The Morning Stream - TMS 2087: Thankless Water Heater

Episode Date: March 24, 2021

You'll have NO toilets, NO power, and NO Lt. Yar! I don't like yard Peeeeeeeeee. No Show Yesterday. Oh No I Flushed! KIM!!! Sediment toooobs. One Two Three Fourteen. Giant Preying Mantis-Type Unit. If it's brown, leave town. Mecha Eminem. I Like The Irish, With Their Potatoes And Their Blight! You'll Need a Worm Card Voucher. Vote For Pedro Across the Street. Don't sniff the pipe glue, kids. Godzilla vs Stan. Tom's Tech Time! Nicole Stops Being Polite And Starts Getting Real 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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You'll need a worm card voucher. Vote for Pedro across the street. Don't sniff the pipe glue, kids. Godzilla versus Stan. Tom's Tech Time. Nicole stops being polite and starts getting real. And more on this episode of The Morning Stream. I wish I could escape from this gilded cage.

Free to fly away like you, my little friend. Back to the real world I've all but forgotten. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Good morning, everybody. Welcome back to TMS. It's the morning stream for Wednesday, March 24th. 2021. Yeah, you didn't imagine it. There was no show yesterday. Wait a minute. Wait. I swear I remember doing a show. I know. I know. That's how memory works sometimes, Brian. You don't know. You don't know what you've done until you've not done it, is what I always say. But, hey, we didn't have a show. And the reason we didn't have a show is because, man, what a day. I'm just going to launch right into this. Monday, we have a plumber coming over. He's coming at night.

he told us ahead of time that this will probably take him three hours. Okay, nine. Nine, ten, eleven, maybe noon, maybe noon, you know, no big deal. And he's supposed to come in here and put in a tankless, or as I now call it, thankless water heater. He's doing that because our two water tanks that we had, our water heaters,

uh, things were full of sediment and starting to rust and we're going to flood any minute and we're like, we've got to take care of this. and rather than just replace it with two brand new water heaters and then do this all again later on in several years yeah just get something a little more permanent and a little more modern so we went and spent basically our entire stimulus check on our checks combined checks on the freaking thing on the on the tankless thing

which looks like or sorry go ahead what are you going to say no I said worth it you know I mean that you're going to save so much money in the long run and replacing them later on and that sort of thing. It's a no-brainer. Yeah, it seems smart. And it looks like this cool, I don't know, alien tech in that room. It's just rad-looking thing mounted to the wall, big stainless steel monster with big LED on the front.

Only they could have gotten Hagar to design tankless water heaters. Yeah, we should have got him before he died. He was like, hey, can you stop doing alien penises? Did you design some tankless water heaters for us? Yeah, just before you kick off and he'd say, It dispronounced Geiger and then die. That's how he would die. It's a geiger, I guess.

I've been saying it wrong my whole life, so that's just the way it is. But anyway, so, yeah, we got that deal, and we thought, okay, cool, you'll be here for three hours, which means we knew that that would mean a little bit of downtime for the water. And at some point of the day, I knew he had, at some point in that three hours, I knew he had to turn the power off. But it's three hours. It's a window I can deal with. The show was going to be done before that part happened anyway. It was going to be all good.

And it was. You and I did the show, no issues. I heard a little sound in there, but nothing bad. And I came out of here, and it would have been the three-hour mark thinking, all right, I'll bet this is all done. No, no, not even close. There's stuff strewn everywhere. It's one dude. I feel like this is like a two or three-man job, and there's just one dude doing it.

And he's nice as nice guy, but I think they just bit off more than they can chew, and they estimated it way under time. They don't charge more, which is nice, because they just stick to whatever. their bid was, um, which is really good because he ended up being here until almost 9 p.m. at night. So 12 hours. And now here's the problem from 11 or so until 7. Uh-huh. No toilets. No sinks, no water. No running water whatsoever. None of that because he had all that turned off and it went longer than he expected. So I had to pee in the yard. Did you really? You actually did go pee in the yard? I peed in the yard. Yeah. I went outside behind the fence where nobody could see me and I peed. I peed because I had to pee so bad. And our other

choices were, hey, neighbor, during a pandemic, can I just bust in your house and pee? Or it was go to a store where you don't know who's what and some stores don't even have open public bathroom. So we're just like, I don't know what else to do. We're going to do it like our like our forefathers. Just go paint in the yard. Yeah. Yeah. So I went outside, Pete in the yard, very privately, you know, whatever. Nobody saw, I don't think. And that was just kind of the day. Now, that's one thing.

Then the other thing is, he's like, okay, I got to turn the power off for just a little bit. And he tells me this, I don't know, half hour before I'm supposed to be on AMTP with you. Yeah. And I've already watched or listened to the shows that I'm supposed to be judging. It's all done. And I'm ready for the show. And he says, hey, power's going to come off. It won't be very long.

It was off for like two hour, two and a half hours. It was, that's plenty. It was off as long as he was originally supposed to be here total. Just to do the total. Right. Yeah. So I had no power for a bit. I had no water all the way up till nine.

When we finally got the okay and was like there was water, I was like, oh, and I go up, turn on the sink. And it does that thing where since it's had no water in it, it's going. Yes, right. Yeah. Doing that thing. There's so much air in the line that's trying to push it all through. But I didn't care. All over the place.

I didn't care. I was just like, give it to me. give me the water. I mean, I'm going to pee all day. And, oh, I forgot to mention this part. So later in the evening, I had to pee again because, Brian, I don't know about you, but you drink and you have to pee. It's part of life. Yeah. It's also called being an old man. Like you basically, it's just on your way back from the bathroom, you realize, hmm, I have to pee again. And you walk back and go to the bathroom. Oh, I'm not quite there yet, thankfully. But it was a, I don't know, some number of hours later. And I drank too much down here. I was drinking

too much water. And I knew while I was drinking water, I'm like, why am I doing this? I'm going to have to pee again. This is stupid. So I'm like, Kim says, well, you know what, there is a little water in the toilet and we can just, you know, pee in there and then just flush it later. If you flush it now, it'll go away and there'll be no water in there. So don't flush it, but go ahead. And I'm like, oh, well, I could have done this earlier. Now I feel stupid for peeing in the art. If it's yellow, you can let it mellow. Scott, that's the, that is the rhyme. Yeah, and if it's brown, leave town. Is that how it goes? yeah that's exactly right

okay good brown best leave town get the hell out of town so i go in there and i decide to do it now my habit my habitual uh muscle memory kicks in in a way that kind of freak me out and i'm not kidding about this i go in there i pee and my brain nose don't flush but there goes my left arm like it's magic and went uh it almost could see it happening without like out of body And I flushed it. I flushed it. And it goes all down and I go, I go, Ah, shit.

I can't. And she goes, what? I go, I flushed it. I can't believe I freaking flushed it. I didn't mean to. And in my head, I was like, because I don't know where water goes. I don't have these pipes work.

I don't understand anything about this. I thought, is this going to send it down to that dude where he's got an open pipe and he's about to get like blasted in the face? He's like up there looking at the pipe. Yeah, okay. I think that's all. clear right there. Yeah.

I thought he was going to blast this dude right in the noggin with my pee water. Yeah. And I was just sure of it. And then Kim's like, no, no, no. It's just there's no water to refill it. So now we, you know, we absolutely can't use the toilet for as long as he's here. Like, okay, that's not so bad. And then, like I'm a dope with dope, I walk out of the bathroom and turn on the faucet to

wash my hands and forgetting there is no water. I hit it. Nothing happens. Nothing comes out. A little air goes out. It's funny how muscle memory, like you get into stuff like that where it's impossible not to do it because you're just so used to a procedure. You're used to this process and you can't get your brain outside of that. It was so stupid. The whole day, just so dumb. And then it all comes back, like I say, 8.30, whatever it was. And he leaves at 9. And it's all good now.

That thing's great. it's almost bad because the water never gets cold so you can just sit in there forever just never have a cold shower ever again and and it's nice it's great but I don't understand this stuff I don't get it this is all freaking French to me and it was a bad day how do they work and then oh this is the part I only have a theory about because I don't have any proof but this is this gets to why there was no show yesterday we had a show Tuesday or Monday but Tuesday why where was the show I woke up in the middle of the night with

horrible vertigo and the most rotten headache and part of me thought oh it's just this weather we're getting some high pressure by i get this sometimes not that big of a deal sleep it off no big deal nope all night long all morning long i finally text brian last i had notes and everything prep we were ready to do a show we're ready to do it yeah and i send brian a note i'm like dude i don't know if i can do this whenever whenever i get that because it's rarely but it's happened to me too i just kind and close my eyes, and I count uno, dose, trace, Cotorsi, and it goes away. It's amazing.

As soon as you get to the fourth Spanish word, it goes away. As soon as I get to, as soon as I count to 14 from one, two, three, 14. Oh, Cotorce is 14. Yeah, uno, dose, trace, Cotorce. Then it goes away. And I say, hello, hello. Yeah. I know what it is, chat.

It's quattro. Okay, I know. I know what it is. It just for a second there, it didn't matter. So I just understand where I'm coming from. Yeah. But I did. so that was happening and it was so bad that I was like well I can't I can't do a show and I had this headache and I just felt terrible just awful and nobody else in the house was feeling that great either not as bad as me but a little bit of this for everybody and what we think it is is there was some really powerful epoxy for the pipes that he put on and it was like oh stanky epoxy toxic fume yeah pipe glue I guess is really intense and uh

It's kind of like a build-or-and moment of where I needed a ventilator or something. Anyway, I think that's what was getting to me or whatever, because after, I don't know, about 11 o'clock, started feeling much better and had the rest of my day, and it was fine. And I'm fine today. No problem today. So don't sniff the pipes, is what I'm saying. Don't snort the pipes. Somebody suggested possibly the vaccine. Now, did you, for Moderna, you get a thing called V-safe, like an app.

QR code that you scan, it loads into an app, and basically every day it asks you a question, a set of questions like, how are you feeling? Do you have any of these symptoms? Anything here, like kind of like an extra method of monitoring how you're doing after your shot, not just the 15 minutes you sit in the room and do paperwork afterwards, but just keeping track of things. And also it helps identify if there are further problems with the vaccine. scene. Did you get that with Pfezer or is that just a modern thing? No, I'm a little surprised you'd think the Germans would be super efficient with the apps, but there's no app that I know of.

While you've been talking, I went and searched and just see if there's supposed to be an app and I can't find anything. They didn't give me anything there. No QR code or anything like that. No, and I had a similar thought. I was just like, yeah, these are known. Some people have weird reactions a couple days in or whatever, and I guess Kim wasn't feeling that great either. So it's entirely possible that was it, too.

Boy, that doesn't bode well for my second one, doesn't it? It makes me think the second one's going to be a nightmare. I'm more worried about mine just because I know how the Moderna, the second dose, hit Tina, like how it wiped her out. And so I'm thinking, oh, yeah, all right, let's see. Well, I don't have A&TP on the 19, so that's good. Might have to bump TMS. We'll see.

