The Morning Stream - TMS 2151: Her Name Contains Earl

Episode Date: July 28, 2021

Be the Marble not the Hippo. I Don't Like Ice Cream Cheeeeeeeeese. Duty-Free Ibbott. Is Pepsi Mango OK? A Fish Named Illidan. Lawn Darts: Not a Board Game. You Don't Have to Be Smoking Crack To Be Wrong. Hot Lasagna In Tupperware For Everyone! Don't Put Me in the Cooties. Buy it in 4K. It's the Only Way to Be Sure. Nintendo Switcheroo. Stop stealing my pebbles, you DICKS! Self-Absorbed Beaver. I Only Watch it for the Prosthetics. The Lord of Onions. Tom's Tech Time! Reccamentals 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.

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Is Pepsi mango okay? A fish named Illadon. Lawn darts, not a board game. You don't have to be smoking crack to be wrong. Hot lasagna and Tupperware for everyone. Don't put me in the cooties. Buy it in 4K. It's the only way to be sure.

Nintendo Switcheroo. Stop stealing my pebbles, you dick. Self-absorbed beaver. I only watch it for the prosthetics. The Lord of a. Tom's tech time. Recommendals with Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. You think you'll want to change your name?

Ned? No, not the Ned part, unless you want to. What the F are you doing in here? It's the world of tomorrow today. This is the morning stream. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It's Wednesday, July 28th, 2021. I'm Scott Johnson with the jury duty not called up, Brian Abbott. Hello. Duty free. I'm duty free. You are duty free. Just like you find in many airports, many international airports. I'm duty free.

That means you're cheaper than ever, and I can get you real good and cheap. Well, that's cool. Hey, wait, let's do this upright. So here we go. All right, Brian, he did not get called up to jury duty. Well, I mean, I guess you had to still do your phone call thing and then found out that you didn't need to go. Nate Brian Ibit. Brian is, uh... His tree has grown over that fence for too long. He tried calling in for jury duty and they told him his services were not required.

Oh, man, that's the people's court. Oh, yeah, I got to do the chick, chick, chick, chick, check. Hold on. Yeah. No, that's not it. Where is it? No. I don't think you've got a little typewriter noise because that was...

That's not it right there? That's not kind of it. No, no, no, that was separate. It was like a little electric typewriter. Oh, right. When they were, it was like, that was the way of saying. They'd show what the plaintiff and the defendant were there for. And then they'd go into, this is the people's court.

Our defense or our litigants have agreed to meet and do their shit in our forum. And do their shit. Apparently, the chat room is having problems. I'm going to restart the stream here and see if I can't figure out what's going on there. Laggy. Yeah. Laggy business. It appears to be a Twitch thing because you and I are fine.

Eh, I'm going to pause this. What can I imagine this thing is so? Look how long it is. I know. It really is. Yeah. I mean, this part, I've never heard before. There's a band.

So, like, there's a band in a studio that's just doing this for four minutes. Yeah. really into it it's super serious guy on the congos and uh or bongo drones and uh the congo bongos i like to call them congo congo bongos all that's such a great video game uh so when you're uh so you're done they don't and you're not on some list for like the very next thing this is how this works right you get called i don't know how it works yeah i mean basically because this is what's happened all three times well i take the back two of the three times i've been called for jury jury duty the uh the second time actually showed up they had us in a room

we were all sitting there and they said oh they've settled out of court so you guys are all free to go home here's here's 11 dollars for the last three hours that we've kept you in here 11 bucks yeah that's like oh great i can i can go get a extra value meal thanks i mean it's not nothing but it's not nothing but you know say if i were home i'd be charging a lot more than that for freelance yeah we get a slightly better hourly rate when we're not waiting for our name to be called up. Exactly, yes. Well, anyway, I'm kind of glad it didn't happen because here you are.

We're doing a show. Yeah, yeah, I'm much more, I'm much happier here doing this with you. Yeah, well, that's good. So a couple of quick recommendations. Last night I recorded an episode, a special kind of one-off supplementary instance episode with Jewel Scott. You know Jules. Old friend of a show. Oh, yeah, absolutely.

She's amazing. See here every Blizcon and almost every nerdtacular or TMS Vegas or something. She's always around. She's great. And she's really smart, really awesome. And I decided that I was going to take some advice from friends and pull in a woman to talk to me about this stuff that's going on with Blizzard. And so we did that.

And it turned out great. It's maybe, I mean, I don't want to, I don't like tooting my own horn, as you know, but I think it's one of the maybe more important things I've ever recorded. So I think people should go read it or listen to it and check it out. It's on the, it's on the, it's on the, the instance feed and available wherever you get your podcast. So worth checking out. And Jules is just great.

She's such a natural at this stuff anyway. She is. Should have and should have her on more often because she's really smart. Anyway, there's that. I want to give you an impression. Here's my impression. Okay. Jim Rainer, the female dog, my dog.

Uh-huh. I have so many pets named after Blizzard Properties. I know. I think I saw a tweet about that. I'm like, oh, yeah. Yeah, good point. We had a fish name, Illen. I hope nothing ever happens with Firefly,

because, boy, Deonara's name will sure get changed right quick. Yeah. Well, I don't think you have to worry, although everyone's mad at, who's the creator? Weedon. Joss Whedon. Everyone's mad at him, but I don't think that makes it, so you have to be mad at the show. No, no, no, no.

As long as Marina Bacherin doesn't do anything horrible, which, come on. Could she possibly? She couldn't possibly. No, I loved her in Greenland. And I thought she was really good. And Kim was watching the, you know, the homeland. She was good on that.

Yeah, she's good on V for as short as it was. Well. She was good. She was fine. She was fine. Yeah. She's kind of alien looking. It kind of worked.

Yeah, yeah. It's true. Well, anyways. Anyway, Jim Rainer, the female died. So I got a gym. So there's Jim Rainer. There's Decker Kane, the cat. And then we used to have a fish named Illadon, but the fish died.

so yeah anyway it was not prepared for a long life as a fish uh but the dog is uh fine she's fine and uh but last night at about two o'clock in the morning i don't know if carter car's in the chat you may not have heard this but just start hearing this okay so here's my impression like that is this during like is she asleep doing this yeah well it's supposed to be she's in her kennel. So we don't, I don't know. I'm just hearing it. And I'm like, what the frick is going on? A little night terrors. And it sounded a lot like that. And by the way, I just did that.

And I heard some dog upstairs barking. I think it's probably, somebody just barking it. But anyway, it's the weirdest thing. So we put, it's summer, so you don't want to have big fluffy hot blankets in their kennels because at night they don't want to be hot or whatever. So it's a lighter, kind of almost like a towel-like material. but it's a good size and, you know, rumpled up and you can lay on it and stuff.

Sure. She's in there on that. And I didn't think much of it. I'm thinking, well, maybe she just needs to pee. She got, like, you know, her tummy hurting. Like, what's the problem? She's awake. She's not sleeping.

And so go to let her out. And she darts out of there. And I'm like, great. She's got the runs or something. Something's weird. But she doesn't want to go outside. She doesn't want to do anything. She just stares at me, looks at her kennel,

stares at me. Looks at her kennel, stares at me. And I look at the kennel. I'm like, I don't see anything. And I get down there trying to see, maybe she barf in there, or maybe there's a poo hanging around or whatever nightmare scenario. I'm looking for it. I'm finding nothing.

It's all very nice. She just had a bath yesterday or two days ago, whatever it was. And all's well. So I'm like, what is the problem? And she's looking at it and then looking at me and I'm going, like this. Yeah. So I go get another one.

And another towel? Another towel, larger version of this thing. Pull the one that's in there out of there. as soon as she sees me coming with the other one and starting to put it in loses her mind and starts to try to

get in there like she's not even letting me lay it out she's just so excited to be in there with it like oh you understood me you understood me

and she's just like cramming in there new towel she grabbed that old corner of it she's pulling it herself over to the corner and like getting it all laid out and that was it that was all it was

she didn't like what she's laying on and I there's nothing wrong with what she was laying I didn't smell funny I think maybe it was a little thin so maybe her little bones are like just aching from kind of not having a lot between

her and the bottom of the kennel or something like that. Boomer on the other hand is a giant slab of fat so she just she is whatever. Yeah, exactly. But she's such a spaz. Yeah, Daisy this drives me nuts

and she does it more and more the older she gets but she does her little sleep barking thing and it's like closed, closed mouth but it's loud enough that it's loud enough that at 2 o'clock in the morning it wakes me up sometimes wakes teen up but not nearly as much as it wakes me up and it'll be like a couple nights ago there were like two or three times overnight that she did that

what's uh is it does it ever is anything ever preceded like you can like say oh this was the night she heard fireworks or you know whatever no never never seems to be sort of correlation to interactions with other dogs, with fireworks, or other loud noises, sirens, things like that. It's just sometimes she dreams of the UPS guy, apparently. She and Tina both dreaming of the UPS guy, and Daisy's reaction is to bark. Yeah. It's a hunk of a man, that UPS man.

He is. Well, you know, he's got quite the package. I feel you. Usually from Amazon. Got a big smile on that package, ready to go. That's right. Exactly, yes. Unless they give it to you upside down, then it's, you know.

We've, uh, are you guys still putting out food, by the way, for the, for the delivery folks? Yeah, yeah, we got like a tray that basically an ongoing tray of like snack items and then a cold thing of bottled water. So yeah. Yeah, we, we phased it out. It was, it was, uh, basically we just kind of, uh, let things. Let it run dry. Let it run dry. Uh-huh.

And then, and then, and then brought it. it back in because otherwise there was no exit strategy you know if i was really if i really wanted to do it right now they think about it um i would have gotten smaller and smaller containers to put all the snacks in so it didn't look like we just weren't restocking it it would just look look like oh well no it's still full is this box slightly smaller than the last box but um now that's a great question i don't know what the exit is now that you say yeah because i mean you know number one makes sense when everybody during the pandemic everybody's delivering everything you're having everything brought to the house yeah um and also christmas time and you know

it's just a nice thing to do um i don't think we've gotten any sort of flack or any sort of um disappointment registered from our delivery folks uPS fedex still still bringing stuff still dropping stuff off picking stuff up when we need it so yeah but uh yeah we i haven't thought about it it's a good question here's my guess okay this is my guess yeah yeah i would probably be like all right Well, it's just one extra thing to manage. Maybe we can phase that out. And if something like this comes up again, we go back into full mode, hey, we're going to go the extra mile for people again. My wife, on the other hand, we'll probably do this until we're dead.

Yeah, perpetuity. I mean, this is a Kim thing, right? If she could, she'd put hot lasagna and Tupperware out for every driver that comes by, a little fork and napkin. If she could, there'd be a tear and a freaking tableplace mat for the guy every night. That's what she'd do. Exactly. Lit candle. All right, you got five minutes between your next delivery.

