The Morning Stream - TMS 2076: Zurich is Still Wrong

Episode Date: March 3, 2021

That'll Teach Him To Bring A Knife To A Cock Fight! Canada, Still not in the EU. Who Has The Clog Shoes & The Windmills? Rosebelly Movie? Cloretz Monief Magunga. THERE'S NO SPIT! France is nothing but Paris and wastelands. Germany is weird. Cock-A-Doodle-DON'T! I Don't Trust D. Beeeeeeeee. What's Under Naked? Ex-Semi-Pro Farm League Baseball Player. Jammin' the unit up the nose. Fudge Tokens 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.

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Clorets, Monif, Mangunga. There's no spit. France is nothing but Paris and wasteland. Germany is weird. Cacadoodle, don't. I don't trust DB. What's under naked? X semi-pro farm league baseball player.

Jamming the unit up the nose. Fudge tokens with Tom. Recommendals and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Let's just fly in tight formation until we're totally in six. Feel the bond with your lions and your fellow pilots until five become one unit and you form Voltron.

No way. I don't want nobody living with me. It's Harley and me. It's Harley and me and you in the tree. This is the morning stream. Good morning, everybody. Welcome back to TMS, the morning stream for Wednesday, March 3rd. It's the third.

It is 3.321. Oh, my gosh. Make something out of that numbers, man. Hold on, 3, 3, 2, 1. It's like a countdown, but not quite because there's 2 3s. It's like a stuttering countdown like our T, T, and it's 3, 3, 2, 1. Yeah, the 3 is hesitating. It doesn't know for sure that it wants to go.

3, 3, 3, 3. Now, you might be saying to yourselves, hey, Scott, there was also the 2nd, and there was no show that day. Well, you'd be right. So, you kind of last minute, but we finally got. got our, oh my gosh, banks. I could go off for the whole show about why banks are terrible and why they're hard to work with and all that. I would just say this. I think I talked about a little bit on the show before, but if you're trying to do a pretty simple refinancing of your home to get better rates, because right now interest rates are ridiculously low, so it's a good time

to do that if you're, if you have a high rate currently or even a couple of points higher. And so we decided to do it and um as as i've talked about before we're extremely efficient with that sort of stuff uh like we try to pay down pay more on principle when we can and we try to not hold any big debts and the only debts we have are ones you can't help but have like uh you know mortgage and that sort of thing but we try to you know not have card debt very long if we can help it we don't have credit card debt all that stuff so we have this really pristine beautiful credit uh record thing credit rating that's the word i'm looking for and uh and it's nice because usually when anything has to happen that needs a credit check they're like oh great you're in you're good

don't worry you're all set these guys got so freaking hung up on the idea that all of this was so pristine and no no funny business full tax disclosures like it was too clean there has to be some sort of uh Achilles heel or um Yeah. Well, they were mainly sure that there's no way it would be possible for there to be no shenanigans if I am also this self-employed guy with a really weird looking resume. Like you look at what I do and they're like, what even is this? Like podcast or artist combo this. This sounds made up. Yet how come you're out of debt? Yeah. How come you don't have any debts? Like that was really hanging him up. We're unicorns to them. And I was telling

Brian over text, they go, I think they think we're unicorns. And And I replied back, I said, I think you're unicorn too. You're the only person I know in my life who is able to do this. I don't know how we did it. We're just way overly, fiscally conservative in this house, I guess. But the bottom line is, they finally went, all right, you're good. Come on him and we'll do the thing. So we went in and our signing agent is an ex-semi-pro farm league baseball player.

So that was fun. does nothing to apropos of nothing he's just there uh triple a team yeah he's just a cool dude it was just cool to have you know somebody with some some cool story to tell anyway so we went in there we signed it we're done but that happened right when tms was supposed to happen it was all effed up yesterday because we were supposed to start late anyway because at a doctor's appointment by the way that was a good follow up all my numbers are good uh positive positive reviews from the doctor yesterday uh so that was going reviews a plus a plus plus plus Great buyer would buy from again.

Would buy from again, exactly. Would draw blood from again. So that went really well, but that went long. I think I didn't even get back till 915 or something. They're 30? 930? No, it was closer to 10 now that I think about it, because I was there for almost. Well, anyway, the bottom line was we were going to have to.

Right around and go to the bank. Yeah, and we were supposed to go, TMS will start a half hour late. That was me and Brian's original plan. We were just going to start late. and then the bank calls we got a we got up slot but you got to get in here and there was just like no time we had to sandwich everything together

and I was like I guess we're not having a show today so goodbye TMS listeners we apologize but it all worked out okay that's the bottom line everything is fine now and I don't have to think about it anymore I have a dentist appointment but that's tomorrow like 2.30 in the afternoon

big deal you know it's not gonna I don't like fudson but I don't like fudson with TMS is what I'm saying I don't like it. I don't either. I've got a dentist appointment later on this month that I'm just so looking forward to. Well, I know how much you love it when they touch your little nerves in there. You like that.

They find them. It's like they have a roadmap. Actually, I think maybe I've said this, but the dentist has a great map display on his computer screen next to him that I think probably has little circles and slashes or skull and crossbones or stop signs on the places where I have the exposed nerves. nerves. And so it's like they're great now about not touching it. Yeah. Well, that's good. Yeah. Oh, the one thing I did notice. Okay, so everyone's like super Uber messed up at the signing and course all the precautions and the stuff. They were making it real clear that if anyone walked in that place that, you know, we were very careful. They're all this stuff. But I was a little surprised. It's a title company. Everyone's dressed like, you know, it's a Tuesday, but everyone's

dressed like it's casual Friday in there. I thought, yeah, I think that's. Is that a thing? Is that just people have given up in the workplace they're just whatever I think so I think you you always advance it past your home uh work from home setup right so yeah so uh you say okay the bar that I set is how I dress when I work from home right which now has lowered to maybe sweatpants that's in case you you think you might have to get up during the Zoom meeting yeah and uh so now just above that is jean untucked a t-shirt, maybe a polo that's half the collar is up or whatever. So the whole thing has shifted one step back is what you're saying.

That's right. Exactly. All right. Everything's moved down a level. A formal dinner will now be not tuxes and fancy dresses. It'll be like a suit jacket and a nice pair of jeans and decent boots. And then you just kind of keep moving down from there. So naked will be you peeling your own skin off like some sort of.

That's right. That's the only thing below naked is, uh, what's under naked? Oh, that's funny you say that. I read a whole, I read the entirety of the, um,

uh, oh, it's called the little Pandora's box and pinhead and everything. Hell, hell, oh, yeah, Hell,

razor, not, oh, razor. Uh, there's a whole comic series, uh, of comics on,

uh, the, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh,

the, so it's over there on the DC app. Anyway, I just decided one night. You know what I'm going to, do, I'm going to binge all these Hellraiser comics. And I did. And let's just say there's a lot of people peeling their skin off is what I was getting at.

Is it a prequel? No. What is it? Sequel, I think, because the girl in the first movie who survives is the protagonist sort of. But also you spend a lot of time with Pinhead. But Pinhead figures out a way to come. And maybe they do this in future movies. I've never seen any of them, so I can't say.

But he comes, he figures out a way to become human again. and then everyone thinks it's just to escape the hell he's in but really he's going to turn on everybody and be more powerful because now he's both human and demon or whatever and the vagina neck lady she's involved who else the weird lumpy dude with the glasses he's in there so it's definitely all from that I was just in the mood for a good horror comic

and I'm not going to say it was good but it was fun pulpy stupid and a lot of people with their skin off is what I'm getting at. That was really the point. Hey, check this out, Brian. I just want to make a quick recommendation of people. Gamers in particular,

many of you last year probably played what was pretty universally considered game of the year by just about every outlet and person and, you know, influencer or whoever. The game was Hades, which came out on Switch and PC platforms. Started on PC, came on the Switch later. Anyway, an amazing game.

It's an incredible game, But I cannot recommend enough. I don't know why it took me this long to check it out. But there is a multi-part, I want to say six-part or so documentary series on the making of that game, which covers a whole bunch of stuff from early access when they first went up on the Epic Store during 2019, non-pandemic time, right? And then all the work that went into it from there forward. And then they hit the pandemic and what that did to change things. And they're trying to get it launched on Steam and then later on Switch.

and then hitting one point oh and then like winning all these awards at the at the game awards and all this stuff it was one of the most fascinating interesting documentaries ever it's the no clip guys they make game documentaries that's what they do and uh if you go over to youtube dot com slash no clip you'll find them and i was riveted by this it was so freaking good and you just really got it like a under uh behind the scenes under the under the covers sort of look at game development how, what challenges there are, what a small team does to address those challenges. And it's just, it's just great. So if you have any interest in that, I would, I would highly recommend watching that series.

I loved every second of it. And it's just free. It's on YouTube. Just go, go watch it. Those guys do a great job. Okay. Very cool. Also, I took a COVID test.

I forgot to tell everybody this. Oh, that's right. We obviously talked about it on film sec and Twitter and all that. Yeah, other places, but I guess I forgot to bring it up Monday on here, but I had that cold, and we were supposed to do that signing, long story why it got to lay. Well, I've already told you the bank's weird. But as a result, we're like, well, we should get tested. All three of us have cold symptoms, but it's probably just a cold, but we're going to be sure.

And if we're going into a building or anywhere near other people, you know, blah, blah, blah. So we went, got tested. I was worried they were going to jam the unit up your nose. That was my worry. But instead, the lady at the hospital says, oh, no, we do the spit test. here's the vial and here's all the info on how you do it and what they don't tell you because I'm thinking yeah we dodged a bullet no yeah no thing up my nose it's my first test and Kim's second and Carter's third I think and so I was pretty excited but then you go park in the parking lot

because it's all a drive-through process and uh for the life of me I can't I have no spit there's no spit oh no you can't generate no generate spit it's taking me so long I I was just sitting there going, okay, where is it? Normally it's here. What's going on? Somebody describe a hamburger or something. I need a, like a mouth-watering the experience here. I could not, could not freaking conjure up enough freaking spit.

Really? Oh, no. And I ended up in the long run getting it, but it took me probably 15 minutes longer than Kim or Carter. It just took me forever to do it. And you're also not supposed to drink or eat anything 30 minutes before the test, which means, you know, I don't even have water in my system or anything in the morning. It was in the morning. Anyway, worked out, got it in there.

