The Morning Stream - TMS 2065: Over to Yuki

Episode Date: February 10, 2021

What Size Was Your Floppy? Stretchy Yoga Hulk Pants. I Don't Think Paul Bettany Can Actually Fly! 2 in the front, and a weird one in the back. You Don't Really READ Porn. A Lump With A Coat On. Batgas. Ralph Lipshitz Lauren. Football & Farts. Reading Sinestro's Corpse. The Pants don't rip because Weiner! Those Butts Don't Wipe Themselves. Bigger, Blacker Floppy Drive. Show Me SNIKT! The semiconductor chip famine of 2021 with Tom. 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.

Thanks to HelloFresh for supporting the morning stream. Go to hellofresh.com slash TMS10 and use the code TMS10 for 10 free meals, including free shipping. Coming up on TMS, what size was your floppy? Stretchy yoga Hulk pants. I don't think Paul Bettney can actually fly. Two in the front and a weird one in the back. You don't really read porn. A lump with a coat on.

Bat gas. Ralph Lipschitz, Lauren. Football and farts. Reading Sinestro's corpse. Pants don't rip because weener. Those butts don't wipe themselves. Bigger, black, or floppy drive. Show me, snicked!

The semiconductor chip famine of 2021 with Tom. Recommendals and more on this episode of the Morning Stream. Beside you is a ready-made program you can feed into the computer. This is just an ordinary audio cassette. Yes, it is. And you can play it on that ordinary-looking audio cassette recorder that's already plugged into the computer. So, do I press play?

Not yet. First, you have to tell the computer to copy the program that's on the cassette into its own storage area or memory. How do I do that? Just type load, L-O-A-D. Attractively finished in a gift box. I don't think you were the morning stream. Good morning, everyone. Welcome back to the morning stream. It is Wednesday, February 10th, 2021. I'm Scott Johnson. That is Brian Ibitt. Pretty sure. Pretty sure. It's not a cat. I'm live and I'm not a cat. Yeah. I haven't done the proper verification process yet, but I have it on good authority that that is indeed, Brian Abbott.

And we're here. We're ready to rock your world, man. Get up and get ready. Did you ever have a computer that had a, uh, a cassette drive as its storage as its hard drive, basically? Well, so my understanding is the way they worked was like, okay, so they would keep a program on them. And the only, the only purpose of that was because there was no permanent storage on the computer. Correct. You'd pull it over.

Right. So you couldn't run it from the tape deck, but you could load it from there and then run it. Exactly. And then when you're done, I don't know if you're, you'd send it back or how would you save anything you did? If you made changes to it, yeah. So I, I had the TRS-80 color computer and had the cassette, uh, cassette accessory, cassette player accessory. And it really was. It was, there was nothing different about this cassette player than the fact that it had a, a serial port on it, but it still had a speaker. You could actually

still play regular cassettes on it, any of that stuff. But, um, uh, so you'd write your basic program. And then you'd say okay i'm ready to turn in for the night and so you'd save it to the cassette player which would basically be recording it right like kind of you're basically recording it yeah yeah and then and then you can load it from that but i mean if you if you make changes you're save you you have to basically save it to a new file or save it to a new a new tape a new tape a new not new tape but new place on the tape that was an odd time god what a mess What an odd time, man. What a weird time to be alive, seriously.

No wonder we thought zip drives were so magical. No, no kidding. Any of that stuff, floppies after that, all that stuff. Anything that had permanent storage on it was like a miracle at the time. But we had, so we had an Apple 2 E or whatever that was. Okay. Uh-huh. It was my dad's.

I've talked about someone before because he wouldn't let me play it. We wouldn't let me use it for games. He was like, you're going to break the keyboard. No choplifter for you. Yeah, no choplifter for me. No load runner was my main squeeze there. Oh, load runner, yeah. Load Runner was great.

But it, but it, I don't think it had a tape drive. I don't know what we did for, because I wrote soft, I wrote stuff. Yeah. But where did I save it? Well, 2E, probably, I mean, that would have had a floppy. That would have had the, the 2E? 5 and a quarter inch. I don't, I don't know, man.

That was a long time. I thought it had one big, or maybe even two big floppy drive, the big black floppy drive things on the front. Let's see. I'm going to look at this real quick. and see if i can see right apple 2e yeah it was a 2e oh you know what it is a it's an external but you're right there was a external 5 and a quarter inch floppy oh okay oh right because the apple 2 e yeah the apple 2e didn't have the flat front above the keyboard it just had the flat top that you put the monitor on right right that was that was the that was the that was the style at the time right

there you go see that i put it in our discord you can see it so it's like a uh That's so cool. So my dad did splurge for that. That must have been how I did it, because I used to, I wrote my own little, like, adventure, text adventure game. But what was cool about it was, in between levels, you would warp someplace in your ship because it was sci-fi. The story was in a sci-fi setting. And I wrote a Starfield simulator every time in between sequences. So it would be text only like, go left, go ride, pick up the thing or whatever.

But then when I'd have to fly somewhere, you'd have this like, Like much of star. Oh, that's cool. Like the star, yeah, star field flying at you. Yeah, it was cool. I enjoyed those days when I was about a wee. Those were the days or whatever, 11 or 12, whatever I was. Anyway, welcome to the show, everybody.

We got stuff. We have things. It's a Wednesday, you know. You just have to chop at that block until there's a statue underneath on a Wednesday. You just have so much coming up. That's right. It's fine with us.

But we got a Super Bowl update. We need to hit real quick from Cappy. Okay. Sent this in via email. Is it just announced that there was a mistake. It really was moonlight. It was always moonlight. It was not Lala land that won the Super Bowl.

It was always moonlight, always. From the beginning, we always knew it. It was just a matter of confirmation. This is from Cappy, who sent this into the morning stream at gmail.com and says this. Scott and Brian, I laugh along with y' all every day listening to your show. That being said, I am not upset at all about you hating on Tom Brady and the Buck's Super Bowl win. I don't think we hated on the Buck's Super Bowl win part. No, no, we definitely don't hate on the bucks.

I mean, the only thing to bum me out was that I had 50 bucks on the game. But it was 50 bucks. It was 50 free bucks, basically, because it was all money I earned playing, betting on English Premier League and earlier games, earlier football games in the season. Do you do that through like a, like who's that bet with? Who do you do that with? At MGM is the one I use. Basically, I put 20 bucks in there to start. and for the Super Bowl game I had 250 in there and so I said all right I'll just do 50 of that

and so I still have 200 so I'm still $180 profit on my in my bet MGM account although I've been all the way up to 380 and squandered it away on bad weekends of football bets well look it's still kind of not really money when you didn't really lose it you know what I mean like right yeah exactly You won it and you lost it. That's the kind of gambler you are. I've never known you to be a guy that's like, oh, I just feel it. I rub the dice real hard and I'm just sure I'm going to win this next one. You don't ever do that.

You're like, get out while you can. Crazy neighbor and I'll play dice every once in a while. Or we used to back in the pre-vid days. And if he goes on a losing streak, his solution is to say, all right, let's up into five bucks a roll instead of a dollar roll. So he likes to, the phrases, throw good money after bad. Gotcha. Well, that sounds like Dave. All right.

So check this out. Oh, I'm wearing the TMS Mashups T-shirt today. I just wanted Jamie to see it. Nice. Jamie, you there? Are you watching? I'm wearing it. I don't know if he's in here today, but anyway, it goes on to say, being a Tampa,

being Tampa born and lifelong Bucks fan, the big win is huge for us. The Bucks have been notorious for losing all the time to be the champs. It's crazy for us. love the show, though, Cappy. Yeah, I agree. I have nothing against the fucking news. You guys didn't need the win. Yeah. I think it's great that you won. I think it's crazy. You ended up with Tom Brady in the first place. And like I said yesterday, he is the goat. He's the greatest of all time. Yeah.

Just kind of a weenie. That's all. No, he's just, he's the, uh, one of the greatest players this game has ever known with his stupid face. Yeah. Just with a stupid face. I don't know. You knew also out a stupid face. Who was the, who was the Cowboys guy in the 90s? Um, can't think he was name. Quarterback for the Cowboys, won a bunch Super Bowls. Can't think of his name. Does commentary now.

Nah. Oh. Akeman. Troy Eichman. Yes. Oh, yeah. Troy Eichman has a stupid face. He does have a stupid face.

Yeah. It's got extra parts you don't need. It's got. Can't figure out what's going on with that guy. Yeah. Quarterbacks, stupid faces, honestly. Yeah. It's just a thing.

John Elway, really. really stupid face, dude. Oh, my gosh. What a stupid face he had, John Elway. Yeah. And Brian's a Denver fan. Brian lives in Denver fan. You know, I grew up in the era of the Broncos, and their back-to-back Super Bowl wins.

But, yeah, no. Joe Montana, I don't know if his face is stupid. Yeah, not so much stupid face. No. Yeah. And Steve Young wasn't that stupid-looking. Yeah. Trying to think if anyone.

Oh, but you know who was? Who was the Bears The Bears quarterback in the 85 When they won Went to BYU, I forgot his name Freaking That guy I can't remember that guy

Anyway, Anyway, that, oh, Oh, McMan Yeah, McMan, stupid face Yes, stupid face, absolutely, yeah Holy crap, stupid, stupid, stupid face, that guy By the way, totally, totally up with the fact that I have a stupid face too, so

Cheers, cheers, the stupid faces I'm just not on national TV throwing balls for millions of dollars. That's the difference. Right. I'm here talking bullshit with Brian. All right. Let's move on to this. This is another email we got from Christian.

Sister Christian. I don't know if this is probably a dude. Oh, it is a dude because I know that already because I read it. Anyway, hey, shift and break. It's a lady. Oh, is it a lady? The bottom of it says, your lady truck driver. Oh, Leah.

Everything's a little backwards today for me. Says, hello, shift, and break. Just a comment on Kevin the Dad Joker's question from yesterday. In my understanding, a Dad joke is a Dad joke, not because it is clean or not sweary, but because it is so corny that only your dad could think of it. You know, when you're a kid, your dad just so goofy and not cool. And when he makes jokes with your friends around,

you just have to roll your eyes and be embarrassed because he's so corny. But secretly, you have to give him crazy. credit because it was actually pretty funny. This is a good definition, actually. I like this. Actually, that's, that's accurate. And that's more what I think of as a dad joke, not because it's not sweary. Right.

