The Morning Stream - TMS 2084: Beta Ray Bale

Episode Date: March 17, 2021

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You are so idiot It was accident, and those pants are bad anyway. The morning stream, the morning stream, morning stream, morning stream. Good morning, morning. Welcome back to TMS. It is the morning stream for Wednesday. Day, March 17th, 2021. I'm Scott Johnson. Brian Abbott is right there. Hi, Tach, good day to you. Oh, yeah, it is. I forget. The only reason I know that it's freaking St. Patrick's day is the house is filled with the smells of corned beef. Yeah, Tina's got some going to the slow cooker now, corned beef and cabbage. Yeah, going the full, the full Monty tonight with the

food. Big old sucky peppercorns that you don't want, that you want to flavor your food, but you don't want to accidentally eat? Nope. Don't eat those. Don't ingest those. Don't chew them. You'll break a tooth. It's my experience. But yeah, it's St. Patrick's Day.

So, well done, everybody. We've done it. We got around the sun one more time, so we could at least celebrate one of these. You'll all do it at home. And not out in public bars, I hope. Actually, the Irish are pretty good about this. They're not going out to, like, pubs and stuff.

But over here, we've got at least parts of the country, they're like, I'm going. It's for St. Patrick's damn. Like, you're not even Irish. What are you doing? I know, and that's why it's like, oh, great. I really want to go to Ireland because they're doing the right thing over there. Unfortunately, if we pass through the UK and some of the connecting flights, unfortunately, do,

then we quarantine for 14 days in Ireland before we could leave the hotel. So we have to go direct from the U.S. to Ireland. We do want to go to the U.K. probably afterwards. So we'll probably do, you know, flying to Dublin, do our business, run around, and then fly from Dublin to London, have two, three days in London, and then back to America. So when you land in London, you don't have to quarantine in London. You just land there. Okay. Just land there.

Basically right now, everywhere. And then again, this is like, we're not planning this trip for next. week or next month or anything like that. We're looking at later this year. So don't worry, everybody. I'm not perpetuating the problem by spreading my American virus all over the west of the world. But right now as it stands, because I do want to keep up with what's going on travel-wise,

you just basically, when you land somewhere, you have to give them an itinerary of what hotels you're going to be staying at so that if something happens, they can kind of do some reverse contact tracing and saying, oh, well, you stayed at the Covent Garden Marriott. And Peggy Flemberton apparently has COVID. And so now you might have it too if you ran into it. Oh, the Flemerton's, dude. Don't trust the Flembertons. No, with a name like Flamberton.

Glad you said Peggy, though. There was news this morning that broke that they were in hot communication, I guess, with, like, studio heads and stuff to revive King of the Hill. They're going to set it 15 years in the future. future, which means. Oh, no, really? Yeah. Well, I guess he can, man. I mean, what else you're going to do? You're going to just start where they were and keep going to. You can't really just start where you left off. You've got to change something up. But 15 years, we were just talking about how, how that doesn't work very well in shows where the last season or they do this time jump

forward. Mm-hmm. I think they could make it work on that show, though. I don't know why. Animation gets away with stuff. Live action doesn't always have, I don't know, there's something about animation you can get away with tricky tricky plot stuff so so bobby hill will be a drinker he'll be a partyer yeah oh he'll be older than that he'd be like what fifth uh 33 or something or right because he was yeah he was uh was he 12 13 16 or something in the show think he's 13 or he wasn't driving yet no no no i think he was like 13 and he was sort of stuck there yeah like they didn't really change that but yeah bobby will be a man and uh that's right i don't know what how they handle the, you know, the death of

Luan or all that. Like, that's all, those are all questions I have, but I'm in, man. I like King of the Hill. I'm, I would be happy with it. And my judge hasn't done anything recently, has he of note? Well, he's launching a new

Beavis and Butthead revival over on Peacock. Yeah, I meant of note though. Dude, I'm excited about those. I will unabashedly admit, I'm looking forward to that. I mean, since Silicon Valley he ended two years ago, whatever, however long it's been.

Yeah, this is all he's done since then. So as far as I know, he's open. He's like got space on his itinerary to get something done. Oh, Dax Hots. Luann, the character didn't die, but the actress, who did the voice of Luann passed away.

Yeah, so did her husband in the show. They eventually got married. It's it dusty? Anyway, that was played by Tom Petty and he passed away. Right. So you don't have her or Tom Petty. Britney Murphy. Yeah, Britney Murphy.

Still one of the shittiest deaths in the history of any time. No kidding. Her husband died from, was it? Black mold, wasn't it? Something like that or carbon monoxide poisoning or something in the house like that. And there's still like conspiracies about, you know, if they were killed or not. But I don't know. That's need of hearing her there.

Just awful. It was a black mold. Oh, pneumonia. Pneumonia, secondary factors of iron deficiency, anemia. Yeah. With something in the house, though, right? Mm-hmm. Something in the house, but also a little bit of prescription medications to treat a cold or respiratory infection.

So, I mean, it... Lame. Yeah. Lame. She was too young. That was dumb. Everything about that sucks. But anyway, so who knows?

We'll see. I'm all in because it's still, it's kind of on in this house all the time. Everyone loves King of the Hill. My kids love King of the Hill. They know every episode almost by heart. It's just great. so let's let's get more that'd be fine with me okay i got a controversial take for the for the people at home okay all right this came up on uh twitter things went a little viral with a tweet that i put up

uh we're currently sitting at something like 6,000 retweets or something on this thing not real viral but viralish um my my contention is that i you know all this talk of cancel culture i don't think it exists i think it's a figment of our imagination and i'll i'll explain myself and so calm yourself there's somebody right now who's freaking out and getting ready to send it out there's uh yeah there's angry emails being being uh composed right now yeah calm yourself also i think we want to i think there we got to define because there are so many different definitions of cancel culture from the innocuous to the severe and i think we need to kind of yeah we'll define what we'll define them and what they actually mean but i i'm going to contend

that it actually barely means anything so here's here's what i said And it caused some, a little stink, but not too much. I said, the people who tried to ban me from playing Mortal Kombat, reading Stephen King, listening to ACDC, and enjoying Dungeons and Dragons are now claiming cancel culture is out of control. Someone call Alanis Morissette. I have some real irony to report. Okay, that was my tweet.

Sure. And then I got to thinking about the deeper issue of what is actual cancel culture. And here's the funny thing. No matter who I'm talking to, who claims it's this awful thing and there's tons of it, They can never give me a name of anybody who has been, quote, unquote, canceled. Now, you can give me lots of names like Harvey Weinstein was fired and prosecuted. Gina Carino was fired from her job. That's not, that's, that's her employer.

Right. Her employer said, firing them. Stop doing those tweets. Well, whatever it was. It doesn't even matter. Like, I had a friend, I had a friend like 20 something years ago, not a friend. And the guy I worked with who put a little swastika sticker in his cubicle, and he got fired the next day for it. Definitely not cancel culture.

There was no social media. Yeah, employee rules, which I would argue is what happened to Gina Carino. I mean, basically, she put out some tweets about masks, blowing off masks or disregarding masks. Oh, I thought her thing was a Jewish. I thought her it was some Jewish thing. The second one was the Jewish thing. person of Nazi Germany. And after the first tweet, Disney said, hey, you know, it's against, when you, when you

signed down to work with us here, we said no controversial tweets or we said, you know, stay away from these kind of topics. And, you know, it's in a contract. It's something you sign. It's not, it's not a company arbitrarily coming up with some reason to let you go. Right. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter anyway.

She put out in. Yeah. Yeah. And it doesn't matter anyway because they're a kind of. company who can hire and fire however they want to. They're not, they're not, this isn't social media somehow giving her a pink slip. We don't get to do that. It doesn't work that way.

So this idea that public outrage on social media causes cancellations. But I feel like there's, there's fall, there's flack that happened after that, that was purely social media. And I don't know if, you know, there's talk that she's having a hard time getting a new project off the ground in other places in Hollywood. because of what happened with social media. And so that's why I'd say that it could be argued that that's a degree of cancel culture. And I call horse shit. If she can't get a job because of dumb stuff, she says, that's just the consequences of saying dumb shit. No matter what the forum is, if you say stuff that puts potential jobs at risk, that's you doing that.

