The Morning Stream - TMS 3023: Mo Nopoly, Mo Problems

Episode Date: June 17, 2026

La Law: Spanish for The Law. Welcome to Tug, may I take your pants? I don' like smootheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeng! Sandy Clams. Plate dip. Mr. Crowley vs. Mr. Crummy. Change your dumb answer. Shallot Sounds Like Chalet? Smoke from grandpa's hole. Show me your cootie. It's beautiful back there! Mythical Alan. Choots and Ladders. Mouse trout. No AI with Tom and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There are many times in anyone's life where you just need a hot dog, and this is one of those times. But while you eat it, head over to support TMS today at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, La La, Spanish for the Law. Welcome to Tug. May I take your pants? I don't like smoothie. Sandy clams. Plate dip. Mr. Crowley versus Mr. Crummy.

Change your dumb answer. Shell, it sounds like shelley? Smoke from Grandpa. hole. Show me your cootie. It's beautiful back there. Mythical Allen. Chutes and ladders. Mous Strout. Uh, no AI with Tom and more on this episode of the morning stream. Due to the innate desire of human beings to develop new scientific techniques, space seems to be much smaller than ever before. Fortunately, there exists a group of honorable warriors sworn to fight for peace. They are called the Cosmos Warriors.

The morning stream. He's taking a dump in a can. Hello, everybody, and welcome to TMS. This is the morning stream for Wednesday, June 17th, 2000. And 26. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Nippet. Hi, Brian.

Hi, Brian. Hey, man. Hey, man. I just got the weirdest private message. This guy says Brian's attack is too high. What does that mean? My attack is too high. Let me.

Certainly possible. I did futz with some settings yesterday. Let me see if my... I don't even know who this guy is. It's just some rando in here. I'm going to turn my game down a little bit because I did futz with it yesterday for trying to match things up with the stuff I recorded before for the audiobook. And let's see. Is this a little better?

I think so. Mr. Gain, Mr. Attack guy. Yeah, I assume Mr. Attack guy's listening. If that, I guess, tell us. I don't know. I don't know why he knows better than either of us, but I mean, I can tell it was tweaked, but it's not like bad or anything. Yeah, I haven't changed the brigade or compressor. I haven't done any of that stuff.

I think you sound good. Oh, thanks. Take that, Brando. This guy named. Oh, thanks. This guy's name is Percheket. Pericheket? I don't know.

Parachet. I'm sure that's it. It's sure it's parichet. I'm sure it's parichet. Well, hello, Parachet check it. Hey, there's something we didn't talk about yesterday on the show that I meant to mention. Yeah. Ryan and I got to pregame a little bit on Wednesday before the Smoke Monster thing, which, by the way, those two things, the dinner and Smoke Monster, feel like four months prior to the rest of it.

They do. They totally do. It doesn't feel like that was exactly a week ago, right? That was exactly one week ago today. That doesn't seem right at all. No, no, it really doesn't. And also just it's so separate from when things hit the ground on Thursday that it is. It's weird.

I don't ever not want to do something separate from an event because this is, it feels like, it feels like a nice little quiet oasis before everything happens, right? Like we do it in Vegas, we go and do a producer's dinner, something like that. And then where we do this thing with Barry and Bobby Ann, which they're the most wonderful people. ever. Generous folks, wonderful people. They are. And yeah, it was us and Adam Christensen and Yeah. Taking time away from

his little farm thing. The ghost of Tom Merrick is as he was late. That was unfortunate. Who else did we have there? There was somebody else there. Like obviously our wives. Yeah, I think that was it. That might have been at. We had an eight top and it was the folks, the Johnsons, the Ibbets, and

the Maccast. Yes. And then the entirety of the staff at a place called Stone Ground Italian kitchen. So here's the thing. I've been there one other time and I had some kind of, I don't even remember, some kind of pasta or whatever. And it was forever ago and I, and it was, for some reason I remember we were rushed. We were late and we had some other, we had a play to go to or something weird. This is years, years ago. So I don't really have time to like appreciate anything about it. But man, I feel like we need to just recommend this to locals or anybody passing through town.

If you're like a fan of Italian food, there are some really great Italian restaurants in the valley, but I would highly recommend this stone ground Italian kitchen. It was fan freaking-tastic. So good. And we did this like... Scott voluntarily ate clams. I saw it happen.

Yeah. He had to have one of them pushed into his mouth the first one, but after he ate that first one, he was like getting him out of the bowl himself. I usually don't trust him. I don't like a clam. Clams to me hide sand and things. I just don't trust them. It's a trust issue. Because the flavor's fine. I like

clam chowder, but often I am, I I've been tricked, duped, if you will, into biting into a big grain of sand because some clam was hanging on to it for dear life. You know, that just tells you that they're real clams and not imitation or tire rubber or something. You know, that they're... This is real, you know, really pulled in from the ocean.

That's what they told me in San Francisco when I had my first clam chowder that tasted like sand soup. Oh, God, really? Just a lot of sand in that one? So, but... I don't mind, like, one piece of grit in a clam chow. It just reminds you where you're coming from. It grounds you.

No pun intended. That's a fair point. If it was just that, fine. The one there, I think the one there kind of gave me PTSD about it. Because it was like, all of it was full of sand. And I said, is this normal? And the lady there goes, oh, yeah, this is authentic. That's how you know.

And I'm like, I think you put a little too much in there, man. I don't know what happened there. You could probably, you know, put them under the rinser a little bit longer to get some of that sand out. the obvious places. So yeah. So I did enjoy those and then went back for more. And I still don't like raw, raw oysters. Rather die.

Don't want that. Sure. Sure. We'll get you. You'll get me somehow, somehow somewhere. We'll get you somehow. I had those once in New Orleans and I didn't get sick or anything. They were fine.

I just felt like I was eating boogers. So in my opinion, raw oysters are basically just a delivery method for cocktail sauce and horseradish and minion is it minion sauce the minionette

oh I don't know that another I probably do not it's like a vinegar onion or chives what is that

oh it's like the little tiny onion that's oh it's onion shaped but I'm looking it up not those little pearls no no not quite that

those are bulbous Yeah, not quite that small. I like to use the word, bulbous. Shalitz. Shalets. Shalets is what I'm looking for, the word. Well, I'll just go ahead and admit I thought it was chalet, so what do I? I thought the French were, you know, really pushing for that.

Sure, sure. Well, anyway, good news, everybody. That place is rad. Stone ground Italian kitchen downtown Salt Lake City, fantastic food. Go to the back. Don't be fooled by the front door. That's a big, the little. It looks like it's closed and empty, but then there's a little tiny white sign on the thing that says,

we're open. Come upstairs. We're up here. If you come in the back, it's a lovely entrance. Oh, it's beautiful back there. Like, yeah, I don't know what, well, obviously, they're selling the other side. Yeah. Whatever's happening over there. It was weird. But it was, in some ways, it's kind of nice because your, because your expectations are exceeded when you get up there. Yeah. Totally. You get up there and it's just amazing. It's like, wow, nice place. So anyway, if you're looking for it, that's where you can get it. Brian, what's going on? I know while you were gone. I'm sure Brian just loaded. filament into his printer and said have at it while I'm out of town. Yeah, right.