Sit down. Yeah. You're not wrong. Drink? What would you like to drink? I mean, it's what makes her wonderful or one of the things. But it also, you know, I, it really does put me in a weird light because in my head, I'm like, oh, yeah, well, practically, you know, from a practical standpoint, the heart of the pandemic is over. So maybe we don't need to have those out.

Like, I don't even think I can bring that up. There's no way she's not doing this forever. There's no way. Just keep doing it. It's permanent. Yeah. So, anyway, if anyone needs a bag of chips or a nice, cool thing of water, I know where you can get one. Come to the house.

Yeah. I guess it's no big deal. All right. That's it. Let's get, hey, oh, done away time, you know? Yeah. We didn't have a Monday. That sucked.

We missed him on Monday. I mean, we had a good episode, but we missed him. I mean, it was fine. I mean, I'm trying to remember who did we have as a guest on Monday. I just can't remember who it was. Must not have been very memorable. No. I don't know.

I must be feeling a little cowardly because I can't remember. Listen, Cowardville. I know F-E-A. I know what's going on. I can't remember who he had on Monday, our special guest. Played Divinity 2, you coward. Wait, I don't even know what that is.

Oh, no, stream might have gone off again. Oh, did it? No, we're good. We're still at full. I think Steam's, or Steam. Twitch is having issues today. I think that's what's going on. We're doing our best, everybody, but I think we're, I think we're okay now.

Okay. Oh, oh, look at this. It's Brian Dunaway joining us. Hi, Brian. Good morning. Oh, hi, Scott, Brian. Am I? John, 45 is alive.

Yeah, you're all slow and robot. Yes. Are you at home today? Is that why? Oh, we lost him. He'll come back. There he is. I don't mean that I must be at home today

Johnny 5 is alive That was so weird Hey no worries I know how you have that weird thing I accept you for what you are and who you are It's not a problem It's all good How's it going man?

You're doing all right? I'm doing okay I'd be better if I was feeling better But hey let's not talk about that Let's talk about playing games Yeah Brian's been feeling a little off I've had some solidarity

With that in the last week or two And my hope is that all of us feel better every day that we live. How about that? Every day that we live. Every day that we live. All right. We're going to play Tapuli a few, but we've got to have a listener on. And I think we got one.

So let's find out who's been holding here. Hi, who's this? Hello, gentlemen. This is Greg for Walkman. Well, hello, Greg for Walkman. It's nice to have you. Graberwapman. You know what's funny?

I'll be on, like, DTS, and they'll talk about you because you'll submit a title there or something, or, you know, you'll throw him some bits or something on a Wednesday. And they'll say, oh, and we want to thank Greg for Walkman. And I just get so giggly inside thinking, dude, you know why his name is even Greg for Walkman. Do you people over there even know why? That's right. Exactly, yes.

Yeah. It's one of my favorite things in the world. Yeah. It's good to have you here, man. Always nice to talk to you. And we are going to play this game. But Brian has to explain how it works and what you could win. I do.

It's time to play Dad Pooley Feud. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics. And Scott and Brian are going to have to predict the answers that they gave us. It's Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Greg, for Walkman, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. And if your team wins, you get a prize package. That includes Wildfire and Boreal Blade, courtesy of Wesley Twitch games.

Boreal Blade, yes. Boreal Blade, as an Arboreal Blade, is an Arboreal Blade with. out the AR. There you go. Nice. It's like Boreen Tundra. Like Borean Tundra. Yeah, yeah.

There you go. Oh, Blizzard. Anyway, okay, cool. What's he winning? What are his prizes? Oh, you already said. We just talked about him. How about a Boreen?

It's a red on air light. Yeah, you get in a red on air light and use it safely. All right. Let's move on. I like it into the feud. Oh, yeah. You're not in the feud.

Did you get my Discord message I sent an hour ago? Hey, is this the current URL for the game? Oh, yeah. Because mine says, mine says, game not found. Hosts may need to refresh their page. Oh, do it anyway, because that's what I got, and it still works. So, yeah.

Okay. Yeah, it must be a weird error. That's a new thing. We'll figure out why, but you're not wrong to wonder. I mean, I wondered too. And then Brian's like, well, try it anyway and I got in. Okay. I'm in waiting for host. Sweet. Oh, I see Brian. I think we're in the wrong one. I think that's the problem. I think so, because I'm not seeing...

I'm using the one... I'm using the one you posted in on 721 in the chat. I see Brian and I see me, and I see the buzzer. Yeah, okay. All right, let's see if this works, because I wasn't seeing the choices. Now I'm seeing the choices. I did a refresh announcement.

Oh, we seem to be fun. We'll see what happens. Something's up, man. All right. It's all good. All right. Here we go. Hands on buzzards.

I surveyed 372 tadpoolers and got their response. to this what board game would be the least fun to get Jumanjeeed into Scott Johnson Yeah, I'm gonna take 10 minutes

I had it and then it left me Shoots and ladders Shoots and ladders I didn't have an answer just I thought I might eventually have one Shutes and ladders or snakes and ladders show me number six

five answers we'll beat it I was going to say I was going to say operation I don't want to be involved in the real game of operation Don't touch his funny bone

show me operation number three on the list Brian has control the board and Greg for Walkman you'll be joining Brian as part of this as part of this game yeah

You feel good about your chances now that you know you have to work with Brian? Is that cool? You're all right with that? I do. I'm not going to be that much help, though, but I only have a couple of the top of my head. Listen, you can name board games. You can play this game. That's all really takes.

You'll be fine. All right. Well, you two have it then. It's on your board to go. Yes. All right. What board game would be the least fun to get Jumanjeeed into? The least fun to get Jumanjied into.

How about, you know, I, You know, I would not want to be in Monopoly. That is just, that would be a terrible game to be in. I mean, the odds of going to jail. Pretty good. Yeah, that's true. Actually, yeah, it's like a, you know, what do we figure out? It's a 1 in 36 chance of going to jail or something.

Right. And most of those community chess cards, even though they're supposed to be mostly good, they're not. It's usually bankrupt to for me. Oh, second place in a beauty contest. All right, show me Monopoly. Number one. Number one answer on the board. Plus, you have to be a shoe and a thimble and all kinds of dumb stuff.

Right, exactly. Now, here's one that I thought about when you first said it, and I was like, is this ironic enough for The Deadpool? But I'm going to go, and Greg for Walkman, you kind of guide me here on this. How about the game of life? A game of life. I think I've been jumanjied into it. I can't really tell.

Am I being too, am I trying to be too clever? or do I need to go with something? You've given an answer. I don't think you can retract it. Well, I haven't given it. I said, I was talking to you. I was talking to Gray for Walkman. You can tell me what I can talk to about with Craig.

I have one. I'm one. Is it just basically in classic board games or just it's anything that? Any board game. Any board game. Yeah, like the class, but I would think it would probably mostly be like the old stuff. That's what it's probably going to kind of people's minds. But these are also a bunch of nerds and I'm guessing there's some tape.

top stuff in here that they'll say. I mean, I have one that just popped right into my head when I first heard it. Do it. Do it great. Pandemic. Oh, yeah, dude. Oh, okay. Yeah, that would be a terrible game. I'm going to go with Pandemic.

That's a lot better than the game of a life. That's the stupid guess. Looking around it, didn't we get Jumanjied into Pandemic? All right. Show me, Pandemic. Fifth answer on the board, number five. Very good. Is it done.

Damn it. All right. And I keep tearing up my cards and they just keep appearing. how about delta is the worst expansion ever right you know i'm gonna go back i'm gonna say mouse i'm gonna say mouse trap would be a terrible game to be stuck in oh that's a good one i'm gonna yeah that's a good one dude yeah oh no there's a ball heading for me and the diver is jumping off the diving board all right show me mouse trap number four answer on the board You're sealing up all these, all the low-hanging fruit.

Right, right. Oh, that one just brought another one to my head. What about a hungry hippo? Oh, my God. Now, that is kind of like Jumanji because they have to face those hippos. So, yeah, that'll be perfect. What are you in the scenario? Are you the ball?

Are you the marbles? Are you the hippos? You're totally the marble. Yeah, you've got to be the marble in that scenario. Okay. The marbles are coming after me. Oh, no, the hippos are going to eat me. All right, show me.

Because it's Robin Williams. Yeah, right. Hey, it's on there. Number nine answer on the board. Nice. Bastards. Okay. All right.

All right. I would hate to get, I would hate to get a Jamongin into Trivial Pursuit, but for a totally different reason, you might think. The card says moops. Moops. I'm sorry. It says moops. Oh, how about a clue? Oh, Clue would be, I would actually want to be Jamagin into Clue, though.

That's so unfortunate. I'm going to go with Clue, yeah. Yeah, if you get into Scarlet, hubba, hubba. All right. Show me Clue. Oh, our first strike. Oh, no. Number 16, by the way.

People said it just didn't make, wasn't high enough to make the guy. That thought that's a good one. All right. All right, Scott. Let's say, four answers left on the board. Let's do risk. Let's get risk out of the way. All right.

Show me getting irk-tuck. What is it? Erk-Tux-Tusk? What's the property that's up in the Ukraine, Northern Rush area? Oh, yeah, the weird, I don't remember how it is, but now I know what you're talking about. I have never played Risk. What? Really?

I know. I have never played Risk. How is that even afraid? I don't know. Show me Risk. Look at that. There's your reward. Number seven.

answer on the board. Oh, nice. I like that reference you just made. All right, let's see. Thank you for touching that. So I'm going to just oh, this is probably dangerous. Because everyone, the hot board game now or the hot tabletop

experience is that Gloomhaven. And that seems like it'd be scary if you were in there. So Gloomhaven. We'll see if anyone did anything modern. Yeah. All right, show me Gloomhaven. Damn it. Number 20. Number 20. on the list, and I agree, it would suck to

be Jumanjied into Gloomhaven. Yeah, without a doubt. You'd die in there, man. Not enough people said that one. All right. Plus, you die slowly. Those games take like 36 hours to complete. It would be the longest death of your life. It kind of feels like you get Jumangian into.

Yeah. All right, three answers left on the board, Brian and Greg. What you got? I kind of want to get... You guys ever played cooties? The one where you assemble the the bug like water in each piece

and stick on the legs and stick on the head and antenna and stuff. I'd hate to get Jamanged into Cooties. I mean, I wouldn't either. Yeah, that's that. Well, I'm not going to help you.

Whatever. Yeah. Is that really a board game as much as... I don't know. Look, if Mousetraps a board game, Cooties is a board game. Cooties. What do you think, Greg?