If I go to a job interview And I'm certainly not saying it's anybody's fault but her own Right But studios may be unwilling to touch her Because they don't want the flack to spread to them They don't want them Oh I get it but I still again I don't know how that's cancel culture

Like how is that have anything to do Like I can't nobody can name somebody who was quote unquote canceled meaning stopped at all costs Gone done whatever Some people have said well what about Al Franken there's an example of cancellation no those are consequences and also his decision to retire may be extreme in the face of others not retiring despite their terrible allegations that seem to be true his decision to retire was his alone his decision to stay if he decided to would have been

his alone like that's not us canceling him that's him making a decision are you any you know any of these are the consequences of a bad decision and not cancel culture. That's why I feel like cancel culture needs to be better defined because it's too easy for for one side to say, ah, the woke mafia, cancel culture,

all that. But I think defining, all right, is it not being able to get a job different from the one you were fired from because the company is afraid of the social media blowback of hiring somebody who said something offensive? well that that's exactly what it is what you just called it is what it is like that's what it is right well you said something dumb or did something dumb or you did something dubious or illegal or

whatever and now your job prospects suck that's it that's it it's not because of social media it's not because of social outrage it's because you effed up and if and if you and if you effed up enough that means that you could go you could be arranged from anywhere from well jeaner carino's the Mandalorian, but she's still got that movie coming and I got other stuff going on. Okay, cool. I mean, she, Lucasfilm did cancel a spinoff show for Caradoon that was going to happen. But again, that's consequences. Right.

It's, you know, consequences. That's them firing her, literally firing her. Nobody, when that guy, my dude I worked with got fired for his swastika, nobody stepped up and went, bah! Cancel, it's been the culture of canceling him. No. And, like, the other example people threw at me was the Dr. Seuss book situation. This is a private publishing company who is making a decision to no longer publish books.

It doesn't matter why they're doing it. It doesn't matter anything about that. It's theirs to choose to do what the frick they want to do with it. Exactly. That didn't come from social media pressure. They made that decision. Yeah, that one is a, that one is getting kind of. But they're just screaming about it.

Like, I just don't think this exists. I don't think it's real. We all like it because it's a buzzer. word and we all like to use it. But at the end of the day, it has like no meaning or depth. It doesn't have any effect on anything. Like, it has an effect on the conversation, but guess who's not canceled? Freaking Scott Bayo, he's still doing whatever he's doing. Guess who's not canceled? Pick anybody on the extreme left or right. It doesn't matter. Yeah, whoever. Like, and those, and by the way, the people that screen cancel culture the

most, which was the point of my original tweet, are the ones that do it all the time. time. They're the ones they're saying, oh, it's out of control. But on the other side, if it's something they don't like, they're constantly calling for boycotts and bannings and this and that. My buddy, yeah, one of my buddies, my only friend that's on the other side of things for me that I usually, almost always disagree with, was bitching about the, the Gina Carino thing and said, yeah, I canceled Disney Plus. Okay. Great. You literally canceled it. And you're doing it because you're blaming cancel culture and the, what his term, the woke mafia.

He says it unironically or unjokingly. Right, because they love those terms and whatever and they're deep into it. And I get it. But at the end of the day, he's literally canceling something when he's decrying cancel culture. Like I get it. Now, some people might say, and I had somebody say this yesterday, we're talking about products versus people, the difference between me growing up and being told by the general, you know, adult ship of the time, not necessarily my parents, but just sort of, you know, society was saying

Mortal Kombat, bad, ban it, kids can't play it, don't read Stephen King, ban those books, ban ACDC, they're from the devil, whatever, Dungeons and Dragons is Satanic, like all of that stuff, yeah, those are products, but I have to remind people, products are at the end of the day run by people, it's people still, so you're still saying cancel the company, you're still saying cancel these people, you're still saying end the whatever. And also, it isn't just people now, Like, there's all sorts of stuff. If Target comes out tomorrow and says, we're going to,

we're building a whole wing in the clothing center of our stores to service transgender. Then you'll have a ton of people go, boycott the woke mafia over at Target. Cancel them. Like, they're going to, they do the same effing thing. So that's my second problem.

It's a two-tier problem. One, I don't think it exists and everyone uses it as a crutch. And number two, everybody who uses it does it. They do the thing they claim they hate constantly. So F off everybody, two big fingers. I think, but, okay. And I know you'll, you'll, you know,

you'll dance around in the gray area when I give this. No, give me one. I am looking for a good example. Nobody can give me one. So please give me one. No, no, no. And my response is more about the, the Mortal Kombat, Stephen King,

AC, D, C, Dungeons, and Dragons thing. those weren't decisions made because of something they said that was controversial on the right of the left. It was an attempt to, oh, my God, demonic images, we have to protect the children in almost all those cases, right? It's, you know, corrupting the minds of children. Again, there's a gray area saying, well, you're still trying to protect people from seeing tweets about comparing masks to Nazi Germany and stuff like that. But the decisions made behind that weren't because of something that Stephen King said about a controversial statement about the right of the left. You know what I'm saying? Well, I don't see it as public or as even, I know it's political or it can be, but I don't see any of this as political.

Like to me, the cancel culture concept itself is just bullshit. Like, it's not, it's not left or right. I feel like that's exactly where it came from is a very political source. whether it's you know whether it's one side just saying oh yep these guys are saying don't buy any more products from so from from that uh was it goia or whatever it was because uh yvanka's holding up a can of beans and saying she loves them oh no you're not wrong it's absolutely it's it's political in nature but what i'm saying is it's it's bipartisan bullshit it's not it's not actual it's actually a partisan issue for me because i don't care if it's goy

beans or freaking senator SNL guy. I can't think his name all of a sudden. Whatever it is. Left or right, don't care. They're all full of it with this concept because this concept only serves them when it serves them and it doesn't when it doesn't and I can't believe

any of them because they're all I saw a guy who was in 24 hour period said something to the effect of I got my gun. He literally talked about goya beans. I got my gun. I got my goya beans. I got my this, my that, and this a list of things, and your cancel culture

will never take him away from me. 24 hours later, it was Target. I keep thinking to Target. Target was doing something progressive, and he said his only words there were boycott Target. 24 hours, less than 24 hours later, the guy's doing the thing he says he's not doing. And that's why I say

to that degree, to that degree, cancel culture exists, the fact that it will make people want to shout boycott. That part of cancel culture exists sadly, but I don't, but the, you know, the people getting stopped in their tracks, the, the differentiation between cancel culture and consequences for doing something stupid that violates your terms of agreement with your employer, that I'd say is a very different

thing. Yeah, I would also argue that people, but this call to arms for the mob to say, boycott such and such, that degree of cancel culture absolutely exists. Yeah. Well, I mean, it exists, but it's, it may be unsuccessful. Them saying it. Them saying it exists, but it's just horseshit. It doesn't, it doesn't really happen. Well, yeah. You know what I mean? I agree that the, okay. The call to, right, the call to boycott happens. The, but the, um, the actual cancel culture, as you're describing it.

Yeah. Do you remember when they were all throwing out there, uh, somebody, I don't remember even which side it was. They were all throwing out Kyrig coffee makers. What was the deal there? It was some kind of, that one I don't remember. It was not even that long ago, it was a couple years, but they were, can't remember what the deal was. They were all mad at Kyrig for something. I don't know what it was. And they all started just taking videos of themselves chucking stuff. Okay, that's just you breaking your own coffee maker, you dipshits.

Braburning. It's canceling bras. This goes all the way back. I mean, protests are one thing, I suppose, but this is different. This is like this idea that, and everybody, you know, whatever. Everybody uses it as a crutch on the left. I've stopped eating hamburgers because of that tweet from Trump. I'm no longer eating hamburgers or drinking confefei.

Yeah, you'll never eat another. Boycott those two things. Yeah, those hamburgers off the menu is what we're saying. All right. Hey, Brian, how'd you, how'd your vaccine sign up go? Send your emails, dude. Yeah. Well, so I got up at 2 o'clock in the morning.

I kind of woke up randomly at 2 o'clock in the morning. I thought, oh, you know what? I'll go. See, because today. the 17th is when the switchover happened to start being able to make appointments for vaccines starting Friday. Friday is when 50-year-olds like me can, without two underlying conditions or working in an industry where it allows it, can start getting vaccination appointments. So today is the day to start getting those vaccination appointments. However, the majority of the

places aside from like the three big hospital groups that that have pre-signups Kaiser SCL and universal health um well not you know yeah UC health SCL that's right Kaiser UC health and and SCL um those are the places whose systems now are saying okay 17th you can now sign up for appointments I'm on those lists and basically I just have to wait for them to say okay your number is now up I I checked my place in line by the way this morning with Kaiser I am 30,203rd in line for a, for a vaccine from Kaiser. So as soon as they can get through 30,202 people, boom, I'm in. I'm next.

Yeah. But all the other ones like the pharmacy chains, the grocery chains, things like that, have not updated their systems to say, it's the 17th. We can now start taking appointments for 50-year-olds for the 19th. They still are in 1B3 territory, which is 60-year-old. and people with underlying conditions and stuff like that. So I can get in early on any of those systems. I've just basically got to keep refreshing and trying.

