The Morning Stream - TMS 3001: Medal of Amber

Episode Date: April 29, 2026

I'll Take a Triple Millennium with Extra Foam. The Enshittification of All Things. Thickened Liquid Humps. Rack Hell Welch. Shmuper Shmirus. Rhymes with Shmyanide. Maybe She's Born With It, Maybe It's Birthmarks. Reaper Acres Retirement Home. Jurassic Bubble. Avoid the Newman. The Right Side Of The Hump w Brian Dunaway. Billy Pumpkins. 3 Thousand and one and tell me that you love me. The Quantum Supremacy w Tom and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Shmooper Shmiress. Rhymes with shmineide. Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's birthmarks. Reaper Acres. retirement home. Jurassic bubble. Avoid the Newman.

The right side of the hump with Brian Dunaway. Billy Pumpkins. 3001 and tell me that you love me. The Quantum Supremacy with Tom Merritt and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. If you look as broad as this and you'd rather look as slim as this, try the AIDS-reducing plan. Delicious tasting AIDS candy contains vitamins and minerals, no drugs. Taken with a hot drink before meals, AIDS helps you curb your appetite.

Smells like a jackstrap. The morning stream. Funny shoes. Hello, everybody. Welcome to TMS. This is the morning stream for April 29th, 2000 and 26. And we will at least mention that one time that it is the 3,01st episode. That's right.

3,001. Yeah, because real quick here, we'll get around to not, you know, we'll just not talk about the numbers. Yeah, we're not going to be like announcing it every day until we get to 4,000. And then we'll, you know, then we'll bring it up. Yeah. Then it'll be a thing. It'll be from the convalescence home or wherever the hell we're at. Hopefully, hopefully, and, you know, we won't be in a convalette.

Is that 4,000 will be, oh, we figured this out, didn't we, that if it was 15 years to get to 3,000, it's five years for each thousand. So, hopefully we won't be in a, in a, you know, Convalescence home in 2013. Yeah, I don't even think people call it that anymore. I don't know where I got that word. No, I know.

Where did I hear that? I heard it somewhere. Convalescence home. It's so old. Because now they just say, what do they say? Assisted living. There you go.

That's the current, the current version. Not even really like for a while they were retirement homes. For a while they were the old folks home was kind of, you know,

an approved nickname for them. So. Yep. That one, the one we went to, I'll tell you what, maybe it's a class thing or a category of how much it costs, because I've been to assisted living homes, they feel very different than an old folks home. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, for sure.

So there was a naked lady with an angry about a pen and one of them. And I'll tell you, it wasn't the one called Assistant Living. I'll tell you that. Sure, sure, yes. Oh, yeah, nursing home. That was the other two. Oh, yeah. Nursing home.

Yeah, hospice is when you're on the way out. That's right. That's your, you're probably your last place you live. I don't feel like I knew that until my mom entered the phase. Oh, really? Yeah, I wasn't sure what the term was. It was, yeah, I mean, that's when you find it out, right? Is when, because when Tina's grandmother went into hospice care,

that was like, okay, this is it, huh? I didn't know that term. All right. I'd hear it in like TV and stuff and just go, oh, another word for. It's just another term for assisted living. place. Yeah. Yeah. We were wrong about that. Yep. People literally go there to die. Yeah.

Yeah. I wish literally. The guy that whoever is at the front desk should dress up as like the grim Reaper. Oh, geez. You know, really lean into it. Just make it as not subtle as possible. And they come in every

morning and tap you on your shoulder and then walk out. And if you follow them, then you're dead. You're done. You're out. I like this idea. lot. Guys, I want to thank everybody for the nice comments about yesterday's show. That was a very, very nice. Lots of follow on. Lots of people going, oh, that was great. Nice YouTube comments, email follow-ups. You guys were incredibly nice. The entire full video that we watched in post show, which if you were here live, you saw it. If you were part of just audio and the Patreon, you also

heard it. But I put that whole thing up on YouTube. So just go to YouTube.com slash Scott Johnson. You'll find the entirety of it there. And, uh, watch the whole deal. By the way, somebody, Brian, on threads called it our triple millennium. What do you think of that?

Oh, really? Yeah, I like that. Okay. I mean, it is millennial in the sense of a thousand. And that it's a thousand. Sure.

Yeah. Does it work when it's not time? And it's just a thing. I don't think it does. No, I think half of the, the latter half of millennium refers to year, right?

Like, it's like milanum, milanium. Mill, annum. Right, because anum Anum is a year. Anniversary, things like that. And so Mill is a thousand years. So there you go.

But, you know, who are you going to argue with? Nobody. Nobody can argue with that. It's good news though, because look, I'll do a triple millenium anytime and you guys were super nice about all that. So thank you, thank you, thank you. I've kind of, I kind of just, by the way, this is a good moment to mention this.

Yeah. Social media as it is today. it's kind of garbage, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're just feeding an algorithm. You have no control over, and they don't care. They don't care what you're doing. And if you post things like, hey, I'm going live over here.

Only people who are like strict. I only follow five people and I'm only looking at the list of things they say. And F the algorithm, there's a few people like that. For most people, though, are just hopping in there and seeing nonsense. They actually downvote that shit. So when you put a link to like a live video, they, you, all of them do this. Maybe blue sky less so because they're trying to retain people and they're having a hard time doing that. But they all degrade your viewer or your, your discovery on stuff that takes you away from the site.

Because you're taking somebody away from the. Yeah. They want you there. You are, you're no good to them somewhere else. You're only good to them there where they can advertise to you or they can. feed you what they want to feed you. That's just the way of it. So 2008 is no longer a thing and now we're here. So the point is, what I was getting at, the only place I do any kind of that stuff now is I just go fart some comment on threads and then I'm done. And I do it on threads because threads

seems to at least be adding features people want. They're, they've got, you know, they're growing, not losing people. And also, I just have this new relationship where I just want to go fart it off. I don't care anymore. It's like, I need a carefully curated social. No, you don't. No, no. You can try, but you're not going to, it's not going to do you any good to do it. If I do it, it's, it's blue sky and threads.

And none of the others, like, no Instagram, no Facebook, no, it's like, yeah, this is where, I'm not going to devote a whole lot of time to building followings on these other, these other platforms. Now, what I do want to do is like start doing some little mini, many rock puzzles, monthly puzzles over on those other things because those, you know, they just drive engagement and they're fun and I like creating little small puzzles as opposed to only creating just the big puzzles for the monthly service. Sure, sure.

Yeah. Yeah, the real trick is just if it's stuff you're putting there, well, I'd say it's photos just to be simple. They like that because you're putting photos on their service and you're staying there to do it. You're creating content on their service that keeps people on their service. It used to be, like, super encouraged to give people a way out of there. Now you just do it through profile links, but going in there, you're just like, well, what am I doing in here? If I post something.

That's like, you know, your billboards that you drive by on the highway, just pointing to, just pointing to other billboards, as opposed to directing you to the store to buy the products. Yeah. Yeah. And I get way more engagement when we just do something on Discord, way more. Yeah. Right? Yeah.

Because people on there aren't seeing it. It's dumb. What we've done to ourselves is dumb. Oh, I know it's good for the companies. They're making plenty of money. It's not a conspiracy either. This is just straight up how the damn thing works. Yeah.

