The Morning Stream - TMS 2101: Le Steak D'Shack

Episode Date: April 21, 2021

Red on head light. Puhfeeling Puhfine after Puhfizer. Pig Anuses You Love, From People You Trust. Feel Like a Man Now? You can't return your food and eat it too. Weird, Boogery Part of the Egg. Karma is gonna slap that cap off. How About Lego Popeye? Maybe Lego Popeye? Lego Popeye? LEGO IS WITHOUT HONOR! Noodle Doinks and Hand-Rolled Joints. There is no I in WeWork. Sanding Wood is my TikTok Dance move. It is a Blanket Ladder, for Quilts. Making Two Cents with Tom. Reccamentals and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Thx to BlueChew today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Feel like a man now? You can't return your food and eat it too. Weird boogery part of the egg. Karma is going to slap that cap off. How about Lego Popeye? Maybe Lego Popeye? Not Lego Popeye? Lego is without honor. Noodle doinks and hand roll joints. There is no eye in Wii work.

Sanding wood is my TikTok dance move. It's a blanket ladder for quilts. Making two cents with Tom. Recommendals and more on this episode of the morning stream. Hello. My name is Matthew Bayeur. I'm a man and I ride a bicycle. I have a Guinness World Records title for most toothpicks and a beard. The morning stream into Daring rescue action. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for Wednesday, April 21st, 2021.

We missed a really cool opportunity yesterday. I forgot to tell you about this. We did. We skipped 420, basically. Yeah, we did. But also, so let's see if I can find this. Somebody sent me this. Do I have the name? Shoot, I can't find it. All right. What are you looking for? Somebody sent me a message on Twitter. It was a private message, and now I've lost it. Basically, they said, let's see, is it on here?

TMS story? No, that's not it. basically the gist of it is that yesterday would have been the day where we were all the 20-21s collided with like times of day international clock right at the turn of midnight to be the 21st like all 21s across the board and I can't find it now so I couldn't tell you the other details I don't know where the hell I put it but it was okay but it was 420 it was 420 it was 420 but I think it had to do with the with the midnight clock turnover I think. I think that's what I had to do with.

So it would have been today, I guess. All right. Let me see if I have it here. Hold on you guys. Well, I mean, at 1221, 2012, no, that doesn't work. 221. No, yeah, no, I don't know. I can't find it.

It was great. So whoever that was, I apologize. It was a rad. Whoever they were, they were high when they wrote that because there is no. The planets did not align. Yeah, there was some kind of thing. I can't find it. All right.

If it comes up later, I'll bring it up. Hey, welcome back to the show, everybody. We've done it. We've come back for yet another one of these. And look, some of you were still confused by yesterday and you didn't read your freaking Twitter posts and other things. But Brian had a doctor's appointment. So we had to bump the show.

And instead of bumping it to a regular show, we said, hey, what if we co-streamed that Apple event yesterday just for funsies? And we made a lot of fun of people's gene outfits and all that sort of stuff. That's right. Yeah. And it's up on the feed, the audio feed. But there's no video, and here's why. Lee Wrangler.

Zero video exists of the event that we did. Because I got a DMCA takedown notice slash strike on my Twitch account yesterday for doing that event. And I've emailed the lawyer who contacted Twitch because they give you some information if you want to find out what's going on. Yeah. I don't think it's for Apple. It looks like it's some music used in the presentation. there was a very early on there was a license song that was used yeah uh i think that was it they don't call it out though it's the problem they don't say hey this is the reason they just say

you know you're candy man that's right yes the commercial used the candy man song by the way everybody who's who's listening to the show and wondering why all of a sudden i sound like uh i sound like tony i'm trying to figure out what's my uh tony soprado uh hey car Come, bring me some gama cool, come. There you. There's ducks at the pool, come. Carm. Every time, he just yells for her.

Yeah, Brian's all stuffed up. He's got some kind of thing. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, but, yeah, you know, that might have been the trigger, but it didn't know. I did notice that when you sent over the link of the, or the text of the takedown notes, it did say Apple Event.

It didn't say Candyman. Yes. as the copyrighted deal. Right. And the takedowner is some lawyer company, lawyer firm. Right. And so I emailed them and I said, hey, I thought these are okay to co-stream. If they're not, that's fine.

I just really wouldn't like to have a strike on my account. Exactly. Yeah. We won't do that. Please, unstrike me. I'll do it just audio next time because that was, you know, this still turned out fine. Yeah.

But, you know, we just won't do video or whatever. But anyway, I haven't heard back. So I don't know what's going to go on with that. But I've never had it. It's my first Twitch DMCA takedown. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, it's a bummer. What are you going to do?

I'll just survive it, though. I'll make it through. You'll muddle through. You'll make it. We're going to be all right on the other side. Yeah, first world problems, if there were ever any. This is one of those. That's right.

All right. So there's that. Yeah, no, I know the audio, Claire, is in the song, or in the audio version, but no one checks podcasts. You never get DMCA takedowns of podcasts unless you're like huge, you know? Yeah. Like, I don't know. who it would have to be. Who's the guy that eats pig anuses on TV?

Joe Rogan. If Joe Rogan does, he'll probably get in trouble. He just made other people eat pig anus. Oh, that's true. He never ate a pig anus. He never ate them himself. He said, I can't believe you're doing it. That's the grossest thing I've ever seen.

Yeah. I do like to think that when the camera stopped, he went back to his trailer and piged out on pig anus. You can have finished that? I'm going to eat that back in my trailer. It was all secretly part of his, you know, he had a weird fetish for pig anus, and he was ready to roll. Anyway, yeah, I guess somebody was saying Leo got a takedown, or not a takedown, but a DMCA strike for something similar. Really?

You know, I mean, this is like, if you can't live stream the Apple event and talk about it, I mean, that's promotion for them. It seems like, it seems like Mac Press would want to be able to do this. I know we're not Mac Press. No. No, we're not. also my least favorite of their early desktop publishing tools. Mac Press. Mac Press.

That sounds like a terrible desktop publishing tool. It does. Totally does. I'd never buy that. By the way, I'll also say this. I had a few conversations with some like hardcore brand fight Android people who are like, I'm not listening to this. Like you guys, we didn't fanboy in this. We had fun and laughed and made fun of stuff in it.

Exactly. We talked about high prices. We talked about, uh, I mean, you know, we, we still said who I want that. Yeah. It was a lot of ripping on the current Siri remote or the current Apple TV remote. Yeah, this is all true. And Greg for Walkman's probably right.

Had I not saved the Vod, I didn't manually do it, it just saves automatically. But had the Vod not been up there, they probably wouldn't have scoured it and found it. So I probably should have just deleted the Vod. And it would have been found. Oh, maybe I could, you want me to step in, Scott? Because I was actually shown as part of the, uh, the key. note, if you know where to look, and you have to assume that there's not another show or host that begins with the same pair of letters.

I see. But, yeah, when they showed the early 2005 podcasting, or 2006, whenever it was that they added podcasting to iTunes. Oh, six, I think. Oh, six. That very first day, or at least for the first few months, because there were. 11 podcasts out there. I was ranked as number 11 on the most popular podcast list in iTunes.

That was pretty awesome, actually. We caught that while it was happening live yesterday. So if you missed it, go look for that. There's this ancient-ass iTunes screen that will show you where Brian was at those days. And I think one of the shows got, I can't confirm it because I've been able to look since. But there's a giant grid after that where they're just like, And now there are hundreds of thousands. Right, right.

And in there somewhere, somebody said, I think I saw a frog pant show. But if you did, I would believe it. Yeah, for sure. I didn't see it. So anyway. Oh, do they have it here? Oh, that's you. That's you post.

No, that's me. I just posted the screenshot. Gotcha. Yeah, I want to see the screenshot of the big grid. I mean, somebody's got to have that somewhere out there, I'm sure. Yeah. I could, I guess I could scrub to it. We could all, we could scrub right to it and see it ourselves.

Scrub it. These are all NPR podcasts. Yes, right. All right. Speaking of strikes. Yes. A man, Karen struck. Do we, is a man, Karen, do we decide he's a Kevin?

I keep hearing Chad, Kevin. A Chad. Yeah. But we know Chad's and Kevins that are cool. We like those guys. Yeah, I know. Exactly. Maybe we take Chad, alter it slightly, to be chode.

If your name is chode, you're the male Karen. We're pretty safe and not offending a listener with that. Well, I ran into my first. like public freak out man Karen the other day okay and we didn't have a show yesterday so I can talk about it but on Tuesday of this week uh no I'm sorry that was yesterday on Monday uh evening we decided to try this new place and now I can't remember the name of the thing it's a really hard big French word that I don't remember it's an awful name for a restaurant but they just opened and they do kind of walk through the line get your stuff and

get out of their kind of stuff which we like right sure what's a kudoba kind of thing Kind of like that, yeah. And their whole thing is everything's super healthy. So, like, they have shakes there, but they're made of, like, their peanut butter chocolate shake thing is made of almond butter, almond milk. What was the other thing? Oh, did you go do a Lestick shake? A steak, a steak, a shake, a shake, very fancy, a French restaurant.

French restaurant. Yeah, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, weird thing but it's it's like i don't know the name of it but the things they make they're all super healthy and so i will i'm like oh that shake has no sugar in it we're getting that and i thought it would be i thought i was worried it'd be crap it's actually really good so i want to give them props but i can't find the damn info anyway so we're at this place it's not far from us open up just a while ago and uh as we get in line i see a guy looking very very focused at the help at the front of the line with no man he's not wearing a mask

And there's a rule to wear masks. They're like still like, yeah, please wear a mask from the place. Everyone's wearing them. They're all wearing them. We're all wearing them. But this guy's not wearing one. And he's wearing an Andy Cap hat, like a peekie blinders hat. Oh, yeah.

Okay, good. Hipster. Hopefully not a peekie. Hopefully there's not a razor blade tucked in the brim. I hope not. Well, he didn't use it. Courtesy of the pinky blinders. That's right.

He's a total wean. Just you could tell by looking at him. He's like a hipster butthole. Anyway, we get in the line. And look, if any of you out there are wearing that hat, it's fine. You weren't the problem, okay? I'm not blaming the hat. I have one of those upstairs.

I kind of like that hat. Yeah, but I don't wear it very often. Right. It's a hat. Hats are hats. People can wear, I'm wearing a hat now. This is a hat. You guys, see this hat?

This is a hat. So, anyway, he's wearing this hat, and he's standing there, and he's looking all stern, and I'm like, what is going on? So I get a little closer so I can hear it. And he's going, what do I want? Here's what I want. I want this food completely, 100% return to my credit card. I want all my money back and I want it now.

And he's talking like that. And the lady goes, he sounds like Walter White. Yeah, he did. I am the one who knocks, he kind of says. Exactly. So he says, she says, the lady goes, well, sir, we're happy to do that. We're really sorry.

You're not satisfied. And he says, she's being really nice. And he says, I'm more than not satisfied. This is not the order I asked for. So basically what happened is he had called in a pickup order and they had gotten something wrong. Yeah. And so I understand if something's wrong. you say, oh, this is wrong, they'll just fix it.

Instead, what he's doing is not only demanding his money back, but in this conversation, he's also demanding, she says, is there anything else we can do for it? He says, yeah, you're going to let me take this food and walk out of here. So I'm going to keep the food, and I'm going to get my money back. And I'm going to get a receipt from you. You're going to have a receipt. It's going to prove that I got all my money back or else I'm coming back here with the way. Oh, my God.