We'll see how I'm feeling. There's like, you know, all sorts of stuff that Monday. It's like, okay, we'll see what happens there. I see in the chat science expert Booby Frankenberger, Booger, says my wife got Moderna and she didn't get no app. Interesting, yeah, and Certified 76 says he got the app with Pfizer. So maybe there's some state-by-state thing or something going to. Maybe. Yeah, I mean, if you go in, if you go to V-Safe, if it's part of like do a search, Google search for V-Safe.

It's a CDC thing, smartphone deal. And it just, you just basically. her in the date you had your vaccine and then for the next seven days or something, it's going to ask you every day. Oh, okay. Yeah, so you're right. It's a CDC thing. They've made an app. Okay. It looks like it's for anything.

Pfizer, yeah, any of these. It's basically any kind of I bet you get a flu shot and you can still use this app. Probably, yeah. All right, interesting. Look at that. I will look at that after the show. Excellent. Look at all the new learning we're having here today. I now know

I now know that pipes and modern plumbing are a thing and that it exists. That's all I learned. I learned nothing else. Today I learned. I learned that you can take advantage. I learned that you can take for granted certain modern conveniences sometimes and forget just how freaking miraculous they are. Because modern day plumbing is, I think, amazing.

And when you don't have it, it really sucks. And when you do have it, you're like, oh. I'm back. I'm good. I just, I don't have to think about these things. But back in the day, what were they doing in the 1700s? I know what they were doing, pooping in the streets and giving each other cholera every five minutes. Like, that's right. Exactly. Things were a little bit worse for other reasons there. So, so I guess what I'm saying is plumbing. It's great. It's a thing. Yeah, it's a thing. Catch the way. Plumbing. And it's great. All right. It's my night's bedroom right there. It was good. It was really good. I was, I almost felt like someone had a TV on or

something. Right. Some old stuff. We're going to play a game, guys, and that game is called Babel Royale, and to do it, we have to play our theme music. All right, time for Babel Royale with our good pal, not Brian Dunaway. Today, we have his stand-in, who often does this when Brian's out of town. It's Mr. Randy Deluxe himself.

Hello, Randy. Welcome to the show. Hello, hello. Hello. Ola! Oh, we haven't even had one aloha. What is this about? We got hello and Ola, but no, uh, no, uh, no, yeah, what the heck, man?

Speaking of, you really got me going. Like, I, I can't get over how you can't look up news that happened more than about 20, 25 years ago on the internet. Like, the internet just doesn't have a good way for you to look up news. And like, you proved it to me looking up, trying to look up mass shootings in Hawaii. because I'm sure you found like there was one like 16 months ago right at Pearl Harbor and I'm sure you found the Xerox building one right? Yeah, I found the Xerox one.

But like I just I thought oh you know what? There was a shooting at my uncle's law firm back in the late 80s like 88 in Sigeen, Texas. My uncle was this little town lawyer and I was like I'm going to go look it up online. No, there is no evidence online

about this shooting. Because the only place I found it was Wikipedia but no other references. Like that was it. Uh, so there's probably, like to put anything in Wikipedia, you've got to reference it, right? You got to, you got to have something. And most people just look around online to find that, right? Yeah. And it's just, it's just like, there's just a lot of small news, I guess, that's just missing. It's all on microfish. You're going to go get the microfish. Microphish. Feech. All right. Well, it's good to have you here. I can't think someone would be happier to have stand in today. And we're going to play a game. We have a listener on the line already who's been very patient. Let's find out who this is. Hi, who's this.

Hello? Hello, who's this? It's Claire. Claire Gack! Oh my gosh, she made it into the show finally. I'm so glad I'm here for this. Yeah, Brian, or Randy, this is what we call the Luck of the Irish right now. I almost said Aloha, Scott, Brian, Claire.

I was thinking about saying that when you brought me in. Yeah, she's, look, we've had some, we had some times that day we played among us, and boy, howdy, was Claire Gack among us. I don't think Claire remember. remembers that, though, but we do. I remember it. Yeah, how well do you remember what happened? Do you remember the part where you yelled that you got, you got what I need, and then swung from a chandelier? Do you remember that part? I remember as much that I know Randy is my biggest fan. Yeah, Randy's still your biggest fan. I guarantee it. I remember that the opposite way, but okay, it's good. We're good. Well, it's good to have you here, Claire. We're going to play a game, and Brian's going to explain the game. You

probably know all about this, but he'll explain it anyway. Brian, how's this going to work for Claire today? That is correct. I'm going to be giving Scott and Randy a topic. They're going to go back and forth, giving me answers that fit that topic. If one of them gives a wrong answer, a repeated answer, or they take too long to come up with an answer, which I never enforce. The win will go to the other player. Claire, your job is to predict who's going to come out on top.

Based on the topic, today, you are playing for a couple prizes, a couple of games from Steam, courtesy of Matthew Bach, Turok, classic. What? Classic game. Rock. Whoa. That's cool. And Death's Gambit. Oh, also have a good game.

That's a fine selection. Nothing wrong with either of those. Yeah. So lots of fun. In your future, if you win. And listen, I think we're probably going to make sure you win on this one. Oh, are we cheating? Are we? Is that what we're doing? You know, I know a guy who does these games. We're desperate for Claire to hunt dinosaurs. Yeah. We are. Yeah.

Who else? She, she, someone needs to. may as well be Claire. Loved that game on the N64 Tour. Oh, yeah, that was great. I bought that little booster pack for it. Remember that little graphical? Yeah, the Rumble, the Rumble. Was it Rumble?

What was it called? No, Rumble, I'm sorry. It was the one that you plugged right into the N64 itself, and it added more processing power. Yeah, it had like a GPU booster type thing in it or something, whatever that was called. It was expensive and dumb, but I loved it. That's right.

Yeah, separate from the Rumble pack, but there was a separate Rumble pack, but there was a separate rumble pack you could do it too. Yeah, then you had the rumble pack. Then the wave bird on a wavebird was next console. Sorry, anyway, I'm feeling nostalgic for old video games. Go ahead. And today's category is things you add to your console.

Oh, there you go. Pieces of N64 as you can plug in. No, this one comes to us from Ivan Wilson, who says, as it is only a few days until the release of the new Godzilla film, I thought it might be an idea to see how many of Godzilla's Rogues Gallery you guys can remember. now there's there's a lot right between all the different generations of Godzilla films

so I'm going to be very lenient on this I might even be able to to give you points if you just describe what it is if you can't remember its name but these are this list that I have is based on the Toho company Godzilla universe which also extends into the new movies all the the current movies. All right, cool. We're naming non-Godzilla monsters from the Godzilla universe. That's a good way.

Yes, exactly. Because sometimes, sometimes they're enemies, sometimes they're allies, but they're always kaiju. So there you go. So an incorrect answer, Matthew Broderick is not an answer. We need monsters, not side characters, right? No side characters. Let me see.

No, I would not give you Matthew Broderick or Hank Azaria. No. Okay. All right. Boy, you and I remember way to. I have, my list has 35 items. Oh, good God. And a few extras.

But, and I'll explain the extras later on. But 35 items on this list. And I'm allowed to write down, like, answers that are given so I don't repeat. I can't tell you what not to do. Okay. All right. And we've never really talked about that before. Yeah, we've said that if you repeat an answer, then I think that's, you know, you got to,

You got to play fair, Randy. Well, hold on. If you write down answer so that you don't say the wrong one again or repeat one. Yeah. Then it's part of the rules that I say at the beginning. If you give a wrong answer, repeated answer, or take too long to come up with an answer. Okay. All right.

So, yeah. Hands behind your back. Okay. Yes, that's right. I close. Don't look at no chat room, no Google, no Bing. We need some special bylaws for this where we make sure we outlaw these things. Okay.

Don't make me enlist. Don't make me enlist. Sam Jane to come over there and, uh, well, she's not allowed to be in the room. She'll do it. Well, she can. She just has to watch you to, she has to proctor. She has to proctor your side of the exam. All right. So we got all the rules down.

Yeah, Claire is ready. All right. Claire, who do you want to go first and who do you think is going to win? Okay. So, if you're not requiring them to be too specific and just give a general description, that sounds like something Scott's good at. So I'm going to go for Scott to win brandy. Randy to start Scott to win.

I love it. I love that I'm being chosen because when I can't remember something, I go ahead and just say a bunch of shit until you get it. Oh, that's great. All right. Well, we'll see how lenient I'm it is about that sort of thing as we go. Yeah, and I'll give you guys, I'll give you guys, you get your initial mulligan, as always, and I'll give you one more mulligan.

All right. Randy, your first thing. I'm going first? Yep. Yep. Okay. We'll start with the easiest thing. that comes to mind, and that is Mothra.

Absolutely. The namesake of my trivia team, Mothra. We began our winning streak with How I Met Your Mothra, and we've been using that name ever since. Never fails to kill me. Mothra's little helper, same twins, different Mothra,

stuff like that. Pretty good. All right. Let's go with... I can count King Kong, right? You can certainly count King Kong Because he's on my list Okay, Kong Believe it or not

The first time those two battles Way back in 1962 So this new thing coming out is You know, it's kind of a remake Yeah, kind of a throwback, sure I'm looking forward to it I am too I still need to see Godzilla King of the Monsters

I didn't see that either And I heard the cool thing about that Was all the extra like the stuff We're trying to name today That was the cool bit of that movie But overall it wasn't a great movie but I'm into big dumb monster movie

I'm in so sign me up all right Brandy Brandy We're still in the easy Easy moments Yes of course So let's have

Let's have Gidora The three-headed monster Geadora Yes absolutely Of course King Gidora Mecca King Gidora All of those are part of the Gidora

Okay so I'm not able to answer Mecca Gadora thank you You cannot answer mecca Gador or King Gidora All right then I don't know why I don't know why they grouped those, but they did on this list that I'm looking at. Well, that makes sense. We're just talking about like a category, you know, like the Godora category. I'm not going to say anymore, but yeah.

Okay. Well, Mecca Godzilla then. He fights himself. There you go. That's when I was like, you know, they have that one as a separate item on the list. That's why I thought it was really weird to group all the Mecca King Godoras. But yes, Mech Godzilla. from the films

Godzilla versus Mechagodzilla Terra of Mechre Godzilla Godzilla versus Mecha Godzilla 2 Godzilla against Meca Godzilla and Godzilla Tokyo SOS Wow So But I think the distinction is faction

It's like if they're bad and oppose him Then you count them one time categorically So Yeah Yeah Let's say there was one name Stan And he had four different forms

You just say Stan But Godzilla Exactly. I didn't want to give one away, Randy. I'm already... I like the... It's like Godzilla's biggest fan, Stan. Stan.

It's a Godzilla stand. I'm your greatest fan. You didn't shake hands with me when you came out of Tokyo. Now I hate you. It's a pretty good Eminem. I'm not going to lie. It's not bad.