So it is like a concept ticket. You have to just like keep it in a five, yeah. There's no way around it. And basically I'm doing the, you know, this is where I've got the crap ton of tabs open on my browser so that, you know, I can just jump to any one of them at any given time and say, refresh. refresh anything anything refresh yeah moravina in the chat says this really the best way to do vaccines

i mean i don't know what else you do you got to get in line you got to yeah they already have the age breakdown stuff so i guess that's something but this you know think about the the massive scale at which this is happening not just here but worldwide like how do you manage it i don't know freaking yeah i can't imagine if they said okay free for all just come in and you know get in line get a get a vaccine come to any one of these 20 places around the Denver metro area get in line and get a vaccine. I can't imagine how long those lines would be and how much, you know, because there's so much stuff that has to be tracked beforehand.

Are you, did you get your first? This is your second. Did you get modern of the first time? Do you have any other conditions that might make getting a vaccine troublesome for your system? It's, um, there's a lot of, uh, there's a lot to it. It's a big, massive, giant scale thing. There's no way this goes easy across the board. Nobody's going to have an easy time getting this stuff done.

But dang it. Well, I was really hoping that Friday was our double day. You know, it still might be because here's the fun thing. Vaccinespotter.org, which is a great site for this sort of thing. If I go on there right now, I see appointments available today for Moderna Dose 1. Let's see, that's Moderna. That's Moderna. It's a lot of Moderna, actually.

where I could go today if I were eligible. So I'm hoping that Friday, somebody is going to cancel, you know, refresh, a random refresh. I'll say, all right, there's one here in Commerce City, which is 20 miles away. I can zip up there and get it. Boom. Yeah.

And go from there. Open your arm. Pull up your sleeve and take it like a man ready for a vaccine. That's how I look at it. So far this is easier. Or I'm sorry, so far this is harder than getting it. blizzcon end game about as hard as getting a PS5 yeah yeah we all we have a few comparisons that one except i do have a PS5 and i don't have a vaccine so there you go that's right put that in

your veins that's what i say have you played much on there how's that going for you you get uh it's great i'm um here's the deal for the most part i'm still i want to wrap up phoenix immortal's rising before i really engulfed myself in assassin's creed but um over the weekend i i i hooked up the switch upstairs and played a lot just laying on the couch. So when I'm down here, I'm playing Valhalla, Assassin's Creed Valhalla.

And when I'm upstairs, I'm playing Phoenix. I've got like four of the six zones done in Phoenix. I'm really close. Yeah, that's not too far. Although there's a pretty thick endgame in that thing when you've got to beat that boss. That's his name, the big red dude. Not Thorne, but it's something like Thorne.

Thorn Doran, the Terrogrin or something like that. Terrogrin. That's it. Terrogrin. Well, speaking of Terrogrin, he's with us now. Joining us as he does every Monday and Wednesday, Mr. Brian Dunaway here for Babel Royale. Today's a tadpulli feud edition. It's good to have you here, Brian.

How are you? Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Oh, hi. Sound okay? You sound great. Sound great. You work. Good.

Where are you? I'm at home. I was up a lot last night. Wasn't feeling well. Yeah. Been in the bed until about 10 minutes ago. And then Ibbett sent that link. And I'm like, oh, crap.

Yeah, you got to be sharp, man. Crap. I hope you're right. You're just not, you're just not feeling it. Haven't had one of those days. Yeah. Under the weather, just speaking of the weather, whether's been changing and just between my allergies and just everything.

Just wasn't feeling well. So I took a day. Yeah. And then I forgot it was Wednesday, the day that I took. But it's all good. I feel okay right now after my little nap. A little groggy, a little... I'm glad that you were able to get.

How are you doing? I'm glad you got a little bit of that in. That's pretty great. Yeah. Well, welcome to the show. We're going to do some fun stuff here. But first, we have to welcome a listener on the line to see if they want to participate with us. I hope this is who I think it is.

Hi, who's this. Hi, this is Jessica from Southern California. Good morning, Deli. You're not the name I thought of, but it's totally fine because I like Jessica as well. That'll be great. There was an attempt by Claire to try to call in because it's a National Irish Day or whatever. What is it? I forgot about that.

St. Patrick's Day. Why am I the only one wearing green out of the three of us? What the heck? I'm wearing green all right. No, I got a sock. I got green socks. I'm good. No pinching me is what I'm saying.

I have two of my fantastic four socks on. I wish I could show you in this. Oh, I could show you. Yeah. Jessica, are you wearing... But don't. Are you wearing green, Jessica? You got some green going on there?

I am wearing green today. Oh, fantastic. See? Oh, there's Brian. Oh, there's Brian. Yeah, it's a good look. The cats like... Those are invisible woman socks?

Okay, there we go. Wait, why are you wearing two totally different socks? Just the... Because the Fantastic Four came with four different socks. Human Torch, Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, and... Are you wearing those other ones on your hands? That's amazing. Oh, there goes the catch.

She really did not enjoy me sticking my feet in her face. Oh, again. Oh, the feet. Oh, the human feet. Yeah, they don't like that. She just took off. They're not into it. Eff it.

Well, don't worry. She'll be back. I have a feeling. She'll be back. All right, let's dive in. We're going to play this game. We'll see if we can get Jessica some prizes. And Brian will have to explain how this works.

I'll explain exactly how this works. Jessica, it's time to play the tad-poly fuse. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics and Scott and Brian will have to predict the answers that they gave us. It is Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Jessica, your job is more important than ever

because you're not just going to be choosing who you think is going to win. You're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. And if your team wins, you get a prize package. That includes a couple of games from Steam moving out. Is that based on the Billy Joel song? I hope it is. I'm moving now. Start the game.

It tells you good luck moving up because I'm moving out. There's a special boss level where you get a call from a friend who's on the West Coast. And then boomerang foo. Oh, I never heard of that one. Yeah, I never heard of that. What is that? No idea. I don't know. I'm sure it's great.

Anyway, you get those two games if you win, Jessica. Now, let's get to the game here. We surveyed the Tadpool. 575 people answered this one. a lot of answers on the board yeah this is uh this got the um this last bunch of surveys got a great response so we have a lot of great answers on the board hands on buzzers here is your question name an animal character from the comics either comic books or comic strips scott garfield what what show me show me garfield yeah number one answer well i mean i

clicked on the buzzer button and then like three seconds later here's Scott going, I'm like, you had some lag? You had some lag or something. That's some serious lag then. Oh my gosh. I must be getting the question way after Scott.

I don't know. Yeah, maybe. I think you're probably weird. Yeah, so comic books or comic strips. Name an animal character. Scott said Garfield. Number one answer, Scott, not only do you get to play,

but Jessica is going to be your teammate. So you better win this so she gets those prizes. All right. We're going to do our best here, Jessica. Do you have anything caught and do? Share the board if you're not sharing the board. Oh, yeah, I'm showing it. Do you have one that popped into your head that we could use?

I'd be remiss if I didn't say for my three-year-old. Got to say, Snoopy. Oh, yeah. Snoopy. Snoopy. All right. Show me that lovable beagle. Snoopy.

Is that the sound he makes? Yeah, it was a sound he makes. So when he was crying after he was lost in the evening. Oh, right. Okay. It's been a long time since I've heard snobes. He sounds like a Mergel. I saw a video this morning.

Somebody made a drone with a housing around it that looked like the Red Baron thing. So it was like the doghouse with him sitting up top of the goggles flying that thing. It's awesome. Somebody's drone looks like that. Yeah. It's really cool. Curse you, Red Baron? All right.

Very good. We got a couple answers on there. Give me another one. Name an animal character from the comics, either comic books or comic strips. Okay. So the question that was sent to the tadpooler said comic books as one of the options, right? Yes. The question sent to the tadpool was exactly what I just said.

Name an animal character from the comics, comic books, or comic strips. Exactly as I read it. Scott. It's important because it depends on where their minds are at. Yes, it does. So, Jessica, I'm, I lean toward Rocket Raccoon for some reason. well, even though he's technically an alien. And, yeah.

But he's a raccoon. How do you feel about that? Do you sign off on my bad idea? I want to clarify that it's comic strip or comic book. Both. Both. Yeah. Either or, yeah.

Then yes. Then yes. Yeah, and, okay, so we're going to say that one. All right, show me that alien that's not really an animal, Rocket Raccoon. Yeah, he's on my number four. I know how our people think. I know what's up there. Okay.

Oh, now the pressure's on. And you could argue on a few of these. Yeah. Um, how about, Jessica, how do you feel about Scooby-Doo? Scooby-Doo.

Yes, I also was thinking, but I don't know if it would count. Does Hobbs the tiger? count? Oh, he totally counts. You know what? We're doing Hobbs. My idea of Scooby-Doo is bad anyway because I just realized that there are comics, but no one's going to think of that. So let's do, let's do, uh, we'll go with, we'll go with that one. Let's say Hobbs from, uh, all right. Show me that, uh, lovable stuffed animal who's not

really an animal, Hobbs. Number two. Number two answer. Yeah, that sounds right. that's interesting so they did do the cheetah right yeah cheetah top three are are all comic strips so this is probably pretty heavily weighted that way so let's think there's like marmaduke do marmaduke you want to do marmaduke that's what I was actually going to say yeah all right let's do marmaduke the big red dog big stupid red dog he's not a big red dog that's Clifford oh oh hey you just gave away a possible other one but we'll say marmaduke yeah I don't think Clifford the comic book is really selling hot

Marmaduke is a, what is he, a great boxer, a great dane? He's a marmaduke. Now, what is he? He's a marmaduke. All right, show me marmaduke. He's a great dame, by the way. He's a great dame, by the way. He's a great dane, yeah.