Wait a minute. I know. You can't return your food and have it too. That's what I said. Yeah. I was completely annoyed with this. If you're pissed off enough that you demand your money back and your refund, you can't then demand to take the food. You need to basically say, you know, if they offer it, say, well, we're just going to throw it away you want to take it.

Then it's like, okay. But yeah, no. Yeah, right? Total dick. And as he's leaving, it's all done. And he's kind of got a smirk on his face the whole time. Just wanted to punch it. He finally leaves.

And I'm struggling not to just be, I wanted to say something really bad. and I didn't say anything. Later, it hit me that all I had to do was turn around, look at the guy and go, you feel like a man now? You feel like a man? I should have done it. And I would have,

if I had the brain to do it at the time, but I didn't. Carter walked up to the lady who was there and says, how much was his tip normally? Like, what would you normally see as a tip for how much is, or I think she just said how much was his meal so she could figure out the tip. And so Carter paid whatever the tip was worth

because she was really pissed too. And that's all her and I could do is grouse for the rest of the evening. about shitty this guy was so mad at him you know what karma karma will take care of him they should have said you know what sir i'm sorry you will get to take this food um let me let me go ahead and uh talk to the chefs in the back because uh let's make sure you've got some extra sauce we're going to give you a little container of sauce that you can put on your bowls a special special sauce we'd like for you to yeah put on your food we only take it out on the specialist of occasions and sir

you are that's right exactly you're one of those um yes But yeah, I was just a moment of like, I don't know, part of it was I didn't run into any of this during the pandemic. I never had to deal with anybody who was super belligerent. And I know plenty of people have. So it's not me saying it didn't exist. I knew it existed. We had video evidence of people being dicks all the time. But I didn't really see this one.

And part of me's like, was he in here being anti-Mask guy? Was he vaccinated? Yeah, what was his 100%? Maybe he was vaccinated. For his 100% refund complaints. Oh, that I'd like to know. Yeah, but I mean, was he 100% vaccinated and was just in there? Oh, I was just saying.

Thinking he was better than anyone or didn't understand that masks help other people, not yourself, that sort of thing. Your sign says 100% guarantee best breakfast I ever had. This wasn't the best breakfast I ever had. But I just feel so bad because he got the food and the money back. Yeah. And they were just trying to be, ah, gosh, dang it. Yeah. Dick.

You know what? Like I said, Carmel. We'll take care of him. All right. Karma, get on it. Got us. Sometimes, sometimes you just have to wait for, for karma to do its thing, but it'll eventually do it. Yeah.

Karma, karma, karma, Carma, chameleon. That's right. You just have to wait for red, gold, and green to take its natural course of action. You're not wrong. All right. So that's what happened there. And he's a turd. All right.

Moving on. Everybody in this house is double vaccinated as of today. Oh, good. Carter's on her way now, right now. Yep. Leaving now. She get the Pfeiser or the, does she remember the mod squad? Everybody got Pfezzer in our family and connected family. Taylor, Taylor had a rough Fizer second shot. Not go well for her. So don't know what that's about. But, uh, well, hopefully, hopefully tomorrow she'll be feeling Pfein. Yeah, she's Pfein. I think she's Pafin today. Okay, good. But even Pafiner tomorrow. It'll be fine. Good. Excellent. sorry, but fine. And then, that way, we just all feel a little better about things, you know, just a little better, a little brighter, a little whatever.

And good luck to everyone there. When I went to the doctor yesterday, so that was why we pushed the show. We briefly mentioned it, but I went to the doctor just for a sleep thing, just have to get some stuff, you know, squared away to help me, I don't know, not wake up at 415 in the morning. And listen, I know part of the problem is me. I know that part of the problem is I wake up, 4 o'clock, I pee, get back into bed, I give it too short a time to try and fall back asleep. And then I pull up the iPad, hop in the AirPods, and start binging some show that I'm going to talk about on Recmentals today. I know that if I, you know, didn't do the iPad and bathe my eyes in that glorious blue light, then, uh, I'd probably fall asleep left faster.

So I know I'm part of the problem, but... Did the doctor address that? Did he say anything about that? He did. He said, so, you know, we can put you on Ambien or we can put you on trammazone or something like that or we can put you on this. But really, I think that there is a few things I'd recommend you try doing before we get to that point. And number one was, you know, when I wake up, don't... don't fire up the iPad or don't, you know, do anything.

I didn't actually tell him that I pulled out the iPad. I think he probably suspected it. Yeah. But he said, listen, go in the other room. Like, make your bed, make the feeling of being in bed, the thing that triggers sleep. You should only be using your bed for sleep and sex. Yeah. And I said, you know, I'm pretty efficient, doc.

I do both at the same time. But so you should go into another room, sit in a chair, use a, get a red light, you know, like a dark room kind of light. Oh, interesting. And read a boring book. You know, don't read like the latest Crichton thriller, but maybe pick up, you know, like read something that's not going to be, that you enjoy, but that's not going to be like, oh, my God, I want to see what happens next kind of thing. and unfortunately the headlamp that I have that I was hoping to use is just a little too bright what is that is that for real what is this it's for real

or like the red is also flashing red that doesn't work what is this what is this for normally it's a red on the headlight that's amazing a red on headlight this um I use this for cycling like when I'm on my bike, I'll occasionally put this backwards on my helmet and have the red flashing light just Oh, it's a good idea. Some people can see.

Yeah, I like that. But it also, it also is for like when I'm working in the garage and the car, like under the hood, honk, ah! Then I can put this on and see Claire. I actually probably should use this for when I'm painting minis because this gives me a lot of good light. Oh, yeah, I was going to say that's pretty bright. So interesting.

Yeah, so anyway, I need to go. I'm going to go pick up, like, a little red light for reading and not do, and just do comic books, like read graphic novels or something. Yeah, that's what I, I do that before bed, and I sometimes worry that that's giving me the dreams or whatever. Yeah. But I don't know. I never dream about the comics I'm reading. Like, I was reading one last night about, I can't remember the name of the damn thing. Severed, it's called.

It's a horror comic written by Scott Snyder, known for mostly his Batman DC work. but it's an independent thing on image comics it's very good i really like it and i just binge through like six six issues of that thing last night and then feeling a little tired went to bed didn't dream actually i didn't dream at all uh last night weirdly but whenever i'd read comics i don't dream about the comics but sometimes i have weird dreams that night anyway i don't know who knows dude our brains are weird they're like a freaking when you were a kid okay remember when you're like 15. Come home from school. Eat a bag. It's freaking frozen, whatever. I mean, whatever. You know, eat like shit. Deep fried. Throw the microwave garbage. Yeah. Go hit the

couch. Knocked yourself out for an hour and a half. Just dead. And then that night, maybe do your homework. Watch, I don't know, G.I. Joe. I can't think of what you'd see. Duke's a hazard. Duke's a hazard. Sure. And then you go to bed and then you just don't, you just sleep like a rock. Yeah. And you have hard time getting up in the morning, right? Like, It's like, oh, my God, I can't believe I have to get up. Mom's going to have to yell at you to get you out of bed. Yeah, and now it's like the opposite. Yeah, I'll figure it out.

Yeah, it'll work out. But I think it's good that you went in there and asked, you know. For sure. By the way, I do want to give credit to Navarine in the Tadpool, who did scrub to the point in the Apple event that had the big screenshot of all of the logos, all of the different podcast logos. Oh, here we go. Yeah, I'm looking at it.

Sadly, I'm scanning this thing. I don't see anything. Damn it. Yeah. How hard would it have been? Right. Give us, throw us a bone, Apple. Throw us a bone.

I mean, I think I see Glenn Beck in there. Freaking replace that with me. Yeah, exactly. All right. It's fine. Oh, yeah. Look at, I see. Yeah, how many of these are, you know,

podcasts that have released an episode in the last six months, too? That's, we need to, that, that list. There's a couple here. I can tell you they're not doing much. They're faders. Yeah. Jerks. Where's the fog pantory?

Exactly. But this is a good thing for people who are starting up a podcast. Like, make your podcast icon this small. And if you're able to read the title, then it's a good podcast logo. Yeah, I agree. Or better yet, just have Audie do it. Yeah, you have Audi do it. But there's some bad examples in here.

Some examples where they're really hard to read. Like, I can't read that. Bill Maher's podcast. I don't think has any lettering on it. It's just a picture of Bill Maher. Yeah. Yeah. Font.

Go take a typography class, Internet. That's right. That's what we did. All right. Brian, we've come to the point of the show where we have to put up or shut up about giving up to go away. Is this true? Yeah. No, no.

It's a chance for us to prove our worth, me and Brian Dunaway, whether we're good at things or not. Okay. All right. And personally, I feel like we're pretty good at things, but sometimes you'll throw us a curveball and we're not so good at things, it turns out. Yeah, yeah. Are we doing the, we're doing the Linky today, right? Yes.

Loading that Linky. Got to pull up that there, Linky. Linky. And we'll see if we can get this going. Dunnoy, you there? Linky, Linky. Oh, look at who it is. Sorry, I'm a little behind on things.

Here's this. Okay, we got it now. Hey, it's Brian Dunaway. You know him as The Brian Dunaway, and he's here to join us now for Babel Royale. Hello, Brian. How are you guys doing? Oh, you know. Good.

We're okay. Hey, so a lot of people in the chat want to know how your eyes doing. How's your eye doing? Yeah, how's your eye? Let's see. Monday, I had flashes of my eye, went to the eye, doctor. I said, get out of here. No, she said she didn't see any tears.

And it was like it was still attached. So just watch for floaters. Next day, I had some floaters, but very small, just a few little flecks. Little floaters. And they disappeared, like, you know, after a couple hours. So it's just settled down. But now I've got these really bad allergies just like, I'm at home today. I feel nice.

I rolled out of bed like 15 minutes ago. If you could stop snorting plants, you'll do better. Man, I fly like I'm Mark Wahlberg in the happening. It's like, oh, run. Right. Run, it's coming to get me. A movie I still never seen. You never see that happening? That's great.

You got a film set. You always need to watch it in spring. Film sack, yeah, exactly. I can't get into the room, though, but I don't know why. It says it's invalid. You need a new copy of the URL? I thought I did. I'm looking at the latest one. It says, it says invalid room code.

Oh, did you get the, did you do the right one? The PIN. I'll put it in our little groupy group there, yeah. And I'll double check. I thought I had it, right? but I am willing to admit that it's probably not, you guys, it's probably... Try that link that's in our Discord. We have two pins in our little discussion group, and I think the first one has...

Oh, is that the old? One of them has the old link, but the other one has, with the login and password. Oh, right. Oh, I made it. Okay, we're in now. Awesome. Let's get this listener on the line as well. We have somebody waiting very patiently here.

Hi, who's this? This is Guwarkmar from the chat. Hey, Guwakmar. How the heck are? are you, man? Well, I got my second 5G spot, so I'm looking for maybe white for invisibility, but not language. Ah, very nice.