It's disgusting. It's a horrible freaking thing to watch. You take it up. You give it to the lady. Just me pushing, just going, hoping my, you know, little salivary glands pop or whatever. They need to just show you, like, pictures of Oreos and kimchi and get a pass. Pavlov, Pavlovian response.

That's what I'm saying. Describe a pizza. Whatever. It doesn't matter. So I get up there. We give her the vial. Nurse Ratchett takes it and says, we'll see you in 24 hours. In about 24 hours, they told us we were negative. So that was a fun experience to go from test to negative. And still, despite the fact, I, okay, look, I will take it over the jam the thing in my brain. But none of this is fun. No one likes any of this.

No, no. None of this is good. Nobody likes this. And then talking to my doctor yesterday, I said, so have you had much in the way of, like, patients who, you know, are coming in with some of those long-term effects and stuff? She goes, that's almost my whole list. I go, really? She goes, all of my patients are people who are having weird long-term effects, whether it be like suddenly your kidneys are shutting down or your, you know, one guy had a minor stroke and now she's sort of rehabbing with him. And what was the other one?

I can't remember. but all these weird strokes are kind of common in post COVID yeah there's like COVID extended like weird thing where and some of them just have horrible symptoms for months instead of days or whatever long after they're infected so it's just like gnarly stories I'm like well I don't want to get that she goes keep in mind these are still that's still less it's still the minority of cases that get the long term but this is more than any other thing we treat more than any other vice viral thing that we treat. Whatever, Scott. It's a hoax. It's no worse than the flu. Open everything up 100%. No masks.

Yeah, Texas. Woo! Done. Justin, I hope you love Texas. They just opened up, baby. You're good to go. How quickly can I put my house back on the market? I need to unfriend my housing purchase.

Unfriend my realtor. Anyway, it's all real dumb. And what are you going to do? Brian, I understand you finally. act open gloomhaven tell me about that finally uh gloomhaven jaws of the line which you and i both um raced around and got uh last i think the end of last year around black friday or after black friday it's a dan thing right he was like hey go to target now and you'll get the deal on it or whatever exactly and i've been that's exactly what we did we got our copies you punched your stuff out and

separated into the little baggies that they give you yep and still haven't played already uh i'm here to say i've even gone one step further scott yeah Me and Tina and the Moors, Nicky and Clark, finally played Gloomhaven, Jaws of the Line. We did the first three campaigns. And this is, so Tina was dreading this, right? Like she sees the fact that this thing comes with five manuals, five books, a zillion little pop-out pieces that all look different

and different things to keep track of. And she ended up having such a good, time. Oh, good. That's really good to hear that because I would also worry for anyone who isn't into like the mega rules, tons of pieces, keeping track everything kind of games, that's not their jam. This seems like another one of those. But Dan kept telling us, he's like, well, no, this is that whole idea of this one is to get away from that complicated mess and be a little bit easier to get into and just play it. A little bit. Yeah, I mean, basically unlike, I guess the first, or the big, the big hunk in Gloom Haven game, which I can see right there. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's,

one leg of a table in the part of the room is I think it has one campaign that is a tutorial campaign. This one's got three or four campaigns and so really if you so let me back up to

explain what Gloomhaven is for people who may not know. So Gloomhaven is a tabletop game kind of in the vein of Dungeons and Dragons. Your group of adventures different classes, four different classes that are coming into the town of Gloomhaven figuring out what's going on there

stopping wicked Vermlings or whatever they are. And as opposed to Dungeons and Dragons where you're just saying, I'll use my broadsword and I'll attack the closest verminling. In this game, you've got a set of cards in your hand

and you play cards to do certain actions. And so once you've played a card, that card is out of your hand until you're out of cards and you pick them back up and use them again so it kind of forces you to say oh okay so I need to move force spaces so I'll play

this card and I need to attack so I'll play this card and those cards then are out of play after that turn you've got other cards that let you attack and other cards that let you move but different different distances and attack levels and things like that

sure um yeah it's it's a it's a blast it's really really fun and by the end of it teen was like okay i like this this is good it's it's kind of like the you know you realize how little of the box you need for those first campaigns it's like a quarter of the box yeah really for the first part of it um and then there's still pieces of the box that we haven't even been able to open yet right there's little little boxes that say don't open this until we tell you to so yeah there's loot stuff in there, which is cool. Yeah, like a lot of Christmassy stuff that we can't, we can't even touch. Yeah.

Yeah, it's a lot of replayability, too. There's a, there's a PC version of Bloomhaven in the works. No, there's no replayability. Oh, really? I have the whole idea is you could do multiple campaigns and never get tired of it and just keep going. You, um, you mark up a map as you, um, as you continue through. So, I mean, technically, if you decide not to mark up, the map. Yeah, there's, there's definite replayability. But I think this is kind of like pandemic

legacy where you modify the game as you go through it. You take off, yeah, you can do removable stickers, sure. But I mean, you can, so I guess, I guess in that respect, you can get multiple playthroughs. I don't see, I don't see ever going through this again. After we finish this, I'll probably pass on the box to somebody else say, yeah, just, you know, mark the stickers with another color or something to show what you've done. Sure. And moving on to the 23-pound Bloomhaven box. Yeah.

Or the video game that's in early access, but it's coming along. It's nice. Is there really? Okay. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, and they're sticking to those rules and it's looking good. I mean, it's probably still a ways off from release, but I really like what they're doing in there. It looks great.

Well, very nice. Get your Gloom Haven on, people. That's right. Get in there. Watch the no-clip documentary, spit into your vial. play gloomhaven that's right all right

we went ahead and leapfrogged a day without Dunaway and came right back to a day with Dunaway That's right

two consecutive Dunaway days is what we had here Dunaway days I like that Donaway days Yeah it's like a weird I don't know

Like you have cheese days It's a weird Wang Chung song Oh there you go Donua day Dada da da da da da da da da Yeah Donnawa days

Donnawa days We have to play this though I am by the head. Join us now and joining us with and joining who, what, when, who? Brian Dunaway's with us. Hi, Brian. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. I like being serenated on.

Yeah. That's fantastic. You like that? We're going to sing you on every time now. This is the new rule. This is the new rule. That's great. I can't wait.

The new normal. To be sick of it. Yes. There you go. We're going to take a caller here in a second for a game of Babel Royale. That number is 801.4. 710462. If you've never called in before, it'd be a great time for you to call in.

But if you've called him before, that's okay too. We'll take you. We don't care. We'll take you. We'll take you any way we can get you. Still waiting, though, for that call. Normally somebody is called by now, and that always makes me wonder if Google voice is down or something. Right.

Just often, yeah, often it is. If anyone has called that voice. Yeah, it could have been that song. Oh, here we go. I think we got somebody. let's find out who this is. Good morning. Who's this? It's Mark. I'm Matt Head in the tadpool. Well, hello, Mark. It's good to have you here.

You know, my brother's, my brother's name is Mark. That's really apropos of nothing. Who cares? That my brother's name is Mark. Whoa, why is that so loud? Well, let's turn that down. It's good to have you here, Mark. We're going to explain these rules and tell you how you might win some prizes. Brian, you want to explain? That's correct. I'm going to be giving Scott and Brian a topic. It is classic Babel Royale. They're going to go back and forth, giving me an that fit that topic. If one of them gives a wrong answer, repeated answer, or they take too long to come up with an answer, the win goes to the other player. Mark, your job is to predict who's going to come out on top. Based on the topic, today you're playing for a pair of games from Steam, courtesy of Wesley. First up is Path of Giants. Second is Lovecraft's untold stories. Oh, that's a good one. Oh, I don't know that second one. I know that second one.

Battle Cthulhu with a pair of toothpicks. That's right. Do it. It's all you have. Good luck. Yeah. That's very good. It's a good game. Nothing wrong with it. Cool. So to play this game, we need a topic. And this one comes to us from me. So lately, I've been realizing that in trivia, when we get trivia questions in our other games, I kind of suck sometimes when it comes to geography, right? Like I need, you know.

Unless you live in the location, most do. This is very true. Yes, Canada is a good example of this. And what I've been working on lately is Europe and all the countries in Europe, specifically the names of all of the capitals, the capitals of the countries in Europe. This is the worst thing to ask a bunch of Americans. I'm about to say, this is going to be the shortest babel around. I don't think it will. I think you guys will do better than you think.

Well, sure, I'll get a mulligan. you guys get I will give you each so you'll get your initial mulligan and I'll give you one more one more mulligan. Oh wow. So you'll get two you'll get your initial mully

and a second mullie. Okay. Oh, two mullies. Two mullies. Yeah. Mollies. I like that. And well, you always get your,

always get your, yeah, we get our, yeah, that first one's locked in. We're good there. That never goes away now. And for full disclosure, of the 50 countries sovereign nations

recognized by the UN in Europe I was able to get 23 holy Moses you're way better than me and Scott maybe you should be on this side no I'm telling you that to show you how bad I am out of 50 I got less than half right

out of 50 I'm going to get three we'll see how bad it is it may be I think I'm going to do okay at this but I'm not going to beat that many but I'll do my best All right. Mark, I'm Ackhead. Who do you think is going to win? And who do you want to go first? I like Scott's confidence. So I'm going to go, Scott to win Brian to start. Excellent. I like the cut of Mark's jib. Yeah.

Smart. Well, there's anything I've learned about capitals in the U.S. is this. Just because it's the big city in that state doesn't mean it's the capital. Yeah, that's true. Right. And that worries me because I know some big cities in European countries, but I can't say I've studied enough to know the capital. That killed me for a couple countries, is thinking, oh, okay, it's got to be this. And it's like, oh, no, that's the biggest city in that country. Yeah, a good example would be a lot of people would assume something like L.A. would be the capital of California, Los Angeles. But it's not.

It's Sacramento. So you have to, right? Yeah, it is Sacramento. But it's one of those cases where it may not, it just may not be obvious to you, but the, what the capital is. Correct. All right. So, Brian going first. Brian.

Right. Name a capital, a capital city in Europe. Do I have to know the capital city and the in the country? No, you don't have to tell me the country if you want to. That is funny, because there's a few that I wasn't absolutely 100% sure about, but I'm going to go with the one that I'm pretty sure about because I was researching Ireland last week before I talked to. to Ramirez. I'm going to go with Dublin, Ireland.