So enjoy our current and shittification of all things. Exactly. Remember when social media was good? Not anymore. Nope. Not really. All right. I also found something on Reddit that made me want old things very badly.

And I don't know if you ever get this urge for any. antiquity. But once in a while, I get like a, like, just a urge. It really depends on the thing. I like things that are new that are meant to look old, but they do all the new things, you know? Like, uh, uh, I wanted a, you know, a Bluetooth speaker that looked like the Gilligan's Island coconut radio is what I want. I love that. Is that a thing? No, but that's something that I want. I, I kind of want it now too. Yeah. I want that bat phone where, Oh yeah, you push Shakespeare's head back. Yes.

That was just the button to open up the door. I keep thinking that was the head was somehow a phone. You're right. It's actually the head that I want. I want to pop it back, hit a button, and the thing opens. That's what I want. And then because we have all this great wireless technology, you could do anything with it.

Easy. Yeah. Like just make it a button that you can sync up to any other device and have it turn it on, turn it off. I'm super into that idea for some reason. Anyway, I found this Reddit page or found this Reddit article that you have to see. That's pretty cool. Let's see if I can pull this up here.

Here we go. Somebody found a tiny bit of ancient amber. So a million-year-old piece of amber, like Jurassic Park style amber, the color of your energy, right? Right. With a bubble in it that in theory has been, that bubble has been in there and has not popped or been pierced in a million. freaking years. No way for it ever to escape out of that thing. Why is that so?

Is there water in there as well? Because that thing moves pretty quickly for Amber. Amber is like molasses. That bubble moves pretty quick. So I'm guessing that there's some water. Yeah, like some kind of liquid trapped in there. I got you. So it's like, yeah, there's the amber and then there's like that little water pocket.

Yeah. There's something in there that got that trap. So that's also interesting that water's that old. We can use that technology to build bubbles in the future. Yeah, right? like, you know, prehistoric bubbles. We'll keep them all on an island so it's safe. They won't be able to escape, put them cages around them.

We'll spare no expense. We'll just do the whole thing. Yeah. And we will have... Well, you don't think we should even stop and think if we should do this. We should just do it. We just know we could do it. Let's just do it.

Let's not stop and think if we should do it. Yeah. The only thing we won't do, we will not hire Newman to work into IT. Right. Turns out he's a bit of a problem. We should have done a better background check on that guy. We should have, yes. Anyway, point is having, I don't know why that's so, that is so interesting to me.

It's really cool. Yeah. Like just the science of that, that air bubble trapped in there. Like how, I guess the, you know, you just think about how someone like that gets created, right? There's like some water sitting on some little, little amber thing and another thing of amber comes over the top of it and then closes that water. Yeah. Right when it was raining or something. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Who knows? That's the other thing that's fascinating about it. It's just like this natural happenstance. Just one of billions that occurred and that you happen to have in your hand. And here we are in 2026 and you're just looking at that little bubble move. I don't know what it does. That's something to my brain.

We are. We are. You knew that the contents of that bubble, that little air bubble contained a mega super virus that could wipe out. Oh, shit. wipe out all civilization on the earth. What do you do with that amber thing? I didn't think of that. What would you do?

You'd have to like encase it in concrete, put that concrete chunk in a in a vault and a steel vaults, welded shut, drop in the bottom of the ocean, something. I guess I'd need somebody to, oh man, because it'd be something, if you knew that,

Yeah. It makes it almost cooler. Obviously there's danger involved and you don't want anyone to crack into it. But let's just say, let's say it became widely known and publicized that this thing contained the worst virus the Earth has ever known. Yeah. And that there's no immunity and that we're all going to, you know, 90 percentile death rate or something. Mr. President, I'd like to offer you the Medal of, Medal of Amber. That's right.

The Medal of Amber. Take it home with you. Would I. What would I want to do? I guess if it was publicized, they'd just be taken from me. This would be the... Somebody, right, government agents would show up. Like, a lot of men in suits with earpieces and walkie-talkies would show up at your house and take it and interrogate you for several hours on where you got it and that sort of thing.

Yeah. Then threaten me. Yeah, you shoot it into space. That's probably another. That's probably the best thing. That's one way to do it. Well, of course, the government wouldn't do that. They'll keep it.

They'll do like what I wanted to do. It's a super weapon. Yeah, we have to have it and try to duplicate it because that's how stupid this is. Here's what I would do. If nobody knew about it, but I knew about it. Yeah. Like somebody on their dying, some scientist on his deathbed goes,

just so you know that amber's got the worst. And he dies, right? Yeah, yeah. And then I go, sweet. I'm the only person in this planet that has this knowledge. I would then put it somewhere kind of cool. and I would talk, when people come over, I go, oh, yeah, that amber, it's an ancient bubble, and I would talk about it in those ways.

But I would secretly know that the minute... You would not be able to keep it to yourself. The minute the terrorists come bursting into the room. Break the glass and smash it with a ball peen hammer, kind of like Lido, Atreides in that room with... Here's what happened. You'd say, you know, I'm not going to tell you what's in that amber, but let's just say it rhymes with schmoooper schmirus.

This is a fair. This is a fair thing. But if I could make it that long. Yeah. I would. So the terrorist bust in. Even better. I'd do like Lato Atreides the first.

I would put that back here in a tooth. Oh. I get drug into some interrogation. What were the, no, not stric. What is it they have in their teeth? They break the tooth and the. It's usually just suicide.

But in Dune it killed the whole room, which is... Well, yeah, I'm just trying to remember what the thing is in the... Oh, cyanide, right? Sinide pill or... That's it. Yeah. Tooth. Like a fake tooth and they crunch it.

Yeah. Which is kind of... Bubbles up. Oh, it's kind of gross. Ah. Oh, crap. Rockin' tooth. Ow!

I know. Just the idea of crunching a tooth to get what's in there. Yeah. I don't want it. You know, exactly. And what if you're... What if your friend gives you a jawbreaker and you've got one of those fake cyanide teeth? Holy shit.

You're effed. I can't. I can't take it, Bill. Oh, you do? I can't accept your jawbreaker. I can't tell you why. I got dental issues. That's all I can say.

Let's just, let's just say it rhymes with. Shmineide smil. It's fun to pretend, though. Anyway, what's going on? lost luggage. What is this? It's available. That's right. It's now, it's now available on Apple Podcasts.

And soon, I assume Spotify, you'll be able to find it there too, but the show that I do with Phil Keating, Imaginary Nomad, Amy Redfragel, TV's Travis, two of those people have never seen the show lost.

And me and one of the other people, I'm just going to leave it as a surprise, have seen it. And we're taking them through episode by episode like oh what'd you think of that now what what's your thoughts on this person's character do you think uh do you think the island is magic where do you think they are do you think they're in limbo are they dead blah blah blah all that stuff so nice um it's a really fun uh experiment kind of going through that tv show uh episode by episode and with somebody to say you know see how

they're seeing the show like how they're watching the show like how they're watching the show with fresh eyes. Did you say this is your, it'll be your third watch through? This is my third or fourth watch through, yeah. Yeah. Okay. No, that sounds great.