She was on to say, I grew up in a semi-rural area or maybe semi-semit. Get it because she's a truck driver. I like it. She's a truck driver, yep. Yeah, yeah. And whenever we would drive by a pasture with hay bales, my dad would tell us kids to wave because the pasture was just saying, hey. Definitely.

Definitely a dad joke. See, that's great. That's great. I love that. She says, I mean, who else could be so goofy and funny at the time? But your dad, hence the dad joke. Keep the dad jokes coming, guys, your lady truck driver fan, Kristen. All right. A Kristen. So I keep saying Christian. Sister Kristen. That's our girl. Kristen. Yeah, I agree. And I'm not, I would never in a, I would never say stop dad jokes. I think they're great. No, absolutely not. Or shame or dad joke shaming? No, no way. It's totally fine. No, I'll make fun of football players' faces all day, but

no dad jokes. I mean, I'll give him at a hard time. Every damn time, he throws out a dad joke, and he is the king of dad jokes. Oh, yeah. You're not wrong. Boy, the conversation continues

in the chat about who has the dumbest face in football, and there's a strong Eli Manning push happening right now. Oh, yeah, Eli Manning. Yeah. I don't know. Okay, look. John Gruden, I know he's not a, not a quarterback, and he's not even a player anymore, just a coach,

but he's got a stupid face. Even Capric. Especially when he was coaching the Raiders. Oh, right. Oh, yeah. That's a stupid face. Look like Chucky. Chuckie the doll, right?

Yeah. Oh, Davey's Travis said it just as I did. I said it before. Like, I didn't see him say that, but he totally looks like Chucky. I can confirm. and Brian got that first. My favorite was somebody coached the Packers.

He was a defensive coordinator here at BYU before going there. They won a couple Super Bowls with this dude. I cannot remember his name. Anyway, what I liked about him is he just looked like a lump with a coat on.

Oh, Mike Holgram. No, Mike Holgram was... Oh, not Holmgren. Am I thinking of someone else? Is it Holmgren? Is it Holmgren? It must have been. He just looks like,

kind of a lump of a coat on. Nothing wrong with that guy was a great coach. But he would sit there, and when I would watch that game with my friend Andrew, we would make fart noises every time he was on screen. So he'd be on screen. We just go, fur, fur, fr... We just assume he was farting under there. Yeah.

Football, everybody. Football. That's what we're talking about here on the show today. We're going to dive into our friendly neighborhood game of Babel Royale now. Yeah. And it's fun. I like it. The problem is...

I'm a little behind on adding people. There we go. All right. If you want to play in this game, you've got to call in 801-47-1-0-462. I don't always take the first call. I try to keep you kind of random. No, I always take the fourth. So make sure you're the fourth caller.

Yeah. We have a fourth caller. Would we announce the phrase the plays, ladies gentlemen? We'd be really good at doing that. And let's welcome our guest, Brian. Brian Dunaway, everybody. Everyone's favorite part of Babelroy. way out, I think.

Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. You know, you're my favorite. Hey, do you hear what happened? You were there because we were doing the boop show, but somebody on the boop show said, talked about how cute you were in person on the camera there. Oh. Was Claire Gack, actually?

Mom's a sweet lady. She does. Wait, are you saying Claire Gack as your mom? Oh, my gosh. Freak it out. Right. Oh, that's very sweet. Oh, that's always so sweet to hear.

You know what? I embrace my. cuteness because I accepted a long time ago, I will never be called sexy. Not like football player, quarterbacks. I'll never be sexy, Tom Brady, but I can always deal with

cute. You might be too sexy for something though. Too sexy for a shirt or pants. Yeah, you know, People Magazine should have a special issue of the cutest man alive. The cutest man of the year. Cutest people alive. Look how cutie is. I'm sort of puke.

Yeah, not sexiest. Not handsomest. Yeah, he's cute. He's cute. I don't know who would win that, but let's go for it. You got to know what you are. Tom Holland. Tom Holland every year.

He's pretty cute. That is spot on. He's cute. He's cute. He's not handsome. He's not sexy. He's cute. He's a little tiny guy.

You can keep him in your baby seat in the car, a little guy. It's right to me so darn cute. Timothy Shalamee. Cute. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that was all right. We're going to play this game.

We can't do it, though, without the participation of an audience member. So we have one on the line. Hi, who's this? It's Kazumi all the way from Arlington, Texas. Yeah, man. Hey, what's going on? Hi, Zubi. Home of the Daily Herald.

Oh, is that the... I believe so, Arlington Daily Herald. Am I right? Am I? Newspapers probably not around anymore. Yeah, what's a newspaper? Yeah, exactly. Okay.

The Kazumi Herald is what would be a better name. Anyway, welcome to the show. We're glad to have you here. Brian will explain today's shenanigans and how you could win. That's correct. While I'm explaining, you guys log in because it's time to play the Tad Pooley-Hood. Crap, I didn't log in the Discord. Sorry about that.

I was over in my chair. Me too. That's all right. That's all right. All right, go ahead. Can I talk? You can talk now? You can I talk.

You know, I was just thinking maybe we could just look at some things just real quick. Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead. 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. Kazumi, right? Yeah, Kazimmy.

Okay, I'm writing it down. Kuzumi. 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 the carryover prizes for Monday, a bag of Kahawa Coffee. and human fall flat human fall flat yeah

the kawa coffee courtesy of kahawa coffee roasters by the way go check him out online you'll also get a copy of not tonight courtesy of Wesley I get that every week just like a Saturday night at it's right yeah no Brian's used to be told

not tonight I get you right feel you remember cute not sexy yeah okay not sexy all right are you guys logged in I see you logged in I see you logged in Very good. Can I test my buzzer real quick, just to see?

Okay, Brian did it. I won. He put his name in his not Scott. That's fantastic. I know, always does that, yeah. That's fantastic. What's good is that if we ever have to replace Brian, we don't have to change the name. Oh, yeah.

True. It's kind of handy, actually. I feel slightly threatened. Yeah, you should. As you should. All right, hands on buzzers. Here is your topic. Top 10 answers on the board.

We asked the tab. pool. What's the greatest Marvel or DC weapon or accessory of all time? Scott. Marvel. I'm going to go with Captain America's shield. Oh, that's... Show me

Captain America's shield. Number six. Five answers will beat it. Brian. He's an infinity gauntlet. Geez. Show me infinity gauntlet. Oh.

All right. Really? Number three. A bunch of Ted losers. Let's get. All right. So, Brian, you have control of the board. You want to, we don't have player pass, do we? So you're going to play.

Player pass. Player Piaz. Say the, if you don't mind repeating the question more time, so that can. Sure. What's the greatest Marvel or D.C. weapon or accessory of all time? I know there's a lot of oars there. What's the greatest? Right.

I think. Superhero accessory of all. When I think of accessories, my God, I can't help but to think of Wonder Woman's Wonder Woman. I mean, every time, because I think of all of her greats. It is so stupid. She's not an accessory, Brian. But no, but she does have a lasso, and it was a huge, big deal in this last film. And I just think the lasso is going to be in people's minds right now.

I'm going to say the Lasso? Wonder Woman. Yeah. All right. All right. Wonder Woman's Super Lasso, Golden Lasso of Truth. Yeah. Number eight in the list.

Oh, man. Very good. All right, Brian. You still have control of the board until your first strike. And only second to that is the Wonder Woman bikini. No, that's not right. Hold on a second. Let me.

The Wonder Kini. The Wonder Kini. I was going to say, I was also going to say, Wonder Woman's Invisible Plain. Those always, both of those items, always maybe just go, man, they're just going to full land. I just don't know if you call that a weapon or an accessory, though. It's more of a.

Excery. Hey, Scott. you ever call your car that you know my accessory you made it backtrack I got to get my car I got to drive my accessory down I'm not saying the word either way now Scott's got me wondering

now Scott's got me I need to take my accessory in for a tune-up my tires need to be rotated on my accessory why are you getting into my head why you getting into my head stop it okay so no what instead I'm going to go with Batman Man's utility belt.

That's an accessory. All right. Show me Batman's utility belt. What? How is that there? Okay. Of course it's there. And in the survey, people had, most people put Batman's utility belt, but if they put batterang

or bat shark repellent or bat gas, then I lumped it all. Yeah. Bat gas. All right. So there's another one that. all right i'm going to i'm going to admit my inability to pronounce thor's hammer and just call it thor's hammer mulener i wanted to call it what it is but i was afraid you let's hear you say it i want to hear you say it do it the mu mu mu you know we're going the mu mu then

the mu mu mu mu mu show me mu mu mu number one answer on the board oh really yes damn it The Major Lorne, Lauren? It's the miller, but yeah. Okay. Man, am I still going? You're still going until you do. Oh, Lord.

Wrong answer. I'm afraid. Okay, well, let's see. I'm going to have to let's see weapon, weapon, weapon. I'm trying to think of more DC weapons because I've kind of been hanging around and Marvel a little bit too long here. Let me. I'm going with, I'm going with weapon X. He's a weapon.

You're talking about Wolverine, Weapon X. Right. All right. It's in the name. It's not going to count. It's right there in the name, certainly. Show me Weapon X. Oh, a lot of surprise there.

Yeah, Wolverine, not one of the greatest weapons or accessories of all time. Fine. Technically. All right. Scott has control. All right. I was going to say something, but now I may not. Okay.

Oh, I just thought of one. Duh. Duh. Uh, all right. Let's, oh, there's no way. That's too obscure. It's never going to be Superman's logo.

Is that what you're saying? From the movie, we're like, pops shit. Yeah, the one time we're out of context and out of war. Through his logo at the guy. um all right i wonder if it counts though to say now i'm

now i'm nervous all right i'm gonna say wolverine's claws okay oh nice oh no are you sure i'm nervous about this just because i think it felt like one of those that brian may have gone well i'm gonna let this one happen when brian said the weapon x but maybe he's being specific so i'm gonna say to the clause right

all right show me snicked damn it Are you kidding? That was a couple people did answer that. Three people did say Wolverine's Clause, but there was not enough to make it on to the into the top ten. Got to be kidding me. That's ridiculous. It's my turn.

It is your turn. I'm going to go with the one I thought of while I was listening to Scott. Mess up. I'm going to go with the green lantern rings. The ring. The lantern rings. How about it's not necessarily the green one. How about just the lantern rings in D.C.?