Dublin indeed is the capital of Ireland. Very good. Can confirm. Off to the races. All right. Now you only have one mulligan left. Just so you know. That's right. Exactly. Yes. All right. Let's do

London, England. Sure. London, England, absolutely a capital. Yeah. United Kingdom. Yeah. Paris has got to be the capital of France, right? I mean, it's the only place that's there.

I mean, where else could you believe? What if it's the only place that's there? Like a barren wasteland once you get five kilometers out from the Eiffel Tower. Yeah, forget about Versailles, forget about anything else. It's all just. That's right. It's Paris. Ask any Frenchman.

Ask any Frenchman you happen to see. There's nothing outside of gay Paris. go my gosh you're like a crooner from the old times um let's do now uh what if the what if the country that is in my head is still under the technical rule of the queen does that count or it has to be in europe like europa the space the place the the continent sovereign my god you've you've given one answer already and you're already trying to like like screw with the rules sovereign nations in Europe. Yeah. But aren't they I don't care about the Falkland

Island, Scott. Okay. So Canada doesn't count. If it's on that list, you get it. If it's not on the list, you don't. So you can't count. You can't count Canada is what I'm saying. Right? No. Look, this is what I think today, wherever list Ibitt has in front of him is the

de facto answer. I don't want him to have to go looking for anything whatever's on a list right or wrong. Well, of course, that's the, that's obvious. I'm just saying the queen's still in charge. She got, they can't, can't do any final anything without the queen's approval up in Canada so I thought well maybe there's some by some extension but now I know so I can move on to a real one Europe Europe all right as in the final countdown as in

all right let's do uh let's do uh let's do uh let's do uh Helsinki Finland okay there we go Helsinki Finland yes nice I'm glad you use that one because I don't know that one at all. I know Helsinki, but I didn't know it was the capital of Finland. All right. My turn again? Yeah. It is your turn again, bro.

Yeah, that's just because I just went. So now it's your turn. Yeah. Yeah. Stal tactic. So I don't think, I don't think Moscow's under the rule of the queen there. Yeah. So I'm going to go with that.

Yes, absolutely. Moscow, Russia. Wait, aren't they, they're not in Europe. That's Asia. They're in Europe. They're in Europe, Scott. no they're not did you not visit war war one okay but that breaks that breaks the whole thing about location they are in they are on the asian continent they're not in europe it's there is big enough

that they're in uh considered to be both in asia and in europe that's a horse i thought is that not is that not how the logic of the mind works all right you got me worried well i said it because i was 100% sure. I was worried you have to give me a molligan. Anyway. If they're in Europe, if they're in Europe, then China's in Europe. That's really dumb. All right, let's move. Yeah, do it. Do it. Say it. Say that.

Okay. I mean, I guess they're all connected, so you could say it's one giant continent, but that's still stupid. All right. Let's move on to recognized as the UN European sovereign nation.

Um, let's see, Germany is weird. I have to be careful around Germany. Everybody's got to be careful around Germany. I know. They've got two world wars. All right. Let's go Zurich, Switzerland. We'll stick there. Stay there. Okay. There's your first... Shit. Isn't it Zurich? Oh, really? First Mulligan. Yeah.

Oh, I believe Scott. I thought that was right. Zurich, not the capital of Switzerland. Come up with another one. one. I have to go right away, right? That's how this works. You have to go right away. Yep.

Uh, uh, why is my brain freezing up on this? Oh, um, this is making my, my 48% look pretty good, actually.

Dude, I told you from beginning. I'm like, you're doing great. Let's do, uh, hungry. Uh,

let's do Budapest. Very good. Yes, Budapest, capital of heart. hungry. Half of my motherland or half of something like that. Yeah, let's say that. Half of your motherland, yeah. Half of my motherland. Sure. I guess that's my motherland and then the UK would be my fatherland. Right. There we go. Yeah. You're good. Oh, my God. We've discussed so much now.

The Danube, uh, the Danube splits the capital, uh, which is Buddha and pest on different sides of the, uh, uh, the Danube. go to Berlin Berlin See Brian's not afraid to look at Germany Berlin is absolutely the capital of Germany That's the one I was worried about Because for some reason I was hesitant Oh I forgot if I have to use the mulligan

I had to go straight away though don't I No you did I got it I'm gonna be more careful with that then I've been kind of shooting at the hip thinking I'll get saved by that mulligan But then I'll come right back to me Oh I'll be screwed then ooh All right

Let's do Spain And say Madrid's Wait, wait, wait, whoa, whoa. Yeah, let's say Madrid. You sure? Yeah. No. Okay.

I'm not. Yes, Madrid is the captain. Oh, God, dang it. Just in case you were thinking, Barcelona, it is Madrid. Barcelona. Barcelona. Mm-hmm. Dada, skinny, buddy.

Done away, you good? What's that? Nothing, you're good. Ow. I'm really running short here. Did we already say the one for, did we already discuss Switzerland? I can't remember now. Zerick.

You said it, but we, oh yeah. There you go. Okay, Zirik? That's what I said. All right. Did we already say it? I love the fact that you both mulliganed the same wrong answer. that is so funny

it's eaten into my head that is so funny it's still wrong I love I don't think that that's ever happened with Battle Royale that you guys Oh my God

The Mulligan is the same wrong answer Scott's Scott's diseased mind Yeah that's me All right Subliminaled its way into my head Yeah

I'm shuffling these cities in my head And I'm like It's hard All right, now you're right up. I know, I thought I heard somebody, I thought I heard you say it, and then, oh my God, all right. Now I, now I feel like, we've said everything, and I know we've only, like, got, like, five. You guys have named eight. We apologize to the Swiss.

Holy Moses. Yeah, we feel bad. We apologize to the Swiss. We are sorry for it. Oh, see, that's, this is good. This is, uh, this is why I started doing geography games to, to try and brush up. do we already say Stockholm? I don't know.

I'm going to go with Stockholm. Go with Stockholm. All right. Yes, good. Go with Stockholm. Stockholm, Sweden. Oh, God. Absolutely.

Nobody said it yet. Well, done. I could remember because I thought I thought it earlier. I was going to make a joke and say, oh, I thought I'm suffering from Stockholm syndrome. I'm starting to like you guys. And then I was like.

That's right. Exactly. Once we get about a third of the way through Babel, all Stockholm Syndrome sets in and you start liking me for making you do this. So my sister's been to, like, Iceland and I want to say... Oh, is that in Europe? Oh, I know that because it better be if freaking Russia is than freaking Iceland is. All right.

Because it's where CCP is the people that make video games. I'm going to call that Reykjavik. Rakeovic is correct, yes. Yep, that is the capital of Iceland I don't even know those words Yeah, I wasn't able to spell it And so when I was doing the app, it was like, I know I got this one, I just couldn't spell Rakekevich.

There's no way I could spell it off the top of my head. Even now, no idea. Very, Brian. Turkey's in Europe, right? Turkey's in Europe, right? You can't tell me that. You can't tell me that. I can't tell you. Turkey might be in Europe. I don't know.

Might be. Thank you. Istanbul. Istanbul. Sing the song. Sing the song. Now, Constantinople. Istanbul is not the capital of Turkey, no, so Scott means the game. Jack, come it. Did you know that song?

Ankara is the capital or Ankara. Enkara, what? Ankara. Ankara. Ank.A.R. There's no such place. There's a place. I think of it. I think it was like Encaraj is the capital of Turkey. On garage. Sweet. The gates have opened. Fantastic.

That's the game. Nice. So hold on. You know what? I'm proud of what I did. I'm going to make it. I feel like I did okay. I'm going to make a controversial statement. Technically, there are no continents. They're all connected to the same. They all go under the ocean, attached to a seafloor that spreads way out and then attaches to all these other bodies of land.

Technically, we're all part of the same land. Can't we all get along? We're all Pangea at the end of the day. I thought it was defined by Cibrio by body of water. Are you defending Canada? Is that the purpose of that? Well, the reason I wanted Canada is it felt like a good trickery one to have in my pocket because everyone always wants to say Toronto or something, Montreal or whatever. But I know that it's Ottawa and it's a hard one for a lot of people to remember.

So I was going to kind of hang on to that one, not even use it right up front. It was going to be my like bail me out of jail card. But I still say Russia is not. part of Europe. All right. So, the history channel disagrees.

Therefore, I'm at Edwin. Can I give you, let me give you a few countries and let me see if you're able to come up with. Because I think you forgot about countries like Italy. Oh, my God.

We didn't say Italy. Rome. Rome. Rome. Uh, let's say Greece. Oh, Athens. Why didn't we say that? Yeah.

By the way, capital of Switzerland is burn. B-E-R-N. Field burn. Just burn both of you. All right. Sorry, sweet friends. All right.

Where is Jean-Claude Van Dam from? Oh, Brussels. Oh, my God. The muscles from Brussels. The capital is waffle. I don't know. What's the capital? What kind of tobacco do they chew in Denmark?

Oh, Copenhagen. Copenhagen is right. Oh. How do they like their chicken in the Ukraine? Cooked. Fried. Fried. Fried.

oh Kiev Strangled Tiav chicken Kiev Oh God I don't know that You know Portugal

Oh Oh Oh You never hear about them anymore Portugal City You just never hear about them Lisbon Lisbon shit

Yep And if you ever get stumped Think of Luxembourg Monaco Vatican City And just say the name of the country And that's the capital as well The capital of Luxembourg, Monaco, and Vatican City is Luxembourg, Monaco, and Vatican City.

Now, see, I've got to go study all these, and you'll never ask us any European interest in your graphical questions again. Why would I? Yeah, why would you? Oh, Austria. How about Austria? Oh, actually, I know this one. Vienna, Vienna sausages. That's it.

Vienna. Weeners. Right. And Poland. Oh. Oh, Oslo. Warsaw. No, no, no. Borsaw. Warsaw. Oslo. Oslo's Germany.

Oslo is Norway. I know more of this than I think. I just... I knew less than I thought. Who has the clogs and the clog shoes and the freaking windmills? Who's that? I can't think of that. That's not in the Netherlands. That's okay. All right. Hey, everybody, we did it.

We did it. really paid attention in that unit of our history class or of our modern whatever the hell it was, geography. Hey, how's that feel, Mark? You won. Good job. That was really funny, thank you guys. It was pretty painful today.

