The Morning Stream - TMS 3004: Parmigone

Episode Date: May 6, 2026

Microwave on Top, Party on the Bottom. The Mustache is Black, The Beard is White, Something Here Doesn't Look Right. Off leash kids. Baby Shark Morse Code. Porch Pooping Pups. Reesie Piecee loving freaks. No One's Favorite Martian. You don't have to eat RICE!! The least Karen. She Neither Gives Crap Nor Takes Crap. 38 seconds of smack talk. Drooly Emmer Effers. Nugget Adjacent. Dunaway is our resident alien. Tech Time With Travis er Tom and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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That's all works. It all works. Off leash kids. Baby shark mors code. Porch pooping pups. Recy's loving freaks. No one's favorite Martian. You don't have to eat rice.

The least, Karen. She neither gives crap nor takes crap. 38 seconds of smack talk. Drule M.Refers. Nugget adjacent. Dunaway is our resonant alien. Tech time with Travis, er, I mean, Tom. And more on this episode of The Morning Stream.

The marinerator, rip, pepper flakes, pasta, meatball, Parmagon cheese. Who smells like freaking porpoise hark? The Morning Stream. I'm bleeding to death. Humor me. Hello, everybody. Welcome to TMS.

It is the morning stream for May 6, 2020. I am Scott Johnson. That is Brian Ibbott. Yes, I'm going to go for a nice veal parmagon later today myself. Delicious Parmagon. Parmagon cheese. Nothing quite like it. I remember watching MMA when they used to fight in the parmigot.

Armigan. It was quite the venue. Oh, man. The other, that's funny you bring that up. The other day I'm watching, uh, actual kickboxing the Thai stuff, tie fighting. Really? Yeah. Not tie fighters. I guess they're tie fighters, right? Tybo. No, what is it, what is it called?

What is that called? It's like mixed, it's like mixed martial arts. Yeah. It's kind of the inspiration for what become, yeah. Krav Maga or something or whatever it is. guys are hardcore but I watched a bunch of that and I thought was it called Maui Thai that's not Muay Thai is I was called um man we're just like okay the MMA stuff all that that's neat and everything and I know everyone's super into it or whatever it's a that is nothing compared to the crap these guys are doing to each other in like a traditional really but kickboxing thing it's crazy the the way they're kicking shins and it's gnarly dude.

I can't, you know, I mean, I'm not a big, I'm not like grossed out by blood or anything, but that stuff does not, does not interest me whatsoever. Like, it's, it's, we, there's a sushi place that we really like near us. And they have an all you can eat deal that is good because you don't have to get stuff with rice. You can actually say, I just want, I just want the fish. You can say, just give me the sashimi and not the nighiri. And, and we don't, you know, even though the. rules are, oh, everybody at the table has to get all you can eat. They bend the rules.

It's like, no, you know, Tina doesn't want all you can eat. She wants a few things, but she doesn't want all you can eat. I really shouldn't have all you can eat. And, but they sat us down the last time directly in front of one of their screens. And their screens are big enough that you can see them all the way across the room. But we're right up close to it, like two tables away from it. So there's massive MMA fighting right there in my face while I'm trying to eat sushi. Dude. I mean, I guess if you're into it, it'd be all right.

If you're into it, it's great. But man, it's a weird combination of eating, uh, eating raw fish that kind of has the texture of, you know, the skin that they're flaying off each other right in front of me on the screen. Gross. Do you, uh, do you ever bet on those games or those matches at all? Yeah. That's a big thing. No, because I, because I don't know. I mean, I see those in the, uh, sports duel or fan duel or whatever, you know. Um, but I, I, I don't know enough about the players. to ever be able to give a decent wager. Really, in the last year, since

TMS Vegas, even, oh no, I take that back. I did bet on some football games. Oh, yeah. I remember we talked about those a bit. Yeah, but even really since the beginning of the year, I think it's only been Colorado Mammoth games that I've bet on and won, because we did

really well, until we got to the first round of the playoffs. But that's okay. Now I'm not on the hook for a lot of home games. Oh, right. We never followed up on that. So they're out. So you don't have to... They lost their first home field advantage playoff game.

And I acted very angry and disappointed on my way out of the stadium. And then got in the car. I was like... Yeah. Your wallet felt a little thicker. That was going to be very expensive. Yeah, exactly. It's such a weird...

I guess it makes sense to me the way that business works. It seems such a weird thing. If you're winning, you've got to pay more. right and if they're losing that's the thing if you're if you're buying season tickets you're you're a supporter of the team so it stands to reason that you support the team so much that you want to see them go to the bigger games and and go watch them play those it's it makes sense if you're if you're someone who makes a lot more money than i do yeah and you're not just piecemeal and tickets here and there or whatever right right exactly yeah we you know we grandfathered in on some

great seats right up against the glass, me and Crazy Neighbor. And it's great for the 12 games or nine games that they play locally. And we kind of just want that. Yeah. Sure. Every year. Yeah, I think that's great. Well, congratulations on both a good season and a crappy playoffs.

Yes, exactly. Well done. Yeah. Well done, everybody. Guys, we have a new, it's been a while since I've had a real Dog Walker menace here in the neighborhood. Oh, no. Yeah. Not since Tesla really have things been as gnarly as that was.

And by Dog Walker Menace, this is a person who lets their dog defecate in your line and does nothing about it. Yep. And it got worse. So here's what happened. Okay. And I got it on camera. I didn't convert the video because I don't know. I don't know what to do with my wise camera to do that.

But I could probably do it off my phone. But anyway. Sure. This lady up the street, which is so weird because she has these two boys who are the nicest kids who when they walk the dogs, they carry bags with them, they clean it up, they wave at people, just the most conscientious kids, a couple of teenagers you've ever met, just nicest kids. One kid's named Parker, nicest kid.

Really like Parker. And whenever he's around, I'm not worried about it. He's got the two dogs that are on leash the whole time. Yeah. It's all good. But his mother lets him off leash the whole effing time. Okay. Mostly looks at her phone while she holds empty leashes.

Oh, I hate this. run all over the place. And these two dogs ran up on my porch, chewed through a bag of a small lunch bag style sized Dorito bag that was supposed to be for delivery people, like the UPS guys when they Oh, yeah. Yeah. They chewed that up. Well, she still leaves those out.

We stopped doing that during the pandemic. Yeah. We still do it like for Fed and UPS and stuff like that. That's very nice. She's very nice. So they shredded it up and left that all over the place. Of course. And then proceeded to take two.

And she just standing. and out on the sidewalk right there. Just sitting there looking at her phone, probably scrolling Facebook, who gives a crap. Yeah, she's not paying any attention. And then the two dogs take two big wet dumps. On my porch.

