The Morning Stream - TMS 2105: Captain Mortality

Episode Date: April 28, 2021

Cooking With Clare. Wankercising. I Don't Want the Lazer-Squirts. UNDOCK YER SWETCH! Accu-Weather Johnson. Spirit Airlines runs Garbage Town. String-related hobbies. Moderna 2: The Modernaing. Shape of Water 2: the Shapening. I Don't Want to Be a Human Barometer. Did You Purchase Wiffle-Bat Insurance? They EFF you at the Spirit Airlines! (Spoken as Joe Pesci). I ain't sittin next to the Sweaty Pad Thai Guy. Seeing Through Tech Time with Tom. Reccamentals without Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS. Cooking with Claire! Wanker-sizing. I don't want the laser squirts. Undock your switch. Accuethered Johnson. Spirit Airlines runs Garbage Town. I should have done that like Tina Turner.

Hold on. Spirit Airlines runs garbage town. A string-related hobbies. Moderna 2. The Modernahing. Shape of Water 2. The shapening. I don't want to be a human barometer.

Did you purchase Wifflebat insurance? They F you at the Spirit Airlines. I ain't sitting next to some. sweaty pad tie guy sing through tech time with tom recommendals without Nicole and more on this episode of the morning stream you have completed the trial of spirit are you ready to undertake the trial of body now in three two one hold on the morning stream This is the morning stream. And I feel fine.

All right. Hi, and welcome to the moan and scream. This is TMS for Wednesday, April 28th, 2021. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian Ibbott. Good morning, Brian. Yes. Oh, good morning, Scott. How are you?

You know, top of the morning and all that, I guess. I don't know. Did you get more sleep? Last night? Last night was, so the night before last night, I got pretty good sleep. The night before that was terrible. And so I would say today was somewhere closer to yesterday than the day before. So in the positive, it was all right.

For some reason, I thought yesterday was the day after you had no sleep. But it's right, it was Sunday night going into Monday. Yeah, for some reason, Monday was, I still think it's all tied to storms. Like, I seriously am so oversensitive to like high pressure, low pressure stuff. so when that storm came in and we had like I don't know 24 hours of rain and kind of gross cold it just

I just get headaches I get achy I can't sleep I overdream like I don't know what that's about I don't want to be a human barometer whose idea was this wasn't my idea no it wasn't gosh dang it at least pay me for it the weather channel you need somebody to tell

oh shit something's coming in that's right we've got our Johnson cam or our Johnson acute ecue weather Johnson Yeah, I got the Bersitus or whatever the old term was. Anyway, speaking of which, so I had this weird dream last night. And this is probably the one that annoyed me the most because it didn't keep me up and I wasn't up all night. But it got me, it felt like I was being awoken too soon, even though I was actually being awoken exactly right on time.

So I'll try to explain. So please do. I'm sleeping. I only had to get up once last night. had to pee at like two, like you do. It's not a big deal. We all got to pee sometimes. I drank a lot of water last night.

That's just the way it is. Yeah, and we're old. We have to pee more. It's just a fact of life. Can't explain that with science. The day before I didn't have to pee at all, which was great. But also, I may have not have drunk enough water. But anyway, the point is,

last night, I should say this morning, my alarm is set for 6.30. Okay? 6.30 a.m. is when my alarm is set. And my alarm is this. Oh, do I have it right? here i don't have it handy but it's my my phone does the um that's one of it i can't think which one it is cascading the that might be it's very yeah light comes in slow and then gets louder sort of

thing i think that that might be the one yeah i think that's the one yeah i think that's the one anyway it's set and i set it's always set for you know weekdays whatever so uh but i'm having a dream and in the dream i'm hanging out with people and i don't remember remember the circumstances of any of that now, but the part I do remember is I have my phone with me. And I hear the alarm. And in my dream, I pull my phone out of the pocket and look at it and go, why is this doing this? And it's not showing anything. It's just making the sound. So I'm flicking through it and I'm trying to find, where's the damn alarm? I can't turn it up. And people around me are going, turn that off, turn that off as if we're interrupting something. Right, right. I'm like,

I'm trying, hold on. Oh, shit. Where's the, B, B, and I'm flicking through it. I cannot find the freaking snooze or alarm off or stop button anywhere on my phone and it gets to a harried pace Brian to the point where I'm just like losing my mind in this dream like my gosh my phone I can't stop it er

and then I finally wake up completely disoriented it's the worst I don't even know what room I'm in I feel like I'm not even in the same I'm not even in my bedroom I wake up like which is north what's south and then I'd look over and yeah of course my phone's ringing it's the alarm I'm supposed to be getting up but there was something about

my dream taking on the the attributes of the actual alarm and me not being able to do anything about it that just freaking piss me off. Any dream that involves any stage of your sleeping, you're waking, your alarm, like basically, you know, when you're dreaming about dreaming

or dreaming about getting out of bed or things like that, it just Fs you up. It really messes with your mind. Yeah. It sucks. Don't like it to this point, to this very minute. I'm just annoyed with it.

But otherwise, perfectly fine morning, sun's out. Yeah, weather's going to be better today. All that stuff's good. It's just stupid, stupid. Anyway, hey, I heard you were going to Japan. Is this true? Tell me to tell me that story. Yes.

Yeah, I need to start putting stuff in there more vague so I can do the reveal. Yeah, so last week, you know, Tina and I've got this trip planned to Ireland. we're going to go hang out with Claire Gack again well not again go out and hang out with her and and then do this trip around Ireland yeah and um uh we are you know other than that we like want to go out to vermont see my dad again we've got a trip planned to Vegas and probably a second one uh sometime later next year later this year beginning of next year but um uh had no other big trips planned. Yeah.

Then a deal falls in my lap last week where I can get round trip tickets to Japan. And the deal start out at like 280 bucks, round trip from Denver to Japan. Round trip. Round trip. Now, I didn't want to, you know, I kind of like, oh my God, do I just jump on this? It's almost too good a deal to pass up, right? Yeah. and um and so i i like kept the window up on my screen or the the page and i'm like looking at it

i'm like oh can you do it could i do it and uh i go up and i i say so tina if i were to get us round trip tickets to japan would you want to go again she's like oh my god i totally do i want to go this time go up to kiyoto for a day and um and just do the things at a more relaxed pace that we didn't get to do two or three days four days whatever do the things that we didn't get to do the last time we were out there. Like, okay. Well, if I were able to get trips for 400, would you like me to jump on that? She's like, yes.

So, let me ask you this. Are these, is this an airline that you know, like a name? This is American, American friggin airlines. Like, you know, it's not, it's not garbage town spirit. All right. Which is already moved my Vegas, which has already taken out eight hours of my 72 hours in Vegas. on lame next month lame yes they suck there's the spirit in there and here's and here's what they do i'm just going to go off on a rant about spirit for a minute go for it if you'll allow it go for it

so um so first they say oh yeah sorry we're going to move your departure day this is 40 something days before the flight it's not even like the day before oh we don't have the equipment or the plane's not going to be back in time it's hey here's some here's some really cheap tickets to Vegas for 5 p.m. All right, good. You bought them? Okay, good. Oh, darn, we don't have 5 p.m.

anymore. We're going to move you to 9.30 p.m. Yeah, that's great. And then we're going to take your return flight, which was in the afternoon. Move it to first thing, ass crack in morning. It's like, oh, huge jack and apes. So I reach out to their customer service and I say,

look, come on. Is this, is there something, another flight you can move me on to that's at a better time. This kind of sucks. Oh, no, sorry. That's the only flight. It just had to get moved to a later time. All right, well, you know, can you reimburse me?

Can you, can you, um, uh, wave the seat purchase fee, right? Because it's like, Spirit Airlines, you pay to, like, stand on the plane. And if you want to have a seat, you have to pay for that. If you want to be, uh, you know, if you want to not get smacked in the face by a, a wiffleball bat halfway through the flight you have to pay for that as well my gosh whiffleball insurance freaking that sucks yeah uh and like oh no sorry there's nothing we can do about that but while it got you on the phone would you like to buy your seats i noticed you haven't paid for your seats yet like screw you like you can't in the same sentence in the same breath sorry we're like

cutting your flight off and and by the way would you like to pay us more money this sounds like a bad airline really is a bad airline and so I didn't get any help from customer service. So I went on Twitter and I said, well, that sucks. I'm never flying a tag or at Spirit Airlines. Again, they've taken eight hours of my vacation time away from me and blah, blah, blah. I get a message or reply back from Spirit. DM us your details.

