The Morning Stream - TMS 2192: No Kibble. All Bits.

Episode Date: October 20, 2021

Creamy peen...nut butter. No Country For Any Men. Once Peanut, Twice Shy! House Erect Records Still Stand. Raisins Ruin Everything. The Pre-Thing. Lance Armstrong of Peanut Butter. The Boys were Frogs. The Girls were Pigs. That's nature. THAT Was Your Swedish Chef Impression??!? Little bit of tater love. Muppet Babies Gotta Come Out Of Somewhere! Tom Might Be Giants. Go through my drawers and see what sparks joy. Top Notch Tech Time with Tom. Lipstick Boobs 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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House erect records still stand. Raisins ruin everything. The pre-thing. Lance Armstrong of peanut butter. The boys were frogs. The girls were pigs. That's nature. That was your sweetest chef impression? A little bit of tater love. Muppet babies got to come out of somewhere.

Tom might be giants. Go through my drawers and see what sparks joy. Top-notch tech time with Tom. Lipstick boobs with Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. This is a knick-knack, patty whack. Give the frog alone. His old man's a rolling stone. I'm not crying, fool. Me crying. No way. This is the morning stream. It puts the lotion in the basket.

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It's Wednesday. October 20th, 2021. It's a 2021 kind of deal. 2020, 21. See? 2020,

2021, 2021. Welcome back to the show, everybody. There was no show yesterday. You may have noticed. There wasn't one. I had a thing come up. Had to take care of it. It's all good now.

And we're here now. It's Wednesday. It's fine. We're here. It's a show. What did you miss? You missed a little bit of jury explaining some political maneuver, you know? Right.

Hello, friends. Yeah. No, what you've got here is. and I still hate Why the Last Man? Okay, bye. There it is. There you go.

You're all cut up. You just did it. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. Why the Last Man's alternate title should be no man, let's see, no country for any man.

No. You know, and it's funny because I, you know, your biggest complaint is the president's daughter and how awful she is and she is awful. Drives me crazy. That just shows me that you haven't made it. to the episode where I introduced someone who's even worse.

Oh, great. There's the woman who has been gone for, like, you know, they couldn't find. Oh, the survivor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The surviving potential replacement. Yeah, she, I could already tell. I mean, I've been to the parts where she's alive and we know she's coming back and all that, but I haven't had the reunion moment.

Yeah, it's like, it's like trying to decide who's better, Marjorie Taylor Green or Lauren Bobert. Ooh. that's a hard split there that's a hard call right there's a shit sandwich right there's what that is no kidding well congratulations colorado you did it to yourselves anyway hey what's going on everybody we hope you're well it's time for another morning stream and uh forget yesterday it happened we're back here for today and i wanted to start things off by giving a shout out to one of my favorite human beings in our community uh one of the greatest guys you'll ever meet his name is tanner goodman that goodman part of his name is like literal.

It's exactly. It fits. It's an appropriate title. Yep. One of the most kind-hearted, generous, sweet people you'll ever meet. Just one of the nicest people, generous people I've ever met in this community. And if we could do an award today, we'd give it to him. Here's the thing. He got some kind of rotten news from a doctor that may still turn out to be okay, okay. We don't know if further tests need to be made. But I just want to, you know, collectively let's get all the tad vibes together in one big you know dense ball and and then

launch it at him uh and and uh hope he feels uh better it does better gets better news all that stuff he deserves it does not deserve to face down the stuff he's uh possibly facing down so um i don't want to get in too many details because i don't know if he wants me to violate his hip before him or not but uh oh well said yeah he uh he's he just does you know he does a lot for people and uh now would be a good time for everybody to give back. Listen, we've got a couple great TMS shirts because of his ingenuity

and devotion to this community. That's right. That's right. Vegas is never none the wiser either about it. That's right. Because I don't even know how it happens. I know that's not how HIPAA works, Dice Tomato. It was a half tongue and cheek joke there. But my point is, I'm not going to talk

about his medical situation. He can do that. That's right. Tanner, we love you and we are harnessing all the tad vibes your way. Yes. If there was a metaphysical way for us to do that, we surely would. And so even if we can't, we'll do it in a, you know, we'll do it. We'll at least go through the machinations of it. We want you to do good and feel better. All right, buddy. All right. Let's move on. I found something that's very disturbing, very distressing. Oh no. Okay. Boy, we haven't heard that in a while. Should we hear that? Let's hear it. Yeah, if you've

got it handy. Yeah. Distressing. Okay, here it is. It's very distressing. Oh, you did this, too. Yeah, I did an impersonation. I can't hear any of this, whatever you're playing. Oh, you can't hear anything? Oh, you know why?

Neither can they. I got to fix that. That's a mistake. Here, I'll just, while you're doing that, I'll just go, it's very distressing. And then that way they've got it. Well, you did it. It's very distressing.

I don't know what she's brand new. That's very distressing. There's you doing it. Yeah, sorry about that, everybody. I don't know what I screwed that up. Uh, yeah, I don't know what Polydean's doing. Who knows? Yeah.

Well, she probably just said, hmm, maybe I was a little too much in the public eye for my own good, and I'm going to kind of back out of things. Yeah. Where's my butter? Yeah. She's making love to her tater or whatever it was. Tater.

Maybe that's what she's been doing this whole time. Oh, yeah. A little bit of a, a little bit of tater, love. And if y'all will excuse me for a couple of minutes, I don't finish making love to my tater. Ugh. Ugh. It takes me at least eight minutes.

me go up to my tater. An eight-minute tater? Eight-minute tater, love. Excellent. All right. Anyway, so I found a thing that really threw me for a loop, and it's probably not that big a deal. Like, I'm a person where, back in the 90s, I found, I bought a box of, what are they

called? Lucky Charms. And I'm clarably familiar with the Lucky Charms because it's the national cereal of Ireland. It's actually the national food. It's the, yeah. It's all you eat. They love it over there. But it's, anyway, I got a box of that once, and it was all marshmallows.

It was all the shapes. And no. And it wasn't even a box of oops all marshmallows. No, no. It was like straight up, like, this is supposed to have the kibble and the bits. And it didn't have the kibble. It just had the marshmallow bits. And so that was weird.

And I actually had a bowl of it. It was a bad idea. But anyway, so there's that. So I've found weird things in, you know, in retail situations before. You find something weird at a restaurant. and your salad, you know, like, it's kind of normal. Oh, yeah. Your dirt clod and, yeah.

Sure. Things happen. Footmark on the burger, that kind of thing. But this is, I thought this is weird. So I've got a big Costco size, came in a double pack, big Costco size, um, GIF brand peanut butter. I think it's a GIF brand peanut butter. And, uh, in there, it's creamy. It's the creamy kind.

It says creamy right on there. Just creamy peanut butter. There's not the chunky, meaning no peanuts at all. Right. I opened that up. Sure enough, mostly creamy. It's just there it is. It's creamy.

I scooped some out to put it on some bread and I go back for like just looking at it or to get some little more or whatever. And in there is a whole peanut. Now, I don't mean in the shell. In the shell, oh, in the shell would be even better. That would be amazing if it was in the shell. It would be like I would, I mean, I should have. I don't know why I didn't take a picture in the first place, but in this thing is a,

is a little peanut. Just laying in there. It's the only one. What is it? This is retaliation. This is the same peanut that you dropped in a jar of marinera sauce that Kim was preserving years ago. And it's finally made its way back to you.

I forgot. Yeah, it's possible. This is just karma, delayed karma, because that was back in what, like 2013 or 14. I'm sure you say Jamie will be able to tell us the episode. I don't remember when that was, but yeah, like a, like one nut in there, just in there, just laying there perfectly preserved, no discoloration. It looked like a fine peanut. Just, and it wasn't split open, like, you know, there's two halves. It's the Lance Armstrong of peanut butter. Oh, yeah.

You mean it cheated? Just kidding. Anyway. Yeah, yeah, that's it. But yeah, what do you do with a single peanut in your creamy peanut butter? Do I just, ah, it's a weird manufacturing mistake. day can blow it off or do I? Yeah, it's weird because even when you get a jar of chunky peanut butter, you don't get a whole peanut. You get peanut that's been chopped and, you know, and is in multiple chunks. You don't get a whole peanut. Yeah, they're like a micro pieces or whatever, but this is a whole peanut.

A whole peanut. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I don't get it. I mean, you think you consider it lucky, right? It's like the lucky peanut. Lucky peanut. I forgot about this.

Yeah. If you, I'll bet if you, uh, if you, uh, if you're, you, uh, if you're, you consider it. you tweeted a photo, did you take a photo of it? No, I should have. I didn't do it. I was going to say, if you tweeted a photo of that to the fine folks at Jeff, you'd probably end up with a case of peanut. Oh, I probably would, wouldn't I? I didn't think of that.

You think there was a whole peanut in there, and I've got a peanut allergy. Yeah, you can't have that in your peanut butter? It's like someone in the chat pointed out, like, how complaint would sound ridiculous. I got a whole peanut allergy. I don't have a, I don't have a creamy peanut allergy. just a whole peanut allergy. I want my money back. What's the problem?

There was a peanut in my peanut better. It sounds stupid. It does, yes. I'm not going to do anything about it. But I threw the peanut away. I didn't dare eat it. And I actually think that was the last, I think I put that peanut butter back on the shelf and just said,

I don't want to look at you for a while. Really? Okay. It didn't gross me out. Why? Well, it obviously made you. It made me a little like, oh, okay. Once peanut twice shy.

Once peanut. Yeah, like, no, I mean, it kind of did, I guess. I didn't, I ate the, I ate the, the bread and the peanut butter and the homemade jam that I had already spread and everything. But I was going to put more on and I didn't do it. So what I'm saying is I'll probably crack that open again and be fine. I don't, I don't think it ruined it for me. It's just funny that it turned you off at that moment. Well, you already, you already, but you would already put some on your bread.

Yeah, I already did that. But I was going to put any more on your bread at this point? I was going to, but I didn't. I ended up not. I know, it's weird, right? Oh, peanut. Did you take the peanut out? Yeah, I threw it away.

Okay, all right. I tossed it. I threw it right in the can because I'm like, well, I'm not, I don't want this. Who would eat that peanut? Would you eat that peanut, Brian? Yeah, I would totally eat that peanut. You would eat that peanut. Yeah, why wouldn't I?