I love calling Eminem that white rapper from the 90s. Yeah, the white rapper. He just put out a new rapper. album is pretty good. I'll just say. He does these little secret albums where he just launches them and doesn't tell anyone and they're pretty good. Anyway. So I have to be the one that names my favorite

whatever other monster from when I was a kid. I don't know why this one just captured my message. I used to draw this one. It's Rodan. Oh, Rodan. That's the Terradactal. Terradactal. Yes.

Let's see. Destroy all Monsters. He was also in Godzilla v. Mechegu Godzilla, too, probably because the two of them teamed up to fight him or something like that. As a typical American boy, I had G.I. Joe, I had all that stuff. I paid attention to what the army was doing. I, like, thought air superiority was really important as a little kid. Yeah. And Sothra and Rodan. Yeah, absolutely.

Boy, we're really scraping the barrel for me. Okay. Rodan's about the only other one I had. Well, Claire's going to win. I don't know about Scott. Yeah, no, well. Yeah, this is, Brian's going to make it so she wins no matter what it seems like. Okay, this is where I might have to be descripti.

Yes, yes, yes, yes. What if I said a giant spider guy? Oh, there's a couple of them that fit that category. are a couple different giant spiders. Now, I will, um, uh, I will give you,

if you're going to let her win anyway, you may as well give it to me. Right. I'm going to give you, well, I'm definitely going to give it to you. What I'm going to do is I'm going to give you Scylla, S-Y-L-L-A. Okay.

Because, um, this was one that was introduced in King of the Monsters. Yeah. And, um, therefore you put, taking it off of your list doesn't do anything since you haven't in King of the Monsters. So I'm going to give you a giant spider.

But you can't say, on your next turn, you can't say giant spider again and get the other ones. Right, no, I get it. I get it. That's fair enough. All right, Andy. All right, ready to go. Oh, where to go? Let's go with, so Godzilla had a, a Cthoon.

Cthoon is based on a Godzilla monster. Yeah. And it was like, it was like made of smoke. And its name is something like... I thought Cthew was based on Cthuloo, no? Do I have that wrong? I thought that was like... Sure, sure, sure.

I'm just talking. I'm just doing word association. Anyway, it's something like hetera. It's a head. It's a big head of... Hedra. Yes. I think it's pronounced Hedera or Hedora.

Absolutely. It's based on a fedora. Is it now? Fedora. Is it? Hedora, indeed, is a member of Godzilla's rogue's gallery. All right. let's uh oh uh i wonder if this counts

there was uh well wait what baby was it was it a con oh you just used a very interesting word was it a con baby or another Godzilla baby and did they fight uh I'll say baby Godzilla I'll say yeah say that um maybe Godzilla aka a man

Shut up. Shut up. Because he came out of an envelope. Also known as Godzilla Jr., yeah, appeared in the film's son of Godzilla, Godzilla's Revenge, Godzilla versus Mechid Godzilla, too. Boy, that thing was a star-studded affair. And I'm not going to say these other ones because they contain names of other characters on this list.

But yes, Manila, aka Baby Godzilla, is here. Okay. Manila. I remember that he used to, like, do his little thing. and he would blow smoke rings instead of shooting fire. Yeah, because he hadn't matured. You've got to hit puberty in Godzilla terms. Right, exactly.

And in all the words you just said, you didn't say one that I was expecting you to, so I'm going to pull destroya, which I think is also a child of Godzilla. Destroyia. The name is actually Destoroia because of Japanese and their predilection to have alternating vowels in consonants.

But yes, Destoroia, I'm looking to see here. Sounds like a rapper name again. It's just Godzilla with wings, right? Well, let's see, I'm getting there.

I'm getting there. Hold on a second. There we go. It is basically Godzilla with wings and a unicorn head. But he's, oh gosh, I love this category.

He was, so this, Destoroia was created by the Oxygen Destroyer, the weapon that killed the original Godzilla in the 1954 film. So it wasn't a just child of Godzilla. Oh, no, no.

He's about the same size, but yes, he has wings and a single horn. Okay. Well, he's got two horns, if you know what I mean. All right, let's see. Was there like a... He got the guy in the suit. Did he fight another giant robot

that wasn't a Mecca Godzilla, but just a robot man? Like a robotic-looking man? maybe the government made it I don't remember there's some sort of man I can't remember the name of that dude but it was that he could change sizes

right is the one you're talking about yes he could shrink and grow and he had shot shit out of his arms I'm gonna help you here you're describing Jet Jaguar Is that really a name? Yeah Jet Jaguar I don't know any of these

I like how you pronounce it Jaguar I mean I guess yes Jet Jaguar is the or Jaguar is the is the Ultraman looking U. Ultraman is the kind of thing I was thinking of. Yes, it's like Ultraman.

Yep. Okay. And Scott, if you were really on board right now, you'd be looking up the Jet Jaguar song. There's a song. Oh, I'll do it later. I don't want the internet in front of me, but yes. Okay, so you're going to give me that one, robot man?

I'm giving you Jet Jaguar, aka a knockoff Ultraman. Okay, I'm in. All right, Randy. So, uh, you probably, I think you've reached the limit here for me. Um, I,

I mean, the thing is, their names are just, like, ridiculous. I can't remember their names. Yeah. Well, you give me,

give me a description. I'll, uh, there's a huge woolly mammoth in one of them. What? Seriously, there's a woolly mammoth that Godzilla fights. Is that true?

It's an enemy. Yes. Really? I don't know what the name is. Mega elephant man. There is a woolly mammoth with like a ape body, and it's called behemoth, and it made its first appearance in this most recent Godzilla, King of the Monsters. You don't actually see Godzilla fight it, but apparently it's on screen.

You get to see it like when they're doing their thing. Yes, this thing is called behemoth. Okay. Wow. Which is also the name of Big Daddy. So Scott, how you're going to win this now, because I'm done, how you're going to win this is you're just going to come up with something that probably is in the list and it's there. I promise you. Like, that's the thing.

You could just say, I don't want to help you here, but like you could just basically say an animal or maybe a combination of animals and you got one. That's a good point. All right. Let's go with, um... Oh, my brain just stuck on what? mothra looks like for some reason i can't picture other things well um well uh switch to a similar insect there's those there's a few of those all right yeah or think of think of another recent movie that i think you probably saw oh right really uh what did i see it was recent

shit i'm gonna be annoyed like maybe the 2014 Godzilla oh Oh, yeah, but what did I see in that? I remember. Yes. I saw Walter White for five minutes. All right. Let's just go with a giant praying mantis type unit. Yes, he did it.

Is that a thing? That's the one I think I was leaning you too. Yeah, so this, if you're, I'm going to say that this is the mutos, the giant pair of mutos that are the. the ones that in from the 2014 Godzilla film that destroyed Las Vegas bastards that sounds like a freaking Pokemon or something doesn't sound real it does one of them was big the other one was small one could fly the other one couldn't or something I don't I don't remember but basically they they eat radiation and uh and um like you do uh they actually appear in the 2014 Godzilla film apparently more than Godzilla does oh wow well yeah because they uh the Vegas part

you're talking about, there's a pretty good long sequence of them just sort of laying waste to everything out there in the desert. That's right. I like that movie. You know what though? I think, so somebody said there's an actual giant mantis. A robo Jeff in the chat says there is actual giant mantis. Kamakuras, I'm going to take

off the list as well because that is maybe that's the one you're thinking of. Yeah. Randy. Yeah, with a huge, huge eyes. Like big bulbous eyes. Terrifying. I'd hope you were saying. I also remember having nightmares as kid. Oh, well, I'll do those. I had it in my head, you were saying, Robo Jeff was the name of one of the

monsters. Could be. Now I'm really confused. But, okay. So, Randy, it's your term, but are you out? Are you done? You got to have one more. Yeah, I can't think about it. He's tapped out, Brian. He's tapped out. You know what that means? Winner, winner, chicken dinner. That means Claire Gack has won the freaking thing. Claire, tell us how you feel on the ground there in Dublin or wherever the hell you are. I'm in Belfast, but yeah. No, I feel great. Thanks so much. Yeah, it's finally happened.

You finally got on here. Your phone's weird. It's a little quiet, a bit of a phone, but I don't care. I like having you on. Well, she's calling from very far away. Yeah, it's a distance thing. They got a little string and a cup, and it's, I know how it works in Ireland. Those guys and their potatoes are light.

Anyway, hey, I'm so glad you won because we really like you. And you're going to want to send an email to Brian. but over here, Coverville at gmail.com. He'll send you your prizes, and you'll walk off victorious. Well done. That's right. Check this out. Just a few more names here on the list that I want to get to.

Angairus. Hangiris. Hold on, hold on. That's a guitar player wearing a schoolboy's outfit. That's exactly right. Baragon, Batra. Okay. Biolante.

Ibira, Gabara. Giant, condor, giant. Octopus, Gigangorosaurus, King Caesar, Kumunga, Mogera, Manda, Megagyrus, Megalon, Methusela, Orga, Space Godzilla, Titanosaurus, Varan, and just plain Zilla, which was from the Matthew Broderick and Gizaria deal. I feel like your... Oh, go ahead. The stand out there is that Biolante thing because it's a huge, like, crocodile. style, which is just terrifying. It sounds like you guys are just reading names of people in our chat room.

That's what that's it. It kind of does, doesn't it? Yeah. A bunch of chat names. And then there's just a few here that were mentioned in King of the Monsters, but never shown. Mokly Mbighamit, Tiamet, Typhoon, Abadon, Leviathan, Sargon, and Bunyip, which I think is a Pokemon. We got to catch them all, dude. Well done.

I love how some of them are, the names are just nuts. And then others are just named behemoth. Right, right. Leviathan. All right. Well, well, done, thinking of that one. Because they're big. By the way, while we were checking here, I wanted to get the, I've never known how to properly say Jaguar, so we're going to find out right now.

Here it is. There's the official way. Jaguar. Oh, see? Hey, look at, I've been doing it right. I thought it was wrong all these years. Jaguar. At least this guy says.

I think that's one of those words you can say two different ways. Yeah. My mom called them Yeagawars when we were younger. Yeah, that's definitely wrong. That one's definitely. Yeah, I used to tell her if she was wrong, but would she have any of that? No, sir. Hey, Randy, it's always fun having you pop in here and be a part of this.

Anything you want people to know about right now? I mean, FilmSack, we got this weekend. Is there anything else cool? Get ready. We're going to find out what the shadow knows. Oh, right. The freaking shadow, dude. Oh, my gosh.

I'm a little angry right now with, this will be interesting because I'm kind of mad at Alec Baldwin right now. because I finished up that Woody Allen documentary and oh I just I got so pissed about the people that supported him toward the end of that thing because he sucked dude he did all that shit I promise you he did that that dirty business that guy is guilty as F and I'm mad at Alck Baldwin for and anyone who's just like well he's such a genius I have to I gotta stick by this fella I wish I just wish that Baldwin had kept his mouth shut outside

of his work because like just watch any episode of 30 Rock from the third to sixth season. The guy is a freaking genius. He's so good. He's so good. But in real life, a little bit of a dickosaurus. Anyway.