On the porch? Not even in the grass? Not even in the grass. And then runs back down to her lady and she just comes and goes sauntering her on her way down the road again. And it's not the first time that they pooped in our yard and stuff, but this is the first time I've known about the, at least that I know of that she's done the porch. I haven't seen

anything else out there. And it was just like, all right. That's just, that's, that's my limit. That's a bridge too far. Absolutely.

This is where, this is where I take a, a roll of bags. You can pick them up super cheap on Amazon, like under two or three dollars each. And leave it, you know, knocking it door and say,

hey, looks like you might have needed these because, you know, your dogs came and ate some of our food for the delivery people and then took big, two wet,

two big wet dumps on our porch. Here you go. Here's some bags because you probably need them. Yeah, give her a whole roll, like one of those rolls. Like the big, the Costco roll where it's going to last you a life time. They're super cheap. I could get her one of those and really hammer the point home. But I may do too.

I may do this. Like sometimes I see Parker out doing it. I'm going to go, hey, Parker. Because I know him enough. Yeah. He'll walk up and I'll go, hey, dude, what's going on? He'll be like, oh, yeah, I know. I'm just walking the dogs.

And I'll say, you know, you just talk to your mom. Yeah. There you go. Something's wrong with your mom. There you go. That's actually a really good, you know what? That's a little bit less passive-aggressive than my method. You're like, go remind your mother to make sure she always has bags with her and to pay attention when she leaves the dogs off leash that they didn't get in trouble. Because you can even say it's dangerous because some of these snacks might be bad for dogs. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know.

So get them out. Tell your mom to move these dogs elsewhere. I don't want them. Oh, man. It's just I'm the least caring in our neighborhood. not like that at all. But when you go this far, it's just like, come on, man. Like, how hard is it? You have, she has bags in her hands, usually. It's not like she's not carrying around the equipment.

She just doesn't seem to give a crap. And it's just incredibly frustrating. There was a whole car and incident going on. I went to the UPS store to return the mismatched iPhone case that I bought. Did the whole Amazon thing. And while I was in there, I came in at the tail end of a whole Karen exchange where the woman was almost on her way out the door and she says, well, but how come you won't accept this sort of thing, this, this, this, this, this bugs.

Well, you know, it's right there in your contract that if you get just the letter size mailbox, we can't accept packages and just keep them here. You need to come pick them up or we need, we send them back. well, blah, blah, blah. Then go ahead and cancel my account. And they're like, okay, then we need you to pay for the remainder of the year. Oh, then I'm taking you to court. Okay, if you want to.

And then she storms out and gets in her little minivan. And I pulled out, like, she sat in her minivan for a second, and I got in my car and was backing out. And I'm like, I'm not going to go, I'm going to go the long way around the parking lot because I could see her just peeling out. in reverse and not looking because she's so angry right now that's a really good call dude a little defensive play i never saw if she actually did it because i went the other way in front of the uh 24 hour fitness which man the people there come out you know they just trickle out they don't

they don't group up or anything they just trickle out in like the perfectly spaced amount of people to not let you get through i've noticed that yeah why is it that place it feels like that's always that's the same no matter where you go it is yeah whether it's It's mountain high fitness or 24-hour planet fitness or whatever. I don't get it. They're all buffed up. Good for them. Good for them.

They're actually, here it is May. They signed up January 1st and they're still sticking with us. They're still at it. Yeah. They're good, good for them. Sure. It's impressive. They're doing more than I am, folks.

No cycling while all this snow is out there. How did Jeopardy Barley go last night? We, so yeah, last night was the 7th of 8 round. of Jeopardy Bar League. Obviously, we're not even in contention, but because of the bad weather, it was us and one other team, and we kind of smoked them. I mean, basically, we got to the last wager question, and we barely needed to wager any points to make sure we stayed ahead. Some good rounds, though. There was a whole round on Samuel Jackson, a round on brand oh magazines commercial brands things like that it was a good it was a good round for us and then

one on sports cars but we still did all right still good yeah still do all right and this is during eight to ten inches of snow which means this is during eight to ten inches of snow what do you normally get in the turnout wise more than six five or six teams at this particular venue okay we alternate between two because the alamo draft house bar only has Jeopardy Bar League on the first and third Tuesdays of the month. Whereas this other place has it every Thursday. So we go to Alamo for those two, and then we go to the other place,

which is deafeningly loud, illegal pizza in Boulder. It's bring your screaming kids for free meal night at illegal pizza on Thursdays. And so the place is packed and it's kids running around, unmanaged, off leash. and yelling their heads off. Taking dumps on porches. That was the place that was so loud. We didn't hear her counting down the time to place our wagers,

which is why we lost the first game that we lost. Damn. Well, I'm glad you whipped the other team willing to brave the snow last night. Yes, yes. Team Lulu, sorry, and I hope you had a good time. We gave them. We won three snack passes. When you get the daily doubles, I get all three daily doubles,

and we get a snack pass for doing the daily doubles, so we gave them one of them and said, here, thanks for it. That's a nice gesture. And they got second place automatically because, you know, there's no other teams. So they ended up with some movie tickets as well. They got a bunch of stuff.

Nothing wrong with a little silver here and there, you know? Exactly, exactly. Doesn't have to all be gold medals. Doesn't always have to be gold. As we've known. As we are aware. Oh, yeah. For sure.

Yeah. Well, that's awesome. Let's now swing things to a different tune and do this. Yeah. You can tell by that music, it must be time for us to welcome Brian Dunaway to the program. Hello, Brian, how are you? Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. It's the music that introduces me.

That's right. Just get you pumped up. It should get you pumped up to play, right? It does. Yeah, every night before I go to bed, I turn this on, so I get pumped up right before going to sleep. It's like your ringtones. It's like your walk-down music. Yeah.

If I could, my ringtone would be you doing the smack talk thing, if I could figure that out. Mine would be it would be your baby shark. Oh, that's great. A baby shark. What's funny is you guys,

you guys are even getting his version wrong. Hold on a second. You got to hear this. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Am I getting it wrong? No, it's different. He did the monominolemona.

Don't I do the nominine? He doesn't. Hold on. I'm going to grab it because it's so like, that's why it's so funny to me is it's nothing like anything. Oh, it's true. It's like a do, do, do, do,

Do I have it handy? Do I have it handy? All right, here it is. This is one of the great things you ever did. Here it is. Baby shark. I know. I'm being generous and ascribing it to an existing song.

You're giving it a tune. Yes, exactly. You're giving it a tune it never deserved. Yes. I think I actually did it do it again. I think I did for a film sat. episode. Oh, did you?

Like, Ibbets about it's about. Yeah. One that we didn't have recorded as a stinger. You did the

mona manna. Yeah. I don't remember. But this one right here. Smack tough. Smack tough. I want that just going off in a busy room

where I'm not supposed to have my phone on. I want that to be just barking out of my phone. I keep forgetting that was part of a real big segment that I recorded one time for you. I don't know what crap was doing.

