The Morning Stream - TMS 2117: Buying Fake Pee? Urine Trouble!

Episode Date: May 19, 2021

Never Double Dip your Swabs. I don't like Synthetic Peeeeeeeee! No Show Tomorrow. Screw you, I'm going with Zod. The Preposterous Poopiepants McGee. Do dogs own birds? Because I like really want to know. We don't sell Pokemon cards. Too much violence. Siegfried and Deep Roy. Old Fashion Hot and Juicy Religion. I Don't Practice Urea! Bruce Illissess. Blood Robots and Monkeys. Kermit the Johnson. Tech Time with Tom, No Tech Issues with 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, never double-dip your swabs. I don't like synthetic pee. No show tomorrow. Screw you. I'm going with Zod. The preposterous poopie Pants McGee. Do dogs own birds because I like really wanted to know? We don't sell Pokemon cards.

Too much violence. Sigfried and Deep Roy. Old-fashioned hot and juicy religion. I don't practice urea. Bruce Bruce Illises. Blood robots and monkeys. Kermit the Johnson here. No, really.

There is no shit. show tomorrow. Tech time with Tom, no tech issues with Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hi. Yes, it's me. The short, fat, naked guy from Borat. This is not Burger King religion, have it your way. This is Wendy's religion, old-fashioned, hot and juicy. I got a thumb. I got a middle finger. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS, the morning stream for Wednesday, May 19th, 2021.

Yes, the conclusion of our broadcast week. That's right. Just to remind people, no show tomorrow. Don't be asking about it. After this, you get hours and hours of the American flag playing with Susa marches until it turns into static. Yep. Just like the old days.

You know, people see that in like, what was the movie that was famous for that? Poltergeist. Had it pretty prominently. So when you see poltergeist and you see that, just know that some of us are old enough to remember that. We had that when I was very young. Right. We remember a time when there was no programming on television during certain hours. You came home drunk from the bar and you want to watch TV?

Tough. Yeah, forget it. It didn't exist. It literally didn't exist. It literally just stopped. Television stopped at a certain time. All three and then eventually four Fox Channel, I guess, came along later. But they all stopped at midnight.

It did a little song. I don't know why it was like America the Beautiful or whatever. That was weird. That was always weird to me. But then they would just go to white. And then you were, that was it. That was life back then. Now you can't shut that box up.

It'll go all day. Yeah. Yeah, with the umpteen channels. Well, I mean, you know, whatever. Are you other channels anymore? Is it just like streaming services, Scott? I don't even know. Well, for me, it's just streaming, but yeah, there's channels, I guess.

Some people still subscribe to, like, hundreds of shitty channels, and they enjoy that. Why are you paying for all those channels? Why would you do it? All right. Speaking of why we're doing things, here's something funny. Yeah, okay. You're going to Vegas, and it's a much-needed and long sought-after vacation, your first plane trip since the pandemic, or since the pandemic. and certainly the first century vaccination.

So exciting times. Brian's a big fan of the town. He's wearing a shirt today, the TMS Vegas shirt. That's kind of just says it all right here. Look at him. Celebrating it. It's excited and all that. I think you may have undershot your date.

And here's why. Oh, really? Okay. All right. Tell me how. I feel like we may have overshot it because. But do you tell me how? Here's why.

You really only missed it by a week because as of June 1st, they are officially dropping all it'll basically everything goes back to pre-pandemic conditions for all vaccinated individuals so yeah your week

yeah then I feel like we did it right thanks yep no one let you like I said I think we undershot because right now things are already at 100%. We've been talking to James and Svet and basically they're like

oh yeah Brian you got a, oh man, prepare for the shock because, you know, when you get off the airplane, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's a full hundred percent everything and, uh, yeah, you know, it's gonna be, you're gonna be in crowds and, uh, it's like having James here, which I, you know, love, I love to have James here. It's, it is an exaggeration, but, um, yeah, no, he, he, he said, you know, you walk into most casinos, you know, you walk into most casinos, least most casinos on this trip and you'd be surprised to see even one mask in there. So they're already, so this is just an official, this is an official acknowledgement of the June 1st and that's, that's fine, but really effectively they're already doing all of this, you're saying. Yeah. And I think it's just like most places, it comes down to the businesses. There are, you know, official mask mandates that can that can get handed down from the city and county. but it's a lot of the casino groups, the Caesars group, and I think the MGM group

and maybe even the Boyd gaming group have all said, yeah, if you're fully vaccinated, you don't need to wear a mask in our casino. And I, you know, if somebody's anti-vax, there's certainly going to be anti-mask and they're certainly going to be, well, shoot, I guess I haven't been vaccinated. So I'm going to go ahead and wear a mask in your casino.

So there's a very good chance that even if you went after the first, you're not going to have to present your vaccination card to get in somewhere. No, and I'm not taking my actual vaccination card. I scanned it and I've got it on my phone. Yeah. Because they made the thing. Too big. Why didn't they make the thing wallet size?

I agree. It's too big. Totally agree. It's too big. It doesn't fit in anybody's wallet, but George Costanza's wallet. It's the only wallet it will fit in. it's too big exactly i mean i do have a laminar because of course brian if it has a laminar of course you freaking do oh my gosh is it right next to your paper cutter you got a couple of paper cutters you got some i got it uh i have one paper cutter uh but i got it actually a client bought it

for me because i was making things for her uh her birthday party and so it was like it was way cheaper for her just to buy me a laminator than for us to pay whatever extra amount it was for kinko's to do it and just pay me the labor buy me a laminator great I get things out of it. But, so I could technically take my scan of my card, print it out a double-sided paper deal, and then printed out wallet size, and then laminate it. You could totally do that. Yeah.

Oh, Diana, Diana Rite, Diane Rite. No, I have not laminated my actual, and I won't laminate my actual. They tell you not to. They tell you not to. Yeah. I mean, there's extra spaces there. There's like, you know, just in case you need a bonus vaccine, they need a place to write that up. Yeah, plus, you know, who knows?

Like, some people think, well, this would be good because then businesses have another mechanism to decide what they want to do because they've now got this card they could screen. But most of them aren't doing anything. They're not going to. No, no. And if they, I think, you know, most of them will be fine with just looking at the scan on my phone if they even, if they even look at it. Now, when we go to Ireland, we are probably going to need to buy kits and take with us. Like, you can buy a COVID test kit. Because international travel right now, you still need, you need proof of a positive or I'm sorry,

a negative COVID test within the last 72 hours. And we found out about these kits, and they're super cool, made by Abbott. technologies, AB-B-O-T-T, and you buy the kit, you log on to the internet, and we'll have internet access through a lot of these places,

hotels and stuff we're staying at. And there's a live dude who will walk you through doing the kit so that they can make sure that you're not cheating and like drawing somebody else's or sticking a swab up somebody else's nose, and then they give you the officially accepted phone-based QR code

that you take to the airport. Oh, okay. That's cool. And it's like, the guy that I saw talking about, about six for 150 bucks, I think we probably, you know, if that's the going rate, then it's $25 per. And so we'll just buy a couple of them and we're set. This is what everybody wants you to do. Makes you a pupate of the leftist, Brian. That's right. Exactly.

Well, yes, exactly. I mean, can't they scan my chip and find out that I've had the Bill Gates vaccine? Exactly. Also, don't, you just, it's a good reminder that you said it before. Don't double-use swabs. Don't ever use anyone else's swab. Don't ever put a secondary swab up your hole that was already up someone else's hole, right? Yeah, no.

No. And I think what they're being, like, they just say, you know, well, this person I know is COVID-free, I'll swab their nose instead of mine. Oh, I see. It's like using people's pee. Yes. Exactly, it is. We're buying synthetic pee. I went with a guy to buy synthetic pee once.

a head shop here in Colorado on Colfax. Wait a minute. Have we ever talked about this? You bought pee from a gun? I might have mentioned it. I didn't buy P for him. I just went with him when he bought P. But he had to, uh...

He had a drug test. He had to pass. Is that the real? Drug test, he had to pass, and he'd been smoking pot with the crazy neighbors. And so, uh... You ate it and abetted him. You aided and abetted. Brian.

I was present. Yeah. Was it your car? Did you drive? What do they? call that if you're um uh if you're around and you don't do anything there's a term for that if i care what it is not innocent bystandard standard isn't bystandard it's bystandard uh not accessory oh my god it's it's like being aware that somebody close to you is doing

something wrong and not doing complacency being complacent i was being complacent i was being complacent oh i see you were complacent and not yeah i think that would hold up in court you can just say, I was being complacent. Did you drive? It's like, sir, did you drive him there? Yeah, but, oh, you didn't? Okay. Nope, I rode in his car. All right.

We were on our way to some place else. And it was, uh, it was four of us. It was me, crazy neighbor. And then, uh, this dude and then another guy. And we were on our way maybe to a, a mammoth game or a dinner or something like that. And, uh, oh, baton. Hey, can we stop at the head shop so I can buy some synthetic pee? They still keep it in the fridge, too.

Oh. So, wait, it's synthetic. It's made up pee. It's not someone else's pee. Right. It's a yellow liquid that, uh, oh, complicit. I'm sorry, right. I said complacent.

Complicit. Oh, I thought more, someone else's accessory. How come free hotel room is in the, in the, uh, chat room? And he did not correct me. I don't know. He's usually in there telling me what Fred and Can storylines to use. Like he's usually, that's usually as a modus. But hold on, though.

So, so if you go get fake Pete, not. fake pee, but synthetic pee. Yeah. The doctors aren't good enough, or whoever is testing it, aren't smart enough to know the difference? Apparently it has, we're getting some, you know, one, uh, zirte 1 says it contains urea. So it still shows up in their tests as, the genuine article. What if I don't practice urea?

Sorry, go ahead. I don't practice urea. It doesn't quite work because it needs another syllable. I kind of screwed that up. Right, exactly. But, yeah, those guys, those guys are more pot than urine. Yeah. And so, well, the living members of sublime anyway.

Yeah, of course. Oh, yeah, that's right. Rest, rest in peace, guys. But yeah, that's weird. I've never heard of fake pee being. Synthetic pee. Yeah. Synthetic.

So they get the urea from a real person, though, right? They must. Right? Because what else are you going to? I wonder if you could make some money being a fake urea salesman, like being, like, you know, blood donor? I'm a pee donor. Yeah, a pee donor. B-don.

Well, that's a great story. I can't believe we haven't heard them for. You can even buy a fake wean so that you can keep the fake pee in your pants in case you're being watched while you fill the cup. Oh, right. You've got a prosthetic wean that'll be, that's where it'll come out of. Yeah, yeah. Exactly, yes. Where have I seen that?

That I did see somewhere on a TV show or something. Like a, what was it? Boogie nights? No, no. I don't remember. There was something I saw, some procedural or something where somebody got caught with a fake weaner. Was it Scrubs? It might have been.