I mean, I'm assuming that the peanut is as fresh as the peanut butter that that surrounds it. Yeah, probably. now that you say it. Oh, Lennonade. Lennonade gives a great example. It's like when you order fries and there's one or two onion rings in the bunch or vice versa. More happens with you order onion rings and there happens to be one or two fries in the container with the onion rings. Good call.

Yeah, that does happen. Okay. And that doesn't bother me. Like, I don't see that and go. A French fry, forget it. These rings are ruined. I don't do that. Now, if it were anything other than a peanut, even if it was a raisin, if it was, you know, like anything.

no freaking way and I probably would toss the jar. I would too. Yep. A raisin or any other kind of nut, even like an alternate nut. A marshmallow. A, you know, anything. Yeah. Like if it was an almond in there, I'd be annoyed.

Right. Yes, exactly. Even any other kind of nut I'd be bothered by. Right. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I think that, I think what that comes down to is I had a reaction like it was something weird, but it really wasn't weird.

Yeah. And that's why it'll be fine to eat it again. it's okay yeah it's just something that uh you know they have the grinder and the grinder just went a little crazy and one of the one of the peanuts went right out of the top of the grinder and somehow landed in the vat yeah and uh there's probably some one of those uh how it's made videos i could find where they probably yeah then i could probably pinpoint go okay that grinder's right over there so 15 feet over here boy that's a hell of a shot but i guess it can happen you know maybe i feel like i feel like a peanut butter factory video

would be one of those videos you could put on YouTube that would be just really satisfying to watch. Oh, yeah. Like turning peanuts into creamy peanut butter probably would just be a really, like, oh, this is, this is satisfying. Yeah, watching something go from a nut to a creamy, like, schmoo. Oh, sounds great.

It's basically the way your insides do, everything you eat, you know. Yeah, pretty much, yes. See, I don't want to watch me doing it. No, you don't want a YouTube video of Brian taking a dump. No, no, thank you. No. Well, anyway, peanuts.

Peanuts aside, it was uneventful yesterday. Other than everything else I had to do, it was, you know, not very exciting. Kind of a boring day. Yeah. Well. But we're going to make it exciting now. All right. Brian, if you were to ask me, hey, how do you make something exciting?

Well, you know. How do you make it exciting, Scott? You had Brian done the way to the call. That's what you do. And then you open up phone lines so that people can participate in a game. And that game might yield prizes. And so we're going to do all of that right now. Hey, look good it is.

It's a Babel Royale Tad Pooley Feud edition, although Brian Dunaway hasn't answered yet, but he will be. He's the guy. He'll answer. I'm sure. Oh, there he is. I hear him now. Hi, Brian. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian.

Hi. Hello. What's going on, man. How are you? I don't know. It's hump day. I'm just trying to make it today. Mondays are all like, yeah.

Yeah, I hate lasagna. And then, like, Wednesday's, it's like, oh, God. Yeah. What have I done? Yeah. Since we ended up not having a show yesterday, this is just a done away week so far. Right, it is. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah. Perfect. I haven't even gotten the Tad Pooley Feud thing pulled up yet. Oh, my God. What am I doing even? Yeah, you slack or ass, mother effort? Friday, are you going to join us for Playdate at 2 p.m. Mountain time, 4 p.m. Your time.

Play some truffle animate. Maybe I'm going to play it by here We're going to play it by here I want you to commit right here online In front of thousands of people If you're going to make it or not Yeah Nope

Not willing to do that Not doing it, no sir Have you ever found an errant peanut in your In your peanut bar butter jar Just a peanut peanut peanut butter? Just a peanut peanut butter Yeah your peanut butter jar No that would be edible

And I would have I would probably just eat it and go Good no look a free grunchy You know, I have a better attitude than me. What I have found, though, is I nearly broke a tooth when I was eating, I was eating some kind of protein bar. I can't remember which one it was now. But I bit into something very hard.

I'm like, oh, that's no good. I pull it out, and it was a piece. It was a plastic piece of the machine, apparently, that processes the thing. Oh, geez. Okay, now that I would throw out the thing for. I would not. I did. I did.

And I was like, yeah, I won't be eating that for a while. Yeah. I probably wouldn't buy that brand ever again, either. I would, at the very, that's the one I would send pictures of to the GIF Corp and they would send me a case of fixed ones. Yeah, edible stuff, I'm okay with. But I get your concern. It's like, uh, one of these, one of these, one of these, you say, you say edible stuff. So let's say you bought a jar of creamy, uh, jiff peanut butter.

God, I keep, I almost keep saying GIF every time I say Joe, a creamy Jiff peanut butter. Okay, creamy, Skippy, Skippy Peter Pan, peanut butter. And let's say, let's say you find a raisin in the top of that. now see that that's not that's not supposed to be in there they see that's a totally different yeah supposed to be a totally different jar i agree okay good yeah we're in agreement but you do question you're like oh how'd you get in here did somebody like oh yeah you're in there you'd want to know the story get in there yeah 100% you'd want to know the story you'd want to seek that out but yeah you wouldn't want to eat it is the main yeah i don't want any any outside food

internet into it raise it wouldn't be questionable i agree with you all right how about an How about an oxy tablet? Just sitting there right at the top of your peanut butter jar. I would have questions, but I'm not saying I wouldn't take it. You get your peanut o8 on? All right, I got it. Let's take this call who's been sitting here very patiently listening to West Rambal. Hi, who's this?

It's a bio cow. Hello? Oh, bio cow. He's a patient guy. He'd sit there and wait for us. No problem. How's it going, man? Pretty good.

How are you? I'm doing all right. Listen, you sound chill. Are you feeling chill today? I feel so chill today. I feel like him in a good day. Yeah, well, that's awesome. I like his vibe. He's making me want to chill, too. All right. I'm going to look right now by Ocow and see what I've got waiting for me in showbound. I know we're not doing titles yet, but all right, excellent. It's the Palm Springs.

It's Andy Sandberg sitting on his pizza floaty going today, tomorrow, yesterday. It's all the same. Wonderful. That's exactly what you want to see. I love it. Tons of puny titles. Someone makes an I don't like. blanks title someone quotes somebody out of context it's all the same yeah it kind of is every every day every day it's the same uh jam all right well well done uh let's get into it so biocows here that means a chance to win something and uh brian do you want to explain how this works and what he could win i'll be happy to do that it's time to play the tadpulli feud i've surveyed the tadpoo on some nerdy topics and scott and brian will have to predict the answers that they gave us it's

their job to see how many of those answers they can guess biocow your job your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian if your team wins. We put a period on the end of your sentence and you get a prize package that includes Swag and Sorcery and Fort Triumph.

Oh, that's a good game. I don't know about the first one, yeah, that second one's great, so thanks, Weser. Swag and Sorcery just sounds like, you know, that sounds like a game I'd like, just based on the name. Yeah, you like magic and you like swag, so. Exactly. I like both of those things. Give them to me one game.

Yeah, good combo. Very good. All right, you guys need a topic. 551 responses on this one, and only four people passed on answering. So this is a hugely popular, like, everybody had an answer. Here's even better statistics. Out of the 551 responses, it boiled down to 33 answers, 33 unique answers. So it wasn't like, you know, 10, 20 common answers, and then a bunch of,

of single answers. Sure. Okay. 17 or more of these, or 17 of them had three or more people say their option. All right. Okay. Put your hands

on your buzzers and give me your answer to this. Who is the best Muppet? Are you kidding me? I buzzed. Scott. Best Muppet, Gonzo.

All right. Show me Gons of the Great. Number five, four answers will be that. I could understand using that later to get higher scores, but who's not going to say Kermit for the number one spot? Show me Kermit. Yay! Number two, answer on the board.

Brian, that means you've got the option play. You don't even get the option. You get to play. No, I'm going to play. And you get BioCow, which is. an added bonus. So you and BioCow are a team. You're going to be playing and there are eight answers still on the

board. Who's the best Muppet? Yeah, who's the best Muppet, BioCow? How are you up on your Muppets? Oh, I love the Muppets and my favorite of all time. There's got to be Animal. Oh, yeah, animal. That's it. I just saw him on a commercial their day and he said, Animal and it was fantastic. I'm going

with Animal as well. Yeah, I love the Geico commercial. We've got an animal. up in the attic. All right. Show me, Animal. Yeah, number one answer on. Oh, by a lot, too, yeah.

People love animal. All right. Terg. Do we, do we, can we not say Miss Figgie? Miss Figgie? Can you not? Why couldn't you not say it? Yeah, we're going on with Miss Piggy.

All right. Oh, for me. Show me, Miss Piggy. That's pretty good. Oh, big point. Oh, yeah, that's what it's open for. Yeah, those are good points. Hey, Kermie!

Don't think too much about a frog and a pig getting it on, though. Don't think too much about it. That's right, because there are baby, Kermit does have a son, doesn't he? They do. They've got a bunch. Don't they have like a whole litter? Well, I mean, Muppet babies got to come out of somewhere. Yeah, but also, it's easy to look.

The Muppet Christmas Carol had, Kermit and Piggie had a bunch of kids, but the idea is that that was like, you know, for the movie. They adopted them from the, oh, Gotcha. Right. They were their actual kids. Right.

Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know if they have a little brood. But, yeah. Let's go up in. We got to go with the originators, right? We got to go with Fossey Bear, right? Ah!

He does the jokes. Was that a Fosy Bear impression, Brian? I does the Fossey Bear. Ah. I can't do it. I think that's Bert or Ernie. That was kind of, uh, it was kind of somebody. else. Yeah, exactly. All right.

You guys, are you guys officially saying Fuzzy Bear? By Cal, you down with Fuzzy Bear? Fuzzy, yeah. Let's go Fossey. All right. Show me Fuzzy Bear, Waka, Waka, Waka, Waka. Number four on the list. Fourth. I think I know who three is. All right. All right.

I'll tell you, and we've already said, Gonso. Okay. And I think a lot of the later generation people really liked Rizzo, the rat, Every since him and Gonzo It started hanging out in the Muppets Christmas, I think... Take Manhattan is where he first showed up. Yeah, I think you're right, yeah. Except Nicole, she hates Rizzo.

We figured it out last week. Yeah, it was really weird. That's right, because he was working in the restaurant where Miss Piggy was slum at it. That's right. What do you think about that, bio-cali? Are you down with that, with the Rizzo? Unfortunately, I think he's up there.