He's kind of brownish. So, Brian, we got the top five answers have been removed from the board. Yes. Ooh, pressure's on here. Jessica, I got another one that's cropping up in your head. I don't know. if the tadpole would pick it, but what about, I think it's like Dogbert from the

Dilbert comic strip? Oh, Dogbert, maybe. Yeah, Dogbert's a good one. Dogbert, dogbert. Yeah, you know what, Dogbert. You know what? Dogbert. You know what, dogbert? Show me, dogbert. Damn it. Well. Hey-oh. There you go then.

Oh, man, I just thought of one. All right. Go ahead. It was over to, what was it? Nothing. I'm not saying. Not saying. I feel pretty good about the points on the board. Two people, by the way, did say dog purchase, so you know. Right. They did.

All right. My first instinct was to go with, you know, comic strips because that's where I go. But you said comic book, and I thought immediately the first thing I thought in a comic book, since we've hit a lot of the comic strip is Superman's or Superboy's dog, Crypto. Crypto. Crypto. I just watched, I just watched crypto. You pay with cryptocurrency.

I just watched him save a whole bunch of people in that DC. Seast series. They have a big, the big showcase of that dog in that comic. Anyway. All right. Let's see if Crypto's on here.

Show me Crypto. Yes. Number seven ants are on the board. That's interesting. All right, Brian. You still have possession of the board. I am so tempted to stay within the comic strip area.

But I just don't know how many people in a tadpool remember. If they remembered Marmaduke, you would think they would remember Heathcliff. Also, you know, they were kind of tied together in some anime. Was Heathcliff like a cat? That was a cat, right? He was a cat. Yeah, it was a cat.

Okay. It was another orange cabby. Yeah. So they were, I think they were both, was it both U.A.? I can't remember. So I'm going to go with Heathcliff just to see if. You know what it's like? It's like, I know what this is like.

This is like Transformers and GoBots, Garfield and Heathcliff. That's what that's like. Yeah. Yep. They were very, very similar. All right, show me second-rate Garfield, Heathcliff. He was, he's, to give you some credit, number 12 in the list here, just to make the top 10. All right.

Jessica, I'm leaning toward, I was just talking about Garfield again. Why not the dog? I don't remember his name, though. Odie? Oh, is it? Oh, that's right. No, Odie to tell me in Garfield. Why did I think of that?

Yeah, Odie's good. Let's do Odie. All right. Okay. Show me that big dumb dog with his tongue sticking out. Odie. Yeah, of course it's in there. I ate on the board, yes. Secondary character. That's right, yes.

Oh, man, now I'm in a rut. The only other one I was possibly thinking of, but I don't know if it gets high enough would be lockjaw. from the Inhumans. Oh, right. The big, I just read that whole series and loved the freaking crap out of that. Did you guys see, uh, do you see the movie? No, the TV show. The movie.

You mean the TV show? TV show, excuse me. Yeah, it's bad. According to Brad. But, but they did a pretty good job with the, uh, the CGI of Lockjaw. Yeah. I really like that dog in the comic. That dog saved everybody's butt.

Sorry, spoilers. Um, uh, It was an important part of Black Bolt's plan. Let's just say that. Uh, let's, let's go with, uh, why? not we'll say lockjaw let's see if these nerds are true nerds or not show me lockjaw on the list but not high enough um i think lockjaw um well actually only one person said lock joe oh yeah not high enough for sure but the important thing is somebody was thinking

lock job that right now that we've established that secondary characters do show up with odie I'm going to go with Woodstock, my other favorite Peanuts character. Toxin hash marks. It was br-p-b-b-b-b-b-p, or I just counting lines. Show me that the bird had a concert named after him. Woodstock. Oh, come on. Is it true that they named it after him?

No. They named it after the town in New York. Oh, yeah, Woodstock, New York. That's right. Yeah. I think it's the other way around. Maybe he was named after it. might have been yeah might have been named after the the town i can't remember i mean he came before

the concert so it would have to be in the town did he 69 yeah maybe i don't remember 69 dude all right oh man we're down in the in the turd water here um in the turd water um let's see so i just my hey gar the horrible he was kind of an animal yeah kind of was i guess um i think we have to go comic books because I think we're plum out of comic strips here. Yeah, and I have three I'm kind of thinking of, but none of them I think would be high enough to count. I don't know. Kathy's bathing suit, maybe. Give me the highest.

Give me the highest one you have and then. Give me the highest one you have. That's also what Kathy said when she ordered her bathing suit. Right. Hack. Howard the Duck. Oh, that's a good. good one. That's actually really good.

That's really good. Yeah. If they didn't do that, they're going to give a good answer on that one. I know he's an alien. He's not an actual duck again, but it's that, you know, we've proven with Rocket and other stuff, we don't care, so we'll say. Accuracy is not the point of Tad Pooley Feud. It's what

people say. It's what people say. That's exactly right. Like, if somebody puts a, if enough people put a wrong answer and it makes it in the top ten, I leave that wrong answer. Oh, yeah. Howard the Duck, then. All right, that's what you're saying?

Show me making two little tiny cameo appearances in the Gardens of the Galaxy movies. Howard the Duck. Yeah. Oh, look at that. Well done. Jessica, nailed it. I think, let's see, 10 plus 6 plus 7, yes. Jessica's won this, no matter what happens here.

Two answers still on the board, but... I want to see if you can run the board, Scott. Run the board. um all right billy dushputtel says the woodstock first appeared in 1967 but wasn't named until 1970 and was named after the concert yeah there was uh yeah they had a whole internet campaign uh charles schultz did how come he didn't come out with birdie mcbird face i'm surprised well there was so much cancel culture in 1967 um all right so we're down to two slots and we own the board Two slots. Do it lots.

So we can kind of go for broke hair since you've won. What were your other two, Jessica, that you were going to say? I was going to say spider ham. Oh, yeah, spider ham. Oh, that's a good one, too. Let's do spider ham. Again, more of an alien and less of an actual pig, but it works. Spider-ham.

Let's say Spider-ham. All right. Show me Peter Porker the spectacular spider ham. Oh, look at that. That's great. That's great. Leveling my theory. Wouldn't be on the list if it weren't for

Into the Spider-verse, just got to say. I had a late game possibility to distill, and I think that's not going to work now that I've seen that Peter Porker is the other answer. Turn it. One answer left on the board. Can either player get it?

Or any of our three players get it? What was your third pick that you were going to do, Jessica? What was it? My third pitch, because I'm stuck like in Marvel Tunnel Vision things called comics and stuff. I was going to say dog pool from the Deadpool series. Oh, I forgot that even existed.

Yeah. Yeah, let's do it. Yeah, it may not be high enough. Yeah, it may not be, but let's try it. If this ends up being, it just hit me that maybe the ninja turtles or turtles, and that might be a comic book that people would think of. So that'll be my guess. That's her guess. Let's see which, and Brian, you give a final guess. What do you think the final guess is? And then we'll get a final guess too.

Well, I think it's either going to be Bill the Cat or Open from Bloom County. Oh, yeah. Opus, the penguin. The duck. All said duck. All right, let's try those three and just see how we do. All right. So on all of those, I'll just do this.

Ah, damn it. Wow, then what is left? What is left that we missed? Yeah, so you guys actually did name it, and you just didn't stick with it, appearing in cartoons but not until later in comic books and in comic strips.

It is indeed. Scooby-Doo. Scooby-Doo. I would expect to like Crazy Cat or something. Yeah, it was a lot of Scooby-Doo comics, especially the ones with the Batman. Yeah, there's a bunch out now.

There's some super hipster ones now that you can go by. They're big. Opus number 11 on the list. Heathcliff, Heathcliff was 12. Heathcliff. Heathcliff. Batman, number 13, because people Did people really put

Batman? That's amazing. He's a bat. I guess he's a buddy. Spider-Man again. Ace the Bat-Hound, Beast from the X-Men comics. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah. Beast boy.

Dogbert number 21 on the list. Felix the Cat. Frog Thor, Goofy. Grim from Mother Goose and Grimm. Lockheed. I thought of that. Kitty Pride's Pet Dragon. Yeah.

I think anybody would know Grim. I didn't think anybody remember that. Yeah. Oh, it's such a great. comic. Lucky the Pizza Dog from Hawkeye. Snowy from Tintin, Snarf. Snark. Tegra. Somebody just

randomly put turtle. That was good. Turtle. I assume they met one of the Ninja turtles. Yeah. Beta Ray Bill, Black Panther, Calvin. Really doesn't remember that Caldick very well. Charlie Brown Chitara, Clifford.

