The Morning Stream - TMS 2061: No Monkey Union

Episode Date: February 3, 2021

How much for a weekly Jerk? 60% Dad Jokes, 40% Bacon! What About Pac-Man? Pac-Man? Maybe Pac-Man? Rheeeeeeeeeonnnnnn Johnnnsonnnnnnnnnn!!! Attack of the Solanine Tomatoes. One of the Sheep could be a Goat! Dangling from the Tank Butt. Forced Monkey Labor. Buttery Hot Meat Flavored Wine. This PotatoCast is Tuberular. I drink to forget what is healthy for me. Non Stop Pooper Machines. I'mma Letchu Finish, But Sonic is the Greatest Video Game Franchise of All Time. Say Metal Gear Again, I Dare Ya. Tom's Tech Time! Reccamentals 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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Rion Johnson! Attack of the Solon-9 tomatoes. One of the sheep could be a goat. dangling from the tank butt. Fossed monkey labor. Buttery hot meat-flavored wine. This potato cast is tuberular. You got it.

I drink to forget what is healthy for me. These are non-stop pooper machines. I'm going to let you finish, but Sonic is the greatest video game franchise of all time. Say Metal Gear again. I dare you. Metal gear. Tom's Tech Time. Recommendals and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.

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Welcome to TMS for Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021. Now, here's the problem. Okay. Brian, there was no show yesterday, as you know. Right, right. Because you weren't on it and either were I. Right, right. That's why there was no show.

You need us to make a show and we didn't have us. Yeah, we didn't have us. Now, some of you are saying, oh, that explains why I wasn't in my feed, and I'm, you know, sorry, I sent you 50 emails to say, where's the show? Because I did get a few of them. Did you still? Yeah. Here's the problem. It wasn't our fault. Twitch was down, and the things were looking grim for it coming back up.

And it really wasn't prepared to do like a no audience type show. And people at home are going, well, aren't we like 99% of your listeners? Yes, you are. And we could have, sure, we could have squeezed it through. But then we didn't. Yeah, it's really tough. I mean, right now, even doing Coverville without, you know, 40 people in chat, it's so tough. I've had to do it a couple times.

It's like, oh, this, I need something. I need responses while I'm playing songs, even if it's like, this is garbage. And it's not a song by garbage. I still need that feedback. And we need that here. So, you know, both audiences are very important for different reasons. Do you have people when you do play garbage? Like the band, do they ever pipe up and go, oh, man, this song is garbage?

Do they ever do that? Yeah, of course. Of course they do. Okay. So that's just a thing everyone thinks to do. Okay. All right. I'm glad.

I'm glad to hear that, actually. That seems like a little dumb thing to do. It's required. It's basically, it's really that the chat room for Coverville is like 60% dad jokes, really, is what it is. Good. That's what it should be. Those are the numbers I like to see. Well, anyway.

40% bacon. So we're sorry. Yeah, because it's always, always there. So we apologize, is what I'm saying, okay? You missed out on some riveting political discussion with jury. I'm sure we would have had some kind of great pre-impeachment trial in the Senate business going on. I'm sure that would have been a topic of great interest. Yes.

But no, you don't get it. For that, you'll just have to watch politics, politics, politics. Yeah, go check out the triple P, son. in the meantime we got a warning from a listener and this is important okay this is important we got to heed these warnings warning here maybe i have a clip let's see do i have a way to warn people hold on this this shouldn't take long it shouldn't take a whole bunch of time if you can't find anything you could always play our trope alert from uh film sac oh here it is warning okay warning that's even better yeah okay so warning uh here's here's the warning deer scallion and basil

Or Basil, if you're watching Palti Towers. Basel! This is from, I always remember that one, too, with her yelling at the end. It feels like she yelled at him like three out of every four episodes. You'd hear, you'd hear his wife. But there's that one at the end, though, where he puts himself in the laundry basket. Yes, exactly. And she's running around the hotel looking for him.

Oh, she's on the phone. And she's like going, Bezle! Yeah. And I'm pretty sure she repeats it, or the laundry basket. they repeat it. It's the same audio even maybe. I'm not sure, but it stuck with me. I don't know why.

So that's funny you said that. Anyway, he says this. A question about eating raw potatoes came up on episode 257. I'm catching up on a backlog and I'm hoping someone has told you by now, but, and then all caps. Do not eat raw potatoes. I repeat. Do not eat raw potatoes. They are poisonous.

This says Cornwall Hugh. Oh, no, that's not his name. Sorry, Nikki. Nicky. Nicky. Dedicated science. A contestant on A&P, as a matter of fact. That's right.

It says your dedicated sheep scientist listener. I like Nikki. So it says here, potatoes are a member of the Nightshade family and are, I'm sorry, as are tomatoes and eggplant. Well, we're eating nose, aren't we? Wreeting nose? Well, I eat tomatoes raw, but I don't eat eggplant raw. Well, that's true.

I don't need an eggplant, period. I don't like them. Really? Don't like it. Oh, I like a good eggplant parmesan. So does my wife. Her and I argue about this all the time. I hate them.

Just can't do them. Is it because it's the emoji for peen? For a ween, wean, wean. Yeah. No, I actually always forget that that's what that is. But you know what else I don't like is, oh, what's the other one? You put it on pizza sometime.

Artichokes, freaking hate artichokes. Really? Oh, my God. We used to, it's the goofiest thing, but sometimes like for a movie snack, instead of popcorn, we'll seriously steam an artichoke in the oven, make some melted butter, and then just, you know, you peel off a leaf, you would dip it in the butter, you're going to scrape it off with your teeth and toss the leaf in the trash. Definitely the healthier choice that you're doing there. Definitely help well. I don't know about the hot butter, the melted butter. Yeah, good point. Well, I don't know.

Isn't butter fat supposed to be good for us now? I heard that somewhere. I can't keep track. Wine, butter, red meat, I don't know anymore. Right, right. What I need is buttery, hot, meat-flavored wine. Done. Everything taken care of in one swig.

There we go. I think that was ruin them back in the day. Oh, okay. All right, well, it says here, if you eat any of these before they are ripe or raw, you will poison yourself with solanane, solanine? Solonine. I never heard of that. Solonine was seven of nines.

Never mind. It was a bad, Star Trek joke. Cooking them is what breaks down the toxin. Now, you say this about tomatoes, but people eat raw tomatoes all the time, like on burgers and stuff. I eat raw tomatoes. We have an arrow garden in the kitchen,

and it's two tomato plants that really, quite frankly, have gotten a little unruly. They're, you know, usually this thing is like a little self-contained garden and we're growing cherry tomatoes on there. These things have extended beyond but because there are tomatoes on those branches

that come out, we don't cut them down. We wait until the branches are, we went until the tomatoes are done, then we cut the branches down. But this thing is out of control. It's out of control. Yeah, nature doesn't care what you think. It just wants to grow and keep growing. Right, exactly. It's like a bad fungus.

But yeah, raw tomatoes, not a problem at all with solanine. I guess it's probably a much lower concentration. It must be, right? It would have to be. Because I've seen people eat entire tomatoes, just a raw tomato, eat it like an apple. And they didn't die. So anyway, I need some clarification on that bit, Nikki.

But anyway, moving on, says this, bonus. Cool stories linked to this include French royal placing guards around a field of potatoes in the middle ages where they were first brought to Europe and locals didn't want to eat them because of the poison. But since they are guarded, they thought that they were valuable and stole them and eventually figured out a way that we could cook them and eat them. So that's interesting. A little potato history for you.

Yeah. It says the Belladonna plant is also a Nightshade family plant and grows deadly berries. Back in the day, when we put a drop of Belladonna berry juice in their eyes to get black pupils and thus be more beautiful. Oh, yeah. Because the first thing I think of when I think of that Lind Biscuit guitarist is how beautiful he was with his all. black giant black eyes. Yeah. I think of the right guy, right?

Limp Biscuit is the guitarist. That sounds right. You're probably right. That's funny. West Borland. Yes. Thank you. There you go. Sometimes he would kill the women, though. So don't be putting those berries in your eyes either.

Don't be doing that. Bella Donna sounds like something else. What does that sound like? It's a song by Herman's Hermits. Bella Donna. No, maybe Gary Lewis and the Playboys. Old 60s song. Oh, okay.

Maybe that's what I'm thinking of. I don't know if that probably isn't what you're thinking of, but that's what I think of. It's like a Harry Potter person or something. Right, old Belatrix. Oh, Belatrix, LeStrange. Uh-huh. Or LaStrange as I read it. And then later in the movies, they told me Strong.

Right, it was Lestrange, yeah. Yeah, it was like Dr. Strong. Like, pronounced like, heart album. I'm reading some DC books. And I'm continually thrown off by there being a Doctor Strange in the D.C. universe. It just throws me off. It's like. Yeah.

Captain Marvel, another one. Yeah. It's all weird. It's all very weird. So it's clear you just hate Marvel. I get it now. Yeah, you get it. It's finally completely clear.

Yeah. Now I'm just saying it out loud. It used to be I would hold that in. But now I'm just going to say it. I hate Marvel. Not true. Okay. One more quick little ad on here.

And then we're going to play Babel Royale. And today we got a big one, so stick around for that and get your phones ready, everybody. Talk of Sleep. This came from Cornwall Hugh, which is a cool name. It's a cool name. I can't believe it's real because there's a Hugh Cornwall that is the lead singer of the Stranglers. Oh, really? And, yeah.

Oh, well, maybe this person's a fan. This guy's just reversed out Cornwall Hugh. Maybe he's a fan. Cornwell, Cornwell, Hugh Cornwell is the... Oh, okay. Well, this guy's Cornwall. He says, talk of sleep. you guys are talking about things to do when you're having a lack of sleep. Does anyone actually count sheep like the old stories used to describe?

