The Morning Stream - TMS 2046: Stimulus Pizza

Episode Date: January 6, 2021

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Starting point is 00:00:28 Keep it in the cow Where it belongs Technically, Commander Wharf is a ruminant Well, what did you know? I thought it was all farts Every pizza is a personal pizza Goat of Duty Mad Max Fargo Road
Starting point is 00:00:41 Paying the Johnny Utah Prize The legend of banjo's chocolate You could cut around the white chalky part Tom's tech time Recommentals, hazah, and more On this episode of the Morning Stream I need you to keep on the dodge And sidled up the lolly lob
Starting point is 00:00:56 Pass them hornheads Just hooting and a holler and the score off him rustlers. We'll cut dirt and get the bulge on them. Yes, we are just taking a nice shit together. The morning stream. The next best things in sliced bread. Good morning, everybody. TMS. It is Wednesday, January 6th, 2021. I'm Scott Johnson. He's Brian Ibit. Good morning, Brian Ibitt. Hi, Scott Johnson. How are you? Fine. Have you noticed that I have no problem remembering
Starting point is 00:01:39 the year since it changed over? No problems. No flip-flops. I don't know. That usually happens later, though, doesn't it? Like, you're, we all start off really well. And then it's about March or April, we start writing the old year for some reason. Could be. Like it's fresh. We just experienced New Year's Eve, so it's still fresh. in our minds, but then give us about 30 days and it's like, yeah, what year is it again? You see that awesome press release yesterday from,
Starting point is 00:02:05 it was from the White House, and it had a date up top, and it said January 5th, 2020. So they screwed it up. Always about quality control, this particular. Yeah, they are nothing if not throw an exact in the old
Starting point is 00:02:21 White House. Yeah, that's what you expect from good government. All right. Hey, check it out. We're here. We're going to do a show. We got We've got stuff coming up, a little game show with Dunaway. Of course, Tom and Nicole later in the show, a busy, busy Wednesday, I like to say. So much content on Wednesdays. So much prep for me on Wednesdays. I ate a whole pizza yesterday, and I feel guilty about it.
Starting point is 00:02:43 A whole pizza? Yeah. Well, it was a mod pizza, so it wasn't like a huge pizza. Oh, you know, those are made for one person to consume. Yeah, but I think I feel like I looked at it and went, I could split this. Yeah. Or I could save this other half. But then I didn't.
Starting point is 00:03:00 I went ahead and just kifed the whole thing down. And my kids bought pizza because they were just feeling nice. And I said, oh, thanks, Carter and Taylor. They split it. You didn't want them to feel bad. Of course, you can eat the whole thing. Yeah, you know. And they said, don't feel too bad dad.
Starting point is 00:03:20 It's government money, she says. Oh. And I said, oh, you got your stimulus. Stimulus pizza. So because it's stimulus pizza, I feel like I had to eat it, all of it. I had to eat the whole stimulus. And I did, and now I kind of regret it. I just feel fat and bloaty today.
Starting point is 00:03:36 And, you know, I did get the cauliflower thing, but it doesn't matter sometimes. You just eat too much of anything. It's just too much, you know. Well, there's the obvious joke. Well, every pizza is a personal pizza if you're determined enough or something like that. I can't remember. Is that an actual phrase? That's the thing people say.
Starting point is 00:03:53 I love that. So there was a, for those community. phrase that I can't remember. It's like, it's not Stephen Wright. It's someone more recent, maybe Gaffigan or something. Yeah. But here's the problem. Is that food,
Starting point is 00:04:07 if food didn't taste so good, some foods anyway, yeah. We wouldn't be fat because it'd be like, I am just consuming this food for sustenance. I have completed my sustenance and I can move on. It's like my sister Wendy always says, think of it as fuel and you'll lose all the weight you want.
Starting point is 00:04:25 And I can't do that. I can't just look at it and go, there is the nameless gray ghoul that I will put in my body and obtain all those nutrients I need. Like I can't. I just doesn't, I can't think of it that way. And I know people can. There are plenty who can. She's one of them. She's figured out the way to do it.
Starting point is 00:04:43 And just she sees food purely as fuel. And therefore she sees it very objectively and goes, oh, well, okay, there's some greens there, some protein. Like she's seeing what she needs. what I see is what I want. Exactly. And you finish it and you look at it and say, oh, I can imagine the way that that next slice of pizza is going to taste and I want it. I don't need it.
Starting point is 00:05:06 I'm not hungry, but I just want that taste. I wonder if you're better off. Here's a weird psychological thing. You know how when you do one of the things they recommend when you're trying to lose weight is to use smaller plates so that the food looks bigger. and you feel like you're eating more, even though it's the same amount of food, it's just on a smaller plate. Right. It's kind of overlapping the sides or whatever. Sure.
Starting point is 00:05:31 I wonder if the psychology of getting a large pizza and saying, I'm only going to eat a third of it or a half of it or quarter of it or whatever, depending on how large pizza is versus, oh, well, it's a small pizza. I don't want to just have that extra two slices sitting in the fridge and fall. oil, might as well just eat it if there's some sort of psychology to that. There probably is. I mean, I'm trying, I'm trying to think. If like, if, if, if I put, I don't know if I've tried this. If I put less food on a smaller plate, did that actually affect me? I don't, I don't know if it did. If I've ever even done that. Or if I cognitively, or if I, if I consciously did it and, and notice that I did it, maybe I don't even know that I did it. Well, we'll have to experiment around here. That's what we'll do. Yeah. We'll fiddle
Starting point is 00:06:23 experimenting. Amy says do a mindful eating exercise. You'll be so bored with the food you won't want to eat any more than you need. I'm guessing it's like every bite you think about like kind of what Wendy had us do early on. I remember this one very specifically. She was telling us to eat a banana. But with
Starting point is 00:06:39 every bite, think about the journey that that banana made to get from the tree to your fruit bowl. To your head to your head hole. Yeah. To your head face hole. Yeah. Your face hole. I've done this before, and it actually does work, but it's really hard to remember to do it.
Starting point is 00:06:58 Yeah. Like all mindfulness, it's like you have to really pound your habits in, and I've been bad at that. So, all right, here's my goal. Next time we meet here on the show, today, all of today, whatever I consume, I'm going to mindfully consume it on a smaller plate. How about that? Sure. How about that? You like that?
Starting point is 00:07:17 Okay. I like that. I do a lot. I'll do the same thing. We'll hook up on the other end and see how we did. Uh, anyway, good to have you all here. Let's get started with a quick email from a listener that just made me laugh. Um, and I actually put the image, let me, I know.
Starting point is 00:07:34 I love it. I love that I see the, I get the image of it. I got to blow this image up if I can for the chat because, oh, I may not be able to extract it. Crap. Because I, I actually inserted it in here and then deleted the original. I thought I could pull it out easy. I can't. But just imagine this in giant, giant thick text, okay?
Starting point is 00:07:50 Because that's how it came to me. He says this. Hey, Scott, this is from Rob. He says, sorry for the tech size. I can't seem to get office to do anything right. And I think it's because Microsoft wants me to log in every day or something. And Microsoft Teams is always trying to take over my computer? I know I'm a Luddite. But is there an argument to be made for Microsoft being too invasive? Maybe even for Microsoft slowing down American productivity. Is that a topic that you and the other Bryans can discuss? Sad and frustrated at becoming old, Rob. I just love this email because, and I wish they could see it better, but it's, you get all your fonts. Did you have anything in there before he apologized for his text size? No, that's it. This is the entire thing. So he began the email with, sorry for the text size. Yeah, this is the whole email as presented to me.
Starting point is 00:08:39 And what I loved about it was how, I mean, it is thick. If you go look at your regular email, you get like 10 point type or whatever. Yeah. This thing is like 24 size type or 18 point or something. huge. And he's just, it's just the kind of frustration that I wanted to just, I kind of want to just hug him and go, ah, these are good problems to have. Gotcha. I gotcha. So he's, yeah, I can see like the comparison of his, his little avatar and his name and the date, like the stuff that Google puts it there automatically are like little tiny thin stripes compared to the size of
Starting point is 00:09:16 this text. Yeah. And it sounds like it just did it without his will, without his willpower. Something happened in Outlook and, you know, I don't know. I don't know why, but this caught me just in a fun way. So, Rob, we feel you. So are we, do we want to discuss Microsoft slowing down American productivity? Well, they do that to me on my Xbox and Game Pass, but I don't know if there's, I don't know if I could blame it for much else. I mean, it's all Clippy. I think it's all Clippy's fault. Bob, remember Bob, Bob's fault? Oh, yeah, remember Bob? Bob. Bob was terrible he's still at it no I don't know like
Starting point is 00:09:54 Microsoft when you when you sign up for 365 office whatever it is and you are let's say you're on a Windows machine and you're using their browser using Edge and you're using all their stuff there is a lot of sort of you're in here you're not locked in here with you
Starting point is 00:10:12 you're locked in here with me sort of feeling like you do get a little surrounded by all their stuff right now and Apple is just as guilty oh yes you know don't Don't anybody think that we're taking, you know, Apple's side, but Apple does this too. And even to a different but also equally painful degree of like, oh, well, if you'd like your stuff to be synced across all your devices, sorry, you have to use Safari and this and that and ICloud and all that stuff. Yeah, it's like everybody. Google does it.
Starting point is 00:10:48 They all do it. Everybody wants you in their space. And that's just where you're at right now, there, Rob. So enjoy. Enjoy it while you're up. Welcome to the future. It is not going to get any better. Nope.
Starting point is 00:11:00 Your text size is just going to keep growing and growing and growing. Oh, man. I look forward to the day when he's just sending like 144 point text to me. That'll be great. You can only fit two words in each email. Yeah. It's just going to be a multiple of multitude of emails. It'll say, sorry for, and then that'll be all we got.
Starting point is 00:11:20 Anyway. appreciate your. Oh yeah, he is Canadian. No, I don't know if he is. I have no idea. All right. We're going to play a game today. Yeah. We're super prepped for this. It's going to be rad. Dunaway is going to be involved in some fashion. We're going to add. Also, which is also good. Yeah, yeah. I agree. He's going to come in here and join us in just a second. And we're going to also take your calls to be a part of this. But before all that starts, All right. Welcome to the show once again, as we do every Monday and Wednesday, Mr. Brian Dunaway. Hello. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian.