We're going to hopefully get this straightened out for you. I'm like, oh, good, okay. Oh, yeah, make a stink on Twitter, get a little social media uproar and who knows? exactly yes this happened with me with a noodles and company last week i haven't told that story yet i'll tell that later because i'm letting you tell the story oh i can't wait i can't wait so uh so i get in dm chat with with i don't know who somebody from spirit airlines oh sorry about the the problem yes sometimes these flights get changed and there's just nothing we can do so i i go with him i said oh well i understand that and it stinks can you wave the wave the price for me to

pick out some seats. And there's a pause. No, I'm sorry we can't do that. But you can buy your seats. I'm like, yeah, I know. Like, the least you can do. It is really the least you can do. It costs you no money.

Whether I sit in that seat or this other seat, it's like, it's just $35 that you're not going to make from me buying my seat. Right, right. And then he says, by the way, would you like to join our discount den so that all of your future flights can be as low as $9. Say, I don't care if you paid me $9, I'm not flying your crap airline again

after this flight. What is a discount, Den? Is that just like their Yeah, it's a stupid name. Discount den is the frontier one. Whatever spirits, spirit club or the Bon You Further Club, I think is what it's called. Yeah, give you further. Bon you further. Yeah, bone you further.

B.B.B.W.F. So anyway, no, not flying Spirit to Japan. Fly. American Airlines. And it's just like this weird whim of a trip, this weird spontaneous thing that we weren't planning on doing. But it's like, oh, you know, that's a hell. That's a deal you just can't pass up. That's a really good price, yeah.

We're in April right now. This trip is going to be just after the first of the year next year in January. Yeah. And there's a lot of time between now and then for crap to happen, right? Like, COVID-21, oh, no, we didn't realize that it turns you into a robot partially or, or, you know, it makes your head randomly fly off. Ooh, I kind of want both of those, but, okay. You're winning me over on COVID-21. Yeah, fairly so.

Apparently, Real Steel really, really did it to me. So who knows if, you know, but we did buy the ticket with like American Airlines automatically for this thing. It says, yeah, if anything happens, change fees. free, you know, you can use it for a different flight later on, whatever if something happens. So it's like, all right, cool. Then. Boy, a lot of hate in the chat for American Airlines. What's out of?

For American? Not spirit. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Bobby Franks got stranded in North Carolina. I mean, I've never had any trouble with anybody, but United. My hatred for United knows no bounds. I hate them.

I hate them. And I won't even get into why. It's years old, but never flying. Oh, wait. I'm sorry. With who? With United. United.

Oh, with United. I did, yeah. Hate him. Hate him. I'm strolling to see. I see Bobby's complain about American. Maybe it's just Bobby. It might be Bobby.

Bobby's loud, though, is a problem. Yeah, Bobby's such a loud guy. Frontier. Frontier is only slightly better for me than Spirit. Frontier is actually, a lot of people don't know this. Frontier is a credit card company that just happens to have some airplanes. Because as soon as you get up in the air, twice while you're in the air

they come around by the way you can get our frontier credit card and rack up those miles and da-da-da-da-da we'll be walking down the aisle with sign-up forms and you can even apply this flight that's like going to what do you call it one of those places

that's a time share and they want you to go to the breakfast the next day freaking that's all they do exactly that's all they do they just ride you for the whole time F that really do Yeah, that. All right, but the main point is you're not going over there on like some container ship through the Suez Canal or something. Yeah, actually American Airlines and even part of our Ireland flight is American Airlines. All right. We're doing, we always go Delta, and I've never had Delta F anything up. They've always been good.

Yeah, Delta's, Delta's, Delta's good. I think we're, if I had my druthers, southwest all the time. Oh, interesting. mind the let's play musical chairs and scramble for the first seat you can grab thing before we hate that before we shut off the hokey pokey i'm glad there are people like you that don't mind that i freaking hate the cattle car thing i hate it no because it's like you walk down the aisle it's like oh that that could have been my seat if i was assigned a seat but i don't want to sit next to that guy because he's sweaty he brought on some some uh tie food that already stinks and I'm going to keep on walking.

That's a decent point. Actually, I hadn't considered that. If there is a, there is that benefit, you can avoid. And I'll pay the extra 15 bucks with Southwest so that I can be in the, uh, the A group and board first and get the seats I want. Yeah. No problem. Um, I'm just trying to think if a, if a perfectly assigned seat flight goes down in flames and a Southwest cattle car goes down in flames. Is the reaction the same? Meaning, what is the difference in the cabins?

Is it as much freak out for people that are happy to go rush for the best seats? Or is it a different reaction than the people who all had assigned seats? I'm just trying to think of like the kinds of people that would choose one over the other. What would the reactions be? I don't know. I don't know either. Would there be mayhem? Would there be blood?

Who knows there might be? I've never had an issue where I got on Southwest, low enough in the group that I did. didn't get a seat that I wanted and really ideal for me it goes in this order uh exit row window yeah anywhere else in the exit row no exit row window exit row aisle uh window anywhere else on the plane exit row middle and then uh aisle anywhere anywhere the rest of the plane how do you feel about very last row against the back of the bulkhead back there how do you feel about that oh where You can really smell the bathrooms. You can hear the engine.

You can smell the bathrooms. You can't lean your seat back because you're like up against the ball. Okay. Yeah, that is the, that is the worst. That's the very bottom of my list. And if you give me the middle seat there. And that's happened a lot with when I was traveling for, for work, for the, if I could use your phone company. Yeah.

Sometimes I'd finish at the newspaper and the flight attendant or travel agent would contact me and say, hey, Brian, if you head to the airport now, I can get you on standby for a flight that leaves three hours earlier than your original flight or four hours earlier, whatever. Like, oh, okay, cool. So I'd hightail it to the airport. I'd get there and they'd be like, yep, standby seat for Brian a bit. Great. All right, I'm getting on the plane. What seat do I have?

You're in 64E, which is back row, middle seat between the two guys who didn't shower this morning. and also raced, ran down the jetway. Yeah, they're freshly sweaty. Freshly sweaty. Old sweat has now gone liquid again. That's right, exactly. It's gone from a liquid to a solid and back to a liquid. Yeah, it's great science.

I will say this, though. Okay, so this is my theory I could be wrong. And Lost is not a good example because Lost is weird and full of magic, okay? But if a plane breaks up in the middle of the sky and breaks in half like that or in that movie where they had to eat each other, the soccer players, what was called? Yeah, alive. Alive, yeah. Where the plane goes shunk, and it's very popular to do in the movies now.

And it breaks in half, yeah. Right, in half. So half of it goes, whirr, and you see the separation and everything. I would want to be in the front half because you still have some aerodynamics that are going to glide you a certain direction. The back half has suddenly hit with blasts of winds in very un-aerodynamic ways. So you're just getting you like this, you have this big chunky thing now with a whole. in it. So when you get hit by

that, by the just the sheer factor of the wind, you're just going to go, Oh, I see what you're saying. Because now that the plane's broken in half, right. All that wind from your forward momentum is now flying into the front, into your faces in the front of the, uh, right. And so it's going to be like a, it's like a rocket

or it's like a bottle rocket without the stick. You don't have any way to control the damn thing. It's just going to be, well, you know, Jack Kate, Sawyer, and Hurley nonwithstanding, uh, both have, you're probably not going to make it. Yeah, probably not.

Those are still two giant pieces of metal that now work with gravity. And, uh, I mean, it's just an observation chat room. I'm not trying to spread actual science here, okay? So don't blame you for going places that I pretty much could have expected that you were going to go with, uh, Captain Mortality. Thank you. I can't help it. I just can't help it.

All right. Well, 400 bucks. Hell of a deal. That is what we're saying. Can't pass that up. Can't pass it up. We'll see. And I'll go get my damn KitKats in person.

You know what? I'll go get my own. Right. He'll get his good for human or whatever the hell the translation it is. Oh, yeah. Sweetness for adults. Sweetness for adults. Yep.

He'll be the one to get them, not you. I'll tell you what we are doing, though. We've already decided the one thing that we wanted to do that we didn't do was do one of those karaoke rooms. So like it's you get your own little room to do karaoke. Yokian in the middle of Tokyo. Yeah. You should do that. Overlooking, yeah, we're totally doing that.

Yeah, a lot of times that's where that's where businessmen meet the, meet the prostitutes. Is it really? Yeah. When we were in Japan, that was like, they were trying to get us in the, the arranged meetup spot. Yeah, it's always businessmen and they're always like, you want to, you want to. Like, we had somebody, it was both China and Japan, but I was asked once if I wanted a girl in our room. You want a girl? Yeah.

And I said, no, no, no. And one guy in China asked me if I want boy. He says, oh, you want boy? I'm like, no, I don't want anything. I'm good. I just want me. I'm in here. I'm good.

