The Morning Stream - TMS 2058: Gradient Filter Mutton Chops

Episode Date: January 27, 2021

Where Do Mutton Chops Start on a Bald Man? Looked Like Jesus, Smelled Like a Homeless Guy. Dantoine Is Like Tatooine, But Has Dan And Is Worse. It's Similar to Bitcoin, in that You'll Never Understand It. You May Know Shaq from Such Things as Basketball. Walkin into more cowbell. Wilhelm Brand Potato Chips. Next Up On AMC: The Short Shorts! Bulging Out Of My Torso! Never go full monkey tail beard. Ellipses for Days. Remember the Sketch That Jimmy Fallon Ruined by Laughing? Potato Based Economy. Do you remember, the 9th of the 12th is September! Tom's Tech Time! Leotards without Bras with Nicole, and more, on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Walking into more cowbell. Wilhelm Brand potato chips. Next up on AMC, the short shorts. Bulging out of my torso. Never go full monkey tail beard. Elypsies for days. Remember the sketch that Jimmy Fallon ruined by laughing? All of them then?

Potato-based economy. Do you remember the 9th of the 12th is September? Tom's Tech Time. Leotards without bras with Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. You know, Mother, if I had a brother, I would like to have him live by the ocean, so we could come and visit him on vacation. You've put me in a horrible position here, Jim. Her name is the morning stream, and she dances on the sand. Good morning, everybody.

Welcome back or to the morning stream. It's Wednesday, January 27th, 2020. I'm Scott Johnson. He's Brian Ibit. I am. You guys, look at this picture of Brian Abbott from 2009. No, God, don't show that hard. No, you look so young.

You look like a young. It's pregnant is what I look. 25-year-old. I look like you're about to give birth to half a Star Trek cake. is probably what's happening. What is so weird about that year is where you're standing there, I didn't know it at the time, but I would end up moving a block and a half up the road from that.

That's where I live now. Okay, so where we had that gazebo thing and what was his name? Gabriel looked like Jesus. What was that his name? Not Gabriel. What was it? Gabe. Oh.

No, I don't remember. He was a, he looked like Jesus, This smelled like a homeless guy and was a real funny dude, that guy. I don't remember his name. Yeah, anyway, he got up on top of the mountain that's right behind that spot. Yeah, that hill up there. And then, like, stuck his arms out. Like, we were in Rio de Janeiro, and he was Christ the Redeemer.

Yeah, that's the place. And what's weird is I walked Rainer past that hill every freaking day. So, yeah, that is a weird thing that ended up. happening. Didn't expect to see that, but I moved right there. It was a, it was an omen, I tell you, an omen. Uh, anyway, welcome to the show everybody. Also goes to show you, I look a lot better with the mustache. I don't know, the whole just the beard thing. I'm glad that phase is over. You're, you're, was that a thing where you were actively like, yeah, I'm going to, I'm just going with beard or chin? Let's get to just try the beard and see how just the beard goes and, uh, yeah,

no, mustache. Not, not working. Moustache has got to be there and the sole patch. I've, I've been considering, you know, with all the stuff I'm doing in my beard, here's me talking about potentially going Zappa and just trying to do a porn stashy kind of thing, mustache coming down and the sole patch and no beard. I kind of want to see that. Yeah, right? I mean, you could do it and then shave it, so it's not like it's a permanent thing. Yeah.

This thing grows back nice and quick, so. I think you should do it. I could try that out. People on the chat want mutton chops. But those, you know, if you're going to shave your head, mutton chops don't work. Right. Mutton chop, because where do they start? Do you start them at the top of the ear? Do you start them? Right. And when you don't know when they start, you don't know when they stop. It gets to be a serious problem. I promise too. I'd want to do a gradient filter on my mutton chops to have them blend from

nothing to full as opposed to, yeah, like color. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I support all of these initiatives. So whichever one you choose, I'm behind you 100%. You let me know if you need any help at all with your... Okay, we'll do. Draw me a template? Will you do me a template? I can totally give you a template. No problem.

It'll be a little stylized. So if you're looking for, you know, you want a more realistic take, okay, we'll look somewhere else. Oh, yeah. Peacrum says, do the monkey tail beard. I have a friend, Bruce, that does have a monkey tail beard. Now, this is where... Yeah, explain this.

I've never heard of this before. Yeah, so you've got the sideburn that comes down, goes down, your cheek, around your chin, and then over your lip. So it doesn't connect here, but it, like, is like a monkey's tail curled around from your ear around your mouth. Why would you do that? I know, right? Because it's hilarious, and he's a, he's, like, big into, uh, there's one, uh,

pea crumb just put a great example. I'll take a look at it. from the Oakland days, my cheers. All right. So you can't do that, don't do that. No, I'm definitely not going to do that, but... Oh, that's awful. Is that what now?

It's awful. It's really hilarious. It's terrible. Oh, my God. It's like Crox level bad. Like, it's... Also, that guy has a second mouth in his chin. Look at that.

I expected to open it up any time ago. That was too fast of a ball. You need to slow down. under pitch. Okay, I'm trying me. Look at that thing. Give her my knuckleball. Do a knuckleball.

Yeah, do a knuckleball. Do a knuckleball. Come on now. Shut up. I'm trying to pitch. Oh, and lied. Over the plate. Why you would do that to yourself is mystery to me.

I don't. So I'm not doing the monkey tail, but good on you. Peter, I'm for suggesting that. Look, whoever has the nuts to do that probably has a lot of money and doesn't care what people think. It probably never leaves the house. Probably. I wouldn't.

Hey, speaking of leaving in the house, or leaving the house, we got a Kentucky bill from Toronto, Canada, which makes no sense to me, wrote in. Kentucky Bill from Toronto, Canada. Yeah. Yeah, it's a little bit weird, but we're happy to take this email. Is he? Oh, God, there's so many questions. Is he in Kentucky now and he used to be in Toronto? Or is he originally from Kentucky and now he lives in Toronto?

Oh, I didn't, you know what? I didn't think of any of that. That's probably what's happening. I just assumed it was like some Toronto guy being funny. Oh, and just like, yeah, I call myself Kentucky Bill. Yeah. Sorry, sorry, I'm Kentucky Bill, eh? Want to go to Tim Hortons for some coffee and some timbits?

People say, hey, you really from Kentucky? No, sorry, it's just a joke name. No, sorry. I use it for Counter-Strike. Yeah, I don't. I use it in Fortnite occasionally. That's it. I'd like to go out to Kentucky sometimes.

Sorry, but, uh, not there, eh? I wouldn't mind going to Kentucky, at least once. you all have weird senators but anyway Oh Kentucky's great Yeah Kentucky's great It says here Scott and Brian You guys were talking about raw potatoes Do you have a favorite potato chip

Have you guys mentioned this before And I missed it? I have to know Not that I wills end you or anything Wait Not that I will send you anything Not that I will send you anything Oh we put the two words together

He just the S Yeah the S migrated to the end of will Not that I will send you anything I mean maybe I will, but probably not. Well, he's got ellipsies for days. Anyway, spill the beans on the chip love, Kentucky Bill from Toronto, Canada. I assume he's doing this. Can we first appreciate the monumental leap from the first sentence to the second?

You guys were talking about raw potatoes. Do you have a favorite potato chip? Christopher Walken level. It's an odd switch over, isn't it? Very weird. Yeah. Oh, you know what? Sorry, I have to interrupt.

I've seen a movie King Kong. This reminds me to something. My wife, my wife who had a minor procedure done in office. We call that when you just go into an office and they do it right there. Outpatient? Outpatient thing. They looked at the thing. They said, oh, that's this.

And then they did a thing. That's all I'm telling you, because she doesn't want me to get into details. So she's fine is what you're saying. She's fine is what I'm saying. But, well, she's in a little bit of pain. She's in, she can't really, she can't move for about a day. But it's a long story. Anyway, it's all right.

It's all good. In the end, it's, you know, what happened is healing, is the point. She doesn't want me to get into details. Anyway, as tempted as I am, I'm not going to do it. Anyway, so yesterday I'm taking care of her and stuff. And for some reason, she's watching a recent episode. I want to say one from whatever, like, the second or third new administration day was. I don't know what that day was.

22nd or 23rd. Yeah. Or is it this week? Whatever that was. And it's Jimmy Fallon for some reason. She's watching the Tonight Show. We don't normally catch it, but there it is. And she's watching it.

And he has on Shaquille O'Neal. Okay. You may know him from such things as the NBA. And space, not space, jam. Steel. Yeah, where he was the metal Superman. That's right. He was not the super, not.

the metal Superman that appeared when all when Superman died and those four other Superman came in but right kind of like that and the Kazam thing whatever that was anyway uh oh that was that was Sinbad just kidding what about do you remember Shaq Fu do you remember that game

I totally remember Shaq Fu that was a weird video game side scrolling beat him up with Shaquille O'Neal anyway but he's not the he's not the the really crazy golf driver like

that's not him that does that ridiculous golf swing. No, no, that's Charles Barkley, isn't it? Barkley, yes, that's Barclay. Yes, okay. And I guess those two work together now on sports night or something like sports center. Yeah. Or sports center, yeah. Anyway, so he's on there and you know how he always does this? He does the interview and then he plays a game with his guest, right?