That was part of the L.R., the final, what was either the final score? Oh, final score. That's right. And this was the long, this one here. This week on Smack Dog. This week on Smack Dog. Smack Dog.

That's right. Yeah. And this thing goes like 38 seconds. It's long. That was bored that day. That's fantastic. Yeah. Love it.

Jamie had to dig it up because it was lost in the big crash that I had a long time ago. Oh, yeah. So we found it. It's like the Universal Studios fire that took out a bunch of old albums and movies and stuff. Yeah. It was almost lost to time. That's right. Well, let's lose no more time to that as we speak about this game.

Brian, how does tadpooly feud work? Well, it starts with me saying it's time to play the tadpooly feud, feud. I've served the tadpole on some nerdy topics. And Scott and Brian are going to have to predict the answers that you folks gave us, you chumps out there. It's Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Now, at the end of the game, we're going to add up all the points. Subtracting would be dumb.

And then the winner is actually going to be winning prizes for their listener, contestant, contestants that I've pulled. Really, Scott's pulled from our supporters on Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS. Scott, you are playing for Ian Leavenstein. Sweet. Love the Levenstein's long history with, no, I don't know who they are, but I'm excited to play for him. And Brian, you are playing for NC Pete, who I'm hoping is from North Carolina and is not non-commissioned. Oh. Or what does it mean NC-17 in movies? Oh, yeah, no children.

No children allowed under 17. No children, Pete. Negatory Childerito is what it stands for. Great. I know Pete. He lives in the Carolinas. I know all people in Carolinas. Is that you just do all the conventions he shows up to?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, Pete. Nice, nice, nice. Yeah. Okay, Carolina Con. He shows up. Excellent. All right.

Let's get to the trivia, or the Tad Pooley Feud question here. Put your hands on your buzzers and get ready to answer this. We asked 400 Nerfmerer tadpoolers to name their favorite alien species. Scott. The xenomorph from aliens. Showing them long-headed, droly M-R-Fers from alien. Yeah. Yeah. Zenomorphs right there. Yeah.

Or Xenomorfs, if you believe in the whole pronouncing everything, Xavier. Feels like the easy one got got out. Kind of is the top The top Low-hanging fruit Lowest of the low-hanging fruit Yeah, that fruit is nearly Get you control of the board though

Yeah, that's right. All right, let's see how many more of these You can come up with All right. Number one answer on the board, giving you a point In species I know we got a lot of resident alien fans Alan Tudic business, let's say the resident alien guy

Absolutely, show me Is that a species? Show me Harry from Resident Alien. Oh! Yeah, it's... Come on. He was number 14.

He's popular, but unfortunately, not popular enough. Boo. Got you, got you. Boo, I say. Boo. Boo, I say.

Yep. All right, Dono way. Well, you're out of your... You're out of your Vulcan mind, if you don't think I'm going to say Vulcan. All right. All right. Show me those blue-blooded logic monsters.

Oh, man. Number two. Green-blooded. Yeah, at least that's what that's what McCoy says. I don't think we ever seen. No, they are green-blooded. We were talking the other day about the, we on Phil's Sack talking about the ever show it?

The Uniscovered country movie with David Warner. Anyway, when he dies, it's in no gravity environment, and his blood pools up into balls of green. Yeah, liquid balls of green come out of that guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was cool. I forget about that. For some reason, I was remembering that is different, but I'm not going to say anymore.

Oh, another one might be on here. Good point. It might be, but yeah. Eep. All right, bro. Oop, Eap. Oop, up, up. I'm going to go with my favorite bumpy-headed aliens, Klingon. So angry. They're the ones that I thought got shot and it was their blood. So that was my, that's my personal Mandela effect that I thought it was. Oh, shit. No, you know what?

He is Klingon. What am I thinking? I'm right in my Vulcan mind to think it's Klingon. And it's not green, it's purple. Okay. Holy shit. No, no, no. You know what? Brian, you were right to hesitate to that whole thing.

That is absolutely true. He played a Klingon chancellor that died. Exactly. And his blood did pool up into balls, but it was purple. Oh, boy. All right. Well, let's, I mean, you know, whether right or wrong. Let's see if Klingons are even on the board.

Klingons? Yeah. Number four. Four more points. You almost, you almost got me there. I was a little scared. All right. How about,

there's so many in the start. Let's not, let's not ignore our Star Wars people. Okay. So let me, let me get over to my, you know, you want to hang out.

Peter Mayhew, me and Peter Mayhew hung out that one time. As long as he's not stepping on me and Nicole. That's right. He was, he's amazing dude. And he was, he was a,

Chubaka. So, uh, give me, give me a Chubaka up there. Okay. The chewy. You're talking about the, uh, you want to, you want to see what the, come on. All right. All right. Just, you know, just this.

I always, I was, I was, you know, I always like to test the waters. It is Star Wars week. So we want to make sure that you can identify your wiki. Uh, show me, you almost maybe, you almost maybe spit my coffee. Good job. Man, look at you. Filling out the top half or the, I guess,

yeah, it's just low points. But just one. Just one answer in the lower right will dwarf all those points. Really will. Let's see. How's about who am I not thinking of? All right, we guys. Don't you even think about it, but shut up.

My finger is never closer to the timer. All I can think is so stupid. I can't I can't stop thinking about the freaking Ewox. I can't get it out of my head. So I'm going to say EWox. It is, but it's not, it might not even be on the board, but I can't think of anything else until I say EWalk. From the Muppets take Endor.

The Wookiee's little cousin. That's right. EWox. Show me, EWox. There's nine points doubling your nine points to 18. All right. So now maybe I can start thinking of some real stuff here. Let's see here

Oh Scott failed when you just named alien That didn't have the race I'm pork I'm gonna say Gray aliens I'm just gonna go gray aliens Like just the flat out the gray Gray alien yeah gray

At the end of Close encounters They're drawn in by Do do do do do do Do do And then it goes crazy Do do do do do Do do do do

All right. Show me the Grays. Ah, number seven. Damn it. That is so generic. I would have never thought that was in there. All right. Fine.

Whatever. It was really, it made me hope that Gray's Anatomy was a sci-fi show, really. Right, right. Yeah. Oh, that'd be amazing. Did you lump those in with the Stargate? Because technically they were great. not really they were called asgardians right were they were they talking about stargate stargate they were

they weren't called gray's go aoud or whatever and they were no that's the gaol that's something totally different i'm talking about the grays that were in uh stargate the tv series yeah but they oh yeah you know what you're right it was a really small part of it yeah and then they broke over into the to atlantis um so yeah i'm gonna say asgard's just Okay. All right. I can't get it out of my head, so I'm going to say it. Show me asgardians.