Charlie Brown. He's a kid. He was right. Clifford was in there, too. Dino Mutt. He may he's a mammal, I guess. Gleek, Groot, Hong Kong, Fui. Grute?

He's more vegetable than animal. Somebody put Mendoza the Goose. Osamandius's links from Watchman. Wow. They went to... The Pink Panther. Oh, Raphael. Raphael did get a vote. He was a good one. Yeah. Pink Panther's

actually not bad. That's an actual panther. And he's pink. So that's cool. Well, Jessica, that means... That was a good enough generalized question. that we were able to get the whole board for the most. Yeah, we cleared it pretty much. I enjoyed that question. Which means this.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Yes, that's right. All you have to do, Jessica, send Brian an email. Coverville at gmail.com. He will give you your prize winnings, and you were a pleasure to hang out with today. Thank you so much for being here. If I can say one last thing, in the spirit of St. Patrick's Day, and I don't play games on Steam, please give the games to someone in the chat room today.

Oh, we can totally do that. That's very nice. I'm a console player. Oh, there you go. Well, take that controller and hold it in the air high with pride. No problem. We'll totally do that. You were awesome to have one.

We'll see you soon by now. All right, Brian, I don't know how you want to give those out, but we could totally. The first person to name an animal from this list that I didn't say when I was going through the answers. The highest first one, well, the first one gets it. Okay. That I didn't say on this list. So, there you go. Go.

What if you could get with? This is your chance. I know. I've got to wait for the delay here. That's all right. In the meantime, I can say... Fox, not on the list. Sheep, not on the list.

Antmin. Gleek. I did say Gleek. Sorry. Yeah, he did say Gleek. Normal. Oh, I forgot about Nermal from... Yeah, from Garfield.

Right. Yep. Evil A.Z got Nermal, so congratulations. Someone said bugged bunny. Crazy Cat. Did you mention Crazy Cat? I did mention Crazy Cat. Well, I mentioned it, but...

Right. Nobody... Actually, nobody... I don't think Poochy from the Simpsons. I almost mentioned those two, but it's just rat and pig and alligator. Yeah, I wasn't sure if anybody would put that. One of my favorite comic strips is Pearls Before Swine TV. Oh, yeah, he is great.

I talked to him a couple of times. He was a regular on the comics Coast to Coast show for a while early on because of Justin Thompson, who works at the Schultz Studio. Yeah. It wasn't a museum at the time. Very cool. Yeah, that's still a thing. I get that funny little pig and goat. They're pretty great.

Yeah, he does good. He did some lawyering for a while, too. Well, that's what you do. You go from that to comics. That's what you do. That's what you do. Well, well done, everybody. I don't know who said Underdog, but I don't think there were ever any underdog comics, right?

Underdog. People did say, no, actually, Underdog didn't get any, surprisingly no underdog. Vincent Van Gogot, the Max. No one gives us. The Max. What is the Max? He's a man, right? Yeah.

Hulped, right? yeah he's a whole he's an image comics Hulk ripoff is what he is sort of uh referto from grew oh yeah wow grew yeah love that too yeah love to grew grew the wonder all right so congratulations again to um to whoever i said and i emailed them evil a z evil as nice the gets the prize well done brian done away uh great stop rubbing your balls scott you no more ball rubbing uh look we had a uh is my eyeballs for those at home listening. I was running my eyeballs. Dunaway and I just put up a fresh

copy or a fresh episode of the Boop Show yesterday. That was great. Go check it out wherever you get your podcasts. And this weekend check us out on FilmSack where we're watching the movie. I forgot. I had it written down. We're watching the movie with the thing. Yeah. Don't remember

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That's Steve Irwin. It's the other... Now Ibbott is rubbing his balls. What is what was the ball rubbing this morning? We've got itchy balls. We're going to tell you. But yeah, that'll be good because it's got a noted murderer. O.J. Simpson.

The juice. The juice is loose. Yeah. So he's in there. And it's a good time. If the fire don't quit, you must have quit. You guys all need like a sick nap like I had. Yeah, I'm tired.

I'm awake now. Yeah, I know. I actually, that sounds so good. Just going up on the couch, laying down, playing some more. Phoenix, come on. Give me that. Yeah, give me that right now. Let's go right now.

That's it. Thanks, Brian. Good to have you here. We'll see you soon. I can't hang up on you for some reason. Why? Why? I wish I knew how to quit you, Brian Dunaway.

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Tom, welcome to the show. Well, thank you for having me. I thought when you said you were going to Los Angeles for the song that you were going to have me sing Oh yeah Did you prepare something for us?

No, I'm very relieved you didn't Oh man I mean we'd take anything from you cover You could do original work Whatever you want Even some beat poetry Yeah say that now Some kind of lounge music

Some sort of loungy tom Like crooner stuff I'd be doing Franks Little blue eyes Yeah Look I've seen you wear a fedora You could pull it off

You got this. I could, well, I don't have one in, it's in the other room. Oh, my gosh. Three bitcoins in a fountain. Hold on. Make a, make a, write it down. Today was the day Tom didn't have a thing within his reach. This is the first time this has ever happened.

It's ever, never not happened before. Well, anyway, it's good to have you here. As always, I love Wednesdays because I get to be on the Daily Tech News show. And in the lead up to that, of course, you're doing all sorts of preparation and stuff. What's leading the headlines out there today? Well, do you want to talk about Uber's labor policies, or do you want to talk about Wikipedia's chance to get money out of big tech? Oh, that's so weird. So I read about the Uber thing and how Californians are mad because it looks like if they just would have stood their ground, they would have gotten the labor practices out of them.

Every single Californian is angry right now because if we had stood our ground, the U.K. Supreme Court would have ruled in our favor, too. Wait, hold on. Entirely different countries with entire. Yeah, so the short version of the Uber thing is Uber lost a court case. The UK Supreme Court ruled that Uber had to treat their drivers as workers. Now, that is interesting because here in the United States, we have employees and basically not employees. In the UK, they have a more robust middle category called worker. And a worker is free to work or not work.

That's usually in the U.S. how we decide, like, well, if you're free to decide whether to work or not, then you're a contractor. But if your hours are going to be set, then, and the U.K. is like, well, no, you can still be required to have pensions and protection if you're a worker. They have this middle category. And so that was applied to the Uber drivers. And Uber has now said, we are going to guarantee a minimum. I think this is probably getting misunderstood a little out there. There is a minimum wage in the U.K. and what Uber is going to do is say

our drivers will be guaranteed to make at least that minimum wage so if their fares are more than minimum wage they'll make more but if their fares were below minimum wage then they won't get yeah they won't get less

than that the contention is going to be over how that's calculated Uber is going to calculate that during rides whereas the Supreme Court in its decision said that it should start when you're connected to the app available to take rides Absolutely should. Yeah, because there's all that time. Sometimes you're called to get, pick somebody up 30 minutes away. And all that is unpaid and on, you know, Uber and Lyft don't pay you for that time to go pick somebody up that you only get paid on the clock. So I agree with that. That is a good question. I think Uber is going to apply the minimum wage to the transit time to the fair possibly. I may be wrong about that. Definitely not applying it to you sitting in the parking lot waiting. for a fair to come up.

Okay. Panera, by the way, is my favorite parking lot to wait in because good Wi-Fi and I can go in and get a coffee. Yeah, you know, Panera used to be the St. Louis Bread Company. Oh. Did it really? Yeah. Yeah.

I can go for some bread from St. Louis. Well, it's a little known outside of St. Louis, I guess. Is St. Louis known for their bread, or is that why they changed it? They're known for the Panera bread, yeah. Okay. And they're good Wi-Fi. Does this, in your estimation, move the needle at all in this direction? The famous, St. Louis toasted Wi-Fi.

Quality Wi-quality Wi- Sorry, Scott. You were asking so well. You guys are having a fun trip down that road, and I didn't want to interrupt. But do you think it moves the needle here at all? Is there any change to any policy? It certainly is going to provide a little fodder for people to rally the troops. There's the pro act that's got a little traction federally to sort of say,

okay, let's change the law nationwide to affect this. And it doesn't look like the battle's over in the U.K., you know, transport for London might decide to wait in. The U.K. government might decide to wait in. I think Uber is cleverly saying, look, we gave you almost everything. And we think that once we do this, that even if you count at the time that you're sitting around, it's probably still going to meet minimum wage. But we won't be encouraging people to try to play that system. I think Uber's worried that, you know, folks will connect to the app, gamble that they're not going to get a ride and then cut it off, you know, and try to game the system. I doubt that's going to happen a lot, but maybe that's what they're worried about.