Exactly. Yeah. Just just put the filament, put it on the web and said, print what you'd like. Sure. No, no. No, the film and printer, still great. Doing everything. I've got almost all the pieces. Well, I have all the pieces for the giant AirPod. Yeah.

But Mike Picholich says, I'm going to print you some white. I'm going to print a white TPU um uh cushion ear cushion because then it's

squishy and soft like a real air pod oh um oh what tp u you can print this stuff uh it's called tp u i don't i can't remember what it stands for but it's it's like rubbery rubbery filament but you can't put it through an aMS

you have to have it go directly into the printer and i just don't I don't have the patience to try finagle that and he's good with it so it's like oh cool he's going to print me in ear the actual squishy earpiece. Did you have to give him a, or I guess you just give him the model and he does that part. Yeah, he actually even

grabbed the model. Oh, cool. Yeah. I'm excited to hear that. That's great because now it'll seem like a super real replica thing. Exactly. Now I just have to figure out. So the person who built that thing, the original who built the model, actually like did this whole wired up

Bluetooth speaker thing and fit it in there and they took things apart and they ripped out a battery of this, of a laptop and I'm not going to go through that effort. I'm going to go to Amazon and find a Bluetooth speaker that fits in the opening. Yep. And then I'm going to kind of just glue the thing shut with like a place where you can charge that Bluetooth speaker. But I'm kind of trusting that when that, you know, that that thing is now a

complete and contained unit and I'm never going to open it again. Yep. I think this is the right way to do it. So I'm not spending a lot on a Bluetooth speaker. I'll say that. It's going to be $20 or less Bluetooth speaker that fits in there. done get one of them Costco ones you know yeah exactly doesn't have to be yeah exactly so anyway all right so that's so film and printer just fine everything good there the um resin printer uh back in april i start having this issue where it would print on the two sides of the plate i've got this the the i think the 3d the resin printer with the one of the largest build plates you can find

so i can print the um khyber crystal stands um quickly and with high detail and stuff like that. But the problem is that I was running into an issue where the build plate would print on the left side, print on the right side, but not print things in the middle. So when I'm printing stuff for Greg in Texas or these other people, Gwen doing minis, it just became part of my thing that I'm like, all right, I scatter everything around the edges of the build plate and not worry about it. And finally I decided, well, why am I doing this? I bought a brand new plate in April. Why don't I reach out to any cubic and try and deal with it? And so I did some tests, and then I sent them a photo of like a straight-edge ruler on top of the build plate.

And it shows, and I put that in our chat above the picture of Law & Order UK. All right. Oh, yeah, here it is. Yeah, it looks like the cover of Steely Dan's Asia album is what it looks like. Yeah, it kind of does. And the little rainbow bit made me think of like dark side of the moon or something. Right, yeah, exactly. So what you're looking at here is a light.

The brightest part is the exposed part of the light you can see. There's a straight edge ruler in front of it. And then a little tiny strip that you can see of light between that and the build plate, which means that the two edges of the build plate are higher than the middle. Oh, I see. Yeah. Okay. And so I sent that photo to any cubic and said, hey, guys, here's the problem. Here's why it's not printing the middle. What can you do?

And they sent me a thing back this morning saying, we're going to send you a brand new buildplate. Sorry about that. Which, again, it's the replacement of a bill plate that they sent me in April or that I got in April. So we'll see if that solves a problem. Do you think they've been having just trouble with those in general? Like this is a... I think so. Because it's so large, I think it kind of means that there's more the can go wrong with it, if that makes sense.

Totally. So any small imperfection can be, can be, can cause some issues. So anyway, it's delicate stuff, man. It is delicate stuff. It is high, high precision instrumentation stuff. So I do have another, the build plate that it replaced that I put a WAMBAM on. Wham Bam is a magnetic surface you put on the build plate. and then you can put a thin magnetic piece of metal on top of that,

and it flattens things out. I just did that same test, and yeah, there's a little tiny gap in that one, too. So I'm like, all right, well, take one of these geekykewik stickers that, or geekykewik prints that Len Peralta did, these little cards, collectible cards that he did for me, and I'll put one of those in the magnet, in the center below the metal plate, I do that, and now I've got like two little gaps on the side. Like, it's actually too thick, that little tiny amount.

I mean, it really is a precision kind of thing. Sure. Yeah, you're dealing with microns, not, you know. Exactly. But that's just enough that there's not enough space for the plate to adhere any resin to it. So I just got to get this thing working, man. I just wanted to work. Yeah, we've got to get the res up again, you know?

Res up. Res up. Rise up. Get rezed or something. Exactly. Something like that. Something like that. Guys, here's something like this.

Time for us to play a game. It's something like this. And it goes like this. I'll play right here. Oh, yeah, it's time for us to welcome our old pal. Brian Dunaway to the program. It was all the way in South Carolina, but was here in Salt Lake City last week.

Brian Dunaway welcome to the show. So good. Sam. Oh, hi Scott and Brian. How's it going, fellas? I only had one beef with you. And that was I barely saw you because we were running around so much. I know. I did my best to avoid you. I mean to find you.

Exactly. I never did meet your Allen friend. I don't even know what that guy looks like. Oh, you never met Alan? Tammett. No. I don't think I met Alan either. Yeah. Really? No. What? Okay, fine. Yeah. Alan was like, he was like a mythic creature that was supposedly there and I never got to actually see this mythical man. He is. He's my bearded friend and we've been friends for about 30 years and he was kind enough to not make me travel alone. through the friendly skies. And yeah, so I apologize. I thought he met everybody. Oh, well. Well, tell Alan he was probably smoking his pipe.

He's a pipe smoker. Oh, he's a pipe smoker. Oh, nice. And not the wacky and tobacco kind of pipe, huh? No. And he so hurt my feelings because he was like, I was like, oh, dude, I wouldn't mind at least, you know, trying a few puffs. And he's like, oh, well, we'll go get you a corn cob pipe. And I'm like, hey, I don't have germs.

I don't have germs. I can smoke like Popeye. That's crazy. That was the, yeah. He said, he said, nah, you don't understand. You'll burn your tongue. And I said, what am I? An amateur?

Yeah, you're right. I should go get a corn cup pipe. Yeah, a corn cop pipe. As a reason they do those things do what they do. Don't tell them, but that thing killed my grandpa. Anyway, moving on. Let's keep going. Like, what did it fall in him? What happened?

No, it's just he got a very specific kind of lung throat and mouth cancer from piping it all, but he was all day every day. See, that's the thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pipes don't kill people. People kill people. The way he smoked, man. I like everywhere I went, that smell followed. It was just the way it was. So Christmas to me, most people are like, oh, cinnamon and baked bread and the turkey. And I'm like, nope, tobacco coming out of a grandpa's hole. That's what we smelled.