Well, if you get all stretchy, then let call a doctor. That's not what you want. It's good to have you here. Brian's going to explain the rules of this game and the prizes that await you on the other end if you are victorious, Brian. So, Guacamore, it's time to play the tadpooly feud. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Brian have to predict the answers that they gave us. It's gotten brand's job to predict how many of those answers

they can guess or see how many of those answers they can guess. Gwakmar, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. And if your team wins, you get a prize package. That includes an original sketch on TMS cardstock plus a frog pants print pack. How cool is that? By the way, a brand new survey just landed. So if you've been wanting to play you've been wanting to like contribute your answers go to tiny dot cc slash tadpool survey all lowercase tiny dot cc slash tadpool survey and that's a way that you can contribute answers but if your name is scott johnson or brian dunway don't go to that link because that would be cheap no even though you won't see the answers you'll see the questions right right

you want extra time to think about that no no i'll just make it it just make it worse for me trust me. Yeah, exactly. You'd overthink it and it would screw things up really bad. It would just make it worse. I understand. All right, so, that said, let's get to today's game. Let's see here. It's not showing you the thing, right?

Not the title. It just says buzzer. Pooley feud and buzzer. Okay, good. Excellent. Oh, yeah, that's right. You don't see it until you buzz in and I say play. Although Brian's name on here for me is 20,000. Yes.

20,2003rd line. Oh, okay, that's on purpose then. Yeah. All right. A line for the throne or in line for... Yeah, what are you in line for? Yeah, trying to get the shot. Oh, I'm going to get the shot.

You got the shot. Yeah, you're good. All right. That's right. That was a thing that when I was trying to wait for the shot. That's what you told me is. That's right. All right.

Hands on buzzers. I surveyed 544 members of the Tadpool and asked them there. their answer to this. Okay. What franchise should Lego make sets for that they haven't already done? Scott Johnson.

That they haven't. Oh, that's hard. Oh, wait, they've already done that. What was I thinking? Yeah. Oh, my God, I'm having trouble thinking of things they haven't done. World of Warcraft.

Oh, show me. World of Warcraft. Number two. Number two answer on the board. one answer will beat it. Brian, do you have a guess? Cheebus. That is so good. I haven't done at Overwatch. Let's do that. Why not?

It's in everybody's mind. Show me, Overwatch. Oh, my God. Really? They're that different. I think they already did. I think they already did. Did they already do one? I think there's an Overwatch set. But no, Warcraft? That's weird.

Well, no. Mega blocks did. That's right. Megablocks had that whole thing that one year. Remember that? That went away, but it was a hot minute. Although, I will say, and it's not in the top ten, but I will say we got several answers for Harry Potter. I'm like, oh, come a million of those. Come on.

We've been a million Harry Potter. Yeah, there's literally a video game, Lego game about Harry Potter. Like, it's all over the place. God, I'm trying to think of things that haven't been done by Lego. This is going to be hard. There are quite a lot. Quite a lot. Great.

All right. So, Scott, you are going to be playing, and Guacamore is going to be your co-pilot. So I'll let you guys see what you come. All right, Gwakmire, anything, jump to your head immediately with this so that we can win. I can't think of anything. So, yeah, one thing jumped ahead into my head because it's coming out on Friday, but Mortal Kombat. Oh, that's the Mortal Kombat. I won't do the whole thing.

All right. You know what? Yes, let's say MK, Mortal Kombat. All right. Show me Mortal Kombat. Damn it. No, Moral Combat. Did that even make the spreadsheet?

I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking, and no, Moral Combat, uh, did. It did. One person said Mortal Kombat, 544 people that serve it. We feel a little justified now. That's great. You know what sucks about Legos is trying to think, because I can imagine, I can imagine everything. Yeah. As a Lego.

Yeah. And I'm trying to think of things that might be in popular culture that might not make the cut of a thing. So I'm going to say something like, I'm going to say, it's not your chance. Oh, it's not mine. Oh, I'm sorry. I know it is.

It is. Yeah, the way we do it, he flips over. Yes. It's totally your time. Completely forgot. I'm sorry. Go ahead, please. Don't interrupt.

How is there no walking dead, but I don't think there's the walking dead? Because I think that would be too mature. That'd be the locking dead. The blocking dead. The blocking dead. All right. Show me the Walking Dead. Been everywhere else.

It has been everywhere else. Walking Dead did not even make the list, which is crazy because I feel like that would be great, right? Like have a little zombie mini figs and you can just do a shopping mall or something. Right. And I was going to lean fully into the trope. Yeah, I was going to go.

That's what I was thinking. I was thinking, what's going to use coming up? The movies are about to watch. It's a Walking Dead movie that knew it. And I was thinking, no, that's too obscure. But yeah, whatever. I did a blocking dead drawing once. I'm surprised no one stole it from me.

Anyway. Oh, good. Okay. It's back back to us, Gwarkmar. I'm leaning. I can't remember if they ever did a Simpsons one. Oh. I mean, maybe they did.

Remember, this doesn't have to be a fact. They could have done a Simpson one as long as the people in the tad pool have forgotten. If the Tadpool doesn't remember if they did a Simpsons, one, that's a totally different thing. Gwarkmar, what do you think? Am I, uh, is that dumb? I'm actually with you on The Simpsons. All right. This is hard to try and figure out who did what.

I know. It just seems like a no-brainer. It's 30 years of that show. Somebody must have, but let's just, I'm going to, even if they have, I'm going to assume that no one in the tadpole knew for sure, and they probably used it. So let's say it. All right. Show me the Simpsons. Oh, are you kidding me?

It probably exists. It does exist. They did a Simpsons house. But one person, that didn't stop one person in the survey from saying the Simpsons. Excellent. Good. I don't feel so stupid. Then that kind of leads me into a different area as well.

I would love to see a South Park Legos. And maybe some of the people in the chat pool will go with that. Because they have like little blocky characters that would, but you couldn't do it. I mean, because it's legos. Yeah. That's true. Uh, right, with, with, uh, killing Kenny action. Right.

Show me South Park. Dang it. You guys are killing me here. Oh, these are hard. We're going to have a new rule today, aren't we? Yeah. No, you're going to, if the rule is, you're going to kick yourself when you see these answers, but, uh, all right. Um, I'm going to put Mad Max Fury Road or Mad Max and gentle in there because I'm just, it just hit me.

Our wish list more than what all else fails, right? It feels like if this is our audience and they're sick of me talking about a thing, they'll bring it up. So, sure. How about Mad Max? All right. Show me Mad Max. Good answer. Good answer. Number five on the list.

I mean, that's so glad. Oh, God. Thank God. All right. All right. We keep going. Let's see. Yes, he does keep control.

In that vein of thinking. Sure. Gwak, Mar, do you think they'd put, uh, do you think anyone would say? a water world on here? Oh, my God. As much as I would love it, I don't think so. I don't think so either. Crap.

One that's coming to my mind, and I'm, again, almost certain that it's not on here, but Dungeons and Dragons. Oh, D&D. That's a good idea. D&D. Oh, my God. That is brilliant. That is a good answer. I like it. I like it. Good answer. Yeah, good answer. Good answer. All right. Show me Dungeons and or dragons.

Number eight. On the list, yeah. Wow. I would have thought that would have been number one. Because it would be a great set because then you could actually use the pieces in your tabletop game. That's right. Yeah. Oh, my God.

I like that a lot. Yeah. Oh. Am I allowed to use the chat? Sure. If it's at this point, it's like, sure, whatever, sure. I mean, they're not going to know any better than that. They don't know.

They don't know what, you know, they might know the thing. if they answered, but they don't know what a majority of people answered. Sure. Right. But now just to be straight, if it was playing family feud, they'll be pissed if the audience was yelling stuff. Just saying, but go ahead. Oh, good point. That's true. Good point. I didn't think about that.

Maybe I don't use the chat. Let people use the chat room until strike three. Like, till you're on strike three. It's right. You're on strike three. Yes. Agreed. You rule. I'm so out of ideas. Actually

Somebody chat just mentioned Rick and Morty Oh Rick and Morty That's actually pretty good That's what I should have said in South Park That would have been probably more in people's minds All right Uncle or Grandpa Rick and Morty Let's see it

Don't let me step on those Legos with my bare feet Me or morning Show me Rick and Morty Oh Actually would have been Like if we did a 4 top 14 Rick and Morty would be on there

Damn it Oh I know one All right No Good because this is your last chance And you guys are Well the chat room Has made some really good suggestions

Like Overwatch Wait already did that one But like I think Zelda is a really good one I can't think the time they've ever done Zelda And I would love to have some Zelda logo Let go so Sure I know they have the Mario one right

Right Exactly. They haven't explored all of Nintendo yet. All right. Show me the legend of Zelda. Whoa. Brian on the board with The Legend of Zelda, finally. Number six. Higher than that guy, Jason, who's had Jurassic Park.

They have Jurassic Park, but people might not have answered it. Right. There was one I just had, it'd been just, it just fleeted for my stuffy head. Oh, no. Go ahead. What are you saying? Mario. I just said, oh, no.

Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. I'm going to go with... Oh, my God. Brain is dead. Yeah? Brain isn't. Godzilla.

Only because I just watched it recently. Some Toho Lego action. Toho Lego action. Godzilla. Oh. Let's see. Godzilla, did it even make the... It did not. It did not even make the top 10 list.

All right. A little jeezly as well, good news is Gwakmar wins. Oh, that's awesome. Hold on. Let's take care of that real quick. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. All right, we'll explain the rest of this in a second, but we want to hear the rest of these answers.

Show me number one answer. Turn one answer. Come on, what is it? Star Trek. I thought there was. We didn't say Star Trek? No, but I thought there was Star Trek. Oh, my God.

I thought there was Star Trek Lego. No. If there is, it might be like one of those little one-off sets, but not one-off. They don't work with, they don't work with, they don't work a paramount at all, do they, apparently. Oh, there's a mega-blocks thing. Maybe that's why. How cool would be to, like, build a Star Trek Enterprise or have the bridge set or. Yeah.

Oh, wait. Hold on. There are. That really doesn't matter if you found one, Scott. Right. That's the board. You didn't get it. So, suck it.

Exactly. All right. Hyper says there's a fake Lego Star Trek. That might be one of them. Because there's some mini-fids out there. You can make anything out of Legos. And I think there's even photos of this next one. Show me number three.

Fire. Oh my God, of course, Fire. That's always the go-to answer for the day. It really is. I'm so stupid. Exactly. All right. Show me number four.

The expanse. What? Why would the... People want a Lego Rosanante is what they want. What? I would collect that. How are these people prime for the expanse Legos? Why not, man?

Let's do it. I mean, I don't disagree with it, but 21 people? Number seven, Scott, I think was one that you actually said when we had an Ask TMS. What Lego set would people like to have? Breaking Bad, man. I would like that. That's a good one. I just want a Mike Erman Trout mini-fig is what I want.

Right. Yeah, that'd be awesome. What big? What big, what big items could you build? Isn't that like part of it? You'd have the, the lab. You'd make the lab that there. You'd make the myth lab?

Yeah, you'd make the lab. Yeah, this is why this will never happen. But you could have the Winnebago. You could have his stupid Aztec car. Oh, that would be hilarious. You'd get a house with a little pizza on the roof. Yeah, all that stuff. You could go nuts with any, almost any property with anything iconic in it.