Starting point is 00:11:58 Oh, hi. Oh, hello, Brian. How are you? Hey, what? I've been better. I just got up from a 10-hour NyQuil nap. Oh, geez. Oh, no. Are you feeling sick? Yeah, I haven't felt well for the last couple of days. I don't believe it's the COVID. Settle down. I have one. I have allergies, and this is just like old allergy central here. The window, or the windows. The windows. Sorry. The winter is what I meant to say. It's another W word. The winter allergy is kind of the worst allergies because it feels like you're supposed to have that stuff in the spring and in the summer and stuff.
Starting point is 00:12:32 And it sucks. Right. It's that time of year for us where the weather is inconsistent. It's like one day it's like, oh, how'd you like it'd be 60 degrees? It sounds good. Next day, 20. Sounds good. Let's do it.
Starting point is 00:12:45 Yeah. How you feel about irregular weather? It's good stuff. It's good times. I'll tell you what else is a good time. playing games with you on the every other day and doing it with a listener who has very patiently sat here and waited for us to ramble
Starting point is 00:12:59 so I'm going to find out who it is right now. Hi, thanks for holding. Who's this? Hi, my name is Ian, and I'm currently suffering from dry throat. Nice. Ian, oh, no. Ian, don't have dry throat. That's not good. Are you probably not the COVID, though, just a little bit of the dry throat there? Yeah, it's the typical, you know, dry heat coming up in the apartment.
Starting point is 00:13:21 that happens every single time at this time of year. That's no good. So what do you do? Do you spray your mouth with some sort of spray? Do you drink a lot of water? Do you have a humidifier? What do you do? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:34 We've been trying to humidifier the last couple nights. I'm going to start taking some hours and see if that knocks it out. But other than that, I'm fine. Oh, good. Just a little bit, just a little bit of the back of the throat. Gotcha. You know what I try? What do you try?
Starting point is 00:13:47 Nothing. Then my fiancé will say, have you taken anything? I'm like, shut up. I want petty right now. Sympathy. That is exactly what happens in this house, too. Like, I complain about, oh, I've got a headache. Well, have you taken anything?
Starting point is 00:14:02 Well, no. I'm taking Complainitol. You mean there's medicines I can take? Shut out. Grumpini and Complainitol. And that's it. That's all I need. And the couch.
Starting point is 00:14:16 I need the couch. Ask your doctor of complainantol is right for you. Don't take complaints. at all if you're a little trick to complain at all well Ian it's wonderful to have you here and Brian will now explain to you why you're here what you could win and how it'll work why are you here Ian in your dry throat uh welcome to what's your nerd I've interviewed a member of the tadpool and asked them nine questions in a subject in which they consider themselves nerdy Scott and Brian will take turns predicting whether or not our guest will get those questions
Starting point is 00:14:46 correct if they predict correctly they receive a point the first player at a five wins the game. Caller, Ian, and your dry throat. As always, your job is to choose which of our two hosts will more accurately predict our guest's knowledge in their category. If you're correct, you win our prize package, which includes the carryover prizes from Monday, overcooked two, as well as all that damn DLC, too many cooks and surf and turf. And today we are adding goat of duty. Oh, from the goat simulator people.
Starting point is 00:15:19 Yeah. Because it's call of duty with goats, I'm assuming. Well, it's good. So goat simulator has these spinoffs. And they are always like goad or no, the walking or the goading dead and things like that. It's like they mix and match goats with like other popular things. And so yes, you're right. There's like a thematic sort of call a duty.
Starting point is 00:15:42 Goats versus plants versus zombies or something. It's pretty scary. It's not a complex game, but it is very positive. It's mostly a physics experience. experiment with a goat. That's pretty much what it is. It's fine. No, it's good. People love the goats. Cool. Well, you get that and overcooked if you correctly predict who's going to win this. But first, let's meet today's special guest and find out what's their nerd. Welcome Luke Johnson to What's Your Nerd.
Starting point is 00:16:11 Hey, Brian. How's going? Hey, Scott. And listener. And Brent, don't forget Brian Dunaway. Yeah, and Dunaway's here. Hey, Brian. oh hi so how are you doing what's uh what's new in your world uh you know a new year another chance for you know zoom calls all day long uh but i'm uh i'm excited to be on the show and uh we're i'm excited i've got a series x just like scott and i've been you know using the quarantine time properly for that so let's hear for load times at some point i'll have a PS5 at some point not that's right but at some point i appreciate your
Starting point is 00:16:49 your low-key approach to it, right? You hit refresh. Eventually it's going to be there. Yeah, eventually it will be there. If it's not, it's not. But that's never here nor there. You're here because I'm going to ask you a bunch of questions about a topic that you say you're an expert in. What is your nerd?
Starting point is 00:17:07 My nerd is the fabulous movie point break. And we're talking to the original, not this 2015 remake nonsense. I don't even mention it. That's how terrible the remake is. Like, I refuse to believe it exists. Yeah, that makes sense. When was the last time you watched Point Break? Well, the reason I love it so much is my buddy and I in college had a VCR kids look it up.
Starting point is 00:17:34 There used to be a way that we would watch movies. Whenever there was nothing on cable, we would hit play on the VCR. And we basically just left Point Break in the VCR for almost an entire college school year. So I've definitely seen it 100 times. I probably watched it most recently a few months ago. It is an annual or a biannual viewing for me. All right. Well, that should give our contestants, Scott and Brian, a good idea of how well you're going to do in all this.
Starting point is 00:18:00 If you're ready, let's go ahead and get going. Let's do it. Okay, so I was a little bit of more setup than I usually do. But I wanted you to hear how recently, how much he loves point break and how recently he's watched point break. Not terribly recently, but there was that whole year in college where it was stuck in the view. So, now that you know the topic, let's go over to Ian. Who do you think between Scott and Brian is going to more correctly predict how well Luke Johnson does with his point break knowledge?
Starting point is 00:18:32 Hmm. Well, if it was Mad Max point break, I'd go with Scott. I'm going to go with Dunaway on this one. All right. I'm all for that combo, by the way. Mad Max. Mad Max, Fargo, Road. point break. There you go.
Starting point is 00:18:51 All right. Let's get to this. And who do you want to go first? I'll have Scott go first. All right. Scott, all right. So Scott, I asked Luke Johnson, in addition to directing point break, Catherine Bigelow went on to win a best director Oscar for what other film.
Starting point is 00:19:10 Oh, well, I know this, but I wonder if he would know this because he's not necessarily saying he's an expert in everything about it, but I'm going to go ahead and give him some credit and say, yes, he'll know. Okay, you're going to say yes. Let's find out. Now, did she win it for the Hurt Locker,
Starting point is 00:19:25 or did she win it for Zero Dark 30? I'm going to say the Hurt Locker. Say the Hurt Locker because that's the right answer. Good job. Ding. Ding. All right, very good. And a point for Scott.
Starting point is 00:19:35 Brian, we asked, Luke, Johnny Utah played quarterback for what college football powerhouse? I think so. Little Hens says it's time to rock. Rock and roll, I'm going to say, New it. I'm going to say Luke knew, what's cool? Okay.
Starting point is 00:19:55 Too cool. Let's hear how we did. That would be the USC Trojans. That's not. I have Ohio State here. Oh, you are right. Ohio State number nine. My bad.
Starting point is 00:20:08 I should run the quote back in my mind. That's okay. That's okay. Go Trojans. Oh, damn. Oh, no. You can't. Can it count for a brain fart?
Starting point is 00:20:20 Nope. You can't. Nope, exactly. And that's exactly what it was. All right. So we'll stay with you, Brian, because it's two to one now. Scott has two. I'm sorry, two to zero. Scott's got two. Let's see if you can catch up. Bodie believes that a 50-year storm is going to create the biggest surf this planet has ever seen at what specific location. Did he know the specific location? I'm going to say that brain fart was just that it it's I think if you want the ultimate you've got to be willing to pay the ultimate price I think Luke knows this
Starting point is 00:20:55 sounds like you've watched it recently let's see if if Luke knows this one okay it's in Australia Bell's Beach Bell's Beach is correct yes we're done no way Baja is bigger than Bell's bro By the way, all this is making me want to watch Point Break, which is currently on HBO Max. And we have it for FilmSack if you ever want to go back and listen. That's right. I can go back and listen to our episode of FilmSack to see what we thought of it. Right.
Starting point is 00:21:31 All right, two to one. Brian, you still get this one. I asked Luke, what derogatory nickname does the FBI use to describe young agents straight out of Quantico? Did he know that? you know that see I I think I know that but now I'm feeling like what do you think it's a trick
Starting point is 00:21:51 I feel like it's a trick question now what do you think the answer is because it's not going to hurt if you say it yeah of course of course it will it'll hurt real bad because I'll get it wrong and then you'll laugh at me we're all going to laugh at you I'm going to say he got this All right.
Starting point is 00:22:13 He got this, yo. Let's see how he did. Blue Flame special. That's right. Oh, man. Nice. Well done. I wasn't even close then.
Starting point is 00:22:27 All right. We've tied things up. This one will go to Scott then in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Point break is the password used by Thor to access what? Oh, my gosh. Did Luke know what Thor used? is point break as the password for. Sorry, did you say
Starting point is 00:22:46 one of the Avengers movies, or did you just say the MCU? Or what do you say? In the MCU. Just MCU. I can, yeah, when I asked him, it's the MCU, but I can tell you specifically that the movie was Ragnarok, but that won't affect.
Starting point is 00:22:59 That's not what I asked him, but I can tell you that. I don't think I know this. I feel like I should know this. See, this is a Ragnarok question. So I'm going to say, Oh, he doesn't know this. All right.
Starting point is 00:23:16 Let's see how we did. This is the trick. What is strongest Avenger? That's Thor to access the Quinjet. That's exactly. Damn it. Guys. Oh, yeah, knowledge.