Well, anyway, we're going to play a game today. And it's been a bit, so it's going to take Brian's rule reading to remind us how this thing works. Brian, take it away. Don't worry, Donaway. This game doesn't change. You're okay. It's time to play the tadpooly feud. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics. And Scott and Bergen have to predict the answers that they gave us. It's got Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. At the end of the game, we're going to add up all the points. The winner will actually be winning prizes for a listener contestant. And those contestants have been pulled from our supporters on Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS. Scott is playing for

Michael Crowley. Wait. Why is that familiar? I'm thinking of the... Mr. Crowley. Mr. Crowley. Yeah. Alster Crowley.

Brian is playing for Patrick Crummy. P. Crum. Oh, Patrick? Oh, is that P. Crum? That's P. Nice. Awesome.

We love him. I'm glad we're playing for him. Love Pekrum. Yes. I'm a little more, by the way, this time around with the names, I'm a little more random about pulling them. So I used to do it in the order in which they

glom, you know, like got into the comments. but now you guys are just getting pulled from every direction. So just if you feel like, oh, man, I signed up before, you know, if you start to feel like your name's not getting to, or you thought you were away later and suddenly you're in, that's why. Yeah. Makes sense. Yeah.

At Pete Crom, I called PC rum for the longest time. I didn't understand. I finally got it. I think Brian Ibbott's the only one ever got it right. So we all learned a lesson. Well, I had to ship things to him for his prizes on, I guess the connection. So I picked up. So it's not personal computer rum?

Okay. It's not personal computer rum. That's a shame. We can all use a little more of that. The new rum program from PC. All right, let's get to this. Go ahead and put your hands on your buzzers and get ready to answer this one. There's these big flashing, bright colored buzzers now.

Ooh, put your hands on them. We asked 400 and some odd tadpoolers. What's your favorite children's board game? Brian. Chutes and ladders. Chutes and ladders. Chutes and ladders. Show me chutes and ladders.

Number two, answer on the board. One will beat it. Chute. Was it board games? Or was it board games? Children's board games. Let's go with Monopoly. Monopoly.

Every five-year-old's favorite board game is Monopoly. Show me. Monopoly. Number six, Brian gets control of the board, but Scott gets some pretty good points to start things off. Of course, shoots and ladders also includes snakes and ladders. Do you know how many people put in shoots and ladders like S-H-O-O-T-S? Oh, really? I think a lot of people do that with shoot in general.

I think people mess it up. Yeah, we don't use the term shoot very much anymore. No. No. And the only reason I remember that it's, or that I just, it's burned into me because of that soccer guy that kept going, shoot, shoot. And in my head it's like, that's got a sea, and it will always have a C to say shoot.

So there you go. Well, there's also a song. Who's this? Is it Lincoln Park or Tool or something? Somebody else has a song called shoots and ladders, but it's corn has shoes and that's it. But that one is spelled S-H-O-T-S. That one is spelled like, shoots.

Oh, they were kind of, they were being creative there is what they were doing. Yes, they were being, they were being punny. Yeah. Pony those guys. fellas. Uh-huh. Uh, all right,

uh, Brian, eight answers still on the board. What's your favorite children's board game? I'll qualify it. What I told the tadpool is,

i.e. A game kids 10 and under can, can enjoy. Okay. Right, right. Um, I'm gonna go with

Candyland. Tandiland. Candyland. Dand. It's the most boring game ever. It really is. It sucks. It's like,

oh, go to the next pink gum drop. Woo. Okay. Blame off. All right. Show me. Candy land.

Number one. Yeah, number one answer on the board. Taking Brian up to three points. Scott still has six. Yeah, get your ass together there, buddy. Oh. Your ass? Get your ass together. Get your act or ass.

I think act is what I meant. Get your ass together. But I said ass. Get your, get your ass. Get your ass together. Put your ass together and clap. Ooh, that's, okay. Um, you gave that more thought than I thought.

Yeah, somebody just drop a report on your desk or something? Right. Not a kid's game. All right. Yeah. I'm going to go, um, oh, I want to go with it some, something later, but maybe I shouldn't. How about let us just go with, don't wake daddy. Don't wake daddy.

I'm really pulling that one. I, um, maybe I should go with something else. I don't know. Do we allow him, Scott, to change his answer? No, you haven't said final answer yet. All right. Okay. All right.

Change your, change your dumb answer. That was, that wasn't kind. All right. That made me laugh. Gosh, dang it.

It made me coughs about that. Cootie, yeah, sure. I don't think there's an S on Cootie. I think it's just called Cootie. Oh,

I thought it's Cootie. You call it the way you do and I call the way I do. It's cooies. Man, all right. I could be remembering because BioCal also says Cootie.

Scott says cooties. Cootie. It was like, it was basically hangman except you're assembling a bug. Yeah, you're making of a... Exactly. You're making some kind of plastic bug.

Yeah, which was kind of cool. All right, show me your cootie. Show me your cootie. Dang it. I would like to go ahead and give Brian some credit. I searched on Target because they have all the board games. They 100% it is called Cootie. It is Cootie, all right?

Okay. No, Brian was right. I had no idea. I mean, not that you accidentally saw any other cool kids board games. No, no, no. I saw nothing. It doesn't matter what he saw at Target. It matters what the TEDPools says. Oh, it doesn't matter.

Hold on a second. I'm about to go look up. Kids. Kids. Yeah. Board games. Board favorites. Games. All I wanted to do was settle my mind on Cootie.

And Brian was right. And we've been wrong. It's the Baron Stein Bears all over again. Of course he's right. Answer the pants in. Cooties. I think that even had a, if I remember correctly, and again, I haven't looked, but I think it even had a Comic Sans logo

or something similar to Comic Sans logo if I remember correctly. Phil's like it. Yeah. All right. Okay. Brian, continue on.

Oh, no, you can't because you lost it. I lost it. Yeah, you lost your cootty. Scott, uh, seven answers still on the board. What you got?

Okay. Let's do, uh, the, the operation. That's a great. That's a great. It's a great choice.

But that's really outside of a skill level of a 10 year old. Right. No, that's when I was playing it. I was in there getting the funny bone. How are they ever going to learn? going to learn how to extract organs from a body. Then the mom came downstairs.

Mom came downstairs and said, may I play? Remember all that? Yeah, I know this game. I'm in. Let's do it. All right, show me. That was the noise of the nose of the nose is what that was.

Pugh. Yeah, they don't want to scare you there. Show me, operation. It's a scare me anyway. Really? I was sure that was going to be up there. blows my mind. When I look at some of the other ones on here, I'm like, how is operations so low? It's pretty old, I love Operation.