I'm not a fan of his, but that's okay. Yeah. Okay. Probably a low point. We think he's on the board, though, right? Yeah, if he's on the 6th through 10, you're going to get some big points for this. Yeah, that's what I'm hoping for. I'm hoping to get some lower points here.

Give me some Rizzo, love. All right. Show me Rizzo the Rat. Oh, man. Tide for 12th place. That's a shame. Did not make the top 10. All right.

Scott, control goes back to you. Since this is the Tad Pool and I know they don't listen to all the rules all the time, I'm going to guess one of these slots is a twofer. And it's, uh, Statler and Waldorf. There you can't go. I can't believe it. Those guys are great. I love those guys.

They're great. All right. You think, uh, you think the tadpool broke the rules and put a twofer in there? I wouldn't doubt it. Yeah. All right. Show me. Statler and Waldorf.

Number eight. Absolutely did. Yes. Okay. So, Lord. Oh, Scott. Yeah, you don't just get one. You got to get them both.

Yep. Uh, okay. let's oh man um now we're now we're getting into the crowd of puppets that are going to be it's going to be a tricky thing all right uh uh pepe the shrimp oh that's a good one yeah king prawn scott he's a king prawn uh all right show me pepe the king prawn oh that is a time for no actually you're not even tied number 11 just nice Just under, just didn't make the cut. Damn it. That was a good one. That was a good one.

All right. How about I... Roll back over to you. How about we go, mbork, burke, burke. How about we go some Swedish chef time? I'm sorry, once again. That was your Swedish chef impression? Look, we've already got an impressionist on the show.

Ain't no way. I'm going to try to put any energy and any accuracy towards it. So you get what you get. If you want some baby shark, I'll give you that, too, if you want it. Oh, I'm good. That's what you're okay. That's what you get. All right.

I don't compete with Ibit. No, don't compete with Ibit. That's his thing. Be my guess. All right, show me. Oh, yeah. Number six, see the chef. Well done.

Good call. That was a good call. BioCal, do you have one just sitting on your tip of your tongue? I have one. If not. Yeah, I got one I'm thinking of Sam the Eagle

Oh yeah Oh I love Stan the Eagle He's very serious He's very serious A little bit conservative though Maybe a little more He's the old conservative He's the old school conservative

Yeah He's the way I used to vote In the 80s Hmm Thing right Yeah Hmm Hmm

All right Is that what you're going with You're going Sam? Sam the Eagle All right Well like Smokey Bear Sam Eagle does not have a the in the middle of his name.

Show me Sam Eagle. Oh, look at that BioCow, killing it with the number one bottom answer. That officially locks in BioCow as a winner today. There's the formality of two more answers on the board to So even if I got all four of these, there's no chance, right?

There's no chance. Yeah. There's no chance. You need 19 points, and there is 10 on the board. All right. And I always say Sam the Eagle instead of Sam. Yeah, I know, I did too. It wasn't until this quiz that there were people who put Sam Eagle and Sam the Eagle.

And I went to Wikipedia and looked it up. I was like, oh, sure enough, he's Sam Eagle. Yeah. Well, now we know. And now we'll never make that mistake again. But it is Rizzo the Rat. And it is Pepe the King Proctor. Yeah.

Right. No, I know there's another two-fur. Chef the Swedish Right Well you say Now I know there's another two for them You're thinking of that I know what you're thinking of damn it

You're going to take it Of course I am I'm trying to think if I should do it as a twofer Or if I should go I think that one might be an individual I'm not trying to help you win But I know I'm thinking I had a friend

Go ahead Oh I was good say I had a friend who was a super, you know, carrot-top redhead, and I used to call him by and there you go. We're thinking the same thing. We're probably both thinking of Beaker then, right? Yeah, that's it. Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me.

See, do it. Oh, my gosh. Hold on. Me, me, me, me, me, me, me. Yeah. There we go. Wait a minute. Dunnways was, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me.

Mr. Honeydoo, Mr. Me, me, me, me. Wow. When all these guys die, you should just take. Take over at the Muppet. I think what we need to do is like have a clip of some Muppets, right, talking. And then we just, we take out the sound and we get Brian to do the voices of all the Muppets. Look, it may not go viral outside the frog fans community. Boy, within, it would, it would reach the borders.

It would be great. Exactly. All right, you guys are saying, Beaker? Beaker. All right, show me Beaker. Number three, most popular Muppets. Of course. One answer left on the board that dreaded number seven.

Who is our number seven Muppet? You guys don't figure it out because I'm not going to tell you. I mean, there's three that I can think of that were always middle-level popular. I mean, there's, and it doesn't matter if Scott gets rid. I'm led by a cow picket. We got Janice. She's in the band. We also got Dr. Teeth.

Or we could go with Ralph, the dog. What's his voice like? What's he talk like? Which, Ralph? Yeah. I'm a dog that plays a piano. That might be the best one. That might be the most accurate one.

That actually might be the closest. Go on, guys, I'm a dog that plays a piano. There you go. No, that's worse now. It's worse. Okay. Rolf's pretty great. It was nasal and gruff at the same time.

There you go. I'm Rolf. I'm playing the piano. What do you think of BioCal? I originally was thinking Dr. Teeth myself, but I have no idea. It could be any of those three. We're going to go with Dr. Teeth in his electric band. Do it.

Dr. Teeth just released a brand new cover of Dancing in the Moonlight for that Muppet Haunted Mansion thing. It's really, really good. Oh, I haven't seen it. We were supposed to watch it on this weekend, and nobody could get their damn butts in the same chairs at same time. Oh, it was great. We, two, and I watched it Saturday night, and it's a blast. It's so fun. Great, great cameos.

Like, you know, Nicole was talking about Ed Asner's cameo. It is really a brief cameo. There is so little. I used to love those, though, because all the Muppet movies always had those, like, very quick cameo. Like, here's Steve Martin for five minutes. Here's, you know, whoever, for another two minutes. And I love that tradition. And Asner doesn't even speak.

Yeah. And he's on screen for maybe five seconds. Oh, man. Is it the last thing he ever did? I think it is. Uh, might be, yeah. That's a bummer. Yeah.

It still was a great, it still was a great cameo. All right, let's get to it. Uh, show me, I can't remember. Who were you talking about? Uh, Dr. Teeth. Oh, Dr. Teeth. Oh, Dr. Teeth, sorry, yeah. Show me, Dr. Teeth, medicine woman.

Oh, man. Uh, Dr. Teeth, uh, down tied for 24th. Wow. Can I guess? Well, you get to guess. You get, you get a guess. You get to get a guess. You get two more striking, man.

Oh, that's true. I mean, the game technically isn't over, even though BioCal has won. Right. Fair enough. Let's do, uh, some Muppets, it's got to stay within the Muppet cannon, right? Like, it can't be Sesame Street or anything that shit. It's a tadpole. It's the Tadpool.

I mean, you know, it doesn't. Oh, really? Then if that's true. I mean, I'm just saying that it, you know, it's, uh, anything's possible. I will say, you know what? I will say that everybody on this list is a Muppet. Right, but aren't Sesame Street Muppets? also Muppets?

You just said the words. Okay. So if that's the case, I'm going to just shoot for one here because I like him. This is why I'm choosing this one, because I really like him. I'm going with, uh, um, Snap Lepithecus. No, hold on. I just, I just hung up on a possible other one.

Hold on. No, I'll stick with it. Grover. I want to do Grover. Grover. Yeah. I love, Grover. Show me.

Show me Grover. Oh, man. There's a monster to end of this book, but it's not on the board. Well done. Nice, nice deep cut there. Yeah, that was pretty good. All right, well, then you guys get to guess again. Yep, two more strikes. I mean, a strike for each of you, and then the game is over. I just want to say Janice. Even if it's not up there, I just love Janice. She's just such a free spirit.

Yeah. And she's totally, yeah, she's totally made out with the entire band. Go ahead. Oh, yeah. You know her and the sax guy are all into each other. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Zoot. All right, show me Janice.

Amazingly, amazingly. I'm with you. I love Janice, and she would be, I'd put her in my top ten of favorite characters. Just because you never see her eyes, right? Like, her hair is always covering it. Nobody said Janus in the survey. Really? Oh, my gosh.

551 people responding and none of them said Janice. You guys don't know what you're missing. So here's my... Janice is a sweetheart. Here's my last guess. And I don't know his name. And I don't know if you'll take this. So I'll throw it to the judges.

But that dude that throws fish. I forgot his name. No, that guy's name is Lou Zealand. Lou Zealand. He's great. Louisiana. Yeah. All right.

Show me Lou Zealand. Damn it. Lou Zealand also. Oh, two people said Lou Zealand. So tied for 18th place. Okay. All right. What is that last one?

You guys did say it. It is. Ralph. It is Ralph. Yeah. It's all right. You won anyway. You won't anyway.

No skin off anyone's nose. Let me go through a few more of these answers because they're great. Oscar the Grouch. Bunch and Honeydew 14th. Cookie Monster. Scooter. Big Bird. You know,

Big Bird still is a Muppet, even though there's somebody inside, right? As opposed to a hand. Yeah, because there's other Muppets that have people. Yeah. He still uses his hand. It's true. Elmo, Sweden's, Yoda, cracking the top 25 there. Oh, geez. All right. Yeah, I'm amazed with the Tadpool. I was amazed that Yoda didn't make it higher.

Let's see. Bobo the Bear, Bert. Crazy Harry. I don't know who Crazy Harry is. He's an explosive guy. Oh, the guy that blows everything else. He's great. Yeah. Right. Fezegig from. Yeah. Fezwig. That's from the, there you go.

Floyd Pepper, who's No, not from Labyrinth? No, not from Labyrinth? Oh, from Dark Crystal. Dark Crystal, yeah. Oh, Dark Crystal, right. What's the name of the guy from? There's a guy who rides a dog in the...

Yeah, I thought that was Fesig. You're right, that's not Fessig. No, we watched that. We watched that both of those things. Yeah, we watched Labyrinth on there? Those two movies blend together. Fizzywick? Yeah, Fizzy WizziWid, Fuzzyweed.

Something like that. Dirty Wills. Dirty Tree Monkey Boy? I don't know. What? Yeah. Anyway, Floyd Pepper, it was, I think,

the other guy in the electric mayhem. He's the, he's the Tom Petty-looking one. Kind of, except with, like, big, big flowing mustache. Snuffle up against somebody said Trump and Uncle Deadly.