I didn't know it was out. That's fantastic news. Congratulations. Yeah. So the first episode, the pilot episode or the pre-pilot episode, because the pilot episode is episode one. This is episode zero.

Is available now on your podcasting services, or if you go to lost luggage show.com, because lost luggage was taken. lost luggage show.com you'll see everything you need there to subscribe on Apple Podcasts or listen there. All good domains are taken now. They really are. Yes.

If you get a good one, it's usually because you had to pay too much for some guy squatting on it. Right. And if you get a good one, it's because you came up with some dumb word that nobody has ever heard before and bought the domain or you check to see if the domain was available before you came up with your dumb word and then made it the name of your company. Yeah, and it's an entire business to sit on those things.

It's so dumb. I hate it. Oh, yeah, yeah. Does this feature in the podcast? Let me play this real quick. That brings me back, dude. Yeah, yeah. Although I always did feel like I wanted to go through the O and not.

Right. The middle of the word. Just the middle of the word, yeah. Just kind of zoom right through it. I love that sound. Yeah. It's iconic. It is.

It's so much better than the one at the end of the episode where it goes here's the clip hanger. I hate that one. Yeah, it was a weird sound. It wasn't good. No. It was like, it always was associated with, damn it, we're not going to find anything else out for another week.

Yeah, I didn't like how that, I don't like that one. Yeah. I also think that loss deserves credit for being what I think is the end of 24 episodes as a standard. Because they had so much trouble trying to do filler episodes. They had the writer strike. They had all of this issues. The writer strike was a big thing. So two 16 episode seasons.

Yeah. And I think forcing 24 episodes started, that's when it started to die. And you don't, you still see it anymore. Yeah. I would, you know, it would be an amazing thing to know what lost would be in a streaming era when you didn't have, you didn't have to have a 43 minute show, right? You could do, I mean, Daredevil's like, oh, this episode's 48 minutes. This episode's 36 minutes. This one, you know, blah, blah.

You go right through it. And it would be really cool to not have that limitation and see what they would do with it. Yeah, that would be cool. I don't know. Do you think they, there's a longer topic for a different day, but do you think they'd ever, you know, do like an in-world series, a new streaming series and bring something to Disney Plus or whoever owns? Like the Dharma initiative. I'm trying to be careful not to spoil anything. But yeah, like something that went back, you know, in early days of it.

or something like that. Do you think that's a thing? Yeah, we've seen parts of the show that deal with those flashbacks, but it might be kind of cool to go into a few of them and expand those things. Yeah, be interesting. I'd be down. Yeah. I'm in that mood right now because I'm watching that testament still. One of the people on our podcast who hasn't seen the show is in the chat. And so I'm being very careful because I know they're listening and I want to be like,

yeah, they could do expand on things. Yeah, items. They haven't seen yet. Yes, exactly. There are items available for them to work with. See, spoiler free, everybody. Yes, exactly. All right.

Enough of that. Now this. Oh, that's quiet. There we go. Hey, everybody. That music means it's time for us to play a little game on a Wednesday. It's called the Tab Pooley feud and one Brian Dunaway joins us for it. Hello.

Hello, who's gotten Brian. Hi. Hello, how are you doing? How's work? What are you doing on a third? Wednesday. There you go. It's a hump day, Scott.

It's a hump day. It is. But I'm on the good side of the hump. You know how it goes up? Like, you're like, oh, no, it's this rough. I'm on the good side of the hump right now. Good. Always be on the right side of the hump, my dad used to say.

Yeah, yeah. And then it's like, no, the left side. Stopped your dad jokes. I know. Enough with the dad jokes. The front side. Definitely on the back side of the hump. The front side of the hump.

Yeah. Oh, is that the front side of the hump? Well, if you're ficking, if you're picking, if you're picking, Hump's. If you, if you, if you, you're picking to find out. Ficking humps. You have got, dick and humps. Tick and lovely lady lumps.

We're going to play this game. We got to do it, but we can't without rules. Brian, what's the rules? What are we doing? It's time to play the tadpooly feud. I've surveyed the tadpul on some dirty topics. Scott and Brian, you have predict the answer they gave us.

It is Scott and Brian's job. I say this so fast. Sometimes I leave out letters and syllables and plurals. Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can get. at the end of the game, we're going to add up all the points, and the win will actually be winning prizes for their listener contestant, and contestants will be pulled from our supporters on Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS. Scott, you're playing for Daniel Figuresio.

Oh, hello, Daniel. Welcome to my world. Yes. Brian, you're playing for Matthew Murphy. Matthew Murphy, the double M. Matthew Murfer. Yeah, double M, you're right. DF versus M.M.

All right. I like it. Let's get into it. I've asked 355 tadpoolers the following question. Put your hands on your buzzers and get ready to answer. I'm getting over there. I was sitting in my seat. I forgot it was not half asses where I could half ass.

Oh yeah. No, you need your, you really literally had to put your hands on your buzzer. Okay, good, good. A lot of it reminded you. Yeah, no half ass, full ass. We asked 355 tadpoolers, name a famous person with a Brian. Elvis.

I'm naming a famous person. Elvis. Show me Elvis. It's a bold. It's a very bold move. Very bold move. I appreciate it. Scout, I'll repeat the whole question for you.

Name a famous person with a prominent birthmark. Oh. Elvis. Interesting. Yes. Just knowing. He's got a big old fried banana sandwich, right? Oh, my gosh.

where his pooper was I'm in a birthmark Oh Um Uh Uh Uh The Russian

Russian Premier guy Oh There you go With the forehead thing Yeah Right up here And his name was Yeah

I think that's close enough I've watched I'm not gonna make him I watch Chernobyl once a year Why can I remember his name I'm not I'm gonna Gorbachev

Gorbachev Gorbachev I had to I had to remember and hear in my head the Reagan thing. I mean, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall. I had to hear that. That birthmark is so big, he's just known as the birthmark formerly known as. That's right.

Exactly. That's a prince joke, Scott. Yeah, I got it. It's very good. Show me Gorbachev. Yep, Mikhail Gorbachev right there. Number one answer on the board gives you control of the board. Not Elvis, surprisingly.

There are nine more of these. Holy shit. There are nine more of these. Prominent. Birth mark. Birth mark. And when you say prominent, you say prominent,

you mean like person, person. I was thinking you were going to ask for the definition of birthmark. I was not expecting defined prominent. No, prominent means it has to be, it's visible, not just some rumor or something like that, right?

It's something we know. Correct. Okay. That's an ad fool knows any of that. All I can think is moles. Let's do moles. I don't know much.

Covered in moles. Oh, that's a good one. That's a good one. And his name is, My birthmark is That's the name. I think once again, I think this tells a lot

that Scott can't remember the name of the person but can remember the birthmark. I think that actually says a good bit about birth marks. Or Scott. Something new bold. Something new bold. Aaron Newbold? Aaron Newbold.

All right. I'm going to put you out of misery. Aaron Neville. Neville. There you go. All right. Show me Aaron Neville. Nope.

This one's hard, man. All right, Skeletor. What do you got? New bobs? Okay. Oh, you asked me questions. Prominate birthmark. Famous person.