Do you think that actually works at all? Would it be worth trying, says Cornwall Hugh? I've never once tried to count a sheep. I sometimes count, like I'll go, you know, one, two, just like to focus on something. Exactly, yeah. It feels like the work of picturing an actual sheep. Which might, which would absolutely take your mind off of, oh, I need to get that piece of art done for so-and-so,

and I need to make sure I respond back to such and such. So thinking about sheep probably does that secondary duty of making your mind focus on something that isn't counting and thinking about what you have to do tomorrow. So there's probably something to that. Yeah, probably. Because then you're, well, it just feels like I'd be distracted by the visual of the sheep.

Yeah, but again, you know, that's a mundane. repetitive you always think of the same thing too right it's always a fence a short wooden fence and the sheep are one at a time jumping over the fence as you're counting them that's true don't do it so that you're

under the sheep because if you're under the sheep poop all the time they just non-stop pooper machines and you don't want to think about that see this is the problem my brain goes places that it's not supposed to Brian Brian described a very simple little cartoon fence little cartoon sheep

Because I was in some cartoon, put it into my head when I was a kid. And that's forever going to be the counting sheep animation, the animated gift. And I'm going to think, the whole time I'm thinking, what if one of these is really a goat and it snuck in? Like my brain goes places and that's the problem with me. So I'm not sure this would work for me, but Cornwall, Hugh, we hope it works for you. Okay. Go count those sheep. Brian?

Yes. Now is your time to shine. we're going to double the number of brian's on this show yeah we have two uh today and uh let me pull the other one in because when he comes in gloves are off uh that's right it's fighting time i'll keep meaning to tell you we've got a Shane Maddox put together a uh new theme for tad Pooley feud and I need to get it to you to uh to check out yeah send it to me I'd be happy to check it out for now there's this join us now for

a little babble royale or feud what is it that's the feud one called tad Pooley feud Brian Dunaway joins us to participate in said event hello Brian Oh hi Scott and Brian Hi

It's nice to enjoy Is it? Yeah choose Wednesday day What's the Wednesday even? Today is Wednesday It's Wednesday Yeah yeah And you know how you know

Because you and I did a a boob show last night, and it was great. People should go listen to it. We had a real good time. We had such a good time. It's always fun, but last night was exceptionally fun. I think it's because Scott was so well rested from not spending all of his juice on the TMS yesterday. Oh, really?

Okay. Interesting. Interesting. Yeah, I do spend a lot of juice on this show, for sure. You do. It's been a lot of juice. Lots of juice. Don't wheeze the juice.

Don't wheeze the juice. By the way, I'm a potato denier. What do you mean? Oh, really? I mean, I'm just kidding. I don't know. You eat raw potatoes like there's no tomorrow. I've eaten raw potatoes before, and I agree.

It's not good for you. Don't do it. However, I'm not going to spread misinformation list to say, I've read a lot of stuff, and I still can't make it out. It's like, you shouldn't eat potatoes ever, or don't eat them when they're green. You have to cook them this long. And it's like, well, how many can kill you? Well, a normal person has to eat 20.

I'm like, I'm not going to eat 20. No, it's like in a 24-hour time frame. And I'm like, but. yeah but then some people are more sensitive to it sure i've never heard anything about potatoes being bad for you other than this raw business but you know it's frying them it's it's how you prepare them that's good or bad right right but also you don't want to you also don't want to have too much of us it's it's a big starch so you want to like it's not the kind of vegetable you want to overdue you want to well i'm not going to argue with anybody that is there's poison in it and that it could be unhealthy

absolutely probably so how to what degree do we need to concern ourselves with it so i just stop eating potatoes entirely i don't know there's this i don't know i wish somebody would just tell me no be done with the potatoes you've had a good run it was all the chips you ate and the whatever i've just done with them yeah you've had a good run i'm eating all corn that can't be bad for you potato two potato three potato none is the way brian doneway sings that song that's the long he says i'm going to eat all corn that can't be bad for you yeah i'm sure it's not yeah all right we are now in a in a real pinch not a pinch not this is all i'm making that up we're going to play a game and uh the reason it's a pinch is because brian and i are going

to have to go head to head here we have a listener on the line who will participate with us today and hopefully walk away with some prizes let's find out who's been holding so patiently hello who's this hi guys is this potato cast it's potato cast welcome to the potato cast yeah that's right you're the next guest on potato cast who's this this is j funk-funkastic from the nerd cave rich. Oh, man. Oh, wow. Hey, fantastic. I like that guy. Well, good.

That means that you have a chance to win some stuff, and that would make me happy, but only if Brian can explain how the hell this works. So, Brian, explain away. Fine, I'll do it. It's time to play the Tad Pooley 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. Jay Fongastic. Your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. If your team wins, you will get a prize package that includes a bag of Cahua coffee from Cahua Coffee Roasters and Total Tank Simulator. Not just partial tank simulator, but total tank simulator. Whoa.

Criticy of Wesley. People like those. Tanks. Yeah. People like tanks. They're big, complicated pieces of machinery. They want to drive one and shoot a Nazi. They look cool from the outside, and that's all we ever usually see, but I would hate to be inside a tank.

It looks like it'd be uncomfortable. You know where it would be a bummer is getting all tangled up in those treads. That'd be trouble. Yeah. See, that's part of the total tank simulator. You don't, you don't, it's not just, oh, I'm in the cockpit. No, no, it's, there's a part of the game where you're tangled up in the treads. There's one, you know, part where you're dangling from the butt of the tank.

Right. There's one where you've put, well, how did you get, way, way, how did you get hung up like that? Right. You want to stick in your member in the tube, were you? Right. No, no, I was fighting Indiana Jones, and I slipped, and I fell, and I got part of my belt stuck on a protruding part of the tank. Oh, finally we have an explanation for that. Well done.

Yes. All right. You know what makes for a great noise for Indiana Jones for slapping somebody? What? It's like a sack of potatoes. Isn't that what they do? It's a side of watermelon. I thought they punched like a big side of a white watermelon.

A wet hand on a watermelon. Isn't it a wet hand? hand on a beef swaying. I always pictured a big piece of beef, like a half a cow. Like a frozen side of beef. Yeah, and then somebody with a big old hammy fist, just fwack. But that doesn't fit in with my potato

cast. It doesn't bring back potato cast. Sorry, that shows pod faded. It's over. It's out. Podcast Alley times. Legacy. Legacy podcast. Potato cast. All right. All right. You guys need a, let's

give you guys a topic. Sure. What is the greatest video game franchise of all time. Now, when you say greatest. Brian buzzes in and says, Oh, we already started? Oh, yeah. I didn't know we were going already.

Oh, I thought they had to choose, I thought we was going to choose who we wanted to go with and a whole bunch of other stuff we still had to do. No. No, you buzzed in when I asked that question, and that's how we decide who. All right, then I'm going to go with Super Mario, the Mario franchise.

All right, show me Mario. It is the number one answer. Yes. Which means you get, you know, normally we'd say you get a chance to pass or play, but it doesn't matter in this one. You get to play until you get a buzz and then it goes to Scott. So at this point, Jay Fung Tastic, you are going to be working with Scott. Oh.

And he's going to be your teammate on this game. How's that feel? You good with that? I'm good with that. Oh, and by the way, wet hand on a side of beef was my finishing move. Oh, fantastic. I'll be right back. I've got to wet my hand. Oh, very good. They are not hearing the sounds, Scott. Can you?

I'll fix it. We're good now. I heard it. I screwed it up. It's me. It'll work this next time. Okay, good. All right. So, Brian, you get to continue until you get a strike. All right. Then I'm going to go with the Sonic franchise. The Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. Show me. Oh, are you kidding me? Nobody said the Sonic franchise? Because it's not one of the best.

It sucks in a lot of ways. Yeah, it's funny. Even, like, if you get down to ones and twos, still no Sonic in this list. That is insane. Brian, it's because. I was looking at some Sonic stuff earlier. You know why, though. It's because it's not great.

There are moments, but it's not great. We're talking greatest franchise here. You can't just give it. Well, there's 10. And so I figured, you know, there's not that many great franchises. That's true. All right. I was wrong.

So it's my turn, right? Or does he get... It's your turn and you get to work with Jay Funtastic to come up with an answer. All right. Jay, let's do something good. What are you feeling? Like, I could go... I could go...

I'm going to say Legend of Zelda. Oh, that's... Oh, that's a good one. Duh. I should have said that. Can I say that now? No. you can't but we can so

legend show me legend of Zelda show me legend of Zelda number two answer on the board how did I not get that yeah well it's because you're you know Zelda and that cool green costume waving waving his sword around it's such a great game

with that Zelda and his sword his boomerang and his his tools if it's digging if it's digging on you he's talking because that guy's name is link You get it? Exactly, exactly. We get it.

So we keep going, right? You guys have control of the board. You get to keep going until you get a strike. My brain's still in the Nintendo space. Okay, yeah. Feels like we could say Metroid. Jay, what do you think? Oh.

Yeah, I think Metroid's a good pick. All right, we're going Metroid. It's a great pick. Show me, Metroid. Damn it. Yeah, really? Oh, yes. Suck it, Johnson.

You thought you were so... Can I do that? Can I smack talk during... I don't know. I wouldn't smack talk too much there, Sonic. Yeah, Sonic the Hedgehog. Okay. Sonic lover.

Sometimes you just have to make a couple of fumbles so that you can understand the thought process of the... Right. You can't bowl down the lane until you know where the gutters are. Right. Found it. Here it is. The gutter. Is it my turn now?

I'm a little fuzzy on the rule. It is your turn, Brian Dunaway. Give me an answer. Okay, so we're not, we're not going. Greatest is not defined by number because obviously. Correct. Because I said Sonic and. This is the opinion of the listening audience.