Yeah, but Tony B is funny bone. I think kids, I think, I don't know. I know we got a lot of millennials and Xers who listen, but you guys have all disappointed me today. I wonder if Dr. Tolbert started out with Operation and said, you know what? I'm going to pursue a career in the medical field. he touched a funny bone yeah yeah speaking of disappointing

yeah yeah Brian what you got one of the most disappointing games ever was having to do all that set up for a mouse trap and then the two seconds you got to play

and then the little dude would not do a backflip into the stupid uh right uh pool and trigger the thing he was the weakest link

of that whole game he really was like the Mara goes down the down the stairs into the bucket flips down the bathtub the bowling ball down the bathtub all that stuff works really well and then it comes down to that stupid guy going oh I'm gonna go left

yeah yep he's a you were held you were held to physics there was no getting around it and it was that game sucked I don't like it did so much setup too it's like it really was what was my name Goldberg how many times do you have to go around the board to get everything set up

all right show me Mouse trap. There we go. I like the the newer version with Dana Plato is so much better. Oh yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Now, I'm getting into I'm thinking of a lot of games that aren't really board games, but they were in our, I'm trying to think back when me and my cousins used to play the most, and we had that mouse trout and we always played

trout. Trout. Mouse trout. Mouse trout. But we played a, we used to play the crap out of hunger, hungry hippos, but is that a board game? Doesn't matter. Whatever the tadpool said, I think it is. You played on a tabletop, right? I feel like board game and tabletop game are kind of interchangeable.

Yeah, I think if Mousetrap is considered a table, a board game, then I think definitely hippos is. Yeah. And probably the most annoying game for any parents. So there's a restaurant that, uh, that, uh, that we, We've gone to a couple times for Puzzled Pind. And they, they seat us at this table. This last time we go in April, they seat at this table. And we're right by the kids area.

It's like, oh, the parents just, you know, like while they're eating, they can let their kids go over and play with, it's like Legos or things like that in this little area. It's really close to our table. No, the kids find hungry, hungry hippos and start playing that loudly on the floor next to us. Fun. What the heck? Who puts that in there? That help you guys really zero in on your trivia knowledge and memory.

Yeah. It was the absolute worst. All right. Show me those hungry, hungry hippos. Oh, come on. Yeah, I know. I know.

Number 15. And if you're over 10, you're playing hungry, hungry hippos, I'll probably punch you. Good luck. Yeah. Yeah.

Right. Yeah. Now, I got an age range issue in my head, but I'm still going to say it. I'm going to say that a lot of kids played clue growing up. Sure.

What better to introduce your kids to murder and solving set murders with a game Clue. Yeah. Getting them hooked on that true crime early. You know what I mean? Absolutely. Absolutely. I consider myself to be a very, like, very good at Clue. Like, I keep track of everything that people ask.

And I keep studious notes on, oh, they asked this. And they showed them something, which means it's one of these three things. but I have one of those things, so it has to be one of these other two things. To self, don't play clue with Brian. Don't play clue with me. I've just warned you right now. Show me clue. Yeah, number eight.

Good points. Clue or clue do. Cludeau. I like this. I like where we're going. Blues, clues, clues. I'll tell you this, Iker, Icar says, doesn't everybody play that way? Tina and our crazy neighbors don't play that way, and I always smoke them.

how'd you already figure out that it was freaking Mr. Mustard, the Colonel Mustard in the... Because this is a board game made for 10-year-olds. It's part of the problem is that Dave is also smoking one and he's not... Well, that's true. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

He's smoking one of the conservatory. Oh, yeah. I'm going to go with... What's that called? Connect 4, the sister... Oh, yeah. Such a good one in his tabletop, too. It can only be...

played by siblings and they have to go pretty sneaky, sis. Yep. Oh, that's right. That's what that line was from. That thing permeated our culture for a long time, that line. It really did. They also like, thank you Easter Bunny. Bok, bach, bach, bach.

Oh, I love it. We got to go find all the 80s memes and pile up. Hey, Mickey, come over for a party. Yeah. Yeah. And the whole don't touch the funny bone. Like we talked about that. That was in there.

Oh, what a time to be alive. We saw those commercials so many times. No internet. We had to get our memes. TV. We did. Yep. All right. Show me. Connect four. Oh. I know. Number 13.

You know, all your wrong answers have still been very close to the top 10. So that's good. Oh, my. Okay. Guys are down to your last one. Scott has 14. Brian only has seven. So, Brian, you've got to make a play right here. Scott's going to take it. Dang it. All right. So I got to choose between

Crossfire. Crossfire. Crossfire. Or, let's see. We got we always play checkers that's any age game before you graduate to chess uh what else is there that we used to play um i'm going to go with the memory game very specific to 10 year olds or under um the guess who memory game how are you at that event sure sure like the um yeah it was like stratego kind of thing right where you'd have um a whole board full of of people with different

looks to him and stuff. He'd say, does he have a mustache? And then he'd say, no, he doesn't. You flip all the guys down that had a mustache. Which is also fun is the drinking game. But yeah, but whatever. 10-year-olds. Unrelated to the band, by the way, unfortunately.

That's a shame. No sugar tonight. All right. Let's show me. Guess who? Oh, look at that. Number 10. My gosh.

Number 10, we'll pull it. Number 10, what a bullet? That's a bullshit. Brian takes the lead. Still four answers on the board. Still a game, though. Still anybody's game, yes. All right.

I'm going to go, do people, ah. Yeah, do people, do people, you know, I remember sorry. You can play that game with,

you know, oh, does he, does he like tech? Does he like talking about tech? Yeah, well, he's going to be kind of late. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Sorry. Sorry. and I'm going to pick sorry. How about that? Sorry.

Sorry. Damn it. Yeah. It's like, all right, how quickly can I just get this one moving? And might as well pop-a-upatic bubble and give us some trouble. Wow. All right. Show me trouble.

All of a sudden, Brian, Brian figures out. He connects with the tadpole. What is? There's 12 points left. Brian is winning by more than 12 points. Brian has won this. mathematically. But there are still two answers and a bonus.

Well, there was a commercial that was terrible. I hated. And it was ants in the pants in. Cootie. Don't break the ice in. Ants in the pants in. Cootie. So I'm going to, I'm reading those in my head. So I'm going to tell, don't break the ice. Do you remember that?

I do. I remember. Yeah. Oh, I love Don't Break the Ice. Again, it was fun. Introducing kids to the concept of Jenga. And hypothermia at the same time. Yeah.

Show me. Don't break the ice. No. Scott, you can still get a couple more answers on the board here if you want. It'd be cool if I could fill these out. Because if we do this, then everybody wins, right? Isn't that the deal? Oh, that's right. If you get these last two, then everybody, well, they're going to get priced regardless.

Yeah. The only person who loses is Tom. Yeah. Yeah, Tom's the only one that loses. All right. Let's put in, I can't think of anything. I just say risk. Risk.

I know that that is a way more advanced game. I know. Popular game for seven years. But when I was 12, I was playing risk. We're 10 year olds, maybe. Maybe. Yeah. I never,

I have never ever played a game of risk until it came out on the iPad. Really? Like, oh, this is what I've been missing? Wow. This is great. And look at all these different country names than I would expect to see. At the end of the day, it's not really all that great. It's kind of.