So when you say person, do you mean, I'm kidding. I'm going to go Cindy Crawford Because she's like when we think about That's a mole though Yeah, that's true This is the Tadpool Tadpool too

So you got to remember all of these things Famous people Things on the face Boom Cindy Crawford All right Show me Cindy Crawford Damn it

Yeah Suck it Johnson I see what we're at Okay I see what we're doing So there's, so moles, moles opens it up. Moles like, you know, yeah, I think, I think if you're born with it versus it's Mabelian, it's the birth one. That's right.

All right. So, now I feel like, I feel like a real heel here because I think that was a car accident, but I'm like. Oh, but I think people get that so confused, once again, is it what the tadpool said? I'm just going to say seal oh geez I think that was yeah was it from a I thought it was just bad acne when he was a kid or maybe we talked about this

I did it was it's some it's an actual skin what's an actual condition okay okay go ahead and say it though go ahead and say it I've heard so many crazy things about it and I've never actually looked into it and I think that when I think of it and the tap will think we're going to go or or seal

all right show me seal on the board, I mean, not on the board, but number 19 in the list. Okay. So not alone. Okay. Okay. Yep. Well, I start to struggle here.

So how do you define birth mark? Is that a mark you have it? Do you definitely have it due, is it due to the birth or is it because you had it at birth? Well. I think you just had it at birth as opposed to having, supposed to developing a mole or, or, wine stain, one of those. So essentially is, we didn't notice it until you were born. And now, oh, birthmark.

Right, exactly. I got you. We didn't notice it until you were born. Yeah. All three of my kids have stork bites, they call them, where they have like stork marks on the back of your neck. And their hair all covers it. But if you lift their hair up, you can see like a pink, like, thing.

It's a doctor-resting. Doctor called them stork bites. Because, you know, storks, liver babies and all that. It's very dumb. All right. Well, I cannot think of a good mole person, so. Or birthmark. We might get one X each.

You're probably still good to guess. How about Blake Lively? He's got a big old mole. Oh, yeah. All right. I don't know. I have no idea. Show me Blake Lively.

Oh. Probably the last thing you wanted was the forced next guess. You're not kidding, dude. She's your bonus 11th on the list, Blake Lively. Oh, I just saw him in a TikTok. He does these TikToks. He's not walking his dog with his arm. It's Billy, Billy.

Oh, that's it. He also does something better than TikToks. Come on, man. Come on. You're known for better things than TikToks. Well, yeah, but I never, whenever he's up with the pumpkins, I never see his arm. Well, that's because he didn't talk about it, I think.

Well, yeah, that's my point. So in the TikToks, he's talking about it. Yeah, no. Billy Corrigan of the Smashing Pumpkins. Just call him Smashing Pumpkin. Sure. Show me Disneyland

officianto, but hater of the mind train, Billy Corgan. Number four. I love the photo of him with holding the Mickey Doll in front of the Sleeping Beauty's

Castle at Disney. It's the best photo ever. How about that may be I don't know his name I'll tell you can I do a character sure give me character John Boy from from the Walton's

he'll also John boy that Yeah he's a big mole dude Big ass Marmarmar John boy It was also in the original it Yeah he was He was one of the kids

That's true It's true Yeah as a mole Teenagers or whatever they were I don't know I'll give that to you show me Richard Thomas Yeah.

An easily forgettable name, Richard Thomas. Sorry. He wasn't something recent and he was good. I don't remember what it was. I was like, oh, John Boy, you're back. Oh, yeah, I forgot. Me and you talked about that as long ago. Yeah, what was that?

It was something new. I don't remember. All right. Prominent. Gosh, damn. Prominent. He keeps going back to the, like, that's the thing that's the thing that's I mean, I know a lot of celebrities with, with,

rumored birth marks, but prominent. Prominent. Who we even know? All right. This is dumb and not going to be right, but maybe the tadpole was funny. I think Post Malone would be a funny answer. I'm going to say Post Malone. Post Malone's great. All right. Show me post Malone. Nope. That was a good one. I like that one. That was very funny, yes. And not even, I don't even think Post Malone made the list, but it is, it is hilarious.

So it would be great if it was born with all those marks on his face. With proper spellings and all that. Right. Right. All right. No way. It's in your hands, buddy. I'm going to, before I turn to the chat room, I'm going to go with one of them. I'm just not sure everybody knows a lot about, but Tina Faye.

She talks about, yeah, her facial. She's got one. Yeah, facial mark. And she's always like, just don't leave me alone. Who are you? Who are you? It's a scar. Because I thought she had like a scar.

It's a scar. It's a scar, but it's a mark. And it's prominent, right? And that's what people will notice it. Yeah. Once again, it's the tadpool. It is the tadpole.

All right. Show me Tina Faye. All right. I'm coming to the chat room now. Come into the chat room. Give me your best shot. Yeah, Tina Faye, not even. Oh, no, one person said Tina Faye.

Oh, not bad. Not bad. You're not alone, but you're alone with one other person. I'm also turning to the chat because I'm all out of ideas here. Oh, my gosh. You guys, there's no way, but I'll try it. Did anyone say me? for this thing.

Oh, interesting. Yeah. Show me Scott Johnson. Oh, this guy must be up there. Number nine. Yeah, that is some good points, dude. Shut up, dude. Yeah, that's so funny.

Oh, my gosh. Of course they did. Of course they freaking did. All right. Let's try. Oh, I thought about this one, but I wasn't sure it was prominent enough. Let's say Marilyn Monroe.

Oh, really? Yeah. She got a big old one. It's the, it's when people draw. Mark. Make that all big. Show me Marilyn Monroe. Yeah, number three.

All right. Because some of these come later, right? They're not Birthmark. Again, it's the tad bull. I don't know why I'm thinking of it that way. Yeah. I don't know if Marilyn Monroe's was, came later in life,

but if she had it when she was Norma Jean. Right. Norma Jean. Let's do, oh, Madonna's got one. She does. Yeah, a big old. mull on her lip let's do that yep show me madonna moly lip uh number where was madonna on this list it surprised me that she didn't even make like the top 20 yeah tied for tied for 20th place shocked by that

yeah yeah i can picture hers almost more than the rest of these like right where it is right right exactly so brian your job i'm in the chat room and i'm looking and you guys four answers left screaming. Oh, but I had been watching Scrubs. I've been watching a full play-through with the old scrubs before I start watching

the new thing they got going on. And Turk does have some birthmark, but I don't know. What do you? Red Fraggle? I like Turk. That's a good one. Raquel Welch.

Ambassador Domos says, I think people might be said, Raquel Welch, if they're going with the Althamoles. Let's do Raquel. Rackale. Rakell Welch. I just like hearing how you say

Rakell Welch. Rackale. Rackale. Ral Welch. show me Raquel Welch Raquel Welch Raquel Welch

I thought she'd be higher as well to also tied for 20th place yeah no kidding all right let's see who the rest of these are this one

first one I can't believe 13 people said it I don't know anything I even just looked to a picture of the guy and I don't see it

but Drew Breeze I'm not familiar with any football player Well, I know Drew Breeze is. I just don't think of any birthmark. Isn't he retired in coaching or no, still playing? Might be.

I'm not sure. No idea, actually. I know the name, but. Yeah. I mean, I'm looking at a photo of him and I don't see it. I don't see a, uh, on his cheek. Really? Okay.