Might be. The Wizzinator. Was Gattaca? Gattaca, sis. I don't know if it's Gattaca. Maybe. I don't remember. Somebody used a fake wean and got caught.

Someone grabbed it and threw it maybe. They had the fake wean and like tossed it against the wall or something. Or Kelly. I was hard. Oh, geez. All right. Well, on that note. Wow.

Well, you can only go up from here, Scott. Well, truly, we can only go up from here. And we can also go a little bit south and east and grab Brian Dunaway by the Scruff. Bring him in here, play a little game. Give somebody some prizes. Was there a stepmom involved in whatever you saw? I don't think so. No.

I don't think so. I mean, I'm super vague on the details. So who freaking knows, but I'll do my best. All right. Here's, we're going to play this game. Oh, doesn't we still ring? And let's make sure he's good. I haven't seen any notes from him.

Oh, wait, we did. The summoning song. Do do do do do do do. It's still with him calling. Okay, well, we're ringing him. We're ringing him. I saw a note here under our other thing, but that's for that charity thing you're doing.

The Coverville, this other group where we're chatting in here. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, figuring out plans for, yeah, I think right now it looks like it works for everybody, right? So we can probably say Saturday, June 12th at 7 p.m. Mountain. Yeah, I think so. This is like, what, two and a half weeks or three weeks? That is two and a half weeks from now, yes.

Okay. That'll be great. I'm excited about that. Oh, my God, it'll be so much fun. I guess I need to get it and test it. Yeah, so we can figure out who's got the best setup to actually do the streaming. but I think we can do, I think you can do it right from the game. You do it through Steam, so I can stream easy if we want.

That's simple. Oh. Is it through, even if you get it through Steam, it still works with the Oculus? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. All steam, well, I shouldn't say all. I think it may be all, but all the Steam VR stuff I have all works with my Oculus.

Oh, that's great. Then you get, then you actually have a thing on your screen that shows you what you're looking that you can then stream well that's a question though because now that you say that the version that you're going to have will it be native to the oculus it would be wouldn't it well i haven't bought it yet so i can buy whatever we need and and and schleiker wonder what schliker has it i wonder what he's already got all right we should work that should be our next question i don't know if he's already got it he was saying he just he was checking it out over the weekend i don't know if he already picked it up oh okay i thought he said

something about he played a game didn't he oh did he copy the game oh I have a copy of the game and I made it past the first module okay so we'll just have to yeah we'll find out what he has and then we'll go from there yeah but I know there is a way um boy brand done he's taking a long time he is we got the rings of ringage but not the rings of speakage um um um anyway welcome to the morning planning meeting yeah the morning planning you guys like being part of our planning meetings this is fun that's funny what else uh let's see um uh we got to get some music queued up for Monday already. I know we're Indy in the middle.

I got those photos. You need to me to sign and autographs, so I'll send those back to you. Sure. Let me find out for sure, and then I'll call you back. See, there. You guys are we here for it. There we go. Exactly. Well done. Ah, there he is. So right when I go to poke him further, he's on. Hi, Brian. Hello, Brian Dunaway. Hi. Oh,

hi, Scott and Brian. Do I ever not answer the phone to me come on man Listen Oh there's the music We got to play that first All right welcome everybody to Another edition of Babel Roy Al Tad Pooley Feud edition

Oh that reminds me That's right That's exciting So I got to open that Hey Shit where's my link for it Oh you put it in here You have it in here

It should be pinned Oh I don't have it Where is it Oh, I'll find it. Don't I have it? All right. You need to me to paste it in there again? Yeah, stick it in there again. I don't know why I didn't mark it.

Oh, got to capture that for later. Yeah. Stick it in there again, man. Appreciate you. Thanks. Yeah, Jamie will use that. That's a, that's a gimmy. All right.

Anyway, we're going to play Tad Pooley Feud. It's fun. It's like, it's like family feud, but with the Tadpool. And that also means, you know, somebody calls in, which any of you can do. We need somebody to play because they get to play with you. That's a thing. 8-0-1. Wow, more thing.

Yeah, more things. 801-471-0-0-462. 801-471-0-4-62. Call in now, and you could be today's participating call-in guest. Participant. Participant. Oh, participating participant. I get somebody calling in.

I'll take that call in just a second. But before I do that, I'm going to click this link that Brian hasn't put in here yet. Is it in here yet? Where is it? It's in our... You could just go to the... Oh, I thought it was on the spreadsheet. Sorry, I'm done.

You could just go to the pen in the Discord. Oh, yeah, you wanted me to put it on. our show notes which I don't know why I don't do that you're fine you're totally fine this is all on me I don't see the show notes let listen oh that's true you don't get show notes never mind screw you you people don't get you you guys you listeners don't usually get to hear all of our little bickering we do before most shows this is how exactly we're always fighting stuff that we say to each other before uh film sac oh my god yeah it's pretty bad to my never say it's pretty bad

All right, we have a listener on the line. Let's find out who's been waiting so patiently. Hi, who's this? Hello. Hello. If you're holding, if you're on Skype or whatever right now, just start talking. Say words. No, you're still there.

They're there. I see them. I just aren't answering. You haven't muted them, right? Because you've done that before. Nope. They're off mute. Okay.

Let me make sure that's true by playing some of their audio through this. same source. Okay. This is really great. This is the best we've ever done. We're off to a really great start on this Wednesday. It's the best we've ever done. All right, here we go.

Let's see if this has same. Well, yeah, so this is, we're good. I don't know why they can't hear me or we can't hear them. I can hear you. Oh, hi. You're back. There you go. Now we hear you.

I don't know what that was. That was strange. Hey, hi, who's this? Sorry for that. Sorry about that. Who's this? No problem. John.

I'm a Stonegargar Girl 13 in the chat. Very nice. John's good to have you here. Hello, where are you from, John? Well, Florida, I now live out in Polk County. Oh, that sounds all right.

That sounds like it's a little off the beaten town. So you're in the Orlando area. Yeah. Yeah, a little more towards Tampa, but yes. Yeah. Go fucking ears. What? Which one?

What paper? The Orlando Sentinel. Well, I mean, that's what's... Oh, I forgot. That's your thing. Yeah. The papers. I can.

It's like, you know, in five years when nobody remembers newspapers, we'll be able to do this anymore. But at least, you know, there's 10% of the audience out there that remembers kind of what a newspaper might be. It's like your, it's like your Billy Crystal impression you always do from that movie that will soon be out of. Oh, my gosh. We're running scared. What is the movie? Yeah, running scared. That's the one.

Hello? Is this a detector you? We're about 20 years out from that being completely obscure and nobody knowing it. 20. I think you're being. a little generous. Listen, I still pull Ken Kratz impersonation out every once a while

and how long has it been since making a murder? That's true. That's true. Good point. It was like five whole tiger kings ago. I am very happy to have a Florida man here. We're going to play a game. Brian, you explain how this works, so he knows. Well, I'll do that. It's time to

play the tadpulley feud. I've surveyed the tadpull on some nerdy topics. 342 of them have answered, and Scott and Brian will predict the answers that they gave us. It's Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. John, your job is going to be 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 Little Big Workshop, which I'm guessing is part of Little Big Planet, right? No, not even. But it is kind of like in that vein of building.

It is. Is it like, is it Little Big Fires or Little Big Liars or Pretty little big just like that just like that uh huh poking joking

yeah word little and things um and atoma chef or otto ma chef automa chef automa chef

automa chef yeah Toma a matta omata chef a matah chef uh that's good these are both quality uh selections

oh by the way I guess I guess his name is pronounced Gian not John right we have that right yeah okay Gion

so like GIA GIA that's cool Johnny Versace and just take the EO. Oh, all right. Gion. Gion. I like to take the EO.

Yeah. It's very Italian. Are you Italian by descent? No, but the name is. All right. I like it. Cool. That somebody's just really into Italian.

They said I'm naming this kid Gian. That's all it is to it. All right. I like that. I like that even better. All right. Very good. Thank you for the correction, Gian.

And let's get to it. If you guys are both logged into the server, it looks like you are. I see Pee-Poooo-Poo and Scott Johnson. So I'm not good. I didn't I was I apologize I apologize I apologize no I didn't mean to I had I had a theory that I'm always missing out because I'm using a mouse that's plugged in through a USB and so I was using my track pad but I was hovering my finger over top of it and you know I went junk and I just shook I just didn't know I appreciate the stall before I've even asked I'm sorry I'm sorry I apologize All right, here goes. All right, we asked the Tadpool. 342 of them responded their answer to this.

Hands on buzzers. Name your favorite DC Comics villain who doesn't have to have appeared in movies. Still missed. Scott. The Joker. Show me the Joker. Number one. Yeah, it's got to be number one.

There you go. So, Gian, you're going to be playing with Scott. Yep, I apologize in advance. Actually, I'm a big DC fan, so I think you got the right guy. Yeah, I think you might actually, you know, this might be kind of a benefit. Yeah. Struggled with, well, you didn't struggle with Marvel, but. Well, especially lately, I've been just reading DC, like, nonstop.

So I just feel like it's part of my recent memory. So I think we're going to do okay here. Excellent. All right. Well, now you're still on the board. Giann and Scott, who, what's another DC villain that you think that the Tadpool really likes? John, how do you feel about? Uh, Lex Luther.

How do you feel about him? No brainer. I think he's a good one. All right. We're choosing Lex Luthor is our next choice. Show me any of those bald jerks who played him. Yeah, number four. That should be a sub-question.

Who's his favorite Lex Luthor actor, by the way? Most famous, Gene Hackman, yeah. But I would probably, I would probably put... Gene Hackman for, yeah, that's true. I mean, he really did personify the whole, like... I don't think he's a very good... Let me put it this way. He's not...

He's a... cocky, arrogant Lex Luthor, which I think you're right. Yeah, but I don't think he was, it was a weird casting and a different take. Like, he made him kind of crazy. And I think the TV casting of the Lex Luthor was the best one. He was pretty good. Oh, okay. His name was, um, not John Cryer, who's currently Lex Luthor in, uh, it's like, the CWverse.

Hold on. Was it John Cryer? Get out of here. Because he played the nephew of Lex Luthor in, oh, my God. That's not right. That's not right. right is it yeah hold on he played the nephew the guy on smallville yeah like the fourth no no we're talking about we're not talking about smallville we're talking about the movies lutheran supergirl right now oh right well that's not right in four right superman four he was was he he was the he was the incompetent

buffoon of a nephew right yes broke him out oh and hung out with what's her name from best in show and all those movies um i can't think of her name anyway rosenbaum's the guy from the tv show I don't know why I remember his last name. He was great. Mendelbaum. He was also the flash in the animated series. Anyway, all right. Oh, cool.

All right. So, Lex Luthor, you got. Yeah, we got Lex Luthor. Nobody said, House of Cards guy. Nobody said Kevin and Spacey. He's not a nobody's favorite Lexington. I had actually completely forgotten about that.