And yes, it was Sir Didimus, by the way. Wait, who's Uncle Dudley? Sir Didimus. Uncle Deadly is the creepy ghost-looking. Oh, he, He's like a little monster with, like, glowing, like, whatever they did for his whiskers and hair,

flows like he's almost underwater the way. Yeah, it's weird and whiskey. He looks like a dragon. Yeah, he kind of, yeah, dragon. That's where it is. He's kind of blue-skinned or something, dark, dark-purpley blue skin or whatever. Yeah, like light blue, purple. He's got kind of a glow to him.

Is he in the haunted mansion thing? Up at Haunted Mansion, he is. Oh, he should be. I mean, look at him. He was made for Halloween specials. Are you kidding me? He kind of was. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's great. Yes. Those names deadly, chat says? Uncle Deadly is his name. Oh, oh, Uncle Deadly. All right. Oh, I thought it was Dudley all these years.

Yeah, no. Uncle Deadly. It was always deadly? Deadly. Now it makes sense. All right. Excellent. Oh, any others?

Was that it? That was it. Like I said, everybody's answers boiled down to those 33 characters. Pretty interesting. Nice tomato says Dreadly. Is it Dreadly or... Uncle Dreadly or Deadly? Uncle Dreadly?

Yeah, Uncle Deadly. It's Uncle Deadly, not Dreadly. Uncle Deadly, Dreadly. I don't know why Dice Tomatoes sing Dreadly. I don't either. Do they do the newsman, the news anchor? Oh, that's a terrible impression of him. That's a horrendous thing.

Sam, not Sam. No, no, he's just called the Newsman, I think, right? No, no, he's got, no, he's, because he would say, Kim Brockman, not Brockman. Not Camp Brockman. Ken Brockman? No, that's from Simpsons. Or is that Simpsons? Yeah, that's Simpsons.

Hold on. I know this. Yes. H. Something with an H? Handsome. Handy. Handsome, the Newsman.

Oh, shit. But it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, uh, Sesame Street thing, though, right? Yeah. You know what? It's funny on Wikipedia just does say the newsman. Yeah. I could have sworn that he, you know, you might be confusing. you might be confusing

Kermit D-Frog when he does his newsman on the Sesame Street. No, there was a Oh, Guy Smiley. That's it. Guy Smiley, that's it. He wasn't a newsman. He was like a game show host. That's right. He had that long, he had that long, skinny microphone with a tiny ball on top of style. He did, yes, exactly. Thank you. Guy Smiley.

I know the feeling. Exactly who we're thinking of. Yeah, we're thinking a guy smiling. He was a lot like the newsman. All right. Well done. This is great. And that means BioCow walks away a winner. Winner, winner. chicken dinner. All you have to do is send Brian an email. Coverville, gmail.com.

He'll hook you up with your codes and you will be one happy camper. How do you feel about your massive win today? Awesome. I'm so excited. I've never won anything from TMS. I've actually got a chance to call him. So thank you. I'm glad you won.

You deserve more because he makes such cool things for us. BioCow is the man. We'll have a chance to have you on again in the future. Hey, Brian Dunaway. Hey, Scott Johnson. Yeah, once again, help somebody win. thing and that must feel good you feel good and you know it fails good yeah uh all your impressions were bad but i love them all and i want more of those so if you can get that going define bad

uh listen if you set a high bar with your impersonation of the uh pee we herman uh pwee herman uh paging oh yeah that's right good it's so good yeah you lean into what you do right yeah do you do your do your do your paging mr herman real quick for us just i can't now you've you've you've beat me down this entire episode about my bad impressions how do you think I'm going to work up the courage to do a Mr. Herman this is your moment this is it this is when Brian truly shines no

not not going to happen not this week maybe next week I love it all right time to recover from my hurt ego don't worry by the time we do film sack you'll be all healed up everything I'll be fine speaking of which that's this weekend we're doing

Motel hell oh motel hell that's right folks check in but they don't like the movie. That's right. Amazon Prime, part of our Sactober. That's right. Halloween extravaganza that we do every year.

And that's Hotel. No. What, Hotel hell? What is it? Motel. Motel, hell. Yeah, Hotel, hello. The Noel, Motel, hell.

There you go. That's happening. Look for that. Brian Nunnoy. Have a great rest of your week. No. Bye. Oh, they're going to say no.

That was going to be the end of it. Jeannie, what did you think of that? I know Muppets are near and dear to your heart. I hope you enjoyed that. Oh, yeah. She should have, uh, yeah, this is a really good point. Yeah, but she would have dug that one a lot. I wonder if she, uh, would have done well or would have had a hard time predicting.

She had to mute it. Why? Why? Why? Oh, no. Anyway, all right. Maybe we don't want to know. I don't know why she had to not want to hear that.

That bums me out. All right. Well done. Like us talking about gin and Claire Gak muting. It's not right. That's jacked up. All right, we have time for a story in the news. And so we're going to do that.

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About a 600-pound elk. Okay. All right. You got stuck in a tire for nearly half its life in Colorado. So Colorado's style. Colorado Connection. There it is. 600 pound elk was stuck in a tire around its neck for two years before wildlife officials could remove it.

This is a four-and-a-half-year-old bull elk was first spotted July 19th or July 2019 with a tire wrapped around its neck. According to the Colorado parks and wildlife officials, being up in the wilderness, we didn't really expect to be able to get our hands on the elk just because of the proximity of the distance away from the civilization, says wildlife officers. Is that what you think we sound like, Scott? Is that what you think we sound like in Colorado? All the Colorado people sound like that. voice. This is from Wildlife Officer Scott Murdoch. He said this in a news release. By the way, do you hear that, you know how it used to be Hollywood was run by Chris's, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pine, Chris, all that. Yeah. Well, I heard it was run by a different group according to Mel Gibson. Well, that's true.

But now it's all going to be Scots, I heard, on some entertainment weekly article. Oh, look at you. It's time for the, time for the Scots. Yeah. Let it happen. Last names, first names, all over the place. Is there a Scott Hemsworth that we don't know about? No. There's only the ugly brother on Westworld. That's the only other handworth. Let's see here.

It's harder. Oh, it says they had hard time getting to them. So basically this is what happened. They got footage of the elk three times in 2020, but they can never catch the thing. Finally, in May and June of this year, wildlife officers tried to catch the elk with no luck. On Saturday, though, officials were able to make contact with the elk after trying to tranquilize the elk four times during the week. uh they were finally able to take it out of there uh let's see they had to cut the bull's antlers to do it that sucks well here's the thing right they had to cut the antlers off which

what they trying to protect the tire i mean like maybe you know instead of cutting the antlers off maybe i don't know cut the tire okay you know what 100% good point if he's tranquilized anyway you've got some time yeah why are they cutting his antlers and not the thing Right, exactly. His antlers are... What? It wouldn't have fitted off, says Clare Gak. What does that mean?

English, please. Look. It wouldn't have fitted off. But seriously, Brian makes it an incredible point. That is a beautiful animal. You shouldn't be just like tearing it to, you know, wrecking it. Just cut the tire. Cut the tire.

Yeah, I don't understand. Oh, they cut the tire, but they couldn't cut through the steel and the tire. Coal Cash. Oh, I don't know. You've got tools? Come on. It's Colorado. It's 2021.

You got tools to cut through wire. Hundock you're elk. That's TVZ gone. Well done. Oh, my Lord. Steve's John says they grow antlers every year. Well, okay. Yeah.

Does it hurt, though? They fall off every spring. Really? Does it hurt? And did his friends recognize me? He shows up without his tire and short. It's all they've known for two years. Here comes Whitewall. Here comes

Michelin. Oh, wait. You look different, Michelin. What did you do? Did you get an antler cut? Yeah. All right. Well, this is a good time. Let's move on to taking a break. When we come back, Tom Merritt will be here. You know him from such things as there might be giants. I don't know why I almost said that.

What I meant to say was the Daily Tech Game Show. There might be giants. It's not even the right band name. let alone any connection to Tom but just kind of in the mood I meant I guess Anyway he'll be here and we'll talk about some tech Turns out kind of a week for that So there's a lot going on

And we'll do Nicole after that We'll have her on for a part of the show where she's a guest That's what I mean to say We're not going to do anybody Okay Brian why don't you explain the break song So that we can do that Sure the indie of the middle

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You guys really will like this. I'm never disappointed in the song selections Brian does here on the show. Another thing that never disappoints me is this segment. With the computer, as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. That man, as always, on Wednesdays, is Tom Merritt, who joins us all the way from Los Angeles and his studios there. Tom, welcome back. How are you?

Well, thank you for having me, Brian and Scott. It's good to be here on a week. full of announcements. Yeah. Yeah. You got a haircut. That's the first announcement. Oh, really? You didn't notice this last. I guess my camera was off the first week I had it. But yeah. It's shorter. We had a hat on last week. So yes. Hey, there it is. It looks nice. Okay, good. I'd like to think that I'm attentive. You know, you look great. And of course, you're right. Last week we were talking about how there was a lack of announcements, kind of a very quiet week. Not very, but, you know, relatively quiet.

week for tech news, but not this week, all kinds of new stuff going on. Yeah, that's the autumn pace. There's always usually a bunch of announcements in September and October, but everybody kind of holds their breath in between them. This week, everybody announced them at once. The smallest of the announcements is Samsung, which are big announcements if you're into the Galaxy Watch 4. They added a bunch of features to Galaxy Watch 4.

Some of the features had been available in Galaxy Watch 3, like Fall Detection, for instance. and the reason they were missing in Galaxy Watch 4 is it's the first Galaxy Watch to use WearOS from Google instead of the Tyson-based OS that the Galaxy Watch 3 used. There's also a new Foxy watch and earbuds from the fashion brand Mazin Katsune. That's the minor one. And then the big ones were the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro from Google that were announced yesterday. And, of course, Apple's big announcement about MacBook Pros with their Apple Silicon inside, the M1 Pro and the M1 Max, that Apple has designed. And as you know, Scott, those M1s, the first generation, just the M1s, were incredibly power-efficient, fast and quiet.