Are we going with Cooties? I've never heard of it, but sure, let's go. All right. All right. We'll go with Cooties. Don't put me in the Cooties. All right. Show me Cudit.

Just, it's singular, by the way. Show me Cudy. No, Cudy. Didn't even make the list, Cudy. Hold on a second. Is that really, is that really singular? There's no Cudies? Yeah, the game is called Cudy.

Oh, I've had that wrong. Really? Because you're assembling a Cudy. I've always called it Cudies. Wow. Yeah, I know. Let me double check. I want to confirm, but the, yeah, the board game, the board game was called Cudy.

Okay. Yeah. All right. I had that business. There was no. lawn darts weren't a board game so I'm not saying that I've actually been in

Jamonged into that yeah yeah I think that feels like something you're just kind of when you play it you're in it yeah oh man this is down to the wire here yeah let's go with uh

um oh I'm gonna steal one Brian didn't get earlier I'll say the game of life life no watch that be number two All right. Show me in the game of life. It is indeed number two answer on the board of the game of life. I think people's argument for that is that, you know, you're forced into a car, kids, home, all that stuff without any choice.

That's funny. All right. How about? Oh, gosh. Scrabble. Scrabble. Scrabble. Not too much of me into Scrabble

All right Show me Scrabble Unbelievable Temp as they're on the board I don't know how people Why people said Scrabble But eight of you did

For some reason And that That's amazing Yeah so right now The only way that Brian and Greg can The only way that Greg can get prizes Is if Scott misses this one And you guys figure out

the eighth answer on the board. Okay. Man, I want to do this pretty sneaky, sis, one, but I'm worried that it is not considered a board game, or at least people wouldn't think of it as one. And Nike actually can't remember the name of it, so it doesn't matter anyway. Shit.

Oh, geez. All right, let's do... I don't think anyone said Pictionary. Pictionary. Oh. All right. Show me Pictionary.

Oh! Yeah. Pictionary, win, loser, draw. Both got votes. Neither of them. I think one person said each. Right. But it's kind of like lawn darts.

You're kind of like in the game already when you're playing. You're right. But there's something about somebody. drawing what looks like a spider and you going, spider, no, spider, no, it's not a spider, spider, no. It's a cootie. It's a cootie. It's a cootie.

I thought it was plural. It's cootie, no. Oh, I just thought of another one. All right, sorry, go ahead. It's their turn. All right. This is it, by the way. This is your, you're on your third strike.

So if you do not get. Yeah. No pressure. Well, I have three that I can think of. One, I don't think it's a boy at Jenga, but that's not really a boy game, but that's a I mean anything, but Candyland and Battleship.

Oh, man. Both are good. I think I would hate to be in battleship myself. Yeah, but Candyland looks like a nightmare. Yeah. That's true, too. So what do you think? Which one we go with?

I'm trying to think of what fellow poolers would say. What the tadpool? Yeah, that's the trick. That's the trick. I don't even know what I answered on this. Let's go with battleship I'm leaning to board's battleship as well

Battleship Okay All right You sunk my battleship Oh man What is that one that's bugging me You do get one more One more guess

Oh I will guess Because you do This is your third You're on your third strike So it's a chance to clear the board Chess Chess, great answer Show me chess

Yeah, for the record So battleship came in Number 13 on the list Chess came in at number 30 What could that last one possibly be? Is it Candyland? It is not Show me number eight

Sorry Sorry, of course Nobody else said sorry is like a as an answer but I guess there's something about almost getting home and then people sliding across you and sending you back

Trouble number 12 so here's kind of the rest of the list I don't know why scrabbles is crazy to me. Arkham Harr number 15 Candy Land number 14 Parchizi Settlers of Catan number 18 Connect 4 is your pretty sneaky sis

game that was 19 Oh connect 4 gosh dang it Connect for Uno, Warhammer 40K, Backgammon, Barrel of Monkeys, Blind Date, Donald Trump, the board game. I don't know, that one should be higher. Yeah, that exists. The idea of the deal, the board game. Eldridge Harr escaped from Colditz, Fireball Island, Fury of Dracula. Guess who? Somebody actually put Jumanji.

Good idea. I thought about that, but I thought they'd be weird. Pretty Pretty Princess Stratigo Twister I don't know That's the one I don't understand

How that's the one where You're in the game Right That's one where you're in the game Yeah Not really a board either But I get And then finally

Zombyside Zombyside The hell is that Zombeside Never heard of that I don't know Well Don't commit zombie side

I guess Yeah Well What does this mean Greg Loss Is that what that means That's what it means So these prizes

Will carry over To Monday day. Oh, Greg. It's okay, though, because we still really like you. And this was one of the more fun ones we've ever done. So I hope you had a good time. Did you have a good time? Oh, I had a blast, guys. Thanks. It always makes me happy to hear from Greg. Greg, take it easy and give our best to Basten. All right. Hey, Brian, done away. Well done there, buddy. You did. We did it all right today. You got almost every answer on the board. So that's really good. Yeah, it wasn't bad at all. That last one was tricky. But here's what's not tricky. this weekend, we are watching aliens. I'm so excited. I can barely handle it.

I'm so excited. I can barely handle it. I'm so excited about this. It's been a while anyway. I like to watch it as often as I can. I've seen it a million times. Don't care. I'll see it 50 more times. I love aliens so much. And that continues our alien quadrology of the Ellen Canon. Excuse me, the Ellen Ripley Canon. And we'll eventually get to three and then four. But it's time for two.

So get ready, you guys. Time for Paul Reiser. That's right. I think it's streaming on Prime. Max? Might be Max. Max or Prime. You don't remember.

Maybe both. Maybe both. I don't know. Prime Max. Right. You know what? I hate to say it. It's not, it's showing not streaming anywhere.

Oh, no. Amazon Prime. It is definitely. They pulled it. That's where, yeah. So Alien was on Prime. Hold on. Alien.

Ali, yeah, an aliens. Not cootie. Cootie. The only free streaming thing I've got is IMDP TV. Let me see here. They did that same thing for... On Amazon Prime for me. That's really?

For me. Justwatch.com is showing... Oh, yeah, just watch. I'm looking at Google. I'm looking at Google. Well, hold on. Oh, yeah. Aliens.

Well, hold on. Hold on a second. It might be on prime because... So under the IMD... dbtv icon at the very bottom it does show it does show is that with ad zone might be yeah i'm showing either way i own it if you don't own it yeah right then you're doing it wrong the irony is it's alien the original which fell off of prime last time it's now back on prime freaking you guys get your timing straight amazon what the freak of you do aliens aliens says watch now

free with ads. Oh, well, I'm renting it. But you don't own it? I own it. I own it somewhere, but I'm going to rent the 4K when I'm watch that. That's what I'm going to do. There you go. So we'll continue with the plan to watch aliens. Oh, hell yeah. It's too big enough. It's too big of a

cultural thing. We're not skipping it, no matter where it's. I don't know how to watch that movie. How do you watch it? How do you watch it? Does it some underground thing? Boo. I don't know. Boos. That's the only hank I can do.

I wonder about Alien 3 now that I'm doing this. Yeah, well, who knows? It may switch around again, might the next time. By the way, I do like how on Just Watch, the Gorni Weaver has a triangle for an eye. Yeah, she's like a goat. She's got a weird eye. That's what's going on there. Do you see that new movie, Goat?

Have you seen the trailer for that? Do you see Pig? Have you seen Pig? I haven't seen Pig. That looks scary, too. Yeah. I'm waiting for. I think it's called actually the movie I'm talking about is called lamb it's a trailer for it

It's a foreign film Baby half lamb thing yeah Yeah yeah looks wild and scary Oh yeah that play button is right on her eye dude right on her eye yeah That's great It's almost like it's foreshadowing the fourth movie Yeah she mostly plays in the morning All right uh that's gonna do it then Brian have a great rest of your week feel better and let's talk again on Saturday

Bye now let's do it Bye now. All right. By the way, Alien 3, not streaming anywhere currently, so I guess we'll just keep an eye on that one. Yeah, it'll... Not even free with ads with IMDB TV. It was, the whole thing,

the whole group was streaming on Max not long ago. I don't know what changed. And why it changed so fast? Like, freaking knock it off, these bastards. I don't know. All right, we've got a quick news story here. We're going to do, so enjoy this. It's the news, and it's brought to you,

Yeah, it's brought to by Soundography. Alex Albisu joined Hammond and I for an episode, and he introduced us to a band, introduced us, to a band that is huge, but only in a little specific part of the country, and only in a little specific time period was this band huge. But in that area, man, they were huge. Who am I talking about? Well, you'll just have to go listen to the most recent episode of Soundography

called You Gotta Listen to this with our special guest, Alex Albisu. from The Dad Chronicle and Joystick and Mouse and an A&P, of course. Very nice. He was on the instance a couple of weeks ago. He did a great job guesting with me. He's great. Just his voice, but, you know, I mean, you know, what can you do?

It can't be perfect. Every Death Star has its tiny hole to shoot shit in. Every Achilles has its heel. And Alex just happens to be his voice. That's how it works. All right, let's get to this. That's great having you on, Alex. Yeah. Here is the Kraft Macaroni and Cheese ice cream story that I had to tell.

All right, we've got to talk about this. Wait, those four weirds shouldn't go together. Macaroni cheese ice cream. I agree. I agree with you. But apparently Kraft does not agree with us, and they think this is a good idea. So let's see what they've done here. The Kraft Heinz Company, you know, they make the ketchup or ketchup.

Cheese singles. Yeah, the cheese singles as well. They partnered with the Brooklyn-based Van Luen ice cream. company to introduce a limited edition macaroni and cheese flavored ice cream. They say, in a quote, we know that there is nothing more refreshing on a hot summer day than ice cream. I'm with you there. It's good.

Well, unless you're dehydrated, then probably water's better. But anyway. Yeah, far better, yes. That is why we wanted to combine two of the most iconic comfort foods to create an ice cream with the unforgettable flavor of Kraft macaroni and cheese we all grew up with. It says Emily Violet, senior associate brand manager for Kraft macaroni and cheese. She had this in a news release. To create the cheesy dessert, Van Lewin churned the flavor of craft macaroni and cheese into its ice cream.

Now, are they just talking like the packet that you get? Yeah, that powdered packet of cheese. That's generous to call it cheese. Because that in and of itself, there's nothing cheesy about that. It is salt and orange flavored and not orange the fruit, but orange the color. Orange the tan. let's see here not only does it taste delicious she says

but it also made with high quality ingredients that contain no artificial flavors oh come on are you telling me your craft macaroni and cheese flavor isn't literally an artificial flavoring made with high quality no artificial flavors so just like our craft macaroni and cheese what I don't buy it I don't buy it

are you telling you that that that bright orange that Hunter orange powder is a natural color and natural flavor? No, there's no way that comes. There's no way. That's just, that's, I don't even think that's just like straight up dehydrated cheese. There's something else going on there. I don't buy it. On Instagram, she called it, quote, the ice cream, you never knew you needed.