Right. So I'm going to say, uh, call of duty. Call of Duty. Call of Duty. A beloved franchise. surely we'll try the other gutter we'll try for the left gutter this time to see it show me

call of duty oh my gosh left gutter located you got to think of this audience you have to think of the audience from talking to me that's what I was trying to do these guys are cod players these guys in record four people said call of duty that would have put it at

tied for 11th place in our list Moses now I don't know anything Well, I'm going to say, Jay, I think we say, I mean, thinking of the crowd we got here, I think we can't warcraft, right? Can't we say Warcraft and then all the way up from the world of? That's smart. Don't you think people would do that?

Because we're talking tadpoolers here. You're right. That's smart. A lot of Blizzard fans. Yeah, I have another franchise, too, that I'm not a huge fan of, but I know that people like it. You should say it and then not use it. I don't know. I'm going to leave that.

up to you. If you want to say Warcraft, I'm good with that. All right, let's go Warcraft and hold on to the money you got, because I think we're going to need it. Let's say Warcraft. All right, show me Warcraft. Oh, number three answer on the board. Really? Dad, okay. Holy ball is back down.

Think of your audience. I see where these guys are going. That's right. I see where these guys are going now. Scott and Jay Funktastic, you guys still have control. All right, what was that one you were hanging on to? Well, I was thinking possibly the Pokemon series.

Oh, yeah. Oh, that's a good one. That's going to be totally accurate to the audience. The question is whether they would think of this. I'm going to say, yeah, that's a solid one. It's got to be in the top ten.

We'll say Pokemon. Okay. Show me Pokemon's number ten. Oh, boy. Five people said Pokemon. And I wasn't one of them, believe it or not. You just barely picked up that spare, man.

That's right. Now I'm nervous. Assassin's Creed. Ooh, that's a good one. Assassin's Creed. All right, show me Assassin's Creed number seven. Nice. Very good.

Okay. Oh, Jay, help me here. What else do we need? How about Final Fantasy? Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's good. I was going to use that one, so that sucks. All right.

All right. Would Brian have gotten points for Final Fantasy? Indeed he would. Yeah. Number four in the list. 18 people said Final Fantasy. All right. I'm still pretty sure we got this Warcraft thing was a good sign being number three.

So I'm going to say, I'm going to recommend we go Diablo. Yeah, I'm good with that. Yeah. Okay. Diablo. Show me Diablo. Number nine. Oh.

See, this is only good if we get them all. If we miss one, then... I know, that's right. I'm just sitting here with my perfect dancer. Well, I feel like numerically, there's no way for Brian to catch up points-wise, but... Because that is where it comes down to...

Oh, that's right. We are doing points. Is that what you think? Yeah. Is that what you think is... Let's, you know, let's pretend that there's some danger. Is that what you think as curator and host of your own game show?

Yeah, that's what I think. That's what I think those numbers are for, although this game has changed so much since we first introduced it. You could show this to the corpse of Richard, what's his name? Richard Dawson. Mr. Dawson, he'd go, I don't know what this is. That's what he'd say. Give me a kiss. Let's, yeah, give me a kiss.

We'd say first. All right, let's do, feeling strong about, oh, now it's left me. Oh. Oh, I was going to say the middle gear, the middle gear. series has to be here, right? Right? Metal gear? What do you think, Jay? Metal gear? Metal gear. I would say Halo. What'd you say? Sorry, Brian talked. I said, I would say Halo. Oh, Halo. Oh, that's a good one. Yep, you know what? Halo, Halo. all right

show me hello oh good answer good answer Brian you've got control again Does he ever crap I forgot what we're talking about

All right I'm going to go the opposite direction and since there's no way I can win anyway numerically apparently from the creator of the game eliminated but still then I must go ahead and say Mega Man Mega Man No way of all right man

I'm going to predict it is not on there Go for it Mega man Uh show me Mega man Oh I ran the board Yeah you did I'm gonna guess these others can I

Yep absolutely Can we try Metal Gear Yeah say Metal Gear again That's really good idea Oh no no that's right You said Halo instead of Metal Gear Yeah So I'm saying Metal Gear

Metal Gear I should have taken that as a hint. How about Pac-Man? Hold on. Don't say Pac-Man. That's not going to be on there. What about Pac-Man? Not Pac-Man?

Pop-I? Pow-Pi. There was a Popeye video game, but we can't get that. All right. Let's say, um, uh, uh, uh, Kirby. Kirby. How about the age of empires? Who are these people we're talking to?

Oh. All right. Let's show you. Show me number five. Oh, how do I do this? Let's see. I just click on it. No?

I guess I click on your name and we just show it. All right. Show me number five. Fallout. Oh, fallout. Of course. Show me number six. Elder Scrolls.

I almost didn't say that. Duh. And show me number eight. Oh, my aunt, Todd. Actually, I did have this in my head at one point in time, and I totally forgot. Yeah, so many games have come out for that one. Well, we still won, that's the beauty. But we didn't go by number, remember?

Because I said Sonic, and I was like, because Sonic sucks. Sonic freaking sucks. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. But the good news is, Jay, you won, dude. How do you feel about your tank simulator and your coffee? How does that feel? I feel funk-tastic.

Oh, man, that's awesome. Yeah. All you got to do is email, Brian, coverville, gmail.com, and he will hook you up. Send me your mailing address when you email me, And I'll reply with your code and forward your email address on to Kahawa Roasters, delicious Kahawa coffee. Yeah, it's good stuff, that stuff. It is good stuff.

That's good stuff. Yeah, some other ones that didn't, they were just under Bioshock, Animal Crossing, Dark Souls. Animal Crossing. Yeah, it's still pop. People are thinking about it. Yeah, but it's still pop there, Brian. People love it. Dragon Age, Half-Life.

Yeah. Metal Gear Salt was, uh, there's only two. Three people said that one. Pac-Man Red Dead Redemption, borderline. The more I hear this list, the more I'm convinced that I'm right and these people were wrong. I mean, look, you were only wrong. You were only really wrong once. Right, exactly.

That was Sonic. Yeah. Because everything else you said was good. But that's a bad video game. Bad video game series. One, two, and a little bit of knuckles and tails and knuckles or whatever the hell was called. The third one. That was good.

They were okay. that one's okay. First two games are great. Everything since then kind of garbage. CD, Sonic CD, very good. But that's just because it's more like traditional Sonic. And then recently there was that Sonic Mania thing, which was

like a really great return to form. Everything else in between? Shit sandwich, man. Bad video games. Bad. I was the only person who said Sonic, nobody at all. Nobody. Nobody. Nobody. Nobody in the Tadpool surveyed. 200 people surveyed.

Not one of them. I'm disappointed in you people. Yeah, well, you know. A Sonic sandwich has good, right. They could have said Sonic, and they just said pass. I can say something. I'm going to say nothing at all is still a better answer to this. Exactly.

Like, you know what that reminds me of? I had somebody on Twitter the other day. No offense to him, because he and I kind of talked it out, so it's not a big deal. I'm not going to say names. But I'd put up a thing saying, what are you guys hoping to hear from Blizzard at this month's blizzcon line thing that they're doing? And people are coming back with next patch info, Diablo 4 stuff, like all these things. Shorter torgast.

Shorter torgast. Those sorts of things. And then this one guy just says, Blizzard's dead to me. I'm like, well, why did you, why do you have to say it? Yeah, why comment? Yeah, why? If they're dead to you, clearly they're not dead to you. Is it going to change somebody's mind?

They're going to say, oh, you know, I was looking for a new information about the patch, but you're right. Blizzard is dead to me. Anyway, he and I talked it out, and it's fine. He was just expressing some frustration. Sometimes you have to just dig a little deeper, and we found each other in the middle. All right.

Brian, well done. You did terribly, but that's great. Well done. I lost. I said Sonic for God's six. You sure did. But that's okay, because next Monday you get a chance of retention. This game is dead to me.

Yeah, this game is dead to you. But Monday, you get a new shot. Think of that. It's like rebirth. It's like, I don't know, what's it like? It's like, uh, it's like, uh, it's, It can't get any worse. It can't get any worse.

That's exactly right. So I, here personally, I believe in you and look forward to that very much. So also, everybody should check out that boop show we did last night. And while you're at it, FilmSack this weekend, it'll be Sunday this weekend, but we are doing, oh, I forgot what we're doing. Oh, for FilmSecck, it's 12 monkeys and monkey ripped from today's headlines. Actually, really looking forward to it. it because I loved it when I first saw it. I do too.

It feels like a time travel movie that still does it wrong but somehow gets it right. There you go. And that's a lot coming from you. And this will be my first viewing completely all the way through. I've seen it, parts of it, multiple times, but I've never set, I've never set all the way through. Oh, that feels like such a disservice to the movie to see that one in piecemeal, right? Because it's like, it needs to be seen.

seeing all at once. We'll see if it increases my enjoyment of the movie by sitting with my eyes popped open with some toothpicks. We'll see. Different movie. Different movie. Oh, that's the other movie, right. Clockwork orange. Maybe that's the one you're thinking you've seen bits and pieces

of. Yeah, could be. Well, we'll see. We'll find out together when Brad Pitt flips off people behind their backs this weekend on 12 monkeys. Brian Dunaway, stay safe. We'll see you later. Say stave. Nice tomato. I've done the same with 12 monkeys.

You can never get interested in it. Dice tomato, really? I can't believe that's insane. Oh, I know. Exactly. Like, he's only seen four of the monkeys. And how can you enjoy that move with such a portion, such a small portion of monkeys? Yeah, if you've only seen, I mean, even if you've seen 11 of the monkeys, you're still not getting the full 12 monkeys.

No, you need all 12. You need all 12 monkeys. I never watched that TV shows based on it. Did you ever watch any of that? Oh, there was a TV show, but no, I did not. I didn't watch any of it. It was rated well. It was a FX joint.