Glad it didn't give you any extra points, because apparently I don't know my Stargate to lump all those in together. At least I didn't lump the Asgardians in with like the Marvel Asgardians, which did not. I don't remember them just being gray aliens. I thought they were symbiotes, like worms. No, you're thinking, once again, you're thinking of the gull'd. Okay. But isn't that the whole, man, what did I, what do I forget?

No, the Asgard's came. came along to help us with the with the gallop. Oh, but it was a small plot point? Like, not, it wasn't a major thing. It was pretty, it was pretty big near the end of, uh, of the regular start SG1. Yeah. And then, then moved really, that's how we got to Atlantis was with the help of, uh, their technology. Oh, okay.

I know too much about Stargett. Oh my God. It was real. Stargate's awesome. So I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't fault you for this at all. It's great show. All right. Um, I'm going to go with.

ET because it feels stupid and dumb and I don't know if he even had a name because we called them ET which is just extraterrestrial. I'm going to go with alien, my favorite alien species, extraterrestrial. The Mreece's Pieces, Loving Freaks. Oh, sorry, yes, I did say it.

Who am I? What am I doing, saying it correctly in front of Brian Dunaway? How dare you? Show me the E. You fool. No. Surprisingly, ET was number two.

27 on the list. Nice. Predator. Oh, that's such a good one. Why didn't I think of that? Predator. That's a good one. Show me Predators or

Yatchez. Oh, Yatchez. That's right. Oh, my Lord. Number 16. Yeah, high on the list, but didn't make the, didn't crack the top 10. That's insane.

It is insane. Yeah. Back over to Brian. I'm going to go with some more stupid bait. You said favorite alien species, and I can't not stop thinking about my favorite Martian and favorites in there. So I'm going to say my favorite Martian.

Martians. All right, Grandpa. I'll see how it is. I got you. Okay. Great granddad. Lumpin you know what I'm talking about. I know.

No, we're in the same boat. Good old Ray Walston. Is your time and my time? Then does that make it our time, Mr. Hand? Show me my favorite. or any really Martians. Damn it. Great answer.

Martians were number 15. I got another great one. Marvin's and all those in with anybody who said Martians. Oh, Marvin, the cartoon, he would have been lumped in there? Okay. Yes, I'll name him, George. I love him. Great run.

Okay. It's so funny how as soon as I answer one is like another one comes up immediately, even though I couldn't think of that one at all. It's just like I got constant. or something. It's so stupid. Right. All right. I'm doing what are they called? Well, you'll know what I mean. It's the, it's from

a space... Shit, what's the name of the damn movie? The movie with the... We love you so much. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Those are great. That whole thing. Those guys. I can't think of those guys' names. I love this guy. They're from... Thermians. Thurmians. That's it.

Problem is, I don't know if anyone would remember. the name. So this is probably a bad choice, but I'll go with it. Let's say thermions. Well, if they said Galaxy Quest aliens or Thermians, then I lumped them all together. Show me, Thermians. Boom! Even lumping them all together, it's still only brought them up to 17. Nice. Damn. I love those guys.

That gives the win to Brian, but let's keep on going. NCP. Hey, yeah. Getting some prizes. NCP. So I... Speaking of lumpy, Space Princesses. How about, how about

cone heads, which is a movie that we still have not sacked, and I hate that we had not done that one yet. I wish it's tough, but no, but no.

Was it a documentary brand? Yes, it is. But it's played so straight. Yeah. I really think we could do it too. Yeah, I'd like to do it. I love that movie,

so I'm happy to do it. Nebs, show me cone heads. Believe it or not. Coneheads, I don't even think showed up in the list which blows my mind. Nope, one. One person said cone heads. They're so wrong about that.

They should have had more. They're from France. How about Melmax? Got some Melmax up there? Now it's this flow. Now they're, now they just flow went out my head. Alf is number 12.

If Melmax were 12, Melmacian life form. Because he's a Melmac, right? Yeah. He's from Melmac. Isn't he a Melmachian? And then? That's what, yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Well, well, to tell us what they. He's a Melmac. All right, let's get to the rest of these. Wait, are you telling, who do you think is offended by that? He's a fictional character living on a fictional planet. He is? Don't tell me that.

I thought he was real. You're an Earth, Brian. Aren't you an Earth? Earth, man. Anyway. Yeah, all right. Well, we covered the Star Trek and the Star Wars. The other big sci-fi thing that our tech loves.

and Stargate. The other big thing that our tadpool loves are Time Lords. Time Lords. I always forget that. I always forget he's also an alien, not just a time lord.

That's right. Be or she. Back over to Boy, Star Wars and Star Trek do cover our last three, though. Number six, Haba, Huba, Twilax. Yeah, they're the ones

are always dancing and stuff. Yeah, yeah. We like those. Not so hubba hubba. Number eight. The board. Now that's weird because those can be humans as well. Exactly. Yes. That's a weird one, but I'll...

When you assimilate, you become part of their alien race, I guess. And number 10, speaking of symbiotes, the trill. The trill. The trill. Yeah, from Jedziah Dax, the hottest trill in the history of the world. That's right. That's right. Just a few more here. Asari from Mass Effect, the Andorians.

The Oridians, I do love me some Andorians. Project Hail Mary, the Like Rocky. Yeah, Rocky. Ferengi, Jar Jarbinks, Crogan from Mass Effect, Navi from Avatar. Who said Jar Jarbiz? Three people said Jarjabings.

We need to even say, aren't they Gungans? They're gungans, but we should put them on a list anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Report those three. Q, Toy Story aliens, Bajorans, the heptopodes or hepatopods from arrival, Jawa. Wait, if he's part of them. the Q, his name is Q,

can they just call him Q is, are the all-named Q? They're all-named Q. They're all-named Q. Are these, by the way, are there any Futurama people on here? Yes. Niblonians. Oh, that's right. Nibler. Let's see. Whatever Kiff's from, the like liquid frog people, whatever they are. Oh, yeah. I love them.

What did they call those guys? Omocronians? Omicron. No, that's the big. Omicron 9, whatever. Omocron. Percy I 8. We will destroy your planet. He's awesome. Ray Jellans from Simpsons.

Oh, that's what I almost said that, but I couldn't think what aliens were. So I've been doing a Simpsons watch through. Yeah. The Kelpian, like Saru from Discovery. Love him. He's great. Autobots. That's a really good one.

It's true. It's true, but that's really good. They're from an alien planet. So, yeah. Yep. Cardassians and Kardashians. That's great. That's also great. The eyeball alien from Romulus, one person said, I agree.