No, I still know I don't need it. I'm still pretty good without it. I'm all right. Although, if somebody sent this to us, we'd eat it on the air. I would totally eat some on the air But we can't because it's all sold out Oh, it's all sold out That's the problem is it's gone

Mountain Dew sent me a six pack of I got on their list a while ago with that When they had Mountain Dew black Or whatever it was called Mountain Dew special dark Or something like that Dark brew Yeah I still have that really cool Like cocktail glass for it

But they sent me a six pack of Cake Smash It's not zero So it's a full on sugar cake smash mountain dew. Oh, weird. How's that? How's it taste? It tastes just like a freaking birthday cake.

Oh, gross. That seems like too much. It does. It is too much. You're not a fan of this, right? You ended up trying this and didn't like the zero show. You know what? I gave it another shot and I've come around on it.

I like it and it makes a great mixer for gin and vodka, by the way. Major melon. I wondered about that as a. mixer. I forgot to ask you that, but it's for whatever reason. The neighbors make fun of me because it's pink. You know, I'm drinking a drink that's pink with gin and vodka in it, but...

Yeah. That's because Dave. Dave is not in touch with his feminine side. He needs to work on that. He's not. This is true. So, anyway, Mountain Dew Cake Smash weirdly tastes just like birthday cake, and I'm not sure that's a good thing.

No, it seems dangerous. Oh, Peach, Jack, Daniels, and Major Melon Mountain do, J.C. Calhoun? Ooh. Ooh. They don't call him the Calhoun for nothing. Let's give that a shot, Brian. Yeah.

Baja Blast Zero is good with tequila, says TVZ gone. Nothing's good with tequila. Least of all me. Yeah. I don't, I don't, uh, we actually have some of the Baja Blast in Zero as well outside in cans. And those are cool because they're black. The cans are black with, like, a little bit of, um, a little bit of, I don't know. The ones that aren't, the ones that are sugary are way bright colors. I like the black ones.

Yeah. I don't know. Call me weird. So, Gwen Gunn asks, wait, what does birthday cake taste like? Can't you have any cake for your birthday? Is there a specific cake for birthdays? It tastes like that, that typical white cake with frosting with sprinkles, which I associate with, yeah, storebot that I associate with, or Duncan Heinz, Betty Crocker mix. But it has to have the sprinkles.

That's what this tastes like. It's foul. It is foul. It's super sweet. I have no interest in that now. I don't want it, ever. And it's like in a 16-ounce can. So I was like, oh, well, I'm throwing half of this away.

It's just too sweet. If they put this in like one of those little mini four-ounce cans, I'd be all over it. But it's just too much. So I gave cans to Tristan and Kay. That's how you should do it. Knock yourselves out, guy. Enjoy your birthday cake in a can. By the way, so another one I've gained a little bit of a taste for.

It's not my favorite. But I didn't like it at first, but I kind of like it now, is the Pepsi Zero Mango. I like this. It doesn't taste like soap? No, it's maybe at first a little bit. And you know I don't like mango because it generally does taste like hairspraying soap. Yeah, yeah. So maybe at first it kind of hit me and I was like, oh, I don't know about this.

But for whatever reason, these have grown on me. I don't have them often, but they're all right. if you're looking for a you know an alternative and you don't mind a little Pepsi in your life is Pepsi okay well then there you go there you go yeah I haven't gotten a Pepsi product in a while we've been on the Coke Zero and the um uh the Dr. Pepper Zero which is the bomb. Yeah Dr. Perper Zero is real good and also did you know okay so this is the other weird thing if my brother-in-law Steve is listening maybe he can pipe in and remind me how this works but there's supposed to be two formulas for Coke Zero there's Coke Zero and there's Coke Zero and

there's Coke Zero Sugar. And those are different. Really? That's, I said the same thing. The word out of my mouth was, really? I thought, I thought, Coke Zero was literally Coke Zero Sugar. That's what I also thought. And he says, no, there are two kinds.

And you can find them in a can that'll just say Coke Zero, and you'll find another one that says Coke Zero Sugar. And they have slightly different, what do you call it? Yeah. And the one that says zero sugar is the one he thinks is the bomb and has replaced everything and he can't have anything else now. I loves it so much. All right. So yes, Coke Zero, which has recently been rebranded as Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, is marketed as a healthier

version of the original Sugar Sweetened Beverage, Coke Classic. But there is the only differences between Coke Zero and Coke Zero and Coke Zero Sugar are minor changes to the natural flavor composition. That's what he's talking about. So indeed,

yeah. Now, how minor that is, or how he can tell and others can't, I don't know, but if you ever get into that, Brian, where you have both, it would be a fun taste test because I trust your palate. You got a good palate. Yeah. Yeah. I'll have to see what I can do. I have to see what I have upstairs. I have either Coke zero, Coke zero sugar, so I don't know. Interesting. So can you get both currently, or is it like as the rebrand is, comes out more the excess stock on the shelves of regular Coke? I thought the, I thought the deal was that there some people that still like the previous one more, and so they keep it around.

Okay. Interesting. Like Diet Coke, because everyone, you know, there are people that swear by Diet Coke, and they don't, you know, I don't know. It's weird. The Colo Wars are alive and well, everybody. They're out there. Yeah, they really are. And I can't do Diet Coke. Yeah, I don't like it. They gave me one of those with my, I did go to Five Guys. I rode my bike to Five Guys burgers yesterday, and I got a Diet Coke, and I haven't even opened it yet.

Oh, man. That's how much Brian likes to have Coke I stuck it in my bottle cage on my bike And there it's sat for the whole ride home Yeah Get nice and jostled around And then I got it home put in the fridge And it's like, yeah, no

I'm not down, I'm not I can do it at a restaurant Like in the restaurant like fountain I can do that Yeah, see if I have to If there's nothing else Yeah, if there's no alternative, fine You got me But please get Coke Zero and replace all your crappy diet go

Thank you very Please I'm begging you please Let's take a break. When we come back, Tom Merritt, Nicole Spag, all that coming up right after this song that Brian hath brought. What did you bring? I did. I recorded this myself, and I've given credit to a band or a singer called Lindsay Star. This is me. I did all the instruments and all the vocals on this track, but I'm going to go ahead and let Lindsay Star take the credit for it. This is a brand new song that she just released today, today even. It is a new single called Coffee Cups. She's got a new song. kind of a like an indie acoustic singer vibe going on like

I'm trying to give some good examples Feist probably good but good comparison as Feist Sure Here you go

Are you saying it's kind of feisty Is that what you're saying It's feisty in a way It's feisty Oh yeah look at that Well done Her brand new album Blaming the Weather

Comes out Friday Via Sunday Supper Records Here is Lindsay Star And Coffee Cups Just because we talk Doesn't make it wrong I could stay on night in this dream with you

doesn't matter what you can hold me time I want to stay all night in this dream with you don't don't wait Take me up

I'm not ready for coffee cups anytime soon You're on my tongue like everything always does. Slipping through my hands You were just like steam Disappearing I can fall asleep

No memories to keep No more wondering If I'm dreaming Don't wake me I'm not ready for coffee cups anytime soon You're on my tongue. Dissowing like everything always does.

Don't wait me up I'm not ready for coffee cups anytime sir you're on my tongue Like everything, always to lose. As Shakespeare said,

shit happens. This is the morning stream. All right, we returned back to the program. That song again was. That song again was Coffee Cups by Lindsay Star. Check out her upcoming album on Friday called Blaming the Weather. Nice. That's what I do.

I get so much smoke now. I'm blaming everything on the weather, but it's not even weather. It's just fires, man. Well, it is. Just blame it on the climate. Take that climate. There you go. Blame it on the climate.

All right, here's this. With the computer, as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. Yeah, it does, and that man, as always, as Tom Merritt, who joins us on Wednesdays and talks about tech news that he's been scraping the internet and the world for this morning so we can talk about it later on the day of tech news show. Tom, good morning and welcome back. He's blamed Lorraine because of that song, Blame it on Lorraine. Oh, blame it on Lorraine, yeah. A little millie-vanilly reference. I love it.

You know, anytime we can relive a little millie-vinilly. Never often enough. No, I'm here for it. That's fantastic. Tom, it's good to have you back. I hope you had a good week. Did you have a good week? How'd your week go?

Yeah, I've had a decent week so far. Thank you for asking. Yeah. It's been all right. A lot of my friends, you know, got all mushed up in all this Blizzard business. but oh my yeah it's been i am uh i i'm glad that's not directly in the center of my coverage area because that is not an easy thing to cover no and scott uh i don't envy you and uh by all accounts you've you've done an adequate to wonderful job of covering this and well done doing the best i can with what i've got but boy howdy i just don't know how soon there'll be another uh another ice cream

social if i if i had to make it for wild guess i think that'll probably be a while so we can just make that happen on our own. That's true. Yeah, we don't need Blizzard for that. We'll have our own. That's how that works. We could have a Dairy Queen Blizzard. Why not? Why not indeed? All right, well, it's good to have you here. We got, there's probably tech news floating around out in the ether somewhere. What's going on?

There is. Sony has now sold more than 10 million PS5 consoles. Now you'll be forgiven if you think that's impossible because you can't get one. But yeah, up more than two million since they last gave us a number back in April. Back in April,

7.8 million. Now 10 million. That makes it the fastest selling console in Sony's history outpacing the PS4. So on the one hand, yes, there are supply chain constraints. I hear the PS5 related to the chip shortage, which it may be, but the chips used in the PS5 are not necessarily the chips that there are shortages of, but it's complex because fabrication plants have backups because they are trying to make the chips that there are shortages of, which then leads to changes in supply orders. If I had to guess, and this is just a guess, it's really that the demand has outstripped even Sony's expectations. And because of the chip shortage, Sony can't increase its orders to match. Right.

So they're getting the consoles made that they planned, but the fabrication plants are like, yeah, sorry, we can't up your order. We can meet the order, we promised, but we can't add anything to it, which is why you're seeing the shortages. It's a combination of the capacity and supply chain issues and high demand that more people want these than they can make right now. Yeah, it's interesting. There's some similar reports from Microsoft about the series X and S cells. And while not quite to the 10 million, they somewhere in the 6.57 million, and they say that

this is now the fastest selling. Xbox of all time. Yeah, isn't that interesting, right? It's not, hey, Sony made the best console ever necessarily, although that may be true. It's also, hey, more people have been staying home a lot more lately and are more likely to be like, yeah, I think I want a game console here. And the one thing none of this talks about, well, I guess some of the articles are alluding to it, but during this same period, the switch had gangbuster numbers, like out of control numbers of switches were sold during that period. Yeah, they're all, they're all selling. Everybody wants things to entertain themselves and distract themselves at home.