Hey, Randy, Brandy, Amoscalde you. Brandy. Yeah, Brandy. A combination of Brian and Randy. You've been wonderful and I hope your day is better than ever ever as a result of you. Oh, wow. Yes. I'm going to go, I'm going to go fly. Go fly. All right. He's flying.

gonna fly now fly like an eagle all right we're gonna do one news story okay one okay here you go one just one i don't watch the news either kid but it's brought to you by america's next top podcaster yes we just posted another judging and elimination episode this morning uh as we go through and review the submissions for the mark hoffling interview all three teams got to interview disney channel production designer Mark Hoffling, incredible designer and the guy behind a lot of your favorite designs on the Disney channel also worked on what Con Air and the dude's done a lot of stuff. All three teams interviewed him,

had to condense that interview down into a podcast. How did they do? Somebody's going home for this. Find out at America's Next Top Podcaster.com. Yeah, go check it out. That was a really good one. And let's just say,

here's the question will there be a winner will there be one wow I'm just saying will there be a winner I don't know I don't know there's nothing spoilery about that at all

that was one of my favorite episodes so far so good luck to everybody involved and he was a great guest judge too he was great yeah really enjoyed that guy turned out to be a Salt Lake Native a fellow. He lives here still. He's a Utah guy. And he casted, or he did a bunch of

casting, or not casting, but he's involved in the production like you mentioned of high school musical, which my Korean siblings kids are in. That movie is extras. So they were all involved in that. So this is a big circular connection with that guy. He seemed really cool. When things are more normal, I want to

go to lunch with him and just talk. See what's going. Yeah, you and me both. Here's your story. Your one story you're getting before we go to a break and then bring Tom in here, and it's this. People are sitting on toilets backwards so they can eat while they poo. All right. So they're putting their food out.

Yeah, maybe I better hear the story. Yeah, you might want to hear this one out. So if scrolling through your phone on the toilet wasn't already grim enough, TikTokers have found an even more disturbing way to pass the time on the porcelain throne. The life hack started with Amy Waugh of TikTok fame, who encouraged her 11.6 million followers to do 180-degree turn and face the flush, essentially pooing backwards so they could eat. eat snacks, and stream a TV show in front of them at the same time.

This content is... This is how hemorrhoids start, by the way. Yeah. Welcome to the new... Welcome to a new Twitch designation. Hemeroid videos. Yep. Yep. Hashtag preparation age, baby.

Let's see. The content... You have been pooping wrong, she said in the video. And then she shows this. Now, it's all over the place. It's everywhere. And she describes it as pooping backwards. That's not pooping backwards.

No. No, pooping backwards is a very different thing. Yes, exactly. But she started a whole trend. Now everybody's doing it. A whole bunch of people wrote that they thought this was terrible. Food shouldn't touch bathroom air. I refuse to let food in the bathroom.

It's like adding the odor into it, says someone else. Unhygienic, but okay. Added somebody. Doctor advised against it writing your show should be ended with five minutes. or sorry, should be ended in five minutes. Otherwise, you have haemorrhoids. There you go. Look, they even, look, they confirmed your little diagnosis there.

Exactly. And I like how he, I like how he spells hemorrhoids. Hemorrhoids. H-A-E-M. Is that like British? It's probably a British thing. Probably. I don't know.

But, yeah, you sit there with your corona, your chips, or as crisps as they say here in the UK. There we go. So, yeah, UK. Yeah. iPad, prop that up. put on Netflix and take a dump, have a snack, watch a movie. Yeah. This is a trend, I hope, doesn't go anywhere past Amy Woe.

I watched a whole movie that will be next week's recommendal from me, I believe, unless I see something better between now and then, that I watched in its entirety in the tub last night. Before bed, I'm like, you know what, I'm going to chill out. Guess he was not the Snyder cut. No, it was not. This movie was only an hour and a half long, but I sat in that water for an hour and a half, but what was nice was,

if the water started getting a little, you know, lukewarm, not hot enough, you drain a little, and then that water heater downstairs, just keep it coming. Just keep the hot water coming, baby. All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back, Tom Merritt will be here.

We're going to talk some tech and see what's going on in his world. Before that, or after that, Nicole. We'll have Nicole. And we'll have recommendals. Brian's got two. I've got one. Cole's got who knows what.

Who knows? Yeah, who even knows. We don't know until she gets here. So come on back for that. Quick note, by the way, before we go to the break, I started a newsletter for frog pants called the, well, it's just the official frogpants newsletter. It's kind of the all the rage at the moment. People are, it's weird.

It's this thing everyone thought was dead, but it's kind of taking on new life. And I think part of that is, in general, yeah. I think part of it is social media just isn't, it's too blippy and too scroll past it and too... Right. Too temporary or two, right. Which is annoying. And I think people are looking forward to more kind of long form conversation and, you know, stuff like that.

So I'm giving a try at it. You can go sign up super easy at frogpants.club. Yeah, that's right. I got a domain. I got a dot club domain just to use for this. So go use it. It was also really cheap. It was like five bucks or something.

Anyway, frogpants. It'll take you there. you just stick your email in there and now you're on the list and it's free and doesn't it's also very easy to unsub from. It's a legit thing. It's basically based on a bunch of advice I got from jury and Tom about the way they're doing theirs. I thought, you know, I'm just going to go for it. I'm going to put some extra art in there, talk about show stuff in there, have some guest articles once in a while. I put a thing up today about that plumbing mess. Anyway, if that sounds interesting at all, go to frogpants.com club and sign up. It's also linked

on the main page of the website, and you can find it there. Okay, Brian, let's play some music. Do you have a selection I can hear? I do. I have one song, one song queued up for this. We're going to go up to Calgary, Alberta, Canada for a punk rock group called Belvedere. They've got a brand new LP coming out May 14th, courtesy of Thousand Island Records in North America, and then Lockjaw Records outside in Europe and the UK.

So, big thanks to both of those agencies for sending us. along. The new LP is called Hindsight is the Sixth Sense. This is Belvedere. These guys are awesome. Totally dig this. Here's the first song Elephant March. One that saw the correlation that the corruption crossed the line. But they took your voice, the one that yelled in desperation, the ones they threw it and their time.

We're desperate for love. It added with time, but then we have to accept our fate. And short to your pride, you need a larger reason to live. When others have died, it's just a little pushback on time in your life. And when you see it, the burning begins, there's a need for it. There's nothing for us And they're full of shit We're watching them failing to know

The King'sad, there's nowhere left to go We took your ears, They took your ears, The ones that hurt the devastation, The ones that hurt the devastating, It makes us perilous inside When they took your hands The ones that hold the disappointment

A sturdy grip to make you blind We're desperate for love It hammered with time But then we have to accept our fate And short to your pride You need a large reason to live When others have died It's just a little pushback on time in your life

And when you see it The burden begins There's a need for it There's nothing for us Never fall a shed But desperate to how he's read This time In totality

Corruption is each Gives no chest supreme Excloved the prompt The pulpit it is And watching them failing to know The cage There's nowhere left to go It feels very much like the wall

It feels very much like a spear It feels very much like a tree It feels very much like a role You give it no help And when you see it The burden begins There's a need for it There's nothing for us

And they're full of shame We're desperate to have on each bed This time There's totality Corruption and seems gives the chest to breathe Exploves the prompt The pulpit it is And watching the failing to know

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It's Toots Fat. And we're back. Welcome back to the program. Brian, that song again was? It was Belvedere and the song is called Elephant. March from their upcoming album. Hindsight is the sixth sense coming on May 14th. Very, very nice.

All right, everybody. Tuck in because we're about to talk tech, and we're going to do it with this. With the computer, as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. I can confirm that that's true, and the man in question, he's always in question. Is Tom Merritt, everybody? Is he a man? Yeah, he's a man, sure. He's a man's man.

Astro, man. Oh, hey, how would you have done? Earlier we did a contest where we had to, Randy guested and we had to name all the secondary sort of rogues gallery of Godzilla movies. The monsters and all the Godzilla movies that aren't named Godzilla. Yeah.

How would you have done? I feel like you would have done. I'd probably go, I'd probably be 50% on that. I can never remember all the names. Yeah. You know, I know Mothra. Right. Now, if I said Mothra, do you have a stuffed Mothra near you? You could grab and prove to us that you can grab anything. See, that's not the way the magic works.

You can never do it on demand. No, I don't. That's like when you tell somebody, you see some magic and say, wait a minute, do it, turn around and do it. And you're like, no, that's not how this trick works. The key to that trick, and I've given up, tried to keep it a secret. The key to that trick is to know what's around me and work it into the conversation. Well, all right, none of that matters.

Like this one, Scott? Wait here. Let's see, hold on. Let me pull up your video. Yeah, there we go. Oh, all right. Dude, where'd you get that? great. That was a toy

from the Godzilla line a few years ago and because of the team name we had to we basically had to pick one of these up. When we could bring stuff to put on our table, this was our good luck charm. That's fantastic. I love that. All right, Tom, it's good to have you

here. We're going to talk about what's going on in the world of tech today because no one else will tell us. You're the only one that comes in here and tells us. I know. What is wrong with those other people? Refusing to tell you the technology news of the day. As I As I have of late, I'm going to give you some choices. We could talk about Tesla letting you buy cars with Bitcoin.

We could talk about Intel deciding they're giving up on just making their own chips. They want to make chips for everybody. Or we can talk about a toilet that doesn't need a septic tank and is cleaner than your toilet. Oh, by far the toilet story. Yeah, like, I just have my plumbing mess. Why not? Yeah, let's go plumbing. Can you buy this toilet with Bitcoin, though?

I don't know. I want to say probably not, but he just never know these days. You never know. That's true. Yeah. The tiger toilet doesn't use water. Instead, your waste is essentially composted inside a compartment that reduces smell, reduces the volume. It's only byproducts are water and carbon dioxide.

and the final solid waste can be used as fertilizer and used to safely fertilize plants. So those people eating their lunch could do the full farm-to-table thing. Oh, interesting. So it's like, well, I mean, you know, we all saw the Martian. We saw him pooping on potatoes. Please let me know which restaurants are doing that. Yeah, let me know right away. And the thing about it is your waste.

isn't suitable for for putting on on your potatoes without treatment. The thing to remember from the Martian is he just go out and poop. I mean, obviously it was very cold out there, but you know, he had to remove the pathogens

and the tiger toilet removes 99% of pathogens from the final waste product, which is very good and allows it to be safe to be used out in fields. Is this affordable? So how yeah let's let's go to that question first is it affordable well I'm sorry is it what can I afford it can I

yeah well it's being marketed in India um so you're you're talking about there's a lot of subsidization going on but it's it's being used in rural communities you know places where people can't afford indoor toilets and there's communal toilets stuff like that so it's not really being marketed on a home base so I don't have a retail price but yeah it does does seem like it's it's fairly affordable, especially because you don't have to deal with septic tanks and standard plumbing and any of that. Yeah. Brian, you're going to ask. The next question is, how do you get past the smell then?