Okay. Sounds good. The lantern rings. Oh, I almost said that. That does include basically everybody said green lantern ring, except for one person who said white lantern power ring, so I don't know

what that one does, the other ones don't know. I don't know about that one either. I don't know. I've been reading the sinestro corpse. Corpse. Corpse, core, rather. Is he dead? It was I've been reading his corpse. Um, it's fantastic. Can't recommend it enough. You have that DC Infinite sub, uh, go read that. It's really good. In fact, there's more green. There's, green lanterns really notoriously hard to get on film and like do movies and TV. But some of the, some of the best DC stories are green lantern stories. They're very good. I agree. I really like that whole darkest, it wasn't darkest night, but it was there was a whole green lantern, uh, crossover story a few years ago that was excellent with all of the different, uh, lantern core.

coming together and lantern of that stuff so good it was blackest night blackest night blackest night that's darkest night right it was blackest night

because the black lantern was the was the one they were all going for right is it my turn again yes it is brian done away's turn again I'm going with the iron man suit

the iron man's suit like his worsted wool double breasted double-breasted nailed it nailed it Tony Stark's business suit. Handkerchief. Yeah. Okay. All right.

Show me Ironman's suit. You're going to look great. I guarantee it. Number two. Damn it. Number two. You're going to love the way you look. That's it.

Brian, you're killing it. I've watched a lot of superhero movies lately. And so I've been, it's been in my head. Yeah. Three answers left on the board. I, okay. I'm going with, with it. with a Dr. Strange's

magical cape. And I can't remember the name of the stupid thing. It's got as sentient. Yeah. Show me, Dr. Strentian. It's called Cateo of Levitation.

It's called the Cumberblorch. The cape of levitation, right? Isn't that it? I think you're right. Or something like that. Cloak of plus one to levitation. Show me Dr. Strang's big red coat.

Oh, good. That was on the list, but lower. Didn't make the top 10. Scott, back to you. Okay. It's hard. It's so freaking hard. By the way, because I gave you this on utility belt,

if anyone had any of the individual infinity gems or anything that you spawned those infinity gems, I lumped them all into the gauntlet. Okay. So the time gem, the, you know. Right. he can't say like visions uh wisdom gen or whatever correct right okay do you see that guy that had that actual diamond embedded in his head just like yes on a nutbag some people have more dollars than cents 25 but you know it's uh it's it's in the bank though you know it's his

it's in his head how soon tell his sever head gets stolen i'm telling you man it's just a ripe for the picking and thing at first i was like that's a horrible idea i was like yeah why not 25 million dollars on your head you're gonna get robbed i mean you you where else could you where else could you put 25 million on your person and keep it safe it's fair point right um all right let's do i'm i'm literally this is so dumb because i'm reading so many comics right now i should be better at yeah but a lot of them don't have things and then if you say stuff like wonder woman's jet and i get laughed at right then we make funny you um start losing your confidence i'm getting I guess I'll just say something.

I don't even know if it counts. Okay. Spider-Man's spider shooters, the web shooters. Oh, spider-shooters. They shoot webs, Scott, not spiders. Spider-Man, show me. I didn't like that he phrased it. That's hilarious.

I'd like to see that Spider-Man. Ah! Show me, Spider-Man's web shooters. Oh, that's awesome. I thought there was no way. But I am now right in my own fan-fix, Spider-Man, where he just goes around and shooting spiders of people.

Yeah. Pute-tip-teep-te-tube-p-p-pute. Take this. Daddy long legs. Activate. Okay. I'm running out, dude. There's only two answers left on the board. I feel like there's a...

On the board. Knowing what I know by the Tadpool, somebody somewhere said something about, like, Hulk's magical pants that never rip. So I'm going to actually try it because I can think of anything else. Hulk's pants. Hulk pants. That's an accessory.

Hulk pants stretchy. Damn it. You're right that somebody said it, but it wasn't. Really? People say it that, yeah. Why doesn't he just wear yoga pants? I mean, they're in. Well, he does wear some that it does wear, the comics try to explain that it's like a

super science. Unstable molecules now. Yeah, something like that. It's always been dumb because in the old days, it was, just, oh, I got all big, but we can't show his wiener, but now we have to explain it. Anyway, all right. I've been real tempted to, like,

run down a whole bunch of the different superheroes who have armor, like, Iron Man, of course, and there's several other characters that depend on their armor, but Captain America's shield wasn't on there, and that worries me. It was. That was. It was on there. Six. Oh, in that case,

Ant Man's Suit. Ant Man's Suit. Show me, Ant Man's Suit. Oh, three down. Not even one person said Ant Man's suit. I was watching that last night, too. Which one? The first one?

No, he was in end game. So I wasn't actually watching Ant Man. You were watching God Man in the end game, yeah. Yeah. I like that you had your own mini movie going on in your head during. I did. Well, I actually was watching, I was watching clips from the end game. And then I end up watching end game, but the clips were all of them.

Ant-Man. Oh, gotcha. He plays a pivotal part in endgame. Yeah, he does. Okay, so we're down to the two last ones and one strike left for me. So we're going to go with the... This is going to sound like I'm doing the plane thing, but I'm going to say the Batmobile. The Batmobile.

Weren't you the one a minute ago who said the Batmobile's not an accessory? No, I said... I said Wonder Woman's plane was not an accessory. No, because you said... I'm going to take my accessory to get a tune-up, and you wouldn't say that about a plane. Yeah, but think about it. My Honda doesn't behave like his car, and her planes is just a visible, big deal. Like, this car is an accessory up the wazoo.

Oh, shoot. Just dawned on me. Kazumi should be helping with this. Oh, of course. I completely thank you for God for finally reminding me. Kazumi, do you have anything to add? every time I was about to suggest something it was picked

oh nice how do you feel about Scott's choice of batmobile once you get to 9 and 10 it's kind of hard to pick because it's just like the throwaways yeah do you think my batmobile's a bad idea or I would totally lean on your knowledge with all the talk about the invisible jet that

kind of makes me you know I want to go away from that one yeah I kind of tend to agree It's going to be funny if this ends up burning Scott in the butt because he's the one that was all anti. If this ends up being on here, I will laugh my head off. All right. What do you think? I was thinking, I'm trying to keep chat away. I have it full screen on the stream just so I can see the selection.

Sure. Yeah. Well, and Chet, you know, they could easily be throwing you off as much as they could be helping. Oh, yeah. They never know. Like, every time I would glance someone, someone said something about a Star Wars reference. And I was like, I don't think that. Interesting.

I mean, Marvel, they own them now, but I don't think it counts. Is there a guy that has a bow and arrow that might be? Oh. Oh, yeah. So we can go. On both sides. Yeah. I feel like.

Marvel land, do you see? Higher up in the consciousness right now would be Hawkeye. I don't know, but then there's arrow on TV. not anymore he's not let's say why do you take such joy in that I do not anymore it's not because that last season sucked so bad

they should have ended one should have ended one season earlier what if we said Hawkeyes bow and arrow combo does that count fine if we okay doesn't have to be it yeah yeah I mean you can even just say bow and arrow oh do you think arrow is going to be on there

but not bow that would cover you for both green arrow and Hawkeye if you just say bow and arrow let's say bow and arrow all right show me bow and arrow damn it how about bolero yeah bowlero yeah

bow and arrow actually was the next one on the list interesting so if we would have done 11 answers then it would have been bow and arrow all right so I really was I was really thinking of stuff like the fantastic car which is amazing or blackbird

from the X-Men but these are all playing and things, and I'm curious to see if Yeah, I'm really curious about 9 and 10, so. That's right. And by the way, Kazumi, you would have said Brian was going to win, right? Absolutely. Yes, Kazumi. That's the answer. Yes.

Yeah, you would have said that. So good. Congratulations. You won? Because I got so caught up and getting you guys liked it. I forgot to say, who do you think is going to win? Completely. All right. Show me number nine. Batmobile.

Oh, they said it. Bale of psych. Had I done it, had I done it, would it have, it wouldn't have given me the points I need. We're not even close on points. You wouldn't have gotten the points you need, but yeah. You wouldn't have, you wouldn't have ended with shame. Yeah. This one, if you get like one and two, you kind of mathematically eliminate anybody else.

And show me number 10. This one didn't even get brought up. Stormbreaker, interesting. Yeah, I didn't think about the course of Thor's, other weapons. Newham. The owner 2.0. And he actually was wielding

both. Well, he was not at the same time, though, was he? Yeah, same time. Yeah, he was like, I got you, Tony, and he's like, nope. And even threw it over to

Captain America to use a little bit, right? Yeah, I knew Cap had it, but I couldn't remember. I guess I'm thinking at the end when swings down on at the end of Infinity Wars. Who made that anyway, that stormbreaker? Was it a giant little man?

Yeah, a giant little. A giant little man. Yes, it was Tyrion Lannister. Tyrion Lannister made it. Super-sized Tyrion Lannister. Took a piece of Groot. Oh, yeah, it's a grude handle. A grude handle, I forgot.

Some of the other ones that didn't quite make the list, I mentioned Wolverine's claws, Jarvis. Dr. Strange's eye of Agamato. Oh, yeah. The ultimate nullifier. Yandu's Yaka Arrow, the Invisible Jet, Loki's Scepter, which I wouldn't have, which I would have taken off because it's basically an infinity stone. Well, no, I guess I would have kept it in there.

The stones on their own wouldn't make it in there. The bowel disruptor. Whoa. Is that a thing? What? Bruce Wayne's wealth and Gambit's playing cards, which I will remind people, the game, the playing cards themselves are just running the mill playing cards. He's magic. He's the one who turns them into kinetic weapons.

Yeah. Right. That's from his head. are his cards. From his head! From his head! Well, awesome. That means that we have a winner, which is really what I care about.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Congratulations, Kazumi. How are you going to spend your winnings? Well, all I know is I just had to show up and I would probably win. Yeah, you did. This is the perfect time to just show up to the Battle Royale. Winner, winner. Here's all you got to do.

You've heard it before, but I'll tell you again, send an email to Brian Coverville at email.com. You'll send him your address for the coffee and a digital way to get you all the other stuff. So get that on over to him and he will take care of you. Congratulations. Well done. And thank you for playing. All right. And yeah,

I would have counted, like I said, I would have counted I have Agamato because in the comics it's not an infinity stone and the infinity stones themselves I wouldn't have counted, but the things that they're in. Like when it's in Vision's head, Vision's head, it's just an infinity stone.

right it's not like it's it powers an accessory supposed to do something for him though like it makes him more human or more um i think it um it gave him the power right olfshan gave him because he was this jarvis before he got the infinity stone he was wasn't anybody

yeah it powers it uh it powers vision yeah like it without it he's not vision because if you take it out then he's he's dead oh now I have questions Wanda vision questions I'm going to have to figure this out.