I love how you're getting close to the, you came further for the mic and closer to the screen. It's funny. I still don't see it. Wow. All right. Drew breeze. I love it. Surprised.

Uh, Drew Breeze. Uh, number fifth. Number six. I'm sorry, number seven. We just talked about her a couple days ago with regard to the Dial of Destiny. Phoebe Waller Bridge, Phoebe free bag. Where is that on her? Okay.

Let's see. I love how closely we're inspecting these people. Yeah, yeah. Closer? Oh, yeah. Top of her head, forehead. Oh. Okay.

Like I got like one of, like me? Here, I'll give you this one. This is, I have never even noticed this. Yeah. but yeah I didn't know she had a hard one man I mean just I guess we try celebrities try to hide their birth marks so often I guess we just

yeah oh I've never seen it no it's she must cover it with her hair a lot yeah probably could make up that out too you had to yeah right this is one that uh it's a great great pull because like oh yeah she's she's definitely got a birth mark number eight eva Mendez Oh, right. Yeah, she does.

I used to have a real thing for her, man. Yeah. Like her a lot. And finally, number 10, Angelina Jolie. I almost said Angelina Jolie. Yeah. Where is hers? Didn't she remove her mole and it became Billy Bob Thornton?

A thing? Going for a Billy Bob Thornton divorce joke there. Yeah. Yeah, it worked out great. I don't remember where hers is. I don't see it either. on the photos I'm looking at, but let's see here. Oh, it's above her,

above her eyelid or eyebrow. Oh, okay. Oh, that's right. I forgot, yeah. I can kind of see it now. Here's a photo. Let's take a look here in the TMS group. Oh, yeah.

You know, I never think about it, though. That's one you just don't. Like, I would call that not prominent, but what do I know? Right. Once again, Scott gets like that prominent thing. I'm stuck on it. I'm fine prominent.

No, I'm completely stuck on prominent. Is it a, is it a, is a derivative of promenade? Promenade, paramour, potato. That's where it comes from. Well, good news. We got a winner, Brian. The winner is, sorry, I'm looking at photos of Avamendez. Sorry, I'll stop.

Congratulations. Going to Daniel Figucio, congratulations. You're getting a copy of Big Helmet Heroes and Corekeeper. Nice. Sounds like you're keeping the podcast. Core Keep Core. Yeah. Corkeeper's awesome, by the way.

great game. Cool. But don't worry, Matthew Murphy, you're getting a copy of Starvaders for playing in today. For not playing in today's game. And all of these need to be redeemed by March 3rd, 2027. So you've got a little under a year to redeem these things. And no refunds.

If you forget to redeem them, we're not giving you your money back. No, no. You get nothing. So get in there and get that done. That's right. Done away, I feel like you and I were equals today, even though the score is different. I didn't know nothing about nothing. And the fact that I'm on there is probably how I won,

which is ridiculous that I'm on there. That really did give just a ton of points. It did clinch it. And I think Brian was even thinking he was going to pick it if you didn't. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to take this away from Johnson. That's right. That's what I like to do, but it didn't work.

I understand. Well, look, tonight we'll get together again. 4 p.m. Mountain Time. We're going to do a play retro, and then we're going to roll right into a watch retro, doing it all in one night. And it's going to be great, just an extravaganza from top to bottom. so if you are interested in doing that, please join us at Arcade.

We're covering arcade classic Rustan. Ruston. Raston. Yeah. He's basically, what's the word I'm looking for? He's Arnold Schwarzenegg. Conan the Barbarian game without the IP license. Sure, sure.

Very excited about this one. He used to play that a lot. Done away until then, do one thing for me. Oh, have fun. Kiss my butt. All right, bye. Oh. Guys, we've heard you.

We know what you've been asking for. We know what you've been asking for and it's this. Isn't technology wonderful? Yeah, it is. It is. And honestly, only is because Tom's here. Tom Merritt, welcome back. How are you, sir?

Oh, no, you can't hear you. Why would that be? Hold on. Do I have him muted? That was a me mistake. Sorry, Tom. Got me. Yep, got you.

Sorry, say that. Whatever you said is awesome and I want to hear it again. What did you say? I don't think I could ever recapture it. Yeah. The moment's gone. Yeah. That's a shame.

I mean, we try. No, I said that's a lot of responsibility to be the only person that makes technology wonderful. Oh, yeah, it is. You know what? Heavy is the burden that Tom Merrick carries around with him on the daily. Heavy is the crown on my head. Yes. Which is also heavy because of that crown.

That's what they say. It's appropriate. King Chucky is over here hanging out. That's right. That's right. Yeah. Charles is in the charge. It's a terrible joke.

Let's get to today's question. So the way we do these days is we have Tom come on. He is, of course, purveyor of all things, Daily Tech News show, and we take questions from you guys about technology that maybe you don't know the answer to, or maybe the audience at large doesn't. And today's feels a bit like that. This kind of came out of nowhere.

This is from Troy Baker. He goes out of his way to say, not that Troy Baker, the famous voice actor, who is in most of the video games you play. That's what Troy Baker would say. Yeah, exactly what the real Troy Baker would say. Anyway, he says, let's talk quantum computing with this one. One for Tom and a bit of a follow-up from an earlier chat about quantum computing.

Google recently claimed a record-shattering 10,000-cubit quantum processor. In stuff I'm reading, some are calling it the Sputnik moment for quantum computing. Are we still years away from this impacting everyday encryption and AI? Thanks for keeping it up. Sorry, thanks and keep it up. Troy Baker, not that Troy Baker. So Tom, I guess this is the thing that happened. People in the quantum computing world, certainly in the know about stuff like this.

But you've come on before and talked about what's happening with encryption to maybe stave this off one day when encryption becomes trivial in light of this kind of capacity with quantum computing or what it represents. But we didn't really take it further than that. Do you think that this milestone moves this needle in any way? based on what we talked about last time versus now? Yeah, I would say the TLDR is, don't worry. The thing at play here is three different purposes working together to cause factual-based misimpressions, I would call them. So you have the actual science being done, which is very difficult to understand by

anyone, myself included. It's in fact difficult for quantum physicists to understand sometimes. So I think we're all forgiven if the rest of us don't understand it. Then you have companies that want to tout their abilities. Right. So if you have a Google who's like, oh, we got a 10,000 cubic quantum processor, let's tell everyone about that. You know, so everyone goes, ooh, Google's doing really well in this or IBM or whoever else, right? So they're vested in like, don't pay attention to the physics. Just pay attention to how amazing we are. Then you have outlets that need you to read them going, ah, that sounds scary. Let me scare you into clicking this headline by telling you all of encryption is about to die

because there is some basis in fact that quantum computers could eventually break very strong encryption. And if company A is saying we're almost there, then that's a great headline. Okay. None of this is a flat-out lie, but it is one of the problems with science reporting in general is that you often see a headline that is extremely misleading. And sometimes that headline is bolstered by an article where the person writing it did not fully understand the concepts behind it, causing it to sound even when you read the article like it might be worse than it is. and quantum computing is a great example of the kind of thing that's really easy to misunderstand. So you have all those things together. Anyway, I don't think that I am properly equipped

to fully explain everything that's going on, but here's what I do know. Nobody has used to quantum computer to break encryption. There is a difference between logical and physical cubits and physical cubits are noisy, for lack of a better term. You need a lot of error correction for a thousand cubits to sometimes even act like one cubit. And when we're saying cubits, we're not talking about the biblical measurement. We're talking about a bit, which in a classical computer is a one or a zero, but in a quantum computer to oversimplify is a one or a zero or in superposition.