People liked it. Yeah, I think that's gone now, but I never saw it. All right. That's it for that. We have a little bit of time for news. And so sit back and enjoy the following news program. Oh, that didn't work. Let me try that again.

Hit the fade out before I hit the thingy thingy. Anyway, hey, it's time for the news brought to you by. Scott, I just can't get enough from you about that space game where you salvage ships for huge amounts of money and shove parts of it into the furnace hole and sometimes blow yourself up in the process. Where? Oh, where can I get more of this? Well, I played some on stream last night for people who wanted to watch me do this. And it was lots of fun. It was great hanging out with you guys and chatting with you. I find that game to be very cathartic and a great sort of just sit and chat with the chat room kind of game. Plus, I just am addicted to it.

Anyway, if you want more, I want more coverage of what I think about that and many other issues in and around the gaming world, check out two podcasts on the network. There's the Boop Show, which just talked about me and Dunaway. We do indie games on that show. And Core, which happens on Thursday nights at 5 p.m. Mountain Time, if you want to watch it live. And that's where me and John Jagger and Boat Schwartz talk about the broader world of video games, the big boys, the big titles, the big stuff. So more for you every day at Core and Boop, both at FrogPants.com. All right. Brian Target. Yes.

You know them? They're the... I do. They're the other place that I can't get PlayStation 5s from. That's right. All the places Brian can't get PlayStation 5's, Target is one of those. Target is one of them. I was on Costco's site last week and couldn't get a... No, a couple days ago. Couldn't get a PlayStation 5. Well, good news. Target has joined Costco, your other place that you can't get a PlayStation. Uh-huh. Yep. in dropping coconut milk brand over forced monkey labor allegations.

Oh, are they using 12 monkeys? They only used 11. This is the problem. Ah, that's why you need a full labor force of 12 monkeys, otherwise. What are you even doing? If you don't have a full set of 12, what are you doing? Right, exactly.

Target is the latest company to drop Chokka, cocoa, I don't know. Coco. Coconut milk, it's a brand of, coconut milk over allegations of forced monkey labor. I just love the term forced monkey labor. Forced monkey labor. People of the, or for the ethical treatment of animals, or Peter. Said the retailer will no longer sell the product because of it's alleged ties to monkey labor.

Do the monkeys have a union or that's the problem is they don't have a union? That's right. They don't have a union is the problem. Somebody get chippy in here. We got to make it a deal with the. Fat cats of Wall Street. I don't know how monkeys negotiate. Anyway, it says here,

Chokotai supplier is accused of forcing monkeys to pick coconuts from trees. That's where that's how they're using the labor. Why don't they just use Keith Richards, like a normal company? Didn't Keith Richards fall out of a coconut tree? One monkey. He's known as one monkey, that guy. Yeah. Years ago, I think he fell out of a coconut tree.

Did he really? Yeah. I don't remember hearing about that. was it just he was someone someone in the chat room will find a link keep richards i'm sure i'm sure i'm remembering this like in the late 90s was climbing up a coconut tree and fell out was he like in a like on a trip like on a vacation and just i'm sure he was and he's like i bet i can get that coconut hold my all my cigarette and then he climbed up there imagine the things that guy's seen in his life oh i can't even imagine or the things he's imagined he's seen that's probably even

worse. Oh, I didn't think about that. Yeah, that's a good point. Probably walked in on McChanging or something. Oh, good Lord. I need another cigarette. The new McDonald's McChanging. All right. There we go. Captain Kipper found it. Oh, there's a story about it. Oh, yeah. Richards can cussed after fall from coconut tree. Let's see. Maybe that's when they start to use the monkeys. Like, they're like deciding at that point, nope, let's do a. Oh, yeah, look at that. Oh, okay. Way more recent than I thought. I thought it was in the 90s. Oh, okay. Yeah, he would have been, let's see, how old was he then? He would have been. I think it says, 62. 62 when he did that? Yeah. That was nine. That was 11 years ago. Oh, no, I take that back.

62 is when he fell off a ladder trying to retrieve a book in the library of his Connecticut mansion. Let's see. Oh, man. I want to be his name. neighbor in Connecticut. Somebody just takes me cookies. Hold on. I think I do have that copy of Ivanhoe. Let me get it. No.

Ivan Ho. Why? Why is it Ivanhoe? Why did you choose that? That's a funny book. That's a really funny book to say. I agree. I can't deny it. I can't, you know, it's funny. They talk about how he was, oh, okay, he was 62 for this, but then they'd just say in 1998, he fell off the ladder. So, yeah, he was 62 at this time.

Oh, okay. So they were just recalling an earlier event. Right, exactly. But he was still 62 at this time. So 11 years ago or 12 years ago. Okay. So he's 70 what now? 4 or 5 or something?

Yeah, 74 or 75 depending on when. One day he is going to die, right? He will die. I saw that one. I said it's your microphone there. I keep doing this. Gosh, dang it. I moved it.

To suspend it from the ceiling like a boom. Well, I used to have it up and over. The problem was, I was like I was looking through it and the camera was all that. So I'm like, well, I don't bring it down here. And now every time I don't think about it, I hit it. And the worst part is when I hit it, it goes, and the trajectory is right in my face. Yeah, yeah. Effing thing.

Anyway. Oh, no. Oh, no. We talked about Keith Richards. Scott, what's going to happen to Keith Richards? Oh, we're going to kill him. That's what's going to happen. He's going to die.

You know, if there's anybody we can't kill, it's going to. to be Keith Richards. Seems like. We talked about Abe Vagoda a lot before he died. And I'd like to remind everybody, we talked about Betty White like two weeks ago, and she's still fine, so. Bob Barker, we talked about. Yeah, and he's still around.

He's still around. Yep. Which surprised me, because I thought he was dead multiple times. I thought he was dead. We didn't kill Dustin Diamond Benjin. No, we didn't even bring him up. No. Did we?

I don't think we mentioned Screech at all. Oh, we did? we talked about the we talked about the news saved by the bell oh and we said they didn't know if they were going to get screeched on there he's like the one person

who's not involved in the new saved by the bell series yeah and the reason it was is that he just he's kind of controversial he's had some some problems unrelated to the cancer the cancer was actually very quick he got diagnosed and then died pretty quick

yeah but that's not our fault all right let's fix this Martin Schrelly Martin Schrelly Martin Schrelly Martin Screlly. Okay, let's move on. Monkeys, coconuts. He'll be shanked in the bathroom by noon. It'll be fine.

All right. So by dropping this brand, Target is joining thousands of stores that refuse to profit from chained monkeys. Misery, they say here. According to PETA, 26,000 stores including chains Wegmans, Food Lion, and Stop and Shop have cut ties

with the coconut milk brand. A company has denied the allegations. Previously said it audited its coconut plantations using a third party and found no use of monkeys for coconut harvesting. Other stores have already dropped a product, including Costco. Well, there you go. I've had this milk. It was all right.

Oh, really? This exact brand? Yeah, Carter likes, she likes the alternate milk. She likes rice milk. She likes, uh, this stuff. I like a good almond milk. Yeah, almond milk. I had some oat milk the other day in a, in a coffee at a, uh, at a hipster bookstore,

album store coffee shop. and it was really good. Yeah, I don't mind the alternatives, especially as just like a creamer alternative or whatever. I'm not going to go and just get a nice tall glass of it. That'd be weird. No, but pouring it on your Cheerios isn't so bad. Kim uses almond milk on her amazing corn chowder.

Oh, man. Ooh, yeah, that's good. We use that, right, we do that in our milk-based soups as well. And what's good about that is the milk, If you do regular milk, a bowl of that soup just bloats me for days. Like, it's just too much. The coconut milk or the almond milk, for whatever reason, doesn't do that at all because it's not dairy, I guess. And I can eat like three bowls of that.

So I don't know if this is good or bad. Maybe I shouldn't eat that much. No, when I have milk, it sounds like Chuck Yeager flying through the Snowbird Resort. Breaking the sound barrier. Breaking the sound barrier. They still call me about that. In 2013, it seems, you ruined things. Yes, nothing about stolen towels or, you know, bras hanging on elevator.

No, none of that. Railing. None of that. They talk about the guy who came and farted in the ballroom. Yep. They can't get it out. They don't know what to do. Right in front of that Steve Young painting.

Oh, yeah, they get that big Steve Young painting in the basement thing. Isn't that weird? That's weird. Well, it's not that weird. We were, Steve Young coming from BYU, going to play for the 49ers, and then having killer seasons with the 49ers. Yeah. Was a big deal for locals.

So I guess it's not that weird. For sure. He was a local hero, that guy. Jesus God, tell me about James Bond. Yeah, check this out. No time to die, which keeps getting pushed. Actually had to do reshoots because they now, now features out-of-date product placements. like choco chocolate coconut milk yeah choka chocolate coconut

last week the official james bond social media accounts confirmed that no time to die will be delayed yet again from april second to october eighth uh with a film release or sorry fifth release date move uh and the fact that daniel craig the daniel craig movie was shot almost two years ago the traditional product placements that have helped finance the blockbuster are facing or say are facing uh being somewhat out of date after all bond always has the latest gadgets and blah that's a stupid thing anyway Nokia, usually is part of this, you know, their deal? I wonder if they still are.

Let's see. The problem is that many of these things have moved on to more recent models. Does GameStop? Does James Bond go into a game stop at some point? An AMC theater. Exactly. All the stuff that's crashing. Hold on, M. I'm watching a movie on Quibi.