Okay. That's the Jimmy Fallon way. It's like, here's a trivia thing or you got to do it. Or here's spin these two wheels that look like they're random, but they're going to have you sing this song in the impersonation of this other singer. Exactly that. So this one with Shaquille O'Neal, and they're all doing remotes. Nobody's in studio except for Fallon and his socially distant everybody in the room. He has these people on, you know, Zoom or whatever.

And so he's talking to Shaquille O'Neal that way. And the thing was, guess the impression that I'm doing. So you'd go through a list of impressions, and the other person had to guess who you were. and he got to do Jimmy Fallon at one point, this is where it brings it back to your comment. Jimmy Fallon at one point gets to the point where he's doing a Christopher Walken impression. Oh, okay. Uh-huh.

And Shaquille O'Neal's not getting it. For whatever reason, he's just not, and it was a good impression. I would have known it immediately, but Shaquil O'Neal's just not hearing it. And so it's going longer than usual, and Jimmy Fallon's trying multiple different phrases, and it's all like referential to things

that he would know from that. And all I could think of is, my gosh, dude, do need more cowbell. You were in that skit. You were in the room with him when that happened. And he never, he never did it. I couldn't understand that. It's the gimmee, right? It's like, need more cowbell.

Yeah. You know, all you have to do is pull that out is I thought Christopher Walker. And he was in there in that skit laughing on a tambourine or something. I don't know. That was a little feral. Right. He laughed and ruined that scale. Like all sketches he was in

But like, what do you do? What are you even doing? He never did it. And he ended up getting a big old er for it because he couldn't get it. And I was just like, you've got to be kidding me. You were in the room. You were a guy. You were two inches from the man.

Anyway. It's hilarious. I like voodoo potato chips. Oh, there's your answer. Brian likes vood. Zaps. Yeah, zaps. Zaps of voos.

Those are pretty good. Yeah. It's not a bad choice. If I'm picking, uh, I think this has changed over the years. And we're talking potato chip, not like a Dorito or any of those. Right. No tortilla chips.

These are potato chips. No corn-based. This would be a potato-based thing. I think I'm going to go with lays. They're not called ruffles, but they're lazy. Yeah, they're wavy chips, but they've got this like ranch kind. And I don't know. Oh, you know what?

I had a bag over here. Had a bag. There's a. There's still plenty in here. There it is. Lays Wavy Ranch. Oh, really? Okay.

Leaves Wavy Ranch. Big fan of these right here, Brian. Even though that sounds boring and very milk toast, I really like them. Actually, Let's chips are the best. I've never heard of that. There's nothing better than Let's chips. Hold on. Let's chips.

Let's look them up here. Apostrophias. Oh, yeah. Look at that. I've never seen these in my life. Oh, my God. Yeah, so good. The best.

Potato Chip, Potato Chip World. Oh, my gosh. It's a potato chip world.com. That's fantastic. Mm-hmm. Oh, this says it's fictional. It is fictional. It's from...

Oh, is this from community. It's from community and orange is the black and... New Girl has it. It's always sunny in Philadelphia and... New Girl, Brooklyn 9-9. Yeah. So this is... I've never noticed.

it's a fake chip that is like permeated through so many different TV shows it's hilarious that's that's very interesting yeah i'm looking at i was i was hoping that you'd see just like all of these celebrities holding up let's chips and you're like oh these look good i've got to try them actually there is the community guy holding a thing of beer yeah it's a dean uh dean dean bald guy junior um jim rash who is so damn funny there's another guy you know them i don't know who that actor is though let's see uh you got your uh oh they're in lots of things little movie spots yeah let's are all over the place i love that that's a thing joke in community was um you know they were talking about product placement and then all throughout that episode or let's potato

chips all over the place i want i want i this is a thing i wish i would have known i love watching for things like this to me to me this is how you do it you stop doing the wilhelm scream and you just have a weird thing like this instead yeah i like that that's a good idea we're done with wilhelm go away i am so done with wilhelm there's like a commercial now that uses a willhelm scream and that's that's it's just done no that is the wrong stop it that is that's an evil act should be prosecuted to the furthest extent of the law all right speaking of prosecution we're getting done away in here we're going to prosecute him that's right court of tms and uh we'll do it with a smile enjoy

Hey, everybody, that's right. Joining us now, Mr. Brian Dunaway, all the way from South Carolina, here at last to do a Babel Royale on a Wednesday. Hi, Brian. Well, hi, Scott and Brian. Hi. Hello. How are you guys? We're okay.

You? How are you? It's hot and wet. I don't like it. I don't know why it's hot and wet in January. But I don't like it, giggedy. Wait a minute. So when you say hot, let's just, let's define it.

find it. What's how hot is hot for you? How hot is it? 75. That is, that is, that is warmer. That is warmer than I keep it in my house. All right. So that's, that's hot. And when you say, we have to go over to the air conditioning go, click. Yeah. Are we talking like, uh, you know, if you're wearing the wrong, uh, undies, you get a little rash, you know, going, that kind of wet. You wear undies? Well, sure. Look, down there, I know you guys would rather let it all hang out. out because the humidity is so rotten but uh you know in respectable society they just won't fit anymore he just gave up you're like that's it i'm done yeah i'm like i got tired of trying to tuck those in this was no good yeah i understand completely well it was like mm-hmm uh-huh yes well

learning things about you we didn't want to know um we have two pairs of underwear just in case we have a listener on the line who is going to participate with us today they have called in And they're waiting there now. Let's find out who it is. Hi, thanks for holding. Who's this? This is September, also known as 9 of 12. Well, hello.

Hey, how you doing September? Hey, you're doing all right. Nice. Are you, uh, the 9 of 12? I think we asked you this before. It's a board reference, right, or no? Is it something else? What, uh, what month is September, Scott?

Oh, 9 of 12. Shit. Now I get it. I get it now. And when someone spells it out and lays it out completely for me, now I get it. I hope it's a calendar trivia question today. Yeah, there you go. All right.

When you call in in six months, we'll do this all over. Yeah, we'll do it one more time. Third time's the charm. Hey, welcome to the show. You probably know how this works, but Brian has changed things up a bit. And we'll explain today what we're doing, Brian. That's right. While I'm reading, no.

While I'm reading this, Scott and Brian, go ahead and get logged into. I'm trying to, but it just said an error occurred. heard while processing your request. Oh, oh, doing what? Oh, we got the development. We got the link. Oh, no. Do you get in that same thing? What is it again? Brian, what's the address?

The link is in the Discord that I just sent you. All right. Sorry. I should have been more sent you and Brian. We're going to try a different name this time. Okay. Copy.

Let's see if that works. Wonderful. Copy paste. Okay, I'm pasting it. In the meantime, it's time to play the tad-poly feud. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Brian will have to predict the answers that they gave us. It's Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess.

September, your job is more important than ever, because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. And if your team wins, you will get a prize package. That includes Capitalism 2, courtesy of Wesley. Actually, both of these are courtesy of Wesley, Capitalism 2 and Shopkeep 2. So, sequels for you. Yeah, that's wrong with sequels.

Shop keep. Not working for either of you. Okay, and you're getting the same thing about the server. Yeah. Let me... And I can go to the feud boards, which I don't think I'm supposed to be able to see, but I can... What do you mean? You can see the...

I see... Yeah, like you... It gives me a home button and a feud boards, and I see like... You see answers? ...oh, really? Like, you see all the boards? Yeah, I think I do. I'm trying to read the other ones because that one makes sense. You're seeing the back end?

Yeah, if you get rid of the link... after slash or play slash then you don't do that you see a bunch of stuff yeah I can't oh okay yeah don't click on anything because I don't want you to see answers for obvious reasons oh now it's letting me sign in hold on

okay good yeah he just Alcabob just reset so hopefully oh something went wrong it says oh well maybe maybe maybe maybe why you do that I'm gonna I'm gonna pick my color I'm gonna go with

poopy brown yeah okay yeah no It didn't work still. Yeah, it's still. It's down. Shoot. So do we do. Just like a, you know, we do a verbal buzzer. Well, you know, I can always do this manually the old-fashioned way.

Yeah, I could go ding. Yeah. Like that, right? Yep, exactly. So we still want a buzzer so you can see who goes first. So go to buzz man. Buzzman. Buzz man.

You're going to enter your name, but do not. create a room. Okay. I'm going to enter my name. And then you're going to go to. Okay. Room code. Go to.

Room code. Put in the chat. Don't say it. Yeah. You can go to that one right there. Oh, man. That's a word. I don't want to know his power at all.

That's a word. Okay. Let me just test it. Yeah, it's working. There we go. I heard Brian Buzz and let's hear Scott Buzz. Hold on. I'm waiting for it to.

that there we go all right works cool okay well that'll do that'll work we'll make it work that that'll work for now and then and then if we're server then we'll use that for scoring so here's how things are changing for this um it's it's going to go we did this last time it's going to go back and forth between the two of you and uh you guys rack up points based on how many people answered with the answer that you give uh so right so whoever you know So we surveyed 200 people. If 35 of them said the color red, and you say red, then you'll get 35 points. And then you go until you get a buzzer, and then we move over to the other player.