And that allows you to do a lot of parallel processing fast because you have that superposition you can exploit. a 10,000 cubit system is something that Google may have achieved, right? I don't have any reason to disbelieve them, but it would be extremely noisy. There is also research that says if we get 10,000 logical qubits, then you could break encryption with that. And I think that's what causing some of these headlines of like Google has reached the milestone where encryption falls. They got 10,000 cubits. These people say 10,000 cubits is all you need. but physical cubits, 10,000 may act like 10, 20 cubits.

So you're not actually getting the power you need to break encryption. You would need like a million physical cubits to have the error correction work so that you could crack things. Would that imply that you'd need a billion to get to a million or whatever the number is because of, again, the noise factor you're talking about? You'd need a million physical to get to 10,000 logical. Okay. Yeah. Same thing, just different. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So what is important, then this is a milestone, and this is where I go back to the people actually doing the science going, hey, this is really important, is that it has gotten us closer to that day of quantum supremacy, which is something we talked about previously, which is when a quantum computer can do the same thing as a classical computer, but faster. And quantum supremacy, once we get to that point, is when we have to really start worrying about, okay, do we have encryption that can withstand an attack

by a quantum computers, you know, attempt to break it. We are implementing that now. And while this advance from Google does put us closer to that day, that sort of zero day, the Q day is what they call it. Oh. We are not going to have it happen now. We have some time. You know, we're still years and years away from that.

So there is time to put in these encryptions. and they are being put in place. There will, of course, always be people that lag behind, but the Googles and the banks and everybody are on this. So I'm not too worried. I think it's good to put the pressure on and say, hey, don't slack on this, because another advance could get us even closer.

But it's not something I'm extremely worried about. I wonder why they gave it such an ominous name. Quantum supremacy. Well, it's because it's when the quantum computer is better than the classical computer, so it has supremacy in a calculation. And also, because it sounds cool. Yeah, it does sound cool. Nerds are thinking things are cool.

Okay, so tell me if this scenario is wrong the way I say this, or if this comparison is wrong, so that people understand a little bit better about this kind of noise to working, you know, noise to not noise ratio, for lack of a better way of saying it. Gotcha, okay. If I'm, is this a fair, like, comparison? If I'm standing across the street and someone's standing with me and I'm talking to them, that's like a traditional computer. We're kind of on, you know, we're on, we're on the same bait.

We're not losing a lot of data. We're not leaking memory beyond anything that's reasonable. Me and this other person are having a fair conversation back and forth. But if somebody's across the street and I'm yelling information to them and there is streetwork going on, jack hammers, cars, meep, people yelling, get out of the way, whatever. busy New York Street between us. Is that the kind of thing we're talking about? I know it's not literally sound waves.

But you know what I'm saying? Where it's like, well, now I'm being, you're only getting a tiny bit of what I'm trying to say, and that's not good enough until we... Subatomic particles aren't standing at a literal intersection. Sort of. And again, this is something where I start to really range out of my depth to be able to explain,

not being a quantum physicist myself. but as I understand it, it's because you have that superposition and yet the one thing to remember about quantum mechanics is when you're at the subatomic particle level, when the act of observing a particle changes the state of the particle. That's the uncertainty principle and all that

and Schrodinger's cat and everything, which does get misunderstood, but at the largest level, it's a way to help you understand that, you know, you can't actually tell the acceleration and the position of a subatomic particle at the same time. You can only tell one of the other. And so that measurement is inherently noisy.

And so being able to measure the cubits is tricky because you know what part of subatomic particles are surrounded by? Other subatomic particles. Because it turns out everything's made of subatomic particles. Sure. So you have to have magnetics and stuff to be able to get out the noise. but you're not you're not I don't think that's that's a horrible metaphor in the sense that you know you're trying to hear what I'm shouting at you and you may need me to shout it multiple times and gosh if you could have like 30 clones of me shouting it then suddenly you may be like oh okay they're all shouting the same thing I think I'm starting to get it because I'm hearing enough from the different ones of them to put it all together yeah that's not exactly it because you're talking about error correction where you're like looking for errors and then redoing stuff. But, but yeah, conceptually, I imagine quantum physicists would not get extremely angry with you for using that. I like good physical representations of concepts like that.

And it seems appropriate because quantum computing is, if it's anything, it's the physical at the tiniest level, right? We're doing, we're doing physics at a crazy level. And so, you know, it kind of scales a little bit. It's a little bit. This is going to be a sports metaphor, which is not going to work for everybody, but it's the best one I could come up with the top of my top of my head. If you look at a box score in the newspaper, also, it has newspapers, so no one's really going to understand. But if you look at a box score, you see all those numbers, right? And one way to check the box score is to total them up in their rows and in their columns. And that metaphor may work for people because you're like, well, I don't know box scores,

but I do know other things where you have to total up rows and columns. And you can tell, but that's a way at error check. Do I have the right totals at the bottom? Do they total up the same way in the different ways you can go about it? Now, imagine you have 20 fuzzy copies of the same box score, right? So error correction is going in and checking all of those and saying, okay, three out of the 10 say something different, but the other seven all say the same thing, so I'm guessing that's it. Yeah. Yeah, I like that. You know what? That works too. Everybody, write in your metaphors. More importantly, right in your questions for Tom because now that we've solved quantum computing's current news who knows what's next right and we're the sky's the limit yeah i'll take easier questions too yeah yeah if you guys want to

go a little lighter next time like who's who makes the best mp3 player in 2026 or something push in all the stuff yeah what is a smartphone tom yeah yeah all expense not spent or whatever Well, Tom, talking to you is always a pleasure. I was just looking at the nerdtacular schedule this morning pre-show. And, man, it's so good to see things on this. Like, look at Friday's schedule. Check this out, you guys. Right there.

So much stuff. After the core and more gaming panel, the Daily Tech News Show, show extravaganza. Tom and all his guests and everybody else. Tell me a little more. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm looking forward to this. I was talking to Bobby and KT Data about this yesterday. This is, on Friday, we do a hangout where we just chat about a single topic.

and we kind of range around in that chat. And this will be that episode, the Friday hangout episode of DTNS. We're going to have Dr. Nicky on. We're going to have Bobby Frankenberger on. And Huen Tway Dow, who co-host with me on Thursday and Fridays and is a regular on Android Faithful is going to be there too. She's coming to Nurtacular, which is very exciting. So we're going to talk about science versus technology and getting a big fight about which one's better. Or possibly just discuss the overlap and win technology the science.

No, no, no, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight. We want to fight. We need ratings, man. But yeah, I am very much looking forward to that. And of course, we also have, I'm moderating a panel with J.F. Dubot on being an independent author and karaoke on Saturday night. Daily music headlines, karaoke. It's going to be amazing. You can only cover Alex Warren, Morgan Wallen, or Golden from K-pop Demon Hunters.