Yeah, which, you know, I totally can see why you'd want that. Well, that's great. Well, that'll obviously come up a little bit later. We'll talk more about it. But it is an interesting, it feels like an interesting version of the cycle. We've seen the cycle 100 times, not 100 times, but many times in my lifetime, have I watched us go from NES and Master System switch over to the Genesis and the Super Nintendo. And then after that, Sony pops in and says, hey, what about the PlayStation 1?

And then, you know, Sega tried to answer that with stuff that didn't work very well. And then watch the keys change hands and Microsoft suddenly in the game. And it's always been an interesting thing to watch and pay attention to. This one just feels unique because of the kind of environment we're all in, you know, the pandemic primarily. It's kind of painted this all in just a slightly different hue. And it's fun to, you know, to see what the differences are and how interesting. what people are right now, and it'll be interesting to see if that steam deck does really well. I've got all kinds of anticipation for how weird the business is getting right now.

It's really, really fast. Yeah, my thoughts on that steam deck are that it will probably do better than previous efforts from Valve at hardware, certainly. But that doesn't mean it will necessarily do great in the grand scheme of things. And whether in that range that I'm talking about that's good enough for Valve to be like yeah no that was worth doing let's keep making it uh i think that's an open question yeah i also um i agree with that and uh people who think that this is uh somehow gonna you know unseat nintendo's portable uh market chair uh are smoking some some weird crack but if no it's yeah yeah it's not yeah well that or hmm yeah i don't

think they're even need to be smoking anything they're just wrong they're just wrong about it yeah you don't have to be yeah yeah it's it's not it's not it's not an either or, right? First of all, it's a matter of scale. The scale of Nintendo, like, it's, it's astronomical. Like, you know, it really is astronomical. Like, the number of switches sold could go from here to Mars and beyond. Right.

And so, it also, I bet a lot of people who buy a steam deck, in fact, probably more likely people who buy a steam deck will also buy a switch. Because they just want to have both. Yeah, it's already been a big crossover. PC players, their other go-to has been the switch. like that's been their console to add in and so and if they can be like oh i can have a i can have a pc switch and a switch yeah you get all the switches flip the switches baby and then you can put them together and you can have a sand switch uh but what if i lose my switch i also have a sans switch

switch because i'm saying your sans switch switch and somebody should come out with the uh the switcheroo it should come out with a uh a new handle called the switcheroo glue the nintendo switch to the back of the steam deck. Oh, so I'm ready to pre-order your switcheroo. It sounds like. Thank you. All that kickstarter will be launching shortly after this. Let me know.

All right. Excellent. Well, this and more will be on the daily tech news show today at 2.30 Mountain Time. I'll be on. It's Wednesday. It's my day. I love it. I love being on.

And that'll happen today. So check that out. Tom, anything else going on you want to mention. I do. FreeTime newsletter.com. I've got an audio book coming. You're going to want to know when it is. And that's the best way to find out about.

it. It's going to be cool. It's got art from Scott. It's got professional voice actors. So it sounds great. It's about a secret society that that has influenced world events since ancient times and a woman who wants to like jazz who gets caught up in it and may be the secret to saving the world. All of that. Project Vera coming soon, free tomnewsletter.com. And one day, if you guys, enough of you sign up, he'll be free. We will free him. It'll happen. I feel it. Tom Merritt Take it. He's going to say never gets old, but I cut them off. Never gets old me cutting off, people. All right. Let's get Nicole in here. All righty. Let's see. Oh, she's online. That's good. That's good.

I feel like we got a real chance today. And we're going to surge forward, ever forward, never back. If Nicole answers her phone. Here we are. Oh, there we go. All right. Let's hit this. my sweet nickel Hey y'all look who it is It's Nicole Spag our good Wednesday friend Who comes on and does recommendals with us And it's always nice to see you

Hello Nicole, how are you? Hi Hi Dude, I got to tell you So yesterday I got kind of cold down here And so But I had these meetings No well, that's the problem

It's all t-shirts and shorts, right? But the air conditioner thing blows right on me right here So, woe is me, it's 100 degrees out, but I'm down here being cold. Anyway, oh, it's over there now, but your blanket, you should have seen me. I was all huddled up, had it all, like, tightened up to my neck, my birthday blanket from Nicole, and just getting work done, took a couple of meetings while I looked like I was, like, all cozyed up like a little kid on a Saturday morning. It was amazing. It was great. Kim sent me a picture of you sleeping.

Oh, she did? Aw. Oh, that sounds creepy. I bet I look terrible. I was watching you while you're sleeping. You're sleeping. Well, it's good to see you and have you here, as always. I'm happy to be here.

I have some fun recommendals for you guys. I like fun. Let's get straight to them. Speaking of recommendals, Brian's got a couple here. Brian, you want to set these up? This first one is I don't usually like doing a recommendal during a series or a limited series that we're watching. I like to usually wait until we get to the end. So this is kind of a hesitant recommendal because I don't know if they're not.

they're going to stick the landing. Okay. And I've got concerns already that they're not going to stick the landing. Okay. I have a feeling I know what show you're talking about. Oh, I'd be surprised because it's already all eight episodes are already out. Maybe. Maybe.

Okay. All right. So it's funny because this is the best clip I was able to find from this, but it in no way gives you it as to what the series is. All right. So go on ahead. Here it is. Hey. It's freezing up here.

Why don't you come back to the house? Hey. A scat. Yeah? Okay. All right. Quit messing around. Come on. You're scaring me. Honey.

Hey, honey. Oh, I know what this is. Are you all right? If you're there, if you're there, come back. I have no idea. Yeah, I definitely was way off. Yeah. Do you recognize the voice?

I feel like I, that sounded like Tony Collette at first, but I don't think it is. I don't know who is. It's Julianne Moore. Oh, okay. And this is a brand new adaptation, a Stephen King adaptation called Lizzie's, Leesie's story. I have been waiting to watch this. You love, you love, because she loves all things.

You do. You're a big, so your opinion on this when you do finally watch it, I'm really going to be interested in, because have you read the book? No. Okay. And that's okay. I mean, there are a lot of Stephen King books I haven't read. So, like, that adaptation of the JFK assassination, what they did on Hulu. 23, 63. That book is awesome. I love that book. Anyway, so this is Lise's story. It is the story of a, a one. woman who was married, the widow of a successful writer, who passes away, but had some special gifts that enabled him to be a really good writer. He could kind of go back and forth between this world and another world that he created. Literally, you know, his body, his body stays in

our world, but his consciousness goes to this other world, and he can take other people with them and it helped him write all of these stories and be you know bringing out his his creativity um but she's you know it's a uh even though he died two years ago she is still not dealing well with it um there are people coming after her because he's got a bunch of unpublished manuscripts so like a really angry fan is coming after her a very like misery level angry fan yeah um but he is also her husband, Clive Owen, Scott Landon, before his death, left her a little bit of a

scavenger hunt kind of thing that he calls a bull. A bull. How's that? What's that? Oh, never heard of that. Okay. No, I haven't heard of that either. And it is sending her on all these rediscovering paths

that are taking her to both the current dimension and this other dimension and sending her back and forth. Her sister is played by Jennifer Jason Lee. Actually, two sisters, Joan Allen and Jennifer Jason Lee. Oh, Jennifer Jason Lee freaks me out, man. She's good.

And she is in her, she is full-on angry Jennifer Jason Lee. And it's Jennifer Jason Lee from like weeds where she's a character you're not supposed to like. By the way, if we ever talked about the fact that Jennifer Jason Lee has Jason Lee in her name. Like a subset of her name is a whole other actor. You could say her name is Earl, almost. You could say that, yes. Her name contains Earl. Her name contains Earl.

My name contains Earl. It's also got Dane Dahan, who I just recently saw in the Metallica concert drama film through the Never. He's the main character, Rode, kid that you. you see running around through that weird Metallica film. So anyway, we're six episodes in. There are two more episodes. It's good.

It almost feels so far like it could have been condensed. But I don't know what they're setting up for for the ending. And if there's one complaint that I seem to have with Stephen King's stuff, is that he's great at the setups, but not always so great at the endings. But here's the thing. All of his stuff ties into the bigger picture. So you're bringing up a author that gets pulled into his worlds. I'm currently reading the short story book, if it leads, it bleeds.

Oh, yeah. And there's four stories in there. And the last one is called Rat. And it's about a writer who gets lost in his stories. So I'm wondering if I'm reading about the writer that's in, this because they're all connected yeah yeah you might be i mean there there was a in 2006 there was a lacy's story novel right right um but and he's not he's not the last person or he's it would not be um weird for stephen king to insert himself into his own books in some ways sometimes he does

it obviously and puts literally in the dark tower yeah yeah he was literally himself in that book which was really awesome i loved it there was something let's see uh there was a short story called Lacey and the Madman. That was in McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories in 2004, but that's... Not him. But, yeah, I mean, this is when, in 2003,

when King came down with double pneumonia, while he was in the hospital, he came up with the idea for this story. So, yeah, it's absolutely self-reflective. Anyway, I'm curious as to what people think of it. It's interesting. and I'm hoping that it sticks the landing. This is on Apple TV.

So if you've bought an iPhone and an iPad or you just subscribe for five bucks a month and you've got Apple TV. My one of my favorite things is that you tell us this every time. I love it. I love it. Anytime there's a thing on Apple, Brian will always say, have you bought an iPad or a phone lately? Exactly. Because people don't realize it's like, oh, I have my relatives who, oh, yeah, no, we don't have Apple TV. I said, you just bought an iPad like.

two months ago, you've got Apple TV for a year. Yeah. Go watch for all mankind and, um, I think it's worth a fun. A new season of Ted Lasso's out. Ted Lasso. Exactly. That's right. It's worth five bucks no matter who you are.

It's good. See, Talia in the chat room. I did not realize that. There you go. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know if she was responding to me or responding to something else. Well, she may have been, I don't know, some cowardville thing.

She was going to say, who knows. That's true. Good point. Who knows. All right. So anyway, Lisa's story on Apple TV. The other one. My other recommendal is not Unleasy's story.

This will be no problem for people to figure out because this is required pop culture nerd viewing. All right. Let's see what we got. Anyone like to venture a guess as to what is inside? That's a boggart, that is? Very good, Mr. Tom. Now, can anybody tell me what a boggart looks like? No one knows when she goes.