Because one of the things the water does is act as like a seal to cover the poop. They say that because of the way it's broken down, you have less smell than a septic tank. You know, so I don't know how they secure. the compartment to keep the smell from happening immediately but apparently the process works fast enough that you really don't have a lingering smell

yeah it feels like something that I have to clean more than a regular toilet no in fact let me find this this part the first issue is maintenance Tiger toilets as old as five years have not required any form of maintenance yet

and there is a reduction of bacteria on the sides and the bowls. Oh, look at that. See, Brian, maybe less cleaning. Maybe less cleaning. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Saving you time instead of giving you more things to do.

Here's the thing. These aren't, I mean, the concept of compostable toilets as the chat room points out isn't necessarily new. But what we're looking at here is one that could take hold as a, I don't mean mainstream, but an iteration finally to the point where this is, though subsidized, an affordable thing for a community to install, like to have and to maintain and to use. In these places they can't afford indoor toilets, these are affordable enough to be indoors.

Right. They should get some Gates money because Bill Gates loves the toilet stuff. He's super into it. Bill Gates is funding this, actually. Oh, there you go. The Gates Foundation granted $5 million toward the research and development of the project in 2015. Oh, well, fantastic. For all I know, I watched that documentary, and it spent most of the time talking about it.

Tiger Toilet Retails for $350. Oh, see, that's not too bad. That's not too bad. Yeah. I mean, considering what it is, like, you know, a toilet at a regular house toilet at a home depot is going to cost me anywhere between a cheap one at $50 to some nice ones at $400. I mean, this is in that range. Right. This is like, I mean, this is the cost of one of those that has a built-in bidet kind of thing. Yeah.

It seems all right. There's one more piece of information. I feel like I should to let you know. Oh, no. Here comes. Here's the other shoe dropping. Uh-oh. The compartment that breaks down the waist is full of tiger worms.

What? Hence the name tiger toilet. That doesn't sound like a good thing. Are they actual worms? Like actual organic like worms? Tiger worms in nature rely on the droppings of animals like cattle and horses. But they are just as happy. be eaten your waste as well.

They don't try to escape because their survival depends on the waste. And they just stay there in the little compartment in your toilet. What do I do? Do I go to like a target and say, give me a box of fresh tiger worms? I think the ones you get, the ones you get last a lifetime.

I would imagine they last a long time. Yeah, as long as you keep pooping. Keep giving them stuff to eat. They'll keep making more tiger worms. Yeah. So the work, yeah, I guess they'll just reproduce like they would in a natural setting. but I just do plumbers need to have somebody on staff now who understands this new...

No plumbing. Yeah, I guess there's no plumbing. Yeah. Wow. By the way, at originalorgannics.co.com. UK, you can buy a box of tiger worms for 10 pounds. Really? Oh, not bad.

How much can I buy 10 pounds worth of tiger worms on Amazon? I want to buy a, I mean, the weight. Say how many tiger worms come in a... Yeah, the number of worms per pouches depend on the size of the worm. If you're redeeming a worm card voucher, please type claim voucher into the search bar and redeem your voucher. A worm card voucher? Yeah, if you've got a worm card voucher, yeah. Yeah.

Okay. They don't jump or anything, but, you know, best not to think about them too much. Yeah, don't think too much about the worms. Worms, Roxanne, I was afraid of worms. Why did it have to be worms? I mean, we laugh at a lot of this, but just innovation in that space is a big deal. for parts of the world. Yeah, no, absolutely.

Yeah, this is having an effect already in India. More than 4,500 toilets have been installed there. So this is a real thing that's out in the wild. Yeah, you want those warming its way through the system. I was afraid that was going to happen, and it did. All right, well, excellent. This and other great stories, I don't know if you guys talked about the, there's supposedly a, well, DTN is not famous for talking

about rumors that have zero meat to the rumors. But there is a bit of a rumor floating around that the switch may be getting, or a successor to the switch, maybe getting that DLSS tech from... We did. We did talk about that because that was from Bloomberg. And so,

and also I think there was another source out there. But the news recently, Bloomberg had already been reporting that its sources said a new switch was coming. The news recently was that it would include one of the Nvidia GPUs that supports DLSS,

deep learning super sampling, which would allow it to upscale properly coded games. So it wouldn't work backwards compatible. The game wouldn't have to add code or come out with code that supports it, but then upscale it to 4K, which means the switch could stay small

and relatively inexpensive, but still output at 4K by doing this upscaling. And the DLSS on the Nvidia RTF 20 series that's out, apparently works really well. In some cases, it looks even better than native 4K. Yeah, that's the weird thing. I want people to understand this. It's a, obviously, it's a deeper topic we don't have time for today, but this concept sounds dumb on the

face of it where you say, oh, you're upscaling. Everyone can upscale. That's, it's going to be pixelated and blurry. No, no, no, no. They took like, some of this testing I saw, they took like, I can't remember the game, it's maybe Valhalla or something like that. And they, or no, I don't remember. Anyway, they took it and they said, all right, we're going to output this at like 800 by 600, like the crappiest resolution possible. But then we're going to use this DLSS tech to upscale

that output to 4K, and it was so pretty, it looked better than the game runs at 4K natively when they did it this other way. It's legitimately cool technology, so I hope... Because it's using deep learning. So it's

where when you master a game at 4K, you have humans making it, probably, unless they're using deep learning to master it, right? Whereas the DLSS is saying, we're really good at taking the pixels out of a game and turning them into pixels that are 4K. Like, we have trained this thing really well. So you don't have to know how it works, it just does.

And with video games, that's a lot easier than video, right? I don't know the DLSS does as good of a job on your streaming 1080P video. But with a video game, you've got a more controlled situation of what the pixels are doing and where they're going, And DLSS works great on that. Yeah, that's really something.

The stuff I've seen really blew my mind. So I hope Nintendo is actually considering something in this vein. It would really go a long way to keeping things backwards compatible, keeping that ecosystem running, but offering some better TV output stuff. Because right now, 720 is not going to cut it or even 1080P in very few cases for most of their games. They need to up that game. So we'll see how that goes. All right.

More of this and many more other fantastic. topics today on the daily tech news show. I'll be on today as I am almost Wednesdays and I'm very much looking forward to it. And Tom, I owe you a bit of thanks for showing me the way on the newsletter front. You've got a pretty rad one yourself and decided to launch one based on you and Justin a few other people recommending stuff. And I'm having a blast with it so far even though I've been only doing it since Monday. Anyway, people should have go find yours among whatever else you want to mention today. What else is going on in time's life? No, I enjoyed reading about your tankless tasks in today's today's newsletter. If you'd like to find out

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We'll see you a little bit later today. Bye. Bye now. Yeah, Scott. Plummer came over and Scott said tanks but no tanks. Yeah, tanks but no tanks, please. He did take the old tanks with him, which I appreciate. But he had to do it by himself.

And that seemed wrong. Like they were huge sediment-filled heavy tanks. Yeah. And they were about to burst, and he was worried about that. so he had this plastic run everywhere over any carpeted areas and he just looked like it was I just felt bad like I think it was a two-man thing and they got spread thin and he had to do it himself and that's why he was here 10 12 hours or whatever anyway bad day all right we're gonna Nicole this thing up proper yes we are um am I though hold on yes we are yes we can okay

she's uh joining us shartley and when she does I'll hit this here button, which is ready to be pushed any minute now. As she joins the call any second from Nicole Spag, everyone, answering the call. She's not answering. Hey, you guys, look who it is. It's Nicole from Colorado joining us as she does every Wednesdays. Sorry, I was making a vet appointment for Millie. She hadn't been feeling well.

Can you see her? Oh, that's matter. She's doing this weird thing. It's not really cough. It's not really vomit. It's just a, oh, like, retching. And I don't know what it did.

Yeah, it's like. Well, it's like she has something caught in her throat and she can't get it out, right? And she's a garbage dog. So I'm like, does she have like, what did she eat? Like, what did she eat? remind me the dogs breed this is the one that's like my dog right reiner and this dog right she's a doberman yeah but she's not cut so she doesn't really look like a doberman that much right she looks a lot like i'm not cut either no brian's is so big he puts a zipper in it keep changing it that's how big

his his little purse bag is just kidding uh anyway hey uh Nicole it's good to have you here we're glad to have you back I'm glad your snow's melted and I'm glad we could do recommendals once again here on the show. Hey, me too. It's snow melted, but yeah, we're getting more snow. Are you getting the last snow melted, but now we got more snow. Oh, man. We're getting some today as well, but

hopefully we have painters too right now. Thankfully, they don't have to shut power or water off to do anything, but they're kind of also bugging me because the HOA made us paint. Anyway, it's a long, sad story. I'm not getting into it today. It's a good time. Isn't that a good time? It's a great time. H.O.As can bite me

in the butthole. All right. Uh, hey, um, let's do our first recommendal. This is, uh, Brian's got two of them today. So we're going to dive right in. Brian, any set up for your first recommendation? Yeah. So I've got, today I've got a series and a movie. And, um, the series is brand spanking new.

And, um, maybe one of the, one of the weirdest, but coolest things, uh, I've seen in a long time. All right. And you're going to hear, um, well, you're going to hear a clip from Pedro across the street. Oh, all right. Well, here we go. I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I'm in my car headed for the airport. I am suddenly, I got that feeling.

I may have forgot to lock the front door. I know. I hate that feeling. I know it. So would you mind going over there to check just real quickly for me? I'd do it myself, but I'll miss my flight. Check your front door? If you don't mind.

Sure, yeah, I can do that. I'll stay on the phone. All right, heading over now. All right, I am crossing the street and everything's, oh, yeah. What? Man, I think your front door is actually open. Like, completely open. Do you want me to call the police or?

Yeah, no, maybe. Do you mind just taking a quick look inside, make sure everything's okay? Uh, okay. I would say no. Yeah, that's a good way. Yeah, he doesn't know much about page. across the street, but things don't go well.

That's Pedro Pascal and Mark Duplis that you're hearing there. Oh, really? Yeah, in one of the episodes, which are like 12 to 15 minutes long each of a brand new TV show called Calls. Yeah, Lennonade got this.

It's a brand new show on Apple TV Plus. It is a, this is like very black mirror combined with man I don't know what you like combined with a podcast what happened when he went in what happened when he went into the house you'll just have to listen to find out no you say listen what are the visuals in this thing is it actually acted out the thing the visuals are what makes it kind of wild so the entire story all nine episodes are told through the process of phone calls you're listening to the phone calls meanwhile on screen you're getting um transcription of those calls with the words appearing as people are saying which is really cool and weird kind of visualization stuff that happens along with them with like wave forms and stuff like that it is it is it's a podcast it's a it's a podcast but the visuals do add something to the to the story that

you would not get as a podcast there's like some some some some cool visual stuff that happens with their words depending on what's happening to them um You can get through this whole thing in like two and a half hours, right, because they're all, it's nine episodes. They're all really short, but you've got Aubrey Plaza, Clancy Brown. Clancy Brown is fantastic in this thing. Judy Greer is also in that episode with Pedro Pascal and Mark Diplis. Karen Gillen from Doctor Who, Rosario Dawson. It's a great, it's a big cast, none of whom you ever see on screen. And I'm guessing this was probably done during quarantine. I'm pretty sure it had to have been, yeah.