Although it's from Alien, Earth, they haven't been Romulus. Alien Earth was with the eyeball alien. And finally, whatever the hell Yoda is. Yeah, whatever Yoda is. Actually, we know, don't we? Don't we now? No, I looked it up this morning because I wanted to make sure nobody said the actual thing. You do a search for Yoda race online. And it says George Lucas has never revealed what kind of,

Really? Really? Really? I could have swore they had. We got a baby Yoda and a lady Yoda. We got all these other Yoda's now. Baby Yoda. He's got his own movie with his name in it.

I know. It says the Mandalorian and Baby Yoda. That's the name of that thing. No, that's awesome. We've won some prizes for people, but we need to tell them what they've won. So, Brian, what they win? Let's do that. Yeah, congratulations.

Zip, Zip. NCP, you're getting a copy of Planet of Lana. Seems appropriate. And the procession to Calvary. Oh, I don't know that one. But NCP, or I'm sorry, Ian Levinstein, you're also getting something pretty cool. You're getting Buddy Simulator 1984.

So have a friend, but it's a friend you go see back to the future with. So how good is that? Heck, yeah. I'd love that. You know what? If Lucas has it hurry up and name what Yoda is where he's from, I'm going to start saying, I'm going to start saying a turtle neck waddle. Yeah, there you go.

Turner like Waddle. Yeah. Nailed it. They don't. That's exactly. So you name it, Lucas. Yeah. It's up to him.

I hope Lucas is on, you know, when he's on his deathbed and he's like, surrounded by his family and friends, he'll say, Yoda was out. And they just like fade away in the blanket. Catch me on the flip side. The blanket drops. The blanket has slowly stopped motions itself to a resting position. Love it. Yes.

Exactly. Love it. Hey, Dunaway tonight, you and me hanging out. For real at 4 p.m. For both play retro and watch retro. We had a lot of stuff lined up tonight. Check it out. Yeah, Shimon.

Yeah, Shimon. Oh, that's right. We're doing the Michael Jackson, the Genesis game. Oh, nice. Moonwalk. Moonwalker. In arcade. In arcade.

Yeah, their Moonwalker in the arcade is way different than the home one. It's such a strange thing that they did. It's good timing because I'm going to see the movie tomorrow night. Oh, are you? I watched it on that. Moonwalker or the new thing? No, no, no, the new thing. the new thing. This is called what Captain EO, I think is what it's called.

It's called Caponeo, exactly what it's called. I'm curious about your review because it seems like it's all, it's pretty. All over the place. The reviews have been all over the place. Yeah, most people are just like, well, let's go ahead and just look at all the happy business and not talk about it. It is very, very, yes, that's what's what. Yeah, I mean, that's what HBO documentaries are for. We can, you know what I mean? Well, it's... Oh, I see what you mean.

We'll get the Netflix True Crime. Yeah, yeah. I mean, we got the one on HBO. Ours already out. That thing is... Yeah, yeah. That thing is,

woo! Yeah. So, anyway, it would be hard for me to see this without at least thinking about that. It's pretty gnarly. Anyway, done away, I'd like to do one more thing for me. Aw.

I love you, too. Okay. That was the best cutoff ever. He's out of here. All right, guys. Get ready. Pack it in. Hold on because we're doing this.

Oh, I'm on the wrong tab and I should be on the right tab. Here we go. We're going to play this and you're going to know what it means because when you hear it, you'll know. This is Travis. Nope, that's the wrong one. Where to go? Oh, there it is. Isn't technology wonderful?

It sure can be, but only when I screw up the thing at the beginning and then also ask Tom Merritt to say hi. Hi, Tom Merritt. Welcome to the show. Hi, Tom Merritt. How are you, sir? I am well. How are you? I'm good.

It's funny you did that. I just watched a George, George Burns? George Burns thing last night. Yeah. Say good night, Grace. Gracie. And he was talking about how he was a Johnny Carson segment. And he was talking about how many cigars he smoked a day.

Because he famously would always smoke him on stage with Johnny. Yeah, right. And so he says, you could smoke in talk shows. Yeah, exactly. And he said to him, he says, do you, I notice you're smoking again. I'm curious, how many of those do you smoke a day? He says, uh, between 20 and 23 a day. And he's in his 90s when he's telling him this.

It's crazy. You don't inhale cigars. though. Do you not? I don't know how that works. I've never had it. You just... You just... You just nibble on them until they disappear. I always see people grab a chunk of one at the beginning, but that's just to create the hole, right? That's just so you can light it. Yeah. I don't know nothing about no cigar life.

And yet, Smoke Monster has been held at many under attack of their M. TMS Vakes. And I go, and I get secondhand, you know, vibes out of it all, but I just have never sucked on one of them, their logs. But... Has there been an announcement of a smoke monster at this? Chris is making a bunch of attempts to see what we can do. I don't know if any of it's finalized yet. There's some difficult smoking rules and regulations, I suspect.

Yeah, you can smoke outdoors in Utah. You just have to, because we're downtown. You have to blow straight up. You have to blow it in each other's mouths all night. That's right. Just recycling it along. A lot of waivers have to be signed. All we need is one cigar, really.

and we could just... Yeah. So it's all about finding a place where a concentrated group of cigar lovers can do so with impunity. And I think he's working on that. So we'll check in and find out. But for now, let's talk about some technology.

Tom comes on the show on Wednesdays. Talks about a subject you guys bring to the table. You ask good, hard, sometimes simple, but usually hard questions. And Tom's up to the task. All right? Like this one from Tony and Atlanta, who says? Hi, Tom.

I keep hearing massive... He didn't say it like, hi, Tom. I don't know why I did that. Hi. He has an exclamation point. That does have that. You're right. Hi, Tom!

Hi, Tom! I keep hearing massive buzz about OpenClaw. Rumor is that a Mac Mini and studio hardware are becoming impossible to find because they are the perfect, quote-unquote, machines for it. People are even claiming OpenClaas winning the OS Wars overnight. I know all that sounds hyperbolic, but the noise, both online and off, is getting hard to ignore. Can you break down what open claw actually is and why is everyone calling it the future of computing? Love the show, Tony at Atlanta. P.S., I originally thought it was a new kind of booze or something, he says.

No, I like the watermelon open claw. Open claw is why I can never win a stuffed animal at an arcade. Oh, yeah, because they don't, too, they set them that way. Those bastards hate them. Well, Tom, I've been hearing a lot about open claws as well. My understanding of it is limited, though. I assume it's like AI on a box. and it's local and it's kind of does everything for you and becomes your OS.

But that's, I mean, that's such a cursory knowledge. So fill us in. What is this thing? I mean, you're not far off, honestly. If you're out smoking the social media, you, you will hear a lot of exaggerations about OpenClawe. Winning things overnight sounds like maybe you need to put down the social media for a little bit. But, but yeah, it's, it's, there's a lot of reality behind it. OpenClaw is an open source autonomous agent.