That's the only, yeah, those are the only choices. That's a real shame. What can I do? I was hoping to do something more out of the ordinary. Ordinary, I got you. I see what you did there. Tom Merritt, he is Aceda Tech on all the social media sites if you're looking for him there, but also, more importantly, Daily Tech News Show.com for all your tech news needs.

Tom Merritt, I want you to have a fantastic. day. Thank you. Stay out of trouble. You tie now. All right. There goes. I forgot to ask him.

I remember as we were saying goodbye and I'm like, well, I'm not getting interrupt our goodbye. But there's a K-pop band that's been in the news the last couple days. And it's their name when it's written out is Tomorrow X together, I think. Like the letter X in the middle? The letter X in the middle. And it's a weird name. sure I'm going to say it's tomorrow X together.

And the cool kids abbreviate it TXT when they say it. The only thing I've been able to find is online is them doing a improve my wardrobe thing. And they call it tomorrow by together. Like you would do four by four is four X four. Okay. Kind of thing. Weird. But I was like, is it tomorrow times together?

Is it tomorrow 10 together? It's a little confusing. this is like manga and anime titles. They're just nonsense sometimes. Nonsense sometimes. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah.

Well, I look forward to tomorrow, X tomorrow or something. Hey, guys, we've got a quick news story I want to share with you and I hope you enjoy it. A woman brought a, or brought dead. Yeah, just a little quick, just one item. A woman brings dead husband back as a hologram to hold his own funeral. Oh, man. Hold, I assume. to host. Yeah, when you say hold.

To hold his own Q&A at his funeral. Oh, yeah, look at that. Funeral Q&A, so he's actually going to interact with people. He's a chat bot. He's basically, yeah. I buried the headline by not reading the headline, right? Well, it looked like it was a mistake at the end there, like hold his own funeral. And now for Q&A. And now for Q&A. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's what it looked like to me, too.

But anyway, a woman had her dead husband appear as a hologram at his own funeral service, which even answered questions from attendees as part of a scripted Q&A. Well, it would have to be scripted. I would think unless the A, I knew every way to answer that this person would answer, yeah. The service held by Bill Conrath's widow, Pam Conrath. Conrath. Pretty cool name. Featured a digital version of her husband recreated using a pre-recorded, pre-recorded material and AI, allowing him to speak to mourners one final time.

Hologram husband answered questions from mourners. And then he performed some Tupac signs. It was great. And singing in the rain with a vacuum. Right, exactly. Remembering that was like all the controversy in the world. Oh, totally, yeah. Yeah, you can find...

Such quaint days back then. Yeah, you can find a thousand videos about everybody doing everything in AI. According to BBC, Holgram was designed to feel interactive with a husband appearing on screen and responding to stage Q&A as if he were present there. Pam, who was married to Bill for almost 60 years, a pretty good run. Geez. Wanted to create something more personal than day traditional services inspired to pursue the idea. after attending a medical conference where a doctor appeared as a full body hologram. So rather than use old footage, the hologram.

Hey, kids, this is what we spent your inheritance on, a hologram of your dead father answering questions that we pre-made. Yep, yep. Could have gone to your kids college, but no. That's right. Exactly. But we wanted this funny hologram thing for his funeral. Yeah.

What would he ask in a Q&A with like an AI dead person? Like, it's the part that annoys me the most. Yeah. Are you in hell or heaven? Yeah. See, that, I would want to have fun like that.

I would go, what do you see right now? And have them go, well, it's really dark and hot and sweaty here. You know, I have fun with it. And smoke and flames.

Yeah. Yeah. The guy with a pitchfork trying to poke me in the butt. Um, we also got this. Check this out. This is about the jugs of pain. You really were my favorite child.

Yeah, you were. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry, boys. It's a perfect chance to do that. Right, totally.

We got a call about you, Brian. It's a question for you. All right, tell me. This is from Jay. Hey, this message is for Brian. Brian, you said you're going to Jericho, Vermont. I have been to Jericho, Vermont. It was, I know, 10 years ago, I always used to go to this Volkswagen show up in Essex on the Expo Center.

Wonderful show. It's not, it's almost the time you're going to be. there. I think it's the following month. But I stayed at an Airbnb and it was this guy's house. He had a shed in his backyard that he had bunk beds in. And I

parked my little Volkswagen out there. I drove three hours in a 30-year-old Volkswagen that was two inches off the ground. Oh man. Great times. Beautiful state. Boring. Boring drive. And a very slow car.

There's a Duncan Donuts down there because the guy had a outdoor shower and basically a camping toilet. And my girlfriend at the time said she is not going to the bathroom. So we had to truck it to the gas station Dunkin' Donut. Okay. Can I just say something real good before you respond? Yeah.

I really like this guy. This Jay guy who's driving around old Volkswagen's going to Volkswagen shows and he's clearly a nerd about it. And just his whole vibe, I can hang out with this guy. Totally. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yes. That's great. Uh, yeah, uh, no, that's, that's, that's, uh, that's, uh, that's, that's, uh, Airbnb

shed in the back in some guy's backyard. The, um, uh, the Duncan Donuts thing, or as they're called now, just Duncan is, uh, no surprise on these coast. I think if you, if you start a new village, like you say, I'm going to plant my flag here and create a village that will someday be a town that will someday be a city. The first people that show up are Duncan, can we put a store right here? Is this good? Can we go right here?

Every town has a Duncan and some have multiple and you use them for directions. Go past the first Duncan, turn right at the second Duncan and then you're there. So they're lousy up there at Duncan's. They're lousy out there with Duncans. But looking forward to, I don't know, looking forward to that quaint lifestyle. I'm worried, man. Like, you know, somebody was saying, well, are you going to cancel or are you going to like have Scott find replacement for TMS for those two weeks? You're there?

I'm like, no. if I don't talk to Scott, I'm not talking to anybody for the whole day. Yeah, he needs some human interaction. I'm sorry, folks, but if you were hoping for replacements for me for the end of May, sorry to disappoint. I need to, I need human interaction. No, we're remoteing that shit, man. I know.

I can't Uber out there. I did just rent a car. I've got a Kia Nero or similar. So I'm going to try my hand at an electric vehicle. I was like, well, why didn't my dad want me to just borrow his car, but he's got a Tesla and I don't know what, you know, what he'd want me to do with that. Unfortunately, the Tesla charger won't work for the Keanu, so I'm going to go to the Duncan and charge there. I'm assuming there's a place. Should be.

Nearby to charge plenty of places where I can charge it. Yeah, and there might be an adapter for the... Totally. I mean, a lot of my trips, afternoon trips, are going to be into Berlin. to rent a bike. Yeah. And there's got to be someplace near the bike shop where I can just charge it and, and then go ride, rent the bike and then go...

What do you mean similar when they tell you that? They just mean it'll be another electric if it's not the Nero? Yeah. Yeah, it'll be some other EV car. So maybe an ionic or an ID4 or something like that. Okay. Interesting. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm curious about those particular models. My niece has a... What's the big... SUV one. Not the Rivian, SUV. It is key, wait,

is it a key or might be Hyundai? It might be key. I mean, the Kia, it could be Hyundai, I'm not sure. I forget it now. What is the big Kia Sportage EV?