Boggots are shape-shifters. They take the shape of whatever a particular person fears the most. That's what makes them so... So terrifying, yes, yes, yes. Luckily, a very simple charm exists to repel a boggart. Let's practice it now. Without wands, please. After me.

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That's three, right? I think That is The first one No, he's definitely not three No, no, no So it's got to be Prisoner of Ascaban right

Third film, correct Prisoner Vasquan I can never remember These by number I can just remember By name But yeah Prisoner Vascaban, which is where we finally get Gary Oldman in there, is Sirius Black.

This is one of my favorites, actually, of the series. And it might be my favorite. I think it is, actually. It is so good. We're watching all of these, or we've been watching, binge watching all of these, because tonight I'm going to a Harry Potter trivia competition with Tina and Nikki and Clark and Tristan from the Tadpool. and my niece Maddie so it's kind of like

all right let's brush up where are these things streaming you ask they are all streaming on peacock peacock peacock awesome is it weird seeing

that the Dudley Dudley Dursley kid looking all Dudley dursley yes after seeing it so skinny at the queen's gambit yeah it's really weird

that is a great movie I forget how good Gary Oldman's in it it's an awesome three is great and three was direct three was controversial because it's directed by Alfonso Caron, who did, like, Gravity and a bunch of Spanish-speaking films that are amazing, too. but a very different take and tone compared to the first two.

Finally, you have Michael Gambon as Dumbledore for the first time. Right. So all that stuff was very, a little bit, you know, a little bit of a hard turn for a lot of that stuff. And I remember thinking, all right, we're growing up. Let's do it. We got this. This is like, you know, they're teenagers now. Everything's not all shiny and Disney in here.

It's good. Yep, and it was followed by, sadly, the Goblet of Fire, which is a tough one. It just feels like they just tried to jam too much into one movie. There was actually talk of making that one two movies, and it probably would have worked better as two movies. Goblet of Fire is my favorite of the books, but my least favorite of the movies. I think part of that is it's a really hard translation. It's hard to do it right. Yeah, it totally is.

Someone asked how much Peacock costs. It's $5 a month, $50 a year. I think you get ads with that. There is a free, isn't there a free version of Peacock where you get just tons of ads or no? There is. There's an entry-level version, but you get ads on everything pretty much. Some Tuft doesn't have ads, but most of it has ads. And then there are some things you can't get without the premium that just you have to have premium.

And the Harry Potter movies might be part of that. Yeah, could be. Yep. So there you go. Harry Potter, all the Harry Potter movies, we've, we've been binging them and, um, it's weird that it's only on Peacock, because those are Warner Brothers properties and you'd think they'd be up on, on they got yank from, um, from HBO Max like at the end of last month, the end of June. And so we're like, all right, well, we got to switch gears and go over to Peacock to watch these.

Yeah. Just seems like something. If I, if I were HBO Max, I would figure out a way to hold on to that since you own them, you know, and like, yeah, yeah, build out. the, I don't know, maybe, maybe that just doesn't work that way, but for sure. It's like still getting Marvel stuff on Amazon, but, you know, they're definitely a Disney property, so it's kind of like that, I guess. All right, cool. Well, I haven't seen those movies in a while. It kind of got me in the mood.

Yeah. Boy, watching these last two, Goblet of Fire and Asgaban, because we ran out of time, so we haven't, we're not going to be able to see half-blood prints or Deathly Hallows or any of those before. tonight so uh but watching those last couple it's like wow all right we'd seen the first two apparently a lot but we've not seen goblet of fire or prisoner vascoban since it first came out yeah so well good time to watch them especially if yeah sure hopefully hopefully they don't ask anything that is like in the books but the movie changed you know what i mean so if they do there are there are people on our team who know the books really well so yes that's awesome all right

Yeah, Chad. I know it's Parasite time. I get it. All right, move on. All right, Brian Nicole, here's a clip. I'll bet Nicole's seen this. I just have to think she has, but I could be wrong. I bet Brian hasn't, and I'm going to recommend that he does. This was a, this is something I ended up seeing purely by accident. And with Van, he was, we were babysitting him. And he really wanted to watch this. He's two. So it's always kind of hard to know what he really wants to do. But he loves this. And I sat and watched the whole thing. And I became. completely enamored with it. Here it is. Antarctica. Home to the deadly leopard seal. The mighty killer whale. And Steve. Thunder, feel the thunder. Thunder, feel the thunder.

A gentleman who stands out from the crowd. He's looking for love. Just a young girl with a quick view. He likes long walks on the beach. All right. Any guesses? It's a penguin movie.

Is this the abominable snowman one? Nope. This is a penguin movie. And Nicole is correct. And it's actual penguins. It's a documentary type thing. Oh, yeah. It's like,

it's not March of the Penguin. No, it's Disney's Penguin. I think it's just Penguin is the name. I think I have that right. I'll make sure. But anyway, so it's so weird because I don't know if anyone has noticed, but like the serious nature documentaries that Disney produces, high-end quality stuff. Like it's on the level of like the BBC, you know, the Life series and and that sort of thing. Like really, really amazing photography, incredible location stuff, capturing a amazing wildlife stuff like it kind of across the board they're really good at that and i'd seen some of those and they're they usually play it a little more straight like it's a nature documentary we'll tell you about what this animal does and you know you kind of move on this thing uh is about penguins and it's specifically about i forgot the name of the kind of penguin it's a weird name not the emperor ones with the cool yellow up around their neck but right uh it's like it says aduli or a deli a deli penguin that might be right they're the ones that you

think of as a stereotypic penguin, right? Yeah. Should you have a flip-flown? Do they have flip-phone? This is funny. I actually, I actually watch this. This is the one with Ed Helms. Yeah, so Ed Helms narrates it.

I didn't know this for the first three-quarters of it. I didn't know it was Ed Helms. He's absolutely brilliantly used in this. He is amazing as this narrator. And the way that they do it, I know that they are fully anthropomorphized this story and made this character, or made this one penguin who's late to everything, builds his nest a little later than everybody else, meets a female really late in the game.

So his eggs hatch late, which means his kids are a little younger, which means they're in danger of the predators and all this. Like, I know that they've done this on purpose and that there's no way that Steve the penguin is actually thinking what they're making him seem like he's thinking about or any of that. They completely have anthropomorphized it and made it fun for kids to watch. However, it is so well done and has so much heart. I fell in love with this thing.

and maybe it was coming off of a week of such nastiness around the Blizzard stuff and other things maybe that was a big problem or part of this but it was the most delightful wonderful tear-jurking freaking thing I've seen in a long time and it was funny and they use a bunch of 80s music all the time when he's like trying to find a mate they played you swear you were at slow dances and at the prom in 85 Brian it was amazing I actually watched this and I think I recommend it last year you watch this movie? Yeah. Oh, how did I miss this? How did I not remember that? Ah, you know. I'm trying to remember if I'm looking it up to see if I did recommendal it. I might not have. I don't think he did.

Yeah, I don't remember that at all. I mean, I did Penguin Town, which sounds like this. Right. Yeah. Well, no, I would remember if it was not me. And it was a completely different movie. You're right. I don't remember that at all, though, if you did. We absolutely watched it, and it's rare that I'd watch something and not use it for recommendals, but it's possible. Maybe you didn't like it. Maybe it was like, I don't know. No, I loved it. We thought it was great.

Well, I'm just, I was blown away by it, and I'm happy to hear someone else saw it and knows what I'm talking about. I loved it. I loved it. Now I'm being told my daughter's like, well, if you think that's cool, watch the lion one. Apparently there's an amazing lion one. Yeah, after this one, Tina watched the elephant one, which was kind of heartbreaking. So, yeah, maybe you watch the lion one instead. Yeah, I wasn't the lion one first.

Don't subject, uh, don't subject poor van to watching elephants get stuck in mud and die and die. I don't want any death if I can help it. Although he was watching one about little turtles getting scooped up by birds and only like one of a thousand ever make it to the water. Good. A turtle made it to the water. I now understand that dumb mini game. Like, that's what happens. These birds take these things and they eat them.

I didn't, I thought that was all just a video game bunch of bull crap. I didn't know. Oh, no. That's like, boy, that was a, I mean, that's like so many national geographic special showing these little baby turtles crawling out of the sand. I apparently missed that. I didn't know they were such food for these birds. And I've watched Moana, you know, helped carry one out and all that. Has Van seen the turtle tail?

Is it called turtle tail? Oh, I don't know. I could ask. I'm not sure. This is one that, yeah, a turtle's tale, Sammy's adventure. Mateo loved this little movie. It's like one of those knocked off movies, but it still is fine. But it came out around the same time as Finding Nemo.

It was like the low budget finding Nemo. Right. Yeah, they have those. They're like 3D movies that come out around the same time as the. Yeah. It's a little like transmorphers and transformers and things like that. Yeah. Right.

It's one of those movies that's free on just about everything. You can find it on Prime. voodoo, Peacock, and Pluto TV. Interesting. Well, I'll definitely look that up. I just loved this and I want people to watch it. It's on Disney Plus. It's part of their documentary nature stuff.

And there's one particular thing that I just wanted to point out about it. There's you know, as much as they again are assigning personality to characters that definitely don't probably have that personality and, you know, they're having fun with it. It never feels like it's, you know, it doesn't

feel deceptive. It just feels, you know, you know they're having fun with making Steve have a personality. Right, right. But there's a point in this thing where, and Brian, you'll remember this, where Steve's trying to build his nest, and he waddles off to get us a little rock

and bring it back and put it in the nest. And these dick burr, these other dicks just going, they're taking his rocks. Yeah, and they're just kind of looking at him like, and he leaves and they're like, you can over and get it.

It is some of the most amazing behavioral animal footage I've ever seen. Like, as funny as it was and whatever, it was still kind of an amazing thing to watch these other birds. Oh my gosh. Almost like if they could be whistling like, taking one of his rocks and sliding it over to their nest. And it was over and over and over.

He did like six trips. And he would get up there and look around going, I swear I had more of rocks here. Right. You can see the expression. Dane to Hahn, by the way, apparently in addition to Ed Helms, you've also got Dane Dahan and Blair Underwood, which I don't remember where they were.

Oh, I don't remember where they provide voices, but Dane to Han, who I talked about in Lise's story earlier. Oh, okay. I don't remember them being in, I don't remember anyone's voice but in. No, they're listed in the cast, and I don't remember anybody but Ed Helms doing the voice. And once you realize it's at Helms, you can hear it, but at first I didn't know, and I just thought, whoever this is is really nailing this. Like just the timing and the, you know, I don't know, all of it was great. Anyway, I loved it. go watch it because also again this isn't some cheap veneer underneath is this really gorgeous

amazingly shot film it's beautiful like just beautiful stuff so anyway go check it out all right uh Nicole never never last but never least Nicole let's see what you got you did you bring a clip oh I see a clip oh no no that's just the link to a turtle's tail for you oh okay I think I think and we'll love it. All right. It's a cute little. That's awesome. I will definitely make the recommendation.