You know what? I like that because the stuff I don't like that was done during quarantine is all the stuff where they're constantly talking about being in quarantine. I hate those. It's the ones where they get creative. And episodes of TV shows where they're on Zoom. Yeah. It's like, oh, I get enough Zoom in my life.

I don't need. That's what I mean. I hate that. The only show I like, the only show I've liked it all that deals with quarantine directly is that superstore show. because it's all about a retail thing. It makes sense, too. Yeah, I mean, that one, right.

And it's funny. They have whole jokes about Karens and running out of toilet paper and, like, they really dig into it. But the ones where they're just sitting on Zoom going, oh, you know, here we are, the pandemic and this and that. Hate it. This stuff where it's like, oh, they creatively found a way to make something without having to have everybody in a cramped in a room.

That's cool. I like John Wilson. John Wilson handled it really well, too. Yeah. Oh, I love the dude. Oh, yeah. John Wilson. Gosh, dang it, I love that.

And there's a season two coming. I can't wait. Anyway, so this is called calls. It's on Apple TV Plus. If you've got access to it, this is a really, really cool thing. It's already got like 88% or when I looked last, 80% on Rotten Tomatoes. And it's only been out for five days. But like I say, you can get through this thing really quickly.

And it's very, like if you like Black Mirror, you'd be surprised how much they can do with just audio to give you this really creepy story going on some time travel kind of stuff it's excellent it's really good sounds good uh calls and it's on apple tv plus nice uh tell me about your number two here number two is a movie and if you've been following what i've been doing and you know what i do this time every year then there's only a couple uh left that you could probably guess that this could figure it out all right here you go this is your chalk rubin now as far as As far as the volume that you can hear, you, on your right ear were 28%, and on your left year, you were 24%. That's what?

And the left ear, you came in at 24%. Okay. No matter how loud I made the test, I could have put it out at 11, you were still going to miss 70 to 80% of the words that I said. Okay. That is not good. Yeah, I see that. So what can we do about it? How do I get it back?

Well, you have to understand something here. Whether or not this is related to your exposure to noise or it's an autoimmune issue doesn't really matter. I understand I've got a problem. I'm asking you what I can do about it. Is that metal one? It is. He's a drummer. He's a drummer.

Sound of metal. Yeah, he's, so Riz Ahmed plays. a drummer in kind of a thrash metal kind of band a duo basically it's him and Olivia Cook from Ready Player 1 and Bates Motel they are a

duo that have this they're on tour and they're performing live and because of all the excessive volume that he's been exposed to he starts losing his hearing and it gets really bad as you can hear so he has to

basically change his entire life, the way he does things, his livelihood is drumming and he can't do that if he can't hear. He can kind of try and get by with cues from, uh, with Olivia Cook, but, um, but, you know, that doesn't go well. So he's got a, he's got to, uh, start learning sign language and, and, uh, figuring out a way to, to get around this thing. This is, um, here's what's great about this movie is they do an amazing job more than any other movie I've seen that deals with deafness they do a great job of making you feel like you're experiencing it at points in the film as well

there are certain scenes that are done with with not just dropping the sound but um compressing the sound into what you would hear if this was happening to you and it is uh it's so good Riz Ahmed is really good He's never not good That dude He's never not good And that thing that he did with John Totoro A few years ago on HBO

The Night of Was just fantastic Yeah That really got me man That thing stuck with me I could not stop thinking about it And they were talking about making a whole Follow-up series

And multiple seasons That were all about John Toturo's character Taking on new cases I don't know how that would have worked And if that ever fell through Or whatever happened with it But what if that was freaking fantastic. Yeah, and he was so good

in that. Yeah, not a lot of other performers that you'd recognize in here. Paul Racy, Lauren Ridloff, Matthew Almorick. These are people who you've seen in stuff, like a guy from Quantum of Salas, Paul Racy was

in baskets and parks and recreation, a lot of character actors and stuff, but Riz Ahmed and Olivia Cook, for that matter, both really, really good in this. And it's a great story and um wasn't somebody uh there's a best supporting actor in this everyone's raving about um older guy um probably probably paul racy yes is that the guy okay that's the guy and

he's supposed to be incredible in this he's really good and i believe he's the i have to look get a photo of him to confirm, but he's, um, uh, yeah, there it is right there. Yeah, he's, he plays kind of the mentor that, uh, Ruben starts looking to, to help him get through this. And his, his no nonsense, my way or the highway kind of attitude is, um, is so, it's, it's such a great, deep character. And, uh, and the reasons for that, that attitude, are so good. So yeah, Paul Racy, he's getting awards or nominations all over the place. As people were saying, he's just like this long. It's on Amazon Prime, sound of metal. He's supposed to be this long time, like, you know, stage actor guy that everyone loves working with,

and they're all just stoked that he just getting recognition for this thing. Yeah. That's cool. So I shared an Oscar winning short. I think it was from last year called The Silent Child. Yes, this was so good. 20 minutes. It's on YouTube. I shared the link with you. I caught it. And I was like, oh, my God. Yeah. So, yeah. That one's another, another heartbreaking, but sweet. I totally remember this one. Yeah, the shorts are so good. Like, Shorts International, I think, is the group. Every year around this time, they post a video that you can download of all of the, all of the animated and all the live action shorts. and sometimes the documentary shorts. And that's as good as renting any movie, in my opinion.

These things are always so good and so well done. Yeah. Nice. All right. Very cool. I started teaching Ava sign language. We're doing our alphabet. Oh, that's awesome.

She's actually pretty good. Yeah. Kids pick that stuff up fast. Yeah. It's nuts. That's how Van used to say, whether he was full or not, and he would use sign language to tell us. Yeah.

In some ways, in some ways, he would stop. All done. Yeah. Yeah, it's the old one. Is it more of something like, you know? More. Oh, that's it. If anything, it's slowed down him actually saying the words,

but now he's saying it. He's not doing the sign language as much. But that is cool. I'm glad you're doing that. All right. I'm going to tell you about a thing that I watched that I really liked. And it was short and sweet. And to the point and the kind of documentary,

you don't need to invest in seven or eight episodes. It was a good standalone documentary. I just saw Netflix and I liked it. That's all I'll tell you is so we can figure it out. Here you go. Maybe, I don't know, every few years somebody will bring it up or something and I'll tell the story. Maybe I'll tell it at a party, how I got a guy off from murder, you know, impress a date with it. I don't know.

It's a dangerous thing to do, to go around viewing life from the what-if perspective. What if we hadn't done the deal with Larry David? What if the camera crew hadn't gone to that aisle on the field level? what if his daughter had decided that she didn't want to go to the ballgame what if he hadn't made the phone call what if what if what if okay any ideas wow i thought that was larry david yeah it is but i had no idea he uh and in some ways i hope this doesn't ruin it for people at all but i thought it was important to at least explain why the documentary is so striking because that is larry david and he was involved in this thing that just

It's crazy. Okay, so the thing's called Long Shot. It's been around for a bit, 2017. I didn't know about it. It was a Netflix original documentary, I'd never seen it or heard it. But I saw that it was trending recently. And I'm like, I'll just check this out. A little true crime, never hurt nobody.

Let's see what's going on here. And it's about this guy, Juan Catalan, Catalan, I think he's how he say his name. He was arrested for murdering a 16-year-old that he was adamant that he didn't commit this murder. He's got a little girl, nice guy. his older brother been in trouble but he'd sort of stayed out of it huge baseball fan just kind of a quiet sports loving kind of a nerd super devoted to his daughter and he's thrown in jail for this murder and this is in LA and circumstantially it looks like an open and shut case somebody claimed they saw him on the street when when it happened they put him at a location they had an artist a court artist draw who it was it was strikingly similar to this dude's face although there's a lot of weird racism stuff going on with how artists work in court systems and people of color. But anyway, the story is, look, I was at this Dodgers game. I promise you, I was at the Dodgers game.

And they're like, nope, we don't, we have you placed here where there's no proof you were ever at a Dodgers game. Did you ever use a credit card? Well, no, I paid for everything with cash. Well, there's no way to show you were at the Dodgers game. We think you're making that up. Blah, blah, blah. And it was getting real ugly. And this defense lawyer got involved because he was like,

there's something weird here. First of all, the guy just seemed extremely genuine in his interrogations, in all the statements he ever gave. It just didn't feel right that this dude was the one that did the killing. And so the long shot ends up being the only proof they can find ultimately that he was at this game is in season three or four of Curbier Enthusiasm, Larry, do you remember this, Brian? You probably remember this episode.

Larry takes a prostitute he finds in the middle of the terrible traffic on the 409 or whatever, ends up taking a prostitute with him to a baseball game. Okay, yeah, sounds familiar, right? And he meets Super Dave Osborne there, whatever's name, I forget his real name. And there's a whole thing, yes, that guy. And they're meeting there in this baseball stadium and the production, you get to hear about all this. The production wanted it to be a real game so they could just have a giant crowd

and have it just feel like Larry's at a game. And so they do that. And the only section that they had to kind of stop people from walking in and out of was where Larry David was being filmed. And they were like, well, since none of the footage of the security stuff's working, we can't find anything else to show that he was at the game. Let's look at their production tapes and see what we can find. And maybe, maybe we'll catch a glimpse of this dude and his daughter at this game.

It's a little girl. She's like four years old. And so they have this scene. where Larry, and they've gone through like all the tapes almost, and they're like sad that they can't find anything, they're really disheartened. And then suddenly on one of these tapes, on one angle of Larry David, a long shot

of Larry David, you see this dude who's in jail right now walk in front of the camera. He wasn't supposed to be let in there. The PA screwed up and let somebody walk through. You see him walk through with his little girl holding her hands, got popcorn, and tells her how to scooch into the thing

and have a seat. It's just like perfect close-up of this dude, getting in and sitting down at the time they say the murder was committed, he's at this freaking game. And then later they found another tape, which was a large, a wide shot that showed another shot of him up, you know, kind of a small shot of him scooching and sitting down that matches the close up video and basically got this thing thrown out. But not only that, it got two of the prosecuting, or no, sorry, two of the police that did the thing basically admitted to lying under oath, making up stuff, trying to cheat this

guy into incriminating himself and all the sort of thing. So they got busted. The prosecutor looked like a complete hose bag. And then they bring Larry David in on this thing to talk about what it's like to be involved in a case like this. It was fantastic. I loved it. It was so good because it was all about this little bit of justice, but also it was a reminder of how the system is tilted against people of color and people of lower economic status and it will it will both inflame you a little but also hearten you a little bit a little bit and this guy is just the sweetest guy I'm so happy that freaking Larry David filmed his show that one day right and that this guy got in past the PA yeah yeah and they talked to the PA who says you know what I think

I was just a shitty PA and I'm really glad I was so sure shitty. And this guy was getting all. I'm so glad I was too. I'm glad I did do my job. He was getting he was getting teared up about it and stuff. It's a really well made nice short like an hour, 48 minutes, something like that. Yeah. But a really well made high quality single thing documentary that is just awesome. So go watch it. It's long shot. It's on Netflix. It's the next Netflix original 2017 is when it came out. It's out. It's up there now. And I think you'll you'll really like it. They have a couple other actors on that talk about they were there that day, too. And so they were like part of the, you know, they became part of the investigation because the girl playing the prostitute was like, yeah, we were there.