So one would assume, or hope, anyway, that you'll get the same thing in these higher-level devices that are the MacBook Pro 14-inch and 16-inch. Yeah, it's an interesting. I wasn't going to say about the 16 inch I had a point about the size of that one and I don't remember what it was and I'll figure it out and maybe I'll ask you before the fact that the 16 inch is the same size as the old 15 inch

maybe that's it maybe that was it or that it has a notch oh the notch that's it the notch I wanted to ask you about the notch so obviously they're real big on like hey the screen is even closer to the edge of the bezel now and every time that happens with any device they get all super stoked and excited about it

but the tradeoff is where are you going to put your camera and they've decided to put a notch up there, a little black notch, kind of like you got with your phone. If you have an iPhone, you got a little notch. Some other phones do the same thing. How do we feel about that?

Yeah, this is definitely a personality test, in my opinion. This is, you know, this is my glass. Is this glass half full? Yeah. Right. Or is it half empty. It's weird because you're going to have menu items straddling the notch, right? I mean, for things would have a few menus.

It's great, fine. That's what bugs people, is that it's, because they really are just giving you extra screen. They're moving the menu bar out of the screen, essentially. Because if they didn't have a notch and you have a bezel up there and the menu would have to shove down. But if you're the kind of person who has a lot of menu items, or you use a program, I should say, not the kind of person. You use a program that has a lot of menu items. That program is going to have to adapt because it won't have the ability to run the entire way. And I guess if you're the kind of person that uses a bunch of menu.

menu bar icons, right? You can have your sound up there. Like right now I have Dropbox. What do I have? I have One Drive, you know, power. So you might have to cut down on those because you are, think of it less as a notch and more as a reduction of the size of the menu bar, basically, in this particular instance. Yeah. I mean, it helps that they've moved a lot of their icons into control center so that you go in there and you get your sound and your brightness and all that stuff.

but I still, I'm looking at my bar right now. And holy crap, I have a lot of icons up there to the right. I have 18. I don't know if that's good or a lot or lower. I don't know what that is. 18, 18, 18, 12. I'll tell you, the one I don't need. 17, 18, 19, 20.

Brian has 20. He's got two more than me. I really, I use all of these. The battery indicator, sound, the ability to just go up there real quickly and change sound. I don't have to go into control center to get that. I don't need Siri and I don't need disco. Why is Discord in my menu icon? Well, Discord's in there because you're on Discord right now.

As soon as you quit Discord. Is that an option I can turn off? Be like, don't go up there. Maybe. It's a dot that just shows you when your audio is picking. Yeah, yeah. You can mute, Dephen, and quit from there. Yeah.

I wonder if there's a setting anyway. I digressed. Pretty sure there's a way to turn that off. Zoom does it also. I noticed. I got a thing out there. And Zoom, yeah, there's a special Zoom icon. So it's not a big deal on this 4K monitor.

working on because there's lots of distance between where those icons in and where menus start on the other side. And I don't think the notch would ever be an issue if this was what the notebook is. But the notebook isn't. It's 16 inches. It's kind of a tiny little thing there. Now, on the positive, what? You're calling 16 inch notebook? Tiny? No, not tiny. Just compared to a big, you know, 36 inch monitor. Sure. Okay. Right. So you're going to have that compression of where is your menu going to be compared to where the notch is going to be. I have no problem with the menu bar on my 36 inch ultra wide. Exactly. Yeah, the way it wouldn't be an issue.

But, uh, but, but yeah, like, uh, the other stuff, though, they are, they are making pros happy again, it seems like with a lot of, not just specs, but like, you know, enough ports. There's an actual SD card slot on that damn thing. Yes, an actual, like, uh, um, HDMI port as opposed to having to use, like, just the fact that, that, that, all right, give us, give us a bunch of USBC ports, but then give us the things you know we're going to need. We're going to need power going in there. And, and, you know, we're going to need, um, we're going to need, um, um, we're going to need, um, um, um, we're going to need, You can still use the USBC Thunderbolt for ports for power. You just won't get the fast charging from the 140-watt power pack on the 16-inch. Yeah.

And the other one does not have that, right? The 14 does not have the... The 14 does not have 140-watt power pack. It has either a 96 or a 60, depending on which chip you get, I think. But it's still got the MagSafe pull-away MagSafe. Yeah, they both have the MagSafe. To me, it's like, why wouldn't you use MagSafe? If they're going to bundle this in there, and that takes a Thunderbolt 4 port.

But if somebody's like, yeah, but I want to be able to use my spare, what you might call it port, you can. The issue, if you're using one on a 16 inch that's 140 watts, that isn't 140 watts, is if you start pulling down a lot of power, you won't be able to keep up with the power you're pulling out of the battery, and your battery will still decline. So you have to keep that in mind if you're using a smaller wattage, but it'll still work. And if you're not doing anything, if it's unplugged or whatever, it will charge up, it'll just charge up slower. Yeah. To your point earlier, too, about the chip, my Mac Mini M1 has been just amazing. I love it. And it's really efficient, really fast, does everything I need to do, and then some.

And that's just your basic entry-level M-1. Like, there's nothing fancy going on there. So these pros and Max versions of the chip, you know, time will tell when they get them out and start testing them and stuff. But all of that is really exciting. The one least exciting thing about all of this is this seems like a big price jump from previous pro models. Like a lot, isn't it? Like base prices of like 22, 22, and for the 16 inch and stuff? I have not seen anybody, you know, everybody always complained about the price of an Apple.

The one thing I've heard is Rob Dunwood from SMR podcast on the Tech John, actually, saying that as a PC user, he thought these prices for the performance were equivalent to what he would expect to pay. for Adele or a think pad or something like that. I haven't compared to see like, oh, is this significantly a big price increase over the last generation? I know that they are very expensive at the top end. If you max it out, you're definitely seeing headlines about the maximum price of $6,099 if you want to spend. They always do that.

They always like come up with every bell and whistle for the complaint post and saying, want the top of the line, MacB? Oh, it's going to cost you the same as a. small Tesla or something. Yeah, but I'll be honest, I didn't go look. I didn't go measure because these didn't strike me as outlandish. They strike me as fairly normal for the MacBook Pro. Okay.

Well, it's, yeah, big week for them, big week for, I guess I expected more on the other Macs fronts. I guess we knew it was going to be a notebook event, but I was hoping. You thought you might get other models like a, I'm still wondering if they do a spec upgrade to the Mac Mini. if they didn't want to take up time in this announcement and in early November they released like hey you can now get the Mac Mini not only with the M1 but also with the M1 Pro or something like that I can see that. That would be cool. I also thought

I mean they eliminated the 27 inch from the IMac line when they revamped that with the M1s and I kind of thought this would be a time for them to say and now that one's available. But that would be the same sort of thing where they would do that in an off period they wouldn't want to make up take up time because they were they were speeding through the stuff. They don't want to waste your time. And that's something they could put out as a press release.

It was nice to get an Apple keynote thing that was, or not keynote, but an Apple announcement thing. It was less than an hour long. Less than an hour. There's a dream come true for me. This is a personal thing. But I always hate these things because I feel like I could

understand the story faster by reading a press release or reading the spec sheets or whatever. And they make me wait with Apple. Unlike Google with the Pixel 6, as soon as that announcement started, the stories came out. And I was able to write up everything and then relax and watch whatever they, you know,

dog and pony show they wanted to do. But I wasn't like stressed out taking notes because this was where the information was coming. We're going to start out by telling you about every single one of the people who bought an apple in the last five months. Even people. At Apple, Max, are made

of people. People's hearts and minds and actual literal flesh and blood are in that soon. Our new Macbook is powered by thoughts and price. There you go. Oh, man. Did you, so you saw the, I missed the Google event. How did the pixel lineups look?

People excited about those? God. You're just, you're just throwing red meat to the Android audience. Oh, I missed the picture. It's a good phone. I also, hey, for the record, for the record, I also missed the Apple one. I had to catch up on all of it on websites. All right, all right.

That's fair. That's fair. For the record. You seem to know a lot more about that one. But yeah, the big deal with the Pixel 6 is the price. The second big deal is Google Silicon. So they are using their own tensor system on a chip inside, which seems like we'll wait for the specs and the benchmarks and everything to really come out. But it seems like it's equivalent to a Qualcomm 888, but it has the tensor processing unit machine learning that Google is very good at.

They've been, that's how they started developing the tensor chips was for specifically artificial intelligence purposes. So they can do a lot of cool Google tricks in there, like shading. They have something called true tone that can look at people with darker skin tones and adjust properly, rather than just treating everybody like they have light skin. There is a translation feature in the pixel. They sat down with Marie Kondo and she looked appropriately impressed that, she could just speak Japanese and have it translate it correctly because she speaks Japanese and English. But mostly the deal is that it starts at $5.99 for the 6, which is a 6.4-inch phone, and 899 for the pro, which is a 6.7-inch phone with some beefier specs and higher limits for

storage, et cetera. But they're great phones at a fairly incredible price for what you get. They're not the cheapest phones in the world, certainly. But for the specs that are inside, Google did a great job unprice. I agree. That's because they monetize you, of course. Right. Yeah. You're their money. We're the product. Maria, if you ever, do you ever think if you're around Maria Kondo? Is it Kondo? It's Kondo. Kondo. Do you think she's, do you ever, do you think people get nervous around her? Like, is she looking at my shirt and how disheveled it is? Is she, my hair? Is she really want to go through my drawers right now and see what sparked joy? I would just, I would shake her hand and hold it for a second and go, I don't know if this marks joy. I have to leave. Oh, I'd take your hand, hold it for a moment and

just say, thank you for keeping my wife out of my hair for about six hours. Yeah, well done. Well, done. Your show kept her away from me for a while. Kept her busy. Well, all right. This has been a good week. Well, let's see what Wednesday brings later today, the Daily Tech News show, 230 Mountain. I'll be there. We're going to be talking about, is Facebook going to change its name? What? What? It's the scuttle, but more to come like wow all right that is a big deal i'm happy to year changing it to face bait face bait book face how about that hot or not ripa uh chat roulette zucks hot or not is finally going to make it's it's fun to think like they're doing it uh because people hate facebook so they're like i'm not

facebook i'm book face yeah totally different guys oh the jokes are going to write themselves after they make this decision all right well anyway that and more uh later to day. And Tom Merritt, anything else you'd like to mention? I saw Eternals. Did you really? I will be telling you what I thought about it on cord killers on Monday. Did you get a, it was a screener? Did you go to the premiere? Yeah, it was a screener. We didn't go to the premiere. We're not Lamar Wilson for goodness sake. We didn't get invited to the premiere.