All right, anyway, I'm sure that show will tell us eventually. There should be little flashes where you see the answer to your question, and that's all I'm going to say. Okay. Little flashes, you say. Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah. No, I remember that.

My question is more, you know, when they are, okay, I'll say something that's non-spoileries, because if you haven't seen it, it's something like no sense. They're in their living room in the 80s, and they're mad at each other, and they both rise up. Now, Scarlet Witch can do that with her hand. That's in the trailer, too, by the way. So you're saying that. Yeah, it's still in the trailer.

And then he does it also. Is he, how is he doing that? Like, can. I, well, this is, me answering that would be spoilery. Right. But you know? I have a theory. My guess is, it's just wires.

I don't think Paul Bettney can actually fly. there you know my answer is in the chat there you go very nice all right uh excellent news everyone we've done it Brian done away congratulations and let's just put it out there that yesterday we had a fantastic boop show and if people didn't catch it live they can certainly get it on the archive and go get it on their podcast player of choice if you have questions about what that is and where to get it head on over to frogpance.com slash B-O-O-P and this weekend we'll be joining each other and Randy and Brian and all of us. Valentine's, my bloody one.

My bloody Valentine. Valentine, comma, my bloody one. From 1980. One, two. One, two-ish, early 80s. Very early days. Saw it when I was 16 and 86, so well after it was out. It was on BHS or whatever, and it stuck with me.

I was telling the guys before, and I'll say it again. Like that lady who stuck to the wall. That's right. It's the first horror movie I ever saw where somebody was hung on a meat hook. So I have a real palpable memory of this movie. Anyway, that'll be this weekend at filmtack.com. Brian, anything else you want to say before I cut you off unceremoniously? Absolutely.

Follow me on Twitch.com. Forrestlice, Brian Dunaway tomorrow night. I'll be playing graveyard keeper for like week 50. I don't know. I've been doing it forever. Me and Kit London are running through that game. It's been a lot of fun. We're bringing zombies back to life.

Whoa. Look at you. I knew there was, I knew there was something wrong with you. Brian done away, everybody. Stay safe or stay safe. Stay safe.

Say safe. Say safe. Yeah, I couldn't get it right. All right. Well, that was great. Enjoyed that. As always, now let's do one of these.

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I'm Louis Vuitton. Lewis Vyton. You go finish those chicken wings? He's not the guy's real name is Ralph Lipschitz. No, that's Ralph Lerren. Ralph Leran. Is really the Ralph Lipschitz? Yeah, his real name is Ralph Lipschitz, I think.

Ah! Hold on. Ralph. I got to look at this upside. I'm not telling lies. Ralph Lipschitz. I swear this is the... Here it is.

Oh, yeah, that's it's. Ralph Lauren is a American fashion designer, philanthropist, billionaire businessman. Butberbup, known for all this, was born Ralph Lipschitz, October 14th, 1939. Nice. That's pretty good, right? That's great, yes.

It's a fun thing to learn. Anyway, that's something I would have paid, I would have paid any amount to keep hidden. Oh, yeah. You don't want, you don't want lipshits getting out there when you're trying to be a cool brand of fashioning things for men. Right, exactly.

Like, you're a luxury. fashion lips chets. Does he do lady stuff as well? Or is it just men's stuff? I don't actually know that. It doesn't matter. I think he does. I think he does clothing for both genders.

Swings both ways, is that you're telling. I know that he had polo. Yeah. That cologne that everybody smelled like in 1984. Yeah. The shirts with a little polo guy on him. Yeah. I remember that.

They were way too expensive. And that's what the bullies wore at the, but the prep schools, the fancy prep schools. That's right. That's right. Put the collars up and they picked on all of us. Yeah, jerks. Thanks for that. Thanks for reminding me about that. Yeah.

Thanks, Ralph Lipschitz. Your legacy continues on to this day. Well, anyway, this is nothing about him. It's about the Louis Vuitton brand. There's a big controversy being stirred up right now over a new menswear design that was described by the brand as being influenced by and paying tribute to the Jamaican national flag. No problem.

That sounds great. Everybody likes a good Jamaican. That sounded wrong. But, you know, Jamaica, it's a cool town, Mon. You know, we all want to live there and have the cool weed or whatever we do. Well, anyway, the item which resales for $1340, $1,340, this thing. Oh, wow. Okay. Jeez.

Got removed from the store. It was called the Jamaican striped sweater. It featured three stripes in green, yellow, and red. But here's the problem. they're making flag is green, yellow, and black. Like, they're not even in the same colors. Yeah, what did they use? Malta.

What's the, what's got the green, yellow, red flag? I don't know what that is. It looks familiar, though, right? Guinea. Guinea, green, yellow, red. And it just changed the name. We love Guinea. Exactly, yes.

Ghana, maybe. Someone said in the chat. Ghana, maybe. Yeah, yeah, Ghana's red, yellow, green with a black star. Hey, when we were living in the 80s, we were being told every day that everyone in Ethiopia was dying of starvation. Do you remember that? We were, yes. Bob Gildoff was telling us that.

Yeah, he was telling us that. Everybody was telling us that. Like, it was Ethiopia was the place to starve. And is that true now? Like, did they do all right since? Did any of that help? We must have. Yeah, it must have done something, right?

It was between Bob Gildoff and Sally Struthers, between the two of them. I think they solved that problem. Okay. So they're still starving, says Daniel Jay Newman. Yep, still starving. Well, I was told all of those sorts of things, you know, we are the world and everything would just fix all our problems. That's what I was told. What happened there? What happened there? Yeah, apparently helped for a little bit and not for too long, I guess. I don't know. That's interesting, though, we don't hear about that. Is it because there's just because there's so many other problems around the world that it's like, yeah, take a number, Ethiopia. We've got this happening. here and we got this happening in Africa and we've got this happening. I'd love to see some like actual

data if to see because generally speaking I think it's safe maybe it's not safe to assume but overall there's less people going without the very basics on this planet than there used to be yeah but I don't actually

I guess I don't know that as a kid did you get the you know there are kids starving in China oh yeah my mom did all the time you didn't finish your food yeah you ever say fine send them the rest this pork shop. Yeah, I did, but it was always like green beans and stuff like that. Yeah, right. Stuff's like somebody in China's like, I don't want your freaking green beans or your tater tots.

I don't want that. I want the pork shop. Yeah, I want the, I can do something with that pork. Anyway, oh yeah, so codes from home found some stuff. There's some numbers that are interesting. And Bob Geldof, still with us, right? He's still around? Still with us. Band-Aid was his, was his feed-the-world thing, but Boomtown Rats was his regular gig Let's see how he's doing He's 69

Mm-hmm What did he That was something that I saw him He's still from Ireland Related to I just want to try to Pete all the people I'm from Ireland

I think he is he Irish I want to say He's from Dublin Oh he is okay So he is Irish Yeah But his But his

It was a different kind of accent It was Because he was, he may have been born in Ireland, but the Boomtown Rats were considered a, an English band. I thought that they, um, so he may have, maybe the rest of the band was from England. He came, came down to London and, yeah, maybe that's what changed. Yeah, London Irish says Claire Gack. Yeah. It must have changed his accent about it, because it's just a little bit more, listen, if you're going to feed the world, well, I'll get Michael Jackson in here to do it for us.

What do you think? Oh, that was, that was, uh, that was the other one. Oh, shit. William Mason then. Can we get Bono? Can we get Sting to sing the word sting? That's all you can get him to do. How about Paul Young?

Paul Young's big right now. Everybody's going to love Paul Young forever. So let's let him lead the song. Yeah. Why not? Well, Bob Gildoff, you're great. The point is they screwed up. Oh, that's what it was.

There's a documentary available now about the the school shooting in the UK that I don't like Mondays is based on and that's what made me think that there was something recent Bob Geldafi Oh, all right, I don't know It looks pretty good for 69 I have to say Yeah, he never looked good, so I mean

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a good point Yeah, yeah He just stayed looking Bob Geldoch, he just looks like Bob Geldof still Right, exactly. He doesn't look any worse than it didn't be Yeah Yeah

Anyway, well, there's that. Moving on. We've got a man who's 79, 10 years, Bob Geldof, senior, pleading guilty to placing dead animals on neighbor's gravestone while dressed as a woman. Oh. Sure. Wait, so where's the problem? I mean, therein lies the question. So here's the story.

Milderty man accused of leaving more than a dozen dead animals on an old neighbor's grave pleaded guilty on Monday. Joseph Stroud, 79, agreed to believe. An old neighbor's grave? Would it be a dead neighbor's grave? I mean... I guess it'd be an old... It'd be more than old. Yeah, do you get much older than dead?

Oh, a former neighbor's grave. Oh, well, it says... It says here. I know it says old neighbor's grave, but... Oh, is that what they mean? They're not getting any older. I mean, it's, you know... Yeah.

That's what they mean. It's like, oh, that's my old friend from college. They don't... Right, exactly. Okay. Right, my old friend, yeah. Yeah, it's not the best use of words, their article. Wayne.com.

Anyway, pled guilty on Monday. 79 agreed to play to a plea deal, lowering his charges from felony to misdemeanor. He is accused of causing more than $2,500 in damages to a former neighbor's headstone by staining it with the blood of the dead animals. Oh, God, okay. I will stain your grave with the blood of the dead animals.

It sounds like a horrible thing to yell at someone, isn't it? It does. I will pitch your grave with my blood. There you go. Bentonville man accused of placing dead animals on former, oh, that's the same story. Stroud was arrested in August after he was caught on surveillance video,

dressed in overalls and a woman's wig. He's not really dressed as a woman. He's wearing a wig. Wain.com. Give me a break. Yeah. Do you ever do anything for this Wayne newspaper? No, I don't even know where this is.

Is this in the U.S.? W-A-N-E? Benton County. I don't know where that would be. That could be anywhere. Benton County Oh, Arkansas Sounds familiar

But they might have been a customer But Oh, look at that They have photos The article has a pretty funny photo actually What of the dude? Of the dude And it's like

It's Somebody's A proof saying Here's a picture of him Walking through Walmart Notice the shoes And then here's a picture of him walking through Walmart, notice the shoes And then here's a picture

Notice the shirt collar is the same. Wait, now I'm concerned you found the dead animal at Walmart. Now I'm really freaked out. I can't tell what that dead animal is. It looks like a raccoon, maybe. That guy looks like he's got a chip on his shoulder. He does, and he's not using gloves. Yeah.