I mean, it kind of is. It's all right. It's like figuring out strategic, locations to put you in your people and that sort of thing. Show me risk. Yeah. That was a long shot. It was a long shot.

A lot of people in the tadpool were saying this one, the game of life. Oh, life. That's a good one. Drive your little family around and their little car. This one is a card game, but you kind of qualifies in the, uh, Uno. Oh, uh, Uno. I thought of Uno earlier and then forgot about it.

Dang it. Yep. And then another one that people kept saying battle, war forge said this one, battleship. You sunk my battleship. Number 11. Another, another one there. Just rounding out a couple more biggies. Ticket to ride.

Don't Break the Ice was number 16. Ludo, which I think is just Parchisi. It's a version of Parchisi. I don't know what that is. I know from Ludo, the character from Labyrinth, but I don't know. Jenga, Parchizi, payday. Percise. 25. What old soul.

Yes. Some 10-year-old acting like a 90-year-old. My gosh. Exactly. Bonkers, Buccaroo, Busy Town, Castle Panic, Caldron Quest, Chinese Checkers, which didn't come from China. Feed the Kitty. I don't know what that is. Happy Days the board game. Somebody had a favorite there. That's cool. Hi-ho Cherio. I remember playing that one with the nieces. No memory of that.

uh nobody said i was looking for um is it the quacks of kledlenberg no i was looking for the game that uh uh was it uh andrew scott no what was the character the actor anyway parts and recreation came up with the the towers the cones no what is it is the towers of something but there were cones in the game yeah i don't remember that adam scott made a board game adam scott yeah his character came up with this really cones of dunshire it was homes of dunshire Oh my gosh, I don't remember. I've watched that show pretty religiously. I don't remember that.

Yeah. This is his whole elaborate, rewatch. Horrible, uh, board game that he came up with. It just seems so complicated. Anyway, there you have.

Let's talk about who won. Pat, Patrick Crumney. Crummy, you are getting a copy of distrust and streets of Fury E.X. Ooh, I like Streets of Fury E. It's really good.

All of these games, by the way, courtesy of Sun Bun, who he got to see, who brought me some delicious, brought us both some delicious treats. Michael Crowley, you're getting a copy of Lethal League Blaz as well. Nice.

Fun stuff for everybody. Yeah, big winners today. Well done, you guys. These codes will come to you via the Patreon and a message that I'll send privately to each of you just after the show today. So watch for those. If anybody out there has a bunch of old humble bundles are trying to get rid of. This is a great place to do it. That's where we like to use it. Brian Dunaway, good news. You and I tonight getting together 4 p.m. Play Retro for Star Control two and then we roll right into

watch retro, which we got to do live as well. And that live watch retro is up on the Patreon already. So if you missed that. Tondagasa and TV's Travis hang out with us. It was, the car was full. It was amazing. The car was full. And somehow Kevin managed

to get all four of us in the front seat of the car. KT. Data did it. Yeah, he pulled it off, which, you know, is no surprise. Anyway, that's what's happening. Is there anything else you'd like to say in your defense? I miss you guys. Kiss my butt.

Bye. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, you know what time it is? I do. It's this time. Isn't technology wonderful? That's a sign that we're about to call Tom Merritt

and have him here on the show. In fact, he's already there. Tom Merritt, welcome to the program. Well, thank you, Scott Johnson. It is good to be back. Sadly, I don't see you in 3D anymore. What happened? I know.

Oh, I know. It's a shame, right? That was nice. The 3D effect of our actual, eyeballs was incredible. It was a great IRL meetup. It was very good. Definitely. The resolution

on both Ibbett and yourself amazing. One of the only complaints I have about the entire thing is Tom and I had plenty of stage time. Yeah. Very, very little personal time. In fact, I felt a little

silly getting a ride from you on the first night for two blocks, but I'm really glad I did because that was probably the longest amount of time we talked. Yeah, that was about as long as we had, your plan got delayed. Otherwise, we were going to see you at dinner. So that was going to be a whole other thing. Exactly.

It was fantastic. And can I just say, you brought with you one of my favorite people I've ever met. I love, I'm not going to say it right. When? Yeah. When? When? All right.

I don't, I feel like I say it totally wrong. And I'm the most white guy in the room. I mean, you probably are. Probably. She's also very forgiving. So I think that's. She is like one of the most interesting, energetic people I've ever gotten to hang around. And I just thought she was awesome.

I spent more time with her than I did it with you. Her freaking karaoke was absolutely spectacular. She was so good. Yeah. Blew my mind. Anyway, pass that on to her. And I don't get any credit for that. She's the one who's like, hey, I don't live far away.

Can I come? I'm like, well, of course you can. Yeah, just do it. Here's all the info. And she came. Yeah, she was great. That was awesome. She got stuck in an elevator.

It was fantastic. Well, Tom, having you back and things a little bit settled, although you're heading right back out again, right? You're doing another thing. Yeah, I'm going to help Brian Brushwood, Justin Robert Young, and Andrew Heaton teach a class at the Wizard Academy in Austin next week. That's right. It's part of my summer travel apocalypse.

Yeah, he's, he might be on your plane. I was on Leslie, Leslie and Chris's plane on the way home. Oh, nice. Yeah, that was nice. Oh, that's cool. Time with the victory. And Logan. And don't forget.

And Logan. I finally, he bent your ear over, I'm talking about Minecraft or something all the way home? Well, K-pop demon hunters. Oh, K-pop demon hunters, that's right. Scratch, the little coding app. Oh, yeah. A lot of people are, a lot of young folks are making stuff with that.

The kids. I hear the kids. The kids are doing it. You know, we used to make Scratch in my day, but it was a different thing. Yeah. I was, this event was weird. with the Victorines because I Leslie is so out front

she's kind of like the if they're if they if their family is a car she is the hood ornament she's just like out there you know sure and Chris is kind of not reserved but he's not like a big loud guy yeah and I always sits back and let's her

kind of take the spot like and let's her do the thing and I always forget it all started with him he was an instance listener all this other stuff early on she had no idea so he introduces her to this stuff. She gloms onto it, ends up finding TMS, and then goes all in, and then like the weight,

the balance shifted from he was the fan, and she just went, ro-r- Oh, that's funny. Wow. I didn't know that until this trip. He and I had a chance to chat, and it was just an interesting juxtaposition. That's great, though. Yeah, it was really cool. But having you there was a fantastic,

of course, and just love spending time with Tom. Let's get to our question of the week. We're back to this, which is you guys, asking hard questions in the tech realm for our tech expert, Tom Merritt. And here it is from Shane C. I don't know who this is, but it's someone. He says, I have a good one for Tom,

or maybe I just think it's good. But thank you for asking it anyway, they start with. I can actually tell you right now, it is a good question. It is. What of all this, sorry, what of all this talk that drone deliveries would take the world over? Been long enough, I thought I would see more of this by now. Can you give us an update to where the world is at with the future of drone delivery?

