The Morning Stream - TMS 2046: Stimulus Pizza
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Tom's tech time
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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
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
Oh, there it is.
Yeah.
You took so long.
Yeah.
Found it.
So, Ian, you've won.
Oh, that's it.
He won?
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.
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.
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
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,
oh,
um,
Garfield.
No,
who to,
uh,
Hulk
No, who took over for
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.
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,
it feels like that's the gimmee right there.
That's right.
Yeah.
Wow.
Okay.
I feel dumb.
It was LBJ.
Sorry.
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
I don't like it.
I don't like it at all, but I do like the news, so let's do the news.
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No, I'll be out there later.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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,
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
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
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.
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.
I don't know.
More data needed.
Yes, exactly.
More data.
Yes.
All right.
Let's do this now, this story.
Okay.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
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,
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.
Should that be altering?
No, adulterating.
What does that mean?
Adulterating.
Changing, changing it.
Changing the, the, changes.
Make up of it.
Adulterating.
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,
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
Please stay tuned.
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Come and raise the legger
Get to me
Memo me
I like the vanity
Don't make sure.
Hey, go.
Hey, go.
Hey, go.
Thank you.
Don't make more.
Hey, go.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Let me.
Thank you.
Let me.
Hey,
day.
Thanks
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Thank you
Thank you
Dave
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Yeah
I don't know.
Vanity
All better
All better
Change to say
Come to race
die legia
Get to me
Memo
Memory
I like now
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Oh, yeah.
Oh, and, and, oh, and, and, oh.
Thank you.
Hey, boy.
Yeah.
Oh.
Hey, go.
Hey,
good.
Hey,
boy.
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oh.
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Oh!
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Hey!
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Hey!
We're going to be able to be able to be.
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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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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?
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,
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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,
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.
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
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.
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?
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?
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?
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Here we go.
Oh my God.
Backerat.
Video roulette.
Video poker.
video blackjack
Okay
Nora
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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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,
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
If you would like to support this nonsense
We would really appreciate it
Because it's how we keep the lights on
Here at TMS Central
Go to patreon.com
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We're at frogpants.com
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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
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?
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
And the rest of my lives would have fared well
Oh
Oh
Oh
Oh
Oh
Oh
But it's been
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
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
And the rest of our lives
Could fail well
Oh, oh.
Oh.
Oh.
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