Just handling a dead raccoon with his bare hands. Yeah, you're in a, you're in the wrong scene, buddy. Ooh. It does look like a dead animal on his head, too. Yeah. Thank you, BioCal. That's accurate. I would never look at that photo, though, and go, it's a woman. Oh, no, it's a man dressed as a woman.

No, no, exactly. No, I'd say, oh, it's a man with a wig on. It's a man who looks like he could be the older version of Wayne from Wonder Years. Yep, there it is. He's got a suspended sentence. We'll have to pay more than $2,500 to the victim in restitution. Can't drive his car anymore. They take away his license because of his mental health, they say.

Well, the police say that the reason this all came down is because they just fought all the time, these neighbors. Gotcha. So really is putting the animals on the guy's grave out of bite, out of anger. Nice. Why would you? It wasn't like, it's not some sort of religious practice. I am ridding your grave of the evil spirits. That's right.

I'm trying to bring you back to life with this raccoon and some quality products from Walmart. I just don't get the Walmart connection It's like I guess they just have a photo That's just where they have a photo of him with the same shoes Yeah Also is that It is Walmart I always forget Walmart now has the cementy floors

And not a painted or carpeted Or vinyl thing Yeah That's the hot new thing now Do you notice Target is now a completely white logo You notice that? Oh yeah Yeah I mean it's still the same Target logo

But they still have red accents But they're going, it's like when Dr. Strange went white in the 90s and the vision went white in the 90s. That happened? So now Target's doing it. Yeah. I'm looking right here. Uh, I thought it was all white. Did I miss?

I must have something here. Yeah, the one by my house is just a, doesn't even have the name next to it or below it or anything. Yeah, it just has the target logo with a white. Yeah, here it is. Oh, like some of the backgrounds are red and stuff like that. it's still red and white is definitely still their um yeah their colors but they're leaning more with the white on a red background than just red let's see i'm gonna send you this looks just like ours except without the red for some reason ours doesn't have the red at all there it is in

your discord but yeah i like it actually i mean i'm not that i'm that invested in what target does but yeah it's just different yeah there you go that's good yeah maybe that's then saying, hey, we don't want to look like a place you could shoot a gun at anymore. You know? It's still a bullseye. I mean, it's still. Yeah, either way, it's a target, right? Yeah, maybe.

But maybe they think some idiot with a gun is less likely to shoot if it's a all-white thing. Maybe. That may mean something, too. All right, we're going to take a break when we come back. We spend some time with Tom, a little time with the cold. So stick around for all that. In the meantime, Brian, do you have music to play? I do. And this is one that actually came out in mid to late 2020, but she's, the singer, is making new appearances on things like NPR's World Cafe. And so she's getting some new exposure. She's an album that came out called Big Dreaming Ants that came out in September of 2020. Her name is Nana Adjoa, N-A-N-A-N-A. Last name is A-D-J-O-A. Really cool.

trippy um mellow vibe to this which i really really like and she's just got such a great voice she's from gana so i believe her flag is is uh red uh yellow and green hey i've got about a fourteen hundred dollar shirt you might be interested in you know where i can get a gana sweater scat uh from her brand new album big dreaming ends here's nana ad joa with her song no room There ain't no room left in my mind there is no room left in my mind. Left to fantasize I imagine my way out

of this cubicle light There is a chance Where you will soon There ain't more Talking to a voice On the other hand That's a big mass Message

sent Through the phone hair High stage in your hand When you run And when you talk You leave

No Keep your silence, signals on mute, your feet back, your feet back silent, leaves nothing to choose out of touch touch, just no matter of touch. Just no matter. A single thought just no no

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On other computers, you'll see a key marked enter, and that also means over to you. Oh, here it is. Return means over to you. Whoa, whoa, hold on there, Steely Dan. Now, picture that, but everywhere. This is the morning stream. All right, we're back, everybody.

Over to you, Scott. Over to you, Brian. Over to you. I've never thought of the return key or the enter key being the equivalent of me saying, over to you, computer. Yeah, over to you, computer. It's your job now to do what's next computer. It's sort of been like 82 or three,

and it was this like series I found on YouTube of like instructional stuff for people and computers of that era. And man, stuff we used to put ourselves through. Holy Moses. It was bad. Yeah, it is bad. Jeez. Well, let's get the technology guy on the line

and add some good to the bad. How about that? You know him, you love him. His name is Tom Merritt, and he's joining us now. With the computer, as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. That man, as always, is Wednesday's own Tom Merritt. Comes on the show and talks about the daily tech headlines that are happening around the world, stuff that may make it on to the daily tech news show later today, as it is the day I'm on as well, which I love.

And we're really happy to have you here, Tom. How are you? Thanks. It's good to be here. Over to you. Over to you, keyboard. Do you remember any of that? Were you ever told growing up that, uh...

Yeah, I'd never heard the over to you. Yeah. No. It's kind of, yeah. I could see a person who knows nothing about computers that, that helping them make sense of it. I remember trying to explain to a person at the bookstore in the 90s that the web browser, uh, pages didn't exist on the computer. It was like a window into seeing things that were elsewhere. And it was really hard for, for people who weren't used to that to get to wrap their head to that way.

Yeah. Yeah, I can't really think of another way that I would describe what the enter key does to somebody who's never used a computer before. Especially if it's the return key on that particular keyboard. There is no enter key. What do you do? Right, right, right. Yeah. In fact, you know what, that's funny now that you say that, I say enter, but my keyboard always says return.

Yeah, but I always say answer. My Mac says return, but my keyboard here, my Microsoft keyboard says enter. Yeah, isn't that weird? But they both mean the same. They should just rename it the over to you, kids. yeah that's right over the uke yeah and then put it over the you though that's how you do it you put it up there

over the you yeah you say press the over the you key and people keep pressing seven uh or or eight sometimes you know yeah it depends yeah kind of halfway between well those were weird times today we live in a modern era where things are probably going to look like this in 30 years so let's enjoy them while we can so tom what is going on in the world of tech today uh well there's a chip shortage we talked about

that yesterday on Daily Tech News show. If you want to hear more about that, but keep an eye out. Your devices might be getting more expensive, and they might be even harder to get. And we explain what all that means on DTNS, but it's looming. It's not guaranteed, but it's likely

that there will be some problems that we just have to push through. Is it a, I guess I haven't been kept up on this. Does it have to do with the pandemic? Is it about just a supply chain thing that's just finally come into fruition, or what's the deal? Yeah, it's kind of all of that. Most people attribute it to the automotive industry underestimating the demand for cars

when people kind of came back to buying cars. They wisely, you know, reduced their chip ordering when the pandemic hit because they knew people wouldn't be buying cars in large amounts, but they didn't ramp it back up fast enough. So now they're piling back in the market with demands that are higher than expected, at the same time, consumer electronics, because everybody was buying consumer electronics for work-from-home situations, caused chip plants to be at capacity.

Chip plants also have a different capacity when you have to maintain social distancing and other COVID protocols. Then there's the complicating factor of Huawei stockpiling chips because of trade restrictions so that they can keep making their stuff even after U.S. trade restrictions went into effect. that caused other companies in a you know let's all buy all the toilet paper style rush to say well we better buy our chips too in case they run out and that puts some other pressure on supply chain

so there is capacity to build all the chips we need it's just like you say it's a supply chain and logistics problem to figure out how to get there okay so like a big wrinkle in the wave we got to ride that yeah yeah and probably need to bring some more plants online and all of that but yeah

it's a it we like I said we go do it in a little more detail on DTNS yesterday, but something to keep an eye on, because it has impacted automotive plants. GM had to mothball three plants in the meantime while they wait for chip supplies to catch up. And it's possibly going to hit some other consumer electronics as well. It's already hitting one of the iPhones. It's impacting the Sony PlayStation 5 possibly. It depends on who you ask whether it's impacting the Xbox or not. The Nvidia shortages may or may not have to do with that. It's kind of hard to say for sure, but could be impacted further by it, for sure. Yeah, that's super interesting. I didn't realize that was going on, but I guess the knock-on

effect for average consumers will be this fall when you're ready to upgrade a phone after owning one for three years. You might be presented with a higher price, possibly a longer delay, maybe even I'd even flip that. I'd say it's more likely you'll just see a longer delay because companies won't want to have to raise prices if they don't have to, given the market. But if it gets bad enough that might happen too well uh super interesting uh so that was mostly yesterday though anything popping today we're like oh man the Zuckerberg laid an egg and we got it on film or whatever man i wish uh no the the seems like the the thing that's catching my eye today is uh there's a an announcement coming february 18th from the president's administration saying uh that they will have a comprehensive

policy on chinese technology and so wall street journal has some sources telling it, that means the U.S. will no longer pursue the ban of TikTok, the sale to Oracle and Walmart would fall through. There might still be some kind of lesser requirement that TikTok store its data in the U.S. maybe, in which case, you know, you might see Oracle benefit from that, you know, becoming the most favored contractor for storing the data. That's something China is more likely to sign off on because China requires people to store data in China. So, you know, they understand, I guess. You know, it would be a little bit

calling the kettle black to object to that, but China sort of put the kibosh on this saying, you can't transfer the algorithm to any other company. And it's just been lingering ever since. So it looks like we'll get some clarity all on this next week. But the good money is that TikTok's sticking around. Not a big surprise, but yeah, I'm not surprised. I mean, it always felt like this was all out of bluster.

And maybe some, you know, some shifting around was going to happen, but it wasn't going to end the late. For a moment, did look like there might be two TikTok companies and that Oracle and Walmart would own a chunk with ByteDance still involved that looked possible for a moment

back in October, but then that moment passed mostly because ByteDance was successful in court and China really put the pressure down to say, no, we don't want that to happen. Yeah, well, let's see what happens with it. I mean, I can't blame them for being so protective of the algorithm. Say what you want about it. It's the

selling point of the platform. Like, it's the thing that makes that thing go. And I don't mean that in like a, you know, I'm not trying to be naive about what makes things go these days. Algorithms are everywhere. But in particular, TikTok's algorithm is what drives people to stay and flip and flip and never leave. And it's really good. Like they're good at doing the thing they're doing, whether or not you think it's because they got too much of your information or all that other stuff. So that's a different discussion.