I got my notebook. I'm going to play Age of Empires or whatever I was playing that. Anyway, hey, we're going to play a game, and here's how it starts. Hey, everybody, welcome Brian Dunaway to the program. Brian, welcome. Hi. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. How are you guys?

Hi. We're good. We're very good. Hey, it's good to have you. I wasn't comfortable sitting quietly while you guys were talking about businessmen. And prostitutes and carry-upies. They all seem so surprised. Maybe I'll check back later.

When I was in Asia, they all seemed so surprised that I was like not down for any of that. You know human trafficking? I think most people that go there, I think they must be down. They must be ready to roll when they ask them. And I was just like, no, I don't want, I don't want this. I don't want guy. I don't want boy. I don't want girl.

I don't want anything. I specifically request a room that would give me as much privacy as possible because that has to All I want is food that won't give me the laser squirts. Can you give me that? That's all I want. Yeah. All right. Hey, Brian, it's good to have you here.

We're going to play a little babble royale. But we need a listener to call in. 801-47-106-2. Today's a tadfully feud episode. Good buck, gallon, that number. Yeah. Wherever Scott just laid out there, 6-1-8-1-47-1062. There's the number.

And you could be a winner today. fantastic prizes and more. Well, not more, just prizes. There's no more. We promise more we get ourselves in trouble. And why don't you go log into the feud? We got the feud thing? I'm in there right now.

I'm not prepared for it. I'm in there right now, but it says I have to reload because... Yeah, the server got disconnected. So reload, reload. That's fine. I can reload. There it is. I think I'm in.

Where did my pins go? Does it show I'm in? She'll show I'm in. Oh, Scott. I'm seeing Scott in. Scott is in. All right, Scott is in. While Brian fiddles with his stupid thing,

while he fiddles with his stupid thing, we're going to find out who's on the line. Hi, who's been holding so nicely? Who's this? Hello, it's Claire. Oh, my gosh. Claire Gack, everybody. What time is it in Belfast or wherever you are?

It is 436. In the morning? No, I'm the evening. Oh, my gosh, it's going to say, dude. That would be terrible. Well, all right. It's good to have you here. What's the weather like? Can you hear the riots from where you're at?

Yeah. The riots are over. It's fine. It's safe. We're in peace now. You're in peace. Everybody's gone back to Guinness and Jameson. That's good. Yeah. The sun came out and everyone's just back to drinking and having a good time. I'm so glad that you broke all the stereotypes I have about Irish people just now. That's fantastic. This is true. Yes. By the way, could you help me? I'm playing a game of Animal Crossing on my switch and I'm trying to get click on things but boy it's really hard to use the uh the joystick do you have any

suggestions yeah you need to undock your switch oh my lord I can't believe you got her to say it well done uh all right here's how this is going to work Brian you're going to explain the deal and uh Claire is going to work with one of us toward winning it and you're going to tell us how to do it and what we're going to win absolutely correct Scott Claire it's time to play the tad FULEE FUD. I've surveyed the Tadpool on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Brian will have to predict the answers that they gave us.

It's Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Claire, 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 two Steam games. Hopefully you don't have these. Seoak, T-S-I-O-U-E. Must be a Scrabble game, and that's worth like 85 points. Jeez, Louise. another game called Smile for Me.

Aw. Oh, that's that nice. That's a door. What about, what about reservations on a plane? You're going to give those away? Yeah, I'll give her, give her, well, she has your choice of seats, but it's only, the only one left is the one backed by the bathroom in the middle. Yeah, it's a good deal. That's right.

All right. Now, here's the cool thing. We've used up all the topics from my first set of Tadpool Feud. Really? Yep. So all those questions you've been asking us were like, We're from one, two or three months ago, yeah, from one survey that I did with like 12 questions on it. And at the very end of the survey, I said, do you have an idea for a good

tadpool feud question? So I'm happy to tell you that every tadpool feud that you're going to hear from, for the next couple months, came from a listener. These are all listeners submitted, suggested um insanity that's insane I love it so these are great and these are great ones

all right so if you guys are both ready yeah totally ready hands on your buzzers exactly I put one behind my back and one on my buzzer

we surveyed 332 tadpool members because that's how many there were uh this they filled this out and asked them

their answer to this what hobby did you take up during the pandemic Scott Crochet Crochet show me

crochet Oh my gosh Yeah knitting, crocheting, sewing and embroidery Almost too much stuff to fit on that little board But anything where you're using yarn, string or

needles to assemble something Right, right, right That's lower than I don't That was the number nine answer Eight answers will beat it, Brian Do you have a guess? I've seen so many people painting miniatures. I think

painting just in general has taken an uptick. Got a lot of time at home. And is that too not? That's perfectly specific enough. Show me painting. Are you kidding me?

It was on the list. Boy, it was really close. It was... I'm so disconnected to people in the world, apparently. No, it was 15th. So the top ten are on the board, but 15th answer was painting, and I included both art and miniatures in that list. And it was still not even that. What the crap?

That's what I took up. Yeah, I must have to check out a very specific group of people, I guess. All right. Yeah. So, Scott, you get to play, and Claire is going to be your teammate for this one. So you guys get to continue. Name something. Name a hobby that our Tadpool picked up during the big point.

Well, we all did. Here at the house, we did bread. Claire, how do you feel about bread? Yeah. Is that really a hobby? That makes sense. Yeah, bread is good. Let's do bread.

Good and bread. So bread, sourdough, or whatever bread. Show me whatever bread. Number two. Baking bread making is a number two answer on the board. You know, you'll have a harder time making a number two if you make too much bread. Too much bread. Too much bread.

You can't have a two. So we keep going, right? You guys keep going to the interesting. Bread eating? Oh, yeah. No, that was my new hobby. I didn't make any bread. I made no bread. All right.

You could say video games, but I feel like our crowd was already doing that. But maybe, maybe, I don't know. Claire, what do you think? What do you like? What feels good? What about, like, streaming games? Streaming video games. All right, you know what?

Let's get general with it. Brian we're going to say general gaming uh you may not accept it though would you accept gaming and streaming as one or would they have to be separate um i would treat those as separate all right yes feels like because streaming streaming streaming could be streaming other things podcasting streaming that sort of thing sure um sure then well let's say i feel like the safe ones gaming and streaming's close let's say gaming first gaming good answer okay Show me video gaming. Yeah, very popular.

People even were specific and said things like Animal Crossing was the big one. Minecraft. What other ones came up? There were some other video games that I kind of lumped all into. Yes. So people who maybe weren't, didn't consider it a hobby, then took up playing video games. I don't know gin drinking is a hobby, but. but we won't use that one.

Although, I don't know, drinking might be one of these. Right. Let's see. Good answer. Oh, my brain. I nearly answered eating when I was filling this out. Yeah, I would have said eating too, because I definitely saw an uptick in eating during my pandemic. That's quite the hobby.

I don't know, maybe, but that seems like everyone has to eat, so it'd be more overeating. I think you're thinking too much, Scott. I think if Steve Harvey was out here, he'd be going like, hurry up. That's right. Speed it up. My mustache, my giant mustache is telling you to speed things up. Giant mustache always knows best, too. All right, we'll say, some people took up, like, major exercise stuff, I would think.

So let's say fitness is a possibility. Fitness is a hobby. show me exercise or fitness or yoga or walking all of those things I lumped into exercising that is hilarious so Scott thinks that people would admit to exercising but not I know some people who killed it during the pandemic and look amazing and are in the best shape of their lives

and I hate them I gained 10 pounds I gained 20 well I lost 40 then gained 20 back so there's that all right We're getting down there Number one could be Number one I wonder if like

Six answers on the board Number one Still available has not been named How about excessive amounts of streaming Claire What do you think of that? I mean I don't mean streaming games But I mean like you know

Consuming Netflix and all that Okay Yeah All right we'll go with whatever that is I don't think I'm defining it very well Show me binge watching Netflix like a crazy person Oh no

Biggies It literally is Oh no I guess it's not The very next one Where is it It is yeah It actually really is

It's number 12 On the list So Very popular But not popular But not popular Enough to make The top 10

Brian D- You took You took You took I see Video games Is listed

As video games And not just Gaming So I'm gonna go With People took up Board Gamings

And card games You sound so confident in your answer. Look how confident you sound. I think it is. I know a lot of people that did. Did they admit to it? I don't know. All right.