Starting point is 00:23:28 It's coming out. Frick. Okay. Yeah, we, you know, when somebody says they're an expert in something, we don't just stay in their little tiny bubble. We figure out other things outside their bubbles. This is the right way to do it. This is cool way to play the game.
Starting point is 00:23:42 was when they showed that he was probably like oh a movie relation my break i love that movie i don't remember that reference in there at all i thought it's when thor is uh trying to access the quinn jet after he's landed on the the planet and uh so this is not when hulk is getting that long shot where he's like riding in the jet no no and thor is like uh you know voice activation required thor not uh declined or denied uh thor son of odin denied uh strongest avenger denied damn you stark point break uh now you know what it's coming together now now i can kind of remember it that's pretty funny i need to watch ragner rock again is the answer to this question i think we all do it's uh easily
Starting point is 00:24:33 one of the top five mc movies uh so scott you get this one uh i asked luke about the soundtrack featured in the film's soundtrack is nobody rides for free the last single recorded by what band oh um I don't know it but that does feel like a thing he might know after hundreds of viewing
Starting point is 00:24:57 some say he knows that one okay let's hear how we did wow I definitely do not know the answer to this one so I'm going to guess and say Duran Duran Oh that's such a great guess rat Round and round rat.
Starting point is 00:25:13 I guess the soundtrack is one place where I'm lacking. I need to focus more on that. Oh, man, because all of the next questions are ready, I'm sorry, all the next questions are all about the soundtrack. Okay, I can say that. No, I'm kidding. Okay. He's so laid back.
Starting point is 00:25:32 You got to appreciate it. He's just like so mellow. He's super, super chill that dude. Yeah, that's, I, gosh, dang it. Okay. I guess I'm up again. You are up again. In the film, I asked Luke, in the film Hot Fuzz, Nick Frost,
Starting point is 00:25:47 replicates what Johnny Utah action as an homage to point break. These are hard. Well, yes. When you say you're expert at something, exactly. Scott Leifzer has a six sense of humor, doesn't it? I'm going to say he doesn't know that. Okay. that would be when he lays on his back and shoots his gun up in the air and screams
Starting point is 00:26:14 that's exactly right gosh dang it's a very dangerous uh move by the way i feel like that that you know those have to come down somewhere i know you see it all the time see it and you know three megos people i guess i got to try and see what happens exactly oh he comes down at terminal velocity though so it's not going to kill anybody right well if it comes down it will be terminal velocity but it still hurts it's like drop a penny from a building. Yeah, that terminal velocity is enough to create some havoc, but it's still not as fast as the bullet firing.
Starting point is 00:26:46 Ow! Yeah. I think actually a penny is a bad example. There's a lot of surface there and flipping. I think that could be harder to reach turmoil. Plus, I would think as it goes down, it's probably not going to spin. It's going to go with the least resistance, which means it's going to go edge down. Right.
Starting point is 00:27:03 But didn't I see a myth busters or something where they dropped a penny from the top of a high building and it went right through the skull of a fake body or something. Something like that. I'm sure MythBusters has done that one. Yeah. Anyway. Oh, yeah. Captain Kipper even found the link while you were saying it.
Starting point is 00:27:19 Oh, there it is. Yeah. You took so long. Yeah. Found it. So, Ian, you've won. Oh, that's it. He won?
Starting point is 00:27:27 Shit. That was five points for Brian Dunway. But we're going to keep going. And Scott, I'll let you, I'll let you answer these. Which rock star cameos as the character named Tone? Oh, I know this. He'll know this. He'll know that.
Starting point is 00:27:45 That would be Anthony Kedis, and I even brought drops. Check it out. That would be a waste of time. Wow. It's great. I've never had somebody do drops on my stuff, so this is perfect. Yeah. I pulled that for my own podcast, and I realized it was maybe perfect for today's topic.
Starting point is 00:28:04 He's not even wearing a sock on his room. So that's good. Weiner suck. Gosh, dang it. You're one radical son of a bitch, Luke. Yeah. And then one last one, while Patrick Swayze's Bode wears a Ronald Reagan mask
Starting point is 00:28:18 during robberies, what three other presidents provide disguises for the heists. I'm going to say he's going to know this, and also I know it. It's Nixon, uh, Carter. Uh,
Starting point is 00:28:32 oh, um, Garfield. No, who to, uh, Hulk No, who took over for
Starting point is 00:28:39 Who was Nixon's VP? I think he was his name. Ford. Ford. Ford? Ford. All right. Okay. So there's Nixon. Okay, Bodie, where's Reagan? Oh, boy.
Starting point is 00:28:55 I should have foreseen this question coming up. All right. I'm just going to say, so it's Nixon, Carter, and LBJ. Very good. Damn it. Good job. Get me worried there. I figured that would be, like, if somebody was going to get a list of point-bred questions,
Starting point is 00:29:10 it feels like that's the gimmee right there. That's right. Yeah. Wow. Okay. I feel dumb. It was LBJ. Sorry.
Starting point is 00:29:17 No, that's fine. I knew it was like a boring white guy. I knew that. So we're, I got it. Nailed it. Very good. Big thanks to Luke Johnson. I guess we recorded this last little bit here.
Starting point is 00:29:29 Now we're going to see. All that movie watching finally paid off. Yes. It's good. It's good to see results from something like that. that not feel like an entire year of having the VCR was a waste of time. Yeah, that's right. Nice.
Starting point is 00:29:43 How's your dry mouth feeling now? Yeah. Ian, how do you feel? Well, here, right. You'll feel better when I play this. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. How's it feel, buddy? How you doing?
Starting point is 00:29:53 It feels, it feels good, and I appreciate the inception of clips that was just going on. Yeah. It'll, uh, yes, I know, is clips within drops within clips within drops. It was amazing. Yeah. Your life will never be. the same. But congratulations. That means you've won one of the most fun multiplayer couch games ever created by man. So all you've got to do to get it, send Brian an email coverville
Starting point is 00:30:15 at gmail.com and he will hook you up. Congratulations and we'll see you next time. Thanks, Ian. All right. Well done. Remember to stay hydrated. And thanks again, Luke. That was great. Hey, Brian, you got anything going on? You want to tell people about? Any kind of, you know? Absolutely. You're not already following me on Twitch? Ask where I been creating all my content lately Twitch.tv.TV forward slash Brian Dunaway. Nice. Brian you were correct. I just want to put this out there.
Starting point is 00:30:44 The penny drop myth. The myth is the penny drops from a skyscraper lands with enough force to kill a pedestrian on a sidewalk or embed itself into the sidewalk. They said busted. Firing a penny at terminal velocity, 65 miles per hour or 105 kilometers per hour into a concrete or asphalt
Starting point is 00:30:59 disc and the ballistics gel head of a human failed to result in any penetrations because the speed is just too low and the penny's mass is too small. They even tried, let's see, for comparison, they fired a 6.5 millimeter bullet.
Starting point is 00:31:17 That split the dummy skull but is not, it still wasn't strong enough to go as far as people always said the penny did. So firmly busted, you were correct. Well done. Splitting the skull is pretty severe though.
Starting point is 00:31:32 Well, from a bullet, but I would expect that. from a bullet um so yeah but they but they fire it like that's also a terminal velocity right so shooting your guns straight up in the air most of the massive bullets is about the same it's about the same as a penny right well no they didn't shoot in the air they shot it down they shot it right but they shot it at what would be terminal velocity yeah correct to get it there yeah yeah and and and i think that has to do with mass like that's a that's a solid pointed uh thing so that mass plus speed plus you know, tapered head means
Starting point is 00:32:06 penetration. Penetration. Plus head means penetration. So much. So much for your intention. Yeah, no problem, buddy. I'm happy to give you some freebies. All right, Brian Dunaway. Check him out this weekend on Film Sack. We did a boop show yesterday. Everything's good. Everything's great.
Starting point is 00:32:22 And he's part of why it's great. We'll see you soon. Bye now. Aw. What was that sound I just heard? Hold on a second. That creeped me out. That was a weird sound. I think something just shifting. over there, but that was a, that's weird. I don't like it.
Starting point is 00:32:40 I don't like it. I don't like it at all, but I do like the news, so let's do the news. Hey, look at that. It's the news brought to you by. Brought to you by Soundography going up today, a brand new episode featuring the band Porcupine Tree. Yes, that's a real band, people. I didn't know that either. but they were a Prague band formed in England in 1987 as a joke and inspired by the psychedelic and progressive bands of the late 70s.
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Starting point is 00:33:32 I mean, it'll be out there later. It's out there later. It's out there later. Yep. Later. All right. Here's some news for you. We talked yesterday about that ancient Pompeii snack bar that they found.
Starting point is 00:33:44 You know, that was a thing. Ancient Pompey snack bar, huh? Uh-huh. Pretty sneaky, sis. Oh, wait, that's a different commercial. Different thing, but you get the idea. Well, she connected five. Anyway.
Starting point is 00:33:57 A hundred and twenty-year-old chocolate found in an Australian poet's paper. yeah this is pretty cool staff members at the national library of australia said they were stunned when they found a 120 year old box of chocolate hidden in papers of the past or excuse me of the late poet and journalist ab banjo patterson that is an australian ass name right there ab banjo patterson yeah he died with his chocolate old chocolate that's his old name or his voice that's every yeah exactly that's actually the voice of the chocolate yeah it's perfect it's perfect I'm not going to be eating on a box of old chocolates. My mom always told me I was a box of chocolates. Oh, I kind of hate that combo. I don't know why. I don't like it.