One second, I'll be right with you. If they don't hurry up. and put this out, though. They're going to have to go back and do reshoots with whole new actors because my gosh, how much longer? Two years ago. Gosh, dang it. Anyway, uh, so we'll see how that goes. Keep your eyes on the prize. But it's time to take a break. We're not talking about James Bond anymore. It's time to take a break and talk to Tom Merritt after this, the James Bond of Tech News. So stick around for that and more. Brian has a song selection. He'll now present to us in the usual fashion. I do. And this is so good. This comes

from a listener Michael Andrews Jr. who wrote in and said, hey, I'm requesting a song by a friend of mine. He's a new artist that has enormous potential. I hope you agree, and we'll consider playing his song on TMS. He goes by Shwecky, S-H-W-E-C-K-Y, and the song is called Tambourine featuring Laura Liu. This is great. This has got that dream pop jangly guitar kind of sound that we really like. I really, really dig the song, and I hope we get more from Shwecky. It's time to get Shwecky. Here's Tambourine featuring Laura Lou.

I tripped on a tambourine, then hit the floor Lights come on in the house next door When you step out What's this late night noise about I saw you against the light Welcome to know you can be bright The stars don't cut right on the stage tonight after you You tripped on a tambourine and then hit the floor.

A breaking sleep I didn't sign up for. I see your face. Hey, what a serious lack of grace. And I saw you against the light. Welcome to an all new kind of bright. The stars won't come out on the station night after you. I'm going to be able to be. Thank you.

I tripped on a tambourine and then hit the floor I scrape my knee but it's my heart that sore I need you now and I knew it from the second you stepped out of your house and I saw you against the light welcome to an all new kind of bright the stars won't come out on stage tonight after you and I saw you against the light the sun's missing out. out of a peculiar sight, I don't think that I'll make the night without you. Hey, you guys. Let's talk about your internet privacy for a second.

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Scott and Jim try to contact Steve Will they succeed? If we can't be sure that it's true then it must be false The most Morning stream. Rambling goes in, podcast comes out. You can't explain that.

If anything about that Star Trek clip was Scott and Jim, which could be interchangeable with Scotty and Jim Kirk. Yeah. Are needing to call Steve on their communicator. And in the commercial, it's three kids. And, Scott and Jim are hanging out at home, and Steve's got the remote version of this communicator out on his bike somewhere in the 70s. Oh, funny. Okay. And it just cracks me up that they have to call Steve. They could have named him anything.

They could have called him Leonard or freaking some other Star Trek name or character or actor name. And instead they went with Steve, who never shows up in any Star Trek as far as I love it. I totally love it. All right. Steve and Scotty's real first name. Steve Scott. Steve Scott. You need to get down to the surface.

Trent, help you. Get down there. I think we're doing it. Give it a roll she's gut, Captain. Thank you, Steve. I think it's a little Irish what we got going there. Yeah, a little bit. Check this out.

With the computer, as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. That man is Tom Merritt. He joins us on Wednesdays, and we talk about the latest tech news before the daily tech news show has a chance to even start. Tom Merritt, welcome to the show. How are you? Oh, I am Irish. Oh, you look it. You do have Irish blood, right? Isn't that the deal?

I do. I have a little Irish, a little Welsh, a little English, little Scandinavian. Yeah, they put a little English on that. Northern European, very bland porridge. Do you get all fired up about, I don't know, the Irish have a stereotype, they get all fired up about something. What are you trying to say, Johnson? I never see.

He's easily angered that Irish. Yeah. But then we quickly forget. Actually, that's a funny story. story. I remember asking Molly Wood once. Do you have you by chance have any Irish heritage? And she's like, yeah, I do. Why? I'm like, because you're quick to anger and quick to forget. That sounds about right. Hey, she was on last Wednesday. That was a really cool discussion about the GameStop stuff, which by the way, that feels like nine. That feels like nine years ago,

the GameStop story. Doesn't it? Yeah, you're right. I had to think like, was that just a week ago? It was just a week. And in fact, I guess it's still up, but also way down from when it was that it's highest. And so there's still discussion about what people are doing and how they're selling and buying and blah, blah, blah. It does seem to be cooling, though. I think, I think Gabe Scott's finally down below $100 a share. But yeah, whether it's a, where I'm at with that whole thing is, is this just a could only work once because the enthusiasm will never be there again? Because it was new. It was a fun new thing for everybody to try. And the next time it'll be like, oh, doing that again. I mean, oh, you guys have fun. You know, like, it may never.

happen again, even if they changed nothing. Right. Because it could just be a flash in the pan. Or is it a new vulnerability in the system that they need to patch? Right. And will, will we have we heard anything from, I mean, I know we've heard like small comments from government types

who will just say, I think the Biden administration made some comment like we're watching it very closely, which says nothing. That means we don't want you to think we're ignoring it, but we're not planning on. But we're not really doing anything. And then everybody. they won't right yeah right and there are people in congress that are all up in arms and

usual foes who actually agree on this one thing and that sort of thing but none of them are actually presenting legislation there has not there have been lots of of proposals from corners far and wide I haven't seen I haven't seen any of them get traction to be like oh this could be the thing they decide to do yeah because it does seem like just limiting trading probably slowed it down enough to cause the embers to cool down. I think that it will probably be an industry-led thing rather than a government-led thing. Robin Hood's already talking about only doing real-time settlements, which means they would not do that thing where they have the third party settling the trades, making a little money off

them, which is what caused the problem with the trading, right? Because the third party settling trades assumes they can get a better deal. But when GameStop was going up and up and up and up and up, they couldn't get a better deal. So they were losing money. And I also saw, we talked to yesterday on DTNS about an app called Public that is no longer going to use settlements. It's just going to buy direct. So you might see a trend for that. Public's way of getting around making money off of, you know, the order flow is to ask for tips. Yeah. Kind of a Patreon-like approach.

It's interesting. We'll see if that works. I don't think Robin Hood's going to do that. But they may do something like real-time settlements that say, we'll let you do margin, we'll let you do option calls, all that, but we won't cover you. It'll have to be in real time, you know, that all of that is done. Robin Hood will go back to just robbing from the rich and giving to the poor. That's what they'll do.

I want somebody to start an app called Little John. It's like a Panyan app. The Friar Tuck app. Yeah. Friar Tuck. Yeah, we have a whole series of Made Marion whole gang. Yeah, why not? But based it all on the Disney cartoon because I really like that.

Anyway, hey, so that was nine years. That was like back in the 2010, so we don't have to think about GameStop anymore. We're going to talk instead about what's current today, literally today. What's happening in the world of tech this morning? Did you hear Jeff, Bezos is out of a job? Yeah, that kind of came out of nowhere. Did anyone know that was happening?

Was there like leaks ahead? I had somebody on Twitter like, this is the biggest news of the year. I'm like, well, there was some stuff that happened in January that I think is probably biggest news, so was COVID. But it is pretty big news. It was not unexpected. Jeff Bezos had already stepped away from day to day operations. That was huge news when he did that pre-COVID.

There was another big piece of news when COVID happened. that he stepped back in and said, you know what, I'm going to, I'm going to take over some of the day to day because this is such a huge challenge and it's such a change to the way we do things. And so this is him saying, I think we've got it under control, I'm finally going to do what I was planning to do, which was slowly step away. But now because he had stepped back in, it feels like a bigger step that he's becoming executive chair. So he'll still be involved in Amazon. He's going to talk about like new products and new services as executive chair. of the board. He still owns a huge

chunk of Amazon. But Andy Jassy who ran AWS and is a Harvard business guy so he can run in different kinds of businesses is going to take over the entire show as CEO and he'll be running the day to day. Interesting. Okay.

So him being executive chair, I mean I heard a very cynical take yesterday that I'll just throw out in. You can do it. Wait, where? It's so rare to see a I'm going to say, it may have been the internet where I got this. I'll have to check that out one of the people.

Okay, all right. So here's what you're going to look for. This is somebody said, hey, this is a great way for him to still be in charge with quotes without having to go to or show up for a bunch of Congress of Zoom interrogations like all the other tech people. And I don't know if there's any truth to that. I guess the CEO. I mean, that is the law is that if you are. are not the CEO, you are legally prohibited from being called in front of Congress. We all know that. So clever move, Jeff, no, that's not true. They could try to send Eddie

Jassy and have Congress go like, no, we want to talk to Jeff Bezos. He was the guy that was in charge. And like, you know, it's all a negotiation. So I don't think this like is a get out of jail free card because he's not leaving the company, you know. And also he was there through all the things they're investigating. So we'll see. I mean, maybe it'll be just better to have Andy Jassy sit in front of Congress anyway. But it's not like now it won't impact Jeff Bezos if he doesn't actually have to show up. Honestly, that could be the clever plan of like, hey, I don't really want to do all this stuff. Andy, can you take it over? But it doesn't let Amazon off the hook or anything. It's just a nicer day for Jeff Bezos. Right. It may mean that

they have, they still call, like you said, they'd still call him in there. But do you see, like this feels like a transition on par with like Steve Jobs passing. and Tim Cook taking over or Microsoft Bill Gates stepping down. Probably more like the Bill Gates thing than anything, I would think, in terms of just kind of how this looks and stuff. But in terms of transitions, the Balmer one was a little rough. Things have got better for them. But Balmer wasn't, I don't think the Balmer time is thought very fondly of by a lot of people.

Yeah, the transition wasn't rough. The Balmer time was right. Yeah, the actual Balmer time was bad. But in the Tim Cook case, things have gone pretty well for Apple, you could say, as an understanding. And people weren't sure. People, like even two years after Steve Jobs died, people were like, is Tim Cook really up to the job? They haven't done it. And of course, now we have this like record earnings in their latest quarter. So yeah, I think they're doing fine. I can fairly say Tim Cook has done a very good job. Yeah. So I, so I just, I guess I'm, I'm super curious about how this new doodle. What's his name again? I keep forgetting his name. Andy Jassy. So, you know, if folks aren't aware, Amazon's big, moneymaker is AWS. Amazon retail makes a lot of money, too, but it famously ran right at

margin, which means it didn't actually turn a profit for years and years and years. It has started to turn a profit, but AWS has just been a money churner. And what Amazon did was take what it had built for itself and turned it into a separate business that it still owns, cloud services. It is the leading cloud service provider in the world, and Angie Jassy has run that. So what we're getting is the guy who made AWS work, the engine that powers Amazon, is now taking over the rest of Amazon. Bezos, the guy who's got

pie in the sky ideas, is going to still talk about new products and initiatives. But Andy Jassy will be making sure that the engine that is Amazon retail, as well as AWS, which will still be under him, they'll get a new CEO, but all clicks on also. Yeah.