Show me some sort of board gaming thing, like Brian said. A number seven answer on the board. Board gaming, tabletop gaming, or D&D. Nice. I'm going to believe in the answer of eating. I'm going to believe in that answer. I think is up there. I think we have a splenched.

smart asses in the tad pool and I am one of them. Okay. All right. I think that's what I would have said. Sure. Show me people who took up eating as a hobby during the pandemic. Number one answer

on the board. Eating slash gaming weight. Gaining weight were the most answered thing of everybody. And Clary even tried to help you, Scott, and give you that one. I should have done it. You should have listened to her.

All right. Go, Brian. All right. So many people took this up. 3D printing. I mean, I think there's probably just a short. I mean, there's been so, I've seen so much stuff being purchased over the pandemic. And I think 3D printing was,

I've seen a lot of it, model making 3D printing. Sure. All right. Show me 3D printing. Number 13. It was 3D printing, popular, but not popular enough to make it to the top. But, yeah, a lot of people, because I've noticed a lot of people direct messaging me and emailing me. Hey, Brian, what do I do for this for 3D printing?

And how do I get this? Yeah. There had to have been an uptick for sure. Yeah, very much, very much an uptick. Okay. All right, back to Scott and Claire. Claire, we're down to, let's see. One, two, three, four left.

Four answers on the board. One, two. Claire, how do you feel about cleaning? Forget the questions on the board How do you feel about cleaning? Claire Witt. Yes, God, I don't think so. She's probably right that that's a bad one.

Do you have one off the top of your head? I can't think of anymore. I can. What about podcasting? Maybe. Oh, I know. Contextuation. People always, stuff like this,

they go like, oh, I'm going to learn how to play the clarinet or whatever, like an instrument. Oh, that's a lot. good answer. That actually is a good answer. Yeah, so like an instrument of some sort. Yeah, learn an instrument. Yeah. All right. Okay. I don't have to be specific about which instrument, do I? Yeah, I want to know exactly what instance.

Oh, geez. Everybody wants to learn this saxophone during the pandemic. Show me musical instrument. Yeah, number 10 answer on the board. And it was across the board. It was like people learn piano, people learned of a guitar, right? A lot of electric guitar. A few ukuleleys. So good job That's good

That's good Okay All right We got to keep going here Let's see Yeah Keep it going What else could you be doing

That you didn't do before I think you're getting hung up on the Didn't do it before I think he'd just hobby That saw an uptick What did you do more of Well it says take up during the pandemic But you're right

You're right You finally have time Uh Psh Psh Psh Fishing. Oh, cool.

Was that Claire laughing? Claire is laughing. She's like, are you kidding me? Are you kidding me right now? I have a cousin who has become a lord of all fish since the pandemic. So I'm just, I don't know. So one cousin, hopefully they took them. What did you say?

Traveling? Like, you know, going on a road trip, maybe? Maybe. Well, yeah. All right, we'll try that. Let's try Clare's. Road-tripping. I'll lump it into traveling.

How's that? Show me traveling. You're not supposed to travel during a pandemic. I was thinking like camping. Surely people wait camping. Well, that's why that's where the, oh, and that's not, and fishing's weird. I see, I see, I see. Well, no, it is.

I mean, fishing requires a lot. Put your money where your mouth is done away. What's your guess? Yeah, what do you got? It ain't fishing. It ain't fishing. I ain't getting that one. I'm going to say people took up puzzle making.

They all decided to go and order puzzles, and they got the puzzle glue. They framed them. They did all the puzzle things. That's what they did during this. You know, it was funny because the places around us were all sold out of jigsaw puzzles and stuff like that. Really?

People, yeah, it was like they moved from using toilet paper to all of a sudden jigsaw puzzles. They're good for getting into those cracks and crevices, if you really need. Show me jigsaw puzzling. Oh, come on the list. You know, I've never put it together. I never call it jigsaw puzzles, and it's called puzzles, but I guess you use a jigsaw to make the puzzle. Use the jigsaw to make the, well, you probably don't as much anymore. No, those little laser cut or something.

Yeah, if you make it wood one, you could. Yeah. So he struck out, but I have an idea, or they just hit me. My wife did a ton of gardening, so I would have said. Oh, that's a good answer. Maybe. All right. Show me gardening.

There you go. Yeah, number three. Yeah. That doesn't help me, though, does it? That doesn't give us. It does. You've already won. Well, you've already won.

Brian's mathematically eliminated. Look at the numbers. Yeah. Clare is going to win. But you got two more answers on the board. Let's see if you can sweep. What's the guess here? Let's say.

Claire, you got anything? Yeah, you got anything? Well, yeah, there's bread making, but there's no cooking, like general cooking. Right, right. That's not bad. Cooking. Yeah, do cooking. All right.

Okay. Show me cooking with Claire. Cooking with Claire. Oh, very nice. Number eight answer on the board. Yeah, well done. That's really good. People learned how to cook.

God, if you're just got to cook. out of the way. Couldn't go to restaurants. Yeah. That's true. Did I already say drinking and it didn't get it? I can't remember if I said drinking. I don't think drinking. Let's try drinking. All right.

Okay. Boozing it up. We got one last spot on the board. Is it drinking? I think that's it. It is, dude. It was going to be drinking or dog fighting. I wasn't sure.

Yeah, dog fighting. One person who said that they were learning how to make cocktails and I said, that counts as drinking. Yeah, that's drinking for sure. good you guys cleaned up the board and as as uh without any sort of predetermination or cheating claire won yeah you won without any cheating congratulations in fact he got a winner winner chicken dinner that's right you're the winner i've got to i've got to give you some of these other answers because they're great oh yeah what else do you have so after musical instrument which was number 10 uh number 11

was masturbating oh no my god you really took to i wanted to lump that into exercising but i feel like it's It's not really a hobby, though. It's its own thing. Let's see here. Model building or Legos. Photography, woodworking, cycling, bike riding, home improvement. Moping slash crying slash anxiety slash feeling sorry for America. Wow.

Programming or coding. Reading. That's a good one. Of course. Four people said Spalunking. So I don't know. They took up, I guess it's a socially distant hobby. pickling chess probably spurned on by the popularity of queen's gambit yeah right oh that's a good one

fishing was really low on the list uh bird watching uh carpenter tree that's woodworking uh so wait fishing was on there though it was uh fishing was on the one person you're just really going to try to pin that one aren't you one person wow one person said fishing one person said hiking uh meditation spying on the neighbors origami spying on the neighbors. And no one put like taking polls or surveys? No, nobody did. It was surprising.

And one person said Zillow browsing. Oh, nice. A very popular pandemic hobby. Hanging out on Zillow is. Rolling through houses on Zillow. Yeah, you want to be, you want to spend, you want to be annoyed that your house isn't as cool as something. Do that. Spend time on Zillow.

It's annoying. I don't recommend it. Well, well done. Claire, you've won. Oh, my gosh. I can't believe it. One fair and square too. Which means.

You got to email Brian Coverville at gmail.com. He will hook you up with your codes, and you will go down as our Irish winner of the 28th of this day in the year of our Lord 2021. Congratulations. Look at that score. That's nice. Before you hang up for me, Scott.

Yeah. I wanted to donate my, I wanted to donate my prizes because I tried to get that in the last time I called in. But you hung up for me before I could say. Okay, go. I'm letting you get the floor. You got the whole floor. Do it. So I don't have a same account.

so give me to someone around them in the tads oh that's nice you don't have a steam account we got to change that why don't you get free by the way a steam account so get on it claire you should get a steam account you know what i'll do i've got this well here's here's what i'm uh doing i've got i'm doing a drawing stream later today and i'll um one of them i'll make a digital uh original for claire that'll be her winnings today and then we'll give these we'll give these prizes to another winner uh so so claire I know how to get a hold of you, so I'll get that done. Congratulations, well done, and may all your gin be bathtub-free. It's pretty good deal.

Hey, Donaway, you did good. And you did even better yesterday on the boop show where you brought to the table a hell of an indie game and talked about it so that the world would buy it. So congratulations on that. I really enjoyed our booping time yesterday. Yeah, it was good. And I think if you're not already, like, you know, listening to the boob show, you should really listen to it. Yeah, you should.

Here's why. Dunaway's annoyed that the skim show has slightly better numbers than we do on the boop show. So he'd really like, he'd really like people to stop listening to Skim and please listen to the boob show. I can't believe that, I can't believe that our core audience who we've built around popular culture and entertainment can't boost us above a. cooking show right that's what skim is right it's not a cooking show no it's just like a couple's cast it's just kim and i talking stuff so so yeah sometimes there's talk about food but yeah i know right just like we don't even have anything planned we just can it's just kim and i sitting there yapping and yet we're you know i don't know a thousand listeners more or so per week than uh than boop so

yeah help boop make brian sleep better at night and help boop become yeah i tossing turn i'm like what that what is going maybe i need to be a couple cast maybe that's what you go uh uh Uh, excellent. We'll do all we can. Brian done away, it has been a pleasure to have you on today. Plagie azure, as my dad would say. We'll see you later, bye. All right, bye. It didn't work.