You could do it. It's a bunch of beige. now this one would have a very very specific audience show me number nine the frog pants producers oh I would love that Brian already looks like a mini fig we just got to I do I'm telling you can make these yourself you don't have to wait for them to sell them exactly so frog pants producers set let's get it in there let's get it done and finally

number 10 this one could easily turn into a Lego set in the next few years Game of Thrones too mature, right? Probably. I'm down with it, but... Probably, yeah. Yeah. Like, it's the reason I think Mad Max would be a little tricky.

Anything in the R-rated range, I think they're hesitant to, because it's all for kids. I know Stranger Things isn't R-rated, but that's pretty dark, and it's not... Yeah, that's not super kid-friendly, but... It's kind of kid-friendly. Kind of. Some other great ones that are on the list that did make the top 10. Futurama, Babylon 5, Doctor Who? The Office.

Yeah, Dr. Who, think about it. Dr. Who would be great. Yeah, it would. StarCraft, people want to see. WandaVision, Alien. I thought about WandaVisers. Came up as an option, which is. Brazzers.

Die hard. Bob's Burgers, Fallout. Oh. I would love Bob's Burgers. The Muppets. That's the one that fell from my head. I was like, that's Disney. They'd do a lot of work with Disney.

I'm like, that would be perfect. James Bond was. be a good one. They have made the Aston Martin with an ejector C, or not that wasn't known with the ejector seat, but they did make a model like a a Lego model of the Aston the Aston Coochor.

Let's see, Lost, I'd buy that one, you know I would. Of course you would. Terminator West World, 50 Shades of Gray. 50 shades of gray. Was that one person? Yes, that was one person. Let's see.

Bridgeton, Riverdale, do you say that? Dexter, yeah. Dexter. Oh, I like that. Dexter's not a bad idea. Yeah, Fox and friends. You can have a little surprise, mother effort. That guy would be in there. It'd be great. That's right. Only comes with red bricks.

Yeah. There you go. Oh, I see. I get what you did there. I get that. Well, well done. You know, Gwakmar, you've won in glorious fashion, and that must feel pretty good. all you have to do. Send me an email. Scott at frogpants.com. I will get you your winnings. And you too can have cool stuff because you chose the right horse today. No, you didn't do any. You just, I just, you just happened to win. That's what happened. Yeah, you happen to join the

right horse. Yeah, you join the right horse. So good job on that horse joining. How do you feel? Thanks very much. You got it, man. We'll talk to you soon. All right. Is there my little pony Lego set? Probably. Speaking of horses. I don't know. I don't know. I don't. I I think they're already, since they're already toys. I bet they wouldn't say, yes, we're going to license. I mean, the Star Wars, I mean, the Star Wars toys are. Yeah, but I mean, my little ponies started out as toys, right? It's not like they have.

I think it depends on who owns. G.I. Joe, Legos. If it was owned by the same pair of company. Oh, I would like some GIG. I want anything. Yeah, just make everything. The problem is, the problem is you can do crossovers like that. You're talking about competing toy companies. I don't know. Yeah.

Oh, that's a good thing. Yeah. That's a good point. Is there a Lego monopoly? there ought to be that seems like a thing everyone does I'd like to make a whole board for that'd be good Lego board game would you do

awesome ooh I just landed on a six pip brick I'll buy it what's the rent on the six pip brick there's uh it'd be fun you have to put the board together before you play Monopoly

that'd be you know functional that actually would be pretty cool they don't have a Lego brand monopoly but they do have a Lego iconic chess set where it's all like mini fig looking dudes on a chess set. So that's kind of...

Yeah, somebody did suggest the Queen's Gambit as a Lego set. Oh, geez. All right. Well, there is a G.I. Joe Lego. Well, I think somebody, that's probably... Again, that's made by somebody, G.I. Joe Legos.

Wouldn't be too hard, would it? No. A bunch of Army dudes. Fighting. Fighting Cobra. You know. Yeah, one person said Fargo. Fargo would be awesome, dude.

There is so much I can do with Fargo. Oh, just season two alone. The freaking diner with all the dead people. Oh, yeah. Oh, geez. I'd like to collect all the flesh color ones I could have and make a He-Man. That'd be cool. Oh, there you go. I like that. There's probably a He-Man one.

I feel like I've seen He-Man. There's so much stuff in there for Jamie. Well done, Brian. Hold on. There's a He-Man Lego. There it is. Is there a He-Man? I made that up. I made that up. There's not. Never mind. It's something else. There are Lego, like Lego Batman, Danjago. A castle gray skull out of Legos.

That's what I want to do. Somebody surely has marked that up and will send me the Legos that I need to buy. Just tell you what, yeah, what bricks you need. You could figure that out. Yeah, that's right. That's one thing I like about that community is they're pretty sharing. It's like, hey, I figured out how to build a thing. And here are all the bricks you need.

And there's the numbers you need to order and all that. Well, they make a booklet that shows one piece being added at a time for every iteration. Yeah, which is what you want. All right. Hey, Dunaway, good job. Well done. Yesterday we did a boop show. People should check it out.

It's on the feed now. So if you want the podcast version, it's there. If you want the YouTube version, it's there. Whatever you want, it's there at frogpance.com slash boop, B-O-O-O-P. We cover indie games and games that we played, a little bit of news, some other stuff. So go check it out. Anything else you'd like to say before we boot you to win? Thank you guys for cheering me up.

I was feeling pretty miserable. Just kind of all, you know, not feeling well today. But, you know, this is great. This was great. And also, just a reminder this week, we'll be watching a movie on film sack. And I'm just going to use this moment. to let you guys tell me what it was because I forgot. I kind of forgot, too.

Oh, it's a real steel. Real steel. Oh, real steel. I didn't forget that. Real steel. Of course. Rock'em, Sockham robots, the movie, before there's an actual Rockam Sockham Robots movie.

That's right. Starring Vin Diesel. I can't wait to see Ben Diesel's hit pop off. It's going to be crazy. There you go. I'm actually legit, excited to see this again because I really liked it in the first place. So Real Steel this weekend on Film Sack. Brian Dunaway, Go,

lay your weary head down. Doing it. Bye now. Poor guy. Yeah, he gets hit every year with bad allergies. Yeah. No one likes the allergies. I'll tell you. All right.

Some quick news here, folks. Look at this. Time for the news. Brought to you by. Hey, Scott. I was wondering, what's the status of your Rock Runners Incorporated Kickstarter? Well, the status is we just passed the 15-day mark, which means we are at the halfway point, basically.

And if you are interested in checking out what the heck this thing is, it's a very fun, casual card game that you can play with your friends, your family, whoever. It's nice and competitive, up to four players at a time. And if you stack the decks, get two decks, you can go up to eight. It does work that way. So if you want to scale, it will. Anyway, we've done a really bunch of cool stuff with it lately because a bunch of stretch goals got open, including a cool place mat or a play mat, I should say,

where you actually have your draw deck and your play deck and your wind tokens and all that stuff, this cool sci-fi sort of design thing that I made. Anyway, all the art, all the design, everything came from me, and I'm really proud of it, and I want you guys to check it out if you haven't. Again, that is easy to find. Over at Kickstarter, just go to kickstarter.com and search for rock runners, or you can go to frogpants.com slash rock runners, and it's all linked there. And thanks everybody for their support so far.

It's been awesome. Also, shout out to Metson. Chris Metson launched his Kickstarter yesterday for his new 5E D&D source book and world campaign stuff. My gosh, I think they're north of 500 grand now. Wow. It's going real good. That's great. Good for him.

Yeah, I think they're going to do awesome of that. So another thing to check out. All right. Quick story here. Hey, you remember Family Matters? Did you watch that at all? Never, I'm aware of it. Never saw a single episode.

The dad is famously, this is all I remember about it. There's the Urkel guy. Yeah, yeah. Den I, do not, and all that sort of stuff. And then there's the dad who was Officer Powell and diehard, right? Powell? Yep. Powell.

Powell, yeah. Powell. Eating the donuts and the Twinkies and stuff. Anyway, Jay, Jill. Everything the growing boy needs. Jill White, who played Urkel, Steve Urkel and Family Matters, the did I do that kid, the nerd. He launched a purple urkel cannabis line. Purple Urkel.

Purple Urkel. I don't know why it's purple. Did I do be that? I wondered how we'd get that in there. I wasn't sure, but you did it. I was really ham-fisted in there, really shoved that square peg into a round hole. Well, it says here the cultural mainstay of the 90s is now getting into the cannabis business with his own brand. This is according to Forbes. It's Purple Line, which is produced in partnership with 710 Labs, comprised variations of the purple-urkle strain. uh it's purple will launch in california april uh it's pronounced it's spelled p r p l okay so no e at the end

basically right it's a little bit a little bit of flicker going on there yeah just take the and it's actually purple like the the leaf itself let's see well here's what he said he told this to forbes is the thing we out that always stood out to me that there was no clear brand leader in in uh for fire purple weed is this This must be something people know about. I guess so. I'm unaware, but, uh, sure. Hmm.

Uh, in addition to classic purple urkel strain, uh, white says there, there is a string called Stefan, which is purple urkel times the white. None of this makes sense to me. But he says, I feel like a bit like Willie Wonka, he says. The flavor came out, uh, or, sorry, came out so similar to grape candy. Uh, he said of smoking the product via one of it. 710 labs. So maybe that's the purple

is the grape taste. So this is going to go out in vape pens, proprietary resin pods, be available in eighths as in noodle doinks, hand-rolled joints, and used a fucilli noodle

as the crutch. What is all this? This is such weed talk. I'm not familiar with this. No kidding. Hand-road, use a facility noodle as the crutch. So the part that you put

in your mouth, I think, is the, so that you can light the paper, all the paper. I guess so. Is that what that is? A silly noodle. Yeah, that's weird. A noodle doink. I feel like I've learned something, but nothing at the same time.

Exactly. I've learned nothing. Nothing that I'll retain. All right. We move from Erkel briefly to Jeff Bezos. Now, you know, he makes crap tons of money. I found a web page. I just wanted to share this with you before we take the break.

Oh, God. I wrote, this is wild of true because I never, you know, never know if these sites if they're actually pulling real data, so I don't know, but this is the Bezos calculator.com site, and it goes in there to tell you basically how much Jeff Bezov made since you started reading the page. So I'm already up to $25,000. Oh, my God. Four seconds. I love how this, like, has the little pop-up video floaters that rise up when you reach certain marks. Yeah, like this is the worst one. Eight seconds. in is more than

than the highest paid Amazon employee makes in a year. 22 seconds, more than his own yearly salary. 27 seconds, enough to qualify for COVID-19 stimulus checks. $99,000.

By the way, since I started the page, we are now $162,000 that he's made since we started talking here. Insane. That's crazy. 48 seconds, more than what a U.S. Senator makes in a year. uh here we go 50 seconds in it's enough to buy a fully loaded tesla model s 1802 grand yeah this is great it's like pop up video you're right yeah um what i love about this site

sorry chat i should be sharing this if you can see this um there's a button up to the corner that lets you change dark mode to what to light mode like this just a feature it's just kind of nice you know, like, oh, it's, it's not only like this stab at Bezos and how, you know, ridiculous amounts of money he makes and all of that. But also it has a nice feature of night mode. I love that. Oh, that's great. Yeah, it's really good. 88 seconds, more than the yearly salary of the U.S. population.

Jeez. 99% of the U.S. population, I should say. Yeah, all right. So since we've been talking, he has made $379 million. $370, $380. Oh, my gosh, it's going up. $300. It's $400,000.