Starting point is 00:34:46 Anyway, it says here they were going through the recently acquired papers of the Australian poet when they stumbled upon a souvenir tin filled with chocolate. The chocolate was in its straw packaging and silver foil wrapping. That's how it used to be used to put. straw in there. Keep it all dry and stuff. Actually, we just got some cheese from a Vermont cheese mill that my dad sent as part of our Christmas gift, some amazing, like, old crumbly blue cheese and some really stinky birch rind
Starting point is 00:35:19 and, oh, it's good stuff. Anyway, it all came in a wooden box that was filled with straw. Well, that's cool. You can hide your, you can keep your weed in there. Yes. We'll save the wood box to keep our weed in there. Brilliant. Let's see. It is believed Patterson most likely bought the chocolate from one of the soldiers while working as a war correspondent in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
Starting point is 00:35:47 There was quite a lot of interesting smell when we unwrapped it, says National Library Australian Conservator, Jennifer Todd. A person has two first names. She does. It was an old tin of chocolates belonging to band. Joe with the chocolate still wrapped in the box. Patterson never referenced the chocolate bar in his writing, but the commemorative chocolate tins became a trading item at the front. So people would like, I'll give you a cigarette for one of your chocolates, they'd say.
Starting point is 00:36:14 Right, exactly. Chocolates, I don't know this. I don't know if they spoil or not, but I know after a while they get like a little bit of a white, kind of a surface patina, kind of a, you know, a change in color on the outside. Like a dog poo. Dog poos do that on the grass. That's true. Out in the frozen wasteland, out in the chilly winter air, they get that white. But I don't think that they, that it tastes bad. Like, I think I've still had chocolate that had that on it. And it's fine. It's my buddy who runs the candy factory up in Georgetown said, no, it's, you know, it's natural. Older chocolate gets that, but it's still fine to eat. Well, let's ask the question. If you were.
Starting point is 00:37:00 presented with Banjo's chocolate here, would you... 105-year-old chocolate? 120-year-old? I'm sorry, 120-year-old chocolate. Yeah, 120-year-old. Do you just eat it? Or what? What would you do?
Starting point is 00:37:12 I don't think I could do it. It's too old. Yeah, I think I would. I think, uh, because I don't think chocolate spoils. Yeah, maybe. That may be true. If it doesn't spoil. Does chocolate spoil?
Starting point is 00:37:22 Because I like really wanted to know. It might be like bitter, like the most bitter thing you were put in your mouth, like a freaking ancient. Uh, Chocolate doesn't have an official expiration date, but it does have a sell-by date. In most cases, it's perfectly fine to eat chocolate. Chocolate past the cell-by date, depending on how it was stored. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:39 There we go. Okay. So maybe you'd do it then. Maybe, I don't know. Maybe I wouldn't now that I know that because I don't think this was stored very well. Nope. It was stuck in a bunch of books and papers and stuff. But the straw was there, so I don't know.
Starting point is 00:37:52 Anyway, if it-Ciper says it will mold. So if it, yeah, if it molds, obviously, I'm not eating it. Nothing wrong with a little extra penicillin. in your life, right? Just, you know, stick it in and... Here we go. Over time, chocolate may change in appearance and develop a thick white film, but it's still perfectly edible. Of course, a taste test is the only way to tell if the flavor has been affected. So, uh, the only way to tell if it's bad is if you taste it, which does not feel like a good way to tell if something's bad. Well, what if you,
Starting point is 00:38:21 you could cut it around... It's too late if you've done that. You could cut around that chalky white layer thing. You could scrape out the, scrape the layer off and it'd be totally fine within yeah yeah now if there's a cherry in there one of those weird ones no way dude oh no way yeah no if it's if it is anything but just solid chocolate then then I might do it but um I wouldn't do it I can't take I can't eat regular chocolate now but I can have dark occasionally that sounds so good right now I don't even like dark chocolate sounds good all right a new invention this is important stuff for the future of this planet cow burp catcher
Starting point is 00:38:58 Cow burp catcher. Yeah, this is a thing that could help reduce methane emissions by 60%. That has a lot of methane emission savings. Keep it in the cow where it belongs. A burp-catching face mask for cows could prove an unlikely weapon in the battle against climate change by reducing the methane emitted by cattle, which currently is massive. Cattle herds and other ruminants. What does that mean?
Starting point is 00:39:26 Ruminant. Is that a cow? Like cattle, yeah. Other ruminants. Cattle herds and other ruminants. Like sheep. Stuff that like grazes on the land and farts a lot. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:39 Okay. Yeah, I don't know the exact what all that entails, but I know that sheep, cows, goats. Oh, there we go. Multiple stomach animals. That's the definition. Multiple stomach animals. Interesting. So technically, Commander Wharf is a ruminant.
Starting point is 00:39:57 Is a ruminant. or ruinament, whatever he is. Anyway, it says here, they're responsible for up to 37% of the methane emitted worldwide. The greenhouse gas is 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere. But while the cow farts are often the emissions that make up the headlines, cow burps are the problem. With up to 95% of methane emissions coming from their mouths, not their butts. Oh, interesting. That's not a thing I knew until today.
Starting point is 00:40:27 I didn't know that either. Yeah, that was all farts. Hence the burp-catching mask developed in the UK by a company called Zelp, Z-E-L-P. Maybe we're not even hearing them moo. Maybe those are just like, like long frat-brat-Belches. Frat belch. Frat belches, yeah. I like the distinction.
Starting point is 00:40:49 That's the definition. By the way, if this U-D-K company is called Zelp, is it actually called Z-E-Lp? No, because you're not spelling it. only zed when you say the letter okay so it's always pronounced it's like z z zi okay so zelp that's a terrible name is what i'm getting zelp it is a terrible name anyway it's fitted on the cows uh somewhere between six and eight months of their lives uh let's see they talked to wired the co-founder of the company francisco norris uh said we're aware that in every country methane is one of the biggest contributions of global warming and we found a methane mitigation tool in agriculture or no
Starting point is 00:41:25 they say that those are under uh research there's a lot of innovation coming within the field right now, or occurring in the field. Bessi, previous solutions of the methane problem have come in the form of animal feed, designed to reduce methane emissions. But this thing's going to work. So they're going to put a mask on your cow. And say, here, Bessie. Put your Bino food.
Starting point is 00:41:44 That's exactly right. Mask up, they'll say to the cattle. Mask up, they'll save some planets. Methane will travel through a mask, I assume. Well, this is supposed to filter it out to some degree. It can't be 100%. but the whole idea is, well, 30, let's see, what's the number? 60% reduction overall with the masks on.
Starting point is 00:42:05 That's crazy. Which is probably about what. That's surprising me that. If more people wore masks, that's probably the reduction in admission of freaking COVID for all I know. I don't know. Yeah. I made that up. Made that right up.
Starting point is 00:42:16 Don't have any idea. I guess it's probably like a, it's more of a solid mask as opposed to like the masks that we're, that we're wearing the we can um that's covering both our noses and our mouths that we can breathe through yeah probably just covering their mouths and it's like little burp catchers yeah and it's got like a like a thick something up front because cows cows don't complain about their comfort they're too dumb that's right i'm not gonna wear a moo mask yeah have moo oh speaking of which i wonder if anyone else with a close to two-year-old has this problem so he loves books and he loves apps and he loves like matching things. He's got these apps that Taylor bought on her iPad that are just like
Starting point is 00:43:00 connect to the, you know, here's an egg and a chicken and put those two together because those go together and that kind of stuff. And he's really good at it. He's matching and mixing and doing all this stuff. But there's one app called Sounds Animals Make. And when he plays that one, he immediately bursts out into tears as soon as he even sees the app open. Really? It's the cow on there. And it does a realistic like, like, like that? Yeah. He loses it, pushes the iPad away,
Starting point is 00:43:30 crawls into your arms, hides in your hair. He's terrified of it. Oh, no. Yep. So cows, what the, what the frick, dude. Yeah, no kidding. Yeah. He's, and it's the only one.
Starting point is 00:43:43 And if he even sees your finger hovering over that app, like you're going to push it, he'll slap your hand away. He'll smack it away. Really? Yeah. Something with that cow. Dang.
Starting point is 00:43:52 Don't know what's up. That, I guess the last. lion, he doesn't like the lion either. But that makes sense to me, a lion, right? Kind of scary and loud and, I don't know, it's growly and low or whatever, but the cow is just a freaking cow, so he'll get used to it.
Starting point is 00:44:06 This mask, I think it's a, I can't tell, this looks like it's a... Oh, they're pictures? I didn't even think to look. Retouched photo, yeah. Not retouch, what's the word I'm looking for here? Photoshop. I'm here. I'll put it in the chat. I hope this isn't like a crazy
Starting point is 00:44:22 long URL. It's not bad. Well, it still didn't pull up a graphic. There's video of them making it. Oh no, this is, what is this? Oh, this is the chocolate guy.
Starting point is 00:44:35 I got the wrong thing. I put it on our Discord, the mask. Okay. Which doesn't cover their nose or their mouth. It looks like it, it, um,
Starting point is 00:44:48 like sucks up the methane like, uh, yeah, the arrows I know are fake. Thank you, Claire. But I'm thinking that the whole thing might be photoshopped in. I can't
Starting point is 00:44:58 tell. Or if that really is a photo of them wearing it. It took me three copies of a link to get it right. Oh yeah. Look at that. Yeah. Oh, I can't tell either. I think that's real. But obviously the arrows aren't real. Obviously the arrows, yes.
Starting point is 00:45:14 Yeah. But I think the other part might be. Well, if that's all it is, that doesn't look that fancy. No. No. It wouldn't affect their breathing or anything. No. But how does it know to suck up the methane? I mean, is it just constantly hovering the top of their head? Yeah, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:45:34 I don't know. More data needed. Yes, exactly. More data. Yes. All right. Let's do this now, this story. Okay.
Starting point is 00:45:46 Brian, when's the last time you ate an icicle? Were you a kid? Years? Yeah, I was a kid. Yeah. Okay. So was I. It's a long time ago.
Starting point is 00:45:54 Everyone did. That's just a rule when you were a kid. You ate an icicle once in a while. Well, if you lived in a snowy place, I guess. If you're in California, I don't know what to tell you. But according to a meteorologist in Iowa, they went viral with a TikTok video that showed off why you shouldn't be eaten those icicles that come in the winter. And the reason was that it's, well, there's a few things.