Yeah. I can't hang up on him. I don't know why. Why can't hang up on him? It's not working. It's literally saying, remove from group and then not doing it. Brian, remove yourself. Hang up, Brian.

Yeah. Where are you? There he goes. That was weird. Discord being weird, man. all right we're going to take a break when we come back

Tom Merritt will be here we're going to talk some tech and that'll be good and then Brian and I are going to do recommendals Nicole's out with Pfizer shot two stuff and as a result She's not feeling well from the Pfezzer

Yeah the Pfezzer has really Puffet her In the After up So there's that All right Brian we do a song Will you get a song Yeah

I got a brand new album that's coming out on July 23rd, 2021 by a band called Peroshka. You've never heard of, I've never heard of no damn Peroshka. What the heck is Peroshka? Well, here's the cool thing. It's made up of former members of Lush, Moose, Elastica, and Modern English. You've heard of at least two or three of those bands. I've heard at least of Modern English.

That one I know. The other's... And Elastika, you know, I think they're the ones who did. A connection is made. do do do do do do oh yeah okay that's elastic yeah all right yeah one hit wonders a little bit but sure when it wonders lush they they had a hit in the uh late 80s early 90s as well anyway uh they all got together and formed a band called paroshka they have a debut lp that came out a couple years ago called brickbat and this is their follow-up the album is called love drips and gathers here is

Their song, Scratching at the Lid, here is Peroshka. Sparring in the snow of a terrible year, survive and drive, the mast is best to keep me safe, I send you on your way. Sun's up, step outside. outside. Not quite enough and stranded and alone, but they really loved you when you knew it to know need to win away. Hard work better quakes. Opportunity open up the door

A noisy head is fed with dread calamity Today is not the day Can't fight Gravity Did you really want to first communion The church inside a winning Like your little eyes It's not a place to pray

Roll down Open wide What was you see when you put you in the Scratching up in the mirror as the box goes down, you throw it all away away I can see your father staring from the mirror A crooked look in solitaire to set you up you threw it all away Nice try, step the sign Because great things happen to give yourself a break

Wonders never cease I've seen and everywhere don't throw it all away Sons out, come alive Try not to think about the park you took. Roads not take a year, so here a memory I'll think about today. Don't blend, making pay. We never leave a trace of where we began Only good for one right on the carerce is the only time around No luck, double down

What would they say when they put you in the ground Scratching out the mirror as the box goes down It's where it all away Away I'm going to be able to be. You know what I'm going to be. So they'll clip that and put it on their show and show you how to use a soundboard. How to use a soundboard big money.

But this is the morning stream. Game over, man. Game over. All right, we're back, everybody. Welcome back to the program. Yes, that was Paroshka. The song is called Scratching at the Lid from their upcoming album, Love Drips and Gathers. Yeah.

Ew. Yeah, what's the... Ew. It's kind of weird, isn't it? It's a little weird. A little gross, Scott. Yeah, I don't think I like it. A little gross.

No, sir, I don't. All right. We're going to get Tom in here. Go see what's going on in the world. We'll see how he's feeling after Moderna, too. Oh, he got the... Did he get the two already? He got the two.

Oh, my gosh. excited. All right, here we go. With the computer, as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. That man is, as always and forever, Tom Merritt. Tom Merritt, welcome. Well, hello, Scott and Brian. Oh, hello. Oh, it's the side cam. My favorite cam. My favorite cam. My computer restarted. I love when computers decide to switch things around when you least expect it. It's my favorite future. Yeah, whenever I get an operating system update, uh, I will always, this cord will always decide. It prefers the side cam.

Yeah, it really does. That's really weird. I think, by the way, your monitor is too low. I think that's supposed to be like you're supposed to be able to reach your hand out straight from your body and touch the upper top of your monitor. But this is why Tom is cooler than us. Oh, okay. Okay. Here we go, Brett.

How's that? Well, that didn't work. What? How many monitors did you have? yeah gotcha so it's uh your camera on a separate when i when i do the show yeah i gotcha okay yeah look at you you pro he's a pro he knows what he's doing i knows what the hell he's doing if i were to bring my monitor down when i did the show it'd crush my back to the future car collection right nobody wants that hey party anyway tom yeah that's one of the things

i like about this dell is that that's nothing i i added it just came that it's like oh yeah you can do that you can you know i like adjustable monitor I hate the ones that don't move. Drives me crazy. I have one over here that moves all, like, awesome. And then this one, it's like a solid state monster. It won't move anywhere. So I have to, like, arrange my life around it.

Oh, now I'm annoyed. Hey, Tom Merritt, you're in the post-modernna stage two deal going. That's right. That's right. Just about 25, 24 hours and 20 minutes ago. I got the second Moderna shot. And I can now see through time. Wow. That's great. Excellent.

Did any, any, you know, side effects or feelings of regret? You know, I tweeted, I tweeted this. Increased antibodies, you know, a little sense of relief. A little tiny, little tiny sore in the shoulder. I couldn't tell if I just was, you know, had a normal bad night's sleep or was a little more tired this morning. But yes, honestly, so far is so good. They say that if you don't have a lot of side effects, it means you're immune. system isn't as good. Yeah, that's what I've heard. Oh, really?

Yeah, I've heard the same. I hear, like, the reason older people. You're old. You're very old. Old people who don't have much of reaction. It means they're, they just can't be bothered. Immune systems is like, okay, whatever. But kids or younger people, they get it, and they're like sick for four days.

That's a good sign. It means you still got a tough, tough deal going. Tina, Tina was sick for a day and a half. That's good. Seven hours. Eileen's got a little bit of body aches, like flu-like body aches, but nothing. Nothing bad. Nothing horrible. She's taking it easy, though. She's, she's resting a little more. Well, may any L-Effects leave quickly, as you are both now fully, well, almost fully vaccinated after your, whatever, the two-week thing is after that.

Yeah, yeah. May 10th, I guess, would be, yeah. That's awesome. Well, wind to your backs. All right. Hey, we have Tom, we have Tom on the show on Wednesday. We don't rise to meet. That's right. We're here to talk about tech. We do it on the weekly, and it's all partially in preparation for the day. Daily Tech News Show, which comes a little bit later today. That's the day I'm on, so it's always fun to talk to you before all of that. What's brewing out there in tech? Well, we've got Samsung Galaxy Unpacked, announced a gaming laptop. A couple other laptops we'll be talking about today.

Also, the CTA confirmed what they had announced last summer that CES will be in person in January in Las Vegas. They'll continue to have a virtual option this year, but they're expecting most people to attend. And yesterday, Apple launched its app tracking transparency feature, which is the one that Facebook Club was taking full page ads out against and has a lot of the advertising industry very nervous because we went through this yesterday on Daily Tech News show. But the short version is it now, instead of making you go into settings and opting out of third party tracking, this doesn't affect first party tracking. Facebook can track you across Instagram and WhatsApp because it owns all three. They can still do that. What Apple's saying is, if you want to combine what you know about your customer with stuff you get from other companies to better target ads, then you have to ask them.

And the fear of the advertising agency is that people will say no, if asked, but we'll leave the setting tracking if they don't really know it's there. Yeah, because that's a lousy, I hate that. I hate that they just like that. Of course they think that because they're right. Yeah. Like, they're right. If people will, people will say no. It's like, oh, can we track you for everything that you do and look at and shop for? I think you're right that more people will turn it off than would have turned it off if they didn't know to go find it, right? Because that takes awareness and people don't want to be bothered. But if a pop up comes up and says, hey, they would like to track you across other apps. This is to better serve you ads. Is that okay? More people will say, allow than you think.

Yeah. Because what that is is it's a forced opt. And I actually found a study on this way back in like 2002 at Tech TV when they wanted us to have opt in for things on the website. And I was like, no, opt in is bad. Or

they wanted us to have opt out. I was like, opt out is bad. You want people to opt in. Otherwise, they get upset once they find out you opted them in. And we went with forced opt. Because forced opt had almost as good a response as opt out

but didn't get people angry because they had a choice. Right. And that's what's going on here. I have one very anecdotal developer, I will not say their name, who said, we're seeing higher allow than we expected. Of course, it's early days and that's one data point, so who

knows. There's other, you know, Twitter surveys that say people won't. But what people say they'll do and what they actually do often aren't the same thing. So I'm very curious, what the numbers will be. No matter what they are, you're going to have fewer people allowing this third-party tracking. It doesn't mean there won't be advertising. It doesn't mean you won't even be able to target advertising. It just means you won't be able to use as much

data if people say no on iOS. You can still target them elsewhere on the web and other places. You just can't do it in the apps. You're right. I personally, I like that they're doing this and I understand what you mean by four-stop. It's basically like present the, present the do-or-die choice. It's like, boom, here it is. Now you decide right now. You can't go any further. You got to decide. You want to let this happen or you don't?