So if you've heard about AI agents, this is a version that you compile and run yourself. There are others out there. Like, for example, on the Atlas browser from OpenAI, you can have it do things for you, right? The idea with an agent is that you tell it, like, email Scott and set up a meeting for Friday. And then it goes and does it. It writes the email. It sends Scott. It waits for the reply.

It reads the reply. It makes the calendar. you don't have to step in and do all of that, right? Yeah. That's an example of the kind of thing an agent can do. Agents can do other things as well, like, you know, go do shopping for you, which is one thing that people are very worried about if it goes rogue and spends all your money. Give me a plane ticket.

Just what? You're going to Catmandu. First class. Also, you're out of money. Yeah, yeah. So you have to be careful with agents, and there's a lot of safety issues and guardrails on them. What OpenClaw is, is an agent that you control. So that comes with both the good and the bad. You run it on your own server. That could be a Mac Mini. That's why so many people are buying Mac Minis.

It could be your own computer, which is a very bad idea. Don't do that. Or it could be some kind of cloud service where you put it on a virtual private server. You generally want it to be walled off from the rest of your computing. That's why you don't want it on your own computer. Because to properly configure it is tricky. You want to make sure it has the permissions it needs to be able to do the things for you that make it productive, but not be able to wade into areas where it can get you in trouble, like bankrupting your wallet. So that's why people will put them on virtual private servers in the cloud or they'll put them on a Mac Mini, so they can lock it down and only give it the access that it needs.

And they're usually run over a messaging system. people will use them on like telegram or something like that. And that way it'll tell you like, okay, I sent that email and set up the appointment for Friday at two. And you're like, great, next thing I want you to do is this. That way you're not, you don't have to be on the Mac Mini to use it. You're just messaging directly with it. But you can actually configure it to do almost anything you want. Will I have a GUI to it? Like, you know, if I did want to be sort of in front of it and configuring or whatever. Most people don't use it as a GUI. You know, most people just, just do it as chatbot style. But yeah, I mean, the GUI.

would be kind of jetbot style, right? Sure. So that's up to you, though. You could actually build your own GUI on it if you want. That's true. It's all open source. One of the people that I play Demio with actually has it set up as a video person, a very attractive woman that he talks with, and she gives him tips on, you know,

how to beat certain bosses in Demio and things like that. And he sends us videos of it. That's great. Yeah, DJ George. Yeah, yeah. That's kind of the advantage of OpenClaw is that it is not limited in what it can do by the service you're using. Like Open AIs Atlas can't do a lot of things because it's all happening in the cloud. OpenClawn is happening on your machine. So whatever you're capable of getting it to do, you can do. That could also get you in trouble if you get it to do something and you're not properly configuring it or, you know, it's running into security issues, which has got some people in trouble. already. There's many stories about that out there. But it's very private. Unlike sending your data to open AI to be run, this all runs on your machine. Now, it can use any AI service out there. So how private it is, depends on that. If you're running a model that you downloaded, say like

Deepseek or something like that, it could all happen on your device. A lot of people do use it with an API. So they'll use it with Anthropics Claude or they'll use it with opening eyes, chat GPT. And so you are sending some data there, but because it's an API, it's not data they're storing, right? The way it would if you had an account and they were running it all on their cloud. So there's

more privacy available with OpenClaw. And again, I hasten to caution anybody who's on the edge of like, huh, maybe I will try it. You can get yourself in trouble very easily. So be careful. I'm not saying don't do it. But treat this like any other very risky

computer operation. The security is entirely in your hands. So make sure that you get really good advice and lock things down and go slow and cautious. And if you're good at that sort of thing, you can do some amazing things with it. I have not used it myself.

I've not played around with it myself, but I've seen things, not quite like what you're talking about it, but lots of cool things that people are able to do with it. It's pretty amazing. He sends us videos of these and it's like, I kind of want that. But then it's like,

I would probably spend too much time A, configuring. And he talks about how he has to spend a lot of time every time there's an update, like hours of work getting it to work again. But the results are pretty damn amazing. This is very similar to, you know,

running a website in 1996 where you need to know HTML and FTP and Pearl and all of that. Or using Linux where you're really in there configuring things and compiling and and adding capabilities. It is high maintenance in that way because it is open source and it's meant to give you all that control. And it also means that in 10 years, it'll just be a button. You just press it and you've got an instant one. Yeah.

To that point, Peter Steinberger, who developed OpenClaw, was hired by OpenAI. And so you can expect that whatever he's working on for them is going to be a version of this that is easy and simple and safe to use. Yeah, I was wondering who was going to scoop him up. That seemed inevitable. In fact, there was some news yesterday that OpenAI, Minci Quo was saying that OpenAI is going to put out a phone next year. And the idea was it would be a mobile agent that would be able to do things for you,

have really good image sensors. I'm guessing that they had Peter Steinberger work on that. That sounds like what you'd hire him for. Yeah, absolutely. The community around it, they call him the claw father. I looked that up last night Because I was like Yeah, that's hilarious

I would have gone with claw daddy Yeah, claw daddy I would have too You know what It's a much better Yeah, it's a much better name I grew up with craw dads in my backyard though Yeah

The original name The was looking at this whole thing The Playground Project Is what he called it in late of 2025 He called it the Claudebot But it was spelled with a W like claw Yeah And that's because he was really using it

With Anthropics Claude a lot And Anthropics said please don't do that. Anthropics screwed up. Yeah. Then he changed it to Maltbot. Even Claudefather is better than claw father. Yeah.

Again, claw daddy. Claw daddy is the answer. I like Claudey. Cloud Daddy is the best. Yeah, for sure. He should have done that and why he didn't. Well, you'll have to ask Peter. I don't know.

I guess he didn't name himself. They probably all did it. But anyway, so I also read that NVIDIA's like full, like contribute to the project. they have some kind of hardened version, enterprise version of it. They use themselves. Yeah, yeah. They're working on creating their own version out there, which is great.

That's kind of like, Nvidia, I think, has designs on being the Red Hat of OpenClaw, the way Red Hat Linux has been very successful. We'll see if they pull that off, but certainly not a bad bet for them. It doesn't seem crazy to assume that Microsoft, Apple, and any other, like a mainstream distro of Linux might all scramble a bit to try to integrate a form of this at some point, right? They are all after an agent economy of some sort. They want to be able to provide you safe agents. In fact, Google has one in the works called Remy.

Remy. Their naming conventions are weird. That's the rumor. Nano banana is our image creator. Is it named after the rat in Rattitouy? No, I assume it's named after Remy, the postman from Buzz Out Loud. days. Oh, I'm sure that's it. Hey, this is Remi. I'm sure that's it. I'm sure that's it. I could be mistaken about that, but I think, I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure that it's this guy right here.