You're not going to be able to keep up with it, Scott. Yeah, I can't keep up. He just bought my, he just paid my, bought my house like twice. Yeah, yeah. All right, well, anyway, it's Bezos calculator.com. If you want to feel weird, go watch it. All right, we're going to take a break when we come back. Tom Merritt and some tech headlines.

Knowing Tom, he's not just going to say, let's talk about Apple stuff. I think it'll be more. So we'll do that. And then, uh, then the, and our recommendals and more, but before we have to hear from Brian on his song selection of the day. Sure. Well, let's go

with a guy named Tim Air, A-Y-R-E. Has a brand new ready to listen single called Miami Drive. This is going to be your road trip of the summer song right here. And it comes from, nope, it follows up his previous single,

which is called Mexican Holiday. He just apparently loves to travel. But he's been inspired by folks like the Beach Boys, Beatles, Flaming Lips, Stevie Wonder, Daft Punk. You're going to hear all that in here. Really great stuff. Tim Air, A-Y-R-E, and his new single, Miami Drive. Excuse me, do you know the way?

I'm looking for somewhere to stay. In my mind, you'll be okay if you help me find my way. If she asked me, will I be away? home I'll tell baby I won't be alone in my mind

you'll be okay if you're helping find my way Miami Chats You know

where to find me Miami Drive you know where to find me took a walk into the took a walk into the great unknown sold off my mobile home

got a glimpse of an unusual sight took me back to that fearful night Tall buildings lined in a room Miami Drive Where did you go Can't you help me Because I lost my way Take me back to the getaway

You know where to find me? You know where to find me You know where to find me You know where to find me, Miami Drive. You know where to find me. Miami, too. Miami, oh, Miami. You know where to find me.

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Watch how I soar. All right, we're back, everybody. That song again, Brian. That song again was Tim Ayer and the single. It was a brand new single Miami Drive. Very, very nice. Yeah. All right, Tom.

Yeah. And coming. We're going to talk tech. One would assume. Seems like a safe bet That's what this will be about So stick in there With the computer as with any tool

Always tech And direction must come from the man That man is indeed Tom Merritt who joins us today All the way from Los Angeles California Tom welcome back to the show Hello Brian and Scott I'd like you to know that by my calculations

Since I picked up this Discord call I have made a cent Oh very good Wow How did I want like that that counter is a going tick yep getting close to

two cents two cents well we made the man you know everyone wants to complain about you know Jeff Bezos and all the money

he makes but part of me's like well I'm so mad at Jeff Bezos as soon as my new Amazon package comes I'm going to use that new computer to write him an angry letter

that's right I can't wait for boys season three apropos of nothing anyway I'm going to take my mind off all this anger by watching the latest season of Invincible on Amazon Prime

Video. Yeah, it's fine. It's whatever it is. But hey, Tom is here, as he always is, on Wednesdays. We talk about tech headlines of the day as we move toward a Wednesday edition of the Daily Tech News show. Obviously, we're all sort of living in the shadow of yesterday's Apple announcements, but I'm curious

what you have on the top of... I was curious what you had on the top of your list. The doom that was pronounced by... Yeah, I mean, I heard you say I won't talk about just the Apple announcements, and that's true. We've got some other stuff we can talk about, But did you want to? I couldn't tell.

Let me get, I know that we're all, all of us in podcasting are still trying to wrap our heads around what their little subscription thingy is. And that's an interesting thing because it represents another, it's not some, it's actually something kind of hate in podcasting. I don't like Spotify exclusives. I don't like IHR radio exclusives. I don't like this kind of like cordoning off. of like, well, if you come do our thing

and use our player well then we'll have these shows you can't get or in any other way or you'll get commercial free versions here or whatever the thing is feels anti-listener a little bit and so it bums me out slightly that they seem to be buying into that same idea

but on the other hand maybe that's just inevitable this is how you're going to monetize it. You've got Netflix originals. I mean things like that that you could only see on Netflix Yeah, but Netflix, imagine if Netflix had come from, you know, a community grassroots-born technology where everybody could make their own movies and share them very easily on any player. Maybe a better way of looking at it is Apple News Plus, where you can get the news anywhere and you can pay people directly elsewhere. But if you pay for Apple News Plus, then you get something that you can only access within the Apple universe.

Yeah, I get that. I guess what I'm saying is podcasting's roots are so rooted in like it doesn't matter who you are, what player you use, it's an RSS feed, you subscribe to it, and it's free and you're playing it, and you have the show. And things like

Patreon and stuff create other ways of, you know, monetizing that content, advertising creates ways of monetizing that content. But at the end of the day, if you're using Pocketcasts or any app of any sort, you can just get it. And if it's iTunes great or Apple Podcasts great, if it's

Google Podcasts, great, whatever, you can get TMS there and DTNS there and everywhere. This is just one of those things where I'm not, I'm not, this isn't doom and gloom for me. I'm just saying it's, it's another like, come into our walled garden where we will put podcasts a format that was always famous for not having a walled garden. Do you know what I'm saying? Right. Yeah. I know a lot of pamphletiers feel the same way about newspapers. I'm sure. Pamplets. Anybody can print one up. You just need a printing press. Why are people

charging for them and keeping them locked in those little boxes? It's really not that different. It's an emotional thing, right? Like, I believed in the ideal of podcasts. This is counter to that ideal. And I get that. I definitely have that impulse as well. What I look at this as is, first of all, remind yourself, this doesn't change how podcasting works. any free podcasts can still be distributed anywhere on the internet. It's not like Apple's saying, if you want to do a podcast on Apple Podcasts, you have to lock it away. It can only be on Apple Podcast.

There's worst examples of that. Twitch requires you to be a partner to stream some amount of your content exclusively to that. What I think is going on here is Apple spin on a trend that is good. And the trend that is good was kind of kickstarted by Patreon. Patreon said, hey, make a podcast, put it out there for free, value for value model. If people want to support you, they could support you on Patreon.

And then very early on, they provided a way for you to deliver special versions of that to people who were your patrons. And that didn't threaten the open model. It said, everybody gets the open podcast, but if you want to give somebody something special, like maybe an ad-free version or special episodes, you can do it on Patreon. And I don't think any of us were threatened by that. We didn't think that threatened the model. Apple's doing exactly that.

The difference is they're not doing it the way Patreon or ACAST or several other models do it. They're doing it by saying it only works in our app, which is a very Apple way to do things. And that's where the fear of a wall garden comes in. And it's where I stopped from being like, yeah, sure, let me just add this as an option for people. because suddenly it's like, well, but now it's confusing. Now I'm offering something only to iOS people, whereas if I do it through Patreon or ACAST or somebody like that, I can offer it to everybody.

To Apple to Android, exactly. It's basically for podcasters, it's, all right, now I have to take this already segmented group of my audience that wants to help support me and pay for content and further segment them to be only iOS users and, you know, make it an even tighter percentage. And the other thing is like Patreon is a broader, has broader coverage of the kind of content you create. So in other words, yes, the TMS Patreon is all about audio content, sure. But I have other patrons that are focused on here's artwork because you unlock this level.

Here's other stuff. Like it's not specific to the medium. And this just feels so specific. I'm not, like I say, it's early days and I don't know. reason it feels important or feels important to understand it, whether you like Apple or not, the roots of podcasting go deep when you talk about the massive change in 2006 when iTunes had podcasting added to it intrinsically. It was like suddenly a mainstream thing was paying attention to podcasting. It was no longer this garage band thing. And as a result,

I just think you have to, you know, it's important to pay attention to whatever the heck it is and see how it's supposed to play out and make sure that, you know, your audiences are happy and you're happy and everybody's happy. That's what I want. Can we all be happy? The advantage that Apple gives is it's easy, right? If I want to do a Patreon RSS, I have to jump through some hoops. You know, we all regularly have to help somebody out with a sending them a link to something that says, here's how you do it. Whereas with Apple, you tap a button on your phone. Right. That's a good point. Well, we'll see how that goes. As far as everything else that we got announced yesterday. I'm obviously very

interested in that new iPad and what it means for art stuff. It was nice to see Procreate, get some stage time. I think they deserve that. So that, from the art perspective, that's, that was all very interesting to me. Outside of that, I don't know, the rest of the event was fine.

The IMAX look cool. They're sexy as hell. I'd like us 27 inch. I don't know why they're locked at 24, but maybe that'll come later. Beyond that, though, pretty good event, though. You know, it's a. Tim, Tim Apple walking around a big ring,

doing his thing. It's all good. It was iterative. Yeah. And having him, you know, do the, what do you call it?

The Mission Impossible face tear thing was pretty funny. That made me laugh in all the wrong ways. Like, it was super cheesy. Not laughing with him. No.

But I like that they're willing to do that sometimes. So, so yeah, it was a fine event. Anything else is there, Tom, or you were like,

oh, game changer. Oh, big deal. I mean, I think probably the undersold element of this announcement was air tags. And the finally, you know, being able to popularize the U.N. chip, replaceable battery, $29. Good execution that more people will be willing to pick up and try out. We had the hosts of the SnobOS show on DTNS, along with Charlotte Henry from Mac Observer. And they all have different opinions about what they might be interested in getting from the other announcements.

But everybody's like, oh, well, air tags, though. Like, I'll definitely pick up at least an air tag or two. Yeah. So I think that's probably, because it's so simple, probably not getting as much of the hoopla, but likely to be the most successful of the announcements yesterday, probably oversold as the Apple TV remote. I am an apostate who likes the current remote. You would say, great. You know what?

When I get my replacement, I'll send you mine. Yeah, you can have mine too. I already have one. I'm going to try this new one, but I'm telling you right now, all you. you haters, as soon as you get the new one, are going to find something you don't like about this one. Yeah. And when I say you haters, I didn't mean you, I bet.

No, no. I know. I'm not really a hater because I do like being able to swipe to scrub, but I think I'm going to like, you know, doing the click wheel. Yeah, the circle scrub. Yeah, I looked pretty good. I'm all about a new remote freaking hate the existing ones.

It's awful. Because guess what? When you get to the end of that remote, you still want to scrub, you have to move your thumb back to the left side to keep scrubbing. and I don't like lift out. I'll pay $59 to not have to lift my thumb. That's all the wrist. Yeah. That's all the wrist. Yeah, that's right. It's $59 by itself.

That's a lot for a remote. It is a lot. It's more than a Chromecast or a Roku Domba. Yeah. It really is. On the other hand, though, the actual Apple TV 4K, you know, UHD, monster, new one, is only $2.99 with the most capacity, $199 without. And that seemed cheap. I was like, whoa, wait a minute. In Apple, in Apple, Apple terms, yeah,

sure yeah i was shocked i thought they were going to say like 499 i was ready for it and i'm like oh not a big advance you know just a new processor and the hdr high frame rate uh support that color balance trick that you can do with the iphone is nifty that's cool yeah if you've got a current gen apple tv 4k you don't need to run out and get this one but if you've been waiting to upgrade to a 4k version of the apple tv uh that this is a good time to do it yeah my my 1080p is now long in the tooth i think it's time and the price isn't too bad I thought it was going to be worse. I was kind of bracing for that.

Anyway, well, there you have it. A quick recommendation to anybody out there who's interested in the new iPad Pro 19 inch or 9, excuse me, 12.5 inch, 12.9 inch. 12.9. I knew there's a 9 in there. The, what was I going to say? Oh, the 2 gigabyte upgrade. Be wary of that. 2 terabyte?