And the answer is yes or no. There's no, let me think about it. There's no, I'll check it later. Like, you have to decide. And I could see how that would be better statistically for the advertisers because that's, that opportunity means that more people are going to do it than wouldn't. And you're not going to have people upset that wouldn't. So I agree with everything you've said there.

but I'm personally glad they're doing it because I'm going to say no to all of it. I don't like the idea that they get to track me across services. I don't mind that they do it within their own ecosystems. That makes sense to me. They own it all. I get it. So if I'm going to get Instagram ads and they show up also on Facebook, well, them's the breaks. But I don't want them going, well, we notice that you use the Marco's Pizza app.

So therefore. Now, why don't you want that. I don't know. I don't know why I hate it, but I do. And I don't want it. Yeah. Because I 100% agree that you should be given the choice. You should opt in or out. You should make your choice. I do agree that some advertisers are like it's not really tracking. Tracking carries a loaded phrase of like we're surveilling you. This is just to serve you better ads. I think 99% of apps are probably doing that. There are some malicious apps out there that want to do other things with your data. But I would remind people that if you, I opt in what just think about what are they getting

and what are they going to do with it? Most companies are getting oh he opened this app he bought this thing with that app and he went into our app and did a similar thing so that means he's really into the Warcraft figurines. Let's give him more ads for cool stuff about Warcraft figurines or Warhammer

maybe is a better example and and that could be better. I think where people get upset is they really just don't like the idea because they don't know what data is really being collected, so they'd rather say no to all of it. And B, ad targeting hasn't proven to be all that good yet. So you don't get ads where you're like, man, I let them do all this ad targeting of me. And all the ads are stuff I'm really into because we all know that that's not the way it works.

Right. And I'm not some kind of hardcore privacy freak when it comes to internet stuff. I haven't been forever. It's all pretty much kind of just out there. My thing is like this has always felt like, A bunch of people coming to your house and saying, hey, we're going to point a bunch of cameras into your windows. Do you want us here, don't you? Because if you leave us here, we'll get better ideas of the kind of stuff you like if you let us have cameras in your windows. Right. If you leave, if we get to keep our cameras here, we'll tap on your door every once in a while and say, hey, you should check out this show on Hulu. But if you don't leave the cameras here, we're going to tap on our door and say, oh, you should check out this thing on Pornhub.

Well, I think that's what people think. And it's not, remember, it's not seeing everything. you do. It's not getting access to your camera. It's getting access to app activities. So maybe a better analogy is we would like to put a camera looking at your fridge and see everything you take out of your fridge. And in exchange for that, we promise that we will only use this to send you coupons for food. And if they're like, if you, if big if, you trusted them to only do that. That's the right. And you got coupons. You're like, this is great. I'm like getting coupons for stuff. I buy all the time. I'm saving money. Awesome. But I think our real world experiences, you're like, okay, you can put the camera on. And then they're like, hey, you took a sip of milk. Here, here's 15 coupons for more milk. And you're like, it's not even out of milk. I took one sip of milk.

Right. Right. You're right. You're right about them not being great out of yet. But also, it's just a basic trust thing. I don't really know. And we sold your email address to, uh, to, uh, to dairy. And then one out of 10 of them are like, oh, also. Uh, right. I'm either Russian, Chinese, or North Korean hackers now have all this video on your refrigerator. I'm sure it's not a big deal. They're probably not going to use that, but now your refrigerator is voting for the Republican candidate. So I hope that's okay. I don't know if that's a problem to you or not, but yeah. But it's just this feeling that we're all supposed to assume these companies are all altruistic, you know, actors in this. And sometimes they are just wanting to give you better results.

Do they? Well, does anybody think that everyone assumes the companies are altruistic? I'm not saying that. They want you to think that, though. I mean, I don't even think they believe they can convince you of that. Every commercial ever for anything is trying to convince me that that's what they're, they are a big important part of my life. I think they're trying to move you back towards the middle on that. Yeah, yeah. No, you're right. So because of that, there's just a lot of mistrust anyway. And anytime Facebook has a data breach or somebody else, a bunch of passwords leaked or whatever, you just go, well, yet another reason that I don't know why I should freaking trust you guys. what pizza I want. So no, I'm not going to let you track my Marco's app. Now, the nice thing about this

is I can be specific. I can be very discerning and say, oh, well, this is that app asking for permission for data from this app. And I already like those guys and trust them. And also, they've already served me well. So yeah, I'll say yes in this case. So that's why I like this. It's not a blanket yes or no for everybody. It's a blanket yes or no for each ecosystem. And I'm, and I like that control. And small businesses, Facebook's made a lot of big deal about small businesses, which is really kind of silly because Facebook is not a small business. And all they care about is extracting money out of small businesses. But there is a legitimate fear by small businesses who are like, I need as precise of data as possible because I'm a small business. I

don't have a big ad budget. And I want to spend my money only on people who are really interested in my product. And the more data that you can combine, the better targeted my ad can be because, you know, I sell piping and I don't want to waste money on ads for piping to people who don't care about piping. I want to hit plumbers and home remodellers. Right. Yeah, I totally agree. It's an interesting, I don't know, it's an interesting thing. And of course, advertisers are worried. Like, duh. Like, if all of this was just kosher for everybody, they wouldn't care. But it's not because they think that this is going to limit their reach. Well, because it is. It's going to disrupt advertising. I think the

real problem. There's a lot of overreactions out there and I think understandably so. I probably would be the same if my livelihood depended on it. But there's a lot of uncertainty of we don't know what this is going. We had a good thing going and we don't want to have to change it all because advertising particularly is all about optimization. And if suddenly all the rules change, you're like, okay, we don't really know what the new rules are and how to optimize. And if we don't optimize fast, somebody else will and we'll lose out. Right. And that's, stressful. I get it. Sure. Yeah. Sure, sure. Also, side note, this Samsung Galaxy book Odyssey. This is the notebook you're talking about. Yeah, yeah. This looks,

this looks really good. Like, if you're, if you're out there going, man, I need a fast gaming notebook. This might be the jam. This is real good. 15.6 inch, 11th gen core H. And the first laptop with the RTX 3050TI. Yeah. Yeah. That thing supports RtX. Obviously, it's in the name, but supports rate tracing rate tracing stuff. That's high end. That's almost like the only high end in video card you can get.

It's just enclosed in a notebook right now. I mean, it's one of your better bets for sure. Well, anyway, we'll talk about all of that stuff later today on the daily tech news show, DTNS, everybody. So make sure you check that out. It'll be a 230 mountain time today. I'll be on with Tom and Sarah and Roger. Tom, anything else going on you want to mention today?

No, I just, as I say every week, I'm really appreciative of all the emails I get from folks, been having lovely conversations to folks who subscribe to my newsletter and just, you know, send me a note or two. Even if I only have time to dash off a quick sentence or so in reply, I try to always reply to anybody because it's really fun. And the newsletter itself just kind of tells you what's been going on in my life, what I've been writing, some of the podcasts that I'm most proud of for that week

and links to everything that I do. So if you'd like to get in on that, go to freetumnewletter.com. Very nice. Ace Detect on Twitter as well. Don't forget that. We'll talk to you soon. Oh, you know, the other thing I mentioned, I forgot to mention, I should have talked to him while he was here, but services like, to some degree, stadia, although I think it stays remembered, but like Xbox or XCloud, which is coming to everything and you'll be able to play, you know, if you have the right internet connection, you can play anything on the crappiest notebook you've ever had, like a Chromebook even. That may change whether you'd want to spend a bunch of money on a, I don't know, like a, pro gaming laptop. Yeah, no kidding. I would probably hold off for a bit just to see how that all pans out. A little dummy machine. Indeed. Someone said Lynn Peralta's in here? Yeah, he just popped in. No way. Len, what are you doing? Len. Len. Len Peralta, he's going to start streaming his wife, his couple's cast that started it all. It's jawbone radio. Check it out later today.