Do you think they'll ever, this is a totally unrelated thing, but it's because you said pie in the sky? you think they'll ever be a place because you like pie Tom's a big pie fan love pie I like the sky and I know you recently lost a pie place

due to like the COVID restrictions kind of knocked your favorite pie place out of business oh no so would you go would you go to a place closed down early too like it was June yeah it was way way or I remember you talking about it way early in this and if they opened a place called

thank you for the 3.14 years if you if you open or if somebody opened a place called pie in the sky would you go you'd go there you'd try that out sure okay yeah all right that's all i mean unless i was you know it was really far away or i could get there or something i i i'd yeah what if that's your question that's it's all i got it would be yeah it would clearly it would be in like the um the space needle either in Vegas or the one in oh sure yeah well it seems like every city has one of those now like the sky tree in Tokyo and yeah that's where you'd open your pie

in the sky uh franchise have to have it there yeah oh i'd absolutely we love to do that when we travel we always go to the sydney tower whatever it's called like we always go to the big high thing and take the elevator up because i hate elevators so eileen likes to watch as i you know i'm terrified as we go the elevator uh and then we get outside and it's it's great yeah how are you with ferris wheels yeah it could be better yeah they're fine because i can see what i hate about elevators i can't see out if it's a glass elevator totally fine really see that makes those worse for me It's just, yeah, and it's not a rational thing. Like, I can sit there all day and tell myself, like, this is one of the safest things you'll do all day crossing the street is more dangerous. It's just a, I don't know, some in my lizard brain doesn't like it. But, yeah, if I can see outside, it's not so bad. With the Ferris wheel, I can see outside, but there's also no barrier. Like, I could conceivably, you know, unhook my seatbelt and jump out.

Maybe I don't trust myself. I don't know. Well, my hope is that every elevator you ever take is a safe and half. happy one, Tom. Thank you. I appreciate that. Later today, the daily tech news show will happen. I'll be on there today.

It's Wednesdays. And of course, it's the best day. So if you're going to watch me today, really, the day. So check that out live. We can check out the podcast and all of that. Anything else going on that people might want to hear about from you? Well, Brian Ibbott, when's that America's next top podcast? It is.

So Hammett is putting the finishing touches on the Patreon. version of the show, which is going to be the complete thing. They're going to get, you know, all the Tom Time, all the reviews, all the, and then separate episodes for each of the shows. That, I think, is either going to be next week or the weekend after, or the week after. The abridged version of the show that Bobby's putting together is probably beginning of March or sooner. Oh, wow.

Okay. All right. Okay. So keep an eye out for that. There's a lot of production. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that comes from that. Wasn't sure exactly what the timeline was on that. So, yeah, but I'll be involved in that as a coach like I have been in previous seasons.

Keep an ear out for that. Yeah, so good. And Hammond has them, basically, they both got to edit out a lot of crying. There's so much crying. Yeah, all the crying. From the judges. Yeah, the judges and the berating. The mistreatment of other people.

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Free tom newsletter.com. Sounds good to me. Tom Merritt, everybody, Ace Detect on Twitter. we will see you today at 2.30 Mountain Time. The only time's on the matter. We'll see you then. Bye now. I had to look because we used to have a place here in Denver called the House of Pies. And their logo was the pie symbol inside the typical square with a roof on it, house shape.

And I'm on their website right now and they've just got the greatest video showing them making pies and cakes and all that stuff. It's still going and it hasn't repeated yet. but they're only in Houston now, only in Texas. I guess there's one in the woodlands, but three locations in Houston. Bummer. Houseofpies.com. It's really good. I guess I can't eat pie anymore, can I?

Unless someone bakes it with like a meat pie. You could have a delicious meat pie. It doesn't have to be a sweet pie. It could be a savory. A savory pie. If somebody wants to give me a good recipe for like a sugar-free pie, using like monk fruit or zivia or something let me know because i'm off the show you can you just you just do a pie and when you when you make it you just substitute monk fruit

sweetener for the sugar that's possible right that may be all i have to do yeah peak friends it's uh it's probably not one for one it's probably not one cup of monk because monk fruit sweetener i think is a little sweeter than sugar so you just go like half a cup monk fruit versus a cup of sugar yeah they're they do same on the, I think he's saying on the package what the difference is. So I can probably do it. And I think they make some baking stuff with monk fruit that's like, has the right consistency. I don't know.

I have to look into it. But before we do any of that, forget all that. There's this. Oh, Nicole. My sweet Nicole. Coles Pagnolo joins us also from Colorado. And so now for recommendals today. Nicole, how you doing?

How are you? Good. One of the best bakers I know. Yeah. Speaking of bakers, man. Can you imagine living next door to Nicole? What a day that would be. Oh, no kidding.

You'd be 20 pounds heavier by the end of the year. And I'd have a backyard full of wood scraps. Why do these things keep getting thrown over the fence? That's right. That's right. Hey, it's good to have you here. Nicole joins us on Wednesdays. Talks about recommendal stuff we've seen on streaming services that we like and

that we want to share with you find folks at home. And today's no different. Brian, we should probably start with you because that is the tradition. Let's start with me. We've got two of them it looks like from you today. Yes. These are two movies that are available on HBO Max. One's a kid friendly.

The other one very much not. Oh, all right. Sounds like HBO Max in a nutshell to me. So that sounds good. It kind of is, right. It really is. There's so many, I know this was a problem for them when they were setting up streaming. Because HBO known for its edgy, dark, nudity business, right?

And then they're like, well, we got to also have all the old Looney Tunes and Cartoon Network. Right, exactly. You've got a, yeah. So it's a little weird right now. But anyway, here it is your first clip. It was in all the papers at the time. Men searching in the Arctic had found a yellow metal. Get off my plane.

A mad fever spread as far as word can travel. And thousands more rushed to the north to try their luck. These men needed dogs, big dogs with strong muscles to pull their slits. Good morning there, Buck. Buck was neither house dog nor kennel dog. There you go, boy. His master was Santa Clara County judge. Watch it, you.

In this realm Buck was king So that's Someone at the end Yelland, damn it That's your call of the wild there, isn't it? Exactly what it is. Yeah, call of the wild Based on the novel by Jack Linden

About the Klondike Gold Rush And a dog named Buck And It's really, really sweet. Yeah, the hardest thing for me to get past was the CGI dog. I'm just going to say that right up front is that it's a dog that's purely CGI. They don't like have, all right, some scenes are a real dog and then other scenes

are a CGI dog. It's all, it's all CGI. So there are points where it's like, yeah, Buck isn't moving like a real dog would move. However, this is, it's really, really sweet. It's really well done. Harrison Ford is fantastic in it. And I think he actually, because he acts so well, with the absence of dog you get past the fake dog business really quick. Yeah. But he's really good. This also has Kara G

from Oh, I love her. She's in quite a lot. I'm like looking at her and thinking, oh my God, is that Kamina? Is that Karaji? Yeah, that's drummer, dude. She's not talking really weird with her lower teeth out.

But yeah, she's in there and she's great. uh also you've got uh dan stevens who was legion oh yeah we like dan stevens yeah he's good and amy pond karen gillan is in there nebula so you get a couple of marvel people in there bradley whitford uh plays the judge uh it's great it's really really worth saying and uh easily something you could watch with little kids and and they'd love it i meant to i meant to see this one it was being advertised and stuff because I personally I like I don't have a problem with CGI dog because

it's fine I don't it's just not a big deal to me yeah you know and I got over really quick but that was the first thing I had a problem with is like okay the CGI dog they do a great job though with the real the practical effects that go along with the CGI dog so um so the guy and it's Is that a CGI dog behind Nicole right now? I can't tell. It might be CGI. That's a real dog. It's a real dog.

It's Millie. Oh. My Millie. But, yeah, so it's worth seeing. It's Call the Wild. It's on HBO Max right now. Didn't do well in theaters only because it came out right before the pandemic. So I was like, all right, now opening, Call of the Wild, now closing every theater.

Yeah. That was like that month, or it was like February or what? It was within, yeah, within a. few couple weeks of each other so yeah so right about now last year we started hearing things right yeah yeah oh see i i had started preparing in january yeah you knew i was i was like all right let's let's let's uh prepare you know what that is that's it's that mom's intuition kim did the same thing she was like oh i told mark i go i'm sorry i'm going to get really weird meanwhile meanwhile i was in chicago getting ready to go to

Geek Bowl. Yeah. The last trip I've taken. Yeah. Yep. I remember that too. Mark had gone to Atlanta for a thing called workbench con. Oh, the lost city of Atlanta.

That's fantastic. Workbench con. Oh, I love it. That's what it's called. Do they really call it that? It's so exciting. Yes. Yes.