But anyway, that'll be fascinating. I actually meant to ask you this a while ago. Like, it feels like it was TikTok all the time, all the time. all the talk was like what's going to happen it's all going away people on TikTok were like well might be my last video follow me on Instagram you know this whole thing and then it just felt like it went poof and no one

talked about it anymore so I guess that's where we're at you was there a question in there because all I can say is like yeah that is an accurate description of what happened for sure and I guess the explanation is like that we shouldn't be surprised that a lot

of people react in the moment but don't pay attention to their previous reactions and do not try to maintain consistency of viewpoints. Right. There you have it. More on that and other cool stuff today at the Daily Tech News Show 230 Mountain Time. That'll be live

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You can find that at free tom newsletter.com. That sounds fantastic. Tom Merritt, everybody, Ace Detect on Twitter. We'll see you soon. Thanks, Tom. Bye now. He waved. He did.

Yeah, he didn't say anything, chat, but he waved, which means he was really waving at you, not us. Okay, because he's on video for you. Although we can see him, but it's really for you. And by the way, back to this Apple II C thing with the floppy drive. Mine were the ones with the black face on the front of those drives. That's the visual that I have is the... Yeah, so I don't know what...

Your drive wore blackface is what you're saying? Maybe I didn't have an E. Maybe I had a... I don't know. 2C. Maybe? Or even just a 2? I don't know. Yeah, because I'm remembering...

The one I'm remembering was the one that had the keyboard and then the angle up. And then it went to a built-in pair of black-fronted floppy drives. So they were in the... Oh, that's interesting. They were in the case. But I don't know where... That might have just been like a school. thing. I don't know what, what,

is that 2E. I don't know what model I'm thinking of. 2E was real close to like Mac time. Right? Yeah. Were they about to roll over on that? I don't remember. I think so, yeah. It's a good time back then. Okay. Oh, hey, it's Nicole time, everyone.

Yay! Back up your truck and get ready because God, I hope I didn't pick her pick this week. Pick her pick. Pick or pick. I've been pretty lucky lately. You've been dodging each other stuff, so it might be okay. Let's find out when we call her and play this to bring her in.

Oh, Nicole. My sweet Nicole. Hey, everybody. Look who it is. Nicole Spagnolo from Colorado and also here every Wednesday to talk about recommendals. How you doing? How are you feeling?

Okay. If I have to leave, it's because I have to wipe my daughter's butt. Oh, all right. Well, you know. It's really Mark, isn't it? It's really Mark. I know what those butts don't wipe themselves has been my house it's all right you have to you have to wipe butts it's totally fine

parenthood 101 sadly that's a recommend till I can get behind hey we recommend TV shows and movies and stuff that we finance streaming services here on the show during the segment and today's no different Brian you want to start I got a couple of clips here from you you want to set us certainly do let's start with this one it is a film from 2020 that just landed on streaming and really enjoyed it. All right.

I guess this is why I'm recommending it. DER. Fantastic. Here it is. What's going on? While the long faces. Do you not see it? The billboard.

The one on Maine with the giant vote for Mayor Braun. Yes. What about it? What about it? That's the McGregor Ford billboard. Okay. Okay.

So it's been the McGregor Ford billboard for probably 40 years. knows how much it cost. And it looks like Braun has taken over Jerry's old office as some sort of campaign headquarters. Wait a second. Wait a second. Hold on. Hold on. Are you telling me that the mayor,

who's running for re-election, has decided to advertise his campaign for mayor? And he's doing it from a campaign office? Oh, my God. Oh, this is overwhelming to me. Oh, my God. I don't, I, what? I have the vapors.

I'm hyperventing. Why are these spoons of vapors? You don't get it. Sorry. Sorry. You don't get it. Okay. So that's Steve Karel, but I don't know what this is.

I started to watch this, but then I was like, oh, I want to watch this with Mark. So I'm like, Mark, you want to watch this with me? Yeah, we haven't watched it yet. But I started to, but it's the political one in, in, say, I don't know. What is it? Irresistible. Irresist. I know it was like, iris.

are in. She's so fine. Oh, not that irresistible. Political, not that one, nope. This is a political comedy that is written and directed by John Stewart. And yeah, you heard Steve Crowell. You also heard McKenzie Davis in that clip from the most recent Terminator film and

Halton Catch Fire. Oh, I like her a lot. She's great. She is awesome. Yeah. Also stars Chris Cooper. So basically, the story is right after Hillary loses the election. And Steve Perel's like his, her campaign manager, right?

Correct. Yep, exactly. He decides that, you know, because Wisconsin is one of these states that they lost, they need to somehow turn it blue or at least get more of a foothold in Wisconsin. He sees this viral video of Chris Cooper standing up at a town hall meeting, basically giving a speech about the undocumented. undocumented immigrant population of Deerlock in Wisconsin

and he says this is the guy we need. If I can get this guy elected as mayor, then I can show that there's room in Wisconsin for the Democrats and hopefully turn things around. So

he flies there and he starts working with Chris Cooper to kind of turn him into a mayor, grooming him and kind of falling in love with the residents of the town, but kind of being the city slicker dude that comes to town and his daughter is McKenzie Davis and before too long Rose Byrne who is

the Republican campaign consultant comes down there to help the incumbent retain the mayor position and it's this guy you know that let's see I want to say that he was the dad in missing the Canadian show. He's been in everything. I'm trying to find his name.

There it is. Brent Sexton is the guy's name. Yes, that guy's great. Yeah, or the killing. Sorry, not missing. The killing. Deadwood, justified. Yeah, he's great.

He's in everything. He's, you're right. He's great. He is great. And he plays the incumbent mayor. And basically, you know, it's the story of this election. I won't reveal what happens, but it does go in a direction that I was not expecting.

People are saying a couple people in the chat room said, oh, this was a bum. It's got a 47% rating. It's not glaring reviews. We really enjoyed it, and we really were surprised by the way it ended. We thought it was funny throughout the whole thing and totally dug it. It's on HBO Max. it's irresistible and it's good it's very good that sounds good i didn't know john stewart wrote it that's news to me yeah great casting i mean you've got tofer grace you've got natasha leone from

oranges of the new black you've got will sasso um love will sasso cracks me yeah it's great cast and chris cooper is fantastic in this there's nothing chris cooper can do no wrong in my opinion Yeah, he's good. He's a little, he's, he's, um, Chris Cooper never changes. He looks the same. He really doesn't. I'm trying to remember that first, there was a movie he played a sheriff in, which was the first thing I remember seeing him in. And I think it even was nominated for an award or the older, like an older thing. Yeah, like one of the first thing, like one of the first big things he did. Yeah, I can picture him as a sheriff. Why can't I picture the movie? I can totally picture that. I can't remember. I picture him in the military. I picture him as a sheriff and I picture him as a psycho neighbor and what was it called? American Beauty. American Beauty. And belly button rose movie. That's all I can think of.

Anyway. Anyway. So good film, check it out. HBO Max Irresistible. Nice. Your second one. I'll play the clip for. Any set up here? Much older. Something that a lot of us have already seen. And I saw that it was on streaming. I watched it And I'm just glad I saw it again, because this is, I really love this movie, too.

All right, here we go. He's complacent. He's predictable. He's boring. I mean, Milton has gotten success, whatever that means. And now he's scared. He won't say any risks at all. I mean, he's squandering the goodwill of the audience with his tired, second-rate tricks.

They're all favorites, please. Favorites. Come on. Give me something fresh. He won't even try a bloody bullet catch. A bullet catch is suicide. All it takes is some smart. volunteer to put a button in the barrel.

Fine. Use a plant. You can't use plans for every trick. There'll be no seats left for the punters. All right, no bullet cash, whatever. But the point is that a real magician tries to invent something new that other magicians are going to scratch their heads over, you know? Yeah, and then you sell it to him for a small fortune.

Right? I suppose you have such a trick, Mr. Baudner. That's you, I do. Would you care to sell it to me? No. No one else could do my trick. Any trick can be duplicated, right, Mr. Cutter? Wrong. If Mr. Bolden has invented his masterpiece,

but I'm prepared to do it. I saw that was on there as well. That's the prestige, right? Yeah, such a great movie, prestige, directed by Christopher Nolan and such a cool, twisty, turny film that came out the same time as the illusionist, like there were two competing magician movies.

Deep impact and Armaged. Armaged. Yeah, exactly. but this is just so good and it's uh you know it hangs on it hangs on one little park your park your brain at the door conceit but the movie's even better the second time you see it when you know one of the big secrets of the movie totally because then you're saying like oh my god that's that meant a whole different thing based on what i now know about this movie that movie's great boi was in her right? Played on. Oh, he is Tesla. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Also, it's the first movie you're going to get where Batman, Wolverine, and Scarlet, or, sorry, Yeah, or Black Widow. Black Widow are all in the same movie.

And Alfred. Yeah. Big old DC Marvel crossover back in the day. It really was, yeah, like had all, had all of them. There's got to be even somebody else in there, too. Oh, yeah. The woman from Iron Man 3 that hooks up with Tony Stark or hooked up with Tony Stark in the past. She's one of the love interests. I'm sure to remember her name. See, look at this. All this mixing up of stuff.

That's right. So much all over the place. So technically, David Bowie was in the MCU is what we're saying. That's origin. Yes, exactly. That's Rebecca Hall. That's right, Rebecca Hall, who was in Iron Man 3. Yeah, so good.

Christian Bale, one of the best characters I've seen Christian Bell play so deep and complicated and we'll see more than that Hugh Jackman kind of being a dick kind of being an obsessive dick Michael Kane the heart of the film for sure but and Scarlett Johansson

Andy Circus all right there you go Andy Circus you've got a King Kong connection No Marvel 13 going on 30 connection He was in black canvas No, I know. Yeah, I'm trying to remember his character name with the claw.

He was used to Ulysses' Claw. Lord of the Rings connection. That too. Anyway, so the prestige now streaming on Amazon Prime, and if you haven't seen it, watch it. And if you've only seen it once and you remember the secret to it, watch it again because you'll enjoy it a lot more the second time knowing what's going on. Nice.

I meant to, I actually put it on my list and said, oh my gosh, this is streaming. I've got to watch this again. So it's too funny. is what I don't think I could ever do for film sack. I felt pretty safe. It's like we're never going to do the prestige for film sack because it'd be really hard for me to find fault with it. Yeah. Plus give it another year or a decade maybe before that's a maybe. Yeah, exactly kind of thing. I still don't see us doing it. I'll tell you something funny that just came up on my

Facebook. Oh yeah? What's that? It's so it came up because my mom responded to it, but it says should Arizona rename SR260 as the Donald Trump Highway? And my mom said in the comments, is it a divided highway? That's very good. She needs to work for SNL. She's going to get her on weekend update. Also, the answer is a hard no.