Oh, I got to play your thing. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. There you go. That's proof that you won. That means you need to send Brian. Especially if that's chicken kev. Yeah, there you go. Send Brian an email. Brian's over at covervillage email.com. He'll send you your prizes,

and you will walk off Victoria, shiny and chrome before the gates of Valhalla, which is not a capital of any city that I'm aware of. Capital of Alhalla. Yeah, there you go. Hey, Brian Dunaway. Sorry, Zoe brings bacon and Claire Gack, us Americans, we'll do better. We'll do better. Yeah, we'll work on it.

It's fine. Ask them to tell me all the capitals in the States. They can't do it. Yeah, I know. Ask any, yeah, I've seen people do that. Or other countries, Africa or other continents. Yeah, it's like where the state's at. I mean, if you don't live there, you don't have all access to it.

I only know the points that I knew was from just people I've met online and communicated with and, you know. Yeah. Well, a part of it is also we're ignorant. We're ignorant A-Holes. That's the other problem. So we have that going for us. Well, I mean, in my day-to-day living, am I day-to-day living? Why do I need to know the capital of?

Because we're arrogant aliens. If I don't, if I don't engage in trade or commerce of any sort with those, then why would I know it? Why would you need to have any other information about anything than the rest of the world? I'm not going to meet anybody. Why do I need to know that? This is true. That sounds like... How are I going to use that information?

That sounds like, and trust me, I'm one of them. An arrogant ale. Yeah, but I mean, I wouldn't be mad if I went to Russia and I said, quick, what's the capital of Virginia? And they go, I don't know. And I'm like, it's okay. You don't have to know. Wouldn't it suck if they did know, though, it'd be a, oh, yes, this is easy question. This is answer.

And he just gives you the answer. Right. And we all learned that in grade school. We have good education. Good Americans. All right. Dunaway, anything you want to mention this week that you got going on?

We did a boob show yesterday. This weekend we got Film Sack, all the usuals, but anything in particular, like you streaming soon? People can watch you stream. Absolutely. I'm going to stream tomorrow night.

I'll be going back to the graveyard keeping, me and Kit London, hang out on Thursday nights at 5.30 Eastern, usually before the course show. Yeah. And we run up right until this. Then we raid the core show so that we hang out and play a little Stardue Valley-like graveyard-keeping. That game is cool.

It's weird. It's like a dark Star-Doo Valley. That's true. It is dark. But it's fun. Yeah. I know all the capitals. Dark and fun.

Brian, have a great day. Kiss our butts. Real quick. Someone asked me a question. J.C. Calhoun, what is the capital of Virginia? It's freaking Richmond, dude. I know.

I live in this country. And we already did Babel Royale named the American capital cities. Yeah. And we did Wills. better on that way better because we live here we kind of have to know sometimes that's right that was drummed into our heads a lot more

than European capitals. Exactly all right yes hey we're going to do we get time for a news story don't we're going to do a news story yeah and it's going to be the second one I think all right here we go let's let's do this right here if I can freaking find it

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of america's next top podcaster yeah go check it out it's fun stuff yeah we get we get into some weeds uh soon and then watch as we terrorize them for 12 weeks hit these them like the the frat pledges that they are yep A little bit of that going on. All right. This story here I wanted to tell you about is about an Indian man from India. Okay, we don't say that here anymore because that's, you know, those are Native Americans. Come on now.

Let's get straight. Yes. An Indian man in his own, or sorry, was killed by his own bird during a cock fight. Cock fight. So wait. So he got, he flipped somebody the bird. Yep. I don't know.

I'm pouring coffee right now. Flip somebody to the bird, got in a fight. Somebody punched him in the. you know where and he died. Yeah, right in the cockfight, he got hit. The bird's owner was impaled. Is that what we were talking about? Yeah, that's exactly what we were saying.

The bird's owner was impaled in the groin by the knife as the animal tried to escape. The man died on the way to the hospital from the loss of blood. Police are now searching for 15 more people involved in the event. They are not legal. That'll teach you to bring a knife to a cockfight. To the cockfight, exactly. Don't ever bring a knife to a cockfight. Don't ever bring a knife to a cockfight.

I've heard this before. It's a old phrase people should integrate into their daily lives. Wow, so it really was. Yeah, oh, yeah. Okay, in the groin. Okay. All right, in the groin. And there's a big old, there's big old veins in there.

I don't know if you've luck lately, but you've got to watch out for those veins. Oh, I'm familiar. The animal was held in a police station before being transferred to a farm. I'd love that it was like a holding cell at the police station. We got to keep this cock here. He can't go anywhere. He's staying here. Oh, my God.

Just picturing this chicken pacing the floor. Come on, when are you going to get me out of here? You dirty screws? I want to talk to my lawyer, see? I say, I say, I want to picture Foghorn, Leghorn, in jail. That's what I put there. I say, I demand to see my lawyer. Where's my lawyer?

My, I say my lawyer. Let's see. Everybody involved faces charges of manslaughter, illegal betting, and hosting of a cockfight. Local police officer B. Jevin, B.GVan said the animal world, or sorry, the animal would be taken to court as evidence in a later date. According to the New Indian Express, cockfighting is made illegal in India in 1960, but fights are still relatively common in rural areas such as Telegana, Telegana. and many, let's see, and many falling around the Hindu festival of Sengkakranti. By the way, that's how Barry, Maurice, and Robin get around in a BG van. Oh, I get it.

A BG van. A BG van. Like the BGs. I get it. That's pretty good. Also, what was I going to say? I forgot. The New Indian Express, their paper, sounds like a place I'd want to eat, doesn't it?

It totally does, yes. Oh, the New Indian Express. It absolutely does. Is New Indian Express on DoorDash yet? Can we order something from the New Indian Express? Yeah, they got the garlic gnawn and the curry and the whatnot. I would eat that right now. A little panang, a little just green curry.

It's not the first time it says an owner's been killed by their cock. Last year, a man in Andrea Peresh, a man in Andria, Pradesh, which is a place, died after he was hit in the neck by a blade attached to his bird. I thought she was the editor of the Beverly Hills 9-0-2-1-0 high school newspaper. At the peach pit. No, no, the newspaper. What was the, uh, is it just the Beverly Hills Gazette or the, uh, Beverly Hills High Gazette? What was it called?

Something dumb. Uh, yeah. Something dumb. She's the head of the, uh, the, um, SAG. Oh, she is? Really? Yeah. Gabriel Carteris. How do you get that job?

She's the one that Trump had to write a letter to to say, I don't want to be part of your organization anymore. So wait, how do you get to be a leader of that? If you're just, it sounds like anybody can do it. You apply, you get nominated and voted in. Okay. And Andrea from Beverly Hills 902 on O, got in. That's really weird.

Yeah. I find that odd. It was the Beverly Blaze? No way. Was it really? Hey, look at that. There's a little kid. Beverly Blaze.

Oh, is there a guy? Oh, my gosh. Hi, bud. Oh, I didn't even scare him. I didn't even scare him. Hi, buddy. Hi. You're going to see me.

Hi. What's going on? Do you want to say something? You want to say, say, say Scott. Say, hello. Hello? Can you say Brian? Gowis.

Yeah, Gowis. exactly right. Yeah, that's close enough. I'll take it. Can you say Ibit? Ent. Can you say frog off? Frog? Can you say frog? Frog? Better bleep that one out. Nothing more fun than teaching kids swear words that aren't really swear words. Oh, sorry, Chad. I forgot to show him on camera. He's very cute today. I was looking at Brian the whole time. That's funny. Oh, no, really? That's my fault. Sorry. It's all right. I apologize to the chat room for having to look at me that whole time.

He gets to hang out here today. He said the kiddie's so cute. Oh, he likes my cute kitty behind me. Awesome. He likes Henry. All right. I'll be up soon and when the show's over and we'll go for a walk with the dog. That'll be fun.

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does every Wednesday, to talk about the leading tech headlines of the day. And Tom, it's great to see you. How are you? Oh, I'm just doing peachy. How are you all? Fantastic. We're good. Thanks. I had a really great doctor's appointment yesterday with good numbers and all that.

And then I signed up. Oh, my colon's great. Zero issues with the old colon. Working like a charm. That's how us 50-year-olds talk. Yep. How's the colon, Scott? How's your fiber intake these days?

Oh, it's blown out. Blown out the big news. Hey, that's fantastic. So it's good to have you here, as always. I usually try to spend some time in the morning on Wednesdays to go. I wonder which of these stories Tom will talk about. But today, I didn't look at any of them. So I don't know what's happening in the world of tech.

So you're our only hope. Well, AMD has announced a brand new chip you won't be able to buy because all the bots will get it first. Oh, no. That's, Wayne, this is a new video thing or a new just CPU? Yeah, a couple of big announcements out of AMD. The 6700 XT will launch on March 18th for 400. $279. It's their entry-level graphics, powerful graphics card.

$100 less than the RX-6800. The 6700 XT has 230 watts power, 12 gigabytes of video memory, 40 compute units, but only $470.9. So you still need an 8-pin and a 6-pin connector. It's got the dual connection thing. And AMD was bending over backwards to try to stop people from me making snarky jokes like that. Like, we're really working on the supply chain. We're going to try to make these available from as many retailers as possible. and all that stuff. So who knows? Maybe they'll pull it off.

We shouldn't punish them before they've had a chance to do it. The other big news is that they are rolling out resizable bar to the 3,000 series chips, which are a lot easier to get. And if you don't know what resizable bar is, don't feel bad. It's kind of wonky.

It basically is a feature of PCI Express that lets the CPU directly access the memory on the graphics card, and that improves your first. frame rate. Makes your frame rates better. So that's been available in the 5,000 and the 6,000

AMD series. It's now coming to the 3,000 series. You do need a newer motherboard. So you have an older 3,000 series on an older motherboard. You might not be able to take advantage of it. But if you're building a new machine, this makes the 3,000 series

an option to consider because now you've got the resizable part. Right. I mean, the biggest problem with all of this is, and V-Dinida can't escape this either, obviously, but there's some worries that people are like, man, I'll have a 40-

30 before I get a 30-80. Like, we'll be at a whole new generation before there's even availability on this stuff. Like, at some point, do you think they stop? If you had to guess, does any of this ever force anyone, including the chip shortage we're dealing with now? And the potential fallout from that, is there anybody who just stops making a generation

so that things can catch up? Or is that just a, that probably seems crazy? I don't know if that would help, right? Because if you stop making a generation, you're definitely not increasing the supply, right? right so if unless you're ready to put out the new I guess the way I look at it is you've got a certain amount of capacity to push out chips whether they're old generation or new generation and you're trying to increase that capacity and get more chips out and if you stopped and skipped you just have fewer chips right and yeah that's interesting it's just an interesting yeah yeah yeah I'm trying to think if there's any anything I'm missing there but I think in the end it it might be that simple where you know I what, when the 4,000 series is ready or whatever they call it, uh, they'll start rolling it out. And they just won't have been able to make as many of the 3,000 series as they could have.