Or Zuckerberg, dude. You're dead to me. Not Zuckerberg, but the guy who played Zuckerberg in the social network. Desi. Eyes and, yeah, Justin. Jesse Eisenberg. Just saw him in that thing. He has no chin.

He has no chin. It's like a little flat, little zone there. Oh, really? Okay. Well, let's just chin shame while red it. We're doing some chin shaming. Well, Brian and I are used to that. Brian doesn't like certain lady chins. I don't like certain lady chins.

Yeah, I don't like that weird thing John Travolta has. I wouldn't even call it a chin. I don't like that. I'm coming around on Emily Blunt because I heard an interview with her on Howard Stern, which was great. She is so cool and down to earth. Love her. She's probably her.

It's maybe the most weird tangent we've had. Okay. All right. Let's get back to this anyway. All right. John, I'm feeling, let's see, that's number four for Lex. So I've got to think we're going to be, I feel like dark side's a good choice. How do you feel about that?

Darkseed with dark side. Everyone says seed, but inside. Okay, it's dark side, we say. All right. On the dark side. Show me dark side. Oh, wow. Yeah, number six.

Okay, I'll take it. Number six. I think everybody forgot about a dark side until the sniper cut. Yeah, the, right? Yeah. I mean, not if you read the comics. He's all over the place in there. He's great in there.

Mm, Jamie. I mean, he's basically, you know, that world's Thanos. I don't know who came first, but it's a lot like that. Well, I would never pick Thanos. When I was reading the comics, if you said, name the best Marvel villain, I would never go, oh, Thanos, I can't wait and talk about Thanos. Sure you would. He's great. He'd be on there. Plus, he's recent, so

people, it's on people's mind. I think he'd be... Yeah. We've been teasing Thanos since the first Avengers film. That's what I'm saying. The films have had such a great influence. When I was reading the comics, I mean, Thanos was like there, but he wasn't like, I would not have picked him in the top of my... I don't have a helicopter

in one of his early appearances. Right. That's right. But I'll give it to you in the sense that the MCU did things with all sorts of stuff like you know guardians still shouldn't work but it does i don't know how they did it that's why i have so much hope for a good fantastic four i think they can actually pull this off um all right all right anyway back to the deal here uh oh shit uh probably like harley quin's on there gotta be yeah that's what i was thinking yeah let's do that i mean harley quin is so big now

i love her origin that she's just an animated throwaway and they kept her for everything i love it all right anyway harley quinn All right. Show me Harley Quinn. Number four. Joker. Joker, buddy. J.

Mr. J. Mr. J. Number three on the list. All right. Oh, there's so many. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. What his name one then? I mean, we could say, like, Mr. Free, not Mr. Freeze.

Yeah, no, wait. Doctor. Mr. Quincy. Maybe. Captain Cole? Captain. Oh, I love. Captain Cole but I don't think anyone thinks of him

I love him though he's great yeah oh my gosh I'll let's say Mr. I love Gorod oh I love God dude you're naming all these rad side characters I freaking love but I'm worried

that nobody's going to know shit about who they are you know what let's the old anime right yeah the old like super friends guy who's amazing yeah I love that stuff Uh, all right. Let's do one that I'm trying to think of like a recent filmish thing. Like if people liked, uh, the Jack Snyder, Zach Snyder, he cut, uh, probably they'd say Steppenwolf because he was just so kind of rat in that. So I don't know.

It was so big in the comics, too. Yeah, he was big in the comics. We'll say Steppenwolf. That guy. He was very cool in that movie. Show me. Let's go on a magic carpet ride with Steppenwolf. I thought it was so recent. People do it. Yeah, you think. Right. Usually things are still fresh in people's minds.

All right. Dunaway. Well, now I'm questioning everything because I would have said the same thing. I really would have thought that would have been the place. So I'm going to have to go. Chester Cheetah. Chester Cheetah was who I was going with. Batman has so many great villains.

Yeah, I feel like that's the safe zone. I don't know why, straightfully. I do, too, but I'm afraid... I'm going with Two-Face, because I feel like that's the most... Where's Harvey Dent? That's the most likable of the bad guys in the Batman universe. Are you Harvey Dent? Are you Harvey Dent?

Where's Harvey Dent? All right. Show me Two-Face. Show me both of them on Two-Face. Oh, you kidding me. Number 13 in the list, but did not crack the top ten. All right, how do you feel about penguin, John? Oh, that's a good one.

Yeah, you like that? All right, we're doing penguin. The penguin. All right, show me. Oh, are you kidding? Cobble Pot's not on the damn list. Not on the list, 11. 11 penguin was.

Oh, my gosh. No, Danny DeVito. No, he's the worst penguin. Well, he's not the worst. Burgess Meredith. Yeah. Cobblepot's a dick in the comics. Holy crap.

He is horrifyingly bad. Have we had anybody else play penguin in? Well, you had your TV, dude. Yeah, Burgess Meredith. No, no, no, no. The recent Gotham thing. Oh, right. Yes, Lord.

He's pretty smart. He was that guy's name. He was great. Lord Featherbottom. To me, I want to say it's like something Lord Taylor, but that Robin Lord. Yeah, Robin Lord Taylor. Yeah, I think that's it. Am I giving a Portman?

with a retail outlet. Well, and he's just a really interesting face in general, but his portrayal is way more akin to the comics. I really liked it. That was awesome. Yeah. He's got three names, though. It's not just Robin Lord.

It was something else. What was it? Robin Lord. I thought it was Robin Lord's Taylor. That's what I thought, too. Robin Lord. Yeah, Robin Lord Taylor. Okay, good.

Is that right? Okay. It is right. Yes, okay. It wasn't just me like thinking. Well, there's the retail establishment called Lord and Taylor. Well, there is? Yeah.

Never heard of that. Robin Lord and Taylor. All right. I feel good. We got some momentum here. No, we don't. We just lost that one. Brian's your turn.

You've lost that one. Your momentum is over. I can't believe we haven't got number two. I think number two is going to tell us what the rest of them is going to be. So I can't decide if I'm going to go with what I like. How about that? Yeah. Go with what you like.

Yeah. Screw you people. I loved, and I don't tell I would got nearly enough of. of the Black Manta. Really? You're going to do Black Manta? Sure. I'm going to make a base that looks like my head.

That's right. And my head is huge. All right. I have one D.C. themed comic shirt, and it is of Black Manta. He's always been my favorite. Always, for Ollie, from the Super Friends forward. He's just always been one of my face.

Black Manta's cool. I like him. You're not wrong. All right. Show me, meanwhile, at the Legion of Doom. No one knows Black Manta, I'm afraid. I love him, too. I'm with you, 100%.

He's rad. I like him a lot. All right. All right. Well, then, okay, so what we haven't done. You're on your strike threes here, so. I haven't even got one yet. Not even one.

No, you haven't. It's right. We've got a bit of a, you know, not a feminist audience, but an audience that, you know, leans towards strong female characters, I think. So why haven't we said, uh, Like Catwoman. She's not an off villain. Sometimes.

Cat woman? Sometimes she's good. Cat woman. All right. Show me cat woman. Number nine. Okay. Oh, wow.

Yeah. And I also feel pretty good now. I can't tap into that number two though. Yeah. Never tap into your number two. Unless you got a problem. Trying to figure out what's going on. That one's for you for hotel room.

All right. So why not poison Ivy, Gian? How's that feel? That sounds good. Got it. All right. Let's do her plant lady. Show me poison ivy.

Miss one so I can get it. Oprah, Uma. Oh. Wow. Number five. Miss one so I can get number two. You're going to, I'll give you a number two. Here's a, um, here's a, um, here's a, um, here's a, uh, green lantern villain

in Sanestro. Ooh, I do like Sanestro. Yeah, let's do Sanestro. I like him. All right. I don't know if everyone else does. Show me. Cinestro.

Oh, damn it! He's got the little mustache. Nobody trusts him. He's a little turd. That guy. When Scott said, when Scott said poison ivy, I remembered there was a really bad bane. Remember that?

Yeah, your punishment will be more severe. Except he didn't talk at all. He was just more like, I know. He was more monstery in the comics, but in the, I loved his take in the movie. That Tom Hardy.

What was that Batman and Robin that the bad Bain was in? Was that the one with Buma Berman? Yeah. It was really bad. That was like the first X-Men had that horrible saber tooth. Oh, my gosh. Oh, yes. Yes.

Terrible. They just made them at one note, two-dimensional. Tyler Maine. Is that who that was? Yeah, the wrestler Tyler Maine. Tyler Maine. Oh, yes. That's right.

Yep. All right. All right. So I'm sorry. You saying Bain? I'm saying Bain. All right. Well, then you take back your city, Gotham.

That's right. Take back your points, Brian Donneway. Oh, you got it. Yeah, number seven. Oh, number seven. Dangum, how is that not number two? Everybody loves the bane. Okay, so.

I don't know what two is anymore either. I have no idea what that's going to be. I don't either. I mean, uh, I mean, I'm all out. There's a couple of them I can think. Suicide Squad has some really good, fun, likable characters. But who watched it besides me? I mean, I did like that.

Did you? Yeah. Yeah. Well, they've been teasing. Okay. So we've been teased a lot lately with Deathstroke. Is that the thing everybody loves? I don't know.

Is that the bad guy everybody loves in Part 2? People do like the Deathstroke. People are fans. All right. Show me Deathstroke. You see him for like a hot second at the end of the Zach Snyder cut. Yeah, that was weird. Show me Deathstroke.

Oh, my God. Yeah. Number 10. Really, holy Moses. What? How does he beat the penguin? That blows my mind. All right.

I don't even know how the penguin is not up there. Or Black Manta. I hate you all. Yeah, what's his, what's his connection? He's like a, or no, Deadpool was intentionally a parody of Deathstroke at the beginning, right? Correct. Yeah. Right.

Yeah, it's easy to forget who ripped off who, but in this particular case, it was a parody of Deathstroke. But Deathstrokes, he's a pisser, and he's a sharpshooter, and he's a real weener. Yeah, he's okay. He knows how to grow a goatee, too. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. He's an older guy. God.

Here's another way I don't. They use him really effectively in that deceased, uh, zombie life equation mini-series. He's very, very cool on that. Right, right. By the way, uh, um, Gian has won anyway because, oh, he has. Mathematically. Yeah, even if Brian gets number two and number eight, uh, he will have the points. He will be short one point to tie Scott.

Oh, it's a bummer. Well, that means it, can I help Brian then with one? No. I've got, well, I've got, don't worry. Don't worry, I'm about to miss this one anyway. I only have two more that I can really think of. And I can't imagine either one of these be number two. But I know everybody hated Chita in the most recent.

No, no one. I don't think anyone hated her. Did they? Did they hate the scene? She was a portrayal of her? I just think they hated Kristen Wiggs' portrayal of Cheetah. But in the DC universe, she's, you know, well-hated. I disagree.