I mean, yeah, I think I got invited to a press screening, so we went to see it. Nice. And can you just give us a, like a, I don't know, like, like, You liked it? No, I can't. This is, you know, a tease to draw people to corn killers. Why would you want to sell his candy in the lobby? I could, but I really don't want my wife mad at me for getting disinvited to every Marvel screening from now on. So, no, I'm not going to do that.

But, yeah. Separately, could you tell us if you've seen anything good lately? Yeah, without. I watch Squid Game. Apparently, that's very popular. Yeah, people like the Squid Game. All right. Well, this is good.

I feel like I'm, I can't wait now to hear what you think, but I'll have to wait until I'll hear what you think. Tom, I don't know. I might drop a hint or two in my newsletter at Free Time Newsletter. Oh, go get that then. It's free. It's right in the name. Tom Merritt, everybody.

Ace Detect on Twitter. Have a good. Thanks, y'all. We'll see you next time. See you. Bye now. All right. Love it.

Yeah. That's great. I bet he liked it. That's just a guess. Total guess, because he didn't say. He didn't say. No. He didn't say, but, uh...

I don't know, it just seemed like something... He also didn't say it as, yeah, I also saw Eternals. Yeah, you can hear a lot when they say it that way. You get a lot of the review that way. Right. All right. Are there any other movies to even think about this week, Scott? I don't think there are.

Oh, yeah, there's none. You are for a certain movie coming out this weekend. Yeah, there's not. Actually, there's two that I really want to see. Uh, Dune is easy. That's the obvious. Yeah. But, uh, I also want to see the French Dispatch, getting really good reviews.

Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right. this weekend, isn't it? Yeah, people are raven. Yeah, I'm not going to see either. We've got a family coming to town and staying with us, and we're taking them, you know, we've got to run them around Denver and show them the sights and all that stuff. Sure. There won't be

any movie watching. Brian, it won't be movie watcher this weekend. Yeah, we're going to definitely do, definitely do, we're doing like a chilly night and everything with some friends for Dune. We're doing it here and watching it on Max. It's going to be great. I cannot freaking wait. I'm dying. The spice must

flow, dude. It must flow. You should do something like make a cake with the gummy worms in it for like, you know, sand worms. That's a great idea. I mean, I'll be...

Like a spice cake with sandworm with gummy worms in it. Why not? Why not indeed? But yeah, there'll be food and... Yeah. The beef for the chili is already

right now in a suvade getting all softened up. Wow. Oh my guess. This is a week-long preparation. For Kim mainly. Not for me so much. I just have to show up

and enjoy it. Yeah. If I lived closer, I'd absolutely rather see it with you in a house eating chili than in an ice big theater. Yeah. A bunch of losers. Exactly. And we'd have, you'd be the first on the list we would make, it would be the best.

Brian could come. We'd have Tina be here. 4K viewing experience. It would be as good as any movie theater experience. Sure it would be. It totally would be. All right. You're not wrong, Zoe, to worry that my cooking is like my driving.

I'm not... No, I'm a good driver. Wait a minute. Hold on. I'm not going all rain man on you. I mean it. I am a good driver. I've had one ticket my entire life.

One, and it was for speeding, and it was on 2015. And so it was that much later in my life. All through my teen years, I was good. I always stuck to the rules. I am a good driver, unless I'm playing a video game. Then all bets are off. Right. I do have a weird...

Since we're waiting for Nicole to join us anyway, I do have a weird recipe that is really good that New York Times sent it to me in one of their newsletters, what to eat this week. And it's scrambled eggs made with dashi or with vegetable or chicken broth. You whip it all together and then microwave it on half power so that it cooks solely through. And it's like silky, almost like sushi eggs. It's so damn good. Oh, that sounds all right. I would eat that. It's amazing.

Yeah, totally eat that. All right. Hey, hey, look who it is. It's Nicole, everybody. Hey. We're going to play this thing. Hi. Where the hell is it?

Oh, Nicole. My sweet Nicko. It is Nicole Spag. joins us, as she does on Wednesdays for recommendals. I was calling you, but I think Discord. Playing with a photo boost stuff. Oh, look at you. Oh, that for school stuff?

Is that what you did? Do that for Halloween, like have a little photo booth on here? So my son is going to be turning 10 soon. 10? Whoa. Ten. Holy cow. A decade.

And he wanted an Among Us party. Oh, these are great. Oh, awesome. I didn't recognize them until you said that. Oh, that's great. Did you make and laminate these? Did you do these? I did.

I made them and lam-look. Look, I'm Mr. Cheese. You are Mr. Cheese. Can I, can I be randomly invited and I'll be an imposter? And while the kids are playing, I'll put stuff in the kids. cake and, uh, unplug the TV and, uh, hide the, hide the, hide the game controllers and stuff. Hide in the vent. I have, it's so funny, because I do have, um, somebody wrote up a really great, all these

are free, downloadable printables. So I just, the woman came up with the whole game. It's perfect. Oh, like, you actually do play it in the house, like play a, a live version. We're going to play it outside. We're going to start up stations. You're going to larp among us. Yeah, among us, larping.

Fantastic. And so, and then everybody's going to have a headband that they pick their character. And so when they die, they flip it over to a guy. That's great. You just made that you just, you know what you did? You just made the Tabletop Among Us game. Congratulations. You did it.

Yeah. I didn't do it. A lady on, what is it called? Aloha Hut did it. Oh, Aloha Hut. All right. Aloha Hut. Get my rice balls there.

The kids, the kids aren't going to be like, hurting each other. The impostor is not going to be... No, no, no, no. Thrown out a high window or something. Okay, Tommy's unconscious over there. Let's figure out who did it. I was thinking about putting like a little...

giving them like a little handkerchief to put in their back pocket. So the imposter could pull it. Yeah. But they could pull it and then they would have to flip their card over and kind of stay where they are. It's like a adult, it's like a kid's version of one of those murderers. or mystery parties is what this reminds me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. And I got the emergency button right here.

Oh, that's great. I actually found a button, but they're going to have tasks in the backyard and the front yard. So like reading a toddler book, stacking blocks up in a tower, like really simple stuff. Yeah, make sure you have a credit card reader, one that makes them all crazy and want to quit. Make sure that's a thing. Freaking hate that thing. Actually, yeah.

Why didn't you just have them rake and sweep the sidewalk? I thought about water the plants. Clean up the pine needles. Bo the lawn. Perfect time of year, a little full lawn care. I'd like that. They would love it. Clean the gutters.

It's part of a game. This is great. I love this idea. Well, very cool. You'll have to take lots of pitchers. Are they going to be all wearing little suits and stuff or some of them? No, no. Because you can't, you can't, are you talking about those, the costumes?

Those inflatable among us, too. You can't use your hands in those. Right. Oh, my God. It would look like a bunch of little weble wobbles just knocking each other over. You're right not to include it. That's a smart idea. We did have a little fall fest at my son's school outside.

And Mateo and I dressed up in those costumes. I have to send you a video. Yeah, please. I want to see you in one of those. That's hilarious. It was so fun. Wait, is it the kid's size one? and you're just in there or did you know it's an adult size oh okay i haven't i have so basically i

have the orange one in kid and a red one in kid and then i have the same colors in adult sizes for me and mark oh gotcha okay the whole family's in i love it the whole family i'm not sure how the last one's gonna get suit zipped up though how you're gonna do a duggie you're gonna put him in one he's zonked out right behind he's snoring oh no no he's just want to cuddle up with him oh look How cute he looks. Lovell. His whole face gets, like, squished into one place, like, Haley Joel Osmond when he's asleep.

It's so cute. Hey, Dugie. Haley, Joe Osmond? What? Wait a minute. What? Ailey Joel Osmond, like, all of his features, even though his head is human size, his features are still, like, are kind of squishy.

Squished, like, right into that same little space they were when he was a kid. Now, now I'm looking at him close up. It kind of does. Dougie looks like the kid from $0.6. Fantastic. All right. Let's do recommendals. This is where we take these things from streaming services and we recommend them to you.

Brian's got two of them. Brian, set up your first one. All right. First one is a film. Sorry, a hit play before I meant to. Go ahead. Continue. All right.

It's a film. It's a period piece. And I got the audio from the trailer because it is streaming. It's on Showtime. And if you've bought Paramount or if you're, you know, if you're streaming Paramount Plus and you do it the right way, you get showtime for free. And so it's worth it for this. Anyway, it's a period piece, 2020 British comedy, black comedy film.

Oh, all right, here we go. He seems to be the trouble, old chap. I've been commissioned to adapt my novel for the screen. But the words have dried up. I need divine intervention. Madame, monsieur. Bonsoir. Tonight, I will use my precious, mystical.

Give it. Okay. I've got it. Judy Dance. Yep. I'd like you to conduct a seance at my home. This Thursday, the moon is full and we must harness its power. Perfect.

Open Evercard is a fraud. You said so yourself. It'll be superb inspiration for my new screenplay. Is anybody there? Oh, is that you, Maya? My spirit guide. She was Tutin Carmoon's wetness. I do hope she's not still lactating.

Is there anyone on the other side did you think of? Elvira, his dead ex-wife. I'd have to go into a trance. Okay, I have no idea, but I love Judy Dent's to the point that I'll watch anything she's in, so... And she's great in this. This is a movie called Bly the Spirit, and it is a remake of a Noel Coward play from 1941. A writer gets writers block, basically, and needs some way of... of kind of unblocking, you know, and getting the words back out.

Unblocking the block. Unblocking the block. And so he goes to a, what do you call it is like a fortune teller, a seance, a seance lady. You know, a seance lady. Yeah, a psychic. Thank you. Yeah. I'm sorry, I have to tell you, TikTok is full of psychics going live and trying to like hook you.

to watch them, it's the weird. Yeah, it's weird. I avoid all the live stuff. Have you seen that? Have you seen that? No, the way the TikTok works is it's its algorithm never, it starts to send you only stuff that you want to see. So I'm not saying all you want to see is these ladies, but it's possible that you saw one or two seance people and then now the algorithm thinks you want to keep seeing it. I'm not interested in the vagueness of look John, what was his name? John Edwards back in the 90s. got me like I was like oh I saw John Edwards wasn't he didn't he even run for president he was the

I was the guy at his TV show I'm seeing a J I'm seeing his j is there somebody in your life who has a J in their name so it's not Republican sorry you said psychic and that's what I thought it's not US senator from North Carolina John Edwards different John Edwards not that totally different John Edwards talking to the other side John Edwards okay anyway yeah medium by the way medium is the word I was looking for you He gave us time to get the right word. Oh, it's John Edward. All right. Anyway, there's no ass.

