the world of Microsoft once and for all. Oh, wait.

It's not that. It's something else. Oh, okay. Yes. Let's say goodbye to MS. What was the Bob? Was that the, like there was Windows. Oh, Microsoft Bob, yeah.

Microsoft Bob was like that weird front end for Windows that was like a little guy that would help you. And it sucked. It was really bad. It really, really sucked. Yeah. Well, good job Bill Gates. I hope you get another STD from a Russian stripper or whatever the hell you did. Really?

Did he? Yeah. The talk is he did. I carried that. Some kind of Epstein deal where he got introduced to some Russian ladies. So much virus. Paul wrote in and said, Hello there.

This is a random request for a song that I couldn't see has ever been played on TMS or Coverville. I think it's pretty good. Might be worth a listen. No real day for a request. So if it sounds good to you, play it whenever the hell you want to. Thanks. Paul in Utah. Nice.

He can come see me as well. No, we haven't played this before. This is really good. It led me to a whole album of covers that I was unaware of. So thank you for that. This is Drive by Incubus, covered by the band Mint Green for the Dead Formats Volume 2 CD, which, like you said, has covers of things like lithium, Saturday nights all right for fighting, hanging by a moment by Lifehouse, I think.

I love Lifehouse. Or I did like Lifehouse. I don't remember. I liked that song. I don't think I ever heard another song by Lifehouse. But anyway, this is Drive. Mint Green,

covering Incubus. Thanks for listening. The Frog Pants Network lives at Frogpants.com. Bread so thin, you can almost see through it.