Might be that. Yeah. Are those, can those hold up to this? EV6 maybe? Oh, that might be. Yeah, it's not huge. I mean, it's, it's,

yeah, that's one I was considering when, when I was looking at EV vehicles. I think she can, fit. And her particular model, she can fit up to seven in there. It's like a big one. Hmm. But maybe

it's just five. I don't know. I would love a, um, the Volkswagen, uh, ID Buzz. Yeah. But, but there's, I would never need to carry, to drive around like six people. Because that's really how many, like that thing is massive.

Yeah, it's pretty big. But it's such a cool. It's such a cool looking car. It looks like the future. I would love one. But like you, I'm just like, how do you just I can't just buy that thing no no no definitely not unless you've got a big family that all lives with you yeah and if I wanted to get it and turn it into something in there maybe turn it into a living space kind of thing you're like van life and a EV why not sure sure why not Jericho I thought for a hot minute that Jericho was set in Vermont and it is if you're talking about the

22 TV show there's a there's a Netflix series in 2022 called what's it called uh what is that called? Well, the show Wednesday is set in Jericho, Vermont. Oh, it is. I didn't know that. Yeah. Sorry, is the entirety of all the Adams family and all the history of that? Is that always been in there?

No. No, I think it's the school that Wednesday goes to in the show is in Jericho. I wonder if they filmed there. You could see some stuff. I don't know. They did, but they did the filming in, they did the filming and like might be Essex Junction or something

that let's see. Oh, wild. Jenna Ortega walking around with a Dunkin' Donut and a Right, exactly. Yeah. Yes. That's cool.

I'd be into that. She seems nice. She does seem nice. Yeah, people give her shit, though, for all her makeup choices. Everything was filmed in Bucharest, so quite far from Vermont. They get those sweet Bucharest tax

credits. Exactly, I guess. What? Yeah. I did not, I did not expect that. No, I was like, oh, Bucharest. Okay. I thought, well, maybe Ontario or, you know, maybe some Canadian deal or whatever. Bucharest. Yeah, Vancouver or something like that, yeah. Load up the plane. We're going to Bucharest. Oh, geez. ASVP, M, let's see, ASVP, I can't make a word out of that.

Says Jenna Tegov's boyfriend is a white supremacist. Really? Really? his name's a es C what's his name the the person in our chat room oh oh oh B P M-M-V-S-O-N-M-S-O-M-Son I thought you met her boyfriend V-V-V-M-Sin

Let's see Jenna Ortega I want to see this guy boyfriend Oh ASAP Mason but you flip the You flip the V's The A's over his Vs I guess Okay

This boyfriend looks like he's five Really? Kind of A five-year-old white supremacist. Oh, you know, it's an old photo. Where's the latest here? Is he like a child actor, I guess? I don't know.

For some reason. There were rumors that her and Johnny Depp were dating. Oh, yeah, right. Come on, man. That ain't happening. That ain't happening. No, it's definitely not happening. And it shouldn't.

that's jacked up she's like what is she 19 20 something like that and he's 60 something F that yeah that ain't happening I mean I know they're adults but only in the legal sense geez like in everything that I look at he's just called he was just called Jenna Ortega's boyfriend it's like yeah I can't find a name how do we know if he's a white supremacist we don't have his phrase we need to expose those people exactly put some sunlight on that guy you know what I mean right right right Um, all right. Elias Ronnafeldt. Okay.

No idea. No matter. Yeah. All right. Not, he's not, must not be a popular name in the, the, uh, KKK, or wherever he's from. I mean, I don't know. Maybe our chat person might just be sending us on a trip here. I don't know.

He's a member of the band Ice Age. Okay. That's a cover band for, uh, for Ice House. Ice House. I don't know. I don't know. What is the ice cube? Is the only?

time I've ever heard this and I'm not finding any cooperating anything online. No, no. I have a feeling our quater might have gotten poor information. I don't know. Who knows? Maybe. Who knows? Well, ASAP, Jerry, or whatever your name was, it's all right. We checked it out. We looked. We did what we had to do. Let's

get out of here. A quick note. Yes. If you go to frogpans.com slash TMS, you'll find all our details. And there are some shows coming up. Play and watch retro tonight at 4 a.m. 4 a.m. 4 p.m. No one's doing nothing but 4 a.m. Unless you're Brian, you're watching some TV show probably. Right. Can't sleep.

Continuing my madman binge. Oh, you got me in the mood for that. When I finish this... It's really good. Let me tell you something. There is a thing that John Hamm is fantastic at. And it's a very simple way of responding or not responding to somebody who comes into his office. Because a lot of times they'll come in and they'll say something and he'll just look at them.

And then they'll continue on. Or he'll do this, which is my favorite thing. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's the best. I can see that. The second you made that sound, I went, oh, yeah.

It's Don Draper as hell. Okay. That's a good impression. Like, exasperated, impatient, and indifferent all at once. It's so great. Yeah. Well done. Yeah, I'll probably have to put that on the list at some point.

So that's at 4 a.m. Yeah, at 4 a.m. And then there's no show tomorrow. But there will be one Friday for TMS Friday, and we're going to put it out to everybody to make up for Thursday. So if you can't be there, Friday, don't stress. It's not the normal, you know, just for patrons thing. Well, they'll be, you know, most of those people will be there and they do get some extras. But we will give you guys a full episode on Friday as well in your feeds.

So watch for that. There will be a coverville tomorrow, and it'll probably, I'll probably just do it in place of the regular TMS time. so tune in to Twitch.com. TV. Or keep an eye on. I'll put in Discord and threads and blue sky, those three places. Okay. Watch for that, 9 a.m. or so tomorrow. Yeah.

And yes, 9 a.m. Mountain Time. Yep. And if you're looking for more schedule stuff, you can find it at frogpants.com slash schedule. We must get out of here and we must do it fast, but in 1978-style fast. Wow. Okay. Yes. I like that.

kind of a reference to your song it's a poor what you're doing there it's a poor reference because i think it might have been lower then actually i don't know when 55 was it 80 i don't know either yeah uh sun glow steve wrote in and uh said dear doctor's banner and savannah savannah i'm savannah siv in a is that front is that marvel thing or i don't recognize dr savannah uh here you look that up while i read the yes you do that uh b b b b there it is i'm turning 55 this year and I've got to agree that aging is bullshit. Please play the obvious song, a cover of I Can't Drive 55.

Failing that, you could replace with any other cover of or by Sammy Hagar. A comfortable dream interrupted, Sunglow Steve. There's our three word sign off. This is the guy. That's Dr. Savannah. He is a DC supervillain. Ah, okay. Known primarily as the hero quakes of him.

He was an arch enemy of Captain Marvel, Shazam. Okay. I don't remember him at all and have zero recollection of any Dr. Savana business. He looks angry. He looks super pissed. He looks like someone yelled Shazam right in his face. That's right. Ah, my face, you yelled Shazam in it.

Anyway, so a cover of Ican Drive 55. Let's do this one right here. It's by some ska band on Skankup the 80s. No, that's really the name. The name of the band is some ska band from Skankup the 80s. Here's I Can't Drive 55.