Continue, Brian. Go ahead. Sorry, Edward. Anyway, so he gets a medium to help him unblock the block. And the medium conducts a stance at his house. He thinks it's really just going to be to give him some material for his screenplay, but she actually is successful and brings back his ex-wife. And the problem is that he has a new wife of five years.

So now he has his ex-wife back as a ghost who is kind of haunting his life, and he is the only one who can see her. But then his new wife is kind of jealous of her because she was his muse back in the day. Dan Stevens, what's that? It's called Blythe Spirit, B-L-I-T-H-E-S spirit, came out in 2020. Dan Stevens is your main dude. You know him as Legion. and he was in what was that thing called um everyone loves that show down abbey he was on for a while yep

uh died in a horrible car accident leslie man is uh his wife not not uh not leslie bibb but lesley man it's good it's good that you make that the singer oh no that's amy man that's amy man uh ila fisher is uh his current wife and as you heard in there judy dench is the medium that he gets to to conduct the seance. There have been a bunch of different, at least one other version of the movie, back in the day, old, old movie.

This is kind of a modernized version of it. And it is, even though that clip makes it sound slapstick, it's, I don't know, it's very well done. 1945 was the original movie with Rex Harrison and Constance Cummings.

Lennonade in the chat is going full diced tomato on this one. He is not liking this one. at all. Yeah, I said he stopped after five minutes. But he only watched five minutes of it. And I think it's, I think it's great. It's just, it's a, um, uh, it's, it's, it's funny.

It's clever. Um, the ending I didn't see coming, uh, showtime. Oh, okay. And, uh, Leslie Madden, but it was like premium. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah. Interesting.

Premium. Oh, you have to pay individually for it. You have to pay extra. Maybe. Yeah. I think you have to do the Hulu. I think it's with the Hulu TV. Oh, okay.

So it's like Disney did with stuff, some things. Like they release same day theater things. You pay 30 bucks like that. Something like that. Yeah. Anyway, it's called Blythe Spirit. It's a 2020 film and we enjoyed it a lot. It's not like.

Lennonade says it will violate your eyes. It's atrocious. You watched five minutes of it. Yeah. How can you say, I don't understand that? How does it violate your eyes? in five minutes. That seems, that seems...

It's not the, right? The spirit. Blythe. Blythe spirit. Blythe. Life. Blythe. Nice.

All right. Yeah, I will say, uh, rotten tomatoes kind of agrees with Lennonade. Oh, yeah? It is low on, uh, let's see, it's got a 26 weighted average score of 26 out of 100, so. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's bad. okay well we enjoyed it a little more than that but um audience score is usually like a little higher but cautiously go into it yeah audience score audience score and tomato meter identical 29% both

way yeah a little bit low okay all right then well good job dan stevens let's go to my second one which uh is far far better and i bet you leninade would like this all right well he's really going off we got to we got to get him off his uh this cliff here this is a tv series and um i'm i'm Whatever, I'm going to recommend its final season, which just aired. And it's fantastic. All right, here you go. I have nothing to hide. You and I both know that's bullshit.

You apparently don't know that you're fucking with the wrong guy, Billy. Is that what you said to Tom True? The tragic, what happened to him? I heard. He left a voicemail just before you can. I don't insult my intelligence like that. I'm not going to take that bullshit bait. I'm the good guy here, okay?

I'm giving you a heads up. Kate is not available to testify at the present time so you can plan your next move. I don't have any moves, George. I'm not even on the case. Oh. We definitely both know that's bullshit, Billy. Remind me and my brother.

Yeah? Outrage at your total disregard for humanity? I was going to say delusional. All right. pick the second actor and I can't because my brain's not working but uh that's Goliath right season three that is Goliath and yeah you're you recognize billy bob thornton and you'll absolutely if you if you listen again you'll absolutely hear that's the other voice of j k simmons oh all right jona jameson right there um this is so it's the fourth season of uh of Goliath the last season

and i thought they only did three but okay cool yep they've done this is the fourth just just um um um It landed on Amazon Prime, and what's great about it is Amazon Prime gives you all of it day and date. And what's that? I said that was nice. Oh, yes, it's very nice of them. Not only do you get Billy Bob Thornt and J.K. Simmons, in this season, you also get Bruce Freaking Dern, and he's awesome. When you get the three of them together, it's excellent. This is by far, Tina and I both decided that this is by far the best season.

of Goliath. Really? Because I thought season one was amazing. I thought two went off the rails and I haven't seen three yet.

So now you got me except three. Three was great with Dennis Quaid and Amy Brennamen. William Hurt comes back. I guess William Hurt

kind of appears in all the season. He was your big bad in season one. Donald Cuperman, I believe, was his name. Yes, that's exactly right.

So season three is also worth seeing because it's a great story and it sets up a couple things for season four and you do get a little bit of you know that weirdness that you remember from season two

there's some interesting pre-opening credits things that you get in season four that I thought was was really great however the person who always 100% steals this show is Nina Arianda

who plays Patty Solis Papagian. She's so good. And you get so much of her in this season. It's why she doesn't get nominated for an Emmy or I don't know if she has. I don't think she's ever gotten nominated for an Emmy. But she needs to be because she is, she's the best thing in the show. And she needs to get some accolades for it.

Yeah, love her. She's amazing. This one deals with opioids, the opioid crisis. You know, oipioids. Oipioids. Sure. And J.K. Simmons plays kind of a dude who's in charge of a company that produces them. And so he and Billy, he and Billy Bob Thornton go head to head.

And it's great. Like the two of them on screen at the same time is great. That's awesome. So Goliath's season for 10 episodes, I believe, I think. Oh, no, less than that. Eight episodes. Eight, oh, geez. Four seasons.

eight episodes per season, 32 total. And if you've never seen Goliath, Joe 1, 3 and 4, 2 is okay, but 1, 3 and 4 are, especially 4, best season. Two just got weird, but... And I sucked through it, but I remember it kind of putting me off on starting 3,

but then you and everyone's told me 3's great, so I just need to get back to it. 3 is great, yeah, and 3 spends a lot of time in the desert, your favorite place. Oh, I love the desert. Two went off the rails because he started messing around with that. councilwoman um oh well for me is when he woke up and woke up in that trailer park thing

and then everything after that was weird that's right yeah well the drug because he had to do the had to do the drugs to fit in and stuff right yeah yeah it just threw me i don't know what it was uh all right well good good ones uh so i'm going to now play a clip from a thing i watched that is old it came out in 2011 it's 10 years old now whoa that's old it's as old as your son Nicole That's as old as Mateo. So, yeah. So some of it, I've never seen. I didn't see it then.

And I wanted to know if this was any good. And I enjoyed it, but I have caveats. Anyway, here it is. No, Lars has fillings. So he's human. It can't imitate inorganic material. Open? Come here.

He's your ten on it. Open up chaften. Right now it's at least something. A way to eliminate some of us. So I'm going to get killed because I floss. Nobody's getting killed. That's not true at all. Lots of people get killed.

All right. So this is the remake, not remake. It's the prequel to the thing. Oh, the thing. Yeah. Okay. What's it called? The thing.

This is one of my caveats. The movie is a prequel. It's set before the thing we all know from the late or the 1980, 82, whatever it was. The John Carpenter movie. in fact it sets up a bunch and answer some questions from the from the movie as to how certain things got where they got and that sort of thing here's the problem it's really hard to tell that this is a sequel prequel slash remake because the name is just the thing yes it's really annoying because you know and unless you watched it then you're like oh okay this happened before okay i get it this is the these are this is the arctic scientist that discovered the damn thing, and then, you know, led to the other thing. It was marketed very bad. I keep saying thing.

In describing, it will say, you discover the damn thing. And it should, it's like, I can't help it. I don't know why I keep doing that. No, well, it's, you have to, right? Like, it's how this works. Yeah, plus that word, I guess I use the word thing a lot. So, yes, it is Mary Elizabeth Winstead in the main role. I like her and everything.

It occurred to me, this is, I put this on Twitter, but I really believe it. If they were ever to reboot the Ellen canon of the aliens movies, just hire her. She'd be a perfect Ellen Ripley. She'd be amazing at it. Even more now today than 10 years ago. She's just kind of a badass now. And I like her a lot. Anyway, the movie's fine.

It's a good time. There's some good scares. I like the, there's a, you know how Mad Max for me or the free road anyway is all about like the setting and the tone and the world building that you don't get told about? I feel similar about things that are set in the Arctic. I don't know what it is. Just something about the being alone out there. The shining is a little bit like that. Like just this isolation sensibility that I really like about it.

And this has that. Antarctica is the home to the world's biggest desert. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, right? You just don't know because it's under the damn ice and snow. But anyway, it's got all the stuff tonally, I think, that you need for a movie like this but here's the problem the effects are bad like and i don't even mean like 2011 i'm not just saying oh well oh 10 years ago we weren't where we are today well that may be true but we were a lot

further than this in 2011 i don't know what they were thinking or who they paid or what that do you think they were trying to make it look like uh like this took place we have to make the effects look like they were done before the 1980s thing something maybe i mean it's CG is hell and the these CG effects just look like video games. The practical they use occasionally for close-ups and stuff like that, that all look great. No problem. All the practical effects, great.

Some of the just like people laying around having stuff happened to them, effects look fine. They're good. But the CG in it is just really low rent for, as I'm watching it, I'm like, well, I know that's looked better in other places. I just know it. so I just don't know if they just didn't have the budget or I don't know what they did. It throws you a little bit, but creature design is really cool, some creepy stuff going on.

I enjoyed it. I'm not sacrosanct about, oh, you can't do a version of the thing, or even if it's a prequel, you can't mess with great. I don't care. Try it. Give it a shot. Like, who cares? If it's bad, it's bad. If it's good, it's good.

If it's middle, it's middle. But this I liked more than middle. I thought it was a good time. And the only real regret I have, Brian, is that this would have been a film sack movie for sure. Like, I realized it as I got done with it. I'm like, oh, we would have done this for film sacks. So now we've got to wait a couple years,

so I'm not thinking about it. You know, so it's not fresh. Otherwise, because I got, I don't want to watch it again. So it's not the kind of movie I want to just turn around and watch again. Like right away. We'll wait a few years and then we'll pull it into film sack. We'll give it some time. But, yeah, it's, it's an interesting thing.