Yeah. So there's a 2 terabyte version of it. Terabyte. Okay. The 1 terabyte is substantially cheaper. than the 2 terabyte. You pay a lot for that bump in storage. Unless you are 100% that you're going to have raw photos for days

and never have enough space to keep them in, get the one gig. I'm just saving you... Sorry, one terabyte. I'm going to save you... I'm going to save you $400 plus right now by saying that. I'm telling you... Take a lots.

Yeah. Oh, what do you think of this... It takes a terabyte out of your wallet. Yay! What do you think of all this talk? I almost forgot to mention this because I was going to bring this up today. All this talk I've been hearing about, I know you love when I start like that because you're like, wait, what talk and where? Give me a little bit.

Everyone's saying. Yeah, it's one of those things. I keep hearing people go, hey, know that thing with video cards and how they're impossible to get because of Bitcoin mining and all that, crypto mining. Well, get ready for the next worst horrible thing. It's all about flash drives now. So it's going to be flash memory and slash SSDs are going to go completely out of stock everywhere. There's going to be a shortage. You're going to pay too much for stuff.

It's going to get real bad because there's some weird new thing. Do you think that's going to happen? Do you think we're going to? Wow. It's almost like somebody out there regularly listens to Daily Tech News show and know that we've been carefully covering the ongoing chip shortage that started by hitting the automotive market. and has been starting to creep out into other supply chains due to misunderstanding of pandemic-related demand because we'd never had a pandemic before

combined with Chinese companies starting to hoarding supply for fear of U.S. trade restrictions, as well as unexpected winter weather in Texas, drought in Taiwan, and some fires in Japan impacting the supply chain. If you've been following Daily Tech News show, you know that very well. You could say it along with me. And therefore, if you wanted to, you know, cause some fear and certainty and doubt, you could then take that knowledge and very credibly say there's going to be a chip shortage in X industry because it's quite possible that any industry that uses chips is going to have a chip shortage.

More likely in displays right now than anything else just because of some quirks that we covered on DTNS about how they're made, especially older things like car infotainment displays. But yeah, this chip shortage is no joke. And it could impact flash storage. It can impact anything else. And it probably has nothing to do with mining except in so much as the general chip shortage has forced some of the Bitcoin miners to go back to buying video cards because they can't get their specialty cards, their A6. But most Bitcoin miners are not after the graphics cards that you'd want in a video game machine

if they can get the more specialty cards. So the thing I was reading, I just found it. is on PC Magazine.com. It's a Chia cryptocurrency. I don't know much about this, but the headline is expected to cause hard drive and SSD shortages. And there's so this whole thing about a new cryptocurrency that doesn't rely. Let's see, it says right here.

Cryptocurrency is a bit of a shortage graphics cards. Now this one is to create another shortage, only this time it's hard drives. I can't find it. Okay, so what PCMag is saying is there's this new crypto that uses storage. Right. Not in a way that will cause a bunch of miners to want to jump on it. You know, that's probably a reasonable story to look at and go, oh, good to be aware of. But I wouldn't take it as a prediction.

Saying that any particular cryptocurrency is going to take off is a fool's errand. You can be stopped clock, right, and, you know, this be the one, and that's great. Or more likely, it won't take off, and it won't be the cause. of a flash shortage, although there could be a flash storage for all kinds of other reasons, right? So it's, I'm not going to throw a PC mag under the bus there. It's probably a reasonably well researched story. I haven't read it yet. They have a good track record on that sort of thing, but I wouldn't overreact to it. All right. Well, don't go hoarding your drives is what we're saying, you guys. Yeah, because that makes the problem, that makes the problem bigger. That's one of the

things that's causing the current chip shortage is that you've got companies hoarding supply because they're worried there's going to be a chip shortage, which they cause is a chip shortage. That's right. Remember toilet paper and March 2020. That's what we're saying. Don't get all the toilet paper. Let it, let it ride for a bit. All right. Awesome. Today on the Daily Tech News show, more stories like that. And great coverage, as always. Check it out, 2.30 Mountain Time. Tom, anything else you want to mention today? Yeah, we'll be talking about EU's proposed AI regulation on the show with Scott today. So check that out. And I've been having lovely conversations. Had a great conversation over the weekend over email with a guy who,

has an electric vehicle, and maybe I mentioned that last week. So maybe it was last weekend. But I've just been having lovely conversations with people over email because they respond to my newsletter that I send out, freetomnewletter.com. Very nice. Yeah, go subscribe. What are you even doing right now? Listening to us, okay, that's good.

But then after. Yeah, you're not doing anything. Yeah, you're not doing anything. Go do it. Tom Barrett, have a fantastic day. I'll see you later. Thank you. Bye now.

All right. All right. Crypto bastards, taking all our hard drives. Right. All right, Nicole time. Time for Nicole. We transition. Oh, she's offline.

She needed time. So that's why I was thinking we were stretching. But try her again. And if not, then we'll just start. She said she needed an extra 10 minutes. And I thought, well, let's see what we can do. I'm talking for 10. Yeah, we definitely went along with them.

Well, all right. You know what? she's added so she can pick up as soon as she wants and uh we'll just get started how about that let's do that yeah so here's uh we'll do this today okay welcome to uh what we call recommendals it's a wednesday effort and uh it's where we watch cool stuff on streaming services and then recommend them to each other uh and to you the audience and Nicole when she gets here or some at some point today we'll also spread that far and wide on twitter so you can catch up with what we did uh let's

Let's get right to it. Brian, you've got two today, I see. I have two. So let's start with number one. This is, they're both TV series and they're both HBO Max. Oh, very nice. Here's number one. Someone has murdered in New York City every 18 hours. At the end of the day, one of these people will be gone.

I have the things happen to people every day. You can't stop that. What if you could? It's not the things that happen in the heat of the moment, but so many crimes are planned days, weeks in advance. What if you could stop those? I've got a list. A list of people who are about to be involved in very bad situations.

Murders, kidnappings. The people that are on my list may have no idea that anything's about to happen to them. Most of them are just ordinary people like her. my name is Diane Hansen and this week she's at the top of my list I have no idea but it sounds interesting yeah so that's Ben Linus from Lost Michael Emerson okay and a TV show that a lot of people recommended to me over the years this is an older one came on 2011 lasted for five seasons so about 100 episodes and it's called person of interest and it's based so basically the premise is that Michael Emerson has this machine that he built for the government that helps identify potential terrorist threats. And so every day it will come up with a list of potential terrorist activity. It looks at phone records.

It looks at street cameras. It looks at bank records. I mean, basically looks at everything and uses computing power, lots of flashing lights, and boop, boop, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo to come up with a list of potential terrorist threats. Okay. Are you talking about person of interest? It's exactly what I'm talking about. And what it also generates is a list because it can't tell the relevant versus the irrelevant,

like the ones that are relevant to terrorism versus the ones that are irrelevant. There are still all these things that it comes up with that are like, oh, yeah, this person is going to do something that's probably going to end up with their death. Or this person is going to commit this crime. But it's not because it's not a terrorist threat, then those just get ignored. And Michael Emerson's character, Finch says, You know what? I'm not happy with that situation.

I wish there was something I could do to help. So he enlists the ability of Jim Caviziel. Oh, Jim Caviziel. Yeah, Jesus. He's Jesus. He is Jesus. And the last temptation. Yeah.

The other one. The Bill Gibson. A bearable lightness of Christ. Yeah. It was his movie. Get the crap kicked out of your Christ movie. That's right. Exactly.

Passion of the Christ. Passion of the Christ, that's it. And he enlists his ability as this former military, but TV trope of Best Fighter in the World to go and actually help stop these crimes from happening. And it's a really engaging problem of the week with an overarching story going through it, which I really, really dig.

Great guest appearances, great cast. You know, in the first few episodes, you'll see um oh it's like Enrico Colitone not Colotony is it Colotony

the from uh oh my God like you on everything all of a sudden from just shoot me but he was also in Galaxy Quest oh the dad the dad from um

yeah he's like we will we are so happy to have you on our ship today that guy Enrico Colotoni I love that guy uh the dad from Veronica of Mars, yes. You also get

Taraji P. Henson as kind of the cop that is aware of this guy's existence, Caviziel's existence, and trying to find him, but always one step behind. Linda Cardalini plays a nurse in like the fourth episode. She's awesome. I mean, it's such a great, a great... I didn't know this is a Jonathan Nolan joint

who would go on with his wife to make. the Westworld series. That's who this is. Oh, I didn't know that either. That's cool. Christopher Nolan's brother. Yeah. It's older, right? 2011 to 2016. 2011 to 2016. Five seasons, about 100 episodes. And really, so far, I am just loving this. I'm about, I don't know, more than halfway through the first season and really, really digging it. Did it air, where did it first air? Was this a...

It was CBS, I think. think okay so this is like a network show yeah okay and jim cavizial uh he's in the news lately because i guess he's kind of a whackadoo these days yeah um which is a bummer because i kind of like watching him but uh i'll see this he's very he's very similar he's like a he's like a christian bail without the charisma yeah a little bit a little bit his uh there's just some new stuff where he's like uh he's super into the qanon crap where is this uh this uh this is streaming on HBO Max. Oh, very nice.

It's a Warner. It's going to get my second TV show as well. All right. Oh, you better not be mine. Oh, you never know, Nicole. You know what mine is because I kind of told you. By the way, Caviziel was originally going to be Scott Summers in the X-Men movies before they got Marsden. Wow.

And because of frequency, the movie frequency, he had to back out of it. Oh, interesting. Okay. Well, Caviziel. Did you like frequency? I liked frequency. I did like frequency. This is a clever premise.

I don't remember frequency at all. The guy talks to his dad over radio, right? Like his dad father? Quaid. Dennis Quaid. Daniel Quaid. Daniel Quaid. Daniel Quaid.

I couldn't think it was first name. The lost quade. Dennis Quaid. Dennis Quaid, yeah. Never saw frequency. I don't even know what that is. If your name was Kenneth, I'd say, what's the frequency, Kenneth? All right, moving on.

All right. Let's do your second one. is also HBO Max and Nicole knows what this is and we talked about it I was thinking about it I had talked about it because I saw the trailer I was like oh I need to watch this well I'm going to further say that you need to watch this all right let's let's say already recommending here we go do you guys remember that girl Chantal with her bottom um no who is that I do feel like I remember that name She was like, she was like this girl, you know, we went to college with her. She, I'm just trying to think of a way you would remember her.

Here, look. Do you have kitchen? Oh, remember? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, she sucked. Why'd she suck? Because she had nothing to offer.

She was always like brushing her hair in public. It's like, brush it at home, please. Right. She was always just like around. Well, she's gone missing. What do you mean gone missing? She's like a missing person. There's posters of her like all over the city.

Dory? What happened to her? I mean, she's missing. Well, where is she? That's the question. Why? Portia, no one at the table knows. All right.

No idea, but it sounds all right. Is it finding Dory? This is a show called Search Party. Oh, okay. And this is HBO Max. I want to say it's a TBS. I think it is TBS. TBS original series.

but then it moved for the second season to. And it's the girl from Arrested Development. It is, Alia Shaqat or Shaqat. Oh, the cousin. Yes, maybe. Maybe, yeah, yeah. I like her. Yeah, she's great.