Starting point is 00:46:20 But one of them is they're hanging off your gutter. and your gutter collects a bunch of stuff including bird poo there's so much there's so much about like the bacteria from rotting leaves I mean there's you know it's the worst maybe that's how we built up our immune systems but everything dripping off of that thing is bad
Starting point is 00:46:37 it's like insects and dead stuff a bird that you don't even know is dead or it's nest full of freaking baby bird poo is like up the thing and it's been trickling down there all winter and you're just licking on that thing so anyway she put it under a micro scope and showed it off and it's sure enough just packed with crap i mean it could have been
Starting point is 00:46:58 stabbed into william saddler's head by bruce willis you never know i mean it's certainly you don't know where that icicle has been you really don't i forgot he did that is that weird that i forgot that actually wasn't william sadler it was uh another one of his one of his henchman oh oh he didn't do it to sadler and no how did how did bruce willis Sadler and Diehardt, too. I don't remember. My only memories of that movie.
Starting point is 00:47:28 Blow him up in a plane. That's right. It was like the plane that had him in there that was had the, he lit the. Oh, and then he shot up in the air in his seat.
Starting point is 00:47:37 Right. Yeah, the flame followed it up into the sky and the fire, like the fire followed the fuel trail. Yeah. It's a super dumb. It is,
Starting point is 00:47:47 but we were okay with it back in 95 or whatever. Yeah, whatever it was. We were okay with it. but those my only memory of that movie is his wife and uh the reporter guy from the first movie are on the same plane that's all i remember and she tases him in the bathroom because of the restraining order yeah that just that kind of i remember it bugging me because i just remember thinking what because he was in the bathroom using the sat phone to like uh uh
Starting point is 00:48:15 give away the secrets that they had found out on the plane that i can't remember that was dumb just the fact that they're on the same plane Like, come on. Right. How are you really going to do that? Like, we're going to have that throwback from the first movie? I don't know. annoyed me.
Starting point is 00:48:29 Yeah. Don't eat them is what I'm saying. Yeah. Don't eat the icicles. Yeah. They're bad for you. Did you think about it? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:37 Yeah. If you got, well, here's the problem with TikTok. As soon as this was said, a bunch of people went and found icicles and started eating them on camera because they're not afraid. Yeah. Yeah. It's the whole thing like the COVID. Oh, the COVID challenge.
Starting point is 00:48:53 COVID challenge the, put an orange on your stove, burn it, char up the outside, then open it up, eat the insides mixed with brown sugar. And that's how you tell if your taste is coming back, right? Really? From COVID? Yes. I had not heard that. That's really weird. I've looked at a grand total of maybe five videos on TikTok. How have I seen this and how have you not? I know, because I eternal scroll on that thing some nights. Like last night, I was on there for a long time, laughing my head off. I will sit there with Carter and we will just share back and forth dumb things we're seeing.
Starting point is 00:49:30 Right. And you'd think I would have seen that, but yeah. Have not. Have not. All right. You've done the challenge where it shows you an animal and you've got to make the animal sound. Oh, right. Or the worst one is, it's similar where someone's got a fart coming.
Starting point is 00:49:49 And they say to their significant other or whoever's around. They'll say, predict what my fart sounds like. And the guy will go, or whatever. And then the person will fart to see if it sounds close. And once in a while, you'll find people that are like dead on. Like, well, sure. I don't know why I'm getting these because I don't like them. But when they're there, I'm like, well, I got to see this through.
Starting point is 00:50:10 Because you watch the whole thing. I got to see it through. I got to know. Yeah. I got to know. Anyway. final story of the day a pharmacist this is such psycho news one of Dan's one of these guys I'm not saying he would do this but professionals they went to school for this there's an important part of the medical community here
Starting point is 00:50:32 a pharmacist accused of spoiling COVID-19 vaccines believed it would change people's DNA and that's why he did it according to officials the pharmacist accused of intentionally spoiling nearly 600 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a Grafton clinic first appeared in Ozak, Ozaki County? I think it was Zaki, yeah. Ozaki County Court on Monday. I don't know where this is. Halfway between the Ozarks and Milwaukee? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:51:03 Perfect. That's really, uh, nailed it. Uh, Stephen Brandenberg is the pharmacist accused of deliberately spoiling vials of vaccine at the Grafton Aurora Medical Center on two occasions. Let's see. The district attorney told the judge of the vaccines were initially believed to have been destroyed and needed to be tested to be determined if that was actually the case. Anyway, let's see. It was being held on probable cause in their probable cause statement,
Starting point is 00:51:34 Brandenberg removed the box containing the vaccine from the refrigerator and let it out for 12 hours rendering it useless. So that's how you do it. It's just spoiling that way. He told investigators he believed the vaccine. was not safe for people and would harm them and change their DNA. None of that's true. The probable cause statement said he was an admitted conspiracy theorist,
Starting point is 00:51:57 although they're the best. They're the best. Medical professionals have reportedly stated that the MRNA COVID vaccines do not alter a person's DNA. Can't believe you have to say that. Brandenberger's arrested on the 31st on charge is a first degree recklessly endangering safety and adulterating a prescription drug. adulterating. Adulterating.
Starting point is 00:52:18 Should that be altering? No, adulterating. What does that mean? Adulterating. Changing, changing it. Changing the, the, changes. Make up of it. Adulterating.
Starting point is 00:52:32 And now I need to learn today. Sure. We're going to confirm this definition. Adulterating to make impure by adding extraneous, extraneous, extraneous, improper, or inferior your ingredients. Spurious. Adulterus. Okay. That's a weird combo of words and I'll believe them. I'll believe them. As 57 people did not receive the vaccine after it was let out, but it was believed to be no health harm. So in other words, if you got one from the spoiled that, you didn't hurt you. Probably just didn't do it like,
Starting point is 00:53:05 just didn't work. You got to come back in, get another jab. And then another job three weeks later. How this guy is a conspiracy theorist and a pharmacist is kind of They're everywhere Yeah, they really are everywhere But I mean, I would think that All right, if you're in the medical industry That kind of gives you that
Starting point is 00:53:26 That experience and knowledge You went to medical school You went to, you know, you've Basically done enough to know that Right from wrong, I would have think, but I guess not I blame ancient aliens, the show, the cable. Claire Gack asks, basically narrows down what I was trying to say. He likes science, but also doesn't.
Starting point is 00:53:44 Yeah, I don't know with the wrong with this guy. It does seem, well, whatever, you strip him whatever license you get for being a pharmacist, okay? Let's take that away. Number one, job number one, do that. The rest of it, you know, you prosecute them all you want, but don't let him anywhere near this anymore.
Starting point is 00:54:01 How about that? Exactly. All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back, Tom's Tech Time, recommendals and more. Before that, a song selection from the vast library that Brian Ibbett has collected over the years. Brian, what are we playing?
Starting point is 00:54:12 That's right. Got a brand new album from Ben, called Here Lies Man, coming out this year. It's called Ritual Divination. And we haven't done a lot of psychedelic rock on this show, but we're about to do some psychedelic rock. Here is the band, Here Lies Man, and the brand new single, Collector of Vanities. All right. We'll be right back.
Starting point is 00:54:31 Please stay tuned. I don't know. All had a shame to play Come and raise the legger Get to me Memo me I like the vanity Don't make sure.
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Starting point is 00:56:58 die legia Get to me Memo Memory I like now A vanity Oh, hey, oh, hey, oh, hey, oh. Hey, oh.
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Starting point is 00:59:04 they serve and then use this monopoly to, I don't know, take advantage of you, the customer. Data caps, streaming throttles. The list goes on. But worst of all, many ISPs log your internet activity and sell that data right on up the chain to other big tech companies or advertisers. And to prevent ISPs from seeing my internet activity, I protect all my devices with ExpressVPN. It's a simple app for your computer or smartphone that encrypts all your network data and tunnels it through a secure VPN server so that your ISP cannot see any of your activity. Just think how much of your life is on the internet right now. Pretty much every site you visit, every video you watch on YouTube,
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Starting point is 01:00:40 months for free. Again, ExpressVPN.com slash TMS right now and learn more. The thing with motion smoothing that you have to remember is you want it on for sporting events, but off for TV and movies. Even take a football movie like 1974's The Longest Yard starring mustachioed actor Bert Reynolds. Dude, you're blocking kickoff. Well, better to not watch the game at all
Starting point is 01:01:10 than to watch in the wrong format, right? Get out of your sister's bubble. The morning stream, the sugar and cream in your coffee. All right, we're back, everybody. Welcome back to the program. And yes, that was Colin Robinson talking about motion-smoving on television. I love it.
Starting point is 01:01:39 He is so freaking funny. All right, we're going to go Tom, Tam. While you get Tom, I'm going to make a really quick run to the bathroom. Be right back. Go for it. I'm pulling him in. While Brian goes poop. which I shouldn't assume
Starting point is 01:01:57 I don't know where he's going but it doesn't matter because we're going to play this now right here these are their stories with the computer as with any tool the concept and direction must come from the man
Starting point is 01:02:08 that man is Tom Merritt joins us on Wednesdays and is here yet again to talk to us today Brian just gets up and uses me as a bathroom break you play the wrong intro what am I supposed to think here
Starting point is 01:02:19 Scott Johnson kicking the new year off with style is what you're watching that's what you're witnessing Normally, you would be like in Vegas already in a normal year. Well, yeah, right, because usually CES is that first Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or, you know, in the past several years it has been. They delayed it. So CES is now next week. And also not in Las Vegas.
Starting point is 01:02:41 It's not anywhere. It's going to be virtual. Which, you know, it's not the first conference to do that. Ifa did a combo of that back in September and is a technically bigger conference than CES. But, you know, CES is the big hoopla of the tech year here in the United States. So it's odd that it won't be in person at all. And even EFA had some limited in-person events. CES has nothing.
Starting point is 01:03:05 So this is a huge technology show that is not going to happen in any particular location. And we're all very curious to see what that means. I've covered it without being there before. But that was because there were thousands of other people there. And I could just read their postings on the Internet. Now none of us are going to be there. So how does one, what does one expect in your position this year as somebody who does cover these things and has to do it virtually?