A bunch of actors in it, you know, the dude. the redhead who loves Gwendolyn Christie's character on Game of Thrones can't they give his name the wild red-haired guy where's the big woman Oh yeah

he's in it because they're all bunch of wildling not not mans but the other wild Yeah the guy the red-haired wildling Yes yes And he's great in it Has a horrible death There's a lot of great deaths

That's what you want from you know That's what you want And because they floss right Yeah because they floss And at the end Travis Floss to talk about this but in the end there's a death that I'm not sure it ends weird I don't want to give anything away I know there's a 10 year old movie and there's nothing to spoil really but

people should watch it it's on prime it's the thing they should have called it before the thing or something else because pre thing pre thing there's something because it just is not good marketing anyway all right there's that Nicole what did you bring for us I have have two. I have one that's family friendly and one that is not. Since it's Halloween time, I tend to always watch one particular Halloween movie over because it's so bad and it's from the 80s. And I wonder if it's just my nostalgia that makes me watch it because it's terrible, but I love it so much. So I'm going to share it with you. I'm pretty sure I've recommended it before, but it has been probably a long time.

But I watch it. It's fun. Here's a clip. Okay. The whole thing is on YouTube. So I'm giving you a YouTube link and it's going to jump ahead. All right. Here it comes.

I've got it. I'm clicking yes. I'm opening it. I can't live without my music. Forget it. There's plenty of time for dancing later. Now it's time for party games. Yeah.

We can play post orifice and you can be the stamp. Please don't make me ill. I was thinking of something a bit more in tune with the holiday. Like what? Bobbing for apples with razor blades in him. Hey, Brian, pick the guy's got a voiceover done later, ADR. That might be your guy. Yeah, right, yeah.

Isn't it a little chancey? I mean, this is how you go. All right, so I have no idea. It sounds like 80s garbage, but what is it? It is total 80s garbage, but I love it so much. It's Night of the demons. Night of the demons. Night of the demons.

okay um so the the story of this movie angela who you heard she was like let's play a game she was meant to kind because at that when this movie came out was the same time as like freddy kruger jason like all of that was like big hype in the 80s and so the people that made this movie they were going to try to make angela who later gets possessed um by a demon that go It's a bunch of kids.

They're not really kids. If you're looking at them, they're like, there's no way these are 17, 16-year-olds. They're all mid-20s, these kids. There's no way. So these kids are all dressed up. They go to this haunted house, and they all start to get possessed by demons. Angela is kind of the main demon. And she was meant to kind of be the female answer to Freddie and Jason, but it never stuck.

But I still love this movie It's so awful and bad But I absolutely love it It kind of It hits some tropes Like 80s movies do But yeah I like the ending of it too

Because it actually goes against one of the typical tropes The girl who is like the good girl She's dressed as Alice in Wonderland I think there's a porn star in the movie She's dressed up in a pink outfit, and she does a weird scene with lipstick and her boob. All right.

Like Molly Ringwald and Breakfast Club? Something even worse. The worse. Okay. All right. So, I can't believe you haven't film sacked this movie because this is perfect. I've never even heard of it. This is news to me.

I know I've talked about it on this show. You might have. I don't remember, but I... It's been a really, really long time. But I watch it every year. year. It's just one of those movies where is it Leena Quigley who plays um sorry who she

play. She plays Suzanne. Suzanne. Is that the one with a lipstick? Not that I want to focus on that. I'm just curious. Let me look it up. I'll tell you your name. Night of the Demons. Um, they did a remake of this in I can't remember the early 2000s and it, I didn't even watch it. I didn't By the way, that Linnea Quigley was also in sorority babes in the slime bolorama. Oh, okay. That is, okay, so Suzanne is the lipstick and boobs. Okay.

Makes sense based on her listing. She's a bee actress, not porn. Well, you know. Well. I'm sure there are a lot of B movie actresses who would appreciate that important distinction. So, yeah. there you go it's a it's one of my favorite Halloween movies if you're looking for just awful great 80s throwback give it a watch you can watch it on YouTube you can also watch it

free on I think it's I MDB um you can go through Amazon because I was yeah IMDB TV they actually have decent selection of stuff but you have to watch they do yeah yeah if you're okay with 188 yeah there's a year oh whoops okay she has done plenty of nudity i did not mean to click that yes yeah yeah she's not in the movie but yeah yeah she does nudity in this movie oh she does in the movie as well yeah yeah yeah she's consistent then all right excellent it's so weird it's so weird you you have to watch it has anyone in the buddy in the chat room ever watched it i don't know nobody in here is let's see be movie actress something something oh tv tvs says she was in Return of the Living Dead as well.

I'd trust him because he knows every movie ever. But no, nobody seems to have seen it. I don't know. We all have these weird movies who saw them. We were kids and no one else saw, you know? It's like that. Yeah. The ending scene stuck with me so much because I was probably a teenager when I

watch this. It's your typical old man going, oh, those kids. And he puts razor blades and apples. because that's what you always heard as a kid. Oh, yeah. Oh, take any fruit. There's razor blades and everything. This feels like it would have been a good film sack if we had, if October was an extra week long.

Oh, yeah. We'd have to be in October. Yeah, especially because it's the whole thing's on YouTube. Why the hell not? We'd watch it. Yeah. That's all right. We have to watch Motel Hell instead, which is very exciting.

All right. That's your number one. You got a number two there. That's my number one. Here's and here, and that's not for kids. Okay. So here is my number two. Yeah, that's the scene.

Oh, you found the scene with the lipstick. Well, I just found, yeah, I found a no nudity version of the scene with the lipstick. It gets worse. All right, so here's my family-friendly Halloween film that I think is underrated and looked over quite often. All right. I'm hitting play. Here it comes, I think. Here we are you.

Oh, it's a little quiet. Here, hold on, let me put it somewhere where I can amp it up. I'm with a dead dog in the garden, and we're not even going to have to dig them up first. What? What did you say? Ew. Isn't he that weird kid? No, look at me. I'm talking to ghosts, so people will pay attention to me. Can you stop doing that? It's kind of stupid. Now listen to me. You don't need to be hanging out with weird people, okay? That's a tip.

don't blow this for me Mitch this one's not weird he talks to dead people he's around here somewhere okay I think I know this oh I just saw it damn it I was right though Paranormon

yeah Paranormon's awesome It's a great movie I love that movie it is great It's wonderful stop motion Actuals real stop motion You can watch this on Netflix right now It's those Lika guys or whatever They did the box trolls

and a bunch of other cool stuff. They're great. Love their work. So as the clip said, Norman can speak to dead people. He sees dead people. It's a wholesome, cute little movie. And I remember watching it with Mateo when he was a little bit younger. It kind of scared him.

So I've been waiting to show it to him again because I think he will really like it this year. So it's a little... I think those stop motion movies, they're not... Not Disney, right? Disney kind of softens everything. Movies like this, they kind of tackle topics that are a little hard. So death and, you know, his grandmother's is dead, but she's there because she's a ghost. And so there's like this whole history in this town. And that's what Norman is going to try to figure out is why are all these ghosts here.

Yeah. this is uh let's see 2012 man that movie really holds up it's really really good it does yeah it's it's really good and i agree with you about the tone like um it's like coralline or any other kind of weird things yes they're still you know like they're little kids are going to be a little freaked out because visually and stuff and you know whatever but but this movie is uh i think i'm gonna watch this this week i love this movie yeah it's on netflix give it a watch All right. Jeff Garland's in there?

Oh, right. Perry the Babcock. I love Jeff Garland. I just forgot he was in it. All right. Well, there you go. There's your recommendational. Recommendals is what we call them.

Nicole writes all these down and puts them in her post. So go follow her on Twitter at Nicole Spag and check those out there if you missed him at all. Nicole, anything else you want to say before we catch out? I want to say happy anniversary to my husband. We just had yesterday our 18th year of marriage. Oh, wow. 18. We could have a kid in college.

You could. You could, man. You just got to start a little faster. We tried. It didn't happen for seven years. That's right. Give it another eight and he'll be there. Yeah, there you go.

Won't be so bad. Congratulations you two. Yeah, good job. Happy anniversary. Well done. Give him a kiss for us, will you? Oh, I will. And squeeze Dougie and tell him he doesn't look like Haley Joel Osberg.

Yeah, squeeze a fart out of the dog. Squeeze a fart out of the dog. That's what I always say. Okay. Well, we've done it, Brian. Every anniversary gift is wood, red links. It's all wood. It's all wood.

Yeah, there's no, that whole, like, this one is made out of cloth, and this one's whatever. Paper and, yeah. Wood. For them, would. Every year. Yeah, every year, would. Whisper to it.

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I was ready to just hang up and walk away. Well, almost done. now too? Yeah, it didn't have a request set up for today, so I get to pull from new stuff that I've recently discovered, and this is great. So when I was doing the Paul Simon episode last weekend, I found a whole cover album of stuff I'd never heard of called secondhand songs from men and women by the band Fortress Social Club. I'm thinking, oh, what's this? I'll listen to the damn thing, and the whole album from start to finish is great. Let's pull one of the tracks from there. If you're a fan of the Traveling Wilburys, and who is it?

I don't want to meet the person that doesn't like the traveling wheelberries. This is their cover of End of the Line, and it changes things up in great ways. Here is the Fortress Social Club and End of the Line. You can sit around and wait for the phone to ring. Wave, wait, those would want to tell you everything. Sing around and wonder what tomorrow's great. Maybe a diamond ring. Well, it's all right.

Riding me round in the breeze. Well, it's all right. If you live the line, please well it's all right you're doing the best you can well it's all right as long as you land a hand you can sit around right for the phone room waiting for someone to tell you everything Too long will bring you Maybe a time It's all right

Even if you stay your home Well, it's all right Sometimes you got to be strong Well, it's all right As long as you've got somewhere to It's all right Every day is just one day Maybe somewhere down the road in the night

Think with me and wonder where I am these days You know there's somewhere down the way when somebody plays It's all right When it's all right Even when push comes to show Well, it's all right If you got someone to love Well, it's all right

Everything will work out fine Well, it's all right We're going to be in the line Don't have to be ashamed of the car I drive I'm just glad to be happy to be a heart It don't matter if you're by my son I'm satisfied All right

Even if they say you're wrong Well, it's all right Sometimes you gotta be strong Well, it's all right As long as you're somewhere late It's all right Every day is just one day This show is part of the Frog Pants Network.

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