But we only use this, we only use Buzzman for the very first one to determine who goes first. Fair enough. We asked a hands-on buzzer. We asked, yeah, okay. All right, go ahead. We asked the Tadpool, if you had to live on any planet from the Star Wars universe, which one would you choose? Oh, man. you finished the sentence after he buzzed

I know that's too bad because I heard all of it suck it Johnson Tatooine Tattoine Show me Tatooine Oh hold on I think we're getting a reload here Oh oh oh oh well maybe Hold on oh oh hold on a second

Because now I can't see the answers Uh okay show me Tatooine Ding Ding and it's our it's our there we go 15 points it's our fourth answer

if you can name either any of the three answers better than that or higher than that fourth answer eh yes I did pretty good then you did let's go with

let's do um try that link when we're doing this oh same link so corassant corassant oh good one show me Chorosant.

Ding! That's our number two answer with 47. So Scott, you will get to go first. That's enough to get it. All right. It's in. Yep. Brian's in. Let me hit play.

It says still something wrong. Let me try your new link or your same link. Yeah, you use my new link. Okay, hold on. Here we go. Sorry, everybody. Attempting to reconnect to the server. Oh, geez.

Okay, I'm hitting play. Nope. Invaladrook code says. Nope, broke again. Nope. It broke again. Okay. All right.

That's all right. Still broken. All right. So I got that right. Now I get to go again, right? You get to go. And I get to work. Well, you get to, oh, yeah, you get to go again because we're not doing pass or play.

Right. And I can work with September here, right? Yes. Oh, well, September now gets to choose who she wants to work with on us. Oh, all right. Now you get to pick. Oh, okay. I was wondering when that would happen.

I was wondering when I would get involved. I was like, I can't chat because it'll hang up the phone. I will help Scott. Okay. Look at that. 9 of 12. 7 of 12 and 9 of 12 together at last. Here we go.

Let's do this. Okay. Well, I took this survey and I chose Nabu. Oh, Nabu. Oh, that was the good one. That's a lush, green, plentiful planet when there's not a war on it. Too bad that turds there. Yeah, that's true.

It's also got those gung and idiots. Me's a lot of living here. It's so pretty. All right, we're going to go with Naboo. We'll say Naboo. Show me Naboo. Ding, it's the number one answer. Oh, of course.

It is a beautiful place. That's a good point. Yeah. I guess people like some of the things around the prequels, I guess. Mm-hmm. Like the planet's okay. All right. So now what happens?

I do miss having the bork because now I'm not forgetting what's, Scott said first. I know. I know. Sorry. It'll be, it'll be working for next time. Okay. So, uh, one and two and four are taken. Okay. And, uh, you keep going until you get a strike, Scott. Okay. September, let's, let's do this together here. I'm guessing Hoth is off the list, so we're not going to say that. No one doesn't want to live on Hoth. Come on. Some people might, but they're weird. Uh, well, I'm from Buffalo, so. Oh, you basically lived in a sorry about the bills and stuff that's okay I live in North Carolina

sorry about the Panthers then let's see so let's say what have we not done that's nice I can't believe Tatooine was on there because that's kind of awful now this and you said this is throughout the Star Wars everything right not books not the ones that were eliminated

just the movies okay so we're not talking about Mandalorian or anything like that just that's right exactly Al-Qab is telling me that Alderan is a terrible choice don't go to it well that's not I was going to say Al-Thoughby great that's what some days I feel like I wish I lived on Al-Daron

Al-Qabab is saying that the that the site's working do you guys want to try it and I can try it again retroactively same link or what? Same link and okay well again choosing it oh okay I see Scott I'm coming

get back over to the thing to get back over to the thing it wasn't I'm not near the buzzer don't near right now so let me got you time tech support with the hosts of the morning stream that's right okay yes all right so let's see

that one that one and that one that one that would okay thank you Alcabab for jumping on that so quickly I agree I agree with September that it's a bad

decision to go with Alderon except I know how some people in our community can be a little trolly I'm telling you. So what do you Right. September, what do you think? I think Coruscant is a safer We did that. We did that one though. We already got number two. Yeah, that was Scott's Buzzin.

Yeah, that was my first answer. That's the reason why it'd be a good answer. Do you want to say, we could say Kashik's okay, it's a very jungley thing, but it's lots of wookies and they're nice. Oh, people love their wookies. Yeah, and I don't think we can count. They'll rip your arms off.

You really want to live there? All right, whatever. There's one planet we, oh, I shouldn't say, because if Donaway gets it, then let him. Right, yeah, I know if you guys are keep naming planets. I'm going to say, I'll trust your judgment, and we have enough trolls that Alderan. Yeah. I feel like that's, yeah, I agree. I think there's just enough people out there that are going to be screwing with us.

So we'll say Alderan. Okay, let's say Alderan. Number five on the list. You know, hey, it's really pretty in the third prequel, right? It really, and when you got 10 to choose from, right? I mean, you got to pick something. Okay. I sure as heck don't remember a lot of them.

Now we're in a, now we're in the weeds a little here. Yeah, exactly. Like, I've never called the lava planet anything other than the lava planet. I'm sure it has a name. Well, yeah, it definitely has a name. But it is kind of the lava planet where you have the upper hand, I've got the upper ground, Anakin. Exactly.

Or the high ground. I'm on the higher ground, Anakin. You've got no chance against me. You're literally standing in lava. Your legs are gone. Let's do, so I'm leaning toward Dan Tune.

Dan Tune. But did it show up in the films? I believe it did, didn't it? Did we see that? Isn't that where they, isn't that where? it may have been something in that where they um why am i helping you yeah what do you help me

helping you what are you doing um you know what you know it's been mentioned in clone wars but you're right it might not be in the movie yeah i swear there's something maybe in the new the new trilogy but i'm not 100% sure on that um but i like it still you just said it had to be mentioned right i bit i mean it's just got to be right the question was if you had to live on a planet from the Star Wars movies. Right. So as long as someone mentions it or is referenced in the channel. You know what? I like

where she's at with this. I'm going to agree and say Dan Tween. Let's do Dan Tween. All right. Show me Dantuin. Damn it. Really? It did come up in the survey and three people out of 200 said that they'd like to live

on Dantween. The problem of Dantuin is like Iceland and Greenland. When you hear Dantuin, you think, Oh, that's like tattooing, but maybe worse because there's a guy named Dan running it or whatever. Right. But then you have to do a little homework. Find out it's a nice planet. Exactly.

All right. So, Brian, you get some time to play here. Oh, I get to guess a one? You do. You know, we've had this trivia question before. And I went back and studied a little bit after last time we talked about it. It wasn't in this form, but it was about the Star Wars planets. Basically just how many planets can you name for the Star Wars planets?

And I did not do, I did not do well last time. So I got to ask a question. So it has to be a planet, right? It can't be a livable moon or anything like that. It can be a livable moon. It can be a livable moon? Oh, man. And I'm going to go live with the wookies.

I'm heading Indoor. Endor, the forest moon of Endor. Those aren't wookies. Just for the record. For the record, you're talking about Ewwax. Did I say wookies? I meant I meant Ewox. I'm sorry.

You mean, hey, in the story, We're supposed to be tiny wookies. Yeah, I thought when you said planet that it was going to be dangerous on to say anything else. I know, I know. And, you know, our Tadpool answered this the way they answered things. Everything, right. So I still, I even had two answers of, I've never seen a Star Wars movie. Well, I'm sure glad they took time out of their day to bother us with that information.

That's fantastic. Exactly. All right. All right. So, Brian, you get to keep going until they get a strike. Well, you know, there's still 10 inches up there, and if the tadpool would give me the forest moon of Indoor, I don't see why they wouldn't say, Hoth. You know, some smarties got to say, I'd live in a, I'd live in a tanton on it on Hoth or something. That's something like that.

Show me, Hoth smells bad on the outside. D. Oh, Jesus. Number seven. One man's junk and another man's man's pleasure. Pleasure planet. at some point they're just naming I'll bet they just

Well that's what I said Because last time Because that was That was the question last time We were asked What were the planets Didn't matter And so I just

I remember going through all those And it was one I remember Okay so that was only ones I knew beforehand Now I have one I'm afraid to use that There's no way the Taple knows that That was something that kind of shocked me

When I read it I doubt that would impress anybody there. All right, then I'm going to go with, um, oh, did we already say? Wait, where, I can, I can look at the list now. I can look. Yeah, it's working now. Um, yeah. Oh, what's that? It won't help me. What'd you say? Then fine. I want to go live. You could like it. Wait, is it? Where do I do indoors? Is it listed? Oh, there it is. It's third. It's about to stay. Third. Third. I'm stalling.

parentheses the forest moon of dot dot dot so what are you saying we're saying you got to pick a planet and and uh for people asking i post these surveys on discord on facebook here in the chat when i've got them up and ready to go i'm gonna go with i'm gonna go with dagauba i'm heading i'm heading to Dagaba, I'm going to hang out in the swamp. I thought Dagaba was a... Your system. That's right. Oh, wait, wait. I'm getting that wrong. Wait, wait, wait. Yeah, he is? No.

This Dagaba is called Daggibati. It could be... Show me Daegoba. Yes! Number what is that? And now I'm all out of planets. Even after went back and stayed, I still can't remember another these stupid places, but I do remember reading a weird trivia thing.

And I doubt anybody else remembers this. But Han... he did the Kessel run and that's actually a planet and I was like what? I thought that was a system and I guess it's kind of like Degaba it is a system

but I guess it's named after the planet maybe so didn't anybody else say the planet of Kessel? You're going to show you, that's your guess show me, show me Kessel Oh! Let's see, out of curiosity zero people

in the survey said Kessel. But isn't that interesting trivia? Well, it is, but it doesn't give you points. Yeah. All right. Back over to Scott and September. There's nothing in Brian's rulebook that says, Hey, nice trivia.