So I have two shows for you. Which one should I start with? I'll start with this one. Okay. I'm going to drag you the audio. I started making my own audio clips for you. Oh, no worries. Let's see here.

I should start getting these early from you. Then I can make sure volume is good. It's probably good. Do you want me? I could do that. Well, yeah, we could do that. You want to send it to me ahead of time? That's totally fine.

Yeah, yeah. I can make a drop box or something. Yeah, I'll just make them so they're leveled. But here we go. We're going to play this one. I'm so single. I'm dressed as a panda bear to try to find a connection with somebody. I'm at the point now where I'm dating probably to marry somebody.

So are you like a nerd nerd? Are you like a hot nerd? Baby, I'm a hot nerd. Yes. When it comes to dating, we all go for looks first. So in this show, everyone looks as weird as possible. Could you fall in love with someone? one based on personality alone?

Ass first, personality shaking. And would you still feel that way when you see their real face? Welcome to the strangest blind date ever. This is... So this is that weird Netflix thing where they date furries and stuff. Prostatic face things.

Not furry. Yeah, so this is a show on Netflix called Sexy Beast. It originally came out in the UK, and the U.S. has done their version of it. I don't watch the whole episodes because it's just vapid people, really. I watch it because I want to see the prop work. The masks that they put these people in are amazing. Like, it's just, you know, there was a show on sci-fi.

It was... Yeah, face-off. Yes, face off. That show is so great, yeah. So Mark and I watched like four episodes in 30 minutes because we watched the intro of the people. Yeah. And then we kind of fast forward through and then they, you know, kick some of them off. And we just want to see like the reveal, right?

So I didn't really watch a lot of the show because they're the actual dating part of the show. How funny. It's awful. It seems like it would be a hard thing. Like I'm just visualizing myself. thinking, yeah, I don't think I could, I don't think I could do it. Yeah. I don't think I could get through.

The, the person doing the narrating is awesome because there are times where, like, the beaver guy, he's so self-absorbed about his muscles and what he looks like. And he's putting this awful beaver costume. It's just so, and like the little quips that the narrator guy, there's a point where he, The girl goes, I'm cold, and he takes off his jacket. You think, oh, he's going to give her her jacket. No, he's showing his muscles off to her. It's like, what? What a deep.

These people are awful. Did you end up watching that love is blind thing that was also on Netflix where the people were kept in separate pods and they could talk to her. There's not enough compelling things to look at. It was interesting. I mean, it was interesting from a sociology aspect, but it was it also, you know, I was like, this is just a really a dating show with a clever, a clever sociological aspect, which sounds like what this is as well. Yeah, it seems like this.

They probably took that idea in writing. Yeah. Yeah. The prosthetics is why I watch it. Honestly, I've given up on dating show. I mean, way back probably. Last week, you recommended Zoe Day Chanel and Michael Bolton's dating game show. Again, there has to be like a hook to it.

Yeah. What's the hook? Michael Bolton? Michael Bolton's her hook, baby. Michael Walton sings the celebrities like I just don't watch just like The Bachelor My mom loves The Bachelor I'm like half that show I can't watch that I only watch it for the celebrities okay fine all right I can't I'm with you I'm kind of those things cringe me out so bad

But I have to admit like the makeup and this did look impressive and part of it was like do I watch just a little to see Maybe I don't know if I can bring myself to do it The comedy, though, around, because they have, like, a first speed date. So it's usually either, they seem to alternate it every other episodes. The main one is a girl or a guy. So, and then they bring in the three very quickly and they have speed dates. And they're at a bar and there's like, it's a real bar and there are just normal people at the bar. And they're looking at them.

It's so funny. so wait so those people is it pretty clear that they're unaware of what's going on the people in the bar or in the restaurants people just stare at them okay so they so that's not they're not faking all that they're like they put them in real public places and it's tv they probably are but they set them up to be like what in the world's going on so like the first episode is the the main is a devil she it's a woman devil and then um trying to think when we're the characters. It's just amazing. There's like 47 of them, I think.

Do they get to choose? Like if I'm, do I, do I, if I'm a contestant, do I go, I'm going to be a beaver man. I don't think so. Because like the, the, the beaver episode, one of the girls was dressed up as a zombie. And I was like, oh, I feel bad. Yeah. Why would you do that? She looked awful.

And she was the first one kicked off. Oh, man. So, like, there's, there's some costumes that are like, okay, that's not too bad. Like, one girl's a doll. And she just looks so weird. Yeah, that's one that they show on the, uh, the trailer for it. They, they try kissing in their makeup, too. It's so weird.

Are they, do they, so do you, do you as the viewer eventually get to see these faces no matter what? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the point. That's why I would fast forward. I would, I would, I would, we would watch the beginning, which introduced all of the characters, kind of get a little vibe of who they are. fast forward through all the dumb stuff and then once they start kicking them off they reveal what they actually look like

I could see myself maybe doing that because that is there's just a human need that's the best way to watch it yeah and there's a basic human need where you're like oh a disguise now I want to see what's under there it's like why is it compelling the bad man never gets his cow ripped off

even though we may know what Bruce Wayne looks like people still get intrigued by this moment of like is the Joker going to tear his cow off and find out it was Bruce Wayne the whole time. There's like some kind of weird primal thing in us where we want the unveiling. And this seems like this is going after that. Definitely. Definitely.

Yeah. So sexy beasts on Netflix. They also have a show on the UK. I don't know. I haven't seen those yet, but this is the U.I.B. U.S. based sexy beast. Oh, UK show that did it first kind of thing. Yeah, that usually means they did it better is my guess.

All right. And here's, I have one more. All right, go ahead. I'll drop you the clip here. I had like three clips and I was having a hard time. So I'm just going to do the most obvious one. All right, no problem. Let's see here.

Here we go. Hit and play. Get what we came for. I'll be the distraction. You go for the cup. Whose supple skin I seek to remake in your image. In the name of robotics, automation, and the holy sprocket. Drop John, triclops.

I thought I smelled dirty motor oil. Tila, how dare you sully the sanctity of Snake Mountain? Oh, okay. I don't even recognize this place anymore with all your new techno crap. The defeat of the insipid skeletor made us see the error of our ways. Plan after pitiful plan. The so-called Lord of Destruction relied on magic and faith. and failed because magic is an empty promise, a false God, a sinner's solution.

The true power in Eternia has always been man's mastery of technology. So you watched that new He-Man, did you? So you may not know this, but I grew up on He-Man, and I have a very... Sounds uncomfortable. I grew up on watching He-Man. I have a very core memory of memorizing the intro to He-Man, and my dad telling me, you know, you should put this much energy in your schoolwork.

I've watched He-Man so much as a kid and loved He-Man. My brother had He-Man characters, and I would steal them. In fact, I just recently gave them back to him. But then I went on a good book. the shop Goodwill site and bought my own He-Man. I loved E-Man as a kid. So I've seen like the reboots come out. I haven't really got into those.

Mark was watching this one night and it just drew me in. And I love this so much, so much. It is a, it's only five episodes. It's called He-Man. Was it Revelations? He-Man. What's it called? I forgot now. Hold on.

It's like, Hey, man. It's not He-Man in the Masters universe. Yeah, no, no, it's He-Man, Revelation. Revelations, yeah. Okay. And it's part one. So there's only five episodes out. Yeah.

It is a much darker take on He-Man. It focuses, I absolutely love that it has more Tila in it. I've always loved Tila. I get more orco I just I get more of like the cool side characters that I loved as a kid well orco's not cool but I take your meaning I see what you mean like he's he's cooler now right like his back in the day annoyed the hell out of the it made the paintful oh no I loved him I loved I just love like I will say there were a few moments that I go oh I don't know if my kids should watch this.

It's a little bit more violent than the original show. But we watched actually the first episode with the kids. I've kind of been previewing it before. It's a good idea. And my daughter, I paused it on the first episode last night. And she's like, no, turn it back on. Turn it back on. She was getting into it so much.

She loved it. Let me ask you this. So there's been some controversy around it. Kevin Smith's been out there, you know, kind of going back. I haven't heard. I've only heard a little bit of it. Whatever. I mean, the main, but my main takeaway is this.

So he used to have this thing on his chest that looked a little like the Iron Star, which, you know, some people see as a pretty gnarly emblem of like a Naziism and stuff. But others see it as, you know, it depends on where you're looking at it from. He used to have that back in the old cartoon. It was like this weird, like four-cross star thing. Now it's like an H. It's got a big old H on his chest. And this is somehow a problem for people.

And I don't understand why that's a problem. I didn't notice anything and to focus on to that versus how amazing the show is is just a distraction. I agree. Plus, look, the old show had like 12 frames of animation that they used for the entire series. And the voice acting was terrible. It was not, I mean, if you're a kid and you loved it, you loved it. But if you watch it now, don't. Don't bash my He-Man.

I watched it too and loved it too. And I watch it now unapologetically and enjoy it. But I'm, you know, I know it isn't. It's not great. It's good. It is for what it was. If I showed my kids the old He-Man cartoons, they would be like, why are we watching this? But this, I love it.

I'm happy to hear that because I've been, I was supposed to watch it last weekend and didn't know. It's kind of sick and I didn't watch it. But I want to, I want to see it. And it's a, it's fast. I mean, those five episodes will go by really fast. Yeah. I'm all into this animation stuff on Netflix lately.

They've been doing great work. Getting into more character development of like surface. I mean, I understand the He-Man cartoon was made to sell toys. Yeah. And that if you've ever watched the toys that Make us, they do an amazing episode on He-Man and how the cartoon was made and all that history. But characters like Evil Lynn, even Beast Man, they've always just been surfaced. So it's a toy you play with. You know, you don't get much character development.

I feel like this show is finally kind of diving into some fun history of them and why they are the way they are. And I love that. I absolutely love it. Yeah. So I'm happy with it. I recommend it. How's the cast? It's pretty good cast.

Yeah, you have Shermichelle Geller, who is voicing Tila. You have Mark Hamill who's voicing Skeletor. They have a shame, shame woman from Game of Thrones. Yeah, Game of Thrones lady playing

That's Evelyn. Yeah, she's pretty good. Lena Hetty. Yeah, I have a clip of her too, but I didn't give that one to you. Oh, you're fun. Yeah. Yeah. She's cool. Let's see who else. I was looking at this list

the other day. Lena Heddy, Chris Wood, who plays He-Man. I don't know him very well, but others have said he's good. Oh, Dietrich Bader is Trapjaw. Oh, cool. I'm into that. I also like Liam Cunningham, another Game of Thrones guy. He was the Lord of Unions, or whatever his name was.