So I think there'll be a battle there. I think it's just another plank in the arguments that we're going to happen anyway here in the U.S. Okay. Interesting. Now, real quick on the Wikipedia thing, it just so happens last night. I was reading about King Nebuchadnezzar the second for some reason. As you do. It's just so funny you bring this up today because it hit me last night in a very meaningful way. All of a sudden I was just very appreciative of what Wikipedia is.

Like that it exists, that it covers what it covers. That it helped you pronounce King Nebuchadnezzar's name correctly. Yeah, I got that right. Yeah, exactly. But this whole, this entire resource is really pretty awesome. Like it's easy to just sort of brush it off as another part of the internet and we don't think about it much. but it's a really impressive thing that that exists and that it's there and that at any moment of the day I can go, wait a minute, didn't Kinghammering the Eighth have four wives or three or

whatever? And I can go find out and I'll get accurate information, pretty great information about what I'm looking for. Is it perfect? No, but it seems like that thing, you know, achieve what it was meant to achieve. So I am curious what's in the news today because I was just, I was just having an appreciation moment. Was I too soon or was I right to be appreciated? No, I think you're right to appreciate it. I have some problems with some of the headlines on this particular article saying Wikipedia going to force big tech to pay them for what they've been taken for free because the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, is saying you can continue to take everything for free. They're not putting up a gate on anything. What they're doing, I think, is incredibly smart.

They're going to create a product later this year called Wikimedia Enterprise that says, hey, if you're a Google or a Facebook or some other big tech company that is scraping tons of our information and using it, we could help you make that easier. We could format it for you better. We could clean it up for you. You may

and probably are in Google's case paying people to, you know, clean up some of the entries from us. Wikimedia Enterprise, you pay us, we'll provide you a feed that is custom to your interests versus the general API, which is meant for anybody to come along,

and just get some information out. And I think that's incredibly smart because enterprise companies will spend a lot more on stuff than private individuals will. And we have seen this model work in, for instance, operating systems. When's the last time you paid for Windows?

Right. But the enterprise does pay for it, not because they pay for Windows, they pay for the support. And that's essentially what Wikimedia is doing here, saying we will provide you support. We'll provide you some custom stuff. And it would be another revenue

source for Wikimedia. Yeah, well, that's interesting. You always wonder how those guys have, they've had to have long and many meetings about how to monetize what they do better than they already do. And it's always just come down to, hey, donate what you can. And we're having our yearly fund driver. You know, it's always been that. So for them to find another way is interesting at the very least.

So we'll see how it goes. Yeah. And honestly, this is just information. And I like Wikipedia's stance here, which is that they take public information. that is made available publicly on purpose so that we can all be smarter and they provide it for free on purpose so that we can all be smarter.

And so they're not trying to gate that. They're saying, but we also know that you might have a need that not everyone else in our community has and if you're willing to pay for that and you're a company that's big enough to pay for it, we'll help you make it easier. But the information itself still flows freely through it.

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Nice. Tom Merritt, everybody. Ace Detacked on Twitter. We'll see you soon. Bye now. Thanks. All right. I'd like. that his plaid today was blending with his background and it was almost like a floating head it you know if there's ever a time that he's going to finally break the the the appearance that it's a it's a green screen behind him that just has a cool bookcase on it yeah today would have been the day with it would have been the day yeah you're right also get that fedora within reaching distance you're starting to yeah what the heck man geez geez louise all right hey uh what about Nicole. What about her? What about

Nicole? It's my favorite movie from the 90s. What about Nicole? What about Nicole too? Kind of a misstep. Not so much. Not good character development. A different director. What do you expect? Yeah, that's usually what does it. All right. We're bringing her in. We're going to do recommendals. We're going to have a lot of fun doing it, so enjoy this. Nolo joining us from also

in Colorado where Brian lives not far from each other, 30 minutes or something. Also. Yeah. Also. Digging out from that blizzard, are you? I'm really crappy internet. Oh, that's because Mark's uploading pornography. Yeah, we can hear you just fine. Yeah, can you hear us? Our internet has been going

wonky since the storm. Oh. Really? Storm-based weirdness. Well, don't send video. Don't see if we can maximize your audio I turned off the video yeah you sound better already

how'd you like all that snow huh welcome to Colorado well it's fine I'm fine with it I'd rather have that than 120 for two three months yeah let's get blind plus you're from Missouri you've seen snow you know what's up

you know clay it's snow you work around it you do unless you're not used to it at all and then it seems crazy but yeah yeah The weird thing is we never got, we always get at least two or three that size of a storm you guys got a year. And we didn't get anything this year, hardly. Just little spatterings here and there.

Well, you can also, you can tell who's new to the state. Oh, yeah. Because they're buying up the eggs and the break. Yeah. It was crazy. Just wait, just wait a day. It'll grow like. Those food stores get decimated over the weekend.

It was nuts. Yeah. Yeah. Why is that, do you think? Do you think it's new people? It's just panic. It's like, it's toilet paper panic. basically.

They don't know what it, you know, they're seeing what happened in Texas and thinking, oh my God, that's going to happen here. And Colorado, we're way, this happens so often, we're prepared for it. That caught Texas by surprise. And Colorado's like to happen. But Texas doesn't have the infrastructure. They don't do road, you know, clean up and salting and all that. They don't do any of that.

Exactly. It also depends on the area that you move from. So like in Missouri, when you got a snowstorm like this, the next day, the roads were not clear. The next week, the roads sometimes are not clear. It's like, it's a much different experience in other parts than it is here in Colorado. Yeah. So enjoy your mile high snow and may it ever melt. Have you been here for five years yet, Nicole?

Six years? We came out here in November 2016. So pretty close to five years. Yeah. Wow. Wow. And I haven't seen you for the last whole one. I know, it's so weird.

Yeah. So weird. It is weird. Do you look at dates and go, oh, that was just last year? You're like, oh, wait, that was 2019. That was two years ago now. Yeah. So I have our Echo show set up to show us photos from this day.

Like, basically it looks at my photo roll and shows us photos from this day in different years. And so it's funny like seeing, oh, yeah, we were in Vegas for the, um, geek bowl and oh yeah we did this and then you get to like one year ago and it's like here's me at home in pajamas yeah yeah it's funny looking at some of these that are like two years ago and three years ago I'm thinking oh yeah this is just last oh no it wasn't yeah but do you want to say hi I don't have a camera on hi hi Eva hi hi hi hi hi it's so funny on the high end of her high the her internet goes weird Yeah.

When she was flying. Okay. Okay. Go on. See you later. Sorry. She wants to build a snowman. All right.

Hey, let's do recommendals. We do this thing. Yeah. I have some good ones. I got some really good ones. Oh, really? Okay. Cool.

So no me meh commentals or recommendals. How do we go? What do we say? Mechamintels. Metcimentals. Not Reha mechles. There's so many places you can stick the mehels. Oh my gosh, Nicole, we watched, I have to tell you about this.

My wife was watching something, and it had Dermick. Oh, no, it's the final season of New Girl and Dermick McRolny's in it. And here's the problem. I can't call him by his regular name now. I can't do it. I don't even know what his regular name is now. It's impossible. My wife goes, oh, look, hon, who it is?

And I go, oh, it's Dermit McRolny. She goes, that sounds like Nicole's version that you do on the show. I'm like, I know, I don't even know. Is it Dermit? Dermit. Mollronerone. It's a mole rooney? Oh, you've ruined me on him.

Dermick. Dermick, McRoney. So bad. Broken you. I'm sorry. It's totally fine. Anyway, we're going to start with Brian this week with his recommendal, Brian. Any set up for this? Yeah.

Just one for this one for me today. And two things. You'll hear the name of the movie, at least partially named in this clip. So it won't be a big surprise. Number two. But also won't be a big surprise knowing what I'm usually doing at this time of year every year. uh movie wise so let's get to the clip

sounds like this movie might be Oscar worthy here you go might be come on levy let's get ready to play keep your mind on your word okay boys here we go here we go here we go moonshine blues first moonshine blues mom I'm doing no moonshine

nothing I'm doing black bomb first come on Sylvester where's the rest of Mike Irvin get him Mike uh Ma the boys say he can't do it who who say he can't do it What boys say he can't do it?

The band, Ma, the boys in the band. What band? Band work for me. He stutters, Ma. They say he stutters. I don't care if he'd do. I promise a boy he could do the part, so he's going to do it. And that's all there is to it.

You don't stutter all the time. Get a microphone down here for him. We don't have time, Ma. We can't. If you want to make a record, you better find the time. I ain't playing with you, Irvin. Now I can walk out of here right now. go back to my tour. I don't need to go through all this. Go get the boy a microphone.