And what's MC Hammer doing? Yeah, you know he's got talent. Anyway. Right. Very cool. It sounds like Glenn's going to start streaming. That's nice. That's cool. All right. Hey, we're going to do recommendals. Like I said, Nicole's out with her Moderna business. So we're going to do this. Two thirds of recommendals today. That's a good amount of people, I think. We are here to do recommendals now, and that is stuff we've seen on streaming services that we've liked, and we want to recommend and forward to you. Let's start with Brian. Brian, you got a clip here.

And before the clip, I'm just going to say, still binging. person of interest and it is getting better and better and better as it gets into the more of the deeper story. Very, very cool. Again, highly recommend it. I've been, we just finished the first season of Made for Love, which was Nicole's recommendal from last week

and I echo her sentiments. Also good. That it was very good. Christine Malati is just a jewel. She is a jewel and she should be in everything. Yep. She's an international treasure, if you will. She is. And we watched Godzilla versus Kong last

night because there's only a couple more days to watch that on HBO Max if you've got it. And you know what? I liked it a lot. It was a lot better than, well, it was better than King of the Monsters, although King of Monsters was still pretty good. Yeah. It's just big and stupid and knows what it is. And I enjoy the crowd. It's big and stupid and knows what it is.

So there you go. Okay. Now let's get to my recommendal, which is something newish. This is a film. And as I teased earlier in the week, dude, it's a documentary. Like, what the heck? Brian's Brian recommending a documentary

Yeah, what's that about? Did we switch bodies? I think it'll be pretty obvious when people hear Okay. Well, maybe not. Because you know what? None of the words from the title

are in this clip. All right, well, I'm going to play it now. Here you go. As I started to map the environment around her den, I was shocking to see small caves really close to her

packed with pajama shocks. And they really are her most serious predator. Their skin is striped, as that's what they call the pajama shop. They're not visual predators, but they have an incredible sense of smell. And they are particularly aggressive. So I have to assume this is that octopus thing that it's on my list. It is, yeah, my octopus teacher that is Craig Foster hearing, who's the only person that you hear in this documentary. And for the most part, the only human being you see, there's some set up and you get to see his son a little bit.

But for the most part, it is the story of Craig Foster kind of losing his way. in life a little bit and then deciding that he's going to start free diving which means without scuba gear you're just using snorkel and fins and stuff in this kelp forest

that's on the southern tip of South Africa and he grew up in that area and is just like his way of centering himself was going free diving in this area and as he does he comes across this weird a spherical

collection of shells that are just sitting on the ocean floor and he's like what is this is weird this weird collection of shells and as he's sitting there watching it

the shells all of a sudden drop and an octopus that was holding all those shells up like a big shield with all of its tentacles goes racing out of there and he decides oh this is interesting

all right an octopus I'm going to check this out and he begins a a weird sexual relationship weird sexual relationship there was

there were a couple clips I could have played that made it sound like this is you know the shape of water too the shapening

but but he develops this relationship with this octopus and it's not one side at all this octopus is

clearly as curious about him as he is about the octopus it is amazing so like you you watch your regular nature show on duck on on national geographic or whatever you get here's let's watch as an octopus farts ink and where it goes away and let's let's see how an octopus lays eggs sure but this is more like this is has so much freaking heart and is it's kind of like the weirdest comparison i had with it is charlotte's web

You know, like this guy is Wilbur, and he's meeting this octopus, who's basically the spider, who is, like, showing him all the cool things that she does and her life and how she gets around and hunts and things like that. And it is so freaking beautiful and fascinating and at times harrowing and, oh, it's absolutely, absolutely beautiful and is so. Worthy of the win, you say. I mean, I don't know you haven't seen everyone. Now, I haven't seen any, I haven't seen Crip Camp. I haven't seen The Mole Age and I haven't seen any of the other documentary features. So Tina's seen Crip Camp and she really loved it, but she loved this a lot more. Yeah.

Crip Camp is very good, but I'm super stoked to see this. This, if you watch this with Carter, Carter will be drawing, she'll be crying and she'll be drawing octopuses for life a month straight. Nothing but little eight-legged snot. I'm going to trick her into it because she hates it when I do this. Because I always get her to watch something and she'll cry. We watched the little, or we watched the, what was the, what's the dinosaur Pixar one? Oh, the last dinosaur?

No, the happiest or the, Pixar one, yeah. The good dinosaur, that's it. The good dinosaur. And we love that movie here. And it's simple and fun and beautiful. And anyway, something hit her in the middle of this scene that she didn't understand before about the father and the son's relationship. And I look over at her and she's just gushing tears.

She's more tears than human. So any chance I get to get her to squeeze her into a little bit of an emotional mess, I like to try. It's fun. Well, there is that, but there's, I'm not going to spoil anything, but there are some moments when you're like genuinely like, oh my God, I hope everything's okay and all that stuff. But it is so, it's so great. By the way, the Wikipedia page is hilarious.

So it lists My Octopus Teacher. Name of the film, by the way, again, I'll reiterate in My Octopus Teacher, and it's on Netflix. It's a Netflix original, but don't let that make you procrastinate because it'll probably be on Netflix forever. Watch this ASAP. No, I want to see this. This is absolutely my jam, so I'm totally sad. So the cast is listed as Craig Foster as himself, Tom Foster, Craig's son as himself, Octopus, Rosetta as herself and

Pajama Shark as itself. Wow. Wow. That's amazing. All right. But anyway, it is it has got so much heart and it is it also is that thing where

as a documentary filmmaker, how involved do you get with your subject? And he feels like he crosses that line a lot. He feels like he could have crossed it more. places. It's a really amazing case study, just even on him. But, God, the kelp forest is just so beautiful in all of the, all of the life. If you're, if you're one of those people who, like me, when you watch any film that takes place underwater, you find yourself holding your breath. You'll

probably do that for the first few minutes of the movie. But it's so good. And anyway, it's my octopus teacher. It's on Netflix. It won the award for best documentary feature in the most recent Oscars. And not having anything else to compare it to, it's still, I say, an absolutely worthy, worthy honor. Nice. I'm going to see it. It's on my, it's on a more immediate list than usual for me. So definitely. But it does make me, it does make me want to practice my impersonation of this guy because it's not, you know, South African accent to impersonate. plus he's kind of got a little bit of like he's got this like weird the octopus I want to slip in a cockney and I can't do it with him but it's um there's a really

interesting lilt in his accent that I try to that I'm going to try to do to add to my collection of obscure impersonations well I'm excited to squirt my ink after I see this squirt your ink all over my octopus teacher on Netflix today. Okay, here's my clip. Brian, let's see if you can suss out what this is. I think you're probably hit it right away. But I'm cheating a little this week because it's not, it's streamed, but I paid for it. So it's one of those. That'll give you a hint. Here we go. I was looking for someone. Yeah, well, you probably shouldn't flash cheese like that around here, bro. There are three types of people who, as you say, flash cheese. People who don't know any better,

people who are seeking to intimidate and people like me who wish with every fiber there being that someone would try to take it from them. All right. Guesses? That's a better hit Saul. It is better hit Saul. Otherwise known as nobody. That's right. I wanted to finally see nobody. I kept hearing

that it was just another kind of John Wick movie and I thought, I don't know, it's probably different than that. It can't just be a duplicate of that. And while there are some similarities, you know, deals with some revenge and some other stuff, but it's not quite the same. It's... I mean, this guy is not a trained fighter like John Wick, right?

No, he is. He is. Okay. Yeah, it turns out, well, it's not a giant's not a giant's giveaway because they tell you right away, but he's basically ex-hitman for the CIA and some other three-letter agencies, as he puts it. and um and basically got away from all that got married settled down had kids didn't want anything to do with it anymore had gotten out of that life all right and some some some things bring them back in and it's not just the home invasion that starts it it's it's something else that actually makes it go bad then the russians get involved then all hell breaks loose

and then he goes full john wick basically after that um i hear there's an amazing scene on a bus I heard an interview with Bob Odenkirk on Howard Stern, and he was talking about filming this bus scene. Yeah, the bus scene's insane. It's also, that's an important point in the film, and it's early. And it kind of helps determine what the rest of the movie is. It is a blast. This guy made, the director made Hardcore Henry.

Do you remember that weird first person thing? Yeah, we were going to watch it for, film second, we never did, right? Yeah, I got pulled or something on camera what the deal was. So I still haven't seen it because I'm waiting for it to make its way back. Yeah, same, same here. Uh, it's a, he's a Russian director and he really knows his action. It's very good stuff that that way. The action, minute to minute action is very good. You know, am I going to sit here and tell you that this is better than other things like it, like John Wick? Probably not, but I had a blast with it. I thought it was really fun,

really hardcore, really, it's exactly what you wanted out of it. And there's also some actors and you're like, oh my gosh, they got Doc Brown to be his dad, his retired dad and the freaking old folks. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, and he has a big role to play.