We're going to give you some points for that trivia you gave us. Sorry, September. Well, except Kessel is actually a black hole. Oh, is it? Well, maybe I read it wrong. Oh, well, that makes sense why I wasn't on there. So I was between September, I was thinking, Yavin for some reason. How do you feel about Yavin?

Yeah, it would be good. Jaku would be good. Oh, that's a good one. Do you guys say that one? No, we didn't. No, we didn't. That's a good one. Let's...

Oh, they're both good. Jacku, though, is like Tatooine Part 2. Right? Like, it's just another dirt planet. It's the remake of Tatooine. Yeah. So... I got a hawth in there.

Come on, Scott. Let's do... Let's go with her gut. Let's go with, uh, let's go Jackoo. Jack who show me Jack who Oh no really Yeah three people did say it in the survey

But it wasn't enough to make the top ten So back over to you Brian Excellent I'm so glad it came back to me because I am totally out of planet So I'm going to go with the planet of You forget Shibadabadoo Is that your answer?

Does it sound like I have another option? All right I'm going to go with How about, wait, wait, wait, wait. I'm going to go with at least a Star Wars sounding name. How about de Janeiro. That sounds like a place. Show me, de Janeiro. That doesn't work.

All right. It would be spelled T, apostrophe, je, noir. Yeah, of course. Noir, yeah. Can I, so what does that mean now? Does it come back to us? That means it comes back to you, Scott. You in September get, we're doing three strikes now that it does go back and forth.

well let's do yavin then let's get it out sure okay yavin we say yavin show me the fourth moon of yavin oh my gosh it's on the people said it but it didn't uh two people said yeah or sorry three people said yavin for but it didn't make the list Brian you got one last uh got any sounds in you that you want to make right so I'm thinking uh I think thrall he came from uh Thrallandia. Uh-huh. That's pretty much. Yeah, Thrawl.

That Star Wars character, Throle. Show me. Show me Throlandia. What? What? And surprisingly, I know. Yeah. And Scott and September win.

So congratulations for that. Was Kishik on there? Let's see the last three answers. How do I do? Because Kishik is the, is the, is the Wookie Planet. Press the round over button. I can't press the round over button.

So your scores will stay put. But here are the last three answers. Show me number six. Bespin. Frick! Yeah, Bespin. Even though they really just want to live in Cloud City. They don't want to live on the planet of Besson.

Wait a minute. I like that Brian Abbott revealed Bespin and then just sat there waiting for someone to say something about it. I was waiting for Bespin. Normally you'll say. Normally you say Bitsman. I know, I know. I've been doing it again here.

Show me number eight. It was on there. Did she even set it? Why did you say it again? You should have said it again? I don't know. No one wants to live with wookies. They smell like wool.

They're gross. Show me. Show me number 10. Who do we lose? We lost September. I don't know why she hung up. That's all right. She won and we'll still give her stuff.

Exactly. Show me number 10. Correlli. Curle was thinking, oh, you know, he might go the right route and think of Corelli when he talks about. Let me look that up real quick. I'm almost positive.

That's why I read last time. I didn't think there was any chance that we would ever come back to the Star Wars planets again in this stupid contest. But it looks like I've got to go back and study again. Yep.

Also on the list, it didn't make the cut. Tacodana, low fall, octo. Wait, did you say Taco Donna? Tacodana, yes. Okay. So not Taco Donna. Not Taco Donna. I mean, it depends on how much of a space you want to put.

I dated her in my junior year of college. Taco Donna was one. Dathomere, De Quar, Crate, Shangri-L-A. You're just making it. There's no planet called Shangri-L-A. Not Shangri-L-A, but Chandrilla. Oh, all right. H-A-N-D-R-I-L-I.

Kentobite, Lamu, Mandilor, Mars, smart-ass. Was Mandilor in the... regular series? No, no. Didn't make. That's why only one person said it, because they've watched exactly one Star Wars thing, and it's from a guy

from Mandelor. Mustafa, one person said Mustafa, which is the lava planet, and Starif. Oh, Scarif? Is that you said? Scarif. Scarif.

It's interesting because Omar Scarif. Star Trek goes the other way. They have like the Bondo system, and then everything's like Bondo 1, Bondo 2, and Bondo 3. I am totally studying me some Star Trek planet names now that you've mentioned that because if I don't... You never know, dude. Regret.

Yeah. Regret. You never know. Star Trek didn't get real iconic about the planets for the most part. Like the one that Kahn got stranded on is a pretty notable one. There's a few others like the pleasure planet and all that. But I don't think it works the same. Star Wars is like...

A mining planet that has been fought over. Kessel is a mining plan that's been followed over by Crime Lords first valuable spice. Ooh. Kessel Spice? Is that what you're saying? I thought I read that.

All right. Well, maybe you're thinking of Dune. Anyway, Hey, big thanks again to Alcab who jumped in on this to reset the board. So we just had that. And if we would have buzzed in, a couple other things would have worked,

but we'll have those working for next time. In any case, thank you, Alcabab. I probably broke it earlier because I tried to do, I tried to run a game with only one player and I'm sure I broke it just to do a test. That'll get you every time. Is Taco Donna Taco John's wife? Yeah, Taco John's

wife, Taco Donna. Well done, everybody. By the way, we'll play this for September. He's not here anymore. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. You won. That means if you're hearing this, I assume you are. Our call just got kicked for some reason. That was weird. But you can send an email to Brian Coverville at gmail.com.

He will give you your winnings and you are a great partner today. So thank you for playing. Brian Dunaway. We had a little shift in the boop schedule. Long story short, but that thing I was telling everybody that my wife had yesterday, which I will not give a details about because it put her down so hard. You're making it way worse, guy. I know exactly.

I had to help her and be helper Joe Joe helper here at the house. And as a result, it pushed the show. But we're doing it today. So today, 330 Mountain Time, right after I hang up on DTNS, we're doing that. So come back for that, will you? So 545, my time. Oh, 3.30, wait, 3.30 Mountain. 3.30 Mountain, 530 Eastern.

So there we go. But DT&S runs right up to that, but that's cool. Yes, I'm saying, right? As soon as it ends, I'm hopping in. Don't you worry. I'll be ready. Hey, there you go, everyone. Brian Dunaway, have a great day. And thanks for playing in our dumb game.

Oops, why are you here? Oh, there you are. Okay, goodbye. How's going. Goodbye. See you. Bye. All right.

I got confused because we had your links in one, group and then us talking in another group and it's not the same group. Yeah, no, exactly. So you didn't kick him out of our talking group, did you? No, no. Well, no, just this, just this, well, the actual audio talking group, yes. But our chatting group, no. All right, well, that was fun. Let's move on. That was fun, yes. We're going to, uh, let's see, what time is it? We're going to take a break. That's what we're going to do. Okay. All right. It's time. We're going to take a break. When we come back, Tom Merritt will be here. We're going to do a little. We're going to do a a little bit of tech news early in the morning,

it'll lead up to the daily tech news show. So stick around for that. Between that and this, we're going to have a little song. And Brian knows what it is. I do. This is from a brand new album coming out February 26th called Count the Stairs.

This is a brand new debut EP from a performer named Charlie Hickey. Also on this song, Phoebe Bridgers, notable singer, is on backing vocals. This guy's only 21 years old. old, he's from Pasadena, and he sounds great, like he's already sounding like a fully produced artist, musician. Really, really good stuff. The song is called 10 feet tall, once again, coming out on February 26th on the EP, Count the Stars. Here's Charlie Hickey.

happy no one here has to pay their rent well it's not like I do there's not a problem here that can't be solved

with liquor stickers and strawberries moon's I think I've seen this movie before I'm gonna be the one who tries to push the fallen door well maybe real life

is better the movie is nightmares deflated balloons I thought I was 20 feet tall thought I was above it all I was just standing on your shoulders

I used to be afraid of dying of dying Now I'm afraid of going home And turning on the TV I want to live in a shoebox house Under your bed With your liquor Stickers

I thought I was 20 feet tall I thought I was above it all I was just standing on your shoulders just flowing out of your window you made me from sand

And now you're tired And it's coming in Everybody looks so happy Everybody here is beautiful It's getting late

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With the computer as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. That man is 2021's Tom Merritt, who joins us the smart. morning as he does every Wednesday. Talk about the tech news of the morning. Tom, welcome. Well, thank you for having me once again. Well, it's our pleasure, as my dad would say. Now, here's the thing. Your camera looks amazing these days. I just wanted to put that out there. Oh, why thank you? I've purchased a new camera. Oh, well, then there you. Now I understand. I think the last time we had you on camera, it was still, it still had some of its like Terminator. Oh, yeah, the first call of the year after I got the camera, I had not. I had not.

I had forgotten to turn off all of the autofocus and... I'm glad that we were your where that happened. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're happy to be the... I'm glad that you're glad. They're not with us all the time. Sure. By the way, I have... It's just TMS.

Right. I have a friend who does like some animal study stuff and he says that guinea pig thing is a is not true that they don't ever test guinea pigs. So this concept that we say, hey, you're our guinea pig. They may have used to but these days like it's like unheard of to use a game. My mom worked in a laboratory.

where she took care of the guinea pigs that they that they would uh uh try stuff on inject stuff into and Yeah. Did they then bring them home to you? Try stuff. It makes it sound like, you know, like, come at me. Like, exactly. Let me try. Let me try this pick-up lines. That's why they had to stop using guinea pigs. They developed an attitude. Sure. You got to watch out for a guinea pig with an attitude. But none of that here. One of the two. My dad or my mom, one of them. One of those two. Probably your one of them was a gay.