Inquiring minds must know, says Shane C. Wait a minute. Where's the mention of AI in this question? I didn't hear the words. Hold on, I admit it. There's no quantum computer. There's no AI. Weird.

No, this is a great question. And I think it highlights a thing that we run into a lot, and this is no shade on chain. but I think we tend to feel for multiple reasons that things are coming faster and bigger than they are because of the way they're reported or the way they're talked about on social media. And I would refer you to Wendy's panel on doom scrolling and nerdacular for possible solutions to that feeling. But as someone who does this every day and has covered this every day, I haven't felt like the promise of drone delivery was that we would, we would, you know, all be getting burritos by drone tomorrow, right? I have known that these are very small and difficult things to pull off.

And I think the reason you probably thought there was like all of this coverage and then none is because when it was new, it was like, oh my gosh, Walmart is delivering packages by drone. drone. Oh, crazy. Now this other wing from Alphabet is delivering packages by drone. And so everybody covers it the day it launches. But then when the next story is Walmart just added another neighborhood in Arkansas, that doesn't get you clicks, right? Because everybody's like, well, that's not that big a deal. I already heard that they were doing this. Tell me when it's coming to me. And that's kind of why you haven't heard about it much is they have been slowly expanding the areas where drone delivery is happening. It's happening in Texas, mostly in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston area, a little bit in San Antonio. They are just starting to expand into California

in very limited neighborhoods in L.A., San Francisco, San Diego, Atlanta, Orlando, Tampa, Miami. Salt Lake has very small areas with some drone delivery. So it's Phoenix, New Orleans, Memphis, Philadelphia, Cincinnati. And that's just the U.S. There's also been a lot of In fact, Irwanda has had this for longer for medical supplies. A few other regions in Africa have it. Australia has some places where they've been experimenting with this. The UK has some of this as well. So does Canada, Singapore, China.

So it's happening. It's just not happening in very widespread areas. And I think the other thing that is keeping the growth slow is regulatory concerns around this haven't been clear. So in order for wing, for example, example, which is Alphabet's drone delivery arm, which actually does some of the Walmart stuff, for them to operate, they had to get an exemption so that they could operate the drones out of line of sight. Generally speaking, if you want to operate a drone, you have to be able to see it. And to do this, you can't, right, because it's autonomous and it's going farther distances.

So they have to get an exemption for that, and they have to get an exemption every time they want to expand it. So some of the work that's being done to provide, I can't remember which part. it is. I want to say 180, but I bet that's wrong. The FCC part that covers this sort of thing is being worked on so that you can

qualify for it more easily. And when that happens, you'll probably see a lot more expansion of this, maybe see some more companies get into it. Okay, so for my questions, part 108. I was almost there. You were almost there. Flip to the eight and the zero. Yeah. So

for this to actually be a thing that we all see happen all the time, like my delivery this week from, I don't know, Amazon or whoever, is going to show up on my door door, and it's not going to be a dude and a truck. It's going to be one of these things. For that future, it seems like there's other obstacles that maybe you can speak to.

I don't know, but one of them I always think of is people are jerks and they want to just take out their freaking 22 and shoot at that their drone across the street. Sorry about the accent, everybody. But you know what I'm saying? Like, what is that? Because all I know is if I was, 15, 16 years old, and I lived

in the drone future, and this was a thing happening, we would be parking ourselves in the bushes and huck and rocks at these things because kids are jerks. So how do they protect against that kind of stuff? And why or is it not a problem? And I'm just assuming that we're going to be the worst when it comes to that stuff.

This is one of those things that will be a problem and then it won't be a problem. And I think sidewalk robot deliveries, which are a little more widespread than drone deliveries are an example of this. When the sidewalk robots started to expand into places like Philadelphia, you saw some big stories about people vandalizing them, you know, spray painting them and all of that stuff. And they took some measures to, you know,

try to deter that or catch the people who are doing it. And I think you'll see that when drones get more widespread. But the fact is people get bored with that stuff. It just becomes normal. Once it becomes normal, it's not fun anymore, right? Like nobody shoots at traffic lights. It's true. But you could, you know, just for kicks, right? And it's because traffic lights are boring. and mundane and it's not fun. So once it stops me new, I feel like... I'll bet when people first put up traffic lights, people shot a traffic light.

They probably did. Yeah. Yeah. I wouldn't be shocked. They would see it as like a little bit invasive, a little bit like... You can't tell me to stop at that. Yeah.

I ain't got to have some robot. That's a really good point. So much smarter people than me in these industries are probably, they're probably accounting for this and maybe planning on it. Usually what I see is people just like you and me reacting like, crap, we need to secure the sidewalk robots. And then they do a bunch of work. And then it turns out that that was not maybe entirely necessary.

Yeah. I guess that's true just about anything that starts to. I remember early going iPod use meant that there were a lot of people wearing white earbud earphones that were wired. And it was a point of like, hey, look at him with the things. Oh, totally, right? Yeah. In fact, I remember not wanting to take my iPhone out on the BART in San Francisco because

I didn't want to call attention to myself and have somebody try to take it. Yeah, exactly. And now it's just like the most ubiquitous thing in the world. Nobody thinks about it. In fact, people are using them in dangerous situations like driving without even thinking about it. Right. So probably that. The other thing was, what's the other thing?

The other thing was, oh, I saw a video while I was preparing for this and sent you the message and everything. It was obviously one example. I'm not trying to say this is all of them. But I watched one of these drones in one of the areas they're doing this. testing it or using it. And the drone flew over like a dude's yard and from way too high up, let go of the thing. And I went, cocoom, boom, boom, boom, right? I just thought, well, that hard drives aft or whatever is in there, you know? So I guess those sorts of things iron themselves. That's another reason that you got slower going as you're testing these things to find out those

edge cases where, you know, why did it think that it was closer to the ground than it was? Like, well, you know, let's fix that, let's update the software, and you want to get that to where that is a very small edge case that rarely happens. You're never going to eliminate those things entirely, but you know, you do want to test that before you roll it out to wider areas. And, you know, there are areas that are going to be more difficult than others to serve. You know, certainly Irwanda is not a forgiving environment because you have to fly it over mountains and stuff. So a lot of good work is being done on navigating unusual terrain, and that's been going on for 20 years, the medical delivery there. But yeah, you know, there's different situations in New York City than there is in Atlanta,

than there is in San Antonio, then there is in Salt Lake, right? And different neighborhoods in Salt Lake are to be different. So there's going to be, I think what will happen is once part 108 makes it easier, you're going to see like an expansion of these to more areas a little faster. And then they're going to hit the edge cases where you're like, okay, but now we've got to figure out how to do Porter Ranch. And now we've got to figure out how to do this and that. And that'll slow it down a little bit. Same thing happened with the sidewalk delivery robots. They're all over central Los Angeles, but they haven't come to my neighborhood yet, because they have to figure out how to do that, how to manage that. And what the economics of it. Yeah, the logistics are just different in every

place, I assume. And also, humans bang up my package package is pretty good too. So that is not uncommon. You know what I mean? That happens every so on. It's already an issue. Not every once in a while you get one. you're like, what did they sit on it? Exactly. They kick this thing around, hacky sack? We sent all these mugs out for the 3,000 episodes of TMS. And of course, there's always some percentage of breakage because that's just the way it is with mugs. But sure enough, it's like, I think my guy played football with yours before the thing.