Starting point is 01:03:30 Have they said what to expect? Do you know what you're looking for? Well, yeah, they're going to have the keynotes like they would normally have streamed. So instead of crowding into the ballroom, you'll stream them. I never crowded into the ballroom anyway. I always streamed them from somewhere else at CES. So that really isn't different. And honestly, it's not going to be that different for anybody who was in the ballroom,
Starting point is 01:03:51 except they won't be as sweaty, I guess. So that will largely remain the same. We'll get the big announcements, not just the keynotes like the Verizon, you know, CEO, Vestager keynote, but also we'll also get, I think I just said his name wrong, so I apologize. We'll also get, you know, the announcements,
Starting point is 01:04:11 the press conference onstage announcements that all the big companies like LG do. So I'd say a good percentage, 75% is going to be. be the same. What will be different is those things that people stumble across when they're walking around the floor or they're at one of the after hours press events like digital experience or show stoppers or even CES unveiled. You're not going to get the same momentum of everyone running into each other and saying, hey, did you see the fork that vibrates when you've
Starting point is 01:04:42 eaten too much? Oh my gosh, I got to go look at that, right? Which was an actual product last year at CES. Tim Stevens was on DTS earlier and he pointed out that a lot of lot of his compatriots are receiving products in the mail. So we'll have some hands-on stuff, but it will be distributed amongst reporters around the world. And it will be different because instead of, you know, spending 15 minutes in a booth, you've got the thing in your house. Yeah. Yeah. That's a big change.
Starting point is 01:05:12 So, so when you, every year, CES is famous for, I shouldn't say famous for this, but every year seems like you're, it's always like, hey, there's this one thing that really popped or one thing everyone expected to see and there were tons of it, whether back in the day it was super thin TVs or 4K when that was a thing or whatever the hot new innovation is from whoever or the thing that everybody's bringing to the table. Is there one of those this year that you've been keyed in on and we're all supposed to be super stoked about? No, I mean, it's always, it always feels like the same trends, but then when you go back and you look over the past, four or five years, they slowly change.
Starting point is 01:05:54 So when I say 4K and 8K TVs, it's like, just like last C, yes, except it's probably a different balance. We're probably going to see more 8K TVs. We're probably still not going to see an 8K TV that you're going to actually want to have in your house or that is going to really be compelling for people to buy. But we probably will start to see people making the case of why in a couple of years that'll happen. This was the same as CES 2001 with 1080P.
Starting point is 01:06:23 It was the same for CES 2006 with 4K. So that's kind of the evolution is a little bit more 8K news. Probably the biggest thing that everybody will be talking about is putting 5G in their thing. Now that 5G has pretty much launched and is rolling out widely, we're going to see a lot of different Internet of Things devices, a lot of different laptops, et cetera, that we'll have that data built in. Well, I'm excited for your coverage, because I always enjoy your coverage of this thing. And this year will be interesting. Could people just go to, like, Twitch or YouTube and see this stuff live? Or is this closed password only?
Starting point is 01:07:01 Like, what's... Yeah, a lot of it will be available. You'd probably want to go to CES. I think it's CES.com. It just kind of auto-populates when I go in there. Or search CES 2021, and they'll have a lot of links out. so it may not be all on YouTube but it will be out there
Starting point is 01:07:21 for people to view but there will also be private stuff yeah it's CES 2021 oh CES dot tech oh they got the dot tech oh the dot tech yeah because cES dot com just goes nowhere squatted
Starting point is 01:07:37 nice all right well look at some of these featured speakers we have Kathy Engelbert the commission of the WMBA, head of product inclusion at Google and Janine Baptiste, and of course, Duolipa, singer and songwriter. Duolipa, yeah. She's going to levitate right on through CES.
Starting point is 01:07:58 I like her, so I am totally down with her and what she asks. She's very smart. Everything come out all right, Brian? Yeah, how you doing? It's just fine. Oh, good, good. That's fantastic news. I've been back for a while just being nice and silent because I don't want to interrupt.
Starting point is 01:08:11 Yeah, well, no worries. Well, good. Well, again, DTNS will be my source of most of this information. And today I'll be on the Daily Tech News show. Is there anything else going on in and around any of this stuff that you want to mention today? Yeah, I think one of the things will be talking, well, two of the things we'll be talking about today will be the executive order that the president signed against six or seven different Chinese apps, including cam scanner, which is the first app to be banned by the president that I have. on my phone, because it's a hand scanning app. I don't really use it that much, but I was like, oh, look, I have that one.
Starting point is 01:08:52 That and Allie Pay is another one, which is not used widely in the United States by residents, but it's certainly used by tourists. So, you know, that could impact tourism. So we'll talk about whether this is even going to glass whether President-elect Biden would overturn it, or whether it'll end up getting hung up in the courts, like the bans on TikTok, And WeChat did. So there's that. And I also want to talk about these new models from OpenAI, Dolly and Clip, that take your image and tell you what's in it, in Clip's case, based on being able to identify the objects.
Starting point is 01:09:32 So it doesn't have to be trained on the image to recognize it. And Dolly, actually, you tell it to draw something and it will draw it for you. Oh, wow. I'm into that. I want to see more about that. That seems like my jam. One of the tests they gave Dolly was a baby dicon radish in a tutu walking a dog. Oh, really?
Starting point is 01:09:52 Oh, Zhe could go complex. Yeah. And so it drew 15 different versions of a baby diacon radish in a tutu walking a dog. Wow. That's crazy. I kind of want to have. I'm all about following up on this. All right.
Starting point is 01:10:05 Well, that's great news. Again, today, Daily Tech News Show 230 Mountain Time. I'll be there. You and me and Roger and, of course, Sarah Lane. doing the daily, and it'll be great. I'm excited. First one of the new year for me. And all that great coverage of CES coming up soon.
Starting point is 01:10:21 They start at what? Next week, he said? Yeah, it starts, I think, technically on Monday, the 11th is when it all kicks off. But as with all CES, even virtual ones, stuff starts leaking out early. So we're already getting some CES announcements from companies like LG. It'll just ramp up probably on Sunday. And Monday and Monday and almost everything will be announced by Tuesday. So next Tuesday, Robert Heron and Patrick Norton will be joining us to kind of cover all the home theater announcements because they're expecting to get a lot of that kind of stuff.
Starting point is 01:10:55 Those two are perfect for that. That's fantastic. Yeah, definitely be checking that stuff out. Speaking of things that leak out early, that was what happened to Brian and why he had to leave the show for a minute. I didn't want that to happen. So, yeah, it took preventative. Well, just not early. That early would be bad.
Starting point is 01:11:11 But yes. There you go. Tom Merritt, Ace Detect on Twitter, of course, The Daily Tech News Show.com. Oh, any cool side projects going on right now? Got to make sure to get that in. What are we doing? Anything for you?
Starting point is 01:11:23 You know, not anything particular that I have to talk about. But if you want to keep up with my writing, I've been beta reading a novel that I want to put out, you know, within the next six months or so called The Girl at the Bottom of the Lake. So I might start making some postings and excerpts from that. You can even find some older versions of it. if you join my writing Patreon. All kinds of good stuff flows out there throughout the month,
Starting point is 01:11:49 things that I write fiction-wise. So go check it out, patreon.com slash ace detect. There you go. There you go. Tom Merritt, Ace Detect on Twitter. We'll see you soon. Have a fantastic day. Bye now.
Starting point is 01:12:02 All right, Brian. Yes. We're alone for recommendals today. You and I. Oh, we're Nicola. Yeah, she just texted us and said school stuff for kids. priorities she went mark and then yep exactly as it should be yeah so we're going to do that on our own today and it starts totally fine yeah totally fine and it begins with little music here
Starting point is 01:12:24 that's right that music means it's the scott and brian edition of recommendals things we've seen on streaming services over the last week that we want to make you go watch and uh tradition states we start with brian we've got a couple recommendals today we'll start with number one how do you want to set this one up? Number one is a series. I believe it came out this summer, maybe even spring. But it took us a while to get to it, and I'm glad we finally got to it. Sounds like something I might like.
Starting point is 01:12:54 So I'm going to play it now. We'll find out what it is. I'll try to guess. Emperor Peter, I present this branch of spruce. It is an evergreen, and I hope it will be a symbol of our feelings for each other. That we will be constant and caring all our lives. She gave me a twig. She's not another imbred, is she?
Starting point is 01:13:13 It wasn't mentioned. I assure you I am of sound mind, sir. I wanted to thank you for your letter, noble poetic sentiments. It warmed my heart. I wrote her letter? We threw a little something together. How about that?
Starting point is 01:13:32 Well, you liked it, so that's grand. Welcome. I hope I will make you happy. They're not perfect. I need an empress who's from aristocracy. but not from a family that is powerful or a player. Your family apparently are fucked. You smell funny, is that usual?
Starting point is 01:13:47 I have been traveling. Let's hope that's it. Weddings at 7. Archbishop Samson will now give you instructions. Oh, you're cute. I have to get back to my horse. I have no idea. That is Nux from Mad Max Fury Road right there, Nicholas Holt.
Starting point is 01:14:04 That's a TV show called The Great, all about Catherine the Great. oh my gosh i love that there's something really funny about that humor it it is really well done like the whole the whole uh series is like that it's um uh if you liked the favorite then this is kind of more of the same okay um uh it's got el fanning as katherine the gray or well katherine before she's the great uh empress katherine and peter son of peter the great um didn't realize she was Austrian, moved to Russia, to marry Peter, and then became
Starting point is 01:14:45 Catherine the Great, the ruler of Russia for a while. But it, yeah, it's really, really, really well written, well-acted. Such a great lineup of folks in there. And most people are
Starting point is 01:15:01 folks that, you know, you might have seen in one or two things, but other than El Fannie and Nicholas Holt, not a lot of recognizable phases in there with one exception I'm trying to find his name right now the he's the
Starting point is 01:15:17 the priest that's part of the clip said we weren't informed or whatever he said yes there is something familiar about that guy's voice and he's a guy that you recognize and say oh yeah I've seen that guy in a million things he is sorry
Starting point is 01:15:34 that I should have had this a little bit quicker Adam Godley Yeah, and you You know, let me, I'll give you a link But Adam Godley, you know from Oh, I know I'm from a ton of stuff Yes, exactly He was on Breaking Bad and
Starting point is 01:15:54 Oh, geez, other things, other things. Exactly, exactly. He's like what those people Love actually. Isn't he the monkey? He's the monkey on Umbrella Academy, I think. He's the voice. Oh, I think you're right. Yes.