Or maybe they, they ramp up, you know, I guess, I guess where, where you might be on to something is they might extend the life of the 3,000 series as a more affordable component because not as many people were able to get them. I don't know. Right. Yeah. I guess we just haven't been faced with this before. Normally availability is, is what it is. And maybe at the beginning of a new cycle, It's not, you know. Yeah, right. Usually it goes away after a little bit. And this is not going away.

Plus, I don't know. The one thing AMD did say is they're not going to reduce any functionality. InVIDIA recently announced some reduced functionality in some of their cards to try to force cryptocurrency miners to buy cryptocurrency specific cards that Nvidia makes. AMD says, yeah, we're not doing that. We'll sell this to whoever wants it. Yeah, their card is the, I just saw it yesterday, 2016 or some resurrected card from the last generation that that is particularly good at cryptocurrency. Yeah, and they left out a few components that are needed for video games but aren't

needed for cryptocurrency to, I think, make it easier to produce, gave it a new name. I just feel like, like I finally got an invite, not that I wanted one, but I got an invite to the, um, uh, that clubhouse deal and, uh, I noticed I got in there and did not share my contacts. I hate doing that. A lot of people are, don't like that they ask for those. But anyway, I got in there and I'm just kind of browsing around. this stuff and everything I listened to sounded like just noisy rooms full of too many people, but clearly it's working for some people, but there are so many crypto rooms. It's all it is. It's just nothing but that. So I have to imagine that either that's a reflection of this massive

uptick in crypto mining and whatever, or that helps contribute to less cards being available because more people are talking about it, more people are making the decision to try to get one or whatever. Crypto surging is definitely affecting all of this. For a while, it seemed like the crypto miners had moved on to specific cards like A6. And I think they had until we had the two things happen at the same time of a rise in cryptocurrency miners, as interest is rising, as you noticed by every other clubhouse room being about cryptocurrency. So you have more people wanting to do it and fewer chips for them to get. So if they can't get an ASIC or they can't get a cryptocurrency specific card, then

they're like, well, let me see if I can grab an AMD card. Maybe I'll get an Nvidia card. At least I'll be able to do something. And then, of course, then that means there's fewer cards or everybody else. So we're kind of back. We had gotten away from that for a while where it's like, nah, the crypto miners really are after different cards. But the chip shortage has kind of thrown everybody into competing with each other again.

Do any of those people have any actual money? I'm just curious. what the cryptocurrency people yeah i mean they do right but they don't or do they like do they do they really have any money yes uh yes and no uh if if they cash out of bitcoin right now they've got about i don't know 50 000 dollars per bitcoin that they have uh and so they can they can turn it into real money at any time i guess so but then any minute now bubble bubble happens pop oh no, you know, whatever, right? Like, we could...

Well, and that's especially true of all the other cryptocurrencies out there, right? There's not just Bitcoin. Bitcoin's actually fairly stable. You know, it got to a high of 70,000, and then it dropped down, then it got to 100,000, then it dropped down. But it never dropped all the way down.

Yeah. And it's been fairly steady, even in this latest surge, where even when it drops back down, it doesn't drop, the bottom doesn't drop back out. It doesn't drop back out to its low, previous point. So there's something to Bitcoin.

Bitcoin seems to be stabilizing. Ethereum, pretty good. Dogecoin, hilarious, but actually relatively stable, comparatively. There's so many other crypto coins out there that are not. And that do exactly what you're saying, which they skyrocket.

And if you don't cash out at the right time, then they plummet back down. Okay. Well, I just assume somebody's paying 50K for Bitcoins because someone's selling them, And then someone else is saying, well, I still think this is a good time to buy. So they're buying them at 50. That's just as, I don't know.

And remember, you can buy an infinitesimal amount of a Bitcoin. You can buy $10 worth of Bitcoin, which is, you know, a fraction of a Bitcoin. You don't have to buy a full Bitcoin because they're digital. You can slice them up as much as you want. Right. All the way down to the 0.00.0.0. Whatever. Yeah. Well, it's all very weird. And welcome to our future nightmare.

Tom Merritt, everybody. Now are you going to start selling your artist's non-fungible tokens? I mean, I don't know. There's a lot of talk about that, too. Like, I've heard, that's the other thing, is there's been rumblings in the kind of commission slash art print space that they're going to be hot, new cryptocurrency adjacent ways for artists to sell and get hired.

Yeah. And I guess that's, the idea of the non-fungible token is that even though digital art is infinitely copyable, you can be on record as as being the authorized owner right right so you hear it talked about as like you own the original copy nobody really owns the original copy right how many copies of your art do you make in the in the process of making it right but you can use the non-fungeable token to say it is this person that i've i've given the rights to say they own the original copy of yeah and there's just no way i mean that's actually really interesting like yeah conceptually that's a thing

that we just haven't had. We've all just sort of accepted the fact that we put it out there and we hope people give us and we hope that they come and support us and, you know, that they, and that works to whatever degree, but there's also plenty of stuff getting stolen. I still, like, on Reddit, I'll see some thing of mine and it would be cropped out so my signature is not there. And it's just a JPEG and who knows who owns it and or who came up with it. And they get, you know, a million up votes, but I don't see any benefit from that at all. I'm like, right. So, Maybe in a world of the non-fungible. It's not, as I understand it, it's not exactly copy protection, though, right?

People could still copy your art. No, but it is, it's saying, like, I'm going to sell the right to say I own something, where nobody else can say that. Right. Because there's a, there's a blockchain out there that you can look at and check and say like, oh, no, no, Brian Ibit is the one who owns this original Mendoza portrait. Right. This one on the wall over here. I could sell them that. So that's interesting. That does have ramifications that kind of make me think. So we'll see. Maybe one day blockchain will make real sense to me. And you won't have to explain it over and over anymore. So it'll be great. It's a great new future we're looking forward to, including the future that is just a few hours down the line today where I'll be on the Daily Tech News show. It is Wednesday. And I love Wednesday. So if you haven't been there live, you really should. If you get it on the podcast version, that's great, too. But come check it out, see what's going on at the Daily Tech News Show, at Daily Tech News Show.com.

Tom Merritt, anything else going on you'd like to mention? You know, the day you understand blockchain might be tomorrow. Oh. Yeah, I hear. Tomorrow's episode of Know a Little More at Knowa Littlemore.com is all about blockchain. Fantastic. I'm all subbed and ready. I've already, was already subbed.

10 minutes of me saying, here's what it is. Here's how it works. I try to avoid falling down the Bitcoin cryptocurrency rabbit hole. I have to bring it in a little to talk about examples, but I use other examples like farming and shipping. I mentioned non-fungible tokens in there. So I don't know. I'm gambling all,

but this might be the one that finally explains it. All right. All I heard was fudge tokens, which sounds great. Well, there's fudge tokens and non-fudge tokens. Oh, I see. Okay. And non-fudgeable, which, again,

You guys are no fungible. No fudge for you. All right, Tom Merritt, everybody, Ace Detect on Twitter. We will see you next week. Thanks, y'all. All right. Well, Brian. Yes, sir.

Brings us to the point of the show where Nicole gets drug in here of her own free will. Kicking and screaming. I mean, she wants to be a part of it, so we'll, you know, we'll allow it. Let's get her in here and see what we can do about all this. this talk of things we've recommended, things we've been watching on streaming and the whatnot. Oh, Nicole. My sweet Nicole.

Hey, look who it is. It's Nicole Spagg. Nicole, hi, welcome. Hi. Hi. Your camera's great. Hi. Your camera's spinning, but that's okay.

You can yell, Mark. Oh, there it is. Hey, now we got you. Hey, it's Nicole Spag. Going for the wet look. That's right. Tower. Before we get into things and talk

recommendals and everything else, I would like to know just a little more. Speaking of knowing a little more about your awesome snow fort you made with the kids. My gosh, that was a lot of work. Oh, did you see that? Yeah, it looked awesome. I made that. That was me. That was you? Oh, man, I was hoping the kids

did all the heavy lifting. Mark, well, it initially was me and Mark and the kids were kind of filling in the gaps, and then Mark failed, and I'm like, I'm going to make an awesome snow for it. Yeah. So that's what I did. You know, you get those little, you can get these little block things, like molds at Target. Yeah.

And you just scoop it up and pack it with snow and then tip it upside down. I felt like a brick layer. Well, it's really cool. I'm going to put a quick image up here. So we had the freezing weather last week. Someone in maybe Westminster or Thornton got little metal, you know, those metal sheep pens that you see it at catering things like their disposable aluminum sheet pens and yeah yeah yeah put water in them some food coloring and then put them outside to freeze and then just kept

repeating that process and she built an igloo made out of these transparent ice different colored ice okay that's too much mom for me that is way too much mom I was proud of myself like yeah as you should be yes as you should Well, it looks really good, and I'm jealous and love that stuff when I was a kid, so cool mom mode. You should do it. You should do it with Van. Well, we would have if the snow would have stuck. Like, we got one day of really gnarly snow, but it was really dry and flighty and not good for packing at all.

And then it melted. And now there's none. Like, we have none. We went from tons of snow, like a foot and a half to none. So, I don't know. It's not been the winter of our content or whatever I'm trying to say. Hey, why don't we dive into recommendals? where we talk about stuff on streaming services that we both like or enjoy or otherwise

recommend sometimes we warn you against something but uh most of the time it's i might have i might have a warning oh a warning excellent i love the warnings a warn you mental uh brian here has the option to start because he always does and uh we got two from you today what do you want to start with i will take that option let's start with number one this is a movie here's your clip you don't get lonely got a girlfriend anywhere well she lives up in an North Country, small farm. She's happy with her life there. I write letters to her. Oh, smart man. Very good. Letters are good. I just can't ever write about anything. I reckon she'd care about. Do you ever try poems? I don't think I know one. You know any?

that I used for my wedding vow when I was not much older than you. Oh, right, huh? Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds. That's Margie. That is. That's that new, let me think of the name.