And you kind of recognize a few of the other people in here. Probably most specifically, John Reynolds. He was in Stranger Things. Sorry. You always assume I know actors. He was in Save Your Cells, which I recommended a while back. The couple that decides to leave their cell phones off and go to a cabin. And then that's when Earth gets invaded by aliens.

I don't remember that. That sounds, I forgot that one somehow. Yeah. But so it follows these four friends as they go and try and find this Chantelle Witherbottom who has disappeared. Along the way, they ran into a dude from office space. Hold on. Ron Livingston. You know, main guy from office space, and he was a million little things. I was thinking you meant office, and I was thinking, is it white in there?

Rosie Perez, you see for a while. Jay Duplis, duplus. Oh, one of the Duplus brothers, one of those guys. one of the duplice brothers and doubt it feels like they're involved in that no but it feels like they could be but they're not yeah uh i don't think they like weird shit like that they do like weird shit like this but yeah no uh apparently apparently not um but really really good cast and really good side cast that comes in here and this is one of these stories that you think is about or that starts out being about one thing but then really evolves as the characters start

kind of screwing things up and and making snap decisions that they then realize or maybe not the right decisions to make. It's a very dark comedy and that also introduced me to the band Purity Ring, which I don't think I'd heard before. And I'm now totally into their music as well because they do the theme song.

That's a cool name. Purity Ring. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So again, the show is called Search Party. Four seasons. Each season's about 10 episodes. each episode

about 30 minutes so 10 30 minute episodes, four seasons. Oh, there's four now. I thought

there's four now. The most recent season was in January. I guess for the third season, it moved to HBO Max. Gotcha. And this one, you know,

you do a little searching and you find great Rotten Tomatoes ratings. It's frequently called the best streaming series no one's ever heard of

even though it seems to always appear when you're like we watched it because we're just finally sick of it appearing on our HBO Mac's main screen when we logged in to watch something else yeah I was going to say I've seen that up there as well all right well that seems like a good shit's creek for me yeah

it gets dark but it's comedy dark I like comedy dark I'm down with it Susan Sarandon even makes an appearance as a a great character. Oh, yeah? She'd come on and go. Ah, my ex-husband's weird.

She doesn't say that, does she? She doesn't say that, no. Okay. Andy, you frame. All right, here's mine. So, two documentaries, I'll rip through them because there's no need to dwell on either very long, but I really liked both of them. And I'll start with this one, which is my main recommendation this week. Here you go.

Oh, Hulu. That's where you'll find this. Hulu. I was sitting towards the back, and there was an older usher there. And it was an African-American guy. And he just started asking me some questions. And he was like, you know, what's the company about? What do you do there?

And, you know, I'm going to answer his questions. We're going on and on. And he just kind of changed his tone of voice. And he kind of looked down on me a little bit. And he was like, brother, can I ask you a serious question? I was like, yeah, sure. He asked me the question. He says, is this some kind of cult?

All right. Any guesses? Oh, this is a... We work. Yeah. Oh, okay. So it's called we work.

And I almost hit play. I was like, I'm just not into watching. It's really good. You should watch it. You should watch it. It's very good. It's called We Work or the making and breaking of a $47 billion unicorn.

That's the full title. Yeah. Man. The guy. Yeah. That's nuts. It's a study in, um, in how charisma can drive everything. this this dude adam newman who founded the company we work with a co-founder although you never hear

about that guy the co-founder but um him it's all that kind of him and this company and we work if you're not familiar with it was this concept of like hey um in the sharing economy with you know uber and all the other crap we do what if we had a thing where people bought office space but you all would get a piece of that space from us meaning we work would own a building downtown somewhere and then you would go to we work and say yeah i need uh just a small office in that space and then you would go work in there so it was like co-opping sort of yeah you know and that's how you'd spread run around and that sort of thing and um it's really just a real estate idea like at the basic level of it it's real estate and it's it's letting out rooms it's not

anything groundbreaking in terms of you know anything other than that but this dude this adam newman who, I don't know how to describe him. He's like, take Elon Musk, take a little Steve Jobs, take a little, of every charismatic business leader you've ever known and mush them all in to this guy. And that's who this guy is. And he also happens to be young and very good looking. His sister's a supermodel.

He's a good looking dude, long flowing black hairs from Israel. So he has this crazy accent that's just, you know, cool and exotic sounding to people. And anyway, he riles people up in such a way that they think that they are, changing the world that we work is just office space it's amazing everything's about changing hearts and minds and this and that it's just like this really intense culty kind of vibe to it and the documentary plays it pretty straight they're just sort of like well here's what happened when it happened and and all this sort of stuff and it's not a big you know this isn't like the Q&on documentary or something

where there's really dirty shit going on it's mostly just people really fall for people are suckers for charismatic leaders like people want to be a part of something yeah they want to believe yeah they want to be a part of something bigger than themselves right yeah they really do yeah i think that that's just a basic human need it's a good place that gets taken advantage of absolutely and there's no way there's no doubt of my mind i mean at the end of all of this basically the company the company gets valued at 47 billion dollars like out of nowhere and then loses value very quickly when people start to realize that they're just burning cash and it isn't what everyone thinks it is.

And so eventually they force Adam Newman out as CEO. And to do that, they had to pay $1.5 billion to him to get out of there. And everything he did to get out of there was counter to all the stuff he would tell the employees all the time. Like it was just like, it was all about we, we, we, we, we, but in the end it was about him. Anyway, we work still exists. They still do their thing. Oh, they do. Yeah.

It's pretty weird during COVID because, you know, people don't go to offices as much. but maybe that's changing now, but they still exist. They're valued way less than they used to be. They still claim they're going to be profitable by 2022, but totally different leadership, totally different company now. It is a fascinating look at what the kinds of stuff

we fall for as human beings when it comes to charismatic people. So I think there's a woman, that kill woman who learned to. Same deal. Yeah. Like, what was that?

Same kind of thing. I don't remember the name of that one, but there's a whole documentary about her. And it's just, we get so suckered in wanting to believe whatever it is we want to believe that this documentary

I think is good for anyone who wants to just it's not just about this business or that company or how that works it's like it's almost like the fire festival mess

it's like a lot of that sort of stuff everybody believes so hardcore in this one person and it's just a good reminder to look for the right warning signs to know if you're involved in some bullshit or not it's really good

I liked it a lot. There needs to be a TikTok video that explains to you how to tell if you're in a cult. Yeah. Right. Like you pin it to the market that needs it. Yeah. Right. And by the way, TikTok is a cult. Yeah. And also TikTok is a cult. We joined the cult of TikTok. Mark has finally figured out what his place in TikTok is. That's good. He's perfect for it. I follow all sorts of accounts like his. You know, like... How does he stand wood while doing crazy dance moves? So I have found extreme couponing on TikTok. Extreme couponing? Oh my gosh.

I kind of want to know what that is. I love it so much. Oh, it's such a time sink. Albanians, yeah. But there, yeah, TikTok's a, it's more, is way more than people think. There's a lot of stuff and like woodworking is huge on there. Yeah. Mark did a video.

Makers do great on there. Yeah. That's real good. He did a little one minute video on how to make a veneer because the cost of wood right now is really hot. so you can use veneer to kind of make your own but still it's it I was like whoa I think you figure out what you need to do on here why is wood so expensive are cryptocurrency people using it for something no no no there's a whole bunch of reasons if you know on the surface level if you talk to some

people they'll blame Trump they'll blame Biden there's like there's a whole bunch of like tariffs and it's all complicated like that's reason why why you know housing market right now is crazy the house across the street sold within a day from us oh it's um but they're building which is like stupid to build right now because the materials cost is like two to three times more than what it normally is yeah like I managed two woodworking groups and I have to constantly squash the memes that come through about wood being too expensive yeah because it always devolves into a political debate oh yeah If anything's too expensive, you will end at politics.

It always does. Yeah. No way to get around it. All right. So that's my first one. Here's my second one. This is very short recommendation, but I liked it. And speaking of politics, it sort of fits in there.

Here you go. Well, when most people hear my accent, they assume I'm from the South. Appalachia is a region with a history and culture that is complicated and all its own. The term hillbilly was born here. All right. So partly I watched the, I started to watch the, this. I didn't get a chance to finish it. I'm curious what you'll think

about it. It's called Hillbilly. It's on Hulu also. And my first thought was oh, Brian would hate that title because he doesn't We do need to watch Hillbilly Elegy for the Oscars. But yeah, that's not a documentary. It's a totally different thing. Yeah, different thing.

But it's a thing about this girl who grew up in Appalachia, that area, West Virginia. She moved out and started studying film and doing other stuff and then came back later and she was in this in this documentary she's an admitted like major lefty progressive super super into left left causes and that sort of stuff and her family down there on the opposite you know they're super right wing and trump supporters and all

that stuff and so um although most of their it's interesting her family had voted democrat their entire life until trump and so there's all these complicated ideas and thoughts that even people hearing me say that right now or having no matter their position they're hearing it and they're going they have they've kind of got a narrative in their head about what all this is what I liked about this documentary is it it boils things back down to people and stops generalizing so her point in going back was to try to understand not only her differences with her own family but tried to understand why in 2016 the election went the way it did and in the areas specific to where she grew up and most of it was because

this is absolutely true in Hillary Clinton's case she absolutely blew it with southern rural voters 100% blew it. She basically said we're going to end all coal jobs, we're going to end all, you know, she was just kind of a dick about it.

And it backfired. And as she called them, as they took it, deplorables. Well, they took it as everybody. She's saying everyone is a deplorable and really all she said was 50% of Trump supporters are deplorables. So it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.

That's what they heard and it's what they felt. And you know what? It's a dick move. She owns that. That was a mistake. And there's a lot of other complicated stuff around that. But the main point of this documentary was it boils stuff back down to who are people? Where do they live?

How do they come up? What's the history of the way people in Appalachia were portrayed for their entire history? Why were they always held up as like, here is the white poor. Oh, let's look at the dirty dogs and the weird people on porches and the black and white dirty kids out in the streets and stuff. And oh, what was us? And it didn't tell the real story, the full story of these people. What was the movie, squeal like a pig? Oh, deliverance.

Deliverance. They have a whole thing with deliverance. And you know the kid on the banjo? deliverance kid. Yeah. They talked to that guy. Oh, really? Oh, wow.

He puts carts away at Walmart in this place. And the whole point was, we have this stereotype of this kid from this movie. It's super memorable. Everybody assumes, oh, he probably went on to keep working in Hollywood, whatever. No, they just dumped him down there. They gave him the equivalent of, like, lunch for pay. He got nothing. And he just is this dude living there.

And he always, you know, well, I wish I could have made it out to Hollywood and this and that. and it just got me it got it was a really good thing for me to just be reminded oh yeah you know it's easy to generalize it's easy to lump everybody into categories it's easy to say stuff but at the end of the day everybody's got a different life a different story to tell a different thing and there's and it was it was really good at doing that

and doing it really honestly and I really liked it so it's short it's it's quick and it's something you can grab really easy on here I'll dig back into that. That's cool. Yeah, it was very good. And it's, and it's just hillbilly comedy. I don't like Scott.