Starting point is 01:16:11 I think so. I think that's true. Yes, he absolutely is Pogo. He absolutely is the voice and then does also the motion capture. Yeah, I like this guy. He's got a creepy way about him. The blacklist and Homeland and. Oh, this sounds like my jam.
Starting point is 01:16:25 This is so funny because I just saw what I would, I saw a period based series with Kim that I really disliked. It was called Bridgeton. I'll just put it out. It's a brand new thing, Bridgetton. Yeah. I really didn't like it. But I wanted to because I like period piece stuff.
Starting point is 01:16:42 And I really hated it because it's a romance novel. And it's based on a romance novel and I get it and it's fine. And Kim liked it and I can't stand this sort of stuff. But I like period piece, what you've described and that clip tells me that this is way more where I want to be. It's got such a great sense of humor. And it's a mostly actually. accurate retelling of the story of Catherine the Great, including the whole rumor about her
Starting point is 01:17:12 and a horse. Oh, really? Okay. Yes. They broach that subject. They broach that subject. Okay. Ellie Fanning does if it really fakes an accent real well.
Starting point is 01:17:25 She's great. She does. She does such a great job. And yeah, and Nicholas Holt, you know, we love him. The Beast, Nucks. He's everything he's in. He's great. he's great in everything and he's stupidly handsome like go go away with your perfect face he's
Starting point is 01:17:42 just too good looking i like him though i like yes uh all right great one first that's your first one down it's on it's by the way it's on hulu and um uh the whole thing's there and there's a little bit of nudity but very very very little nudity a lot of swearing oh all right bring it on and everybody says huzzah all the time all the time huzzah all the time HaZah. Hazzah. Really? They say hazah.
Starting point is 01:18:06 Okay. Hazzah. Hazzah. Let's make a comeback. Let's get Hizah back. I'm fine with that. I think we should make a comeback of a haza. Haza.
Starting point is 01:18:16 Sure. Why not? All right. Is this second one a movie or another TV show? Second one is also another TV series. This one's HBO Max. And you'll probably recognize at least one of the voices in this clip. All right.
Starting point is 01:18:27 Here we go. Oh my God. Backerat. Video roulette. Video poker. video blackjack Okay Nora
Starting point is 01:18:42 You can sit with us if you want Or you can find your own table If you'd rather have some space What Oh this is what we do in Atlantic City We sit in the food court And we watch K dramas all day Then we turn in our vouchers for cash
Starting point is 01:18:59 You guys didn't come all the way to Atlantic City And not gamble You can be doubling your money. Grandma, the house never wins. That is wrong. I can't believe you guys come here and just sit here when there's a million fun things to do out there. It's the whole world.
Starting point is 01:19:11 We have craps, slut machines, parcheasy tables. This is awesome. And you guys just sit here the whole time? Oh, yes. I said one time we all pulled our money to get a male prostitute for Helen as a joke. They had lunch together, maybe some light fingering.
Starting point is 01:19:28 But otherwise, we just keep the money. I don't have any idea. I thought that was SpongeBob at first. I don't know who that is. That voice, the high-pitched grandma voice, is Lori Tan Chin, who you'd recognize from Orange is the New Black. She was Mi Chang, the Chinese con in prison with all the women. But the main, the other voice you're hearing is Aquafina, who plays her granddaughter. Okay.
Starting point is 01:20:00 And this is Aquafina is Nora from Queens. And it's, um, it's, it's basically, I don't know. I mean, it's, it's kind of like,
Starting point is 01:20:10 um, Atlanta and insecure in that you've got a central character who's loosely similar to their acting character, but, um, but you're seeing a fictionalized, uh, version of their life.
Starting point is 01:20:28 And so she lives with her grandmother. and her dad, who is B.D. Wong. Oh, I love B.D. Wong. He's great. Yep. And he's, and he's great in this. He's like the most mellow B.D. Wong character you've ever seen. And, um, uh, it's, uh, it's really, really funny and very awkward at times. I guess maybe in a little bit of like Kirby enthusiasm kind of thing going on where you, you know, you know, you know Larry David is kind of like that character, but it's definitely a dramatized, fictionalized version of his, of his life.
Starting point is 01:20:59 I'm this is interesting I'm looking at the rest of this cast there's a few people in here I really like Bowen Yang you recognize Saturday Night Live cast member Bowen Yang
Starting point is 01:21:09 This is HBO original This is I think There was some Comedy Central Stuff I take that back It did premiere on Comedy Central in January And then that's how it became part of
Starting point is 01:21:25 HBO Max because I guess it's got a this is hilarious i was just talking about how that sounded like sponge bob the grandma yeah aquafina is was a voice in the sponge bob movie sponge on the run which she really yeah she didn't do sponge bob but it was that's just kind of a weird combo of things that is that really is oh i like her um she's pretty freaking funny i yeah i even heard of this this is all new to me the show yeah it uh really snuck in under the radar and it's a 10 episode
Starting point is 01:21:57 first season and it's oh wow so IAM sci-fi says it's the only live action original that's staying with Comedy Central Oh interesting really Yeah
Starting point is 01:22:10 Okay But yeah they're half hour episodes You get the whole thing on on HBO Max And it's It's really funny And at times very awkward I like awkward
Starting point is 01:22:23 awkward humor And Aquafina great i mean you know he loved her in uh um crazy rich Asians and uh she was in oceans eight oceans eight right she was in uh she's a great bottle of water uh that aquafina but she spells it like awkward which is the point right yes i think so yeah such a weird thing it's also weird having your name in there in the title aquafina is nora from queens yeah not only i mean you get two of her names because her real name is nora yeah it's nora lum but uh so you get both of her names yeah that's hilarious to me all right uh cool here's my recommendal for the week so this is something
Starting point is 01:23:02 that i just caught myself watching with kim i didn't think i was going to care and i ended up really liking it and we're only a season in there are two more to go it just ended its run so there's all your hints brian three seasons long here's the clip you just finished the first season yeah something something kim would like that i would think i wouldn't but end up really liking. There's your other hints. All right. Here you go. All right. They're coming to get you, Barbara.
Starting point is 01:23:29 Harvey Kinkle. The only person you're going to scare is yourself. Got you. Good night, Harvey. In the town of Greendale, where it always feels like Halloween.
Starting point is 01:23:46 There lived a girl who is half witch. Hapset Owen. Half mortal, who, on her 16th birthday, would have to choose between two worlds, the witch world of her family and the human world of her friends. Happy birthday, sweet 16.
Starting point is 01:24:01 And that girl is me. Probably obvious. Yeah, at first I was like, is it Scream Queens? Oh, wait, Greendale. I know it's not community because that lasted for longer than three seasons. That's not Britta or Annie talking there.
Starting point is 01:24:18 So that's the chilling adventures of Sabrina. Yep, the one on Netflix. It's Netflix. Don Draper's daughter on it. Yes, that is who that is. She's good. Karen Shipka. She has such a weird.
Starting point is 01:24:31 Obviously, she's very young, but she has a very old soul kind of face. It's hard to explain, but it really adds to that. It's perfect for the character because that, because that is that character. It's like this smart, plucky, no-nonsense sort of person who's not your normal 16-year-old kid, and she pulls that off beautifully. I think she's perfectly cast in it. But what a big surprise this was for me. Now, I know there are fans of the series who I've heard rumblings lately that the third season that just ended, people weren't happy with the way it ended.
Starting point is 01:25:03 But I'm sure happy with the way it's going. It's very, very good. And it's like legit creepy and legit freaky. And they really go hard into like these witches are all a bunch of Satan worshippers. And there's some gnarly deaths. And, you know, she's kind of the bright. light and all of it. I wonder her aunts are played wonderfully by
Starting point is 01:25:25 oh, who played Don on the British office? Lucy Davis. Yes, she's one of the, one of the ants, and she's great. Who's the other one? I'm going to try to find her name, so I don't screw this up. Her name is
Starting point is 01:25:41 V. Can't find it. Oh, here it is. Miranda Otto. She's been in a million, She was Aowen in Lord of the Rings. Yes, right. Something recently, too.
Starting point is 01:25:59 Thin Red Lime, War of the Worlds. Oh, War of the Worlds. It was that, I think it was that, it must have been that adaptation of War of the Worlds that we just watched a couple of years ago. She was Allison Carr in the Homeland series, which I know you were watching at one point. Anyway, she's... No, I've never seen... Oh, I'm sorry, Homeland. Yes, not Home Lander.
Starting point is 01:26:18 Or Outlander. I was thinking of Outlander, Homeland or Outlander. I want to see a homelander outlander. Well, yeah, I'd like to see Homelander Outlander. Anyway, she's great as Zelda, Aunt Zelda, and you mentioned the other lady and I already forgot her name. Gosh, dang it. Oh, yes, Lucy Davis. Yeah, Lucy Davis is great.
Starting point is 01:26:40 There's also Michelle Gomez, who. Michelle Gomez, yeah, she was a bad, she was the, who's the doctor's enemy on Dr. Oh, right. I forgot about that. The thing I was thinking of is she was in that flight attendant thing. She was the assassinating. So she's been in quite a few things later. Which we'll have to talk about after you're done talking about Sabrina. Just Missy, exactly.
Starting point is 01:27:08 It's awesome. I really liked it a lot. And we're only a season in. I'm excited to get to season two. It's not normally something might care about. It's all in this Archie universe that I don't really give a poop about. Like it's not, you know, whatever. but there's something about this thing.
Starting point is 01:27:23 It's something really well. I mean, all the acting is like top notch. The scares are real. Like, it's a legit effort. Like, it's just very good. And I came away so surprised by it. So I'm going to recommend it. It started in 2018, just finished this year,
Starting point is 01:27:42 and is called The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, available now wherever you get your Netflix. Okay, we should talk about that flight attendant. That was almost a recommendal from, from both of us, but both of us kind of felt the same. It was a little midland and weird. I don't know.