I know it. It's like not vagabond. So close, yeah. You're going to have to tell me, but I want to see it. It is Nomadland. That is Francis McDormand. He's fleeing the interview. She's flea in the recommendals.

Oh, did Nicole take off? Yes, that is Francis McDormand. A new movie called Nomad Land, which actually just won the best motion picture drama on the Golden Globe Awards. Chloe Zau won the best director. And I can see why. This is such a good film. It is a, it's one of those kind of slice of life things, although it doesn't feel as non-directional as some slice of life movies. You know, like where it's, all right, well, what did I just, I just watched two hours of a slice of somebody's life, didn't really get anything out of it.

But it's, you do see, no pun intended, Fern's journey through life. Basically, she lived in a town that was reliant on gypsum for drywall. The factory dried up or the need for gypsum dropped. And so, and her husband passed away. And so she basically was left without a town. So she hopped in her van and she's traveling the South Dakota landscape and just living on her own in a van. pooping in a bucket. Yes, you get to see Francis McDormand, poop in a bucket. Fantastic.

Down by the river. Down by the river. That's right. It's kind of a heartwarming because you see her interacting with all these people. There are all these nomads that cluster together and then kind of move on to the next place. But then they cluster together in the next place. It's called Nomadland. Nomadland. Nomad land. and it's streaming on Hulu right now.

It's based on a book called Nomad Land Surviving America in the 21st Century. And for the most part, a lot of the people in the film are actual nomads. Like she traveled with them. I assume she actually really did poop in a bucket. You get to see the weird thing that you thought you'd never see, which is full frontal Francis McDormon nudity. Whoa. Which I don't think any of us in our lives were saying, you know what we need.

Margie. What are you doing, Margie? You're doing Margie. However, this was the third highest rated film of 2020 on Metacritic. It is, and well-deserved. It is really, really good. But it's, um... Why is she pooping in a bucket?

Why should she just dig a hole? She's a nomad. You take your poop with you. If you live in South Dakota, I don't think you can dig holes very easy. It's all frozen all the time. I guess if it's frozen. Yeah. I do love that she's in South Dakota, which is just like her being Margie again, except

not. that's right also stars uh david stratherin as um love him a friend that she meets along the way and he is so fantastic i mean he's never not good that guy you know from the expanse to um uh what was that from the expanse from the expanse to things he did before the expanse he was he was in uh that really great uh george cluny directed film um oh what was it called Oh, good night and good luck. Was that it? Good night and good luck.

Yes, of course. He was fantastic in that. He was great in the BORN movies. He was the CIA turned bad guy in the born movies. He's awesome. Anyway, really, really good. Don't expect that you're going to have, you know, full on action every minute.

But it's really, really good. Nomad Land streaming right now on Hulu. Oh, sneakers too. He's the blind hacker. Snickers, of course. Yeah. Yeah. He's so good. Yeah, he's great. He is so good.

I love him. All right. Moving now to your second clip. Movie numero dose. And Scott and I both watched this one, as did Randy Deluxe, and two thirds of us liked it. Yeah. You'll have to find out which two thirds in a moment. Here it is. Oh, my goodness. Have I done something wrong? Oh, no, ma'am. This is to help you. The court has ruled under the guidance of your doctor that you require assistance in taking care of yourself. And the court has appointed me to be your legal guardian. What?

When we cease to be able to take adequate care of ourselves, the state steps into help. We can't just sit by while people struggle. I'm not struggling. I'm fine. I'm more than fine. I don't need help. I'm afraid it's not up to you or me to decide. The court is ruled that you do need help. And as your legal guardian, it's my duty to ensure that adequate care is supplied to you at all times. Let me tell you something. I never went to care. court. This is the first thing I've heard about court. In emergencies, the court can convene without the presence of the prospective ward. Wow, that's crazy.

Well, ma'am, you have to come with me. Uh, so Randy didn't like it. This is like gone girl in a nursing home. Yeah, yes. Yeah, I mean, it is. The Brian and I really liked it, man. I liked it a lot. And here's the thing. All of that is completely true and completely happens. Like, This isn't based on a true story, but thanks to Tina and her new job working in Adult Protective Services, we find out that this sort of thing can and does happen, unfortunately. And it's basically someone, a con artist, can work with your doctor, who's also in on the take, played by Alicia Witt, and swoop in and take control of your life, your grandmother pull her right out of her home where she seems to be doing just fine, stick her in a nursing home filler full of drugs so she can't argue and then while she's gone turn around and sell everything she owns in her house and her house itself yeah and uh the problem with this movie or the problem in this situation is she does it to somebody that you just shouldn't have done it to yeah and uh so diane weiss plays

you heard diane weiss and rosamond pike in that that scene you also get uh peter dinklage in a great peter dinklage role that um never once takes advantage of the of his size as a as a construct in the film it's never it's never addressed or like legitimately it's my favorite thing he's it's irrelevant it's irrelevant to right it's irrelevant to the character and um he's uh and he's so good he's so good in it it's the best thing i've ever seen him do and i mean that i really liked him in the game of thrones and he killed it and lots of other stuff but there's something here yeah oh it's so good it's just he's scary scenery is so good he's scary in it he's uh he is just we're very memorable the ending's got some issues we've talked about that a little on film sack have we said the name it's called i care a lot it's called

i care a lot yeah this is streaming on netflix and speaking of awards this one also won the golden globe award for best actress for rosamund pike which was a huge surprise uh based on uh you know who else she was up against and she was up against some really big names, some good talent. Can we just say that the Golden Globes was weird? Oh, it was completely and totally weird. Yes. So weird.

And I was so happy that Ted Lassow won. Yes. But boy, does Jason Sudecassas look sad. Poor guy. Well, he is sad. His wife dumped him for a One Direction kid. It sucks. I know.

I just want to take him in and buy him a beer and hug him. I feel like he is, but I feel like he is Ted Lassow. Yeah, well, there he is. He's a nice guy. From all accounts, he's a really nice guy. And it sucks that he got posed on that deal. It was great watching a bunch of Zoom meetings. And something that I didn't realize that I need to go back and, uh, sorry, that's Mark. That's Mark yelling. Oh, it's Dougie. Was that Dougie or Millie? Yeah, it might be Mark. It was Dougie. It continues to be Dougie. I'm going to put myself a mute. That's fine. That's fine. Something that I need to go back, apparently. and watch is that during the Zoom meeting for best TV drama actor, Al Pacino fell asleep while he was, while he was showing the nominations. So I fairly need to go back and see that. That guy's got no time for that, man. He needs his naps when he needs them.

Anyway, so that's good. I care a lot. I liked a lot. I thought that movie was great. Really, really good. And Tina, it's funny because with Tina's job as it is, um she hated she loved the movie but she hated rosamond pike's character from the get go there was no point at which you're like oh man now i'm kind of feeling sympathetic towards her and no now i'm feeling not sympathetic towards her no tina's like no because she did that she's she's dead to me for the entire rest of i'm kind of with her i never once felt uh in fact if anything about the ending that i did like is it felt like she kind of got what was coming to her um which i won't get into here to spoil it but like she just pissed me off to no end but it's part of what drags you in because you're like

oh i gotta see how this turns out because i'm who i'm rooting for is freaking peter dinklage's psycho drug lord character and i want revenge for what she's doing to old people like yeah oh man yeah i don't know i mean there's there's uh there's times you're not rooting for uh for dinklage either you know i mean it's uh you don't root for anyone they all suck like Everyone kind of sucks, and if that sounds like, you hear that and go, oh, I don't want to watch that. It's, think like, get shorty meets, like, there's a vibe here that is a very familiar filmmaking kind of vibe to me. Yeah. Reminds me of mid-90s sort of, I don't know, sometimes even funny takes on hard material, not Tarantino-ish, but.

No, but I mean, all right, like usual suspects, you know, there are characters, every character that you kind of like is still, you know, shooting Hungarians on a dock in Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, it's a, it's a really good watch, but yes, it is it is heavy. Yeah, it's quite good. All right, here's mine. I have two,

but one's really short. Here's the one I really want to push, though, and it's an older movie currently streaming on Prime, and I love it, so I'm sharing it. Here you go. How is Michael? Is you okay? I've spoken to him. he understands

that's tough seeing that for the first time well you turned out you can't protect them forever if it wasn't this it'd be something else natural law sons are put on this earth for trouble their fathers

there you go any guesses God, that voice sounds That's not That's not Ed Asner or No, but that's funny It sounds like the boss From Reservoir Dogs

You brought up Reservoir Dogs No, it does sound like him It's not him though Much more famous, much more Classic character The movie is Road to Perdition Oh, okay Oh, yeah

That comic book movie That movie that's based on a comic book Yeah, it's based on a graphic novel A Dark Horse book Which, you know, no heroes or anything It's just kind of a noir tale that this is directed by Sam. Maybe it was a commander movie that you were talking about.

I'd love that too, but that's now. Sorry. How can you not like that movie? That movie is so good. I fell asleep. I tried to watch that movie. I fell asleep so many times trying to get through it. I get it.

It's not for everyone, but Master and Commanders is amazing. Anyway, if you haven't seen Road to Perdition, you're going to want to see it. This is Sam Mendez. dude what did american or um what's rose belly movie um what's the movie of the girl with the roses on her stomach american beauty shit rose belly movie about a paper bag that uh dances around for 20 minutes right there's that uh he's recently in 1917 uh he did uh what two years ago um or year ago whatever was 2019. You know I'm from lots of really awesome

movies. Anyway, Road to Perdition is my, I think my favorite of his. And it's for lots of reasons. Tom Hanks is in it. The voice you guys were confused about is Paul Newman and it was his last live action screen presence in film. He did a TV thing in between this and his death and also

was a voice on cars before he died in 2008. But his last sort of live action thing, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. He's very good in it. um really liked it anyway tom hanks paul newman jude law jennifer jason lee's in this although not very long uh stanley tochie's in it and daniel craig before you knew he was going to be james bond what a dick he's such a dick in this oh my gosh anyway if you've never seen road to perdition

you are dumb you should watch this movie it's so good it's so good it's so freaking good i Love it. I love it. I love it. It's set in the 20s. It deals with some pretty hard family mobster stuff, the Irish mob and all this. And it's just... Where is it streaming? Prime. Amazon Prime. And I just can't say enough about Road to Perdition. I love it. Love it, love it. All right. So that's my first one.