It might have been my dad, actually. They were both guinea pigs. Maybe my dad was the guinea pig that my mom's experiments turned into a human being. Oh. You're part guinea pig. Brian, that explains a lot. Not really. We prefer to be called Guinea, poor kind. Oh, okay. Fair enough.

Fair enough. I'll respect that in the future. I want to respect whatever you want to be called. I'm here for you. Hey, Tom, how's it going? Hey, what's going on in the news? Do we have any tech news today to talk about? Nope.

No. Yeah, there's lots of good tech news. I'm in the middle right now. I'm in the middle right now. trying to wrap my head about something that will, isn't really tech, but all the tech press is talking about it because it involves Reddit. It's that whole GameStop stock thing.

Oh, yeah. I'm actually kind of trying to wrap my head around it today. I know what I kind of understand the effect of it, but I don't understand why. Like somebody said to me, hey, Scott, I hope you can explain this better than Bitcoin, Tom. Sure. But in some ways, it's a lot like Bitcoin.

I'm just kidding. In some way, but isn't in some ways it's kind of like Bitcoin in that people are just, they're basically hedge, it's a hedge fund. Like they're hedging their bets is what they're doing. Sure. It's very similar to Bitcoin in that you'll never understand it. Perfect. Perfect. Yeah.

And I don't mean you, Scott, particularly. I just mean like, yeah, it's tricky. And I'm not fully versed on it. In fact, I'm trying to get Molly Wood to explain it to me. So hopefully that'll come through before the show. but it all revolves around short selling. And that's where it really gets complicated because short selling is usually explained

as making a bet that a stock will fall. And that's the easy way to understand it. It gets more complicated if you try to explain how that works. Because basically if I've got it right, you, let's see, I'm trying to borrow shares you borrow shares right you borrow shares right you don't own them you borrow them you pay a fee but you don't buy the full freight you sell those shares for a high price right so you you you get that money back but you're going to have to pay those stocks back right at some point so you've got all this money when it's a high price and you're betting that it's going to fall so you what I think I get it now as I'm trying to explain it. Like, I've got, I've got a stock that's at $10 a share.

I think it's going to fall to one. So I borrow 10 shares, you know, and I pay a buck to borrow them. I sell them for $100. And I wait for it to fall to a dollar. Then when the person I borrowed them from wants them back, I go and I buy them for $10. So I sold them for $100. When I have to pay them back, I go buy them for $10. And then I have made $80.

because I made $90, you know, selling high and buying low, and I have a dollar fee that I had to pay the company I borrowed them from. Even better is if the company goes bankrupt before I have to pay the stocks back, in which case, I don't even have to buy them. I just get all the money I bought them, I sold them for at the beginning. And the company that held them is like, man, company went bankrupt. Don't even bother giving them back to us. They don't exist anymore. So that's how you make money on short selling. all right that makes sense yeah why does it sound so illegal and so shady it totally does yeah

very i mean it's no more it's no more illegal than than you know if if you had a bunch of collectibles and i said hey scott uh can borrow those collectibles uh and i'm going to be up front here's what i'm going to do i'm going to sell them i'm going to buy them back and if i don't buy them back here's a contract of how much money i'll owe you uh if i can't get them back to you put you know damages etc uh and i'll pay you i'll pay you a buck to let me do that and you'll get either the collectibles back or a bunch of more money and you're like yeah all right fine so i go and i sell them because i think the price is going to fall i sell them high at a con i wait a year i come back the next con aha nobody likes that character anymore i buy them real cheap by giving back to you you're like great

same same collectibles in the box same condition not a problem got them back and now i've made a bunch of money so the hitch here is the person with the collectibles originally in this case in this scenario me I have to be in on the deal. I have to know that you are borrowing them to do the thing you're doing. Eyes wide open. Yeah, the company that lets you borrow the stock knows what you're doing. Their job is to make money off fees. They're like, yeah, we make fees.

So that's the short selling part of this. There's also something called a call option that lets you buy stock at a specific price on a specific date. That one's a little more complex. but let's say a stock is at $10,000, and you set a call option to buy 10 shares at $25 on, let's say, April 1st. So you're betting in that case that it's going to go above $25, right? Okay, okay. So you're like, okay, I know the stock's at 10. I'm going to set a call option.

This is a little less risky because you only pay the fees. You don't have to pay for the stock until the day that you're going to pay. you've, you know, set your call option to execute on. So I set a call option for 25 bucks. The stock goes to 50. Now, I can either sell my call option to somebody else and say, hey, you know, ahead of time, like, looks like it's going to be 50 on April 1st. Want to buy my call option? Or I can just wait until April 1st and get that $50 stock for $25 a share and then immediately sell it and make money. Okay. And they're doing that today with AMC apparently as well. So let me ask you this then.

So it's these two things at the same time. Okay. Right. You've got Wall Street investors doing short selling. And you've got Robin Hood investors, retail folks, colluding on Reddit. I shouldn't say colluding because that has legalification, but cooperating, talking to each other on Reddit. Eating and abetting. To do the call option thing.

And basically what they're doing is saying, we want to punt. all those short sellers out there. Ha, ha, ha. We'll show those big Wall Street fat cats. We'll drive this price up. And the way a call option drives it up, again, if I'm understanding this right, is if it looks like the stock won't reach the option price, you're out your fees. But also the company that you had the option from is out as well because they had to have that stock. and they're not going to be able to get the money for it now.

So the company that holds your call option has an interest in buying up the stock in a way that keeps the price up. And so if you have a bunch of people on Reddit decide to buy a bunch of call options on GameStop, it seems to have the effect of driving the price up. And as the price goes up, that means more people set call options, which then drives it up more. And then suddenly you get this networking effect where the price just goes up and up and up and up. okay so when when uh and they're targeting things like game stop and amc because they're kind of in the gutter at the moment right like they're suffering their stock has been well yeah i think they're targeting amc right now because it worked with game stop so they're like what's another one everybody's short selling oh amc because they're not you know they're they're only have enough money to exist till july and doesn't look good for them uh let's let's play the same game with them now because on Reddit it is and specifically on

this subreddit called Wall Street Vets it's become a meme to you know to take screenshots and show off friends how much you you short squeezed as they call it the short sellers so who who gets the money for selling the film rights to this crazy story once this is all over

who gets that money AMC but not the theaters AMC the broad no I don't know okay American different AMC no it's going to be the same guy that the big short is already probably optioning. Yeah, that wouldn't surprise me.

That's fascinating. It really is. And I guess the part, I think I understood all of it until you told me the part about the lender knows about the lending. See, I thought it was like, go to your neighbor, say, I need your lawnmower. Okay, cool, no problem, thinking you're just going to go mow your lawn with it. But then while he was gone, he sold my mower. And then came back and said, well, I'm not bringing your mower back, but I'm going to give you

this cash. And actually, I got more for it than you paid for it. so you should be happy or whatever and the lender of the mower was never the wiser but now i get it like the course the lender knows like it's not like a behind the scenes no it's it's it's all above board uh the the companies that that do the the short selling uh situations that that's their business uh and they've got contracts to help recover you know money if it if it doesn't get you know if the person who tried to short the stock doesn't give it back to them uh but most of the time they do. Because, you know, most of the time these bets, you know, GameStop is a pretty good stock

to short sell, right? Because it's just not going to go up unless something unforeseen like a bunch of Redditors getting together and saying, hey, wouldn't this be funny? Let's see if we can make it happen. And the reason you've never seen this before, people think, is because the tools haven't been as easy. To do things like call options and short selling, you needed to be a more sophisticated investor. But now with Reddit being able to help each other understand it and apps like Robin Hood, making these sophisticated trades easy to execute, suddenly you can have this meme happen where, you know, we're all familiar with the Bernie meme all of a sudden exploding across the internet because, you know, it just has that networking effect and multiplies. This is the same mechanism at work.

It's just with short squeezing and punishing investors who were shorting a stock. Do you think, if you had to predict, do you think this has any effect on regulatory anything? Like, does somebody look at this and go, my gosh, the freaking Internet's doing it for the lulls and they've done it? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I don't know enough about the financial world to make an estimate of whether it will be regulatory, like the SEC stepping in, or whether it will just be procedural where the stock markets themselves, like the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, put in rules. because there are already new rules put in place in the last 10, 20 years to do what's called a circuit breaker because there were less intentional situations where a stock got out of hand because of algorithmic trading, where there was an unforeseen consequence. And so they have these circuit breakers now, which has kicked in on GameStop a bunch, where if trading is just going up and up and up, they halt trading to be like, hold on, let's find out what's happening here. But when you're dealing with humans, the humans don't just reset when you halt the trading. They just wait.

When the trading comes back, they're like, let's dive back into the pool. Here we go. And that's why you see those graphs where GameStop was going, you know, slowly down, down, down. And then suddenly all the Wall Street bets people started executing their stuff. And it spikes way up. Yeah. Well, I think Brian's right. It'll be Adam McKay.