Yeah, that's that Ma Rainey's Big Bottom. What is it? Black Bottom. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Yeah, that's Viola Davis as Ma Rainey, a woman who looks like she applied her makeup with Homer Simpson's makeup shotgun invention. but she is a like this blues singer that is just tearing it up in the in the late 1920s she so basically here's what's cool this movie takes place in like a over the course of a day in a recording studio there's a little bit of set up that takes place in a different time but for the most part the majority of the movie takes place in this three or four hours recording session in a studio I love these little time capsule movies like that where at breakfast club. It all takes place during the few hours of detention, that sort of thing. This is,

and basically it's all the stuff they go through. Maureenie's got a little bit of an attitude and kind of a diva. Chadwick Bozeman, the late great Chadwick Boseman plays Levy, who's also got a little bit of dreams and aspirations that exceed his means. he's her trumpet player

and they're fighting over the version of Black Bottom that they're going to do. Basically, he does a more upbeat, faster version, and then there's Maureenie's Black Bottom, which is a more slow blues version. And so that's where the title comes from is this song called Black Bottom and whose version they're going to do. He's great. Chadwick Boseman is great

playing this character that that goes from zero to 60 in overreacting in no time and consequences from that. You also get Coleman Domingo who you might know from Fear of the Walking Dead. He was in the first few seasons of that. Really, really good actor. Also, Euphoria. He's on, he's Allie on Euphoria. Oh, I know this guy. Yeah, he's cool. Is that he? Yeah, that is a he, right? He's a he. Okay, I'm looking at the right actor.

Yeah, he's, I like him. He's good. This was produced by Denzel Washington. Doesn't appear in it. But I can see why it's on the top of so many lists. Didn't quite make the cut for Best Picture, but a lot of stuff. I think Viola Davis is nominated for a Academy Award

and for Best Actress. It's really, really good. Yeah, Chadwick Bowes. been nominated for Best Actor, Production Design, Costume Design, Best Makeup, and Hairstyling, again, for that makeup that looks like it was applied with a paint roller. It's very 1920s, though, that makeup, right? Like, super thick, yeah. Yeah, but even then, it's very exaggerated and very, very much for the character more than it is for the time, I think. Yeah.

Well, I've been wanting to see it. Netflix original, right? It's on Netflix. I don't know if it's a Netflix original, but I mean, it's going to be on Netflix for a while distributed by Netflix. So yeah. So yeah, it'll be there. Really, really good. Worth checking out. And again, if you like these kind of movies where it's just a little slice of life moment, a little short time period, then you'll like this one because it's cool. What happens in this recording studio? I like this kind of stuff. I will definitely be watching this. So on my list. All right. Right, here is mine. Mine's weird as crap. It's a weird thing I found on HBO Max, and I love that these exist, and I keep bumping into weird ones I've never heard of. I'm sure I'm late to the game on it because somebody else has heard of it. But again, having not had cable TV for a while, a lot of this stuff I missed, I won't give too much away until the end, but here it is. He found in their easy rapport and inner serenity he never thought possible and decided to abandon his plan for Balinese destruction and run away with his beloved. He even began to enjoy seasoning his food with butterfly skulls and dance to the disco forged from the screams of his kind. Naturally, his butterfly brethren were devastated by the betrayal. All right. Any guesses?

Well, I'm guessing just, I think, based on us talking about this during film sack last week, is this the animated that stop motion animated thing that had the prayer jackers? Yes, this is the one. Yeah, but I can't remember what the name of that was. It's called The Shivering Truth. And it's a adult swim produced thing by a, the creator is Vernon Chapman. And you probably don't know that name, but he is a longtime writer, creator slash collaborator on South Park. So his stuff goes pretty deep. In fact, the only other thing that, I can't think of the main South Park guy.

That's his name. Not Matt Stone, the other one. Trey Parker. Trey Parker doesn't do animated voice stuff very often except for South Park. The only other exception is that movie where he played the villain. I want to say maybe it was the second Minions movie or something. He played some villain in that. And then the only other thing he's ever done is this show where he does one voice of a doctor.

And I just thought that was interesting. So he's got like these ties to the South Park people. but what you're not going to get here is South Park. It's nothing like South Park. It's more like if you took the Twilight Zone and a little bit of black mirror and a little bit of, you know, the claymation's its own thing. Um, they're not claymation. It's, it's a stop motion, but he says Terry Gilliam's Monty Python stuff is an inspiration. For sure. Like you can feel all of that stuff. And there are all kinds of voices in this, you know. Um, Vern, Vernon Chapman plays a lot of the he does that that was the narration that was him um but he'll do other characters

and stuff like that but there's been tons of guest stars on this show as well uh it started in 2018 there was a season then there was a season in 2020 i really hope a third one's coming because i really really like it um it's very i've never heard of this until you brought it up during it's very odd it's very disconcerting it is not a laugh riot it's not meant to be it's supposed to make you think and ask weird questions and it's it's very non-secority where like the waiter in a restaurant scene seems like he's got nothing to do with anything for the story and then suddenly it shifts and now it's all about the waiter and that's all it's about and then later you find out it's not ever it's not actually

about the waiter it's about the waiter's taxi car cab driver or whatever uh it's all very psycho and strange some of these episodes just like straight up like what the eff are we even doing i'm blaming wanda vision on uh our current both you and i seem to be going down the same rabbit hole. Maybe. Maybe. It is definitely just,

like this. Okay, so it is animated, but I'm going to tell you right now, 100% not for kids. There's some swears, but also just imagery-wise. It's just weird. It's freaking weird.

And, you know, some of the tone of it is just a little dark or whatever. But it's my jam. It reminds me of why I love liquid television or any number of like just. I can't believe you brought that up because mine's going to be

in the same thing. Oh, that's perfect. I'm so happy to hear that. So if you have HBO Max, what you probably don't realize is all that weird adult swim stuff, all these strange little offshoots that no one's heard of

or only people heard of it at 2 a.m. in the morning when they watched it or whatever. It's all up there now and it's all new to me and I'm loving it. So again, it is called The Shivering Truth.

There are two seasons. It's a very quick watch and I loved every second of it. Nicole. What did you bring with you? So I was going to do, so I have two, and I was going to do the one that's closer to what you just recommend it. Second, but I decided I'm going to do it first because it fits. Why not? Sorry, the doorbell rang.

Busy life. Those two dogs behind you. I'm surprised they're not going yet. I know. Yeah. So I'm going to give you a clip. And I want you, can you play it for the audience? Yeah. All right, because you can watch it. Because here's the thing. you're not going to get this I didn't there's four seasons of this show never heard of it

it is in the same vein as like you were saying I almost feel like this is liquid television for adults now so there you go enjoy that this looks like something I would love all right hold on let me put it up in here so the chat can see it oh god okay pinged on it ooh weird Hold on. I'm going to watch it, too, because I've never heard of this. Hold on. My stuff's all. I'll sit around.

I miss you. Okay. Let me turn it back. Hi, stranger. It's been a while. I've missed you. It's okay. You can look at my butt.

I feel like I can really be vulnerable around you. Do you like this tree I made? Cool, right? That was cool. I love stupid weird stuff like those. Oh my God. It's so hard to make things sometimes. It looks like he's made out of Mars upon.

Yeah. Yeah, he's like a good, he's, that's some good clay or whatever that stuff is. Do you know what this is? No. All right. I'm all in, though. So tell me more. So like I said, this is, this is kind of structured like liquid television was.

But it is kind of, it sounds a lot like what you were saying about yours, Scott. It's definitely not for kids. It's a lot more sweary. There's adult content in it. There's a bunch of different clips. It's a show called Cake. And it's on FX or FXX. Okay.

I don't know. Either way, you can watch it on Hulu. Let's see. And I watched three episodes of the first season. And I was like, I got to this one. And I go, what the hell? am I watching, but I couldn't stop watching it. Oh, here it is.

Handcrafted assortment of bite-sized content served up two years. It's so weird and wonderful. And each episode builds upon. So like there's one one segment called, I think it's, oh, Jerome, no or something like that. Or Jerome, he just has so many feelings and he's trying to push his feelings away. And there's like a cameo from the Russian. doll girl. What's her name? She was on Orange is the New Black, too.

Nichols was her character. And her name is... She's Stifler's girlfriend, or not Stifler's girlfriend, the other girlfriend on American Pie. Yeah, American Pie. Yes. Natasha Leone. There you know. Yes, Natasha. She rips a pigeon's head off with her mouth and weird, just weird. And then there's this, there's this girl. It's something poet. Oh, I found a clip of it, and I was, I absolutely, it was called quarter life poetry. And the first thing

you'll get exposed to is, damn, I love this Friday night. And I'm watching this going, oh my God, this is brilliant. And it's kind of made for, I hate using Gen X and Gen Z and all that crap, but it's for the younger generation and kind of what that generation experiences with phones and flakiness and go here, do that. I'm not there. I just loved it. And she does something every episode, at least for the three that I've watched so far. But if you're just looking, if you are looking for something just different and just

odd and builds up, this is a show for you. Where are you seeing this? I can't find it. Where is it? Where is it, FFX, but or FSXX? It's Hulu. It's Hulu. All right.