Speaking of Prime, coming to America is coming to Prime in two days. Yeah, coming to America. Yeah. Two. When did that happen? Is that, oh, well, yeah. Is that, is there ever been another movie that, where the sequel had the exact same pronunciation as the original? Oh.

Right. Yeah, it's funny. I hadn't thought about that. I don't think so. So it's like you got to say coming. Oh, I've seen coming to America. Yeah, I've seen coming to America. No, I mean coming to America.

No, I'm coming to America. Coming number two America. Right. Coming number two America. So much, so much love to that title, actually. Yeah, it's really, really good. I love those movies, those coming. I love the Coming to America movie.

I remember that's a huge part of my younger years. And the fact that they're actually doing a sequel is insane. I love it. And there's, everyone's coming back for it. They're all coming back. It's got James Earl Jones is still in there. And like, he's in his 90s. Sexual chocolate is coming back.

I believe they pulled, who is, is, uh, Eric Lassala coming back? Is he the dude that owns McDowell's? Oh, no, no, no. That's the other guy. Oh, I didn't see him. Eric Lassal from ER. The McDowell's guy's back.

The McDowell's guy's back, yeah. Yeah, and I love him. It's just, I cannot believe I'm looking forward to this as so much as I am. I know, I know. It'll be dumb and great. And how did they get Arsenio Hall? How do they pull Arsenial Hall away from all of his current obligations? Well, he's been in cryogenic freeze.

So, you got to pull him out and get him out again. I'm like legit looking forward to it. Sorry, I just, it was just so unexpected. I'm like, when did they film this? When, when did this happen? It was like, poof, it's here. Yeah, yeah, I feel like it came out of nowhere. Well, that fictional country doesn't have any COVID restrictions going on right now.

So they were able to film without masks or social distancing or anything. No COVID-19 in the kingdom of whatever it was called. Wakanda or whatever it is. No, it's not Wakanda. I know it's not Wakanda. Hey, Brian, it's not Wakanda. You have a part in there too. Yeah, just so you know, it's definitely not.

Wakanda. All right, check this out. This is, the other thing I watched is a real short recommendation. It's a documentary on Netflix and original there. And it's not my highest recommendation for documentary, but I still think people should see it because I used to be fascinated with this story. So anyway, here it is. D.B. Cooper, don't know his identity. Don't know where he came from. Don't know what happened to him. It's just one more mystery after another. I remembered my father telling me this story. Don't you remember he. hijacked that airplane. He ended up being my roommate, and he talked an awful lot about hijacked.

Okay, so it's the story, it's a documentary about D.B. Cooper. It's called The Mystery of D.B. Cooper. It's all about that dude that in the 70s, hijacked a plane and got all the money that he demanded and then parachuted out over the U.S. West and disappeared, and they've never been able to solve it. And this documentary doesn't solve it. So don't go in thinking you're in a resolution ultimately, but what you will get is like four or five suspects that you've never heard of before that all legitimately could be this guy. But somehow it can't be all of them because they live simultaneously in different lives. And there's no way that they're all the same person.

But there's one that basically hit out. Oh, I can't remember some of the details. But basically they're just all different walks of life, different. different things and they all, one guy on his deathbeds like, I was D.B. Cooper, he told his wife and you need to find my buried money and then he died and she never found out where the buried money was. But it's just as likely the other guy that we learned about in this documentary was D.B. Cooper. And so it's like this bigger mystery. There's some connective tition to me growing up because the one of the people that everyone, in fact, the people, most people think is D.B. Cooper is

a dude that grew up and lived in Provo and was arrested. I don't know. I came remember how he died, but he's local. So, you know, around here, there's a lot of rumors about D.B. Cooper being a dude from Utah. So growing up, it was like a big discussion thing. And to watch it was kind of fun just to sort of revisit all that. So if it sounds interesting to you, go check it out. It's a little bit like, I don't like documentaries that use a lot of fake footage of a thing that happened. I don't like, you know. Dramatizations. Yeah, reenactments. Not a fan. It's not my favorite trope in a documentary. This uses that a little too much, but it's okay. And I think a decent time, if you're interested in that

subject matter, it is on Netflix. It's a Netflix original. So go check that out if that sounds like something you'd want. Nicole, what did you bring today? Yeah. I scared her. Nothing really, nothing really good. But it's what I watched. Okay, so that's what I have. I will say, I'm sure you've already talked about Wanda Vision. Oh, yeah. We have. Yes? Lots. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Every Monday. I, okay. Even before Scout watched it. I was very purposeful in waiting until there was enough out that I could kind of binge watch it.

Oh, wow. So I, so Mark and I started, what's today, Wednesday? We started watching it probably like three days ago and we've been watching two a night. So we have two more and then we're caught up. That's perfect. Tomorrow is the next episode. That's exactly. You know what?

I'm going to say you guys did exactly a. good thing like there's yeah I'm at the point of you yeah I mean trying to avoid spoilers and stuff can be tricky but that thing is better bingeable than it is separated as soon as I as I would scan I would see like want a vision I'm like so I just kind of have this ability to like fuzzy out with my eyes like stuff like I just kind of skim it I don't even read it yeah but I'm really glad we we did it this way it's also a hard thing to spoil honestly because the way they tell that story is you you if they spoil one part of it from season or from episode four or five you're not going to get it because it's

there's a song i could sing that uh would spoil but for a lot of people it won't because they don't know who the hell that is oh that's true okay you know what's that's a weird it's such a weird show and that's why i love it yeah it's fantastic i've seen people go oh i got i hate the show others are like so I haven't talked to anyone who hates it is that really I like Twin Peaks I guess everyone needs something you know Twin Peaks is weird and you got to

change it up and how you yeah it's like MCU Twin Peaks is a good way looking at it actually there's a bit of that going on it kind of is I can't wait for more I guess it is this Friday right here's boring lame anyway all right there's my clip oh darn it I saw it but I think I would have

Okay. It's not, it's, it's all right. All right. Here goes. It is what it is. It is what it is. We'll take it for what it is. It's loading. Here we go. There's your name, Doc. There you go. Yeah.

You look good. What's up with the sound? I figured out who you are. Your video's quiet. That's all the way up. You're one of those millennials, the things they can get whatever they want, whenever they want. It's Michael Pena. Preferably with free shipping.

Who doesn't like free shipping? So that's Michael Pena and Chloe or Moretz-Mortice or whatever the hell her name is. Grace Moretz. So is this that, I'll go fix the volume and post, but that's the Tom and Jerry business, right? Yeah, it's on HBO Max. It's the new Tom and Jerry movie that we watched with kids. The kids loved it. Sure.

I did not. I love old Tom and Jerry cartoons. You're telling me this doesn't hold up to all those. Is that what you're saying? It's like the space jam of our, this. this generation. But I like Space Jam. Space Jam is cool.

But it's like that, it's like that, you know, real live action with cartoons. Spurfs. Yeah, yeah. Brian's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, okay, so that's the question. Is there enough, like, is there enough adult humor or not necessarily adult humor in the way we're thinking adult humor, but enough humor that goes over the kids' heads

that's like aimed towards the adults getting it? I only caught like one thing. Oh, geez. Oh, man. It might just be, I just was kind of over the movie by then. I don't know. Do you see the Sonic movie? I mean, I will say the kids watched it and turned on and Ava's been watching Tom and Jerry cartoons now,

which I think that's the whole purpose of the movie is to introduce a new generation to Tom and Jerry, which, by the way, there's this knockoff Tom and Jerry cartoon on Amazon Prying called Cat and Keat. I hate this cartoon. Cat and Keat, like, short for parakeet? It's like, I think it's like a Russian cartoon, or it's just another, it's another country's take on time

and, it is awful. It is awful. And I'm like, this is just a knockoff of Tom and Jerry. And Abe's like, but I think it. I'm like oh God. And it's just awful. Hold on. So did you see the, you saw the Sonic movie

last year, whatever was? I did like that. I We watched that. Sometimes you can do the live action with an animated character and things are okay, but I don't know why they... We've really enjoyed Sonic. Yeah, I don't know why they don't just be brave and make a straight up Tom and Jerry animated film. Like, just go for it. Don't have to have real people in it. Don't have to have this weird.

Because right now, they'd have to tone down the violence and you can't have Tom trying to smash Jerry with a wooden mallet. I think you could. But he does it in a movie. Yeah, go ahead and do it. Did they do it in this movie? He has a giant. He has a giant metal mallet, and he's beat trying to smush him. Yeah.

Okay. All right. Yeah. It's the itchy and scratchy thing. That's the other thing I was afraid of is that they were going to say, yeah, we really can't have Tom trying to be as violent. He doesn't want to kill Jerry. He just wants to catch Jerry. Yeah.

No. He wants to. Do they talk in the movie? That's a good question. Claire or Khan Jha on the chat wants to know, do they talk? Are they voiced? no they do not talk okay good um they make like a couple sounds but they don't talk it's all like tom taking his tail and turning it into a curse of of his name when when uh chloe what's her face

asked what his name is what's her name what's her name try it try i don't know Chloe i don't really like her acting now i don't like her she don't like her i don't know why don't know why You don't like her in this, but do you like her in anything else? No, I don't like her. I don't like her post kick-ass. I like her. And Nicole, put down the pen. Well, she, I did like her.

Oh, sorry. I'm sorry. I'm doing the. All right. We all do it. We all do it. What was the movie? The vampire one.

But she was still young in that one. Oh, well, let the right one in or let me in or whatever. Let the right one in. Yeah. Well, there was, there was the American version. There was like the Swedish version and then there was the American version of it. She was in the American one. Let the right one into Ikea was the Swedish version.

That was the one. H&M, H&M. Or let me, it was let me in. Let me in, yeah. I like Let me in, actually. But okay, let me, I'm going to look at her list of movies here real quick. And we're going to, I'm going to prove you wrong. Let's see.

We got Chloe Maretz, Mortez, Gonzalez. Here she is. Mertz. She's in, uh, shout, in the cloud. Don't know what that is. Let's find something we know. That's a new one. I've seen the trailers, again, not interested. Oh, really? That looks so cool.

How about neighbors, too, sorority rising? Wait, are you trying to you're trying to, which side do you want, Scott? Yeah, I'm trying to remember now. How about 2014's Denzo Washington's the equalizer? How about Big Mama's House, too?