I mean, he got, he did the big. Thank you. I couldn't come up with his name. Yeah, he did the big short. I mean, he already knows about short. selling in a major way. Right. Yeah. He's got a prequel. Yeah. Let this guy do it and

bring it all back to us. All right. Well, this is fascinating stuff. I'm sure by the time DTS rolls around today, we'll have even a better handle on it and be able to talk about it more amongst the many stories that will appear there. Tom, anything else you want to mention before we go today? Yes, freetomnewsletter.com.

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Fantastic. Tom Merritt, Aisdeck on Twitter. And later today on Daily Tech News Show, I'll be there. as well. We'll see you then. Thanks. See you, Tom. Bye. All right. Now that we're smarter, let's get Nicole in.

Let's get more entertained by talking about movies. That's right. Things that are less about short selling and more about short formats. No, I don't know what I'm saying. I am going to play this. Where is it? Right here. I can't find it. There it is. It is Nicole Spagg who was swaying there Like you're at a concert

That was cool I'm listening to your music Yeah, it was awesome Who do we have behind you? Is it Dougie or is it Millie? That's Millie Yeah, no, wrong way There

I just saw a leg And I saw an ear Hi, Millie One of these times you need to not tell us And just have Mark curled up on the dog bed Well, he's right there, too. I know, I see his hand. But, like, have him have him curled on the dog bed as a surprise when we see you on camera.

I would love that. Well, see, now I have to wait a very long time to do that. You've got to wait until we forget, which will be about six months. Yeah, he's like a dog that way, too. It takes a little while to forget. Hey, that dog always reminds me of my dog. There's, like, a very similar breed thing going on there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Whenever I see pictures that you've posted one where, is it a boy or a girl? The girl, Rainer. Jim Rainer, the female dog. Yep. She's all balled up in a little On our little bed I was like oh it kind of looks like Millie They're able to

When they're tired They can be any shape they want I've learned Yeah Those dogs They don't give a crap Anyway Speaking of not giving a crap

We're going to talk about Recommendals today And very excited to do it Brian we're going to start with you We always play a clip from something you watch And then you're going to tell us all about it So what do you got here This is a movie

That is on Netflix That I would have written off just based on the name. As a matter of fact, I almost did. And then I heard the cast, and we watched a trailer. And then I said, oh, my God, this looks great. And we watched it. And I'm recommending it.

So there's the setup. I'm nervous. This might be what I did. We're going to find out right now. You're the kid with the cool sneakers. Yeah. So what's wrong with you? I have a, to share muscular district.

Shit, that sounds bad. Can you fix it? No, not yet. That blows? Yeah. Does it hurt? No. I mean, kind of. Does it affect your brains? No.

Does your penis work? Do you want a menu? Can we have a menu? What would you like? You want a sandwich? You want some eggs, maybe? The waffles are really good, right, Treve? Yeah. Yeah, the waffles are good, or yeah, your penis work? The wolf will suck. I'm dot.

Two perverts got room for one more. What is this? That's Paul Rudd. That is Paul Rudd. You're hearing interrupting to talk about eggs and sandwiches to turn it around. Yeah, this is definitely not a fun, fun mom dinner. No, this is a movie called The Fundamentals of Caring. It came out in 2016, and it's a story of Paul Rudd, who is a, who wants to become a caregiver, and he goes through classes to become a caregiver, and his first, quote-unquote assignment, a first job, is taking care of this boy named Trevor, who has Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

But he's kind of a, he's kind of a pill. And by the way, Nicole's frozen again, and it's another great Nicole freeze. Oh, it is? Oh, man. Let's take a look. What is the, what's going on with my camera? I don't know, but it's awesome. Yeah, it's pretty good.

So, you know, and hearing the description, I was like, okay, yeah, it sounds like it's going to just, you know. Is it sad? It is not sad. It's surprisingly not sad. It's very heartwarming. And, you know, don't be turned off by the words heartwarming. Because I kind of was like, oh, Tina, I'm not.

She picked this out. And I'm like, I'm not. not sure I'm in the mood for, uh, for trope, you know, somebody gets their world turned around because of this sort of thing. This completely and totally hooked me in. It's also got Selena Gomez. Uh, I like her in things. That's what you're talking about if your penis still works. I don't know how she, you know why she does that? Because she, she asked freaking, uh, Justin Bieber that a lot, a lot of times. It came up a lot of their discussion. Yeah, when they were going out, when they were going out,

when they were like dating full time constantly asking that guy if his penis works yeah yeah i don't know how she manages to look 14 forever but selina gomez um uh she joins them on uh on their trip basically they they go on a road trip and that's all i'll say about that um it's really really good and this uh came out in 2016 i'd never heard of it until tina suggested it and uh um it um it's It did warm my heart and made my heart go three sizes larger, and I'm okay with that. It's really sweet. Your heart is already big, Brian. It's like probably bulging out of your body now.

It's bulging out of the lower part of my torso. It's so big. Better go have that looked at, actually. Bigger and bigger and bigger. Oh, there's Eva. Oh, you can't see it. You can see it. She can see herself.

Turn off and turn your mic up or your camera and that should fix it. Anyway, so it's really good. Fundamentals of Caring and it's on Netflix and it's really, really good. Oh, there's Ava. There she is. See, hi, Abel. Wow, her hair looks so dark. It's crazy.

She's really blondie for such a long time. She loves a camera, dude. She's going to be on, she's going to be a little YouTuber. You watch. Don't, don't bite your tongue. Instagrammer, a little Instagrammer. Don't do that to me. What's up you, subscribe button.

They have a spag here to teach you about I need to watch that 8th grade movie Because I think that's my future I keep hearing that's really good I heard that was good Yeah it's yeah I haven't seen it Anyway

I'm not looking forward to it that's all I'm gonna I got a taste with Mateo I get you I'm gonna do my clip now It is not based on Brian's movie I was worried there for a minute Because when he said It's the kind of thing you're not sure

Based on the title you'd like Same exact experience here. Also on Netflix. And I am going to recommend it, although comes with some caveats, but it's enough for me to recommend it. I think on the concept side, the thing I picked is really cool. Execution's a little uneven. But here it is, see if you guys have figured out. For three decades, the Child Allocation Bureau has combated catastrophic overpopulation.

This sibling will be processed under authority of the Child Allocation Act. To build a sustainable future, full of hope and possibility. How do you plan on hiding this? Starting tomorrow, you will each get to go outside on the day in the week that is your name. Sunday will get to go outside on Sunday, Monday on Monday, Tuesday on Tuesday, and so on. You will all take on the singular identity of Karen Sutton. okay Nicole had it I think yelled it what would you say again it's what happened to Monday what happened to Monday this has been on my list forever and I haven't I don't know why I

haven't watched it was that Willem Defoe by the way it was yeah definitely was he has a so did you like it did yeah I did so here's so here's where I'm at with this it's it's it tells the story of a future not too far off future but definitely a few future because there's a lot of like future computer tech and stuff like that, where families are limited to one kid each due to overpopulation in America. So it's an, uh, uh, there's a, there's a bunch of laws passed. And the person that's primarily behind all of that is Glenn Close. Uh, that's who you heard talking to the beginning. Oh, okay. Wow. Yeah. She was very good in it. Um, anyway, there's this set of identical septuplets, just six, right? Yeah. Uh, yeah, wait. Is that seven?

Seven. Yeah, it'd be seven because there's a whole week's worth of kids. Yeah, yeah, it's a whole week. Anyway, they have to avoid being put to what the government calls the long sleep and only leaving one of them. And they do this by Willem Defoe, who is their father, figures out a way. And we don't really get into who their mother was or I don't understand how these kids came about. But they don't really get into that. But Willam Defoe has to figure out ways to make it so there's only ever the appearance that there's the one kid by a single name.

but really there are seven of these girls living in this house in New York or maybe Chicago, I'm not sure. And so there's... The baby phase with those kids. Yeah, and there's a bunch of flashbacks to when the girls were young and him doing different things to help them, for example, one of the kids got their finger cut off.

I don't know, what was the deal? Yeah, I can't remember if it was cut off. Yeah, it was cut off from some accident. And so all six other girls had to have their fingers cut off because they have to be the same. They can't vary because they each get to go out on their day and they have these. This is literally their name is Monday,

a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. The reason it's called why happened to Monday is because Monday disappears early in the movie and I won't say why, but you kind of have to figure out what the crap happened to her. They are all played by the same actor. Really? Yeah, it's Numi Rapace from the Dragon Tattoo thing.

Right, the Swedish versions of the Dragon Tattoo movies, right? Right. She's also in some other major thing that I can't remember now. She's also on season two, which I started or I've been watching the season two of Jack Ryan. Orffin Blackie. Oh, yeah. Yes. It's a little like that, but she's, she's very, very good in this. It's one of the strong points of it, I think. Her acting's really top notch and she convincingly plays seven versions of herself and does so in a way that feels like each one of them has a very unique personality. the movie in a lot of ways is a template from like say minority report there's a lot of that going on it reminded me of that a lot actually uh especially toward the end when when the big reveal happens

and everybody turns on the bad guy and anyway i don't want to give too much away but uh she's fantastic i want to give a shout out to these little girls who played the younger versions of her when they would do the flashbacks with willem to foe she's amazing like really compelling interesting young actress. I don't know what her future looks like, but bright to me. The thing's a little uneven, though. It's got some problems. It's mostly in the storytelling, and there are parts that just feel weird. I can't quite explain it. It's like this amazing concept, but then handed to a director who's maybe not all that great at this. It's hard for me to explain. But it's never because of her. She's incredibly good in it. It's never because

most of the actors are always very good. It's just like high concept. difficult execution, but just major points to Numi repase for her freaking mind-blowing performance. I thought she was great. And I'm always down for some sci-fi near future post-apocalyptic business. That's totally what this is. It's around 7 out of 10 on IMDB, which is about how I feel about it. And this is on Netflix.