Let's not have any streets. That made me laugh. Let's do, all right, I'm going to play this clip. This is a show, it's a series that is, documentary that I've only gotten just into. I've only seen the first episode, but I'm hooked and I have no idea where this thing's going. But see if you guys can figure it out. You've probably been advertised this, especially Brian, because he spends a lot of time on the streaming app that this came on. They're really pushing it. But anyway, here it is.

I remember going shopping. Yeah, it's how to wipe a butt in 30 days or less. Here it is. I remember going shopping and being a little nervous and these were test runs and deliberately walking up and saying, mommy, mommy, so the people around wouldn't think something was fishy. Mommy, Brian's hitting me, make Brian stop, mommy, mommy, you know, and doing it on purpose. And it helped, and it helped us, too, calling her mommy. Okay. Any guesses there, Brian?

No idea, but I like that you chose a clip that has my name in it. I'm sure there's no way any of that will ever get replayed on TMS as. Brian, stop hitting me. Yeah, you'll never have to worry about it. All right, so this is a, this is a documentary on HBO, Max, called The Lady and the Dale. Oh, yeah. Okay, this is the first thing that gets promoted to me when I watched irresistible. Yeah.

Yeah, for whatever reason, they're really, they're really hyping it. They're really pushing it. Which I, I was interested just from, I don't know, the face of it is basically, and you, and this has stuff that I think you would dig on because do you ever remember Okay Really old episodes of The Price is Right They had a three-wheeled car That would come on once in a while

As a prize Oh yeah, right So two wheels in the front And a weird one in the back This would have been like 70s And this thing is ugly And just a terrible car But that was this person

In this movie who Born a man Lose the Dale Yeah Lives most of her life as a man but then transitions well before any of us had any knowledge of what transitioning meant, right? But at the same time, so that's all going on, and that's what that clip was about. That was her daughter.

So that plays a part in this whole story, and it certainly adds an interesting twist to everything. But the main thing is that this person is like a complete, her name was Elizabeth Carmichael. She's a total fraud about everything to do with any of the business stuff. she ever did, including that car. And that car is like at the center of all this at some point. I'm not far enough to say why or what, but apparently that car is the big, there's really what brought her down. And right now it has like 100% rating on rotten tomatoes. People are really into it. If I had any complaints about it, it would be, it does a great job of sort of like, here we are in the 50s and the 60s and what this meant back then and bringing it to modern day

and why, you know, what people around her at the time are saying today and this sort of stuff. Isn't it made by the guys that did stranger things? Oh, I don't know. It's the Duplus brothers in this case. Oh, okay. Doplesses? I don't even notice. Yeah, these guys did that cool one about the commune in Oregon.

What was that called? Crap, that was an awesome documentary, though. Anyway. So that's probably why I'm really liking. so far because it's not going not going quietly no it was wild wild country wild wild country amazing documentary holy crap i thought it was dupless i think it is dupless i think i just say dupless duplus something like that like you can i just i just know that one i'm not i'm not saying i will know it in the future right right i mean even today we may get some fun words i'm excited

But anyway, so it's those guys. I didn't realize that. Anyway, that's cool. I'm really hooked in already. I just haven't had time to finish the entire thing. I'd hope to before the show, but haven't had a chance. And it's still airing. The next episode comes out on the 14th.

So it's not even out yet. So it's a series. I watched the trailer for it, and I got the impression from the trailer that a lot of why she was targeted was because she was trans as well. Well, part of that was. There's a lot of layers going on. in that. And I think probably as you go through it, they'll probably tell that side of the story. Before the transition, there was all sorts of really gnarly against the lost stuff that he was up to with some counterfeit money laundering and some other stuff.

And then after the transition, it was never an open thing that, hey, I'm, I used to be this guy, but now I've transitioned. It was always because, again, we're talking about the late 60s and 70s. Nobody was doing this out in front of the world. and so this was somebody who was hiding the fact about who they were. They were hiding their old name, hiding their past and everything else. And doing that is complicated, right? It's not just simply saying, oh, you're being deceitful. Well, no, you're protecting yourself in the 60s and 70s.

It's not like today where you can do this. I mean, even today, it's hard. Even today it's hard. Yeah. Right. So there's all that context. If I had any complaint about it, it would be that they tell the story of, of, the the historical moments in this in the story are told with like cut out animation yeah yeah right

and it's fine except it feels like Monty Python the whole time it's it's fine it's good like it does the job it needs to which is here he is in high school with his friend and they're bumping around doing a thing they're not supposed to be doing and the narration's fine it's just the way they move that animated yeah it's it's just like Monty it's just like Monty it's just just like Terry Gillian. Terry Gillian, yeah. Very weird. So I expect any minutes for some, some, a bunch of butts to stick up with like,

and a foot to come down. Like out of the end. Other than that, and again, it's just, that's just slightly distracting from a design perspective. But overall, I'm, I'm really enjoying it. And I'm excited to get through the rest of it. I will say that of all the documentaries I've consumed over the last couple of years, and maybe for a long time, HBO's really, they can. kill it with their documentaries. They're very good.

They've always kind of stood apart. I think so too. Like all those Alex Gibney ones and they're just really good. That one about Scientology was insane. Like just amazing stuff. So anyway. The one about the Catholic Church. I watched that one with my mom years ago. Oh, I never saw that one. Oh my gosh. Yeah. They're coming to get you. Look out for the Pope. The Pope. All right. That's mine. Nicole. What did you bring today? Well, before I share mine, I put a picture in our little chat. Have a proud mom a moment.

Yeah. It's very cool. Did Mateo paint that? So we worked on it together. He had the idea. I got him started. I kind of got the colors and outlined it for him and he painted it. It's adorable.

It was really easy to make. It was really cute. If you go to my Instagram, if you're wondering what I'm talking about, Mateo is really into Captain Underpants. loves it, watches it all the time on Netflix. They have a whole bunch of special, so they have a Halloween special and a Christmas special.

And he wanted to do a Valentine's Day box with the candy going in the mouth. And I'm like, well, let's do Captain Underpants. And so I did a quick Google search and found something. I'm like, yeah, I think we could do that. So I found a box and made a Captain Underpants. And he even put arm, so the picture I have up doesn't have the arms, but he made little arms and put little arms on the side.

And I posted it. And the guy, his name is Todd Grimes. If you look for him on Instagram, I am Todd Grimes. He is a supervising producer at DreamWorks. And he commented on it. And Matea was like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. That's awesome.

That's really cool. So if your kid loves Captain Underpants, I would suggest you check out Todd Grimes' YouTube channel. There's like, he hardly has any subscribers. And he puts all this really cool behind the scene stuff on how they make Captain Underpants. That's really cool. And like all the puppetry and they did claymation for the Christmas thing. It's just really, really cool. It's really cool.

I've read a bunch about Dav Pilki, the dude that wrote those books. And a super interesting guy. Yeah. Fascinating. He's made himself a freaking fortune on these Underpants books. It's crazy. And he loves Dogman, too, which apparently there's going to be a movie coming out from DreamWorks with Dog Man. So if you have a kid that you're finding hard to get into reading, Mateo started reading Captain Underpants in first grade and just consumed all Captain Underpants, Dogman, Cat Kid, like, Mateo loves it.

That's great. I'm all for whatever gets them reading. Super cute, too, that image. Except if it's porn. No porn. No porn. You don't really read porn anyway. Yeah, that's true.

I mean, 50 Shades of Gray would disagree, but for the most part, you don't read porn. So, yeah, there you go. Tra la la. But I guess I'll give you my clip. All three of us decided to get on an HBO kick. So this is from HBO as well. All right.

Let's play it and see what happens. Here we go. Starting? It's loading. Promise it's loading. Do you want to be famous? Yes. Yes. Absolutely.

Sign me up. I don't even feel like I want to. I feel like I deserve to. You know what I'm saying? More than any other occupation on Earth. Kids in America say they want to be famous influencers. When they look at these influencers and they think, wow, this is amazing life. But people don't realize.

Most of the time it's not real. Should we do some cucumbers? I love it. But is that number of how many followers you have, actual fame? We want to do an experiment to see if we can take some random people and make them fake famous. Online, you can pretty much buy anything you want. I know that guy. There are hundreds of millions of them blending in online.

Most people can't tell them apart from you and me. me my Instagram is crazy the more fake accounts you okay so I got to say I know that dude from another documentary what do I know him from well he's also he he he even says at the beginning you might know me because I go on all these new shows and I've been an advocate for social media and technology right but I didn't

I didn't see what's happening now coming and that's kind of what it's not a it's not a clean documentary i will tell you that there are clean meaning like it's not well done oh okay it's horribly so it's still a fascinating topic and i really yeah i really hope it gets explored more but he he says at the beginning i'm going to do this experiment right i'm going to find three nobodies basically and i'm going to make them fake famous. How do I do that? And so there's really not a lot of parameters. And he says things like in the beginning, like all kids want, you know, the number one thing, you know, kids wanted to be

doctors, lawyers, blah, blah, blah before, but now they all want to be influencers. Well, that's not entirely true. They want to be YouTubers. And YouTubers aren't always influencers. So they spend a lot of time focusing around Instagram and really what they're focusing on are the people that like Kim Kardashian kind of people famous for being famous basically yeah yeah yeah so unfortunately there's many layers to social media to you know sponsorships I know this because I'm in that world I know how this works and it I'm recommending it because it just it got me thinking about how companies, how they approach us. And I get, we get emails every day.

You know, we want to send you this or we want to send you. And it's all for free. And so Mark and I, we turned out a lot of stuff. And Scott, I'm sure you get it too. Oh, yeah, all the time. So it's a fascinating dive into that world. and what was really kind of like what was the ability to buy bots and not only buy followers but those followers you can then control when they comment or like

something you can buy negative stuff so like if you want to if you want to send bots to your competitor you can do that it's like what and when you start peeling back the layers, because they use these three people as kind of their quote-unquote experiment, one guy was like, no, I'm not doing this. Another guy, he highlights the anxiety that can happen when you put yourself out like that. Yeah, you know, like. Because it becomes a thing you've got to keep feeding. And if you stop feeding it.