She is not the problem of that movie. That movie's a whole other problems. That speaks truth. Yeah. I don't know, man. Did you see that fight? In the movie fraught with problems, Cheetah wasn't one of them. No.

Kristen Wiggs certainly wasn't one of them. I like her in it. I think she was great. She should be in more stuff. Yeah, I'm going with, well, no, I'm backing up. I'm going to Zod. I'm going with Zod because I like Zod and screw you, people, I'm going with Zod.

Kneeled before the board. Uh-huh. No. No. All right, can I guess? It was worth it. I didn't have to win. I didn't have to get any.

I got a guess. I just wanted to say Zod. I got a guess here. Scout, what's your, you have a guess? Yeah, my guess is, oh, wait, did he already say that? No. Doesn't matter.

You won't be penalized for it. Bizarro. Bizarro. Bizarro. I don't think that would be in there. If that's number two, I'm going to be pissed. Me, am number two. Oh.

No, he's not. That's how to say, man, you want to say that Solomon Grundy? What are you going to say? No. My goodness. Did you guys forget all about the brilliant rogues gallery that Batman has? No. Apparently so.

I mean, what else is the like the Riddler? I mean, who likes Riddler? Apparently, are you kidding me? Number two? What? Number two, the tadpull-loved Riddler. I dumped Riddler after Scott said the penguin and went, I was like, well, nobody likes the Riddler.

People like Riddler more than Penguin. I guess so. That means they didn't play Arkham Night because, good Lord, his quest sucked. All right, number eight. Oh, my God, I love those games. Number eight, you mentioned it, but she didn't stick with it. Oh, please. As a matter of fact, both of those characters can be found in the horrible Joel Schoonbaker.

Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty funny how many of these fit in there. All right. So let me give you some other ones that I thought were really funny. Apparently, our tadpool is a little comically confused because we had three people say Doc Ack, one person say Dr. Doom, one person say Kingpin, another person say Modoc, and Venom. Good Lord. Good Lord.

I can kind of almost see Modoc because Modoc almost feels like a DC character. It does not feel like it is in the Marvel universe. Did you see the latest trailer for that series? Oh, my gosh, it looks funny. It looks so funny. Yeah. I'm so excited. Scarecrow's 12, by the way.

Razal Ghoul, 14. Sinestro was in the list. 14. Bizarro was 16. We also had Condiment King. We did have Gorilla Grod lower in the list. Lois Lane considered a villain. That is hilarious.

I'm not really up on my... Oh, man. You don't know. about the latest poopie Pants McGee Run? It's amazing. Martha, somebody said, is a great D.C. villain. And both Joss Whedon and Zach Snyder getting pegged as villains in the D.C. I would blame Warner Brothers before I would blame Zach Snyder.

Yeah. But I might blame Josh Whed. I'd blame Joss Whedon a little bit, though. Because he's kind of a hate a little bit. All right. I'm surprised no Solomon Grundy, who was. born on Monday. My favorite is Solomon Grundy.

One person said Solomon Grundy. I mean, he's basically, he's basically bizarre without the powers. Kind of. Without the flight. He's undead and he's really strong. I guess you're right. It kind of is.

Aries, Osamandias was mentioned. Oh yeah, he's D.C. Technite man. Eobard Thon, who is... Well, MacManta has its own cool base with a ship. It looks like his... head. Black Manta is cool. I'm not going to. Black Manta is cool. I'm not going to deny it. He's never been treated properly. How, how big of a supervillain does Aquaman need? Ah, I've dragged you over

to land where I can defeat you easily, Aquaman. You're only good in the water, it turns out. Aquaman. Actually, it was one of my complaints about the Zach Snyder cut, because that's the only one I've seen. I haven't seen the one that Whedon put out. But, uh, Aquaman just, they had to come up with a bunch of shit for him to do because they were not in the water for any of the fighting. It was all above ground. So I was like, hey, what if your staff did weird things we've never heard of? Right. Yeah, that was weird.

So of A and S. Well, the good news is, guys, was we come away from this. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. We have a winner. Gian, how do you feel about winning? Does it feel good? Feel great. This was fun.

That's fantastic. It was fun. It was really good to have you on. I really enjoyed today's topic. And all you've got to do to collect your prizes to send Brian an email, Coverville at gmail.com. He will hook you up and you walk away the happy winner. Brian Dunaway, well done.

That was fun, a lot of fun. I'm glad you. I didn't do well at all, but thank you for pretending like I did well done. Thank you. I appreciate that. I'm just glad you picked up your phone finally. That's really all the matters. You picked up your phone.

Well, I mean, in my defense, I didn't really want to answer it. No, I was actually out of the room when I started ringing it. I was like, oh, crap, is it that time? In my defense, I didn't really want to do it. I love that. All right. Hey, check out the Boop Show yesterday. We did a new show.

It's up on the feed and it was great. We had a really good time. And we'll be doing that again next week when I get back for my own thing. And if you get an opportunity and you like playing indie or retro games or just like gaming in general, you should hit the Boop Show Reddit. We have a boopshow.reddit.com. Go over there and feed us some news. and we might mention it on the boob show. Yeah.

Yeah, look at the odds are good, actually, if you do that. Very good. There's all like 300 people or something in there. Yeah, we could use more. So fill it up. Bring your friends. Bring Brian's dream of that show being the fastest growing show on the network to fruition. Okay, that's what he wants.

It's really all that you want. Give us a review on iTunes. We've had three in the last month that has helped us go up in the numbers so much. And that's technically Apple Podcasts. but sure iTunes and then also it's all right do it over at Google Play do it over at Spotify do or ever get your shows and we'd love that that helps us hey Dunaway don't let the door hit your ass on the way out by now all right that was fun I enjoyed it we have time for a whee bit of news

today's news is brought to you by last night Scott did a live scream of and at evil eight, and then posted it on YouTube. You can get it now at YouTube.com slash Scott Johnson. This is only the first two hours of the game, which is a lot more to go. We just got to the castle.

That's where all the real weird stuff starts to go down. But it was still enough to get some stupid things happening. So if you want to see it, John Jagger was there to sort of act as my anchor in the real world, and that helped a lot. And, yeah, there's a big hairy guy with a giant hammer. And it was horrible.

Anyway, go check it out. That clip Zoe just put in the chat is pretty funny. I should just play it real quick. Yeah, play it because I want to hear. Here's the audio, guys. This is embarrassing, but I'll play it. Here we go. Okay.

I want to just run. A lot of guys. I'm running. I'm running. There you go. Go where down? Oh my gosh. What the shit.

I'm going to die. I'm going to die Josh, I don't know where to go Oh, he pulled out my penis or something What do I do? To survive So There's a point where this guy

I think he pulled, maybe pulls the roots out of the ground or something But it looks like he yanked something out of me And I This game's already too weird But we'll keep going We'll keep going Oh, funny First news story of the day.

Okay. According to this guy, here's a quote. I drink cow urine every day, so I don't have COVID. Drink urine every day. Apparently. Is it synthetic urine? Are there cows lining up in the head shop to buy synthetic urine to give this guy?

You never know. Cow urine can cure lung infection caused by COVID, according to Prague-Yaw Thacker. Once again, shooting her mouth off. as the country fights to keep the pandemic and check. This is an article on NDTV.com, which is like an English Indian coverage stuff. Okay. It says here, if we have desi gha mutra or urine from an indigenous cow every day,

then it cures lung infection from COVID. I am in deep pain, but I take cow urine every day. So now I don't have to take any medicine against corona, and I don't have corona, says Thakar. at a party gathering. Cow urine is a lifesaver. Let's see. She calls herself a saint.

She's got some other issues. But two years ago, she claimed that a mix of cow urine and other cow products had cured her cancer at the time. None of this works, by the way. She swears by it. Just keep you on the lookout

for the brand new Mountain Dew flavor. Yeah. Mountain dew, cow urine. And cow urine zero sugar. Oh. You know, you thought you liked that, well and blast or whatever. I'm all right now.

I need to get some of that mill and blast. It's really good. It's real good. I had my wife order some more today because I'm not trying to overdo it and drink too many, but I'll drink like one a day. I like him that much. They're very good. Uh-huh.

All right, so there's that lady. Hey, look at this. Brian, would you eat cookies with bugs in it? Would you do that? I have eaten cookies with bugs. I've eaten cookies with crickets. Oh, my Lord. Really?

Did you want to die? There was a place here. Actually, it was with crickets. I had one with worms. It was a place called Worm World, and they made, you know, candies and cookies and things like that that have, that had worms and crickets and grasshoppers and stuff in it. Well, in a similar recipe, you can now get cicada cookies. Oh, cool. 17-year cicadas offer the adventurous cook, an opportunity to bake these treats from 2024's cookbook, or 2004's cookbook, rather, cicadalicious. Cooking and enjoy.

join periodical cicadas from somebody named Jenna Jaden. She made this book. Well, Jenna Jaden sounds like a D.C. character. She does. During the day, Jenna Jaden runs the phone. By night, she's the cicada. Would you like my cookies? Flying around Star City or whatever it's called.

Right, exactly. What would her fake city be called? We got to think of a fake city. Oh, right, right, right. Because they have, uh, uh, she'd have, uh, chirps. City would be... Chirp City. There you go. Chirp City.

Chirp City is going downhill. Not if I can help it. I'm the cicada. All right. Anyway, if you want to eat some cicadas, there's a cookbook. You can do it. I looked at it. They don't look that bad. They look like, uh, I don't know, chocolate cookies, but they're just full of bugs.

Yeah. I don't think I'm in, I'm into it. Like, as much as I'm all about alternatives that are more sustainable. And if they taste good enough, I'm down. That's great. Like a replacement for burgers or whatever, I'm down with it. But when I get told that the future of that is bugs, be worms or meal worms or whatever it is that they're going to grind up and make into the thing

and plot lots of protein, blah, blah, blah. I don't know what to do with my own head to get it out of my head that these are bugs I'm eating. Even if you're not like physically tasting a leg or a wing or something like that. And it is completely, you know, You know, it just looks like any other food product, just your brain, your Joey pants in the Matrix. I know that this might be the tastiest cookie I'll ever eat, but my mind still knows that it's made out of bugs. Right. I don't know how to do it.

Yeah. I don't know how to do it. We'd have to be in some desperate straits for me to be okay with it. You don't even want to get started with the bug. No, I don't give it up the boog. That's it for that. Let's take a break. When we come back, we'll spend some time with Tom Merritt, who's been scouring the internet for hot technical technology topics for today.

That's a lot of teas. Technical technology. That's right. So he'll be here. That'll be great. And then Nicole with recommendals after that. So stick around while Brian explains the following song. Let me explain how this works.