BenchCon. Yeah. Okay. It's so weird to look at that, the landscape of YouTube. And to be there when we were the first one, to see how many i mean there's a whole convention now around what we do yeah so weird oh yeah no kidding it's awesome you gotta appreciate that i guess it was march 7th was geek bull so it was a month from now but um but that was the last trip i took and so well march was like that was when everybody

knew yeah we're like okay we're this is going to get bad we were honestly there thinking is this uh you know are they gonna get stuck here are they going to close flights and yeah i remember that we were still trying to decide what to do the same month with tms Vegas and it was like a week before where we finally called it and yeah i hated that that sucked last year sucked can i just put it out there one more time hey guess what everybody shocker 2020 freaking sucked all right um sorry so call the loud is a recommendal one number two uh quite a bit darker and um you'll hear the dude who said, oh, yeah, you're a real hoot

in here as well as Denzel Washington. That might give you a clue as to what this is. Oh, okay. I know exactly what this is. Here we go. Yes, sir. You remember a punk named JJ Kendricks, Rob the Quick Mart? We've got a witness who ID'd him,

but she's getting the gilts. All she knows for certain is that he was wearing a really nice pair of boots, fancy stitching. Unforgetable, she says. But Kendricks is a. suspect in a robbery down in L.A. Down in L.A. Yeah. Is it headed somewhere? Yeah.

And so are you. There's a prelim day after tomorrow with a motion to dismiss. You drive to L.A. and bring back the blood-stained boots. She IDs them, and the judge sets a trial date. The blood. They definitely ran the A.B.O. on the blood. That's correct. I mean, this is a DA problem, Captain. Not ours. Oh, no, it's our problem. No evidence. No conviction. I got nobody else.

That's great. Listen, you're a real hoot. There he is. I'm glad you added that. So that's that new thing with the... Little peep. Little promises. Little people.

Little something. It is the little people. The little things. And it's funny because... The little things. In the last, it seems like in the last 10 years, we've gotten about a thousand movies and TV series with little, like, pretty little liars. Pretty little lot.

And little fires everywhere. And, like, so many damn little things that I'm ready for some big things. But this is a crime drama. It feels just feels like it's dark. It's actually being compared a lot to seven for better or for worse. But it's basically Rami Malik and Denzel Washington teaming up together to try and catch a serial killer in L.A. in the 90s. and they find this goofy dude who's a little dark and twisted

or played by Jared Leto and think that he might be their man and so they... I bet you that was fun working with him on that set. Oh yeah, he's the Joker! Right, exactly. He's hard to work with, right? I've heard before.

It's like I can think of it anymore now. Yeah, it's super hard to work with. And it seems like, and he chews up the scenery in this one. He's very, very dark and creepy. But this new serial killer has the same M.O. as a serial killer that Denzel Washington chased years ago. And there's some dark history between the two of them that unfolds as you watch this movie. That sounds like Silence of the Lambs-ish template-y. A little science of the lambs, yeah.

Seven, seven. There's definitely, you know, it's a trope that gets used every once in a while. the, the, uh, the detective that's haunted by a former or previous case and they just couldn't get past. Sure. Um, but this is, uh, it's really good. It's, it's, it's, I can't stress how dark it is. This is not one to watch with the kids. Um, but it's also got Natalie Morales, who is great. She was, um, she was on that, that really good, uh, Rob Lowe TV show, criminally, canceled before it's time but not the one where he's like currently a firefighter

or something now right no no he was a he's an actor who was he an actor he's the brother of Fred Savage who works in a law firm and oh yeah yeah he's an actor playing he plays like a a law show character

and he gets all of his ideas and stuff from Fred Savage but he's horrible at it so they bring him on to bring him on to to work at the law firm because he's got experience as a lawyer. But I can't remember the name of it. It's like, it is like the grifter or the. Is it the grifter?

So it was so good. The grifter was Rob Lowe, wasn't it? Yeah. And, uh, yeah, but that's, no, it's not called the grifter. Grinders. That's it. Grinders. That's it.

Yeah. That if you have not seen, that's, I'm giving you a bonus recommendal. If you have not seen Grindr, the grinder, it is one season. Quick watch, you will love it. Okay. What happened to that? Just didn't get any love from the network. It was a show, right?

It was a, what's that? It was on Fox. I think it was on Fox. Yeah. And it was just so good. Anyway. Network TV. But that just has Natalie Morales in common with this.

Anyway, this is, it's good. It's on HBO. Now, here's the deal. It's one of these movies that, that HBO is doing simultaneous theater release and HBO max release, which means it's only going to be on HBO Max for a month. so you do have a limit before it disappears basically at the end of February it's gone and they put something new up is Wonder Woman gone yet

I don't know it might be it might have left on January 25th or whatever the one month because yeah it was Christmas so P-square says yes I just I was playing this game with that movie like I'll wait That kind of towards the end

And then I forgot And I missed it You didn't miss much And it'll be I know I heard I heard Yeah

It's not great Anyway the little things Denzel Washington Rammy Malick Jared Letto It's directed by the guy Who did the blind side If that's another

Nudge Never saw In the check it out direction Never saw I've never seen blindside Nope I don't know why Never saw it Yeah

Just didn't say Oh that's another good one Yeah, meant to. I like Sandra Bullock, big fan. Yeah, she's not in this. Yeah, but she was in the blind side, right? She's in the blind side, yeah, no kidding. That's surprising that you wouldn't have seen that because you do like her a lot.

Anyway, the little things, don't watch it with kids, but it's worth seeing and it's on HBO Max for about 26 more days. All right. Well, there you have it. Here's mine. and I cheated a little on how I recorded it because I didn't want to give it away too fast. So let's just say this. I found a version of this show

that it was translated to a different language. And so that way we'll see if you guys can still figure it out. This is the non-English version, but I watched the English version, also on HBO Max. Here you go. Good morning, my sheiserchen, good-slaught. Clare, Mammy, and

there came me a full cool trauma. There sat I was on an ice cream esel, with no other as Mr. Dean Martin. Wow.

Naturally, was the ice back-goltsen not before we in the Wanness Stratritten, but that has Dean

nothing out of he's a great Highly Martin. Okay. Is it, I'm guessing the Bragg Show

only because I know you've been watching the Bragg Show. You're right, it is the Bragg Show. It's totally the Brack show. That is the German version of the Brack show.

There's a Dean Martin. Yeah, you can hear Dean Martin in there. The rest of it was very German. But yeah, it's, I love the Brack show. I don't know why that thing speaks to me even more than Brack as a character did as part of Space Coast, coast to coast,

which is where it all came from. There's something about it as a stand-alone. They treat it like a family sitcom and the guy that plays his dad is this little tiny dude. This looks like a normal human being with a mustache who sits in a giant chair his mom's a big alien lady uh right his neighbor down the street is a giant robot named thunder cleese it's just so good i don't know why it's good i just love it i need to see more of it i i um well for whatever

reason my love of him on space ghost it didn't connect with me when i watched the first episode of the brach show and that i enjoyed it but i don't know why i didn't go back to it so i need to go back to it. JC Calhoun's like, I can't believe Scott has time to find the German version of the Brack show but not watch Wanda Vision.

It's just a single click. If you like a fake send-up of a sitcom, Scott, I've got a recommendal for you. But it's just a click. You just change the language to German and boom, it spoke in German.

It isn't like I had to do anything special to go find it. But anyway, it's very funny and silly and over-the-top dumb. It's a lot like those kind of adult swim, weird, you know,

Harvey Birdman attorney-at-law, like all these things are sprung from those weird things, C-Lab and all that. So it's kind of in that vein. But it also feels like it's its own thing because it's not it's not at its core based on some ancient thing from the 60s like all the rest of those I just mentioned. It's it's a spin-off, but it's its own thing. And I find it to be really creative and fun. And the music is great. Brack sings the stupidest songs and they get in your head and they never leave. And I just love it. And there's so many like one- liners that are mark and i would quote one liners from that show all the time it's got great one liners and every time he dealt with thunder clees i laugh i just doesn't matter what's going on

there's something about the super serious neighbor thunderclees who is always like wanting to blow shit up and brach just sad because his stuff donkey's missing or whatever like just the dumbest little ideas the shows are really short like 10 minutes i think per episode 20 episodes you could binge this whole thing in just a little over four hours Yeah. All 20 episodes. And it's a great just have it on at the side while you're doing other stuff sort of thing and highly recommend it, HBO Max.

Did you get to the episode where he meets the fan? Yes. He's like, my, if I can't get a little pecks. Yes. Yes. So when we met you, Scott, that was the quote that we would say back in front to each other. That's great. That's great.

I didn't know that. I didn't realize that was a thing. Yeah, it's a fun, stupid time. And I like fun, stupid things. So go check it out. All right. Nicole, let's swing it on over to you. Do you have a clip or?

All right. I do have a clip. I decide it to, it's so funny. To me, this movie is not very old. But then I looked at the day that it was released and said, oh, wow, 2005. That was a long time ago. So it is an older movie. Right.

I have very good memories of this movie, and I rewatched it. Did you retain those memories, or did you feel? I don't know. I think I might have ruined my memory of this. Oh, no. This happens to me, too. But it's still, I still think it's a great movie. It's a hidden gem, especially if you haven't seen it.

There's Ava. What's up, Ava? What's going on? I'm doing a show here. My brother, took a dump. I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. Johnson. Oh, you just want to watch me. Okay. All right. So I'm going to, I'm going to send you the clip. It was really hard to find a clip.

She's such a hand. So. All right. Um, get a play. I'm not looking. Uh, is it playing? Yeah. Yeah. Wow. It's a load. Brandon. You're up, bro.

I'm asleep. It's a little quiet. Fine, Emily. You all right? Oh, I know this. Yeah, what are you for zero? Forced into taking the early bus. The others don't run by my street.

So what's the word with them? She's gone. Can't raise her? No, I can't. So what now? now. I don't know. All right.

That's Brick, isn't it? It is Brick. Oh, Brick is awesome. Oh, Brick. Yeah, that's good. All right. So, it came out in 2005. It's a kind of neo-noir detective movie that takes place in a high school.

They make a bunch of high school kids. talk like they're like 1940s inspectors and stuff. It's great. It's a little off-putting at first. Yeah. But it is... Falcon in high school. This is streaming on Amazon Prime.