Yeah. And then the girl, she kind of, she makes it happen. Like, they follow her and she's, the pinnacle of, like, them, quote, quote, making it is a free trip, all expense paid trip, which she gets. And it's interesting, I mean, to see how it all kind of unfolds. But then COVID happens. Yeah. And they highlight, like, all of these Instagrammers. trying to do their post and it's like relevant basically in a lockdown world and what it what I hope

it highlights is not everybody's authentic online and you should look at who you're following and just because they have you know 250,000 followers doesn't actually mean they have 250,000 followers so oh yeah no that thing I'll tell you what like when I don't know you guys noticed, or if this happened to you, but the purge that happened right around the time they kicked Trump off. I didn't have, I didn't lose anybody. I lost about a thousand people. They didn't unfollow me. The accounts were garbage. They were, they were bots and stuff. About a thousand people that weekend just poof disappeared. I have friends that were like five, six thousand people just poof disappeared. And I don't know where they came from and they never said anything. I never noticed anything. But they were there. It happens on Facebook, too. Yeah, same thing.

These accounts follow to seem real. Yeah. Like they want, and Mirvina in the chat says it seems unethical. It's so ethical. Like, it's so unethical. But when you get into the documentary, you see why it's happening. Instagram benefits. Oh, yeah.

So, you know, Facebook benefits. Something I heard the other day that really stuck with me and I cannot get it out of my head. Somebody wrote somewhere, if it's free, you're the product. Yeah. Well, sure. So whenever you approach something like, ooh, what? I can do all this. And it's free? Dude, you're the product, dude. Nothing's free. Yeah. You're being sold to somebody else. Yeah. I guarantee you. By that, I don't mean that you're the hot new influencer. Like, you're not the hot new YouTuber. I mean you putting your ones and zeros on YouTube today is the product. And they're going to use your product and sell you because nothing freaking nothing's freaking free ever uh so the the documentary

is called fake famous yeah i kind of want to see it i like that guy you should it's i like that they focused on because there's another one that i still haven't watched everybody everybody on social media tells me i need to watch it's about social media that's i think it's called the social experiment or something like that on Netflix oh not the social dilemma the social yeah yeah yeah that one I want to see as well. Tina watched that and said it's excellent. I think you even watched it too, Scott, didn't you? No, but I've been tempted. I've been really, really tempted.

But every time I'm like, I'm going to hit play now, I don't want to, sometimes I don't want to be lectured to because you know what you're in. That, but I also don't want to just, I don't want to be shown the underbelly sometimes. I know about it already. I know that it's shitty. And I know that like Facebook and YouTube and everybody else does all this stuff. And it's, you know, that we're just numbers to them. and I get it, but at the end of the day, I also, I kind of rely on some of it, you know what I mean?

And so it makes me feel bad that I'm like, well, I rely on archive views of YouTube to spread the word about the thing. And I'm certainly, I don't have a big YouTube presence by any stretch, but, but those who do, you know, like Bill and you guys and other people who have a, you know, there's a huge bread and butter happening on YouTube. Yeah. So it's just, I'm torn. It's like. Well, and Pops and Reclar. said social dilemma is overly dramatic dramatized which I got that feeling and I didn't even watch it like yeah whereas this the fake famous documentary is more person like it has a face it

you know three people that you're following you get you get to know their stories there's there's much more to it and and that's like there's gray areas in all of this and I think it's our job as consumers is to try to find our place in it sure and still keep our integrity yeah if possible at this point um i really like it sounds great i'm gonna i'm gonna watch it and i will say there are plenty of people out there that have zero integrity oh yeah yeah exactly and that's and that's what this kind of shows you and you're like oh god that's awful yeah it's so awful and there's also just like there's there's a certain subsection of people who's I don't know if I call it lack of integrity,

but what they're doing is they're just trying to gain the system or not hack the system. Well, the reason why they picked the three people they picked, they had a casting call and they had thousands of people wanting to be the three people. They didn't pick people with talent for a reason. Like, if you have a talent, you know, that, like our purpose,

online, Mark and I, is to educate. Education has always been the backbone of everything that we do in trying to educate people on woodworking. It's pretty simple. That's our mission statement. Whereas somebody just being on there to get free crap, you know, is that really a mission statement? But that's some, that's a lot of people.

That's their thing. Yeah. That's their whole damn. Unboxing videos. Another good example of that sort of thing. like you it's hard to it's hard for me to judge anybody who's doing stuff on the platforms to earn a living and to pursue whatever it is they're pursuing that i don't have so much i don't really have a problem with that where i have a problem with it is how they and we are perceived by the massive platforms and how they actually do business that part is concerning to me and i think that's where the second another documentary diving into that would be really interesting. I agree.

Well, interesting stuff. Go check it out. Nicole Spag on Twitter. She'll give you all these links and you'll find out where the hell we want you to go with these movies and these things. It's all HBO. I'm sorry, guys. It's all right. HBO Max.

I don't know. It's been kind of my go-to lately. Except for prestige, which is Amazon Prime. But everything else is HBO. It's a little weird. I'm starting to see a lot of crossover stuff that's streaming on two services at once. Yeah. Didn't expect to see that.

much but here we are but here we are Nicole's bag on Twitter everybody Nicole have a grand week and we'll see you next time see you Nicole bye now it's cool right you know what I forgot to play that done away clip again today because I'm a dummy oh God it's even bright red in our I know that's hilarious I get going with you guys and I just I'm having fun and I'm not paying attention to the damn doc so I missed it but I'm going to play it now even though he's not here and it's okay because basically we're just trying to show some audio proof that Brian Dunaway says Reese's Pieces and not Reese's pieces. Okay, good. Okay, so that's all this is. Jamie's to thank for this. Here it is. I had just gotten a projector in, so I'm projecting this movie. Plus, I got Recy Pieces to sit and eat with my popcorn. I like that in the South, you call them Recy Pieces, by the way. Recy Pieces. Up here, we finish the word and say Reese's. I don't know why. Reset. We give Reese's proper due. Is that way? How do you say it's got Recy pieces? say it's pieces. No, that's just Reese's pieces. Oh, so you, you complete Recy, but you don't complete pieces? No, no, no. I say it the way the package says it. I say it the way it's spelled

on the package is what I do. Uh, chat room says it's a southern thing, maybe. Really? Recy pieces. Yeah, Recy pieces. Or Recy pieces. I don't know. You guys are weird down there if that's true. I ask him about it. She's like, yeah, you say Reese's pieces. I'm like, we get from the south. So I don't know if I've got it. Come on. I don't know about that. who knows anyway sorry i didn't play that earlier we've done a way to have been here for it but didn't do it okay that's going to do it for today's show thank you all for joining us tomorrow is thursday do your homework tonight it's uh if you haven't done it yet watch hulu's uh where is it in and of itself there it is in and of itself that's Wendy's homework for you because

and us because tomorrow apparently our entire topic is going to be surrounding kind of what this thing pulls off so uh in and of it's self, it's on Hulu now, and there's no service called Hulu now. It's on Hulu currently. A couple people have already watched it on Twitter and said, yep, no iPad in your lap, no phone in your hand, just like all technology off, focus on the show, watch it with your significant other. Yeah.

I think that means you and me, Scott. Yeah, you and I are supposed to sit on the same couch, play footsies and watch this thing. Do we need to have a watch along or watch together? Does Hulu do that? I don't know if they do. They do have watch parties. I don't know how they work, though. Well, anyway, yeah, we're doing it, and I have no idea why or what it's about, but I've heard good things already.

I'm scared. I don't want to be, I don't want to be uplifted or I don't want to be educated. You don't have any time for this. I don't want to be smarter on the other end of something, right? I just want to. Yeah, I'm just kidding. I should be good. I'm looking forward to it. It looks very interesting. I thought it was a crossword documentary when I saw the. the panel for it because it's got the dude standing in front of a bunch of white squares. Oh, right.

It does kind of look like that. Maybe I'm doing too much New York Times. Hey, whatever. I read comics every night. We all have our thing. I've been reading comics like it's going out of style and I don't know what's wrong with me. Yeah. It's really good stuff. Anyway, so tomorrow, that'll be our time with Wendy

and of course all the other regular hoo-ha that we get up to here. Patreon.com slash TMS is where you can help us out. make this show continue to survive and thrive or at frogpants.com slash TMS. And if you want to send us an email with whatever feedback you've got holding back in your brain, you need to let it out, vent that shit, man. The morning stream at gmail.com. Let it rip. All right. That's it. We should do a song, though. Let's do a song.

You're sure? You didn't sound 100% sure. I want to make sure that you're sure. Are you sure? Hold on. Yes, I'm sure. Let's do a song. All right. Okay. But only because you want to. This one goes out to Marty, aka Squishy in the Tadpool, says, hello, Scooter and Brain. It's time for me to say hello

to another birthday in February on February 8th again. I was wondering if you could find a modern version of this old favorite Neil Diamond song of mine. Thank you for all the entertainment you give us. Can I get a Mr. Miyagi, happy birthday, or that one really bad birthday song also, please? Thanks.

You can get both. Happy birthday. Day to you. Oh, where's it? I don't know where I put Miyagi, though. He kind of took a seat after this new weird thing. He did, yeah, took a back seat after. Happy birthday.

Okay, here it is. I found it. It's now loading. Oh, man. This is great. Here, let's hear this again. Happy birthday to you. There, you get two of those while we waited.

Now this drive spun up. Here we go. Happy bus day. There you go. I think I might want you to send me both of those audio clips because I'm going to layer them on top of each other and see if I can get some harmonization going. I'm going to do it right now while you talk.

Okay. All right, do it. Yep. I'm doing it. But you go ahead and talk. You got to start Miyagi first. I'm done talking. Oh, we're doing it now, you're saying.

You want to do it in real time. Oh, my bad. This is good stalling. I could keep stalling. No, no. Make sure the Miyagi one because he's got the little, the noise maker. So he's got to start a little earlier. than the other one.

Let's see. I have two of these. Happy bye. I can do. Oh, that's the one you want. Yeah, you want the one without the noise maker that does more happy birthday.

All right. So we're going to do one in Q at the same time here. Here we go. Yeah, there we go. All right. Here we go. Happy birthday to you. Yeah, they might take a little work.

Okay. It might take a little work to get those things lined up. That was excellent, though. All right. So Neil Diamonds. Hello. again hello I think probably inspired by Scott sometimes when he launches the stream

I can't help it it's just in me I can't I can't help it it is uh this is by the groovy goolies who recorded this for an album called World Contact Day it is a cover of the song by Neil Diamond it is hello again here are the groovy goolies very nice we'll see you guys tomorrow have a great day say safe we'll see you then Hello again Hello

Just call to say hello I couldn't sleep at all tonight I know it's made my friend hello just call and let you know I think about you every night when I'm here alone when you're there at home Hello pain

put my heart above my head weepen through it all in love is just the same and when you're not there I still need to hear Hello

Hello Hello My friends Hello It's good to need He's so Oh, it's good to love you Like I do

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