And I remember this guy. Yeah. It was really interesting. So you should see it and see for yourself if you liked as much as I did. Very cool. Yeah. Okay. Oh, when they, sorry, I don't want to just give it away.

But they did find out who really killed the girl in the end. And it just goes to show that if you. you're lazy about evidence collecting or you're just biased toward your community, you can really eff up people's lives or potentially. He could have gotten a death penalty, like straight up. It would have been bad. And he didn't do anything. It just seemed like the nicest guy. And his little girl's so cute. She had to testify in court and everything. And she was so cute. Anyway, all right, Nicole, speaking of cute. No, I have no idea what you're doing. Tell us what you brought today. It doesn't have to be cute.

So I have been drunk on nostalgia lately. I've been going back through. And just there's right now, for whatever reason, there's a lot of stuff that just, it's going after those memories for me. So I have two things. I have a show and I have a documentary. All right. So here's the show. Here's the show.

All right. Here we go. We have a show. It's going to give it away. I just did trailers. So it's going to say what it is. All right. Let's see how this goes. Oh, it didn't open. Why? Let me open it in its own window. Sorry, everybody. Hold on. Okay, let's just, why is that happening? Okay, that's being weird. All right. Hold on, you guys. Discord's being funky. Okay, there we go. And now audio and volume. All right, here we go. This is the true story of seven strangers. I can't believe it's same. I'm close.

It still smells the same. It still looks the same. Okay, we are officially re-romanated. Oh, my God. This is where we live? This is totally insane. Oh, yes. This is not going to happen.

They can't do this to seven people. If I'm attracted to someone of my own sex, why should I be so afraid of it? Get all the white thing. It's a reality. Find out what happens. When people stop being polite. And start getting real. All.

over again. Oh! No way. I can't believe we're back. 30 years later. We're gonna body. Yes! Ooh, the neighbors are going to be this.

Oh, boy. I didn't meet any cute boys tonight. I didn't either. What was it like after you had come out on the show? It was hard. My friends left me. He represents what we all need to be, which is love. It's 29 years later and we're still having...

still have oh my gosh look at these middle age people yeah it's freaking me out it's us we are the i know right this show came out we have seen the enemy and they are us like what were we we were their age we were like 22 brian we were like 21 22 years old this came out 90 so this was so for those of you that are young that are listening to the show uh this came out in 1992 this is really the first reality show this is the one that laid the foundation for everything that you see today. Yeah. And they didn't know how it was going to happen.

Like, you get an inside view from this reunion. So this is the real world homecoming. It's on Paramount Plus. I think there's three episodes out. I was only, I've only seen one because I was like, very impacted by it. Of course, you know, me, I'm going to cry. So I cried. I wasn't expecting to cry.

There was just two, there's a lot of, a lot of packed into that because I remember when it came out and I was hooked on it and it was just like nothing. There was nothing like it on TV. What were you then probably, what, like 16, 17, something like that? 92, I was 16. I was, I was probably a junior, sophomore junior. Brian and I were like 22, going on 23. It's a, it's a specific moment in time, right? like this yeah like it's hard to explain but for me it's very specific the beginning of my 20s it's

this like really specific moment and I understand if people didn't have the connection with it why they'd hear about this and just go whatever freaking real world whatever cares yeah yeah I'm personally I feel like I have a little bit wrapped up in this like you do I kind of want to see it and feel that it's a weird thing and it's and and and going back to it yeah oh as you're saying never got into the New York like I started watching during the second season so I never really got to know this first New York crew I got to know them through uh reunions and things like that that they would do later on with all the different groups um but uh if they do one of the second or third season of this the LA or the uh oh my god remember puck and Pedro and season three right oh Pedro I mean you have to understand at the the time gay characters were not on TV like and it was real people that you know norman was real he was he was nice Pedro was had AIDS and it was like that time was very for a lot of people that didn't understand AIDS so I just feel like the show in those early years it was

really, it was more important to a lot of people than I think you realize. I didn't realize until I watched it. They hadn't figured out how to do the manipulative editing as well back then, right? So it was, you know, you'd get the, instead of them having to make somebody the bad guy, I know, it's like, well, you know, Puck kind of stepped

right into that role. We didn't have to, like, add tense music or sawblades on metal to get the, uh, to get the villains. sound for Puck. He did it himself. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So it's, you know, it's kind of those early days of reality before when reality was a little closer to real, still, you know, obviously still they're editing out. Well, the seven of them, they come into this reunion and they talk about, they had no idea

what they were getting into because the way that they were cast was, they were looking, the casting call was, we're looking for musicians, artists. to film basically a documentary. They had no idea this concept of reality TV because it just didn't exist. So the producers actually wanted something totally different than what they gave them. And it blew up. And it was just, it was real. And they were talking about race.

I mean, we're still talking. And that's what is really, I think, interesting to go back is it's it's all the same but i feel like our lens is hopefully changing yeah and heaven i really really wanted to hear from him and i just kind of looking back at the fight that he had with julie and it's just it i recommend it especially if you grew up on it or if you watched it when it came out or even if you're younger and you kind of want to see Because they have all on Paramount Plus, they actually have the first season of the real world. I think they have a lot of the real worlds.

It goes up to, I think, season six, and then it just kind of stops. And then it picks up in like the 2000s. And I was like, what is this? Yeah. I'll admit I'll admit I had kind of a crush on Julie. She was the one from Alabama, right? Oh, Julie. Yeah, yeah, Julie.

I had a crush on it. I will say those later real worlds, I was just reading the descriptions. They were really trying hard to make it interesting, where they would bring people in. And then they would bring somebody that you knew that you had a problem with in just to create the drama. I was like, oh, I don't even want to go near that. We found a, right, we found somebody that is super racist and we're going to put them in a house with somebody, you know, basically it's like. You had a problem with your ex 10 years ago? Well, here she is.

She's going to make your life hell. It's too bad because I'm sure it sold more or sold more. I'm sure it got higher ratings and stuff because they don't do that. I don't think you did because I don't recognize any of those people. Well, you don't. But what I'm saying is like. But they stopped making them. They did.

Well, did they? I think they kept going. They did. Oh, well, I don't know. 2016, I think was the last one I think I saw in the list. Yeah. And that's a long run. At least it's on Paramount.

That's a long run. 92 to 2016. or whatever it was like that's a lot can i tell you can i tell you some funny yeah i actually sent in a videotape to try to be on the road do you have that tape do you have video i want to see no no this is back in 2000 and so it was like one of those little camcorders the little tiny not the big jivey cdr ones yeah no tiny ones you don't have this do you have this somewhere do you have like a tape no i have it there's only one copy i sent it off to New York or wherever the heck the casting call was and I'm sure it was in thousands upon

thousands there they popped it and said yeah right yeah I really want to I want to see that tape I can't now it's all I think about is wanting to see your tape yeah I see here's the thing those first three or so episode or first two or three seasons of that show you know where I thought were like hey interesting look into people's lives and then and then it got weird. And then reality TV itself got weird and the standard today is weird and I hate it. I don't enjoy it at all. Sometimes when it's contest related, sure, sort of, but even that stuff's lame. That's why everyone loves the British Bake Off so much because it kind of goes back and says, yeah, there's competition, but also let's just have people be normal and not fake rivalries and all this

stuff. And so I really hope that if people see this and they have nostalgia for it, like maybe they'll, maybe this will do really well for them and it'll spark better reality show style like more documentary straight tellings of people's live stories it must sell to be goofy like the way they do it today

it must or why would they do it like I can't imagine any other reason but I hate it and if they want me back they gotta give me something more well more real can you name the like say the first three rural worlds it was New York

yeah New York L.A and then San Francisco and San Francisco. San Francisco. And then was the fourth New Orleans? No? Miami or Florida. Chicago.

Was it Florida? When did they do London? I think London was the last one I watched. Oh, London was the fourth. London was the fourth? I think so. I thought they did. It's so hard.

They start to mix. And then they started doing, yeah, 95. Then they started doing road rules. Yeah. And then that, like, I was like, my brain can't take anymore. Yeah, it was 95. Yeah.

I remember watching the first. Vegas season and the, like the second New York season, I think we probably, we probably stuck it out through maybe the first six or seven seasons. And then it just started to feel too, like, then it felt too manufactured. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that was 95. That was season four. I just confirmed at London. I highly recommend the real world homecoming on Paramount Plus. I had weird dreams that night too. I mean, it affected me way more than I thought it. would. Yeah. It was really weird. Yeah. I suspect it's, there's a little bit of like also acknowledging how much time has passed and people's lives change and your own life is they all show up. They're all show. They're all there too. So the rocker dude, the, I thought the dude, the grind dude had to back out or something. Eric. No, Eric. Eric is there. He's there. All right. All right. I'm in. I'm going to watch it. I have a connection.

I will, I will say there's a conversation that they have talking about. I think friendship in general is like this. I mean, I have friends from high school that I haven't seen in years, but I still consider them a good friend. And years just kind of happen. And then you look back and you're like, it's been 29 years. What the hell? Like, what happened? So if anything, it's a reminder to reach out to people that you care about to. So just real quick, the chat room won't stop asking why Nicole has a light over her face. It's her lighting in her room, you guys. It's coming through the window. Oh, do I? You're getting like a, uh, they keep going on with the technology of today's street. I'm like, no, it's light. Sorry,

here, I'll fix it. As you're fine. You look like you're a, a hard-nosed detective and a film noir, uh, it's totally fine. It's just the chat room going on all web sleuth on me over here about what, what could possibly be going on. Scott, check with the, somebody check. Somebody check the engine. I fell down the rabbit hole of looking at other seasons and remembering like Trichelle from Las Vegas and

Ruthie and Amaya from the Hawaii season. Oh, I forgot about Hawaii. Yeah. I did. Seattle. I just remember New Orleans because I had a girl from Utah in it, so everybody freaked out here. Hey, go ahead. Hold on just Eva, what do you need? What do you need?

She's signed Lane. No, you can't buy anything. Go play. flipping her mom off. This is my life now. Ma, can I buy something on the iPad? No, no, you can't. You don't have a job. You don't have a job.