Hey, this is Remy. Okay. Oh, Remy. Oh, my gosh, that brought back memories is now. Yeah, Buzz Out Loud fans immediately were like, oh, that guy. Yeah. But yeah, I think everybody wants to do an agent, whether they will use open claw as the basis of that or not is going to depend. on the company. But everybody's going to have something like this. Most of them would be cloud served versus something you would run locally. But yeah, I think enterprise stuff that you can roll out locally on-prem, as they say, on the premises would be something that more than just Nvidia is going to do. Sure. Okay. It's interesting to note that if you go try to buy a Mac Mini base model right now, you will not be able to. They're out of stock. And they're saying that this is a, one of the reasons for the over, over demand, is that a word? It's not really a phrase.

But yeah, they're, they're hard to get. And the studio is not much easier, although they're a lot more expensive, so you're, you know, your mileage very. Feeding into that, a lot of it is open claw, but feeding into that is the fact that Codex's compute use feature, which is an agentic use, works on Mac. It is designed to work on Mac. And so when you go back to people saying, like, the OS Wars are over. They're not. But that is also the kind of thing that feeds into that because it's causing

a lot of people to say, well, you know, I'm a Windows person, but that's pretty compelling to use Codex as an agent on a Mac. So maybe I'll grab a Mac Mini while they're still out. The way I'd look at OS Wars now, it'd be like the armies, the armies are the same,

but they're adding, they both really want to have drone technology now, you know, for their armies to fight each, to have the OS wars. And that's what this represents. It's a new weapon. Yeah. So we're about to get weird again, you know?

Yeah. And they've shut down the straight of open claw. Yeah. Nobody can get their claws in and out. Nobody can get their Mac minis through. No. Anyway, I'm glad I got my studio when I did. All right.

Tom Merritt, anything else going on in your world that you'd like to tell people about so they can find it. Well, I'm very excited to be coming to Nerdtacular. Have you heard of it? I have, yeah. Briefly, it's a little thing going on I heard about. I've got to get some more details. Look, I know most of it. of you have decided to come to Nurtacular or are wishing you could come to Nurtacular,

but there's a couple of you on the fence, and I'm here to push you right off of it into Salt Lake City. We are going to have some amazing stuff happening just in our little corner of Nurtacular, to add to all the other amazing stuff, including DTNS Live Hangout, where Bobby Frankenberger, Dr. Nicky and Huenzwe Dau and myself are going to debate science versus technokin. Hell of a panel. Holy crap. Cannot be missed, my friends. And then we're all going to sing karaoke.

Not immediately after that. No, but like true friends would. You will argue about that stuff and then later. And then we'll just head off to sing. Will there be time for a bunch of drinks between the two items? They're very well maybe. There will be. That's exciting.

I can't, of course, wait to see Tom. It's always fun when we get to all be together. And yeah, it's coming at us real fast. I think we have a total of what, 38 days, 37 days, something like that. That's insane to say it. Yeah. Right around the effing corner.

Get on to frogpants.com and get your tickets now. There are still some available. Tom Merritt, always good to have you, sir. Thank you, my friend. Take it easy. Stay safe. And may all your claws be open. By now.

Oh, we did like a cat. I like that. All right, guys. let us move forward ever forward never back we got this message from Kendall P in Missouri okay oh yeah MO Missouri that's about the Kendall of P I'll just throw it in real quick yeah

yeah we should do that why don't we play that come on Scott remember these things this is about the jugs of P this is what he says where do you guys stand on chicken fries thanks Kendall don't know that I've ever had chicken fries have you ever had a chicken fry I've had chicken fries and I mean they're really just a heavily breaded

chicken tenders that are small fry shaped. I mean, at least the ones at Burger King are. Oh. Yeah, they're like, I thought they were like, I thought they were fries that just were flavored like chicken.

Yeah. No, the ones at Burger King is like little, little tenders, little, uh, tender strips. Would you say they're like kind of nugget adjacent?

Like they're, yeah, yeah, very much. Because I'm sure that, they process it to the right shape that they want and then oh they don't look that good those look way good that i don't think those look like mozzarella sticks honestly but um how about this one this closer to what we're used to that's the burger king business right there yes fritz de polet

polet anyway you know what i like better are smelt fries i don't know what those are which are little fish um that are fried and uh sometimes battered, but they're like little smelt fish. Like, yeah, do a little image search for that business. What was it? Give me the phone that just smelt fries? S-M-E-L-T fries. Okay.

Let's see what we got here. Yeah. Oh, yeah, look at these. I've never heard of this. These are so good. Look at these. Yeah, a little bitty fish sticks. Little bitty fish sticks.

A little bitty fish. The whole fish. Luke SkySightwalker cannot cannot handle this. Can't do it? He's like gross dude. Wicked gross bro. Wicked gross, bro. I mean, I don't mind, I don't mind a good,

if you're frying fish properly, clean oil, you know, and just doing it the right amount of time and all that. Absolutely. Some of the most amazing thing you're ever going to eat in your life. You do it wrong and you want to die. So I'm with you. There's a place nearby called.

the whole meat no head says Phil No the heads covered up by the by the breading You can't Oh is it in there It's actually got the heads in there Oh yeah head and tail But they're so small that it's like It's not like it's crunchy bone or anything

It's just like You're not getting scales Gaming Savant says you cut off the head first and don't eat the tail So I guess the smelt fries don't have the head Probably depends on where you go right like Yeah The Denver F&B fish and beer has has them And but they come in a

They come in a can with the top sticking out, like the chicken fries you showed earlier. These definitely have the heads and tails. These are right here. So I think it depends. I don't think they have the heads. I'm looking at like that one that's left of center has that two prong thing that you usually get when you cut off the head of a fish. And there's that. Yeah, you're right.

I think you're right. They left the tails on, but I probably don't even eat those. You just like shrimp. Like shrimp. Yeah, exactly. Just leave the tail. I'm hungry for this now. They look, they're so good.

Yeah. Yeah, Wicked Kit and I have texture issues too, but it sort of just depends. Yeah, I mean, these are, you know, you eat them and they don't have a different texture to regular fish and chips like your standard deep fried fish. So to me, it's like, you know, the tinned fish you can get, like, I can't think of any names of these damn things, like mackerel and salmon, and they come in the oil and the stuff. It's supposed to be good for your heart. Anyway. Yeah. We have a ton of those.

I cannot do the sardines because of the sardines still have like skeletal structure. And the bones melt in your mouth. They're not like hard and bulky, but you still notice them really hard for me. Can't do that. Hey, Luke Sightwalker, Yuck Wing, got those in Boston, we fish using smelt. Actually, if you go to the daily catch in the North End or Yankee Lobster in the Seaport or bait to plate in Dorchester, then you can find your smelt fries. Nice.