Here is the song. I am so excited to play this because this is a song I heard before I even got the, the email from grandstand media big thanks to grandstand media for sending this one along I'm like oh man I sure would love to play this on the show and then I get the email saying hey would you like to play this on the show so super super excited about this this is an artist

who goes by the name Dayglow's real name is Sloan Struble or Strubble but his but he performs under the name Dayglo and he has a brand new album coming out Soon. It is called Harmony House. Comes out, I believe, in June. And this is the first single from it. It is awesome. Get ready for, get ready for some just some perfect pop right here. This one kind of harkens back to like duet pop from the 80s, which I really, really love. Here is Dayglow from the upcoming album Harmony House with the song, Close to You. I saw you looking for the side door, you didn't want to stick around for the side door. You didn't want to stick around for the rest of the night. I guess that's all right.

They all left when you walked home It makes sense that they all know It was only for you If only you What good is love Without any strings Held it above Stuck in between

tell me for once what that even means i want to know you i can't make you right something on my mind there's something that i wish i told you but you just don't seem to wonder what i'm doing when you're close to me oh yeah there's something on my chest I wish I would have said I think it over and it might be true I'm only overthinking when I'm close to you We locked eyes from a distance We're so close but I missed it

Now you're walking away When I wish you would stay I get stuck in a conversation Differing night's same situation Can I beat myself up for not speaking up? Every night I can't make it right, yeah, there's something on my mind, there's something that I... Wish I would have told you, but you just don't see you to wonder what to what I'm doing when you're close to me. Oh yeah, there's something on my chest.

I wish I would have said I think it over and it might be true I won't be overthinking when I'm close to you Hold me over thinking when I'm close to you I'm going to be over thinking when I'm close to you Oh yeah Oh me over thinking when I'm close to you oh yeah Don't be off to think you when I'm cross here

What you eat Don't be over thinking when I'm cross here Oh yeah What you know about rolling around in your pee When you eat Taco Bell You shit when you sneeze And I can't lay down Because it hurts my butt cheeks

That kind of machismo doesn't agree me the morning stream i'm your boyfriend now nancy and we're back everybody welcome back to the program uh that song again from brian that song again is uh from the artist day glow coming from their upcoming album harmony house. That is close to you. Oh, very nice. I like when things are close to me. It's convenient. Yes. I think that might have accidentally put in our show notes

close to me, but it's close to you. All right. I was confusing it with the Cure song and not confusing it with the Carpenter's song of the same name. Nobody wants that. With the computer, as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. That man is, as

usual, Tom Merritt, comes in here on Tuesdays, rather. And we talk about the Daily Tech News show as it's starting to see itself, I don't know, coagulate and become an actual show because he's digging around for cool stories, verifying them. Although now I'm wondering if the Ellie Golding version. Oh, is that a thing? Oh, does she do it close to me, close to you?

Oh, I like her. All right. Okay. I'm a fan. You know who introduced me to her? Your wife. That's who did. It was your wife.

That's so crazy. My wife also introduced her to me. It was one time. She's been singing the praises of Ellie Golding for a long time. I don't remember what the deal was. I already knew who she was from my Nike Run Plus app. This was years ago when they used that app because they had these little celebrity like motivational things.

And I thought her name was Zelly Golding. Oh, oh, can't have that. This is Zelly Golding. This is Zelly. Nice. Ah, the Brits. What are you going to do with them? But no, I love them.

It was a fine discovery and I've always really liked her thing. She's great. So tell your wife, thanks once again, for 10 years. Kelly Golding. God says thanks. Thanks a lot. No, dogs will bark. Hey, so let's get to it.

Tom, you've been looking around for stuff. Google I.O. was yesterday. There's probably a lot going on. Yeah, yeah, lots of stuff out of Google I.O. to talk about new Android 12. This one is more of a, you know, with these operating system updates, sometimes they tend to be more superficial

in the design. Sometimes they tend to be more under the hood, invisible. Android 11 was a little more under the hood. This one's a little more design-oriented, particularly the new Material You design from Madonna. No, it's much more pastel and bubbly looking. But for the user, particularly, you get to choose just how pastel you want it to be because there's a lot more customization.

You can choose your default color palette. You can even do a thing where you set a background image and say, like, pick a color palette that blends well with my background image. So it all looks nice. app developers can now feed into that and have their apps color palette adapt based on the on the palette you choose and like I said it's a little more bubbly look a little more friendly look it's probably the biggest redesign they've done to Android in a long time and this this material design has been kind of slowly working its way into Android over the years and this is it's sort of big appearance on the stage did they say anything about stadia on that stage at all? No, they wouldn't. Wouldn't they?

I mean, I know it's a developers kind of a developer's conference, but it would be a place for them to... I'm sure there will be Stadia sessions, but I guess, I'm, I say they wouldn't because I feel like it's more of an Android consumer product-oriented thing, but you're right,

if they had something big to announce about Stadia, it's not like they wouldn't have put it here. My gut feeling is that they want Stadia stuff to stand on its own. So just like WWDC for Apple, you generally don't get big product announcements. And if you do get a product announcement, it's usually very developer-oriented.

It's kind of the same thing with Google I.O. They're not going to announce anything consumer-facing with Stadia there. More likely, if they were to announce something, it would be something more developer-oriented, which I guess they didn't have anything that big. Interesting, yeah. Well, I don't know. I'm trying to keep an objective eye on what's happening with Stadia, and it just feels really weirdly stagnant in a way that even for Google's sort of.

of, yeah, I was going to say, new and shiny and then forget about it after a while. Any other company, I'd be like, oh, yeah, they're just, you know, they're just in a fallow phase. You're kind of reorganizing, but with Google, you're like, is it that? Because it could be. Yeah, very well could be.

Or is it the normal Google, like, man, I'm just kind of getting bored with it. Yeah, it is like that. Their biggest, their most recent big announcement was they added search, and that was some time ago. Like, that can't be a big announcement. Like, what are you doing over there, guys? I don't know what's happening with that. I don't know.

There were a lot of folks jumping the gun and saying, I'm not going to start using stadia because they'll just kill it. And I was like, well, look, if you do that, they will because if enough people don't use it, then they won't keep it going. But they all may get to dance around and like a stop clock at 11 o'clock pretend they're right. I mean, the bottom line is if it had exploded at launch and been enormously successful and compounded on itself over, you know, since then, it would be something. Google would be super stoked about and keep going with, but if it's not making money. It doesn't feel like it has a lot of momentum right now, but none of them do. Project Luna doesn't feel that way either. Neither does Project XCloud. I mean, XCloud's still in beta and people are liking it, but it's not, you're right, it's not like. I feel like Nvidia probably has the most

momentum. It's quieter because it's just got a smaller user base. Right. And their biggest problem is certain companies, well, certain games keep pulling out of it and saying, don't let our stuff play on there which is really annoying because well whatever I have my own feelings about that and we could go on for days but anyway lots of interesting stuff of course out of Google IOT to talk about on the show today that will be great

anything anything in particular where you're like oh man the future is here is not one of these conferences yeah I mean you know there were quite a few of the we're a big company kind of announcements the sort of things you would get in past days

from an IBM or a Cisco So a lot of machine learning announcements, you know, new chips, new systems. They announced the opening of a quantum AI campus and brought Michael Pena on to be part of that, which, you know, whenever you bring celebrities into a big tech announcement, it's always a little awkward. But the big one that I wanted to talk about was Project Starline. This is an experimental piece of technology, so it's not something that's going to end up in your house anytime soon. It's probably not going to end up in that many enterprises anytime soon. But it's 3D video conferencing, and it looked very impressive in the video they showed.

But of course, you know, that's a video that they showed at I.O. But the idea is that you have high-res cameras and depth sensors capturing a hologram of you. compressing it, sending it through the internet, and then a light field display presents that as a hologram on the other end. So it's not very adaptable. It's really only meant for someone sitting, you know, mid-chest up, but it can make it look like that person is sitting across a table from you. And people who used it, the testimonials they had were, you know,

talking about how it was easy to make eye contact. It's not like, you know, with video conferencing where you're looking down at your screen. all that sort of thing. And it was 3D. So as you moved around, you saw a person the way you would normally see a little more of the person when you tilt your head and move around. Now, granted, this is just a demo at a tech conference. It might not ever go anywhere. But it was pretty impressive looking in its promise. And so that's one, even if it's not Google, that's one that's one that made me think, you know, a lot of times these sorts of things just point towards where we'll eventually go with a consumer product, maybe from someone else. And so I would keep an eye

out for that kind of video conferencing, 3D video conferencing, maybe being a trend in the next five, ten years, because they're going to use this for enterprise partners in health care and media. Health care, I think, because that's a way for a virtual doctor's visit to be a little more uh in depth literally right because they could you know you can hold up your wound and they can see it uh in 3d and for media it's you know like let's have our guest on the set with us even though they're not here right uh which makes me think you know holographic movies you want to save theaters something that needs a big light field display to present uh they're they're far from being able to render backgrounds and all of that stuff in the

these things yet. But I don't know. It almost looked like a, you know, like a few person play in front of you because people kind of be around it, seeing it from different angles and it's like a theater in the round kind of thing. It's pretty cool. Yeah. And it's also just another step forward to this thing we just accept in sci-fi, which is Captain, the general's on the line. Would you like to take the message and you take it? Help me, Obi-Wan, Kenobi. You're my only hope. We've been doing this for so long. I've been playing the Mass Effect trilogy, the new re-release, and it's full of this communication. This is how people talk. And I'm not saying that that's, you know, this doesn't always happen with our fiction and then reality.

But this feels like one that we could do. And based on this, that's a lot closer. So to calibrate your expectations, remember, it was a couple of years ago that they presented duplex as an AI you could talk to a natural language and book a restaurant. Yeah. And it can book a restaurant. That's like it, you know, like, and kind of on rails book a restaurant. It's still impressive technology, but it's not as wide-ranging as your imagination might have made Duplex seem back then. But you're slowly seeing it show up in other things.

So, pixels now have the ability to answer spam calls with Duplex and talk to the person and find out if they're really someone you want to talk to or not. And they showed off at I.O. yesterday using Duplex to change your password. So if you get, if you're using Google password manager and you get an alert that your password has been compromised, it's out there. those public data sets, you can have Duplex go and change the password. So Duplex goes to the website that you need to change the password and navigates through all of the fields and things and gets you to the right place. So then you, all you have to do is go, yeah, change my password to this. Well, it'll be, it'll be interesting to see how that stuff progresses. Of course, coverage of all of this has been happening this week. And we'll continue today on the Daily

Tech News Show at 230 Mountain. Tom, before we let you go, is there anything you got going cooking right now that you want to serve up to anybody? I do. I changed my kitchen from which I serve my newsletter. Oh, yeah, I noticed that. A newsletter has a whole new home. I moved, I mean, the boring details,

which probably aren't boring for everybody out there because some people are into this stuff, but I moved off of MailChimp to review. And review is that company that Twitter just bought and is likely to make part of its subscription service at some point. But the newsletter is free. free tomnewletter.com but it's now hosted on review which makes it easier for me to put in descriptions of shows and images and things like that so it just looks a lot nice yeah it's cool

it's a really cool new setup yeah i like that it's one thing i like about all these services mailchimp included a substack review they all have these they all have this notion of hey come do your thing here oh you need to go somewhere else cool just you can export your your people I like that. Some of those strong anti-spam laws of the early 2000s have paid off. That's not even a joke. They put in all these anti-spam laws that say, like, you have to have an address, you have to have unsubscribe, you have to make addresses portable so that, you know, you can get out of a newsletter.