And I'm like, don't worry. We made extras. So, you know, can the drones do worse? I don't know. The more fragile item, like the more, you know, LCD panel for my 3D printer, that's going to have the biggest damage on the box, but you know, the neck pillow is going to come pristine.

Untouched. Yeah. Untouched. That's just the luck of it. And that's the other thing you remember is that right now the drone delivery stuff is for lightweight items too. You're not going to be having a sofa delivered by drone. Right. Right. No, but this is going to be small stuff. Now that you say it, that could be fun.

No, you want it. Now you visualize it now. Yeah, I want a whole bed. I just want a giant sofa going across the, too. So I could just drop it right into the house. I want my neighbor. to go, why is there a floating credenza over the Johnson's yard? That's a great idea. That's a great word. That's a great word, isn't it?

I love that word. One last stat to throw out here for Shane in particular, Wing said that in January, delivery volume had tripled between the first six months of 2025 and the last six months of 2025. So comparing a half year to a half year. Let's basically say the number of deliveries they did between January and June of 2025 was a third of what they did between June and December of 2025. So they are delivering more and more of these things of the areas they serve.

But it's kind of like autonomous cars where, you know, they're only in certain areas. If you're in one of those areas, it seems perfectly normal, right? In Los Angeles, I see Waymo's all the time now, especially when I'm on that side of the hills. And so I'm like, yeah, they don't really, I'm like, oh, look, Waymo, you know, I don't get excited anymore. And then in places where the drone delivery is happening, it's probably like that, too. Yep. Can we go shoot to the Waymoes

when they show up here. Exactly, right? Yeah. Hey, Brian, get your gun. We're shooting Waymoes this afternoon. It's like shooting Waymoes in a barrel. Icor says a really

prescient question. He says, can I order a drone to be delivered by a drone? Yes. Oh, a smaller one. Sure. Okay.

Some of the drones might be too heavy. Yeah, that's a good point. So it can't be a larger drone being delivered by a smaller drone. I mean, just keep that in mind. Unless it's a really lightweight. I really should just deliver your drone. Like just basically plug in your address and have your drone come to your house.

And just have your drone fly to you, holding the box of accessories. Here's the charging cable and the manual and stuff like that. Yeah, it's a nice little test, you know. Proof of concept. Sure. A little extra burning. Some bug, some dead bugs on it, bird poo. Yeah, if it doesn't make it, then you don't have to pay for it.

Yeah. That's how we should look at it. Tom Merritt, as always, a pleasure. I know you've got lots going on. We just saw you. You're about to go somewhere else. but is there anything you'd like to talk about promote or mention here? Okay.

I probably shouldn't say this. Oh, hello. If anybody wanted to make a last minute attempt to join the Wizard Academy, do your weird thing class in Austin, it's Tuesday and Wednesday next week. You get three nights, two days. So they put you up. Your fee includes your stay and your food and drink and all of that stuff. And you get the class, which is the best version of the class that Brian has taught.

But if you go there and you're like, oh, that's, that's, that's, I get why that's a business school. That's a high price. Use the code weird and it cuts the price in half. What? That is actually weird. It is weird. It is weird. What happened to the price of it?

It just disappeared. It went, it suddenly was halved. Hald. That price is weird. W.E.I. Now it's less weird. Yeah. But spell it right.

I before you, everybody. I forget. So Wizard Academy. Go to their courses. Look for Do Your Weird Thing. It's the next one. It's the next one on the calendar. very nice you might be a last minute join there's a couple of seats left well i think that sounds

fantastic uh tom merit is uh always available of course on the daily tech new show make sure you check that out he's ase detect on all the socials tom let me just say this i don't know what to say you you're great you're great tom by now you are great i cut him off before he can say something now yet now he knows how it feels directly when i do that to people all right brian we have a couple things before we go. Excellent. And they come in the form of correspondence, which I will indicate with this.

This is about the jugs of pee. Man, a lot of people walked up to me with jugs of pee references at the thing. Yeah, did you see the guy actually with a little physical jug of pee? I mean, it was a jug, and I'm sure it really wasn't pee. I hope it wasn't, but yes, I also assumed

it was just a yellow liquid of some sort. Yes. But yeah, I'm all about this. In fact, we should figure out a way to sell jugs of pee and just really wreck this whole meme. Just a little 3D. print jug of pee basically. Oh, before I forget, I just

saw Shane in the chat. Yeah. I did this for him. Hold on. Okay, yesterday we're talking about the Ivy Club restaurant thing. Oh, yeah, yeah, the tug club. It looked like the tug gay club to him. Yeah. So here is the view from where we were. It's zoomed in a little bit. Oh, there you go. But that's what it was down

there. Oh, perfect, perfect photograph too, because it looks like, yeah, looks like it's tug underlined. Yeah, it does. It's like, welcome to tug. May I take your pants, you know? Right. Would you like to sit right in front of the window? Don't go in the bathroom. We won't warn you now. Yeah. So, Shane, I don't blame you. I guess is what I'm saying. Plus, he had a couple drinks in him. He'd shaved his eyebrows. What does he know? You know? Yeah. He doesn't know. He doesn't know. He doesn't know. He doesn't know. He's still dizzy from spinning around the circle. I'm mad at Shane because Shane is apparently in the recesses of our community, not telling anybody about it, has been building a video game.

What? Really? Yeah, I saw his announcement somewhere And I'm like, dude, why aren't you letting us promote the shit out of this on the show? So, Shane, you owe me. Building programming a game, not building a cabinet. No, like programming a video game, making a video game. So Shane, send me your stuff on Discord and we will promote the hell out of it. I know it's coming to Steam.

That's so cool. Yeah, I want to give you a bunch of props. But no, just secretly working on it, not telling a soul. dirty bastard well his second game better be comic book shop diner dash with the uh the tms guys yeah because that's yeah that's something we've been talking about for 10 years on this show it's time to finally do it's it is time to finally do it all right guys here is you know we know everybody but stephanie and a pets will play it oh the steam store's already up is it oh cool hold on let's take a look here i'm going to add it there's right there it's like it doesn't come out yet it will be

called euro it's all about greek sandwiches it's called euro it is literally called Euro. Let's go Gyro. Oh, gyro. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I'm looking at it. Here we go. Oh, this looks cool. Dude, look what's going on here. Look what we got here. Oh, my gosh. I don't even know what to say.

Shane. It's all fancy. It is all fancy. All right. Coming to early access on the 10th of July. It's called Gyro. It's covered in Tizki sauce and is available to go wish list right now. in fact, do that, everybody. I'll pimp this everywhere, but I hadn't even seen this yet.