We did go back in 2006 and watch the Denver one. And that Denver, the house that is the Denver, or was the Denver real world house is a pretty nice bar and restaurant that you can go to and see, you know, basically what they turned into the house and then turned back into a restaurant bar. It's downtown. I don't even know if I watched the Denver one. Now I'm curious. I didn't know there was a Denver one. That's news. Yeah.

Yeah. They never did an SEC. All right. So that was, so that's the show. Right. On Paramount Plus. All right.

So weird that they call it. I'm glad, honestly, CBS All Access was kind of lost on a lot of the stuff that was in there. So rebranding that, I think was probably a good idea. It was, but their sign-up process sucks. I went to go try the trial and they, they kept, they kept saying, sorry, something wrong with your login and wouldn't tell me what. So I'm like, well,

Well, all right, then. I guess I'm not using Paramount Plus. It's like, what are you guys even doing? They wouldn't let me sign up. Anyway, long story. All right. So this one is a documentary on Netflix. Very easy watch. And here you go. Okay. Here we go. I'm hitting play. Hold on to your butts, everybody.

Play is the button I'm hitting. Here it comes. In a world where video stores have all but disappeared. Good choice. I mean, look at the James Bomb. section, every James Bond movie, every Avatar movie, because, you know, there's just the one so far. Hey, late fees, I understand that you have to do it otherwise, people just keep those videos. I know I did. I know I did.

Meet Sandy, the Blockbuster Mom. So when I started in 2004, Blockbuster Video had roughly 9,000 stores and over 60,000 employees. And now. The world has moved on, it says. So I almost play on this last night and then was tired and didn't do it. I had play on this the night before last and loved it. And it's such an easy watch. You know, it's not like, you kind of know, you know what's going to happen.

You know the end of it. So this is the documentary is called the last blockbuster. The last blockbuster The last blockbuster Got it Kevin Smith did this documentary And I thought

I thought you just got interviewed for it No it says right here Kevin Smith document But maybe he didn't I don't know Yeah he's in it He's definitely in it getting interviewed But then you've got

Maybe it's just some misreading Ron Funches and Who did it Oh it's directed by Taylor Morton Whoever Taylor Morton Okay so I wonder if Kevin Smith's in it. He's just in it.

As one of the interviewed celebrities, also Jamie Kennedy is in it. And they're, so like one of the guys from Smashmouth, the guitarist from Smashmouth and one of the lead vocals from Savage Garden. Yeah.

Weird. Oh, funny. There's a guy voice actor. Oh, yeah. He's the voice actor. He's the Clone Wars. Yeah, Clone Wars voice actor. So this kind of takes you through the history of video store rental because I thought it was very poignant because there's like, there's no music store rental.

There's, you know, why is there video store rental? And they kind of take you back through the history of, and I'm going to take you on a little journey when I was a little girl and wanted to watch Ghostbusters at home. because when video stores came out you could not afford you couldn't afford the VCR you couldn't afford the tape the tapes were $100

so what ended up happening was these companies small mom and pop shops would buy a couple copies and then rent them out and the big studios priced them that high because the way they looked at it

was well if we're going to put this on a VCR tape and you know 20 people are going to watch it we're losing money in the theater so we have to price these movies high and so the whole concept of renting the movies came about because it was just too damn high it was too damn much and um and so when I was a kid my dad rented a VCR we had our our local mom and pop shop was called the home cinema and it was like it was just an experience you went in there was just racks and racks of movies the movies were never on the rack you had to take the box to get the movie and there was a there was a back room with the little beads right just the way

they describe it exactly like we had that I was totally so the so they would know anytime anybody went into that back room because that's the naughty room um So kids wouldn't go back there. And because of these small little things, you had Blockbuster that came in that kind of sanitized the whole process and also made it really easy to find the newest releases. And they go into the documentary and say how they did that and working with the studios and all that. But it's really interesting to watch this documentary to see kind of the rise and the fall. of video rental and and why Blockbuster

went out of business because it wasn't Netflix. No, that's the surprising thing. Yeah, that was the that was my today I learned from that thing but the, but this woman is so great. Carol, this, the Blockbuster mom in Bend, Oregon goes out and gets, I thought

was Carol, yeah, she goes out that. That was Kelly. Anyway, she goes out and buys the movies. If people want a movie that they don't have, she goes to Target or Amazon and buys it so that so that people can rent it and it's just super cool. Her name is Sandy, by the way. Sandy. Sandy.

Kelly. Carol, Kelly. Certified 76. He asked about, oh, what was it? Not the BCRs, no, it was codes from home saying the VCR is they're expensive again because nobody makes them anymore. I'm going to recommend if you are looking for a VCR, go to shop, goodwill.com. Oh, there you go. You can find them there all the time.

The one we had, Nicole, same thing. We rented the VCR and the movies for the weekend, right? So it would be the VCR and five movies and it was like 15, 20 bucks or something. And you just watch the hell out of them. Exactly. Over and over and over and over again. I told you guys, I had that friend, or I told Brian, but I had that friend who was the son of the prison warden at our prison here in the state. and he somehow had a connection

where he could get bootleg versions of like all the Star Wars movies, E.T., whatever, these bootleg ass free conversion of these tapes and we would share these around Junior High and everybody's watching like totally illegal versions of like Empire Strikes Back from this kid whose dad was the prison warden

is so weird. I'll never forget it. Like people would halfway through the movie and see people getting up to go get popcorn like blocking the screen for a minute. In a couple of cases, yeah. like the ET copy had that. Yeah. And it looked like, it looked terrible.

The sound was terrible. But the other ones, like we had an Indiana Jones copy that was legit, but so copied so many times that it was degradated, it looked terrible. And it was just like choppy and grungy and stuff. But we loved it. We didn't care. We were just like put it on repeat. Oh my gosh, India, indie, indie, bad dates, Indy.

You know, we didn't care. I have a really weird. history with movies and I guess illegal activity because my dad had one of those big giant I grew up in the country like nearest neighbor was two miles away

so he had one of those big giant satellite dishes that you had to like turn to get to the different satellites and early on HBO all those companies they didn't like lock the down You could, they would put them on these wild feeds and you could just watch movies. Right.

And so my dad would do that and we would fill up VCR tapes. You could fit three movies to a VCR tape. And we had hundreds of VCR tapes just full of like movies and I would go through and categorize them. If you're recording an EP mode, right, the extended play mode, if you want the higher quality. No, you couldn't fit that many on. we were all about quantity, not quality, with movies that we would take off the satellite dish. Oh, yeah.

And if there was something scrambled, we'd sit there for hours trying to see if we could see a boob or whatever. Oh, yeah. It was like, wait, I think you saw something. Oh, no, nothing was scrambled when we were doing it. Oh, well, ours were. We could never get, you couldn't get any of the channels, like any premium cable style channels,

none of that on ours. But did you have the big giant satellite? Oh, yeah, oh, yeah. And we get it aiming at the right thing. And we knew it was on the HBO thing, but it was being scrambled because my parents or wherever we were would scramble it. So we'd just sit and look at this fuzz going,

I know there's going to be something. Did you have the satellite remote control that was like a big wide brown wood panel box with buttons that you'd push for each channel as opposed to like numbers? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And you'd hit it.

I think D4 was my favorite satellite. I had a couple of favorite satellites because, I think D4 on Saturday at like 2 o'clock, Tales from the Dark Side would come on. I had like a whole system of my own channel guide in my head because you just never knew what you're going to find. You know what you liked. Yeah.

You knew what you liked. Well, this is fantastic. Great recommendations all around. I meant to watch that. I'm going to now for sure. And the rest of it all sounds good too. Nicole puts the stuff on her Twitter account. Twitter account.

I do. But you can find it. Nicole Spagg and Nicole, you'd be happy to know that behind Don Chito's head in the first episode of Falcon and the Winter Soldier, there's a little picture that there's a, my name is up there saying I vanished during the snap. I saw that. I was wondering what was going on with that. That's awesome. And what's more, what do I like more, that or that it's Don Chito in front of it? And I'm not sure which. I thought of you though. Oh, Don Chito. Yeah. Old Don Chito. So Nicole Spagg, have a fantastic day.

We'll see you next time. Sorry, Brian. Kevin Kipper found that exact remote control, the wood paneled remote control thing. I'll put it in our Discord chat. Please, let's see it. That is the satellite remote control with like. Look at that thing. Are you kidding me?

Each channel, I guess each one, if it was in three positions, it would give you a different button. Look at that damn thing. I'm going to zoom in on this and show the chat room. this chat room. Look at this thing. Oh, my gosh. Seriously, that is bringing memories back. And anybody you had one of those big ones, this is what you did.

It's just the best you had. Yep. Yep, exactly. Oh, my God. That's great. It looks like something you could play pong on or something. It does. And the wood paneling. Remember when our devices, you have wood paneling? Oh, those were the days. All right. Excellent work, everybody. Well done. We went long there, so I'm going to end

early, not early, but not going to do our mashup to all tomorrow we'll do a bonus tomorrow don't you worry we'll save it um windy short we'll do a mashup yeah yeah it'll all be fine all right uh that is gonna do it for today thank you all for being here we appreciate it thanks for supporting us over at patreon.com slash tms and uh if you want to get a little extra on top of that uh subscribe to that newsletter that's over at frogpans dot club c lub it's also linked on the main site which you can find at frogpans dot com slash tms send us your emails and your feedback tell us why we're wrong about how we say jack I don't know.

Whatever you want. The morning stream at gmail.com. Okay, Brian, unless you've got anything else. Let's do a song. As if we need to tell people to email us about things that they don't like or that we get wrong. Yeah, as if.

As if. As if. All right. Uh, no big year. That is a remote control. That is not a cable box. That's an actual remote control.

Yeah, 100%. Uh, All right. Let's go to a birthday for, uh, friends. Barry Folk, actually for Bobby Ann. Bobby Ann's birthday, or as Scott once called them, Barry Ann and Bobby Fulks. Barry wrote in and said, Hi, Brian, I happen to cross this song while randomly wandering through 80s cover

songs today. Really enjoyed her take and thought it'd be nice to play for Bobby Ann's birthday. I've never heard of Bishop Briggs before, but I'm really enjoying her music. Thanks, sign Barry. Now the truth needs to come out because this song isn't just something that randomly came up, Barry. This is from the soundtrack to 50 Shades Freed. Barry.

So now you're busted. Now we know where it came from. This is Never Tear Us Apart, originally by In Excess, performed here by Bishop Briggs for the 50 Shades Freed soundtrack from 2018. Don't ask me What you know is true Don't have to tell you Oh, I love your precious heart

I was standing You were dead like this and they could never ever tear us apart alone and we could live for a thousand years

but if I hurt you I'd make wine from your tears So I told you That we could fly Because we all have missed But some of us don't know why I was saying You were there

Two worlds collide They could never, and they could never, ever tear us upon. Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh

I were standing to another to watch alive tear us apart tear us apart

and they could never ever tear us apart This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. Hey, buddy. Then you just see a real bright light.