You heard Joseph Gordon Levitt in that clip. This is one of his... Amy, you throwing kisses at yourself. This is one of his earlier movies. I did not realize the director, how do you say, Rion Johnson? It's Ryan Johnson. It's Ryan.

It's just Ryan. Brian. Brian. I didn't realize he did Knives out and Looper, which is the same tone of this movie. Like you, it makes sense that he made. He directed this movie. It also has. This is his big, giant, you know, make a noise kind of movie for him.

He also, also in this movie, you heard just. Gordon Leavitt looking for a girl named Emily. That is played by the pregnant girl from Lost. Oh, the little, the Australian girl. The blonde. Claire. Yeah, Emily DeRov. Yes.

Yes. So she's in that. Lucas Haas is in it. You'll notice a number of people that are familiar. But yeah, it's definitely a who did it, what happened, kind of movie. It's weird to see a high school. school movie with kids that don't have cell phones.

Oh, yeah, right. It's like right at that time before the iPhone came out. So there's phone booths everywhere and there's like code and it's just it's a weird little time capsule movie. Well, also, wasn't it set?

It's not set in 05. I think it's set earlier, isn't it? No, I think it's 05. I thought it was set earlier, but maybe I remember that wrong. I thought it was like a It's a modern day take on neo-noir detective movie with high school kids. For some reason, I thought it was in a different year. But yeah, the point of the movie is that it's trying, it reminds me of the Romeo and Juliet thing where it's DiCaprio and what's her name.

And everything's set modern, but the language of it is straight out of the Shakespeare play. This is a little like that in that the language of it is straight. out of the noir style of the 50s, 40s and 50s, but set in a time that we all recognize. And I think that's all on purpose, obviously, to create this weird feeling. So too much cell phoneery would have been weird, I think.

For sure. Yeah. Because it wouldn't fit. One cell phone shows up. It's a flip phone. Yeah. You know, like old Motorola. That's the only time a cell phone shows up.

But for the most part, they're all like, going to phone booths and being secretive and I remember this is a big deal of it this is a big deal here locally because it premiered at Sundance that year and everybody were they were all losing their mind over it like it was like this yeah huge stink in town about all brick that's the movie this year and this guy named ryan johnson no one had heard of and he's going to be the hot new thing and whatever and it was like a big deal that way but so you have all these fond feelings what about it what about it diminish that for you the kids i mean they didn't they didn't feel like kids they didn't feel like high school they didn't feel like the way that they talked i mean i understand the feel but it it almost i almost lost it the second time around i don't know it's a weird watch the second time around for me interesting it's still a great movie it's still a cool who done it kind of mystery um it just felt like everybody was being way too old. I guess because I have a kid now, I go,

oh my God, I don't even want to think about my kids. Like, where are the adults? Yeah, but you're basically describing the point of the movie is that they all sound like, and the adults are missing. Like they kind of don't exist in that world. There's only the vice principle that the main character is like an informant kind of thing. It's so weird.

It's like the whole high school thing kind of pulls me out of it at times. Probably because I know these actors are much older now too and I've seen them in other roles. I don't know. I think at the time it was just like, wow, this is really cool movie. Plus this is Joseph Gordon-Levitt looking very third rock from the sun still. You know, he doesn't look. He's very cute in this movie. He's very cute in this movie.

He is cute. His hair is all long and wavy and, yeah. Way better than when he tries to look like Bruce Willis. Yeah. Yeah. And by the way, I could have gone for a nightwing series from him, a spinoff from Batman. Oh, yeah. Right after his dark night rises. Yeah, his brief moment is Dick Grayson or whatever the hell was going on there. Like pull him out and make a full, you could have had a whole franchise there. That was an, that was an F up, D.C. What are you doing? Jerks. Missed opportunity. Yeah. Well, all right then.

So, yeah. Brick available on Prime. If you've already seen Brick when it first came out, I would watch it again, because it did feel like I was watching it for, I wouldn't say the first time, but I didn't remember a lot of it. Like, it was a good refresher. Yeah. So Amazon Prime. There it is. Amazon Prime.

And here's the good news. If you didn't follow any of this stuff we talked about today, you can follow Nicole on Twitter, Nicole Spag. And she'll tell you what it all was. She'll give you links and everything. So I will do that if you're not already following her. And if you are, well, you already know how cool she is. Nicole, have a fantastic day. Hey, oh, one last thing.

Devs, you recommended it. I watched it. It was amazing. I'm supporting that recommendation. If you haven't watched devs on Hulu, watch it. You know what you need to do now is go watch all, everything else Alex Garland ever wrote or directed. Yeah. Because.

He did the X machine. Minamah and Ex Machina, yeah. Machina. Ex Machina. Starring Riann Johnson. Yeah, Riann Johnson. Moe is the other one. He does this.

Oh, he directed that Natalie Portman alien thing. Annihilation is fantastic. Oh, I haven't seen Annihilation. Really good. I did see X Machina. And then watch, he wrote Sunshine, which we did for Film Sack recently. That movie is amazing. I love Sunshine.

So you should watch Sunshine. It's very good science. movie. Just anything he does, I am all down for it. And Debs was like the cream of the freaking crop for that. That was, yeah, my brain hurt after that one. And it just makes me bad that it's over. I just want more. But whatever he does next, I'll follow that guy. They could set it up for, they could set it up for a season two, I'm sure. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, maybe. I think he's come out and said, this will never be anything more than what it was, but maybe. Maybe we'll get lucky. Anyway, uh, let's all be up all night to get lucky. Nicole's

bag everybody we'll see you soon all right hey brian what are you doing over there look at this look at us here we're done this is the show we're done uh quick note windy tomorrow okay she'll be yes it's already thursday what's that about that's i know it's crazy yeah uh partly because we missed today i guess but uh core tonight or not tonight sorry tomorrow night what's today today's wednesday not tonight tomorrow night at 5 p.m and um let's see what else. Anything else? You don't record. You record Thursdays now too for Coverville. Coverville's Thursday now. Yep. Uh, yeah, today is just getting stuff together for coverville. I won't say what it is yet. It'll be fun. I'm going to guess. Can I guess? And I know I'll be wrong. Sure. Yeah.

A tribute to Iggy Pop. That's my guess. Oh, that's a good guess. Uh, no. Oh, okay. Um, but it's somebody who, uh, years ago, to bring sexy back. you'll never get it from that clue never ever get it from that clue he tore off my boob cover all right moving on that's right we'll do that tomorrow so come back for the show and there's other stuff going on DTNS today

I'll be on there so come check that out I might stream tonight we'll see I'm also alt leveling my demon hunter because why not so that's fun and I also got oh I got oh this is the thing I did want to mention If you are a member of my personal art Patreon, the Frog Pants Patreon, I'm going to start doing daily, basically there'll be anything from doodles to complete art, but art that is exclusive to that channel and followers there or supporters there.

I'm going to put them nowhere else. It won't be on Twitter, won't be anything else. Just something for you guys every single day. So if you're already over there, you already know this is happening because I put a post up about it. And I owe you two of them because yesterday got weird. But don't worry, you'll get three today. But anyway, yeah, one drawing per day. It's all part of my effort to blow out a quick and dirty, like, creative sketch per day.

I started finding myself, Brian, I don't know if you do this with certain things. But like with my art, it was like, well, I have to do a comic this week, and I have to do these three things for freelance, and I have to be that. And then I'm not doing any of that creative work just for the sheer creativity of it, right? For sure, yeah. I'm going to do that more. And so that's what that's for. Anyway, we do need to start working on those TMS stickers.

So, you know, there's some pressure for you. Yeah, there's a little pressure. Let's do that. Let's get some more pressure on there. I like it. That's what they say. When you got a snake bite or whatever, put pressure on it, right? It's right.

Exactly. Ours is a creative snake bite. Anyway, we're done. The morning stream at gmail.com is our email address. Check us out at frogpans.com slash TMS. Therein you will find a link to our Patreon at patreon. At patreon.com slash TMS. If you're already on there, you know, I'm preaching to the choir, but there's a bunch of you

who aren't. So head on over and help us out. All right, all right. Music for now, play Brian. I will assemble all of those into a command and follow that command. Derek wrote in, said, hey, Saskatoon and Banff, both in Canada, Canadian cities. I'm turning 36 on February 1st and would like something fun to listen to while working at home, like many others, I'm sure. Not much to say, apart from say stave.

And isn't there some guitar game called Something? Hero. Thanks for the awesome stuff you do. I really appreciate having you in my ear holes, signed Derek in Canada. Let's see if we can play that old file. Here it is. Isn't there a guitar that's called Something Hero?

It's always better when you remember what she actually says and hearing it. It's so good. Oh my gosh. That clip, by the way, September 26, 2012 is when we got that. So, wow. It's like, you know, first, first, First year of doing this show, basically.

All right. You want something fun, Japanese cover, or inspired. I've got just the Japanese cover for you. I had a radio head cover in there, and I changed it out the last minute because I like this one a lot better. This one came out on a 2007 tribute to David Bowie that I picked up while is in Japan, so you know it's Japanese. It's performed by Nomiyamaki. It's a cover of fame. Here you go.

Oh, my gosh. All right. So here's that. We'll see you guys tomorrow. Say Stave. Let him loose how to swallow Fame That you there with things are hollow Fame And it's not your brain

It's just a frame The pleasure to keep in the same fame Say, what you like is in the limo. Say what you get is no tomorrow. Say what you need you have to follow. Same Game, game, it's fine, just it's fine

Just it's fine Yes you don't judge, you can't say Could it be the best, could it be, really be, really be, baby Could it be, could it be, could it be Is it any wonder I retract to first? Beauty, baby, beauty, baby, beauty, baby, beauty, baby, beauty, baby. Is it any wonder you to go too full?

Fame Fame Funny for you Chill for me Gotta get a rich a company Fame This is part of the FRIVE, FRIE, Cool, Babe. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network.

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