Dude, I'm so excited. It's like a puzzle thing. This is great. Yeah, this is the kind of game I like where, like, it's like just top down gravity. Oh, look at this thing. It's cool. Shane. You dirty, dirty liar.

Never told us nothing. What's up with that, Shane? All right. We'll promote it. Keep going. That's awesome. All right. Let's get this email here.

This is from Craig Tows. from Hull, UK? Yeah. I guess that's a place. Hull. Hall or hole? How do they say? Hull.

Hull. H-U-L-L. High sausage and bacon, an oldie bit of goody says. While listening to your story about the guy with the lack of pepper jack cheese and his sandwich, I started to picture Michael Douglas

in the film falling down, sat in his car in hot weather in a traffic jam, and him reaching for his sandwich and finding its lacking said cheese and that's what starts him on his rampage through the city. Rebooting coming. Love the show though, Craig. Yeah, man.

I mean, there's a whole scene in falling down where Douglas is in a fast food place and it's like a minute before breakfast is supposed to stop being served and he wants a breakfast sandwich and they won't make one for him. It's like, no, we've switched over to lunch. Well, it's still 10.30. You need to make me a breakfast sandwich sandwich. I'm going to unleash my pin particles on you. It's what sets him off.

of it is like the final straw sort of isn't it or i guess traffic was but traffic was because he just gets out of his car and leaves it yeah it's been a while since i've seen that um yeah the uh we got a note here from zoe he says it's pronounced hull hull hull hull yeah hull h u h l is the is the phonetic okay what i've been saying yeah brian got it right then yeah yeah all right i thought she was correct you don't you don't love a band called the beautiful south who have an album with that or no i'm sorry, the House Martins with an album with that in the title, without knowing how to pronounce Hull. Have you heard the new...

It's like the ship's hull. Have you heard the new modest mouse by chance? No, I have not. It's supposed to be real good. I haven't heard of yet either. Carter was talking about it. Carter, did you hear the new modest mouse? And it's great.

You feel like they're... It's not really a they, but it's back on track. It's what we love. Really? Okay. A little darker, she says, but yeah, back in the saddle. we're big fans around here of the modest mouse yeah I like I like modest mouse

I think you introduce me to the bluegrass cover album oh it's so good and it is fantastic man yeah so good yeah the house barns were formed in hall so oh all right yeah well there you go

like it like the hull of a ship yeah like hull did you say that the same you say it the same the hall the hall has been the hull's been damaged husband been breached they've breached they've breached they've breached the hull. Yeah, we're doing it right. There is no other hole. It's just

what it is. Why does it sound in my head? It's different. It's not. It's a hard sound. It's like those three sounds, the h, the uh, and the o, are hard to put together and not sound like whole. Like you're saying whole, like haul. Yeah, instead of

whole. It's like you know, like Lil, like really getting that Lil'l sound instead of saying Lilusivert. If I was all those rappers that all decided to put Lil in the front. Yeah.

I'd be embarrassed for myself. I wouldn't be happy with my name. No, I wouldn't either. I hate it. I hate the term Lil. I hate that I've got a cat hair that is just tickling my nose and I can't, I keep rubbing my mustache to get that. That's how they get you.

I can't get it. That's how they get you. And then finally, oh, did I already do, I did this yesterday, the shout out about the baby, didn't I? Well, you know what? I'll do it again. Will Matheson and Amanda, happy new baby. I'll do it again.

We'll continue the happiness. Yeah, I forgot to. I forgot to erase it, but they're extremely nice people that really wanted to come to N26 and they just couldn't make it work with the brand new baby, which I totally get. Yep. Totally get. All right. We're out of here.

Frogpans.com slash TMS for all the info you might ever need about anything, patreon.com slash TMS, if you want to support us. And today I will actually be playing Resident Evil 9 live on stream with John. You promise. At 1B. Yes. We had to push it because that's a long story. story. I had this weird. We found an issue. Ladies, we've heard you. We found an issue where,

I don't know what that even means. I don't know if that's a weird. It's very strange. But there's a hop in the ingest server. It's like the ninth and final server that you go through to send stuff to Twitch that has like 100% packet loss. And it mostly avoids it, I think is what's happening. Because right now we're streaming, everybody's seeing us, but those occasional blips, the pattern seems to be, it jumps over to that one for a sec for some reason, loses some packets, comes back, and then we're okay for however long the period is, and that does it again. So it appears to be on Google Fiber side, so I'm waiting for them to escalate my shit, fix that.

So if you have occasional drops. You've nailed it down. Yeah. And it doesn't affect anything. I've been using this no, or what's it going, ping, ping plodder tool that all the nerds, used to see to kind of track traffic and see where problems are. Oh, that's cool. It's 100% Ingest servers.

Does that thing show you like, all right, consistent stream, consistent stream, dropout, consistent stream, that's cool. Yeah, and it does it really like a log that I could export and like parse and everything. I think it might buy it. Just seems like a, I'm on the trial right now, but it's only like 30 bucks. I might just get it.

Anyway, it's called No, Ping Plotter Pro is what it's called. Ponger Pro. You can go check up. it out at your convenience and leisure leisure uh that's it for the show today uh brian let's get out of here with a song of sorts what he got okay well it's a little bit of a long one but me go through it pretty quick the song request for our beloved cat mac we recently found our orange tabby mac deceased on our front porch no signs of trauma just the long sleep mac lived

every day every single day as if he personally paid the mortgage he was not what you'd call friendly he was available briefly he accepted affection strictly and three-second increments. One second, tolerated. Two-second suspicious, three-second's immediate violence. This never deterred my wife as she always pressed for more than three seconds on the off-chance that today was the day Mack would cuddle. Not content with ruling only one household.

Mac routinely wandered into neighboring homes like an unpaid landlord conducting inspections. He attended dinners. He wasn't invited to. Stole naps on strangers' couches and once reportedly walked into a house, screamed at the homeowner, and left. Wow. An icon. And yet he was impossible not to love.

Because under all the grumbling, the dramatic size, and the occasional ankle assault, Mac cared in his own weird little way. He followed us on walks, and from room to room pretending it was coincidence, he sat near us, not too near, like a tiny orange security guard with anger issues. He was family. The house feels quieter now, less yelling, fewer judgmental stares. Rest easy, old man. Brian, please play a cover of Sinatra's My Way because that's how Mack rolled.

It also feels like that is, that sounds like the sinatra of cats, like the attitude. Totally does. Like, that is the orange tabby way, is that, is that, like, because the crazy neighbor has an orange tabby name Carl. Carl visits lots of houses in the neighborhood. He will walk into our house if we leave a door open and it'll just own the place. It's funny. I love that. It's an orange tabby deal.

So the one I chose is one we haven't played before and I'm kind of surprised, but it's such a great version. The Violent Femms covered My Way on their album. Something's Wrong in 2001. It is just as good as you would expect. Here are The Violent Femms and My Way. Thanks for listening. The Frogpants Network lives at Frogpants.com. Something better than what you've been doing.