Yeah, and I love that. I think that's great. It does, you know, the subscribers to you need to be, they have to still sort of trust you that you're going to be, cool with their stuff. The relationship is with me, the content provider, not with the platform. Yeah, which I like that a lot. Yeah, yeah. I don't know. Pins on the case, I guess. But anyway, more later today.

2.30 Mountain. He is Ace Detect on Twitter. Tom Merritt, have a fantastic day. Thank you. Bye now. All right. There goes, there goes Tom. Now, here comes Nicole. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Entering the fray. Like she does for every Wednesday.

Here's the thing. Welcome to the program, One Nicole Spagnolo. Hello, Nicole. Welcome back. Hi. Hi. How that are you? Oh, I'm just diving into the world of Pokemon cards. Oh, yeah, saw your tweet or your Facebook post about that. Oh, my kid isn't a Pokemon.

cards. Are you doing the whole waiting line until 4 a.m. at the Target? No. No, you can't buy them a Target anymore because of the fighting. So you can't buy them at Target or Walmart. I went, we were at Target and I was like, I'll get you a pack of Pokemon cards. And I'm looking everywhere.

There's magic cards. They don't do baseball cards either. Yeah, baseball, NFL, baseball, NHL, and Pokemon all pulled for this reason because they're all so crazy right now. So the guy, I said, where are the Pokemon cards? goes, because of the violence, we had to buy, I go, the violence. I said, what, what? Can you say that again? Because I don't think I heard.

Too many people wanting to be the best that never was. Yep. Oh, my God. You freaks me out, Nicole. And my kids are standing there. And, you know, my son's, like, super excited for a pack of Pokemon cards. And I'm like, I'm sorry, buddy. There's too much violence around Pokemon.

There's, like, this weird collector's frenzy right now. And nobody's exactly sure. causing it except maybe the pandemic has something to do with people hoarding or something. But here's the thing. You freaked me out the other day because you put a post up on Facebook of that Charzard card with like the

it had like a foil thing. And I had just that day seen an article about the most expensive Pokemon card which was $300,000 for a rare foiled Charzard card. And I went, does Nicole have that freaking card?

And then I went and saw the original card and it's not that card. Yeah. Well, I was afraid, because when I was searching for it, because a friend traded it with him. So the kids are all in this trading frenzy. They don't know the value of anything. Right, right.

And so me as a parent going, oh, God, this kid just traded a $200 card to my son. And I was like, oh, no, this is not good. It's the other way, right? Yeah. Is he actually, so is Mateo playing with anybody, or is he just collecting? Like, what's his deal?

So he got into it. And I said, look, buddy, we're, we need to learn how to play Pokemon. Yeah. Yeah. So I actually found a starter set where it has the two decks and it walks you through the rules. So we sat down to play it and I got bored. I got really bored. I'm like, I can tell he was getting bored.

I'm like, eh, you can just trade the cards. It's all right. We don't have to learn the game. Yeah. I mean, whenever there's anything that just has a perceived value, you know, whatever the perception is, it's, the fun lies in, oh, I have a thing that not everyone has, or, you know, it's an age-old thing, but it's just at a fevered pitch right now, and it's so weird. He's really into, like, the GX cards right now. Like, that's his goal is to get GX cards. What is GX was that?

So, of course, I'm on Shop Goodwill. Oh, of those? Right. They're the foil ones. Looking at cards. Man, the cards on Shop Goodwill, auction site. Like, what? Yeah.

Oh, really high. It's a battle. Oh, I see. These GX. People come in at the last second and snipe my auction. I'm like, oh. So these GX cards have that weird finish to it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay. It's like a silvery thing. Right, right. I don't know. I just, I am now involved in Pokemon. There's a kid up the road named Ethan. He just turned 13. Maybe he's pushing 14, but I should go say, dude,

don't get rid of your cards. Like, now would be the time. Like, don't let your mom hide them in the attic and then you're past all this phase and you're on to whatever's cool now. Like, hang on to those now. Store them. Exactly. Yeah.

But then I'm part of the problem. I'm telling a kid that, you better hoard those cards. Right. Right. So here's the funny thing. When Mateo was much younger around, I try to remember maybe it was three or four, he had a Pokemon birthday.

I gave him a Pokemon birthday. And I got him some Pokemon cards back then. So this would have been 2013-ish, 2014-ish. So he actually had a ton of Pokemon cards in his toy chest from me when he was much, much younger. And so it was like he found a little treasure trove. It was kind of fun. That's cool. Did he find that before he got into it or after like he was into it?

he's like, oh my God, I had all these cards in my... Yeah, I think they started trading, and I think he was getting into it from school, and then he came home, and then he found him, because I had a cute little binder that he had never used. He's using the heck out of it now, so he always keeps him with him in his pocket. It's the most adorable thing. It's pretty cute. It's pure love of just, I think it's the social aspect that he's really getting into. Yeah, that's good. That's good. That's a positive part of all of this, and he's not the guy with the knife in line at 4 a.m. at a target, so I'm not. No, no, no, no. Not at all. He doesn't know any value of any value. He just wants a cool deck of cards. Right. That's all. Who doesn't? It's cards and pog form. That's where we're at.

Or pogs in card form, I guess is what I'm trying to say. Pogs and card form. They're black. They're black. Alph. I have ALF cards You have ALF cards? I do. Oh my gosh, that's amazing. I have Star Wars and that's it. I have ALF cards and new kids on the block cards and baseball cards. Wow.

You guys. I was a car. I loved card collecting when I was a kid. I'll see. It passed on now. You got to tell the next generation. He'll carry it forward. He's not getting my cards.

These are mommy's elf cards. I have garbage pale kids. I have some garbage pale kids. kids too. Well, good. Hey, let's get to recommendals. So here's the thing with the recommendals just for the folks who are just joining us for the very first time. We take stuff from streaming services that we enjoyed. Sometimes we didn't. I don't know. Maybe we did. Yeah. Sometimes they're me commentals or, uh, yeah. And we do that so that, you know, it's like a little bit of a warning or it's a caveat. Like if you like the sort of thing, then you might like it.

But a lot of times it's just stuff we really like. We'll start with Brian. We're going to play a sound clip. Brian, any setup for your, oh, go ahead, Nicole. Can I, can I just preface it? If you really new to it. This segment was a spawn. It was its own podcast. It was its own podcast called Movilicious. That's where the name came from. Yep. That's right. Reviewed movies and all that. Really, the only purpose of this segment is to just beat Curley to recommendals on Twitter. That's all we're doing. That's right. Yeah, slow down, Curly. Geez, Curly. Curly just watches TV all day, I think. Anyway, hey, Brian, you want to explain that on you? Yeah. Let's Get to the first one, and this is a series.

All right, here goes. The Prime Minister will not be taking a position on the touch. You tuck mine. Is that really? Whatever's. Not until we understand the nature and breadth of the attack. Attack. You're declaring the touched a direct threat against the Empire.

And we here are sworn to protect. Contrault. Contraised, all that. And this attack is expected to come. It came three years ago. Third of August, 1896. A Monday. Rather grey.

Not one case of someone being touched before then. Not one outside London. Those reported overseas were all here at the time. And not one man of stature afflicted. That's the genius of it. It came at us through our women. So we watched this too, so I love it. It's a three-way. Three-way recommendal. Yeah. Did you guys, are you guys all cut up with the first six? I'm, yeah. I got to five. I got one more. So I'm having. Oh, my God. I know. I don't want to say anything. But it's so good. I will say I love, I've loved everything. We've loved it. Kim and I are super into it. It's awesome. It's basically 1800s X-Men, but with most of the women. It is. Yeah, Victorian era X-Men. Yeah, it's the never is. It's a series on HBO that, um, was originally created by Joss Whedon, but he's kind of left the series.

And depending on who you ask, there's different reasons he's left the series. But it follows a group of mostly women, but some men in Victorian England, before the turn of the century, who are, before the turn of the millennium, who are all of a sudden getting powers that they didn't have before. they're being touched and it's uh the only if you haven't seen this uh that was pip torrens you were hearing doing most of the talking there who that was a preacher preacher yes that's why i like i was like oh my god i know i recognize that guy what's he from and i had to look it up i'm like oh of course he's bald and he you know there's a penis one eye that's right i forgot about that yes yeah pip torans you'll also uh recognize nick That at first was hard for us to, because we're like, I know that guy. How do I know that guy? Where have I seen this guy?

I'm like, oh, it's Nick Freakin' Frost, dude. Nick Frost, yeah. There's also the guy, and I can't remember his name, and I don't have it in front of me, who was in, who's been in all of the American Horror Story seasons as usually a bad guy. Oh, yeah, Olivia Williams, who was, among other things, she was Bruce Ellis's wife in The Sixth Sense. Bruce Ellis's. Bruce Willis's. Can I say Ellis? I think you said Ellis.

I think you said Willis. Bruce Ellis's. She was also in Rushmore and yeah, she's been in a bunch of different things, counterpart. Yeah, she's good. I like her a lot. I really like Laura Donnelly a lot.

She's kind of the head. Oh, she's great. Amelia True. Yeah. Would you say that she is like if you drew a line from Kristen Ritter to Anne Hathaway, you'd pass through Laura Donnelly.

You 100% would, and you would also maybe just get a brush of, what's her name, Penny Dreadful in there, just a little bit of her. Oh, Ava Green, sure, yeah. Just a touch of Ava Green.

A little bit, yeah. And if you listen to her, she plays British in this, but she's Scottish by nationality. And her interviews post-show, her accent literally melts me into a pile of butter and my wife has to reassemble me later

because I love her accent. Oh, my gosh! She has the hottest accent. Anyway, she does. Yeah, she really does. It's a little creed in it. But anyway, so it's the first six episodes, they're currently in their mid-season break.

So the first six episodes have been released. And then there's another six. There was supposed to be eight. And then the pandemic hit. And then they decided to do six and break it up into a 12 season. And so six and then six. And then another six. Okay.

Gotcha. Well, that's actually good to know because I was worried. This is way too short. It was too short. You'll get through the last episode and go, that's it? I guess they did this with the last season of Game of Thrones, basically. They call season five and six, five and six, but it's really just one 12 episode arc. So, yeah.