So wait, he fishes with those? Yeah, you use them as bait. You put them on a hook and use them as bait. That is a little weird. To catch bigger fish. Yeah, because you want the big, but the smelts, it turns out the smelts were all right the whole time. They were okay. The smelts were all right.

Yeah. Just like, yeah, just like the who sang. Yeah. And the kids, they always tell us the kids are all right or something. That's right. That's what the who said, yeah. Ooh, I do like perch. Robotomis prime says, I think I'll stick to perch.

Thank you. Yeah. I prefer perch. I prefer perch. I prefer walleye. And today, as a matter of fact, the on-the-hook fish and chips truck is in Arvada. So that's what team they are going to have for dinner night. We loved that.

Yeah. And they were here. Remember that? You love it when they come through. Yes. Yeah, we're going again. The minute we hear about it. We loved them.

Yeah. I'm on their, get on their mailing list. You know when they come. They're out way out in KT. Data land. So KT. Data next time they're out that way, we'll come meet him. We'll eat there. There you go. Oh, he says he's going to have some fried meat.

mackerel and chili sauce for lunch. Oh, that sounds good, too. Jeez. I might have to do something like that. Yeah. All right. No, I'm hungry. Do you have your chocolates handy?

Oh, yeah. Let's do it. I'm glad you said that. I forgot to write it in the notes. Yeah. How about a chocolate? How about this right here? Where's their thing?

Would you not eat my pants? Ah! All right. Here we go. So, Pacholik sent us these, but are they, I guess they're different. They're different colors. They're all different. These are, yeah, so the choices are, red is your milk chocolate, orange is your milk chocolate with caramel sea salt.

Ooh. Yellow is your milk chocolate honey almond nugget. Green is your vegan dark chocolate almond sea salt. Blue is your dark chocolate. I need the glasses for this. black writing on red 70% dark chocolate pretzel taffy is your purple oh so we can see a purple so i don't think i have a purple oh yeah i do okay let's make a choice i think we go with which one did you say was uh let's see but do da my chocolate honey caramel sea salt or yeah yeah yeah and a caramel sea salt

what color was that's your orange all right i got orange these are um by the way this came from mike But Cholik, they are Tony's chocolates Or, what is it, Tony's Chocolonle. Tony's Chocolonely, these are the tinies. Apparently, these come in larger sizes. Yeah. It's supposed to be, like, legit. I've heard good things about these before.

Yeah. I think it's weird that sugar is listed twice, but... Oh, really? Yeah, probably not going to eat a lot of these, but I will eat one. There you go. All right, here we go. Let's give... Oh, they come out like little...

Almost like those chocolate coins we used to get his kids kind of. A little thicker. A little medallions. Chocolate medallons. It looks like he could use a ratchet wrench on it. Socket wrench. Totally does. It's got little edges on the thing.

A little chain on the front. That's cool. All right. Here we go. Oh yeah, there's a chain. What is that about? Do you think? I don't know.

Link, something broken link. Tony, explain yourself, Tony. All right, here we go. Ooh. That's good. That is very good. I've got little bits of, little sea salt

like salt chunks in there. Is that what that is? Yeah, they, ooh. Mm-hmm. All right, but I just noticed if you have a wheat or soy allergy, don't eat these. Oh, no. Oh, no, what have we done?

I have neither of those, so I'm okay. Yeah. Ryan does it. Very good. Yeah, those are excellent. I can't wait for everyone in my life to eat them because I can't have that many. Yeah, those are fantastic.

We'll try more of those as time goes on. Yeah. Thank you, Mike, for that. Very nice. You have one a day until we've tried five or six of the flavors or something. Yeah, until we've gone through them. So, okay, so, you know, let's give this one a score because that's because we're going to do a bunch. It's going to be hard to beat that one because of the salt.

I'm a big fan of salt and chocolate and caramel. So, yeah, this is already. Ten, I'm giving that one eight and a half. It's going to be hard to beat. Yep, I give you the same score and it will be hard for the others to beat it. Yeah. So good luck, other colors. Other chocolates.

Yep. Your work's cut out for you. You'll never see them coming. We got one more message, and it is this. It says, hey, bald and scuzzy. I don't think I like either of those names for us. I mean, you're bald. I mean, you shave your head.

Yeah. I don't know that I'm scuzzy. I know. I know. Geez. Did you spell it like the, like, serial connection something interface? No, I wish. S-C-S-I or whatever?

Yeah. No, it's S-C-U-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-E. U-Y, I know. Remember when we had cables that were so big when you plugged them in, you had two little metal tabs that had to flop over into little cutouts

to hold that scuzzy cable in. At the time, it was cutting edge. It might interrupt your dot matrix printing if you didn't. Yeah, and if you had an external scuzzy port, you had those scanners and they were expensive. They were expensive. Scuzzy was not cheap. Well, anyway, he says

this. Have you guys heard a turtle have sex before? He says, you should play this MP3 on the show. Thanks. And Trove the Glove Yo. P.P.98 is his name. Wow. Well, P.P. 98.

I will play your file. And I have heard it before, but let's play it again. This is a turtle mating. This is the male. And they do this for some reason. I think this is completion. Isn't it the audio that? Oh, is it?

I don't know. I don't know if they do it the whole time or if it's just like when they're, you know, crescendoing. Yeah. But we'll find out as we play this audio. Here you go. That's what I imagine Smurf sound like, too. That last bit.

Yeah. I'll play that again. Oh, man. What? Oh, man. That made my day. Holy crap. Well, now, if anyone hasn't heard turtles have sex,

now have and thank you. Now you can say you have and there you go. Yes. That's actually how a baby Yoda's made right there. Yeah. No, all all Grogu's and Grogu likes. That's how they get made. Yes. If you guys want to send us to your messages, you can do it real easy. Just go to frogpants.com slash TMS. Send us email, send us text, send us voicemails, whatever you're feeling. It's all there for you to grab and go. That is going to do it for today's show. We should probably play, pay, pay, play. Play some music before we leave. She'd pay to play. That's right.

Cappy wrote in. He actually got this in early, and I don't know why I didn't see it before today, but it is for, it would have been for Monday, the fourth. This is his request. Oh, yeah, Cappy. Okay. May 4th is Jessica and my eighth anniversary. Yes, May the 4th was not by accident.

We also have been enjoying old and new emo alt-rock punk songs the last couple of years. They heal the soul in these dark times. as such could the cover maestro play a Star Wars cover song of your choice I wrote in Epica but as always I leave my musical fate in your hands. Love the show though

and can't wait to see everyone next month! Many emojis to follow. Yes sir, Cappy. Happy to do this and I went with your request. Even though we've played this cover by Epica on the show before

it's hard to beat. It's so good. It's the Imperial March live in Meskoylick from 2009. Here is Epica. This has been a Frog Pants production. Find all our shows at FrogPants.com.