Netflix, yep. Totally worth checking out. Sounds really cool. Yeah. And there's some other like side characters in it that are really interesting. It just goes places and does things that are in some ways brilliant. And then then there'll be a scene where you're like, well, that's not going to happen between those two or these guys aren't going to talk about. Once in a while you're just sort of taken out of it.

But for the most part, worth your time. If you're a genre fan and this fits within your likes, it's definitely something to catch. So again, what happened to Monday? It came out in 2017. I didn't even know about it until it just popped up and really enjoyed it. So go check it out. Okay. Cool.

Nicole, what'd you bring? All right. Well, first, I meant to congratulate you guys on 10 years of TMS. Oh, thank you. Because that's crazy. What? Yeah, well, some of that goes back to you, too, for being here for as long as I knew you weren't in that first week. It doesn't feel like I've been hanging out with 10 years.

Yeah. It's crazy. Weird, right? No, it's, you know, that goes right back at you, Nicole, for all the great stuff you bring to us. I used to do three. Remember, I used to do three recommendals? Yeah. Right. And then for a while we were doing the... And then I'm like, I can't do this. I can't do this one term. We've got to make this sustainable.

I forgot about that. And then for a while we were doing the game. The game. Yeah. We drew cards and we had to find movies that fit those two cards. Oh, I forgot. We used to do that. Yeah. We never really... And sometimes we shoehorned in. Yeah. Yeah, I forgot we did that. That was kind of fun, actually, because it made us discover some things that were pretty cool. Yeah, I still have that game. I think it's over there.

Yeah. All right. So I have a few. I have a few. A few recommendals. A few recommendals. Only to reiterate your recommendal, Brian, weeks ago, I finally watched the Queen's Gambit. Holy moly.

that hooked. So I didn't think I was going to get into it. I was like, oh, it's hyped up, whatever. Within the first minute, five minutes, I couldn't turn it off. Like, the first five minutes hooked me. And I was like, okay, it's one in the morning. I'm not supposed to be awake. So the queen's gambit, if you haven't watched it, just turn it on for five minutes. And then you'll be hooked. Yeah. Then you're all in. And then you'll, you'll want to find out what happens. Oh, it's so good. So bad. Anya Taylor Joy is just so good. And we'll just see if her eyes keep getting further and further apart as she gets older. Well, when she's Furiosa, my idea, I think in her eyes will be on the side of her head. They'll be way over here. Right. Like she'll look like Admiral Akbar at that point.

Yeah. She'll say this is a, it's not a, or it is a trap and then everyone will have to run. So here's what I want to say real quick, Nicole, just before you get to it. I also watch something you mentioned last week, I ended up, and I texted you about it. But I ended up watching that crazy, not insane documentary. Yeah, on HBO. Yeah, Alex Gibney thing on. on HBO. And that was a fascinating walk through some psycho business there. It's really interesting to see her role in how those kinds of diagnosis come about. It wasn't popular. Oh, yeah. Like

watching her get berated on Stan for just some of the pioneer work she was doing. And then all these years later, everybody uses it. That stuff was really interesting. The Ted Bundy stuff, I thought I'd heard all I needed to hear about him. Like I'd heard everything. And that was some new stuff toward the end. And that got crazy. And the whole idea of her saying, you know, the whole thing saying that everybody is capable of these things. Why do so many not do that?

Like it's fascinating science. The science of it really got under my skin and it was much more than just a true crime documentary. It was very, very good. So thank you for that. All right. Sorry. Now back to you. All right.

So here, here's my question. clip. I will just, um, it's old. I will let you know I've been watching a lot of Pluto TV. So that's because of this came of that. Oh, this is old. Sorry, I had to look at the things so I can push it. All right. I'm going to hit play. Uh, hopefully we got some good volume on this. If not, I'll fix it in post here. It was really hard to find clips. All right, no worries. Here we go. Hit and play. Kid and play. So how do we do it? 20 bucks a pop guaranteed fresh. I've got to see what I'm buying. What does a solution to get that's long and hard when she gets married?

A last name! Oh, you heard that one, huh? A funny thing happened to Lila Critsick on the way to cooking dinner for her husband. Lila? Yes, dear. What? Do you have a question your hand has been up as long as I've been here? You're turning blue, Sam.

Why is that? Oh, good guy. I'm standing on his arrow. I remember this. I remember this. Brian, does this ring a bell? That's right.

Tom Hanks, is that funny, funny people? No, hold on. He's a stand-up comedian. Getting closer. Sally Field.

Sally Field is kind of the woman he takes under his wing and teaches her the ways of being funny. John Goodman. Was this before? This is before. Comic assholes is what it's called. No, what is it called?

it's called punchline punchline thank you so you can watch this on Pluto TV and crackle right now I haven't seen this movie in forever and I got sucked into watching it and it's

it's such a good movie it really is there's a lot of I mean funny ha ha but there's so much tragedy behind the Tom Hanks character I think it's one of one of his best roles

but I think it's a movie that not a lot of people saw yeah I didn't see it either I still haven't seen it I'd love to see it really oh yeah definitely watch it's good yeah it holds up it's good I remember Joe versus the volcano yes that is true I remember

I remember the trailer because that part about him talking to all the old people that were in the hospital and the guy's arm that was up because of the cast and that's why he was raising his hand the whole time that trailer burned in my head for some reason, but I never... The trailers are awful for this movie, by the way. I was watching...

Because I was looking for like a good clip, like one of the serious ones, and I couldn't find anything. And as I was watching the trailers, it was like, trailers at that time period, you always had the guy, like you heard in that clip, it was like, to set up, I have to set this up for you to understand what's going on in this movie trailer. And it's, all of them are like that. So and so, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, it was interesting.

Show me a trailer. Here's the thing. They, so, it's so weird that she would play his mom and Forrest Gump in like 10 or like success. Right. And that was, she's a love interest in this movie. That's weird. That's really weird.

My mom always said life was like a older lady meets a younger guy. So Punchline is. is available only there. I was just looking, I guess you can only get this on Pluto, Pluto. Crackle and Pluto TV. Oh, Crackle. Okay. Yeah, it's on Crackle. So, I mean, and Pluto TV, you can do on demand, I think, too. A lot of times, I like their live feature with Pluto TV where you just turn on a channel and it plays. And because I was watching Pluto TV, I was flipping through the channels and I was like, is that Price is right? And there is a channel, 163, devoted to it's called the Barker era, era, and it's old Price is Right, Bob Barker, before he turned gray, it is so cringy at times.

Oh, my God, oh, my God, I didn't. Like misogynistic at times, right? Oh, God. You do a lot of shopping for your household, ma'am, don't you? God. Like this one, one, I watched one episode, the girl comes down and she's, she has a tight top on and she's pretty. I mean, she's just, you know, a girl. And Bob Barker spent like two minutes, which for that game show, it's a lot. That's a lot of time. Like talking about three guys in the audience going crazy for her and like, oh, God, it was so cringy. And she just looked so uncomfortable. I want her to win this Broi Hill love seat, so she'll jump up and down again. Oh, my God.

But it's, you know, it's, it is what it is for the time. But so. Everyone always thinks he's dead. He's alive, you guys. He's 97, by the way. Isn't that crazy? He's 97. 97 years old.

Yeah. And he is looking at it, man. But you could probably get him for 94. Yeah. If you're a bit as close enough. And even, even the girls, you know, the. the girls that are like showing off the the wares and things the outfits they put them in and like yeah they put them in a lot of leotards without bras so huh yeah i played bass for leotar without bras for a while

it was a fantastic good band but yeah if you want to check out some old prices right episodes channel 163 on uh pluto does that mean that when he was on met billy madison or no the other one happy Gilmore he was like in his 70s or something is that right that would have been right that's weird yeah that would be about right yeah that's wow all right

was that 20 years ago was was that 20 years ago yeah I guess it was maybe a little more than that yeah yeah right time dude back when Adam Sandler was just off of Sarnet Live I guess the only way I can finish that sentence yeah there's no other

there's no other way to do it That was it. When Adam Sandler was Adam Sandler. That's right. Well, very good. And this is out there now on those two channels. You said you had to, you had more. You had more?

Or was that it? Oh, no. Just those three things that I wanted to, besides my movie, which was punchline. Gotcha, got you. Hey, one quick thing, one quick thing about mine that I found out afterwards. It's directed by, produced and directed and written by Rob Burnett, who was the executive producer of Late Show with David Letterman. also it was the guy who created Ed

so if you remember Ed from the early 2000s that great show with Julie Bowen and the guy Ed. Yeah, Ed. I just know Ed. Oh, Ed was great. I loved Ed.

He was the co-creator of that. So that's another thing saying go watch the fundamentals of caring. There you go. I like Ed. Ed was a fun show. It was a really fun show. Perhaps better than...

Until it wasn't. Until well, I mean, they canceled it early. That was a show I think that did suffer. when the will there, won't they couple finally got together. Yeah. Oh, is that what ended up happening in the end of that?