Yeah, I mean, there was a couple half seasons of loss, too, if I remember correctly. Or not, Breaking Bad had that. The fifth season was two halves. Yeah, something like that. Something like that. Anyway. Yeah. Yeah, it's great. The never is very deep. And it is one again, because the accents for some of these people are so strong, you've really got to pay attention and listen carefully. Or just put on your subtitles. Or put on subtitles. Anne Skelly is another one. Her Irish accent. She's penance. She's just, she's fantastic. She's so good. Also, I like that Rochelle Neal, I think is how you say. Yeah, that's her name. She plays Annie Carby. She's got the firepower. hour. Oh, yeah. She's awesome. Holy crap. She's good, too. Yeah. It's good.

Loved it. Anyway, the never is on HBO Max. All right. Your next one here is... That was mine, too, by the way. Sorry, Nicole. You suck. That's all good. Yeah, you suck. Sometimes this happens. We cross our streams. I know, we, you know, if we didn't care about the whole surprise factor for each of us, we could talk, you know, as soon as we watch something, plant our flag in the chat. I figure you might have already talked about it. I waited literally till this week to watch it. And it's been out for many, many weeks. We waited until we could binge all six episodes together. Brian's a wait and binge guy unless it's like Marvel or something. You almost always wait.

Exactly. Yep. All right. So my next recommendal is a movie, and I'm pretty damn sure that neither of you watch this one. All right, there it is. I come from the village of Luxemangar, which is in the darkness. India is two countries in one.

An India of light And an India of darkness I think a rich man like you knows which one I come from To give you the basic facts about me There's no beating that poster The one the police made of me some years ago Due to an act of entrepreneurship Yes, the police are looking for me

Why? I'll get to that in time that in time, but only if you promise not to judge me until I've told you my glorious tale. I have no idea, but I'm intrigued. Oh, this is so good. This is a movie called The White Tiger. This is on Netflix.

This is a film that was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, because the book apparently is fantastic as well. It's based on a book from, I think, 2008. This is all about Las Vegas Tiger trainers who entertain people

by Tiger. It's about Siegfried and Roy and that was Sigfried you heard the accent. Oh wow that's very different

for him. No, this is about an Indian a guy who grew up in the lower caste system of India but always wanted to be

always wanted to serve and be a servant and becomes a driver for a very rich family and you know really really is devourable

voted and um uh and eager to grow in his role and when things kind of go awry uh this movie gets kind of dark and and uh changes in a way

that you don't expect it is uh it's really really good it is uh boy it's another one that you might want subtitles on well they're part of the movie does have subtitles already Um, also stars, uh, Priyanka Chopra, Priyanka Chopra, who is, uh, married to one of the Jonas brothers, I think probably Nick. Um, that's, uh, Adarsh Gourav, who you're hearing there is the main character. I course says Sigfried and Deep Roy. That's really funny. Oh, geez. That's really funny. All right. Sorry, go ahead. Uh, uh, but it's, it's funny. It starts out, you're feeling like a little bit of a slumdog millionaire kind of, um, to it and then things definitely change around and it becomes

a very different movie still excellent and it goes places. I'll just say that. This is on Netflix and it's Is it weird that I never have trouble

with any accents hearing them? I never have an accent that throws me no matter how thick. Yeah and this one the main character is not, doesn't have a very thick accent but boy his his driver trainer does i mean there's some people in this in this who have a very very thick deli accent and uh i'll try um i'll try yeah you'll probably be fine you know what in a couple of the cases even though they're speaking english you still get

subtitles we actually didn't have subtitles on for this one but um uh it's great this is really really good i want to see it white tiger where is it uh streaming on netflix all right netflix everybody. Here is mine this week. You're going to think I'm throwing in the towel a little, but I'm not. This actually helped me get through a ton of Kickstarter artwork I have to do. And I got so much

done with this on just kind of in the background, happening. And I don't know why it works for me, but it does. Everyone will immediately know what it is. Here it is. Well, Dracula called and he's coming tonight. Well, good. Then he'll be the one to turn the knob to power the world's first hyperspeed supercomputer.

No, he doesn't know how. I'm turning the No, I'm portraying for this. Where is it? You want entertainment? There it is. Just try to imagine a world where emails are sent by your brain before they are written and are read before they arrive by people you've never even met in countries you've never even heard of. Yeah.

Now imagine a world where all disease can be cured with one digital book. Shake. Okay. Well, I'm going to say, oh, is it something animating? Yeah, it's very, no, animated, but not animated. It's animated, but not. not anime. I know you've been on an anime kick lately. I have been, yeah. I actually have

it. There's been a film. I'm seeing chat. Okay. Yeah. It's Aquatine Hunger Force. Yes. Oh my gosh. I love that show. I love that show so much. I can't, I never get tired of it, but it's been a while since I've watched it and I decided to just have it on, kind of be my, I don't know. I thought maybe it might even annoy me because I was trying to focus on this art, but it doesn't. It makes me laugh. I can just even just sort of hear it and laugh. um i love it so carl's the best carl is the best hey what are you doing over here that guy's

the best um everything about it is great and i can't recommend it enough if you've never seen it uh you should go watch it it's all bingeable right there on hbio max they have all that old stuff from uh the early adult swim stuff's all on there uh so if you want to watch it you can and um uh was it going to say oh there's also a rumor floating around of a uh a new I don't know, a movie or a one-off or something's happening soon with that show. So that could be interesting. And this thing, I think in its heyday was like, what, 03 to 07 or something? So it's a little older now.

But anyway, really into that. And Brian's right, a little bit of anime here and there. I've been watching this show called Black Lagoon, which is super good. All of this I found. Oh, no, I actually found that on Hulu. So Black Lagoon's on Hulu. This thing, though, is available on HBO Max. And after this, I'm going to watch Squidbillies because I also like that weird.

thing. And I like weird animation. I just do. And that's, and that's, some of you probably thought, oh, Scott's going to talk about, uh, blood, robots and monkeys or whatever it's called. Yes. If only that was the real favorite. Season two hit and I haven't watched it yet. And that's why I'm not doing it. I haven't had time to sit down. Because that one I got to sit down and like, I want to watch watch, right? Like I don't want to use it just. Oh, really see. I'm, what I love about that is I'll watch one, you know, and, and just kind of savor it over a long period of time. Although I guess there's only six in this one or eight. Well, they're less than

the first one? I didn't know. Yeah. Yeah. I'd be okay. If they do more frequent seasons, I'm okay with them being short. That's six. I-court confirms. Yeah, so. Okay. Yeah, if they're short seasons, that's fine if they do more seasons. Like, it's been a long time between season one and two,

and I would love to have this stuff every year. Eight episodes a year would be really cool. And I heard that Junkie XL did the soundtrack for one of these, and I'm very excited to see which one that is because, as we know, he wrote the soundtrack for Mad Max Fury wrote. Reset your calendars, folks. That's right.

Anyway, that's what I picked this week. I had no time for any other stuff because I also beat Mass Effect. Mass Effect one. And I'm already into two with this new trilogy. And man, I miss those games. They're so freaking good, you guys. You want to know something interesting? What's that?

Mark has never played Mass Effect ever. Now's that time. And he got, he picked up the legendary edition. So he's playing through for the very first time. I am jealous of, well, see, I never, this was my first time through one, because I don't know why. I just didn't play one back in the day. I played two and three.

But I'm so happy. I'm so happy to hear that. I'm jealous of him getting to experience this for the first time because it's awesome. My recommendation to him is don't do a lot of side stuff in that first game. Yeah. just get through this because the main the reason that first game's great is the story and the in the characterization that's what matters most the combat's okay the graphics are okay i mean the up brez is really nice like all the new stuff they did is definitely better but it's still the jankiest of the three by the time he gets to two though two really gets oh man it's so good he's really into space now that he's a trek nerd he'll love this then he'll love this he's watching this weird. I caught some of it with the, it's a new space show with Katie Sackoff. Oh, um, the one on Netflix that, uh, they're like out in the middle of, I just watch some of it.

I was like, Randy told me that one wasn't very good, so I stopped watching it halfway through the first season. I caught bits of it. I'm like, I don't want to watch this before bed. It's going to give me nightmare. Right. The other, or sorry, another life it's called. Another life. Yes. That's what it's called. Okay. Yeah. Ooh, she's poison. I won't be recommended. All right. Sorry. I like her a lot.

Yeah. Oh, Katie Sackoff? Yeah, she's awesome. I think she's great. Mark's not much of a fan. He doesn't like it when she shows up. Really? In the show that she stars in?

I love her. I love her. She's awesome. All right. Well, moving on. Nicole, you've got, oh, you don't have one because Brian told. Well, I do have one.

Okay. It's one. I decided to, because the other I've been watching is kids stuff with the kids. And quite a while ago, I recommended Bluey on Disney Plus. And only a few episodes had come out, but it was really cute. Ava had kind of fell off and didn't really get into it, but she's really into it now. And I wanted to recommend Bluey for any parents that have young kids, because there is an episode that came up that I was like,

that was brilliant. And it talks about death. Oh, yeah. Oh, wow. And I absolutely loved how they handled it because when Millie, our Doberman, passed away, it was really hard for you. It still is. And she still keeps asking me, is she coming back? Yeah. That's a hard age.

And it's just, it's like, how do you explain such a big, big topic? and she cries and then we go through this whole thing and Bluey and that episode helped us so much they find a bird, a budgie and it's hurt and they take it to the vet and the budgie dies and then you see Bluey trying to process that and Bluey does some role playing with her and Bluey is a girl I thought Bluey was a boy.

Louie is a girl. Blurring the lines of gender and cartoons. That's right. And so she gets her little sister bingo to play the budgie and they act out. And it's just a beautiful episode. And I just love the show so much. I just wanted to make sure to bring it up again because I've actually had more time with the show. And it's even more wonderful than I had originally thought.

I would love to have this around when my daughters were three and six when my dad died. Yeah. Because they just didn't understand. They just could never. I think to this day, they're still a little scar by that because it was just like the first time in their life, anything like that happened. So, and I put that on, like somebody may say, well, that's worse if it's a person. No, I don't know, man. When the animals you love pass, it's in your little kid, freaking, oh, my Lord.

And what the father said to Bluey was it's out of our hands, you know, like there's, there's nothing we can do. We have to process this. We have to under, you know, it's not easy. And they didn't diminish Bluey's feelings. And it just was beautiful. I could almost tear up thinking about it. So it's just a. And these are dogs that own birds.

I just want to make sure I have that right. These dogs own birds? The budgie was a wild budgie that they found that got injured. Because I'm looking at the mom and the dad and they're in the kitchen making food in this little thing I'm looking at here. So these are like, you know, they're walking around and living a life, right? They live in a house and, okay. I should watch this. What I also like is the father is the primary caregiver.