Who else was in it that surprised me. Is his name nobody? Because that's what I really want is for him to be named nobody. No, it's like, butch, I don't know. My brain, dude. I can't remember anybody's name anymore.

I'll look it up real quick here. it was somebody mansell i remember the last name because i knew some mansells um but i'll say this bob odenkirk is really good at this and i hope he gets more either a sequel would be great and they set it up for one uh or just more roles where he gets to stretch out like this because this is yeah very different from saul and he he pulls it off and sells it really well to the point that it kind of in a way carries the movie in that if he wasn't there i would you this is kind of be level um he's he's very good in it uh as christopher lloyd as i mentioned who else um oh michael ironsides in it which is just awesome to see that dude at this age you barely recognize

him but michael ironsides is just a freaking national treasure he's great and he is like i'm amazed that michael ironsides is not at the top of the film sack uh most most seen actor list because he's so much of the crap we watch and weren't we just talking about Connie Nielsen for some reason. She was in something else, Wonder Woman. Yes. Wonder Woman,

but there was something we just watched that had her in it. I thought. What was that? I don't remember. Some film sack thing we just saw with her in it.

I'm looking it up because as soon as I see it, I'll remember. Yeah, because she's Danish or she is Danish. Yeah. She's awesome. She plays his wife and she's great. If anything,

her role. Oh, Devil's advocate. Devil's advocate. That's it. Yeah. She was the, she was naked in that. She got nude.

She did. Lots of nude in the elevator. Our bad guy in this is Alexei Sbererikov, who plays Julian Kuzon Knottsov. He's this Russian actor who just choose the screen up. He's freaking great. And that's what you want. I even love his final moment. You know, you always want the death of the villain to be epic, right?

Yeah. It's really epic. It's really. Okay. All right. So anyway, nobody is great. And if you like a good hard R, you know. just run through it kind of action nonstop kind of business and you want to see odin kirk do his

thing it's it's really great and he was great shape of us that's the other thing is so first question is this is this worth plankton down the 20 bucks or should i wait because it'll probably be streaming so i had a coupon for 10 and it only had to pay 10 um yeah i it was totally worth that 100% if you've got multiple people who like this sort of thing in your household I think it's worth the 20. If it's just you and Tina's like, me, I might wait. I might wait.

I'm way. I'm not. I also, you can't find any of them now, but the plugs for this thing like on, you know, rent it now, everybody likes nobody or nobody is the best film of the spring or something like that. Just the fact that this name lends itself to some really funny, uh,

double takes. I'm checking things out. For sure. Oh, the other thing you're going to like, the soundtrack full of great song, you know, great licensed music that's just perfect for it. It's what, in my opinion, it's what sets it apart from something like John Wick is the, just that tone is different. And their use of some classical stuff, meaning like old crooner music and parts, very discordant moments used for different kinds of music. I thought it was great. Really, very cool.

Okay. So anyway, worth checking out if you guys, you know, like if there's three or four of you and you're like, man, I'll pay 20 bucks for this. I mean classic rock, Jeannie. I didn't mean classical music. I didn't mean to talk that way. But it's some of it's like like 70s era classic rock. Some of it is like I said, crooner or big band. But it's all just, it's all in service of the of the tone of this thing, which is you're just rooting for him.

You don't want to know about what kind of dark shiz he's done in his previous life. but you know it must have been bad. His kids are all played by great kid actors. That's the other thing I like. I guess there's two of them, the son and the daughter, and they're both great. Anyway, check it out.

Nobody available, hopefully soon on some streaming service that isn't pay per view, but right now it's 20 bucks. So go check it out. Sounds great. Yeah, definitely looking forward to saying that. All right.

That is going to do it for today's programming. Thank you all for being here. And we wish Nicole well. Everybody send her a little note. on Twitter. Just say, hey, Nicole Spag, hope you're doing well. She had a birthday this week, so tell her late, happy birthday, all that stuff. Oh, right.

Yes, I forgot. Damn. So, good idea to do that if you have a moment. That's it. Brian, A&TP going on today. Yeah, so yesterday I posted the everybody's TMS visit for the podcast guest challenge. Today you're going to find out who goes home from that week. Everybody did a really good job, so obviously made it tough for our judges.

But they still decided to bring the axe down on somebody. And if you listen to America's Next Top Podcaster, you'll find out who that somebody is. Nice. Oh, for example, Pat Benatar's Heartbreaker is in that movie. Oh, really? Oh, that's such a great one, too. Don't let me be misunderstood. Your love is like a title way.

Turn it over my head. Stating up and fly right. It's really what done well in there. What a wonderful world. I mean, a lot of movies use that, but it's, It's really great how they use it. It's just great. Do they use the Ramones' version of What a Wonderful world?

Let me look here. Because that would be even better. No, Louis Armstrong. Still Louis Armstrong, yeah. I see trees of green, red rose in tune. I see them drink. I'm being you. How does that not make your throat hurt?

It makes mine hurt. It does. I can't do it from it. Okay, here's some music trivia. Who did the song, You'll Never Walk Alone? And you'll never walk. Well, it's the theme song of the Liverpool United Soccer team. And was it the, God, it's an old, old, well, relatively old song.

The only version I know is the one that was by Kevin Roland of Dexiesman at Runners. But that's a cover. I can't think who did the original. Jerry and the peacemakers, pacemakers. Oh, pacemakers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, during the pacemakers. Okay, one other one. Let's try this one.

Yeah. Who did? What a wonderful world. Oh, I'm sorry. We already did that one. Some of the wrong one. I just raked my throat for that song. You can ask me that again?

No, where did it go? I just lost the one I was going. Oh, here it is. The impossible dream. To dream, the impossible dream. Jeez. Well, Sinatra did that, but I don't think he was the first. It surprised me who wrote it.

but or and also uh no andy williams andy andy williams yeah yeah okay yeah anyway it's a great soundtrack and the whole thing's on spotify and apple music as well cool all right that's it for today's show thank you all for supporting us over at patreon we really appreciate i want to say all of us i mean those who have there's plenty of you who don't so now's your time here's your chance new month coming and everything patreon dot com slash tms all the details are there so go give it a look and while you're at it send us your feedback and comments to The Morningstream at gmail.com. Sign up for our

newsletter at frogpants.com and while you're at it, give us a follow on Twitter at Coverville for Brian, at Scott Johnson for me, and at MorningStream for the show. All right. I think that's it. By the way, you'll never walk alone. Jeannie Corrects us

that all of the ones we mentioned, so even Jerry and the Pacemakers is a cover. It's from something called Carousal. Some sort of Broadway play called Carousal. Oh, very. About carousing. Yeah. That's about carousing, sure.

Someone who carouses. Yeah, a carousing person is having some carousal. It's right, carousal. The, yes, this version, I guess, is Jerry and the Pacemakers, but you're right. It is a cover there. It is right there. All right. Anyway, speaking of covers and or songs otherwise, why don't you play one now?

Yes, I know it's carousel. Brian wrote in and said, hey, on April 27th, which was yesterday, I'm legally turning the big 36. Although I'd like to argue last year didn't count, and this is still 35. I think we all aged a lot more than a year in the last 365 days. But age is just an attitude, and you guys and the descendants prove it. I'm a 12-year-old at heart, and I'm always going to laugh poop jokes, and Brian signed. Brian.

Sweet. Oh, another Brian. Hey, here, Brian, here's this for you. Happy birthday to you. Happy 36. There you go. Descendants, a California punk band. I'm assuming he's talking about the California punk band and not the.

Disney Channel show. But the Descendants, really good California pump band, long time running. And they've done a few covers themselves. They've been covered a couple times. But I'm going to play one of the covers that they've done. From the 1990 compilation Duck and Cover, here are the Descendants covering the Beach Boys, Wendy.

Wendy, when they left me alone Wendy, when they left me alone Wendy, Wendy, but we're wrong Oh, so wrong We went together for so long I never thought a boy could try He made it with another guy Wendy

But Wendy left me alone Wendy don't lose your head Lose your head Wendy Don't believe what he said I couldn't picture you and him The future loves off of him But Wendy

Wendy left me alone Oh, that's so bad. Oh, Wendy, I wouldn't have you like that. No, no, no, I thought we had on a down path. Yes, I was warm before the start from my mind. For the day that I'd wake up in fine. Wendy, when he lost me alone Hurts so much

Wendy, when you lost me alone That's all right When day, when he lost me alone That's all right Wendy, when you lost me alone This is a boy, when he left me alone This show is part of the Frog Pants Network Get more shows like this at FrogPants.com

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