Starting point is 01:27:56 It was sprawling. They tried, I feel like they tried to have too many B stories. Um, because the A story is great and compelling and interesting. You know, uh, Cuoco wakes up in a hotel room with a,
Starting point is 01:28:09 a dead passenger from her flight and has to recount the, um, basically has to hangover style recount the events that led to his death. But then there's all these other side. side stories with Zasia Mamet from girls and Rosie Perez and
Starting point is 01:28:29 I love those characters in the context of the main story they're fine but when they start having their own little here's what it reminded me of him so someone someone will hear me say this and they'll go oh I know what they're saying then because this is exactly the same feeling I had
Starting point is 01:28:43 thankfully they fixed it in the next season but in Friday Night Lights the series first season amazing It really established that show, incredible characters, all that stuff. The next season, Jesse Plymouth's character kills somebody, like full-on murder. And then it may have been self-defense. But anyway, the point is that that created a tonal shift in that show that just didn't belong.
Starting point is 01:29:11 It just wasn't meant to be there. And they fixed it. Season three and forward, they never got stupid again, and it went fine. But that second season was a real bummer because of that just tonal shift for no good reason. They didn't need to go there where they went. Right. Had plenty of drama that it was doing fine with. It just felt out of place.
Starting point is 01:29:31 And it was like a different show needed to be made about this thing with different characters in it. That's how these side stories feel to me. It's like, okay, the Rosie Perez character is great as this sort of wannabe best friend, but she's a little bit mousy. And now she's all involved with selling secrets to the Chinese. and you know like or the Koreans I guess like all that stuff is just like okay what no bring it back it's fine go back to where it was before her and then the other thing happened with with her lawyer friend who who again I love her story as it pertains to the main story she's great yeah but the minute it starts to be this whole that whole mob thing and everything I went oh yeah it's a separate TV show
Starting point is 01:30:10 that's not this TV show so I'm really torn on it and because on the one hand I thought her performance. Kaley Coco's performance is amazing. And a lot of the tonal stuff is really great. The humor's pretty good. It's good dark humor. The guy, the dead guy's great. He's great, yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:30:30 Like all that stuff's great, but I don't know. I just can't, I can't come fully around on it yet. Which kind of bums me out because there's something there. And they got a season two greenlit already. Yeah, it'd be interesting to see where they go with that. Yeah, and I had to look at it, Abassia Mamet.
Starting point is 01:30:46 is the daughter of David Mamet. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. Oh, that's cool. I wonder what that's like at Thanksgiving. Because David Mamet is like a brain, dude. He really is, yeah. Oh, I got to look that up and see how that's all.
Starting point is 01:31:01 Yeah. Oh, I didn't really. She'd been in so much stuff. I knew that she was in girls and I didn't, I guess she was also in Mad Men for a little while. She's an odd-looking human. She is. She is.
Starting point is 01:31:10 She is. Eyes are very close together. Yeah. They're right in there. Just, just, just, yeah. You have to buy glasses at a special place. Right, yes. She's the opposite of Anya Taylor Joy.
Starting point is 01:31:27 You're not wrong. All right. There's your recommendals for the week. And I don't know if that means Nicole will be tweeting them. She probably will because she likes to do that. But again, those remind them. Mine was the amazing, no, the chilling adventures of Sabrina. I just keep saying Sabrina, I'm going to talk about it.
Starting point is 01:31:43 What were yours again? Yours is on Netflix. right, Sabrina's Yep. Mine are Hulu's the Great about Catherine the Great and Aquafina's
Starting point is 01:31:54 Nora from Queens from HBO Max. Nice. No matter which service you've got, there's one of something we've probably recommended something for it.
Starting point is 01:32:01 Probably. One final email before we get out of here. This is from Cici. Or Cessie? Probably C C C C C C. Dear Saffron and Basil. Basil.
Starting point is 01:32:12 Ah. Two things. One, if you love the West Wing. Check out the West Wing weekly podcast where Josh Molina and Hirishi Harway do an episode by airing or do episode by episode reviewing kind of like Filmsack
Starting point is 01:32:26 does. They often host people from the political world as well as cast members, directors and writers, including Aaron Sorkin himself. By the way, Hershey also produces the amazing Song Explorer series on Netflix. Oh yeah, Song Exploder. That thing is great. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:32:42 Yeah, start out on, well, I think it's still an NPR. I think it's an NPR show. I know that it, um, it's the, the music podcast that always dominates the, the music charts, the music podcast charts, which, which is fine. It deserves it. It's really, really good. And I just started watching the Netflix series, which is also really good. That's awesome. For a future, um, recommendal to be that. And if any of you were wondering who Josh Molina is, he is the, he replaced, his character replaced, um, Rob Lo's character in the series. Not, not, not playing the same character, but when
Starting point is 01:33:14 Rob Lowe's character left, this new guy filled that, uh, oh yeah, Josh Molina, he was in, um, sports night. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's great on sports night. He's a sorkin regular, I think. Yep. Uh, number two, regarding the age group that follows TMS. Yes, it's clear you guys attract a younger than you crowd.
Starting point is 01:33:32 But, FYI, I'm older. Or I'm sorry, I'm old enough to be your, um, older sister. I'm a recently retired software engineer. I've picked up cooking as a hobby and I love, love, love listening to you guys while prepping dinner for my hubby you make me laugh out loud shout out to justin for the wit and politics and Nicole for the recommendals love the snowblow cc that's very nice thank you cc yeah we respect our elders cc our older sister listener um yeah we you know if there's anything that we don't care about it's uh it's how old our listeners are we'll we'll
Starting point is 01:34:07 offend you no we don't care we don't care equal opportunity offenders here at the show Well, take you no matter what age you are. I did hear from an 18-year-old who said, you guys were talking about all these 30-year-olds and I was feeling really young and I didn't want to say anything. I'm like, don't feel that way because you'll be 30 before you know it, okay? It comes like overnight, man. You're just going to be there.
Starting point is 01:34:30 It really does. And boy, it bums me out that you told him that because it's, uh, yeah, don't want him to feel, feel like, oh, great, I've got to have to look forward to them to be as old as these. Farts These old men That talk to them every day These grumpy old men
Starting point is 01:34:48 We'll take you no matter what So whoever you are Wherever you are No matter what your age You're welcome here Okay Always always That's it for the show
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Starting point is 01:35:07 Slash TMS We're going to leave now But we can't do it Without a song request From Brian Ibit we absolutely do and Scott I know you're a big fan of this one Adam aka Hubert in the chat says hey S&B boy not even not even trying Adam just S&B all right
Starting point is 01:35:23 back on April 1st you played a song for me on my first day of unemployment this week and this was middle of last month middle of December this week after almost nine months I'm starting my new job even though I didn't work through as much of my PS4 backlog as I wanted to I'm excited to get back to work with this new opportunity Any song about going back to work or celebration or whatever would be great whenever you have an upcoming opening. Love the show, though. Do dogs have brains because I seriously wanted to know. They want dogs have brains?
Starting point is 01:35:53 Crap. Do I have that here? I do. Here it is. Brains. Okay, here we go. Oh, I have a choice here. I got to make sure.
Starting point is 01:36:02 Okay, here we go. No, that's not it. Do dogs have brains because I seriously wanted to know? There you go. how she's doing hope she's well that lady oh yeah for sure
Starting point is 01:36:15 yeah um all right so uh he said really you know pick something whatever but if it could be about getting back to work or celebrating or anything like that
Starting point is 01:36:25 um listen i've played so many going back to work and job songs that it's it's uh I've run out plus I just really love this song and wanted to play it on the show um this was actually number seven or eight in the coverville countdown this year as far as the 40 best covers of 2020.
Starting point is 01:36:44 If you have not checked out those episodes, they're the best ones of the year, really, if you're a brand new listener. Go check them out at coverville.com. So good. This is a cover of the song New Slang, originally by the Shins covered here beautifully and perfectly by Samantha Urbani.
Starting point is 01:37:02 She did this as part of a stereo gum project called Save StereoGum. Basically, you made a donation to help the website stereo gum and you got this downloadable album of several dozen artists covering other artists. I mean, it was a no-brainer for me. Plus, I really like stereo gum. So it was an easy decision for me to make. But here it is. Here is new slang by Samantha Urbani. I mean, I can't overstate this. I've not been able to go a day without listening to this cover. It is really, really good. Yeah. I don't know what the song means. I don't know if it's celebrating
Starting point is 01:37:39 or, you know, I'm looking at the lyrics right now and I still can't figure it out. Yeah. Well, I hope you get blood in your fries or whatever it is, blood in your bones. Dirt and your fries. Yeah, dirt and your fries. There you go. All right, here it is. Enjoy.
Starting point is 01:37:52 We'll see you guys tomorrow for a Thursday edition of the show. Should have Wendy and all that stuff. So check us out then. We'll see you then. Oh, ooh, oh, ooh. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh.
Starting point is 01:38:24 Blue teeth and a curse for this town. We're all in my mouth. Only I don't know how they got out, dear, Turned me back into the pit I was when we met I was happier than with the mindset And if you took to me life A girl who takes you to the wind
Starting point is 01:38:59 Oh, I'm a job from my tree And I dance like the king of me, I The rest of my lives would have fell Well New slime Then you notice the stripes The dirt in your fries Hope it's right when you die
Starting point is 01:39:24 Old and baloney Dawn breaks like I pull through the hall My foot should have a cold Put my heads to the wall And I'm lonely And if you took to me a life where gold takes you win I'd have jumped from my dreams And I dance like the king of the eyesore
Starting point is 01:39:57 And the rest of my lives would have fared well Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh But it's been
Starting point is 01:40:24 Oh They're done May they all cut their thumbs And we're to the points Till they melt the way on the ground life I might be
Starting point is 01:40:42 Don't have to find We are to trust I'm playing in the field Am I too dumb to refine And if you talk To me like hell I'd dance like the queen On the eyesore
Starting point is 01:41:01 And the rest of our lives Could fail well Oh, oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, this show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at FrogPants.com. Hello, boys.

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