He plays Man at Arms, which is awesome. Man at Arms, yeah. The voice acting is really, really good. Oh, how's Cringer? Because Stephen Root plays Cringer, and Cringer's terrible. So how is Cringer? Stephen Root, really? Okay.

How is Cringer? because that's got to be better than it used to be. He's fine, too. I have no negative anything to say about it. I'm really loving it. Brian, hold on, I just noticed something I have to tell you, Brian. Brian, Henry Rollins is triclops. Get out of here, really?

Yep, yep. That's actually heard. Noted punk rocker and motivational speaker, Henry Rollins. That's great. That was triclops in that clip talking about. um coming to the motherboard oh is that him going off yeah that was great yeah that's great that's that's very cool well um yeah snarf no snarf hasn't shown up yet well snarf part of shira no no no snarfs a thundercats character oh thundergats thunder cats yeah so he may not show up for a long time

every one of those shows all of those shows had a snar for an orko type character that's just the way it was back then the cousin oliver of he man of thunder cats yeah and and scrappy do They scrappy dude everything back then, and it's just unfortunate. Yeah, it's not great. Seriously, it's wonderful. I love it. Watch it. If you're not sure if your kids would, I'm still not sure if I want to, the second episode is pretty gnarly.

The episode that I gave you that clip from, um, a father and daughter come to triclops. That's what he's talking about. And he gets this digital stuff from. I don't know where, but he gives it to the guy and he transforms and it actually reminded me of Eon flux a lot. Like a close up of the eyeball and the eyeball turns into like a like this digital eyeball and it comes out squiggly. I'm like, oh crap, is that going to give Ava nightmares?

Yeah. And like he has a saw blade for a hand and you actually think a trap jaw gets killed. Trapjaw gets killed? That's the thing. I was like, holy crap, this is this. This is more intense than I remember. Well, Dietrich Bader short-lived role on human. He comes back.

But they set it up to think, I mean, a little spoiler, he comes back. Okay. They always come back. Yeah. That's what they're doing this show. Back in the day, they never went away for good. Yeah. So, all right.

It was gnarly. I'm all in. I was like, oh, God. I don't know why the fans, where a lot of the fans are so pissed, they review bombed it on IMD and on Rotten Tomatoes. On Rotten Tomatoes, it got like a 94% review. from critics and a like down in the toilet from viewers but it's just review bombings they're just someone's mad about something yeah a lot of them are not no because well yes because there's a woman

in every scene um oh boo freaking who you bunch of man babies it's more of a teela story than a he man story and i'm okay with that so am i'm mine so should day they're talking about he man dude like the old the old cartoon is about as thick as a two-dimensional piece of paper like this is them in a new era they have to make story this time you got to make something out of this and it can't just be the the internet can eat a turd yeah they can eat a turn i'm saying it's wonderful i loved it well i'm taking your recommendation screw those guys it's just really well done i i really loved the storytelling and i can't wait for part two well there you go may we all get to write on top of stephen root is my goal in line

Excellent. Well, this is all good. And we will talk more next week with more recommendals. In the meantime, Nicole puts these all up on our Twitter account. So follow her at Nicole Spag. And Nicole, anything else you want to say before we let you go? No, nothing's going on. Nothing's got nothing to happen. All right. We'll enjoy the rest of your summer. We'll see you before the end of summer. Bye. See you next week. Bye. I hope I get to see Nicole sometime soon now that things are easing up. We haven't seen them in over a year and a half. I was going to say since that all started, right?

Yeah. That's still true of a few of our friends. We've seen, we've seen the front of her house. Seven. We've seven the front of her house to get some sourdough started, but that's it. Oh, right. Back in the bread days. Remember that?

Back in the bread days. The bread days of the pandemic. Everybody was doing bread. I kind of miss that because I like the bread. Mm-hmm. Yeah. There's a lot of work, though. There's a lot of work.

Bread's a lot of work. All right. Says the band from the 70s. Hey, look at this, you guys. We got a TMS Origins clip to play for you. Cool. Put together by TMS, Jamie, or TMS mashups, Jamie. Jamie put this together.

It is the origins of the new health and fitness section. Oh, good. So, Brian, you're ready for this? This will be good. Ready for this, yeah. I don't have any, I remember the origins and the story and everything, but this will be fun to revisit. I don't remember a discussion about it. So enjoy this.

This goes way back. I want to say this had been 2012 or 13 or something. So, anyway, here it is. Enjoy. Once in a while, things we do in our past, they come back, they haunt us a little bit. They spring from nowhere. And yesterday, Brian sent me maybe one of the most delightful things I've ever seen in my life. And it was like some sort of corporate video taken in 1997.

featuring the one and only Brian of it. I have clips, dude. I want to play him. Oh, let's hear. All right. So here's Brian in his first lines. He's in a suit, by the way. This is so badass. Brian in a suit. Yeah, Brian in his suit.

This is a very youthful in his 20s, Brian, talking about whatever the hell pre-print figures are. But here you go. I'm going to play this for you. I think circulation can give me those pre-print figures. I'll check with them, and I'll get back to you. I'll see if I can get some information for you. I'll get back to you. I freaking love it, dude.

I love it. We got this right around dinner time when I started looking at it, and everybody's gathered around the table, the kids and Kim and I, and we just put this on my iPhone 6 and laid it out in front of everybody, not knowing anything about what you sent. I had no idea. You just had said, hey, don't put this on social media yet. You need to watch it first.

Then Brian pops in with that line about the preprint figures, and I just about lost out of a mouthful of food. I think I kind of horked some of it up all over the place. And then your other line, which is my favorite bet. I want to paint a visual picture here, And you can correct me if you think I get any of this wrong, but it's Brian in an office showing the wrong way or the current way that this might go down versus the automated rep person. Exactly right. Yeah, it's funny because in normal infomercials, this would be the black and white bit and Tia would be in color.

Right. And you'd be flipping a tray around and spilling it all over yourself or something. But, you know, you're in this office, you're in the suit. You're like across the desk from somebody and their phone, you know, all their stuff is on their desk. And you say this. I'll just give you the line here. Here we go. The new health and fitness section.

I'm not sure, but I'll find out if I can use your phone. No, the best part, the way you're overturing toward his phone. You know, it's like, can I? You know what? Can I get your hands just inching over to the phone and picking it up ever so slightly? I was dying. And forever now, forever, forever, we have things like this. I think circulation can give me those preprint figures.

I'll check with them and I'll get back to you. Talk to circulation. Okay, call me back. Bye-bye. Bye-bye now. Can I use your phone? Incredible, dude. Incredible.

The clipclop. Amazing. Oh, clipclops. An iPhone 6. Let's see. This would have been 2014 then that you told this story. A little sooner than I thought. Wow.

Long ago. Yeah. Amazing. Yeah. I just put the whole video, a link to the whole video in chat, because it's still up. The entire video is still up. But apparently one of the places that had the clips is now gone. Oh, but this whole thing's up on YouTube, right?

Yep. Look at the 90s happening here. There's so much 90s going on. So much 90s. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. And that is that the hum of the VCR too? There was always that.

A little bit of like weird rainbow effect at the beginning. I like this dark hallway business. Yeah. Oh, look at you, dude. My suit with the... Oh, it's so good. Look at that fat-ass notebook that lady's using. Right. With, I think that thing might have had four megs of RAM.

Oh, yeah. If you're lucky. Yeah, this is, this is amazing. Let me get back to that part where Brian's at the desk. Hold on a second. And there's Tina who looks exactly the same, like in about the one minute and 12 second mark. Yeah, she hasn't changed at all. No. It's amazing. If you haven't seen the whole video, ask us on Twitter. We'll share it out with you. Okay. Well, that's going to do it for today. I would like to thank a few people, though, and I'm going to do that now.

So our Patreon, which has so many great people supporting it, is rad because of some really specific people. And I wanted to give a real big shout out to some brand new patrons. Brent Marnatti, he joined us at the $5 level. And Nathan Pettinger joined us at the $1 level. There are two latest patrons. Huge thanks to them. Thank you guys for hopping on board. And then how about some long time listeners?

2004. Since then, we've had Jamie Snell, Travis, Cody, 2014. What did I say? 2004. Oh, geez, Louisa, Sam. Let's not go back 20 years or whatever. 2014, sorry, Jamie Snell, Travis, Cody Georgeson, Robert Decker, and Chris Orden. Huge thanks to all of them for their longtime support of the show. If you've never seen what you can get by supporting it, go check it out. That's at patreon.com slash TMS. How do you spell that?

Is that what the sound of slash makes? The sound of a slash is a gross person burping. Anyway, huge thanks, everybody, for your support. We really remain it. It's patreon.com.com slash tms. Frogpants.com slash TMS for everything else, including our email, our Twitter stuff, our, you know, newsletters, our stuff, all our Reddit page.

All of it is over there, so go check it out. All right, that's it. Brian, anything else, or do you have a song? What do you got? I just have a song That's all I have All right This is a good one

Because there's a little bit of trivia That kind of goes along with it Stuart Cooper wrote in Said hey Scooter and Braun 16 years ago I married my darling Natalie There had been something missing In my life till there was her

Originally from the music man And then made more famous By an obscure Liverpool Skiffel Quartet I've chosen a cover That keeps the charm Of the original In a stripped down form

He says I love you Natalie and I could definitely see why you like it signed Stewart. That's really nice. Let's play that. I can definitely see why you like it. There you go.

Yeah. So, super sweet. So, yes, this is a cover of the song Till There Was You, performed by J.J. Heller. The original version, as he mentions, was from the Music Man, 1957.

It also carried over from the show to the movie version. And there have been a time, of different versions of this song. The original version was by Nelson Riddle, the first recording, came out actually before the Broadway production appeared, so it came out before the cast album. But then there was the Eileen Wilson version, and of course, probably most famously, the Beatles version, which was on their second album with the Beatles. This is a version by J.J. Heller, who's just got such a great voice. Love her. The song comes from the

album I Dream of You, Volume 2 from 2018. Here's J.J. Heller, and Till There Was You. There were bells on a hill. But I never heard them ringing. No, I never heard them at all till there was you. There were birds in the sky, but I never saw them winging. No, I never saw them at all

till there was you. And there was music, And there were wonderful roses, they tell me in sweet, fragrant meadows of dawn and dew. There was love all around, but I never heard it. No, I never heard it at all till there was you And there was music And there were wonderful roses They tell me

In sweet, pregrant meadows Of dawn and dew There was love all around But I never heard it singing No, I never heard it at all Till there was you This show is part of the Frog Pants Network.

Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. Don't worry about it. I liked you before and I like you now too. Oh, that's a comfort. Aw.