No, no, no. By the way, I don't want to make sure. I want to make this clear. I don't want to, because actually what you're saying is in line with this movie. You don't like the comedy because it feels character characteristic

and over the top and dumb. You don't like he-ha. I don't like he-ha. They talk about he-ha on the show. You know what? Everything Nicole's brought up, they bring up in this documentary. What can I say?

I am, I'm a hillbilly. you're an unabashed he-ha fan that's what you are i grew up watching him uh he-ha with my dad yeah it's a real it's a real eye-opener for me and it's made me less inclined to i do this a lot i stereotyped the south all the time you know our wife from there i if i'm if i'm you know talking something if something dumb happens i usually get into that accent and start being kind of a weenie about you know that's all anyone from uh britain they can only do it a southern accent accent yeah i've heard that before that's all they can do but this i don't know this had a way of humanizing it in a way that made me kind of double think some of that so anyway it's worth checking out

it's called hillbilly it's on uh hulu and you can go check it out all right nicole what did you bring today righty um do you like it when i play the clip or do you want me to just give it to you uh i don't care either way well it's the first part like 20 minutes of the clip is nothing so i'm just going to send it to you 20 minutes of it? 20 seconds, sorry. Okay. I'm like, whoa, that's a new one.

20 minutes. But in podcast land, 20 seconds is like, okay, when we're going to get to it. Gotcha. So start off, so I have them start the clip at 20 seconds. Yeah, it'll show. Yeah, there you go. I can do that. All right.

I got to pull it out here, though, because sometimes Discord does funny things, volume. All right, here we go. So let's play. Oh, it didn't work. Why? Okay, now it will. Here we go.

Oh, we're 20 seconds in already. You did it for me. Google Tech's newest endeavor is a chip implanted into couples' brains to merge their thoughts. Hazel and I are users one. Our minds will be one. Technology has improved the way we live. Why not improve the way we love? Together, we will become a senior living God.

I want it out. And I want a divorce. What happened in there? It's a lot to explain. How do I know? Planes, shotguns, acting like you're running for your life. No idea. What is this?

So that was Ray Bumano you heard there. Uh, uh. Hey, hey guys. All right. So this is a. Max original on HBO Max. I don't like that they say it's a Max original because I always think Cinemax.

Cinemax, yeah. But it's on HBO Max. It's a show called Made for Love. Oh, okay, cool. Yeah. I finally got a chance to watch it. It has, I'm going to butcher all these names. I am an equal.

Awesome. I'm not going to help you correct any of them. Oh, it's the Fargo wife. Season two wife that had cancer who was so good. It's the how I met your mother. Kristen Mollody. Let Nicole pronounce the name. However you do it.

Anyway, she is the girl from Palm Springs. And I recommend that a long time ago. And seriously, if you haven't watched Palm Springs, great, like, time loop, groundhog day movie. So she plays Hazel Green. She is the wife of Brian Gogel. I think there's nothing lost on the last name there. he he runs this huge tech company called Gogol and he is obsessed with learning like the whole program as you heard in the clip

it's a chip that you put into your brain and your your significant others brain and eventually you merge your brains and you can know everything that the other person is feeling and thinking and comedy ensues. So you'd call it a comedy? The trailer makes it seem. It is definitely a comedy. Okay. All right.

He does that to her without her knowing. Okay. And she kind of figures it out, I guess. Well, eventually, but she doesn't figure it out until she leaves. So he does that on purpose. Like she's not, she didn't agree to this. No. No, no, no, no.

And so he, you know, he has more money than anything. And there's like this whole, they live in this thing called the hub. And it can be any, anything you want it to be. You can go anywhere you want to go, but it's in the middle of the desert. And there's like all this secrecy around it. And he's kind of a recluse. Ray Romano is her father who lives in, you know, she grew up in poverty. So this show kind of shows

It kind of takes you into present day And then it rewinds a little bit To kind of show you her background and her relationships And that's what it really boils down to It's relationships and how we as humans communicate And what we want, what we don't want Some at times we don't know what we want So I just really enjoyed the show

It has one of my favorite actors who was in Who was the Pieces? it had Tom Hanks on it. Oh, life in peace. Colin Hanks, not Tom. Colin Hanks is not it. Dan Hadaia. Bacala da.

I don't know how to do back. A la da. Bacala doll. I bet that's not it. Which one was he in? He's the ball guy. He's the bonnie. He's the dentist.

He's in VEP and that guy's got, man, whoever his agent is is killing it right now because that guy gets put in. Oh, yeah. I love that dude. He's great. Back. Bacchalada. You're probably close on the name, actually.

That's not bad. Baclava, sure. Baclava. Baclava. Balaclava, yeah. So it's just a fun, I mean, it's a little dark because of what you're, you know, you're dealing with invading somebody's brain. But there's comedy to it. And, yeah, I would recommend it. All right. It was good.

I liked it. Lots of HBO today. Both of you are all. right yeah yeah mine's all they sponsored this episode of recommenders you just stick a little hooling there to even things out um all right well here's the best part Nicole puts all this up in an easy to read tweet after the show yeah so follow her at Nicole Spag and then we'll spread that far and wide as well Nicole thanks for hanging out with us today it was great and uh don't what's what I was gonna say oh hey I do

have something to promote oh promote oh go ahead promote away plug away yeah plug so you know you might have heard that my husband does woodworking. I've seen him on TikTok. Yeah. I follow him on there. I did a woodworking project. Oh, what?

Oh, cool. What'd you make? After 15 years, I finally joined him in the shop. And I built a blanket ladder for my quilts. And I'm nice. How much did you? It was your wood expensive? No, I don't know.

Okay. Wasn't so bad. So wait, this is for, this is for, this is. This is for like your quilting and stuff you do, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's a blanket ladder, quilt ladder, whatever. You just lean in against the wall and put some blankets on it. I was supposed to tell you that one you made for Kim, she's in it every day.

Aw. Every day. That's cool. She's watching Gilmore Girls again, and she's just in that thing. And she always says to me, you need to tell Nicole how much I freaking love this blanket. I will. I just keep forgetting. That's called, I use luxury fleece.

Ooh, luxury fleece. Yes. That's, I'm gonna, I played bass for them for a bit, but we really had the albums. Well, anyway, that's fantastic Nicole. Go check it out and is this all on video. Did you do, did you film this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

Oh, and we have outtakes too. Oh, those are always good. Oh, my gosh, so many outtakes. Awesome. They're really good. Nicole's back, everybody. Take it easy. Bye.

We'll see you soon. So cool. See you. Okay. That's great. Here's the deal, Brian. We're going to end today with, what kind of a deal? Yeah, you would probably ask that.

Here's the deal. I'm going to tell you about a thing that we got from a listener. This is an email came in from, where is it? Frank Whirl. Or he says not unpronounceable. Just think whirly bird. So, whirle, whirl, whirl. Or whirl. Maybe it's whirley. Maybe. Wurly. You know what? All right. I think that might be it. Anyway, Frank wrote in says, grape nuts or on the subject of greatness. Dear Scott and Brian, I have enjoyed this continuing discourse. as much as are on a much beloved slash derided breakfast cereal, of course known as Grape Nuts, and submit the attached ad for further fodder. I must admit, if anything, it's really turning me off this cereal. So you sent me an old Grape Nuts ad from, who knows how old this is? My gosh, probably a million years. God, I know.

It does look like, well, 1920s, 30s, something. Yeah. Yeah, I'm trying to pull it up for the chat, and it's not moving out of a disc. out of our thing. Crap. Well, I'll show it this way. But anyway, so this thing is... I'm covering up Brian's thing.

There we go. Cover up my thing. Well, thank you, actually. I appreciate you covering up my thing. Covering up your thing. Yeah, shrink that. Coverville. Okay, so it says...

This is so weird. That grape nuts... And there's a box of grape nuts with two naked legs and some, like, gladiator feet. Holding this guy in a suit. And it says the grape nut steadies. a man. Steady's a man.

Steady. Steady, my boy. All of the man's real power comes from the steady nerves and keen, clear brain. Then it says, great nuts. Contains just the food elements of nature has stored up

in its wheat and barley. Introducing the phosphate and potash, potash, which combines in the bowl, potash, is that what it is? Combines in the bowl with abdomen, or sorry, albumen to repair the build-up of cells

or repair and build-up cells, up the cells. Is it albumen the white stuff in eggs that takes a little bit longer to fully cook? I think that's it. It's the weird boogerie part of an egg. Yeah, yeah. It says it's concentrated partially predigested food and it is a wonderful sustainer

of the active progressive successful man. It's food, not medicine. 10 days experience will prove there's a reason for grape nuts it says yeah so if a if a if a food product has to convince you that it's food and not medicine yeah or or uses the word predigested uh yeah done tend to agree i tend to agree anyway thanks for that frank you've added flame to the fire that is a i'll bet grape nuts burns pretty good probably stinks but it probably burns right you think you had to make a little fire you were stuck with no kindling? I could use great. Maybe. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. That'd be all right.

All right. Thank you for that. If you want to send your own emails in, be like Frank and send them to the morning stream at gmail.com. We're at patreon.com slash TMS, and you can find everything else at frogpants. com slash TMS. Thanks for all your support as we head down toward the later part of this month. Okay. Yes, sir. I guess that's it. We should do a song, though. Do you have one of them? I have a song. I have a song for you. Actually, it's a song for Daryl Ohio says greetings scout and bane after a crazy year of pandemics career changes and issues with anxiety

I'm happily looking forward to my 43rd birthday and actually being able to responsibly spend it with my family this year to celebrate could you please play no use for a name's cover of Shinate O'Connor's This is a Rebel song. If not, at least you gave it your best effort.

That's from Cooking Mama. Cooking Mama. Let's see. Let's see. Best effort would be the title, right? Oh, man. Cooking. I can't find it.

Oh, no. I can't find it. All right, so I'll play this instead. You cut this baby in half, you bake it so the stuff inside gets nice and soft. Okay. I don't even know what that was for. I don't even. They haven't even started cooking yet.

All right. That's the closest I got. I don't know what I went. There you go. You've got to find it. It says, it's not under effort. No, I don't know what I did. This is an old, old file.

It's very possible this got lost. Yeah. I don't know. Anyway. All right. Thanks for everything you guys do and for being a bright spot for everyone this past year. Signed Darrell in Ohio, no chat room, alias, because work means I can never listen live. Boo.

It says, P.S. Pop Quiz, Brian. I've heard you mentioned other Northeast Ohio newspapers before. But do you know the name of Akron's newspaper? And I certainly do. It's the ABJ. It's the Akron Beacon Journal. Journal.

Got it. Akron Beacon Journal. Yeah. Don't ask for A. BJ. Don't ask for that. Right. Well, you can say,

can I get Sunday's BJ, please? All right. From their album, Hard Rock Bottom, here is no use for a name and their cover of Sheney O'Connor's. This is a Rebel song. I love you, my heart English man.

Your rage is like a fist in my womb. Can't you forgive what you think I've done? And love me, I'm your woman. And I desire you, my heart English man, And there is no more natural thing So why should I not get loving? Don't be called English mine How come you never said you love me

In all the time you know me How come you never say your son? I do Oh please talk to me Englishman What good will shine me I'll get done Meanwhile grace is all killing our sons

Now listen English man Englishman. Now I am holding your heart to my own. Oh, let glorious work be done. Be truthful Englishman. How come you never said you love me? You know the time you know me.

How come you never say, you're sorry? I do. I do. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. Office safety isn't really a joke.