Was she in that? Yeah, she was a yes she was in that um how about 500 days of summer i was all right yeah i didn't remember her in that yeah i didn't remember patrick if she wasn't if she wasn't called uh zoie de chanelle i don't remember her um i hate to say it but you're kind of i mean it's mostly she does she's not in a ton of great movies but i there's something about her i just find intriguing i don't know what it is seems interesting to me i liked her and kick ass i liked her in that vampire movie after that I mean she's a person I feel I feel bad but I just I'm not feeling her acting

post those she was she was a girl in Hugo she was in that Hugo business oh yeah again kid yeah apparently she was in my name is Earl too I don't remember her in that oh I love my name is Earl I'd watch that now I did not like her in this Tom and Jerry movie all right okay so it sounds like you just sort of like yeah if you have kids maybe this is fun if not Yes, if you have kids, it is one of those movies where it was supposed to release in theaters. They did the HBO release. I'm sure it's going to leave within, you know, the month or something like that. Sure.

So it's a new release. Colin Jost is in it, which is weird. I like him on Saturday Night. Mr. Joe. I'm not sure. I like him as a, yes. Let me tell you where this works. That bumblebee movie, the transform.

Spinoff, that's one of those movies that we should be, there's like a, I haven't seen the bumblebee one. You should. It's the only good one. That's the best, that is the best Transformers movie to see. Oh, by far. It's, it's actually good. Somebody brought up Detective Pikachu.

I loved Detective Pikachu. Yeah, it's just proof you can pull this stuff. Like, you can pull it off. It just has to be the right freaking people to do it, you know. Yeah. And I'm not sure Clorettes, Montief Bagunga is the right girl for the movie, is what I'm saying. All right. She says, if I stay young, Nicole would like my acting.

Yeah. I just, I don't know what's going on with her. She feels very overacted. Well, I mean, I guess it's Tom and Jerry, but whatever. Though, you kind of misread that. She was in a movie called, oh, did I stay young Nicole, like my acting. Did I miss read it? I was thinking, if I stay young, Nicole will like my acting.

Well, if your name was Clarets, you'd struggle to. as you got older. All right, moving on. Do you, that's your recommendal then. I hear she has Retson for fresh breath. For fresh breath. So this is kind of a side, semi-recommental. Not the best. I mean, if you're looking for something to watch with the kids, you don't want, you know,

you're not going to go to the movie theaters or whatever. Watch Tom and Jerry, I guess. All right. That's a, what a resounding. Well, you got through it. Hey, the kids liked it. I didn't really care for it too much. That's all that matters. you know what watch bumblebee and I'll bet even the kids would like that it's fantastic detective Pikachu Sonic these are all good these are all good Sonic was good

Sonic shouldn't have been good that should have been garbage right how do they do that yeah what is that about I think it's because junkie excelled at the soundtrack and that guy can do no wrong because as we know they fixed his teeth that's why well it's the other thing they fixed everything about that character was so bad before like I kind of now now knowing that Sonic turned out okay I kind of do want to see some original cut with that weird version of it, you know, just to see what was different other than just the look of Sonic. It was the movie still okay? Or was it, did a lot of other stuff change? Like, I don't know. But anyway. Someone brought up SpongeBob. Wasn't there a whole SpongeBob movie

supposed to become, it was supposed to come out last year, but it never did because of COVID? The one with Keanu Reeves. Sage. That one did come out, didn't it? This new thing you're talking about is something separate. It's a new direct to Paramount Plus animated thing. I was just looking at a whole, because my kids were looking forward to it. And I looked it up and it was like, oh, it's going to release overseas. And we don't know. On Paramount Plus.

Oh, it's coming out tomorrow. Look at that red on your light. Can you see that? Do you see that red on air light that we just saw fly by the thing? You did say that. Okay. Yeah, I did say that. I was Googling to see when it comes out.

Yeah, no. It's called Sponge on the Run. And I don't know why I'm interested in and why it looks good. But it looks good to me, weirdly. I don't know why. I don't even like New SpongeBob. I just, there's something about it. So they had a whole marketing plan in place last year.

And in fact, I think it was maybe Wendy. They were promoting it through the kids meals. And so my kids were like, we want to watch this movie. I'm like, sorry, it's not out. But everything said it was supposed to be out. like May 3rd or something like that and I always wonder what happened to it. So I guess it just...

Your kids will probably love it. It looks great. So Keanu Reeves. Just 10 months later, kids. I love that. It's really weird. It feels like it's... It feels like a thousand years ago.

Anyway, all right. Doesn't it? Yeah, it does. Nicole, fine recommendations today or side recommendations. Follow her on Twitter. Nicole Spag and she will tell you what we watched and why we watched it and how you can get it yourself and we'll retweet it on the morning stream Twitter account as well. Nicole's bag, have a fantastic week.

Bye. Bye. Bye now. All right. All right, Brian. Hold on. I had to remove her from the group. Wait a minute.

Oh, I didn't mean hang up on the call. That was weird. There we go. I mean, Nicole's in there. Oh, I guess it's just us, Nicole. So how are you been? Hit the wrong button. Happened sometimes.

Okay. Where are we now? Oh, yeah. A couple emails. Then we're out of here. Yes. Like this one from Rob. Who says, hey, Scott and Brian, since you mentioned the show on a recent, sorry, since you mentioned this show on a recent TMS, I had to watch it.

Oh, what movie? What's he talking about? Oh, he's talking about how to with John Wilson. You're right. Oddly enough, we should have Nicole on for her because. Yeah, she loved, she was responsible for both of us watching it. It was so good. Anyway, says they are doing a second season, which I am thrilled about. Yep. According to a Rolling Stone article, that is in the works. and that makes me very happy because, for whatever reason, one of my favorite things of this year was that.

We do know that he's got probably enough B-roll footage to do several seasons of how to with John Wilson. I don't know how that guy does that. Even for just like a side comment that means nothing, he has B-roll for it. My guess is that he, yeah, I mean, and it's not even like it's tagged. It's like in teeny tiny writing in hundreds of little notebooks.

Yeah. Like he's a psycho. He needs a computer tagging system. system. Oh, my God. They need to study him. It's scientific study of that man. He's insane. Yeah. He is like a savant or something. Yeah, it's really good. I love it. That's very good. I also got this email from Paul. Paul wrote in. It says, Brownie's after death is a subject line.

He says, hey, Skyther and Bredrill. Bidrel? These are Pokemon's. That's what those are. All right. That makes sense. I was listening to a past episode about what Scott said regarding being cremated and put into a batch of brownies. While this does seem like a good time, I wanted to let you know that there have been studies that show that consciousness does continue for some time after death. CBS did a report on this a while ago. While I'm personally an agnostic and unsure about the whole concept of the soul, one thing I'm sure about is the brain and consciousness. And if we can dream a little longer before it's all over, then sign me up. Moral of the story, Barry don't bake.

Love the show, though, Paul. Yeah, having my conscience while I'm shoved in a little box, that's going to be better? Not better. It's worse. It's worse. I mean, look, if you, here's my guess. The study does show it, but it shows it like you would if you beheaded someone. like, let's say you're in the French Revolution

and someone cut your head off with a guillotine. Blunk into the basket. For a little bit of time, you're still sort of, and then you're out. It's not like it's going to go on forever where I'm going to know I'm in some brownie going into the mouth of some old guy

at an old folks home. It's not going to go that long. No, no. Nothing goes that long. So, yeah. And the baking, you know, the cremation, and probably will do it before it's being ingested by old people in the form of brownies. Right, right.

And by then, I'm not getting shoved in there five minutes after I die. It's going to be a little time. I'm going to be on... You get another baking once you're in the brownies. Right. So it's like... Right. You're like twice-baked Scott.

I'm going to be on ice for a huge amount of time before they even decide to cook me. So I'm not worried about it. I mean, the people at the old folks home should definitely worry, but I'm not worried. That's right. Thanks for emails. TMS Mashes asks if we have time to play the mashup today. I think tomorrow because we're already close to really close to. Oh, I didn't know we had a bonus today.

Do we have one today? Oh, we have a bonus. Oh, crap. I didn't see all these. There's a ton. Yes. We got, oh, no, there isn't. There's none.

Hold on. There's a ton. Oh, no, there isn't. There's none. Oh, I take it back. There's one. There's a ton. There's none.

There's one. It's called the Wiener special. And I didn't know this was up. So, yes, tomorrow is the day. We'll put it in. I didn't know we had a weaner special. Yeah. But we're putting in.

We'll cut Wendy off mid-advice and play it tomorrow. Right. I'm like, sorry, Wendy. Move over. We got a we wiener special. Here's your homework for next time. Click. Aw, way to we lost Wendy.

Let's get to the mashup. Better play the weaner special. Anyway, so that'll be tomorrow. Thanks for the heads up there, TMS mashups. He probably emailed me and I just haven't gotten to it yet. He did. I know what the, yeah. Well, I guess now you know what it's about, too.

Yep. there you have it. Um, okay, that's going to do it for the show. Big thanks everybody for being here. Frogpants.com slash TMS and also those emails came to us at the morning stream at gmail.com. You're encouraged to do that anytime you feel like it. That's the morning stream at gmail.com. We're done. We're out. Let's leave. But before we do, a song selection from Brian's vast library. A songarino. Absolutely. This is fun.

A theater monkey writes in and says, Brian was talking about the first CD he bought, and I remember that Bach Busters, yes, Bach Busters, was my first. Bought it for $16 when I was 15 years old. I would play it on my MagnaVox D880 for days on repeat. Just about drove all my parents insane. All of my parents insane.

The second CD was from The Art of Noise. So, yeah, I was into eclectic electronic music in my youth. Signed, Theater Monkey. He wanted to hear a track from Don Dorsey's Bach Busters. This is something that I never knew existed. And all the setup that you need to know about this album is the fact that the cover has a picture of a guy dressed up as Johann Sebastian Bach holding a key tar. Oh, fantastic. That's cool. This music, I could see why this would be, you know, great to play on a CD player. This music sounds like the music you play during an 80s montage as the hacker kid is figuring out how to break into his schools. grading system to change his grade.

Awesome. I think TheaterMonkey may be me. I loved this stuff when I was hit. Oh, you'll love this then, absolutely. From Don Dorsey's Buckbusters from 1985, here's Italian Concerto for solo keyboard in F. All right. Sounds good to me. We'll be back tomorrow with a Thursday edition of the show and much more. So come on back then.

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