Yeah, yeah. And there's four seasons of it. I've never heard of it. And they do like these weird, like transitional things where they have like a couch made of cake and the person sitting and it just grabs it and you start to eating cake. Weird. It's so weird. So is it all, everything's animated?

Is any of it live action? No, no. It's not. Everything is not anime. In fact, here's the clip I was just telling you about the quarter life poetry. And the way Hulu does it is. you can even, they've broken it out by the clips. So like queer life poetry, you can watch all of them at once.

It's a little toggle category at the top of the screen. Or you can just watch each of the episodes. We'll take a look at this one here real quick, chat. It's almost like little tiny short films, basically. It is. It really is. I love it. There's just something wonderful. really weird about it.

I slip on my cozy clothes, winding down, I'll watch my show, sipping tea and heating up my pads I from two days ago. That's going to get me, uh, dear wormy. Well, YouTube's going to give me heat for that. But, oh, yeah, yeah. But yeah, like, this is totally my jam.

I'll have to check this out. It seems good. Well, and I, I first started watching it. I'm like, a white girl rapping, what? Yeah. I really enjoyed it. Yeah. So there you go.

That's my favorite holiday thing is white girls rapping. And you said Hulu? Hulu cake with the FX partnership that they're doing. I just own, I mean, well, Disney owns them all now, but, you know. Yeah. I like FX a lot and I really like that their stuff goes straight to Hulu now like next day, which is great. So all the FX stuff is. And I'll warn you weird-ass dreams after watching that.

Oh, yeah, I'm sure. Oh, my God. Yeah, I would get those with Love, Death, and, robots. I would get those really weird dreams afterwards. When's that new thing? I don't know. It needs to be soon. I'd love that so much. Did you ever see that, Nicole? I have it in my queue to watch.

Oh, gosh, dang it. What's great is they're nice and short. So, like, if you've got 15 minutes, you can usually find one that's short enough to watch in there. It's 2020 Liquid Television. That's what it is. Yeah. It's so good. Heavy metal kind of, you know, the... I loved it so much. Oh, my gosh. More of that.

please soon you have to tell me if you like cake there's a lot of animation in that as well I'm gonna totally I'm gonna totally watch cake cake is on now on my official like watch it soon list so yeah good recommendation as always all these recommendations oh I got one more sorry I actually have a movie oh well that's right you already said yet too

I know I know all right you want the clip there you go here's the clip you know I have to share it. It's just a lot of you. All right. Here we go. Click and play. Whoops. Here we go. Let's find out what this is. It's running. It's loading. It's loading. Here we go. It's for some reason not making any sound. Hi.

Oh. Have you heard of that new movie? What's it called? Oh. Oh. Constipation. No? it's because it hasn't come out yet so a diarrhea oh enough we've got leaked early

we're still eating seven it got leaked early oh those are terrible jokes these look like Australian people what is this Australians in the 70s.com I don't know what this is

so Amazon has a whole thing about movies that one award So I think this one on a BAFTA that came out, 2016. I had never heard of it before. It's a movie called Girl Asleep. And I watched the trailer.

And the way they described it that made me instantly hit play was Napoleon Dynamite meets where the wild things are. Oh, cool. And it's so true. I'm in. And so in that clip, you heard the father. And he's trying to connect with, he has two daughters, one's older. one is getting ready to turn 15 and she's very awkward and very shy um but like most girls kind of going through that young girl to woman phase she's she's lots of emotions going on in her in her

and this is actually adapted from an Australian play and I loved it I absolutely loved it it's so again weird there's like weird things happening and there's um the older sister has a boyfriend and i'm looking at him going i recognize him he is and i looked it up later you'll appreciate this brian do you remember in twin peaks the third season um the Oh, what was it, the The newest season, yeah. Yeah, the newest season. He was the awful kid that was born of.

Oh, yes, right. Like the no good. Yeah, right. The blonde. Oh, not Michael Sarah. No, no. Yeah. And he was just really awful and he took the money from the grandparents and Horton.

Is it Horton? Could be. Anyway. Did he hear a girl? sleep. Well done. You always know a Horton. But anyway, it was, his name's Edmund Faron.

Eman, Eamon, Eman, Eamon, Farrin. Anyway, he played. Yeah, yeah, you take my word out. But he was, he was in Richard Horn. That's right. So he was the son of what's her face. Oh, God, yeah, that guy, yeah. And, yeah.

So, anyway, he was awful in Twin Peaks. and I hated him and I saw him in this movie and I couldn't like shake it. I was like, I know I know him. But anyway, the whole point with him is he's like a bad guy, but he's also good. And he kind of plays this role of kind of helping the 15-year-old through some harder times. And it goes into this whole thing where she goes into a dreamlike state and there's like weird creatures. and I just love it. I just...

It's just... It's a very hard movie to explain, but it came out in 2015. 16. Oh, was it 15? It says 15 on IMDB, but yeah, who knows. But that was a good year for movies from Australia and New Zealand. So I'm going to take your word for it and watch it. She's in something now called the Family Law.

What is this? I wonder what this is. Anyway, go ahead. What are you going to say? Who is? this girl is me i was going to say if you have a young daughter or have daughters i think i think it's a good i really enjoy i probably will watch it with eva when she gets a little older because it kind of takes that whole transitional period where you're moving from like i said from

little girl to young woman and how people are treating you and how people are treating you and how like there's some mean girls that she's having to deal with and then she has her her best friend who really likes her more than a friend and all those things that you have to navigate and they put it into just a weird package of fantasy and different creatures and like the father figure just wants to protect her but he doesn't know how to protect her and from this new phase of her life. And anyway, girl asleep, check it out. I really enjoyed it.

Nice. I cried, actually. Oh, my gosh, crying. Anyway, it was very unexpected. It's at the end. I was like, oh, what? Did you say where it's streaming? Is this Netflix?

This was on Amazon Prime. Amazon Prime. Oh, you did say that. Yes, okay. Yeah. Very cool. This looks like a good one. Even Farren's eyes are just piercing through me and I can't.

I know. It's hard to avoid it. Here's the deal. Well, if any of these sounds. He's Australian, too. And he fakes these American accents like nobody's business. He's good at it. They're all good at it over there. I don't know what they're doing. Yeah. Hey, if you like the sound of any of this, follow Nicole, Nicole Spagg on Twitter. And she'll list them out and she'll say, hey, here's where to get them. That's the beauty of it. So go check it. Follow her if you haven't already. Nicole Spagg, have a fantastic day.

Bye. Bye. She's laughing at us. She's going to laugh at you. All right. Laughing with us, Scott. Yeah, not at us, yeah, with us. Near us. She's laughing near us. All right. That's it for the show, everybody.

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You probably have a song to play. and why would I stand in the way of that? Let's do it. Don't get in my way with this, Scott. I've been barreling through. I'm a juggernaut. I'm a juggernaut. Yes, this is a, this is not a request. This is just a song that's appropriate for today because it's an Irish artist covering another Irish band. Declan O'Rourke, which is the most Irish-y sounding name ever, doing a cover of U-2s when love comes to town, the song they did with B.B. King.

Brilliant song. Broken down with a very cool acoustic version here by Declan O'Rourke. This is recorded for Even Better Than the Real Thing, Volume 3, which is a series of albums. Originally done Irish artists covering other bands and then one or two of their volumes were covering Irish artists. Claire Gagg, not a fan of U-2. But come on, this is Declan O'Rourke. This isn't you too. This is a blue.

This is a BB King song. Come on. Anyway, here's Declan O'Rour covering when love comes to town. Hey, yeah. Hey,

yeah. I was a sailor. I was locked at sea. I was under the way before love rescued me. I was a fighter. I could turn on a cliff. Now I stand accused. of the things I'd say

When love come to town I'm gonna jump that train When love come to town I'm gonna catch that plane Maybe I was wrong To ever let you down But I did what I did Before love came to town

I said I was making promises I would soon forget She'd pale as the laces of a wedding gown But I left her standing before love came the time Ran into a juke trunk where I heard a guitar scream The notes were turned through I was dazing in a dream As the music played I saw my life turn around That was the day before love came the time

When love comes to town I'm gonna jump that train When love comes to town I'm gonna catch that plane Maybe I was wrong To ever let you down But I did what I did Before love came to town

When love come to town When love come to town When love come to town I'm gonna jump that train Love come to town I'm going to catch that plane May I was wrong to ever let you down But I did what I did

Before love came to town I was there when I crucified my lord I held a scabbard when a soldier drew its sword I threw the dice when they pierced its side But I've seen love conquer The Great Divide When love come to town I'm gonna jump that train

Love comes to town I'm gonna catch that flame Now maybe I was wrong to ever let you down But I did what I did Before love came to town Hey Yeah Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Love come to town, I'm gonna jump that train. Love come to town, I'm gonna catch that plane. Now, maybe I was wrong to ever let you down, but I did what I did before love came to town. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. Letters and tomatoes are very delicate.

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