I think that's what happened is that Ed and I can't remember Julie Bowen's character's name, but. Oh, yeah, that's right. The blonde. Yeah,

the chat room's right too. He finally got together and the season, it just, uh, not so good. Jady's brother from, or the guy that played Ed was

J.D's brother on scrubs. Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah, he was, Kavanaugh, Tom Kavanaugh. Yeah, I like that guy. He's great. Hey, have you seen the trailer?

Or not Arrow, Flash. Flash. The Flash. Flash. Have you been seeing the trailer for that new sci-fi? Oh, yeah, with Alan Tudick? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't.

It's going to come out soon. What is it? What are we talking about? It's not the crime one. He plays an alien that comes to a small town. That's already out. And immediately gets entrenched in solving a murder mystery. I think that's already out.

It looks. resident alien first episode i think might have come out this week resident alien yeah there's a yeah uh hold on yeah this is this is out somewhere you can see this okay first episode is it's sci-fi sci-fi sci-fi oh today this is the series premiere oh really okay there you go sci-fi not sci-fi sci-fi sci-fi pop-i yeah i'm going to be watching that i will absolutely watch that he's not going to have a big um metal thing through his chest the whole time will he just kidding. No, he won't. That's good. Sorry, everybody.

Too soon. Yeah, too soon. 2005, too soon. All right. Hey, well done. This is always good. If you want to follow Nicole on Twitter, she'll put this stuff up so you can see it and be reminded about what we talked about. That's over at Nicole Spag on Twitter, and we will retweet it as well. Nicole, thanks so much. Have a fantastic week. Bye. See you next time. Oh, for some reason I moved Brian.

You moved me. Catwoman. All right. You're back. I've been moved. All right. Well, that brings us here. Nowhere else to go but play this bonus mashup for the week.

This is called throwback. Wait, what's I say? Throwback mashup. Cup it gently. It's called. Cup it gently. Yes. Uh-huh.

Yeah. I don't remember this, but we're going to find out together when I play this now from Jamie and Joy. Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. I want all the purple shit. I'd like to tell you, Brian New Frang gave them caramels. I'd like to take that. I'd like to, but I can't.

Brian Brin handed out marijuana-laced cookies to a mile of students and came out in jail on the other side. So then I'll eat that thing like a lollipop, like some kind of five-year-old. So it's not just like we go, take it all. No, I kind of just. just go at it. I work on it for, you know, five, ten minutes. But I realized, I saw this. And by arousing, they mean generally heightened state of awareness or attention. They don't mean. They don't mean, oh, this is making my genitals move. Right. Listen, the mother of dragons, far less nudity in this season than we're in the previous seasons.

Is there a nude Snapchat wiener level that I can buy into or no? We'll add one specifically for you and just have one slot available. Okay. Did I just say one slot available? One slot available. I'm going to fill your slot. All right? No.

Look at this photograph. And that's called photograph. That's the only one I know. That's my top. Come on, you know how this is how you remind me. Oh, right. Look, this is her. I want to be a big rock star and drive around in a big stupid car.

A jogger, who's probably 15, 20 yards away, is off the path. Sure. Taking a dump. Just taking a dump. Just squatting. Yep. Just dropping trow and letting fly. He's also thinking, I think I'm alone now.

That's the end one around. You know what? It's better if I think of him as kind of jaunty as he's going about his business. You groped my chest and tweaked my nipple. My nipple. A forced in-flight nipple tweak. You need to go into a doctor and finally get that third testicle removed from your back. No.

The one that's just hanging in the back there, it looks bad on the back. It's totally fine. But it's Tinder, though. already, haven't you? Like when you hug Brian hello at an event or something, you can hear him wins. And you cup it gently. I think that's actually the preferred method. Oh, my gosh.

So I've learned a pattern here. There is a pattern to his mashup where we know what the title means only in the last phrase or so. Right, exactly. It's the end of the sizzle. Yeah, that's how he's doing it. And that's fine with me. I don't mind waiting. Totally fine.

It's a good closer. Yeah, for sure. All right, quick fan service. This is for Joe in Connecticut, or Connecticut, as I like to say. Connecticut says, hey there, there, Scotch and Bonnet. I've written in before, only sparingly, but I'm one of those dirty podcast-only people. Damn work, always getting in the way. Two years ago, I was inspired largely by YouTube to start my first podcast with a friend,

and it has been an amazing and rewarding experience, one that I wouldn't have had without you two. says, well, now I'm back at it again, this time tackling the challenge of a solo hosting or hosting a podcast and with no one to carry my sorry ass, all eyes on me, he says. My new project is called the Beryl House podcast. In each episode, I ramble a little about my life and take a deep dive into a whiskey, tasting notes and all that history, et cetera. So far, I'm loving the experience and would only be able to share it with some, I would like to share it with some more people. The Beryl House is available anywhere, rather everywhere, and can be found at barrelhousepodcast.com.

Thank you so much for everything. Even if it doesn't make the show. Oh, it made it. And here's to hopefully much better 2021. Much love, gentlemen, Joe from Connecticut. Well, Joe. Nice. That's very rad.

That's a cool concept for a show, too. Yeah. And the barrel house, I mean, is all whiskey made in a barrel? Is that just the rule? That's how you do it? Yes. Okay. Yes.

And the darkness of the whiskey comes from the charring of the inside of the barrel. so a good smoky flavor comes from that. I'm trying to think if there's any whiskeys that I know of that are not made in barrels, aged in barrels, and I don't think there are. Interesting. So you can't just make it in a that. Okay. Yeah, that's what I was wondering. Like, could you just make it like a bunch of rotten tomatoes or rotten potatoes in a tub and make vodka or whatever?

You can't really do that. I mean, you probably could. So let's say that there might be somebody out there making whiskey and something that's other than a barrel. but you probably don't want it, right? You don't. You probably don't want it, right? You probably don't want it. Yeah, exactly. Okay. Well, all right then. Oh, Modern Rogue has some episodes about it. Well, I'll check those out. Yes, he does. He did a great series on how to appreciate whiskey, like whiskey tasting. And see, I knew as soon as I said that, somebody would say, no, there's people do whiskey that's not made in barrels. Whiskey advocate says that you can do it in a vat. Oh, there you go. And you just, you just chop up. the charred wood and put it into that as well. Oh, so it's like, it's like a, the curig of whiskey making, basically. Yeah. Okay.

Uh, no barrel necessary for alternatively aged whiskey. Okay. Yeah. Um, Lost Spirits Distillery, Terescentiate, Cleveland Whiskey, and Edrington group do it. And I've never heard of any of the four of them. So, um, I'm fine with that. I'll stick to my barrels. Thank you very much.

All right. Uh, also there's a note on here that we all. knew whiskey was gluten-free, but now it's official. There was an FDA ruling that says you can claim gluten-free on your whiskey because that was always true. No gluten. Cool.

Just bits of tree. I need to learn how to appreciate whiskey more because I I like it in very sparing amounts and I like it super chilled. Once it warms up, I don't care for whiskey

at all. so I do need to learn how to appreciate whiskey more. Nice. So maybe I'll watch this barrel or listen to the barrel house podcast and see if it teaches me, if it learns me something. I think Joe's got your back. So go check it out. Once again, that's barrelhousepodcast.com.

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song first. Sure. While I'm doing this, could you do me a favor and play the Ken Burns music behind me? Yeah, I got that. Hold on. Cool. Do I, though? Yeah, I do.

Here we go. Where is it? Oh, I think I found it. Nope, that's keep it gay. Never mind. Where is it? Is it under Martha? No, it's me screaming.

Hold on. Why isn't it here? Oh, I found it. Okay. So let me get it all. We've got to get in the mood here. Okay, here we go. Oh, there we go.

Dearest Sam Rahan, Soran, and Baron, I'm writing you on the day of my 25th birthday with the hope that you'll play me a wee tune to celebrate. I may not be able to enjoy a wee dram at my local pub this year, but that won't stop me from having a wee but sensible pint of Jameson tonight by the warmth of my fire. Brian, if you could please find me a traditional Irish cover of a Shoken farewell to play on the 25th or any day, really, that would just make my week.

Love the shite accents, though, y'ar, dairy girl, Claire. Oh, man, we hope to see you after the war, Claire. She wants you to try pronouncing this phrase I'm going to put in our Discord chat. Okay. Watch them for it. Whoops. There it is. All right.

I'm going to say, oh. Pogmothian. okay i don't know if it's right or wrong but uh but claire is uh gonna appreciate that okay she asked me that she's laughing by the way that means kiss my ars kiss my ars hey hey hey all right well i'm sure i got it poge mahone is that is it or pog mahone pog mahone okay wow all right it's got lots of accents and umlouts and things i don't know it totally does exactly uh so her request is a traditional cover of Ashokin Farewell

if I can find one. Come on, Claire. Come on. This is the first time here? No, we can't do that. We're going to do a cover of a Shoken Farewell. But it's not by a traditional Irish band. It's by a surf rock group called Lo Strait Jackets. Yes, those guys who perform wearing

luchador masks and have recently been touring and performing with Nick Lowe. I had tickets to go see them a year ago on March. The concert's been moved to this year sometime, and I can't wait to see them, Nick Lowe and Lo Strait Jackets. This is from their channel surfing album, and it is a cover of the song. Yeah, that song you just heard, the Ashokin Farewell, done with surf guitars. Here are Low Strait Jackets. I don't know what I'm going to be.

I'm going to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to be able to be. I don't know me. I'm going to I'm

the I'm I'm We're going to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to

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