The mother works. The mother is involved, but it's primarily the father that is in most of the episodes with the kids. Um, so it's just, it's just a refreshing, I mean, it's dogs, but still, it's still wonderful. And I love it. All right. I'm a big believer in that animation is there for all ages to teach us things to help us with us. I love it.

Yeah. That's amazing. All right. Very nice. Louis on Disney Plus. There's like a hundred episodes now. Are they all British? Australian.

Oh, I'm even more. I mean, I'm into it if I would be into this if it was like American, but I'm more into it. I can identify any accent. I'm excited. I don't think it's identify. It's no problem understanding. No, I don't mean, I don't even mean that.

I actually just, I just prefer, I don't know what my problem is. I prefer when it's something like Hilda, that series Hilda, which I love so much. Oh, I love Hilda. Is there any new episodes of that out? Season two just hit, I think, or maybe it's coming. Hilda gives me, what's the Gravity Falls vibes? Oh, yeah, totally. Totally that vibe.

And the little girl, the voice is the Moormont girl in the Game of Thrones, the little girl that inherited the North. Yeah. King in the North. Anyway. So side recommendation, Hilda. All right, well, there you go. Hey, here's the fun bit.

Nicole puts all these in a tweet and then pumps it out to the world so you guys can be reminded about what we watched and then put it on your own list. You can find her over at Nicole's bag on Twitter and we'll retweet it on the main. I will. That's where I'm at. Nicole, have a fantastic day. Bye. See you. We should really celebrate. She had the most technical issue free visit today with us. There was no weird video. That's true. Yeah. No having to yell at Mark.

Yeah, exactly. She was just on and, yeah. He wasn't uploading a 8 terabyte video. You know, it's been pretty clear for a while, hasn't it? Yeah, I guess it has. I don't know. Maybe they got better better the internet. I don't know. Yeah, she paid extra. Finally, finally, plop down the money to be able to participate on this show. Yeah, pull your fucking wallet out for hell's sakes. All right, here is, we got a TMS Origins mashup to play. This is from Jamie. And apparently this, well, it goes in a little bit into the prove it you can't mean that we have on the show. Yeah, this is one I forgot about. So this is good. Yep. Enjoy. I like that. I have to share this Twitter conversation real quick.

Okay. You know how I signify my jokes on. Twitter. I put a winky face. Hold on. Who is that guy talking? Hey, you guys. Hey, everybody. I'm sort of a Kermit the Frog version of Scott. What was wrong with me? What was wrong with my voice? I sound terrible in that. You sound fine. It's funny because I wasn't looking at you on Zoom, so

I thought this was still part of the mashup. I sound really nasally. That's weird. All right, anyway, here it is. That's how I say, oh, I'm kidding around, you know? I'm joking around. I said, Trump is like global warming. It's good people are trying to do something about it now, but it's probably too late.

Winky face. Yeah, I did see that. I liked a love. It's a funny little joke. It's nothing more than a joke. And I get this from Honeycat 155 who says, prove global warming. You can't.

It's a belief, not a provable concept. I said, what brand of crack are you smoking today? This is powerful stuff. And he wrote back, prove it, you can't. And I said, I had a sandwich for lunch. Prove it, you can't. You can't tell me on Twitter, prove it you can't. That is not the place to ever have a conversation about proving anything.

Right. If your statement is prove it, you can't. You don't want to actually hear me say anything. You don't want to hear me say what I think proof might be. Basically, you've made the request and you've issued the response to the answer of your quest right there in the space of one tweet. Yeah. I'm listening. I'm not listening anymore.

Yeah. It's basically what they're saying. Tell me your name. Don't tell me your name. Right. Well, I can't have that guy. That is not an argument I'm going to have. Tell me your name.

I don't care. So if you want to know why I keep making jokes back at you, this guy, is because you're not giving me any options here. So go back to your school of how do you do that. there you have it right from the mouth of a nasally version of me scotty frog year and here's what happened on Twitter the other day I really don't like how I sounded that was weird anyway whatever my voice has changed a little in the last 10 years I've noticed it it's gone down I'm in this register now down here

where it used to be a little bit okay everybody we're on the Warcraft Miss the Pandaria. That's the instance, because you don't have to. All right. Well, that's great. Prove it you can't. Lives on today to this moment. Fantastic.

We're done. I have a couple things really quick before we get to our closing stuff. Number one, that you live people, you close your ears. This doesn't apply to you. All of you people I see right now in the chat room. This doesn't apply to you. But we have a bunch of listeners who never get to play in our battle. bubble royale thing because they work,

they can't listen to the show live, they can't call in, but they still should be able to play and win prizes and all that sort of thing. Monday, I'm debuting a brand new game that will hopefully be part of the rolling set of

Babel Royale games, and it will involve players who don't get to play, don't get to listen live. So if you're listening to this as a podcast. You don't get to listen live. Go to the Tadpool over there on

Facebook, that thing, or in Discord in the TMS chat part of Discord. And look for a link there that basically just says, hey, I want to play. You'll end up giving me your name, your city where you're from, and your

email address, and you'll get a chance to win prizes with Brian and Scott, Brian Donaway and Scott. So that'll be starting on Monday. Very, very nice. I'm excited about this. We just want to, yeah, we just want to involve people outside of the live, the live show. We love our live listeners. Don't get me wrong. You guys can listen now. Yeah, now you can come back and listen. That is actually true. But, but it's just, it's a great idea because look, we, I mean, I say this sometimes on the show, but, you know,

three or 400 live Twitch people plus, I don't know, who else does the VODs on Twitch or whatever, the YouTube people. They're all great human beings. Tip of the beer love you all, but there's like almost 30,000 of you who aren't in any of those places and just get this on their phones or listen to it later or whatever because that's just who they are or where they're at or whatever. I love the idea of involving them more. So great idea. Great idea. Cool. All right. So look for that on Monday. And this will, don't worry. This will be a game that kind of evolves. I'm not sure how well it's going to work in its initial release, but it'll be evolving as we figure out. Oh, well, this part is unfair.

Let's do this thing, and we'll fix it. So there's that. Other thing is, hey, as soon as this show's over, I'm going on a bike ride. And if you want to help support my bike rides and help end Alzheimer's disease, then visit Tiny.combele, ALZ, 2021. That's Coverville, ALZ, 2021, after you put a Tiny. Dot CC, helping raise money as opposed to the coverthon, which would be me live streaming. We are going to live stream a game with me, Scott, Brian Dennon,

in Stephen Schleiker at some point in June. But if you want to get in early and make a donation, now is a great week to do. It is fundraising week there. So if you have a chance, jump in there and help donate. I'm pretty excited about that. I am too. It's going to be so much fun. Also, well, Scott's about to tell you, there's no show tomorrow.

No show tomorrow or Friday. Yeah. Remember this, everyone. So make sure you get on Twitter and say, was there supposed to be a show today? I didn't get anything in my feed. Yeah. Now people are going to do that. We don't want you to do that.

No, don't do that. But yeah, there is no show tomorrow. There's no really anything tomorrow because I'm trying to be having like a proper vacation. I got some house sitters coming. We got it all arranged. So I'm just not going to freaking be here. But there is more stuff today. So there will be a Monday TNS that's happening today.

Tonight I'll post a new skim episode. before we leave. And that might be it. Yeah. Oh, no, I shouldn't. What am I saying? This weekend we have a bonus film sack. We already recorded.

We've already recorded this film sack just for you. Yeah, there's a bonus. There will be dungeons going up. There's like, I have a bunch of that already in the queue. So there's stuff. Okay. There might even be a coverville tomorrow. Just keep an eye on Twitch.tv slash coverville because I've got a lot of content that I need to,

a lot of shows that have to happen on certain dates. So there still might be a Coverville tomorrow. But I'll tweet about it. Yeah, tweet about it. I want to hear all about you tweeting. Yes. I think that's it, everybody. Thanks for joining us.

And thanks for your patronage at patreon.com slash TMS. And it means a lot to us. It's how this show functions. We just really need you to do it if you aren't already in there. So please head on over for as little as a buck a month. You could take advantage of our horrible pricing scheme and get amazing amounts of content for virtually nothing. That's over at patreon.com slash TMS. Everything else is at

frogpants.com slash TMS. That's it. That's it. Brian, you got a song? I have a song and I'm just going to write now, because I know he is in chat free hotel room, this may be your opportunity to tap

out. This is a tough one even for me to read. It's going to be a tough one for a lot of us as we listen to this. But KCB wrote in and said on April 18th, so just a little over a month ago, I lost my beautiful wife to the COVID-19 pandemic. She was my soulmate, and I'm lost without her. May 22nd is her 34th birthday,

and I want to celebrate it with a little love and tenderness. I request any cover of our song, Hold My Hand, by Hootie and the Blowfish. If a cover of Hold My Hand isn't available, or any cover of or by Hootie and the Blowfish would be great. And if Burger King still had it, I'd get myself a tender crisp bacon, cheddar, ranch love the show oh man that tears me up i'm so sorry to hear about that yeah and i uh casey i admire

your strength already because uh i would be i'd be a blubbering pile of goo for months and months and years uh after something like that i'm pretty sure i'd be done i don't know how else i'd do it i don't mean suicide but i mean i don't know how i would do it so you have massive massive respect dude for real yes exactly and and uh yeah so this one goes out to you i don't don't have a good cover of hold my hand. The only thing I've got is a Sesame Street version that they changed the lyrics to about helping Elmo cross the street. And I didn't feel like that was going to work.

But the Hootie and the Bluefish released an entire album of covers back in 2000. Oh, do you want to play The Tender Crisp Bacon, Cheddar Ranch? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We absolutely we should. Here you go. Whoops. The Tender Chris Bacon Cheddar Ranch. Happy to do it.

There you go. Hootie and the Blowfish record an entire album of covers. And again, I was going through it like, oh, that one might be tender. That one might, you know, hit a sore spot. That one maybe wouldn't work. This one, I feel, is, number one, a good solid cover. And number two is a, it won't, there's no connection that will make you think of her in any other way than loving and remembering her. and just be a great way to celebrate what would have been her 34th birthday.

Here is Hootie and the Blowfish covering R-E-M and their version of Driver 8. We'll see you guys on Monday. Come on back then. And Brian, be careful. You're in Vegas. Be careful. I will be very careful. See you guys then.

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Take a break We've been on the ship Too long And the train The doctor says Take a break Driver 8 Driveer 8 take a break

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there they're new tea where you put my soul, my injur just speaks. They'll probably the song in the play like the hundred.

embrace all her good that were saved Oh, the motive train Unimpressive Hear the bells Ring again Feel the moving Thick in there

Ever turned up the sand Take the brain Dry to rain Driver, take a break We've been on the ship too long And the train Doctor says Take a break

Driver eight Take a break Take a break We can reach our best mission And still is We still is wind But it still is away

But it's still It's always a way This show is part of the Frog Pants Network Get more shows like this at FrogPants.com. Got some balls.